Re: SNMPD - MRTG- PPP stats iregularity
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998 19:48:19 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: >Linux doesn't ordinarily have any facility for saying _how much_ data >goes through an if. The snmpd's base their throughput figures on >_number of packets_, which isn't exactly the same thing. IIRC, you can >run ip accounting and hack the snmpd's to get their numbers via that >mechanism. Well, that blows. Packets don't mean diddly compared to bytes when it comes to bandwidth utilization. Do you know if that will be fixed any time soon? 2.1.* maybe? -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+-
Re: SNMPD - MRTG- PPP stats iregularity
Quoting Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've got SNMPD installed on my system so I can monitor, for the moment, > bandwidth usage on eth0 and ppp0. The problem I'm having is that the > incoming and outgoing usages do *NOT* show any divergance. If you want to > see what I mean, take a look at: > http://teleute.ml.org/mrtg/ Linux doesn't ordinarily have any facility for saying _how much_ data goes through an if. The snmpd's base their throughput figures on _number of packets_, which isn't exactly the same thing. IIRC, you can run ip accounting and hack the snmpd's to get their numbers via that mechanism. Mike Stone
SNMPD - MRTG- PPP stats iregularity
OK, I've installed the CMU SNMPD as well as the UCD SNMPD to verify that this isn't a problem with the SNMPD daemons and now I'm looking for other reasons for the following problem. I've got SNMPD installed on my system so I can monitor, for the moment, bandwidth usage on eth0 and ppp0. The problem I'm having is that the incoming and outgoing usages do *NOT* show any divergance. If you want to see what I mean, take a look at: http://teleute.ml.org/mrtg/ The input and output are identical almost all of the time. Only every now and again do they change at all. I know this is not possibe since I have run tests where I am FTPing to my machine. All it should be doing is acking so a majority of the bandwidth should be taken up by incoming and outgoing should be low. Not a near 1:1 ratio. Also when I FTP somthing rather large to my machine, say 6Mb worth, and I throttle this end to a constant 2kps I know I am sending in 2kps yet MRTG shows for the 5 minute average over that time for under 1k with a matching incoming and outgoing. Simple question... *WHY* Why aren't these stats diverging at all? I'm also seeing it on the stats for eth0 when I ftp from my linux box to my NT box. All other times on the ppp0 device I have mailing lists sending mail to me or being run. Those are not going to be 1:1 across the board. Any clues? -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+-
Re: Printer stops after half of page
"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > my printer ( hp deskjet 500, debian hamm ) stops after a few lines and > > stays busy forever. I tried dvi and ps via magicfilter. Half of the > > page comes out, then the printer stops, busy light on, and nothing > > happens. lpq says no jobs. Does anyone know the problem ( and solution )? > > If the busy light is on, perhaps it's `thinking' about the second half - > i.e. the computer has sent it to the printer, which does stuff to it > before printing. Have you tried slink magicfilter? No, and it worked ok some time with the hamm magicfilter. The page to print is a 1300 bytes dvi-file, so there shouldn't be much to think about.
Re: aha2840 aiee shuting down interrupts
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: : I tried to install debian on a computer with an adaptec 2840 scsi : controller. (gateway 2000 486dx2-66, 16m dram) At first I had the 2840 : bios disabled and the controller with 3 drives attached was not : detected. Then I enabled the bios on the 2840 and the controller was : detected. A message 'resetting channel' appeared, then a pause, then : a screen dump 'oops . : ending with . aiee shuting down interrupts' : : What parameters do I need to add at the boot prompt? : I tried boot: aic7xxx=no_reset and got : 'no image aic7xxx=no_reset'. So i tried : 'linux aic7xxx=no_reset' and 'linux aic7xxx=1' and got the same screen : dump. What gives, I thought this controller was supported. This : computer's cd rom is scsi so I need the controller to install. (it's : set at irq 15 instead of the default value of 11). Can anyone help : here? It's supported fine. However, the other SCSI drivers in the default kernel send the 2840 over the edge. Compile a kernel with ONLY the device support you need, being particularly careful about SCSI drivers you choose. Unless you have more than one SCSI adaptor you should only choose "AIC_7XXX" support. -- 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: Help Bios32 extensions:
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Jim wrote: : Hi, : : On boot I get the message eata_dma: No BIOS32 extensions present. This : driver release still depends on it. I get the same from eata_pio: Can : someone suggest an extension package, or an upgrade driver release? : Computer is a NEC Versa 486sl. Compile a custom kernel and choose "No" for EATA support (it's unlikely you've a EATA RAID controller in your 486). -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
mySQL
I recently visited http://mysql.org (was trying to figure out whether I should migrate to it). I haven't read their license - but there are a few links there that suggested to me that it's not very free - because they wanted money for it. Is it GPLed or how does it work? --- "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite." -- Bertrand Russell, "Skeptical_Essays", 1928 D'jinnie/Jinn, encountered on IRC and select MU**. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key
Help Bios32 extensions:
Hi, On boot I get the message eata_dma: No BIOS32 extensions present. This driver release still depends on it. I get the same from eata_pio: Can someone suggest an extension package, or an upgrade driver release? Computer is a NEC Versa 486sl. Thanks, Jim.
Re: gigabyte ga-6xds
I'm using a GA 6BXDS (but with only one processor till now), and it works without any problems. Hamm, Kernel 2.0.34 accepts the AIC 7895 with one CD and one IBM UW disk, even my LS 120. This is even more interesting as Windoze (98 and NT) refused to install... > Hallo again, > Is anyone using a Gigabyte GA-6XDS Motherboard? I know it comes with > onboard SCSI (plus) > but it uses an Adaptec 7895 chipset (minus). So I need to know how easy it > it to use linux with this > board. Is there a kernel that readily supports this chipset or is it better > to purchase a separate SCSI > card? > > thanks Ciao, Ingo --- Ingo Felger [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint : D9 88 66 DB 93 B0 F6 B9 42 44 B9 1E 5A F1 32 C0 Keep emotionally active. Cater to your favorite neurosis.
Re: HP Laser Jet 5L anyone?
On: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 01:03:59 -0500 John C Ellingboe writes: > > Install the HP Laser Jet 5L as a HP Laser Jet 4L in Magicfilter and > it will work proper. Also install gs-aladdin, its fonts and other > related document converters. Print from Netscape as postscript and > Magicfilter/Gs will convert it and send it to the printer. He should better use Laserjet 4 rather than 4L, the latter one can only print a resolution of 300x300. Torsten
Re: HP Laser Jet 5L anyone?
On: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 01:03:59 -0500 John C Ellingboe writes: > > Install the HP Laser Jet 5L as a HP Laser Jet 4L in Magicfilter and > it will work proper. Also install gs-aladdin, its fonts and other > related document converters. Print from Netscape as postscript and > Magicfilter/Gs will convert it and send it to the printer. He should better use Laserjet 4 rather than 4L, the latter one can only print a resolution of 300x300. Torsten
Re: HP Laser Jet 5L anyone?
On: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 01:03:59 -0500 John C Ellingboe writes: > > Install the HP Laser Jet 5L as a HP Laser Jet 4L in Magicfilter and > it will work proper. Also install gs-aladdin, its fonts and other > related document converters. Print from Netscape as postscript and > Magicfilter/Gs will convert it and send it to the printer. He should better use Laserjet 4 rather than 4L, the latter one can only print a resolution of 300x300. Torsten
Re: HP Laser Jet 5L anyone?
On: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 01:03:59 -0500 John C Ellingboe writes: > > Install the HP Laser Jet 5L as a HP Laser Jet 4L in Magicfilter and > it will work proper. Also install gs-aladdin, its fonts and other > related document converters. Print from Netscape as postscript and > Magicfilter/Gs will convert it and send it to the printer. He should better use Laserjet 4 rather than 4L, the latter one can only print a resolution of 300x300. Torsten
Re: Where do i put the sendmail HACKS?
