Re: /dev/loop?
Hi Alexander, You wrote: Alexander Alexander Hi. Alexander Alexander I've recompiled the kernel, and added the loop option to Alexander it, to make possible mounting a filesystem that is in a Alexander standard file, instead of writing it in a disk before. Alexander Alexander When all was working, I tried to mount a file which is Alexander a copy of an msdos diskette, with the proper options in Alexander mount command (loop, blocksize etc), but I don't have any Alexander /dev/loop? device. How can I create one (or more)? cd /dev ; MAKEDEV loop Cheers borik -- _[_]_ Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] (O-O) For pgp public key, email 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]
What's this?
Hi. Some time ago, I sent a message asking someone what are the PEX and XIE extensions for X Windows, but don't received any reply. I don't found the answer in X documentation, and loading or not these modules doesn't seem to make difference in X jobs. What's the utility for them? Thanks in advance. Alexander Gieg =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= By: Alexander Gieg E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/3222 IRC: AlexG =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trident Video Card on X
Hi. I've an old Trident 8900D SVGA Video Card, which works well with X Windows, svgalib and SVGATextMode. Problem #1: --- The problem is that this card works only with 8 bpp in X. The file /usr/doc/X11/README.trident say that the model 8900D can work with 16 bpp, sometimes with the lines Option linear and DefaultColorDeep 16 (or something like those, I don't remember now) in the proper locations. When I try on of that, or both, there are error messages about my chipset don't supporting the 16 bpp mode. In Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 I can use 16 bpp. Problem 2: -- Other problem is that I can't use the 320x200 and 320x240 resolutions in X. These resolutions work well in Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, and the error messages I receive says that there isn't dotclocks for these resolutions. I think the problem is that the XF86_SVGA don't know that my card support Doublescan. How can I enable Doublescan for my video card? Some suggestions for these 2 problems? Thanks in advance. Alexander Gieg =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= By: Alexander Gieg E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/3222 IRC: AlexG =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/dev/loop?
Hi. I've recompiled the kernel, and added the loop option to it, to make possible mounting a filesystem that is in a standard file, instead of writing it in a disk before. When all was working, I tried to mount a file which is a copy of an msdos diskette, with the proper options in mount command (loop, blocksize etc), but I don't have any /dev/loop? device. How can I create one (or more)? Thanks in advance. Alexander Gieg =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= By: Alexander Gieg E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/3222 IRC: AlexG =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Innd problem
Hi. When I've installed debian 1.2, and was presented to the first time to dselect, I pressed enter, to use the default options. The inn package was installed, and there was no problem for some days. But when was a light break, and system was off, and I restarted them, I began to receive many messages like: -- From: root To: usenet Subject: Boot-time Usenet warning on debian Old .news.daily; need to run news.daily? -- What this means? How can I stop receiving these messages? Thanks in advance. Alexander Gieg =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= By: Alexander Gieg E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/3222 IRC: AlexG =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Joystick in X Windows
Hi. In the file XF86Config, section module, is write that to use joystick there is the need to load the module xf86Jstk.so and some other things. It says also that there is need for a device /dev/joy?, and there is the need for kernel support for joystick. I've a joystick port in my IDE card, wich works with Windows 95. But I don't found any /dev/joy? device, nor the module xf86Jstk.so. I've installed also the xext and xinput packages, and the joystick module isn't in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules. Where is the module? And how can I make the proper device in /dev ? Thanks in advance. Alexander Gieg =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= By: Alexander Gieg E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/3222 IRC: AlexG =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quake
Hi. Since I downloaded Quake, I only run it with the command xquake. But since yesterday, when I see messages about xf86quake, I tried this. The first time it said anything like permission denied, as root do chmod 666 /dev/mem. I make this, and when I tried to execute xf86quake, a border appears on screen, then go away, and in xterm appears this error message: video memory unprotecting VID: bank size = 65536 bytes VID: ram = 1024 kb Error: Video card bank size (65536) too small for this res. VID_Shutdown video memory protecting video memory protecting My system is configured to 1024x768, with virtual screen size = 1024x768 too (I don't like the VS scroll effect), running with 8 bpp, on a Trident SVGA 8900D with 1 Mb DRAM. 16 Mb of memory, and 32 Mb of virtual memory. Some solution? Or I need to use only xquake? Thanks in advance. Alexander Gieg =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= By: Alexander Gieg E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/3222 IRC: AlexG =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with Maelstrom
Hi. When I run Maelstrom, all goes ok, but when the ship appear on the screen, sometimes the program exits, sometimes it locks (and keyboard locks too). Some clue to this? Thanks in advance. Alexander Gieg =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= By: Alexander Gieg E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/3222 IRC: AlexG =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dosemu + FDOS problem
Hi. I've installed the packages fdos (from bo) and dosemu (from rex), that are reported to work together. The installation goes ok, and I can run the dos emulator, who boots from the FreeDOS disk, but there is many error messages (something like Can't find sector 1...). When the boot stops, I can enter the C drive, but none of the programs can be executed. The fdisk from FreeDOS distribution (I downloaded it) don't work well, giving 4 partitions *very* trouble. I think the problem is in the harddisk who is installed with dosemu, or dosemu itself, or fdos, or... And when I write exit in the command line, there is more error messages, and the emulator exits. Some solution to this problem? Thanks in advance. Alexander Gieg =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= By: Alexander Gieg E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/3222 IRC: AlexG =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XKBD
