Re: [wakkerma@wiggy.ml.org: Re: Debian NIS = SunOs crash ? (FWD'd)]
Hola! Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: Tiene esto que ver con el problema que alguien más había reportado con SunOS (lo que me preocupa ahora es que acá pidieron Solaris/x86...) Marcelo The default NIS configuration (not only for Debian by the way) uses a broadcast to look for a NIS server. This is easy for users: they don't have to enter the name of a NIS server. And it's nice for the admins: of one NIS servers fails and you have a second server in the subnet it will be used automatically. Yo mencioné un problema con SunOS 5.5, pero era con NFS, no con NIS. Saludos, Boriel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problema con Sendmail
Hola Amigos Yo utilizo como servidor de correo el sendmail, hasta el momento considero que tiene muy buenas prestaciones, adicionalmente tengo algunos usuario que toman su mensajeria por un acceso uucp. La Semana pasada me ocurrio que a un usuario de uucp le enviaron mensajes que sobrepasa el limite implicito o sea el que esta: En /usr/lib/sendmail.cf/mailer/uucp.m4 Este tiene una linea que dice que el UUCP_MAX-SIZE es 10 No se si sera un error mio en algo de mi configuración o si es un error del programa sendmail. Pues en el mail.log tiene un mensaje que dice stat=Service unavailable Pero no reporto al postmaster el error ni envio mensaje a remitente de que el limite estaba excedido. Yo aumente este limite pues lo que queria este usuario era enviar un documento scaneado tipo tiff y el problema se resolvio. Pero me preocupa esto pues no es logico que tenga que estar revisando las trazas. Alguien me puede decir si tengo que hacer algun ajuste en mi configuracion, o si esto es un problema conocido que tendra solucion en futuras versiones. Muchas gracias Saludos Humberto Morell (Sysadm) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
error compilando gnome-libs-0.20
Pues eso, que queria probar el gnome, pero al compilar el fichero gnome-libs-0.20 me dice: gcc -O2 -o .libs/htmltest test.o -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib ../gtk-xmhtml/.libs/libgtkxmhtml.so -lXpm -ljpeg -lz -lSM -lICE -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -lglib -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm ../intl/libintl.a -lm ../gtk-xmhtml/.libs/libgtkxmhtml.so: undefined reference to uncompress ../gtk-xmhtml/.libs/libgtkxmhtml.so: undefined reference to compress make[2]: *** [htmltest] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory /usr/src/gnome-libs-0.20/gtk-xmhtml' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/gnome-libs-0.20' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 ¿ me falta alguna libreria ?, estoy usando Debian 1.3.1, he bajado de la red, compilado e instalado estos paquetes: autoconf-2.12.tar.gz automake-1.3.tar.gz esound-0.2.1.tar.gz gettext-0.10.tar.gz gmp-2.0.2.tar.gz gsl-0.3b.tar.gz gtk+-1.0.4.tar.gz guile-1.2.tar.gz imlib-1.4.tar.gz libtool-1.0h.tar.gz mc-4.1.35.tar.gz mico-2.0.5.tar.gz slib2c0.tar.gz tambien he instalado del cdrom de la debian los paquetes: zlib1 1.0.4-7 zlib1-dev 1.0.4-7 xpm4.7 3.4g-9 xpm4.7-dev 3.4g-9 libjpeg-dev 6a-4 libjpeg6a 6a-4 libpng1 0.89c-6 libpng1-dev 0.89c-6 ¿ alguien puede ayudarme ? Un saludo. Alfredo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Instalar Debian sobre UMSDOS
Hola a todos! ¿Como se podria instalar Debian 1.3.1 sobre umsdos? Quiero instalar Debian sobre umsdos y habia pensado en creal el sistema de ficheros con los diskettes de instalacion de una Slackware que deja instalar en umsdos y una vez creado el sistema de ficheros instalar Debian indicando como destino de instalacion la particion umsdos. Pero no funciona. ¿Podria hacerse lo que yo quiero? Un saludo, Alberto. +--+ ¦ ¿Telefónica nos Estafa? (recogida de firmas) ¦ ¦ Y también las nuevas tarifas de Telefónica...¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ http://www.arrakis.es/~albertor/ ¦ +--+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xiterm
J. Parera : en una Xiterm la tecla Intro del teclado numérico no me funciona, como se soluciona? Y como cambio el prompt de ella? Pués el .bashrc no le afecta. ¿Estás seguro de usar la shell 'Bash'?: hay algunas muy parecidas y los ficheros de inicio cambian. Por ejemplo, la shell C usa .cshrc. Otras shell son : /bin/ash /bin/bash /bin/csh /bin/sh /usr/bin/es /usr/bin/ksh /usr/bin/rc /usr/bin/tcsh /usr/bin/zsh /usr/bin/flin /usr/bin/lsh Saludos -- Tinguaro Barreno Delgado [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help me...urgent please.
Hi All, I deleted my mail folder (unintentionally).. How to create another one in /var/spool/mail.. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Iomega Ditto tape unreliable?
What version of ftape and zftape are you using? I myself am using version 3.04d with the Iomega Ditto 2G and so far have not had any problems. I have backedup several times and verified them along with doing some restoring. I haven't taken the total plunge yet because I need to set up a special boot disk for it. I am also using Taper. I have found it to be easy and effective to use. Alex On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Johann Spies wrote: Hallo, I have been using an internal Iomega Ditto 2G tape for some time now to make backups - both in Dos and in Linux. In Dos, it works wonderfully well and efficient. However, as soon as you want to verify or restore backups made using Linux frustration starts: A lot of errors start showing. Over the weekend I was trying to restore from a recently made backup which was made using dump. Restore ran for a few hours without restoring a single file from the selection I made and in the end gave up with a hardware error notice. I then got hold of a new tape, made a backup using tob. I cannot get tob to read back from a backup made by tob so I used afio to verify the backup. It has been running now for about 12 hours and did not finish the job yet. There is about 1 gig data on the tape compressed to about 560meg. This is just not acceptable. When done in Dos it takes about 3 hours to backup and verify 600 meg of data. Is there hope for a reliable backup and restore program in Linux? I have tried tob, tbackup, dump and restore and no one so far could give me the impression that the system is reliable. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Loadable Modules and Configuration
Make sure that /etc/modules has the entry 3c509, and that it's uncommented. Also, you might need to do a depmod -a as root to rebuild the module dependency information (I modified my /etc/init.d/modutils to insure that this was done at every reboot). On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 06:20:29PM -0500, Len Cumbow wrote: Hi, I am running Debian 1.3.1. I have a 3c509B that USED to work in a previous installation of Debian. I have obviously hosed things in the new install. The card is no longer detected during boot. How do I get the card detected at boot? I think a loadable module (3c509.o?) is involved. How do I get it loaded at boot time? What config files are involved and what do I put in them? Also, how do I configure things without booting from the rescue diskette and running though a lot of unnecessary installation steps? Thanks, Len Cumbow -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Help me...urgent please.
VM == Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: VM I deleted my mail folder (unintentionally).. How to create another VM one in /var/spool/mail.. It is created automaticaly if new mails arrives and there is no spoolfile. Ciao, Martin -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Exim!
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 11:03:34PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: One person may want procmail, but I dare say that if an ISP installs exim after using sendmail/procmail they need it lest they break a couble thousand procmailrc files from their users. In that case I doubt directing them all to learn a new set of filtering rules is an appropriate course to take. You must have an interesting ISP; I suspect most ISP users would say What's unix? In NZ, a fair proportion of ISP's use Linux as their main OS, (slackware generally), And I know of one that still provides shell accounts. Of course they use Winslow in administration :) It's all a gooey interface in html for the dumb people :) Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - Computers are not intelligent. They just think they are. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: the time
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 04:31:40PM -0400, David Parmet wrote: How do i change the date and time? date MMDDHHMM Mike -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
fvwm2 config hook rant
I am very upset by these hook things. I do not understand them. They seem to be much harder to work with than regular configuration (.*rc) files. They seem to require that the user know which hook file to edit. There are several, prethis.hook postthat.hook etc. Some hooks are links to null files. This is all very confusing for the novice. At least it is very confusing and upsetting to me. Also the existing hook files are empty. This means that the user must write them from scratch as opposed to merely editing the existing configuration file. This is practically impossible for the novice user. I can't see that they serve any useful purpose other than making Linux inaccessable to novice users. Please don't misunderstand, I accept that linux has a learning curve. I have a big pile of books on my desk. I read man pages and howtos and info and mailing lists and usenet. But there is just no reason or justification for organizing configuration files in this confusing and intimidating manner. Applications, and os's, should be usable and reasonably configurably at every level of user ability. Thankyou for any help. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
configuring XFree86
I thought i had XF86 configured correctly, but it seems I need to change the configuration settings. When doing so, I encounter problems. After typing:sudo /usr/sbin/xbase-configure I get the following response: Leaving existing /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers :0 entry alone. What does this mean and how do I reconfigure xbase? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Tkdesk (was: File managers ??............)
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Alexey Vyskubov wrote:
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 02:38:00PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tkdesk looks fine but I don't know how to get rid off of the icons menu
which
appear on the left of the screen.
Nasty hack:
put the following in the last line of ~/.tkdesk/AppBar:
set tkdesk(appbar) {{}}
You right :) it is nasty...
I think there is actually a setting in the browser somewhere...
File:Configuration:Appbar:Hide Appbar
I think have a look. I use kfm now :)
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RE: a simple drawing program?
