Re: OpenSSH-potato
I just installed the 3.3p1-0.0potato6, and did not have the X11 forwarding. So I changed... /etc/ssh/sshd_config: X11Forwarding yes /etc/ssh/ssh_config: Host localhost ForwardAgent yes ForwardX11 yes All worked after that... Hope it helps, --Jay On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 02:08:04PM +0300, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Please find attached the output. Colin Watson wrote: [No need to cc me, I read the list.] On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 01:40:37PM +0300, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Colin Watson wrote: Are you connecting to the remote host using 'ssh -X'? I have just try it, I got th same error message. OK, then add the -v option and show us the output. OpenSSH_3.3 Debian 1:3.3p1-0.0potato6, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090603f debug1: Reading configuration data /home/jgmb/.ssh/config debug1: Applying options for Boltz debug1: Applying options for * debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be trusted. debug1: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to 195.251.7.252 [195.251.7.252] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file /home/jgmb/.ssh/identity type 0 debug1: identity file /home/jgmb/.ssh/id_dsa type 2 debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_3.3 Debian 1:3.3p1-0.0potato6 debug1: match: OpenSSH_3.3 Debian 1:3.3p1-0.0potato6 pat OpenSSH* Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.3 Debian 1:3.3p1-0.0potato6 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received debug1: kex: server-client aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none debug1: kex: client-server aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP debug1: dh_gen_key: priv key bits set: 135/256 debug1: bits set: 1606/3191 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY debug1: Host '195.251.7.252' is known and matches the RSA host key. debug1: Found key in /home/jgmb/.ssh/known_hosts:3 debug1: bits set: 1545/3191 debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct debug1: kex_derive_keys debug1: newkeys: mode 1 debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: waiting for SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug1: newkeys: mode 0 debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received debug1: done: ssh_kex2. debug1: send SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST debug1: service_accept: ssh-userauth debug1: got SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT debug1: authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive debug1: next auth method to try is publickey debug1: try pubkey: /home/jgmb/.ssh/id_dsa debug1: input_userauth_pk_ok: pkalg ssh-dss blen 433 lastkey 0x8089e58 hint 1 debug1: read PEM private key done: type DSA debug1: ssh-userauth2 successful: method publickey debug1: fd 5 setting O_NONBLOCK debug1: channel 0: new [client-session] debug1: send channel open 0 debug1: Entering interactive session. debug1: ssh_session2_setup: id 0 debug1: channel request 0: pty-req debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. debug1: channel request 0: x11-req debug1: channel request 0: shell debug1: fd 3 setting TCP_NODELAY debug1: channel 0: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 32768 ]0;Boltzmann:~[40;1;37mBoltzmann[0;m exit logout debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype exit-status reply 0 debug1: channel 0: rcvd eof debug1: channel 0: output open - drain debug1: channel 0: obuf empty debug1: channel 0: close_write debug1: channel 0: output drain - closed debug1: channel 0: rcvd close debug1: channel 0: close_read debug1: channel 0: input open - closed debug1: channel 0: almost dead debug1: channel 0: gc: notify user debug1: channel 0: gc: user detached debug1: channel 0: send close debug1: channel 0: is dead debug1: channel 0: garbage collecting debug1: channel_free: channel 0: client-session, nchannels 1 debug1: fd 1 clearing O_NONBLOCK Connection to 195.251.7.252 closed. debug1: Transferred: stdin 0, stdout 0, stderr 37 bytes in 3.9 seconds debug1: Bytes per second: stdin 0.0, stdout 0.0, stderr 9.5 debug1: Exit status 0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get won't play
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:27:11PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you. Apt-get, which worked so well when I went from 2.0 - 2.1, is being a royal grade A bastard (pardon my French!) now. Maybe I'm missing something obvious: - The sources file is set up for deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib - I run apt-get update - apt-get update complains it can't resolve the above address, complains it can't run a stats on the earlier packages on the system, then suggests I run apt-get update! I had the same problem because I thought that I needed to upgrade my apt to the statically linked package mentioned in the upgrade notes. But that is only if you are upgrading via a CD set. If you are going over the net, you need to use the latest apt (v0.3.10) in slink, or it will not properly resolve names. The 0.3.19 will not work in slink for a net upgrade. --Jay Barbee
Re: apt-get omit kernel-image 's
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:54:55AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi there ... is there a way to configure apt-get to omit automatically kernel-image packages? perhaps used dselect to put the packages you don't want installed on HOLD. Or use 'dpkg --get-selections package.list' Manually edit 'package.list' and put the packages you want on HOLD the use 'dpkg --set-selection package.list' --Jay Barbee
New Mutt for Slink...
I know that there has been some talk before about building a newer version of Mutt for stable slink. I have an up to date system, and I am still holing off with Potato's release. Does anyone have a Debianized Mutt v1.0.1i or v1.2? GnuPG support is my main concern. Thanks, --Jay Barbee
eBay Auction #34178744
I am writing to confirm that I was the highest bidder for: PDA - Palm Pilot Professional (item #342178744) at $91.89. I see that you are accepting checks. How much for shipping? And where do I send the check? Would you prefer one of these online payment deals? I will be out of the country next week (leaving Saturday), so there is not a rush in getting it here. I would, however, like to have the payment out to you before I leave so that the Palm Pro can be on its way. Thanks, and I look forward to hearing from you. You may contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Jay Barbee
Re: Configuration
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 05:50:32PM -0500, Kent West wrote: I believe this documentation is for non-Debian distros. If you installed samba using apt-get or dselect, this should be taken care of for you already. It will be in the samba startup script. Look in /etc/rc2.d/S[whatever]samba; you might not find the exact lines as above, but you will find the lines which accomplish the same thing. ...or even simpler to look at /etc/init.d/samba. The /etc/rc?.d/S[whatever]samba is a link to the script in the init.d directory. --Jay Barbee
Re: Rename Workgroup,etc.
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 03:34:44PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: Where do I change my computer Name, Workgroup and how do I rename the Samba Server? Samba gets its computer name from /etc/hostname, which is also your computer name. Workgroup is changed in /etc/smb.conf (or /etc/samba/smb.conf). --Jay Barbee
Re: cd image
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 06:19:54PM +0200, Emilis wrote: Maybe offtopic, what win util burns *.raw files ? Used for potato unofficial iso files. Rename to .iso. Any tool (EZCD, CDR-Win, etc.) should be able to burn it. --Jay Barbee
Re: virtual ip's
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 12:52:48PM -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote: how do I enable ip aliasing you need to make you kernel and have CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=y in the 'make config'. If you are totally lost view the Kernel HOWTO: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html --Jay Barbee
Re: giving access
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 11:20:44AM -0700, Joseph de los Santos wrote: Hello, How do I give permission to a non-user account to use the modem (thru pon isp) and other hardware devices? (e.g. printer, etc) Dialup access could be instant through diald if these 'non-users' are on the same network. For the printer/disk shares can be done via Samba (if windows clients) and nfs, lpr (if UNIX clients). But be careful what you are granting. You are creating security holes. -Jay Barbee
Re: Archiving and Expiring Mail
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 04:54:00PM +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote: Hi. I use Procmail and Mutt for processing +200 mail messages every day (large share from this list ;-)) I would like to have a tool which is able to archive and/or expire mail messages on a per mailbox bases. Did not find anything matching in the Mail-packages list on www.debian.org. Any suggestions? I just got done looking up this one myself, as I did not want to keep any debian-user mail older than 30 days old. Add this to your .muttrc folder-hook debian-user push 'D~d 30d\n' where debian-user is the name of the mail file where your mail is stored. I will not take credit for this, I found it on a deja post: http://x41.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=529909910search=threadCONTEXT=956587245.1650458628HIT_CONTEXT=956585501.1607860225hitnum=4 Good luck, --Jay Barbee
Re: Need a list of installed *.deb packages
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 12:42:42PM -0400, Maury R . Merkin wrote: Is there a command which returns a list of the *.deb packages presently installed on my 'puter? dpkg --get-selections --Jay Barbee
Re: Files with *strange* permissions
I had the same problem where I have two files in /usr/doc/mount/ that were block devices on the README.Debain.gz. They way I got rid of the files is to go into debugfs. Be careful with this util. You can use debugfs' rm and it will clear the inode. Problem solved. Hope it helps... --Jay Barbee At 03/16/2000 08:32 AM -0500, you wrote: Guilherme writes that he has encounted files he cannot delete. partial quote: Now, I'm left with one final problem... the files and dirs left on /lost+found can't be chown'd, chmod'd or erased... all of them (except for one) have the first permission bit (when doing ls -a -l) either b, c or s... also, some of them seem to have a HUGE size (like 4294967295 in 2 of them), but then when I select them on MidnightCommander it recognizes a negative size... Also, some show invalid sizes, like (on ls) 1, 7 or 164, 246 (with the spaces)... Also, all of them have a name that starts with #... Guilherme: The #stuff filenames can be accessed by escaping the #: ls \#rest_of_filename #rest_of_filename For the unalterable files, lsattr gives ext2fs atrributes. chattr will change these attributes, which include immutable. This will usually help remove unalterable files. The file system debugger also will do this job. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I'm hoping this is all of the above!) On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: Hi there, I'm facing quite a bad problem here im my Linux Box, and I'd like to try a bit more before I give up, format the HD and reinstall it all... Last tuesday I had to shutdown Linux because I had to do some work on Win98, unfortunately... The shutdown procedure worked fine, I worked all afternoon on Win98 and shutdown the machine to go home... Yesterday I came back and, to my surprise, when I tried to boot on Linux the system halted with a kernel panic: unable to mount root fs on 03:02 (I guess these were the numbers)... Next thing I plugged my HD in another Linux box and ran e2fsck -y on it... As I already expected, after complaining about a whole lot of errors, when it exited I only had a /lost+found dir, with lots of subdirs and files in it... Lucky enough, by browsing the subdirs I could rebuild the whole root dir structure (it seems e2fsck only moved the complete root dirs to /lost+found and renamed them with those numeric names - the whole subdir tree inisde each of them was 100% preserved), and I was left with some empty dirs and some weird files that seem to be undeletable... When I tryed to boot, I doscovered the default boot image was corrupted (crc error), but lucky enough the other images worked fine, so I just booted from one of them and ran lilo again; then the computer booted fine and everything worked perfectly! Now, I'm left with one final problem... the files and dirs left on /lost+found can't be chown'd, chmod'd or erased... all of them (except for one) have the first permission bit (when doing ls -a -l) either b, c or s... also, some of them seem to have a HUGE size (like 4294967295 in 2 of them), but then when I select them on MidnightCommander it recognizes a negative size... Also, some show invalid sizes, like (on ls) 1, 7 or 164, 246 (with the spaces)... Also, all of them have a name that starts with #... Lastly, when I run e2fsck again it complains about fsck.ext2: Ext2 file too big while calling ext2fs_block_iterate in pass 1b and then finds two duplicate blocks (always on the same two pairs of inodes)... If I try to run e2fsck -c it complains about the file too big thing and aborts... I'm almost sure it is related to the /lost+found files... Now, how can I get rid of them? Is there a chance, or will I be forced to format install it all again? TIA, Guilherme Zahn -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I hope this is all of the above.) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Desperate Question...
