Re: Cannot find map file
On Mon, 16 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is a map file ? As was already stated on this mailing list, it's a text file that contains memory addresses of kernel symbols. That's it. Here's a small sample from mine: 0010 T _stext 0010 T stext 0010 t startup_32 001000bc t isnew 00100116 t is486 00100127 t is386 0010017d t L6 0010017f t check_x87 001001aa t setup_idt 001001c7 t rp_sidt 001001e0 t setup_paging 00101000 T swapper_pg_dir 00102000 T pg0 00103000 T empty_bad_page 00104000 T empty_bad_page_table 00105000 T empty_zero_page 00106000 t stack_start 00106010 T idt It's relatively useless unless you're working on kernel related stuff (like debugging a kernel Oops message). noah PGP public key available at http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IP Masq and ftp on the LAN
On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Chuck Peters wrote: : : What is a good way to solve the ftp problem that our Windoze LAN users : experience? : : I half heartily tried setting up an IP tunnel without success and that : isn't a good solution anyway because I am running a static IP dialup : account and it requires setup on the dialup server side as well. I want : something that would be an ideal solution for a small office and not : create problems if they hop from one ISP to another. : : Chuck Er, what _is_ the problem? I guessed I missed that part. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nolock option to NFS?
Hi, I have experienced some problems with locking and NFS, and finally gave up and added nolock to the client options. Now I wonder... what does it do? Does it trap the the fcntl calls and ignores them? Marcelo -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
compile error due to libc6 trouble?
I ran into the following error while trying to compile an Empire server. As you can see, the Makefile is supposed to support a whole slew of systems. I don't know what crtbegin.o is, or where to find it, but it looks like the problem might possibly be due to a buggy libc6 installation. Any ideas? $ make You must type make arch to build for a specific system. Currently buildable architectures are: aix alpha alphapos apollo freebsd . . . linux mach2.5 mipsbsd . . . sun4 sun4.debug sun4.opt vaxultrix $ make linux building a 64 by 32 server... (cd src/doconfig; make GLOBALCFLAGS=-Wall -Dlint -D__USE_BSD -D__USE_BSD_SIGNAL -DLISTENMAXCONN=5 GLOBALLFLAGS= CLIENTLIBS=-lncurses) make[1]: Entering directory `/home/Gandalf/GAMES/emp4/src/doconfig' globalcflags = -Wall -Dlint -D__USE_BSD -D__USE_BSD_SIGNAL -DLISTENMAXCONN=5 globallflags = cc -Wall -Dlint -D__USE_BSD -D__USE_BSD_SIGNAL -DLISTENMAXCONN=5 -DPV=\Wolfpack\ -DHN=\RedDragon.empire.net\ -DPN=6665 -DEM=\[EMAIL PROTECTED] -DEP=\/empire/wolfpack/emp4\ -DMC=52 -DWX=64 -DWY=32 -DBL=1 -DET=60 -DEF=\10m\ -DOV=1 -DIP=\208.223.32.15\ -DUN=\wolfpack\ doconfig.c -o doconfig ld: cannot open crtbegin.o: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [all] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Gandalf/GAMES/emp4/src/doconfig' make: *** [linux] Error 2 Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xterm problems
I'm having big problems using an xterm running on X11R6.3 on Solaris 5.6
to work on a Debian hamm box. The terminal does not draw properly in
curses programs like ncftp and vi is practically unusable -- as seen as I
hit enter to move down a line it clears the screen!
The terminfo definitions (dumped with infocmp) are included below. I installed
the debian xterm definition on Solaris but this just made the xterm
work badly on local Solaris stuff too and didn't fix the linux problem.
Any ideas?
thanks,
hamish
Solaris's xterm:
# Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/share/lib/terminfo/x/xterm
xterm|vs100|xterm terminal emulator,
am, km, mir, msgr, xenl,
cols#80, it#8, lines#65,
acsc=``aaffggjjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~,
bel=^G, blink=\E[5m, bold=\E[1m, clear=\E[H\E[2J,
cr=\r, csr=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr, cub=\E[%p1%dD, cub1=\b,
cud=\E[%p1%dB, cud1=\n, cuf=\E[%p1%dC, cuf1=\E[C,
cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH, cuu=\E[%p1%dA, cuu1=\E[A,
dch=\E[%p1%dP, dch1=\E[P, dl=\E[%p1%dM, dl1=\E[M,
ed=\E[J, el=\E[K, el1=\E[1K$3, enacs=\E(B\E)0,
home=\E[H, ht=\t, hts=\EH, ich=\E[%p1%d@, ich1=\E[@,
il=\E[%p1%dL, il1=\E[L, ind=\n, ka1=\EOq, ka3=\EOs,
kb2=\EOr, kbs=\b, kc1=\EOp, kc3=\EOn, kcub1=\EOD,
kcud1=\EOB, kcuf1=\EOC, kcuu1=\EOA, kent=\EOM,
kf0=\E[21~, kf1=\E[11~, kf10=\EOx, kf2=\E[12~,
kf3=\E[13~, kf4=\E[14~, kf5=\E[15~, kf6=\E[17~,
kf7=\E[18~, kf8=\E[19~, kf9=\E[20~, rc=\E8, rev=\E[7m,
ri=\EM, rmacs=^O, rmkx=\E[?1l\E, rmso=\E[m,
rmul=\E[m,
rs1=\E\E[1;3;4;5;6l\E[?7h\E[m\E[r\E[2J\E[H, rs2=@,
sc=\E7,
sgr=\E[0%?%p1%p6%|%t;1%;%?%p2%t;4%;%?%p1%p3%|%t;7%;%?%p4%t;5%;m%?%p9%t^N%e^O%;,
sgr0=\E[m, smacs=^N, smkx=\E[?1h\E=, smso=\E[7m,
smul=\E[4m, tbc=\E[3g,
Debian's xterm:
# Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /etc/terminfo/x/xterm
xterm|vs100|xterms|xterm terminal emulator (X Window System),
am, bce, km, mir, msgr, xenl,
colors#8, cols#80, it#8, lines#24, pairs#64,
acsc=``aaffggjjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~..--++\,\,II00,
bel=^G, bold=\E[1m, civis=\E[?25l, clear=\E[H\E[2J,
cnorm=\E[?25h, cr=^M, csr=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr,
cub=\E[%p1%dD, cub1=^H, cud=\E[%p1%dB, cud1=^J,
cuf=\E[%p1%dC, cuf1=\E[C, cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH,
cuu=\E[%p1%dA, cuu1=\E[A, cvvis=\E[?25h, dch=\E[%p1%dP,
dch1=\E[P, dl=\E[%p1%dM, dl1=\E[M, ech=\E[%p1%dX, ed=\E[J,
el=\E[K, el1=\E[1K, enacs=\E(B\E)0, flash=\E[?5h\E[?5l,
home=\E[H, hpa=\E[%i%p1%dG, ht=^I, hts=\EH, ich=\E[%p1%d@,
ich1=\E[@, il=\E[%p1%dL, il1=\E[L, ind=^J,
is2=\E7\E[r\E[m\E[?7h\E[?1;3;4;6l\E[4l\E8\E,
ka1=\EOw, ka3=\EOu, kb2=\EOy, kbeg=\EOE, kbs=^H, kc1=\EOq,
kc3=\EOs, kcub1=\EOD, kcud1=\EOB, kcuf1=\EOC, kcuu1=\EOA,
kdch1=\177, kend=\E[F, kent=\EOM, kf1=\EOP, kf10=\E[21~,
kf11=\E[23~, kf12=\E[24~, kf13=\E[25~, kf14=\E[26~,
kf15=\E[28~, kf16=\E[29~, kf17=\E[31~, kf18=\E[32~,
kf19=\E[33~, kf2=\EOQ, kf20=\E[34~, kf3=\EOR, kf4=\EOS,
kf5=\E[15~, kf6=\E[17~, kf7=\E[18~, kf8=\E[19~, kf9=\E[20~,
kfnd=\E[1~, khome=\E[H, kich1=\E[2~, kmous=\E[M, knp=\E[6~,
kpp=\E[5~, kslt=\E[4~, op=\E[39;49m, rc=\E8, rev=\E[7m,
ri=\EM, rmacs=^O, rmam=\E[?7l, rmcup=\E[2J\E[?47l\E8,
rmir=\E[4l, rmkx=\E[?1l\E, rmso=\E[27m, rmul=\E[24m,
rs1=^O, rs2=\E7\E[r\E[m\E[?7h\E[?1;3;4;6l\E[4l\E8\E,
sc=\E7, setab=\E[4%p1%dm, setaf=\E[3%p1%dm,
setb=\E[4%?%p1%{1}%=%t4%e%p1%{3}%=%t6%e%p1%{4}%=%t1%e%p1%{6}%=%t3%e%p1%d%;m,
setf=\E[3%?%p1%{1}%=%t4%e%p1%{3}%=%t6%e%p1%{4}%=%t1%e%p1%{6}%=%t3%e%p1%d%;m,
sgr=\E[0%?%p1%p6%|%t;1%;%?%p2%t;4%;%?%p1%p3%|%t;7%;%?%p4%t;5%;m%?%p9%t\016%e\017%;,
sgr0=\E[m\017, smacs=^N, smam=\E[?7h, smcup=\E7\E[?47h,
smir=\E[4h, smkx=\E[?1h\E=, smso=\E[7m, smul=\E[4m,
tbc=\E[3g, u6=\E[%i%d;%dR, u7=\E[6n, u8=\E[?1;2c, u9=\E[c,
vpa=\E[%i%p1%dd,
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Re: xterm problems
Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish I'm having big problems using an xterm running on X11R6.3 Hamish on Solaris 5.6 to work on a Debian hamm box. The terminal Hamish does not draw properly in curses programs like ncftp and Hamish vi is practically unusable -- as seen as I hit enter to Hamish move down a line it clears the screen! Hamish The terminfo definitions (dumped with infocmp) are Hamish included below. I installed the debian xterm definition on Hamish Solaris but this just made the xterm work badly on local Hamish Solaris stuff too and didn't fix the linux problem. I've also had this happen. Try export TERM=xterm-old -- it's the only solution I've found. -- Brought to you by the letters Q and M and the number 2. It's cold.. and there are wolves.. -- Grampa Simpson Ben Gertzfield http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/ Finger me for my public PGP key. I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet and YiffNet IRC as Che_Fox. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xterm problems
On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 05:45:27PM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish I'm having big problems using an xterm running on X11R6.3 Hamish on Solaris 5.6 to work on a Debian hamm box. The terminal Hamish does not draw properly in curses programs like ncftp and Hamish vi is practically unusable -- as seen as I hit enter to Hamish move down a line it clears the screen! I've also had this happen. Try export TERM=xterm-old -- it's the only solution I've found. I just compiled rxvt on the Solaris box, and when I ssh to the Debian box my terminal type is set to xterm but everything works -- I'm using this now (in vi) to write this. And I'm getting colour on the Solaris box which I never could get from xterm. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. Developers of music education software including Auralia Musition. 31 Elmhurst Road, Blackburn, Victoria Australia, 3130 Phone: +61 3 9894 4788 Fax: +61 3 9894 3362 USA Toll Free: 1-888-667-7839 Internet: http://www.rising.com.au/ -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New list server is up
