Re: pdf editor
John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since postscript, .pdf, and ebooks all make money for Adobe > (postscript and .pdf mostly in residuals), it's time to stop using > them. Sic semper tyrannis. But PDF and PS do not necessarily make money for Adobe. My printer has a non-Adobe PS RIP, I create PDFs without Adobe software, view them, etc without a problem. Just because they created the spec does not mean it's eternally sullied. There are a sufficiently large body of software out right now which can operate on these formats that it is extremely useful even without further Adobe influence. And any further acts by Adobe will not take that software out of circulation. (There are companies much larger than Adobe using PS and PDF from non-Adobe products. Even were Adobe to conjure some legal ground to attack, they would be crushed.) In contrast to Java, which is a fast-moving target under constant change by Sun, PS and PDF are fairly stable formats. I could see boycotting PDF encryption (since that's core to the legal action) but to ditch PDF and PS would hurt us more than it would hurt Adobe... replacing our free software and fonts with a new spec, unsupported by anyone else, is just too much work for the minimal reward. (Do you really want to replace all your fonts with Speedo fonts? Considering the major alternative format is likewise controlled by companies of questionable morality, and has patent liabilities to boot.) -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Re: OT: color emacs/auctex in console?
Jeff Maxson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I apt-got emacs20, auctex, and their suggested packages. Loading up > a latex document will now get me all the whiz-bang formatting > features of auctex, but I can't seem to get the color to kick-in. > I'm running just the console, if that matters. You either need XEmacs, or (as yet unreleased) Emacs 21. Emacs 20 and older do not do color on the console. > ok, one more...loading up emacs in console gives you a list of drop-down > headings at the top. how do you get up there to drop them down? Hit F10 (well, they won't exactly drop down... if you're really nice and bug Erik Naggum, he was working on it a few years back, before MULE drove him away from Emacs development). -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Don't get stuck in a closet -- wear yourself out.
Re: libc6 2.2.3-7 post-inst error
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > Hello all, > > elm:# dpkg --configure libc6 > Setting up libc6 (2.2.3-7) ... > date: invalid date `Mon Jul 23 07:32:48 WST 2001' > dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > libc6 > > > > This happens on both my sid boxes. Is this just me? This problem continues with libc6_2.2.3-8 and I can't install any more packages until I get it fixed. The date `Mon Jul 23 07:32:48 WST 2001' was a perfectly good date in this part of the world. I tried running the post-inst script as root after commenting out the "set -e" line, but that was not effective. I'd really appreciate some help in fixing this problem. Lindsay -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 2486, 0403 272 564 32.0125S 115.8445E Debian Linux =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: cvs permissions
Hi, interesting ideas. I thought about it ... On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 04:46:25PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Martin F. Krafft wrote: > > okay, with the preserve option i have succeeded at preserving the file > > permissions ... > I'm not sure if the preserve option works with remote cvs checkouts btw. > Reccommend looking in the cvs info page. Info saids No: The `PreservePermissions' features do not work with client/server CVS. Another limitation is that hard links must be to other files within the same directory; hard links across directories are not supported. (This may be for pserver. I do not know if ssh is used) Also I just experimented. I can "import" /etc into CVS by root but I can not even "ci" as root locally: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# cvs ci cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root' Well, it does not look easy. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/+
Re: /dev/fd0u1743 help
#include Alvin Oga wrote on Fri Jul 27, 2001 um 03:17:47PM: > superformat will format 1.44mb floppies to 1.77 or higher if needed Yes, you can get 1920kB with superformat. Unfortunately, this format is very slow (since complicated to read) and cannot boot. 1743 is the common denominator, useable on Wind~1 too. And 1760kB ist the biggest bootable format, AFAIK. > you can also modify the default mke2fs options to allow more data > ( not as much overhead .. sometimes the extra 100 bytes is all you needed) Then you better take minix, it has even less overhead. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- > Nickelallergiker! > Niederdrehzahlfahrer! > Omabesucher! > Opelhändler! Passwortaufschreiber! Backupmacher!
Re: Debian Issues!!
> | > | > to begin this project, but little to my knowledge, I have spent the > | > last three days reading though your FAQ's, readme files, etc trying to > | > figure out how to get the image which should be a simple afair, yet > | > failing miserabbaly and I have the following comments/complaints I > | > hope you will at least consider about your system. > | > | The docs could be better organized. However, this list is populated > | with folks who've been through most of the pains themselves, strongly > | recommended you ask first. We're usually pretty helpful, or so I hear. > > Yeah, just look at all the responses you've gotten already (and no > flames :-)). and another big pro for debian "I have a problem with my RH 7.1 bal bla" postet to this list will increase the risk of getting flamed ;-) > > | > First I will like to say that your meathod is intivative and I > | > understand your issues of wanting to save banwith, also after thinking what kind of bandwidth do I save with the pseudo-image-kit ? Just download the iso with a ftp client witch can resume and your done. Do I miss something ? Anyway A nice way IMO ist the following: Download the right 2.88 mb boot-floppy image and base2_2.tgz (~50mb) from somemirror.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current Burn a CD with the floppy-image as boot-image and the base2_2.tgz as a regular file on the CD. Boot from the CD install the basesystem from the CD. This gives you a running linuxsystem where you can mess around with the usual tools to make your modem/lan working if they don't do already. by 'installer-magic' . Configure apt to use your pref. mirror and anything additional to this starter-kit-linux is now just apt-get install away. (If you don't intend to keep it slim use dselect ;) I'd say *this* saves bandwidth just to give some ideas pascal Ps: perfekt way to jump right to testing as well
Re: Quake 3
jason pepas wrote: > > Thanks for the quick responses guys, > > Andrew - I am running a G200, so I may have to do the same... > > Sean - I am first trying to get it working with a G200, and I will get it > working with another machine using an Nvidia GeForce2MX after this. > > Yves - I will definitely try out the additional config section, and I had no > idea about the color depth limitation. I have the exact same card as you > (G200) and have been attempting this in 24 bit color, so it obviously wont > work. > > On an interesting side note, I did get the Q3test and Q3demo working, but > they were only running at about 1 fps, which I later found out was due to the > fact that GLX can apparently do software 3D acceleration which looks like > real hardware 3d (as opposed to the traditional inferior look of software > renderers). > > I'll give some of those things a shot, and report back! > > By the way - is there a way to change the X color depth without killing X and > restarting it? Yes Matrox released its Powerdesk package (allows resolution + colour depth changes on the fly) Sources available at matrox Yours, barrie grieve
KDE panel configuration
I thought I'd give KDE2 a try (on woody). There are a couple of
annoyances I'm hoping someone can help me out with.
I've added some things to the panel that I can not find a way to
remove. I believe these are the quick launch and the run applets.
The latter shows a drop down box with "Run Command" as the title over
it. How do I get rid of them?
1. Right click produces no popup with an option to delete the item.
I can delete individual items within the quicklaunch panel, but not
the panel itself.
2. Configure panel | settings offers no control over the items in the
panel that I can see. The applets pane has the applets greyed out at
the default ("Load startup config applets internal") setting. I
changed to "Load only truested applets internally" which let me move
quicklauncher and krunapplet out of the left hand (trusted applets)
pane, but even in reboot this had no impact.
3. I tried editing some of the files, including
~/.kde/share/config/kickerrc, both by deleting sections like
[Applet_3]
ConfigFile=krunappletrc
DesktopFile=krunapplet.desktop
FreeSpace=1
HeightForWidthHint=29
WidthForHeightHint=124
and also deleting entries from
[General]
Applets=KMenuButton_1,DesktopButton_1,URLButton_1,URLButton_2,URLButton_3,URLButton_4,URLButton_5,URLButton_6,URLButton_7,URLButton_8,URLButton_9,Applet_1,Applet_2,Applet_3,URLButton_10,Applet_4,Applet_5,Applet_6
No effect. It looks as if these get rewritten on system shutdown or
startup.
4. I have read several fine online manuals, but found nothing helpful.
mouse stops working in X
hi, a few minutes into every X session, my mouse stops working. If I leave X for the console, where the mouse works, then go back to X, the mouse still doesn't work. i can enter text in X fine. anyone know why? my system information, as well as all the warning lines in my XFree86.0.log file, is below. If anyone has any wise ideas about this, i'd appreciate hearing them. Dell i5000e, ATI Rage Mobility LF graphics card with 8M video memory, 1400x1050 LCD, PS/2 mouse. Running woody, kernel 2.2.19, XFree86 4.0.3. from XFree86.0.log: (WW) R128(0): Video BIOS not detected in PCI space! (WW) R128(0): Attempting to read Video BIOS from legacy ISA space! (WW) R128(0): Default mode "720x400" deleted (no mode of this name) (WW) R128(0): Default mode "640x480" deleted (hsync out of range) (WW) R128(0): Default mode "1024x768" deleted (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (WW) R128(0): Default mode "1152x864" deleted (no mode of this name) (WW) R128(0): Default mode "1280x960" deleted (no mode of this name) (WW) R128(0): Default mode "1280x960" deleted (no mode of this name) (WW) R128(0): Default mode "1280x1024" deleted (hsync out of range) (WW) R128(0): Default mode "1600x1200" deleted (no mode of this name) (WW) R128(0): Default mode "1600x1200" deleted (no mode of this name) (WW) R128(0): Default mode "1600x1200" deleted (no mode of this name) (WW) R128(0): Default mode "1600x1200" deleted (no mode of this name) (WW) R128(0): Default mode "1600x1200" deleted (no mode of this name) (WW) R128(0): Default mode "1792x1344" deleted (no mode of this name) (WW) R128(0): Default mode "1792x1344" deleted (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (WW) R128(0): Default mode "1856x1392" deleted (no mode of this name) (WW) R128(0): Default mode "1856x1392" deleted (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (WW) R128(0): Default mode "1920x1440" deleted (no mode of this name) (WW) R128(0): Default mode "1920x1440" deleted (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (WW) R128(0): Static buffer allocation failed -- need at least 8663 kB video memory
PPP Script Problem
I set up a PPP dialup script following this HOWTO: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/ISP-Connectivity-2.html#ss2.1, and I have attached it to this email. Whenever I try to execute it, I get the following errors: ./ppp-connect: unexpected EOF while looking for `'' ./ppp-connect: ./ppp-connect: line 2: syntax error Any ideas? .. Also, how can I make this script executable by other users [besides root]? Thanks. -- Deven
KDE2 X display security
If I open a terminal and su, I find I'm unable to open additional displays (e.g., su emacs & ). If I change to a regular terminal and do xhost + then the emacs & as root works. I know the install script says it's shutting down remote access, but this is local access. I tried removing -nolisten from /etc/X11/kdm/Xservers (I'm using kdm), without effect. What's the right knob to tweak so that I can do the su; emacs & thing? A related question: Through the menu I can get System | Terminal (Super User Mode). The result comes up as root, and I can pop open additional displays. But it's not a very good root, because it still has my path as a regular user. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks.
