Accelstar graphics card
Hi, If anybody uses Accelstar II graphics card could you tell me the right Xserver for this card ? Any other tips for X use wiould be appreciated TIA George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
Re: network help
Following your suggestion I pinged my gateway by IP rsther than name. The thing hang after printing a line. So maybe what you say about the card not working correctly is right. I was wondering: Win98 has no problem with recognizing and using the card. Why should Linux ? As this is not my computer tha card is there to stay. Additonally I would like to use the box as a server for math application to be accessed through telnet only . So I need to be sure that the card is the problem and if so remove Deibian Do you know any methods that can tell me fpor certain that the card is to blame ? Thanks again for your help George On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Paul Miller wrote: G. Kapetanios wrote: Thanks for the reply ifconfig gives the followng 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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:E8:CC:28:7D inet addr:194.81.117.61 Bcast:194.81.117.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300 route -n gives Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 194.81.117.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 01 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 194.81.117.10.0.0.0 UG1 01 eth0 Notice that 194.81.117.1 is the gateway I have given in the configuration This info looks fine to me. dmesg gives the following network card related info. loading device 'eth0'... ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 00 e8 cc 28 7d eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 3. loading device 'eth1'... Now why does it say loading device eth1? I have no clue. Hmmm... It seems to me that the card is correctly detected the problem is with the gateway I guess since route (not route -n) hangs Just for grins try pinging 194.81.117.1. Do not use the host name. Use the IP address. Does it still give you problems? If it does not, you should take a look at /etc/resolve.conf and make sure you have your DNS server listed there. The reason why route hangs is because your machine cannot find a host name for the IP address of your gateway. If you cannot ping an IP address, the network card might not be workign right. It could be a bad network cable or wall jack. Hope this helps -- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
Re: network help
Thanks for the reply ifconfig gives the followng 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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:E8:CC:28:7D inet addr:194.81.117.61 Bcast:194.81.117.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300 route -n gives Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 194.81.117.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 01 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 194.81.117.10.0.0.0 UG1 01 eth0 Notice that 194.81.117.1 is the gateway I have given in the configuration dmesg gives the following network card related info. loading device 'eth0'... ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 00 e8 cc 28 7d eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 3. loading device 'eth1'... It seems to me that the card is correctly detected the problem is with the gateway I guess since route (not route -n) hangs Any help will be appreciated Thanks On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Paul Miller wrote: G. Kapetanios wrote: Hi, I am trying to set up thi computer at work with Debian. All works fine apart from the network. This is a novell environment. I have set up one computer in a novell environment before and it was fine. however here I have problems. The newtwork card is working OK as far as I can tell. On boot the kernel finds it and although some mention of the eth1 interface is made at that stage, ifconfig states that eth0 is used. I can ping myself either using localhost or the IP Can you give us the output of dmesg dealing with your network card? address or the name of the machine. Ifconfig reports that lo and eth0 is up. But any attempt to ftp ping telnet anything outside of the machine does not work. route reports the localnet and 127.0.0.0 and then hangs. No gateway seems to be available as * is in place of the gateway. However I am using the same number as the other Win98 computers report in the TCP/IP installed gateways in network in control panel. I have not seen this problem before and I am at a loss for solving. Any help will be appreciated. What would help here would be the output of ifconfig and 'route -n'. The -n tells route not to do DNS lookup for host names, but print IP addresses. What is your gateway's IP, and what is your netmask? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
network help
Hi, I am trying to set up thi computer at work with Debian. All works fine apart from the network. This is a novell environment. I have set up one computer in a novell environment before and it was fine. however here I have problems. The newtwork card is working OK as far as I can tell. On boot the kernel finds it and although some mention of the eth1 interface is made at that stage, ifconfig states that eth0 is used. I can ping myself either using localhost or the IP address or the name of the machine. Ifconfig reports that lo and eth0 is up. But any attempt to ftp ping telnet anything outside of the machine does not work. route reports the localnet and 127.0.0.0 and then hangs. No gateway seems to be available as * is in place of the gateway. However I am using the same number as the other Win98 computers report in the TCP/IP installed gateways in network in control panel. I have not seen this problem before and I am at a loss for solving. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
Re: Partition confusion
Shouldn't you create an ext2 filesystem on that partition with mkfs ? george On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Jeff Miller wrote: Hello, My drive 0 (hda) has three partitions. The first two are FAT32 Windoze and I have wiped, removed, and re-created the third with cfdisk. I selected 'Logical' as the type, through cfdisk, and it was assigned a Type of 83 (Linux). I can mount it and everything seems to be ok. My problem is this: I want to copy everything from my Linux drive (hdc) /usr directory to this new partition but when I do 'cp -r * /newpartition' I get error messages that report the drive type as UMSDOS. The files seem to copy, but it doesn't appear that I have the correct format on that partition. Is any of this making sense? My goal is to mount that partition as /usr to make use of the extra space, but I don't think I'm doing something right. Do I have to do something beside setup a partition with cfdisk? Thanks In Advance Jeff Miller -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
anyone using xringd in the UK?
Hi, I would like to know if anyone has had any luck with getting xringd to work with an ISP service in the UK? If yes could you send me an email with more details ? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
exim question
Hi, I was wondering whether anyone could send me a sample exim config file. I am trying to get email to work over ppp to my ISP. I can'yt figure out how to specify the smtp server in exim.conf. Or is it not sepcified there ? A related question. What setup should I prefer iif I want my email sent from my machine and delivered to my machine from my ISP automatically and once or twice per day ? Fetchmail and POP3 plus exim or exim on its own ? Any ideas for preffered setups will be greatky appreciated. TIA George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
Re: HP 5L still giving problems!!
I had the same proble. My HP 6L would not work. I tried magicfilter. ASCII text printed fine but postscript dvi e.t.c. were garbage. I then wrote a little script which uses explicitly gs and dvihp as filters to turn ps and dvi files into the printers native languge (PCL I think ) It essentially involves the same lines as in the ljet4l filter of magicfilter but put in a script file which is being executed every time printing is required. It worked for me I can send the scripts if you want but it has to be early next week as I am away from my computer. Let m eknow if you want them george On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote: Hi! First of all, I'd like to thank the response that my previous posting to the list had. Most welcome :D Anyway, I tried one of the most common references people gave me (ie, use magicfilter, and use the ljet4l package). The printer prints now text fine, but when a postscript file is sent to it, it prints out all sorts of weird characters, and something that resembles the file. Does anybody know what's wrong with this? I've got gs (v3.33), and I've got my magicfilter for ljet4l (among others :D). Any more help would be appreciated. Thanks! Jose -- Jose L. Gomez DansRadar Comms Group Dept. Electronic Engineering University of Sheffield Mappin St S1 3JD Sheffield UK -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
(UK question) Help with diald and ISP demon.co
Hi, I was wondering whether anyone on the list has managed to use diald with the UK ISP demon. If so could you help help with the setup of the connect script ? Thanks very much George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
cdrom device not there
After reinstalling my system (hamm) from scratch I have no /dev/cdrom Is this obselete ? If yes then what is the name of the new device ? I have tried ./MAKEDEV cdrom and got an error Any ideas ? George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
root partition deleted (resolved, hopefully)
Following my numerous emails in my efforts to restore my machine I would like to thank everybody who respondd to my questions . I have managed to salvage my data but not my system since I did a total reinstallation. Anything less that that would not work. However compared to my experience with Debian 1.1 which was the first distribution I installed debian 2.0 is greatly susperior I installed all the sysem (i chose the sceintific suggestion from th initial configuration) in less than two hours. Thanks again George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
Is there an official debian CD-ROM ?