Hi. Some days ago, I put a message asking if there is some documentation about the new XKBD extensions to X Windows, in place of the older xmodmap. I don't received any reply. I *really* want to know how I can configure my keyboard in X, with dead_keys and all the other good things that there is in the version 3.2, but I don't know *how*. The XKBD are *very much* cryptografic than kbd! And there is no keyboard for brasilian portuguese. Anyone has any help? Thanks in advance. Alexander Gieg =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= By: Alexander Gieg E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/3222 IRC: AlexG =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Disk partitioning
I am slowly getting around to a Debian 1.2 installation. I have been hampered by the failure of 2 brand new Maxtor drives. Both failed during disk optimization in preparation for backup and partitioning. Apparently a bad batch of drives. I am now, somewhat apprehensively, ready to try again with the third drive. I have the installation disks made and they appear to work. I have not been able to access the cfdisk manual doc on any of the mirror sites and I am afraid to proceed without it. Any suggestions on where to locate it? Also, the Linux+Win95 Howto referenced a program called FIPS, but I haven't been able to find it. What OS does it run under? Where can I find it? Thanks for the help. Gary Gifford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trident Video Card on X
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Alexander Gieg wrote: I've an old Trident 8900D SVGA Video Card, which works well with X Windows, svgalib and SVGATextMode. Problem #1: --- The problem is that this card works only with 8 bpp in X. The file /usr/doc/X11/README.trident say that the model 8900D can work with 16 bpp, sometimes with the lines Option linear and DefaultColorDeep 16 (or something like those, I don't remember now) in the proper locations. When I try on of that, or both, there are error messages about my chipset don't supporting the 16 bpp mode. In Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 I can use 16 bpp. Is your card an ISA card? How much system memory do you have? If it is an ISA card and you have 16MB or more of system memory, then you can't get to 16bpp because an ISA bus can only address 16MB of memory at one time, and XFree86 currently requires linear addressing with that chipset. I'm no expert in this field, but I've experienced much pain in trying to get higher than 8bpp with XFree86 myself. I purchased a Cirrus Logic based ISA card with 2MB of DRAM. I have 24MB of system RAM. This chipset also requires linear addressing. So I couldn't get to 8bpp either. But, using the bundled Windows drivers, I was able to exploit the full potential of this card (24bpp at 800x600 I believe) from Windows. Kind of annoying, really. You can always try out the commerical X servers (MetroX is one ... I recently read somewhere that it's being included on InfoMagic's LDR, which is only $50!!). What I'm gonna do is give my system a major overhaul ... I'm gonna yank out the motherboard and stick in a Pentium one with PCI slots (ISA video sucks anyways). There's no linear addressing problem with PCI cards, I believe. == Arcadio Alivio Sincero, Jr. Undergraduate Computer Science Major/Linux Enthusiast/Competitive Bodybuilder email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW:Not available yet -- still looking for free webspace! Bare feet magnetize sharp metal objects so they point upward from the floor, especially in the dark. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quake
Since I downloaded Quake, I only run it with the command xquake. But since yesterday, when I see messages about xf86quake, I tried this. The first time it said anything like permission denied, as root do chmod 666 /dev/mem. Note: chmod 666 /dev/mem is a _very_ bad idea unless you are running a single-user system and you don't care if anyone on your computer can read any part of your memory. Some better ways to give xf86quake the permissions it needs are outlines in /usr/doc/quake/README.debian . I may try to patch the binary so and change the message to read README.debian or something for a later release of the package. I make this, and when I tried to execute xf86quake, a border appears on screen, then go away, and in xterm appears this error message: Error: Video card bank size (65536) too small for this res. My system is configured to 1024x768, with virtual screen size = 1024x768 too (I don't like the VS scroll effect), running with 8 bpp, on a Trident SVGA 8900D with 1 Mb DRAM. 16 Mb of memory, and 32 Mb of virtual memory. I have the same problem when I run xf86quake on my computer with a 1 MB trident card in it. If I switch to a 2 MB diamond stealth card, I can run xf86quake ok. I don't know enough about video cards to guess what this error message means. Maybe someone can help clearify it? Some solution? Or I need to use only xquake? Try fiddling around with your video modes -- maybe a smaller video mode will work better (It'll surely be faster for xf86quake). If you get it to work, let me know. -- He. He. He. - - Herman Toothrot -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: base diskette problems
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Kendrick Myatt wrote: Okay... I have made 3 different sets of diskettes with 3 different machines and 3 different copies of the .bin files, but I can't get past the base 1 diskette encountering an end of file at about 1.2MB. This is *really* starting to annoy me :( Anybody care to share a sure-fire way to get the base diskettes to work? I'd appreciate it :) TIA! Have you checked to see if your cmos is set to 1.44 floppy, and not 1.2? I don't know whether or not the base system goes by the BIOS, or by what it finds out of the air. It could be thinking its the wrong type of disk, is what is sounds like. -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.southeast.net/~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]
Finding files in UNINSTALLED packages
How do you find which package contains a file you need to install? The dpkg manual page says that dpkg -S searches installed packages. That has its uses--but it's useless for finding which package you need to install to get a specific file. Is there a convenient/standard way to search uninstalled packages (.deb files) for file names? Also, is there a way to search on the description text of packages? Thanks, Daniel -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem linking with libtermcap!
