Re: ftpd rejects all users !
On Apr 20, Alexandre Lebrun wrote I reinstalled debian last week from scratch, and I see today that I can't connect to my box per ftp, even from itself. here is a transcript of a typical session : bash ftp lebrun Connected to lebrun.kawo1.rwth-aachen.de. 220 lebrun FTP server (Version 5.60) ready. Name (lebrun:lebrun): 530 User lebrun access denied. Login failed. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. Any help appreciated. Hi ! Probably your /etc/shells is missing for some reason (I think it is missing in a current base-passwd package release but fixed now). /etc/shells should look like this: # /etc/shells: valid login shells /bin/ash /bin/bash /bin/csh /bin/sh /usr/bin/es /usr/bin/ksh /usr/bin/rc /usr/bin/tcsh /usr/bin/zsh Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing. (Henry David Thoreau) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: (Fwd) What is System.map for ?
On Sun, 20 Apr 1997 23:17:02 - Martin Bialasinski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have build a custom kernel.deb package and successfully installed it. The package also installed a System.map file. Obviously this file has some symbol to memaddress infos and is different in a kernel with different .config file. Yes, it's used by klogd when a kernel ooops occurs, it gives a stack backtrace with the function names (more useful than addresses). I just wonder why the map option is a systemwide option in lilo. So if I boot the previous kernel, the wrong map gets loaded. The map option in lilo has nothin to do with the kernel map. It's the HD's bootloader map. Don't touch it or you'll have big big problems :-) Read the manpage for lilo.conf... Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ftpd rejects all users !
Thank ! It was that. But the file is neither in the base file (base1_3.tgz) nor in base-passwd. (on ftp.debian.org) Are you sure this gets corrected soon ? Else it should be reported. bye, Alexandre On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Christian Meder wrote: On Apr 20, Alexandre Lebrun wrote I reinstalled debian last week from scratch, and I see today that I can't connect to my box per ftp, even from itself. Probably your /etc/shells is missing for some reason (I think it is missing in a current base-passwd package release but fixed now). -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Do teTeX packages work well?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Seelig) writes: Actually i thought that teTeX was supposed to and is the solution for what you seem to recognize as Debian's confused TeX direction!? IMHO the fact that teTeX has become part of Debian is a major reason to consider installing Debian. I suppose that teTeX is at the moment the state of the art of all the Unix TeX distributions available. web2c-7.0 is the state of the art. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Case of the dissapearing backspace
Ok, here is an interesting little problem that litterly poped out of nowhere. I had the vga16 server running for a while.. when I installed the svga server and configured it.. everything looked fine. Then I tried my backspace.. it doesn't work at all.. it beeps at me and adds a ~ for everythime I press it. Or in some programs.. I get a message that says Invalid Command. I have tried several ways of getting it back.. no go. Anyone have any ideas as to what I can do to get it back? It is a pain not being able to delete anything :\ Chad D. Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: RFC: Stacker 133 compatablilty...
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Jeff Greeson wrote: I bet this has been debated before, but how does the Trinity Works' Stacker 133 perform with 2.0.30 of Debian? FYI, the Stacker 133 is a AMD 5x86/133 that fits in a 486 chip socket. I installed one a couple of weeks ago. I had one kernel panic since then, wether or not it that was due to the 586 I'm not quite sure. I didn't do any kind of performance test, but the system seems snappier. It should be noted that the Trinity products has a large heatsink, but no fan. This shouldn't be a problem under Linux since the kernel's use of the wait instruction means that the cpu should run cooler. Dave Thayer Denver, Colorado USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Afterstep and Debian: WOW! (fwd)
---BeginMessage--- I just installed Afterstep, and I love it. Kudos to the authors! My only complaint goes out to whoever is managing the Debian package. The package available on ftp.us.debian.org is very outdated, and doesn't work well at all. I would be willing to take over package maintenence duties, but I have yet to learn the package development tools. Would other Debian users find it helpful if I did this? Would the people currently working on the Afterstep package be cool with it? Noah PGP Public Key available at http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html or by `finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . ---End Message---
Re: Do teTeX packages work well?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Dunham) writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Seelig) writes: consider installing Debian. I suppose that teTeX is at the moment the state of the art of all the Unix TeX distributions available. web2c-7.0 is the state of the art. Which in turn contains lots of improvements by Thomas Esser who does designe teTeX. The upcoming teTeX release will be based on web2c-7.0 or later. So the development of teTeX and web2c are actually strongly related to each other. Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
New package/maintainer.
