ssh-agent and ssh-add not talking?
Howdy folks, I recently upgraded from 2.1 where a compile-from-source install of Xfree86 4.0.1 was working fine to 2.2. I used ssh-agent and ssh-add to store my ssh keys for easy logging into remote hosts. However, upon upgrading to deb 2.2 I couldn't get X started with the old xinitrc (would startup, blink the screen, then die without a warning of any kind) So, a simple xinitrc with just the name of my window manager did the trick. Now, however, when I type ssh-add (after starting ssh-agent), it complains that it "could not open a connection to your authentication agent". I don't suppose any one has any idea what has happened? I never removed the deb package install of xfree3.3.6 so these were replaced in the deb 2.2 upgrade, I just don't know what exactly it was that was replaced to cause this problem. any ideas would be greatly appreciated! thanks, Dave "If windows is the solution, can we have the problem back please?"
changing window manager
I recently upgraded to X4.01 and need to know where the default manager is set. i.e. I want to use gnome but the debian default is currently used. What file can I change. And can I not use "startx gnome-session" any more. Thanks, Adam S Edgar ps: please include me in the reply
Re: changing window manager
On 2000-11-16 00:21:32, adam.edgar wrote: > I recently upgraded to X4.01 and need to know where the default manager is > set. i.e. I want to use gnome but the debian default is currently used. > What file can I change. And can I not use "startx gnome-session" any more. gdm+gnome session, modify $HOME/.gnomerc to something like: export WINDOW_MANAGER=x-window-manager exec gnome-session gdm+x session or xdm, you would modify $HOME/.xsession to read something like the above. Either change x-window-manager to the window manager that you would like to use (fvwm2), or set the system default (called x-window-manager) via update-alternatives. /Allan -- Allan M. Wind email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O. Box 2022 finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GPG/PGP) Woburn, MA 01888-0022 USA pgpm9HL7Mh5pQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
X on 3DLabs Oxygen VX1 card?
Hello all, I just installed Debian on a machine at work today. I didn't install a lot of bells and whistles, but I did try to install X on it. I say "try" because neither the XF86_3DLabs nor the XF86_SVGA servers would work (the SVGA server managed to give me a 320x204 display, but I don't really call that working). I ended up using the VGA16 server at 640x480. This on a nice card with 32 MB of VRAM! This is a relatively new, relatively high-end, non-consumer card, so I wouldn't be surprised if it is not very well supported by XFree86, but I was wondering if anyone had gotten this card to work? Having X on this machine isn't really necessary, since it's more of a server. I just thought it would be nice ;) =wl -- Albert ``Willy'' Lee, Emacs user, game programmer "They call me CRAZY - just because I DARE to DREAM of a RACE of SUPERHUMAN MONSTERS!"
KDE2
can some one tell me the line for apt-sources for kde2? thanks
Re: Tools available for..
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:29:33PM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote: > I am trying to set up a server, and I would like to know about some of > the tools I should be using for the following tasks: > > Bandwidth monitoring/restriction on a per-user basis > > Traffic (total data transfered per time unit) monitoring/restriction on > a per-user basis > > CPU & RAM would also be nice, but I assume linux won't let a user > totally take over the machine's resources with default options. No, see /etc/security/limits.conf for doing this. I've managed to crash my Linux box by using up all the memory and swap (no limits enforced). So, be careful. > port forwarding (I tried this one already, but had a tough time, perhaps > just direction to some good tools or docs). > > I also plan to set up disk quotas (as you may have guessed), but from > the documnetation it looks straightforward. > > I would appreciate any advice. I am refering to Debian 2.2. I'll let others comment on the rest. -- Eric G. Miller
Help: Needed final mail steps...
Hi, Ok, I read the exim FAQ, the exim home pages... the same for procmail and fetchmail and I have the following questions I'm trying to resolve: 1. Files .procmail/.fetchmail in user or root directory? 2. What is the fetchid file created in ~/? 3. I call fetchmail at the console right now- is this standard or is it included in an ip-up script, etc? 4. I get the mail down, the problem is here: i)Mail sitting in /var/mail/jgift not forwarded to my mailbox or shot through procmail.. How can I change this? Do I need to change exim.conf? set up a .forward file? ii)I see that exim handles filtering. Do I need procmail? iii)How do I send? ie In Mutt I write an email and press "y" to send. When I log on to fetch mail will fetchmail automatically send what is in the send file? Thanks, it's what's keeping me in a dual boot. Help appreciated. Jonathan
Simple question
Sorry, I am a newbie in debian mailing lists... Is debian-user a good place to ask questions about usability/problems with woody? or there is another place?. I am subscribed to debian-testing but it does not appear to have any traffic... Anyway, I am in woody cause of kde2. However, my current graphics hardware (ViRGE GX/2 + SMP) seems not to be supported very well by XFree 4.0. I would like to maintain the previous release of XFree (3.3.6) but the problems are: 1º KDE2 _depends_ on XFree > 4.0 ¿Is this dependence correct? I kept back the xserver-svga 3.3.6 and KDE2 runs fine but dselect gets crazy. 2º It is planned in woody to support the old version of XFree?. Now there is only a xserver-common-v3 incompatible with most X packages. Thanks, -- BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 FN:Salvador V. Petit Martí N:Petit Martí;Salvador;Vicente;; ORG:Universidad Politécnica de Valencia;DISCA ADR;TYPE=intl,post,parcel,work:;;Camino de Vera s/n;Valencia;;46022;España TEL;TYPE=work,voice:+34-96-3877007-5737 TEL;TYPE=work,fax:+34-96-3877579 EMAIL;TYPE=internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] REV:2000-04-11 END:VCARD
dpkg --getselections, apt, and update-menus
Lately I've been using console-apt for installations, but I tend to run dselect, just to see what packages are new. As such, everytime I ran it, a couple of package selections changed due to upgrades, depencencies, etc. I didn't care about it, as I don't use dselect anymore. I found it rather odd that many things were no longer on my system's menu system. That's when I studied how update-menu's generates the menu. I noticed it used dpkg --get-selections, which I ran myself, and noticed the hundreds of "deinstall" selections, and realised what the fault was. I just went through dselect and selected everything that was installed, that fixed up my system. A couple of ways I could have avoided this: - Is there some other easy way to see what packages are new? I would prefer to not use dselect at all, but this is something I really like. I thought of making this a wishlist bug for console-apt, but I don't think it will "fit in" well with the current (simple/unbloated/fast) design of capt (I like capt being as fast as possible, for use on old computers, so maybe `list-new-packages` should be a seperate program). One needs a backup of the previous package lists to do this. I think dselect did this with /var/lib/dpkg/available[-old], does using only apt/capt update these files, or possibly not the -old one? - Maybe update-menus should rather look at what is currently installed, rather than what the selections for the next "install/remove" operation will be. It does seem to make more sense to me. - This is maybe the best/most useful solution at this point: some easy way to sync the selections with what is currently installed? i.e. "undo" all selections. How can one do this? I admit to not have researched this properly: I haven't checked mailing lists for previous discussions, and haven't checked the BTS, so I apologize if this has already been discussed. Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe
Does the stock kernel support VESA Framebuffers?
I'm trying to run X on my Dell Inspiron 3700 with Debian. I've got X running, but it hangs when I try to do a suspend. All of the howto's I've read say that, in order for suspend to work, I need to be using the FBdev xserver... which requires that I start with framebuffers turned on with the "vga=791" command at boot time. However, whenever I try this, I don't get the neat penguin logo that everyone says I'm supposed to get. I get this psychotic lava-lamp looking things that acts as if I'm turning the brightness on my laptop up too high. People have suggested that the kernel doesn't have VESA framebuffer support compiled in. Does anyone know if this is so? - Joe
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Re: jdk - installation
Hi, I'm pretty thankful your advices and tips, hadn't thought the HU-Berlin would do jdk-deb-builds on its own... pretty nice to study there hu? :)= j2sdk1.3_1.3.0-2_i386.deb <- that's the right package i suppose. farewell, michael > Thus spake Michael Mertins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Hi, > > I never installed JDK for Linux before, I'm running woody and would > like > > to do that now since I really need it for the university-stuff here. > > Anyone that could help maybe by naming a nice apt-get install > package-name > > command is welcome as well as people that could tell me what stuff / > > opportunities I have to get a running java-compiler maybe even a > development > > environment... > > At ftp://ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de/pub/Java/Linux/debian one can find > the latest java package (1.3) as deb. > > HTH Olaf > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net
SB AWE64 configuration problem
Hello all, I finally got around to trying to get my SB AWE64 sound card configured. I am still using the default kernel that I installed with. I believe that it has the correct sound drivers as modules, so I shouldn't need to recompile the kernel to get sound working. I believe my isapnp.conf is valid, because I had it working with a previous RedHat install. The awe_wave module is loaded at boot. Following the advice of previous posters, I did a 'insmod uart401; insmod opl3; insmod sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330; insmod v_midi; insmod awe_wave'. Here is what lsmod outputs: geldar:/boot# lsmod Module Size Used by ppp_deflate38988 1 (autoclean) bsd_comp3828 0 (autoclean) ppp20684 2 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp] slhc4436 1 (autoclean) [ppp] awe_wave 156340 0 v_midi 5084 0 sb 33396 0 opl3 11016 0 uart401 6128 0 [sb] sound 57592 0 [awe_wave v_midi sb opl3 uart401] soundlow 416 0 [sound] soundcore 2628 9 [sb sound] parport_probe 3332 0 (autoclean) parport_pc 7240 1 (autoclean) lp 5188 0 (unused) parport 7280 1 [parport_probe parport_pc lp] lockd 31112 1 (autoclean) sunrpc 52420 1 (autoclean) [lockd] nls_cp437 3904 2 (autoclean) serial 19564 1 (autoclean) joystick6588 0 (unused) vfat9008 1 unix 10212 45 (autoclean) Here is the contents of /proc/sound: geldar:/boot# cat /proc/sound OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130 Load type: Driver loaded as a module Kernel: Linux geldar 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i686 Config options: 0 Installed drivers: Card config: Audio devices: 0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.16) (DUPLEX) Synth devices: 0: AWE32-0.4.3 (RAM512k) Midi devices: 0: Sound Blaster 16 1: Loopback MIDI Port 1 2: Loopback MIDI Port 2 3: AWE Midi Emu Timers: 0: System clock Mixers: 0: Sound Blaster I don't understand why it doesn't say anything under Installed drivers or Card config. The example /dev/sndstat in the Sound-HOWTO has stuff in those sections, so I'm thinking this is not good. Is there something I'm missing here? =wl P.S. Note to will trillich: this might be one for the newbie faq? Seems like there's an awful lot of AWE64s out there. -- Albert ``Willy'' Lee, Emacs user, game programmer "They call me CRAZY - just because I DARE to DREAM of a RACE of SUPERHUMAN MONSTERS!"
