Re: problems with inn: ME cant update_active nl.misc
Do a renumber that usually fixes your high water marks (which seem to be wrong in this case). MMAP on linux works just fine. Andre Koopal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Hello, : : I have installed debian at my home-site, and now I am trying to get a newsfeed : to my home. : : I have set up all files and everything seems to be working, but when news : is coming in I see the following errors in syslog: : : Aug 4 20:24:10 windmill innd: ME cant update_active nl.misc : Aug 4 20:24:10 windmill innd: ME cant symlink /var/spool/news/nl/misc/0 and nl/ : newsgroups/0 File exists : : and innd dies. : : I have read something in the inn-faq about linux not being able to handle MMAP : update of the active-file, so I recompiled inn with active=READ, but this : doesn't help either. : : Does anybody knows what can be happening here? : : Thanks in advance, : : Andre Koopal :
problems with inn: ME cant update_active nl.misc
Hello, I have installed debian at my home-site, and now I am trying to get a newsfeed to my home. I have set up all files and everything seems to be working, but when news is coming in I see the following errors in syslog: Aug 4 20:24:10 windmill innd: ME cant update_active nl.misc Aug 4 20:24:10 windmill innd: ME cant symlink /var/spool/news/nl/misc/0 and nl/ newsgroups/0 File exists and innd dies. I have read something in the inn-faq about linux not being able to handle MMAP update of the active-file, so I recompiled inn with active=READ, but this doesn't help either. Does anybody knows what can be happening here? Thanks in advance, Andre Koopal
Re: Smail and Majordomo
> I am looking for the correct syntax for the $mailer option in the > majordomo.cf file for Smail Make sure there is a link /usr/lib/sendmail that points to /usr/bin/smail, and then put this in as the $mailer: $mailer = "/usr/lib/sendmail -f\$sender -t"; Jim
re: Questions
On 05:47:14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>??? 'df' will show you what filesystems are mounted, not mount.
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>Just type
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>mount{Enter}
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>without any parameters, and see what output you get.
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>"Live and learn", eh?
>>Sure! Typical of Linux there is always more to learn, and very often more
>>than one way to do most anythingI use 'df' because it shows more info,
>>and never have used just 'mount' but I'll try it.
Well, I tried it, and it is quite different than using 'df' thats for sure. And
it
really just is reading the current /etc/mtab file. It is poorly formatted and
kinda ugly. I'll continue using 'df' thank you.
eh?
Paul
RE: Questions
On 05:47:14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And when I use "mount" command, it doesn't show CDROM is mounted.
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>>??? 'df' will show you what filesystems are mounted, not mount.
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>Just type
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>mount{Enter}
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>without any parameters, and see what output you get.
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>"Live and learn", eh?
Sure! Typical of Linux there is always more to learn, and very often more
than one way to do most anythingI use 'df' because it shows more info,
and never have used just 'mount' but I'll try it.
eh?
Paul
debian list administrator
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Re: Install floppy boot failure
On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Christopher R. Hertel wrote: > > I've written the boot, root, & base floppies as prescribed, but every > time > I try to boot I get error messages as follows: > > boot: > Loading... > Uncompressing Linux... > > invalid compressed format (err=2) > > -- System Halted > > I've tried using a different floppy, erasing (dd if=/dev/zero...) and > reformatting the floppies, formatting on different machines with > different > utilites (Norton format, DOS 6.x format, Weeners '95 format), and I've > tried re-downloading the boot image from a variety of sources. > > All with the same result. > > I also tried entering boot parameters to specify my SCSI & ethernet > cards. This resulted in a different error message: > > incomplete literal tree > > Well, where do I go from here? > I noticed when I was making my installation disks that three of the four images needed nearly every possible block on the floppy. When I was formating the floppys, I noticed that the the format program marked quite a few bad blocks on one of the floppys, so I didn't use it. You might try reformatting your suspected bad installation disks to see if the format program reports any bad blocks. If you get some, that might be your problem. If not, maybe one of the files that you are making the disks from is corupt. Hope this helps. Mike
Smail and Majordomo
