Re: mysql problems
The security patch in the latest 3.22.30-4 breaks things. I backed out the patch on my own system and it works again. I've filed a bug report for mysql-server on this. On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Steve Kondik wrote: is anyone experiencing major problems with the latest mysql in woody [and potato]? none of my grant tables seem to get usuable, although the data is still there and correct.
Re: 2.0 - 2.1 ftp problem
ftp service has probably been disabled in /etc/inetd.conf. Check to make sure it hasn't been commented out. On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, John Maheu wrote: After upgrading to slink I can't ftp into my box, but I can ftp out of it. If I try to ftp to my box I get ftp: connect: Connection refused My /etc/hosts.allow is empty and /etc/hosts.deny only has the ALL: PARANOID entry. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks John John Maheuphone (780) 492-2049 University of Alberta fax(780) 492-3300 Dept. of Economicsemail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edmonton, Alberta Canada, T6G 2H4
Re: /dev/fb not there?
You can use mknod to make them yourself. crw-r--r-- 1 root root 29, 0 Dec 3 18:52 /dev/fb0 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 29, 32 Dec 3 18:52 /dev/fb1 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 29, 64 Dec 3 18:52 /dev/fb2 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 29, 96 Dec 3 18:52 /dev/fb3 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 29, 128 Dec 3 18:52 /dev/fb4 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 29, 160 Dec 3 18:52 /dev/fb5 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 29, 192 Dec 3 18:52 /dev/fb6 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 29, 224 Dec 3 18:52 /dev/fb7 On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Corey Ralph wrote: I have set up 2.2.1 and have it booting into a high res mode, it shows the logo on startup etc. However, fb0 is not appearing in /dev. Is there anything else I need to do?
Re: Linux drivers ?: Rage Pro LT Card for Flat-Panel-Displays (LCD)
See http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/ On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Roy, Purna wrote: Do any of you know of a linux X-configuration in terms of driver an other settings for this ? -- From: Branden Robinson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 01, 1999 11:58 AM To: Roy, Purna Subject:Re: Rage Pro LT Card for Flat-Panel-Displays (LCD) On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 11:15:33AM -0800, Roy, Purna wrote: Hi Branden. Do you have a driver solution for linux that works for this configuration ? Thanks. No, I am not familiar with it. I suggest posting a question to debian-user@lists.debian.org . -- G. Branden Robinson | Q: How does a Unix guru have sex? Debian GNU/Linux | A: unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | more;yes;fsck;fsck;fsck;umount;sleep cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
Re: Can't Mount a Zip Drive
In a message dated 2/13/99 1:44:40 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't mount my zip drive. It is a scsi zip drive and I think my isa-to- scsi host adapter is working. During boot I get these lines (among others ofcourse): scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. The isa-to-scsi adapter that comes with the scsi zip drive is an adaptec 152x. You have to pass that to the linux kernel, like LILO: linux aha152x=0x140,12 Assuming your ISA scsi card is at 0x140, irq 12. Note if you have a PS/2 mouse, you need to rejumper the card to use a different irq (like 10). And whether you use 0x140 or 0x340 is also determined by the jumper on the card. Once you have the right parameters, you can add it to /etc/lilo.conf with the line append=aha152x=0x140,12 make sure to run /usr/sbin/lilo after modifying lilo.conf. Steve
How to use 2.2.x kernel's nfsd ?
Is there a deb package which will replace the user-space rpc.nfsd and use a 2.2.x kernel's nfsd support instead?
Re: 8G ide harddrive limit?
I just brought 17.2G ide harddrive, and when I try to use cfdisk to partition it, it only sees 8G. FWIW, I updated cfdisk to ones in frozen. Bios and Linux bootup sees it as 17.2G, so I don't know why cfdisk will not.:( How about using fdisk instead? In the worse case, you can manually specify the cylinders, heads, and sectors in fdisk.
Re: Partition Magic 4.0
It wanted to put ext2 partitions inside a logical partition and I didn't like that. It also seemed to read my drive cylinder geometry incorrectly (well, at least differently than linux). I found that the best way to do it is to use PM to resize the win partition and leave free space on the HD. Then use linux fdisk to create the linux partitions. Steve On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Roman Malinowski wrote: I am about to install Debian 2.00 onto my PC with Windows 95 already on it. I want to pre partition hard drive with Partition Magic 4.00 since Powerquest Corp claims that v4.00 fully supports Linux's ext2. Has anybody used Partition Magic 4.00 to create ext2 partitions and does it work correctly? Thanks Roman Malinowski
How to set a register bit on a PCI card ?
Hi, Would anyone on this list by any chance know how to read the value of bit 15 of address offset 0x40 of a PCI card whose IO base is 0xf800 and then set it to 0? Thanks... Steve
Re: matlab 5.2 on debian 2.0
On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Robert King wrote: Hello, Anyone had success with this installation? Yes; on the contrary, I haven't run into any problems. But maybe that's because I carried over the libraries used in 5.1... see below. I'm running into problems. Onep possibility is the the libraries matlab built it with libXpm.so.4 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.9 and hamm has libXpm.so.4.10 How do I get libXpm.so.4.9 and can I get it to co-exist with libXpm.so.4.10? The libs in matlab/sys/lnx86 will get loaded first. Inside that directory, I have the following: raindrop:/usr/eecs/math/matlab-5.2/sys/lnx86 ls -l total 3767 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 29 13:05 libXpm.so.4 - libXpm.so.4.9 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root63068 Nov 24 1997 libXpm.so.4.9 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Oct 29 13:05 libc.so.5 - libc.so.5.4.38 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1849257 Mar 3 1998 libc.so.5.4.38 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Oct 29 13:05 libg++.so.27 - libg++.so.27.2.8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 969891 Mar 3 1998 libg++.so.27.2.8 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 29 13:05 libm.so.5 - libm.so.5.0.9 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root75717 Mar 3 1998 libm.so.5.0.9 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Oct 29 13:05 libstdc++.so.27 - libstdc++.so.27.2.8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 875636 Mar 3 1998 libstdc++.so.27.2.8
iBCS: how to get function key support
Are there any iCBS users out there? Does anyone know if it's possible to get function key support for SCO binaries? Only F1-F4 seem to work. Thanks.
Re: Daemon rpc.nfsd dies / GLIBC bug
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Llista mail debian wrote: Hi! We have a serious problem with daemon rpc.nfsd. This daemon dies very often and we don't know why. This is a known problem -- the problem has to do with a bug in the glibc code, and not rpc.nfsd. You have two options to avoid this bug. The first is to use the old rpc.nfsd from the bo distribution, which uses libc5 instead. The other alternative is to find an older version of glibc which doesn't contain a call to svc_getreqset() in line 331 of glibc/2.0.7/sunrpc/svc_tcp.c. Steve
Re: Kernel 2.0.34 for AIC 7890 and 3com cyclone (3C905B)
3com cyclone has been reported to work with kernel 2.0.35. But I am stuck until AIC7890 will be supported in 2.0.x ? Does this mean I am locked ? Anyone has a tip or suggestion ? Both support for aic7890 and ethernet are drivers; you can download the updates for aic7890/3com 3c590b yourself and compile a new kernel. If you need the sites from which to download the latest drivers for these two items, let me know. (You can find them by searcing the source code for URLs in aic7xxx.c and 3c59x.c in the kernel source code).
Re: [Debian] support for Adaptec 2940UW2 ?
There are boot disks for SuSe and Redhat at that site but I haven't seen anyone do the equivalent for Debian. I have a rescue image that has support for the 2940UW2 controller built into it. I've seen someone else post one as well. It's not the latest version, but it's good enough to get you installed from which you can then build your own kernel. (I will get around to updating it sometime over the weekend). ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/people/steveh/debian/resc1440.bin
SMARTLIST: how to get exact matching?
Can someone tell me how to configure smartlist to do exact address matching? The problem we have is that some usernames are very similar to each other. For exmaple, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] As a result, when the second user tries to subscribe, smartlist incorrectly says that the user is already subscribed. In rc.custom, will increasing match_threshold help? How much should it be increased, if so? Thanks.