On 13-Jul-98 Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: Is there a simple, easily usable, drawing package that's been debianized? I really don't need anything more complicated than venn diagram type stuff. MacDraw 1.0 would more than meet my needs. I've looked at gimp, which is overkill (and annoying on an 8 bit display due to colormap demands), and tgif, which seems to want to rotate my text and do other fancy stuff, as well as being a bit awkward in the interface. Try getting to grips with the pic preprocessor for troff (part of the groff package). For the sort of thing you mention it should do what you want (tricky to fill the overlapping parts of Venn diagrams at different grey-levels however). You can output the result as PostScript and import it into your document later (unless you use groff for the document itself, in which case you can do it on-the-fly). Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 14-Jul-98 Time: 00:05:15 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Chrooting bind 8.1.2 under debian 2.0
Greetings I just spent a very frustrating evening attempting to chroot bind and run it as a non-root user. The instructions that I was following were written for redhat. I use debian. The main difference in the instructions between the two distributions involved the use of /etc/rc.d by redhat and /etc/init.d by debian (and the way that the scripts in those two directories actually start and stop various services). The main problem seems to be with the way that debian starts bind using the script /etc/init.d/bind. I thought it would be really neat to just change the #!/bin/sh at the top of the script to something like : #!/usr/sbin/chroot /chroot-dns/ /bin/sh or #!/usr/sbin/chroot /chroot-dns/ /chroot-dns/bin/sh but I was getting various errors like can't change root to /chroot-dns/ and /chroot-dns/bin/sh file or directory not found (and, yes, I even created a subdirectory within /chroot-dns/ called chroot-dns and duplicated all the necessary components). Ok, so I figured that some obsecure nitche problem with shell invocation or usage was preventing this from working; so, I focused my attention on the start-stop-daemon utility used in the script. I initially, I tried chrooting the start-stop-daemon utility itself, but that failed. I then realized that it would be better to --exec /usr/sbin/chroot rather than attempt to chroot the start-stop-daemon. The main problem with this is that start-stop-daemon would never return from its' --exec /usr/sbin/chroot, effectivly hanging up the script at that point. All of this was being done remotely, and I made the mistake or rebooting the box with this script in place. I have to stop by the remote site and fix/reboot the box in person. Anyone with any clues on how to easily and effectivly chroot bind under debian? Worst case, I will rewrite the /etc/init.d/bind script to use something other than start-stop-daemon, but I'de really like to stick with the mood and tone set /etc/init.d As always, TiA -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: fvwm2 config hook rant
Tom Malloy wrote: snipBut there is just no reason or justification for organizing configuration files in this confusing and intimidating manner. Applications, and os's, should be usable and reasonably configurably at every level of userability.snip Well then, if that's what you want then get KDE or something. It's a lot of work to make a 'reasonably configurable' window manager, and maybe the FVWM2 guys don't have the time, or don't care. They made something they like, and made it free to use for whoever wants to download it or get a cd with it. If you don't like that, get something else. I get frustrated with hamm sometimes because setting up ANY piece of hardware has been ten times the pain I've had with my extensive Windows experience, at least this has been my personal experience with Debian, maybe some of you have had an easier time for all I know. If you like the leaness and meaness of FVWM2, you'll have to learn it's mean configuration system. You might like this sight: http://www.PLiG.org/xwinman/ It contains screenshots and configuration files for the screenshots for nearly all of the popular window managers. I personally am using KDE right now. I'd say it ties with windowmaker and gnome used together, which is what I used before. Windowmaker and gnome w/ rxvt is prettier than KDE but I find with the K environment I can do pretty much anything instantly and in a number of different ways to. And the 1.0 release of KDE was announced today to, so it should be packaged for Debian Real Soon Now and you should definately check it out if you haven't already. The online help and configuration is even easier to use than Windows, IMHO. Chris -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
make-kpkg: ld bombs on misc.o
I'm unable to build a kernel .deb package with the 2.0.34-4 kernel source and other required/suggested packages as documented in /usr/doc/kernel-package/README. Doing make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image compiled everything, but, at the linker phase... make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/arch/i386/boot/compressed' gcc -I/usr/src/linux/include -O2 -DSTDC_HEADERS -o xtract xtract.c gcc -I/usr/src/linux/include -O2 -DSTDC_HEADERS -o piggyback piggyback.c ./xtract /usr/src/linux/vmlinux | gzip -9 | ./piggyback piggy.o Non-GCC header of 'system' Compressed size 20. gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -traditional -c head.S gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -O2 -DSTDC_HEADERS -c misc.c -o misc.o ld -qmagic -Ttext 0xfffe0 -o bvmlinux head.o misc.o piggy.o ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 000fffe0 misc.o: In function `fill_inbuf': misc.o(.text+0x1ebc): undefined reference to `input_data' misc.o(.text+0x1ec1): undefined reference to `input_len' misc.o(.text+0x1ed7): undefined reference to `input_data' Could this possibly be related to the following typical message from my install of libc-kheaders_2.0.32-5.deb? ^^ dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: trying to overwrite `/usr/include/linux/kernel.h', which is also in package libc6-dev (error messages also from many more header files) Any tips greatly appreciated. Thanks, Patrick There's always been Tower of Babel sort of bickering inside Unix, but this is the most extreme form ever. This means at least several years of confusion.-- Bill Gates, founder and chairman of Microsoft, about the Open Systems Foundation -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: libc6 Netscape form problems
Hi, Netscape probably is the problem. I downloaded the glibc Netscape from ../development to because Netscape was the only libc5 app I was using and if I switched to glibc Netscape I would have a 'clean' glibc-only system. But I had problem after problem with it. It would freeze on web page loads all the time and moving the window around would erase the graphics and wallpaper from anything it moved over and I was constantly having to ctrl-alt-backspace out of X because neither alt-q nor killing it's pid nor anything else will unfreaze it or get rid of it. When I first installed it everything seemed okay, but it seems to gradually grow worse the more you use it. libc5 Netscape has been flawless for me. Runs much better that in Windows, because I've never had a 'general protection fault' dialogue box that forces me to close all my Netscape windows, and I get GPF errors in 95' and NT' at least once every other day. Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running the libc6 version of Netscape 4.05 and am experiencing some strang problems when entering text into text fields. Something keeps appending random binary bits to the end of the strings and it really screws things up. Sometimes it isn't even apparent in the field and other times it is. This is really fun when trying to order things on the web!! As an example I tried placing an order for 2 items and it somehow converted it to 21!!! Yikes! Or as another example I entered free source into yahoo's search field and it said that I had entered, free sourceü^¾¤-?ü^¾¤-?h=5. What gives. I suppose I could re-install the libc5 version of Netscape but if Netscape is not the problem I don't want to download the 11+M over my 31.2k dialup. Thanks, -- Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: fvwm2 config hook rant
Hi, If you like programming by example, I can provide you with a live copy of my fvwm config files (16Kgzipped) which should be a good start. URL:http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/fvwmconf.tar.gz has a copy. I did not include the custom xpm and gif files that I use, since it is unlikely that they would be of interest, but if there is enough demand, I can see about including them in. URL:http://master.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/root.png shows what it looks like. Enjoy. manoj -- Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads. John Galt, in Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_ Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/ Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Non-intuitive kernel config change
I just upgraded to hamm, and with that I moved from a hand-patched 2.0.30 kernel to kernel-source-2.0.34. I made a kernel package and installed it, only to discover that the ISO 9660 file system was not built, because I didn't compile in NLS support. This is made particularly tricky by make menuconfig, since the dialog-based menus don't even show the ISO 9660 file system as an option UNLESS you ask for NLS support. So it's non-intuitive, from my perspective. It took me some time to find out the proper menu options I needed (actually, I was about to post a bug, but then I searched for bugs against kernel-source-2.0.34 and discovered a rejected patch from someone who had the same problem with FAT fs support. I've got a few questions about this: - Why is NLS required for a kernel that supports FAT and ISO? I ask this mostly out of ignorance; it's been a long time since I used DOS, but I never remember having to do anything special codepage-wise to get CDROMs to work. - Why does menuconfig work this way? From my perspective, it's backward. It would seem to me more logical to prompt for the ISO and/or FAT fs, and then indicate that the NLS was being included. (This is consistent with other things in the kernel config; the one that leaps to mind is IP masquerading, where the config automatically builds module versions of the various masquerade shims if you enable the masquerading feature.) - Does the non-SCSI/IDE/ATAPI CDROM support logic in the kernel config force the appropriate options for ISO support? Perhaps there should be an option under CD-ROM Drivers that selects support for SCSI/IDE/ATAPI drives, and have that one force all the various support options as well. - Can someone give a reason why one would want to generate a kernel with CDROM support that *didn't* have ISO 9660 support? Other than the fact that the fs code isn't required to play audio CDs? - Jim -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Non-intuitive kernel config change
