Re: A problem compiling Qpopper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote: I can't compile qpopper because it asks a library called *lshadow*. With this, qpopper could recognize shadow passwords (and that's what I want). The debian compiled qpopper can do this, so they have this lib. Where do I find this lib? Is this lib in some package that I can install? Shadow is built into the C library under linux, simply tell it that you have shadow passwords and remove the -lshadow definition from the makefile. - -- |The mark of your ignorance is the depth of Scott K. Ellis| your belief in injustice and tragedy. [EMAIL PROTECTED]| What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, | the master calls a butterfly. | -- Illusions -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNBXTraCk2fENdzpVAQGe5QQArck4eurD+wE1b1zINcBf8E/AJwXgFRL5 TE4eqWrwDElQ/MP2W1irowAzZmFEftCkOm1TuUjb70yGgMHM39yhizTVFtNDM+0X O/VaWUt677hGKEQnoCNNsvIdpsrQolSnqWcIa35KN96yaJJF6CVOMKr3LtR4jdil AtNj0HcuZ/8= =wSiG -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
Right now, my personal system has a Micropolis Stinger (5400rpm 4.3GB, Ultra SCSI), and hasn't had any problems. The drive is a bit noisy, but seems to be very solid. I've never had any real problems with Quantum drives, but I can say to stay away from any form of Conner/Seagate/Western Digital drives. The failure rates are *horrible*. I've also heard many good things about the recent IBM drives. Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fixing Unix is easier than living with NT. --Larry McVoy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re.: RE: uuencode/uudecode?
Thanks for the pointer. Looks like I overlooked at least one package. Also, thanks for the lesson in shell syntax. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
Unfortunately, my experience is somewhat different -- I've had a Quantum Grand Prix 4.3GB die on me (dead spindle) after 10 months (and my office had 4 other identical models die with dead spindles and data errors); a micropolis 1GB ages ago die after 18 months (another dead spindle), and I've known of WD quality control problems (caviar 1.6GB wrong cleaning fluid recall...) I'm using a Seagate 2GB 5400rpm now... hopefully a slow drive won't run too hot and kill the bearings... I think if you keep a drive cool it'll have a better chance at longevity. If reliability is your primary objective, rather than cost, buy two drives and mirror them. There's really no other alternative that will drastically reduce your risk of hardware failure. If you've really got money to burn, run them on a RAID controller too -- hardware RAID offers performance far better than software mirroring. TL On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Simon Karpen wrote: From: Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 19:26:56 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive Right now, my personal system has a Micropolis Stinger (5400rpm 4.3GB, Ultra SCSI), and hasn't had any problems. The drive is a bit noisy, but seems to be very solid. I've never had any real problems with Quantum drives, but I can say to stay away from any form of Conner/Seagate/Western Digital drives. The failure rates are *horrible*. I've also heard many good things about the recent IBM drives. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problem with libc5 and Motif
hi, maybe i better should sleep, but i did this: i have debian 1.3.1 on my working system, and a older , non-debian system with Motif 2.0 . So i cp'd all Motif files to the working one. But there is one problem: ven# gimp gimp: can't resolve symbol '__ctype_get_mb_cur_max' ven# /usr/bin/nm /oldsys/lib/libc.so.5.0.9|grep __ctype_get_mb_cur_max nothing :( ven# /usr/bin/nm /oldsys/lib/libc.so.5.4.4|grep __ctype_get_mb_cur_max 00033680 T __ctype_get_mb_cur_max ven# /usr/bin/nm /lib/libc.so.5.4.33 |grep __ctype_get_mb_cur_max /lib/libc.so.5.4.33: no symbols what does this say ? ven# /usr/bin/file /lib/libc.so.5.4.33 /lib/libc.so.5.4.33: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 386, version 1, stripped ven# /usr/bin/nm /lib/libc.so.6 /lib/libc.so.6: no symbols same so what to do ? simple thing, just for test i rm'd the link of libc.so.5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Sep 10 01:00 /lib/libc.so.5 - libc.so.5.4.33 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 573176 Jun 12 04:05 /lib/libc.so.5.4.33 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 719963 Sep 10 00:28 /lib/libc.so.5.4.4 hm...hmjmmm life isn't worth anything without libc.so.5 ;)) sync worked, no reboot, shutdown nothing So i made the link from the old system, result: motif works, but things like tcsh won't . So, what to do ? Jens Jens Kerle e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://venus.rz.fh-heilbronn.de/~jkerle/ IRC: nick mars in #hp48 FTP: ftp://ftp.fh-heilbronn.de/pub/system/hp48 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
Terrence Brannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We would like a SCSI 4GB hard disk to connect to our PC running Debian Linux 1.3. We may occassionally want to connect it to our Alpha's running Redhat Alpha 4.0. We want reliability first. Then cost second. I've had really good luck with the latest Seaagte Barracudas. They're very fast, but quite expensive. I've also heard that their cheaper drives might be troublesome. IBM also apparently has some really good drives now. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Xemacs and cperl-mode
I have recently been trying to edit some perl scripts using xemacs, so I tried using the cperl-mode instead of perl-mode. I set the autoload and auto-mode-alist as recommended in the cperl-mode.el file and then re-started xemacs. It appears that I still get perl-mode, but I am not sure how to tell which I am actually using. I tried printing out some of the values of the variables mentioned in the cperl-mode file, but none of them are present. On the other hand I can print out the perl-mode variables mentioned in the perl-mode file. I am running the xemacs package 19.14-1 from the stable tree of Debian 1.3.1. The following are the relevant lines from my ~/.emacs file: (autoload 'perl-mode cperl-mode alternate mode for editing Perl programs t) (setq cperl-hairy t) (setq auto-mode-alist (append '((\\.[pP][Llm]$ . perl-mode)) auto-mode-alist )) (setq interpreter-mode-alist (append interpreter-mode-alist '((miniperl . perl-mode I would appreciate any tips on what I am doing wrong, and how to get to cperl-mode. -- Carl Johnson[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
cdrom
Hi: I first time try Linux. After install base system and boot up, I use dselect to set package. Although the cdrom is installed succefully during driver disk, the dselect ask me following: Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name [/dev/cdrom]: What is the block device name I should enter? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: cdrom
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Tao Lu wrote: I first time try Linux. After install base system and boot up, I use dselect to set package. Although the cdrom is installed succefully during driver disk, the dselect ask me following: Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name [/dev/cdrom]: What is the block device name I should enter? This depends upon what kind of CD-ROM drive you have. If it's SCSI, it's probably /dev/scd0. If it's ATAPI, it's probably /dev/hdb or /dev/hdc. If it's a proprietary CD-ROM protocol, try 'ls /dev/*cd*' to see all the possibilities -- choose the right block device for your drive. TL -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: netbook and diskless workstations
Is it possible to use netboot to boot these machines from floppy to run off of one of the debian machines? I don't know about netboot - but the nfsroot package does this. Pretty slick. :-) Cheers, - Jim pgpIx7sU3NN5U.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: cdrom
Hi: I first time try Linux. After install base system and boot up, I use dselect to set package. Although the cdrom is installed succefully during driver disk, the dselect ask me following: Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name [/dev/cdrom]: What is the block device name I should enter? Depends on what (and where) your CD ROM is. If you have an ATAPI CD-ROM (most common), it might be installed as /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc, or /dev/hdd. There are other possibilities - one of my machines has a Goldstar CD attached to a Reveal sound card - that's /dev/gscd. You might want to symlink the real device name to /dev/cdrom ie. ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom Cheers, - Jim pgpNYJG5lwofM.pgp Description: PGP signature
looking for opinions on scsi adapter cards
hello, i am looking to build my own computer system and i think scsi is the best way to go for pure performance. so iwas wondering about what the members here like? allan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: cdrom
On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 07:41:00PM +0100, Tao Lu wrote: Hi: I first time try Linux. After install base system and boot up, I use dselect to set package. Although the cdrom is installed succefully during driver disk, the dselect ask me following: Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name [/dev/cdrom]: What is the block device name I should enter? The easiest way to find out is with te use of 'dmesg'. it shows all the boot up messages. pipe it to more to be able to scroll thru. dmesg | more -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- - Mike Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.bend-or.com/~mschmitz Don't blame me - I voted libertarian!http://www.lp.org/ Use Debian Linux - the free Gnu/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
How to set up packages?
Hi, After I set up base system, how can I set up packages like X window and others ? By the way, the cd -rom problem has been fixed by enter /dev/hdd. But, I still do not know how to access cd - rom. What is the command ? (I try some unix command, would not work) Thanks folks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
File permissions for /var
While configuring my system recently, I managed to make my entire /var and subdirectories owned by root. Does anybody know the easiest way to fix this? Is there a list available of what the ownerships and file permissions for a standard distribution should look like? (I know the Contents files on the ftp site list which packages all the files should belong to, but I don't think they say who should own what - or do they?) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How to set up packages?
Tao Lu wrote: Hi, After I set up base system, how can I set up packages like X window and others ? By the way, the cd -rom problem has been fixed by enter /dev/hdd. But, I still do not know how to access cd - rom. What is the command ? (I try some unix command, would not work) Thanks folks Actually, I have load all the binary CD, the problem is how to access this cd rom to set up those packages ? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Starting X in 16 bpp ?
I created the file /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc and it is a text file saying X -bpp 16 and it works, and I think this came from the XFree86 documentation, so perhaps it isn't the debian way of doing things, which is what you asked for, Binary Bar - Australia's first free access internet bar/cafe/gallery. 243 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia. 12:00pm - 11:00pm http://www.binary.net.au On Tue, 9 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 9, Ricardo Muggli wrote What is the debian whay of starting X in 16 bpp? I can do this: startx -- -bpp 16 but I would like to be able to do just startx. Any information as to what file(s) I need to modify would be greatly appreciated. Put DefaultColorDepth 16 in Section Screen of /etc/X11/XF86Config . 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] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XFree86 and Threads...
