telnet access/telnetd
Hi there, After a successful installation, I want to configure the telnet access to my debian linux. I noticed I don't have telnetd in /etc directory. I searched for it and couldn't find it at all. Do I have get this from somewhere to set it up. Also is there a documentation HOW-TO to configure and setup telnetd? Thanks Shane
sound mixer program
Is there a program that allows multiple applications to play audio at the same time? Like a mixer daemon ... If so, could someone point it to me? Thanks. xiaonan
re-rebooting during installation
Hi, Question first, details follow for those that want them. Question: How can I get Deb to present me with the profile selection screen that one gets during installation of Deb 2.0, after one has partitioned, initialized, configured the net and the base system and rebooted ? You know, where one decides if one wants to create an Admin box, stand alone box, home box, development box, etc. Details: I'm just having a go at installing 2.0 from an official CD image. Got through all the initial installation routine stuff, rebooted, root password etc, etc. Then I got to the part where you pick a profile. I went and had a look at custom, then wanted to go back and have a look at some of the other profiles. I hit cancel at the custom selection screen. It didn't take me back to where I could select another profile. I didn't want to go straight to dselect, so I rebooted. We are having a nation wide installfest in Canada next weekend. I'm doing my part and I want to know more about the various profiles so I can better help installees go home with an appropriate configuration. When I rebooted, I was sent directly to a login as if installation was complete. I guess it was complete, but I want to play more with the installation procedure and profile selection. If anyone can tell me what the mechanism is to restart the root password selection, user account creation, profile selection routine, it would be greatly appreciated. I don't really want to have to go back and redo the whole install thing. Thanks, Gerald
Re: a basic kernel //or rather simply an old one
Hello again! Thanks for the support. let me more specific: I want to play with the kernel, and really understand how it works. I think that the best way to do that is to read the sunsite docs, and play with an older kernel that wasn't as complex as the new ones. I need the oldest posible kernel, that have simply the ability to be installed in the first place without too much tech-knowledge required to start. it possibly means support for ext2, ?compatible? lilo, and most of all, a debian distribution. where can I find antique distributions? Anthony Campbell wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 12:46:36AM -0400, Alexander Gutfraind wrote: Dear fellow users! I am a newbie, but a week ago enthusiacstically compiled my first kernel. that's amazing. the thing is, it's a process so complex that I fear to touch the makefiles or play with them. I wanted to ask, whether somebody can recommend me an old kernel that have some basic capabilities, but is not too large. You shouldn't need to touch the makefiles at all. Just do `make config' and work your way through the questions. If you press `?' you get an explanation of what each option means. Then do `make dep. and `make clean. and `make zImage' and it should all go off by itself. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell Using Linux - Windows-free zone [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk begin: vcard fn: Alexander Gutfraind n: Gutfraind;Alexander org: www.tht.net/~gutfrnd/ email;internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] note: I have nothing to say, and I'm saying it. x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: mixed text and postscript
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ole J. Tetlie) *-Max [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I'd like to be able to print both text and PostScript using one | printcap entry. HP recommends setting up two separate printcap | entries, but it seems to me that it should be possible to do this | using some sort of an input filter that converts text to PostScript | and leaves PostScript files alone. Has anyone done something like | this with LPRng? I'm using an HP LaserJet 4000N with a JetDirect | card. Have a look at magicfilter or apsfilter. They will let you print many different types of files directly, with conversion (to PS) going on in the background. Actually, it turns out that in my case it was as simple as adding if=/usr/lib/CTI-Print/bin/ifhp to /etc/printcap. Works like a charm and can even put the printer in duplex mode. Max
iMac
Will the Debian MkLinux work on the iMac? RYAN _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Arla
Has anyone here had any success either compiling Arla or installing the RPM package with alien? When I try to compile, it complains about all sorts of missing header files. The RPM installation doesn't work because it can't find libreadline.so.3 (Debian only provides libreadline.so.2). I got the latest libreadline RPM from RedHat but the linker for Arla still fails. What gives? I'd really like to get AFS working here and it looks like Arla is my only choice if I want to use the development kernel. Thanks, Max
ftp and NIS
I'm trying to get proftpd working and having no success so far. The damn thing refuses to allow logins. The ftp connection goes fine, but then it always says login incorrect. My suspicion is that it's somehow not interacting properly with NIS and/or shadow passwords. Telnet works just fine, so I would have thought that ftp would work as well... Thanks, Max
Re: How to start PPP?
Okay; I give up on the documentation. Maybe someone on the list can help. I think you are too hasty about it. In general, documantation is not easy to read and understand, but it is a great source for help. As for your problem: 1) Check Debian's FAQ-O-MATIC. I don't know what it has but I think there is relevant info. 2) Try to test the connection as root. Permitions problems are quite common and testing the connection as root helps to examine them. 3) Try to cahnge the references from /dev/modem to /dev/ttyS1 (if your modem on COM2, /dev/ttyS2 if it is on COM3, etc). 4) Have a look at the relevant log lines abd see if that help you focous on the problem. 5) Install minicom and see if you can call your ISP with it, and what is their response. 6) Mail the list if you need further help. Attaching the relevant log file lines is desirable. I've got a minimal Debian 2.0 system up and running (base install from the floppies and that's it). I've run pppconfig and told it to create a connection named bub. I haven't found any documentation that tells me how to use this connection. I've found several references to running pon, or pppd, and references to chatscript and provider and etc etc etc. I've figured out that if I just type pon the system tries to use the provider connection (which doesn't work, presumably because the provider files aren't properly configured - it gives an error message about /dev/modem being an unrecognized option). But if I type pon bub (which is what I would have thought would've used the bub connection), all that happens is the system thinks for a couple of seconds and then returns me to a prompt. There's no modem activity or messages or anything. Any suggestions as to what I can do different? Thanks! === Kent West | Technology Support/ | Abilene Christian University | Voice: 915-674-2557 FAX: 915.674.6724 | ACU Station, Box 29005| E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Abilene, TX 79699-9005 | Ham:KC5ENO, General | === -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: Does ldd squake.real say anything useful? Er, que? (spot the newbie sysadmin...) Which seems okay to me - the top one is the libc5 maths library, the bottom one is the libc5 C library and the middle one is the libc5 vga library. I am having exactly the same problem with squake on my Debian 2.0 system as well, only I have a Matrox Millium(sp?) card. 'ldd `which squake.real`' gives me: libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4000b000) libvga.so.1 = /usr/lib/libvga.so.1 (0x40014000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40051000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4010f000) ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x401b4000) Something is definetely wierd here, as linking to two libc (different versions no less) can not be good for the health. I have tried different values for LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_PRELOAD, but to no avail. The only lead I have on this is that Netscape 4.x was giving me simular problems to this as well. If I hand installed a copy of netscape into /usr/local/..., it would segfault on start, and an ldd showed that that it has also linked to both libc's, 5 and 6. When I feed the debian wrapper package for netscape the same tar.gz distrib file as I had used to install manually, netscape magically got installed in such a way that it looks for only libc5. From this, I suspect that the problem has little to do with svga lib or video cards, but with messed up linking. I need to look at the source to the debian wrapper package for netscape, the answer probably lies there, but I have not had time yet. My two cents, hope they help! | For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. | |--- Philippians 1:21 (KJV)| | Ryan Kirkpatrick | Boulder, Colorado | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www-ugrad.cs.colorado.edu/~rkirkpat/|
Re: [off-topic] out of mailing lists .....
