IOMEGA IDE ZIP drive
Hi there, I have got IOMEGA ZIP drive for the IDE interface and I cannot get it work properly. Kernel detects it as ATAPI CD-ROM drive. Does anybody have any suggestion? Thanks! Uros -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
squake question
HI.. i'm using the squake_1.09-1.1-4.deb paxkage with the quake-lib_1.06-4.deb package. i ram it and was able to join a server (promply getting killed quickly hehe). I exited and restarted but it now complains about not finding a... Model Maps/e2m1.bsp Not Found once i join a server. anyone know how to fix this? also any help about quake in general would be helpful aswell.. i still haven't been able to bind the hook either.. thanx Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: IOMEGA IDE ZIP drive
I have got IOMEGA ZIP drive for the IDE interface and I cannot get it work properly. Kernel detects it as ATAPI CD-ROM drive. Does anybody have any suggestion? Are you running kernel 2.0.33? IIRC, some support for ATAPI devices like ZIP, SyJet, etc., was added in one of the 2.0.x releases. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: squake question
Pure Energy wrote: HI.. i'm using the squake_1.09-1.1-4.deb paxkage with the quake-lib_1.06-4.deb package. i ram it and was able to join a server (promply getting killed quickly hehe). I exited and restarted but it now complains about not finding a... Model Maps/e2m1.bsp Not Found Sounds like you're trying to connect to a server that is using quake episode 2 (that's then the e2 means). You need the registered quake for that. Try a different server. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: IOMEGA IDE ZIP drive
Ben Pfaff wrote: I have got IOMEGA ZIP drive for the IDE interface and I cannot get it work properly. Kernel detects it as ATAPI CD-ROM drive. Does anybody have any suggestion? Are you running kernel 2.0.33? IIRC, some support for ATAPI devices like ZIP, SyJet, etc., was added in one of the 2.0.x releases. Uf.. You are probably right. Going to download new one. Thank you -- Uros -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re[2]: configuring return address on outgoing mail
robert havoc pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A local expert tells me that bounced mail doesn't go to the From: address but to some other thing set by the MTA. I've tried sending mail to bad addresses and I get nothing back. So something's wrong. Perhaps you need to set visible_name to pobox.com, assuming that's the dialup ISP you're using. My understanding, for what it's worth, is that smail will default to your machine's name in lieu of a visible_name value. Check the archives of this list for this month and last month. There's been a tremendous amount of discussion of all this stuff. Best regards, --- Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Esmond, R.I. http://www.brainiac.com/bernie -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape 4.04.... [Read this Please!]
On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: I have been following various messages about Netscape 4.04, and it seems to me that lots of people's NSN4 don't do Java properly, AND, (Please correct me if i'm wrong), I haven't seen any successfull reponses to mine or anyone else's messages about fixing this problem. So! Will anyone who's NSN4 will do Java applets properly please respond to this, then maybe we can figure out what those of us whose Java does not work have missed. Hi, I am sorry I have not been following the Netscape Navigator problems threads properly. I have been able to run java applets in Navigator 4.04 successfully. But I installed NN 4.04 by hand under /usr/local. What problems with java applets have you been having? Here is my setup - * Netscape files under /usr/local/netscape/ * Symbolic link from /usr/local/bin/netscape to /usr/local/netscape/netscape * Environment variable MOZILLA_HOME set to point to /usr/local/netscape I suspect that your problem is probably because of MOZILLA_HOME. S. -- I experimented long with Netscape 3.01 and Netscape 4.04, came to following conclusion: 1. There's a memory problem with Netscape 3.01 and there may or not be one with Netscape 4.04. a. The memory problem ***may be solved*** with Sud's script for Netscape 4.04. or the following: #!/bin/bash LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/netscape MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/local/netscape export LD_LIBRARY_PATH MOZILLA_HOME #ldd /usr/local/netscape/netscape /usr/local/netscape/netscape $* (I haven't had a bug error since using this script and placing netscape by hand. Note I did not use debian, but downloaded the tarzip from Netscape.) b. The memory problem is definitely solved with a similar script for Netscape 3.01-3.04 from the blackthorn site. 2. The java problem for Netscape 3.01-3.04 is never really solved because java applets are software and some are good and some are poorly written. I guarantee that some sites will hang or remove Netscape. 3. Netscape 4.04 handles successfully many more java sites than Netscape 3.01-3.04 without modification. You take a speed penalty of about 10% though. 4. Netscape 3.01-3.04 has a really nasty bug. If you think you're smart and use the options to disable java and javascript, netscape 3.01-3.04 will crash your computer (at least mine). That's my two cents, ibm -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: smail 3.2.0.100-4, won't accept mail form port25 no more
Hi Neilen Marais; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I am not an expert so I apologize if this is a waste of the bandwidth. I got my smail_3.2.0.100-2 to work with fetchmail after I had given sendmail the *full* name of my machine mybox.mydomain.net (when it asks something about the 'other names' for this host...-anyway, I manually edited /etc/smail/config and added the above name to the 'hostnames=' line). Also in the same file the line 'more_hostnames=..' must equal 'localhost' (more_hostnames=localhost'). HTH damir Hi all I use fetchmail to pop my mail usually, deliviring the mail locally by connection to smail via the standard port 25. Now smail still answers to port 25 if I telnet to it, but it does not for some reason want to deliver messages sent there. It does still seem to handle messages sent by calling it as sendmail, which I have set XFmail to do now. I can't seem to get fetchmail to work that way though. The problem only seems to have shown up since I upgraded my packages to the latest HAMM, which included the smail version mentioned in the subject. If I run Pine, I get this possibly usefull error message: [Error sending: 501 HELO requires a valid host name as operand: 'localhost' smail is set up using the first option when it ask me what kinda host I am (connected to net via TCP/IP or something similar) And when it comes to smart-host setup, I have configured to use my ISP's smtp server (I am a dialup user, BTW), and to use it for all mail. Ideally I'd like to know how to fix my smail problem, but in the mean time, knowing how to set fetchmail up to work in mda mode would be useful too. -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 18-Jan-98 Time: 23:43:24 This message was sent by XFMail -- -- 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: Problems with 80386 and 4 MB of RAM
Hello Hi, I've got some problems with Linux and my little test-computer. Im struggling with the low amount of memory (only 4 MB). The complete configuration: 80386 with 40 Mhz 4 MB of RAM 1.6 GByte HD [...] [ 1 ]L I L O At startup it only says: 3FA: It just stops there. :-( My partition-table by fdisk: This is not from lilo but from bootpart (I'm not sure of the name of the pakage but it is a very small package installing an mbr...). It's not an error message but an invitation to press either 3, F or A. 3 will boot /dev/hda3 (hence lilo), one F or A is used to boot /dev/fd0 and I don't remember the usefulness of the other [start] Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 827 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes [..] [end] And my /etc/lilo.conf: --- [start] --- boot=/dev/hda3 root=/dev/hda3 compact Try commenting out compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only --- [end] --- Later I changed boot=/dev/hda3 to boot=/dev/hda. Now LILO starts and types LI: The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer. So what do I have to do now? In the moment I'm starting with my start-disk. 1°) Try commenting compact 2°) I don't think that your BIOS support lba. If I'm right you'll have to declare your disk as having 16 heads, 63 sectors, 3308 cylinders because lilo relies on the BIOS to access the kernel and your BIOS don't know how to handle more than 16 heads. The only annoyance will be to ensure that the kernel resides in the 1024 firs cylinders : just create a (small) partition there and mount it as /boot or a slightly larger one and mount it as / . [ 2 ]N E T W O R K I'm completly helpless here [ 3 ]R E S C U E - S T A R T U P If I use the rescue-disk (I'm not using it in the moment) to start and type linux root=/dev/hda3 the boot-up takes VERY long. In the end it just says could not fork, trying again... I've never seen another message after this one yet, because I don't realy think it's fun to wait for 2 hours... So this method doesn't work. But when I type rescue root=/dev/hda3 it boots normaly (and fast...). Is there a functional difference between the two methods or can I use the rescue command with no problems? Have a look at the conf files of syslinux on the rescue floppy (it's a fat formatted floppy ! :-) ) and I think you'll understand why linux doesn't work although rescue works. (Hint : ramdisk) -- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
VoxPhone and IPMasq
Does any one knows which ports Do I need to fwd in order to use VoxPhone, or VXtreme Thanks Oz Dror -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Updating the kernel
Hello all. I was wondering if there was anything special I needed to do to upgrade from kernel 2.0.30 to kernel 2.0.32 (or 33 if it's available). Red Hat requires an rpm --install to avoid overwriting the old kernel. Does dpkg require this too? I've made an honest effort to read the documentation. Martin Jackson: [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Information Science Major Mankato State University === -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape 4.04.... [Read this Please!]
