Re: HW for UPS

[Bill]

Slightly OT. I recently bought a MGE Pulsar Ellipse, the software it is 
certified to
work with Debian 2.0, I have it working with Slink (though the cfg app 
segfaults,
manually edited the config files). The software requires libc5 and ncurses3. I
haven't put it completely through its paces though in Linux (did in Windows), 
but it
seems to work.
You could check the UPS howto it has the results of selected models connected to
Linux boxes, but it is old.
Bill

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> Does someone know which UPS hardware could be used with the debian
> ups packet.
>
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(solved) Re: simple dhcp questions...

[Jonathan Lupa]

Thanks for the help!

For the record, to get it to work I had to do 2 things...
1. Add an entry in my ipchains rules to allow broadcast input over
eth0 to pass through. (I had been previously dumping them since they
seemed suspect).

2. Move all references in the dhcp.conf from freindly names to numeric
names, as well as explicitely placing each one in the host section
(the "globals" weren't working for whatever reason).

Took me a while, but persistance prevailed. :)  Thanks again

Jonathan

On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 04:09:25PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> That is weird. The option routers line is indeed supposed to set the default
> gateway. This works fine for me.

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Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

[Ethan Benson]

On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 11:43:44PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> Suppose I want to dis-able the three fingered salute. Is it sufficient to
> simply comment out this line in /etc/inittab:
> 
> # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.
> ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now

i am uncertain what control-alt-delete will do if you comment this
out, it might revert to DOS/Windows behaviour of rebooting the machine
uncleanly...

> or should another command be substituted for /sbin/shutdown, and if so, which
> one?

echo root > /etc/shutdown.allow

and leave inittab alone.

that way control-alt-delete will only work if root is logged into the
console. (that is what the -a switch to shutdown does) 

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Re: What drive is the dir on ?

[Rogerio Brito]

On Jul 08 2000, Charlie Kroeger wrote:
> Does this mean the 2.2 kernel isn't confined to the 8gig limit of
> the earlier generations?

If this limit does exist, nobody told my kernel about it. :-)
Seriously, though, I have a 12GB partition in this system
where I'm composing this message.


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Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

i like to remap ctrl-alt-del to go to runlevel 1,

i set:

ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/init 1

i find it quite useful if something in startup hangs i can just go
straight to runlevel 1 or if something crashes i can go there easily too,
much faster then a reboot for me(it takes my machine a full 2 minutes from
power on to stat to boot linux)

nate

On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Bob Bernstein wrote:

poobah >Suppose I want to dis-able the three fingered salute. Is it sufficient 
to
poobah >simply comment out this line in /etc/inittab:
poobah >
poobah ># What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.
poobah >ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
poobah >
poobah >or should another command be substituted for /sbin/shutdown, and if so, 
which
poobah >one?
poobah >
poobah >
poobah >--
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Toshiba Satellite T1910CS notebook

[Tony Laszlo]

The following is advice for anyone who runs 
into the syslinux problem (rescue disk doesn't 
boot, computer screen displays "boot failed") 
when trying to install a Debian installation 
from floppies (maybe some other distributions, 
as well). The machine here is a Toshiba 
Satellite T1910CS, 486, 110M HD, 8MB ram . 

1) Download resc1400.bin from Debian via ftp. 

2) dd that file to a floppy. 

3) mount the floppy and copy the files named 
"linux" (kernel) and "root.bin" (ramdisk image) 
to a local hard disk or some other medium. 
I understand that some people prefer to use 
mtools for this task. I just mounted the floppy 
as msdos and copied the files out that way.   

4) dd "linux" to a floppy. dd "root.bin" to 
the same floppy using an offset of 720 or so, e.g., 
dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k seek=720
(for a floppy disk at /dev/fd0 . the value for 
seek needs to be a bit larger than the size of 
the kernel file being installed). 

5) use the rdev command as follows: 
rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0
rdev -r /dev/fd0 49872

*** The resulting floppy will boot the 
machine you are trying to install Debian to. 
You will be asked to insert a root disk. 
Here you just hit the return key and 
follow the instructions for the first 
part of the installation. 
When you are asked for the driver disk 
you put a floppy which contains drv1400.bin 
(also from Debian via ftp). 
You may have to enter /dev/fd0/ if asked 
by the program where the device driver 
is. 

*** Note: Things should proceed from here 
without problem except for one important 
point. When you attempt to install the 
"base" files (from Devian via ftp) via 
nfs, hard disk, floppy, etc., you will be 
asked to insert "the rescue disk" in the floppy 
drive to start up the process. Here, the 
program is looking for files in resc1400.bin 
other than "linux" or "ramdisk". In order to 
satisfy the program and move on to the next 
step in the installation, you have to insert 
a floppy which has the downloaded resc1400.bin 
dd 'ed to it (one that most people can boot 
from in the first place - with syslinux in it). 
Once you do that you can move on. 

In all you will need a regular rescue disk, 
a stripped rescue disk (w/ kernel and ramdisk 
files, prepared w/ redev), a driver disk and 
persistence. 

Tony Laszlo, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jiyugaoka, Tokyo

Toshiba Satellite T1910CS notebook - preferred version?

[Tony Laszlo]

I am trying to install Debian on a Toshiba 
Satellite T1910CS, 486, 110M HD, 8MB ram . 
I won't be running X and will just need to 
use: vim, pine (+fetchmail/sendmail), 
lynx, ftp, telnet and pcmcia and parallel 
port modules. 

Have gone through the installation steps from 
floppy to the point where the system boots 
from the hard disk. Next, I need to get an 
Corega EtherII PCC-T ethernet card working 
in order to point dselect to the Packages.gz 
on the debian ftp or www site. 

My questions: 

* In accordance with advice from someone who 
had installed Linux on one of these beasts, 
I chose Debian 2.0 distribution (/dists/Debian-2.0/). 
Is this the preferred version for this machine and 
these needs? 

* while uname -a shows that the kernel running 
is 2.0.36, somehow modules are 2.0.34 . I tried 
to insmod pcmcia.o , etc. and got an error message 
that the modules don't machine the kernel. 
How could this happen and what's the best way to 
reinstall so it doesn't happen or fix the problem 
without reinstalling? 

* To see what would happen, I downloaded the 
pcmcia-modules deb file (2.0.36) from the Debian-2.0 
site (copying it over to the Toshiba via floppies). 
This I was able to install with dpkg -i ; so, while 
the modules are 2.0.34, there are two sets of pcmcia 
modules, 2.0.34 and 2.0.36 . 
The Ethernet card requires pcnet_cs.0 so I entered 
the necessary lines in /etc/pcmcia/config and started 
pcmcia with "/etc/init.d/pcmcia start" (I have this 
card working on a Linux box that runs with Turbolinux 
[quite similar to Redhat]). On the Toshiba w/ Debian 
it's not perfect yet, but the card is being recognized, 
at least partially. 
Anything else I need to do? Does the network need to 
be configured before the card will be recognized 
properly? 