Thank you to all who helped with this. It turns out that all you have to do is define the HACKs in sendmail.mc and (as long as your sendmail was configured properly) sendmailconfig goes to the .../hack directory and puts the code right into the sendmail.cf file when you allow it to build. Whew. Thanks. ... universero trio... [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tio.net/~trio Learn and use The International Language Esperanto! http://esperanto.org
aha2840 aiee shuting down interrupts
I tried to install debian on a computer with an adaptec 2840 scsi controller. (gateway 2000 486dx2-66, 16m dram) At first I had the 2840 bios disabled and the controller with 3 drives attached was not detected. Then I enabled the bios on the 2840 and the controller was detected. A message 'resetting channel' appeared, then a pause, then a screen dump 'oops . ending with . aiee shuting down interrupts' What parameters do I need to add at the boot prompt? I tried boot: aic7xxx=no_reset and got 'no image aic7xxx=no_reset'. So i tried 'linux aic7xxx=no_reset' and 'linux aic7xxx=1' and got the same screen dump. What gives, I thought this controller was supported. This computer's cd rom is scsi so I need the controller to install. (it's set at irq 15 instead of the default value of 11). Can anyone help here? _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Security problem
My message was not clear. We did not mount /etc writable. The hacker sent a a long packet which we think overflowed buffer and caused /etc to be mounted writable. The bug is real, and Debian has a fix. See security lists in Debian. If you are running Debian 2.0 you might have a security hole. There was also security problems with bind. The fixes appear in the current distributions (2.0.2 I think) not in package-updates. King Lee On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernkon wrote: > > > At our school our system administrator (who is very good) was > > running Red Hat 5.1 and someone broke in and got root privileges. > > Since he had written a Lan watch, we think we know how it happened. > > > > The Lan Watch showed someone form Israel send a very long > > packet to mountd. Shortly after, two names were added to > > the password file with user id 0. We suspect that > > /etc was NFS mounted with write permission. Afterwards > > there were logins from the two added names and rsh was changed. > > mounting anything NFS with write permission is just plain stupid. > > Matthew > > -- > Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo > > Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society > Selwyn College Computer Support > http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ > http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ > http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ > >
Pine Attachment Associations
I'm using Pine 4.05 on a Debian 2.0 platform at work. MS Office is the standard desktop automation application around here except for a small band of Unix enthusiasts. I've just installed Star Office, mostly so I can read the MS Word documents everybody sends me. I'm trying to reconfigure Pine so that it will automatically start up swriter3 for a attachment type of DOC. I thought the way to do that was to change /etc/mime.types, which I did. I modified the line that specified msword as the application for doc and dot files to be swriter3, but Pine still thinks its an MSWORD application. I also looked in the /etc/mailcap file but didn't find any mention of msword in there. I've looked on the Pine Info site and it mentions this and states that one should change the /etc/mime.types file. Anybody have any experience with this? Thanks...
mount NFS during boot problem
Hi, I have a wierd problem: during boot process mount fails with the following message: Starting portmapper... Mounting remote filesystems... mount: RPC: Program not registered But after the boot "mount -a" works perfectly. This runs latest slink from unstable. I did not have such a problem on a similar machine a month before. Any idea of what might cause the problem and how to work around it ? Something, I think, relevant: later in the process netbase starts its own portmapper. Sergey.
Hamm on a Zenith Z-NOTEFlex
Howdy, Does anyone have Hamm running on a Zenith Z-NOTEFlex? I only have 4MB of RAM so I am not expecting this to be a speed demon, but it would be nice to have a portable UN*Xlike box. I have tried all of the bootdisks that I can get my hands on. The only one that works is the 'resc1440tecra.bin' image. The system boots and crashes when it tries to mount the root fs, the kernel panics. Does any one know what is going on or do you need more information. Thanx Kevin McEnhill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hamm & Dselect
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 09:34:53AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > You should be able to get apt from slink, use the apt method from dselect > and set it up with several sources: > > file://path1 > file://path2 > file://path3 Last I tried, it didn't like that. It complained about the other CD's which were not (obviously) available. Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** http://www.iki.fi/gaia/> ** The FAQ is your friend. Trust the FAQ.
Siag Office or wmfind..any successfully compiled these.
What's Up, I have been trying to compile Siag office and wmfind for awhile now, but I can't seem to get them to compile. For Siag office, I have no clue as to why it won't compile. I have xpm, Xaw3d, tcl\tk and perl, but it will not make the executable files. I did notice in compile it is looking for libICE.h in /lib/X11R6/ICE but according to the readmes the debian site did change the references to the correct directories. So I am stumped! wmfind just tells me the gcc can not compile executables. It did find aclocal and automake so I believe it should compile. I haven't had trouble compiling anything else. I compile wmmount after I got these errors. So can anyone, send me the step they took to get a successful compilation? Thanks!!! Rod Person "Humanity is the biggest cancer ever to be seen!" -Alx Hellid Contempt
Re: Hamm & Dselect
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 05:34:46PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Which is the way to access several CD's from dselect at the same time? > > I believe that there is no such way, unless you have several CD-ROM > drives so that you can mount all of them simultaneously. Sorry. > > There has been talk in the -devel list about creating such a method > for Debian 2.1 as even the main distribution of the current unstable > (slink) won't fit on one CD. See ftp://ftp.datom.de/pub/people/heiko/debian/dpkg-multicd/ I bought some CDR's from Heiko with Hamm and these were already included there. They work fine. Jan
Re: We have tmview for dvi, is there a svga postscript viewer?
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 11:35:23AM -0400, Jim foltz wrote: > The subject summarizes the question. My high-school teacher of writing technique used to say that one should never explicitly refer to the title or any subheadings in the main body of a text. Anyway, the question was, whether there is a non-X postscript viewer. It is my understanding that ghostscript can function as one - though it is not very fancy. See its documentation for more info. Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** http://www.iki.fi/gaia/> ** The FAQ is your friend. Trust the FAQ.
Re: Hamm & Dselect
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 05:34:46PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Which is the way to access several CD's from dselect at the same time? I believe that there is no such way, unless you have several CD-ROM drives so that you can mount all of them simultaneously. Sorry. There has been talk in the -devel list about creating such a method for Debian 2.1 as even the main distribution of the current unstable (slink) won't fit on one CD. Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** http://www.iki.fi/gaia/> ** The FAQ is your friend. Trust the FAQ.
We have tmview for dvi, is there a svga postscript viewer?
Hi, The subject summarizes the question. -- Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hamm & Dselect
Hello! I'm just upgrading from bo to hamm. Which is the way to access several CD's from dselect at the same time? Thank you Javi
roll your own boot disk/MegaRAID info
Hey folks, I've got a brand spankin' new Dell PowerEdge 6100 server with the works, four processors, 86 gigs of RAID-5 space, one gig of memory. So I'm happy, my boss(es) want me to put Debian on it, I'm even more happy. However, I've got a bit of a problem related to the RAID card -- to the best of my knowledge it's an AMI MegaRAID card. Only recently has the MegaRAID card had a driver, and that driver is quite emphatically *not* in the main kernel source tree for either 2.0.x or 2.1.x. I have a patch of dubious age for MegaRAID control, but am unable to get it to patch to my kernel tree (2.0.35). I've written the patch creator asking for help. Let's assume I do get the patch, I'm able to patch my 2.0.35 (or 2.1.125) tree with it, and I can compile a kernel on an existing machine. How then do I create a Debian boot disk with that custom kernel in it? I'm pretty sure that the standard Debian boot won't work. I'd really like to slide a new kernel into the existing Debian boot and have it work like a charm. If anyone has any information, please let me know! Thank you in advance. -- John F.
Re: Mounting /fd0 (Was Re: Base2_0.tgz missing man command.)
mount /dev/fd0 /floppy/ seems to do the trick. Is there a script I can set up that would run fdflush every time I want to access the floppy? Thanks, Jim Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > *-Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > | Now, I find that when trying to mount /fd0 I get the error "can't find > /fd0 in /etc/mtab > | or /etc/fstab > | I have edited /etc/fstab to include this line... > | /dev/fd0 /floppyauto noauto,sync 0 0 > | as per the instructions I found at > www.debian.org/~hp/tutorial/debian-tutorial.html > | however I get the same error message even after shutdown and reboot. > > Try 'mount /floppy' or 'mount /dev/fd0' instead. They should both work. > There's no need to mess with /etc/mtab. It is written by mount and umount > as a log of which devices are currently mounted. > > -- > The only way tcsh "rocks" is when the rocks are attached to its feet > in the deepest part of a very deep lake. (Linus Torvalds) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elOle. :-] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Gcc Binaries for Intel P2 333 running Debian Linux
>hi, >i just intalled my linux on Intel PII 333 using >debian and i need gcc binaries for the same. >Any resources on net ? >thanks in advance > Are they not in the distribution? You mean gcc, the GNU C compiler?
