Re: making disk bootable
Thanks! How do I install the mbr package? Is it a normal .deb package? Right now my /dev/hda does NOT have an MBR... I need to install it in order to use lilo. Will liloconf help me out? Ricardo On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: Hi, How do I go about inserting an mbr if my current setup isn't using LILO (and thus hasn't made the hd bootable)? You should install lilo in the root-fs partition. Then it will be loaded if there is a normal MBR and the partition is activated, or you can install the debians mbr package into the MBR. Try to boot from disk and use the liloconf for this (both). Greetings Bernd -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: making disk bootable
Hello, How do I install the mbr package? Is it a normal .deb package? Right now my /dev/hda does NOT have an MBR... I need to install it in order to use lilo. Will liloconf help me out? Yes. Just install lilo with dselect and the mbr package will be present, too. Then run liloconfig, and all should be fine. Of course you can read the Lilo docmentation, too. Greetings Bernd -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?
Rick Macdonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Does anybody know if Caldera's WABI will run on a Debian system?
: Caldera's web page kind of says maybe.
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: I'm tempted to pay the $200 just so I can run Quicken without
: booting up DOS/Windows.
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: I haven't checked for awhile, but I assume that WINE is still
: a long ways away. I couldn't tolerate having my Quicken files
: corrupted!
If Caldera uses RPM then install the Debian RPM Package and the debmake package.
Debmake contains software to install RPM Packages which might enable you to run
WABI under debian.
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Re: ulimit problem
On Fri, 22 Nov 1996 16:04:22 +0800 Tan Wee Yeh ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) wrote: Hi, I'm trying to raise the ulimit as an ordinary user. I don't seem to be able to raise any limit above some ceiling, except when I'm root. Anyone knows how I can raise the limits? It doesn't seem to be the problem with Hard/Soft limits but more like priviledges... From your example, you were trying to raise a hard limit. Only root can raise hard limits. All users and lower and raise soft limits, but constrained by the hard limit. Try using [u]limit without the -H option, it will take soft limits by default. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ulimit problem
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996 11:17:22 +0800 Tan Wee Yeh ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) wrote: On Fri, 22 Nov 1996 16:04:22 +0800 Tan Wee Yeh ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) wrote: Anyone knows how I can raise the limits? It doesn't seem to be the problem with Hard/Soft limits but more like priviledges... From your example, you were trying to raise a hard limit. Only root can raise hard limits. All users and lower and raise soft limits, but constrained by the hard limit. Try using [u]limit without the -H option, it will take soft limits by default. The hardlimit part is ok.. I just want to raise the limits for the normal user... Anyone can lower and raise the soft limits, as long as they remain under the hard limit. Can you be more precise with your problem ? Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dselect docs for beginners
On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Tim Sailer wrote: Looks great! We should expand on this (maybe on a web page) to make a more complete documentaion of dselect. People tend to read stuff they can print out, but get flustered in an application like dselect. Tim PS: I'll make the web page and add to it if there is that need. A web page would be the ideal format, so that the main index is kept simple and then you have as many levels as you like to demonstrate things. But we need them to read it _before_ they install all the packages. Version 4 now on ftp://oak.scotch.wa.edu.au/pub. The boss says that I need more stuff to explain concepts. This really isn't my cup of tea... But I have learnt a lot more about dselect than I knew before. Lindsay -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: making disk bootable
On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: Hi! How do I go about inserting an mbr if my current setup isn't using LILO (and thus hasn't made the hd bootable)? Does toggling the bootable flag in fdisk take care of that? I'd like to install lilo on my system and up to now I haven't used it, so my hd is not bootable. TIA! Ricardo the MBR is master boot record. this is the actual software that brings up the system. The MBR in this case is initialized when you install LILO. Its not something you install then add LILO. It *IS* LILO. -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/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]
apache
Has anyone noticed that apache doesn't do proper document parsing in subdirs off the root dir? I just noticed this as I was putting up the page for Debian/dselect (http://www.buoy.com/debian), and I looked at a few of our other pages, and it's the same way! Check out the page source, and note the last date modified at the end. I just converted the server over to Apache from Spinner/Roxen, and didn't catch this! :( I even tried the 'XBitHack', and it makes no difference. Maybe I should direct this to the apache list. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps They tell me my job is easy... anyone can do it. Why doesn't anyone else want it? -- me ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Error making kernel package
Hi Folks - In my never ending saga with Debian Linux and the custom kernel I finally found thanks to help from others on the net dpkg-dev and installed it. When I tried to make the custom kernel package I get the following error: warning, 'debian/tmp-image/DEBIAN/control/' contains user-defined field 'Installed-Size' dpkg-deb: building package 'kernel-image-2.0.25' in '..'. dpkg-deb: ignoring 1 warning about control file(s) dpkg-deb: unable to create '..': Is a directory make: *** [stamp-image] Error 2 Some one please explain this to me. I've done everything as it says in the docs and I can't understand why it is so hard to build a kernel in Debian Linux. While the idea of package handling is good I am beginning to feel a bit frustrated by all this. I don't understand why it has to be so difficult to build a custom kernel. Building a kernel is probably one of the most important things a person would do with his/her linux box and while slackware has received much bad PR recently I can say that building a kernel with it is much easier. Thanks. Juan email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: howto compile kernel in Debian 1.1.2
