Re: Where would I submit a new feature for the kernel?
Sorry, the right name is hwtools, by Siggy Brentrup [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I found it at frozen/binary-i386/utils/hwtools_0.2-5.deb. I believe that, at least for scsi, it is capable of creating a node, or else a symbolic link, on the fly so that a specific drive will always be mounted in the same place. I recall that the drive reference is somewhat flexible and can refer to the serial number. Dave Cinege wrote: On Fri, 02 May 1997 22:35:41 -0500, Brian N. Borg wrote: Take a look at documentation in the the hdutils package. I believe the developer has done something very similar. Where can I get this??? Couldn't find it in rex, bo, or hamm. --Brian Dave Cinege wrote: I know this isn't a Debian question, but I have to start some place. What list/NG would be *best* to submit a new idea for the kernel? (actually maybe just lilo) Problem: partition and drive shift Solution: Name partitions like in the old Amiga days How: Read the 'labels' of all partitions at start up and dynamiclly creates entries in the /dev/ dir using that 'label' name with the correct major/minor. Example: If I have linux installed on Logical partition 7 and put that drive on another system, sda7 magically becomes sdb7 and linux will not boot with out reconfiguring. This sucks. Example with fix: we mount /dev/linpar as root. We 'label' the linux partiton linpar. The kernel starts up, and scans the labels of all the partitions. It finds a type 83 with a label of linpar, and it creates a /dev/linpar entry (or symlink) to the correct major and minor. If anything moves, linpar will always be linpar, no matter if it's physically sda1, sda5, hdb1, etc. Taken even futher, the same works with type 06 (FAT) and 07 (HPFS) (maybe others) partitions using the standard DOS label for the name of the partitions. Similarly if you have a FAT partition you mount as /usr1 you don't have to worry where it physically is, as long as it is named correctly. I'll offer to help code this, it really looks quite easy to do. -- Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214 http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214 http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NEED info concerning US Robotics modem
Any modem that doesn't say Made for Windoze should be OK. I use a USR 28.8 external under linux, OS/2 and Windoze 3.1, it works great for all of them. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. Rob MacWilliams [EMAIL PROTECTED] N9NPU -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)
On Sun, May 04, 1997 at 10:23:39PM +, Sam Ockman wrote:
Found this on terminal 7, probably came from X Is it a bad, bad thing,
or just somewhat bad?
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2356919,
sector=1280358
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03, sector 1280358
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2357025,
sector=1280474
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03, sector 1280474
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2357025,
sector=1280476
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03, sector 1280476
It could be just an incompatibility of some kind between your hard disk,
disk controller, and Linux, or something. Try disabling DMA; there
should be a boot parameter to do that (see the BootPrompt-HOWTO).
Hamish
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Re: Where would I submit a new feature for the kernel?
Solaris uses a numbering scheme based on the scsi controller, target, disk (in case of bridge boards that may have more than one disk on the same target, or scsi id) and partition (or slice). Specifically, /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 refers to the first partition on the first disk on the first target on the first controller, etc. On the other hand, Data General Unix, dgux, requires each disk to have a name that is user configurable. The operating system creates the device nodes for the logical disks on the fly as part of the boot process, under paths such as /dev/dsk/YourNameHere. This means that regardless of what relative order, scsi id or controller, each drive gets mounted the same. Jonas Bofjall wrote: On Sat, 3 May 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: This is what caused me to finally break linux. I moved OpenDOS from a primary (sda2) to a logical (sda5). I know Solaris numbers disks differently, I think it is based on the disks serial number. A very good solution, however, you get away from this sort of problems. This is a good reason the Linux kernel should have a dev-filesystem, much like the proc-filesystem is implemented in the kernel. I've seen it has been on the 'Linux Kernel Wishlist' for a while, and I have heard that its being worked on FreeBSD. So, start kernelhacking :) ! // 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: Where would I submit a new feature for the kernel?
Jonas Bofjall wrote: On Sat, 3 May 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: This is what caused me to finally break linux. I moved OpenDOS from a primary (sda2) to a logical (sda5). I know Solaris numbers disks differently, I think it is based on the disks serial number. A very good solution, however, you get away from this sort of problems. This is a good reason the Linux kernel should have a dev-filesystem, much like the proc-filesystem is implemented in the kernel. I've seen it has been on the 'Linux Kernel Wishlist' for a while, and I have heard that its being worked on FreeBSD. So, start kernelhacking :) ! I really like this idea, I have these removable SCSI disks that often get carried around, you would not belive the trouble you get when you pop one of those in a machine with disks already in it : Linux isn't too bad, but Os's like Dos and Os/2 usually have a fit. I have used an Os that did the dev-fsys trick, it's very nice to only see a handlefull of files in /dev instead of the bizzilion we have now. Less confusing too, esp if disk naming is done. Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Broadway
Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's the scoop on broadway? Is it going to be deb'd soon? Is it all the x.org web page makes it out to be, fast remote execution etc...? Broadway is version 6.3 and we seem to still be using 6.2 from what I see reported when I start X. Is there a reason for this? Is Broadway still unstable? I'm curious because I'm thinking of getting the broadway release from x.org but I'd rather stick to a deb'd package. Broadway is fine. It compiled cleanly on Debian when it came out last December.. I'm still using Xfree86 v3.2, though. The only significant new features in Broadway are related to the plugin, which won't work with Linux Netscape without a bit of work. (It uses Motif, and plugins that use Motif don't work very well on Linux...) Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
GIF for KDE
What package is libgif2 in? It's needed to install the kde packages. --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ssltelnet -- how secure?
I've installed ssltelnet, but can't find much documentation. Is this thing secure? Do all I do is telnet in and out using the new programs? How do I know if a secure connection has been established? If a secure connection is established, does it just protect the password or does it protect the entire session? Thanks Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: hot-change disk arrays...can I do it on Linux?
