Re: internet connection

[Eric G . Miller]

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:18:39PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote:
> hi Scott
> 
> ... all you should need to do is run pppconfig (to set up the
> connection properties for your ISP), and then run "pon  connection configured in pppconfig>". You must have also set the IP
> addresses of your ISP's nameservers, in /etc/resolv.conf
  ^
Not necessarily true.  The pppconfig in potato (an beyond) can
handle dynamic nameserver allocation (if you're ISP does this).  It
basically does some magic to move /etc/resolv.conf around when the
connection is up and after it terminates.  Pretty slick!

BTW, most people don't need to resort to chat script trickery anymore,
since pppconfig gets it right most of the time.  Remember to have it set
the default route, and put it in debug mode if the connection is
problematic.

Luck!

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Java 1.2

[Mats Rynge]

Hi!

I wonder what I have to do in order to be able to use Java 1.2 on my
potato box. If I understand it right, I need glibc 2.1, which means that
I have to go to unstable. I want to stay away from the unstable if
possible.

So, my question is: what is the simplest way for me to install and use
Java 1.2 under potato? Is there any .debs out there? Do I have to do
major system upgrades?

TIA

Mats

Re: RFC 1878 documents for subnet

[Eric G . Miller]

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:41:21PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote:
> Where to got RFC 1878 documents for subnet mask
> and the valid addresses.

debian has a doc-rfc package containing many of these.  If you don't
want the whole package (it's pretty big) just do a net search on the
RFC.  There are a number of servers that mirror them.

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Re: Getting free ISPs to work

[Brad]

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:00:13AM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote:
> 
> I'd be interested to see what they plan on doing.  If it's as simple
> as 'startx -- :1' to get rid of the advertisements, how can they
> convince their advertisers that the ads will be seen?

Nah, have some fun with it! Install blast and blow them away (:


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Re: Java 1.2

[Chanop Silpa-Anan]

Once upon a time, I heard Mats Rynge say

> Hi!
> 
> I wonder what I have to do in order to be able to use Java 1.2 on my
> potato box. If I understand it right, I need glibc 2.1, which means that
> I have to go to unstable. I want to stay away from the unstable if
> possible.
did I miss something here? potato already use glibc 2.1


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RE: RFC 1878 documents for subnet

[Andrew McRobert]

they should be on the IETF site ... I'm guessing www.ietf.org

A

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From: Eric G . Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 1:16 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: RFC 1878 documents for subnet


On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:41:21PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote:
> Where to got RFC 1878 documents for subnet mask
> and the valid addresses.

debian has a doc-rfc package containing many of these.  If you don't
want the whole package (it's pretty big) just do a net search on the
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Re: RFC 1878 documents for subnet

[Robert Waldner]

http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/network/inetdocs/rfc/rfc1878.txt

hth,
&rw

On Wed, 31 May 2000 13:50:14 +0800, "Andrew McRobert" writes:
>they should be on the IETF site ... I'm guessing www.ietf.org
>
>A
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Eric G . Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 1:16 PM
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: RFC 1878 documents for subnet
>
>
>On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:41:21PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote:
>> Where to got RFC 1878 documents for subnet mask
>> and the valid addresses.


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Re: Apache & SSL using incorrect certificate

[Robert Waldner]

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On Tue, 30 May 2000 13:24:15 EDT, Dan Brosemer writes:
>Even more disturbing is that if I go to the first site, and then to the
>second site, netscape doesn't warn me that the domain name in the
>certificate is incorrect!  I suppose that's a netscape bug, though, and
>unrelated to my problem (Just big security implications, I believe).

There even was a cert warning for that problem.

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CERT Advisory CA-2000-08 Inconsistent Warning Messages in Netscape
Navigator

   Original release date: May 26, 2000
   Last Revised: --
   Source: CERT/CC
   
   A complete revision history is at the end of this file.
   
Systems Affected

 * Systems running Netscape Navigator, up to and including Navigator
   4.73, without the Personal Security Manager installed
   
Overview

   A flaw exists in Netscape Navigator that could allow an attacker to
   masquerade as a legitimate web site if the attacker can compromise the
   validity of certain DNS information. This is different from the
   problem reported in CERT Advisory CA-2000-05, but it has a similar
   impact. This vulnerability was recently discovered by Kevin Fu of of
   the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, independently, by Jon
   Guyer.
   
   If a user visits a web site in which the certificate name does not
   match the site name and proceeds with the connection despite the
   warning produced by Netscape, then subsequent connections to any sites
   that have the same certificate will not result in a warning message.
   
   It should be noted that neither this vulnerability, nor the one
   described in CERT Advisory CA-2000-05 represent a weakness or
   vulnerability in SSL. Rather, these problems are a result of the
   fundamentally insecure nature of the DNS system, combined with an
   over-reliance on web browsers to do "sanity checking." In both cases,
   it is (and has been) within the power of the user to validate
   connections by examining certificates and verifying the certificates
   against their expectations.
   
   Netscape and other browsers take steps to warn users when the DNS
   information appears to be suspicious; the browser may not be able to
   do all the checks necessary to ensure that the user is connecting to
   the correct location. Therefore, as a general practice, the CERT/CC
   recommends validating certificates before any sensitive transactions.
   
I. Description

   Digital certificates are small documents used to authenticate and
   encrypt information transmitted over the Internet. One very common use
   of digital certificates is to secure electronic commerce transactions
   through SSL. The kind of certificates used in e-commerce transactions
   are called X.509 certificates. The X.509 certificates help a web
   browser and the user ensure that any sensitive information transmitted
   over the Internet is readable only by the intended recipient. This
   requires v

Re: Apache & SSL using incorrect certificate

[Robert Waldner]

On Wed, 31 May 2000 08:02:12 +0200, Robert Waldner writes:
>
>On Tue, 30 May 2000 13:24:15 EDT, Dan Brosemer writes:
>>Even more disturbing is that if I go to the first site, and then to the
>>second site, netscape doesn't warn me that the domain name in the
>>certificate is incorrect!  I suppose that's a netscape bug, though, and
>>unrelated to my problem (Just big security implications, I believe).
>
>There even was a cert warning for that problem.

again, this time it should be correctly encoded.

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CERT Advisory CA-2000-08 Inconsistent Warning Messages in Netscape
Navigator

   Original release date: May 26, 2000
   Last Revised: --
   Source: CERT/CC
   
   A complete revision history is at the end of this file.
   
Systems Affected

 * Systems running Netscape Navigator, up to and including Navigator
   4.73, without the Personal Security Manager installed
   
Overview

   A flaw exists in Netscape Navigator that could allow an attacker to
   masquerade as a legitimate web site if the attacker can compromise the
   validity of certain DNS information. This is different from the
   problem reported in CERT Advisory CA-2000-05, but it has a similar
   impact. This vulnerability was recently discovered by Kevin Fu of of
   the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, independently, by Jon
   Guyer.
   
   If a user visits a web site in which the certificate name does not
   match the site name and proceeds with the connection despite the
   warning produced by Netscape, then subsequent connections to any sites
   that have the same certificate will not result in a warning message.
   
   It should be noted that neither this vulnerability, nor the one
   described in CERT Advisory CA-2000-05 represent a weakness or
   vulnerability in SSL. Rather, these problems are a result of the
   fundamentally insecure nature of the DNS system, combined with an
   over-reliance on web browsers to do "sanity checking." In both cases,
   it is (and has been) within the power of the user to validate
   connections by examining certificates and verifying the certificates
   against their expectations.
   
   Netscape and other browsers take steps to warn users when the DNS
   information appears to be suspicious; the browser may not be able to
   do all the checks necessary to ensure that the user is connecting to
   the correct location. Therefore, as a general practice, the CERT/CC
   recommends validating certificates before any sensitive transactions.
   
I. Description

   Digital certificates are small documents used to authenticate and
   encrypt information transmitted over the Internet. One very common use
   of digital certificates is to secure electronic commerce transactions
   through SSL. The kind of certificates used in e-commerce transactions
   are called X.509 certificates. The X.509 certificates help a web
   browser and the user ensure that any sensitive information transmitted
   over the Internet is readable only by the intended recipient. This
   requires verifying the recipient's identity and encrypting data so
   that only the recipient can decrypt it.
   
   The "padlock" icon used by Netscape, Internet Explorer, and other
   browsers is an indication that an SSL-secured transaction has been
   established to someone. It does not necessarily indicate to whom the
   connection has been established. Netscape and other browsers take
   steps to warn users when DNS-based information conflicts with the
   strongly authenticated information contained in the X.509 certificates
   used in SSL transactions. These warnings are supplemental information
   to help users decide if they're connecting to whom they think they are
   connecting. These steps and warnings are designed to protect against
   attacks on the DNS information.
   
   If you rely solely on the warning dialogs provided by web browsers to
   determine if the connection is with whom you think it is or if you do
   not fully understand the implications of the dialogs, then you may be
   subject to the attacks described in this document and CA-2000-05.
   
   The essence of the problem is this: Within one Netscape session, if a
   user clicks on "continue" in response to a "hostname does not match
   name in certificate" error, then that certificate is incorrectly
   validated for future use in the Netscape session, regardless of the
   hostname or IP address of other servers that use the certificate.
   
   For example, suppose that an attacker constructs a web site named
   example.com, authenticated by a certificate that does not match
   example.com, and convinces a victim to navigate there. Netscape will
   present a warning dialog indicating that the site to which the user
   thinks she's navigating (www.example.com) does not match the
   information presented in the certificate. If the user does not intend
   to provide any sensitive information to 

RE: Ethernet Error

[C. Falconer]

Try as root

/sbin/route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 window 16384 eth0

assuming your eth0 has an IP in the range 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.254

If that works fine then add it to something in /etc/init.d 

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Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:Re: Ethernet Error

Ok. That sounds like a plan. When I run route, I see an entry for the
localnet associated with eth0 and an entry for the lo (no gateway assigned
to either). I'm not completly familiar with route tables. Could I get a hand
with them?

What shows for route is:
DestinationGatewayGenmaskFlagsMetricRef
UseIface
locatnet* 255.255.255.224U 0
01  eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0U 0
01  lo

I might also add that the activity LED for the on the card ON solid.

- Original Message -
From: Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: 
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: Ethernet Error


> Why do you think the problem is with the card? What about your route
> table, is all correct there? And ipchains, you don't have them so you
> can't get anything out or in can you?
>
> What exactly does it say when you try to ping?
>
> Sound like a route problem to me!
>
> Ron Rademaker
>
> On Tue, 30 May 2000, Steve wrote:
>
> > Hello, I'm using Slink on an AMD-233 powered computer. I have a
3Com905-TX
> > Ethernet card installed. The modules appears to be loading with the
kernel
> > as eth0. When I run ifconfig I can see the the eth0 card with the
correctly
> > assigned IP information.
> >
> > The problem: I can't ping to the cards IP address, but I can ping
localhost.
> > Any ideas on troubleshooting the card further?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > -Steve
> >
> >
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Unidentified subject!