Re: NEWBIE: unable to read mail
Hello, > > I guess this is something elementairy, but after some installs and > > different configurations of my mailerdaemon (Postfix), I discovered that I > > am unable to read mail with pine (the Inbox keeps standing at 0 messages). > > Even when I stop Postfix. I guess there has been some change to the path > > where incoming mail is stored. Received mail does appear in /var/mail/. > > > > Someone know how to fix this? > > imho, there is great chance that the problem comes from your canonical > If not done, you should enter sthg like this in /etc/postfix/canonical : > > user_name [EMAIL PROTECTED] > root [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Then, in comand line: > # postmap canonical > # postfix reload > Nope, I just tried this, but it did not work. I also found out that when I log into my pop3 port (qpopper) and try to login, the daemon responds: -ERR maillock: cannot lock '/var/mail/sebas': ! and closes the connection. The directory exists and I set all the permission bits, but it does not work. Thanks, Sebastiaan
Re: how_To_Handle_this? Re:final help for build php4 with oci8 on debian
Silver wrote: > First making those links is not really clean, you'd better add a line in > /etc/ld.so.conf > pointing to your directory with the libs in it - if you really need to. (and > then run ldconfig -v) > > Anyway those libs are just needed by Oracle, and the php module, so : > just tweak configure and the Makefile for php so that it really finds the > headers & libs for Oracle, > then make sure ORACLE_HOME is really set in your environment before starting > apache/php. Hi, Silver Everything checked, when compiling I get: --- dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/php4/usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so': ` libwtc8.so => /home/oracle/ohome/lib/libwtc8.so (0x40813000)' dpkg: /home/oracle/ohome/lib/libclntsh.so.8.0 not found. dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find any packages for /home/oracle/ohome/lib/libclntsh.so.8.0 (libclntsh.so.8.0) dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared library libclntsh (soname 8.0, path /home/oracle/ohome/lib/libclntsh.so.8.0, dependency field Depends) --- Compiles ok but still libphp4.so doesn't links wit libmm.so --- ldd /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so libdb.so.3 => /lib/libdb.so.3 (0x400f6000) libpam.so.0 => /lib/libpam.so.0 (0x40131000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40139000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x4013e000) libpcre.so.3 => /usr/lib/libpcre.so.3 (0x4014d000) libclntsh.so.8.0 => /home/oracle/ohome/lib/libclntsh.so.8.0 (0x40157000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x406c6000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x406e3000) libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x406f2000) libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x4071f000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40736000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x8000) libwtc8.so => /home/oracle/ohome/lib/libwtc8.so (0x40813000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x40815000) --- Then apache cannot start because of: --- apachectl configtest Syntax error on line 53 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so into server: /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so: undefined symbol: mm_create --- And If I build without oci8 it links ok with libmm.so and apache is happy to run php4. ..but I need oracle :( So_How_Could_I_Handle_this ? thanks a lot, -- Jaume Teixi Administrador de Sistemes 6TEMS - Ducform, SA http://www.6tems.com
Re: kernel 2.4 and isapnp
On 15 Nov 2000, Veit Waltemath wrote: > Hey, > did anybody know if there is a different handling in 2.4 with isa-pnp cards. > I don't get my NIC and my ISDN-Card to work.PNP and ISA-PNP are compiled as > modules. does your NIC have any jumper to disable PNP? BTW, it seems that PNP is working very well, at least for my soundblaster AWE 32; it's correctly detected and configured. HTH, []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 http://www.revistalinux.com.br
Re: how_To_Handle_this? Re:final help for build php4 with oci8 on debian
My guess is you're compiling to make a debian package (dpkg- output), but dpkg doesn't know about oracle libs. Why not just make your local compile for php+oracle ? Sorry, I can't help you much with making debian packages. Silver - Original Message - From: "Jaume Teixi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Silver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Choe, Hyun-ho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mark Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Petr Cech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Debian User" ; "Debian Devel" Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 10:59 AM Subject: Re: how_To_Handle_this? Re:final help for build php4 with oci8 on debian > > Hi, Silver > Everything checked, when compiling I get: > --- > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on > `debian/php4/usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so': ` libwtc8.so => > /home/oracle/ohome/lib/libwtc8.so (0x40813000)' > dpkg: /home/oracle/ohome/lib/libclntsh.so.8.0 not found. > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find any packages for > /home/oracle/ohome/lib/libclntsh.so.8.0 (libclntsh.so.8.0) > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared library > libclntsh (soname 8.0, path /home/oracle/ohome/lib/libclntsh.so.8.0, dependency field > Depends) > --- > > Compiles ok but still libphp4.so doesn't links wit libmm.so > --- > ldd /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so > libdb.so.3 => /lib/libdb.so.3 (0x400f6000) > libpam.so.0 => /lib/libpam.so.0 (0x40131000) > libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40139000) > libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x4013e000) > libpcre.so.3 => /usr/lib/libpcre.so.3 (0x4014d000) > libclntsh.so.8.0 => /home/oracle/ohome/lib/libclntsh.so.8.0 (0x40157000) > libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x406c6000) > libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x406e3000) > libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x406f2000) > libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x4071f000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40736000) > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x8000) > libwtc8.so => /home/oracle/ohome/lib/libwtc8.so (0x40813000) > libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x40815000) > --- > > Then apache cannot start because of: > --- > apachectl configtest > Syntax error on line 53 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: > Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so into server: > /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so: undefined symbol: mm_create > --- > > And If I build without oci8 it links ok with libmm.so and apache is happy to run > php4. > ..but I need oracle :( > > > So_How_Could_I_Handle_this ? > > thanks a lot, > -- > Jaume Teixi > Administrador de Sistemes > 6TEMS - Ducform, SA > http://www.6tems.com
X for windows...
Not strictly a debian question, but does anyone know of a freeware X client/server for MS Win so's I can get my win-addicted workplace running gui *nx ? pls reply direct as this list traffic is too high for me to subscribe __ Dominic Blythe Programmer BCP Ltd BCP House, 151 Charles St, Stockport, SK1 3JY t: 0161 355 3000 f: 0161 355 3001 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** * BCP Technical Services have checked this email for viruses * ** Tel:(0161)355-3000 / Fax:(0161)355-3001 / http://www.BCPSoftware.com If you have received this message in error, please forward the entire document to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and accept our sincere apologies.
Re: kernel 2.4 and isapnp
Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 15 Nov 2000, Veit Waltemath wrote: > > > Hey, > > did anybody know if there is a different handling in 2.4 with isa-pnp cards. > > I don't get my NIC and my ISDN-Card to work.PNP and ISA-PNP are compiled as > > modules. > > does your NIC have any jumper to disable PNP? > > BTW, it seems that PNP is working very well, at least for my > soundblaster AWE 32; it's correctly detected and configured. > > HTH, > > > []s, > Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but > IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" > http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 >http://www.revistalinux.com.br > The NIC is not the prob,with a dos-tool i can change it to normal isa mode. But my ISDN-Card i can not change.I use the same io and irq as under 2.2.17, nothing work, then i've tried with data from /proc/isapnp, no success. Crazy ISA Plug-and-Pray! -- cu Veit Veit Waltemath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> infront of his Potato
bookmarker/PHP/MySQL problem
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I use the bookmarker deb to store my web bookmarks, because I was
already running a local webserver, and it seemed like the best
solution to the "where did I bookmark that site" problem when bouncing
around (as I currently am) between Netscape, Mozilla M18, Mozilla
nightly builds, Galeon, SkipStone, etc., etc.
Everything was working fine until earlier this week, when bookmarker
stopped working, giving the error message:
Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function
mysql_pconnect() in
/var/www/bookmarker/lib/phplib/db_mysql.inc on line 73
I tried forcing the mysql.so library to load with a 'dl("mysql.so")'
in the bkprepend.inc file of bookmarker, but then I get:
Fatal error: Unable to load dynamic library
'/usr/lib/php3/apache/mysql.so' - undefined symbol: php3_ini
in /var/www/bookmarker/lib/bkprepend.inc on line 25
Clearly, something is b0rken; the questions are (a) what?, (b) is this
a local (to me) issue, a package bug, or an upstream problem?, and (c)
[most importantly] how do I fix it? I'm pretty much clueless about
PHP (although I do know a thing or two about MySQL), so I'm not even
really sure where to start looking.
Suggestions and gifts of Clue are most welcome.
Thanks in advance,
john.
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Re: Dependency problems
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Casey Henderson wrote: > > So I can't do the upgrade because I have "unmet dependencies" and I > can't fix the dependencies due to the above errors! It's like a > circular problem. I thought Debian was supposed to handle all I encountered the same problem yesterday. Try going to /var/cache/apt/archives or something (don't remember the exact location), where apt keeps its downloaded .debs. >From in there, I did dpkg -i --force-depends --force-overwrite the_debs_in_question. This worked. On a side note, I've been having a lot of these problems ever since the upgrade of dpkg. For instance, apt-get doesn't install packages that contain files or documents included in other packages too. Before, this did happen (mentioning something about force-overwrite being automatically selected). Is it possible to get apt-get to do this again? -- War doesn't prove who's right, just who's left.
Re: xlibs 4.0.1-4 version wont install
Thanks. What finally worked for me was using the Dpkg option of --force-overwrite to install xlibs 4.0.1-4. Best regards, Victor Quoting Corey Popelier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've found that for most of the 4.0.1 upgrades, I've had to remove > groff + man-db and install them again afterwards because of xlibs. Perhaps > a force of some kind would work, I'm not overly concerned by bandwidth > hence I do it this way. > > Cheers, > Corey J. Popelier > http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas > > > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Victor Torrico wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > Upgraded to the 4.0.1-4 upgrade of X today. xlibs will not install. > > > > X Still works OK with 4.0.1-3 version of xlibs and the 4.0.1-4 versions of > > the > > other X packages. > > > > Here is error message: > > > > # apt-get install xlibs > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 20 not upgraded. > > Need to get 0B/1101kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > > (Reading database ... 67002 files and directories currently installed.) > > Preparing to replace xlibs 4.0.1-3 (using .../xlibs_4.0.1-4_i386.deb) ... > > Unpacking replacement xlibs ... > > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-4_i386.deb > > (--unpack): > > trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in > > package > > groff > > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-4_i386.deb > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > > Please help. > > > > Thanks - Victor > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > >
Debian Package HOWTO. Who ?
No day without questions or complaints about the debian package system. Yesterday it was Hugo van der Merwe. A couple of more or less random selected lines from his message: > ... some easy way to sync the selections with > what is currently installed ... > I admit to not have researched this properly ... Each new user has to do his own research, has to make many mistakes. I think this is a ridiculous situation. It seems to be a policy of the debian-in-group not to talk about the mechanism behind the package system: files that are being read or written are hardly mentioned in the user documentation. Looks like they adhere to the data hiding principle. What we need is a HOWTO-like document that explains everything about the files in the background: which file is read or written or updated in what way when you use any option or command. For instance what happens when you do a 'dselect update' with the apt access method. Or what happens or does not happen when you hit any of the action keys while in a dselect dependency screen. Not to mention all the dpkg options. Is there anybody who understands all (or most) of it and can write a decent howto ? egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991
RE: disappearing packages? (webmin)
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > > Browsing debianplanet.org, I found an article about webmin, so > > I thought I'd install it. The article mentioned that he'd apt-got > > it, but my apt could not find it, so I went to search for it manually. > > Same here. I apt-got it after reading the first article, but now dselect > presents it as a local package. (I run woody i386). > The webmin package was removed from Debian for two reasons: !. It contained SSL support (and so should have gone into non-US instead of main) 2. The maintainer didn't realize that I had already ITPed it and built the packages in a way that was incompatible with the scheme I was going to use. The thing to do in cases like this is to look at the Bug tracking system for the package 'ftp.debian.org' The bugs for webmin should also still be open and mention this. New and improved webmin packages are on the way. The last holdup is how to cleanly upgrade from the old debian packages. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Debian Package HOWTO. Who ?