The drives themselves are not any different. The hot swap trays have the functionality to power the drives down before removal or up after insertion. Such trays and drives could be used with the md utilities under Linux to provide striped (raid 0), mirrored (raid 1), or striped and mirrored arrays. Raid 5 (striped, with parity) isn't supported. Although hardware raid is independent of the operating system, they usually include operating system specific utilities for configuring and monitoring the arrays. Without these utilities, it is hard, if not impossible, to format a new array, replace a failed drive, etc. --Brian Pete Templin wrote: Disk array question: Our computer center here has several NT servers with RAID5 disk arrays (4x4GB disks, so 12GB useable). I'm curious about some implementation questions regarding RAID arrays. I'll try to separate my questions, so that informed people can set me straight on each of the issues. Hot-swap drives: this is a functionality of the drives, right? I'd have to have disk drives that were manufactured to stand up to that, correct? Assuming that I have a hot-swap disk in my machine and a spare disk on my shelf, and that I was not using RAID or anything special on that disk, would I need a special controller or customizations to the OS to use it (i.e. be able to take out the failed drive and stick in the new (formatted) drive)? Is hot-swap only for RAID arrays? Hardware RAID: Hardware RAID is independent of the operating system, right? Aside from software to control/tweak the array parameters, I need only to have driver support for the controller, right? Hot-growth arrays: Our NT servers have the ability to add a disk to the RAID array live on the fly. All the administrator has to do is tell the controller to add the new disk to the array and BINGO! bigger array. Is that a functionality of the controller? What other parts of the computing system need to be modified to support that (i.e. can I do that with my Debian systems)? Thanks for the help. I'm soon embarking on a development project from the ground up for a local computer store and want to plan things right from the beginning. Pete -- Peter J. Templin, Jr. Client Services Analyst Computer Communication Services tel: (717) 524-1590 Bucknell University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: hot-change disk arrays...can I do it on Linux?
Brian N. Borg wrote: The drives themselves are not any different. The hot swap trays have the functionality to power the drives down before removal or up after insertion. Such trays and drives could be used with the md utilities under Linux to provide striped (raid 0), mirrored (raid 1), or striped and mirrored arrays. Raid 5 (striped, with parity) isn't supported. Although hardware raid is independent of the operating system, they usually include operating system specific utilities for configuring and monitoring the arrays. Without these utilities, it is hard, if not impossible, to format a new array, replace a failed drive, etc. I heard that someone using DPT RAID card but don't know how they get the driver. Lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: starting/stoping program on boot/shutdown
What is start-stop-daemon ?
The problem I have is that I can find absolutely no documentation
on start-stop-daemon. There is a useless stub of a man page
that directs one to the --help output or the source code.
/sbin/start-stop-daemon is apparently a perl script, but I do
not know perl nor do I find any explaination in the script,
other than the --help text.
I think that if it is enough of a Debian standard that virtualy
all of the scripts that dpkg installs in /etc/init.d use it,
we are due an explanation of what it does, how it is used, etc.
I would propose, instead, the use of standard shell commands,
e.g.
DAEMON=/somepath/somedaemon
CONFIG=/etc/rc.config.d/thisscript
if [ -f $CONFIG -a -x $DAEMON ] ; then
[ $VERBOSE ] echo $0 $1
. $CONFIG
else
[ $VERBOSE ] echo no ${DAEMON}, exiting.
exit 0
fi
if ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep ${DAEMON} ; then
# DAEMON is already running, dont bother to start it.
[ $1 = start ] exit 0
else
# DAEMON is not running, dont bother to stop it.
[ $1 = stop ] exit 0
fi
Without the docs, I don't know if this is what start-stop-daemon
does, but this sort of thing is routinely done under some of the
commercial unix's such as Solaris, Dgux, and Hpux.
Jim Pick wrote:
So how do I start/stop a plain program during boot/shutdown? Is it
safe, that root runs this thing? Should I run it under another
account? Which one and do I have to create a homedir for that?
This program should only be started once and not by normal
users. How do I achieve this? Where would such a program be
located (based on debian philosophy)?
I'd run it as another user - definitely not as root. Especially
when you are running a binary file where you can't inspect the
source.
Just create another user, ie. des, and give it a home directory.
Here's a rather long-winded example of using start-stop-daemon
to run a process as another user. (This is for a postgresql
server I have installed in /usr/local)
start-stop-daemon --start --verbose --exec /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster
--startas /bin/sh -- -c 'echo /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D/var/pgdata
/var/log/postgresql/server.log 21 | su postgres'
There's probably an easier way to do this...
I was participating too, until they changed the programs around and I
didn't have enough time to re-setup everything.
They've completed 2.6753% of the keyspace - wow. :-)
Cheers,
- Jim
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Re: Shadow installation.
If you really need shadow, you could conceivably edit the files yourself. I have done it sucessfully under Solaris after ftping a working passwd file from a Dgux system. I was naieve and did not know that Sun provided a utility to do this. Read the man pages to get the syntax right, but essentially the encrypted password is removed from passwd and replaced with a flag character. The same encrypted password goes in the shadow file. Field one, the uid, is the same in both files. The rest of the fields in shadow have to to with ageing, etc. The important thing to remember is that there has to be a line for line coorespondence between passwd and shadow, and that shadow is unreadable, except by root (chmod 400 passwd). --Brian Karl Ferguson wrote: Hi Guys. I'm trying to convert to the shadow system and running into a brick wall. There used to be a shadow package in expermental that you'd simply install and hey presto you'd be using a shadow system. I see that there's a login and passwd package that pertain to this in the base directory, but installing these don't convert my system to shadow. Can someone enlighten me? Regards -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty LtdTel: +61-8-9456-[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online ServicesFax: +61-8-9455-2776[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: starting/stoping program on boot/shutdown
Brian N. Borg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is start-stop-daemon ? [...] I think that if it is enough of a Debian standard that virtualy all of the scripts that dpkg installs in /etc/init.d use it, we are due an explanation of what it does, how it is used, etc. You're absolutely right. A manual page for start-stop-daemon is included in the latest versions of 'dpkg', currently being tested in the 'experimental' distribution. I'm attaching a copy to this message for your use until a version of dpkg with the manual page has been released. man.txt Description: Binary data -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Metamail Error
Hi, I am expiriencing problems with metamail after a recent upgrade to metamail 2.7-20. Whenever it is invoked, I get the following error: bash: /usr/bin/metamail: No such file or directory $ dpkg -l metamail snip ii metamail2.7-20 An implementation of MIME. $ ls -l /usr/bin/metamail -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root41272 Apr 30 08:06 /usr/bin/metamail $ metamail uses /lib/ld-linux.so.2 but should /lib/ld-linux.so.1. I submitted this question as Bug#9391 to debian-bugs. Mirek -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help installing dosemu
On Mon, 5 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: Have you looked in the /etc/dosemu directory? lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 May 1 15:13 conf - ../../usr/lib/dosemu/config.dist -rw-r--r-- 1 root root4 Apr 16 17:32 users I had to `dpkg --purge dosemu' before installing the new one. Now I found it, thanks. But another problem apeared: I can't lredir any directory. Dosemu refuses any command lredir X: LINUX\FS\anydir I remembered that I have done it successfully using Dosemu 0.64.0. Unfortunately I've lost all my configuration files caused by a disc-crash (and the backup was out of date :-(). (With 0.64.0 I used MSDOS, but now I tried fdos. Could this be the reason?) Any ideas Andreas. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
updating packages with dselect
Hi, I would just update my installed packages with deselect, but the procedure to do so doesn't seem very clear to me. All that I get is 0 packages to load. What is wrong ? Regards, JP L Jean-Paul LACHARME. GREQAM UMR 9990 au CNRS, Centre de la Vieille Charite, 2,rue de la Charite,F13002 MARSEILLE FRANCE. Tel:0491140731/Fax:0491900227. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ssltelnet -- how secure?
