RE: SCWM/GNOME

[Larry Elmore]

> From: Patrick Dahiroc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> i'm switching window managers from enlightenment to scwm (it's about
> time i learn lisp).  i'm using gdm as my display manager, which -
> correct me if i'm wrong - simply runs gdmchooser, gdmlogin, and
> gnome-session or Xsession depending on which session i choose.
> (gnome-session is called by the script /etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome)

You might want to take a look at Sawfish. I use the Sawfish that came with
Helix Gnome. Unlike scwm, Sawfish does work with Gnome. Also, Sawfish is
customized and extensible in Lisp. I think it complements Gnome quite well
(Sawfish is _just_ a window manager, unlike some out there (I've never used
scwm, so I can't comment on it much)).

Larry

Re: scp alternative

[Ethan Benson]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:50:40AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> I've been using scp to copy the files from my production web server to my
> hosting companies web server. scp works well except that there is no way to
> prevent it coping files that already are up to date, and also, it requires a
> password every time.
> Is there a better alternative? My remote server does not allow rsync,
> although they say they will in the future.

you can use rsync over ssh, it requires nothing from the server except
a working sshd (which it obviously has)

rsync --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh 

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Re: woody man segfaults when run as root

[Ethan Benson]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 12:21:16AM -0400, Brendan Cully wrote:
> On Tuesday, 04 July 2000 at 20:21, Brendan Cully wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I noticed that my up-to-date woody system (plus helixcode) has a man
> > which segfaults when run as root, but works perfectly as an ordinary
> > user. Anyone else seen this?
> > 
> > man-db 2.3.17-1
> > libc6 2.1.3-10
> > libdb2 2.7.7-2
> 
> to follow up on my own post - the problem was in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
> Apparently passwd and group need to be set to "compat". I had "db
> files", presumably hanging about from before I debianised my system.
> 
> anyone know what is going on here, though?

/usr/bin/man is a wrapper that checks if you are root and if so it
does a setuid() to user man then executes /usr/lib/man-db/man

so something in the process of doing setuid() is broken, i would
suspect other things would be broken too.

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Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel

[virtanen]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> It's a kernel problem, not a distribution problem.  Your kernel, as
> compiled, probably does not have the wd.o module.
> 
> Try recompiling the kernel and select "Western Digital/SMC cards"
> in 'make menuconfig', either 'y' or 'm'.

> > 
> > That doesn't admit wd module at all. So the network didn't start working. 

The wd module was there on the list, but install failed. 

I'll try to go back to 'slink' now. 

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Re: Helix's gimp1.1 deb's and aalib1 out of date

[Joey Hess]

Arcady Genkin wrote:
> Trying to install gimp1.1 from the helix'es DEBs, I've run in a
> problem that it depends on aalib1 >=1.2-29, but the aalib1 which is
> available is version 1.2-25.
> 
> Any ideas where this package is available from for potato?

It's not, it's in unstable. You can grab it from there or forcing the
dependancy will probably work.

-- 
see shy jo, aalib maintainer

Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP)

[Andrei Ivanov]

One problem I had with that card is as follows:
Ethernet-HOWTO suggests and you turn off the PnP mode, and set it to a
specific IRQ/base. Until I did that, it would not work absolutely, and in
syslog I would get a message about Tx/Rx timing out, possible IRQ loss. 
I swapped card out of computer, put it into a windows machine, ran the
utility from SMC to set the card, put it back into Linux box, compile
support into kernel, and it worked perfect.
Andrei

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Re: Pb with dselect/dpkg

[Joey Hess]

This was posted to the wrong list, redirecting.

Benoit NOSS wrote:
> In the installation process of the Debian 2.1 distribution, I missed an
> important step : I did something wrong and I could not choose an
> installation profile. I have a base system working. Can I use dselect
> with an option or something equivalent with dpkg in a shell to install
> with a profile or do I have to install the rest of my system package
> by package with deselect?
> Thank you in advance

For debian 2.1, no, you cannot.

For debian frozen, yes you can. If you want to upgrade to frozen, which
is quite usable now, you can then "apt-get install tasksel; tasksel",
and choose from the list. The profiles have changed some though.

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Re: how can my program interact with dpkg

[kmself]

On Mon, Jul 06, 1992 at 04:54:48AM -0700, a wrote:

Fix your system clock.

> my C program starts dpkg by exec. How can my program know when dpkg prompts
> user for input (e.g. dpkg execute a installation script) and how to send
> user input to dpkg?

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Re: /etc/mtab wiped clean after mke2fs is run

[kmself]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:57:08PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> This is weird.
> 
> On potato, running mke2fs wipes out the existing /etc/mtab file
> (it's zero size) such that `df' and `mount' have no record of any
> mounted filesystems.
> 
> Anyone else seen this?

No.

You can copy /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab to restore the data.  It's
possible to create a symlink from /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab, but certain
filesystems, eg:  loopback and RAM, IIRC, don't get freed properly if
this is the case.

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Re: Securing telnet

[Alberto Rodríguez Ortega]

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Just PuTTY can be a good one too, check:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

At 22.32 4/7/00 +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 01:23:49PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> > I'd also look into ssh clients for Windows.  I know there are Java
> > clients available.
>
>I can recommend TeraTerm with the SSH extension for this. Forgot the
>link, search on google.com for it.
>
>Cheers
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>
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Re: Supported Hardware.

[Alberto Rodríguez Ortega]

Check:

http://lhd.datapower.com/

u'll have a complete list of supported hardware (with a
search-robot).


At 08.48 5/7/00 +1000, Carl Burton wrote:
I'm about to quote
on a number of servers with Intel's ISP1100 1RU rack mount servers. 
I need compatiblity for debian linux for:
Adaptec 29160LP Low Profile PCI Ultra 160 SCSI
card
Matrox* Millennium
G200 SD 8 MB SDRAM PCI
 
Intel Pro100+ 10/100 Ethernet
 
Intel Pro1000 100/1000 Ethernet
 
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Re: TkDesk problem

[Andre Berger]

"Larry Elmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I've been a fan of TkDesk for 3-4 years now, but since switching to Debian,
> I've had a very annoying problem with it, and I was wondering if anyone
> could help me solve them?
> 
> I'm using 'woody' and the TkDesk .deb. The problem is that TkDesk keeps
> reverting to its default settings at apparently random intervals. Sometimes
> I can get through 1 or even 2 entire sessions without any problems, and then
> 1 minute into another Linux session, it suddenly reverts to its default
> settings (doesn't matter whether I'm logged in as root or as a user). I've
> tried recompiling from sources to no avail. Does anyone have any idea what
> might be causing this? Help!
> 
> Larry


Strange, fortunately never had that with TkDesk 1.2 on potato. Well
you should be able to force TkDesk to use a certain configuration.
man tkdesk says: 

OPTIONS
   -configdir dir
  By  default  TkDesk  reads its configuration either
  from  the  files   contained   in   the   directory
  "~/.tkdesk"  (see  section  FILES  below), or if it
  does not exist,  from  TkDesk's  library  directory
  (usually  "/usr/local/lib/TkDesk").   This  options
  lets  TkDesk  load  its  configuration  files  from
  directory dir.

Also notice:

  -default
  Let  TkDesk read its configuration from its library
  directory.  This means that TkDesk will start using
  the default configuration.


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Re: Image copy of a floppy, how?

[pseelig]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:

> But is not enough yet, since it is not clear how I put the contents of
> the boot floppy into "file".
>
Try to understand this here:

--- snip 
#!/bin/sh

# diskcopy

echo "diskcopy - physical copy of floppy disks"

echo -n "Insert source disk and hit ENTER "
read eingabe

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/diskcopy_tmp$$

aktiv=1

while [ $aktiv -eq 1 ]; do

   echo -n "Insert destination disk and hit ENTER "
   read eingabe

   dd if=/tmp/diskcopy_tmp$$ of=/dev/fd0

   echo -n "Ready. Another duplicate? [y/n] "
   read eingabe

   if [ $eingabe != "y" ]; then
  aktiv=0
   fi

done

rm /tmp/diskcopy_tmp$$
--- snip 
 Cheers, P. *8^)
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Re: Network (internet) problems

[Alberto Rodríguez Ortega]

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Are u sure that is a "local" problem?

I was working on a ISP which havent any control over the modem-pool (just 
sub-renting this ones) and sometimes we detected some problems just with that.
The problem was on the asscend in that case (poll of modems) ... this could 
be the same.
..