Re: Where do i put the sendmail HACKS?
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, dpk wrote: > On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, trio wrote: > > I'm spending a lot of time reading the stuff at >sendmail.org. I've found all kinds of explanations of the >check_rcpt HACK, but no explanation as to where i put it. Does it >go in sendmail.cf somewhere? Where? Does it get listed in >sendmail.mc? But then how do i get the .m4 to relate to it? > > Depends on what you are trying to accomplish. I suggest building your > sendmail.cf using M4. You mention the check_rcpt ruleset, which hints Since i just loaded the latest debian release, i'm using sendmailconfig which i believe calls m4. > that you are trying to block spam. If this be the case I would look > at this page: > http://www.sendmail.org/m4/anti-spam.html I believe that's http://www.sendmail.org/anti-spam.html and yes, i've been reading it but i can't find that crucial bit about where to put the check_* hooks. > It describes M4 features for blocking spam. These features utilize > the check_rcpt, check_relay, etc rulesets. When you generate your > sendmail.cf the rulesets will be created automatically and you can What do you mean automatically? Where do i put the check_* rulesets? In sendmail.cf? Do i put a line in sendmail.mc with "HACK (use_ip..."? But how does the .mc file get the check_* code? > then control their functionality via text or database files. I can That's exactly what i'd like to do. > send you a copy of our M4 config for example. (Just let me know) That would be great. Thank you. ... universero trio... [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tio.net/~trio Learn and use The International Language Esperanto! http://esperanto.org
Re: dpkg-ftp thru Squid
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > Anybody having trouble using dselect/ftp to slink > thru a Squid proxy? Or is it just me... Nope, No problems here :) I did have some probs with the change from 1.1 to 1.2 (otherwise know as 2.0), they arose from the change in the conf file. have you tried putting this in the conf file: acl FTP proto FTP always_direct deny FTP never_direct allow FTP since I put both the never and the always in my squid handles ftp fine, befor that is another matter :) hope it helps Nikolai
Re: Gcc Binaries for Intel P2 333 running Debian Linux
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 11:16:47AM -0400, Sriram Bhamidipati wrote: > i just intalled my linux on Intel PII 333 using > debian and i need gcc binaries for the same. GCC is included with Debian. Just install the package gcc and its dependencies. For C++ development, install g++, too. Did I understand the problem right? If not, please describe the problem in detail, so we (the debian-user list) may be able to help you better. > Any resources on net ? http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages comes first to mind. Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** http://www.iki.fi/gaia/> ** The FAQ is your friend. Trust the FAQ.
Gcc Binaries for Intel P2 333 running Debian Linux
hi, i just intalled my linux on Intel PII 333 using debian and i need gcc binaries for the same. Any resources on net ? thanks in advance Sriram
Re: dselect won't config emacs 20.3
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 10:59:03AM -0400, Ted Llewellyn wrote: > emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/tm emacs20 > xemacs20 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 26. This is a bug in tm (#27288, among others), fixed in slink. Either upgrade tm to 7.106.0-2 (in slink) or deinstall tm. Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** http://www.iki.fi/gaia/> ** The FAQ is your friend. Trust the FAQ.
dselect won't config emacs 20.3
On a new install of debian 2.0, emacs installs but won't set up.
Several other packages that I really want won't install because emacs
doesn't finish correctly, but emacs itself does start (I don't know if it
works right but it starts and stops normally).
This box is a P60 with 128M, 1G SCSI, ATI video; it's been running
slackware for a year, so I know the hardware all works correctly. I'm
installing from an official CD. I picked packages by task, not by
profile, but this seems to be the only installation failure (I may have
issues with X, but that I will deal with that separately if I can't
resolve it).
Anyway, the error message from dselect was:
emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/tm emacs20
xemacs20 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 26.
The only dependency in dselect was emacs-el, which also did not install
correctly, but said that was because emacs wasn't configured. I turned
off that package and the other ones that failed because of this (auctex
and psgml), and tried installing emacs by itself. Same failure.
The offending line in the script and the following lines are:
if test -x /usr/sbin/install-info-altdir; then
echo install/tm: install Info links for ${FLAVOR}
install-info-altdir --quiet --section "" "" --dirname=${FLAVOR}
/usr/info/tm-en.info.gz
fi
I don't really know shell scripting so I only have a vague idea of
what's going on here. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to trace this any
further before I had to go to bed because I just can't do this stuff all
night anymore.
By the way, xemacs seemed to install just fine. Can I get auctex and
psgml functionality out of that application?
Any help much appreciated.
_ () _-- __() Ted Llewellyn
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Re: /etc/shutmsg - a suggestion?
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 03:23:10PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 11:11:31AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] > > > > > > If this directory is mounted readonly it will fail, I think is a common > > > practice to have /etc readonly when an installation is stable (no more > > > software updates, etc) to avoid hard disk corruption in one of the most > > > important system directories... > > > > [...] > > > > That tends to imply that /etc could be mounted read-only. > > however... mtab is writeable and needs to be? hmmm > > (that is mentioned in the fsstnd also)... > > > > > > > Should this be written to /var/? > > > > I tend to agreehaving read the fsstnd, I tend to think mtab should be > > moved there as well. It seems to be the intention of it to move > > (ideally) everything which NEEDS to be writable for the system to function > > to /var > > Wouldn't it work if /etc/mtab were a link to, say, /var/[...]/mtab > (and there's also /etc/rmtab). hmm...from the mount(8) man page: The programs mount and umount maintain a list of currently mounted file systems in the file /etc/mtab. If no argu- ments are given to mount, this list is printed. When the proc filesystem is mounted (say at /proc), the files /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts have very similar contents. The former has somewhat more information, such as the mount options used, but is not necessarily up-to-date (cf. the -n option below). It is possible to replace /etc/mtab by a symbolic link to /proc/mounts, but some information is lost that way, and in particular working with the loop device will be less convenient. of course...having this extra information is nice...but I see not reason not to put mtab in /var under that case... /var/state/mtab (or somethin like that) hmm rmtab just lists nfs mountable file systemsthat sounds like a /var/state one too... > > > > I find it curious that this was not also moved. Also to be noted > > that /etc contains files (like fstab) which are NEEDED for boot and > > to even mount other file systems...so it MUST be part of > > the root partition and can not be on a partition of its own > > (unless...it existed and had enough files to boot...then got > > overlayed with a larger partition...seems to defeat the purpose though) > > Well, not if the purpose is a read-only /etc partition. > Hey, what about /setc and /etc like /sbin and /bin ! since rmtab and mtab serve such little purpose and can be moved...I see no reason not to do so (and maybe sym link from /etc/mtab to var...until such time as it can be properly patched) of course... /etc still needs to be part of the root filesystem for boot (init.d scripts.. inittabthat IS afterall how things get mounted) > > > > and teh root partition must be mounted read-write. > > Yes but not much changes there, does it? > At boot time, /dev changed, /etc had motd and ioctl.save updated, > and /proc was mounted. That's about it if you set up links for > mounting floppies and so on (I don't). Perhaps this should bebrought up on the fsstnd lists (er FHS now) I believe there is a mailing list for it I definitly like the idea. I think the reason these are allowed is A) tradition and B) /etc HAS to be on the root filesystem...it can't be a seprate read-only partition. -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux"
Re: /etc/shutmsg - a suggestion?