Good night folks, I wonder why you're still awake, too. :-) Since some minutes our mainling lists are processed on its own machine. Murphy.novare.net alias lists.debian.org is another machine that was donated by Novare International (http://www.novare.net/). Due to a server crash we had to move the lists to another machine until the machine was up again. The old one has had a motherboard failure, too, so the people from Novare went away buying new boards for us. This machine acts as our dedicated list server from now on. It consists of a p133 with 64MB of RAM. It has a special adjusted kernel and an optimized Qmail which makes it deliver mail very fast. We even counted more than 20 deliveries per second. My special thanks go to Novare for donating the machine, to mark from Novare for basically setting it up as well as master, and to Jason for setting up hamm on it and adjusting the kernel as well as Qmail. Now that we had our traditional crash before the release we may continue our job as producer of Debian GNU/Linux. You're all invited to test the hamm release which is about to freeze right now. After enough testing it will be released as Debian GNU/Linux 2.0. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / *** Fatal Error: Found [MS-Windows],[EMAIL PROTECTED] / / repartitioning Disk for Linux ... / pgpdxYItMmG4A.pgp Description: PGP signature
New handling of scripts external to PPPD (ie ip-up, ip-down)
I have never liked the idea of having to edit either ip-up, or ip-down each time I want to add a script into the ppp chain. This is also hard for separate packages to do automatically, without errors. So here it comes. Sit down for this one. On my system there is *NO* ip-up, or ip-down. Pppd shells out to /etc/ppp/ppp-functions, with the first parameter being a runlevel, and the rest the normal parameters passed to ip-up. Then, ppp-functions sets up some variables, and runs /etc/ppp/rc runlevel. Rc is similiar to the rc that init uses, in that there are kill scripts and start scripts for each level. Also, pppd waits until the external script finishes, so make sure that all programs are either short in duration, or fork into the background. I am thinking of more places to add runlevels. Currently, I am trying to eliminate the connect option from pppd's option files. Ppp-functions would be called like this: /etc/ppp/ppp-functions dial hostname username ip-up parms, with stdin, stdout, and stderr redirected to the serial port. Ppp-functions could then use whatever means nescessary to dial. This would allow for dialing several numbers in round-robin fashion, better redial capabilities, enhanced logging, etc. Hints for the debian developer(don't do this yet, as it is not official) If a package wants to be run when pppd is on, then include a file /etc/ppp/scripts.d/packagename. In the postinst, run the command ppp-update.d. runleveldirectory old method (relative to /etc/ppp/) init(just before modem init)init.d cnct(modem finished connecting cnct.d but before ip-layer starts) online(ip-layer is up) online.dip-up offline(ip-layer is down) offline.d ip-down discnct(modem is disconnected) discnct.d idle(pppd is in the holdtime) idle.d ppp-update.d defaults to online.d/S20 and offline.d/K20. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New handling of scripts external to PPPD (ie ip-up, ip-down)
If a package wants to be run when pppd is on, then include a file /etc/ppp/scripts.d/packagename. In the postinst, run the command ppp-update.d. And in the prerm, presumably? I like the proposal, by the way. My only possible concern is that it is perhaps a little too complicated, but sometimes that is needed to buy extra flexibility. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LINUX Proxy
I have used socks, and ipmasq and transproxy (just to toss another one into the pile) If you are only after ftp or http proxying then squid or transproxy or socks is possibly the way to go, although if you are connecting through a modem from the linux box to your ISP, you may be better off setting up your linux box as a masquerade host, and use your ISP's high speed proxy server, after all a modem is not a megabit link. If you wish to use IRC Chat programs, or ICQ and the like... Masquerading is the way to go. As far as I am aware a proxy can't handle them. I am of the opinion that socks and proxy servers will be slower than ipmasq, as the proxy actually makes the request on your behalf, whereas ipmasq merely changes the header and passes the message through. I have 5 machines here at work hooked through a 486 DX2 66 and although it can get slow at times when three people are hammerring it, and is adequate. You can only squeeze so much info through a modem, so the speed of you box will not be a stumbling block. Ipmasq will run quite adequately on a 486 DX2 50. I also use ipmasq at home with 3 machines hooked to it. Ian -- From: Jay D. Winks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: LINUX Proxy Date: Tuesday, 17 March 1998 1:58 PMan: Well, out of the five responses I got from a post in the debian users group, I got four mentions of IPMasq, and two mentions of a proxy called SQUID. Nobody even mentioned SOCKS, but I have definitely heard of it from my many run-throughs of NT configuration. Which way do y'all have it set up at your home? Remember that we will have three users instead of the two, and would usually prefer to use the proxy than a straight dial-up. Just what quality connections could we expect to get out of the following system: Thanks. Jay Winks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New handling of scripts external to PPPD (ie ip-up, ip-down)
On 16 Mar 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: If a package wants to be run when pppd is on, then include a file /etc/ppp/scripts.d/packagename. In the postinst, run the command ppp-update.d. And in the prerm, presumably? Yes, I assumed the developers would get that bit. I like the proposal, by the way. My only possible concern is that it is perhaps a little too complicated, but sometimes that is needed to buy extra flexibility. I know that. Maybe I could have it still exec ip-up and ip-down at the appropriate times. This is a list of scripts I have in /etc/ppp/scripts.d/ -rwx--x--x 1 root root 288 Mar 15 17:00 chime* -rwx--x--x 1 root root 120 Mar 16 09:53 cleanup* -rwx--x--x 1 root root 247 Mar 14 02:58 distributed-net* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 147 Mar 15 18:03 exim* -rwx--x--x 1 root root 105 Mar 16 02:22 fetchmail* -rwx--x--x 1 root root 258 Mar 14 02:59 logger* -rwx--x--x 1 root root 155 Mar 16 02:03 mirror* -rwx--x--x 1 root root 390 Mar 14 02:59 named.cache* -rwx--x--x 1 root root 243 Mar 14 03:00 ntpdate* -rwx--x--x 1 root root 376 Mar 14 03:00 pppstats* -rwx--x--x 1 root root 90 Mar 14 03:00 tcpdump* -rwx--x--x 1 root root 646 Mar 14 03:00 wget* tcpdump start on tty11. pppstats on tty10 mirror is on tty9, getting debian currently. fetchmail runs on tty8, in daemon mode, non-detach Everything else I will let you guess at. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Repost question regarding Netscape Communicator 4.04and News
I was not quite subscribed to this list when I originally posted this: === I have fallen WAY behind on the latest with Netscape Communicator, so forgive me if this has been answered... I checked on the debian faq-o-matic and support pages first. I am running Communicator 4.04 just recently upgraded from 4.03, and Debian version 1.3+ from a few months ago Whenever I attempt to read news, I get a bus error. Otherwise, everything works great. This was occurring with 4.03 as well. Are there any workarounds for this problem? Has anyone else experienced this one? I did not experience this with 3.x versions of Navigator. I have tried with and without the gnumalloc.so lib, along with various other settings. It seems that I cannot add a new News server, so that trying to read discussions crashes. I installed it without using the debian install scripts, since I had installed it long ago without them into /usr/local ... Thanks Dan Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
botched hamm(after freeze) upgrade
Strange things have happened after my upgrade from unstable, after the freeze. apache does not want to load, something about permission denied on /var/log/apache/access.log(error.log). And when I popclient -a mail off my isp's server... sendmail sends it to procmail, but it takes forever to be delivered locally. Also, there are multiple invocations of sendmail/procmail. I am not including versions, I just want to know if others are having this trouble. Thanks -- Walter L. Preuninger IIwaldo @ irc.wasteland.org:#unix [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] L I N U X Where You Really Should Be! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on Thinkpad 560x...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, :: Nuts... how did that evade me?? I had tried as you suggested :: and it booted up just fine :)... is there anywhere I can get :: the configuration for the Tecra kernel so I can build one :: for hamm?? :I believe the part that makes them work on Thinkpads is the fact they're :built as zImage rather than bzImage. For some reason bzImage :kernels cause Thinkpads, and many other laptops, freak out during boot. :If you use kernel-package you can still generate a zImage ... I forget :exactly how. Otherwise, just do make dep; make clean; make zImage ... :as usual. make-kpkg --zImage ... I created a set of boot-floppies with Bruce's boot-floppy package and another test bootdisk (using the same kernel configuration). The boot-floppies hang on me after the loading linux.. but I manage to advance to beyond the scroll of kernel boot messages until I got a kernel panick (due to no root device). Any idea?? If possible, can anyone advise on how I can get the configuration of the bo-tecra boot-disk... or has anyone successfully installed hamm on the thinkpad (esp 560x). Thanks again... Just me, Wire ... -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] For PGP public key : finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = EC A6 98 25 5B D9 38 40 74 BC 0C C9 0F 81 BE 92 -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X and mouse