[Jaroshenko Serge]

unsubscribe

e-mail to leafnode-server?

[M. Tavasti]

Anybody having already done this:

1) get e-mail list put in single file in on-line connected computer by
   procmail 
2) Copy this file to dialup-connected computer
3) Put e-mails from that file to local leafnode-server.

I have already done 1 and 2, and having leafnode running. 

Sometimes I don't have enough time to read debian mailing lists,
and I'd like them to expire automatically without reading. In gnus you
can get them expire n days after reading, but I prefer them expiring n
days after arrival. This would also give access to debian maling list
to other users, without need to subscribe everybody to lists. 

Any help/ideas welcome. 

(Would be nice if debian-user would be newsgroup instead of
e-mail list)

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OT: Xemacs21-nomule/GNUs: turn off split by default?

[Andre Berger]

Does anybody know the trick to turn off the Multipart Mime splitting
of messages with larger attachments in Xemacs21-nomule/GNUS by default?

Andre

Re: XFree86 4.0 debs ?

[M. Tavasti]

Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> PS. Make sure to keep the old 3, just in case anything goes wrong, I
> didn't the first time, something went wrong, so I tried to fix it and
> messed up my system even more. At the end I decided to reinstall the
> system, because it was the fastest way of fixing ;)

In file xc/config/cf/site.def, change ProjectRoot, for example:

#define ProjectRoot /usr/local/X11R6

Remove comments around 

#ifndef HasGcc2
#define HasGcc2 YES
#endif

Then just make world; make install. XF86Config should be changed,
/etc/X11/Xserver edited, and that's it. You don't have to remove any
debian packages. 

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Re: Java 1.2

[Oki DZ]

On Wed, 31 May 2000, Mats Rynge wrote:
> I wonder what I have to do in order to be able to use Java 1.2 on my
> potato box. If I understand it right, I need glibc 2.1, which means that
> I have to go to unstable. I want to stay away from the unstable if
> possible.

>From the readme:
Also note that this version needs at least a glibc-2.1.2 based system
with a recent 2.2.xx kernel.  This build will not run with glibc-2.0
or glibc-2.1[.1].

What's the problem with unstable...? IMHO, it's stable.
 
> So, my question is: what is the simplest way for me to install and use
> Java 1.2 under potato? Is there any .debs out there? Do I have to do
> major system upgrades?

I don't know about JDK1.2.2 on potato (mine is frozen), but anyway...
I got the JDK from www.blackdown.org; the distribution is basically a
tarball. Installation is pretty simple:
cd /usr/lib
tar xvfz /your/download/dir/of/jdk*z

put JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jdk1.2.2 in /etc/profile

create links for the executables:
cd /usr/bin
ln -s /usr/lib/jdk1.2.2/bin/java java
 ../bin/javac javac
 ../bin/javap javap
(do the same for the other executables)

Oki
ps: of course, it's much more (unnecessary) complicated compared to: 
apt-get install jdk-1.2.2 :-)  

Re: How to see hidden files/dirs

[John Leget]

Yes im aware of ls options but let me repeat for clarity.

How do i get GTK/GNOME applications to show me hidden files in their
open file dialogue windows. They dont show them whereas ie nedit will
list them fine.

Is there a system setting to affect this behaviour ??

cheers

Dan Hutchinson wrote:
> 
> Type in ls -la and this will show hidden/archive directories in Unix.
> 
> Dan
> 
>  John Leget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How do i get gnome/gtk apps to show me hidden files and dirs ?? ( i
> > dont
> > mean gmc )
> > In most other apps its no problem but gtk/gnome no success thusfar
> > :(.
> > Is there some system config
> > for this. ( havent found it yet ).
> >
> > cheers
> >
> >
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Wedged graphics card -- Matrox G200

[kmself]

My X session on my primary work box froze up this evening.  System's
still live, but I can't get a display off of it.  sshing in from another
system, 'chvt' had no effect, though I could (and can) start an X
session.

Once running and closing X, I got my console back -- though it was
flashing wildly and eventually turned up an "out of range" dialog on the
monitor itself.  Trying various SVGATextMode settings, including 

SVGATextMode -x -o

...which looks like it ought to reset things from the man page, only
succeeded in flashing the display.

I'm planning on a reboot, but any tips on being able to recover from
something like this would be appreciated.

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Re: A perplexing conundrum... Wingate/Linux

[John Leget]

Try the following

- Default gateway on your pc  = wingate pc IP 
see /etc/init.d/network and set the gateway ip here

- DNS server = wingate pc IP  
add the following line to /etc/resolv

nameserver 192.168.0.1
( change 192.168.0.1 to your wingate ip )


hope that works for you .
cheers


Citizen-Class Hacker wrote:
> 
> Alright people, I've got a question for you all.
> We have a multi-machine LAN set up in the house using Coax cables. My
> parents each have a Win98 comp, my mom's is connected to the Net and she
> passes it to us using Wingate. We have a registered copy, so no need to
> worry there. The problem, however, lies in that I am running a dual
> Linux-Win98 machine (the Win98 comes out very soon after I solve this, and a
> few more, problems) and I would like to access the Net. Now, following
> typical parent protocol, they intend to maintain control of the Net
> connection, so I can't set my machine up as the server and use IP
> masquerading as has been suggested in other messages of this nature. I've
> got the Network (dual IPX and TCP/IP) working such that I can ping the other
> people, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get my comp to link
> into Wingate. If there is a way, can you explain it? I've tried setting it
> as a proxy under Netscape, using it as my defaul gateway, etc., but it
> doesn't seem to be working. Can someone who's managed to solve a similar
> problem tell me how to do this? I would appreciate it a lot.
> 
> Signed,
>Ian Neufeld
> 
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Ishmail being developed - new version available!

[Phillip Deackes]

Hi. As an avid user of that wonderful email app, Ishmail, I was thrilled
to read on Freshmeat that it is now under active development. There is a
1.9.9 release available at http://ishmail.sourceforge.net/ - it is in
the form of a tar.gz so needs to be compiled. Ishmail is a Motif app and
needs the Motif development libraries to be installed on your system. I
tried compiling against lesstif and it didn't work. The maintainer, Evgeny
Stambulchik, maintains it should but then I have had little success
compiling apps against lesstif.

Fortunately there is now OpenMotif (http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/)
and Ishmail compiles cleanly against this. OpenMotif provides Debian
packages too.

At last I have an up-to-date error-free install of Ishmail. Excellent!!


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Re: Ethernet Error

[Ron Rademaker]

Your netmask doesn't look good to me, try editing your /etc/init.d/network
(or /etc/network/interfaces, I don't know which one you are using) and
change the netmask of your localnet to 255.255.255.0

Ron Rademaker

On Tue, 30 May 2000, Steve wrote:

> Ok. That sounds like a plan. When I run route, I see an entry for the
> localnet associated with eth0 and an entry for the lo (no gateway assigned
> to either). I'm not completly familiar with route tables. Could I get a hand
> with them?
> 
> What shows for route is:
> DestinationGatewayGenmaskFlagsMetricRef
> UseIface
> locatnet* 255.255.255.224U 0
> 01  eth0
> 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0U 0
> 01  lo
> 
> I might also add that the activity LED for the on the card ON solid.
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 6:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Ethernet Error
> 
> 
> > Why do you think the problem is with the card? What about your route
> > table, is all correct there? And ipchains, you don't have them so you
> > can't get anything out or in can you?
> >
> > What exactly does it say when you try to ping?
> >
> > Sound like a route problem to me!
> >
> > Ron Rademaker
> >
> > On Tue, 30 May 2000, Steve wrote:
> >
> > > Hello, I'm using Slink on an AMD-233 powered computer. I have a
> 3Com905-TX
> > > Ethernet card installed. The modules appears to be loading with the
> kernel
> > > as eth0. When I run ifconfig I can see the the eth0 card with the
> correctly
> > > assigned IP information.
> > >
> > > The problem: I can't ping to the cards IP address, but I can ping
> localhost.
> > > Any ideas on troubleshooting the card further?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > -Steve
> > >
> > >
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> 

Re: IP-Chains, etc.

[Ron Rademaker]

Did you do: 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward'
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward must be 1 if you want ip masquerading
enabled!

Ron

PS. Check if you got the right things in your kernel, otherwise you'll
have to recompile it.

On Wed, 31 May 2000, Corey Popelier wrote:

> Ok I had forgotten the dns setting (Sigh).
> Now I get a lot of "udp port domain unreachable" messages in my tcpdump.
> 
> Cheers,
>  Corey Popelier
>  http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas
>  Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> On Wed, 31 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > Why are you using a proxy, just go to your win network option, to the
> > tcp/ip properties and set the gateway to the lin box, as well as the
> > dns...
> > 
> > Ron
> > 
> > By the way, did you try adding that masq ipchains rule?
> > 
> > On Wed, 31 May 2000, Corey Popelier wrote:
> > 
> > > Some additional information I can give, is that a ping from the Windows
> > > box behaves as follows:
> > > 
> > > (win) ping 203.24.100.1
> > > 
> > > (tcpdump from linux box)
> > > 
> > > 10.0.0.2 > dialup-gw.aceonline.com.au: icmp: echo request
> > > (above line times 4).
> > > 
> > > Now this would indicate to me that IP forwarding is occurring. But no
> > > reply is coming back (possibly due to ICMP Masq not compiled in kernel).
> > > 
> > > Now I have told the Win box to use a gateway of 10.0.0.1 (Lin box). If I
> > > set the proxy to use to in IE to 10.0.0.1, a tcpdump says:
> > > 
> > > 10.0.0.1. > 10.0.0.2.1033...etcetc
> > > 10.0.0.2.1033 > 10.0.0.1.www ...etcetc
> > > arp who-has 10.0.0.2 tell 10.0.0.1
> > > arp reply 10.0.0.2 is-at 0:a0:24:96:43:bc
> > > 
> > > What I am trying to establish is if whether I am missing kernel options,
> > > or whether I've just got a configuration problem.
> > > 
> > > Thanks Ron btw.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > >  Corey Popelier
> > >  http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas
> > >  Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 30 May 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I'm not a telepath, I can't see from here if you got the right things in
> > > > your kernel ;) But you ipchains misses something, the masquerading, you
> > > > should do:
> > > > 
> > > > ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s /24 -d 0/0
> > > > 
> > > > I can tell you what you should have in your kernel: IP Masquerading, if
> > > > you want to masquerade ping, you should also have ICMP Masqerading.
> > > > 
> > > > Ron Rademaker
> > > > 
> > > > On Tue, 30 May 2000, Corey Popelier wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Ok I now have my Debian and Windows boxes networked, and I tried to 
> > > > > set up
> > > > > IP Chains as follows:
> > > > > 
> > > > > ipchains -P forward DENY
> > > > > ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j ACCEPT
> > > > > 
> > > > > Now whenever I traceroute something from the Win box I get:
> > > > > 
> > > > > 1   1ms<10ms<10ms  (Linux box).
> > > > > 2*   **
> > > > > 
> > > > > etc.
> > > > > Now I realise ICMP packets are handled by a different kernel option. 
> > > > > Can I
> > > > > get this working without building a new kernel?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Secondly, I have set the Win box with a gateway of the Lin box, and 
> > > > > web
> > > > > pages still won't load. Now I've heard this is the case if the IP Masq
> > > > > stuff wasn't included in the kernel (2.2.15pre19-1 btw, and Win98), 
> > > > > and
> > > > > the only hint I've seen in HOWTO's is to check for a file:
> > > > > 
> > > > > /proc/net/ipfw_chains
> > > > > 
> > > > > I get a file listed when I ls -al this (its 0 bytes tho).
> > > > > 
> > > > > Now have I just simply missed kernel options and thus need to build a 
> > > > > new
> > > > > one, and if so which, or what is going on that causes me to not be 
> > > > > able to
> > > > > access the web from the Windows box, using the Linux box as the 
> > > > > gateway?
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > >  Corey Popelier
> > > > >  http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas
> > > > >  Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
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> > > > 
> > > 
> > 
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Re: IP-Chains, etc.

