mgetty isn't answering the phone (ioctl problem)
I'm trying to get mgetty to answer an incoming call on a data line. I'm running mgetty -x 4 -D /dev/ttyS0 and it waits on the line until I call in (I'm running it explicitly from the cmdline as root until I can figure the problem out). On the first ring, it dumps me back to the command prompt. When I call from a normal phone, I hear a ring, a click, another click, and then that's it. A peek at /var/log/mgetty/mg_ttyS0.log shows: 10/22 16:41:48 yS0 lowering DTR to reset Modem 10/22 16:41:48 yS0 send: \d\d\d+++\d\d\d[0d]\dATQ0V1H0[0d] 10/22 16:41:52 yS0 waiting for ``OK'' ** found ** 10/22 16:41:52 yS0 send: AT[0d] 10/22 16:41:52 yS0 waiting for ``OK'' ** found ** 10/22 16:41:53 yS0 waiting... 10/22 16:42:03 yS0 waiting for ``RING'' ** found ** 10/22 16:42:03 yS0 cannot set controlling tty (ioctl): Operation not permitted 10/22 16:42:03 yS0 send: ATA[0d] 10/22 16:42:03 yS0 waiting for ``CONNECT'' 10/22 16:42:03 yS0 found action string: ``NO CARRIER'' 10/22 16:42:03 # failed A_FAIL dev=ttyS0, pid=17138, caller=none, conn='', name='' Notice the cannot set controlling tty (ioctl): Operation not permitted. Suspecting a permission problem, I did an ls -l /dev/ttyS* and that turned up: crw-rw-r-- 1 root dialout4, 64 Oct 22 15:39 ttyS0 crw-rw 1 root tty4, 65 Dec 31 1969 ttyS1 crw-rw 1 root tty4, 66 Dec 31 1969 ttyS2 crw-rw 1 root tty4, 67 Dec 31 1969 ttyS3 I changed the group ownership of ttyS0 to tty, but that didn't help. Any ideas? - Joe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: is ftp.debian.org mirroring properly?
So, the question is : is the Debian Organisation dead ? You wouldn't ask that if you had _my_ mailbox :-) There must have been 20 or 30 debian-devel messages today. I couldn't kill it if I tried. I fixed a subscribe bug yesterday. Perhaps it had bit you. Please send a message with only the word subscribe in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Make sure your reply-to address is valid. Get back to me if it does not work. You don't have to suffer the embarassment of an empty mailbox :-) Also note that about 35 addresses have delivery problems every day. I have an automatic program that sends a second message after some delay to addresses with delivery problems, and if it gets an honest error back (not something that says will continue to try to deliver, etc.) it will unsubscribe you from _all_ of our lists until the problem is fixed. We get a lot of full-mailbox bugs, a lot of local configuration error, etc. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: better fonts?
Hi Rob You wrote: I was looking at some postscript files and quality was not very good. Is there different fonts I can get that would produce better output in X and especially ghostscript? If so, where and how. One thing that will help screen output tremendously is anti-aliasing. The current version of ghostscript supports it, but the Debian package doesn't have the requisite device, yet. How can I do this? Do I need to download the source and compile it? Thanks for any help, David -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
news server
does debian have a news server software i could use? thanks. Pachi, - mIcHaEl ///\ The Australian Internet Company c-00 ISP par Excellence \http://www.electric-rain.net/ (mine) |\_- http://www.aic.net.au/ (not mine) \ / . On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of victory, sat down to wait and waiting died. -G.W Cecil/Adlai Stevenson. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: better fonts?
