Re: clock in /etc/init.d/boot ?
Oleg, The clock command has been replaced by hwclock. It will accept the same switch values that clock did. I just replaced clock with hwclock in the boot file and the error went away. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oleg Krivosheev wrote: hi, i'm starting to get message during boot time: command clock in /etc/init.d/boot not found i don't remember removing any essential packages from my system Any ideas how to fix it? regards OK -- 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] .
installing PCMCIA support
I am attempting to install PCMCIA support on a DELL Latitude LX notebook. I have used floppies (Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 built August 01, 1997) to install the base system and want to get my CDROM working (SCSI PCMCIA adapter) working (I have the CD set 1.3.1). I appear to be hitting a version conflict between the pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules packages. On the Debian CD I have pcmcia-cs version 2.9.5-3 and pcmcia-modules versions 2.9.5-2 (for kernel 2.0.29) and 2.9.5-3 (for kernel 2.0.30). The kernel version is 2.0.29, so I have to use pcmcia-modules-2.0.29, but it depends on pcmcia-cs version 2.9.5-2 (which I can't find). I have checked http://www.debian.org/packages and http://hyper.stanford.edu/HyperNews/get/pcmcia/home.html to find a compatible set of card services, kernel modules and kernel to no avail. This seems pretty fundamental, so I must be missing something. --frank Frank Gorishek Advanced Development Lab Advanced Micro Devices M/S 621 Austin, TX 78749 (512) 602 - 4117 voice (512) 602 - 6582 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: clock in /etc/init.d/boot ?
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Galen Hazelwood wrote: Nope, that's not enough. The behavior of the program has changed slightly. Oops. I thought it said it was switch-compatible. Thanks. TL -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Britton wrote: I have the awe driver working with the awe 64, I think. At any rate the module loads without any complaints and I can play sound. /dev/mixer is definately not working right, but this is probably something I'm doing wrong. I havn't actually been able to check the wave table device either (I don't really know how yet). I'm doing it just today, now I have it working with the awe 64 Gold (but still must pass via DOS and loadlin, see attachments for the problem I have here with isapnp; I don't have any other pnp cards; I have tried putting in the WaveTable section the two addresses suggested on the list by Torsten Hilbrich but I don't even know if he has the same card... I'll have to dig into the awe driver faq I suppose, where Torsten itself got the info if I didn't misunderstand, at http://bahamut.mm.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~iwai/awedrv/awedrv-faq.html). MIDI files coming from an old (DOS) version of Band-In-A-Box sound as if some events had sustain/last too long here, also after recompiling the kernel with the AWE_ACCEPT_ALL_SOUNDS_CONTROL macro defined in the /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/lowlevel/awe_config.h header. Other MIDI files seem OK, drvmidi works very fine and so does xmixer (from the multimedia package; I find it more suitable than xmix, but I think the midi synth volume should go on it instead than on the drvmidi panel, it should just be as the Creative mixer... or perhaps Creative should gently... ok, see below). The Netscape plugin: I was not able to test it yet... Just opening a .mid file with Netscape does not seem to be the way. As for the test file /usr/doc/awe/netscape-test.html, I don't see the mentioned .mid files there... so should I just try connecting to any(?) WEB site sending midi music? (I heard nothing at the Creative WEB pages.) (Notice: I will NOT install M$ Internet Explorer nor Web Phone, Linux is too great to have the will to be running other things after quitting them one crash after another.) On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: The Awe driver supports a good part of the AWE32 stuff. AWE64 was never intended for other OS than Windows (Creative Labs says, there would be no market for Linux, I think the linux community should ignore SB, if they ignore us). On Mon, 15 Sep 1997 (Subject: Re: SB AWE 64 versus Soft. Syns. for making midi...), Marcus Brinkmann wrote: SB cares nuts about the linux community (they say, the market is not important enough; we will see...), so we are on our own. Yes, we'll see. Ok, we are on this thread because we have a SB or think about buying one... Since January... I was thinking NOT to buy it, but now my brother got married and he's going to take away his MIDI keyboard soon, and I use to learn jazz trumpet impro practicing on drones... (Of course I'll miss the keyboard anyway, useful to look for chords or voicings for some small things of my own, once in a while... better than with the guitar, apart that my first instrument is _classical_ guitar and I don't have many pre-built chords positions handy with it [and don't want to, yet].) I suppose lots of professional studioes currently go with MACs + DigiDesign Tools hardware or the like... I would NOT trust Windog to keep tracks recorded from professional (possibly great) musicians, and this opinion is shared by _some_ people _inside_ that job I could talk to (I met one of them from Detroit just last week and he invited me to his studio in Germany... and he's also interested on Linux, BTW!). Instead I think it is a gift _from_ the Linux community _to_ Creative