Re: Linux and 6x86
It's been reported to work fine. 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]
amd for mail (?)
I wish to configure a debian mail server running smail to use users accounts to store there mail box instead of /var/mail or /var/mail/spool. Someone said i could use amd to do this (as well as procmail). After reading the package description on amd, im not so sure i can use amd for this purpose. What do people on the list think? Sahua, - 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: amd for mail (?)
Hi Fundamental, You wrote: Fundamental Fundamental I wish to configure a debian mail server running smail Fundamental to use users accounts to store there mail box instead of Fundamental /var/mail or /var/mail/spool. Someone said i could use Fundamental amd to do this (as well as procmail). After reading the Fundamental package description on amd, im not so sure i can use amd Fundamental for this purpose. What do people on the list think? Use procmail, or use qmail that stores users mail boxes in $HOME by default. Regards borik -- Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] For pgp public key, e-mail me with subject get pgp-key -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux and 6x86
A lot of people are happy with there 6x86 running linux. Maybe those games are intel sponsored. PS: Intel is not bad either. Cheers. Paul On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, GREENE KENNETH ADAM wrote: I was wondering about Linux and the Cyrix/IBM 6x86 (specifically P120). Does Linux support it, I know some video games don't support the chip (or the chip doesn't support them |-). If it is supported, does everything run OK. thanxs in advance for any responses. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Configuring Network Card
I am trying to add a network card and I am having a lot of trouble. Can anyone out there help? When I enter the command ifconfig eth0 cr, I get: eth0 Link encap:AMPR NET/ROM HWaddr inetaddr:143.122.16.109 Bcast:143.122.16.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:0 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 Interrupt:5 Base Address:0x280 The inet, broadcast and mask addresses all look fine. I am assuming that since the program responded that it tested the IRQ5 and base address for the network card (Is this a safe assumption?) When I enter route -n cr, I get the following reponse Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MetricRefUse Iface 127.0.0.00.0.0.0 255.0.0.0U00 0lo and that's it! There is no entry for my network card. So, I try to add it to the system. When I enter the following: ifconfig eth0 143.122.16.109, I get: SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device If I then enter route add 143.122.16.109, I get SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable What's going on? Thanks in advance, Wayne Richardson Advanced Software Engineer 3M Health Information Systems -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help with corrupt headers
Hi, I have just experianced some disk problems which resulted in some headers in /usr/include (for example string.h) to be corrupted, what packages should I intall to replaced the headers and how do I do this? on a side note, is there anyway to get an Adaptec AHA-2920 SCSI controller to work? Alex Derbes -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS WORD format (and customizable telnet client) (fwd)
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Paul Seelig wrote: This was the case with the first beta because of a failure on behalf of the developers when they compiled the release. The newer betas are corrected in this regard. So you have to buy your Motif anyway. And apart from that it's still not even worth trying for people with standard hardware. StarOffice needs an incredible amount of resources. Don't even bother trying it unless you have a Pentium with at least 64 Megs of RAM. All else should be a real pain. Sorry, I can't agree with you. At my site, we have several Am586/133 (ASUS 486 boards with the AMD processor), mostly 16MB of ram, and everything NFS-mounted. It's true that the first beta was painfully slow, but it was faster than booting Novell, Windows 3.11 and starting Word 6. Now, with the second beta, it's a lot faster than Winword. Even with 16megs of RAM on a 486. Of course, I haven't tried it on my 386 yet... -- Alexander List, Neue-Welt-Hoehe 52a, A-8042 Graz, Austria, EU phone: +43-316-474737 Home address: Dafens 4, A-6824 Schlins, Austria, EU phone: +43-5524-8560 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sbox.tu-graz.ac.at/home/alexlist -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.3i mQCNAzKUShwAAAEEAKSeONtZF24pqL5eK3Q3PHJis0dI3uOKMFjOWwiwSyVyaKHp FCCmHCayDabMVgGUnjHxIUZj7Rmlz5RT1GGKMBSK67yFD0mGVrl8eGoH1bBDviGj S+quQ45SY/upp670EOqrxyp6pJk1uR+RjteFepzZ5am55tEMjGWTYnZjEXP1AAUR tEJBbGV4YW5kZXIgTS4gTGlzdCA8YWxleGxpc3RAc2JveC50dS1ncmF6LmFjLmF0 PiA0NDAyMDIwNzc0IDkzMzI1NTSJAJUDBRAylEocZZNidmMRc/UBAVyBA/9l8Qff Iuva0vmzrE4EbVfgonVjY4BKRVcB5QgxC9PTAILu2/aM4NyT8lOEhCjw4x5wzxLJ Z3FWw3kTe9R/r0RKU49SA1pE7Fge+sbdXH/Z7g+SLZ1myMVX3sZaVFDzhCOO0C7I FA4Izn2zQulIxsxcBaqEV5qIUW58cF7+JbJj6A== =SyLK -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]
Can't install netscape (using dpkg)
Hi, I tried to install netscape using dpkg by doing: # dpkg --install netscape dpkg: error processing netscape (--install): cannot access archive: No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing: netscape I don't know why this didn't work. I get the following status information for netscape: # dpkg --status netscape Package: netscape Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: contrib Maintainer: Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 3.0-beta6-1 Provides: www-browser Depends: X11R6, motifnls Recommends: mime-support Description: Popular World-Wide-Web browser software (installer) Netscape (pronounced Mozilla) is a graphical World-Wide-Web browser with many features. It supports advanced features of HTML and new technologies such as Java from Sun Microsystems. . Netscape Communications Corporation does not allow redistribution of their software. Therefore, this package requires the user to fetch the netscape archive seperately and place it in the directory pointed to by the TMPDIR environment variable (or /tmp if TMPDIR not defined) before attempting to install this package. You can get the linux packages via anonymous ftp from ftp[1-9].netscape.com. . Do NOT try to install any version of Netscape other than 3.0-beta6 with this package! . Netscape Communications Corporation does not support the Linux release in the slightest, even for paying customers. It has been made available purely as a courtesy, so please do not send them questions about Linux. . This installer package has been placed in the public domain! Any ideas? Thanks, Mark Phillips. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rex installation report