David Puryear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I do this? Do I need to download the source and compile it? Don't know. All I know is that you should be able to say gv -antialias foo.ps and get antialiasing. Unfortunately, it dies with: Unknown device: x11alpha Error: /undefinedfilename in --file-- ... I think this has been reported as a bug, so it should be fixed in the near future. I would guess that building gs with the right options would work. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Question] Debian 1.1 Installation
Hello; I am interested in installing Debian on a 486 machine. This machine does not have a CDROM drive so I will have to download the whole package and install it from floppies/ftp. Here is my situation; I will be connecting the 486 on Ethernet to an NT box. I would like download all the packages that I need on to that NT box and ftp those packages to the Linux Debian machine. Basically, I would like to install the Debian base installation using a minimum floppies. So my question is; What exactly do I need besdies the 3 base disks, 1 boot disk and 1 root disk to get the Debian machine talking to the NT machine using FTP. My 2nd question/problem is that yesterday I was on the ftp.debian.org site to download the latest disks. I went in the /debian/debian-1.1.11/disks-i386 directory but I couldn't find the floppy images under make-floppies (which seems to be a script). I would like to get the latest _stable_ Debian package. I was wondering if someone could point me to the correct directory on ftp.debian.org to grab this from. If this is a stupid question which is in a fAQ somewhere, please point me to that. I have been on www.debian.org and their instructions seem to be for version 1.1. I would like version 1.1 with the latest fixes/upgrades. i appreciate any help that you can provide me here or thru email. Thanks in advance, Regards, Vaibhav -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Linux-ISP] NCR 825 ctrler
On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: Would you say the Buslogic is better due to higher cost? I've always heard good things about the NCR controllers relative to Linux, but does the fact that they are _much_ cheaper than the BT or Adaptec mean they are poor performers? Has anyone made any comparisons? The NCR card is cheaper and on a machine which isn't very disk intensive (and if you really need to save the $80 bucks or whatever) then I'd go with it. Buslogics seem to have better driver support under Linux. I believe the company was very helpful to people wanting to get driver support under Linux. I've used the PCI NCR cards before under 2.0.x kernels with absolutely *no* problems. They defnitely don't have performance problems. I've heard (although I have no first hand knowledge) that the Adaptec 2940 cards were kinda shitty under 1.2 kernels but that's been resolved with 2.0. -Vik -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Incoming drectory
Hi, I am still having problem copying from the master.debian.org Incoming directory. Is this directory really public? If not, Is it possible to make it public? There are a few days delay between posting packages in Incoming an the time they show up in the stable/unstable directory -Oz -- NAME Oz Dror, Santa Monica, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 396-5798 -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.2 mQBtAzA/tLQAAAEDAKUy/TEjQ/jiZ+9/WJb/+NHxqkvOxGZ3W/F2JCNm5v5ZTZz+ BVZC9GM/I+plQ8xz+7B+KhDSVax8gxNTAkJ+I7P/zAP2ZDMwVf4lq5ZFxMJC+7c7 ET+hNtmQUt8vCVR8hQAFEbQZT3ogRHJvciA8ZHJvckBuZXRjb20uY29tPg== =EU23 -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fixed! (Re: mgetty isn't answering the phone (ioctl problem))
...When I call from a normal phone, I hear a ring, a click, another click, and then that's it. A peek at /var/log/mgetty/mg_ttyS0.log shows: [snip] 10/22 16:42:03 yS0 waiting for ``RING'' ** found ** 10/22 16:42:03 yS0 cannot set controlling tty (ioctl): Operation not permitted [snip] It turns out that mgetty does NOT like being run from a login session. I guess the reason it couldn't set a controlling tty was because it already *had* one... the one I ran mgetty from. So, that gets back to, why wasn't it working when I was using it in inittab? Well, it turns out that the agetty line I had been using (before someone suggested I use mgetty) had set the modem's S0 register to 1. So, as near as I can tell, the modem was answering the modem on its own volition just moments before mgetty sent an ATA which, I believe, toggles the online state (hangs up if off-hook, picks up if on-hook). Hence, the two clicks, I guess. So, putting ATS0=0 in the init line for that tty fixed the problem. However, this has *not* fixed the bizzare problem with pppd thinking I don't have PPP support compiled in, even though I do. Also, the person who suggested that I use mgetty seemed to think I was kiiky for wanting to use uugetty. Well, if he's listening, I'd like to add that, under mgetty, I *still* can't dial out on the modem that mgetty is sitting on. The whole reason I wanted to use uugetty was that it supposedly allowed for dial-in and dial-out without having to do the inittab shuffle. Just thought you might like to know - Joe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gpm problems