Hi, I was wondering if there is an official debian CD-ROM and if there is where it is available from ? As I have lost my ethernet connection, getting slink by modem is prohibitive. George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
help !!! cannot log on to my machine
Hi all , After dleting my root partition I have managed to install a minimal syste. I tried to install some new packages but te installation script for cpp failed and I cannot login to my machine. The error i get is sh: Error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol : history_get_string_value_hook Any ideas ? TIA George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
HELP!!!!! binaries not executed (fwd)
I 'd like to thank you for all your help with my problem when the root partition on my box was deleted. The current situatrion is that I managed to install 2.0 from the dos partitiopn the system is minimally working. BUT i have no configuration files. No /lib libraries. I could reinstall but I thought that it would be easier if I retrieve staff from my backup. I use tob for my backups But of course tob does not work becasuse I have a generic kernel and the modules needed for ftape do not have the hardware configuration of my system So the uestion is how do I pass on the memory adress irq and dma which I know to the ftape module without recompilingthe ftape (which for some reason I can'yt do anyway) Any help will be really appreciated George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
HELP!! binaries not executed
My question is a result of problems explained in another email. They concer a deleded root partition. My question has to do with binaries which are there can be seen can be read but cannot be executed. for example # /usr/bin/less /usr/bin/less : No such file o directory The same happens to all binaries in /usr which is a mounted partition Tosummarise the setup I have installed an old debian 1.0 system in / and I have all my hamm stuff in /usr Is this a libc5 / libc6 problem --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
boot floppies (july 21 1998) error ?
I am wondering whether the boot floppies in curent are ok. the rescue disk and drivers isk is working fine but when the base system gets installed and after all the floppies have been read (so no floppy eliability issue) the installation exits with an error. The same happens when installation from hard disk is carried out. Has something drastic chnged in those boot floppies Is there any other set of floppies which are reliable and I can try? I am trying to install a current system because after root partition was deleted I have installed a Debian 1.0 system from old disks Any help would be really, really appreciated George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
HELP!! binaries not executed (fwd)
This email explains the problems I had with my deleted root partition George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:04:46 +0100 (BST) From: G. Kapetanios [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: HELP!! binaries not executed (fwd) On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Chris wrote: On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 01:12:30PM +0100, G. Kapetanios wrote: What kernel are you running? it is debian 1.0 kernel 2.0.0 (the only disks that would work) What shell are you using (and from what dist)? the initial shell of debian i think ash and then bash from debian 1.0 Have you run e2fsck on the partition? yes no errors reported i was thinking it may help if i check the hidden characteristics of the files in /usr. As i remember (i am at work now ) if i copy the file to / it still does not work if i copy a file from / to /usr it works BTW, I've had no problems with current boot dists, is that the only thing stopping you reinstalling the entire system? yes i tried the final bo disks but the disks were not reliable and i cant find them on the net any more. i tried the hamm july 21 1998 both from floppies and hard disk there seems to a problem in base2_0 for my system. error goes by too quickly to see i think it has something to do with a file not found could be connected to the other problem, i guess. thanks very much for your help hope you can give me some advice. george Sorry for the delay, was on the phone to the gf (geez she can talk!) Now, from my guess I'd say that the kernel you are using does not support ELF binaries (I haven't verified this, it's just a guess - I'll check later). I think this especially as you can copy a file into usr and still execute it, which means a problem with the file type (The only other possiblity is if the binaries in /usr/ are ALL corrupted - very unlikely. If you want to check this send me a binary (say less) with your next mail). I would suggest updating the kernel. Now, there are two ways of going... you can try to update the system by install 2.0, which means we'll have to deal with the error mentioned above, or you can try to install a new kernel. To install a new kernel, try downloading a precompiled kernel, putting this on your root partition, and pointing lilo to it (I assume you know how to do that? If not let me know). I think you can get a debian package containing a precompiled kernel (but it's a new package format, you'd have to extract the image from it) or I can send you one if you like. An even better solution is to use another machine to compile one. Id say to use kernel 2.0.3x (although it doesn't really matter). Otherwise we can try and fix that error, in which case you'll need to tell me *exactly* what steps you went through during your attempted install. (ie. where got the files from, what installation media your using, where you put the base2_0.tgz file, what options you use in the installation tool, etc, etc). Thanks very much for your help. Now I would rather go for the debian 2.0 installation so that I can avoid the problematic libc5-libc6 upgrade. The story is as follows Two days ago I had installed the bo disks ok. But I made a stupid (yet another ) mistake I had the system installed on /dev/hda4 which should be /usr and not on /dev/hda3 which is normally my / Then i had a lilo.con pointing to /dev/hda3 and therefore I could boot from the floppy but not from the disk. I tried installing the hamm disks from the second hard disk. (I have the debian hamm disks and distribution in /dev/hdc2 and /dev/hdc3 The critical stuff I do not want to lose re in /dev/hdc1 All these partitions seem ok I don't want to access them too often in case something goes wrong.) The installation broke down at the base2_0.tgz stage with an error similar to that I have now (but not the saem I think) This was probably becasue of the / /usr mixup When i realised the e / /usr mixup I decided to reinstall from scratch rather than copy the files because i thought the t the system.map e.t.c. would have to chnage But the bo disks would not work now (disks corrupted) (very unluckI could download them because I can't find them on the net. Then I installed the debian 1.1 stuff. with 2.0.0 kernel. Now I don't think i have tried the hard disk install method for the 2.0.0 kernel I downloaded yestrday the hamm disks from a mirror and tried it. Rescue is ok the problem comes with the install base system. The disks are read stored and unpaked the program starts running but stops pretty soon and saya it can't find something I do't
more trouble with deleted root partition please help !!!!!
I have manage to salvage a minimal system after accidentally deleting my root partitioon. I tried to install debian stable but it did not work. I did floppy disk installation butfloppy relaiobility does not seem to be the problem. Let me explain why I have the debian disks on an unharmed partiotin which I can access. However the file base2.0_... produces an errror on my system it goes away too fast to read it. Obviously the same error appear with floppies even when I re-downloaded the floppies from the net. I am using july 21 1998 floppies is there a problem with thith those ? Anyway I installed a debian 1.0 ( yes !!) from some old floppies The installation went ok. I have the distribution in a another partiton and I tried to use dselect but the Package file had a problem and dpkg does not work. I can solve the problem only if I could run program from my /usr partiton which I can access This is the second problem I can see the binary I can cat the binary but I can't run it # /usr/bin/less /usr/bin/less: No such file or dicrectory Any ideas ? George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
URGENT!!! ROOT PARTITION DELETED
Hi all, I was having problems with the network so I deided to use the rescue disk to configure my machine with no network. By mistake (big mistake !!!) I chose to initialise the root partition rather than mount a previously initialised partition. The hard disk did not work a lot but my root partition seems lost. I did not search for bad blocks on the partition. I have not installed anything apart from the stuff on the rescue disk. Is there a way to save the stuff on my root partition. Nothing is critical all the important stuff is in the other partitions which I can see but I will have to reconfigure the system. Please help George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
URGENT !!!!!! SYSTEM SERIOUSLY BROKEN
Hi all, Following my previous email concerning a deleted root partition the following has happened. I tried to install debian from the hamm base disks which I had in another partition but an error kept coming which did not permit installation. Both installation from disk and floppies did not work. I have managed to install a system with a 2.0.29 kernel (bo) Problem 1 the /usr partition contains my old files a df command shows that the data are still there. But a du /usr shows only the new files from the new installation. How do I access the old data ? The data are not critical as they only the debian programs. My personal critical files are in a asecond disk which I can access but I rather not mount automatically in case something goes wrong In the second disk I also haver the hamm debian distribution Now I would like to get the usr stuff working since it is hamm, and I don't want to have to go through installing libc6 (last time was a nightmare) how do I go about doing that ? Please help as I am desperate to get my machine which is critical back in some workjing order. Any suggestion are welcome George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
URGENT !!! SYSTEM BROKEN (CONT)
Following to my prvious email I have installed lilo. the system can boot from floppy. However, when I try to boot from disk the boot starts but it hangs with the following message VFS Mounted root (ext2) filesystem Unable to open an initial console This does not happen with the floppy boot. Any ideas ? George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
PPP, host lookup failure and related questions
Hi all, I have moved from an ethernet connection to ppp. I have a couple of questions. I would really appreciate some help 1) pppd comes up on boot fine and I can telnet to a remote host as long as I use the ip numeric address. When I use the word address e.g. cus.cam.ac.uk instead of 131 I get a message saying there was a host lookup failure. This is not a ppp specific problem as xdm will not start either giving a message of a non valid address. I have purged my system of all references to the previous name and ip address of machine (at leastas far as I know ) but I must be missing something . Any ideas ? 2) a related question. I have a static ip address with my isp. Do files such as /etc/network /etc/reoslv.conf e.t.c need to be reset or is everything taking happening with the /etc/ppp/* files ? Hoe about the /etc/init.d related files like /etc/network , /etc/netbase ? by the way is the command ifconfig ppp0 valid ? The system complains about an unknown inteface. I am asking this because I would like to set up services such as xntp sshd e.t.c. 3) How can the connection be used only when a service is required and not all the time as in the u.k. there is no flat telephone rate ? 4) Finally (thanks for your patience) is a setup where a single telephone line supports both the modem and the phone able to support incoming connections ? How does it work ? If any of the questions can be answered by RTFMing please let me know of the appropriate manual. Thanks for any help George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
xdm not working
Following an earlier email concerning failure to look up a host adress which also prevented xdm from running I have included my ISP nameserver address in /etc/resolv.conf. Now xdm starts, I log in and the system waits before starting the window manager for some time I still havent waited long enough for the window manager to start as I close down the xserver. The question I have is how do you set up xdm for a system not conneted to the net and with loopback as the only network inteface. I still have my kernel comiled with etherner support should IU recompile without ethernet support ? Any help will be greatly appreciated George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
question on connecting two computers
Hi, I am looking for info on how to connect two PCs running linux outside of a network. I.e. I want to be able to access information on both computers fron both computers (nfs e.t.c.) Is there a manual explaining the details? Any other source of info ? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
Is the 8Mb ATI expert 98 AGP 2x graphics card supported ?
