Re: APC UPS'es
Gerardo Lamastra wrote: Well, we use a Linux powered server which is tied to the APC SmartUPS 1000 and everything works right. I think you should not have any problem to configure the UPS; the genpowerd daemon is used, with the following command line: /sbin/genpowerd /dev/ttyS1 apc-advanced Thanks that solves a lot of my problems. Cheers, -- Robert Moody Sysop of Programmer's Test BBS. Running well on Debian ver 1.3 Kernel 2.0.27 http://www.zsd.co.za/~ptest/ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page +27 (0)82 3070225 Fax : +27 (0)21 725317 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: A simple problem with dselect ...
On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 10:44:17AM -0500, Nebu John Mathai wrote: I was just wondering how I would go about removing a single package from my Debian machine. I tried to remove a package and under Select... selected to remove the package. Then I went to Remove... and dselect removed almost every package I had installed since the beginning (including the one I had asked it for). I know I'm doing something stupid ... I just don't know what it is. Some how those other packages must have gotten marked for removal. It happened to me once -- dselect decided to remove half the system, very annoying. I try to avoid using dselect anyway. You can remove a package using dpkg --remove package If you mark a few things for removal in dselect, go to the command line and run dpkg --no-act --remove --pending to see what would be removed. 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] .
Macro expansion error in firewall.c (A variation on Signal 11 during kernel compilations?)
Package: kernel-source-2.0.3 Version: 2.0.32-1 While testing my new Pentium II system for any occurrence of the signal 11 error that plagued my old 486 and one of my office P200 PCs, I have come across a most perplexing oddity. I see the macro expansion error in firewall.c problem that I reported earlier for kernel-source-2.0.30 (acknowledged Bug#16240) in seven out of twenty-seven kernel compilations done so far using the loop: #!/usr/bin/tcsh cd /usr/src/linux foreach i (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) foreach j (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) /usr/sbin/make-kpkg clean /usr/local/log/log.$i$j /usr/sbin/make-kpkg -revision=custom.1.11 kernel_image /usr/local/log/log.$i$j rm /usr/src/kernel-image-2.0.32_custom.1.11_i386.deb end end The end of the compilation log in these cases always looks like: ---Error message--- gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=686 -DMODVERSIONS -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c firewall.c firewall.c:151: macro `_basic_version' used with just one arg firewall.c:152: macro `_basic_version' used with just one arg firewall.c:153: macro `_basic_version' used with just one arg firewall.c:154: macro `_basic_version' used with just one arg firewall.c:155: macro `_basic_version' used with just one arg make[5]: *** [firewall.o] Error 1 make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/net/core' make[4]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/net/core' make[3]: *** [sub_dirs] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/net' make[2]: *** [linuxsubdirs] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32' make[1]: *** [build] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32' make: *** [stamp-image] Error 2 Is there a random element to the compilation that I should investigate or does this indicate a hardware problem? BTW, in both systems where I have seen the signal 11 problem it seems to result from inadequate air flow across the motherboard. With better ventilation, the problem goes away or is reduced. For completeness, I am using: gcc 2.7.2.1-9 libc5-dev5.4.33-6 libg++27-dev 2.7.2.1-8 libg++27 2.7.2.1-8 Thanks, Raymond -- Dr. Raymond Rusk --|\^/|Internet: - Network Services _|\| |/|_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Victoria Voice: (250) 721-7654 -- Victoria, BC V8W 3P4 _./|\._ Fax: (250) 721-8778 --- # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # # # Code maturity level options # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y CONFIG_KERNELD=y # # General setup # # CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set CONFIG_NET=y # CONFIG_MAX_16M is not set CONFIG_PCI=y CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE=y # CONFIG_MCA is not set CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA=m CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y # CONFIG_M386 is not set # CONFIG_M486 is not set CONFIG_M586=y # CONFIG_M686 is not set CONFIG_BIGPHYS_AREA=y # # Floppy, IDE, and other block devices # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y # # Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives # # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PCMCIA is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640_ENHANCED is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000 is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRITON=y # CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS is not set # # Additional Block Devices # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y CONFIG_MD_LINEAR=m CONFIG_MD_STRIPED=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD=m # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set # # Networking options # CONFIG_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_NET_ALIAS=y CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_IP_FORWARD=y # CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y CONFIG_RST_COOKIES=y CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y # CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_VERBOSE is not set # CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE is not set # CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY is not set # CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG is not set # CONFIG_IP_ACCT is not set # CONFIG_IP_ROUTER is not set CONFIG_NET_IPIP=m CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=m # CONFIG_ARPD is not set # # (it is safe to leave these untouched) # # CONFIG_INET_PCTCP is not set CONFIG_INET_RARP=m # CONFIG_NO_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY is not set CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y # CONFIG_SKB_LARGE is not set # # # CONFIG_IPX=m CONFIG_ATALK=m # CONFIG_AX25 is not set # CONFIG_BRIDGE is not set CONFIG_NETLINK=y # CONFIG_RTNETLINK is not set # # SCSI support # # CONFIG_SCSI is not set # # Network device support # CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y CONFIG_DUMMY=m CONFIG_EQUALIZER=m CONFIG_DLCI=m CONFIG_DLCI_COUNT=24 CONFIG_DLCI_MAX=8 CONFIG_SDLA=m # CONFIG_PLIP is not set CONFIG_PPP=m # # CCP compressors for PPP are only built as
Re: Macro expansion error in firewall.c (A variation on Signal 11 during kernel compilations?)
Sorry, the .config file that I attached to my previous message was from my office PC, not my Pentium II. If it is important, I can send the exact version. On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Raymond Rusk wrote: Package: kernel-source-2.0.3 Version: 2.0.32-1 While testing my new Pentium II system for any occurrence of the signal 11 error that plagued my old 486 and one of my office P200 PCs, I have come across a most perplexing oddity. I see the macro expansion error in firewall.c problem that I reported earlier for kernel-source-2.0.30 (acknowledged Bug#16240) in seven out of twenty-seven kernel compilations done so far using the loop: #!/usr/bin/tcsh cd /usr/src/linux foreach i (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) foreach j (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) /usr/sbin/make-kpkg clean /usr/local/log/log.$i$j /usr/sbin/make-kpkg -revision=custom.1.11 kernel_image /usr/local/log/log.$i$j rm /usr/src/kernel-image-2.0.32_custom.1.11_i386.deb end end The end of the compilation log in these cases always looks like: ---Error message--- gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=686 -DMODVERSIONS -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c firewall.c firewall.c:151: macro `_basic_version' used with just one arg firewall.c:152: macro `_basic_version' used with just one arg firewall.c:153: macro `_basic_version' used with just one arg firewall.c:154: macro `_basic_version' used with just one arg firewall.c:155: macro `_basic_version' used with just one arg make[5]: *** [firewall.o] Error 1 make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/net/core' make[4]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/net/core' make[3]: *** [sub_dirs] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/net' make[2]: *** [linuxsubdirs] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32' make[1]: *** [build] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32' make: *** [stamp-image] Error 2 Is there a random element to the compilation that I should investigate or does this indicate a hardware problem? BTW, in both systems where I have seen the signal 11 problem it seems to result from inadequate air flow across the motherboard. With better ventilation, the problem goes away or is reduced. For completeness, I am using: gcc 2.7.2.1-9 libc5-dev5.4.33-6 libg++27-dev 2.7.2.1-8 libg++27 2.7.2.1-8 Thanks, Raymond -- Dr. Raymond Rusk --|\^/|Internet: - Network Services _|\| |/|_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Victoria Voice: (250) 721-7654 -- Victoria, BC V8W 3P4 _./|\._ Fax: (250) 721-8778 --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: root access and dselect | ftp
On 25 Feb 1998 22:47:23 +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: [..] This is why I was asking about dselect | ftp, because if I'm root, and I'm running ftp via dselect, then isn't this exactly what you're telling me not to do? Yes, but there is no known way to force the ftpclient to do such things. The client doesn't accept any commands and any data it gets is, well, data, so it is not executed, just written to disk. Initially I thought that ftpd accepted commands, but now that I think about it a little more, I suppose it accepts data. (at least for ftp clients, running ftpd in server mode on the net might be a different animal) Running an ftp client as root seems to be an exception to the rule about not running as root. Thanks for the clarification. :-) p.s.: I won't make personal replies until my headers are up to snuff, which I'm working on. -- David Stern -- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: root access and dselect | ftp
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote: Running an ftp client as root seems to be an exception to the rule about not running as root. actually that rule isn't a general prohibition against doing anything as root. it is advice about only running as root for system maintainence tasks. upgrading the system using dselect certainly qualifies as system maintainence. the idea is that by running as a non-priviledged user you can minimise the risk of problems, and also mimimise the severity of any problems which occur. problems includes buggy software, user mistakes, and malicious code (e.g. trojan horse programs or viruses) e.g. if you accidentally type rm -rf / as root you blow away the whole system. if you do it as a normal user the worst you can do is erase your own home directoryand in most cases, will suffer no damage at all because you will probably have noticed your mistake and hit Ctrl-C before rm gets to your home dir. another problem which you avoid by not running as root except when necessary is the risk of trojans or virusesmalicious programs like these can't affect your system if they don't have the permissions required to modify files. craig -- craig sanders -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Setting up Anon FTP?
I'm trying to set up an anonymous ftp server. Everything seems to be working except ls or dir. I copied /bin/ls to /home/ftp/bin/ls and set up permissions as described in the ftpd man page. When I type ls however I get: 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'. 226 Transfer complete. and then nothing. nlist works. Any ideas? Thanks Tony RIchardson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
trouble reinstalling pcmcia-related things
hello- to make a long story short, i've removed (not purged) my pcmcia-cs (also pcmcia-source and pcmcia-modules) package and tried to reinstall it. when i try to reinstall pcmcia-cs, i get: /lib/modules/2.0.32/misc/scc.o unresolved symbol i don't have any need for scc.o (AFAIK), and i dont have it selected via modconf either. any pointers as to where i might go or what i might do to fix my set up? -sen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mgetty voice/fax/data
I did not experienced with the kind of setup that you are talking about. However, I wonder, perhaps mgetty-voice has something to do with what you want ? Have you tried the mgetty mailing list ? If you look further into it, please keep us informed. Thank you. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
how to get packages
Can someone point me in the right direction to download packages? I'm not sure how to use ftp because I don't know how to connect to the internet with Debian. I'm not sure what packages I should download first. Thanks for any help. John M. White Waco, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://genealogy.org/~mwhite -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Setting up Anon FTP?