[Corey Popelier]

I've fixed it now Ron, turned out to be problems firstly with my DNS
configuration on the Windows box, then the fact that I had ipchains rules
floating about - needed to do a ipchains -F then the real rules and all is
fine now. Thanks for the interest and the help.

Cheers,
 Corey Popelier
 http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas
 Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Wed, 31 May 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote:

> Did you do: 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward'
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward must be 1 if you want ip masquerading
> enabled!
> 
> Ron
> 
> PS. Check if you got the right things in your kernel, otherwise you'll
> have to recompile it.
> 
> On Wed, 31 May 2000, Corey Popelier wrote:
> 
> > Ok I had forgotten the dns setting (Sigh).
> > Now I get a lot of "udp port domain unreachable" messages in my tcpdump.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >  Corey Popelier
> >  http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas
> >  Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 
> > On Wed, 31 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> > > Why are you using a proxy, just go to your win network option, to the
> > > tcp/ip properties and set the gateway to the lin box, as well as the
> > > dns...
> > > 
> > > Ron
> > > 
> > > By the way, did you try adding that masq ipchains rule?
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 31 May 2000, Corey Popelier wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Some additional information I can give, is that a ping from the Windows
> > > > box behaves as follows:
> > > > 
> > > > (win) ping 203.24.100.1
> > > > 
> > > > (tcpdump from linux box)
> > > > 
> > > > 10.0.0.2 > dialup-gw.aceonline.com.au: icmp: echo request
> > > > (above line times 4).
> > > > 
> > > > Now this would indicate to me that IP forwarding is occurring. But no
> > > > reply is coming back (possibly due to ICMP Masq not compiled in kernel).
> > > > 
> > > > Now I have told the Win box to use a gateway of 10.0.0.1 (Lin box). If I
> > > > set the proxy to use to in IE to 10.0.0.1, a tcpdump says:
> > > > 
> > > > 10.0.0.1. > 10.0.0.2.1033...etcetc
> > > > 10.0.0.2.1033 > 10.0.0.1.www ...etcetc
> > > > arp who-has 10.0.0.2 tell 10.0.0.1
> > > > arp reply 10.0.0.2 is-at 0:a0:24:96:43:bc
> > > > 
> > > > What I am trying to establish is if whether I am missing kernel options,
> > > > or whether I've just got a configuration problem.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks Ron btw.
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >  Corey Popelier
> > > >  http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas
> > > >  Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > 
> > > > On Tue, 30 May 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > I'm not a telepath, I can't see from here if you got the right things 
> > > > > in
> > > > > your kernel ;) But you ipchains misses something, the masquerading, 
> > > > > you
> > > > > should do:
> > > > > 
> > > > > ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s /24 -d 0/0
> > > > > 
> > > > > I can tell you what you should have in your kernel: IP Masquerading, 
> > > > > if
> > > > > you want to masquerade ping, you should also have ICMP Masqerading.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Ron Rademaker
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Tue, 30 May 2000, Corey Popelier wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > Ok I now have my Debian and Windows boxes networked, and I tried to 
> > > > > > set up
> > > > > > IP Chains as follows:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > ipchains -P forward DENY
> > > > > > ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j ACCEPT
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Now whenever I traceroute something from the Win box I get:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 1   1ms<10ms<10ms  (Linux box).
> > > > > > 2*   **
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > etc.
> > > > > > Now I realise ICMP packets are handled by a different kernel 
> > > > > > option. Can I
> > > > > > get this working without building a new kernel?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Secondly, I have set the Win box with a gateway of the Lin box, and 
> > > > > > web
> > > > > > pages still won't load. Now I've heard this is the case if the IP 
> > > > > > Masq
> > > > > > stuff wasn't included in the kernel (2.2.15pre19-1 btw, and Win98), 
> > > > > > and
> > > > > > the only hint I've seen in HOWTO's is to check for a file:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > /proc/net/ipfw_chains
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I get a file listed when I ls -al this (its 0 bytes tho).
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Now have I just simply missed kernel options and thus need to build 
> > > > > > a new
> > > > > > one, and if so which, or what is going on that causes me to not be 
> > > > > > able to
> > > > > > access the web from the Windows box, using the Linux box as the 
> > > > > > gateway?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > >  Corey Popelier
> > > > > >  http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas
> > > > > >  Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > > 
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> > > > > > 
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[no subject]

[Goeman Stefan]

Hello everybody,


I have installed imwheel and it is running well only for netscape navigator
the wheelmouse is not working.

These are the settings in my .imwheelrc file (for Netscape Navigator)

"Netscape"
Shift_L,Down,   Page_Down,  1,  1000,   1000
Shift_L,Up, Page_Up,1,  1000,   1000
None,   Down,   Down,   7,  1000,   1000
None,   Up, Up, 7,  1000,   1000
None,   Left,   Left,   7,  1000,   1000
None,   Right,  Right,  7,  1000,   1000

"Navigator"
#Alt_L, Down,   Alt_L|Right
#Alt_L, Up, Alt_L|Left
 Alt_L, Down,   Right,  10, 1000,   1000
 Alt_L, Up, Left,   10, 1000,   1000

These settings don't seem to work.
In fact, can somebody explain me what this means and how I can change them
to get the wheelmouse (Logitech) working under Netscape Navigator.


Greetings,

Stefan Goeman.

Re: sendmail problem

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

> showed an error message: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(nielsen): cannot
> chdir(/var/spool/mqueue): Permission denied
> 
i have the impression, that your sendmail is not setuid root anymore.
look, to whom it belongs and what are its permissions.
possibly you should have a look at the suid.conf man page.

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Re: nisplus avaliable on debian?

[Gilbert Laycock]

Gerhard Kroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> any ideas why this isn't belonging to a debian "distribution"?

Too late for frozen?
Maintainer not yet an official Debian Maintainer?
Long term goal of integrating nis+ with ordinary nis support - so
nisplus packages are unacceptable?

I've no idea really...

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Re: Potato

[Kerstin Hoef-Emden]

Hello Eric,

On Tue, 30 May 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote:

> On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 12:33:56PM +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote:
> > 
> > A potato is a specialised starch storage organ of the potato plant,
> > necessary for vegetative reproduction. Starch is the carbohydrate, but
> > potato is the name for the organ and not for its content. 
> 
> Well, I was going to say about the same thing, but I couldn't remember
> if a potato was a real tuber, or a corm or a rhizome, ... Been awhile
> since Botany 101...  (I don't think there's an 'irrelevantly' in the
> English language either. ;)

In this case I am suffering from the fact not being a native English
speaker, that's why I didn't go too much into detail (besides that, I
thought, it might be perhaps a little bit too pedant.)
In German it is called "Sproßknolle". My dictionary says: Sproß = shoot.
So the potato is a thickening of the shoot, not of the root as one
might think, even if they prefer growing in the dark.

From the point of view of the potato plant, it is sure not an option to
be considered as a donator of future to be pommes frites/chips/French
fries. That's why most parts are toxic. Although it is quite obvious,
that this trick doesn't help much against a hungry Homo sapiens.



Regards,

Kerstin



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wheel mouse

[Goeman Stefan]

Hello everybody,


I have installed imwheel and it is running well only for netscape navigator
the wheelmouse is not working.

These are the settings in my .imwheelrc file (for Netscape Navigator)

"Netscape"
Shift_L,Down,   Page_Down,  1,  1000,   1000
Shift_L,Up, Page_Up,1,  1000,   1000
None,   Down,   Down,   7,  1000,   1000
None,   Up, Up, 7,  1000,   1000
None,   Left,   Left,   7,  1000,   1000
None,   Right,  Right,  7,  1000,   1000

"Navigator"
#Alt_L, Down,   Alt_L|Right
#Alt_L, Up, Alt_L|Left
 Alt_L, Down,   Right,  10, 1000,   1000
 Alt_L, Up, Left,   10, 1000,   1000

These settings don't seem to work.
In fact, can somebody explain me what this means and how I can change them
to get the wheelmouse (Logitech) working under Netscape Navigator.


Greetings,

Stefan Goeman.

Re: XFCOnfiggin'

[Jo Hoffmann]

>From what I saw of your log file it seems to me that you don't have an xserver 
problem.
What about a window manager? Check /etc/X11/windowmanagers (file name can be 
slightly
different) or  /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager (symlink to some window 
manager).
Usually xinit checks your configuration if it thinks your config is wrong
it will start xterm if available if not it will just stop.
I had a problem that a program to check for a valid config was missing and 
hence
it never wanted to start a window manager. You can actually disable the 
checking in
some file under /etc/X11/?? (but I can't remember right now, and don't have my 
computer
handy).

Jo
 


> thanks guys, but I've run xf86config & XF86Setup about 300,000 times (almost
> no embellishment there!!) ... I've also got a server flag for "don't die if
> the mouse fails" ...
> 
> oh well
> 
> Andrew
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vitux
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 6:58 AM
> To: debian-user
> Subject: Re: XFCOnfiggin'
> 
> 
> Vitux wrote:
> >
> > Ron Rademaker wrote:
> > >
> > > Why don't you just run xf86config on your laptop (debian)?? That should
> > > make X work
> > >
> > > Ron
> > >
> > I second. My experience with different cards and monitors is
> > that I often have to run xf86config a few times to straighten
> > things out and achieve the best modes...
> > There could be lots of reasons why X craps out on you. Even a
> > wrong mouse-setup could do this kind of thing...
> > Good Luck
> > Vitux
> >
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> > Richard Nixon
> >
> > Debian GNU/Linux
> > Micro$loth-free Zone
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Problems with memory

[Karin Probost]

Hallo,

My new-build kernel seems to eat memory.

The output of GMEMUSAGE shows decreasing free-memory and
increasing memory used by linux(kernel), especially when there
is an access to the apache-server which php und postgres-access.


Following SYSTEM - Configuration


DEBIAN 2.1 (SLINK )

Kernel-source 2.0.38 from the same distribution
   -kernel self compiled 

Apache 1.3.6
PHP-3.0.11
POSTRES 6.5   sources from their original servers, self-compiled and
installed


first i have compiled apache, php, and postgres
second about 2 monyhs later i have compiled the kernel.