On Sep 9, 1997, at 11:30, Rob Browning wrote: Dale Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was just curious - since libc6 is thread safe, and GUIs seem to be something that can be naturally multithreaded, is XFree86 multithreaded under Linux? (or any other system, for that matter?) Now that xlib6g and xlib6g-dev have been released (thanks Mark), the answer should be yes, but I haven't tried it yet. Note that you need to be running unstable, and you have to complile all your code with -D_REENTRANT. There's information about X and threads in the book Programmers Supplement for Release 6, another one of those X books. From what I understand, just recompiling X won't give you anything. You would have to rewrite parts of it (probably very big chunks...) to be able to actually run the server in multiple threads. Rob -- Gonzalo A. Diethelm G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Afterstep sounds
I notice that afterstep_1.0-1.deb only contains some of the sound files referenced in system.steprc. Is there a site which contains the rest? Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How to set up packages?
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Tao Lu wrote: Tao Lu wrote: Hi, After I set up base system, how can I set up packages like X window and others ? By the way, the cd -rom problem has been fixed by enter /dev/hdd. But, I still do not know how to access cd - rom. What is the command ? (I try some unix command, would not work) Thanks folks Actually, I have load all the binary CD, the problem is how to access this cd rom to set up those packages ? The first option on the dselect menu is [A]ccess. Select that, select cdrom and answer the questions which follow. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How to set up packages?
Bob Nielsen wrote: On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Tao Lu wrote: Tao Lu wrote: Hi, After I set up base system, how can I set up packages like X window and others ? By the way, the cd -rom problem has been fixed by enter /dev/hdd. But, I still do not know how to access cd - rom. What is the command ? (I try some unix command, would not work) Thanks folks Actually, I have load all the binary CD, the problem is how to access this cd rom to set up those packages ? The first option on the dselect menu is [A]ccess. Select that, select cdrom and answer the questions which follow. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen Hi: Yes, I did. I type /dev/hdd when it ask the name of cd rom block name. After certain questions, it jump to the update. I am sure that I have already install successfully under the rescue disk ( I mean base system) . But things look like strange. I still can not access cd rom. How can I make sure the ATAPI cd rom is mounted ? Tao Lu -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XFree86 and Threads...
Dale == Dale Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dale I was just curious - since libc6 is thread safe, and GUIs Dale seem to be something that can be naturally multithreaded, Dale is XFree86 multithreaded under Linux? (or any other system, Dale for that matter?) Dale I'm about to get a second PPro for my box at home, and I Dale already have SMP at work, so the prospect of a multithreaded Dale X is quite interesting to me. I'm interested too, though it will be a year or so before I can help with any code... ;-) The sources and some documentation for a multi-threaded X-Lib are available for ftp at: ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/mt-xlib/ ... It sure would be a good thing to have! -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.3.1+hamm Linux pre-2.0.31-9+select 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: Xemacs wont run under SU: `super' will solve your problem.
`super' is a great way to solve this problem. I have this in my /etc/super.tab file: xemacs /root/start-xemacs :staff @localhost @bittersweet.inetarena.com \ setenv=DISPLAY=unix:0 \ setenv=PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/lib/texmf/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games \ password=n \ uid=root gid=root\ info=XEmacs editor as 'root' ... and now I can start an XEmacs that has full root priveledges with: $ super xemacs ... It also works from a window manager or TkDesk menu button. I have found that the syntax of `super's configuration file is *much* easier to understand and use than that of `sudo'. It seems fairly secure as well. You might like to give it a try. -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.3.1 Linux 2.0.30+parport 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: New Login
Jason == Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jason Hi, Does anyone know how to make the login program in bo Jason disable echo sooner? Look at /etc/login.defs. You want to lower the FAIL_DELAY, I think. -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.3.1+hamm Linux pre-2.0.31-9+select 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: Auto Responder
Tony == Tony Koehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tony Does anyone know where I can find or how I go about getting Tony an Auto Responder on a Debian Linux Box? Get `procmail', `smartlist' and the `procmail-lib' packages. If you've got a little shell programming experience, you'll be able to piece together what you want from those with a few days of study. If you use `sendmail', you should make `procmail' your local mailer. I've got a technical support system set up that will autoreply to folks who send mail to it, but only once per day. It sends them a note telling them that support staff will reply within 24hrs. I did it with `smartlist', just to learn how. It's not being used by anyone right now; I don't have a job---I just study. If you are interested enough, and need something like this for your ISP or business, let me know. I can always use a few extra book dollars or a couple of cheeseburgers. ;-) I'm sure I could find the time. You can try the list by sending mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... note that bittersweet isn't on the net 24 hours a day, so it might sit in your out Q for a while. In the normal case, the response would be immediate, of course. Uhhmmm... If you send mail to it, and *dont* get an autoreply, let me know. It may need further debugging. :-) -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.3.1+hamm Linux pre-2.0.31-9+select 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: SCSI Host Adapter (+ Re: 2 CPU servers)
F == F Potorti Francesco writes: F I am resending this, this time to the mailing list. I suspect F that the list-group gateway is not bidirectional, is that true? F [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Noxon) writes: F If you think going buslogic, the following are very recommended F readings: http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/Quantum.html F http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/BusLogic.html I noticed that there is not a Debian GNU/Linux rescue disk set available on that page. Shouldn't that be remedied? -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.3.1+hamm Linux pre-2.0.31-9+select 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: Building Debian Packages
Using some of the information that has been recently submitted I was able to create my first Debian package. While the info was enough to the job done, I had several questions and made many errors along the way before I was able to determine the proper procedures. I thought that I could make a helpful document for other new developers, so before I forgot what it was I wanted to know as a first time installer, I made the document up. I would appreciate any constructive criticism, or note if it is useful and should be contributed to Debian doc program. You can find it at www.prairienet.org/~blunier/homepage.html Mark W. Blunier [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: magicfilter and Stylus 600
On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Britton wrote: If anyone has the Epson Stylus Color 600 working with magicfilter, I would love to hear what you did. I did plain vanilla installation of gs, magicfilter, and magicfilterconfig, but I can't ever print plain text. It just scoots the paper back and forth for a while, sticks it in the middle, and then the power light keeps blinking forever (supposedly indicating data is being sent to the printer, even though lpq shows 'no entries'. I am successfully using the Stylus Color 600 with magicfilter. I am using Aladdin Ghostscript from non-free if that makes any difference. Here's the relevent section from my /etc/printcap: lp|st600|stylus600|Epson Stylus Color 600:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/stylus600:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/usr/sbin/stcolor-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: and I modified the LQ series filter to get /usr/sbin/stcolor-filter by changing the arguments for gs in the postscript section to: -dMAGSTEP=0.5 -dMicroWeave -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=stcolor -sOutputFile=- /usr/lib/ghostscript/4.03/stcolor.ps- As far as I can remember, this was all that it took. Dave Thayer Denver, Colorado USA [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: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997 19:41:28 -0400 (EDT), Tommy Lakofski wrote: Unfortunately, my experience is somewhat different -- I've had a Quantum Grand Prix 4.3GB die on me (dead spindle) after 10 months (and my office The Grand Prix was a well know peice of shit, and is no longer made. They replaced it with their Atlas line of drives which (the atlas II especially) have ran very very well. - http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214 http://www.psychosis.com/linux-router/ Linux Router Project -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ftp upgrade problem
Thanks W Paul and other people responded my e-mail. After loading ip_masq_ftp.o module to my gateway machine, ftp from the server woked fine. That was exactly my problem of not loading the module during boot time. Thanks again. Jimmy On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, W Paul Mills wrote: On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Jimmy Lu wrote: I have a similar problem on one of mey machine. I have two Linux machines networked. The strange thing is that my gateway machine works fine but not for the other one. When I try to ftp from that machine, I can log to the ftp site but when I do ls, it just waits forever. ^^ Are you using ip-masquerading? If so are you loading the ip_masq_ftp module on your gateway machine? : http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ -: : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Linux: Tomorrow's operating system, : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] :here, today. : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : compuserve 70023,1750 : #define MY_TRUE_LOVE computer: :-- http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ -: -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
problem with gpc
dear all,
i trying to use gpc to test my programs as i write them for a
programming class i am taking. anyways, i tried to compile my first
dinky little program and i get this error:
ld: cannot open -lgpc: No such file or directory
i am sure that it is not a problem in the program because it compiles
under gpc on another linux system (non-debian) and it compiles on our
campus VMS. it also looks to me to be a more system related problem.
what's up? (please help me!)
confused,
paul j. thompson
p.s. for good measure, here's the program:
PROGRAM LAB3 (INPUT,OUTPUT);
(* Paul J. Thompson*)
(* September 9, 1997 *)
(* CS2113 *)
(* Lab Section 1 *)
CONST
PRICE = 3;
VAR
ITEMS,
TOTALITEMS,
COST : INTEGER;
BEGIN
TOTALITEMS := 0;
WHILE NOT EOF DO
BEGIN
READLN(ITEMS);
TOTALITEMS := TOTALITEMS + ITEMS;
COST := ITEMS * PRICE;
WRITELN(ITEMS:3,' ITEMS COST $',COST:3);
END;
WRITELN;
WRITELN('TOTAL ITEMS SOLD = ',TOTALITEMS:3);
END.
