Re: shellscripts para todos
Jaime E. Villate wrote: El superusuario normalmente no tiene el directorio actual (.) definido en el path, por motivos de seguridad, y conviene dejarlo asi; lo unico que tienes que hacer es acostumbrarte a escribir ./nombre-de-tu-script Podrias precisar un poco qué motivos de seguridad son esos ?Muchas gracias por la atención. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: alien y dpkg
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 04:49:22PM +0200, R.Ll.V wrote: He convertido el Netscape comunicator en rpm a formato dev lo he instalado y al parecer sin problemas, todo parece estar donde deve. Pero al ejecutarlo me dice que no está instalado incluso en el propio directorio /usr/bin puedes transcribir el mensaje que te da por favor? Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shellscripts para todos
Jefe wrote: Jaime E. Villate wrote: El superusuario normalmente no tiene el directorio actual (.) definido en el path, por motivos de seguridad, y conviene dejarlo asi; lo unico que tienes que hacer es acostumbrarte a escribir ./nombre-de-tu-script Podrias precisar un poco qui motivos de seguridad son esos ?Muchas gracias por la atencisn. Jesus Gonzalez ya te respondio muy bien a tu pregunta, pero quiero agregar que por mas que trabajes solo en tu maquina, existe riesgo. Algunos programas que reciben informacion de fuera crean archivos, por ejemplo en /tmp. Imaginate que algun hacker logra meterte un archivo ejecutable con nombre ls en tu directorio /tmp , que diga lo siguiente: %!/bin/sh rm -r /* Tu inocentemente como superusuario vas a ver lo que tienes en el directorio /tmp por medio de cd /tmp ls y estas muerto! Claro, las probabilidades de que eso ocurra son minimas, pero en Linux no somos atacados constantemente por virus, como ocurre en WinDOZE y MacinTOY, gracias a medidas de seguridad como esa de excluir . del path. Feliz dia del trabajo. Jaime Villate Universidade do Porto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shellscripts para todos
Jaime E. Villate wrote: Jesus Gonzalez ya te respondio muy bien a tu pregunta, pero quiero agregar que por mas que trabajes solo en tu maquina, existe riesgo. Algunos programas que reciben informacion de fuera crean archivos, por ejemplo en /tmp. Imaginate que algun hacker logra meterte un archivo ejecutable con nombre ls en tu directorio /tmp , que diga lo siguiente: Simplemente una aclaracion linguistica, pues desde siempre ha existido confusion con estos dos terminos: hacker = Persona que sabe un monton de ordenadores y disfruta intentando conocer el funcionamiento de hasta el ultimo transistor de que se compone, programando las cosas mas inverosimiles y que ademas no se cuelgan y muchas veces regalandolo a la comunidad informatica para que todo el mundo pueda aprovecharse de su hack cracker = GAMBERRO que se dedica a infiltrarse en los ordenadores de los demas con fines indeseables, tales como fisgonear informacion que no le incumbe, usar su CPU o mandar a freir puñetas el contenido del disco duro. Esta infiltracion puede ser tanto directa como indirecta por medio de un cobarde virus. El termino cracker se acuño despues para distinguir precisamente a los hackers buenos de los malos que usan sus conocimientos con fines poco honestos. Saludillos. Dani -- __ José Daniel Muñoz Frías[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICAI. Depto. Electrónica y Automática Alberto Aguilera 23 28015 Madrid, Spain Telf. 34-1-5422800 Fax: 34-1-5596569 __ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problema libc6 arreglado y compilando Deity
Hola: Pues que los problemas que tenia en el cambio de libc5 a libc6 estaban en el paquete Xlib6_3.3-6.deb, ha sido cuestion de cogerme el Xlib6_3.3.2-4.deb y Xlib6g_3.3.2-4.deb y asunto arreglado. Y ahora comento un error que me da al intentar compilar el paquete deity_19980324-1.dsc; transcribo el error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /instalar/deity/deity-19980324]# dpkg-buildpackage no utmp entry available, using value of LOGNAME (root) at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 16. parsechangelog/debian: error: unable to open file debian/substvars: No existe el fichero o el directorio dpkg-buildpackage: cannot determine name of current package Antes hice el dpkg-source -x nombre.fichero He buscado el fichero/directorio substvars y no lo tengo, alguna sugerencia? Gracias a todos lo que me contestaron. M. Pascual mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mpascual.ddns.org -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset = Latin1 mQBtAzTsrfEAAAEDAMSCRxEungod2qswlrTHayDKpdO9olev2Zd0wQGhmrSm2yOZ dUmKZMCAZqWeFR+Zeo3dULZ6UmH2zvTLM38lIFZ71LiOJ6Xj1+B/dYtFc4Qnmc7E 2IdJ6NRienHdip2BrQAFEbQeTVBhc2N1YWwgPG1wYXNjdWFsQHJlZGVzdGIuZXM+ iQB1AwUQNOyt8WJ6cd2KnYGtAQEwigL+M5rLL7i659srdbUlKL/UyeB8Arvkgw/u l+JtlmIcsJTrnKXj00I/JXgjlMfRDvXph0H3dHnRREDzgrYB3jQ25L+1+W+3dM32 ik/eaeLMnQgzYKxQJdjHh2MYOHcFlgbE =M+Om -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: alien y dpkg
-Mensaje original- De: Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Lista Devian debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: viernes 1 de mayo de 1998 2:17 Asunto: Re: alien y dpkg On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 04:49:22PM +0200, R.Ll.V wrote: He convertido el Netscape comunicator en rpm a formato dev lo he instalado y al parecer sin problemas, todo parece estar donde deve. Pero al ejecutarlo me dice que no está instalado incluso en el propio directorio /usr/bin puedes transcribir el mensaje que te da por favor? Como no: despues de teclear netscape: You don´t netscape installet You don`t have installet (durante el proceso de conversion a dev y posterior instalacion no me da ningun mensaje de error y en el deselect me figura como instalado) Gracias anticipadas: Ricardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hamm installation- rescue disk kernel panic
I was trying to install hamm. I booted the rescue disk and I got a kernel panic. (kernel panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 01:00) Here are the messages before the crash: partition check hda: hda1 hda2 hda5 hda3 hda4 [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12, FAT0 .] [me=0x0,cs=0,hf=0,fs=0,fl=0,ds=0,de=0,data=0,se=0, fs=0,ls=0,ro=0,fc=4264967295] transaction block size=512 I have got linux and vfat partitions on this disk. If someone can refer me to some instructions on how this rescue disk is made, I may try to make a custom kernel that might work. Donald Harter Jr. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HELP - Host/IP mismatch causing mail denial
I have recently discovered that some mail being sent to my machine is being denied by smtpd due to a host/ip mismatch. I value the security but need to know this is happening. I have missed some very important mail today because of it (don't know why I decided to check /var/log/daemon.log just now but I am glad I did). Anyway, I was going to set up a simple cronjob something like grep deny /var/log/daemon.log to let me know about these but I was wondering if there is a better way to do this. Can I get smail to somehow mail me immediately when this happens? Is ther another way? Any help is gratefully appreciated. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.telmer.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/ttyS0 permissions
Something else that may be relevant to this thread is mgetty.conf. Mine certainly messes with /dev/ttySx. # use these options to make the /dev/tty-device owned by uucp.uucp # and mode rw-rw-r-- (0664). *LEADING ZERO NEEDED!* port-owner uucp port-group uucp # port-owner dialout # port-group dialout port-mode 0664 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 248632.0125S 115.8445Evk6lj Debian Unix =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote: /dev/ttyS0 should have 660 permissions. I frequently find my /dev/ttyS1 has changed to 640. This can be caused by pppd terminating abnormally, and perhaps by other events. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bouncing mail with procmail
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 07:01:44AM -0400, Paul Miller wrote:
How can I bounce mail with procmail? I've tried using |exit 111, but it
complains about not being able to open the exit mail file... Here is my
current .procmailrc:
LOGFILE=$HOME/mail.log
:0
* ! ^(FROM|TO).*tcimet.net
|exit 111
:0
* ^(FROM|TO).*tcimet.net
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This it not on my server, so I only have .forward and .procmailrc to work
with. Their MTA is sendmail 8.8.5.. Is there another way using .forward?