'lo I installed Debian rex (frozen) this week-end -- I had some problems : * perl-suid and perl-base written a lot of messages like : try overwrite /usr/lib/perl5/ one is try overwrite /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.00307/CORE/liberl.a * kernel-sources-2.0.23_1.deb tar file or header file corrupted the same problem occures with files from another 2 mirrors * I added /usr/X11R6/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf to run xterm, fvwm I tried to upgrade Debian buzz just before, and I noticed: - * gzip and ppp require the new libc5 (5.4... i thing) * kernel-sources-2.0.23_1.deb tar file or header file corrupted Question: --- I have 2 NE2000 card. How can I configure conf.modules to use them ? When I include modules in kernel, all is fine. -- Spineux Alain == Spineux Alain E-MAIL : [EMAIL PROTECTED] INSTITUT STEVIN Catholic University of LouvainFAX: 32-10-472501 PLACE DU LEVANT 2 PHONE : 32-10-472516 B-1348 LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE (BELGIUM) === -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dselect installation fails
Hi, I have just tried using dselect to upgrade my system to the latest version of rex (from an earlier version of rex) and ran into problems with the installation stage. I realize that rex hasn't yet been officially released yet as 1.2, but I thought someone might like to know of this bug. This is what happens: Looking for part 1 of libc5 ... /root/ibox/debian/rex/binary-i386/base/libc5_5.4.13-1.deb Running dpkg -iB for libc5 ... (Reading database ... 26196 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc5 (using .../base/libc5_5.4.13-1.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc5 ... Setting up libc5 (5.4.13-1) ... dpkg: cannot see how to satisfy pre-dependency: perl pre-depends on libdl1 dpkg: cannot satisfy pre-dependencies for perl (wanted due to perl) installation script returned error exit status 1. Press RETURN to continue. Cheers, Mark Phillips. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux and 6x86
I was wondering about Linux and the Cyrix/IBM 6x86 (specifically P120). Does Linux support it, I know some video games don't support the chip (or the chip doesn't support them |-). If it is supported, does everything run OK. thanxs in advance for any responses. Absolutely no problems here. I have the P166+ and previously the P150+. Works great, very snappy performance. There's a kernel patch which enables Linux to recognise the CPU in /proc/cpuinfo and to enable some Cyrix-specific optimisations, which also works fine but certainly isn't essential. Hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dselect via ftp probs
Richard Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi folks, sorry to bring up a quasi newbie prob, but here goes. I had a buzz setup with 2.0.24, and after reading various messages about dselect I decided to go to the frozen level. Here is my trouble so far, I didn't have dpkg-ftp, so I went and got it, only it wouldn't configure. Needed perl, which I have, but didn't install with dselect. Naughty me. So, I tried to grab the deb perl, and install it, but it needs libdl1. Where is libdl1? I've looked, to no avail. The funny thing is, I think dpkg-ftp did install, because ftp is now an option in dselect, only it doesn't seem to work. It isn't getting the packages files. It connects, logs in as anonymous, changes to dir, exits, but no new packages are available in the next step. You have to do: Setup - asks user for various pieces of info and only checks to see if the distributions you asked for are there. Update - this downloads the package files and uses dpkg to update the available package lists Select - (nothing to do with dpkg-ftp) Install - should then download any new packages and install them Which option failed to work and which version are you using? Andy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS WORD format
Hallo, Daniel Does anyone know of a document reader/editor that will read Microsoft Daniel Word format? This is something I need once a week at least. In fact, it is my only reason for windows booting. So you can imagine how desperately I sought for such a software, but no! I couldn't believe it! Any hint welcome! If you have a licence of winword you may able to use this program with wine. This works for me with some success. At least viewing and saving works. But printing is not possible. Nils -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg-ftp/dselect timestamping
Christopher W Hafey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dpkg-ftp, dselect -- Is there a way to get these programs to timestamp /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/debian/frozen/binary-i386/admin/* (and others) to what they are on ftp://debian.crosslink.net? (I'm doing 1.2 this weekend; so far, it's been not only flawless, but improved advice given during the installs -- thanks all). When I use this method to upgrade, I usually backdoor the ftp'd files off the /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/ tree, into my permanent ftp archives, and thus slowly achieve a mirror of sorts. I'd like to see dselect offer the root account a way to -specify where the temporary archives (*.deb) are stored, when using the ftp method of upgrading This should already be possible (which version are you using?) -specify whether to use current time as the timestamp, or mirror the archive's idea of the timestamp The .deb files will never change after they have been released so this shouldn't really be needed. (Also getting it right is difficult in all cases (the ftpd needs to support mdtm but that still gives you local time.) Is this something I can specify outside dselect/dpkg-ftp? As an environment that tells the underlying ftp mechanism to dupe the timestamps from the source server? The underlying librarys I am using don't provide this functionality easily. Does dselect, when using the ftp method, ftp as root? Err, no it ftps as whoever you tell it too (normally anonymous). The process is root but that shouldn't cause any problems. Andy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Procmail
Can someone show me there .forward file for use with mail sorting with procmail? I've been fooling around with it for an hour now, and have not made any real progress. -- 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]
Is frozen missing something?
