Virtual System time 'way off

[Ernest]

Environment:
Windows XP with virtual PC 2007, hosting a virtual
Fedora FC6 guest.

Problem:
Virtual system time is ‘way off, by tens of seconds.

If you are curious, have questions, need additional
information, or something from system logs, I’ll be
happy to provide additional details, observations, or
perform additional experiments based on your
recommendations. 

If you have suggestions, or links,  about installing
Virtual Machine Additions to a virtual instance
running within Virtual PC 2007, specifically how to
install VM addons to Debian they would also be
helpful.

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System time is 'way off

[Ernest]

Environment:
Windows XP with virtual PC 2007, hosting a virtual
Debian 'Etch' guest.

Problem:
Virtual system time is ‘way off, by tens of seconds.

If you are curious, have questions, need additional
information, or something from system logs, I’ll be
happy to provide additional details, observations, or
perform additional experiments based on your
recommendations. 

If you have suggestions, or links,  about installing
Virtual Machine Additions to a virtual instance
running within Virtual PC 2007, specifically how to
install VM addons to Debian they would also be
helpful.

The original post became too large for a mailing list,
and was posted to
http://annonymous-rex.livejournal.com/2309.html





 

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Re: VirtualBox WinXP host, Linux Partition guest?

[ernest]

Hi

This may not be the correct place for me to post this question but i 
couldn't find anywhere that i can. Please direct me to the correct forum 
if it is the wrong place.


I have two partitions created on my Laptop, one for Win XP and the other 
for Debian Squeeze.


I read about this article and tried the suggestions. Booted from Win XP 
(as Host)and created a .VMDK file to boot Debian VM guest from the 
"REAL" Debian partition. It works and able to logon into the linux system.


However, I encountered problem with networking. I'm unable to ping 
anyone else except local host.  When check on IFCONFIG, there is no eth0 
configured.


To confirm if my ethernet card is ok, i booted up Linux from Linux 
partition.   It came up perfectly ok and I can ping my gateway and i can 
see eth0 in IFCONIG.


Did i missed anything or the networking would not work in this kind of 
setup?


Appreciate your input & advise.


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Debian Package DWWW

[Ernest]

Unable to resist the compulsion to tinker with my
working Debian system, I've gone and screwed up my
DWWW installation. 

http://packages.debian.org/stable/doc/dwww

When it was working, the ability to search for, and
read Debian system documention via a web browser made
learning things about Debian much easier. 

The problem is I've grown impatient with the somewhat
deliberate pace which new(er) versions of major
applications like Apache, MySql, and PHP are added.
So, I started downloading source directly from the
application's home page, and compiling it myself. 

Naturally, doing this, has forced me to handle the
various package dependencies, and differing pathnames
myself. (Yes, I know, apt-get, and other automated
installation tools will handle these details for me,
if I was satisfied with somewhat old(er)
applications.)

Now I'm stuck with broken DWWW installation. 

deb-reconfigure --force dwww 

nearly worked. At least I can now browse to the
virtual location where DWWW presents a page where I
can enter search terms, but the results are returned
as an error page 'permission denied'. Looking in the
Apache logs, I get 'attempting to invoke a directory
as a script'.

/cgi-bin/dwww is the problem directory. The referrer
is one of the scripts in /var/www/dwww. 

Can someone tell me where DWWW expects to find its
scripts? 

I see they are somewhat scattered around the
filesystem. I've looked at the file list, and
pathnames which result when dpkg is invoked with -L,
but it doesn't make clear which scripts are going into
/cgi-bin/. Doesn't seem to be any dwww scripts put
into that directory anyway. 

Perhaps, it is the way I've declared/defined the
directory to apache in /etc/dwww/apache.conf that
causes apache to attempt to invoke that directory as a
script. 

At any rate, I've run out of ideas or don't recognize
the problem when I see it. 

Anyone have any suggestions?

Note: for those unfamiliar with Debian's apt-get,
   apt-get install dwww 
will handle all the details for you, and you'll have
apache, and dwww, and the necessary library files
installed correctly for you. Other installers work in
a similiar fashion. 

regards
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Re: Exim-TLS - how to auth user?

[Ernest Johanson]

Do you have an authenticator configured in your exim.conf file? You have
to have one before exim will recognize the authentication methods. Chs. 36
and 37 in the manual explain how to do it.

Ernest Johanson
Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Iain Tatch wrote:

> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:25:49 +
> From: Iain Tatch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Iain Tatch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Exim-TLS - how to auth user?
> 
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> Hello the list
> 
> I have a question regarding authenticating an SMTP request.
> 
> I have a user who would like to be able to use my Debian woody machine as a
> general SMTP host while he is "on the road". He could be connecting via any
> of a number of dial-up accounts, all with dynamic IP assignment, so I cannot
> authenticate him via a simple IP address.
> 
> My MTA on this box is Exim, and after a little bit of reading around, I
> decided what I needed to do was to use the SMTP-AUTH extension (as per RFC
> 2554), and to avoid sending passwords in the clear, to use the TLS version
> of Exim.
> 
> So I `apt-get install exim-tls`, created myself a TLS certificate, and made
> the necessary modifications to the exim.conf to switch on the SMTP-over-TLS
> stuff. FYI the additional stuff I made to the exim.conf are:
> 
># Which hosts do we tell that we have STARTTLS available?
>tls_advertise_hosts = *
> 
># File locations
>tls_certificate = /etc/ssl/certs/exim.tls.crt
>tls_privatekey  = /etc/ssl/certs/exim.tls.key
> 
># insist that any client using auth starts a TLS session first
>auth_over_tls_hosts = *
> 
> So far so good, if I telnet to port 25 and issue an EHLO command, exim
> replies that one of the functions supported is STARTTLS. But what I *don't*
> seem to be able to do is get Exim to recognise any of the authentication
> methods, it doesn't seem to have been compiled with either AUTH_PLAIN or
> AUTH_CRAM-MD5 (or anything else).
> 
> If this is so, I'm still not really much better off. I can insist that my
> roaming user connects via a secure method, but if I still have no way of
> authenticating him then I still can't verify identity, and hence I'd still
> have to leave my Exim in a basically open relay state (albeit one that will
> require a secure connection).
> 
> Am I missing something, or has the Exim-TLS package been compiled without
> any of the AUTH methods. Which seems rather odd to me.
> 
> Any help, tips, flames etc gratefully received.
> 
> Thanks!
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Cannot use type1 fonts with OpenOffice

[Ernest Adrogué]

Hello,

I'm using OpenOffice 1.1.0 and want to use some fonts
that I have in /usr/local/.../{truetype,type1}. They are
visible with gtkfontsel and gtk2fontsel, and show up in
xlsfonts and fc-list as well, but with OpenOffice I can
only use the TrueType ones. The Type1 ones just doesn't
appear in the list.

However the Helvetica & co. which are also Type1 work
fine. I've moved all the fonts to /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
updated the fonts.dir and fonts.scale files, but in
vain. Any help will be appreciated.

P.S.: Please, CC me in replies.

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Re: Cannot use type1 fonts with OpenOffice

[Ernest Adrogué]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 07:57:13PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:27:31AM +0200, Ernest Adrogu? wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm using OpenOffice 1.1.0 and want to use some fonts
> > that I have in /usr/local/.../{truetype,type1}. They are
> > visible with gtkfontsel and gtk2fontsel, and show up in
> > xlsfonts and fc-list as well, but with OpenOffice I can
> > only use the TrueType ones. The Type1 ones just doesn't
> > appear in the list.
> > 
> > However the Helvetica & co. which are also Type1 work
> > fine. I've moved all the fonts to /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
> > updated the fonts.dir and fonts.scale files, but in
> > vain. Any help will be appreciated.
> > 
> > P.S.: Please, CC me in replies.
> 
> I don't know what release you are using but I had a very similar
> problem. I run unstable and I think fonts for some apps are handled by
> fontconfig and libxft.

I'm using Debian "Woody" with some packages (xfree, gtk,
freetype, openoffice...) from testing.

> When configuring fontconfig I had said that I didn't want it to use
> bitmapped fonts (because it told me they were not as good) and then
> later I realized that only truetype fonts were showing up in apps. Then
> reading through the messages on this list I found out about fontconfig,
> did a "dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig" and chose use bitmap fonts and
> things were ok.

This only changes the paths where fontconfig finds fonts,
but OpenOffice still doesn't see them. Although every other
app using fontconfig/xft/x11 do. So I think this is a
oo-specific problem.

Thank you, anyway.

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Re: update-rc.d

[Ernest Johanson]

One suggestion here might be to put an exit statement on a line by itself
near the beginning of the script, before anything is executed. This will
prevent the script from running even though the rc.d links are in
place. When you update the package, the install script should detect
that the init script was modified and ask you if you want to keep your
current version of the script or use the new one. That way you don't have
to reconfigure the links.

Hope this is helpful 


Ernest Johanson
Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Miguel Alvarez Blanco wrote:

> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:42:57 +0100
> From: Miguel Alvarez Blanco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: update-rc.d
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I do not really know if this is a bug or a "feature", so I am not 
> sending it as a bug report. The problem is fairly general, it has 
> happened several times to me, although the last one was because of the 
> ipmasq package.
> 
> I had the package installed in my system while I was using it to provide 
> net access to another machine while on a single-IP net connection, but I 
> no longer used it, so I just used update-rc.d to remove the links in 
> rcS.d and avoid it running at startup. I did not want to erase it, since 
> the machine is a laptop and I  may need it again sometime (I prefer not 
> to remove packages, because I may need them in a circumstance in which I 
> do not have net access).
> 
> However, it seems that there was some update in the woody package (maybe 
> security related) in the last months, and so I automatically upgraded 
> it. The update re-installed the scripts in rcS.d, but since I did not 
> shut down the machine for some time, I did not notice it. Yesterday, I 
> had to boot windoze to use the parallel port scanner (pity it does not 
> work with sane or vmware), and after reboot I had no net connection. 
> Now, it took me some time to realize that evverything was right in the 
> net scripts, until I went to look with iptables, and notice that the 
> ipmasq script was there again.
> 
> Sure, it took me less than five minutes to remove the script again and 
> put everything in order, but I think that it is annoying. So, this is my 
> question: is there another way of keeping a package around without it 
> actually updating the startup scripts whenever it is upgraded? If not, 
> it may be that some "update-rc.d record" file should be kept, in order 
> not to change back startup files that the sysadmin may have modified or 
> erased for some reason. As I said, it has happened several times, so 
> this is not an isolated problem of the ipmasq package, but rather 
> something in the general usage of the Debian system (which I really like 
> in most other respects: brilliant job!). If I am missing something, 
> please do tell me, preferably by answering this e-mail (I will follow-up 
> to the list to keep everyone informed).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>Miguel
> 
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Re: NIS problem

[Ernest Johanson]

Try editing your /etc/nsswitch.conf file, changing the entry for passwd
and group to "files nis" instead of "compat". 

Ernest Johanson
Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Xavier Andrade wrote:

> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:51:01 -0400 (CLT)
> From: Xavier Andrade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Rishikesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: NIS problem
> 
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Rishikesh wrote:
> 
> >
> > I am trying to make NIS work on my home network. I have followed
> > the HOWTO below to the word.
> > http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debian-howto/nis.html I keep getting
> > error message
> >
> > YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound
> >
> > I searched the archive of the debian mailing
> > lists and did not find any discussion related to
> > this message.
> > Any help will be appreciated.
> >
> > I have a small 3 computer home network
> > connected using a Belkin router.
> >
> 
> NIS is broadcasting the net searching fo a server and to my experience
> never finds it. To avoid this, manually add the ip address of your nis
> server to /etc/yp.conf, the line that you have to add is something like:
> 
> ypserver 10.0.0.1
> 
> Xavier
> 


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Re: Apache access control

[Ernest Johanson]

Some things to check would be:

1. Within the Directory directive, check the AllowOverride statement. It
must contain the AuthConfig directive-type.

2. AccessFileName needs to be .htaccess if that's the name of your file.

3. Have to reboot the server too :-)

If you haven't seen it already you might want to look at
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/htaccess.html. Good advice on the use
of .htaccess files.


Ernest Johanson
Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote:

> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:30:57 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Apache access control
> 
> I am trying to get Apache 1.3 to prompt for a password for some file located
> in a particular directory on one of my sites.
> 
> I created a password file like this:
> 
> # htpasswd -c /etc/apache/passwd 
> 
> I entered the password and then created this .htaccess file in the appropriate
> directory:
> 
> AuthType Basic
> AuthName "Please Authenticate"
> AuthUserFile /etc/apache/passwd
> Require user valid-user
> 
> I have read through all the related Apache docs on access control and googled
> around for some time.  I can't figure out why this will not prompt for a
> password.  I kind of need to figure this out before I can take the site live
> (the password protection is a requirement from higher headquarters).
> 
> -Roberto
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Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

[Ernest Johanson]

I'm running the mondoarchive package on Debian 3.0 using a 2.4.22 kernel
compliled from source. Saw the commentary on the mondo web site; not sure
what the issue there is. The Debian package works fine; getting the kernel
parameters straight is essential. I've not used the kernel packages, but
imagine that you have to get the source package to add the necessary
functions. 


Ernest Johanson
Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Paul E Condon wrote:

> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:07:40 -0600
> From: Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?
> 
> An article in Oct issue of Linux journal got me interested in Mondo
> Archive, which is software that builds self-booting restore CDs for
> Linux systems. So, I started to try to use it. I found a debian
> package in Woody, and did the standard apt-get ... .  I had mostly no
> problem understanding the man page. But some puzzles lead me to look
> at the Mondo web site, and ...
> 
> >From reading the Mondo web site, it appears that there are 
> no documented instances of mondoarchive being used successfully
> on a Debian system, and that Debian kernels are somehow non-
> standard, and difficult to work with. Is this true? And, if true,
> why is there a Debian package of Mondo Archive? 
> 
> And if not true, who, on this list has experience? Is there a
> different Debian list where I should be going for help on this
> particular package?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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Re: Help, OSX vs Linux

[Ernest Johanson]

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Mike Egglestone wrote:

> Date: Fri,  3 Oct 2003 10:20:25 -0700
> From: Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Help, OSX vs Linux
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm a system's admin looking after several different sites at
> which most of them have woody servers. But some of the staff are
> pushing for OSX servers. The workstations range from PC's to Imacs.
> running all different OS's.
> I'm finding it difficult to convince them that OSX is not the way to go.
> We all know the reasons why Debian is so Great, but they can't see it.
> The biggest push is that the OSX server can have workgroups for accounts and 
> thus lock workstations so that only certain workgroups have access to certain 
> applications on OS 9.x machines. 

Are you saying that the OSX server access control works with OS9 clients 
to limit access for those users? If so, then I suppose the size of the Mac
user base, and the criticalness of the apps they need to access would be
factors. If the access control applies to all the users, then the scope of
the issue changes. A precise appraisal of the benefit would be very
useful.

> I use netatalk currently, and use local multiple users  on OS 9 to lock
> down 
> the machine but its not quite as tight as how OSX server can do it with Mac 
> Mananger.

Again, what's the specific benefit of the increased controls? The more
closely that can be defined, and alternatives evaluated, the better case
can be made. This may also show that the OSX solution is what's needed.

> I love the fact the Debian has apt-get and I can quickly install the daemons 
> such as squid, exim, apache, samba, netatalk, dhcp,ipmasq and so many other 
> great things. Supposedly, OSX can run and do all this too, correct?
> The only reasons I can think of that makes Debian better is that is Free, its 
> more stable, and its way faster.
> Are there any other benefits of debian that out way it from OSX?

Don't blame you for wanting to maitain a homegeneous environment. With the
introduction of a new OS, training and adminsitrative costs have to
increase. Try to quantify it. Also, the proprietary nature of Mac hardware
has to be factored in. And you are tied to the fortunes of one company.


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Re: exim questions: Filtering extensitons with version 3.35 or Howto move from exim 3.35 to 4.2

[Ernest Johanson]

Take a look at http://www.exim.org/system_filter.exim. It is a filter
implemented in the exim filtering system. 

Ernest Johanson
Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Ivan Wills wrote:

> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:30:19 +1000
> From: Ivan Wills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Debian-user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: exim questions: Filtering extensitons with version 3.35 or How
> to move from exim 3.35 to 4.2
> 
> Hi
> I need to implement mail filters for attachments with dangerous file 
> extensions in exim.
> Does any one know how to do this with the version of exim 3.35 which 
> comes with Debian Woody?
> How hard is it to move exim to version 4.2x under Debian Woody? (Do any 
> deb's exist for Woody?)
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks
> Ivan
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Re: Why isn't there a cron.hourly?