On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Alex Romosan wrote: you need 'kernel-package' which you can find under unstable in misc. unpack your kernel, cd linux, 'make config', and then do 'make-kpkg -r x.x.x kernel_image', where x.x.x is the debian version number assigned to the kernel (i give them the same number as the linux version). cd .., and then dpkg -i kernel-..., you get the idea. btw, i would suggest you subscribe to the debian mailing lists (go to the debian web page and subscribe from there). --alex-- Hi Alex - I tried what you said immediately after I got your message but I still keep getting the same error. I installed the kernel-package but I believe it was already installed and still it was a no go. What version of Debian are you using? --- Juan Casero email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Redeemed by Linux -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)
On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: Yes. However, we still might look askance at Qt due to the other licensing terms, which are more restrictive than the GPL, especially since V (another C++ GUI) is under the GPL. Please understand I'm not making a technical criticisim. I just wish they would GPL the darned thing and leave it at that. They may be afraid of the situation that some other authors run into with freely distributable packages. For example, Knuth's TeX package had some of the fonts changed by someone other than the author. While the Knuth does not care if the fonts are modified, he really cares that the modified fonts were of the same name as his fonts. The result of the changed fonts were documents that looked different on different installations of TeX (depending on whether the site got the original fonts or not). This is very undesirable from the author's point of view, as he put considerable effort into ensuring that documents produced with TeX look the same regardless of the hardware used (within physical limits). While the Qt authors may have different concerns than Knuth does over TeX, the idea may be the same: modified versions may reflect badly on Troll Tech. -- William Burrow -- Fredericton Area Network, New Brunswick, Canada Copyright 1996 William Burrow The above is pure speculation. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
please use V
From: William Burrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] While the Qt authors may have different concerns than Knuth does over TeX, the idea may be the same: modified versions may reflect badly on Troll Tech. I understand their concern, I just don't share it. Debian doesn't place this sort of restriction on the system. I think I'll encourage people to use V - it's GPL-ed and arguing about Qt's license just isn't our job. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lprng gone?
I just got an alert about a linux security hole. The alert recommended using lprng from ftp.debian.org:/debian/project/experimental But, lprng is missing. Will it return? -- Scott Barker Linux Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~barkers/ (under construction) [ I try to reply to all e-mail within 3 days. If you don't ] [ get a response by then, I probably didn't get your e-mail. ] [ Unsolicited commercial and junk e-mail will be proof-read for US$100 ] An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. - H. L. Mencken -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting a list of changes to a package...
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a list kept anywhere that details the changes that were made to a given Debian package. I know that a little blurb is sent to debian-changes (or some list like that) every time a new version is uploaded, but I was wondering if there's some place where I can see a history of the revisions. Most packages place their changelog in /usr/doc/package/changelog.Debian. I think that the question was whether we could get the info before downloading the package. That is, is there a change log of some sort at the ftp or web site? Actually, I don't know if that was the question but I would certainly like to know. Thanks, Nathan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[off topic?] need functionality
Hey, Thi may not be the right place to ask, but I'm looking for a utility similar to tkined that lets you select and _move_ objects around to create a nice looking display. It would be good to be able to can different views of the same network subnet as well, but this means objects need to live in different groups at once under tkined, which isn't allowed. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- *** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. *** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I use deb-make?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Johann Spies wrote: I downloaded it and saw in the documentation that I need rpm to be able to use alien to install redhat-packages. So I downloaded rpm, tried to debianize it by trying deb-make, debstat, alien and dpkg --build, but without any success. Better try installing the Debian native rpm_2.2.7-5.deb from the next Debian mirror site. Works fine here. Regards, P. *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: latin1 Comment: 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' for public key. iQCVAwUBMpbLUOgqiw1XE3/lAQH5cgP9ET1EzUs2DwqseoYZpvOx5ZbGH8vkqqOt 4NIZH6huyLwxKCLjQOVxVcW8Nhj/T7Swey6FJE/xuYGVVApF4pmLPzkS4nXUARM1 19lZZND7Ti3vxW8wY/c9wou2Ut42CrRFKb+eP/tmz4UWEgszJiVW4wSlrq4kJGhd IiK6buxJYl4= =CoB7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lprng gone?
Scott Barker wrote: I just got an alert about a linux security hole. The alert recommended using lprng from ftp.debian.org:/debian/project/experimental But, lprng is missing. Will it return? What is it? lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
list of changes buzz - re ?