Debian, I have been asking this question for a while now, on your newsgroups and the debian chatroom. And so far no one has even offered an answer. My question is this: Why is it that the gnome-apt package from the Potato, or Frozen, distribution is dependant on a package that doesn't exist and has never existed? I recently built several linux systems for some customers, and on the first two, gnome-apt installed fine, with no dependance errors. The last few came up with gnome-apt, a package that my customers need quite badly, having a dependance failure. It required libapt-pkg2.6. Yet, upon investigation, the libapt-pkg2.6 package does not exist, according to your web based package lookup tool. Is there any chance I can get this package, in whatever unstable state it exists? Or could I have the source code for this package, so that I can compile and install the library myself? I would really, really appreciate it. :) Thanx! Jon Rista [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jon, I would say that you need to fill out a Bug report via the web site. At least this way if the maintainer does have the package it is depends on, he could publish it, or point you to the solution. --Jay
Shutdown on Root RAID
Is anyone using a root partition on a software RAID5 volume (kernel 2.2.10)? I recently just setup this as a test, but my problem is I cannot cleanly shutdown. Every time I halt or reboot the system, I cannot cleanly unmount /dev/md0. I run 'fuser -av /' many times during whole shutdown routines, and I do not see anything out of the ordinary. Anyone have any hints on how to get this volume to shutdown cleanly? Booting up into the rescue partition next time to run ckraid is not that fun. Thanks, --Jay Barbee
Re:[SOLVED] ipmasqadm question
At 3/5/99 07:46 AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Ralf G. R. Bergs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 04 Mar 1999 19:52:34 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I checked with dselect and found I have ipmasq 3.3.1 installed already. There is NO sign of ipmasqadm on my system anywhere. I have run 'find / -name ipmasqadm' with no hits. I do appreciate your help. Please don't stop now, but I am in no big hurry. Perhaps there are others out there that have the needed info. Ok, another day, another try. :-) Here's the info you want, but you may not like it: #dpkg -S ipmasqadm netbase: /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm [...] #dpkg -l netbase Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status, ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==-= ii netbase 3.12-2 Basic TCP/IP networking binaries As you see it's the unstable version of netbase. Don't worry you can install it without having to fear that it breaks your system (at least it didn't on my system ;-) Thank you Ralf, You have found the missing ipmasqadm for me. I am not getting the same returns you are showing using the 'dpkg -S' and '-l' commands, (I will leave that for another thread). I don't have any problem playing with the new toys. I just have not installed from potato untill needed. I know it has been way over a month... but I just got around to doing this upgrade to slink from hamm. Then I started to read this thread! hummm, this is a problem, and due to my lateness, I cannot get a netbase 3.12 from POTATO. The unstable release is 3.14-1, but that requires you to install libc6 from potato, and that requires ldso (followed by libstdc++2.9, apt, development clibs). Long story short most the libs basically need to be upgraded just to use ipmasqadm. That is not a good thing in my opinion. I should just run potato if that is the case. Now dselect reminds me of all the programs that I have broken (not really but it bitches). If slink's netbase is not going to include ipmasqadm, then there needs to be a package for ipmasqadm. To go to potato's netbase cleanly, involves many iteration. Just my $.02 --Jay Barbee
Slink PPP with no defaultroute
I don't know if anyone else has seen this with Slink's PPP, but I installed a fresh system (didn't want to do an uprade) and PPP did not function properly. I have never used pppconfig before, but I did not. I got the connection setup and it it authenticated without a problem. But it would not setup the defaultroute?!?! I did have defaultroute in /etc/ppp/peers/provider and in the /etc/ppp/options. I could set it manually but what fun is that. It was fixed once I installed potato's copy of the ppp package. I just wondered if anyone else saw this? I figured I would have seen more emails in debian-user after a month of slink being stable! --Jay
Re: Slink PPP with no defaultroute
At 4/12/99 09:43 AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Jay Barbee writes: I have never used pppconfig before, but I did not. I got the connection setup and it it authenticated without a problem. But it would not setup the defaultroute?!?! Do you have an ethernet card installed? pppd won't override an existing default route. Yes I do, and that is the error I got in the log about not over writing the default route. However, hamms pppd and now potato's pppd do not have that problem! very odd! Do you know how this ability (or lack of ) is defined? Would it take a recompile of Slinks ppp package to get it functioning like hamms and potaots? I could have sworn I saw a kernel patch in the newsroups, but I used the same kernel (2.2.5) in both hamm and now slink without the problem. --Jay
Re: Where does my mail go?
Hi, I have changed from using fetchmail/elm to using fetchmail/mutt, but now can not find the messages fetchmail receives. When I start Mutt, it goes to the /var/spool/mail/username box. Mutt claims this box is empty. When I change to ~/Mail/inbox, mutt also can not find any messages. The only messages mutt can find are in ~/Mail/received. These messages where put there by Elm. What I wrong here? Thanks, Robert-Jan Did you ever find out what the problem was? I have something very similar after my upgrade to SLINK. Some how Eudora still finds the INBOX intact, however /var/spool/mail/username is empty. Niether Mutt or Elm finds new mail? --Jay
Re: Slink's libc6 breaks ftp, telnet, etc...
Hummm... I actually do have /etc/resolv.conf. It is odd that I also run BIND but only in a caching mode. My resolve.conf does not point to my box as being a choice for one of the name services, but it still uses server 0.0.0.0 (mybox) as the name server. Very odd, but still not my problem. It was link that in Hamm, and I believe Bo too. So if resolve.conf fixes your problem... what do you have in resolve.conf, that I do not have? What are the permissions? I still think it is a bug. Do you have a bug-track number for it? Thanks for the reply, --Jay Barbee At 3/26/99 10:45 AM +, Shao Zhang wrote: I have already raised a bug on that. It is not really a bug though. You can fix the problem by adding a /etc/resolv.conf. Then your dns should work again. What I don't know is: why for earlier libc6 package, we don't need a resolv.conf While for the libc6 in slink, we must have one Jay Barbee wrote: I just upgraded my HAMM system to SLINK. However after all was said and done I got an error during telnet, wget and ftp.. and ncftp gave me no errors at all. The problem is in the libc6 2.0.7.19981211-6 package. With this package installed I get the following error: Host name lookup failure If I go back and add the old package (libc6_2.0.7t-1). I do not have this problem. I have installed SLINK from scratch on a laptop and a friend's system. I did not get these errors then, so why now? Is this a bug? Anyone else see this? --Jay Barbee -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: Slink's libc6 breaks ftp, telnet, etc...
I have the following entries in my /etc/resolv.conf nameserver domain search I assime you know what these entries do... specify you nameserver, domain and also allows you to specify the order the domains are searched. The bug # is 34263 At a moment, I am just confused how everything works, named, bind, /etc/resolv.conf Could someone please clarify on this?? Well I thought if you look at nsswitch in the etc directory it tells you the order it tries to resolve the name. Mine simply goes /etc/hosts and queries my locale machine which has named running but does not have any data files. Then it goes out to our universities NS (specified in /etc/resolv.conf) and grabs the address as it should. This is fine, except when I unload named, all resolution is off... that should not be. My problem is not so much that, as I can nslookup names with either library installed... but when I load SLINKS library, every program that is linked back to libc6 (such as smail, telnet, ssh and ftp) do not resolve the name at any cost (even though I can nslookup the name fine). ncftp, which is linked to libc5 works no problem Very odd, I will look at the bug report... --Jay Barbee Jay Barbee wrote: Hummm... I actually do have /etc/resolv.conf. It is odd that I also run BIND but only in a caching mode. My resolve.conf does not point to my box as being a choice for one of the name services, but it still uses server 0.0.0.0 (mybox) as the name server. Very odd, but still not my problem. It was link that in Hamm, and I believe Bo too. So if resolve.conf fixes your problem... what do you have in resolve.conf, that I do not have? What are the permissions? I still think it is a bug. Do you have a bug-track number for it? Thanks for the reply, --Jay Barbee At 3/26/99 10:45 AM +, Shao Zhang wrote: I have already raised a bug on that. It is not really a bug though. You can fix the problem by adding a /etc/resolv.conf. Then your dns should work again. What I don't know is: why for earlier libc6 package, we don't need a resolv.conf While for the libc6 in slink, we must have one Jay Barbee wrote: I just upgraded my HAMM system to SLINK. However after all was said and done I got an error during telnet, wget and ftp.. and ncftp gave me no errors at all. The problem is in the libc6 2.0.7.19981211-6 package. With this package installed I get the following error: Host name lookup failure If I go back and add the old package (libc6_2.0.7t-1). I do not have this problem. I have installed SLINK from scratch on a laptop and a friend's system. I did not get these errors then, so why now? Is this a bug? Anyone else see this? --Jay Barbee -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Slink's libc6 breaks ftp, telnet, etc...