[Ernest Johanson]

Agreed that an hourly crontab is not too common an occurence. It could be
done by using the cron.daily entry in /etc/crontab as a template. Create
the cron.hourly directory and set the cron.hourly entry in crontab as
needed.


Ernest Johanson
Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Colin Watson wrote:

> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:14:00 +0100
> From: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Why isn't there a cron.hourly?
> 
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:08:43PM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote:
> > RedHat has the directory /etc/cron.hourly, but this is not present in
> > debian.  Why is that?
> 
> Probably because the main motivation for /etc/cron., as I
> understand it, is to make it possible to include crontab fragments in
> packages, and it seems rare for a package to want an hourly crontab.
> Certainly it has benefits for users as well, but users can always use
> /etc/crontab or 'crontab -e'; packages have to have separate files.
> 
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Re: HELP! dhcp server not talking to clients

[Ernest Johanson]

Not sure what the problem is but have a few observations:

The option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0 statement should be  in a subnet
declaration if needed. 

Did you compile your own kernel? Dhcpd requires two settings (don't
remember what they are at the moment, but they're in the docs.)

The 192.168.1.x addresses suggest that there is another host on the
network handing out assignments (wireless AP, dsl modem/router, etc). 

HTH,

Ernest Johanson
Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Charles Lewis wrote:

> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 23:53:00 -0600
> From: Charles Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: HELP! dhcp server not talking to clients
> 
> I have dhcp set up on my linux box to serve a Win2000 box, a Win98 box, 
> a WinXP box, and networked HP LJ1200. It works fine, until I try to 
> upgrade the kernel from 2.4.18 to 2.4.20 (from an earlier thread). The 
> machine locks up after a few minutes, so I go back to 2.4.18, and all my 
>   machines are getting 198.168.1.x numbers when my dhcp server is 
> supposed to be providing 10.0.0.x numbers. It's very frustrating to 
> everyone in the house because suddenly none of them can use the 
> internet, print, or save files to their samba shares. Now I am not a 
> network guru, so maybe someone can help me spot some problems in my setup.
> 
> Here is my dhcpd.conf:
> 
> #option domain-name "";
> #option domain-name-servers 205.165.192.254,205.165.193.254;
> 
> server-identifier lewisc;
> authoritative;
> option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
> default-lease-time 600;
> max-lease-time 7200;
> subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>range 10.0.0.6 10.0.0.254;
>option broadcast-address 10.0.0.255;
>option routers 10.0.0.1;
>option netbios-name-servers 10.0.0.1;
> }
> 
> host lewisc2 {
>hardware ethernet 00:01:03:E7:48:1F;
>fixed-address 10.0.0.2;
> }
> 
> host lewisc3 {
>hardware ethernet 00:00:39:F0:9A:C5;
>fixed-address 10.0.0.3;
> }
> 
> host caleb {
>hardware ethernet 00:A0:CC:D2:A0:73;
>fixed-address 10.0.0.4;
> }
> 
> host officelj {
>hardware ethernet 00:01:E6:48:69:A2;
>fixed-address 10.0.0.5;
> }
> 
> When I run dhcpd in debug mode, I get:
> 
> Listening on LPF/eth0/00:01:03:dd:22:e0/10.0.0.0
> Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:01:03:dd:22:e0/10.0.0.0
> Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net
> 
> And it just sits there with no feedback.
> 
> When I do a tcpdump -i eth0, I get the following junk:
> 23:46:04.324753 192.168.1.102.netbios-dgm > 192.168.1.255.netbios-dgm: 
> NBT UDP PACKET(138)
> 23:46:33.933645 192.168.1.1.bootps > 255.255.255.255.bootpc: 
> xid:0xbee8b113 C:192.168.1.101 Y:192.168.1.101 ether 0:1:e6:48:69:a2 
> file ""[|bootp]
> 23:46:36.287786 arp who-has 192.168.1.1 tell 192.168.1.102
> 23:46:36.289146 192.168.1.1.bootps > 255.255.255.255.bootpc: 
> xid:0xf220e34f C:192.168.1.102 Y:192.168.1.102 ether 0:a0:cc:d2:a0:73 
> file ""[|bootp]
> 23:49:04.314952 192.168.1.1.bootps > 255.255.255.255.bootpc: 
> xid:0x28e8b113 C:192.168.1.101 Y:192.168.1.101 ether 0:1:e6:48:69:a2 
> file ""[|bootp]
> 23:49:06.268378 arp who-has 192.168.1.1 tell 192.168.1.102
> 23:49:06.269729 192.168.1.1.bootps > 255.255.255.255.bootpc: 
> xid:0xdd3f9a45 C:192.168.1.102 Y:192.168.1.102 ether 0:a0:cc:d2:a0:73 
> file ""[|bootp]
> 
> The last time this happened, it eventually started working, but I think 
> it may have been because the lease ran out on all the machines. *shrug* 
> I don't know but I'm ready to pull what little hair I have left out. Any 
> ideas would be GREATLY appreciated.
> 
> Charles Lewis
> 


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Re: gpm troubles on potato? (kbd-related?)

[Ernest Johanson]

I had some problems similar to this on a recent potato install. On this 
machine, the Logitech PS/2 mouse connects to a separate mouse port instead
of a standard serial port. Both kernels 2.0.36 and 2.29 had the same
issue. Turned out that /dev/mouse pointed to /dev/ttyS0 when it needed to
point to /dev/psaux. Resetting the /dev/mouse symlink and setting the
protocol in /etc/gpm.conf to ps2 fixed it.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Lazarus Long wrote:

> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 00:19:18 +
> From: Lazarus Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: gpm troubles on potato? (kbd-related?)
> 
> Has anyone else here been experiencing gpm troubles on potato in recent
> days?  I've tried downgrading gpm and libs to a version which is working
> on another box, but that hasn't helped.
> 
> This is a PS/2 style mouse, btw.
> 
> Syslog reports "/usr/sbin/gpm[pid]: Error in protocol" whenever I move
> the mouse, and the keyboard locks up for a while.  (I've even gone to a
> remote machine and remotely rebooted during these periods, not knowing
> it might resolve itself in time.)
> 
> Is there any chance this is due to the recent changes in the kbd package?
> It's fairly obviously not gpm, since downgrading gpm didn't help.
> 
> Being rather ill at present, I'm not trusting my own diagnostic skills
> like I normally would, and may have missed something obvious.
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> -- 
> 
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> 

Re: Granting access

[Ernest Johanson]

Mario,

Check out the UserDir directive in the apache docs. You could also put a
symlink in the DocumentRoot if you wanted. One issue here will be the
permissions on the user's home dir. It will have to be world executable
for the web server to be able to read the html directory beneath it. The
.htaccess will control the web access, but there could be other ways of
getting at the docs (for example, an ftp client).

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote:

> Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 16:35:20 +0100
> From: Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" 
> Subject: Granting access
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have a user arround here who has explicitly asked to have the
> permissions on his home directory to 0700. He wants to access some info
> on his home dir throug a browser (he will put it in public_html), but in
> a way that only he can access it. I suggested using .htaccess to ask for
> a password. The problem is how do i let apache go to his home dir  to
> read the info.
> 
> I don't believe this is possible, but i decided to ask anyway.
> 
> Thanks
> -- 
> Mario Filipe 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf
> 

Re: Security problems

[Ernest Johanson]

You can do this with proftpd. There is a DefaultRoot directive that will
chroot to a dir on a per-group basis. I have the same situation with a
group of web publishers. The first step was to define a virtual host (this
particular server is restricted to internal use only). Then each user is
added to a new group that will have access to the particular directory.
When the user logs in, the server detects which group the user is in and
chroots to the DefaultRoot for that group. 

I have included part of the proftpd.conf file below. If you are using NIS,
set . The umask setting allows a head content
developer (who is added to every publishing group) to make changes if
needed. AllowOverwrite enables files to be written. By setting
, I am able to maintain telnet access to the
server for adminstrative purposes (our users don't have a valid shell on
this machine). 

Hopefully this will get you going. You may need to spend some time in the
docs to get the sense of what the directives are doing. If you still have
questions after that, either post to the list or email me directly. I read
the digest, so if you post to the list, cc me as well.


--- begin conf --

ServerName "Publishing Server"
Umask 002
AllowOverwrite on
RequireValidShell off

# add defaults for web authors here. Order is signicant-the server takes
# the first match. The main author has the top, departments are below. 
# The default matches anyone who is not a member of a authoring group
# and logs them into the anonymous ftp dir. The order of the directory
# configs is not significant.

DefaultRoot /a/devel eauth 
...

DefaultRoot /ftp


GroupOwner eauth
HideGroup root

...

 end conf --

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


> lena wrote:
> > 
> > Hello!
> > 
> > I am a newbie with administrating my own Debian server, and got problems
> > that got to do with security.
> > 
> > I have 20 different users that got both ftp and telnet access to the server
> > /using it for web publishing/. I would like to add they got access to their
> > root directory and all directories below it, but not to be able to go
> > towards the \.
> > 
> > Also, they shouldnt have telnet access.
> > 
> > I have looked through all documentation I have been able to find, and asked
> > everywhere, and it seems to stay unsolved.

Re: STABLE graphical FTP clients?

[Ernest Johanson]

Try filerunner. It's in Debian.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Shao Zhang wrote:

> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 11:06:33 +1000
> From: Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Bryan Scaringe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: STABLE graphical FTP clients?
> 
> Hi,
>   I have these ftps on my machine, looks like xftp is what you want.
> 
>   shao:/home/shao$ dpkg --list | grep ftp
>   ii  cftp0.9-10 A full-screen ftp client.
>   ii  dpkg-ftp1.4.10 Ftp method for dselect.
>   ii  lftp1.1.981023-1   Sophisticated command-line FTP 
> client progra
>   ii  lurkftp 0.99-4 monitor changes in ftp sites and 
> opt. mirror
>   ii  ncftp   3.0beta14-2A user-friendly and full-featured 
> FTP client
>   ii  pftp0.8.9-1Fast file transfer program (no 
> authenticatio
>   ii  wu-ftpd-academ  2.4.2.16-13A powerful replacement for the 
> standard ftpd
>   ii  xftp2.2-8  Athena X interface to ftp.
> 
>   hope this helps...
> 
> Shao.
> 
> On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 11:53:27AM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote:
> > I'm trying to get an FTP client for Linux that is graphical, and
> > supports bookmarks.  Something like gFTP or IglooFTP.
> > 
> > gFTP is *very unstable* and usually segfaults with just about any
> > operation. I'm using the latest version, 2.0.2, but have noticed
> > this with all other versions I have ever used.
> > 
> > IglooFTP is somewhat more stable, but still not enough to be useful.
> > This morning, it kept dying of a "broken pipe".  I had to boot to
> > Windows and run CuteFTP to find out that the site I was uploading to
> > was full.  I can't believe that IglooFTP couldn't handle that gracefully.
> > 
> > Any Ideas?
> > 
> > Bryan
> > 
> > 
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Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam

[Ernest Johanson]

David,

You can check your mail hosts for relaying at
http://maps.vix.com/tsi/ar-test.html.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, David Warnock wrote:

> I have turned off all relaying (but don't know how to check that it is
> sucessful). But it seems that I am still allowing telnet onto port 23 to
> issue the smtp commands to send mail from an invalid user to outside our
> domain. I don't want that to happen.  How can I fix that?
> 
> 

Re: Best way to check out hardware / BIOS problems?

[Ernest Johanson]

David,

If you haven't done so already, you could check to see if any video/bios
shadowing is turned on in the bios. It should be off. Also whether there
are any memory speed/configuration issues. Do all the memory modules
have the same speed (60, 70, whatever nanoseconds)? And does the
motherboard count on having two banks of memory? I had a situation once
where I had one SIMM installed. Windoze ran fine,  but Linux had fits.
Once a second SIMM was installed, it ran fine.

You might want to check to see that there is plenty of space in your swap
partition.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, David Hamilton wrote:

> Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 21:09:45 -0700
> From: David Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Debian User List 
> Subject: Best way to check out hardware / BIOS problems?
> 
> I have two systems that crash regularly while running slink.  I
> suspect that this is probably hardware-related, but I can't see any
> evidence of it in the logs.  Does anyone have any suggestions for
> checking out these problems, preferably at a low level?
> 
> The hardware is fast and reliability improves if I turn off both
> internal and external cache, although performance dies when I do that.
> 
> The majority of the crashes seem to be related to video (Matrox
> Millenium I), since the X server dies a few times per day.  Netscape
> seems to crash most often, sometimes bringing down the X server.  The
> X server dies once for every 5-10 Netscape crashes.
> 
> The video card is PCI, but is a couple of years old.  There is also an
> ISA bus Ethernet card.\
> 
> The two systems have the same symptoms, but have different
> motherboards, CPUs and configurations, yet both have similar
> symptoms.\
> 
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> --dh
> 

RE: VBScripts within Apache :(

[Ernest Johanson]

You might take a look at www.vbix.com and see if their products are what
you are looking for. I've not used any of them so can't say how well they
work.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Shaleh wrote:

> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 12:50:34 -0500 (EST)
> From: Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: VBScripts within Apache :(
> 
> Hunt around on freshmeat.net a few ASP solutions exist there.  VBScript itself
> though I do not believe has a non-Windows analogue, sorry.
> 
> People really should learn to use portable languages.
> 
> 
> On 23-Jan-99 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
> > Hi Debian users,
> > a friend of mine already installed Apache and is wondering if it has
> > VBScript support. He has a SQL database and some ASP VBScript that
> > access it.
> > Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique
> 

Re: X window resolution extremely low

[Ernest Johanson]

Lev,

One way you can check what's going on is to type Control-Alt-F1 (assuming
that X was started from the first virtual terminal). You should see some
info like below. You can get back to X by typing Control-Alt-F7. This
should tell you what modes are available. If what you want is there, then
edit the Screen section (example below) of your XF86Config that applies to
your x server. If your server recognizes the DefaultColorDepth parameter
you can set your default depth that way, otherwise you can use 
startx -- -bpp  with whatever depth you want to start with. The
first entry on the mode line will be the default.


 x server info --
(**) S3: Monitor ID: "Goldstar1"
(--) S3: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 78.86 kHz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 81.13 kHz. Deleted.
(**) FontPath set to
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X
11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/share
font/"
(--) S3: PCI: Trio32/64 rev 54, Linear FB @ 0xf000
(--) S3: chipset:   Trio64V+ rev. 54
(--) S3: chipset driver: newmmio
(--) S3: card type: PCI
(--) S3: Diamond Stealth BIOS found
(--) S3: videoram:  2048k
(--) S3: Ramdac type: s3_trio64
(--) S3: Ramdac speed: 135 MHz
(--) S3: Using Trio32/64 programmable clock (MCLK 54.886 MHz)
(--) S3: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 95.000 MHz
(**) S3: Mode "800x600": mode clock =  50.000
(**) S3: Using 16 bpp.  Color weight: 565
(**) S3: Virtual resolution set to 800x600
(--) S3: Local bus LAW is 0xF000
(--) S3: Using a banksize of 2048k, line width of 800
(--) S3: Using a single 64x64 area at (736,601) for expanding pixmaps
(--) S3: Using 16 planes of 736x709 at (0,601) aligned 8 as font cache

 screen section of XF86Config --
Section "Screen"
Driver  "svga"
Device  "Diamond"
Monitor "HP"
DefaultColorDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth   8
# Omit the Modes line for the "Generic VGA" device
Modes   "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
ViewPort0 0
# Use Virtual 320 200 for Generic VGA
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
    Depth   16
Modes   "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
ViewPort0 0
Virtual 800 600 
EndSubsection



Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Lev Lvovsky wrote:

> Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 01:39:24 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Lev Lvovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: X window resolution extremely low
> 
> hello,
> 
> I installed slink on my workstation here @ work, and I'm having problems
> with the resolution of X...it's horribly low.  I'd say 300x240.  I've run
> xf86setup multiple times (with different setups) to no avail.  I think
> that hte problem may lie in the fact that it's a non-standard vid card,
> that's embedded on the MB.  the motherboard is a SiS Slot1/Socket 370
> model, and the vid card unit is a SiS620 (if I'm correct)...with, what I
> believe is 8MB RAM (anyway for me to check this?)
> 
> I'd like to get it up to at least 8x6 @ 32bit, if not 1024x768 (16 or
> 32bit would be fine)
> 
> any help would be appreciated!
> -lev
> 

Re: ProFTP denying write

[Ernest Johanson]

The AllowAll directive has to do with who is allowed to access the files
referenced in the block. The one you want is AllowOverwrite.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Stephen Kelly wrote:

> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 15:48:43 +0800
> From: Stephen Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: ProFTP denying write
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> My system is is a linux 2.2.10 kernel running potato. My proftp server is
> denying write to all ftp directories regardless of privilege, even after I
> tested it out by configuring a allowall directive
> 
> Anyone know of any libraries that may be brokem, or issues relating to
> proftd or potato that would cause this. everything else on the system seems
> fine.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Steve 
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Re: X resolution problem

[Ernest Johanson]

Bill,

Are you sure you have the correct specs for your monitor's horizontal and
vertical refresh rates? If your entries are correct and you try to use a
higher resolution that execeeds the specs, the Xerver will remove the
invalid modes. If you enter values that exceed what the monitor can
handle, the Xserver will do what you tell it, but the monitor will act
strangely. The docs warn that this can severely damage your monitor
(including starting a fire if it goes too far). 