Egbert Bouwman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >No day without questions or complaints about the debian package system. > >Yesterday it was Hugo van der Merwe. >A couple of more or less random selected lines from his message: > > ... some easy way to sync the selections with > > what is currently installed ... > > I admit to not have researched this properly ... > >Each new user has to do his own research, has to make many mistakes. >I think this is a ridiculous situation. http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ and http://www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom have lots of information (well, more could be added to the latter, but the former has *loads* of stuff), if only people would read them! They're clearly linked from the "Documentation" page on the Debian web site. >It seems to be a policy of the debian-in-group not to talk about >the mechanism behind the package system: files that are being >read or written are hardly mentioned in the user documentation. >Looks like they adhere to the data hiding principle. > >What we need is a HOWTO-like document that explains everything >about the files in the background: which file is read or written >or updated in what way when you use any option or command. > >For instance what happens when you do a 'dselect update' with the >apt access method. Or what happens or does not happen when you hit >any of the action keys while in a dselect dependency screen. >Not to mention all the dpkg options. > >Is there anybody who understands all (or most) of it and can write >a decent howto ? I can probably dredge up quite a lot from my sent-mail folder, with things that I've answered frequently. Not sure when I'll have time to write it up well. A lot of people obviously don't read the FAQs that are already in existence, so it's a bit discouraging ... Can we have a bit less FUD about people having a policy not to talk about how things work, or about "data hiding", or whatever, please? I'm sure it's infuriating to the people who've put in all the work to write all the good (and largely unread) documentation out there. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: emacs without backup option
Jay Ford wrote: > > > > Does someone know which option is regarded to avoid emacs from > > > imediately creating a backup file by opening a new or any other file? > > Put the following in ~/.emacs: > > (setq make-backup-files nil) ; Never create backup files > > It works for me. Just tested it - exactly what I wanted. Thank you very much! Where did you get the synthax from and why does this setting require brackets? Robert
Re: DMODVERSIONS causing a lot of problems
Colin wrote: > >After not getting the aureal sound driver to install, I'm so unsure > >about enabling or disabling this feature the next time I have to build > >a new kernel. Most astonishing is the first output of make: > > > >make install AUCHIP=AU8820 > >make[1]: Entering directory `/root/drivers/sound/aureal' > ^^ > >cc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DAU8820 -mpentium -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer > >-Wall -pipe -I/usr/src/linux/include -c -o au_audio.o au_audio.c >^^ > >In file included from au_audio.c:49: > >au_vortex.h:55: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory > > > > > >Where does the routine look for the header, > > Wherever the C compiler is looking for include files; specifically, > here, /usr/src/linux/include. > > I've underlined two paths above which ought to be in similar places but > aren't. Are you doing something odd with symlinks? Thanks for your helpful message Colin! I untarred the aureal driver package into /root/drivers/sound because this package has a own makefile (supposing to have a built in module installation routine) which would collidate with the makefile in.. /usr/src/./drivers/sound/ ... and by thinking every system adjustment should only be done by root. Now what you suggested below (quoted) is absolutely new for me which isn't that surprising because I'm really not that experienced in administrating linux/unix. This log : > >-Wall -pipe -I/usr/src/linux/include -c -o au_audio.o au_audio.c >^^ ...seems to have it's roots in the variable INCLUDEDIRS which I have just found in the aureal makefile (attached to this message). I guess I was too tired yesterday to notice it. The kernel src is located at /usr/src/linux/xxx-2.2.17 ..and: > >In file included from au_audio.c:49: > >au_vortex.h:55: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory ... I guess I have to cp modversions.h to the /usr/src/linux/ dir? puh... what a work! > Also, you really shouldn't be building kernels as root if you can avoid > it. Only the installation step requires root access, so keeping kernels > in /root - and keeping them in /root itself rather than a subdirectory > such as /root/linux is even odder! - is usually not the thing to do. No, no, - the kernel source is installed as mentioned above, only the aureal package is installed in /root (as mentioned at the top of this message). > I'd like, if possible, to see the commands you're issuing before running > 'make install', and what directory you're in when you run them. Also, > note that when you change configuration options you may well have to run > 'make dep'. Here too - I didn't intend to touch the kernel. The aureal README (attached to this mail) recommends to install the aureal driver by "make install+" in this case: "make install20" (this makefile is attached to this message aswell) I hope I could clarify and I would really appreciate some deep going help. Thank you RobertRelease Notes for the Aureal Vortex Linux Driver The following files are distributed in this release: README this file Makefileused to build and install the driver COPYING GPL information ChangeLog Version change information mod_confscript used by make install au_audio.c wave audio source au_core.c core support source au_midi.c midi audio source au_mixer.c mixer source au_sndstat.csndstat source au_utils.c utility functions source au_vortex.c kernel/PCI interface source au_vortex.h public declarations and functions asp30.o object file containing Au8830 core asp20.o object file containing Au8820 core asp10.o object file containing Au8810 core See http://aureal.sourceforge.net for the latest driver and bug list. NOTE: the GPL applies to the source modules only. Redistribution of the binary modules requires explicit permission from Aureal. System Requirements --- This driver is for Intel x86 systems only. If your BIOS has an option for "PnP OS", it must be disabled. Note: if you get "device busy" error messages this might be the problem. This driver has been tested on the following distributions: Red Hat 6.0, kernel version 2.2.5-15 Red Hat 6.1, kernel version 2.2.12-20 Red Hat 6.1, kernel version 2.2.13 Red Hat 6.2, kernel version 2.4.0-test6 Slackware 7.0, kernel version 2.2.16 Slackware 7.0, kernel version 2.4.0-test6 Slackware 7.0, kernel version 2.4.0-test7 Installing the Driver - 1. Unpack the distribution: tar xvzf aureal*.tar.gz 2. Change to the driver directory and become root: cd aureal* su 3. Edit the Makefile to suit your system (SMP, CPU type, etc) 4. Type the following install commands: If you have an 8830-based (Vortex 2) card: make install If you have an 8820-based (Vortex 1) card: make install20 If you have an
Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?
> "vijay" == vijay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: vijay> Well it is ok now. But it does teach people not to open attachments that they do not know about espcially when using M$ softwares. Atleast they should switch to some other MUAs as has been discussed in the list for the past few days or move over to better OS's(like gnu/linux). vijay> BTW how many of you on this list use multiple oses on your desktop and which ones do you use and for what purposes. That should be an interesting one...:) My machine at work dual boots Debian and Redhat. I use Debian for most of my work, which is writing C code for Solaris, thus my PC is basically a glorified X-terminal (not really, because all the apps I use - Emacs, Netscape, xterms - run locally, I just ssh to the Sun boxes). I confess that I only installed RedHat on a small partition to get the sound card configuration from 'sndconfig' (that was before it entered woody). I'm thinking about ditching it, but on second thought I guess I would like to keep my RPM skills up to date. I gave up using my PC at home since I married. Oh yeah, I've been MS-free for one and a half year now. cheers, -- Allan F. Caetano Universo On Line - EngProd - F: (11) 224 4418 ComVc: 479966 ICQ: 68214944 "Who is this peer that keeps resetting my connection? I have a broken pipe I wanna hit him with!"
Re: DMODVERSIONS causing a lot of problems
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 at 13:42:52 +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > Colin wrote: > > > >make install AUCHIP=AU8820 > > >make[1]: Entering directory `/root/drivers/sound/aureal' > > ^^ > > >cc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DAU8820 -mpentium -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer > > >-Wall -pipe -I/usr/src/linux/include -c -o au_audio.o au_audio.c > >^^ > > >In file included from au_audio.c:49: > > >au_vortex.h:55: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory > > > > > > > > >Where does the routine look for the header, > > > > Wherever the C compiler is looking for include files; specifically, > > here, /usr/src/linux/include. > > > > I've underlined two paths above which ought to be in similar places but > > aren't. Are you doing something odd with symlinks? > > Thanks for your helpful message Colin! No problem - I hope this one solves your problem. :) > I untarred the aureal driver package into /root/drivers/sound because > this package has a own makefile (supposing to have a built in module > installation routine) which would collidate with the makefile in.. > /usr/src/./drivers/sound/ Ah, I understand now. Sorry for the confusion. > ... and by thinking every system adjustment should only be done by > root. Well, you're mostly right. The install phase certainly does have to be done by root, but the compilation can be done by an ordinary user (and the general rule is that, if you can do something without extra privileges, you should). Looking at the Makefile you attached, of course, the compile step is just one instruction, so here you're OK just following their instructions and doing 'make install20' as root. > Now what you suggested below (quoted) is absolutely new for me which > isn't that surprising because I'm really not that experienced in > administrating linux/unix. > This log : > > >-Wall -pipe -I/usr/src/linux/include -c -o au_audio.o au_audio.c > >^^ > ...seems to have it's roots in the variable INCLUDEDIRS which I have > just found in the aureal makefile (attached to this message). I guess > I was too tired yesterday to notice it. > > The kernel src is located at /usr/src/linux/xxx-2.2.17 Oh - in that case, you'll need to change INCLUDEDIRS to /usr/src/linux/xxx-2.2.17/include, or whatever. As a sanity check, then, make sure that /usr/src/linux/xxx-2.2.17/include/linux/modversions.h exists. (There should really be a comment in the Makefile saying that you might have to change that variable depending on where your kernel source is.) FYI, the setup a lot of people use (and which the aureal Makefile evidently expects) is more like /usr/src/linux being a symlink to the "current" kernel source tree, which is in /usr/src/linux-2.2.17 (etc.). Alternatively, many people choose to build kernels in their home directories. > ..and: > > >In file included from au_audio.c:49: > > >au_vortex.h:55: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory > ... I guess I have to cp modversions.h to the /usr/src/linux/ dir? > puh... what a work! No, you shouldn't have to do that. :) If you do, you'll probably just find that the next thing that looks for an include file will break. INCLUDEDIRS is the real place to fix it. One thing that confused me for a moment was why was the first thing to fail. After all, other files like are included from au_vortex.h before that. The answer's simple enough; gcc automatically looks in certain system directories for header files, one of which is /usr/include - and /usr/include/linux/config.h exists, but /usr/include/linux/modversions.h doesn't. This is fine, because the -I option causes the C compiler to go off and look in the kernel source tree first, as long as it's set to the right place. > > Also, you really shouldn't be building kernels as root if you can avoid > > it. Only the installation step requires root access, so keeping kernels > > in /root - and keeping them in /root itself rather than a subdirectory > > such as /root/linux is even odder! - is usually not the thing to do. > > No, no, - the kernel source is installed as mentioned above, only the > aureal package is installed in /root (as mentioned at the top of this > message). Ah, I misunderstood. Add-on kernel modules can often be a little fiddly, due to the wide variety of places where people put their kernel source trees. > CONF = $(wildcard /etc/modules.conf) [...] > install: compile >mv -f $(CONF) $(CONF).old >gawk -f mod_conf $(CONF).old > $(CONF) >echo "alias sound $(NAME)" >> $(CONF) >echo "alias midi $(NAME)" >> $(CONF) Beware; this probably won't play nicely with Debian, because our /etc/modules.conf isn't intended to be altered directly. What you probably want to do is set the CONF line above to somewhere like /etc/modutils/aliases, and then insert 'update-modules' after the last line I quoted here (at the same indentation level as th
Aarrggg! fonts & 4.0.1-4 (again :(
I did an upgrade to XFree86 4.0.1-4 (..-3 was fine) and now I' can't get X to start at all. I've got the same "Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'" that others have got. I've forced atp to do a reinstall of all the xfonts, freefont and the gsfonts; i've also forced xserver-xfree86, xfree-common and xutils I've tried using the font server xfs (which gives no errors :), specifying /usr/lib/X11/fonts/, and a font-server from a red-hat box my colleage is using (he's also using 4.0.1) I've made sure that mkfontdir has been run in each directory. I can't locate any X 4.0.1-3 .debs, so I really need a fix :) (and my boss is hassling me to do some work :) Here is the relevent section from my XF86Config file: --- include - Section "Files" # FontPath"unix/:7100"# local font server # FontPath"tcp/ceres.ucs.ed.ac.uk:7100" # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" #FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/" EndSection --- end include -- and here is the error from startx (run as root, no less!) - include --- Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log". Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. -- end include -- --==**==-- Ian Stuart - University computing services. - Truth is what you believe it to be. I cannot force my facts on you, only make you believe my beliefs. - http://lucas.ucs.ed.ac.uk/
Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?