Re: mouse stops working in X
#include Patrick Boe wrote on Sat Jul 28, 2001 um 03:11:37AM: > a few minutes into every X session, my mouse stops working. If I leave X > for the console, where the mouse works, then go back to X, the mouse still > doesn't work. i can enter text in X fine. anyone know why? my system How did you configure the GPM? I hope I didn't setup X and GPM to use the same device, did you? You should modify /etc/gpm.conf to forward mouse data to gpm's repeater device /dev/gpmdata, and configure X to use _this_ device file. > Dell i5000e, ATI Rage Mobility LF graphics card with 8M video memory, > 1400x1050 LCD, PS/2 mouse. Running woody, kernel 2.2.19, XFree86 4.0.3. --- /etc/gpm.conf --- # /etc/gpm.conf - configuration file for gpm(1) # # If mouse response seems to be to slow, try using # responsiveness=15. append can contain any random arguments to be # appended to the commandline. # # If you edit this file by hand, please be aware it is sourced by # /etc/init.d/gpm and thus all shell meta characters must be # protected from evaluation (i.e. by quoting them). # # This file is used by /etc/init.d/gpm and can be modified by # /usr/sbin/gpmconfig. # device=/dev/psaux responsiveness= type=ps2 #append="-R -l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\"" append="-R -S \"\"" repeat_type=msc --- EOF --- from XF86Config-4: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/gpmdata" Option "Protocol" "MouseSystems" # Option "Emulate3Buttons" EndSection Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.
Re: pdf editor
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:20:55AM +0530, harsha wrote: > hi, > > > Sounds like the poster wanted to fill in PDF Forms, and the only app I know > > that can do that is Acrobat Reader. > > hmmn there is no GNU utility for the same purpose. I have a problem in > viewing some pdf files. xpdf refuses to open them but acrobat reader reads > them. is it because the pdf files are encrypted or something like that. I > haven't tried xpdf-i yet. poor bandwidth at the present moment. will check it > out later though personally, I use gv to view pdf files, works for me :) Brett pgpCYQaztTyqi.pgp Description: PGP signature
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Re: balsa: orphaned?
hzi wrote: > > >> Mensagem anterior << > > No dia 26/07/01, 06:00:10, Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu o > seguinte sobre o tema balsa: orphaned?: > > > what's up with balsa? there's a huge number of old bugs (year or two > > old) including the ne that makes it uninstallable (+2 month days): > > > Grave functionality bugs - outstanding > > > (A list of all such bugs used to be available). > > > #98110: balsa: depends on libltdl0, which has been removed > > Package: balsa; Severity: grave; Reported by: Colin Watson > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 66 days old. > > > anybody knows what's going on? > > > > Hey, Balsa is great, in that it uses Unix mbox, and you can use procmail > with it. > It shouldn't be orphaned, if it's tue, what a shame! I mean the debian package seems to be not taken care of, not balsa itself. there are quite a few bug (lot of them 1+ year old), it's not even installable (in unstable) - that's an 2+ months old bug (depends on non-existing library): balsa: Depends: libltdl0 but it is not installable erik
Biometric devices supported by Linux
Hi, Does anyone know of any biometric (fingerprint recognition systems in particular) that can be made to work under Linux? I've got in mind something USB based... I'm going through the motions of looking at the feasibility of making a Linux-based attendance tracking system that will use fingerprints as the identifying key. Any pointers would be appreciated. I'm currently rummaging through www.biometrics.org Andrew
Re: Debian Issues!!
Hi I'm afraid I 'cheat' and grab the iso direct from http://www.linuxiso.org which lists Debian right at the top (as it should be ;-) ). I did look into getting it the Debian way, but decided to go with linuxiso.org as it was easier and they're geared up for that sort of demand. I'm happy enough for the debian mirrors retaining their bandwidth so my dist-upgrade's can go through more quickly[1] ;-) Regards, Martin [1] Especially as I'm still on dial-up at home - though fortunately unmetered with 29Mb coming through at present ;-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities Open Source test environment tools for the AS/400 / iSeries and miscellaneous database & spooled file management commands.
Re: Quake 2 Problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to run Quake 2 from X, but when I do, it tells me it can't find > ref_softx.so, even though it's right there in the directory with it. Does > anyone know what the problem might be? This file seems not to be a part of any package (search on http://packages.debian.org). Could it be a result of a bad Quake II installation ? -- Yves Dessertine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can one get debian installed?
I am having a hard time gettin anything to work. I downloaded the 2.2r3 CDRoms and burned all three disks. Then I went on to install the distribution but I cannot get it to work. Well it works in single user environment, but I cannot believe that that is how everyone is using the distribution. When I try to start X I get some jibberish with cannot connect When I try to upgrade a package with apt-get all I get is that the file cannot be found, like so # /usr/bin/apt-get --no-download install /usr/dists/upgrades/xserver-3dlabs_3.3.6-11potato32.deb Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... E: Couldn't find package /usr/dists/upgrades/xserver-3dlabs_3.3.6-11potato32.deb # /usr/bin/apt-get --no-download install xserver-3dlabs_3.3.6-11potato32.deb Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... E: Couldn't find package xserver-3dlabs_3.3.6-11potato32.deb but the file is right there # pwd /usr/dists/upgrades # ls xserver-3dlabs_3.3.6-11potato32.deb xserver-3dlabs_3.3.6-11potato32.deb # ls -l /usr/dists/upgrades/xserver-3dlabs_3.3.6-11potato32.deb -rw-r--r--1 root users 918400 Jul 27 20:21 /usr/dists/upgrades/xserver-3dlabs_3.3.6-11potato32.deb Does anyone have any ideas what the hell is going on here? Thanks, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU [EMAIL PROTECTED] LINUX
Re: PPP Script Problem
Deven writes: > Any ideas? Yes. Scrap the script. Run pppconfig as root to configure ppp and then us pon to bring up the connection and poff to shut it down. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
Your site listed
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Re: Your site listed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Pages from your web site at http://www.debian.org have been added to > the UK Search Portal, http://www.serenade.co.uk. > > I got your email address from the page > http://www.debian.org/contact, and just wanted to let you know about > your entry, and how to add more pages and "boost" your position in > our search engine listings - for free. LOL :) > If you are not the person responsible for this web site, I am sorry > to have contacted you without permission. But you may still find > this information useful. Elephantastic :) Cheers, Stig -- 13:10:01 up 9 days, 18:23, 5 users, load average: 0.03, 0.04, 0.00
problem sending mail
Sir, I have a online site using jsp and I am sending mail from a jsp page .But There was error message saying-- error sending the mail.IO ERROR IN SENDING EMAIL:554 : Recipient address rejected: Relay access denied . and a returned mail from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with message-- This is the Postfix program at host bom4.vsnl.net.in. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please send mail to If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host mail2.rediffmail.com[203.199.83.4] said: 553 sorry, your envelope sender is in my badmailfrom list (#5.7.1) This was sent from a JSP page! Cool beans! :-) pls help mw out to solve this problem thanks in advans padmaja _ For Rs. 2,000,000 worth of Aptech scholarships click below http://events.rediff.com/aptechsch/scholarship.htm
Re: Debian Issues!!
"pascal weller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >what kind of bandwidth do I save with the pseudo-image-kit ? >Just download the iso with a ftp client witch can resume and your done. >Do I miss something ? It doesn't save *you* bandwidth, it helps out the load on the mirrors. That (at least in theory) is the point of the pseudo-image kit: you can download the packages from a local mirror as normal, and mirrors don't have to keep enormous .iso files around. That said, while I did get the pseudo-image kit working last time I needed to, I was working from a GNU/Linux system to start with. I can imagine that doing it from Cygwin or similar would be pretty stressful. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Issues!!
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: >on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:51:14PM -0700, Jaimos F. Skriletz >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> First I will like to say that your meathod is intivative and I >> understand your issues of wanting to save banwith, also after thinking >> about your meathod of using the .list file to direct what pacakages >> will be installed on the machince, I see that for a knowledgable >> Debian user it could be advantage to spelizise that list to get the >> maximum performace out of your operating system which is the final >> goal of most devout users in my opion, but now on to my problems > >Huh? I guess Jaimos is thinking that it's worth cutting down the .list files to only the packages you need. In fact, unless you're short on CDs, it's not worth the trouble: regardless of what you have on the CDs, you only ever have to install the packages you want, plus their dependencies. The .list files don't control what's actually installed on the final system. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sendmail logs
Hi! Since I re-installed a box, sendmail seems to be logging less information than before. Specifically, I had two entries for each mail, one for the receiving part, and one for delivery. Now when mail is sent to a local luser I only get a syslog-entry for the delivery part, but not for the receiving. This is a stable+security - box with no self-compiled or unstable parts. cheers, &rw -- -- Actually, we have scientifically determined that Heisenberg did indeed -- sleep exactly here. However, we have no idea whatsoever just how fast -- asleep he was. -- Dave Aronson pgp7yCyldgA7w.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How can one get debian installed?