VERBOSE=off
MAILDIR=$HOME/.mail
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
SHELL=/bin/sh
:0
! ^(From:|To:).*tcimet.net
{
EXITCODE=67
:0
/dev/null
}
:0
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Re: Convert RedHat install to Debian ..
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 02:37:00PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: Now for the hashed over part. Is there a sane and reasonable way to either convert an existing RedHat machine to Debian, or to start the Debian install from what I have now? Remember, I can't use the Debian boot disk. (I thought someone had a URL for this) I did this once (but don't tell anyone because I wasn't supposed to do that). What I did was take dpkg's package and extract its contents using ar (.deb's are an ar file). I then extracted the tar file (there are two tars in there, data.tar.gz and control.tar.gz) on /. This gave me a dpkg to begin with. I proceded to satisfy dpkg's dependencies (libc, libstdc++, ncurses) by repeating the same procedure with the requiered files. Please note this is VERY dangerous because you are overwriting the libc (I did this with an RH 5 installation) and many programs may break due to some sloppyness in RH. To get dpkg working you have to touch some files (I cann't tell this by heart) in /var/lib/dpkg. You also have to copy the control files for the packages just installed. The next thing I did, as I got a working dpkg, was install every deb in base (this conflicts with RH boot method and some other stuff, you have to be patient here, and it's better if you have as little RH as possible). From here everything went very smoothly, because after installing base/*.deb it's just like having installed Debian using the floppies. There are some gotchas left, but nothing big, as I remember. I hope this helps somehow... Marcelo PS: As I was on a stealth mission at the time I had to do everything as quickly as possible, and I hadn't the chance to take notes; maybe you can take some and share the results? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: COBOL?
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 12:42:38PM -0400, K. Claussen wrote: 3. I was wondering if anyone knew of any COBOL packages available for Linux? You are a masochist. =p = pgpy3AA8Yylzl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Free/OpenSource software?
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 06:50:14PM -0400, Thomas Lakofski wrote: If you suspected this, there are ways in which it can be shown that your code has been stolen, as was done when Microsoft stole Stacker technology and called it Doublespace in DOS 6.2. The risk of being caught is usually enough deterrent, as if you were caught, the license terms of GPL'd software would require the release of sources for all derivative works. But weren't Microsoft found to have breached Stac's patent, rather than stolen actual code? I think actual code would be harder to prove than infringement of a patent. Hmaish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP - Host/IP mismatch causing mail denial
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 08:09:51PM -0400, Colin Telmer wrote: I have recently discovered that some mail being sent to my machine is being denied by smtpd due to a host/ip mismatch. I value the security but need to know this is happening. I have missed some very important mail today because of it (don't know why I decided to check /var/log/daemon.log just now but I am glad I did). Anyway, I was going to set up a simple cronjob something like grep deny /var/log/daemon.log to let me know about these but I was wondering if there is a better way to do this. Can I get smail to somehow mail me immediately when this happens? Is ther another way? Any help is gratefully appreciated. Cheers, Colin. Perhaps you would be better to disable this for mail; I run a corporate server with Debian and don't find it particularly practical to leave this check enabled -- I can't afford to not accept a customer's email just because their ISP has not set up reverse DNS correctly. To do that, change the line in /etc/hosts.deny which says ALL: PARANOID to ALL except in.smtpd: PARANOID Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Fwd: LOCAL: Corel VNC/Open Source Public Announcement at OCLUG meeting]
Wow. Things seem to be spreading. 8) I'm definitely going to try to attend this meeting! Later, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ ---BeginMessage--- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Everyone, Our next regular OCLUG meeting is being pushed ahead one day to Thursday May 7th from 7-9pm. Location is still being worked out. I am pleased to report the reason for this schedule rearrangement is the public announcement that will deal with Corel's position on Open Source Software and the importance of this new paradigm to Corel Computer Corp. In attendance will be: Dr. Michael Cowpland: President and CEO, Corel Corporation. Chairman of Corel Computer Corp. Mr. Eid Eid, President of Corel Computer Corp. There will be possibly some officials from Netscape on hand also. Here is your chance to show support for the Open Source movement, Linux and to the future of truly having choice when it comes to a computing environment. I urge all members of OCLUG to come out to this and bring a friend along too. This night will be of historic importance along the lines of the Netscape announcement in February. The implications of showing your support by attending will have a big influence possibly on more of this happening within Corel and other companies. They need to know you care, let's show them we do! Thanks Dave Neil Your OCLUG Spokes-person - -- E-Mail: Dave Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 29-Apr-98 Time: 21:47:44 This message was sent by XFMail - -- - -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/mjr/cola-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/mjr/linux/cola.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNUg211rUI/eHXJZ5AQG5GwP/RojSMhWuRvUmp/SQIy6SeDZ82l3R9jFy E4qX/+6trSwtTKK2yaeGpH76xPY8qWlq+/lacHxqo35/+Z7FI1pTYOBQHH5cKNm2 CO6wCW1xcPjKjFNlnIrGo8tDmWiyABGB+QtPv+ZlbVzBMX5rW3BdP7axkI5DTFfC kxrlLMFAKjc= =7HbQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ---End Message---
Re: Convert RedHat install to Debian ..
At 14:37 -0500 1998-04-29, Nathan E Norman wrote: Now for the hashed over part. Is there a sane and reasonable way to either convert an existing RedHat machine to Debian, or to start the Debian install from what I have now? project/experimental/dpkg_*_arch.nondebbin.tar.gz -- Joel Espy Kleckermailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://web.espy.org/ Debian GNU/Linux Developer...http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Free/OpenSource software?
