Uploading sysklogd 1.3-6
Hi folks! I'll upload a new bugfixed release to master later. Format: 1.5 Date: Tue May 28 00:58:45 MET DST 1996 Package: sysklogd Version: 1.3-6 Section: base Priority: required Essential: yes Distribution: unstable Architecture: i386 Depends: libc5 Conflicts: syslogd Replaces: syslogd Provides: syslogd Maintainer: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: Kernel and system logging daemons. Changes: Fixed problem with named pipes (Thanks to Michael Nonweiler) sysklogd-1.3-6.i386.deb 40286 binary/base sysklogd-1.3-6.diff.gz 7695 source/base sysklogd-1.3-6.tar.gz 67113 source/base 5fa4364582c8f9be313a613e6c7b533f sysklogd-1.3-6.i386.deb 4fe5d716ab515270b41cb0f2fa14f6d2 sysklogd-1.3-6.diff.gz 539c23e3e3596b76db2d483215db8578 sysklogd-1.3-6.tar.gz Hopefully this solves the problem with named pipes. Please test it. It worked for me and it worked for Michael who has spent several hours on that problem, but this does not mean that it also works for you. So folks, please give it a try. Thanks for your attention, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * Debian GNU/Linux Developer * [EMAIL PROTECTED] / / http://www.debian.org/ http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for! /
Using monochrome monitor as additional term
I have both SVGA video and monochrome video cards in my system and the appropriate monitors. I'd like to use the monochrome monitor as one of the Alt-F## consoles. If possible, in such a way that I could switch to it from Xwindows without my SVGA monitor flashing away. Can anyone give me a clue? ~~~ Matthew D MossGround Cover Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.io.com/~mmoss/ ~~~
PPP problem w/ 1.1 install
I just grabbed the latest disks from ftp.debian.org (in /pub/debian/unstable/disks-i386/current, the 1440 series), and proceded to do the installation. It mostly works, but I'm having trouble with PPP. I recompiled the kernel (using 1.3.100-1 now) with PPP support, but when I try to run pppd, it says the kernel does not support PPP. I believe it has something to do with the lack of ppp devices in the /dev directory. Has anyone else had trouble with this latest build? Michael
Re: ~/.saves-6702-hostname.domainname
: Andreas Wehler wrote: : : If you want to read up on these files, try : : ^h f recover-session RETURN : : I tried a couple ideas from the emacs newsgroups for turning these off. : They all had bad side effects, such as randomly saving regular files : with permissions of 000, etc. This was reported as a bug, and I believe : will be fixed in 19.31. : : For now, I've left the save files enabled for my people until 19.31 comes : out. Thank you very much for your answer!. - Andreas. -- Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: (0202) 439 - 3009 Andreas Wehler; email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ~/.saves-6702-hostname.domainname
Tag, Kai. : On Fri, 24 May 96 08:29 MET DST, : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Wehler) said: : : Andreas Does somone know how to avoid long lists of emacs-savings : Andreas like that in the subject line? [...] : : I do not think that it is a good idea to remove these files. Instead, Diese Sicherungs-Files entstehen auch nach ordnungsgemaessem Beenden von emacs, aber nur, wenn emacs von lokaler Maschine aufgerufen wird. Ist also einigermassen laestig. Soll aber in Version 19.31 besser werden (vgl. posting von Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Vielen Dank fuer die Antwort!. Gruss Andreas. -- Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: (0202) 439 - 3009 Andreas Wehler; email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ~/.saves-6702-hostname.domainname
Hello. Does somone know how to avoid long lists of emacs-savings like that in the subject line? They seem to be created only if the emacs is invoced on the local machine but not if started remotely via telnet etc. The saves-files contain files visited with that emacs-session. Thanks. I have this in my .emacs: (setq auto-save-list-file-name nil) Works perfectly. -- Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet Joeri van Ruth School of Simulated Simplicity. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Larry Wall
/etc/cron.daily/find exited with return code 1
I get this message daily: From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily Date: Tue, 28 May 96 06:42 EDT run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/find exited with return code 1 /etc/cron.daily/find is; #! /bin/sh # # cron script to update the `find.codes' database. # # Written by Ian A. Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED]. su nobody -c cd / updatedb 2/dev/null What does this mean? If I log in as sroot and enter the above, there is no terminal output. Of course, it's redirected, says I. So, I try without the 2/dev/null part, and get su: cannot run /dev/null: Permission denied Yes, I get the error involving /dev/null only if I *don't* specify /dev/null in the command.
