Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)
What do you think is causing this: May 5 07:23:26 panther kernel: hda: WDC AC21200H, 1222MB w/128kB Cache, LBA, CHS=2484/16/63, DMA Keep in mind that I'm not using LBA mode. Maybe I'm mistaken, but doesn't that field that says LBA mean the drive is in LBA mode? Ofcourse, you can tell it's not since the cylinders are more that 1023. Not to mention I just went through switching from LBA to normal mode not to long ago because of file coruption I suspected was caused by the LBA mode. Which now may be something else all together. I've only had this drive about a year. I can't imagine it going tit's-up this fast. Thoughts? On Thu, 8 May 1997, Dima wrote: You wrote: Would that include the SB16 software configureable card? What used to be called PNP by some. Mine is a ESS, and Intel's pnptool won't configure it either, if that's what you mean. I run its config utility from dos and then use loadlin to boot linux. In my case the problem went away after I commented out the card's init program in config.sys. I knew I didn't have an irq/port conflict, even though the message was about irq timeout, so the only option left was changing the dma. It worked. :-) (check /proc/ioports, /proc/interrupts, /proc/pci etc. for ports, irqs etc used by your hardware -- disable SB first.) -- Dimitri -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . TIA, --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
On Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 David B. Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 6 May 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: cp -ax certainly is much simpler than using find and cpio. Is there any option to cp (I can't find one) that would keep it from copying /proc, like the -prune option in find? Isn't /proc a mounted file system, even if it is a pseudo file system? Doesn't that make x option (which prevents other mounted file systems from being copied) the solution to this problem? Apparently not. I made a directory /newproc and tried cp with the following results: root:vc-6:~cp -a -x /proc /newproc root:vc-6:~du -s /proc 0 /proc root:vc-6:~du -s /newproc 23936 /newproc I stopped the copy with ^C when I got tired of watching it sit there, so /newproc might have grown larger if I had more patience. Actualy, I'm a lot more concerned with the problem of recursive copy in something like. cp -ax / /mnt :( Seems that booting a rescue disk to do the actual copying is a solution. The x option _should_ prevent copying /mnt. Before I learned about the -mount option in find, I once tried a find/cpio file transfer and was part way through the second copy of /mnt when the disk became full! I have a small rescue partition that I have booted to copy one file system to another, and a rescue disk would do the same job. Bob -- 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
This is why I thought my brain storm of using MC to tag/untag directories was the ticket with the retain UID/GID set. Ofcourse since it didn't keep the permissions of the directories this was a bite in the ass. However! If you use mc to tag/untag the proper directories and type cp -a [^C t] /mnt (^ is CTRL not the character and /mnt is wherever you want it.) in the command line, it works like a charm on symlinks and permissions. Moves the entire directory structure that you tag. On Wed, 7 May 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: On Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 David B. Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 6 May 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: cp -ax certainly is much simpler than using find and cpio. Is there any option to cp (I can't find one) that would keep it from copying /proc, like the -prune option in find? Isn't /proc a mounted file system, even if it is a pseudo file system? Doesn't that make x option (which prevents other mounted file systems from being copied) the solution to this problem? Apparently not. I made a directory /newproc and tried cp with the following results: root:vc-6:~cp -a -x /proc /newproc root:vc-6:~du -s /proc 0 /proc root:vc-6:~du -s /newproc 23936 /newproc I stopped the copy with ^C when I got tired of watching it sit there, so /newproc might have grown larger if I had more patience. Actualy, I'm a lot more concerned with the problem of recursive copy in something like. cp -ax / /mnt :( Seems that booting a rescue disk to do the actual copying is a solution. The x option _should_ prevent copying /mnt. Before I learned about the -mount option in find, I once tried a find/cpio file transfer and was part way through the second copy of /mnt when the disk became full! I have a small rescue partition that I have booted to copy one file system to another, and a rescue disk would do the same job. Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . TIA, --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mailing List
Just take a look at the bottom of each email message from the list .. directions on unsubscribing are there. Chad D. Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/ On Wed, 7 May 1997, Eric Nesser wrote: This is likely not the right address to be sending this to, but I'm not sure where else to send this to. My problem is pretty simple.. I need removed from the mailing list immediately. I tried to do this automatically from the website, but I received an error. I *MUST* cancel the mailing list from here because it's crashing my mail server due to the enormous amount of mail. I can pick this mailing list up on another server, however. So, for now, I'd really appreciate if I can be removed from the list, if possible? If this wasn't the correct address, could whoever gets this possibly send me back the address I should be mailing this to? Thanks a whole lot. I appreciate it. I am so very sorry for any inconvience this causes. -- 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] .
mgetty auto-telnet ??
I have a Digiboard Portserver II on my LAN that I currently have modems hanging off of. I've configured it so that any incoming terminal connections are automatically telnetted to another location. This works great; however, there are some *serious* performance problems associated with the Digiboard PSII. It is *contstantly* pausing - i.e. no traffic passes through it for anywhere from 5 to 45 seconds - then everything goes back to normal. Very, very strange! Anyway, I want to dump this $2000 box for a basic Debian GNU/Linux box running on a 486 and a 16port Bocaboard (which I've used and am *very* happy with). So, to get down to my question: Do you have any idea on how to setup mgetty to automatically telnet an incoming connection to another system. (i.e. anyone connecting to ttyS31 should be automatically telnetted to aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd.) TIA, Kevin Traas Systems Analyst Edmondson Roper CA http://www.eroper.bc.ca -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Kernel compiling..
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I downloaded the kernel-source-2.0.30_2.0.30-4.deb and instaled it. But when I do a make something, this happens: [stress]:/usr/src/linux# make clean make: *** File `Rules.make' has modification time in the future make: *** File `arch/i386/Makefile' has modification time in the future make: *** File `.config' has modification time in the future make: *** File `Makefile' has modification time in the future make: Failed to remake makefile `Rules.make'. make: Failed to remake makefile `arch/i386/Makefile'. make: Failed to remake makefile `.config'. make: Failed to remake makefile `Makefile'. There is an old package in my system? TIA -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM3EWyNw+0ForGwIxAQGZigL8C+F84pDFF0Ywi8AtjYPZykvkwacxsT5D EqIj6Grm84qbJJH4bJQwib5CJv9zIO2qcQyzgZ0d+Cv2jdVyTbJ5GO2MWTBTFM1b jpIUvw/+RJvgzvmnfkynbxHr7SfKHox9 =H/V6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Kernel compiling..