Once rex is released, could a list of updated packages be posted? Until I get a CD-ROM of it from somewhere, I'd like to download the packages and install them individually. I'm running dpkg-ftp right now, but my ISP is extremely slow and downloading approximately 21mb is going to take hours. I have a much faster shell account elsewhere, though. A list of things that have changed would help. Thanks! (Or perhaps a dpkg-shell-ftp kludge? :-) ftp+sz ...) hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libc-5.4.13
Will Debian 1.2 have libc-5.4.13? It's on sunsite; says it's a bugfix. -- Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.teleport.com/~karlheg (K0D) AYG-GE01 Portland, OR, USA :) Proudly running Linux 2.0.25 transname and Debian GNU public software! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD-ROM IRQ Timeout
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Christian Hudon wrote: 'hdb irq timeout : status = 0x58 hdb ATAPI reset complete' I have a Goldstar 8-speed CD-ROM drive giving me the same messages but i don't know how to handle/evaluate/change this. Any hints someone? Try giving hdb=cdrom as an argument to the kernel. Maybe that will help. No, this doesn't make any difference. This parameter only is necessary to tell the kernel that /dev/hdb is a CD-ROM drive instead of a harddisk. The effect is the same as described by the original poster. Any other ideas? Regards, P. *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: latin1 Comment: 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' for public key. iQCVAwUBMpbjlegqiw1XE3/lAQETEAP/Sy4LVrhmZAB0kep2g8nEc/eLuJN9bZGw 3AeuAzqP37zBHagZ3/7FwD3w/chyeBh3Usm2he36DXICdcqCUHLEKg8/ok0eZTyE 0ceQGnOfFeZ1o5+ERTwZt8D8V0LXr6jt+mz9uUdMqHw6b7XTdVX1vPgivZVa9ji4 2u/pNzSIKxE= =A8pR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
permissions wrong in new base-files ?
I installed the new base-files, mainly because I needed to install base again to once again restore my /tmp directory, which keeps losing world-write permissions. As far as I can tell, /tmp created by base-files has the wrong permissions too.. I extracted it with dpkg-deb -x also with the same result. thanks, Hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Oleo - Any docs?
Yes, there is additional oleo documentation. Steve Fisk has written nice info pages. Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to integrate it into the oleo release yet. Oleo development has been ignored for a couple of years now. I'm trying to update some of the configuration. I expect to have the oleo documentation available in the next month or so. -- kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SCCS for Linux
Is there SCCS for Linux? I have been able to find it. True SCCS is commercial. Try a dejanews (www.dejanews.com) search on SCCS Linux; it results in 50+ hits, including a references to the following URL: ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/sources/usr.bin/MySC-linux.tar.gz Hope this helps, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libc-5.4.13
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Will Debian 1.2 have libc-5.4.13? It's on sunsite; says it's a bugfix. It should be the last libc5 release and the next one should be libc6. lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Martin Konold wrote: On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: Then they can't be GPL'd. You should read the license. It prohibits modification restrictions (which QT has). Of course the apps CAN be gpled! Even if they have to be linked against some commercial libs. There are hundreds of gpled Motif based pieces of software out there. You are not allowed to distribute changed version of the library but you are welcome to change the gpled application as you like. Soon LyX will also be Qt based. That's too bad, I kind of like lyx. Obviously, you unfortunately do not know hwat you are talking about, sorry. The very first versions of LyX have been Motif 1.2 based. This had the BIG disadvantage that the co developers did not want to buy the commercial Motif stuff. Matthias then switched to Xforms. They most recent stable beta is based on Xform 0.81. Xforms is free of charge for non commercial use. The developers do NOT provide their source code. Xforms is limited due to time constraints of the two developers. LyX will in the near future switch to Qt. Qt is in contrast to Xforms available free of charge to the freeware community and much more important it is WITH source code! It has also advantages from the programmers point of view. (C++...) So even for the GNU purists it must be evident, that Qt is LESS restricting than the Xforms license. How does it come that you are talking about stuff you do not understand. I personally would appreciate something like alladins license for ghostscript beeing applied for Qt. But Qt is still a very new, but promising project. You never got back to me on the kterm issue. It seems to me that the KDE kterm is _not_ the same as the long standing JE version of xterm of the same name. This is poor netiquette at best and micro$oft like behavior at worst. What's the deal? This QT/KDE mentality is rubbing the wrong way already. kterm is neither directly based on the JE version of xterm nor on xterm but on rxvt(which is not gpl, but free). Yours, -- martin // Martin Konold, Muenzgasse 7, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany // // Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Linux - because reboots are for hardware upgrades -- Edwin Huffstutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Just go ahead and write your own multitasking multiuser os ! Worked for me all the times. -- Linus Torvalds -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: making disk bootable