Hello I am having problems with gpm, it doesn't paste right. example: cut: syslogd paste: sslgd cut: jed_0.98b2_i386.deb paste: jeds0.98b2si386.deb i have no idea what that can be, i am using Logitech MouseMan Serial version. anyone know what might be the problem? thks borik ___ Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicaragua st. 3/15 Jerusalem Israel 96586 For pgp public key, e-mail me with subject get pgp-key ___ The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. -- Lao Tsu -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mounting CDROM during installation
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, John Hasler wrote: Would it be possible to create an easily found README describing the special kernels, what each one supports, and why one might need to use it? The absence of such a file caused me considerable grief. I second that! And some more! I installed Debian-1.1.x on 3 different machines so far and there was no single easy installation just because of incomplete or even wrong/outdated documentation. It would have e.g. avoided considerable trouble upon my first installation to have the unpacked documentation directory delivered with the 2.0.x-kernel sources handy on my I-Connect CD-ROM. Regards, Paul *8^) - -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: cp850 Comment: 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' for public key. iQCVAwUBMm2eWugqiw1XE3/lAQEcLAP9FU4JdPK6WtqoZcdSvCY/1MWXxjnd6nY/ 99yu2zAFu8U59d1TLNl0+Y+6LPwF2CD5oXXvskSTGhvnznL6lFh+yMhM98nkZH+g 9bpent4vfM0aoBWVyxguipObMZrr5p865u1DUujkNyxMmfr27suy4EWVwVD9a356 KcEa4ONq2KA= =hX7K -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installation blues...
Greetings Debian People! I put in the boot disk and get: Boots the kernel [other stuff blows along the screen] then I get: VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into ramdisk and press enter In goes the root disk and I get: RAM DISK: compressed image found at block 0 invalid compressed format (err=2)5 VFS: Insert root floppy and press enter If I hit enter again I get a bunch of stuff (MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,...) and finally: Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00 Then it is time to reboot. Anyone have some advice for me on how to get by the root disk stage of the installation? TIA! Dennis -- We've had enough of this, you know, buy now, pay later. I was happy that President Bush didn't buy the Jack Kemp philosophy that cuts taxes and doesn't do anything about the deficit. We've done that enough in the last ten years. - Bob Dole, The Wichita Eagle, August 22, 1992. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fixed! (Re: mgetty isn't answering the phone (ioctl problem))
Also, the person who suggested that I use mgetty seemed to think I was kiiky for wanting to use uugetty. Well, if he's listening, I'd like to add that, under mgetty, I *still* can't dial out on the modem that mgetty is sitting on. The whole reason I wanted to use uugetty was that it supposedly allowed for dial-in and dial-out without having to do the inittab shuffle. I've found mgetty to work much better for us than uugetty; but as for your claim, no, you _can_ dial in and out with either package. Email me directly and I'll help fix your mgetty (and ppp, probably) woes; having made every mistake in the book (including your 'ata toggles the line' trouble), I expect I can get yours working. No need to fill the list with it (but I did want to correct your uugetty mgetty claim.) Cheers, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HELP..CGI Scripts and Perl!!
For months I have tried to get the CGI scripts to work. Today I really became upset when I got a simple script with the instructions to install it and it still didn't work. I went through a book called WEB SITE Administrators Survival Guide that explained all of the Permissions settings and it still didn't work. The Url to the CGI script I put is: http://www2.shorebreak.com/cgi-bin/counter.pl What I get is a Error 500 cannot execute counter.pl... I also often get Contact system administrator, that's me and I am not being great help to myself... If anyone can help me with my problem please contact me directly if you can to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will be incredibly greatful to anyone that can help me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: news server
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fundamental [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does debian have a news server software i could use? Yes, install the inn or cnews packages from the news/ section. Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg \ The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ Just reinstall windows and try again, sir. \ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Multi-processor boards: Linux/Debian support?
