IMP Problems, Please!

[Mario Olimpio de Menezes]

I'm having some troubles in setting a webmail server. Almost
everything is working fine except for Creating new folders in HOME
directory as well as for saving sent messages.
Could somebody help me in solving this, please?
Things I can do at the moment are:
- sending email works fine;
- moving messages to and from already existing folders works
fine;
- including contacts into database works after fixing the table
names since it seems that mysql doesn't like underscore '_' in table
names (imp_prefs and imp_addr).
- saving preferences, like signature and language it's ok.
The HOME directories have permissions set to 2771 (rwxrws--x).
ONLY creating new folders and saving sent messages didn't work.

Am I the only who's having problems with this? Nobody uses
IMP/HORDE or everybody are having correct behavior? PLEASE, if you
are listening, help me Ivan!

[]s,
Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but
IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails"
http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21
   http://www.revistalinux.com.br

Menu problem.

[Christian Dysthe]

Hi,

I just saw that my menu (WindowMaker) is "on a diet". It used to contain
almost all software installed, but now only a few items remains.

I tried to run "update-menus", but got this error message:

cat: write error: Bad file descriptor
Update-menus[26346]: Script /etc/menu-methods//afterstep returned error status 
1.

and the menus remains "broken". What might be wrong?

I am running unstable.

TIA

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Oracle on Debian potato

[A. M. Varon]

Hi,

Anybody has experiences running Oracle on a potato system?

regards,

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= === =
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Changing default of FVWM for windows manager.

[Tom Warfield]

How would i change my default of FVWM for my windows manager to Windows
Maker?

Thanks,
Tom

Couple Questions

[Cameron Matheson]

Hey,

I just have a few quick questions:

1.  Is it possible to switch resolutions while in X (I like using
640x480, but occasionally I need 800x600)?
2.  to use pon as a normal user, do I just use chmod?
3.  would I be better off using the kernel source off the Debian 2.1
Slink CD, or the source I downloaded
(kernel-source-2.0.38_2.0.38-2_all.deb)?

Thanks,
Cameron Matheson

startx hell

[Guyren G Howe]

startx won't run. It gives me:

System: '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm
-m us -em1 "The XKEBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: " -emp "? " -em1
"Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server keymap/xfree86
compiled/xfree86.xkm'

Figuring that this is because I have no keymap installed, I searched the
Debian package system for a keymap thingy. I found console-tools. However,
when I do

apt-get install console-tools

I get a character-mode (ncurses?) display labelled "Debian Configuration"
and then "Configuring Console-data", which is asking me what keyboard layout
I want (qwerty, azerty, etc). However, this script does *nothing*. No
keystroke has any effect except for Ctrl-C.

So: how do I get startx to happen?

TIA

RE: Changing default of FVWM for windows manager.

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 25-Jan-2000 Tom Warfield wrote:
> How would i change my default of FVWM for my windows manager to Windows
> Maker?
> 

register-window-manager --default .  Do a --help and it explains what is
going on.

sendmail: NOQUEUE: Authentication-warning

[Christopher S. Swingley]

A few days ago I upgraded one of my severs to the latest iteration of
potato and since then I've been seeing messages similar to this in my
syslog:

Jan 24 16:18:57 denali sendmail[17441]: NOQUEUE: Authentication-
Warning: foo.bar.edu: Host bar.foo.edu [200.200.10.10] claimed 
to be bar

I get these warnings from some of my Windows machines, as well as remote
systems that must not be configured quite right.  It's not a big deal,
but does anyone know how to stop this warning?  I worry about when it
will no longer be a warning. . .

Chris
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Fairbanks, AK  99775 ~cswingle

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RE: Couple Questions

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 25-Jan-2000 Cameron Matheson wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I just have a few quick questions:
> 
> 1.  Is it possible to switch resolutions while in X (I like using
> 640x480, but occasionally I need 800x600)?

control-alt-+ takes you up in res, - takes you down in res.  This works IF and
only IF you have more than one res defined.

> 2.  to use pon as a normal user, do I just use chmod?
add the user to the dialout and dip group

> 3.  would I be better off using the kernel source off the Debian 2.1
> Slink CD, or the source I downloaded
> (kernel-source-2.0.38_2.0.38-2_all.deb)?
> 

there is no large difference between debian source and upstream.  The key
benefit is that it appears on a cd.

dynamic IP's, IP masq and mail, can it be done?

[Ethan Benson]

Hi,

I have a small network connected to the internet via a IP masq 
gateway, and would like to get mail working, but the above setup is a 
nightmare for mail it would seem.


is it even possible for mail to work in such a setup or am i wasting 
my time?  I got the gateway machine to send mail, but my fake domain 
still shows up in various places, such as the message ID and a second 
From line.  and in order to do that i had to setup a virtual table 
for all the local user accounts, otherwise when cron or something 
send mail to root it would go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...


I am using Postfix and have gone through pretty much all of the 
documentation on the web site and still don't have this all working 
very well, and it seems to be a very very messy setup.


should I just get a static IP and a real domain name or is there some 
way to make this work that is not too ugly?


(the way i got mail to work partially, was to disable dns lookups in 
postfix, which allows mail to get delivered within the fake network, 
and setting myorigin to alaska.net on the gateway and setting the 
vitual table to redirect root and such to localhost but other 
machines cannot send mail still. and the gateway i think does not 
send correct mail since it has all this fake crap in it...)


thanks for any advice..

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Re: I've got sound!

[David J. Kanter]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 08:51:45AM +1100, Martin Bishop wrote:
> Since Aureal's new driver is not a regular deb package, is it easy to
> remove it from the system?

Do you mean install it? If that's what you're asking, then yes, it's very
easy; easy to remove as well. I think all it does is put a module in your
/lib/modules/kernel-number/misc.

> And what about the ALSA driver? Can it exists with Aureal's new driver? 

I guess. I think I have the alsa driver installed as well. Only problem thus
far is kmod won't load the module; I've got to insmod au8830.o myself.

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xconsole has vanished!

[David J. Kanter]

Yesterday I updated my XFree86 packages, and now the iconized xconsole
window that used to appear when starting fvwm is gone. If I log on as root,
it's there but as a regular user it's not.

What happened?
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Re: 2.2.10-14 i686 SMP: IDE RAID-5 array hangs on mount

[Adam C Powell IV]

Thank you for the replies.

Khimenko Victor wrote:

> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Adam C Powell IV ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> AI> I don't expect it to be perfect- we are human after all- but where
> AI> there are known problems or unmaintained sections of the kernel, please
> AI> document them far and wide.
>
> It WAS documented. In linux-kernel mailing list archives. Unfortunatelly it's
> THE ONLY more or less complete documentation for kernel :-/ Even here some
> things are not documented but all other sources are even less complete.

Hmm.  I remember my first kernel compilation, it was mid-2.1 series, and the 
documentation
said something like, "If you're compiling a development kernel, you should 
probably join
[EMAIL PROTECTED]"  Should this be a necessity for stable kernels as well?

Again this is a "philosophy" question for the future: archived discussions will 
always be the
most complete source of documentation, but should the documentation shipped not 
include major
issues such as unmaintained features?  It seems to me that incomplete 
documentation can be as
serious a "bug" as some coding errors.

Alan Cox wrote:

> > Ask Cox, not me :-) Since Cox is RedHat's employee it looks VERY weird to me
> > that RedHat's kernel and "official" Cox's kernel are two such different 
> > beasts.
>
> 2.2.15 and the Red Hat kernel are two different things. They I suspect always
> will be. The things vendors want "make it work now" and the main tree needs
> "make it work right" are never going to totally overlap

Okay, but the current RAID in 2.2.14 doesn't work now (for SMP), and doesn't 
work right (if
it's being replaced).  I guess one could ask, how did this happen?  But at this 
point, it
should at least be documented, the attached micropatch fixes this 
"documentation bug"
(although it can probably be done better).

> > They should wait for Ingo to release RAID 0.90 patch for 2.2.15 I think :-)
> > At least knfsd (not know about RAID) was sheduled for inclusion in 2.2.15 
> > but
> > now when 2.2.15 is "quick bug-fix release" (AGAIN!) it looks like KNFSD and
> > RAID will be postponed once again :-/
>
> I think all the important NFS stuff is already in 2.2.14.

That's good to hear!

Thank you again for the feedback, I just hope that some lost soul will be 
spared the hours of
drudgery I had to go through...
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--- drivers/block/Config.in.bak Wed Jan 19 18:39:19 2000
+++ drivers/block/Config.in Mon Jan 24 20:22:18 2000
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
 if [ "$CONFIG_NET" = "y" ]; then
   tristate 'Network block device support' CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD
 fi
-bool 'Multiple devices driver support' CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD
+bool 'Unmaintained multiple devices driver support' CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD
 if [ "$CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD" = "y" ]; then
   tristate '   Linear (append) mode' CONFIG_MD_LINEAR
   tristate '   RAID-0 (striping) mode' CONFIG_MD_STRIPED
--- Documentation/Configure.help.bakMon Jan 24 20:24:08 2000
+++ Documentation/Configure.helpMon Jan 24 20:30:50 2000
@@ -949,6 +949,13 @@
   means that the combining is done by a dedicated controller; if you
   have such a controller, you do not need to say Y here.
 
+  Note that this driver is unmaintained, and may fail unpredictably.
+  In particular, it is known to fail on IDE arrays in SMP kernels.
+  For more actively-maintained RAID drivers, you should use the
+  RAID-0.90 patch at http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-2.2.14-B1 .
+  You will also need new RAID tools, for which you should contact your
+  Linux distributor.
+
   More information about Software RAID on Linux is contained in the
   Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available via FTP (user: anonymous) from
   ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini. There you will also
--- Documentation/md.txt.bakMon Jan 24 20:31:52 2000
+++ Documentation/md.txtMon Jan 24 20:35:17 2000
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+IMPORTANT WARNING: The RAID driver is currently not actively maintained,
+and is known to fail in some SMP systems.  For a more up-to-date driver,
+you should use the patch at http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-2.2.14-B1
+
 Tools that manage md devices can be found at sweet-smoke.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr
 in public/Linux/md035.tar.gz.
 