Hi, I have just installed Smail in preference to sendmail and seem to be having problems with Majordomo. I am looking for the correct syntax for the $mailer option in the majordomo.cf file for Smail Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Andrew =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= andrew stephenPost Office Box 299 E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]Gosnells, 6110 Web: http://byteline.com.au Western Australia =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
lots of dpkg ideas for discussion (was Re: GCC frepo (continue))
On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Jimen Ching wrote in debian-user: > And one more thing, I have a wish list. It would be nice if the install > procedure does not waste it's time testing each an every package in a > directory and displaying it. I.e. dpkg -iGROEB goes through the entire > directory and displaying the selecton status. This is slow and painful. > I don't see why the dpkg program can't scan the entire directory and > create a list of all installed packages and display it in sorted order. > Then it would go through the list of selected packages remaining which are > marked 'not installed' and just install those (in sorted order, at this > point, the section really doesn't matter does it?). There are 450+ > packages. I've only installed about 100 or so. I don't need dpkg to > display the 300+ packages that I've marked as 'deselected'. Was this > supposed to be a feature? Yes, something like that would be great. if dpkg were to keep a list of all selected files and a list of pathnames to available deb files, then it could simply iterate through the list of selected packages. maybe a file called /var/lib/dpkg/selected. a simple file format could be: /full/path/to/file.deb package_nameinstalled_version available_version tab or white space delimited. The last two fields probably aren't needed but could be useful...make them optional. This would not only make dselect a lot faster, it would also implement something which i asked Ian J about a few weeks ago...i need a way to transfer the selections from one machine to another. So that, for example, i could spend some time fine-tuning the installed packages list and then just re-use that selection list on other machines. Useful for administering a network of debian boxes or for 'mass-producing' them. generating this list wouldn't be that hard...the hard bit would be generating the list in the right order, so that depended-upon packages are installed first. Maybe it would be better to replace the installed_version and available_version fields with line number indexes into /var/lib/dpkg/status & /var/lib/dpkg/available: /full/path/to/file.deb package_namestatus_line_no avail_line_no this file could also contain lines for uninstalled packages, just commented out with a # symbol. Changing the selections would then be as simple as commenting or uncommenting a line. hey, the more i think about it, the more i think that this idea has a lot of potential. It may be just the sort of thing we need to separate the user interface side of dselect from the functional... ...which would also give us an easy answer to those who don't like dselect's interface: "here's the file format specs, here's a c/perl/python/tcl/sh library for generating, parsing and manipulating the file...go write your own user interface" all that dpkg needs to do is know how to use this file (a new option of "dpkg --auto=/var/lib/dpkg/selected", perhaps?) - dpkg does the hard work of installing the packages, anything can be used to generate the file. it would probably be a good idea to have a '--sanity-check' option as well, to verify that the 'selected' file was OK to use. as yet another alternative, if the status and available files could be used to generate a gdbm database, dpkg would be a lot faster, and the 'selected' file here would only need to contain two fields...one is the full path to the file, the other is the package_name which is used as an index into the dbm files. (the selected file SHOULD be text so that it can easily be edited with **) i think it's important to keep status & available exactly as they are - there's too much stuff dependant on them being in their current format - but to use them to generate a fast indexed database. old dpkg tools will still work. new tools can be written to use the old style text files or the new style database files. another thought: maybe the path field should be a URL field. e.g. "file://..." or "ftp://"; or "http://"; or "nfs://..."; etc etc etc. the "file://" could refer to localhost, or if given a remote host could use rcp or rsh to fetch the file for installation... it would be nice to be able to do something like: dpkg -i ftp://ftp.debian.org/rex/binary-i386/base/base_1.1.0-14.deb or dselect --dist=unstable,contrib,non-free http://www.debian.org/dselect/i386/available.txt or dselect --dist=land-of-the-free ftp://ftp.civilised.country/debian/encryption/available.txt I'm cc:ing this message to debian-devel for discussion. Craig ** this means vi, of course. all others are unholy abominations :-)
Re: GCC frepo patch don't work.
