Two ISA NICs
Hello I've got a Debian Woody. I've got two ISA NICs (3com EtherLink III I guess). And I've got a problem :) A fragment of dmesg: eth0 : 3c5x9 at 0x220, 10baseT port, address 00 10 5a dc ee bc, IRQ 5 eth1 : 3c5x9 at 0x300, 10baseT port, address 00 20 af 57 4d 4e, IRQ 10 Both of the cards are configured statically in /etc/network/interfaces. However only one of the works at the time, the second one behaves weird: ifup eth1 interface eth1 already configured ifdown eth1 SIOCDELRT: no such process ifup eth1 SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy The same goes for eth0 if eth1 have been raised first. Any clues appreciated. Thanks! mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re[2]: Two ISA NICs
>> I've got a Debian Woody. >> I've got two ISA NICs (3com EtherLink III I guess). >> And I've got a problem :) DPJ> Try looking at my reply to a similar question and if that doesn't help... DPJ> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200207/msg01502.html Thanks, it did the trick! mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Win Modem
Teilhard Knight wrote: I got the drivers for my Win Modem and I just installed an USB modem. Now, when I try to install the Win Modem drivers I get: "The modem symbolic link is: /dev/modem ---> ./ttySL0 This will conflict with support for the Lucent Modem (the win modem) Please: rm -f /dev/modem and assign another symbolic link to ./ttySL0, such as: ln -s ./ttySL0/dev/modem2" I am being told what I have do, I just want to check with you whether there are no risks in doing it this way, or if something might happen. One thing I do not get is that ./ttySL0 would be assigned to both modems. Is this correct? Another silly question for you. How can I make work my floppy drive in the command line? It simply doesn't move. For the CD I do "apt-cdrom add" in a directory different than /cdrom in order to make it work. Am I doing all right? mount /dev/fd0 /floppy mounts does the trick for your floppy mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom does the trick for your cdrom Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TFT monitor and XF86config-4
Dave Selby wrote: Have just bought a TFT monitor, works well except occasionaly some of text is blurred on top pixel line I remember when I was installing debian there were questions about TFT monitors, at the time I ignored them. How can I re-run the configuration again without re-installing ? I think it will be a dpkg-reconfigure ? dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86 Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Too much work at interrupt
Hello What is this error? Is it harmful? Mar 7 11:07:34 kernel: eth1: Too much work at interrupt, IntrStatus=0x0001. mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sshd: Did not receive identification string
Hello What does this log entry mean? Mar 23 09:44:17 xxx sshd[7920]: Did not receive identification string from 218.53.214.11 Mar 23 09:47:31 xxx sshd[7925]: Did not receive identification string from 218.53.214.11 That some *** tried to login twice and did not make it, or was it just a portscan, a connect without any "transaction"? Question #2: How to move sshd to some higher port? Thanks mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
need advice on default font size in X app menus
oops - after an upgrade to Xfree86 where I wasn't paying enough attention to the prompts telling me which config files were going to be overwritten I have a problem. The font of the menus in many X windows applications such as openoffice, mozilla browser ect. are too large and clumsy to work with. I've been looking through the X man page and .xsession Xresources ect.. and can't find where this is controlled. The first font path in my XF86Config file is for the 100dpi font. I don't want to change my screen resolution. Appreciate any help here. Thanks mike -- Michael Moyles [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.immunochem.com I.D.T. Ltd. 23 Burnyeat St. Tel (902) 895-3594 Truro, NS B2N 4P9 Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
configuring fontpath for Xfig
I'm running a current debian-testing/unstable setup and I can't find howto configure the fontpath for the Xfig graphics program. The ghostscript fonts are in /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts. I can't find anything in the Xfig documentation. When I try to change fonts or even font size when entering text in the program it pops up an error message that the font can't be found and reverts to the standard font. The program is looking for adobe fonts which are installed under /usr/share/fonts/afm/adobe. Do I need to configure the fontpath somewhere? Thanks mike -- Michael Moyles [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.immunochem.com I.D.T. Ltd. 23 Burnyeat St. Tel (902) 895-3594 Truro, NS B2N 4P9 Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyone gotten PHP4 working under unstable?
Has anyone here gotten PHP4 to work under unstable with Apache? I've tried to follow the directions explicitly, but when I try to view a php file the browser (Galeon is what I'm using mostly, but Netscape 4.77 displayed the same behavior) I get a window asking whether to download the file. Lesse now, I'm using (all from sid): ii apache1.3.26-1.1Versatile, high-performance HTTP server ii apache-common 1.3.26-1.1Support files for all Apache webservers ii apache-doc1.3.26-1.1Apache webserver docs ii php4 4.2.3-3 A server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language In my /etc/apache/httpd.conf, the lines I've added / modified as per the directions are: LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so ... AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .php3 AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps DirectoryIndex index.php index.phtml index.php3 index.html From what I could tell of the directions, this should do it. But I'm *still* getting the box asking if I want to download this. Near as I can tell Apache is just not parsing the php file. Did I miss something somewhere? I feel that I must have, but I just can't figure out what. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom. msg11700/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Anyone gotten PHP4 working under unstable?
Things just got stranger. It's working now. Sort of. If I access the file as http://localhost/~mike/date.php3 it still gives me the same error (not being parsed). But if I access it as http://rez.homelinux.org/~mike/date.php3 it works. Is this a "feature" of Apache and/or PHP4? -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom. msg11825/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
keyboard and mouse do not work in X
Hello everyone, first time poster long time troll :) I'm only having one problem with debian at the moment and that is whenever I start xdm/kdm/gdm my mouse and keyboard become unresponsive. Unfortunately I'm pretty new to linux/debian so I'm not sure where to look to change the settings. I'm running Xserver from the unstable tree and my mouse and keyboard are both wireless USB Logitech's. If someone could point me in the right direction or just straight out tell me how to fix this issue I would be most pleased! Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
smail: 'No route to host' problem
After upgrading my system to Debian 2.0, my smail can't find its smart_host through which all non-local email is supposed to be routed. A typical error message in the log file looks like: 09/12/1998 11:04:01: [m0zHSBI-000BVtC] Deferred TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ROUTER:smart_host TRANSPORT:smtp ERROR:(ERR148) transport smtp: connect: No route to host I can ping the smart_host, but if I try to telnet to the smart_host on the smtp port I get the same 'No route to host' error message. No such problem arises on port 23. Local mail is delivered just fine and external mail is received just fine. So, why can't I route to the smart host. Thanks in advance for any pointers. Mike.
smail: 'No route to host' problem
After upgrading my system to Debian 2.0, my smail can't find its smart_host through which all non-local email is supposed to be routed. A typical error message in the log file looks like: 09/12/1998 11:04:01: [m0zHSBI-000BVtC] Deferred TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ROUTER:smart_host TRANSPORT:smtp ERROR:(ERR148) transport smtp: connect: No route to host I can ping the smart_host, but if I try to telnet to the smart_host on the smtp port I get the same 'No route to host' error message. No such problem arises on port 23. Local mail is delivered just fine and external mail is received just fine. So, why can't I route to the smart host. Thanks in advance for any pointers. Mike.
Mirroring hamm for install...
Reply-To: Hi, I've been installing hamm on a test partition a couple of times and have some questions now. First, my situation: 1. Nightly running: wget --mirror ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/hamm -a /root/wget.log -X \ "*-alpha*,*-m68k*,*-powerpc*,*-sparc*,*source*" a. Because I'm running i386, I felt that I wouldn't be needing any of those other directories. Correct? I'll d/load from source when the need arises. b. Is this a good method of mirroring hamm? So far it has been great except for one thing: - wget doesn't delete files locally that are no longer on the server. Is there a switch for this? (it causes problems later with dselect) 2. Installation a. In order to get dselect to behave, I had to make these symlinks: (I ran wget from /usr/local/debian) In /usr/local/debian/ftp.debian.org/pub/debian 1. contrib -> hamm/contrib 2. non-free -> hamm/non-free 3. stable -> hamm In /usr/local/debian/ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/hamm 1. Contents.gz -> Contents-i386.gz 2. binary-i386 -> hamm/binary-i386 3. binary -> hamm/binary-i386(don't know whether this one is needed, just saw it in bo) 4. Packages -> hamm/Packages Is that the correct way to handle things? Or is there a better method until hamm goes stable? b. Also I had to delete the obsolete (no longer mirrored) files from all the directories. Otherwise dselect will stop during the installion. Why? Or, is there a way I can tell dselect to ignore the extra files? c. Each time I install packages through dselect, it must go through every file in the archive and "decide" whether to install it or not. Is there a way I can tell dselect to only try to install the files I selected, rather than stepping through the whole tree? I appreciate any feedback! -- |- Mike Brownlow - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://ctelcom.net/mike/ | |- Prov. 16:9 "A man's heart deviseth his way: -- Use Linux to learn, -| |- but the Lord directeth his steps." Use Win(NT|9[58]) to forget. -| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mirroring hamm for install...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 11:46:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > wget --mirror ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/hamm -a /root/wget.log -X \ > > "*-alpha*,*-m68k*,*-powerpc*,*-sparc*,*source*" > > You know...I read this and thought ti was a great idea...I had been going and > ftp'ing in by hand and asking for binary-i386.tar.gz every time I wanted to > burn a CD..then have to unpack etc... PITA > > I tried this with wget...it wont work. According tot ht elogs it logs on and > says that "hamm is not a plain file" and gives up...I have tried many > variations including typed exactly as you gave it. Hrm...well I get an error as well in several directories complaining about a file named "hamm". But in my situation it continues with the download. FWIW, I'm running it from a shell script. Shouldn't make any difference tho. Here's a sample log snippet: ... --05:20:35-- ftp://ftp.debian.org:21/%2Fpub/debian/hamm/non-free/binary-i386/sh ells/hamm => `ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/hamm/contrib/binary-all/base/hamm' ==> CWD not required. ==> PORT ... done.==> RETR hamm ... No such file `hamm'. ... I have no idea where it is getting "hamm". It's not on the server in either of the directories indicated. I'm running version 1.5 of wget btw. I already had one response which suggested using mirror. I'm looking into that now. But will mirror handle my periodically broken connection to the net as well as wget does? Like waiting for the connection to reconnect and then continue the download? Very handy for dial-ups. > > Is that the correct way to handle things? Or is there a better method > > until hamm goes stable? > > does it work and install? then it is correct :) heh. and it works good too. > > c. Each time I install packages through dselect, it must go through every > > file in the archive and "decide" whether to install it or not. Is there > > a way I can tell dselect to only try to install the files I selected, > > rather than stepping through the whole tree? > > Well that is dselect :) thats how it works > > -Steve Turns out if I run with the packages as "mountable" it isn't supposed to do that. I was running it as "already mounted". Well, time to RTM anyway. ;) I was also recommended to trying APT. I kinda like dselect. It's a real nifty program. Guess I'll do both in a minute. Install # 4 of debian about to begin...hehe this is fun. Now to set mutt to reply to all addresses instead of only the sender -- |- Mike Brownlow - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://ctelcom.net/mike/ | |- Prov. 16:9 "A man's heart deviseth his way: -- Use Linux to learn, -| |- but the Lord directeth his steps." Use Win(NT|9[58]) to forget. -| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Package Manager "Worthless Junk"???