At 16.15 5/7/00 +0400, Alex V. Toropov wrote:
>Hi, all
>
>Some time ago I find out that I have some kind of communication problems
>over internet
>with some hosts.
>
>It looks like "dead" connection.
>for example: I open a pop3 connection to some host with telnet.
>I can login and retr small messages with no problem. (small = 10k)
>I can even retr such messages several times in sequence so that total
>session
>traffic come up to 100k. But if I try to retr a large message (30k) after
>some
>amount of packets other side stop responding. I use tcpdump and notice that
>the last packet of "hanged" session was sent by my host. But after few
>minutes I receive
>response from other side say that connection from my host was closed due to
>timeout.
>
>While all this is taking place I can still reach that host by ping or
>opening another session and work
>without any problems (if I'm not tring to retr "large" messages).
>
>I'm a newbye in "tcp connection internals" so I can't enterprete tcpdump's
>output well.
>May be some one can show me where I can get info on how all this internet
>connections are
>constucted. Any other advise on how to solve that problem
>
>TIA alex
>
>
>
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Re: Kernel upgrade

[Alberto Rodríguez Ortega]

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At 10.06 5/7/00 -0700, Jay Kelly wrote:
>Hello Group,
>I decided to upgrade my kernel from 2.2.12 to 2.2.15 and ran into a
>problem. This is what Im doing.
>I extract the kernel while im in the /usr/src/ directory. Then I
>made a directory /usr/src/linux-2.2.15 and then cd /usr/src/linux-2.2.15
>and ln -s linux-2.2.15 linux.
>After doing that I cd /usr/src/linux and run make menuconfig. That
>seems to work fine and I save the kernel. After saving I use
>make deb;make clean;make bzImage;make modules;make modules_install.
>and that seems to compile fine. Now here is the problem.
>I cd /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot  then
>cp bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.15 but I get file or directory does not
>exist. Apparently the vmlinuz-2.2.15 isnt there. I can see the old
>vmlinuz-2.2.12 but thats it. I have compiled many systems this way
>before. Any idea's on what Im doing wrong? Im running potato if
>that helps.

Ok, try make bzlilo

U'll get vmlinux and System.map instaled on '/'

just move /vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinux-2.2.15 and same with System.map
Dont forget remak the symlinks on /boot directory

just remove /boot/vmlinux and add a ln -s /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.15 /voot/vmlinuz
(same with System.map)

relaunch lilo. and reboot.



>Thanks again
>Jay
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>fdisk
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Re: sawmill is a herring bone screen

[kmself]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 02:52:21PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > Not sure of Sawmill's default behavior, but the herringbone is the
> > default X Windows background (there's a reason for it, lost in the mists
> > of time).
> 
> Not particularly lost. Such a display makes it easy to see moire
> patterns if your monitor is subtly out of tuns, and correct them.

Thanks.  Suspected that or similar.

Probably made more sense when B&W monitors where the mainstay.
Three-dot color doesn't tend to generate moires quite the same way,
though I've found that flatscreen (and presumably laptop) screens can be
distracting to the extreme.

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Re: X is "out of resources"

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

i recompiled 2.2.16 without the openwall patch and hope it fixes it! i
think it will..

thanks for the response :)

nate

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Mike Werner wrote:

reznae >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
reznae >> Anyone know what might cause this:
reznae >> 
reznae >> X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for
reznae >> operation)
reznae >>   Major opcode of failed request:  53 (X_CreatePixmap)
reznae >>   Serial number of failed request:  1017
reznae >>   Current serial number in output stream:  1053
reznae >> 
reznae >> it seems i get it often when i try to run netscape and XMMS together 
at
reznae >> the same time..in this case netscape crashed and can't re load, 
however
reznae >> when i quit xmms, netscape loads fine, but then i cant load xmms 
(till i
reznae >> restart X)
reznae >> 
reznae >> using a P3-500 Linux 2.2.16+ow1 Debian woody netscape is 4.73/glibc 
xmms
reznae >> is 1.0.1 i believe. been happening a lot, never experienced this as 
often
reznae >> as it is occuring before.
reznae >> 
reznae >> 128MB ram, 120MB swap:
reznae >> 
reznae >>  total   used   free sharedbuffers 
cached
reznae >> Mem:113820 104952   8868  57152   3972  
51268
reznae >> -/+ buffers/cache:  49712  64108
reznae >> Swap:   120452   7012 113440
reznae >> 
reznae >> maybe its that ow1 patch ...ive sofar only used it on servers havent 
tried
reznae >> it on many workstations yet(www.openwall.com/linux)
reznae >> 
reznae >> anyone else experience similar symptoms ?
reznae >
reznae >I use those two apps frequently - listening to XMMS right this moment, 
matter
reznae >of fact - and have never had that type of problem.  I'm using an 
up-to-date
reznae >woody box, PII 300, 64 megs RAM, kernel 2.2.16, Netscape and XMMS 
package are:
reznae >
reznae >ii  navigator-base-4 4.72-16  Navigator base support for 
version 4.72
reznae >ii  navigator-smotif 4.72-16  Netscape Navigator 4.72 (static 
Motif)
reznae >ii  netscape-base-4  4.73-32  Popular World-Wide-Web browser 
software (base su
reznae >ii  netscape-base-47 4.72-16  4.72 base support for netscape
reznae >ii  netscape-java-47 4.72-16  Netscape Java support for version 
4.72
reznae >ii  xmms 1.2.1-helix3 Versatile X audio player that 
looks like Winamp
reznae >
reznae >The XMMS package is from Helixcode - I'm using Helix Gnome with 
Sawfish. 
reznae >The Netscape packages are straight off Debian's site via apt-get -  I 
had
reznae >gone to 4.73 but had problems with it so went back to 4.72.
reznae >
reznae >Just to be sure of myself, I just fired up Netscape.  Got it grabbing 
the
reznae >weather radar loop now.  XMMS is also playing - Mason William's 
"Classical
reznae >Gas" - without a hitch.  Looks like it just might be that patch giving 
you
reznae >problems.
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Re: Upgrade advice

[John Gould]

You don't need woody, potato is fine. The upgrade from the existing
archive or CD's is sweet, see Anne's doc's on the upgrade. Works really
well...

Regards JohnG

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On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, [iso-8859-1] Gu?mundur Erlingsson wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I've put slink on my laptop and it's been sweet so far. I'd like to upgrade
> it to a newer version, with newer kernel, but I'm not sure which is best.
> Should I go for frozen or would Woody be safe? The thing is, I'd like to try
> out Helix Gnome, and have to have Woody installed to be able to do that, but
> I don't think it would be worth the hazzle if the unstable version of Debian
> is, well, too unstable. What do y'all think?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Gu?mundur
> 
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Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP)

[virtanen]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Andrei Ivanov wrote:

> One problem I had with that card is as follows:
> Ethernet-HOWTO suggests and you turn off the PnP mode, and set it to a
> specific IRQ/base. Until I did that, it would not work absolutely, and in
> syslog I would get a message about Tx/Rx timing out, possible IRQ loss. 
> I swapped card out of computer, put it into a windows machine, ran the
> utility from SMC to set the card, put it back into Linux box, compile
> support into kernel, and it worked perfect.
> Andrei


My machine has still got windows, too. 

Where can I get that 'utility from SMC'?

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Re: Image copy of a floppy, how?

[Gianluca Montecchi]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 08:02:34PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
=> I created a boot floppy during my kernel upgrade, but I would like to
=> create another copy-backup in case a problem occurs with my only boot
=> floppy. I am not sure how to do it, I read that:

A quick method can be:

# cat /dev/fd0 > floppy.img
# cat floppy.img > /dev/fd0


bye

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Re: [NEWBIE] Japanese keyboard

[Christophe Jasiak]

Hi!

Thanks for your answer, i think that it will help but i'm trying to fix the
kana key to directly use the hiragana keys ( ta, te, i, su, ka, n...). So if
anybody know how to do this (if it's possible)...


Thanks a lot for your help!

Christophe "Mettez un pingouin dans votre PC" Jasiak

- Original Message -
From: "Katsunori Hizawa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Christophe Jasiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 12:01 AM
Subject: Re: [NEWBIE] Japanese keyboard


> Christophe:
>
> My reply is not directly related to your query, but all
> you want to do is to be able to input Japanese from your
> keyboard, I can tell you how I do it.
>
> I use XEmacs-mule-canna-wnn and the keyboard setup is the
> US keyboard.  I run Canna.  After starting XEmacs,
> Mule > Select input method.  Then type in "japanese-canna"
> (without quotes).  Canna will be initialzed.  After that
> I start typing the text phonetically and the program will
> convert what I type into hiragana first automatically.
> When I want Kanji, I press SPACE and I get what I want.
> Simple, enough?
>
>
> Katsunori Hizawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

old libraries

[tom]

howdy guys,

in launching an application, I get the following error:

error in loading shared libraries: libtermcap.so.2: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory

I installed  the termcap-compat package, and the app simply crashed.
What am I missing? (the "app" is REBOL, btw)

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gdm-Screensaver

[Hans Gubitz]

How can I install a sreensaver for gdm?

Hans Gubitz
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Can i run solaris binaries under Debian Linux/SPARC ?

[Heinrich Rebehn]

Sorry, if this is a FAQ, but can i run Solaris binaries under Debian 
Linux/SPARC,
provided that i got the needed Solaris libraries and licenses ?

TIA

Heinrich Rebehn
"Have disk - will travel"
University of Bremen
Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering
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Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel

[Nathan E Norman]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 08:39:20AM +0300, virtanen wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 
> > It's a kernel problem, not a distribution problem.  Your kernel, as
> > compiled, probably does not have the wd.o module.
> > 
> > Try recompiling the kernel and select "Western Digital/SMC cards"
> > in 'make menuconfig', either 'y' or 'm'.
> 
> > > 
> > > That doesn't admit wd module at all. So the network didn't start working. 
> 
> The wd module was there on the list, but install failed. 

The latest set of boot disks is missing the 8390 module which is
loaded before the wd module.  That should be fixed soon.

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Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel

[virtanen]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote:


> > The wd module was there on the list, but install failed. 
> 
> The latest set of boot disks is missing the 8390 module which is
> loaded before the wd module.  That should be fixed soon.

Meanwhile, what could I do? 
What kind of packet to install to get it working?