A rumor has it that WinNT on an 8 processors board gives you a real powerful and scalable machine. A while ago there was a discussion on this list whose conclusion was that a Pentium Pro 200 would be faster than a dual P133 system. From this I deduce there must be some support for multi-processor systems with linux. Questions: 1) Does this need specially compiled software? 2) How would Linux vs NT vs Alpha station compare for numerical computations? 3) Where can I find more info about this. The linux-smp list seems to be sleepy. Many thanks! Amities, Jean Orloff + + + + + + + + ++ +Tel:(33)50.09.16.75 Fax:(33)50.09.94.95 http://lapphp0.in2p3.fr/~orloff/ + + + + + + + + + ++ Outside a Paris dress shop: Dresses for street walking. + + + + + + + + ++ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: news server
The news server software lives under 'news' section in the Debian mirrors. This section can be found from either the 'stable' or 'unstable' directories. For example ftp://ftp.it.com.au/mirrors/linux/debian/Debian-1.1-fixed/binary-i3 86/news/ 'stable' works too An alternative way is to use the package finder system I have made. Package finder can be found from http://house.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/debian/ . Please note that this is not the permanent location but will change in the future. does debian have a news server software i could use? -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * http://www.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/ Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unable to FTP to debian box
Hello, when I try ftp from another machine to my debian PC in a local network, I get the following messages: wrds12:~ ftp wrpc18.urz.uni-wuppertal.de Connected to wrpc18.urz.uni-wuppertal.de. 220 wrpc18 FTP server (Version 5.60) ready. Name (wrpc18.urz.uni-wuppertal.de:schulte): 530 User schulte access denied. Login failed. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp I have the same problem at home with another debian PC. The foreign operatings systems are Linux, Windoze 3.11 and Digital Unix. I fiddled around with those files /etc/hosts.allow, /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/ftpusers -- without success. Any hints? Ciao KWS -- O##OO##O O##O O##O ==The famous SchwebebahnAA==suspension==AA===AA===railway===AA Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Schulte AA AA AA AA Bergische Univ.-GH/HRZ ,__AA__AA___AA_AA___. Gaussstr. 20 | || || || |X| |X| || || || | D-42097 Wuppertal | || || || |X| |X| || || || | Tel 0202/4392807,Fax -2910 |_|| ||___|| |X|_|X| ||___|| ||_| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | |X X| | | | | `==+=+=+=+X===X+=+=+=+==' -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Remainder: package finder
Hello all, About two weeks ago I put a small announce about the package finder I have created. This is just the reminder that the package finder still runs on http://house.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/debian/ and is free for you to use. It will move to some other location in the future so this is not the permanent location so beware of changes. This is what you can do with it: 1. Search for a package with a keyword 2. Search for a package with a filename 3. Browse directly any sections in the distribution. Some features: o You can select a mirror site to download from o Dependencies and other interesting information are hypertext links to the appropriate packages o You can view the file list of the package before downloading. It still runs on my personal PC, so please nice to it but don't hesitate to try and use it. -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * http://www.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/ Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Missing cygwin.dll for win32 cross compiler
Hi! Does someone out there has a cygwin.dll for win32gcc_2.7.2.cygnus.960412-1? I wrote a simple hello world program in C and tried to compile it (also with -static) but when I run the program under Win95 (yuck!) I get a message that I need cygwin.dll. I did an archie request and found 3 different versions, but none works with the output of win32gcc. I also had a look at the cygnus ftp/www server but I only found beta releases of the newest version (with .tar.gz's being 20 mb!). Thanks in advance, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
THANKS and Re: Mounting CDROM during installation
John Hasler wrote: Would it be possible to create an easily found README describing the special kernels, what each one supports, and why one might need to use it? The absence of such a file caused me considerable grief. I could not agree more. I cannot describe how frustrated I was when I discovered that there wasn't a proper README file at the ftp site at 1 am !!! But, more important than that, I want to thank all of the folks who replied to my question about isofs support in the kernel. They all were VERY helpful and after doing a rundep -a +reboot before starting dselect as suggested by several of you, I was happily back in business. THANKS VERY MUCH ! Cheers, Arifi -- Arifi Koseoglu [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libc5-dev upgrades