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 11:11:31AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > > > > If this directory is mounted readonly it will fail, I think is a common > > practice to have /etc readonly when an installation is stable (no more > > software updates, etc) to avoid hard disk corruption in one of the most > > important system directories... > > [...] > > That tends to imply that /etc could be mounted read-only. > however... mtab is writeable and needs to be? hmmm > (that is mentioned in the fsstnd also)... > > > > Should this be written to /var/? > > I tend to agreehaving read the fsstnd, I tend to think mtab should be > moved there as well. It seems to be the intention of it to move > (ideally) everything which NEEDS to be writable for the system to function > to /var Wouldn't it work if /etc/mtab were a link to, say, /var/[...]/mtab (and there's also /etc/rmtab). > > I find it curious that this was not also moved. Also to be noted > that /etc contains files (like fstab) which are NEEDED for boot and > to even mount other file systems...so it MUST be part of > the root partition and can not be on a partition of its own > (unless...it existed and had enough files to boot...then got > overlayed with a larger partition...seems to defeat the purpose though) Well, not if the purpose is a read-only /etc partition. Hey, what about /setc and /etc like /sbin and /bin ! > > and teh root partition must be mounted read-write. Yes but not much changes there, does it? At boot time, /dev changed, /etc had motd and ioctl.save updated, and /proc was mounted. That's about it if you set up links for mounting floppies and so on (I don't). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Re: HP 5L still giving problems!!
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 02:17:40PM +0100, G. Kapetanios wrote: > > I had the same proble. My HP 6L would not work. I tried magicfilter. ASCII > text printed fine but postscript dvi e.t.c. were garbage. > I then wrote a little script which uses explicitly gs and dvihp as filters > to turn ps and dvi files into the printers native languge (PCL I think ) > It essentially involves the same lines as in the ljet4l filter of > magicfilter but put in a script file which is being executed every time > printing is required. It worked for me > I can send the scripts if you want but it has to be early next week > as I am away from my computer. > Let m eknow if you want them > george > > I have a HP6L and it works perfectly well with magicfilter (ljet4 filter). My printcap looks like: (set up with magifilterconfig) lp|lp|lp|HP Laserjet 6L:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet4-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: The versions I have is: magicfilter: 1.2-25 ghostscript: 4.03-3 gs-fonts: 5.10a-1 lprng: 3.5.2-1 -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
Re: HP 5L still giving problems!!
Before going for all these detailed solutions, let me say that my HP 6L works fine with magicfilter. According to my printcap, I used hplj4. If the 6L person still has problems with that, we may want to do version checking to see what differs. I think I started using this printer in bo and I'm up to a semi out of date snapshot of slink (I need to check the archives to see if the x problems finally got fixed). On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, G. Kapetanios wrote: > I had the same proble. My HP 6L would not work. I tried magicfilter. ASCII > text printed fine but postscript dvi e.t.c. were garbage. [ script workaround sniped ] > > On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote: > > > Hi! > > First of all, I'd like to thank the response that my previous > > posting to the list had. Most welcome :D Anyway, I tried one of the > > most common references people gave me (ie, use magicfilter, and use > > the ljet4l package). The printer prints now text fine, but when a > > postscript file is sent to it, it prints out all sorts of weird > > characters, and something that resembles the file. Does anybody know > > what's wrong with this? I've got gs (v3.33), and I've got my > > magicfilter for ljet4l (among others :D). Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Dijkstra probably hates me (Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c) |
Re: HP 5L still giving problems!!
On 23 Oct 1998q, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote: > Hi! > First of all, I'd like to thank the response that my previous > posting to the list had. Most welcome :D Anyway, I tried one of the > most common references people gave me (ie, use magicfilter, and use > the ljet4l package). The printer prints now text fine, but when a > postscript file is sent to it, it prints out all sorts of weird > characters, and something that resembles the file. Does anybody know > what's wrong with this? I've got gs (v3.33), and I've got my > magicfilter for ljet4l (among others :D). > > Any more help would be appreciated. > Thanks! > Jose > This may not be the answer to your problem, but when I ran magicfilterconfig it chose ljet4l-filter for my printer (kyocera 600). This didn't work, but when I replaced it with ljet4-filter it was fine. This was because the one chosen by magicfilter was for a Postscript printer, which mine isn't. Perhaps you should try ljet4-filter instead? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on:..." - Edward Fitzgerald
Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels
George Bonser wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Philip Thiem wrote: > > > You'd be surprises how often that can happen. I purchase from a > > wholesaler, and they don't check to see if the drives are good, though > > they have allways been good about replacing them. Many resalers are > > similar, though some do do some testing. > > Well, considering that I had exactly the same errors on two different > brands of drive on two different brands of motherboard and was able to fix > it in exactly the same way in both cases with the only thing common > between the two systems being Linux well, you get my point. > > George Bonser > > The Linux "We're never going out of business" sale at an FTP site near you! And I have have had a problem with a DMA/33 harddrive. Philip Thiem -- PENQUIN-LOVER-CODER ALERT: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All windows user please exvacuate the building (So I can install a better OS on the comps) Pass on the GAS get NASM instead.
Re: HP 5L still giving problems!!
I had the same proble. My HP 6L would not work. I tried magicfilter. ASCII text printed fine but postscript dvi e.t.c. were garbage. I then wrote a little script which uses explicitly gs and dvihp as filters to turn ps and dvi files into the printers native languge (PCL I think ) It essentially involves the same lines as in the ljet4l filter of magicfilter but put in a script file which is being executed every time printing is required. It worked for me I can send the scripts if you want but it has to be early next week as I am away from my computer. Let m eknow if you want them george On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote: > Hi! > First of all, I'd like to thank the response that my previous > posting to the list had. Most welcome :D Anyway, I tried one of the > most common references people gave me (ie, use magicfilter, and use > the ljet4l package). The printer prints now text fine, but when a > postscript file is sent to it, it prints out all sorts of weird > characters, and something that resembles the file. Does anybody know > what's wrong with this? I've got gs (v3.33), and I've got my > magicfilter for ljet4l (among others :D). > > Any more help would be appreciated. > Thanks! > Jose > > -- > Jose L. Gomez DansRadar & Comms Group > Dept. Electronic Engineering > University of Sheffield > Mappin St S1 3JD > Sheffield UK > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
Re: Where do i put the sendmail HACKS?
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, trio wrote: Hi, I'm spending a lot of time reading the stuff at sendmail.org. I've found all kinds of explanations of the check_rcpt HACK, but no explanation as to where i put it. Does it go in sendmail.cf somewhere? Where? Does it get listed in sendmail.mc? But then how do i get the .m4 to relate to it? sendmail! argh Depends on what you are trying to accomplish. I suggest building your sendmail.cf using M4. You mention the check_rcpt ruleset, which hints that you are trying to block spam. If this be the case I would look at this page: http://www.sendmail.org/m4/anti-spam.html It describes M4 features for blocking spam. These features utilize the check_rcpt, check_relay, etc rulesets. When you generate your sendmail.cf the rulesets will be created automatically and you can then control their functionality via text or database files. I can send you a copy of our M4 config for example. (Just let me know) Hope this helps, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager)
HP 5L still giving problems!!
Hi! First of all, I'd like to thank the response that my previous posting to the list had. Most welcome :D Anyway, I tried one of the most common references people gave me (ie, use magicfilter, and use the ljet4l package). The printer prints now text fine, but when a postscript file is sent to it, it prints out all sorts of weird characters, and something that resembles the file. Does anybody know what's wrong with this? I've got gs (v3.33), and I've got my magicfilter for ljet4l (among others :D). Any more help would be appreciated. Thanks! Jose -- Jose L. Gomez Dans Radar & Comms Group Dept. Electronic Engineering University of Sheffield Mappin St S1 3JD Sheffield UK
Re: Appletalk/IP
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 11:19:41AM +0200, Robert Claeson wrote: > Is anybody aware of whether it's possible to set up a Linux system to > serve Appleshare over IP, as in Apple's Appleshare IP? > I am inclined to belkieve netatalk can do it. I am running and have been runnign a netatalk server here at work and a couple of times went to a macintosh and hit "connect to server IP" and put in my IP adress and it worked ;) -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux"
Re: /etc/shutmsg - a suggestion?
