Re: Useless (broken?) IDE HD
Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I know it's somehow OT, but you were the only guys I thought could
> give me some ideas...
>
> well... at home I've got a VA34324A Samsung HD (IDE, 4.3Gb) that
> decided to stop working this weekend. As I'm completely out of money for
> at least 2 months and short of backups for a big chunk of the data it
> contains, I'd like to see if there's any way to put it back to service,
> even if just for a short time. Here's what happens now that it's
> installed as 2nd master in my work PC:
>
> 1) When I turn on the computer, BIOS recognizes OK it and it passes all
> tests fine;
>
> 2) Linux boots, kernel recognizes hdc: SAMSUNG VA34324A, 4124MB w/478kB
> Cache, CHS=14896/9/63, UDMA (i.e.: fine);
>
> 3) fdisk sees all four partitions OK and warns of no problems;
>
> 4) When I try to mount any of the partitions, I get a lot of equal
> messages:
>
> hdc: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error
> }
> hdc: read_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> ide1: reset: success
>
> The FAT32 partition mount in the end, still gives me more error messages
> but I can at least browse through it and retrieve some files) but the
> ext2 won't mount (ext2 filesystem panic, of course, because of the read
> errors).
>
> When I boot Win98 (still w/ the broken HD as 2nd master), win98's fdisk
> won't even notice there's a 2nd HD and Partition Resizer win warn of an
> error (something like ¨partition 1 out of boundaries¨) and won't
> recognize anything (not even the 1st HD)...
>
> Now, is there any chance that it's not a hardware fault? If so, how
> could I try to make it work? I'm accepting mostly every possible idea,
> no matter how risky or absurd it may seem, as the worst that could
> happen as losing the HD I can't use now!
>
> TIA,
>
> Guilherme Zahn
>
> PS: Please c/c myself on the replies, OK? Due to the heavy traffic on
> the list I had to sign it through another e-mail address, and it's been
> hard to check it lately!
It might be worth checking if your drive is readable on another PC,
incase it's something like your IDE interface on your motherboard.
Although the chances of a HD failure must be higher than a motherboard
problem. Best of luck.
--
Regards,
Paul
Re: cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device'
sure, glad it works .. :) i had a hellva time getting printing to work..to this day i still cannot 'lpr filename' or 'lp filename' but printing through samba, or through netscape or wordperfect or staroffice works fine.. odd too because netscape shows the command it's using as lpr filename, and it works fine, but it wont do shit at the command prompt ..ohwell happy to help.. nate On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, David Densmore wrote: dden >OK, I got it this time and it works, thanks! I just didn't dden >comprehend the first time. dden > dden >I guess this whole problem boiled down to the fact that I dden >overlooked parallel printer support under character devices. dden > dden >Thanks for all your help. dden > dden >David dden > dden >>i told you what options to select.. dden >> dden >>[general setup] dden >>parallel port dden >>pc style hardware(didnt tel you this one before but its pretty clear :) ) dden >> dden >>[character devices] dden >>parallel printer support dden >> dden >>recompile reboot and try again .. dden >> dden >>nate dden > dden > dden > dden >-- dden >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null dden > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 3:33pm up 123 days, 3:22, 3 users, load average: 0.63, 0.46, 0.33
Re: Problem with Mutt <-> GPG cooperation
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 11:41:52PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > > I had this problem too and upgraded to mutt 1.0i and it's gone away, so > > I guess it was a known bug that got fixed. > Is the mutt 1.0i available somewhere as a debian package? 1.0 appears to be in unstable according to a search on http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > Is it able to handle automatically multipart/splitted messages (eg. > generated by mpack)? No idea. J. -- ] http://www.earth.li/~noodles/ [] Design a system any fool can use, [ ] PGP Key @ keys.pgp.net or [] and only a fool will want to use [ ] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [] it. [
Re: Problem with Mutt <-> GPG cooperation
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 08:48:36PM +, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > > I had this problem too and upgraded to mutt 1.0i and it's gone away, so > I guess it was a known bug that got fixed. Is the mutt 1.0i available somewhere as a debian package? Is it able to handle automatically multipart/splitted messages (eg. generated by mpack)? -- Wojciech Zabolotny http://www.ise.pw.edu.pl/~wzab http://www.gnupg.org Gnu Privacy Guard - protect your mail & data with the FREE cryptographic system pgpgQlpY0m7qI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How do I generate modules.dep?
David Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recompiled the kernel and installed the modules with the > make modules_install command, but it didn't create a modules.dep file. > > I hacked one by hand from an old copy I had and it works, but what is > the proper way to generate modules.dep? It's possible I'm wrong, but I do believe the file is automatically generated by an init script which invokes "depmod -a". In other words, after a reboot it should automatically be generated, or you can look at the /etc/init.d/modutils script and just mimic what it does upon a reboot. Gary
weird cdtool problem
heya, fellow debian lovers i recently upgraded a myriad of stuff to potato. one of the packages that i upgraded was cdtool (to cdtool 2.1.5-4). when i tried to play a cd i got the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Tue Dec 21 05:21:41 ~ => cdplay sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. cdplay: ioctl cdromplaytrkind initially i figured this to be some sort of kernel problem since i'd also just recompiled my kernel to emulate scsi for my new ide cd burner, however i tried using the cdplayer for gnome and it worked fine. i'm also quite certain that the version of cdtool i was using prior to its upgrade worked fine after the kernel upgrade so i'm tending to think this is some kind of cdtool problem. before i happily send off a bug report could somebody tell me if what i'm experiencing is due to my own naivity or a bug report already exists? (i didn't see one when i checked the archives). from da Bobstopper
Re: Can't find a valid termcap
Patrick Kirk wrote: > This is still bugging me. Anyone have any suggestions on how to resolve > this termcap question? > > Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.004/Term/ReadLine.pm line 305 Simply install libterm-readline-gnu-perl, or ignore the warning, or wait until perl finally gets fixed to not output this warning. -- see shy jo
Re: Potato inconsistency
Ben Lutgens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 10:00:37PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > > > > Preparing to replace base-files 2.1.10 (using .../base-files_2.1.11_all.deb) > > ...Unpacking replacement base-files ... > > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.1.11_all.deb > > (--unpack): > > trying to overwrite `/etc/inputrc', which is also in package libreadlineg2 > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.1.11_all.deb > > E: Sub-process returned an error code (1) > > > > Piece of cake just manually install base-files with > dpkg -i --force-overwrite > > And the rest of your upgrade will be all good. It's also a known problem. Peter needs to check the bugs list available via the Debian home page (http://www.debian.org): Bug #52983: base files and libreadlineg2 both have /etc/inputrc Gary
How do I generate modules.dep?
I recompiled the kernel and installed the modules with the make modules_install command, but it didn't create a modules.dep file. I hacked one by hand from an old copy I had and it works, but what is the proper way to generate modules.dep? Thank you, David Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device'
OK, I got it this time and it works, thanks! I just didn't comprehend the first time. I guess this whole problem boiled down to the fact that I overlooked parallel printer support under character devices. Thanks for all your help. David >i told you what options to select.. > >[general setup] >parallel port >pc style hardware(didnt tel you this one before but its pretty clear :) ) > >[character devices] >parallel printer support > >recompile reboot and try again .. > >nate
pgaccess uninstall (upgrade) problem
HI! does anybody have an idea how may I upgrade my pgaccess (and other packages) when dpkg says: Removing pgaccess ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute pre-removal script: Exec format error dpkg: error processing pgaccess (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: pgaccess E: Sub-process returned an error code (1) Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again Press enter to continue. thanks for any help Marcin Inkielman .~. /V\ // \\ /( )\ ^`~'^ powered by Linux sibi omino similis?
Re: Can't find a valid termcap
Subject: Re: Can't find a valid termcap Date: Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 08:07:07PM + In reply to:Patrick Kirk Quoting Patrick Kirk([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| Hi Wayne, Hello Patrick >| There were error messages about the newest version of perl5 being >| installed at 18.10. Perhaps the new version fixes this problem. >| That's no help to you with slink tho'. Have you been able to get slink4 on >CD? No, I haven't decided on which dist to get yet. Even tho the Jan 2000 issue of LJ says Debian is #1, now, I think I may change my main dist. Not to RH, of course, but maybe back to Slackware or even FreeBSD. I have been having problens with the 'stable' Slink that I can't seem to solve. I could always fix those kinds of problems when I ran Slackware. In Slackware you compile most programs yourself so 'you' set the options on compiling, not someone else. Ah, maybe I'm just tired from fighting this problem so long. Sour grapes I guess, no distro updates like Debian, when it updates correctly! I have to find another hobby! I just picked up 3 old 386 boxes and one 486 box for $40. All had 3 1/2 floppies and one had a 500Meg HD. I am working on getting them all running as Linux Routers and/or workstations by the end of the year. 3 down and one to go. Maybe when I finsh this project I will feel less P__sed! >| >| PS - how do you get mutt to wrap text? I can't seem to get it right :-( in muttrc: set editor="vim '+/^$/+1'" in vimrc: set textwidth=70 Bah Humbug aside, I hope you have a great Holiday Season Patrick! Best Regards Wayne -- At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer. ___
Printing broken by email fix?