I decided to volunteer for debian project. So far I made a package rnetscape for remote controlling netscape navigator through X protocol. As I understood dpkg/debian documentation, I have to ask for an account at master to upload this package. Is this the place to ask? Regards, -- Tomislav Vujec [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
how to generate Packages.gz ?
I am trying to create my own local directory of debian packages. Can someone tell me what the command is to generate the Package.gz and Contents.gz files? Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ISDN Support
Dave Cinege writes: Until recently I just used the built-in serial ports, which are 16650a limited to 115000 bps. I have recently bought a Byte Runner card and am talking to the Bitsurfr at 230400 bps. Have I noticed a big Aaaa! And you are using this with linux? Are you sure it is opening the 16650 at 230K? difference? No. I've started trying some tests, and will switch back to 115000 and see if it I can measure any difference. There are typically delays at so many points its hard to get consistent results. Subjectively (very!) 2 channels are faster than 1, but not twice as fast. They sure aremaybe the serial ISN'T opening past 115K. Well, I *think* so. How can I tell? I use setserial with spd_cust and a divisor of 1 with the card jumpered to a base of 3.6864 Mhz; this is supposed to produce 230.4K. Before doing that, using spd_vhi giving 115000 bps I tell the Bitsurf the speed is now 230400. I then switch speeds and the bitsrfr responds. It no longer talks to me if I talk to it at 115000. In fact, it often resets when I do. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
NTeX: Check it out.
http://www.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de:/mathB/lst3/langbein/ntex.html It seems to be working well. It installs `dpkg` compatibly. (I can use `dpkg --status` to get information about the various packages within NTeX.) -- Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.0.30t You tell me and we'll both know. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Tx chipset
Has anyone tried the new Tx chipset with Debian? I'm looking at the new Tyan MB. John Foster -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Memory Gobbler
First, 430HX does cache more than 64MB RAM subject to your motherboard have an extra Tag RAM. It is the Tag RAM problem, not the chipset problem. Only 430VX and 430TX not cache more than 64MB RAM. Second, it is the BIOS limitation that make Linux not find more than 64MB RAM, though there is a person written a patch against kernel 2.0.30 to aggressively detect the memory on the motherboard. Hum, I would be surprised if linux had such limitations. I've read that Intel's 430HX (the chip for Pentium motherboards) can't cache memory above 64M (in april's c't ). But linux would still see the memory. It would only be slow. I think it's normal that the OS uses all the memory after a few hours. As long as there is free memory, it'll cache all disks accesses. An with an http server... We have a server here with 64M, and it uses a lot of cache : hermes, a P 100 under linux : bash free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 63460 62680780 15672 27964 9796 -/+ buffers:24920 38540 Swap:20124 56 20068 Now, and never understood the ouputs of free, so I can be completely wrong. Note that I only have 16M on a 486, so I don't know much about these problems... I find it interesting, that's all. BTW, why all this memory ? Is it always for network services, or could it be useful for desktop computers too ? Alexandre -- Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
QPOPPER Will Not Work
Well I spent most of the evening trying to get qpopper to work. (The current package). First it complains that it cannot write to /var/spool/pop. So I make var/spool/pop writeable by all (hardly seems desirable). Then it complains that the password is wrong. Or that the lock file is still there. In fact everytime it leaves var/spool/pop/dbrady.pop there and I have to delete it manually to try again - even when it claims the problem was the password. Frustrating! Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Don -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ISDN Support
On 21 Apr 1997 03:58:51 -, Richard Sharman wrote:
Dave Cinege writes:
Until recently I just used the built-in serial ports, which are 16650a
limited to 115000 bps. I have recently bought a Byte Runner card and
am talking to the Bitsurfr at 230400 bps. Have I noticed a big
Aaaa! And you are using this with linux? Are you sure it is opening the
16650 at 230K?
difference? No. I've started trying some tests, and will switch back
to 115000 and see if it I can measure any difference. There are
typically delays at so many points its hard to get consistent results.
Subjectively (very!) 2 channels are faster than 1, but not twice as
fast.
They sure aremaybe the serial ISN'T opening past 115K.