I can't seem to get my mouse to work with XFree86 3.3.2. In my previous version of XFree86 (3.2) I was able to get the mouse to work using device /dev/psaux and protocol PS/2, but the server didn't run for other reasons unrelated to the mouse, and someone suggested I upgrade the server. With XFree86 3.3.2 I can't get the mouse working with /dev/psaux PS/2 or any other of the many combinations of device and protocol that I've tried. (This is a laptop.) What should I try next? David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sysvinit and kbd
Trying to avoid a problem discussed on the developers' list, I snarfed the latest sysvinit and kbd off Incoming of a mirror this morning, and installed over what was probably the offending pair. The new packages are: kbd_0.95-6_i386.deb and sysvinit_2.74-2_i386.deb Unhappily, at the end of the simultaneous install, dpkg reported that /etc/rcS.d/S05keymaps.sh was now not a link to the correct file. This meant that I had to intervene. I didn't know what to do. I make the indicated symlink, but fear to turn off my machine unitl I am sure that I did the right thing. This is as I have linked it: S05keymaps.sh - ../init/keymaps.sh I seek confirmation as to whether my machine is now ok. Alan Davis -- Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis planet. We speak for Earth. Our[EMAIL PROTECTED] obligation to survive is owed not just to Marianas High School ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient AAA196, Box 10001 and vast, from which we spring.Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---Carl SaganGMT+10 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sysvinit and kbd questions (continued)
The message I am getting comes from /usr/sbin/update-rc.d, which is called by
the kbd.postinst script.
if (($linkdst ne ../init.d/$bn) ($linkdst ne ../init.d/$bn)) {
print STDERR update-rc.d: warning: $fn is not a link to
../init.d/$bn\n;
return 0;
I got this message again when I tried to reinstall over the first
installation (with the links I had installed (
/etc/rcS.d/S05keymaps.sh - ../init/keymaps.sh).
I still don't get it.
Alan Davis
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Re: LINUX Proxy
Ian Perry wrote: I have used socks, and ipmasq and transproxy (just to toss another one into the pile) If you wish to use IRC Chat programs, or ICQ and the like... Masquerading is the way to go. As far as I am aware a proxy can't handle them. SOCKS5 is capable handle IRC (I dont know aout dcc but all the rest is OK) I am of the opinion that socks and proxy servers will be slower than ipmasq, as the proxy actually makes the request on your behalf, whereas ipmasq merely changes the header and passes the message through. We are using SOCKS on 64k leased line with 20-50 users. Quite speedy connection on SOCKS. (machine 486 dx2/66 /16 MB RAM) james -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: many many segfaults
On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 01:21:26PM -0500, Thomas Lakofski wrote: One of my debian boxes is becoming increasingly unstable, with general protection faults and segfaults almost every day now. Check out http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ for documentation on hardware problems causing segfaults. HTH, Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lilo, linux and win95
** Reply to note from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 14 Mar 1998 12:38:28 -0500 (EST) /dev/hda1 Boot Primary Dos FAT16 (has Win95 installed on it) /dev/hda5 Logical Linux /dev/hda6 Logical Linux Swap From the numbering above, I can surmise that you installed linux into an Extended DOS partition. No, that's apparentally standard config. It was installed straight into a linux partition. - MBR of the first hard disk. (/dev/hda, ...) - boot sector of a primary Linux file system partition on the first hard disk. (/dev/hda1, ...) - partition boot sector of an extended partition on the first hard disk. (/dev/hda1, ...)* Tried all these and she no work with LILO.however I did solve the problem by installing the OS/2 Boot Manager program. I had worked on trying to install it with LILO for pretty close to three days on and offwith Boot Manager installed, I was able to do a re-install of both Win95 and linux in about an hour or so. :-) Thanks for your inputmuch appreciated. :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lilo, linux and win95
To all that replied to my LILO, Win95 and Linux problem..thanks very much for responding to my plea for help. Much appreciated! :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lynx
Howdy all.:-) Can someone please tell me which file contains the information for which directory lynx places it's downloaded files in? I checked over lynx.conf but there doesn't seem to be any reference, AFAIK, regarding the download directory in this file. Funny thing is, I used it for the first time today, to download the java runtime (rt-v5-libc5.tar.gz) and the download seem to proceed normally but now I can't find the file on my harddrive! Using find doesn't seem to be able to locate it either...in fact, I am fairly convinced it's not present on the harddrive at all but where the heck it went is beyound me. grin One other point: http://java.blackdown refers to a file named jre-v5-*.tar.gz for downloading the java runtime from any of the mirrors; I tried quite a few of them and this particualr filename was not to been seen on any of them. The closest reference to a similar filename was the above mentioned, rt-v5-libc5.tar.gz. Is this in fact the file I need to obtain the java runtime (and no there has been no previous versions of the JDK or runtime installed on this system so I would assume the JDK upgrade kit wouldn't work) ? Thanks..:-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lynx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please tell me which file contains the information for which directory lynx places it's downloaded files in? I checked over lynx.conf but there doesn't seem to be any reference, AFAIK, regarding the download directory in this file. My lynx puts downloaded files in the current directory where I have started the browser. So if you have been in some strange place in your filesystem it might be difficult to find the file. If you have installed locate from package findutils you could try locate my_file but run updatedb or /etc/cron.daily/find beforehand. Funny thing is, I used it for the first time today, to download the java runtime (rt-v5-libc5.tar.gz) and the download seem to proceed normally but now I can't find the file on my harddrive! Using find doesn't seem to be able to locate it either...in fact, I am fairly convinced it's not present on the harddrive at all but where the heck it went is beyound me. grin Sometimes lynx messes up my downloads. I prefer using wget for big files and I can highly recommend it. It even can continue interrupted http-downloads on the next day. -- a href=http://www.einblick.de/; Frank Barknecht Das Koelner Stadt- und Unimagazin - /a -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lilo, linux and win95
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, it was written: /dev/hda1 Boot Primary Dos FAT16 (has Win95 installed on it) /dev/hda5 Logical Linux /dev/hda6 Logical Linux Swap From the numbering above, I can surmise that you installed linux into an Extended DOS partition. No, that's apparentally standard config. It was installed straight into a linux partition. Yes, but hda5 (and above) are the equivalent of DOS extended partitions (or to be more precise, DOS logical partitions). the fact it is a linux or linux native partiton is only refering to it's system ID (0x83). this ID helps linux recognise what type of partition it is. Linux/Swap/DOS etc... Even in linux, these partition's are called logical partition's. For a better explanation, take a look at the partition mini-HOWTO, under the section What is a partition anyway? Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- If at first you don't succeed, you must be using Windows. Get Linux! --- Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New handling of scripts external to PPPD (ie ip-up, ip-down)
Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On my system there is *NO* ip-up, or ip-down. Pppd shells out to
/etc/ppp/ppp-functions, with the first parameter being a runlevel, and the
rest the normal parameters passed to ip-up. Then, ppp-functions sets up some
variables, and runs /etc/ppp/rc runlevel. Rc is similiar to the rc that
init uses, in that there are kill scripts and start scripts for each level.