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: But weren't Microsoft found to have breached Stac's patent, rather than stolen actual code? I think actual code would be harder to prove than infringement of a patent. Hmmm, from what I remember they had just lifted whole code segments from Stacker and popped it into DOS, then they got caught and had to withdraw 6.2 and recode for 6.21. I'm not sure that Stac could have had a patent on that kind of real-time compression/decompression, since I'd seen it before then on other systems. On the other hand, I could be senile. I hope not. -thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sum
Is there a way to compute a sun-style checksum on a debian machine? (sum on linux and the suns produces different numbers) David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
biff/new mail - blink LED indicators on keyboard
Anyone know how I could have a cool LED animation when new mail arrives (when I'm logged in or not)? Something like a bouncing effect for the first couple seconds and then have the scroll lock blink once every five minutes or so... I have a program called 'bl' that does make the keyboard lights blink, but it only works if I'm logged on and I'm using the same tty as where it was executed -- ie, sleep 3; bl -c console doesn't work when I switch to another VC before sleep expires.. I don't know how it would work in X... Anyone else tried this? -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linux shutdown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Thats not exactly true (as I pointed out earlier but I might have accidently not sent my response ot the list) actually sync;sync;halt would work fine...under ideal conditions :) but...under debian linux (and redhat) it will work fine in fatcyou can just forhget the double sync and call halt (or reboot) this was true that that was VERY BAD for a long time but... check out the man page for halt: If halt or reboot is called when the system is not in runlevel 0 or 6, shut down(8) will be invoked instead (with the flag -h or -r). since sync;sync doesn't change the runlevel...and at runlevel 0 or 6 you don't have a shell anyway... yes it is a BAD practice becaus eon OLDER syetms and other Unix-like OSs it is not gauranteed to weork - -Steve On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Arunas Norvaisa wrote: Dear all, I'm confused... Have RTFMing and am using 'shutdown -r now' to restart my system. BUT our system (Netware/Unix) admin (really old and experienced 'wolf') have told me that he's using 'sync;sync;halt' and have tried to persuade me to use 'his' command. sync; sync; halt is bad. Do not listen to this old idiot. He is going to cause you filesystem corruption. Use either ctl-alt-delete, shutdown -r now. George Bonser If I had a catchy quip, it would be here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNUk0snxvn0zebBV9AQG0NAP/ZIvgRFmXQkE9l/bDkNvzpvbGAnGpDeLy 0r/7yNPcbA1LUP1n/Rq2RXNw1F83S6llKNFAPGqMebwC/4UwOsffu0MRWu+kUNGG 97JARcK7SLadAwplLsprKIw/qhqUafPupIvmD36gAnuZD9CP2L8vNhhQcgXzoehU jg7BXD9JDVY= =mFML -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sparc Q's (Sparcbook 3)
Here is the scenario: A teacher at school recently acquired a SparcBook 3 w/ 32 megs of ram and a 520 meg HD (http://www.unixpac.com.au/vendors/tadpole/s3.html) He was selling it for his friend (His friend works for a big company, when the company upgrades, they give their machines to employees for a good deal) Anyways, apparently the guy who owned it wasnt so smart and corrupted Solaris. Since i dont have the solaris CD nor the CDE, I've decided to trash it and get linux. I bought Redhat 4.0 (or 4.2) SPARC version for 60 dollars, under the impression it would work. I've emailed them and they said to me that it would work on a Sun4m machine, Sparcbooks. (note: they said it WOULD run on a Sparcbook) When i attempted to install Redhat, it would load, but it would error out saying it could not find the proper video driver for my card. I know Debian is getting into the sparc field, but I am curious on if they are going to support Sparcbooks. Im considering either donating this unit or selling it for really cheap. If anyone has any solutions or any information for me i'd greatly appreciated it even if it is to laugh at me :) Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: biff/new mail - blink LED indicators on keyboard
You might want to try this instead: http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/ it's a little lcd display going for about $70 which will show you all kinds of system information, including whether you have mail, etc. -thomas On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote: From: Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 22:19:31 -0400 (EDT) Subject: biff/new mail - blink LED indicators on keyboard Anyone know how I could have a cool LED animation when new mail arrives (when I'm logged in or not)? Something like a bouncing effect for the first couple seconds and then have the scroll lock blink once every five minutes or so... I have a program called 'bl' that does make the keyboard lights blink, but it only works if I'm logged on and I'm using the same tty as where it was executed -- ie, sleep 3; bl -c console doesn't work when I switch to another VC before sleep expires.. I don't know how it would work in X... Anyone else tried this? -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
copying partitions/moving root partition
I just got a new hard drive, and I'm wondering what I need to do to move the root and other Linux partitions to the new drive? Most importantly, LILO! Currently I boot off /dev/hda3 and I'm wanting to replace that hard drive with a new one... which can temporarily replace the cdrom drive while I move files around. --- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public PGP key at http://paul.3dillusion.com/pgpkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: biff/new mail - blink LED indicators on keyboard
There is a program called TLedz (or Tleds) that would monitor any TCP stack (eth0, ppp0, etc) and have the lights blink to the console even if you were logged off. You could it up so that it would blink and stay lit at a given mS, each blink would correspond to a tcp packet coming in... I dont know if this helps, but if you're interested i can get it off my linux box before i do a reinstall of it.. but let me know before friday. On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote: Anyone know how I could have a cool LED animation when new mail arrives (when I'm logged in or not)? Something like a bouncing effect for the first couple seconds and then have the scroll lock blink once every five minutes or so... I have a program called 'bl' that does make the keyboard lights blink, but it only works if I'm logged on and I'm using the same tty as where it was executed -- ie, sleep 3; bl -c console doesn't work when I switch to another VC before sleep expires.. I don't know how it would work in X... Anyone else tried this? -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: copying partitions/moving root partition
Ghost would be right up your alley Ghost copies a hard drive (no matter what OS) by cylinders. and it doesnt matter if it's cloning from a smaller HD to a bigger HD. On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote: I just got a new hard drive, and I'm wondering what I need to do to move the root and other Linux partitions to the new drive? Most importantly, LILO! Currently I boot off /dev/hda3 and I'm wanting to replace that hard drive with a new one... which can temporarily replace the cdrom drive while I move files around. --- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public PGP key at http://paul.3dillusion.com/pgpkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: biff/new mail - blink LED indicators on keyboard
... I don't see how that would work as a new mail/biff type program... are you saying that i should run that program when I have new mail? -Paul On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Plutonically Incorrect wrote: There is a program called TLedz (or Tleds) that would monitor any TCP stack (eth0, ppp0, etc) and have the lights blink to the console even if you were logged off. You could it up so that it would blink and stay lit at a given mS, each blink would correspond to a tcp packet coming in... I dont know if this helps, but if you're interested i can get it off my linux box before i do a reinstall of it.. but let me know before friday. On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote: Anyone know how I could have a cool LED animation when new mail arrives (when I'm logged in or not)? Something like a bouncing effect for the first couple seconds and then have the scroll lock blink once every five minutes or so... I have a program called 'bl' that does make the keyboard lights blink, but it only works if I'm logged on and I'm using the same tty as where it was executed -- ie, sleep 3; bl -c console doesn't work when I switch to another VC before sleep expires.. I don't know how it would work in X... Anyone else tried this? -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: copying partitions/moving root partition
hmm... I didn't see it in dselect.. is it a Linux program? I think I'll want to enlarge some of my partitons too.. I think the main thing is writing LILO to the new drive so that it'll boot as /dev/hdaX, allowing me to move it from /dev/hdd to /dev/hda... -Paul On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Plutonically Incorrect wrote: Ghost would be right up your alley Ghost copies a hard drive (no matter what OS) by cylinders. and it doesnt matter if it's cloning from a smaller HD to a bigger HD. On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote: I just got a new hard drive, and I'm wondering what I need to do to move the root and other Linux partitions to the new drive? Most importantly, LILO! Currently I boot off /dev/hda3 and I'm wanting to replace that hard drive with a new one... which can temporarily replace the cdrom drive while I move files around. --- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public PGP key at http://paul.3dillusion.com/pgpkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: biff/new mail - blink LED indicators on keyboard
No, I'm saying it might help you, maybe you can modify it to check your mail every couple o fminutes and have it blink... who knows. On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote: ... I don't see how that would work as a new mail/biff type program... are you saying that i should run that program when I have new mail? -Paul On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Plutonically Incorrect wrote: There is a program called TLedz (or Tleds) that would monitor any TCP stack (eth0, ppp0, etc) and have the lights blink to the console even if you were logged off. You could it up so that it would blink and stay lit at a given mS, each blink would correspond to a tcp packet coming in... I dont know if this helps, but if you're interested i can get it off my linux box before i do a reinstall of it.. but let me know before friday. On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote: Anyone know how I could have a cool LED animation when new mail arrives (when I'm logged in or not)? Something like a bouncing effect for the first couple seconds and then have the scroll lock blink once every five minutes or so... I have a program called 'bl' that does make the keyboard lights blink, but it only works if I'm logged on and I'm using the same tty as where it was executed -- ie, sleep 3; bl -c console doesn't work when I switch to another VC before sleep expires.. I don't know how it would work in X... Anyone else tried this? -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing Debian hangs on Loading root.bin.... (4 dots) from the resc1440 disk
Installing Debian hangs on Loading root.bin (4 dots) from the resc1440 disk. This is hapenning on AST Ascentia 900N (486/75/20Mb) laptop. I tried several diskettes, they are formatted in the same physical drive (under DOS, I used rawrite2 to copy the images to diskettes). What is weird that the hanging does not occur on my other (Pentium) PC. Is there anything I can do to bypass this? Thanks, Milan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Off Topic, Linus Torvalds.