On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: > >> This from the Linux-newbies list: > >> > >> From: Mike Ricketts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: Donald Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Cc: Chris Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, linux-newbie@vger.rutgers.edu > >> Subject Re: Which distribution is the best? GENERALLY? (fwd) > >> > >> On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Donald Thompson wrote: > >> > >> >> Chris Fischer wrote: > >> [snip] > >> >> The debian package manager has to be the biggest worthless piece of > >> junk > >> >> I've ever been stupid enough to use. > >> > >> > Very true. > >> > >> [snip] > >> > >> I'm new to Linux and wavering between going with Red Hat and Debian. Could > >> anyone comment on the strengths/weaknesses of the Debian package manager > >> vs RH's RPM system? Also does Debian provide some kind of Uninstall-type > >> manager? > > The package management system is largest reason, why I use Debian. > and its the largest reason why I use RedHat. > As for installing / uninstalling dpkg -i package.deb installs it and dpkg -r > package.deb > removes it. Works like charm. And I'm one of those, who like things easy and > neat. rpm -i installs and rpm -e removes. No difference there. > > Don't believe everything you read. > no. don't. -- Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? -- Bertold Brecht -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re:dependency mess
I have run across a dependency problem and I wonder if I should just install KDE from source. When I tried to install the package I needed, that one conflicted with one already installed, and I am afraid I will break my system if I start removing stuff. Or you could dpkg -i libjep then dpkg -i the kdelibs-dev etcetra. I find often that while installing a program I get that. So I download or install from cd the missing bits then reinstall or configure what I wanted originally. I had that problem with xisp. I would be real pleased if someone could show me how to get my user account running. I have an x running in it ie kde but no programs. eg pppd for starters. I don't want to set everything suid as I think most documentation states this is a nono. cheers, Mike
Re: can't locate module ppp0
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Pollywog wrote: > Whenever I reboot my machine (Debian Hamm with kernel 2.0.36) I get this: > > Unusual System Events > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Mar 13 18:20:11 lilypad kernel: registered device ppp0 > Mar 13 18:20:10 lilypad modprobe: can't locate module ppp0 > Mar 13 18:20:11 lilypad kernel: registered device ppp0 > > We are having high winds and that rebooted my machine this morning. Everything > seems to work, but I see that error. > > Is there a fix? > Try adding "alias ppp0 off" to /etc/conf.modules if you are sure that nothing if breaking. -- Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Elwood: What kind of music do you get here ma'am? Barmaid: Why, we get both kinds of music, Country and Western.
Slink install disks / SCSI AHA-294x controller conflict?
As a lab exercise for a course that I teach, I have in the past had my students install and configure Debian using floppies to get the base system up and running. These same systems, however, do not boot using the slink disks. The system locks up in the boot sequence after downloading SCSI instructions to the AHA-2940w SCSI controller at id=0. The last line on the console is: (SCSI 0) Downloading sequencer code... 412 instructions downloaded. Then nothing. I have tried the safe boot disks and the aic7xx=no_reset option as a boot param to no effect. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Mike.
Re: module aliases
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > Periodically I get the following messages in my logfiles: > > modprobe: can't locate module sound-slot-1 > modprobe: can't locate module sound-service-1-0 > Something is trying to access a second sound card. As you only have one soundcard, alias them to off. I have an AWE32, and the relevant bits of conf.modules are: # synth0 is the awe synth alias synth0 awe_wave # synth1 is the sb's built-in fm synth. alias synth1 adlib_card # first sound card is the sb alias sound-slot-0 sb # no second sound card alias sound-slot-1 off options adlib_card io=0x388 options sb io=0x0220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 # make sure we load an sfbank for the awe synth post-install awe_wave /usr/bin/sfxload /usr/lib/sfbank/synthgm.sbk HTH -- Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call. -- Richard Lewis
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Re: Whatever happened to "Unidentified Subject!"
Paul Johnson wrote > Whatever happened to Unidentified Subject lines that DU used to add to > a blank subject line? If they're not coming back, how do you get > procmail to filter against an empty subject line? You don't. From my .procmailrc: :0: * ^X-Mailing-List.*debian-user debian-user The server for deb-user is kind enough to add the X-Mailing-List header line. Makes for a really easy filter criteria that'll work pretty much no matter what. Oh. A thought. Aren't there some SMTP servers that strip X-* headers? I vaguely remember reading something somewhere about that. Of course I could be way wrong on that. Can't remember for sure. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom. msg01522/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
autoup.sh
I've lost my link to this script. Could somebody please post the URL? Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Getting Mail From POP3 Servers
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: > currently using fetchmail to do this but it doesn't seem to use procmail so You want to get the mail filtering FAQ. >From the FAQ: FAQ-launcher-URLs: http://www.jazzie.com/ii/faqs/archive/mail/filtering-faq/ http://www.best.com/~ii/faqs/archive/mail/filtering-faq/ Worked for me like a charm; took about 10 minutes. Mike -- Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse. -- James Dean -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Portmap
Is it necessary to run the portmap daemon if all I need is telnet and FTP? Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel
Is there a way to find the .config of a pre-built kernel? I know with FreeBSD you can, I was hoping it could save myself some guesswork. Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
new
Hope I got the right e-mail address, Just heard about Linux and was wanting to try it out but do not know where to get it. Thanks, Mike
Severe security hole in Bind
I just noticed this link with a warning about all Linux
distributions. http://www.LinuxMall.com/support/bind-4.9.6.html
Currently I'm running Hamm/Frozen, am I vulnerable? I check the
config file(s) and did not notice the 'fake-iquery yes;' line, so can I
assume that I am safe?
mike...
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Hamm Boot Disks
Is there a semi stable set of hamm boot-disks out yet? About a month ago I tried them and ran into problems with missing perl libraries on my run of dselect. TIA, mike... Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Email only users, and Bulk User Adds/Removes
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Ferenc Kiraly wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Is there a way to establish an email only account? Also is there a way
>
> One thing you can do is give the user /bin/false insted of a shell.
Just out of curiosity, is it bad to assign users a shell of
/dev/null ? I was paranoid and thought the /bin/false might one day have
a hole/flaw in it. I figured /dev/null could never be used as a shell.
Am I wrong?
mike...