I just upgraded my HAMM system to SLINK. However after all was said and done I got an error during telnet, wget and ftp.. and ncftp gave me no errors at all. The problem is in the libc6 2.0.7.19981211-6 package. With this package installed I get the following error: Host name lookup failure If I go back and add the old package (libc6_2.0.7t-1). I do not have this problem. I have installed SLINK from scratch on a laptop and a friend's system. I did not get these errors then, so why now? Is this a bug? Anyone else see this? --Jay Barbee
RE: grrr, No response from modem
I have checked the bios... and it is odd that for the two ports there are three settings, one disabled, and then one for IRQ4, IO0x03e8 and another for IRQ3, IO0x02e8. And the BIOS lets you know when you have set the serial port up conflicting. But I did check, and both are on! Thanks, --Jay At 3/18/99 01:21 PM +, Shawn Nguyen wrote: Just a question, did you check your BIOS to make sure that the serial port on your computer are enabled? Sometimes these are diabled in your BIOS in which case they won't work. Take a look at your BIOS. Just a sugesstion. -Original Message- From: Jay Barbee [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 5:12 AM To:Person, Roderick; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: grrr, No response from modem At 3/18/99 09:35 AM -0500, Person, Roderick wrote: First modem is MultiTech ZDX 19.2k bps and the second is a USR Courier v.everything 33.6k bps. Are they set to different settings. If they are on the same setting you will get nothing. Hummm, are you talking about the modem's config, or minicom/ppp config. I am using the same software configuration, but I am leaving the hardware as default. I think we're asking for interupt configuration for these two modems are they the same or different, they should be different. Did you try and remove one modem and see if the other is detected, this would rule out if the modems have the same settings and are conflicting. If that does work try moving the mouse to com 3 and the modem to com 1. I have two modems, but I am not testing them at the same time. Once the MultiTech did not work I went to an NT Server to pull a known working modem to test the Linux system's port. I do NOT have two modems connected at the same time. I have tried moving the modem to the other port on the back of the computer, and the BIOS only has one setting for each of the ports (very limited). No mouse is attached to the system, but it is an ATX system with a PS/2 style mouse port. I am under the impression that these serial ports do not work. Thanks for your help, --Jay Barbee -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: grrr, No response from modem
Thanks for the note, And I just recieved a letter about my BIOS. I did check it, and I know they are not disabled, however, I wanted to check to make sure the IO Ports are matching. --Jay At 3/19/99 07:04 AM +0100, you wrote: Dear Jay, I have seen this discussion on the Debian users mailinglist and it strikes me that you might find the problem in the BIOS setup. Many motherboards have BIOS:es that allows disabling of the COM ports from within the BIOS. I have two such motherboards at home. Remember this since I once contemplated in disabling the COM ports. It's not allways easy to understand all the BIOS options but if you take a close look you might find where you can turn on the COM ports. Since you have tried allmost everything allready it must be something like this that causes your troubles. Regards, Gunnar Isaksson
Re: grrr, No response from modem
At 3/17/99 07:58 PM -0800, Shanta McBain wrote: Jay Barbee wrote: First modem is MultiTech ZDX 19.2k bps and the second is a USR Courier v.everything 33.6k bps. Are they set to different settings. If they are on the same setting you will get nothing. Hummm, are you talking about the modem's config, or minicom/ppp config. I am using the same software configuration, but I am leaving the hardware as default. I figured pretty standard modems. I was using the USR on a NT with all the same cables, so I know the cable and modem do work. You could try wvdial it detects modem setting on installation. I installed the package and it did not find the modem. How could this be? Here is how the config looked: --[SNIP]-- Scanning your serial ports for a modem. Port Scan*1: Ignoring ttyS0 because /dev/mouse is a link to it. Port Scan*1: S1 ttyS2*1: AT -- AT -- AT -- nothing. ttyS3*1: AT -- AT -- AT -- nothing. Sorry, no modem was detected! --[SNIP]-- Are these ports just not working? I know the modem and cable work fine on another system. --Jay Barbee
Re: grrr, No response from modem
At 3/18/99 11:28 AM +0100, Nils Rennebarth wrote: ioports and interrupts look ok. What about the cable? Does it work on another computer? Wiring could be wierd. Does the serial port work at all? Sometimes when I assemble a computer I put the little plug on the mainboard on only half of the pins, or in the wrong orientation,... It is an external modem, isn't it? The cable does work on another system. The serial port seems as if it is not working at all. As I said before I do not see a lights blink during modem initilization. Even in the past when a modem is not working properly I still get some type of reaction. And that program that Shanta pointed out, wvdial which does a modem detection, did not find anything. I have seen the same problem with AT motherboads and goofy wiring, however this is a DECpc, and it uses an ATX style motherboard. The modem is external. USR Courier v.everything 33.6. Humm! It honestly looks as if the serial port on the computer is not working. This would explain why I could never get apcd and upsd working about 4 months ago. --Jay Barbee
RE: grrr, No response from modem
At 3/18/99 09:35 AM -0500, Person, Roderick wrote: First modem is MultiTech ZDX 19.2k bps and the second is a USR Courier v.everything 33.6k bps. Are they set to different settings. If they are on the same setting you will get nothing. Hummm, are you talking about the modem's config, or minicom/ppp config. I am using the same software configuration, but I am leaving the hardware as default. I think we're asking for interupt configuration for these two modems are they the same or different, they should be different. Did you try and remove one modem and see if the other is detected, this would rule out if the modems have the same settings and are conflicting. If that does work try moving the mouse to com 3 and the modem to com 1. I have two modems, but I am not testing them at the same time. Once the MultiTech did not work I went to an NT Server to pull a known working modem to test the Linux system's port. I do NOT have two modems connected at the same time. I have tried moving the modem to the other port on the back of the computer, and the BIOS only has one setting for each of the ports (very limited). No mouse is attached to the system, but it is an ATX system with a PS/2 style mouse port. I am under the impression that these serial ports do not work. Thanks for your help, --Jay Barbee
Re: grrr, No response from modem
At 3/16/99 08:07 PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Jay Barbee writes: Mar 16 16:49:16 torch kernel: tty02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Mar 16 16:49:16 torch kernel: tty03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Modem should be in the first serial port. Any ideas how I can get this thing to talk? What do 'setserial /dev/ttyS2' and 'setserial /dev/ttyS3' say? Here you go: $ setserial /dev/ttyS2 /dev/ttyS2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4 $ setserial /dev/ttyS3 /dev/ttyS3, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3 Any ideas? --Jay Barbee
RE: grrr, No response from modem
At 3/17/99 11:18 AM -0500, Person, Roderick wrote: In minicom you need to make your modem either: /dev/ttyS2 or /dev/ttyS3 Depending on which modem your using. BTW, /dev/ttyS2 would be your 3rd serial port, /dev/ttyS0 being the first serial port and so on.. Thanks for the reply... I have tried all 4 serial devices in minicom. Nothing works. I even tried the old 'cua' devices too. Those did not work either. While I am in minicom, the serial modules is in use, but as I said... the modem does not make a peep or even a blink. Very odd. --Jay Barbee PS: My computer has two builton serial ports listed as port1 and port2. setserial detects these as ttyS2 and ttyS3 (which I know are the 3rd and 4th serial devices). Mine is physicall pluges into port1, which I am seeing as ttyS2. But as I said. I tried them all!
RE: grrr, No response from modem
Never on tried using a modem on this debain box. First modem is MultiTech ZDX 19.2k bps and the second is a USR Courier v.everything 33.6k bps. I figured pretty standard modems. I was using the USR on a NT with all the same cables, so I know the cable and modem do work. --Jay Barbee At 3/17/99 11:43 AM -0500, Person, Roderick wrote: What kind of modems are they. Did they ever work in Debian. -Original Message- From:Jay Barbee [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Wednesday, March 17, 1999 11:42 AM To: Person, Roderick; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: grrr, No response from modem At 3/17/99 11:18 AM -0500, Person, Roderick wrote: In minicom you need to make your modem either: /dev/ttyS2 or /dev/ttyS3 Depending on which modem your using. BTW, /dev/ttyS2 would be your 3rd serial port, /dev/ttyS0 being the first serial port and so on.. Thanks for the reply... I have tried all 4 serial devices in minicom. Nothing works. I even tried the old 'cua' devices too. Those did not work either. While I am in minicom, the serial modules is in use, but as I said... the modem does not make a peep or even a blink. Very odd. --Jay Barbee PS: My computer has two builton serial ports listed as port1 and port2. setserial detects these as ttyS2 and ttyS3 (which I know are the 3rd and 4th serial devices). Mine is physicall pluges into port1, which I am seeing as ttyS2. But as I said. I tried them all! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: grrr, No response from modem
At 3/17/99 05:53 PM +0100, Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 11:48:39AM -0500, Jay Barbee wrote: Never on tried using a modem on this debain box. First modem is MultiTech ZDX 19.2k bps and the second is a USR Courier v.everything 33.6k bps. What does cat /proc/interrupts and cat /proc/ioports say? $ cat ioports -001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0080-009f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : npu 02e8-02ef : serial(auto) 0300-030f : 3c509 03c0-03df : vga+ 03e8-03ef : serial(auto) 03f0-03f5 : floppy 03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR d100-d17f : ncr53c7,8xx $ cat interrupts 0:8176835 timer 1: 2002 keyboard 2: 0 cascade 10: 606747 3c509 11: 163704 + 53c7,8xx 13: 1 math error $ lsmod Module PagesUsed by serial 70 As for the interrupts, The IRQ of the comm port I have minicom setup for will appear once minicom is loaded. Ie when I have minicom setup and running with /dev/ttyS2: $ cat interrupts 0:8187633 timer 1: 2002 keyboard 2: 0 cascade 4:440 + serial 10: 607355 3c509 11: 163981 + 53c7,8xx 13: 1 math error Thanks for all you help! --Jay Barbee
SOLVED: How to correct suidmanager errors..
At 3/17/99 08:12 PM +0100, Thomas Keusch wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 10:20:56AM -0500, Jay Barbee wrote: I get this cron error ever since I upgraded the LPR package. I didn't just want to run a chmod on it, but if someone could explain what has happened and how to handle it I would appreciate it. /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: /usr/sbin/lpc PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.lp 2755 changed to root.lp 02755 /usr/bin/lpq PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.lp 6755 changed to root.lp 06755 /usr/bin/lpr PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.lp 6755 changed to root.lp 06755 /usr/bin/lprm PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.lp 6755 changed to root.lp 06755 I had these errors to, some days ago. Along with an lpr package upgrade, of course. You might try chmod/chown'ing the files to root.lp (0)6755. The zero is the important part, don't know if you have to set it or to leave it out, but it fixed the problem for me. Hey Thomas... Thanks for the reply, but it was actually a bug in suidmanager. I simply upgraded the debpackage (to version .23 I believe) and now all is working fine. --Jay
How to correct suidmanager errors..
I get this cron error ever since I upgraded the LPR package. I didn't just want to run a chmod on it, but if someone could explain what has happened and how to handle it I would appreciate it. --Jay Barbee Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 06:46:30 -0500 (EST) From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh X-Cron-Env: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin X-Cron-Env: HOME=/root X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=root /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: /usr/sbin/lpc PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.lp 2755 changed to root.lp 02755 /usr/bin/lpq PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.lp 6755 changed to root.lp 06755 /usr/bin/lpr PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.lp 6755 changed to root.lp 06755 /usr/bin/lprm PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.lp 6755 changed to root.lp 06755
grrr, No response from modem
Well... I am not sure what is going on. I have never had this much problem with a modem. I have two serial port that are detected (with serial in the kernel or as a module), but I cannot get one light to flicker. I have try two different modems (external) and two different serial cables. I have setup pppconfig, and minicom. Niether one make the modem react even when I try ttyS[0-3] and cua[0-3]. I am not sure what is going on at all. Here is the kernel log: Mar 16 16:49:16 torch kernel: tty02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Mar 16 16:49:16 torch kernel: tty03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Modem should be in the first serial port. Any ideas how I can get this thing to talk? I am out of ideas. --Jay Barbee
LPR gives suidmanager errors
I updated my Hamm's LPR and now I am getting a cron error when suid manager runs. Below is the actual cron error. How is this corrected? --Jay Barbee Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 06:46:30 -0500 (EST) From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh X-Cron-Env: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin X-Cron-Env: HOME=/root X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=root /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: /usr/sbin/lpc PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.lp 2755 changed to root.lp 02755 /usr/bin/lpq PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.lp 6755 changed to root.lp 06755 /usr/bin/lpr PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.lp 6755 changed to root.lp 06755 /usr/bin/lprm PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.lp 6755 changed to root.lp 06755
2 Official CDs...
What is contained on the 2 Official Debian Binary i386 CDs. I was thinking that disc 2 would be all the KDE/Gnome and X stuff... but I am not sure. Anyone know how the CDs are laid out? --Jay
Reoccuring Problem with network
Well it seems to happen every 16 days or so. My home Linux box that I use as my IPmasq dial up box for my home network his not connecting with most of the standard network (client/server) apps. Now, when my system is at home and make a PPP connection to the Internet, I cannot use the clients on that server to get anywhere (with Lynx, FTP, telnet, etc). Ssh, however, does work and I can use that to get anyone of my Debian servers. This is not just limited to traffic through PPP it holds true for the home networked machines as well via ethernet. Here is what I get in my log file on the SERVER end at work when I try to FTP home my home dial up box: Mar 8 11:05:54 torch wu-ftpd[686]: warning: can't get client address: Connection reset by peer Mar 8 11:05:54 torch wu-ftpd[686]: connect from unknown Mar 8 11:05:54 torch syslog: getpeername (wu-ftpd): Transport endpoint is not connected Mar 8 11:05:57 torch wu-ftpd[686]: FTP session closed This has happened two other times, and I have noticed it after 16 days of uptime on my client box (home dial up). A reboot will fix the problem, but I would like to know what is going on. --Jay Barbee
Strage Problem with FTPd and Telnetd but not SSH.