Hello All: I have just been checking on my local mirror and the ftp.debian.org sites and I notice that there are several packages missing from the frozen tree. On my local mirror, these files are actually links to files in the frozen/binary-all/ part of the directory (which is completely empty) while on ftp.debian.org, the symbolic links are not even present! Is this being checked out? One consequence for me is that dselect refuses to run since it finds that all of these files are missing. frozen/binary-i386/doc/emacs-lisp-intro_1.04-1.deb frozen/binary-i386/graphics/glut-doc_3.1-3.deb frozen/binary-i386/graphics/mesa-doc_2.0-2.deb frozen/binary-i386/hamradio/p10cfgd_1.0-3.deb frozen/binary-i386/mail/exmh_1.6.9-4.deb frozen/binary-i386/mail/signify_1.01-1.deb frozen/binary-i386/tex/xypic_3.2-4.deb: frozen/binary-i386/tex/texlib_1.0-5.deb: frozen/binary-i386/tex/babel_3.6-4.deb: frozen/binary-i386/tex/latex_2e-7.deb: frozen/binary-i386/tex/mflib_1.0-8.deb: frozen/binary-i386/tex/mfnfss_2.1g-2.deb frozen/binary-i386/tex/ltxtool_1.0-4.deb frozen/binary-i386/tex/latex2e-doc_1.6-1.deb frozen/binary-i386/tex/hyperlatex_1.4pl2-1.deb frozen/binary-i386/tex/mfbasfnt_1.0-7.deb frozen/binary-i386/x11/xmanpages_3.2-1.deb Cheers Carlo *** *Carlo U. Segre * * Department of Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences * *Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616 * * Voice: (312) 567-3498 FAX: (312) 567-3494* * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * *** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xvscan
Hi everybody. I have a HP ScanJet 4p Scanner, with Automatic Document Feeder, and I would like to know if xvscan (or any other scanning software) supports it (I mean the ADF). BTW, do anyone know where can I buy it? Juan Cespedes -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MicroSuck makes me fume!
In response to someone's suggestion to get the Microfoft WOrd Viewer, and run it under WINE. Well. It sorta runs under wine. It requires that SHARE.EXE be loaded. Uhg! How do I get it to think I am running it? -- 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]
Re: tar misbahaving
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Marek Duszynski wrote: Hello, A few days ago I noticed that my Debian 1.1 can not extract multivolume tar archives from floppies - each attempt ends up in segmentation fault. I have had the same problem using taper and QIC80 tapes. Even afio gives problems with any files which are split across tapes but then recovers. I really do not know the cause of this and it is causing me problems in getting the Debian distribution onto my home machines. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Cheers Carlo *** *Carlo U. Segre * * Department of Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences * *Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616 * * Voice: (312) 567-3498 FAX: (312) 567-3494* * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * *** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux and 6x86
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, GREENE KENNETH ADAM wrote: I was wondering about Linux and the Cyrix/IBM 6x86 (specifically P120). Does Linux support it, I know some video games don't support the chip (or the chip doesn't support them |-). If it is supported, does everything run OK. thanxs in advance for any responses. I have successfully run linux on a Cyrix 6x86 P133+ (120MHz clock). It works just fine! Cheers Carlo *** *Carlo U. Segre * * Department of Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences * *Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616 * * Voice: (312) 567-3498 FAX: (312) 567-3494* * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * *** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS WORD format (and customizable telnet client) (fwd)
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Jerzy Kakol wrote: Server. The incredibly ancient VT-100 standard should pass to history long time ago. I would like to use a terminal emulator exactly like between two Linuxes - with comfort of bash, arrow keys, color ls and so on. So, does anybody know a DOS or Windows telnet client with configurable terminal definition in termcap or terminfo format? Try MS-KERMIT 3.14, you won't believe you're connecting from a DOS machine.. http://www.columbia.edu/kermit (if memory serves me well) All The Best, Marco There are people who don't like capitalism, and there are people who don't like PCs, but there's no one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft. - Bill Gates, interviewed by the L.A. Times, 22 nov. 96 - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
getting ppp up
Does anyone have any experience getting ppp started from a base system that just has been installed in a computer? I just went through this yesterday pain in the ass (figuring it all out, that is). I don't have any experience with ppp because all my other debian systems have been connected to lans. I think I got my ppp.chatscript correct, but I can't get the modem to dial. Well, here's what worked for me: You need to tell pppd to use an input file. I used /etc/ppp/options. The problem with it is that... well, there are a few, actually: - The biggest is that it has a line that says disconnect with the appropriate chat directives to disconnect the modem. What you need to do is comment out this line and put in a line that says something to the effect of: connect chat -f /etc/ppp.chatscript which tells chat to use file /etc/ppp.chatscript. You might also want to toss a -v in before the -f to tell chat to log the conversation to /var/log/ppp.log so that you can make sure it logged you in ok. - Next, to make sure that you connect at the fastest speed, put 38400 somewhere