Robert Schweikert wrote: # /usr/bin/apt-get --no-download install /usr/dists/upgrades/xserver-3dlabs_3.3.6-11potato32.deb Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... E: Couldn't find package /usr/dists/upgrades/xserver-3dlabs_3.3.6-11potato32.deb # /usr/bin/apt-get --no-download install xserver-3dlabs_3.3.6-11potato32.deb Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... E: Couldn't find package xserver-3dlabs_3.3.6-11potato32.deb but the file is right there Does anyone have any ideas what the hell is going on here? Thanks, Robert apt-get needs AFAIK a Contents-file. It looks to me like you've downloaded the files and then try to install it with apt-get. So you'll have to tell apt-get where the files are. I think you'll have to create a Contents.gz file in your download directory, add the path to your sources.list and run apt-get update. The more easier way to install the packages is to use dpkg. Frank
Re: How can one get debian installed?
On 28 Jul 2001, at 14:37, Frank Zimmermann wrote: > Robert Schweikert wrote: > > > > > > # /usr/bin/apt-get --no-download install > > /usr/dists/upgrades/xserver-3dlabs_3.3.6-11potato32.deb > > Reading Package Lists... > > Building Dependency Tree... > > E: Couldn't find package > > /usr/dists/upgrades/xserver-3dlabs_3.3.6-11potato32.deb > > > > # /usr/bin/apt-get --no-download install > > xserver-3dlabs_3.3.6-11potato32.deb > > Reading Package Lists... > > Building Dependency Tree... > > E: Couldn't find package xserver-3dlabs_3.3.6-11potato32.deb > > > > but the file is right there > > > > > Does anyone have any ideas what the hell is going on here? > > > > Thanks, > > Robert > > > apt-get needs AFAIK a Contents-file. It looks to me like you've downloaded > the files and then try to install it with apt-get. So you'll have to tell > apt-get where the files are. > > I think you'll have to create a Contents.gz file in your download > directory, add the path to your sources.list and run apt-get update. > The more easier way to install the packages is to use dpkg. Try using the R option as in: dpkg -iR hth Dean > > Frank > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Biometric devices supported by Linux
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 06:49:29PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know of any biometric (fingerprint recognition systems in > particular) that can be made to work under Linux? > > I've got in mind something USB based... > > I'm going through the motions of looking at the feasibility of making a > Linux-based attendance tracking system that will use fingerprints as the > identifying key. I remember a that their was a company with such things at the LinuxTag 2000 in Germany. Maybe the guys from www.linuxtag.de can find out the adress for you. Sven -- Subject: Re: woody hanging > WRT subject. > $ apt-get install viagra ;-) [Karsten M. Self in debian-user]
Re: pdf editor
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:24:45AM +0530, harsha wrote: > I would like to know if there exists a package to **edit** pdf files. I > have some forms in pdf form which i have to fill. I did make a search at > freshmeat, sourceforge but none turned up just use your favourite editor to edit the pdf file. it's not too dificult to find out where to put your text in the sourcecode. i did this several times and as in most forms the position where to fill in text is marked with dots it's easy to find it. yours martin -- factline Krisper Fabro Harnoncourt OEG (www.factline.com)
Re: KDE panel configuration
On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >1. Right click produces no popup with an option to delete the item. >I can delete individual items within the quicklaunch panel, but not >the panel itself. Did you try right-clicking the 'handle'? -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: How can one get debian installed?
> > Does anyone have any ideas what the hell is going on here? > > > It looks to me like you've downloaded the files and then try to install it > with apt-get. I'm not sure how well this will pertain to you, but if it were me, I'd just run the apt-get update, and then apt-get install your_package_here, and let it do it's thing. If you've already downloaded it and it matches what's on the source you're retrieving it from, it won't download again. (when you apt-get stuff, it usually keeps it in /var/cache/apt/archives, so that's probably where it's looking for it) So, either that, or like Mr. Zimmerman said, and use dpkg if it's in a non-standard location. Hope it helps, Jeremy
Re: KDE2 X display security
On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If I change to a regular terminal and do xhost + then the emacs & as >root works. Are you looking for "xhost +local:"? -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
kylix open edition and Debian 2.2
hi, is it possible (with some tricks; libc-update, alien etc.) to run kylix open edition on Debian 2.2 ? thanks, -- Felix Natter
Re: sid / woody ppp not setting default gw
Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > Hi! > > I have a laptop with an ethernet card connection to a local network > and a modem for connecting to the Internet. Earlier versions of pppd > always reset the default gateway to the dial-in server when I connected > (and reset it back to eth0 after I hang up). A recent upgrade seems > to have broken this: > > Jul 27 19:19:14 machine pppd[15272]: not replacing existing default > route to eth0 [192.168.97.1] I always had problems getting pppd to set a default gw when I had an existing gw set up on eth0 with the older versions of pppd. I now am using cable and am not "current" on the newer version(s)(2.4 series). Some external dialers would do this for you (kppp comes to mind), but the default ppp dialer that comes with Debian never would work for me. I got the same message as you > > I was able to get things to work by creating routing scripts in > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d: > > #!/bin/sh > > route add -net 137.229.94.19 dev ppp0 > logger -p daemon.debug Added route to 137.229.94.19 on ppp0 > > route add default gw 137.229.94.19 > logger -p daemon.debug Added default gateway to 137.229.94.19 > > route del default gw 192.168.97.1 > logger -p daemon.debug Deleted default gateway to 192.168.97.1 > > exit 0 > > This does work, but it takes almost a minute for the script to > complete it's business, and for the changes to be reflected in the > routing table. Based on my experience mentioned above, wouldn't it be better to delete the current eth0 gw FIRST, then add in the other stuff?? In fact, it would probably be better to delete the existing gw when pppd is called...if you can figure out a way to do that. Of course you would have to add it back in when pppd shuts down.../etc/ppp/ip-down.d/ would be a great place for a "reset" script. Also, if you have other scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ then you have to be careful how you name your scripts. The scripts are run in cannonical sequence and you would want this script to be run first, or at least before any other script that uses the network. I just took a peek at mine and it has a single script called "postfix", which runs the mailer and sends out any mail in the queue. I would imagine this script would time-out if run first and a gw had not been set. This "might" explain your long delay on getting the new gw set...dunno. Another option would be to just place your commands at the front of this file if it exists on your system. Just some random thoughts for your consideration. Hope it helps. Cheers, -Don Spoon-
Fwd: Your site listed
HEY, people what is this CARP? I have received some stuff like this before and just thought it was an ERROR. Now I am begaining to wonder.. Is this sort of thingy acceptable practice or should we turn them in to some "FROG" or "SALAMANDER" some place FAR FAR AWAY? d [EMAIL PROTECTED] S.A. TEXAS X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 06:06:38 -0600 (MDT) To: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Your site listed Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/160817 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pages from your web site at http://www.debian.org have been added to the UK Search Portal, http://www.serenade.co.uk. I got your email address from the page http://www.debian.org/contact, and just wanted to let you know about your entry, and how to add more pages and "boost" your position in our search engine listings - for free. If you are not the person responsible for this web site, I am sorry to have contacted you without permission. But you may still find this information useful. What you can do, all for FREE: - Search to see which of your pages are already in our search engine database at http://www.serenade.co.uk/search/ - Add pages at http://www.serenade.co.uk/submit/ - Get code to "boost" your position in our search results at http://www.serenade.co.uk/submit/improve/ - Earn money from your web site by joining our Revenue Network at http://www.serenade.co.uk/network/ ...your pay-per-click account will be credited with $5 if you use the Special Bonus code 'reward' when you join the Revenue Network (this is available for a limited time only, but the code is not specific to you so you can pass it on to friends and family) - If you sell products online, add them to our Internet Shopping database at http://www.serenade.co.uk/shopping/ - If you provide a local service in the United Kingdom, join our Local Links directory at http://www.serenade.co.uk/local_links/ - If you provide a web site design service in the United Kingdom, join our Web Design Directory at http://www.serenade.co.uk/web_services/ - Get automatically updated horoscopes for your web site at http://www.aahoroscopes.com/public/ I hope you find this email helpful, Sarah * You are not on a mailing list, and we take care not to send this notification to the same email address again. If you have any concerns, please feel free to contact us. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem sending mail
(please type a return after +/- 70 characters.) On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 12:44:44PM -, padmaja godbole wrote: > I have a online site using jsp and I am sending mail from a jsp > page .But There was error message saying-- error sending the mail. > IO ERROR IN SENDING EMAIL:554 : Recipient address rejected: Relay > access denied . > > and a returned mail from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > with message-- > This is the Postfix program at host bom4.vsnl.net.in. > > I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned > below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. > > For further assistance, please send mail to > > If you do so, please include this problem report. You can > delete your own text from the message returned below. > >The Postfix program > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host mail2.rediffmail.com[203.199.83.4] said: 553 > sorry, your envelope sender is in my badmailfrom list (#5.7.1) > > > pls help mw out to solve this problem You can't, because the receiving mta thinks you're a spammer. Cheers, Joost
Re: Debian Issues!!