Þann 18-Jan-98 skrifar Timothy M. Hospedales: My MOZILLA_HOME as well as all the other directories NSN must find as described in the README are already set. :(.However, everyone who has replied indicating success seems to be running full hamm. Mine is half bo, half hamm. I suspect that the problem is rooted in the half bo, half hamm thing. Does anyone run applets successfully in NSN4 under a dual libc5 libc6 system?Thanks, Timothy. Even if you have a full hamm system, you need to have both libc5 libc6 installed, as the netscape binary is compiled against libc5. So, I would answer yes to your question. The reason I pointed out the MOZILLA_HOME stuff, is that before I set this variable, Netscape complained about not finding java.jar, when running applets and friends. The reason is, that when it searches under the builtin default directory of /usr/lib/netscape, it searches under the wrong subdirectory. Whereas it will search under the correct subdirectory relative to MOZILLA_HOME. Orn Einar Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice+fax; +46 035 217194 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: squake question
On 18-Jan-1998, Pure Energy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI.. i'm using the squake_1.09-1.1-4.deb paxkage with the quake-lib_1.06-4.deb package. i ram it and was able to join a server (promply getting killed quickly hehe). I exited and restarted but it now complains about not finding a... Model Maps/e2m1.bsp Not Found once i join a server. anyone know how to fix this? also any help about quake in general would be helpful aswell.. i still haven't been able to bind the hook either.. This is because the server you are joining is using a registered version map (e2m1 = Episode 2, Map 1). You can only player episode 1 maps with the shareware version (you also can't use custom maps and graphics). Lots of servers just run shareware maps anyway, so it shouldn't stop you playing very much. The next time someone tells you what great programmers id software has, remember that they couldn't be bothered writing a better error message than this. I can't begin to imagine how many shareware players decided that it was buggy software because half the servers they joined gave them this ridiculous error message. I've run a quake servers list for over a year, and it's *still* the number one question I get. -- Tyson Dowd # # Surreal humour isn't eveyone's cup of [EMAIL PROTECTED]# fur. http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~trd # -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: GIMP fonts
Eli == Eli Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eli (hamm, 1week old) Gimp seems to only be able to access about Eli 10 fonts (with text select tool), and of those, none are Eli smooth, all have blocky edges and dont scale, so, my question Eli is: how do i fix this? You need to install the 'freefont' and/or 'sharefont' packages, which are Recommended: by the gimp package. Also, I've been told the X True Type Font Rasterizer works well with GIMP. -- Brought to you by the letters C and F and the number 3. Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads. -- TMBG Ben Gertzfield http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/ Finger me for my public PGP key. I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet and YiffNet IRC as Che_Fox. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: netscape4
On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Dennis Drapeau wrote: Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 19:18:21 -0400 From: Dennis Drapeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian List debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org Subject: netscape4 Resent-Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 23:09:52 + Resent-From: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Hi, I am wondering which version of netscape the install wrapper for hamm uses. I have downloaded communicator 4.04 (communicator-v404-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz) and the install script exits with a version compatability. what is the error message ? mine told me during installation: stas ~ # dpkg -i netscape4_4.0-6.deb (Reading database ... 17479 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking netscape4 (from netscape4_4.0-6.deb) ... dpkg: error processing netscape4_4.0-6.deb (--install): subprocess pre-installation script killed by signal (Segmentation fault), core dumped Errors were encountered while processing: netscape4_4.0-6.deb any ideas ? regards OK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Small home network ?
Hi, All i'm going to set up terminal for my P133 home terminal. i've got 386sx 20MHz and put Debian on it (it was quite exiting to see Linux running on computer with 2.92 bogomips). i've got also two NE2K ethernet cards which are recognized by Linux and now waiting for cable with cross-over wires. So far so good... My pentium system has static IP address and working PPP connection The question is what to do next. i want to have terminal to be able to see outside world As far as i understand from reading NET-3 HOWTO i can use dedicated class C addresses (something like 196.xxx) Is there any docs how to do it? Is there tools to check ethernet connections (just to see how computers send and receive pockets) ? Any help is greatly appresiated. regards OK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Small home network ?
i want to have terminal to be able to see outside world As far as i understand from reading NET-3 HOWTO i can use dedicated class C addresses (something like 196.xxx) Is there any docs how to do it? Hi. What you are looking for is IP Masquerading HOWTO. 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: Small home network ?
i want to have terminal to be able to see outside world As far as i understand from reading NET-3 HOWTO i can use dedicated class C addresses (something like 196.xxx) Is there any docs how to do it? You probably want to see the IP-Masquerading mini-HOWTO, which is in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini. -- 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?
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? That should be /usr/sbin/update-rc.d, which should be in package dpkg. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
errors in hamm upgrade
I performed the hamm upgrade using Craig's script (all went fine) and letting dselect do it's thing. I had a scare when e2fsck wouldn't work after I rebooted, but was able to install a few remaining packages and get it to work. I have two remaining problems (at least until I try installing some more stuff): 1. I get the following error when trying to install libc6-dev with dselect: Unpacking libc6-dev (from .../devel/libc6-dev_2.0.6-2.deb) ... dpkg: error processing debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/devel/libc6-dev_2.0.6-2.deb (--install): trying to overwrite `/usr/include/ndbm.h', which is also in package libgdbmg1-dev dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/devel/libc6-dev_2.0.6-2.deb DPKG ERROR Should I use --force? 2. When trying to send a message from pine, I get: [Error sending: 501 HELO requires a valid host name as operand: 'localhost' ] I have 'localhost' configured as the smtp server in pine, which used to send the message through smail and then to my ISP as smarthost. This worked in bo. Has something changed? Bob --- Bob NielsenInternet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Moving from ethernet to a modem
G. Kapetanios [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I have friend whom I have persuaded to use Debian instead of Win95 :-) He wants to \have an internet connection from his home. As his situation is of interest to me since my studying days will soon be over and I will ghave to move from ethernet to modem as well I have the following question. Will setting up PPP be straightforward or tricky for a novice like him (I will be helping but I am a novice in PPP as well ) ? PPP will be straightforward if you know what docs to read; my advice at this point is to read the PPP HOWTO only after knowing what things debian has around to make PPP easier, if then. The most importnat thing to know about PPP before setting it up is to know how one logs in to one's ISP's ppp server - the easiest way to find this out is to dial up with minicom (or, if one still has Win95, Hyperterminal) and see what happens - if you get garbage right away (lots of '}' characters, among other things) chances are your ISP is using PAP or CHAP authentication; fortunately this is a bit uncommon, as it gets a bit annoying. (and I've never learned how, since I don't have to) If you're not using PAP/CHAP, then there'll be some sort of logon sequence to go through. Remember what the prompts are (e.g. does it ask username: or login: ); you'll need them later. Then, on the Debian system, edit /etc/ppp.chatscript to match your ISP's prompts - mine looks something like this: ABORTBUSY ABORTNO CARRIER ABORTVOICE ABORTNO DIALTONE ATDT4105551234 name myuser word \qmypasswd Where I have 'name' you might have 'ogin' if your ISP asks for your username with the prompt 'login: ' (my ISP uses 'username: '). Also, don't forget to change the phone number to be what it should. Setting this file up is actually quite easy, and once it is ppp can be turned on with a simple 'pon' command by root or by anyone in the 'dip' group. I can't address your question of whether it's possible to obtain one's own IP at little cost; I doubt it, given that the IP address space is getting a bit cramped. I do just fine with fetchmail to get my mail from my imap account and smail configured as per http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html; I do not have my own permanent IP address but instead receive a different one each time I dial in. Sometimes I set my machine up to dial in at regular intervals and get/send mail, as appropriate; it does this quite happily. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape 4.04.... [Read this Please!]