Hey All... I have a reoccurring problem that can be solved by a reboot, but I would rather fix the problem now so I know what is going on. It is a fairly awkward error that just started again on my system after working for 17-days without reboot. My home linux box is on a network and is a gateway to the Internet via a PPP dial up account. IPchains is setup and working like a champ, but now my system is to the point where it's clients do not communicate (for lack of a better word) with daemons at my work. If I try to FTP to my linux box at work from my linux box at home (via PPP) it simply hangs on the client end and gives the following message on the server side: Feb 16 19:18:03 torch wu-ftpd[32109]: warning: can't get client address: Connection reset by peer Feb 16 19:18:03 torch wu-ftpd[32109]: connect from unknown Feb 16 19:18:03 torch syslog: getpeername (wu-ftpd): Transport endpoint is not connected Feb 16 19:18:06 torch wu-ftpd[32109]: FTP session closed Similar messages with telnetd occur. However, I can use SSH just fine. While I thought this was a IPmasq problem, it seems that I do have the same scenario on my local net with just this linux server. All other systems in my local home network can get to the Internet with all of their clients (telnet, ftp, etc.) through the troubled server without a hitch. Strange, but I am not sure how to correct this problem or go about troubleshooting my home linux server? Any ideas? --Jay Barbee
Re: 96% packet loss on my network
Paul, Have your tried to plug another system on this endpoint to verify that is it not wiring or a bad port form the hub? It would just be a quick check to make sure you are not spinning your wheels on the IRQ problem. You could have a bad cable or be out of range. At any rate, just my $.02. Good Luck, --Jay Barbee At 2/14/99 05:31 AM +, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: Yes, it is on of these 3Com hubs. The Port status section of the leds remains light on the 100 section for both cards. The Network Utilization section of the hub leds consistently blinks, on the 1% led of the 100 section; after every 13th blink, both the 100 and the 10 blink together. Does this tell you anything? Thanks. Hows the weather in Finland? In Sacramento, California it wet and cloudy. C-ya.
Re: 96% packet loss on my network
I would say yes.. if you other laptop works fine in other endpoints. You can try replaceing the patch cord with a new one. Also if you are in a building with pre-existing wiring, you might want to look at distances. I am not sure if you are wanting FastEthernet, but you will need to make sure you have CAT5 throughout your connection. That means if you have modular jacks (as in a wall jack) it needs to be CAT5 rated. Distance (If I remember correctly) is 90m or about 300ft. Good luck. --Jay Barbee At 2/14/99 05:58 PM +, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I plugged in my other laptop using the same pcmcia NIC and wire. Same amount of packet loss. Do I conclude that it's either my hub or the wires? Thanks NatePuri Jay Barbee wrote: Paul, Have your tried to plug another system on this endpoint to verify that is it not wiring or a bad port form the hub? It would just be a quick check to make sure you are not spinning your wheels on the IRQ problem. You could have a bad cable or be out of range. At any rate, just my $.02. Good Luck, --Jay Barbee At 2/14/99 05:31 AM +, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: Yes, it is on of these 3Com hubs. The Port status section of the leds remains light on the 100 section for both cards. The Network Utilization section of the hub leds consistently blinks, on the 1% led of the 100 section; after every 13th blink, both the 100 and the 10 blink together. Does this tell you anything? Thanks. Hows the weather in Finland? In Sacramento, California it wet and cloudy. C-ya. -- NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com Receive my PGP Public Key from http://www.pgp.com/
Re: 96% packet loss on my network
At 2/14/99 01:36 PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I plugged in my other laptop using the same pcmcia NIC and wire. Same amount of packet loss. Do I conclude that it's either my hub or the wires? Why kind of wire, I seem to remember them labled class 3 through 5 and needing a class 5 for 100 base T. FastEthernet is CAT5 wiring, and standard 10baseT is CAT3. All wiring needs to be up to snuff to get FastEthernet. --Jay
Counting number of lines in a text file
Hey all, I was wondering what the quickest way to count the number of records (lines) in a text file. It would be neat to do many files at once and save the output in a seperate file in the format 'filename:::#records'. Thanks, --Jay
Re: Counting number of lines in a text file
At 2/3/99 04:03 PM +0100, Remco van de Meent wrote: Jay Barbee wrote: I was wondering what the quickest way to count the number of records (lines) in a text file. It would be neat to do many files at once and save the output in a seperate file in the format 'filename:::#records'. for a in file1 file2 file3; do \ echo -n $a seperate_file; \ echo -n ::: seperate_file; \ wc -l $a seperate_file; \ done How would I gather a list of all TXT files in the directory before this and pass each file to this script. Thanks for your help --Jay
no subject (file transmission)
Well I am working on the new syntax to IPchains. Do we have a debianized version of ipmasqadm that will replace ipautofw? I looked but the debian site is very slow from me now. Masq is a good as working with the 2.2.1 kernel. My LP problem has been solved by compliling both PARPORT and PARPORT_PC into the kernel. I simply tried PARPORT but LP was still not found. I still have lp as a module. My lilo.conf passed the following: append = ether=0,0,eth1 aha152x=0x340,11 lp=parport0 parport=0x378,7 And all works... Thanks all for your help! --Jay Barbee At 1/29/99 10:05 AM -0500, you wrote: At 1/29/99 01:47 AM +0100, Dietrich Kraus wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 11:56:50AM -0500, Jay Barbee wrote: My initial install of the kernel 2.2.0 was not too good. I have to admit, I do not keep up with the development kernels, only the stable ones... so I felt very newbie-ish upon the problems. IPMasq... It is simply not setup the same. ipfwadm does not work anymore and I needed to use ipchains. also adding the 'echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward' was something new as well. Once this was in place diald and ppp was working (PPP built in the kernel and SLIP as a module). LP, however, I cannot figure out. I have parport (tried in the kernel and as module), parport_pc.o and lp.o all built. I cannot get it to detect my printer? I know it is going to use /dev/lp0 instead of /dev/lp1, but the kernel reports that no devices have been found? very odd. All I have to do is reboot to my previous 2.0.36 kernel and it detects the printer fine. Have a look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/parport.txt. The following works for me. /etc/conf.modules: alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 nestor:/usr/src/linux$ lsmod Module Size Used by parport_pc 5048 1 (autoclean) lp 4280 1 (autoclean) parport 6444 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] Yeah... I do have that in conf.modules! I don't seem to have any problems with any modules, but I do not think they are autoloaded? I need to insmod parport ; insmod parport_pc ; insmod lp All load, but and parport is using parport_pc and lp in brackets. But lp is in use by nothing?! The kernel reports not finding any printing devices. Is there a way to autoload parport and parport_pc (except for a script with insmod)? I cannot just put it in /etc/modules. Also could I be missing so kernel parameters that should go in lilo? I think now I have 'lp=parport0'. I got about 4 or 5 responses yesterday, but I have not had a chance to reboot back to 2.2 to play around again. Thanks all! --Jay
[SOLVED] 2.2 with IPmasq and LP
Well I am working on the new syntax to IPchains. Do we have a debianized version of ipmasqadm that will replace ipautofw? I looked but the debian site is very slow from me now. Masq is a good as working with the 2.2.1 kernel. My LP problem has been solved by compliling both PARPORT and PARPORT_PC into the kernel. I simply tried PARPORT but LP was still not found. I still have lp as a module. My lilo.conf passed the following: append = ether=0,0,eth1 aha152x=0x340,11 lp=parport0 parport=0x378,7 And all works... Thanks all for your help! --Jay Barbee At 1/29/99 10:05 AM -0500, you wrote: At 1/29/99 01:47 AM +0100, Dietrich Kraus wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 11:56:50AM -0500, Jay Barbee wrote: My initial install of the kernel 2.2.0 was not too good. I have to admit, I do not keep up with the development kernels, only the stable ones... so I felt very newbie-ish upon the problems. IPMasq... It is simply not setup the same. ipfwadm does not work anymore and I needed to use ipchains. also adding the 'echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward' was something new as well. Once this was in place diald and ppp was working (PPP built in the kernel and SLIP as a module). LP, however, I cannot figure out. I have parport (tried in the kernel and as module), parport_pc.o and lp.o all built. I cannot get it to detect my printer? I know it is going to use /dev/lp0 instead of /dev/lp1, but the kernel reports that no devices have been found? very odd. All I have to do is reboot to my previous 2.0.36 kernel and it detects the printer fine. Have a look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/parport.txt. The following works for me. /etc/conf.modules: alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 nestor:/usr/src/linux$ lsmod Module Size Used by parport_pc 5048 1 (autoclean) lp 4280 1 (autoclean) parport 6444 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] Yeah... I do have that in conf.modules! I don't seem to have any problems with any modules, but I do not think they are autoloaded? I need to insmod parport ; insmod parport_pc ; insmod lp All load, but and parport is using parport_pc and lp in brackets. But lp is in use by nothing?! The kernel reports not finding any printing devices. Is there a way to autoload parport and parport_pc (except for a script with insmod)? I cannot just put it in /etc/modules. Also could I be missing so kernel parameters that should go in lilo? I think now I have 'lp=parport0'. I got about 4 or 5 responses yesterday, but I have not had a chance to reboot back to 2.2 to play around again. Thanks all! --Jay
Re: 2.2 with IPmasq and LP
At 1/29/99 01:47 AM +0100, Dietrich Kraus wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 11:56:50AM -0500, Jay Barbee wrote: My initial install of the kernel 2.2.0 was not too good. I have to admit, I do not keep up with the development kernels, only the stable ones... so I felt very newbie-ish upon the problems. IPMasq... It is simply not setup the same. ipfwadm does not work anymore and I needed to use ipchains. also adding the 'echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward' was something new as well. Once this was in place diald and ppp was working (PPP built in the kernel and SLIP as a module). LP, however, I cannot figure out. I have parport (tried in the kernel and as module), parport_pc.o and lp.o all built. I cannot get it to detect my printer? I know it is going to use /dev/lp0 instead of /dev/lp1, but the kernel reports that no devices have been found? very odd. All I have to do is reboot to my previous 2.0.36 kernel and it detects the printer fine. Have a look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/parport.txt. The following works for me. /etc/conf.modules: alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 nestor:/usr/src/linux$ lsmod Module Size Used by parport_pc 5048 1 (autoclean) lp 4280 1 (autoclean) parport 6444 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] Yeah... I do have that in conf.modules! I don't seem to have any problems with any modules, but I do not think they are autoloaded? I need to insmod parport ; insmod parport_pc ; insmod lp All load, but and parport is using parport_pc and lp in brackets. But lp is in use by nothing?! The kernel reports not finding any printing devices. Is there a way to autoload parport and parport_pc (except for a script with insmod)? I cannot just put it in /etc/modules. Also could I be missing so kernel parameters that should go in lilo? I think now I have 'lp=parport0'. I got about 4 or 5 responses yesterday, but I have not had a chance to reboot back to 2.2 to play around again. Thanks all! --Jay
2.2 with IPmasq and LP
My initial install of the kernel 2.2.0 was not too good. I have to admit, I do not keep up with the development kernels, only the stable ones... so I felt very newbie-ish upon the problems. IPMasq... It is simply not setup the same. ipfwadm does not work anymore and I needed to use ipchains. also adding the 'echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward' was something new as well. Once this was in place diald and ppp was working (PPP built in the kernel and SLIP as a module). LP, however, I cannot figure out. I have parport (tried in the kernel and as module), parport_pc.o and lp.o all built. I cannot get it to detect my printer? I know it is going to use /dev/lp0 instead of /dev/lp1, but the kernel reports that no devices have been found? very odd. All I have to do is reboot to my previous 2.0.36 kernel and it detects the printer fine. Any thoughts? --Jay
Re: Synchronizing Windows NT to Debian.