Jim Nicholson wrote: I just upgraded to hamm, and with that I moved from a hand-patched 2.0.30 kernel to kernel-source-2.0.34. I made a kernel package and installed it, only to discover that the ISO 9660 file system was not built, because I didn't compile in NLS support. This is made particularly tricky by make menuconfig, since the dialog-based menus don't even show the ISO 9660 file system as an option UNLESS you ask for NLS support. So it's non-intuitive, from my perspective. It took me some time to find out the proper menu options I needed (actually, I was about to post a bug, but then I searched for bugs against kernel-source-2.0.34 and discovered a rejected patch from someone who had the same problem with FAT fs support. Debian could only send a request upstream. Perhaps we would be better served to document this? I've got a few questions about this: - Why is NLS required for a kernel that supports FAT and ISO? I ask this mostly out of ignorance; it's been a long time since I used DOS, but I never remember having to do anything special codepage-wise to get CDROMs to work. NLS stands for National Language Support. iso9660 and FAT use this w/ code pages to support multiple languages. By supporting this we aer supporting non-english DOS/Windows users. I do agree that the menuconfig is confusing though. - Why does menuconfig work this way? From my perspective, it's backward. It would seem to me more logical to prompt for the ISO and/or FAT fs, and then indicate that the NLS was being included. (This is consistent with other things in the kernel config; the one that leaps to mind is IP masquerading, where the config automatically builds module versions of the various masquerade shims if you enable the masquerading feature.) The NLS code is newer and hence, less trusted. So that is part of why it works that way. - Does the non-SCSI/IDE/ATAPI CDROM support logic in the kernel config force the appropriate options for ISO support? Perhaps there should be an option under CD-ROM Drivers that selects support for SCSI/IDE/ATAPI drives, and have that one force all the various support options as well. No it does not - Can someone give a reason why one would want to generate a kernel with CDROM support that *didn't* have ISO 9660 support? Other than the fact that the fs code isn't required to play audio CDs? - Jim non iso formatted CD's? (I am not aware of them but I believe they exist). -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Non-intuitive kernel config change
In 2.0.35 (released today) NLS, FAT and ISO9660 are selected Y by default. Bob On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Jim Nicholson wrote: I just upgraded to hamm, and with that I moved from a hand-patched 2.0.30 kernel to kernel-source-2.0.34. I made a kernel package and installed it, only to discover that the ISO 9660 file system was not built, because I didn't compile in NLS support. This is made particularly tricky by make menuconfig, since the dialog-based menus don't even show the ISO 9660 file system as an option UNLESS you ask for NLS support. So it's non-intuitive, from my perspective. It took me some time to find out the proper menu options I needed (actually, I was about to post a bug, but then I searched for bugs against kernel-source-2.0.34 and discovered a rejected patch from someone who had the same problem with FAT fs support. I've got a few questions about this: - Why is NLS required for a kernel that supports FAT and ISO? I ask this mostly out of ignorance; it's been a long time since I used DOS, but I never remember having to do anything special codepage-wise to get CDROMs to work. - Why does menuconfig work this way? From my perspective, it's backward. It would seem to me more logical to prompt for the ISO and/or FAT fs, and then indicate that the NLS was being included. (This is consistent with other things in the kernel config; the one that leaps to mind is IP masquerading, where the config automatically builds module versions of the various masquerade shims if you enable the masquerading feature.) - Does the non-SCSI/IDE/ATAPI CDROM support logic in the kernel config force the appropriate options for ISO support? Perhaps there should be an option under CD-ROM Drivers that selects support for SCSI/IDE/ATAPI drives, and have that one force all the various support options as well. - Can someone give a reason why one would want to generate a kernel with CDROM support that *didn't* have ISO 9660 support? Other than the fact that the fs code isn't required to play audio CDs? - Jim -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Non-intuitive kernel config change
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Jim Nicholson wrote: I just upgraded to hamm, and with that I moved from a hand-patched 2.0.30 kernel to kernel-source-2.0.34. I made a kernel package and installed it, only to discover that the ISO 9660 file system was not built, because I didn't compile in NLS support. This is made particularly tricky by make menuconfig, since the dialog-based menus don't even show the ISO 9660 file system as an option UNLESS you ask for NLS support. So it's non-intuitive, from my perspective. I ran into the same thing tonight, but to me it seemed intuitive. Since I didn't have ISO 9660 as an option, I figured I needed to highlight something in order to enable it. This is consistent with the rest of the config. For instance, you have to highlight scsi, to get scsi options, networking to get network card options, etc. - Can someone give a reason why one would want to generate a kernel with CDROM support that *didn't* have ISO 9660 support? Other than the fact that the fs code isn't required to play audio CDs? If you don't plan to make or read ISO 9660 disks, you don't need the support. If you wanted to make CDs with a ext2 file system, that should work. I'll find out soon, as I am setting up a system to run off a CD and a zip drive. Since the computer only has 1 CD drive, it will be used read a CD with an ext2 partition mounted as /usr. I would have no need for ISO 9660 in the kernel, but do need cd support. Mark -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Chrooting bind 8.1.2 under debian 2.0
I'm replying to debian-user since this is the only relevant list from those you sent this message to. Please try to avoid sending to more than one list. I'm NOT on the debian-user list. I got your message through debian-isp. On Tue, July 14 1998, cfb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |The main problem seems to be with the way that debian starts bind using |the script /etc/init.d/bind. I thought it would be really neat to just |change the #!/bin/sh at the top of the script to something like : | #!/usr/sbin/chroot /chroot-dns/ /bin/sh |or | #!/usr/sbin/chroot /chroot-dns/ /chroot-dns/bin/sh |but I was getting various errors like can't change root to The #! syntax is parsed by the kernel and limits you to a single argument. It used to also limit the length of the line a lot (like 30 bytes or so) but I trust linux to lift that limitation. |Ok, so I figured that some obsecure nitche problem with shell invocation |or usage was preventing this from working; so, I focused my attention on |the start-stop-daemon utility used in the script. I initially, I tried |chrooting the start-stop-daemon utility itself, but that failed. I then How did this fail? Did you update the paths to reflect the fact that '/' under chroot means '/chroot-dns/'? |realized that it would be better to --exec /usr/sbin/chroot rather than |attempt to chroot the start-stop-daemon. From the manual of start-stop-daemon it looks like --exec checks for running processes. It does this by accessing /proc but since you already chroot'ed the process it won't be able to do that. So you should probably chroot the program start-stop-daemon executes. |The main problem with this is that start-stop-daemon would never return |from its' --exec /usr/sbin/chroot, effectivly hanging up the script at |that point. All of this was being done remotely, and I made the mistake |or rebooting the box with this script in place. I have to stop by the |remote site and fix/reboot the box in person. | |Anyone with any clues on how to easily and effectivly chroot bind under |debian? Worst case, I will rewrite the /etc/init.d/bind script to use |something other than start-stop-daemon, but I'de really like to stick |with the mood and tone set /etc/init.d It's not a testted solution but here is something: Write a script which contains just: #!/bin/sh -- exec /usr/sbin/chroot /var/chroot/bind /bind Call this script something like /usr/local/sbin/chroot-bind (make it executable) and *run* it using start-stop daemon instead of the binary directly. The *stop* clause should stay the same except that the pid file should be something like /chroot-dns/var/run/named.pid unless you find a way to specify another file name in named.conf (I don't have the Debian bind-doc package installed so I can't look for it now) You'll have to create the directory hierarchy under /chroot-dns/: /var/named, /etc, /var/run/, /var/tmp and maybe update /chroot-dns/etc/named.conf And learn UNIX. You were banging your head against known UNIX behaviour and documented Debian utilities. --Amos --Amos Shapira| Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England. ISRAEL[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Anonymous -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
power-save mode in screen mode ?
Hello, is ther any way to force monitor come to power saving mode when i'm in full-screen mode ? -- Matus fantomas Uhlar, sysadmin at NETLAB+ Kosice, Slovakia BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Problem with modules_install
On 12 Jul 1998 06:38:33 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote: Hi, graeve == graeve [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: graeve Even with make-kpkg the modules don't end up in the right place. Could you elaborate? Where do the modules end up? Where should they be ending up? Would it be possible to access the .deb files produced? Have you filed a bug report? I would be grateful if people filed bug reports when make-kpkg did not work, or put the modules in the wrong place. I don't think it's some kind of bug. There must be something I'm doing wrong because it doesn't matter what version of Debian I'm using, the module copying allways goes wrong. The modules end up nowhere, they just stay where they are created and with the make modules_install I just see cp file.o no such file or directory. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
debian-cd
Does anybody tell me how to use debian-cd package ? How to make own cd image with debian 2.0 ? Thanks ! begin: vcard fn: Peter Shtinkov n: Shtinkov;Peter org:Spectrum NET email;internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] title: System Administrator tel;work: (+359 2) 974 3238 x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard
[Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?