Well, I *think* so. How can I tell? I use setserial with spd_cust
and a divisor of 1 with the card jumpered to a base of 3.6864 Mhz;
this is supposed to produce 230.4K. Before doing that, using spd_vhi
giving 115000 bps I tell the Bitsurf the speed is now 230400. I then
switch speeds and the bitsrfr responds. It no longer talks to me if I
talk to it at 115000. In fact, it often resets when I do.
Hmmm, this doesn't sound right. Sorry but this is getting beyond my
knowledge. I've never even used spd optionsmy file looks like this:
STD_FLAGS=session_lockout ^fourport
SETSERIAL=/bin/setserial
echo -n Configuring serial ports
${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/ttyS0 uart 16550A port 0x3F8 irq 4 ${STD_FLAGS}
${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/ttyS1 uart 16550A port 0x2F8 irq 3 ${STD_FLAGS}
${SETSERIAL} -bg /dev/ttyS*
In ppp.options_out I just set a rate of 115200 and everything seems to work
fine with my modem. I assumed all you would have to do is change the rate in
this file to 230400.
Anybody know whats going on here?
I'm certainly interested because I intend to be getting a byte runner 16650
card and ISDN TA in a about a week.
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Specifications of Monitor HP98754A?
Hi there, I got an old workstation monitor. The monitor is an HP 98754A monitor. But I have no technical description. Can someone help me to get the technical properties of this monitor to use it with XFree86? horizontal frequency: ?? vertical frequenecy: ?? Or can someone send me his XFConfig file if he made this job successfully? Thanx! -- Helmut Lanzendoerfer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lucent Technologies Phone: +49 911 526 2134 Dept. LD Fax: +49 911 526 2014 Thurn-und-Taxis-Str. 10 90411 Nuremberg Global 5ESS-2000 Switch GERMANYProduct Realization Center Bell Labs Innovations -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: setserial problems...
On Sun, Apr 20, 1997 at 03:17:06PM -0400, Peter Iannarelli wrote: No, it's irq2; I had to set the jumper myself. What you wrote is just the defaults. I ran OS/2 previous to Linux, and you can't share irqs like that under OS/2. :) Well all I can tell you is I'm running 4 16450s cua0 to 3. When I issue a procinfo irq 2 is assiged to the cascade. What the cascade is, I don't know. Irq 3 is set to serial and irq4 is set to serial. Linux has the ability to share interupts between slow devices like serial ports. The high interrupts (8-15) are connected to a second IRQ controller (8259), and that interrupt controller is connected into IRQ 2 of the first controller, hence cascade. On sharing IRQs, my understanding is that the ISA bus is electrically unable to share IRQs, when both are being used together. Actual mileage may vary. Yes, the defaults are 4 3 4 3 respectively but they are just defaults, and should be changed for concurrent use of the ports. Mine are 4 3 5 7, with 7 to be changed to 2 when I can next be bothered, although IRQ printing (to lp1 on IRQ 7) works anyway. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt (PGP key here) CPOM: [ ] 42% -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
offix: no icon for file type
I installed the offix package. But when starting files. I get a long list like: files: can't read icon for type XFM files: can't read icon for type asciireadme files: can't read icon for type asciiread.me files: can't read icon for type asciiREADME files: can't read icon for type asciiREADME* files: can't read icon for type ascii*.README files: can't read icon for type datacore files: can't read icon for type PS files: can't read icon for type GIF files: can't read icon for type TIFF files: can't read icon for type FIG files: can't read icon for type XBM files: can't read icon for type XPM . Do I have to set a special path variable ? Thanks, Markus -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Auto updating the hardware clock on shutdown.
On 12 Apr 1997, Rob Browning wrote: I assumed that the hardware clock was always written to reflect the current system time on shutdown. Is that true? The reason I ask is because we just had the daylight savings switch here, and at least one of my systems came up after a reboot with the wrong time (it was an hour off). If the clock is not by default written at shutdown, what's the best way to make sure that it is, an appropriate rc.d script perhaps? It depends on the BIOS of your computer. Some moderm motherboards do not allow permanent changes in the operating system. You have to change the CMOS settings when the computer starts up. At least that is howm my computer works. // D.J. Mashao, [EMAIL PROTECTED], -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: netscape won't use disk cache?!