On May 5, Paul Serice wrote I've installed ssltelnet, but can't find much documentation. Is this thing secure? Do all I do is telnet in and out using the new programs? How do I know if a secure connection has been established? If a secure connection is established, does it just protect the password or does it protect the entire session? There is an SSL FAQ posted frequently in comp.security.unix, which should answer at least part of your questions. As an alternative, you could consider SSH (also on debian-non-US), which has more documentation and configurability. HTH, Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Amiga Filesystem mounting bother.
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Brian Skreeg wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Apr 29 16:43:06 1997 X-ApparentlyTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 19:27:13 -0200 (GMT+2) From: Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brian Skreeg [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Debian List debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Amiga Filesystem mounting bother. In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-UIDL: 179f80f31b22629d9ef130200f90548d I couldn't try anything with FFS yet (anything but some floppies I could not mount, see my question below), but I think there is a chance that you should try mounting each single partition on a single mount point, as you do with any partitioned disk, that is: NOT /dev/hdd but /dev/hdd1, /dev/hdd2, /dev/hdd3, /dev/hdd4. Nope, the problem is definitely the kernel not recognising the partition table on bootup. So god knows whats wrong. I`m gonna rip the drive out, shove it back in the miggie and analyse the drive with reorg. Possibly the old AFS filesystem I was using on a couple of partitions has rearranged the parition table. QUESTION: which filesystem is on Amiga FLOPPIES? Now your question made me curious and I tried mounting some Amiga 600 floppies, say just the Workbench ones and not games, to be sure not to be dealing with strange filesystems. (Actually, I have a communication package for Amiga here on the PC, I got it from a BBS, and it would be nice to give it to my brother's Amiga just via floppy.) I tried both the following: mount -t affs /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy Amiga formatted floppy disks (ffs for an A600) cannot be read by any machine other than an Amiga without some extra hardware. This is due to an inferiority in PC floppy controllers. ;) Actually, the affs filesystem support here is currently configured as a module, but this works quite fine for hpfs and msdos (and a lot of other things such as PPP). Just to be sure, after I send this message I immediately try rebuilding the kernel with affs support 'Y' and not just 'M'odule. But the answer is probably that floppies do have another kind of filesystem and you won't see any appendix to this message with it works inside. In fact, the problem is that the Amiga doesn't use the partition tables as linux or ms-do$,but uses what is called the Rigid Disk Block You can find a patch for the kernel to recognise the RDB when mounting an amiga hd,called jb-affs-1.0 (can be found at tsx11.mit.edu) ...sorry for the way I talk -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: postgres95 / libbsd.so
THANK YOU *SO MUCH* Karl Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for messages from any kind of robot, such as mailing lists. From that address no autoresponse messages will return even when I'm not at home. --- On Mon, 5 May 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Nicola == Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nicola Sad to say I don't give you a solution. Running the Nicola postmaster daemon actually results in a complain that it [...] I had the same problem, if I remember right. What I did was upgrade to the newer package on the ftp site, which has the libbsd bug fixed. -- Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.0.30t -- 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: Metamail Error
metamail uses /lib/ld-linux.so.2 but should /lib/ld-linux.so.1. I submitted this question as Bug#9391 to debian-bugs. I maked a link: cd /lib; ln -s ld-linux.so.1 ld-linux.so.2 and got metamail to run but this may produce other problems. Mirek -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: postgres95 / libbsd.so
On Mon, 5 May 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: Sad to say I don't give you a solution. Running the postmaster daemon actually results in a complain that it needs that library file and I don't have it in Debian 1.2.4 nor it was in 1.1 and it isn't in none of the 6 CD of InfoMagic Linux Developers' resource September 96. I tried to rebuild the Postgres95 binaries, just wanted to link the static library, but I get plenty of source-code-related errors (see gzipped attachment). I'm going to give a closer look to see what #ifdef ... may cause that mess of errors. PLEASE let me know if YOU find a solution (that is: library file or correct environment settings to rebuild the binaries or both or what else). THANK YOU, see you again. I assume you tried building it from the debian sources? ie. postgres95 1.09? I have looked at your make-output, and am puzzled. I have build postgres95 version 1.08, 1.09 6.0 and 6.1beta several times on my system from the original sources, and never had any problems, certainly not like these. The only thing I consistently have to change is removing linking with -ltermcap in src/bin/psql/Makefile (Postgres thinks that all linux-systems have libtermcap...). My guess is that the debian-sources are screwed up. Try grabbing a .tgz from ftp.postgresql.org Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Metamail Error
Hi, I am expiriencing problems with metamail after a recent upgrade to metamail 2.7-20. Whenever it is invoked, I get the following error: Upgrade to metamail 2.7-21. Then it works fine again. Chiel -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)
A couple of times my machine has been brought down by a power failure and
I have got similar messages to the original poster, during the file system
check after bootup failed. I have all my files on a single partition, plus
swap and dos. Kernel 1.0.2? from memory, xdm doing logins. I boot from a
custom boot disc although I also tried an older kernel boot disc.