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Carnage wrote: Hello Mailing List!, I seem to be having a problem linking with the Termcap library when specifying -ltermcap on the gcc command line. I would recommend that you change to ncurses (-lncurses) which will move you into a maintained library. (termcap is being phased out) Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 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: Ramdisk
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Gith wrote: Is there any reason I should set the ramdisk size to 0 ? This is the correct value if you don't want to boot up on a ramdisk. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 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: regarding a message ....
Daniel Stringfield writes: A week or two ago, I wrote about an error that I got while compiling. Well.. I fixed it. This was with kernel-source 2.0.27 The error was on line 267 of scripts/mkdep.c It read: path_array[0].buffer[len] = '\0';(patth_array[0].len = len; And I changed it to: path_array[0].buffer[len] = '\0';(path_array[0].len = len); and now it compiles. [snip] I looked in the very same file and found that it was already fixed. I think this example above proves the danger of incremental upgrades vs. wholesale distribution upgrades. I guess someone has to do incremental upgrades to find these quirks so that they can be fixed for the distribution. Glad that you found it, Daniel. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.2 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: base diskette problems
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Kendrick Myatt wrote: Okay... I have made 3 different sets of diskettes with 3 different machines and 3 different copies of the .bin files, but I can't get past the base 1 diskette encountering an end of file at about 1.2MB. This is *really* starting to annoy me :( Anybody care to share a sure-fire way to get the base diskettes to work? I'd appreciate it :) TIA! How are you creating these disks? From a dos system you should use rawrite2.exe. From a Linux system dd will work. Under no circumstances will copy or cp do the required job. Let us know in more detail just what you have done. It will make distance debugging much easier. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 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: My upgrade 1.1-1.2
Daniel S. Barclay writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm using the InfoMagic CDrom set (Dec 96) to upgrade. Here are some notes: 3) several packages have 2 versions and dselect happily installs both versions without trying to distinguish between them. And because of the directory order (checked with 'ls -U'), the older version gets installed last 8-( the newer version is purged. These offenders are: ... If you need any of these packages, I'd recommend installing these packages by hand. If you return to dselect to install other things, will it leave these packages alone, or will it try to upgrade/downgrade these? Once installed by hand, dselect does leave the packages alone. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.2 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1.1 memory management issue ??
Martin Konold writes: Sorry I still do not get the point. Debian 1.1 never seemed to be slow to me compared to any other distribution. Of course any broken setup you might get by unstable/partial updates might slow down your machine to any degree. But this still means that contradictionary to the above statement 1.1 was not slow. I was pointing out that someone had problems because it was a partial update. I saw another gentleman who had kernel compilation problems. When he found the source of his predicament (and posted a message), I checked the very same source file and mine was fixed already. Difference being, I installed from a stable distribution and he didn't. And yes, if you don't do an entire upgrade, you stand a chance of having problems, kernel or otherwise. Based on what you have posted so far, I take it that you are a thorough individual who insures that he has an entire distribution and can't take a step backwards to see the big picture. My favorite phrase: one can't see the forest for the trees being in your way. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.2 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Finding files in UNINSTALLED packages
Hi Daniel, You wrote: Daniel Daniel How do you find which package contains a file you need to Daniel install? Daniel Daniel The dpkg manual page says that dpkg -S searches installed Daniel packages. That has its uses--but it's useless for finding Daniel which package you need to install to get a specific file. Daniel Daniel Is there a convenient/standard way to search uninstalled Daniel packages (.deb files) for file names? Daniel Daniel Also, is there a way to search on the description text of Daniel packages? Daniel Daniel Thanks, Daniel The file Contents.gz is probably what you are looking for, it is in the Debian archive in the stable or unstable directories if i am not mistaken. Cheers, borik -- _[_]_ Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] (O-O) For pgp public key, email 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: Finding files in UNINSTALLED packages
From: Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Daniel How do you find which package contains a file you need to Daniel install? ... The file Contents.gz is probably what you are looking for, it is in the Debian archive in the stable or unstable directories if i am not mistaken. Yes. That's what I need. Thanks, Daniel -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PPP dial up connection help
OK, I'm a super newbie at Linux. I have it installed, and tried to set up a PPP dial up threw an external modem. I think I am correct in using /dev/ttys2 as my modem on port 3. When I go to establish a connection it says System lacks PPP kernel support Either I messed up the install, or I am missing a Debian package for PPP support. Also on the subject of packages, what packages will I need to install to get the most use out of my internet connection? and what packages if any to support them. As of now all that is installed is the files on the install disks. Looking forward to learning a new OS. Thanks in advance Eddie -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Building a.out binaries
I'm calling for help because I really don't have time to solve this one myself. :) I need to compile an a.out version of the (modified) login program, dynamically link against libc4 (obviously.) To this end, I installed all the gizmos - aout-binutils and aout-gcc. These programs (gcc and ld) run ok, but produce this warning : /usr/i486-linuxaout/bin/gcc -o login login.o getpass.o checktty.o /usr/i486-linuxaout/bin/ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 08048078 The resulting binary is a messed up statically linked ELF file. The login.o, etc. objects, compiled by the same gcc look ok as impure object files. I'd greatly appreciate any assistance. ... Stephen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on a dual PPro PC
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gregory Vence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marek Duszynski wrote: Hello, I am trying to decide on a motherboard for a dual PPro PC to run Debian Linux. Could anybody running (or thinking about running) such system share their experiance with me and possibly advice me on the motherboard to go for please ? A hardware faq on multi-processors would be handy. I'm considering quads and dual Pentium(not Pro) machines too. Well I can confirm that Linux SMP works on a Quad Pentium HP Netserver LS. I don't know of a FAQ. The best info comes off the mailing list. Look on Alan Cox page. I have a link for it on our company page... www.psychosis.com/emc/ I think their might also be one on the documentation project. Dave 'Kill a Cop' Cinege (aka Psychopath #3) --- Super Genius at Large Early one morin' while making the rounds, I took a shot a cocaine and I shot my baby down..shot her down then I went bedan I stuck that lovin' .44 beneath my head. George Thorogood http://www.psychosis.com/ Libertarian Party 1-800-682-1776http://www.lp.org/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rm -r/-R/--recursive doesn't seem to work
find . -name TRANS.TBL -exec rm {} \;
alternatively you could use:
rm `find . -name TRANS.TBL`
which would have some advantages regarding speed system usage, as rm
wouldn't be called individually for each file, but rather once for all
files.
