date:20001216

"cp -a" has always worked for me.  tar would also work.   i think cpio and dd
would also.

anything that preserves permissions, file ownership, and links should be OK.

pete

On Fri 15 Dec 00,  7:42 PM, Denzil Kelly said...
> How do I go about moving my entire filesystem to
> larger hard drive?
> 
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SBLive+CreativeSource==BadMixer?

2000-12-16 Thread John Travis

I was just curious as to whether or not anyone has experienced this.  
First of all I'm runny woody and 2.4-test9.  I like to use the source 
from creative becuase it provides a few extra channels in the mixer 
than the kernel source.  But anything after about 10-01-2000 presents a 
strange problem in the mixer.  My card gets mis-identified as a PCI Tel 
and the channels aren't correct.  Anyone come across a solution for the 
current snapshots from creative?

Re: Need advice: Compaq Presarios and Debian

d-man, you might want to set your wrapmargin a bit shorter.

anyway, i just installed potato on my girlfriend's perario.  it's a
piece-of-shit computer that i wouldn't force feed to my dog, but it's not SO
evil that bios flashes when it sees linux.  i find that VERY hard to
believe; almost absurd.

as for lilo, you can have two devices on each ide chain.  i assume you have
windows on one hd and linux on another hd.   why not just make them a
mast/slave pair on the first IDE chain?

my girlfriend's presario had a single hard drive on the first IDE chain and
a DVD and floppy (yes, a floppy!) on the 2nd IDE chain.  i've never seen a
floppy with an IDE connector.  wierd.

anyway, the hd that came with the system was bolted onto the motherboard,
but i was able to rip the ribbon cable out (which only had 2 connectors on
it) and replace it with my own ribbon cable with the normal 3 connectors.
from there, i connected it to the piece-of-garbage bolted on hd AND another
13GB hd that i gave to her.   had to use an extra long IDE ribbbon cable
because of the funky positioning of the bolted on hd.

boy, everytime i open her computer, i always get the feeling that compaq
didn't just put any thought into working on your computer.  they specifically
designed it to discourage you to!

pete

On Fri 15 Dec 00, 11:45 PM, D-Man said...
> 
> Inform Compaq that M$ isn't the only OS vendor. :-)
> 
> I have a Compaq Presario (don't get one, it's better to build your own comp 
> from
> parts) that came with Windows 98 preinstalled.  I added RedHat to it (first 
> 5.2
> - didn't like my video card,  then 6.1 , now 7.0 ).  I am planning on 
> installing
> Debian Potato early next week.
> 
> I wonder why your BIOS got flashed.  You probably should have installed a 
> better
> BIOS ;-).  My BIOS can't boot from the second IDE bus, thus I can't use LILO 
> and
> must first boot DOS and run loadlin.
> 
> -D
> 
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 13:51:09 Tom Schuetz wrote:
>  | I had Red Hat installed on my Presario as a dual boot system. It had its 
> own
>  | hard drive, and worked somewhat, but eventually it flashed the BIOS and the
>  | whole motherboard had to be replaced. 
>  | 
>  | I was told (tersely) by Compaq Support that Presarios are NOT GOOD with
>  | Linux. 
>  | 
>  | But, I WANT LINUX. Namely, I want Debian. Anybody know about Presarios and
>  | Debian? 
>  | 
> 
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security question: running a public ftp server

dear all,

i'm playing around with putting up a public ftp server on my woody box.

i know that ftp has its security problems; in fact, the beowulf cluster i
managed at school was broken into via a wuftpd vulnerability.

can someone point me to documentation specifically aimed at beefing up
security of ftp and apache?   everything is behind an LRP (linux router
project) firewall, so i'm pretty secure otherwise.  i let hardly anything in
or out, everything gets logged, and i actually look at the logs.  i run tara
every so often, and i'm very conscious about password security.

however, i'm curious about vulnerabilities in the ftp and www daemons
themselves.

any tips on running an ftp server?  pointers?

much obliged!

peter

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Blackdown Java on Debian

2000-12-16 Thread Tino Ionescu

Hello , 

Looking for a java debugger available on Linux I found at this site 
http://www.bluemarsh.com/java/jswat/
a debugger. Now , it uses *.jar file. If my understanding is correct, all java
distributions available on Linux have JDPA enabled.

With classpath correct set when I try: "java  -jar  jswat.jar" this is the
answer:  

Cannot find the JPDA package!
Make sure jpda.jar or tools.jar is in your CLASSPATH.

Can anybody please clarify if JDPA is enabled on Blackdown Java and where is
located because I was unsuccsesfull to identify it.

Thank you for participation,
Floretin.


PS-If anybody interested I found another "cool" tool , java debugger at 
www.oops.demon.co.uk/jdbtool.
If anybody want to share thoughts about java development enviroments on Linux
, I thank you in advance.




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Re: SBLive+CreativeSource==BadMixer?

2000-12-16 Thread John Travis

Actually I just tried the latest snapshot and it should be a SigmaTel 
not a PCI Tel.  A SigmaTel STAC9721/23 to be exact ;).

jt

interesting xmcd conundrum

hello all,

when i run xmcd, it reports:

xmcd Fatal Error:
Xmcd binary permissions error: It should be setuid root.  Please have
your system administrator correct this.

even though:
% ll /usr/bin/xmcd 
-rwsr-sr-x1 root root 1223 Nov 21 20:43 /usr/bin/xmcd*

according to strace:

write(3, 
"\10\20\2\0006\1\340\0\f\0\4\0]\0\340\0\10\0\26\0\245\0\0\0\f\0\4\0^\0\340\0\10\0\0\0\245\0\0\0=\0\4\0^\0\340\0\231\0\0\0\2\0\217\0=\0\4\0^\0\340\0\0\0\215\0\233\0\2\0E\1\10\0^\0\340\0\17\0"...,
 2048) = 2048
setuid(0)   = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
write(2, "xmcd Fatal Error:\nXmcd binary permissions error: It should be
setuid root.  Please have\nyour system"..., 128) = 128
_exit(1)= ?


i believe that 3 is a fd for /etc/mtab.  it seems to be choking on
setuid(0).  but the executable IS setuid root.

any tips?

thanks!
pete


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Re: OT - web browsers

2000-12-16 Thread Ken Weingold

On Fri, Dec 15, 2000, Erik Steffl wrote:
> 
>   - middle click on link opens link in new window (in netscape browser,
> email, newsgroups)
> 
>   - clicking on wheel (leftmost) button on the status bar
> sort-of-toolbar opens new netscape window
> 
>   the second one might be what you want. or am I misunderstanding?

Yeah, I think you are.  I am talking about copying a URL from a
terminal window or even the web browser itself.  Open a new browser
window and you still have text in the Location bar.

-Ken

apm

2000-12-16 Thread Glyn Millington

Good morning.  In a fit of folly last night I recompiled my 2.2.17 potato
kernel. Great - a lean mean kernel that boots up like lightning, but no apm
:-(

By no apm I mean that the machine will not power-off at the end of a
"shutdown -h now"  I've never persuaded it to do more than that! But that
much I have hitherto managed.

Apm IS enabled in the kernel. and my /etc/lilo.conf contains the magic line 

append="apm=on"

Last time this happened I had to re-install (the OS!) and then it worked
fine.  But I have seen the error of my ways and realise now that this is not
"the Debian way".  

Help!


Glyn


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Netscape open button

2000-12-16 Thread Ken Weingold

FYI: here it is from 3.02 for the Mac.  The buttons were the same on
all versions.  


-Ken

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Re: ssh: localhost: Temporary failure in name resolution

2000-12-16 Thread Andre Berger

kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:

> on Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 12:36:17AM +0100, Andre Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
> wrote:
> > I get "ssh: localhost: Temporary failure in name resolution" with
> > 
> > ssh_1%3a2.2.0p1-1.1progeny1_i386.deb
> > ssh-askpass-gnome_1%3a2.2.0p1-1.1progeny1_i386.deb
> > 
> > but I can ping localhost, and I can still access other machines with
> > ssh. Any ideas? I've just upgraded from potato and its ssh.
> 
> Possibly reverse-DNS lookup from the sshd server -- check your logs.  Is
> your DNS server (named) running, if you are using local DNS?  I've had
> issues with servers failing to restart during/after recent updates, tend
> to go through them by hand or script these days.
> 
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>http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org

It's a dial-up machine, DNS assigned for each PPP connection. As soon
as I am connected to my ISP, everything works. Which logs am I
supposed to check?  /var/log/{auth.log,messages,syslog} don't tell
much, just that key generation was successful.

Andre

Re: xdm takes so long to start [was Re: New X Server crashes]

2000-12-16 Thread Cajus Pollmeier

Am Freitag, 15. Dezember 2000 18:38 schrieb Erik Steffl:
> Joey Hess wrote:
> > Shao Zhang wrote:
> > > xdm on my machine(laptop) takes about 50 seconds to start.
> > >
> > > If no one knows why, then I am going to fire up a bug report against
> > > it.
> >
> > I've already tracked down this bug and filed a report, so please don't
> > bother.
>
>   any news on this? xdm still takes a LONG time (one minute?) until it
> start X server (the login window)

Hi!