This has not been a problem up to now, I just ran e2fsck as root, as
promted during the boot failure, and selected the default actions when
prompted.
But the last time this happened, when I ran e2fsck (-n -o from memory -
whatever it prompts) it seemed to fix the problem as before (changing some
counts, etc), but when I then tried a reboot, it failed just after
starting all the daemons (the fs was passed clean).
Seems to be that my root filesystem is mounting read-only so the X startup
fails. Xdm does not fire up, but I can log in as root from the console,
but reboot and shutdown do not seem to work (some commands do), so I have
to power down and run e2fsck again - with the same result.
As my system is vitually unusable (I am writing this from work), I
apologise for the sparse info, but can anyone give me any clue as to how I
can get the system up, so I can read the info and see what's gone wrong? I
have some stuff I would prefer not to lose, so I would like to avoid a
total reinstall.
Ed
Found this on terminal 7, probably came from X Is it a bad, bad
thing,
or just somewhat bad?
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2356919,
sector=1280358
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03, sector 1280358
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2357025,
sector=1280474
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03, sector 1280474
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2357025,
sector=1280476
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03, sector 1280476
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Certification Authority for Apache-1.1.3
Hi all, I've got a problem I've stuck with. I try to set up an secure apache web server (apache 1.1.3 + SSL 0.6.4) and self-signed certification authority for our network. Regarding the SSL itself and secure server I've succeeded, I've set it up and working. But I'm not able to set up a CA. I've read documentation for SSL and a lot of WWW pages regarding SSL, but can't catch the point. Does any of you have any experiences with this problem? Any help will be greatly appreciated (but step-by-step guide will be better ;-) ). Thanks in advance, Petr Barta -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NIS problem, please Help
On 2 May 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote:
Richard Zoni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hello,
:
: we have a debian linux NIS server running on a 166Mhz Pentium with 64Mb,
: it serves a cluster of 20 debian linux boxes.
: We have very big maps (600 lines in passwd and 2 hundreds more in group)
:
: Our ypserv is consuming up to 90% CPU time,
: is it normal?
I have experienced the same. Remove the + entry from the /etc/group files and
everything will be back to
normal. The /etc/group entries are not cached and each machine has to search
through all of them via the
NIS server to figure out to which groups a user belongs. The debian scheme
adds a group for each users
making the problem much more acute with debian.
We have solved it by copying the /etc/group to all the machines with a cron
job at night.
Thank you for the suggestion but I think
that is not very useful to rdist file like group|passwd when
there is a NIS server.
It seems that the only solution is to remove all single-user groups from
the NIS group map. Ex: zoni:*:123:zoni
The only problem is that without the nis map, users get only the numeric
group...
I wonder if it is correct to redifine ls as
ls() { /bin/ls --color=auto --no-group $*}
to have a classic ls behaviour.
ciao,
ricky
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chicken and egg problem with installation on a floppyless system
Hi there, Ive been trying to install DEBIAN onto my laptop for quite a while now. at one point i did succeed but now im screwed and have run out of ideas. in a nutshell: i have a compaq contura aero 4/25 this machine has an external pcmcia floppy drive i also have a pcmcia ethernet card for it. the computer will only recognize the floppy if it boot with it in the slot - BUT then it doesnt recognize the presence of the slot even if i take the floppy out. in order to have the computer recognise the pcmcia slot, i have to boot with the floppy out. the ethernet card causes no such problem. with the ethernet card in or out, the computer recognizes the presence of the pcmcia slot. Now for the problem: a few months ago, i installed debian using the 2.0.6 kernal. i made a set of boot/root/base/modules disks and successfully installed everything i wanted [or could fit onto my 170 MB drive]. now, i bought a new 1.3GB drive and want to move everything over. Here is what i have tried 0) use the old 2.0.6 setup to contact ftp.debian.org and make a new set of boot/../ disks. 1) physically install the new hard drive. 2) boot the computer with the floppy in and start feeding in the new disks. 3) now since the floppy is in, the computer refuses to recognise that i have a pcmcia slot - so it wont load/configure the proper kernel modules. 4) i cant get the kernel source and the new modules into the computer by hand since my only means of data ingress is through the floppy and the kernel .deb package is 1.44MB. 5) i retreated to the 2.0.6 disk set that i had saved from before. 6) i reinstalled that set successfully. 7) having much more room on the hard disk, i resolved to update all packages to more recent rev levels. 8) when the pcmcia packages came over [via ftp] something went wrong. 9) now ive lost pcmcia support - ie the ethernet card wont work - so no more ftp - so i cant recover the previous state. 10) i could reinstall from step 5) above. but i would like to bootstrap up to the current rev level. any hints? it seems to me that i just need to do things in the proper order and i cant seem to figure this out. my news server is a bit dicey to work so please email any replies directly to me [ill post a summary if somebody indicates that it would be a useful thing to make public] thanks in advance for your help... [oh and by the way, im in a bit of a rush to do this as i am leaving the internet on saturday to be with my wife who is expecting twins anyday now... i know its a bit much to ask for help - and to ask for it fast - but pleaseif i can be helped - help me.] -Ketan what came first DEBIAN or the FLOPPY? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: GIF for KDE
Rick Jones: What package is libgif2 in? It's needed to install the kde packages. libgif2 is in the libgif2 package. It's still in incoming, as is kde. You can also get them from ftp://kite.ml.org/pub/code/debian/ -- See shy Jo. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: GIF for KDE
Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What package is libgif2 in? It's needed to install the kde packages. You know there is a huge security hole in kfm(which the author apparently doesn't care to fix...) It uses a tcp socket to send commands (like delete file) to it's slave processes...So essentially (if you're on the net) anyone in the world can delete files on your machine... libgif2 is the name of the package. Look for it in hamm/hamm/binary-i386/devel (I don't know if it's been installed yet.) Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: GIF for KDE
Steve Dunham: You know there is a huge security hole in kfm(which the author apparently doesn't care to fix...) It uses a tcp socket to send commands (like delete file) to it's slave processes...So essentially (if you're on the net) anyone in the world can delete files on your machine... Yes, I'm aware of this hole. I've been thinking of pulling kde from incoming until this hole gets fixed. I do think it will be fixed soonish, if not by the author, then by someone else in KDE. -- See shy Jo. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: chicken and egg problem with installation on a floppyless system