Labs the chance to have Creative hardware/software running on such a fast/robust/flexible system as Linux is. And last, I think that a lot of Linux guys (me too apart from my brother's marriage) hearing about other guys spending hours and hours for the AWE64 Gold to play as an AWE32 will think twice before buying it, which is a pity because the card seems a nice product to me... not the same opinion about Windog. BTW, I still have 3.1 here, a wreck, but 95 seems to be at the same quality level (one friend of mine is still going home-shop after months she bought 95 and Office 97 planning to use that stuff for her work) so I refused to get it. The Steinberg Cubasis Audio software given with the AWE64 Gold can't work all right almost on Windog 3.1, it doesn't play/record audio tracks (the small Creative application does it fine... maybe it's better to start the recording _before_ than starting e.g. a MIDI playback with the media player, otherwise the Creative recorder [or some Windog DLL or whatelse] is pessimistic and says the card is used by another device... and so seems to do the Steinberg software, while the card has no problems in reproducing while recording, as anyway the Creative recorder/player and mixer prove). Well, I think I could put some money on the Steinberg software released for Linux... the complete
Re: installing PCMCIA support
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am attempting to install PCMCIA support on a DELL Latitude LX notebook. I have used floppies (Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 built August 01, 1997) to install the base system and want to get my CDROM working (SCSI PCMCIA adapter) working (I have the CD set 1.3.1). I appear to be hitting a version conflict between the pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules packages. On the Debian CD I have pcmcia-cs version 2.9.5-3 and pcmcia-modules versions 2.9.5-2 (for kernel 2.0.29) and 2.9.5-3 (for kernel 2.0.30). The kernel version is 2.0.29, so I have to use pcmcia-modules-2.0.29, but it depends on pcmcia-cs version 2.9.5-2 (which I can't find). I have checked http://www.debian.org/packages and http://hyper.stanford.edu/HyperNews/get/pcmcia/home.html to find a compatible set of card services, kernel modules and kernel to no avail. This seems pretty fundamental, so I must be missing something. The correct PCMCIA packages for Debian version 1.3 (called bo) are located in the /debian/bo-updates directory on ftp.debian.org or one of its mirrors. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?
On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: Other MIDI files seem OK, drvmidi works very fine and so does xmixer (from the multimedia package; I find it more suitable than xmix, but I think the midi synth volume should go on it instead than on the drvmidi panel...) Sorry, didn't think AWE synth is equivalent to FM (it isn't as to the Creative doc files)... anyway there it goes on xmixer. Nicola -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ssh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Will Lowe wrote: Ok. I'm trying to use ssh to connect between remote machines, say from my machine to master.debian.org. I've read the docs but I'm still confused: 1) how do I enter a host into the list of named hosts that ssh is always talking about? I've tried make-ssh-known-hosts but it always dumps with no such file. make-ssh-known-hosts is useful for making system-wide known_hosts files. If you are using SSH for yourself, simply connecting to a remote site with get you its public key. 2) How do I tell if my session is really encrypted or not? Apparently if there's no secure connection it just uses .rhost ... that's not real great. ssh -v should do the trick. Anand. - -- `When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives' -- Robert A Heinlein, If this goes on -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNDrnJ2RmcAD8BdppAQEfVAQAtvYWb6OeIMV7xpqCjM4jOhX4OVVDiMtq XUvBolN7YoFzINRuciVS8PgnyxJiL1ExO8LKlIK/geJOHmmI792cjJ3AF+IoLVQY Jg2oekCVBiuDMr7tWAiiOidkvfjqZA48E6okQZ1EbxmF3jkbFw0qNHWVo4C7bdNB mC1jMjfKuqI= =rosQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: why /var/tmp/ not be cleaned at boot time
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, George Bonser wrote: Yeah, so you can have some temporary scratch space that survives a reboot. Anything that can evaporate at reboot time, you put in /tmp, anything you want to survive a reboot, you put in /var/tmp. I would caution against using this idea on any machine you don't control. The purpose of /var/tmp is to unload the possible activity and space requirements from root. Consistent with this I'd assume /var/tmp or any /*/tmp to be purged at boot. If looking for persistent scratch space put a directory in /var/spool. That *nices do not handle this out of the box is not surprising. tmp filesystems and directories and dangling tmp symlinks are all things to be decided by the system administrator. On 07-Oct-97 Lawrence wrote: any reason why /tmp be cleaned at boot time while /var/tmp not? lawrence rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Alt keys
How can I get the Linux console to treat the right Alt key in the same way as the left? Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
update-menus: segmentation faults
update-menus is giving me segmentation faults (core dumped) ... I recently upgraded several programs (dselect wanted to/hamm distribution) and now it doesn't work. Anyone have an idea on what could be wrong? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: clock in /etc/init.d/boot ?