(It happened so that when I went back to 'slink' and had the Corel LILO
installed... the machine could not boot into win98 at all (It is on
another disk, I need it for some work to do) and so I went back to Corel,
which is otehrwise working now... And now I can boot to Corel or win.
>From Corel the 8930 module seems to be missing too.)

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apache & php

[Allan Andersen]

Hi,

I'm trying to install apache and php - all of it
seems to be installed correct and works ok. But
when I try to load the site it would like to download
the page instead of viewing it. Any ideas ?

Best Regards
Allan

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Re: apache & php

[Robert Waldner]

the following did it for me:

---
ka:/home/waldner# grep php /etc/mime.types
application/x-httpd-php phtml pht php
application/x-httpd-php3php3
application/x-httpd-php3-source phps
application/x-httpd-php3-preprocessed   php3p
ka:/home/waldner# grep php /etc/apache/httpd.conf
LoadModule php3_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp3.so
AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps
ka:/home/waldner# grep html /etc/mime.types
text/html   html htm shtml


hth,
&rw

On Thu, 06 Jul 2000 16:26:25 EST, "Allan Andersen" writes:
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to install apache and php - all of it
>seems to be installed correct and works ok. But
>when I try to load the site it would like to download
>the page instead of viewing it. Any ideas ?
>
>Best Regards
>Allan

Can't Write To Temporary User Settings Files During Install

[A. Scott White]

I compiled a new kernel that included Compaq Smart Array support. I ran the
following rdev files on it (I got these from looking at the rdev.sh file on
the rescue floppy):

rdev -R linux 1
rdev -r linux 0
rdev -v linux -1
rdev linux /dev/ram0

I then copied the kernel onto the rescue floppy.

The install runs (and recognizes my smart array controller). When the setup
scripts start, however, it asks me for my keyboard type. When I try to
select it, I get the error:

   Can't write to temporary user settings file
   /tmp/keybd_settings.

I assume it means that it cannot write to the RAM disk (it wouldn't try to
write to the floppy, and the hard drive isn't even partitioned yet).

Any clues as to what's up?

Thanks.


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

RE: apache & php

[Brooks R. Robinson]

Greetings,
I've seen this a couple of times now.  If you are using potato, and 
install
apache and php3, check to make sure that apache has loaded the php module.
For php3, In your /etc/apache/httpd.conf you need a line similar to:

LoadModule php3_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp3.so

But of course your mileage may vary.  It seems that the installation
scripts don't do this for you. :(  However, it's an easy enough fix.

Have fun,

Brooks

P.S.  I am CCing this to Gergely Madarasz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) the PHP3 package
maintainer for future reference.



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> From: Allan Andersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 11:26 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: apache & php
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install apache and php - all of it
> seems to be installed correct and works ok. But
> when I try to load the site it would like to download
> the page instead of viewing it. Any ideas ?
>
> Best Regards
> Allan
> 
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Re: [NEWBIE] Japanese keyboard

[Dinesh Nadarajah]

Hi:

I am trying to setup a keyboard for a phonetic
language (an Indian language) but have been
unsucessful in getting the keyboard programmed. The
issue is that the the current output keycode will not
only depend on the current key pressed, but also on
the previous key pressed. Do you know how I can get
the keyboard program to remember this? Any help/advice
on this matter will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

-Dinesh
--- Christophe Jasiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Thanks for your answer, i think that it will help
> but i'm trying to fix the
> kana key to directly use the hiragana keys ( ta, te,
> i, su, ka, n...). So if
> anybody know how to do this (if it's possible)...
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help!
> 
> Christophe "Mettez un pingouin dans votre PC" Jasiak
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: "Katsunori Hizawa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Christophe Jasiak"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 12:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [NEWBIE] Japanese keyboard
> 
> 
> > Christophe:
> >
> > My reply is not directly related to your query,
> but all
> > you want to do is to be able to input Japanese
> from your
> > keyboard, I can tell you how I do it.
> >
> > I use XEmacs-mule-canna-wnn and the keyboard setup
> is the
> > US keyboard.  I run Canna.  After starting XEmacs,
> > Mule > Select input method.  Then type in
> "japanese-canna"
> > (without quotes).  Canna will be initialzed. 
> After that
> > I start typing the text phonetically and the
> program will
> > convert what I type into hiragana first
> automatically.
> > When I want Kanji, I press SPACE and I get what I
> want.
> > Simple, enough?
> >
> >
> > Katsunori Hizawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> 
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Re: apache & php

[Allan Andersen]

From: Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



the following did it for me:
ka:/home/waldner# grep php /etc/mime.types
application/x-httpd-php phtml pht php
application/x-httpd-php3php3
application/x-httpd-php3-source phps
application/x-httpd-php3-preprocessed   php3p
ka:/home/waldner# grep php /etc/apache/httpd.conf
LoadModule php3_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp3.so
AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps
ka:/home/waldner# grep html /etc/mime.types
text/html   html htm shtml


Thanks a lot, I'll try it as soon as get home from work.

/Allan.

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Advansys 3940UA Ultra-SCSI controller recommended?

[Peter S Galbraith]

I can get this controller from buy.com for CDN$79 so it's very
cheap.  I intent to use it mostly for external devices (CDRW,
Zip, and an Ultra-SCSI ORB 2.2 GB removable-media drive).
Anyone have comments or better suggestions? 

Thanks!

BTW, I already have an Adaptec 2940U Ultra-SCSI controller, but
lately a disk has been acting up and I'm getting reset errors,
and this tends to happen more if I connect my external devices.
Anyway, I'm thinking my next computer (at work) won't be using
SCSI disks anymore, so I'll need a controller for the external
SCSI I'll move over.  So why no buy it now?  (The Adaptec will
stay in the current computer, which will be cascaded down to
another employee).

Peter

[no subject]

[Petró Zoltán]

Hello azt szeretném megtudni, hogy a Debian linuxos CD 
-je mennyibe kerül és, hogy, hogy kell fizetni. Előre is 
köszönöm.
 
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Yamaha 4416SX! Re: Advansys 3940UA Ultra-SCSI controller recommended?

[Peter S Galbraith]

I wrote regarding the Advansys 3940UA Ultra-SCSI controller:
 
> I can get this controller from buy.com for CDN$79 so it's very
> cheap.  I intent to use it mostly for external devices (CDRW,
> Zip, and an Ultra-SCSI ORB 2.2 GB removable-media drive).
> Anyone have comments or better suggestions? 

I see on the manufacturer's web page:

  http://www.connectcom.net/support/software/os/linux.htm

 Yamaha CD-RW drives, including model 4416S, may cause Linux
 to hang during initialization. This can be avoided by
 disabling the CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN option in the Linux
 kernel. Newer Linux kernels have this option enabled by
 default.

I'm using an external Yamaha 4416SX !
I can't disable multiple LUNs as I need that for a SCSI-emulated
ATAPI PD-CD unit.

Does anyone have this Yamaha CDRW and Advansys SCSI card?
Is this still a problem?

Thanks,
Peter

Re: Mustek 12000SP (SANE)

[Bjoern Brill]

On Tue, 04 Jul 2000 Sven Richter wrote

> Hy,
> I try to configure my MUSTEK 1200SP and 
> 
> "cat /proc/scsi/scsi"
> 
> shows this
> 
> Attached devices: 
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: YAMAHA   Model: CRW8424S Rev: 1.0f
>   Type:   CD-ROM   ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: SCANNER  Model:  Rev: 1.03
>   Type:   Scanner  ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS
> 
> but still - "scanimage -L" can't find a device.
> Does anybody has any idea how to go on ??

Sven,

assuming that
a. you're talking about a (ScanExpress) 12000SP (as in the subject line)
   and not a 1200 something
b. it's one of the newer models (namely those called 12000SP+)
I've had the same problem.

Cause: the SANE Mustek backend looks for a "model id" signature in the
device information it gets from the scanner to decide which specific
Mustek model this is. Mustek have changed this signature in recent 12000SP
models and so the backend won't recognize the scanner.

You can check if this really is your problem by turning on debugging
(environment vars SANE_DEBUG and SANE_DEBUG_MUSTEK, IIRC - try
man sane-mustek) and look at what scanimage says. If you see a message
starting "attach: unknown model", it is.

Solution: get the sources of latest official SANE release (1.0.2, I think)
from , upgrade the Mustek backend source
to a more up-to-date version from SANE Mustek Backend Homepage
 (current is 1.0-88, but anything up from
0.74 should do) and build SANE yourself. Deinstall sane .debs first,
and put your build under /usr/local.

HTH,


Bjoern
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Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013

[Andrei Ivanov]

You should have the disk with drivers for your card. On that disk could be
something called ezstart (or of the kind), thats a program to setup the
card.
Andrew


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Kernel question

[Walter Williams]

Greetings

I have subscribed to this list server to find
out more about non-Red Hat derivatives.
Is the Debian distribution of the type that I 
can,  when I want to update the kernel, 
download a complete kernel tar ball or a patch
file from what ever web site I choose, install it,
and have things function properly? 

The last coupe of times I did this to my current
distro things went a muck. Fortunate for me I
saved my current kernel and was able to boot
from it. I didn't have too much problems with
previous distro when I built custom kernels 
with it. I was able to get a kernel update from
anywhere and go to town with it.

I am basically "shopping" for a new distro.