Re: Getting Debian 2.0 to boot on ThinkPad 600
On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, James G. MacKinnon wrote: I have been trying to help a colleague install Debian 2.0 on his ThinkPad 600. Red Hat 5.0 previously installed fine. However, he has been unable to boot from either the standard Debian 2.0 rescue disk or the Tecra rescue disk. It's probably the common 'bzimage' problem. You may want to contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the steps by which he got things to work. In a nutshell, you need to replace the linux file on the rescue disk with a kernel built with zimage and not bzimage, and then execute the rdev.sh shell script. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Sep 1 10:39:34 1998 Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 14:03:58 +0900 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: some success on the thinkpad 770 ed front Resent-Date: 7 Aug 1998 05:16:52 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; i now have a rescue disk that will boot for the thinkpad 770 ed :-) thanks to: Steve Hsieh George Bonser Greg Starkes Nathan Norman Brandon Mitchell for your help and comments. if i left anyone out, i apologize -- please let me know. i haven't gone through the whole installation process yet, but to summarize what was done so far: 1) make a vanilla hamm rescue disk (i made mine from an image dated 1998-07-21) 2) make a zImage that includes: -ramdisk -initrd (initial ramdisk -- this option appears once you've selected ramdisk -- at least via make menuconfig) -loop -msdos -fat -minix -elf -ext2fs -procfs (making a zImage involves 'make zImage' in the appropriate kernel sources directory -- note: if you stick too much in your kernel, it might not fit on your rescue floppy -- zImage ended up in /usr/src/linux-2.0.34/arch/i386/boot/ for me, your mileage may vary.) note: it might be necessary to make sure you match the kernel version of your zImage w/ that of the rescue disk -- i don't know if this really matters -- any comments? 3) copy the zImage to the rescue disk w/ the name 'linux' -- this overwrites the existing kernel image on the floppy. 4) w/ the rescue disk mounted, cd to the floppy's root (this will likely be /mnt or /floppy) and execute the rdev.sh shell script note: these steps are outlined in the readme.txt file on the rescue disk (as pointed out by Brandon Mitchell) thanks again for all your help! -sen btw, as Greg Starkes pointed out, floppy=thinkpad does not seem to be necessary.
Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)
The only way we were able to get our thinkpad to boot debian was to rebuild the kernel using 'make zimage' instead of 'bzimage'. The tecra fix doesn't work for 2.0.34 or above for us. The other alternative is to use the development 2.1.1xx kernel. A make zimage for that does work. On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi- i'm trying to install debian on a thinkpad 770 ed w/ no luck. neither floppy=thinkpad nor the tecra disks (latest i've tried are dated july 21st) worked for me. i'm not complaining or anything, but this is my fourth post to this list this week -- i was wondering if anyone had any suggestions about where else i might be able to ask (or look for more info). i've found a page by someone who has successfully installed redhat 5.0 and 5.1 on this model, so i think it must be possible :-) thanks for your attention. -sen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
where did cvs-pcl go?
Anyone know why the cvs-pcl package went away? Will it be coming back soon? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
how to use auctex w/xemacs20 ?
Can someone explain what is the proper way to use AUCTEX with xemacs20? The auctex package is only for emacs19/20. xemacs20 as it comes installed is not configured with auctex's path installed. The way I get this to work is to add the line (setq load-path (cons /usr/lib/xemacs-20.4/lisp/auctex load-path)) in my .emacs file and then (require 'tex-site). Is there a better, more proper way to do this? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: 'w' doesn't show X session users
It's not just xterm, but also rxvt. So unless they were both changed simultaneously, I'd tend to suspect it's a library or something else that's shared which has changed... On Thu, 7 May 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 12:33:21AM -0400, Steve Hsieh wrote: Subject says it all. The user shows up on 'last', but not on 'w'. This is a recent problem that started roughly around when the latest xserver* debs were placed in hamm.. Any one know what the problem is? I'm not sure if this is right, but I assume this is what happened: This goes back to a previous bug in xterm where it would update the wtmp when you run it, but not remove you from it once you quit the xterm (something about it giving up root privs too soon), so I assume that too many people complained, and wtmp updating was dissabled untill this bug is fixed.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
'w' doesn't show X session users
Subject says it all. The user shows up on 'last', but not on 'w'. This is a recent problem that started roughly around when the latest xserver* debs were placed in hamm.. Any one know what the problem is? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the 'w' command and utmp
After upgrading various frozen packages today, I no longer show up using the 'w' command under X. Is one of the packages no longer updating utmp properly? kanga:[1]~% w 11:04am up 2 min, 0 users, load average: 0.74, 0.47, 0.18 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT kanga:[2]~% last -n1 steveh ttyp0:0.0 Wed Apr 29 11:04 still logged in If I telnet into my machine, I do show though... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
where is tetex-base 0.9-1 ?
For awhile now, tetex-bin in frozen has been requiring tetex-base =0.9-1 to install. But that version of tetex-base doesn't exist in frozen. Anyone know where it currently can be found? dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tetex-bin: tetex-bin depends on tetex-base (= 0.9-1); however: Version of tetex-base on system is 0.4pl8-7. dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NiC Cards
What do you mean by a .deb package for a NIC? If you want networking support for the 3com card, you should be using the 3c59x module or building it into the kernel... On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Mike Holliday wrote: Does anyone know if there is a .DEB package for a 3Com Fast Etherlink 10/100mb bus-master pci adapter? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ultra ATA Hard Drives
Yes, it is possible, but not without some work. If you want to use a stable kernel, you need to rebuild a 2.0.33 kernel with the promise_ide patch in order to recognize the promise ultra ide card. Patch can be found at http://www.huwig.de/linux/mama/20-newdriver.html. But even then, only DMA mode is supported. For built-in promise IDE and UDMA support, use a developmental kernel such as 2.1.90. On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, John Paul Lorenti wrote: I'm trying to install Debian on a friend's computer. She has a Gateway G6-233 with a Promise Ultra ATA harddrive controller card and a Western Digital Caviar UATA-IDE 4GB . The installer doesn't pick up the hard drive at all if it is connected to the Promise board. When connected to the motherboard, the drive won't boot into win95 and it fails linux's bad block scan when trying to create linux partitions. Is it possible to set up Linux on an Ultra ATA hard drive at this point? If so, can you point me to some details on how? I tried Deja News, but the messages seemed inconclusive. Thank you for your time, John Paul -- 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: Parallel ZIP drive (not Plus) and modules ??
I have my parallel zip drive working, but I didn't do anything special. ppa and lp can't be loaded at the same time. For starters though, if you insmod lp, is the lp port detected, or does it tell you that no lp ports were found? On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Andrew M.A.Cater [Andy wrote: Hello all, I'm having great problems getting my parallel Zip drive recognised under 2.0.33. The dmesg error says '0 scsi hosts detected ' - on other occasions I have device busy on parallel port. My motherboard allows me to configure auto compatible ECP EPP and to specify addresses for the parallel ports. Which should I use? Does anyone have this working, even if I have to insmod ppa and rmmod lp each time ? Thanks, Andy -- 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]
netscape: automatic viewing of ps.Z files
Hi, Can any of you other netscape users view a file.ps.Z file automatically? When I try to click on one of these links (or simply 'netscape file.ps.Z'), it prompts me to save the file to disk instead of uncompressing it and filtering it to gv. It is recognizing the file type correct, just not acting on it. On the save as window, at the top it says application/postscript, encoding x-compress. So why isn't it calling the x-compress filter, which in Netscape.ad is defined as uncompress -c ? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
too many open files error
Does anyone know where the limitation of this problem occurs and how to correct it? Is this due to a kernel or nfsd hard define? Thanks. Mar 13 05:02:08 srvr nfsd[159]: non-standard errno: 24 (Too many open files) Mar 13 05:02:45 srvr last message repeated 9 times Mar 13 05:02:45 srvr nfsd[159]: non-standard errno: 24 (Too many open files) Mar 13 05:03:59 srvr last message repeated 3 times -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: long filenames in M$Dos partition
Mount using filesystem type vfat. On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Arunas Norvaisa wrote: Dear list, Can anybody of you please explain to me (hopeless newbie) why when I can't see long filenames on mounted msdos partition? This causes me some pain in the neck as I can't freely manipulate files between linux and dos... Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks. -- greetz... Arunas Norvaisa - little guy, The Masses Inc. PGP keys on keyservers: IDs: 0x4CE4774E (DSS/DH), 0xC90D7E21 PGP for idiots page http://www1.omnitel.net/an and a US mirror site http://www.post1.com/~arunas Nice computers don't go down. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel Headers
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: Can someone explain to me please this whole debian kernel headers thing? I use OSS/Linux (unfortunatly my sound card is of a type where I can't use anything else) and I plan to upgrade to the new version of it later today... they say that before installation on Debian systems... you have to rename /usr/include/asm and /usr/include/linux and make them sym inks into the kernel source tree (easy enough) then I got curious here at work (I am installing at home) and noticed that /usr/include/linux is a sym link to /usr/src/kerenel-headers-xxx why i sthis so? See the /usr/doc/libc* FAQ.. Excerpt: Q1: Why does Debian's libc point the /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm symlinks to a specific kernel instead of using the standard convention of pointing them to the currently installed kernel? A1: Occasionally, changes in the kernel headers cause problems with the compilation of libc and of programs that use libc. To ensure that users are not affected by these problems, we configure libc to use the headers from a kernel that is known to work with libc. By the way, the most recent OSS should take care of all of this stuff automatically, I believe. I install OSS without having to touch any of the links (which point to 2.0.32 headers). I am using kernel 2.0.33 and OSS for 2.0.33 without any modifications or problems. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Max swap on Linux
On 1 Mar 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: I am going to install Debian on a system that may require alot of swap space. According to the Debian installation notes, Linux only uses up to 128MB of swap space. I've been also told that Linux can handle more. Which is correct? There is a 128MB limit for each swap area. You can have as many swap areas as you want; for instance, I have three 128MB areas, one on each of my three hard drives: Actually, you can't. There is a maximum of 8 swap partitions defined in the kernel. I suppose once could change this (see swap.h in the kernel source) to a higher amount (we use 16). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: CFS, help with cmkdir
That's a packaging error in the CFS source. You need to rebuild the package yourself and change EXE cpasswd debian/tmp/usr/bin/cmkdir to EXE cmkdir debian/tmp/usr/bin/cmkdir inside debian/tmp.files If this hasn't been reported as a bug yet on the bugtraq system, you ought to report it. Also it would be good to mention that 1.4.0beta is out. On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, matthew tebbens wrote: Started cfsd I created /null with mode 000 Exported it to localhost. Created /var/sdb1/crypt Did a mount -o port=3049,intr localhost:/null /var/sdb1/crypt Everything seemed to work ok... Now, I can't seem to get cmkdir to work, it keeps thinking that its cpasswd ?? If/When I get cmkdir to work, do I create directories only under /var/sdb1/crypt or anywhere ? I'm confused about where all my encrypted files would be stored...the cfs documentation doesn't help. Thanks! Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Modem /dev/cua vs /dev/ttyS (The Long, True answer to this reappearing question)
Thanks, that's what I neeeded. The expect script works great!