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Sorry, I seen the date of my system, it was in 1996. :) On Wed, 7 May 1997, Carlos Marcos Kakihara wrote: I downloaded the kernel-source-2.0.30_2.0.30-4.deb and instaled it. But when I do a make something, this happens: [stress]:/usr/src/linux# make clean make: *** File `Rules.make' has modification time in the future make: *** File `arch/i386/Makefile' has modification time in the future make: *** File `.config' has modification time in the future make: *** File `Makefile' has modification time in the future make: Failed to remake makefile `Rules.make'. make: Failed to remake makefile `arch/i386/Makefile'. make: Failed to remake makefile `.config'. make: Failed to remake makefile `Makefile'. There is an old package in my system? TIA -- Good signature from user Carlos Marcos Kakihara (bacate) [EMAIL PROTECTED]. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM3Ej3dw+0ForGwIxAQEPdAMAoSjtfmfpcNerQnEHkE1XBdHDhaOVXyy5 BFESN4OMaIf0uPmbrVIX08FZJxhgN6JpvKhORAEAqG5iZiqygMb0emmyJX+MXJfY Y0pz9rHoLGdZ9qWBGARLo9JtbhlDCewT =EM1j -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mgetty auto-telnet ??
Do you have any idea on how to setup mgetty to automatically telnet an incoming connection to another system. (i.e. anyone connecting to ttyS31 should be automatically telnetted to aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd.) I know that this can be done as we used to do it... but I can't remember how we used to do it :( (it was nearly 3 years ago). Come to think of it, that long ago it wouldn't have been with mgetty either One thing you can do is to create the users on the debian box without a password and have their shell set to do an rlogin to the machine you want to connect them to. So the debian box asks them for a username and then the other machine asks them for a password. It's transparent to the user, the only hassle is having to maintain two sets of passwords... but that should be do-able with rdist or some such without too much hassle. Adam. - Earthlight Communications Limited P.O. Box 5301 Adam Shand (fax) +64 3 477 5463 Dunedin, New Zealand Systems Manager(voice) +64 3 479 0303 -- http://larry.earthlight.co.nz/ -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PnP soundcard overrides conventional card
I've just installed isapnptools. It works great on my PnP soundblaster clone. The one problem is that now I can't use my non-PnP midi card. The midi card just happens to sit at the same irq as the soundcard (which has really corny midi emulation). Is there some way to get my midi card to live happily with my soundcard? Mo On Tue, 6 May 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: 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] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
inquiry about exploder mailing lists of Debian lists
As list manager, I often assist people in the process of unsubscribing from Debian lists. Occasionally, I end up with a person who is receiving Debian mail from a mailing list that is _on_ a Debian mailing list. Many of these lists serve excellent purposes (they're based in a locality that has slow external connectivity, etc), but can make it difficult for a subscriber to realize that the normal method of unsubscribing doesn't work. To assist with managing this dilemna, I'd like to ask anyone who currently operates/manages/oversees any of those lists to contact me with the following information: Your name/email What debian list(s) you explode What address receives the mail from the first-tier Debian lists Approximately how many subscribers are on your list(s) I'm not going to ask you to stop what you're doing. I'm merely hoping to get a sense of how many there are, and attempt to keep track of who I can contact to assist with problems. Thanks for your help, 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-configuring things...
I have *another* newbie type question. (Do they ever stop?) I am using debian release 1.2 on my 586/133mhz. When I originally ran dselect after doing my base system install, I skipped over configuring a number of programs, like ppp, etc. I've also made some mistakes (I think) on some of my hardware items that need to be changed. Instead of taking the weenie route re-installing, is there a graceful way to go back and correct my blunders? I'd like to learn how to do this thing right (I think that's one of the reasons I'm trying to learn this stuff... :-) ) Any suggestions appreciated!! -- Steve Morrill Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED].. + PGP pub key id: 0xF2459FCD header changed to prevent spamming! + Linux..it's not just an OS, + it's an adventure! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Messages off by default?
Debian 1.3 seems to turn messages off by default for users. I know I can put mesg on in the default login files either in skel or etc, but is there anyway to do it that is not shell specific Thanks, Sam -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian on a ThinkPad
Is anyone here running Debian on a ThinkPad ? I would like to install Debian on my ThinkPad 755cx. Thanks, Matthew -- 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
Some time ago it was rumored that cp cannot copy files with holes, it just fills the holes :-( There's even a package to work around this, perforate. Is it still true that cp -a cannot preserve holes? Carlos No, this rumor is quite easy to falsify. GNU cp makes a copy with holes iff the original has holes. $ dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1k count=200 200+0 records in 200+0 records out $ cp foo bar $ du -s foo bar 201 foo 201 bar $ zum foo foo [1608K] [1 link] $ cp foo bar1 $ du -s foo bar bar1 0 foo 201 bar 0 bar1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: gpm configuration
Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH writes: Hi, When I installed Debian, I made some errors while configuring options of gpm. Now, I know what to do, but I am unable to change the default configuration of gpm at boot time. How could I do this ? Just log in as root and type gpmconfig This starts a script which does all the configurtion for you. Don't worry, you're getting asked for several settings. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / Whenever you meet yourself you're in a time loop / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ or in front of a mirror / -- 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 Wed, 7 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: What do you think is causing this: May 5 07:23:26 panther kernel: hda: WDC AC21200H, 1222MB w/128kB Cache, LBA, CHS=2484/16/63, DMA Keep in mind that I'm not using LBA mode. Maybe I'm mistaken, but doesn't that field that says LBA mean the drive is in LBA mode? Ofcourse, you can tell it's not since the cylinders are more that 1023. Not to mention I just went through switching from LBA to normal mode not to long ago because of file coruption I suspected was caused by the LBA mode. Which now may be something else all together. I've only had this drive about a year. I can't imagine it going tit's-up this fast. Indeed, there is something really wrong. Something really is wrong with the harddisk. Few months ago there was a thread in a linux mailing list about the how unreliable some western digital harddisk are. many disgruntled linux users. you could check out www.wdc.com. regards, =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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: kahnd
On Wed, May 07, 1997 at 08:49:14AM -0400, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: IP address) and UDP broadcast packets are *not* routed which means if 1.1.1.3 is trying to find 1.1.1.2 by name, it won't find it. The solution to this is to set up a WINS server--sorta like a DNS server. You can do this in Linux, you just need SAMBA (which it seems like you already have. The program is nmbd and you need to create a file which maps host names to IP addresses (and which looks like an /etc/hosts file) and 'nmbd -H your-lm-hosts-file' will then run the server. Then on your Win95 client go into TCP/IP settings and set 1.1.1.1 as a WINS server. If you've got '-proxyarp' being passed to pppd on your Linux box, you should be there. Hmmm. Interesting explanation, thanks. Does this explain one odd thing I see? I have a machine at home running Samba, as well as my own workstation (Win95/Linux). I have another machine running Samba, located at my ISP. I can access the machine at the ISP fine from Windows; I never had to set up an LMHOSTS for Win95 or anything. (All machines are in the same domain). But a friend has his own PC (Win95/NT), and wants to talk to this machine at the ISP too, and it doesn't work, even with LMHOSTS it seems. 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] .
Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)
Andre M. Varon wrote: Indeed, there is something really wrong. Something really is wrong with the harddisk. Few months ago there was a thread in a linux mailing list about the how unreliable some western digital harddisk are. many disgruntled linux users. you could check out www.wdc.com. Indeed, I had a 1.6GB one die on me. I had some errors and it started making clunking noises. A few hours later, it was dead. Luckily, I've got good backups here. I did have to wait for a month to get the replacement drive from my dealer though. There's a notice on their web site about quality problems with one of their 1.6GB models (I'm not sure if it was the same as mine). I'm unsure as to whether this extends to the rest of their line. Cheers, - Jim pgpRB6oMqYCJI.pgp Description: PGP signature
PPP Problems
This may be a FAQ, if so please point me to the right place. I have kernel 2.0.27 and could not make a PPP connection. I can dial and login to my ISP OK, but can't seem to get a PPP session. When I use my old Slackware 1.3.x PC on the same modem with the same setup I get a connection and a PPP session. The only difference I can see is when I cat /proc/net/(can't remember which one) on the Slakware one I get ppp0-15 as well as lo and eth0, on the Debian I get only eth0 and lo. I've applied the 2.0.28,2930 patches and re-compiled (making sure that ppp is included) but still the same result. When checking the logs I get the pppd startup messages as on Slackware, but get LCP a timeout message. Any suggestions ? - Please copy any reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- --- --- Alex Monaghan Network Support Analyst, Royal Mail Anglia London Rd, Stevenage, SG1 1AA, UK Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] STD 01438 767081 Postline5811 7081 --- --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
kfdialog.h
This is interesting: panther# pwd /usr/src/kde/kdelibs panther# find /usr -iname kfdial* /usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kgreeter/kfdialog.cpp /usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kgreeter/kfdialog.moc /usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kgreeter/kfdialog.h /usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kfdialog.cpp panther# cd ../kdm* panther# pwd /usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4 panther# find /usr -iname kfdial* /usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kgreeter/kfdialog.cpp /usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kfdialog.cpp panther# make c++ -c -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -DKDMLOGO=\/lib/pics/kdelogo.ppm\ -DSTDC_HEADERS -I//usr/local/qt/include -I/usr/local/kde/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -DX_LOCALE kfdialog.cpp kfdialog.cpp:13: kfdialog.h: No such file or directory kfdialog.cpp:70: kfdialog.moc: No such file or directory make: *** [kfdialog.o] Error 1 panther# Now why can't find see the kfdialog.h/.moc files from the kdm directory but it sees them from kdelibs directory? I am not happy about this. Does anybody have a clue? Have a good one, --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Is there a problem with this list.
I normally receive 20 to 30 messages a day but the last 2 days I have received 4 ? -- 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 Wed, 7 May 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Nicola == Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rather than commenting out the -ltermcap, you could replace it with -lncurses, and it will link fine. Ncurses has termcap emulation. GREAT! Actually, I was wondering about that... good that you gave a look at the diff file, thank you! 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. --- -- 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?)
Excellent, I have a Western Digital 1.6 gb harddrive, the same one that their web page admits to having problems withGateway is sending me a new one, I only hope this one lasts until then.. (It does take some guts for WD to admit they messed up, and replace the drives.) Thanks for all the help--- Sam Message from A. M. Varon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, 7 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: What do you think is causing this: May 5 07:23:26 panther kernel: hda: WDC AC21200H, 1222MB w/128kB Cache, LBA, CHS=2484/16/63, DMA Keep in mind that I'm not using LBA mode. Maybe I'm mistaken, but doesn't that field that says LBA mean the drive is in LBA mode? Ofcourse, you can tell it's not since the cylinders are more that 1023. Not to mention I just went through switching from LBA to normal mode not to long ago because of file coruption I suspected was caused by the LBA mode. Which now may be something else all together. I've only had this drive about a year. I can't imagine it going tit's-up this fast. Indeed, there is something really wrong. Something really is wrong with the harddisk. Few months ago there was a thread in a linux mailing list about the how unreliable some western digital harddisk are. many disgruntled linux users. you could check out www.wdc.com. -- VA Research Linux Workstations Engineered like no other http://www.varesearch.com Sam Ockman - (415)934-3666, ext. 133 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is there a problem with this list.