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 11:29:43PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: I have recently read a magazine about linux, and it mentioned the world's first knowing of linux; A 1991 post to comp.os.minix from Linus Torvalds. A number of early Linux posts from Linus are available as part of the Linus vs Andy Tanenbaum flamewar, which is archived on many places, e.g. http://www.kde.org/food/linux_is_obsolete.html Thanks.. :) Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- The man who invented the eraser pretty well sized up the human race. --- Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: biff/new mail - blink LED indicators on keyboard
I just tried it and tleds works the same as bl... it only works with the tty is was executed on... -Paul On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Plutonically Incorrect wrote: No, I'm saying it might help you, maybe you can modify it to check your mail every couple o fminutes and have it blink... who knows. On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote: ... I don't see how that would work as a new mail/biff type program... are you saying that i should run that program when I have new mail? -Paul On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Plutonically Incorrect wrote: There is a program called TLedz (or Tleds) that would monitor any TCP stack (eth0, ppp0, etc) and have the lights blink to the console even if you were logged off. You could it up so that it would blink and stay lit at a given mS, each blink would correspond to a tcp packet coming in... I dont know if this helps, but if you're interested i can get it off my linux box before i do a reinstall of it.. but let me know before friday. On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote: Anyone know how I could have a cool LED animation when new mail arrives (when I'm logged in or not)? Something like a bouncing effect for the first couple seconds and then have the scroll lock blink once every five minutes or so... I have a program called 'bl' that does make the keyboard lights blink, but it only works if I'm logged on and I'm using the same tty as where it was executed -- ie, sleep 3; bl -c console doesn't work when I switch to another VC before sleep expires.. I don't know how it would work in X... Anyone else tried this? -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to organize NFS server?
I have an old 486 with a few hard drives in it that I want to use as a server. I'd like to store debian-packaged apps such as gcc, x11, xemacs etc on the server, yet keep some functionality on my local drive so I don't need the server all the time. what is the best way to do this under debian? I thought of exporting/mounting /usr on the server, but will that cause major problems? What if I have a local /usr directory? Will I still be able to access it when not using the server? Also, what does the group think about using a /apps directory instead of /usr ? I know it's not filesystem standard, but it seems this might get around a lot of problems of mounting /usr remotely. btw I have about 500MB of local space and up to 4GB on the server. Thanks for any advice you can give me! Chris please cc: me via email. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: copying partitions/moving root partition
No, it's a DOS program, just opop it on disk w/ DOS on it, clone from disk to disk. On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote: hmm... I didn't see it in dselect.. is it a Linux program? I think I'll want to enlarge some of my partitons too.. I think the main thing is writing LILO to the new drive so that it'll boot as /dev/hdaX, allowing me to move it from /dev/hdd to /dev/hda... -Paul On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Plutonically Incorrect wrote: Ghost would be right up your alley Ghost copies a hard drive (no matter what OS) by cylinders. and it doesnt matter if it's cloning from a smaller HD to a bigger HD. On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote: I just got a new hard drive, and I'm wondering what I need to do to move the root and other Linux partitions to the new drive? Most importantly, LILO! Currently I boot off /dev/hda3 and I'm wanting to replace that hard drive with a new one... which can temporarily replace the cdrom drive while I move files around. --- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public PGP key at http://paul.3dillusion.com/pgpkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adaptec 2840 VLB Fails from bootdisk
I have a 486dx4/100 system that has both PCI and VLB on the same board. I have Caldera currently running on the machine. The SCSI controller on it is a Adaptec 2840 VLB (Rev E, btw) Basically.. it hangs.. and gives errors something like scsi0 spurrious intterupt etc I'm using a boot disk that came with my CD from 1.3.1 rev 6. -- Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cron problems
Has anyone else had problems with cron since version cron_3.0pl1-45.deb was installed into hamm ? The following error messages from crom were in my mailbox this morning. Subject :Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] root run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily Message body : /bin/sh: root: command not found I got the same reports for cron.monthly and cron.weekly Looks like it's spitting the dummy on the root part, not recognising it's the user to run under, not part of the command. Only change I made was to update cron and add some scripts to /etc/cron.d. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: biff/new mail - blink LED indicators on keyboard
-Original Message- From: Thomas Lakofski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, 1 May 1998 03:13:pm Subject: Re: biff/new mail - blink LED indicators on keyboard You might want to try this instead: http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/ it's a little lcd display going for about $70 which will show you all kinds of system information, including whether you have mail, etc. -thomas Lucky you, I just priced the module in Australia and the local distributor The only distributor) is asking $255 plus 20 % sales tax.. Helluva hike even taking in exchange rates and freight costs. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fast hard drives for which partitions
Michael Beattie wrote: swap / /boot /etc /var /tmp I'm not sure, but I believe the above must be on the same drive... /boot and /etc do... /boot does not (I've had /boot be a symlink to a dos partition (don't ask ;-)). swap doesn't, of course. /var doesn't: /dev/hda2 193M 32M 151M 18% / /dev/hdc1 968M 842M 116M 88% /usr /dev/hdc3 1.7G 1.6G95M 95% /var /etc does, unless you want to play nasty tricks with overwriting a skeletal /var with a mount. /tmp I'm not sure of. Personally, if I anticipate needing a lot of swap, my swap partition is at the top of the list. If not, it can go on a slower drive. Next is /home, then /tmp, then /var, then then the root fs and finally /usr. But it all depends on how you use your system, really... I do a *lot* in my /home diriectory, ie, lots of compiling, etc, which is why I prioritize it so high. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maxwell Wordprocessor - Fonts