in the beginning of the options file. - Also, somewhere near the beginning of the file, you should see a line that says /dev/modem. You'll need to make a symbolic link from your appropriate serial line to /dev/modem. For COM1: use ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/modem, for COM2: use ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem, etc. The alternative is to change the /dev/modem in the options file so that it points directly to the appropriate serial port. At that point, you should be able to get it to dial by typing: pppd file /etc/ppp/options Go check your ppp.log file in /var/log. Just check the end of it by using tail: tail /var/log/ppp.log and keep doing it for about a minute until you either see something about a host IP and a peer IP address... either that or something about Failure. Once you see either of those, you're not going to see anything else that matters until you run pppd again. Anyway, assuming that you get a peer IP and a host IP, then you're all set *EXCEPT* for one major part that nobody ever tells you and that I haven't been able to find in any howto anywhere: You need to tell linux to use the peer IP address for all of your net traffic. To do this, first run route. You should see two lines, one with the IP 127.0.0.1 on the same line as lo0 (or something like that) and one with another IP address (which is the IP of the peer you're connected to) on the same line as ppp0. Write down that peer IP, because you're going to use it. Now, type: route add default gw peer-ip metric 1 (where peer-ip is the address of the peer that you just wrote down. Now, if you run route you should see 3 lines... the third one listing the peer as the default gateway. You should be ready to rock-n-roll now. Try pinging some site whose IP address you know to know for sure. To get nameservice working you'll need to edit your /etc/resolv.conf to point to the nameservers you want to use. In the /etc/ppp directory, there are two scripts called ip-up and ip-down that are executed when the connection goes up and comes down. You can use this to automate that route command that I spoke of (why Debian doesn't ship this way, I have no idea). Basically, the ip-up is called with several parameters: the baudrate, the serial device, the host IP, the peer IP, etc. They tell you what they are in the script file... in the comments. I *think* the peer IP is $4, so you'd put in a line that says: route add default gw $4 metric 1 or whatever the right variable is. I'm planning on putting together a set of chatscripts, options files, and ip-up/ip-down's that will work pretty much right out of the box... to put an end to this silly frustration once and for all. - Joe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
video mode solved. cpp/gcc solved. kernel, X11?
Was: Remarks, installing rex from scratch : 1) Don't give an entry : vga=[any number other than normal] : in /etc/lilo.conf and launch lilo with that. It will : completely confuse dselect, and nobody is aware of this :-( Video modes are ok, forget about vga=... settings, use now a resolution of 132x60. I was confused about learning dselect, especially with cycling through the sorting options. cpp/gcc There is a dependency problem with cpp/gcc. gcc depends on cpp and replaces cpp! So I a) installed cpp, purged gcc; b) put cpp on hold and installed gcc. kernel sources The kernel sources aren't in rex, but dselect/dpkg didn't complain about that. It claims everything all right and nothing happened. Installed it per Hand from buzz, saying dpkg -i X11 The fight with xlib6-dev_3.2-1.deb, xlib and xlib6_3.2-1.deb is a mess. Did get through to start a SVGA server, with installing those per hand and setting them to hold. They are new unclassified without section (?) X11 Common warnings ignored: . More than one copy of package xbase has been unpacked . in this run ! Only configuring it once. which came for many packages in the past. X11 Then this one: . dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xpaste: . xpaste depends on xlibraries; however: .Package xlibraries is not installed. .Package xlib which provides xlibraries is not installed. . dpkg: error processing xpaste (--install): . dependency problems - leaving unconfigured . Setting up xbase (3.2-1) ... Hope to get help or provide input for debugging at least. Tired greetings, Andreas. -- Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: (0202) 439 - 3009 Dr. Andreas Wehler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux and 6x86
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, GREENE KENNETH ADAM wrote: I was wondering about Linux and the Cyrix/IBM 6x86 (specifically P120). Does Linux support it I am running Debian GNU/Linux on an Cyrix/IBM P-150+ and it runs like a charm. No problems (yet). I am sporadically running maybe an hour a day for three or four months now. X works as well. I know some video games don't support the chip (or the chip doesn't support them |-). What?! Could you please post me more info about this. Which ones? I know Quake runs a little bit slower on Cyrixes because of the slower fpu (but still a lot faster per dollar than the pentium!!), and NT 4 has somewhat degraded performance which can be fixed with a patch. But so far (until now :) ) I haven't heard of *anything* that doesn't run at all on a Cyrix. If it is supported, does everything run OK. AFAIK yes. I have seen some Cyrix kernel patches (on the Linux v2 info HQ), but I don't know what they actually do as I haven't tried them. There is also some programs which can view some Cyrix-specific registers but I haven't looked at them since I don't understand its uses. // 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]
Re: Help with corrupt headers