Hello, the MBR is master boot record. this is the actual software that brings up the system. The MBR in this case is initialized when you install LILO. Its not something you install then add LILO. It *IS* LILO. lilo can be installed as the MBR, but in debian it isnt. Debian has a package called mbr. Lilo depends on it. This little Program will be installed into the master boot record of the system by liloconfig. The PAckage mbr enables you to select the partition to boot from. This is a small subset of the functionality lilo offers, but it is easier for beginners. Read /usr/doc/mbr/README. Greetings Bernd -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, William Burrow wrote: While the Qt authors may have different concerns than Knuth does over TeX, the idea may be the same: modified versions may reflect badly on Troll Tech. This is not the whole story, since it is only their X version that is free for non-commercial use. Porting your free app to, say, MSwin just isn't possible, and porting is the whole point of using GUI libraries. V is free under the GPL (that is, not only for non-commercial use!) for all its platforms and should be preferred. // 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]
debian via ftp
Hi - let's use this tool as well :) After reading some of the readmefiles I still have some Q. I have Linux 2.0.0 from the German distributor S.u.S.E., after installing some packages directly from sunsite, other from debian I must have confused my system a bit :} this and other problems made me want to reinstall the system. I also increase my hdspace from 1 to 2.2 GB which gives me more space to spead my files :) [and the possibility to make a backup partition :] I wan't to install debian now via etherlink. Which programs do I need for that ? [ dselect , dk??-ftp , ... ] And were are they ? can you give me suggestions in partitoning 1.5 GB ? can I just overwrite my running system or should I first get rid of some parts ? ( i don't wan't the system to crash while I install :) thanx and God bless you -- Alexander N. Benner ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( #IXThYS ) 2941 University Meadows Drive #815,St.Louis MO 63121, USA ; (314)516-7886 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://home.pages.de/~Nikodemus/ For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Messiah: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that beliveth; _to the Jew first_ and also to the Gentiles. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shal live by faith. ROMANS 1:16-17 PGP via www or finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] bzw [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lprng gone?
On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Scott Barker wrote: I just got an alert about a linux security hole. The alert recommended using lprng from ftp.debian.org:/debian/project/experimental But, lprng is missing. Will it return? It's in .../net/... ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Managing a network of Debian machines?
I've been a user of RedHat for the last year and a half. RedHat in general is a nice distribution, but the only reason I really use it is for RPM, the package manager. One thing that RPM cannot really help with is managing a whole network of workstations. Say I have ten Linux machines with a package manager I want all ten to stay synchronized, to have the same version of all packages. How do I do this? In a traditional Unix installation one way to do this is to only install the vendor's default Unix on each hard drive. Since commercial Unices don't update frequently, this means that you have to sync each machine every year or so. Then all the packages you *really* care about (say, emacs or perl) get installed in an NFS mounted /usr/local. NFS takes care of the synchronization, since there's only one copy. But that doesn't work for RedHat, and I imagine doesn't work for Debian. If I upgrade emacs, for instance, it's going to upgrade in /usr/bin, a directory traditionally not NFS mounted. I would have to run the package upgrade command on every machine. One solution would be to automate the package updates, run a cron job on all machines that keep them in sync with some master list of package versions. This isn't very efficient, but would be acceptable. Does someone have such a script for Debian? The other solution, one I sort of like, is to NFS mount as much as possible on all the machines but one. Clients NFS mount /usr (maybe even the whole root disk) from a central server that is maintained by hand. This duplicates the /usr/local NFS setup of typical machines, but entails quite a big network cost. What's the right solution? Assume disk is cheap, bandwidth is fairly cheap, but sysadmin time is really expensive. If Debian could provide some solution, it would be a big help to Linux administrators. PS: the web archive of these mailing lists on www.debian.org isn't working right. Messages aren't being split correctly. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: list of changes buzz - re ?
individually. I'm running dpkg-ftp right now, but my ISP is extremely slow and downloading approximately 21mb is going to take hours. I have a much faster shell account elsewhere, though. A list of things that have changed would help. Thanks! (Or perhaps a dpkg-shell-ftp kludge? :-) ftp+sz ...) I think dftp can handel this, since you can run it on your shell account with a list of Files to fetch. See dftp --help for instructions. Greetings Bernd -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: making disk bootable
Daniel Stringfield wrote: On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: How do I go about inserting an mbr if my current setup isn't using LILO (and thus hasn't made the hd bootable)? the MBR is master boot record. this is the actual software that brings up the system. The MBR in this case is initialized when you install LILO. Its not something you install then add LILO. It *IS* LILO. A minor clarification: booting from hard disk is a two-stage process. First the system BIOS reads the MBR and begins executing it. The usual DOS MBR code reads the partition table (also contained in the MBR) and finds the primary partition which is flagged as bootable, reads the first sector of that partition (the partition's boot block) and begins executing it. This code is responsible for loading and starting the operating system in a system-dependent way. LILO's boot loader code can be installed either on the MBR or on a Linux partition's boot sector. In the former case, Daniel Stringfield is exactly correct -- LILO is completely sufficient. In the latter, the MBR must be initialized with the some code which can behave like the DOS MBR; the Linux partition must be flagged as bootable if LILO is to be loaded. -- Bill Roman ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]) running linux -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lprng gone?