At 1/25/99 08:36 PM +0100, Rainer Clasen wrote: Hi! Greg Frye ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Re: Synchronizing Windows NT to Debian.: There is a precompiled binary of xntp3 for NT if you want the NT box to be a time server that sync's to the Debian box. It you just want the NT box to be a client, I like Tardis a lot. I have it on NT workstations set up to set the time from ntp broadcast. ... and if you don't need that much precission use net time /set at the cmd prompt (maybe as sheduled job?) ... Rainer There is a program called Tardis that has client and server time services. Seems pretty powerfull: http://www.kaska.demon.co.uk I don't think it is free. Does NT's net time /set use ntp's port 123? --Jay
Re: DeskJet 870
At 1/21/99 04:21 PM -0500, Alec Smith wrote: Could anyone tell me how to make my DeskJet 870 operate under Debian? For example, a filter for Magicfilter or whichever. My Djet 870Cxi is on a NT system that Debian still accesses via LPR. But I did at one point have it hooked up and shared from Debian. Here is how it looked in my printcap: dj|djet870|HP Deskjet 870:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/djet870:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/dj500c-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: I will say that I did have problem with the magicfilter program. The actual 550c driver that it installed filter would not execute. I don't know if that was a bug or not, I got a new copy of that filter (older version maybe) and put it in its place, and I have never had a problem. I will attach the driver I use (4.73k). Other than that, you need to have the queue created in /var/spool/lpd: drwxrwxr-x 2 lp lp 1024 Dec 16 09:36 djet870/ ..you can use a 'cp -a lp djet870' in the /var/spool/lpd directory, and that should handle it for you. I know all of this sounds manual, but if the magicfilter install was a bit much, this could be an easier route for you. Hope it helps --Jay#! /usr/sbin/magicfilter # # Magic filter setup file for HP DeskJet 500 series color printers with # only CMY cartridge installed # # This file has been automatically adapted to your system. # # PostScript 0 %! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r300 -sDEVICE=cdj500 -sOutputFile=\|cat 13 - 31 12 0 \004%! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r300 -sDEVICE=cdj500 -sOutputFile=\|cat 13 - 31 12 # PDF 0 %PDFfpipe /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r300 -sDEVICE=cdj500 -sOutputFile=\|cat 13 $FILE 31 12 # TeX DVI 0 \367\002fpipe /usr/bin/dvips -D 300 -R -q -f # compress'd data 0 \037\235pipe/bin/gzip -cdq # packed, gzipped, frozen and SCO LZH data 0 \037\036pipe/bin/gzip -cdq 0 \037\213pipe/bin/gzip -cdq 0 \037\236pipe/bin/gzip -cdq 0 \037\240pipe/bin/gzip -cdq # troff documents 0 .\?\?\040 fpipe `/usr/bin/grog -Tps $FILE` 0 .\\\ fpipe `/usr/bin/grog -Tps $FILE` 0 '\\\ fpipe `/usr/bin/grog -Tps $FILE` 0 '.\\\ fpipe `/usr/bin/grog -Tps $FILE` 0 \\\fpipe `/usr/bin/grog -Tps $FILE` # ditroff 0 x T pspipe/usr/bin/grops 0 x T dvi pipe/usr/bin/grodvi 0 x T ascii pipe/usr/bin/grotty 0 x T latin1pipe/usr/bin/grotty 0 x T lj4 reject Cannot print LaserJet 4 ditroff files. # Portable bit-, grey- and pixmaps 0 P1\npipe/usr/bin/pnmtops -scale 1000 -dpi 300 2/dev/null 0 P2\npipe/usr/bin/pnmtops -scale 1000 -dpi 300 2/dev/null 0 P3\npipe/usr/bin/pnmtops -scale 1000 -dpi 300 2/dev/null 0 P4\npipe/usr/bin/pnmtops -scale 1000 -dpi 300 2/dev/null 0 P5\npipe/usr/bin/pnmtops -scale 1000 -dpi 300 2/dev/null 0 P6\npipe/usr/bin/pnmtops -scale 1000 -dpi 300 2/dev/null # HP Printer Control Language (PCL) -- assume start with reset code 0 \033E\033 cat # HP Printer Job Language (PJL) 0 \033%-12345Xreject Cannot print PJL files on this printer. 0 @PJL reject Cannot print PJL files on this printer. 0 @PJL\t reject Cannot print PJL files on this printer. 0 @PJL\r reject Cannot print PJL files on this printer. 0 @PJL\n reject Cannot print PJL files on this printer. # GIF files 0 GIF87a pipe/usr/bin/giftopnm 2/dev/null 0 GIF89a pipe/usr/bin/giftopnm 2/dev/null # JFIF (JPEG) files 0 \377\330\377\340\?\?JFIF\0 pipe/usr/bin/djpeg -pnm # TIFF files (the last two bytes of the magic is really a version number; # but the magic is really lame and as far as I have understood the version # number has never changed and never will, so we include it.) 0 MM\0\x2afpipe /usr/bin/tiff2ps $FILE 0 II\x2a\0fpipe /usr/bin/tiff2ps $FILE # BMP files (even lousier magic -- Microsoft strikes again!) 0 BM\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\x0c pipe\ /usr/bin/bmptoppm 2/dev/null 0 BM\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\x40 pipe\ /usr/bin/bmptoppm 2/dev/null 0 BM\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\x28 pipe\ /usr/bin/bmptoppm 2/dev/null # Garbage delivered from Windows via Samba # (donated by Andree Leidenfrost [EMAIL PROTECTED]) # 300 \033\052\157cat # later changed to # (Bug report #22866: magicfilter: Incorrect magic for Win95/Samba print jobs) 0 \000\000\000\000\000 cat #
Fwd: Re: [OFFTOPIC]Gnu Utils For AIX
Resent-Date: 14 Jan 1999 23:05:22 - Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 00:03:18 +0100 (CET) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Raoul Boenisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keith Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Chris Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC]Gnu Utils For AIX Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/32635 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Keith Beattie wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 02:18:01PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: I was wondering if anyone knows if there are any GNU (or other no cost) utils that work with AIX. Specifically, I'm hoping to find something like top. So we can find out which process is trying to kill the machine here at work. I always go to ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ and grab the source of what I need and then build it on what ever platform I'm on. I don't see source for top there but a script around ps may get you closer to what you need. The sources of top can be found in the package procps-1.2.7 or higher at least. Fetch it from the above ftp-site. Have your tried 'monitor -top'. We are using AIX/6000 v4.2.1. --Jay
Re: Optical Jukebox support in Linux
At 12/2/98 10:08 PM +0100, Rainer Clasen wrote: Jay Barbee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I was wondering if Linux (kernel and tools) had the ability to control an optical jukebox. The box in question is an HP OEM that has 144 slots to ... Anybody have any experience with this or could point me in a direction to get some help? there is a driver fir SCSI-Changers at http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~kraxel/linux/ I have not had much luck as of late finding a dirver in Linux for jukeboxes... I would imagine they are not that popular with the price tag they carry. A could of sites I have was: http://www.tracertech.com Which does deal with UNIX drivers for jukeboxes, but I got an email response from them stating that they currently do not have a plan to create a linux driver. They do have Unixware and Solaris drivers for the x86 platform. This jukebox would be handy in Linux, but it seems that the easiest way for me to run it in a updated environment is NT. --Jay
Re: Linux mirror on a second hd
At 12/2/98 04:31 PM -0500, Stephane Leclerc wrote: Hi Folks! I'm looking for a software utility to mirror my Linux hd on a second hd ? I've two 4.2 Go IDE HDs. The first one contain the linux root partition, a second partition for data and the swap partition. The second is free to use for backup. If you want to run an active mirror (online and kept synced) you should look into the kernel's MD feature. You want to create a RAID 1 with those two drives. Check out: http://www.linuxhq.com/HOWTO/Multi-Disk-HOWTO.html You you simply want a drive to backup to, the standard cpio, afio, or tar could get the job done. --Jay Barbee
Optical Jukebox support in Linux
Hello all... I was wondering if Linux (kernel and tools) had the ability to control an optical jukebox. The box in question is an HP OEM that has 144 slots to hold 1.3G Optical media. The system has 4 dirves in the base of the jukebox to read/write the 1.3G media. On the SCSI lookup it is all under 5 different LUNs (the 4 drives plus an extra entry for the jukebox library). I currently have this running in Novell Netware using MDI's SCSI Express jukebox NLM drivers. Anybody have any experience with this or could point me in a direction to get some help? Thanks, --Jay
Fwd: Re: ICQ over IP Masquerading
I didn't see this come through the first time, so here is a repost. --Jay Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 17:42:10 -0500 To: Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Jay Barbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ICQ over IP Masquerading At 11/30/98 02:42 PM -0500, you wrote: Has anyone gotten ICQ to work over Linux IP Masquerading? Someone said something about telling Linux that ICQ uses ports 2000 to 4000, but I don't know what to do with them or how. Can anyone help? You need to set up on the Linux side: /sbin/ipautofw -A -r tcp 2000 4000 -c udp 4000 -u and in ICQ you need to go into the preferences and go to the Connection tab, and tell it you have a permanent connetion to the internet and you are behind a firewall. Next click the Firewall settings button. Next say you don't use a SOCKS proxy server and click NEXT. They select the TCP ports 2000 - 4000. That is it! You will need to close ICQ (not just disconnect) and reopen it for the changes to take effect. --Jay
Fwd: Re: ICQ over IP Masquerading
Just sharing with the list... --jay At 11/30/98 02:42 PM -0500, you wrote: Has anyone gotten ICQ to work over Linux IP Masquerading? Someone said something about telling Linux that ICQ uses ports 2000 to 4000, but I don't know what to do with them or how. Can anyone help? You need to set up on the Linux side: /sbin/ipautofw -A -r tcp 2000 4000 -c udp 4000 -u and in ICQ you need to go into the preferences and go to the Connection tab, and tell it you have a permanent connetion to the internet and you are behind a firewall. Next click the Firewall settings button. Next say you don't use a SOCKS proxy server and click NEXT. They select the TCP ports 2000 - 4000. That is it! You will need to close ICQ (not just disconnect) and reopen it for the changes to take effect. --Jay
Re: Linux to NT Server printing
At 11/10/98 08:57 PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Debian Land, I would just like to know if any one has been able to print from a Linux machine to a printer attached to a Window NT 4 (sp3) Server based machine. I have been able to print to the printer, a HP Laserjet 4, directly from linux using Debian 2.0 using lprng. I have also been able to print over the network from another linux machine or win95/98 machine to that linux machine with the printer directly attached. When I try to print using smb from linux to NT Server then I alway run into problems, even though I have tried all the possilbe suggestions in all the appropriate HOWTOs (printing, smb, linux2win-mini). I am just wondering if there is something particular with NT server... any clues. Since you have NT Server and not Win95/98, install LPR print services for NT and print via TCP/IP printer services. This works fine for me. I have not tried it via Samba. --Jay
Re: 128M memory
At 10/7/98 10:23 AM -0500, Default Debian Reader wrote: I was wondering when you use lilo to manage your boot do you need to add the line append = mem=128M to your win95/98 partition for it to use the memory beyond 64k or is this only needed when a linux partition is booted? That is simply passed to the Liunux kernel for Linux's use only. --Jay
HTML form to email
Is there a package out there that will take a HTML form to be filled out via the web and when it is submitted, it will be bundled into an email and sent? I imagine there are CGI programs that do it. Any pointers? --Jay
Re: NIS Installation problem
At 10/2/98 02:39 PM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi Debian users, I'm having some troubles into getting NIS into one server and some clients. I step by step followed de Debian NIS HowTo and the NIS HOWTO, but I can't login into a client. In NIS HowTo there is a program to check if NIS is Ok. I created a teste user into server and tried the following: # ymatch teste passwd teste:x:1002:1002:,,,:/home/teste:/bin/bash This seems Ok. Then I tried: # ypcat passwd epgest20:x:1000:1000:Paulo Henrique B de Oliveira,,,:/home/epgest20:/bin/bash ftp:x:100:50::/home/ftp:/bin/false netplan:x:63434:63434::/var/lib/plan/netplan.dir:/bin/false wnn:x:101:65534:Wnn,,,:/usr/lib/wnn:/bin/false rademake:x:1001:1001:Alexandre Rademaker,,,:/home/rademake:/bin/bash teste:x:1002:1002:,,,:/home/teste:/bin/bash That is good too. When I was root and type su - teste and login into teste account and I begin into teste's home, but then I try su - teste and type the teste password and can't login into. And I know the test's password!! What's wrong? Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique I am assuming you have told the /etc/nsswitch to look at NIS. Also did you add the +:: entry in your /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow? If you have just one user you want to get pull the passwd and info for (such as teste) then you would only have the entry: +teste:: in the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files. All other info will be pulled from the NIS server. Good luck, --Jay PS- If you have not upgraded to HAMM yet, you might have a problem with shadow passwords.