Benedikt
signoff
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several problems related to V1.2 upgrading/installation
A Happy New Year, and oh - yes - Happy Bug Hunting! ;) due to some problems at iconnect, it took quite a while until I finally got my Debian 1.2 CD, but - now it's here. I used that CD to upgrade my system at home (from Debian 1.1.8), and encountered a few problems here - one of which seems pretty bad. a) during the upgrade, dselect couldn't find the predependency libdl1 for perl. fix - manually install the new ldso package dpkg -i stable/binary/base/ldso_1.8.5-1.deb b) after the upgrade the package 'base' was marked obsolete. Unfortunately I was dumb enough to remove it, due to its obsoletion. BIG MISTAKE. It took me basically roughly 8 hours to get the system back working. Now (by reverting to 1.1.8) - now I have again upgraded to 1.2, same problem - base is marked obsolete. WHY? (And - if it truly SHOULD BE obsolete, why does it cause problems when it after it is removed)? But first - IS IT TRULY OBSOLETE, or am I experiencing another problem here? Furthermore I used the CD to install linux on a PC (PPro180, 64MB, Adaptec 2940U, Fireball TM3200S, Matrox MGA Millenium 4MB) at work, where I encountered the following problems: a) cfdisk failed to partition the disk properly (on writing partition table some of the partitions actually got written, but not all). fdisk works fine, though. b) I partioned the disk to have 6 logical partitions - unfortunately the boot disks only have devices sd?1 through sd?8. I had to mknod the rest of the device entries myself - but I seriously suggest to make all those devices in the standard root system, for a not so experienced user might not have known how to create a device entry. c) Unfortunately, sda9-15 are also missing in the base package, where I forgot to add them before I rebooted the base system to continue installation. This resulted in a severe problem in the bootup fsck phase (device not found), and the system request my root passwd so I could fix things there. When I just hit the return key (since root has no password at that stage yet), I got tons of error messages indicating 'fgrep: command not found' and the system was locked up - I couldn't CTRL-C or CTRL-ALT-DEL it. I rebooted using the rescue disk and then mknod the missing sda9 sda10 device entries and rebooted the base system again. Result: The install script that gets executed during the first bootup asking you for a root password, creating a user account, starting dselect (and maybe other things) was already deleted. Suggestion here - do not REMOVE this initial install script, but either just remove the automatic start of that script and leave it in place or just only rename it, so it can still be used in situations like the above. Since I was not sure what else the script does I had to reinstall the base system again. Also, I think the 'fgrep: command not found' problem referred to the automatic start of the first time installation script, which should not be started in maintenance mode, correct? d) on the main system installation the configuration of texbin didn't work, since the system was lacking libXt.so.6 (required by metafont). yours, Benedikt signoff --- Benedikt Eric Heinen - Muehlemattstrasse 53 - CH3007 Bern - SWITZERLAND email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]phone: ++41.79.3547891 RIOT, n. A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders. Ambrose Bierce ``The Devil's Dictionary'' -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Corrupted superblock on msdog partition
Hi. By accident, I rebooted my box with an msdog partition mounted manually (i.e. it is not in /etc/fstab). Now, msdog can't access the partition, and linux says the superblock is corrupt when I try to mount it with mount -t msdos. Is there any way to recover from this mistake or should I kiss my data goodbye? TIA Nathan L. Cutler Linux Enthusiast http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~nlc -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unidentified subject!