Richardson,Anthony wrote (Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:01:00 -0500 ): | |I'm trying to set up an anonymous ftp server. Everything seems to be |working except |ls or dir. I copied /bin/ls to /home/ftp/bin/ls and set up permissions |as described in the |ftpd man page. When I type ls however I get: | | 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'. | 226 Transfer complete. | |and then nothing. | |nlist works. | |Any ideas? Thanks | Well, and idea, but I'm not sure if it's right or if this is going to help. I think that the problem is that /home/ftp/bin/ls depends on libc.so.?. Since anonymous ftp sessions run chroot'd to the ~ftp directory, it can't see the shared library. I tried making a /home/ftp/lib directory and putting a copy of libc.so.5 there, but that didn't help. Is my/our only recourse to compile a statically-linked version of ls? -alan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: error in fdisk/cfdisk? (part 2)
You provided the following partition table: Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 63 63 13097665457 82 Linux Swap /dev/hdc2 * 130977 130977 2588354 1228689 83 Linux native /dev/hdc32322431 2588355 6684362 2048004 6 DOS 16-bit =32M /dev/hdc46386687 6684363 8418815 867226+ 6 DOS 16-bit =32M (v)erify gives: Warning: partition 2 overlays partition 3. partition 3 overlays partition 4. 60 unallocated sectors. This should be OK for linux, despite the warning. As I understand it, fdisk gets values for the begin column from the bios, but the other columns are calculated by fdisk. The bios figures are wrong when they refer to cylinders above 1024. The verify results are based on the bios data, and always show overlaps in disks with over 1024 cylinders. For example, here is the partition table for my first drive: Disk /dev/hda: 15 heads, 63 sectors, 14475 cylinders Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 bytes Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 *11 1104 521608+ 6 DOS 16-bit =32M /dev/hda2 1024 110510348 4367790 85 Linux extended /dev/hda3102401034912412 975240 83 Linux native /dev/hda4122881241314475 974767+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda5 1024 1105 5440 2048728+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda6 5120 5441 6091 307566 83 Linux native /dev/hda7 5120 6092 622261866 82 Linux swap /dev/hda8 6144 6223 8285 974736 83 Linux native /dev/hda9 8192 8286 8502 102501 83 Linux native /dev/hda108192 850310348 872203+ 83 Linux native Command (m for help): v Warning: partition 3 overlaps partition 4. Warning: partition 1 overlaps partition 5. Warning: partition 5 overlaps partition 6. Warning: partition 5 overlaps partition 7. Warning: partition 6 overlaps partition 7. Warning: partition 7 overlaps partition 8. Warning: partition 8 overlaps partition 9. Warning: partition 3 overlaps partition 10. Warning: partition 8 overlaps partition 10. Warning: partition 9 overlaps partition 10. Logical partition 5 not entirely in partition 2 390333 unallocated sectors Despite these warnings, I use all of these partitions regularly, with no problems. The DOS fdisk table you sent is weird! It appears to be a mixture of DOS' fdisk /status command with the partition table from a normal fdisk command. Your 549 mb drive would be C: in DOS nomenclature, the CD would be D:, and your 4.3 gb drive E:, so that partition table is partly right in its drive letter assignments. Is the CD properly jumpered as a slave? I don't really think that would cause such problems. I don't think the LILO information in the MBR would cause any problems for DOS. Does your bios support LBA? If so, is it enabled or disabled? I suggest you switch it and see if that has any effect. If your bios doesn't support LBA, DOS can't recognize more than 1024 cylinders unless you run one of the programs the the disk manufacturers provide. I don't know how these work, and I don't know if linux will read the disk correctly after one of them is installed, so I have never tried one. To sum up: I think your drive, as partitioned, will work fine in linux, but I don't know what you should do about the DOS partitions. There is a better chance of making it work if you put the DOS partition first in the drive. Linux doesn't care where it is, except that I understand if you use LILO the boot partition must be within the first 1024 cylinders. (I use loadlin, and am not familiar with LILO details.) Good Luck -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: error in fdisk/cfdisk? (part 2)
You probably have an old BIOS. Old bios is known not to recognize HD over 528M, unless special measures, such as LBA, are incoperated. Besides, I think that DOS would not recognize a partition that is over 2.1G. I use Linux with a HD that the BIOS sees as LBA. Does all this BIOS/DOS problems are causing problems with Linux ? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: A need to manualy run /etc/cron.weekly/man-db
On a previous posting I said that I needed to run the mentioned cron script manualy. Now I found out when I had to run this script manualy. It turned out that it happaned after a shutdown command when I was logged to an xterm (and su to root). Prior to the shutdown I also had an xman window opened. And after I turned on the power, rebooted and logged again, I got a segmentation fault whenever I tried to man -w something. Only after manualy running the script the man -w something worked. Has someone else experienced this ? Yes. Please refer to the Debian-user faq: http://www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom?file=58showEditCmds=1 it´s because the database of man-db is corrupted. The above reference (fom?...) is claims that the DB is getting corrupted and that rebuliding it solves the problem. This is seems to an answer. However, it is also said that the DB corruption is due to a failed search. But my claim is that the corruption appears after using the reboot or shutdown command from an xterm. Furthere, when I reboot or shutdown the machine from a VT (after switching to a VT using ctrl+alt+F?), the DB does not get corrupted. Is this a bug ? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: HELP: XLOCK unlocks during the night.
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: I got strange behaviour of xlock after recent updates of hamm. I lock the terminal in the night, everything looks fine, there is a password prompt and screensaver running. But when I come back in the morning screen is unlocked. Also for some reason the list of authorised nodes, which I setup with xhost command is cleared. Sounds like a seg fault/core dump. Next time, run it from a command line, look at the return value (echo $? in bash). I think there are some bugs in the libc6 (well I guess there are always bugs), which periodically causes problems. But all in all, I think it's pretty stable. Good luck, 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 Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: On 24 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote: Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 23 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote: [snip] I think most X apps would run tolerably over a null modem cable. If I understand these gadgets right, the can operate at the speed of the serial port, which is about 120 kbps, I think. Even over ppp (33k modem) many apps function reasonably well. OK, you're probably right. I forgot how much faster a null-modem is than a 28.8K modem. However using the null modem cable one must be very carefull about power supply! Sometimes it is possible to destroy serial ports, when two computers are connected to the sockets powered from different phases. I've done it :-(. The safest solution is to power both of them right from the same socket. Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is exceedingly odd. As a power engineer in training I would say somebody did a really rotten job designing the power supply in one of your machines. Was there any other equipment on either of the machines's outlets? Poor power regulation aside, I don't see how a phase difference affected the serial port. I hope that in general at least this isn't a problem. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Modem Problems....
I was trying to setup debian on another computer: The serial module only detects /dev/ttyS1. Is the modem on differenet tty ? Perhaps it is a PNP modem ? I tried to get minicom to dial out on /dev/ttyS1, but it doesnt seem to initialize it, and the modem doesn't make any noise when I try to dial. Does minicom set up is correct ? What does minicom replies when you try to initialize the modem ? Any suggestions as to where I should go from here to try and get the modem to work? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Memory Usage Reports
Hi. I'm not that clear on how Linux uses and organizes memory if anyone can provide some insight or other references. I'm using Debian Linux off the CD with the 2.0.30 kernel and no problems are noticed. Below are the results from 'free' with notes on which applications I have started. Obviously, as more applications are run, the amount of used memory increases, but when the applications are closed, the used memory does not return to the previous level and there is always less free memory after an application is started and then closed. The free buffers remains somewhat constant but there is still some 'unexplained' loss here too. My questions are these: What is the relationship between the free memory and the free -/+ buffers? How is the difference between number 2 and number 5, below, accounted for, just by starting and then stopping these applications? Are there any utilities that can be used to investigate this further? Any other info/explanation on any of the data below that would help clear this up would be appreciated. The results from free: 1. Linux 2.0.30 with X 3.3-3: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 63376 15312 48064 11016 1156 8764 -/+ buffers: 5392 57984 Swap:16124 0 16124 - 2. With X and Tkdesk: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 63376 17380 45996 12420 1156 8764 -/+ buffers: 7460 55916 Swap:16124 0 16124 - 3. With X, Tkdesk and Communicator 4.03: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 63376 32192 31184 19208 1412 15572 -/+ buffers:15208 48168 Swap:16124 0 16124 - 4. With X, Tkdesk, Communicator 4.03 and StarOffice4.0: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 63376 52364 11012 32876 1668 29772 -/+ buffers:20924 42452 Swap:16124 0 16124 - 5. With X and TkDesk but Communicator 4.03 and StarOffice 4.0 closed: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 63376 41152 4 12840 1796 30064 -/+ buffers: 9292 54084 Swap:16124 0 16124 - thanks, tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
man-db installation problem ...
I tried to install the man page package (got too tired doing gunzip -c |groff -Tascii -man), and received the following message from dselect. I had libdb1, groff, bsdmainutils already installed prior to installing the manpaged. positive messages deleleted Checking for languages ... de_DECan't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. dpkg: error processing man-db (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Thanks, Nebu -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: APC UPS'es
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gerardo Lamastra wrote: Well, we use a Linux powered server which is tied to the APC SmartUPS 1000 and everything works right. I think you should not have any problem to configure the UPS; the genpowerd daemon is used, with the following command line: /sbin/genpowerd /dev/ttyS1 apc-advanced I am looking for an easy reliable solution for one to three debian servers. The behaviour I want is different than what I usually see written about. I want the system to wait a bit then shutdown and shut off the power until someone intervenes. That is: if the power hiccoughs and no one is around shutdown 'til someone comes. Would the APC do this? Anyone have other recommendations? Will it be a bear to set up? (I'm not up on my db-25, and -9 pin-outs, I think I've used fcntl once long ago for a micro-sleep routine. I can solder read a multi-meter follow simple directions sometimes.) Thanks rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Install Applixware on Debian?
Has anybody installed Applixware on a Debian system? S. -- Oh, Lisa, this isn't real. It's just how you might look if you were a cartoon character. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (650) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mgetty voice/fax/data
Where is the mgetty home page? The site I found in the info file did not exist. Or do you know the mgetty mailing list address? Thanks -Paul On Wed, 25 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did not experienced with the kind of setup that you are talking about. However, I wonder, perhaps mgetty-voice has something to do with what you want ? Have you tried the mgetty mailing list ? If you look further into it, please keep us informed. Thank you. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?
From: Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: On 24 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote: ... However using the null modem cable one must be very carefull about power supply! Sometimes it is possible to destroy serial ports, when two computers are connected to the sockets powered from different phases. I've done it :-(. The safest solution is to power both of them right from the same socket. Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is exceedingly odd. As a power engineer in training I would say somebody did a really rotten job designing the power supply in one of your machines. Was there any other equipment on either of the machines's outlets? Poor power regulation aside, I don't see how a phase difference affected the serial port. I hope that in general at least this isn't a problem. That sounds like a ground loop problem. Daniel -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: trouble reinstalling pcmcia-related things
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Sen Nagata wrote: to make a long story short, i've removed (not purged) my pcmcia-cs (also pcmcia-source and pcmcia-modules) package and tried to reinstall it. when i try to reinstall pcmcia-cs, i get: /lib/modules/2.0.32/misc/scc.o unresolved symbol i don't have any need for scc.o (AFAIK), and i dont have it selected via modconf either. any pointers as to where i might go or what i might do to fix my set up? Try installing pcmica-modules first. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Fetchmail Smail Problems
At 03:19 +0100 1998-02-25, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 02:50:06AM +, Deniz Dogan wrote: Is there any other options to use as MDA? Preferably, how can I solve `connection refuse` problem? Sorry, don't know. Try to look hard at the various files in /etc, as /etc/hosts*, /etc/resolv.conf etc... One possibility is that the smtp entry in /etc/inetd.conf is not enabled (ISTR, that a certain version of the smail package didn't properly enable this in its postinst script). Running (as root): `update-inetd --enable smtp' (no quotes) should fix that (or else it'll punt safely). Also, if one wants smail to run standalone, one can edit /etc/init.d/smail and comment out the exit 0 line near the top (IIRC, this may be necessary for it to work at all with fetchmail. It will certainly make fetchmail perform a bit better even if not required.). -- Joel Espy KleckerDebian GNU/Linux Developermailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://espy.org/ ftp://ftp.espy.org/pub God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person He selects to receive it. -- Austin O'Malley (1858-1952) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: man-db installation problem ...