Must be a problem. I've sent more than that myself. I've seen less than usual but not too bad. On Thu, 8 May 1997, Stephen Davey wrote: I normally receive 20 to 30 messages a day but the last 2 days I have received 4 ? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Have a good one, --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: kfdialog.h
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: panther# cd ../kdm* panther# pwd /usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4 panther# find /usr -iname kfdial* /usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kgreeter/kfdialog.cpp /usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kfdialog.cpp try putting quotes around kfdial*. e.g. find /usr -iname kfdial* Without the quotes, the kfdial* argument MATCHES the file kfdialog.cpp in the current directory (/usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4), and that is what is passed to find as an argument. You're even taking advantage of this behaviour when you issue commands like cd ../kdm* [...deleted...] Now why can't find see the kfdialog.h/.moc files from the kdm directory but it sees them from kdelibs directory? I am not happy about this. Does anybody have a clue? it's not a problem with find, it's a problem with the user :-) if you don't put quotes around wildcard characters (like * and ?) then your shell will attempt to expand the wildcard BEFORE passing the arguments to the program. If any files in the current directory match the wildcard then they get passed as arguments, otherwise the wildcard itself is passed. e.g. if you execute the command foo *.c there are two possible sets of arguments passed to program foo: 1. in a directory with NO .c files, foo gets *.c 2. in a directory with fred.c, joe.c, etc.c, foo gets fred.c joe.c etc.c correct quoting and escaping of characters with , ', and \ is very important in any shell, and also in many scripting languages like sed, awk, perl, and others. it is definitely a good use of any unix user/admin's time to learn how it works. a quick summary: use \ to escape a single character. e.g. \*, \? use to quote an entire string, allowing $ substitution. e.g. s/$SEARCH/$REPLACE/ use ' to quote an entire string. e.g 's/ */ /g' you can use combinations of the above too. e.g. you can include a quote within a quoted string like so: '\'hello\'' is 'hello' I don't know if it's still in print, but a good basic book for explaining how the shell works is The UNIX System by S.R. Bourne (the same Steve Bourne for whom bash is named). Published 1983 by Addison-Wesley. Similar information can be found in the various Unix FAQs, and probably in some of the Linux Doc Project stuff. IMO, the best way of learning this stuff is to play with it interactively. craig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: postgres95 / libbsd.so
Rather than commenting out the -ltermcap, you could replace it with -lncurses, and it will link fine. Ncurses has termcap emulation. GREAT! Actually, I was wondering about that... good that you gave a look at the diff file, thank you! Ah, at my system this was resolved automagically because somewhere in the Makefile.global (I think) -lncurses was added somewhere. 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: kfdialog.h
Thanks for that little tid-bit. I've used the find command for about two years and never discovered this before except when the wild card is in front it caused a problem and I'd use quotes. I don't think I've ever searched for a file from a directory that contained one matching the pattern before. I never knew it expanded the wild card before it searched. Gotta be the old DOS mentality. Thanks again. On Thu, 8 May 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: On Thu, 8 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: panther# cd ../kdm* panther# pwd /usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4 panther# find /usr -iname kfdial* /usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kgreeter/kfdialog.cpp /usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kfdialog.cpp try putting quotes around kfdial*. e.g. find /usr -iname kfdial* Without the quotes, the kfdial* argument MATCHES the file kfdialog.cpp in the current directory (/usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4), and that is what is passed to find as an argument. You're even taking advantage of this behaviour when you issue commands like cd ../kdm* [...deleted...] Now why can't find see the kfdialog.h/.moc files from the kdm directory but it sees them from kdelibs directory? I am not happy about this. Does anybody have a clue? it's not a problem with find, it's a problem with the user :-) if you don't put quotes around wildcard characters (like * and ?) then your shell will attempt to expand the wildcard BEFORE passing the arguments to the program. If any files in the current directory match the wildcard then they get passed as arguments, otherwise the wildcard itself is passed. e.g. if you execute the command foo *.c there are two possible sets of arguments passed to program foo: 1. in a directory with NO .c files, foo gets *.c 2. in a directory with fred.c, joe.c, etc.c, foo gets fred.c joe.c etc.c correct quoting and escaping of characters with , ', and \ is very important in any shell, and also in many scripting languages like sed, awk, perl, and others. it is definitely a good use of any unix user/admin's time to learn how it works. a quick summary: use \ to escape a single character. e.g. \*, \? use to quote an entire string, allowing $ substitution. e.g. s/$SEARCH/$REPLACE/ use ' to quote an entire string. e.g 's/ */ /g' you can use combinations of the above too. e.g. you can include a quote within a quoted string like so: '\'hello\'' is 'hello' I don't know if it's still in print, but a good basic book for explaining how the shell works is The UNIX System by S.R. Bourne (the same Steve Bourne for whom bash is named). Published 1983 by Addison-Wesley. Similar information can be found in the various Unix FAQs, and probably in some of the Linux Doc Project stuff. IMO, the best way of learning this stuff is to play with it interactively. craig Have a good one, --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?)
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Jim Pick wrote: Andre M. Varon wrote: Indeed, there is something really wrong. Something really is wrong with the harddisk. Few months ago there was a thread in a linux mailing list about the how unreliable some western digital harddisk are. many disgruntled linux users. you could check out www.wdc.com. Indeed, I had a 1.6GB one die on me. I had some errors and it started making clunking noises. A few hours later, it was dead. I checked their site and my drive isn't mentioned for known errors. I just checked the drive (e2fsck) and it's clean. Have a good one, --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
sysklogd dumps core
sysklogd used to work fine. Recently it has started dumping core. I purged and reloaded the -15 version of the package and it still does the same thing. Here is the error message during boot (runlevel 2): Starting system log daemon: syslogd klogd/etc/init.d/sysklogd: line 51: 429 Segmentation fault (core dumped) start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --signal 1 --pidfile /var/run/syslogd.pid Any help appreciated. Cheers, Victor -- 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 Wed, 7 May 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: On Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 David B. Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 6 May 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: cp -ax certainly is much simpler than using find and cpio. Is there any option to cp (I can't find one) that would keep it from copying /proc, like the -prune option in find? Isn't /proc a mounted file system, even if it is a pseudo file system? Doesn't that make x option (which prevents other mounted file systems from being copied) the solution to this problem? Apparently not. I made a directory /newproc and tried cp with the following results: root:vc-6:~cp -a -x /proc /newproc root:vc-6:~du -s /proc 0 /proc root:vc-6:~du -s /newproc 23936 /newproc I stopped the copy with ^C when I got tired of watching it sit there, so /newproc might have grown larger if I had more patience. This is not an adequate test of the feature. You have side stepped the -x lockout by specifying you wish to copy the file system /proc. The proper opperation of -x would only keep other file systems, mounted on /proc, from being copied. The reason /newproc grows indefinately is that /proc is always having new data added to it. The /proc file system knows how to replace old data with new, but the ext2 file system just keeps adding the new data to the old files. I have a test machine with two Linux partitions. One partition has a standard system installed, the other was empty. I mounted the second partition on /mnt and did: cp -a -x / /mnt When the prompt returned, everything but /mnt and /proc could be found on the /mnt partition. I added these two mount points, edited /etc/fstab and changed the mount partition to the new one and rebooted. I didn't have time to try anything difficult, but the system seems to be complete and functional. (at least I could log in, mount the old partition, and run mc) This process DOES work with the GNU cp provided with the Debian 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] .