> "vijay" == vijay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: vijay> Well it is ok now. But it does teach people not to open attachments that they do not know about espcially when using M$ softwares. Atleast they should switch to some other MUAs as has been discussed in the list for the past few days or move over to better OS's(like gnu/linux). vijay> BTW how many of you on this list use multiple oses on your desktop and which ones do you use and for what purposes. That should be an interesting one...:) vijay> See ya. vijay> Vijay. vijay> Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com vijay> Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours! vijay> -- vijay> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Allan F. Caetano Universo On Line - EngProd - F: (11) 224 4418 ComVc: 479966 ICQ: 68214944 "Who is this peer that keeps resetting my connection? I have a broken pipe I wanna hit him with!"
Re: NEWBIE: unable to read mail
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 10:43:56AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, > > > I guess this is something elementairy, but after some installs and > > > different configurations of my mailerdaemon (Postfix), I discovered that I > > > am unable to read mail with pine (the Inbox keeps standing at 0 messages). > > > Even when I stop Postfix. I guess there has been some change to the path > > > where incoming mail is stored. Received mail does appear in /var/mail/. > > > > > > Someone know how to fix this? Normaly your incoming Mails are queued in /var/spool/mail/ (or related). Try to open your User file with a normal editor like emacs. I don't know where pine searches for the mailboxfile so you can check this. Also interesting is with wich tool you get your mail? I use fetchmail and I recomend to use it for everyone else. So try a fetchmail -v. > I also found out that when I log into my pop3 port (qpopper) and try to > login, the daemon responds: > -ERR maillock: cannot lock '/var/mail/sebas': ! > > and closes the connection. The directory exists and I set all the > permission bits, but it does not work. Could it be that there is a lockfile in the directory? CU, SVEN
basic xscreensaver question
Hey, I have two easy questions about xscreensaver: 1. How can I make it load automatically (without starting the deamon from the menu everytime)? 2. I have the GL screensavers turned on, but I get errors about not setting my MESA_GLX_FX variable. Right now I have it so that it sets it in my bashrc. What would be a better (global) file to put that it so all programs could take advantage of it? Thanks, Cameron Matheson
Re: KDE2
Yes Joshua, It is: deb http://kde.tdyc.com stable kde2 (this is for potato) Joshua David Kruck wrote: > can some one tell me the line for apt-sources for kde2? > thanks > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Rogelio E. Castillo
Re: subnets & 2 NICS in a mashine
Robert Guthrie wrote: > If you could give an example (including ascii diagrams) of what you're trying > to accomplish, and and explanation of what advantage you hope to get from > that setup, maybe we can get closer to understanding what you really want to > do. I don't think I'm really qualified to keep attempting to teach you the > OSI* networking model, and I don't think I can make this any clearer with my > limited skills. Actually the initial idea of putting the 2 NICS on mashine GOOFY was: GOOFY (192.168.1.1)eth0 eth1(192.168.2.1) / \ /\ (192.168.1.2) MICKEYMINI (192.168.2.2) ..that MICKEY has 'direct contact' to MINI. After realizing that putting all eth's on one subnet didn't work, I used the above IPnumbers and all mashines are able to ping each other by the appropiate IP number but: MICKEY can ping GOOFY because of using the local C:\windows\hosts MINI can ping GOOFY because of using the local /etc/hosts But GOOFY cannot ping MICKEY or MINI by name although GOOFY's /etc/hosts containes: #file /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.domain 192.168.1.1 GOOFY.ORION.DE GOOFY 194.25.2.129 t-online.de t-online 192.168.2.2 MINI.ORION.DE MINI 192.168.1.2 MICKEY.ORION MICKEY and : GOOFY:[/root] #ifconfig loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 RX packets:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:DA:21:B1:A1 inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:241 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:261 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc800 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:21:CC:B8:EC inet addr:192.168.2.1 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:736 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:681 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0 Interrupt:12 Base address:0xd400 ippp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:62.226.59.15 Bcast:62.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0 ...which looks quite nicely. Could you help to clarify? Robert
Re: D-Link Again!
I too have a D-link 530tx. DFE530TX. The base Debian setup didn't work for me so I went to Donald Becker's site and got the latest update. Compiled and installed the module... Whaaah its all up and running ! I'm using the 2.2.17 kernel. Donald's driver page gives a good description of what to do to compile the driver. Feel free to contact me if you have any problems. >From syslog, kernel: via-rhine.c:v1.08 6/24/2000 Written by Donald Becker kernel: http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html kernel: eth0: VIA VT6102 Rhine-II at 0xe000, 00:50:ba:eb:c5:46, IRQ 11. I've also added "alias eth0 via-rhine" to /etc/modutils/aliases, not sure if this is really necessary though. - Original Message - From: "Willi Dyck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-list" Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 5:31 PM Subject: D-Link Again! > Hi Debianers, > > i've posted a similar mail a few weeks ago but didn't get > a satisfied answer. so i am going to try it again. > > i have a D-Link 530TX nic. i know that it is a via-rhine chip-set. > and i have also seen many poeple using that card on this list. so it > works, somehow. i have compiled the via-rhine support in the kernel > but with no result. i've also trieded to load it as a module with > parameters > to no good results. always failed to load the module. my bios says the > card's > on irq 9 and cat /proc/pci as well. > can somebody who got this card running tell me exactly what i need to do > > to fix this? i am using kernel 2.2.16. thanks for any hints. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Re: NEWBIE: unable to read mail
Hi, > > > > I guess this is something elementairy, but after some installs and > > > > different configurations of my mailerdaemon (Postfix), I discovered > > > > that I > > > > am unable to read mail with pine (the Inbox keeps standing at 0 > > > > messages). > > > > Even when I stop Postfix. I guess there has been some change to the path > > > > where incoming mail is stored. Received mail does appear in /var/mail/. > > > > > > > > Someone know how to fix this? > Normaly your incoming Mails are queued in /var/spool/mail/ (or related). > Try to open your User file with a normal editor like emacs. I already manually made a directory /var/spool/mail and copied my mailfile from /var/mail/sebas to /var/spool/mail I can read it, and received messaged are appended to the end of the file. > I don't know where pine searches for the mailboxfile so you can check this. Usually in /var/mail I guess, that always worked. > Also interesting is with wich tool you get your mail? > I use fetchmail and I recomend to use it for everyone else. So try a > fetchmail -v. I have just installed fetchmail, but how can I set the mailserver address. I have already tried: fetchmail -v --smtphost localhost --smtpaddress localhost but fetchmail keeps complaining. > > > I also found out that when I log into my pop3 port (qpopper) and try to > > login, the daemon responds: > > -ERR maillock: cannot lock '/var/mail/sebas': ! > > > > and closes the connection. The directory exists and I set all the > > permission bits, but it does not work. > Could it be that there is a lockfile in the directory? already searched for it, but I only see the mailfiles of the users. There is also nothing to find in /var/lock. Thanks, Sebastiaan
Re: installing netscape
Hi! >If you want Netscape 4, do "apt-get install navigator". The navigator package >is a meta package that depends on all the real netscape packages. Does this apply to the potato CD? I intended to install Netscape, but I only found Netscape3 in the CD and I didn't find any "Communicator". Does navigator exist in the potato CD? Thanks in advance!! Marcelo _ Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: emacs without backup option
%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] (robert_wilhelm_land) writes: rwl> Jay Ford wrote: >> >> > > Does someone know which option is regarded to avoid emacs from >> > > imediately creating a backup file by opening a new or any other >> > > file? Just a clarification: Emacs doesn't make a backup when you open a file, new or otherwise. It only (potentially) makes a backup when you _save_ the modified file. >> Put the following in ~/.emacs: >> >> (setq make-backup-files nil) ; Never create backup files >> >> It works for me. rwl> Just tested it - exactly what I wanted. Thank you very much! rwl> Where did you get the synthax from and why does this setting rwl> require brackets? Parentheses. This is Lisp. The vast majority of Emacs programmed in Lisp; Emacs is really a Lisp interpreter with a bunch of primitive functions appropriate to an editor, written in C with Lisp bindings. This is why Emacs is called "extensible"; with a complete programming language you can add huge amounts of functionality on top of the basic editor. Consider, for example, the Gnus newsreader, VM mailer, etc. These are programmed entirely in Lisp; _no_ actual C code in Emacs was changed or added for these packages to work. Pretty impressive, IMO. And, Lisp is cool. However, if you're not into Lisp and just want to customize Emacs a little, you probably should be using Emacs' "customize" feature to make these changes to how Emacs behaves. It's much simpler. To use it, select the "Customize" submenu off of "Help". If you just want to look through all the thousands of things you can customize, start at the top of an options menu with "Top-Level Customization Group". "Browse Customization Groups" will give you a tree-like list of all the groups you can customize. If you know, as in this case, something about what you want to customize, you can use "Apropos..." or, since this is an option, "Apropos Options...". Enter some keyword you want information apropos of, such as "backup", and you'll get a list of all the options associated with that. In this case, I get 8 possibilities. The second from the last is "Make Backup Files", set to "on". In Customize, you use mouse-2 to select things, so click mouse-2 on the "[Toggle]" button to change it to "off". Then, at the top of the buffer, click mouse-2 on the "[Save for Future Sessions]" button. Done. Note that you can do _significant_ customizations; really, complete overhauls, of Emacs functionality by writing Lisp, and it's not that hard. But, that's for later once you're a true Emacs junkie :). Have fun! -- --- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>HASMAT--HA Software Methods & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist --- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them.