* Finally, I downloaded the kernel source from 
/Debian-2.0/ and tried dpkg -i. It seems that I 
need to install binutils first, or at the same time. 
Anything else needed before I can recompile the 
kernel? bin86, maybe? kernel headers of some kind? 

Thanks!  

Tony Laszlo
Jiyugaoka, Tokyo

dhcp network

[kirby]

I am trying to hook up my new Linux box, running 
Storm2000 to my  existing network. There already is a router (Linksys 
BEFSR41) used to connect my DSL modem to the network and act as a fire wall. 
Could you please tell me how to set the Debian Linux to get the IP address 
dynamically from my router. 
 
Thank You
Steve

Swat too slow

[Willi Dyck]

Hi List,

it is not really a problem, but when I call swat from a windows client,
it takes a very long time
til I get an answer. (3-5 min.). After this time I can use swat
normally.
Can anyone help me?
thanx

Re: What drive is the dir on ?

[Lehel Bernadt]

On 08-Jul-2000 Charlie Kroeger wrote:
>>If you're running a recent 2.2.x kernel and you still have one
>>of those partitions empty, 
> 
> Does this mean the 2.2 kernel isn't confined to the 8gig limit of the
> earlier generations?

What ??? 8 GB limit in the kernel ? Huh..
The 8 GB limit applies only to (mostly real mode) applications that are using
the BIOS INT13 interface for hard disk access. Since the linux kernel
communicates directly with the HD controller, there's no such limitation. The 8
GB problem is mostly a problem for boot-loaders (eg. lilo), beacuse they have to
use the bios to load the kernel (so the kernel must be under 8g). Recent
versions of lilo however can access the HD beyond 8 GB too.

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

[Lehel Bernadt]

On 09-Jul-2000 Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 11:43:44PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
>> Suppose I want to dis-able the three fingered salute. Is it sufficient to
>> simply comment out this line in /etc/inittab:
>> 
>> # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.
>> ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
> 
> i am uncertain what control-alt-delete will do if you comment this
> out, it might revert to DOS/Windows behaviour of rebooting the machine
> uncleanly...

No, it certainly won't. When this line is commented out, ctr-alt-del does
nothing. 

Re: networking questions

[Waldemar Brodkorb]

Am Sam, 08 Jul 2000 schrieb Franco Cone:
> Howdy!
> 
>I have a few networking questions..hope you guys won't mind :) I have 2
> networked machines (win98 & debian GNU) as of this moment using ethernet
> 10baseT cat 5 connected to a hub. My questions are:
> 
>   1.how do I let win98 see the debian box thru network neighborhood?
>   2.how do I make debian see win98? I don't thinks there's network
> neighborhood for debian..is there?

I don't know if there's a deb for, but test linneighborhood
--> freshmeat

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Linux rulez!

Solution: Re: "apropos" won't stop

[Philipp Schulte]

On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 05:34:58PM +0200, Philipp Schulte wrote:

> if I start "apropos [some command]" apropos just won't stop writing
> what it found on the STDOUT. Seems like a loop, I have to terminate
> it.
> "whatis" works fine. What might be the problem here?

I found some old posting in Deja. Reinstalling "man-db" created a new
index and now it works fine.

Re: older packages

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

You can try out ftpsearch.lycos.com. I always find lots of outdated Debian
mirrors with old packages there.

Kind Regards,

Stephan Hachinger

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> Where can I find older debian (woody) packages?
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Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

[Neuro]

Hi,
actualy, it depends on how your distrib is configured: sometimes, it does
nothing, sometimes, it reboots cleanly your computer. There's a file to
change but I don't remember which one.


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From: Lehel Bernadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: begone ctrlaltdel!


>
> On 09-Jul-2000 Ethan Benson wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 11:43:44PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> >> Suppose I want to dis-able the three fingered salute. Is it sufficient
to
> >> simply comment out this line in /etc/inittab:
> >>
> >> # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.
> >> ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
> >
> > i am uncertain what control-alt-delete will do if you comment this
> > out, it might revert to DOS/Windows behaviour of rebooting the machine
> > uncleanly...
>
> No, it certainly won't. When this line is commented out, ctr-alt-del does
> nothing.
>
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Re: Cant find bzImage

[Frank Barknecht]

Jay Kelly hat gesagt: // Jay Kelly wrote:

> I am upgrading my kernel from 2.2.12 to 2.2.15 and after selecting the
> option I want, I type 
> make dep;make clean;make bzImage;make modules;make modules_install
> then it starts to compile and when its done I cant find the bzImage.
> I looked in the /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot but nothing. What am
> I missing here ? I installed bin86. Oh yeah Im running potato if 
> that helps.

I would recommend to explore the beautiful world of make-kpkg delivered
as part of kernel-package:

$ apt-get install kernel-package

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Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

[Bob Bernstein]

On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 01:33:42PM +0300, Lehel Bernadt wrote:

> On 09-Jul-2000 Ethan Benson wrote:

> > i am uncertain what control-alt-delete will do if you comment this
> > out, it might revert to DOS/Windows behaviour of rebooting the machine
> > uncleanly...
> 
> No, it certainly won't. When this line is commented out, ctr-alt-del does
> nothing. 

I am finding the latter to be correct here. The '-a' arg to shutdown strikes
me as not very useful, since the presence of a root login will circumvent
whatever is in /etc/shutdown.allow. It would seem to me that it is precisely
_when_ root is logged in that an inadvertant or unauthorized ctrlaltdel
reboot would be most unwelcome.

I suppose the moral of the story is, "Don't leave root logins unattended."
(But wouldn't it be simpler to have, as a possible line in
/etc/shutdown.allow, "none"?)

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file permissions in /var/log

[Sven Burgener]

Hi all

What should be the permissions of the log files located in /var/log?
Where could I find out such a thing if something has changed
unexpectedly / unintendedly?

I am unsure because I think I *might* have changed some permissions 
with my logrotate.conf.

This is what I have currently:

# ls -lR /var/log

/var/log:
total 3376
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 Jun  4 12:07 apache
-rw-r-1 root adm218944 Jul  9 17:55 auth.log
-rw-r--r--1 root root   450626 Jul  9 17:31 daemon.log
-rw-r--r--1 root root   183661 Jul  5 00:07 debug
-rw-r--r--1 root root 3604 Jul  9 11:31 dmesg
drwxr-xr-x2 mail mail 1024 Jul  7 08:20 exim
-rw-r--r--1 root root24192 Jul  9 17:55 faillog
-rw-r--r--1 root root   578067 Jul  9 11:32 kern.log
drwxr-xr-x2 root root20480 Jul  9 11:32 ksymoops
-rw-rw-r--1 root utmp   294336 Jul  9 17:55 lastlog
-rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jun  3 17:46 lpr.log
-rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jun  3 17:46 mail.err
-rw-r--r--1 root root10994 Jun 10 12:38 mail.info
-rw-r--r--1 root root10994 Jun 10 12:38 mail.log
-rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jun  3 17:46 mail.warn
-rw-rw-r--1 root utmp   181920 Jul  9 17:51 messages
-rw-r--r--1 root root99798 Jul  4 08:08 messages.1.gz
-rw-r--r--1 root root27027 Jul  9 11:37 nmb
-rw---1 root root0 Jun  3 19:45 ppp-connect-errors
-rw-r-1 root adm  4786 Jul  7 08:21 setuid.changes
-rw-r-1 root adm  4786 Jul  6 08:21 setuid.changes.0
-rw-r-1 root adm   703 Jul  5 08:21 setuid.changes.1.gz
-rw-r-1 root adm   702 Jul  4 08:21 setuid.changes.2.gz
-rw-r-1 root adm   705 Jun 30 08:21 setuid.changes.3.gz
-rw-r-1 root adm 22428 Jun 29 19:21 setuid.changes.4.gz
-rw-r-1 root adm37 Jun 29 19:21 setuid.changes.5.gz
-rw-r-1 root root   372715 Jul  7 08:21 setuid.today
-rw-r-1 root root   372715 Jul  6 08:21 setuid.yesterday
-rw-r--r--1 root root   105913 Jul  9 12:46 smb
-rw-r-1 root adm111830 Jul  9 17:44 syslog
-rw-r-1 root adm 41605 Jul  7 08:20 syslog.0
-rw-r-1 root adm  6434 Jul  6 08:20 syslog.1.gz
-rw-r-1 root adm 11561 Jul  5 08:20 syslog.2.gz
-rw-r-1 root adm75 Jul  4 08:21 syslog.3.gz
-rw-r-1 root adm  5394 Jun 30 08:20 syslog.4.gz
-rw-r-1 root adm 22469 Jul  4 08:21 syslog.5.gz
-rw-r--r--1 root root   29 Jul  3 20:28 user.log
-rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jun  3 17:46 uucp.log
-rw-rw-r--1 root utmp   467328 Jul  9 17:55 wtmp
-rw-rw-r--1 root utmp60426 Jul  4 07:33 wtmp.1.gz

/var/log/apache:
total 320
-rw-r--r--1 root root   291873 Jul  9 15:43 access.log
-rw-r--r--1 root root29995 Jul  9 11:32 error.log

/var/log/exim:
total 299
-rw-r-1 mail mail   168534 Jul  9 17:07 mainlog
-rw-r-1 mail mail81212 Jul  7 08:20 mainlog.0
-rw-r-1 mail mail 9446 Jul  6 08:20 mainlog.1.gz
-rw-r-1 mail mail11360 Jul  5 08:20 mainlog.2.gz
-rw-r-1 mail mail17933 Jul  4 07:30 mainlog.3.gz
-rw-r-1 mail mail  185 Jul  4 08:20 mainlog.4.gz
-rw-r-1 mail mail0 Jul  7 08:20 paniclog
-rw-r-1 mail mail0 Jul  6 08:20 paniclog.0
-rw-r-1 mail mail   31 Jul  5 08:20 paniclog.1.gz
-rw-r-1 mail mail  269 Jul  4 19:25 paniclog.2.gz
-rw-r-1 mail mail   31 Jun 30 08:20 paniclog.3.gz
-rw-r-1 mail mail   31 Jun 29 19:20 paniclog.4.gz
-rw-r-1 mail mail  218 Jun 10 14:10 paniclog.5.gz
-rw-r-1 mail mail0 Jul  7 08:20 rejectlog
-rw-r-1 mail mail0 Jul  6 08:20 rejectlog.0
-rw-r-1 mail mail   32 Jul  5 08:20 rejectlog.1.gz
-rw-r-1 mail mail   32 Jul  4 08:20 rejectlog.2.gz
-rw-r-1 mail mail   32 Jun 30 08:20 rejectlog.3.gz
-rw-r-1 mail mail   32 Jun 29 19:20 rejectlog.4.gz
-rw-r-1 mail mail  366 Jun 11 18:31 rejectlog.5.gz

/var/log/ksymoops:
total 3898
[snipped]
-rw-r--r--1 root root39986 Jul  9 13:31 2709133147.ksyms
-rw-r--r--1 root root  718 Jul  9 13:31 2709133147.modules

Sorry for this being so long.

Thank you
Sven
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Re: Cant find bzImage

[Chris Gray]

On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 08:39:57PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote:
> Hello all,
> I am upgrading my kernel from 2.2.12 to 2.2.15 and after selecting the

First of all, get the patch from 2.2.15 to 2.2.16 if you're connected to
the internet.  There are security risks with 2.2.15.

> option I want, I type 
> make dep;make clean;make bzImage;make modules;make modules_install
> then it starts to compile and when its done I cant find the bzImage.

Instead of doing it all on one command line, just simply do a make dep;
make clean; make bzImage.  I'll bet there's an error that's getting
covered up by the make modules; make modules_install.  Better yet, put
&& between all the make statements so that the whole process will stop
after the first error.

Cheers,
Chris

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Re: Cant find bzImage

[Christopher Splinter]

* Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> First of all, get the patch from 2.2.15 to 2.2.16 if you're
> connected to the internet.  There are security risks with
> 2.2.15.

email to fax

[Chris Mason]

Can anyone suggest an automate way to route all the email sent to one email
address to be faxed to one fax machine. The purpose is to allow orders taken
by email to be automatically faxed to a store that does not have email.

Chris Mason
Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies
Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463
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Floppy/NFS Install Problem

[Michael Boyd]

Hello,

I am trying to install debian from floppies on 2 old 486 machines.  I can't 
use a CD as neither of them have drives.  The floppies are ok as I have 
managed to install the base system ok on one machine.  The other is an old 
Intel machine at least 10 years old.  It has a SCSI card and 1MB disk and no 
IDE connectors.  When I try to install the base system from the same 
floppies I get right through the installation until it tries to install the 
system from base2_1.tgz but then does nothing.  I suspect the SCSI hard disk 
may be on the way out as it sometimes hangs when initialising the 
partitions, I can't test this easily due to the lack of IDE connectors.


In case the floppy drive is suspect I have tried to use the NFS option to 
install base2_1.tgz from the other 486.  When I enter Gamma:/home/mike as 
the path it generates an error message.  I installed the NFS module on both 
the machines.  If anyone can help I would be grateful.  If not, the machine 
may get binned!


I have tried using the floppies on 50+ occasions.  The installation has 
worked on one occasion but I made a mess of the partitioning scheme so had 
to start again.


TIA

Mike

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Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bob Bernstein  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am finding the latter to be correct here. The '-a' arg to shutdown strikes
>me as not very useful, since the presence of a root login will circumvent
>whatever is in /etc/shutdown.allow. It would seem to me that it is precisely
>_when_ root is logged in that an inadvertant or unauthorized ctrlaltdel
>reboot would be most unwelcome.