On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 09:17:31PM -0500, Nebu John Mathai wrote: I tried to install the man page package (got too tired doing gunzip -c |groff -Tascii -man), and received the following message from dselect. I had libdb1, groff, bsdmainutils already installed prior to installing the manpaged. positive messages deleleted Checking for languages ... de_DECan't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. dpkg: error processing man-db (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 You need to have perl installed. A bug has already been filed. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dvorak keybindings in X
A question on behalf of a friend. We have the dvorak key bindings working fine in console mode but can't get them to work under X. How did you do that? it's an installation option. i can't remember what the name of the executable is if you want to run it again, but it walks you through what keyboard settings you want when you install the os. One way is to use xmodmap, there's lots of info here: http://www.ccsi.com/~mbrooks/dvorak/unix.html cool, thanks. once i knew to look for xdvorak i found it pretty quick with old trusty (altavista ;). adam. Internet Alaska - 4050 Lake Otis Adam Shand(v) +1 907 562 4638 Anchorage, AlaskaSystems Administrator (f) +1 907 562 1677 - http://larry.earthlight.co.nz -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Speak-Freely Problems
If its 16-bit doesn't that mean 2 channels consisting of 8-bits each The kernel code may not be full-duplex but I thought the card was again. that's not what i thought... but i'm willing to be wrong ;) Thanks, I do now get audio through speak-freely. However, it seems to break up or repeat the beginning several times from the corona echo server. How do I fix that problem? for me that had to do with crappy, overloaded lines and retransmission. you can set how many times it will retransmit on the command line with one of the types of compression (sorry i can't remember off the top of my head but it's pretty obvious if you check the man page). adam. Internet Alaska - 4050 Lake Otis Adam Shand(v) +1 907 562 4638 Anchorage, AlaskaSystems Administrator (f) +1 907 562 1677 - http://larry.earthlight.co.nz -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
symlink error while unpacking -- why is this happening
Hi folks! I'm using the hamm distribution and lately I've been getting alot of the following: dpkg --unpack jdk1.1-dev_1.1.3.v2-1.deb (Reading database ... 100469 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking jdk1.1-dev (from jdk1.1-dev_1.1.3.v2-1.deb) ... dpkg: error processing jdk1.1-dev_1.1.3.v2-1.deb (--unpack): error setting ownership of symlink `usr/man/man1/appletviewer-jdk11.1': No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing: jdk1.1-dev_1.1.3.v2-1.deb It's not just jdk1.1-dev; it's also e2fsprogs and lg-issue25 for starters. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Tony Acero, PhD - Lehman Brothers 212-526-5356 || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || FAX 212-526-6962 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: stm (was Console resolution (Was Viewing bootup message))
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Benoit Goudreault-Emond wrote: As a matter of interest, who is using SVGATextMode with an S3 ViRGE and a 1024x768 capable monitor? if I try to go above 80x30, the characters on the left hand side of the screen get all screwy, and sometimes the left of the screen is cut off at the 10thish column and is repeated from there... So I use LILO to give me 80x34 :) Any Ideas? I am. My own text mode is [EMAIL PROTECTED] My settings: --- snip --- ChipSet S3 ClockChip S3Virge Option XFAST_DRAM # The following line might be what you're missing... Option S3_HSText option 16color # You may be missing this as well -- apparently, you must make sure to # load fonts at high frequencies Option LoadFont FontProg /usr/bin/setfont FontPath /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts # The following font is not in the package -- I grabbed it off sunsite's # console fonts pack. FontSelect sans-16 8x16 9x16 8x15 9x15 # The following fonts were kept as default -- I don't use them FontSelect Cyr_a8x14 8x14 9x14 8x13 9x13 FontSelect 8x12alt.psf 8x12 9x12 8x11 9x11 FontSelect Cyr_a8x88x8 9x8 8x7 9x7 FontSelect Cyr_a8x32 8x32 9x32 8x31 9x31 FontProg /usr/bin/setfont -u def.uni HorizSync 30-66 VertRefresh 50-110 DefaultMode 80x25 80x25 28.3640 680 776 800400 412 414 449 font 9x16 # # This is the mode I use. I had to mess with the first, second, fourth # and fifth values to center. I basically tried until I got something # reasonable, so I can't really give some hints besides keep a console # with stm 80x25 always ready at the prompt, and your finger on the # monitor's power off switch (just in case you give bad settings) # custom 55 800 878 922 1042615 615 616 650 font 8x16 --- snip --- I hope that will be of some use to you. Apparently not... I am beginning to think I need to raise some money for a new monitor.. :( limits: 30-50 horiz 50-75 Vert Oh well... Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- WinErr: 012 System crash - We are unable to figure out our own code. --- Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: symlink error while unpacking -- why is this happening
You ran into a problem with the mid 2.1.8x kernels, upgrade to 2.1.88 or downgrade to 2.1.7x On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Anibal A Acero wrote: Hi folks! I'm using the hamm distribution and lately I've been getting alot of the following: dpkg --unpack jdk1.1-dev_1.1.3.v2-1.deb (Reading database ... 100469 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking jdk1.1-dev (from jdk1.1-dev_1.1.3.v2-1.deb) ... dpkg: error processing jdk1.1-dev_1.1.3.v2-1.deb (--unpack): error setting ownership of symlink `usr/man/man1/appletviewer-jdk11.1': No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing: jdk1.1-dev_1.1.3.v2-1.deb It's not just jdk1.1-dev; it's also e2fsprogs and lg-issue25 for starters. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Tony Acero, PhD - Lehman Brothers 212-526-5356 || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || FAX 212-526-6962 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- 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] .
Smail Solution for Dynamic IP's
Daniel offered a solution that seems to me to work very (bo used
on this box, so check it) well, except that I changed the smtp-rewrite
in the /etc/smail/routers file to match what it calls in the
/etc/smail/transports file (smtp-remap). I think I typed both in as
smtp-rewrite. I use elm-me+ and fetchmail (for POP downloads), by
the way.
Also, I think it is important to go to the /etc/smail/config file
and make sure your ISP's domain name (not your full machine name) appears
thusly:
visible_name=ipa.net(mine used as an example here)
-domains
hostnames=alemas.ipa.net --(not sure about this line. Is it correct?)
You gurus on the list please take a look the script below, my
suggestions, and the full header of this message. Then please advise.
If it works, maybe it will be useful in the archive. Thank you.
_Art Lemasters
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Gross)
Subject: Re: Problems w/ppp dialup and sending mail
Try the following:
/etc/smail/routers
smart_host:
driver=smarthost, transport=smtp-rewrite;
path=mail.bingo.baynet.de
--
/etc/smail/transports-
[... other transports ...]
smtp-remap:
driver=tcpsmtp, max_addrs=100, -max_chars, inet,
remove_header=From,
insert_header=From:
${lookup:from:lsearch{maps/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
($from:$fullname)}},
remove_header=Message-ID,
insert_header=Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
insert_header=Sender:
${lookup:from:lsearch{maps/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
($from:$fullname)}};
use_bind, defer_no_connect, -local_mx_okay, defnames
--
/etc/smail/maps/from--
root[EMAIL PROTECTED] (root)
YOURLOCALUSER [EMAIL PROTECTED] (YOURNAME)
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Re: two monitors
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get an old mda (hercules compatible?) card going together with a Matrox Millenium on an ASUS P55T4P2 motherboard. On my quest, I have found two ways to do this, one of which almost works---a multimon kernel patch that has compiled cleanly on 2.0.33. A second approach is called mda and is a module. Neither of them works for me yet. Multimon seems to show the most promise, and apparently is the more flexible approach in all, anyway. I suspect the mono card may not be good: the linux kernel boots with both monitors established by the kernel during the boot process, but I can't get a boot from the mono card, even if I remove the svga card---the bios won't even write the change of monitor type to cmos. I set gettys up on tty9 and tty11 for the mono monitor: when I switch to those vc's, the cursor disappears from the svga monitor; but it never shows up on the mono monitor---that monitor never does a single thing ever. Any suggestions would be appreciated. My experiments are encouraging, at least, so I wanted to mention them with respect to the current thread. The URLs are: I suspect the second video card you are trying to use is broken. I have used both the multimon kernel patch and the mda module with success on a Hercules card. I'll summarize the pros and cons of both, should anyone else be interested. multimon: + lets you assign a range of ttys to the mono monitor - you must choose this range by editing the kernel source and re-compile the kernel if you change your mind - when you run (or switch to) an X server on the VGA card, _both_ text screens go blank, so the mono monitor is useless while you are using X on the VGA monitor; the text screens come back when the X server exits or when you switch to a text console mda: + doesn't go blank if the VGA card runs X - is a 'character device', so it only accepts output from programs I have used the mda module for quite a time, constantly running a 'top -i' at it. I couldn't find another use for it. Nowadays the mono monitor is not even attached to the computer. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Smail Solution for Dynamic IP's
To clarify something from my last message in regards to the subject (subject this message, also) at hand, my _machine name_ is alemas. ipa.net is my ISP's domain. Therefore, my full domain name on this machine is alemas.ipa.net. My numerical domain address (e.g., ###.###.###.###) is a different number--only borrowed from my ISP--each time I log on; it is dynamic. Correct me on terms or otherwise, if need be, and thank you. Art Lemasters -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
trouble with the boot-block..
My Debian-1.3 came about a week ago. It didn't take that long to figure out the installation procedure; it is similiar to FreeBSD that I've used for around 3 years. However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that I __always__ boot into Debian, into a RAM file system. I have FreeBSD on my 2nd SCSI drive but cannot get to it. After re-installing both OS's from scratch several times I've come to the conclusion that something is causing the master boot track to always throw me into the re-install RAM-fs of Linux. I'd be much obliged for some work-arounds here. Am I using the wrong rescue disk or what? (*mumble*) thanks, gary kline -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dump aborts on /var scsi filesystem only
Over 4 months, I used dump to successfully back-up 5 filesystems in this order
/ /usr /var /home /usr/local
Now, for two weeks, I have gotten no successful backup.
dump always goes wild on the /var filesystem.
With the exception of an Atapi CD, all other such hardware is attached to an
Adaptec 2940UW SCSI adapter, including 3 disk drives and 1 old Exabyte 8200
tape drive. All filesystems for linux reside on the same wide scsi disk drive
/dev/sdc*.
Here is a typical sequence of dump errors.
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Feb 23 02:24:49 1998
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping /dev/sdc12 (/var) to /dev/nst0
DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
DUMP: estimated 49296 tape blocks on 0.02 tape(s).
DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
DUMP: End of tape detected
DUMP: read error from /dev/sdc12: Input/output error: [block 8616]: count=1024
DUMP: Closing /dev/nst0
though after Pass IV I have also gotten errors like
DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
DUMP: read error from /dev/sdc12: Input/output error: [block 8624]: count=1024
DUMP: End of tape detected
DUMP: read error from /dev/sdc12: Input/output error: [sector 8624]: count=512
DUMP: read error from /dev/sdc12: Input/output error: [block 8626]: count=1024
DUMP: read error from /dev/sdc12: Input/output error: [sector 8626]: count=512
DUMP: read error from /dev/sdc12: Input/output error: [block 8628]: count=1024
DUMP: read error from /dev/sdc12: Input/output error: [sector 8628]: count=512
DUMP: read error from /dev/sdc12: Input/output error: [block 8630]: count=1024
DUMP: read error from /dev/sdc12: Input/output error: [sector 8630]: count=512
DUMP: read error from /dev/sdc12: Input/output error: [block 8632]: count=1024
DUMP: read error from /dev/sdc12: Input/output error: [sector 8632]: count=512
DUMP: read error from /dev/sdc12: Input/output error: [block 8634]: count=1024
DUMP: read error from /dev/sdc12: Input/output error: [sector 8634]: count=512
DUMP: Closing /dev/nst0
And running a dump on just /var I often get the following after Pass IV
DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
DUMP: End of tape detected
DUMP: Closing /dev/nst0
Here, I used the command
/sbin/dump 0Bf 250 /dev/nst0 /var
Perhaps these errors occur because many programs write to files in /var.
An fsck shows a good /var.
Some messages in /var/log files, perhaps not co-incident with my dump problem,
include
Feb 26 00:56:16 rabbit modprobe: can't locate module char-major-14 and
Feb 26 00:51:31 rabbit kernel: scsi0: Target 9 underflow - Wanted at least
16384, got 14336, residual SG count 3.
Feb 26 00:51:33 rabbit kernel: scsi0: Target 9 underflow - Wanted at least
16384, got 14336, residual SG count 3.
Feb 26 00:51:33 rabbit kernel: scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of
retries.