On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Brian White wrote: Some details: Debian 1.2 (based on Infomagic Dec'96, various upgrades) netscape_3.01-4.deb used as installer for: netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz It's configured (under options etc) to use disk cache; it creates the directory ~/.netscape/cache if necessary, and the file index.db; there _is_ free space on the disk ... But no other files ever appear in the cache directory, and pages are not cached between sessions. I've got similar problems. I have Netscape 4.0b3 and disk cache doesn't seems to work : the cache directory is empty, the index.db file is also created... Cheers, -- Serge Stinckwich Debian GNU 1.2 ---GREYC - Unité Propre de l'Enseignement Supérieur Associée au CNRS 6072 --- Groupe de Recherche en Informatique, Image, Instrumentation de Caen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: how to generate Packages.gz ?
On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote: I am trying to create my own local directory of debian packages. Can someone tell me what the command is to generate the Package.gz and Contents.gz files? For the packages file you need dpkg-scanpackages. To use this, you will need the override file for the distribution you are using. This can be found in the indices directory of any Debian mirror. The contents file is more complicated. I'm not sure if there is a script for this, but it consists of the contents output of dpkg for each of the .deb files cat'ed together into one file. You will not need this for installation the way you need a Packages file. 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: Specifications of Monitor HP98754A?
Helmut Lanzendoerfer wrote: Hi there, I got an old workstation monitor. The monitor is an HP 98754A monitor. But I have no technical description. Can someone help me to get the technical properties of this monitor to use it with XFree86? horizontal frequency: ?? vertical frequenecy: ?? Or can someone send me his XFConfig file if he made this job successfully? Stan Brown wrote: HP monitors use synch on green and are not compatible with normal PC hraphics cards. There are some manufacturers that make special cards to allow this to work. I KNOWN THIS!! Thank you. A have a Matrox Millenium and running it successfully with an monitor similar to the HP 98754A. I am familiar with all the difficulties! But I need the data mentioned above! If you have such a monitor running, please measure the frequencies with an oscilloscope and send me the value! PLEASE HELP ME! I would *not* recomend Mirage for this. They misled me when I was buying one, and have refused to provide agreed upon support post purchase. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- -- Helmut Lanzendoerfer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lucent Technologies Phone: +49 911 526 2134 Dept. LD Fax: +49 911 526 2014 Thurn-und-Taxis-Str. 10 90411 Nuremberg Global 5ESS-2000 Switch GERMANYProduct Realization Center Bell Labs Innovations -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: RFC: Stacker 133 compatablilty...
On Sun, 20 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Jeff Greeson wrote: I bet this has been debated before, but how does the Trinity Works' Stacker 133 perform with 2.0.30 of Debian? FYI, the Stacker 133 is a AMD 5x86/133 that fits in a 486 chip socket. I installed one a couple of weeks ago. I had one kernel panic since then, wether or not it that was due to the 586 I'm not quite sure. I didn't do any kind of performance test, but the system seems snappier. It should be noted that the Trinity products has a large heatsink, but no fan. This shouldn't be a problem under Linux since the kernel's use of the wait instruction means that the cpu should run cooler. I've never heard of the Trinity Works' Stacker 133, but I assume it's just a re-marketed AMD 5x86-P75 (a 486 with 133 MHz core and 33 MHz bus). I have been running this chip for over a year and it has never given me any trouble. If this is what you have, your panic was probably something else, *unless the motherboard for some reason has a problem with the chip*. You probably would have needed to change some jumpers on your motherboard. -- G. Branden Robinson Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
running procmail automatically from smail, and a question about POP
Hello. Sorry if this isn't quite the right place to ask this - I have looked around and can't seem to find the answer. I've got a lot of linux experience, but I only recently had to start dealing with mail being delivered to my local machines. I would like procmail to be run automatically (using the addressee's .procmailrc) on all mail being delivered to my local users, and I'm running smail. I was kind of surprised that the procmail package didn't ask me if I would like it to set that up for me, but I suppose given that one might be running sendmail, smail, or qmail (at least :-), I suppose it might be kind of complicated for the package to do that. Another question I have is what packages are needed to pop mail to/from a linux box to an NT box? I want my wife to be able to send and receive mail from with netscape when running NT. I installed qpopper, popclient, and poppassd, and the outgoing mail gets popped to the linux box (which is my mail gateway) with no problems. However, I can't seem to get it to pop the mail from linux to the NT box. I ran popauth and added the users I wanted to be able to pop mail - then I get messages in the logs about needing to use APOP. I assume netscape (v3.0) isn't talking APOP. If I just run popauth -init, then I simply never receive mail from the linux box. The only strange thing about my setup is that I have all mail being delivered into the users accounts. So, if I'm user foo, my mail gets delivered into ~foo/.mailspool/foo. I wondered if in.qpopper would know where to look for the mail :-) Thanks for any hints, suggestions, or pointers to FAQs! Later, Dale -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: netscape won't use disk cache?!