Somehow, in trying to fix mutt and exim, I have broken my printing which used to work beautifully. I suspect that the trouble arose when trying to follow the instructions in Linux Gazette #43 even though I don't actually have a network. Foolishly I did not keep a backup of the files I was altering, so cannot return to the earlier setup. When I try cat-ing a file to /dev/lp0 a line (just one) of stuff from the file plus a little garbage comes out, but this only ever occurs once; repeating the experiment achieves nothing. lpq, if I am very quick, shows the file queued, but not for long. Using lpr (really Lprng and magicfilter) gets no output at all. My system is vanilla Slink with the supplied kernel 2.0.36. If anyone can suggest a way of restoring this to its previous printing state, or point me to the right FM, I shall be most grateful. TIA, Doug.
Re: Potato inconsistency
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 10:00:37PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > > Preparing to replace base-files 2.1.10 (using .../base-files_2.1.11_all.deb) > ...Unpacking replacement base-files ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.1.11_all.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/etc/inputrc', which is also in package libreadlineg2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.1.11_all.deb > E: Sub-process returned an error code (1) > Piece of cake just manually install base-files with dpkg -i --force-overwrite And the rest of your upgrade will be all good. -- Ben Lutgens (resume available at http://contractor.computerwork.com/index.cfm?blutgens) "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Re: Monochrome XFIG
Riku, Thank you very much for the time you take to follow this thread! My /etc/X11/Xsession looks a bit different from yours: if [ -d $sysresources ]; then if [ "$(echo $sysresources/*)" != "$sysresources/*" ]; then for resourcefile in $(ls $sysresources/* 2> /dev/null | egrep '^[-/_[:alnum:]]*$'); do xrdb -merge $resourcefile done fi fi However, as of today I am on vacation and I won't have access to my PC at work until mid January so I won't be able to test any changes. I believe I'm going to reinstall xfree86-common to overwrite all configuration files. If that doesn't work I'll bother you and the Debian list again ;) I wish you (and all of you Debianers) a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays in love and peace! -- Pedro Riku Saikkonen wrote: > > "Pedro Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Riku Saikkonen wrote: > >> You could try running XFig with "xfig -xrm '*customization: -color'", > >> just in case that helps. If it does, there is some sort of problem in > >> your X startup scripts - either /etc/X11/Xresources/xfree86-common is > >> not loaded, the X server does not define COLOR for some reason, or > >> there is another *customization resource set somewhere. > >Yes, running xfig like this brings back the colors! > ... > >So, who is supposed to load /etc/X11/Xresources/xfree86-common? and, > >how come the X server does not define COLOR? Shall I reinstall X from > >scratch? > > /etc/X11/Xsession is the generic X startup script, whose job it is to > establish such things as resources (including ~/.Xresources), loading > a possible ~/.Xmodmap, etc. The following code in it does the loading > of /etc/X11/Xresources/*: > > if [ -d $sysresources ]; then > xrdb -load /dev/null # work around wdm brain damage > if [ "$(echo $sysresources/*)" != "$sysresources/*" ]; then > for resourcefile in $(ls $sysresources/* 2> /dev/null | egrep > '^[-/_[:alnum: > ]]*$'); do > xrdb -merge $resourcefile > done > fi > fi > > Hmm, I just thought of something. The process of upgrading X11 > sometimes asks you whether to replace /etc/X11/Xsession with the new > version or not; if you have an old version of this file, it might not > know that /etc/X11/Xresources/ is a directory (this was changed > relatively recently). If you don't have the above code in your > /etc/X11/Xsession (especially the "$(ls $sysresources/*" part), you > should get the new version of the file. The easiest way is probably to > reinstall the xfree86-common package and answer "y" if it asks whether > to replace that file. > > To see whether the X system defines COLOR, try running "xrdb -merge > /etc/X11/Xresources/xfree86-common" manually before you run XFig and > see if you get the colors. If you do, the X system (more specifically, > the xrdb program) does define COLOR, which is correct. (The above > command is what /etc/X11/Xsession should execute, among other things.) > > It might also be that the Xsession file isn't being run for some > reason. A ~/.xinitrc in your home directory is probably the most > common problem. Otherwise, if you use xdm, you could try reinstalling > it; I haven't used it in a long time, but I hear there have been some > problems with it some time ago. > > Some details on how startx works, in case you're interested: (xdm is > similar, but I don't know its details) > > The "startx" command starts /usr/X11R6/bin/startx, which is a shell > script. This starts the xinit program, giving it some standard > arguments, including the file name /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc (= > /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc). This file (also a shell script) is what xinit > runs to initialise the X session. xinitrc should simply execute > /etc/X11/Xsession, which does the rest (including loading your > ~/.Xsession and starting a window manager). > > There's also a /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc, which is used to start the X > server itself. You can use it to give additional options to the X > server, if you want to; for example, if you don't want it to listen on > TCP port 6000 (which is not necessary if you don't use X applications > remotely or if you forward remote X connections via ssh), put the > following line in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc: > exec X -nolisten tcp "$@" > > -- > -=- Rjs -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: connecting to internet
I might have missed something earlier in this thread, but this really looks like a DNS problem to me. Is the "nameserver" line right in /etc/resolv.conf? Try specifying a known good IP address on the lynx command line: $ lynx http://209.81.8.242/ That's the IP address my machine returned for www.debian.org. If you can connect, then your problem is almost certainly DNS. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap" >>> Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/20 2:38 PM >>> > I am a newbie and have just installed Debian. I need to connect to a website > to download an upgrade to xfree86. I put the url in my sources list, but when > I try apt-update, the response I get is that the website doesn't exist. I have > checked it and it exists. My ppp connection to my isp is working ok. but I > can't get to the website. Lynx doesn't connect to anything although I have put > a url in lynx.cfg. I have tried ncftp, but no hosts are recognized although I > use them in with other distributions. > Any recommendations? I am using Debian Gnu/linux that is publish by Oreilly. > System is asus p5a mo-board, amd k6-2 400 cpu, 128 mb ram. debian shares a > drive with win98. > steve w > I would have tried to use /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/sources.list because your problem might be with the entries you put in /etc/apt/sources.list. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Is this really true?