But.. you have an open root shell! That someone presses ctrl-alt-del is
the least of your worries, they could simply enter "shutdown -r now".
Or "rm -rf /". Or "echo 'toor::0:0::/:" >> /etc/passwd. Or 

>I suppose the moral of the story is, "Don't leave root logins unattended."
>(But wouldn't it be simpler to have, as a possible line in
>/etc/shutdown.allow, "none"?)

Simply don't use the -a switch then.

Mike.

RE: Debian Printing Again

[R. D. Loga]

I just installed the ljet4 driver for my printer and used magicfilterconfig
to do it.  I think you mean modconf rather than modconfig and you should not
have to do anything with it if you already had another printer working.  If
this is your first printer, you might have to use the command modconf and
select misc drivers, then the lp and parport_pc modules.  That's what I had
to do to make printing work on kernel 2.2.12.

-Original Message-
From:   Bob Nielsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:   Saturday, July 08, 2000 2:42 PM
To: Jay Kelly
Cc: Debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:Re: Debian Printing Again

I don't know what modconfig is, but if you select the ljet4 filter in
magicfilterconfig, that should work with this printer, according to the
database at www.linuxprinting.org.

On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 12:13:42PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote:
> Hello Group,
> I was reading the list on printers and thought I would try to setup my
> Xerox DocuPrint 4508 Laser Printer. I installed magicfilter and as
> before it wanted me reconfigure the printcap. So I ran magicfilterconfig
> but I had no idea what input filter to use. Also do I need to recompile
> or should I use the modconfig. I have never used modconfig and have
> no idea how to start it. Any suggestions ???


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Xfree Mode Switching?

[Ethan Pierce]

I was wondering how to make X switch resolutions.  I was told ctrl-alt-+
should work but it doesnt for me.  Do I need to have xnest installed?  Any
ideas would be appreciated!  Thanks -Ethan

Re: Xfree Mode Switching?

[Mike Werner]

Ethan Pierce wrote:
> I was wondering how to make X switch resolutions.  I was told ctrl-alt-+
> should work but it doesnt for me.  Do I need to have xnest installed?  Any
> ideas would be appreciated!  Thanks -Ethan

Make sure that you are using the correct + key.  The one at the right end of
the row above the letters won't work.  You *must* use the + and - that are
on the numeric keypad.  It *does* make a difference.
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Re: Debian Printing Again

[Jay Kelly]

Hello,
This will be the first time I have installed a printer on the machine.
I ran Modconf and didnt see anything for a printer. All I see is
Ipv4 and net drivers. What am I doing wrong ? I am running potato
but I dont think that should make a difference.
Thanks

On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 12:44:56PM -0500, R. D. Loga wrote:
> I just installed the ljet4 driver for my printer and used magicfilterconfig
> to do it.  I think you mean modconf rather than modconfig and you should not
> have to do anything with it if you already had another printer working.  If
> this is your first printer, you might have to use the command modconf and
> select misc drivers, then the lp and parport_pc modules.  That's what I had
> to do to make printing work on kernel 2.2.12.
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Bob Nielsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 2:42 PM
> To:   Jay Kelly
> Cc:   Debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject:  Re: Debian Printing Again
> 
> I don't know what modconfig is, but if you select the ljet4 filter in
> magicfilterconfig, that should work with this printer, according to the
> database at www.linuxprinting.org.
> 
> On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 12:13:42PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote:
> > Hello Group,
> > I was reading the list on printers and thought I would try to setup my
> > Xerox DocuPrint 4508 Laser Printer. I installed magicfilter and as
> > before it wanted me reconfigure the printcap. So I ran magicfilterconfig
> > but I had no idea what input filter to use. Also do I need to recompile
> > or should I use the modconfig. I have never used modconfig and have
> > no idea how to start it. Any suggestions ???
> 
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Re: Xfree Mode Switching?

[ktb]

Mike Werner wrote:
> 
> Ethan Pierce wrote:
> > I was wondering how to make X switch resolutions.  I was told ctrl-alt-+
> > should work but it doesnt for me.  Do I need to have xnest installed?  Any
> > ideas would be appreciated!  Thanks -Ethan
> 
> Make sure that you are using the correct + key.  The one at the right end of
> the row above the letters won't work.  You *must* use the + and - that are
> on the numeric keypad.  It *does* make a difference.

If that doesn't work for you make sure you in fact have different
resolutions to switch to in your /etc/XF86Config file.
hth,
kent

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

[Bob Bernstein]

On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 05:45:42PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:


> But.. you have an open root shell! That someone presses ctrl-alt-del is
> the least of your worries, they could simply enter "shutdown -r now".
> Or "rm -rf /". Or "echo 'toor::0:0::/:" >> /etc/passwd. Or 

I guess I had in the mind a scenario wherein someone, apparently with their
back to a terminal, could in about two seconds twist around, hit ctrlaltdel,
and twist back with an innocent look on their face and their arms folded
across their chest. The other commands, above, would take some time.


> >I suppose the moral of the story is, "Don't leave root logins unattended."
> >(But wouldn't it be simpler to have, as a possible line in
> >/etc/shutdown.allow, "none"?)
> 
> Simply don't use the -a switch then.

I had in mind 'none' in the sense of "no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del." Without
the -a switch it's available to everyone. (Am I missing something here?)

Quite apart from all this, any user who knows the path '/sbin/shutdown' can
execute it, at least with the permissions shutdown has by default.
Eliminating this kind of possibility was the reason I started looking into
the ctrlaltdel business. Which brings me to ask, is there a reason shutdown
has -rwxr-xr-x perms?

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Re: email to fax

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

On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 12:49:26 -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> Can anyone suggest an automate way to route all the email sent to one
> email address to be faxed to one fax machine. The purpose is to allow
> orders taken by email to be automatically faxed to a store that does not
> have email.

Intercept the mail on delivery using procmail and feed it to one of the fax
sending programs (mgetty-fax, hylafax or efax).

HTH,
Ray
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modem driver for linux

[Isma Abdi]

I run linux redhat 6.2 as gnome work station.
I have on board "rockwell HCF 56 k data fax PCI  modem"
Is that compatible with my red hat linux 6.2?
I appriciate you rhelp.

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Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bob Bernstein  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >(But wouldn't it be simpler to have, as a possible line in
>> >/etc/shutdown.allow, "none"?)
>> 
>> Simply don't use the -a switch then.
>
>I had in mind 'none' in the sense of "no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del." Without
>the -a switch it's available to everyone. (Am I missing something here?)

Ok, in that case, simply comment out the shutdown line in /etc/inittab

>Quite apart from all this, any user who knows the path '/sbin/shutdown' can
>execute it, at least with the permissions shutdown has by default.
>Eliminating this kind of possibility was the reason I started looking into
>the ctrlaltdel business. Which brings me to ask, is there a reason shutdown
>has -rwxr-xr-x perms?

Why not ? If you aren't root you can execute it but it won't
do anything useful..

Mike.