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Galen Hazelwood wrote: Any ideas how to fix it? ln -s /sbin/hwclock /sbin/clock Nope, that's not enough. The behavior of the program has changed slightly. hwclock -a (--adjust) only tweaks the RTC, it doesn't use the RTC to set the system time like it used to. You need to invoke it as hwclock --hctosys to do that. So hack /etc/init.d/boot as follows: Before: # # Set and adjust the CMOS clock. # if [ ! -f /etc/adjtime ] then echo 0.0 0 0.0 /etc/adjtime fi clock -a $GMT After: # # Set and adjust the CMOS clock. # if [ ! -f /etc/adjtime ] then echo 0.0 0 0.0 /etc/adjtime fi hwclock --adjust hwclock --hctosys $GMT thanks - it did the job cheers OK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Wierd crankiness update
Looks to me like your /dev directory might have been stepped on. Looks like /dev/tty is a regular file created by the redirected output of the echo. You might delete /dev/tty and create a new device. I think the command would be: mknod /dev/tty c 5 0 but someone might want to correct me on that. It is owned root tty on my machine. On 07-Oct-97 Darin Johnson wrote: Regarding my problem with login/passwd/su failing, I've tracked it a bit further. It seems that getpass() is failing, and more, that it's actually /dev/tty that's completely screwed up. Symptoms: $ echo howdy /dev/tty $ cat /dev/tty howdy $ cat /dev/tty howdy $ That is, the first echo has no output, but each successive cat will print the output. This is contrary to a well running unix system, where the first echo will print to the tty, and a cat /dev/tty will block. I've verified this under 2.1.55 and 2.0.30. I have a mix of hamm and bo. Further hints? -- 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] .
old debian archives
hi, i know someone named a couple of sites that still had rex and maybe even buzz archived, but i lost the message. (and the mailing list search is busted) so, can anybody tell me where i can find debian 1.1 or 1.2? thanks, brad - Free the West Memphis Three - http://www.pobox.com/~mms/wm3/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://weber.u.washington.edu/~maximill -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Still having core dumps in dpkg-ftp
Hi, Gurus i'm still getting core dumps while trying to update package list via dpkg-ftp. I have hamm installed. Any ideas how to cure it? Related question is how to get full list of packages on which dpkg/dpkg-ftp depends on. Probably such a list will include: -perl -netstd -libc ... thanks a lot in advance regards OK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: update-menus: segmentation faults
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: update-menus is giving me segmentation faults (core dumped) ... I recently upgraded several programs (dselect wanted to/hamm distribution) and now it doesn't work. Anyone have an idea on what could be wrong? Yes, upgrading libc6 broke libg++272. The new libg++272 should have gotten to the mirrors (or will soon). Upgrade that and it should work again. - -- Scott K. Ellis | The world is its own magic. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Shunryu Suzuki -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNDsKrKCk2fENdzpVAQFptQP/dqzPJay/js0XVxiJX5jhRF19nlwr9Nnp OUlMcrG8uRciHBhmf2X+st9U4Tff/F5h8qYbmbEiUmWBhcslTK4ArUN/0lIJ1y6t wu5lrjvKbqk8QsAAl8E1sFKM8OCjnOfPGv31hZEb5nRPjrXw+ZN3r4kO7L5gCr7C z5keUGfsOiw= =7zCU -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: re- thinkpad install
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, the CD-rom access is still not mounted. and I do not know how access it. There does not seem to be a scsi recognized. That seems to be right. I do not remember telling the drivers loaded section of the install there was a WD-7000 SCSI card, The WD-7000 (which does a few different chipsets) seems to be compiled in to the standard Debian kernel. It's just the low-level driver for the hardware anyway. I do not know what mem_base,irq to use in the boot command : Future Domain TMC-8xx/950 tmc8xx=mem_base,irq I can't help you much here. Are there any jumpers on the card? Is there any writing on it describing it? Model numbers of the chips with the most legs could help someone to identify the card too. It might not be supported. :-( Does something like this need to be placed into the lilo.conf file ? If it worked typing (e.g.) boot: linux tmc8xx=0x300,10 you can put and append= in lilo.conf. Previously under my NT 4.0 system I had on this thinkpad the Diagnostics described my cd-rom as :_ FutureDomain 8xxx scsi Is it a PCI device? Does anything relevant show in /proc/pci? How about the BIOS setup, if it's an integrated card? and the cdrom device labeled as :__ IBM CDRM00201 *Any* SCSI CD-ROM should work if the adapter is recognised. scsi CD ROM -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ gc kernel: Warning: possible SYN flooding. Sending cookies. kernel: validated probe(17f, 17f, 11557, 5010, -1645409555) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: RARP on MAC address?