On 13 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote:
Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No difference. Does it work on your modem port?
raindrop:~ stty 115200 echoe -echo -clocal raw /dev/ttyS0
raindrop:~ stty 115200 echoe -echo -clocal raw /dev/ttyS0
It won't ever work because the shell tries to open /dev/ttyS0 without
O_NONBLOCK being one of the flags, and in this case it will wait for
carrier detect before the open() returns.
A small program to open the device with O_NONBLOCK and set CLOCAL
before passing control to the original command could be useful. I'll
see if I have some spare time to work on it.
You could also open the file with NONBLOCK set in expect (see man
3tcl open):
set tty [open /dev/ttyS0 {RDONLY NONBLOCK}]
exec stty 115200 -echoe -echo raw @ $tty
close $tty
--
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Re: timezones 2.0.7pre1-1 is broken
Try rerunning /usr/sbin/tzconfig ; when I run that the /etc/localtime gets fixed. (Seems to occur if you remove the timezone package from bo after installing timezones in hamm) On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: When I updated my hamm system tonight from my local mirror, timezones was updated to 2.0.7pre1-1. It removed the setting GMT= from wherever it belongs in hamm. (It was in /etc/init.d/boot pre-hamm, but I haven't looked for it before now that /etc/init.d/boot is no longer used. I inserted GMT= near the top of /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh, and it works, but that probably isn't the correct place. Where should it be? When I run the date command, I get the following: Thu Feb 12 22:40:27 /etc/localtime 1998 There is no file /etc/localtime, which I suppose should contain my time zone, which tzconfig says (correctly) is EST5EDT. dpkg -L shows that timezones includes the directory /usr/doc/timezones, but no files in that directory. A listing of this directory shows: bob:vc-2:bobls /usr/doc/timezones BUGS.gz NOTES.gz ChangeLog.gz PROJECTS.gz ChangeLog.linuxthreads.gzREADME.Xfree3.2.linuxthreads.gz ChangeLog.localedata.gz README.crypt.gz Changes.linuxthreads.gz README.gz FAQ.Debian.gzREADME.linuxthreads.gz FAQ.gz README.localedata.gz INSTALL.gz changelog.Debian.gz NEWS.gz copyright Many of these files, but not all, are related to glibc, and none seem related to timezones. Are these known problems with this version of timezones, or should I file a bug report? Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Modem /dev/cua vs /dev/ttyS (The Long, True answer to this reappearing question)
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: system stty 19200 -echoe -echo raw /dev/cua3 /dev/cua3 When using /dev/ttyS? instead, it won't return, whereas using cua does. Would you know how to fix this problem so that I can use /dev/ttyS? instead in scripts like these? Try adding -clocal to the above command and see what happens. No difference. If you try on the command line, it will not come back the second time (it seems to work the first time though..) Just try on your serial port.. % stty 115200 echoe -echo -clocal raw /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS0 works % % stty 115200 echoe -echo -clocal raw /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS0 will not return -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Modem /dev/cua vs /dev/ttyS (The Long, True answer to this reappearing question)
No difference. Does it work on your modem port? raindrop:~ stty 115200 echoe -echo -clocal raw /dev/ttyS0 raindrop:~ stty 115200 echoe -echo -clocal raw /dev/ttyS0 will not return On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Dale Smith wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 1998 01:22:39 -0500 (EST), you wrote: No difference. If you try on the command line, it will not come back the second time (it seems to work the first time though..) Just try on your serial port.. % stty 115200 echoe -echo -clocal raw /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS0 works % % stty 115200 echoe -echo -clocal raw /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS0 will not return Just a guess, try it *without* redirecting stdout to /dev/ttyS0 . The stty command operates on file handle 0, not 1. Do you really want to output from stty to be fed to your modem (or whatever is hanging off the port)? Dale -- Dale P. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cleveland Linux Users Group: http://cleveland.lug.net/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Modem /dev/cua vs /dev/ttyS
Use of /dev/cua? may be deprecated, but I can't get scripts to work with /dev/ttyS?, only /dev/cua?. Can anone explain why? For example, if you use the /usr/doc/ppp/examples/secure-card expect script, it uses redirection to /dev/cua? to communicate with the modem: system stty 19200 -echoe -echo raw /dev/cua3 /dev/cua3 If you change this to ttyS3 it will work once, but not again until you reboot. But /dev/cua? always works... On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: The device equivalent to /dev/cua1 is /dev/ttyS2. (In linux, as in other unices, the serial device numbering starts at 0, so /dev/ttyS1 is the same serial port as COM2 in DOS.) The use of the /dev/cua? devices is deprecated, I believe because of locking inconsistencies. Bob On Tue, 10 Feb 1998 Pete Poff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Supporters, I have the program minicom on my computer and I need to know how to tell what the name of my modem is under the /dev or how I can find it. The default that came with the program was something like /dev/cua1 but it couldn't find that file name. Also can any of you tell me where I can get the pico editer program? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm, Part II
If they are all pretty similar configs, then it sounds like a very easy solution is to use rdist or rsync. On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: I guess I didn't explain real well the first time, although I enjoyed the thread.. On this compute farm, they want to make changes to 1 machine, as in adding a package, changing a config file, etc and having the resultant changes reflected on the other 199 machines, without having to go to each machine and tweak it. Installing the machines will be a short, but intense process, but they are looking for long range admin solutions. Thanks, Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Nihil illegitemi carborvndvm. --anon ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: AGP Video
On 11 Feb 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: What AGP cards are being used successfully with X? Specifically, I'm considering the Matrox Millenium II AGP. The XSuse Millenium driver from http://www.suse.de is reputed to work with AGP. And it does (at least on my system). :-) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Modem /dev/cua vs /dev/ttyS (The Long, True answer to this reappearing question)
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Serial device locking by convention uses files in a special directory which are named according to the name of the device. Unless all references to the device use the same name, this locking fails. That's why cua devices are no longer used. Why were they ever used? Because old versions of unix had two different devices for the same serial port, one on which an open would hang until the device asserted Carrier Detect (which getty's used) and another which open would return without having Carrier Detect (used for program which wanted to dial out on the modem). Was cua the one which would return without having Carrier Detect? My problem is that if I use /dev/ttyS? instead of /dev/cua?, in the /usr/doc/ppp/examples/secure-card expect script, it doesn't work. That script has stuff like system stty 19200 -echoe -echo raw /dev/cua3 /dev/cua3 When using /dev/ttyS? instead, it won't return, whereas using cua does. Would you know how to fix this problem so that I can use /dev/ttyS? instead in scripts like these? Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lchown(), libc6-2.0.7pre1, and 2.1.8x kernels
Doesn't appear to be good enough on its own... dpkg: error processing ssltelnet_0.11.1-2.deb (--install): error setting ownership of symlink `usr/man/man8/in.telnetd.8.gz': No such file or directory dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) ii libc6 2.0.7pre1-1The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files) % uname -a Linux minnie2.eecs.umich.edu 2.1.85 #1 Wed Feb 11 15:39:06 EST 1998 i686 unknown On 11 Feb 1998, David Z. Maze wrote: The lchown() function shows up in the most recent libc6 package. Is this on its own enough for dpkg to work happily with the 2.1.81+ kernels? -- _ / \ The cat's been in the box for over | David Maze | 20 years. Nobody's feeding it. The | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |cat is dead. | http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ | -- Grant, on Schroedinger's Cat \_/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm
All that would work if you wanted to take the machines offline to do that, but these machines are going to be handling 30MB/min of streaming data for 6 months at a clip. There's no way that would work. :( hmmm just a slightly evil thought anyone tried cat /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1 assuming hda1 and hdb1 are similar partition sizes and types Tried it... doesnt work. you can't use cat, but if the drives are identical you can use dd (We use that to clone identical copies of drives here). As for package maintenance, once you have one machine set up the way you want, you can get the package list using dpkg --get-selections, save that to a file. Then reverse it (ie: dpkg --set-selections filename) on the next machine after updating the package list. Then you you don't need to use dselect or do much work on the other machines and maintenance becomes pretty painless. Come these things into an install/update script and then you can pretty much automate everything except for answering all the questions that come up during an install (in my case, I just keep tabs of these config files on the master machine and rdist them across afterwards). This is how I keep our 50 or so linux machines in sync... If you are using hamm the dpkg-mountable method is pretty nice since it only loads packages that are needed as opposed to recursing down all the directories. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Laptop prob with Deb. 1.3.1