Re: older packages

[Bruce Sass]

have a look at:

http or ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian-archive/

- Bruce

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> - Original Message -
> From: "Marcin Kurc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Where can I find older debian (woody) packages?

ssh and extended keys

[Dave Sherohman]

I've got two machines here and frequently hop between them with ssh.  When I
open a terminal window (Eterm or xterm) on one and ssh to the other, home,
end, and the numeric keypad don't work.  If I open another term window from
within the ssh connection, they work just fine.

How can I get ssh to pass the extended key codes cleanly when invoked from
the command line within an [Ex]term?

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Re: Font corruption under X

[kmself]

On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 09:51:19PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote:
> Rogerio Brito wrote:
> > On Jul 08 2000, Mike Werner wrote:
> > > Looks like that's it, alright.  I just popped my case to
> > > double-check, and I am indeed using an S3 Virge/DX vid card with the
> > > SVGA server.  ::sigh::
> > 
> > Is there any reason why you don't use the specialized xserver
> > for your card? The package is xserver-s3v (not to be confused
> > with xserver-s3). I have installed that one for a customer and
> > he doesn't seem to have those problems (I went to your page to
> > see the corruption).
> 
> Well, I had considered that server.  But when I saw this ...



> Description: X server for S3 ViRGE and ViRGE/VX-based graphics cards
>  xserver-s3v is an 8-bit PseudoColor and 16-bit TrueColor X server suitable
>  for use with S3 ViRGE and ViRGE/VX graphic accelerator boards. In most cases
>  use of this X server is deprecated in favor of the SVGA X server.
> 
> ... that last line got me to use the SVGA server instead.  However, between
> the realization that since I pretty much know that the SVGA server is the
> cause of my troubles it most certainly can't hurt to try and your
> recommendation, I am now downloading the xserver-s3v package as I type this.

I've had a number of problems with the SVGA driver on my own ViRGE/VX
card, documented in the nether depths of comp.os.linux.*.  Followups
from others indicated that even with identically specified cards, some
worked with the SVGA driver, some required the S3 driver.

Go figure.

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Using modconf

[Jay Kelly]

Hello All,
I wanted to use modconf to add printer support to my potato box,
but when I run it all that is in there is net options. How do
I add more module options ? Is this down though the kernel ? 
And if so what do I need add to the kernel for printer support ?
Thanks Guys 
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Using Netmeeting thought a Debian Firewall

[Jay Kelly]

Will NetMeeting work thought a firewall or will I need to port
the box to let it out. If I reme\mber right in the past I was able to
send video out but not receive it for the other side. Anyone haveany
ideas to fix this ? And what port will I need to open if this is the case ?
Thanks Guys
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Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

[Ethan Benson]

On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 03:13:11PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> 
> I had in mind 'none' in the sense of "no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del." Without
> the -a switch it's available to everyone. (Am I missing something here?)

you could put one of the system account names in /etc/shutdown.allow
say bin who cannot login anyway.  but if commenting out the inittab
line is the same as disabling control-alt-delete that would work just
as well.

> Quite apart from all this, any user who knows the path '/sbin/shutdown' can
> execute it, at least with the permissions shutdown has by default.
> Eliminating this kind of possibility was the reason I started looking into
> the ctrlaltdel business. Which brings me to ask, is there a reason shutdown
> has -rwxr-xr-x perms?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ /sbin/shutdown -r now
shutdown: must be root.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$

so long as a program does not have any s bits set thier is no
advanatage to restricting its permissions.  afterall anyone can
download the sysvinit .deb, extract the shutdown program and execute
it with the same permission as my above example.  

(if you want to see something interesting though try this: fakeroot
/sbin/shutdown -r now)

the only time restricting program permissions is worthwhile is when
there are s bits set or perhaps in the case of the compiler (which is
more difficult to install into the users' userland.) for the compiler
one should change permissions on /usr/lib/gcc as well.

it is also debian policy that all binaries have 0755 permissions when
non-suid for the above reason, and suid binaries must have world read
permission at a minimum (no 4111 or 4711 type permissions) again for
the same reason, anyone can get and read the file out of a .deb.  

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Re: file permissions in /var/log

[Ethan Benson]

On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 06:01:08PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> What should be the permissions of the log files located in /var/log?
> Where could I find out such a thing if something has changed
> unexpectedly / unintendedly?
> 
> I am unsure because I think I *might* have changed some permissions 
> with my logrotate.conf.

most logrotation scripts set the permissions to 640 (-rw-r-)
root.adm, but oddly enough after an initial install most log files
have 644 root.root permissions until the logrotations get done.  

640 root.adm is correct IMO for most log files, wtmp, utmp, btmp,
lastlog, dmesg are exceptions to this.  (dmesg since anyone get can
that info anyway) any users who should be allowed to read logs are
added to group adm.  

one thing to watch for is your apache logs, by default the apache cron
job will chown them to www-data.www-data mode 664, this is *wrong*
they should be root.root 644 or root.adm 640 (depending on your
preference) apache.org states that log files should not be owned by
the user apache runs as. (otherwise anyone who is allowed to have cgi
can tamper with your logs) 

> This is what I have currently:
> 
> # ls -lR /var/log
> 
> /var/log:
> total 3376
> drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 Jun  4 12:07 apache
> -rw-r-1 root adm218944 Jul  9 17:55 auth.log
> -rw-r--r--1 root root   450626 Jul  9 17:31 daemon.log
> -rw-r--r--1 root root   183661 Jul  5 00:07 debug

640 root.adm IMO

> -rw-r--r--1 root root 3604 Jul  9 11:31 dmesg

this is fine since anyone can run dmesg.

> drwxr-xr-x2 mail mail 1024 Jul  7 08:20 exim

don't know anything about exim, but i don't like the looks of that.

> -rw-r--r--1 root root24192 Jul  9 17:55 faillog

i am not quite sure who uses this file, the failed logins message you
get when you login comes from btmp iirc.

> -rw-r--r--1 root root   578067 Jul  9 11:32 kern.log

640 root.adm IMO

> drwxr-xr-x2 root root20480 Jul  9 11:32 ksymoops

i would change permission on the ksymoops directory to 750, i have
seen alot of mode 0666 files created in there.  

> -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp   294336 Jul  9 17:55 lastlog

correct

> -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jun  3 17:46 lpr.log
> -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jun  3 17:46 mail.err
> -rw-r--r--1 root root10994 Jun 10 12:38 mail.info
> -rw-r--r--1 root root10994 Jun 10 12:38 mail.log
> -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jun  3 17:46 mail.warn

640 root.adm IMO

> -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp   181920 Jul  9 17:51 messages

this is wrong, should be 640 root.adm.  

> -rw-r--r--1 root root99798 Jul  4 08:08 messages.1.gz
> -rw-r--r--1 root root27027 Jul  9 11:37 nmb

640 root.adm IMO

> -rw---1 root root0 Jun  3 19:45 ppp-connect-errors

good, your ppp password could find its way in there.