There is already something like this, I believe.
$ ls -R /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down}.d
/etc/ppp/ip-down.d:
fetchmail* isdnutils
/etc/ppp/ip-up.d:
fetchmail* isdnutils
Don't know how (or if) your suggestion fits into this.
Ciao,
Martin
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Re: Household proxy
On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 01:20:38AM -0600, Jay D. Winks wrote: O.K. So we've got 3-1/2 for IPMasq and 1-1/2 for squid To save bandwidth on the dialup link I suggest to use both. They do not conflict. To make it even more tranparent for the users, you should consider trans-proxy too. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpL0jhIeNjww.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Domain Name
On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: I'm not sure If my first attempt got through... probly mail server crash did it... *GRIN* In the /etc/issue file you can use the \n.\o sequence to get a copy of your hostname and domain name right? In that case, why to I get omnic.(none) ??? Where is this (none) coming from? Pure interest here, I have just been playing with it I've solved it by not only setting the hostname but also the domainname at boot time. If you're running 'unstable', it's in /etc/init.d/hostname.sh, otherwise I think it's in /etc/init.d/boot . You'll find a command like hostname --file /etc/hostname After this, add the command domainname --file /etc/domainname Make sure /etc/hostname contains your hostname and that /etc/domainname contains your domain name. Then it all works. I don't know if this is the right way to do it, but it works for me. My /etc/issue contains these lines, which are quite informative about the system: Welcome to \n.\o at \l This system runs \s \r on \m Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: syntax error in cron start-up file at boot-time
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, James Dietrich wrote: The subject fairly sums up the problem: Below is a snip of the messages that are displayed upon booting. [snip] Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd. /etc/rc2.d/S89cron: line 20: syntax error near unexpected token `;' /etc/rc2.d/S89cron: line 20: ` ; cron reloads automatically' [snip] What do I need to do to fix this problem? I am running the latest from hamm. You can change the ';' that starts line 20 by a '#' and the problem should go away. A bug report has already been filed on this issue and it should be fixed real soon now. Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lynx get stuck (sort of...it's an annoyance)
On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 12:31:56PM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alain Toussaint) writes: i'm writing because when i visit web pages in lynx and when i press on a link who's not working,lynx patiently wait for the server to answer (witch can take a very long time sometime) and i cannot do anything except doing the CTRL-C boogie and when i do so,i lose my page (and often,i dont remember the URL of the page in question),does there is a way for configuring lynx so that after a time it say an error message that the server doesn't answer and recover from being stuck ??? Doesn't the single key press z - Cancel transfer in progress do what you wish? This is from the help file which can be invoked by pressing h and then choosing Key-stroke Commands. Also Ctrl-G does a good work for me... Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows under DosEmu
On Sun, Mar 15, 1998 at 04:55:24PM -0600, Asher Haig wrote: I'm told that it's possible to run Windows under DosEmu. What's the truth in this? You *can* run Win3.1 under Dosemu, and there is a lot of documenattion in /usr/doc/dosemu about it, BUT: You need Windows and Os/2 license. Better to use a windows emulator. Wine is there, and Twin also (no TWIN debian package at the moment, because TWIN does not compile under libc6. You can find it under http://www.willows.com). Please no responses asking why I want to run Windows... It's a need, not a desire. I would recommend to buy Wabi. It is low cost from caldera and does its job pretty good (much better than the free emulators). Or run it in a Network. There are several possibilities. One is the use of Vnc server onthe Windows machine and vncclient on the Linux machine or the other way round. Thank you, Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows under DosEmu
On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 04:03:30PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 06:56:30PM -0300, Nelson Posse Lago wrote: The basic trick for win95 is to create a 64Mb swap partition for linux and configure DOSEMU to report 64Mb of expanded/extended memory to applications. Then allow full direct access to the HP partition where win95 lives in. To switch from win95 to another Virtual Console, *first* open a dos prompt under windows and then try CRTL-ALT-Fx ; this probably has to do with the video mode. Are you saying that Win95 will run under Dosemu? Really? Please? :) Sure. And Linux does infinite loops in 5 seconds. Oh, come on, guys. Win95 runs in ring 0, this is a no-no under Linux, because this is kernel mode. There is hardly any chance that Win32 application will run under Wine or Twin willows soon. Ts-ts-ts, Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Domain Name
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: I'm not sure If my first attempt got through... probly mail server crash did it... *GRIN* In the /etc/issue file you can use the \n.\o sequence to get a copy of your hostname and domain name right? In that case, why to I get omnic.(none) ??? Where is this (none) coming from? Pure interest here, I have just been playing with it I've solved it by not only setting the hostname but also the domainname at boot time. If you're running 'unstable', it's in /etc/init.d/hostname.sh, otherwise I think it's in /etc/init.d/boot . You'll find a command like hostname --file /etc/hostname After this, add the command domainname --file /etc/domainname Make sure /etc/hostname contains your hostname and that /etc/domainname contains your domain name. Then it all works. I don't know if this is the right way to do it, but it works for me. My /etc/issue contains these lines, which are quite informative about the system: Welcome to \n.\o at \l This system runs \s \r on \m Remco Are you running NIS ? The only domainname executable that I saw with a grep of hamm/Contents came from net/nis. My box returns elm.(none). I noticed this a year or so ago but had forgotten it. I am about to make your suggested mods but don't want to reboot just for that grin. Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 248632.0125S 115.8445Evk6lj Debian Unix =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lynx
On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 01:33:38AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy all.:-) Can someone please tell me which file contains the information for which directory lynx places it's downloaded files in? I checked over lynx.conf but there doesn't seem to be any reference, AFAIK, regarding the download directory in this file. Either in the HOME directory or in the current directory, I'm not sure. They have strange names like L7456476.TMP or so. They will be deleted when lynx gets terminated! You have to download with d and then press return or -. Then you will be prompted for the filename. You should give an absolute name if you are unsure about your current directory. For ftp, a standard ftp server is better (ftp), because you can reget files. One other point: http://java.blackdown refers to a file named jre-v5-*.tar.gz for downloading the java runtime from any of the mirrors; I tried quite a few of them and this particualr filename was not to been seen on any of them. The closest reference to a similar filename was the above mentioned, rt-v5-libc5.tar.gz. ;) The asterisk is a wild card. You have to imagine a string there, that specifies your operating system ;) I think, libc5 is good for *. Is this in fact the file I need to obtain the java runtime (and no there has been no previous versions of the JDK or runtime installed on this system so I would assume the JDK upgrade kit wouldn't work) ? I think so. Note that * is not really part of a filename. It is a pattern that matches all strings. So jre-v5-*.tar.gz matches all stringst that start with jre-v5- and end with .tar.gz jre-v5-.tar.gz jre-v5-foobar.tar.gz jre-v5-MY_NAME_IS_BILL_AND_IM_FROM_AOL_HELP.tar.gz jre-v5-libc5.tar.gz jre-v5-bloody_hell_are_you_using_windoze.tar.gz Bye, Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Household proxy
Oh, wow... how can you increase throughput on a modem by increasing the services that put demands on it? Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 01:20:38AM -0600, Jay D. Winks wrote: O.K. So we've got 3-1/2 for IPMasq and 1-1/2 for squid To save bandwidth on the dialup link I suggest to use both. They do not conflict. To make it even more tranparent for the users, you should consider trans-proxy too. Nils -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Taking over vnc, vnc-doc. Also xdm information request.