Try using the tecra bootdisks inside disks-i386/special to see if you can boot linux via floppies. If that works for you, then you're probably encountering the same bug that many laptop people have had to deal with, namely that kernels made with 'make bzImage' will not boot. If so, then all you need to do is recompile a new kernel made with make zimage instead of make bzimage. On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Timothy Bostrom wrote: I just bought a Toshiba 440CDX and tried to install Debian 1.3.1. Every time I put the boot disk in the floppy, the laptop would reboot right after it gets done decompressing the kernel and says loading Linux... Finally, after countless times, I was able to get it to boot and install the distribution. Only now I can't get it to boot again... I'm using LILO to do a dual-boot to Win95 (its for work only, guys!) and whenever I choose Linux to boot it reboots... 95 works fine... I'm at a loss... I know of people who have other distributions of Linux running on the same exact laptop so I don't think it's the latop... I've tried popping out all of the PCMCIA cards and booting but it still reboots... Any bright ideas? Timothy Bostrom San Diego State University Telecommunications and Network Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] (619) 594-2407 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Ans: Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?
I don't think so. My 1GB problem was when using a hamm system. Commenting out ULIMIT in login.defs was the only way to raise the hard limit on all accounts from what I could see. On 27 Jan 1998, Kirk Hilliard wrote: Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To anyone interested in this -- The problem was not related to the kernel, but to ulimit. /etc/login.defs has ULIMIT set to 1GB for some reason. However, it is not clear to me why some accounts use this value, while other accounts ignore it. In any case, if you comment out the ULIMIT line, all accounts no longer have the 1GB restriction and you can create files up to the real 2GB limit. Aha! Then this might be fixed in hamm: On my machine running bo: $ ulimit 1048576 On my machine running hamm: $ ulimit unlimited I ran out of space at 1GB on the bo machine, but I don't have space to check this on the hamm machine. Did anyone here run into a 1GB limit on a hamm machine? Kirk Hilliard P.S. There doesn't seem to be sufficient difference between /etc/login.defs on the two machines to account for this. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Ans: Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?
To anyone interested in this -- The problem was not related to the kernel, but to ulimit. /etc/login.defs has ULIMIT set to 1GB for some reason. However, it is not clear to me why some accounts use this value, while other accounts ignore it. In any case, if you comment out the ULIMIT line, all accounts no longer have the 1GB restriction and you can create files up to the real 2GB limit. On 26 Jan 1998, John Goerzen wrote: Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry if my previous post on this made it out as well. It seems that on Debian, the maximum single file size on ext2fs is 1GB and not 2GB. Can someone confirm this, and suggest how to fix the problem, if possible? I am getting bigger than 1 gig: garfield /scratch$ cat /dev/zero test cat: write error: No space left on device garfield /scratch$ ls -l total 1433633 drwx-- 4 jgoerzen jgoerzen 1024 Jan 19 13:19 jgoerzen drwxr-xr-x 2 root root12288 Dec 14 11:26 lost+found -rw-rw-r-- 1 jgoerzen jgoerzen 1462290432 Jan 26 20:46 test Kernel 2.0.33, libc6. This is well over a gig. John -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DOS/Windows -- check it out at www.debian.org. --+-- Find out how to avoid all those pesky crashes, lockups, application errors, and slow applications at http://www.debian.org -- Debian can replace Windows 95 with a much more stable operating system. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?
On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Krzysztof Adamski wrote: Well, lets see: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /dev/zero xxx cat: write error: File too large [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l xxx -rw-r--r-- 1 kadamski users2147482624 Jan 25 12:02 xxx [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.0.33 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.1) #6 Sun Dec 28 23:08:15 EST 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df . Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda23966376 2813561 947608 75% / I remember doing this in 2.0.29 and getting only 1G for files, so something changed in the newer kernel. Krzysztof I don't think it is the kernel (unless, it's due to a specific configuration option in the kernel?) I tried it on 2.0.33 and 2.1.78, same result on both: lilu# ls -l xxx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1073741824 Jan 25 15:36 xxx lili# uname -a Linux lili.eecs.umich.edu 2.1.78 #1 Wed Jan 21 06:44:08 EST 1998 i686 unknown Does anyone have any ideas on what the issue is and how to fix the problem for those of us stuck at the 1GB limit? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
boot-floppies package for hamm?
Can someone tell me if there is a boot-floppies package for hamm yet? The current one depends on libc5-pic and ncurses3.0-pic -- neither of which exist in hamm. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?
Sorry if my previous post on this made it out as well. It seems that on Debian, the maximum single file size on ext2fs is 1GB and not 2GB. Can someone confirm this, and suggest how to fix the problem, if possible? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ppp-on INVISIBLE
Why don't you use the debian-provided pon and poff scripts? They pretty much do the same thing. See /usr/doc/ppp/README.debian.gz among other files in that directory. On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Gerald Wann wrote: Hi all - I am trying to setup my ppp connection as explained in the PPP-HOWTO and have run into a brick wall. I can bring up the connection manually via minicom and pppd command line ande it check out fine. However ... when i try to automate the process using the ppp-on ppp-on-dialer and ppp-off scripts, i get the message ppp-on: No such file or directory. I have tried activating the script with the full path .. i.e. /etc/ppp/scripts/ppp-on and also placing the scripts in the /sbin directory. Same result both ways. The script file permissions are set to -rwxr-xr-x. I am probably making a silly newbie mistake, but i can't find it. Suggestions please? Thanks Jerry -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Lilo: How to install it? ( Part II )
For win95 I use: other=/dev/hda1 label=Win table=/dev/hda On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Ivan Rojas wrote: Well, tanks to all that helped me last week with the lilo problem, but I'm stil in trouble with it. I got Lilo to boot, I mean when the computer starts lilo appears asking for what OS to launch. If I select Linux it goes ok, but if I select Win95 ( default ) it will launch lilo again!(??) My lilo.conf is: boot=/dev/hda1 install=/kernel/boot/boot.b map=/kernel/boot/map delay=50 timeout=70 compact prompt default=Win95 image=/kernel/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 label=Linux vga=normal other=Win95 label=Win95 loader=/kernel/boot/chain.b And my partitions: /dev/hda1 -- Win95 /dev/hda2 -- Linux partition mounted in /kernel ( about 10 MBytes big at the end of hda ) /dev/hdb -- Linux mounted in / I really appreciate any help. ** Ivan Rojas Liikkuva Systems Intl. RD Engineer/Sys. Admin. http://www.liikkuva.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ATI 3D Rage II and XFree86
There is a web site on how to configure this board. Sorry, I forget the exact site name. Do a search on the web for ATI Rage and Linux. I think you also need the 3.3.1 version of Xfree mach64 -- do you have that or are you using the debian stable 3.3 version? I installed X on an ATI Mach64 3D RAGE Pro, so this may not apply to the Rage II, but you can check. For the rage pro card, the key part is in the Device section, and the ChipID and ChipRev fields, which you need to manually add after running xf86config... # Device configured by xf86config: Section Device Identifier ATI Mach64 3D RAGE Pro, Internal RAMDAC VendorName Unknown BoardName Unknown VideoRam2048 ChipID 0x4754 ChipRev 0x01 # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate EndSection On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Franz Karrer wrote: I installed the Debian 1.31 kernel 20.2.29 on my Pc. Now I have problems in finding the proper xserver configuration for the ATI 3D Rage II videoboard. I tried svga and mach64 server where I can select - from xf86config - the ATI 3D Rage II,Ramdac option, but I don't know which Ramdac types and clock cycles I should select. When I try startx I get some black screens except for the 800*600 resolution, which flickers terribly. The monitor supports 31-86 kHz, 50-160 Hz. The board runs fine on WIN95 with a 1024*768 resolution. Does anybody know how to configure the board? Best regards, Franz Karrer -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
sysvinit in hamm uses updatercd -- where is it?