> -rw-r-1 root adm  4786 Jul  7 08:21 setuid.changes
> -rw-r-1 root adm  4786 Jul  6 08:21 setuid.changes.0
> -rw-r-1 root adm   703 Jul  5 08:21 setuid.changes.1.gz
> -rw-r-1 root adm   702 Jul  4 08:21 setuid.changes.2.gz
> -rw-r-1 root adm   705 Jun 30 08:21 setuid.changes.3.gz
> -rw-r-1 root adm 22428 Jun 29 19:21 setuid.changes.4.gz
> -rw-r-1 root adm37 Jun 29 19:21 setuid.changes.5.gz
> -rw-r-1 root root   372715 Jul  7 08:21 setuid.today
> -rw-r-1 root root   372715 Jul  6 08:21 setuid.yesterday

good

> -rw-r--r--1 root root   105913 Jul  9 12:46 smb

root.adm 640 IMO.

> -rw-r-1 root adm111830 Jul  9 17:44 syslog
> -rw-r-1 root adm 41605 Jul  7 08:20 syslog.0
> -rw-r-1 root adm  6434 Jul  6 08:20 syslog.1.gz
> -rw-r-1 root adm 11561 Jul  5 08:20 syslog.2.gz
> -rw-r-1 root adm75 Jul  4 08:21 syslog.3.gz
> -rw-r-1 root adm  5394 Jun 30 08:20 syslog.4.gz
> -rw-r-1 root adm 22469 Jul  4 08:21 syslog.5.gz

good

> -rw-r--r--1 root root   29 Jul  3 20:28 user.log

i have never had anything logged to user.log so this may be fine, mine
are root.adm 640 though.

> -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jun  3 17:46 uucp.log

root.adm 640.

> -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp   467328 Jul  9 17:55 wtmp
> -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp60426 Jul  4 07:33 wtmp.1.gz

good.

> /var/log/apache:
> total 320
> -rw-r--r--1 root root   291873 Jul  9 15:43 access.log
> -rw-r--r--1 root root29995 Jul  9 11:32 error.log

good, don't let this get changed to www-data, see
/etc/apache/cron.conf (iirc) and set CHOWN_LOG_FILES=0  (or something
like that)

> /var/log/exim:
> total 299
> -

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

[Bob Bernstein]

On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 08:27:20PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

> >Which brings me to ask, is there a reason shutdown
> >has -rwxr-xr-x perms?
> 
> Why not ? If you aren't root you can execute it but it won't
> do anything useful..

Ummm...yup. And with that I have met my quota for dumb questions this week!!


Thanks.

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reboots while backing up

[zdrysdal]

Hi all

I have a new server which has 2 scsi tapes attched to it and a backup
package called "sitback" which uses the common tar/cpio commands to
facilitate backups.  I am using it to back up database files on a AIX
system which has it's files shared through samba.  To access the files i
use the command "mount -t smbfs //aixserver/share /mountpoint".

5 minutes into the backup... the backup server reboots!!!  why is this
happening??  I have checked the messages, syslog files but they do not
contain any relevant info related to the reboot.

Perhaps I need a better backup package, or perhaps backing up samba shares
is not a good idea.

Any ideas???

thanx

Zane

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

[Peter Palfrader]

Hi!

On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, Bob Bernstein wrote:

> I suppose the moral of the story is, "Don't leave root logins unattended."
> (But wouldn't it be simpler to have, as a possible line in
> /etc/shutdown.allow, "none"?)

May I quote the man page[1]?
 

[...]
If shutdown is called with the -a argument  (add
this  to  the  invocation of shutdown in /etc/inittab), it
checks to see if the file /etc/shutdown.allow is  present.

It  then  compares  the  login names in that file with the
list of people that are logged in  on  a  virtual  console
(from  /var/run/utmp).  Only  if  one  of those authorized
users or root is logged in, it will proceed. []

So, why put none, or bin or anything it, if what counts is
the mere existense of the file. And if root is logged in,
shutdown always succeds.

Just my EUR 0.0.2

yours,
peter

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Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

[Mike Werner]

Bob Bernstein wrote:

> I had in mind 'none' in the sense of "no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del." Without
> the -a switch it's available to everyone. (Am I missing something here?)

In other words you want to completely disable the Ctrl-Alt-Del combo?  I'm
not sure if this would work, but perhaps changing:

ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now

to

ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/bin/false

or something like that?  Or perhaps replace /bin/false with the path to a
shell script that put saomething like:
Permission denied!  Go away!
onto stdout.
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Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

[Bob Bernstein]

On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 01:35:12PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:

> (if you want to see something interesting though try this: fakeroot
> /sbin/shutdown -r now)

The hard drive spun, a beep was emitted, and the process ground to a
stunning halt. I am deciphering the error messages now.  All kidding
aside, that is an educational exercise in the present context.

> it is also debian policy that all binaries have 0755 permissions when
> non-suid for the above reason, and suid binaries must have world read
> permission at a minimum (no 4111 or 4711 type permissions) again for
> the same reason, anyone can get and read the file out of a .deb.  

Thanks. Much light shed. This list is the *best*.


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Re: reboots while backing up

[Ron Rademaker]

I just checked, sitback isn't in woody... is it a debian package??

Anyway, is it a script?? If it is, I guess you add some commands to see
where it reboots... (I would do this by adding echo lines).

Ron Rademaker

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I have a new server which has 2 scsi tapes attched to it and a backup
> package called "sitback" which uses the common tar/cpio commands to
> facilitate backups.  I am using it to back up database files on a AIX
> system which has it's files shared through samba.  To access the files i
> use the command "mount -t smbfs //aixserver/share /mountpoint".
> 
> 5 minutes into the backup... the backup server reboots!!!  why is this
> happening??  I have checked the messages, syslog files but they do not
> contain any relevant info related to the reboot.
> 
> Perhaps I need a better backup package, or perhaps backing up samba shares
> is not a good idea.
> 
> Any ideas???
> 
> thanx
> 
> Zane
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Floppy/NFS Install Problem

[Michael Boyd]

> I am trying to install debian from floppies on 2 old 486 machines.  I 
can't

> use a CD as neither of them have drives.  The floppies are ok as I have
> managed to install the base system ok on one machine.  The other is an 
old
> Intel machine at least 10 years old.  It has a SCSI card and 1MB disk 
and no

  ^
If this is not a typo then you can forget about using this box until you
get more HD space, it takes 40M to install Slink (Debian 2.1).



It is a typo. I meant 1 GB.  The annoying thing is that if I hadn't mesed up 
the partitioning when the installation worked I wouldn't be in this mess.  I 
was hoping the NFS option would be a solution, or at least identify if the 
problem is due to the floppy drive.  It isn't the floppies themselves as 
they worked when installing on the other machine.  Anyone know what I did 
wrong when trying the NFS option?  The path I quoted earlier is where I had 
stored the base2_1.tgz file.


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Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

[Ron Rademaker]

I changed my line to

ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/bin/echo "Won't work"

(The line echo outputs is changed different, but means the same, it's
dutch..)