Þann 18-Jan-98 skrifar Timothy M. Hospedales: My MOZILLA_HOME as well as all the other directories NSN must find as described in the README are already set. :(.However, everyone who has replied indicating success seems to be running full hamm. Mine is half bo, half hamm. I suspect that the problem is rooted in the half bo, half hamm thing. Does anyone run applets successfully in NSN4 under a dual libc5 libc6 system?Thanks, Timothy. Well, I have netscape4 working just fine on my almost-all-bo system. Here's what I did: Installed netscape with the netscape4 .deb installer, version 4.0-5.deb (This older version would run on bo; my assumption is that the newer one's dependency on libc6 is not a big enough problem for the maintainer to fuss with). Changed /usr/bin/X11/netscape from the symlink it was to the following script: #!/bin/bash export MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/lib/netscape exec /usr/lib/netscape/netscape $* Installed bash 2.01 (which I built from the debian source) to fix the oft-posted problem with helper apps. My only guess is that perhaps your MOZILLA_HOME variable isn't being exported. To see if that's the problem, try doing export MOZILLA_HOME netscape If that works, then either use a script similar to the above to launch netscape or do an 'export MOZILLA_HOME' right after you set it. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
HELP!
I get message that says sound blaster 16 internal error I am using Voyetras DOP . Any suggestions? Sincerely- LKOSMAS. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Remote X-term
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Bradshaw) writes: [...] X has problems with masquerading because the remote end initiates the port connection. If you use redir to redirect the port, you can only support X on one machine inside the firewall. Well, you _could_ redirect port 6001 on the firewall to port 6000 on the second X server and set DISPLAY to firewall:1... With ssh, ssh initiates the encrypted connection and all responses come back over this connection. ssh pulls out the X info and displays it locally. ... but ssh makes it very easy and secure, and is probably better in most cases. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Updating the kernel
Martin Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering if there was anything special I needed to do to upgrade from kernel 2.0.30 to kernel 2.0.32 (or 33 if it's available). Red Hat requires an rpm --install to avoid overwriting the old kernel. Does dpkg require this too? I've made an honest effort to read the documentation. In brief: install kernel-package and read its documentation. Either download the latest kernel-source_2.0.32 package from Debian or download the latest kernel from sunsite or ftp.kernel.org. (If you get linux-2.0.33.tar.gz or similar, unpack it in /usr/local/src.) cd to /usr/src/linux or /usr/local/src/linux, run make xconfig, then use kernel-package to make yourself a nice kernel .deb. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: off-topic: Good bug-tracking package?
On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 06:34:41PM +0059, Toens Bueker wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 1998 at 06:51:24PM -0800, Obi wrote: does anyone know of a good bug-tracking software? Have you had a look at 'jitterbug'? Its from Andrew Tridgell - the father of samba ... Jitterbug, the Debian bug-tracking system and many others are listed at http://linas.org/linux/pm.html HTH, Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
/etc/profile and set -o vi
before I upgraded to unstable, set -o vi, which was in my /etc/profile worked. Now, I have to manually do a set -o vi after getting logged in. Any ideas? -- Walter L. Preuninger IIwaldo @ irc.wasteland.org:#unix [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: Fast Network Terminal Graphics (gnuplot)
Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings! So what's the most efficient mechanism for getting gnuplot graphics displayed across a telnet session without using X windows? Something beside the dumb terminal driver of gnuplot would be nice. Years ago, a friend helped me setup Tektronics terminal emulation under kermit, but I can't seem to get it working now. xterm has a Tektronix emulation mode. Try starting gnuplot and typing set term vttek, then plotting a simple graph. This is considerably better than dumb. You might find you have to swap between the VT102 and Tektronix windows manually from the menus. You could bind keys to these like this in ~/.Xresources : XTerm*VT100.Translations: #override \ CtrlKeyF11:set-terminal-type(tek) \n\ CtrlKeyF12:set-terminal-type(vt100) XTerm*Tek4014.Translations: #override \ CtrlKeyF11:set-terminal-type(tek) \n\ CtrlKeyF12:set-terminal-type(vt100) -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do I find out what version of ebian is on a machine?
I am cc-ing this back to debian-user because it contains information which will be useful to anyone considering an upgrade to hamm. On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Stan Brown wrote: On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Stan Brown wrote: All ths talk of libc5 to libc6 upgrades gotme thnking about upgarding. Since it matters at this point in time for upgradeing, how do I determine what version of Debian is on a given machine? cat /etc/debian_version great information. So since mne reports 1.2 what is the name of the version on my box? Since most people on this list only talk names, not numbers. debian 1.2 was code-named rex. And how hard is it going to be to upgrade this toe 2.0 ( hamm?). i have sucessfully run my autoupgrade script on a rex system...well, a system which was built as rex and upgraded out of bo while bo was still the unstable version. so the system was somewhere between rex and bo. Robert Hilliard is working on my script so that it fully supports an upgrade from rex. i think he said that he expects to have that done within a few days. when it's ready, he'll probably post his updated version to either debian-user or debian-devel or both. However, the script only does the potentially dangerous bits of the upgrade. i.e. libc6, libncurses, libreadline, bash and several other packages. if these packages are installed in the wrong order, then the system is likely to be extremely broken (bash wont work any more which makes it hard to fix). The script DOES successfully do that part of the upgrade. After it has run, it is still up to you to run dselect and upgrade the rest of the system. this is not an option - once you start upgrading to hamm, you really have to do a complete upgrade...there are too many incompatibilities between libc5 based bo (and rex) and the new libc6 based hamm. not completing the upgrade once you've started it will be a lot more trouble and a lot more work than just going ahead and doing it. depending on how many packages you have installed (and hence need to be upgraded) and whether you have a local mirror of debian or not, this could take half a day or a day to complete. if you've never done an upgrade to hamm before, set aside at least a day. if you've done it several times before, it'll be about half a day. Think carefully about whether you want to do this or whether you have the time to do this before you start. You'll end up with a much newer system with all the latest stuff (including bug fixes and security fixes) but it may cost you a day or more of anger, frustration, and hard work to get there...running the unstable release can be very rewarding but it has it's price too. If stability is more important to you than bleeding edge then DO NOT UPGRADE. if you decide to do the upgrade, remember the usual rules with dselect: 1. Go through the Update and Select phases. 2. Then Install. If any problems, choose Configure. 3. Then repeat the Install followed by Configure until dselect reports no problems. 4. Then Remove and finally Quit. the other thing to remember about dselect is that the error messages it prints usually look a lot more serious than they really are - don't panic, just repeat the Configure Install cycle as often as necessary. Occasionally you might have to shell out of dselect temporarily and use dpkg to install or remove a package or two by hand (this is more likely the longer you leave it between upgrades). if none of the above makes any sense to you then wait for hamm to be released as the new stable Debian 2.0 release. the upgrade will have been thoroughly tested(*) by then and will be a lot easier to get through. (*) from bo, at least. maybe not as an upgrade from rex. but you could always upgrade from rex to bo (which has been tested) and then immediately upgrade to hamm. craig -- craig sanders -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Gzip + Dselect after libc6 upgrade
Hi folks, `fraid I`m still having bother with gzip and dselect. I`ve upgraded to libc6 quite successfully. Everything works hunkydory but dselect always gives this error when installing. dpkg -i works fine on it`s own. Error; gzip: stdout: Broken pipe dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 dpkg: error processing debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/doc/doc-linux-html_98.01-1.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 Any ideas? Dselect is currently broken till I can get this fixed. Ozzy __ _ _ / \ \ \ / / / / / |-Brian SkreegIRC:_Ozzy-| \__/ \ \ |-Lead guitarist extraordinaire-| \__/_/ |-I don't look like two zombies-| -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Staroffice3.1 crashes X session.
