Netscape 4.0b2 out, any success?
Just wondering if any Debian users have tried the new Netscape Communicator beta, released a couple of days ago. There's a thread on comp.os.linux.development.apps discussing problems with hangs bus errors people have been having. I can't get the newsreader function to work because the program crashes, but have yet to play around with libraries in hopes of a fix. There's some disagreement about whether the fixes that work for NS 3 work for the new beta. -- David Sewell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If all things should become Dep't of Geosciences, Univ. of Arizona| become smoke, then perception WWW: http://packrat.aml.arizona.edu/~dsew/ | would be by the nostrils. | --Heraclitus -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Logging problem/question
Right after installing debian, the system was logging in.pop3d requests and who the requests came from in the /var/log/daemon.log file. It seems that right after installing xinetd I lost the logging of those messages. Maybe it was xinetd or something else, but the system WAS logging in.pop3d,in.comsat and a few other programs. Now it does not log any of it and I'm VERY curious as to WHY ?? Any ideas I can follow up on ? Thanks, Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NT and Microsoft can go to hell!
Well I guess I was expecting a little too much of NT when I just tried to shift partitions around. The plan was to simply backup a data partition and move it by creating a new data partition on the same drive and restoring the backup. I figured I'd be able to get the drive lettering sorted out. I figured that once I removed my existing data partition that that would free up that drive letter for the new data partition. Well Disk Administrator decided to shuffle the letters around to it's liking such that my boot partitions drive letter and my other drive letters were all different. At no time did I expect DA to change my existing drive letter configuration. So now the registry has all these references to totally invalid drive letters. Thanks Microsoft for drive letters! To top it off I agreed to write the signature that DA likes to write to the drive in order to operate on it. and this has completely hoarked my Debian Linux Boot record. I guess Linux requires that part of the boot record that Microsoft assumes no other OS doesn't. Thanks Microsoft! Disk Administrator and NT are about as reliable as Active X is secure. I'm now am adding the following to my Resume. I will not work with any Microsoft products! And I'd like to remove every single Microsoft OS I currently own. Right now that's 95,NT,DOS. I run System Commander under DOS and that's really why I need DOS. So, with that in mind. Is it possible to use OSBS with the following OS's? NeXTSTEP 3.3 OpenStep 4.1 Mach Linux Please help relieve me from Microsoft's Mediocrity. Does anybody know how to run lilo once you've executed a shell from the rescue disk? Basically I'm having a problem because / is the /ramdisk0 and not my harddrive. I think I need to rerun Lilo. However, the error I'm getting, Thanks to NT, is Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root on 08:13 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bad Address
Lindsay Haisley said: The Debian FAQ lists the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the address to which to send corrections and suggestions regarding the FAQ. Mail to this address bounces with a Sorry, no mailbox here by that name message. Do the people who maintain the FAQ know this? Yes. 1. The mailing list isn't working. Sven has agreed to look into this. 2. I am re-writing and re-structuring the FAQ right now. The first thing I've done is to grep through the various mailing lists for the phrase 'faq' (case insensitive). There are nearly 400 matches, so I don't expect to finish the new FAQ til this weekend. 3. I think the official place against which to log bugs for the FAQ might be doc-debian. HTH, Susan Kleinmann -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xmodmap does not seem to work
Try ln -s .xinitrc .xsession and make sure that /etc/X11/config contains the line allow-user-xsession. hunnia wrote: I installed an .Xmodmap in my home (user) directory. It suppose to switch between hungarian and us keyboard by the use of the scroll lock key. Called the file up as xmodmap .Xmodmap in the .xinitrc file. It does not seem to map the keyboard. XF86Config is set up correctly for the keyboard. Using the same XF86Config and .Xmodmap file in the Red Hat distribution, and activating it in the .xsession file brings success. What is different in Debian. Sandor. P.S. I also tried using the full path names for xmodmap and .Xmodmap. -- Hass, alkoss, gyarapits, S a haza fényre derül. -- 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]
Whereis OSBS?
Does anybody have the home page for OSBS? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NT and Microsoft can go to hell!
On Feb 24, Robert Nicholson wrote Does anybody know how to run lilo once you've executed a shell from the rescue disk? Basically I'm having a problem because / is the /ramdisk0 and not my harddrive. I think I need to rerun Lilo. I don't know if this is the recommended usage, but I just did it and it works. Mount your root parition in /mnt. Edit /mnt/etc/lilo.conf and change all of the paths from /boot/... to /mnt/boot/... etc. I also had to create a /boot directory. Then run /mnt/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf It will create a file in /boot. I just moved that file to /mnt/boot, reset the computer, and everything works fine and dandy now. But don't forget to change /etc/lilo.conf once you reboot. -- - John Larkin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://aij.st.hmc.edu/~jlarkin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel compilation problem
I just got a new Pentium Pro 200 MHz, and I put Debian linux 1.2 onto it (had it on my old system and LOVED it! So had to have it again on this new screamer). Well, I am trying to compile a custom kernel, which I've done numerous times on my old system, using make-kpkg. So I go through make config and everything is just fine ... until it comes to the sound. When it reaches the soundblaster I/O, no matter what I type in, it reports: Sorry, no help available for this option yet, and then just goes right back to the statement. I tried playing around with the code, to just accept the default, which is correct, rather than prompting me, and didn't have any luck. I encountered the same problem with the soundblaster IRQ question (found this out when I completely commented out the I/O question!). I tried using menuconfig xconfig (very slick, this last one!), and I can complete the setup just fine. But then when I run the make-kpkg program, and it reaches the soundblaster part described above, it enters an infinite loop, and keeps on scrolling the I/O question Sorry, no help... line until I interrupt the compilation. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? It's completely baffling me... Thank you! Mike | Michael Banys |--- |[EMAIL PROTECTED] |http://www.iit.edu/~banymic -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel compilation problem
Well, I am trying to compile a custom kernel, which I've done numerous times on my old system, using make-kpkg. So I go through make config and everything is just fine ... until it comes to the sound. When it reaches the soundblaster I/O, no matter what I type in, it reports: Sorry, no help available for this option yet, and then just goes right back to the statement. This is a known bug in make-kpkg. I haven't tried make-kpkg since I reported the bug, but I suspect it may have been fixed by now. Try upgrading make-kpkg. If all else fails you could hack the scripts. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running lilo from recue disk. (was NT and Microsoft can go to ...)
Does anybody know how to run lilo once you've executed a shell from the rescue disk? Basically I'm having a problem because / is the /ramdisk0 and not my harddrive. I think I need to rerun Lilo. However, the error I'm getting, Thanks to NT, is Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root on 08:13 You should be able to run lilo from the dinstall menus. Running it from the rescue shell is kinda tricky because you root which is normally / is now /target. Thus your kernel image /vmlinuz is /target/vmlinuz, your /etc/lilo.conf is at /target/etc//lilo.conf etc. etc. What you can do is dd your /target/vmlinuz onto a floppy, make sure your root is set on it correctly with rdev and then boot your system on it. Then all your directories have their real paths and running lilo will be as usual. Time flies like arrows, but fruit flies like bananas. Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.perrypip.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel compilation problem
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Michael Banys wrote: So I go through make config and everything is just fine ... until it comes to the sound. When it reaches the soundblaster I/O, no matter what I type in, it reports: Sorry, no help available for this option yet, and then just goes right back to the statement. I tried playing around with the code, to just accept the default, which is correct, rather than prompting me, and didn't have any luck. I encountered the same problem with the soundblaster IRQ question (found this out when I completely commented out the I/O question!). Try getting the latest version of both the kernel-source and make-kpkg. I had this problem, and managed to hack around it, but I don't remember which file it is that had the problem. It's the file that processes the config file and there are two sections in there---one accepts and validates a hex number and one accepts and validates a decimal number. I ended up having to backslash the ? and + in the regular expressions in these two sections. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape 4.0b2 out, any success?