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COMMERCIAL: Arkeia v4.0r6 - network backup software (fwd)
I saw this in c.o.l.a. and didn't see this mentioned on debian-user or the webpage. Did I miss this or is this news to everyone else? Either way if it's not bulls*$t then it's pretty cool. Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 09:16:38 GMT From: Knox Software <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce Subject: COMMERCIAL: Arkeia v4.0r6 - network backup software Resent-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 11:30:46 -0800 (PST) Resent-From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Knox Software announces the release of Arkeia v4.0r6 for Linux. Arkeia network backup software, by Knox Software, is now available as shareware for Linux home users. A fully functional copy of Arkeia is available for download at http://www.knox-software.com or ftp://ftp.knox-software.com. Suggested contribution is $25.00 US dollars. 25% of each contribution over $20.00 will be donated to Software in the public interest. This is the parent organization of the Debian Linux distribution. Knox Software is also making Arkeia available at an entry-level price of $199.00 for small work group settings. This package lets you interactively backup any mix of 5 Linux and Windows 95 client machines to a Linux based backup server. See www.knox-software.com for download instructions. BURLINGAME, Calif. (November 24, 1997) - Knox Software today announced Arkeia for Linux, v4.0r6, network backup software. This software enables system administrators to implement a fast, easy, reliable and economical backup solution for Linux powered networks. "By leveraging 10 years of large scale UNIX backup expertise, Knox Software is making it possible for Linux system administrators to provide the type robust network backup solution previously available only in large UNIX shops," said Sam Siegel, general manager of Knox Software USA. "With Arkeia v4.0r6, we are providing a high-performance network backup solution for both large and small Linux environments such as ISPs, Web development, workgroups, and home users." The system, originally developed for the Sun, HP, and AIX environments, and now ported to Linux, is designed for centralized operations with remote control. Each backup server can be accessed from any client that has the user interface loaded. This password-controlled access lets the system administrator manage the backup server from any machine on the network. The administrator can even dial-in from a remote location, to perform backup, and restore operations. Only control information is communicated to the client machine. There is no X traffic over the network when the remote machine is an X server. A Java based user interface is provided for Windows NT and Windows 95 clients. Arkeia v4.0 for Linux features: Backup server: O Backup as many as 200 clients at a time. O Manage multiple tape drives simultaneously. O Perform backup and restore operations simultaneously. O Maintain an online catalog of backups. Catalog size is typically less than 1% of the amount of data backed up. O Provide policy based security mechanism. O Drive autostackers, libraries and robotics. O Maintain an online catalog of tape pools. O Does not require root login when doing backup or restore operations. O Monitor tape drive, library and TCP/IP for errors and initiate recovery. O Monitor client connections; retry backup from point of failure if client goes offline and comes back online. O Maintains log files. O License management. Graphical interface: O X11 interface for Linux systems. O Java interfaces for Windows 95 and Windows NT clients. O Configure Tape drive, Drive pool and library definitions. O Configure Tape, and Tape pool definitions. O Configure Savepacks (a savepack defines machines and directories to backup) O Configure periodic backup schedule. O Initiate interactive backup. O ID and password management. O Initiate interactive restores. O Browse catalog of backups. O Browse log files. O Login to local or remote backup server. O Interactively monitors backup and restore operations. O User customizable color and background settings. Client: O Compress files during backup. (At user option.) O Encrypt files during backup. (At user option.) O Pace network data transmission with backup server. O Uncompress files, if required, during restore. O Unencrypt files, if required, during restore. Arkeia v4.0r6 supported software: O Caldera - Tested and working. O Redhat - Tested and working. O Slackware - Tested and working. O SusE - Tested and working. O Most Linux, v2.0.0 or higher, distributions. Arkeia v4.0r6 hardware requirements: O 16 MB ram (32MB recommended) O SCSI card (AH2940 recommended) O 486
Re: Partitioning
get me off this list Gertjan Klein wrote: > Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Gertjan Klein wrote: > > > Obviously > > these are judgement calls and opinions but when the original hard disk code > > was written decisions were made concerning such things as sizes for device > > storage parameters. While what you have said about the cost of 10Meg HDs > > and the like is true, that fact did not seem to influence others in such a > > limiting way about how to deal with the matter. More importantly, I > > think, is that it has taken many years to finally to address this issue. > > The original harddisk code was written for (relatively) cheap > hardware. SCSI harddisks, using block addressing, were of course > around, but much more expensive. Nevertheless, even though the > partition table entries specify the location of partitions in cylinder, > head, and sector parameters, they _also_ specify them in logical block > numbers. Using these numbers a harddisk of 2 TB (2048 GB) can be > described. Note, again, that the partition table layout has nothing to > do with the BIOS. The BIOS provided an interface for cheap hardware; if > demand would have been higher for better quality hardware, like built-in > support for SCSI drives, it would have been there. Nothing in the PC > design prevents this - in fact, my BIOS directly supports (NCR) SCSI > controllers. On top of that, the PC design allows for _really_ non > standard (for PC's, anyway) hardware to have it's own BIOS to take over > the standard BIOS calls. > > >> I'm not exactly sure what you think is the nightmare part of the > >> original design (and frankly, I don't care). There are a ... > > > And if you don't care then we are probably both wasting our time. > > No - because I am not trying to change your _opinion_ on PC hardware, > I am just trying to stop you from spreading misinformation about it. I > realize very well that a lot of compromises have been made with PC > design over the years, there is enough to complain about - so if you > want to do that, go ahead, but get your facts straight. > > >> * There is a limited number of primary partitions available in the MBR. > >> This limitation is no serious problem, as many modern OSes don't object > >> to being installed in an extended partition (of which there can be as > >> many as required). > > > Yes, many often incompatible workarounds exist. > > What do you mean with "incompatible workarounds"? What's incompatible > about booting from an extended partition? > > > No there is nothing brain dead about partitioning a drive and I see no way > > that anyone could conclude from anything that I have said that I think > > otherwise. It is the arbitrary decision to create the "tiered" partition > > types (primary, extended, and logical) abstraction that I object to. > > Since the partition table resides in the MBR, with limited space, > _some_ limit had to be set to the number of entries in the table. Four, > at the time, was a reasonable limit. When the limit became - well, > limiting, MS introduced extended partitions - which is nothing other > than a way to arbitrarily expand the partition table. It seems like a > reasonable solution to me. > > > These "modern BIOSes" have finally caught up with BIOSes of more than > > twenty years ago. Are you suggesting that had different decisions > > concerning how to deal compatibly with the various limitation that were > > arbitrarily built into the original design had been handled differently > > that the PC would not be as popular or have such a favorable > > performance/price ratio as it currently has? > > Yes. (I don't want to get into this, though, because there is no way > to prove one way or the other). > > > I have "lost it". In as much as I really do not wish to mislead anyone > > then by "misinformation" are you talking about my assertions with respect > > to the BIOS design (and indeed design evolution) upon the overall > > filesystem design, or rather my (admitted) failure to even mention that > > there are new BIOS designs that do not themselves impose this scheme, or > > both? > > Your misinformation was that: > > - BIOS imposes the current partitioning scheme opon us, and limits the > number of primary partitions to four (not true - BIOS knows nothing > about partitions and doesn't care either). > > - DOS, Windows and OS/2 don't see other primary partitions than the one > they booted from (not true - DOS and Windows see other primary DOS > partitions just fine, and OS/2 won't even boot when they are present and > not "hidden"). > > - fdisk /mbr will wipe out everything on the drive (wrong - it just > replaces (or installs) the MBR software without touching the partition > table). > > - (A point I hadn't addressed yet:) loadlin uses BIOS calls for drive > access (wrong - it uses DOS calls, which can, but don't have to, > translate into BIOS calls). > > Y
Re: Cyrix MediaGX system + Debian ???
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > Hi, All > > there are new wave of cheap > i86 systems based on Cyrix > MediaGX chip with integrated > video and sound (and Ethernet in the future). > > The price makes it quite attractive as > X terminal and such. I had this same thought, so at work we picked up 2 of 'em. The VGA server worked fine, but other than that we didn't have much luck. Our main interest was the built-in TV/RF out on the back, but unfortuanatly it's crap with X. So I gave up and turned them into ip_masq/diald boxes for some of our customers. For this they work geat! > Is such system Debian Compatible? 100% haven't had a problem yet. > What about video? It's UMA > system - it takes 2M out > of system memory but still > 14M left and it's quite > enough for kernel and > X server. If you get 'em to run X decently, please tell me :> I just didn't have time or desire to put the effort in. good luck, mike Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: staroffice & libc5
take me off this list! Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > > > > When I try to run the setup for StarOffice, I get a > > > > eyryttyp4:hawk>/usr/lib/StarOffice-3.1/setup > > StarOffice3.1 Installation Tool > > Segmentation fault > > > > Today I saw a posting in a nesgroup claiming that a minimum of libc5-5.4.38 > > is > > necessary. Debian seems to stop at .33. > > I think the requirement is : 5.4.4. In anycase, it works fine for me with > 5.4.33. > > Bob > > > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: staroffice & libc5
take me off this list! Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > > > > When I try to run the setup for StarOffice, I get a > > > > eyryttyp4:hawk>/usr/lib/StarOffice-3.1/setup > > StarOffice3.1 Installation Tool > > Segmentation fault > > > > Today I saw a posting in a nesgroup claiming that a minimum of libc5-5.4.38 > > is > > necessary. Debian seems to stop at .33. > > I think the requirement is : 5.4.4. In anycase, it works fine for me with > 5.4.33. > > Bob > > > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
perl5.004_0(x)
Is there a .deb of perl5.004_04 for Debian 1.3? Several things
I've been trying to do are not working because I'm currently running
perl5.003. I could build a new perl from source, but these are production
machines and I like to keep them as clean as possible. I noticed that
perl5.004 is available under hamm, but I really don't feel like upgrading
my 2 main machines until it's been well tested. If there isn't a package
for the newer perl is it possible for me to compile my own and just use
the binary leaving the old libraries and such in place to be upgraded at
a later date by dpkd?
TIA,
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Re: Webmail ... a script for a pop3 server?