Feb 26 00:51:33 rabbit kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
Feb 26 00:51:33 rabbit kernel: aic7xxx: (reset) target/channel 9/0
Feb 26 00:51:33 rabbit kernel: aic7xxx: (reset_device) target/channel -1/A,
active_scb 0
Feb 26 00:51:33 rabbit kernel: aic7xxx: (match_scb) comparing target/channel
-1/A to scb 9/A
Feb 26 00:51:33 rabbit kernel: aic7xxx: (reset_channel) Resetting current
channel A
Feb 26 00:51:33 rabbit kernel: aic7xxx: (reset_channel) Channel reset,
sequencer restarted
Feb 26 00:51:33 rabbit kernel: aic7xxx: (done_aborted_scbs) Aborting scb 0,
TCL=9/0/0
Feb 26 00:51:33 rabbit kernel: scsi0: Received MSG_WDTR, Target 9, channel A
needwdtr(0x).
Feb 26 00:51:33 rabbit kernel: scsi0: Target 9, channel A, using 16 bit
transfers.
Feb 26 00:51:33 rabbit kernel: scsi0: Target 9, channel A, now synchronous at
10.0MHz, offset 8.
Feb 26 00:52:01 rabbit kernel: scsi0: Target 9 underflow - Wanted at least
16384, got 14336, residual SG count 3.
Feb 26 00:52:02 rabbit last message repeated 2 times
Feb 26 00:52:02 rabbit kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 9 lun 0
return code = 27070002
Feb 26 00:52:02 rabbit kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:2c, sector 8640
I would like to backup /var since it does have some administrative and some
user files in
/var/{named,lib,spool/cron/crontabs}
Has anyone some ideas why dump now goes crazy on /var, and should I backup /var?
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Re: trouble reinstalling pcmcia-related things
at some point around Wed, 25 Feb 1998 22:27:32 -0500 (EST) Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Sen Nagata wrote: to make a long story short, i've removed (not purged) my pcmcia-cs (also pcmcia-source and pcmcia-modules) package and tried to reinstall it. when i try to reinstall pcmcia-cs, i get: /lib/modules/2.0.32/misc/scc.o unresolved symbol i don't have any need for scc.o (AFAIK), and i dont have it selected via modconf either. any pointers as to where i might go or what i might do to fix my set up? Try installing pcmica-modules first. thanks for your advice. i took your advice and installed pcmcia-modules first, but i got exactly the same error when i tried to install the pcmcia-cs package. any other possibilities? -sen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Dosemu-problems
Hi, I installed the dosemu-package (stable-distribution) but the config-file is missing (should be /etc/dosemu/conf) and I cant find a readme how to create one... Anyone? Gernot -- - Gernot Bauer Salzburger Kredit- und Wechsel-Bank AG eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Office) Makartplatz 3, 5020 Salzburg Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austria/Europe Phone: ++43-662-8684-364 The answer is yes, me. Fax: ++43-662-8684-23 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Free X servers for win
Thanks to all who responded. The Mix server works just fine. In fact Netscape on X works faster than on Win. I teach UNIX. My assignment was to port an entire syllabus from SCO to Linux. I have started by installing just a simple Slackware to teach shell scripting, C, C++, and elementary Perl. Next comes introductory Motif. I think the lesstif + Mix server should do that trick. After that - Java, RDBMS, simple sysadmin ... Wish me luck. Thank you all once again. M. K. Pai [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: trouble reinstalling pcmcia-related things
at some point around Thu, 26 Feb 1998 15:36:07 +0900 Sen Nagata [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: at some point around Wed, 25 Feb 1998 22:27:32 -0500 (EST) Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Sen Nagata wrote: to make a long story short, i've removed (not purged) my pcmcia-cs (also pcmcia-source and pcmcia-modules) package and tried to reinstall it. when i try to reinstall pcmcia-cs, i get: /lib/modules/2.0.32/misc/scc.o unresolved symbol i don't have any need for scc.o (AFAIK), and i dont have it selected via modconf either. any pointers as to where i might go or what i might do to fix my set up? Try installing pcmica-modules first. thanks for your advice. i took your advice and installed pcmcia-modules first, but i got exactly the same error when i tried to install the pcmcia-cs package. any other possibilities? after rebooting, things seemed to have been fixed (may be the modules file got rebuilt?). i'm still wondering about the error though... -sen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dosemu-problems
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Gernot Bauer wrote: Hi, I installed the dosemu-package (stable-distribution) but the config-file is missing (should be /etc/dosemu/conf) and I cant find a readme how to create one... Maybe have a look in /var/lib/dosemu/... -- Jean-Michel Rouet (thesard Dpt ITI) | Tel : +33 298 001 730 ENST de Bretagne| email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29285 Brest Cedex | France | http://www-iti.enst-bretagne.fr/~rouet/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xfstt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- - -K Kevin Poorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ewigin.home.ml.org Do the Free-Ride free-ride.home.ml.org On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: Has anyone used xfstt on a regular basis? I've gotten Netscape to work using TT fonts, now I'd like to get other X applications to work and I want to know what other's experiences are. I use it all the time ... for netscape, gimp, xword, etc ... the main font used now for x related stuff is a tt font served by xfstt I wonder if anyone has packaged it yet ... Have to ask ... Any comments? -Brent -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBNPTfABsA5GylAiwdAQE/mgMAr//FdGMlu34RX23eDc1Xvu5dVgEURpbH R2xRdijuooX1AaPp5OfCvTAVJ4In5HhtAREdMcdlG+Xg77eKyY/6UUep83POmfBi mjj44UlC11uLYvgytXlGK3ykJLOlxQWZ =fIcM -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ethernet card (hamm)
I have decided to install something unixish on an old 486/33 which just sits in the lab, which has a crashed MSwin311 installation and no one uses it. I don't have much info on hardware but I've figured out most of it. The network card has `SMC' printed on it so I choose the first SMC driver (I think its called `ultra') and it detects the network card at 0x220 IRQ 10. I installed hamm and it went very smoothly to just after the base disks unpacking, where the machine locked up. Or at least I think it locked up, it just sat silently with no `dialog box' on screen and appearently did nothing for ten minutes, so I rebooted. I think this was the `configuring modules' phase of installation. I just skipped this step and went on with the configuration and installation of LILO. Now I can't get networking to actually work. I can't ping anything except the loopback (127.0.0.1) and my own IP address. Does the latter mean that my network card works or does the packet never leave the machine? `route' displays: Destination GatewayGenmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface localnet * 255.255.0.0 U 0 02 eth0 127.0.0.0* 255.0.0.0U 0 01 lo default correct 0.0.0.0 UG1 00 eth0 Where `correct' is the correct IP of my gateway (I choose not to write it down here of various reasons). It takes rather long time before the third entry shows up, not minutes perhaps but many seconds. What does the flags, metric, ref and use columns mean? I've compared the values with other working installations so I suppose they are correct. `ifconfig eth0' has the right IP, Bcast and Netmask -- but the wrong base IO address. It says 0x230 and the module when loaded says 0x220. However, when I try `ifconfig eth0 io_addr 0x220' it answers `SIOCSIFMAP: Operation not supported'. How do I proceed to locate the actual problem? (I mean: how do I find out if the hardware is malfunctioning, if the module doesn't work with my card or if there's a configuration problem?) // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[CWJKGMQP@aol.com: X Window]
-Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: at Infodrom Oldenburg (/\##/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.12 Joey) by finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE from debian.novare.net with smtp id m0y7tAm-001MslC; Thu, 26 Feb 98 03:35 MET Received: from ([205.229.104.5]) by teergrube (0 sec delayed, relaying denied) Received: (qmail 3601 invoked by alias); 26 Feb 1998 02:34:45 - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 3598 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Feb 1998 02:34:45 - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 3595 invoked from network); 26 Feb 1998 02:34:45 - Received: from imo18.mx.aol.com (198.81.17.40) by debian.novare.net with SMTP; 26 Feb 1998 02:34:45 - Received: from [EMAIL PROTECTED] by imo18.mx.aol.com (IMOv12/Dec1997) id KCGZa07007 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 21:34:16 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 21:34:16 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: X Window Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 18 (I sent you this Email earlier but forgot to include my E-mail address, sorry, here it is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Hi, I had absolutely no idea who to contact, so I'm typing this Email to you. I've just downloaded debian linux via ftp (the i386-disks directory, the /X11, /Utils, /Shells, /Electronics directories, and a few files from the /doc directory), I've never used Linux or Unix before or any other OS other than DOS and Windows. I picked up a book called Unix for DOS users from the local library and am trying to determine if Linux is the OS for me, so far it sounds very good (flexible, programming friendly, multitasking, etc), but I'm still trying to install it. (I've been working on it for over a week, full- time). I'm trying to use X window on my machine (Pentium 133 MMX, 3.2GB HD, 32Mb RAM, S3 GX video card, SVGA monitor with 1.5GB set aside for the Linux partition and 128MB set aside for the swap file). The installation program told me to run xbase-configure which I did, but it gives me a /pathname/xinitrc file not found. I checked that path and the file was there. I don't know what to do next. Is there some procedure I should be following? Where can I find info on how to correctly install X Window? Please help. Abuzar Chaudhary. -End of forwarded message- -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / Ich muede, also bin ich -- Andreas Porr / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Pentium-II
Many users of Cyrix CPUs have had to disable the cache in their systems during installation, because the floppy disk has errors if they do not. If you have to do this, be sure to re-enable your cache when you are finished with installation, as the system runs much slower with the cache disabled. Interestingly, I have the same problem with a genuine Intel Pentium-II 233 CPU. Switching the cache during installation works. Regards, Clement web URL: http://www.ans.com.au/email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Address: 14 Fisher Road, Dee Why NSW 2099Tel: 9972 2377 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?
This discussion starts to be out of list's topic, sorry. I'll send further responses only by e-mail. If the power instalation is properly designed, it should be no problem. However I, personally, would always prefere two have an additional zero current ground wire dedicated for computers only. And there still exists a problem with voltages induced by eg. electric storms. The optoisolation circuit (not very expensive, because it is not very fast link, and for software flow control two transoptors powered from unused port lines are sufficient) is much better solution. The standard built-in serial ports, are rather delicate (Usually they are even not compatible with RS232 standard, because they may work correctly with 0V-5V logic levels). The professional RS232 boards should be safer. This problem is particularly serious, when someone wants to connect two computers using their parallel ports (and PLIP). The parallel ports are much less protected. Wojtek On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Britton wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: On 24 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote: Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 23 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote: [snip] I think most X apps would run tolerably over a null modem cable. If I understand these gadgets right, the can operate at the speed of the serial port, which is about 120 kbps, I think. Even over ppp (33k modem) many apps function reasonably well. OK, you're probably right. I forgot how much faster a null-modem is than a 28.8K modem. However using the null modem cable one must be very carefull about power supply! Sometimes it is possible to destroy serial ports, when two computers are connected to the sockets powered from different phases. I've done it :-(. The safest solution is to power both of them right from the same socket. Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is exceedingly odd. As a power engineer in training I would say somebody did a really rotten job designing the power supply in one of your machines. Was there any other equipment on either of the machines's outlets? Poor power regulation aside, I don't see how a phase difference affected the serial port. I hope that in general at least this isn't a problem. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: security problem (tcp/ip)
Carey Evans hat gesagt: // Carey Evans wrote: Benoit Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i found that everyone on our hubs can get my ftp, and pop3 password so easy with a sniffer. can i do something against that, because now i dont trust tcpip transfert, it send all my user name and password in ascii code. Get ssh from a Debian non-US mirror. This will solve most of your problems. For pop3, you can forward it over ssh, or use something with APOP authentication if the content of your email isn't sensitive. How do I forward pop3 over ssh? -- a href=http://www.einblick.de/; Frank Barknecht Das Koelner Stadt- und Unimagazin - /a -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dosemu-problems
Jean-Michel Rouet wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Gernot Bauer wrote: Hi, I installed the dosemu-package (stable-distribution) but the config-file is missing (should be /etc/dosemu/conf) and I cant find a readme how to create one... Maybe have a look in /var/lib/dosemu/... I just have the hdimage there :( Am I missing something? Gernot -- - Gernot Bauer Salzburger Kredit- und Wechsel-Bank AG eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Office) Makartplatz 3, 5020 Salzburg Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austria/Europe Phone: ++43-662-8684-364 The answer is yes, me. Fax: ++43-662-8684-23 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dosemu-problems
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Gernot Bauer wrote: Jean-Michel Rouet wrote: Maybe have a look in /var/lib/dosemu/... I just have the hdimage there :( Am I missing something? I've inspected the dosemu_0.66.3-1.deb package it contains : -rw-r--r-- root/root 28011 May 5 13:36 1997 usr/lib/dosemu/config.dist that should be what you're looking at I guess the .deb package should put it directly in /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf and replace the previous one (if it exists) by a dosemu.conf.orig or sthg like that... -- Jean-Michel Rouet (thesard Dpt ITI) | Tel : +33 298 001 730 ENST de Bretagne| email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29285 Brest Cedex | France | http://www-iti.enst-bretagne.fr/~rouet/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
DEBIAN or REDHAT ?