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:14:27PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: | "pascal weller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >what kind of bandwidth do I save with the pseudo-image-kit ? | >Just download the iso with a ftp client witch can resume and your done. | >Do I miss something ? | | It doesn't save *you* bandwidth, it helps out the load on the mirrors. | That (at least in theory) is the point of the pseudo-image kit: you can | download the packages from a local mirror as normal, and mirrors don't | have to keep enormous .iso files around. Yep, though in practice if someone (not to mention any names ) bypasses the psuedo-image process and jumps straight to rsync I think it will actually increase the load on the server because it has to compute a checksum for each portion of the .iso, then transmit the entire iso anyways. -D
Re: Fwd: Your site listed
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:35:07AM -0500, d wrote: > HEY, people what is this CARP? It's called "spam". > I have received some stuff like this before > and just thought it was an ERROR. Hmmm, I wish it was. Welcome to the internet. >Now I am begaining to wonder.. Is > this sort of thingy acceptable practice or should we turn them in to some > "FROG" or "SALAMANDER" some place FAR FAR AWAY? Please tell us how to do that if you find a way. You'd be mighty popular. Cheers, Joost
Problems loading the hisax isdn driver on Debian 2.2r3
Hello,
I am having problems loading the HiSax driver in a couple of installations
of Debian potato 2.2r3 using the kernel 2.2.19pre17 which comes as the
default on that release.
Kernel = Linux version 2.2.19pre17 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3)
#1 Tue Mar 13 22:37:59 EST 2001
I have tried loading the hisax module on two different Eicon Diva 2.01
ISDN cards. One of these is the ISA version which has been properly set up
by the isapnputils and gives the following reply on isapnp:
Board 1 has Identity ba 00 01 ce 06 a1 00 89 1c:
GDI00a1 Serial No 118278 [checksum ba]
GDI00a1/118278[0]{EICON DIVA 2.01 S/T ISA}:
Port 0x200; IRQ10 --- Enabled OK
The /etc/modules.conf has the following definition for the ISA card:
### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/hisax
options hisax io=0x200 irq=10
### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/hisax
The other is a PCI version of the same card which gives the following
reply on lspci:
00:0a.0 Network controller: Eicon Technology Corporation:
Unknown device e005 (rev 01)
However when I load the hisax driver I get the following message on dmesg:
HiSax: Linux Driver for passive ISDN cards
HiSax: Version 3.5 (module)
HiSax: Layer1 Revision 2.41.6.1
HiSax: Layer2 Revision 2.25
HiSax: TeiMgr Revision 2.17
HiSax: Layer3 Revision 2.17.6.1
HiSax: LinkLayer Revision 2.51
HiSax: Approval certification failed because of
HiSax: unauthorized source code changes
This is the same on both cards. There is no registering of a card as shown
in the hisax documentation in the kernel source. The hisax driver is
loaded, and remains loaded in the kernel as shown by the lsmod output:
hisax 425376 0 (unused)
isdn 107704 0 [hisax]
slhc4376 0 [isdn]
This suggests that HiSax has not dropped out due to the source code
changes in the Debian version of the driver.
Can anyone tell me what is going wrong here, and how I can fix it?
Many thanks in anticipation,
Helen McCall
---
Re: How can one get debian installed?
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:37:02PM +0100, Frank Zimmermann wrote: | apt-get needs AFAIK a Contents-file. It looks to me like you've | downloaded the files and then try to install it with apt-get. So | you'll have to tell apt-get where the files are. | | I think you'll have to create a Contents.gz file in your download | directory, add the path to your sources.list and run apt-get update. Actually it is called "Packages.gz" and it is a text file (in a certain format) that is compressed with gzip. It and the .deb files must follow a certain directory heirarchy and the base directory of that hierarchy must be listed in /etc/apt/source.lst. This sounds complicated, but in practice it isn't -- whoever maintains the server has the Packages.gz and the directory hierarchy so you don't need to worry about it. All you normally need to do is include the server in your sources.lst file and apt will know how to find the packages. Also, apt-get takes a package _name_, not a path to a .deb file. | The more easier way to install the packages is to use dpkg. If you already have the .deb somewhere use dpkg -i /path/to/some_file.deb and it will work as long as all dependencies are met. The simpler way is to simply have the correct lines in /etc/apt/sources.lst and simply use apt-get update # get the list of packages and versions available apt-get install If you already have the package file, apt will simply use it (apt-get works with cds too, see 'man apt-cdrom'). If you don't have it apt will download it, then install it. HTH, -D
mp3 players?
Hi, Which portable mp3 players work with Linux? I was looking a Sunny Dubeyround in the kernel, and I saw support for the Rio500, but I was wondering if anyone was aware of other various protable mp3 players for linux. Thanks
Free x-server for windows 9x, ideas?
Hi all, I'm looking for a nice X server to run on my windoze box, as my server does not have a monitor anymore I found "MicroImages X Server" but it's old and i don't like it that much Requirements: 1) Plays nice with Debian Linux (potato) 2) Freeware, nag-free shareware, GPL? Ideas? Thanks, Nico de Haer - Original Message - From: Donald R. Spoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 7:17 AM Subject: Re: sid / woody ppp not setting default gw > Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I have a laptop with an ethernet card connection to a local network > > and a modem for connecting to the Internet. Earlier versions of pppd > > always reset the default gateway to the dial-in server when I connected > > (and reset it back to eth0 after I hang up). A recent upgrade seems > > to have broken this: > > > > Jul 27 19:19:14 machine pppd[15272]: not replacing existing default > > route to eth0 [192.168.97.1] > > I always had problems getting pppd to set a default gw when I had an > existing gw set up on eth0 with the older versions of pppd. I now am > using cable and am not "current" on the newer version(s)(2.4 series). > Some external dialers would do this for you (kppp comes to mind), but > the default ppp dialer that comes with Debian never would work for me. > I got the same message as you > > > > > I was able to get things to work by creating routing scripts in > > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > > > route add -net 137.229.94.19 dev ppp0 > > logger -p daemon.debug Added route to 137.229.94.19 on ppp0 > > > > route add default gw 137.229.94.19 > > logger -p daemon.debug Added default gateway to 137.229.94.19 > > > > route del default gw 192.168.97.1 > > logger -p daemon.debug Deleted default gateway to 192.168.97.1 > > > > exit 0 > > > > This does work, but it takes almost a minute for the script to > > complete it's business, and for the changes to be reflected in the > > routing table. > > Based on my experience mentioned above, wouldn't it be better to delete > the current eth0 gw FIRST, then add in the other stuff?? In fact, it > would probably be better to delete the existing gw when pppd is > called...if you can figure out a way to do that. Of course you would > have to add it back in when pppd shuts down.../etc/ppp/ip-down.d/ would > be a great place for a "reset" script. > > Also, if you have other scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ then you have to be > careful how you name your scripts. The scripts are run in cannonical > sequence and you would want this script to be run first, or at least > before any other script that uses the network. I just took a peek at > mine and it has a single script called "postfix", which runs the mailer > and sends out any mail in the queue. I would imagine this script would > time-out if run first and a gw had not been set. This "might" explain > your long delay on getting the new gw set...dunno. Another option would > be to just place your commands at the front of this file if it exists on > your system. > > Just some random thoughts for your consideration. Hope it helps. > > Cheers, > -Don Spoon- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?
I am running potato and trying to configure dial-up Internet access. Everything is running fine - I can dial the ISP, authenticate, get an IP address, etc. Now I am trying to write firewall rules that will adapt to whatever IP I am assigned. I think I am two questions away from getting this to work: * What script is run when the connection to the ISP completes? * How do I know, in that script, what my assigned IP is? I see that there are directories /etc/ppp/ip-up.d and /etc/ppp/ip-down.d. What is the function of those directories? Are the scripts in those directories all run on "up" and "down" state transitions for ppp? -- Randy
Re: Free x-server for windows 9x, ideas?
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 05:27:11PM -0700, nico de haer wrote: | Hi all, | | I'm looking for a nice X server to run on my windoze box, as my server does | not have a monitor anymore | I found "MicroImages X Server" but it's old and i don't like it that | much | | Requirements: | 1) Plays nice with Debian Linux (potato) | 2) Freeware, nag-free shareware, GPL? | | Ideas? XFree86 was ported to cygwin. I didn't have any luck getting it to work though. I use the trial version of XWin32 from StarNet. I have an older version so I get to use it for 2 hours before it shuts down. Then I can start it again for another 2-hour session. If you want I can send it to you (a while ago I found a new version, but it only allowed for a 30-minute session so I've stuck with the old version). -D PS. When you start a new thread it is a good idea to create a new message instead of replying to an existing, yet unrelated, message and quoting all of it.
Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?
/sbin/ifconfig will tell you what your IP is. It is also in /var/log/syslog. On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 08:16:05AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: | | I am running potato and trying to configure dial-up Internet access. | | Everything is running fine - I can dial the ISP, authenticate, get an IP | address, etc. | | Now I am trying to write firewall rules that will adapt to whatever IP I | am assigned. apt-get install ipmasq It works great out-of-the-box. (I'm using it right now :-)) -D
Re: mp3 players?