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Michael [badpixel/bad sector] wrote: > Hi! > > I have this pop3/smtp mailserver and would like to give users access > to their pop3 mailboxes + send emails via. their webbrowser. Just > like hotmail. It just doesn't have to be that advanced... Users just > need to be able to login, read their mail, and send emails > > Is it possible? ... for free? :) Yes it is although not free in the GPL sense. dotshop.com has a perl-based CGI that will allow your users web based mail services. I think the url is www.emumail.com (or .net). The only problem I ran into is that you *need* perl 5.004_04 and if your running bo you don't have it. There is a package set for perl5.004_04 in certain debian-mirror incoming directories, but I had trouble with them. Good luck to you! > btw. the server is also running apache webserver I'm also running apache, and didn't have a problem with it. mike... Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Question about 'strip'
When I compile programs on my own, I usually run 'strip' on the binaries when I'm finished. This greatly reduces the size of the files but I wonder, does it affect performance/stability? My /usr/local/lib/gimp/0.99/plug-ins was 16mb now it's 3. The man-page says that strip removes symbols from the file, can anyone explain that in a little more detail? TIA, mike... Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Question about 'strip'
On 30 Jan 1998, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > >>>>> "Michael" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Michael> When I compile programs on my own, I usually run > Michael> 'strip' on the binaries when I'm finished. This greatly > Michael> reduces the size of the files but I wonder, does it > Michael> affect performance/stability? My > Michael> /usr/local/lib/gimp/0.99/plug-ins was 16mb now it's 3. > Michael> The man-page says that strip removes symbols from the > Michael> file, can anyone explain that in a little more detail? > > I hate to ask, but being the maintainer of the Debian GIMP > packages.. why did you compile your own? :) I compiled my own because I wasn't running hamm untill last night :> Now I see there is a gimp-0.99.18 for hamm so I'll probably delete my copy and use the new glibc2 copy :> mike... Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: odd dpkg-ftp behavior
On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Britton wrote: > > I sent this out with the wrong subject last time, sorry. > > On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Britton wrote: > > > > > I am having some trouble getting dpkg-ftp to work installing hamm. I have > > included some stuff from a dpkg-ftp session (run from dselect) below, in > > case anyone can see the problem: I ran into this problem after upgrading as well. I'm guessing that you've set your 'debian' directory to be /debian/hamm. This will get the package files but not download them :> set up dselect's access like this. ### Enter ftp site [ftp.fuller.edu]: Use passive mode [y]: Enter username [ftp]: If you are using anonymous ftp to retrieve files, enter your email address for use as a password. Otherwise enter "?" and dpkg-ftp will prompt you each time. Enter password [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Enter debian directory [/debian]: Note: order here is important. Package files are scanned in order so later distributions will override earlier ones. So put stable before unstable. Enter space seperated list of distributions to get [hamm/hamm hamm/non-free hamm/contrib]: ### Worked like a charm for me once I did that :> Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Free X server for Win95
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, pai wrote:
>
> Is there a free X server for Win95 / WinNT ? If so where ?
Well this isn't exactly a X server but it's the next best thing
*AND* it's gpl'd look at http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc/ The win32 server is a
little slow, but the win32 client is pretty peppy.
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Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA
Daeron wrote: >I've found that Debian doesn't recognise the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ >ISA card. Has anyone got a solution ? The problem might be that you have the card on an address that's not probed. I always have to patch eepro.c and include my card address in the list (near the top of the file). After that it works perfectly. Mike. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DNS question
Rick Jones wrote: >I should have been more specific, sorry. I wanted to know if this >secondary that is behind the firewall, IP masq'd, can be used as far as >internic is concerned, or if they will reject it because of the IP >masqing? No, Internic will not allow two name servers with the same IP address. They have good reasons for that, because if one machine goes down both name servers disappears and nobody can look up MX records for your domain, meaning that your inbound mail will bounce. Name servers should be placed so that they have no common point of failure. Mike. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: WantWEB/Linux/IP Masquerading
Nils Rennebarth wrote: >No, it's just vice versa. Upload speed with 56k Modem (from you to your >provider) is 56k. From your provider to you it's still 33.6 maximum, Bullsh*t. Go read something on the subject. Upload is 33, download is 56. Otherwise it would be impossible to sell 56k modems, because no one does more uploading than downloading. Mike. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian ppp server how-to?
On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, dada wrote:
> Is there any how-to to setup an ppp server under Debian?
>
> I need detailled information becouse I'm newie :-) and I want set up one
> ppp server at my home.
>
> Regards.
Depending how many users you want to server try checking out
Portslave at http://homepage.cistron.nl/~miquels/radius/ I found it to be
an excellent program and fairly self-documenting. We're using it as a
temp solution until PRI prices drop here in BC Canada and we order our
PM3's.
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rpc.portmap and friends
How dangerous is it to remove rpc.portmap, rpc.bwnfsd, rpc.mountd,
rpc.nfsd, rpc.pcnfsd, rpc.rstatd, rpc.rusersd, rpc.rwalld, and rpc.ugidd?
I'm trying to setup a semi-closed box running nothing but a few terminal
server utilities and want to only accept telnet and ftp connections from a
few hosts. I noticed that there were a few rpc services starting at boot
time, so I moved the binaries out of /usr/sbin and into another
directory. Now inetd doesn't start at boot time because this line in
/etc/init.d/netbase;
test -f /usr/sbin/rpc.portmap || exit 0
I can get around this by simply replacing netbase with my own
script that fires up inetd. My question is, am I doing something I
shouldn't? Are things going to be breaking on my box from not having
these daemons running? Any advice would be appreciated.
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Xntp and GMT
I'm looking for advice on how to set one of my Debian 1.3 servers
to GMT time. We are a smaller ISP and recently we've had a problem with
theft of service. The clock on our RADIUS accounting needs to be synced
with our telco's clock in order to make tracking of this sort of thing
easier. Currently our clock is 8 minutes faster than their clock, and
this is a bad thing. If anyone can give advice on a relatively painless
way to do this it would be much appreciated. I've downloaded, installed,
and began reading the html-docs for xntp. I figured I'd try a cry for
help to the list as well in case someone here has had to do the same
thing.
mike...
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Strange smail core file..
I recently found a core file in my /var/spool/smail/ I was interested in finding out what caused this core-file so I did a 'strings' on it. Somewhere near the middle I noticed this text... # destination supports esmtp, but is buggy (%s) HELO %s 503 after EHLO/RSET/HELO (%s) RSET unexpected response to RSET (%s) MAIL FROM:< %s%s%s%s%s SIZE=%lu RCPT TO:< %s%s%s DATA ?QUIT SMTP-send: 499 write error, remote probably down SMTP-reply: %s 499 timeout on read from remote SMTP process 499 read error from remote SMTP process 498 protocol error in reply from remote SMTP process transport %s: no connection to remote SMTP server: %s transport %s: %s transport %s: Error writing to remote host The route-addr hits... Your mailer feels weeker The route-addr hits... ___ / \ /R I P\ / \ / \ | %s | | | |Eaten by a | | chain letter| |on level 1 | | %4d| *| * * * | * __)/\/\_//(\/(/\)/\//\/|_)__ %d , %d %d , %d ERROR # Anyone know what this is or means? Has my copy of smail been playning nethack/rogue without me knowing? TIA, mike... Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: IP Masq Resource
On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > I haven't been able to reach http://ipmasq.home.ml.org today at all - and, > of course, the list of mirrors is on that site as well So much for fault > tolerance > > Anyone know of an available mirror of this site? http://www.indyramp.com/mirrors/ipmasq/ I had the same problem allthough it appears that the main webpage is up now. Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: turning shadow on
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > Hi, > > I've upgraded from 1.2 to 1.3 w/o too much trouble. At that time I > did not turn shadow on. Now I would like to do it. Should I do a > shadowconfig on and cross my fingers or is there something further? > > I've installed almost all the stuff from stable. OK I know this thread is a little old but I just got off of vacation :> I'm wondering if the binaries in the netstd and qpopper package support shadow as well. I've held off upgrading my mail/radius server to 1.3 because of this. I would really hate to go to shadow and then have users call and complain that they can't check their mail As far as RADIUS is concerned I can easily build a new binary with shadow support as long as the shadow package comes with header files etc etc. Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP (fwd)
Matthew C. Thompson wrote: >> [pseelig]/home/pseelig > v /usr/sbin/pppd >> -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip76072 Mar 2 03:29 /usr/sbin/pppd >> ^^^ >> >>So the entry in "/etc/group" has to be: >> >> dip:*:30:yourson,hisfather >> >i had already chowned /usr/sbin/pppd to mattyt, along with all the other >files necessary (messy, i know, but i'm the only user on my machine), so i >didn't think this would work, and it didn't. i still get the same messages >as jess mentioned in my plog after attempting pon as mattyt. You can't use chown on a file that's suid root, because then the file will no longer be able to run as root. You must control access to the file by using a group of which you are a member. The group has execute access to the file and the file is owned by root. Mike. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dosemu lredir don't redir :-(
Brent Hendricks wrote: >But OpenDOS from Caldera uses lredir just fine. I haven't had any >problems using OpenDOS with DOSEMU. No more MS operating systems on my >computer! Now if only we could redistribute OpenDOS with DOSEMU. The second best thing would be to have an .deb package that would automatically download OpenDOS from the Caldera ftp site and install it under DosEmu. Or does such a package already exist? Mike. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Kudo's and Question
First of all I would like to thank the Debian development team on
another fine job done. Yesterday I took my in-production mail/pop/RADIUS
server for our entire ISP (300+users small but climbing :) and upgraded to
Debian 1.3.1 The upgrade was as smooth as one could imagine with only one
hitch (that wasn't due to Debian anyways). now for the question ;>
Currently I'm running kernel 2.0.6, and haven't noticed any major
problems with it. I normally stick to the "If it 'ain't broke, don't fix
it" rule, but I'm wondering if there are any reasons to go to say a 2.0.30
kernel. Occasionally some TCP connections hang (mostly cfingerd) but reset
in a day or two, other than that I have no complaint. So, anybody else
out there has some advice/warnings?