K. Desai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bg Now for the problem: a few months ago, i installed debian using the 2.0.6 kernal. i made a set of boot/root/base/modules disks and successfully installed everything i wanted [or could fit onto my 170 MB drive]. now, i bought a new 1.3GB drive and want to move everything over. Here is what i have tried 0) use the old 2.0.6 setup to contact ftp.debian.org and make a new set of boot/../ disks. 1) physically install the new hard drive. 2) boot the computer with the floppy in and start feeding in the new disks. 3) now since the floppy is in, the computer refuses to recognise that i have a pcmcia slot - so it wont load/configure the proper kernel modules. 4) i cant get the kernel source and the new modules into the computer by hand since my only means of data ingress is through the floppy and the kernel .deb package is 1.44MB. You have two choices: 1. Write a multivolume tar archive to the floppy drive 2. Use gnu split to split the file into floppy size chunks and put them on multiple MSDOS floppies. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: problem: getting nfs up and running
Trying to get nfs running, but something just isn't right... What does your /etc/exports look like ? # /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported # to NFS clients. See exports(5). /home *.ewu (rw) Do you have the portmapper running ? This is the result from running 'rpcinfo -p': program vers proto port 102 tcp111 portmapper 102 udp111 portmapper 191 udp760 yppasswdd 142 udp761 ypserv 141 udp761 ypserv 142 tcp764 ypserv 172 udp763 ypbind 172 tcp765 ypbind 151 udp946 mountd 151 tcp948 mountd 132 udp 2049 nfs 132 tcp 2049 nfs Did you try to run rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd by hand ? I did. There was no output to the screen, just a little crunching on the drive. Well, I hope this helps... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)
You wrote:
On Sun, May 04, 1997 at 10:23:39PM +, Sam Ockman wrote:
...
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
...
It could be just an incompatibility of some kind between your hard disk,
disk controller, and Linux, or something. Try disabling DMA; there
should be a boot parameter to do that (see the BootPrompt-HOWTO).
Speaking of incompatibilities, I had an irq request error (DriveReady
SeekComplete ...) after I added a 3rd hard drive. The problem turned
out to be with my PnP sound card, and the fix was to use DMA 3 for
sound (not 0 or 1.)
So, if you have any PnP devices -- check their settings, too.
--
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kernel message
'Unable to load interpreter.' anyone ever seen this? m* -- The Shining One -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)
Hello, in order to give technical help people need more information about
your computer hardware configuration, hardware setup, hardware technical
specifications. Please foward me all of this information to me through
the list or not I am very interested in this problem, because I have a
similar problem. Here is the email that I sent to the list:
So after reading this email please get all the material about this
problem and email through the list or directly.
Paul
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:57:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paul McDermott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: basket weaving looks better every day! (fwd)
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I thought I would post a different perspective on my current boot problem.
I hope somebody out there in debian land can help me.
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N6A 5B8| LINUX RULES!!!
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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 97 13:39 EDT
From: Kirk Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: basket weaving looks better every day!
Hello Mark:
I am sorry to bother you. I imagine as the main IDE kinda guy you're
kept pretty busy answering stupid questions like the one I'm about to
ask. Unfortunately, I have run out of places to look for an answer,
or at least one I can groc! So yo're sort of the IDE god. It's a
tough life being a god! :)
Ok, all seriousness aside, do you have any experience with the Fujitsu
M1638TAU? It's a 2.57 Gbyte IDE drive. I get a whole bunch of drive
errors when trying to use it. The status errors change constantly so
I can't duplicate them all here but some of the errors look like
these.
hda: irq timed out status=0xd0 {busy}
ide0: reset timed out status 0xd0
hda: drive not ready
Now for the background, I have custom built a 2.0.30 linux kernel.
The chip set is a Triton PIIX PCI mother board. It is a 100mhz
pentium processor. I have tried boot flags like ide0=autotune and
hda=autotune and idebus=33. I have compiled in the PIIX kernel flags
and the like. I have also tried this system with the Fujitsu 2.1
Gbyte drive and that works fine. Unfortunately, the person I am
building this for has purchased the M1638TAU.
I am afraid I am at a bit of a loss for just what to do next. As far
as I can tell, I have done everything correctly. The system also has
a connor 1.2 Gbyte drive on hdc as a primary controller and a cd-rom
on IDE1 as a slave. I originally had the Connor on ide0 as a slave
but your ide.txt recomended putting any other drives on separate ides.
The Connor is going to be for windows 95 so it really doesn't have
anything to do with the standard setup. Just as a note of interest
though. Windows 95 has no trouble with the Fujitsu drive.
Any light you might be able to shed on this would certainly be
appreciated. If I have neglected to include some relevent
information, I apologize. Just let me know and I'll forward it to
you.
Kirk
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On Wed, 7 May 1997, Dima wrote:
You wrote:
On Sun, May 04, 1997 at 10:23:39PM +, Sam Ockman wrote:
...
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
...
It could be just an incompatibility of some kind between your hard disk,
disk controller, and Linux, or something. Try disabling DMA; there
should be a boot parameter to do that (see the BootPrompt-HOWTO).
Speaking of incompatibilities, I had an irq request error (DriveReady
SeekComplete ...) after I added a 3rd hard drive. The problem turned
out to be with my PnP sound card, and the fix was to use DMA 3 for
sound (not 0 or 1.)
So, if you have any PnP devices -- check their settings, too.
--
Dimitri
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ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive
Yeah, that time is here again, when I need more disk space. I have been thinking about moving my Debian to a larger drive, so I can take out the smallest drive to make room for a big one. This is a heartwrenching decision; It has taken a long time to get my system working like I want it; including up to 1.2 level. It seems really impractical to try to copy the data from one disk to another (correct me if I am wrong, please) because symlinks tend to get lost or messed up. Seems to me the most direct way to move the system is make new boot disks, install a base system from my old CD (1.1), upgrade in place to 1.2 using ftp, and then restore my favorite configuration files. Anyone have a better idea? Thanks! -- Key fingerprint = D6 A7 D7 8C 92 CB 42 FD 60 D5 62 1C D7 B9 EA 8E Ken Gaugler N6OSK Hybrid Networks, Inc. Cupertino, Calif. URL: http://www.hybrid.com (personal: keng at wco dot com URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng) The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian PnP tools package?