Bug#3144: octave fails to dynamically load functions
Package: octave Version: 1.1.1-2 When you invoke octave, it says failed to load symbols from /usr/bin/octave.bin. Then when you invoke a function like fft, it says failed to link library /usr/lib/liboctdld.a. I tried to install the dld package, but it didn't help. This is on an up to date 1.1 system. Carlos
Re: new installation floppies - please test
On Tue, 21 May 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: Please download them and test them. I've tried a fresh install with the May 21 floppies. Mostly, it worked better than the previous version. Here are the things I noted: 1. Thanks for the Release Notes Screen. I was wondering if there was going to be a way to identify which boot floppies I was using. 2. The 'Configure Device Driver Modules' was never the 'Next' item, though I hope the finall install.html will suggest when to run it. 3. 'Configure Device Driver Modules' worked ok. for fs and misc (I added psaux and nfs) but gave a 'Segmentation Violation' for the 'net' directory. [Alas, 'net' is the one I really needed. I used vt2 to insmod the ones I needed.] 4. After the 'smoke test', my /etc/modules file was still empty, so I still had to go and add the modules I need by hand. 5. After fixing /etc/modules, rebooting didn't load those modules gave the error message: wd No dependency info for module /lib/current/net/wd.o I fixed that by running 'depmod -a'. All in all, it went a lot better than last time. Good work. Thanks, Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
Re: PPP problem w/ 1.1 install
For now, I run 'pppd' without the 'connect' option once after a reboot. It will fail, of course, but it puts the ttyS* device into the correct state, and 'pppd' works fine after that. I gave it a try, and yes, this works. Linus released pre2.0.7 and then went to the Linux Kongress in Germany for a week. Please test this on pre2.0.7 if you can, and report it if it is still broken. He urged us to put a lot of testing into pre2.0.7 . Thanks Bruce -- *** Re-elect Clinton *** Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/
Re: (sort of) Bug in mc
I'm using precompiled binary of mc-3.1.4 that came with Debian-1.1 beta, kernel 1.3.64. Mc is compiled with libncurses.so.3 (1.9.9e) and libc.so.5 (5.2.18 ?), gcc-2.7.2 (?) -- Fernando Alegre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) knows the details. I just wonder if it is possible for the maintainer of the debian package to configure the program to not use ncurses (ie, to let the default screen manager be used) and to upgrade to a newer version of the program (3.2.1 is current, I announced it a couple of days ago on mc-announce). The reason for not using ncurses is that the Midnight Commander will not honor the window resizing request, this was done because ncurses crashes. Miguel
Re: mailing list as digest?
On Mon, 20 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew To the point: unfortunately, the volume is very large. I'd much Matthew prefer to get this mailing list in digest format. Does anyone know Matthew if this is possible with the list server that debian.org uses? No Matthew mention is made on their web pages, the place I signed up from. You can use either procmail or mailagent to filter your incoming mail into different folders. Very, very convenient. Both packages are in the mail directory of the Debian distribution. I use procmail to forward my linux-kernel mail to a listproc server, which digestifies it and sends it back to me and some advanced users here. The digests come about once per day, and average 150K. A related list, debian-user, averages 75K per day. It's not official or anything, but if you want you can subscribe to one or both of these by emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED]: subscribe linux-kernel Your Name subscribe debian-user Your Name thank you The politeness tells it to ignore the .signature. :-) --- Johnie Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] of The Library Network
Re: /etc/cron.daily/find exited with return code 1
David Gaudine wrote: I get this message daily: run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/find exited with return code 1 /etc/cron.daily/find is; su nobody -c cd / updatedb 2/dev/null This is a known problem. I believe it's been fixed. There is a colon (:) missing from the end of the nobody entry in the /etc/passwd file. Personally, I also changed it to su root..., because I want my (private, stand-alone home system's) locatedb file to contain all files in the system. If it doesn't run as root, it likely won't have entries from root-only directories. I know where _my_ files are! I need locate to find _system_ files when I'm practicing being the sysadmin on my Linux system! For security reasons, I doubt anyone would want a Linux distribution to run updatedb as root by default. -- ...RickM...