If you have the correct specs entered, then the next step is to verify
that the resolution you want to use can be done without execeeding them.
I've always done this by reading the XF86Config file and editing it if
necessary. You can find documentation at 
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/linux/LDP/. Go to the HOWTO section and look for
the XFree86 HOWTO. You may also have this in /usr/doc/HOWTO if you got
that package. If there is a way to use the config tools to do this,
perhaps someone can post it. 

Hope this is helpful.


Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Bill wrote:

> Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 14:38:29 -0400
> From: Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: X resolution problem
> 
> Hello all,
>  I have a small problem. I've set up Slink on a very old machine that has a
> #9GXE64 S3 based PCI card. I have X working but only at the lowest possible
> resolution 640-480 using the SVGA server. If I try pushing up the resolution
> or using the S3 servers, I get the monitor going into sleep mode, a message
> that no connection could be made to the X server or out of sync message from
> the monitor. So far I have used XF86Setup and xf86configure to setup X, but I
> got no better results.
> 
> The software and packages installed:
> Slink XFree 3.3.2.3a with vga, svga and S3 servers
> monitor at Dell 828FI
> graphics card #9GXE64 PCI Mb RAM, ATT21c498 chipset and idc2061a
> 
>  Can somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong or just plain give me a hand here?
> Thanks
> Bill
> 
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Re: confusing X problem

[Ernest Johanson]

Patrick,

You can find documentation at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/linux/LDP/. Check
out the Installation and Getting Started Guide, and the X HOW-TOs.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Patrick Olson wrote:

> Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 23:34:51 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Patrick Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: confusing X problem
> 
> I have been trying all day to get XFree86 3.3.2.3 running, but have simply
> had no luck getting any resolution other than 320x200.  I would like it to
> do 800x600 with 256 (or more) colors.  The video card does that just fine
> under Windows95, so I know the hardware is capable, although maybe not
> very compatible. 
> 
> I wasn't sure about using a lot of bandwidth on this list since the config
> file is about 20K, so I have put it on my ISP's server along with the
> output.  They are at these two addresses: 
> 
> http://home.internetcds.com/~compman/XF86Config
> http://home.internetcds.com/~compman/logfile.txt
> 
> I would really appreciate any help, or pointers to documentation that
> would help.  If anyone would like me to e-mail them the config file or the
> output, I will be happy to.
> 
> XF86Setup could not successfully switch into graphics mode with the VGA16
> server; it just put a grey background on the screen and nothing else.  The
> configuration file was originally made using xf86config, and I have made
> some changes to try and get 800x600 (without any success). 
> 
> The video card is a 2MB Diamond Viper Pro Video, and is a PCI card.  I
> have been trying to use the SVGA X server. 
> 
> Please help me figure this out so I don't have to run Win95 on this
> computer :-)
> 
> Patrick
> 

Re: confusing X problem

[Ernest Johanson]

Patrick,

I took a look at your files on the web. A quick check of
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards indicates the following:

NAME Weitek P9100 (generic)
CHIPSET Weitek P9100
SERVER SVGA
NOCLOCKPROBE

I noticed you have a RAMDAC entry and a Clocks entry in your XF86Config.
It may be that the card does not like to be probed (the commented VideoRam
entry would suggest this). If you haven't already, try removing those
entries and see what happens. Beyond this I'm out of ideas. Just read,
read, read  :-)

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Patrick Olson wrote:

> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 21:04:40 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Patrick Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Ernest Johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: confusing X problem
> 
> 
> > You can find documentation at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/linux/LDP/. Check
> > out the Installation and Getting Started Guide, and the X HOW-TOs.
> 
> Thank you for the information.  However, I have tried to make sense out of
> the information and still can not get anything better than 320x200
> resolution.
> 
> The Installation and Getting Started Guide referred to two documents
> which apparently did not get installed on my system:  VideoModes.doc,
> modeDB.txt.  As such, I couldn't find the information that is apparently
> necessary to continue.  
> 
> Even after all of this reading, I simply do not understand what is wrong
> with the configuration.  There are several 800x600 mode lines for X to
> choose from, and the screens section has both 640x480 and 800x600 listed
> under each of the four color depths (8, 16, 24, 32).
> 
> That led me to the device section, where everything looked OK, except that
> for some strange reason, VideoRam 2048 was commented out.  Unfortunately,
> fixing that didn't change the resolution it chose.
> 
> It simply makes no sense to me why it is rejecting 640x480 and 800x600
> modes without giving any errors about those modes.
> 
> Since I clearly don't know what I'm doing, or not doing, could someone
> please take a minute to point out the mistakes in my config file?
> 
> By the way, my /etc/X11/XF86Config and /var/log/xdm.log are at:
> 
> http://home.internetcds.com/~compman/XF86Config
> http://home.internetcds.com/~compman/xdm.log
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> Patrick Olson
> 
> 

Re: confusing X problem

[Ernest Johanson]

How old is your version of Debian? Did you install the XF86_SVGA from a
debian package or compile it from source? 

> 
> Thanks for that info.  I didn't even know that file was there, but it
> wouldn't matter much since mine is old and doesn't have that entry.  Did I
> do something bad by just getting a new XF86_SVGA and not upgrading
> anything else?
> 

Re: confusing X problem

[Ernest Johanson]

The only way I know to approach a problem like this is to get the system
to a known state, and then proceed with a step-by-step analysis to reduce
the number of variables, and isolate the problem. I would suggest
something like the following:

Verify whether the current version of stable does have support for your
card. If so, purge your current xserver pacakges, and reinstall them. Make
sure that the package dependencies are all met during the installation,
and that any packages that were not configured get configured (run dpkg
--pending --configure).

Gather together all the relevant docs, HOWTO's, man pages, etc. Now begin
the X configuration process. At each step, read the relevant portion of
the docs to verify that the correct data is entered, and that the system
gives the correct response. Assuming all goes well, run it.

Now observe what does or does not happen. Note the specific errors and
where in the process they occur. Go back to the docs and read the relevant
sections. As you attempt to resolve each error, again note what happens
and try to find out why. In this way, the the potential problem areas are
narrowed down and hopefully isolated. If not, it is much easier to ask
someone to help when the problem has been clarified.

If this sound like a lot of work, well, it is. But IMHO it is easier than
trying to solve a difficult problem intuitively. Taken a step at a time,
it comes together easier than it might seem.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Patrick Olson wrote:

> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 09:57:26 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Patrick Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Ernest Johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: confusing X problem
> 
> 
> > How old is your version of Debian? Did you install the XF86_SVGA from a
> > debian package or compile it from source? 
> 
> I started from a Debian 2.0 CD, but did not install X from there.  I
> pointed dselect to ftp://ftp.debian.org//pub/debian/dists/stable for
> updating the stuff that installed off the CD and then adding X.  So, I
> _think_ everything is up to date with dists/stable.
> 
> I have tried three XF86_SVGA binaries.  The first (3.3.2) came as a .deb
> package from somewhere under dists/stable.  The other two (3.3.3, 3.3.4)
> were from a .tgz file pulled from a mirror of xfree86.org
> 
> That brings to light the question of whether or not I can get away with
> downloading a server binary and dropping it on top of an older version of
> X.
> 
> Also, I just noticed something about my monitor.  The specs say, "Plug and
> Play: 1/2B."  I don't have a clue what that means, but could that have
> anything to do with it?  It is an NEC MultiSync XV15+.  I can try it with
> a different monitor if that might help, but I don't have any sort of specs
> or docs on the other one, as it just says "Tangent Computer."
> 
> I hope some of this information helps bring to light whatever stupid
> mistake I am making!  As always, I appreciate all of the people who take
> time to help me with this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Patrick
> 
> 

Re: Apache: unable to use authentification

[Ernest Johanson]

Marc,

Try checking the file permissions on your password file. It needs to be
readable by the user the web server runs as.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Bart-Jan Vrielink wrote:

> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 02:49:05 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Bart-Jan Vrielink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Apache: unable to use authentification
> 
> On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Marc Mongeon wrote:
> 
> > You need to specify the "AllowOverride AuthConfig" directive for that
> > directory in one of the main config files (e.g., /etc/apache/access.conf).
> 
> I have AllowOverride All for this directory. I hoped that All would be
> enough :)
> Anyway, without AllowOverride set to either All or AuthConfig, I do get a
> request for username&password, but this alwais fails. I tried using a
> plain password file, a dbm file and using PAM. All fail.
> 
> > I'm trying to get Apache (tried the Slink version and the current Potato
> > version) to use authentification for some directory.
> > Inside the directory  have the following .htaccess:
> > 
> > AuthType basic
> > AuthName rinet
> > AuthUserfile /etc/apache/htpasswd
> > require user bartjan
> > 
> > When I try to authentificate myself, I get in error.log:
> > 
> > [Tue Aug 17 16:13:20 1999] [error] (13)Permission denied: access to
> > /rinet/ failed for 10.2.100.11, reason: Authentication failure
> > 
> > Passwd file was produced with htpasswd and does contain the user bartjan.
> > I tried to authentificate myself numerous times, so mistyping the password
> > is not the problem.
> > auth_module is loaded in httpd.conf
> > 
> > The systems I tested on are Slink systems, but with Potato libc6
> > (2.1.2-0pre2) and a few other upgrades. Kernels 2.2.5 and 2.2.6
> 
> Tot ziens,
> 
> Bart-Jan
> 

Re: Apache-SSL "suppresses" inlime images?

[Ernest Johanson]

Ralf,

Don't know that I have an answer, but a question. How are standard port 80
connections being made to Apache-SSL? By default it runs on port 443. 

The only thing I've seen like this is when a page accessed via https
contains full URLs ("http://whatever";). The ssl server views those
elements as insecure and refuses to load them. Not the same as your
situation, but perhaps a clue.

HTH.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:

> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 10:54:35 +0200
> From: Ralf G. R. Bergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Debian GNU/Linux User Mailing List 
> Subject: Apache-SSL "suppresses" inlime images?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a very bizarre problem with Apache-SSL 1.3.3+1.29-2. Maybe one of you 
> by chance can help me?
> 
> Ok, here we go:
> 
> I have a webpage that consists of static html pages, frames, inline images, 
> and several Perl cgi scripts that dynamically create html pages. The server 
> machine has two IP addresses: the external one visible from the Internet, 
> and the internal one only visible from the LAN.
> 
> When I access the server internally (i.e. I establish a connection to its 
> internal IP address) I've no problems whatsoever. But when people access the 
> machine from the Internet (talking to the external IP) it often "forgets" 
> inlime images, i.e. Netscape only displays the "broken image" symbol. When 
> they click reload it often shows more images, and after they've clicked a 
> couple of times all images are there.
> 
> The connection originates from the campus network and terminates in the 
> campus network, i.e. there's no transmission problems, no network 
> congestion. The connection is NOT a SSL connection, but a standard port-80, 
> unencrypted http connection. I don't yet know whether things change if they 
> use SSL because I've not yet asked them to try SSL. In the browser they're 
> not using proxies, and by my instructions they've cleared memory and disk 
> cache before trying to go to my page.
> 
> There's NO errors in Apache's log file. The access log file does NOT show 
> that the client tried to GET the missing images. The other images that are 
> being displayed DO appear in the access log file. That could either mean 
> that the client -- for whatever reason -- doesn't request them, OR that the 
> server doesn't log and fill the request.
> 
> Ok, that's bizarre, isn't it? Any ideas?!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ralf
> 
> 
> -- 
> Sign the EU petition against SPAM:  L I N U X   .~.
> http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The  Choice  /V\
> of a  GNU  /( )\
>Generation  ^^-^^
> 

Re: Apache-SSL "suppresses" inlime images?

[Ernest Johanson]

Well, I'm not sure but again I have a question. What about things like
MinSpareServers, MaxSpareServers and KeepAlive? If there aren't enough
spare children running, then some requests may drop. Subsequent requests
find some graphics in the local cache and then request the ones that
didn't make it last time. Dunno, but take a look.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:

> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 22:12:49 +0200
> From: Ralf G. R. Bergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Ernest Johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Apache-SSL "suppresses" inlime images?
> 
> Hi Guys,
> 
> strange, I must have somehow missed your messages on the mailing list...
> 
> Anyway, here we go...
> 
> On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 15:42:52 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> >> Don't know that I have an answer, but a question. How are standard port 
> 80
> >> connections being made to Apache-SSL? By default it runs on port 443. 
> 
> Here's a few excerpts from my httpd.conf:
> 
> === 8x 
> Port 80
> BindAddress *
> ServerName 
> UseCanonicalName off
> # SSL--
> Listen 80
> Listen 443
> SSLDisable
> 
> 
> SSLEnable
> 
> 
> 
> SSLEnable
> 
> === 8x 
> 
> Do you see anything that looks fishy? Or anything that's missing?
> 
> 
> >> The only thing I've seen like this is when a page accessed via https
> >> contains full URLs ("http://whatever";). The ssl server views those
> >> elements as insecure and refuses to load them. Not the same as your
> >> situation, but perhaps a clue.
> 
> I don't think this is helpful in my situation. There aren't any absolute 
> URLs in my web pages. And remember that pressing reload a couple of times 
> finally gives me all the inline graphics I expect.
> 
> >It sounds like the answer because if you don't listen on port 80 you don't
> >log anything. The way I always do it is to use VirtualHost directives and
> >specify the port:
> >
> >
> >
> 
> As you see above this is exactly how I'm doing it.
> 
> Ok, any other ideas?
> 
> Thanks for your help so far.
> 
> Ralf
> 
> 
> -- 
> Sign the EU petition against SPAM:  L I N U X   .~.
> http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The  Choice  /V\
> of a  GNU  /( )\
>Generation  ^^-^^
> 
> 
> 

Re: Files: Debian-to-dos.