Is there a debian package which will allow me to configure my PnP ISA 2Mbps tape drive accelerator card? Thanks, Chris. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive
Ken Gaugler wrote: Yeah, that time is here again, when I need more disk space. I have been thinking about moving my Debian to a larger drive, so I can take out the smallest drive to make room for a big one. Here we go again. You're gonna get endless messages with cpio and tar flags and all kinds of advice. GNU cp has an archive switch, cp -a, that does what you want. People are gonna say, Oh, don't use that, becuase it doesn't exist on other systems so you might as well learn the hard way. You're talking about a Linux system with gnu cp, right? What the hell do you care if cp -a doesn't work on most UNIX platforms? Of course, I recommend that you read the man (or info) page for cp and try it on a directory such as /dev that has devices and symlinks. -- ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian PnP tools package?
In your email to me, Christopher Ray Martin, you wrote: Is there a debian package which will allow me to configure my PnP ISA 2Mbps tape drive accelerator card? Take a look at the 'isapnptools' package from Bo Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps They tell me my job is easy... anyone can do it. Why doesn't anyone else want it? -- me ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
changing login message?
How can you change the text that appears before the login: prompt? Mine still says I have Debian v1.1 installed... I would to customize it a bit as well. thanks, Chris. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: changing login message?
In your email to me, Christopher Ray Martin, you wrote: How can you change the text that appears before the login: prompt? Mine still says I have Debian v1.1 installed... I would to customize it a bit as well. /etc/issue Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps They tell me my job is easy... anyone can do it. Why doesn't anyone else want it? -- me ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: GIF for KDE
Yes. I saw the posting to the kde list by Alan Cox, I believe it was. I wonder if you, or another Debianite, could tell me just how easy it would be to attach to a tcp port and send/recv commands to take advantage of that security hole? I know a programmer would have no trouble exploiting this. What about the common Joe? And don't flame me. I think it should be fixed as well, ofcourse. I just want to get an idea of how threatening it is. If anybody can do it by telneting to the tcp port that's a major problem. If it takes a special program to take advantage of it, then that's not something I would expect to see happen to me before the fix is done. I didn't get the whole dialog that Alan and he were having but I assume the guy will make haste in fixing the problem after being shot down like that. Evidently he didn't know Alan was a kernel developer. Anyway, thanks for the info. I got it from incoming at master. On 6 May 1997, Steve Dunham wrote: Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What package is libgif2 in? It's needed to install the kde packages. You know there is a huge security hole in kfm(which the author apparently doesn't care to fix...) It uses a tcp socket to send commands (like delete file) to it's slave processes...So essentially (if you're on the net) anyone in the world can delete files on your machine... libgif2 is the name of the package. Look for it in hamm/hamm/binary-i386/devel (I don't know if it's been installed yet.) Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: changing login message?
At 04:41 PM 5/6/97 -0400, you wrote: In your email to me, Christopher Ray Martin, you wrote: How can you change the text that appears before the login: prompt? Mine still says I have Debian v1.1 installed... I would to customize it a bit as well. /etc/issue You might also want to link /etc/issue with /etc/issue.net Then the message that appears on the console login will also appear when someone telnets into the machine. Tim O'Brien Linux 2.0.6 i486 Because reboots are for upgrades! --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive
You will get plenty of advice about this. I just did the same thing, using copy in mc. mc has an option to maintain UID and GID on copy. It only worked for the files. The directories were made with root's umask. I didn't loose any symlinks. The only problem I had was the directory permissions. I have been fixing them as I run across them. The best advice I saw was to use afio, cpio, or tar. There were argument all around on which was the best choice. I guess the bottom line is whatever you're compfortable with using. But don't use mc. At least not without going through all the directories and fixing the permissions before you remove the original file system. Which would take alot longer than just using another program to do it. Live and learn I guess. On Tue, 6 May 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote: Yeah, that time is here again, when I need more disk space. I have been thinking about moving my Debian to a larger drive, so I can take out the smallest drive to make room for a big one. This is a heartwrenching decision; It has taken a long time to get my system working like I want it; including up to 1.2 level. It seems really impractical to try to copy the data from one disk to another (correct me if I am wrong, please) because symlinks tend to get lost or messed up. Seems to me the most direct way to move the system is make new boot disks, install a base system from my old CD (1.1), upgrade in place to 1.2 using ftp, and then restore my favorite configuration files. Anyone have a better idea? Thanks! -- Key fingerprint = D6 A7 D7 8C 92 CB 42 FD 60 D5 62 1C D7 B9 EA 8E Ken Gaugler N6OSK Hybrid Networks, Inc. Cupertino, Calif. URL: http://www.hybrid.com (personal: keng at wco dot com URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng) The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive
I forgott about this one. This is the one I would use if I had to do over again. My perdicament is what Rick is refering to when he says here we go again, I believe :) On Tue, 6 May 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: Ken Gaugler wrote: Yeah, that time is here again, when I need more disk space. I have been thinking about moving my Debian to a larger drive, so I can take out the smallest drive to make room for a big one. Here we go again. You're gonna get endless messages with cpio and tar flags and all kinds of advice. GNU cp has an archive switch, cp -a, that does what you want. People are gonna say, Oh, don't use that, becuase it doesn't exist on other systems so you might as well learn the hard way. You're talking about a Linux system with gnu cp, right? What the hell do you care if cp -a doesn't work on most UNIX platforms? Of course, I recommend that you read the man (or info) page for cp and try it on a directory such as /dev that has devices and symlinks. -- RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)
Would that include the SB16 software configureable card? What used to be
called PNP by some.
I have this card and just found after further checking that I am having
this error also. It isn't often it's only happened on 6 days in the past
3 months from what I can see by my logs. At any rate it isn't persistant
so it may be something like that.
PNP won't configure this card. Is anybody aware of a linux version the
DOS configure util's for SB16?