I am trying to get Maxwell to work but do not have fonts installed correctly. I've got 75dpi installed in the default location for Debian 1.3 - Not what Maxwell wants. Maxwell is looking for Type1 fonts and its setup provides symbolic links to them in .../fonts/Type1. Where do I get the Type1 fonts expected in Maxwell? DG Ses _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lilo woes
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Tristan Day wrote: [snip] So my questions are as follows: 1. Where can I find a good tutorial for vi? I liked the papers by the authors of vi and ex available at ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/BSD/manuals/ with names usd.15.vi.ps.Z and usd.16.ex.ps.Z. Most intro books on Unix have intro chapter. 2. Can anyone suggest how I could restore NT as the default boot? did you try fdisk /MBR to restore original MBR. I don't know anything about NT, but this may fix up MBR King Lee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My first steps (and problems) with Hamm
Hi, I was looking for more than a month to see the hamm in the stable. But this didn't happened so I 've taken a deep breath, downloaded the hole hamm from a local mirror and burned 2 CD with hamm, contrib, non-US and non-free. I've decided to make a clean install, especially because I have separate partitions for /home and for /usr/local. And the problems started: 1. Dselect comes with dpkg-perl as a default. But this cannot be installed unless you already have perl. On a new system you don't have this. I have had to remove and purge this for going further. 2. The system also comes with pcmcia as a default. I have had to purge this also. Are laptops becomeing so spreaded that this was introduced as a sugested package in a clean instalation ? 3. After installing what remained (the method suggested in The Debian Linux User's Guide, by Dale Scheetz), i wanted to install the X. Actually I've installed it, but with a small problem with my mouse. In bo I used to set my mouse as MouseSystems with ClearDTR. This way I have been able to use the middle button. But the XF86Setup didn't let me do so. Is this a bug in XF86Setup ? I was forced to use Microsoft with emulate3buttons. And now the surprise: just now I've discovered that /usr/X11R6/bin/xmseconfig lets my set the mouse correctly. 4. Having installed the xbase and the servers, I've installed the window managers. I was anxious to see the new fvwm95, especially because the authors say they fixed the problem with maximizing of the windows (that is not to maximize over the bottom bar). But the problem is solved only if you are useing the original .fvwm95rc, not the one suplied by hamm. I wonder why ? 5. Now my system was running and had almost everything I wanted. Except the TeX packages. And this because they depend on dpkg-perl. I have try to install the package from dselect with no succes. Is this because I am keeping the hamm archive on a vfat partition ? I doubt this very much. Anyhow, yesterday, by chance, I've discovered that, when you are using MC, the .deb files are like directories and you can walk through them like you are walking through the .tar.gz files or a regular directory. And in the dpkg-perl .deb file was an INSTALL file which installed the package. Whithout any problem. Very strange... After this, the package appeared in dselect as installed and I was able to istall everything from tetex. 6. In the end I wanted to install the pine but it was nowhere in the hamm, non-free, contrib or non-US. I used the pine package from bo, but I wonder why pine is no more supllied (while the pine docs are) ? 7. And one more thing: the installing script doesn't let me mount by any extended partitions. It wants only primary partitions. Not very nice. Also, now I have lilo installed on the HDD and I cannot remove it. I've try fdisk /mbr from dos, but with no succes. Does anybody have a suggestion ? And the instalation script from hamm and bo doesn't let you make a lilo.conf for more OS'es. I wonder why, as RedHat and Slackware let you make lilo.confs for more OS'es ? Is this by purpose or is a small flaw ? This is not nice, especially for those who are not decided yet to stay 100% of their time with Linux. The use of force (in this case the absence of the option) tend to scare new users (this is my opinion). And Linux is not easy t learn, so why to make it even harder when it's not necesary ? TIA Ionutz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Convert RedHat install to Debian ..
Hi! Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I've got a Sun Netra I5, with serial console only. The current Debian boot disks don't like the serial console, so I used RedHat's instead. Now I've got this Netra Linux box :) AFAIK there is enhanced serial console support in 2.1.*. But don't forget, 2.1 is unstable! I have no experience with Suns at all, but Maybe you can try this: make a standard debian bootdisk use your RedHat system to compile a 2.1 kernel with console support and either replace the bootdisk's kernel with this one make the disks bootloader pass the necessary parameters for the serial console or install the kernel on your system copy the disks root image to your system make your bootloader (SILO?) load this image as initrd as the bootdisks do and pass the parameters for the serial console This is only an idea - maybe this works... 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]
Re: more SCSI Woes
Hi, I'm not sure if this will help, but have you tried tweaking some of the SCSI low level driver settings when you configure your kernel? Also, is your kernel configured to support tape drives? -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Keys --- Public: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_PUBLIC.asc REVOKED: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_REVOKED.asc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: perl: problem with s/// and variable interpolation
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Yann Dirson wrote:
I wrote a sample script whose behaviour seems strange to me. At least
I can't find in the doc why it behaves so, nor what I should write to
get the expected result.
The sample script
#!/usr/bin/perl
$TRANSLATION = '\1;$2';
$str = ab;
$str =~ s{(.)(.)}{$TRANSLATION};
[snip]
Have you tried wrapping the substitution statement with an eval
construct yet? I think that should make it work.