Lawrence Chim said: What is it? A replacement for the bsd lpr. The bsd lpr suffers from a buffer overrun security hole right now. -- Scott Barker Linux Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~barkers/ (under construction) [ I try to reply to all e-mail within 3 days. If you don't ] [ get a response by then, I probably didn't get your e-mail. ] [ Unsolicited commercial and junk e-mail will be proof-read for US$100 ] Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar. - Sign in a Norwegian cocktail lounge -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Error making kernel package
Hi, The warning 'debian/tmp-image/DEBIAN/control/' contains user-defined field 'Installed-Size' indicates that you are using the new version of kernel-package, which creates a new style package, with the stable version of dpkg, which does not yet understand it. That is also the problem later when it refuses to build the package with the error dpkg-deb: unable to create '..': Is a directory I think you should upgrade to the latest version of dpkg from frozen (that is rex, I believe), and hopefully your problems will go away. If not, feel free to send me mail. manoj -- Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
web-based mail archiver for debian? Mhonarc!
Is there a version of Hypermail (the web-based mail archiver) for Debian? No. Having used Hypermail, I recommend mhonarc (hypermail dumped core when used on large archives on FreeBSD), which is packaged: Following your suggestion I've installed mhonarc on a linux debian machine, and it is great. Only a problem that I cannot solve because I'm not good enough. I set-up mhonarc in a way it is started by .forward every time an email arrives, using the webnewmail perl example. It works fine, but it creates the new messages with this protections and owner: -rw-r--r-- 1 fabrizio fabrizio 366 Nov 22 11:02 index.html -rw--- 1 nobody nogroup 23136 Nov 22 11:08 .mhonarc.db -rw--- 1 nobody nogroup 9917 Nov 22 11:08 maillist.html -rw--- 1 nobody nogroup 1303 Nov 21 21:31 msg0.html etc. (the last three lines are generated by mhonarc) The Apache server accesses the pages correctly. But when I want to delete a message, or scan the database, using mhonarc -scan, mhonarc cannot access it because of the wrong ownership of the files (when I start it manually it runs with 'fabrizio:fabrizio' ownership) I can I solve this problem? The installation program (dpkg) did all automatically, so I don't know what should be changed. thanks a lot! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mirror
I'm trying to mirror the entire debian tree. When I do a: mirror -d -gmaster.debian.org:/pub/Linux/Debian/* It works. But... When I do a: mirror -d -RDebian /etc/mirror/packages/master.debian.org I get: package=Debian master.debian.org:/pub/Linux/Debian - /debian Scanning local directory /debian Scanning remote directory /pub/Linux/Debian Cannot change to remote directory (/pub/Linux/Debian/Incoming/DONE) because: 550 /pub/Linux/Debian/Incoming/DONE: Permission denied. Cannot get remote directory details (/pub/Linux/Debian) disconnecting from master.debian.org All done, Exiting Any clues? TIA -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! # Example parameter file for the Debian GNU/Linux mirror package # # This serves as an illustration for a valid mirror parameter file. See the # man page mirror(1) and the files in /usr/doc/mirror/examples/* for details. # # You can use this as a starting point for a local mirror of parts of the # Debian distribution. As an example, it is set up to ignore non-i386 # architecture, sources, msdos-8.3-named files, the mailing list archives # as well as the WebPages for www.debian.org. It will take up around 200 MB. # # It worked for me when I wrote it, but it might fail for you. No warranties # whatsoever. Use at your own risk. # # Written by Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] package=Debian # comment=Mirror master.debian.org/pub/Linux/Debian # # specify remote host and directory site=master.debian.org remote_dir=/pub/Linux/Debian # # specify local directory local_dir=/debian # # inform this user about results mail_to=root # # compress these files (see perlre(1) for regular expressions) compress_patt=\.*(Contents|Packages|Packages-Master|ls-lR|contents|md5sums|Maintainers)$ # # exclude these files or directories # see man perlre for information on perl's regular expressions exclude_patt=(.mirrorinfo) # # preserve these files or directories (see perlre(1) for reg. expr.) delete_excl=(local$) # # do not delete if more than 20% of all files would vanish max_delete_files=20% # # this speeds up the construction of the remote ls-lR by pruning recurse_hard=true
Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Martin Konold wrote: On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: Then they can't be GPL'd. You should read the license. It prohibits modification restrictions (which QT has). Of course the apps CAN be gpled! Even if they have to be linked against some commercial libs. Not by my reading of the GPL. There are hundreds of gpled Motif based pieces of software out there. Name 5.By your assertion, I could modify GNU Emacs to use Motif widgets, and distribute the modified version freely, under the GPL. I am certain that if I were to do that, one of the first people I would hear complaints from would be RMS himself. The FSF has consistantly held that the GPL covers not the source implementation of the program alone, but specifically covers the executable form -- the source simply being the preferred way to distribute the executable. The GPL requires that the entire program be available in source form in a way easily modifiable and be distributable in that form. This includes any libraries that must be linked into the final executable -- with the special exception of system libraries normally distributed with the system itself, like