Samba: Passwords to print??
Hello, Can I let everyone in my office print to a Samba printer share, and not have them authentic as a user. I would rather allow every IP in my Domain/Subnet to print without asking for passwords. And then I can deny the rest of the world. Again, I only want to do this for printers, not all shares. Is it possible? --Jay
Re: Define printer
At 9/15/98 09:50 PM +, Ruud de Bruin wrote: How do I install a printer under Debian 2.0? I have an Epson Stylus COLOR 200 and have setup magicfilterconfig. Is there anything else I have to do? Do you have lp driver compiled into your kernel or loaded as a module? Did it find your LPT port? Next type: lpr -Pprinter name file It should print. I am assuming this is all a local printer and not a remote printer. --Jay Barbee
Magicfilter error lpd cannot execv filter
I just installed Magicfilter to start printing to a local Deskjet connected to LPT1. I get an error off the initial install. ---Error in syslog Sep 13 18:58:08 host kernel: lp1 at 0x0378, (polling) Sep 13 19:18:23 host lpd[29223]: cannot execv /etc/magicfilter/djet550c-filter ---My Printcap is: lp|djet|djet870|HP Deskjet 870:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/djet870:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/djet550c-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: Any ideas on what that error means? Any ideas on how to fix it? Thanks --Jay
Re: Magicfilter error lpd cannot execv filter
Wayne, Thanks for the reply. In my /etc/magicfilter/djet550c-filter, the rights are as follows: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4857 Jul 8 16:09 dj550c-filter* When I run it via the commandline, I do not get any error, if simply sits there as if it is waiting for information. I am still getting the same problems if I try to lpr to that printer: Sep 14 11:11:47 host lpd[25613]: cannot execv /etc/magicfilter/djet550c-filter --Jay At 9/13/98 08:04 PM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote: This line :if=/etc/magicfilter/djet550c-filter:\ is causing the lpd to redirect the printjob to that program. Does it exist? What are the rights on it? Can you exec it from the command prompt? On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 20:03:43 -0400 From: Jay Barbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Magicfilter error lpd cannot execv filter Resent-Date: 14 Sep 1998 00:04:00 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; I just installed Magicfilter to start printing to a local Deskjet connected to LPT1. I get an error off the initial install. ---Error in syslog Sep 13 18:58:08 host kernel: lp1 at 0x0378, (polling) Sep 13 19:18:23 host lpd[29223]: cannot execv /etc/magicfilter/djet550c-filter ---My Printcap is: lp|djet|djet870|HP Deskjet 870:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/djet870:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/djet550c-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: Any ideas on what that error means? Any ideas on how to fix it? Thanks --Jay -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Wayne Cuddy CRB-WEB (C H Consulting) http://www.crb-web.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: NetWare Volumes
Thank you all for replies to my question about keyboards in XWindow. I have another quite important question: is it possible to mount Novell Netware 3.12 disk partitions under Linux? What software do I need for it? I really mean the physical disks which were installed in Netware servers and contain all Netware volumes and software on them, not the network services exported using IPX protocol. Read-only access is sufficient. Humm... I do not think you can mount a Netware partition, but you can mount netware shares (from a Novell Netware Server) with the debian package ncpfs. Current: ncpfs 2.2.0.7-1 --Jay
Monitoring upsd
I just hooked my Linux box upto a UPS (APC SmartUPS 900) and I have the serial link hooked up. When I run /etc/init.d/ups start, it runs, but the following error is logged: /sbin/upsd: log: UPS_ERROR The daemon is still running, but I am not sure if I can determine what is going on with the UPS or if the serial connection is talking smoothly. Any ideas? --Jay
How much shoud be in /var/log/messages
I don't typically remember /var/log/messages being as empty (mostly MARK entries). I have the following entry in syslog.conf: *.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\ auth,authpriv.none;\ cron,daemon.none;\ mail,news.none -/var/log/messages ...that is the only play messages is defined. My syslog is pretty lenghty, and I have several entries being printed to /dev/tty9: daemon,mail.*;\ *.=notice;*.=warn /dev/tty9 ...This is probably a non issue, I just remember when my /var/log/messages was basically a data dump for everything. Anything look abnormal? --Jay Barbee
Re: ZIP Disk mounting: still no answer...so reposting
Simply treat the ZIP as another Drive (floppie, hard disk). You need to know what device your scsi card detected it at (ie /dev/sd??). I have a ZIP that happends to be my D drive so my mount command go like: mount -t vfat /dev/sdd4 /zip ...You can even go into fdisk and repartition (so that the default isn't partition 4) and format to a non MSDOS filesystem. --Jay I have an IOMEGA SCSI zip drive, with an IOMEGA zoom SCSI card (non-bootable) on my 486. I haven't seen anything in the setup that tells me that the drive is mountable. In addition, in the Debian documentation, (Chapter 4), the info on mounting a zip drive is missing. Can anyone tell me more about how to mount it? Also, are there specific drivers that I should install, or should have intalled when I initialized my debian Linux Thanks. Michael Who is like God? Qui est le mem que El? Kiala Mem Mikhail Mikhail Michael -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Debian 2.0 last, wtmp broken
It sounds as if you did changing over of wtmp and utmp correctly. I however did not. I actually touched wtmp and copied /dev/null to utmp before I rebooted my newly install hamm for the first time. This gave me garbage for last. So I redid the steps pointed out by the upgrade FAQ, and rebooted for safe measure. Last works fine now. One thing I noted, and I am not sure if this is how it shoul actually work, but when I am logged in as root, last has several entries, but when I am logged in as a user, it only shows a couple if any at all. --Jay Barbee I have 4 machines running Debian, three of which I have upgraded to 2.0 (hamm) from 1.3.1 using autoup.sh. I have followed the instructions contained therein regarding utmp and wtmp, (repeatedly) but my last command does not work properly on any of these machines: last returns with nothing except wtmp begins ... though who seems to be ok In fact, everything else works great. I have noted the posting regarding this problem with the suggestion of reinstalling the shellutils package. Does this work? dselect seems to indicate that removing this will break my system. I would appreciate any help on this problem Thank you. __ Eric Fain DSP/Communications Lab (303)492-2759 [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Colorado, Boulder CO __ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: how to boot into single user mode?
at the LILO boot prompt you can type: linux single To boot your linux kernel. --Jay folks, after successfuly downloading and installing debian 2.0, i foolishly set it to start xdm at boot time. unfortunatly i did not get the X server configured correctly and i am now unable to login at the console. i am also not able to remote login because the console is secured against root ogins and i did not create any user accounts. i figure the only way to fix this is to boot into single user mode and remove the xdm entries, however i am not sure how to do this in linux... needless to say i am feeling very stupid right about now. any help would be appreciated. //daryl -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Howto have Xterm backspace send CTRL-H
I have read many letters about this problem dating back to August 8,9,10 about how the backspace does not function in an Xterm. There were lots of suggestions about how to fix this but I cannot get my backspace to actually transmit CONTROL-H. As of right now, Backspace acts like the Delete key (^[[3~), which I think is how Debian sets this up by default (??), but I have a delete key and really don't have a use for two beside each other. Plus I feel like a dork when I don't look up and I see my error still there sice Backspace did not actually travel backwards. I simply want my backspace to act like it does in a word processor (CTRL-H) where it deletes to the left. My problem is in xterm only, telnet and ssh work fine. ###here is 'stty -a' $ stty -a speed 9600 baud; rows 24; columns 80; line = 0; intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = undef; eol2 = undef; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0; -parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts -ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff -iuclc -ixany -imaxbel opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0 isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke Any ideas? --Jay Barbee
Smail in hamm checking DNS lookups?
I recently upgraded several of my Bo systems to Hamm. All went fine. I am currently struggling with some of the minor changes that the new packages have. My home system is setup on a dummy network (192.168.xxx.xxx), and I do typically email myself at my work Debian box which is on the net with a legit IP address. Now (after the hamm upgrade, I assume) I cannot send mail, and port 25 will not open if I telnet in from home. I never have a problem receiving mail from legit domains. So I assume Smail does this, and I would like to know how I can setup my home system to send mail to not just my work box, but other legit domains without a problem. I could even configure my work box so that it acted as the smarthost or relay or something along those lines. --Jay Barbee
New SMB Timeout...