Quoting Sunny Dubey on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 11:10:08AM -0400: > Hi, > > Which portable mp3 players work with Linux? I was looking a > > Sunny Dubeyround in the kernel, and I saw support for the Rio500, but I was > wondering if anyone was aware of other various protable mp3 players for > linux. Thanks > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have a 6g player which works quite well. There is even software which will allow you to alter playlists that runs in Linux. Mine is a Personal JukeBox (www.pjb.com?). You can now get a 20g (!) version or get one you bought earlier upgraded. All it has in it is a laptop hard drive and a usb connection. I have connected it to a laptop running debian unstable with the 2.2 kernel and USB backport as well as a 2.4.x kernel. If you want a gnome/gtk manager, check out pjbmanager. There is also one for kde. I don't use kde here so cannot testify to its abilities. PJBmanager works pretty well though. -- Michael Perry | [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lnxpowered.org - home pages, notes, stuff http://gnufacts.org (coming soon) - other stuff
Re: Free x-server for windows 9x, ideas?
dman wrote: > XFree86 was ported to cygwin. I didn't have any luck getting it to > work though. I have it working on two different machines, one running WinME, the other running Win2k originally, and now WinXP RC1. Craig
Re: kylix open edition and Debian 2.2
Felix Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi, > > is it possible (with some tricks; libc-update, alien etc.) to run kylix > open edition on Debian 2.2 ? > I run it on top of Woody without any problem. Dominique
Re: pdf editor
On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, harsha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sounds like the poster wanted to fill in PDF Forms, and the only app I know >> that can do that is Acrobat Reader. > >hmmn there is no GNU utility for the same purpose. I have a problem >in viewing some pdf files. xpdf refuses to open them but acrobat >reader reads them. is it because the pdf files are encrypted or >something like that. I haven't tried xpdf-i yet. poor bandwidth at >the present moment. will check it out later though You might want to try gs + gs-pdfencrypt instead. gs does a better job at dealing with pdf files than xpdf. -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Fwd: Your site listed
On 28 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:35:07AM -0500, d wrote: > > HEY, people what is this CARP? > > It's called "spam". > > > I have received some stuff like this before > > and just thought it was an ERROR. > > Hmmm, I wish it was. Welcome to the internet. > > >Now I am begaining to wonder.. Is > > this sort of thingy acceptable practice or should we turn them in to some > > "FROG" or "SALAMANDER" some place FAR FAR AWAY? > > Please tell us how to do that if you find a way. You'd be mighty popular. > > Cheers, > > > Joost > You think this is bad? I'm getting a message every 2 days or so with a 200K+ attachment in base 64 (which I can't read). It says something like: "Hi. How are you? I'm sending this file for your comments. Thanks. See you later." And he does - about 6 times now. It's always from a different address so I can't filter it in any way. Anyone had anything like this? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Gnu/Debian Linux (Windows-free zone). For electronic books (Homeomythology and The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical essays, and over 130 book reviews, go to http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ Palo y tente tieso. (Spanish proverb) Literal translation: A stick across your back and keep still. Free translation: Holdfast is your only dog.
Re: Problems loading the hisax isdn driver on Debian 2.2r3
On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Helen McCall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am having problems loading the HiSax driver in a couple of installations
>of Debian potato 2.2r3 using the kernel 2.2.19pre17 which comes as the
>default on that release.
>
>Kernel = Linux version 2.2.19pre17 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3)
> #1 Tue Mar 13 22:37:59 EST 2001
>
>I have tried loading the hisax module on two different Eicon Diva 2.01
>ISDN cards. One of these is the ISA version which has been properly set up
>by the isapnputils and gives the following reply on isapnp:
>
>Board 1 has Identity ba 00 01 ce 06 a1 00 89 1c:
> GDI00a1 Serial No 118278 [checksum ba]
> GDI00a1/118278[0]{EICON DIVA 2.01 S/T ISA}:
> Port 0x200; IRQ10 --- Enabled OK
>
>The /etc/modules.conf has the following definition for the ISA card:
>
>### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/hisax
>options hisax io=0x200 irq=10
>
>### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/hisax
Doesn't the hisax driver need a 'type' and a 'protocol' statement?
That would mean
options hisax type=11 protocol=2 io=0x200 irq=10
for the ISA card and
options hisax type=11 protocol=2
for the PCI version, assuming Euro ISDN as the protocol (not sure if
this actually applies to the UK).
See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/isdn/README.eicon for details.
>[...]
Can't help with the certificate, although I'm getting the same message
with kernel 2.2.19 and an Elsa card. I believe that this is a legal
issue, though, and that it won't affect the driver's functionality.
--
Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Fwd: Your site listed
On 28 Jul 2001, Jeremy wrote: > yeah... that's that virus that's beeng going around. > > Jer > > Yes, so I've just been told on another newsgroup. Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one - I thought someone had it in for me :; Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Gnu/Debian Linux (Windows-free zone). For electronic books (Homeomythology and The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical essays, and over 130 book reviews, go to http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ Palo y tente tieso. (Spanish proverb) Literal translation: A stick across your back and keep still. Free translation: Holdfast is your only dog.
Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?
Thank you for the reply. I forgot to mention one complication, I am setting this machine up for someone who will not have root access (I will retain that). I am doing this so that they cannot "mess up" their own machine... The user will be able, from a user account, do a pon, poff, etc. to connect to the ISP. So, my challenge is to have the scripts run from user level security and install the firewall rules. How do I do this? Thanks -- Randy On 28 Jul 2001 11:20:22 -0400, dman wrote: > > /sbin/ifconfig will tell you what your IP is. It is also in > /var/log/syslog. > > On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 08:16:05AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > | > | I am running potato and trying to configure dial-up Internet access. > | > | Everything is running fine - I can dial the ISP, authenticate, get an IP > | address, etc. > | > | Now I am trying to write firewall rules that will adapt to whatever IP I > | am assigned. > > apt-get install ipmasq > > It works great out-of-the-box. (I'm using it right now :-)) > > -D > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: Fwd: Your site listed
Anthony Campbell writes: > And he does - about 6 times now. It's always from a different address so > I can't filter it in any way. > Anyone had anything like this? Several per day. It's the current Windows virus. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?
Salut,
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 08:16:05AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote:
>
>
> I think I am two questions away from getting this to work:
>
> * What script is run when the connection to the ISP completes?
>
> * How do I know, in that script, what my assigned IP is?
Actually you could do something like
$IP=`ifconfig ppp0 | sed -e 's/^.*inet addr:\([0-9.]*\).*/\1/' | awk -F:\
'{print $2}'`
(I think, this works if you want the ip of ppp0)
but you will not need it for firewalling, because ipchains can
handle devices, e.g.
`ipchains -A input -i ppp0 -p tcp --syn -s 0/0 -d 0/0 -j DENY`
will deny all incoming syn tcp packets.
>
> I see that there are directories /etc/ppp/ip-up.d and
> /etc/ppp/ip-down.d. What is the function of those directories? Are the
> scripts in those directories all run on "up" and "down" state
> transitions for ppp?
Exactly. Take a look at `man pppd` and search for 'ip-{up,down}'.
>
> -- Randy
jops,
Christoph.
>
>
>
> --
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Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?
What kernel are you using? On 28 Jul 2001, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > Date: 28 Jul 2001 09:07:13 -0700 > From: Randolph S. Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian help > Subject: Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, > etc? > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Thank you for the reply. I forgot to mention one complication, I am > setting this machine up for someone who will not have root access (I > will retain that). I am doing this so that they cannot "mess up" their > own machine... > > The user will be able, from a user account, do a pon, poff, etc. to > connect to the ISP. So, my challenge is to have the scripts run from > user level security and install the firewall rules. > > How do I do this? > > Thanks -- Randy > > > > On 28 Jul 2001 11:20:22 -0400, dman wrote: > > > > /sbin/ifconfig will tell you what your IP is. It is also in > > /var/log/syslog. > > > > On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 08:16:05AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > > | > > | I am running potato and trying to configure dial-up Internet access. > > | > > | Everything is running fine - I can dial the ISP, authenticate, get an IP > > | address, etc. > > | > > | Now I am trying to write firewall rules that will adapt to whatever IP I > > | am assigned. > > > > apt-get install ipmasq > > > > It works great out-of-the-box. (I'm using it right now :-)) > > > > -D > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?
Randy writes: > The user will be able, from a user account, do a pon, poff, etc. to > connect to the ISP. So, my challenge is to have the scripts run from > user level security and install the firewall rules. > How do I do this? The scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d and /etc/ppp/ip-down.d are run when ppp comes up and goes down respectively. They are run by pppd and so run as root no matter who ran pon and poff. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: Fwd: Your site listed
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [cc'ed according to mail-followup-to request] >On 28 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:35:07AM -0500, d wrote: >> > HEY, people what is this CARP? Hmm, seems like the SHOUTING meant a couple of letters were transposed there. :) >> It's called "spam". [...] >You think this is bad? I'm getting a message every 2 days or so with a >200K+ attachment in base 64 (which I can't read). It says something >like: > > "Hi. How are you? I'm sending this file for your comments. > Thanks. > See you later." That's the SirCam virus, which causes its victims to unknowingly send mail to addresses harvested from their web cache. Not much you can do about it, AFAIK. See e.g. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/20503.html. >Anthony Campbell - running Gnu/Debian Linux (Windows-free zone). It's normally written "Debian GNU/Linux", by the way ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Free x-server for windows 9x, ideas?
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 08:29:10AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: | dman wrote: | | > XFree86 was ported to cygwin. I didn't have any luck getting it to | > work though. | | I have it working on two different machines, one running WinME, the other | running Win2k originally, and now WinXP RC1. Sweet! Do yo have any tips or configs to share? I may try and set it up on my dad's win98 or my brother's winME system if they want to try some of my X apps. At work I was trying with a NT/2k box (I don't remember which system was on it at the time -- one monday morning NT just refused to boot so I had to re-install. My boss handed me 2k to install instead.). -D
CD Writer
Hello All, I am currently using Debian GNU Linux version 2.2. I am planning to buy a CD Writer that is already supported, so that I don't have to download anything. Is such a CD Writer available? It would be very helpful if you can give me some names (or a pointer to the information). I am using Pentium III (i686) machine. (If this information is required!). Thank you for your time and help. Cheers, anna
Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:07:13AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: | Thank you for the reply. I forgot to mention one complication, I am | setting this machine up for someone who will not have root access (I | will retain that). I am doing this so that they cannot "mess up" their | own machine... Sounds good. | The user will be able, from a user account, do a pon, poff, etc. to | connect to the ISP. So, my challenge is to have the scripts run from | user level security and install the firewall rules. | | How do I do this? No problem -- just install the ipmasq package. This is how I have my system setup. I provided a login for my family to use and they just run 'pon' (or the scrIpt i made call dial-modem.sh that doesn't terminate until the ppp0 interface exists). Regular users can still run /sbin/ifconfig, it just isn't in their path. -D
Re: pdf editor
Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You might want to try gs + gs-pdfencrypt instead. gs does a better job > at dealing with pdf files than xpdf. At the cost of poor font rendering and bad navigation. At least they're interested in integrating it more with frontends, so you'll be able to do things like hyperlinks. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Logic is the chastity belt of the mind!