Hi, I have just experianced some disk problems which resulted in some headers in /usr/include (for example string.h) to be corrupted, look in .../debian/stable/binary???/Contents for include/string.h and you will find libc5-dev what packages should I intall to replaced the headers and how do I do this? libc5-dev and a lot of other packages ! -- Spineux Alain == Spineux Alain E-MAIL : [EMAIL PROTECTED] INSTITUT STEVIN Catholic University of LouvainFAX: 32-10-472501 PLACE DU LEVANT 2 PHONE : 32-10-472516 B-1348 LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE (BELGIUM) === -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/etc/hosts and BIND autoconversion
A while back I saw mentioned in a message about some utility that would read the '/etc/hosts' file and convert it into the BIND database. I would like to have this program. I have a DOS-based tcp program that can't use a hosts file, but can use BIND. I have BIND running locally, but I need the to have the DOS program be able to access the other systems by name. Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/Siliconvalley/Park/6562/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what is libdl1 ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am getting several packages in the frozen and contrib trees saying that they pre-depend on a 'libdl1' package which I cannot seem to find anywhere. Can anyone help? It seems that the last ld.so provides libdl1: Package: ldso Essential: yes Status: install ok installed Priority: required Section: base Maintainer: David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: ld.so Version: 1.8.5-1 Replaces: libc Provides: libdl1 Conffiles: /etc/ld.so.conf bcdcb23c5d5fb460cee2ce315ef7bd32 Description: The Linux dynamic linker, library and utilities. The dynamic linker provides the user-level support for loading and linking DLL and ELF shared libraries. It is required by any program that uses shared libraries, which is just about all of them. Regards, M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian pre1.2
Hi, I have just tried debain pre1.2 and have the following comments. 1) Overall, the installation is very smooth with very few hiccups. 2) It seems that most of the kernel options have been compiled-in. This is opposed to the previous version when users are free to configure the kernel after installing it. This results in loading lots of useless modules on starting up, eg, lots of cdrom interfaces. 3) Upon reboot, the installation no longer ask for root password add a default user and go into dselect directly. An experienced user may find this ok but this little automation can really help a novice user. 4) It seems that even though I have xbase3.2 debian files in my directory, dselect does not allow installation of that option. However upon reaching installation of xbase3.1, it prompts if I'd rather install 3.2 instead. Answering yes results in a number of changes to the configuration (i cannot catch all of them) that resulted in a crippled x installation. The above are just minor hiccups I have experienced. All else I have tried worked. Just me, Wire ... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It could happen to you (was Re: network cards and POST failures)
Hello everyone, at last, the strange problems I was having with my Linux box at reboot time is solved. I followed Donald Becker's recommendation about putting /sbin/ifconfig eth0 down at the very end of the reboot script and this fixes everything. Now everything is crystal-clear to me. I agree with Bruce that the Debian distribution should take care of shutting down Ethernet devices before rebooting. As an example, I was getting this error in my desktop machine everytime I rebooted the Linux box: eth0: Bus master arbitration failure, status 88f2 Since my desktop machine is not a production machine (I am the only one that uses it) and that I first saw this error after a kernel upgrade, I did not waste much time finding the cause. Each time I got that error I just cycled power to the computer and everything worked fine after that. Well, the Ethernet card here is also a NE2100 compatible (it's a BocaLAN Card, using the lance.c driver) and it does DMA. After I put /sbin/ifconfig eth0 down at the bottom of /etc/init.d/reboot the problem went away. Beware!!! This problem could happen to you and you'll waste hours trying to find what's wrong. Regards, Eloy.- P.S. Somebody may want to post this to debian-devel@lists.debian.org because I have no posting priviledges there. At 12:46 PM 12/2/96 PST, Bruce Perens wrote: Here's what Donald Becker had to say about Eloy Paris' problem in which a network card caused RAM POST failures. This is perhaps something that we should take care of in the shutdown scripts after NFS partitions are unmounted and daemons are killed. We can use the output of netstat -i to figure out what interfaces to shut down. From: Donald Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: Eloy Paris [EMAIL PROTECTED] has a DEC PC that fails the RAM POST only when the Boca PCnet32 card is present and a recent Linux kernel has just shut down. My uninformed speculation is that the card could be doing wild DMA, and I'm wondering if there's any special step that should be taken to shut down this card before rebooting. That's a common BIOS bug. The warm boot code should disable the bus-master capability on all cards. What is happening is that the card is continuing to receive and store packets into memory. The work-around, which we must use here as well, is to put /sbin/ifconfig eth0 down /sbin/ifconfig eth1 down /sbin/ifconfig eth2 down /sbin/ifconfig eth3 down in you shutdown script. (Usually /etc/rc.d/rc.6, but Redhat is different.) This will disable the cards. -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Goodbye, all!
