Kernel assumes 486
Hello, I recently installed Debian GNU/Linux 1.1.13 to a Compaq 386. The base kernel (2.0.6) runs fine, but if I let dselect attempt to install any other kernel, the system hangs on boot with a message like: a 486 is assumed. Giving up. Both of these kernels have this feature: Xtr base kernel-image none 2.0.6-0 Linux kernel binary image Req base kernel-image none 2.0.23 - Linux kernel binary image I've also tried doing just: dpkg -i ./local/SpecialKernels/kernel-image-2.0.23-0.i386.deb The install goes ok, but the system hangs with the same problem. Can anyone identify a kernel known to work with a 386? I've searched recent archives and can't find anything on this problem. TIA, Pat Kennedy, Indianapolis, IN -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel assumes 486
The kernel for Debian 1.2 is built for a 386. It's time to upgrade that 1.1 system! 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: Installing 1.2 on a headless machine
The resq1440.bin floppy is an MSDOS filesystem. On it is root.bin, which is a gzip-compressed image of a Minix filesystem. Change /dev/tty1 on that filesystem to the serial device and write it back to the disk. Sorry this is so difficult. The rescue floppy has a tiny init of my own creation because there is so little space. 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]
more problems with procmail
I compiled and installed fetchmail, as advised from the list, but I am still having problems getting procmail to run. I was using popclient to get mail using the following script, run as root. -- #!/bin/sh ORGMAIL=/var/spool/mail/root popclient -3 -u blunier -o $ORGMAIL -P /etc/popclient mail.dataex.com echo mail retrieved - sorting if cd $HOME test -s $ORGMAIL lockfile -r0 -l3600 .newmail.lock 2/dev/null then trap rm -f .newmail.lock 1 2 3 15 umask 077 lockfile -l3600 -ml cat $ORGMAIL .newmail cat /dev/null $ORGMAIL lockfile -mu formail -s procmail -m /root/.procmail .newmail rm -f .newmail rm -f .newmail.lock fi echo mail sorted echo -e '\007' exit 0 -- the /root/.procmail file is as follows - PATH=/bin:/usr/bin #DEFAULT=$/var/spool/mail/blunier MAILDIR=/home/blunier/mail DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/default LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/logfile DEBIAN_USER=$MAILDIR/debian-user DEBIAN_ANNOUNCE=$MAILDIR/debian-announce DEBIAN_CHANGES=$MAILDIR/debian-changes MGETTY=$MAILDIR/mgetty HUMOR=$MAILDIR/humor :0 * ^TO.*xnet.com.* ! fred :0 : * ^TO.*debian-user.* $DEBIAN_USER :0 : * ^TO.*debian-announce.* $DEBIAN_ANNOUNCE :0 : * ^TO.*debian-changes.* $DEBIAN_CHANGES _ After I installed fetchmail, I copied /root/.procmail to ~blunier/.procmailrc. I also added set ~blunier/.forward to |IFS=' 'exec /usr/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #blunier The mail disapears never to be seen again. I tried changing the .forward to | sleep 100. when I did a ps -aux, it shows that 'nobody' owns the process. I guess that procmail would also be running under 'nobody'. Since nobody does not have write access to the groups, would this be why mail is disapearing? Should I change access permission to the mail directory/folders? Is there something else that is screwed up in my setup? Sorry for the long post Mark W. Blunier -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with Talk under Debian
Gerry Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had trouble with this too. I believe one problem is that the host name of your machine must match the IP address of your machine. That's exactly right. And lastly, Sun's talk seems to be incompatible with just about every other OS's talk that I've tried, including Linux. Unless you use ytalk. ytalk can communicate with both kinds of talk daemons. Unfortunately there is no ytalkd, a talk daemon which could communicate with both kinds of clients. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It happened again.
My computer ( this one is brand new even! ) started running away again. Its happened twice now, on two diff computers. This can't be a hardware problem. First time: On a 386sx-20 with 4megs RAM Second time: On a 486dx4-100 with 8megs RAM The first time I thought it might be a hardward problem since my monitor died the next morning( it was barely hanging on as it was) This time though, its a new computer only days old. This time, I wasn't logged out and not allowed back in. I was able to run ps -ax and found no programs running that shouldn't have been. I did type free and noticed that my swap space was filling up fast. I kill everything on my other vts and logged out of all except one. Then the runaway stopped. I was once again connected to my ISP at the time. I was running lynx and irc. The last time this happened i was running slrn and irc. So, its either got to be a system problem or someone on irc found a nice exploit to play with or the irc program itself has problems. Any suggestions? ( Besides staying off irc ) -- - Willie Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.quicklink.net/~gith/ - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: It happened again.