Can anyone recommend a good or at least promising Linux meeting package? Thanks! Henry ~~~ >From a recent ZDNet article: < http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2408776,00.html > We also included a system configured with Caldera Linux 2.3 running Netscape Navigator 4.6, and we even hooked up an Apple iMac. With a setup like this, we discovered that current Web-based meeting services are only reliable on Windows machines. Joining the conference from the iMac and Linux platforms produced slide shows that wouldn't advance, consoles that were corrupted or frozen, and even a few hard crashes.
syslog-ng: causes REMOTE machines to lock out logins even!
Forwarded to -user, as a warning to others about this dangerous package, and, forwarded to -qa, in hopes of a speedy NMU to fix this, in light of its severity. (I'm not on either list, so cc as appropriate if replying.) - Forwarded message from Lazarus Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Lazarus Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: syslog-ng: causes REMOTE machines to lock out logins even! To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: bug 3.2.7 Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 21:08:11 + Package: syslog-ng Version: 1.3.10-1 Severity: critical 4) Critical bug. Makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) break, or causes serious data loss, or introduces a security hole on systems where you install the package. If there was a "5" level, this would warrant it! This package causes REMOTE systems to break drastically! Any remote system sending syslog entries to the local system (syslogd -r) will no longer allow logins of any form, including via ssh, via telnet, via local login at the console, or even any attempt to su. Obviously no activities that write to syslog will complete. Dec 20 19:51:38 remoteboxname syslogd: sendto: Connection refused This means that one can not get to root to change the syslog behaviour, or even to disable syslog temporarily, and I imagine one would probably find an infinite lockup condition upon rebooting. (I certainly don't intend to try in order to find out.) Anyone attempting to run a reasonably secure network will have enabled remote logging via syslog (and the -r switch) and this package's current broken status threatens the entire network. -- System Information Debian Release: potato Kernel Version: Linux phoenix 2.2.13 #3 Sun Oct 24 06:12:59 UTC 1999 i586 unknown Versions of the packages syslog-ng depends on: ii libc6 2.1.2-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone ii logrotate 3.2-11 Log rotation utility ii sysklogd1.3-33 Kernel and system logging daemons - End forwarded message - -- Please encrypt all mail whenever possible. The following Public Keys for Lazarus Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> are available upon request: TypeBits/KeyIDFingerprint(GnuPG (GPG) is preferred.) GPG/ELG: 2048g/CFACB34D FB64 906E 2F8A 14DF 9A98 C8BD 53F6 71FC 91D4 8329 GPG/DSA: 1024D/91D48329 (none for DSA keys) pgpCDTNmKeUB6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Do Java 1.2 deb packages exit?
Hi: I find slink .debs for JDK 1.1 on debian.org, but not JDK 1.2. If someone has .debs for JDK 1.2, please email me a web or ftp site. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly.