Hello all, I know that it is intended that kenel header files come with libc5-dev and are not symlinks to the kernel source tree. Ok, this said let us come to my humble request: I would dearly like to use the symlink to my current kernel source on all boxes, this is because of some driver work people are doing. Whenever I upgrade the symlinks zap the /usr/src/linux/include/linux directory and I have to reinstall the include files by hand... Would it be possible to have an option preventing dpkg from following symlinks (or is it already there) so that I can save my kernel setup from zapping when I upgrade libc5-dev? Thanks, Arrigo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 versions of some packages
Andy: Rename the package in non-free to gs-nf. OK, I give in. When I took over the package, I asked on debian-devel (or was it debian-user) what I should do, and, except for Dirk (who, incedentely, I missed in this discussion!), nobodoy answered. On the other hand, the serious problems people have with Debian 1.1.8, and (I suspect 1.1.9), that they cannot install gs, are _not_ related to the name-problem of gs, but because for some reason the current stable gs version has been silently upgraded to the current unstable version (which depends on lib-paper (only in unstable)). I think in 1.1.10, gs should be downgraded again (or libpaper included). -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: news server
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fundamental [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does debian have a news server software i could use? Yes, install the inn or cnews packages from the news/ section. Just don't try the current cnews package from unstable - it's broken. And yes, I've reported it already :-) -- Thomas Baetzler, [EMAIL PROTECTED], thb@(regioservice|inovis).de -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation blues...
Dennis wrote: Greetings Debian People! I put in the boot disk and get: Boots the kernel [other stuff blows along the screen] then I get: VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into ramdisk and press enter In goes the root disk and I get: RAM DISK: compressed image found at block 0 invalid compressed format (err=2)5 VFS: Insert root floppy and press enter If I hit enter again I get a bunch of stuff (MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,...) and finally: Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00 Then it is time to reboot. Anyone have some advice for me on how to get by the root disk stage of the installation? TIA! Dennis Did you format your floppy before putting the root image on it? If that doesn't work, I would suggest trying a different floppy. Hope this helps, -- #include stddisclaimer.h #include MyBiasedOpinions.h [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux - Why use windows when there is a door? Uptime(LinuxSystemDoingTaskA) = Uptime(WindowsSystemNotDoingADamnThing) (c) 1996 Christian Watts Redistribution via the Microsoft Network Prohibited. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Question] Debian 1.1 Installation
On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Vaibhav Goel wrote: Hello; I am interested in installing Debian on a 486 machine. This machine does not have a CDROM drive so I will have to download the whole package and install it from floppies/ftp. Here is my situation; I will be connecting the 486 on Ethernet to an NT box. I would like download all the packages that I need on to that NT box and ftp those packages to the Linux Debian machine. Basically, I would like to install the Debian base installation using a minimum floppies. So my question is; What exactly do I need besdies the 3 base disks, 1 boot disk and 1 root disk to get the Debian machine talking to the NT machine using FTP. All you need to access the NT machine is the base diskettes. I normally do NFS, but I'm 99% sure that FTP will work too. -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/user/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fixed! (Re: mgetty isn't answering the phone (ioctl problem))
On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Joe Emenaker wrote: However, this has *not* fixed the bizzare problem with pppd thinking I don't have PPP support compiled in, even though I do. In my experience, I've had to turn MGETTY OFF when I wanted to make an outbound PPP call. Dunno exactly why. I can dial out when I have MGETTY running, if I dial out with something like Minicom. -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/user/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to FTP to debian box