[Ernest Johanson]

Vitux,

You can use unix2dos, in the sysutils pacakge.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 15:30:43 +0200
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Files: Debian-to-dos.
> 
> Is there a way to save a linux-file to a dos-diskette in a dos-readable way?
> (Say I wanted to show you guys a config-file or something when I'm mailing
> from an NT-box, not wanting to type the whole thing, or I wanted to take a
> file from f. x. StarOffice with me to work...)
> Please don't flame a pitiful 'nix newbie. I'm really trying to learn, and I
> already love the efficiency of linux compared to my horrible WinNT box at
> work (breaks down several times a day...)
> Regards
> Vitux
> 
> 
> Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer
> 

Re: Page length using a2ps

[Ernest Johanson]

Saadi,

Do a search in the a2ps info document for --lines-per-page. You might be
specifying an incorrect font-size parameter.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Jor-el wrote:

> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:46:55 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Jor-el <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Debian User List 
> Subject: Page length using a2ps
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   I have a text document that is formatted with page length = 68
> rather than the 65 which is the default for a2ps. However, whenever I try
> to format the text using a2ps into a 68 lines per page document (using the
> --lines-per-page option), it doesnt seem to make a difference : I still
> get a postscript document with 65 pages. What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jor-el
> 
> 
> He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the
> night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his
> senses until the day of judgement.
>   -- Saadi
> 

Re: setting up .Xresources

[Ernest Johanson]

The X man page has the info.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote:

> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:46:17 +
> From: Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" 
> Subject: setting up .Xresources
> 
> Can someone point me to some documentation on how to set up my
> .Xresources? Syntax, etc?
> 
> tia
> -- 
>  (   __   _
> Mark Wagnon   ) Debian GNU/ -o) / /  (_)__  __   __
> Chula Vista, CA  (  /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ /
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) www.debian.org _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
> 

Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii

[Ernest Johanson]

An easy way to find whether a file is in Debian is to do a zgrep on the
Contents-i386.gz file (assuming Intel platform). You may need to pipe
the output into whatever pager you like. The output will tell you what
package the file is in (e.g. dos2unix is in sysutils). If you're getting
Debian over the network, the file is not too big, 1.3M or so.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell wrote:

> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 01:31:17 -0700
> From: "[iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Seth R Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii
> 
> >The way to get rid of those ^M characters is to either transfer the files
> >using ascii mode in ftp, or use the dtox program or dos2unix program or
> >:%s/^V^M//g in vi, or a sed script or write a program or .. half a million
> >ways to do the same thing (would recode do it? :)
> >
> 
> Thanks Seth, that's exactly the info I was looking for. My linux pc is not
> yet networked to my pc so I'm forced to transfer small via floppy for now.
> I will do a search for dtox and dos2unix.  Looks like neither are a part of
> debian so I searched the net for them.
> 
> Here's one solution from http://ume.med.ucalgary.ca/usenet/Linux/0053.html:
> 
>  save as dos2unix - 
> #!/bin/sh 
> sed 's/^M//' $1 
> --- 
>  save as unix2dos - 
> #!/bin/sh 
> sed 's/$/^M/' $1 
> --- 
> 
> 
> Note that the `^M' has to be produced by pressing `Ctrl-V Ctrl-M' in vi, or 
> `Ctrl-QCtrl-M' in emacs. Then you can do, e.g., `dos2unix < unixfile > 
> dosfile' and `unix2dos < unixfile > dosfile'. 
>- end --
> 
> Those look like perl scripts. If so it's just that I'm unfamiliar with the
> SED command that is throwing me off. I'll try each as a perl script anyways
> just to be sure.
> 
> Andre
> p.s. Here is aother solution:
> cat  | sed 's/^M//' <-- I tried this one, it didn't convert the
> file, it ran the file (all of the print commands printed to screen.
> Afterwards I typed perl  and same issue exists.  I even tried
> this command and piped it with ">" to create anew file still the same error
> message :( 
> 

Re: kernel 2.2.12

[Ernest Johanson]

I just upgraded a potato system to 2.2.12 due to the 2.2.11 memory leak.
The release notes say that the .12 kernel won't compile with gcc 2.95. I
have gcc 2.91.66-2 on that system and it compiled ok, a few warnings but
no errors. System came up with no problem and no memory leak.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On 30 Aug 1999, Laurent Martelli wrote:

> Date: 30 Aug 1999 20:01:58 +0200
> From: Laurent Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.12
> 
> >>>>> "Stavros" == Stavros  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>   Stavros> On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, William Ono wrote:
> 
>   >> On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Stavros wrote:
>   >> 
>   >> > have anyone faced any problems compiling the 2.2.12 kernel on
>   >> potato?
>   >> 
>   >> I'm sitting at a potato system running 2.2.12 right now, so it
>   >> works just fine for me..
>   >> 
>   >> Was there a specific problem you were having?
> 
>   Stavros> i get alot of errors like this In file included from
>   Stavros> init/main.c:26: /usr/src/linux/include/asm/io.h: In
>   Stavros> function `virt_to_phys':
>   Stavros> /usr/src/linux/include/asm/io.h:112: `PAGE_OFFSET_RAW'
>   Stavros> undeclared (first use in this function) and then the
>   Stavros> compile proccess stops.  (make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1)
> 
> Did you 'make dep' ? I had something similar when trying to compile
> 2.2.11. I downloaded the whole 2.2.12, unpacked it in a fresh new
> directory, and it compiled fine. 
> 
> -- 
> Laurent Martelli
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 

Re: Apple LaserWriter IINT

[Ernest Johanson]

Andrew,

How are you going to connect to the LaserWriter? I have one connected to a
Mac that I print to using some software called lpDaemon. The daemon is
quite old, but it works on my system. The only other way I know of is to
use the serial port on the printer. I've not done that on Linux, but
wouldn't think it to be a problem. It is a Postscript printer.

One thing on the IINT: you can only switch between the serial port and the
AppleTalk port a limited number of times (around 100 or so I think). The
eprom or whatever in there gives out after that. The NTX doesn't have that
issue.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote:

> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 09:05:32 -0500
> From: Richard E. Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Andrew Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Apple LaserWriter IINT 
> 
> > Anyone had any success getting a Apple LaserWriter IINT working with
> > linux? 
> 
> 
> Was that one of the non-postscript printers?  If so, ignore this :)  If not, 
> just use it as a garden variety printer.
> 
> Now If only i could figure out the pins to swap on the cable to use my 
> original DeskWriter as an original DeskJet . . .
> 
> 
> -- 
> 

Re: where is what?

[Ernest Johanson]

There is a program called grep to search text files. There is also an
rgrep that will search directories recursively.

You can do searches on the Packages file that is at the base directory of
each distribution. In this case searching for what may not have found
something, but searching for text, string, search, etc. would do it. 

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Jim Foltz wrote:

> Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 12:19:31 -0400
> From: Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Keith Harbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: where is what?
> 
> You're not thinking of whatis, are you?
> 
> On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 06:23:57AM +, Keith Harbaugh wrote:
> > `what' was an old unix program which would access certain identifying
> > lines within text files, allowing easy reading of key parts of files
> > without having to use a pager or editor.
> > 
> > I used the search features of the debian web site's Package page, searching
> > on `what', but to no avail (the first search yielded the empty set,
> > the second search more than would fit on a page, but all that was not
> > the "right" what) (eh, what?).
> > 
> > So, two questions:
> > 1) where (i.e., in what package) is the program `what' to be found?
> > 2) how could I effectively use the web pages search, or some other search
> >capability, to have answered that question without bothering the
> >debian mailing lists?
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
>Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ACORN techie <http://www.acorn.net>
>   AOL/IM Jim Foltz
> 

Re: Can't Log into FTPD

[Ernest Johanson]

You might want to check your /etc/inetd.conf file. If the line for ftpd is
commented out, remove the comment character and restart inetd.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Harlan Crystal wrote:

> Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 04:24:00 -0400
> From: Harlan Crystal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Can't Log into FTPD
> 
> I'm currently using the most updated unstable.
> 
> Whenever I attempt to FTP into my machine, it won't authorize me to log in.
> Even when I ftp localhost, using my username/pw, it denies access.
> 
> I've removed and reinstalled the ftpd package 3 or 4 times.. and its the
> same.  nothing in the man page said anything about this problem.
> 
> any suggestions?
> 
> 
>  - harlan
> 

Re: video modes for X11

[Ernest Johanson]

Paul,

Your display may be running at a lower pixel depth than you're used to
seeing. Check the  Screen section of your XF86Config that applies to
your x server. If your server recognizes the DefaultColorDepth parameter
you can set your default depth that way, otherwise you can use 
startx -- -bpp  with whatever depth you want to start with.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Paul Harris wrote:

> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 15:13:07 +0800 (WST)
> From: Paul Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: video modes for X11
> 
> hi,
> 
> my lovely 17" monitor has a grainy-liney appearance when in 1280x1024
> mode, however its perfectly clear under windows. i have the .ini file that
> windows uses but am unsure how to set up the x11 modelines... can anyone
> help?
> 
> thanks,
> Paul
> 
> 
> "If you can't make it good, make it look good."
>   Bill Gates, 1995 
> 

Oracle Web Server on Linx

[Ernest Johanson]

Has anyone had experience running the Oracle Web Application Server on
Debian? I got the download,  installed it and all processes come up
except the administrative web server run fine, which refuses to run. The
only variation I'm aware of from the docs is that they say kernel 2.0.34
and I have 2.2.12 on that machine. I can provide more details if anyone
has some idea about this.

BTW, anyone know what's going on with Oracle? We tried to buy the product,
and were told that the Online Store is pulling all references to Linux.
Sounds strange.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary

Re: Berolist

[Ernest Johanson]

You might also take a look at mailman. I also had problems with Berolist.
One advantage is that it has both web-based and command line tools for
configuration. Also has far more features than Berolist.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Ben Messinger wrote:

> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 00:18:27 -0700
> From: Ben Messinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Matt Kopishke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Berolist
> 
> Matt Kopishke wrote:
> > 
> > I am trying to configure Berolist under Slink. 
> 
> 
> > ###
> > 
> > I have tried every thing I can think of, I also have tried smartlist,
> > Majordomo, and mailman with out any luck, all thought I had Majordomo
> > running while back on a different install.  I have yet to find a easy list
> > server to set up, maybe it's my bad luck but every one else say they don't
> > have problems like I do...
> > 
> > -Matt-
> 
> Matt,
> I wasted a lot of time trying to get Berolist working and finally went
> to smartlist. I couldn't keep Berolist from seg-faulting. I even
> compiled my own and it still was seg-faulting. Smartlist was harder to
> configure than Berolist, but easier than Majordomo and is working well.
> 
> -Ben
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Re: LILO on second drive?

[Ernest Johanson]

No idea about installing an MBR on a slave drive, but why not put the
additional configuration in your lilo.conf and boot from your master
drive? That way you can control the boot process from the lilo prompt with
out having to go into the BIOS.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, EVCom Support wrote:

> Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 17:45:25 -0400
> From: EVCom Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: LILO on second drive?
> 
> Greetings all,
> 
> Having read various docs, etc on Lilo, and having never used it before (Always
> had Linux on it's own primary drive, etc) I would like to use lilo to make 
> a slave
> drive bootable (kinda tired of using boot floppies).   Now, my BIOS 
> supports booting
> from any drive letter, so even tho I have OS's installed on /dev/hda I can 
> tell the bios
> to boot drive , /hdb1 and basically ignore the existance of /dev/hda 
> alltogether.
> 
> The problem is that lilo refuses to install a master boot record, etc, 
> because it
> correctly detects that it is being asked to do so on a secondary 
> drive.  Basically
> I would like to be able to force lilo to do what I want, and make the 
> secondary
> drive completely bootable so I can just switch my bios between booting drive 0
> and drive 1 at will.
> 
> When I boot drive D at this time, I get a lilo prompt that looks similar to 
> this:
> 
> F1:  linux
> F2:  
> F3:  linux
> 
> F3 default.
> 
> The machine then locks up.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Todd
> 
> 
> Todd Suess
> Technical Support Night Manager
> Evolution Communications, Inc.
> 800.496.4736/561.624.7570
> Email- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Support Hours-
> Monday through Friday 6am to Midnight
> Saturday and Sunday 8:30 to Midnight
> 
> Be sure to visit EvCom.net at Booth 1388 for 'Everything Internet' at
> Internet World '99 in New York City, October 4-8, 1999.
> 

Re: how to remove a broken package

[Ernest Johanson]

Charles,

dpkg --purge should do what you want. There is also 
dpkg --remove-reinstreq (I've never had to use it though). Also check to
be sure you are root when running dpkg. Sometimes the devil is in the
details. 

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Charles Lewis wrote:

> Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 11:31:54 -0500
> From: Charles Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user 
> Subject: how to remove a broken package
> 
> *sigh*
> Surely, this can't be such a difficult question to answer. I hate to be a
> pain, but I don't know where else to turn, and I would rather be flamed than
> ignored.
> 
> I need to know how to remove a broken package.
> 
> Specifically, I'm having problems removing apache & squid. I get the
> following errors:
> 
> Removing squid ...
> dpkg: error processing squid (--remove):
>  subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Removing apache ...
> dpkg: error processing apache (--remove):
>  subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  squid
>  apache
> 
> How can I get force the removal of these? I've read the man page, and none
> of the options that look like they _might_ work, do not. What else can I do?
> 
> ===
> Charles Lewis, Director of Administrative Computing
> Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, TX
> (817)556-4720  [EMAIL PROTECTED]  FAX (360)397-7952
> ===
> 

Re: Fixing the Master Boot Record

[Ernest Johanson]

On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Bryan K. Walton wrote:

> perform the upgrade, I need to boot up the computer with this diskette in
> the floppy drive.  When I do that however, the computer gives me an error
> message saying that there is an invalid system disk in the floppy drive.
  
Do you have an operating system on the floppy? The bios upgrade program
may only be the acutal appication to upgrade the bios

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary

Re: ICMP error

[Ernest Johanson]

I recently had this problem with a misconfigured printer on our network.
Turned out that the subnet mask was improperly set. Once that was fixed,
the messages stopped.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Colin Watson wrote:

> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 22:15:51 +
> From: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: ICMP error
> 
> Vicente Torres wrote:
> >I receive hundreds of times pro day 
> >the following message on my text screens:
> >
> >193.152.56.57 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast
> >
> >?Can I do anything to avoid receiving this message?
> 
> I had the same problem, due to an apparently misconfigured LANManager
> server on this network. I used a firewall to filter it out:
> 
> ipchains -A input -j DENY -p icmp -s 131.111.212.123
> 
> ... on > 2.1.101 or 2.2 kernels, or:
> 
> iptables -A INPUT -j DROP -p icmp -s 131.111.212.123
> 
> ... on 2.3 kernels. (Can't remember what you need for 2.0 and <= 2.1.101
> kernels (ipfwadm), sorry.)
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Trinity College, Cambridge, and Computer Science [riva.ucam.org]
> 

Re: Screenshots in Linux?

[Ernest Johanson]

Take a look at the scrot package. Runs from the command line and will
caputre the whole screen or a window you choose.


Ernest Johanson
Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Joseph Jones wrote:

> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 00:42:20 +
> From: Joseph Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Screenshots in Linux?
> 
> How do you take a screenshot in Linux? Preferably from the terminal and 
> of the whole screen.
> 
> Joe
> 


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Re: Change password from shellscript

[Ernest Johanson]

chpasswd will do exactly what you want.

Ernest Johanson
Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, James Williamson wrote:

> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 07:10:13 +
> From: James Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Change password from shellscript
> 
> On Monday 15 Dec 2003 7:04 pm, Peter wrote:
> > Howdie,
> >
> > I want to make a shellscript with the ability to change a
> > userspassword. I can't get it to work properly because when i say
> > passwd user i will have to enter the password is there a way or a
> > switch todo this in a style like passwd user password
> 
> My version of passwd has a --stdin switch which'll read the=20
> password from STDIN, i.e.
> 
> echo $password | passwd --stdin $username
> 
> If your's doesn't you may want to take a look at expect.
> 
> James
> 
> >
> > Thankz,
> > Peter
> 


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Re: Proftpd situations

[Ernest Johanson]

Take a look in the docs at the DefaultServer directive. I'm not quite sure
how proftpd determines what the primary address is, but I had a similar
problem with a server here. I defined a Virtual Host for one of the
addresses and let the main configuration handle the other one.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 14:27:55 -0700 (PDT)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Proftpd situations
> 
> Howdy, all,
> 
> There may be a simple answer to this, but it sure is baffling me.
> 
> We just had a new DSL circuit installed here at work.  Our ISDN is still 
> active
> and that is what all the clients are currently still hooked up to.  The Potato
> server I have set up is currently serving ftp services via the LAN.  The ISDN
> router simply forwards all ftp packets to the server.
> 
> There is a second NIC in the server which has been dormant waiting for the new
> DSL circuit.  The DSL router is configured in bridging mode because the server
> will be the firewall/router via ipchains.  (It will also be an IMAP server 
> using
> IMP)
> 
> Here is the oddity:  I ifconfig'd the second NIC, connected it to the new 
> router
> (bridge) and was able to download just fine.  The problem is that the proftpd
> stopped accepting ftp connections.  As soon as I did an ifdown on the second
> NIC, ftp connections work fine.  ifup the second NIC, ftp connections stop
> working, just like that.
> 
> Is proftpd concerned about who is local or something like that when I ifup the
> 2nd NIC?  Incidentally, I don't want to just give out the new IP address for
> people to download from via ftp, I want all of our customers to use the
> ftp.*.com address.  And I don't want to have our ISP update the DNS yet as I'm
> going out of town soon for 3 weeks and I want to change as little as possible
> until I get back.
> 
> TIA for any help. :) :)
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Matthew Thompson   https://mattyt.net/webmail
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://www.oz.net/~mattyt
> "Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow."
> --Oscar Wilde
> 

Apache and ssi

[Ernest Johanson]

I am configuring Apache (1.3.9) for server-side includes, but don't want
them to be able to execute cgi scripts. Things are working fine (a litte
too fine, actually). Included documents are parsed and included, but if I
try the following:

then the output of the script is placed into the document. From the docs,
I thought that IncludesNOEXEC should disable cgi execution. The #exec
element does not work, but #include does. Anyone know why this is
so? Thanks in advance for the help.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary

Re: Apache with Servlet support

[Ernest Johanson]

I have set up the Apache JServ (v. 1.1.2) with the debian Apache package
(1.3.9, potato). The jserv distibution comes with a configure script that
was easy to use. It asks you for parameters, and placed everything
where it needed to go. The instructions say you *have* to use the jsdk2.0,
solaris version. I am also using an IBM version of the JDK (1.1.8) in
/usr/local, and not the Debian jdk package. Don't think that makes a
difference, but thought I should mention it. I might have had to tweak a
line or two in a conf file (don't remember for sure at the moment) but it
was no big deal to get it running and try the examples. Haven't been able
to compile a servlet yet, but don't think it's a problem with the install. 