Is it necessary to recompile the apache,php, postgres sources with
-I/usr/src/linux/include/linux 
the new kernel-headders  ??

What can be another cause to this problem ?

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NFS error at boot

[maxine]

Hi-I am having a problem I hope someone can help me with.  I am running
potato 2.2.15.   I just recently installed NFS common and am now getting
the following error at boot.  Portmap starts fine.

starting NFS: statd lockd rpc.statd forgot to set AF_INET in udp
sendmsg.  FIX IT!

The system then gives me sendmsg error 101.  It does this tweleve times
and then continues booting.  i can't find udp sendmsg or statd.  Any
ideas.
Thank,
Greg

OT: Gimp multiselect feature

[Mario Olimpio de Menezes]

Hi,

I'm trying to use the multiselect feature in Gimp following the
GUM 2nd Edition (pg.148) but I've being unable to find it. 
Does the debian gimp include such feature (any package)?
Do you know what plugin provide it? In which package is it
included? Or if it changed its name in new version?
I'm using potato - frozen, with gimp1.1, all .deb installed,
including non-free.
Thanks for any info!

[]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

Re: wheel mouse

[Marc O. Sandlus]

Goeman Stefan wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I have installed imwheel and it is running well only for netscape navigator
> the wheelmouse is not working.

There's no reaction at all or it doesn't work as you expected?

> These are the settings in my .imwheelrc file (for Netscape Navigator)
>
> "Netscape"
> ...
> Alt_L, Up, Left,   10, 1000,   1000
>
> These settings don't seem to work.

These settings seem to be alright, at least they work for me ;-)

> In fact, can somebody explain me what this means and how I can change them
> to get the wheelmouse (Logitech) working under Netscape Navigator.

It might be that imwheel finds a match in a section *above* your 
"Netscape"-section,
so it is using these settings instead. Try sending the whole .imwheelrc (maybe 
not to
the list, just to me)

1. argument (e.g. None): When pressing this key of your keyboard and
2. argument (one of  Up|Down|Left|Right): turning one of your wheel in that 
direction

3. argument (e.g: Up): imwheel outputs this key to the window your mouse cursor 
is in

4. argument: How many times the 3. argument is to be sent to the window
5. argument: How long imwheel waits before "releasing" the key during its 
simulated
key presses
6. argument: How long imwheel should wait before sending the next key press

Good luck,
Marc

Re: Using gnuserv (Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software)

[Karl M. Hegbloom]

> "jsja" == john s jacobs anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> "Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

jsja> Oh, no, I agree -- that's why I tend toward vi in those
jsja> situations. However, over the weekend I've been playing with
jsja> gnuserv/gnuclient in XEmacs, and I'm getting towards liking it.

jsja> Okay, that could work -- but I'm too forgetful to remember if there's
jsja> already an XEmacs process running -- anybody have a shell script that
jsja> will execute the following pseudocode?

jsja> if there's an XEmacs process running
jsja> `gnuclient -q $1`
jsja> else
jsja> `xemacs -nw $1`

 `fuser' is in the `psmisc' package.



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Re: Using gnuserv (Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software)

[Karl M. Hegbloom]

> "Carel" == Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Carel> And to really speed up things, you could even use the -vanilla flag
Carel> next to -nw to tell xemacs to forget about all those nifty packages
Carel> that take all this time to load.

 Better to let it load it all up... have a sip of coffee and think
 about what edits you are going to make or something.  Once it's
 running, using `gnuclient' is instant.


 `XG_INITIAL_XEMACS_ARGS=-unmapped xg' <-- panel launcher button

;; `.emacs' (or .xemacs/init.el if you're set up that way)
(when (member "-unmapped" command-line-args)
  (add-hook 'gnuserv-init-hook
#'(lambda ()
(popup-dialog-box '("XEmacs is ready" ["Ok" nil])

 # .profile
 export EDITOR=xg



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Getting docs in the emacsen, running subprocesses (Was: Re: [*] buffer of Emacs)

[Karl M. Hegbloom]

> "maths" == maths  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

maths> i am a newbie of Emacs. i had learned the toturial, and now reading
maths> the info page, but its too long. could someone tell me what's "run
maths> a program in Emacs's buffer" and how to do it ?

 `M-x shell'

  Learn to use the `apropos' and `info'.  `F1 a ' finds
  documentation of emacs lisp functions and commands that match the
  .  Try:

 `F1 a process'
 `F1 a shell'
 `F1 a comint'

 You can run `cmulisp' under XEmacs (and GNU Emacs iff `ilisp' is
 installed) also.  `M-x load-library ilisp' then `M-x cmulisp' OR if
 that fails, try `C-u M-x ilisp', use the defaults at most of the
 prompts, but for the lisp program, tell it "lisp -lazy".

 Every mode has documentation available on `F1 m'.

 There is a Maxima (a computer algebra system) package in incoming
 right now, and I've got a simple mode for running in from XEmacs.  If
 you like, I'll mail a copy of it to whoever wants it.

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mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom)
irc: nick karlheg on irc.debian.org

CDRecord

[Clinton Byrne]

Hi there

I seem to have a bit of a problem with xcdroast.

I can copy data onto the image partition but am unable to copy that image onto 
a CD-RW or a CD-R disk.
An error message is always displayed saying that I have No Disk/Wrong Disc or 
the CD/DVD is not
ready.

I have configured my kernel, the external CD-RW is detected in the xcdroast 
setup as a scsi device.

Is there anything else that i need to configure to get it working?

Cheers

Clinton

KDE 2.0 Beta

[Brent Kopperson]

Are 
there any deb binaries available yet?
 
Brent 
Kopperson

Re: CDRecord

[Carl Fink]

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 01:22:46PM +, Clinton Byrne wrote:
> I can copy data onto the image partition but am unable to copy that image 
> onto a CD-RW or a CD-R disk.
> An error message is always displayed saying that I have No Disk/Wrong Disc or 
> the CD/DVD is not
> ready.
>

I have the same problem, but since I didn't much like xcdroast
anyway, I just went back to cdrecord.  I suppose one of us should
submit a bug report.
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ln -s (executeable) /usr/bin/(executeable) ( was: RE: Java 1.2)

[A. Scott White]

Oki DZ wrote:
> create links for the executables:
> cd /usr/bin
> ln -s /usr/lib/jdk1.2.2/bin/java java
>  ../bin/javac javac
>  ../bin/javap javap
> (do the same for the other executables)

This is pretty clever. Is this a common way of putting executables into the
path without having to modify all the profiles? Is it recommended, or is
there some hidden drawback?

Thanks for any info.


A. Scott White
Director of Information Systems and Product Strategy
ACS Healthcare Solutions Group

Re: ln -s (executeable) /usr/bin/(executeable) ( was: RE: Java 1.2)

[Ron Flory]

"A. Scott White" wrote:
> 
> Oki DZ wrote:
> > create links for the executables:
> > cd /usr/bin
> > ln -s /usr/lib/jdk1.2.2/bin/java java
> >  ../bin/javac javac
> >  ../bin/javap javap
> > (do the same for the other executables)

 it might be a lot safer and cleaner to place these in /usr/local/bin instead.  

 Generally /bin, /sbin, and /usr/bin (etc.) directories are intended for OS 
related stuff, but /usr/local/bin is intended for
site and machine specific 'enhancements'.  Its also easier to move such 
enhancements to another system or to restore them from
tape after disaster recovery if they aren't mixed up with the rest of the OS 
files.

 just make sure /usr/local/bin is in the default path in /etc/profiles

bye-

ron

Re: How to see hidden files/dirs

[Eric G . Miller]

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 07:46:54PM +1200, John Leget wrote:
> Yes im aware of ls options but let me repeat for clarity.
> 
> How do i get GTK/GNOME applications to show me hidden files in their
> open file dialogue windows. They dont show them whereas ie nedit will
> list them fine.
> 
> Is there a system setting to affect this behaviour ??

It's a missing feature, AFAICT. Sucks doesn't it.

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mouse problem on m68k debian 2.1

[mark_glassberg]

How do I get the mouse to work on this system?  I gather that the device
is adbmouse, but the base system doesn't seem to have gpm (if that's
the program for this architecture).  Do I need a kernel module or a
package from another section of the distribution?

Thanks in advance.

rsync

[Allan Andersen]

Hello all,

I hope this is the right list for this quiestion.

I would like to have a rsync cron job to run once in a while,
so therefor I have created a file like this:

#!/bin/bash
rsync -av ftp.sunet.se::pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian/
dists/ /home/ftp/pub/linux/distributions/debian/

#debian potato dists
rsync -av ftp.sunet.se::pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian/dists/potato/
/home/ftp/linux/distributions/debian/dists/

rsync -avr
ftp.sunet.se::pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian/dists/potato/contrib/
binary-all/
/home/ftp/pub/linux/distributions/debina/dists/potato/contrib/

rsync -avr
ftp.sunet.se::pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian/dists/potato/contrib/
binary-i386/
/home/ftp/pub/linux/distributions/debian/dists/potato/contrib/

and so on, but when I run the script it just stop at: retriving file
list. If I run every single command there is no problem = only if it's
the hole script. Have I missed something or what have I done wrong ?

Thanks in advance
Allan Andersen

wheel mouse

[Goeman Stefan]

Hello everybody,


As requested by Marc O. Sandlus i hereby send my complete iwheelrc file



# IMWheel Configuration file ($HOME/.imwheelrc)
# (C)Jon Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
#
# Generated by imwheel
# Any extra comments will be lost on reconfiguration
# However order will be maintained
# Order!  ORDER, I SAY!!