Thanks
Walt Williams

Re: Samba Setup

[Kent West]

Jay Kelly wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> I thought I would take a crack at Samba so I installed Samba. Now
> what do I need to do for my window98 clients to log in to samba? What
> change to my network setting will I need to make? Will my Primary Network
> Login be Microsoft Family or Client for Microsoft Networks? Do I need
> to change my Domain to point to Sambe?
> Any help would be greatly appeciated.
> Thanks
> Jay

I'm not sure how to set up Samba to function as a domain
controller, which your question implies you're trying to do.
However, if you're just trying to share out stuff, like hard
drives, folders, and printers, do the following.

You'll need to edit /etc/samba/smb.conf to "define" your
"shares"; with the comments sprinkled throughout, it's fairly
intuitive for the basics. (You can also use SWAT (apt-get install
swat) for a web-based configuration tool, but I've never had any
success with it.)

Then, IIRC, you'll need to run smbpasswd to assign a
username/password to the people you want to give access to.

Finally, on the Windows box, you would simply map a drive to
\\YourLinuxComputer'sName\TheShareDefinedInSmb.conf. Your logon
will probably need to be Client for Microsoft Networks, but I'm
not sure.

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Tekram DC310U? Re: Advansys 3940UA Ultra-SCSI controller recommended?

[Peter S Galbraith]

Hi again,

I can get a Tekram DC310U PCI Ultra-SCSI controller (based on the
Symbios Logic SYM53C860 SCSI-3 Chip) for the same price as
the Advansys 3940UA.  It uses the sym53c8xx.o driver.

Should I go for that instead?

Thanks!
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Re: Kernel question

[brian moore]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 12:14:13PM -0600, Walter Williams wrote:
> Greetings
> 
> I have subscribed to this list server to find
> out more about non-Red Hat derivatives.
> Is the Debian distribution of the type that I 
> can,  when I want to update the kernel, 
> download a complete kernel tar ball or a patch
> file from what ever web site I choose, install it,
> and have things function properly? 

Sure.

> The last coupe of times I did this to my current
> distro things went a muck. Fortunate for me I
> saved my current kernel and was able to boot
> from it. I didn't have too much problems with
> previous distro when I built custom kernels 
> with it. I was able to get a kernel update from
> anywhere and go to town with it.

If you use 'make-kpkg' to build the kernel (basically, it invokes all
the 'make bzImage && make modules' stuff for you, then spits out a .deb
with the new kernel and modules), you'll have a kernel that can be
installed or removed with 'dpkg (-i|-r) kernel-image-whatever.deb'.

You could do it the old fashioned way as well, but I hate hunting down
bzImage out of arch/i386

> I am basically "shopping" for a new distro.

Debian is a pleasure to use and maintain.  I've now formatted Slack off
two machines, RH off two and Mandrake off another.  (Okay, so the Mandrake
one booted precisely once with Mandrake and lasted a total of 10 minutes
or so before I formatted it... :))

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Re: Kernel question

[Heikki Vatiainen]

Walter Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have subscribed to this list server to find
> out more about non-Red Hat derivatives.
> Is the Debian distribution of the type that I 
> can,  when I want to update the kernel, 
> download a complete kernel tar ball or a patch
> file from what ever web site I choose, install it,
> and have things function properly? 

In my experience, it is. The laptop I'm using has a 2.4.0-test3
kernel and the machine at home, dual Pentium 133MHz also runs a
custom compiled kernel. I usually get the kernel tar balls from
ftp.funet.fi. The Debian package system does not force me to use a
precompiled kernel-image from a Debian package.

// Heikki
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Debian Printing

[rickloga]

I've been installing Debian for a month now and at the point
where I want to print.  I have the Debian shrink wrap distribution
put out by VA Linux, O'Reilly, and SGI.  It includes a book published
by O'Reilly.  There is nothing in the book about installing printers.
 I've read the 50 page HOWTO on printing and read the mailing
list archives.  I have read about lpr, lpd, magicfilter, apsfilter,
printcap, and several other details but have found nothing on
how to print.  What do I do first?  Do I use modconf to tell
whatever that there is a parallel port?  Do I edit the printcap
file?  If so, what do I say in it for my HP LaserJet 4P?  Do
I type in "magicfilterconfig" and answer questions?  So far I
have the command line only.  I'm reluctant to try the install
of X windows as it sounds very complicated with several choices.
 If I install X windows first, is there a GUI print configure
program?  Eventually I want to install the HP LaserJet as a network
printer but for now a printer directly attached to the Linus
parallel port is OK. 

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Re: Kernel question

[Mike Werner]

Walter Williams wrote:
> Greetings
> 
> I have subscribed to this list server to find
> out more about non-Red Hat derivatives.
> Is the Debian distribution of the type that I 
> can,  when I want to update the kernel, 
> download a complete kernel tar ball or a patch
> file from what ever web site I choose, install it,
> and have things function properly? 

Sure can.  Fact is , that's how I been doing it.  There's also the "proper
Debian" method, called make-kpkg.  If you go that route, make *sure* to add
the epoch to the version number, or you'll wind up with the package
management system trying to replace your kernel at some point.

> The last coupe of times I did this to my current
> distro things went a muck. Fortunate for me I
> saved my current kernel and was able to boot
> from it. I didn't have too much problems with
> previous distro when I built custom kernels 
> with it. I was able to get a kernel update from
> anywhere and go to town with it.
> 
> I am basically "shopping" for a new distro.

Yeah, I've dealt with RedHat a couple of times.  I put it onto my laptop,
where it lasted all of about an hour before I got rid of it and went back to
Debian.  I find the package management under Debian - using apt - to be
*much* easier than dealing with rpm's.  apt also has far better dependancy
handling than what I saw with RedHat.
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Looking for a package, but don't know what to call it

[Mike Werner]

Hiya folks.  Got a bit of a question - not exactly sure how to phrase this
so please try and bear with me.

At the university I attend, the CS department has a central server named
naur.  There are CS labs scattered around the university, including some
across town.  Now, from any of those labs when you logon, you basically get
connected automatically to naur.  All of the account info is (I presume)
stored on naur as well.

What I'm wondering is:
1) What's this sytem called?
2) Is this doable with Linux? (I'm guessing it is)
3) Is this doable with Debian using regular packages that are apt-getable?

I've got my desktop box here that I want to make the server for this. 
Various other boxes will be the clients, starting with my laptop.

I'm sorry to ask such a vague question.  I'd go search myself, but I don't
know where to start.  If I could get even just the name of this system,
that'd be a huge help - at least I'd know what to search on. ::grin::
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Re: Debian Printing

[Taupter]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> I've been installing Debian for a month now and at the point
> where I want to print.  I have the Debian shrink wrap distribution
> put out by VA Linux, O'Reilly, and SGI.  It includes a book published
> by O'Reilly.  There is nothing in the book about installing printers.
>  I've read the 50 page HOWTO on printing and read the mailing
> list archives.  I have read about lpr, lpd, magicfilter, apsfilter,
> printcap, and several other details but have found nothing on
> how to print.  What do I do first? 

man magicfiterconfig

I configured my HP850c just running properly magicfilterconfig and
nothing more...

> Do I use modconf to tell
> whatever that there is a parallel port?

If you are using the onboard paralel port and your kernel is configured
acordingly, there is no need to.

> Do I edit the printcap file?

Let magicfilterconfig do the dirty job for you.

> If so, what do I say in it for my HP LaserJet 4P?  Do
> I type in "magicfilterconfig" and answer questions?

Nice option. Trust me.

> So far I have the command line only.

Once your printer is configured, it will work for console and X-based
programs.

> I'm reluctant to try the install
> of X windows as it sounds very complicated with several choices.
> If I install X windows first, is there a GUI print configure
> program?

printop, but it only allows you to _manage_ de lpd, not to _configure_
the printer.


Taupter

apt-move, merge ??

[Pann McCuaig]

apt-move rocks! The idea of building a partial local mirror using debs
downloaded by apt-get is right on.

But here's the deal. I have multiple debian (potato) machines on my
network, and only one with the disk space for a mirror. It's a server
and doesn't have X installed. However, pretty much all the other Linux
boxen on the net will have X installed.

So how do I download those packages only once?

Obviously I have room to build a temporary mirror on a client box (or
apt-get wouldn't work in the first place). Is there a straightforward
way to merge the debs on the client box into my partial mirror on my
server?

TIA,
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Re: Kernel question

[James Green]

Walter Williams wrote:
> 
> Greetings
> 
> I have subscribed to this list server to find
> out more about non-Red Hat derivatives.
> Is the Debian distribution of the type that I
> can,  when I want to update the kernel,
> download a complete kernel tar ball or a patch
> file from what ever web site I choose, install it,
> and have things function properly?

Yeah, that's what I do. I never trust packages to correctly edit LILO
etc., so I do it all myself :)

> The last coupe of times I did this to my current
> distro things went a muck. Fortunate for me I
> saved my current kernel and was able to boot
> from it. I didn't have too much problems with
> previous distro when I built custom kernels
> with it. I was able to get a kernel update from
> anywhere and go to town with it.

RedHat is well-known for having an odd setup when  it comes to kernel
compilation, using symlinks and all manner of strange things. Took me a
few hours to work it all out first time I tried cmopiling a kernel
(which happened to be under RH5.2).

> I am basically "shopping" for a new distro.

If you can stand the installation routine which may seem a little old
and unconventional (installing a base system then configuring your main
apps from there), then you'll have no problems.