I'm trying to install Staroffice3.1 from the debian package. Everything worked fine during installation but when I try to launch setup or anything like scalc, a bitmap appears and then the Xsession crashes. As explained in Staroffice installation guide, I checked permission on Xp3 directory and everything should be fine. I'm using the SVGA X server for an S3Virge board and the statically motif linked version of Staroffice3.1. Did anybody had such a problem with it? Does the problem can come from my debian installation (last Infomagic CDs)? Thanks in advance... Ronan Lebref [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do I find out what version of ebian is on a machine?
On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 08:44:03PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: 3. Then repeat the Install followed by Configure until dselect reports no problems. It might just be more, or it might just be dpkg-ftp, but I find that if I do install, then install again, it will download again all the packages I have already downloaded; I have to run a select phase in between to stop it doing this. (Just about to install buzz here Craig.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[off topic] partially related news items??
I was surfing today and saw two points of interest that I thought may interest the debian community: Intel is partnering with Sun Microsystems to offer out-of-the-box licensing for its 64 bit processor instead of Microsoft. The processor family will run Solaris (although by then Solaris will be written in Java and based on the Sprint project instead of SVR4 code, but its still Solaris instead of NT). This makes linux more comptetative in the commercial marketplace, wouldn't you say? Especially if Linux will be able to run Java programs natively, as Solaris will. I'm assuming, of course, that Linux will also be able to run on the 64 bit processor (since it already runs on axp's, ultras, and SGIs). Also, Tibco, a major commercial company specializing in messaging middleware for the financial industry, now officially supports Linux for its newest messaging technology (as well as FreeBSD). As the financial community deploys rendezvous based technology, Linux machines can be a drop in part of any heterogeneous distributed computing environment. See www.rv.tibco.com for details. That's one less excuse to keep linux out of the enterprise. All we need to do now is get some for real performance tuning and distributed system monitoring tools (-- more / better documentation and a solutions database wouldn't hurt either, but I think Bruce Perens is already on top of these issues). Cheers, -- Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mt setblk fails
I am trying to read data from a DAT tape written on a foreign machine (probably a Sun). I use dd to read from it, but invariably get 0 blocks. I am able to read a tape written by a SCO machine, but the SCO machine cannot read a tape I write. Following the SCSI HOWTO, I tried changing the hardware block size with `mt setblk 0'. Any use of `mt setblk' always gives an I/O error. The HOWTO says that GNU mt does not support this option, and mt -V says that it is the GNU version. However the man page lists setblk as an option. There seems no longer to be mt source at tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi where the HOWTO says a copy supporting the setblk option may be found. My DAT drive is a DDS-1 cannibalised from an HP 710 workstation, model HP35470A Rev 1009 SCSI revision 2. SCSI card: Adaptec 2940UW /bin/mt from package cpio version 2.4.2-13 kernel 2.0.32patch5 i686 libc6 2.0.6-2 Is there anything I can do? Is it likely that this drive doesn't support changing the block size? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending such will be invoiced for telephone time used in downloading together with a £25 administration charge. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
can't install buzz!
I don't suppose anyone here is feeling nostalgic and can think of any reason why the buzz (1.1) boot disk would hang on me? Kernel 2.0.0. I get eata_dma: no BIOS32, still needed etc, then it hangs. This is sometimes caused by NE2000 cards being probed, but I pulled mine out completely and it still happens. I've left it for about 20 minutes now and it hasn't changed. I remember that APM was a problem but it's disable as it can be in the BIOS. I don't understand why this kernel is compiled with APM support in if APM doesn't work properly, but still. It seems to get passed that anyway. Any ideas? I want to install buzz to test the auto-upgrade. Might have to use rex disks. All the hardware I have is an IDE hard drive, a floppy drive, an ISA IDE controller, a Trident 8900CL video card, and a 486DX2-66 overdrive chip, and 16mb RAM. It doesn't seem to be crashing because of some hardware fault, just a bad kernel probe. Hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mt setblk fails
Hello Oliver: Try looking at the mt command. It provides facilities for manipulating a tape drive. I have in the past had to use the mt setblk 0 command to read tapes from Alphas and HPs. Hope this will help. Peter -Original Message- From: Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, January 19, 1998 7:24 AM Subject: mt setblk fails I am trying to read data from a DAT tape written on a foreign machine (probably a Sun). I use dd to read from it, but invariably get 0 blocks. I am able to read a tape written by a SCO machine, but the SCO machine cannot read a tape I write. Following the SCSI HOWTO, I tried changing the hardware block size with `mt setblk 0'. Any use of `mt setblk' always gives an I/O error. The HOWTO says that GNU mt does not support this option, and mt -V says that it is the GNU version. However the man page lists setblk as an option. There seems no longer to be mt source at tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi where the HOWTO says a copy supporting the setblk option may be found. My DAT drive is a DDS-1 cannibalised from an HP 710 workstation, model HP35470A Rev 1009 SCSI revision 2. SCSI card: Adaptec 2940UW /bin/mt from package cpio version 2.4.2-13 kernel 2.0.32patch5 i686 libc6 2.0.6-2 Is there anything I can do? Is it likely that this drive doesn't support changing the block size? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending such will be invoiced for telephone time used in downloading together with a £25 administration charge. -- 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: sysvinit in hamm uses updatercd -- where is it?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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? 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 -- 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] .