"Xman"
None,   Down,   F
Shift_L,Down,   3
None,   Up, B

"Eterm"
None,   Up, Shift_L|Page_Up
None,   Down,   Shift_L|Page_Down

"NXTerm"
None,   Up, Shift_L|Page_Up
None,   Down,   Shift_L|Page_Down

"rxvt"
Alt_L,  Up, Alt_L|Page_Up
Alt_L,  Down,   Alt_L|Page_Down

"XTerm"
Alt_L,  Up, Shift_R|Page_Up
Alt_L,  Down,   Shift_R|Page_Down
Alt_L,  Left,   Control_L|A
Alt_L,  Right,  Control_L|E
#Shift_L,   Down,   Shift_L|1

"Netscape"
Shift_L,Down,   Page_Down,  1,  1000,   1000
Shift_L,Up, Page_Up,1,  1000,   1000
None,   Down,   Down,   7,  1000,   1000
None,   Up, Up, 7,  1000,   1000
None,   Left,   Left,   7,  1000,   1000
None,   Right,  Right,  7,  1000,   1000

"Navigator"
#Alt_L, Down,   Alt_L|Right
#Alt_L, Up, Alt_L|Left
 Alt_L, Down,   Right,  10, 1000,   1000
 Alt_L, Up, Left,   10, 1000,   1000

#thanks to Paul J Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"emacs"
Shift_L,Up, Page_Up
Shift_L,Down,   Page_Down
# you may need Alt instead of Meta
None,   Down,   Control_L|Meta_L|Shift_L|parenright
None,   Up, Control_L|Meta_L|Shift_L|parenleft

#thanks to etienne grossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Xftp"
,   Down,   j
,   Up, k

#thanks to etienne grossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"gv"
None,   Up, Shift_L|space
None,   Down,   space

"xv.*"
@Exclude

# These are the defaults, but note that the defaults for the right side of
the
# keyboard are still handled within the program, unless you add the
# combinations desired here. (except for the None modifier of course!)
".*"
None,   Up, Page_Up
None,   Down,   Page_Down
Shift_L,Up, Up
Shift_L,Down,   Down
Control_L,  Up, Page_Up,
2
Control_L,  Down,   Page_Down,  2
Shift_L|Control_L,  Up, Page_Up,
5
Shift_L|Control_L,  Down,   Page_Down,  5
  Alt_L,Up, Left,   10
  Alt_L,Down,   Right,  10
Shift_L|  Alt_L,Up, Left
Shift_L|  Alt_L,Down,   Right
Control_L|Alt_L,Up, Left.   20
Control_L|Alt_L,Down,   Right.  20
Shift_L|Control_L|Alt_L,Up, Left,   50
Shift_L|Control_L|Alt_L,Down,   Right,  50
None,   Left,   Left
None,   Right,  Right
Shift_L,Left,   Left
Shift_L,Right,  Right
Control_L,  Left,   Left,   2
Control_L,  Right,  Right,  2
Shift_L|Control_L,  Left,   Left,   5
Shift_L|Control_L,  Right,  Right,  5
  Alt_L,Left,   Left,   10
  Alt_L,Right,  Right,  10
Shift_L|  Alt_L,Left,   Left
Shift_L|  Alt_L,Right,  Right
Control_L|Alt_L,Left,   Left.   20
Control_L|Alt_L,Right,  Right.  20
Shift_L|Control_L|Alt_L,Left,   Left,   50
Shift_L|Control_L|Alt_L,Right,  Right,  50

# vim:ts=4:shiftwidth=4



Greetings,

Stefan Goeman.

Re: OT: NTP hardware

[Nathan E Norman]

On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 06:51:49PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 11:45:07AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> > Off topic, if you don't have interest in stratum 1 NTP servers stop
> > reading now please :)
> > 
> > Is anyone here running a stratum 1 NTP server?  If so, what hardware
> > are you using for time synchronization?  We have a GPS receiver that
> > provides clocking for a SONET ring here and I'm sure there's a card I
> > can stick in a server that accepts clocking from the receiver, but
> > it's (so far) been difficult finding information or a company that
> > knows what I'm talking about.  (Perhaps I'm asking the wrong companies
> > ...)
> 
> With a short search of GOOGLE on "GPS Time Card", I got
> http://www.truetime.com which apparently makes PCI, ISA and other GPS
> boards to use for clocking.  Debian has software in woody/potato that'll
> talk to some of these boards.  With Selective Availabilty now removed,
> they should be amazingly precise. 

Yeah, I talked to Truetime - they don't want to sell me a card and let
me do a UNIX solution; they want me to purchase a rack mount time
server.

Which potato/woody software are you referring to?
 
> I'm sure they're other places to get these boards.  Just need an antenna
> and some software so talk to it, I guess. 

I've already got an antenna attached to the GPS receiver as mentioned
above.  The GPS receiver has several clock outputs that should drive
some card in a server just fine ... I just haven't found that card yet
:)

Thanks for your reply.

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Re: wheel mouse

[Marc O. Sandlus]

Goeman Stefan wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> As requested by Marc O. Sandlus i hereby send my complete iwheelrc file
>
> # IMWheel Configuration file ($HOME/.imwheelrc)

Hi

~/.imwheelrc is OK (again, its working on my machine)
Please verify that the file you sent was not /etc/X11/imwheel/imwheelrc, since 
it
would be overridden by ~/.imwheelrc.

The next thing you could try is stopping imwheel and re-starting it with option 
-D
for debugging output:
$ imwheel -D

Keep an eye on errors while loading configuration file and/or other 
peculiarities
during wheel movements inside Netscape's window.

Sorry, that's all I can do for you at the moment,
Marc

/var/log/wmtmp

[John F. Davis]

Hello

I have a huge /var/log/wmtmp file and I need to delete it in order
to get some free disk space.

Can I just delete the file?  Is there a way to clear it correctly?

John

PCMCIA trouble

[Gary Hennigan]

Anyone else having PCMCIA trouble with the latest version in potato? I
just tried installing 

kernel-image-2.2.15_2.2.15-1.deb
pcmcia-modules-2.2.15_3.1.8-13k1.deb

and the PCMCIA modules are giving me a lot of unresolved symbols
whenever an attempt is made to install them. I tried compiling from
the source.deb files as well, with the same result, including a 2.2.14
kernel source file.

I got the basic installation up on the laptop a couple of days ago and
it worked fine. Now I'm stuck without a network connection because of
the PCMCIA stuff.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Gary

Re: potato install w/ aic7880

[t.bedlam]

On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 12:45:47PM -0700, Chris Baker was only 
   escaped alone to tell thee:

> sjk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > I am having a terrible time trying to get potato to install on a machine
> > with an aic7880 scsi controller. The current rescue.bin hangs at loading
> > sym53c416 - just after the aic78xxx mods. I have tried compiling a new
> > kernel with the options listed in the install doc - and the install
> > begins, but 1) it can't write the tmp keyboard config, and 2) the driver
> > script fails. I can't seem to mount any of the driver disks to update
> > the modules.tgz file - what file system do these disks use?? I have
> > tried re-writing them several times.
> 
> Have you tried passing
> 
> aic7xxx=noprobe
> 
> as a parameter to the kernel?

No good, methinks.

The default slink kernel was so loaded with SCSI drivers that the Adaptec
2940 in my machine choked and couldn't write to the drives. Two versions of
aic7xxx-only kernels were announced on the Debian webpage to fix this. Does 
potato suffer from this problem as well?

And may I compile a potato kernel on my slink machine BEFORE I upgrade,
assuming I update glibc and gcc?

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Debian 2.1 install

[Tim Willis]

I'm trying to install Debian Linux and am having a problem that I've never
seen before.

The install gets to the line
"(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 419 instructions downloaded"
...and hangs, or stops.  It never goes any further.

Has anyone seen this happen before?  If so, what can I do to fix it?

Tim Willis
IS Technician
Code Rite
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /var/log/wmtmp

[David Wright]

Quoting John F. Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hello

Hi. Can you send rather than replying, as you've actually threaded
onto an off-topic subject.

> I have a huge /var/log/wmtmp file and I need to delete it in order
> to get some free disk space.

I take it that's wtmp. S'funny, mine's rotated already.

> Can I just delete the file?  Is there a way to clear it correctly?

You could run the appropriate command that you will find in
/etc/cron.monthly/standard which your system may or may not
be getting run automatically.

Cheers,

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Re: Ishmail being developed - new version available!

[J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)]

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 09:24:27 +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote:
> Ishmail is a Motif app and needs the Motif development libraries to be
> installed on your system. I tried compiling against lesstif and it didn't
> work. The maintainer, Evgeny Stambulchik, maintains it should but then I
> have had little success compiling apps against lesstif.

When Ishmail was released I played around with it a bit and got it to
compile against LessTif. You may want to take a look at
http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~jdassen/tmp/ishmail.tar.bz2

HTH,
Ray
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it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own.   
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RE: KDE 2.0 Beta

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 31-May-2000 Brent Kopperson wrote:
> Are there any deb binaries available yet?
> 
> Brent Kopperson

kde.tdyc.com (or is that tydc.com?) it is apt-get'able and everything.

RE: PCMCIA trouble

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 31-May-2000 Gary Hennigan wrote:
> Anyone else having PCMCIA trouble with the latest version in potato? I
> just tried installing 
> 
> kernel-image-2.2.15_2.2.15-1.deb
> pcmcia-modules-2.2.15_3.1.8-13k1.deb
> 
> and the PCMCIA modules are giving me a lot of unresolved symbols
> whenever an attempt is made to install them. I tried compiling from
> the source.deb files as well, with the same result, including a 2.2.14
> kernel source file.
> 

I assume you tried using make-kpkg from kernel-package?

> I got the basic installation up on the laptop a couple of days ago and
> it worked fine. Now I'm stuck without a network connection because of
> the PCMCIA stuff.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 

try debian-laptop, it is a mailing list especially for laptop issues.  Everyone
on it is a laptop user and is more aware of the problems.

RE: /var/log/wmtmp

[Smith, Martin]

You can also manually clear wtmp or any file with:

   cat /dev/null > {filename}

this will preserve the file's permissions, id's, etc.


-Original Message-
From: David Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 1:01 PM
To: John F. Davis
Cc: debian user mailing list
Subject: Re: /var/log/wmtmp


Quoting John F. Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hello

Hi. Can you send rather than replying, as you've actually threaded
onto an off-topic subject.

> I have a huge /var/log/wmtmp file and I need to delete it in order
> to get some free disk space.

I take it that's wtmp. S'funny, mine's rotated already.

> Can I just delete the file?  Is there a way to clear it correctly?

You could run the appropriate command that you will find in
/etc/cron.monthly/standard which your system may or may not
be getting run automatically.

Cheers,

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identd going crazy on potato

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

identd doesnt seem to exit when it runs, processes keep building up, i
changed the timeout to 120 but it still doesn't do anything:

ip-197:~# ps auxw | grep ident
nobody 580  0.0  0.0  1320   44 ?SMay30   0:00 [identd]
root   581  0.0  0.0  1320   44 ?SMay30   0:00 [identd]
root   582  0.0  0.0  1320   44 ?SMay30   0:00 [identd]
root   583  0.0  0.0  1320   44 ?SMay30   0:00 [identd]
root   584  0.0  0.0  1320   44 ?SMay30   0:00 [identd]
root   585  0.0  0.0  1320   44 ?SMay30   0:00 [identd]
root   586  0.0  0.0  1320   44 ?SMay30   0:00 [identd]
nobody   16744  0.1  0.5  1320  668 ?S10:27   0:00 identd -i
-t120
root 16745  0.0  0.5  1320  668 ?S10:27   0:00 identd -i
-t120
root 16746  0.0  0.5  1320  668 ?S10:27   0:00 identd -i
-t120
root 16747  0.0  0.5  1320  668 ?S10:27   0:00 identd -i
-t120
root 16748  0.0  0.5  1320  668 ?S10:27   0:00 identd -i
-t120
root 16749  0.0  0.5  1320  668 ?S10:27   0:00 identd -i
-t120
root 16750  0.0  0.5  1320  668 ?S10:27   0:00 identd -i
-t120
root 16753  0.0  0.3  1112  444 pts/5S10:27   0:00 grep ident

running debian potato, xinetd, and identd is running as root because of my
kernel patches(it will not run as a non root user) this worked fine on
slink but for some reason its doing this on potato very odd ...

any ideas?

thanks

nate

:::
http://www.aphroland.org/
http://www.linuxpowered.net/
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10:46am up 3 days, 19:47, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.04, 0.00

Re: Debian 2.1 install

[t.bedlam]

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 11:55:50AM -0500, Tim Willis was only 
   escaped alone to tell thee:

> The install gets to the line
> "(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 419 instructions downloaded"
> ...and hangs, or stops.  It never goes any further.