In upgrading to debian unstable, I see that sysvinit uses updatercd in sysvinit.postinst to create the symlinks to /etc/init.d. But I don't see updatercd available anywhere in any Deb package.. no wonder my links were created. :) Can someone tell me where, in which package, I can find it? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: sysvinit in hamm uses updatercd -- where is it?
Can someone tell me where, in which package, I can find it? That should be /usr/sbin/update-rc.d, which should be in package dpkg. It should be, but it isn't. update-rc.d doesn't know about the new /etc/rcS.d/ directory yet. If you look in the sysvinit.postinst script, you'll see that updatercd is a shell function, defined just a few lines before it's used. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG Oops. I feel silly now.. :) Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ftp ncftp segfaults after libc6 upgrade
After upgrading to libc6 via the libc5-libc6 HOWTO, and running dselect to install all the hamm packages, ftp or ncftp no longer works. Here's what I see: kanga:[21]~% ftp Segmentation fault (core dumped) kanga:[22]~% ldd /usr/bin/ftp libreadline.so.2 = /lib/libreadline.so.2 (0x4000f000) libncurses.so.3.4 = /lib/libncurses.so.3.4 (0x40031000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40076000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) libncurses.so.3.0 = /lib/libncurses.so.3.0 (0x40118000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40154000) Is it possible for ftp to depend on both libc.so.5 and libc.so.6 above? How do I resolve whatever is wrong? Thanks.. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
netscape acroread plugin?
Does anyone have netscape the acroread plugin working together? On my setup, when you try to open a pdf file on the web, acroread will die as soon as the splash screen comes up, leaving netscape with the message an error occured or something not too useful of a message. Essentially, it appears that acroread isn't waiting for the data to stream in on the network (unable to open the data pipe?). If you try to open a pdf on the hard disk (local) via netcape, it works though. If you have the plugin working, did you have to do anything special? I also tried configuring it as a helper program, but netcsape refuses to even run that -- instead, it insists on saving application/pdf to disk, even though I have the helper program configured as acroread %s Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: netscape acroread plugin?
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Steve Hsieh wrote: Does anyone have netscape the acroread plugin working together? On my setup, when you try to open a pdf file on the web, acroread will die as soon as the splash screen comes up, leaving netscape with the message an error occured or something not too useful of a message. Essentially, it appears that acroread isn't waiting for the data to stream in on the network (unable to open the data pipe?). Works here, from my .mailcap: #mailcap entry added by Netscape Helper application/pdf;/usr/local/bin/acroread %s Don't think I did anything special. Thanks for responding. At the end, I was able to get acorread to work properly as a helper app, as you have done. But the problem I'm having is with the inline plugin -- it's not very stable and tends to stop very early on in the loading process, giving me all kinds of errors, especially if you move the page or click on the netscape window before it is done loading. I may have to settle with running acroread as a helper app... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: debian 1.3 on thinkpad 760xl
John, On the IBM thinkpad 760, you must use the tecra boot disk in the special directory, and not the standard bootdisk. If you build your own kernel, you must build it with 'make zimage' and not 'make bzimage'. The thinkpad will hang as you describe otherwise. The alternative, as you may have discovered, is to use loadlin to boot from DOS. Steve On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, LKloss wrote: attempts to install debian 1.3 and always the same problem. On reboot the system hangs at LILO loading linux So the two main things here 1) I cannot install linux without first booting a DOS rescure disk and loading the install using loadlin. If I just try the boot-rescue disk (with resc1440.bin rawrite2'in to it) the system hangs after loading linux 2) After reboot (whether from floppy or hard drive, I've tried both) the system hangs at LILO loading linux So I'm thinking that debian doesn't now how to read the IDE Hard Drive interface and can't boot. So what do I do about this? - John Kloss -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
booting debian on IBM thinkpad 760ED 3COM 3c562
As perhaps others have already posted here, you must use the special/tecra 2.0.29 rescue disk to boot linux on an IBM thinkpad 760ED. This is great, but I'd like to use kernel 2.0.33 instead. The problem is that I don't know what changes to the kernel have to be made. Can anyone tell me or point me to the patch(es)? Also, I tried using the pcmcia-cs 2.9.6-3 package to get my 3Com 3c562 card going. However, when I insert the card, it isn't recognized properly. Instead, I see initializing socket 1 socket 1: Anonymous Memory Card executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.0.29/pcmcia/pcmem_cs.o' cardmgr: executing: './pcmem stop pcmem0' Can someone help? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
wuftpd vs wuftpd-academ
Can someone tell me what's the difference between wuftpd and wuftpd-academ versions? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
How to use debian-cd
Is there anyone using debian-cd who would be willing to provide some basic instructions on how to use it (or point me to some?) Specifically, after installing debian-cd-1.0 on a Debian-1.3.1R6 system, I don't understand which vars need to be configured to make mount the iso filesystem in the right place (the default seems to write in my system's / directory and die with an error??). Also, I noticed that the script does not pick up important variables like ARCH for some reason. If I type the command on the shell prompt, it works, but it doesn't when called inside cd_functions.sh, but instead comes up blank... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Xfree 3.3.1 for stable?
Is there an xfree 3.3.1 for stable (libc1) somewhere? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
libc5.4.38 available anywhere?
I see that libc5.4.33 is the most recent libc5 debian package in both the stable and unstable trees... 5.4.38 has been out for awhile -- is that available in a debian package anywhere? Steve -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
AFS on debian 2.0.32 / unresolved symbols
Has anyone been able to get AFS 2.0.32 to run on a debian 2.0.32 system? The rpm package is built on a redhat system. On my debian system, I get: kanga# insmod -f -m libafs.o libafs.o: unresolved symbol register_filesystem_R0c94bf58 libafs.o: unresolved symbol current_set_Ra3aab10f libafs.o: unresolved symbol __iget_R2986b63e libafs.o: unresolved symbol sleep_on_Rf6402ad8 libafs.o: unresolved symbol wake_up_R61177642 libafs.o: unresolved symbol interruptible_sleep_on_Ra9abd0e7 libafs.o: unresolved symbol iput_R2747137a libafs.o: unresolved symbol open_namei_Ra5d5975b libafs.o: unresolved symbol lnamei_R06eb3c3f libafs.o: unresolved symbol invalidate_inode_pages_Rcaf591e2 libafs.o: unresolved symbol namei_R5465020e libafs.o: unresolved symbol generic_file_mmap_R1785b460 libafs.o: unresolved symbol unregister_filesystem_Reabc6c6e -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Matlab5
Sounds like you need to include some of the libraries that matlab was compiled against inside the $MATLAB/sys/lnx86 directory -- the libstdc++ library that comes with debian doesn't work with matlab 5.1 and will produce the error you write below. Here's the libs we use for a working matlab on Debian... You can get them from mathwork's ftp site, or alternately, you can email me privately and I can send them to you. directory: $MATLAB_HOME/sys/lnx86 goofy# ls -l total 2311 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Sep 27 14:48 libXpm.so.4 -libXpm.so.4.6 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root55164 Jun 6 12:28 libXpm.so.4.6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Sep 27 14:48 libc.so.5 -libc.so.5.3.12 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 572413 Jun 6 12:28 libc.so.5.3.12 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Sep 27 14:48 libm.so.5 -libm.so.5.0.6 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root36084 Jun 6 12:28 libm.so.5.0.6 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root root 841780 Sep 27 14:54 libstdc++.so.27 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root root 841780 Sep 27 14:54 libstdc++.so.27.1.4 On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Bill Moran wrote: Hi I am tryng to get matlab 5 working on my Toshiba laptop. I have run S56flexlm to set up the license manager. When I try to run matlab I receive the error message: /usr/local/src/matlab5/bin/lnx86/matlab: can't resolve symbol '__register_exceptions' Does anyone know hoow to fix this? Thanks Bill -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dpkg-shlibdeps error
I am trying to recompile the shadow-passwd package. However, I hit upon
the following error when calling dpkg-shlibdeps inside debian/rules. Can
someone tell me the problem suggest a solution? I am using the latest
debian 1.3.1r6 stable distribution...