Re: sendmail: NOQUEUE: Authentication-warning

[Allan M. Wind]

On 2000-01-24 16:25:49, Christopher S. Swingley wrote:

> Jan 24 16:18:57 denali sendmail[17441]: NOQUEUE: Authentication-
> Warning: foo.bar.edu: Host bar.foo.edu [200.200.10.10] claimed 
> to be bar

Looks like sendmail does a reverse dns lookup on a connecting host and
find that the IP doesn't match the hostname.  It therefor suggest that
someone messing around (authentication warning).  Are you controling
relay using domain or IPs?

Check hostnames against your dns records for the machines mentioned in
the log event.


/Allan
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Re: How to reset a local printer from the Debian box?

[W. Paul Mills]

tunelp /dev/lp? -r


Wojciech Zabolotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi All,
: One of my debian boxes works additionally as a print server for a few 
: Win98 and Linux machines. The problem is however, that sometimes users
: send something in the wrong format, or Windows programs crashes in the middle
: of the print job, producing the corrupted output. I would like to provide 
: my users with the possibility of cleaning up the print queue, and resetting
: the printer. It can be done with a small perl setuid'ed script, but there is
: a problem with my printer (HP-DJ670C) - There is no way to clean up it's 
: buffer and reinitialize it in other way, than by switching off and on the 
power
: :-(.
: Does anybody know how to reinitialize the printer in software way?
: Please keep in mind, that the trasmission may be stopped in the middle of
: binary data, so sending of any initialization codes in data stream may not
: give reasonable results. The toggling of INIT line in the LPT port probably
: could give good results, but I couldn't find any IOCTL to perform it
: with the standard lpt driver...
: It is possible to rmmod the lpt driver, run the program which takes over the
: lpt ports, sets the INIT line low for a second, and then insmod the lpt
: driver again, but it seems to be a very dirty trick :-(.

: -- 
:   Thanks for any suggestions
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Re: Blocked high ports (fwd)

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Hello all,
> 
> Got a problem that is driving me nuts. Sorry to have sent to both lists,
> but it is affecting both my laptop (Toshiba Satellite 4080XCDT) and my
> desktop (K6-2/450) machine.
> 
> I installed Debian/Slink afresh on defiant (the desktop) over the weekend,
> and immediately upgraded it to Potato. defiant is dns and dhcp server fro
> my home network. Got the dns tables set back up, and noticed that nothing
> on the network was ableto do DNS queries. Started doing a bit of digging,
> and also noticed I could only ftp in passive mode. Normally ftp connects,
> then switches that connection to an arbitrary hign (>1024) port. The two
> systems would connect, then nothing would happen.
> 
> I checked /var/log/syslog and saw connection refused messages as far as
> the eye could see. Blocking connections from the local nodes,
> E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET (one of the top-level DNS'), etc. I tried telnetting
> into the localhost on an arbitrary port:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] storm]$ telnet localhost 6699
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> 
> I have set up hosts.allow/hosts.deny to allow everything from the local
> network. What file am I missing that is blocking the high ports? 

Do you have firewalling setup?

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Re: dynamic IP's, IP masq and mail, can it be done?

[Allan M. Wind]

On 2000-01-25 01:29:55, Ethan Benson wrote:

> I have a small network connected to the internet via a IP masq 
> gateway, and would like to get mail working, but the above setup is a 
> nightmare for mail it would seem.

Why?  Sounds like mail masq'ing.

> is it even possible for mail to work in such a setup or am i wasting 
> my time?

Depends on what you are trying to do.  Outgoing mail should be "easy",
incoming mail wouldn't make sense unless you have a domain name (of
some sort).

> I got the gateway machine to send mail, but my fake domain still
> shows up in various places, such as the message ID and a second From
> line.

Hmm... sounds like you didn't masq the envelope.

> and in order to do that i had to setup a virtual table for all the
> local user accounts, otherwise when cron or something send mail to
> root it would go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...

I used:

canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical

to map root to my normal email (in case my box dies,
it might have left a clue there).

root [EMAIL PROTECTED]

and 

sender_canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical_sender

to map a user without a real email adderss to my email address

user [EMAIL PROTECTED]

and finally:

recipient_canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical_receiver

to have mail to the user without email be delivered locally
if send from my box.

> should I just get a static IP and a real domain name or is there some 
> way to make this work that is not too ugly?

There's no way around specifying your local acconuts as you have to
tell your mta that it's only authorative for a set of accounts.  You
could automative things using something like make with a dependency on
your /etc/passwd and some script to filter out the accounts that you
don't care about.

> (the way i got mail to work partially, was to disable dns lookups in 
> postfix, which allows mail to get delivered within the fake network, 
> and setting myorigin to alaska.net on the gateway

Ok.

> and setting the vitual table to redirect root and such to localhost
> but other machines cannot send mail still. and the gateway i think
> does not send correct mail since it has all this fake crap in it...)

You probaly need to enable relay for your local network, but otherwise
it sounds like you're on the right path.


/Allan
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Sendmail and Log files.

[TKWJ3]

I am wanting to know what ip address a email was sent from using a POP3 
account.  Currently using sendmail, and im wondering in debian where there 
are some logs that would show me this type of info.  I know what the email 
address is that the person used, but im not sure on where to find this kinda 
info in my logs.  Maybe the other thing to look for would be a log showing 
what the Sendmail connected to...just some thoughts, would be nice to know.

"menu" entries always sorted

[Maciej Kalisiak]

I've just discovered the "menu" package.  Neato.  Don't have to do my own
additions all the time anymore.  One question though: is it possible to
specify the positioning of certain menu entries?  I'd like to add an entry to
the top level menu where I would have my most often used programs, scripts,
etc, and I would like this to be the at the very top.  Likewise, I would
like to reposition the WindowManagers entry to be the very last one (it's
annoying having to dig through the menus to get to the "Exit" entry).  Is this
doable?  I'm using version 2.1.5-3 of "menu", and WindowMaker.

One other thing.  Is the menu optimization code sufficiently stable?  It runs
fine for me as superuser, but when run as a normal user it dumps all the Game
menu entries into the top-level menu (which then has about 100 entries).

Anyhow, kudos to the people responsible for "menu"!

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Lilo & hdb

[jchristensen]

Hi,

Like most of you, I like playing with opeating systems. I am having
difficulty using lilo to boot Win2K from hdb. Here's my lilo.conf file.

boot=/dev/hda
compact
vga=extended
timeout=200
prompt
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
alias=L
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=Win98
alias=W
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/hdb1
label=Win2K
table=/dev/hdb

Both the linux image and the Win98 partition have no problems, but then
they both exist on hda. Right now I can boot my machine, input 'win2k'
at the LILO prompt, I get the message 'Loading Win2k' and then the
system freezes, either immediately or after a blank screen. The hdb1
partition is active. Am I missing something in my lilo.conf? Is it even
possible to use lilo to boot an OS from other than the first disk? 

If I change 'other=/dev/hdb1' to the MBR on hdb, i.e 'other=/dev/hdb' I
get a 'Partition entry not found error.' I don't think that is the right
direction, but I figured that I should try it. I know that Win2K
installed something to the MBR of hdb because if I swap hdb and hda,
Win2k boots just fine. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Jason

Re: Attention: imapd gpoing back to $HOME as mailbox root

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

Btw, the volume on debian-user is to high for me to read on a regular
basis so you should cc me if you want to get a quick(er) answer.

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote:

> Argh! Okay. Does anybody want to suggest any other imap daemons that allow
> me to set the mailroot to $HOME/mail where it's supposed to be?
> 

You can always recompile the package to do it the way you want to.  That
is one of the benefits of open source after all.  It's a one line change
and I provide instructions.

> Problem now is that, when you refresh your folder list, you see all of your
> files in your home directory. Many of these differ substantially from the
> normal "inbox" format. I wouldn't be surprised to see a new slew of
> complaints from sysadmins because all of their users are having trouble
> opening their "core" folder. :)
> 

Which client are you using?  Everyone I use (MS outlook, Netscape,
Pine) let's you set this on the client-side.  All my folders are in
$HOME/mail.  I don't see any extraneous junk.

A "sysadmin" as opposed to "some random shmoe with the root
password" should diligently read documentation.  I haven't made a secret
of what I've done so it shouldn't come as a surprise.

> In all seriousness, though... I think that one of the mantras of
> user-friendliness these days is that the user shouldn't be allowed to easily
> select something wrong. If imapd uses $HOME for its mail directories,
> there's really nothing to prevent the user from being presented with a list
> of various files when they ask for a list of their mail folders.
> 

It is the admins responsibility to see that the users have a proper setup.

> Up to this point, one of the attractive features of Debian is that it
> *fixes* the brain-dead defaults put in by the people who originally wrote
> the software.
> 

But in this case, whether or not the  default is brain-dead is not easy to
determine.  To us having the mail root be $HOME/mail seems eminently
sensible.  But believe me many people disagrreed.

> Well, you could fix that by having some sort of big warning in the postinst
> script or something that required the user to hit a return so that you could
> be sure they see it.
> 

That would be even more obnoxious.  People hate useless warnings.  
Perhaps now we have debconf this could be done in a less intrusive way but
even then I would not be sure that people saw it.  Besides I already have
a big warning in the most natural place for someone to look for it.  
README.debian.

> Actually, what we *really* need is some sort of consensus. I mean, it would
> be pretty nice if imapd and other tools (like procmail) all looked in the
> same default location without any configuration. I know Elm and Pine used
> $HOME/Mail and $HOME/mail at one time.
> 

I can't speak for all Debian developers but I have you the users interests
in mind when I work on my packages.  If there was a consensus I would
adopt it no matter what my personal feelings are.  But in this case there
simply isn't one.