Hi all, The subject says it all. Is this card supported by Linux ? If not what can be done ? Any suggestions are very welcome TIA George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
ISDN question
Hi, I have the ooportunity to have an ISDN line instead of modem at my home. I was wondering whether having an ISDN connection is straighforward with debian ? there is a package in hamm called isdnutils. However, what I found on the net was a FAQ (rather old) for a package called isdn4linux. Are these the same ? Any ideas about a good external terminal adpter ? Any other manuals around ? Thanks very much for any help George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
Modem recommendation
Hi all, I am switching from ethernet to modem (end of school days) and I would be grateful about suggestion for a good external modem that works well under Debian 2.0. TIA George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
printing when network is disconnected
Hi, I ahve an ethernet connection which I will loose shortly.. When I remove all network relatwed init files from /etc/rc4d (my runlevel for no network ) the system boots up ok but when the printing init file runs it hangs the system. Any help ? George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
is enlightenment 0.14 available as a deb package ?
Hi, I was wondering if enlightenment v. 0.14 has been made available as a debian package. If not, any ideas when it will happen ? George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Anyone using plplot ?
I have installed plplot and plplot-tcl. All went ok. When I try to run pltcl I get the error pltcl: error in loading shared libraries libMatrix.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I can't find the libMatrix.so lib anywhere in my system or in www.debian.org I contacted the maintener but he is not available until mid -august. Can anyone help ? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux?
mgp is in the japan site, but it needs vflib = 2.22 I can't seem to find vflib Can anyone help ? Thanks George On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Keita Maehara wrote: From: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux? Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 12:07:44 +0200 There's MagicPoint. It's absolutely free! ftp://ftp.mew.org/pub/MagicPoint/mgp-1.03a.tar.gz Then why don't we have this already included? You can get the prepackaged version of MagicPoint (mgp) from Debian JP ftp site: ftp://ftp.debian.or.jp:/pub/Linux/debian-jp/hamm-jp/ main/binary-i386/x11/mgp_1.03a-1.deb Keita Maehara [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key fingerprint = 82 37 2F 1E 06 ED C4 37 1E E2 C2 96 22 B8 B3 F1 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Truning off shadowed password file
Use shadowconfig off | on On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Ramon Nieva wrote: Ok, I installed my system (bo) with shadowed. Just for testing purpose, I want to get rid of them, how do I do this? Ramon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
URGENT e2fsprogs problem
I decided to upgrade to e2fsprogs 1.10-17. Mistake.. It wants an newer version of dump which requires libe2p2. I can't find this package anywhere. Can anyone help ?? George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
where is slink ?
Hi all, I have been trying for a number of days now to find a site that contains slink as I am looking for new packages such as apt to try them out but can't seem to find it. Any ideas ?? (www.debian.org seems to have only hamm). George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
user can delete kernel images
Hi, Something very strange has happened to my system. I have my kernels in /boot (the usual setup ) with permission 644. I have never touched that after they are created by the kernel-package. I am doing some experiments concerning security. So I tried as a user with no root privileges and no root group privileges to delete the files /boot/vmlinuz.2.0.0 and /boot/vmlinuz.2.0.27 I was asked whether 644 should be overrided I said yes and it removed the files Why ?? This is of no immediate risk since I have several more kernels which I use but this is scary. Can anayone explain this ?? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
user can delete kernel images (cont)
Following to my previous email I have to say some things. the /boot directory in my machine is drwxrwsr-x 2 root disk 2048 Jun 12 17:58 boot the user who can do that belongs to the disk group but the file which was deleted (/boot/vmlinuz.2.0.0) does not belong to the disk group it is root.root So obviously although I hadn;t realised that before if a group you belong to owns a directory which is writable by the group you can delete stuff from it without owning the files and without belonging to the group which owns the files. Is this safe ?? More importantly I don't know if this is a bug of the installation procedure about 1 1/2 years ago but the permission to /boot were set by that procedure and I never changed them. I know users should not probably belong to group disk but I could have damaged my system really bad if I had no spare kernels. I guess I must remove the user from the disk group as soon as possible. By the way why is /boot writable by the group disk? Sorry for the long email George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade bo- hamm, Problems !
It looks there is some trouble with the gpm daemon. See if it is running and try killing it to see whether it makes any difference. George On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Sindelfingen Office wrote: ~ Hi there. during the weekend i upgraded my system from 1.3.1-XYZ to hamm (using the frozen- tree on ftp.debian) with the aid of the autoup script. Surprisingly everything went fine with no bigger problems. But when i tried to start the menuconfig programm to compile a new kernel it failed with the error message below : Script started on Mon Jun 8 09:37:01 1998 asterix# cd /usr/src/ln inux asterix# mkae ake menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.33/scripts/lxdialog' gcc -O2 -Wall -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC=curses.h -c lxdialog.c -o lxdialog.o In file included from lxdialog.c:22: dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.33/scripts/lxdialog' make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 asterix# exit exit Script done on Mon Jun 8 09:37:19 1998 An older message on this list stated that i need ncurses3.0-altdev_1.9.9e-2.1.deb from the oldlibs section. Ok, i installed it but menuconfig is still failing. I saw that the curses.h header file is under /usr/include/i486-libc1. How can i tell the system where to find the old ncurses header files ? The other problem is that i cannot login with xdm any more. Neither as root nor as a normal user. I updated the following x11 packages : xaw3dg_1.3-6.2.deb xext_3.3.2.1-1.deb xfnt100_3.3.2.1-1.deb xfnt75_3.3.2.1-1.deb xfntbase_3.3.2.1-1.deb xfntpex_3.3.2-4.deb xfntscl_3.3.2-4.deb xlib6g_3.3.2.1-1.deb xpm4g_3.4j-0.6.deb xserver-s3_3.3.2.1-1.deb xserver-vga16_3.3.2.1-1.deb xviewg_3.2p1.4-3.deb After the login the X server immediately shuts down and xdm comes up again. Could it be that there's a problem with the authentication procedure ? I think i saw a program xauth running with the parameters A:0 -a ..something - shoulnd't it be 0:0 ? Can anybody point me to some documents describing the procedure how the X window server is started ? (especially with Debian) XFree86 Version 3.3.2 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: March 2 1998 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux 2.0.32 i686 [ELF] Configured drivers: S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0) newmmio, mmio_928, s3_generic (using VT number 7) XF86Config: /etc/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (**) XKB: keymap: xfree86(de) (overrides other XKB settings) (**) Mouse: type: MouseSystems, device: /dev/gpmdata, baudrate: 1200 (**) Mouse: buttons: 3, 3 button emulation (timeout: 50ms) (**) S3: Graphics device ID: Elsa 1000Trio 64/V+ (**) S3: Monitor ID: Sony 15 Zoll Multiscan . . . (--) S3: Mode 1800X1440 needs hsync freq of 104.52 kHz. Deleted. (**) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R 6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/ (--) S3: PCI: Trio32/64 rev 40, Linear FB @ 0xf400 (--) S3: chipset: Trio64V+ rev. 41 (--) S3: chipset driver: newmmio (--) S3: card type: PCI (--) S3: videoram: 2048k WARNING: Did not detect a ramdac of type s3_gendac as specified! (**) S3: Ramdac type: s3gendac (--) S3: Ramdac speed: 110 MHz (**) S3: Using S3 Gendac/SDAC programmable clock (MCLK 4.990 MHz) (--) S3: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 110.000 MHz . . . (--) S3: Using a single 64x64 area at (1216,1025) for expanding pixmaps (--) S3: Using 8 planes of 1216x613 at (0,1025) aligned 8 as font cache System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m de -em1 The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: -emp -eml Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server keymap/xfree86 compiled/xfree86.xkm' Warning: /dev/gpmdata unable to get status of mouse fd (Invalid argument) X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). Any help is greatly appreciated. Please send your response NOT to the original senders email address. Send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as i cannot use the Netscape email client at the moment. bye, Stefan Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL
Re: Building Kernel for Sound
Try the make-kpkg package. Then make menuconfig make-kpkg --revision (version nunber) buildpackage in /usr/src/linux and dpkg -i kernel-imagedeb and you are done It is much simpler than the standard procedure George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing
Have you considered installing magicfilter ?