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Re: Looking for a package, but don't know what to call it

[Markus Fischer]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 02:53:18PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote : 
> Now, from any of those labs when you logon, you basically get
> connected automatically to naur.  All of the account info is (I presume)
> stored on naur as well.

This basically sounds like NIS (Network Information
System).

Markus

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RE: RE: Samba Setup

[Walter Williams]

Hello 

I setup and got Samba working with a Win95 machine.
Under the "My Computer" you right click on the item
you want to share and select "Sharing" from that
menu and set up the item for sharing. It's pretty
easy to understand. In the Control Panel, Network,
setup your you'r Windows system to have the same 
"Workgroup" name that you are in on your Linux system.
And give your Windows box a unique "Computer name".
Then you have to edit your samba.conf file on your 
Linux system according to the instructions. I was
able to edit most of this without looking at the 
instructions much, as most of the file samba.conf 
file is setup in a logical fashion. I used a text 
editor. You can even set up "your" Linux home 
directory as a share. Then when you login on 
Windows and click on "Network Neighborhood" 
you will have access to your home directory. 
You can even setup your home directory to be seen 
from "My Computer" be doing a little drive mapping.
FYI, you have to have your Windows network setup 
with an IP address and NetEUI for all this to work.

The thing I never did figure out how to do was to 
access the windows shares from Linux. This was 
because my wife started whining about how since
I setup a network that it was slowing down her
computer.

Well I hope this helps
Walt in Colorado


-Original Message-
From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 06 July, 2000 12:12 PM
To: Jay Kelly
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Samba Setup


Jay Kelly wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> I thought I would take a crack at Samba so I installed Samba. Now
> what do I need to do for my window98 clients to log in to samba? What
> change to my network setting will I need to make? Will my Primary Network
> Login be Microsoft Family or Client for Microsoft Networks? Do I need
> to change my Domain to point to Samba?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks
> Jay

I'm not sure how to set up Samba to function as a domain
controller, which your question implies you're trying to do.
However, if you're just trying to share out stuff, like hard
drives, folders, and printers, do the following.

You'll need to edit /etc/samba/smb.conf to "define" your
"shares"; with the comments sprinkled throughout, it's fairly
intuitive for the basics. (You can also use SWAT (apt-get install
swat) for a web-based configuration tool, but I've never had any
success with it.)

Then, IIRC, you'll need to run smbpasswd to assign a
username/password to the people you want to give access to.

Finally, on the Windows box, you would simply map a drive to
\\YourLinuxComputer'sName\TheShareDefinedInSmb.conf. Your logon
will probably need to be Client for Microsoft Networks, but I'm
not sure.

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Re: Mounting AFFS R/W?

[Lee Elliott]

Michael Fedrowitz wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 01:28:57 -0500, Alan wrote:
> 
>  Hi,
> 
> > The mount for the removable, even R/O, always fails with this message:
> >
> > mount -t affs -o ro /dev/sdc /mnt
>   ^
> 
> the partition number is missing (probably 1, though Zips like to use 4,
> just look what it says in the partition check).

I've found that MS-DOS formatted ZIP100s come in at 4 (/dev/sdb4) but my
AFFS ZIP100s come in at 1 (/dev/sdb1).  I think this is due to the
MS-DOS formatting command creating a logical partition in an extended
drive whereas my Amiga ZIP partitions are all primary partitions.

LeeE
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Re: Compaq ProLiant ML350

[Lee Elliott]

"A. Scott White" wrote:
> 
> Thanks to everyone who has helped me with this. I'm getting closer.
> 
> I compiled a 2.2.15 kernel with Compaq Smart Array2, placed it onto the
> Rescue floppy and ran the following rdev commands on the kernel image: The
> install can now see the controller and the 1 logical drive (YES).
> 
> rdev -R linux 1
> rdev -r linux 0
> rdev -v linux -1
> rdev linux /dev/ram0
> 
> However, I fear there is a problem with the kernel I compiled. I included
> all the features required by
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/doc/ch
> -boot-floppy-techinfo.en.html#s-rescue-replace-kernel but, after I select my
> Keyboard type, I get the message:
> 
> Can't write to temporary user settings file /tmp/keybd_settings.
> 
> I assume it means that it cannot write to the Ram Disk (it wouldn't try to
> write to the floppy, and the disk isn't even partitioned yet).
> 
> Any clues as to what's up? I think I'm pretty close.

Don't know here - IIRC identifying the keyboard is the second step in
the installation after setting colour or monochrome.  Disk partitioning
comes after that, and until the disk is partitioned and formatted, it
can't be used so the installation must have to use the ram disk.  It
shouldn't have any trouble writing to the ram disk but is, so I'd guess
that although it should be trying to write to the ram disk, it's
actually trying to write somewhere else and that's why it's erroring.

Can you try a df at this point, to see what filesystems are mounted and
where?  Permissions on /tmp ?  Can you create a file in /tmp ?

LeeE
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Re: Helix Gnome vs Debian Gnome -- worth the upgrade?

[Lee Elliott]

Kent West wrote:
> 
> Nathan E Norman wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:15:34PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> > > I tried to install HelixGNOME via the instructions for Debian on
> > > the helixcore website (lynx -source blah blah blah), and chose
> > > option 3 (full install), and it looked like everything was going
> > > fine, until I got a dependency error that libsound is apparently
> > > not available. I haven't been able to find this package anywhere
> > > .deb form, so I've just put HelixGNOME on the back burner for
> > > now.
> >
> > Erm, Helix supplies debs.  They work, too.
> >
> > # Helix GNOME
> > deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main
> > deb-src http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main
> >
> > --
> > Nathan Norman "Eschew Obfuscation"  Network Engineer
> > GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7http://home.midco.net/~nnorman/
> > Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73  8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7
> >
> >   -
> >Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature
> 
> My bad. Although I had the first line in my sources.list file,
> when I did the install gdm was installed, only it came up broken
> (explanation below). So I tried to use kdm to see what effect it
> had and it was broken, so I did an "apt-get install kdm", which
> then complained about the missing libsound package.
> 
> So like the idiot that I am, I added my "problem with Helix" to
> this discussion, not thinking straight enough to realize that my
> problem was with KDE, not Helix.
> 
> I reckon I need to get one of them "Stupid" signs to display.
> 
> So here's my real problem with Helix: when I run gdm, it brings
> up a gnome login screen that if I accept the default X session of
> Gnome, dumps me into a screen with a Gnome-ish file-browser-type
> window that is partially off the screen and with a Gnome Tips
> window. I can close the tips window, but I can't access the title
> bar of the file-browser to move it or close it, etc. There is not
> Gnome taskbar (with the "foot" and other icons), and clicking on
> bare desktop background doesn't bring up any pop-up menus, no
> matter which button I use. So it appears that the install is
> broken on my machine.
> 
> If anyone knows the solution, great; if not, no biggie; like I
> said, I've just put HelixGNOME on the back burner for now.

Sounds like there's no window manager running.  If I use the Gradient
theme for Sawmill, the Sawmill window manager eventually crashes out and
leaves all my windows in this state.  I can close them via the File
menu, if present.  What I do, apart from not using the Gradient theme,
is to select another window manager via the Gnome Control Centre, try
it, and revert back to Sawmill to restart it.  Mind you, I run a Gnome
session, so I still have the Gnome Panel when Sawmill crashes.

LeeE
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Re: Mustek 12000SP (SANE)

[Lee Elliott]

Lee Elliott wrote:
> 
> Sven Richter wrote:
> >
> > Hy,
> > I try to configure my MUSTEK 1200SP and
> >
> > "cat /proc/scsi/scsi"
> >
> > shows this
> >
> > Attached devices:
> > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
> >   Vendor: YAMAHA   Model: CRW8424S Rev: 1.0f
> >   Type:   CD-ROM   ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
> >   Vendor: SCANNER  Model:  Rev: 1.03
> >   Type:   Scanner  ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS
> >
> > but still - "scanimage -L" can't find a device.
> > Does anybody has any idea how to go on ??
> 
> I specified /dev/sg0 in the /etc/sane.d/epson.comf for my Epson
> GTX-5500.  A symlink to /dev/scanner should work though.  Check your
> /var/log/syslog after booting (with the scanner turned on) to check
> which /dev/sg to use.

I think your device should be /dev/sg5.  Check you have permissions to
it.  Also check that mustek hasn't been commented out of
/etc/sane.d/dll.conf

LeeE
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Re: Kernel Source Code [New User]

[Rogerio Brito]

On Jul 05 2000, Corey Popelier wrote:
> Umm, yes and no. Kernel 2.2.15-3 is patched against those
> vulnerabilities. 2.2.15-2 and previous are not.

Humm... Sorry... I wasn't refering to kernels from Debian
(and, to be honest, I don't use them), so I really don't know
(I only use stock kernels from Linus/Alan with a select set of
patches applied by hand like André Hedrick's and Reiser FS).

But thank you for your information. I guess that I'll have a
closer look to the ones distributed by Debian.

> From what I've read, 2.2.16 was kinda rushed, and 2.2.17 (once out
> of Pre) will be considered the better way to go.

Indeed. Alan Cox even talks about 2.2.17pre having better
stability than 2.2.16.


[]s, Roger...

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RE: Can't Write To Temporary User Settings Files During Install

[A. Scott White]

I hate to be a pain in the @ss, but if anyone could possibly help me with
this I would really appreciate it.