On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: These are the 1.1 boot disks from 6 months ago with initrd added and a few bug-fixes like keyboard configuration. It's not like it's a brand-new program. Has the problem with the nfs module been fixed - the last few boot disks I made wouldn't load that module so I had to do FTP installs. Dermot -- Dermot BradleyEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Director Tel: +44 1232 572003 Genesis Project Ltd Fax: +44 1232 560553 Belfast Coleraine Desertmartin, N.I. WWW: http://www.gpl.net/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't install netscape (using dpkg)
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Mark Phillips wrote: Hi, I tried to install netscape using dpkg by doing: # dpkg --install netscape dpkg: error processing netscape (--install): cannot access archive: No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing: netscape The second parameter must be a fully specified path to a .deb file. 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: trn vs. inn
Okay, lets see if this now gets past the spam filter.. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian Package [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, i have some errors in /var/log/news/news.notice when invoking trn: [timedate] barbar nnrpd[24517]: localhost.augusta.de connect [timedate] barbar nnrpd[24517]: localhost.augusta.de unrecognized XMODE READER [timedate] barbar nnrpd[24517]: localhost.augusta.de unrecognized XTHREAD DBINIT That's not an error nor a problem; it's just an informational message. Trn knows about some extensions to the NNTP protocol that INN doesn't. It just tries the server to see which extensions are implemented. One of the things you see is XMODE READER. INN implements this call, but after it was standarized it's called MODE READER. Now trn doesn't know what version of the NNTP standard the server implements so it tries both. Ugly, but nothing to worry about. Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg| Windows '97, codename Verstappen | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] || -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Procmail
Can someone show me there .forward file for use with mail sorting with procmail? I've been fooling around with it for an hour now, and have not made any real progress. .forward: |/usr/bin/procmail and my .procmail: :0 * ^From.owner-linux-gcc pr/lgcc :0 * ^From.owner-linux-kernel pr/kernel :0 * X-Mailing-List: linux-security@ pr/security [...and so on...] -- 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]
two net Q's: (1) serial nfs/ppp, (2) dropped gateway route
I'm using the Debian 1.1 release, 2.0.6 kernel. Two questions, one concerning a serial cable link, the other on an ethernet: (1) I'm accessing an nfs mounted drive on my desktop from my notebook over a serial cable (thanks all!). Sometimes it works great, sometimes (especially when copying a long list of files) I get error, server not responding, still trying. The man page on the timeout sequence doesn't seem to match what's happening: I get the error message once, and the session locks up forever. Will adjusting the timeout fix this? What's the *right* thing to do? (2) Elsewhere, on a different machine, I've set up an ethernet connection which generally is working well (after about a week now), but twice today I've lost my gateway route without any notice or warning. Surely this isn't normal (right?) but what can I do? Why does this happen, and what's the best fix? (My network and loopback routes are intact, but I lose my gateway. I have to restart to get it back.) Thank you for any pointers. (As a newcomer to debian/linux networking, I'm trying to work out most glitches by rolling up my sleeves, but these are semi-critical problems so I'd greatly appreciate some quick help and/or correct fixes if you can provide them. Thanks.) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS WORD format (and customizable telnet client)
Marco Mariani wrote: On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Jerzy Kakol wrote: Server. The incredibly ancient VT-100 standard should pass to history long time ago. I would like to use a terminal emulator exactly like between two Linuxes - with comfort of bash, arrow keys, color ls and so on. So, does anybody know a DOS or Windows telnet client with configurable terminal definition in termcap or terminfo format? Try MS-KERMIT 3.14, you won't believe you're connecting from a DOS machine.. http://www.columbia.edu/kermit (if memory serves me well) Looks great. Too bad it says: NOTE: MS-DOS Kermit is not a Winsock client. in the middle of this page: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/mskoverview.html -- ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is Debian 1.2 out yet?