On 24 Feb 1997, David Sewell wrote: Just wondering if any Debian users have tried the new Netscape Communicator beta, released a couple of days ago. Tried it with MALLOC_CHECK_=0, only got one bus error. The newsreader was working fine for me. Christian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!
So far I have read a lot about everybody joining in, what name to run under and how to split the money. But I have only seen two URL's on where to get info for this. One is the at upenn.edu where I could only find a precompiled binary, but NO Documentation or Source Code. I also saw a reference to the stats Web Page, but that page had no reference to any Documentation or Source Code. Where can one find this vital info? I don't relish the idea of running a binary that is in constant communication with another host on the internet if I can't get my hands on some Documentation and Source Code. I am sure this exists somewhere on the net, but it would be nice if someone would post a pointer to it on the list here. Thanks. D.L. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]Virtual .sig file #2342371. You are \ \ David Lutz viewer number #63. Have a nice Day! / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NT and Microsoft can go to heck!
Mount the hard disk root on /mnt, and run lilo -r /mnt. That will treat /mnt as if it were the root. I agree these commercial operating systems aren't worth the trouble. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 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: Netscape 4.0b2 out, any success?
Hi, On 25-Feb-97 Christian Hudon wrote: On 24 Feb 1997, David Sewell wrote: Just wondering if any Debian users have tried the new Netscape Communicator beta, released a couple of days ago. Tried it with MALLOC_CHECK_=0, only got one bus error. The newsreader was working fine for me. I had to disable java, or it give me buss error and crash every time it hit webpage with java. I also get buss error if I do java console. Email is not very stable. I like the webpage editor. If anyone finds way to make java work without causing bus error, please let me know. Thanks, David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gateway Solo 2100 Hanging
I've just installed 1.2.7 on a Gateway Solo 2100 laptop. Unfortunately, some time after installing 2.0.29 and pcmcia-source_2.9.1-1 and building a kernel with PCMCIA support and support for the nice things one likes on a laptop (APM, etc.), it randomly hangs in the first few minutes after booting. Ouch. The thing seemed to run fine before reconfiguring the kernel. This is the same kernel/modules configuration I'm using on a Micron Transport, so it's worked before. I'm stumped for the moment. Any suggestions? -- Tres Hofmeister Research Applications Program [EMAIL PROTECTED] National Center for Atmospheric Research -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OFFTOPIC rc5-race is running!
The sources are now in portal.stwing.upenn.edu and ftp.genx.net. I saw someone mentioning it in the linux-kernel mailing list. // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Filesystemsize
| Stefan Walder writes: | | does anyone know how big a ext2-filesystem can be? | |From /usr/src/linux/fs/ext2/CHANGES: | |Changes from version 0.5 to version 0.5a | |[..] | - Check that no data can be written to a file past the 2GB limit. This only says that a *file* can't be over 2 GB in size. A bit further down in the same file: - Support for big file systems: the copy of the FS descriptor is now dynamically allocated (previous versions used a fixed size array). This allows to mount 2GB+ FS. Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I am waiting as fast as I can! I want patience, and I want it *NOW*! - Bethany J. Parkhurst -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Filesystemsize
Paul == Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul That says 'file' not 'filesystem.' Last I remember, no file Paul could be over 2GB, but filesystems up to 4TB are possible. I remember reading an article calculating these limits, and the filesystem limit was a bit lower, between 2 and 3TB's I think. Deja News may be able to uncover this post (it was in one of c.o.l. newsgroups). Gleb -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RC5: update
The score, as of Tue Feb 25 2:40 EST 1997, was: 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 100602 106.06 70.73 2 #root 35303 154.25 17.07 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12063 86.37 10.41 4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10789 124.51 6.46 5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9964 124.50 5.97 6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8211 68.82 8.90 We are moving very fast to the top. Like super pacman, we are consuming 400 key blocks per hour, which is 8,000 key blocks per day. Two hours later debian will reach to top 5 and tommorrow to top 3. The stats of linuxnet and #root describe the contest: * linuxnet is untouchable and moves very fast. * #root runs at half our current speed. Their 35,000 blocks presently blocks our way, and will remain so for the next six days. Then we move to the number 2 position behind linuxnet. If things remain as they are, only linuxnet is a major player in this contest. Essentially, the same thing like three days ago before we got started. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libvga?
I've been trying to run several svga games and keep getting this error: /usr/games/doom-1.8/sdoom: can't load library '/usr/lib/libvga.so.1' Unknown error /usr/games/doom-1.8/sdoom: can't load library '/lib/libvga.so.1' Unknown error /usr/games/doom-1.8/sdoom: can't find library 'libvga.so.1' I have svgalib1 version 1.210-3 installed. /usr/lib/libvga.so.1 *does* exist, and /lib/libvga.so.1 is a link to it. In fact, /usr/lib/libvga.so.1 is a link to /usr/lib/libvga.so.1.2.10. I've tried using strace, but I didn't get any useful info from there. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Joe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NT and Microsoft can go to hell!
Robert == Robert Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robert Well I guess I was expecting a little too much of NT when Robert I just tried to shift partitions around. sad, yet common story snipped Ahh, the beauties of NT Disk Administrator :-) Which version of NT are you using, 3.51? It had this bug for disks with more than 2 logical partitions. I am really curious if M$ left it in there for 4.0 (I am too afraid to try it out myself). For full description of the problem and solution check out: http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/q135/3/08.htm Gleb PS I coulnd't even use fdisk from Linux/OS/2/Dos after I had this problem. Norton Disk Doctor was reporting physically damaged disk. I had to fiddle with Norton Disk Editor to even get fdisk to work. Gotta love NT -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!
On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Riku Voipio wrote: Here at debian, we have joined the fun, and you can join in too. This may sound silly, but why doesn't someone package this thing (both US and non-US) with a nice description of what it is, how can the whole community beneffit from such an effort, etc, and the proper scripts/setup in /etc/init.d/ to start running the client as soon as the machine is up, as well as the cronjon described in other post on this subject? I'd consider running it here (since I have a permanently connected machine with time on its hands), but how much network bandwidth does it use -- it's at a premium here. Hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't load modules into kernel.
Victor Torrico writes: Did a recompile to version 2.1.26. Everything works fine except that I cant load the three loadable modules I compiled. If you really mean you recompiled it (as in, you compiled it twice), then that's probably your problem; there's a file called /lib/modules/version/modules.dep which details the dependenceies between modules, but it doesn't get replaced when you upgrade to a new compile of the same kernel (with make-kpkg etc). Remove /lib/modules/version/modules.dep and reboot and see if that helps. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Melbourne, Australia. Student, computer science computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt CPOM: [ ] 40% -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there a WorkMan deb?