My computer ( this one is brand new even! ) started running away again. Its happened twice now, on two diff computers. This can't be a hardware problem. I had this happen three or four times on my system - 0.93, and maybe 1.1, its been long enough my memory fails me. This time, I wasn't logged out and not allowed back in. I was able to run ps -ax and found no programs running that shouldn't have been. I did type free and noticed that my swap space was filling up fast. I kill everything on my other vts and logged out of all except one. Then the runaway stopped. I was once again connected to my ISP at the time. I was running lynx and irc. The last time this happened i was running slrn and irc. So, its either got to be a system problem or someone on irc found a nice exploit to play with or the irc program itself has problems. Every time It happened, I was in X, and was running netscape, or had been running netscape. Normally, I do not run X unless. Once, I was able to log on a root and shut it down, but the login process took about 10 minutes. On another occasion the after about 4 hours of grinding away on the hard drive, I regained control, and I could not find anything that looked out of the ordinary in any logs, or files, or etc. The other couple of times, it was so bad that I tried the c-a-d, and it didn't work. On the bright side, it hasn't happened since April. (was 1.1 out in April?) Mark W. Blunier -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing 1.2 on a headless machine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) wrote: ] Change /dev/tty1 on that ] filesystem to the serial device and write it back to the disk. That did the trick! Thanks much. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: It happened again.
My computer ( this one is brand new even! ) started running away again. Its happened twice now, on two diff computers. This can't be a hardware problem. I had this happen three or four times on my system - 0.93, and maybe 1.1, its been long enough my memory fails me. This time, I wasn't logged out and not allowed back in. I was able to run ps -ax and found no programs running that shouldn't have been. I did type free and noticed that my swap space was filling up fast. I kill everything on my other vts and logged out of all except one. Then the runaway stopped. I was once again connected to my ISP at the time. I was running lynx and irc. The last time this happened i was running slrn and irc. So, its either got to be a system problem or someone on irc found a nice exploit to play with or the irc program itself has problems. Every time It happened, I was in X, and was running netscape, or had been running netscape. Normally, I do not run X unless. Once, I was able to log on a root and shut it down, but the login process took about 10 minutes. On another occasion the after about 4 hours of grinding away on the hard drive, I regained control, and I could not find anything that looked out of the ordinary in any logs, or files, or etc. The other couple of times, it was so bad that I tried the c-a-d, and it didn't work. On the bright side, it hasn't happened since April. (was 1.1 out in April?) Mark W. Blunier It just happened again. Only this time I was only running Lynx. As soon as I killed lynx, it stopped. It only managed to get up to 5megs in my swap space. This is weird. It seems as though it only happens when I'm connected. I've never noticed or remember it happening when I was not. -- - Willie Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.quicklink.net/~gith/ - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X11 is too secure, root cannot run xterm
On Sat, 21 Dec 1996, joost witteveen wrote: On my new 1.2 system root is not allowed to run xterm in a user's session under xdm. Is there a way to anable root and other user access to my display session typing xhost + will allow root (and anyone else on the net) to connect to your display. xhost +localhost will ensure that only users on your mashine can connect. Even better, as root set the XAUTHORITY environment variable to ~joeuser/.Xauthority This will give *only* root and joeuser access the display. Do you really want other users to have access to your display?? Christian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How come there is no `Reply to' field
On Sat, 21 Dec 1996, Walter Tautz wrote: I am curious as to why there is no `Reply to' field from this list? Is this a deliberate technique to decrease traffic. Just wondering... Because Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is evil. :-) Actually, I had a pointer to a site that explained why Reply-to: list is bad... I lost the address, unfortunately. Are you adding in manually debian-user@lists.debian.org to the cc each time you want to reply to the list? If so, poke around your mailer a bit more. Every decent email program has an option that does reply to all. On elm, it's the g key. Pine asks you if you want to reply to all recipients when you reply to a list message or a message with a cc. If you're not using one of these two, look around the help files! Christian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: InfoMagic Debian 1.2 Installation
On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: Did we go through this already? Try putting ppp in /etc/modules. It seems it gets loaded too slowly if kerneld loads it. Hmm. I'm getting my ppp module loaded through kerneld and everything works fine here. Christian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Default Window Manager
Thomas == Thomas Baetzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thomas Angel Leyva wrote: I have X installed and running fine, using xinit. When I start the X environment, I get no window manager at all. How can I get X to start a window manager by default? Thomas See man xinit. You´ll have to make up a .xsession file Thomas starting all of the applications you want in the Thomas background, and starting the window manager as the last Thomas set in the foreground. Once you exit the window manager, Thomas this script terminates and ends your X session. I like to run 'exec unclutter' as the last program, and run the WM in the background with the other startup programs. That way, I can switch window managers if I like, while I try them all out and see which one I like; or what features of each I like. TkDesk makes an OK 'session manager'; when you press its quit button, the X session ends. -- __ _Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg / / | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / Portland, OR, USA / /__| | | | | |_| | Proudly running Linux 2.0.27 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: It happened again.