Jimen Ching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone ever tried the -frepo feature? It is actually patched in? > Using the switch to g++ doesn't tell you anything since g++ ignores > arguments it doesn't understand. This feature is very important. I can't > continue my project without it. Please help, thanks in advance... Yes, we use it here, but you have to go to cygnus (ftp.cygnus.com/pub/g++), get the patch, and the debian source package and rebuild gcc with the patch yourself. -- Rob
GCC frepo (continue)
Oh, one more thing. I wanted to check whether I'm still on the debian-user list. I sent a help message to the request robot, and got back intro instructuions (subscribe/unsubscribe). I wanted to know what are the available commands to list the subscribed users. How do I get this info from the -request robot? Most other mailing lists (using listserv) has this info in the intro document. Also, since I couldn't get the help page, I don't really know if I'm subscribed. I guess this message will decide which. And one more thing, I have a wish list. It would be nice if the install procedure does not waste it's time testing each an every package in a directory and displaying it. I.e. dpkg -iGROEB goes through the entire directory and displaying the selecton status. This is slow and painful. I don't see why the dpkg program can't scan the entire directory and create a list of all installed packages and display it in sorted order. Then it would go through the list of selected packages remaining which are marked 'not installed' and just install those (in sorted order, at this point, the section really doesn't matter does it?). There are 450+ packages. I've only installed about 100 or so. I don't need dpkg to display the 300+ packages that I've marked as 'deselected'. Was this supposed to be a feature? --jc -- Jimen Ching (WH6BRR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GCC frepo patch don't work.
Hi all, I've just installed debian linux 1.1 from Iconnect. I am working on a C++ project which depends heavily on the use of templates. Thus, I would like to use the -frepo patch from Cygnus. The installed gcc/g++ doesn't seem to have been patched correctly. At least the 'ld' is not working as described by Mumit Khan. I.e. the patched 'ld' was supposed to do a recompile/relink process. This was never done and I get lots of unresolved symbols. Mumit Khan sent me some binaries about a year ago for the Slackware distribution I used back then. I tried moving the files over to my current system, and things seem to work ok. But I am getting another error message from the patched 'ld'. This time, it says it can't find one of my header files. I.e. the header file which contained my class definition could not be found. This error is produced while in the recompile/relink phase (using Mumit's binaries). Has anyone ever tried the -frepo feature? It is actually patched in? Using the switch to g++ doesn't tell you anything since g++ ignores arguments it doesn't understand. This feature is very important. I can't continue my project without it. Please help, thanks in advance... --jc -- Jimen Ching (WH6BRR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Questions
>>And when I use "mount" command, it doesn't show CDROM is mounted.
>??? 'df' will show you what filesystems are mounted, not mount.
Just type
mount{Enter}
without any parameters, and see what output you get.
"Live and learn", eh?
Re: Info on kernel-image packages?
On Sun, 4 Aug 1996, Graham Williams wrote: > Apart from doing a diff on these config-? files, is there any > documentation on what each version of the kernel-image contains. The script which creates them is buzz-fixed/disks-i386/make-floppes. It has this blurb: echo " 0 - Almost standard distribution Kernel" echo " 1 - All Adaptec SCSI + AdvanSys + Always + AM5379c974 + BusLogic" echo " 2 - DTC + eata_dma (DPT), eata_pio (OLD DPT) + Future Domain" echo " 3 - NCR5380/53c400 + NCR53c406a + NCR53c7/8xx" echo " 4 - Iomega Parallel + PAS16 + Qlogic + Seagate + Trantor + UltraStor" echo " 5 - Special NCR53c400 only Kernel" echo " 6 - Special NCR53c8xx only Kernel" > Is > it also correct to assume that the -0 one is the default that ships > with Debian? Yes. Guy
Install floppy boot failure
Dear Debian Development Debuggers, (couldn't resist that) I am attempting to install Debian 1.1 on my system. I currently run Linux 1.2.8 (an older SlackWare distribution), so I know that the system is capable of running Linux. I've written the boot, root, & base floppies as prescribed, but every time I try to boot I get error messages as follows: boot: Loading... Uncompressing Linux... invalid compressed format (err=2) -- System Halted I've tried using a different floppy, erasing (dd if=/dev/zero...) and reformatting the floppies, formatting on different machines with different utilites (Norton format, DOS 6.x format, Weeners '95 format), and I've tried re-downloading the boot image from a variety of sources. All with the same result. I also tried entering boot parameters to specify my SCSI & ethernet cards. This resulted in a different error message: incomplete literal tree Well, where do I go from here? Chris Hertel -)- . -- Christopher R. Hertel -)- University of Minnesota [EMAIL PROTECTED] Networking and Telecommunications Services
Info on kernel-image packages?