Nuno Carvalho wrote: Hi, Sorry, about this mail, but is the second or third time that I stop from getting mail from debian-user, debian-devel and debian-changes mailing lists! To resolve it I need to subscribe again! :( Had this happened to someone else !? Yes. Any time my ISP screws up, I get dropped. This seems to be because the list server counts the number of bounced messages rather than the length of time that a recipient cannot be contacted. So a high volume list like -devel or -user will drop you within a couple of hours. Can this be changed to measure the length of time that an address fails - say 2 days? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men pour into your lap. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to in return. Luke 6:38
Best way to finish install via network drive?
Hello: I have done a hamm install from diskette. As this system is incomplete (manpages and many commands are not present), I would like to continue the installation from a disk on my win95 machine. I have successfully installed a win95--linux ethernet connection; each box can ping the other. I have set up win95's c drive as shared. My linux kernel has samba compiled (although I did not specify any command line parameters for smb). What else do I need to do in order to mount a samba file system? TIA, David
crypt function
Can someone tell me what package I need in order to get the 'crypt' function? The man page is straightforward, but the link fails because it cannot find the entry point. I have searched around on the debian web site and in dselect but it is not obvious what library has this routine. Thanks, Michael Laing
Using Linux on MC68030 Workstation
I found a home-brew 68030 PC at the following site and was wondering how hard it would be to port Linux to it. http://www.derivation.com/~cyliax/ws030.html Basically, it's a workstation designed around the 68030 processor and using a standard ISA bus to interface with X86 type devices, hard drive, floppy, VGA monitor etc. . . It does have a small version of Minix that can run on it, I was just hoping I could get Linux to run on it, or at the very least, set it up as an X-Terminal in a Linux system. Does anyone have any ideas on this? Cheers, John Gay
Re: telnet access/telnetd
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Shane S. wrote: Hi there, After a successful installation, I want to configure the telnet access to my debian linux. I noticed I don't have telnetd in /etc directory. I searched for it and couldn't find it at all. Do I have get this from somewhere to set it up. Also is there a documentation HOW-TO to configure and setup telnetd? It's controlled by inetd and should be enabled by default. See /etc/inetd.conf for a line containing in.telnetd. Try telnetting to 127.0.0.1, log in and type 'ps -ax'. You will see in.telnetd listed. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
MTA Frustration: Exim
I've been running Linux for almost eighteen months now, and I still don't have a fully-functional MTA. I've been reading through the exim docs, and fooled around a bit, and I now know far more about MTAs and daemons than I ever did before, but I still don't seem to be any closer to solving my problem. Exim's delivering remote mail alright, but for some reason not local mail. Smail (when I was using it) deliviered local mail but not remote. I've just run eximconf again to get exim using a configuration file unsoiled by my clumsy hands, but it still doesn't work. I have the standard desktop pc which dials to an ISP for internet access. My machine's name is Caliban, my user name ajt and my email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] All I want is: * automatic delivery of local mail, mostly to /var/spool/mail/ajt * delivery of fetchmail'd mail to /var/spool/mail/ajt * everything else goes outside with From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'd be very happy. Is this line right from exim.conf? local_domains = csc.canterbury.ac.nz:student.canterbury.ac.nz Should Caliban be there also? What happens if I try to email [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the canonical way to stop and restart exim? There must be tons of people in my position, on average a lot more email-stupid than those with complex networks to manage. There should really be a file saying here's what you do if you're a single machine user with a dial-up account. Maybe there is already, but I never found it. Maybe it should be in the FAQ, or the FAQ_O_MATIC, or in the eximconf script itself. Andrew Tarr We were so close to heaven --- Peter came out and gave us badges, proclaiming us `The Nicest of the Damned' -- They Might Be Giants
NIS groups HOWTO?