Riku Saikkonen wrote: I like WorkMan too, except for the fact that it uses the XView libraries (which wouldn't be so bad if something else used them too, but it's kind of a waste to have them for just one small program). I haven't seen WorkMan in the Debian distribution, though -- maybe someone should package it? Workman has bee available as Debian package in the experimental section since December 1996. Probably, I should not have put it into experimental since almost nobody looks into this section so that I even did not get back any bug-reports. But I was not very sure that I collected everything right. Probably, I should ask Bruce to put the package now into unstable instead. Best wishes -- Volker - Volker OssenkopfKOSMA (Kvlner Observatorium f|r submm-Astronomie) Tel.: 0221 47034851. Physikalisches Institut der Fax.: 0221 4705162 Universitdt zu Kvln E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Filesystemsize
Jason Gunthorpe writes: - Check that no data can be written to a file past the 2GB limit. ext2fs, like other file-systems seems to have a 2G per file limit Oh, yes, sorry for that. It's a file, not the filesystem that has the 2GB limit. Ciao, - Krid - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lprm says Permission denied
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Spiegl) writes: something must be wrong with my lpd-setup. When a user starts a print job, s/he can't cancel it anymore. Example: (user 'spiegl') $ lpr abc.txt $ lpq lp is ready and printing Rank Owner Job Files Total Size active spiegl 27 abc.txt 47978 bytes $ lprm 27 cfA027Aa00860: Permission denied cfA027Aa00860: Permission denied [snip] Is there anything wrong with the permissions? I didn't change anything after installing Debian 1.2 and updating to Debian 1.4. I ran into a problem with this. It was something like lpr using a hostname of cassandra.evansnet, but lprm using cassandra. There's a comment in lpr_5.9-13's changelog and in lpr.c that something was changed to fix canonizing hostnames, so I unpacked the source package and removed the fix, IIRC. -- Carey Evans * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux and Linux-like systems such as UNIX(R) and FreeBSD... - Yggdrasil Computing, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't load modules into kernel.
Thus spake Hamish Neil Moffatt Victor Torrico writes: Did a recompile to version 2.1.26. Everything works fine except that I cant load the three loadable modules I compiled. If you really mean you recompiled it (as in, you compiled it twice), then that's probably your problem; there's a file called /lib/modules/version/modules.dep which details the dependenceies between modules, but it doesn't get replaced when you upgrade to a new compile of the same kernel (with make-kpkg etc). Remove /lib/modules/version/modules.dep and reboot and see if that helps. Better still, try this. Delete each of the subdirs (net, fs, etc.) under /lib/modules/version, cd to /usr/src/linux and run make modules_install to reinstall the new modules. This will insure that you have all the modules, and only the modules available which go with the current kernel. After the modules from the current build have been reinstalled, run depmod -a to rebuild modules.dep. This will make your current set of modules installable without rebooting. -- Lindsay Haisley | Everything works | PGP public key FMP Computer Services| if you let it | available via [EMAIL PROTECTED] |(The Roadie) | Internet finger http://www.fmp.com | | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installation problems.
Hi! I tried to install ( on my PC) too many packages using dselect. Dselect quitted , because my Linux partition was full . What can I do now to recover my system clean and well working ? Maciej Koprowski _ | student, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Sciences , | | Nicholas Copernicus University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mat.uni.torun.pl/~mkoprow | - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape 4.0b2 out, any success?
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, David Puryear wrote: If anyone finds way to make java work without causing bus error, please let me know. Did you try out using old version of the pixmap library? I have libXpm.so.4.6 in /usr/lib/netscape/lib, and a symbolic link libXpm.so.4 pointing to it. Then I start netscape with LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/netscape/lib/libXpm.so.4 MALLOC_CHECK_=0 \ exec /usr/lib/netscape/netscape $@ It only crashed once since. Nils -- \ /| Nils Rennebarth --* WINDOWS 42 *-- | Schillerstr. 61 / \| 37083 Göttingen | ++49-551-71626 Micro$oft's final answer | http://www.nus.de/~nils -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape 4.0b2 out, any success?
From what I've seen with it in Win95, it crashes a lot too ... so I wouldn't doubt it would have problems under Linux too. Tried it with MALLOC_CHECK_=0, only got one bus error. The newsreader was working fine for me. I had to disable java, or it give me buss error and crash every time it hit webpage with java. I also get buss error if I do java console. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gateway Solo 2100 Hanging
Tres, I had a similar problem on a Solo 2100 and re-installed from the stable area built a custom kernel (2.0.27) from the distributed kernel source and all's well so far, it hasn't hung since (2 days). --Bob Tres Hofmeister wrote: I've just installed 1.2.7 on a Gateway Solo 2100 laptop. Unfortunately, some time after installing 2.0.29 and pcmcia-source_2.9.1-1 and building a kernel with PCMCIA support and support for the nice things one likes on a laptop (APM, etc.), it randomly hangs in the first few minutes after booting. Ouch. The thing seemed to run fine before reconfiguring the kernel. This is the same kernel/modules configuration I'm using on a Micron Transport, so it's worked before. I'm stumped for the moment. Any suggestions? -- Tres Hofmeister Research Applications Program [EMAIL PROTECTED] National Center for Atmospheric Research -- 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]
Rescue kernel hangs after probing sjcd
I'm new to Debian, new to mailing lists, but not to Unix or Linux. I'm sorry if this has already been discussed, but I can't seem to get archives for this list. My problem is not in the kernel section of the bug reports by package, nor can I find it on verisim. I have a Slackware distribution running, and a RedHat distribution running. The RedHat and the Debian come from the December 96 Infomagic 6-CD set. I have an sbpcd=0x300,LaserMate cd-rom. While booting the 1.44MB diskette called rescue, I get the help screens and all that. Whatever arguments I give to the bootloader, the kernel probes all imaginable cd-roms (which is nice) but hangs after failing to find the sjcd cd-rom (which is not nice). Once I left it for 10 minutes. The last line I think belongs to the next driver probed, it is the MD driver. In the help screens for the hardware, there is no space between the sjcd line and the sbpcd line :-( (It seems the drives are probed in the sequence the appear on the help screen.) I tried md=none, mdcd=none, hd[abcd]=none on the pattern of hda=none, but it doesn't help (didn't expect it to). As you'll have guessed I'm SCSI-only. My machine is an AMD 486DX4-120, unmarked PCI motherboard, 32Mo RAM, Adaptec PowerDomain 2940UW, Kelvin Orchid ISA card. I've disabled all the shadow RAM. The extension cards are a 14.400 3X ISA modem on ttyS1 (COM2 disabled in the BIOS), and a Sound Galaxy Pro on IRQ7 which I haven't bothered to configure just yet. Everything worked out of the box with the RedHat AIC7xxx diskettes. :-( I suppose I have to protect some I/O adresses, but which? (Oh... look at the doc for the md cd-rom driver... too late, here goes...) Thank you for your help! -- include std_disclaim.h Lorens KOCKUM ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pine produces segmentation faults
Hi all: here is my problem, a machine at my school is running Debian 1.2 (upgraded from 1.1) the current kernel is 2.0.6, libc is 5.4.20, the problem is any attempts to send mail from pine results in a segmentation fault. I've noticed this since I've attempted to install Majordomo(ugh!) ok I'm using smail_3.2-3 and pine_3.95-l7. please advise? Corey A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nsbe.engr.ccny.cuny.edu/~corey PGP Key fingerprint = 17 C4 DA BE 8B 6D 5A AF 28 A8 78 5F BA EA 9A 5F -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pine produces segmentation faults (fwd)
sorry about this . . . but I feel it is relatively important I can send mail in pine as root . . so it must be a permission problem right but where Corey A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nsbe.engr.ccny.cuny.edu/~corey PGP Key fingerprint = 17 C4 DA BE 8B 6D 5A AF 28 A8 78 5F BA EA 9A 5F -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 09:10:57 -0500 (EST) From: Corey Allert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian user mail lists debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: pine produces segmentation faults Hi all: here is my problem, a machine at my school is running Debian 1.2 (upgraded from 1.1) the current kernel is 2.0.6, libc is 5.4.20, the problem is any attempts to send mail from pine results in a segmentation fault. I've noticed this since I've attempted to install Majordomo(ugh!) ok I'm using smail_3.2-3 and pine_3.95-l7. please advise? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
started over again, pon probs?