I haven't followed the thread, but I had such a problem with /dev/urandom in
the xdm config.

Try this in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config
DisplayManager.randomFile:  /dev/mem

-Cajus

Re: About crontab

2000-12-16 Thread Philipp Schulte

On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:22:17PM +, uland wrote: 

> Hi,
>   I want to submit a job to crontab, and follow the "new" format
> such as:
> m h dom mon dow user  command
> 0 12 * * * someone /bin/somecommand
> But it does not work for me. I find some message in syslog:
> Dec 14 12:00:00 omega /USR/SBIN/CRON[11215]: (someone) CMD 
> (someone^Isomecommand)
> How can I make my job work? Thanks a lot.

I had such problems too. Then I found out that you have to put a new
line (\n) after the command, even if there is just this single job
definded in your crontab.
Phi

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плохой английский язык.

Perl 5.6

2000-12-16 Thread Peczoli Zoltan

Hi all, 


I've read in the newsletter that there were issues with the perl 5.6
update. Is it safe now to update? (i'm already using woody, last updated
in autumn, september or so) My system is running several servers (apache,
ftp, and so on...) and it would be a disaster if any of these stopped,
while I need the programs in the latest update.

Thanx:
 Pocok

DRIVERS

2000-12-16 Thread MICHAËL DERCHE




Salut,
 
    J'ai un petit soucis, mon 
installation est foutu.
Pourriez-vous me fournir les drivers?
 
Renercie.
A+

Re: Signal 11 when using 'ps'

2000-12-16 Thread Ed Cogburn

Chris Gray wrote:
> 

Thanks for helping Chris.

> > Ed Cogburn writes:
>
> ec> Athlon "Thunderbird" CPU, 1Ghz
> 
> You lucky bastard.

You don't want to know what a 1Ghz Athlon plus an Ultra160 SCSI drive
can do for kernel compiles!  By the time you're back from the kitchen
with a mug of coffee, its already done, kernel and modules, and you
haven't even taken a sip yet.  I sold my soul for this system.  :-)

> ec> This is an strace of console-apt which is also giving
> ec> me sig11 errors (same place, same time, 100% consistent):
> 
> Console-apt has bugs.  This is when you are resizing the window,
> right?  It's probably been fixed in CVS for a long time now and just
> not released.

Yes, I forgot to mention that console-apt is printing "Window creation
assert failed" or something very close to that.

> 
> ec> What should I do?  Would compiling ps with debug info
> ec> and stepping through it help?  Should I try something else?
> 
> Please do compile ps with debugging symbols and send a gdb backtrace.
> I'll have a look at the source and see if I can find the bug.  Also,
> send a bug report to the maintainers of procps, both upstream and
> Debian using the "bug" command.

Ok, I'll get ps compiled with debugging info and try again.  I'll get
back to ya.  (This oughta be fun)

-- 
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Re: DRIVERS

2000-12-16 Thread Sebastiaan

Hi,

I think you have a better chance for responds when you post here in
English. 

In my broken French, I understand that you are looking for drivers. Which
drivers? What does not work? Did Debian install correctly or was it
broken. You need to be more specific.

Salut,
Sebastiaan

On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, MICHAËL DERCHE wrote:

> Salut,
> 
> J'ai un petit soucis, mon installation est foutu.
> Pourriez-vous me fournir les drivers?
> 
> Renercie.
> A+
>

Re: exim

Hi,

i fear this one is behond me:(
there are two things that to my knowledge shouldn't be there if you're
using the fetchmailrc I think you're using. I'll point to these two
point below.

I think you have in ~/.procmailrc something like:
  set postmaster "tony"
  set bouncemail
  set properties ""
  poll postoffice.worldnet.att.net aka worldnet.att.net, the-sphere.org
   with proto POP3
   user arodriguez there with password not-this-one is tony here
   options keep fetchall

the "aka worldnet.att.net" should take care of the first fetchmail complaint
and the "user ... is tony here" should tell fetchmail whom to deliver to.

> Here is what I got last:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail -v -v ; date
> fetchmail: 5.3.3 querying postoffice.worldnet.att.net (protocol POP3) at Fri, 
> 15 Dec 2000 16:34:38 -0500 (EST)
...
> reading message 1 of 16 (14488 octets)
> About to rewrite Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Rewritten version is Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> fetchmail: analyzing Received line:
> Received: from cannon9.mp3.com ([63.241.16.242])
>   by mtiwgwc28.worldnet.att.net
>   (InterMail vM.4.01.03.10 201-229-121-110) with SMTP
>   id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>   for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
>   Fri, 15 Dec 2000 20:52:51 +
> fetchmail: line rejected, mtiwgwc28.worldnet.att.net is not an alias of the 
> mailserver

This relected thing worries me, as we told fetchmail to accept the whole
domain of worldnet.att.net with this aka thingy.

...
> fetchmail: no local matches, forwarding to tony

This 'no local matches' worries me too. He gets into failback mode here and
is trying to deliver to the postmaster (in your case tony:) instead of
directly to tony on behalve of the "user ...is tony here" line we gave him.

So the above two errors should have been fixed with the corrected fetchmailrc
file I think you're using. I take it that your running this "fetchmail -v -v"
as the user tony, and I take it that your using ~tony/.fetchmailrc. So let's
check and double check that you're using the right .fetchmailrc file with the
right content.  If so, than I'm out of my wit:[

This leaves us with the this is the real error that is keeping you from
receiving files locally:

> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed

To check this I think someone proposed to you earlier on in this thread
to check whether you could connect to exim locally with this:

  $ telnet localhost smtp

which should give output like:

  Trying 127.0.0.1...
  Connected to localhost.
  Escape character is '^]'.
  220 animus.fel.iae.nl ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Sat, 16 Dec 2000 14:03:04 +0100

to get out of this enter

  quit

please verify with the above that your exim is running and accessible via
its standard port.


-- 
groetjes, carel

Re: Need advice: Compaq Presarios and Debian

2000-12-16 Thread JoshNarins


Since so many people are harping on them, I got a
Compaq Presario 7478 with an extra 64MB (tot 128)
and a Voodoo3 for < 1100USD.
AMD K-6 II 500
30 Gig HD
CD-RW
DVD-R
floppy
2 ISA, 4 PCI, 1 AGP, 2 USB
decent keyboard

Debian noticed both CD-RW and DVD-R right away.
Red Hat only noticed one of them.

Especially since I didn't already have a CD-RW or DVD
The unit with a crappy video card and 64 MB was 899

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-12-16 Thread Andre Berger

"Arthur Denisov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The author of this letter the student, citizen of Russia. I am 
> addressed(paid) to you as to the kind, sympathetic man and I hope, that you 
> can help the student requiring in money to training and habitation. Very much 
> I ask to send me on the bank account
[blabla]

They've even run out of line breaks in Russia...

-- 
Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Need advice: Compaq Presarios and Debian

2000-12-16 Thread dude



I have a compaq Presario 1700.  Have a dual boot system of

win98/Debian woody,

but have to admit that while red hat installed and ran beutifuully on it,

it was much harder to install potato on it.
(because i had to figure out how to configure everything which
was hard but did help me learn)

but now that i have debian woody on it, i have no problems

you have two hard disks on your laptop?


On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, D-Man wrote:

> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 23:45:23 -0500
> From: D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Need advice: Compaq Presarios and Debian
>
> Inform Compaq that M$ isn't the only OS vendor. :-)
>
> I have a Compaq Presario (don't get one, it's better to build your own comp 
> from
> parts) that came with Windows 98 preinstalled.  I added RedHat to it (first 
> 5.2
> - didn't like my video card,  then 6.1 , now 7.0 ).  I am planning on 
> installing
> Debian Potato early next week.
>
> I wonder why your BIOS got flashed.  You probably should have installed a 
> better
> BIOS ;-).  My BIOS can't boot from the second IDE bus, thus I can't use LILO 
> and
> must first boot DOS and run loadlin.
>
> -D
>
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 13:51:09 Tom Schuetz wrote:
>  | I had Red Hat installed on my Presario as a dual boot system. It had its 
> own
>  | hard drive, and worked somewhat, but eventually it flashed the BIOS and the
>  | whole motherboard had to be replaced.
>  |
>  | I was told (tersely) by Compaq Support that Presarios are NOT GOOD with
>  | Linux.
>  |
>  | But, I WANT LINUX. Namely, I want Debian. Anybody know about Presarios and
>  | Debian?
>  |
>

Re: Messaggio

On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 09:10:51PM -0500, A R wrote:
> Gerardo wrote:
> 
> > Potrei gentilmente sapere se esiste un sito dove posso scaricare linux
> > in floppy disk.Grazie anticipatamente.Gerardo
> 
> I don't think you can get it on a floppy. Too big.
> Yo no creo que quepa en un flopy. Demasiado grande.

Well, it all depends. If your needs are modest it is possible, have
a look at the Linux Router Project 
for a single floppy distro.