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Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
On 09 Sep 1997 15:07:41 -0700, Terrence Brannon wrote: The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted as well. We would like a SCSI 4GB hard disk to connect to our PC running Debian Linux 1.3. We may occassionally want to connect it to our Alpha's running Redhat Alpha 4.0. I've been using Quantums in everything I built in the last year or so. They have been running 100%. They seem to run a good deal cooler then other manufactures in the same class (IE an Atlas runs much cooler the a Seagate 'Cuda ) The other reason I've been using Quantum is the Warranty turn around. When my 2G 'Cuda died on me it was about 3 weeks before I got a new drive back from Seagate. Quantum has something like a 2 day turn. We want reliability first. Then cost second. Get a DPT HBA and run RAID 6 (0+1). Get 6 2G Fireball ST drives. Nominal capacity is 6GB, super redundant, and will blow the doors of a 10,000RPM cheetah. This is the extreme...some simplier RAID solutions should also work well for you. Gimme a call if you need someone to build it (a plug never hurts, right : ) - http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214 http://www.psychosis.com/linux-router/ Linux Router Project -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: www.linuxhq.com
On Mon, 8 Sep 1997 20:31:49 +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: On Sep 08, Nils Rennebarth wrote On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: does anyone know what's happened to www.linuxhq.com? It appears to have moved to www.ecsnet.com, at least this is what altavista says. It's ping'able but http connections are refused for now. Don't know what's up there. It used to be at www.ecsnet.com before moving to www.linuxhq.com. Someone on the kernel mailing lists did a bit of investigation and it seems that ecsnet's nameservers are a bit messed up (the pages are still hosted there, they are just under a different name). My favourite WWW page, unaccessable :-( Anyone have an IP to access it with? - http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214 http://www.psychosis.com/linux-router/ Linux Router Project -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Installing qmail in /usr/local
Hi, I want to try out qmail. I found a qmail.deb package in the experimental section, but it depends on libc6 and as people still seem to be having problems with that, I'm not ready to upgrade. So I'll install it myself, but I don't want to mess up my beautifully upgradable debian 1.3.1 system, so I want to put qmail in /usr/local. By default, qmail want to go in /var/qmail. Should I make a /usr/local/var/qmail? I don't have a /usr/local/var already. david.. Binary Bar - Australia's first free access internet bar/cafe/gallery. 243 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia. 12:00pm - 11:00pm http://www.binary.net.au -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: problem with gpc
Ok. Last call for a maintainer for gpc. Almost a year ago someone else
took it over and nothing was done. I am going to remove the package since
it will be included in future egcs releases anyways if no one is willing
to maintain the package.
The fix for the bug is described in the bug archives for the package.
On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Paul J. Thompson wrote:
dear all,
i trying to use gpc to test my programs as i write them for a
programming class i am taking. anyways, i tried to compile my first
dinky little program and i get this error:
ld: cannot open -lgpc: No such file or directory
i am sure that it is not a problem in the program because it compiles
under gpc on another linux system (non-debian) and it compiles on our
campus VMS. it also looks to me to be a more system related problem.
what's up? (please help me!)
confused,
paul j. thompson
p.s. for good measure, here's the program:
PROGRAM LAB3 (INPUT,OUTPUT);
(* Paul J. Thompson*)
(* September 9, 1997 *)
(* CS2113 *)
(* Lab Section 1 *)
CONST
PRICE = 3;
VAR
ITEMS,
TOTALITEMS,
COST : INTEGER;
BEGIN
TOTALITEMS := 0;
WHILE NOT EOF DO
BEGIN
READLN(ITEMS);
TOTALITEMS := TOTALITEMS + ITEMS;
COST := ITEMS * PRICE;
WRITELN(ITEMS:3,' ITEMS COST $',COST:3);
END;
WRITELN;
WRITELN('TOTAL ITEMS SOLD = ',TOTALITEMS:3);
END.
--- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ ---
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Re: www.linuxhq.com
Unfortunately, the site is gone. The following is the story I got from a Deja News search: --- begin -- LinuxHQ has been my little pet project for over a year, and it has been a very enjoyable venture. Recently, the company I work for bought another company in California (I'm in Texas). I now spend about 75% of my time traveling and it is simply impossible for me to keep the site updated with the rapid changes that take place with Linux development. I tried for a few weeks to pull it off, but between long distance phone calls into my system and not having any access, it simply didn't work. I've received several emails (hundreds) asking why the site was so out of date, many were asking politely but most were more angry that I hadn't kept up the system. I've tried many times to recruit some help, but it has never panned out. So, In light of the fact that I am no longer in a position to maintain the site and it was also costing me a little over $350 per month to maintain the connection and ISDN line, I decided it was time to shut it down. If I couldn't do it right, I didn't see any reason in doing it at all. I'm leaving again for two more weeks later today and won't have access to email for that time. I hope that folks will understand why it had to come to an end and hopefully someday I'll be able to provide a little bit back to the Linux community again. BTW, the domain linuxhq.com will be removed as well, if someone else wants to try and pickup where I left off, the domain should be available in a few days thru internic. Thank you for your query, I hope I've answered your questions to your satisfaction. I'll miss the interaction I had with all the Linux users and developers, I have certainly gained much from the experience and hope that I've been able to help others along the way. Good Luck! -- Mark Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] end -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: why insmod so active?
Eugene, I have not seen any answers to your question, which may mean that no one knows. Your command is unusual:- /sbin/insmod -k -s /lib/modules/2.0.30/misc/lp.o lp insmod -k -s lp would be the usual way of loading lp. The actual device could be /dev/lp0 or /dev/lp1 so be prepared to try both and adjust /etc/printcap if necessary. Run depmod -a and try insmod again. If the present behaviour persists I can only suggest that you run strace on it. strace insmod -k -s lp Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 2486modem +61 8 9364-9832 32S, 116E =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Eugene Sevinian wrote: I noticed that insmod spends a lot of CPU time. There were no such things before . I'm using 2.0.30 kernel with 1.3.0 Debian. Here is the 1st string of top's output: root 190 89.0 1.4 0 848 324 236 ? R 5:15 /sbin/insmod -k -s /lib/modules/2.0.30/misc/lp.o lp Is there any idea? Thanks in advance. Eugene Sevinian Cosmic Ray Division Yerevan Phisics Institute Alikhanian's Brothers str.2 375036 Yerevan 36 Armenia URL: http://www.yerphi.am/crd/prs/sevinian.html Phone: 374-2-352041 (YerPhI), 374-2-344873 (aprt.) Fax: 374-2-350030 -- 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: Printer Advice: HP 870C or Epson Stylus 800
On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Civ Kevin F. Havener wrote: I'm contemplating buying one of the two subject printers. Has anyone out there used either of these two printers under Linux? Easy to use under Linux is the key criteria. Color printing is nice to have but most of my important printing needs are black and white. Will use ghostscript. Epson has optional postscript. Anyone know what this is? Appears to be software (like ghostscript) that emulates postscript. Is it OS dependent as I suspect (resides on my computer) or is it actually installed into the printer? I have a EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 at home, and it is just *wonderful*! ^_^ I love it! And the EPSON Stylus COLOR 800 is even better, faster, and prettier! ^_^ I highly recommend EPSON Stylus COLOR 800! ^_^ (BTW, EPSON Stylus 800 without the word COLOR was an old black and white version. Don't get them mixed up. ^_^) Ghostscript 4.03 and 5.0x both work well with EPSON Stylus COLOR 800. In Ghostscript 5.0x, it supports 1440x720dpi printing too. The print quality is excellent under both Windows 95 and Debian GNU/Linux. Colour is really nice too! ^_^ Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: magicfilter and Stylus 600
Hello Britton! ^_^
On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Britton wrote:
If anyone has the Epson Stylus Color 600 working with magicfilter, I would
love to hear what you did. I did plain vanilla installation of gs,
magicfilter, and magicfilterconfig, but I can't ever print plain text. It
just scoots the paper back and forth for a while, sticks it in the middle,
and then the power light keeps blinking forever (supposedly indicating
data is being sent to the printer, even though lpq shows 'no entries'.
I have an EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 working perfectly with Debian GNU/Linux,
magicfilter, Ghostscript 4.03/5.0x and lprng. ^_^
Hmm... Which printer driver did you choose with magicfilter? There is no
specific configuration for EPSON Stylus COLOR printers in magicfilter
(yet). I guess you can pick something like epsonlpc, and then make the
changes.
Okay, let's begin. ^_^
I have several entries in my /etc/printcap file, for different
resolutions. ^_^ For examples, I have the following entries in my
/etc/printcap file:
lp|lp360|ij|epscfh|epsc500|EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 (360 dpi):\
:lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epsc500:\
:sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
:if=/usr/sbin/epsonsc500-filter:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
lp180|ij180|epscfhlo|epsc500_180|EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 (180 dpi):\
:lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epsc500:\
:sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
:if=/usr/sbin/epsonsc500-filter_180:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
lp720|ij720|epscfhhi|epsc500_720|EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 (720 dpi):\
:lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epsc500:\
:sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
:if=/usr/sbin/epsonsc500-filter_720:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
Feel free to adapt it to your tasting. ^_^
For my epsonsc500-filter* files, I think I just took the
/usr/sbin/epsonlqc-filter file, copied to epsonsc500-filter, then edit the
settings. For example, I have changed the first few lines to:
# PostScript
0 %! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r360x360
-sDEVICE=stcolor \
-dColorAdjustMatrix={1.0 0.0 0.0 0.8 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.8
-0.5 -0.5 -0.5 1.0} \
-sDithering=fscmyk -sOutputFile=- stc500pl.ps -
0 \004%! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r360x360
-sDEVICE=stcolor \
-dColorAdjustMatrix={1.0 0.0 0.0 0.8 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.8
-0.5 -0.5 -0.5 1.0} \
-sDithering=fscmyk -sOutputFile=- stc500pl.ps -
I also changed the resolution from 180 to 360. You may do something
similar for epsonsc500-filter_180 and epsonsc500-filter_720. (BTW, the
file names that I made up are not consistent and definitely non-standard.
Feel free to name them to your own tasting. ^_^
Note that the -dColorAdjustMatrix setting listed above is specifically
tailored for the SC500. For SC600, your colour printout might not look
very good with these settings. You might be able to find something on the
Internet. ^_^ Also, the file stc500pl.ps is, again, designed for SC500.