Re: DMODVERSIONS causing a lot of problems
Colin, thanks for the very very quick answer! > > CONF = $(wildcard /etc/modules.conf) > [...] > > install: compile > >mv -f $(CONF) $(CONF).old > >gawk -f mod_conf $(CONF).old > $(CONF) > >echo "alias sound $(NAME)" >> $(CONF) > >echo "alias midi $(NAME)" >> $(CONF) > > Beware; this probably won't play nicely with Debian, because our > /etc/modules.conf isn't intended to be altered directly. Could you explain this more accurate - does the system complain after booting that someone has altered /etc/modules.conf or does the kernel need a reboot to load the contents? After all, why does /etc/modules.conf need to be edited by the make install20 procedure since this sound card is definetly a PCI device? > What you > probably want to do is set the CONF line above to somewhere like > /etc/modutils/aliases, and then insert 'update-modules' after the last > line I quoted here (at the same indentation level as the other command > lines, to keep make happy). That way, your changes to your module > configuration will be preserved. What is a "indentation level" and could you explain the CONF edition and 'update-modules' procedure more precisly - I'm getting so unsure what exactly to do. This is the original aureal make routine: install: compile mv -f $(CONF) $(CONF).old gawk -f mod_conf $(CONF).old > $(CONF) echo "alias sound $(NAME)" >> $(CONF) echo "alias midi $(NAME)" >> $(CONF) mkdir -p $(MODDIR) cp -f $(NAME).o $(MODDIR) -/sbin/depmod -a -/sbin/rmmod $(NAME) -/sbin/modprobe $(NAME) Robert
Re: installing netscape
Hello, I have installed netscape, though I cannot remember if it was from the official cd or from an unofficial one. You can also try to install the package communicator-smotif-473 or navigator-smotif-473. Greetings, Sebastiaan On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > > >If you want Netscape 4, do "apt-get install navigator". The navigator > >package > >is a meta package that depends on all the real netscape packages. > > Does this apply to the potato CD? I intended to install Netscape, but I > only found Netscape3 in the CD and I didn't find any "Communicator". Does > navigator exist in the potato CD? > > Thanks in advance!! > > > Marcelo > _ > Marcelo Chiapparini > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Dependency problems
I "fixed" this problem by doing: apt-get install libgnomeprint-bin libgnomeprint-data The trick is to have both packages in the same install command. On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 11:47:41PM -0500, Casey Henderson wrote: > Hi all, > I'm having a problem upgrading a couple packages on my system. I am > trying to do a dist-upgrade to my Debian box (running woody). The > packages in question are > > libgnomeprint-bin_0.25-0.1_i386.deb > libgnomeprint-data_0.25-0.1_all.deb
Re: Squid authentication
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, plutoplanet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >proxy squid[1284]: WARNING: authenticator #1 (FD 1) exited > >The relevent lines in my squid.conf are as follows > >authenticate_program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/shadow >acl trusted proxy_auth REQUIRED >http_access allow proxy_auth The squid process doesn't run as root, but rather as user 'squid'. So it can't read the shadow file. Mike.
squid w/o directory icons
Hello, is it possible to configure squid to provide /no/ directory icons? -- Johannes
Re: DMODVERSIONS causing a lot of problems
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 at 15:02:57 +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > Colin, thanks for the very very quick answer! > > > > CONF = $(wildcard /etc/modules.conf) > > [...] > > > install: compile > > >mv -f $(CONF) $(CONF).old > > >gawk -f mod_conf $(CONF).old > $(CONF) > > >echo "alias sound $(NAME)" >> $(CONF) > > >echo "alias midi $(NAME)" >> $(CONF) > > > > Beware; this probably won't play nicely with Debian, because our > > /etc/modules.conf isn't intended to be altered directly. > > Could you explain this more accurate - does the system complain after > booting that someone has altered /etc/modules.conf or does the kernel > need a reboot to load the contents? Neither - this is a Debian-specific thing to allow packages to edit modules.conf. There are a number of Debian packages that want to install kernel modules, but allowing each of them to edit modules.conf directly looked like a recipe for disaster. Therefore, they each put their configuration in separate files in /etc/modutils and run update-modules after doing so. That tool merges /etc/modutils/* and puts the result in /etc/modules.conf. There's a note at the top of /etc/modules.conf on Debian systems to this effect. If you alter /etc/modules.conf directly, it will work fine up until some package that installs kernel modules is installed or upgraded, and then your changes will silently disappear! > After all, why does /etc/modules.conf need to be edited by the make > install20 procedure since this sound card is definetly a PCI device? It's to allow you to use just 'modprobe sound' or 'modprobe midi' to insert the aureal module; it's just some aliases. > > What you probably want to do is set the CONF line above to somewhere > > like /etc/modutils/aliases, and then insert 'update-modules' after > > the last line I quoted here (at the same indentation level as the > > other command lines, to keep make happy). That way, your changes to > > your module configuration will be preserved. > > What is a "indentation level" and could you explain the CONF edition > and 'update-modules' procedure more precisly - I'm getting so unsure > what exactly to do. Ah, OK. By "indentation level" I mean the spacing at the start of each line. You need to change this line in the makefile: CONF = $(wildcard /etc/modules.conf) ... to: CONF = $(wildcard /etc/modutils/aliases) > This is the original aureal make routine: > > install: compile > mv -f $(CONF) $(CONF).old > gawk -f mod_conf $(CONF).old > $(CONF) > echo "alias sound $(NAME)" >> $(CONF) > echo "alias midi $(NAME)" >> $(CONF) > mkdir -p $(MODDIR) > cp -f $(NAME).o $(MODDIR) > -/sbin/depmod -a > -/sbin/rmmod $(NAME) > -/sbin/modprobe $(NAME) > Change this to: install: compile mv -f $(CONF) $(CONF).old gawk -f mod_conf $(CONF).old > $(CONF) echo "alias sound $(NAME)" >> $(CONF) echo "alias midi $(NAME)" >> $(CONF) update-modules mkdir -p $(MODDIR) cp -f $(NAME).o $(MODDIR) -/sbin/depmod -a -/sbin/rmmod $(NAME) -/sbin/modprobe $(NAME) Make sure that your editor preserves the tab character at the beginning of each line here, and doesn't turn it into eight spaces, or make will be unhappy. If you're using vim, for instance, ':set noexpandtab' will do the job. Alternatively, there's nothing holy about make - you could always just run these commands manually from a shell after substituting the various variables like $(NAME), or just fix up /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modutils/aliases afterwards. The way I've outlined here is probably easiest if you're not familiar with the Debian system. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: basic xscreensaver question
I don't know about 1. - I'm using gnome-session and it seems to start the screen saver automatically. About 2.: It would probably be best to make the variable available globally. /etc/profile is a good choice for that. HTH, Juergen Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, I have two easy questions about xscreensaver: 1.How can I > make it load automatically (without starting the deamon from the menu > everytime)? 2.I have the GL screensavers turned on, but I get > errors about not setting my MESA_GLX_FX variable. Right now I have it > so that it sets it in my bashrc. What would be a better (global) file > to put that it so all programs could take advantage of > it? Thanks,Cameron Matheson
Re: subnets & 2 NICS in a mashine
On Thursday 16 November 2000 07:41, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > MICKEY can ping GOOFY because of using the local C:\windows\hosts > MINI can ping GOOFY because of using the local /etc/hosts > > But GOOFY cannot ping MICKEY or MINI by name although GOOFY's > /etc/hosts containes: > > #file /etc/hosts > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.domain > 192.168.1.1 GOOFY.ORION.DE GOOFY > 194.25.2.129 t-online.de t-online > 192.168.2.2 MINI.ORION.DE MINI > 192.168.1.2 MICKEY.ORION MICKEY > > #:~$ nslookup orion.de Server: acxiomdc1.conway.acxiom.com Address: 156.102.33.223 Name:orion.de Address: 212.51.13.168 If your problem is that name service isn't working (despite the hosts file), it could be that Goofy is trying to find mini and mickey on the internet, where they are not visible. I suggest not using a valid internet domain. I'd suggest "orion.home" or something more creative. That way, goofy has to fall back on it's /etc/hosts file when DNS lookups fail. Something else to look at first is your /etc/resolve.conf*. It should contain a line like "order hosts,bind", which tells it to look first in /etc/hosts, and then go to Bind for domain name resolution. That may fix your problem with no further effort, but I'd still recommend making up a domain name that doesn't exist on the internet. If this problem occurs when you ping by number, then it's a routing problem, which always makes my brain hurt (I never did learn how to set routes manually). Hope that helps. * Alway check the man page against what I say, as I am often wrong, but never in doubt ;-). -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
Re: Getting a list of installed packages
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 21:16, John Carline wrote: > Ahh! I see. You're probably right, but that's caused by the dpkg command > isn't it - not the pipe? Didn't 'dpkg - l' by itself produce what was > wanted? > > If the full version is what's needed, it's listed in /var/lib/dpkg/status. > The dpkg command cuts it off at 14 characters so the real question may be > "is there a way to make dpkg produce the entire version field?" > > I don't think so, but I could easily be wrong. > > John > > -- > > Powered by the Penguin In another branch of this thread, Colin Watson pointed out that dpkg seems to know if its output is going to screen (like a wide xterm) or to a pipe, and if it is going through a pipe, it defaults to an arbitrary width (which makes sense, the pipe is as "wide" as it needs to be). He also pointed out grep-dpkg and friends, which are what I intend to use. -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
Re: Debian Package HOWTO. Who ?
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 12:43:11PM +0100, Egbert Bouwman wrote: > No day without questions or complaints about the debian package system. > > Yesterday it was Hugo van der Merwe. > A couple of more or less random selected lines from his message: > > ... some easy way to sync the selections with > > what is currently installed ... > > I admit to not have researched this properly ... > > Each new user has to do his own research, has to make many mistakes. > I think this is a ridiculous situation. This is the best way to learn. > It seems to be a policy of the debian-in-group not to talk about > the mechanism behind the package system: files that are being > read or written are hardly mentioned in the user documentation. > Looks like they adhere to the data hiding principle. It's a vast conspiracy!!! (Hint: it's all open source so you can find out as much as is possible about it.) > What we need is a HOWTO-like document that explains everything > about the files in the background: which file is read or written > or updated in what way when you use any option or command. It's pretty much all in the man page. A HOWTO is not going to be much easier to read. For instance see the FILES section where it explains which files are read or written or updated. > For instance what happens when you do a 'dselect update' with the > apt access method. Or what happens or does not happen when you hit > any of the action keys while in a dselect dependency screen. > Not to mention all the dpkg options. > > Is there anybody who understands all (or most) of it and can write > a decent howto ? I rarely even use dpkg directly any more and never dselect. apt-get is just much easier to use. Here's my howto: Use apt. Cheers, Chris P.S.: I admit there are neat little tricks like dpkg --get-selections, dpkg -S, dpkg -s etc. But these are what the man page is for.
Re: Windowmaker and sound
It's there in potato. I don't a corresponding package with any kind of sounds. --- Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David A. Rogers wrote: > > > > Does the current version of WindowMaker do sound events? I > know earlier > > versions did with wmsound. But that was many versions ago > and wmsound seems > > to be dead. If it does sound now, how do you set it up? > > There's a package wsoundserver that works for this. I haven't > investigated > it thoroughly yet, as I just started using WindowMaker again > recently. I > should also note that I am using woody - I do not know about > the potato > packages. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/
Help: Ramdac (sounds like a real bad alien)
Hi, I've noticed with leaving X that I see in the X boot msgs the following follows the Ramdac listing: Warning: Ron = 43, Rloop = 10, Roff = 46 What is this and should I worry? I have the right timings in my XF86Setup file for the monitor and it works fine. Thanks, Jonathan PS Ramdac is sort of cool, like in "Yo, Ramdac, we gonna waste earth now or what?"