> Surely, I can't be the only one who sees the benefit in having all of the
> tools look in the same location for the "Sent Mail" folder, and "Drafts",
> etc.
> 

You should make a proposal on the debian-policy list.  

> Aside from the fact that compartmentalization is a good thing. I mean,
> heck... while we're at it, why even bother using /var/spool/mail? Just dump
> all mail into /var/spool! :)
> 

It's not symmetric.  If the root is $HOME you can store your all
you folders in a subdirectory like mail if you like.  If it is $HOME/mail
someone who wants them in $HOME is out of luck.

> But I don't expect this to change anyone's mind, I guess. What I'm really
> after is a suggestion for a replacement imapd since I'm obviously going to
> have to purge Jaldhar's. I tried the Cyrus-Imap, but wasn't able to get that
> to work right out of the box.
> 

You hardly have to take such drastic measures but if the advice above is
unsuitable you can also try courier-imapd.  Haven't used it so I
couldn't tell you its' features though.

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Re: xconsole has vanished!

[Eric G . Miller]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 07:32:29PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote:
> Yesterday I updated my XFree86 packages, and now the iconized xconsole
> window that used to appear when starting fvwm is gone. If I log on as root,
> it's there but as a regular user it's not.
> 
> What happened?

I'm guessing, but there was some discussion a while back that allowing
all users to view the output of /dev/xconsole was not a good idea.
Perhaps the configuration was thusly changed?  Anyway, to fix add
yourself to the group adm (adduser  adm), logout and login,
add a line in ~/.xession to start xconsole.
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samba server

[zdrysdal]

when duplicating a samba server... what needs to be copied across to the
new server to re-establish the origional samba shares/passwords?

Re: Lilo & hdb

[jchristensen]

Alec, thanks for the info. I was useful as Win2k does have boot loader
similar to NT4's. I could just make hda1 the partition with Win2k by
physically swapping the drives and then use the boot loader from Win2k
(given the necessary tweaks).

That solutions is however more work than I'm willing to do to play with
Microsoft's latest bloatware ... I mean OS, whoops. Does anyone know a
way I can boot Win2k from hdb1 using LILO?

Thanks,

Jaosn

On 24 Jan, Alec Smith wrote:
> I don't know much about Win2k since I haven't had a chance to get my hands 
> on a copy yet, but if its anything like WinNT
> 
> With NT 4 you have the NT Boot Loader from which you can boot NT, or 
> (surprise!) other OSes. The best way I've found to get everything going on 
> the system is to insert Linux into the NT boot loader. There's a How-To 
> which describes how to do this on kernelnotes.org. Essentially you want to 
> get Linux to put its bootsector at the beginning of the partition its on. 
> Then you'll use 'dd' to copy the bootsector from the Linux partition into a 
> file on a FAT partition. From there you can edit NT's boot.ini file 
> inserting a line which points at the bootsector file you made with dd.
> 
> Win98 can also be inserted into the NT boot loader. For it you'll add a 
> line like
> 
> c:\="Windows 98"
> 
> Since I don't know Win2k, I can't say if this info is of use, but hopefully 
> it is.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 04:57 PM 1/24/00 -1000, you wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Like most of you, I like playing with opeating systems. I am having
>>difficulty using lilo to boot Win2K from hdb. Here's my lilo.conf file.
>>
>>boot=/dev/hda
>>compact
>>vga=extended
>>timeout=200
>>prompt
>>image=/vmlinuz
>> label=Linux
>> alias=L
>> read-only
>>other=/dev/hda1
>> label=Win98
>> alias=W
>> table=/dev/hda
>>other=/dev/hdb1
>> label=Win2K
>> table=/dev/hdb
>>
>>Both the linux image and the Win98 partition have no problems, but then
>>they both exist on hda. Right now I can boot my machine, input 'win2k'
>>at the LILO prompt, I get the message 'Loading Win2k' and then the
>>system freezes, either immediately or after a blank screen. The hdb1
>>partition is active. Am I missing something in my lilo.conf? Is it even
>>possible to use lilo to boot an OS from other than the first disk?
>>
>>If I change 'other=/dev/hdb1' to the MBR on hdb, i.e 'other=/dev/hdb' I
>>get a 'Partition entry not found error.' I don't think that is the right
>>direction, but I figured that I should try it. I know that Win2K
>>installed something to the MBR of hdb because if I swap hdb and hda,
>>Win2k boots just fine. Any suggestions?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Jason
>>
>>
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Re: Attention: imapd gpoing back to $HOME as mailbox root

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Joe Block wrote:

> You aren't.  Count me as a vote for $HOME/mail
> 

I can't keep flip-flopping on this.  The default mailbox root will remain
$HOME.  You have three choices.

1. Learn to live with it.  (Remember you can always tweak your client.)

2. Recompile the package to your taste.

3. Find a different package.

I hate to be dictatorial but unfortunately their is no solution that will
please everyone.

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Misskey resulted in chown entire directory tree

[John Foster]

Well this is a first. I do not even know exactly what I did. I do know
that the result is the changing of the owner/group of every file on my
complete directory tree to a single username.groupname. Any Suggestions
are really appreciated. Wierd thing is everything seems to work--some
things even better that before. What to do...
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lpd configuration problems

[Joseph A. Martin]

Hello,
I have two machines I am working with. Odeen is a desktop
server with an Epson ActionPrinter attached to it. I can print from
odeen's command line without any problems. I have magicfilter
installed and it converts whatever I print into printer-specific
instructions through ghostscript.
Hallam is my laptop. I want to be able to print from hallam to
the printer on odeen. I have hallam set up using the ps300-filter with
odeen set as the remote machine. When I attempt to print a postscript
file from hallam I get the postscript commands as output on the
printer. No conversion is being done by odeen from postscript to the
printer's native format. What am I doing wrong here? Am I
misunderstanding something?

later,
joseph

P.S. I have attached the printcap files from hallam and odeen in case
they are of any help.

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#
# Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
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# provided that this notice is preserved and that due credit is given
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#
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#
lp|ap3250|Epson AP3250:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ap3250:\
:sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
:if=/etc/magicfilter/ap3250-filter:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
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#
lp|ap3250|Epson ActionPrinter 3250:\
:lp=:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ap3250:rm=odeen:rp=ap3250:lpr_bounce:\
:sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
#   :if=/etc/magicfilter/ps300-filter:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
dj722c|DeskJet 722c:\
:lp=:sd=/var/spool/lpd/dj722c:rm=frith:rp=DeskJet:lpr_bounce:\
:sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
:if=/etc/magicfilter/ps300-filter:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:

installing debian linux from cdrom

[Nam-Anh Pham]

I recently got a debian linux cd (Slink release, version 2.1).  I tried to 
install it on my old 486, but it would not recognize the cdrom.  Do you have 
any advice?  My pc is an old 486 clone built in 93.  It has a Mitsumi 2x 
cdrom.  I thought it was ATAPI compliant, but am not sure.  The cdrom works 
fine under DOS, so at least I know it is not a defective cdrom.  If you have 
any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it.


I saw and tried the following command line posted on the debian site's 
faqomatic, but it did not work either.


 loadlin linux -n 5 boot=/dev/ram hdc=cdrom cdrom=debug,none 
scsi=debug,none initrd=boot.bin



Thanks in advance!  :) :)

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Allowing users to shutdown

[Joseph A. Martin]

Hello,
I have set up a Linux workstation for my family's use. They
only need to keep the system on for short periods. (For various reasons I
don't want to leave it on full time.) They are using the icewm window manager,
which, when they hit ctrl-alt-del, gives them the option of shutting down or
rebooting the system. /sbin/shutdown has permissions that do not allow them
to use the shutdown command, unfortunately. What permissions must I
set to allow anyone on that system to shut it down?

thanks.
later,
joseph
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Re: Allowing users to shutdown

[Ethan Benson]

On 24/1/2000 Joseph A. Martin wrote:


I have set up a Linux workstation for my family's use. They
only need to keep the system on for short periods. (For various reasons I
don't want to leave it on full time.) They are using the icewm window manager,
which, when they hit ctrl-alt-del, gives them the option of shutting down or
rebooting the system. /sbin/shutdown has permissions that do not allow them
to use the shutdown command, unfortunately. What permissions must I
set to allow anyone on that system to shut it down?


you have to use sudo, shutdown is world executable, it just checks 
that the user executing it is uid 0


what i did for a similar situation was give the users in question 
sudo privileges to execute shutdown -h -a now and wrote a couple 
wrapper scripts that i put in /usr/local/bin


so users can just type shutdown and the system goes down.  for 
windowmaker i added a button to the dock which they can double click 
and the system goes down.


another trick i did is by adding that -a switch to shutdown, this way 
i can add a script to my .bashrc file to run sudo touch 
/etc/shutdown.allow and sudo rm -f /etc/shutdown.allow to 
.bash_logout this way when i am working on the system through ssh 
they cannot inadvertantly shut it down on me.  my wrapper scripts 
check for that file and either print out a useful message or call 
xmessage to put up a dialog with a useful message.


I assume you can configure icewm to call something else on control 
alt delete, just have it call sudo shutdown -h now, or a wrapper 
script if you go the route i did.


(btw if you use wrapper scripts like i did, you need to add a symlink 
from /usr/local/sbin/shutdown -> /sbin/shutdown otherwise sudo will 
try and run your fake shutdown wrapper instead of the real one)



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Re: Blocked high ports

[Greg Woods]

Bradley M Alexander wrote:
> I can
> pftp from one machine to another, but when I ftp, it connects then hangs.
> The only difference between them is passive ftp remains on port 21 while
> standard (active) ftp makes a connection then transitions to an arbitrary
> high port. The high ports are where I'm having problems.