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
I compiled a new kernel that included Compaq Smart Array support. I ran the
following rdev files on it (I got these from looking at the rdev.sh file on
the rescue floppy):

rdev -R linux 1
rdev -r linux 0
rdev -v linux -1
rdev linux /dev/ram0

I then copied the kernel onto the rescue floppy.

The install runs (and recognizes my smart array controller). When the setup
scripts start, however, it asks me for my keyboard type. When I try to
select it, I get the error:

   Can't write to temporary user settings file
   /tmp/keybd_settings.

I assume it means that it cannot write to the RAM disk (it wouldn't try to
write to the floppy, and the hard drive isn't even partitioned yet).

Any clues as to what's up?

Thanks.


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

Re: RE: Samba Setup

[Mike Werner]

Walter Williams wrote:
> The thing I never did figure out how to do was to 
> access the windows shares from Linux. This was 
> because my wife started whining about how since
> I setup a network that it was slowing down her
> computer.

If the Windoze box is called winbox and the shared drive is C, then on the
Linux box to mount that share at the mount point /mnt/winc do (as root):
smbmount //winbox/c /mnt/winc
You'll then be prompted for a password.  If no password was specified on the
Windoze machine, just hit enter.  Otherwise enter the password.

This is presuming that the Windoze machine has an entry in the /etc/hosts
file on the Linux box.  Otherwise, the Windoze machine's hostname can be
replaced by its numeric IP.
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Re: exim question

[John Pearson]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:11:37PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote
> How can I use multiple domains with exim, eg both the domains domain.com
> and otherdomain.com run on a machine and I want this:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user foo
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user bar
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user hello
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user bar
> 

Here's how I do it.
The virtual hosts (www.mydomain.com, mail.mydomain.com)
all have 'A' records pointing to my mail/web server;
CNAME records don't work as well, because stupid mail
programs/systems put the CNAME host in the envelope.

My exim.conf contains (all single lines, however your mail client displays
them):

Main section:

local_domains = 
localhost:my.net.au:*.my.net.au:partial3-lsearch;/etc/exim/clients/domains


Directors:
A new director, to handle the virtual hosts:

virtual:
  driver = aliasfile
  except_domains = localhost:my.met.au:*.my.net.au
  domains = partial3-lsearch;/etc/exim/clients/domains
  no_more
  file = /etc/exim/clients/$domain_data
  search_type = lsearch*

All other directors have a line like

  domains = localhost:my.net.au:*.my.net.au

so that they aren't applied to the virtual hosts.

/etc/exim/clients/domains contains lines like

*.mydomain.com.au: mydomain

The second field is just an identifier, and for each
identifier there is another file, e.g., /etc/exim/clients/mydomain,
which works like a regular alias file, e.g.:

*: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

This setup is for virtual domains with three parts in their
domain name (e.g., *.mydomain.com.au); minor adjustment is
required if you use "American" style domains (e.g.,
*.somewhere.com), and you can mix them easily enough (with a
longer local_domains line and a further director).


HTH,


John P.
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RE: apache & php

[Wesley A. Wannemacher]

You need to specify a mime type for your
php docs.

on our server I have:

AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps

in the srm.conf

Wes


Wesley A. Wannemacher
Instructor, Network Administrator
Northwestern College
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



-Original Message-
From: Allan Andersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 12:26 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: apache & php


Hi,

I'm trying to install apache and php - all of it
seems to be installed correct and works ok. But
when I try to load the site it would like to download
the page instead of viewing it. Any ideas ?

Best Regards
Allan

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[Todd Suess]

Howdy Folks,

I tried to do a dist-upgrade about 3 or 4 days ago, and I got the
following
messages, which are still happening today.

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  alsa-base libasound1 
The following packages have been kept back
  kdeadmin kdebase kdegames kdegraphics kdenetwork kdeutils kdm
sced 
1 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not
upgraded.
Need to get 43.8kB/83.4kB of archives. After unpacking 152kB will be
used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Get:1
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org
woody/main alsa-base 0.5.8a-4 [20.8kB]
Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org woody/main alsa-base 0.5.8a-4
  Unable to fetch file, server said '/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/sound/
alsa-base_0.5.8a-4.deb: No such file or directory.  '
Get:2 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org woody/main anacron 2.3-1 [23.0kB]
Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org woody/main anacron 2.3-1
  Unable to fetch file, server said '/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/admin
/anacron_2.3-1.deb: No such file or directory.  '
Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/sound
/alsa-base_0.5.8a-4.deb
  Unable to fetch file, server said '/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/sound/
alsa-base_0.5.8a-4.deb: No such file or directory.  '
Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/admin/
anacron_2.3-1.deb
  Unable to fetch file, server said '/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/admin/
anacron_2.3-1.deb: No such file or directory.  '
blackhole:~# 

These files seem to be nowhere to be found in the debian file base, anyone else running into this
also?  Apparently the database has the above versions of the files, but the files themselves have
been misplaced, etc.
and if I do a apt-get install libasound1 I get the above message about alsa-base, so I guess libasound1
is part of alsa-base or something, not really sure what is going on.

Any clues?

Todd


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Quake2 debs?

[Eric Gillespie, Jr.]

Where can i find quake2 debs for unstable? I remember using debs once
before, but i can't find any now (except for 2.0, which don't work).

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Problems with Apt-get dist-upgrade.

[Todd Suess]

Howdy Folks,

I tried to do a dist-upgrade about 3 or 4 days ago, and I got the following
messages, which are still happening today.

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  alsa-base libasound1
The following packages have been kept back
  kdeadmin kdebase kdegames kdegraphics kdenetwork kdeutils kdm sced
1 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
Need to get 43.8kB/83.4kB of archives. After unpacking 152kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org woody/main alsa-base 0.5.8a-4 [20.8kB]
Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org woody/main alsa-base 0.5.8a-4
  Unable to fetch file, server said 
'/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/sound/

alsa-base_0.5.8a-4.deb: No such file or directory.  '
Get:2 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org woody/main anacron 2.3-1 [23.0kB]
Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org woody/main anacron 2.3-1
  Unable to fetch file, server said 
'/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/admin

/anacron_2.3-1.deb: No such file or directory.  '
Failed to fetch 
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/sound

/alsa-base_0.5.8a-4.deb
  Unable to fetch file, server said 
'/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/sound/

alsa-base_0.5.8a-4.deb: No such file or directory.  '
Failed to fetch 
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/admin/

anacron_2.3-1.deb
  Unable to fetch file, server said 
'/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/admin/

anacron_2.3-1.deb: No such file or directory.  '
blackhole:~#

These files seem to be nowhere to be found in the debian file base, anyone 
else running into this
also?  Apparently the database has the above versions of the files, but the 
files themselves have

been misplaced, etc.
and if I do a apt-get install libasound1 I get the above message about 
alsa-base, so I guess libasound1

is part of alsa-base or something, not really sure what is going on.

Any clues?

Todd 

Upgrade to woody

[Jay Kelly]

Hi Guys,
What should the /etc/apt/sources.list point so I can upgrade from 
slink to woody?
thanks

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Re: Securing telnet

[John Galt]

http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html

On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Sven Burgener wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 01:23:49PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> 
> > I'd also look into ssh clients for Windows.  I know there are Java
> > clients available.
> 
> I can recommend TeraTerm with the SSH extension for this. Forgot the
> link, search on google.com for it.
> 
> Cheers
> 

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Control of relaying on local domains

[andreas palsson]

Hello.

I'm using Listar as mailinglistsmanager on a Slink system, and I had to
modify 'exim.conf' a little to allow relaying from Listar:

---
#sender_host_reject_relay = *
sender_net_accept_relay = 127.0.0.1/32
---

This works fine now, but I'm little concerned about security.

Have I opened a hole here?
Is it better to use the actual IP of the machine instead of localhost?

Any ideas or comments are much appreciated.
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bad package install help!!

[Nick]

hello list:

recently i tried to install ipmasqadm from a tar

i ran into some dependency issues and decided to look for a deb
i couldn't so i turned a rpm into a deb w/ alien

the problem i have now is that the ipmasqadm.deb package will not install 
properly because of my previous attempt of installing the tar.  I have 
tried to remove all the link and folders, but can't get it to install 
right.  I look good, no errors, but it doesn't create the folders or 
/sbin/application.


How do i force an install with dpkg?
also, where can i see if i had errors?

Re: Offering external services, rlogins, smtp etc: how does it work?

[Mark Phillips]

Andrew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:56:11AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Suppose for example you want to allow exteral rlogins to your
> > computer.  I presume you modify the inetd.conf file to include the line:
> > 
> > login stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.rlogind
> 
> Aaarrgh!  Not the dreaded r-services!  Don't allow them.  Shut them
> off.  They are evil, and a great source of amusement to all
> crackers.  Use ssh, or telnet, if you must (although that's just as
> risky).

I've heard it said that rlogin has security problems, but I don't
understand why?  And surely if there are problems, these would be
fixable?  Isn't Debian supposed to be extra security fix aware?

Now you say to use ssh or telnet, but then say this is just as risky!
Why not use rlogin if it is no more risky than the alternatives?

The point is that I need to offer the functionality of rlogin.  When I
am elsewhere and I want to do a remote login to my machine, then I
need rlogin or some equivalent.  If rlogin is currently insecure, why
don't people make it secure?  What makes it so hard?