Re: NEWBIE: unable to read mail (SOLVED)
Hello, I do not really know what I did, but I installed sendmail, hoping that that would solve the problem. Did not, removed sendmail, installed Postfix again, moved all mail from /var/mail to /var/spool/mail and removed /var/mail, and suddenly everything works! Magically! Thanks for all suggestions. Greetings, Sebastiaan
X color depth question
When I start X I get console messages that it is going into 8bpp color depth but once it is up it does not look like 256. I have tried commenting out everything but the 24 bit lines but then I get errors. I think the problem is the x server. I am using the SVGA server with a Viper 770 (TNT2) is there a better server out there for it? Also has anyone had luck with the X 4.0.1 packages from Woody with a 2.2 system? Thanks for any feedback and help.
wvdial
Hi! I am running a fresh debian machine as a single user. When I try to connect to my ISP through wvdial or pon from my personal account I get a message complaining that I have no privilege to do the operation, I should be root to do it. I don't want to log as root each time I need the connection. How should I define the right privileges in order to run wvdial or pon from my personal account? Thanks in advance! Regards, Marcelo _ Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: basic xscreensaver question
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 06:35:57AM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I have two easy questions about xscreensaver: > > 1.How can I make it load automatically (without starting the deamon from > the menu everytime)? make a ~/.xsession with something like this: #! /bin/sh xscreensaver & exec wmaker it needs to be executable, chmod +x > 2.I have the GL screensavers turned on, but I get errors about not > setting my MESA_GLX_FX variable. Right now I have it so that it sets it in > my bashrc. What would be a better (global) file to put that it so all > programs could take advantage of it? (please fix your line wrap) no idea on this one, ive played with GL savers a bit but never had to mess with any variables like that. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpr3gMVgRhTg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: KDE2
There's a new kde mailing list (debian-kde), which is mostly for developers, but just lurking on that list will let you in on anything that might concernt a kde user. Currently, they've uploade new packages for kde libraries and some programs, but not all, and this is causing some people trouble. If you can stand to, I'd suggest watching the debian-kde list and waiting until they've resolved the problems before installing it. It won't hose your system, but will make kde unstable. After a successfull install, I always do "apt-get -d dist-upgrade" and see if all of the base kde packages get downloaded before I commit to installing them. -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
Re: X for windows...
Try www.microimages.com/mix . It is pretty good and of course free. Then IMHO once you get them to the point they want to pay for a pretty darned sweet package look at exceed. -- Original Message -- From: Dominic Blythe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 10:43:56 - >Not strictly a debian question, but does anyone know of a freeware >X client/server for MS Win so's I can get my win-addicted workplace >running gui *nx ? > >pls reply direct as this list traffic is too high for me to subscribe > > >__ >Dominic Blythe >Programmer >BCP Ltd > >BCP House, 151 Charles St, Stockport, SK1 3JY >t: 0161 355 3000 f: 0161 355 3001 >e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >** >* BCP Technical Services have checked this email for viruses * >** >Tel:(0161)355-3000 / Fax:(0161)355-3001 / http://www.BCPSoftware.com > >If you have received this message in error, please forward the entire >document to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and accept our sincere apologies. > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Run out of hd free space. Please help
My system has run out of hard disk space. I have removed several files, but df always says that there is no free space available. # df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 1968508 1907024 0 100% / What should I do? -- .'/,-Y" "~-. Vicente Torres Carot l.Y ^. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia /\ __ "Doh!" Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica i___/" "\ Extensión: 6034 | /" "\ o ! l ] o !__./ \ _ _\.___./"~\ X \/ \___./ ( \ ___. _..--~~" ~`-. ` Z,-- /\ __. ( / __) "I don't apologize. I'm sorry, but that's \ l /-~~" / just the way I am." -- Homer Simpson -- Y \ / ## | "x__.^ -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! --
Re: subnets & 2 NICS in a mashine
This advice applies to /etc/host.conf, not resolve.conf. On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 08:42:34AM -0600, Robert Guthrie wrote: > ... Something else to > look at first is your /etc/resolve.conf*. It should contain a line like > "order hosts,bind", which tells it to look first in /etc/hosts, and then go > to Bind for domain name resolution.
Re: fetchnews running automatically?
> > does fetchnews install some cron/anacron/etc. script which makes it > > fetch news automatically? I have created a crontab entry which runs > > fetchnews every 4 hours, but it seems to me like it is run more often > > that every 4 hours... If you mean the fetchnews from Leafnode, then if you have selected a PPP network connection it will be run every time you dial in. If you select a permanent network connection it will run from cron.daily. Otherwise it shouldn't run automatically unless you set up a cron job or something. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
Re: Run out of hd free space. Please help
a good bet is to delete loads of files in /var/log then reboot some handy logs attempt to write a logfile saying the disk is full, this is of course a self fulfilling prophesy. Jeff Vicente wrote: > > My system has run out of hard disk space. > I have removed several files, but df always says > that there is no free space available. > > # df > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 1968508 1907024 0 100% / > > What should I do? > > -- > .'/,-Y" "~-. > Vicente Torres Carot l.Y ^. > Universidad Politécnica de Valencia /\ __ "Doh!" > Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica i___/" "\ > Extensión: 6034 | /" "\ o ! > l ] o !__./ > \ _ _\.___./"~\ >X \/ \___./ > ( \ ___. _..--~~" ~`-. > ` Z,-- /\ > __. ( / __) > "I don't apologize. I'm sorry, but that's \ l /-~~" / > just the way I am." -- Homer Simpson -- Y \ / > ## | "x__.^ > -- > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! > -- > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Run out of hd free space. Please help
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 04:58:35PM +0100, Vicente wrote: > > My system has run out of hard disk space. > I have removed several files, but df always says > that there is no free space available. > > # df > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 1968508 1907024 0 100% / > > What should I do? You probably still have those files open. I would log completely out as my user, log in as root, go to runlevel 1 (by typing "init 1"), and then go back to runlevel 2 (by typing "init 2") after logging back in. This will restart all your processes. It's kind of like rebooting without losing your uptime. Cheers, Chris
Re: Problem with cups and xpp or qtcups
> Did you set 'Browsing' to 'on' in the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf? The package > maintainer set it to 'off' by default. > > If yes, what is the output of 'lpstat -v -d'? Hi, Browsing is set to on and the output of 'lpstat -v -d' is device for Epson_760: parallel:/dev/lp0 system default destination: Epson_760 In qtcups if I click to option only the port is set correctly to 631, but server is blanc, if I set server to localhost qtcups works. But it doesn't remember that! So, I think, that the problem is to set the correct server but I don't find this option in cupsd.conf file. Tank you very mach
RE: X for windows...
a couple of ppl have recommended MI/X, so this may be news... it's not free, it costs $25 a seat. It's free for macOs. the pricing might be new for v2.0 of MI/X. if version 1 was free, anyone know where i can get it? > -Original Message- > From: Ray Percival [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 November 2000 15:56 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; Dominic Blythe > Subject: Re: X for windows... > > > Try www.microimages.com/mix . It is pretty good and of course > free. Then IMHO once you get them to the point they want to > pay for a pretty darned sweet package look at exceed. > > > >Not strictly a debian question, but does anyone know of a freeware > >X client/server for MS Win so's I can get my win-addicted workplace > >running gui *nx ? > > > >pls reply direct as this list traffic is too high for me to subscribe > > > > > > > > > >-- > >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > ** * BCP Technical Services have checked this email for viruses * ** Tel:(0161)355-3000 / Fax:(0161)355-3001 / http://www.BCPSoftware.com If you have received this message in error, please forward the entire document to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and accept our sincere apologies.
Re: Tools available for..
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:29:33PM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote: > port forwarding (I tried this one already, but had a tough time, perhaps > just direction to some good tools or docs). You can use the ipmasqadm utility. For example, if you wanted to ssh into a computer on the internal network you would execute the following on your machine doing ip masquerading -- $ ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L external_ip_address_for_masq_box 22 \ -R address_of_internal_machine 22 For other options do ipmasqadm portfw -h -- Behind every great computer sits a skinny little geek.
Re: wvdial
On Thursday 16 November 2000 12:53, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > connection. How should I define the right privileges in order to run > wvdial or pon from my personal account? > Thanks in advance! Add your personal account to the "dip" group. adduser youraccount dip -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
Missing lib.
I get this error whenever I try and compile most things, most recently balsa. Anyone happen to know what lib this is? /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb Thanks Adam
NetBus?!
I'm using potato and Helix-Gnome. I just installed nmap, and it gives me Starting nmap V. 2.12 by Fyodor ([EMAIL PROTECTED], www.insecure.org/nmap/) Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1): PortState Protocol Service 9 opentcpdiscard 13 opentcpdaytime 22 opentcpssh 25 opentcpsmtp 37 opentcptime 515 opentcpprinter 6000opentcpX11 12345 opentcpNetBus Where can I look up what that means? Andre
Re: Run out of hd free space. Please help
How's your /var/cache/apt/archives/ directory? If you don't delete those files once in a while (dselect asks if you want to), that'll fill your hard drive pretty quickly. On Thursday 16 November 2000 09:58, Vicente wrote: > My system has run out of hard disk space. > I have removed several files, but df always says > that there is no free space available. > > # df > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 1968508 1907024 0 100% / > > What should I do? -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
quake - installation
Hi after installing the jdk I want to give Quake a try. i saw via apt-cache search quake that there's quake-3dfx available (I have a voodoo3-2000 running here). so can i just install the package and run the game by typing 'quake' ? cya michael -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net
Re: Run out of hd free space. Please help
Vicente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My system has run out of hard disk space. >I have removed several files, but df always says >that there is no free space available. > ># df >Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >/dev/hda1 1968508 1907024 0 100% / By default, 5% of each filesystem is reserved for the root user in case of emergency. 95% of 1968508 is 1870082, less than 1907024, so you've got some way to go yet. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X color depth question
"Ray Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I start X I get console messages that it is going into 8bpp > color depth but once it is up it does not look like 256. I have > tried commenting out everything but the 24 bit lines but then I get > errors. I think the problem is the x server. I am using the SVGA > server with a Viper 770 (TNT2) is there a better server out there > for it? Also has anyone had luck with the X 4.0.1 packages from > Woody with a 2.2 system? Thanks for any feedback and help. First, please wrap the lines in your email at about 70-72 columns. It doesn't make for nice reading otherwise. To interrogate the properties of X once it's running you can use the command xwininfo. Among other things it'll tell you the color depth you're running at. I believe the SVGA server works fine for my TNT 16,24 and 32-bit. At least I don't remember getting a special X server for it and I don't think there's much difference between the TNT and TNT2 except for speed. Of course you can force the X server to start at a particular resolution with: startx -- -bpp 16 for example. Gary
Re: Run out of hd free space. Please help
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 10:26:18AM -0600, Robert Guthrie wrote: > How's your /var/cache/apt/archives/ directory? If you don't delete those > files once in a while (dselect asks if you want to), that'll fill your hard > drive pretty quickly. The easy way to get rid of old debs that apt has downloaded is to execute 'apt-get clean'. -- "Two words: Windows survives." - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist "So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin." - Matthew Alton Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P+>+++ L+++> E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI D G e* h+ r++ y+
Re: Missing lib.
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:18:25AM -0500, Adam Wilson wrote: > I get this error whenever I try and compile most things, most recently > balsa. > Anyone happen to know what lib this is? > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb libc6-dev used to provide libdb, but since glibc 2.2, that is no longer the case. So you need to instal libdb2-dev. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: NetBus?!