GOOD YEAR everyone, After host plato is halted, I ping it from another host on the same ethernet. Plato responds with echo replies! Both hosts are on debian 1.2 . Maybe something is wrong with shutdown, but except for ethernet collisions I cannot think of any other consequences. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP 768/429EE365, West Palm Beach, Florida -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
validating IP address hardware address
I am setting up a server in a school network that runs a squid cache (1.1) with proxy authentication. The server is dual-homed with one interface on the internet (56K) and functions as a simple firewall. The server also runs dhcpd, primarily serving out pre-defined IP addresses based upon hardwarte addresses to macs running MacTCP and Open Transport. This setup provides excellent performance and an auditable log of web accesses while protecting the internal network; the macs have no other route to the internet. However, the macs are physically unsecured, although students are unlikely to monkey with the hardware. Hence, any moderately enterprising prankster could manage to alter the networking setup either directly or by loading a bootleg AdminTCP program or some such. Thus they could set the IP address explicitly. This would jeopardize one of my audit capabilities: identifying the hardware location of the person making a request. What I would like to do is validate that the IP address and the hardware address of any request correspond to those in my dhcpd.conf. ARP/RARP provide the raw tools to do this. What I am looking for is an easy way! Perhaps I could hack redir...but I am sure someone must have already addressed this with a utility. Michael -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
maintaining apache-style auth files
Does someone know of a good set of utilities for doing this? The format is simple, just like the 1st 2 fields in /etc/passwd. I am actually using it for a squid proxy authentication file. Michael -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dual-Boot on a non-sys disk
Now I have someone that wants to install a dual-boot win'95/Linux system, but the only available hard drive space is on drive E: (a new gig drive). Can I just set it to a boot disk in the BIOS, repartition the new drive and pray that it works? Or do i need to install it to the C: drive? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
access log not writing
Changed out my access log for my apache server this morning (once a month). Moved the current one to .0 and put an empty file in and set all the chmod's and chown's to their right settings. But when I test it with lynx or my web browser, nothing is written to the access.log file. I have included below what the directory is set as. Is there something that I may have missed? # ls -l total 194 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root www-data0 Jan 1 10:00 access.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 157626 Jan 1 09:59 access.log.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1331 Dec 20 06:42 access.log.1.gz Chad Chad D. Zimmerman Sys Admin: dabcc-www.nmsu.edu [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPP dial up connection help
On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Knight wrote: OK, I'm a super newbie at Linux. I have it installed, and tried to set up a PPP dial up threw an external modem. I think I am correct in using /dev/ttys2 as my modem on port 3. When I go to establish a connection it says System lacks PPP kernel support Either I messed up the install, or I am missing a Debian package for PPP support. Also on the subject of packages, what packages will I need to install to get the most use out of my internet connection? and what packages if any to support them. As of now all that is installed is the files on the install disks. Looking forward to learning a new OS. This error message is very uninformative. You will get this when the port you try to use is already in use (for instance), and in this case, it probably means you have a getty running on that tty. Check your inittab file in etc and see if this is the conflict. If this isn't it, are you using kerneld to load modules? Is ppp a module? On some systems kerneld can't get pppd up fast enough (but I'm not sure that it causes this error) so you will need to explicitly install it by listing it in /etc/modules. If none of this works, give another holler. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 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: Innd problem
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alexander Gieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But when was a light break, and system was off, and I restarted them, I began to receive many messages like: -- From: root To: usenet Subject: Boot-time Usenet warning on debian Old .news.daily; need to run news.daily? -- What this means? How can I stop receiving these messages? It means exactly what it says. Every day (by default at 3:00 AM) the maintenance script news.daily has to run. This probably hasn't happened for some reason or the other since a couple of days. If you fix that, the system will stop sending you mail about it.. Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg| Sticky tape is like the Force - it has a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | dark side, it has a light side, and it | | 8--8 | holds the universe together - Carl Zwanig | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual-Boot on a non-sys disk
Eric == Eric Budd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric Now I have someone that wants to install a dual-boot Eric win'95/Linux system, but the only available hard drive space Eric is on drive E: (a new gig drive). Can I just set it to a Eric boot disk in the BIOS, repartition the new drive and pray Eric that it works? Or do i need to install it to the C: drive? What OS is the box running now? If it is running Linux, and you want to install Win-BLOWS 95, I think (but am not sure) that Win-BLOWS will want to install itself on the first primary partition of the first hard drive. It rewrites the boot sector, too, so make certain you have a Linux boot/rescue disk ready, 'cause otherwise you'll find it difficult to get back into Linux! On the other hand, if the box is currently running Win-BLOWS 95 and you have an extra partition handy, installing Linux on it should be no problem. Linux is content to reside on any partition on any disk, including logical partitions. HTH -- Nathan L. Cutler Linux Enthusiast http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~nlc -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disk partitioning
Gary, FIPS runs under DOS. I have used it to install slackware on two different platforms. It worked great for me, just make sure you follow the directions. FIPS should be at sunsite: /pub/???/distributions/slackware/install/FIPS Gary Gifford wrote: I am slowly getting around to a Debian 1.2 installation. I have been hampered by the failure of 2 brand new Maxtor drives. Both failed during disk optimization in preparation for backup and partitioning. Apparently a bad batch of drives. I am now, somewhat apprehensively, ready to try again with the third drive. I have the installation disks made and they appear to work. I have not been able to access the cfdisk manual doc on any of the mirror sites and I am afraid to proceed without it. Any suggestions on where to locate it? Also, the Linux+Win95 Howto referenced a program called FIPS, but I haven't been able to find it. What OS does it run under? Where can I find it? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XKBD
Hi.
Some days ago, I put a message asking if there is
some documentation about the new XKBD extensions to
X Windows, in place of the older xmodmap.
I don't received any reply. I *really* want to know
how I can configure my keyboard in X, with dead_keys
and all the other good things that there is in the
version 3.2, but I don't know *how*.
The XKBD are *very much* cryptografic than kbd! And
there is no keyboard for brasilian portuguese.
Anyone has any help?
Thanks in advance.
Alexander Gieg
Hi, and a Happy New Year...
I've had the same problems with keyboard coding for my own language, as I do
prefer an Icelandic keyboard interface...