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: although I don't understand what it is doing, it is working quite good now. X11 magic cookies are usually generated when a user logs in, XDM copies them to the ~user/.Xauthority file which is supposed to be readable only by the user. The server also knows the cookie's value. The idea is that each X11 client which connected to the X server proves that he can read your .Xauthority file by sending the cookie (or some variation on it, so people can't sniff it from the net). Since the cookie is (hopefully) very random there is very little chance that an imposter will be able to guess it. More than one cookie can be stored in each file, and they are associated with a particular display. The X server disntinguishes between the UNIX-domain socket (the one used in :0.0) and the TCP port 6000 socket (the ones used when giving a hostname), that's why you have to copy the cookie twice - once for each display you might use. Now that I don't have any problems, could you probably drop me a few lines what it is about xauth... Maybe you even want to post it on debian-user, as I think it is an important issue but most people do something like host authorization etc... if I have understood it, I would volunteer to write a few things for the Debian Faq-o-matic. Thanks. Hope it's OK with you that I simply send a copy to debian-user, I'm not subscribed to that list (I hardly manage to follow debian-devel, and this is just because as a package maintainer I am obliged to subscribe to it). Now to the quote above: Xvnc is using a single password for authorization. The startup scripts uses the above lines I do not understand. Later a viewer client can connect to the server via TCP, only giving the password stored in a file readable by the server. I don't think that this is a very elegant solution, but I'm afraid that there is not much we can do about it... I haven't peeped into vnc yet so I don't knw exactly the context in which this script runs. The basic thing is that it uses xauth (the authority file management program) to add new cookies to the .Xauthority file (or whatever file the XAUTHORITY envariable points to). BTW, you better use something more random for the seed, like (from the perlfunc manual): srand (time ^ $$ ^ unpack %L*, `ps axww | gzip`); read the srand section in perlfunc for more detail. Using the SUM of the pid and time is not random enough since a proximate guess is pretty easely obtainable (anyone knows what's the time, and pid's can be aproximated from current pid lists). You might also want to look at the debian archives for even better random number generators, or use Linux' /dev/urandom. Cheers, --Amos -- --Amos Shapira | Of course Australia was marked for | glory, for its people had been chosen [EMAIL PROTECTED]| by the finest judges in England. | -- Anonymous -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netscape Mail
Hi, I'd like to know if anyone has experience this problem with NetScape Communicator (debian version 4.0-5). The netscape mail never download mail at the interval I specified in the mail preference window! Is there a way to fix this? Thanks -- Timothy C. Phan Intelligence Quest Research, INC. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hamm on CD
Greetings Debian Users Now that Hamm is frozen, I'm thinking I'd like to try it out. Are there any cd images available yet? I would *much* rather install from cd. We have a fairly quick net connection at work, and I can burn a cd there, while my home machine only has a 33.whaterver modem (on a good day). If I have to make my own cd image, can anyone point me to some instructions? Or tell me how they did it? Or what to watch out for? Thanks! Dale -- Dale P. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cleveland Linux Users Group: http://cleveland.lug.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Screwed list: debian-alpha
Hi folks, Due to the failure on master we lost the mailing list for the alpha port: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list was already screwed on the old listserver and so on var, our temporary and backup list server. I now have created debian-alpha on the new listserver but had no chance recovering the distribution file. So if you were subscribed to debian-alpha you need to subscribe yourself again. Same for new people, of course. To subscribe, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of subscribe. If you have problems feel free to contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards... Joey -- Individual Network e.V. . Martin Schulze .OrgaTech [EMAIL PROTECTED]_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geschaeftszeit: Di+Mi+Fr, 15-18 Uhr _/Tel: (0441) 9834715 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Frozen Hamm
Hi, I'd like to know if Hamm/ has really been frozen? I just check the debian home site and the news did not mention about this. Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan Intelligence Quest Research, INC. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on Thinkpad 560x...
On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 02:23:12PM +0800, Tan Wee Yeh wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, :: Nuts... how did that evade me?? I had tried as you suggested :: and it booted up just fine :)... is there anywhere I can get :: the configuration for the Tecra kernel so I can build one :: for hamm?? :I believe the part that makes them work on Thinkpads is the fact they're :built as zImage rather than bzImage. For some reason bzImage :kernels cause Thinkpads, and many other laptops, freak out during boot. :If you use kernel-package you can still generate a zImage ... I forget :exactly how. Otherwise, just do make dep; make clean; make zImage ... :as usual. make-kpkg --zImage ... I created a set of boot-floppies with Bruce's boot-floppy package and another test bootdisk (using the same kernel configuration). The boot-floppies hang on me after the loading linux.. but I manage to advance to beyond the scroll of kernel boot messages until I got a kernel panick (due to no root device). Any idea?? If possible, can anyone advise on how I can get the configuration of the bo-tecra boot-disk... or has anyone successfully installed hamm on the thinkpad (esp 560x). Thanks again... Just me, Wire ... -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] For PGP public key : finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes! Hamm runs just fine here on stinkpad 560. Also have it on a 760L. All of this pre-dates hamm installation disks though. Brought them up on bo disks, and made the libc6 conversions. I don't do dselect either but rather dpkg -i for each package. IMHO you should work in the goodies one at a time. X took a lot of work. APMD would not run w/o a patch that I found, and you probably need to exclude floppy from the kernel config. (Do insmod floppy to use it.) My apmd still tanks when I load serial.o. HTH! davew -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . . . . . My other computer runs Linux! If the ends don't justify the means, then what does? -- Robert Moses -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows under DosEmu
On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 03:45:15AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 04:03:30PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 06:56:30PM -0300, Nelson Posse Lago wrote: The basic trick for win95 is to create a 64Mb swap partition for linux and configure DOSEMU to report 64Mb of expanded/extended memory to applications. Then allow full direct access to the HP partition where win95 lives in. To switch from win95 to another Virtual Console, *first* open a dos prompt under windows and then try CRTL-ALT-Fx ; this probably has to do with the video mode. Are you saying that Win95 will run under Dosemu? Really? Please? :) Sure. And Linux does infinite loops in 5 seconds. :) Oh, come on, guys. Win95 runs in ring 0, this is a no-no under Linux, because this is kernel mode. There is hardly any chance that Win32 application will run under Wine or Twin willows soon. Win95 can run under SCO, so it isn't impossible -- just a lot of work. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PPP to multiple Internet Provider
I successfuly installed Debian 1.3.1.r6 and ran pop, poff to connect to my provider. I would like to use a command that let me choose between several providers, something like pon atslink or pon dadanet. I would like also: - Users in a selected group (e.g. dip) can do po and poff without being superuser. - An appropriate nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx line should be put in top of /etc/resolv.conf, so the nameserver of the selected provider is used first (again users should do that not being root). I think this is a simple task of writing some scripts, but does Debian have something already done? Please reply by mail too! Niccolo Firenze - Italy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
19980317 Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: prospective-packages.html,v 1.6 1998/03/17 16:15:53 johnie Exp $ This document is intended to identify areas that need your contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite often, so it supplements the regular Debian Developer documentation: [1]http://www.debian.org/developers_corner.html. This document provides the current list of packages which are either: * orphaned, * withdrawn from the unstable distribution, * maintained but its developer would like to find a new person, * currently being worked on to include in the distribution, and * good ideas -- they would be nice to have, but no one is yet working on them. New versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP: * [2]http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html * [3]ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective-pa ckages.txt * [4]ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective-pa ckages.html Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to the WNPP maintainer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Please mention which version of this document your comments refer. Try to change the subject of your mail to reflect the packages you're talking about, it makes it easier for to sort out all Re: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages emails. A suggested subject line reads WNPP: removing foopackage or WNPP: working on barpackage. Thanks. _ Recent Changes Since version 1998/03/10 This list does not yet contain the packages newly added to project/orphaned. Packages needing a new maintainer * The mp3info, xmikmod, ytalk, ucblogo, wdb, and xpuzzles packages are now orphaned. * Karl Hegbloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) needs a new maintainer for cvsweb, gv, procmail-lib, rel, cgi-wrap, browser-history, and suidmanager. * The deliver MDA needs a new maintainer. Packages adopted * The KDE suite and Kmodplayer are adopted by Stephan Kulow of KDE and Christian Hammers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). * The premail package is adopted by Brent Fulgham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). * The blt suite of Tk extensions is adopted by Gordon Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). * The dvi2tty package is adopted by Darren/Torin/Who Ever... ( [EMAIL PROTECTED]). * The catdoc package is adopted by new maintainer Bjorn Brenander ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). * The xcolors and xoj packages are adopted by new maintainer Fredrik Hallenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) * The hyperlatex package is adopted by Matthias Klose ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Packages being created * The Quake II deathmatch map package is being created by Roderick Schertler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). * A tasktimer package is being created by Robert Edmonds ([EMAIL PROTECTED], IRC stu). * PalmPilot packages (gcc-m68k-palmos-coff, gdb-m68k-palmos-coff, and prc-tools) and vMac, a Macintosh emulator, are being worked on by Gene McCulley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). _ Orphaned packages An orphaned package is a package that has no current maintainer. Please inform the WNPP maintainer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) via e-mail: * when you find that you need to orphan a package, * when you believe that the following list is incomplete, or * when you would like to maintain one of these packages. The following packages are orphaned: By the Debian QA Group (debian-qa@lists.debian.org): * 9wm -- An emulation of the Plan 9 window manager 8-1/2 * bibindex -- fast lookup in BibTeX bibliography data bases * latex2rtf -- LaTeX text to RTF format translator * mcvert -- Tool to deal with specially encoded Macintosh files (non-free) * pari -- A package for number theorists (non-free) * paridoc -- The documentation and examples for the PARI system (non-free) * rc -- An implementation of the ATT Plan 9 shell. * sam -- A plan9 derived text editor * ucbmpeg -- MPEG video encoder and analysis tools (non-free) * ucbmpeg-play -- Software-only MPEG video player (non-free) * xabacus -- Implementation of the classic Chinese abacus * xbattle -- A concurrent multi-player battle strategy game * xmcpustate -- Displays CPU/Swap/Memory/Network load * xpuzzles -- Collection of puzzles for X By Clint Adams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * mp3info -- MPEG audio layer
[off-topic] Iomega Zip Plus through PPA ?