Potato inconsistency
Got this during today's apt-get dist-upgrade: Preparing to replace base-files 2.1.10 (using .../base-files_2.1.11_all.deb) ...Unpacking replacement base-files ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.1.11_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/etc/inputrc', which is also in package libreadlineg2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.1.11_all.deb E: Sub-process returned an error code (1) Known problem? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Re: Problem with Mutt <-> GPG cooperation
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 06:57:17PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > I can't force my mutt/gpg set to work properly. Signing of messages > works fine (as can be seen from this message :-) ), but I can't > encrypt a message to be sent to somebody. I have the recipient's > public key in my public keyring. I can encrypt the date with this > recipient's public key using the GPG itself. However when I prepare > the message in mutt, end set the "PGP:" option to "encrypt", after > pressing the "y" (send) key I'm asked for the recipient's keyID. I've > checked the short (32 bit) form, the long (64 bit) form, the > recipient's e-mail... all the syntaxes given in gpg's man page. > Nothing works! The beep is heard and I can see again the: Enter keyID > for ...: What's wrong? > > The pgp_default_version is set to 'gpg'. The mutt version is Mutt > 0.95.3i (1999-02-12), and the gpg version is: gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.1 I had this problem too and upgraded to mutt 1.0i and it's gone away, so I guess it was a known bug that got fixed. J. -- Real Programmers don't drink | Black Cat Networks Ltd decaf.| http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk/ | UK Web, domain and email hosting
Re: connecting to internet
> I am a newbie and have just installed Debian. I need to connect to a website > to download an upgrade to xfree86. I put the url in my sources list, but when > I try apt-update, the response I get is that the website doesn't exist. I have > checked it and it exists. My ppp connection to my isp is working ok. but I > can't get to the website. Lynx doesn't connect to anything although I have put > a url in lynx.cfg. I have tried ncftp, but no hosts are recognized although I > use them in with other distributions. > Any recommendations? I am using Debian Gnu/linux that is publish by Oreilly. > System is asus p5a mo-board, amd k6-2 400 cpu, 128 mb ram. debian shares a > drive with win98. > steve w > I would have tried to use /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/sources.list because your problem might be with the entries you put in /etc/apt/sources.list.
Re: Monochrome XFIG
"Pedro Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Riku Saikkonen wrote: >> You could try running XFig with "xfig -xrm '*customization: -color'", >> just in case that helps. If it does, there is some sort of problem in >> your X startup scripts - either /etc/X11/Xresources/xfree86-common is >> not loaded, the X server does not define COLOR for some reason, or >> there is another *customization resource set somewhere. >Yes, running xfig like this brings back the colors! ... >So, who is supposed to load /etc/X11/Xresources/xfree86-common? and, >how come the X server does not define COLOR? Shall I reinstall X from >scratch? /etc/X11/Xsession is the generic X startup script, whose job it is to establish such things as resources (including ~/.Xresources), loading a possible ~/.Xmodmap, etc. The following code in it does the loading of /etc/X11/Xresources/*: if [ -d $sysresources ]; then xrdb -load /dev/null # work around wdm brain damage if [ "$(echo $sysresources/*)" != "$sysresources/*" ]; then for resourcefile in $(ls $sysresources/* 2> /dev/null | egrep '^[-/_[:alnum: ]]*$'); do xrdb -merge $resourcefile done fi fi Hmm, I just thought of something. The process of upgrading X11 sometimes asks you whether to replace /etc/X11/Xsession with the new version or not; if you have an old version of this file, it might not know that /etc/X11/Xresources/ is a directory (this was changed relatively recently). If you don't have the above code in your /etc/X11/Xsession (especially the "$(ls $sysresources/*" part), you should get the new version of the file. The easiest way is probably to reinstall the xfree86-common package and answer "y" if it asks whether to replace that file. To see whether the X system defines COLOR, try running "xrdb -merge /etc/X11/Xresources/xfree86-common" manually before you run XFig and see if you get the colors. If you do, the X system (more specifically, the xrdb program) does define COLOR, which is correct. (The above command is what /etc/X11/Xsession should execute, among other things.) It might also be that the Xsession file isn't being run for some reason. A ~/.xinitrc in your home directory is probably the most common problem. Otherwise, if you use xdm, you could try reinstalling it; I haven't used it in a long time, but I hear there have been some problems with it some time ago. Some details on how startx works, in case you're interested: (xdm is similar, but I don't know its details) The "startx" command starts /usr/X11R6/bin/startx, which is a shell script. This starts the xinit program, giving it some standard arguments, including the file name /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc (= /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc). This file (also a shell script) is what xinit runs to initialise the X session. xinitrc should simply execute /etc/X11/Xsession, which does the rest (including loading your ~/.Xsession and starting a window manager). There's also a /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc, which is used to start the X server itself. You can use it to give additional options to the X server, if you want to; for example, if you don't want it to listen on TCP port 6000 (which is not necessary if you don't use X applications remotely or if you forward remote X connections via ssh), put the following line in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc: exec X -nolisten tcp "$@" -- -=- Rjs -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xterm and function keys