Hi all, I've finally risen to the next step. I've allocated enough HD space to actually try all the packages I want to. I d/l the base disks for 1.2.6? could be 7 and started over installing from scratch. Do I need any other packages to make pon work so I can FTP the rest with dselect? Or am I just a boob who can't make pon work. I've been up all night and it's my god 9am ... I didn't use pon before, but I have had a system able to dial up. The server just doesn't seem to want to send me an ip... it dials, connects, logs in, sets ppp0--ttyS1 and sits there. any ideas where I've not crossed my T's? Thanks for an otherwise easy install to the developers. Rich M [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dependency problems and conjectures
It seems to me we've got a problem with the way dependencies and the installation are handled. It seems that if package 1 is dependent on packages 2,3 and 4, and all were selected for installation, then dselect doesn't always install 2,3 and 4 before 1. More usually it installs 2, then tries 1 and you get a dependency error - the post-install script of 1 exits with an error. Go through the installation again and it'll install 3, then 1 and again dependency problems. Go through the installation a final time, you get 4 installed, and everything is spiffy. I say this since I have had constant problems installing many packages, especially the X11 and TeX distributions, both on Debian 1.1 and 1.2. In all cases I got numerous dependency errors and various post-install scripts returning with errors since some packages that the main one depended on hadn't yet been installed even though I had selected them for installation. Only after going through the Install step of dselect 4-5 times were all packages installed and then the main one would work as expected. I find it hard to believe it is only me since this has happened with both 1.1 and 1.2 and I am not trying to do anything fancy, just the basic install + 1 or 2 additional stuff. Still, I haven't seen anyone else complain so maybe I am just missing something simple. Anyway, if anyone of the developers wants I can go through the install again and write down the numerous error messages and send them to him. Again, the problems I just had were with the X11 distribution, especially xserver-vga16 and xserver-s3 not being installed before other packages that depended on them were, causing an avalanche of packages not being installed that were dependent on the ones dependent on xserver... The same thing regarding TeX, especially psnfss, texbin and latex. Perl also caused a few headaches. Thanks for reading, Yoav -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unstable vs. Stable
On 24 Feb 1997, Guy Maor wrote: Ed Down [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But, on the ftp site, doesn't rex contain what was, in effect, the original 1.2.0 release in total? No, not in total, just a subset. Source and binaries in 1.2.0 that have been replaced by files in rex-updates are removed. Otherwise it would be impossible to fit Debian 1.2 on one CD. You can still upgrade to the latest by pointing dselect at stable. Hmmm, I wasn't aware of this. Couldn't debian fit the last release in total on the ftp site in a 'frozen' state for ftp users? I for one was happy with the 1.2 release 'out of the box' and would probably not have bothered upgrading until the next release if it had been possible extra packages from the original release. But maybe I'm in a minority of one here... Ed -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems booting with new kernel
I've been trying to upgrade my kernel using kernel-source-2.0.27. I put the new kernel on a floppy, boot from the floppy, and instead of loading the new kernel I get this on my display: Loading.. 8000 AX: 02FF BX: CX: 000B DX: The hex code sequence keeps repeating until I reset my computer and reboot off the old kernel. I don't know anything about i486 internals so I could really use some help here. -- Karl Sackett [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. -- Thomas Jefferson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dsik with new kernel hung at rc.don (sort-of)
Hi all... Created a new kernel for my litlle compaq tecra laptop. (386sx, 6mb ram, 120mb +- HDD, mono vga) After doing a make bzImage, I copied the image to the floppy as linux and boot the contura with the new disk to perform a new install on this box. oh yeah - I ran the *sh file that the text file on the boot disk recommends - I cant remember the name at this time. The bootup goes well - no problems until the rc.done message appears. The machine just stops at this point. HOWEVER - After fooling around I found out that ALT+F2 worked. And I was able to install the system by running the dinstall executable. Any ideas on what I did wrong. Thanks in advance...Dave -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel compilation problem
Hi,
This is a know bug with the *kernel sources* (not make-kpkg as
has been suggested). Actually, this problem is an artifact of expr
becomming suddenly POSIX compliant, much to the consternation of the
kernel configure scripts.
The fix is to apply the following patch to your kernel sources
(newer kernel-package versions mention this problem and fix in
/usr/doc/kernel-package/Problems.gz). This is becoming a FAQ. Susan?
manoj
--- scripts/Configure.dist Mon Jan 20 14:43:24 1997
+++ scripts/Configure Tue Jan 21 05:41:30 1997
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@
def=${old:-$3}
while :; do
readln $1 ($2) [$def] $def $old
- if expr $ans : '0$\|-?[1-9][0-9]*$' /dev/null; then
+ if expr $ans : '0$\|-\?[1-9][0-9]*$' /dev/null; then
define_int $2 $ans
break
else
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@
while :; do
readln $1 ($2) [$def] $def $old
ans=${ans#*[x,X]}
-if expr $ans : '[0-9a-fA-F]+$' /dev/null; then
+if expr $ans : '[0-9a-fA-F]\+$' /dev/null; then
define_hex $2 $ans
break
else
--
str_pok |= SP_FBM; /* deep magic */ s = (unsigned char*)
(str-str_ptr); /* deeper magic */ --Larry Wall in util.c from
the perl source code
Manoj Srivastava url:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mobile, Alabama USAurl:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/
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Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!
On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I'd consider running it here (since I have a permanently connected machine with time on its hands), but how much network bandwidth does it use -- it's at a premium here. Including inet headers, the upper limit is about 1k bytes of traffic per keyspace block. It all depends on how fast you finish the keyspace block, a pentium 133Mz pentium will traffic about 1k bytes every half an hour. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel compilation problem
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Michael Banys wrote: Does anyone know how to fix this problem? It's completely baffling me... I don't know of a way to make it perfect, but, the following is a fix. in the drivers/sound directory, copy Config.std to Config.in and then do make config or oldconfig (not make menuconfig or xconfig). When it gets to the sound part, it will use the traditional config program instead of the modified system developed for use with xconfig and menuconfig. Once this is complete, you can make the debian package. Be sure to save the config in /etx/soundconf when it asks. Hopefully, this can be fixed so menuconfig and xconfig can be used in the future. I believe this is a kernel problem and not a debian problem because it happens even when the kernel is created using xconfig or menuconfig without debian tools. Luck, Erv ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ ==-- _ / / \ ---==---(_)__ __ __/ / /\ \- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / / /_/\ \ \ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ /__\ \ \ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org \_\/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!
Hi, I'm running on an demand dialed modem connection, and the bandwidth requirement is pretty minimal (I had to explicitly nice it down to 17, though, for it not to make my machine slow as sludge). manoj -- Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Chesterton Manoj Srivastava url:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile, Alabama USAurl:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!