The way to go... is to use the program 'xkbcomp', there is a manual page for
it... with it, you can de-compile your current keyboard into a file (with an
'xkm' extension), which is a plain text-file)... and then recompile it into
the X server.
a second way, and a more secure solution, is to enter the directories:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
here under are several files and directories, that define the keyboard
layout... to define my own keyboard, I took these steps:
Entered the directory 'symbols' under the above, and there copied one of
the files, that was closest to mine into an 'is' file (My language extension).
Edited this file, to provide for the information I needed:
--
// $XConsortium: is /main/2 1996/11/04 11:43:57 oeh $
// $XFree86: xc/programs/xkbcomp/symbols/ic,v 3.2 1996/10/13 11:35:29 dawes Ex
p $
partial default alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols basic {
// Describes the differences between a very simple en_US
// keyboard and a very simple Icelandic keybaord
name[Group1]=3D Icelandic;
key TLDE {[ onehalf, section ] };
key LSGT {[less, greater ],
...
and then edited the file 'symbols.dir' in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb to create
the entries needed for my language extension, again... using other entries
in the file as a directive as to how:
-dp- a--- is(basic)
--p- a--- is(Sundeadkeys)
--p- a--- is(sundeadkeys)
--p- a--- is(nodeadkeys)
Thereon after, you can insert the following line into you XF86Config file,
in:
Section Keyboard
...
XkbSymbols en_US(pc102)+is
...
EndSection
hope this helps...
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Meta-question: debian-user list Reply-To field
I've noticed that the Reply-To field on messages I receive from this debian-user list contains the text of my e-mail address. Is this for some spam filter? My main question is this: Can I mail to debian-user@lists.debian.org or do I have to mail to the address I see in the Reply-To field? (My Emacs rmail seems to be ignoring the Reply-To field. Am I missing some standard setup information?) Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel S. Barclay Compass Design Automation, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 100, 5457 Twin Knolls Rd. Columbia, MD 21045 USA -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[1.2 installation] resolv.conf without bind; or should I just use bind too?
What's the recommended way to get a minimal resolv.conf file? I wasn't planning on using bind, but no package other than bind seems to provide resolv.conf. Should I just create resolv.conf my hand, or should I get the one from the bind package for whatever useful defaults (including explanatory comments) it contains? Context: - The main thing I need to do is to specify nameserver lines for when I'm on line. (I use dial-up IP (diald and PPP); I'm not on a LAN or on ppp permanently.) - I'm converting from Slackware 2.1 to Debian 1.2. - To keep the Debian system clean, I'm loading default Debian configuration files and then customizing them, instead of just trying to dump my old configuration files onto the Debian system. Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel S. Barclay Compass Design Automation, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 100, 5457 Twin Knolls Rd. Columbia, MD 21045 USA -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Switching to Debian from old Slackware 2.1; orientation?
Daniel S. Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've started upgrading to Debian 1.2 from Slackware Pro 2.1 (yes, very old). Given the difference in distributions and other changes in Linux, I feel quite blind. I don't where everything is and how things work now. Also, I'm not clear on how to configure and customize things without screwing up dpkg. Can someone point me to (or provide) any of the following information? - The recommended way to customize startup scripts. (For example, on my old system, I put commands to swap the control and caps-locks keys, to add extra swap space, etc., in rc.local. Where do things like that go now?) Debian uses the standard SysVinit system to handle booting. As mentioned in the man page, init(8), there is documentation in /etc/init.d/README. Basically what happens is this: When the system boots, it runs all the scripts in /etc/rc.boot. Then it switches to the default runlevel (usually 2). When you switch into a runlevel, the system runs all the scripts in /etc/rc?.d, where ? is the runlevel. First it runs the scripts that start with 'K' (with the argument 'stop'), which are supposed to kill processes; then it runs scripts that start with 'S' (with the argument 'start'), which are supposed to start new processes. Each file has a number in its name, which determines the order they are run in. The directory /etc/rc.boot has no restriction on its filenames, you can put your scriptfile for customizing the keyboard there. Let me give you an example of how to use the /etc/rc?.d directories, though: I installed qmail, an alternative to sendmail, on my system by hand, because there is no Debian package yet. So I created a script 'qmail' that starts qmail, if you give it the argument 'start' and stops it if you give the argument 'stop'. I placed the script in /etc/init.d. I want qmail to start when I enter runlevel 2, so I had to create a link in /etc/rc2.d to the script 'qmail': ln -s /etc/init.d/qmail /etc/rc2.d/S19qmail The 'S' means start qmail, the 19 makes it run between S18netbase and S20xinetd. I also deleted the link, '/etc/rc2.d/S20sendmail' because I didn't want sendmail to start. (But I still have the script in /etc/init.d, in case I ever want to use it again.) Finally, I created a link ln -s /etc/init.d/qmail /etc/rc6.d/K19qmail so that qmail is killed when I reboot (runlevel 6 is reboot). (All this magic is actually handled by the scripts /etc/init.d/boot and /etc/init.d/rc, which are referenced by /etc/inittab.) - How I can and should set the video mode to something other than 24 X 80 when the kernel boots. (This is probably just a general Linux question on which I'm quite behind. I used to used vidmode (rdev) on the kernel image on a kernel boot floppy. That doesn't work any more (at least on the normal Debian 1.2 installation's custom kernel boot floppy (which isn't just a kernel anyway)).) - What I can customize and configure without messing up dpkg. Also, how to tell dpkg I'm customizing something. (I saw a --divert option somewhere. When do I need to use it? For example, for dealing with two ISPs, I have two sets of some configuration files, and swap around the links to them. Would I need to tell dpkg not to disturb my link files, or to not get confused by changes or timestamp changes?) - How to install or remove modules. (That