Another package that I could not get my Bo configuration to work with the Hamm setup is SAMBA. Shares seem to be fine, but when I use SMBCLIENT I get an error such as: startlmhosts: Can't open lmhosts file /etc/lmhosts. Error was No such file or directory ...Then it simply hangs! It is true, I do not have a lmhosts file. I was hoping it to resolve via DNS. So I added name resolve order = hosts and I get the same error as above and also it tells me that port 134 on the machine I am tring to connect has timed-out? All Win95 clients connect to this same WinNT box just fine. Connections worked a-okay with my Bo setup. I currently run smbd and nmbd as daemons. Any ideas on the hangup? Encrypted passwords? This NT box getting to my Linux server works fine (printers, apps, shares, etc.). --Jay Barbee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sending via SMAIL from dialup connection and private network
[Second Time Posted, I thought the Subject was not very informative] I recently upgraded several of my Bo systems to Hamm. All went fine. I am currently struggling with some of the minor changes that the new packages have. My home system is setup on a dummy network (192.168.xxx.xxx), and I do typically email myself at my work Debian box which is on the net with a legit IP address. Now (after the hamm upgrade, I assume) I cannot send mail, and port 25 will not open if I telnet in from home. I never have a problem receiving mail from legit domains. So I assume Smail does this, and I would like to know how I can setup my home system to send mail to not just my work box, but other legit domains without a problem. I could even configure my work box so that it acted as the smarthost or relay or something along those lines. --Jay Barbee -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Latency problems with Telnet
I connect to my ISP with Win95 as well (cos there is no NetMeeting on Linux :-(, and it is much more responsive. I had a problem with latency once and it was due to name resolution, and the particular order I had DNS' in my system. With the host that you are having the lag with, setup a /etc/hosts entry for that machine and try it again. If it take the same about of time, then not resolution. If it is quick then you know you have a problem with resolution. --Jay Barbee
Howto Auto Archive Mail Folders
Does anyone have a script that will automatically archive or remove mail messages out of a folder so that a list such as this one could be more managable? I invision a cron job simply coping ~/Mail/debian-user to debian-user-date and then gzipping it. That way it would not take so long to open a mail folder that has hundreds of messages. Any advice? --Jay Barbee
Turn off Console Screen Blanking
Hello All, How do you shutoff the console's screen blank? I would like to be able to just boot up and not have the console blank out. Thanks for your help in advance! --Jay Barbee
Re: xdm doesn't start properly
make sure /etc/init.d/xdm is not zero lenght (ie: nothing in the file). As dumb as it sounds I kept typing '/etc/init.d/xdm start' and nothing was happening. Dumb mistake, but it can happen. If it is zero you probably need to reinstall the package again (xbase if I am not mistaken.) Good luck... --Jay Hello, first is xdm started, is there an xdm process in the table? If not do as root /etc/init.d/xdm start That should give the logon screen for X. Let me know how things work. also if you suspect xdm errors look at the file /var/log/xdm-errors. Hope this helps On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, BG Lim wrote: Hi, I've been using Debian 1.3 now for some time. Recently, I thought of using xdm to log on instead. However when I type xdm, nothing happens and I get the prompt back. So, as root, I typed 'xdm -debug 1' and this is the result: ... creating socket 177 xdm error (pid 244): error 98 binding socket address 177 Nothing left to do, exiting # ... Can anyone help me? I haven't tampered with any of the default settings, except to insert 'start-xdm' in the config file in the X preferences directory. BG -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
cd_autoup.sh broken... or is it me?
Hello all, I am working from the Master CD binary-i386 Debian 2.0 CD. I am starting to up grade my first system via the cd_autoup.sh. After mounting the cd to /cdrom and going to /cdrom/upgrade I notice that cd_autoup.sh is not an executable. I copied the script to /root and did a chmod u+x on it. now make my working directory /cdrom/upgrade and run /root/cd_autoup.sh. I get the folloring error: --- Script started on Tue Aug 4 11:04:53 1998 [torch] [~] [root]# cd /cdrom/upgrade/ [torch] [/cdrom/upgrade] [root]# /root/cd_autoup.sh ldso_1.9.9-1.deb libc5_5.4.38-1.1.deb libc6_2.0.7t-1.deb timezones_2.0.7t- 1.deblocales_2.0.7t-1.deb ncurses3.0_1.9.9e-2.1.deb ncurses3.4_1.9.9g- 8.8.deb libreadline2_2.1-10.1.deb libreadlineg2_2.1-10.1.deb bash_2.01.1- 3.1.deblibg++27_2.7.2.1-14.4.deb libg++272_2.7.2.8-0.1.deb libstdc++2.8_*.deb Can't find ../debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/libs/libstdc++2.8_*.deb! aborting upgrade. --- It is true my official cd does not have: /debian/hamm/hamm/binary- i386/libs/libstdc++2.8_*.deb ...Did something go ape with my burn of the Official CD. I did burn it via a NT system, but thought the iso image would be fine? Did I script up the install already?! --Jay -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: cd_autoup.sh broken... or is it me?
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: : Hello all, : : I am working from the Master CD binary-i386 Debian 2.0 CD. I am starting to : up grade my first system via the cd_autoup.sh. : : After mounting the cd to /cdrom and going to /cdrom/upgrade I notice that : cd_autoup.sh is not an executable. This isn't uncommon; many paranoid BOFH types mount CD-ROMs noexec anyway. The solution is simple, however ... simply type `sh/cdrom/upgrade/cd_autoup.sh' See? No messy copying. That worked fine, but the error is still the same... --- [torch] [/cdrom/upgrade] [root]# sh cd_autoup.sh ldso_1.9.9-1.deb libc5_5.4.38-1.1.deb libc6_2.0.7t-1.deb timezones_2.0.7t- 1.deb Can't find ../debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/libs/libstdc++2.8_*.deb! aborting upgrade. --- I changed the mount options, (-o ro,nojoliet) and it did not change anything that I can tell. Could someone verify this directory on the official CD: debian cd/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/libs/ total 13016 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4913 Jul 23 23:14 TRANS.TBL -r--r--r-- 2 root root 8300 Mar 12 14:53 aalib-bin_1.2-1.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root59460 Mar 12 14:53 aalib1-dev_1.2-1.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root41810 Mar 12 14:53 aalib1_1.2-1.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root 309990 Mar 21 14:59 blt4.2_2.3-1.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root37274 May 15 13:59 ecpg_6.3.2-8.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root 321764 Apr 1 18:25 freetype1_1.0.0.1998-03-b -r--r--r-- 2 root root33398 Apr 28 12:48 ftplib-dev_3-3.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root 9936 Apr 28 12:48 ftplib3_3-3.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root37762 Jun 14 03:34 gdk-imlib1_1.3-3.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root26654 Apr 7 13:33 gltt-bin_1.7-3.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root25628 Apr 7 13:33 gltt1_1.7-3.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root 126176 Feb 13 14:54 glutg3_3.6-4.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root55312 Mar 10 14:53 gmp1_1.3.2-8.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root 104798 Mar 10 14:53 gmp2_2.0.2-6.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root 139330 Dec 6 1997 id-utils_3.2-4.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root 1475486 Apr 1 18:41 ivtools_0.6.2-4.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root 1504030 May 19 12:13 lapack_2.0.1-2.1.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root 524772 Apr 13 16:31 lesstifg_0.83-7.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root26658 Apr 27 11:13 libawe0.4_0.4.2c-3.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root 304892 Apr 1 18:23 libcanna1g_3.5b2-14.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root 9948 Mar 20 04:52 libcompfaceg1_1989.11.11b -r--r--r-- 2 root root22314 Dec 30 1997 libcompress-zlib-perl_1.b -r--r--r-- 2 root root40278 Mar 14 22:17 libcurses-perl_1.02-1.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root14578 May 15 13:54 libdb2++_2.3.16-7.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root 183234 May 15 13:54 libdb2_2.3.16-7.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root10154 Feb 1 1998 libdnd1_1.0-9.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root21766 Aug 26 1997 libelfg0_0.6.4-8.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root 118452 Jul 2 11:10 libg++2.8_2.90.29-0.6.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root 254826 Oct 7 1997 libg++272_2.7.2.8-0.1.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root59042 Jun 8 13:36 libgimp1_1.0.0-1.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root14566 May 22 11:52 libgpmg1_1.13-5.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root24908 May 21 12:33 libgsm1_1.0.10-6.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root 353086 Jun 8 13:39 libgtk1_1.0.4-1.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root 153138 May 7 14:28 libgtkmm_0.9.2-1.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root 201234 Feb 3 1998 libhdf4g_4.0.2-6.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root12964 Mar 20 04:52 libident_0.21-4.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root72944 Mar 9 14:56 libjpegg6a_6a-11.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root 7450 May 19 18:22 liblockdev0g_0.9a.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root 4746 Mar 9 14:56 liblockfile0_0.1-4.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root40562 Feb 23 03:57 liblzo1_1.03-1.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root12690 Feb 6 14:54 libmime-base64-perl_2.05b -r--r--r-- 2 root root40638 Feb 12 15:25 libmpeg1_1.2.2-4.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root52278 Mar 18 14:56 libpam0g_0.57b-0.2.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root29866 Jun 16 12:56 libpaperg_1.0.3-10.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root36706 Apr 1 18:45 libpcap0_0.4a6-2.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root30250 Mar 1 14:56 libpcre1_1.06-3.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root38662 May 15 13:59 libpgperl_6.3.2-8.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root41150 May 15 13:59 libpgsql_6.3.2-8.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root64442 May 15 13:59 libpgtcl_6.3.2-8.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root76556 Jan 26 1998 libpng0g_0.96-5.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root97542 Mar 21 15:02 libpng2_1.0.0-0.1.deb -r--r--r-- 2 root root28440 Apr 15 15:32
[Solved] cd_autoup.sh broken... or is it me?
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 11:50:07AM +, Jay Barbee wrote: Can't find ../debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/libs/libstdc++2.8_*.deb! aborting upgrade. --- It is true my official cd does not have: /debian/hamm/hamm/binary- i386/libs/libstdc++2.8_*.deb It's not you, a couple of packages got moved. Here's a comment from my modified version: # modified by pann to correct some paths # libstdc++2.8 moved from libs/ to base/ # libnet-perl moved from interpreters/ to base/ That did it... With those two mods it updated my system and now dselect is at work with the upgrade. Thanks --Jay -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
efax printing PS code..? [solved]
efax expects the first two characters to be '%!' which is quite reasonable. However, many evil machines like to put '\004%!' as the first characters (the first one is an 'EOF' mark, like our friend Ctrl-D generates). This really should be a bug against efax since this is so common. You can inspect the file yourself to be sure. Here's a context diff indicating the fix to /usr/bin/fax: You are correct... here is what the HP5L Postscript driver I use in WinNT addes when I save the ps job. ---SNIP--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] JOB @PJL SET RESOLUTION = 600 @PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = POSTSCRIPT %!PS-Adobe-3.0 ---SNAP--- Once I removed the top three lines so the file starts with %!PS-Adobe-3.0 it worked fine Thanks, --Jay Barbee -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
efax printing PS code..?