Cheers,
Joost
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Re: Lilo woes
2. Can anyone suggest how I could restore NT as the default boot? If fdisk /mbr doesn't work try to RTFM! :) Just kidding. Actually, LILO stores the original MBR in /boot. Read the LILO docs in /usr/doc/lilo to get detailed instructions on which file to dd and what dd flags are needed. -Ossama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Swap
Hi! I am going to configurate a linux machine. But I don't know if it is good to use a old 120 MB drive for swap. I would like to know if it is good to use that drive for swap and a new WD for /. The new drive is around 4GB so I could use the new drive for swap too and the old one for garbage. I do not know which configuration is better. I would be very gled for any advice. Thanks in advance. Matej Grasic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Swap
I am going to configurate a linux machine. But I don't know if it is = good to use a old 120 MB drive for swap. I would like to know if it is = good to use that drive for swap and a new WD for /. The new drive is = around 4GB so I could use the new drive for swap too and the old one for = garbage. I do not know which configuration is better. I would be very = gled for any advice. Thanks in advance.=20 The newer drive is probably much faster than the old one. I would recommend putting both swap and / on the new drive because of this. HTH, Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: My first steps (and problems) with Hamm
Hi, Also, now I have lilo installed on the HDD and I cannot remove it. I've try fdisk /mbr from dos, but with no succes. Does anybody have a suggestion ? Like I said to someone else, RTFM! :) LILO stores a copy of the original MBR in /boot. Read the manual in /usr/doc/lilo for details on which file to restore using dd and how. opinion). And Linux is not easy t learn, so why to make it even harder when it's not necesary ? Sure it is, just read the manuals. I agree that Debian may not be as easy to use for newbies as some of the other distributions such as RedHat and Slackware, however I truly believe that Debian is a technically superior distribution which in the long run may out weigh the initial learning difficulties, IMHO. -Ossama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: more SCSI Woes
Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if this will help, but have you tried tweaking some of the SCSI low level driver settings when you configure your kernel? no I havn't...I supose I should take a look at the source code for the kernelSCSI drivers Also, is your kernel configured to support tape drives? yes it is...but shouldn't at least some SCSI device be detected even if it doesn'tsuport tape drives?..and that interrupt being lost is what get sme,...that shouldn't happn -Steve -- I am back to nothing worthwhile of a SIG again if you want my pgp key though check out: http://www.gis.net/~sjc/pgp.asc (BTW Thanx allot Noah for pointing out why putting my pgp key here was a bad idea...now I hafta find a new funny quote or something for here) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Swap
actually thats good...use the new drive exclusively but... don't use th eold drive for garbage old hard drives are great...good for lofting monitors once you get a few of them -Steve Ben Pfaff wrote: I am going to configurate a linux machine. But I don't know if it is = good to use a old 120 MB drive for swap. I would like to know if it is = good to use that drive for swap and a new WD for /. The new drive is = around 4GB so I could use the new drive for swap too and the old one for = garbage. I do not know which configuration is better. I would be very = gled for any advice. Thanks in advance.=20 The newer drive is probably much faster than the old one. I would recommend putting both swap and / on the new drive because of this. HTH, Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I am back to nothing worthwhile of a SIG again if you want my pgp key though check out: http://www.gis.net/~sjc/pgp.asc (BTW Thanx allot Noah for pointing out why putting my pgp key here was a bad idea...now I hafta find a new funny quote or something for here) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: more SCSI Woes
Hi, I'm not sure if this will help, but have you tried tweaking some of the SCSI low level driver settings when you configure your kernel? no I havn't...I supose I should take a look at the source code for the kernelSCSI drivers I meant the SCSI low level driver settings when you do a make config/menuconfig/xconfig in /usr/src/linux. There are some delay or timeout settings. from what I recall, that you tweak. The kernel config help for each of low level SCSI tells what each one does. You shouldn't have to mess around with the SCSI source, but go for it if you are up to it. You are braver then me; I never mess with the kernel source :). Also, is your kernel configured to support tape drives? yes it is...but shouldn't at least some SCSI device be detected even if it doesn'tsuport tape drives?..and that interrupt being lost is what get sme,...that shouldn't happn Good point, I agree. -Ossama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: more SCSI Woes
No I am not braver than you I didn't see any such configs when i did it (kernel 2.0.29...but they shoul dbe there if you see them I guess) anyway I will look again when I can but... I didn't see anything -Steve Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if this will help, but have you tried tweaking some of the SCSI low level driver settings when you configure your kernel? no I havn't...I supose I should take a look at the source code for the kernelSCSI drivers I meant the SCSI low level driver settings when you do a make config/menuconfig/xconfig in /usr/src/linux. There are some delay or timeout settings. from what I recall, that you tweak. The kernel config help for each of low level SCSI tells what each one does. You shouldn't have to mess around with the SCSI source, but go for it if you are up to it. You are braver then me; I never mess with the kernel source :). Also, is your kernel configured to support tape drives? yes it is...but shouldn't at least some SCSI device be detected even if it doesn'tsuport tape drives?..and that interrupt being lost is what get sme,...that shouldn't happn Good point, I agree. -Ossama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I am back to nothing worthwhile of a SIG again if you want my pgp key though check out: http://www.gis.net/~sjc/pgp.asc (BTW Thanx allot Noah for pointing out why putting my pgp key here was a bad idea...now I hafta find a new funny quote or something for here) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Love, Life and Lilo
HI all, Yes i know this is going to seem a really dumb question, but here goes anyhow... I am using the Boot manager that comes with partition magic 3 (IBM thingy), and in order to boot linux it requires that Lilo is installed on the partition to boot. Quickly and easily, how do i install Lilo on /dev/hda6 (thats the partition i want to boot) with only one boot option (linux on /dev/hda6). sorry about that but i've only been at this 24hrs... Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: more SCSI Woes
Hi Steve, No I am not braver than you I didn't see any such configs when i did it (kernel 2.0.29...but they shoul dbe there if you see them I guess) anyway I will look again when I can but... I didn't see anything Sorry, I gave you bad advice. :( I have an Adaptec 2940UW which uses the AIC7xxx driver which does have additional kernel config options. You were right, it seems that you will have to modify your SCSI card header file as suggested by the kernel config help. Again, sorry for the confusion. -Ossama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Love, Life and Lilo
I am using the Boot manager that comes with partition magic 3 (IBM thingy), and in order to boot linux it requires that Lilo is installed on the partition to boot. Quickly and easily, how do i install Lilo on /dev/hda6 (thats the partition i want to boot) with only one boot option (linux on /dev/hda6). Use liloconfig. It will install a partition boot record on whatever partition is appropriate and continues on to ask you whether or not you want to install a master boot record. Since you will be using another boot manager (the IBM thingy :)) just answer no when liloconfig asks you about the MBR. Liloconfig explains each question it asks so you shouldn't have any problem. sorry about that but i've only been at this 24hrs... This list is here to help. No need to apologize. I have lots of questions that I consider stupid, too. :) -Ossama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Free/OpenSource software?
On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 11:32:59AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 06:50:14PM -0400, Thomas Lakofski wrote: If you suspected this, there are ways in which it can be shown that your code has been stolen, as was done when Microsoft stole Stacker technology and called it Doublespace in DOS 6.2. The risk of being caught is usually enough deterrent, as if you were caught, the license terms of GPL'd software would require the release of sources for all derivative works. But weren't Microsoft found to have breached Stac's patent, rather than stolen actual code? I think actual code would be harder to prove than infringement of a patent. There was an article in _EE Times_ about the Cadence vs. Avant lawsuit. They were using similarities in the source code to try to prove code had been copied. I think the variable names were all different, but they were looking for similar patterns of stange indenting and punctuation. I think the guy doing the code analysis does it full time. Of course, you would probably need to get a court order to get access to the disputed source code for comparison. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Love, Life and Lilo
Make an /etc/lilo.conf with boot=/dev/hda6 root=/dev/hda6 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=0 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only Rick wrote: HI all, Yes i know this is going to seem a really dumb question, but here goes anyhow... I am using the Boot manager that comes with partition magic 3 (IBM thingy), and in order to boot linux it requires that Lilo is installed on the partition to boot. Quickly and easily, how do i install Lilo on /dev/hda6 (thats the partition i want to boot) with only one boot option (linux on /dev/hda6). sorry about that but i've only been at this 24hrs... Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Network Problem