Hi, can anybody tell me how to enable iso9660 support in a 2.0.34 kernel. There doesn't seem to be an option when I do 'make menuconfig'. Nico -- -- Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (PSDC-B/DNSE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 09:21:28AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: Hi, can anybody tell me how to enable iso9660 support in a 2.0.34 kernel. There doesn't seem to be an option when I do 'make menuconfig'. In menu filesystems set on Native language support (Unicode, codepages) you get iso and fat options. Mirek -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: fvwm2 config hook rant
Chris wrote: Tom Malloy wrote: snipBut there is just no reason or justification for organizing configuration files in this confusing and intimidating manner. Applications, and os's, should be usable and reasonably configurably at every level of userability.snip format rant If you feel you have to reformat someone else's paragraph, could you _please_ limit your line length to 72 characters, the original looked _much_ better in a standard terminal screen, which is used by many people on this list./format rant Well then, if that's what you want then get KDE or something. It's a lot of work to make a 'reasonably configurable' window manager, and maybe the FVWM2 guys don't have the time, or don't care. [ snip ] I think the confusion is not about the configuration file itself, but about the `hook' files that are introduced by the debian menu system. I don't find this `entirely intuitive' either. I wondered if it weren't clearer to the user if the update-menus command would edit certain sections of a template .fvwm2rc file that could be provided to the user. At the top of the configuration file, you could have a comment like: # These lines request the debian menu-system to work with this config # file. If you remove them the update-menus command will not touch the # file anymore. Then in the file, you would have sections `reserved' for the menu system, also indicated by comments. If it were organized this way, the menu system could also work for window managers that lack the capability to read `hooks' in their configuration files. Also a lot of the problems I've seen with the menu system seem to arrive from this reading of extra files into the config file. Does anyone know if this method has been considered? Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: cirrus logic/sparklies (newbie)
I'm having problems setting up X which I think are due to my graphic card settings. I have what I thought was a pretty standard card which the drivers are there for. The card has a Cirrus CL-GD5446BV with 2 MB of ram. Superprobe identifies both ok. I used xf86config to set up the configuration file and can't see anything wrong there (as suggested I've set no clock settings). I'm using fvwm2. When I start up X I get small dots appearing round anything that moves (a window if I drag it, fish if I start xfishtank, etc). Some of the dots stay visible (this effect does occasionally appear under Win95, but only within scrollbars around windows. Otherwise there are no graphics problems at all under Win95). I're tried turning off both acceleration and bitblt, but that makes things worse: in particular, if I generate text wider than a window (eg by ls -al) the window is redrawn with multiple overlapping copies of itself. If I force a redraw most times the dots go away. Any suggestions? A bit of a long shot here.. The word 'sparklies' made me think that it might be a dot/pixel clock rate too high, but if the noise only changes or appears when something is drawn or moved on the screen then it's probably not that. About a year ago I built a system with a Supermicro Pentium Pro motherboard and an S3-based card. Under MS Windows every time a window closed or was moved the stuff revealed would be covered in noise. After doing that half a dozen times the system would hang. Linux coped better: I got the noise but not the hang. To cut a long story short I came to the conclusion that the motherboard didn't like S3s. I switched to a Matrox Millenium and haven't had any trouble since. In summary, I'd try a different graphics card in your machine (or your card in another machine). -- Monstrous tripods, higher than the tallest steeple, striding over the pine trees and smashing them. Walking engines of glittering metal. I realized with horror that my robotics experiment had got out of hand. (With apologies to HG Wells.) http://www.algol.demon.co.uk -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 09:21:28AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: Hi, can anybody tell me how to enable iso9660 support in a 2.0.34 kernel. There doesn't seem to be an option when I do 'make menuconfig'. In menu filesystems set on Native language support (Unicode, codepages) you get iso and fat options. Ah, I didn't know iso and fat where languages :-) Thanks Nico Mirek -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- -- Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (PSDC-B/DNSE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: cirrus logic/sparklies (newbie)
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Bruce Mardle wrote: I'm having problems setting up X which I think are due to my graphic card settings. I have what I thought was a pretty standard card which the drivers are there for. The card has a Cirrus CL-GD5446BV with 2 MB of ram. Superprobe identifies both ok. I used xf86config to set up the configuration file I have found a lot of help from the following places. I do not have everything working as expected but it works a little. The problem has to do with Cirrus Logic and not there not being enough people to code their chips in X. Well to cut a long story short see the Xservers documentation on Cirrus Logic and also check the following sites: Try specifying chipset clgd5436 in place of 754x. It worked for me on a Gateway Solo2100 laptop with a 7548. Here's my XF86Config: # This file is derived from Gordon Chaffe's ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/Berkeley.EDU) # web page http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/index.html#xfree86_cirrus # # This works for me with a Cirrus Logic 7548 on a Gateway Solo 2100 Laptop and also http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ -- Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa(w) 27+21+650 2816 (h) 27+21+705 8469 /---/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: power-save mode in screen mode ?
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 08:51:13AM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: is ther any way to force monitor come to power saving mode when i'm in full-screen mode ? setterm -powersave on? 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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 09:53:11AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: Ah, I didn't know iso and fat where languages :-) Changed in 2.0.35 anyway, just out. 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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
xmodmap proper
hi I am novice linux. Backspace key doesnt working in X-windows proper I look confused about how to use xmapmod. Backspace for Ctrl-H code what explain do I use xmapmod command. -- Cheers K.Y.Lo Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: xmodmap proper
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 12:12:28PM +0100, K.Y.Lo wrote: I am novice linux. Backspace key doesnt working in X-windows proper This is an issue that is being addressed in Debian 2.0, which is currrently in beta test. If you are not using that version, you might want to upgrade to it. If you are using that version, make sure you have the X keyboard extension enabled. Hope this helps, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Yamaha OPL3-SAx and master volume
Hi! I recently bought a sound card which seems to have a OPL3-SAx chip. I managed to compile a kernel for it (2.0.32 with OSS/Free), but now there is no master volume control bar. I have been using an OPTi 82C931 for some time, and with that card it was possible to change the master volume. I know that those card do differ, but both use MSS/WSS as sound driver. Going through the source code (ad1848.c) I noticed that the 82C930 has some strange habits, so I guess 82C931 has some too. I've tried to experiment with the registers for the mixer, but the only results are non-functioning bars. Is there someone out here that has such a card and/or knows something about the chip? I'd be very happy if anyone could provide me with the information I need to adjust these things to get it working. Now for two other problems/oddities: 1) the sound module complains about [MSS: IRQ Conflict?] whenever the module is inserted. My settings are to use IRQ11 and DMA 3 and 0. I've tried is with DMA 3 and 3, but still this message. I used the same settings on the OPTi 931, without this message. 2) Both the OPTi82C931 and this new Yamaha-kinda card seem to be able to produce 3D sound. (I know, 3D with 2 speakers isn't quite possible and I don't intend to use it...) Is there a way to get this working in Linux? Well, that's all for now... Thanx in advance, Maarten Bezemer. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: a simple drawing program?
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a simple, easily usable, drawing package that's been debianized? I really don't need anything more complicated than venn diagram type stuff. MacDraw 1.0 would more than meet my needs. I've looked at gimp, which is overkill (and annoying on an 8 bit display due to colormap demands), and tgif, which seems to want to rotate my text and do other fancy stuff, as well as being a bit awkward in the interface. rick I strongly recommends xfig. And you can export for several formats that can be included in LaTeX, including PostScript. I suggest eepic, however, since you can use LaTeX (mathemathical) labels in your picture. from man fi2dev: -L Set the output graphics language. Valid languages are box, epic, eepic, eepicemu, ibmgl, latex, null, pic, pictex, ps, pstex, pstex_t, textyl, mf (META FONT) and tpic. -- Alair Pereira do Lago [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: Two Questions
Maybe I can help with the boot problem. Debian doesn't use LILO as a MBR boot manager. They use a program known just as MBR. (At least this is true for the bo release, is it true for hamm?) I'm not quite sure why LILO isn't used as the MBR boot manager, because it appears to be superior to MBR in many ways. Anyway, LILO, when installed as an MBR boot manager can boot Linux on a second drive, the MBR program can't. If you want to install LILO as MBR you can do what I did. Just make a boot floppy. Use it to start Linux and then configure LILO to be installed as MBR. It sounds as if you'd rather start Linux through the NT Loader (a boot sector loader instead of an MBR loader). To do this make a LILO config file that installs LILO as a boot sector loader on your Linux partition. Then copy the boot sector (dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1) to your NT Loader partition and modify your boot.ini file or use bootpart to do all of this for you. Everytime you install a new kernel you will need to re-run LILO and copy the boot sector to the NT partition. Sorry I can't help with the more serious boot failure problem. Good luck, Tony Richardson -Original Message- From: Mike Harmon [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 13, 1998 2:44 PM To: debian-user Subject: Two Questions Hi Everyone, I am a Debian newbie. Actually I'm ALMOST a Linux newbie. My system environment is as follows: IBM Mod 365 200 MHz Pentium Pro system (32 MB RAM) HD 0 is a 2.5 GB IDE (NT 4.0 loaded) HD1 is a 540 MB IDE (Linux) Network Card is an IBM Auto 16/4 Token Ring ISA card I'm using BOOTPART to allow my NT boot manager to boot Linux Here are my questions/problems: 1. After I installed the base disks and went through the config steps, I got to the point where I was asked whether I wanted to set up Linux to boot from the HD. I said 'yes'. I received an error message telling me that it was impossible to boot from the second HD, even though it used to work fine with Red Hat 4.2. I was expecting the config program to ask me whether I wanted to use the MBR or place the boot sector on the first track of the Linux boot partition, but it didn't. 2. When I tried to reboot the system (by selecting my 'Linux' choice from the NT boot menu), I got the following screen: Disk formatted with WinImage 2.20 (c) 1993-95 Gilles Vollant. Bootsector from C. H. Hochstatter. No Systemdisk. Booting from harddisk. Cannot load from harddisk. Insert Systemdisk and press any key. 3. I inserted my rescue disk and pressed enter. At the boot: prompt, I entered: rescue root=/dev/hdb1 4. The system responded with: Loading linux . . . and proceeded with the boot process. After the normal two dozen or so boot messages, I got to the following point in the boot process: Checking all file systems . . . Parallelizing fsck version 1.10 (24-Apr-97) /dev/hdb5: clean, 11/16632 files, 2129/66496 blocks /dev/hdb6: clean, 2333/92520 files, 22425/368641 blocks Mounting local file systems . . . /dev/hdb5 on /home type ext2 (rw) /dev/hdb6 on /usr type ext2 (rw) and then my system froze up tight. I suspect that the boot freezeup is some kind of difugilty with the Token Ring card (I never did get it to work with Red Hat 4.2). A few lines earlier on the boot process, I got messages indicating that the tr0 device was found, but I never received any message indicating that the adapter had been opened successfully. I'd really like to get the TR support to work, because that's what we use here at work, and I'd like to be able to use Linux to connect to the LAN. I know I have all the IP stuff set up correctly, because I had our telecomm guru on the line while I was filling in the blanks. Can anyone shed some light on my somewhat dimly-lit world regarding these two issues. All help will be greatly rewarded with virtual beer. Thanks, Mike Harmon -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: a simple drawing program?
xcircuit might work for you. You can define shapes and add them to your library, rotate objects and text. It doesn't give you fine control over things but it worked when I needed to draw simple line and text based thingys. -Original Message- From: Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 13, 1998 5:01 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: a simple drawing program? Is there a simple, easily usable, drawing package that's been debianized? I really don't need anything more complicated than venn diagram type stuff. MacDraw 1.0 would more than meet my needs. I've looked at gimp, which is overkill (and annoying on an 8 bit display due to colormap demands), and tgif, which seems to want to rotate my text and do other fancy stuff, as well as being a bit awkward in the interface. rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
how to boot from other disk?