Hi, I am currently using hamm and am very happy with it. I will be installing a new Linux system soon but everyone is telling me to install RedHat 5. Has anyone any opinions on this? I tend to be partial to Debian, especially with GNOME being integrated into hamm. However, I've never used Redhat. Also, I've been advised that RedHat puts out security fixes the next day after a CERT advisory is released. How is Debian when it comes to security and other patches? When I was using bo, patches weren't released very often. Is this an indication that RedHat is more buggy, or is it an indication that Debian is more stable? For example, when the CERT advisory for SSH-AGENT was release over a week ago, one of the OSes that responded to the CERT advisory was RedHat. Much to my dismay, Debian wasn't one of the OSes that was mentioned on the CERT list. I ended up compiling SSH on my own. Thanks in advance for any suggestions or tips. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Keys --- Public: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_PUBLIC.asc REVOKED: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_REVOKED.asc -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dosemu-problems
On Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 02:20:42PM +0100, Gernot Bauer wrote: I installed the dosemu-package (stable-distribution) but the config-file is missing (should be /etc/dosemu/conf) and I cant find a readme how to create one... Maybe have a look in /var/lib/dosemu/... I just have the hdimage there :( Here is the layout of my dosemu files after installation. I eventually copied /usr/lib/dosemu/config.dist to /etc/dosemu.conf and made the /etc/conf symbolic link point to that instead. /etc/dosemu conf# Symlink to /usr/lib/dosemu/config.dist users /usr/lib/dosemu === config.dist hddummy hdimage.dist.gz /var/lib/dosemu hdimage # This is the initial FreeDOS image used # when dos is first executed. # I replaced this with the image in # /usr/lib/dosemu/hdimage.dist.gz # and installed dos 6.22 in the new image. -- John Spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lynx.net.au/~jspence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Setting up Anon FTP?
I'd forgot about the shared library stuff. I'd expect we'd also need ld.so in lib and to set up the library cache file in etc. This doesn't seem too easy ... Are we missing an easier solution? Perhaps a statically linked ls is the way to go. Thanks Tony -Original Message- From: Alan Su [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 1998 8:27 PM To: Richardson,Anthony Cc: 'debian-user' Subject: Re: Setting up Anon FTP? Richardson,Anthony wrote (Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:01:00 -0500 ): | |I'm trying to set up an anonymous ftp server. Everything seems to be |working except |ls or dir. I copied /bin/ls to /home/ftp/bin/ls and set up permissions |as described in the |ftpd man page. When I type ls however I get: | | 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'. | 226 Transfer complete. | |and then nothing. | |nlist works. | |Any ideas? Thanks | Well, and idea, but I'm not sure if it's right or if this is going to help. I think that the problem is that /home/ftp/bin/ls depends on libc.so.?. Since anonymous ftp sessions run chroot'd to the ~ftp directory, it can't see the shared library. I tried making a /home/ftp/lib directory and putting a copy of libc.so.5 there, but that didn't help. Is my/our only recourse to compile a statically-linked version of ls? -alan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DEBIAN or REDHAT ?
On Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 08:00:30AM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, I am currently using hamm and am very happy with it. I will be installing a new Linux system soon but everyone is telling me to install RedHat 5. Has anyone any opinions on this? I tend to be partial to Debian, especially with GNOME being integrated into hamm. However, I've never used Redhat. If you already know a particular distribution and you - know it - be happy with it - find all the software you need - are happy with its way to upgrade and organize things how would you decide? Also, I've been advised that RedHat puts out security fixes the next day after a CERT advisory is released. How is Debian when it comes to security and other patches? When I was using bo, patches weren't released very often. Is this an indication that RedHat is more buggy, or is it an indication that Debian is more stable? For example, when the CERT advisory for SSH-AGENT was release over a week ago, one of the OSes that responded to the CERT advisory was RedHat. Much to my dismay, Debian wasn't one of the OSes that was mentioned on the CERT list. I ended up compiling SSH on my own. Debian releases security fixed software, too. We're not bumping the version number with every fix. Please look at http://www.debian.org/security/ to find out about our security. Debian has some specialities included that prevents some vulnerabilities. I'm sure that RedHat has some, too, maybe others. Concerning ssh there were fixed versions on our server 2 or 3 days after the report. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / Ich muede, also bin ich -- Andreas Porr / pgpbZSb6AJKoe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: gpc linking problem
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Deniz Dogan wrote: $gpc hello.pas -o hello ld: cannot open -lgpc: No such file or directory Add a symbolic link: ln -s /usr/lib/libgpc.so.2.8 \ /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.1/libgpc.so Tobias -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Setting up Anon FTP?
Run ldd on ls. For example, ldd /bin/ls (you need the absolute path) You should get output like: libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4000f000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) Copy the the libraries from the ldd output to ~ftp/lib, or wherever the above libraries are relative to root (i.e. if in /usr/lib, copy to ~ftp/usr/lib). Make sure the libraries have a+rx permissions. Good luck. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Keys --- Public: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_PUBLIC.asc REVOKED: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_REVOKED.asc -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Help!! --/dev/ttyS0 input overflow error --
Hi everyone, I wote some code to manage a data aquisition device in the labs. It runs for a while (say 24 hrs, gathering data every 6 secs [x 50 data points]) then it crashes, crashes bad (segmentation fault) /dev/ttyS0 input overflow ... does anyone know what is causing this?? I would also like to find out what the equivalent of fflush (); is for the unix filesystem Thanks and I really look forward to hearing from you Regards Jonatha (who is in a fix in the lab) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help!! --/dev/ttyS0 input overflow error --
I can't help you with the device problem. However, if you do a: man fflush You will get a manual page of the fflush C function for the particular UNIX or UNIX-like system you are using, presumably and hopefully Debian Linux since you posted to this Debian mailing list. In general, all available C routines have man pages. Here is some of the output from the above man page: FFLUSH(3) Linux Programmer's Manual FFLUSH(3) NAME fflush - flush a stream SYNOPSIS #include stdio.h int fflush(FILE *stream); DESCRIPTION see the man page :-) Good luck. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Keys --- Public: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_PUBLIC.asc REVOKED: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_REVOKED.asc -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
forwarding pop3 over ssh
at some point around Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:08:10 +0100 Frank Barknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: Carey Evans hat gesagt: // Carey Evans wrote: Benoit Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i found that everyone on our hubs can get my ftp, and pop3 password so easy with a sniffer. can i do something against that, because now i dont trust tcpip transfert, it send all my user name and password in ascii code. Get ssh from a Debian non-US mirror. This will solve most of your problems. For pop3, you can forward it over ssh, or use something with APOP authentication if the content of your email isn't sensitive. How do I forward pop3 over ssh? i guess this isn't strictly a debian-related thing, but... using the -L option for ssh... from an ssh man page: -L port:host:hostport Specifies that the given port on the local (client) host is to be forwarded to the given host and port on the remote side. This works by allocating a socket to listen to port on the local side, and whenever a con- nection is made to this port, the connection is for- warded over the secure channel, and a connection is made to host:hostport from the remote machine. Port forwardings can also be specified in the configuration file. Only root can forward privileged ports. so you'd log into the machine which the pop server is running on using something like: ssh -L 110:127.0.0.1:110 name.of.pop.server then configure your pop client to connect to port 110 of 127.0.0.1 (the machine you are running the ssh -L command from). then just use your pop client as usual. note: the machine which runs the pop server must have an ssh daemon (sshd) running for this to work. you probably want to learn more about ssh if you are going to use it. here is one place you might start looking: http://www.cs.hut.fi/ssh/ -sen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bbs for debian?
Joey, I doubt it, I have a friend ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) who starts dosemu when his system boots, and never closes it. I haven't heard about periodic hangs. I'll run some tests... Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ PGP key available --- (_)/ (_)Lo importante es el concepto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Install Applixware on Debian?
Has anybody installed Applixware on a Debian system? yep it works fine. i found the easist way to do it is to use alien to convert the rpm's into deb's. this works great so long as you don't mind it installing to /opt (which i don't)... just make sure you have enough disk space on your root partition or better yet make /opt a symlink to /usr/local/opt . the only gotcha i've found is that with some versions of debmake the packages won't convert properly so make sure you have a recent version (not sure which version was the issue anymore). adam. Internet Alaska - 4050 Lake Otis Adam Shand(v) +1 907 562 4638 Anchorage, AlaskaSystems Administrator (f) +1 907 562 1677 - http://larry.earthlight.co.nz -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Server Questions (fwd)
No-one on this list uses Debian as a news server? Nobody's running SMP? There's no interest whatsoever in tech support for Debian? (I know Bruce posted something about it a while ago ...) I'm disappointed. If the folks who are in the know have all unsubscribed from this list and hang exclusively on debian-devel, then I think there's a problem. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 02:14:22 -0600 (CST) From: Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Server Questions [mildly offtopic] We are looking at purchasing a new server to add to our stable, and I'm looking for some feedback/opinions/experience with news and/or SMP systems with Debian Linux. Private email is welcomed, since this isn't really list material (sorry) What I'm looking for is this: If you're running SMP, does it work well? Problems? Hints? Same with news ... does a specific version of INN do the trick? Any special kernel configs? You get the idea. Oh, and before I forget ... I heard there is a company providing phone support for Debian Linux. If this is true, who is it? What are the rates? I work for a corporation that is becoming comfortable with the idea of Linux, but wants tech support available. I'd rather run Debian than RedHat/Caldera, so please help! TIA!! -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DEBIAN or REDHAT ?