Sounds like you are running FTP from behind a firewall. Try running
"tcpdump" to see if
packets are actually coming in and getting dropped, or getting dropped
somewhere before
they ever get to your system.

--Greg

Re: ipchains diagnostics

[hypnos]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Michel D?nzer wrote:

> > /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/24 -j MASQ
> 
> The IP address looks funny. Sure it's private?

That's the private Class A network address.  It does
look like he is using a Class C network 10.0.0 though.
If not, it should be 10.0.0.0/8 instead.

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hard disk not recognized

[richart1]

I found that I can get Linux to recognize my hard disk by unplugging it from
the Promise Technology Ultra ATA/66 controller card and plugging directly
into the motherboard. The only problem is now Windows can't see the disk! Is
there anything I can do so that both OSes can see the disk? Thanks.

Bob

dumb question, sorry in advance

[dkphoto]

I've just finished installing (a few days ago) Linux/Unix and am stuck on 
something really dumb.

I have figured out how to change shells, explore the file structure, use 
sh (a bit) and several other things, but I just can't seem to launch a 
simple game.

/user/games/nameYourGame

... I can't figure out any way to launch this and can't find anything in 
the man pages or in the THREE Linux books I have that tells me how to 
simply launch a program.

I know I'm going to have to change my name after this, but I give up. How 
is it done?




As Yet Undetermined Pseudonym to be Inserted Here

Re: Sendmail and Log files.

[aphro]

look in the headers of the mail..in your case the mail was sent from:

Received: from murphy.debian.org (murphy.debian.org [209.41.108.199])
by bebo.firetrail.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA01839
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 18:46:21 -0800
Received: (qmail 19136 invoked by uid 38); 25 Jan 2000 02:45:54 -

in this case it only shows the mailing list server, it wiped out the other
headers, most of the time you can get the ip that the mail originated at
though from the headers.

nate

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

TKWJ3 >I am wanting to know what ip address a email was sent from using a POP3 
TKWJ3 >account.  Currently using sendmail, and im wondering in debian where 
there 
TKWJ3 >are some logs that would show me this type of info.  I know what the 
email 
TKWJ3 >address is that the person used, but im not sure on where to find this 
kinda 
TKWJ3 >info in my logs.  Maybe the other thing to look for would be a log 
showing 
TKWJ3 >what the Sendmail connected to...just some thoughts, would be nice to 
know.
TKWJ3 >
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Re: dumb question, sorry in advance

[Maciej Kalisiak]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 12:20:51AM -0500, dkphoto wrote:
> /user/games/nameYourGame

You just answered your own question.

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Re: hard disk not recognized

[aphro]

it may be a stupid question but i have to ask did you happen to reformat
the drive to use the linux filesystem(ext2fs?) or is it using a MS windows
"compadible" file system ?  i can't imaigne why a drive wouldnt be
recognized if the filesystem was compadible. with the exception of a
broken bios(which i've only seen once, long story im sure its not what
your experiencing)

nate

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

richar >I found that I can get Linux to recognize my hard disk by unplugging it 
from
richar >the Promise Technology Ultra ATA/66 controller card and plugging 
directly
richar >into the motherboard. The only problem is now Windows can't see the 
disk! Is
richar >there anything I can do so that both OSes can see the disk? Thanks.
richar >
richar >Bob
richar >
richar >
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Re: dumb question, sorry in advance

[aphro]

if it is a binary program (do ls -l /usr/games/nameYourGame and look on
the permissions for the "x" flag) then just run /usr/games/nameYourGame

if it is not a binary program chances are your trying to run a program
when that is not an executable. if the program is in your $PATH then you
can just run nameYourGame and the system will do it..if it is NOT in your
$PATH then you must specify the full path.  Some programs even go so far
as to want you to be in the directory which you are running the program,
in this case you would cd /usr/games ; ./nameYourGame  ..the "./" tells
the system to run the command in the current directory, as the current
directory is not in your $PATH (it is considered a security risk if it
is).

hope this helps!

nate

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, dkphoto wrote:

dkphot >I've just finished installing (a few days ago) Linux/Unix and am stuck 
on 
dkphot >something really dumb.
dkphot >
dkphot >I have figured out how to change shells, explore the file structure, 
use 
dkphot >sh (a bit) and several other things, but I just can't seem to launch a 
dkphot >simple game.
dkphot >
dkphot >/user/games/nameYourGame
dkphot >
dkphot >... I can't figure out any way to launch this and can't find anything 
in 
dkphot >the man pages or in the THREE Linux books I have that tells me how to 
dkphot >simply launch a program.
dkphot >
dkphot >I know I'm going to have to change my name after this, but I give up. 
How 
dkphot >is it done?
dkphot >
dkphot >
dkphot >
dkphot >
dkphot >As Yet Undetermined Pseudonym to be Inserted Here
dkphot >
dkphot >
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Re: dumb question, sorry in advance

[Marcin Kurc]

Rather /usr/games/nameYourGame :)
just type it in shell.

On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 12:33:48AM -0500, Maciej Kalisiak wrote: 
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 12:20:51AM -0500, dkphoto wrote:
> > /user/games/nameYourGame
> 
> You just answered your own question.
> 
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RE: hard disk not recognized

[richart1]

The disk has 3 partitions. One is for Windows, the other 2 are for Linux.
The Linux part is formatted for linux and works fine as long as I don't use
the controller card. I'm wondering if Linux just doesn't know about this
kind of card? Bob

-Original Message-
From: aphro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 9:37 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: hard disk not recognized


it may be a stupid question but i have to ask did you happen to reformat
the drive to use the linux filesystem(ext2fs?) or is it using a MS windows
"compadible" file system ?  i can't imaigne why a drive wouldnt be
recognized if the filesystem was compadible. with the exception of a
broken bios(which i've only seen once, long story im sure its not what
your experiencing)

nate

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

richar >I found that I can get Linux to recognize my hard disk by unplugging
it from
richar >the Promise Technology Ultra ATA/66 controller card and plugging
directly
richar >into the motherboard. The only problem is now Windows can't see the
disk! Is
richar >there anything I can do so that both OSes can see the disk? Thanks.
richar >
richar >Bob
richar >
richar >
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Re: dumb question, sorry in advance

[dkphoto]

>just type it in shell.


I thought I was already in the shell when I typed it?!?


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xhost changed...

[Aaron Solochek]

It used to be that I could open an eterm, su, and open whatever app
I wanted.  Now it complains about not being able to connect to the
display.  All of the sudden I need to xhost +localhost as non-root in
order to open and windowed apps.  This is annoying, how can I make root
have permanent premisisons to connect to the local xserver?

-Aaron Solochek
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Re: dumb question, sorry in advance

[Matthew Dalton]

Dude,
Show us exactly what you're typing and exactly what error message the
shell is giving you and we'll tell you exactly whats wrong and exactly
what to do.

dkphoto wrote:
> 
> >just type it in shell.
> 
> I thought I was already in the shell when I typed it?!?
> 
> As Yet Undetermined Pseudonym to be Inserted Here
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Re: dumb question, sorry in advance

[dkphoto]

>in this case you would cd /usr/games ; ./nameYourGame  ..the "./" tells
>the system to run the command in the current directory, as the current
>directory is not in your $PATH (it is considered a security risk if it
>is).

Thanks, that was it. I forgot that commands don't make it to files in the 
same directory.



David Kachel

RE: Secure CRT

[Trevor Gold]

I tried
installing the secure crt… I used the key generator, however, I can’t connect!
It says that this license doesn’t support telnet connections.

 

-Original
Message-
From: Ehren Wilson
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000
7:05 PM
To: Trevor Gold
Subject: Secure CRT

 

 

inn2 configuration files- help please

[Pierfrancesco Caci]

can someone tell me what is the correct value to be put in
/etc/news/inn.conf for the variable moderatormailer ?
I always get this error and inn doesn't start

# /usr/lib/news/bin/inncheck
/etc/news/inn.conf:16: modmailer has bad address

Pf

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 Linux penny 2.3.39 #1 Sun Jan 16 19:11:35 CET 2000 i686 unknown

potato mirror

[tphan]

Hi,

  I'm in the middle of mirroring the potato distribution and
  notice that there are about 300+ packages symlink to slink
  distribution.  Does this mean that I need to mirror slink
  also?

  Thanks!

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relocating mail server

[tphan]

Hi,

  I'd like to setup my debian box to do mail server after I 
  mirrored the potato and installation.

  I'd like to know how to forward all the emails from my current
  email server to this new potato box?

  Here is the current setup:

 ISP < email > current mail server(hamm)

  I would like to setup:

 ISP < email > current mail server(hamm)
  > tobe new mail server(potato)
  So I do not have to call the isp to switch back and forth
  before I actually move the mail server.

  Thanks!

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Re: Attention: imapd gpoing back to $HOME as mailbox root

[Onno Ebbinge]

At 10:23 PM 1/24/00 -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
>On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Joe Block wrote:
>
>> You aren't.  Count me as a vote for $HOME/mail
>> 
>
>I can't keep flip-flopping on this.  The default mailbox root will remain
>$HOME.  You have three choices.
>
>1. Learn to live with it.  (Remember you can always tweak your client.)
>
>2. Recompile the package to your taste.
>
>3. Find a different package.
>
>I hate to be dictatorial but unfortunately their is no solution that will
>please everyone.

Maybe there is...

You could patch the program to set the variable at startup from
a parameter or configfile. I haven't seen the source but reading a
variable from a parameter or config file at startup shouldn't be
hard...