Andy Spiegl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [about xterm function key bindings, ^[OP vs. ^[[11~] >I just tried the terminfo approach and that seems to work! So I guess I >solved my problem, but I still don't really like it. However I now >understand that it's not a Debian problem, but a general X problem. Things >should be standardized better. :-( Yep... This terminfo approach (the "workaround 2" described in /usr/doc/xterm/README.Debian) should fix everything that uses terminfo (which is almost all applications where it matters, including all curses applications; some old systems might still use termcap for something). But it needs to be set up on every account that you use. If you also use the text-mode console for connecting to non-Linux systems, you might want to do the same workaround for /etc/terminfo/l/linux. For what it's worth, I've seen these problems also between different commercial Unix systems (SGI, HP, DEC, etc.), sometimes also between different programs on one system. (And between Windows and Unix, but I don't use Windows, so I can't say more about that.) At least Debian has a workaround for some problems in its documentation. :) -- -=- Rjs -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't find a valid termcap
Hi Wayne, Can't see why but apt-get update followed but apt-get upgrade failed at 18.10 and just worked perfectly now at 20.30. There were error messages about the newest version of perl5 being installed at 18.10. Perhaps the new version fixes this problem. That's no help to you with slink tho'. Have you been able to get slink4 on CD? Patrick PS - how do you get mutt to wrap text? I can't seem to get it right :-(
Re: Non-freeness
Stuart Ballard wrote: > > "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 16:15:51 +, Stuart Ballard wrote: > > > Now, I thought that ssh (at least openSSH) was non-US/main - wasn't that > > > kind of the point of using openSSH rather than what we had before? > > > > Yes. Potato's current "ssh" package is OpenSSH and is free. > > Then why is vrms reporting it? Is this a vrms bug? Sorry to reply to my own mail, but I started trying to track this one down and found the following: $ dpkg -s ssh ... (copy and paste doesn't work from my terminal to netscape, so I'm only entering what's relevant)... Section: non-US/non-free ... Source: openssh Version: 1:1.2pre17-1 ... /var/cache/apt/lists/a_very_long_filename_with_nonus.debian.org_and_main_in_it ;) contains what seems to be the same information *except* for the section line which lists non-US (by itself). /var/lib/dpkg/status, naturally, agrees with dpkg and vrms, not with apt. What's going on? Is there any way I can find out how my system got into this state? Are there any other files that I should be looking in? Thanks, Stuart.
Re: Can one keep networks apart on a machine?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I kind of like the suggestion from a previous post that this ignorant net > >admin of yours be brought to task over his administrative decisions. Isn't > >his job ultimately to provide a network infrastructure that makes end-users > >more productive? Seems to me that his draconic "nothing but NT" stance runs > >counter to this. And this at an institute for higher learning and > >enlightened thinking... what a shame. > > Well, I _am_ the original "instigator" of the bias, as I inadvertently > brought the system to its knees with a kernel upgrade. I can't (and don't > try to) back out of that responsibility. We've got this unofficial consensus that we'd rather have "our" people breaking the network with Linux before the students do it from their dorm rooms. This way we can learn from the experiences and yet still have some control. Otherwise, when the students do it, we'll be caught with our pants down.
sendmail
hello sorry, my problem with sendmail is that all the messages are deferred how can i disable this behaviour ? thanks a lot
sendmail
hello i have a problem with sendmail i can not receive any email, neither local mail when i run sendmail , it says: root ... Recipients names must be specified and when i put mailq, i get the messages i have sended as waiting in the queue i have uninstaled and reinstaled sendmail but nothing changes what could i do to again send emails ? thanks a lot
Re: apt-find
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 12:07:08PM -0700, Mr.Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Marco Giardini wrote: > > > After having upgraded (using apt-get) my slink distribution (intel i386) > > the usefull apt-find doesn't work any more. > > Use console-apt, which is the what apt-find was renamed too > > Jason I have update to le last slink release, not to potato. .oesse. -- -- +-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |m|a|r|c|o| |g|i|a|r|d|i|n|i| +-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ TecnoGi spa Tel. +39 0321 885422 Strada per Gravellona Fax +39 0321 885333 Borgolavezzaro (NO) http://www.tecnogi.com Key fingerprint = B5 B4 AA 91 89 50 43 8F B1 6B C6 8C 34 79 5A 7F
Re: apt-find
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Marco Giardini wrote: > After having upgraded (using apt-get) my slink distribution (intel i386) > the usefull apt-find doesn't work any more. Use console-apt, which is the what apt-find was renamed too Jason
Re: Can one keep networks apart on a machine?