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Sven Burgener wrote:

> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:28:53 +0200
> From: Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Debian Users 
> Subject: Apache with Servlet support
> 
> Hello
> 
> I'd simply like to know how easy it is to run Apache with Servlet
> support under Debian. Has anyone experiences with this?
> 
> I am trying to compile Apache with Servlet support (JServ) and am having
> troubles with it. I use JDK and Sun's JSDK.
> (Intentionally not posting errors now)
> 
> Anyone experiences with that setup?
> 
> Sven
> -- 
> The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. 
> 

Unidentified subject!

[Ernest Johanson]

I have set up the Apache JServ (v. 1.1.2) with the debian Apache package
(1.3.9, potato). The jserv distibution comes with a configure script that
was easy to use. It asks you for parameters, and placed everything
where it needed to go. The instructions say you *have* to use the jsdk2.0,
solaris version. I am also using an IBM version of the JDK (1.1.8) in
/usr/local, and not the Debian jdk package. Don't think that makes a
difference, but thought I should mention it. I might have had to tweak a
line or two in a conf file (don't remember for sure at the moment) but it
was no big deal to get it running and try the examples. Haven't been able
to compile a servlet yet, but don't think it's a problem with the install. 

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Sven Burgener wrote:

> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:28:53 +0200
> From: Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Debian Users 
> Subject: Apache with Servlet support
> 
> Hello
> 
> I'd simply like to know how easy it is to run Apache with Servlet
> support under Debian. Has anyone experiences with this?
> 
> I am trying to compile Apache with Servlet support (JServ) and am having
> troubles with it. I use JDK and Sun's JSDK.
> (Intentionally not posting errors now)
> 
> Anyone experiences with that setup?
> 
> Sven
> -- 
> The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. 
> 

Re: Apache and perl cgi problem

[Ernest Johanson]

> > I have already set the ScritpAlias and it work fine. 

What directory is your ScriptAlias set to? 

Now I'd like to
> > have under the public_html dir of one user (my user) a directory tree
> > wicht contain one entry for every project I am working on.

Is this directory under the directory named in the ScriptAlias directive?

> > The problem is that I cannot execupe some perl cgi, Netscape give me this
> > error
> > ---
> > You don't have permission to access /~gianluca/effeesse/p.pl on this server.

This is exactly the error that occurs when the directory is not enabled
for executing scripts.

> > 
> > The script have the correct attributes and the directory is accessible (I
> > can get the html file and also run the php3 script)
> > 

The php scripts are enabled by a different directive so they could be
executing when cgi scripts don't.

Re: Apache and perl cgi problem

[Ernest Johanson]

> 
> > Now I'd like to
> > > > have under the public_html dir of one user (my user) a directory tree
> > > > wicht contain one entry for every project I am working on.
> > 
> > Is this directory under the directory named in the ScriptAlias directive?
> 
> No, but as I understand from the apache documentation, I can have only one 
> directory in the ScriptAlias directive, or am I wrong ? 
> 

You can have mulitple ScriptAlias directives. You will need set one for
the directory containing your project dirs. Be aware of the security
implications of this if your web server is open to the Internet.

Re: S L O W mailserver

[Ernest Johanson]

One way you could do this is to run tcpdump set to record packets with
either a source or destination adress of the ISP's mail server. Then check
your mail. The whole conversation will be recorded with timestamps. Use
tee to pipe the output to a file.

On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:

> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 09:42:00 -0700
> From: Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian help 
> Subject: S L O W mailserver
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a really slow mail server problem. The guy says it shouldn't be
> slow but it is. I know he is running Red Hat on all his boxes on this ISP
> and don't know which mailserver he uses for POP3. 
> 
> My question is, can I some how trace all tcp/ip traffic to a file when I click
> on my mail icon in KDE? Would be nice to start the file just prior to hitting
> the button, then end the file folllowing the last message so I can show him
> the times down to the second from the actual start of the session to the
> end of the session.
> 
> TIA
> -- 
> 
> 
> Jaye:-}
> 
> M.J. Inabnit, KE6SLS e-mail  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 707-442-6579 h/m 707-441-7096 p
> http://www.qsl.net/ke6slsICQ# 12741145
> This mail composed with kmail on kde on X on linux warped by debian
> If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid.
> 

Re: Filtering Email in Pine

[Ernest Johanson]

To be able to select messages and perform commands on them choose the
enable-aggregate-command-set option in the config section.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Nitebirdz wrote:

> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:17:17 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Nitebirdz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Philippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: adam.edgar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Filtering Email in Pine
> 
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Philippe wrote:
> 
> > Hi Adam,
> > 
> > it takes just seconds to filter mail in Pine. From main menu, type S for
> > setup. Then R for rules. Then F for filter. Then A for add. Give the rule
> > a nickname by replacing the "no value set" in the menu. Put the Debian
> > user list address on the "Cc:" line. At the bottom, choose the Folder you
> > want it moved to. Exit. You're half-way done! Repeat to set another rule
> > for which "From:" is the Debian address while "Cc:" is unspecified. That's
> > it.
> > 
> > pine is great. I've never used mutt. What's good about it?
> > 
> 
> It may be a rhetorical question, but just in case... some people like the
> fact that mutt automatically shows all the messages in threads news-style,
> which makes it a lot easier to read messages from the mailing lists.  I
> found a workaround to do something similar in pine though by sorting the
> messages according to the subject line and the date, so that all messages
> on the same topic are bundled together.  I also like pine better.  ;-)
> 
> I got another question for you though.  How do you select say all messages
> in a certain folder in pine?  Or perhaps from message 1 to message 45, in
> order to save them, delete them... whatever.  
> 
> 
> - 
> Nitebirdz
> http://www.linuxnovice.org
> Tips, articles, news, links...
> 

Re: ProFTPd and NIS problems in Woody

[Ernest Johanson]

Not sure about woody since I'm not running it, but one thing to check is
whether the proftpd.conf fine contains the PersistentPassword
directive. It needs to be set to off to recognize NIS accounts.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:

> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:37:55 +
> From: Pedro I. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user 
> Subject: ProFTPd and NIS problems in Woody
> 
> Hello,
> 
> ProFTPd doesn't recognize NIS accounts and says "(Login failed): Can't
> find user" in the log file. It works fine with local (non NIS) accounts.
> This has been reported as bug #62197 which is over 90 days old already.
> Does anyone know of a workaround (other than scraping ProFTpd which is
> what I am about to do)?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> -- 
> Pedro
> 

Re: ppp mystery

[Ernest Johanson]

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Gil Elad wrote:

> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:28:31 +0200
> From: Gil Elad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: ppp mystery
> 
> --=_1268914==_
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
> 
> Hi everyone.
> 
> I'm completely new to both Linux and Debian so please forgive my stupidity.
> I've been trying for the past few weeks to connect to my ISP with no 
> success using both pppconfig and wvdial.
> While both succeed in getting connected at a reasonable speed (49.3 kbps) 
> neither can get passed the authentication stage. I seem to get gibberish 
> instead of a login prompt (a series of '[' and 'c' characters mostly) and 
> both programs don't know what to do with it. It seemed to me at first as if 
> there's too much noise on the line, so I tried to connect at slower speeds, 
> but that didn't work.
> Attached are both the chatscript and the output from plog.
> The absolutely most irritating thing about this whole business, though, is 
> that windows connects like clockwork every time at 49.2 kbps.
> any help at all will be appreciated.
> Thanks
> 
> Gil Elad

Re: ppp mystery

[Ernest Johanson]

You might want to check your ppp options file and make sure you are using
hardware handshaking. The relevant option is crtscts.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Gil Elad wrote:

> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:47:58 +0200
> From: Gil Elad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Jimmy Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: ppp mystery
> 
> I've just tried CHAP with no success. The result was exactly the same. I 
> probably should have added in my original message that Windows connects 
> using PAP.
> 
> 
> 
> At 06:45 14/03/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >Hello There,
> >
> >Don't know if I can help much. But I was wondering if you have tried
> >using both 'PAP'
> >and 'CHAP' login protocols when you tryo to connect? If you've been
> >trying with PAP,
> >then try CHAP and se what happens.
> >
> >Hope that helps somehow and good luck,
> >
> >Jimmy Richards
> >
> >
> >On 14 Mar 2001 15:28:31 +0200, Gil Elad wrote:
> > > Hi everyone.
> > >
> > > I'm completely new to both Linux and Debian so please forgive my 
> > > stupidity.
> > > I've been trying for the past few weeks to connect to my ISP with no
> > > success using both pppconfig and wvdial.
> > > While both succeed in getting connected at a reasonable speed (49.3 kbps)
> > > neither can get passed the authentication stage. I seem to get gibberish
> > > instead of a login prompt (a series of '[' and 'c' characters mostly) and
> > > both programs don't know what to do with it. It seemed to me at first 
> > as if
> > > there's too much noise on the line, so I tried to connect at slower 
> > speeds,
> > > but that didn't work.
> > > Attached are both the chatscript and the output from plog.
> > > The absolutely most irritating thing about this whole business, though, is
> > > that windows connects like clockwork every time at 49.2 kbps.
> > > any help at all will be appreciated.
> > > Thanks
> > >
> 

Re: ppp mystery (fwd)

[Ernest Johanson]

Sorry for the earlier message with a null body. Here's what I intended to
post. 

You might want to check your ppp options file and make sure you are using
hardware handshaking. The relevant option is crtscts.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Gil Elad wrote:

> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:47:58 +0200
> From: Gil Elad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Jimmy Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: ppp mystery
> 
> I've just tried CHAP with no success. The result was exactly the same. I 
> probably should have added in my original message that Windows connects 
> using PAP.
> 
> 
> 
> At 06:45 14/03/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >Hello There,
> >
> >Don't know if I can help much. But I was wondering if you have tried
> >using both 'PAP'
> >and 'CHAP' login protocols when you tryo to connect? If you've been
> >trying with PAP,
> >then try CHAP and se what happens.
> >
> >Hope that helps somehow and good luck,
> >
> >Jimmy Richards
> >
> >
> >On 14 Mar 2001 15:28:31 +0200, Gil Elad wrote:
> > > Hi everyone.
> > >
> > > I'm completely new to both Linux and Debian so please forgive my 
> > > stupidity.
> > > I've been trying for the past few weeks to connect to my ISP with no
> > > success using both pppconfig and wvdial.
> > > While both succeed in getting connected at a reasonable speed (49.3 kbps)
> > > neither can get passed the authentication stage. I seem to get gibberish
> > > instead of a login prompt (a series of '[' and 'c' characters mostly) and
> > > both programs don't know what to do with it. It seemed to me at first 
> > as if
> > > there's too much noise on the line, so I tried to connect at slower 
> > speeds,
> > > but that didn't work.
> > > Attached are both the chatscript and the output from plog.
> > > The absolutely most irritating thing about this whole business, though, is
> > > that windows connects like clockwork every time at 49.2 kbps.
> > > any help at all will be appreciated.
> > > Thanks
> > >
> 

Re: Sendmail account setup

[Ernest Johanson]

You can assign the users a shell of /bin/false, which will prevent normal
logins to the machine. Users won't be able to directly set forwarding
either though, so you might need a way for them to do that. Somewhere I
have seen a CGI script that would  administer forwarding through a web
page, but I don't remember where right now. If that's of interest, let me
know and I'll see if I can pull it up.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Jay Kelly wrote:

> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 09:51:54 -0800
> From: Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Sendmail account setup
> 
> Hello All,
> I have a question on Sendmail. I would like to give out email accounts but
> do not want to give them a debian account. All I want them to have access to
> is email. Can this be done? Now when I add a new email account I have to use
> "adduser" which creates a home directory. What are ISP's using?
> Thanks in advance for your help and time
> 

Re: Sendmail account setup

[Ernest Johanson]

The script is at http://devil.research.at/. Its main purpose is to
enable/disable and edit vacation messages. If you speak Perl it would not
be difficult to get it to do other things. It uses ftp to contact the mail
server host though, using the user's username and password. With a shell
of /bin/false, that could be a problem depending on the ftp server
config. Proftpd can deal with it, keeping security issues in mind.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Christopher Clark wrote:

> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 09:36:54 +
> From: Christopher Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Sendmail account setup
> 
> re your post in Debian users
> >
> > You can assign the users a shell of /bin/false, which will prevent normal
> > logins to the machine. Users won't be able to directly set forwarding
> > either though, so you might need a way for them to do that. Somewhere I
> > have seen a CGI script that would  administer forwarding through a web
> > page, but I don't remember where right now. If that's of interest, let me
> > know and I'll see if I can pull it up.
> 
> Sorry to be a nuisance but I would be very interested in that script as well.
> If there is any chance.
> 
> regards Chris
>  
> 
> 

Re: apache, perl, 403 forbidden, help?

[Ernest Johanson]

Herbert, 

A few things to check:

1. Remove the quotes in your Directory statement, i.e. 
instead of .

2. Make sure the directory you are trying to execute cgis in is under your
DocmentRoot if you're using a  statement. If what you want is
to serve pages and execute cgis from your user directory (typically
outside the DocumentRoot), then read up on the UserDir directive in the
apache docs.

3. Check your access.conf file to make sure there isn't already some
directives configured for the path your directory is in. The default
configuration in Debian has something for public_html that you may need to
edit.

