RE: ssh1<->ssh2

2000-06-26 Thread Dr. Orange
You shouldn't have sshd1 and 2 start up. Rather, you want sshd2 to start up, and call on sshd1 if someone tries to conect through this method. to do it: - clear the init.d (and or cron) scripts that start up sshd1 - open /etc/ssh2/sshd2_config - set "Port" to 22 - set ssh1Compatib

Re: gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

2000-06-26 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 12:18:42PM -0400, paul wrote: [...] > In my expirience, this problem is mouse dependant, on one box I have a > mouse that requires a different protocol under gpm than under X-window but > the mouse will not auto-switch when X-window starts, so I don't run gpm on > that bo

Re: dictd cannot access localhost

2000-06-26 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 02:24:41AM -0400, Valdemir Melechco Carvalho wrote: > After a system upgrade, my dictd does not work any more. It can connect > dict.org but it fail with localhost. The only information I got was: > >Trying localhost (127.0.0.1) Can't connect to localhost.2628 > I think /etc

dialup scripts

2000-06-26 Thread Andre Berger
I would like to add a script "/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/zzdone" which looks for a file "MAILONLY" in the Home-directory of the non-root user who invoked pon, and if this file exists, terminates the PPP session of this user. How can "etc/ppp/ip-up.d/zzdone" know which user started "pon"? The pppd process i

Re: gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

2000-06-26 Thread paul
Mike said: > Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 02:58:21PM +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > > > > > Hi John, > > > > > > On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > > > > > > > Killing gpm (through "gpm -k" and "/etc/init.d/gpm stop") makes the > > > > mouse work in

Re: gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

2000-06-26 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 02:58:21PM +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi John, > > On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > > > Killing gpm (through "gpm -k" and "/etc/init.d/gpm stop") makes the > > mouse work in X and fixes the display problems in the framebuffer. > > Does anyone

Re: dialup scripts

2000-06-26 Thread John Hasler
Andre writes: > How can "etc/ppp/ip-up.d/zzdone" know which user started "pon"? The pppd > process is owned by root... Pppd knows who started it. From the man page: The environment vari­ ables that pppd sets are: ... PPPLOGNAME The username of the real

Re: kernel-image and apt-get -f dist-upgrade

2000-06-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > However, the next time I do an apt-get -f dist-upgrade, apt wants > to mess this all up. I have tried naming my kernel 2.2.15-9, > custom.2.2.15-9, work.9, custom.1, and simply 1. I thought that naming it > 2

dpkg --smallmem

2000-06-26 Thread David Karlin
Hello, Is there a way to get dpkg to use the <4MB ram optimization (invoked by the --smallmem command-line option) when using apt-get or the dselect/apt method? This is for a 4MB notebook (until I get a ram upgrade for it). TIA. P.S. Please CC: me directly; thank you. -- David Karlin [EMAIL

Re: Debian CD ROMs

2000-06-26 Thread Preben Randhol
Mark Marburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 24/06/2000 (03:14) : > Why do I keep hearing about multiple CDs? I only got ONE CD in my package. > Am I missing a CD or two? Could this be why I can't install anything > WTF!?!?? Potato (the new upcoming Debian GNU/Linux 2.2) are on 3 CDs. --

Re: gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

2000-06-26 Thread Mike Werner
Brenda J. Butler wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 02:58:21PM +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > > > Hi John, > > > > On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > > > > > Killing gpm (through "gpm -k" and "/etc/init.d/gpm stop") makes the > > > mouse work in X and fixes the display prob

Re: resize - delete partitions ??

2000-06-26 Thread Patrick Draper
If /usr and /usr/local are right next to each other, you should be able to delete both of those, and then recreate a single partition using the same cylinders that were used for two partitions before. I have not tried this though Back up your system thoroughly before you do this. Recently IBM

kernel-image and apt-get -f dist-upgrade

2000-06-26 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Greetings to the list, I know this issue has come up before (I have searched through the mailing list archives), yet even after trying all of the suggestions in the archives, I STILL have this recurring problem: I used make-kpkg to build my own 2.2.15 kernel (using kernel-source package).