What kind of card?

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Re: Archiving and Expiring Mail

[Nate Duehr]

Jay, 

Have any idea how to do this if you want to keep anything that's been
read but not anything that hasn't been read?  (i.e. you have saved some
messages older than 30 days...)

Interesting trick using "push" like that.  I like it.

On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 11:07:33AM -0400, Jay Barbee wrote:
> 
> I just got done looking up this one myself, as I did not want to keep any 
> debian-user mail older than 30 days old.  Add this to your .muttrc
> 
> folder-hook debian-user "push 'D~d >30d\n'"
> 
> where "debian-user" is the name of the mail file where your mail is stored.
> 
> I will not take credit for this, I found it on a deja post:
> http://x41.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=529909910&search=thread&CONTEXT=956587245.1650458628&HIT_CONTEXT=956585501.1607860225&hitnum=4
> 
> Good luck,
> --Jay Barbee
> 
> 
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Re: OT: NTP hardware

[mitch]

Check out

(Totally Accurate Clock) On the Taper site.  I might do what you want.

http://www.tapr.org/tapr/html/Ftac2.html

Mitch

HP842C,HP932C,HP952C, Cannon 2100,3000,6000, Epson 740,860,895 Compatibility?

[Art Lemasters]

 Have any of you successfully used the Hewlett-Packard 842C,
932C, 952C, Cannon 2100,3000,6000, or Epson 740,860,895 printers
with Debian Linux, potato?  All printers I've seen work with 
Windows, according to the documentation for them (while none say
"Windows only," as written in the hardware compatibility docs),
and none have Linux compatibility info in their documentation. 

 The printer chase appears to be a minefield of various popular
models from each manufacturer--some of which work and others that
don't.  I've returned two printer models, so far, that weren't
listed with any compatibility list, yet were said not to work at
all (because manufacturers refused to give I/Os/escapes to
developers) on obscure, Web-archived discussion lists. 

   _Art


 

svga and mouse questions

[Lee Elliott]

Hello list,

I've just set up my first x86 Debian system after practising with it on
my Amiga (m68k) - gone pretty smoothly too, due to this, and the m68k
lists.  However...

I'm using a PS2 mouse via /dev/psaux and I'm not using gpm (I had the
fairly common 'X' problems that I've seen posted often enough, when I
tried, both on m68k and x86, but I've not investigated further yet). 
What I haven't been able to find is how to set the double-click time,
and haven't seen any references to it in any of the docs I've read - any
'pointers' anyone?

Also, I'm having trouble using svgalib apps - e.g. quake-svga fails not
finding /dev/fb/0  This has confused me a bit because I am familiar with
/dev/fbn etc. from using the fbdev sever on m68k and they already appear
to have been set up, presumably during the xserver-svga installation. 
quake-x11 runs ok in a window.

TIA

LeeE
-- 

http://www.spatial.freeserve.co.uk

...or something

Sound problems, potato, alsa

[Christopher Klumb]

I have recently installed potato.  I have been having some problems with
sound.  Currently, I have the alsa packages installed, including the
alsa version of esound.  I have followed the directions for installing
the alsa, i.e. editted the /etc/modules.conf.  Here are some of the
problems I am experiencing:  When logged in as a regular user, launching
a mixer application gives me the error message "No mixers found.  Make
sure you have sound support compiled into kernel."  However when I am
root, I am able to start a mixer.  In fact, after rebooting I have to
start sound as root and then log in as a user.  Also, XMMS runs fine
with the eSound plugin, but not the OSS driver.  Freeamp works with both
the alsa and eSound plugin, but not soundcard.pmo.

I'd like to thank all those who replied to me previous questions.  Also,
thanks to all the developers and bug testers who have made Debian
possible.

Since, potato is still frozen I was not sure if this was the appropriate
list to post to.  If not I apologize.

Thanks
--
Christopher Klumb
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Strange GPM behavior

[Andre Berger]

I would try to remove the line
repeat_type=ms3
first.

Andre

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> I have this with XF86 4.0 (compiled locally) but not with 3.3.6 installed
> from Potato. I'm using a Logitech multiprotocol ps2 mouse in ps2 mode.
> 
> On Sun, 28 May 2000, Craig McPherson wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, this is a new one.
> > 
> > When GPM is running, the mouse will work in the console... but the mouse
> > cursor in X freezes and won't move.  When I stop GPM, mouse access is
> > lost in the console, and the X mouse cursor comes back to life.  I've
> > never before seen GPM cause the mouse to stop working in X... what could
> > cause this?
> > 
> > The mouse is an old three-button Logitech-brand serial mouse.
> > gpm.conf looks like this:
> > 
> > device=/dev/ttyS0
> > responsiveness=
> > repeat_type=ms3
> > type=ms
> > append="-l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\""
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > 
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W3.1 can see beyondpartition barriers blah blah... end

[I. Tura]

Well, as the final...


Shaul, according to the HOWTO you recommended me, when rereading it, I
noticed an error I did. I should have created FAT partitions w/ DOS fdisk,
not w/ Linux fdisk.


Actually, it's even recommended from fdisk's man:

>Usually all goes well by default, and there are no problems if Linux is
the only system on the >disk. However, if the disk has to be shared with
other operating systems, it is often a good >idea to let an fdisk from
another operating system make at least one partition. 


So well, I reproduce it here so other people will not make the same 
error
as me, issue sure more than known by more decent Linux users than me.

Now I'll wait to install Potato, Vitux, since I'm going to wipe out all
info from the 486.

I'm not 100% sure that's the reason why I got that clarividence from 
DOS,
but for a newbie as me it seems a coherent explanation of the facts.

Best and thanks to both of you (also thanks to you, the Polish guy, 
sorry
but I don't remember your name in such amount of messages),

Ignasi  
   _
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  \__|  els fills abandonats  |___/
   \_||__/

I'm not French. The decision of getting French as default language is
because my primary language is not listed in Yahoo preferences, so I
profited to select French as a silly way to mantain fresh my horrible
French level.

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Achetez, vendez! À votre prix! Sur http://encheres.yahoo.fr

Re: Debian 2.1 install

[Ron Rademaker]

Do you happen to have an athlon??? If you do, yo should try booting with
the tecra-image, they should work fine!

Ron Rademaker

On Wed, 31 May 2000, Tim Willis wrote:

> I'm trying to install Debian Linux and am having a problem that I've never
> seen before.
> 
> The install gets to the line
> "(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 419 instructions downloaded"
> ...and hangs, or stops.  It never goes any further.
> 
> Has anyone seen this happen before?  If so, what can I do to fix it?
> 
> Tim Willis
> IS Technician
> Code Rite
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
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Re: FW: ArcServe Client for Linux

[sjk]

The only issue I am aware of, it that shadow passwords must be turned off.
Other than that it was pretty simple to install and write a init.d script
for. If you have any other question, please feel free to contact me.

- sjk

 On Tue, 30 May 2000, [iso-8859-1] Carlos Bambó wrote:

> Excuse me the previous message, it was rather messy, the question is as
> follows:
> 
> 
> > Could you please tell me the release of the Linux agent  you've used and
> if
> > you did anything special (on the installation) to make it work?.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> >
> > - Mensaje original -
> > De: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Para: "Carlos Bambó" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Enviado: martes 23 de mayo de 2000 16:46
> > Asunto: Re: ArcServe Client for Linux
> >
> >
> > Yes, I have used it frequently - and perform bot regular backups and
> > restores. I have installed the agent usually on potato and woody and
> > ArcServe versions 6.5 Enterprise and 6.61 Advanced running on NT 4 SP5.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 23 May 2000, [iso-8859-1] Carlos Bambó wrote:
> >
> > > Has anybody tried to perform a backup of a Debian workstation using the
> > > ArcServe (CAI) client for Linux?.
> > > More specifically from a NT Server.
> > > If you did succeed please let me know the release and conditions.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> >
> > --
> > --
> > > Carlos Bambo
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > --
> > -
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
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> > /dev/null
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 

OT: dial-up -> leased line

[Lehel Bernadt]

Hi folks,

I'm thinking on switching from a dial-up connection to a leased line. Is there
anything special my modem (3com usr 56k ext) has to know to do this (ie. to deal
with the differences between a normal telephone line and the leased one) ?

TIA,
Lehel

potato upgrade warning

[Dean]

Hi all:
 Just finished upgrading to potato and have a warning
both at start up and when shutting down:
[mntent]: warning: no final newline at the end
of /etc/fstab
Do I just edit /etc/fstab and put final on the last line?
tia  Dean

RE: potato upgrade warning

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 31-May-2000 Dean wrote:
> Hi all:
>  Just finished upgrading to potato and have a warning
> both at start up and when shutting down:
> [mntent]: warning: no final newline at the end
> of /etc/fstab
> Do I just edit /etc/fstab and put final on the last line?
> tia  Dean

unless something ate a bit of /etc/fstab, sure.  If you are actually missing a
piece of fstab (which could be the problem) it made take more work.

RE:Debian 2.1 install

[Tim Willis]

Someone here suggested that I download the Debian 2.0 disks and install
using them instead of the 2.1 disks I've been trying to install with.  Would
this work?  If so, where would I download this older version?


> On Wed, 31 May 2000, Tim Willis wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to install Debian Linux and am having a problem that
> I've never
> > seen before.
> >
> > The install gets to the line
> > "(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 419 instructions downloaded"
> > ...and hangs, or stops.  It never goes any further.
> >
> > Has anyone seen this happen before?  If so, what can I do to fix it?
> >
> > Tim Willis
> > IS Technician
> > Code Rite
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE:Debian 2.1 install

[Tim Willis]

> On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 11:55:50AM -0500, Tim Willis was only 
>escaped alone to tell thee:
> 
> > The install gets to the line
> > "(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 419 instructions downloaded"
> > ...and hangs, or stops.  It never goes any further.
> 
> What kind of card?

Adaptec SCSI controller,
DLink DFE-530TX Network Card
S3Virge/DX Video card
Intel Pentium 133

Tim Willis
IS Technician
Code Rite
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Re: potato upgrade warning

[jens thys]

Dean wrote:
Hi all:
 Just finished upgrading to potato and have a warning
both at start up and when shutting down:
[mntent]: warning: no final newline at the end
of /etc/fstab
Do I just edit /etc/fstab and put final on the last line?
tia  Dean
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hello
i confirm that you should add a newline at the end of your file and
everything will be ok
i probed it myself and had the same problem before
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 /(   )\  debian 2.2  potato    thanks tomsrtbt for the logo
  ^`~'^
 

kernel compiling problems

[Ron Rademaker]

When I try to compile a 2.3 or the 2.4.0-test1 kernel, something goes
wrong, it has something to do with undefined variables (as you can see in
the output I've attachted). If anyone has any ideas on this, i'd like to
hear them!