[Tony, could you translate this into Brazilian? I only master double dutch]

-- 
groetjes, carel

Re: OT - web browsers

2000-12-16 Thread D-Man


On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 03:52:15 Ken Weingold wrote:
 | 
 | Yeah, I think you are.  I am talking about copying a URL from a
 | terminal window or even the web browser itself.  Open a new browser
 | window and you still have text in the Location bar.
 | 

I don't have this problem : I set it to open a new window with "blank"
page.  I do have to hit the "Enter" key to make it go to the new URL
though.

Now I recall having a button, but I think it was called "Go", on older
versions of Netsape.  (this was before I had my own computer and
before I knew about Unix)

-D

Re: Debian checks filesystems at every boot

2000-12-16 Thread Martin Albert

> > > > on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:35:28PM +0100, Nico De Ranter ([EMAIL 
> > > > PROTECTED]) wrote:

> > > > > 2.2 cd's. However with the new PC every time I boot Linux will
> > > > > complain the filesystems weren't properly unmounted and will do
> > > > > a full check of the filesystems.  I do ofcourse always make sure
> > > > > to turn off the machine by typing "halt".  

Do you have 'Delayed write' enabled on your *drives*?
May be after playing around with hdparm? Or as a default on the drive?

Just another guess on this.

greetings, martin

Re: I'm Confused with SBLive!

2000-12-16 Thread Martin Albert

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Javier Sieben wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I tried to install the emu10k1 module from ALSA. Having any troubles with
> it, I deinstalled it. When I read that the final kernel (version 2.2.17)
> had these module in it, I download, compile and install it with the modules.
> But I can't use audio.
> 
> The kernel starts and don't install the module. When I use cat /proc/modules
> it's list all the modules loaded at the time. But no the this module. Try
> loading with insmod. Fine. When I use cat /proc/modules it displays that the
> module is unused.
> 
> I tried to many forms for solving this trouble. I read docs at many sites
> I've found and nothing. All refers at usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound for
> the specified card docs. But in the latest kernel hadn't included docs for
> it.
> 
> Can any help??
> 
> Sorry may english, I'm newbie in it...
> 
> Javier

Hi, Javier!

In my /etc/modules.conf i have two lines (for i'm using 2 soundcards):

alias sound-slot-0 esssolo1
alias sound-slot-1 emu10k1

this works for me, the drivers are drawn automatically when i use
the mixers or start kde

HTH, greetings, martin

Re: how to fake from address in an email

2000-12-16 Thread Gary Hennigan

"Carel Fellinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:39:08PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> ...
> > If they're using exim it's just a matter of adding a an appropriate
> > rewrite rule, no need to worry about relaying or anything like that. I
> > think that when you install exim there's even a nice setup for you
> > already in /etc/exim.conf, you just need to uncomment it and add the
> > alias to /etc/email-addresses. For example, at the end of my
> > /etc/exim.conf file I have:
> > 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
> > {$value}fail} bcfrF
> > 
> > The file /etc/email-addresses has the following line it:
> > 
> > glhenni: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 
> > The domain of my little LAN at home is hennigan.bogus so any email I
> > send out would, for example, have "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as the
> > address if I didn't do something with it. Obviously there aren't a
> 
> I always wondered how this works. Can you still deliver mail in your
> local domain, say if you do: mutt -s hallo glhenni  would you get that mail, or would it first be sent to your smarthost?

Not with my configuration. I have seen that question asked quite a few
times on this list though so you might browse the archives for an
answer. From what I remember it's not an easy task to accomplish with
exim. 

Gary

Re: Need advice: Compaq Presarios and Debian

2000-12-16 Thread D-Man


On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 03:04:09 Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
 | d-man, you might want to set your wrapmargin a bit shorter.

What is the preferred size?  I had it at 80,  this time it's 70.  :-)

 | as for lilo, you can have two devices on each ide chain.  i assume
 | you have
 | windows on one hd and linux on another hd.   why not just make them
 | a
 | mast/slave pair on the first IDE chain?

Nice try.  Here's what happened when I got my HD and added it to
install Linux :

Original setup, out-of-the-box from Compaq :
Quantum Bigfoot, 8GB,   /dev/hda  (I'll use the Linux naming since it
is nice and concise)
DVD drive, /dev/hdc
Zip drive, /dev/hdd
floppy , /dev/fd0  (my floppy came on the floppy connector)

My Compaq is a Presario 5035 mini-Tower (very mini!)

I bought a 10GB Maxtor drive (3.5").  My tower only has 4 drive bays:
HD, DVD, Zip, floppy so I intended to leave the disk somewhere but use
it anyways.  As it turns out there is just enough room on top of the
power supply and behind the floppy drive that the cover fits on and
you can't tell from the outside.

As for connecting it, the BIOS has no way to manually specify what the
disks are (like older BIOS's on my dad's 286 and 486).  Since /dev/hdb
was open I figured I would put the disk there.  After a lot of
frustration and rebooting I realized that my BIOS could only recognize
my Maxtor drive if it was in "Cable Select" mode.  Of course, I don't
have the special cable that allows 2 disks on it in "Cable Select"
mode.  The BIOS wouldn't see it in Master or Slave mode, and then the
BIOS couldn't find the other disk on the bus either.  I tried all
combinations of disks together with the Master/Slave configs.

Since the Maxtor drive had to be in Cable Select mode it had to be by
itself on a bus.  The BIOS doesn't care about Zip drives so putting it
with the zip drive was equivalent to being by itself.  I moved the DVD
drive to /dev/hdb and made it a slave while the 'doze disk is still
/dev/hda.

My current setup:

orig hd : /dev/hda
dvd : /dev/hdb
Linux hd : /dev/hdc
zip : /dev/hdd

 | 
 | boy, everytime i open her computer, i always get the feeling that
 | compaq
 | didn't just put any thought into working on your computer.  they
 | specifically
 | designed it to discourage you to!

Yes definitely!  Not only that, but they put everything except the
modem on the mother board.  You can't upgrade or even just replace the
video or sound without needing a new mother board.  

As for booting, someone else suggested using a floppy.  Yes, Linux can
boot fine with LILO on a floppy, but the floppy had no /dev/hda file
so I couldn't ever boot that other OS.  That's why I settled for
loadlin.  Fortunately I don't have the need to boot the other OS very
often these days.

-D

Re: Messaggio

2000-12-16 Thread Antonio Rodriguez

If the person speaks brazilian (portuguese), they will understand the
given spanish answer. I believe the man spoke in "italiano".

Carel Fellinger wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 09:10:51PM -0500, A R wrote:
> > Gerardo wrote:
> >
> > > Potrei gentilmente sapere se esiste un sito dove posso scaricare linux
> > > in floppy disk.Grazie anticipatamente.Gerardo
> >
> > I don't think you can get it on a floppy. Too big.
> > Yo no creo que quepa en un flopy. Demasiado grande.
> 
> Well, it all depends. If your needs are modest it is possible, have
> a look at the Linux Router Project 
> for a single floppy distro.
> 
> [Tony, could you translate this into Brazilian? I only master double dutch]
> 
> --
> groetjes, carel
> 
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to fake from address in an email

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 07:06:07AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> "Carel Fellinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
...
> > I always wondered how this works. Can you still deliver mail in your
> > local domain, say if you do: mutt -s hallo glhenni  > would you get that mail, or would it first be sent to your smarthost?
> 
> Not with my configuration. I have seen that question asked quite a few
> times on this list though so you might browse the archives for an
> answer. From what I remember it's not an easy task to accomplish with
> exim. 

I think I read most of the posts relating this, and there is no simple
anwser:(  Would you mind sharing your setup with us?  Things like your
/etc/hosts file, your fetchmailrc and exim.conf files?  At the moment
I'm trying to help two other debianastas to set it up, but I'm failing:(

-- 
groetjes, carel

Re:exim (probably broken thread)

Quote next
***
To check this I think someone proposed to you earlier on in this
thread
to check whether you could connect to exim locally with this:

  $ telnet localhost smtp

which should give output like:

  Trying 127.0.0.1...
  Connected to localhost.
  Escape character is '^]'.
  220 animus.fel.iae.nl ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Sat, 16 Dec 2000 14:03:04
+0100

to get out of this enter

  quit

please verify with the above that your exim is running and accessible
via
its standard port.
***
end of quote  (sorry, got the message while in windows)

You are right, here is what I get:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet localhost smtp
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

So, how do I fix this one? What's wrong?
Thanks, Carel.
Tony.

Exim question

2000-12-16 Thread Steve Barr

Are there any applications/scripts that build a usage graph of messages
processed by EXIM?  I currently run Webalizer on my Apache log, and I run
eximstats to generate a text based E-mail that shows messages received and
delivered messages.

I am hoping to find something that will read the log and generate a graph of
incoming and outgoing messages.  I don't want it to show addresses or
anything, just quantities of messages.

If anyone has any suggestions, please post or E-mail directly and I'll post
a follow-up.

Steve
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Printing to legal paper (urgent help needed)

2000-12-16 Thread Arcady Genkin

Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> ag>   psnup -plegal -Pletter -10 report.ps /tmp/rep10.ps
> 
> First of all, have you tried it without the -Pletter in there?