procmail / smail problem
It has been quite a chore getting procmail to run at all here. No success at all with the .forward hack; any time it is run, the mail goes to nobody. Anyway I managed to get procmail running after finding a clue and hacking /etc/smail/transports like this: # This is the Smail transports file, which gives details of how ... # It was originally generated by `smailconfig', part of the Smail package # distributed with Debian, but it may edited by the mail system administrator. # Hacked 5 May 97: redid local local: from, local, inet, return_path, driver=pipe; user=root, cmd=/usr/bin/procmail -d $($user$) smtp: uux:pipe: file: (all unchanged) At this point the hope is that I replaced my local delivery agent with procmail. Therefore, according to TFM, it should run if the user has a .procmailrc file. Those look like this: #Set on when debugging VERBOSE=off #Replace 'mail' with your mail dir MAILDIR=$HOME/mail #directory for storing procmail log and rc files PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.filter Now that is well and good, but it does not run! Mail gets forwarded by procmail to the user's account just fine, but the user's recipie does not get executed. Additionally, any attempt to run procmail with -m (filter mode) simply hangs up and does not run. I suspect more smail hacking is in order. Does anybody have a clue? TIA! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . . . . . . . This computer is RUNNING Linux!! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: kfdialog.h
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
This is interesting:
panther# pwd
/usr/src/kde/kdelibs
panther# find /usr -iname kfdial*
/usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kgreeter/kfdialog.cpp
/usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kgreeter/kfdialog.moc
/usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kgreeter/kfdialog.h
/usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kfdialog.cpp
There should also be
/usr/src/kdm-0.4.4/kfdialog.{h,moc}
They are symlinks to the files in kgreeter/ made by xmkmf
panther# cd ../kdm*
panther# pwd
/usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4
panther# find /usr -iname kfdial*
/usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kgreeter/kfdialog.cpp
/usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kfdialog.cpp
same here
panther# make
c++ -c -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -m486
-DKDMLOGO=\/lib/pics/kdelogo.ppm\
-DSTDC_HEADERS -I//usr/local/qt/include -I/usr/local/kde/include
-I/usr/X11R6/include -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE
-D_SVID_SOURCE -DX_LOCALE kfdialog.cpp
kfdialog.cpp:13: kfdialog.h: No such file or directory
kfdialog.cpp:70: kfdialog.moc: No such file or directory
make: *** [kfdialog.o] Error 1
panther#
Now why can't find see the kfdialog.h/.moc files from the kdm directory
but it sees them from kdelibs directory?
I am not happy about this. Does anybody have a clue?
You are right. The looks wierd!
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RE: Debian on a ThinkPad
From: Matthew Tebbens[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 07 May, 1997 23:34 PM To:debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc:The recipient's address is unknown. Subject: Debian on a ThinkPad Is anyone here running Debian on a ThinkPad ? I would like to install Debian on my ThinkPad 755cx. Thanks, Matthew Sure! Have it running on a 760L. I think I have seen reports of it running on various other stinkpads too. Regular stuff, networking, apm, pcmcia cards, sound, and X all run. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . kc5xh . . . . . My other computer runs Linux! -- 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
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. 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? I just moved a partition. I think I got the recipe from Matt Welsh's book. remove /proc from /etc/fstab and reboot mkdir /t mount /dev/newpartition /t (cd / tar lcf - .)|(cd /t tar xvpf -) Regards. Rick -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Debian on a ThinkPad
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Wieboldt, David wrote: Is anyone here running Debian on a ThinkPad ? I would like to install Debian on my ThinkPad 755cx. Sure! Have it running on a 760L. I think I have seen reports of it running on various other stinkpads too. Regular stuff, networking, apm, pcmcia cards, sound, and X all run. I've had it running on a 701CS; I'm now trying to install RedHat just for fun. :-) __ _ David S. Jackson / / (_)__ __ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] //_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ * * * CHOICE OF A GNU GENERATION * * * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PnP soundcard overrides conventional card
Mo Oishi wrote: I've just installed isapnptools. It works great on my PnP soundblaster clone. The one problem is that now I can't use my non-PnP midi card. The midi card just happens to sit at the same irq as the soundcard (which has really corny midi emulation). Is there some way to get my midi card to live happily with my soundcard? Can't you just have isapnptools just assign a different IRQ to the SB? -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: procmail / smail problem
Wieboldt, David wrote: It has been quite a chore getting procmail to run at all here. No success at all with the .forward hack; any time it is run, the mail goes to nobody. Anyway I managed to get procmail running after finding a clue and hacking /etc/smail/transports like this: # This is the Smail transports file, which gives details of how ... # It was originally generated by `smailconfig', part of the Smail package # distributed with Debian, but it may edited by the mail system administrator. # Hacked 5 May 97: redid local local: from, local, inet, return_path, driver=pipe; user=root, cmd=/usr/bin/procmail -d $($user$) smtp: uux:pipe: file: (all unchanged) At this point the hope is that I replaced my local delivery agent with procmail. Therefore, according to TFM, it should run if the user has a .procmailrc file. Those look like this: #Set on when debugging VERBOSE=off #Replace 'mail' with your mail dir MAILDIR=$HOME/mail #directory for storing procmail log and rc files PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.filter Now that is well and good, but it does not run! Mail gets forwarded by procmail to the user's account just fine, but the user's recipie does not get executed. Additionally, any attempt to run procmail with -m (filter mode) simply hangs up and does not run. I suspect more smail hacking is in order. Does anybody have a clue? Just a guess, but instead of local: from, local, inet, return_path, driver=pipe; user=root, cmd=/usr/bin/procmail -d $($user$) how about local: from, local, inet, return_path, driver=pipe; user=$user$, cmd=/usr/bin/procmail -d $($user$) otherwise will procmail really know whose recipie to run? -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mgetty auto-telnet ??
Kevin Traas wrote: I have a Digiboard Portserver II on my LAN that I currently have modems hanging off of. I've configured it so that any incoming terminal connections are automatically telnetted to another location. This works great; however, there are some *serious* performance problems associated with the Digiboard PSII. It is *contstantly* pausing - i.e. no traffic passes through it for anywhere from 5 to 45 seconds - then everything goes back to normal. Very, very strange! Anyway, I want to dump this $2000 box for a basic Debian GNU/Linux box running on a 486 and a 16port Bocaboard (which I've used and am *very* happy with). So, to get down to my question: Do you have any idea on how to setup mgetty to automatically telnet an incoming connection to another system. (i.e. anyone connecting to ttyS31 should be automatically telnetted to aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd.) Yes. mgetty will still prompt them for a login, but after that it will run telnet to the remote machine and as long as the remote telnetd supports the ENVIRON option the user will not have to type their login twice. You need to edit the file /etc/mgetty/login.config. This file controls what program is launched by getty (usually /bin/login). The first field in each (non-comment) line matches the user name and the use of '*' for a wildcard is allowed. Ordinarily there's a line at the end (the first matching line in the file is used) like this: * - - /bin/login @ Which means that any user logging in which doesn't match a previous entry will have /bin/login started for them. The '@' just passes the user name. You should replace this line with: * - - /usr/bin/telnet -8 -E -a -l @ target-machine Actually you may want to consider (for extra security) * nobody nobody /usr/bin/telnet -8 -E -a -l @ target-machine Since otherwise telnet will run as root (although -E prevents the telnet escape which would allow a user to run a program). -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mgetty auto-telnet ??