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/20/99 at 10:38 AM, "Marc Mongeon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >You shouldn't have any problem doing per-adapter setup under NT. The biggest >issue I can think of is routing, since NT wants to do all of that >automatically, but I think with appropriate choice of IP address and >netmask, you can make it work OK. I'll bear that in mind. Thanks! >I kind of like the suggestion from a previous post that this ignorant net >admin of yours be brought to task over his administrative decisions. Isn't >his job ultimately to provide a network infrastructure that makes end-users >more productive? Seems to me that his draconic "nothing but NT" stance runs >counter to this. And this at an institute for higher learning and >enlightened thinking... what a shame. Well, I _am_ the original "instigator" of the bias, as I inadvertently brought the system to its knees with a kernel upgrade. I can't (and don't try to) back out of that responsibility. But I still feel that the problems they had tracking down Me as the culprit of the packet broadcasting issue indicates a flaw in their abilities/available tools to manage serious problems. There was no general communication about the problem with the general college community at all, and I can't help but feel that I could have quickly isolated the problem (at least) by sequentially chopping off various parts of the LAN from one another (were I in his shoes). (And Linux worked so WELL in the system, too. Damn.) I shudder to think what would happen if a serious hacker went into the system. (A local fellow was crackling at the sides as he told me about the state of their firewall. But they may have tidied it up a bit since then.) But I may be all wet about that (I know nothing about LAN management/setup/etc). Kenward Dr. Kenward Vaughan .'^~;,_ Professor of Chemistry':,'~ Bakersfield College \;:/ 1801 Panorama Drive |,;| Bakersfield, CA 93305 / ', \ 661-395-4243/ o O \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) (oOoOOoOo) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) ------ ???$$???
Re: Bootable MSDOS filesystem from Linux
At 19:23 20.12.1999 +0100, you wrote > This was the original Message: MK>On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 06:56:42PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: MK>> MK>> get IO.SYS to take up the first few sectors of the disk. MK>> MK> ^^^ MK>> MK> This was needed in pre MS DOS 6.0 (or even 5.0) time. MK>> MK> MK>> MK>Now you need a proper boot (and maybe master boot) sector and (I'm not MK>> MK>shure) not fragmented IO.SYS ... MK>> MK> MK>> MK>Mirek MK>> MK>> IO.SYS is needed for WinSuck95. MK> MK>Yes it's needed but you said "first few sectors of the disk", MK>no just copy it into partition. MK> MK>Mirek IO.SYS is NOT the bootsektor !!! Open IO.SYS and you will see... Michelle
Re: Allowing weak passwords
Or, logon as root.
Enter passwd username (where username is the name of your user).
Enter anything as a password (including nothing), ignore the warnings.
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote:
>
> > Ben Collins said:
> > > Edit /etc/login.defs and modify the minimum password length config.
> >
> > That allows _short_ passwords, but not _weak_ ones.
> >
> > After changing it to 1, I just had the following exchange with passwd:
> >
> > Enter the new password (minimum of 1, maximum of 8 characters)
> > Please use a combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers.
> > New password: a
> > Bad password: a palindrome. Try again.
> > New password: abc
> > Bad password: too simple. Try again.
> >
> > How do I disable those checks?
> >
>
> add user as usual,compile code below with your "short" passwd
> gcc a.c -lcrypt
>
> and the manually edit /etc/passwd with output
>
> #include
> #include
>
> int
> main( void ) {
>
> printf("%s\n",crypt("superpasswd","iQ"));
>
> return 0;
> }
>
>
> OK
>
>
>
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Re: Bootable MSDOS filesystem from Linux
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 06:56:42PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > MK>> get IO.SYS to take up the first few sectors of the disk. > MK> ^^^ > MK> This was needed in pre MS DOS 6.0 (or even 5.0) time. > MK> > MK>Now you need a proper boot (and maybe master boot) sector and (I'm not > MK>shure) not fragmented IO.SYS ... > MK> > MK>Mirek > > IO.SYS is needed for WinSuck95. Yes it's needed but you said "first few sectors of the disk", no just copy it into partition. Mirek
Re: Non-freeness
"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 16:15:51 +, Stuart Ballard wrote: > > Now, I thought that ssh (at least openSSH) was non-US/main - wasn't that > > kind of the point of using openSSH rather than what we had before? > > Yes. Potato's current "ssh" package is OpenSSH and is free. Then why is vrms reporting it? Is this a vrms bug? > > And dnsutils - why on earth should I need non-free software to query dns > > servers? > > dnsutils is built from the bind source, which contains non-free code from > RSA labs dealing with secure DNS. I believe arrangements have been made with > the ISC that will make / have made it possible for bind's source to go in > main again. Cool. > > In other words, a very brief summary of the problem (with a reference to > > the license), a list of alternatives, and the possible problems you > > might encounter with each alternative. > > This would be a useful list to have - perhaps you've found your way to > contribute to Debian? Well, there are a *lot* of packages in non-free, so I think the way to do it would be on a package-by-package basis, arranged by Policy-with-a-capital-Pee :) I guess I could subscribe to the policy list and suggest this... My thought would be having a standardized file in /usr[/share]/doc/packagename for every package in non-free, called something like README.Debian-nonfree.gz, containing this information in a standardized format (like the changelog.Debian already has). Maybe another one called README.Debian-nonus.gz for non-US packages too. If this happened I'd certainly consider submitting the trivial changes to enable vrms to make use of this file ;) Stuart.