Hi, How do I setup NIS groups in Debian? I have two machines, one running up-to-date slink and the other one running hamm (if that matters). The hamm machine is the NIS server. If I put netgroups: nis on /etc/nsswitch.conf on both machines and mygroup (,host-a,) (,host-b,) (,host-c,) in hamm's /etc/netgroups and then /some/fs/ @mygroup in hamm's /etc/exports, it doesn't work. What's the trick, or does it's kind of buggy mean doesn't work at all in the libc6 documentation regarding NIS groups? TIA, Marcelo Magallon
Re: sound mixer program
Xiaonan Ma wrote: Is there a program that allows multiple applications to play audio at the same time? Like a mixer daemon ... If so, could someone point it to me? Thanks. xiaonan Check out alsa's sound driver. I think i have read somthing about it here... http://alsa.jcu.cz/ Bye, -- __ / / / Phillip Neumann / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / _/_/
Re: Multiple hosts hosts.equiv
Gunnar Strand wrote: Hi, However, I can't get rlogin/rsh/rcp working passwordlessly. I have added +host in /etc/hosts.equiv on both boxes and gone through /etc/login.defs with no success. I even get a password login.defs is for shadow passwords. prompt when doing 'rlogin localhost'! I'm sure there is a config somewhere I've missed. How do you declare a host's chummy friends besides hosts.equiv? Each user sets up who they trust with their account by defining a .rhosts file is their home directory. It should look like trusted.host.DNS user where the DNS is a fully qualified domain name and user is the name of the user on the trusted machine. You will then recieve no prompt for a password. Secondly, what is the best way to propagate the passwd and group files? I consider using NIS but haven't put my teeth in it yet. I though perhaps an 'rcp' would do it, but since I can't rcp due to the password prompt, well, you get the picture. NIS is surely one way. I have found it to flakey at best, but it does work (did that just make sense :-/ ). rcp will also work, but remeber to set up root to have rlogin rights. I do not remember how to do that. Maybe someone else can follow up on this. Hoe this helps. -- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ATI Xpert-98 8MB video card
I have this card and have it running perfectly using the Mach64 server. And i must says its as smooth as butter in terms of performance. Mohammad Lars Steinke wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: dear all, anyone know if this is supported, and if so do I use the SVGA server, a SUSE one, or something else? Of course I cannot garantuee that card to work, but as it features the RagePro chipset with builtin RAMDAC just like the [EMAIL PROTECTED] and @Work it should work fine with the mach64 XF86-Server that comes with Debian... Regards, /(__ __|\ Lars Steinke, Research Student @ (\/ __)_www.fmf.uni-freiburg.de, Germany ) (_ / for PGP PKey and WWW-Page finger /___/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
AcceleratedX4.1.1 work with GLIBC ?
I had slackware runnin great for about 2 years, could never get XFREE running on slack but was shocked to see it setup perfectly in debian 2. I still wanted to try to get AcceleratedX working, but when I installed it, and hit startx, or Xsetup, nothing happened..no errors..just got a new command prompt. Does AccelX run with glibc? i have the libc5-compat package installed.. and nowhere in my AccelX manual nor on the cd's documentation does it say _anything_ about glibc problems. Also, any way to get Staroffice 4 to run on Debian 2 ? when i tried the installer, it crashed(saw the readme say it didn't support glibc) ..Staroffice5 ? what about applix how's that run in glibc. I saw an email a week or 2 back about getting SO3 to work in debian, saved it will look over it again later..or maybe it mentioned SO4 i forgot. since this list generates so much traffic i had to make another account just for this list ;) if you reply to this would you be so kind as to send it/cc it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well, as that is one of my main addresses. I usually download this mail once a week in packages of 900+ and it'd be hard to sort thru them all :| one last question ..can anybody reccomend a POP client for X that can handle multiple accounts smoothly. 5 of my accounts i try to check regularly. (keep different ones for different purposes) I got a pretty good linux-links page up as well ..not just linux links it has other things too if your interested - http://yahoo.aphroland.org . About 350 links total, around 160-170 linux-specific. made it cuz it was a pain to keep my favorites/bookmarks available through 2 computers, 5 OSs, and about 8 different browsers ack! heheh (and before you flame me for using eudora..im only using win95 to test out my new v90 flash!! honest! : --sofar it sucks ) nate /\ * System Administrator http://www.aphroland.org/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * -- * For Centuries philosophers and theologians have debated what it means to * * be human. Perhaps the answer has eluded us because it is so simple. * * To be human is to choose.* * -- Outer Limits 'A Feasibility Study' * -- * System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * \/ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (aphroland.org / firetrail.com powered by LINUX)
Re: MTA Frustration: Exim
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Andrew wrote: Is this line right from exim.conf? local_domains = csc.canterbury.ac.nz:student.canterbury.ac.nz If you want all email for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be delivered to the local machine, yes. right, I don't want to do that. What exactly are you trying to do? If your machine is calabash.student.canterbury.ac.uk then THAT is what you need as the local domain. Any domain that is not your machine is not a local domain. A local domain means the local machine ... not one within a few miles of your location. eximconfig asks: What is the `visible' mail name of your system? This will appear on From: lines of outgoing messages. I answered student.canterbury.ac.nz, because that's what I want on the From: lines of outgoing messages. eximconfig puts it on the local_domains list. I take it this is not what I want. THis of course assumes that calabash.student.canterbury.ac.uk is a real machine with real DNS and can have mail delivered directly to it from the internet. Otherwise, you are probably better off using your university mail server as your smarthost and set your mail client to read pop3 mail from their server just like Windows clients That's what I want to do. Outgoing mail is working fine. The only other thing I want is for local mail (such as [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to be delivered. At the moment it's not being delivered, and I have no idea why. Andrew Tarr If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate |___ http://multinet.co.nz/personalhomepages/locusmeus/antechamber.html |~~~
Naming machines on network.
I need some advise on how to name the machines on my network. Here is the current setup: internet---machine1---hubmachine2 My isp has given me a name of ci1000135-a.grnvle1.sc.home.com with a static ip. I also have aquired the name choover.ml.org for the same ip. Is it possible for a machine to have more than one name (i.e. I'd like to know machine 1 as waxman.choover.ml.org). Also, what should I name machine2 (I'd like tux.choover.ml.org). I'm using ip masq. on machine 1 to hide my network which consists of private ip's (192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2). So far, everything is working as far as internet access from both machines. However machine 2's mail is screwed up, and from comments an a previous question, it looks like a naming issue. Also, is it possible for me to set up the network where I can access either machine from the internet? TIA, Chris
Re: Naming machines on network.