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 11:11:31AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hi all, > > the ftpshut command shutdowns the wu-ftpd service (not the process) by > writting in /etc/shutmsg, the question is > > If this directory is mounted readonly it will fail, I think is a common > practice to have /etc readonly when an installation is stable (no more > software updates, etc) to avoid hard disk corruption in one of the most > important system directories... > Well from the fsstnd: Summarizing chart with examples: +-+-+-+ | | shareable | unshareable | +-+-+-+ |static | /usr| /etc| | | /home | /boot | +-+-+-+ |variable | /var/spool/mail | /var/run| | | /var/spool/news | /var/lock | +-+-+-+ That tends to imply that /etc could be mounted read-only. however... mtab is writeable and needs to be? hmmm (that is mentioned in the fsstnd also)... > Should this be written to /var/? I tend to agreehaving read the fsstnd, I tend to think mtab should be moved there as well. It seems to be the intention of it to move (ideally) everything which NEEDS to be writable for the system to function to /var I find it curious that this was not also moved. Also to be noted that /etc contains files (like fstab) which are NEEDED for boot and to even mount other file systems...so it MUST be part of the root partition and can not be on a partition of its own (unless...it existed and had enough files to boot...then got overlayed with a larger partition...seems to defeat the purpose though) and teh root partition must be mounted read-write. -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux"
dpkg-ftp thru Squid
Anybody having trouble using dselect/ftp to slink thru a Squid proxy? Or is it just me... -- This .sig space available for lease. Please contact: Mitch Blevins | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trying to recover data from messed up MSDOS floppy
Subject: Trying to recover data from messed up MSDOS floppy Date: Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 06:07:43PM -0700 In reply to:Paul Rightley Quoting Paul Rightley([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > We saved some important data from one of our experiments to a floppy > in one of our digital oscilliscopes. The o'scope can write to MSDOS > formatted floppies only. I usually then copy the data over to my Debian > machine for processing. However, this floppy turned out to have some > bad areas (mostly in the FAT region of the disk). I was wondering if > there is a disk editor in Linux (which I would probably trust more than > letting Norton mess with my disk)? Any suggestions? > > Thanks for any assistance, > > Paul Rightley > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > I can think of 2. lde and hexedit, but as I am not on my Debian partition I can't look to see if they are debian packages. I have used them on Slackware and they would do the job for you, I believe. HTH -- USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot." -- Dave Barry, "Claw Your Way to the Top" ___ Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom
Actually I was able to figure out enough of deselect to be able to install debian 1.3.1 (after two attempts). To be fair, my first attempt at using deselect was on a low memory (8mb) slow (386) machine with a monochrome monitor (vga). When I tried using apt under dselect for 2.0 I couldn't get the paths right either (using the cheap bytes cd). I think by using simlinks I could fool apt into beliving the path is correct but havn't tried it yet. I have NOT tired to use deselect to install packages from contrib or non-free since I am afread that by saying 'NONE' to the base path (which I have to if I use the cd) and update the available packages for contrib or nonfree it will 86 the database for base Anyway after trying to install redhat at work and ending up with a non-working ftp server, I am tring debian here. It's the best linux distribution IMHO. ---Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 12:32:03PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > > Pann McCuiag has a debian web page (i don't have the url in front of > > see the sig below > > > me, but search for "Our Man Pann". He shows the /etc/apt/sources.list > > file as > > > > deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main > > > > But I don't think he was using the cheap bytes cd. His page WAS for > > hamm (2.0). > > No, but I was using a CD from Johnie Ingram ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) that I'm > sure was burned from the official CD image. > > > He was NOT using apt under dselect. He was using > > > > apt-get install packagenames > > > > to install individual packages. I haven't tried this myself (yet). > > Oh yeah you have to mount the cdrom first, besure to set the user flag > > in /etc/fstab. > > Once apt is installed you can use the apt method in dselect, but I > recommend newbies avoid dselect like the plague. YMMV > > Luck, > Pann > -- > What's All the Buzz About Linux? > > http://www.rdrop.com/users/pann/ > _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Help re x windows
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Derek McCabe wrote: > Hi, people! > I have a problem. I have tried to install Xwindows on my 486100, but > it 'cannot find the packages'. I've used dpkg to... de-package the files > but none of the resulting files run at all. What exactly are you trying to do? you should get the following packages (ftp them in binary mode to your hdd, or other suitable medium (floppy, zip or whatever)): xserver-vga16 (section x11) xserver-svga (section x11) makedev >=1.6-8 (base) libc6 (base) zlib1g (section libs) xfntbase (section x11) xfnt75 (section x11) xlib6g (section x11) then dpkg -i filename.deb (you need to do these in the right order: base ones first, then the libraries and xfnts then the servers). > I've tried doing it from my > Win98 partition, but same result. I've used dselect, but again all I get > is useless files. I have reinstalled, reformatted, and reinstalled, but > no go. The machine in question has no internet access, and I don't have > any idea on how to set up my internet account with Linux. Depeding on your ISP, this should be possible... >I tried > mounting my hard disk (vfat) but again, no go. I've tard and retard my > files in a futile attempt to copy them to disk... I even created my own > mini packages file. None of this works, and I have (gasp) almost given > up hope. Other then lending out my hard disk to a friend who won't loan > out the CD, what else can I do? He won't lend you a debian CD? that's poor form. I suggest you flame him. _please_ don't post with horribly long lines. It makes it a pain in the neck to try and reply to your mail. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom
On 22 Oct 1998q, John Forest wrote: > I might be totally wrong, flame me if I am, but... > > I upgraded my kernel to 2.0.34 and somehow I was able to 'look' at joilet type > cd's. Before the upgrade the links did not show. This presented me with > similar problems. > So, perhaps you could upgrade to a newer kernel and it might resolve itself. > I'm using 2.0.35 > If not alternate solution: > > 1- take a look with zless at /cdrom/debian/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz >Each package is listed with a "Filename: " entry. >This is partly the path apt will be looking for. >deb file:/cdrom/debian main/binary-i386/ <- from your sources.list > > This ^ will be added to the front of that filename. >I suspect that the entry in filename is: debian/binary-i386/text/ (eg) >from what you indicated. > 2- Create a symbolic link: ln -s /cdrom/debian/main /usr/local/debian >(first making sure you don't overwrite anything in /usr/local) > 3- Change your entry in sources.lists to: >deb file:/usr/local debian/binary-i386/ Needs to be "deb file:/usr/local/debian main/binary-i386/" for my cdrom. > 4- make sure you have the cdrom mounted before using apt. > > That's the best I can do from here. You will have to fill in the gaps. You > can also try to make your own Packages files. That gives you control over > where you have it all located. The command is dpkg-scanpackages from > dpkg-dev.deb > > John > No, the same problem occurs I'm afraid. I can access the Packages file with this method but still I get the extra /debian/ when I try to install anything. (Nothing to do with using apt-get with dselect as I thought originally; it happens with plain apt-get as well). I think I'll give up; I can use dselect in the ordinary way to read my cdrom, and I can use apt-get to install stuff from mirrors. It just would be nice to be able to tie the two things together (and possibly eliminate the long march through installed and deselcted packages that dselect seems to enjoy). -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk
RE: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d
To all who replied so helpfully, thanks. I now have a working setup. Basically, the simplest solution for me is to add the "idle" option to my ppp options, to hangup the line when there is no more activity. A number of people suggested diald - it certainly looks good, and I may well look into it again at a later date, but for now it seems like overkill for my (very simple) needs. Thanks once again for all the help. I'm really impressed with Debian (both the system and the community) - everything seems so well thought out and effective. Paul.