Regards,

Onno

Re: installing debian linux from cdrom

[Bill Keegan]

> Subject: installing debian linux from cdrom
> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 19:54:14 PST
> From: "Nam-Anh Pham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> 
> I recently got a debian linux cd (Slink release, version 2.1).  I tried to
> install it on my old 486, but it would not recognize the cdrom.  Do you have
> any advice?  My pc is an old 486 clone built in 93.  It has a Mitsumi 2x
> cdrom.  I thought it was ATAPI compliant, but am not sure.  The cdrom works
> fine under DOS, so at least I know it is not a defective cdrom.  If you have
> any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it.
> 
> I saw and tried the following command line posted on the debian site's
> faqomatic, but it did not work either.
> 
>   loadlin linux -n 5 boot=/dev/ram hdc=cdrom cdrom=debug,none
> scsi=debug,none initrd=boot.bin
> 
> Thanks in advance!  :) :)
> 
> Nam-Anh
> 

I currently have a GW2K-486 running RH 5.0 with an older Mitsumi 2x cd.
This drive uses a proprietary bus and to load this driver I type
mcd=0x340,10 with the 0x340 (just like this) being the port and the 10
for the IRQ.  

At lilo try "mount mcd=0x340,10" or add it to your /etc/conf.modules
"options mcd=..." then mount with /dev/mcd to your mount point.

Bill

Pathetic Performance

[Bill Keegan]

I'm running Corel/Debian v1.0 on a AMD 486-100. 24mb ram, >1G hd,
networked with three other PCs. This workstation is 5X slower then a
486-33 running RH 5.0 acting as a gateway, Samba server, mail, etc. I
welcome any suggestions towards finding what must be a gross
misconfiguration.

On the 486-100 every service not needed has been pulled from bootup,
Apache, Qmail, etc. Using windowmanager with Netscape 4.7 is painful and
literally 5 times slower in creating a new browser window or displaying
a new page the the 486-33.

I will begin by rebuilding the kernel with i486 optimization but I find
it hard to believe that Pentium optimization could slow it down this
much. Again any other ideas?

Bill

Re: Pathetic Performance

[Patrick Kirk]

Bill,

Corel have a marvellous installer - I can get my laptop to look great with
it but it never even starts X with Debian.  However, you do need to
recompile the kernel immediately you decide to stick with Corel because it
loads loads of irrelevenat stuff.

Patrick

Re: Pathetic Performance

[Dänzer]

--- Bill Keegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm running Corel/Debian v1.0 on a AMD 486-100. 24mb ram,

This is very little RAM.

> >1G hd, networked with three other PCs. This workstation is 5X slower then
a
> 486-33 running RH 5.0 acting as a gateway, Samba server, mail, etc.

How much does this one have?


> On the 486-100 every service not needed has been pulled from bootup,
> Apache, Qmail, etc. Using windowmanager with Netscape 4.7 is painful and
> literally 5 times slower in creating a new browser window or displaying
> a new page the the 486-33.

What gfx cards do they have? Do you use an accelerated X server on both? A
very important factor for system performance is also HD speed, swap space,
...

> I will begin by rebuilding the kernel with i486 optimization but I find
> it hard to believe that Pentium optimization could slow it down this
> much. Again any other ideas?

Don't bother. The kernels you're using are probably not especially optimized
for anything above an 386. It really shouldn't matter that much.


Michel


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Re: ipchains diagnostics

[Patrick Kirk]

Would you mind explaining when to use 10.0.0.0/8 10.0.0.0/24 and 10.0.0.0/32
as I never understand and don't know if using the wrong one will break
anything.  If its an RTFM situatiion, a pointer at a howto would be
appreciated.

Patrick

> > /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/24 -j MASQ
>
> The IP address looks funny. Sure it's private?

That's the private Class A network address.  It does
look like he is using a Class C network 10.0.0 though.
If not, it should be 10.0.0.0/8 instead.

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Re: ipchains diagnostics

[Dänzer]

--- hypnos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > > /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/24 -j MASQ
> > 
> > The IP address looks funny. Sure it's private?
> 
> That's the private Class A network address.  It does
> look like he is using a Class C network 10.0.0 though.
> If not, it should be 10.0.0.0/8 instead.

That's what I was trying to say :)


Michel


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Re: Please tell me this is curable...

[Patrick Kirk]

Can you recall the name of any of these Windows utilities?  Or has nayone
done this in the past and have the awk script lying about?
> The problem is the lf -> crlf switch.  Just reverse it.  There
> will be posts saying this won't work but it will.  You'd think
> it doesn't work because what about valid crlf pairs in the
> original data.  But they get changed to crcrlf by the ascii
> transfer and back to crlf by the fix.  It would be a problem
> if you were hitting the data recursively but you're just doing
> one pass.
>
> I know there are little windows utils to do this but someone
> can cobble up an awk one-liner or something.  I did it with rexx.
>
> Rick
>
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Re: Please tell me this is curable...

[Dänzer]

--- rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I know there are little windows utils to do this but someone
> can cobble up an awk one-liner or something.  I did it with rexx.

Am I missing something, or should dos2unix/unix2dos from the sysutils pckage
do the job?


Michel


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Re: ipchains diagnostics

[Dänzer]

--- Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Would you mind explaining when to use 10.0.0.0/8 10.0.0.0/24 and
> 10.0.0.0/32

With 10.0.0.0/24, the masquerading code will only forward from/to IPs
10.0.0.x, whereas with 10.0.0.0/8 10.x.x.x , which is probably what you want
(although it escapes me why anyone would need such a big private network? :)

> as I never understand and don't know if using the wrong one will break
> anything.

If it's wrong, your packets probably won't get routed.


Michel


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problem to load NLS charset cp437(nls_cp437) and others

[Hans Ekbrand]

At bootup I get (amongs other messages) the following two error messages:

"Unable to load NLS charset cp437(nls_cp437)
Unable to load NLS charset iso8859-1(nls_iso8859_1)"

Is there any package missing, or what is the problem?

thanks in advance for any replies,

Hans Ekbrand

Re: Lilo & hdb

[Christian Rishøj]

> Subject: Re: Lilo & hdb
> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:27:50 -1000 (HST)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> 
> Alec, thanks for the info. I was useful as Win2k does have boot loader
> similar to NT4's. I could just make hda1 the partition with Win2k by
> physically swapping the drives and then use the boot loader from Win2k
> (given the necessary tweaks).
> 
> That solutions is however more work than I'm willing to do to play with
> Microsoft's latest bloatware ... I mean OS, whoops. Does anyone know a
> way I can boot Win2k from hdb1 using LILO?

Hi, perhaps this can help you. I am putting these lines in my lilo.conf
to be able to boot Win95 from hdb1:

other=/dev/hdb1
 label=dos
 table=/dev/hdb
 map-drive=0x80 to=0x81
 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80

The trick is to make Win95 think that it is actually booting from hda :D

- Christian

Re: Locate question

[John Bagdanoff]

I've noticed this the last few days with both slink to potato upgrade and a 
fresh
potato install on another drive.  The problem looks like the latest findutils
package.  I downgraded to the slink findutils which fixed the problem.

John

Svante Signell wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Sometime during updates from slink to potato the locate database is
> not updated any longer. Anacron is running after a reboot, but the
> updatedb does not locate recent files. Can somebody enlightenment me
> how things are workingtogether:
> find, locate, update, updatedb, anacron and cron.
>
> Svante Signell
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Re: Please tell me this is curable...

[Colin Watson]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (rick) wrote:
>In article
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you
>wrote:
>> Maybe you transferred it in ASCII mode.  Hopefully you didn't transfer it
>> in ASCII mode when you sent it to the NT box because then you'll never get
>> it back.  If you did it in ASCII mode sending it back to the Linux system
>> then you must simply resend it in binary.
>
>The problem is the lf -> crlf switch.  Just reverse it.  There
>will be posts saying this won't work but it will.  You'd think
>it doesn't work because what about valid crlf pairs in the
>original data.  But they get changed to crcrlf by the ascii
>transfer and back to crlf by the fix.  It would be a problem
>if you were hitting the data recursively but you're just doing
>one pass.

ASCII transfer isn't clever enough to spot CRLFs, then? (Can't test this
just at the moment, so I'll take your word for it.)

>I know there are little windows utils to do this but someone
>can cobble up an awk one-liner or something.  I did it with rexx.

awk '{ print "\r" $0 }' seems to do it, though this is only lightly
tested.

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Re: new to debian...

[Ron Rademaker]

Just install in slink apt, edit your /etc/apt/sources.list so that apt can
find potato (add a line http/ftp site potato main contrib non-free), and
remove the 'stable' line. 

Now you do:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dselect-upgrade
and... when all goes well YOU HAVE POTATO (apt downloads automatic).

Ron

Re: Please tell me this is curable...

[Philip Hands]

"Patrick Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Can you recall the name of any of these Windows utilities?  Or has nayone
> done this in the past and have the awk script lying about?
> > The problem is the lf -> crlf switch.  Just reverse it.  There
> > will be posts saying this won't work but it will.  You'd think
> > it doesn't work because what about valid crlf pairs in the
> > original data.  But they get changed to crcrlf by the ascii

Ah, good point.  Assuming it's true:

  perl -ne 's/\r\n/\n/g; print;'  broken.tar > fixed.tar

should do the trick.

Cheers, Phil.

Re: Please tell me this is curable...

[Colin Watson]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (rick) wrote:
>>The problem is the lf -> crlf switch.  Just reverse it.  There
>>will be posts saying this won't work but it will.  You'd think
>>it doesn't work because what about valid crlf pairs in the
>>original data.  But they get changed to crcrlf by the ascii
>>transfer and back to crlf by the fix.  It would be a problem
>>if you were hitting the data recursively but you're just doing
>>one pass.
>
>ASCII transfer isn't clever enough to spot CRLFs, then? (Can't test this
>just at the moment, so I'll take your word for it.)
>
>>I know there are little windows utils to do this but someone
>>can cobble up an awk one-liner or something.  I did it with rexx.
>
>awk '{ print "\r" $0 }' seems to do it, though this is only lightly
>tested.