On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, Gith wrote: or someone on irc found a nice exploit to play with or the irc program itself has problems. Any suggestions? ( Besides staying off irc ) Which account do you use for irc? -- 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: It happened again.
On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Martin Konold wrote: On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, Gith wrote: or someone on irc found a nice exploit to play with or the irc program itself has problems. Any suggestions? ( Besides staying off irc ) Which account do you use for irc? -- martin I use my normal user account. But, I've figured out that its not irc. It happened a short time later while I was just running Lynx. Since this is just an at home computer that I don't leave running constantly, I'm not going to worry too much. If it happens, I'll be at the console to head things off. I'd still be intrested in finding out what causes this though. Willie Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.quicklink.net/~gith/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: EGA driver for Xfree ? // Hercules too
On Tue, 24 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody out there tell me if there exists an X11/XFree86 driver for my ol' EGA monitor/card combo (IBM). Hate to ask - but I (sob weep ...) feel sorry for the poor thing - its brand new. (literally never been used) ... And I'm using a Hercules Monochrome Graphics Adapter - is there any support for this? -- 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- -- -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Re: mirror up-to-dateness report
On Wed, 25 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: I am experimenting with a script that audits the up-to-dateness of Debian FTP mirror systems. Here's my report so far: These 27 of our 42 listed mirrors are up-to-date. Some may be missing from this list because they are more than 24 hours behind the master copy of the Debian FTP archive, or they don't allow the PASV FTP command (I'll fix my program), or I couldn't contact them this evening, or the root of the Debian archive isn't what is listed in README.mirrors. This report will become more reliable over the next week or so, and will become a regular feature on our web site. Great idea! What would you think about a script that checks the connectivity to a given set of closest mirrors based on the Timezone or so and reports the fastest mirror available? -- 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]
Debian 1.2: mc dependency problem
Hi, I just upgraded my Debian system from 1.1 to 1.2. When installing mc, I found that mc suggests gpm, but there's no dependency on libgpm1. Without libgpm1, mc won't run. Best regards Alex -- 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]
Re: It happened again.
It just happened again. Only this time I was only running Lynx. As soon as I killed lynx, it stopped. It only managed to get up to 5megs in my swap space. This is weird. It seems as though it only happens when I'm connected. I've never noticed or remember it happening when I was not. Did you find anything strange in the log files? I remember one time that my swap space usage was increasing pretty quickly. I found out it was because /var/log/daemon.log was being filled with output from named. I got too much junk that it filled my partition. Regards, E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department 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: mirror up-to-dateness report
Alexander LIST wrote: Great idea! What would you think about a script that checks the connectivity to a given set of closest mirrors based on the Timezone or so and reports the fastest mirror available? Closest to what? The client end or the server end? To be effective, that script should run in the client side, witch would require some kind of instalation and setup. The best way to do it, i think, it would be a small Java applet running in the Debian Web Pages, using a server-based mirror list. As to the Timezone usage, I believe it would be better to base it on traceroute output, not timezone (in my country, for example, for almost an year, the ISP's were not connected to each other, so packets travelling from one to another had to go through the intercontinental links) Anyway, if Bruce could add link speed info for each mirror site in the mirror list it would already be a nice thing and it would give him much less work! :-) Fernando -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mirror up-to-dateness report
I am experimenting with a script that audits the up-to-dateness of Debian FTP mirror systems. Here's my report so far: These 27 of our 42 listed mirrors are up-to-date. Some may be missing from this list because they are more than 24 hours behind the master copy of the Debian FTP archive, or they don't allow the PASV FTP command (I'll fix my program), or I couldn't contact them this evening, or the root of the Debian archive isn't what is listed in README.mirrors. This report will become more reliable over the next week or so, and will become a regular feature on our web site. Great idea! What would you think about a script that checks the connectivity to a given set of closest mirrors based on the Timezone or so and reports the fastest mirror available? Nice idea, but it shouldn't be something that is run on the debian ftp server. It should be run by all us users trying to find a close, fast mirror. 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: Kernel assumes 486