Ron Rademaker
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe  -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 
-march=i686 -malign-functions=4 -fschedule-insns2 -mwide-multiply 
-fexpensive-optimizations  -c -o init/main.o init/main.c
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/irq.h:56,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/asm/hardirq.h:6,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/interrupt.h:45,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/asm/string.h:296,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/string.h:21,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/fs.h:23,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/capability.h:13,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/binfmts.h:5,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/sched.h:9,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/mm.h:4,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/slab.h:14,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/malloc.h:4,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/proc_fs.h:5,
 from init/main.c:15:
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/hw_irq.h: In function `x86_do_profile':
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/hw_irq.h:198: `current' undeclared (first use in 
this function)
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/hw_irq.h:198: (Each undeclared identifier is 
reported only once
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/hw_irq.h:198: for each function it appears in.)
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/asm/string.h:296,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/string.h:21,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/fs.h:23,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/capability.h:13,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/binfmts.h:5,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/sched.h:9,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/mm.h:4,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/slab.h:14,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/malloc.h:4,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/proc_fs.h:5,
 from init/main.c:15:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/interrupt.h: In function `raise_softirq':
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/interrupt.h:100: `current' undeclared (first use 
in this function)
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/interrupt.h: In function `tasklet_schedule':
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/interrupt.h:171: `current' undeclared (first use 
in this function)
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/interrupt.h: In function `tasklet_hi_schedule':
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/interrupt.h:185: `current' undeclared (first use 
in this function)
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/string.h:21,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/fs.h:23,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/capability.h:13,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/binfmts.h:5,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/sched.h:9,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/mm.h:4,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/slab.h:14,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/malloc.h:4,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/proc_fs.h:5,
 from init/main.c:15:
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/string.h: In function `__constant_memcpy3d':
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/string.h:305: `current' undeclared (first use in 
this function)
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/string.h: In function `__memcpy3d':
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/string.h:312: `current' undeclared (first use in 
this function)
make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1

Re: Getting Gnome to run (unable to bind port 16001)

[Thomas Hood]

Re: Getting Gnome to run (unable to bind port 16001)

The solution for me was to do this:
   ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1

The "unable to bind port 16001" message is issued
by the Debian version of esd.  Strangely enough,
the RedHat version (whose executable is four times
larger!) worked.  So at first I just symlinked
'/usr/bin/esd' to the redhat version and left the
problem at that.  (I have RedHat 6.1 installed on
another partition.)

But I had one other problem.  I tried to set up 
named on my machine and nslookup couldn't connect
to it.  Spent a day on this.  Finally I saw something
in the Debian mailing list archive which suggested
doing the ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 and this fixed the
named access problem.  On a hunch I checked esd
and it was fixed too.

Thomas Hood
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Raid setup

[Jay Kelly]

Hello Group,
I want to setup my potato to run a raid(mirror everything. I have a drive I
took out of a win nt machine thats formated as ntfs. Once I install it in
the linux box what will I need to do to get it running? I have never
installed a second drive in Linux. How will I format it? Will I need to
compile the kernel again?
Thanks

Re: kernel compiling problems

[Chris Gray]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 12:33:04AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote:
> When I try to compile a 2.3 or the 2.4.0-test1 kernel, something goes
> wrong, it has something to do with undefined variables (as you can see in
> the output I've attachted). If anyone has any ideas on this, i'd like to
> hear them!

This looks like something's gone awry with include files.  You might try
compiling it for SMP if you're not already.  The relevant definition
that you need is in include/asm/smp.h.  

Cheers,
Chris

-- 
pick, pack, pock, puck: like drops of water in a fountain falling
softly in the brimming bowl.

Re: kernel compiling problems

[Chris Gray]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 12:33:04AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote:
> When I try to compile a 2.3 or the 2.4.0-test1 kernel, something goes
> wrong, it has something to do with undefined variables (as you can see in
> the output I've attachted). If anyone has any ideas on this, i'd like to
> hear them!

I actually just found where current is defined.  Oddly enough, it's
current.h.  Who woulda thunk it?  So add #include  to
those files that need it.

Cheers,
Chris

-- 
pick, pack, pock, puck: like drops of water in a fountain falling
softly in the brimming bowl.

Re: kernel compiling problems

[Ron Rademaker]

I'm already compiling with smp, I just tried compiling without it, it gave
exactly the same errors.
Any more ideas? Is there some kind of extra verbosity I can turn on
somewhere in the Makefile, so I get more information that might help me a
bit further?

Ron Rademaker

PS. To be sure it's not a real big weird gcc problem (though I know it can
still be), I've already written and compiled hello world, gcc did that one
just fine!

On Wed, 31 May 2000, Chris Gray wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 12:33:04AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote:
> > When I try to compile a 2.3 or the 2.4.0-test1 kernel, something goes
> > wrong, it has something to do with undefined variables (as you can see in
> > the output I've attachted). If anyone has any ideas on this, i'd like to
> > hear them!
> 
> This looks like something's gone awry with include files.  You might try
> compiling it for SMP if you're not already.  The relevant definition
> that you need is in include/asm/smp.h.  
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris
> 
> -- 
> pick, pack, pock, puck: like drops of water in a fountain falling
> softly in the brimming bowl.
> 

Re: kernel compiling problems

[Ron Rademaker]

Alright, I include the header in asm/hw_irq.h, asm/string.h and
include/linux/string.h, the undefined variable error are gone ;-), but new
ones has come ;-(

This is the error message: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type, the
errors occur at places (line numbers) that aren't the same as the old
errors. Again, I've attachted the output.

Ron Rademaker

On Wed, 31 May 2000, Chris Gray wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 12:33:04AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote:
> > When I try to compile a 2.3 or the 2.4.0-test1 kernel, something goes
> > wrong, it has something to do with undefined variables (as you can see in
> > the output I've attachted). If anyone has any ideas on this, i'd like to
> > hear them!
> 
> I actually just found where current is defined.  Oddly enough, it's
> current.h.  Who woulda thunk it?  So add #include  to
> those files that need it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris
> 
> -- 
> pick, pack, pock, puck: like drops of water in a fountain falling
> softly in the brimming bowl.
> 
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe  -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 
-march=i686 -malign-functions=4 -fschedule-insns2 -mwide-multiply 
-fexpensive-optimizations  -c -o init/main.o init/main.c
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/irq.h:56,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/asm/hardirq.h:6,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/interrupt.h:46,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/asm/string.h:298,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/string.h:21,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/fs.h:23,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/capability.h:13,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/binfmts.h:5,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/sched.h:9,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/mm.h:4,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/slab.h:14,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/malloc.h:4,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/proc_fs.h:5,
 from init/main.c:15:
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/hw_irq.h: In function `x86_do_profile':
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/hw_irq.h:200: dereferencing pointer to incomplete 
type
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/asm/string.h:298,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/string.h:21,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/fs.h:23,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/capability.h:13,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/binfmts.h:5,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/sched.h:9,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/mm.h:4,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/slab.h:14,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/malloc.h:4,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/proc_fs.h:5,
 from init/main.c:15:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/interrupt.h: In function `raise_softirq':
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/interrupt.h:101: dereferencing pointer to 
incomplete type
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/interrupt.h: In function `tasklet_schedule':
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/interrupt.h:172: dereferencing pointer to 
incomplete type
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/interrupt.h: In function `tasklet_hi_schedule':
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/interrupt.h:186: dereferencing pointer to 
incomplete type
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/string.h:21,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/fs.h:23,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/capability.h:13,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/binfmts.h:5,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/sched.h:9,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/mm.h:4,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/slab.h:14,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/malloc.h:4,
 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/proc_fs.h:5,
 from init/main.c:15:
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/string.h: In function `__constant_memcpy3d':
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/string.h:307: dereferencing pointer to incomplete 
type
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/string.h: In function `__memcpy3d':
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/string.h:314: dereferencing pointer to incomplete 
type
make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1

The clever people get a red smartie

[Jordan Howarth]

Hey xdm expert, why does xdm not work with authorisation true?

I have had this problem since a recent upgrade of xdm, namely xrdb and xmodmap
cannot get authorisation to run, xdm never reads Xresources, Xsetup, etc. and 
so I
never get my old login window and neither can I login to my X session (it
momentarily hangs with blank screen after I enter my password and then returns 
to
a refreshed login window). 

If in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config, I set

DisplayManager._0.authorize:false

rather than true, then no problem. However, this was not the case before the
xdm upgrade, and it seems like an arbitrary hack that only solves the symptom 
(or
is that the true definition of a hack?)


Jord

P.S. For those who live where it gets cold in the north, a smartie is the
Australian equivalent to an m&m.

lp: driver loaded but no devices found

[Art Lemasters]

When I reboot and run dmesg, it says, "lp: driver loaded but no
devices found"  If I try to print from mutt, the error message says,
"jobs queued but cannot start daemon"  This happens on a potato
system.

What's the answer?  Is it in a config file related to kmod?

Art

RE: gigabit solutions

[Pedro I. Sanchez]

Hi Marc,

I have debian (Potato) running with 3Com GE adapters and have no
troubles at all with them. Support for them is available already in the
standard 2.2.x kernels.

-- 
Pedro

Kernel Problem

[Jay Kelly]

Hello Guy's
I'm trying to compile my kernel(2.2.12) and after the command 'Make
MenuConfig' I get an error:
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
mkae -C scripts/lxdialog all
make[1] Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog'
gcc -Wall
_wstrict-prototypes -02 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC=""   -c -o lxdialog.o lxdialog.c
In file included from lxdialog.c:22:
dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: ***[lxdialog.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog'
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2

So what is this telling me and what am I doing wrong?
Thanks for your help ahead of time..

Re: Kernel Problem

[Colin Watson]

Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>_wstrict-prototypes -02 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC="h>"   -c -o lxdialog.o lxdialog.c
>In file included from lxdialog.c:22:
>dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory

[snip]

>So what is this telling me and what am I doing wrong?

It's telling you that you don't have the necessary libraries to compile
the terminal-graphics front-end to the kernel configuration. Install the
libncurses5-dev package and all will be well.

-- 
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Driver for Lexmark Z11 Printer?

[ferret]

I hear the Z11 can supposedly handle Deskjet 500. I have a Dec Colorwriter
520ic which is hardware DJ 500 compatible, and I use magicfilter with the
dj500-filter. You could try it to see if it works.

If not, you might try contacting Lexmark and politely asking them to
disclose the Z11's command interface.

On Tue, 30 May 2000, Art Lemasters wrote:

> Has anyone written a linux driver for the Lexmark Z11
> printer? 