libc, etc. This precludes commercial or proprietary library packages. As a concrete example of this, the FSF argued that a program that was designed to link against the RSAREF library couldn't be GPLed, because of the restrictive nature of the license on RSAREF. The situation was with regard to a program that was designed to link against both RSAREF and the GNU GMP math libraries (which is GPLed). The FSF argued that since the program linked against GNU GMP, it -must- be GPLed, but since it linked against RSAREF, it -couldn't- be GPLed. The FSF dropped their objection when someone wrote and released a non-GPLed math library compatable with GMP, thus making the original program not dependant on GMP (there were other libraries it could choose from). Based on this event, I would say that any attempt to link a GPLed program with a non-free package (like Qt) would run into similar problems -- unless there was a interface compatable free replacement for Qt, in which case, we would suggest that people use that. Much like we are going to suggest that people use Lesstif instead of Motif when it is stable and complete enough. You are not allowed to distribute changed version of the library but you are welcome to change the gpled application as you like. Soon LyX will also be Qt based. That's too bad, I kind of like lyx. Obviously, you unfortunately do not know hwat you are talking about, sorry. The very first versions of LyX have been Motif 1.2 based. This had the BIG disadvantage that the co developers did not want to buy the commercial Motif stuff. Matthias then switched to Xforms. They most recent stable beta is based on Xform 0.81. Xforms is free of charge for non commercial use. The developers do NOT provide their source code. Xforms is limited due to time constraints of the two developers. LyX will in the near future switch to Qt. Qt is in contrast to Xforms available free of charge to the freeware community and much more important it is WITH source code! It has also advantages from the programmers point of view. (C++...) Try taking a look at V. It is GPLed, available in source form, and also a C++, object oriented approach to a GUI. So even for the GNU purists it must be evident, that Qt is LESS restricting than the Xforms license. But it is still MORE restricting in key ways than the Xforms licence. What do you do if LyX breaks because of a bug in Qt? The standard Free Software method would be to fix the bug, send a patch back to the authors, and continue using the modified library, distributing it if necessary until the authors fix the bug in the upstream version. This doesn't work with the Qt license, since you can't distribute modified versions of Qt. What do you do if a new feature needs to be added? In the standard GPL model, you add the feature, tell the authors what and how you did it, so that it may be incorporated into future upstreams versions, and distribute, if needed, the version with new features. This is how Objective C got added to gcc by NeXT, how Lucid Emacs, MULE, and Nemacs split from GNU Emacs, and so it. This can't happen with the Qt license, since you can't distribute modified versions of Qt. What do you do if you need to port LyX to a new platform with slightly different requirements for it's low-level graphics handling (like, for instance, NeXTStep, which uses Display-Postscript for it's underlying graphics engine)? Not a problem with the GPL, since you can modify GPLed programs at your will. On the otherhand, since the Windows Qt libraries are proprietary without source, this seems to be evidence that the authors of Qt do -not- want you to be able to port
Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Buddha Buck wrote: Of course the apps CAN be gpled! Even if they have to be linked against some commercial libs. Not by my reading of the GPL. There are hundreds of gpled Motif based pieces of software out there. Name 5.By your assertion, I could modify GNU Emacs to use Motif widgets, and distribute the modified version freely, under the GPL. I am certain that if I were to do that, one of the first people I would hear complaints from would be RMS himself. There is actually a Motif Version of Emacs called Motif Xemacs (used to be called Lucid Emacs) I just ckecked the copyright statement on the moste recent version (19.14) It definetlely is GPL! Soon LyX will also be Qt based. That's too bad, I kind of like lyx. Obviously, you unfortunately do not know hwat you are talking about, sorry. Try taking a look at V. It is GPLed, available in source form, and also a C++, object oriented approach to a GUI. So even for the GNU purists it must be evident, that Qt is LESS restricting than the Xforms license. But it is still MORE restricting in key ways than the Xforms licence. You did not tell in which respect the Xforms license is less restricting than the Qt license! Please do so. Yours, -- martin // Martin Konold, Muenzgasse 7, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany // // Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Linux - because reboots are for hardware upgrades -- Edwin Huffstutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Just go ahead and write your own multitasking multiuser os ! Worked for me all the times. -- Linus Torvalds -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange behavior of lpr+lpd