Re: X broken at 3.3.6-8 potato update!!! a work-around fix

2000-06-26 Thread James D. Freels
The fix as recommended by several folks is to "rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix" I trust this information is being passed on to the developers without a formal bug report. Thanks to all for responding!! -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.

Re: X broken at 3.3.6-8 potato update!!!

2000-06-26 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In the recent potato update of the X packages from >3.3.6-7 to 3.3.6-8, it caused it to quit working. I will >file a bug report if not fixed right away. You might try e.g. bug #66225. (Executive summary: "removing /tmp/.X11-unix allowed it to run again".) -- Colin Wa

Re: X broken at 3.3.6-8 potato update!!!

2000-06-26 Thread Robert L. Harris
A bunch of us got this. The answer that worked for me was to cd /tmp rm -rf .X* startx Worked great. There has been discussion on the list as to what is broken so hopefully the maintainers know about it now. Robert Thus spake James D. Freels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > In the recent potato u

Re: X broken at 3.3.6-8 potato update!!!

2000-06-26 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 09:35:08AM -0400, James D. Freels wrote: > > In the recent potato update of the X packages from > 3.3.6-7 to 3.3.6-8, it caused it to quit working. I will > file a bug report if not fixed right away. The error > messages on startup are: > > X: server socket directory ha

Re: To strict dependencies when building package

2000-06-26 Thread Colin Watson
Kjetil Thuen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Depends: gdk-imlib1 (>= 1.9.8.1-helix1), libart2 (>= 1.2.3-helix2), >libaudiofile0, libc6 (>= 2.1), libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libdb2 (>= 1:2.4.14-7), >libesd0 (>= 0.2.16) | libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.16), libgdk-pixbuf2, >libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), libgnome32 (>= 1.2.3-helix2

X broken at 3.3.6-8 potato update!!!

2000-06-26 Thread James D. Freels
In the recent potato update of the X packages from 3.3.6-7 to 3.3.6-8, it caused it to quit working. I will file a bug report if not fixed right away. The error messages on startup are: X: server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting. _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: er

To strict dependencies when building package

2000-06-26 Thread Kjetil Thuen
I am just about to release a new version of a program I am writing. For this version I have promised my users binary packages. Making the .deb went relatively smoothly, but the resulting packages dependencies turned out to strict. The package is built on a machine with Helix-GNOME installed (and

Dial in

2000-06-26 Thread Bill
Hi all, How do you configure Debian to authenticate an incoming call. or where to find info on doing this. Thanks in advance Bill * The Mind is like a parachute; it works much better when it's open.

How to make my own potato (2.2) installation CDs ?

2000-06-26 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Hello, I went to the http://cdimages.debian.org site, and found out there exists a pseudo-image kit for building my own CDs to install Debian. How wonderful! I would like to be able to build my own potato (or woody) CD set to install cleanly on a fresh computer without any OS on top of it. The thin

Login Message

2000-06-26 Thread Bill
Hi all Can anyone tell me where to change the login message when logging into Debian Box with SSH. Thanks in advance Bill * The Mind is like a parachute; it works much better when it's open. **

RE: resize - delete partitions ??

2000-06-26 Thread Pollywog
Check out "parted". I have not used it myself, but it looks as though that is something that could be used for this. You can find it at TUCOWS Linux. -- Andrew

Re: gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

2000-06-26 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi John, On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > Killing gpm (through "gpm -k" and "/etc/init.d/gpm stop") makes the > mouse work in X and fixes the display problems in the framebuffer. > Does anyone have any ideas about what could be causing this? How does your setup in XF86Confi

preloading library on setgid binary

2000-06-26 Thread Michael Meskes
Is there any way to accomblish that? I have a binary that runs setgid. It needs a different version of a library that usually resides in /usr/lib. And of course LD_LIBRARY_PATH or LD_PRELOAD do not work. Here's the scenario: /usr/local/bin/foo need version 2.0 of library libbar. However, a lot o

Re: Ctrl-C and normal kill doesn't work.