Re: Fwd: Your site listed
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [cc'ed according to mail-followup-to request] > >On 28 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:35:07AM -0500, d wrote: > >> > HEY, people what is this CARP? > > Hmm, seems like the SHOUTING meant a couple of letters were transposed > there. :) > > >> It's called "spam". > > [...] > > >You think this is bad? I'm getting a message every 2 days or so with a > >200K+ attachment in base 64 (which I can't read). It says something > >like: > > > > "Hi. How are you? I'm sending this file for your comments. > > Thanks. > > See you later." > > That's the SirCam virus, which causes its victims to unknowingly send > mail to addresses harvested from their web cache. Not much you can do > about it, AFAIK. See e.g. > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/20503.html. > Worse than that, it passes on selected file contents, as well. Let us all be grateful for our own wisdom in our choice of OS. :) Cam -- Cam Ellison Ph.D. R.Psych. From Roberts Creek on B.C.'s incomparable Sunshine Coast [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?
On 28 Jul 2001, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Randy writes: >> The user will be able, from a user account, do a pon, poff, etc. to >> connect to the ISP. So, my challenge is to have the scripts run from >> user level security and install the firewall rules. > >> How do I do this? > >The scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d and /etc/ppp/ip-down.d are run when ppp >comes up and goes down respectively. They are run by pppd and so run as >root no matter who ran pon and poff. Alternatively, he could use the interface as a filter target instead of the IP address. Should be fine on stand-alone machine with a single external interface. -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: esound
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:31:42 -0400 Steve Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > I'm having an interesting problem - esound has up and quit on me for > some > reason. I'm running Debian testing, and it worked just fine (although > occasionally it wouldn't disconnect from a user after logout) up until a > few weeks ago. I ran an apt-get upgrade, and esound was one of the > packages that got upgrade. Now I get the error message "Unable to > connect > to UNIX socket /var/run/esound/socket". I checked to make sure it > wasn't > something silly, like the directory not existing, but sure enough, the > directory is there. It's owned by root, but I assume that's as should > be. > Any suggestions? I'm having some weird esd behaviour as well. Specifically, if I log out and another user (visiting friends) log in, or vice versa, esd refuses to play. I find that doing a 'killall -HUP esd' as root fixes the problem. It's probably some sort of permissions problem, but I can't figure it out as the esound documentation is woefully out of date, and I am to lazy to look at the source right now. Mart -- 'Quoth the mailserver: 554!' pgpmVxvq9hVqD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Free x-server for windows 9x, ideas?
dman wrote: > Sweet! Do yo have any tips or configs to share? The problem is that since it worked "right out of the box" for me, I don't really know what to suggest. Also, I think they've updated it since I installed; it could be that the current build doesn't work as well as the older one. Craig
Re: CD Writer
Hi Anna ! Linux doesn't use drivers like Windows. The Writer is or isn't supported by your burinig sofware. The most common writing programm is cdrecord (http://www.cdrecord.org). There is also a frontend called X-CD-ROAST. If you buy an IDE writer, you must run it in SCSI emulation mode. If it's an SCSI drive, it'll be supported without doing this. Take a look at the CD Writing HOWTO (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html), espacialy at the section 2 (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO-2.html). - The CD-Recordable FAQ (section "Which CD recorder should I byt ?") : http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq05.html - The list of drives supported by CDRECORD http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdwriters-1.9.html HTH -- Yves Dessertine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ALSA problems
Ross Boylan wrote: > I recently upgraded to 2.4.6 kernel and alsa 0.9xxxbeta; I had > previously been using 2.4.2 and (I think) alsa 0.5. > [...] > 4) Some error message about alsactl or alsaconf scrolls by when I start > the system. > > Can anyone suggest what is happening, or how to fix it? Don't know what sound card you are using, but at least with the via686 (the integrated sound card i'm using ) passing from 0.5 to 0.9 something changed in the API and the old configuration (or better, the parameter passed to the driver with the old configuration) caused an error and the driver don't worked. If you can start sound manually with modprobe, probably there is something wrong in your /etc/modutils file... > By the way, alsaconf is still at v 0.5 (sid as well as woody), even > though the drivers are at 0.9x. Andrea
Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?
On 28 Jul 2001 19:01:07 +0200, Philipp Lehman wrote: > On 28 Jul 2001, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Randy writes: > >> The user will be able, from a user account, do a pon, poff, etc. to > >> connect to the ISP. So, my challenge is to have the scripts run from > >> user level security and install the firewall rules. > > > >> How do I do this? > > > >The scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d and /etc/ppp/ip-down.d are run when ppp > >comes up and goes down respectively. They are run by pppd and so run as > >root no matter who ran pon and poff. > > Alternatively, he could use the interface as a filter target instead > of the IP address. Should be fine on stand-alone machine with a single > external interface. Oh! I did not know I could do that. Are you saying that I could have the ipchain rules read. $IPCHAINS -A tcpOutB -p tcp -s $NETWORK_PRIVATE $PORTS_UNPRIV \ -d ppp0 $PORTS_WWW -j ACCEPT ??? Regards, Randy > > -- > Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?
On 28 Jul 2001 11:11:58 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Randy writes: > > The user will be able, from a user account, do a pon, poff, etc. to > > connect to the ISP. So, my challenge is to have the scripts run from > > user level security and install the firewall rules. > > > How do I do this? > > The scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d and /etc/ppp/ip-down.d are run when ppp > comes up and goes down respectively. They are run by pppd and so run as > root no matter who ran pon and poff. Great! That is what I needed to know. > -- > John Hasler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) > Dancing Horse Hill > Elmwood, WI > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
testing: xf86cfg 3D Rage Pro: X dies
Using testing version of Debian, kernel 2.2.19. Configuring with xf86cfg. Chip has label ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP 49802 on it. SuperProbe reports ATI 264GT3 (3D Rage Pro) w/ chipset ATI Mach 64 and 8192KB of memory. Not sure exactly which chipset this is. Anybody have a running XF86Config-4 file for this chipset? XFree86 as root brings up a graphics screen with x pointer in center, mouse moves. startx as root or normal user brings up graphics screen for one half second then exits. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Joe Golden The Stevens School of Peacham thestevensschoolofpeacham.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: Fwd: Your site listed
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 04:39:32PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > You think this is bad? I'm getting a message every 2 days or so with a > 200K+ attachment in base 64 (which I can't read). It says something > like: > > "Hi. How are you? I'm sending this file for your comments. > Thanks. > See you later." > > And he does - about 6 times now. It's always from a different address so > I can't filter it in any way. * rofl * It's another windows virus. It was in all the regular news media here in the christmas islands. The virus writers have come up with another brilliant and twisted for of automated social engineering. To convince new victims that this is not yet another attachment virus, it also sends along a random personal document from the current vector host. Another innovation is to scan not only the windows address book, but also the web pages that were visited by the host and remain still in the browser's cache. That probably explains why you got the mails with the so very peculiar personal touch. On a sidenote, I bet that there's lots of mailinglists that had personal files posted. Some of these mailing lists are archived automatically. It already appeared to me that anyone can readily download many popular windows virusses from mailing list archive websites. Or google's cache. Interesting times they are. Cheers, Joost
Re: Free x-server for windows 9x, ideas?
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 05:27:11PM -0700, nico de haer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a nice X server to run on my windoze box, as my server does > not have a monitor anymore > I found "MicroImages X Server" but it's old and i don't like it that > much > > Requirements: > 1) Plays nice with Debian Linux (potato) > 2) Freeware, nag-free shareware, GPL? 1: Start a new thread, don't reply to an existing one, when starting a new topic. 2: Not that I'm aware of (though the XF86 port may be an option). Free servers: Mi/X is the only one I'm aware of. It's IMO unsatisfactory for any serious, and most humerous, work. XWin32 has a low-cost (~US$100/seat) X server. It is reasonably full featured. Exceed and WRQ are the grand-dames of Win-centric X servers. A seat license is ~US$300+. Full-featured, mostly works. Some keybinding issues (also effect XWin32). A non-X server option is VNC (virtual network computer), which parks the entire X session on the remote box, and just ports the display to your workstation. It's less responsive than an equivalent X session, but preserves all state on the remote host, and allows moving the session (or sharing it) among workstations. Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry!! Boycott Adobe!! Repeal the DMCA!! http://www.freedmitry.org pgpUu91Q4PTeO.pgp Description: PGP signature
abiword testing on stable system
Anyone running abiword testing version on a stable platform? I'd like the better version on the stable platform. Thanks in advance. Joe Golden The Stevens School of Peacham thestevensschoolofpeacham.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: KDE2 X display security
I'm looking for a configuration file setting so that I won't need to type that command every time I start. On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:55:36PM +0200, Philipp Lehman wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >If I change to a regular terminal and do xhost + then the emacs & as > >root works. > > Are you looking for "xhost +local:"? > > -- > Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
Re: [SOLUTION!] How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?