Chris Hoover wrote: I need some advise on how to name the machines on my network. Here is the current setup: internet---machine1---hubmachine2 My isp has given me a name of ci1000135-a.grnvle1.sc.home.com with a static ip. I also have aquired the name choover.ml.org for the same ip. Is it possible for a machine to have more than one name (i.e. I'd like to know machine 1 as waxman.choover.ml.org). Also, what should I name machine2 (I'd like tux.choover.ml.org). I'm using ip masq. on machine 1 to hide my network which consists of private ip's (192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2). I think you need to setup your own dns server and config ml.org to point to it. Then you can give machine1 whatever name under your own domain (i.e. choover.ml.org). You can name your machine2 to whatever you like because it won't be accessable directly from Internet. So far, everything is working as far as internet access from both machines. However machine 2's mail is screwed up, and from comments an a previous question, it looks like a naming issue. Don't know the details of your setup. Also, is it possible for me to set up the network where I can access either machine from the internet? I think you need things like redir. TIA, Chris -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Guoqiang Dai [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MTA Frustration: Exim
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, George Bonser wrote: Right, because if you have a local user of foo, it tries to deliver it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOT [EMAIL PROTECTED] because that is what you have told it to do. It then finds that another server is the official mailhost for student.canterbury.ac.nz and tries to deliver it there but since there is no [EMAIL PROTECTED], it probably bounces. Try this: rerun eximconfig, select staellite system, let it configure your system. Add an /etc/alias entry for each real user on your local system: joe: real-joe bill: real-bill jeff: real-jeff exactly as shown. Any user with real- prepended gets delivered locally. I saw that in the docs somewhere. I thought it looked useful, but I had no idea how to use it. Unfortunately, it doesn't work. I've also tried running eximconfig and selecting local system (mail is sent and recieved only locally). This doesn't work either. This is making me quite suspicious: maybe something else is broken. Is it possible exim doesn't like my machine name (Caliban) starting with a capital? Andrew Tarr If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate
Re: iMac
ryan winner wrote: Will the Debian MkLinux work on the iMac? RYAN Ryan, mklinux is NOT Debian Linux. That is the one supported by Apple. Ours is pure PPC code. And no, not yet. No one does. The iMac is all USB, so we have to get USB support in Linux. It is happening quickly. Prolly around end of the year. Maybe sooner. -- Can't buy what I want because it's free. -- Pearl Jam
Re: problem with installation
On 18 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a problem when I installed debian-linux according to the installation guide. Hardware: 32 RAM/2 GB disk/IBM compatable 586 1. Installation with disk I copied files:resc1440.bin,drv1440.bin,base2_0.tgz,linux,install.bat and loadin.exe into DOS directory. when I started install.bat ... got error messages like: 'I/O error' 2. Installation with floppy disks I put the resc1440.bin into drive A and restarted the computer. After the 'boot:' prompt was appeared , I took many choice for boot prompt but all failed and got message like 'con't mount VFS '... Maybe someone would tell me how to install linux with floppys exactly. __ »¶ÓʹÓÃÊ׶¼ÔÚÏßÃâ·Ñµç×ÓÓÊÏähttp://freemail.263.net -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- | oOOooO / [EMAIL PROTECTED] --|oOobodoO/ We're just two lost souls, swimming in a --| ooOoOo /fish bowl, year after year. Running over | II / the same old ground, what have we found, | II / The same old fears. Wish you were Here.
Re: crypt function
*-Michael Laing [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Can someone tell me what package I need in order to get the 'crypt' | function? | | The man page is straightforward, but the link fails because it cannot | find the entry point. | | I have searched around on the debian web site and in dselect but it is | not obvious what library has this routine. You need the package libc6-dev. It contains (among other things) libcrypt. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elOle. :-] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
network monitoring
Anyone know of some good network monitoring tools for linux? Better yet, are there any in debian? What I'm looking for is something that will show graphs or statistics of network traffic on a per host basis, show the number of collisions, possibly track down the hosts that cause the most colisions, etc etc.. pgp09srU3m0Io.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Iomega Zip
On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 09:56:49AM -0700, mjv wrote: Also, I assume I can create a Linux fs on a zip disk - and I assume that since we can squeeze 1.6meg from a regular floppy, the same could be true with squeezing extra space from the Zip floppy. Anyone have any experience with this? I'd say no chance. The floppy drive allows you to use higher density and more tracks than are usually used on floppy disks, but there's no reason to think that the Zip drive will let you do this. Since it's Iomega-controlled, I'm pretty sure they'd be using the absolutely maximum reliable capacity of the disk. With floppy drives, individual manufactures can't just started calling their drives 1.6mb because they're standard drives. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [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
Re: Second try--can someone interpret these install boot messages?
On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 12:20:27PM -0700, Ian Eure wrote: In some cases, with older drive types and/or systems, you can cheat a bit by enabling the system ROM shadow option in your CMOS. I really doubt that this would work on a PS/2, but my older AMD 386DX/40 (a truly super system) with dual seagate 40meg MFM drives (yeah!) didn't like to boot linux without having the main bios shadowed. If it was unshadowed, it wouldn't autodetect the drive geometry. Kinda weird, but it's a kinda weird box, right? Anyways. Neat trick nonetheless. :) Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, for the PS/2 it was another dead end. Since Linux seems not doable for this machine, I've installed WFWG and I'll run Samba. My thanks to those who posted suggestions. Curt Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Modules problems
Dear Debs, I have an annoying boot error message concerning the PCMCIA services (and the CDROM), after I started using a newly compiled kernel. First of all, I could work well with an ACCTON EN 2212 PCMCIA Card and the CDROM drive with the default Debian 2.0.34 kernel. In /lib/modules/2.0.34, there was a subdirectory pcmcia with lots of .o files. I have recompiled the kernel (still 2.0.34) after moving /lib/modules/2.0.34 to *.save. I have used make menuconfig, selected what seemed to be relevant for PCMCIA (I can provide the configuration file), done make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image and dpkg -i ../kernel-image.custom.x.x.x.x.deb. The system works, I have a link to the original kernel and the saved /lib/modules/2.0.34.save directory, so that I can restart from the origins. However, I get the boot message ... Starting kerneld vs. 2.1.85 Starting PCMCIA services: module directory /lib/modules/2.0.34/pcmcia not found ... Questions: Which step in the new kernel building should create this directory? If none, is it the installation of pcmcia-cs that does it? Then, should I reinstall it? If none of the above is correct, is there a config whatever to do in the pcmcia-cs directories? Or anything to change in /etc/modutils/conf.i386? Manoj Srivastava wrote: Possibly you did not build and install the pcmcia modules? The pcmcia modules are added on to the kernel, and come separately. Install the pcmcia source package and look for instructions on using make-kpkg to create pcmcia modules. I could not find instructions for the creation of pcmcia modules: have they been created in the original Debian setup while installing pcmcia-cs? If this is the case, I repeat my question above: must pcmcia-cs be reinstalled with the new kernel running? Finally, also the /lib/modules/2.0.34/cdrom directory is empty, although I have selected IDE_CD as a module in menuconfig. Is anything else necessary? Indeed, I get the boot message Loading modules: cdrom can't locate module cdrom. If not even this works with the new kernel, I can't load anything since I can neither use the CD nor connect with the net. Thank you Remo
Which X Server?