dpkg-shlibdeps -dDepends debian/tmp-p/usr/{bin/*,sbin/*}
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on
`debian/tmp-p/usr/bin/chage': ` libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5
(0x4000c000)'
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: ldd on `debian/tmp-p/usr/bin/chage' gave nothing on
standard output
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on
`debian/tmp-p/usr/bin/chfn': ` libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4000c000)'
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: ldd on `debian/tmp-p/usr/bin/chfn' gave nothing on
standard output
dpkg: --search needs at least one file name pattern argument
Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*];
Use dselect for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;
Type dpkg --licence for copyright licence and lack of warranty (GNU GPL)
[*].
Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through `less' or
`more' !
dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: dpkg --search gave error exit status 2
make: *** [binary-passwd] Error 11
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Re: How to maintain a network of workstations via dselect?
I don't think there is a way to do both simultaenously, but what you can do is first setup one system the way you want. Then use 'dpkg --get-selections file' and save the output to a file. Then on the other machine, use 'dpkg --set-selections file' to set all the same packages installed on the first machine. Then run dselect as usual to do the actual install. -- Stephen Hsieh Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univ. of Michigan at Ann Arbor --- On 1 Nov 1997, Terrence Brannon wrote: I have a bunch of PC's (actually two :-)) running Debian Linux. However, I want them to be exactly the same but dont want to run dselect on both machines, but would rather have any installations/removals/configs/etc affect both machines simultaneously. Is this possible? If not, shouldn't it be? -- Terrence Brannon * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://quake.usc.edu/~brannon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
bash2.01 Xfree86: how to make Backspace really be KeySym backspace??
Hi, I'm going to repeat this post again, since it seems annoying that someone else should have encountered this problem, but no one replied the first time. In summary, xfree86 as shipped in debian appears to have backspace and delete both bound to the Delete KeySym, so it's not possible to generate a ^H by pressing either keys. Bash 2.01 seems to want ^H for a backspace. So, how can I change this mapping back to del - delete and backspace - ^H on a systemwide basis? I guess I could use the xmodmap file in /etc/X11/... but i'd rather find the source of the original problem. I am not using the Xkb extension. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 02:43:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Xfree86: how to make Backspace really be KeySym backspace?? Resent-Date: 17 Oct 1997 06:41:24 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Hi, It appears that in the default keyboard mapping for xfree86 (xkb disabled), both the backspace key *and* the delete key are mapped to the KeySym 'Delete'. Can someone tell me where this is being done? I don't want these keys mapped. In other words, I'd like the delete key = keysym Delete backspace key = keysym BackSpace the way it should be. I know I could use xmodmap to remap the keys back to the original ways, but I'd rather find the source of the problem and remove the mapping that is currently being done in the first place. Can anyone help? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: startx can't find font 'fixed'!
Try issuing 'mkfontdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/*' That works for the xfree86 servers. It didn't work for the commercial Xi server which still says 'can't find font fixed' though. I have no idea if that will be good enough for metro-X... -- Stephen Hsieh Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univ. of Michigan at Ann Arbor --- On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, cbebber wrote: Hello all. I will apologise in advance since I am sure that this is a really dumb question, but I just installed Debian 1.3.1 for the first time last night and I can't get X going. I am using MetroX 3.1.5 which has worked wonderfully for me before under both Slackware and Red Hat. Anywho, once I do a 'startx', the screen goes black and I can't know to do anything else but reboot and when I come back and check out /var/log/Xerrors, it tells me that I have some problems loading the fonts. Here's the Xerrors, but I don't know how to get the fonts all working. I would really appreciate any help. Thank you in advance. -Charlie Metro-X Version 3.1.5 Copyright (c) 1990-1996 by Metro Link Inc. Copyright (c) 1989-1994 by M.I.T. Copyright (c) 1994-1996 by X Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Read mouse Serial_MouseMan from Xconfig Keyboard Description File is metro(us_101) Opened /dev/tty7 Loading /usr/lib/X11/Metro/modules/libibm8514.a Screen 0: IBM8514, Chipset TRIO 64 V+ [4311e1] (128), 2048K RAM, DAC S3_TRIO, PCI Video mode 1024x768, dot clock = 65.0 MHz Loading /usr/lib/X11/Metro/modules/libmlfb16.a Font: X = 0, Y = 849, Width = 1024, Height = 175 Bitmap: X = 0, Y = 849, Width = 1024, Height = 32 Bitmap: X = 0, Y = 881, Width = 1024, Height = 143 Pixmap: X = 0, Y = 768, Width = 1024, Height = 81 DEC-XTRAP: AddExtension assigned Major Opcode '135' DEC-XTRAP: Vers. 3.4-0 successfully loaded Invalid font path elememt /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc failed to set default font path '/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1' Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' -- http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~cbebber PGP Public Key finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 35 93 D1 42 D0 45 44 CB E7 8F 64 37 FB FD 54 5C -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Xfree86: how to make Backspace really be KeySym backspace??
Hi, It appears that in the default keyboard mapping for xfree86 (xkb disabled), both the backspace key *and* the delete key are mapped to the KeySym 'Delete'. Can someone tell me where this is being done? I don't want these keys mapped. In other words, I'd like the delete key = keysym Delete backspace key = keysym BackSpace the way it should be. I know I could use xmodmap to remap the keys back to the original ways, but I'd rather find the source of the problem and remove the mapping that is currently being done in the first place. Can anyone help? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Matlab5 and the standard c++ library
Put libstdc++.so.27.1.4 inside matlab/sys/lnx86 and in the same directory, create a symlink for libstdc++.so.27 - libstdc++.so.27.1.4 Then matlab will use that lib instead. On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Peyman Gohari wrote: Hi fellows, Does anyone know why Matlab5 (5.1.0.421) is unhappy with libstdc++.so.27.2.1 ( can't resolve symbol '__register_exceptions' ), but works fine with the older version libstdc++.so.27.1.4? Other than switching to the older version, is there any way around this problem? Regards, Peyman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Matlab5 and the standard c++ library
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote: Put libstdc++.so.27.1.4 inside matlab/sys/lnx86 and in the same directory, create a symlink for libstdc++.so.27 - libstdc++.so.27.1.4 Then matlab will use that lib instead. The problem is that I'm dealing with a read-only NFS mounted file system, and so I can't create a symbolic link. Is there any environment variable capable of doing the same trick? You can set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=directory_containing_lib -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ZIP IDE
The zip IDE is not a scsi device; the scsi driver won't work with it. However, I believe there is support for it in the new developmental 2.1.x kernels, something having to do with having full IDE ATAPI support. I don't know what the status of it is though. On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Pierre GAMBAROTTO wrote: All is in the subject. How can I use a iomega zip with an IDE interface with linux ? By default the kernel has support precompiled in for zip. As long as it is connected at turn on, it will be found as /dev/sda4 (or sba4, i forget which) Other wise, compile a kernal, include scsi support, zip is under the scsi section. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chad D. Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Southwest Technology Development Institute New Mexico State University --- HP: http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/ DBP: http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/Debian/ LCAO: http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/Las_Cruces_Art/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X problem after update from REX to BO
I encountered the same problem. Doing a mkfontdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/* seems to fix the problem for Xfree servers; it still doesn't work after that for AcceleratedX though. -- Stephen Hsieh Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univ. of Michigan at Ann Arbor --- On 24 Sep 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote: Hi, last night I finally went through the work to update my rex system to bo. Everything went pretty smooth, except that X doesn't start up anymore. It gives me this error: Can't open default font fixed(or something very close to it) Has someone had this problem before? I have no clue what has gone wrong. Thanks a lot in advance for any hint or pointer! Andy Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de/~spiegl PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
depmod/modprobe error
Anyone know how to solve this one? raindrop:/etc# depmod -a modprobe: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory I'm not sure if this is related to the fact that I built my own custom kernel (using make-kpkg). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
procmail config question
I have a procmail question that perhaps someone could help me with: Is there a way to add an AND in the string by which procmail filters mail? Right now, I have :0: * ^FROM_MAILER IN.daemon-mail but what I really want is all mail from daemons *except* mail with the Subject Thanks for any tips. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Host/nslookup, sendmail, bash
I'm having problems configuring sendmail to deliver mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've configured my domain as cs.washington.edu, with a search path (in resolv.conf) of cs.washington.edu, washington.edu, and edu. However, sendmail doesn't appear to try other entries in the search path because it bounces the message with an error like host cs.cs.washington.edu not found. How can I fix that? I don't know the answer to this...but did you try removing your domain entry from your resolv.conf file to see if that made a difference (so that there are only nameserver lines and a search line)? On my system, those two don't work too well together. In the man page, it says they are mutually exclusive, but then I read from someone else that they aren't on linux. In any case, having only a search line works for me. Also, does anyone know why Debian makes nslookup a wrapper for host, and how I can install a real version of nslookup? The real nslookup is part of the 'bind' package. One more question: bash 2.0 doesn't appear to understand a command line which worked in bash 1.14: % /bin/bash -c '((xli foo.gif); echo bar) ' /bin/bash: -c: line 1: missing closing `)' for arithmetic expression /bin/bash: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;' /bin/bash: -c: line 1: `((xli foo.gif); echo bar) ' A command like this is hardcoded into Netscape to launch an external image viewer as a helper application. Is this a bug in bash? Not being a bash user, I don't know the answer to this. If spaces between parens shouldn't matter, then it is a bug... Note that /bin/bash -c '( (xli foo.gif); echo bar) ' *does* work! ^^^ Since this is hardcoded, the other thing you could do as a kluge is to remove the inner parens as well and replace them with spaces. Steve -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
2GB filesize limit in tar or linux?