2000-06-26 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:47:43AM +0200, Michalowski Thierry wrote: > Nope. You will have to understand the "signals" mechanism underlying > all that. kill is just a program that sends a signal to a running > process. Really, it doesn't "kill" anything, it just sends a signal. Interestingly eno

Re: ssh1<->ssh2

2000-06-26 Thread dyer
Geza GYORGYI wrote: > In potato I would like to have ssh2 with ssh1 compatibility. I > installed ssh-nonfree for ssh1, also installed ssh2, and set in > /etc/ssh2_config the option Ssh1AgentCompatibility to > "traditional".Both daemons were fired up by the installer, and > they are now runni

Re: Problem with es1371

2000-06-26 Thread John S. J. Anderson
> "Petteri" == Petteri Heinonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Petteri> Hi. I've compiled new kernel, and made soundcard support as Petteri> modules. I've SB64PCI card, which I think is preferred as Petteri> es1371. What _version_ of the kernel? I've got a card that reports as a es1371, and (du

RE: ssh1<->ssh2

2000-06-26 Thread Jason Holland
Better yet, install openssh. it has both sshv1 and sshv2 support. http://www.openssh.com Jason > > In potato I would like to have ssh2 with ssh1 compatibility. I > installed ssh-nonfree for ssh1, also installed ssh2, and set in > /etc/ssh2_config the option Ssh1AgentCompatibility to > "tra

Re: Diff window manager

2000-06-26 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Suresh Kumar. R wrote: > Can different users select different window managers if it is mentioned > in the /etc/X11/window-managers file.? 1. In potato, /etc/X11/window-managers is obsolete. Use update-alternatives --config x-window-manager instead to select the d

RE: SB 1024 Live is now working, *hurray*!

2000-06-26 Thread Mark
Hi, just wanted to report a succes story (with a little bit of love, intrege and mistery shoved in!) I could not get my SB 1024 Live working. (when played I got: /dev/dsp no such device! (I had MKDEVed audio) Then I trien installing updated ALSA packages and could not get them working either (mod

resize - delete partitions ??

2000-06-26 Thread Goeman Stefan
Hello Everybody, I have a problem concerning my partitions. I have a partion /usr and /usr/local. The partition /usr is almost full while /usr/local is as good as empty. I would like to change my partition table so that the partition /usr/local is removed and this disk space is added to the pa

Re: Trouble with internal network

2000-06-26 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Mostly Harmless wrote: > I'm trying to get an internal network working so that I can set up IP > masquerading for a few Windows boxen (side question: anyone know what > IPs to block to prevent @home from probing for home networks?). > > Here's the output of /sbin/ifconfig -a

Fvwm features vanished on upgrade

2000-06-26 Thread Geza GYORGYI
After I upgraded slink to the present potato, the buttons and the pager of fvwm2 vanished from the desk at login. They were specified in /etc/X11/fvwm/system.fvwm2rc. Most of the fvwm modules in the menu do not work either. I know that some configuration changed in the newest fvwm2, as describe

Re: Problem with es1371

2000-06-26 Thread Jens Guenther
Hi! On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:31:52AM +0300, Petteri Heinonen wrote: > I've compiled new kernel, and made soundcard support as modules. I've > SB64PCI card, which I think is preferred as es1371. I've tried to do as told I do not know which settings you need in conf.modules to make this work, but

RE: Ctrl-C and normal kill doesn't work.

2000-06-26 Thread Harald Thingelstad
> Boot the machine down to runlevel 1 (single user) and try it again > without X and gnome running it might act differently > > Does your other control key make any difference? > > -- > From: Harald Thingelstad[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 26 June 2000 8:2

how to make custom install cd-s?

2000-06-26 Thread Robert Varga
How can I make a customized install CD which boots a kernel which I created and installs a base image which contains the same custom kernel? It would make it easier to create RAID-root installations. Afterwards, all one would need to create such installs with an otherwise regular Debian install

Re: Ctrl-C and normal kill doesn't work.

2000-06-26 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Nope. You will have to understand the "signals" mechanism underlying all that. kill is just a program that sends a signal to a running process. Really, it doesn't "kill" anything, it just sends a signal. There are a bunch of signals defined on your system, that you can list with a 'kill -l' . Wh

ssh1<->ssh2

2000-06-26 Thread Geza GYORGYI
In potato I would like to have ssh2 with ssh1 compatibility. I installed ssh-nonfree for ssh1, also installed ssh2, and set in /etc/ssh2_config the option Ssh1AgentCompatibility to "traditional".Both daemons were fired up by the installer, and they are now running simultaneously. Is this rig

Window manager not starting on upgrade to potato

2000-06-26 Thread Suresh Kumar. R
Hi, I upgraded my deb 2.1 to potato. There were no error messages during the upgrade, but now after the upgrade no window managers are starting. I get just a blank xterm like stuff and if I run fvwm95, fvwm95 window manager starts as expected. But it doesnt come automatically as we log in.