My video card is a Diamond SpeedStar Pro with the Cirrus Logic CL-GD5426 chip. Which X server should I use? I want to run -bpp 16 color depth. Thanks David Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Iomega Zip
On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 09:56:49AM -0700, mjv wrote: That's funny, I just mounted the zip w/o the -t msdos, and it still mounted fine. Am I playing Russian Roulette by doing that? Also, I assume I can create a Linux fs on a zip disk - and I assume that since we can squeeze 1.6meg from a regular floppy, the same could be true with squeezing extra space from the Zip floppy. Anyone have any experience with this? I wish to create a backup disk for all the programs I download (the dos format truncates the names - and I'd rather store Linux files on a Linux file system) You can squeeze more out of a floppy by doing a more efficient low-level format (which divides the disk into little bits). However since the Zip disk is seen as a SCSI disk, I doubt you can get more than the ~100MB they store. You can repartition and reformat them (high level reformat) with a ext2 filesystem - I did this so that I can have /dev/sda1 rather than the silly /dev/sda4! 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
configuring my kernel
Following up on my question about hardware, if I can't get the specs for the hp lan card how will I know which module to compile into the kernel? Yes, I did try the ones marked hp, but they were rejected Once again the card is HP ethertwist pc link 27247-60001 Any help is appreciated. Thanks Tom
Adding/Editing a Magicfilter filter ?
Hi, I've a HP Deskjet 890C : to print, i'm using gs and Magicfilter from the Hamm distro : the filter i've choosen is ljet4l and i've edited the ljet4l to replace 300 by 600 in order to have a 600 dpi output. Is there a more 'elegant' way to configure such a filter ? I've downloaded the latest gs deb from slink distro because it has the cdjcolor driver for HP 850 : how to create a filter for Magicfilter in order to use this driver for color outputs ? Editing an existing filter (say, cdj550c) ? or is there a doc to explain this job ? -- --- Éric Jacoboni « J'ai épuisé le tout-venant, je vais me risquer dans le bizarre » (M. Audiard) ---
Re: Which X Server?
I used the SVGA driver with one of these. It's been a few years, but I believe it worked with -bpp 16. Bob On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, David Densmore wrote: My video card is a Diamond SpeedStar Pro with the Cirrus Logic CL-GD5426 chip. Which X server should I use? I want to run -bpp 16 color depth. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: ftp and NIS
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Max wrote: I'm trying to get proftpd working and having no success so far. The damn thing refuses to allow logins. The ftp connection goes fine, but then it always says login incorrect. My suspicion is that it's somehow not interacting properly with NIS and/or shadow passwords. Telnet works just fine, so I would have thought that ftp would work as well... I was once have that same problem. It turned out that his shell was not defined in /etc/shells. After I fixed the problem, ftp now works. regards, == == Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated == == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 == = == ==== == E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] == WebPage : http://andre.lasaltech.com
libraries have no symbols
Most of the system libraries do not have any symbols in them; certainly all the core ones don't like libc. This makes it hard to debug programs, because you can't see any library calls made. I have installed libc6-dbg, but it makes no difference, although I think I've been told in the past that it should. I don't know gdb well and I've never messed with any configuration, but I thought it should pick up the symbols automatically. It appears the only way to use the debugging libraries right now is to link -static, but I don't have time right now to download 4mb of lesstifg-dbg just to debug some Motif stuff. Why do the system libraries not have symbols? /lib/libc.so.1 on Solaris 2.6 certainly has symbols! And gdb uses them too. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [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
Re: libraries have no symbols
On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 01:14:30AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Why do the system libraries not have symbols? They do have some symbols in them. Try e.g. nm --dynamic --defined-only /lib/libc.so.6 Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Re: configuring my kernel
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Tom Malloy wrote: : Following up on my question about hardware, if I can't get the specs for : the hp lan card how will I know which module to compile into the : kernel? Yes, I did try the ones marked hp, but they were rejected : Once again the card is HP ethertwist pc link 27247-60001 If you can't find any information about your NIC, and you can't get any of the modules to work with it, I think you're screwed. Is it impossible to replace the NIC? -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
Re: network monitoring
On Sat, September 19 1998, Norbert Veber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | |--aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx |Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii | |Anyone know of some good network monitoring tools for linux? Better yet, |are there any in debian? What I'm looking for is something that will show |graphs or statistics of network traffic on a per host basis, show the number |of collisions, possibly track down the hosts that cause the most colisions, |etc etc.. A nice graphing utility is MRTG. It caters mostly for SNMP but you can monitor and graph pretty much anything. It's not quite the easiest to get to use but MRTG 3 should impruve it dramatically once it gets out the door. (there is a debian package for MRTG, of course, as well as a helpfull mailing list) --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
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Install problems
Received the lsl CD's last week and installed to C:(3.2 IDE). Everything seem to function and boot brought up prompt. Installed a second drive (5.1) and cleaned C:. C:was repartitioned for DOS and NT4WS (200mb 3gb). Linux was then installed on D w/ 3 primary and a 130mb swap. Lilo was installed on hdb1. Bios was set to boot from D: and "LI" appeared with system hanging. Reinstalled with same results. Oddly enough the floppy creation failed every time on the reinstalls unless the disk was repartitioned. Did not change the partition sizes. Any help would be appreciated. Henry
OFF TOPIC: W/95 term progs COM5?
Sorry to ask about a W/95 issue here, but I need to validate a board on W/95 before I use it on Linux. I need to be able to talk to my extended serial ports using a terminal program. I can't find any Software that will open a terminal and talk to anything above COM4. PCPlus, hyperterm, etc are hardcoded to COM4 and below, so I can't even get started with those. I am using a Cyclades 4yo board which adds 4 more serial ports and works under Linux. Too bad W/95 apps are limiting me. Ed Young
Re: [lug] OFF TOPIC: W/95 term progs COM5?