Ron Rademaker

On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Mike Werner wrote:

> Bob Bernstein wrote:
> 
> > I had in mind 'none' in the sense of "no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del." Without
> > the -a switch it's available to everyone. (Am I missing something here?)
> 
> In other words you want to completely disable the Ctrl-Alt-Del combo?  I'm
> not sure if this would work, but perhaps changing:
> 
> ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
> 
> to
> 
> ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/bin/false
> 
> or something like that?  Or perhaps replace /bin/false with the path to a
> shell script that put saomething like:
> Permission denied!  Go away!
> onto stdout.
> -- 
> Mike Werner  KA8YSD   |  "Where do you want to go today?"
>   |  "As far from Redmond as possible!"
> '91 GS500E|
> Morgantown WV |  Only dead fish go with the flow.
> 
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Re: email to fax

[Chris Hellberg]

Chris Mason wrote:
> 
> Can anyone suggest an automate way to route all the email sent to one email
> address to be faxed to one fax machine. The purpose is to allow orders taken
> by email to be automatically faxed to a store that does not have email.
> 

You could set up an alias on the email server that you are sending the
message to that pipes the message to a daemon or process which is the
fax server and extracts the number from say the subject line and faxes
it on. This is pretty much what we do at work except on a large scale so
we use a database for each order and depending on the destination media
(fax or email) the table is looked up then sent to the appropriate local
alias.



Chris Hellberg

Re: reboots while backing up

[zdrysdal]

It is for no specific distribution : sitback is only available as a source
tar-ball that uses Gnu automake/autoconf.






Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10/07/2000 12:49:29

To:   Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic Labs/64
cc:   debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  Re: reboots while backing up




I just checked, sitback isn't in woody... is it a debian package??

Anyway, is it a script?? If it is, I guess you add some commands to see
where it reboots... (I would do this by adding echo lines).

Ron Rademaker

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I have a new server which has 2 scsi tapes attched to it and a backup
> package called "sitback" which uses the common tar/cpio commands to
> facilitate backups.  I am using it to back up database files on a AIX
> system which has it's files shared through samba.  To access the files i
> use the command "mount -t smbfs //aixserver/share /mountpoint".
>
> 5 minutes into the backup... the backup server reboots!!!  why is this
> happening??  I have checked the messages, syslog files but they do not
> contain any relevant info related to the reboot.
>
> Perhaps I need a better backup package, or perhaps backing up samba
shares
> is not a good idea.
>
> Any ideas???
>
> thanx
>
> Zane
>
>
>
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Re: reboots while backing up

[zdrysdal]

you can get it from "http://www.mrbean.dk/sitback";

i can backup the local /usr directory fine which is about 660MB but it
reboots when it tries to backup an AIX samba shared directory of about 2Gig
worth.  Weird. Pperhaps i should try nfs sharing the AIX directory instead
of samba sharing it.






Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10/07/2000 13:36:01

To:   Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic Labs/64
cc:
Subject:  Re: reboots while backing up




Where can you get it??

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> It is for no specific distribution : sitback is only available as a
source
> tar-ball that uses Gnu automake/autoconf.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10/07/2000 12:49:29
>
> To:   Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic Labs/64
> cc:   debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject:  Re: reboots while backing up
>
>
>
>
> I just checked, sitback isn't in woody... is it a debian package??
>
> Anyway, is it a script?? If it is, I guess you add some commands to see
> where it reboots... (I would do this by adding echo lines).
>
> Ron Rademaker
>
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > I have a new server which has 2 scsi tapes attched to it and a backup
> > package called "sitback" which uses the common tar/cpio commands to
> > facilitate backups.  I am using it to back up database files on a AIX
> > system which has it's files shared through samba.  To access the files
i
> > use the command "mount -t smbfs //aixserver/share /mountpoint".
> >
> > 5 minutes into the backup... the backup server reboots!!!  why is this
> > happening??  I have checked the messages, syslog files but they do not
> > contain any relevant info related to the reboot.
> >
> > Perhaps I need a better backup package, or perhaps backing up samba
> shares
> > is not a good idea.
> >
> > Any ideas???
> >
> > thanx
> >
> > Zane
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> /dev/null
> >
>
>
>
>
>

Emacs ps-print-buffer omits a line

[Nick Willson]

Just a minor problem I've experienced with printing from Emacs.  Perhaps I've 
misconfigured, please let me know if so.  Details
below.  Thanks.

Nick


Packages: emacs20 20.5a-1.99, emacs20-el 20.5a-1.99, emacsen-common 1.4.8, 
lprng 3.5.2-2, gs 5.10-9.1.  Kernel is 2.2.14.  Printer is an Epson Stylus 
Color 440.

Here is printcap entry: 
>>
lp440
:lp=/dev/lp0
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp
:af=/var/log/lp-acct
:if=/var/spool/lpd/epson440-hires
:lf=/var/log/lp-errs
:mx#0
:sh
<<

Here is epson440-hires:
>>
#!/bin/sh

gs -q @stc_h.upp -sOutputFile=- -

exit 0
<<

Here is the problem:

The default ps-font-size is pretty small at 8.5 points portrait. So I 
increased it to 10 - much nicer.  Except that on page 1/2, line 62 is omitted 
(all but a thin slice along the top).  Page 2/2 begins with line 63.

A workaround:

A couple of changes to defaults have fixed it for me: ps-header-lines from 2 
to 1 and ps-header-offset from 28.346456692913385 to 14.  This prints 64 lines 
on page 1 and page 2 starts at line 65 - much better.

ethernet card

[Michael Soulier]

Hey guys. My apologies if this is really basic, but I'm having a problem
getting Debian to detect my new Soho PCI ethernet card on boot. What's the
proper module name that I need to configure for this card, or how can I find
out?

Thanks,

Mike

-- 
Michael P. Soulier, 1Z22, SKY  Tel: 613-765-4699 (ESN: 39-54699)
Optical Networks, Nortel Networks, SDE Pegasus
"...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount
of nerd-like effort."  -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX
Nortel Linux User's Group Ottawa: (internal) http://nlug.ca.nortel.com:8080

checksecurity script

[Mathew Johnston]

The script checksecurity which creates the setuid.* log file and is
distributed with cron doesnt have a whole lot of documentation.  How
does it log? Can it be made to log through syslog?

Also, I'd love to see this distrubuted in it's own package, so that it
may be build upon further to do md5 checksums and stuff.   Maybe some
mechanism to store logs on remote servers?  Log via syslog and then have
the syslog box have some daemon to share the said logs?

I mean, I'd write some tcl or perl script to do this maybe.  Just
wondering what sorta info is out there about the package so far.  Altho,
maybe since tripwire is open it'd be better to leave the checksum stuff
to it :)

Mathew Johnston

laplink for dos

[pca]

do you have the laplink for dos ?
you can send me ?
i am from Brasil and my inglish is no good
sorry an tank you very much

Paulo
Brasil

RE: samba Passwords

[CHEONG, Shu Yang \(Patrick\)]

I have always found SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool) to be very
handy when it comes to managing your smb.conf and smbpasswd. Give it a
try


Cheers.