Wrong : the cache is under ~/.netscape/cache On my machine, it is actually under ~/.netscape-cache. I haven't bothered to investigate why. Thank you Brian. While you're at it, is it normal that nescape continaly complains : 'cannot convert string 'FALSE' to type boolean' ? Does anyone else experience this ? I've never seen it, but it sounds like something that might be printed by one of the test conditions in the /etc/mailcap file. Of course, that would only happen at startup. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
tcpdump tokenring, works.
I was able to get tcpdump to work on a tokenring network, on my debian system. :) If anyone would like this, or I should place it somewhere...let me know. Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
On the subject of debian mailing lists...
Is there a way to check if I am or am not subscribed to a particular debian mailing list? I would hate to find out the hard way that I have been accidentally removed or re-added to a list due to a mail server problem. Cheers, -- Todd HarperDamn it Smithers, this isn't rocket science, [EMAIL PROTECTED] it's brain surgery! -- Mr. Burns -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian 1.2 rescue disk hangs during boot
I'm setting up my second system with Linux. It runs Red Hat 4.0 fine, but when I try to install Debian 1.2 (from teh December 1996 InfoMagic CD-ROM), the rescue floppy hangs at boot time. If I specify no boot parms, it hangs in probing the cm206 driver; if I tell the cm206 driver an address where no board is set, it hangs after the eata_dma complaint about no PCI BIOS extensions being present. The system consists of a VLB motherboard with Cyrix 486DX2/80 CPU, 16 MB RAM, Hercules Dynamite Power VL ET4000/W32p VLB video, BusLogic BT445C VLB busmaster SCSI controller at 0x330, no-name NE2000 clone Ethernet board (jumper settable, and set to either 0x300 or 0x360), Sound Blaster 16 with IDE controller set to secondary IDE (and no drive conencted), SIIG I/O Professional 2-serial/parallel/IDE/floppy (set to normal addresses for all, and no IDE connected), CDC/Imprimis 340 MB Wren III SCSI disk, Panasonic CR503B SCSI CD-ROM, and 3-1/2 floppy. Any assistance will be appreciated; I've installed Debian on a laptop, and like its setup and configuration beetter than Red Hat, and would like to get it going on this system too. -- Jay Maynard, Element Manager | Never ascribe to malice that which can Messaging Services | adequately be explained by stupidity. Omnes, a Schlumberger/Cable | Remind me, Pinky...did Zalgar eat your Wireless Company (713) 513-3161 | brain or not? -- The Brain -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DEITY TEAM -- REQUEST FOR FUNCTIONALITY and COMMENTS
Hi again, I have something for the dselect etc. wish list: We would like to be able to put the packages in an unpacked state on a read-only NFS disk and then automagically create symlinks from the system directories to the NFS disk on our target systems that form a cluster. This of course makes sense only for application-level programs, not for basic system utilities. An ideal dpkg implementation would allow to store all files that belong to a package in a special directory, the packages directory. In our installation, it is named /usr/local/packages and located on an NFS disk. Each package has its own subdirectory. Now, we install new packages only there, and then activate them on each machine in the network by simply creating symlinks from the system directories to the packages directory. To automate this, the installer program should unpack the debian package into a subdirectory and create a list of links to be made from the system directories into that subdirectory. This implies that the files in a package can only be installed in some well-defined set of system directories. To activate a package on any system that mounts the packages directory, we would just need a script to set up the symlinks. The packages directory could reside on CD or on read-only NFS disk, no local disk space beyond the links would be used. If a package gets removed or changed, we just have to remove dangling symlinks. There are some problems: - Most installation scripts install the info files using install-info. This could easily circumvented by providing a file that stores the information needed to link in an info file, and scanning this file when the package gets activated on a system. - Configuration files must be created/edited when the packages directory is created. If a target system requires different configurations, it just replaces the symlink by the actual config file. - Directories in /var must be created on the target systems, and the files copied in, instead of linked, in the assumption that they will be modified. I have used a semi-automatic version of this scheme for some time, and it works very well. I should be happy to contribute our experiences. Regards -Christoph -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problem with talk(d)
Hi! There seems to be a problem with my talk(d). When I try to talk to somebody on a different machine (local works) I get no connection with talk and ytalk gives the following errors: Ytalk Error find_daemon: recv() failed Connection refused sendit: recv() failed Connection refused sendit: recv() failed Connection refused sendit: recv() failed Connection refused My netstd (2.12-1) and netbase (2.09-1) package are up to date. In the man-page to recv I could read: The recv call is normally used only on a connected socket (see connect(2)) and is identical to recvfrom with a nil from parameter. As it is redundant, it may not be sup ported in future releases. So is the support for recv discontinued now and talk still tries to use it? Alex. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: tcpdump tokenring, works.