If you want a quick-and-dirty one-liner to find the IP address of a MAC address you could use something like: arp -na | grep MAC ADDRESS | cut -f1 man arp is your friend. On 07-Oct-97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all! I have a MAC address (ethernet address) that I'm trying to figure out what IP is associated with it. I know that there is a Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) that these machines use to determine these types of things transparent to the user. Is there a command line version where I could enter a MAC address and get it to do the RARP and return an IP to me? Cheers! Richard.. - Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobox.com/~rdanse Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Manitoba - Canada - -- 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: old debian archives
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, B. Bell wrote: hi, i know someone named a couple of sites that still had rex and maybe even buzz archived, but i lost the message. (and the mailing list search is busted) so, can anybody tell me where i can find debian 1.1 or 1.2? You can find rex on debian.crosslink.net, under /pub/debian. A Dutch mirror of it still exists at ftp.leidenuniv.nl under /pub/linux/debian. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Bo-Hamm was Re: ghostscript problem
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Dave Restall wrote: .. but that's hamm only. Please enlighten me as to the meaning of hamm ? Because this question or a variance on it is asked SO OFTEN, shouldn't the people who decide these things be thinking Hey perhaps we're doing something wrong here ?. Hehe, I like the name Hamm. I finally watched (part of) Toy Story on TV (CBC) a few days ago. Although I missed the first half, I love it! Hamm is the cute little toy piggy, and it is the code name for the upcoming release of Debian 2.0. ^_^ -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Gcc prints NAN for floats that are not NANs
I have ported some code from Sparc to Intel. The code works fine except it prints NaNs for some floats that are not NaNs at all. One of my co-workers suggested I run the same code (of course compiled) on FreeBsd and see if the NaNs appear. The FreeBsd code does not produce the NaNs. I have searched the Web for Gcc and Nans and the closest I have come accross was a mention of this problem on the Alpha chips and not Intel processors. (Does that mean Intel copied that much from Digital that they too have NaNs for usual float? :) :) ) So any expert out there where should I look further? Dunno if I may call myself an expert, but something that would really help in diagnosing the problem, is to try to reduce the code to a small code snippet that produces the problem. It is hard to comment without seeing any actual code. The simple fact that code seems to work correctly on one system (FreeBSD) doesn't mean it is necessarily correct, as I discovered myself more than once :(. Did you try the gcc newsgroups? Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: RE- floppy=thinkpad mount/umount
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos defaults If i do not insert a floppy during boot, it will error out and eventually timeout the floppy, making the device READ-ONLY on subsequent mount -a . It's obvious to me now, but I suppose not really pointed out anywhere. You probably want something like: /dev/fd0/floppy vfatuser,noauto vfat means I get long filenames. user means I don't need to be root to mount it. noauto means it isn't mounted until you ask for it specifically. When you put a floppy in, type mount /floppy and type umount /floppy before you take it out. -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ gc kernel: Warning: possible SYN flooding. Sending cookies. kernel: validated probe(17f, 17f, 11557, 5010, -1645409555) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Nuisances with Ethernet network.
Dr. Daniel Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oct 7 16:54:25 vitasat kernel: IPX: Network number collision 53 Oct 7 16:54:25 vitasat kernel: eth0 EtherII and eth0 802.2 over and over. Now I cannot find out where it comes from and how to disable it and of course what it means. My connection seems to work fine. It's coming from the IPX drivers in the kernel, in net/ipx/af_ipx.c's ipxitf_rcv function. I don't know anything about the underlying IPX protocol. However, I believe EtherII and 802.2 are different protocols for encasulating the data across an Ethernet. (Actually, 802.2 covers token ring, FDDI, etc. as well). I get the impression from the code that you're getting different link layer protocols on the same interface, which isn't a problem, but they've got the same network number, which is. You need someone who knows IPX who's got a packet analyser, and isn't afraid to use it. -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ gc kernel: Warning: possible SYN flooding. Sending cookies. kernel: validated probe(17f, 17f, 11557, 5010, -1645409555) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Nuisances with Ethernet network.