Yes, I put it in there later in hope that it would make a difference.

> There's not too much output from "apropos paper" -- you might look
> through there.  Paperconfig looks especially promising.

Yep, good call!  Changing /etc/papersize from letter to legal was all
it took.  Funny that the man page for lpr (or man pages for PS
utilities) doesn't mention paper configuration.  Also, it seems
strange that there seems to be no way to override the setting with a
command-line parameter.  All I needed was to print two legal-sized
pages, and then go back to letter-sized...

In any case, thanks for your reply!
-- 
Arcady Genkin
Don't read everything you believe.

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 09:36:53AM -0500, A R wrote:
...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet localhost smtp
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

okee, this probably means that your /etc/inetd.conf got hoosed,
unless you are running exim in daemon mode.
Somewhere you need to find lines like:

#:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services.
smtpstream  tcp nowait  mail/usr/sbin/exim exim -bs

if that smtp line is missing, add it, do as root "/etc/init.d/inetd reload"
and try again.

-- 
groetjes, carel

Re: mysql-server broken

Jens Gecius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi folks!
> 
> This time I really need help on short term.
> 
> After my last dist-upgrade tonight mysql-server is broken. It always
> gets an error in the postinst script. I tried to get it manually to
> work, I tried to dpkg -i the old version (my current version is -8),
> didn't work.

I found out, that mysqld is always seg-faulting. Even if I downgrade
via dpkg to 3.23.28-1 (this happened after upgrade to -7, actually,
not -8 of my original post) it is segfaulting. Because even older
versions are seg-faulting, I tried to downgrade all mysql-related
packages, but even then it is seg-faulting. I don't know by which
package this was caused (everything else at that dist-upgrade went
well).

If you like, you can take a look at the strace-output here:

http://gecius.de/mysqld-3.23.28-gamma.strace 

I have NO clue, what to do and which package caused this :-(

Any Ideas?

-- 
Tschoe,Get my gpg-public-key here
 Jens http://gecius.de/gpg-key.txt

Kernel compiling on Debian

2000-12-16 Thread Hall Stevenson

What is the "debian way" of compiling a kernel ?? I've read mentions of
using something like "kernel-pkg" or similar. Can someone point to a
website with details ?? Or, can I simply download the kernel source and
do it the way I've always done it with "lesser" distros ;-) ??

Thanks in advance
Hall Stevenson

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

Carel Fellinger wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 09:36:53AM -0500, A R wrote:
> ...
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet localhost smtp
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
>
> okee, this probably means that your /etc/inetd.conf got hoosed,
> unless you are running exim in daemon mode.
> Somewhere you need to find lines like:
>
> #:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services.
> smtpstream  tcp nowait  mail/usr/sbin/exim exim -bs
>
> if that smtp line is missing, add it, do as root "/etc/init.d/inetd reload"
> and try again.
>
> --
> groetjes, carel

 I did it, now look what's coming:
Before trying fetchmail again, I am going to close netscape to avoid conflict.
I have messenger set to retrieve every minute. So I will report back in a few
minutes.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/pruebas$ telnet localhost smtp
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to debian.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 debian ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:23:21 -0500
quit
221 debian closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/pruebas$

Re: Different types of filesystems (was: Re: small blocks or more inodes?)

2000-12-16 Thread Daniel Barclay


> From: Rogerio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> On Dec 13 2000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Note, though, that ext2fs' linear directory searching makes it a
> > poor choice for anything involving large numbers of entries in a
> > single directory. ...
> 

>   BTW, the "right" solution to thousands of small files would be
>   to hash them with some levels of directories (if possible --
>   i.e., if you have the source code of the application).

No, I don't think that's the "right" solution.  That's a workaround
for poor performance in the file system.  The right solution probably
would be for the file system to handle it so users (application
programs) don't have to.

Daniel
-- 
Daniel Barclay
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Hmm.  A little worrisome:  http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy
http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

A R wrote: I did it, now look what's coming:

> Before trying fetchmail again, I am going to close netscape to avoid conflict.
> I have messenger set to retrieve every minute. So I will report back in a few
> minutes.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/pruebas$ telnet localhost smtp
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to debian.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 debian ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:23:21 -0500
> quit
> 221 debian closing connection
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/pruebas$
>

It is working god now, I was able to fetch it, and read it from the first
time. I suppose that next comes tying it to mutt, emacs, or whatever there. Any
ideas, pointers, suggestions? Thanks again, Carel.
Tony.

Re: Kernel compiling on Debian

2000-12-16 Thread Hall Stevenson

Is this part of "kernel-package" ?? I just looked at it in aptitude and it does 
appear so.

Reason I want to recompile is that vmlinuz is over 1mb in size, so it 
apparently has a lot compiled in, instead of modules. My older, customer 
kernels were usually less than 500k. I see on bootup, or via dmesg, that the 
kernel is looking for various devices that I don't have (mainly SCSI cards 
(??). I also can't get CD-Writing to work as it appears I can't get the 
"sr_mod" module loaded via "modconf". Any ideas there ??

Regards
Hall

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 10:15:47AM -0500, Alec Smith wrote:
> Take a look at make-kpkg -- You'll have to install its .deb first though.
> 
> Configure your kernel as usual, then do a make-kpkg clean instead of
> make dep ; make clean. To do the actual compile, do make-kpkg
> --revision= docs> kernel_image
> 
> On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> 
> > What is the "debian way" of compiling a kernel ?? I've read mentions of
> > using something like "kernel-pkg" or similar. Can someone point to a
> > website with details ?? Or, can I simply download the kernel source and
> > do it the way I've always done it with "lesser" distros ;-) ??

Re: interesting xmcd conundrum

2000-12-16 Thread Chris Gray

> Peter Jay Salzman writes:

pjs> hello all,
pjs> when i run xmcd, it reports:

pjs>xmcd Fatal Error: Xmcd binary permissions error: It
pjs>should be setuid root.  Please have your system
pjs>administrator correct this.

pjs> even though:
pjs>% ll /usr/bin/xmcd 
pjs>-rwsr-sr-x1 root root 1223 Nov 21 20:43 
/usr/bin/xmcd*

pjs> according to strace:

pjs> setuid(0)   = -1 EPERM (Operation not 
permitted)
pjs> write(2, "xmcd Fatal Error:\nXmcd binary permissions error: It should 
be
pjs> setuid root.  Please have\nyour system"..., 128) = 128
pjs> _exit(1)= ?


pjs> i believe that 3 is a fd for /etc/mtab.  it seems to be
pjs> choking on setuid(0).  but the executable IS setuid root.

pjs> any tips?

Maybe it has dropped permissions and is trying to get them back.  If I
were you, I wouldn't be using a setuid CD player.  Try gtcd or
something. 

Cheers,

-- 
Chris

Re: Konqueror in GNOME, no response to Save Yourself

2000-12-16 Thread Manegold

"Eric G . Miller" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 04:06:11PM -0500, Anderson, Tim   TL33E wrote:
> >   Hi,
> >   I run the Konqueror browser from KDE2 on a GNOME desktop, and it
> > seems to work OK (as I expected).  A minute or so after startup I get an
> > error saying 'No response to Save Yourself command', and lets me kill the
> > process.  This doesn't affect anything, the browser stays running fine, but
> > I was just wondering what might be causing the error and if it was
> > important.   Anyone else seen this?
> 
> It's the gnome-session manager.  Annoying isn't it.  I guess the
> gnome-session manager thinks it can talk to kde apps, but they don't
> agree.  Don't know if there's a way to tell gnome-session to always
> assume "yes" to the question.
> 
Yep. Same problem here. However, it sometimes means, that I can't log
out of gnome. Only after I kill some of the stuff that koqueror leaves
behing in the tasklist, can I get it to work again.

Thorsten

Re: Terminals/dim screens = use bold everywhere but dselect is...dim

2000-12-16 Thread Daniel Barclay


> From: S Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Do color monitors die after four years? The boot messages are barely
> visible; seems they've gotten worse over two months since I installed
> Debian 2.2. I've got the monitor buttons for brightness and contrast
> at maximum ...

For your next monitor, make sure you use DPMS (or otherwise turn off the 
monitor when you're not using it) to preserve its life.


Daniel
-- 
Daniel Barclay
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Hmm.  A little worrisome:  http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy
http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: Where do I go from here? was: HT configure an IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive?

2000-12-16 Thread Kent West


Dan Griswold wrote:


Seeing as my thread has peetered out, I was wondering if anybody had
any ideas of where else I might ask the question. I have searched on
Google and Northernlight, and none of the information retrieved there
has gone beyond the good suggestions offered here.

For those new to this thread, my question concerns an internal
IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive. I can mount/read/write/umount the drive, but I
cannot eject it: either by the hardware eject button on the drive, or
by software tools such as eject or jazip. All kernel configurations
suggested thus far (such as SCSI emulation or IDE Floppy support) have
not produced an eject.

In other words, the kernel is configured so that the device works
correctly in all respects, EXCEPT for an eject (by hardware or
software).