Hello, I recently installed Debian GNU/Linux 1.1.13 to a Compaq 386. The base kernel (2.0.6) runs fine, but if I let dselect attempt to install any other kernel, the system hangs on boot with a message like: a 486 is assumed. Giving up. Sounds like a buggy 386. When the kernel starts, it trys to find out what type of cpu it is running on. It starts by assuming a 386, then tests for 486. If that passes, then it tests for a 586, etc. Your 386, at startup, looks like a 486 to the kernel, and so later when it treats it as one it has errors. 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: Installing 1.2 on a headless machine
Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: I wrote: ]I'm confused as to the start-up sequence of the Rescue disk... ] ldlinux loads root.bin and linux, then passes execution to linux, ] with the specified boot-time parameters. The kernel uncompresses itself ] and initializes the drivers etc. It then uncompresses root.bin and ] mounts it as root, and executes /linuxrc. This scripts execs ] /sbin/init. What happens after this? Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ] After this init reads /etc/inittab runs and starts processes depending ] on the run level. Normally this is the case, but the rootdisk image contained on the Rescue disk has no /etc/inittab... There's an /etc/init_tab which later gets used for the /etc/inittab on the newly-installed system, but i dont think it gets read when booting off the Rescue disk. Does anyone know how /Install/dinstall gets run? Sebastian Kuzminsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, if init is run in single user mode then it will start a shell on the console. Perhaps you should look for a .profile which does the subsequent work. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How come there is no `Reply to' field
Test of the reply to by responding `y' to reply to all recipients under pine. Please ignore. -Walter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is make-kpkg?
There's a .deb called kernel-package. It's in there.
Note if you are making a new set of Debian Boot floppies
then be sure to turn on root ramdisk fs support since the
kernel config file that comes with kernel-package seems
to not have this option selected.
--
Brian S. Julin
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Check out the man page for mesg. mesg y allows write access to
your terminal. mesg n disallows it. mesg by itself tells you
what the current status is ('n' by default).
... Ami.
Boris D. Beletsky wrote:
Ytalks find_daemon: recv() fail Connection refused mean that
Connection is refused _by_ the daemon. I am having this problem too.
Try to run in.talkd with '-d' option, the daemon will write some
debug info via syslog (should be notice.debug), i.e
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Re: Kernel assumes 486
I recently installed Debian GNU/Linux 1.1.13 to a Compaq 386. The base kernel (2.0.6) runs fine, but if I let dselect attempt to install any other kernel, the system hangs on boot with a message like: a 486 is assumed. Giving up. Have you tried to install the kernel sources instead and configure for 386 before compiling? -- Fernando Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Despodatahttp://despodata.pt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Remote X11 Windows
I realize this isn't a Debian-specific problem, but I was hoping for some help anyway :) I use my Linux machine(s) here at the office to accept remote displays from the Solaris machines where our big graphing programs are installed (namely PV-Wave and NCAR Graphics if that helps). I encounter two problems: 1. If I run in 16-bit mode on the Linux machine, the remote Xwindow that opens on my display will have the wrong colormap. This can be fixed by running Linux in 8-bit mode but why should I have to do that? Is there any way around this? This problems applies mainly with the use of PV-Wave. 2. Other programs (NCAR Graphics and its related radar RDSS utilities to name a few, as well as in-house software) refuse to send the correct colormap even in 8-bit mode. I'm really hoping there is a variable I can set, or an alternate method of starting X to solve these problems. Thanks for any ideas anyone has. Pointers to the correct documentation is certainly welcome. I've looked, but obviously in the wrong areas. SJG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1.2 Upgrade Experience
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: I think dpkg-ftp needs to sort the packages into dependency order before it retrieves them (since it generally doesn't get them all at once when doing a major upgrade). Does the actual (1.4?) dselect/dpkg sort the packages before installing? I installed with dselect/dpkg 1.2.x and had the same problems: libc wasn't installed first, several other packages couldn't install (e.g. perl). Bye ... Rainer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: It happened again.