Hi. You may all be pleased to know the following stats at 12:25am +0800 WST 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 112709 115.41 72.82 2 #root 36550 163.60 16.66 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12229 95.72 9.53 4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11350 133.86 6.32 5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10394 78.17 9.91 With a 9.91 average, we're going to be able to get to number 3 easily - however, I'm not sure if we'll be able to get any further! In any case, if you would like to get started at cracking please do so. Regards -- ___ Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http://www.star.net.au ___ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unstable vs. Stable
Ed Down [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmmm, I wasn't aware of this. Couldn't debian fit the last release in total on the ftp site in a 'frozen' state for ftp users? I for one was happy with the 1.2 release 'out of the box' and would probably not have bothered upgrading until the next release if it had been possible extra packages from the original release. But maybe I'm in a minority of one here... Most of the packages in 1.2.x are the same as versions as 1.2.0. You can still add packages from 1.2.x without any problems. At worst, you might have to upgrade to more of the fixes in 1.2.x. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dependency problems and conjectures
Hi, We are working on a package ordering mechanism, and are giving it a fairly high priority. manoj -- Faire de la bonne cuisine demande un certain temps. Si on vous fait attendre, c'est pour mieux vous servir, et vous plaire. [Good cooking takes time. If you are made to wait, it is to serve you better, and to please you.] Menu of Restaurant Antoine, New Orleans [Also, what we're going to be telling our customers] Manoj Srivastava url:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile, Alabama USAurl:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [linux-security] i386-elf-xquake-1.01.tgz (fwd)
Stefan Petters:
just found this on linux--security.
Seems to be contained in your tar--files for Debian as well. I don't
want such things on my machines. I think, this Package can't be on a
serious Debian--Distribution. I know, you can't keep an eye on
everything, but if such things are found, they have to be removed.
Well, I know of the script. I included it in the quake package because I
didn't see it doing any serious harm, or exposing any security-related info,
and because the quake authors requested that people run it. However, quake's
postinst script prompts whether this should be run or not, as follows:
A request from Crack dot Com:
The runme program is a shell script which will send a letter to Crack
dot Com with statistics about your computer so that we may learn more
about the Linux market. Please run it only once. Do not run it again
even if you get a new version of the game. We need this data to make
our next game run well on your machine. It sends information from
your /proc directory telling us about your devices, your CPU, your
memory, etc.
The program will send the contents of the following files to
Crack dot com:
/proc/cpuinfo /proc/devices /proc/meminfo /proc/version
/proc/filesystems /proc/interrupts /proc/ioports
/proc/modules /proc/pci
Do you want to run the runme program? [Y/n]
If you don't want to send this information, you obviously answer n here.
Do you still believe this is a problem?
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The Future of Debian's TeX system: tetex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi folks! Some time ago I started a discussion about the future of Debian's TeX packages. The old packages had lots of bugs and some of them were based on old upstream sources. We had two possibilites: continuing with our own tex packages (i.e. fixing the old bugs, upgrading to newer upstream versions, included some newer patches to web2c related stuff) or basing our tex system on another UNIX tex distribution, as NTeX or teTeX for example. The discussion on debian-devel showed me that there were good arguments for both sides. Initially we planned to continue with our own tex packages but then Chow Chi-Ming and Christoph Martin both came up with a debianized tetex packages. There were some problems with the directory structure of tetex, but these were easily fixed (with help of Thomas Esser, the author of tetex). We hope that this was the right decision and will make life easier for Debian's TeX users. The new tetex packages will be included in Debian 1.3. There are now part of the unstable distribution and will replace the old packages in about a week. If you want to help you could download these new packages and test them. Thanks, Chris - -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/Linux?[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA http://www.debian.org http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAwUBMxLxR04c72jvRVaFAQFnMQP/RZhxF46dTMFqzSPCZXBGqbtGS2gnKa1q byKq0A0+c2KGws4Giep/QT1EKZyPGzdjZPLrUPFJmPej3+Ofbwp/Eo88V5PLQOM/ /Y1SfHH90YpadmEjzNDdqqvf/68mS+LCi7dbTn6GhLnj6Ty0M2Qca0VQFw6zg71j 0fLibfrcM8w= =I52O -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Package configuration philosophy
It seems that Debian is taking a rather different philosophy on pre-configured packages than other distributions, such as RedHat. What I mean is that after installation of RedHat you have a more or less pre-tailored system setup. You can start tweaking your heart out but the basics are already there. Debian comes up in a much rawer form after install - for instance, no prompt beyond the basic # for root and $ for the user (RedHat gives you the now famous username /home/username$ prompt). X is pretty bare in Debian after install, too - if you just startx you get a simple xterm with no default menus, no menued way of running another xterm, heck not even a FvwmModule running on screen with xload and xclock in it. These are just a few examples. Of course, any competent person should be able to set all these up to suit his own tastes given enough time, but a default setup would be nice IMHO. It seems as if Debian is catering to the more techie crowd - the ones that want a bare-bones system they can play around with and not have someone else make decisions and choices for them. Sort of like after installing Solaris - the system is stripped to the bones by way of configuration - you have to set it all up by yourself. My proposition - let's go for the more casual, yet sophisticated user. A user that DOES want to read the Fvwm man page to learn how to set it up to his own tastes, BUT doesn't want to do it 2 hours after installing the system and in the meantime he would like a nice default to help him get along. Yoav -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Procmail recipe.
Brian, Here's what I use: ~/.procmailrc: -begin- # Please check if all the paths in PATH are reachable, remove the ones that # are not. PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/local/bin:. MAILDIR=$HOME/mail DEFAULT=/usr/spool/mail/pryan LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmail/from.log LOCKFILE=$HOME/.procmail/lockmail :0 * ^From debian-user* debian-user-l-inbox --end- It's worked well so far. This recipe is adapted from 1procmailrc in the examples directory of the procmail-3.10 distribution. -Patrick === = Patrick Ryan[EMAIL PROTECTED] [] PGP key in = = http://newhutch.fhcrc.org/Patrick [] web space! = === -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Procmail recipe.
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Brian Skreeg wrote: Hi folks, Could someone do me a wee favour and write out a simple procmail recipe for filtering this mailing list to another folder? (~Mail/deb) Been playing around for ages and can't seem to get it to filter on the To: header. TIA, How about: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian-user And if you are subscribed to the digest version you may noticed how tedious it is to reply to individual messages (in pine anyway.) In that case you may find this recipe helpful: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | formail +1 -ds debian-user What this does is split up the digest into individual messages in a folder. I got these straight from the man pages BTW. Take a look at them, everything is explained there. -- Jaldhar -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kerneld activity
Hi, I a new to this list and to Debian. I have a 2.0.0 kernel and debian 1.2 Yesterday I updated some packages from the unstable tree. The packages were base-passwd bsdutils debianutils dpkg e2fsprogs fileutils and findutils. Today I have noticed by runing pstree that kerneld spawns new kernelds at very short intervals . More specifically kerneld spawns another kerneld which in its turn spawns yet another or might spawn a sh process Then very quickly the child processes disappear. This happens at very short intervls ( seconds) Additionally there is some minor hard disk activity ( probably ) unrelated with the fact that I am runing some backgroung batch jobs. Can anyone tell me if this is normal or is it a bug or is it because i haven't upgraded some other package ?? At the moment no other problems are caused but I am abit worried. Thanks for any help George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DS U.K.E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Package configuration philosophy
Yoav wrote: #ifdef QUOTE It seems that Debian is taking a rather different philosophy on pre-configured packages than other distributions, such as RedHat. What I snip a comparison of different packaging set-ups It seems as if Debian is catering to the more techie crowd - the ones that want a bare-bones system they can play around with and not have someone else make decisions and choices for them. Sort of like after installing Solaris - the system is stripped to the bones by way of configuration - you have to set it all up by yourself. My proposition - let's go for the more casual, yet sophisticated user. A user that DOES want to read the Fvwm man page to learn how to set it up to his own tastes, BUT doesn't want to do it 2 hours after installing the system and in the meantime he would like a nice default to help him get along. #endif - Well, I see your point about Debian leaving you with the So, now what? feeling after an installation, but I think that is an advantage. Yes it does cater to the technical crowd but, it isn't that technical and you end up learning something about your system while you try to customize it. I am in the process of trying to set up color ls in my xterms. On other systems, it might be included and I would have never learned about my .bashrc, .profile, .xresource, and xrdb. In trying to do a simple customization, I have been learning about my system. I am not flaming your opinion, just adding a data point to the argument. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thrown away...