Hello, Well I got the basic hamm from disks working fine last night. But when i started to download the rest of the packages from ftp.debian.org, I got a Connection Refused message or something similar. I really believe this is being caused by a reverse lookup or lookup from ftp.debian.org. I can log onto other ftp sites, ie sunsite, without any problems. But would rather download the packages via Debian. A little background, may help with my question. I am running on a PPP connection and connect up to my local ISP. I have been assigned a static IP. The address goes something like aux-xxx-xx-xxx.myisp.net. I have since changed that address via the magic of Monolith to something.ml.org, which has propagated for over a month now. I have placed in the hostnames the ml.org address. The other day, I had lost my static IP from my ISP and was being assigned a Dynamic IP address. And I could log onto ftp.debian.org with no problem at all. My question is, has anyone else seen this happen before? And if so, how do I fix it so I can log onto ftp.debian.org? If not, what am I doing that is different from a Static IP to a Dynamic IP to have debian.org let me on? And what do I need to do with my network files to get this to work? When I was running bo, I had the same problem, but I just got the files off sunsite so was not a big deal, but now with hamm, sunsite doesn't have the Package files up to date and I was wanting to get my system back up. Thanks for any help. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network Problem
This is due to tcp wrappers on the ftp server of ftp.debian.org. In the /etc/hosts.deny they probably had the line 'ALL: PARANOID'. This will disconnect hosts with name/address discrepencies. For instance, you connect as 'myhost.ml.org'. ftp.debian.org looks up the address for 'myhost.ml.org' and finds that IP aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd is assigned to 'myhost.myisp.net'. Since 'myhost.ml.org' != 'myhost.myisp.net' you get disconnected. Thanks, Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 On Fri, 1 May 1998, Michael Acklin wrote: Hello, Well I got the basic hamm from disks working fine last night. But when i started to download the rest of the packages from ftp.debian.org, I got a Connection Refused message or something similar. I really believe this is being caused by a reverse lookup or lookup from ftp.debian.org. I can log onto other ftp sites, ie sunsite, without any problems. But would rather download the packages via Debian. A little background, may help with my question. I am running on a PPP connection and connect up to my local ISP. I have been assigned a static IP. The address goes something like aux-xxx-xx-xxx.myisp.net. I have since changed that address via the magic of Monolith to something.ml.org, which has propagated for over a month now. I have placed in the hostnames the ml.org address. The other day, I had lost my static IP from my ISP and was being assigned a Dynamic IP address. And I could log onto ftp.debian.org with no problem at all. My question is, has anyone else seen this happen before? And if so, how do I fix it so I can log onto ftp.debian.org? If not, what am I doing that is different from a Static IP to a Dynamic IP to have debian.org let me on? And what do I need to do with my network files to get this to work? When I was running bo, I had the same problem, but I just got the files off sunsite so was not a big deal, but now with hamm, sunsite doesn't have the Package files up to date and I was wanting to get my system back up. Thanks for any help. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network Problem
Thanks for your info, I thought it might be something like that. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Is there some file I need to change to transmit the correct lookup. Again thanks for your help Mike At 11:32 AM 5/1/98 -0400, you wrote: This is due to tcp wrappers on the ftp server of ftp.debian.org. In the /etc/hosts.deny they probably had the line 'ALL: PARANOID'. This will disconnect hosts with name/address discrepencies. For instance, you connect as 'myhost.ml.org'. ftp.debian.org looks up the address for 'myhost.ml.org' and finds that IP aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd is assigned to 'myhost.myisp.net'. Since 'myhost.ml.org' != 'myhost.myisp.net' you get disconnected. Thanks, Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xdm and shutdown
Jorge Daniel Ruckj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all. How I do a shutdown if I use xdm? Thanks Are you aware that even while using xdm one can press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a text console? I find a surprising number of linux users unaware of this fact. From the text console, you can do a shutdown as normal. A while ago (within the last two weeks, I think) someone posted some nice tcl/tk code that one could add to some of xdm's startup scripts to get a little shutdown button to appear on the xdm startup screen. I'll see if I can go dig it up... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BSDlpd to LPrng - no space on remote
Hi, When printing from BSDlpd on SG6.4 to lprng 3.2.1-1 on debian 1.3.1 the queue on the SG box reports that the queue on debian: no space on remote; wating for queue to drain and the queue on debian reports all OK and job recevied. the BSDlpd queue then goes off line a jobs start mounting up. Any ideas? Cheers, Ben. Benjamin Cant Aegis Integrated Solutions 6 Sun Street, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, ENGLAND, SG5 1AE Tel: 01462 438938 Fax: 01462 451755 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xdm and shutdown
Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Jorge Daniel Ruckj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all. How I do a shutdown if I use xdm? Thanks Are you aware that even while using xdm one can press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a text console? I find a surprising number of linux users unaware of this fact. A lot of people are also unaware that typing 'Ctrl-r' from the xdm login screen exits xdm. Note that xdm is not killed. This mapping is actually set up by the resources for the server in /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources, resource xlogin*login.translations. At least on my system I have: xlogin*login.translations: #override\ CtrlKeyR: abort-display()\n\ KeyF1: set-session-argument(failsafe) finish-field()\n\ CtrlKeyReturn: set-session-argument(failsafe) finish-field()\n\ KeyReturn: set-session-argument() finish-field() From the text console, you can do a shutdown as normal. A while ago (within the last two weeks, I think) someone posted some nice tcl/tk code that one could add to some of xdm's startup scripts to get a little shutdown button to appear on the xdm startup screen. I'll see if I can go dig it up... -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to speed up the EMACS at start-up ?
Hi, I ermember that I've read somewhere that, if you compile the .el files, EMACS will start more rapidly. But I don't remember where I've read that. :-( Can somebody tell me how to compile the .el files EMACS load at start-up ? Do I have to compile each of them by hand ? TIA, Ionutz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Linux and W95 coexist?
Just received Debian Linux on the LSL CD which will be used on a shared Pentium which already has Windows 95 installed. The installation instructions look straight forward with one exception. It is not clear whether the installation routine is designed to overwrite what is already on the hard disk or if only the unused part of the disk will be used. Could someone please point me to a discussion of this and/or more basic information about disk partitioning? This must be an elementary question but is not apparent in the FAQs. Basically, you need to download a DOS program called FIPS (just search for it on the internet). Now, defragment your hard drive in Win95, then immediately exit to DOS and run FIPS. You can now decrease the size of your Win95 partition, leaving you room to slot in another partition for Linux in the setup program. If you just change your Win95 partition into a Linux partition, all the info on that partition will be deleted, including Win95. You just have to have two partitions (well, three, since you need anotehr one for your Linux swap file). Graham Pople ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SNES emulators at Emulation One (http://www.jalna.demon.co.uk/index.htm) All emulators at E1 Newsletter (http://www.jalna.demon.co.uk/e1news.htm) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with time settings and tzconfig
Hi, I have had the same proble with the time, both with bo and with hamm. I am from Romania which is GMT+2. I had set the PC CMOS time to GMT and try the Europe/Bucharest zone. It gave me an GMT+3 hour. I've try GMT+2 and the system returned me a GMT-2 hour. Now the system is set to GMT-1 and the zone to Europe/Bucharest, so, in the end, I get an right answer from date and the clock shows what it should. Does anybody have a clue for this ? (I am not very happy with this work arround and also I'm a little disappointed that those that made the zone database didn't knew we are GMT+2 in Romania. It's in every geography book. ) And, if we are on this subject, does Linux knows about summer/winter hour ? Win95 knows about this and I was wondering if this is also true for Linux. TIA Ionutz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Serial port troubles
Hi, Hopefully someone has this off the top of their head. I'm trying to get a modem going from ttyS0. As soon as I power up the CPU, the send data and receive data light on the modem go on. I'm unable to do anything with the modem. If I run statserial /dev/ttyS0, the line clears and the modem shows the appropriate lights. As soon as I exit from statserial, the send data and receive data light come on again. I've tried the modem on another machine and it works well. I've tried reversing the serial board connection to the motherboard without effect. I've looked in the inittab and it doesn't appear that I'm running a getty on ttyS0. Any thoughts would be most appreciated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Linux and W95 coexist?