4. Be sure to restart the server after making changes.

HTH,

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Herbert Ho wrote:

> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:55:26 -0600
> From: Herbert Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: apache, perl, 403 forbidden, help?
> 
> hi all.
> 
> i can't get apache to execute a perl/cgi script.
> 
> *box: potato/sparc, installed apache-perl and its dependencies.
> 
> *error: 403 forbidden in web browser. this in error log:
> 
>Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: 
> /home/herb/public_html/init/login.pl
> 
> i tired everything in the faq and manual to little success. things
> i've tried:
> 
> 1) i've added the handler and options directives to my srm.conf:
> 
>   AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
>   
>  Options +All +ExecCGI
>   
> 
>i know +All and +ExecCGI are redudant and this is not secure, but
>i'm desperate. =) 
>
> 2) i tried pointing the directory to the exact directory where i'm
>executing the script (i.e. "/" -> "/home/herb/public_html/init", my
>script resides in init/) to no avail.
> 
> 3) i tried replacing the  directive w/
> 
>   ScriptAlias ~herb/public_html/init /home/herb/public_html/init
> 
>again, no effect.
> 
> 4) installing the 'apache' package instead of 'apache-perl'. it makes
>me download the script.
> 
> 
> permissions look correct. all parents of the script directory are at
> least o+rx. i am able to execute scripts ok in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
> (ScriptAlias'ed to cgi-bin/), but not elsewhere.
> 
> HELP? any is appreicated...
> 
> 
> herbert
> 

Re: apache, perl, 403 forbidden, help? (SOLVED...kinda)

[Ernest Johanson]

Herb,

There's a typo in your document header in the perl script. It has to have
2 newlines at the end.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Herbert Ho wrote:

> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 14:49:42 -0600
> From: Herbert Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Ernest Johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: apache, perl, 403 forbidden, help? (SOLVED...kinda)
> 
> thanks for everyone's help so far. it works...a little bit more. =)
> 
> the problem i found is that there is already a  directive
> for the public_html/ directories in access.conf. this seems to either
> be read last (thus overrriding changes made in other files)  or
> conflict w/ changes made in other files.
> 
> so it now is able to run the perl script. but it still doesn't work
> entirely. the problem i have now is i get a '500 internal server
> error' from my browser.
> 
> checking the error.log shows
> 
>Premature end of script headers: /home/herb/public_html/init/test.pl
> 
> the problem is a similar script works on a "working" http server my
> university runs (so i can't get the httpd.conf file to compare).
> 
> here's the simple script. hopefully you can punch a hole in it for me:
> 
>#!/usr/bin/perl -w
>print "Content-type: text/html\n\";
> 
>print <
>hi
>
> 
>EOF
> 
> also, here's the relative modification from my access.conf that made
> apache want to run it:
> 
>
>AddHandler cgi-script .pl .cgi
>Options ExecCGI Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
>AllowOverride None
>
> 
> 
> thanks in advance,
> 
> herb
> 
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 01:47:38PM -0800, Ernest Johanson wrote:
> > Herbert, 
> > 
> > A few things to check:
> > 
> > 1. Remove the quotes in your Directory statement, i.e. 
> > instead of .
> > 
> > 2. Make sure the directory you are trying to execute cgis in is under your
> > DocmentRoot if you're using a  statement. If what you want is
> > to serve pages and execute cgis from your user directory (typically
> > outside the DocumentRoot), then read up on the UserDir directive in the
> > apache docs.
> > 
> > 3. Check your access.conf file to make sure there isn't already some
> > directives configured for the path your directory is in. The default
> > configuration in Debian has something for public_html that you may need to
> > edit.
> > 
> > 4. Be sure to restart the server after making changes.
> > 
> > HTH,
> > 
> > Ernest Johanson
> > Web Systems Administrator
> > Fuller Theological Seminary
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Herbert Ho wrote:
> > 
> > > Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:55:26 -0600
> > > From: Herbert Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > > Subject: apache, perl, 403 forbidden, help?
> > > 
> > > hi all.
> > > 
> > > i can't get apache to execute a perl/cgi script.
> > > 
> > > *box: potato/sparc, installed apache-perl and its dependencies.
> > > 
> > > *error: 403 forbidden in web browser. this in error log:
> > > 
> > >Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: 
> > > /home/herb/public_html/init/login.pl
> > > 
> > > i tired everything in the faq and manual to little success. things
> > > i've tried:
> > > 
> > > 1) i've added the handler and options directives to my srm.conf:
> > > 
> > >   AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
> > >   
> > >  Options +All +ExecCGI
> > >   
> > > 
> > >i know +All and +ExecCGI are redudant and this is not secure, but
> > >i'm desperate. =) 
> > >
> > > 2) i tried pointing the directory to the exact directory where i'm
> > >executing the script (i.e. "/" -> "/home/herb/public_html/init", my
> > >script resides in init/) to no avail.
> > > 
> > > 3) i tried replacing the  directive w/
> > > 
> > >   ScriptAlias ~herb/public_html/init /home/herb/public_html/init
> > > 
> > >again, no effect.
> > > 
> > > 4) installing the 'apache' package instead of 'apache-perl'. it makes
> > >me download the script.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > permissions look correct. all parents of the script directory are at
> > > least o+rx. i am able to execute scripts ok in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
> > > (ScriptAlias'ed to cgi-bin/), but not elsewhere.
> > > 
> > > HELP? any is appreicated...
> > > 
> > > 
> > > herbert
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
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> > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 

Re: is there anyone using cucipop?

[Ernest Johanson]

>From the error messages from makevpopdb, is it possible that the libdb2
pacakge is not installed? Some of the features of cucipop require it.

HTH,

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, martin wrote:

> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:52:39 +0100
> From: martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Debian Users 
> Subject: is there anyone using cucipop?
> 
> dear friends,
> 
> i allready asked once, but i am afraid, my mail got lost
> somewhere...?
> 
> so here again:
> i am trying to set up cucipop on a newly installed potato system.
> only trouble is, it dosent't like to run in APOP-mode, which
> would be very important here.
> 
> the makevpopdb program complains about "makedb2: Can't create
> /etc/mail/vpop.db" and if compiled from source it says it even dosen't
> know about db2...
> 
> all this behaviour has been documented in some quite old bug-reports,
> but i cant find any solution to it.
> 
> can someone please just give a statemant on the status or
> tell me how to work around the problem?
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> my system:
> 
> mars 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown
> 
> Package: cucipop
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: optional
> Section: non-free/net
> Installed-Size: 199
> Maintainer: Debian QA Group 
> Version: 1.31-13
> Provides: pop3-server
> Depends: netbase, libc6 (>=3D 2.1), libpam0g
> Conflicts: pop3-server, qpopper
> Conffiles:
>  /etc/init.d/cucipop e304a9a6f13d6ff1a6f208a038f236b8
>  /etc/pam.d/cucipop 4b2506a7954690dad5e15341e0ef47f9
> Description: Cubic Circle's POP3 daemon
>  A fast, robust implementation of the RFC1939 POP3 protocol,
>  It does not use temporary files, it works reliably over NFS,
>  and it includes an option to defeat "leave mail on server"
>  clients.  Cucipop can run from inetd or as a standalone daemon
>  (the default).
> 
> Desired=3DUnknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=3DNot/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=3D(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=3Dboth-problems (Status,Err: upperc=
> ase=3Dbad)
> ||/ Name   VersionDescription
> +++-=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D-=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
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> ii  cucipop1.31-13Cubic Circle's POP3 daemon
> pn  cyrus-pop3d (no description available)
> pn  ipopd   (no description available)
> un  pop2-server (no description available)
> un  pop3-server (no description available)
> un  popclient   (no description available)
> rc  poppassd   1.2-11 Password change server for Eudora and NUP=
> OP
> pn  qpopper (no description available)
> 
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Re: Frozen message in exim

[Ernest Johanson]

Depending on how exim is set up, you may be able to view the message
header and body (as separate files) in /var/spool/exim/input. If ther are
a large number of directories (0-9, a-b, A-Z) then the message and header
will be in the directory with the same letter as the last letter in the
first block of characters in the message id (13kqJX in this case).
  ^

Normally exim -Mrm will delete messages still in the queue. But there are
times when it won't. In that case I go to the /var/spool/input directory
and delete the header and the message. Not sure if there is another way
but I looked and couldn't find it.


Ernest Johanson 
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Daniel de los Reyes wrote:

> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 19:03:24 +0100
> From: Daniel de los Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Frozen message in exim
> 
> I have this is exim's log:
> 
> 2000-11-30 18:08:01 Start queue run: pid=2778
> 2000-11-30 18:08:01 13kqJX-UX-00 Message is frozen
> 2000-11-30 18:08:01 End queue run: pid=2778
> 2000-11-30 18:38:01 Start queue run: pid=577
> 2000-11-30 18:38:01 13kqJX-UX-00 Message is frozen
> 2000-11-30 18:38:01 End queue run: pid=577
> 
> I have this frozen message lying arround since I installed Potato some months 
> ago. 
> Why can this be?
> Is there a way to know something about the message?
> How do I get rid of it?
>  
> -- 
> __
> Daniel de los Reyes
> S2-Selling Soluciones
> Valencia Spain
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r0
> __
> 

Re: Log rotation error

[Ernest Johanson]

Eileen,

See the README.Debian doc in /usr/doc/mysql-server. It explains how to set
up a password for non-interactive access.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Eileen Orbell wrote:

> Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 09:09:13 -0500
> From: Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Log rotation error 
> 
> Hi All
> 
> I have this error emailed to me daily from root.  Does anyone know how I 
> can repair this?  I recall I had this when I used RH but can not remember 
> how to fix it?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> errors occured while rotating /var/log/mysql.err
> /usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> error: 'Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: NO)'
> error running postrotate script
> 
> 
> 
> Eileen Orbell
> Software & Internet Applications
> Capitol College
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Don't Fear the Penguin.
> 

Re: Debian apache woes

[Ernest Johanson]

> Except I suck at it.  I'm running debian potato (I run woody at home but
> I wouldn't trust it on a server till it's distributed officially) and
> apache 1.3.9. (I know, it is old, but it's the latest version in potato
> as far as I can see.)  

Keep trying. It really does get better.
 
> I'm having the following problems:
> 1) The worst:  Despite having umask 022 in /etc/.profile and everyone's
> personal .profiles, newly created directories are randomly getting bad
> perms.  This is bad because most of my users don't know what the hell
> permissions are, having none (except in very limited cases) in windows.
> I just taught my two main cronies about chmod 755 and 644 (for regular
> web files), but this shit can't keep happening.  (For FTPed files, I set
> up a umask in the wu-ftpd ftpaccess file to set things at 644 which
> seemed to work.)

Randomly getting bad perms? That sounds strange. Is there a pattern to the
permissions? Do the users who get the bad perms always get the same
ones? Do whatever you can to reproduce the problem so that you can see it
happening and not just rely on the users' input.  Eliminate as many
variables as you can and often the solution will present itself. 

Make sure the file in /etc is named profile, not .profile.

Woud it be possible to consider changing ftp servers? I have used proftpd
and have seen that the configuration process is much easier than wu-ftp. 

> 2) Periodically and randomly people alert me "I can't FTP."  This seems
> to occassionally clear up or people just tell me "I'm not having a
> problem anymore."  Since I can FTP fine, and can test the files I put
> there via FTP, I really can't see what the problem is for these people.
> Are they being stupid? I don't know, because it's now happened to two
> different people.

Does the machine have more than one network interface? If so, do an
nslookup and see what your DNS reports back. Check to see if you always
get the same IP address first (assuming more than one) or it reports them
in a different order with each lookup. If the ftp server  listens to a
particular IP address, ftp to the IP address and see what haapens.

> 3) After having CGI scripts "forbidden" for a while I finally found the
> umpteenth place where I had  to put an ExecCGI in the apache config
> files and now every CGI script on the page (one for using finger to
> return e-mail addresses of people put into the search thing via a second
> page frame, and one for a message board) is run and returns "internal
> errors." The error in /etc/logs/apache/error.log is that there is a
> premature ending of headers.

Check the script to make sure that before it sends any output back to the
client that it sends a header first. In Perl, the statement looks like so:

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

The two newlines are essential. 

> I am not usually this stupid. Honestly.  I run my own machine virtually
> error-free. Apache is simply the bane of my fucking existance. Please
> give me ANY input  you can. I'm going away for a semester and my
> co-admin thought this would be fine until everything simultaneously
> decided to break this week. :P
> 

Don't let the pressure get to you. Try to give yourself some
space. Remember that computers are relentlessly logical, even if it's a
logic not obvious at the time. A patient, disciplined approach of
assessing what you know about a problem, reducing it to the simplest
possible form and then proceeding to ask questions and try out different
hypotheses will often lead to the answer. And when it doesn't, then you
have valuable input to post a question to the list. 

Murphy's law will never be repealed.



Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary

Re: OT: Perl or PHP

[Ernest Johanson]

There are a number of factors to consider here. One is the kind of web
applications you are developing. For simple things (like a web form
submission) plain cgi works fine, is quick and easy to do. More complex
interactivity will require embeded code in HTML, databases, etc. Another
angle to consider is how much existing code is there that you can leverage
in your projects. There are tradeoffs to consider between flexibility and
simplicity. Most of the time, increasing flexiblity means increasing
complexity: the trick is to find the right balance for your
situation. There are Perl modules that will allow you to embed code in
your web pages. There is tons of code for PHP, Python and Perl
available. You might visit the main web sites for these languages and have
a look at tutorials, sample code, existing applications. Perhaps in light
of your technical background and potential projects one will seem more
appropriate. 

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, D-Man wrote:

> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 23:34:14 -0500
> From: D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: OT: Perl or PHP
> 
> I would recommend not using Perl.  Perl can let you do lots of complex text
> manipulation really easily, but it is a nightmare to debug, let alone 
> maintain. 
> It does too much magic with a lack of data types and automagic variables.  I
> would recommend Python if you want to do CGI scripting.  But as someone else
> said, you might want PHP instead of CGI scripting.
> 
> -D
> 
> On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 04:27:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>  | hi.  sorry for the off-topic post.  i'm embarking on a journey to be a web
>  | developer and would like to know if i should use mod.perl or mod.php for 
> cgi?
>  | i've searched and read alot of faqs and so far they're all just howtos.  
> the
>  | only conclusion i can come up with is with php u can use it directly with
>  | html
>  | (plus also call it from html code) whereas with perl the only way u can use
>  | it
>  | is to call it from your html code.
>  | 
>  | am i right with that assumption?
>  | 
>  | 
> 

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

[Ernest Johanson]

I have seen a situation where a system that began on Slackware was
migrated to Debian years ago. Several Debian upgrades have been done
since then. There are user ids between 500 and 100 and there hasn't been
any problems. Hopefully this isn't an accident going somewhere to happen.

One idea might be to do a search and replace on the passwd file, placing a
1 (or 2, etc) in front of the existing user id. That would necessitate
changing the ids on the user's files. I had a similar situation and wrote
a Perl script to read the passwd file and change the ownership, 
permissions, etc. It would need to be tweaked a little, but if you want I
can send it to you.


Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, B. Dragoo wrote:

> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:06:26 -0800 (PST)
> From: B. Dragoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server
> 
> This is not a "Which is better, Red Hat or Debian?"
> question, but a very specific question about a distro
> migration of one specific box. I've done a lot of
> research on this, and have found no answers particular
> enough to my situation.
> 
> The box in question is still running RH 5.2 (with all
> security patches, of course), and has had a very
> active user base of about 175 shell accounts since it
> went online in October of 1998.  It has had very
> impressive
> uptime and performance records.  However, it's been a
> rather large headache to keep current, given Red Hat's
> bugginess and lack of an update tool.  [I know that RH
> 7.0 has an update agent, and I thought for about two
> seconds about upgrading this box to 7.0 just for that
> tool.  But I tested that tool, and it is absolutely
> _horrible_; it's nothing like as
> easy/reliable/effective as apt-get, and RH 7.0 is much
> buggier than my box currently is anyway.]
> 
> Now, to the migration:  I'm actually migrating the
> whole system to a different machine, so I don't have
> the problem of having to change the distros on the
> same machine on the fly.  In fact, I've already got
> the new box up and running with an up-to-date Debian
> potato; it's just waiting for the users.  Most of the
> user migration is therefore very easy.  Just tar up
> the $HOME directories and /var/spool/mail, and copy
> them to the new box, etc..  
> 
> My main issue is getting user accounts over.  It would
> be very easy to copy the lines from my passwd, shadow,
> and group files over to the potato box, but I'm
> concerned about the fact that RH begins uids with 500,
> while Debian begins with 1000.  If I copied accounts
> directly from passwd file to passwd file, I'd end up
> with a bunch of Debian users with uids between 500 and
> 700.  I've already tested this with several user
> accounts, and it seemed to work fine; I'm just worried
> about things breaking down the road.
> 
> My questions, then, are these:  is there anything
> about this situation that will make Debian break?  Are
> there debianized packages that rely on having normal
> (i.e., non-system user)  uids above 1000?  Is there
> anything
> else about the migration of users that I need to be
> worried about?  I want this to be a very smooth
> transition that takes place at 3am some night;
> ideally, the less attentive users won't even know that
> the change has taken place.
> 
> Thanks,
> Belloc
> 
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Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

[Ernest Johanson]

The system uses the underlying user ids to identify files rather than the
user names. Run ls -ln to see the ids instead of the names. 

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, B. Dragoo wrote:

> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 10:37:59 -0800 (PST)
> From: B. Dragoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Ernest Johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server
> 
> 
> --- Ernest Johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> > One idea might be to do a search and replace on the
> > passwd file, placing a
> > 1 (or 2, etc) in front of the existing user id. That
> > would necessitate
> > changing the ids on the user's files. I had a
> > similar situation and wrote
> > a Perl script to read the passwd file and change the
> > ownership, 
> > permissions, etc. It would need to be tweaked a
> > little, but if you want I
> > can send it to you.
> 
> I would love to take a look at your script.  But I
> have one question:  why do the IDs on the users' files
> need to be changed?  It seems that files are owned and
> permissioned to user _names_ not uids.  If for example
> a file is owned by a user named "luser", after
> debianizing his redhat uid from 550 to 1550, that file
> would still be owned by the same username, even though
> his uid has changed, and nothing further would have to
> be done. Am I wrong?
> 
> Thanks for your response,
> Belloc
> 
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Re: Routing Issues

[Ernest Johanson]

Have you configured the Linux box to do address translation for the
Windows machines? If not then you will need to get that going first. There
is an IP-Masquerade HOWTO available that explains what to do. 