I have lived 3 jears with Windows95. So, this won't kill me anyway. Sorry, it sould be a two. (2) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Procmail recipe.
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Brian Skreeg wrote: Hi folks, Could someone do me a wee favour and write out a simple procmail recipe for filtering this mailing list to another folder? (~Mail/deb) :0: * ^Resent-From.*debian-user $HOME/Mail/deb Jason Costomiris | Finger for PGP 2.6.2 Public Key [EMAIL PROTECTED] | There is a fine line between idiocy My employers like me, but not| and genius. We aim to erase that line enough to let me speak for them. | --Unknown http://www.jasons.org/~jcostom -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Procmail recipe.
When this is done please post it here or forward it to me. Procamil and I have this love hate thing going on. On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Brian Skreeg wrote: Hi folks, Could someone do me a wee favour and write out a simple procmail recipe for filtering this mailing list to another folder? (~Mail/deb) Been playing around for ages and can't seem to get it to filter on the To: header. TIA, Ozzy, __ _ _ / \ \ \ / / / / / |-Brian SkreegIRC:_Ozzy-| \__/ \ \ |-Lead guitarist extraordinaire-| \__/_/ |-I don't look like two zombies-| -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jason KillenQuestion Stupidity Monolith : driven by inner daemons My thoughts of despair are getting [EMAIL PROTECTED] loud. --Social D. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation problems.
On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Maciej Koprowski wrote: Hi! I tried to install ( on my PC) too many packages using dselect. Dselect quitted , because my Linux partition was full . What can I do now to recover my system clean and well working ? Go back into dselect and remove or purge some of the packages you don't need to make more space (you can flip over to another virtual terminal to run df and see how much you have), then re-install (especially any packages listed as broken). Havoc Pennington -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
smail lock failed - try again - message
Hallo, When I connect to my ISP and run runq the message lock failed - try again sometimes comes up in the /var/log/smail/logfile and mail in the queue are not sent. If, while online, I send a message directly from pine, it goes through while the queue stays with the same message. Why does that happen? What is this lock failed? How can I correct it? Thanks for your help in the past. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel. Nr. 0331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HD prob - bad inodes
I am having problems installing Debian. Here is what happens. The installation goes smoothly until I get to the part where it decompresses the selected packages from dselect. halfway through, it crashes with some kind of kernel memory error and forces me to reboot the system. Upon reboot, I get an UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY error on my /dev/hda4 (my linux partition). It boots in safe mode, and asks me to manually check my fs. I do an fsck -t ext2 /dev/hda4 and the errors make up about 20 pages. They consist of various inode, freeblock count wrong, and directory inconsistency errors. I hold down y for about 20 seconds as the errors flash by. Upon rebooting, there's a sprinkling of EXT2FS-warnings in amongst the regular boot messages. If I try to run dselect again, it stops with a file not found error, presumably because fsck deleted the corrupt file. If I try to run fsck at this point, it corrects a couple of errors. If I run it again, it says the FS is clean. If I reboot and check it again, it catches a few more errors. What is going on? I have 4 partitions, 2 DOS, 1 swap, and 1 ext2. I run win95 on my dos partitions, and haven't seen any problems with the HD. Also in the installation, it did the bad-block check without any probs. This all started when I was using Slackware a few weeks ago. I was manipulating a large file (30 megs) when it froze up. I rebooted and was greeted with a bad inode on device 03:04 error which repeated endlessly on the screen. I decided to delete and re-form my partition and try Debian, but it hasn't fixed the problem. It started happening also around when I ran Partition Magic version 3 to modify my DOS partitons. There were no errors. I dont know if this is the problem because I overwrote the partition table with the partitioning program that comes with the Debian installation package. There were no errors there either. Here are my system specs: intel pentium 120 ASUS P/I-P55TP4XE mb Quantum Fireball 2100 meg 32 mb RAM I am using the I/O controller which is built into the motherboard. My BIOS is set to LBA mode. If you have any insight into this problem please respond! thanks, -Paul H. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why there are no /usr/include/{linux,asm} symlinks.
Hi,
From time to time, there come a question on this list (or the
developers list) about Debian's practice of not providing the
symbolic links /usr/include/{linux,asm}; instead, we ship default
headers in the libc development packages.
In order to answer these concerns, I have created a canned
response; and I recently have received permission to enhance the
clarity of my explanation by using material from someone who
expresses himself far better than I did.
I promised elsewhere I would publish the improved explanation
when I could, and, since it _is_ relevant to this list as well, I'm
posting it here.
So, without more ado, is our rationale for shipping default
headers in /usr/include rather than pointing to ``real'' kernel
headers.
manoj
==
This document contains comments from Linus Torvalds (made in
an ``off-the-cuff'' personal email) to help clarify the rationale
behind the Debian way of handling symlinks, but this should not be
seen as an official policy statement by Linus. I'm attaching a
disclaimer in his own words.
The only reason that Linus's message is quoted in here is that
he can explain the technical reasons with far more lucidity than I
can, and now that I have permission to include his mail, I am
removing most of my far less facile efforts in that regard.
David == David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Mon, 24 Feb 1997
Linus == Linus Torvalds said on Mon, 24 Feb 1997
David Hi Linus,
David No matter how well we try to explain ourselves, the symlinks issue
David keeps coming up. Would you mind if we used your message below in
David our responses?
Linus Sure. Don't make it the word of God - please point out that
Linus it was a off-the-bat personal reply to a question concerning
Linus this, and while I'm more than happy to have the email
Linus circulated it shouldn't be seen as a official document in any
Linus way..
Linus Linus
---
The headers were included in libc5-dev after a rash of very
buggy alpha kernel releases (1.3.7* or something like that) that
proceeded to break compilations, etc. Kernel versions are changed
far more rapidly than libc is, and there are higer chances that
people install a custom kernel than they install custom libc.
libc6 includes it's own version of /usr/include/linux and
friends form the beginning (that is, this is no longer a Debian only
feature, the upstream version has moved to this scheme as well).
Linus == Linus Torvalds said on Wed, 22 Jan 1997:
Linus The kernel headers used to make sense exporting to user space,
Linus but the user space thing has grown so much that it's really not
Linus practical any more. The problem with Debian is just that they
Linus are different, not that they are doing anything wrong. That
Linus leads to differences between the distributions, and that in
Linus turn obviously can result in subtle problems.
Linus As of glibc, the kernel headers will really be _kernel_
Linus headers, and user level includes are user level
Linus includes. Matthias Ulrich did that partly because I've asked
Linus him to, but mainly just because it is no longer possible to try
Linus to synchronize the libc and the kernel the way it used to
Linus be. The symlinks have been a bad idea for at least a year now,
Linus and the problem is just how to get rid of them
Linus gracefully. Personally, I'm counting on glibc, which we are
Linus already using on alpha.
Linus Just to give you some idea of exactly why the includes really
Linus can't be handled by simple symlinks: the main problem is
Linus version skew. Lots of people want to upgrade their library
Linus without affecting the kernel, and probably even more people
Linus want to be able to upgrade their kernel without affecting their
Linus compilation environment. Right now doing that has been
Linus extremely fragile.