Hi Everyone - I tried to upgrade to Debian 1.1 a few weeks ago and went back to my old system when I couldn't recompile a custom kernel for my Linux box. I'm still interested in Debian and I would like to know if 1.2 (aka REX) has been released yet. I was a bit disappointed that I was not able to change over but as you can see I have not lost faith in Debian GNU/Linux. PS: please respond to my email address as I am not on this list. Thanks Juan Casero email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ _ / / (_)__ __ __ / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / . . . t h e c h o i c e o f a //_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
security
Shalom I got a prg. from a friend wich can hack-root. I don't know if it is a known prob. it works fine with 2.0.0 I don't know how to describe it, without posting the whole source. Here some parts of it: /* Mount Exploit for Linux, Jul 30 1996 [graphic] Discovered and Coded by Bloodmask Vio Covin Security 1996 */ [some includes] #define PATH_MOUNT /bin/umount #define BUFFER_SIZE 1024 #define DEFAULT_OFFSET 50 [... main part...] (void)alarm((u_int)0); printf(Discovered and Coded by Bloodmask and Vio, Covin 1996\n); execl(PATH_MOUNT, mount, buff, NULL); } God bless -- Alexander N. Benner ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( #IXThYS #Jesus! ) 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 shall live by faith. ROMANS 1:16-17 pgpswAGydP8Bs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: security
Hi, /* Mount Exploit for Linux, Jul 30 1996 whats your version of the mount package? Should be fixed long ago... (if it isnt another bug in mount): Wed Aug 21 13:10:46 1996 Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian 1.1.6) o Added mount 2.5l-1 Fixes major security hole. This is in buzz-fixed! Greetings Bernd -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is Debian 1.2 out yet?
We suffered a lot of FTP server problems in the last few days, and are currently attempting to build a working Packages file for Debian 1.2 . The process is running now, I am watching it. We still need a few days of testing X before the release. Please stay tuned... 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]
Re: Compiling Perl from Source
On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Robyn Renwick wrote: Hi everyone! I am a second year computer science student working on a debian system. I recently completed a project where I compiled Perl from the source code. I was asked to post my findings here as it may be helpful. I did quite a long write-up, which I won't post here, but anyone who has further questions can email me if they like. I started with Perl5.003 and used gcc as the compiler. For the most part, the default answers were fine as there was support for linux and the configure used it. Perl ought to compile just fine on Debian, since I use Debian to test the perl distribution before I release it. (Of course since no two Debian systems need be exactly the same, there are always possibilities of problems, but in practice I just generally track 'unstable' and haven't had any problems.) Be careful about the default installation locations, however, since they are rather generic Unix defaults and not necessarily consistent with Debian standards. You're best off doing something like sh Configure -Dprefix=/usr/local -Dlocincpth=/usr/include/db to keep it all in the /usr/local hierarchy. (The /usr/include/db thing is needed to pick up db/db.h. Someday I'll fix that.) Alternatively, you can use the Debian installation as a base and do /usr/bin/perl -e 'use Config; print Config::config_sh;' config.sh to get the standard config.sh parameters, and then hand-edit the various installation directories. The first problem I had was not knowing which directories I wanted to use for library searches..the default was usr/local/lib and I had to add /lib and usr/lib when prompted to add additional ld flags. I also had to add an additional cc flag for the compiler, which was -I/usr/local/include(the default was -Dbool=char - DHAS_BOOL). You don't need to add these since the compiler already searches them. The biggest problem that I encountered in compiling Perl was with the libraries. In the Perl that comes with debian, two libraries are required to be installed on the system, the libdb1 and libgdbm1 packages. To find out if they are installed, you type 'dpkg -l libdb1 ligdbm1'. If no packages are found which match, you just install the libdbl library and everything is fine. When compiling from source, these libraries are required along with several others. The libraries which must be present are: -libndbm -libgdbm -libdbm -libdb -libdl -libdld -libm -libc When compiling from source, these libraries are not required. Configure automatically figures out what you have and adjusts things accordingly. The other decision I had to make was whether to use dynamic loading or static. Dynamic loading usually seemed to fail. Static loading can give you a fall-back position if dynamic loading isn't working, however it doesn't give you the optimum version of Perl. However, once the libraries were in place, I was able to load dynamically. The loader I used was dl_dlopen.xs. Dynamic loading ought to work just fine with all the defaults. If it doesn't, you probably have a problem with your set-up. Send me the details and I'll try to help you sort it out. Summary: Perl ought to work nicely on Debian, and you can report it as a bug to me if it doesn't. If you *do* have problems, many of them are discussed in the INSTALL file included with the perl distribution. Note, however, that Debian's perl is quite up-to-date, so there's rarely a need for you to compile it yourself. You're of course welcome to do so, however. Have fun, Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: security
Shalom It may be wrong, but I think it was Bernd Eckenfels who wrote 1996 AD: /* Mount Exploit for Linux, Jul 30 1996 whats your version of the mount package? Should be fixed long ago... (if it isnt another bug in mount): It was mount-package-2.5 Wed Aug 21 13:10:46 1996 Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian 1.1.6) o Added mount 2.5l-1 Fixes major security hole. This is in buzz-fixed! I now installed mount 2.5j from buzz The hack _still works_ so it seemed to be an other problem. I didn't have the chance to trie it on an other computer than mine :) I just installed the mount packege with --force-depend , so I don't know if the prob is maybe outside of mount God bless -- /\ Alexander N. Benner ; IRC: Nikodemus @ #ixthys #Jesus! x--/\--xFor unto us a child is born, a son is given, X X and the government will be on his shoulders. x--\/--xAnd he will be called Wonderful Counsellor, \/ Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. - Isaiah 9:6 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: security