To get tcpdump to work with tokenring: get the following files: ftp.ee.lbl.gov/libpcap-0.3.tar.Z ftp.ee.lbl.gov/tcpdump-3.3.tar.Z ftp.ocs.com.au/pub/tcpdump-3.3-tokenring.gz (patchs libpcap tcpdump) place all in temp dir, uncompress and extract. READ tcpdump-3.3-tokenring, about the patch.(be sure to read) apply the patch using 'patch -p0 tcpdump-3.3-tokenring' make sure everything patched correctly. configure make libpcap configure make tcpdump I can send you or anyone interested all the files, or just the binary. H, wonder if any TR adapters supported by Debian have a permiscuous mode ?? I know the IBM TR adapters don't support it. Matthew On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, A. M. Varon wrote: On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: I was able to get tcpdump to work on a tokenring network, on my debian system. :) If anyone would like this, or I should place it somewhere...let me know. yes, i would like the information! i could put it in a web page if you like.. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Andre M. Varon Lasaltech, Incorported Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)433-3520 e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] web page: http://www.lasaltech.com/andre.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: netstd_2.13-1 ( READ THIS!!! or you /etc/inetd.conf will suffer )
It is one of the removal scripts of CVS, *DO NOT* remove cvs as it will wipe
inetd.conf :(
Only to clarify this ...
It's only valid for the versions CVS 1.9-{1,2,3} (all versions only in
unstable). If you have one of
these versions installed edit the cvs.postrm in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/cvs.postrm and comment the line
update-inetd --remove ^
out.
This line removes every entry in your inetd.conf otherwise. After
an upgrade of cvs check then your inetd.conf for any superfluous
entries of cvs.
OUCH! I didn't read this carefully enough the first time.
I just lost my /etc/inetd.conf !
So for everyone else -- if you have CVS installed, make this fix...
This applies to upgrading, as well as removing CVS, since the postrm
gets run either way.
Cheers,
- Jim
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Re: Do teTeX packages work well?
On 21 Apr 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: web2c-7.0 is the state of the art. Which in turn contains lots of improvements by Thomas Esser who does designe teTeX. The upcoming teTeX release will be based on web2c-7.0 or later. So the development of teTeX and web2c are actually strongly related to each other. What is web2c and how do you use it? 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] .