Eric Miller suggested looking for a tool that would send the right
ioctl to the kernel. That might be a useful avenue of inquiry, but
first I need one of you kind folks to explain to me what that means.
;-)  He mentioned in that vein tools such as jazip, which fails.

One peculiar thing about all this is that, again, a HARDWARE eject
command (pressing the button) won't work. Why would that be?

Thank you for your help,

Dan



This may be stating the obvious, but can you do a hardware eject if the 
zip drive is unconnected from the computer? If not, it's a problem in 
the zip drive itself. IIRC, there's a pinhole (similar to a Macintosh 
floppy drive) that you can stick an unfolded paper clip into to force 
eject the zippie.

Re: gs error - i can't view postscript files

2000-12-16 Thread Timmy Douglas

Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Timmy Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> when i try to open a .ps file with gv or gs, i get this error:
>
>Is this with gs or gs-aladdin?
>
>gs-aladdin  install
>gs-aladdin-manual-deinstall
>gs-pdfencrypt   install
>gsfonts install
>gsfonts-other   install
>ppd-gs  install
>
>These are my selections. On potato, we have gs-aladdin_5.50-8;
>progeny, which I'm running now, uses gs-aladdin_6.01-7.
>
>Hope this helps
>
>-- 
>Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>

timmy:~/prgm/tmsg$ dpkg --get-selections |grep gs
[snip]
gs  install
gsfonts install
[snip]

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 10:28:03AM -0500, A R wrote:
...
>  I did it, now look what's coming:
> Before trying fetchmail again, I am going to close netscape to avoid conflict.
> I have messenger set to retrieve every minute. So I will report back in a few
> minutes.
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/pruebas$ telnet localhost smtp
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to debian.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 debian ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:23:21 -0500
> quit
> 221 debian closing connection
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/pruebas$


great, exim is responding! Back to those fetchmail glitches.
Can you try "fetchmail -v -v" again and send us part of the log?
I want to check tose glitches in the fetchmail part are okee now.

-- 
groetjes, carel

Kernel panic

2000-12-16 Thread Clayton Stapleton


"Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:43" when starting SuSe 6.4
distro on a second hard drive. This happened after I tried to copy a 
file from
the first hard drive to the second. I was following the directions in 
the Hard-Drive
Upgrade mini Howto. This is what I did on the first hard drive second 
partition

that contains Debian 2.2.17 with no working browser:
mkdir /new-disk
mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb3 /new-disk
cp -a ping/ping /dev/hdb3
I did the last step only after cp -a ping/ping /dev/hdb3/home/clay/deb 
was refused

with this is not a directory.
Is there any help for my stupidity?
TIA
Clay Stapleton

Re: Where do I go from here? was: HT configure an IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive?

2000-12-16 Thread Kent West


Kent West wrote:


Dan Griswold wrote:


Seeing as my thread has peetered out, I was wondering if anybody had
any ideas of where else I might ask the question. I have searched on
Google and Northernlight, and none of the information retrieved there
has gone beyond the good suggestions offered here.

For those new to this thread, my question concerns an internal
IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive. I can mount/read/write/umount the drive, but I
cannot eject it: either by the hardware eject button on the drive, or
by software tools such as eject or jazip. All kernel configurations
suggested thus far (such as SCSI emulation or IDE Floppy support) have
not produced an eject.

In other words, the kernel is configured so that the device works
correctly in all respects, EXCEPT for an eject (by hardware or
software).


Eric Miller suggested looking for a tool that would send the right
ioctl to the kernel. That might be a useful avenue of inquiry, but
first I need one of you kind folks to explain to me what that means.
;-)  He mentioned in that vein tools such as jazip, which fails.

One peculiar thing about all this is that, again, a HARDWARE eject
command (pressing the button) won't work. Why would that be?

Thank you for your help,

Dan



This may be stating the obvious, but can you do a hardware eject if 
the zip drive is unconnected from the computer? If not, it's a problem 
in the zip drive itself. IIRC, there's a pinhole (similar to a 
Macintosh floppy drive) that you can stick an unfolded paper clip into 
to force eject the zippie.




Oops, my bad; I didn't read closely to notice you said it was an 
internal drive, which makes my comment above irrelevant. So, can you 
simply go into the CMOS setup, thereby bypassing any OS interference, 
and then eject the zippie with the hardware button? If not, you've still 
got a hardware issue.

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 10:38:11AM -0500, A R wrote:
...
> It is working god now, I was able to fetch it, and read it from the first
> time. I suppose that next comes tying it to mutt, emacs, or whatever there. 
> Any
> ideas, pointers, suggestions? Thanks again, Carel.
> Tony.

If fetchmail/exim is working properly your mails get stored locally in
/var/mail/tony (or /var/spool/mail/tony which is really the same file
as /var/spool/mail is linked to /var/mail).  Traditional unix programs
like mail and mutt and... look there to get at your mail per default,
so no need to configure them:)

Forgive me my curiousity, but are those glitches we saw before in the
fetchmail log (fetchmail: rejected..., & fetchmail: no local matches...)
still there?  And if not, did you change anything to your fetchmailrc?

-- 
groetjes, carel

Re: mysql-server broken

2000-12-16 Thread sena

On 16/12/2000 at 10:01 -0500, Jens Gecius wrote:
> I found out, that mysqld is always seg-faulting. Even if I downgrade
> via dpkg to 3.23.28-1 (this happened after upgrade to -7, actually,

> package this was caused (everything else at that dist-upgrade went
> well).
> 
This is a known bug. There are two ways to solve it:
- Up/Downgrade to mysql-server 3.23.28-6 (which is working) or
- Edit /etc/mysql/my.cnf and comment this line:
skip-networking
  ...it shouldn't segfault now...

Regards, sena...

-- 
[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://decoy.ath.cx/~sena/
gpg fingerprint: F20B 12A8 A8F6 FD1F 9B1D BA62 C424 8E73 DD2E 47C8

Re: mysql-server broken

2000-12-16 Thread sena

On 16/12/2000 at 17:02 +, sena wrote:
> This is a known bug. There are two ways to solve it:
>   - Up/Downgrade to mysql-server 3.23.28-6 (which is working) or
>   - Edit /etc/mysql/my.cnf and comment this line:
>   skip-networking
> ...it shouldn't segfault now...
> 
Oops.. :) I checked now... 3.23.28-6 is not working after all... But if you
comment the "skip-networking" line it shouldn't segfault...

Regards, sena...

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Installing xserver-xfree86_4.0.1-11.deb fails...

2000-12-16 Thread Thomas Besser


Hi all,

I don't know, why I can't install this package on my debian (basicly 
potato and woody for kde2) and if it is a problem of my system or of the 
package?! All of the necessary and up-to-date packages are installed. On 
finally installing the xserver-xfree86 following error message appears:


Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.0.1-11) ...
sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file

After aborting with Ctrl+C this message appears:

subprocess post-installation script killed by signal
(Unterbrechung)

I've found out, that in /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xfree86.config at 
this file is pointed.


# source debconf library
. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule

Up to line 13 of this file all appears alright, just to following statement:

exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend $0 $*

I think, that's the problem, but don't know, how to solve it.
If I execute this file in xterm following message comes up:

open2: exec of failed at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ ConfModule.pm 
line 86


Any ideas, what can I do? Is this a bug or an error of my system?

Thanx in advance...
Thomas

w problems

2000-12-16 Thread Terry Warner


I have 4 machines running debian, 3 of them all have the same domain name 
(nuthouse.org)
now one of them is the main www.nuthouse.org, and the other 2 are just hosts.

On the nuthouse server when I ssh in from one of the other hosts, only the IP 
shows up in a w, yet it resolves fine in a nslookup. Then if I ssh into 
nuthouse from another box, the domain name of that box comes up fine. In case I 
am not making sense here:

ÀÄ(~)> w
  1:08pm  up 10:40,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
  USER TTY  FROM  LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU  WHAT
  keerftty1 -02:28am 44:36   0.15s  0.11s  -su 
  keerfpts/064.24.68.246 01:07pm  0.00s  0.04s  0.01s  w -u 

Ä(~)> nslookup 64.24.68.246
Server:  www.netlabs.net
Address:  216.116.128.3

Name:straightjacket.nuthouse.org
Address:  64.24.68.246


now thats all from the nuthouse server. I'm not running named, or bind or 
anything on it because my DNS is hosted through the ISP I work for. Could 
anyone offer some help or suggestions of what I might have done wrong or how I 
can fix it? 

Thanks for your time

Terry

Re: mysql-server broken

sena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > This is a known bug. There are two ways to solve it:
> > - Up/Downgrade to mysql-server 3.23.28-6 (which is working) or
> > - Edit /etc/mysql/my.cnf and comment this line:
> > skip-networking
> >   ...it shouldn't segfault now...
> > 
> Oops.. :) I checked now... 3.23.28-6 is not working after all... But if you
> comment the "skip-networking" line it shouldn't segfault...

Thanks, but it is still seg-faulting. :-(

Actually, the postinst doesn't go through and even calling mysqld
--skip-grant does seg-fault.