Re: problem with nis and shadow
I also tried to set up shadow passwords with NIS and couldn't get it to work. I downloaded the libc source and could see that shadow passwords aren't implemented with regular NIS. It really isn't too surprising though since with regular NIS, it's easy for any machine on the network to get whatever maps it wants, therefore having shadow map doesn't really do you any good. Watch for this feature when NIS+ is supported (which supports authentication). Ronn Pimentel wrote: I'm having trouble with nis and shadow files on my bo system. The system works fine when I don't have shadow installed on the server, but breaks when I enable shadow. I enable shadow on the server, modify the Makefile to generate a shadow map and then it compiles it but when I do a ypcat, the shadow map doesn't show up. Am i missing something? music# ypcat -x Use passwd for passwd.byname Use group for group.byname Use networks for networks.byaddr Use hosts for hosts.byname Use protocols for protocols.bynumber Use services for services.byname Use aliases for mail.aliases Use ethers for ethers.byname music# ls group.bygid netgroup.byhost passwd.bynamerpc.bynumber group.byname netgroup.byuser passwd.byuid services.byname hosts.byaddr netid.byname protocols.bynameshadow.byname hosts.byname networks.byaddr protocols.bynumber ypservers netgroup networks.byname rpc.byname music# -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Database driver module problems
At 12:30 PM 1/18/98 -0800, Dave Neuer wrote: I am having problems getting the DBI drivers for mSQL working on my Debian Linux 1.3.1 system. I am using mSQL 2.0.3, DBI 0.91, and Msql-modules-1.1814. Concerning the DBI problems, I have no advice; I use Msql.pm rather than the DBI interface for two reasons: 1. It's more stable than the mSQL/DBI interface, and 2. DBI will soon be superceded by some form of ODBC (if Tim Bunce and Alligator Descartes can be believed). The second test generates the following output: t/10dsnlist. Cannot connect: Unknown database test Either your server is not up and running or you have no permissions for acessing the DSN DBI:mSQL:test. This test requires a running server and write permissions. Please make sure your server is running and you have permissions, then retry. 1..2 not ok 1 dubious Test returned status 10 (wstat 2560) What you'll need to do is make a database called 'test' (you'd think there'd be a mention in the README that such a thing is necessary ... c'est la vie). Try this: su /usr/local/Hughes/bin/msqladmin create test That should do it. Things that I have checked: YES, THE SERVER IS RUNNING. I can see it listed with the command ps -ax, and I am able to create a database using the msqladmin utility. As far as write permission goes, because I don't have an ACL file yet (since I don't really have any databases created except as tests) mSQL prints the message that permission is global read/write, so it seems like that shouldn't be an issue. The thing I'm more uncertain about is where mSQL is supposed to find these databases called test in the first place, and I'm not sure how to even determine this. Concerning the ACL file, I've had trouble giving non-root users appropriate permissions. If you can't connect to the server, try doing so as root. Paul Heinlein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Bits Magazine Serving Oregon, S Washington and Arizona's Valley of the Sun http://www.computerbits.com/ (503) 359-9107 (800) 898-8886 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Updating the kernel via patches
I remember that Carey Evans suggested some time ago downloading the whole sources for upgrading. Is this the only easy way? It is certainly the easiest way, and it's what I recommend for people who are inexperienced at dealing with patches. (However, dealing with patches is the only way to get experience at dealing with patches...) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: libc5 and libc6
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Tom Ed White wrote: Is it possible to use libc5 and libc6 together? There are a couple of programs in hamm that I would like to try, but I heard somewhere that the two libs can't both be installed. http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/ -- Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
strange symlinks
After installing kernel-2.0.32 I've got two symlinks /usr/src/linux - kernel-headers-2.0.32 /usr/src/linux-2.0.32 - kernel-headers-2.0.32 and in /usr/include: linux - /usr/src/linux-2.0.32/include/linux asm - /usr/src/linux-2.0.32/include/asm The problem is that in /usr/include/linux there are only very few files, and /usr/include/asm is empty! So several headers were not able to find their files. These are in /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32... Is it save to make the symlinks point to /usr/src/linux - kernel-source-2.0.32 /usr/src/linux-2.0.32 - kernel-source-2.0.32 ? jenne -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
command set
I'm trying to learn how to use Linux. Can you tell me where I can find a command set for it? I don't know how to maneuvre in this system at all. Thanks! J.P. Beebe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems with 80386 and 4 MB of RAM
From: Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Samstag, 17. Januar 1998 02:34 1°) Try commenting compact Already tried that, then LILO started but only typed 'LI' 2°) I don't think that your BIOS support lba. I don't either... :-) If I'm right you'll have to declare your disk as having 16 heads, 63 sectors, 3308 cylinders because lilo relies on the BIOS to access the kernel and your BIOS don't know how to handle more than 16 heads. okay... The only annoyance will be to ensure that the kernel resides in the 1024 firs cylinders : just create a (small) partition there and mount it as /boot or a slightly larger one and mount it as / . But all of my HD-space is already in use! From where should I get the 'small' partition, that also has to reside in the first 1024 cylinders? Oh! I've got an idea, what if I just kill this unused Linux/MINIX-partition and the swap-partition and 'switch them round' (so that there is a small space of 1024 cylinders infront of swap left). It would (probably) look something like this: Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 *113 8064 83 Linux native -- will be mounted as /boot, should I mark it with 'bootable' ? /dev/hda244 2950368+ 82 Linux swap -- now my swap is here /dev/hda3 30 30 4532256 83 Linux native -- this is / /dev/hda4 46 46 827 15765125 Extended /dev/hda5 46 46 260 433408+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda6 261 261 28142304+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda7 282 282 827 1100704+ 83 Linux native I'll have to tell Linux to look at hda2 for a swap partition... probably in fstab, right? But can I just change the partition while the system is running? I couldn't find any notes on this. Is the following procedure possible: 1. I change the partition tabel as shown above, using the cfdisk-utility 2. I edit fstab and correct the data in there 3. I rerun lilo 4. I change HD-info (16 heads, 63 sectors, 3308 cylinders) in BIOS 5. I'm happy because everything works (now without start-disk) 6. I say thanx to all people who helped me set up my computer :-) - Fabian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
FTP through Firewall
I have debian running on an old computer. It has no CD. It is on a LAN I can manually ftp to debian through my firewall if I use [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I can not dselect. When I try it does not get to the ftp server. HELP -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian or Redhat or Caldera
I am a network admin. I used to use Novell. Then I switched our LAN to NT. (How could I be so stupid) Now that I hate MS and Bill Gates, I am looking at Linux :) It is a new world for me. I have looked at debian and decieded to much learning curve. I currently have at home RH 4.? and RH 5.0 and Caldera Base. I need to quit messing around and deciede which to go with. So my question is which to learn.. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: FTP through Firewall
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Cox wrote: Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:40:17 -0600 From: Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org Subject: FTP through Firewall Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 17:42:21 + Resent-From: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; I have debian running on an old computer. It has no CD. It is on a LAN I can manually ftp to debian through my firewall if I use [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I can not dselect. When I try it does not get to the ftp server. dftp is your friend regards OK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian or Redhat or Caldera
On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 11:41:19AM -0600, Cox wrote: I am a network admin. I used to use Novell. Then I switched our LAN to NT. (How could I be so stupid) Now that I hate MS and Bill Gates, I am looking at Linux :) It is a new world for me. I have looked at debian and decieded to much learning curve. You're a network admin and debian has too much of a learning curve? I'm a Boilermaker/Welder and Debian isn't that much of a burden really. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Two minor hamm bugs
When installing samba, the script in /etc/init.d has an error at the top. I chose to use inetd and not having it start on boot. The script does a `grep -q blah exit 0`. This should be '||' and not ''. Second ln -sf should change a symlink. It does not. i.e. $ ln -s foo bar $ ls -al bar bar - foo $ ln -sf fooby bar $ ls -al bar bar - foo bar should be fooby. Currently one must rm the link and then ln again. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: command set
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, J.P. Beebe wrote: Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:28:03 -0800 From: J.P. Beebe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org Subject: command set Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 17:24:30 + Resent-From: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; I'm trying to learn how to use Linux. Can you tell me where I can find a command set for it? I don't know how to maneuvre in this system at all. Thanks! J.P. Beebe http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/4466/ then grab UNIX reference card regards OK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: command set
J.P. Beebe wrote: I'm trying to learn how to use Linux. Can you tell me where I can find a command set for it? I don't know how to maneuvre in this system at all. Thanks! Unfortunately, the Debian User manual is not yet complete. A part of it dealing with basic commands can be found at http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver/user.html another section is at http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/rhpennin/debian/files.html -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending such will be invoiced for telephone time used in downloading together with a £25 administration charge. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: ImgStar 1.1 not compatible with new XV/ImageMagick
Although I would like to make significant updates to imgstar, I no longer have direct access to a unix system, preventing me from doing any more development. You can make any changes to the loading or storing of image files by modifying source file i_file.c. However, I should point out that xv does not define the pbm file format. If the writer of xv now saves pbm files in an incompatible and different way, then xv can't be writing pbm files correctly. Are you sure it is not something to do with your build of xv? I seem to recall using xv3 without problem before. Send me the first 200 bytes of pointset.pgm and I will give you a definitive answer. Simon -Original Message- From: Terrence Brannon [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 18, 1998 2:37 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Simon Winder (Exchange) Subject: ImgStar 1.1 not compatible with new XV/ImageMagick It appears that Imgstar 1.1 is only capable of converting PBM files built around the time of xv3.00: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /newport/pkg/ImgStar/Bin : ./imgPnmToFlt /newport/freeway/brannon/rs/Seescape/web/pointset.pgm PnmToFlt: started Error: can't import image file (PnmToFlt). [EMAIL PROTECTED] /newport/pkg/ImgStar/Bin : It would be nice to have it updated for use with more modern versions of Imagemagick and XV. -- Terrence Brannon * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://lnc.usc.edu/~brannon USC, HNB, 3614 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520 * (213) 740-3397 Got Milk? Should you? http://www.milk.com vs. http://www.notmilk.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian or Redhat or Caldera
Hi Cox : You wrote: Now that I hate MS and Bill Gates, I am looking at Linux :) It is a new world for me. I have looked at debian and decieded to much learning curve. I currently have at home RH 4.? and RH 5.0 and Caldera Base. I sympathize. But every system new to a user/administrator is a pain in the *** because you expect things to be that way when they are this way, and this way seems silly. The fact is the learning curve is the same for all Linux distributions. ALL the distributions look the same to the user, and are close for many of the administrative tasks. As a NEWBIE, I distinctly recall having a bad case of new system agony. Immerse yourself. It is like swimming in cold water. The quicker you imerse your self, the faster it gets easy. For Debian specific information, look up the Debian web site, www.debian.org. If yoiu need, you might try the Linux LDP on Sunsite. The website has a search engine. The URL is: www.sunsite.unc.edu/LDP or by ftp, ftp.sunsite.edu (there you'll have to look by hand. There is an index.). There are documents there from Linux covering everything for a beginnner to an experienced Unix person. David --- LINUX: the FREE 32 bit OS for [3456]86 PC's available NOW! David B Teague | Ask me how user interface copyrights software [EMAIL PROTECTED] | patents make programing a dangerous business. spy counter-intelligence wild porno sex gold bullion Soviet Bosnia clipper National Security Council explosion Treasury terrorist Delta -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /etc/profile and set -o vi
Walter L. Preuninger II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: before I upgraded to unstable, set -o vi, which was in my /etc/profile worked. Now, I have to manually do a set -o vi after getting logged in. Any ideas? This is a known problem. See Bug # 14672 at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/14/14672.html I think you can work around it by commenting out the set -o vi, in /etc/profile and putting set editing-mode vi set keymap vi in $HOME/.inputrc Cheers, Kingsley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
soundblaster != voyetra (was: Re: HELP!)