Problems with SVGA Xserver and ct65530 chipset
Hi, I have upgraded my 486DX2-66 Notebook to Debian 1.3h from a german linux distribution with a 2.0.8 kernel. My previous version of the X server was XFree 3.1.2 and was running fine. I have a ct 65530 chipset with 512 MB RAM which had only very limited support on my old X server. After the upgrade, I have problems getting X running again. Using the old settings for modeline, my screen is very de-synchronized and using xvidtune did not change anything at all. Only with a 300x200 resolution do I get a decent picture! Any help or even a Xconfig file is appreciated. best regards Oliver --- Dipl. Phys. Marc-Oliver Gewaltig Institut fuer Biologie III Albert-Ludwigs-University Schaenzlestrasse 1,Tel: +49-761-203-2786 D-79104 Freiburg i.Br. Fax: +49-761-203-2745 Germanye-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: QPOPPER Will Not Work
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I spent most of the evening trying to get qpopper to work. (The current package). First it complains that it cannot write to /var/spool/pop. So I make var/spool/pop writeable by all (hardly seems desirable). Then it complains that the password is wrong. Or that the lock file is still there. In fact everytime it leaves var/spool/pop/dbrady.pop there and I have to delete it manually to try again - even when it claims the problem was the password. It sounds like qpopper is not running as root (it should). What is the exact line from /etc/inetd.conf that calls qpopper ? Mike. -- |Miquel van |I know one million ways, to always pick| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |the wrong fantasy --- the Black Crowes| | PGP fingerprint: FE 66 52 4F CD 59 A5 36 7F 39 8B 20 F1 D6 74 02 | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Van Jacobson: pathchar - a new tool for characterizing Internet paths
I would be interested in such a Debian package when the software described below becomes available. Perhaps it could be added to its brethren in netstd? --- Forwarded Message Subject: pathchar - a new tool for characterizing Internet paths From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Van Jacobson) Date:21 Apr 1997 08:59:38 -0500 Newsgroups: info.ietf For the past 6 years, I've been working on a tool to figure out more about an Internet path that just what routers you go through. I've developed a tool called `pathchar' (for `path characteristics') that tells you the bandwidth, distance from previous hop, average queue, and drop rate for every hop on the path (*not* just the bottleneck hop). This is a typical output: % pathchar ka9q.ampr.org mtu limitted to 1500 bytes at local host doing 32 probes at each of 64 to 1500 by 32 0 localhost | 8.7 Mb/s, 292 us (1.97 ms) 1 ir40gw.lbl.gov (131.243.1.1) |29 Mb/s, 132 us (2.64 ms) 2 er1gw.lbl.gov (131.243.128.11) |91 Mb/s, 189 us (3.15 ms) 3 lbl-lc1-1.es.net (198.128.16.11) |25 Mb/s, 6.92 ms (17.5 ms) 4 gac-atms.es.net (134.55.24.6) |11 Mb/s, 424 us (19.4 ms) 5 CERFNETGWY.GAT.COM (192.73.7.163) | 7.0 Mb/s, 1.20 ms (23.5 ms) 6 sdsc-ga.cerf.net (134.24.20.15) | ?? b/s, -263 us (22.8 ms) 7 mobydick-fddi.cerf.net (134.24.252.3) |46 Mb/s, -51 us (22.9 ms) 8 qualcomm-sdsc-ds3.cerf.net (134.24.47.200) | 9.0 Mb/s, 17 us (24.3 ms) 9 krypton-e2.qualcomm.com (192.35.156.2) | 5.5 Mb/s, 1.04 ms (28.6 ms) 10 ascend-max.qualcomm.com (129.46.54.31) | 56.7 Kb/s, 6.19 ms (253 ms) 11 karnp50.qualcomm.com (129.46.90.33) |10 Mb/s, -50 us (253 ms), +q 3.32 ms (6.58 KB) *2 12 unix.ka9q.ampr.org (129.46.90.35) rtt 32 ms (253 ms), bottleneck 56.7 Kb/s, pipe 4706 bytes The lines starting with `|' are the characteristics of the link between the hops listed above below. The first number is the link bandwidth, the 2nd is the one-way prop time (i.e., for a zero length packet) the number in parens is the round trip time you would get if there were no queues and you sent a path-mtu sized packet from the source to this hop (i.e., the unloaded data rtt). If there's a queue larger than 1 packet, its size in both time bytes is printed. If the drop rate is more than 1%, it's printed. Note that it successfully found the LBL FDDI dmz (hops 2-3) SDSC-Qualcomm T3 (hops 7-8) even though I was running it behind a 10Mb/s ethernet. And that the long hop from San Francisco to San Diego is clearly visible (3-4). (Also note that I was running this at 1am this morning so the normal cerfnet queues were missing only Phil's P50 ISDN box showed a queue.) We're hoping to release pathchar sometime in the next two weeks. I'm giving a talk on it today at 4pm PDT for MSRI Math Awareness Week and the talk should be mboned. I've put the viewgraphs from the talk (which are the only existing documentation) at ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/pathchar/msri-talk.ps.gz If you really deperately want to play with a very flakey, alpha version of pathchar, there are binaries for freebsd, linux and solaris in the same directory (but you are totally on your own when running this -- we'll answer questions once the beta release goes out but right now we're putting all our energy into getting it out). Cheers. - Van --- End of Forwarded Message -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[Fwd: Critical Times article on Linux]