Diff window manager

2000-06-26 Thread Suresh Kumar. R
Hi, Can different users select different window managers if it is mentioned in the /etc/X11/window-managers file.? Suresh -- Suresh Kumar.R, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Electronics & Communic

Re: Trying to get my Scanner going

2000-06-26 Thread M. Tavasti
Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > trying to get my Scanner to work. I have an HP ScanJet 5100C. I've Check if it's compatible with sane. If it's SCSI, it should be. http://www.mostang.com/sane/ -- M. Tavasti / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / +358-40-5078254 Poista sähköpostiosoitteesta

Error in ssh-1.2.3 upgrade

2000-06-26 Thread Rodríguez
Hi there, I dont get to fix this problem. I have several Linux servers with Deb-potato and 2 have upgraded (today) the packages perfectly (included ssh) but i have 2 with this error: - PLEASE HELP - Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW

Problem with es1371

2000-06-26 Thread Petteri Heinonen
Hi. I've compiled new kernel, and made soundcard support as modules. I've SB64PCI card, which I think is preferred as es1371. I've tried to do as told in linux-sound-howto, but pnpdump founds no boards, so I can't configure isapnp.conf. But I'm not even sure do I have to use isapnp? After all, this

Module problem

2000-06-26 Thread Petteri Heinonen
Hello. I've compiled new kernel, and made modules and modules_install after that. I managed to boot with new kernel but I got several 'unresolved symbols in /lib/2.2.15/misc/something.o' messages (where something's are module names). What should I do to get rid of those messages? Petteri Heinonen

Re:auto-login patch for xdm-Buggy and locked Linux

2000-06-26 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> So.it's a good thing I have experience on how to boot in runlevel 1 > run fsck and keep track of all changes.:-) :) > You can guess already that things didn't worked.Shortly ,after all > the modifications done to kdm so you patched and compiled by hand, right? if so, how did you compile? using

Re: Ctrl-C and normal kill doesn't work.

2000-06-26 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 10:22:21PM +0200, Harald Thingelstad wrote > This frustrating little problem... > > When having a running process, ctrl-c or kill doesn't work on my system. > You have to use kill -9. > > A simple example: > ping 127.0.0.1 > this process is meant to run as long as you want

Synchronising many machines.

2000-06-26 Thread Brendan Simon
I am maintaining quite a few machines that run Debian.  I presently only have access to a 56K modem link.  I have some powerpc machines and some intel machines.  I presently try to keep them in sync by doing an "apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade" on one intel machine and one powerpc machine.  I

rarpd support

2000-06-26 Thread C. Falconer
Okay - who whipped rarp support out of kernel 2.4 ? I have a couple sun 3/50s here acting as xterminals, and without rarpd they don't know their IPs. dhcpd can't handle that functionality the same - what can I do? I have tried dhcpd.deb which can't do it I've downloaded and compiled and instal

Re:auto-login patch for xdm-Buggy and locked Linux

2000-06-26 Thread Mircea Luca
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > > I agree, we could start xdm in rnlevel 3 and "su someuser startx" in > > > runlevel > > > 4. > > > > > Great,I'll keep an eye and try it as soon as it's done.Thanks. > > > why do you want to wait? ;-) > > i attached my auto-login script again. now it has the aut

Re: anyone using xosview?

2000-06-26 Thread Geza GYORGYI
Neither did xosview come up in my mixed slink-potato environment, but now that I have upgraded to pure potato, it is working again. Géza Györgyi Eötvös University, Budapest, Pf. 32, 1518 HUNGARY, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: package versions in dselect, and Release file

2000-06-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 25 Jun 2000, Ian Zimmerman wrote: >dpkg-scanpackages binarydir overridefile [pathprefix] > >Packages > >binarydir is the name of the binary tree to process (for >example, contrib/binary-i386). It is best to make this >relative to the root of th