In your email to me, Jens B. Jorgensen, you wrote: Do you have any idea on how to setup mgetty to automatically telnet an incoming connection to another system. (i.e. anyone connecting to ttyS31 should be automatically telnetted to aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd.) Yes. mgetty will still prompt them for a login, but after that it will run telnet to the remote machine and as long as the remote telnetd supports the ENVIRON option the user will not have to type their login twice. You need to edit the file /etc/mgetty/login.config. This file controls what program is launched by getty (usually /bin/login). The first field in each (non-comment) line matches the user name and the use of '*' for a wildcard is allowed. Ordinarily there's a line at the end (the first matching line in the file is used) like this: * - - /bin/login @ Which means that any user logging in which doesn't match a previous entry will have /bin/login started for them. The '@' just passes the user name. You should replace this line with: * - - /usr/bin/telnet -8 -E -a -l @ target-machine Actually you may want to consider (for extra security) * nobody nobody /usr/bin/telnet -8 -E -a -l @ target-machine Since otherwise telnet will run as root (although -E prevents the telnet escape which would allow a user to run a program). This works as you state. However, he wants per port control to where ther telnet. I don't think this is possible. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Madness takes its toll... Please have exact change! ** 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: PPP Problems
Alex Monaghan wrote: This may be a FAQ, if so please point me to the right place. I have kernel 2.0.27 and could not make a PPP connection. I can dial and login to my ISP OK, but can't seem to get a PPP session. When I use my old Slackware 1.3.x PC on the same modem with the same setup I get a connection and a PPP session. The only difference I can see is when I cat /proc/net/(can't remember which one) on the Slakware one I get ppp0-15 as well as lo and eth0, on the Debian I get only eth0 and lo. I've applied the 2.0.28,2930 patches and re-compiled (making sure that ppp is included) but still the same result. When checking the logs I get the pppd startup messages as on Slackware, but get LCP a timeout message. If you're getting LCP timeout messages, then the problem is likely with your dial-script. What are you using to get the connection going? -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: kahnd
Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, May 07, 1997 at 08:49:14AM -0400, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: IP address) and UDP broadcast packets are *not* routed which means if 1.1.1.3 is trying to find 1.1.1.2 by name, it won't find it. The solution to this is to set up a WINS server--sorta like a DNS server. You can do this in Linux, you just need SAMBA (which it seems like you already have. The program is nmbd and you need to create a file which maps host names to IP addresses (and which looks like an /etc/hosts file) and 'nmbd -H your-lm-hosts-file' will then run the server. Then on your Win95 client go into TCP/IP settings and set 1.1.1.1 as a WINS server. If you've got '-proxyarp' being passed to pppd on your Linux box, you should be there. Hmmm. Interesting explanation, thanks. Does this explain one odd thing I see? I have a machine at home running Samba, as well as my own workstation (Win95/Linux). I have another machine running Samba, located at my ISP. I can access the machine at the ISP fine from Windows; I never had to set up an LMHOSTS for Win95 or anything. (All machines are in the same domain). But a friend has his own PC (Win95/NT), and wants to talk to this machine at the ISP too, and it doesn't work, even with LMHOSTS it seems. I really struggle with these problems. I've been learning this Winbloze networking stuff over the past few months (and I can't say it's been fun). If your friend is running NT, he might need to go to the networking properties, pick the 'WINS Address' tab (I'm assuming NT 4.0 here) and click the 'Enable DNS for Windows Resolution' but then again, I've run into some weird problems that don't seem to have a logical explanation where some Win95 boxes can't get to SAMBA servers over a dialup link and some can. This stuff seems to be a black art at best since as is typical with MS there is no documentation which goes deep enough to really tell you what's going on. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
XTACACSD
Hi, I´m trying to install xtacacds here, but I haven´t had any success. Everytime I try to authenticate a password, there´s an entry in the log file that says invalid password and that´s it. Anyone here using xtacacsd under Debian? Can I have your makefile/config? TIA, Marcelo Magallon Physics Department, U. of Costa Rica -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Need Help mounting CD-ROM's w/NFS
Greetings, I have a few IP based CD towers that I am mounting to a debian box. The mount is going fine, however the sub-directories that the mounts are listing are only available to root. I need to make these sub-directories exportable to another nfs mount, so I need to make the owner nobody. When I try to chown the directory to nobody it tells me that it is read-only and no changes happen. I unmount the CDS then chown the directory without any problems. However, when I remount the CDS it all goes back to root:root. The CDS are being mounted by listing them in fstab. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Anthony -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
keyboard config
Hi, I recently upgraded to 1.2.4. and now cannot get my keyboard to boot in the uk configuration. I've set the default to uk but it is ignored. Any help ? Best Rgds, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mgetty auto-telnet ??