Re: PPP problem w/ 1.1 install
Michael Callahan said: I just grabbed the latest disks from ftp.debian.org (in /pub/debian/unstable/disks-i386/current, the 1440 series), and proceded to do the installation. It mostly works, but I'm having trouble with PPP. I recompiled the kernel (using 1.3.100-1 now) with PPP support, but when I try to run pppd, it says the kernel does not support PPP. I believe it has something to do with the lack of ppp devices in the /dev directory. Has anyone else had trouble with this latest build? I had this same problem. I finally tracked it to a problem with the ttyS* drivers in the kernel. However, I don't know exactly where in the drivers the problem is. For now, I run 'pppd' without the 'connect' option once after a reboot. It will fail, of course, but it puts the ttyS* device into the correct state, an d 'pppd' works fine after that. I gave it a try, and yes, this works. It's somewhat of a nuisance though, hopefully someone can fix it soon. Thanks for the help. Michael
Re: PPP problem w/ 1.1 install
Michael Callahan said: I just grabbed the latest disks from ftp.debian.org (in /pub/debian/unstable/disks-i386/current, the 1440 series), and proceded to do the installation. It mostly works, but I'm having trouble with PPP. I recompiled the kernel (using 1.3.100-1 now) with PPP support, but when I try to run pppd, it says the kernel does not support PPP. I believe it has something to do with the lack of ppp devices in the /dev directory. Has anyone else had trouble with this latest build? I had this same problem. I finally tracked it to a problem with the ttyS* drivers in the kernel. However, I don't know exactly where in the drivers the problem is. For now, I run 'pppd' without the 'connect' option once after a reboot. It will fail, of course, but it puts the ttyS* device into the correct state, and 'pppd' works fine after that. -- Scott Barker Linux Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~barkers/ (under construction) [ I try to reply to all e-mail within 5 days. If you don't ] [ get a response by then, I probably didn't get your e-mail ] [ (we have a sometimes sporadic connection to the internet) ] As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs. - Maurice Wilkes discovers debugging, 1949
Re: /etc/cron.daily/find exited with return code 1
Hi, Yes, I agree that the daily messages from cron are most irritating, and not very infprmative. The actual source of the problem is in /etc/passwd file, where the user nobody has been given the shell /dev/null (this is a known problem that has been fixed in a later version, I think, though I'm unsure whether it has made it's way to the archive sites yet). You see, when su sets the user to nobody, it tries to run the default shell, and complains that it can't run /dev/null.Tthe redirection to dev/null meant the problem was never reported, and created the confusing behaviour that when you stopped redirecting to /dev/null it complained about /dev/null, though for a reson which had nothing to do with the redirection. The fix is to change the shell of the user nobody to bin/sh, either by using chsh, or by editing /etc/passwd using vipw. hope this helps. manoj -- Manoj Srivastava Systems Research Programmer, Project Pilgrim, Phone: (413) 545-3918A143B Lederle Graduate Research Center, Fax: (413) 545-1249 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.pilgrim.umass.edu/%7Esrivasta/
Re: Bug#3144: octave fails to dynamically load functions
On Tue, 28 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote: Package: octave Version: 1.1.1-2 When you invoke octave, it says failed to load symbols from /usr/bin/octave.bin. Then when you invoke a function like fft, it says failed to link library /usr/lib/liboctdld.a. I tried to install the dld package, but it didn't help. This is on an up to date 1.1 system. This version is known broken. As the upstream maintainer has no interest in working on the problem, I am waiting the new release. As I have been able to get the latest snapshot to compile and run I will be releasing a new version as soon as it is released. As this will not be ready until after the 1.1 release. I have recomended in the past, and still recomend, that the 1.1.1-2 version be replaced by the older a.out 1.1.1-1 version. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --
Re: PPP problem w/ 1.1 install
On Mon, 27 May 1996, Michael Callahan wrote: I just grabbed the latest disks from ftp.debian.org (in /pub/debian/unstable/disks-i386/current, the 1440 series), and proceded to do the installation. It mostly works, but I'm having trouble with PPP. I recompiled the kernel (using 1.3.100-1 now) with PPP support Never compile PPP into the kernel. Always compile it as a module and load it via /etc/modules. This is because slhc.c says it needs to be compiled as a module and ppp relies on it. but when I try to run pppd, it says the kernel does not support PPP. Make sure you run a recent version of pppd (2.2.*) I believe it has something to do with the lack of ppp devices in the /dev directory. You won't need them. pppd uses the standard serial devices. Nils -- Coming again: Best quotes of the net. Today: | Nils Rennebarth Kristian Köhntopp [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Schillerstr. 61 I'd also be interested in the comparison [of Linux] | 37083 Göttingen with a cisco router. I assume a factor of about ten.| ++49-551-71626 What? faster or slower? | http://www.nus. Cheaper! | pan-net.de/~nils