Hi! Is that possible to boot Linux or Win from other disk then hda ? I have one disk with Debian 1.3.1 and another with Win95. Can I setup LILO to choose option windows to boot from hdb1 ? Is this depends from BIOS? Adam Sztuka -THEbian Linux - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: how to boot from other disk?
DOS and Windows (up through Win95 at least) can't be booted from anything other than the first disk. There are ways to fake an OS that only uses the BIOS (DOS) into thinking the second drive is the first one. (LILO's map-drive option can do this.) I'm fairly sure this won't work for Win95 though. Fortunately Linux doesn't mind being on the second disk. LILO when installed as MBR can boot Linux from the second disk (even from a logical partition). Tony Richardson -Original Message- From: Adam.Sztuka [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 1998 8:45 AM To: debian-user Subject: how to boot from other disk? Hi! Is that possible to boot Linux or Win from other disk then hda ? I have one disk with Debian 1.3.1 and another with Win95. Can I setup LILO to choose option windows to boot from hdb1 ? Is this depends from BIOS? Adam Sztuka -THEbian Linux - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
its not a dos partition?
I tried creating a second primary dos partition with linux' fdisk since dos' won't let me have more than one primary. (my first clue maybe) Then I format with dos. Mother MUST have her dos/window3.1/I-won't-give-95. Dos can read and write to that partition but linux says notdos/other error when I try to mount. Elaina Tillinghast -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: fvwm2 config hook rant
Tom Malloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I am very upset by these hook things. I do not understand them. They seem | to be much harder to work with than regular configuration (.*rc) files. | They seem to require that the user know which hook file to edit. There | are several, prethis.hook postthat.hook etc. Some hooks are links to null | files. This is all very confusing for the novice. At least it is very | confusing and upsetting to me. Also the existing hook files are empty. | This means that the user must write them from scratch as opposed to merely | editing the existing configuration file. This is practically impossible | for the novice user. | | I can't see that they serve any useful purpose other than making Linux | inaccessable to novice users. Please don't misunderstand, I accept that | linux has a learning curve. I have a big pile of books on my desk. I | read man pages and howtos and info and mailing lists and usenet. But | there is just no reason or justification for organizing configuration | files in this confusing and intimidating manner. Applications, and os's, | should be usable and reasonably configurably at every level of user | ability. Thankyou for any help. Just to offer an opposing viewpoint... I LOVE the way the hooks work! Before I figured out how to use them I'd just copy over a system.fvwm2rc or some other sample .fvwm2rc file and after about a year I think, MAYBE, two out five of my menu items would actually work. I was just too lazy to keep my own ~/.fvwm2rc file up to date. I don't find the process of editing my ~/.fvwm2rc file a lot of fun and now I don't have to bother! When I add/remove an X Application via dselect or dpkg the item is nicely added/removed from the system files and I don't have to worry about it. And the addition/removal doesn't affect my own hook files at all so I can keep just the essential things there that I know are pretty much static. Besides, you don't have to use them. Just create your own ~/.fvwm2rc file and you'll never know anything about the files in /etc/X11/fvwm2. At least I believe that's the way it works? Sure it took me a little while to figure out how they work but reading /usr/doc/fvwm2/README.sysrc.gz helped and now I wouldn't go back to the old method if someone payed me! Gary -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?
*-Nico De Ranter (14 Jul) | On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 09:21:28AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: | | Hi, | | can anybody tell me how to enable iso9660 support in a 2.0.34 | kernel. There doesn't seem to be an option when I do 'make menuconfig'. | | In menu filesystems set on Native language support (Unicode, codepages) | you get iso and fat options. | | Ah, I didn't know iso and fat where languages :-) | Their not, but they need to understand different characters sets for different languages(i.e. native language support). -- Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Problem with modules_install
Hi, I see. If you are using make modules_install, you are not using make-kpkg. In that case, my suggestion to you is: use make-kpkg from kernel-package; it really takes care of these details for you. You never run make modules_install. manoj graeve == graeve [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: graeve On 12 Jul 1998 06:38:33 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj graeve Srivastava) wrote: graeve == graeve [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: graeve Even with make-kpkg the modules don't end up in the right place. Could you elaborate? Where do the modules end up? Where should they be ending up? Would it be possible to access the .deb files produced? Have you filed a bug report? graeve I don't think it's some kind of bug. There must be something graeve I'm doing wrong because it doesn't matter what version of graeve Debian I'm using, the module copying allways goes wrong. The graeve modules end up nowhere, they just stay where they are created graeve and with the make modules_install I just see cp file.o no graeve such file or directory. -- One basic notion underlying Usenet is that it is a cooperative. Having been on USENET for going on ten years, I disagree with this. The basic notion underlying USENET is the flame. Chuq Von Rospach, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/ Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: fvwm2 config hook rant
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Tom Malloy wrote: editing the existing configuration file. This is practically impossible for the novice user. I wouldn't say I'm a novice but I had much the same problem, I used to have a great little .fvwmrc file and I wanted to do same thing with my .fvwm2rc file but looked at the hooks and said blow this. so after waddaling along with the default for a few month I decided to look at some of the config tools out there..Although I don't normailly use GUI's the dotfile generator is excelent for this. the fvwm2 module works a treat and I know have almost the setup I want, I still have to tweak it a bit but it is fine. try it and see if it makes oyu lifee easier. Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
smail expanding domains
Hi! My machine is called casal.upc.es. Whenever I try to send email to another machine in the same net (upc.es) by just puting the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which is dat.upc.es), I get the following error: |- Message log follows: -| no valid recipients were found for this message |- Failed addresses follow: -| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... unknown host |- Message text follows: | Does anybody know how to fix this? TIA! Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available --- (_)/ (_) http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: configuring XFree86
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Avalon Rusk wrote: After typing:sudo /usr/sbin/xbase-configure I get the following response: Leaving existing /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers :0 entry alone. What does this mean and how do I reconfigure xbase? It usually means that there is no /etc/X11/XF86config file. Try XF86Setup or xf86config . either of them will create the file for you :) Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
You have new mail
Hi! When loging in, my users sometimes get the message 'You have mail', when in fact they have new mail. Also, in redhat whenever they received new mail and they where in the bash shell, they'd get the 'You have new mail' after any command. In debian they don't. Does anybody know what controls this and what do I have to touch in order to fix it? I'm using debian 1.3 latest release. Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available --- (_)/ (_) http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Secure Mail server
Hi All, This is slightly off-topic. I need to setup a webserver which will limit access by asking for a userid and password. Which server should I use or can I get it done by any scripting language...? Thanks regards, Vaidhy _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Secure Mail server
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 07:23:10AM -0700, Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam wrote: This is slightly off-topic. I need to setup a webserver which will limit access by asking for a userid and password. Which server should I use or can I get it done by any scripting language...? If you want to use HTTP's authentication rather than implementing something with CGI HTML, then look in to .htaccess files. The databases of authentication details can be in text, db, or dbm format, and maybe even some of the RDBMSs like postgresql. (This is for Apache.) 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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: You have new mail
Hi! When loging in, my users sometimes get the message 'You have mail', when in fact they have new mail. Also, in redhat whenever they received new mail and they where in the bash shell, they'd get the 'You have new mail' after any command. In debian they don't. I think in /etc/profile, you have to include export MAILPATH=/usr/spool/mail/$USER (untested) See man bash and look for MAILPATH. HTH, Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?