Tim Sailer wrote: In your email to me, Jens B. Jorgensen, you wrote: Do you have any idea on how to setup mgetty to automatically telnet an incoming connection to another system. (i.e. anyone connecting to ttyS31 should be automatically telnetted to aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd.) Yes. mgetty will still prompt them for a login, but after that it will run telnet to the remote machine and as long as the remote telnetd supports the ENVIRON option the user will not have to type their login twice. You need to edit the file /etc/mgetty/login.config. This file controls what program is launched by getty (usually /bin/login). The first field in each (non-comment) line matches the user name and the use of '*' for a wildcard is allowed. Ordinarily there's a line at the end (the first matching line in the file is used) like this: * - - /bin/login @ Which means that any user logging in which doesn't match a previous entry will have /bin/login started for them. The '@' just passes the user name. You should replace this line with: * - - /usr/bin/telnet -8 -E -a -l @ target-machine Actually you may want to consider (for extra security) * nobody nobody /usr/bin/telnet -8 -E -a -l @ target-machine Since otherwise telnet will run as root (although -E prevents the telnet escape which would allow a user to run a program). This works as you state. However, he wants per port control to where ther telnet. I don't think this is possible. ^ Come on, we're talking about *Linux* here, not Winbloze95 or NT. No problema. Instead of * - - /usr/bin/telnet -8 -E -a -l @ target-machine You use * - - /etc/mytelnetshim.sh @ And here's what /etc/mytelnetshim.sh looks like: #!/bin/bash case `/usr/bin/tty` in /dev/ttyS0) exec /usr/bin/telnet -8 -E -a -l $1 target-machine-1;; /dev/ttyS1) exec /usr/bin/telnet -8 -E -a -l $1 target-machine-2;; /dev/ttyS2) exec /usr/bin/telnet -8 -E -a -l $1 target-machine-3;; /dev/ttyS3) exec /usr/bin/telnet -8 -E -a -l $1 target-machine-4;; /dev/ttyS4) exec /usr/bin/telnet -8 -E -a -l $1 target-machine-5;; esac Bada-bing, bada-boom. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
lprng and tty's
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have a problem making lprng work with a printer attached to a serial line. First I had to change the permission to root.lp, this was simple and sensible IMHO. But then it refuses to print, only sometimes the old needle printer spews out a few characters or a newline. I tried to fiddle with the :ty=: settings in /etc/printcap, but to no avail. Just cat file /dev/ttyS3 works just fine. This is the output of stty -a /dev/ttyS3: speed 9600 baud; rows 24; columns 80; line = 0; intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = undef; eol2 = undef; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0; - -parenb -parodd cs8 hupcl -cstopb cread clocal -crtscts - -ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff - -iuclc -ixany -imaxbel opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0 isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke I now print to /dev/null using a filter that cat's to /dev/ttyS3, but this is a bad workaround. Old lpr had no problems just specifying lp=/dev/ttyS3 What did I do wrong? Nils - -- \ /| Nils Rennebarth --* WINDOWS 42 *-- | Schillerstr. 61 / \| 37083 Göttingen | ++49-551-71626 Micro$oft's final answer | http://www.nus.de/~nils -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM3H7pVptA0IhBm0NAQGVdwMAnKWcJVmzMoxkZeh5i91BP1UGQrVopYrS ZjGX0l1TS+b8U4xOBDYJ/VxS2ZOTCbOZ9QuO/VfrcCM/t91TeQauE0dN202Fqpd8 i1HObHDnapKxD+nhB4ni9Ii/6UcBWhPu =Fq3V -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Samba help
I can mount my Linux server through a modem connection using mgetty. I am using NFS to mount a Novell file server. I am running Samba on all of my UNIX machines and can see all of them from remote access. I need to be able to mount and access a Win95 box from remote locations through remote access. I have tried smb_mount, with no luck. I also cannot see the mounted Novell partitions from remote. Has anyone done this before? If so, Please Help!! Thank you in advance, Andy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
closing the session the background process aren' t killed
I have noticed that since some time, when I close a session, if I have launched some programs in background, these programs aren' killed. What is the packages that has changed this? Is a kernel decision? ... I use [pre-2.1.37-5] kernel. PS. I think it' s a useful thing. Thanks in advance. Bye. Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] HomePage: http://www.imola.queen.it/user/arcangeli/ Debian Mirror: ftp://dida43.deis.unibo.it/pub/debian/ Debian GNU _ _ _ _ ( \ \__ __/( (/||\ /||\ /|( ) | ( ) ( | \ ( || ) ( |( \ / )| | | | | | | \ | || | | | \ (_) / | | | | | | | (\ \) || | | | ) _ ( | | | | | | | | \ || | | | / ( ) \ (_) | (/\___) (___| ) \ || (___) |( / \ ) _ (___/\___/|/)_)(___)|/ \|(_) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Netscape locked up console.
Last night I was running Netscape 3.01 Gold, looking at files on my local drive and the machine stopped responding to the keyboard and mouse buttons. The prockmeter was running, monitoring the ppp line to my ISP, it was running fine. When I telneted into the system and did ps -a and top, netscape was missing but was still being displayed as active on fvwm2. This happened once before quite a while back. The only thing that I could think to do was kill the pppd by unplugging the modem, letting it set for a while to flush as much of the casch as possoble then reset it. After this the system booted fine with the exception of complaining about the file system not being unmounted properly. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Samba help
Andy Scott wrote: I can mount my Linux server through a modem connection using mgetty. I am using NFS to mount a Novell file server. I am running Samba on all of my UNIX machines and can see all of them from remote access. I need to be able to mount and access a Win95 box from remote locations through remote access. I have tried smb_mount, with no luck. I also cannot see the mounted Novell partitions from remote. Has anyone done this before? If so, Please Help!! smb_mount will work (if anything will). Post the error messages that smb_mount is printing when you try to run it. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mirroring debian
greetings. could someone email me their mirror configuration files for mirroring the debian site? i've got the 1.2.4 CD from cheapbytes but would like to mirror bo. i'm on a different system at the moment and cannot check example configurations. many thanks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape locked up console.
Chris == Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chris Last night I was running Netscape 3.01 Gold, looking Chris at files on my local drive and the machine stopped Chris responding to the keyboard and mouse buttons. Do you have your window manager configured to auto-raise on focus? I've had netscape raise itself over the top of menus that had the server grabbed before. It totally locks you out then. It was when I had a LogiTech mouse that had a middle button wired to do a double-click instead of a real middle button. I had emulate three buttons set... I couldn't drag with the middle button, like in TkDesk, because it would stutter. Without stay-up menus, it was very hard to use. I had to make a wishlet that let me toggle the far and middle buttons (buttonswapper). Several times, I'd use the middle button to raise a menu in netscape, and have the wm raise netscape above the menu, causing a lockup. -- Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.1.36 AMD K5 PR-133 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mirroring debian
In your email to me, Ryan Shaw, you wrote: greetings. could someone email me their mirror configuration files for mirroring the debian site? i've got the 1.2.4 CD from cheapbytes but would like to mirror bo. i'm on a different system at the moment and cannot check example configurations. Tack this onto the end of your existing mirror.defaults file: package=debian site=llug.sep.bnl.gov remote_dir=/pub/debian local_dir=/usr2/mirror/debian exclude_patt=(^|/)(\.mirror$|core$|\.cap|\.in\..*\.$|MIRROR\.LOG|#.*#|\.FSP|\.cache|\.zipped|\.notar|\.message|lost\+found/|Network Trash Folder|msdos) package=debian_non-us site=os.inf.tu-dresden.de remote_dir=/pub/debian-non-US local_dir=/usr2/mirror/debian/local exclude_patt=(^|/)(\.mirror$|core$|\.cap|\.in\..*\.$|MIRROR\.LOG|#.*#|\.FSP|\.cache|\.zipped|\.notar|\.message|lost\+found/|Network Trash Folder|msdos|source) Change the local_dir to suit your system, and run 'mirror' to do the dirty deed. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps What if there were no hypothetical situations? ** 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] .