Re: Printer stops after half of page
M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > my printer ( hp deskjet 500, debian hamm ) stops after a few lines and > > stays busy forever. I tried dvi and ps via magicfilter. Half of the > > page comes out, then the printer stops, busy light on, and nothing > > happens. lpq says no jobs. Does anyone know the problem ( and solution )? > > If the busy light is on, perhaps it's `thinking' about the second half - > i.e. the computer has sent it to the printer, which does stuff to it > before printing. Have you tried slink magicfilter? I had the same problem with a HP Deskjet 400L. i made the printcap filter through magicfilter using HP DJ 500. It worked but the printer locked up at about 2/3rd of the page, with busy light flashing. I looked over various man pages, 'ause I thought that there was page feed missing. I found in /etc/lpd.conf that page feed was commented (ff setting), I uncommented it and now it works fine! :-) Hope that this solution may be useful... -- Lorenzo Pulici - email: webmaster at weitzmann.it http://www.weitzmann.it http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Field/9892/ - Milanohockey website
can't dinstall
Hi, Trying to set up a debian box. There is an odd device built in, it is a scanner card with a NCR scsi chip, but only to be used for the scanner. >From the file:///usr/doc/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO.gz 4.2.16. Pro Audio Spectrum (`pas16=') The PAS16 uses a NCR5380 SCSI chip, and newer models support jumper- less configuration. The boot argument is of the form: pas16=iobase,irq I tried this. With all boot disks I found on the 2.0 Official CD, there is the same behaviour: - when I boot with pas16=0x388,255 syslinux fails to load after writing 'loading root.bin..' - when I boot with pas16=0x388 or without arguments the scsi part of the kernel tries to talk to that odd device and gets confused, scsi0: 1 hosts, but fails with the last message 'scsi command could have been completed before aborting'. - when I boot with pas16=0x220 (which is wrong, just something to confuse the driver) when looking for scsi 'waiting 5 seconds', then 'aborting', then it hangs again. I created a new kernel on my other computer, including initrd and ramdisk and iso9660 and cdrom support, and finally this way i could install up to a certain point up to where I would be able to install the base system. but then it gets very depressing: - I can mount the cd. I can select from a list of directories where the base files reside, but then dselect just exits (error code 100, as Alt-F3 tells me) and starts again black and white, letting me select color mode. - There is no tar program on the rescue disks. Have I forgotten to compile in something desperately needed to install the base system? Can I disable the kernel scsi detection on the boot prompt? Can you tell me what I should try? (I don't want to spend half an hour with the screwdriver when I want to use the scanner.) Helplessly yours -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.fear.ch: talk:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Appletalk/IP
Is anybody aware of whether it's possible to set up a Linux system to serve Appleshare over IP, as in Apple's Appleshare IP?
Re: exim/cron causes process pollution? Can't fork -> reboot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: | Did you install a new sysklogd as well? It has known problems - | install at least -30 and CERTAINLY NOT -28 or -29 ! Well, I had -27 which was the latest in my Debian mirror when I updated packets. I upgraded to -30 now -- we'll see if that fixes the problem. If not, I'll try George Bonser's suggestion to limit exim's process usage (for some reason I suspect that shouldn't be the problem, this sysklogd sounds a lot better candidate.. I can easily imagine buggy sysklogd causing this kind of behaviour with cron). Many thanks to both of you, //Hannu
/etc/shutmsg - a suggestion?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all, the ftpshut command shutdowns the wu-ftpd service (not the process) by writting in /etc/shutmsg, the question is If this directory is mounted readonly it will fail, I think is a common practice to have /etc readonly when an installation is stable (no more software updates, etc) to avoid hard disk corruption in one of the most important system directories... Should this be written to /var/? any comment will be greatly appreciated, Ulisses - - "Computers are useless. They can only give answers."Pablo Picasso -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: latin1 Comment: PGP public key avaliable at http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver iQB1AwUBNjBIRQ/N+5+NQ63pAQF5ZwL+Pxl5fw6bWWMSgp8fEVf5AL+e5OIXiCtx Wp3KvWRWTdQGPgQn2D9lXCE2bZnqWyYo09iLrMYORELCNZLaos/aEN713Me8Qfry xYwaEH1EujruF8i9+KvGboJNUzFWec8E =h/Fx -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Trying to recover data from messed up MSDOS floppy
Yes there is one called lde which you can find in the utils directory on your CD or the ftp site. It doesn't specifically support the FAT file systems, but you can look at the raw sector by sector data. For the FAT file system, Norton's Disk Editor is a very good tool. The Linux dd command is also very useful for working with disks at a low level. Tom Paul Rightley wrote: > > We saved some important data from one of our experiments to a floppy > in one of our digital oscilliscopes. The o'scope can write to MSDOS > formatted floppies only. I usually then copy the data over to my Debian > machine for processing. However, this floppy turned out to have some > bad areas (mostly in the FAT region of the disk). I was wondering if > there is a disk editor in Linux (which I would probably trust more than > letting Norton mess with my disk)? Any suggestions? > > Thanks for any assistance, > > Paul Rightley > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Problems installing onto a scsi disk.
I recently added an Adeptec AIC-6X60 ISA single chip scsi controler and 3 older external scsi drives to my system. The scsi drives are ID'ed 0,4,&6. I would like to install Debian on the disks and dual boot with W95. W95 is on the internal 800MB IDE drive. I was able to create a couple of fat16 partitions on the scsi drives with no problem (by the way... moving your W95 swap file to a scsi disk of its own speeds things up nicely) I have not been able to get the Debian install program to see the scsi drives. Following the suggestions I found on a Debian users web page I have been trying to install using the boot parameters for an Adaptec 151x, 152x (ie. by typing in at the boot prompt) boot: linux aha152x=0x140[,11[,0[,reconnect]]] The scsi card is jumpered to IRQ11 and the disk that I want to install / and /usr to is jumpered id0 When I do this the system loads root.bin and linux fine but when it gets to initallizing things I see the following: ty=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100, extended translation=disabled aha152x: trying software interrupt, ok qlogicisp : PCI bios not present eata_dma: No BIOS32 extensions present. This driver release still depends on it. Skipping scan for PCI HBAs. eata_pio: No BIOS32 extensions present. This driver release still depends on it. Skipping scan for PCI HBAs. Failed initialization of WD-7000SCSI card! ppa: Version 1.42 ppa: Probing port 03bc ppa: Probing port 0378 ppa:SPP port present ppa: Probing port 0278 scsi0 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver : $Revision: 1.18 $ scsi : 1 host. Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST43400N Rev: 0116 Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision:02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id1, lun 0 Vendor: SEAGATEModel: ST43400NRev: 0116 Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision:02 Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id2, lun 0 Vendor: SEAGATEModel: ST43400NRev: 0116 Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision:02 Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel0, id3, lun0 --- At this point the system freezes and I have to cycle power. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I could, i suppose, clear off a couple of hundred MB from the internal IDE drive and install there but I really wanted to use these scsi disks. -- On another subject someone was asking how to make his laser printer finish the print job. On AIX systems when I run into this I go into lsvirprt and set Z=+ ( this tells the queue to send an extra form feed after each print job.) I am sure that there is a way to tell the queue daemon on a Linux system to send an extra form feed after each print job. I have never been able to find a pattern as to which printers need this and which don't but it seems to work. Thanks Jon - -bye for now- Jonathan Crowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eskimo.com/~jcrowe/
enscript problem
Hi Saisanthosh There are two approaches that you can try to sort out your problem. 1) purge the package and reinstall it. 2) copy the .deb file to a temporary directory and unpack it. (I think this is done with dpkg-deb, but I don't have access to my Debian system at the moment so I can't check this) You can now extract the single file that you need and copy it to where it belongs. Yoou can then remove the temporry directory with rm -R. Hope this helps you sort out your problem. Regards Andrew.
Re: Security problem
> At our school our system administrator (who is very good) was > running Red Hat 5.1 and someone broke in and got root privileges. > Since he had written a Lan watch, we think we know how it happened. > > The Lan Watch showed someone form Israel send a very long > packet to mountd. Shortly after, two names were added to > the password file with user id 0. We suspect that > /etc was NFS mounted with write permission. Afterwards > there were logins from the two added names and rsh was changed. mounting anything NFS with write permission is just plain stupid. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: Printer stops after half of page
> my printer ( hp deskjet 500, debian hamm ) stops after a few lines and > stays busy forever. I tried dvi and ps via magicfilter. Half of the > page comes out, then the printer stops, busy light on, and nothing > happens. lpq says no jobs. Does anyone know the problem ( and solution )? If the busy light is on, perhaps it's `thinking' about the second half - i.e. the computer has sent it to the printer, which does stuff to it before printing. Have you tried slink magicfilter? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: Why can't I execute a script??