My HP LJ 6L works fine with the lj4l filter from mgicfilter and the
following entry i /etc/printcap
lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry
:lp=/dev/lp1
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp
:af=/var/log/lp-acct
:lf=/var/log/lp-errs
:if=/var/spool/lpd/filters/ljet4l-filter
:pl#66
:pw#80
:pc#150
:mx#0
:sh
Hope this helps
George
On Mon, 18 May 1998, John C. Ellingboe wrote:
Hi,
I am using Debian Linux 1.3.1 on a 486-DX40 (Cyrix). The FTP Linux
installation is about two weeks old.
Originally I could print to lp using the generic printer in printcap,
but got the classic stair step effect on my HP LaserJet 5L. After
editing my printcap file and adding the filter script per the
printing-howto I no longer get any printed output.
I added the following line to printcap.
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:\
and in /var/spool/lpd/lp I created the following perl script.
#!/bin/perl
while (STDIN){chop $_; print $_\r\n;};
The printer came alive, ejected a page without any printed text and the
filter script indicated a problem in line 2 near ; print. Execution
of /var/spool/lpd/lp/filter aborted due to compilation errors. I even
removed the added line in printcap and still get a clean sheet of paper
with no print. What would have happened to printcap by adding a line
and then deleting it?
Suggestions please.
Also does any have a good printcap entry for the HP Laserjet 5L.
TIA
John
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trick in dpkg ; obsolete package
Hi all, I have two questions to ask. One concerns the probelmatic missing package elf-x11r6lib. the package gs-alladin version 4.03-7 depends on this (I know there is a newer version but this is another story ) As the elf-.. package is nowhehre to be found I did the following. I edited the /var/lib/dpkg/status file and included the following Package: elf-x11r6lib Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Version: 2.4-3 Since I knew from past mails that this dependence is a bug and should not affect the installation of gs I thought it was a good idea. Is there any risk involved ?? Second question: I have noticed that the bdflush is obsolete abd should be replaced wwith update Is there any risk in removing bdflush and installing update with force if necessary ?? Somebody said that doing this with base package mesed up his computer Any ideas ?? Any reason for doing the upgrade to update ?? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ssh question
Hi all, After some security incident on my network I decided to set up ssh. I think I have figured most things of interest to me out. However, before I had rsh in ascript to start my mail program which is another host through FvwmButtons. Now that I disabled rsh I tried to figure a way to do the same with slogin. I figured the way but it involves setting authorisation keys without passphrases. How bad is this ? Am I loosing all security ? Am I better off with rsh in this case ? And another related wuestion: When I disabled rsh I simply chmoded the programs 700. Now I can't use rsh as a simple user (although I can as root) even if I set the permissions as they used to be. I get a message saying rcmd: socket: Permission denied Obviously the programs to set sssh involve some secure sockets. Is there a workaround or not for this ?? Thanks for any comment George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh question
Thanks for all the replys. The RSA keys method can be made not to ask for anything if you put no passphrase, and that is my question. I can do what I want without a passphrase. But is this safe ?? The man page of ssh-keygen says that if you put no passphrase YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. This is the scary bit. The man page does not bother to explain what the consequences of no passphrase are. Does anyone know ?? Thanks George On Sun, 10 May 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: ssh CAN replace both rsh and rlogin, To do things as you would with rsh, you use 'ssh command'. The trick is that you must first put the public keys for each system into either /etc/ssh or your .ssh directory (in the files ssh_known_keys or known_keys respectively). The easiest way to do this is to slogin from one machine to the other, and then do the same from the other machine back again - manually approving authentication each time (by the way - slogin is just an alias for ssh). yes, but even then ssh asks for a password, I've tried every authentication method described in the ssh man page, but I couldn't get it to login without manual authentication (with rsa keys it asks for the passphrase). The other thing I don't like about ssh is that it doesn't enforce the /etc/login.access /etc/limits or the comment field in /etc/passwd (which allows you to set the priority at which users processes run at).. As I have no real need to have my sessions encrypted, I see no advantage to using ssh over telnet.. --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Staroffice
Hi all, Sorry for the stupid quiestion but where is the debian package for staroffice ? I can't seem to find it in my nirror. Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb
After all the discussion I tried to install staroffice 4 as well. I have a slightly out-of-date hamm. I tried installing the net installation all went ok. Then I tried installing it on my directory as a user. The first thing to note is that there is a huge duplication of files. The net installlation takes up about 110 Mb, the user about 88 Mb obviously muh is common between the two. As I did not know that and did not expect that I tried installing it on my home dir which has its own 500 Mb partition. As it took too much space I decided to delete all the stuff in /home/gk205/Office40 and start again by symlinking the /home dir to some other partition to avoid space problems. I deleteed everythinh and tried user installation again . It did not let me saying it was already installed. OK fair enought I delete everything from ./usre/local and reinstall the net installation from what I though was scratch. All is ok but when I try the user install it says it is already installed. I solved the problem by installing it as another user, copy all user files to my home staroofice dir , uninstalll staroffice as a user throught the installation program and reinstall. It was pretty convoluted. Anyway it now works and loooks quite good. Much better that staroffice 3.1 On Sat, 2 May 1998, Randy Edwards wrote: staroffice 4 on my hamm system just segv's (installed with its own installer) After getting some replies on this thread, I went ahead and dove in too. I'm running the latest hamm and extracted the tarball into /tmp. I then read the read.me, looked at the license, and said, what the heck, I'll give it a shot. I thought that /net thingie installation sounded neat, so I did a ./setup /net as root. Fine, it installed okay. I then logged out and logged back in as redwards (non-root). I ran StarOffice and it segv'ed. Hmm, I thought, maybe it needs a setup for each user. So still as redwards I ran /usr/local/Office4/bin/setup (which is where I put it) and voila!, it runs fine. Give it a try... -- Regards,|Debian GNU/__ o http://www.debian.org . | / /__ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) |// /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ Teacher/Tech. Coord.|...because lockups are for convicts... |What is or why Linux? Click on the below: http://www8.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/16/13/os1613.001.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
enlightnement
Dear All, I would like to change my window manager because I am a bit bored with fvwm2. I have chaecked enlightenment and liked what I saw. Has anayone had experience with installing it? It seems to require alot of libraries which exists as rpm packages but I can't install them using alien. I haven;t used alien before so I don't know if I am to blame or alien cannot handle those rpm files. Could someone briefly descrie how they installed enlightenment on their debian system. I though of using theosurce files and compiling everything but am a bit worried of messing up my system by installing libraries which already exist and am not very sure as to where things shoul;d go Any help would be appreciated. Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tetex question
Hi all, My question is more tex oriented but involves knowledge of tetex. Tha is why I am asking the list. The book documentclass creates page headers with the title of the chapter. However, if the title is long the whole thing is meesed up. Is there a way to change that and either hjave no page headers or use title abbreveations ? Do I need to play around with the style files or some other sort of files ? Where would those files be in the tetex distribution of debian ? Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
possible network attack question