"Andre Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using potato and Helix-Gnome. I just installed nmap, and it gives > me > Starting nmap V. 2.12 by Fyodor ([EMAIL PROTECTED], www.insecure.org/nmap/) > Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1): > PortState Protocol Service > 9 opentcpdiscard > 13 opentcpdaytime > 22 opentcpssh > 25 opentcpsmtp > 37 opentcptime > 515 opentcpprinter > 6000opentcpX11 > 12345 opentcpNetBus > > Where can I look up what that means? You can find out what process has a particular port open with the lsof command. I think it's: lsof -i for networking ports, but suggest "man lsof", or at least "lsof --help" to be certain. And lsof is in it's own Debian package. Gary
8 bit color
Hey Guys, I am trying to export an application from a sun machine to my debian machine. When I export the 24 bit version of the program it will display fine. When I export an 8 bit version of the same program, it bombs out with this message: X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) Major opcode of failed request: 89 (X_StoreColors) Serial number of failed request: 645 Current serial number in output stream: 659 If I really need to use the 8 bit version of this program, what can I do to my local display to be able to see it? Any suggestions welcome! Thanks so much, Debian Ghost
Re: Debian Package HOWTO. Who ?
Egbert Bouwman writes: > Looks like they adhere to the data hiding principle. Everything needed to create debian packages and all existing documentation on the package system is packaged and in the archive: apt-get install task-debian-devel maint-guide debian-guide debian-policy \ doc-debian packaging-manual man dpkg man dselect man apt more /usr/share/doc/* If you want to really dig in, install the sources and read them. > What we need is a HOWTO-like document that explains everything about the > files in the background: which file is read or written or updated in what > way when you use any option or command. Everything you need to create it is available from the archive. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
Re: wvdial
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > I am running a fresh debian machine as a single user. When I try to > connect to my ISP through wvdial or pon from my personal account I get a > message complaining that I have no privilege to do the operation, I should > be root to do it. I don't want to log as root each time I need the > connection. How should I define the right privileges in order to run > wvdial or pon from my personal account? You need to have permissions to read and write the modem device (ttyS0, ttyS1, or whatever). If you check, $ ls -l /dev/ttyS* crw-rw1 root dialout4, 64 Nov 12 20:41 /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw1 root dialout4, 65 Oct 15 12:42 /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw1 root dialout4, 66 Jul 5 13:44 /dev/ttyS2 crw-rw1 root dialout4, 67 Jul 5 13:44 /dev/ttyS3 you see that adding yourself to the "dialout" group does the job; so, issue the command # adduser myusername dialout and you should be OK (although some say it's a questionable security practice to give a regular user these kind of permissions). However, I've found that pppd, for some reason, occasionally changes the permissions of the modem device to crw-r, and every time that happens you have to su to root and chmod g+w /dev/ttyS0, which gets tiresome. So I've switched to using pon and poff, and I've since had no problems. Just run "pppconfig" as route, and forget about wvdial, and you'll be happy.---Bruce F.
RE: dpkg --getselections, apt, and update-menus
> - Maybe update-menus should rather look at what is currently installed, > rather than what the selections for the next "install/remove" operation > will be. It does seem to make more sense to me. getselections is supposed to be current. A package marked deinstall is removed, but not purged. Or at least it is expected to be. There is no other good way for an outside program to ask dpkg about the state of the system. > - This is maybe the best/most useful solution at this point: some easy > way to sync the selections with what is currently installed? i.e. "undo" > all selections. How can one do this? > a) # dpkg --get-selections|sed -e 's/deinstall$/install/'|dpkg --set-selections # apt-get dselect-upgrade b) run the dselect update as root, but actually browse as a user c) dselect has a 'revert' key binding, but it only works for that run of dselect. So if you exit, there is no help. Personally, I think console apt should have some way of showing new packages. if a package is marked 'new' and you have the sort order set to show new items first, it would emulate dselect fairly well.
Re: Run out of hd free space. Please help (SOLVED)
Robert Guthrie wrote: > > How's your /var/cache/apt/archives/ directory? If you don't delete those > files once in a while (dselect asks if you want to), that'll fill your hard > drive pretty quickly. > 340MB on this directory was the problem!! Thanks
rsync w/ssh
I'm trying to setup a cron job to sync two servers using ssh and rsync. The problem is I'm promted for a password; which won't work when I stick it in cron. Here's the syntax of my command line: rsync -vnaz --rsh=ssh --delete somehost.com:/var/www/ /var/www/ Any ideas? Thanks! Kelly -- -- Kelly Corbin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- On the web @ http://www.theiqgroup.com -- The IQ Group, Inc. -- 6740 Antioch Suite 110 -- Merriam, KS 66202 -- (913)-722-6700 -- Fax (913)722-7264
Re: a little too noisy, bye bye
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Re: rsync w/ssh
"Kelly Corbin,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to setup a cron job to sync two servers using ssh and rsync. The > problem is I'm promted for a password; which won't work when I stick it in > cron. Here's the syntax of my command line: > > > rsync -vnaz --rsh=ssh --delete somehost.com:/var/www/ /var/www/ > > Any ideas? Thanks! Why were you thinking you wouldn't be prompted for a password? In order to do passwordless ssh you need to do the following: 1) On your local system run ssh-keygen and use a good passphrase when prompted 2) Copy the contents of ~/.ssh/identity.pub from the local system to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote system. 3) Make sure your ssh daemon on the remote system has, at least, the following in it's configuration file: RSAAuthentication yes That should get you going for passwordless ssh between the two. Gary
Re: NetBus?!
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Andre Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm using potato and Helix-Gnome. I just installed nmap, and it gives > > me > > Starting nmap V. 2.12 by Fyodor ([EMAIL PROTECTED], www.insecure.org/nmap/) > > Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1): > > PortState Protocol Service > > 9 opentcpdiscard > > 13 opentcpdaytime > > 22 opentcpssh > > 25 opentcpsmtp > > 37 opentcptime > > 515 opentcpprinter > > 6000opentcpX11 > > 12345 opentcpNetBus > > > > Where can I look up what that means? > > You can find out what process has a particular port open with the lsof > command. I think it's: > > lsof -i > > for networking ports, but suggest "man lsof", or at least "lsof > --help" to be certain. And lsof is in it's own Debian package. > > Gary Thank you Gary (and Andrew), fortunately it was the fakebo package sitting on the port, and I feel way better now! Maybe you also know where can I find a list of the port numbers? Andre
Exim - mail delivery on a LAN
Apologies in advance for a long post. I have a two machine home network using 192.168.1.X static addresses, both running Debian potato and using Exim as the MTA. Both machines on that network can reach the Internet through a hardware router/firewall (Linksys BEFSR41), and then a cable modem. The router has port forwarding capability, so I have incoming smtp (port 25) forwarded to one of the machines, and I can send and receive mail to/from that machine to/from anywhere on the Internet. To make that work, I use a dynamic dns service so that my Internet email machine has a fully qualified domain name that is Internet visible. Local mail delivery also works fine on both machines (user to user on each host). So far so good. What I can't figure out is how to configure Exim to send mail from one machine to the other on the LAN. And I suspect there is some basic fundamental of email/networking that I don't understand that is blocking the way. My home network setup is very simple: - I call the network 'home' (192.168.1.0) - each host obviously has it's own hostname - so I have newdebian.home and olddebian.home - and those names/addresses are in /etc/hosts on each machine - I don't run a local name server - I use my IPS's name servers - and those IP addresses are in /etc/resolv.conf. - other services such as telnet, ftp, ping work fine using hostnames But I can't get email to work between the two hosts. When I try, Exim just returns it to the same machine, with this message included: A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. The following address(es) failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unrouteable mail domain "newdebian.home" The problem based on the error message, is that Exim doesn't know about *.home hostnames. My question is: How do I get it to know about them? I have run eximconfig on both machines, choosing option #1 which is "Internet machine". That sets up 2 default router entries in /etc/exim.config as shown at the end of this post. I understand that for non-local mail, a router has to be configured in /etc/exim.conf, which then hands it off to a transport, which I assume would be "remote-smtp". Or no? I've been going through the Exim documentation, but it sorely lacks for some SFE (Simple F**king Examples) for those of us with simple needs. Any pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated, as would anyone who can straighten out any misunderstanding(s) I have that are obvious from reading this post . Thanks. Here's the routers section on both machines: ## # ROUTERS CONFIGURATION # #Specifies how remote addresses are handled # ## # ORDER DOES MATTER # # A remote address is passed to each in turn until it is accepted. # ## # Remote addresses are those with a domain that does not match any item # in the "local_domains" setting above. # This router routes to remote hosts over SMTP using a DNS lookup with # default options. lookuphost: driver = lookuphost transport = remote_smtp # This router routes to remote hosts over SMTP by explicit IP address, # given as a "domain literal" in the form [nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn]. The RFCs # require this facility, which is why it is enabled by default in Exim. # If you want to lock it out, set forbid_domain_literals in the main # configuration section above. literal: driver = ipliteral transport = remote_smtp end
Re: NetBus?!
"Andre Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > > > > You can find out what process has a particular port open with the lsof > > command. I think it's: > > > > lsof -i > > > > for networking ports, but suggest "man lsof", or at least "lsof > > --help" to be certain. And lsof is in it's own Debian package. > > > > Gary > > Thank you Gary (and Andrew), > > fortunately it was the fakebo package sitting on the port, and I feel > way better now! > > Maybe you also know where can I find a list of the port numbers? If you mean a list of ports on your system, you can look in /etc/services. If you mean just what ports are generally used for there's a neat web page that will help. Take a look at: http://www.snort.org/ and click on the "Port Search" link on the left. Pretty nifty. Gary
Re: Aarrggg! fonts & 4.0.1-4 (again :(
I was able to solve this problem by reinstalling xfonts-base. The problem is discussed in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz at the bottom. My problem was that the /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias file did not exist on the first install for some reason. The re-install fixed it. Gerry On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Ian Stuart wrote: > I did an upgrade to XFree86 4.0.1-4 (..-3 was fine) and now I' can't get X > to start at all. > > I've got the same "Fatal server error: could not open default font > 'fixed'" that others have got. > > I've forced atp to do a reinstall of all the xfonts, freefont and the > gsfonts; i've also forced xserver-xfree86, xfree-common and xutils > > I've tried using the font server xfs (which gives no errors :), specifying > /usr/lib/X11/fonts/, and a font-server from a red-hat box my > colleage is using (he's also using 4.0.1) > > I've made sure that mkfontdir has been run in each directory. > > I can't locate any X 4.0.1-3 .debs, so I really need a fix :) > (and my boss is hassling me to do some work :) > > Here is the relevent section from my XF86Config file: > --- include - > Section "Files" > # FontPath"unix/:7100"# local font > server > # FontPath"tcp/ceres.ucs.ed.ac.uk:7100" > # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these > FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" > FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" > FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" > FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" > FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" > FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" > #FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/" > EndSection > --- end include -- > > and here is the error from startx (run as root, no less!) > > - include --- > Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo, removing from > list! > > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > > When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send > the full server output, not just the last messages. > This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log". > Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. > -- end include -- > >--==**==-- > Ian Stuart - University computing services. > - > Truth is what you believe it to be. > I cannot force my facts on you, only make you believe my beliefs. > - > http://lucas.ucs.ed.ac.uk/ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Run out of hd free space. Please help (SOLVED)
On Thursday 16 November 2000 11:02, Vicente wrote: > 340MB on this directory was the problem!! > Thanks As Dave Sherohman pointed out, apt-get clean will keep that directory clear of refuse. I'd suggest a cron job that runs /usr/bin/apt-get clean once a week or so. -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
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Re: wvdial
Bruce F. writes: > However, I've found that pppd, for some reason, occasionally changes the > permissions of the modem device to crw-r,... It always does that, for security. If it exits normally it changes the permissions back. > So I've switched to using pon and poff, and I've since had no problems. > Just run "pppconfig" as route, and forget about wvdial, and you'll be > happy. With pon and poff there is no need for the user to be in the dialout group. He does have to be in the dip group, but you can set that in pppconfig. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
Re: Debian 2.2 installer boot floppys
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:55:25AM +, Chris Howells wrote: ...snip > I asked on #debian about this, and was told that I needed to edit the > file syslinux.cfg on one of the floppies, yet I am unsure how to do this > (or why even -- all I want to do is start the installer from the > CD-ROM?). They won't mount under Linux Mandrake (on my other machine), > to edit the file, even if I specify > > mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ^^ Perhaps here is the error: try with mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ^^ (Note: if "msdos" isn't rhe right choice, try with "minix" . Good Luck paolo massei
Re: NetBus?!