And I was wondering why it was working before, but no longer since
upgrade to -7. Anything else to consider on my side? (like, libdb2 or
so) 

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Re: mysql-server broken

2000-12-16 Thread Randy Edwards

> Actually, the postinst doesn't go through and 

   I ran into that on my laptop.  I found that purging the package (make
sure you don't have it set to kill your databases!) and a clean reinstall
it would install perfectly.  Not a slick solution, but a working one...

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Re: exim (probably broken thread)

2000-12-16 Thread ktb

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 10:38:11AM -0500, A R wrote:
> A R wrote: I did it, now look what's coming:
> 
> > Before trying fetchmail again, I am going to close netscape to avoid 
> > conflict.
> > I have messenger set to retrieve every minute. So I will report back in a 
> > few
> > minutes.
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/pruebas$ telnet localhost smtp
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > Connected to debian.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > 220 debian ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:23:21 -0500
> > quit
> > 221 debian closing connection
> > Connection closed by foreign host.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/pruebas$
> >
> 
> It is working god now, I was able to fetch it, and read it from the first
> time. I suppose that next comes tying it to mutt, emacs, or whatever there. 
> Any
> ideas, pointers, suggestions? Thanks again, Carel.
> Tony.
> 
> 
I really like mutt. There is tons of information at their
web site about how to customize it to your liking.
kent


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mailagent question

2000-12-16 Thread Robert Waldner


Hi!

(May *very* well be a fscking stupid question)

I can´t get mailagent to forward or bounce any mail. My latest try 
looks like:

Content-Type: /application.*octet.*stream.*/i {BOUNCE [EMAIL PROTECTED];

Out of the man-page this should work, but mailagent simply ignores it...

(If anyone has written a script converting mailagent-rules into 
procmail ones I´d be grateful also cause I´ll switch sometime next year,
but in the meantime I´m stuck with mailagent...).

TIA,
&rw
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Re: remote management

2000-12-16 Thread Dave Thayer

On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 09:49:36AM -0500, Bill White wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:32:08 EST, "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
> Opined:
> > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:51:30PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote:
> > :> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 05:31:57PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote:
> > :> :I am managing my server remotely using ssh.   If my network connection
> > :> :goes down for some reason, I have no control over it, is there a way
> > :> :where I could check to see if there is a network connection and then
> > :> :restart the connection?
> > :>
> > :> best option is to recompile the kernel on the server to put the
> > :> console out to serial port (is this default in debian kernels? if not
> > :> what problems does it create, I always roll mine that way), then you
> > :> can hang a modem off the serial port and even if the networking on the
> > :> server breaks you can get in to try and fix it.
> 
> I do this.  You don't have to do much more than put this into your
> lilo.conf file:
> 
> append="console=ttyS0,9600n8"
> serial = 0,9600n8
> 
> and then enable the serial console in the kernel.

You also need to make sure that serial support is compiled directly into the
kernel, not as a module. IIRC the default Debian kernels use modules for the
serial drivers so you may need to build your own.

your pal dave

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Re: mailagent question

2000-12-16 Thread D-Man


I don't know anything about mailagent, but I use procmail (in a very
simple way).  Here's a much shorter introduction than the man pages
give:

my procmailrc file looks like:

:0:
* 


ex:

# debian-user
:0:
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lists/debian-user


You can also replace the  with an e-mail address to send the
message to.  (BTW, '#' starts a comment like python and bash)

HTH,
-D

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 06:41:26PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I can´t get mailagent to forward or bounce any mail. My latest try 
> looks like:
> 
> Content-Type: /application.*octet.*stream.*/i {BOUNCE [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> 
> Out of the man-page this should work, but mailagent simply ignores it...
> 
> (If anyone has written a script converting mailagent-rules into 
> procmail ones I´d be grateful also cause I´ll switch sometime next year,
> but in the meantime I´m stuck with mailagent...).
> 
> TIA,
> &rw
> -- 
> /  Ing. Robert Waldner  | Network Engineer | T: +43 1 89933  F: x533 \ 
> \ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |KPNQwest/AT   | Diefenbachg. 35, A-1150 / 
> 
>

Re: security question: running a public ftp server

2000-12-16 Thread Henry House

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 12:09:22AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> can someone point me to documentation specifically aimed at beefing up
> security of ftp and apache?   everything is behind an LRP (linux router
> project) firewall, so i'm pretty secure otherwise.  i let hardly anything in
> or out, everything gets logged, and i actually look at the logs.  i run tara
> every so often, and i'm very conscious about password security.

I can't suggest any resources besides the respective sets of documentation.
You can pro-actively enhance the security of your FTP daemon by running it
chrooted and under a user id that cannot write to the daemon's directory.
A sucessful exploit in this case will not do much harm.

> however, i'm curious about vulnerabilities in the ftp and www daemons
> themselves.

As varied as the daemons themselves. Most are buffer overflows or failure to
properly check user input. In the case of httpd, carelessly written cgis are
the biggest concern.

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Re: mailagent question

2000-12-16 Thread Robert Waldner

Thanks, but I have 2 difficulties:

-there isn´t any procmail installed on this particular machine and I 
 don´t have root-access
-my (mailagent-) rules are a little over 700, so I won´t rewrite them
 by hand when it´s not really, really, really necessary ;-)

TIA,
&rw

On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 12:45:02 EST, D-Man writes:
>
>I don't know anything about mailagent, but I use procmail (in a very
>simple way).  Here's a much shorter introduction than the man pages
>give:



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Re: mysql-server broken

Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > Actually, the postinst doesn't go through and 
> 
>I ran into that on my laptop.  I found that purging the package (make
> sure you don't have it set to kill your databases!) and a clean reinstall
> it would install perfectly.  Not a slick solution, but a working one...

Tried that, too. Still segfaulting and postinst doesn't work.

Which package did you purge? All with mysql in it or just
mysql-server? (just tried mysql-server only).

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Re: exim (probably broken thread)

> Forgive me my curiousity, but are those glitches we saw before in the
> fetchmail log (fetchmail: rejected..., & fetchmail: no local matches...)
> still there?  And if not, did you change anything to your fetchmailrc?
>
> --
> groetjes, carel
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sorry that didn't answer sooner, I took my mother Christmas shopping for a 
while. I
will run fetchmail -v-v and send the log in a few.

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

>
>
> If fetchmail/exim is working properly your mails get stored locally in
> /var/mail/tony (or /var/spool/mail/tony which is really the same file
> as /var/spool/mail is linked to /var/mail).  Traditional unix programs
> like mail and mutt and... look there to get at your mail per default,
> so no need to configure them:)
>
> Forgive me my curiousity, but are those glitches we saw before in the
> fetchmail log (fetchmail: rejected..., & fetchmail: no local matches...)
> still there?  And if not, did you change anything to your fetchmailrc?

Well, it seems that there are some glitches yet:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail -v -v
fetchmail: 5.3.3 querying postoffice.worldnet.att.net (protocol POP3) at Sat, 
16 Dec
2000 13:18:45 -0500 (EST)
fetchmail: POP3< +OK InterMail POP3 server ready.
fetchmail: POP3> USER arodriguez
fetchmail: POP3< +OK please send PASS command
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK arodriguez is welcome here
fetchmail: selecting or re-polling default folder
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 2675
fetchmail: POP3> LAST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0
1 message for arodriguez at postoffice.worldnet.att.net (2675 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> LIST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 messages
fetchmail: POP3< 1 2675
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2675 octets
reading message 1 of 1 (2675 octets)
About to rewrite Return-Path:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rewritten version is Return-Path:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

fetchmail: analyzing Received line:
Received: from murphy.debian.org ([216.234.231.6])
  by mtiwgwc21.worldnet.att.net
  (InterMail vM.4.01.03.10 201-229-121-110) with SMTP
  id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
  Sat, 16 Dec 2000 18:05:52 +
fetchmail: line rejected, mtiwgwc21.worldnet.att.net is not an alias of the
mailserver
About to rewrite Sender: tony
Rewritten version is Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

About to rewrite From: A R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rewritten version is From: A R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

About to rewrite To: Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rewritten version is To: Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

About to rewrite CC: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" 

Rewritten version is CC: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
n.org>

About to rewrite Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Rewritten version is Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org

About to rewrite Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rewritten version is Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fetchmail: no local matches, forwarding to tony
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 debian ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Sat, 16 Dec 2000 13:18:53 -0500
fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-debian Hello tony at debian [127.0.0.1]
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP
fetchmail: forwarding to localhost
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL
FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=2675
fetchmail: SMTP< 250
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is syntactically
correct
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is syntactically correct
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
#***fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 OK id=147Lv3-9w-00
 not flushed
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK arodriguez InterMail POP3 server signing off.
fetchmail: not swapping UID lists, no UIDs seen this query
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
fetchmail: SMTP< 221 debian closing connection
fetchmail: Deleting fetchids file.
fetchmail: normal termination, status 0
fetchmail: Deleting fetchids file.
You have new mail in /var/mail/tony
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

%%
%%%
%%%

Now, notice that the changes that I made to .fetchmailrc shoud have taken care 
of
that, here is my .fetchmailrc:


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat .fetchmailrc
# Configuration created Tue Dec  5 14:18:33 2000 by fetchmailconf
# and later edited by hand by me, tony, on the 8-dec-2000
set postmaster "tony"
set no bouncemail
set properties ""

poll postoffice.worldnet.att.net aka worldnet.att.net, the-sphere.org
with proto POP3
user "arodriguez" is user "tony" here
password "not-this-one-of-course"

options keep

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

Re: Kernel compiling on Debian

2000-12-16 Thread Bob Nielsen

Correct.  Install kernel-package and take a look at
/usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz.  There is a recommendation
there to use an epoch when creating your package, which will prevent it
from being overwritten during an upgrade.