On Thu, 21 Nov 96 14:48:07 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which version of gs dou you use? Version 3.33 it is not a debian package, I installed it manually. (well, there is one in non-free) If I invoke the filter with /etc/filter.ps filetoprint.ps /dev/lp1 the printer prints. Ok. So for so good. If I do lpr filetoprint.ps nothing appear. If I do lpq it says lp is ready and is printing but it is not true. This doesn't say anything. But you do see any pending jobs in the queue? A la: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ~$lpq stylus is ready and printing Rank Owner Job Files Total Size active david 312 demo.c 180 bytes There is the pending job. Lpc says queuing is enabled printing is enabled 1 entry in spool area etc Fine. PS: What was your success with magicfilter? No success with magicfilter no with apsfilter Bad. PPS: Have you read the Printing-HOWTO? Obviously. Sorry. Just wanted to be sure. I begin to suspect there is a cable problem, with windows95 and directly with postscript I can print, but when lpq says that lp is ready and printing I notice that the data led on my printer lights, and sometimes the printer loads a sheet of paper. I will try another printer cable. But the question is, what handshake the lpd do with the printer? I mean, what return value/signal lpd would receive from the printer before send another data? lpd itself doesn't handshake. It only spools the data and sends it to /dev/lp? (the one you gave in /etc/printcap). If you can print directly via 'cat filetoprint.txt /dev/lp?' (as root) lpd should also work (modulo permissions). You could report back the permissions of /dev/lp?, /usr/sbin/lpd and your filters. If you can't print directly there is something wrong with the driver (I, for example, had to put the driver into polling mode, using IRQ 7 didn't work with my Epson Stylus !?) Later, David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gnus as a mailer
I've been using mh for a while now, and even though it's super functional, I'd like to try something else. S I look at the headers on this list and lots of people seem to be using Gnus as a mailer. Is there a page detailing how to do this? There is breif mention in the info pages, but not enough to get me going. Thanks -lars louder -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Buddha Buck wrote: Of course the apps CAN be gpled! Even if they have to be linked against some commercial libs. Not by my reading of the GPL. There are hundreds of gpled Motif based pieces of software out there. Name 5.By your assertion, I could modify GNU Emacs to use Motif widgets, and distribute the modified version freely, under the GPL. I am certain that if I were to do that, one of the first people I would hear complaints from would be RMS himself. There is actually a Motif Version of Emacs called Motif Xemacs (used to be called Lucid Emacs) I just ckecked the copyright statement on the moste recent version (19.14) It definetlely is GPL! Interesting. I wasn't aware that a Motif version of Xemacs existed. I use Xemacs on both my Linux system at home and at school (on Solaris), and neither version uses Motif. Checking the Xemacs docs (I don't have the full source) seems to imply that it can be build using Motif, but definately doesn't require it. It also implies that in some respects (like scroll bar performance), Motif-less Xemacs is better anyway (the scroll bars are the only place I was able to find mention of Motif in the equivilant of /usr/lib/xemacs/etc on my system at school, I'm not able to check what I'm using at home. In any event, Motif is -not- required for Xemacs in the same way that Qt would be required for LyX. So even for the GNU purists it must be evident, that Qt is LESS restricting than the Xforms license. But it is still MORE restricting in key ways than the Xforms licence. You did not tell in which respect the Xforms license is less restricting than the Qt license! Please do so. Sure... I mistyped. I meant to type ...GPL. instead of ...Xforms license. The rest of the discussion I had described what you could do naturally under GPL but not with Qt with its licensing the way it is now, thus demonstrating that the Qt license was more restrictive than GPL. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Error making kernel package
On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, juan j casero wrote: Hi Folks - In my never ending saga with Debian Linux and the custom kernel I finally found thanks to help from others on the net dpkg-dev and installed it. When I tried to make the custom kernel package I get the following error: warning, 'debian/tmp-image/DEBIAN/control/' contains user-defined field 'Installed-Size' dpkg-deb: building package 'kernel-image-2.0.25' in '..'. dpkg-deb: ignoring 1 warning about control file(s) dpkg-deb: unable to create '..': Is a directory make: *** [stamp-image] Error 2 Some one please explain this to me. I've done everything as it says in the docs and I can't understand why it is so hard to build a kernel in Debian Linux. While the idea of package handling is good I am beginning to feel a bit frustrated by all this. I don't understand why it has to be so difficult to build a custom kernel. Building a kernel is probably one of the most important things a person would do with his/her linux box and while slackware has received much bad PR recently I can say that building a kernel with it is much easier. Thanks. Juan email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're some useful package in Debian Linux that can really ease things. To make a custom kernel, I simply run the config script in the kernel-source package (by typing make xconfig, make menuconfig, or make config) and then run the ./DEBIAN.rules in the same dir (may be I mistype the name, my source aren't installed). To make a custom-kernel-[source or image or headers] package, download the kernel-package in the misc section. Work pretty well. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux books.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, The Mighty Jorge wrote: Hi. I am just beginning to learn how to use and install Linux, and I was wondering if anyone had any book recommendations. I'm looking for something in the beginner to intermediate range, covering installation, system administration, configuration, and the like. Thanks. Jorge For references, I suggest you Unix in a NutShell. Its for systemV but so useful. In good general books, I think that Running Linux from ORA are good. Same thing for Linux System Administration at the same editor. Almost, the Linux Bible can be a good suggestion for a hardcopy of the Howto, although it was a little out of date. Welcome Good Luck! You can learn a lot from Linux. - --- Not knowing we're you going always lead you to a Baggus end. the lost Baggus Mage - --- Fabien Ninoles aka Baffouille || Running Debian-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| Lover of MOO, mountains, http://www-edu.gel.usherb.ca/ninf01 || poetry and Freedom. - --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMpdiH1X6fc7jcjhFAQEPwQP9GrOtbQLB32gPP/hqjRKH+p47oubMrMEw a0s60uRKI6vjyPh7QYgHuvk8XZ9ex0cLTAAdUBws0hYjzEjIXumEBp3TgyNg+/vH UuWZu+QIQEEkFTlHZjXs5bAWWHjFFfl5k+TCfxoAoOC5+spJ3pVp+fQMwsJGtbeP oW+niDCvnNo= =o6DQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)
Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] There are hundreds of gpled Motif based pieces of software out there. Name 5.By your assertion, I could modify GNU Emacs to use Motif widgets, and distribute the modified version freely, under the GPL. I am certain that if I were to do that, one of the first people I would hear complaints from would be RMS himself. There is a file in the GNU Emacs distribution for Motif support (yes in `emacs-19.34b.tar.gz' from any of your friendly neighbourhood GNU mirror) It's called `lwlib-Xm.c' and here's the top comment from it: /* The lwlib interface to Motif widgets. Copyright (C) 1992 Lucid, Inc. This file is part of the Lucid Widget Library. The Lucid Widget Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version. The Lucid Widget Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ You don't _have_ to modify GNU Emacs for Motif widgets, it _already_ supports them. And if you are not yet convinced, here's an excerpt from the output of `configure --help' in a Emacs source directory: Usage: configure [options] [host] Options: [defaults in brackets after descriptions] Configuration: --cache-file=FILE cache test results in FILE --help print this message [snip] --enable and --with options recognized: --with-gcc use GCC to compile Emacs --with-pop support POP for mail retrieval --with-kerberos support Kerberos-authenticated POP --with-hesiod support Hesiod to get the POP server host --with-x-toolkit=KITuse an X toolkit (KIT = yes/lucid/athena/motif/no) --with-xuse the X Window System ^^^ - Hari -- Raja R Harinath -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all else fails, read the instructions. -- Cahn's Axiom Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing. -- Roy L Ash -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fdisk errors
I have recently created a small (16MB) ext2 partition on the same hard drive where I have my root Linux partition. Today, I tried to delete it if with fdisk, since I don't need it anymore, but after I exit the fdisk with the w option, and it is done syncing disks, I get the following error: Reread table failed with Error 16: device or resource busy. As a result, the partition stays there, even after reboot. Also I tried running partinfo.exe--a DOS utility that prints the partition table (comes with Partition Magic). It gives me a more interesting error: logical drive chain extends toward start of drive. This is incompatible with DOS fdisk. Linux fdisk is one source of this problem. How do I go about getting rid of the problem? It is not as much the space that I need, but now I can't use Partition Magic to manipulate my DOS partitions, which is very useful. BTW, the partition is the last logical drive--/dev/hda8. Could this have something to do with the problem? I appreciate any help you could give me. Please let me know if there is a better mailing list for this kind of problem. Thanks, __ Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Strange behavior of lpr+lpd resolved
Incredible, I have changed the printer cable, and now the Epson Stylus prints! I have also had to use the tunelp program, but with the old cable it had no effect, with the new I cannot understand why a cable let some program print and other no. I thank You for your interest, expecially David --- Mario Giammarco | Tel/FAX +39-545-22965 Via Calamandrei,5 |[EMAIL PROTECTED] 48022 Lugo (RA) -- ITALY | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
upgrading base-passwd
What's the proper way to upgrade debian's base-passwd package? I use unstable, and I've installed a new base-passwd a couple of times now, but since /etc/passwd and /etc/group are conffiles, and I don't want to mess up my exisiting password files (and I use shadow passwords), I have help my old versions of these files. So upgrading base-passwd hasn't really accomplished much for me. I have to diff the files and go in and make the alterations manually, it seems. Could base-passwd be set up to handle upgrades better, maybe modifying the files in the postinst? And what about shadow passwords? -- true - do nothing, successfully - - true (1) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'll try Debian 1.2 some other time
Hi Guys and Gals - Thanks to everyone who tried to help me with building a custom kernel in Debian 1.1. Unfortunately I got quite frustrated near by mid-afternoon today (Eastern US time) and I decided to reinstall my Slackware 3.0 from tape. It is unfortunate that I was not able to smoothly make the transition to Debian but I have been using slackware for a while now and I am familiar with how it works. It is true that maintaining slackware can be troublesome at times but with it I feel more in control of my Linux box. When Debian Linux 1.2 comes out I will download it again and give it another try. Hopefully then it will work out ok. Thanks again for all your help. Cheers.. --- Juan Casero email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Redeemed by Linux -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