TIA,
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Re: Kudo's and Question
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Currently I'm running kernel 2.0.6, and haven't noticed any major > > problems with it. I normally stick to the "If it 'ain't broke, don't fix > > it" rule, but I'm wondering if there are any reasons to go to say a 2.0.30 > > kernel. Occasionally some TCP connections hang (mostly cfingerd) but reset > > in a day or two, other than that I have no complaint. So, anybody else > > out there has some advice/warnings? > > If you have 2.0.6, you are vulnerable to the ping of death, unless you've > applied patches to fix it. I've patched against that but thank you anyway. > 2.0.30 also has SYN cookie features that are worth looking at. This sounds interesting, I've gotten advice from several people to wait for 2.0.31 due to some problems with .30 under heavy load. I think I'll wait till those are fixed. Thanks to everybody who replied to me! mike... Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: FAX?
Jason Costomiris wrote: >On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > >> I didn't see any how-to's on configuring Linux to send/receive fax.. >> where can I start? -- programs, info, etc? > >Start by installing the efax package. Or mgetty+sendfax. Efax will occupy the modem so that you can't have any other dial-in except fax. Mgetty+sendfax allows you to receive data (login or ppp auto detected) as well on the same modem. With a ZyXEL modem you can even receive voice, data and fax! I use mgetty+sendfax to answer the modem and efax to send. All this software is on the RedHat 4.2 CD. (I know this is the debian list, but I am actually running RedHat on most of my machines, sorry..) Mike. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Quotas & Mail Spool file
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Shawn Caron wrote:
>
> This is simple question but
> I have setup quotas for user home directories before, but exactly how does
> one put a quota on a user's mail spool file?
Turn quota's on for /var where the mail spools are
(/var/spool/mail) That should do it, since each user owns their own
mailbox.
mike...
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Re: Laptop for Linux Debian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Markus Diesmann wrote: >However, if you do not have a Debian CD, you will have trouble. >The installation disks do not allow you to directly enable >PCMCIA support. Or you could try RedHat, installing over PCMCIA or PLIP is a piece of cake. It even installs over the net from a CD mounted on an NT/Win95 server (which is unable to read the file names on the CD!). -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBM/LBf8Uc8bdD9cnfEQI35QCePaWf7XbwHKUKszw3bNRvXYV+2fcAn1iq bXrJ3eSlK3/r4jrnHc2vPGX7 =AdJ1 -END PGP SIGNATURE----- Mike. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Callback in mgetty
David Wright wrote: >Has anyone tried this out? I've obviously missed something. > >I use minicom on machine A to call B, then the modem hangs up, and B >starts to callback A, just as it should. > >My question is what program should I run on A to be able to login to B? >If I stay in minicom, it sees the RING RING but mgetty can't answer it >because it was locked out by minicom. If I exit minicom, mgetty respawns >and answers the call, but minicom is now locked out of ttyS1. When you see RING in minicom, just type ATA\n to tell your modem to answer the call. That's exactly what mgetty does before it throws up a login prompt. If you want to run ppp, you can start the remote pppd from minicom, exit from minicom and start pppd locally. To finish ppp, hang up the modem or kill pppd. Mike. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Squid + ipfwadm redirect transparent problems
Jose Maria Omo Millan wrote: ># Redirect to Squid proxy server >/sbin/ipfwadm -I -a acc -P tcp -D default/0 80 -r 8080 >ERROR: The requested URL could not be retrieved > While trying to retrieve the URL: / The http 1.0 protocol does not send requested IP address in the request. If a client asks for "http://www.playboy.com"; then he opens a TCP connection to 205.216.146.202:80 and sends the text "GET / HTTP/1.0". Your squid would need to ask the firewall what destination IP address was in the packet, and I guess it can't do that. You can't mix proxies and straight http, they are different protocols. Mike. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
iTunes Replacement for Linux
I use my ipod frequently. What program would you guys recommend I use in a linux world. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using AutoCAD 2005 on linux:
I use autocad frequently. Is there some way to emulate it or is there a linux version available. I have heard that WINE and AutoCAD are not very stable. I heard that architects prefer linux for large projects instead of windows. I want to use AutoCAD. There has to be some way. This is the last piece of software holding me back. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Configuring proftpd
I am trying to configure proftpd on my woody box and having no success. I want to beable to log in with the account called "upload" an have all premissions. I want all files to be uploaded into the /var/www folder. I am very confused. I followed the documentation and had no luck. Can somebody lend me a hand? # This is a basic ProFTPD configuration file (rename it to # 'proftpd.conf' for actual use. It establishes a single server # and a single anonymous login. It assumes that you have a user/group # "nobody" and "ftp" for normal operation and anon. ServerName "Debian" ServerType standalone DeferWelcome off ShowSymlinks on MultilineRFC2228 on DefaultServer on ShowSymlinks on AllowOverwrite on TimeoutNoTransfer 600 TimeoutStalled 600 TimeoutIdle 1200 DisplayLogin welcome.msg DisplayFirstChdir .message LsDefaultOptions "-l" DenyFilter \*.*/ # Uncomment this if you are using NIS or LDAP to retrieve passwords: #PersistentPasswd off # Port 21 is the standard FTP port. Port 21 # To prevent DoS attacks, set the maximum number of child processes # to 30. If you need to allow more than 30 concurrent connections # at once, simply increase this value. Note that this ONLY works # in standalone mode, in inetd mode you should use an inetd server # that allows you to limit maximum number of processes per service # (such as xinetd) MaxInstances 30 # Set the user and group that the server normally runs at. User nobody Group nogroup # Normally, we want files to be overwriteable. AllowAll AllowAll # Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new files and dirs # (second parm) from being group and world writable. Umask 022 022 AllowOverwrite on # A basic anonymous configuration, no upload directories. ## ## User ftp ## Group nogroup ## # We want clients to be able to login with "anonymous" as well as "ftp" ## UserAlias anonymous ftp ## ## RequireValidShell off ## ## # Limit the maximum number of anonymous logins ## MaxClients 10 ## ## # We want 'welcome.msg' displayed at login, and '.message' displayed ## # in each newly chdired directory. ## DisplayLogin welcome.msg ## DisplayFirstChdir .message ## ## # Limit WRITE everywhere in the anonymous chroot ## ## ## DenyAll ## ## ## ## # Uncomment this if you're brave. ## # ## # # Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new files and dirs ## # # (second parm) from being group and world writable. ## # Umask 022 022 ## # ## # DenyAll ## # ## # ## # AllowAll ## # ## # ## ## -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Configuring proftpd
I am trying to configure proftpd on my woody box and having no success. I want to beable to log in with the account called "upload" an have all premissions. I want all files to be uploaded into the /var/www folder. I am very confused. I followed the documentation and had no luck. Can somebody lend me a hand? # This is a basic ProFTPD configuration file (rename it to # 'proftpd.conf' for actual use. It establishes a single server # and a single anonymous login. It assumes that you have a user/group # "nobody" and "ftp" for normal operation and anon. ServerName "Debian" ServerType standalone DeferWelcomeoff ShowSymlinkson MultilineRFC2228on DefaultServer on ShowSymlinkson AllowOverwrite on TimeoutNoTransfer 600 TimeoutStalled 600 TimeoutIdle 1200 DisplayLoginwelcome.msg DisplayFirstChdir .message LsDefaultOptions"-l" DenyFilter \*.*/ # Uncomment this if you are using NIS or LDAP to retrieve passwords: #PersistentPasswd off # Port 21 is the standard FTP port. Port21 # To prevent DoS attacks, set the maximum number of child processes # to 30. If you need to allow more than 30 concurrent connections # at once, simply increase this value. Note that this ONLY works # in standalone mode, in inetd mode you should use an inetd server # that allows you to limit maximum number of processes per service # (such as xinetd) MaxInstances30 # Set the user and group that the server normally runs at. Usernobody Group nogroup # Normally, we want files to be overwriteable. AllowAll AllowAll # Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new files and dirs # (second parm) from being group and world writable. Umask 022 022 AllowOverwriteon # A basic anonymous configuration, no upload directories. ## ## User ftp ## Group nogroup ## # We want clients to be able to login with "anonymous" as well as "ftp" ## UserAlias anonymous ftp ## ## RequireValidShell off ## ## # Limit the maximum number of anonymous logins ## MaxClients 10 ## ## # We want 'welcome.msg' displayed at login, and '.message' displayed ## # in each newly chdired directory. ## DisplayLogin welcome.msg ## DisplayFirstChdir .message ## ## # Limit WRITE everywhere in the anonymous chroot ## ## ## DenyAll ## ## ## ## # Uncomment this if you're brave. ## # ## # # Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new files and dirs ## # # (second parm) from being group and world writable. ## # Umask 022 022 ## # ## #DenyAll ## # ## # ## #AllowAll ## # ## # ## ## -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GUI