Hello, As my subject line says, has any of you been able to access an Iomega Zip Plus through a parallel port connection ? I'm always getting the following error message from the kernel driver (kernel 2.0.30, driver 0.26): PPA: Unable to initialise controller at 0x378, error 2 (yes, the parallel port address is correct for the machine). I tested this on 2 different machines (laptops) and always got the same error. The Zip is new and known to be working (tested under NT, also parallel connection). Thanks in advance for any insight. Cheers. Bye. Ph. A. -- //\\ \\// ///\\\ SCITEX /*-*/ /* Scitex Europe, S.A. | Philippe Andersson */ /* Dreve Richelle, 161, E-F,| PC Network Specialist */ /* 1410 WATERLOO| [EMAIL PROTECTED]*/ /* BELGIUM | +32-2-352.25.93 Fax: +32-2-352.25.84 */ /*-*/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows under DosEmu
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 04:03:30PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 06:56:30PM -0300, Nelson Posse Lago wrote: The basic trick for win95 is to create a 64Mb swap partition for linux and configure DOSEMU to report 64Mb of expanded/extended memory to applications. Then allow full direct access to the HP partition where win95 lives in. To switch from win95 to another Virtual Console, *first* open a dos prompt under windows and then try CRTL-ALT-Fx ; this probably has to do with the video mode. Are you saying that Win95 will run under Dosemu? Really? Please? :) Yes, that's exaclty what I'm saying. Sure. And Linux does infinite loops in 5 seconds. Yep, everybody knows linux is really cool :-))) Oh, come on, guys. Win95 runs in ring 0, this is a no-no under Linux, because this is kernel mode. Well, I thought so also, but I've seen reports of success from people that wouldn't be spreading misinformation. I think win95 will accept to run under DMPI, which dosemu emulates, and that's the trick. There have been reports of success and of problems, but quite a few people seem to have done it, and they state it runs ok. They have also reported a few filesystem wipe-outs before success too ;-) . Now, the problem is that you have to give direct access to the win95 partition, which means if win95 goes south (I think this happens sometimes ;-), linux is not able to protect that filesystem, and you don't have permissions etc. The only advantage of doing this is not having to reboot (which is cool enough). See ya, Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's Internet! It's all true, and you don't know nothing yet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [off-topic] Iomega Zip Plus through PPA ?
As my subject line says, has any of you been able to access an Iomega Zip Plus through a parallel port connection ? Check out http://www.torque.net/~campbell/ In short: driver for Zip Plus (PP connection) is not yet available. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPP to multiple Internet Provider
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Niccolo Rigacci wrote: I think this is a simple task of writing some scripts, but does Debian have something already done? The ppp on hamm does this. You can say pon provider. The newest proposal to ppp on hamm, will (I think) address the second situation. You way want to fetch the source packge and take a look at the scripts (they are really simple) Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New handling of scripts external to PPPD (ie ip-up, ip-down)
Hi! Adam Heath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am thinking of more places to add runlevels. Currently, I am trying to eliminate the connect option from pppd's option files. Ppp-functions would be called like this: /etc/ppp/ppp-functions dial hostname username ip-up parms, with stdin, stdout, and stderr redirected to the serial port. Ppp-functions could then use whatever means nescessary to dial. This would allow for dialing several numbers in round-robin fashion, better redial capabilities, enhanced logging, etc. hmm, somehow I feel a little uncomfortable with stderr /dev/ttyS?? a) errors *MAY* confuse a modem b) warnings *WILL* confise a modem c) nobody except of myself needs to know when I wasn't able to write a working script I'd prefer stderr /dev/null And put the following to the connect script: # you may uncomment the following to debug this script #exec 2/tmp And since you mentioned improved logging: How do you think about teaching chat to use syslog for REPORT, SAY and (optionaly) specify a filename|stderr to override this. This way you needn't fill up your syslogs with the verbose chat output and still keep track of your connect-rate. I modified chat from 2.3.2 to (only) sylog REPORTs - it wasn't very hard. I think it's great to add something like hostname and username. But I'm a little curious where from you intend to get the hostname? :-( Hmm, I suppose using the argument from pppd's call option isn't appropriate, isn#t it? Did you already elaborate how handle inbound setup? Or diald? How Do you intend to tell pppd wether it needs to run ppp-functions dial. If a package wants to be run when pppd is on, then include a file /etc/ppp/scripts.d/packagename. In the postinst, run the command ppp-update.d. And what happens when a package is installed before pppd is? Regards Rainer --- KeyID=58341901 fingerprint=A5 57 04 B3 69 88 A1 FB 78 1D B5 64 E0 BF 72 EB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
portslave and cistron radiusd packaged for debian
Hi, I've found out that neither portslave nor cistron radiusd are packaged in debian format; they are not in debian's ftp and are not packaged on the original site. Since the author is a debian developer and the changelog file is in debian's format, this surprises me. Am I missing something or should I start packing them myself ;-) ? Thanks, Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's Internet! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Panic] dpkg-ftp upgrade removed required packages
I upgraded my hamm machine yesterday using dpkg-ftp. I now find that the following important (at least to me) packages are listed under the 'Removed' section - timezone7.55-2 libg++27-dev2.7.2.1-8 libgdbm1-dev1.7.3-19 Under 'Avail. ver' nothing is listed. Is this the result of the disk crash @ debian.org that I keep hearing about? S. -- Prohibition! They tried it in the movies and it did not work. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n International Websites Engineer http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Panic] dpkg-ftp upgrade removed required packages
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: I upgraded my hamm machine yesterday using dpkg-ftp. I now find that the following important (at least to me) packages are listed under the 'Removed' section - timezone 7.55-2 This is replaced by timezones. I'm suprised you still have it installed. libg++27-dev 2.7.2.1-8 This will be replaced to some extent by libstdc++28(-dev). It appears that hamm will use gcc 2.7.2.3 for C compilation and egcs/eg++ 1.0.2 with libstdc++28 for C++ (full STL support, much better C++ support in general). libgdbm1-dev 1.7.3-19 replaced by lingdbmg1-dev -- Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trouble with /var/spool/mail/????
Out of necessity, I have recently moved /var to another partition. I tar'ed up the directory and then untar'ed it on the new partition. This morning, I cannot get xfmail to open /var/spool/mail/user saying that it cannot lock the file. I figure the problem results from the movement of /var. Also, when I run dselect, I often see the message: Update-menus: Cannot remove lockfile /var/run/update-menus.pid which may come from the same cause. Any suggestions on solving these troubles? What are the appropriate permisions for /var/spool/mail/user? Thanks for any assistance, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Posting to the mailinglist...
I use xfmail to read debian-user. When xfmail lists a folder, one column displays the name of the sender of each message. However, when I send a message to the list, the column displays To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What am I doing differently than everyone else? Does this bug people? Thanks for any assistance, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows under DosEmu
Nelson Posse Lago [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The DOSEMU documentation mentions how to run win3 under dosemu; there's a Brazilian linux user that wrote a mini-HOWTO (in portuguese...) on running win95 under DOSEMU, and others reported success (and failure ;-). Would there be any changes of getting that translated in English? Portuguese, anyone?-) Suonpää... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache
In updating apache from bo to hamm, we no longer can view compressed html files. With the bo version of apache, we were able to view *.html.gz files as if they were uncompressed. I uderstand that the AddEncodeing x-gzip gz directive in srm.conf was supposed to have enabled this, but I can't seem to get it to work. Ideas anyone? Thanks, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New handling of scripts external to PPPD (ie ip-up, ip-down)
On 17 Mar 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On my system there is *NO* ip-up, or ip-down. Pppd shells out to
/etc/ppp/ppp-functions, with the first parameter being a runlevel, and the
rest the normal parameters passed to ip-up. Then, ppp-functions sets up
some
variables, and runs /etc/ppp/rc runlevel. Rc is similiar to the rc that
init uses, in that there are kill scripts and start scripts for each level.
There is already something like this, I believe.
$ ls -R /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down}.d
/etc/ppp/ip-down.d:
fetchmail* isdnutils
/etc/ppp/ip-up.d:
fetchmail* isdnutils
Don't know how (or if) your suggestion fits into this.
My suggestion(enhancement) is more refined. The current way doesn't allow
some programs to be run before others. Plus, I have more runlevels. This
would allow for an external dialer, instead of having to have the connect
option in pppd.
Please reread the original post, and think everything through carefully(not
meant as a flame).
Adam
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Re: Windows under DosEmu
On 16 Mar, Nelson Posse Lago wrote: On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Asher Haig wrote: I'm told that it's possible to run Windows under DosEmu. What's the truth in this? The DOSEMU documentation mentions how to run win3 under dosemu; there's a Brazilian linux user that wrote a mini-HOWTO (in portuguese...) on running win95 under DOSEMU, and others reported success (and failure ;-). Do you have a URL of the mini-HOWTO? Thanks, Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portslave and cistron radiusd packaged for debian
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nelson Posse Lago [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've found out that neither portslave nor cistron radiusd are packaged in debian format; they are not in debian's ftp and are not packaged on the original site. Since the author is a debian developer and the changelog file is in debian's format, this surprises me. Am I missing something or should I start packing them myself ;-) ? Well, I've givien away portslave as we don't use it anymore. Not much sense in developing an application if you don't use it and can't test it yourself.. As for radiusd-cistron, I have not much time to do development on it nowadays (something I regret) and also maintaining the Debian package would take too much time. It's not complete, docs are missing and I feel that a robust debian package would need more manpages and docs, something I cannot cater for at the moment. But if anyone would like to package those up as .debs and maintain them- fine with me. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Luck is when preparation meets opportunity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trouble with /var/spool/mail/????