Hi, In the last few weeks I have been receiving the following message in syslog with increasing frequency Mar 10 22:19:46 garfield kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 7fffceff! I have been told that this is normal and should not worry me. However, as the frequency has increased dramatically, I was wondering aboutwhat it actually is and secondly whether it could be some sort of attack from the net. I have the iplogger package and it reports nothing suspicious. Could it be something that iplogger is not designed to notice ? Any help would be appreacited as this is really buffling me Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ethernet question
Hi all, For about 12 hours I get through syslog every couple of minutes messages messages such as Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers status ... . Now I have gotten this message before but only a couple of time and then it stopped. I asked the list about it and was told that it is beacause of high network load and nothing to do with hardware. However I now get it not only in tty8 where syslog messages appear but in my working console . As a matter of fact while I write this message through telenet to my mail sever I get the messages on my screen, I can't delete them and can't really see what I am writing as the messages get jumbled up with the text . Is this normal ? Any help would be greatly appreciated. It does not happen in xterms (that is something at least ) Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Moving from ethernet to a modem
Hi all, I have friend whom I have persuaded to use Debian instead of Win95 :-) He wants to \have an internet connection from his home. As his situation is of interest to me since my studying days will soon be over and I will ghave to move from ethernet to modem as well I have the following question. Will setting up PPP be straightforward or tricky for a novice like him (I will be helping but I am a novice in PPP as well ) ? What is the best setup in temrs of the internet providers i.e. what is available (e.g. 1) simple email, 2)just telneting to an internet provider's host machine 3) a whole IP address (like I have now) 4) some other setup ). More specifically is it possible (and not extremely expensive ) to be connected all the time and have his own ip address ? I guess that all the questions apart from the first one will be more relevant to UK users. Any help would be greatly appreciated. George --- George Kapetanios Ph.D. student Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
upgrade to development kernel
Hi, Today for the first time I tried to compile a devwelopment kernel. Using the kernel package everything went ok during compilation. I installed the kernel at /boot as usual run lilo and did everything I uisually do for a kernel upgrade. However when I rebooted and chose my new kenel it said something about kernel 2.1.78 as usual and then rebooted immediately as it started loading the kernel. Anybody has any ideas ??? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 'math error' on irq 13?
I think it is supposed to be like that. It is like that on my system and I think this has been asked before and it was mentioned in the list that for some reason it appears so in /proc/interrupts George On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Britton wrote: While trying (and failing) to get my no-name (well KTI networks) PnP PCI Ethernet card to work, I noticed this: $ cat interrupts 0: 87414006 timer 1: 799266 keyboard 2: 0 cascade 3:6901359 + serial 4: 462426 + serial 5: 16194 sound blaster 8: 0 + rtc 13: 1 math error 14: 340701 + ide0 Things don't look right on IRQ 13. Anyone know what would tend to cause this type of error? Incidently here are my PCI devices: $ cat pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 12, function 0: VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Vision 968 (rev 0). Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf800. Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 0). Vendor id=8e2e. Device id=3000. Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. I/O at 0xe000. Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: Intel 82371SB Natoma/Triton II PIIX3 (rev 0). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xe800. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: Intel 82371SB Natoma/Triton II PIIX3 (rev 1). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No bursts. Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Intel 82439HX Triton II (rev 3). Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32. I know the Ethernet card has been reported as being on IRQ 12 in the listing before, so I assume it is one of those cards which requires 'reset-key' rebooting from Win95 in order to be recognized. Anyway, and ideas on this interupt problem or the network would be greatly appreciated. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
e2fsprogs
Hi, How does one move to the libc6 e2fsprogs without using force in dpkg ? I tried installing commer2g and dpkg tried removing e2fsprogs. How does go about upgrading ? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
kernel warning
Hi, I got a new message from my kernel today: Dec 4 13:22:07 garfield kernel: Warning: dev (03:01) tty-count(1) != #fd's(2) in do_tty_hangup anybody knows what this is ? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
processes after exit from X
Hi, A while back I send an email to the effect that X processes survive X and eat up huge amount sof CPU time. IN my case it is the FVWMbuttons. Other people said that happened on their compuiters too. I am using 3.3.1-1 and haven't moved to 3.3.1-2 yet but I was wondering if there is a script which get executed at the very end of the X session where I might be able to put a line which will kill the problematic x processes. Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
libc5 to libc6
Hi, A friend wants to upadate from libc5 to 6 . I have done that some time ago and can't rember the exact order . Can somebody let me know of the http address for libc5 tp libc6 HOWTO ? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: undeletable file
I had an examople of such behaviour a while back. It occured for some files in a mounted dos filesystem. If it is not a ext2 filesystem could you be mounting it read only ? (come to think of it maybe it is ext2 and mounted read only as well ) Just a thought On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: Hello, I remember seeing something about this on the list awhile back, but I haven't been able to find it in the archives. I have a file that has somehow been commandeered by an undefined group, and I can't seem to remove, move, or change its ownership: leisure# ls -l fstobdf -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 65535 29640 Oct 17 23:58 fstobdf rm: remove `fstobdf', overriding mode 0755? y rm: fstobdf: Operation not permitted leisure# chown root.root fstobdf chown: fstobdf: Operation not permitted leisure# rm fstobdf leisure# mv fstobdf fstobdf.1 mv: cannot move `fstobdf' to `fstobdf.1': Operation not permitted I have no idea how the file's ownership got this way, or how to remove it. I haven't tried going to single-user mode yet; I'm on a remote connection to this box. Any suggestions? Thanks. --ken __ Ken Lauffenburger / /__ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / / D e b i a n G N U \ \/ / / / __ __ __ \ / / / / / / _ \ / / / / / \ ...Look out Bill, / /___ / / / / ) // (_/ / / /\ \ here comes... (__)(_/ (_/ (_/ \/ (_/ \_) http://www.debian.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
magifilter problems
I have a pretty strage problem with my new printer. I have a HP 6L with the latest version of magicfilter from hamm When I try to print anything but text and pcl files nothing happens. I have gs-alldin installed. If however, I process ps files with the same exact options as in the filter I am using and print with lp the output file it works. i.e. lp example.ps , nothing happens but if I run the following sscript I wrote then success while [ $2 ] do if [ $1 = ps ] then gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r600 -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=/tmp/tmp.pcl $2 lp /tmp/tmp.pcl rm /tmp/tmp.pcl echo $2 printed e,t,c, the relevant part of the filter is # PostScript 0 %! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r300 -sDEVICE =ljet4 -sOutputFile=- - 0 \004%! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r300 -sDEVICE =ljet4 -sOutputFile=- - Anybody has any clue. Of course I can keep working like that but a) can't print through application b) it is not very elegant since after the gs works I get a GS prompt and have to type quit to continue with the lp command. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
HP printer and printcap
Hi, I have just installed a new HP 6L printer. It works fine under Windows. It works under DEbian but only reacts when text files are sent to it. When ps or dvi files are sent it does nothing. I am using the ljet4l-filter but otherwise changed nothing in my printcap which worked fine with a bubble jet printer. Can someone please describe their setup with this or a similar printer. I would like to have a printcap file example if possibke. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am really desperate here because I have deadlines by tomorrow and can't print Please help ! Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
HP printer and printcap (cont.)