Nico, During your 'make menuconfig', enable the NLS support and you will get the option for ISO9660, FAT, VFAT, etc... Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nico De Ranter wrote: Hi, can anybody tell me how to enable iso9660 support in a 2.0.34 kernel. There doesn't seem to be an option when I do 'make menuconfig'. Nico -- -- Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (PSDC-B/DNSE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Secure Mail server
webserver or mail server? Anyway, you can use HTTP 'Basic' authentication with the Apache server. Install the apache package. You'll have to set up a sort of password file and specify which directories require authentication. Look at the 'AuthName' directive in the on-line documentation. Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam wrote: Hi All, This is slightly off-topic. I need to setup a webserver which will limit access by asking for a userid and password. Which server should I use or can I get it done by any scripting language...? Thanks regards, Vaidhy _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
gnu ghostscript and HP-deskjet 560C
I'm trying to get my printer (hp dj560c) set up with ghostscript, but the printer is printing the pages too long. The doc files mentioned that to calibrate I would have to modify the printer specific driver files for ghostscript ... just wondering whether anyone already has a 560c driver that they compiled. Thanks -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: You have new mail
Eric, I think in /etc/profile, you have to include export MAILPATH=/usr/spool/mail/$USER (untested) See man bash and look for MAILPATH. It worked. Thanks. Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available --- (_)/ (_) http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Strange Ethernet collisions/frame problem
Hi list! Sometime after upgrading do 2.0 beta I started to have some strange problems on my gateway machine. This condition can be described as a race in eth0's collisions and frame values (see below for ifconfig) that starts a couple minutes after boot. This is driving telnet and other network connections in the gateway box to a halt. I think this is not cable (BNC) related as my other 2 machines can ping each other. Is there any problem with 2.0 beta 1 that can leads to this kind of problem? Or am I doing something stupid here? I first installed 2.0 beta 1 and yesterday did a ftp dselect do get new packages. Im using bind, ipmasquerading and squid on the machine. Can someone help me? []s - route -n 200.251.222.131 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 01 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 02 lo 0.0.0.0 200.251.222.131 0.0.0.0 UG0 02 ppp0 -- ipfwadm -F -p IP firewall forward rules, default policy: deny type prot source destination ports acc/m all localnet/24 anywhere n/a - ifconfig: loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 RX packets:77 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:77 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:18:63:0E:A8 inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:826 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:5444 TX packets:640 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 Interrupt:9 Base address:0x240 ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:200.251.222.167 P-t-P:200.251.222.131 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 Memory:1418038-1418c04 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Why does tty1 become the current VT on reboot/halt?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hey all. Why is it that when I reboot or halt my machine, I'm automatically switched to the first virtual console? I don't like this at all, because all of the messages coming from the rc scripts get sent whichever VC I was on when I typed the reboot/halt command. I haven't been able to figure out how/where the event occurs. Is it possible to prevent it, or to have all the rc scripts send their output to tty1? Thanks. Noah PGP public key available at http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNat0NYdCcpBjGWoFAQFcCwP/W6URKM65+s5y0ycq5R+4ubcykrFvLpRW 6JO1W/UB39xMvl7caVivmZpoF850V6zvOi++pYTeHaqbfN5f7jBJRWwPrq+bCkZg bbX+Pe0jRW5oUo7sX3q/EiI3IxZVjgujT7DxBAzybwErSXcgG8dQR5rt0eCO3aL6 gif3iQRerds= =9lWc -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: gnu ghostscript and HP-deskjet 560C
I've used by dj560c with ghostscript and had no trouble. Perhaps you have the wrong papersize set. What do you guys use in Canada, 8.5x11 or A4 or something of the sort? Nebu John Mathai wrote: I'm trying to get my printer (hp dj560c) set up with ghostscript, but the printer is printing the pages too long. The doc files mentioned that to calibrate I would have to modify the printer specific driver files for ghostscript ... just wondering whether anyone already has a 560c driver that they compiled. Thanks -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Ftape w/ Colorado FC10/20
Hello: If anyone is using Ftape with a Colorado FC10 or 20 controller card, please contact me regarding your setup. I'm having a few problems. Thanks, Mark == Mark A. Bialik (414) 290-6749 Systems/Security Administrator www.pmihwy.com/~markb Preferred Medical Informatics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Infinity HealthCare, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mequon, WI USA www.linux.org == smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Chrooting bind 8.1.2 under debian 2.0
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, cfb wrote: The main problem seems to be with the way that debian starts bind using the script /etc/init.d/bind. I thought it would be really neat to just change the #!/bin/sh at the top of the script to something like : #!/usr/sbin/chroot /chroot-dns/ /bin/sh or #!/usr/sbin/chroot /chroot-dns/ /chroot-dns/bin/sh try changing only the line that start the bind daemon eg: chroot /chroot-dns/ /bin/named Bye Carlos Barros. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: the time
Hi... Uh, is there a Linux program to set the system CMOS clock? Alex On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 16:38:30 -0400 From: Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Parmet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: the time Resent-Date: 13 Jul 1998 20:40:08 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Set your system BIOS correctly. David Parmet wrote: dumb newbie question I got everything up and running (still working on X but that's another story) but when i ask for date it gives me May 25th. How do i change the date and time? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Problem with modules_install
On 14 Jul 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, I see. If you are using make modules_install, you are not using make-kpkg. In that case, my suggestion to you is: use make-kpkg from kernel-package; it really takes care of these details for you. You never run make modules_install. I have found that using make-kpkg is REALLY BIG help when compiling a kernel which uses modules for use on a system other than the one on which it is compiled. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Kernel (?) screen blanking
Hi... Whenever I leave the console for what seems like 10 minutes or so, the screen goes blank. Not in power-down because the monitor doesn't support that, but it just goes blank. Happened in X too, when I had it installed. Does anyone know how to configure/disable this? Alex -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: the time
To my knowledge there is no app that will change the time PERMANENTLY. That is why I said that the BIOS should be fixed. I used date, and another app (I forget what) on a bo box here at work. When it rebooted (long story) the time was wrong again. So I had to reboot it AGAIN. Yuck. If you can, just take it down, set the time correctly, and then make sure your timezone info is right. The timezones won't make your clock this far wrong, but it could be contributing. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Kernel (?) screen blanking
*-Alexander (14 Jul) | Hi... | | Whenever I leave the console for what seems like 10 minutes or so, the | screen goes blank. Not in power-down because the monitor doesn't support | that, but it just goes blank. Happened in X too, when I had it installed. | Does anyone know how to configure/disable this? | It is not the kernel that is doing it. Look at the man page for setterm for console blanking and xset for X blanking. -- Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Packages of FTP Client (GUI)
I am looking for the packages of FTP Client (GUI) under X, Would someone know that? What is its name location? Thank You for Your Help! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit
# abstract: what is the minimal size for a linux /boot partition and what files must it contain? # the details: I am a win95 user and want to add debian 2.0 to my pc. on my 3.2 GB SCSI hard disk, I want to end up with the following approximate space distribution: - 1 GB for win95 (OS and applications) - 1 GB for linux - 1 GB for my documents which should be accessible for linux and win95 after reading the relevant FAQs, HowTOs, installation instructions etc. I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution might be to have these partitions: primary: - X MB linux native for booting linux - 1 GB fat16 for win95 extended: - 48 MB linux swap (=2x my RAM) - 1 GB linux native for linux apps - 1 GB fat16 for documents accessible for both win95 and linux my questions are: - what is the minimal size for the linux boot partition? - what files will it contain? - what happens during the installation process: how do I tell debian where to put what? (sorry for this unprecise newbie question) furthermore, I would appreciate any suggestions for a better solution of the win95+linux shared documents problem. thanx *patrick* # Patrick Meidl # Konrad Lorenz Institute for Comparative Behavioural Research # Savoyenstr. 1a, A-1160 Vienna, Austria # Phone +43-1-486 21 21-36 | Fax +43-1-486 21 21-28 # Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] # WWW http://unet.univie.ac.at/~a8903821/home.htm -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Packages of FTP Client (GUI)
There is one called xftp (it is a simple Xaw based one). wxFTP is being packaged and should appear in slink soon. Alex Kwan wrote: I am looking for the packages of FTP Client (GUI) under X, Would someone know that? What is its name location? Thank You for Your Help! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Kernel (?) screen blanking
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: Hi... Whenever I leave the console for what seems like 10 minutes or so, the screen goes blank. Not in power-down because the monitor doesn't support that, but it just goes blank. Happened in X too, when I had it installed. Does anyone know how to configure/disable this? setterm -blank [0-60] ; setting this to 0 disables blanking. It's a bit more complicated in X, but take a look at 'man xset'. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Packages of FTP Client (GUI)
I am looking for the packages of FTP Client (GUI) under X, Would someone know that? What is its name location? WXftp GUI FTP client was recently packaged and uploaded to Incoming. You may get the packages (wxftp-doc, wxftp-gtk, etc) from ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/Incoming/ Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit
what is the minimal size for a linux /boot partition and what files must it contain? # the details: I am a win95 user and want to add debian 2.0 to my pc. on my 3.2 GB SCSI hard disk, I want to end up with the following approximate space distribution: - 1 GB for win95 (OS and applications) - 1 GB for linux - 1 GB for my documents which should be accessible for linux and win95 after reading the relevant FAQs, HowTOs, installation instructions etc. I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution might be to have these partitions: Not necessarially... I'm having LILO boot Liinux 2GB into my drive. If your BIOS supports LBA then you shouldn't have any problems whatever. Also, if you use teh 2.0.34 kernel, you can access fat32 partitions... so go ahead and format your win95 as fat32. else snipped --EVan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Anyone using plplot ?