It might work well with SC600, but I am not sure. I will attached it in
another message. I hope it works. ^_^ Note that, however, the EPSON
Stylus printer driver in Ghostscript 4.03 only supports up to 720x720 dpi.
Better yet, use Ghostscript 5.02 (or the latest version) which comes with
uniprint which provides excellent support for SC600 and SC800, including
support for 1440x720dpi printing. It will be Debianized soon, but I guess
the package maintainer has been very busy and he experienced some problems
compiling the new Ghostscript with glibc 2 (libc6) and svgalib or
something like that? ^_^ (I forgot)
Anyway, please read /usr/doc/gs/devices.txt.gz for more information about
the EPSON Stylus printer driver in Ghostscript 4.03. ^_^
Hope this helps! ^_^
Anthony
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Re: Installing qmail in /usr/local
On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, David wrote: : I want to try out qmail. Nice choice ;) : I found a qmail.deb package in the experimental section, but it depends on : libc6 and as people still seem to be having problems with that, I'm not : ready to upgrade. : : So I'll install it myself, but I don't want to mess up my beautifully : upgradable debian 1.3.1 system, so I want to put qmail in /usr/local. : : By default, qmail want to go in /var/qmail. Should I make a : /usr/local/var/qmail? I don't have a /usr/local/var already. Uhm, most people say 'never put things that NEED to be writable anywhere else then /var'. So I suggest you still use /var/qmail. But.. I didn't try it, but I'm almost sure it WILL work in /usr/local/anything. Just make sure the permission are okay (as stated in qmail's INSTALL-file). Remco -- // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://oloon.student.utwente.nl //Never make any mistaeks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
bug: dpkg/dselect on latex
I'm afraid I don't know exactly to whom to report this problem. I hope I am in the right place. If not please advise as to the appropriate exterminator. I've recently installed Debian/Linux 1.1 on my Pentium 100, from the InfoMagic Linux Developer's Resource 6 CD set, Sept 1996 release. After having achieved a successful installation, I was dismayed to discover that the Debian setup was ENORMOUS compared to my previous Slackware 3.1 setup from the same CD. So big in fact that any attempt at the slightest of tasks was invariably thwarted by a device full error message. Setting out to discover what was taking up the 530 Mb of my Linux partition I discovered the file /usr/lib/texmf/ini/latex.log which was occupying a whopping 410,399,744 bytes of disk real estate. (At least I am fairly sure that ls -l in the Debian distribution is reporting bytes and not blocks or POSIX compliant whosit units that I do not readily understand. The number of characters reported by a :w save in a vi test file was the same as the size of this test file as reported by ls -l.) The greatly abbreviated contents of this file were: -- beginning of exerpt --- This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1) (INITEX) 2 SEP 1997 13:49 ** latex.initex (latex.initex (/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx (/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/config/texsys.cfg) ./texsys.aux found *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] set to: ./. *** *** Assuming \openin and \input have the same search path. *** *** Defining UNIX/DOS style filename parser. *** catcodes, registers \maxdimen=\dimen10 \hideskip=\skip10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] compatibility for TeX 2, parameters, \normalbaselineskip=\skip12 \normallineskip=\skip13 \normallineskiplimit=\dimen13 \interfootnotelinepenalty=\count23 \strutbox=\box11 ** * You are attempting to make a LaTeX format from a source file * That is more than one year old. * * If you enter return to scroll past this message then the format * will be built, but please consider obtaining newer source files * before continuing to build LaTeX. * * LaTeX is re-issued every 6 months June and December. ** !LaTeX source files more than 1 year old!. l.572 ...LaTeX source files more than 1 year old!} ? y Type return to proceed, S to scroll future error messages, R to run without stopping, Q to run quietly, I to insert something, E to edit your file, 1 or ... or 9 to ignore the next 1 to 9 tokens of input, H for help, X to quit ? y Type return to proceed, S to scroll future error messages, R to run without stopping, Q to run quietly, I to insert something, E to edit your file, 1 or ... or 9 to ignore thenext 1 to 9 tokens of input, H for help, X to quit ? y . . .. . . .. . . .. ? y Type return to proceed, S to scroll future error messages, R to run without stopping, Q to run quietly, I to insert something, E to edit your file, 1 or ... or 9 to ignore the next 1 to 9 tokens of input, to run without stopping, Q to run quietly, I to insert something , E to edit your file, 1 or ... or 9 to ignore the next 1 to 9 tokens of input, H for help, X to quit ? y . .. . . .. . . .. . ? y Type return to proceed, S to scroll future error messages, R to run without stopping, Q to run quietly, I to insert something, E to edit your file, 1 or ... or 9 to ignore the next 1 to 9 tokens of input, H fo --- End of excerpt I used grep on the file to see if there was anything aside from this repeating paragraph. There was nothing else. It appears that the LaTeX setup wanted a return, an S, R, Q, I, E, 1 through 9, an H or an X, but only ever got a y. I never saw any of this during the install. I don't know where the y came from. What I saw during install was a series of Setting up ... messages that lead up to : Setting up latex ... Building new latex format(s) using install-fmt-base(8) Rebuilding 'latex' format ... The process seemed to stall at this last message. I killed it with ^C after I don't know how long on one install attempt. On another I let it go for over twelve hours before pulling out the carpet from under. Another time I waited nearly three hours and
IP aliasing
Hi, I tried to steup an IP alias on a machine here. According to the Virtual-Web mini-HOWTO, I can do: ifconfig eth0 alias new-address However, ifconfig says 'alias' is not a hostname. 'man ifconfig' doesn't say anything about aliasing. This is with netbase 2.13-1. Anybody who can get me goin' on this? Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Error message from modprobe during boot with Debian 1.3.1
cleto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since I upgraded my Debian 1.2 system to Debian 1.3.1 I get the following message during the boot: modprobe: /proc/modules: No such file or directory Maybe /proc isn't getting loaded early enough; or the error message might be misleading. Some things changed with modules from 1.2 to 1.3, so make sure you upgraded all the packages, and see if any config files should have gotten upgraded but didn't -- look for *.dpkg-new files in /etc/init.d/ and /etc/rc.boot/. -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ kernel: Warning: possible SYN flooding. Sending cookies. kernel: validated probe(17f, 17f, 11557, 5010, -1645409555) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XFree86 and Threads...
Gonzalo A. Diethelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] From what I understand, just recompiling X won't give you anything. You would have to rewrite parts of it (probably very big chunks...) to be able to actually run the server in multiple threads. I think it should be possible to do this just a bit by using xfs to do the fonts. I don't think it should make much difference on the kind of machine that has more than one CPU anyway, beyond what the X server running on one CPU and the client on the other would give you. -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ kernel: Warning: possible SYN flooding. Sending cookies. kernel: validated probe(17f, 17f, 11557, 5010, -1645409555) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installing qmail in /usr/local
David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found a qmail.deb package in the experimental section, but it depends on libc6 and as people still seem to be having problems with that, I'm not ready to upgrade. Try just downloading the source package and compiling it. You should get a nice libc5 qmail Debian package. By default, qmail want to go in /var/qmail. Should I make a /usr/local/var/qmail? I don't have a /usr/local/var already. I seem to have a /var/local/. I can't remember if I made it myself though. -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ kernel: Warning: possible SYN flooding. Sending cookies. kernel: validated probe(17f, 17f, 11557, 5010, -1645409555) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bug: dpkg/dselect on latex
G. Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've recently installed Debian/Linux 1.1 on my Pentium 100, from the InfoMagic Linux Developer's Resource 6 CD set, Sept 1996 release. [snip] Setting out to discover what was taking up the 530 Mb of my Linux partition I discovered the file /usr/lib/texmf/ini/latex.log which was occupying a whopping 410,399,744 bytes of disk real estate. [snip] That's quite a big file. The TeX packages in Debian 1.1 were pulled and replaced with teTeX because (quoting from the preinst) these packages had serious problems. Can you afford the approx. US$5 + postage to order a pair of 1.3 CD's from Cheap Bytes or LSL? BTW, the Debian bug tracking system is at URL:http://www.debian.org/Bugs/. -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ kernel: Warning: possible SYN flooding. Sending cookies. kernel: validated probe(17f, 17f, 11557, 5010, -1645409555) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: IP aliasing
On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Maarten Boekhold wrote: : Hi, : : I tried to steup an IP alias on a machine here. According to the : Virtual-Web mini-HOWTO, I can do: : : ifconfig eth0 alias new-address : : However, ifconfig says 'alias' is not a hostname. 'man ifconfig' doesn't : say anything about aliasing. This is with netbase 2.13-1. Use 'ifconfig eth0:1 new-address' Remco -- // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://oloon.student.utwente.nl //Never make any mistaeks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: IP aliasing
Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Use 'ifconfig eth0:1 new-address' Right; then use eth0:2, then eth0:3 and so on for new virtual hosts. E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9431645 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Installing on a low memory notebook
Hi I'm trying to install debian gnu/linux 1.3.1 on a Packard Bell Statesman with 4MB of RAM. When I insert the debian rescue disk, it never loads the kernel, but only writes: boot: Loading Boot failed: change disks and press any key with a delay of only 4-5 seconds between Loading and Boot failed. I have tried booting from a Slackware bootdisk (of unknown origin) with root=/dev/fd0 option. Now when inserting the debian root disk (low memory version, lmroot.bin), I can start the setup, but when I get to installation of the OS kernel, it fails with an error about ./install.sh not available. I have tried the same bootdisk on a stationary PC, and it works perfectly. Any clues? --- Jeppe Buk, student of computer science Phone: +45 6557 2347 IMADA, Odense University Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Campusvej 55 WWW: http://www.imada.ou.dk/~buk/ DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark SMS (subject only): [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Software is like sex; it's better when it's free. (Linus Torvalds) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How to set up packages?