( Re Message From: Eloy A. Paris ) It just happened again. Only this time I was only running Lynx. As soon as I killed lynx, it stopped. It only managed to get up to 5megs in my swap space. This is weird. It seems as though it only happens when I'm connected. I've never noticed or remember it happening when I was not. Did you find anything strange in the log files? I remember one time that my swap space usage was increasing pretty quickly. I found out it was because /var/log/daemon.log was being filled with output from named. I got too much junk that it filled my partition. Regards, E.- -- Eloy A. Paris This suggestion reminds me of another possibility. I haven't experienced anything like it with a Linux system on ethernet + modem, but back when I was using a UNIX box with 12 long serial cables coming out of the back it used to happen from time to time. What happened was that the serial cables could pick up mains hum and getty would try to log-in the mains hum. Since this always failed, the disk would fill up with failed log-in messages, and pretty quickly. Since this sort of thing is a hardware problem rather than a system defect, it might be worth checking your hardware integrity in case it might be causing something analagous to happen. Best of luck, Ted.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .DEB files
I have some .DEB files, but I'm with some problems when I install it. It skip the mailtool.deb and sendmail.deb. How can I install these two files? Just type dpkg -i mail/mailtools_1.06-3.deb (I'm using DSELECT program). Where can I find the MCOPY program? ~$ dpkg -S mcopy mtools: /usr/man/man1/mcopy.1.gz [..] mtools: /usr/bin/mcopy So, it's in the mtools package. -- 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]
olwm, reply-to field
Hi, I am not exactly sure if this is only has to do with debian, Samuel Wu We're not very big, but we're certainly clever... -Dubstar [EMAIL PROTECTED] The University of Texas at Austin http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~swu/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
olwm, reply-to field
Hi, First of all, sorry for the previous uncomplete message. Am having trouble switching between emacs and eudora, and accidentally did an emacs Ctrl-e which turned out to mean SEND IMMEDIATELY in Eudora pro. :) Please bear with me as I am a very much a Linux/debian/unix rookie. problem 1: As I was saying, I am running olwm as my window manager, but for some reason it is not respnding to setting in my ~/.Xdefaults file . What I am trying to do is have the focus follow the mouse pointer. problem 2: PINE tells me my reply-to address field may be incorrect, which I confirmed by sending mail to myself. it only gives [EMAIL PROTECTED] Samuel Wu We're not very big, but we're certainly clever... -Dubstar [EMAIL PROTECTED] The University of Texas at Austin http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~swu/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
olwm, reply-to field
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 11:06:25 -0600 To: deb-user From: Samuel Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: olwm, reply-to field Hi, First of all, sorry for the previous uncomplete message. Am having trouble switching between emacs and eudora, and accidentally did an emacs Ctrl-e which turned out to mean SEND IMMEDIATELY in Eudora pro. :) Please bear with me as I am a very much a Linux/debian/unix rookie. problem 1: As I was saying, I am running olwm as my window manager, but for some reason it is not respnding to setting in my ~/.Xdefaults file . What I am trying to do is have the focus follow the mouse pointer. problem 2: PINE tells me my reply-to address field may be incorrect, which I confirmed by sending mail to myself. it only gives [EMAIL PROTECTED], and not the whole domain. How do I change this? Thanks Samuel Wu We're not very big, but we're certainly clever... -Dubstar [EMAIL PROTECTED] The University of Texas at Austin http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~swu/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with XFree86 Setup and Minicom
Hi all! I have been able to run Minicom without any problems but now it can't find the modem (US Robotics Sportster 28800). When my system boots I get a few error messages: /dev/cua0 'no such device' /dev/cua1 'no such device' /dev/cua2 'no such device' /dev/cua3 'no such device' Since my modem is connected to /dev/cua0 I guess this has something to do with it. Then, when I try configuring X with the standard SVGA X-server I get this message when I type startx: xinit: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' As far as I've found out, this library isn't referenced anywhere on my harddisk. How do I get it there? I have added /usr/X11R6/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and /usr/X11R6/bin to the path statement in /etc/profile. As you might notice, I'm a Linux novice and I'll appreciate any tips you might come up with. Best regards, Mikael Bendtsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with XFree86 Setup and Minicom
On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Mikael Bendtsen wrote: I have been able to run Minicom without any problems but now it can't find the modem (US Robotics Sportster 28800). When my system boots I get a few error messages: /dev/cua0 'no such device' /dev/cua1 'no such device' /dev/cua2 'no such device' /dev/cua3 'no such device' Linux folks recommend using /dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyS1, ... instead. Reconfigure minicom to use these devices instead and check that they exist by executing: ls /dev/ttyS? Then, when I try configuring X with the standard SVGA X-server I get this message when I type startx: xinit: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' As far as I've found out, this library isn't referenced anywhere on my harddisk. How do I get it there? I have added /usr/X11R6/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and /usr/X11R6/bin to the path statement in /etc/profile. Does the link exist? An ls on my system gives: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so - libXmu.so.6.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 - libXmu.so.6.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0 --- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: olwm, reply-to field