... as long as I read the problem the wrong way round. I of course
meant:

  awk '{ gsub(/\r$/, ""); print }'

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Re: Oracle on Debian potato

[Robert Varga]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, A. M. Varon wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Anybody has experiences running Oracle on a potato system?
> 
> regards,

I am running 8.0.5 without problems now. However the install was something
to mention.

In the following I assume you have installed oracle on another linux. If
you haven't, then see the document I mention at the end of my letter, 
for a step-by-step instruction list. However, you have to compare it with
my letter, since some things need to be done differently in debian. So
read both before starting to install oracle.

In short: you need to debianize a couple of redhat packages with alien.

  alien 

These packages are:

  compat-binutils-5.2-2.9.1.0.23.1.i386.rpm
  compat-glibc-5.2-2.0.7.1.i386.rpm
  compat-egcs-5.2-1.0.3a.1.i386.rpm
  compat-egcs-c++-5.2-1.0.3a.1.i386.rpm
  compat-libs-5.2-1.i386.rpm

These can be found on RH6.0 and RH 6.1 mirrors in the RPMS directory.

After installing them, you need to chmod +x the following files:

/usr/i386-glibc20-linux/ld-2.0.7.so
.../libc.so
.../libc-2.0.7.so

The first is mandatory, the other two I am not sure, I chmoded them as
well.

You must also link to make as gmake 

  ln -s /usr/bin/make /usr/local/bin/gmake

After this, you can install oracle 8.0.5 almost normally, except one
thing:

the oratab.sh in orainst does not run properly on debian. You must change
the references to the GROUPS variable in it to somethin else, since GROUPS
varaible is readonly in bash. I don't know about this in sh. What I did
was to replace GROUPS to GROUPSPROG. take care however not to replace
GROUPS in ALL_GROUPS. 

After this install oracle, but don't create the database objects.

Before running root.sh, you need to patch the oracle binaries.

The patch tarball is at

  ftp://ftp.oracle.com/pub/www/otn/linux/glibcpatch.tgz

Extract it to ~oracle/orapatch

cd into ~oracle/orapatch

sh glibcpatch.sh

It will take a little time to complete, there can be error messages along
the way, but they don't matter. They are missing files you did not
install because you not selected everything.

Type sqlplus to check that it worked.
If it segfaults then you have missed  something. If it gives you the
normal sqlplus prompt, then the patching was successful.

After this you can create the DB objects normally (you need to select the
RDBMS Standard item again). You must do this with the Install parts menu
item, since not everything is installed yet, so Create/Upgrade DB objects
won't work yet.

There is a couple of editing and chmod-ing and chown-ing to do...

After this it will work flawlessly.

See more details in http://jordan.fortwayne.com/oracle/rh6x.html

Instead of machinating with .profile files as described in that document,
just put the following in /etc/profile, modified accordingly to your
install decisions, but before installing, to spare yourself some problem:

export ORACLE_OWNER=oracle
export ORACLE_HOME=/store/oracle
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/store/oracle/lib
export ORACLE_BASE=/store/oracle
export ORACLE_SID=ORCL
export ORACLE_TERM=386
export ORACLE_DOC=/store/oracle/doc

and add /store/oracle/bin to the PATH statement.


The oracle TNS listener can only be started as user oracle. If you need it
to start at boot-up, then you need to do some more compiling other
packages (daemontools from Daniel J. Berstein). Send a letter if you are
interested in it.

Robert Varga

Exim retry problem

[Abdul Aziz]

Hi, I am using Slink (r2) and have a problem with exim after a new install.
I can send and receive local mail OK - and remote mail via my ISP is OK when I 
am on-line.
But external mail is not queued when off-line - I get error message in the 
/var/log/exim/mainlog which says:
retry timeout exceeded
almost as soon as the mail is sent.
I've looked at /etc/exim.conf and the retry section seems OK (it is 
uncommented, and I have'nt changed it). I've run eximconfig a few times but 
still the same problem.
It seems external mail isn't beeing queued as it should - and it did before
the new install.
Any suggestions and help much appreciated.

X hell!!

[Steve Winston]

Please give this newbie some advice.
  I have configured X to the point where I get an Enlightenment window
including
  one open terminal window that gives me access to the command line. 
  But I can't use any functions. When I try to open Eterm, Electric Eyes,
GIMP,
  etc., I get messages saying they are not included in the /bin/bash path. I
  check echo $PATH naturally, but I don't understand what path the
enlightenment
  stuff should go into. 
  Also, when I try to go into GNOME, following instructions from the OReilly
  Debian book, I am told much of the stuff, gmc, panel, etc., don't exist. I
try
  apt-get update or install or install --fix-missing with no luck or else to
  receive messages that "404 isn't found."
  Any ideas? Thanks in advance. STeve W


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Re: Please tell me this is curable...

[Patrick Kirk]

Success!  The ones that were put up in ascii and taken down in binary are
recovered.  The others need to be downloaded again but at least the most
important documents are recovered.

Many thanks!

My old mailbox is still in a tar-ball - did you get back about the beer
sometime?

Patrick

- Original Message -
From: "Philip Hands" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Patrick Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: Please tell me this is curable...


> "Patrick Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Can you recall the name of any of these Windows utilities?  Or has
nayone
> > done this in the past and have the awk script lying about?
> > > The problem is the lf -> crlf switch.  Just reverse it.  There
> > > will be posts saying this won't work but it will.  You'd think
> > > it doesn't work because what about valid crlf pairs in the
> > > original data.  But they get changed to crcrlf by the ascii
>
> Ah, good point.  Assuming it's true:
>
>   perl -ne 's/\r\n/\n/g; print;'  broken.tar > fixed.tar
>
> should do the trick.
>
> Cheers, Phil.
>

Re: Debian equivalent of RH's rc.local?

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Eric G . Miller  wrote:
>Put your one-time script links in /etc/rcS.d and the actual scripts in
>/etc/init.d.

DO NOT do this. /etc/rcS.d scripts are executed at bootup before any
other service is running.

>These scripts are executed at every runlevel.

No, /etc/rcS.d scripts are definitely not executed every runlevel.

>There are
>READMEs in /etc/rcS.d and /etc/init.d.

That's good advice, now follow it ;)

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ppp help needed

[da Bobstopper]

hello debian people

i've been getting annoying logs in /etc/var/ppp.log: 

Jan 25 22:37:32 butler pppd[10594]:  d4 95 13 08 94 61 a9 94 30 64 1a b9 46 4c 
e1 45 93 f0 33 06 60 66 07 39 62 06 40 31 79 b2 5a 46 d2 b4 31 61 cd 1c f2 d5 30
12 1b 05 93 30 02 09 23 3c 96 5f 7a 72 29 19 98 ff 69 64 2f 8d 62 e2 4e 23 ff 
90 61 3b 90 98 c3 90 c4 00 11 f4 44 23 57 57 23 82 87
Jan 25 22:37:32 butler pppd[10594]:  75 b2 8a 75 d6 b1 64 92 43 29 11 7a 07 07 
36 40 53 04 96 a6 54 4a 44 f4 4a 67 2b 05 09 99 3e 17 74 4a e3 ed 02 04 b1 97 94
b6 97 c7 aa 90 04 82 40 47 ae 2b 20 3e 12 a9 01 48 b3 e2 6f c3 e6 3e f3 e9 3e 
b4 12 40 e9 0b 2a 79 bd 41 73 d9 3d b8 c0 4b c3 fb 49
Jan 25 22:37:32 butler pppd[10594]:  59 88 4f 28 ca 31 77 2b 1e 94 ad 8b b2 d4 
2e 70 3a 4f a1 98 9a b3 8f
Jan 25 22:37:32 butler pppd[10594]: rcvd [proto=0xfd] 02 b1 7d d0 1c 05 87 e0 
0b 60 aa 71 a8 d4 9c 56 66 98 21 3d 96 c6 6b 7e 96 6f 67 16 73 67 50 6f 67 76 
79 67 b5 4c 06 37 fc 82 61 3a 4d d6 89 42 f4 b8 9c b9 6f 98 a8 35 28 31 f7 78 
89 8f
64 59 92 91 d7 60 79 61 7a 9e e2 da 06 51 7c 77 39
Jan 25 22:37:32 butler pppd[10594]:  9c 6d 81 c8 4b 15 03 06 51 49 2c 0a 05 2d 
d4 c2 77 a5 2b 83 c2 e3 33 e2 71 4b f3 e0 26 74 94 06 d6 6d 27 02 f5 8d 39 ae 40
39 80 4e 14 9f 66 92 5c 7b 09 e6 67 b6 74 3e c9 ea 02 06 78 67 a2 61 67 d8 a9 
62 98 98 25 78 ed 68 a9 f6 37 59 a0 18 06 20 2f 12 6e
Jan 25 22:37:32 butler pppd[10594]:  27 00 20 06 d1 d6 4a e4 b0 4b 24 b4 2e 22 
df 97 65 d5 3e 42 e9 77 b2 7e 90 f1 a8 9f c9 8e 75 af

this stuff goes on for about 5 pages within less than a second. it slows down
the connection drastically. if anyone has any idea at all what it could be could
you please tell me. the debug option has been turned off but no effect. i
look forward to a response

thanks in advance

from

da Bobstopper

Re: new to debian...

[Jim Kannengieser]

Thanks for the info on using apt. One more question, if you don't
mind Won't this take forever over my ISDN line? I have access to a T1
at work, so that might be the better choice. If not, then I'll try apt at
home over ISDN.

Cheers,
Jim

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote:

> Just install in slink apt, edit your /etc/apt/sources.list so that apt can
> find potato (add a line http/ftp site potato main contrib non-free), and
> remove the 'stable' line. 
> 
> Now you do:
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> apt-get upgrade
> apt-get dselect-upgrade
> and... when all goes well YOU HAVE POTATO (apt downloads automatic).
> 
> Ron
> 
> 

RE: potato mirror

[Lewis, James M.]