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Tao Lu wrote: By the way, the cd -rom problem has been fixed by enter /dev/hdd. But, I still do not know how to access cd - rom. What is the command ? (I try some unix command, would not work) cd / mkdir cdrom ; create a mountpoint if it does not yet exist mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /cdrom; mount the cdrom cd cdrom; you'll find the contents here ls -l umount /cdrom ; unmount before you eject the cd Better still, you can edit /etc/fstab and add an appropriate line to make life a little easier. Just look at the lines that are already there to get an idea of what you should add. 'man 5 fstab' is your friend btw. In the options field add `user', so you can mount the device as mortal user and `noauto' so linux doesn't try to mount a possibly empty cdrom tray at boot time. When you have done this, `mount /dcrom` will mount the cdrom. `cat /etc/mtab` shows what is mounted now, just like `mount` btw. Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: cdrom
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Tao Lu wrote: Hi: I first time try Linux. After install base system and boot up, I use dselect to set package. Although the cdrom is installed succefully during driver disk, the dselect ask me following: Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name [/dev/cdrom]: What is the block device name I should enter? You have gotten some very broad advice so far, so I thought I would try to simplify things for you. When you configured the modules (from the driver section), if you didn't already have the driver installed, you installed a driver for your CD-ROM. When this was done /dev/cdrom was linked to that driver. (Note that this was offered in the prompt above) You should be able to press enter and everything should work ok. If this doesn't work, you will need to determine which driver fits your drive (as others have indicated) and use that device instead. 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] .
question on network security
This is probably not the right forum for this question, but I am running on a Debian/GNU machine. If there is a better mailing list or news group for the question, please let me know. I am trying to setup my machine as a 'less open' in my corporate environment. I have started by having the entry 'ALL: ALL' in my hosts.deny file. Then I add individual entries in the hosts.allow file to gain access to my machine. This all works as planned. However, what I have found is a tremendous number of attempts to gain access to my machine that I was unaware of. Some of them are what I was trying to prevent (in less than a day, about 10 www attempts when I'm not even set up as an httpd server for example). But, the large majority of the attempts I don't know much about. Attempts at access via daemons ypserv, mountd, 34, and 300214 with most trying ypserv. These appear to be from SGIs and SUNs which are themselves running some type of network protocol which periodically probes the network. I would like to eliminate these problems, but don't know where to start. I can add back the problem machines to my hosts.allow file to remove the error messages from my log file. This confirms that they are the problems, but doesn't fix the problem. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008 | home e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I | U | | Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392 | world's best neutrons! | R | X | \--/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
root and .rhosts file
Hi I'm a student programmer at the Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Odense University in Denmark. I've installed Debian 1.2 on one of our PC's in the Unix network. This works great (not surprisingly). Now I've installed Debian 1.3.1 on another PC, and I can't get this new machine to accept root rsh requests from our primary server (running SunOS), or any other machine, for that matter. Both Debian machines have the same .rhosts file in the root homedir, but the 1.3.1 host gives permission denied replies. BTW: I'm not using shadow passwords on any of the systems. I'm lost, and if I don't solve the problem my system manager will not let me install Debian on new PCs in the department (Not Good!). --- Jeppe Buk, student of computer science Phone: +45 6557 2347 IMADA, Odense University Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Campusvej 55 WWW: http://www.imada.ou.dk/~buk/ DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark SMS (subject only): [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Software is like sex; it's better when it's free. (Linus Torvalds) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How to set up packages?
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Tao Lu wrote: After I set up base system, how can I set up packages like X window and others ? This is the general scheme: Set the [a]ccess to where your archive is (ok, so you know this one already) [U]pdate the list of available packages in the archive [S]elect which packages you want to install next [I]nstall the packages that you just selected in the step above [C]onfigure still unconfigured packages (should rarely be necessary) [R]emove unselected packages (when you find out that you need a bigger disk but you don't have the money yet) [Q]uit and play around (read man pages, browse /usr/doc/*) Once you feel confident about the keybindings in [s]elect, you'll agree that it is all quite intuitive actually. On installing X some more explanation is probably appropriate: Sometimes, there are problems because configuration scripts of x-packages try to read from or write in configuration files that aren't properly there yet because the important x-package xbase is not configured yet. This effectively breaks the configuration of features like xdm. The morale is, you should install X bit by bit. First xlib6, then xbase, then xfntbase, xfnt75, xfnt100 and xaw, then xserver-vga16 and xserver-your card. At the point where you are installing xserver-vga16, answer no to the question to configure X now, but wait until xserver-your card asks the same question. The script that is started is XF86Setup and it needs your card's server to be present to configure X to use it. Also, answer no to the question if you want to start xdm now. It is better to say no to xdm generally until you are happy with the way X works with `startx` (or `startx -- -bpp16`.) When you eventually want to run xdm, just make a minor change to /etc/X11/config and run `shadowconfig on` (just in case your cd has this bug on it - it doesn't hurt if it hasn't) and `/etc/init.d/xdm start` If things still go wrong, then you can always revert to use of raw dpkg. mount /cdrom cd /cdrom/stable/binary/x11 dpkg -i xlib6* dpkg -i xbase* dpkg -i xfntbase* dpkg -i xfnt75* dpkg -i xfnt100* dpkg -i xaw* dpkg -i xserver-vga16* dpkg -i xserver-fill in yourself Good luck and lots of fun with your Debian system, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: question on network security
The Unix workstations in your work environment are running what is called NIS. This allows for machines to collectively share information between one another, like password files, disks, etc. I would ask around to see if your machine is in 'netgroups'. Netgroups is basically a list of trusted machines on your NIS server, somewhat of a domain controller. If you are in that list, other machines will request information from yours. I would not be weary over these 'attacks' as they are most likely not from users, but just NIS broadcasts from related programs/daemons that run from boot-up. Our Sun machines run NIS+, basically the same as NIS, but more secure. My linux box is not in netgroups and I don't get such broadcasts to my machine. Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Systems/Network | work: 353.4844 Division of Enginnering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, James D. Freels wrote: This is probably not the right forum for this question, but I am running on a Debian/GNU machine. If there is a better mailing list or news group for the question, please let me know. I am trying to setup my machine as a 'less open' in my corporate environment. I have started by having the entry 'ALL: ALL' in my hosts.deny file. Then I add individual entries in the hosts.allow file to gain access to my machine. This all works as planned. However, what I have found is a tremendous number of attempts to gain access to my machine that I was unaware of. Some of them are what I was trying to prevent (in less than a day, about 10 www attempts when I'm not even set up as an httpd server for example). But, the large majority of the attempts I don't know much about. Attempts at access via daemons ypserv, mountd, 34, and 300214 with most trying ypserv. These appear to be from SGIs and SUNs which are themselves running some type of network protocol which periodically probes the network. I would like to eliminate these problems, but don't know where to start. I can add back the problem machines to my hosts.allow file to remove the error messages from my log file. This confirms that they are the problems, but doesn't fix the problem. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008 | home e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I | U | | Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392 | world's best neutrons! | R | X | \--/ -- 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] .
Problem: smail doesn't transport mail
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi to everyone! I've got a strange problem iwth smail: It doesn't deliver remote messages. Here is the output of runq -v for the mail to the linux count project that smailconfig wants to send: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: uninett.no matched by inet_hosts: routed [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] at uninett.no transport hint mx 10 aun.uninett.no address hint aun.uninett.no 129.241.1.99 transport hint mx 20 nac.no address hint nac.no 129.240.2.40 transport smtp uses driver tcpsmtp lock retry/smtp/aun.uninett.no lock succeeded (will defer failure) retry/smtp/aun.uninett.no transport smtp: connect to host aun.uninett.no [129.241.1.99]/smtp...transport s mtp: connect: No route to host unlock (error) retry/smtp/aun.uninett.no lock retry/smtp/nac.no lock succeeded (will defer failure) retry/smtp/nac.no transport smtp: connect to host nac.no [129.240.2.40]/smtp...transport smtp: con nect: No route to host unlock (error) retry/smtp/nac.no My smail configuration is as follows: Mail generated on this system will have `gp12.dkrz.de' used as the host part (after the @) in the From: field and similar places. The following hostname(s) will be recognised as referring to this system: gp12.dkrz.de Mail for postmaster, root, etc. will be sent to u250011. Local mail is delivered. Outbound remote mail is first looked up in the Internet DNS, and delivered using that data if this yields results. Messages for which no entry is found in the DNS are sent to mailhost via SMTP and TCP/IP (using any MX records for it in the DNS). My /etc/resolv.conf file contains 1 domain and nameserver entries. If I choose the option to send all remote mail directly via the smarthost it seems to work. Any ideas what could be wrong are much appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance! Regards, Andree - --- Andree Leidenfrost, GEOPHYSICIST Institute of Geophysics, Hamburg University Bundesstrasse 55, 20146 Hamburg, Germany phone +49 40 4123 4389, fax +49 40 4123 5441 http://www.app-geoph.dkrz.de/andre finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key PGP fingerprint = 5F FC 44 FF 84 71 C4 46 72 64 9A F0 EF 99 89 7C -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBNBa0XUNbWTbvj71ZAQHzEAL+KOBnauUg5bAd5uU27aeJcnITD1h0fI8H Tw3R9Fl9iEjsbW68BEAjFckfkIwTs1UAoB2aMznqhYj4vmzy57oKeds5Q/rujGr7 bN50aR0M8S/4ZSC/HlSTkukRMR0iuPHO =cVcX -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
su - user $CMD_OPTS_ARG
GNU bash, version 1.14.7(1) su - GNU sh-utils 1.12 (Debian 1.2.4, going to get room for 1.3.1 soon.) VAR=command options arg ; export VAR Calling su like this echo $VAR | su - user gives a stdin: is not a tty message but does a fine job. Calling su in this other way su - user -c $VAR results in ANYTHING AFTER THE FIRST SPACE CHARACTER to be executed, that is only command. No problems if I _write_ on the command line what had to be taken from $VAR: su - user -c command options arg -- EXAMPLE -- nick:~/test# ls -l total 3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 Sep 10 16:26 file1.cat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 Sep 10 16:27 file2.cat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 Sep 10 16:27 file3.cat nick:~/test# COMMAND='ls -l /root/test' ; export COMMAND nick:~/test# echo $COMMAND | su - nbern stdin: is not a ttytotal 3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 Sep 10 16:26 file1.cat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 Sep 10 16:27 file2.cat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 Sep 10 16:27 file3.cat nick:~/test# su - nbern -c $COMMAND --cut-- --cut-- ^ Here I get the same as from 'ls' done inside /home/nbern, that is COMMAND has been truncated to ls; it does not happen if I explicitly copy the content of $COMMAND to the command line: nick:~/test# su - nbern -c 'ls -l /root/test' total 3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 Sep 10 16:26 file1.cat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 Sep 10 16:27 file2.cat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 Sep 10 16:27 file3.cat nick:~/test# - Am i missing something? Cheers. 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] .