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: I am currently using hamm and am very happy with it. I will be installing a new Linux system soon but everyone is telling me to install RedHat 5. Has anyone any opinions on this? I tend to be partial to Debian, especially with GNOME being integrated into hamm. However, I've never used Redhat. i'd say stick with what you already know and like. RH isn't as nicely integrated a system as debian is, and RH5 is from all reports i've read, quite buggy - even when compared to the hamm pre-release. they rushed it out the door before it was ready. I can't see that switching to RH5 would gain you anything. There's nothing in RH5 that isn't in hammin fact, hamm has a lot more packages available for it and is (almost) pure libc6, whereas RH5 is a mixture of libc5 and libc6 packages. debian isn't perfect (nothing is :), but if you're used to debian and like the way it works then you will probably find RH to be clumsy, frustrating and annoying. BTW, redhat are committed to gnome too - because RH are commercial they can't even distribute a working KDE (because of the Qt license problems) so they don't really have any choice. They're putting a lot of energy into supporting the gnome project. Also, I've been advised that RedHat puts out security fixes the next day after a CERT advisory is released. How is Debian when it comes to security and other patches? RH doesn't always come out with a fix the next day. Either does debian. Both RH Debian tend to be very prompt with security fixes - we both see good security as being vital. From what i've seen on the security lists, sometimes RH beats debian with a released patch, sometimes debian beats RHit works out about even. It's not really a race, anyway - all linux dists that i know of share their security patches around. When I was using bo, patches weren't released very often. Is this an indication that RedHat is more buggy, or is it an indication that Debian is more stable? my guess is that it's a combination of things: 1. you probably weren't looking in the right place. as someone else pointed out, the fix for ssh was released within a few days of the bug being discovered. ssh is crypto and therefore a dangerous munition...it can't be exported from the US so you won't find it on any of debian's US ftp servers. You can only find it in the free world - non-us.debian.org or mirrrors. 2. security fixes are announced on debian's web page. Look for the security link on http://www.debian.org/ 3. bo is an anomaly. or more precisely, the upgrade to hamm is an anomaly because it has taken so long and is such a big change. In the past we have been able to advise users to just upgrade individual packages to the version in 'unstable'. We haven't been able to do that this time around because the stable release (bo) and unstable (hamm) are based on different versions of the libc.Upgrading any individual package to the version in hamm requires upgrading the entire system to hamm. The procedure for doing this upgrade is quite well documented now (and there's even a script to do it automatically) but it's still a lot of work just to get one package upgraded. Fortunately, once hamm is released (code freeze is scheduled for mid-late march!), users will be able to easily upgrade any individual to the 'unstable' version, so we'll be back to normal. For example, when the CERT advisory for SSH-AGENT was release over a week ago, one of the OSes that responded to the CERT advisory was RedHat. Much to my dismay, Debian wasn't one of the OSes that was mentioned on the CERT list. I ended up compiling SSH on my own. sometimes they mention debian, sometimes they don't. ditto for redhat and slackware and other distributions. ditto for other unixes too. quite often, security problems on other unixes or other distributions aren't a problem on debian - either because we already fixed it or because the problem is only exploitable in specific environments. craig -- craig sanders -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Help!! --/dev/ttyS0 input overflow error --
I don't know about your first problem... fflush() will flush your stream to the system buffer cache. sync() will cause the buffer cache to be posted to disk. Unless linux crashes, the sync call should not be needed. jim -- From: C.J.LAWSON[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 1998 9:02 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: The recipient's address is unknown. Subject:Help!! --/dev/ttyS0 input overflow error -- Hi everyone, I wote some code to manage a data aquisition device in the labs. It runs for a while (say 24 hrs, gathering data every 6 secs [x 50 data points]) then it crashes, crashes bad (segmentation fault) /dev/ttyS0 input overflow ... does anyone know what is causing this?? I would also like to find out what the equivalent of fflush (); is for the unix filesystem Thanks and I really look forward to hearing from you Regards Jonatha (who is in a fix in the lab) -- 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: Install Applixware on Debian?
Yes, several times. Use the 'rpm.deb' package. I know that I have installed it 'just by copying' but the last time that I tried that applixware had some problems with 'license files' (somewhere in /etc) and it was just not worth the trouble (to me) to spend anytime trying to figure it out when debian's rpm does the installation. Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: Has anybody installed Applixware on a Debian system? S. -- Oh, Lisa, this isn't real. It's just how you might look if you were a cartoon character. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (650) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft! See! They do get some things right! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
/etc/cron.daily/wn error
Hi, I have been getting this error and I don't really know what's going on. Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 06:47:33 + (GMT) From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily Mime type file too large. run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/wn exited with return code 2 Any pointers? Thanks, Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94 A1 14 BE 95 8E 49 39 78 76 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: trouble with the boot-block..
This is just some quick 'off the top of my head' sort of things... First, the 'ramdisk' problem. This is probably not caused by anything associated with the booting process (though _can_ be--at least when using LILO) but rather that the kernel is configured to use a 'ramdisk' as root (/). I use and have always used lilo so I am not very familiar with the other methods. You are probably already familiar with 'rdev' but if you can find your debian kernel then you can tell that kernel to use whatever device/ partition you want. What boot manager are you using if not lilo? -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft! See! They do get some things right! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: trouble with the boot-block..
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that I __always__ boot into Debian, into a RAM file system. After re-installing both OS's from scratch several times I've come to the conclusion that something is causing the master boot track to always throw me into the re-install RAM-fs of Linux. I'd be much obliged for some work-arounds here. Am I using the wrong rescue disk or what? Are you booting from the rescue floppy disk. If yes, then indeed you will be using the RAM-fs. You can either use the boot floppy disk or LILO installed on the hard disk. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /etc/cron.daily/wn error
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: Hi, I have been getting this error and I don't really know what's going on. Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 06:47:33 + (GMT) From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily Mime type file too large. run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/wn exited with return code 2 I'm the maintainer of wn. I know about this problem and am tracking it down now. I hope to have a solution and updated package later this week. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ethernet card (hamm)
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: Now I can't get networking to actually work. I can't ping anything except the loopback (127.0.0.1) and my own IP address. Does the latter mean that my network card works or does the packet never leave the machine? `ifconfig eth0' has the right IP, Bcast and Netmask -- but the wrong base IO address. It says 0x230 and the module when loaded says 0x220. However, when I try `ifconfig eth0 io_addr 0x220' it answers `SIOCSIFMAP: Operation not supported'. How do I proceed to locate the actual problem? (I mean: how do I find out if the hardware is malfunctioning, if the module doesn't work with my card or if there's a configuration problem?) If you have the original disk available for the ethernet card, they usually have a ms-dos based configuration utility to test the card and set ports and irqs. Also take a look at the /usr/src/kernel-source under your module for the ethernet card and there may be documentation on options you can pass when loading the module. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: man-db installation problem ...
Checking for languages ... de_DECan't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. dpkg: error processing man-db (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 You need to have perl installed. A bug has already been filed. Just as additional followup, if you don't need any additional language support just comment out the section in the /var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.postinst script that deals with languages and run the dselect configure packages option and man-db will install without errors. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /etc/cron.daily/wn error
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: Hi, I have been getting this error and I don't really know what's going on. Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 06:47:33 + (GMT) From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily Mime type file too large. run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/wn exited with return code 2 Any pointers? Have a look to the script /etc/cron.daily/wn cron executes daily weekly and monthly the contents of : /etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.weekly /etc/cron.monthly depending on the contents of /etc/crontab /etc/crontab on my machine : SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin # m h dom mon dow user command 42 6* * * rootrun-parts /etc/cron.daily 47 6* * 7 rootrun-parts /etc/cron.weekly 52 61 * * rootrun-parts /etc/cron.monthly So every day at 6:42 AM all the scripts in /etc/cron.daily will be executed. In fact only those following the #!/bin/interpretername convention (see man run-parts) To get back to your pb, I don't actually know what 'wn' stands for, so you need to look at /etc/cron.daily/wn or the program it is linked to. -- Jean-Michel Rouet (thesard Dpt ITI) | Tel : +33 298 001 730 ENST de Bretagne| email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29285 Brest Cedex | France | http://www-iti.enst-bretagne.fr/~rouet/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mgetty voice/fax/data
On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 09:56:05PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote: Where is the mgetty home page? The site I found in the info file did not exist. Or do you know the mgetty mailing list address? Thanks -Paul http://wais.leo.org/~doering/mgetty/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or to join: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mike Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.bend-or.com/~mschmitz Don't blame me - I voted libertarian!http://www.lp.org/ Use Debian Linux - the free Gnu/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ --- If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Server Questions (fwd)
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: No-one on this list uses Debian as a news server? Nobody's running SMP? There's no interest whatsoever in tech support for Debian? (I know Bruce posted something about it a while ago ...) I'm disappointed. If the folks who are in the know have all unsubscribed from this list and hang exclusively on debian-devel, then I think there's a problem. Judging from the traffic on this list, they seem to be as helpful as ever. But... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 02:14:22 -0600 (CST) From: Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Server Questions [mildly offtopic] We are looking at purchasing a new server to add to our stable, and I'm looking for some feedback/opinions/experience with news and/or SMP systems with Debian Linux. Private email is welcomed, since this isn't really list material (sorry) My way of getting this sort of information is to watch the list for topics I might be interested in in the future and file them in folders. For example, I built quite an IP/PPP resource before I needed to get PPP going myself. Ditto ssh and samba. Now I'm watching people's queries on hamm ready for the changeover. What I'm looking for is this: If you're running SMP, does it work well? Problems? Hints? Same with news ... does a specific version of INN do the trick? Any special kernel configs? You get the idea. The specific stuff should be in HOWTOs. But most people don't have a general off-pat report ready for a quick response to an open query like this. Human nature says Leave it to someone else/Somebody's probably already sent an email. Oh, and before I forget ... I heard there is a company providing phone support for Debian Linux. If this is true, who is it? What are the rates? I work for a corporation that is becoming comfortable with the idea of Linux, but wants tech support available. I'd rather run Debian than RedHat/Caldera, so please help! Apart from Bruce's posting which you mentioned, I can't help you here. Universities aren't the sort of institutions who want to pay for support of linux. Cheers, -- 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: bbs for debian?