Re: svga and mouse questions

[Eric G . Miller]

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 09:23:07PM +0100, Lee Elliott wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I've just set up my first x86 Debian system after practising with it on
> my Amiga (m68k) - gone pretty smoothly too, due to this, and the m68k
> lists.  However...
> 
> I'm using a PS2 mouse via /dev/psaux and I'm not using gpm (I had the
> fairly common 'X' problems that I've seen posted often enough, when I
> tried, both on m68k and x86, but I've not investigated further yet). 
> What I haven't been able to find is how to set the double-click time,
> and haven't seen any references to it in any of the docs I've read - any
> 'pointers' anyone?

It would appear from man X, that you can set the multiClickTime resource
in ~/.Xresources, presumably in milliseconds.

! $HOME/.Xresources
*multiClickTime: 500


> 
> Also, I'm having trouble using svgalib apps - e.g. quake-svga fails not
> finding /dev/fb/0  This has confused me a bit because I am familiar with
> /dev/fbn etc. from using the fbdev sever on m68k and they already appear
> to have been set up, presumably during the xserver-svga installation. 
> quake-x11 runs ok in a window.

Hmm, different device naming scheme.  Maybe try (cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV
update) and see if it switches to this alternate scheme.  I believe the
2.4 kernels will use this type of naming for most devices... Anyone?

-- 
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» ing·email·messages.


Re: lp: driver loaded but no devices found

[Eric G . Miller]

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 05:23:56PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote:
> When I reboot and run dmesg, it says, "lp: driver loaded but no
> devices found"  If I try to print from mutt, the error message says,
> "jobs queued but cannot start daemon"  This happens on a potato
> system.
> 
> What's the answer?  Is it in a config file related to kmod?

Have you configured the parport_pc (io, irq, dma)?  You may also want to
fiddle with the BIOS configuration of the parport communication system.

For instace, I have:

options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 dma=5

in /etc/modutils/aliases (run update-modules after editing). Typical PC
hardware will be similar, but you may need to consult you manuals or
BIOS.

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Re: Ethernet Error

[Tom Furie]

Hi folks,

It's possible that the original poster has been allocated a block of 32
IP addresses from someone in which case the mask of 255.255.255.224 is
correct, changing from a 27-bit to 24-bit mask would cause more problems
than it cures.

> Your netmask doesn't look good to me, try editing your /etc/init.d/network
> (or /etc/network/interfaces, I don't know which one you are using) and
> change the netmask of your localnet to 255.255.255.0
 
> > DestinationGatewayGenmaskFlagsMetricRef
> > UseIface
> > locatnet* 255.255.255.224U 0
> > 01  eth0
> > 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0U 0
> > 01  lo

Cheers,
Tom

Re: lp: driver loaded but no devices found

[Art Lemasters]

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 06:37:57PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 05:23:56PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote:
> > When I reboot and run dmesg, it says, "lp: driver loaded but no
> > devices found"  If I try to print from mutt, the error message says,
> > "jobs queued but cannot start daemon"  This happens on a potato
> > system.
> > 
> > What's the answer?  Is it in a config file related to kmod?
> 
> Have you configured the parport_pc (io, irq, dma)?  You may also want to
> fiddle with the BIOS configuration of the parport communication system.
> 
> For instace, I have:
> 
> options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 dma=5
> 
> in /etc/modutils/aliases (run update-modules after editing). Typical PC
> hardware will be similar, but you may need to consult you manuals or
> BIOS.

 I forgot to enable the parallel port in the BIOS setup!  arghh!
I feel stupid.  ;-)  But working my way around the newer file system 
changes for module loading needed to be done, and thank you very much
for the info.  It's worth doing too, for FS orientation, if nothing
else.

 After returning the Lexmark Z11 (as a Lexmark rep. told me that
the I/O for it is a "trade secret"), I bought the HP DeskJet 612C.  Lo
and behold, the Printing How-To holds much information on printer
compatibility.  Now, to compile the 2.2.15 kernel to see if the printer
needs a driver.

 Thanks again, all of you, for all of the help on this.  In the long
run, the learning is what's important, and no info on Linux is extraneous.

Art

loading sound modules

[Jacob I. Stowell]

Hello,

I am trying to get the sound modules to load during the login, but I am
having problems.  I added a sound file to my /etc/init.d directory and
updated  the modules using the command update-rc.d sound defaults. 
However, during login I get the following command:

/etc/init.d/rc: /etc/rc2.d/s20sound: no such file or directory

Below is a copy of the sound file.  I was wondering if anyone might have
any ideas as to how I might be able to get the sound modules to load
during login.  
Thank you,
-jake

#! /bin/sh
#
# This file will load sound modules for a CS423X sound card.
# Place it in /etc/init.d (as root) and from that directory, 
# execute the following command:
#update-rc.d sound defaults
# This will cause the modules to be automatically loaded and 
# unloaded when you login and logout.
#
# You can also manually load, unload, and reload the modules using
# the following commands: 
#/etc/init.d/sound start
#/etc/init.d/sound stop
#/etc/init.d/sound reload

case "$1" in
  start)
echo -n "Loading sound modules: CS4232"
modprobe sound
insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/ad1848
insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/uart401
insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/cs4232 io=536 irq=5 dma=01 dma2=00
echo "."
;;
  stop)
echo -n "Stopping sound modules: CS4232"
rmmod cs4232
rmmod uart401
rmmod ad1848
rmmod sound
rmmod soundcore
echo "."
;;
  force-reload|reload|restart)
sh $0 stop
sh $0 start
;;
  *)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/sound
{start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}"
exit 1
;;
esac

exit 0

Configuring SSH

[Scott Graves]

Is there a HOWTO on configuring SSH? I was wondering which file I need to
edit to allow hosts using RSA-based host authentication to login - I receive
a permission denied error when trying to login.

Thanks,
Scott

Re: Configuring SSH

[Ethan Benson]

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 09:11:00PM -0500, Scott Graves wrote:
> Is there a HOWTO on configuring SSH? I was wondering which file I need to
> edit to allow hosts using RSA-based host authentication to login - I receive
> a permission denied error when trying to login.

man sshd
man ssh

should provide the information you require

for your situation first look at /etc/ssh/sshd_config and the line:

RhostsRSAAuthentication no

should be `yes'

if you still have problems look at your logs /var/log/auth.log for
explanation from sshd as to why it refused the connection.  

-- 
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http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/


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Re: rsync

[Tom Furie]

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 05:19:28PM +0200, Allan Andersen wrote:
 
> rsync -av ftp.sunet.se::pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian/dists/potato/
> /home/ftp/linux/distributions/debian/dists/
This line should be enough since from the man page:

   -a, --archive
  This is equivalent to -rlptg. It is a quick way  of
  saying  you  want  recursion  and  want to preserve
  everything.

  Note: if the user launching rsync is root then  the
  -o (preserve uid) and -D (preserve devices) options
  are also implied.

Also, you probably don't want to use the verbose option if running from
cron unless you are redirecting output.

Cheers,
Tom

please advice on voip software?

[john smith]

Hi,
I would like to install a voip software that is compatible with yahoo 
messenger's voice chat. Any recommendations? if not yahoo, then any kind of 
voip that can communicate with both linux and windows.


thanks.

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REPOST: No high memory space

[Andrew McRobert]

[Andrew McRobert]  ,

hi, I thought I'd repost this in case someone with the answer to my question
missed this  thanks

I've had a number of problems getting X to run on my Toshiba ... I know
think it may have something to do with a message I receive @ startup. THe
message is "no high memory area available" (or words to that effect). I seem
to remember reading something about Linux + 128MB ram & greater ... is there
some issue there? My laptop has slightly more than 128 ...

thanks

Andrew

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Re: kernel compiling problems

[Chris Gray]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 01:50:41AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote:
> Alright, I include the header in asm/hw_irq.h, asm/string.h and
> include/linux/string.h, the undefined variable error are gone ;-), but new
> ones has come ;-(
> 
> This is the error message: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type, the
> errors occur at places (line numbers) that aren't the same as the old
> errors. Again, I've attachted the output.

Does it break things if you #include  in asm/current.h?
This is where task_struct is defined.  This is probably not the best way
of doing things, but it might work.  My guess is that you had a patch
that screwed things up a little bit.  

If this doesn't do it for you, I would recommend downloading a whole new
kernel tree.  Unless, of course, someone else knows the correct way to
do this.

Incidentally, the line numbers are obviously different from last time
because you added a couple of lines to the files.  But I'm sure you
realized this right after you sent the email. :)

Cheers,
Chris

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Raid Q

[Debiandomain]

I have a question on setting up a raid-1.
After I compiled the kernel for raid1, I then tried to start it with the
command "mkraid /dev/md0" but I get an error:

maraid version 0.36.4
parsing configuration file
mkraid aborted"

has anybodt ran across this before? What do I need to do.

Re: loading sound modules

[Eric G . Miller]

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 10:09:59PM -0400, Jacob I. Stowell wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to get the sound modules to load during the login, but I
> am having problems.  I added a sound file to my /etc/init.d directory
> and updated  the modules using the command update-rc.d sound defaults.
> However, during login I get the following command:
> 
> /etc/init.d/rc: /etc/rc2.d/s20sound: no such file or directory

You're really doing this the hard way. But that should be a symlink to
the proper file in /etc/init.d/ and must have a capital S.

The easy way to do this:

1.  Edit /etc/modutils/aliases to have:

char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 cs4232
alias sound-service-0-0 sound # mixer
alias sound-service-0-3 sound # /dev/dsp & /dev/audio
alias sound-service-0-6 sound # /dev/sndstat
options cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 # numbers may vary

2. Run update-modules
3. Let kmod load the module on demand (or kerneld with 2.0)
   or
   Edit /etc/modules and add:
   cs4232  # may need sound and soundcore first ??

No need for an rc.d script to load a kernel module...


   
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Re: REPOST: No high memory space

[Noah L. Meyerhans]

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On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Andrew McRobert wrote:

> I've had a number of problems getting X to run on my Toshiba ... I know
> think it may have something to do with a message I receive @ startup. THe
> message is "no high memory area available" (or words to that effect). I seem
> to remember reading something about Linux + 128MB ram & greater ... is there
> some issue there? My laptop has slightly more than 128 ...

I doubt the problem has to do with Linux not recognizing all your
memory.  The only problem that (old versions of) Linux had with >128 (or
was it >64?) megs of ram was that it would not recognize all of it unless
you told it how much was there.  Even if you did have that problem, Linux
would still see 128 or at least 64 megs of RAM, which is vastly more than
enough to run X.  I used to run it without any trouble on a 8 meg system,
back in the days when 8 megs was a whole lot!

If you do want to confirm that you've got enough RAM available on your
system, run 'free' and note the total mem that it reports.

I suspect your problem has more to do with getting X configured correctly
for your hardware.  Laptops are kinda strange, hardware-wise, and often
require some special attention.  There's a Debian list specifically
relating to laptops.  Check for info about subscribing to it on the Debian
web site.

HTH,
noah

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PHP with MySQL

[Thiago]

I'm tring ti use PHP with MySQL, 
but every time I receive this message!
Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_connect() in
/www/http/mysql_test.php3 on line 12

How do I recompile the PHP to enable MySQL support?
Thaks!


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