> Hi,
> 
>   I'm in the middle of mirroring the potato distribution and
>   notice that there are about 300+ packages symlink to slink
>   distribution.  Does this mean that I need to mirror slink
>   also?
> 
No.  I used rsync and told it to follow the symlinks.  I can
get just potato and just i386.  I can send you the script
if you want.  The rsync I am using is from potato but I started
from the one in slink.  The total space required is about 2.2G.

jim

>   Thanks!
> 
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Setting up a PPP connection using a calling card

[Christian Dysthe]

Hi,

this may be a little off topic, but please bear with me.

I am using Debian unstable on my laptop now and have a local dial-up
account using PPP. 

Sometimes when I travel I want to use a company calling card to dial my
local ISP and get mail and stuff having the long distance directly
billed to my employer. 

The problem is that using the calling card requires putting in a
customer number and a pin and finally my ISP's number. Does anyone know
where I can find information regarding how to do this? I have looked
several places but can not find information I am able to use. Windows
have calling card features in their dial software, but I can not find
info regarding this when it comes to Linux.

TIA
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Re: downloading

[Kent West]

Gavin Schuette wrote:

> I want to download the debian operating system for a pentium processor,
> what should I do?
> I have tried the ftp site from my netscape browser and cliked on slink
> and it downloads a list of files only?
> Where is the link I clik to download the operating system itself?
> I would love to put it on my home computer.

There are several ways of doing this. If you're going to keep a DOS/Windows 
partition
on this box, there's five or six files you can download to that partition which 
you
can use to install a minimal (and I mean "minimal") base system.  If you're not 
going
to keep a DOS/Win partition, you need to download about 7 diskette images and 
make
floppies out of them (using rawrite2.exe, available on your download site near 
the
floppy images, to create them from DOS). Once you've got the base system 
installed,
you can get your network going and download the rest quite easily (but perhaps
slowly, depending on the type of connection you have.

You can read about both of these methods at
http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install, particularly section 5.3 and 
5.6.

Trouble with X Windows...

[Michael Jessop]

...I just converted over (well, initialized my disk and started from
scratch) from RedHat 6.0 to Debian 2.1 (Slink).  I cannot get XWindows to
run correctly.  I have a Matrox G200 AGP card... is this NOT the equivalent
to the Millennium II AGP driver/card listed in the XF86Setup program?  If
not, what to do?  I am considering upgrading to Potato, but I do not even
know how to do that (with apt)...  Can someone help me out?  I'd like to get
up and running with Debian.

Thank you.

Mike

Re: dynamic IP's, IP masq and mail, can it be done?

[Joe Block]

Ethan Benson wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a small network connected to the internet via a IP masq
> gateway, and would like to get mail working, but the above setup is a
> nightmare for mail it would seem.
> 
> is it even possible for mail to work in such a setup or am i wasting
> my time?  I got the gateway machine to send mail, but my fake domain
> still shows up in various places, such as the message ID and a second
>  From line.  and in order to do that i had to setup a virtual table
> for all the local user accounts, otherwise when cron or something
> send mail to root it would go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...
> 
> I am using Postfix and have gone through pretty much all of the
> documentation on the web site and still don't have this all working
> very well, and it seems to be a very very messy setup.

I'm using postfix on slink to do this now.  It's been a while since I
set it up so I may be a little vague about some of the details, my
notebook with my debian notes has gone missing.

Do you have a domain already?  If you do, see if your isp will do uucp
delivery for you.  My home lan gets its mail via uucp from my desktop
machine at work.  If you don't have a domain and are unwilling to pay
for a top level domain, talk to the folks at dyndns.org about getting a
subdomain from them.

To do this (from vague memory, there may be a little more to it than
this)

1) set up a uucp link between your home gateway machine and your isp. 
There is a howto on this, so I won't go into detail. 

2) set up your domain's dns so that your isp is the mx for your domain.

3) have your isp configure their end so that all mail for your domain is
transferred via uucp to your machine.

4) Set up your home machine to send all mail outside your domain to your
isp (check out the postfix faq for details) via uucp.  This isn't
totally necessary if you have a fast link - I have a cablemodem and do
all my outgoing delivery myself.

5) Set up your ip-up script to add a call of 'uucico -S ispuucpname' to
force a connection to pick up your pending mail & send out your outgoing
queue.

6) add a cron job to do 'uucico -S ispuucpname' every hour or so to pick
up your mail

If you want to have incoming uucp over tcp and use a seperate password
file for uucp (recommended), put the password entries into
/etc/uucp/passwd and add

uucpstream  tcp nowait  root/usr/sbin/tcpd 
/usr/sbin/uucico -l

to your inetd.conf and then kill -HUP inetd

When I was using diald and ppp for a dialup connection, I had my ip-up
script touch /var/run/linkup and then had ip-down remove it.  Then I
could have cron jobs check to see if the link was already up before
doing anything.

The big advantage of having your mail come in over uucp is that it will
resume interrupted transfers where they left off, rather than making you
retransmit the whole message.  Very nice if you have timed local phone
service.

If your own isp won't do this, there are companies out there who will,
including the consulting firm I work with (http://www.communiweb.net).

jpb
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Re: relocating mail server

[Allan M. Wind]

On 2000-01-25 01:55:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>   I'd like to know how to forward all the emails from my current
>   email server to this new potato box?

You were not really specific in what you wanted to do, so I assume
that you have an mta and you want everything moved to a new mta:

Setup mail.new server to access mail for your domain. Change MX record
to point to mail.new config on mail.orig.  Change config on mail.orig
to not accept mail for your domain.

Old mail you either move (rcp/scp) or redeliver using something like
formail.

There are other scenarios, say, if you use fetchmail to obtain your
mail, if you want your mail server to act as a gateway to your
new mail server etc.


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Re: Couple Questions

[Kent West]

Cameron Matheson wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I just have a few quick questions:
>
> 1.  Is it possible to switch resolutions while in X (I like using
> 640x480, but occasionally I need 800x600)?
>

Ctrl-Alt and + or Ctrl-Alt and -, IF you have working resolutions defined in
/etc/X11/XF86Config (in the appropriate Screen section).

> 2.  to use pon as a normal user, do I just use chmod?

No. Edit the /etc/group file and add the normal user's name to the end of the 
dip and
dialout groups. The lines will look something like:
dip:x:30:myuser, your_user,some_other_user


>
> 3.  would I be better off using the kernel source off the Debian 2.1
> Slink CD, or the source I downloaded
> (kernel-source-2.0.38_2.0.38-2_all.deb)?
>

Generally, I'd go with whichever has the higher number, but sometimes you'd 
want to
stick with the lower number if you've got special considerations.

> Thanks,
> Cameron Matheson
>
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RE: hard disk not recognized

[aphro]

dont think linux does, without drivers for it .. most of the DMA66
controllers have linux drivers, check the debian-user archives for some
urls..

nate

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

richar >The disk has 3 partitions. One is for Windows, the other 2 are for 
Linux.
richar >The Linux part is formatted for linux and works fine as long as I don't 
use
richar >the controller card. I'm wondering if Linux just doesn't know about this
richar >kind of card? Bob
richar >
richar >-Original Message-
richar >From: aphro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
richar >Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 9:37 PM
richar >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
richar >Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org; recipient list not shown: ;
richar >Subject: Re: hard disk not recognized
richar >
richar >
richar >it may be a stupid question but i have to ask did you happen to reformat
richar >the drive to use the linux filesystem(ext2fs?) or is it using a MS 
windows
richar >"compadible" file system ?  i can't imaigne why a drive wouldnt be
richar >recognized if the filesystem was compadible. with the exception of a
richar >broken bios(which i've only seen once, long story im sure its not what
richar >your experiencing)
richar >
richar >nate
richar >
richar >On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
richar >
richar >richar >I found that I can get Linux to recognize my hard disk by 
unplugging
richar >it from
richar >richar >the Promise Technology Ultra ATA/66 controller card and plugging
richar >directly
richar >richar >into the motherboard. The only problem is now Windows can't see 
the
richar >disk! Is
richar >richar >there anything I can do so that both OSes can see the disk? 
Thanks.
richar >richar >
richar >richar >Bob
richar >richar >
richar >richar >
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Re: Pathetic Performance

[aphro]

what windowmanager are you using in corel? and in redhat? i highly
reccomend AGAINST KDE on any 486 or any machine with less then 48MB ram. i
bet much of hte problem is kde taking up all the memory and the machine
has to swap to the end of helll to run any app :)

nate

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Bill Keegan wrote:

billk >I'm running Corel/Debian v1.0 on a AMD 486-100. 24mb ram, >1G hd,
billk >networked with three other PCs. This workstation is 5X slower then a
billk >486-33 running RH 5.0 acting as a gateway, Samba server, mail, etc. I
billk >welcome any suggestions towards finding what must be a gross
billk >misconfiguration.
billk >
billk >On the 486-100 every service not needed has been pulled from bootup,
billk >Apache, Qmail, etc. Using windowmanager with Netscape 4.7 is painful and
billk >literally 5 times slower in creating a new browser window or displaying
billk >a new page the the 486-33.
billk >
billk >I will begin by rebuilding the kernel with i486 optimization but I find
billk >it hard to believe that Pentium optimization could slow it down this
billk >much. Again any other ideas?
billk >
billk >Bill
billk >
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Re: Trouble with X Windows...