For your question regarding CD-Writing, I would recommend that you take
a look at the CD-Writing-HOWTO.  For my ATAPI CD writer, I use
'modprobe ide-scsi' to install the correct module.

Bob

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 10:23:11AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> Is this part of "kernel-package" ?? I just looked at it in aptitude
> and it does appear so.
> 
> Reason I want to recompile is that vmlinuz is over 1mb in size, so it
> apparently has a lot compiled in, instead of modules. My older,
> customer kernels were usually less than 500k. I see on bootup, or via
> dmesg, that the kernel is looking for various devices that I don't
> have (mainly SCSI cards (??). I also can't get CD-Writing to work as
> it appears I can't get the "sr_mod" module loaded via "modconf". Any
> ideas there ??
> 
> Regards
> Hall
> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 10:15:47AM -0500, Alec Smith wrote:
> > Take a look at make-kpkg -- You'll have to install its .deb first though.
> > 
> > Configure your kernel as usual, then do a make-kpkg clean instead
> > of make dep ; make clean. To do the actual compile, do make-kpkg
> > --revision= > docs> kernel_image
> > 
> > On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > 
> > > What is the "debian way" of compiling a kernel ?? I've read mentions of
> > > using something like "kernel-pkg" or similar. Can someone point to a
> > > website with details ?? Or, can I simply download the kernel source and
> > > do it the way I've always done it with "lesser" distros ;-) ??

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2 linksys NICs

2000-12-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier

Hi guys. I just put 2 Linksys NICs in a Slink box that I'm going to
upgrade if I can get them working. It's going to be my gateway. Now, the docs
say to use the tulip driver, but I just get a "device or resource busy" error
from that indicating it's the wrong driver. So, I tried a modprobe -t on the
entire net directory, and finally the 82596 driver found eth0. 
Now, I'm not sure if that's right, or if I should grab the latest tulip
source and recompile. Regardless, how do I get eth1 recognized? I have two
cards, identical, but the driver stopped after finding just eth0. 

I'm using Linsys LNE100TX cards. 

Help?

Mike

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Re: 2 linksys NICs

2000-12-16 Thread David Bellows

"Michael P. Soulier" wrote:
> 
> Hi guys. I just put 2 Linksys NICs in a Slink box that I'm going to
> upgrade if I can get them working. It's going to be my gateway. Now, the docs
> say to use the tulip driver, but I just get a "device or resource busy" error
> from that indicating it's the wrong driver. So, I tried a modprobe -t on the
> entire net directory, and finally the 82596 driver found eth0.
> Now, I'm not sure if that's right, or if I should grab the latest tulip
> source and recompile. Regardless, how do I get eth1 recognized? I have two
> cards, identical, but the driver stopped after finding just eth0.
> 
> I'm using Linsys LNE100TX cards.
> 
Hello,

I have the same card.  The tulip drivers that come with kernel don't
work for me either and I tried several different kernel versions.  My
Linksys actually came with a Linux driver floppy.  The driver was called
tulip.  I compiled this driver and it works.  It is disappointing that
the standard tulip driver from the kernel doesn't work on this tulip
card (no fault of the kernel, the card maker probably screwed up).  If
your card didn't come with the driver on a floppy then you can find the
source at Linksys' site and compile it yourself (easy compile, obviously
need kernel sources, etc.).  I'm not sure what to do about the second
card, however the Linksys driver also comes with a pciscan module that
might solve the problem.

David Bellows

Re: remote management

2000-12-16 Thread brian moore

On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 08:58:36AM +0100, Leen Besselink wrote:
> > Would this be a dial-in connection to the computer to manage it?  What I 
> > need is
> > to manage the computer remoteley all the way back to the lilo prompt.  Are 
> > there
> 
> Withut special hardware it's impossible to get to the Lilo prompt, after
> all Linux manages it's own serial ports and it hasn't even started then !
> :)

But LILO can talk to a serial port just fine.

serial=1,9600n8
append="console=ttyS1,9600"

You don't need special hardware to get to the BIOS even: you need a BIOS
that supports it.  (My rackmount machines, built by ASL, have BIOSes
that allow serial port access.)

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Debian Potato --> Woody on a reiserfs + devfs micro-HOWTO

2000-12-16 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom


 Here's how I installed a Debian Woody workstation that's got a Reiserfs 
filesystem.  Wow!
 It makes `dpkg' a lot quicker, at least subjectively.  (Though other factors 
may be
 involved; it is a snappier machine than the one I use at home.  YMMV)

 The Debian potato installer does not support Reiserfs... (yet.  Have no fear.  
The next
 installer promises to be a *lot* better than the previous somewhat prototypical
 installers.  You can view it via cvs.debian.org and the debian-boot mailing 
list if you
 are curious.)

 I partitioned the single hard drive with a smallish "/boot" (hda1) (room for 
several
 kernels and maybe, later on, GRUB), two 127 Mb swap partitions, and the rest 
of the drive
 free.  I marked one of the swaps as type "Linux Swap" and the other as type 
"Linux" (for
 now).  Then I installed a very minimal potato, with "/" on the spare swap 
partition, and
 /boot mounted second.  If you select the "simple" package selection method, 
and don't
 check off any packages, the entire base system will fit in the 127Mb with 
plenty of room
 to spare.

 After it was installed, rebooted and initial configuration completed, I logged 
into a
 co-worker's workstation, grabbed kernel source and the reiserfs patch, built a 
kernel and
 modules, then used `ncftp' to transfer them to my workstation.  If you look in 
the kernel
 toplevel Makefile, you'll find a variable that tells it where to stage the 
modules during
 "make modules_install".  I used that and created a tarball of them to 
transfer.  The
 Debian kernel packager deb would have done fine; then I could have installed 
that kernel
 as a deb.  (but the co-worker runs another distro, currently).  While that was 
going on,
 I had `apt-get dist-upgrade' running, bringing the workstation forward to 
current Woody.

 I fixed up "/etc/lilo.conf", and used `apt-get' to install the reiserfsprogs 
and devfsd,
 then turned the free partition into a `-v 2' reiserfs.  Now I ran `lilo', and 
rebooted to
 the original configuration, this time with a kernel that's got reiserfs 
support built
 into it, so that I could mount the reiserfs I had created.  (I could just as 
easily have
 delayed mkreiserfs until this point.)

 I mounted the reiserfs partition on "/mnt/tmp", and then did `ls /' to get a 
view of what
 needed copying...  I used mkdir to create all of the mountpoints (ones not to 
`cp -a',
 like "/mnt/tmp/proc" and "/mnt/tmp/mnt"), and then `cp -a' to copy each of the
 directories ("/etc", "/usr", "/home", ...).  On that machine, "/mnt/tmp/dev" 
is a
 mountpoint, since I've enabled devfs[1], and thus did not copy /dev over.  
Since GNU `cp
 -a' will preserve timestamps and hardlinks and will copy special files also, 
it's just as
 good as `tar' or `cpio' for this purpose.  (The BusyBox `cp -a' ought to 
work
 correctly also, thanks to yours truely.)

 The final steps where fixing "/etc/lilo.conf", checking to make sure 
everything is set up
 right in "/etc/fstab" (pointing it to the new "/" partition --- the reiserfs), 
setting
 fsckfix to yes in "/etc/default/rcS" (hindsight; I just learned this last 
night) so
 that it doesn't hang at boot with a question from `fsck.reiserfs', running 
`lilo', and
 then rebooting to the new ready to implement and configure workstation.

 The first thing I did was run `fdisk' to change the partition type of the 
stepping stone
 ext2 "/" from "Linux" to "Linux Swap", ran `mkswap' on it, added it to 
"/etc/fstab", then
 did a `swapon'.  I think it is usually safe to use `fdisk' like that provided 
you don't
 change the partition sizes; just change the partition type. (NO WARRANTEE)

Footnotes: 
[1] Make sure you read the 
/Documentation/filesystems/devfs/README if you
plan to use devfs.  There is some very important information there.  Also, 
for you
Debian users, please note that the "libc6.deb:/etc/init.d/devpts.sh" has 
(had?)
incorrect logic and breaks things (not disastrous; don't panic) with devfs. 
 The grep
statements are incorrect.  I have submitted a bug report.  You are not 
supposed to
mount the devpts when devfs is mounted, since devfs handles the devpts for 
you in
2.4.0 kernels. (gathered from the README) If you do mount it, you will 
experience
problems with things that need to allocate a pty -- eg: `gnome-terminal -e 
screen'
will fail with devpts mounted on a devfs.