Seg faults when not root
Hello, Maybe some of you have run across this problem. Last night I was doing my nightly check of the new packages in the unstable tree and downloaded and installed the bash2.01-3, bash-builtins2.01-3, and libreadlineg2-??? (sorry, don't have the info, but it is the latest out there). After the installation of these files, there are quite a number of commands that no longer work unless I'm logged in as root. Among these are less, more, startx, man, etc... Most of the commands error out with a segmentaion fault, others simply die without outputting any info to the console. Any ideas? Thanks, Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian + PC with multi RS... port - n x (text dumb terminal + printer)
1) What serial devices allow longer cables than RS232 without use of modems (say 10-100-200 meters)? 2) Are there multi port cards of that kind which run well with Debian? Any brandname + model? 3) What if the text dumb terminals connected to a Linux Box also need a printer each (or almost any of them)? Is it possible that data is sent to the printer and terminal via the same line? Brandname + model? Thanks to anyone willing to give a clue. 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] .
Can 2 CPU motherboard run not-SMP kernel?
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 11:50:02 -0700 From: Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 2 CPU servers -cut-- 2.0.31-pre7 seems to be working ok (no deadlocks). 2.0.30 or 2.0.29 with the deadlock-patch 6 works fine too. --cut-- Suppose that after buying a 2 CPU motherboard you find that with some I/O intensive application there are deadlocks, would a kernel compiled with no SMP run on that motherboard? 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: looking for opinions on scsi adapter cards
On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 09:57:23PM -0400, butch wrote: i am looking to build my own computer system and i think scsi is the best way to go for pure performance. so iwas wondering about what the members here like? This is becoming a FAQ. :) There was a long thread about this not long ago. Without going into details, the unanimous answer is: Do not buy Adaptec. They're fine for Windoze but not prime-time on Linux. Buy a BusLogic adapter if you need reliability and high performance at a good price. The FlashPoint LT is a great, inexpensive adapter. It may not be supported by the Debian boot disks though. I haven't looked into this yet. The BT-948 is most certainly supported. Mylex recently bought BusLogic. http://www.mylex.com Buy a DPT adapter if you need fancy features like RAID and/or you can afford it. I don't know their URL. (http://www.dpt.com ?) Also read the Linux SCSI-HOWTO (somewhat dated, it says FlashPoint adapters don't work and that they're slow -- both points being absolutely false.) http://www.dandelion.com/linux has the latest BusLogic info on Linux. Jeff -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How to set up packages?
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Tao Lu wrote: Hi: Yes, I did. I type /dev/hdd when it ask the name of cd rom block name. After certain questions, it jump to the update. I am sure that I have already install successfully under the rescue disk ( I mean base system) .. But things look like strange. I still can not access cd rom. How can I make sure the ATAPI cd rom is mounted ? If you are going to use dselect, you do not want to mount the cd-rom before. When you get the the update prompt, hit a carriage return and dselect will read the necessary information from the cd-rom to establish a database of available packages. Then go to select (usually there will be a number of packages already selected). You can select additional ones now or do it later. Hit a carriage return after you are through selecting and the prompt will go to Install. Running this will actually read the packages from the cd-rom and install them into your system. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SCSI Host Adapter (+ Re: 2 CPU servers)
On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 09:37:27PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: F == F Potorti Francesco writes: F I am resending this, this time to the mailing list. I suspect F that the list-group gateway is not bidirectional, is that true? F [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Noxon) writes: F If you think going buslogic, the following are very recommended F readings: http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/Quantum.html F http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/BusLogic.html I noticed that there is not a Debian GNU/Linux rescue disk set available on that page. Shouldn't that be remedied? Yes, it should be. Actually, I think there should be a link to our current disk sets, and we should be sure these have FlashPoint support. Right now I don't think they do. I'll try to verify this later. Thanks, Jeff -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Force smail immediately retry mail delivery.
Which is the correct way to force smail immediately retry sending e-mail for which there was an error? 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: Can 2 CPU motherboard run not-SMP kernel?
On Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 05:18:10PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 11:50:02 -0700 From: Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 2 CPU servers -cut-- 2.0.31-pre7 seems to be working ok (no deadlocks). 2.0.30 or 2.0.29 with the deadlock-patch 6 works fine too. --cut-- Suppose that after buying a 2 CPU motherboard you find that with some I/O intensive application there are deadlocks, would a kernel compiled with no SMP run on that motherboard? Yes. In that case you just have an idle CPU. Jeff -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: looking for opinions on scsi adapter cards
Jeff Noxon wrote: There was a long thread about this not long ago. Without going into details, the unanimous answer is: Do not buy Adaptec. They're fine for Windoze but not prime-time on Linux. Buy a BusLogic adapter if you need reliability and high performance at a good price. The FlashPoint LT is a great, inexpensive adapter. It may not be supported by the Debian boot disks though. I haven't Yes, the boot disks support it. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Exim, sa (8) problems
Two unrelated problems. First, exim is acting a bit weird on me. I installed Debian from the stable tree last week via ftp. During the initial setup I chose exim instead of smail as my MTA ... perhaps this wasn't the way to do it. I was trying to avoid dpkg from the command line. At any rate, any mail sent to root is not delivered ... it just sits in the queue. So, I aliased root mail to go to my account. When I run Pine, it says the mailbox is read-only. The mailbox is there in /var/spool/mail ... I don't get it. Second, I installed the GNU accounting utilities. ac works, but sa core dumps when I run 'sa -m'. Admittedly, I'm new to these utilities ... any hints? Might I have a corrupt logfile, and if so, what should I do? Sorry these are a bit vague, I'm late for a meeting :/ If you need more info, or if I'm missing something incredibly obvious feel free to let me know :) -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Voice: (605) 334-4454 Fax: (605) 335-1173 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: root and .rhosts file
Hi! Now I've installed Debian 1.3.1 on another PC, and I can't get this new machine to accept root rsh requests from our primary server (running SunOS), or any other machine, for that matter. Both Debian machines have the same .rhosts file in the root homedir, but the 1.3.1 host gives permission denied replies. This is a feature, not a bug. It is because root is by default allowd login only on some ttys. On my system (Debian 1.3.1) these ttys are listed in /etc/securetty and I think this is the default. Also see the CONSOLE entry in /etc/login.defs and play around with /etc/login.access. In these files you can turn off the restriction that root cannot log in directly from remote machines or you can specify the machines from which root can log in, which is a little better. feri. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Seg faults when not root
Steve Mayer wrote: Hello, Maybe some of you have run across this problem. Last night I was doing my nightly check of the new packages in the unstable tree and downloaded and installed the bash2.01-3, bash-builtins2.01-3, and libreadlineg2-??? (sorry, don't have the info, but it is the latest out there). After the installation of these files, there are quite a number of commands that no longer work unless I'm logged in as root. Among these are less, more, startx, man, etc... Most of the commands error out with a segmentaion fault, others simply die without outputting any info to the console. Any ideas? Thanks, Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Guess: wrong permissions on shared libs. To find out for sure, run one of these commands with strace (if you've got it installed) to find out exactly where the problem is. -- 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: su - user $CMD_OPTS_ARG
Nicola Bernardelli wrote: GNU bash, version 1.14.7(1) su - GNU sh-utils 1.12 (Debian 1.2.4, going to get room for 1.3.1 soon.) VAR=command options arg ; export VAR Calling su like this echo $VAR | su - user gives a stdin: is not a tty message but does a fine job. Calling su in this other way su - user -c $VAR results in ANYTHING AFTER THE FIRST SPACE CHARACTER to be executed, that is only command. No problems if I _write_ on the command line what had to be taken from $VAR: su - user -c command options arg -- EXAMPLE -- nick:~/test# ls -l total 3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 Sep 10 16:26 file1.cat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 Sep 10 16:27 file2.cat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 Sep 10 16:27 file3.cat nick:~/test# COMMAND='ls -l /root/test' ; export COMMAND nick:~/test# echo $COMMAND | su - nbern stdin: is not a ttytotal 3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 Sep 10 16:26 file1.cat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 Sep 10 16:27 file2.cat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 Sep 10 16:27 file3.cat nick:~/test# su - nbern -c $COMMAND --cut-- --cut-- ^ Here I get the same as from 'ls' done inside /home/nbern, that is COMMAND has been truncated to ls; it does not happen if I explicitly copy the content of $COMMAND to the command line: nick:~/test# su - nbern -c 'ls -l /root/test' total 3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 Sep 10 16:26 file1.cat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 Sep 10 16:27 file2.cat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 Sep 10 16:27 file3.cat nick:~/test# - Am i missing something? In: su - nbern -c 'ls -l /root/test' this^^ is passed a single parameter. If you program C or perl, you know what I mean. If instead you typed su - nbern -c ls -l /root/test you'd get the same results as when you do su - user -c $VAR This is becuase the variable substition (as well as file globbing and other stuff) is done *before* chopping the line up into tokens or parameters or whatever you wish to call them. The answer to your problem is to do: su - user -c $VAR (One reason why we need quotes which both allow and disallow substition) -- 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] .