Hello, when I try ftp from another machine to my debian PC in a local network, I get the following messages: [...] I fiddled around with those files /etc/hosts.allow, /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/ftpusers -- without success. Any hints? Yes, check that your login shell is listed in /etc/shells ... Dominik Kubla -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The text above represents my personal opinion and does not represent the official position of my employer on the issue(s) discussed. Any official statement made on behalf of my employer by me is marked as such. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Question] Debian 1.1 Installation
On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Vaibhav Goel wrote: Hello; I am interested in installing Debian on a 486 machine. This machine does not have a CDROM drive so I will have to download the whole package and install it from floppies/ftp. Here is my situation; I will be connecting the 486 on Ethernet to an NT box. I would like download all the packages that I need on to that NT box and ftp those packages to the Linux Debian machine. Basically, I would like to install the Debian base installation using a minimum floppies. So my question is; What exactly do I need besdies the 3 base disks, 1 boot disk and 1 root disk to get the Debian machine talking to the NT machine using FTP. If you wish to use ftp, you will need one more diskette. This diskette should include the following three packages: netbase-2.04-1.deb, netstd_2.07-1.deb, and ppp-2.2.0f-2.deb. You will not really need ppp if you are ethernet connected, but it couldn't hurt ;-). Install these three packages with 'dpkg -i package.deb' and you should be ready to ftp the rest of the packages into your machine. My 2nd question/problem is that yesterday I was on the ftp.debian.org site to download the latest disks. I went in the /debian/debian-1.1.11/disks-i386 directory but I couldn't find the floppy images under make-floppies (which seems to be a script). I would like to get the latest _stable_ Debian package. I was wondering if someone could point me to the correct directory on ftp.debian.org to grab this from. If this is a stupid question which is in a fAQ somewhere, please point me to that. I have been on www.debian.org and their instructions seem to be for version 1.1. I would like version 1.1 with the latest fixes/upgrades. There should be two directories in the disks-i386 tree. 1996_7_14 (or similar) and special-kernels. The base disks are base14-1/2/3.bin and the boot/root pair are boot1440.bin and root.bin. 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 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libc5-dev upgrades
Arrigo Triulzi writes: I know that it is intended that kenel header files come with libc5-dev and are not symlinks to the kernel source tree. Ok, this said let us come to my humble request: I would dearly like to use the symlink to my current kernel source on all boxes, this is because of some driver work people are doing. Whenever I upgrade the symlinks zap the /usr/src/linux/include/linux directory and I have to reinstall the include files by hand... Would it be possible to have an option preventing dpkg from following symlinks (or is it already there) so that I can save my kernel setup from zapping when I upgrade libc5-dev? Please read /usr/doc/libc5/FAQ.gz. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenView problems
Kevin M Bealer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Arrigo Triulzi wrote: : the OpenView stuff coming with Debian seems to work a little : strangely: I have no borders on menus or any item. I don't really care : I noticed this too, it seemed to depend on color* depth. I : think it worked under pseudocolor, but did not work correctly : under 64K colors. I never bothered to find out why, The xview-clients package is broken. To get correct results on hicolor servers, the byte order has to be changed (in the Makefile) relative to the original SUN version. Take the binaries for olwm or olvwm from slackware or any other distribution. There, this problem was corrected already half a year ago. Best wishes -- Volker Volker Ossenkopf, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Astrophysikalisches Institut und\\/// Universitaets-Sternwarte Jena ( . . ) Tel.: 03641/630324 --oOo--(_)--oOo- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with most in xterm
I have installed an almost uptodate Version of rex. Starting with an update I have made in the last days most is no longer working in a xterm, however it runs fine on the console. I get the following message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] most .xmodmaprc Terminal not powerful enough for SLang. [EMAIL PROTECTED] echo $term xterm Here is what I have installed: slang0.99.34 slang0.99.34-dev most_4.6-1 Thanks for any hint -- Hartmut Manz _/ _| _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ INTES GmbH _/ _/| _/_/_/ _/ _/ Industriestr. 2 _/ _/_| _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ D-70565 STUTTGART _/ _/ _|_/_/_/ _/ _/ Tel: +49 (0)711 784 99 - 29 _/ _/ _|/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ Fax: +49 (0)711 784 99 - 10 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Which PPP stuff?