Hamish, So I have a cronjob to kill dosemu daily, and dosemu runs from a script which just runs it over and over again. Same as the power reset on the old machine, but nicer. You could also have an external event from your mailer to run EXITEMU instead of the kill. My system survived ok for 12 days while I was overseas like this. It's a good idea to do this. We were thinking about the possibility of an external watchdog for our DOS machine, but I think we will be able to save that with Linux. Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ PGP key available --- (_)/ (_)Lo importante es el concepto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
SOCKS5 and Secure Shell Packages
Hi! I am looking for pre-compiled ready-to-install SOCKS5 1.0r4 and Secure Shell debian packages. I already have the source code, but since I am installing these aplications on quite a few machines, it would make my job easier if I could install them directly without having to compile everything over and over. Can anyone tell me where I can find the packages I need? I searched the Debian site but found nothing. Thanks in advance. Paulo - Paulo Jorge de Almeida Tel: +351 1 792 5500 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Server Questions (fwd)
Nathan E Norman wrote: No-one on this list uses Debian as a news server? Nobody's running SMP? There's no interest whatsoever in tech support for Debian? (I know Bruce posted something about it a while ago ...) ... Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 02:14:22 -0600 (CST) From: Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Server Questions [mildly offtopic] ... What I'm looking for is this: If you're running SMP, does it work well? Problems? Hints? Same with news ... does a specific version of INN do the trick? Any special kernel configs? You get the idea. I haven't used SMP. I know it needs the 2.1 kernel series. INN works OK - no kernel tweaks necessary. I use it as a local service and batch download with slurp. Oh, and before I forget ... I heard there is a company providing phone support for Debian Linux. If this is true, who is it? What are the rates? I work for a corporation that is becoming comfortable with the idea of Linux, but wants tech support available. I'd rather run Debian than RedHat/Caldera, so please help! Bruce was trying to start something, but I've heard nothing for a while. I wouldn't want to do telephone support, considering the time difference... -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SOCKS5 and Secure Shell Packages
On Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 04:05:52PM -, Paulo Jorge de Almeida wrote: I am looking for pre-compiled ready-to-install SOCKS5 1.0r4 I can't find a socks5 package. If you are interested in making a package for it, please check out http://www.debian.org/devel/help.html . and Secure Shell debian packages. This is available from nonUS sites. See http://www.debian.org/misc/README.non-US . 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: IMAP4-4.1 Broken
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Dale Harrison wrote: Can someone else out there in Debianland confirm this? IMAP4-4.1 won't delete messages. It might be a new feature or something, but as there was no dox with it, it's hard to tell. I downgraded to IMAP4-4 and everything's hunky dory. IMAP4-4.1 gave me trouble too. However, since I started having problems with IMAP, POP3, and smail simultaneously, I assumed the problem was with smail, and didn't bother downgrading IMAP4. After reading your message I did, and my problems are gone. Outlook Express gives a warning that I need an IMAP 4 rev 1 server, but works fine. Using IMAP4-4.1, my symptoms are different from yours. When I run Outlook Express, it downloads the message headers, and then immediately says your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. If I use the arrow keys fast enough so that the server is kept busy sending the message bodies, the connection does not get terminated, until it's no longer busy, at which point it is immediately terminated. From then on, I cannot download additional message bodies or delete messages because I'm not connected to the server; actually I can download a message by clicking on its header and then selecting file/connect, which downloads the message and then gives the unexpectedly terminated message again. Further on the subject of IMAP4, I'm not sure of the best way to access messages on both the host and the PC. What I do now is, since accessing my mail from the PC causes the messages to be transferred from /var/spool/mail/david to ~david/mbox, I set up procmail to send all unfiltered mail to that file, and set up pine to use that file as its default inbox. This seems to work great, but I only set it up yesterday. One minor annoyance; if I read a message on one system it's still unread on the other. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Art, I'd like to see your solution and also your headers. Could you post a copy of your headers for those of us reading the digest version of the mailing list? Or just reply to this mail? I guess your message will eventually show up in the archive, but it wasn't there yet. Hi, Lee. I CC'd a copy to you just now while posting the answer to the list. I'm a newbie, but maybe my little bit tweaking to your's and Daniel's solutions will help. Oh, and this comes from my LINUX box, so check out the full header, and let me know if anything else needs changing. Thanks. _Art Thanks -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Next Level Communications[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Next Level Communications[EMAIL PROTECTED] 331 Wiley Court (770) 319-5605 (Voice and Fax) Marietta, GA 30060 caveat lector -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
keeping cvs servers synchronized
Hey, Anyone know of a nice way to keep different CVS servers synchronized with each other? bye, Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: IMAP4-4.1 Broken
My officemate and I had similar problems when we switched to Outlook. I do not know what version our IMAP server is running, but the problem seemed to go away once we bumped the timeout up to 3 to 4 minutes. Timm Gleason Hardware Engineer N2H2, Inc -Original Message- From: David Gaudine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 1998 8:27 AM To: Dale Harrison Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: IMAP4-4.1 Broken On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Dale Harrison wrote: Can someone else out there in Debianland confirm this? IMAP4-4.1 won't delete messages. It might be a new feature or something, but as there was no dox with it, it's hard to tell. I downgraded to IMAP4-4 and everything's hunky dory. IMAP4-4.1 gave me trouble too. However, since I started having problems with IMAP, POP3, and smail simultaneously, I assumed the problem was with smail, and didn't bother downgrading IMAP4. After reading your message I did, and my problems are gone. Outlook Express gives a warning that I need an IMAP 4 rev 1 server, but works fine. Using IMAP4-4.1, my symptoms are different from yours. When I run Outlook Express, it downloads the message headers, and then immediately says your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. If I use the arrow keys fast enough so that the server is kept busy sending the message bodies, the connection does not get terminated, until it's no longer busy, at which point it is immediately terminated. From then on, I cannot download additional message bodies or delete messages because I'm not connected to the server; actually I can download a message by clicking on its header and then selecting file/connect, which downloads the message and then gives the unexpectedly terminated message again. Further on the subject of IMAP4, I'm not sure of the best way to access messages on both the host and the PC. What I do now is, since accessing my mail from the PC causes the messages to be transferred from /var/spool/mail/david to ~david/mbox, I set up procmail to send all unfiltered mail to that file, and set up pine to use that file as its default inbox. This seems to work great, but I only set it up yesterday. One minor annoyance; if I read a message on one system it's still unread on the other. -- 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: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's
Sorry for the previous empty message. Art, is your local user name alemas? My problem is that if I use my isp for the visible name, I get a from [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Notice there is no colon after the from. This is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately my email address is lee.bradshaw and my login on the local system is bradshaw. I think with this from line incorrect mindspring sets the Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] which sends my bounced email to another user. visible_name needs to be something that can be looked up, because my email seems to be rejected when I use from [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is correct, but I haven't found a way to modify the username part of the from line to replace bradshaw with lee.bradshaw. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Art, I'd like to see your solution and also your headers. Could you post a copy of your headers for those of us reading the digest version of the mailing list? Or just reply to this mail? I guess your message will eventually show up in the archive, but it wasn't there yet. Hi, Lee. I CC'd a copy to you just now while posting the answer to the list. I'm a newbie, but maybe my little bit tweaking to your's and Daniel's solutions will help. Oh, and this comes from my LINUX box, so check out the full header, and let me know if anything else needs changing. Thanks. _Art Thanks -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Next Level Communications[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Next Level Communications[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dosemu-problems
Verify that /usr/lib/dosemu/config.dist exists go to /etc as root do a $ rm -f conf $ ln -s /usr/lib/dosemu/config.dist conf and that should do the job ! Dear Jean-Michel, thanx a lot, that was the solution. Gernot -- - Gernot Bauer Salzburger Kredit- und Wechsel-Bank AG eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Office) Makartplatz 3, 5020 Salzburg Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austria/Europe Phone: ++43-662-8684-364 The answer is yes, me. Fax: ++43-662-8684-23 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: trouble with the boot-block..
According to Jean Pierre LeJacq: On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that I __always__ boot into Debian, into a RAM file system. After re-installing both OS's from scratch several times I've come to the conclusion that something is causing the master boot track to always throw me into the re-install RAM-fs of Linux. I'd be much obliged for some work-arounds here. Am I using the wrong rescue disk or what? Are you booting from the rescue floppy disk. If yes, then indeed you will be using the RAM-fs. You can either use the boot floppy disk or LILO installed on the hard disk. Both the hard drive and the rescue floppy throw me into the RAM-fs. (In fact, trying to re-install FreeBSD from its floppy disk is impossible.) I'd like BSD on my second SCSI; Debian on my first and third, but (??) gary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Setting up Anon FTP?
I had already done what is suggested below, but no luck. The following: chroot /home/ftp /bin/ls gives chroot: cannot execute /bin/ls: No such file or directory (using ls or bin/ls instead of /bin/ls gives the same message). I've got all the libraries copied to /home/ftp/lib, but still no luck. Any other ideas? Continued thanks, Tony Richardson -Original Message- From: Ossama Othman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 1998 8:47 AM To: debian-user Subject: RE: Setting up Anon FTP? Run ldd on ls. For example, ldd /bin/ls (you need the absolute path) You should get output like: libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4000f000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) Copy the the libraries from the ldd output to ~ftp/lib, or wherever the above libraries are relative to root (i.e. if in /usr/lib, copy to ~ftp/usr/lib). Make sure the libraries have a+rx permissions. Good luck. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Keys --- Public: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_PUBLIC.asc REVOKED: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_REVOKED.asc -- 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: Using Debian Linux for Dumb Terminals
Well, I recently found out that the Equinox Megaport 8CS is not a dumb UART board--not supported by Linux. If you're looking for a multiport serial board with support for Linux, you have two recommended options. If the computer you connect it to is fast, and you want to save money, you can get a Boca BB-2008 for about US $199 (8 ports). If your processor is low on power, you can get a Cyclades Cyclom-Y board with 8 ports for about US $600. Check out their Web sites at http://www.bocaresearch.com and http://www.cyclades.com. Hope this helps. Jeff ---Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jeff, I have been following the thread. My school (the one I'm the Tech for) could use an 8 port card but $$$ are in short supply. Have you got any pointers to not-so-expensive cards? The idea here is to have several modems for dial-in use. Lindsay On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Jeff Alami wrote: ---Damon Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any information resources I can look at which will show instructions on setting up a multiport serial card with dumb terminals for Linux? We have a 16-port BocaBoard, and there is a very handly little HOWTO for setting up this little bit of hardware. Needs the Kernel to be recompiled, but it's pretty easy, and I got it up and working in no time. It's called the boca-Mini-HOWTO from memory Thanks for the help. I have an 8-port Equinox Megaport 8CS--we currently use it for SCO UNIX. Equinox has Linux drivers for their SuperSerial boards, but apparently those boards are different. I believe the Megaport is just a dumb 16550A UART board. How can I set that up? _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Server Questions (fwd)
Hi,
I haven't used SMP. I know it needs the 2.1 kernel series.
I believe that you may be incorrect. We have someone running 2.0.33 with
SMP enabled since he has 2 Pentium II processors in his system. If you
need SMP, you will probably have to recompile the kernel source manually.
Do your make {menu,x}config (whichever you use). Then edit the top level
makefile (usually /usr/src/linux/Makefile) and remove the SMP comments so
that it looks like something like:
#
# For SMP kernels, set this. We don't want to have this in the config file
#because it makes re-config very ugly and too many fundamental files depend
# on CONFIG_SMP
#
# NOTE! SMP is experimental. See the file Documentation/SMP.txt
#
SMP = 1
#
# SMP profiling options
SMP_PROF = 1
As far as I know, this is the only way to enable SMP. Do a make dep;
make clean then compile the kernel with a make zImage
(again, or whatever you use), for example. Install the kernel when done.
I'm not sure about the modules, but it is probably safer to recompile them
(make modules; make modules_install).
After you've installed the new kernel reboot your system and you should
now have an SMPing kernel running.
-Ossama
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Nondestructively partition ext2 fs?
Is there an ext2 equivalent of fips? I have a lot of space on the disk which I am mounting as /usr/local. I want to partition it and use one partition as /opt. Thaths -- Oh, Lisa, this isn't real. It's just how you might look if you were a cartoon character. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (650) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Server Questions (fwd)
Ossama Othman wrote:
I believe that you may be incorrect. We have someone running 2.0.33 with
SMP enabled since he has 2 Pentium II processors in his system. If you
need SMP, you will probably have to recompile the kernel source manually.
Do your make {menu,x}config (whichever you use). Then edit the top level
makefile (usually /usr/src/linux/Makefile) and remove the SMP comments so
that it looks like something like:
#
# For SMP kernels, set this. We don't want to have this in the config file
#because it makes re-config very ugly and too many fundamental files depend
# on CONFIG_SMP
#
# NOTE! SMP is experimental. See the file Documentation/SMP.txt
#
SMP = 1
#
# SMP profiling options
SMP_PROF = 1
Correct. We have a dual p5-200 running .29.
mail~ uptime
12:18pm up 110 days, 18:58h, 3 users, load average: 0.14, 0.12, 0.12
This moves many gigs of email, and handles thousands of pop3 hits a day,
and barely breaks a sweat, while doing the other things we are using the
box for..
Tim
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RE: Setting up Anon FTP?
Why are you trying to chroot to /bin/ls? The ftpd daemon automatically does a chroot when someone logs in as anonymous or ftp. Here is an excerpt from the ftpd man page. Did you follow what it says? FROM LINUX FTPD MAN PAGE --- In the last case, ftpd takes special measures to restrict the client's access privileges. The server performs a chroot(2) to the home directory of the ``ftp'' user. In order that system security is not breached, it is recommended that the ``ftp'' subtree be constructed with care, following these rules: ~ftpMake the home directory owned by ``root'' and unwritable by anyone (mode 555). ~ftp/bin Make this directory owned by ``root'' and unwritable by anyone (mode 511). The program ls(1) must be present to support the list command. This program should be mode 111 (executable only). ~ftp/etc Make this directory owned by ``root'' and unwritable by anyone (mode 511). The files pwd.db (see pwd_mkdb(8)) and group(5) must be present for the ls command to be able to produce owner names rather than numbers. The password field in pwd.db is not used, and should not contain real passwords. The file motd, if present, will be printed after a successful login. These files should be mode 444. ~ftp/pub Make this directory mode 555 and owned by ``root''. This is traditionally where publically accessible files are stored for download. I've setup several anonymous ftp servers following similar directions on Solaris machines, too. The above setup procedure seems to be pretty standard, except for some character devices that are placed in ~ftp/dev. If you can tell me/us specifically what you have done and what problems/errors you get, it will be easier to determine what is wrong. I apologize if you have already done this. I just got on to this list last night. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Keys --- Public: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_PUBLIC.asc REVOKED: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_REVOKED.asc -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: trouble with the boot-block..