[aphro]

upgrade your X 

see www.debian.org/~vincent

slink has a really old X.

nate

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Michael Jessop wrote:

mjesso >...I just converted over (well, initialized my disk and started from
mjesso >scratch) from RedHat 6.0 to Debian 2.1 (Slink).  I cannot get XWindows 
to
mjesso >run correctly.  I have a Matrox G200 AGP card... is this NOT the 
equivalent
mjesso >to the Millennium II AGP driver/card listed in the XF86Setup program?  
If
mjesso >not, what to do?  I am considering upgrading to Potato, but I do not 
even
mjesso >know how to do that (with apt)...  Can someone help me out?  I'd like 
to get
mjesso >up and running with Debian.
mjesso >
mjesso >Thank you.
mjesso >
mjesso >Mike
mjesso >
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pronunciation of daemon

[Brian J. Stults]

Silly, but...  How do you pronounce "daemon"?  I thought it was
pronounced "day-mun", but an online dictionary I checked said it had the
same pronunciation as "demon".

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Re: pronunciation of daemon

[Gordon Still]

see www.m-w.com

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>>> "Brian J. Stults" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/25/00 10:35AM >>>
Silly, but...  How do you pronounce "daemon"?  I thought it was
pronounced "day-mun", but an online dictionary I checked said it had
the
same pronunciation as "demon".

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RE: pronunciation of daemon

[Pollywog]

On 25-Jan-2000 Brian J. Stults wrote:
> Silly, but...  How do you pronounce "daemon"?  I thought it was
> pronounced "day-mun", but an online dictionary I checked said it had the
> same pronunciation as "demon".

I pronounce it "demon" but I have heard a few people pronounce it "day-mun". 
Since they also say "Lie-nucks", I went with "demon".  :)

--
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Re: sendmail: NOQUEUE: Authentication-warning

[Christopher S. Swingley]

> Looks like sendmail does a reverse dns lookup on a connecting host and
> find that the IP doesn't match the hostname.  It therefor suggest that
> someone messing around (authentication warning).  Are you controling
> relay using domain or IPs?

Relaying is restricted to localhost and two local subnets, so the warnings
aren't related to relaying.  The email is being delivered straight to
the machine in question.

/etc/mail/relay-domains:

137.229.94
137.229.92
127.0.0.1

> Check hostnames against your dns records for the machines mentioned in
> the log event.

Most of the NOQUEUE warnings are for machines I have no control over
such as this one: 

Jan 25 00:23:36 denali sendmail[25859]: NOQUEUE: Authentication-Warning: 
denali.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu: Host pop2.sys.hokudai.ac.jp 
[133.87.1.132] claimed to be pop3.sys.hokudai.ac.jp

And even those that I do have control over, it is usually a Windows
machine that reports only it's hostname, when sendmail appears to want
the fully qualified domain name (i.e. Windows says alces and sendmail
wants alces.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu).

I'm not particularly worried at this point because these *new* warnings
are only warnings, but if they became errors that bounced the mail, I'd
be in a world of trouble that I couldn't fix.

I was hoping there was a flag in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf that got changed
in a recent potato upgrade and that I could reset to the way it used to
behave.

Thanks.

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Re: pronunciation of daemon

[Brendan Cully]

On Tuesday, 25 January 2000 at 16:47, Pollywog wrote:
> 
> On 25-Jan-2000 Brian J. Stults wrote:
> > Silly, but...  How do you pronounce "daemon"?  I thought it was
> > pronounced "day-mun", but an online dictionary I checked said it had the
> > same pronunciation as "demon".
> 
> I pronounce it "demon" but I have heard a few people pronounce it "day-mun". 
> Since they also say "Lie-nucks", I went with "demon".  :)

Both of those are legitimate, if old-fashioned, pronunciations. People
who pronounce it Lie-nucks have probably just been using it since
before the Great Pronunciation Controversy...

Re: Pathetic Performance

[Jesse Jacobsen]

On 01/25/00, Michel Dänzer addressed "Re: Pathetic Performance":
> --- Bill Keegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm running Corel/Debian v1.0 on a AMD 486-100. 24mb ram,
> 
> This is very little RAM.

However, I ran a machine with exactly the same specs for a number of
years, using bo and hamm, having no speed problems at all.  Sure, it's
not a K6, and more ram would help, but this should be sufficient for a
comfortably fast non-graphics-intensive workstation.

OTOH, Netscape is always sluggish, as is Enlightenment and some
others.

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Re: Allowing users to shutdown

[Jesse Jacobsen]

On 01/24/00, Joseph A. Martin addressed "Allowing users to shutdown":
>   I have set up a Linux workstation for my family's use. They
> only need to keep the system on for short periods. (For various
> reasons I don't want to leave it on full time.) They are using the
> icewm window manager, which, when they hit ctrl-alt-del, gives them
> the option of shutting down or rebooting the system. /sbin/shutdown
> has permissions that do not allow them to use the shutdown command,
> unfortunately. What permissions must I set to allow anyone on that
> system to shut it down?

A real simple solution is to change what Ctrl-Alt-Del does in /etc/inittab.
On my wife's machine, I changed it a little to say:

# What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -h now

That way she can bring it down to a state where it's safe to shut off
or reset without any further customization to the system.  She's not
even in sudoers.  Of course, Ctrl-Alt-Del may be intercepted at
certain times, e.g. in X, but all she has to do is go to a free VT if
that's the case.

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Re: Pathetic Performance

[Dänzer]

--- Jesse Jacobsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> OTOH, Netscape is always sluggish, as is Enlightenment and some others.

It's kinda fast on my Athlon/500 :)


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Epson Stylus Photo 700

[Jonathan Markevich]

I just got the above printer and am trying to get it working... I purged and
reinstalled apsfilter (is there a better way to get to the config?? I
couldn't find it) and installed using the escp2 gs driver, but all of the
jobs sit in the queue.  I haven't tried it under Wingdings yet, but really
want it under Linux.  I know it works, people say it does, but never
actually HOW.

Thanks

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re: Trouble with X Windows

[Michael Jessop]

...I do not understand the concept of how to point apt to a specific package
or group of packages... for instance, to update all of x windows, how do I
tell it where to look for the package(s)?

Thank you.
Mike

Epson update

[Jonathan Markevich]

I got *something* working... the best I get is "Unknown device: escp2"
printed on the page.  Is this a ghostscript problem?  When I upgraded to the
potato versions of gs a2ps and apsfilter I got *nothing* coming out.

Something missing?  How can I tell where?  Thanks again.

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Re: Epson Stylus Photo 700

[Christian Dysthe]

Hi,

I sat up my Epson Stylus Color 740 using printool and gs. I had to be
root to do so though, and had to get some additional filters from:
http://dutera.et.tudelft.nl/~haver/linux/epson.html.

First I was playing around with apsfilter and magicfilter, but couldn't
make it work. Setting it up with printtool was pretty straight forward
and works fine.

You can find some useful information at:
http://eunuchs.org/epson/index.html
and
http://gatekeeper.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi

I am aware of the fact that you have a different printer than I have,
but I am sure using printool will make it work.

Good luck!

On 25 Jan, Jonathan Markevich wrote:
| I just got the above printer and am trying to get it working... I purged and
| reinstalled apsfilter (is there a better way to get to the config?? I
| couldn't find it) and installed using the escp2 gs driver, but all of the
| jobs sit in the queue.  I haven't tried it under Wingdings yet, but really
| want it under Linux.  I know it works, people say it does, but never
| actually HOW.
| 
| Thanks
| 
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dhcp-client trying to configure `lo'(loopback)

[Maciej Kalisiak]

I've just recently switched from 'dhcpcd' to 'dhcp-client' (better
configuration, lots of docs).  I just installed the package, and edited
'/etc/dhclient.conf' to add a single option (I have to send a "host-name" to
the server).  I startup the client, and it configures 'eth0' properly.  But I
look at my syslog and it appears that the dhcp-client is also trying to
configure my loopback interface! 

Jan 25 12:35:28 khazad-dum dhclient-2.2.x: DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
Jan 25 12:35:36 khazad-dum dhclient-2.2.x: DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
Jan 25 12:35:44 khazad-dum dhclient-2.2.x: DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
Jan 25 12:35:57 khazad-dum dhclient-2.2.x: DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18
Jan 25 12:36:15 khazad-dum dhclient-2.2.x: DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
Jan 25 12:36:22 khazad-dum dhclient-2.2.x: No DHCPOFFERS received.
Jan 25 12:36:22 khazad-dum dhclient-2.2.x: No working leases in persistent 
database - sleeping. 

[...keeps on going forever...]

Why is it doing such a brain-dead thing like that?  I had to edit
/etc/init.d/dhcp-client to add "eth0" to the invokation, but this is probably
not the best solution.

Also noticed that, unlike 'dhcpcd', "/etc/init.d/dhcp-client stop" does
absolutely nothing ('dhcpcd' killed the daemon and brought the interface
down).  Is this intentional?  I just did "apt-get install dhcp-client" this
morning, so this is the most recent version of the package.

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Re: pronunciation of daemon

[Dave Sherohman]

Pollywog said:
> I pronounce it "demon" but I have heard a few people pronounce it "day-mun". 
> Since they also say "Lie-nucks", I went with "demon".  :)

Then there are a few demented souls (like me) who say "demon" and "lie-nucks"
- you can't escape that easily!

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wuftpd process table entries broken?

[Ralf G. R. Bergs]

Hi,

has anyone else noticed that under Debian 2.1 their "ftpwho" gives incomplete 
output? I only receive "ft" instead of "ftpd: some.host.com: 
anonymous/[EMAIL PROTECTED]". This has to do with the individual ftp server 
processes 
not correctly entering themselves into the process table.

Why is this?

I'm running wu-ftpd-academ 2.4.2.16-13 which seems to be the most current 
"stable" version of this package.

Thanks,

Ralf


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smbfs - remote directories truncated ?!

[Ian Zimmerman]

Slink + smbfs packaged with slink.  smbmounting a share from an NT
server works fine, but in large directories I only seem to see a
portion of the files!  Note that this is NOT Samba FAQ 2.2 - the
missing files have names that are as valid as those I can see.  In
fact, after deleting or moving some visible files I get to see the
rest. 

Has anyone else seen this and have a suggestion?


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