On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 12:50:22AM -0500, LKosmas wrote: I get message that says sound blaster 16 internal error I am using Voyetras DOP . Any suggestions? Sure. Just stop thinking you have a Soundblaster 16 (as you say, you haven't) or compatible (as there isn't any), and do a kernel recompile. And actually *read* the Sound-HOWTO. Bye, Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: FTP through Firewall
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Cox wrote: I have debian running on an old computer. It has no CD. It is on a LAN I can manually ftp to debian through my firewall if I use [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I can not dselect. When I try it does not get to the ftp server. HELP How do you ftp through the firewall? If it works like the one that I have to use at work, then it goes like this: $ ftp ftp-proxy [welcome banner from ftp-proxyserver] login: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [welcome banner from ftp.debian.org] password: my email address ftp cd debian ftp dir etcetera. Then you can instruct dselect to use the ftp-proxyserver like this: ftp site: your proxyserver passive:no username: [EMAIL PROTECTED] password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] distributions: stable contrib non-free debiandir: debian This works fine for me. Some notes: - you must probably tell dselect to not use passive ftp, because that is the way most ftp-proxyservers work. - if you are trying to get packages from unstable, then you can enter dists/unstable/main dists/unstable/contrib dists/unstable/non-free as distributions, but you need dpkg from unstable before this will work (the stable dselect won't dig the slashes.) - don't be surprised when dselect wants to download 60 megabytes of .debs. You can choose to select packages that you want to download before dselect actually tries thyam all. Cheers, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Why is debian more of a learning curve than Redhat???
What makes RH that much simpler to use?? I find dselect simple, and linux == linux so config files are fairly standard. Yet I have heard that comment numerous times -- debian is too much of a learning curve. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mysql
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- hello, i need to install mysql but the package needs libc6. are there any problems when removing libc5 to install libc6? (i think there is a faq available somewhere.) or is it better to compile the mysql source instead of upgrading to libc6? thanks a lot! michael - MICHAEL SICHER e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Leopold-Ernst-Gasse 22/13 WWW:http://www.sicher.at/ 1170 Vienna, Austria Fax:+43-1-4034998 Europe PGP key available - send mail with subject send pgp key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNMOlkXy4MROVFbwtAQE0iQP/Z1JjIx0xgXGsODSpm0ghwmhFpHJPTEJP 9mbhrk2ZhZ/RL4pr8EZObI1mGJ59kghWPDFmv41G+0CWJVodiX5YsqN5yaAyLniA kY+n09a4buRzM3JhcoR3ZfomdNYpEVBT9/PnZuWocJgV/BP56dzODFcYt6sPt7sJ /C7iVp/Vbo0= =PZ9S -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Two minor hamm bugs
Hi, I am the maintainer of the Debian samba package so the first part of this message corresponds to me... Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : When installing samba, the script in /etc/init.d has an error at the : top. I chose to use inetd and not having it start on boot. The script : does a `grep -q blah exit 0`. This should be '||' and not ''. No, grep -q blah exit 0 is correct. What happens is the following: the only way I have found so far to tell whether Samba is running from inetd or as daemons is to examine /etc/inetd.conf and see if there are entries for netbios-ns (or netbios-ssn) that aren't commented out. The script /etc/init.d/samba must detect how Samba is running and if it is running from inetd it must do nothing, just exit. This is because Samba will be started automatically by inetd when there is traffic in UDP ports 137-139. If you change grep -q blah exit 0 to grep -q blah || exit 0 then the script _will not_ exit when Samba is running from inetd. Instead it will continue execution until the end of the file. If this happens, the script will try to start nmbd and smbd (the Samba daemons) which is a very risky bussiness because sooner or later they will be started by inetd. Also, if you do the above change, Samba won't ever be started by the script nor inetd if Samba is chosen to be run as daemons. This is because the script will exit at the very top of the file. I guess you are reporting this because you chose to run Samba from inetd but you are not seeing any nmbd or smbd processes running. This is because inetd hasn't started any yet because there is no traffic at the UDP ports 137-139. Oh, by the way, I read this message by lucky change because the subject did not mention anything about Samba. I would suggest next time the bug tracking system is used (see www.debian.org/Bugs/) or write the word samba in the subject. See ya! E.- dd -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9431645 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[HELP] Need name/copy of script which loads modules at startup
A while back, when I was playing with my kernel, I wanted to stop loading the modules at startup so I moved/deleted the script or part thereof from the rc.? directory. The plan was that I would put it back in but then I forgot. Now I would like to load my modules at startup and I have forgotten where this is done. I think it was a script in rc.boot but then I could be wrong :( Thanks in advance, Myron. .sig is not available right now. Leave you name, number and something inspirational after the dotted line and it will get back to you as soon as possible. . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: command set
Oleg Krivosheev writes: On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, J.P. Beebe wrote: Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:28:03 -0800 From: J.P. Beebe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org Subject: command set Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 17:24:30 + Resent-From: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; I'm trying to learn how to use Linux. Can you tell me where I can find a command set for it? I don't know how to maneuvre in this system at all. Thanks! J.P. Beebe http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/4466/ then grab UNIX reference card Don't laugh but those '* for Dummies' series of books aren't to bad. If I recall there is a 'UNIX for Dummies' book among them. Brian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Tape Back-ups Was: Ftape
Lets start this with a few *sighs* :/ I have now recompiled kernel 2.0.32 fine. The compile went fine and with no errors at all. I made sure that ftape *was not* included. After editing the MCONFIG file and compiling ftape yet again it still doesn't work.. i get errors as such: ftmt: command not found ftmt: /dev/qft0: Device not configured /usr/include/ioctls.h:23: asm/ioctls.h: No such file or directory /usr/include/ioctls.h:24: linux/sockios.h: No such file or directory In file included from /usr/include/sys/ioctl.h:30, and too many others that i will not get into. I have fought, argued, and bitched at/with ftape now for months. I'm tired of it and sick of going over all the docs. So I have decided to give the iomega ditto 2 gig drive to my wife as it works great under window3.11. I have moved it there and she has finished a full backup of her computer with it. Now my question is Can someone tell me a good inexpensive (100.00 - 300.00) tape drive that *is* supported with dependable drivers under debian/Linux? Are there any tape drives which have drivers included in the kernels? What are they? The drive should be able to backup atleast 1 gig min per tape. Thanx and sorry for the bitching :/ --Rob PS..My appologies to the maintainer of ftape Christian Meder as this is not meant to be a flame and/or complaint against him or Ftape. I will say that the documentation and the webpages are very well done. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian or Redhat or Caldera