Hi folks, tonight I hope to get PPP working on my laptop aftering getting the Hayes Optima 144 working last night. What does one take from Rex to get ppp going? DIP/DIAL etc? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP..CGI Scripts and Perl!!
For months I have tried to get the CGI scripts to work. Today I really became upset when I got a simple script with the instructions to install it and it still did n't work. I will be incredibly greatful to anyone that can help me Try to log in on you web server machin and do su nobody, or whatever you have called the user the server executes cgi-scripts as, and try to run the script, and see what it says. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New Infomagic Release
I have been told that InfoMagic has just released a 6 cd-rom set for linux which includes the Debian/GNU Linux 1.1.4. Is this a stable and recent version or is a later version out there? Paul R. Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which PPP stuff?
On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Robert Nicholson wrote: Hi folks, tonight I hope to get PPP working on my laptop aftering getting the Hayes Optima 144 working last night. What does one take from Rex to get ppp going? DIP/DIAL etc? All you need it ppp_2.2.0f-3.deb. If you want an intermittent ppp connection you will need Diald (and that exhausts my knowledge of diald) I bring pppd up and down manualy so don't have any idea of how to configure diald to work for you. 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 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP..CGI Scripts and Perl!!
What I get is a Error 500 cannot execute counter.pl... make sure that your script is executable and readable by the web server: % chmod a+rx counter.pl then, try running counter.pl from the shell: % ./counter.pl it won't `work' in the sense of doing the same thing that it would do if served up by an http server, but at least you'll be able to see whether perl is complaining about syntax errors. finally, start a `tail -f' on the error log file that is generated by the http server (this example may be wrong for you; depends on where your log files are): % tail -f /var/log/apache/errlog this will show you any errors that the perl interpreter is having while running the script. this is a great (well, better) way to debug cgi scripts. john -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to FTP to debian box
Hi, According to Philippe Andersson: Just a thought - I don't know if it's relevant. Is a password associated with your user schulte on wrpc18.urz.uni-wuppertal.de ? I noticed once, on my home Linux box, that I was unable to FTP to it unless I first set a password for my user. Hope this helps. Good luck. Bye. Ph. A. Thank you for your advise. However, _I am_ user schulte, and of course I have a password. I have to admit that I found this behaviour both with the netbase-2.04/ netstd-2.07 packages from stable/buzz-fixed as well with the unstable versions of these packages (don't know the version numbers). Bye KWS -- O##OO##O O##O O##O ==The famous SchwebebahnAA==suspension==AA===AA===railway===AA Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Schulte AA AA AA AA Bergische Univ.-GH/HRZ ,__AA__AA___AA_AA___. Gaussstr. 20 | || || || |X| |X| || || || | D-42097 Wuppertal | || || || |X| |X| || || || | Tel 0202/4392807,Fax -2910 |_|| ||___|| |X|_|X| ||___|| ||_| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | |X X| | | | | `==+=+=+=+X===X+=+=+=+==' -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to FTP to debian box
Hello, According to Niels: On Wed, 23 Oct 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 530 User schulte access denied. Probable solution: Put your shell in /etc/shells, wu-ftpd is picky about that. This was it! However, it is a little more complicated story... I use tcsh, even as root. So I copied tcsh from /usr/bin to /bin, changed /etc/passwd for users schulte and root, but forgot to mention /etc/shells; there was still a line with /usr/bin/tcsh Yes, I shall write 1000 lines with I shall not move debian installed files to odd places... On the other hand, it may become very uncomfortable to be root and having your login shell not in the root file system. Hope this helps! Yes, it works fine now. Thanks to you and all who helped. Niels Bye KWS -- O##OO##O O##O O##O ==The famous SchwebebahnAA==suspension==AA===AA===railway===AA Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Schulte AA AA AA AA Bergische Univ.-GH/HRZ ,__AA__AA___AA_AA___. Gaussstr. 20 | || || || |X| |X| || || || | D-42097 Wuppertal | || || || |X| |X| || || || | Tel 0202/4392807,Fax -2910 |_|| ||___|| |X|_|X| ||___|| ||_| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | |X X| | | | | `==+=+=+=+X===X+=+=+=+==' -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server message