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning, I cannot get xfmail to open /var/spool/mail/user saying that it cannot lock the file. I figure the problem results from the movement of /var. Make sure /var/spool/mail has the following permissions: $ ll -d /var/spool/mail drwxrwsr-t 2 root mail 1024 Mar 17 18:15 /var/spool/mail/ Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Luck is when preparation meets opportunity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows under DosEmu
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16 Mar, Nelson Posse Lago wrote: On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Asher Haig wrote: I'm told that it's possible to run Windows under DosEmu. What's the truth in this? The DOSEMU documentation mentions how to run win3 under dosemu; there's a Brazilian linux user that wrote a mini-HOWTO (in portuguese...) on running win95 under DOSEMU, and others reported success (and failure ;-). Do you have a URL of the mini-HOWTO? For those interested, this is the URL for the mini-HOWTO on running win95 under Dosemu. It has a copy of the dosemu.conf file the author used. As I mentioned, the catch is to open a DOS prompt in win95 before trying to switch virtual consoles, probably switching from graphics mode to text mode directly doesn't work for some reason. http://www.pro-unix.org/~puma Hope this helps, Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's Internet! The future? I've seen the future: It's a 46 years old virgin singing 'I am a hotdog' - From Demolition Man -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Posting to the mailinglist...
On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 10:56:38AM -0700, Paul Rightley wrote: I use xfmail to read debian-user. When xfmail lists a folder, one column displays the name of the sender of each message. However, when I send a message to the list, the column displays To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What am I doing differently than everyone else? Does this bug people? Thanks for any assistance, Paul I'm not sure about xfmail, but the To: is probably displayed because the From: line is you. If it says To: you know more information, that the mail is from you, and who you sent it to. Try looking in your sent mail folder -- most files are probably listed as To: instead of From:. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Next Level Communications[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian-2.0-Install-Disks
Hi, where can I find the Debian 2.0-installdisks? Those in /debian/hamm/main/disks-386 are labled 1.3 Thanx, Gernot -- - Gernot Bauer Salzburger Kredit- und Wechsel-Bank AG eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Office) Makartplatz 3, 5020 Salzburg Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austria/Europe Phone: ++43-662-8684-364 The answer is yes, me. Fax: ++43-662-8684-23 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing with LS-120 drive
Actually, I got the installation to work with the LS-120 drive. After installing debian and creating a boot floppy, upon reboot I get 'Loading...' and then the machine reboots... Thanks for the suggestions, Paul On 10-Mar-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that I did not understand what is the problem. I thought you can't *start* the installation process because the machine has no normal floppy drive. Reading your reply made me thought that the problem is that the installation process does not run becuase the default kernel could not get loaded. Where this problem is due to the special floppy drive. Well, if I got it correctly this time then a possible solution might be to get the installation process to start using a custom kernel. Where the custom kernel will not look for the fd, because it was compiled without any fd support. In any case, I am thinking of ways to make /dev/hdb the root partition. Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to this... The big problem with the machine we are installing Debian on is the fact that it does not have a normal floppy drive. I have not looked into using the LS-120 as the root partition, but I will try it one of these days. Paul I have persuaded a co-worker to install Debian on his machine. However, he has a LS-120 drive (essentially a 120MB capacity floppy) and no normal floppy drive. I wrote a resc1440.bin (from hamm/main/disks-i386/current) for him since rawrite2 will not work (apparently) with these disk drives. The problem is when it comes to install the kernel and modules on the HDD, the system cannot mount the floppy drive. I am trying to install Debian on /dev/hdb (an IDE drive), and /dev/hda has a NT installation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Addition: SMAIL and dynamic IP. [was SOLVED: EXMH can not send e-mail]
Hi, David!
Here is an e-mail that I got from Mark Carroll, who runs Debian/SMail/dynamic
IP, and kindly enough shared his configuration files. Well, perhaps it may
give you some more insights... He also mentioned that he welcomes questions
concerning this configuration. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
- PPP scripts ---
There is also a collectio of PPP scripts that his friend Mark Nielsen put on
the Web:
http://linux.med.ohio-state.edu/nielsen/modem/carroll/
-SMAIL config file -
Mark Carroll wrote:
Notice that I have carroll160.something as one of my visible names or
whatever. This domain doesn't exist and, if my machine were forwarding
mail to one with an MTA configured to try to catch junk mail, could cause
the mail to go off to God Knows Where and never be found again. I'm using
postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu as a smarthost.
# This is the main Smail configuration file.
# It was originally generated by `smailconfig', part of the Smail package
# distributed with Debian, but it may edited by the mail system administrator.
# It was originally generated by smailconfig at Thu Feb 26 12:44:51 EST 1998
# Please modify the above line, if you change this file by hand.
# See smailconf(5) for details of the things that can be configured here.
visible_name=carroll160.acs.ohio-state.edu
-domains
hostnames=stormcloud.acs.ohio-state.edu:carroll160.acs.ohio-state.edu
max_load_ave=5
smtp_accept_max=20
smtp_accept_queue=10
rfc1413_query_timeout=15
require_configs
-second_config_file
-qualify_file
-retry_file
copying_file=/usr/doc/smail/copyright
max_message_size=10M
received_field=Received: \
${if def:sender_host\
{from $sender_host ${if def:sender_host_addr ([$sender_host_addr]) }}\
{${if def:sender_host_addr:from [$sender_host_addr] }}}\
by $primary_name\n\t\
${if def:sender_proto: with $sender_proto }\
${if def:ident_sender:(ident $ident_sender using $ident_method) }\
id $message_id\n\t\
(Debian $version_string); $spool_date
SMAIL startup -
3. smail startup (text/plain)
#!/bin/sh
echo -n Starting smail...
smail -bd -q5m -Q
echo done
On Sat, 14 Mar 1998 02:59:32 CST, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote:
Hi, All!
Thanks to everyone who replyed on this message. I think problem is fixed
now,
and I would like to share my little experience.
[..]
For Mail program (package mailx) it is done in file:
/etc/smail/config
visible_name=domain # !! HERE !! fake name if you wish...
more_hostnames=localhost
-domains
hostnames=linuxbox.domain# here is the true name
For EXMH/MH program one need to modify:
/etc/mh/mtstailor
localname: domain
Thanks! This last step appears to be the the missing one I needed to
...
I don't know if these ideas are in keeping with relevant traditions, or
if they're the best ideas, but shouldn't configuring mail for dialup
networking be fairly straightforward, no matter what an individual's
preferred email client, as long as it's debianized?
If there are already plans to simplify mta and email client
configuration, please tell me so I don't pointlessly submit wish-list
items in the bug-db.
--
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LinuxMall e-mail Policy
debian-user: The following was posted to this group by a George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is not exactly a debian topic but it is something to do with the Linux community that concerns me. My Significant Other today received a giant spam from Linux Mall that can best be described as a website via email. She has never posted to a Linux newsgroup or mailing list and wants to know why she is getting spam from the Linux community. I took a look at it and it is a few pages of ads with html links to different web pages for products. Reminds me of Sanford Wallace's work. I once got a spam from these people after posting in a general linux newsgroup and vowed never to view their site. TIme passed, I got no more spam, so I started using it. Never again. They are now sending linux spam to people who do not even use linux. Since Linux users and the community in general tend to be heavier users of the net and usually understand the administrative headaches that come with unsolicited advertizing by email, I would like to ask others to join me in calling Linux Mall on the carpet in this instance and explain just exactly why they have chose such a rude and inconsiderate method of advertizing their offerings. I would hope that other Debian users might join me in avoiding Linux Mall and any of their product offerings. It appears that they have simply subscribed people to a mailing list without permission or request and require you to unsubscribe in order to stop the ads. I am ashamed to have Linux Mall associate itself with the Linux community. The Linuxmall sent him the following reply: I found the above in my postmaster file . What is your Significant Other email address and we will see to it that it is removed from out list. We do not use usenet groups or any other email list other then those who subscribe to them as we do not want to send email to those that do not want it. We have had some people who have sign up for our announcement list using other people's email address. We are more then happy to work with you on this matter. For the record any of our great customers who do not want to be on our email list can be removed with no problem. We DO NOT want to send email to anyone who does not want it. Only those customers who have sign on at our website at http://www.LinuxMall.com or sign up for Linux News or phone us get on this list. For the record George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] has not replied to our inquiry to remove the his Significant Other from our list. We at LinuxMall thank our wonderful customers for there great support. Thank You LinuxMall smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
RE: Posting to the mailinglist...