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: According to Jean Pierre LeJacq: On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that I __always__ boot into Debian, into a RAM file system. After re-installing both OS's from scratch several times I've come to the conclusion that something is causing the master boot track to always throw me into the re-install RAM-fs of Linux. Are you booting from the rescue floppy disk. If yes, then indeed you will be using the RAM-fs. You can either use the boot floppy disk or LILO installed on the hard disk. Both the hard drive and the rescue floppy throw me into the RAM-fs. (In fact, trying to re-install FreeBSD from its floppy disk is impossible.) Does the same thing happen when booting from your boot floppy? Did you install LILO on the harddisk? If so, send me the /etc/lilo.conf. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Question
Hello: Can anybody help me? I have Windows NT Workstation and Debian Linux installed on my computer, usually i download files from Internet in Windows 95 (at the office), today i downloaded the java-linux package but i have it in Win 95, how can i put it in my home's linux machine, the problem is that my linux isn't connected to a network, but it's installed in the same PC as Windows NT. Thanks in advance. Erik Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Nondestructively partition ext2 fs?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello! On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: Is there an ext2 equivalent of fips? I have a lot of space on the disk which I am mounting as /usr/local. I want to partition it and use one partition as /opt. Thaths I asked that sometime ago without successful in several resources... It seems it doesn't exist yet... I think there is a project towards Logical Volume Manager with ext2 somewhere... Also, there is on the fly compression for ext2 (without modificacions), also avaliable as debian package... the name is e2compr regards, Ulisses - - Computers are useless. They can only give answers.Pablo Picasso -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: latin1 Comment: PGP public key avaliable at http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver iQB1AwUBNPWryg/N+5+NQ63pAQG2agL+NdH5s3RMjqyutlDjzhpg5/+vwGw0TrXY 3XwcM6P+BsO77JdIPxCB57yVz8ensHfnjf7UipU4Ze3dOrXw+QWVygRU7mArwj5X tolSGZMZmONXUU9Kj1sOYzAPbcuOBrNa =sDFW -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Keyboard + Terminal settings
Hi All ! I have been trying to make my TTY work with accented characters. So far, I have loaded a keymap that is essentialy us.map modified with dead_letters where the accents are supposed to be. (I have compared to pt.map - portuguese map and things look more or less the same, though my keyboard layout is the usual international one, and so, may accents are generated a bit different) I have also loaded a mapscrn trivial, lat16u.psf fonts, sent the escape character \\033(k (or similar... :) ) to the TTY's on startup and nothing happened up to now :( Any help is welcome ! Begin here - #! /bin/sh # # boot boot-time system configuration. # # Version: @(#)boot 2.10 26-Apr-1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Debian Association, Inc. # Written by Ian Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] # and Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # # This script desperately needs to parse a config file # (like /etc/default/boot) instead of having to edit it directly! # [...] # # Set pseudo-terminal access permissions. # chmod 666 /dev/tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f] chown root.tty /dev/tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f] # # Set pseudo-terminal access permissions and some # video settings. # # Danish-HOWTO - echo -ne '\033(K' # INITTY=/dev/tty[1-6] /usr/bin/setfont /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/lat1u-16.psf mapscrn /usr/lib/kbd/consoletrans/trivial for tty in $INITTY do echo -ne '\033(K' $tty # echo -n -e '\\033(K' $tty done /usr/bin/setvesablank on # # Load the keymaps *as soon as possible* # if [ -r /etc/kbd/default.map ] then loadkeys /etc/kbd/default.map fi - End Here -- Daniel. Daniel Doro Ferranteemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network System Managerhttp://www.cecm.usp.br/~danieldf CECM - Curso de Ciencias Moleculares - USP Course of Molecular Sciences - University of Sao Paulo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: trouble with the boot-block..
According to Jean Pierre LeJacq: On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: According to Jean Pierre LeJacq: On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that I __always__ boot into Debian, into a RAM file system. After re-installing both OS's from scratch several times I've come to the conclusion that something is causing the master boot track to always throw me into the re-install RAM-fs of Linux. Are you booting from the rescue floppy disk. If yes, then indeed you will be using the RAM-fs. You can either use the boot floppy disk or LILO installed on the hard disk. Both the hard drive and the rescue floppy throw me into the RAM-fs. (In fact, trying to re-install FreeBSD from its floppy disk is impossible.) Does the same thing happen when booting from your boot floppy? Did you install LILO on the harddisk? If so, send me the /etc/lilo.conf. Yes, once I did install LILO to my harddisk; then I brought up the menu again and chose ``NO'' when asked. Evidently, once the loader installs, it's forever! I'll have to check /etc/lilo.conf (if I can get to it) tonight my time. Last night I poked around using the ash shell but couldn't make much sense of the fs layout. Would lilo.conf perhaps be in /target/etc/lilo.conf? BTW, this (Debian + FBSD) is on a separate box. Not yet linked to the rest of the world... . gary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: traceroute program?
Maybe netstd? bash-2.01$ dpkg -S tracer* scotty: /usr/doc/examples/scotty/traceroute.1 netstd: /usr/doc/netstd/examples/traceroute/mean.awk scotty: /usr/doc/examples/scotty/traceroute netstd: /usr/sbin/traceroute netstd: /usr/doc/netstd/examples/traceroute/README.awk netstd: /usr/doc/netstd/examples/traceroute netstd: /usr/doc/netstd/examples/traceroute/median.awk netstd: /usr/man/man8/traceroute.8.gz bash-2.01$ dpkg -s netstd Package: netstd Status: install ok installed Priority: standard Section: net Installed-Size: 1297 Maintainer: Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 3.02-1 Depends: cpp, libc6, libreadlineg2 (= 2.1-4), ncurses3.4 Pre-Depends: netbase (= 3.00) Suggests: wu-ftpd, dip, mail-transport-agent Conffiles: /etc/bootptab ca74a74efcdd3cbd1e2c9fd0fff399ca /etc/exports 9033c31f29af713cfa551193e4a4ce0b /etc/ftpusers d141bdd8e0b1aa2e5e4023345b3fbc9a /etc/hosts.equiv d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e /etc/pcnfsd.conf 551a6de393c08a1b60491b2d81f519e5 /etc/bootparams a6bf99f5d041c60244c1e1c077fa7b80 /etc/init.d/netstd_init e2033f1e3c2c0f64afe21cb8732ef55f /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs 81fc18dd42a281de4ad6f35e2592f3d4 /etc/init.d/netstd_misc 19fa9954991ddb67c3f8ec3f02fc02d2 Description: Networking binaries and daemons for Linux On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Paul Miller wrote: What package contains the traceroute program (not mtr, something similar to microsoft's tracert.exe program). --- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED], finger for public PGP key -- 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] .
Problems with libc6
Hi all, I have been trying to upgrade a friend's system from Debian 1.3.1 to Debian 2.0 (hamm) and although every program compiled for libc6 are working fine, many, but not all, programs compiled for libc5 don't work. For those programs when I use ldd I get an output like ldd ftp libreadline.so.2 = /lib/libreadline.so.2 (0x4000a000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4002b000) libncurses.so.3.0 = /lib/libncurses.so.3.0 (0x400e9000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc-2.0.6.so why do both libraries are being called? Does it have something to do with other needed libraries (like libreadline.so.2)? And, above all, how can I solve this mess? Any help is welcome. Thanx ;-) Robson. #--# # Robson Francisco de Souza# # R. Gioconda Mussolini, 38/54 # # Jardim Rizzo # # Sao Paulo - SP - Brazil # # CEP 05587-120# # # # E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 818-3188 (curso - CECM) # #--# -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Setting up Anon FTP?
I'm not chroot'ing to /bin/ls but to /home/ftp. The reason I tried to chroot to /home/ftp and run ls is to troubleshoot the anonymous ftp login problem. It's a lot easier to just make changes and use chroot than to ftp/login/check/logout. I figure the chroot problem and the fact that ls doesn't work from an anonymous ftp login are related. I did follow the steps in the ftpd man page. Except for setting up the pwd.db file in etc (the pwd_mkdb command doesn't exist). I don't think this is the problem though and the man page says this is just necessary to print names instead of numbers in ls output. (I did copy passwd and group files to etc while trying to find the problem.) In addition to the man page instructions is there anything else I need to do? Thanks again, Tony Richardson -Original Message- From: Ossama Othman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 1998 12:34 PM To: Richardson,Anthony Cc: debian-user Subject: RE: Setting up Anon FTP? Why are you trying to chroot to /bin/ls? The ftpd daemon automatically does a chroot when someone logs in as anonymous or ftp. Here is an excerpt from the ftpd man page. Did you follow what it says? FROM LINUX FTPD MAN PAGE --- In the last case, ftpd takes special measures to restrict the client's access privileges. The server performs a chroot(2) to the home directory of the ``ftp'' user. In order that system security is not breached, it is recommended that the ``ftp'' subtree be constructed with care, following these rules: ~ftp Make the home directory owned by ``root'' and unwritable by anyone (mode 555). ~ftp/bin Make this directory owned by ``root'' and unwritable by anyone (mode 511). The program ls(1) must be present to support the list command. This program should be mode 111 (executable only). ~ftp/etc Make this directory owned by ``root'' and unwritable by anyone (mode 511). The files pwd.db (see pwd_mkdb(8)) and group(5) must be present for the ls command to be able to produce owner names rather than numbers. The password field in pwd.db is not used, and should not contain real passwords. The file motd, if present, will be printed after a successful login. These files should be mode 444. ~ftp/pub Make this directory mode 555 and owned by ``root''. This is traditionally where publically accessible files are stored for download. I've setup several anonymous ftp servers following similar directions on Solaris machines, too. The above setup procedure seems to be pretty standard, except for some character devices that are placed in ~ftp/dev. If you can tell me/us specifically what you have done and what problems/errors you get, it will be easier to determine what is wrong. I apologize if you have already done this. I just got on to this list last night. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Keys --- Public: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_PUBLIC.asc REVOKED: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_REVOKED.asc -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Setting up Anon FTP?
Ossama Othman wrote (Thu, 26 Feb 1998 12:31:56 -0500 (EST) ): |Why are you trying to chroot to /bin/ls? The ftpd daemon automatically |does a chroot when someone logs in as anonymous or ftp. Here is an |excerpt from the ftpd man page. Did you follow what it says? | Tony was trying to diagnose the problem, the same problem I'm having. Namely, ls depends on libc (at least) and simply copying the library to the ~ftp/lib directory doesn't work. The man page mentions nothing about this, leading me to believe that it assumes that ls is statically linked. -alan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DEBIAN or REDHAT ?
Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, I am currently using hamm and am very happy with it. I will be installing a new Linux system soon but everyone is telling me to install RedHat 5. Has anyone any opinions on this? I tend to be partial to Debian, especially with GNOME being integrated into hamm. However, I've never used Redhat. Also, I've been advised that RedHat puts out security fixes the next day after a CERT advisory is released. How is Debian when it comes to security and other patches? When I was using bo, patches weren't released very often. Is this an indication that RedHat is more buggy, or is it an indication that Debian is more stable? For example, when the CERT advisory for SSH-AGENT was release over a week ago, one of the OSes that responded to the CERT advisory was RedHat. Much to my dismay, Debian wasn't one of the OSes that was mentioned on the CERT list. I ended up compiling SSH on my own. Thanks in advance for any suggestions or tips. Personally, I find RedHat to be incredibly irritating. Every time I've installed it, I ran into problems. Stupid things, like LILO not getting installed because the kernel was dropped into a different directory than it should have been. And their X tools are ugly :) I've been a die-hard Slackware user for ~3 years now, but I recently switched to Debian. It's completely free, _very_ standard, and updates/patches are put out much more often than with Slackware. One of the most irritating things about RH is that it is the most visible Linux distribution, but is so poorly made- you end up going into what feels very much like a No, I don't use Windows 95 conversation with people who aren't linux literate. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