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Dr. Daniel Mashao wrote: My /var/log/messages file grows by leaps and bounds all because it keeps getting the following message Oct 7 16:54:03 vitasat kernel: eth0 EtherII and eth0 802.2 Oct 7 16:54:21 vitasat kernel: IPX: Network number collision 53 Oct 7 16:54:21 vitasat kernel: eth0 EtherII and eth0 802.2 Oct 7 16:54:25 vitasat kernel: IPX: Network number collision 53 Oct 7 16:54:25 vitasat kernel: eth0 EtherII and eth0 802.2 over and over. Now I cannot find out where it comes from and how to disable it and of course what it means. My connection seems to work fine. try setting different IPX network numbers for the Ethernet_II and 802.2 frame types. see /etc/ipx.conf and the man pages in ipx package: ipx_interface(8), ipx_internal_net(8), ipx_route(8), and ipx_configure(8). more info can be found in the /usr/doc/ipx directory, and in the IPX HOWTO. if you don't need novell compatibility then get rid of the ipx, ipxripd, and ncpfs packages. btw, what does 'cat /proc/net/ipx_route' and 'cat /proc/net/ipx_interface' look like? craig -- craig sanders networking consultant Available for casual or contract temporary autonomous zone system administration tasks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Gcc prints NAN for floats that are not NANs
On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Dunno if I may call myself an expert, but something that would really help in diagnosing the problem, is to try to reduce the code to a small code snippet that produces the problem. It is hard to comment without seeing any actual code. The simple fact that code seems to work correctly on one system (FreeBSD) doesn't mean it is necessarily correct, as I discovered myself more than once :(. Did you try the gcc newsgroups? First thanks for replying. I could never reproduce the problem on a smaller code. If I put just one extra printf() statement the problem disappears and appears elsewhere in the code. Here is the code #define SCALE 8192/* scale for fixed point representation */ #define from_fixed(x) ((double) (x) / SCALE) double x,y; x = (from_fixed(tpi) - utt_scale); x = x / num_obser; x = x + from_fixed((phead-scale)); y = ((from_fixed(tpi) - utt_scale)/1.0/ num_obser) + from_fixed(1.0*phead-scale); y produces a NaN and x does not int num_obser = 695; int phead-scale = 0; int utt_scale = 0; int tpi = -924593180; This is one of the cases that produces a NAN for y. Once y is NAN no matter what values tpi, and num_obser are it becomes a NaN after performing the calculation. I understand what you mean when you say the fact that it worked on FreeBsd and Solaris doesn't mean its correct. But I am suprised that if I use the linear method as in 'x', it does not occur. Lastly, I could not duplicate it on a smaller code. I wonder how are the NaN bits set on the Intel CPU. By the way is well documented that the Alpha chip has this problem for gcc. Thanx once again // Daniel J. Mashao -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel // -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Nuisances with Ethernet network.
On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: btw, what does 'cat /proc/net/ipx_route' and 'cat /proc/net/ipx_interface' look like? vitasat % cat /proc/net/ipx_route NetworkRouter_Net Router_Node 0053 Directly Connected vitasat % cat /proc/net/ipx_interface NetworkNode_Address Primary Device Frame_Type 0053 0080ADB32187 Yes eth0 EtherII 0080ADB32187 No eth0 802.2 I seem to be getting the idea. Thanx a lot guys, // Daniel J. Mashao -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel // -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Gcc prints NAN for floats that are not NANs
On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Dunno if I may call myself an expert, but something that would really help in diagnosing the problem, is to try to reduce the code to a small code snippet that produces the problem. It is hard to comment without seeing any actual code. The simple fact that code seems to work correctly on one system (FreeBSD) doesn't mean it is necessarily correct, as I discovered myself more than once :(. Did you try the gcc newsgroups? First thanks for replying. I could never reproduce the problem on a smaller code. If I put just one extra printf() statement the problem disappears and appears elsewhere in the code. Here is the code #define SCALE 8192/* scale for fixed point representation */ #define from_fixed(x) ((double) (x) / SCALE) double x,y; x = (from_fixed(tpi) - utt_scale); x = x / num_obser; x = x + from_fixed((phead-scale)); y = ((from_fixed(tpi) - utt_scale)/1.0/ num_obser) + from_fixed(1.0*phead-scale); y produces a NaN and x does not int num_obser = 695; int phead-scale = 0; int utt_scale = 0; int tpi = -924593180; This is one of the cases that produces a NAN for y. Once y is NAN no matter what values tpi, and num_obser are it becomes a NaN after performing the calculation. I understand what you mean when you say the fact that it worked on FreeBsd and Solaris doesn't mean its correct. But I am suprised that if I use the linear method as in 'x', it does not occur. Lastly, I could not duplicate it on a smaller code. I wonder how are the NaN bits set on the Intel CPU. By the way is well documented that the Alpha chip has this problem for gcc. Thinking about it a little longer, I start to get the feeling that the problem may be totally outside the code you showed. If there is some kind of memory corruption going on, parts of y can get overwritten by totally unrelated code. Maybe you can check this tracing the program in gdb. Set a watchpoint on y and determine when exactly it gets the NaN value. It could also be a good idea to link the program with the electric fence malloc libraries (available as a debian package) to see if you can trap any illegal reads or writes. Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Nuisances with Ethernet network.