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Cox wrote: I am a network admin. I'm a IBM AS/400 programmer and admin I used to use Novell. Then I switched our LAN to NT. (How could I be so stupid) Now that I hate MS and Bill Gates, I am looking at Linux :) [grin] It is a new world for me. It was a new world for me, too. I have looked at debian and decieded to much learning curve. I currently have at home RH 4.? and RH 5.0 and Caldera Base. Not more learning than any other linux/unix. I need to quit messing around and deciede which to go with. So my question is which to learn.. What should I say? I've choosen Debian GNU/Linux because it's free. And it's package concept is more sophisticated than any other (rpm, ...). After learning a bit about using unix as a USER, I have decided, to me a unix admin too. It was not so difficult. If you know ONE system in deep, you can learn every system. There are parallels all the time. It doesn't cost you so much (in Germany, you will get a CD from J.F.Lehmanns, Berlin for only DM 20,-). Try it, use it, love it and never leave it. Bye Daniel - - Daniel Gross [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Ingolstadt, Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - If Win95 is the answer, it must have been a real foolish question ! - - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
FTP Firewall
The problem is my ftp proxy (firewall). One thing I was wondering is I can change to a different virtual console and ftp out. Is there a way I could make dselect think I was installing from a local disk or something? Or is there a way I can see what dselect is passing to my ftp firewall? Does it keep a log or anything that would give me a clue what is happening? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: strange symlinks
Jens Christian Lisner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is that in /usr/include/linux there are only very few files, and /usr/include/asm is empty! So several headers were not able to find their files. These are in /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32... Is it save to make the symlinks point to /usr/src/linux - kernel-source-2.0.32 /usr/src/linux-2.0.32 - kernel-source-2.0.32 Yes. Although it is strange, that the kernel-header package doesn't have all the files. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
greenbush
Has anyone heard from greenbush, I ordered a cd and then when the bad weather hit up north, have not heard from them. I hope everyone is ok up there in snow land. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian or Redhat or Caldera
Cox wrote: I am a network admin. I was a janitor, but I am going back to the temp. agency for work. I used to use Novell. Then I switched our LAN to NT. (How could I be so stupid) Now that I hate MS and Bill Gates, I am looking at Linux :) It is a new world for me. I have looked at debian and decieded to much learning curve. I currently have at home RH 4.? and RH 5.0 and Caldera Base. From the electronic literature on Debian, I assumed that it would be easier to install. I downloaded it file-by-file, so that I _could_ learn more, being a newbie to any UNIX OS. I need to quit messing around and deciede which to go with. So my question is which to learn.. I'm not sure, but from what I've seen of Debian so far, a net SYSADMIN would do well to have lots of fun with it, then install it work. It's rock-steady. ...back to C++ study, here. _Art ***The Net, with LINUX for all--what a country!*** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
debian-user FAQ: your help is needed!
Greetings all! I've set up a framework for debian-user FAQ using FAQ-O-Matic by Jon Howell. Faq-o-matic allows maintaining a FAQ using web interface. I hope this FAQ will become one of the best and most thorough databases of linux info on the net. This requires most of us to contribute however. At this point, I am looking for moderators for each section (see below). I am also looking for feedback regarding the setup. I am sure some categories need to be added, and the color scheme is probably not the best, but I am not sure which is better. Anyone who wants to customize the color scheme of faqomatic should contact me. The way I set it up for debian-user FAQ is for every section (category) to have a maintainer who would be the only one allowed to modify the items in the section. Under every section, there is a world-writable submit your answers section where users can post their submissions, and the maintainer would later move it. To sum up, the responsibility of the section moderator/maintainer is to make sure his section is up-to-date, add answers based on the threads in debian-user, and manage the user-submitted answers and feedback. Please contact me if you'd like to help. Thanks! P.S. the FAQ is at http://www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom almost forgot :-) -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: errors in hamm upgrade
On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 10:29:41PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: 2. When trying to send a message from pine, I get: [Error sending: 501 HELO requires a valid host name as operand: 'localhost' ] I have 'localhost' configured as the smtp server in pine, which used to send the message through smail and then to my ISP as smarthost. This worked in bo. Has something changed? Yes. Smail now rejects connections from hostnames which don't have a dot in them. The fix is to change the line in /etc/smail/config which reads '-smtp_hello_broken_allow' to read 'smtp_hello_broken_allow=localnet'. Hope this helps. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: problem with nis and shadow
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: I also tried to set up shadow passwords with NIS and couldn't get it to work. I downloaded the libc source and could see that shadow passwords aren't implemented with regular NIS. It really isn't too surprising though since with regular NIS, it's easy for any machine on the network to get whatever maps it wants, therefore having shadow map doesn't really do you any good. Watch for this feature when NIS+ is supported (which supports authentication). -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] After doing a lot more research it isn't supported under libc5 but is supported in libc6. I decided to upgraed to hamm, (because my video card was supported in the new version of xfree) and saw this note in the NIS documentation. I haven't tried it yet but plan to soon. Are there any other ways to securely share the password/shadow files over multiple systems besides NIS? I was thinking of rcp'ing/secure rcp the files over to the other machines once a day or so. 4. SHADOW PASSWORDS The Linux libc5 does not support shadow NIS maps. If you are dependant on libc5 applications, do not use shadow NIS maps. Instead you can use the method below: 4.1 SHADOW-LIKE SECURITY You can provide shadow-like security by mangling the password for NIS lookups of pasword-file entries. Read the manpage for ypserv.conf and read the comments in the sample /etc/ypserv.conf. 4.2 REAL SHADOW SUPPORT Libc6 has real shadow support for NIS builtin. It works like you would expect; export the shadow map from the NIS server and just use it. The shadow map should be built with the -s (secure) option to makedbm. This is automatic in all modern /var/yp/Makefile files. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] anything is possible except for skiing through a revolving door. it's kinda fun to do the impossible -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Two Monitors
Has anyone any experience in using two monitors on one machine. I'm thinking particularly of X. I can get a second video card (which I guess is mandatory or there'd be nowhere to plug the second one in right?). What I'm really interested in is getting the tow side-by-side and having X treat them as one big screen (similar to the way Macintosh's can do this). Is this possible? Or is my best bet to run up X :0 and X :1 and use Ctrl-Alt-F[78] to switch between them? I'd be interested to hear... 8---8 Richard Shepherd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Phone: 07-838-4764 8---8 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
using dselect with an ftp proxy
How do you set dselect to use an ftp proxy? I tried setting a ftp_proxy environment variable but that didn't seem to work. Andrew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Star Office 4 webpage
Found it. Try this for a pseudo-multi-user installation: http://www.waldherr.org/soffice4.shtml rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Why is debian more of a learning curve than Redhat???
I have found that redhat was easy because the documentation was better printed in the book stores, but I have switched to debian and found it just as easy to work with as debian and like it better in the sense of upgrading, the dselect does a fairly nice job compared to Redhat. On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Shaleh wrote: What makes RH that much simpler to use?? I find dselect simple, and linux == linux so config files are fairly standard. Yet I have heard that comment numerous times -- debian is too much of a learning curve. -- 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] .