Bruce Perens wrote, The Times, a respected British newspaper, published an article that was offensively critical of Linux in its Sunday edition. For those interested (I just HAD to read this...) you can find it at http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/frontpage.html?1723766 ( - I had to register to get that number, but I can't see that it matters if others use it :). Pick 'Innovation' from the contents on the left. The article is a pretty tired editorial rant about Linux being flavour-of-the-month in geek-world, and a giant step backwards from Microsoft's offerings which are the 'way of the future' (you know, a computer isn't anything beyond its user interface). It is short, blatantly opinionated and contains no facts, so I doubt it will make any difference to anyone. Mike. ---BeginMessage--- The Times, a respected British newspaper, published an article that was offensively critical of Linux in its Sunday edition. I urge Debian users and developers to _not_ respond to this article. If you must respond, please do not represent yourself as having anything to do with Debian. When you're in a fight with an idiot, it's difficult for other people to tell which one the idiot is. Thanks Bruce Perens Debian Project Leader -- 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] . ---End Message---
Adaptec 2940 and 3940 PCI/SCSI adapters
I need to know if these two adapters are supported by Linux. For the 2940, the SCSI HOWTO says 294x support requires a new version of the driver, what does this mean? About the 3940 I found no reference. I'd appreciate any info you can give on this. Thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez Product Manager CTI Datacom Inc. 514.683.6363 x31 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Adaptec 2940 and 3940 PCI/SCSI adapters
Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: I need to know if these two adapters are supported by Linux. For the 2940, the SCSI HOWTO says 294x support requires a new version of the driver, what does this mean? About the 3940 I found no reference. I'd appreciate any info you can give on this. Thank you, I just put an AHA-2940 in yesterday. I seems to work great. Peter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
URGENT: 586 assumptions?
Are there vital packages (like libc maybe?) that are compiled with the assumption of a Pentium processor? I've lately (approximately but not exactly since I upgraded to libc 5.4.2x) started having machine failures with untrappable divide-by-zero errors. The machine is a 3 year old 486/33, so it's quite possibly hardware, but it struck me as something that could possibly be due to a change in libc or the like... maybe? ideas? help! --Zachary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ftpd rejects all users !
make sure that whatever shell your users use is listed in /etc/shells. for some strange reason /bin/tcsh is not there by default. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NOT urgent: 586 assumptions?
Why is this URGENT? although quite a few people use 486's none
have reported problems like your's so it isn't all that urgent I think.
But, to give more info about your question:
I used to have a CYRIX 486, that gave me floating point errors.
This apparently was due to a bug in the CYRIX (wasn't there with
other 486's or pentiums).
And, to reassure you: I've got quite a few 486-33 computers running here
with rahter recent unstable installations, none of them give
divide-by-zero errors.
Are there vital packages (like libc maybe?) that are compiled with
the assumption of a Pentium processor? I've lately (approximately
but not exactly since I upgraded to libc 5.4.2x) started having
machine failures with untrappable divide-by-zero errors. The machine
is a 3 year old 486/33, so it's quite possibly hardware, but it struck
me as something that could possibly be due to a change in libc or
the like... maybe? ideas? help!
--Zachary
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Re: Change Keyboard configuration after installation???
On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Hong Huang wrote: I remember Keyboard got configured during installation. My question is: is it possible to change the keyboard configuration after installation? Yes, it is. By using the 'loadkeys'-program. Use it to change your keyboard layout. Put in somewhere in your boot files, preferably in: /etc/init.d (as it should be executed no matter what runlevel you are using) Either make a new file there (it will automatically be executed if it has its executable attribute bit on), or better yet, insert the command in the file 'boot'. It is always executed. The command should look like: loadkeys /etc/kbd/default.map The .map-files are keyboard layouts. You can find a lot predefined in: /usr/lib/kbd/keytables but you can use any text editor (I myself prefer 'joe') to edit a file to suit your needs... I have, I use my own keymap where the keys are where I want them to be. Feel free to ask if you need more help (just don't forget 'man loadkeys') // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ftpd rejects all users ! (SOLVED)
The base distribution for bo does not include the file /etc/shells , that defines the authorized login shells That causes ftpd to reject the users (they don't have a qualified login shell). Thank you all for your help !! Alexandre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