Well, I think that windows looks at COMS 5-8 as COM1-4 with a different IRQ. So, Im not that familiar, but you should be able to just select the coresponding COM with the correct IRQ... Hope that helps, sorry I couldn't be of more assitance. On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Edward J Young wrote: Sorry to ask about a W/95 issue here, but I need to validate a board on W/95 before I use it on Linux. I need to be able to talk to my extended serial ports using a terminal program. I can't find any Software that will open a terminal and talk to anything above COM4. PCPlus, hyperterm, etc are hardcoded to COM4 and below, so I can't even get started with those. I am using a Cyclades 4yo board which adds 4 more serial ports and works under Linux. Too bad W/95 apps are limiting me. Ed Young - Boulder Linux Users Group: http://lug.boulder.co.us -
glibc
Does Debian 6.0 come with glibc or libc6? Will the supplied packages work with glibc? -R. Sood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ISDN-Setup
Hi there, this is a request for approval (or corrections) and some questions. After i read on this list about problems with autoup i decided for a clean new install of Debian 2.0 instead. Having carefully backed up all my personal settings etc. all went rather smooth. But when i installed the isdnutils-package and some configuration script was run (isdnconfig) i firsthand decided to read some docu first. There i noticed that a lot of the layout in the config files has changed. Having now read (i think) all availible documentation i made my mind up how to continue. But beeing unsure i´d like your comments on my procedure. 1: use the old config files (pap-secrets, host.conf, hosts, resolv.conf)by copying them to the appropriate places (/etc, /etc/ppp). 2: my old entries in isdnlog.conf are placed in callerid.conf. 3: country- and areacode as well as my MSN and my providers phonenr have to be set in isdn.conf. Question: There was mentioned a ~/.isdn, where to find any info on that, and what is it good for? 4: take my old ioptions file and edit device.ippp0 accordingly, ignoring the mass of new options. Question: do i have to use the no..-options where i had -..-options before e. g. novj instead of -vj? 5: lookup the scriptfile that sets the base values via isdnctrl (isdn.ippp0?) and check it against the old script i was using. Question: there the defaultroute is set, mustn´t i delete it again to disable dial-on-demand? 6: the option file for isdnlog (isdnlog.isdnctrl0?) Question: should i change some of the default parameters or can i leavethem untouched? 7: edit /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/isdnutils to disable dial-on-demand. 8: remove the not configured lines from the config files. Until here i´m rather shure there will be no major misstakes, but from now there´s only questions left. How to change, set permissions (which permissions?) to initiate an internet session as user xyz, preferably using xmonisdn and how to change the according scripts besides eliminating the leading exit 0 - working examples wellcome - ? Can i insert the commands for mail-processing in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/isdnutils and do i have to precede the fetchmail command with su -u xyz when the acording .fetchmailrc is in /home/xyz? In my old setting i had a one line script to reset the default route because sometimes it happened that it was lost during a session, should i keep it? Oh, i see this has gotten longer than intended, but i can´t help it. Thanks in advance Helmut
Re: MTA Frustration: Exim
On Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 02:44:23PM +1200, Andrew wrote: [snip] There must be tons of people in my position, on average a lot more email-stupid than those with complex networks to manage. There should really be a file saying here's what you do if you're a single machine user with a dial-up account. Maybe there is already, but I never found it. Maybe it should be in the FAQ, or the FAQ_O_MATIC, or in the eximconf script itself. A detailed description of a setup for a single machine user with a dial-up account can be found at the URL in my sig. It uses smail, not exim, 'cause that's sort of the debian default and it worked for me. Luck, Pann -- What's All the Buzz About Linux? http://www.rdrop.com/users/pann/
Re: crypt function
*-Michael Laing [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Can someone tell me what package I need in order to get the 'crypt' | function? | | The man page is straightforward, but the link fails because it cannot | find the entry point. | | I have searched around on the debian web site and in dselect but it is | not obvious what library has this routine. You need the package libc6-dev. It contains (among other things) libcrypt. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elOle. :-] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for the hint. I have libc6-dev installed but upon review of the docs I found that because of US DES export restrictions, the crypt function is in a separate library (at least in the US) that must be explicitly linked using -lcrypt. That worked for me. Michael Laing
Re: glibc
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Rahul Sood wrote: Does Debian 6.0 come with glibc or libc6? Will the supplied packages work with glibc? It's Debian 2.0 and yes it does come with glibc. glibc and libc6 are the same thing, GNU libc version 2 (2.0.7 in the latest Debian package). (Yes, the use of multiple forms of nomenclature is confusing.) Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: glibc
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Rahul Sood wrote: Does Debian 6.0 come with glibc or libc6? Will the supplied packages work with glibc? I assume you mean Debian 2.0 (Hamm). There is no Debian 6.0. glibc2 == libc6 Most packages will work with libc6, but some may require the version 5 libraries, in which case they should specify that when you run dselect. Paul M. Foster
Microchannel architecture support
Hi, What support if any does the debian distribution offer for MCA hardware? Are there precompiled binaries for the i386 architecture, or do I have to apply an MCA patch to the source and build it? Kenneth
PPP AUTHENTICATION ERROR
A new installation. My modem connects but I have a PAP Authentication problem. After executing 'pon' from 'root' here is the return of 'plog' PAP Authentication failed LCP Terminated by peer I execute 'pon' a second time and 'plog' reports: Connection established using interface ppp0 connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS3 But, there is no ppp connection! I have reviewed /etc/ppp/peer/provider, /etc/chatscript/MY_ISP_NAME, /etc/resolv.cong, /etc/hosts , etc/ppp/pap-secrets, /etc/hosts.allow , /etc/HOSTNAME and everything looks OK [ TO ME ] Please tell me what to do now. TIA, Bob Barth email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Building Dev. Kernels
Is there any Debian-specific things that need to be done to compile development kernels correctly? I'm considering downloading and trying out 2.1.122, and would like to know whether I should be looking out for any pecularities caused by Debian's layout, or something like that. Will it work out of the box using make-kpkg? Rob Wilderspin -- The problem with people is that half of them are below average intelligence. And don't realise it. -= (send replies to rob@)
Applixware 4.4 w/ Debian?