Does anyone know if tar is limited to generating tar files that are 2GB or smaller? Or is this due to some other limitation of linux? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Upgrade to Debian 1.3.1: Xserver says can't find default font fixed
After upgrading to Deiban 1.3.1 from 1.2, my xserver no longer runs. It dies with: Fatal server error: Could not open default font 'fixed'. Yet the fixed font definitely exists... Can someone tell me what is wrong? Thanks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 3com driver (v0.40 in 2.0.30)
As Debian-1.3 is comming soon, I would like to know if there is some problem with the 3com (vortex 3c59x) driver in debian? There are problems with that driver, and it's not related to debian. I have seen a lot of problems been reported in linux-vortex list and I'm afraid of upgrading my kernel to 2.0.30 as 1.3 is released. Will v0.40 be released with 1.3? Could I use my old version if sthg goes wrong? Some ideas/experiences? Yes, you can probably continue to use your old driver, but actually any new vortex driver will probably work too if you disable bus mastering in the driver (assuming you have a 3c905 boomerang). If you've been following the vortex list, then you will have seen some of the solutions people have posted. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
How to trick debian into thinking a package is installed
Hi, Can someone tell me how I can trick debian into thinking that a package is installed? Specifically, I have the real motif installed on my system. However, since this is (obviously) not a debian package, debian has no idea that I have it. And so if I try to install the xmcd package, it refuses to install because lesstif isn't installed, but I can't install lesstif without overwriting the real motif... I guess I could also use the --force-depends option in dpkg to force an install? So my questions are; 1. what's the dirty way to modify the config files so debian thinks lesstif is installed? 2. if I create my own binary .deb package with my motif binaries inside it, how do I change the control file so it provides lesstif? On a side note, motif apps really ought to require a motif package, and lesstiff should provide motif, as opposed to packages directly requiring lesstif. Steve -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
cdwrite / hybrid cd's
Is there any way to make a hybrid CD on Linux? I guess cdwrite just writes an image file onto the CD, so the question is if it is possible to create that hybrid (mac / iso) file? Steve -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
16650
I'm certainly interested because I intend to be getting a byte runner
16650
card and ISDN TA in a about a week.
Something to think about before getting a 16650 card... From the 2.0.30
kernel serial.c:
} else if (info-type == PORT_16650) {
/*
* On the 16650, we disable the FIFOs altogether
* because of a design bug in how the implement
* things. We could support it by completely changing
* how we handle the interrupt driver, but not today
*
* N.B. Because there's no way to set a FIFO trigger
* at 1 char, we'd probably disable at speed below
* 2400 baud anyway...
*/
fcr = 0;
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Re: 16650
I was refering to the 16650 (not 16550)... :-) ^ On 23 Apr 1997, Adrian Phillips wrote: Steve == Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm certainly interested because I intend to be getting a byte runner 16650 card and ISDN TA in a about a week. Steve Something to think about before getting a 16650 Steve card... From the 2.0.30 kernel serial.c: patch for problem with 16550 chip clipped I think that most 16550 cards sold today (and fitted to most machines are the 16550A - if you notice the rest of the code around that patch you'll see that there is a test for 16550A first then 16550 (if I remember what I've read a while ago rightly the 16550 was a bodged version - then 16550A was released which fixed the problem), -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
CD-ROM authoring tools
I think this was already discussed before, but can someone tell me if the 'cdwrite' package is the best CD-ROM authoring program out there for linux, or if there are others I ought to look at as well? Thanks -- Stephen Hsieh Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univ. of Michigan at Ann Arbor --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lp-device trouble
If this is a postscript only printer, are you sending it a postscript file or just characters to /dev/lp0? The fact that it says processing suggests that it is receiving your data, but it can't understand what you're sending it. Try cat'ing a real (short) postscript file to the printer and see if that works. Just a thought. On Wed, 23 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a serious problem with my printer: it does not print. If I try to print anything (via cat as root, or with lpr), the device seems to receive data, because its display says so (PROCESSING...WAITING... and then READY). But it still does not print. My Debian is 1.2 of the InfoMagic Dev.Resource-CD. I'm using apsfilter_4.9.1-10 (well, in fact I'm _not_using_ it so far). My printer is a NEC Silentwriter S60P-Printer. This is a Postscript-Printer, but an old one. It works fine under DOS (Win95), and it had been sucessful the RedHat-Linux-Computer of a friend. I do not use plip, I read the Printing-Howto and fiddled around with tunelp, it keeps saying things like: # bash# tunelp /dev/lp1 # /dev/lp1 using polling # bash# tunelp /dev/lp1 -s # /dev/lp1 status is 223, on-line # bash# tunelp /dev/lp1 -i 7 # /dev/lp1 using IRQ 7 # bash# tunelp /dev/lp1 -s # /dev/lp1 status is 223, on-line with no positive effect on printing. I tried, if a kernel-version-upgrade would help, but nope: No printing with 2.0.27 nor 2.0.29. lp-support is a module in the kernel, kerneld starts it at boot time. # bash# dmesg | grep lp # lp1 at 0x0378, (polling) Can someone help me? Are there any tools to debug my problem further than with tunelp? Like a kind of 'ping' for lp-devices? Thank you in advance Frank Barknecht ### mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ### -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
EQL
Who has EQL running on their system? To those that do -- do you still have to run eql_enslave as written in the eql readme file in the kernel? The info and web sites listed there are out of date. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
how to generate Packages.gz ?