On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: try setting different IPX network numbers for the Ethernet_II and 802.2 frame types. see /etc/ipx.conf and the man pages in ipx package: ipx_interface(8), ipx_internal_net(8), ipx_route(8), and ipx_configure(8). more info can be found in the /usr/doc/ipx directory, and in the IPX HOWTO. if you don't need novell compatibility then get rid of the ipx, ipxripd, and ncpfs packages. btw, what does 'cat /proc/net/ipx_route' and 'cat /proc/net/ipx_interface' look like? Thanks to every one my problem is solved. It was due to conflict in setting both EtherII and Ethernet 802.2. Now I know something about networks :). // Daniel J. Mashao -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel // -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Nuisances with Ethernet network.
On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Dr. Daniel Mashao wrote:
vitasat % cat /proc/net/ipx_interface
NetworkNode_Address Primary Device Frame_Type
0053 0080ADB32187 Yes eth0 EtherII
this seems ok.
0080ADB32187 No eth0 802.2
this is a problem. you can't have a network number of 0 - it's not
allowed.
do you actually need both frame types? what is the rest of your novell
lan running on? ether_II, 802.2 or 802.3. ether_ii is best.
craig
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Re: slang and lynx
On Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 07:11:52PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after upgrading to the newest version of slang0.99.34 and slang0.99.38 That version is in unstable. If you wish to discuss problems with unstable please do so on the debian-devel list, not on debian-user. I get the following error with lynx: can't open libslang.so.0.99.34 I tried making a symlink to libslang.so.0.99.38 and this results in lynx doing a core dump when I attempt to start it. I thought the slang0.99.34 package was meant to allow libc5 packages that still need libslang.so.0.99.34 to work It is. Unfortunately, I made a mistake with the -2.7 versions, causing slang0.99.34 to contain libc6 libraries too. This is fixed in -2.8. Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [Q] Mail spool dir okay over nfs?
On Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 04:43:31PM -0500, Pete Harlan wrote: Is it completely safe to use, say, elm, to process the /var/spool/mail directory over nfs in Debian 1.3.1? I know at some time there was a problem with different locking conventions resulting in lost or scrambled mailboxes; have they been long resolved? It is current Debian policy that all packages involved in the processing of mail (MTAs, filters, MUAs) use dotlocking as their only way of locking, as this is NFS-safe. AFAIK, this policy is fully implemented. So if both server and client run Debian, it's OK. If they don't both run Debian, you'll have to make sure yourself that every program involved follows the dot-locking-only policy. HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compose key? (Can a windoze keyboard be configured to...)
On Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 01:27:31AM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: Can a windoze keyboard be configured, so those three extra keys can do something interesting? Like act as a compose key? a meta key? [megasig deleted] It can. There is a Debian Keyboard Configuration Project under way (http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-kbd/) that will make this easy. For now, look at its homepage for links to the relevant documentation. On Sun, Oct 05, 1997 at 11:39:41PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: I could not find any documentation on this except the compose key combinations as output of dumpkeys. To be concrete: Which key or combination of keys do I have to press to be able to compose something like ê or á? (I did this with emacs in the iso-accents-mode). For the console, control dot is the default compose key (look for Compose in the dumpkeys output). Is it the same for the console and in X? No. X has it's own mechanism. The keyboard configuration project aims to make the keyboard behaviour consistent across console, X etc. If you are interested in working on this, join the debian-i18n@lists.debian.org list. HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xdm problem -solved
On 1 Oct Mario O. de menezes wrote, ... have your /etc/X11/config file the right lines for xdm: start-xdm xdm-start-server also, after change this lines, you need run xbase-configure. this utility will create the file /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers with a line indicating where xdm should start the xserver: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 ^ ^ i think this could be your problem. hope this help I had to make both these changes manually, but now everything is working fine. Thanks. -Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: RARP on MAC address?