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Dima wrote:
You wrote:
On Sun, May 04, 1997 at 10:23:39PM +, Sam Ockman wrote:
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
It could be just an incompatibility of some kind between your hard disk,
disk controller, and Linux, or something. Try disabling DMA; there
should be a boot parameter to do that (see the BootPrompt-HOWTO).
Speaking of incompatibilities, I had an irq request error (DriveReady
SeekComplete ...) after I added a 3rd hard drive. The problem turned
out to be with my PnP sound card, and the fix was to use DMA 3 for
sound (not 0 or 1.)
So, if you have any PnP devices -- check their settings, too.
--
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Debian mirror
Hi there ... I've got some empty high speed SCSI drives laying around and thought it would be fun to mirror the debian distribution. Our company uses the debian distribution so we'd like to make it easier for others to get the software, too. (Also, having a local copy makes new installs a lot faster). Anyway ... I have a few things I have to work through. Our provider does not yet have me properly reverse name-served, which means the debian master site doesn't like me very much. I don't foresee this to be a permanent problem, but I imagine it won't be solved immediately either. So, which mirror that is fairly (or netter) complete allows mirroring? Any recommendations? Something on the MCI or UUNet backbones would be a direct route for us. Any opinions on *how* to mirror the site? I've looked at the mirror package and it seems reasonable ... but I've never heard anyone comment about it one way or the other. Yes, I'm a newbie to ftp mirroring :) Any other comments/flames/suggestions? Nathan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian mirror
In your email to me, Nathan E Norman, you wrote: Hi there ... I've got some empty high speed SCSI drives laying around and thought it would be fun to mirror the debian distribution. Our company uses the debian distribution so we'd like to make it easier for others to get the software, too. (Also, having a local copy makes new installs a lot faster). Anyway ... I have a few things I have to work through. Our provider does not yet have me properly reverse name-served, which means the debian master site doesn't like me very much. I don't foresee this to be a permanent problem, but I imagine it won't be solved immediately either. So, which mirror that is fairly (or netter) complete allows mirroring? Any recommendations? Something on the MCI or UUNet backbones would be a direct route for us. I'm on alternet, but I can allow you to ftp into our mirror (llug.sep.bnl.gov) Any opinions on *how* to mirror the site? I've looked at the mirror package and it seems reasonable ... but I've never heard anyone comment about it one way or the other. Yes, I'm a newbie to ftp mirroring :) The mirror package is the way to go. I can email you privately the mirror.defaults file that I use for my mirror at home. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps They tell me my job is easy... anyone can do it. Why doesn't anyone else want it? -- me ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive
On Tue, 6 May 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: Ken Gaugler wrote: Yeah, that time is here again, when I need more disk space. I have been thinking about moving my Debian to a larger drive, so I can take out the smallest drive to make room for a big one. Here we go again. You're gonna get endless messages with cpio and tar flags and all kinds of advice. GNU cp has an archive switch, cp -a, that does what you want. I agree with Rick M. on this one, although I would suggest adding the -x option. This way if there are any additional mounted file systems, like user, or home, then they will be left off the copy and can be mounted as before on the new system. 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] .
mac software
This is somewhat of a bizarre question for this group, but you can assimilate it. I've just encountered a gentleman from Beijing who has a mac program which he would like to run on a Intel PC platform. I've heard mention of a mac software emulator that runs under Unix. I wish I had more info, but I am just starting the hunt. The original source code may be in C, but it is graphics intensive. So ... is anyone aware of such an emulator, running under Wintel or Unix? Thanks, Richard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Wavelan cards and PCI ethernet
Well I solved this problem very simply: get a machine whose ISA slots actually work! After having successfully used the WD8003 card on 4 other machines, but not this one, I decided there must be something wrong with this one. So I tried another machine and it all went first pop! On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Richard L Shepherd wrote: I am trying to install a wavelan card into a linux box. The setup is: Digital Celebris XL 5166 Digital DE450 PCI Combo Ethernet Card (using tulip driver) Western Digital (wd8003) 8-bit (el-cheapo) Ethernet card (using wd driver) Built-In NCR SCSI Host (using 53c7,8xx driver) Adaptec 2940 Ultr-Wide PCI SCSI (using aic7xxx driver) (some PCI video card, who cares) The wavelan card I want to install is: NCR Wavelan v1.04 (930406), IRQ 10, Port 300 I have tried having the drivers for the 2 ethernet cards, and the wavelan card, as modules, but the wavelan card is not recognised initially and the DE450 is assigned IRQ 10 (is that how PCI does it, just looks for a free one?) and so I cannot load the wavelan driver anymore? I tried another tack: compiled the wavelan driver into the kernel and left the other 2 as modules, sure enough it now assigns the DE450 to eth1 but still uses IRQ 10, so I'm still stuffed. I noticed that the driver for the wavelan probes only at 0x390, whereas I believe this card is at 0x300 so I altered the wavelan.c file to match this, but still no go! 8---8 Richard Shepherd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 8---8 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mailx and signature
Hi, I would like to know if i can setup mailx in such way that mailx append a signature to every mail i compose with it. Thanks, Dany Dionne -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Epson LQ1050+ not print in 360x360 with gs-aladdin