First, Thank you to everyone that sent email about my question. The solution turned out to be very simple. When pon causes a connection to be made to an ISP, the script /etc/ppp/ip-up is run. In Debian (2.2r3) this script accepts several parameters from pppd. They are set and exported as: PPP_IFACE PPP_TTY PPP_SPEED PPP_LOCAL PPP_REMOTE PPP_IPPARM ip-up then runs all scripts it finds in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d In that directory I created a link ln -s /etc/ipchains/rules-T22 firewall-up and in my firewall rules set I set IPADR_INTERNET="$PPP_LOCAL" and I am done. (I have a regular set of ipchain rule files, so this is the only link I need to my previous work). I made the corresponding links, etc for ip-down.d Very slick! Thanks again. Regards, Randy On 28 Jul 2001 08:16:05 -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > > I am running potato and trying to configure dial-up Internet access. > > Everything is running fine - I can dial the ISP, authenticate, get an IP > address, etc. > > Now I am trying to write firewall rules that will adapt to whatever IP I > am assigned. > > I think I am two questions away from getting this to work: > > * What script is run when the connection to the ISP completes? > > * How do I know, in that script, what my assigned IP is? > > I see that there are directories /etc/ppp/ip-up.d and > /etc/ppp/ip-down.d. What is the function of those directories? Are the > scripts in those directories all run on "up" and "down" state > transitions for ppp? > > -- Randy > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Imation LS-120
Hello all, I'm doing a home recording project on a MAC that belongs to a friend (G4, OS 9.something) because we're using pro-tools. The reason I'm writing is that getting the recorded files over to my linux box for burning has me wondering. We could, I suppose, set up a home network, bu I'd rather not go out and buy a router if I don't have to. He has an Imation Super disk LS-120 that attaches via USB. I have USB on the motherboard, and have compiled kernel support for it. Does anyone have any experience with this kind of thing? We haven't actually hooked it up yet, as I'm not sure how to proceed - I assume I have to set up an entry in /etc/fstab to tell it where to mount and create the mount point and so on, but I'm not even sure what the USB device name will under /dev/. If anybody has some USB experience, or knows anything about using the superdisk, some pointers would be appreciated. Thanks, Steve
Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:07:13AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > Thank you for the reply. I forgot to mention one complication, I am > setting this machine up for someone who will not have root access (I > will retain that). I am doing this so that they cannot "mess up" their > own machine... > > The user will be able, from a user account, do a pon, poff, etc. to > connect to the ISP. So, my challenge is to have the scripts run from > user level security and install the firewall rules. > > How do I do this? Make sure that the user is in the "dialout" group, so she can run pon and poff to start and stop a dialin session determined by one of the files in /etc/ppp/peers/. When ppp has brought up a link, it starts the /etc/ppp/ip-up and passes it several parameters, among which is the assigned local ip address. When you install the ipmasq package, it installs a script in the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ directory, that is read in turn by /etc/ppp/ip-up. The ipmasq script will automatically setup your machine as a masquerading gateway. Cheers, Joost
Re: esound
On Sat, 28 Jul 2001 08:23:44 Mart van de Wege wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:31:42 -0400 > Steve Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > I'm having an interesting problem - esound has up and quit on me for > > some > > reason. I'm running Debian testing, and it worked just fine (although > > occasionally it wouldn't disconnect from a user after logout) up until > a > > few weeks ago. I ran an apt-get upgrade, and esound was one of the > > packages that got upgrade. Now I get the error message "Unable to > > connect > > to UNIX socket /var/run/esound/socket". I checked to make sure it > > wasn't > > something silly, like the directory not existing, but sure enough, the > > directory is there. It's owned by root, but I assume that's as should > > be. > > Any suggestions? > > I'm having some weird esd behaviour as well. Specifically, if I log out > and another user (visiting friends) log in, or vice versa, esd refuses to > play. I find that doing a 'killall -HUP esd' as root fixes the problem. > It's probably some sort of permissions problem, but I can't figure it out > as the esound documentation is woefully out of date, and I am to lazy to > look at the source right now. > > Mart > > -- That was the same problem I had before the upgrade - it wouldn't disconnect from one user on logout. I found that the normal ps ax then kill worked just fine, although it was a little clunky and I would have preferred it to work as it was supposed to. Now it's not running at all as far as I can tell, but nobody can use it. Hmm . . . Steve
Re: pdf editor
hi, > to find out where to put your text in the sourcecode. i did this several > times and as in most forms the position where to fill in text is marked with > dots it's easy to find it. i tried you suggestion. But all i was a lot of control charc and not much of text as it should have been. Looks it is encrypted. In such a case how would you edit it and fill up the forms? regards harsha
Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?
On 28 Jul 2001, Randolph S. Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 28 Jul 2001 19:01:07 +0200, Philipp Lehman wrote: >> On 28 Jul 2001, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >Randy writes: >> >> The user will be able, from a user account, do a pon, poff, etc. to >> >> connect to the ISP. So, my challenge is to have the scripts run from >> >> user level security and install the firewall rules. >> > >> >> How do I do this? >> > >> >The scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d and /etc/ppp/ip-down.d are run when ppp >> >comes up and goes down respectively. They are run by pppd and so run as >> >root no matter who ran pon and poff. >> >> Alternatively, he could use the interface as a filter target instead >> of the IP address. Should be fine on stand-alone machine with a single >> external interface. > > >Oh! I did not know I could do that. Are you saying that I could have the >ipchain rules read. > >$IPCHAINS -A tcpOutB -p tcp -s $NETWORK_PRIVATE $PORTS_UNPRIV \ > -d ppp0 $PORTS_WWW -j ACCEPT That's basically right, although you should check 'man ipchains' for the correct syntax (it's '-i ppp0'). -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
debian 2.2 rel 3 and wvdial
Hi, Since I installed debian 2.2 r.3 I am facing this problem. Earlier on 2.2 it was working fine. Problem is. I am using wvdial to connect to the net. When I first time connect to the net using wvdial DNS is not working. However if I disconnect and than reconnect again everything seems to work fine. Can anybody point out where the problem lies. I have to daily connect twice now. Otherwise since DNS is not working I can not send mail nor can I browse. I have put the following in /etc/ppp/options usepeerdns it works fine. After connecting it creates /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. I have created a link /etc/resolv.conf which points to /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. Thanks in advance. Warm Regards -- -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.7,Mutt 1.3.19i,IceWM 1.0.8-6 "Silence is the true friend that never betrays." - Confucious --
Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?
Joost Kooij writes: > Make sure that the user is in the "dialout" group, so she can run pon and > poff to start and stop a dialin session determined by one of the files in > /etc/ppp/peers/. There is no need to put the user in the 'dialout' group. That is for direct access to the the serial ports, which is not needed for pon and poff. The user _does_ need to be in the 'dip' group, and pppconfig can arrange that. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
Re: How do I find my local IP assigned by my ISP when using pon, etc?
On 28 Jul 2001, Randolph S. Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 28 Jul 2001 11:11:58 -0500, John Hasler wrote: >> Randy writes: >> > The user will be able, from a user account, do a pon, poff, etc. to >> > connect to the ISP. So, my challenge is to have the scripts run from >> > user level security and install the firewall rules. >> >> > How do I do this? >> >> The scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d and /etc/ppp/ip-down.d are run when ppp >> comes up and goes down respectively. They are run by pppd and so run as >> root no matter who ran pon and poff. > >Great! That is what I needed to know. Randolph, there are two ways to deal with that. Option 1) Reset all ipchains rules whenever the interface goes up/down. /etc/ppp/ip-up is called with a number of arguments. You should export those to meaningful variables you can use in the scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d. Make sure you have something like the following in /etc/ppp/ip-up if it isn't there yet: --- /etc/ppp/ip-up --- # This script is called with the following arguments: #Arg Name Example #$1 Interface nameppp0 #$2 The tty ttyS1 #$3 The link speed38400 #$4 Local IP number 12.34.56.78 #$5 Peer IP number 12.34.56.99 #$6 Optional ``ipparam'' valuefoo # These variables are for the use of the scripts run by run-parts export PPP_IFACE="$1" export PPP_TTY="$2" export PPP_SPEED="$3" export PPP_LOCAL="$4" export PPP_REMOTE="$5" export PPP_IPPARAM="$6" export PPP_TTYNAME=`/usr/bin/basename "$2"` # Run scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d run-parts /etc/ppp/ip-up.d Now you could use $PPP_LOCAL in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/00ipchains. Some goes for /etc/ppp/ip-down and /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/99ipchains. Option 2) Use static filter rules which filter by interface. You don't need to change them when the ppp0 interface is brought up or down. Probably easier unless you absolutely need the IP address in your ruleset. -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
pseudo-image method & .list files (was Re: Debian Issues!!)