Yes, I did know this method.. but, this doesn't help at all if the address isn't in your arp tables. I'm looking for a method of finding it if it ISN'T in the arp tables which is currently my problem. Richard.. If you want a quick-and-dirty one-liner to find the IP address of a MAC address you could use something like: arp -na | grep MAC ADDRESS | cut -f1 man arp is your friend. On 07-Oct-97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all! I have a MAC address (ethernet address) that I'm trying to figure out what IP is associated with it. I know that there is a Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) that these machines use to determine these types of things transparent to the user. Is there a command line version where I could enter a MAC address and get it to do the RARP and return an IP to me? Cheers! Richard.. - Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobox.com/~rdanse Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Manitoba - Canada - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . - Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobox.com/~rdanse Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Manitoba - Canada - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Printer-setup
UNSUBSCRIBE! On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Will Lowe wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Gernot Bauer wrote: Hi, where should I start to look for man-pages or some installing-instructions concerning printer-setup (hp-deskjet 690C). I'd like to set up filters to be able to print ps-files... install (and configure) the magicfilter package. You configure it by running magicfilterconfig (read the /usr/doc/magicfilter stuff :) ). Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ * Good Idea:Feeding Stray Cats in the Park. Bad Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the park ... to a bear. * -- 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: RARP on MAC address?
On Wed, 8 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I did know this method.. but, this doesn't help at all if the address isn't in your arp tables. I'm looking for a method of finding it if it ISN'T in the arp tables which is currently my problem. Proof by exhaustion: ping -c 1 nnn.nnn.nnn.xxx for all xxx and it'll appear in your arp table. (If you know vaguely where it is.) -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Ed wrote: $30. 30 dollars, US, I tell you. If you read the fine print at 4front, you will find a 10 dollar surcharge for AWE 32/64 support. Let me say that the awe driver package works just fine with a SB AWE32. Don`t know about the 64 yet. Any people tried? I have an AWE 64 GOLD (ok, that's what reads on the box :)) and it works fine with the awedrv made by Takashi Iwai. You can get it from: http://bahamut.mm.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~iwai/awedrv/;. And that's GPL'd. Marcus --j -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: my first package - xvgr
Now, I need someone who can help me with some questions from time to time. I will have (and already have) questions which are not answered in info or man or /usr/doc. I need some 'daddy' to help me find the way :-) I could go to the debian-devel list, but I am afraid I would bother them with my stupid questions. And, I don't want to upgrade to unstable yet, so I may need someone who helps me with publishing. Hi! You are maintaining a package, right? A package-maintainer is a developer, right? Hmm. I think you *should* be in debian-devel AFAIK. Only stupid question is the one you don't ask. Let me advertise a bit more: If you think you may be able to debianise a program, try it. Let debian be growing. :-) Just got to try, when I have some time. Or contribute something else. Might start with some old and work-needing package, rather than to start packaging a brand new one. --j -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: why /var/tmp/ not be cleaned at boot time
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The purpose of /var/tmp is to unload the possible activity and space requirements from root. /var/tmp was created after /usr/tmp, to let /usr be read only. In fact /usr/tmp is now a symlink to ../var/tmp /tmp is to be considered less persistent than /var/tmp : ideally it should be in a ramdisk or directly in the swap. To use a small partition for / , I've deleted /tmp and put a symlink to /var/tmp to let / be on a small partition. This would also solve your problem. Fabrizio -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] | Pluto Leader - Debian Developer Happy Debian 1.3.1 User - vi-holic | 6F7267F5 fingerprint 57 16 C4 ED C9 86 40 7B 1A 69 A1 66 EC FB D2 5E -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Bo-Hamm was Re: ghostscript problem
Dave Restall wrote:
Please enlighten me as to the meaning of hamm ?
Because this question or a variance on it is asked SO OFTEN,
shouldn't the people who decide these things be thinking
Hey perhaps we're doing something wrong here ?.
Hamm, bo, rex are codenames.
These are persistent names that will not change during their life,
while stable, frozen, unstable, Debian-1.2, Debian-1.3 and Debian-2.0
are not persistent and are created and changed according to the stage
(maturity) of the development.
Actually stable points to bo and unstable to hamm. Later will be
created frozen pointing to hamm, and a new codeneme will appear as
unstable. After the release time, stable will point to hamm as well
as Debian-2.0 and there will be a new unstable to work on.
Therefore we currently use codenames to uniquely identify one particular
hierarchy in the ftp site.
I haven't cheched, but I think this {is,should be} explained in the
README which is displayed when you log on the debian directory in the
ftp site.
Fabrizio
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Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?