ASUS Pentium II motherboard
My computer at work is being upgraded this week to an ASUS P2L97 AGP motherboard with a 233-MHz Pentium II. I'm moving from a Compaq Deskpro 200-MHz Pentium Pro, but I get to keep the hard drive, SMP EtherPower card and Matrox Millenium PCI video card (no video upgrade to AGP yet). On the old machine I've installed Debian 1.3.1 and upgraded to libc6 according to Scott Ellis' Howto. After the hard drive transplant, I will boot from my 1.3.1 CD and create a new boot diskette, then download and re-compile a new kernel. I hope to be able to keep my Linux partition much the way it is. Does anyone know of anything I should watch out for? Thanks, Mike -- Michael Hill Toronto, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: errors in hamm upgrade
Thanks, that fixed it. On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 10:29:41PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: 2. When trying to send a message from pine, I get: [Error sending: 501 HELO requires a valid host name as operand: 'localhost' ] I have 'localhost' configured as the smtp server in pine, which used to send the message through smail and then to my ISP as smarthost. This worked in bo. Has something changed? Yes. Smail now rejects connections from hostnames which don't have a dot in them. The fix is to change the line in /etc/smail/config which reads '-smtp_hello_broken_allow' to read 'smtp_hello_broken_allow=localnet'. Hope this helps. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do I find out what version of ebian is on a machine?
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about upgrading to libc6: After it [Craig's fine upgrade script] has run, it is still up to you to run dselect and upgrade the rest of the system. this is not an option - once you start upgrading to hamm, you really have to do a complete upgrade...there are too many incompatibilities between libc5 based bo (and rex) and the new libc6 based hamm. not completing the upgrade once you've started it will be a lot more trouble and a lot more work than just going ahead and doing it. [..] if you've never done an upgrade to hamm before, set aside at least a day. You make me startle! I had the impression that one could slowly upgrade, starting with your script. Because I would like to run wine and dosemu, and I want to use my IDE CD-rewriteble, all of which are not or not well supported in the bo version, I decided to upgrade to libc6, expecting that I could later on, when I have time, pick up and install other debian packages that I seem to need. I ran your script and afterwards my computer seems to run as fine as it did before. What is the kind of trouble that I can expect if I only run your upgrade script without further upgrading? Regards, Paul Huygen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [HELP] Need name/copy of script which loads modules at startup
Myron Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A while back, when I was playing with my kernel, I wanted to stop loading the modules at startup so I moved/deleted the script or part thereof from the rc.? directory. The plan was that I would put it back in but then I forgot. Now I would like to load my modules at startup and I have forgotten where this is done. I think it was a script in rc.boot but then I could be wrong :( Thanks in advance, Myron. Well, on my bo system the file is /etc/init.d/modules; (it's not in /etc/rc.boot though it is called from /etc/init.d/boot) as with any file from the base system, if I ever wipe it out I can get it back from my bo CD by doing: cd / mount /cdrom tar xzvkf /cdrom/bo/disks-i386/current/base1_3.tgz etc/init.d/modules If you don't have a bo CD available, I can mail you my /etc/init.d/modules if you need it. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Bus error
Hello everybody, When I run a program (written by myself in C) I get Bus error at the end of execution. The program seems to work correctly and did not produce errors during compilation. Could somebody help, please... Thank you ZORO -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Remote Mounting
I'm trying to mount the directory /hoem/mike on /home/mike/t on a local system. I set the files below, then ran /usr/sbin/rpc.portmap on the server, and mount -a on the local system. I get the following error message: mike-ras# mount -a mount clntudp_create: RPC: Program not registered Any Ideas? - /etc/exports on server: # /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported # to NFS clients. See exports(5). /home/mike 192.186.0.2(rw) fstab on client machine: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass /dev/hda2 / ext2defaults0 1 /dev/hda3 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/hda1 /dosmsdos defaults0 1 192.168.0.1:/home/mike /home/mike/tnfs proc/proc procdefaults0 0 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PS/2 mouse setup; /dev/mouse?
On Sat, Jan 17, 1998 at 01:21:34AM +0100, Pancho Horrillo wrote: I have read somewhere that it's not adviseable the use of symlinks to devices such as modems or mouse ports, due locking conflicts. If a process uses and locks /dev/ttyS0, and you have a symlink modem-ttyS0 and try to use it, as far as i know, the locking name will be different, so it can conflict correct me if i am wrong, please. You're right. It is due to a too confident algoritm in the FSSTND (and from there used by all :-). FYI Debian is trying to get rid of this problem by adopting a device locking library that is insensitive to symlinks, hardlinks and doubled devices, that will be used by all programs for 2.1 (some like dip even from now). Anyway the mouse programs (gpm and X) don't lock the device as they can share its use. Those arguments apply more to modem lines. 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 more than 35 months are needed to get rid of the millennium. [me] If NT is your answer, means you didn't understand the question.[som1] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: using dselect with an ftp proxy
Well, after reading down my mail I find someone has already asked my question and recieved an answer. That ought to teach me for posting before I read my mail :] Please ignore my previous post. Andrew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: can't install buzz!
On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 04:17:29PM +0100, Joost Kooij wrote: When testing bo when it was frozen, I encountered similar problems with a 486dx40 with 8 MB ram, a vesa-localbus Trident 9000, vesa-localbus ide interface + ide drive, a ne2000 and a matsushita cdrom interface + cdrom. IIRC it hung while the md driver was probing, but that's how I remember it, not how I understand it (I don't.) It's likely something that has to do with a vesa-localbus ide interface. Here at work I have a 486dx66 with a scsi interface + drive, no ide at all and the bo bootdisk worked just fine. Hmmm. I'm not using a VLB IDE controller, that didn't seem to want to go in the slot, so I'm just using an ISA one. Anyway I found a special boot disk with 2.0.18 from Debian 1.1.11 and that worked fine, so I have buzz installed now. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. Developers of music education software including Auralia Musition. 31 Elmhurst Road, Blackburn, Victoria Australia, 3130 Phone: +61 3 9894 4788 Fax: +61 3 9894 3362 USA Toll Free: 1-888-667-7839 Internet: http://www.rising.com.au/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: version 0.8 of libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script
Hi, Craig! I updated libc5 to libc6 on 2 computers (Debian 1.3 was installed in Nov-97 and Feb-97) using your script. Worked fine for me. Updating the rest of the packages with dselect is still quite painful. Thank you, Sasha. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: greenbush
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Geoffrey Deasey KD4WVF wrote: Has anyone heard from greenbush, I ordered a cd and then when the bad weather hit up north, have not heard from them. I hope everyone is ok up there in snow land. Call up your credit card company quick. Otherwise you'll end up the the rest of us - srewed out of our money by Wade Bush and company. Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
AccelX on Hamm
I have Laptop-Accelx that I'm running on a Dell p166 with a neomagic 128ZV video card. I'm having the problem where when I run startx it beings to load and immediately quits. When I just run accelx directly it works fine (ie loads the server etc. and sits on the blank screen with a default grid background). Anyone had any experience with this and might know what's wrong? Asher Haig [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: greenbush
Mark W. Blunier wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Geoffrey Deasey KD4WVF wrote: Has anyone heard from greenbush, I ordered a cd and then when the bad weather hit up north, have not heard from them. I hope everyone is ok up there in snow land. Call up your credit card company quick. Otherwise you'll end up the the rest of us - srewed out of our money by Wade Bush and company. Mark, making this sort of remark is probably unethical (if you have only hearsay rather than person experience on which to base your accusations) and just plain uncool. Did you order a cdrom and never receive it? I did. And as soon as I sent him an email about it he sent me out the cdrom I'd ordered immediately, explaining that the person who'd handled shipping had been let go (to put it mildly) and that a lot of records had been lost, adding his apologies. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
plog
My 'plog' command has stopped working--by that I mean that when I type 'plog' nothing is printed. And possibly related is the fact that my ppp.log files are empty. I'm running the latest from hamm. Any ideas? Thanks. James -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