> > > "Helge Hafting" wrote: > > > You don't have "." in your path, so files are *not* considered executable > > just because they are in the *current* directory. > > > > This is a security feature. (Some user could make a nasty script called > > "ls" or similiar in his home directoy. If you try to look at his files > > with ls the nasty script is invoked instead.) > > > > Ways of solving the problem: > > > > 1. Create ~/bin and add that to your path. > > This works well and has no security problems. > > > If some user is capable of putting a fake `ls' in a random directory where > you might trip on it, that user is far more likely to put it in your ~/bin > directory! (Same privileges are required) If you set your ~/bin directory writable for anyone but yourself, you get what you deserve. If someone has root permissions, you cannot defend yourself against their malicious attacks anyway. `Random' directories where trojan scripts are likely to live are /tmp, /var/spool/* and the like. Eric -- 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
Re: Mounting /fd0 (Was Re: Base2_0.tgz missing man command.)
*-Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Now, I find that when trying to mount /fd0 I get the error "can't find /fd0 in /etc/mtab | or /etc/fstab | I have edited /etc/fstab to include this line... | /dev/fd0 /floppyauto noauto,sync 0 0 | as per the instructions I found at www.debian.org/~hp/tutorial/debian-tutorial.html | however I get the same error message even after shutdown and reboot. Try 'mount /floppy' or 'mount /dev/fd0' instead. They should both work. There's no need to mess with /etc/mtab. It is written by mount and umount as a log of which devices are currently mounted. -- The only way tcsh "rocks" is when the rocks are attached to its feet in the deepest part of a very deep lake. (Linus Torvalds) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elOle. :-] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where do i put the sendmail HACKS?
Hi, I'm spending a lot of time reading the stuff at sendmail.org. I've found all kinds of explanations of the check_rcpt HACK, but no explanation as to where i put it. Does it go in sendmail.cf somewhere? Where? Does it get listed in sendmail.mc? But then how do i get the .m4 to relate to it? sendmail! argh ... universero trio... [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tio.net/~trio Learn and use The International Language Esperanto! http://esperanto.org
Re: XDM and XDMCP
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Steve Rothanburg wrote: > I've got it setup at work. All I've done is install the XDM package with > dselect and > have it start automagicly. I use it on a few systems and connect from Win9x > machines > running Xwin32. If you say the host is already configured (Which is good), And win9x clients can connect, How can I tell my X Server to connect to the remote host? i.e. bring up a login screen on :1 when the host is available? > Michael Beattie wrote: > > > I would like to get XDM to work over my local network so that I can log > > into my friends box when I need to do some admin work... As a learning > > experience, I thought I'd try getting XDMCP working. Anybody use this? > > Anybody able to help me? Are there any good FAQ's/HOWTO's on this? Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with "pgpkey" as subject. - WinErr: 00D Keyboard locked - Try anything you can think of. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
RE: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Moore, Paul wrote: > >From:Michael Beattie[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, mwb wrote: > >> Although I haven't tried it, but you might try putting poff (or your > >> query script) as the last item in ip-up. > > > >Exactly like what I would have suggested. Make a script such as 'zpoff' - > >so the leading 'z' puts the file at the end of the directory listing. > >'run-parts' runs the scripts alphabetically AFAIK. > > Does this imply that the ip-up.d scripts are run in sequence? That's a > bit annoying - I was hoping to add a few mirrorring scripts in there > which would run alongside my news download - would they wait for > slrnpull to finish? Use '&' to put them in the background, and pass control back to the script. The script ends, and run-parts continues with the next script. I use this for fetchmail: ( fetchmail ; bplay /usr/local/media/maildone.wav ) & So I know when it is done. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with "pgpkey" as subject. - There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Re: Why can't I execute a script??
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Evan Van Dyke wrote: > Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > If some user is capable of putting a fake `ls' in a random directory where > > you might trip on it, that user is far more likely to put it in your ~/bin > > directory! (Same privileges are required) > > > > Just a thought. > > Just make the . directory the _last_ part of your path, that way it will > search /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin and > all the rest of your path first. As pointed out before, this does not catch misspellings of common commands, such as 'sl'. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with "pgpkey" as subject. - I've got places to go... People to annoy. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Re: what is the recommended way to downgrade?
On 22 Oct 1998, Stan Heckman wrote: > What is the correct way to downgrade a package? > I can remove it and then reinstall, but removing xbase wants > to remove an awful lot of other packages with it. (I want to > downgrade xbase because, after installing Version: 3.3.2.3a-4, > I don't seem to have xset anymore.) > > > $ dpkg --search xset > xloadimage: /usr/X11R6/bin/xsetbg > tk4.2: /usr/lib/tk4.2/demos/ixset > tkstep8.0: /usr/lib/tkstep8.0/demos/ixset > perl-tk: /usr/doc/perl-tk/examples/ixset.gz > tetex-base: /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/texset.mf > tk8.0: /usr/lib/tk8.0/demos/ixset > $ dpkg --force-downgrade -i I believe thats right... knowing my luck I will be missing something important there. (You have to download the file yourself.. I have no idea how to get apt or whichever to do it) Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with "pgpkey" as subject. - BIT: Past tense of BYTE. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
slink upg. error
Yo- I decided to upgrade to "frozen" slink and I used dselect to to do it. Now I am getting libncurses.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such object or directory. Did a package not get installed or is my system hosed now? Sorry if this is an old question but I haven't had the need to upgrade in a while. Any help is greatly appreciated! -Ian __ Ian Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP = F2 92 50 E3 CD D7 A2 D9 C4 CE 08 A6 98 E0 0F 58
HELP: tetex .tfm file not found
I am trying to use postscript fonts in plain TeX (I have no trouble in LaTeX) and get the following message when tex'ing the .tex file: ! Font \times=Times not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. \par l.9 ? ! Emergency stop. \par l.9 End of file on the terminal! No pages of output. Can anyone tell me what to do? Thanks. Albert Hurd
Help re x windows
Hi, people! I have a problem. I have tried to install Xwindows on my 486100, but it 'cannot find the packages'. I've used dpkg to... de-package the files but none of the resulting files run at all. I've tried doing it from my Win98 partition, but same result. I've used dselect, but again all I get is useless files. I have reinstalled, reformatted, and reinstalled, but no go. The machine in question has no internet access, and I don't have any idea on how to set up my internet account with Linux. I tried mounting my hard disk (vfat) but again, no go. I've tard and retard my files in a futile attempt to copy them to disk... I even created my own mini packages file. None of this works, and I have (gasp) almost given up hope. Other then lending out my hard disk to a friend who won't loan out the CD, what else can I do? Derek McCabe, Toronto
XDMCP fatal error
Hi, I have an Netgear ISDN router on a private subnet and everything works fine except when I try and connect to the X server (from Win95 Xtra!X). I keep getting a fatal XDMCP error complaining that it cannot export to DISPLAY 192.168.0.2:0.0. The ISP issues dynamic IP addresses so I have to route to a bogus network. Can XDM or the X Server be tweaked to handle this? I have looked throught the Xtra!X documentation but cannot find anything related. Has anyone run into this? Gregory Green
Re: ftp1.us.debian.org and FTP mirrors
Lukas> Once someone posted this script to find the fastest debian mirror,
Lukas> which could be used in some way in the postinst of apt:
IIRC Chris Lameter wrote this as part of one of his misc. utility packages.