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Graham Pople wrote: Just received Debian Linux on the LSL CD which will be used on a shared Pentium which already has Windows 95 installed. The installation instructions look straight forward with one exception. It is not clear whether the installation routine is designed to overwrite what is already on the hard disk or if only the unused part of the disk will be used. Could someone please point me to a discussion of this and/or more basic information about disk partitioning? This must be an elementary question but is not apparent in the FAQs. Basically, you need to download a DOS program called FIPS (just search for it on the internet). Now, defragment your hard drive in Win95, then immediately exit to DOS and run FIPS. You can now decrease the size of your Win95 partition, leaving you room to slot in another partition for Linux in the setup program. If you just change your Win95 partition into a Linux partition, all the info on that partition will be deleted, including Win95. You just have to have two partitions (well, three, since you need anotehr one for your Linux swap file). Actually fips is on the cdrom in /tools. If the Win95 system is OSR2 (4.00B) with FAT32, you will need to get fips15c, which is available from ftp.debian.org in /pub/debian/tools. Another choice would be the commercial Partition Magic 3.x, which also handles FAT32 and includes a good boot manager for dual booting linux/win95, although this can also be done with LILO, which is on the debian cd-rom. 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: How to speed up the EMACS at start-up ?
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Ionut Borcoman at debian wrote: Hi, I ermember that I've read somewhere that, if you compile the .el files, EMACS will start more rapidly. But I don't remember where I've read that. :-( Can somebody tell me how to compile the .el files EMACS load at start-up ? Do I have to compile each of them by hand ? $ emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -f batch-byte-compile source-file(s) will compile .el files into .elc files and speed up emacs. If you are using the Debian emacs package, all of these files should already be compiled. Most distributions of emacs functions (implemented in .el files) provide instructions on installation that includes how to compile or a Makefile that does this for you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ppgplot and G77_getenv_0?
I'm trying to build the python ppgplot module (two p's) on a Debian 2.0 (frozen) system. I've been able to compile it, but when I try to use the module, I get the following error: Traceback (innermost last): File examples/tstsimple.py, line 3, in ? from ppgplot import * ImportError: /home/miller/lib/python/ppgplot.so: undefined symbol: G77_getenv_0 Has anyone managed to get ppgplot running on a 2.0 system? Anyone have ideas on where G77_getenv_0 is? Regards, Mike -- Michael A. Miller[EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign PGP public key available on request -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mounting /usr as read only.
Hello! What do you have to say about $SUBJECT? I think that in that way the /usr partition cant get currupted. Tanks, Liran. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mounting /usr as read only.
Liran Zvibel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LZ What do you have to say about $SUBJECT? LZ I think that in that way the /usr partition cant get currupted. It's probably a good preventative measure, in the same way that not doing everything as root is. The system should still work properly. The only problem is with upgrading programs; if you're running one of the Debian distributions that changes rapidly (frozen or unstable) you might want /usr read-write so you can update the system. Overall, though, it's probably not a bad idea... -- _ / \ Dad was reading a book called | David Maze | _Schroedinger's Kittens_. Asexual | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | reproduction? Only one cat is in the box. | http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ | -- Abra Mitchell \_/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to speed up the EMACS at start-up ?
Hi, Thanks to all for the quick answer. The $ emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -f batch-byte-compile source-file(s) is what I've wanted. But this leads me to another question: now, as a 'system adminstrator of my own PC, I just wonder which is the right way to add files to emacs and to make them available to those who are working on my computer. For instance, I want to add the JDE and don't know exactly were to put it and how to make it system available. Some advices would be welcome, especially as I'm a newbye in Emacs, Linux, etc... TIA, Ionutz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adaptec 2840 VLB Fails from bootdisk
Hi Daniel; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I have a 486dx4/100 system that has both PCI and VLB on the same board. I have Caldera currently running on the machine. The SCSI controller on it is a Adaptec 2840 VLB (Rev E, btw) Basically.. it hangs.. and gives errors something like scsi0 spurrious intterupt etc I'm using a boot disk that came with my CD from 1.3.1 rev 6. This is a known thing, and it happens only on 2842VLB card. The only solution I know of is to have the boot disk reconfigured/ rewritten to use a specially compiled kernel with only AIC77** (the one for the 2842 card) driver and none of the other SCSI cards. I don't know if this is happening with hamm disks... (I had switched over to the different card in the meantime) HTH DamirN -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
StarOffice 4.0 *.deb
Is there a Debian package to automate the installation of StarOffice 4.0? Thanks in advance. -- Regards,|Debian GNU/__ o http://www.debian.org . | / /__ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) |// /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ |...because lockups are for convicts... |What is or why Linux? Click on the below: http://www8.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/16/13/os1613.001.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
more SCSI Woes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Ok I got a differt SCSI card...the only one I could find in a reasonable price range locally was an Adaptec 1520 ...it is suported by the 152x driver I should hope... here is the problem... it coems up..in SCSI Bios and with jumpers I have set: IRQ: 10 (also tried 11, and 9...all of which have the same behaviour) io: 0x340 (also tried 0x140) SCSI ID = 7 BIOS Adress DC000 ..the SCSI bios detects my tape drive (SCSI ID 4) then linux boots (command line aha152x=ioport,irq) then... it BIOS test Passed... other stuff... then aha152x: trying software interrupt lost and aha152x: IRQ (the IRQ I chose and appended in lilo) possibly wrong.. then it says that every ID it tries is timing out scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 6, scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00 anyway...I did a cat /proc/intterupts and got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sjc]$ cat /proc/interrupts 0: 386167 timer 1: 10542 keyboard 2: 0 cascade 4: 123116 + serial 5:165 NE2000 8: 2 + rtc 12: 150329 PS/2 Mouse 13: 1 math error 14: 49013 + ide0 15: 0 + ide1 and: (ioports) [EMAIL PROTECTED] sjc]$ cat /proc/ioports -001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-007f : rtc 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : npu 0140-015f : aha152x 0170-0177 : ide1 01f0-01f7 : ide0 0300-031f : NE2000 0376-0376 : ide1 0378-037f : lp 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f0-03f5 : floppy 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR 03f8-03ff : serial(set) What could possibly be wrong? I have tried every feasable setting... and the SCSI BIOS detects the tape drive (and I have SCSI Tape Drive suport compiled in kernel) ..I posted earlier... someone suggested verifing the interupts and trying the other ioport...I have...im even using a new adapter I have never tried to setup SCSI before (on aPC...SCSI setup was a no brainer on my Apple II GS way back when (shamefully I admit way back when was 3 years ago) this is starting to get frustrating...what could it be? I NEED backup capability I read the SCSI HOWTO...still no help same for the kernel SCSI readmes - -Steve -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNUlbN3xvn0zebBV9AQG4NAQAlRwutYUWO0wEztFbgON5SOyZdiWHScmf lDZJFhUXauAbGa7IPlVLJj1MhIqgUKmtZGlrJv/s6Mn1my5ujDZwPMmHUOrTL88A WvZ2Zx95UT/SWRjQ2vAOXqO+O0PvWrK8MtuNMIIaU660qeZdCbvhXGGONiU26zOZ D8+twWmJnD4= =RTwA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