is, how to add or remove modules to whatever boot-time script loads them, not necessarily the actual loading or unloading of modules.) (The Debian installation sets this up initially, but doesn't point to how to change it. I would guess that's now a standard Linux system management operation--but I don't know it.) The module loading is handled by the script /etc/init.d/modules, which just uses the configuration file /etc/modules (this is what you want to edit). My /etc/modules file looks like: # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored. # An entry named `auto' will cause the system to start kerneld immediately. # Kerneld then loads modules on demand. `noauto' disables kerneld completely. auto wd io=0x300 smc-ultra io=0x280 ip_masq_ftp I believe there is a utility with a pretty interface that will write the file for you (you use it when you install), but 'vi' works fine for me. Generally, does anyone know of good source of information on what's changed in Linux recently (well, since around kernel 1.2.13 and Slackware 2.1 and before ELF)? (I mean besides re-reading all the documentation just to look for changed things.) I'm probably doing a lot of things some very old ways. Oh, one more question: If problems are noted in this
[1.2 installation]: how to tell X to follow swapping of control and caps lock from loadkeys
Another newbie-to-recent-changes question: What's the best way to swap the Caps Lock and left Control keys under X windows? (I used loadkeys to do that for the virtual console. In my old system, I don't know if I forget some X customization I did, or if my old system read the virtual console key map to set up the X key map.) Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel S. Barclay Compass Design Automation, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 100, 5457 Twin Knolls Rd. Columbia, MD 21045 USA -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: maintaining apache-style auth files
Michael Laing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does someone know of a good set of utilities for doing this? The format is simple, just like the 1st 2 fields in /etc/passwd. I am actually using it for a squid proxy authentication file. htpasswd -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel modules...
HAPPY NEW YEAR! This is propably a point, where one should shout MAINTAINER! I just installed new modules from 'bo'... modules 2.1.8, hoping that these would have a new version of the modules... What it does, is that it removes the entire directory structure of any previous modules, and then installes the new ones... hmm. And AGAIN! the sound module has disappeared. Now, lucky for me, I had previously built my own kernel, with the devices I am using built in, so I have my sound. But, the distributed kernel image, doesn't have a built in sound... and the modules don't provide it... hmmm. If I had some shred of humor, I'd probably say that Debian has been gagged, and succeed in making it sound funny :-) -- Ørn Einar Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax; +46 035 217194 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disk partitioning
On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Bob Clark wrote: FIPS should be at sunsite: /pub/???/distributions/slackware/install/FIPS Make sure you get the latest version which should be fips15.zip or later. The FIPS home page for verifying the most recent version is at http://www.student.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~schaefer/fips.html;. The Debian FTP sites usually contain a directory tools with FIPS. But the last time i have checked it was still only fips12.zip which dates from october 20, 1994 although fips15.zip containing various is out since august 22, 1995. Maybe this should be updated sometime on the FTP master site? Happy New Year! P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPP dial up connection help
At 12:31 PM 1/1/97 -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Knight wrote: OK, I'm a super newbie at Linux. I have it installed, and tried to set up a PPP dial up threw an external modem. I think I am correct in using /dev/ttys2 as my modem on port 3. When I go to establish a connection it says System lacks PPP kernel support Either I messed up the install, or I am missing a Debian package for PPP support. Also on the subject of packages, what packages will I need to install to get the most use out of my internet connection? and what packages if any to support them. As of now all that is installed is the files on the install disks. Looking forward to learning a new OS. This error message is very uninformative. You will get this when the port you try to use is already in use (for instance), and in this case, it probably means you have a getty running on that tty. Check your inittab file in etc and see if this is the conflict. If this isn't it, are you using kerneld to load modules? Is ppp a module? On some systems kerneld can't get pppd up fast enough (but I'm not sure that it causes this error) so you will need to explicitly install it by listing it in /etc/modules. If none of this works, give another holler. Luck, Dwarf Heh...well I seem to have it dialing now, it was a stupid mistake on my part, I had the modem as /dev/ttys2 I changed it to /dev/ttyS2 and now it works. Like I said I am a real newbie to linux...I have to get use to a OS that is very case sensitive, I've been in the point and click world of windows too long G Eddie -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unidentified subject!
ping response can be handled by network hardware without OS running. Ioannis Tambouras wrote: GOOD YEAR everyone, After host plato is halted, I ping it from another host on the same ethernet. Plato responds with echo replies! Both hosts are on debian 1.2 . Maybe something is wrong with shutdown, but except for ethernet collisions I cannot think of any other consequences. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP 768/429EE365, West Palm Beach, Florida -- 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]
Re: cfengine errors from cron output
Hello all. I'm getting those beloved errors from cfengine on a cron job. What's the fix to get rid of the errors? error message: cfengine:/etc/cfengine/cfengine.conf:23: parse error cfengine::23: Warning: actionsequence is empty cfengine::Execution terminated after parsing due to errors in program dpkg -r cfengine But, you are right that cfengine should say something about that in the docs (I know it becaues I just installed cfengine, and it does print it to stdout. But maintainers cannot expect users to read everything that's printed at install-time). -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hda3 won't mount as root - ok on /mnt - ??? HELP!