On Tue, Oct 07, 1997 at 08:38:56PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Ed wrote: $30. 30 dollars, US, I tell you. If you read the fine print at 4front, you will find a 10 dollar surcharge for AWE 32/64 support. Let me say that the awe driver package works just fine with a SB AWE32. Don`t know about the 64 yet. Any people tried? I have an AWE 64 GOLD (ok, that's what reads on the box :)) and it works fine with the awedrv made by Takashi Iwai. You can get it from: http://bahamut.mm.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~iwai/awedrv/;. And that's GPL'd. Oh, and it is debianized. There are awe-* packages in sound (extra). Just dpkg -i them, and then follow the instructions in my SB AWE HOWTO coming soon :-) Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god. Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mounting of removable media - security problem ?
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: There already is a solution to this. There is a group named 'floppy' you can use for this. If only users that are in the 'floppy' group (and root) can (u)mount the floppy device and only users that are logged in at the console are in group 'floppy', I think your problem is solved. Here is how to do this: In /etc/login.defs, add the group 'floppy' to the value of the 'CONSOLE_GROUPS' variable. I think it is there by default, but I am not sure. Now, execute these commands as root: # cd /dev # chown root.floppy fd* # chmod 660 fd* Now, if somebody logs in at the console he/she is in group 'floppy' (check this with the 'groups' command) and a user that is not logged in from the console has no access to the floppy drive (check this, too). Thanks ! It really works, however there is another small problem. I'm maintaining two debian systems, and /etc/login.defs exists only in one of them (the one with installed shadow passwords). Is the existence of /etc/login.defs associated with shadow passwords system? How to install shadow passwords on living debian linux? Regards Wojtek Zabolotny -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
master.debian.org/debian/Incoming mirror
Where can I find a mirror of the master.debian.org debian/Incoming directory? Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: why /var/tmp/ not be cleaned at boot time
George Bonser wrote: Yeah, so you can have some temporary scratch space that survives a reboot. Anything that can evaporate at reboot time, you put in /tmp, anything you want to survive a reboot, you put in /var/tmp. yup, like the vi.recover directory. i believe /var/tmp is the default location for vi.recover is it not? m* -- The Shining One -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: master.debian.org/debian/Incoming mirror
On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Adam Klein wrote: Where can I find a mirror of the master.debian.org debian/Incoming directory? This was recently posted, so you may want to check the archives: ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian/Incoming/ ftp://ftp.lh.umu.se/pub/linux/debian-Incoming/ (there was another, but I couldn't get it to work) Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Trovalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
using alien
hi everybody, I'm having a problem using alien to install a .rpm file. the following errors occur: sh: rpm: command not found sh: rpm: command not found sh: rpm: command not found sh: rpm: command not found sh: rpm: command not found sh: rpm: command not found sh: rpm: command not found sh: rpm: command not found Error querying rpm file. I don't quite know how to solve this. Can some one else help me. If you need more information please let me know. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: using alien
hi everybody, I'm having a problem using alien to install a .rpm file. the following errors occur: sh: rpm: command not found Error querying rpm file. I don't quite know how to solve this. Can some one else help me. If you need more information please let me know. Paul, do you have package 'rpm' installed? Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: using alien
No but i do now and it works fine. thanks Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xntpd/clock/adjtimex questions
I have tried to make sense of the documents and man pages for these commands, but still am alittle confused. I have run xntpd for about 6 hours, and have checked the ntp.drift file and the tick frequency values that come from adjtimex --compare. There seems to be no correlation between these numbers. I thought that ntp.drift was the 'drift' of the system clock from real time, in parts per million. 1ppm = .0864 seconds/day Which numbers do i use to set my system clock, The value of ntp.drift or the tick frequency? How should the first value of /etc/adjtime be calculated? No machines in my network will have a permanent connection, and only 1 of them will have part time(2 hours/day) connectivity. Or am i looking at this all wrong and the /etc/adjtime file is for correcting the rtc? I would like as accurate a time server that I can get, within the limits of my network. Insights, comments, or instructions will be greatly appreciated. -- Walter L. Preuninger IIwaldo @ irc.wasteland.org:#unix [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rapidramp.com/~walterp L I N U X Where You Really Should Be! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bug ?: Disappearing DOS partitions (fwd)
On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote: Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(259, 15, 63) logical=(64, 63, 63) Have you changed your BIOS settings - LBA - Large - CHS? This might have messed something up. Adrian I never changed anything in the BIOS setup, but I did type linux hda=3146,16,63 (which is the cylinders,heads,sectors/track geometry of my HD) at the installation boot prompt. Linux would not install properly if I let it read the logical geometry from Bios. Yet, I did not want to change the BIOS because that would have buggered up my DOS setup. And please note, the partitions were there for several days, readable under both DOS and Linux, then, presto chango, DOS couldn't see them anymore but Linux still can. Does this give you any further ideas ? Thanks. Gerald Crimp -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