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:18:03PM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > >on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:51:14PM -0700, Jaimos F. Skriletz > >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> > >> First I will like to say that your meathod is intivative and I > >> understand your issues of wanting to save banwith, also after > >> thinking about your meathod of using the .list file to direct what > >> pacakages will be installed on the machince, I see that for a > >> knowledgable Debian user it could be advantage to spelizise that > >> list to get the maximum performace out of your operating system > >> which is the final goal of most devout users in my opion, but now > >> on to my problems > > > >Huh? > > I guess Jaimos is thinking that it's worth cutting down the .list > files to only the packages you need. In fact, unless you're short on > CDs, it's not worth the trouble: regardless of what you have on the > CDs, you only ever have to install the packages you want, plus their > dependencies. The .list files don't control what's actually installed > on the final system. .list files being something specific to the p-Image method? As I said before, I haven't tried it myself, just mostly heard from those who've found it broken. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry!! Boycott Adobe!! Repeal the DMCA!! http://www.freedmitry.org pgp82wIWLaz3d.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sid / woody ppp not setting default gw
Don, > Based on my experience mentioned above, wouldn't it be better to delete > the current eth0 gw FIRST, then add in the other stuff?? In fact, it > would probably be better to delete the existing gw when pppd is > called...if you can figure out a way to do that. I did try deleting the default gateway first, but it doesn't seem to matter. > careful how you name your scripts. The scripts are run in cannonical > sequence and you would want this script to be run first, or at least I think this might be the key. I named mine 'set_ppp0_gw', so it runs last in the sequence. This probably accounts for the 1 minute delay while it does other stuff. I still don't know why pppd isn't setting the default gateway itself, like it used to, and like the man page says 'defaultroute' should trigger. Thanks, Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley 930 Koyukuk Drive System / Network ManagerUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks IARC -- Frontier ProgramFairbanks, AK 99775 phone: 907-474-2689 fax: 907-474-2643 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]GNUPG and PGP2 keys at my web site web: http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle pgpSPrMMqiPOG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: abiword testing on stable system
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 06:04:57PM +, joe golden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Anyone running abiword testing version on a stable platform? > > I'd like the better version on the stable platform. Alternative suggestion: download latest (or desired) version from AbiWord, and install it under /usr/local. You can use the 'stow' package to manage such non-distro software if you chose. If you're just running a desktop, and are discouraged by the lag in packaging for Debian/stable, I'd encourage looking at either unstable or testing. While I'd recommend stable for servers, you'll probably find the other tracks more than acceptable for personal use. This is far preferable than trying to track both stable and unstable for different packages, though tools to do so are now emerging. Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry!! Boycott Adobe!! Repeal the DMCA!! http://www.freedmitry.org pgpmTLTbMzqnb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: pdf editor
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 08:34:29AM +0100, Brett Parker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:20:55AM +0530, harsha wrote: > > hi, > > > > > Sounds like the poster wanted to fill in PDF Forms, and the only app I > > > know > > > that can do that is Acrobat Reader. > > > > hmmn there is no GNU utility for the same purpose. I have a problem > > in viewing some pdf files. xpdf refuses to open them but acrobat > > reader reads them. is it because the pdf files are encrypted or > > something like that. I haven't tried xpdf-i yet. poor bandwidth at > > the present moment. will check it out later though > > personally, I use gv to view pdf files, works for me :) Awesome! Didn't realize that was possible. I've recently removed the free (beer) but not free (speech) Adobe Acrobat Reader from all my systems, and encourage others to do similarly. PS: Brett, post your GPG public key to public keyserver. $ gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --send-keys brettparker Adding a 'keyserver' line to ~/.gnupg/options will allow you to automatically download new keys, and means you don't have to specify a '--keyserver' option on the command-line. Keyservers peer keys automajickally. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry!! Boycott Adobe!! Repeal the DMCA!! http://www.freedmitry.org pgpwpa73kx3tp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Root/User Priveleges
How do I set priveleges for files/programs/commands for users? I'd like for my username to have close to root priveleges, so I can change system options, etc. I find that the "NEVER BE ROOT! NEVER BE ROT!!" philosophy is bit odd-- seeing as you have to SU to root to change system settings and there's just as much risk doing that. -- Deven
Re: testing: xf86cfg 3D Rage Pro: X dies
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 05:43:16PM +, joe golden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Using testing version of Debian, kernel 2.2.19. Configuring with xf86cfg. > Chip has label ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP 49802 on it. SuperProbe reports ATI > 264GT3 (3D Rage Pro) w/ chipset ATI Mach 64 and 8192KB of memory. Not sure > exactly which chipset this is. Anybody have a running XF86Config-4 file for > this chipset? Under XF86 v4, all servers are one. Under XF86 v3, you probably want the xserver-mach64 package. The v4 config is IIRC no longer just vanilla XF86Setup. > XFree86 as root brings up a graphics screen with x pointer in center, > mouse moves. You've got X up. You need to run apps and/or configure /etc/X11/XSession or ~/.xinitrc to run stuff. Try (from another console (): $ xterm -display :0 & ...then switch back to the X session. > startx as root or normal user brings up graphics screen for one half second > then exits. Check /var/log/XFree86.*.log or your X session output. To capture: $ startx -- 1> startx.log 2>&1 ...and view startx.log. Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry!! Boycott Adobe!! Repeal the DMCA!! http://www.freedmitry.org pgpkWC864Leom.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Root/User Priveleges
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:09:26PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How do I set priveleges for files/programs/commands for users? I'd like for > my username to have close to root priveleges, so I can change system options, > etc. I find that the "NEVER BE ROOT! NEVER BE ROT!!" philosophy is > bit odd-- seeing as you have to SU to root to change system settings and > there's just as much risk doing that. man sudo -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry!! Boycott Adobe!! Repeal the DMCA!! http://www.freedmitry.org pgpx0qy3yzl1w.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Root/User Priveleges
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010728 15:15]: > How do I set priveleges for files/programs/commands for users? I'd > like for my username to have close to root priveleges, so I can > change system options, etc. I find that the "NEVER BE ROOT! NEVER BE > ROT!!" philosophy is bit odd-- seeing as you have to SU to > root to change system settings and there's just as much risk doing > that. I think when people say "Never be root...", for one, it's highly unrealistic. Two, more likely they mean to always log in as a normal user and only "su" to root when you have to do something that requires root priveleges. When you're done, "exit" out of "su". Hall
Re: Root/User Priveleges
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:09:26PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I set priveleges for files/programs/commands for users? I'd like for > my username to have close to root priveleges, so I can change system options, > etc. I find that the "NEVER BE ROOT! NEVER BE ROT!!" philosophy is > bit odd-- seeing as you have to SU to root to change system settings and > there's just as much risk doing that. The idea is that you do "su -" every time you need to do something as root. When you are done, you exit the root shell, so you cannot make mistakes in it. If you've set up the system right, you'll hardly ever need to be tweaking aspects of the system. Get used to having a truly stable system, that behaves like you expect it to behave. Every time you change something, you lose a bit of that stability. If you don't care about regularly making mistakes that cause your system to need a clean reinstall, then do go ahead and use the root login always, whether it is required or not. Cheers, Joost
Re: pdf editor
On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: >on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 08:34:29AM +0100, Brett Parker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:20:55AM +0530, harsha wrote: >> > hi, >> > >> > > Sounds like the poster wanted to fill in PDF Forms, and the only app I >> > > know >> > > that can do that is Acrobat Reader. >> > >> > hmmn there is no GNU utility for the same purpose. I have a problem >> > in viewing some pdf files. xpdf refuses to open them but acrobat >> > reader reads them. is it because the pdf files are encrypted or >> > something like that. I haven't tried xpdf-i yet. poor bandwidth at >> > the present moment. will check it out later though >> >> personally, I use gv to view pdf files, works for me :) > >Awesome! Didn't realize that was possible. I've recently removed the >free (beer) but not free (speech) Adobe Acrobat Reader from all my >systems, and encourage others to do similarly. It's a start! BTW, I prefer to think of Acrobat as Free (beer) but not Free (Dmitriy) :) >PS: Brett, post your GPG public key to public keyserver. > >$ gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --send-keys brettparker > >Adding a 'keyserver' line to ~/.gnupg/options will allow you to >automatically download new keys, and means you don't have to specify a >'--keyserver' option on the command-line. Keyservers peer keys >automajickally. > > -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Who is John Galt? Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product. -- Ferenc Mantfeld
(newbie from RH) How can i create a .deb package, or compile a source .deb package ?
Hi, how can i create a .deb package ? And how can i compile a .deb source package ? -Armin
X Server + Root Access
How can I make it so that I can run the X Server using another user account? -- Deven
CUPS and 'lpoptions'
I've installed CUPS on a Potato 2.2 r3 distro. No difficulty in getting it to print - not, however, as I wish, so I'm looking at 'cupsomatic' and 'gimp-print'. Both of these are probably more complex than I need and it could be that setting default options under CUPS may be best for me. Unfortunately, I cannot find 'lpoptions' (man page is supposed to be 'lpoptions(1)'). For the present, I have to specify my options with 'lp -o x' each time I experiment with a print run. Can anyone help please? John. .
Re: X Server + Root Access
On Sat, 28 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >How can I make it so that I can run the X Server using another user account? If you're talking about logging in as user, then running an X client as root, all you have to do is (in an xterm) $xhost +localhost $su - #X_client_you_want_to_run_as_root & If you're asking how to run X as a user because it won't let you, you need to reconfigure xserver-common. #dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common I'd suggest Console Users Only as a pretty good standard answer if you don't know any better. If you can run it as user A and you want to be able to run it as user B, unless user A is a sudoer (which you're back to the second case), there is no reason on Earth that user B can't run X under the same circumstances as A already. >-- Deven > > > -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Who is John Galt? Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product. -- Ferenc Mantfeld
Re: dhcp & ip addresses
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 10:02:49AM +0800, Eric Boo wrote: > Question: How are these ip address stored, if they are (under pump > espcially), and how do I force pump to get another different ip if > needed? > > Also, I can't seem to use pump on the command line after releasing it > with pump -r. pump -R -i eth0 and simply "pump" both gave operation > failed. Maybe I should go back to dhcpcd. Or is there an alternative? > How's dh-client? Try to see if the pump process is still alive. IIRC, if you start pump the first time, it will fork and run in the background. You can communicate with the running pump by starting anothter pump process, that will use a local socket to talk to the background pump. Sometimes the background pump becomes unresponsive, I've found, and you need to kill it and restart pump. YMMV. It is also possible that you setup firewalling rules and that somehow these interact badly with pump. You can debug this easily by prepending a rule to the input and output chain that logs any packets on any interface and has no jump target. Then start pump and watch the syslog. Remember to remove the logging rules when you have captured enough pump packets, or else it will make your logfiles explode. Cheers, Joost