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Andrew Stephen wrote:

> Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 15:28:09 +0800
> From: Andrew Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Routing Issues
> 
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> 
> --=_NextPart_000_00B4_01BFAC6F.5D634F40
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>   charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
> Good day,
> 
> I have just installed Debian after being a RedHat user for a number of =
> year and have come across a small problem.
> 
> In the past I have always used two or three linux machines at home and =
> never with a Windows machine.  Having just re-established a permanent =
> connection to the net again, I am needing to connect my two Windows =
> machine's through my linux box to allow me to connect the the net.  All =
> I really want to achieve is to be able to use a web browser and telnet =
> from Windows machines to the net via the Linux box.
> 
> I am having problems get the Windows machine to see the internet through =
> my Linux box. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated or if I can be =
> pointed in the right direction
> 
> Here are some details that may help.
> 
> The Windows Machines have an IP address of 192.168.0.101 and =
> 192.168.0.102 and the Linix Box has an IP address of 192.168.0.100, I =
> have been assigned an IP address of 203.59.141.242 by my ISP for PPP =
> connection.
> 
> Regards,
> Andrew Stephen
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> Good day,
>  
> I have just installed Debian after =
> being a RedHat=20
> user for a number of year and have come across a small =
> problem.
>  
> In the past I have always used two or =
> three linux=20
> machines at home and never with a Windows machine.  Having just=20
> re-established a permanent connection to the net again, I am needing to =
> connect=20
> my two Windows machine's through my linux box to allow me to connect the =
> the=20
> net.  All I really want to achieve is to be able to use a web =
> browser and=20
> telnet from Windows machines to the net via the Linux box.
>  
> I am having problems get the Windows =
> machine to see=20
> the internet through my Linux box. Any suggestion would be greatly=20
> appreciated or if I can be pointed in the right direction
>  
> Here are some details that may help.
>  
> The Windows Machines have an IP address of 192.168.0.101 and =
> 192.168.0.102=20
> and the Linix Box has an IP address of 192.168.0.100, I have been =
> assigned an IP=20
> address of 203.59.141.242 by my ISP for PPP connection.
>  
> Regards,
> Andrew Stephen
>  
>  
> 
> --=_NextPart_000_00B4_01BFAC6F.5D634F40--
> 

Re: apache question

[Ernest Johanson]

Thanks for this post. This is a change I needed to make. If you are
running a recent version of apache, the cron job can be fixed by editing
cron.conf in /etc/apache. Set the variable APACHE_CHOWN_LOGFILES to 0. Be
default it is 1.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Thu, 25 May 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:

> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 20:07:10 -0800
> From: Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Ian Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: apache question
> 
> --sGwo475CiIwWEjLI
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
> On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 08:25:08PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> >=20
> > Ethan> however one thing you should do on a debian system is chown
> > Ethan> /var/www to root and make sure its not group writable.  also
> > Ethan> chown /var/log/apache/* to root.adm and make sure the
> > Ethan> permissions are 640 or 644.  (you have to fix the apache cron
> > Ethan> jobs to not undo this change)
> >=20
> > Ethan> for some insane reason debian leaves the www-root owned by
> > Ethan> www-data.www-data (the same user debian runs apache as) along
> > Ethan> with the logs.  this is totally wrong as the web server user
> > Ethan> should NOT own files or have any write permission to anything.
> > Ethan> if it does then all it takes is one of those unprivileged child
> > Ethan> processes to be exploited and your web site can be replaced and
> > Ethan> your logs can be removed. bad bad bad.
> >=20

Re: About Centralizing Passwords

[Ernest Johanson]

You can configure your machines to consult local files first, then NIS by
editing the file /etc/nsswitch.conf.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On 8 Jun 2000, M. Tavasti wrote:

> Date: 08 Jun 2000 08:22:22 +0300
> From: M. Tavasti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: About Centralizing Passwords
> 
> Benjamin Hudgens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Is there a client/server protocol that supports centralizing password
> > AND session information other than NIS.  If I'm not mistaken, NIS
> > requires that you STILL edit the password file and specify user dirs..
> > etc.  Perhaps I'm reading this wrong.. 
> 
> Yes, you are reading wrong. With NIS you get full passwd,group, alias,
> ... entries, just like they were local.
> 
> I consider safety beeing only problem in NIS. And all machines jammed
> totally if NIS server is down, even logging in as root (local
> account)... 
> 
> -- 
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> 

Looking for virus scanning solutions

[Ernest Johanson]

Does anyone know of virus scanning software that will scan incoming email,
web pages, etc. and run on Debian Linux? If it would run on the Alpha
platform so much the better. I have looked at Trend Micro's Virus Wall,
but it is hard-wired to Red Hat, and since we have all Debian systems here
I would like to keep it that way. The McAfee Virus Scan program works for
email attachments, but I need more that that. Ideally, I would also like
for the software to automatically update the virus signatures. Thanks in
advance for any and all suggestions.

Please cc me since I am reading the digest.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] shell scripting

[Ernest Johanson]

Have a look at http://www.oase-shareware.org/shell/. Lots of examples and
docs.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, David Wiard wrote:

> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 08:38:06 -0800
> From: David Wiard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: [OFF-TOPIC] shell scripting
> 
> Could someone point me in a good direction to start learning some shell
> scripting? I can do the extreme basic stuff, but I'd like to learn a lot
> more than I already know. Any references for learning perl? shell scripting
> in general?
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
> --
> dave wiard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> 
> The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
> 

Re: Routing Problem

[Ernest Johanson]

It looks to me like you need to set up the slink box to masqeurade for
your 192.168.2 network. The machines on the other side of your linux
machine have no idea what to do with a source address from your private
network. There is a how-to and kernel docs on this.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Simon Law wrote:

> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 20:10:47 -0500
> From: Simon Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Debian User 
> Subject: Routing Problem
> 
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> I seem to have a problem.  The problem is this:
> 
> I have two computers, one of them a Windows 98 box and one of them a
> slink box.  I am running on a residence network and they allow me
> only one IP.  It is 129.97.35.30 and it has to go through a gateway
> at 129.97.35.1 to get to the outside world.
> 
> When I set up my Windows box as 192.168.2.2, then I can ping
> 192.168.2.1, 129.97.35.30 and 129.97.35.1 from it.  However, I can't
> ping anyone else on 129.97.35.*, nor can I get to the outside world.
> 
> If I ping from my slink box, though, I'm perfectly fine.
> 
> I have already RTFM'd through the NET3-HOWTO and the Firewall-HOWTO.
> Any suggestions would be most helpful.  For your reference, I have
> attached the output to both ifconfig and route.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Simon.
> 
> - 
> --
> - --
> >ifconfig
> loLink encap:Local Loopback
>   inet addr:127.0.0.1  Bcast:127.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
>   UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3584  Metric:1
>   RX packets:403 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:403 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   Collisions:0
> 
> eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:C9:6F:72:E6
>   inet addr:129.97.35.30  Bcast:129.97.35.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>   UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:8362 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:303 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   Collisions:0
>   Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300
> 
> eth1  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:80:C8:16:52:BF
>   inet addr:192.168.2.1  Bcast:192.168.2.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>   UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:425 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:25 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   Collisions:0
>   Interrupt:11 Base address:0x340
> 
> - 
> --
> - --
> >route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref
> Use Iface
> 129.97.35.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  0
> 18 eth0
> 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  0
> 2 eth1
> 127.0.0.0   0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0   U 0  0
> 5 lo
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> 5 eth0
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Re: spice (fwd)

[Ernest Johanson]

Have a look at http://fides.fe.uni-lj.si/~spice/welcome.html. There isn't
a debian pacakge, but you may want to have a look. No source, just binary,
and I have a hunch it is compiled for slink. I couldn't get it to run on
potato.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 15:26:31 +1100
> From: Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: spice (fwd)
> 
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 03:19:08PM +, Suresh Kumar.R wrote:
> > 
> > Is a debian version of spice available?
> > 
> > Pl send a cc of the mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> No, as there are some copyright/license problems with spice.
> 
> You may wish to try 'acs', Al's Circuit Simulator, which is similar
> but better (faster, etc).
> 
> 
> Hamish
> -- 
> Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.
> 

Re: devices compatible list

[Ernest Johanson]

One of the best sources for this would be the Linux Documentation Project.
One source is http://www.cc.gatech.edu/linux/LDP/. Have a look at the
Hardware Compatibility HOW-TO. Also the Ethernet HOW-TO. Those documents
contain links to other sites that will give you lots of info.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Bret Rice wrote:

> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 20:24:10 -0800
> From: Bret Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: devices compatible list
> 
> Would appreciate a direct to a list of devices which are conmpatible
> with Debian.  My particular interest at the moment is 3Com 509 vs 905
> cards.
> thanks for the info,
> Bret
> 

Re: cron.daily isn't

[Ernest Johanson]

I had a similar experience recently on the alpha platform. If I added
something to the crontab file, it didn't run. I had to stop and start the
cron daemon to get the new entry to run. Reloading didn't do it. This is
on frozen.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:

> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:33:01 -0800
> From: kmself@ix.netcom.com
> To: debian-user 
> Subject: cron.daily isn't
> 
> I seem to have a problem with my anacron.  In particular, cron.daily
> scripts don't appear to run when advertised, or more troubling, at all.
> 
> Both cron and at are doing fine.
> 
> Anyone else had similar experiences?  Managing local news is getting to
> be a real PITA.
> 
> -- 
> Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com)
> What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
> 
> Scope out Scoop:  http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/
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> 

Re: IPFWADM Problems

[Ernest Johanson]

What does your routing table look like? If the default route is not set,
that could explain your problem. 

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Chris Brown wrote:

> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 18:09:29 -0500
> From: Chris Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: IPFWADM Problems
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a Debian system running kernel 2.0.38 that is supposed to be 
> acting as a router between two networks.  For the past many months, 
> we've had our nameserver doing the routing because it was far less 
> flaky.  We've fixed the problems in the hardware, finally, and would 
> like to go back to using the first box.  However, now we have some 
> problems.
> 
> Enabling IP Forwarding in the kernel does not allow packets to be 
> routed between interfaces.  I don't have any more information on 
> this, that's all there is.  From net-0 I can ping the net-0 side of 
> the router, but I can't ping the net-1 side of the router.  Both 
> network cards are hooked up and configured correctly.
> 
> Enabling IP Firewalling, flushing all the rules, and setting default 
> policy to accept also has no setting.  Once again, no error messages 
> anywhere - the box obviously thinks this is right.  I must have 
> missed something.
> 
> To make matters a bit weirder, IPX route happily between the 
> interfaces.  It's only IP that is causeing problems.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> CBrown
> 
> 
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Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

[Ernest Johanson]

You can tell proftpd to allow logins without a valid shell. It can also
set a default root directory for users so they can't see anything above
that point.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Adam Shand wrote:

> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 17:51:06 -0900 (AKST)
> From: Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, recipient list not shown:  ;
> Subject: Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'
> 
> > I want to have easy freedom in limiting user access.  I have killed
> > telnetd, and only sshd.  I want to allow some users access through ssh,
> > some through ftpd, and some through samba.  How can I turn off user
> > access through ssh, but keep their account, and allow them access
> > through ftp?  Can I allow users access to shares through samba, and
> > allow them to ftp in, but not ssh or telnet?
> 
> i'm not sure what you're options are for samba as i haven't used it for a
> long time ... 
> 
> for ssh you have two ways.  give them a shell which is useless (/bin/false
> or /bin/true or make your own, eg. /usr/local/bin/nossh).  then when they
> log in they will be immediately logged out again.  the other option is to
> use the "AllowGroups" option in the sshd_config file.  create a group called
> ssh, and add it to the AllowGroups option and then only people in the ssh
> group will be able to log in.
> 
> for ftp pretty much the only way to do this is via their shell.  ftp will
> only allow people to login whose shell is listed in /etc/shells.  give users
> you don't want to have ftp access a shell like /bin/false or
> /usr/local/bin/noftp and make sure that shell never gets added to
> /etc/shells.  more advanced ftp daemons like proftpd or ncftpd may have
> other options allowing you to do this via groups like ssh but i've never
> investigated it.
> 
> adam.
> 

Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

[Ernest Johanson]

The proftpd docs say that the daemon does a chroot operation after login
to restrict the user to a particular directory. The web site is at
www.proftpd.net. I am not sure how this compares to running a program
under the chroot command.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Pollywog wrote:

> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 20:20:15 - (UTC)
> From: Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user list 
> Subject: Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'
> 
> On 26-Mar-2000 19:16:30 Ernest Johanson wrote:
> > You can tell proftpd to allow logins without a valid shell. It can also
> > set a default root directory for users so they can't see anything above
> > that point.
> 
> Is this what is called "chroot"?
> 
> --
> Andrew
> 

kernel troubles

[Ernest Johanson]

I am setting up a Dell PowerEdge 1300, PIII/500 machine for a server. It
has an AIC 7890 SCSI controller, 512M of memory. When I complile a 2.2.12
kernel, I get 

LILO Loading Linux
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. 

And there it stops. It boots fine off of a 2.0.38 kernel from the install
disks. I started with slink off a CD, and upgraded to frozen (of 4/6/00).
I don't think this is a lilo problem, but wonder if there is something
going on with the compiling of the kernel. No modules, compiled as 686, 
bzImage. Any ideas? 



Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary

replacement for secure-su

[Ernest Johanson]

Does anyone know what happened to the secure-su package, and whether there
is a replacement? I couldn't find it in unstable, and the search function
on debian.org is down right now. Any help greatly appreciated. Please cc
me as I am getting the digest. Thanks in advance.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary

IBM Apiva 2144-m51 and the mwave card

[Ernest Tucker]

I was reading the incmpatibility list and saw that the mwave card needs
to have it firmware loaded before it will work.  Does anyone know if
this card has drivers that work if it the firmware is loaded and what it
takes to load it.

I am planning on procuring Debian 2.2 and loading it on my Aptiva and
can live without the modem and sound but it would be fun to have it.

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Please resend the Aptiva mwave instructions

[Ernest Tucker]

A fins sole sent em instructions on how to get the
mwave card on my aptiva to work and I promptly deleted
the mail by accident.  Caould that kind sole please
resend it to me?

thanks and sorry for the noise

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Re: why use Debian?

[Ernest Tucker]

I have been computing so long that I used to debug a
computer that was built with RTL cars and had a 26 bit
word.  You either latched the program in by hand or
loaded from octal tape. 
--- Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 03:00:22PM -0700, Monte
> Milanuk wrote:
> ...
> > Hey, it's nice to know that at least some of the
> people I talk to aren't
> > half my age (and able to run circles around me on
> Linux :( ).  
> > 
> > Some of these stories get interesting.  I'm
> waiting for someone to pipe
> > up that has been computing so long that they had
> to bang two rocks
> > together to get a '1'! 
> 
> the ones were easy, zeros were tricky, zen like:
> 
>   what's the sound of one rock banging together?
> 
> -- 
> groetjes, carel
> 
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Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

[Ernest Johanson]

Not sure how you would set things up with the install you have. What I
have done in the past is to install DOS, then install Windows (95) on the
same partition. During the install you will be asked where you want to
install Windows. Choose another directory so that you don't clobber
DOS. The Windows install will set up so that your boot process will be
able to boot to either one. A normal boot will go to Windows. If you hit
F8 right after the BIOS finishes setting up, you will get a menu, giving
the options of Normal, Safe Mode, Step by Step, etc. The last item in the
list is to Boot to Previous Version of DOS. Choose it and you will load
DOS.

Now install Linux. The Debian install process will ask you where you want
to install lilo, you want Master Boot Record. It will also ask you if
you have another operating system. Answer those questions and you should
have a dual-boot system, linux and windows. Use the F8 key to get to DOS.

If you are using NT, you will likey want to use the NT boot loader
instead. There is a HOW-TO on linuxdoc.org about it. 