I am trying to create my own local directory of debian packages. Can someone tell me what the command is to generate the Package.gz and Contents.gz files? Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Again - Multilink PPP vs. EQL
After burrowing around some, I finally found some info and docs on EQL; however, Multilink PPP is mentioned as a newer, and improved alternative. Unfortunately, I can't find any info on Multilink PPP in the HowTo's, etc. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Or, is it not yet available on the Linux platform? I thought mutlilink PPP was something only available for ISDN? If i'm incorrect, someone correct me. By the way, Kevin -- what docs have you found on eql? Do you know if one has to use eql_enslave to enslave links, and if so, is the latest eql_enslave the one stored inside one of old eql patches on sunsite.unc.edu? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How to mount 64 mount point
There is a define that you need to increase to allow more than 64 mount points. We have run into this problem as well. Change NR_SUPER in include/linux/fs.h to increase this. I use 128... On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Eko Fajar Nurprasetyo wrote: Hi, My kernel keeps giving errors when mount point exceeds 64. Is it limitation? Or is there any method to allow mounting more than 64 file systems (including nfs)? Thanks for any assistance. -- Eko Fajar N. Kyushu Univ. Japan
dpkg: an option not to run postinst scripts? / group Debian installs
Does dpkg have option(s) that can be specified so that it does not run postinst scripts *and* does not replace any files (WITHOUT bothering to ask the user)? I'm trying to come up with a way to manage groups of Debian machines without having to manually log into each one. Here's one way I think it could be done without too much modification to the existing packaging scheme: 1. have one master machine on which dselect is used to select packages. 2. dselect then generates the list of packages that need to be installed *in the right order* (based on dependencies) on all other machines. Basically, this would be like running dpkg --get-selections on the master and dpkg --set-selections on the other machines, except that the files need to be listed based on dependencies. [Wishlist item for dselect?]. 3. dpkg is then run in batch mode on the other machines with the appropriate options so that when it installs a package, it does not require user input (ie: always say no to whether an existing config file should be overwritten, and never run postinst scripts so that the user is never prompted to answer questions). [Wishlist item for dpkg to have such options?]. 4. Configuation files set on the master machine are then pushed to the other machines via a mechanism such as rdist or cfengine. The only problematic part might be with X configuration if all the machines use different X servers due to hardware differences. This part has to be configured on a individual basis, but should be okay if the steps above don't overwrite the setup. The only part that is really crucial and not implemented as far as I know is step 3, for dpkg to run in batch mode and not ask me if it can replace existing config files for that package. With this, you can get around step 2 by loading the libraries and base files first and iterating a couple of times. Comments anyone?
xconsole: Couldn't open console
Can someone tell me why xconsole called without the '-file' option isn't able to read /dev/console? I have /dev/console world readable: crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 4, 0 Apr 6 18:58 /dev/console Yet it says it isn't able to open console. On the other hand, xconsole -file /dev/console works... I know I can use /dev/xconsole, and that works as well since you specifically have to specify the -file option. This is an issue of compatibility across different machine types and I'd like xconsole to be able to read from /dev/console without having to specify the file. Clues, anyone? -- Stephen Hsieh Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univ. of Michigan at Ann Arbor ---
Re: No nfs, no boot
I have my machine setup to mount a disk on another (Debian) linux machine. Unfortunately when I was rebooting my system, the other machine didn't want to serve me, so my machine hung with: NFS server ottifant not responding, still trying. Now the obvious solution is to fix up the other machine, but the thing which worried me most was the fact that the attempt to nfs mount didn't timeout. Which means that my system is entirely dependent on the other system in order to boot. Why is this so? I am guessing that something is probably trying to access a file on the NFS mounted drive. You could try using the soft option when mounting it. From the nfs man page: soft If an NFS file operation has a major time out then report an I/O error to the calling program. The default is to continue retry ing NFS file operations indefinitely. Alternatively, use amd to automount the drive as necessary. That works really nicely. Steve
xemacs and emacs
Can someone explain why the xemacs and emacs packages can't coexist on the same Debian system? (What would it take to make them coexist?)
Linux fvwm1.24r-25 vs Sun fvwm1.24r
Has anyone else had problems using a working .fvwmrc file from a Sun system on Debian? Since fvwm on both systems is the same, I wouldn't expect such difficulties, but it seems that some things which work on fvwm for SunOS/Solaris cause a seg fault on Debian fvwm. Maybe the true culprit lies with a utility program somewhere and not fvwm itself? For example, the following .fvwmrc line works on Sun, but not on Debian for me (it's the backquotes that are the problem): # Personal items Popup My Utilities Title My Utilities ExecXterm exec xterm -n `hostname|cut -f1 -d.` -T `hostname` -e tcsh EndPopup On debian linux this results in the message NONE:0: m4: ERROR: EOF in string and then a fvwm segmentation fault. Using the stock fvwmrc file provided with Debian of course works just fine, but since we use a mix of different operating machine types here, this is a problem I hope can be resolved. Can anyone tell from the above if this is due to a user configuration error, or a bug that I should report to the fvwm maintainer? Thanks. -- Stephen Hsieh Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univ. of Michigan at Ann Arbor ---
Re: keeping multiple debian machines in sync
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: H, I wonder if its possible to create an master 'image' and xfer it over to other machines. Of course all the machines must the same hardware. Yes, that's what I was referring to when I talked about using rdist (which is how we keep our sunos and solaris machines in sync). But as you pointed out, this requires that the machines have very similar hardware configurations, and I can't assume this especially when it comes to video support. Also, using rdist will mean that the installed packages info for dpkg will be incorrect on all other machines besides the master image machine (if the owner of one machine adds a package for example, that info would go away if I pushed over an dpkg info file from the master). The ideal way would be for dpkg or dselect to be more network aware, and allow remote installs. The main problem right now is that there is no way to save all the keystrokes that I'd type during the configuration stage, so I have to type the same things for each install.
Re: keeping multiple debian machines in sync / dselect dependecies
This brings up another point -- why can't dselect list the order in which deb files should be installed for me? Or can it and I just don't know? Right now, when you use dselect, it seems to just try to install packages in alphabetical-recursive order (which is why I run into catch-22 problems such as not being able to install ghostview because gs-aladdin is not installed, but not installing gs-aladdin because ghostview failed to configure). If I could get it to generate a script that issues dpkg -iOEGB deb files in the right order without me having to manually construct such a tree as you suggest below, that would be a large step in the right direction. On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Paul Wade wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: just off the top of my head, but how about using deselect to select the packages, then replacing /var/lib/dpkg/status on the other machines with this file from the master? Then master downloads the files by ftp (or whatever), and the others get their files from master? This works for me. I often have to do this when playing with the bo packages. You could easily put it in a script with proper checking of dpkg exit() codes. 1) nfs is used (/mirrors/debian is a symlink to /mnt/dx2/mirrors/debian) 2) use dselect or view Packages to get dependencies 3) something like this: cd /mirrors/debian/bo/libs dpkg -i neededlib1* dpkg -i neededlib2* cd ../admin dpkg -i wantedapp*
SOLUTION: Linux fvwm1.24r-25 vs Sun fvwm1.24r
For the benefit of the archive lists and in case anyone else was wondering, here's the answer to my problem. The default fvwm behavior is not to use m4, but the Debian/Linux fvwm package has been compiled to use m4. Since m4 quotes using ` and ', the result is that the backquotes in the .fvwmrc file causes an error. The solutions are: 1. call fvwm with the -no-m4 option 2. redfine how m4 quotes literals. Using the fvwm -m4-squote and -m4-equote options may also do the trick (I didn't try). Thanks to Dan Astoorian [EMAIL PROTECTED], Niels [EMAIL PROTECTED], and Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] for their help in solving this problem. Steve On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote: Has anyone else had problems using a working .fvwmrc file from a Sun system on Debian? Since fvwm on both systems is the same, I wouldn't expect such difficulties, but it seems that some things which work on fvwm for SunOS/Solaris cause a seg fault on Debian fvwm. Maybe the true culprit lies with a utility program somewhere and not fvwm itself? On debian linux this results in the message NONE:0: m4: ERROR: EOF in string and then a fvwm segmentation fault. You might look through the Info file for the m4 utility. It states that the GNU m4 is different fom the Unix Sys V. A good time to check out tkinfo! :-) ...RickM...
keeping multiple debian machines in sync
Having used debian for quite awhile now, I've really come to appreciate the package system and it works great on an individual machine basis. But as soon as you have to start keeping many debian systems in sync with each other, it starts to get time consuming using dselect. How have others tackled this problem of keeping 10 or more debian linux machines synced together? I assume you don't go about running dselect on each machine. One alternative I can think of is to use dpkg --get-selection to get the list of installed packages on a master machine, and then use dpkg --set-selection on the rest of the machines to set what is selected to be installed, and then to run dpkg over there. Still in that case, I still have to babysit each install process and answer the same questions in the post-install scripts as I did on the master machine. The other alternative seems to be using rdist or some similar program and rdisting /usr and selected parts of /var to the other machines. But in that case, I break the package lists on the other machines since the other machines will no longer know the correct list of packages already installed, and it is conceivable that someone might want to add one or two packages not in the standard distribution in which case it might fail. Ideas? Thanks.