alireza faryar wrote: I am new to debian. I installed on a 100 MHz dell with about 82 Meg of RAM and two disks, one is 1 G and the other is 2 G. I could not install all packages that come with the distribution CDs. I guess it ran out of space. Can you recommend a GUI to use on such a machine? aff __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 Fluxbox, google it and there should be plenty of info -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: "best" high performance video card for debian
dorn hetzel wrote: Ok, I know this is a subjective question with subjective answers, but would anyone care to venture personal recommendations on good high performance video cards which work well and are relatively easy to get X up and running well on. Platform would be some flavor of debian with 2.6.10ish kernel. Bonus points for pci-express cards known to work well :) -Dorn Yeah, pretty much no question there. Get nvidia if you want 'high performance 3d' on linux. While ATI cards are nice, they really havn't shown much improvement of supporting linux over the past year. (and the support that 'is' there, you mine-as-well go with dri because ATI's drivers are 'that bad') -Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SATA and a Plextor PX-176SA DVD R drive
I don't really know what is going on here so excuse me. I can't seem to get my SATA optical drive to do anything for me with sid under kernel 2.6.11. If I lsmod I get sata_nv and sata_sil loaded on from my Asus A7N8X-E deluxe motherboard. But I don't seem to be getting any /dev/sd's showing up in my devices. The only thing connected to that is the dvd burner. dmesg shows sata_sil version 0.8 ACPI: PCI interrupt :01:0b.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, high) -> IRQ 217 ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF8C24080 ctl 0xF8C2408A bmdma 0xF8C24000 irq 217 ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF8C240C0 ctl 0xF8C240CA bmdma 0xF8C24008 irq 217 ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:0f00 82: 83: 84: 85: 86: 87: 88:001f ata1: dev 0 ATAPI, max UDMA/66 ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/66 scsi0 : sata_sil ata2: no device found (phy stat ) scsi1 : sata_sil cat /proc/scsi/scsi shows nothing Attached devices: Any idea what I need to do? Or where I should start? I have read something that make me suspicios about ATAPI support being disabled in this version of the kernel. If that is the case, does this require me to enable it and recompile the kernel or something? Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cacti Problems
Stephen Le wrote: I'm running Debian-testing and I've been unable to get Cacti to produce any graphs. When I manually attempt to execute poller.php, I get the following error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in /usr/share/cacti/site/lib/adodb/drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 339 I've verified that I have the latest cacti, php4-mysql, libphp-adodb, mysql-server, and etc packages. Does anybody know how to get Cacti to work? Thanks. You need to manually configure MySQL. right now it's giving you an error because you have no access to mysql. Inside /usr/share/docs/cacti/something there is a .sql file that you need to use to create the database, then you need to setup a cacti user or give cacti the right user/password to connect to that database. When you have your database created and some sort of access setup to mysql. dpkg-reconfigure cacti it'll ask you for the username and password for mysql -Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System
Carlos Rodrigues wrote: The references on this are mostly highly technical, and you can find a bunch of those by googling. But sometimes the best way to is just to try and forget the habits learned on MS-land and adopt a wait-and-see approach. Just let your filesystems be, and in time you will realise that they works very well without the rituals you are used to perform on your Windows systems. I know what I'm talking about, because I already asked the same questions you are asking now and it took me quite some time to finally believe it to be true. And after 8 years using Linux all the time, I came to find the MS-land rituals somewhat exotic (if unix filesystems take care of themselves, why can't the so called New Technology File System?). It was supposed to if you remember. NT didn't come with a defrag utility until a certian service pack after they figured out that they were wrong in their assumption that NTFS didn't need to be defragmented. To put a fine point on it, MS screwed up. And to throw salt in the wound, they have such a crappy defrag utility included with their NTFS based OS's due to a patent issue with Executive Software. (Who they originally contracted with to do FAT... HA HA!) -Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem updating menus in fluxbox
On Monday 23 May 2005 09:49, Ric Otte wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that fluxbox (.9.12-1) doesn't seem to update its menus (or > I am doing something wrong). I have added some menus to /etc/menu and > ran update-menus. The new menus show up on other windowmanagers, but > don't under fluxbox. > > They don't seem to be listed properly in either > /etc/X11/fluxbox/fluxbox-menu or in my .fluxbox/menu file. I tried > running update-menus while not running fluxbox, but that didn't make > any difference. > > Any suggestions? Thanks, > Ric Ric.. Please man fluxbox because it gives you TONS of good documentation on fluxbox init file, menu file, apps file and style files.. This File: -> $HOME/.fluxbox/init <- has all your flux settings for your menu, style, groups, etc.. etc... this session.styleFile: ~/.fluxbox/styles/Ant-Crazylikeafox session.groupFile: ~/.fluxbox/MYfbgroups session.slitlistFile: ~/.fluxbox/MYSlitList session.keyFile: ~/.fluxbox/MYkeys session.menuFile: ~/.fluxbox/MYmenufile The menu pointed to by YOUR init should be the one you edit. cheers.. mike.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lirc + deiban = HELP!
Can somebody point me in the right direction for lirc using debians packages? I'm just lost. I think I am probably doing WAY too much to get this working under debian so maybe I'm just screwing things up. I am no kernel builder. Basically, I've read all the documenation they make available. But it is very 'patchy' to say the least. Or they just seem to assume too much. Here is what i've done; 1. installed and extracted the kernel headers, kernel source and lirc_source_modules packages 2. symlinked /usr/src/linux to the kernel source 3. make-kpkg --revision 2.6.11 modules_image (entered through all the config questions except said yes to all 'enable loadable module support' questions towards the beginning) 4. it built some debian package that I installed via dpkg -i 5. Modules weren't in the right place so I copied them into what I think is the right places cp /lib/modules/2.6.11/misc/* /lib/modules/2.6.11-1-k7/kernel/drivers/misc/ 6. depmod -ae && update-modules 7. modprobe lirc_dev FATAL: Error inserting lirc_dev (/lib/modules/2.6.11-1-k7/kernel/drivers/misc/lirc_dev.ko): Invalid module format 8., modprobe modprobe lirc_i2c FATAL: Error inserting lirc_i2c (/lib/modules/2.6.11-1-k7/kernel/drivers/misc/lirc_i2c.ko): Invalid module format I'm just trying to get my pvr-350 remote working with mythtv. Can anybody please help me with this? If I ignore the documentation that comes with it and go with people's notes I find on google, it just seems like everybody abandons debians lirc packages for whatever reason. (well, I can probably take a wild guess) Should I just follow them and skip debians lirc packages? Please help, I'm going crazy here. -Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No updates for Sarge
John Graves wrote: I was successfully using apt-get to maintain my sarge installation on my server. The week before sarge went stable I changed the 2 entries in my sources.list from testing to sarge and again successfully received an update. Now that Sarge is stable, I have not received any updates either normal or security. My sources.list is as shown in the release notes. I show a list of hits but nothing is brought down either from debian or from security.debian sources. I am using http.us.debian.org and security.debian.org. Can someone point me to a reference that might help me figure out what is happening? I too have been waiting for the centericq update to get to sarge. As of now the thing is worthless having in sarge since it segfaults due to a bug that came up right when sarge froze. -Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The X story so far...
On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote: > I've never used xdm before so I don't really know much about it. I can > kill the original xdm and type "xdm" again but this does nothing. > > What sort of things should I be looking for? What configuration files > should I be looking at? Strange that X would work but XDM wouldn't check out the file '/var/log/xdm-errors' after a boot. It should give you some insight as to how/why it died. mike... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bash 1.14.6.....
I was just reading the new LJ, and afterwords I browsed their www site. I found a link on their site to a CIAC Advisory regarding all Linux systems running Bash 1.14.6 (the version Debian is using). I suggest all users read the advisory, the URL is. http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/h-01.shtml thnx, mike... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry to repost.
but I'm sure I saw a message about turning slackware .tgz's and
.rpms into debian packages. I've got a few .tgz's I'd like to install,
and would prefer it if I could keep everything registered with dpkg.
TIA,
mike...