Ouch! Still same problem. Tried to upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2 (selecting multiple items in deselect). The install bombed, kernel panic, (probably disk space?). I had to use the reset switch. Now no boot. The partition containing only /var (with deb files of course) was corrupted. All other partitions checked out ok. When trying to boot, lilo loads the kernel ok. Kernel does initial checks. The console displays VFS: mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly, then nothing. Keystrokes are echoed to screen, but init never starts. CtlAltDel works to reboot to the same thing. Booting from floppy I can mount hda3 (my root) on /mnt. Yes, I e2fsck'ed it, and it passes. Re-ran lilo (ROOT=/mnt /mnt/sbin/lilo), went ok, but still no hda3 mount as root. I don't get it. You are saying that mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 /mnt works, but mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 / doesn't? If that really is the case, just do mount -t ext /dev/hda3 /mnt cd /mnt; chroot . ./bin/bash and your /mnt will be / for the process you just started. Then you can continue just like you'd otherwise do if the mount on / did go ok. But really, it all seems somewhat strange to me, -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't see modem on /dev/cua1
Thanks to those that responded to my problem. It is now fixed. I made the embarrassing mistake of having the two serial connectors back to front on the board. Windows 95 obviously tries both ports when looking for hardware, (mouse, modem). The applications were just looking at the port they were configured to use. Conclusion: Windows 95 is more idiot proof than Linux :) This is not a Linux/Debian specific problem but I don't whom else to ask so I beg the list's indulgence. I recently replaced my motherboard with a Tyan Tomcat III with one Pentium 133 (getting ready for SMP). The board has two on-board 16550A based serial ports. Everything appears to working fine except that I can't access the modem. The serial module is being loaded and setserial sees the ports with correct IRQs and port addresses. However, when I use minicom I see nothing, ATZ does nothing and the modem lights don't come on. I have also tried /dev/ttyS1 and various baud settings to no avail. On the other hand Windows95 can detect the modem correctly on COM2 and I can see the modem lights blinking. Hence I don't think it is a hardware or cabling problem. But neither the hyperterm application nor Telix can initialise COM2. The mouse (on COM1) works fine under Windows95, I haven't tried it under X yet. Evan. -- Evan Thomas Department of Physiology University of Melbourne Parkville, 3052 ph: 9344-5849 fax: 9344-5818 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: access log not writing
On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Chad Zimmerman wrote: # ls -l total 194 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root www-data0 Jan 1 10:00 access.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 157626 Jan 1 09:59 access.log.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1331 Dec 20 06:42 access.log.1.gz Chad, Does apache do its own logging, or write to syslog? If it writes to syslog, then you should see an entry in /etc/syslog.conf pointing at your access.log file. However, when you do a mv/create operation, you need to tell syslogd to restart (kill -1 SYSLOGD_PID) or it will keep writing to the old file. I've never run apache so this may very well be absolutely of no use to you. Frank -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Has anyone installed on a Toshiba T2115CS?
Did you turn off power managment in the BIOS? On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Frank Swasey wrote: I'm trying to install on a Toshiba T2115CS, and it was working fine yesterday, but today the lcd will not stay turned on very long at all... I'm really not sure whether this is a hardware problem with the machine, or if something installed wrong. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ethernet vs. diald
I'm still fighting with diald to not gnarl the connection over ethernet, and in the procces, I have managed to make it NEVER touch the ethernet, so its ok, but now diald doesn't want to dial. which is not ok. is there anyone out there that is using both a static ethernet network, and diald? any info will help. Thanks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: access log not writing
Changed out my access log for my apache server this morning (once a month). Moved the current one to .0 and put an empty file in and set all the chmod's and chown's to their right settings. But when I test it with lynx or my web browser, nothing is written to the access.log file. I have included below what the directory is set as. Is there something that I may have missed? Did you try restarting the httpd daemon? I think there is one Debian specific command to do this but can't remember. You can do a kill -HUP pid of appache-httpd to restart Apache. Good luck. 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]
Dayly maintenance time (was Re: Innd problem)
It means exactly what it says. Every day (by default at 3:00 AM) the maintenance script news.daily has to run. This probably hasn't happened for some reason or the other since a couple of days. If you fix that, the system will stop sending you mail about it.. I am waiting for my I-Connect Debian 1.2 CD ROM that was already shipped so probably I'll know the answer when I upgrade from 1.1... but in the meanwhile: Was the time of the maintenance script changed from 6:42 AM in 1.1 to 3 AM in 1.2? If this was the case I am glad because 3 AM is a more reasonable time for a dayly maintenance script that 6:42 AM. 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: Dual-Boot on a non-sys disk
Now I have someone that wants to install a dual-boot win'95/Linux system, but the only available hard drive space is on drive E: (a new gig drive). Can I just set it to a boot disk in the BIOS, repartition the new drive and pray that it works? Or do i need to install it to the C: drive? You can install Linux wherever you want. To boot it up you will use a boot manager (such as LiLo - Linux Loader) or you'll boot from a floppy disk which is configured to mount the root file system in any hard disk you have (for example, /dev/hdb2 - the second partition of your second IDE drive, could be your DOS E: drive). Good luck. 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]