Hello, I installed netscape 3.0 yesterday under /usr/local/netscape When I run netscape and it tries to connect to the default home URL the following message is displayed on the screen: A network error occured: unable to connect to server (TCP Error: No route to host) The server may be down or unreachable. Try connecting later. Also when I log in as root or my user ID the following message is displayed after login. YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain load-otea.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca I think that the two messages might be related. I have checked the /etc/hosts, /etc/host.conf, /etc/networks, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/named.boot against the same files on another server in our department. They are identical. I have read a section on NIS and yellow pages in a Linux system administration book and have added the following line to the /etc/ypserv.conf file ypserverinfo2.load-otea.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca (where info2 is the server name and the rest is the domain name) running the ypcat passwd.byname command results in YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain load-otea.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca No such map passwd.byname. Reason: Can't bind to server which serves this domain I am stumped as to what the problem is. Could somebody let me know if I have missed something and suggest what could be done in order to get netscape running. Thank you in advance, Tej -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New HP DeskJet 870Cxi
Hello, Is anybody using the new HP DeskJet 870Cxi printer ? I would like to know if I will be able to print colour PostScript using apsfilter. Thank you very much for any information. -- Marek -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Expiring mail articles in a region in Gnus?
Hello, I'd like to know how it is possible to expire mail articles in the current region in Gnus. I'm not knowledgeable about Gnus so I can't write it mself, but if someone has an idea or can help me, this would be great... Also, someone sent me a nice intro to using Gnus to read mail. I lost it :-( If you read this message, please, send it again. Thanks in advance, Yves. -- Yves Arrouye Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7, avenue Leon BolleeWeb: http://www.fdn.fr/~yarrouye/ 75013 Paris Work: +33 45 95 64 59 France Home: +33 53 61 09 55 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Callback Internet Link
Hi, I was just wondering if there is a way to make a computer connect itself to the internet using PPP. I have a Sporster Vi modem and would like to be able to dial home and have the modem on answering force the debian system to connect itself to the usual ISP so that I can then access it through the usual TCP/IP protocols (telnet, ftp, ... ). Now I don't know if that is possible or not. Does anyone have a clue? Any pointers or suggestions are welcomed! Thanks in advance! Luis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fixed! (Re: mgetty isn't answering the phone (ioctl problem))
In my experience, I've had to turn MGETTY OFF when I wanted to make an outbound PPP call. Dunno exactly why. I can dial out when I have MGETTY running, if I dial out with something like Minicom. Sounds like your pppd is not getting its locks right. Possible causes: 1) it has not been told to use locks (``lock'' on the command line or in the options file sorts this out) 2) You may be mixing /dev/ttyS? with /dev/cua? devices --- mgetty doesn't like cua's and you should not use them at all on a port that mgetty is using. 3) pppd has been compiled to put the locks in the wrong place. If you run: strings /usr/sbin/pppd | grep LCK you should get ``/var/lock/LCK..'' --- If not you need a different pppd. A clasic symptom of this sort of locking failure is that you will see mgetty's attempts to reset the modem in the logs of the outgoing chat --- Mgetty doesn't know you're still using its line, so it goes ahead and resets it almost as soon as you start dialing. Cheers, Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