Samuel Wu wrote: Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 11:06:25 -0600 To: deb-user From: Samuel Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: olwm, reply-to field Hi, First of all, sorry for the previous uncomplete message. Am having trouble switching between emacs and eudora, and accidentally did an emacs Ctrl-e which turned out to mean SEND IMMEDIATELY in Eudora pro. :) Please bear with me as I am a very much a Linux/debian/unix rookie. problem 1: As I was saying, I am running olwm as my window manager, but for some reason it is not respnding to setting in my ~/.Xdefaults file . What I am trying to do is have the focus follow the mouse pointer. The debian startx scripts don't look at your .Xdefaults file (like the Sun xinit/startx does). Rather, it merges in resources from $HOME/.Xresources (everybody just *has* to come up with their own way of doing things, don't you find?). problem 2: PINE tells me my reply-to address field may be incorrect, which I confirmed by sending mail to myself. it only gives [EMAIL PROTECTED], and not the whole domain. How do I change this? Sorry, don't have any experience with PINE. Sounds like the Reply-To field is set to some default that can be changed by user configuration though. Thanks Samuel Wu We're not very big, but we're certainly clever... -Dubstar [EMAIL PROTECTED] The University of Texas at Austin http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~swu/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: olwm, reply-to field
On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: problem 2: PINE tells me my reply-to address field may be incorrect, which I confirmed by sending mail to myself. it only gives [EMAIL PROTECTED], and not the whole domain. How do I change this? Sorry, don't have any experience with PINE. Sounds like the Reply-To field is set to some default that can be changed by user configuration though. Yes, you have to edit your ~/.pinerc accordingly Yours, -- martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dpkg package database error
Got the following errors while attempting to update dpkg-ftp in preparation to upgrade from Debian 1.1-14 to 1.2. Updated dpkg several days ago without problem. mac-bsa:/usr/distribution/binary/net# dpkg -i dpkg-ftp_1.4.8.deb (Reading database ... 4971 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace dpkg-ftp 1.4.8 (using dpkg-ftp_1.4.8.deb) ... Unpacking replacement dpkg-ftp ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dpkg-ftp: dpkg-ftp depends on perl; however: -- Package perl is not installed.-- dpkg-ftp depends on libnet; however: Package libnet is not installed. dpkg: error processing dpkg-ftp (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: dpkg-ftp dpkg thinks perl is not installed although it is and fully functional - as far as I can tell. I'm not sure how the perl installation information was lost from the dpkg database. Is there a convenient way to fix the perl database entry without re-installing perl? Does anyone know how this happen? - Carl = Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] = -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A.out binaries in debian 1.2 ??? nah....
Mike, I tried to install the new uucp, but it requires mailx, which I don't use. Why the change in dependencies since the last release, if it's just a recompile for ELF? Thanks, Jim On 24 Dec 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: [...] mirror by now. I don't think UUCP needs much maintenance - there hasn't been a new upstream version for over a year so I consider it mature. So I don't think it really needs a new maintainer. But please check it out and let me know what you think. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with XFree86 Setup and Minicom
Mikael Bendtsen wrote: Hi all! I have been able to run Minicom without any problems but now it can't find the modem (US Robotics Sportster 28800). When my system boots I get a few error messages: /dev/cua0 'no such device' /dev/cua1 'no such device' /dev/cua2 'no such device' /dev/cua3 'no such device' Since my modem is connected to /dev/cua0 I guess this has something to do with it. Most likely not (unless your modem happens to be Plug-n-Play). More likely you just have configured serial support as a module which doesn't happen to be loaded when serial port configuration happens. Change /etc/modules to load serial at manually rather than being auto-loaded if you want this message to go away. Then, when I try configuring X with the standard SVGA X-server I get this message when I type startx: xinit: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' As far as I've found out, this library isn't referenced anywhere on my harddisk. How do I get it there? I have added /usr/X11R6/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and /usr/X11R6/bin to the path statement in /etc/profile. You are correct that you need to add the line /usr/X11R6/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf file and run ldconfig. If you didn't rerun ldconfig or reboot then this line hasn't taken effect. Of course, there's always the outside chance that you don't have /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.* which shouldn't happen if you let dselect do it's work of selecting the X shared libraries. Good luck. Enjoy linux. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: olwm, reply-to field