Susan G Kleinmann wrote on 03 Aug 1996 20:14:45 +1000: Susan> ... Susan> Yes, you need a kernel with special support for the mouse Susan> compiled in. Reading the 'config-?' files in Susan> buzz-fixed/disks-i386/special-kernels it appears that all Susan> of the special kernels there have support for the PS/2 Susan> mouse incorporated as a module. Several other types of bus Susan> mice are supported as well. Apart from doing a diff on these config-? files, is there any documentation on what each version of the kernel-image contains. Is it also correct to assume that the -0 one is the default that ships with Debian? Thanks
X11 problems
Hello, I have once again tried to install the debian distribution and I have once again failed to get X11 running. This time with a Hercules Stingray Pro and the SVGA server. The monitor gets black and after CTRL-ALT-F4 I get: TRANS(SocketUNIXConnect) () can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. Does someone have an idea what's going wrong? Thanks a lot, Jens Decker
RE: Questions
Hung, >>Hi, >My CDROM is panasonic CR-562 CDROM. I select >the "sbpcd" module. Is that correct? I believe "sbpcd" is specifically for Sound Blaster and its clones. There may be several different vendors supplying the CD drive and Panasonic is only one of those. Do you have a SB or not? >boots, the busy light in CDROM flashes. But when I use >"dselect", it ask me the block device name. How do I answer it? /dev/sbpcd0 >And when I use "mount" command, it doesn't show CDROM is mounted. ??? 'df' will show you what filesystems are mounted, not mount. To mount the CD filesystem, type: mount /dev/sbpcd0 -t iso9660 /mnt or wherever you want it mounted. Paul
IRCD / SmartList / xfishtank available at ftp.fuller.edu
We got some more packages debianized. Here is the current list of unique debian packages at ftp.fuller.edu: In this directory you will find new packages that are not yet in the standard debian distribution. mgetty-0.99-1 Adds PPP autodetect to mgetty. ppp-2.2.0fx-1 Adds Remote configuration ability for DNS information for dialin Win95 and WinNT users. apache-1.1.1-1 Upgraded Apache Package verse-0.12 Daily Scripture Verses xfishtank-2.2 Fishtank for X ircd-2.8.21-1 IRC Server smartlist-3.10-1 Mailing List Processor. No Perl much faster than Majordomo. If anyone could help us getting these packages onto ftp.debian.org... Also we have set up an IRC Server for the LUG in Los Angeles at lalug.org. We would be interested in building an IRC network with other LUGs.
Re: Sicherheitsluecke bei rlogin auf Linux [LSF Update#11: Vulnerability of rlogin] (fwd)
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephen Masterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Debian/GNU Linux systems may be vulnerable if >> NetKit-B-0.6 is installed. Until the official >> fix-kit is available for Debian/GNU Linux, system >> administrators of Debian systems are advised to >> follow guidelines under Other Linux Distributions >> section. > >Anyone have any more comments about this? There is no package called NetKit >that I know of, I'm just curious if the developers have anything to say? The debian box I checked had all the netkit bugs in it, every last little one except for one - the telnetd environment bug. I've no idea what Debian has chosen to rename netkit as in its internal packaging system, but at minimum you want to replace o rlogin (TERM bug - present in all commercial systems I've tried so ask vendors for a fix too) o talkd (DNS spoofing flash bug, also spoof scribble) Note: the rlogin bug requires an account to exploit o rdist IF you are running it setuid (buffer overrun as seems traditional in older 4.x BSD derived code) Alan -- .-- UKUU free UUCP Project Swansea | Alan Cox, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 1792 422028 (Cabletel) | Custom Linux Software Projects. Sonix 33.6K 24x7 | Linux Consultancy. Linux Networking.