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Laptop and PCMCIA
I'm trying slowy to get my whole office over to Debian , and the next machine I'm going to tackle is the TI-Extensa 560CD laptop. Is there a page/FAQ for Debian on laptops? Also I'm using a Xircom Creditcard Ethernet/28.8 pcmcia card, has anyone had any experience with this card? I'd love for it to be recognized just after boot time so I could dftp the whole system. TIA, mike... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
icmpinfo
I'm in need of a TCP/IP expert here to tell me if someone is trying to spoof/ping flood me... I know someone has tried to 'big ping' me several times due to the "couldn't get a free page" message on my console. I've been running icmpinfo -vvv > /tmp/icmplog, and I'm getting alot of ICMP_Dest_Unreachable messages. Is this normal? They're comming mostly from localhost but also from other sites. Could someone please advise me on what to do, or where to get some more info on how to find out where these are comming from? Here are several of the 'pings' I've gotten. Nov 25 18:31:42 ICMP_Dest_Unreachable[Port] < 127.0.0.1 [localhost] > 127.0.0.1 [localhost] sp=25861 dp=53 seq=0x0033adea sz=79(+20) : 4506 0063 06FD 4001 7595 7F00 0001[EMAIL PROTECTED] 0010 : 7F00 0001 0303 FB43 4500 0047...CE..G 0020 : 06FC 4011 75A8 7F00 0001 7F00 0001[EMAIL PROTECTED] 0030 : 0565 0035 0033 ADEA 001A 0100 0001 .e.5.3.. 0040 : 0136 0236 3103 3130 3203 32 .6.61.102.2 Nov 25 18:18:43 ICMP_Dest_Unreachable[Port] < 127.0.0.1 [localhost] > 127.0.0.1 [localhost] sp=17669 dp=53 seq=0x00360a1f sz=82(+20) : 4506 0066 069F 4001 75F0 7F00 0001[EMAIL PROTECTED] 0010 : 7F00 0001 0303 FB46 4500 004A...FE..J 0020 : 069E 4011 7603 7F00 0001 7F00 0001[EMAIL PROTECTED] 0030 : 0545 0035 0036 0A1F 000A 0100 0001 .E.5.6.. 0040 : 0332 3332 0331 3432 0331 3931.232.142.191 0050 : 0332 .2 Nov 25 18:38:28 ICMP_Dest_Unreachable[Port] < 127.0.0.1 [localhost] > 127.0.0.1 [localhost] sp=33285 dp=53 seq=0x0034380d sz=80(+20) There was no data in the last entry to the file. The data of the ping almost always seems to have an IP address in it. What can I do, or am I being paranoid? TIA, mike... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg problems
On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Fundamental wrote: > off and on i get this error with dpkg > > Selecting previously deselected package mailagent. > (Reading database ... 9676 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking mailagent (from mailagent-3.44-6.deb) ... > Setting up mailagent ... > dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: No such file > or d > irectory > dpkg: error processing mailagent (--install): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > mailagent I just installed Debian on my laptop at work and found this problem. I've never seen it on the other machines here, but it appears that some package-install sripts look for perl to be in /bin/perl which it isn't. Link /usr/bin/perl to /bin/perl, and re-configure those packages or re-install them. mike... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system accounting
On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Richard Morin wrote: > Sorry if this is a re-post, but I don't think my orig. message got > through. > > I am interested in learning how ISP's log user time on the system. Is > it simply a matter of cron scripts utilizing wtmp and ac? Or is > there a nice package which does that and more? Well, here we use RADIUS and Livingston Portmasters. It's a nice setup hardware wise, but we're finding a little lacking on cheap accounting software. I've started to write my own system using the RADIUS 'detail' files and perl, it's pretty rough right now but it does the job. If your interested in helping and or just getting what I have, gimme a shout back. mike... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: restarting X w/o reboot
On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote:
>
> Over the past couple of days I've been playing with my XF86Config file,
> and having to reboot each time to see the results really sucks. I'm
> positive there is a better way but a check to the xdm man page reveals
> nothing.
>
> Can I just kill xdm and restart it w/o reboot?
>
> Is there a keystroke to restart xdm (and re-read the XF86Config file) ?
ctrl-alt-backspace will kill the X server, xdm will then re-start
it.. or you could run '/etc/init.d/xdm stop' that would kill xdm and allow
you to start and stop the X server at will. One bit of advice, make sure
you have annother machine you can telnet with in case you frag your
console. If you don't have 2 machines with ethernet hook up a console the
the serial port.
zzz,
mike...
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Re: A proposal to improve dselect
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote: > About what could be made easier in Debian: > I gave Debian 1.2 to two people who has little or no experience with > Linux. They both made the same mistake, not installing the 16 color X > server. This should be clarified, that you will need it because it > provides things essential to configuring X. I have a suggestion for the Debian development team. Perhaps, we could (start to) include some info on why certain packages depend on others. That way when dselect complains about a dependency problem the user would be informed on the reasons behind the dependencies. I know this probably wouldn't be a trivial thing to implement, so I was thinking maybe support could be built into the next dselect for it. That way package maintainers can take their time upgrading the packages to support this feature. This then would have solved the 16 colour X server problem above, by telling the user that VGA16 was needed to configure their Xserver. just my 2cents, mike... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Webserver/CGI
Hi there, I have need for a web server to do one and only one
thing, run a single CGI script. I've installed Apache on my system, and
started to configure it when I though that Apache might be overkill. This
server must be VERY secure as it is both my mail server and my RADIUS
server. I linked ~www-data/index.html to /dev/null so that users cannot
(hopefully) retrieve any documents, but I'm wondering if somebody has a
better suggestion?
TIA,
mike...
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Re: ALT+CTRL+BS dangerous to X server
On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Christian Lynbech wrote: > Apparently, the keyboard combinbation of ALT+CTRL+Backspace is set up > to kill the X server. > Is there any way to rebind/remove this feature? > It shadows the handy emacs function of backward-kill-sexp and I have > just lost one too many session on this account. It's in your /etc/X11/XF86Config Section "ServerFlags" DontZap #disable CTRL-ALT-BKSPC server kill EmdSection If you have a Debian/stock XF86Config, it should already be there, just commented out with a # good luck, mike... Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MythTV
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This MythTV sounds really cool. I've been reading about it for a few weeks now, and would like to try it. I have a couple of questions for those that have it running. 1. What card would you suggest that I use? 2. To install, do I just do apt-get install mythtv? What are the steps to installation? I'll be starting with a clean machine. Compaq Deskpro PIII 866 MHz with a 120GB hard drive. I'm looking to install a basic PVR with one capture card for now. Once I get that working, I'd like to add more cards to record multiple programs at the same time. At this point, I would probably get the PVR-500 or maybe just the PVR-150. The PVR-150 replaces the 250 and the 350 just has tv-out that you can use through the ivytv framebuffer and a FM tuner. If all you are looking for is MythTV and not MythVideo and MythDVD or MythGame on one machine. I would get the PVR-350 and use tv-out on it. The tv-out is pretty much the best I've seen but It doesn't really work with anything else very well. Otherwise get a 150/250/500 with something else for the tv-out. Nvidia hardware seems to be popular, it's what I'm currently using also. But my backend is on a system with no monitor attached and I have frontends sitting at the tv's. (tuners are in the backend and stream to the frontends with nvidia cards for the tv-out) With the current stable branch of ivytv drivers, you can use a 250 and a 350... But the unstable branch is almost complete with support for the 150 and 500 (500 is dual 150's on a single board). A large portion of ivytv users are already using unstable though. So if you get one of those cards you can run the thing just fine on an 866. I have a Athlon 1 gig with 256 mb of memory and I've never had a problem with the performance. But if you get a cheaper card that requires a software encoder/decoder, you'll need a much more powerful system to really run it well. And if your looking for HDTV, that's pretty much your only option right now as nothing in that area has hardware encoders/decoders. One thing to note is that most of the debian howto's say stuff about how you have to compile your own kernel/lirc/etc Just so you know, that isn't the case as you can pretty much stay stock and still run MythTV. All I compiled was the ivtv drivers and ptune to change the channels. The rest of it is from the repo listed on MythTV's documentation for debian and proper. -Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ifconfig refuses to configure loopback address
I'm trying to install Debian 1.1 and can't seem to get the loopback
device configured. At boot up the error:
SCIOADDRT: Invalid argument
appears when the /etc/init.d/network script runs. The offending line
in this script is:
route add -net 127.0.0.0
ifconfig reports (output below) that the loopback interface does not
have the inet addr that I expect it to have (nor the one that it had
under Debian 0.93R6, BTW).
Any help or pointers appreciated. Mike.
Here's the output from ifconfig:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:255.255.255.255 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
[which used to read:
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
]
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:24:0D:08:7E
inet addr:xxx.yyy.zzz.164 Bcast:xxx.yyy.zzz.191 Mask:255.255.255.192
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1074 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:135 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x300
Here's the current /etc/init.d/network script:
#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0
IPADDR=xxx.yyy.zzz.164
NETMASK=255.255.255.192
NETWORK=xxx.yyy.zzz.128
BROADCAST=xxx.yyy.zzz.191
GATEWAY=xxx.yyy.zzz.129
ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
route add -net ${NETWORK}
route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
And, FWIW, here's the 0.93R6 /etc/init.d/network:
#! /bin/sh
# network: establish the network connection.
# $Id: network,v 1.1 1995/02/19 20:29:29 imurdock Exp $
# Configure the loopback device.
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add 127.0.0.1
# Configure the ethernet device or start SLIP/PPP below.
IPADDR="xxx.yyy.zzz.164"# Your IP address.
NETMASK="255.255.255.192" # Your netmask.
NETWORK="xxx.yyy.zzz.128" # Your network address.
BROADCAST="xxx.yyy.zzz.191" # Your broadcast address (blank if none).
GATEWAY="xxx.yyy.zzz.129" # Your gateway address.
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
/sbin/route add -net ${NETWORK}
/sbin/route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
iCBS
Is the iCBS in Debian 1.1 working properly? I remember when I was
upgrading my RedHat 3.0.3 to Kernel 2.0.X and the README's said that iCBS
was broken in kernel 2.X.
thnx in advance.
Mike...
Re: ifconfig refuses to configure loopback address
Can you help me make sense of these smail messages that appear in my
/var/spool/smail/msglog/ files (there are now around 20 such files all
claiming the same thing)?
A portion of one such message file:
Xdefer: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> reason: (ERR148)
transport smtp: connect: Connection timed out
Xdefer: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> reason: (ERR175) host
retry file locked
Xdefer: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> reason: (ERR148)
transport smtp: connect: Connection timed out
Xdefer: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> reason: (ERR175) host
retry file locked
My vanilla smail config file, included below, indicates that there
is no retry file and checkker fails to report any errors. From the
message log, it appears that receiving mail from remote hosts is no
problem, local receipt and delivery works fine, delivery to hosts
within our domain is fine, but mail delivery to some hosts outside
of our domain causes problems.