Hi Jens, You wrote: Jens problem 2: PINE tells me my reply-to address field may be Jens incorrect, which I confirmed by sending mail to myself. it Jens only gives [EMAIL PROTECTED], and not the whole domain. How do I Jens change this? Jens Jens Sorry, don't have any experience with PINE. Sounds like the Jens Reply-To field is set to some default that can be changed by Jens user configuration though. At the main menu, choose 'Setup' and then type 'C' for config. look for setting: customized-hdrs (you can look for it by typing 'W' as for 'Where') then when you found it, type 'A' as for 'Add'. It will give you a prompt, enter: Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] thats what i have in my config: customized-hdrs = Reply-To: Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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]
Debian M$ co-habitation
I am looking to install Debian 1.2 on my IBM Thinkpad 760CD. Unfortunately, for work reasons, I need to keep WinNT up operational also. So, three questions: 1. Does anyone have Debian running on a TP 760? I'm willing to break new ground but previous experiences would help. 2. Does anyone have a dual-boot NT/Debian system. I particularly care about not losing my boot setup when I repartion my drive. 3. Does anyone have experience with WINE and/or accessing NTFS under Debian? Thanks for any info Stephen --- Normality is a statistical illusion. -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: olwm, reply-to field
Jens, Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I looked around in the /etc/X11/Xsession file and found that it was looking for a file called ~/.Xresources, then ran 'xrdb -merge $userresources' on that file. I ended up putting a similar line in my ~/.xsession file which loaded ~/.Xdefaults file instead. Now everything is working! Thanks for the help. -- Samuel Wu We're not very big, but we're certainly clever... -Dubstar [EMAIL PROTECTED] The University of Texas at Austin http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~swu/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg package database error
Measuring the bandwidth of a mirror puts a significant load on the mirror and the measuring site, and network links in between - I'd prefer to have mirror customers make their own determination of their throughput by performing real file transfers. 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]
Compatability Phone
Hello, Can I use a Solaris 2.5 application? I'm looking at TeleVox an Internet Phone package. What other phone packages have been used with Linux that have a Win32 available interface? Is there a Debian package available? Thanx -- Greg. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian and Windows95
Greetings, Currently, I am running primarily Debian Linux (unstable), but I have a 160MB bootable MS-DOS partition that I am using for one or two MS-DOS programs that don't have Linux counterparts (such as AutoCad). My DOS setup does have some problems, however. Because I've paid much more attention to the Linux-side of my system, I haven't upgraded the DOS side when I got new hardware. MS-DOS can't talk to my SCSI CD-ROM drive, nor my sound card, nor my SCSI ZIP drive, etc. I was thinking of upgrading my MS-DOS setup to a Windows95 setup, but I have some concerns. To me, maintaining the working Linux setup is -most- important. If I can't do that, then I will forgo Win95. All of the Linux+Win95 documentation I have talks about adding Linux to a working Win95 setup. I'm interested in doing the reverse. I have heard that Win95 likes to play around with the MBR and partition tables to make sure that it is the only or primary OS on the system. How can I make certain that I don't lose anything critical when installing it? Has anyone else done this? What can I expect? -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects. -- A.L.A. v. U.S. Dept. of Justice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian and Windows95
Back up your Linux system just in case Windows 95 clobbers its partition. Make a boot floppy, and make sure the floppy works. Then you should be able to safely install Windows 95. The easiest way to restore LILO is probably to re-install the package. 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]
problems with st0 - HELP! :)
Hi, I'm having problems using my DAT tape drive under 2.0.25 This drive used to be in a 1.2.13 system and worked fine. Ever since I moved it to a newer server, with 2.0.23 and then 2.0.25 I've had problems using the tape drive. Right now I'm getting errors like these: Dec 27 09:17:00 irvine kernel: st0: Error with sense data: extra data not valid Current error st09:00: sns = 70 3 Dec 27 09:17:00 irvine kernel: ASC= 3 ASCQ= 2 Dec 27 09:17:00 irvine kernel: Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x03 0x02 0x00 0x2a Any clues out there? TIA Ricardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with Talk under Debian