Mark.

P.S. Please cc all replies to me as I read this list via the archives,
involving a delay of a few days.

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help on telnetd problem

[zhaoway]

I cannot telnet to my system, neither
remotely or locally, see below:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp1 ~ $ telnet localhost
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
telnetd: getpty: Permission denied
.
Connection closed by foreign host.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp1 ~ $ cat hosts.allow
ALL: LOCAL
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp1 ~ $ cat /etc/hosts.deny 
ALL: PARANOID
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp1 ~ $ cat /etc/inetd.conf|grep telnet
telnet  stream  tcp nowait  telnetd.telnetd /usr/sbin/tcpd 
/usr/sbin/in.telnetd
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp1 ~ $

Please help! TIA! Please Cc: me!

Re: help on telnetd problem

[YeMa]

I have met same problem, 555


zhaoway wrote:

> I cannot telnet to my system, neither
> remotely or locally, see below:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp1 ~ $ telnet localhost
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> telnetd: getpty: Permission denied
> .
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp1 ~ $ cat hosts.allow
> ALL: LOCAL
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp1 ~ $ cat /etc/hosts.deny
> ALL: PARANOID
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp1 ~ $ cat /etc/inetd.conf|grep telnet
> telnet  stream  tcp nowait  telnetd.telnetd /usr/sbin/tcpd
> /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp1 ~ $
>
> Please help! TIA! Please Cc: me!
>
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Re: Offering external services, rlogins, smtp etc: how does it work?

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Andrew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > Aaarrgh!  Not the dreaded r-services!  Don't allow them.  Shut them
> > off.  They are evil, and a great source of amusement to all
> > crackers.  Use ssh, or telnet, if you must (although that's just as
> > risky).

> Now you say to use ssh or telnet, but then say this is just as risky!
> Why not use rlogin if it is no more risky than the alternatives?

I think Andrew  was only referring to telnet.   It sends your password
in clear text over the net.

> The point is that I need to offer the functionality of rlogin.  When I
> am elsewhere and I want to do a remote login to my machine, then I
> need rlogin or some equivalent.  If rlogin is currently insecure, why
> don't people make it secure?  What makes it so hard?

I'm not sure, but think the main insecurity of rlogin (and sisters) is
that these send everything in clear text.  Depending on your situation
this may be a security risk.  Any known security holes should be fixed
in the deb.  Holes and risks are not quite the same, I guess.

If you need rlogin functionality, install ssh and slogin, scp or ssh
instead of rlogin, rcp and rsh.
-- 
Olaf Meeuwissen   Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

dropping support for cvsweb in debian

[Joey Hess]

Hi, I'm the maintainer of the cvsweb package for Debian.

Since I took on maintaining cvsweb, I have fixed about 10 very stupid
bugs. Several of these could be security holes. Cvsweb is great in
concept, but the implementation is quite lacking. The design is such
that I expect security holes and stupid bugs will contine to crop up
unless a fuill rewrite is done.

Luckily, we have such a rewrite. It's called viewcvs and is already a
part of debian unstable. I've been playing around with it for a few
hours, and it is a near exact clone of cvsweb's user interface, and
seems to not be vulnerable to any of the problems I've found in cvsweb.

So I'm thinking about dropping cvsweb from Debian unstable entirely.
Viewcvs could then Replace it. 

I'd like to know what any interested parties feel about this plan.

-- 
see shy jo

Re: scp alternative

[John Pearson]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:09:06PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:50:40AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> > I've been using scp to copy the files from my production web server to my
> > hosting companies web server. scp works well except that there is no way to
> > prevent it coping files that already are up to date, and also, it requires a
> > password every time.
> > Is there a better alternative? My remote server does not allow rsync,
> > although they say they will in the future.
> 
> you can use rsync over ssh, it requires nothing from the server except
> a working sshd (which it obviously has)
> 
> rsync --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh 
> 

Not meaning to be a killjoy, but it also requires that the rsync
binary be available on the remote machine.


John P.
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menuconfig won't start

[Philipp Schulte]

Hello,
I just wanted to get a new kernel for my Debian-Potato. I downloaded
2.2.16 and wanted to configure it but menuconfig aborts with this
message:

nepomuk:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
make -C scripts/lxdialog all
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog'
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -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
nepomuk:/usr/src/linux#

It seems like "curses.h" is misssing. Does anyone know why this
happens and how it can be solved?
Thanks a lot,
Phil

Re: menuconfig won't start

[ktb]

Philipp Schulte wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I just wanted to get a new kernel for my Debian-Potato. I downloaded
> 2.2.16 and wanted to configure it but menuconfig aborts with this
> message:
> 
> nepomuk:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig
> rm -f include/asm
> ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
> make -C scripts/lxdialog all
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog'
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -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
> nepomuk:/usr/src/linux#
> 
> It seems like "curses.h" is misssing. Does anyone know why this
> happens and how it can be solved?
> Thanks a lot,
> Phil


I did a "dpkg -S curses.h" and it looks like on my Slink system the file
is in "libncurses4-dev"  I would install that.
hth,
kent

Re: Tekram DC310U? Re: Advansys 3940UA Ultra-SCSI controller recommended?

[John Pearson]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 02:15:10PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> I can get a Tekram DC310U PCI Ultra-SCSI controller (based on the
> Symbios Logic SYM53C860 SCSI-3 Chip) for the same price as
> the Advansys 3940UA.  It uses the sym53c8xx.o driver.
> 
> Should I go for that instead?
> 

I don't know, but I've used a couple and they worked fine for me.


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Re: Kernel question

[Jeronimo Pellegrini]

:: On Thu, 06 Jul 2000 21:22:06 +0300, Heikki Vatiainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
said:

> In my experience, it is. The laptop I'm using has a 2.4.0-test3
> kernel and the machine at home,

Where did you get a "2.4.0-test3" kernel? The last one I saw was
test2.. There was also a "test2-ac22", in Alan's directory, but I
found no test3 anywhere...

Was that a typo, or did I not really find the (actually existent)
test3 kernel?

Thanks, 
J.

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anyone know ipmasqadm

[Nick]

anyone know how to setup ipmasqadm?
so far i got a hold of a rpm package and aliened it

installed it and i have problems using it.

no man
no ipmasqadm utiliy

what gives?

anyone know of a deb that works???

RE: RE: Samba Setup

[CHEONG, Shu Yang \(Patrick\)]

That's easy..i.e. viewing and accessing a Windows 95/98/NT share from a
Linux box. Use smbclient or smbmount. For example, say you have a shared
directory on the M$ Windows box ("c:\My Documents" on the computer
"Windoze"), on your Linux box, execute the following to make sure the share
is available for either viewing/ accessing or mounting:

> smbclient -U% -L windoze

I can't quite recall how the output screen looks like (since I am writing
this using a M$ Windoze program...yup would you believe it! The company
which I work for does not allow any other OS! [EMAIL PROTECTED]&) but it should 
show you
the the available shares on Windoze and also the names of other computers on
the same subnet (domain?).

To access the shared directory (similar to using ftp) issue the following
command:

> smbclient "//windoze/My Documents" -U username(Note the inverted
commas as the path includes a space)

You will be prompted for a password:

> Password:

Type in the corresponding password for the user username.

You should then see the smb prompt:

smb>

The commands should be similar to ftp commands.

If you want to skip the password step, execute the following:

> smbclient "//windoze/My Documents" -U username -P password

But this allows someone overlooking you shopulder to view your password in
clear text (which is why I prefer the latter without the -P).

For mounting a smb share, execute the following:

> smbmount -o username=username,password=password "//windoze/My Documents"
/mount point/

To check that the mount was successful, do a:
> df -h

I use this quite frequently in my previous company for performing backup of
Windoze boxes to Linux boxes using Samba!


Patrick Cheong

E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



> -Original Message-
> From: Walter Williams [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 3:23 AM
> To:   Debian ListServer (E-mail)
> Subject:  RE: RE: Samba Setup
> 
> Hello 
> 
> I setup and got Samba working with a Win95 machine.
> Under the "My Computer" you right click on the item
> you want to share and select "Sharing" from that
> menu and set up the item for sharing. It's pretty
> easy to understand. In the Control Panel, Network,
> setup your you'r Windows system to have the same 
> "Workgroup" name that you are in on your Linux system.
> And give your Windows box a unique "Computer name".
> Then you have to edit your samba.conf file on your 
> Linux system according to the instructions. I was
> able to edit most of this without looking at the 
> instructions much, as most of the file samba.conf 
> file is setup in a logical fashion. I used a text 
> editor. You can even set up "your" Linux home 
> directory as a share. Then when you login on 
> Windows and click on "Network Neighborhood" 
> you will have access to your home directory. 
> You can even setup your home directory to be seen 
> from "My Computer" be doing a little drive mapping.
> FYI, you have to have your Windows network setup 
> with an IP address and NetEUI for all this to work.
> 
> The thing I never did figure out how to do was to 
> access the windows shares from Linux. This was 
> because my wife started whining about how since
> I setup a network that it was slowing down her
> computer.
> 
> Well I hope this helps
> Walt in Colorado
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, 06 July, 2000 12:12 PM
> To: Jay Kelly
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Samba Setup
> 
> 
> Jay Kelly wrote:
> > 
> > Hello All,
> > I thought I would take a crack at Samba so I installed Samba. Now
> > what do I need to do for my window98 clients to log in to samba? What
> > change to my network setting will I need to make? Will my Primary
> Network
> > Login be Microsoft Family or Client for Microsoft Networks? Do I need
> > to change my Domain to point to Samba?
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > Thanks
> > Jay
> 
> I'm not sure how to set up Samba to function as a domain
> controller, which your question implies you're trying to do.
> However, if you're just trying to share out stuff, like hard
> drives, folders, and printers, do the following.
> 
> You'll need to edit /etc/samba/smb.conf to "define" your
> "shares"; with the comments sprinkled throughout, it's fairly
> intuitive for the basics. (You can also use SWAT (apt-get install
> swat) for a web-based configuration tool, but I've never had any
> success with it.)
> 
> Then, IIRC, you'll need to run smbpasswd to assign a
> username/password to the people you want to give access to.
> 
> Finally, on the Windows box, you would simply map a drive to
> \\YourLinuxComputer'sName\TheShareDefinedInSmb.conf. Your logon
> will probably need to be Client for Microsoft Networks, but I'm
> not sure.
> 
> -- 
> Kent West
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Kernel bugs in 2.2.x

[Dragon]

I've just read from http://geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/35/150/3977992
Alan Cox admitted that there are faults in 2.2.x VM, that would affect
transaction at high load.