switching from ide to scsi
Hi all, I decided to go the right way with one of my server and use scsi disk instead of ide. That machine has already got a scsi controller (aha2940) that drives a dat tape, so I only need to buy a scsi disk. That machine is using debian 1.1 on ide and will probably use 1.2 on scsi. What would be the best way to move data (and all) from the old ide disk to the new scsi one? Since that machine is a main server and need maximum uptime, downtime has to be as low as possible. These are my questions: - installing debian on scsi before moving data is not a problem, if I can plug in the scsi disk, install debian on it, move data and then unplug ide, but I don't know if this is doable (I read about having problems with ide+scsi disks in the same machine). Can I test the new installation without removing the old ide disk (just in case ..)? - I know I could back up all the ide disk (maybe with tar? to cope with device files?) and then untar, but I know I should at least be careful with: - changing mounts (hda? to sda?) - rerunning lilo on scsi after changing lilo.conf - anything else? Any advice is welcome. -- |||| ||| Marco Frattola Microsoft is not the answer ||`..'|| |||... Piacenza, ItalyMicrosoft is the question ||| ||| |||''[EMAIL PROTECTED]No is the answer ||| ||| ||| www.enjoy.it/users/~mk/index.html Live Linux, live free! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Background NFS Mounts
I'm having a problem with my computer hanging for large amounts of time when it is not connected to the network because of some NFS mounts it does. I've tried adding options so it would try this in the background instead of holding up the boot, but no luck. Here is what I have now... ### # # Network filesystem mounts # ftp:/home/ftp /home/ftp nfs bg,soft,intr,posix cvs:/var/cvs/var/cvsnfs bg,soft,intr,posix home:/home/verisim /home/verisim nfs bg,soft,intr,posix fax:/var/spool/fax /var/spool/fax nfs bg,soft,intr,posix gnats:/export/gnats /var/lib/gnats nfs bg,soft,intr,posix gate:/export/share /usr/share nfs bg,soft,intr,posix Can anybody offer any advice? Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- You can never be too good looking or too well equipped. -- Dilbert -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: root and .rhosts file
It's a security hole (probably a simple dns spoof would gain root on either machine. And while I'm on the topic of security here, I'd suggest ssh instead (harder, if not impossible to spoof). But if you feel risky, I think it is caused by the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED](p1):bhmit1$ more /etc/securetty # /etc/securetty: list of terminals on which root is allowed to login. # See securetty(5) and login(1). tty1 tty2 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty6 tty7 tty8 HTH, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7877/home.html PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Building Debian Packages
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Mark W. Blunier wrote: I thought that I could make a helpful document for other new developers, so before I forgot what it was I wanted to know as a first time installer, I made the document up. I would appreciate any constructive criticism, or note if it is useful and should be contributed to Debian doc program. You can find it at www.prairienet.org/~blunier/homepage.html Thanks for doing this, it's a good description of how to build a package:-) I really think something like this should be made official, possibly along with a list of package tools and brief descriptions. Sure we have man pages, but a list with short desctiptions would be helpful to indicate the proper manpage to look at. On a more technical note, a very helpful suggestion I recieved for altering the makefile was this: BINFILE = `pwd`/debian/tmp/usr/sbin/su1 MANFILE = `pwd`/debian/tmp/usr/man/man1/su1.1 If you do this with a larger package with multiple components, for example, ircII-EPIC, which was my first package, it sets the internal references to these /debian/tmp/ paths as well, which breaks the program. On the other hand, if you set the install files to their correct directories (where they will eventually reside), such as /usr/bin, you can't do a make install, but must instead cp all those files by hand, which is sort of ugly. So, the suggestion I received was to include a variable in the Makefile such as INSTALLDIR or something, which is set to ./debian/tmp, so that it can be prepended in the correct places, but omitted where necessary. I think standardizing around a method like this, within reason, would be a good thing. Maybe this could be explained in the 'How to Create a Debian Package' page, so that new developers would use it...? The mish-mash of different tools and ways of doing things, is, I'm sure, to some degree necessary, but maybe it could be reigned in a bit? Later, David Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www..efn.org/~davidw Se quest'email e` in Italiano, mi dispiace per gli errori:-) FORZA PANTANI! --Debian GNU/Linux-- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XFree86 and Threads...
[snip] From what I understand, just recompiling X won't give you anything. You would have to rewrite parts of it (probably very big chunks...) to be able to actually run the server in multiple threads. I've had difficulties myself getting threads working properly with X-windows. I'm not sure that just recompiling things with the -D_REENTRANT will completely work. Though, this also depends on a number of other things. Like, I believe if you are using one of the widget sets you have to also be careful. I don't believe that Motif 1.2 for instance (someone will correct me if I'm wrong here) is at all reentrant and thus great care must be used if you want to do threads. I have found though that there are some possibilities to doing multi-threads with ANY (presumably.. at least I've done it on various Linux X-servers and under Solaris) X-server. I'm developing multi-threaded code right now in which I dedicate one and ONLY one thread for handling all of my X-server requests. My other threads can then do all of my calculations, network accesses, etc. I haven't had any problems with it yet (other then the pain of properly designing it). Cheers! Richard.. - Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobox.com/~rdanse Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Manitoba - Canada - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xrsh?
I had problems with broken ssh connections (modem to home) when sending X applications through the connection. It went away when I turned on the compression flag to ssh. I have not tried xv, though. Otherwise, I have no troubles with ssh (and it makes life so much easier). I would emphatically suggest to everyone to start using it. Paul On 08-Sep-97 Heikki Vatiainen wrote: That's hmm. interesting :) Have you tried running ssh with the verbose flag (-v) on? That way you can see which version of ssh and ssh protocol the local and remote end are using. Here's an excerpt from the ssh faq: 5.21 Ssh suddenly drops connections! This is a problem which has been reported by several people for SunOS 4, Solaris 2, Linux, and HP-UX 9 and 10, with 1.2.16 and 1.2.17. It happens with scp, when transferring large amounts of data via ssh's stdin, or when forwarding an X connection which receives a large amount of graphics data (such as a MPEG movie). [rest of the answer including the patch cut] The current released version is 1.2.20, the location of faq is http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ig25/ssh-faq/ Gergely Madarasz wrote: Unfortunatelly I had trouble with ssh... the X connections are forwarded through the ssh channel, encrypted... and sometimes they get broken. For example I was unable to run an xv through an ssh connection, xv exited with server kill or something like that immediatelly :( Greg // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Seg faults when not root
Jens, Thanks for the suggestion. I thought I checked the permissions last night, but I'll recheck them when I get home from work. I'll let you know if I figure this one out. Thanks, Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Steve Mayer wrote: Hello, Maybe some of you have run across this problem. Last night I was doing my nightly check of the new packages in the unstable tree and downloaded and installed the bash2.01-3, bash-builtins2.01-3, and libreadlineg2-??? (sorry, don't have the info, but it is the latest out there). After the installation of these files, there are quite a number of commands that no longer work unless I'm logged in as root. Among these are less, more, startx, man, etc... Most of the commands error out with a segmentaion fault, others simply die without outputting any info to the console. Any ideas? Thanks, Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Guess: wrong permissions on shared libs. To find out for sure, run one of these commands with strace (if you've got it installed) to find out exactly where the problem is. -- 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: Can 2 CPU motherboard run not-SMP kernel?
Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -cut-- 2.0.31-pre7 seems to be working ok (no deadlocks). 2.0.30 or 2.0.29 with the deadlock-patch 6 works fine too. --cut-- Suppose that after buying a 2 CPU motherboard you find that with some I/O intensive application there are deadlocks, would a kernel compiled with no SMP run on that motherboard? That will work fine. I have had a vary stable SMP system, doing heavy I/O, using 2.0.14. It was in 2.0.15 that there was some reorganization of the interrupt code that started the deadlock problems. (2.0.30 with no patches would deadlock on me after less than an hour with my normal workload running, just as a datapoint. With deadlock patch 5 I had one lockup in a few weeks.) I have also heard that 2.1.51 is stable under SMP, but only from one person, and I have not tried it myself yet. -- + finger for pgp public key -+ | Dale E. Martin | University of Cincinnati Savant Research Laboratory | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~dmartin | +--+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How to set up packages?
On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Joost_Kooij wrote: cd / mkdir cdrom ; create a mountpoint if it does not yet exist mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /cdrom ; mount the cdrom cd cdrom ; you'll find the contents here ls -l Aack! Braino! You have to: cd / before you can unmount the device, or it will say device or resource busy and stay mounted. umount /cdrom ; unmount before you eject the cd Better still, you can edit /etc/fstab and add an appropriate line to make life a little easier. Just look at the lines that are already there to get an idea of what you should add. 'man 5 fstab' is your friend btw. This is what it looks like on my computer: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type optionsdump pass [snip] /dev/scd0 /cdromiso9660 defaults,noauto,user,ro 0 0 In the options field add `user', so you can mount the device as mortal user and `noauto' so linux doesn't try to mount a possibly empty cdrom tray at boot time. As you can notice above, I also forgot to mention the ro (readonly) option in my previous posting. When you have done this, `mount /dcrom` will mount the cdrom. `cat /etc/mtab` shows what is mounted now, just like `mount` btw. Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
K Desktop Environment
Hello everyone... I was just looking at KDE's website (http://www.kde.org), and was very impressed with some of the things I saw. I know it is still in alpha, but does anyone have experiance with how stable it is on Debian? I also saw that it is availible in deb package form... For anyone that hasn't heard of it yet, it is a windows manager + other components which run on top of X and the QT graphics toolkit. From what I could see, the current applications seem to be of high quality, and looks like it has a lot of promise... Shawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.the-spa.com/shawn.fumo/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Which files should I download to install linux?