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Andre Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [snip] > > > > > > You can find out what process has a particular port open with the lsof > > > command. I think it's: > > > > > > lsof -i > > > > > > for networking ports, but suggest "man lsof", or at least "lsof > > > --help" to be certain. And lsof is in it's own Debian package. > > > > > > Gary > > > > Thank you Gary (and Andrew), > > > > fortunately it was the fakebo package sitting on the port, and I feel > > way better now! > > > > Maybe you also know where can I find a list of the port numbers? > > If you mean a list of ports on your system, you can look in > /etc/services. If you mean just what ports are generally used for > there's a neat web page that will help. Take a look at: > > http://www.snort.org/ > > and click on the "Port Search" link on the left. Pretty nifty. > > Gary Now that you say it I guess I ment both, thanks ;) -- Andre
Re: NT4 in VMWare VM can't see Samba over network - Yes, PlainTextPassword set :)
Robin Collins wrote: Not really a Debian issue but maybe someone can help me out here. There are two computers here, for the sake of discussion called A and B. B runs Samba 2.0.7a on Potato. A is multi-boot. When booted to native NT4 SP6a with PlainTextPassword set A can see B and access B's shares perfectly. When booted to Linux, SMBCLIENT can see B's shares, use them and can also NFS mount them. BUT, when I run NT4 SP6a in a VMWare VM the VM can see the host, can see a Win98 system also on the network but can't see B nor map a share using NET VIEW: attempts fail with an error 53, name not found. Network Neighbourhood is also missing B, but the stange thing is that after a while (where "while" seems indeterminate!) B appears in Network Neighbourhood but it's shares cannot be seen. There are no errors logged by smbd or nmbd on B but the problem "feels" like some sort of name resolution problem; though clearly not DNS since the VM can ping B by name. PlainTextPassword is set since the VM can map drives from the host's Samba. SMBCLIENT on B can get to the VM's shares so B in able to "see" A's VM by name. I've installed many NT4/Samba systems in my time but I've never seen this, anyone any ideas? Cheers, Robin Collins I can't really explain what you're seeing, but you might try mapping a drive to B with the IP address instead of the name. For example, instead of mapping a drive to \\B\ShareName, map it to \\xxx.yyy.zzz.qqq\ShareName. It may not be a solution, but it might provide some more clues.
Re: dpkg --getselections, apt, and update-menus
> getselections is supposed to be current. A package marked deinstall is > removed, but not purged. Or at least it is expected to be. On my machine, it definately doesn't work like that. I just tested it. Changed a selection in dselect, but didn't do an "Install", the selection change was evident in dpkg --get-selections. > There is no other > good way for an outside program to ask dpkg about the state of the system. I realise this is the problem. Which is why one might rather look at updating dpkg, rather than update-menus... (Oh, my machine is a very up-to-date woody, well, as up to date as the local mirror, which seems to update a couple of times a week, but not necessarily every day.) > a) # dpkg --get-selections|sed -e 's/deinstall$/install/'|dpkg > --set-selections ># apt-get dselect-upgrade Ah yes... sed. The problem with this is, it will also install the packages that are not installed (that are really currently "deinstalled"). Maybe one should use sed on /var/lib/dpkg/status...? Replacing lines containing "Status: install ok deinstall" or something like that with "Status: install ok install"... It does sort of feel wrong to go this "low level" though. > b) run the dselect update as root, but actually browse as a user A little extra trouble, but probably the best solution thus far. Infact, I just got the idea, and tested it, to simply do: # dselect update ; su hugo -c "dselect select" I could just make this a "listnewpackages" script or alias... > c) dselect has a 'revert' key binding, but it only works for that run of > dselect. So if you exit, there is no help. Yup... a "global revert" would be usefull. > Personally, I think console apt should have some way of showing new packages. > if a package is marked 'new' and you have the sort order set to show new items > first, it would emulate dselect fairly well. If possible, this way should be avoidable if it makes console-apt any slower, I think. But personally, on my machine, I would also love to see this. Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe
Re: IDS
> > I'm looking for recommendations for an Intrusion Detection system for my > > firewall. Preferably a debian package but not restricted to. > > Try aide http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/aide.html. aide or tripwire will both do host based intrusion detection. if you want network intrusion detection try snort. there is a debian package and there are lots of pre-written rules to detect attacks on snorts web site. it's also being very actively developed. adam.
Re: rsync w/ssh
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why were you thinking you wouldn't be prompted for a password? In > order to do passwordless ssh you need to do the following: > > 1) On your local system run ssh-keygen and use a good passphrase when > prompted > > 2) Copy the contents of ~/.ssh/identity.pub from the local system to > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote system. > > 3) Make sure your ssh daemon on the remote system has, at least, the > following in it's configuration file: > > RSAAuthentication yes Forgot 4) Run ssh-add at the beginning of your login session. Unfortunately I'm not sure what you can do passwordless if you're talking about running stuff as a cron job. You may have to allow RhostsAuthentication in order for that to work, and that's not a very secure solution. Gary
Re: Zope newbie can't log in
> I can log in on Zope as superuser and create a new user. But I can > not log in as that user although anything is correct as far as the > login name and password is concerned. i am new to zope as well but i just dealt with this the ohter day. it appears that the admin user can log in from anywhere (or that the post-install script for the debian package sets it that way), however a user you create, you must specify the hosts or domains that they can come from when you create the user in zope. i haven't tried to see if a * will allow access from anywhere yet. > I have removed apache still can not log in as user - even user 'a' > with password 'a' which I created as superuser. I have tried it on > Mozilla, Netscape and Lynx. Links would not work with Zope because it > ignores the :9673 part in references. apache has nothing to do with this if you are reaching zope on port 9673. and lynx should work just fine. just make sure you specify the url correctly. http://host.domain.com:9673/ adam.
Re: ssh authentication
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (robert_wilhelm_land) writes: > logged as a normal user I would like to open up X-apps requiring root > permissions. I've been able to open X-apps as root using sudo. IMHO, sudo should be a required package in Debian. Hubert
Re: Exim - mail delivery on a LAN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > What I can't figure out is how to configure Exim to send mail from one > machine to the other on the LAN. And I suspect there is some basic > fundamental of email/networking that I don't understand that is blocking > the way. > > My home network setup is very simple: > - I call the network 'home' (192.168.1.0) > - each host obviously has it's own hostname > - so I have newdebian.home and olddebian.home > - and those names/addresses are in /etc/hosts on each machine > - I don't run a local name server - I use my IPS's name servers > - and those IP addresses are in /etc/resolv.conf. > - other services such as telnet, ftp, ping work fine using hostnames > > But I can't get email to work between the two hosts. When I try, Exim > just returns it to the same machine, with this message included: > > A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its > recipients. The following address(es) failed: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > unrouteable mail domain "newdebian.home" You need to get exim to know about the "newdebian.home" name. > The problem based on the error message, is that Exim doesn't know about > *.home hostnames. My question is: How do I get it to know about them? You need to run a private DNS server on one of your Linux systems. Both of your Linux systems needs to use your private DNS server for *all* name lookups. As me or on the mailing list if you need help setting that up. When delivering email, SMTP systems tend to use what's called the "MX record" for a certain DNS name (whether it's tux.creighton.edu or creighton.edu) to know what host should be handling that email. I have yet to find a SMTP agent that can use just the straight /etc/hosts file. > I have run eximconfig on both machines, choosing option #1 which is > "Internet machine". That sets up 2 default router entries in > /etc/exim.config as shown at the end of this post. I understand that for > non-local mail, a router has to be configured in /etc/exim.conf, which > then hands it off to a transport, which I assume would be "remote-smtp". > Or no? Close. This is what I do to my exim config at home to make this work (obviously the values you use will be different): 1) set "local_domains" to be the domains you want to route. I have "local_domains = /etc/exim/local-domains"; /etc/exim/local-domains is a file that contains: localhost kaitain.brutsche.com brutsche.com druid.obix.com kaitain.obix.com giedi.obix.com arrakis.obix.com fury.obix.com aeryn.obix.com 2) create transport definitions to define how to get mail to the destination. I have in the Transports configuration: druid_smtp: driver = smtp hosts = druid.brutsche.com giedi_smtp: driver = smtp hosts = giedi.brutsche.com arrakis_smtp: driver = smtp hosts = arrakis.brutsche.com fury_smtp: driver = smtp hosts = fury.brutsche.com aeryn_smtp: driver = smtp hosts = aeryn.brutsche.com 3) create directors to do the actual routing. I have in the Directors configuration: druid: driver = smartuser transport = druid_smtp domains = druid.obix.com no_more giedi: driver = smartuser transport = giedi_smtp domains = giedi.obix.com no_more arrakis: driver = smartuser transport = arrakis_smtp domains = arrakis.obix.com no_more fury: driver = smartuser transport = fury_smtp domains = fury.obix.com no_more aeryn: driver = smartuser transport = aeryn_smtp domains = aeryn.obix.com no_more > I've been going through the Exim documentation, but it sorely lacks for > some SFE (Simple F**king Examples) for those of us with simple needs. Tell me about it... It took me a week or two to figure out how to do just this much :) > Any pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated, as would > anyone who can straighten out any misunderstanding(s) I have that are > obvious from reading this post . Thanks. What I typed out above should be incredibly helpful :) - -- - -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: 9BF9 D84C 37D0 4FA7 1F2D 7E5E FD94 D264 50DE 1CFC GPG key id: 50DE1CFC GPG public key: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/gpg-public-key.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6FCtV/ZTSZFDeHPwRAoEWAJwOnY4OHiCGqv2Fb4ATJLTQqPjyLgCg1n+l h8LRjprS0ZjfI1vbBf1Cf54= =EdrT -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: dpkg --getselections, apt, and update-menus
Hugo van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> getselections is supposed to be current. A package marked deinstall is >> removed, but not purged. Or at least it is expected to be. > >On my machine, it definately doesn't work like that. I just tested it. >Changed a selection in dselect, but didn't do an "Install", the >selection change was evident in dpkg --get-selections. I don't think that's what Sean meant. If, in dselect, you use '-' to mark a package for removal - or use 'apt-get remove' - then a package's configuration files won't be removed, and some state about the package will remain in the system. However, if you use '_' in dselect, or 'apt-get --purge remove', then the package's configuration files will be removed too, and /var/lib/dpkg/status will forget that it ever existed. I almost always purge packages unless I'm just removing them temporarily. >> a) # dpkg --get-selections|sed -e 's/deinstall$/install/'|dpkg >--set-selections >># apt-get dselect-upgrade > >Ah yes... sed. The problem with this is, it will also install the >packages that are not installed (that are really currently >"deinstalled"). No, completely uninstalled (purged or never installed) packages don't show up in 'dpkg --get-selections' at all. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