Linus Just to give _one_ example of why the symlinks are bad: NR_OPEN
Linus and fd_set. I have had no end of problems making NR_OPEN
Linus larger in the kernel, exactly _because_ of the damn
Linus sym-links. If I just make NR_OPEN larger (the right thing to
Linus do), the problem is that people with old libraries will now
Linus compile against a header file that doesn't match the library
Linus any more. And when the library internally uses another NR_OPEN
Linus than the new program does, interesting things happen.
Linus In contrast, with separate header files, this doesn't make any
Linus difference. If I change NR_OPEN in the kernel, the compilation
Linus environment won't notice UNTIL the library and associated
Linus header files are changed: thus the user will contine to compile
Linus with the old values, but because we'll still be binary
Linus compatible, the worst
Re: Package configuration philosophy
Yoav == Yoav Cohen-Sivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yoav My proposition - let's go for the more casual, yet Yoav sophisticated user. A user that DOES want to read the Fvwm man Yoav page to learn how to set it up to his own tastes, BUT doesn't Yoav want to do it 2 hours after installing the system and in the Yoav meantime he would like a nice default to help him get along. I actually went and got the 'TheNextLevel' package from redhat (it's a fvwm95 setup that is the standard desktop for redhat) and installed it with alien after I installed Debian. I then modified it to do fvwm2 instead of fvwm95. Anyone who wants a fairly nice setup should consider it. It takes some tweaking however to make it work right under Debian. It seems to be distributed under the GNU Public License as well if anyone wants to tackle making a package out of it (i might if anyone is interested (fvwm2 not fvwm95)). Jim -- @James LewisMoss | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Blessed Be! @http://www.cs.sc.edu/~moss | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux is cool! @Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours. Bach -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unstable vs. Stable
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: eventually you will be forced to upgrade do to changes in libc, the kernel, perl, etc. It is my understanding from what I've read on this list that it is pretty much impossible to upgrade an old installation like mine without re-installing. How old? I upgraded my 1.1.0 to 1.2.5 whitout any problems. After reading about the dselct / perl problems on this list I disided to: 1 first download all base pakages and install them with dpkg, rerunning dpkg some times untill all pakages was installed. 2 then upgraded all the important pakages with dselect (all else on hold). repeted install and configur a numeber of times. 3 Same procedure for standar pakages and the rest. Think I manualy stoped cron somway down the road but I dont think thats neded anymore... Went ok. Some problems with MH but I don't think its becose the upgrade methode. X, gcc, latex etc is working! My sysload went high after step one and login stoped working, making me nervus. All went fine after 60-70min all by it selfe. Strange but my system was strange before (always been?). I got to lern more U**X system administration :) (debian makes You get along almost *too* good without it). I think the 'hard times of the stabel tree' is more myth the reality. It is some bugs in 1.2 but You can work around them if You read this list. Most time You can upgrade/install anything You want and dselect tells You what more it takes. Do what dselect tells You and it usualy works. AFAIK the important bugs/missing featurs are worked on. I look forward to the next stabel releas. Thanx to everyone for this miracle (Debian, Linux, GNU...) /Lars -- / / _/_ _/_ Lars Hallberg IT-konsult Micro++ /\_/\ / / www.micropp.se/lahwww.micropp.se / Micro++OOP C++ WWW-Design Utbildning LINUX FreeWare -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RC5 challenge proposal
Gleb Arshinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IMO, it would be good publicity to promise 1/3 of potential prize to Linux International, 1/3 to FSF, 1/3 to keep for debian, and keep running with [EMAIL PROTECTED] identity. But how much is that 1/3? I know RSA is offering $1, but there's New Media Laboratories. Do they take a part? I haven't seen anywhere any explanation about this. -- Juri Pakaste/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail and News with UUCP over TCP/IP
Stefan Walder writes: I want to use my Linux-Box at home to get mail and news. I'm using my Uni-ISP and i want to have several Email-Adresses (my family). And I don't want to use POP, I think uucp is nicer! So I want to use uucp over TCP/IP! Now my questions: Particularly for multiple addresses it has its advantages, yes. I've some experience of setting it up under SVR4... It works, though `nice' is not a word I'd use l-) 1.) Can I use the email-address [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's really a question for your ISP; they will need to take some action to route mail for whatever domain they give you into your UUCP queue, you can't normally expect to just have things work by choosing the right address format. 2.) What does I need to get and post news? I think I need suck, but is this sufficient? Depends ... there are a variety of programs with names like `slurp' and `suck' which retrieve news from an NNRP server and (e.g.) inject it into your own news server. They're quite easy to write. You'll need NNTP access to feed news that you post back. I'm assume you'll be running a local copy of INN, though this is not the only way to do it. If you want to do the *whole* thing over UUCP that's possible too, your ISP will set up an outgoing UUCP feed and you must do the same to feed news back. Last time I tried to do this it was too hard so I gave up and just fed news back out by NNTP instead - a good thing I've never had to do it without TCP/IP being available... -- Richard Kettlewell http://www.elmail.co.uk/~richard/ [wubba wubba wubba wubba wubba wubba wubba wubba] It was a creepy and surreal morning when they implanted the biochips in the mind of Mohinder Singh. [wubba wubba wubba wubba wubba wubba wubba wubba] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HD prob - bad inodes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- dr. banzai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having problems installing Debian. Here is what happens. *snip* I just dealt with a whole host of problems just like this, ranging from Signal 11 deaths in gcc to bad inodes, like yours. The problem ended up being a bad setting in BIOS; I turned off Hidden Refresh and all other Shadow RAM options, and everything's worked fine since. :) Ben - -- Brought to you by the letters V and U and the number 7. It makes my nipples hard! -- The Creator of the Be Box Ben Gertzfield http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/ Finger me for my public PGP key. I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet and YiffNet IRC as Che_Fox. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQBVAwUBMxNINPTlx5Rynzi5AQEmRAIAkA3wK55zjyAHNMJvjgpBBHX0T5K6kssA VyQ3JGGLuFKxRuI+TBGJnQlEsfyWFqkSppHRhn/fuhxJ1IF1KuYfAQ== =B0eo -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Limited size spool/mail/user files
Hi, How can I limit the max size of spool/mail/user's files in order to prevent, e.g., a run of disk space? []s, Mario O.de Menezes mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Nuclear and Energetic Research Institute - IPEN-CNEN/SP BRAZIL | | http://tucano.ipen.br - http://www.ipen.br/~mario/mario.html | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RC5 challenge proposal
Gleb Arshinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IMO, it would be good publicity to promise 1/3 of potential prize to Linux International, 1/3 to FSF, 1/3 to keep for debian, and keep running with [EMAIL PROTECTED] identity. But how much is that 1/3? I know RSA is offering $1, but there's New Media Laboratories. Do they take a part? I haven't seen anywhere any explanation about this. -- Juri Pakaste/[EMAIL PROTECTED] I saw on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] registration page (I lost the URL), that they were competing for $1000 - I assume that New Media would keep the other $9000. I'm not really concerned about the money anyways. Cheers, - Jim pgpn6XdwZhY2q.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Netscape 4.0b2 out, any success?
I was getting bus errors with the most recent version of Netscape 3.0 until I turned off Java. When I installed Communicator Beta 2, it may have kept Java turned off, I don't know. I got a bus error within the first few seconds of using it, but I've used it for about 5 hours after that with no problem. So those bus error problems are not isolated to Communicator beta 2, that's my point! On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, David Puryear wrote: Hi, On 25-Feb-97 Christian Hudon wrote: On 24 Feb 1997, David Sewell wrote: Just wondering if any Debian users have tried the new Netscape Communicator beta, released a couple of days ago. Tried it with MALLOC_CHECK_=0, only got one bus error. The newsreader was working fine for me. I had to disable java, or it give me buss error and crash every time it hit webpage with java. I also get buss error if I do java console. Email is not very stable. I like the webpage editor. If anyone finds way to make java work without causing bus error, please let me know. Thanks, David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=- Daniel Robbins School of Medicine Computer Services University of New Mexico [email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!