Hi:, I want to install linux, but I am not sure which files I should download from the ftp site. I read the readme file, it does not tell which files I should download. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. Hasibul Haque [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Sent by RocketMail. Get your free e-mail at http://www.rocketmail.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Background NFS Mounts
I'm having a problem with my computer hanging for large amounts of time when it is not connected to the network because of some NFS mounts it does. You can use the noauto option, and spawn a background job to mount them in a minute. E.g., fstab: -- flakey:/ /nfs/flakey nfs defaults,soft,noauto 0 0 /etc/rc.boot/local: (or wherever you put these things) --- # Mount flakey soon. echo mount /nfs/flakey | at now + 1 minute Works for us; if you don't want to be emailed when it fails you can redirect 2/dev/null. G'Luck, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: K Desktop Environment
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: Hello everyone... I was just looking at KDE's website (http://www.kde.org), and was very impressed with some of the things I saw. I know it is still in alpha, but does anyone have experiance with how stable it is on Debian? I also saw that it is availible in deb package form... I tried using it for a while instead of fvwm. It still deserves its `alpha' designation, in my opinion. It has a tendency to hang at times. The kdehelp browser can't cope with relative links. No doubt such things will be improved in due course. It is a pleasant environment, but not yet very stable. I'm not sure what it has got that should make me change permanently from fvwm. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better idiot. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: su - user $CMD_OPTS_ARG
On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: su - user -c $VAR GREAT! THANK YOU, fool I am, I had tried to put quotes _INSIDE_ $VAR, like in VAR='ls -l'!!! 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: Debian + PC with multi RS... port - n x (text dumb terminal + printer)
On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Joey Hess wrote: Nicola Bernardelli wrote: 3) What if the text dumb terminals connected to a Linux Box also need a printer each (or almost any of them)? Is it possible that data is sent to the printer and terminal via the same line? Brandname + model? I have 2 old wyse 75 terminals, which have a Aux port. I think everything received by the terminal also goes out this port, though I've never tried it. -- see shy jo Thank you for replying... sure I'm putting one question that involves just _the_basics_ of multi-user environments... I stopped making software for Windog an year ago, I really had enough of Microsoft and Borland, I bring lot of intensive C/C++ days and nights with me, I'm learning quite a lot on Linux which I had been using for about three years before deciding that IT IS greener grass, great tools, great minds searching QUALITY, greener grass indeed... I still lack the basics but now I need them, as I plan to build an application based on PostgreSQL running on a Debain GNU/Linux box with text dumb terminals. So I add one more question: from a software point of view, how would such a terminal+printer couple (if possible) get managed? Just something to say to the OS? 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: Can 2 CPU motherboard run not-SMP kernel?
Thanks to you all for answering! Good news then, it seems as SMP is not that critical... LINUX is really GREAT! Please, let me know if any of you remembers of motherboards that it is better stay far from. 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 Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Jeff Noxon wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 05:18:10PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 11:50:02 -0700 From: Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 2 CPU servers -cut-- 2.0.31-pre7 seems to be working ok (no deadlocks). 2.0.30 or 2.0.29 with the deadlock-patch 6 works fine too. --cut-- Suppose that after buying a 2 CPU motherboard you find that with some I/O intensive application there are deadlocks, would a kernel compiled with no SMP run on that motherboard? Yes. In that case you just have an idle CPU. On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Benedikt Eric Heinen wrote: Yes, no problem with that. I still have the old Debian kernel image as a backup in my lilo.conf, all other kernels here are SMP (even the second single CPU machine I had ran the SMP kernel, so I could use the identical kernel image on both machines -- by now both machines here are DualPPros working fine). On 10 Sep 1997, Dale Martin wrote: That will work fine. I have had a vary stable SMP system, doing heavy I/O, using 2.0.14. It was in 2.0.15 that there was some reorganization of the interrupt code that started the deadlock problems. (2.0.30 with no patches would deadlock on me after less than an hour with my normal workload running, just as a datapoint. With deadlock patch 5 I had one lockup in a few weeks.) I have also heard that 2.1.51 is stable under SMP, but only from one person, and I have not tried it myself yet. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
imlib/enlightenment packages
Is anyone currently working on an enlightenment package, or one for the corresponding graphics library, imlib? Thanks. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mouse
Hi, Anyone have any experience with the Logitech TrackMan mouse? I can't seem to get the thing to work right either with X or with gpm. Does it use the Logitech MouseMan protocal? Microsoft Protocal? Thanks, J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Using the X with ATI Pro Turbo
Has anybody had any success in running X with an ATI 3D Graphics Pro Turbo video card? I'm having great difficulty getting it to display on my monitor. - 1600x1200 mode isn't available (too low dot-clock), - 1280x1024 doesn't display (screen stays black) - 1024x768 runs (doesn't sync) - 800x600 runs (doesn't sync) - 640x480 repeats (gives the right have of the screen twice more) I'm using a 21 ViewSonic P810 monitor. All these modes work fine under Win95. I've tried everything I can think of. Commenting out the higher speed modes in XF86Config has no effect. Changing h/v sync has no effect. Does anybody have any ideas? Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Generated by Signify v1.02. For this and more, visit http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: IP aliasing
Maarten Boekhold wrote: Hi, I tried to steup an IP alias on a machine here. According to the Virtual-Web mini-HOWTO, I can do: ifconfig eth0 alias new-address However, ifconfig says 'alias' is not a hostname. 'man ifconfig' doesn't say anything about aliasing. This is with netbase 2.13-1. Anybody who can get me goin' on this? Maarten i had a similar problem today! in addition to Remco and Eloy, check to make sure your kernel has network aliasing and aliasing support configured in. if you configure aliasing support as a module ( ip_alias ), make sure you load that module at boot. 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: Using the X with ATI Pro Turbo
There are many reasons why I will never buy another ATI product. This is one of them: They keep introducing new Mach64 chips that are not driver-compatible with the previous generations. This has bitten XFree users many times. There may be a work-around, but you'll probably have to wait for a new version of the server. You may want to check the source code for some undocumented config switches that may help you out (by turning off various features, etc.) This helped me once before with a Rev.1 Mach64. Good luck, Jeff On Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 05:07:17PM -0400, Brian White wrote: Has anybody had any success in running X with an ATI 3D Graphics Pro Turbo video card? I'm having great difficulty getting it to display on my monitor. - 1600x1200 mode isn't available (too low dot-clock), - 1280x1024 doesn't display (screen stays black) - 1024x768 runs (doesn't sync) - 800x600 runs (doesn't sync) - 640x480 repeats (gives the right have of the screen twice more) I'm using a 21 ViewSonic P810 monitor. All these modes work fine under Win95. I've tried everything I can think of. Commenting out the higher speed modes in XF86Config has no effect. Changing h/v sync has no effect. Does anybody have any ideas? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: root and .rhosts file; kerberos
On a similar vein, has anyone managed to make debian kerberos machines talk this way? mit has .rpm packages of kerberos afs. However, alien gives plenty of nonstandard executable location errors when converting. Also, kerberos versions of some programs should (apparently) replace regular versions, but this information wouldn't be included in the .deb. I have gotten a response hre at ISU, which kindly explains how to modify the source of my pop client :) anyway, it seems I need kerberos to get my pop-3 mail and to rsh to the university machines. rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Logitech TrackMan
Hi, If anyone knows the answer to my previous question re: Logitech TrackMan mouse (ie, what support to compile in, what protocal is it? etc), could you reply in personal email as well as to the list? I'm going out of town for a few days so I'll have to temporarily unsubscribe. Thanks much... J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: K Desktop Environment
On Wed, 10 Sep 1997 14:06:35 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello everyone... I was just looking at KDE's website (http://www.kde.org), and was very impressed with some of the things I saw. I know it is still in alpha, but does anyone have experiance with how stable it is on Debian? I also saw that it is availible in deb package form... Yes ... I use it all the time... it's kinda sorta stable (ok I'll explain) it's prety much stable ... I have about one or two seg faults / lockups a week ... however when it locks it locks so well you have to flip the power swich ... It also has a problem ... Kpanel will core dump when you exit it... Kfm is good if not a little slow on my 486x66 ... I like it Very flexable ... For anyone that hasn't heard of it yet, it is a windows manager + other components which run on top of X and the QT graphics toolkit. From what I could see, the current applications seem to be of high quality, and looks like it has a lot of promise... Yes ... although development seems to have slowed down somewhat ... -Kevin, kc5vxy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Col, 3:23 Shawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.the-spa.com/shawn.fumo/ -- 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] .
Video Cards
Ok, getting tired of 640x480 and 8bpp color gona do some looking this weekend for a new video card. Anyone have recomendations that i can check into? X Supported of course and able to go 800x600 and 16bpp ... Only limiting factor is: Can't be over $200 :( (College ya know) Chad -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chad D. Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Southwest Technology Development Institute New Mexico State University --- HP: http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/ DBP: http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/Debian/ LCAO: http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/Las_Cruces_Art/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Using the X with ATI Pro Turbo
Has anybody had any success in running X with an ATI 3D Graphics Pro Turbo video card? I'm having great difficulty getting it to display on my monitor. - 1600x1200 mode isn't available (too low dot-clock), - 1280x1024 doesn't display (screen stays black) - 1024x768 runs (doesn't sync) - 800x600 runs (doesn't sync) - 640x480 repeats (gives the right have of the screen twice more) I'm using a 21 ViewSonic P810 monitor. All these modes work fine under Win95. I've tried everything I can think of. Commenting out the higher speed modes in XF86Config has no effect. Changing h/v sync has no effect. Does anybody have any ideas? Just to provide a little more information... The card works fine in VGA16 mode (if you call 640x480 fine). Under the SVGA driver, it has the same problems as describe above, more or less. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Seize the moment! Live now. Make now always the most important time. -- JLP -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