I seem to have a problem with my Postscript output (saved from MS Word) that I am tring to fax via efax! Quite simply it prints the postscript code. I look at the *.ps files with ghostscript and it looks fine. I use ghostview and it views just fine. If I use efax's view option or if I try to print via efix, I get ps code? What is it that it wants from me. I cannot make the postscript files with 'fax make fax.ps'... it will make a 2 page postscript file baloon into 19 pages of postscript code. Any ideas --Jay Barbee -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?
Nico, During your 'make menuconfig', enable the NLS support and you will get the option for ISO9660, FAT, VFAT, etc... I recompiled mine and I still cannot get the ISO, FAT or VFAT to mount. I also cannot load this module manually? I have not looked into this too hard, but I have been reading this thread on the list. What I have done (I am not sure if this is bad or not) is copy the .config from the old kernel to the new one? I was going to can this and start from scratch. Could this be the source of so many peoples (including mine) problems? --Jay Barbee -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: the time
Try: clock -w This will write system time to the CMOS clock... make sure you have the correct time and use -u for GMT. --Jay Barbee Hi... Uh, is there a Linux program to set the system CMOS clock? Alex On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 16:38:30 -0400 From: Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Parmet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: the time Resent-Date: 13 Jul 1998 20:40:08 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Set your system BIOS correctly. David Parmet wrote: dumb newbie question I got everything up and running (still working on X but that's another story) but when i ask for date it gives me May 25th. How do i change the date and time? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Kernel (?) screen blanking
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: Hi... Whenever I leave the console for what seems like 10 minutes or so, the screen goes blank. Not in power-down because the monitor doesn't support that, but it just goes blank. Happened in X too, when I had it installed. Does anyone know how to configure/disable this? setterm -blank [0-60] ; setting this to 0 disables blanking. It's a bit more complicated in X, but take a look at 'man xset'. Where is this initally set on a Debian system? /etc/init.d/boot --? --Jay -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?
...I believe I am confused... I do not mind a little automation, but currently in my lilo.conf I have 3 linux kernels that I use. Linux [default] Old [Previous Image] Experment [Pointing to /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage] This kernel-package util seems as if it takes this functionality away from you and simply uses default (/vmlinuz) and that is it. I am not sure this is a fair trade off for correcting whatever problem I am having with FS modules. I am not saying it is a viable option, but if I cannot 'insmod isofs.o', somthing is pretty wrong with how I compiled the kernel. Perhaps I simply don't understand what you are telling me to do with this kernel-package when I go to install or test a new kernel. --Jay Barbee Ya know, The 'kernel-package' package automates all of this for you. I had troubles getting modules to work even though I thought I did all the steps (make dep ; make clean ; make bzImage ; make modules ; make modules_install ; depmod -a. Then symlinking the new kernel and running lilo. The kernel booted and all built in support worked perfect but modules didn't. Leaving my config file unchanged I used kernel-package and everything worked.). If you use the kernel-package package you don't need to worry about copying or editing or symlinking and files, it's all done for you and it works PERFECTLY. At least for me. In the modules support section of the configuration make sure to enable the third option that lets you use kerneld for autoloading of modules. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
wu-ftpd hangs in local network
Hello all, I cannot figure out what is wrong with my two debian systems at home. It seems that whenever I FTP into that it connects almost instantly, but hangs for about a minute or two before the login prompt appears. Name resolution is not the issue, what is? --Jay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Efax setup in inittab
Is anyone out there using EFAX and PPPD on the same modem. I wanted to strat EFAX in inittab to autoanswer any incoming calls, but still be free for diald to still use the modem (while not receiving a fax) to make the internet connection. All attempts send EFAX hogging the modem whether it is locked or not (/var/lock/LCK..ttyS1). I have tried -w -s -x options via command line and in inittab. Not much success. --Jay Barbee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to clear screen before login prompt
Jieyo, Add the 'clear' command to your .bash_logout file. I would like to see this in the debian dist by default. ...added to /etc/skel. I think it is very handy. --Jay Barbee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux print server, windows machines
All the printers will have ip addresses, via HP jetdirect boxes and cards. I will have several laptops that will need to be able to print to these printers. All the laptops will be running windows 98. ...agree with Jens... SAMBA is the way to go. I wondered, just out of curiosity, was Win98 packaged with a LPR utility yet? Thought since NT 4 does have the support maybe 98 did. --Jay Barbee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Thinkpad question
Also just to add to what Michael said... If you have any errors with your boot disks, you should try the floppy=thinkpad at the boot prompt. My thinkpad will not work without it (750) and I am pretty sure you will need the same think. As for the compressed Win95 drive... I would backup all your work and redo it. It is dangerious enough to resize a partition, let alone one that you will have to recover from a compressed partition. Seems like it is asking for trouble. Just my 2 cents... --Jay On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Paul Johnson wrote: I have two questions before I try to install Linux on my Thinkpad 755CD 1. The ~680 Meg hard-disk is currently DoubleSpaced under Windows 95 to look like almost 1.2 Gig. Is there any way I can re-partition it to have a dual boot, or do I need to just scrub it and install Linux (I don't mind too much if the later is the case). I would suggest a scrub, but someone else might have a better idea... 2. I have Linux on CD, but installation instructions refer to making a boot floppy or two. On the Thinkpad, you can either have the CD installed or the floppy. What's going to happen if I try to install from the CD and Linux tries to access (or asks for) the floppy? What's the best way to handle this? Once the floppies are used on bootup, I believe they are not needed again (Makes a ramdisk). So you would boot with the floppy, and do that stuff, then put CD drive in when it asks for it.. To make the floppies, copy the rawrite program, and the .bin files to your Win95 drive, put in floppy drive, make floppies, reboot with boot floppy, and repartition the HDD with the linux fdisk that is presented to you. Oh, before you lose the whole DOS thing, try making some tecra boot floppies too... I think the thinkpad needs them. (Instead of the standard ones.) I dont know if they are on the CD, but they are available on the FTP site. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - Documentation - The worst part of programming. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date-stamp in filename for a script
Excuse my ignorance in shell scripting, but I wanted to create a file that actualy had a filename that contains the date in the format: backupYYMMDD.tar.gz I can do: date +backup%y%m%d.tar.gz which give the correct output for the filename. If I assign that to an environment variable such as TIMESTAMP: TIMESTAMP='date +backup%y%m%d.tar.gz' How can I use this as: touch $TIMESTAMP ...or... tar czvf $TIMESTAMP / ect... I have seveal uses for this concept, and I know you guru scripters do this in your sleep. any help? --Jay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2.0 Beta Party...
I heard about the Debian 2.0-beta IRC party on slashdot.org... I was wondering at what stage is this debian group going to create the Official CD for 2.0? Will 2.0-beta be included? I would love a Hamm CD ASAP! And how does its frozen state differ from being beta software. After all, both are getting rid of bugs... I can't wait for 2.0! --Jay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AFIO usage...
I was wondering how I would use AFIO to replace they way I use tar. Here is a sample: tar c -X /root/backup/exclude -f /mnt/scratch/linux/backup.tar / What I do not know how to do is exclude several file which are listed in the file exclude which looks like: --- /cdrom /home/public/old-system-backup/* cache* core --- The TAR command works, but I cannot figure out how to use AFIO in the same manner. Thanks, --Jay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Startup files disappeared [Urgent!]
Well the good news is, My Debian system has been up handling daily routines (and running RC5 challenge they whole time G) for the past 93 days. They only thing that shut it down was a scheduled poweroutage for a weekend repair. The bad new is, 93 days later, I am poking around and I noticed that all the /etc/rc#.d directories are missing. Well now I hope this thing stays up forever, because I am not sure it will reboot. Any idea how this happened? perhaps a debian package upgrade? More importantly... any idea how I can go though all my installed debian packages to make sure everything is in place. So far I see no loss of functionality. --Jay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Startup files disappeared [Urgent!]
/etc/init.d/* is all there as far as I can see. File-rc 0.4.1 is installed but does not have any description in dselect. I am going to remove it and reinstall it. Did you install the file-rc package? Is /etc/init.d/* still there? On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: Well the good news is, My Debian system has been up handling daily routines (and running RC5 challenge they whole time G) for the past 93 days. They only thing that shut it down was a scheduled poweroutage for a weekend repair. The bad new is, 93 days later, I am poking around and I noticed that all the /etc/rc#.d directories are missing. Well now I hope this thing stays up forever, because I am not sure it will reboot. Any idea how this happened? perhaps a debian package upgrade? More importantly... any idea how I can go though all my installed debian packages to make sure everything is in place. So far I see no loss of functionality. -- Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Startup files disappeared [Urgent!]
I went into dselect and removed the package file-rc. Now it is in a state: file-rc removed (configs remain); remove (was: remove). Extra ...and everything is back in the /etc directory... all the init.d files are still there and all the rc#/d directories are back, and symbolic links are recreated in their respective run level directory. I don't ever remember touching this package before (file-rc), what is it's story? is it needed? Should I hit reinstall in dselect? --Jay Did you install the file-rc package? Is /etc/init.d/* still there? On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: Well the good news is, My Debian system has been up handling daily routines (and running RC5 challenge they whole time G) for the past 93 days. They only thing that shut it down was a scheduled poweroutage for a weekend repair. The bad new is, 93 days later, I am poking around and I noticed that all the /etc/rc#.d directories are missing. Well now I hope this thing stays up forever, because I am not sure it will reboot. Any idea how this happened? perhaps a debian package upgrade? More importantly... any idea how I can go though all my installed debian packages to make sure everything is in place. So far I see no loss of functionality. -- Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Startup files disappeared [Urgent!]
JB == Jay Barbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JB I don't ever remember touching this package before (file-rc), what is JB it's story? JB is it needed? Should I hit reinstall in dselect? file-rc is an approach to handle the scripts in init.d in another fashion then trough the symlinks in rc.* directories. It has *one* file which describes which script has to be started/stoped in which runlevel. I'd consider it alpha and because it interacts with booting, I don't use it (too risky IMHO). Don't touch a running system :-) So this is not part of the standard install? If not, I don't really want it! I am not sure how it got installed in the first place, but I have done pleanty of FTP package installs. --Jay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Startup files disappeared [Urgent!]
I accidently installed this package once...be very carefull. last I used it (accidently installed it) it wasvery broken. It was not unmounting filesystems and remounting them read-only before halt/reboot ing. I tried to figure out what was wrong (not knowing that file-rc existed, much less as installed). I did not want it installed, I prefer the sym-links myself aswell. All seems normal now that it is removed. I guess I will know when it is time to reboot (hopefully in another 93 days g). Thanks for all the info! --Jay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nslookup prompt...
If I simply type 'nslookup' and hit enter to get the and then type in address my Linux box spits the information I wanted originally. My resolve.conf has nameserver 127.0.0.1 next DNS last DNS. I have a running DNS, but when I tried to point the nameserver to 127.0.0.1, it also gave me an error message, so I guess using 127.0.0.1 wont work. If you another IP address for your linux box, try using that instead, and that should work. Good suggestion, but alas, it did not work... bummer! I tried using nameserver to 192.168.1.1, and same problem. This interactive mode is a drag! --Jay It would seem to me, from the replies I have gotten, that this problem is inherent to the Debian package. I did recently upgrade to fix the BIND security problem, and I don't remember this problem before, but it could have been. --Jay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