I'm developing a database server on Debian which is presently upgraded to
woody, and the kernel is 2.2.x. The result of this development project
would affect my company's impression on Linux as a whole. Had it failed,
my company would forget adopting Linux forever.

Since it's too late to rollback to slink, can I just recompile the
2.0.3.x kernel on this already-upgraded-server and left the packages in
woody distribution untouch?

Please kindly advise. Your advise would save the future of Linux here.

Thanks.

Dragon

Re: Kernel bugs in 2.2.x

[Ben Collins]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 09:32:51AM +0800, Dragon wrote:
> I've just read from http://geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/35/150/3977992
> Alan Cox admitted that there are faults in 2.2.x VM, that would affect
> transaction at high load.
> 
> I'm developing a database server on Debian which is presently upgraded to
> woody, and the kernel is 2.2.x. The result of this development project
> would affect my company's impression on Linux as a whole. Had it failed,
> my company would forget adopting Linux forever.
> 
> Since it's too late to rollback to slink, can I just recompile the
> 2.0.3.x kernel on this already-upgraded-server and left the packages in
> woody distribution untouch?

You would actually be better off checking some of Andrea's VM patches.
2.0.x isn't even comparable to 2.2.x's speed, even if the VM is more
stable.

Ben

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Re: Looking for a package, but don't know what to call it

[Mike Werner]

Markus Fischer wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 02:53:18PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote : 
> > Now, from any of those labs when you logon, you basically get
> > connected automatically to naur.  All of the account info is (I presume)
> > stored on naur as well.
> 
>   This basically sounds like NIS (Network Information
> System).

It does seem to be what I was looking for ... thanks for the pointer.  Now
I've another question - how in the hell does this thing work?!?  The docs
that come with the package are a joke.  I've read and reread the NIS-HOWTO a
number of times now to no avail.  Everything seems to be running, but I just
can *not* figure out how to get my laptop (the NIS client) to realize that
the login I'm trying to do is over on the desktop box (the NIS server).  I
went through and did the adduser on the desktop, did the diddling with
/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow as per the HOWTO, but the laptop still gives me
the Login incorrect message every time.  I'm not even seeing an attempt at
network traffic from the laptop when I try and login.

Anyone here ever gotten NIS working?  I sure can't.
-- 
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  |  "As far from Redmond as possible!"
'91 GS500E|
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IPMasq problems

[Daniel Free]

	ipmasq: In my flat my k6 200 running debian 2.2 is the firewall/gateway 
box. dialing up with a 33k modem etc. I have installed the package ipmasq 
and it worked sweetly.
the only problem i have is on the client machines (1 or 2 windows depending 
on the day and 1 or 2 linux also depnding) napster wont download. ppl can 
download from the clients through the firewall without a problem and have 
been doing so, however when we try top get a file (un copyrighted clasical 
music of course) it will start stop retry and the say its unavailable.
I am also unsure as to what logs i would be looking in for entries about 
what is happening here, any assitance would be great.

Apach mod_include

[Daniel Free]

One of the web servers here (Debian 2.2 apache 1.3 (i think) ) has a perl 
script/cgi that is a basic text counter. we have had it running on previous 
servers but i cant seem to get it running on this one.
the script requires mod_include which i have uncommented in 
/etc/apache/httpd.conf and then done a /etc/init.d/apache restart. all to 
no avail. i have made a small page to test if it works and it hasnt so far. 
page consists of



this is the counter 








Which should give at least a little output to let me know its working, 
unfortunately it doesnt.

XFS

[Oki DZ]

Hi,

SGI says that XFS is a 64-bit journaling filesystem.
So basically XFS can't be used on Pentiums.
I'm missing something, right...?

Oki

Re: anyone know ipmasqadm

[Bob Nielsen]

ipmasqadm is contained in the Debian netbase package (for potato, at
least).

On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 05:58:50PM -0700, Nick wrote:
> anyone know how to setup ipmasqadm?
> so far i got a hold of a rpm package and aliened it
> 
> installed it and i have problems using it.
> 
> no man
> no ipmasqadm utiliy
> 
> what gives?
> 
> anyone know of a deb that works???

-- 
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Making my own /etc/init.d/local and setting up links

[Mark Phillips]

Debian really should automatically set up for you, a /etc/init.d/local
file with all the appropriate links to /etc/rc*, but it doesn't.

So I want to set up my own.  But I'm a bit unsure about what links I
should put where.  Can anyone tell me?

Thanks,

Mark.

P.S. Please cc replies to me as I read this list via the archives, so
there is a few days delay.

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Re: Apach mod_include

[Daniel Free]

What doesn't output? If just the counter doesn't output it would be because
your path to the cgi-bin had the leading slash so it is an absolute path.
Have you made sure that the script executable and the log file or whatever
it is that the script uses is writable?



is the part that should give some output regardless of the script (its an 
include type html thing tthat should disply the environment paramaters

Apache default configuration?

[Chris R. Martin]

I've installed Apache 1.3.9-13.1 (from frozen)

I can access the default page from my windoze box, but any other page 
(including the links on the default page) gives 403 Forbidden. I've check 
and all the directories and files should be world accessible.


Why is the debian package configured like this by default? How can I set it 
up so it works "normally" ?


Thanks
Chris Martin
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Setting up network

[maynord]

Dear Debian Friends:

I am working on converting several machines running W95 to a Debian 
system running Helix-Gnome. My plan is to use Samba to talk to the 
existing NT server. However, I am unsure as to what the best tool is for 

network configuration.  Some Linux distributions use linuxconf or 
netcfg. Is there such a tool in Debian?  Or should I just edit the 
network, hosts, and ifconfig files?  

Also, I often find it necessary to use ctrl-alt-f1 to open a virtual 
terminal and do some work.  I can never get back to the Gnome desktop.  
Any way to do that without shutting down X?

I very much appreciate any suggestions!

Robert

Re: Broken mime handling in netscape

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 03:05:21AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:

> Has anybody worked out a way to get netscape's mime handling to work
> reliably and consistently? I'm getting sick of the following problem,
> and I'm sure I can't be alone.
> 
> Currently, every time I click on a link to a plain text file, netscape
> downloads the text file and then seems to throw the result away. From
> what I've worked out in the past, this seems to be caused by the
> text/plain entries in /etc/mailcap - at least, if I go and delete
> those entries things start to work again. This is annoying, as things
> seem to work fine most of the time and I'm not sure it's deterministic
> - I haven't run an upgrade on this machine in a while, but as far as I
> can tell it's _just_ started happening again.
> 
> I suppose my question is - where is the bug? Is it netscape,
> mime-support, or the packages using mime-support. And, more
> importantly, how can I work around this so I don't have to do it
> again!?!

This is a question for debian-user (followups there please).

Netscape should have an entry under Navigator*Applications like so:

Description: Plain Text
MIMEType: text/plain
Suffixes: txt,text

Handled by: Navigator

Sounds like maybe it got removed.

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 - mdz

laptop & dhcp

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

we got a few dell laptops with pcmcia ethernet and are trying to get it to
work with dhcp

the one with potato on it seems to launch dhcp every *other*
time. apparently the pcmcia tools are calling the dhcp client by itself
but its curious that it only does it every other time..

anyone else had this prob? running a fresh potato install as of
tonight(9th)

nate

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Re: Setting up network

[Mike Werner]

maynord wrote:

> Also, I often find it necessary to use ctrl-alt-f1 to open a virtual 
> terminal and do some work.  I can never get back to the Gnome desktop.  
> Any way to do that without shutting down X?

You should be able to switch back to X by hitting alt-f7 (presuming you've
not enabled more VT's than what comes stock).  Having said that, is there a
particular reason you don't just use an xterm (or rxvt or eterm or ...)?
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Re: Making my own /etc/init.d/local and setting up links

[Bob Nielsen]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 11:27:10AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Debian really should automatically set up for you, a /etc/init.d/local
> file with all the appropriate links to /etc/rc*, but it doesn't.
> 
> So I want to set up my own.  But I'm a bit unsure about what links I
> should put where.  Can anyone tell me?


Actually Debian can do this for you:

(as root)

update-rc.d local defaults


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