On 17-Mar-98 Paul Rightley wrote: I use xfmail to read debian-user. When xfmail lists a folder, one column displays the name of the sender of each message. However, when I send a message to the list, the column displays To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What am I doing differently than everyone else? Does this bug people? Thanks for any assistance, Paul XFMail displays the sender of every message, i.e. the From: field, unless the sender is yourself when it displays the addressee instead, i.e. the To: field. This way you get more info: If the message is not To: someone else, then you know it's To: you and you see who it's From:; when it is To: someone else, then you know its From: you and you see who it's To:. I think XFMail used to display From: for all messages by default, with the above being an alternative. It looks now as though it just does it. This doesn't bug any of us, since it's simply a matter of how XFMail displays the message list on your display. Hope this helps, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 17-Mar-98 Time: 19:07:35 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian-2.0-Install-Disks
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Wolfgang Gernot Bauer wrote: where can I find the Debian 2.0-installdisks? Those in /debian/hamm/main/disks-386 are labled 1.3 I'm pretty sure you were just looking at some outdated docs. The basecont.txt shows what is on the disk and the ii libc6 2.0.7pre1-1 is pretty good proof of what version it is. However, the disk are very buggy (with old versions of perl-base), so you may want to hold off until some new disk are uploaded. HTH, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Frozen Hamm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, iquest wrote: I'd like to know if Hamm/ has really been frozen? I just check the debian home site and the news did not mention about this. I would not mind at all if the announcement is made several days after the real freeze... hamm is currently not as usable as it was just a few days ago. Many packages have been moved out of hamm because of important bugs. I hope most of them will be reuploaded soon with these bugs fixed. As for the hamm boot disks, I have just heard there will be a new release of them soon also. You might want not to use the current ones. Thanks. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNQ7g1SqK7IlOjMLFAQELDAP+KeBMwyqa0YN3hk06OH3w6u8Bzm16O3fh lNoXsRhxRzWKdvMwKxHoy1EbDui8XX8/wiZza1krh0R5kuMIaS380LCOoSDEC4j7 wguOVzIVy9lE18n775e4DIV+CKsY2Dt2HCphTB0kNZWkRvEoo/Ata2XaTVNVV3xd 2kGcr3XQXJ4= =hU8d -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Posting to the mailinglist...
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Paul Rightley wrote: I use xfmail to read debian-user. When xfmail lists a folder, one column displays the name of the sender of each message. However, when I send a message to the list, the column displays To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What am I doing differently than everyone else? Does this bug people? Thanks for any assistance, This is typical of many mailers. It assumes you already know who you are. --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sysvinit and kbd SOLVED.
I have replaced the link and all is now well. Oh, but that's wrong. You're linking to ../init/.., NOT ../init.d/.. (note init vs init.d) Mike. Sorry for wasting bandwidth. Alan Davis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis planet. We speak for Earth. Our[EMAIL PROTECTED] obligation to survive is owed not just to Marianas High School ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient AAA196, Box 10001 and vast, from which we spring.Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---Carl SaganGMT+10 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Domain Name
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In that case, why to I get omnic.(none) ??? Where is this (none) coming from? IIRC, the glibc (or whatever is used to resolve the name) checks /etc/hosts. If your /etc/hostname reads omnic, then you should have a line like this in your /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 omnic.my.home omnic The fqdn has to be at the first place. Ciao, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sendmail ignores /etc/hosts
sendmail seems to ignore the entries in /etc/hosts, relying instead on doing a DNS lookup for each message. smail does this also. Is there a way to configure it to look first at /etc/hosts and use the DNS only if the address cannot be resolved there? I assume it doesn't use /etc/host.conf, because that already has: order hosts,bind multi on Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPP to multiple Internet Provider
Niccolo Rigacci [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Read on, if you can/want to use X. Otherwise, just go to the next article. I successfuly installed Debian 1.3.1.r6 and ran pop, poff to connect to my provider. I would like to use a command that let me choose between several providers, something like pon atslink or pon dadanet. The xisp package can do this (and more). Get a new version from ftp://134.95.210.54/pub/ I would like also: - Users in a selected group (e.g. dip) can do po and poff without being superuser. This is usualy done by the group dialout. Check for: $ls -l /usr/sbin/pppd -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dialout 84608 Jun 20 1997 /usr/sbin/pppd* and just do a adduser myname dialout - An appropriate nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx line should be put in top of /etc/resolv.conf, so the nameserver of the selected provider is used first (again users should do that not being root). xisp can do this. Ciao, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
denying finger info
Hi! How does a user deny the information given by the finger command? More concisely, I want the fingerd daemon running, but I do not want the no mail and .plan et al info shown. I just want to tell the client that the user is logged on. It would be better if this could be done at the per-user level. TIA! Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ PGP key available --- (_)/ (_)Lo importante es el concepto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: denying finger info
How does a user deny the information given by the finger command? More concisely, I want the fingerd daemon running, but I do not want the no mail and .plan et al info shown. I just want to tell the client that the user is logged on. It would be better if this could be done at the per-user level. I think that you want to take a look at the cfingerd package. It looks to me like it can do everything you want. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape Mail
The netscape mail never download mail at the interval I specified in the mail preference window! Is there a way to fix this? This interval if for a mail _check_, and all it does is set the little mailbox flag in the bottom right hand corner of the Netscape windows. It doesn't download your mail for you. You still have to click on one of the GetNewMail buttons or icons. ...RickM... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lilo, linux and win95
While most of this has been said previously, it has not been brought together and it has been less than clear at times, so I'm combining what others and myself have stated into a hopefully complete and concise summary. hda5 (or sda5) and above are logical partitions. Logical partitions cannot be used to store the lilo boot sector. For a reason I've not determined, Linux fdisk may allow logical partitions to be created and used without first creating an extended partition. I think this behavior is incorrect. My understanding is that logical partitions should be created within an extended partition, that any of the possible four primary partitions may created as extended partitions, and further that up to a possible total of 63 partitions for hda (ide) drives, and 15 partitions for sda (scsi) drives may be created. Extended partitions of the first hard disk may be used to store the lilo boot sector using the -b param, however not many programs support booting from an extended partition. For those programs that do support this option, ($ystem Commander may be one, www.v-com.com ), one or more logical partitions may effectively be booted from the extended partition lilo boot sector. /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz - The LILO boot sector is designed to be usable as a partition boot sector. (I.e. there is room for the partition table.) Therefore, the LILO boot sector can be stored at the following locations: - boot sector of a Linux floppy disk. (/dev/fd0, ...) - MBR of the first hard disk. (/dev/hda, /dev/sda, ...) - boot sector of a primary Linux file system partition on the first hard disk. (/dev/hda1, ...) - partition boot sector of an extended partition on the first hard disk. (/dev/hda1, ...)* * Most FDISK-type programs don't believe in booting from an extended partition and refuse to activate it. LILO is accompanied by a simple program (activate) that doesn't have this restriction. Linux fdisk also supports activating extended partitions. -- David Stern -- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPP to multiple Internet Provider
When Niccolo Rigacci wrote, I replied:
I do this regularly. First create a /etc/ppp/chatscript.ispAname,
/etc/ppp/chatscript.ispBname, ... Then create /etc/resolv.ispAname,
/etc/resolv.ispBname ...
Then create $HOME/bin/pon.ispAname which looks like:
#!/usr/bin/perl
if($ != 0) { die $0: must be run as root\n; };
@dirs = split(/\//,$0);
($pon, $isp) = split(/\./,$dirs[$#dirs]);
$CHAT = '/usr/ppp/chatscript';
if(-f $CHAT) { unlink $CHAT; };
link($CHAT.$isp,$CHAT);
$RESOLV = '/etc/resolf.conf';
if(-f $RESOLV) { unlink $RESOLV; };
link(/etc/resolv.$isp,$RESOLV);
/etc/init.d/ppp start
Then you can simply pon.ispAname, then poff, then pon.isp2name ... HTH
I successfuly installed Debian 1.3.1.r6 and ran pop, poff to connect to my
provider. I would like to use a command that let me choose between several
providers, something like pon atslink or pon dadanet.
I would like also:
- Users in a selected group (e.g. dip) can do po and poff without being
superuser.
- An appropriate nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx line should be put in top of
/etc/resolv.conf, so the nameserver of the selected provider is used
first (again users should do that not being root).
I think this is a simple task of writing some scripts, but does Debian
have something already done?
Please reply by mail too!
Niccolo
Firenze - Italy
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help with dosemu
I have the latest dosemu from hamm. I am having a problem using lredir to mount a directory under dos. I would like to mount /usr/local/dos as my d:. Having done this I would like to install some dos based games. when I type 'lredir d: linux\fs\usr/local/dos' at the dosemu prompt I get a error 46 occured. If I try to use /tmp instead I get a error 3c. Or maybe 3e, i am not home typing this. Would a dosemu guru mind offering some suggestions, or if possible do some one on one??? --- How can you see, when your mind is not open? How can you feel, when your eyes are closed? - Jason Bonham Band, Ordinary Black and White --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
e-mail questions
I am using a modem and ppp to login to my ISP. What is a good setup for e-mail??? Currently I use NS4's e-mail but it is a little buggy and crashes often. I would like to have a nice X front end. I currently recieve between 250 and 350 e-mails a day and am logged in via modem sporadically at best. --- How can you see, when your mind is not open? How can you feel, when your eyes are closed? - Jason Bonham Band, Ordinary Black and White --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