I rewrote it in perl (and added a thing or two) as part of the mirror package
which installs it under the name 'debian-mirrors'. As it's short and sweet, I
include it here:
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# debian-mirrorsmeasure ping time to all mirrors in README.mirrors
#
# downloads README.mirrors from ftp.debian.org (but not if a local file is
# pointed to), runs fping on all Debian mirrors, sorts the result by ping
# time and output the 'n' (default is 20) fastest
#
# Written by Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and released under the GPL
# $Id: debian-mirrors.pl,v 1.3 1998/02/19 02:12:02 edd Exp $
## Yes, Net::FTP is much cooler, but we don't want to depend on libnet-perl
## 'ftp.pl' is provided by the mirror package
unshift( @INC, "/usr/lib/mirror" );
require 'ftp.pl';
#use strict;# doesn't work with ftp.pl
use English;
use File::Basename;
use vars qw($opt_h $opt_f $opt_v);
use Getopt::Std;
use IPC::Open2;
my $tempfile = "/tmp/".$file."-".$$;
my $readfrom = $tempfile;
my $max = 20;
$PROGRAM_NAME =~ s|.*/||; # strip everything before last slash
getopts('hf:n:v') or die("Try `$PROGRAM_NAME -h` for help screen.\n");
if ($opt_h or $#ARGV != -1) {
print "Usage:\n $PROGRAM_NAME [options]\n";
print "Options:\n";
print " -f file\tpoint to local version README.mirrors\n";
print " -n max\tmaximum number of mirrors to show\n";
print " -v\t\tverbose operation\n";
print " -h\t\tshow this help\n";
exit 0;
}
$max = $opt_n if ($opt_n);
print "Max is set to $max\n" if $opt_v;
if ( ! $opt_f ) {
my $hostname = "ftp.debian.org";
my $account = "ftp";
my $password = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]";
my $directory = "/pub/debian";
my $filename = "README.mirrors";
print "Retrieving ", $filename, " for analysis.";
ftp::debug(1) if $opt_v;# for debugging output
ftp::open($hostname,21,0,1) or die "No ftp connection\n";
ftp::login($account, $password) or die "Couldn't login\n";
ftp::cwd($directory) or die "Cannot cd to $directory\n";
ftp::get($filename, $tempfile, 0) or die "Could not get $file\n";
ftp::quit();
} else {
die "File $opt_f does not exist." unless -f $opt_f;
$readfrom = $opt_f;
}
print "Measuring ping times to all Debian mirror sites. " if $opt_v;
print "Please be patient.\n" if $opt_v;
my ($mirror,$path,$time);
open(DATA, $readfrom) or die "Cannot open $filename\n";
open2("PINGOUT", "PINGIN", "fping -ae") or die "Cannot start fping(1)\n";;
while () {
if (($mirror,$path) = ($ARG =~ m|^\s*(\S*\.\S*\.\S*.*):(/\S*)\s.*|)) {
print "Pinging $mirror \n" if $opt_v;
print PINGIN "$mirror\n"; # if ($mirror =~ m/.*\.edu$/);
}
}
close(DATA);
close(PINGIN);
open2("SORTOUT", "SORTIN", "sort -n") or die "Cannot start sort(1)\n";
while () {
($mirror,$time) = ($ARG =~ m|^(\S*)\s*\((\d*) msec\)|);
print "fping reports $time for $mirror\n" if $opt_v;
print SORTIN "$time $mirror\n";
}
close(SORTIN);
close(PINGOUT);
my $i=1;
while () {
print "$_";
last if ($i++ == $max);
}
close(SORTOUT);
--
Linux is not only free; it is, arguably, a better operating system, offering
a degree of stability and an ability to scale up that NT cannot match.
-- The Economist, Oct 3, 1998
net error at boot time
Hi, When I boot my machine I get these two error lines: SIOCADDRT: invalid argument SIOCADDRT: invalid argument Can somebody please explain me the problem ? With the present config I can browse the net. My computer is unreacheable from outside because the admin of the local net have changed my IP number but not my entry in the DNS database. Can this be the problem ? TIA, Ionutz Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom
Anthony Campbell wrote: > I thought I'd got apt-get to read my local cdrom but it seems I was wrong. It > will update the packages but won't install anything. I have a Cheapbytes > cdrom. > > The entry in my sources.list is as follows: > > > deb file:/cdrom/debian main/binary-i386/ > > The Packages file is read correctly. However, when I try to install a file I > get an error message: > > Unable to stat /cdrom/debian/debian/binary-i386/... > > In other words, an unwanted extra /debian/ gets into the path when apt-get > tries to install a file. > > Can anyone suggest a way round this? > > Anthony I might be totally wrong, flame me if I am, but... I upgraded my kernel to 2.0.34 and somehow I was able to 'look' at joilet type cd's. Before the upgrade the links did not show. This presented me with similar problems. So, perhaps you could upgrade to a newer kernel and it might resolve itself. If not alternate solution: 1- take a look with zless at /cdrom/debian/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Each package is listed with a "Filename: " entry. This is partly the path apt will be looking for. deb file:/cdrom/debian main/binary-i386/ <- from your sources.list This ^ will be added to the front of that filename. I suspect that the entry in filename is: debian/binary-i386/text/ (eg) from what you indicated. 2- Create a symbolic link: ln -s /cdrom/debian/main /usr/local/debian (first making sure you don't overwrite anything in /usr/local) 3- Change your entry in sources.lists to: deb file:/usr/local debian/binary-i386/ 4- make sure you have the cdrom mounted before using apt. That's the best I can do from here. You will have to fill in the gaps. You can also try to make your own Packages files. That gives you control over where you have it all located. The command is dpkg-scanpackages from dpkg-dev.deb John
Re: Help me setup dynamic DNS server address.
John writes: > Write a script to go in ip-up.d that does something like: Yes, I could do this, but I don't need to: my isp doesn't use 'dynamic dns'. My interest is in helping new users whose isp's won't tell them the nameserver ip's because they use dynamic dns. Someone reminded me that pppd is able to provide dynamic dns to Windows clients, so I can figure it out from the source. If I can't figure out how to provide a dynamic dns 'client' I can think of several workarounds. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d
I wrote: > Are you saying that 'demand' now works in Linux? Mitch Blevins writes: > Don't use it. I had assumed from the man page and a VagueMemory(tm) > that I had heard of it working... Actually, 'demand' purportedly does work in Linux but, according to the documentation, filtering doesn't. As demand dialing without filtering seems rather useless, I've never experimented with it. Also, it requires that the kernel be patched, at least for the stable kernels. I may take another look at it if it turns out to be supported in the 2.2 kernels. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
debian.midco.net mirror
Hi, I'll be performing some work on the debian.midco.net mirror site tonight (like , I already started :). This means that there will be periods of time when the archive will NOT be available. Sorry for any inconvenience. On the bright side, if all goes as planned we'll go from an 18 G spool to a 40 G spool, and have SMP for a little extra oomph on the processor side. The newer SCSI drivers may give a performance boost as well (I hope so). -- 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: Security problem
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, King Lee wrote: : Hello, : : At our school our system administrator (who is very good) was : running Red Hat 5.1 and someone broke in and got root privileges. : Since he had written a Lan watch, we think we know how it happened. : : The Lan Watch showed someone form Israel send a very long : packet to mountd. Shortly after, two names were added to : the password file with user id 0. We suspect that : /etc was NFS mounted with write permission. Afterwards : there were logins from the two added names and rsh was changed. : : : Is Debian vulnerable? Unfortunately, I haven't progressed : to the stage where I am comfortable looking at code. This security hole, and the fix, were announced on debian-security a few weeks ago. I'll look for the announcement. So yes, some systems are vulnerable, but there is a fix available. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
Available packages
I screwed things up. I wanted to install E on my system but didn't want to go the long route of finding every single file I did to update so I downloaded chunks of slink with the package file and used the mounted option. I had previously installed from using the mountable option and merging the 3 Cheapbytes CD package files using dpkg -merge-avail (worked great!). Now when I try to use the mountable option to install I get a list that includes the slink packages. I tried using dpkg -clear-avail but that didn't work. Any ideas? Thanks Cristov Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] TNF5172.TMP Description: Unknown data type
Trying to recover data from messed up MSDOS floppy
We saved some important data from one of our experiments to a floppy in one of our digital oscilliscopes. The o'scope can write to MSDOS formatted floppies only. I usually then copy the data over to my Debian machine for processing. However, this floppy turned out to have some bad areas (mostly in the FAT region of the disk). I was wondering if there is a disk editor in Linux (which I would probably trust more than letting Norton mess with my disk)? Any suggestions? Thanks for any assistance, Paul Rightley