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Re: 2 linksys NICs

2000-12-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 02:22:24PM -0500, David Bellows wrote:
> 
> I have the same card.  The tulip drivers that come with kernel don't
> work for me either and I tried several different kernel versions.  My
> Linksys actually came with a Linux driver floppy.  The driver was called
> tulip.  I compiled this driver and it works.  It is disappointing that
> the standard tulip driver from the kernel doesn't work on this tulip
> card (no fault of the kernel, the card maker probably screwed up).  If
> your card didn't come with the driver on a floppy then you can find the
> source at Linksys' site and compile it yourself (easy compile, obviously
> need kernel sources, etc.).  I'm not sure what to do about the second
> card, however the Linksys driver also comes with a pciscan module that
> might solve the problem.

Actually, I went to the linksys site, and I followed their incorrect
instructions that don't quite lead you to all the headers you need, and I'm
getting a compile error from the latest tulip source. 

I got it from here:

ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/tulip.html

along with the associated pci-scan.c/o and kern_compat.h, but I'm getting
a parse error from the code when I try to compile it. 

Do I have to do anything special to initialize two cards instead of one?

Mike

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Re: 2 linksys NICs

2000-12-16 Thread David Bellows

"Michael P. Soulier" wrote:
>
> Actually, I went to the linksys site, and I followed their incorrect
> instructions that don't quite lead you to all the headers you need, and I'm
> getting a compile error from the latest tulip source.
> 
> I got it from here:
> 
> ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/tulip.html
> 
> along with the associated pci-scan.c/o and kern_compat.h, but I'm getting
> a parse error from the code when I try to compile it.
> 
> Do I have to do anything special to initialize two cards instead of one?
> 
Hmmm.  I really don't know anything about multiple cards.  However if
you want the driver file that came with my card, contact me privately
and I'll send it to you (it's not too big).

David Bellows

Re: mysql-server broken

Jens Gecius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > > Actually, the postinst doesn't go through and 
> > 
> >I ran into that on my laptop.  I found that purging the package (make
> > sure you don't have it set to kill your databases!) and a clean reinstall
> > it would install perfectly.  Not a slick solution, but a working one...
> 
> Tried that, too. Still segfaulting and postinst doesn't work.
> 
> Which package did you purge? All with mysql in it or just
> mysql-server? (just tried mysql-server only).

Finally, I got it working.

Reinstalled all mysql-packages (yes, all), postinst still failed.
I then ran mysql_install_db after I manually created the
/var/lib/mysql/mysql with perm mysql.mysql. THEN I was able to run
mysql again (puhh). Oh, and before that, I had to comment skip-network
in /etc/mysql/my.conf.

Thanks for your help!

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Re: 2 linksys NICs

2000-12-16 Thread Juan Fuentes

* Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> Actually, I went to the linksys site, and I followed their incorrect
> instructions that don't quite lead you to all the headers you need, and I'm
> getting a compile error from the latest tulip source. 
> 
> I got it from here:
> 
> ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/tulip.html
> 
> along with the associated pci-scan.c/o and kern_compat.h, but I'm getting
> a parse error from the code when I try to compile it. 
> 
> Do I have to do anything special to initialize two cards instead of one?
> 
> Mike

Hi Mike i had a problem with modversion.h not being found, is this part of
your problem? There is another issue, and that is that IIRC, the kernel
handle modules differently now, i think the change is in 2.2.18 but might be
in 2.2.17+patches not sure, because of this change most programs that are
used as module, like alsa and others had to upgrade to the new form, and
it's my understanding that Mr. Donald Becker hasn't updated the modules to
the new form, possibly the reason why is not compiling. If you have a
2.2.17 kernel i can provide you with the binary, i also would give you the
modification i did, but i lost them do to a crash, and the false sense that
i had backed'em up, when in reality i didn't, i also submitted a patch to
Mr. Donald Becker, but he hasn't implemented it or just didn't like it
don't know haven't heard from him.

Sorry i couldn't be of more help,

Juan Fuentes

Making-Debian-Packages-HOWTO

2000-12-16 Thread Patrick Schnorbus

Hey folks,

is there any HOWTO or other good instruction for creating deb-packages?

Patrick

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 01:29:29PM -0500, A R wrote:
...
> Well, it seems that there are some glitches yet:

I've looked again at my own fetchmailrc file, and low and behold I appear
to use an extra option:)  Just add "no dns" to your poll postoffice...line
and those glitches should be gone. I think I don't fully grasp the docs on
this though, so if anybody could explain, thanks.

Just to still my curiousity could you first try once more without this
"no dns" thingy,but with a longer aka list:

  aka mtiwgwc21.worldnet.att.net worldnet.att.net ...

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Re: interesting xmcd conundrum

2000-12-16 Thread Eric G . Miller

Are you a member of the group "audio"?

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Re: OT - web browsers

2000-12-16 Thread John Carline

Ken Weingold wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 15, 2000, Erik Steffl wrote:
> >
> >   - middle click on link opens link in new window (in netscape browser,
> > email, newsgroups)
> >
> >   - clicking on wheel (leftmost) button on the status bar
> > sort-of-toolbar opens new netscape window
> >
> >   the second one might be what you want. or am I misunderstanding?
>
> Yeah, I think you are.  I am talking about copying a URL from a
> terminal window or even the web browser itself.  Open a new browser
> window and you still have text in the Location bar.
>

I'm probably not reading you correctly either, but just in case


I don't remember a open button like the one you're asking about (then again I'm
not certain I remember yesterday correctly ;-))

But, are you perhaps looking for something like:

1) Highlighting a url from an email, xterm, etc.  (left click-hold-drag)

2) Opening the page selection box. (top menu: file, open page)

3) Paste url in selection box with (middle button or both buttons of a 2 button
mouse)

4) Opening the url with "open in navigator" button?


John



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Re: mysql-server broken

2000-12-16 Thread Randy Edwards

> Tried that, too. Still segfaulting and postinst doesn't work.

   Sorry, I forgot to mention my entire procedure.  Here's exactly what I
did:

 1) I purged mysql-server.
 2) This of course, left my /var/lib/mysql subdirectory intact.  I then
moved /var/lib/mysql to something like /var/lib/mysql.good.
 3) I did a reinstall of mysql-server and it went smoothly.
 4) I then shut down mysql killed the new /var/lib/mysql subdir and moved
the "good" subdirectory back to being /var/lib/mysql.
 5) After restarting the server, all ran well.

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Re: interesting xmcd conundrum

yup.

i racked my brains on this; i sent in a bug report.   it happened right
after woody was updated, so it prolly had something to do with that...

p

On Sat 16 Dec 00, 12:32 PM, Eric G . Miller said...
> Are you a member of the group "audio"?
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Re: Making-Debian-Packages-HOWTO

2000-12-16 Thread Peter Palfrader

Hi Patrick!

Patrick Schnorbus schrieb am Samstag, dem 16. Dezember 2000:

> Hey folks,
> 
> is there any HOWTO or other good instruction for creating deb-packages?

Check out the info on http://www.debian.org/devel/>. You might
be interested in the stuff below "Packaging Information" esp. the
"New Maintainers' Guide" and the "Packaging Manual".

HTH
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Re: interesting xmcd conundrum

2000-12-16 Thread Eric G . Miller

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 12:32:26PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> Are you a member of the group "audio"?

Actually, I should've asked: Are you a member of the group "cdrom" and
does the drive device that represents your cdrom have perms root.cdrom ?

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Re: Making-Debian-Packages-HOWTO

2000-12-16 Thread Chris Gray

> Patrick Schnorbus writes:

ps> Hey folks,

ps> is there any HOWTO or other good instruction for creating
ps> deb-packages?

$ apt-get install maint-guide
$ netscape /usr/share/doc/maint-guide/maint-guide.html/index.html

ps> Patrick

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Re: Restore the STATUS file

2000-12-16 Thread John Carline

Raffaele Sandrini wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As i said, i'm new to debian. I tried lots of things. I have done lots of
> shit with dselect.

I don't have a clue what "tried lots of things" or "done lots of shit" means, 
but
was one of the "done lots of shit" things reading the help pages of dselect 
which
explain how to put packages on hold by using "="

> Is there a command, wich sets the status of the files
> appropriate to my system. For example i have now lots of deps. The lodaer want
> that i download 350MB (!)

Since you say download I'm assuming you're getting you files via a modem?

> I don't want these files.

The loader (dselect) wants to download them because you have somehow selected
them for loading on your system. The list could help you easier if we knew how
you selected so many packages?

> So perhaps is there
> a command wich sets the status to installed for all my installed packages
> and to not installed for all other packages

All installed packages should already be set to installed. However your problem
may be that you have selected a very large number of packages and none of them
will be installed until they are all downloaded. That would mean that you (as 
you
say above) have lots of deps, but it would also mean that none of them are
installed.

I'd put all the packages that you don't need immediately on hold ( = ) and then
start downloading and installing a few at at time. Starting with the most
important ones.

Once they're installed and deleted, download the next most important group of
packages by changing hold to install (see help)

Good Luck

John

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