I use magicfilter to filter my mail. I include my /usr/sbin/epsonlq-filter generated by magicfilter. If I change the two lines that configure gs: # PostScript 0 %! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r360x180 -sDEVICE=epson -sOutputFile=- - 0 \004%! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r360x180 -sDEVICE=epson -sOutputFile=- - with: 0 %! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r360x360 -sDEVICE=epson -sOutputFile=- - 0 \004%! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r360x360 -sDEVICE=epson -sOutputFile=- - the printer output is bad scaled. Are there any driver for support microfeed 360x360 printing for an Epson LQ 1050+ that works fine with Windog 95? Thanks and bye! Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] HomePage: http://www.imola.queen.it/user/arcangeli/ Debian Mirror: ftp://dida43.deis.unibo.it/pub/debian/ Debian GNU __ _ _ __ __ _ _ /\ ( ) (_ _)( \( )( )( )( \/ ))( )(__ _)(_ ) ( )(__)( ) ( \/ ()()(_)\_)(__)(_/\_)() #! /usr/sbin/magicfilter # # Magic filter setup file for Epson LQ series printers # THIS FILE IS UNTESTED! # # This file is in the public domain. # # This file has been automatically adapted to your system. # # wild guess: native control codes start with ESC 0 \033cat # PostScript 0 %! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r360x180 -sDEVICE=epson -sOutputFile=- - 0 \004%! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r360x180 -sDEVICE=epson -sOutputFile=- - # TeX DVI 0 \367\002fpipe /usr/bin/dvips -D 360 -R -q -f # compress'd data 0 \037\235pipe/bin/gzip -cdq # packed, gzipped, frozen and SCO LZH data 0 \037\036pipe/bin/gzip -cdq 0 \037\213pipe/bin/gzip -cdq 0 \037\236pipe/bin/gzip -cdq 0 \037\240pipe/bin/gzip -cdq # troff documents 0 .\?\?\040 fpipe `/usr/bin/grog -Tps $FILE` 0 .\\\ fpipe `/usr/bin/grog -Tps $FILE` 0 '\\\ fpipe `/usr/bin/grog -Tps $FILE` 0 '.\\\ fpipe `/usr/bin/grog -Tps $FILE` 0 \\\fpipe `/usr/bin/grog -Tps $FILE` # ditroff 0 x T pspipe/usr/bin/grops 0 x T dvi pipe/usr/bin/grodvi 0 x T ascii pipe/usr/bin/grotty 0 x T latin1pipe/usr/bin/grotty 0 x T lj4 reject Cannot print LaserJet 4 ditroff files. # Portable bit-, grey- and pixmaps 0 P1\npipe/usr/bin/pnmtops -scale 1000 -dpi 360 2/dev/null 0 P2\npipe/usr/bin/pnmtops -scale 1000 -dpi 360 2/dev/null 0 P3\npipe/usr/bin/pnmtops -scale 1000 -dpi 360 2/dev/null 0 P4\npipe/usr/bin/pnmtops -scale 1000 -dpi 360 2/dev/null 0 P5\npipe/usr/bin/pnmtops -scale 1000 -dpi 360 2/dev/null 0 P6\npipe/usr/bin/pnmtops -scale 1000 -dpi 360 2/dev/null # HP Printer Control Language (PCL) -- assume start with reset code 0 \033E\033 reject Cannot print PCL files on this printer. # HP Printer Job Language (PJL) 0 \033%-12345Xreject Cannot print PJL files on this printer. 0 @PJL reject Cannot print PJL files on this printer. 0 @PJL\t reject Cannot print PJL files on this printer. 0 @PJL\r reject Cannot print PJL files on this printer. 0 @PJL\n reject Cannot print PJL files on this printer. # GIF files 0 GIF87a pipe/usr/bin/giftopnm 2/dev/null 0 GIF89a pipe/usr/bin/giftopnm 2/dev/null # JFIF (JPEG) files 0 \377\330\377\340\?\?JFIF\0 pipe/usr/bin/djpeg -pnm # TIFF files (the last two bytes of the magic is really a version number; # but the magic is really lame and as far as I have understood the version # number has never changed and never will, so we include it.) 0 MM\0\x2apipe/usr/bin/tifftopnm 2/dev/null 0 II\x2a\0pipe/usr/bin/tifftopnm 2/dev/null # BMP files (even lousier magic -- Microsoft strikes again!) 0 BM\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\x0c pipe\ /usr/bin/bmptoppm 2/dev/null 0 BM\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\x40 pipe\ /usr/bin/bmptoppm 2/dev/null 0 BM\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\x28 pipe\ /usr/bin/bmptoppm 2/dev/null # Sun rasterfiles 0 \x59\xa6\x6a\x95 pipe /usr/bin/rasttopnm 2/dev/null # SGI Imagelib (IRIS RGB) files 0 \x1\xda pipe/usr/bin/sgitopnm 2/dev/null 0 \xda\x1 pipe/usr/bin/sgitopnm 2/dev/null # FIG files; reported by Steven P. Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0 #FIGpipe/usr/bin/X11/fig2dev -Lps -P -l dummy # # Standard rejects... things we don't want to print # # Various archive
adduser??
Having used adduser to add me as a user to my system, when I try to login, I get the message: ksh: Cannot determine current working directory I do get a $ prompt, and when I cd /home/rjw; ls -l, I see my directory and it's content (largely stuff placed there by me as root). I've logged in to X and run netscape to send this message (netscape saw that /home/rjw/nsmail didn't exist, and asked if I'd like to create it; I said yes, and it did). I only tried to set myself up as a user when mail I sent to this list as root had a problem, BTW. Anyway, if anyone can help with what I need to do to solve this, I'd be grateful - I've already tried various protection modes for /home and /home/rjw, but perhaps I haven't hit the right combo. TIA Ralph [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Newbie Debian + X Questions
Hi, I just finished installing Debian 1.2 and after downloading all the necessary packages for X Windows I decided install X too. I've never worked with Linux/Unix before btw so everything is new to me. Considering the horror stories I read on the net I was prepared for the worst but within the hour I had everything up and running (kind of at least). X Windows gave me some problems which I can't seem to solve. If I configure X everything goes fine until I have to use Xvidtune at the end to select my display mode. I use the S3V Server because I have a Diamond 3D 2000 (not my fault, it's a temporay replacement). The problem is that if I change the display to anything else but the standard 1284*1024 the Xconfig file won't be created. I immediately get the question if I want to setup X again after Save Quit Installation. If I don't try to change the display setting and leave it to the current one (which my monitor can handle but has a bad refreshrate) the Xconfig file is written and configuration ends as normal. But everytime I start X I'm stuck with the 1284 mode and I want to use the 1024*768 mode. The other problem is not very important (I think/hope) but I can't start X with the XDM command (which is recommended by the setup prg). It runs fine (apart from the display problem) if I use STARTX. I want to setup X right before installing window managers (I heard Afterstep is a good one?) or other programs. Excuse my ignorance if I missed something obvious but hey, I'm new to all this! [g] Thanks, Marco -- Dit bericht is via een mailling list verstuurd. Mocht je verwijderd willen worden van deze list reply dan even met 'REMOVE' als subject. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