Thanks very much for your help. I am using magicfilter and from what I heard in the list, people think it might be slightly better, it has worked for my bubblejet anyway. In the last few minutes I managed to print dvi files by using the dvihp command. However the most important thing for me is to print ps files. Does anyone know of a utility that turns ps files to pcl ?? It seems likely that the ljet4l-filter that comes with magicfilter is not dealing very well with any file type apart from test files for which it removes the staircase effect and now pcl files. Thanks George On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Pancho Horrillo wrote: Hi! I have a HP550C working under debian, just using apsfilter / lpr It's easy to configure, it asks everything necessary. note: apsfilter doesn't work with LPRng, there is a package named magicfilter for it, but i haven't tried it. here is my printcap: ## /etc/printcap: printer capability database. See printcap(5). ## You can use the filter entries df, tf, cf, gf etc. for ## your own filters. See /etc/filter.ps, /etc/filter.pcl and ## the printcap(5) manual page for further details. # #lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\ #:lp=/dev/lp1:\ #:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ #:df=/etc/filter.ps:\ #:tf=/etc/filter.pcl:\ #:af=/var/log/lp-acct:\ #:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\ #:pl#66:\ #:pw#80:\ #:pc#150:\ #:mx#0:\ #:sh: # ## rlp|Remote printer entry:\ ## :lp=:\ ## :rm=remotehost:\ ## :rp=remoteprinter:\ ## :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote:\ ## :mx#0:\ ## :sh: # LABEL apsfilter # apsfilter setup Sun Nov 9 13:52:17 CET 1997 # # APS_BASEDIR:/usr/lib/apsfilter # # ascii|lp1|ljet4-a4-ascii-mono|ljet4 ascii mono:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-ascii-mono:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-ascii-mono/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-ascii-mono/acct:\ :if=/usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-ljet4-a4-ascii-mono:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: # lp|lp2|ljet4-a4-auto-mono|ljet4 auto mono:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-auto-mono:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-auto-mono/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-auto-mono/acct:\ :if=/usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-ljet4-a4-auto-mono:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: # raw|lp3|ljet4-a4-raw|ljet4 auto raw:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-raw:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-raw/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-raw/acct:\ :if=/usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-ljet4-a4-raw:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: Ok. Good Luck! note: you need ghostcript also -- Pancho Horrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
taper question
Hi all, I have managed to install my tape drive ( Seagate travan 3200 on a floppy controller ) and to have it work under Debian . I even managed to figure out how to make the modules detect the new floppy controller ( not easy in my case :-) ) . As far as I can see only taper exists for user friemdly backup setup ( I need something user friendly at first ) . Is there anything else ? Is taper stable and trustworthy ( always relatively ) ? Is there a way to use taper to have backups through cron ( incremental as well as total) ? Is there another more straightforward way to pick directories, put them on tape and then pick them out from the tape ? I guess tar could do that but is there some documentation ? Taper can't start a backup child process when a user is using it , only root manages that. However the user belongs to the group disk which has the same permissions as the root for all the /dev/*ft* devices and the taper program. What is problem ? Do i need to give the user of the group permissions for some other files ? I know these are alot of questions but if somebody could sort of answer any of them it would be really helpful. Thanks in advance and sorry for the bother. George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
tape driver configuration(cont)
Hi, following my previous email. A note: all devices seem to be where and how they should be, permissions and all ... George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
tape driver configuration
Hi, I have just installed a new tape driver ( seagate travan 3200 ). I have tried it u der windows and it works ok. I am trying to make it work under Linux. I have installed ftape-2.0.30 and am using a 2.0.30 kernel. When ftape was installed it complain that the modules were unresolved symbols. I thought I should recomplile with modversion switched off but I gave it a try with modprobe and the modules seemed to load OK. Then I tried garfield:~# ftmt -f /dev/qft0 status as mentioned in the manual but got ftmt: /dev/qft0: Device not configured after the floppy disk was accesed brielfy the tape driver was not accessed at all. What am I doing wrong ?. A quick look at the documwentation included mainly info on compiling. What about some debian specific info ? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
suggestion for tape driver
Hi, Thanks for all the help on the question of printer memory. I was thinking at the same time of bying a tape driver fo backing up my system. Has anyone got any suggestion for a good tape driver which works with Debian ? The system I will be backing up is about 2 Gig. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
URGENT: strange floppy behaviour
Hi, I tried to mount my floppy, the mount failed. I had to press CTRL-C a number of times to get apropmpt and got the following messages in syslog Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: floppy driver state Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: --- Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: now=35953273 last interrupt=35952973 last call ed handler=0017f04c Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: timeout_message=floppy start Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: last output bytes: Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: 8 80 35952971 Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield last message repeated 4 times Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: 3 80 35952973 Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: c1 90 35952973 Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: 10 90 35952973 Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: 7 80 35952973 Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: 0 90 35952973 Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: 8 81 35952973 Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: e6 80 35952973 Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: 0 90 35952973 Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield last message repeated 2 times Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: 1 90 35952973 Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: 2 90 35952973 Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: 12 90 35952973 Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: 1b 90 35952973 Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: ff 90 35952973 Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: last result at 35952973 Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: last redo_fd_request at 35952973 Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: 20 0 Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: status=10 Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: fdc_busy=1 Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: DEVICE_INTR=0017dfa8 Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: fd_timer.function=0017df10 Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: cont=001d51bc Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: CURRENT=001ead7c Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: command_status=-1 Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: floppy0: floppy timeout called Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 Nov 19 14:26:46 garfield kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:00 Nov 19 14:26:53 garfield kernel: floppy0: probe failed... Nov 19 14:26:59 garfield last message repeated 15 times Nov 19 14:26:59 garfield kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 Nov 19 14:26:59 garfield kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:00 Nov 19 14:27:06 garfield kernel: floppy0: probe failed... Nov 19 14:27:12 garfield last message repeated 15 times Nov 19 14:27:12 garfield kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 Nov 19 14:27:19 garfield kernel: floppy0: probe failed... : Nov 19 14:27:25 garfield last message repeated 15 times Nov 19 14:27:25 garfield kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 Nov 19 14:27:25 garfield kernel: FAT bread failed Nov 19 14:27:27 garfield kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:00 Nov 19 14:27:33 garfield kernel: floppy0: probe failed... Nov 19 14:27:39 garfield last message repeated 15 times Nov 19 14:27:39 garfield kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 Nov 19 14:27:39 garfield kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:00 Nov 19 14:27:46 garfield kernel: floppy0: probe failed... Nov 19 14:27:52 garfield last message repeated 15 times Nov 19 14:27:52 garfield kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 Nov 19 14:27:59 garfield kernel: floppy0: probe failed... Nov 19 14:28:05 garfield last message repeated 15 times Nov 19 14:28:05 garfield kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 Nov 19 14:28:05 garfield kernel: FAT bread failed Nov 19 14:28:40 garfield kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:00 Nov 19 14:28:48 garfield kernel: floppy0: probe failed... Nov 19 14:28:53 garfield last message repeated 15 times Nov 19 14:28:53 garfield kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 Nov 19 14:28:53 garfield kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:00 Nov 19 14:29:00 garfield kernel: floppy0: probe failed... What is going on ? PLease help !! It might help to note that I have installed a second HD between the last time I used the flopy and now. However the floppy gets acessed because the light goes on... Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Memory and printing
Hi, I am thinking of bying a laser printer but I have one question. I will be printing some large documents with lots of graphics in them. The files will have the postscript format. For example one file I recently printed was 6.2 Mb. The cheapest laser printer is HP 6L with 1 Mb of memory. Does this mean I will not be able to print my files which are larger than 1 Mb? Or doesn't it matter as long as my computer memory is large enough ? Any hint will be appreciated. Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
autofs and ncpfs
Hi, Anyone knows whether autofs can support novell filesystems ? (I guess the answer is no but you never know :-) ) Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xdm/X not terminating processes on logout
Almost exactly the same thing is happening to my machine. I n case FVWMButtons does not terminate. It has starrted happening after I upgradeed to 3.3.1-1 George On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Brian M. Rectanus wrote: For some reason processes are not being terminated after a user logs out of an X session (via xdm). Example: User logs in and starts up vi someprogram, then user xxx kills the X session (ie kills WM, thus killing session). User xxx logs in again and 's vi someprogram is STILL running and using (according to top) about 92% of CPU. I noticed this after I logged out one night and when I logged in the next day my load was about 4.7 withnothing special (except the vi session) running. Any Ideas why xdm would not kill all of the users processes? Or is it xdm that is supposed to do it? -Brian ... snip ... In addition to this, I found that the ONLY processes that are not killed, are text-based programes like vi or top. The xterm that they were running in DOES get killed. -Brian -- Brian Rectanus Kansas State University Computing and Informational Sciences Multimedia/Web Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~trojan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: need a hint to mount novell netware.