On 26 Dec 1996, Guy Maor wrote: Gerry Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And lastly, Sun's talk seems to be incompatible with just about every other OS's talk that I've tried, including Linux. Unless you use ytalk. ytalk can communicate with both kinds of talk daemons. Unfortunately there is no ytalkd, a talk daemon which could communicate with both kinds of clients. Even using ytalk on Linux, I am unable to establish a talk connection with the Suns at my school. Gerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] From miss Received: from mongo.pixar.com (138.72.50.60) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 27 Dec 1996 23:20:52 - Received: (qmail 25261 invoked from network); 27 Dec 1996 23:10:24 - Received: from primer.i-connect.net (HELO master.debian.org) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by mongo.pixar.com with SMTP; 27 Dec 1996 23:10:24 - Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 17:08:42 -0600 (CST) Sender: Roy C Bixler [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Roy C Bixler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Nelson Posse Lago [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Poppasswd In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Resent-Message-ID: GEsUH.0.yP5.pS5no@master.debian.org Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/2019 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Priority: non-urgent Importance: low Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 25 Dec 1996, Nelson Posse Lago wrote: Hi, This is a very tricky problem. poppassd is a small app that calls passwd to change the password. Well, it passes some arguments to passwd and expects some responses from it. All very fine. Now, the newer debians use a passwd program that does a few checks on the password. If the new password is too similar to the old one, or if it is too short, or if it has too many repeated characters, etc. it will issue an error message and prompt you for a new (hopefully better) password. poppassd was not desinged to deal with this. It just waits for passwd to issue the prompt re-enter new password while password is saying too simple: try again. Try entering a very random, 8 chars password to see if it works. To solve your problem, you must try to find a passwd program that doesn't do these checks (at the expense of security) or hack poppassd to be smarter. I don't know if debian has a simpler passwd program. I checked to see if this is the problem by logging into the server directly and changing my password to the same thing I attempted to change it to with Eudora and 'poppasswd'. That worked just fine the first time. My configuration is Debian 1.2 stable (poppasswd_1.2-4) and Eudora Pro v. 3.0 flailing away on Windoze '95. The connection just hangs after I specify the new password for the second time. The Eudora dialog box just sits with a 'newpasswd' text. If I look on the server, there are idle 'poppasswd' and 'passwd rcb' processes running. Also, as expected, typing in my original password incorrectly will cause Eudora to abort the operation. It really appears as if 'poppasswd' itself is just hanging after it receives the 'newpass' command - this is what I got if I 'telnet' direct to port 106 and go through the protocol sequence. Any ideas? Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dump problems
I'm encountering some major errors with my dump script. hey look like this: -- Fri 18:29 on Templinux : pwd is ~ tcsh# dump 0udf 325000 /dev/nrft0 /usr DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Dec 27 18:29:24 1996 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda2 (/usr) to /dev/nrft0 DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 144596 tape blocks on 0.13 tape(s). DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] dump: ACLs in inode #16 won't be dumped: Invalid argument DUMP: read error from /dev/hda2: Bad address: [block 613]: count=628736 DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING! DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING! Segmentation fault DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING! DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING! DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING! -- Fri 18:29 on Templinux : pwd is ~ tcsh# I receive no extraneous errors on a fsck -f /dev/hda2. I'm running the dump from Debian 1.1 on an otherwise 1.2 system. I had to restore the old dump because I kept getting master/slave protocol botched errors which no one on this list figured out. And that's exactly why I dump /usr - so that I can go back to the old version of something to get a working copy. Thanks in advance for your help. If you want to tell me to get a new tape drive/backup program/whatever, please say so. The tape drive is an HP/Colorado T1000. Normally this dump would run in a script, which I'd be happy to mail to anyone who asks (or post if there's a lot of requests). --Pete ___ Peter J. Templin, Jr. Client Services Analyst Computer Communication Services tel: (717) 524-1590 Bucknell University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian and Windows95
On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: Back up your Linux system just in case Windows 95 clobbers its partition. Make a boot floppy, and make sure the floppy works. Then you should be able to safely install Windows 95. The easiest way to restore LILO is probably to re-install the package. Bruce Definitely back up the partition! I did this on a Tecra that was already Win95 + Debian (Debian was loaded after the fact). My 95 became unstable as a reault of the plug and pray technology guessing wrong about my hardware setup periodically (after the system had been working fine!) Reinstalling blew away the partition info. The Win95 fdisk program seems to be incompatable with anything else (even NT). My advice would be to do a custom install and do not blow away the dos partition -- install over it. Even just reformatting the partition could be seriously hazardous as the partition boundry may not be honored! In my opinion, Win95 is clear proof that MS is interested in writing software that sells and couldn't care less if it works. The MBR will defintely be overwritten in standard MS form. Bruce's suggestion sound like a good one. 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]