Several stand-alone boxes
We are in the process of setting up several stand-alone intel boxes running debian linux. Have other users come up with good solutions to the following: 1. Maintaining uniform installations without nfs-mounting a common filesystem. We'd rather have redundant /usr filesystems than have our machines freeze after each hiccup on the net. Is there a way to turn the output of dpkg -l into a useable script for reproducing one machine's setup on another? 2. Distributing important /etc files without NIS. We'd rather not run NIS, and figure on using rdist+DNS instead. Has anyone made this work with the passwd program, or even with shadow passwords? We think that for a relatively small network NIS introduces too much confusion (vis-a-vis DNS) to be worthwhile. Danny Heap, UCSF, California St., Room 102, SF CA, 94118 [EMAIL PROTECTED], voice: (415) 476-8910, fax: (415) 476-1508 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: kfdialog.h
pattern before. I never knew it expanded the wild card before it searched. Gotta be the old DOS mentality. Actually, no. It is the *shell* that expands the wildcard on a unix-system. If you want to pass a wildcard to a program, you have to explicitly make it clear to the shell *not* to expand it by making a string. In old DOS, it is the program itself that does the globbing (I think thats what they call it there). 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] .
mail crasher
The attached mail is as forwarded to me by my ISP after it had crashed Netscape Mail several times. I called my ISP and had them cut this item out of my mail file (they use an NT server) after which my remaining mail came up OK. Prior to that, I'd tried to pull my mail four times. Each time I got the two items which preceded it, and then Netscape froze while trying to pull this in. It looks innocuous to me; does anyone else have a clue as to why this occurred?? TIA -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Someday soon I really MUST find a way to piss away a LOT of bandwidth on this .sig ---BeginMessage--- Received: from [205.229.104.5] by othello (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id rjw for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 7 May 1997 18:23:49 -0400 Received: (qmail 16547 invoked by uid 38); 7 May 1997 23:21:17 - Resent-Date: 7 May 1997 23:21:17 - Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 18:20:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Regina O'Rear [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: PPP Kernel Problems In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Resent-Message-ID: v4DUE.0.k04.gvGSp@debian Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Received: from [205.229.104.5] by othello (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id rjw for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 7 May 1997 18:45:24 -0400 Received: (qmail 18789 invoked by uid 38); 7 May 1997 23:42:45 - Resent-Date: 7 May 1997 23:42:45 - Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: Eric Nesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 17:43:15 -0500 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Eric Nesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mailing List Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Resent-Message-ID: kUIkd2.0.2b4.pDHSp@debian Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/4127 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is likely not the right address to be sending this to, but I'm not sure where else to send this to. My problem is pretty simple.. I need removed from the mailing list immediately. I tried to do this automatically from the website, but I received an error. I *MUST* cancel the mailing list from here because it's crashing my mail server due to the enormous amount of mail. I can pick this mailing list up on another server, however. So, for now, I'd really appreciate if I can be removed from the list, if possible? If this wasn't the correct address, could whoever gets this possibly send me back the address I should be mailing this to? Thanks a whole lot. I appreciate it. I am so very sorry for any inconvience this causes. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . ---End Message---
Re: postgres95 / libbsd.so
Yes, compilation was possible also with -ltermcap just commented out, but _maybe_ (I haven't done a serious test) that the server log file was not exactly the same as with -lncurses after the intense regress test (wasn't it bigger without -lncurses?). 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 Thu, 8 May 1997, Maarten Boekhold wrote: Rather than commenting out the -ltermcap, you could replace it with -lncurses, and it will link fine. Ncurses has termcap emulation. GREAT! Actually, I was wondering about that... good that you gave a look at the diff file, thank you! Ah, at my system this was resolved automagically because somewhere in the Makefile.global (I think) -lncurses was added somewhere. 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: Several stand-alone boxes
On Thu, 8 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are in the process of setting up several stand-alone intel boxes running debian linux. Have other users come up with good solutions to the following: 1.Maintaining uniform installations without nfs-mounting a common filesystem. We'd rather have redundant /usr filesystems than have our machines freeze after each hiccup on the net. Is there a way to turn the output of dpkg -l into a useable script for reproducing one machine's setup on another? Try dpkg --set-selections to create the file and dpkg --get-selections on the new machine. 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: Several stand-alone boxes
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Thu, 8 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Maintaining uniform installations without nfs-mounting a common filesystem. We'd rather have redundant /usr filesystems than have our machines freeze after each hiccup on the net. Is there a way to turn the output of dpkg -l into a useable script for reproducing one machine's setup on another? Try dpkg --set-selections to create the file and dpkg --get-selections on the new machine. I believe it's the other way around... -brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://weber.u.washington.edu/~maximill -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
NIS netgroups in /etc/exports
I can't get nfsd and mountd to allow NIS netgroups in the /etc/exports file. I can list the hosts explicitly and it works fine. Also, NIS works fine in all other aspects. Both hosts can ypmatch the netgroup in question as well, and I even tried listing the hosts in question in /etc/hosts, but to no avail. The NFS Server is a 486-debian box, and some of the clients will also be debian boxes, and some will be SunOS and BSDI3.0 as well. What am I missing here. -- Kevin Hilman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sysadmin - Image Computing Systems Lab - U of Washington PGP public key at http://icsl.ee.washington.edu/~khilman/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NIS netgroups in /etc/exports (Solved)
KH == Kevin Hilman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KH I can't get nfsd and mountd to allow NIS netgroups in the KH /etc/exports file. I can list the hosts explicitly and it works KH fine. Also, NIS works fine in all other aspects. I figured out the problem. When mountd looks up the IP address of the client, it comes back with the FQDN (i.e hostname.ee.washington.edu). In the netgroup, the hosts are just listed by hostname only (no trailing .ee.washington.edu). Is it proper or common or more secure to list the FQDN in netgroups? -- Kevin Hilman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sysadmin - Image Computing Systems Lab - U of Washington PGP public key at http://icsl.ee.washington.edu/~khilman/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