Hi I am running on a TCP/IP network, have a kernel configured with IPX, use the package ncpfs and have no trouble accessing Novell networks. So you should be OK using the above. Good Luck George On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Dirk Bonne wrote: Hello, At work we have a mixed environment: unix/windows/novel. The network runs on TCP/IP. From my debian box I can mount windows stuff with the aid of samba. Is there something simular for novel netware? I´m particulary confused because there is IPX support in the kernel, and there is a netware client package (with programs like ncpmount), but all seems to suppose an IPX network?? What do I need when the network is running TCP/IP? Any hint would be helpfull, because I do not know much about novell. Dirk Bonne -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
autofs and 2.0.31
Hi, I have compiled a 2.0.31 kernel. One of the reasons for doing so was to use autofs. However when I did make menuconfig I didn't see an option for autofs support. I thought it was in the kernel anyway and instaled he package. However the package does not find autofs support and won't start. Does anyone use this package? If yes, how I go about activating autofs support ? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
2.0.31 kernel
Hi, I have just installed 2.0.31. I have heard from the list that it might be unstable. However, the statistical package I use for my work seems to be working noticeably faster with this kernel. Has anyone noticed any marked performance improvement or am I mistaken ? George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Panasonic KxP 6300
Hi, I am thinking of bying a laser printer and the cheapest one I found is the Panasonic KxP 6300. Is anyone using this printer with Debian ? Are there any problems ? Is it any good ? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
X process takes over cpu
Hi, Something strange has happened to my X sessions since upgrading to glibc6 stuf (3.3.1-1). Sometimes whan I finish the session an X process ( FvwmButtons ) remains active and uses about 50% of my cpu time. In order to stop it I have to use kill -9. Has anyone else noticed that ? Might this be a bug ? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
2.0.31 kernel source
Does anyone know when the kernel-source-2.0.31 package will be ready ? Or is it exactly the same as the tar.gz source files available from, say, www.kernel.org in which case getting that would do the job ? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: tty uses only bottom line of screen
I had the same problem some time ago. It would happen when I used less. As time went by more and moreof my consoles would suffer that. It stopped on its own after upgrading to a new kernel (at the time I was using 2.0.0 ) and I guess I must have upgraded less at some point. I know this isn't much help but try upgrading relevant packges and see what happens. George On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, James Dietrich wrote: Several times I have had it happen that after running (and quitting) top on one of my virtual terminals, the terminal then uses only the bottom line of the screen. Everything seems to work all right, because I can type commands and login and logout just fine except for the fact that all output is restricted to the bottom line. When the terminal is in this state, top will run and use the entire screen, but it redraws in a strange way--quite a bit of flickering and blinking at the top of the screen during each redraw/update. FWIW, this only seems to happen after my computer has been up for a while--a day or two. I am running Debian 1.3 and kernel 2.0.30. And I have tried killing all the process on the offending tty, but the problem still persists. Anyone else seen this quirk? Any ideas on how to fix it? I would like to be able to fix it without rebooting ( it must be possible :-) ) Thanks for your help. James -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
web question
Hi, I must apologise for asking an irrelevant question but I can't get any help from elewhere. Can anyone give me some references to documentation discussing setting up password protected web pages (or even better a description of how do that :-) )? Sorry and thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers
Hi, I have a question every so often I get messages of the following form Oct 27 20:58:27 garfield kernel: eth0: Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers,s tatus 7fffceff! Oct 27 20:58:27 garfield kernel: eth0: Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers,s tatus 073a858e! Oct 27 20:58:27 garfield kernel: eth0: Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers,s tatus 7fffceff! Oct 27 20:58:27 garfield kernel: eth0: Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers,s tatus 0618858a! Anybody knows what this is all about ?? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
X problems
Hi, I have tried to upgrade to the libc6 X. All was going alright apart from some ldso warnigs when I upgraded xlib6, most of which went away when I installed xlib6-altdev and installed xlib6g and xlib6g-dev. I upgraded all the other stuff and all seemed fine. Then I tried running X -query localhost as I usually do. I got the xdm prompt and logged in, then I started getting some of the fvwm2 stuff I have but then X stopped and I got back to the xdm prompt. I saw no other way but to downgrade to 3.3.4 Anybody has any idea as to what happened ? Additionally, I now get an xdm window whenever I boot up despite having the no-xdm-start-server in /etc/X11/config. As it has been a long time since I played around with X I don't remember what to do. Any help would be appreciated Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
X upgrade
Hi, From my mirror I see that the setup for X has changed considerably. I am wondering what is the correct procedure to upgrade. I have X 3.3-4 Here is what i think i should do. First upgrade xlib6 to 3.3.1-1, then remove xlib6-dev and everything that depnds on it and install xlib6-altdev, then install xlib6g and xlib6g-dev and then install all the xfnt and the rest of 3.3.1-1 Is this the right way ? Will I have any trouble ? Having a working X on my machine is critical for me. Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
administration tool for command logging
Hi, I was wondering whether there is a system administration tool which permits the monitoring of specified commands, file access attempts, by users. Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Wordperfect files in linux
Hi, And thanks to everybody who answered my question. To summarise, unless I am prepared to pay some money ( and I am not :-) ) there is no straightforward solution. The only thing available is wp2latex which is not in a Debian package. I 'll probably give it a try. As far as MS-Word is concerned, Staroffice does a decent job for me. Pity it only accepts Word documents from the widely available comercial formats. Thanks to all George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Wordperfect files in linux
Hi, Does anyone know of a program that will read WP files in linux ?? TIA George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
question on free
Hi, Whenever the memory usage on my machine goes up and I use free I get the following total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 63252 57316 5936 31364 9492 -/+ buffers:478244190748 ^^^ Swap: 130748 0 130748 31016 Obviously this is wrong. Is this a bug or what ? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
user cron question
Hi, I have cron installed and it works fine. However, I need to run a backup script as a user since I mount a novell network acount with the same username and save my data. So I tried to set up a cron job as a user. I created a file called allow in /var/spool/cron which contained only my username. I edited my crontab file using the command crontab -e and I restarted the cron daemon just in case , but the thing didn't work. I am wondering what I might hve done wrong Any help will be appreciated Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
.fvwm2rc question
Hi,
I have a pretty minor question which however is bothering me. I am asking
fvwm2 through a menu definition in .fvwmrc to kill a process with the
command
ExecStop It exec kill -9 $(ps aux | grep xlock | grep
-v grep | awk '{print $2}')
This works in the shell but not from the menu. Any ideas why ?
Thanks
George
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X 3.3-6
Hi, I am considering moving from X 3.3-3 which I currently have to X 3.3-6 . However in the last few weeks a number of messages point that there are a number of problems with this upgrade associated also with xlib6g. Can somebody briefly summarise what these are and how to upgrade safely ? Thanks very much George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
pascal
Hi, Could someone tell me which debian package provides pascal support ? Thanks very much George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
pascal (cont)
Hi, Thanks to all who replied to my question. I have juct installed gpc on my system . However, it requires gcc 2.7.2.2 So I downgraded gcc to 2.7.2.1 I was wondering whether it would be possible to have the newest gcc ( 2.7.2.3 ) together with gpc . Does anyone know if this is possible or when the newest version of gpc will be available Thanks very much George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Pascal question
Hi, I have installed the pascal package and downgraded my gcc to 2.7.2.1 for compatibility reasons. In the beginning I got some errors concerning files the package could find By linking then I got through that stage .Now I am getting the following errors garfield:/usr/home/guest$ gpc program~pdp~.txt ld:program~pdp~.txt: file format not recognized; treating as linker script ld:program~pdp~.txt:1: parse error Running the strace command gives access(/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.1/crtn.o, R_OK) = 0 access(/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.1/ld, X_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access(/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/ld, X_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access(/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux/2.7.2.1/ld, X_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access(/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux/ld, X_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access(/usr/i486-linux/bin/i486-linux/2.7.2.1/ld, X_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access(/usr/i486-linux/bin/ld, X_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) fork() = 1160 wait4(-1, ld:program~pdp~.txt: file format not recognized; treating as linker script ld:program~pdp~.txt:1: parse error [WIFEXITED(s) WEXITSTATUS(s) == 1], 0, NULL) = 1160 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) --- _exit(1)= ? It is looking for the command ld in /usr/lib/gcc... and can't find Can anyone tell me what is going on ? The program is not my own but the person who gave it to me told me it had no bugs. Any help will be appreciated Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
quota bug ?