Is anyone using Applixware 4.4 with Debian. I am using 4.3 on my redhat system and would like to use Debian with 4.4. Looking for success stories. Thanks in advance, Wayne Cuddy CRB-WEB (C H Consulting) http://www.crb-web.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apache server-parsed error. Really!
ok got a new install and have the AddHandler for server-parsed enabled. why am I getting? [warn] handler server-parsed not found, using default handler for: /var/www/index.htm where is the handler located to be installed? is it a module or what? thanks kent
Re: Modules problems
On 19 Sep, Remo Badii wrote: [snip] Manoj Srivastava wrote: Possibly you did not build and install the pcmcia modules? The pcmcia modules are added on to the kernel, and come separately. Install the pcmcia source package and look for instructions on using make-kpkg to create pcmcia modules. I could not find instructions for the creation of pcmcia modules: have they been created in the original Debian setup while installing pcmcia-cs? If this is the case, I repeat my question above: must pcmcia-cs be reinstalled with the new kernel running? [snip] Try /usr/doc/pcmcia-source/README. -- Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux Mathematics graduate student, Dartmouth College
After ftp upgrade of slink, module loading fails
After allowing an upgrade of slink packages without watching too closely, I then discovered that the auto loading of modules (ppp,sound,vfat) fails for all modules. I can use insmod to *manually* load these modules (in dependency order) and everything works. The modules.dep file is correct (depmod -a doesn't help), it has the right dependencies and locations. I have done nothing to the kernel; no new kernel. I booted up this morning with everything working, connected to an ftp site with dselect, allowed it to upgrade about a dozen packages, and afterword all module loading is broken. Anybody seen this? -- Ed C.
Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:01
My Hamm system is a couple weeks old, and I'm trying to roll my own kernel. The first few trys seemed to work, (removing PCI support, setting processor type to 486, etc...), but now, no matter how simple of a kernel I try to build, the system won't reboot. The kernel loads, then, after about 3/4 of a screen of normal startup messages, the system halts with: VFS: Can't open root device 03:01 Kernel Panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:01 What do these messages mean, what have I done to myself, and how can I undo it? I installed the 2.0.34 kernel source package. I think I'm following the instructions in /usr/doc/kernel-source-2.0.34/README. I do: make mrproper make menuconfig make dep make clean make zImage make modules make modules_install cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34 lilo Here is some other potentially relevant info: $ less /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hda1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only $ ls -l /vmlinuz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Sep 7 15:01 /vmlinuz - boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34 $ ls -l /boot total 295 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Sep 7 15:27 boot.0301 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4536 Nov 21 1997 boot.b -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 300 Nov 21 1997 chain.b -rw--- 1 root root 6656 Sep 15 23:12 map -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 444 Dec 12 1997 mbr.b -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 308 Nov 21 1997 os2_d.b -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 281865 Sep 15 23:12 vmlinuz-2.0.34 Thanks, Matt Miller Software is never finished, it is only released Mike Gancarz, The Unix Philosophy
chown for the floppy group
I noticed when I'm logged in as a normal user (not root) I cannot write to the floppy drive. I checked out the permissions, I'm in the floppy group but /floppy belongs to root and is of the group root. While I was root user I tried to chown .floppy /floppy but it says, root is not a member of the group floppy. thanks for your help, Mark Panzer
Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:01
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Hamm system is a couple weeks old, and I'm trying to roll my own kernel. The first few trys seemed to work, (removing PCI support, setting processor type to 486, etc...), but now, no matter how simple of a kernel I try to build, the system won't reboot. The kernel loads, then, after about 3/4 of a screen of normal startup messages, the system halts with: VFS: Can't open root device 03:01 Kernel Panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:01 You might be making your kernel too simple if you don't include support for the minix fs then it cannot mount the root partiton. Try remaking your kernel and be sure to include ext2 support. What do these messages mean, what have I done to myself, and how can I undo it? Next time also try to use the kpkg utility, all you do is enter the source directory enter kpkg and it creates a .deb of the kernel (well almost you'll have to read the doc's or ask me for more info if you want it). When you do a dpkg -i kernel-XX.deb it does everything for you, even runs lilo! I installed the 2.0.34 kernel source package. I think I'm following the instructions in /usr/doc/kernel-source-2.0.34/README. I do: make mrproper make menuconfig make dep make clean make zImage make modules make modules_install cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34 lilo Here is some other potentially relevant info: $ less /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hda1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only $ ls -l /vmlinuz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Sep 7 15:01 /vmlinuz - boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34 $ ls -l /boot total 295 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Sep 7 15:27 boot.0301 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4536 Nov 21 1997 boot.b -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 300 Nov 21 1997 chain.b -rw--- 1 root root 6656 Sep 15 23:12 map -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 444 Dec 12 1997 mbr.b -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 308 Nov 21 1997 os2_d.b -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 281865 Sep 15 23:12 vmlinuz-2.0.34 Thanks, Matt Miller Software is never finished, it is only released Mike Gancarz, The Unix Philosophy -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:01
VFS: Can't open root device 03:01 Kernel Panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:01 strange maybe you compiled the root fs as a module (which is not to be done), but how would you boot?... ah there's the answer: I installed the 2.0.34 kernel source package. I think I'm following the instructions in /usr/doc/kernel-source-2.0.34/README. I do: make mrproper make menuconfig make dep make clean make zImage make modules make modules_install cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34 lilo dear mister, that's the orginal doc from de kernel source, not the Debianized one. well, with Debian there are some more files that are necessary for the kernel to work (e.g. : /boot/SystemMap) you have to use the make-kernel package tools, or whatever is its name : # cd /usr/src/linux # make-kpkg clean # make xconfig /* sorry I like it :) */ # make-kpkg -r custom.1.0 binary which buils all you need in /usr/src then # cd /usr/src # dpkg -BRGiE kernel-image 2.0.34_custom.1.0.deb but before : $ man make-kpkg $ cd /usr/doc/kernel-(uh what's its name? look for it!) and rtfd :) you're welcome -- Samuel Landau
Compiling kernel?