I have installed plplot and plplot-tcl. All went ok. When I try to run pltcl I get the error pltcl: error in loading shared libraries libMatrix.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I can't find the libMatrix.so lib anywhere in my system or in www.debian.org I contacted the maintener but he is not available until mid -august. Can anyone help ? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Patrick Meidl wrote: primary: 1) X MB linux native for booting linux 2) 1 GB fat16 for win95 3) extended: 4) 48 MB linux swap (=2x my RAM) 5) 1 GB linux native for linux apps 6) 1 GB fat16 for documents accessible for both win95 and linux for ease I have indexed the partitioning you outlined :) What I recommend you do is make 1 a 15 meg linux native parittion to mount as /. Then break 5 up into 200 meg for /var, 1-200 meg for /home, 100 meg for /tmp and the rest for /usr my questions are: - what is the minimal size for the linux boot partition? well they say 50 meg but that includes var and tmp on that partition. my moving /var /tmp /usr and maybe even /home off of your main partition you can have sub 20 meg / partitions, this is a benifit beause if any other partition corrupts a unicie will handle it well but if / corrupts you are in deep do-do :) having / as small as possible limits the chance of corruption. - what files will it contain? the / dir structure, /proc, /etc, /boot, /dev, /mnt and various other dirs. - what happens during the installation process: how do I tell debian where to put what? (sorry for this unprecise newbie question) this is the easy part. make sure to install lose95 first partitioning 1 and 2 (order is unimportant if lose95 wants the front of the drive give it to it). then start the Debian install, select the initialize a linux partition option and initialize the partition of 1 and 2 that you have spared for linux and when asked tell it to mount it on /, then use the partition an hard drive option to create all your other partitions. then one at a time initialize and your linux partitions (write down _exactly_ which partition you want mounted where) telling the install script where to mount them when it asks (if the default isn't what you want then change it). then just finish the install. furthermore, I would appreciate any suggestions for a better solution of the win95+linux shared documents problem. give the other 1GB partition to linux and leave those docs on your lose95 partition and mount the partition under linux and edit them :) Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?
Nico, During your 'make menuconfig', enable the NLS support and you will get the option for ISO9660, FAT, VFAT, etc... I recompiled mine and I still cannot get the ISO, FAT or VFAT to mount. I also cannot load this module manually? I have not looked into this too hard, but I have been reading this thread on the list. What I have done (I am not sure if this is bad or not) is copy the .config from the old kernel to the new one? I was going to can this and start from scratch. Could this be the source of so many peoples (including mine) problems? --Jay Barbee -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: the time
Try: clock -w This will write system time to the CMOS clock... make sure you have the correct time and use -u for GMT. --Jay Barbee Hi... Uh, is there a Linux program to set the system CMOS clock? Alex On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 16:38:30 -0400 From: Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Parmet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: the time Resent-Date: 13 Jul 1998 20:40:08 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Set your system BIOS correctly. David Parmet wrote: dumb newbie question I got everything up and running (still working on X but that's another story) but when i ask for date it gives me May 25th. How do i change the date and time? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Kernel (?) screen blanking
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: Hi... Whenever I leave the console for what seems like 10 minutes or so, the screen goes blank. Not in power-down because the monitor doesn't support that, but it just goes blank. Happened in X too, when I had it installed. Does anyone know how to configure/disable this? setterm -blank [0-60] ; setting this to 0 disables blanking. It's a bit more complicated in X, but take a look at 'man xset'. Where is this initally set on a Debian system? /etc/init.d/boot --? --Jay -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit
after reading the relevant FAQs, HowTOs, installation instructions etc. I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution might be to have these partitions: Personally, I use loadlin to boot unix from DOS7, so the linux partition can be anywhere... primary: - X MB linux native for booting linux - 1 GB fat16 for win95 extended: - 48 MB linux swap (=2x my RAM) - 1 GB linux native for linux apps - 1 GB fat16 for documents accessible for both win95 and linux The 1GB of docs can just be part of your DOS7/win95 partition. With the vfat module loaded, you can mount your DOS7/win95 partition from linux as /mnt/dos, so your shared document files can be stored as normal in the DOS/95 partition where they will be local to DOS/95 and no problem for linux to access. So really all you need is three partitions: 2GB fat16 partition 1GB linux partitoion and use the spare change as your swap. I really enjoy the freedom of using loadlin. I can boot linux from the C: prompt, boot linux from win95 (win95 unloads to DOS7, then boots linux. So linux is being booted from win95, nto run from win95), or set up DOS7/win95 upon load to have boot options. I have win95, IE4, Outlook 98, PC-DOS 6 (don't ask), win 3.1, Office97, some games, a full Debian installation with X, StarOffice, and Netscapes for linux and win95 all on a 4GB drive with 2GB fat16 and 2GB linux (and spare space as swap) and each partition is less than a third full... So getting all that on 3.2GB drive with a gig remaining for documents shouldn't be a problem. my questions are: - what is the minimal size for the linux boot partition? - what files will it contain? - what happens during the installation process: how do I tell debian where to put what? (sorry for this unprecise newbie question) furthermore, I would appreciate any suggestions for a better solution of the win95+linux shared documents problem. thanx *patrick* # Patrick Meidl # Konrad Lorenz Institute for Comparative Behavioural Research # Savoyenstr. 1a, A-1160 Vienna, Austria # Phone +43-1-486 21 21-36 | Fax +43-1-486 21 21-28 # Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] # WWW http://unet.univie.ac.at/~a8903821/home.htm -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
allowing xlogin from remote server
I need to be able to run Xsessions rom remote xterminals while I'm away. Reading the xdm docs and the Xaccess files, it looks like simply adding name.of.remote.display to /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess should allow this, but it doesn't seem to; X :1 -query remote.system sprouts a background cursor on the next vc, but the client gets rejected from the host machine. However, on another (old, slow) ultrix machine, this gives me the login prompt. I'd have sworn that I previously figured this out, but maybe that was only with an OSF machine for remote, and I thought that this was how I did it rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Iomega Ditto tape unreliable?
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, alexander e dukat wrote: What version of ftape and zftape are you using? I myself am using version 3.04d with the Iomega Ditto 2G and so far have not had any problems. I am using the same (3.04d). have backedup several times and verified them along with doing some restoring. I haven't taken the total plunge yet because I need to set up a special boot disk for it. I am also using Taper. I have found it to be easy and effective to use. Tape is easy to use, but I get errors reading to and writing from the tape. Yesterday I tried Taper again on a new tape. Johann -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South Africa) | -- Let your character be free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you. Hebrews 13:5 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: [ale] Secure Mail server
Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam wrote: Hi All, This is slightly off-topic. I need to setup a webserver which will limit access by asking for a userid and password. Which server should I use or can I get it done by any scripting language...? Under Linux I would use apache and a perl cgi. You could probably take advantage of the security, encryption and authentication module for perl. Thanks regards, Vaidhy _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Until later: Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] You mean you paid MONEY for Service Pack '98 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: [andrmuel@rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE: 'rm' doesn't terminat anymore]
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 10:57:24AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: - Forwarded message from Andreas Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [snip copious headers] I have used the program cdda2wave. I gues that it will create big files (about 50MB and more). After my tryings I deleted my big files: rm big file But rm doesen terminate. I couldn't kill or stop it. I try'd to shut down the system but it didn't work. More and more systempower becomes eaten by the rm-programm.. :-( Linux can take a *long* time to delete large files (I havn't had any problems personally even with 230MB files (a recursive grep piped to the current directory ;-)) I believe that rm also starts taking large amounts of memory up too. This could cause your machine to swap heavily - have a look at vmstat -n1. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: the time
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: Uh, is there a Linux program to set the system CMOS clock? From the man page of clock: NAME clock - manipulate the CMOS clock SYNOPSIS /sbin/clock [ -u ] -r /sbin/clock [ -u ] -w /sbin/clock [ -u ] -s /sbin/clock [ -u ] -a DESCRIPTION clock manipulates the CMOS clock in variaous ways, allow- ing it to be read or written, and allowing synchronization between the CMOS clock and the kernel's version of the system time. Johann -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South Africa) | -- Let your character be free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you. Hebrews 13:5 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: fvwm2 config hook rant
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 09:02:37PM -0400, Tom Malloy wrote: I am very upset by these hook things. I do not understand them. They seem to be much harder to work with than regular configuration (.*rc) files. They seem to require that the user know which hook file to edit. There are several, prethis.hook postthat.hook etc. Some hooks are links to null files. This is all very confusing for the novice. At least it is very confusing and upsetting to me. Also the existing hook files are empty. This means that the user must write them from scratch as opposed to merely editing the existing configuration file. This is practically impossible They aren't all that bad - I use a normal .fvwm2rc file and have this in it: [damn - gpm won't paste into jed anymore] AddToMenu /Debian Read /etc/X11/fvwm2/main-menu-pre.hook Read /etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook Read /etc/X11/fvwm2/main-menu.hook Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: the time
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 09:05:48AM -0700, Alexander wrote: Hi... Uh, is there a Linux program to set the system CMOS clock? from man pages: hwclock (8) - query and set the ISA hardware clock (RTC) DESCRIPTION hwclock is a tool for accessing the Hardware Clock. You can display the current time, set the Hardware Clock to a specified time, set the Hardware Clock to the System Time, and set the System Time from the Hardware Clock. You can also run hwclock periodically to insert or remove time from the Hardware Clock to compensate for systematic drift (where the clock consistently gains or loses time at a certain rate if left to run). and lastly: $ dpkg -S hwclock util-linux: /sbin/hwclock util-linux: /usr/man/man8/hwclock.8.gz -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- */ A favorite quote from a source I forget: Only Microsoft can take an algorithim that has been under years of public scrutiny and weaken it to the point where the entire key space can be searched in 3 days -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: its not a dos partition?