Patrick

My apologies to the person who coined this but I LIKE IT...

Where do you want to go today?
Far, far away from Redmond.
Dead fish go with the flow of the river.

> -Original Message-
> From: Jay Kelly [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 7:39 AM
> To:   debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject:  samba Passwords
> 
> Hello Group,
> Well thanks to the list I got Samba working for the most part.
> It seems I didnt have the smb.conf configured right. I have a shared 
> directory that I can access fine but when I try to access the
> /home/user directory I am promt for a password. I then enter
> the password but it fails. I looked in the smbpasswd file but its
> empty. So I tried "smbpasswd neutec" but after entering the pass I
> receive an error that it failed to add it. So my first question is
> how to add new users to Samba ? And I read somewhere that if I want to
> share a CD-Rom I will need to add something to the fstab file. What
> do I need to add there ? I cant find the man page on this. And for
> my last question, Does anyone know where I can get some info on
> setting up Samba as a Domain Controller?
> Thanks again guys for all your help.
> Its been great
> Jay
> -- 
> 
> It feels so good, It's a marginal risk, when I clear off windows with
> fdisk  
> 
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> http://www.debian.org
>  
> 
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RE: What drive is the dir on ?

[CHEONG, Shu Yang \(Patrick\)]

Run df -h.

Sorry but I have not used mutt before

> -Original Message-
> From: Jay Kelly [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 9:32 AM
> To:   debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject:  What drive is the dir on ?
> 
> Hey Guys,
> I have two ide drives install and I have mounted a dir from the secondary
> to /web. Is there a way to check that I have indeed mounted it to the
> secondary and not the primary ?
> 
> Also while I have you guys, Is there a way to setup mutt to save all
> read mail into a directory unstead of deleting?
> Thanks
> -- 
> 
> It feels so good, It's a marginal risk, when I clear off windows with
> fdisk  
> 
> Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. 
> http://www.debian.org
>  
> 
> 
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Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

[Jameson Burt]

I run Debian potato Linux (upgrading it weekly) within a network 
that others have setup for Microsoft Windows 95/98.
This network has (over the same ethernet cables) 
computers and printers covering 4 C-class networks
as follows [first 2 digits altered],
   10.129.206.0
   10.129.207.0
   10.129.208.0
   10.129.209.0
My computer has the IP address,
   10.129.208.230
HOW DO I GET MY LINUX COMPUTER TO WORK WELL IN A NETWORK OF 4 C-CLASSES?

Here are the two approaches I have tried.
1. Sub-networking
   I largely followed ideas in the IP Sub-Networking mini-HOWTO.
   In 
  /etc/network/interfaces
   I set,
address   10.129.208.230
netmask   255.255.252.0   #notice the different netmask
network   10.129.206.0
broadcast 10.129.208.255  #no broadcast address seems correct.
gateway   10.129.208.1
   Unfortunately, looking at the configuration of Microsoft computers 
   on our network, each computer has the standard C-class 
   netmask 255.255.255.0, so probably a standard broadcast address.
   As a result, the above settings do not seem to properly work 
   with all 4 C-class networks running over our common ethernet wire.
   In particular, the Debian "arpwatch" software sees 
   all 10.129.{206,207,209} addresses as bogons, filling up /var/log 
   with warnings.
   I last tried this approach 6 months ago.

2. Aliasing
   I largely followed ideas in the IP-alias mini-HOWTO.

   I turned on IP Aliasing in the kernel, then put the following in
  /etc/network/interfaces
   
 iface eth0 inet static
address   10.129.208.230
netmask   255.255.255.0
network   10.129.208.0
broadcast 10.129.208.255
gateway   10.129.208.1

 iface eth0:0 inet static
address   10.129.206.1  #but this is another computer's address
netmask   255.255.255.0
network   10.129.206.0
broadcast 10.129.206.255
gateway   10.129.208.1

 iface eth0:1 inet static
address   10.129.207.1  #but this is another computer's address
netmask   255.255.255.0
network   10.129.207.0
broadcast 10.129.207.255
gateway   10.129.208.1

 iface eth0:2 inet static
address   10.129.209.1  #but this is another computer's address
netmask   255.255.255.0
network   10.129.209.0
broadcast 10.129.209.255
gateway   10.129.208.1

   This approach worked well for Samba for 5 minutes until, I presume, 
   other computers like 10.129.206.1 conflicted with 
   my multiple assignment of IP addresses to the same ethernet card,
   including this very "address 10.129.206.1" above.
   Of course, I have but one IP address, so my eth0 card 
   should be assigned but one IP address.
   I last tried this approach 2 days ago.



So, you can see I would like all 4 C-class subnets to be somehow 
recognized as one network by my Debian computer,
which would probably require the following settings,

a. address of my eth0 interface
   10.129.208.230

   I can get but one address for my computer from my administrators.
   I don't need all the IP aliasing that lets my computer respond 
   to several IP address; I only need my computer to interract 
   in a network that has 4 C-class networks. 

b. broadcast addresses
   10.129.206.255
   10.129.207.255
   10.129.208.255
   10.129.209.255

   I believe I need all these standard C-class broadcast addresses 
   because all other computers on the network use one 
   of these four lines as a broadcast address. 

c. netmask and network
   I don't know what I need for these.
   Indeed, with the problems I have with trying to solve 
   my networking problem through IP subnetworking and IP aliasing,
   I am unsure what approach to use with the above (a) and (b) restrictions.
   Any ideas?

-- 
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[EMAIL PROTECTED](202) 690-0380 (work)

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
-- G.K. Chesterton

__STDC__

[Ian Zimmerman]

Why does gcc not predefine the __STDC__ macro now?  Almost anything I
try to compile is broken by this.

kronstadt:/usr/include$ gcc -E -dM -xc /dev/null
#define __linux__ 1 
#define linux 1 
#define __i386__ 1 
#define __i386 1 
#define __GNUC_MINOR__ 95 
#define i386 1 
#define __unix 1 
#define __unix__ 1 
#define __GNUC__ 2 
#define __linux 1 
#define __ELF__ 1 
#define unix 1 
kronstadt:/usr/include$

-- 
Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A.
In his own soul a man bears the source
from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys.
Sophocles.

Re: email to fax

[John Galt]

procmail and/or a .forward file?  forward the email to a script that dials
and sends a fax.


On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Chris Mason wrote:

> Can anyone suggest an automate way to route all the email sent to one email
> address to be faxed to one fax machine. The purpose is to allow orders taken
> by email to be automatically faxed to a store that does not have email.
> 
> Chris Mason
> Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies
> Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463
> USA Fax (561) 382-7771
> Take a virtual tour of the island
> http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide
> Find out more about NetConcepts
> www.netconcepts.ai
> bwz*mq
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Sacred cows make the best burgers

Who is John Galt?  [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!!!