The number of runq processes and zombied runq processes increases
daily and I'd like to get this problem fixed soon.
Thanks in advance for any pointers, Mike.
[include smail config file]
# This is the main Smail configuration file.
# It was originally generated by `smailconfig', part of the Smail
# package
# distributed with Debian, but it may edited by the mail system
# administrator.
# This file originally generated by smailconfig at Sun Sep 1 01:40:14
# HST 1996
# See smail(5) for details of the things that can be configured here.
# NB max_message_size is currently ignored (Smail 3.1.28)
visible_name=[deleted]
-domains
hostnames=[deleted]
max_load_ave=5
smtp_accept_max=20
smtp_accept_queue=10
rfc1413_query_timeout=15
require_configs
-second_config_file
-qualify_file
-retry_file
copying_file=/usr/doc/copyright/smail
max_message_size=10M
received_field="Received: \
${if def:sender_host\
{from $sender_host ${if def:sender_host_addr
([$sender_host_addr]) }}\
{${if def:sender_host_addr:from [$sender_host_addr] }}}\
by $primary_name\n\t\
${if def:sender_proto: with $sender_proto }\
${if def:ident_sender:(ident $ident_sender using $ident_method) }\
id $message_id\n\t\
(Debian $version_string); $spool_date"
Re: console-apt
Console-apt is in unstable packages on debian.org and aptitude can be had at sourceforge. The Stormix Package Manager .deb file is available from the Stormix distribution as a free d/l. On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Dave Bresson wrote: > Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 14:44:07 -0400 (EDT) > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: Dave Bresson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: console-apt > > > > > how do you get console-apt? I can't find any package in potato named > 'console-apt'. Are you talking about aptitude maybe? Or is there some > other place i should look? > > > thanks, > > > > > dave > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null
Re: xfstt gives only one true type font size
I have set up xfstt and am able to use true type fonts but when i choose a font , e.g. in Netscape i get only one font size to choose from (listed as size 0). When i set up true type fonts in Linux/Mandrake I also created a fonts.dir and fonts.scale in the truetype directory and then had a choice of font sizes. The Debian How-To doesn't mention creating fonts.dir and fonts.scale and using mkfontdir just created an empty file. What is missing to produce multiple ttf sizes? On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Hi Mike. > > Sorry for the delay in my reply. My finding was that xfstt did a better > job with the TT fonts than xfs-xtt as xfs-xtt seemed to be more ragged > than with xfstt. Also, with xfstt, the Netscape and Mozilla text > displays are larger, which is a big help on a 14 inch LCD locked in > 1024x768 mode. I recommend xfstt as it is also a simpler install. > The TT-Debian mini-HOWTO will do a good job of leading you through > the steps of getting xfstt running. > > Feel free to ask any questions if you want to know how I implemented > it here. > > - Nate >> > > -- > Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | "None can love freedom > Internet | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | heartily, but good > Location | Wichita, Kansas USA EM17hs | men; the rest love not >Wichita area exams; ham radio; Linux info @ | freedom, but license." > http://www.qsl.net/n0nb/ | -- John Milton
slow inetd
Greetings: I've got potato on a network with some windows machines. Potato has wuftpd installed and configured in inetd.conf. sshd is also started when it boots. When I try to ftp from windows to potato (using the local ip address of potato) it takes 2-3 MINUTES before I get a response from wuftpd. Using command line ftp, I see that I get connected immediately, there is just a huge lag before wuftpd actually responds. Once I'm logged in, ftp works as fast as expected. Everything else works fine: ping windows <-> potato : fast ssh windows -> potato : fast I'm also using potato as a gateway for my windows machines using ipchains/forwarding and everything works fine with that as well. Any clues? What config files should I be studying? TIA
Re: slow inetd
At 07:23 PM 8/22/00 +0200, you wrote: It seems classic resolver problem (register your win-machine in DNS or at least add to /etc/hosts file) :) Mirek It seems like a resolver problem to me as well but I'm not running a DNS locally and I do have the local ip address of the windows machine in /etc/hosts. In anything required in hosts besides a one line entry with the ip address? Triple-check your DNS resolution, particularly reverse resolution. resolv.conf is typical, with my remote dns entries in it. Hosts has the ip addresses of the windows machines. What else does checking the DNS resolution involve? Thanks.
Re: slow inetd
Thanks, Rick. At 01:47 PM 8/22/00 -0400, you wrote: I missed the first part of this, but is the slow service perchanced wrapped by tcpwrappers? (ie: /usr/sbin/tcpd). It is. If so, check /etc/hosts.deny for the paranoid option: # # The PARANOID wildcard matches any host whose name does not match its # address. I do have the PARANOID option set but I also have the ip address of the local machine in hosts.allow. Shouldn't the hosts.allow entry negate the PARANOID option for the specified ip addresses? Also, the service does start eventually, it just takes 2-3 minutes. If PARANOID was disallowing the connection, the service would never start, right? Thanks!
Re: slow inetd
Try disabling IDENT in the FTP daemon and see what happens ... the -I option does this for wu-ftpd. Assuming this works, what are the ramifications of disabling IDENT? If something's wrong with my resolving setup, I'd like to fix it.
restrict root access to physical console
Hello: Is there some way to restrict root access to the physical terminal connected to my machine? I recently had a server rooted and I'm starting from scratch with serious security in mind. If I did restrict root access as above, would that successfully thwart root exploits? Also, is there a Debian security HowTo anywhere? I've looked and can only find general linux info (which is good) and RedHat specific stuff. TIA
where is md5sum program?
I have not been able to locate the md5sum program. What is the source for this package.
.ems attachments???
What's the deal with the email (from some users) coming from this list that ends up with the body of the message coming as an '.ems' attachment? If it's an email client option, I'd suggest deactivating the option. I can't be the only one who can't read these without much inconvenience.
Unidentified subject!
I was wondering if there is some package archive somewhere I could add as a apt-get source so I can get all kinds of new and different packages. Right now i can only seem to get the ones from the debian distribution, which are very nice, mind you, but aren't everything. I'd like to get kde for example, and that isn't on there. Gaim too. Thanks
Re: Potato, iso9660 not supported by kernel
I had the same problems until i realized that when i rebooted after the base install my old kernel was loading because my old LILO was still in the MBR. I then made a boot floppy during my re-install and rebooted from that you'll see the new 2.2.17 kernel listed. During the install i loaded ne2k-pci driver for my eth0 and then did the confugure network for eth0 with DHCP. You can also add this after install to etc/network/interfaces. Although there may be some more steps like ifup. Hope this helps save you some time. On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, "Mathew Watson" wrote: > Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 20:12:54 -0700 > To: "Debian List" > From: "Mathew Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Potato, iso9660 not supported by kernel > > Using new potato CDs, I've managed to install the base system. Upon > rebooting, as prompted to after making a boot floppy, the CD rom is > inaccessible. The error message is "fs type iso9660 not supported by > kernel." I repeated the base install and carefully searched for iso9660 > support, but couldn't find it, and the same error occurred upon > rebooting. > > I noticed several boot error messages similar to "depmod: Can't open > /lib/modules/2.2.5/modules.dep (No such file or directory)." Besides the > CD > problem, the ethernet adaptor also fails to work. > > Please advise me as to how I should proceed. > > Sincerely, > > Mat > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null
Re: Debian or Stormix
Well i used Stormix for a few months before i installed Debian potato. I used the free d/l from Stormix so i haven't seen their documentation. Basically i started with Stormix before Debian because i assumed the Stormix install would be easier. When i installed Debian potato from the pseudo-cd image kit i found out it was an easier install than FreeBSD. I' ve kept the boot-screen in LILO from Stormix just because i like the way it looks. And i apt-get the stormpkg from Stormix for the graphical front end to apt and dselect, although i use the cmd line just as much. Essentially the Stormix hail dist. is Debian potato. But there are differences in some configurations, e.g. i never got my mouse scroll wheel to work in Stormix but it works with imwheel pkg in Debian and you wont have to recompile the kernel for APM support in Debian if you want auto power down at shut-off. In Stormix the Helix Gnome is included but you can just apt-get it after the base install of Debian. So i would say if you installed FreeBSD go with the Debian install ; in any case you'll never regret installing Debian. On Sun, 10 Sep 2000 17:01:49 -0400, Christopher W. Aiken said: > I currently use FreeBSD 4.1. I have played with RH, MD, > SuSE, and Caldera in the past. I like learning new things > and thought that I would like to try Debian. > > As I understand it, Stormix is based on Debian. > Other than different "system installers" and Stormix > has a "graphical" boot screen, are there any other > differences? Stormix Deluxe comes with some "users" > documentation books where as Debian does not. I'd like > to learn Debian. I've heard a lot of good things on > Debian's stability, dselect, dpkg, and apt-get, etc. > If Stormix and Debian are the same I would be willing > to pay the extra for Stormix Deluxe just to get the > documentation books that come with it. > > Any comments? Please no flame wars. There is enough > flame wars about the stupidest things already. > > -- > --- > Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA > chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com > Preferred O/S: FreeBSD 4.1 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