John Martin wrote: I tried creating a second primary dos partition with linux' fdisk since dos' won't let me have more than one primary. (my first clue maybe) Dos won't let you create more than one primary partition when one is already set 'active' (bootable). Dos's fdisk won't let you set an active primary partition to non-active so that you can create another primary partition so you must use a different utility to do this first (such as linux's fdisk). Once you've done that, Dos's fdisk will let you set whichever primary partition you want active to 'active'. Then I format with dos. Mother MUST have her dos/window3.1/I-won't-give-95. Dos can read and write to that partition but linux says notdos/other error when I try to mount. I'm not 100% clear on what you are saying here but if you mean you've already installed linux and are trying to mount a dos partition then you must make sure that you have dos fat filesystem support compiled into the kernel either directly or as a module. To do this, download the 'kernel-source' and 'kernel-package' packages and: $ cd /usr/src/kernel-source* $ make menuconfig During this step you must enable 'native languages support' in the filesystems part to make the various dos filesystem types appear. $ make-kpkg kernel-image $ cd .. $ dpkg -i kernel-image* That should do it. Chris -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Debian 1.3 with AHA2842B
Hello all! I have a problem, installing debian 1.3 with AHA2842B VLB controller. Hardware: VLB motherboard with AWARD 4.50G bios AHA2842B controller with bios enabled Quantum ProDrive LPS 270 MB Sony CDU 76S When I'm booting the root.bin, I see this on the screen: scsi0: AHA284x/ ... 4.0/3.2/4.0 scsi : 1 host scsi0: Scanning channel A for devices scsi : aborting command due to timeout aic7xxx: Aborting scb 0, TCL 0/0/0 .. scsi : BRKADRINT error(0x1): Illegasl Host Access Kernel panic : scsi0: BRKADRINT, error 0x1, seqaddr 0x0 In swapper task - not syncing. How can I solve this problem, please help me asap! I can isntall only the redhat 5.0 distribution without this error, but I want to use debian. Please send a copy to my email address too. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?
Ya know, The 'kernel-package' package automates all of this for you. I had troubles getting modules to work even though I thought I did all the steps (make dep ; make clean ; make bzImage ; make modules ; make modules_install ; depmod -a. Then symlinking the new kernel and running lilo. The kernel booted and all built in support worked perfect but modules didn't. Leaving my config file unchanged I used kernel-package and everything worked.). If you use the kernel-package package you don't need to worry about copying or editing or symlinking and files, it's all done for you and it works PERFECTLY. At least for me. In the modules support section of the configuration make sure to enable the third option that lets you use kerneld for autoloading of modules. Chris Jay Barbee wrote: Nico, During your 'make menuconfig', enable the NLS support and you will get the option for ISO9660, FAT, VFAT, etc... I recompiled mine and I still cannot get the ISO, FAT or VFAT to mount. I also cannot load this module manually? I have not looked into this too hard, but I have been reading this thread on the list. What I have done (I am not sure if this is bad or not) is copy the .config from the old kernel to the new one? I was going to can this and start from scratch. Could this be the source of so many peoples (including mine) problems? --Jay Barbee -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Debian 1.3 with AHA2842B
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Hello all! : : I have a problem, installing debian 1.3 with AHA2842B VLB controller. : : Hardware: : VLB motherboard with AWARD 4.50G bios : AHA2842B controller with bios enabled : Quantum ProDrive LPS 270 MB : Sony CDU 76S : : When I'm booting the root.bin, I see this on the screen: : : scsi0: AHA284x/ ... 4.0/3.2/4.0 : scsi : 1 host : scsi0: Scanning channel A for devices : scsi : aborting command due to timeout : aic7xxx: Aborting scb 0, TCL 0/0/0 : .. : scsi : BRKADRINT error(0x1): : Illegasl Host Access : Kernel panic : scsi0: BRKADRINT, error 0x1, seqaddr 0x0 : : In swapper task - not syncing. : : How can I solve this problem, please help me asap! You need a different rescue disk kernel. Compile in the Adaptec SCSI drivers ONLY and it should work fine. I think one of the other drivers tickles the VLB cards and drives them crazy. I've never had that problem with a 2940 ... -- 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) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?
...I believe I am confused... I do not mind a little automation, but currently in my lilo.conf I have 3 linux kernels that I use. Linux [default] Old [Previous Image] Experment [Pointing to /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage] This kernel-package util seems as if it takes this functionality away from you and simply uses default (/vmlinuz) and that is it. I am not sure this is a fair trade off for correcting whatever problem I am having with FS modules. I am not saying it is a viable option, but if I cannot 'insmod isofs.o', somthing is pretty wrong with how I compiled the kernel. Perhaps I simply don't understand what you are telling me to do with this kernel-package when I go to install or test a new kernel. --Jay Barbee Ya know, The 'kernel-package' package automates all of this for you. I had troubles getting modules to work even though I thought I did all the steps (make dep ; make clean ; make bzImage ; make modules ; make modules_install ; depmod -a. Then symlinking the new kernel and running lilo. The kernel booted and all built in support worked perfect but modules didn't. Leaving my config file unchanged I used kernel-package and everything worked.). If you use the kernel-package package you don't need to worry about copying or editing or symlinking and files, it's all done for you and it works PERFECTLY. At least for me. In the modules support section of the configuration make sure to enable the third option that lets you use kerneld for autoloading of modules. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
REALLY small machine
I have an old 384 with 40 meg HD and 1 meg of ram and I wanted to set it up as my ftp server. Can Linux install into that small a HD and if so, how would I go about doing that? |-| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1997-98 | |-| | Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh (Careful it's not completed) | |-| | The past brings pain, the future depression, | | the present disappointment. The only thing that remains is the moment.| | Live for the moment, and enjoy life. You only have one chance. | |-| -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
can't find bind
I have bind set up as a caching-only nameserver on the machine that serves as my internet gateway, and it works just peachy. However, my workstation can't see it: i.e. when I run nslookup, I get *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.3: Non-existent host/domain and it rolls over to the second listing in resolv.conf, my ISP's nameserver. Since everything else on my localnet works fine, what's wrong here? -- Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Most lies succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them. -- Paul Ekman -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: REALLY small machine
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Robert Henry Rati wrote: I have an old 384 with 40 meg HD and 1 meg of ram and I wanted to set it up as my ftp server. Can Linux install into that small a HD and if so, how would I go about doing that? you can get a bare bones linux onto it but you'll have to put more ram in it. you'll also have to do without alot of stuff on it and there will not be much room for the progs you want it to serve. my recomendation is look at elks or more likley microKernel OS's like QNX. Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: REALLY small machine
I believe that 4mb is the minimum for a happy Linux system. The hard drive size is not the problem. Robert Henry Rati wrote: I have an old 384 with 40 meg HD and 1 meg of ram and I wanted to set it up as my ftp server. Can Linux install into that small a HD and if so, how would I go about doing that? |-| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1997-98 | |-| | Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh (Careful it's not completed) | |-| | The past brings pain, the future depression, | | the present disappointment. The only thing that remains is the moment.| | Live for the moment, and enjoy life. You only have one chance. | |-| -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: suggest a backup media
How about a scsi Jaz Drive i find them to be the best backup media ... because ... it is not as sensitive as burning CDRs and to me not as expensive too and pretty portable and easy data retrieval too. kim0 On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, the lone gunman wrote: I'm unsure of what backup media I should go with for my Linux system. I have a 4 gig harddrive. I'm thinking about CD-R or Travan-4 tape backup. I'm pulling hairs, though, trying to determine which is better (for me, anyway). I'd like to go with DAT, but the drives are too expensive. There are scsi CD-R drives for around $400 or so, and the HP T4 (Travan 4) internal scsi tape unit is about the same as for price (I think). I cannot afford to go any higher. CD-R seems a better route, with the low media costs, and that most cd-roms can read my backups. Retrieval would also be considerably faster. But, I read a long FAQ about CD-R, and the Linux Cd-writing howto, and CD burning makes me nervous because it's so sensitive. I'm worried cd backups may fail, and my computer is probably pretty useless while I'm burning. One 4 gig Travan-4 tape would pretty much do me, and the process is a bit simpler. Plus, I don't think there's too much of a difference in write speed for CD-R and scsi Travan-4. Can anyone offer any suggestions? Perhaps a link to a backup comparison site or something? (Since this topic has probably been beaten to death!). Thanks! Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit
furthermore, I would appreciate any suggestions for a better solution of the win95+linux shared documents problem. give the other 1GB partition to linux and leave those docs on your lose95 partition and mount the partition under linux and edit them :) I have the same setup here. Problem is docs mounted from a DOS partition end up writeable only by root. Is there a way to allow regular users access to these partitions. Can they be mounted so they are accessible by all? jmb -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: can't find bind
On 14 Jul 1998, Michael Harnois wrote:
: I have bind set up as a caching-only nameserver on the machine that
: serves as my internet gateway, and it works just peachy. However, my
: workstation can't see it: i.e. when I run nslookup, I get
:
: *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.3: Non-existent
: host/domain
:
: and it rolls over to the second listing in resolv.conf, my ISP's
: nameserver. Since everything else on my localnet works fine, what's
: wrong here?
One (or more) of the daemons is trying to do a reverse lookup. TCP
wrappers like to do this, for example. However, no-one reverse serves
0.168.192.in-addr.arpa, because it's an RFC1918 network.
You can
1) reverse serve the domain yourself, in which case you should NOT
answer DNS queries from outside your network, or
2) Play with /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} and either disable TCP wrappers or
explicitly allowing connections from 192.168.0.0/24, or
3) Find out which daemons (or services) are doing reverse lookups and
make them not do that. Number 2 will probably accomplish this.
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