I compiled kernels before (under slackware). How do I do it properly in Debian? I think the proper way will be to have a .deb package in the end. How do I do that? Is there information on the web on how to do that? Stef
Re: NIS groups HOWTO?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The hamm machine is the NIS server. If I put netgroups: nis on /etc/nsswitch.conf on both machines and mygroup (,host-a,) (,host-b,) (,host-c,) in hamm's /etc/netgroups That's wrong. The syntax is (host,user,domain). So if you are adding hosts to a netgroup file then you should use (host-a,,) (host-b,,) and then /some/fs/ @mygroup in hamm's /etc/exports, it doesn't work. What's the trick, or does it's kind of buggy mean doesn't work at all in the libc6 documentation regarding NIS groups? Well even if you fix the netgroup syntax, there is no guarantee that the NFS server is NIS aware. You should try that (or read the source). Mike. -- Did I ever tell you about the illusion of free will? -- Sheriff Lucas Buck, ultimate BOFH.
Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:01
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Samuel Landau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear mister, that's the orginal doc from de kernel source, not the Debianized one. well, with Debian there are some more files that are necessary for the kernel to work (e.g. : /boot/SystemMap) That's nonsense. I have never used the Debian style and always installed my own kernels. /boot/System.map is not essential for the boot process either. Remember.. Debian is just Linux .. there's nothing special about the kernel. Mike. -- Did I ever tell you about the illusion of free will? -- Sheriff Lucas Buck, ultimate BOFH.
Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:01
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VFS: Can't open root device 03:01 Kernel Panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:01 Sounds like you didn't compile in the driver for your harddisk. You did compile in (not as module) the IDE driver right? And support for the ext2 filesystem? make modules make modules_install cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34 lilo You might want to cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.0.34. ps uses this (l option) and klogd to decode OOPSes if you get one. Mike. -- Did I ever tell you about the illusion of free will? -- Sheriff Lucas Buck, ultimate BOFH.
Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:01
On Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 03:41:47PM -0500, Mark Panzer wrote: What do these messages mean, what have I done to myself, and how can I undo it? Next time also try to use the kpkg utility, all you do is enter the source directory enter kpkg and it creates a .deb of the kernel (well almost you'll have to read the doc's or ask me for more info if you want it). When you do a dpkg -i kernel-XX.deb it does everything for you, even runs lilo! Thanks. I should have figured Debian had a wrapper around kernel building. Matt Miller.
Re: Iomega Zip
Not only that, but I don't think that you can low level format a zip drive, as you can with a floppy. You MUST buy preformatted zips, which is why they come in PC and Mac flavors. --- On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 09:56:49AM -0700, mjv wrote: Also, I assume I can create a Linux fs on a zip disk - and I assume that since we can squeeze 1.6meg from a regular floppy, the same could be true with squeezing extra space from the Zip floppy. Anyone have any experience with this? I'd say no chance. The floppy drive allows you to use higher density and more tracks than are usually used on floppy disks, but there's no reason to think that the Zip drive will let you do this. Since it's Iomega-controlled, I'm pretty sure they'd be using the absolutely maximum reliable capacity of the disk. With floppy drives, individual manufactures can't just started calling their drives 1.6mb because they're standard drives. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
new monitor-need new video card
I just bought a new 19 monitor to replace my old 15. Now I can use better than 1024x768 and be able to read it! But my 2m s3 card probably has maxed out. I can get a pci s3v card with 4m for $40, anyone have an idea which server will play, and what max res it will give me? The monitor will sync up to 85khz hor and 160hz vertical! _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
bug in xboard/gnuchess
I've tried to install gnuchess + xboard from both stable and unstable. In both cases the board appears in X but when I start the game I first get an error message that there is no global file in /etc/gnuchess. I tried making a file called global; I then got another message about a broken pipe to gnuchessx. Does anyone know what the problem is here - has anyone got it working? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell Using Linux - Windows-free zone [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk
Re: new monitor-need new video card
On Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 03:05:16PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I just bought a new 19 monitor to replace my old 15. Now I can use better than 1024x768 and be able to read it! But my 2m s3 card probably has maxed out. I can get a pci s3v card with 4m for $40, anyone have an idea which server will play, and what max res it will give me? The monitor will sync up to 85khz hor and 160hz vertical! x*x*0.75*color depth/8 = 4*2^20 colordepth: 8 bit = 2364*1773 16 bit = 1672*1254 24 bit = 1365*1024 Maybe enough for your needs. I wouldn't care about the refresh rates. Calculating the modelines will be fun. Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
Using apt-get to upgrade to slink
I'm thinking about making the upgrade to slink since it has a couple of additions I'd like to try. After hearing all the great things about apt-get I thought I'd give it a try. I have a local mirror of the Debian ftp site and I'm having trouble figuring out how to modify sources.list to point to it. The trick is that my mirror isn't on an anonymous ftp server, I have to log in to it with my username and password. How can I make apt-get use these when it attempts the ftp? I think I want something along the lines of: deb ftp://my.local.machine/usr/local/mirror/debian slink main contrib non-free non-US but is there any way to get it to prompt me for a username or password? The man page for sources.list says that the ftp method is highly configurable and to see the ftp.conf(5) man page. Trouble is that man page didn't seem to get installed on my hamm system, even after installing apt from slink? Help, as always, is appreciated! Gary
Re: Compiling kernel?
Install the kernel-package package then: man make-kpkg OK, I did that, but I still feel stupid: Do I have to do make xconfig make make-kpkg binary in the source directory now? Or did I miss something? Stef
viewres and listres
both distributed binaries didn't work (core dump), I had to rebuild them I notice that it was the same with Debian 1.3 is it a bug? -- Samuel Landau
Re: Compiling kernel?
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: : Install the kernel-package package then: : : man make-kpkg : : OK, I did that, but I still feel stupid: Do I have to do : : make xconfig : make : make-kpkg binary : : in the source directory now? Or did I miss something? You missed /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz A quick (and potentially dangerous) synopsis: cd kernel-source make config (or make menuconfig or make xconfig) make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image make-kpkg now supports fakeroot, I believe, and has a zillion other keen features besides. Check out the README. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