Hi, I have just installed the quota utility on my system. I did everything by the book but when I would run quota as a user it would say Disk quotas for ... : None . I checked and rechecked everything but it didn't help. I run quotacehk about 2 times and also /etc/init.d/quota start . Then I rebooted and it worked fine. I thought that /etc/fstab can be read immediatelly after it is written and no deamon needs to be restarted . I guess I am wrong. Any ideas ? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Mail command
Hi, As I am on a university network I have no right to send mail on my machine. So I haven't installed any mail software until now. However, I have set up my web page with stuff for downloading and a form. I would like to have the cgi script to send an internal mail to a user on my machine , no mail messages will be leaving the machine. Thw script requires the binary /usr/bin/mail , the standard mail program, or equivalent, which I haven't been able to find. I have installed smail with no network and pine. It works fine but if I can't get some form of non-interative mail program I can't get the cgi script to work. Anybody can tell me of the equivalent of /usr/bin/mail for Debian ?? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
permission on dos filesystem
Hi, I have been using my dos partition as a store for data files I don't use very often. Creating the files as a normal user, these files and the directories belonged to my username. Today I just found out that the ownerships had changed to root. I tried changing them back as root using chown and chgrp only to find out i could not do that. It kept saying Permission denied. When i tried changing the group from root to adm it said that I as root was not member of the group. What is going on ??? Any help would be appreciated. TIA George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X boot not automatic SOLVED--
Hi, Maybe I am wrong but doesn't the automatic start of X or not depend on /etc/X11/config ? So if you have no-xdm-start-server in /etc/X11/config, even runing the xdm daemon would not start X automatically ? George On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: -- Wildflower Hill, Head Waters, Virginia -- On 97/09/12 at 05:22 AM -0400, Victor Torrico wrote: Hello, Installed X from debian 1.31 CD. Upon boot the screen comes up with the console login prompt. After I log in the console and do a /etc/init.d/xdm start the X login window comes up and X works fine after logging in. What must be done to get X to come up automatically instead of stopping at the console login prompt? The /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm symlink was missing. Made symlink in the /etc/rc2.d directory of ln -s /etc/init.d/xdm S99xdm and all was well. Regards, -- Victor Torrico -- Wildflower Hill, Head Waters, Virginia -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Security issues for nfs mount
Hi, Although I am not familiar at all with the inner workings of nfs the description below indicates a risk that an unauthorised client may read files on the specific directory which is being exported by nfs read only. However my worry is not whether somebody else will read the files which in my cased is only a piece of software. My worry is whether anybody can write to the directory being exported or any other directory of my computer , given that the stuff on the exported directory are mathematical software unrelated with the workings of the operating system . I would be grateful if someone could clarify this point Thanks George On Fri, 12 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could resist to your request, Jim, and appear before you with further clarifications, for you are an active contributor in the Debian project and we are quite fortunate to have you here among us; moreover, there in an ancient saying, that hard is the knowledge of the good. And the knowledge of nfs is a great part of knowledge. If I had not been busy, I might have reviewed all the relevant rcf's, which is a complete education in nfs mechanics and then I should have been at once able to answer your question about the IO mechanics. But, indeed, I have only a limited time, and therefore, I do not know the truth about such matters; I will, however, gladly assist you in the investigation of them. We say that an nfs server running nfs-ver_1, or nfs-ver_2, can be tricked to perform unauthorized IO. But, there is a good deal of difficulty in describing this sort of knowledge in a public list, therefore we better investigate the description of it, instead on the specific steps that we are now supposing. Lets reflect on the nature of the io request. The file handle is a simple structure of 32 bytes for version 2 (although this was increased with version 3 to 64 bytes) and is created by the server, who passes it back to the client, and then the client uses the file handle to access the file. All the server does does is validate the file handle (the ticket) when the io request is made. Supply the right handle and you are in. Guessing the fields of the structure is not extremely difficult. Most of the information is already known: major and minor device numbers, i-node number, etc. Everything is known except the i-node generation number whose purpose is to provide security and is chosen when the open request is made. The generation number is implementation dependent; it may, even, be a sequential(!) number, but allow, for the sake of this discussion, this to be a truly random number. My distinct recollection from the relevant rfc [1] is that the width of this number is small, either 16 or 32 bits, we could, of course, if we must, go back to the specification and verify the truth of this, yet this weakness of (traditional) nfs is so well known and is as old as I dare remember. It will not take a giant to place many requests until one succeeds, and it does not prevent an 12-year old to run an exploit that was written very many years ago. [1] The opaque structure, the file handle definition, is a simple typedef in rfc1094 . The actual details should then be in the XDR rfc1014 , I must assume, for I do not have it here locally to examine. The traditional unix nfs filesystem is _insecure_ : the i-node generation number, which is part of the file handles, is easy to guess. I'm curious. How would an attack on nfs using this method proceed? -- Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Security issues for nfs mount
Hi, I was wondering whether there is anything to worry about if I let another machine nfs mount, read only, root-squash, one directory on my machine. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xlib6g package
Hi all, I tried updating to libc6-dev and in the efort I had to reinstall tk42-dev However this now depends on tk4.2 which in turn depends on xlib6g But I can't find xlib6g anywhere. Can somebody help ? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Question on libc5 5.4.33-5
Hi, I am trynig to upgrade my libc5 to 5.4.33-5 from unstable When I do dpkg it tries to replace libc5-dev with libc5-altdev . However stuff dependes on libc5-dev and dpkg doesn't know that libc5-altdev contains the same stuff as libc5-dev . So it crushes I tried to remove anything that dependes on libc5-dev before changing to libc5-altdev but but I get an unspecifief post-installation error when I try to replace libc5-5.23 with libc5-33.3-5 Any help would be appreciated thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
question on emacs and xterm under XFree 3.3-3
Hi, I have just upgraded to XFree 3.3-3 . All went smoothly but I have two questions Firstly when I start emacs I get the following warning Warning: Cannot convert string %s to type %s Can anyone tell me what this is ? Secondly I used to have xterm-color as my default xterm Now I get the standard xterm. How can I get xterm color back? Thanks for any help George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Printer question
Hi, I have an old bubble jet BJ-10SX cannon printer. I have just set up lprng and magicfilter. I can print but only text . I am not very sure as to how to incorporate the filter in /etc/printcap I have triad the if statement and it didn't work. ( :if=\usr\sbin\magicfilter:\ ) I would be grateful if someone could send me their printcap file to see how it is done. Also I would like o know the appropriate name e.t.c. for my printer. Any help will be much appreciated Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Quick question on /etc/modules
Hi, I accidentally sent a job to the print queue while the lpd daemon was running . I have no printer and no printer support in my kernel . Now I get a message from modprobe about the module char-major-6 not being found. This fills up my log files. I probably have to stop kerneld and put a line in /etc/modules ( I have seen that on the list sometime ). Unfortunatyely I dont know the syntax ( something about alias module ) and can't find the relevant docs. Can anyone help ?? Thanks very much George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Staroffice
Sorry for the e-mail which is not strictly on a debain matter, I am looking for the non-commercial version of staroffice. The stardivision www page says that it is available from ftp.gwdg.de However I can't get through. I also checked sunsite and couldn't get it. Anybody know a mirror that has it for Linux ? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