o Added mount 2.5l-1 Fixes major security hole. I now installed mount 2.5j from buzz I guess 2.5j is OLDER than 2.5l... umm... The hack _still works_ so it seemed to be an other problem. Please be sure to get the fixed version of mount, and then try again. You should be able to get it from buzz-fixed or in buzz-upgrades. Greetings Bernd -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape - bus error
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Pedro Quaresma wrote: netscape_3.01-1.deb and netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz [...] bus error $ I got the 'bus error' whenever I tried to access the c|net homepage (www.cnet.com). However, I was running 3.0, without the Debian package. (Direct in /usr/local/bin.) I was going to upgrade to 3.01 before reporting it. | This is OFFICIAL WRITTEN notification that I want to be REMOVED | | from ALL commercial mailing lists. EVERY message sent from this | | account has had this request posted. ALL UNSOLICITED ADVERTISEMENTS | | SENT TO THIS ACCOUNT ARE IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL (U.S.) LAW.| -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: innd mmap
On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: You (Craig Sanders) wrote: my news box is regularly throttling with the log message File exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling. How's your disk? Do you see many ext2 errors? yeah, a few there's some weird corrupted files in /var/spool/news/control, too: c---r- 1 8736 30054116, 32 Apr 4 1987 504023 cr-Sr-sr-x 1 115658224 32, 32 Jan 30 1987 504024 br-x-w 1 2674028270110, 105 Mar 21 2029 504027 br-xrt 1 1189128015108, 101 May 22 2031 504028 br-sr-srwx 1 2819328265112, 45 May 22 2031 504029 c---r- 1 2849930068 32, 101 Mar 30 2029 504048 br-xrwS--- 1 269948294 101, 109 Mar 9 2029 504049 br-xrwSr-- 1 1496228520104, 116 Nov 26 2023 504050 These can't be deleted, moved, chmod-ed, chattr-ed, or anything. Any attempt to do something to the files results in Operation not permitted (btw, this is what they look like AFTER running e2fsck on the partition - unmounted, of course - they used to have unreasonably large sizes before that...4gb and more) I'm going to reformat the drive when i have the time to bring the system down for a few hours. Trying to use MMAP on Linux Is this still true for linux? No. we are running INN with mmap() on on all our news servers (inn 1.4unoff4, linux-2.0.25 or so) and we have 5 feeds in totalling about 400 Mb/day, 30 or 40 feeds out (small ones like linux.* and a couple of full ones). OK, sounds good to me. Are any of these feeds uucp? My main newsfeed is uucp over a trailblazer modem - bandwidth is expensive here in australia and there's better things to use it for than usenet news. Has inn for debian been compiled with MMAP turned off? If not, should this be reported as a bug against inn? AFAIK, nobody has complained about this yet - however I have seen the same problem in the following cases: from what you say, it isn't a problem anyway. 1) rmgroup immideately followed by a makegroup control message (resets the counters to 0 but doesn't delete the articles) 2) Harddisk problems, especially 4Gb disks go bad very fast IME. i suspect that this is the likely cause. either the hard disk or the ide controller. it's a new quantum bigfoot, 2.5GB, on an ASUS SP3G PCI motherboard. The bigfoot drive only got put in a few months ago, to replace a seagate 1GB scsi drive (which was big, fast, and extremely noisy - the bigfoot is slower but bigger and wonderfully quiet) I used to get the same problem with the old seagate scsi drive, just not as often...which could be due to the fact that i'm now keeping news for twice as long. I've kludged a temporary fix. I run 'ctlinnd renumber' before and after news.daily in my fixnews.nightly script. My fixnews.weekly script rebuilds the history file and then runs fixnews.nightly. it's not a real fix, but it stops the error messages, and prevents /var/spool/news/.incoming from filling up with hundreds of megabytes of compressed rnews batches which inn cant process due to being throttled (news is very low priority - sometimes i dont notice theres a problem for a day or two). BTW, I'm not planning a 1.4unoff4-2 at this time (though I have one available) but instead I want inn1.5 in bo. Under Linux, it doesn't make much difference if you have mmap() on or off because the buffer cache is so good. If people prefere to have it turned off, that's no problem with me. 1.5 went out of beta just recently, i saw the release version on the ISC INN web page. Craig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: innd mmap
On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Richard Kettlewell wrote: my news box is regularly throttling with the log message File exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling. Try rebuilding your history file - IIRC this has worked for me (albeit under Solaris 2.5 rather than Linux). yep, that's part of how i fix it. i'd rather not have to do that - it seems to happen once a week or more. i've edited my nightly scripts to run 'ctlinnd renumber' as well as news.daily. Hopefully that will prevent the problem from occuring. Craig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gdb and dynamically loaded code
I have version 4.16-2 of the gdb package installed. When I start gdb I get the warnings warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function. warning: GDB will be unable to debug shared library initializers warning: and track explicitly loaded dynamic code. It would be very helpful to me to be able to set breakpoints within dynamically loaded code. Is there something I can change in the set-up for gdb to allow me to track explicitly loaded dynamic code? Thanks in advance. Please reply by e-mail as I only receive the digests of this list now. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