HTH,


Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


> On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Ken Weingold wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote:
> > > hi, how is it possible to tripple boot dos/win/linux?  what i have done so
> > > far is:
> > > 1.  installed dos
> > > 2.  changed the fs type for fat16 to xenix, and windows then installs fine
> > > since it doesn't find dos.
> > > 3. installed linux.
> > > 4. now, i can boot either windows or linux fine.
> > > 5. if i now change xenix back to fat16 i cannot boot either dos or 
> > > windows.
> > > what i require is a way, in lilo.conf for example, for hiding the dos
> > > partition when windows loads and hiding the windows partition when dos
> > > loads. how is this possible? could you send a sample lilo.conf?
> > > dos is on hda1, win on hda2, linux on hda3 and swap is hda5 (extended.
> > > saqib
> >
> > I would highly recommend System Commander.  It is a boot manager that
> > will deal with all this seamlessly.  You can even have it hide
> > partitions, so you can install Windows with DOS already there.  Right
> > now I have running on my system: DOS 6.22, Win95 OSR2, Windows 2000,
> > and Linux.  All running just fine.
> >
> >
> >
> > -Ken
> >
> >
> 

bootpd trouble

[Ernest Johanson]

Hello all,

I'm having trouble with a bootpd server I recently migrated to a new
box. The old one (potato, kernel 2.2) worked fine. Moved the data to the
new box (testing, kernel 2.4) and most of the clients can get their
leases. The exceptions are some printers (HP 4000's mostly) that fail. The
request looks like this in tcpdump:

14:53:12.733894 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps:  xid:0x32158 
secs:20510 flags:0x8000 [|bootp]

Responses from the old server look like this:

14:53:12.741519 hostname.domain.tld.bootps > 255.255.255.255.bootpc:  
xid:0x32158 flags:0x8000
Y:printer.domain.tld S:server.doamin.tld ether 0:x:x:x:x:x sname 
"server" [|bootp]

Both servers record the transaction in daemon.log. Only the new server
actually sends it out. The new server never shows a response in
tcpdump. I've read the dhcp mini-howto which explains about adding a host
route for 255.255.255.255. Did that and still no result. Also looked
through the kernel docs to see if there was a /proc setting that needed
changing, but didn't see anything. A search on debian.org in the mail
arcihives and bug logs didn't turn up anything. Any and all suggestions
will be greatly appreciated.


Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary

Re: apache startup script

[Ernest Johanson]

You can use the extract function (dpkg -x) to get it. Get the package,
create a directory and extract it there. 

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, peanut butter wrote:

> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:04:14 -0700
> From: peanut butter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Debian Users 
> Subject: apache startup script
> 
> Hi, I felt the need to remove the apache installation I had on one
> of my Debian boxes to reinstall it as some things weren't making
> sense or as I would expect so I decided to start from scratch (with the
> default httpd.conf, etc.).
> 
> At some point I deleted the /etc/init.d/apache wanting to "refresh"
> this as well.  Now I can't get it back.  Upon several attempts to
> re-install "apache" and "apache-common", I get the error:
> 
> "Setting up apache (1.3.9-13.2) ...
> update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/apache: file does not exist" 
> 
> What, do you get one copy on your first installation and that's it
> . . . better not lose it :)
> 
> Which package should provide this?
> 
> Upon the first failed installation, retrying an install
> immediately again or trying a Configure doesn't solve the problem
> so it's not a package ordering problem.
> 
> -- 
> Paul Yeatman   (858) 534-9896[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>==
>==Proudly brought to you by Mutt==
>==
> 

Re: samba + netatalk

[Ernest Johanson]

I am currently reading a book that has some info on configuring a
Samba/Appletalk server. It's Linux Samba Server Administration by Roderick
W. Smith (Sybex, ISBN 0-7821-2740-1). Haven't gotten very far into the
book yet, but so far is well written and technically informed. 

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Pietro Cagnoni wrote:

> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:41:07 +0200
> From: Pietro Cagnoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user mailing list 
> Subject: Re: samba + netatalk
> 
> Liam Ward wrote:
> > 
> > I wonder if anyone has any experience of something like this...
> > 
> > Our office has a mixture of Windows and MacOS desktops. Packages to
> > allow the Macs to talk to the PCs are expensive ($150 per machine) so
> > I'm thinking of getting an old PC, putting Debian on it and setting
> > up shared disk space using Samba and Appletalk (netatalk)
> > simultaneously.
> > 
> > If anyone knows of any pitfalls before I start into this I'd
> > appreciate some pointers.
> 
> i found a nice one when i had to do the same thing:
> 
> if you connect your mac to the debian box fia tcp, everything is fine.
> 
> if you want the shared directory to appear when you browse the network
> on the map, it works for a while after the netatalk daemons start, then
> the shared stuff disappears!
> 
> the workaround i found (with a LOT of trials - a F%&@£*G LOT) is to
> switch off and back on the promiscuous mode of the nic every minute.
> 
> that's what i have in my root crontab:
> 
> 0 * * * * /sbin/ifconfig eth0 -promisc && /sbin/ifconfig eth0 promisc
> 
> btw, this happened since i switched from slink (kernel 2.0.38) to potato
> (kernel 2.2.17)
> 
> anyone else noticed?
> 
> furthermore, i wasn't able to get the macs on a different ethernet to
> talk via ddp with the debian box (the router is a debian box too, with
> netatalk installed) but maybe it's just because i don't know really
> anything about ddp...
> 
> again, everything is fine if you use tcp!
> 
> is there a netatalk guru out there? or a FM i can R? :-)
> 
> pietro.
> 
> P.S - sorry for the personal mail, liam - i keep hitting the wrong
> buttons...
> 

Cannot set Vera Serif as the default serif font

[Ernest Adrogué]

Hello,

I have defined the Bitstream Vera Serif as my preferred serif
font in my ~/.fonts.conf:

 
  serif

 Bitstream Vera Serif
 URW Palladio L
 FreeSerif

 

However, that particular font just seems to be ignored. When I
select the font "serif" I get the URW Palladio L. Aside from that
this font works well, so I guess it's fontconfig related.

Does anybody ken how to fix this... thing?

-- 
ernest

That's all you need tae dae in life. Just be yourself, he'd tell me.
It was the most difficult, challenging thing anybody ever asked of me.
--Irvine Welsh, Glue.


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Re: NIS Problems

[Ernest Johanson]

Hendrika,

Not sure what you might have already tried but one place to check is 3
files in the /etc/ directory: yp.conf, yp.serv.conf and ypserv.securenets.
Your  server will need to allow access from the client box, and know what
maps to serve. The client box will need to know the hostname or IP address
if it is not on the same network using broadcast mode. Check the
logs to see what errors there may be. There's docs for all of this in the package.

BTW, try configuring your email program so send text only messages and not
text with html. Will make your posts much easier to read in a text only
mail program.


Hope this is helpful.


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>
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> Hi there,
> I am running two debian servers and are having problems with nis =
> updating to my mail server. The one server is running all my data and =
> logins, etc and the other one is running my mail. I found that when i =
> created a user on my data server is wasn't updated to my mail server. =
> The data server is running debian 2.4.26 and the mail 2.4.18-bf2.4. Is =
> there something really simple that i am missing or can try. If anyone =
> has any suggestions please let met know. I am running out of ideas and i =
> am not good at things this big. I just handle the basics and i did not =
> set up nis originally.=20
>
> Thanks=20
>
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> 
> 
> Hi there,
> I am running two debian servers and are =
> having=20
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> all my=20
> data and logins, etc and the other one is running my mail. I found that =
> when i=20
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> something=20
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> suggestions please=20
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> big. I=20
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> 
>  
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>  
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>



Ernest Johanson
Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


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Re: nfs-kernel-server and firewalls

[Ernest Johanson]

Been following this thread and understand that the goal is to configure a
firewall to control access to the ports used for NFS. If so, then suggest
the following:

#!/bin/sh

NFSPORTS=`rpcinfo -p | awk '/tcp/||/udp/ {print $4}' | sort | uniq`
for PORT_NUM in $NFSPORTS
do

  iptables -A INPUT -j  -s  -p  --dport $PORT_NUM
  ...
done


Hope this is helpful.


On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Tom Allison wrote:

> Tadeusz Bak wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Tom Allison wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Portmapper sits on one port, but it's redirecting the nfs connection all
> >>over the place.  I can't seem to nail it down to one set of ports.
> >
> >
> > The rpc services called by portmaper can be binded to specific ports, see
> > man pages for details. To find out what services are registered run:
> > rpcinfo -p
> >
> > Greetings,
> >   Tad
> >
> >
>
> I have one connection working, always did.
> The working machine is on 192.168.1.0/24, the non-working machine is on
> 192.168.0.0/24 (DMZ)
>
> /etc/exports:
> /var/www192.168.1.0/24(rw,no_root_squash)
>
> These are identical on both machines
> /etc/hosts.allow is identical on both machines (empty)
>
> I've opened up port 111 (sunrpc) for both udp and tcp protocols
> and restarted both the port mapper and the nfs-kernel-server.
>
> Now I get iptables blocking on port 989/udp->989/udp (ftps-data) which
> doesn't make any sense.  Next time I try to mount I get 995->989 and it
> keeps changing with each trial of 'mount -t nfs cling:/var/www/ /cling/'
> (cling is the machine name, DNS works great!).
>
> I'm not really sure what's roaming on the IP addresses, but I kind of
> can't use that under a firewalled device.
>



Ernest Johanson
Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


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Re: nfs-kernel-server and firewalls

[Ernest Johanson]

Good refinement to tighten things up.


On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Tom Allison wrote:

> Ernest Johanson wrote:
> > Been following this thread and understand that the goal is to configure a
> > firewall to control access to the ports used for NFS. If so, then suggest
> > the following:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > NFSPORTS=`rpcinfo -p | awk '/tcp/||/udp/ {print $4}' | sort | uniq`
> > for PORT_NUM in $NFSPORTS
> > do
> >
> >   iptables -A INPUT -j  -s  -p  --dport $PORT_NUM
> >   ...
> > done
> >
> >
>
>
> # NFS
> # First you open up the RPC port
> iptables -A INPUT -i $IFACE -p udp -s $LAN --sport $LO_PORTS \
>  -d $IF_ADDRESS --dport sunrpc -m state --state NEW \
>  -j ACCEPT
> iptables -A INPUT -i $IFACE -p tcp -s $LAN --sport $LO_PORTS \
>  -d $IF_ADDRESS --dport sunrpc -m state --state NEW \
>  -j ACCEPT
>
> # Since rpc is so varied and large in it's ports I thought
> # It easiest to just capture them all there and scroll throue
> # the list.  One for TCP, one for UDP
> TCP=`rpcinfo -p | grep "3   tcp" | awk '{print $4}' | sort | uniq`
> for P in $TCP; do
>  iptables -A INPUT -i $IFACE -p tcp -s $LAN --sport $LO_PORTS \
>  -d $IF_ADDRESS --dport $P -m state --state NEW \
>  -j ACCEPT
> done
>
> UDP=`rpcinfo -p | grep "3   udp" | awk '{print $4}' | sort | uniq`
> for P in $UDP; do
>  iptables -A INPUT -i $IFACE -p udp -s $LAN --sport $LO_PORTS \
>  -d $IF_ADDRESS --dport $P -m state --state NEW \
>  -j ACCEPT
> done
>



Ernest Johanson
Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


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Re: nfs-kernel-server and firewalls

[Ernest Johanson]

Right. It can go in /etc/init.d or in /etc/network/interfaces. Probably
better in interfaces so the rules are applied as soon as the interfaces
are up.


On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Tom Allison wrote:

> Ernest Johanson wrote:
> > Good refinement to tighten things up.
> >
> >
>
> Thanks.
>
> I thought it would be necessary to re-run rpcinfo each time I booted
> because I can't find anything that says these ports are a certainty.
> That, and I only have NFS 3 support that I have to worry about.
>
>
>
> >>
> >>
> >># NFS
> >># First you open up the RPC port
> >>iptables -A INPUT -i $IFACE -p udp -s $LAN --sport $LO_PORTS \
> >> -d $IF_ADDRESS --dport sunrpc -m state --state NEW \
> >> -j ACCEPT
> >>iptables -A INPUT -i $IFACE -p tcp -s $LAN --sport $LO_PORTS \
> >> -d $IF_ADDRESS --dport sunrpc -m state --state NEW \
> >> -j ACCEPT
> >>
> >># Since rpc is so varied and large in it's ports I thought
> >># It easiest to just capture them all there and scroll throue
> >># the list.  One for TCP, one for UDP
> >>TCP=`rpcinfo -p | grep "3   tcp" | awk '{print $4}' | sort | uniq`
> >>for P in $TCP; do
> >> iptables -A INPUT -i $IFACE -p tcp -s $LAN --sport $LO_PORTS \
> >> -d $IF_ADDRESS --dport $P -m state --state NEW \
> >> -j ACCEPT
> >>done
> >>
> >>UDP=`rpcinfo -p | grep "3   udp" | awk '{print $4}' | sort | uniq`
> >>for P in $UDP; do
> >> iptables -A INPUT -i $IFACE -p udp -s $LAN --sport $LO_PORTS \
> >> -d $IF_ADDRESS --dport $P -m state --state NEW \
> >> -j ACCEPT
> >>done
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Ernest Johanson
> > Systems Administrator
> > Fuller Theological Seminary
> >
>
>



Ernest Johanson
Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


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Re: x doesn't work; mouse configuration blues

[Ernest Johanson]

If you haven't already, try verifying that /dev/psaux does in fact
exist. If not, it will have to be created. Also, check to see if gpm is
installed. gpm gives you mouse control of the cursor wihin a console, and
can cause problems under X.


Ernest Johanson
Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Christopher R Laughman wrote:

> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 00:05:05 -0400
> From: Christopher R Laughman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: x doesn't work; mouse configuration blues
> 
>   i'm having a really difficult time installing
> debian for the first time. i've been using redhat for
> a few years, but getting x to work in debian is proving
> difficult. the initial installation of the bf2.4 version
> of woody appeared to work well, but when the computer 
> rebooted and tried to startx, it tried a few times and 
> then prompts to configure the X server. it is then able 
> to start X with a 1280x1400 (or whatever it is) resolution, 
> but the mouse doesn't work whatsoever. the information for 
> the monitor and the video card is correct in the XF86 
> config file; the mouse i have is a 2 button Trekker, which
> has always worked in redhat when i specified "random 
> 2-button ps/2 mouse."
> 
> thanks
> 
>   c
> ... 
> 
> ... config file
> 
> ...

> # **
> # Core Pointer's InputDevice section
> # **
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 
> # Identifier and driver
> 
> Identifier"Mouse1"
> Driver"mouse"
> Option "Protocol""Microsoft"
> Option "Device"  "/dev/psaux"
> 
> # When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment
> # the following line.
> 
> #Option "Protocol""Xqueue"
> 
> # Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice. In
> # almost every case these lines should be omitted.
> 
> #Option "BaudRate""9600"
> #Option "SampleRate"  "150"
> 
> # Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button Microsoft mice
> # Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds (default is 50ms)
> 
> Option "Emulate3Buttons"
> #Option "Emulate3Timeout""50"
> 
> # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice
> 
> #Option "ChordMiddle"
> 
> EndSection
> 
 ...


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Re: Securing POP3

[Ernest Johanson]

Chris,

Perdition 1.11 can function as a POP3s proxy. Currently it's in
unstable, which might not be what you want.  If you're comfortable
compiling apps from source, you can get the distribution and docs from
http://www.vergenet.net/linux/perdition. I had to add an extra debian
package or two and create a link to get everything working. Can provide
the details if you'd like.

Tried Qpopper and had trouble with it. Particularly with Outlook Express
and attachments, and with uses who leave mail on the server.  Sometimes
it workes fine, other times it refuses to download the mail. Tried all the
suggested fixes but still have the problems. Have about 1700 users, so
YMMV. The qpopper mailing list has lots of traffic on this issue.


Ernest Johanson
Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Christopher Swingley wrote:

> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:16:13 -0800
> From: Christopher Swingley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Securing POP3
> 
> Greetings!
> 
> What options do I have for securing POP3 on a Debian server?  I've got 
> clients connecting with all varieties of platforms (proprietary UNIX, 
> Linux, Win XX, Max OS 9 / 10) and mail user agents (Eudora, Mozilla 
> Mail, Netscape Mail, Lookout Express, Outhouse, etc.).  Around 50 
> clients, some setting their MUA's to check every 30 seconds. . .
> 
> 'sslwrap' seems like one option.  I'm interested in people's experiences 
> and suggestions.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris
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