On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Ioannis Tambouras wrote: On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I'd consider running it here (since I have a permanently connected machine with time on its hands), but how much network bandwidth does it use -- it's at a premium here. Including inet headers, the upper limit is about 1k bytes of traffic per keyspace block. It all depends on how fast you finish the keyspace block, a pentium 133Mz pentium will traffic about 1k bytes every half an hour. If it takes such little bandwidth, then someone put it in a .deb package; I'll run it on my machine. How does it work if you are connected to the net via PPP for about 2 hours a day? Do you need to have dial-on-demand? -=- Daniel Robbins School of Medicine Computer Services University of New Mexico [email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What's the best 1.2.6 site?
The developer mirror sites are a little too volatile. So, what' the best 1.2.6 mirror? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!
I'd consider running it here (since I have a permanently connected machine with time on its hands), but how much network bandwidth does it use -- it's at a premium here. The trick with this contest is to track down all of your buddies who are system administrators for huge numbers of machines and convince them to get the software running on all their systems. Imagine adding 30 systems a pop. -=- Daniel Robbins School of Medicine Computer Services University of New Mexico [email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Limited size spool/mail/user files
I believe this is set in the /etc/smail/config file, you have to modify the line: max_message_size=10M You can find more options in 'man smailconf'. Hope this helps you out. = | dpk| | | DECS, Systems Undergrad | It is better for them to think you | === a fool, than to open your mouth| | work: 353.8892 | and prove it. -Mark Twain | | page: 253.0724 | | = On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: Hi, How can I limit the max size of spool/mail/user's files in order to prevent, e.g., a run of disk space? []s, Mario O.de Menezes mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Nuclear and Energetic Research Institute - IPEN-CNEN/SP BRAZIL | | http://tucano.ipen.br - http://www.ipen.br/~mario/mario.html | -- 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: porting machines
I just received a Atari Falcon 030. Will the debian 68k distribution work on this machine? Anyone else out there using an Atari? Thanks, Brian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: porting machines
Try the boot disks in unstable/disks-m68k. I think they'll work on the Atari. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 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: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race FAQ
1. DO I NEED PERMANENT CONNECTIVITY OR DIALD TO RUN THE CLIENT ? No. When the client starts, it establishes a tcp connection to zero.genx.net and gets a keyspace block, then it closes the connection. Once the key search is done, it will use a another tcp connection to return the result and get a new keyspace. There is no reason for internet connectivity during keyspace search. When the key search has finished and ppp is not on, the client will initially sleep for one minute and retry. After several times of failed attempts to reach the host zero, it will increase sleeping time to 10 minutes. 2. HOW MUCH BANDWIDTH ? --- It takes about 1k bytes or traffic per keyspace. For a P-133 that is about 1k every 30 minutes. 2. useful URLS More info about the contest is at http://zero.genx.net/ Email statistics are at http://zero.genx.net/bill/email.html RC5 clients are at ftp://portal.stwing.upenn.edu/pub/rc5 (US only) There are non-us sites with clients at (?? please let me know) 3. WHY NOT HAVE A DEBIAN PACKAGE ? Yes, we want to test one! 4. WHAT HAPPENS TO THE $10,000 PRIZE ? It is not clear who will declared the winner. Maybe it is top email address, or maybe the address that finds the key. Do not know. Debian has no official announcement on what will do with the prize. They should. Most likely, part or the whole prize will get donated somewhere. (where?) 4. WHAT ARE THE CLIENT COMMANDS ? -- To get a keyspace, use something command like this: % nohup rc5-client-linux-i586 -i [EMAIL PROTECTED] The -i option is needed to register the run to debian.org OR, to avoid any noticeable delays % nohup /usr/bin/nice -15 rc5-client-linux-i586 -i [EMAIL PROTECTED] % rc5-client- -m gives a rough idea how long is takes to complete one keyspace. For a P-133Mz it takes about 30 minutes, a 486-133 takes about 46 minutes. 5. ANY TIPS? -- On the first try, start with one keyspace and you will see the results in 30 minutes. The nice(1) is useful prevent noticeable delays. How many keyspaces you want depends on how soon you plan to reconnect to isp: with 16 keyspaces times 30 minutes per keyspace, you are done approximately 8 hours later. When you reconnect, all the 16 keyspaces will register at once. And if you forget to reconnect on time, the processes will sleep, and every minute will check for route connectivity. A crontab job comes handy. I found it it is inconvenient to manage more than 6 keyspaces at a time. If you want more, let 10 minutes elapse then get another 6 keyspaces. This makes it easier to figure out who is about to finish and who just started. And do not kill the wrong ones. Use renice(1) as root to undo what nice(1) does, if you have to. If you run high loads, say 20 or more keyspace searches, fetchmail will be unable to deliver to smtp. For sendmail, change the sendmail.cf to a higher value: # load average at which we refuse connections #O RefuseLA=12 Needs to be: O RefuseLA=30 Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trouble mounting my cd-rom
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Lynch) Did you try /dev/sr0 ??? Thanks for responding. I guess that boot-up message and devices list should have given me a clue. There is no /dev/sr0, so I used mknod to make one doing mknod sr0 b 11 0 I then did mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/sr0 /cdrom and got the same error message as before. I mounted this particular cd before so I'm sure it's ok. Anything that I overlooked? To follow up, a more recent attempt at mounting a cd yielded this in /var/log/messages: Feb 24 21:23:38 spasm kernel: iBCS: socksys registered on character major 30 Feb 24 21:38:21 spasm kernel: SCSI error: host 0 id 3 lun 0 return code = 28 02 Feb 24 21:38:21 spasm kernel: ^ISense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 4 Feb 24 21:38:21 spasm kernel: SCSI error: host 0 id 3 lun 0 return code = 28 02 Feb 24 21:38:21 spasm kernel: ^ISense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 4 Feb 24 21:38:21 spasm kernel: CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 64 Feb 24 21:38:21 spasm kernel: isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 0b:00 iso_blkn um 16 block 32 Feb 24 21:38:21 spasm kernel: SCSI error: host 0 id 3 lun 0 return code = 28 02 Feb 24 21:38:21 spasm kernel: ^ISense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 4 Are these indications of a hardware problem? I'd hate to yank out the drive and take it to the vendor, only to have him give it a clean bill of health. Reading through c.o.l.hardware, one other person reported similar-sounding errors using a different SCSI controller and CD drive, and also version 1.2 of the OS. They said that older OS versions had no problems. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Solved: Gateway Solo 2100 Hanging
Tres Hofmeister writes: : : I've just installed 1.2.7 on a Gateway Solo 2100 laptop. : Unfortunately, some time after installing 2.0.29 and : pcmcia-source_2.9.1-1 and building a kernel with PCMCIA support : and support for the nice things one likes on a laptop (APM, etc.), : it randomly hangs in the first few minutes after booting. Ouch. It looks like the answer is to disable the following Advanced Power Management options in the kernel: CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE Heck. I've learned a few things about troubleshooting the boot process whilst loading Linux on laptops lately, anyway! Thanks... -- Tres Hofmeister Research Applications Program [EMAIL PROTECTED] National Center for Atmospheric Research -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Limited size spool/mail/user files
Mario Olimpio de Menezes says: How can I limit the max size of spool/mail/user's files in order to prevent, e.g., a run of disk space? Use disk quotas -- Ciccio C. Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