Problem with Mutt <-> GPG cooperation
Hi all, I can't force my mutt/gpg set to work properly. Signing of messages works fine (as can be seen from this message :-) ), but I can't encrypt a message to be sent to somebody. I have the recipient's public key in my public keyring. I can encrypt the date with this recipient's public key using the GPG itself. However when I prepare the message in mutt, end set the "PGP:" option to "encrypt", after pressing the "y" (send) key I'm asked for the recipient's keyID. I've checked the short (32 bit) form, the long (64 bit) form, the recipient's e-mail... all the syntaxes given in gpg's man page. Nothing works! The beep is heard and I can see again the: Enter keyID for ...: What's wrong? The pgp_default_version is set to 'gpg'. The mutt version is Mutt 0.95.3i (1999-02-12), and the gpg version is: gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.1 -- TIA Wojciech Zabolotny http://www.ise.pw.edu.pl/~wzab http://www.debian.org Use Linux - an OS without "trojan horses" inside pgpYFbgrAYeG6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Troubles with newer IMAP binaries
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Timm Gleason wrote: > So I went and got the IMAP-4.5 - 4.7 source, and compiled it several > different ways, slx, lnp sl4, sl5. The ones that do comile all give me the > same error (see above). I have installed what libpam packages I could, but > it has seemed to make no difference. > > Little help? > Read the documentation. Specifically /usr/share/doc/imap/README.debian and /usr/share/doc/libc-client4.7/md5.txt -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Bootable MSDOS filesystem from Linux
MK>> get IO.SYS to take up the first few sectors of the disk. MK> ^^^ MK> This was needed in pre MS DOS 6.0 (or even 5.0) time. MK> MK>Now you need a proper boot (and maybe master boot) sector and (I'm not MK>shure) not fragmented IO.SYS ... MK> MK>Mirek IO.SYS is needed for WinSuck95. Michelle
Re: Potato from scratch. Thanks.
Hans wrote: > But I've always wondered about one thing: how do you know the name > of the package you want to install. At least with dselect you have a menu > to search. Now I want to install Midnight Commander, so I guess that is > "apt-get -d install mc" (I'd like to download the package as well for use > on another machine and I've read the -d flag will do that). Actually this happens without the -d. Look in /var/cache/apt/archives/. I thought that -d was for "download *only* and don't actually install", but ICBVW. (to get rid of all the archived downloads, do apt-get clean. I don't know whether that happens automatically when the files get very old, or the disk gets full... I hope it does) > But now I want to install X, so is "apt-get -d install X" right? Then how > do I choose that the right server is being downloaded? This always puzzled > me a bit, but I guess the answer will come in time :-) Here's my trick: Bookmark http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/ and use that to find what packages you want. For a dselect-like view of packages, try gnome-apt, console-apt or aptitude (I've only ever used gnome-apt, which seems to work although it's not the friendliest interface around). HTH, Stuart.
Re: Non-freeness
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 16:15:51 +, Stuart Ballard wrote: > Is there any way to get information about what makes a package non-free, Yes. Reading the license, and possibly the mailing list archives. > Now, I thought that ssh (at least openSSH) was non-US/main - wasn't that > kind of the point of using openSSH rather than what we had before? Yes. Potato's current "ssh" package is OpenSSH and is free. > And dnsutils - why on earth should I need non-free software to query dns > servers? dnsutils is built from the bind source, which contains non-free code from RSA labs dealing with secure DNS. I believe arrangements have been made with the ISC that will make / have made it possible for bind's source to go in main again. > In other words, a very brief summary of the problem (with a reference to > the license), a list of alternatives, and the possible problems you > might encounter with each alternative. This would be a useful list to have - perhaps you've found your way to contribute to Debian? Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig
Re: Can't find a valid termcap
Subject: Can't find a valid termcap
Date: Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 09:46:45PM -
In reply to:Patrick Kirk
Quoting Patrick Kirk([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>| This is still bugging me. Anyone have any suggestions on how to resolve
>| this termcap question?
>|
>| Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at
>| /usr/lib/perl5/5.004/Term/ReadLine.pm line 305
>|
No, and I can't seem to find out why Slink does this one either:
VT5 wtopa-Deb20:~/seti$ perlseti start
Can't find a valid termcap file at ./perlseti.pl line 350
Perlseti line 350 is
$terminal = Term::Cap->Tgetent( {OSPEED => 9600} );
The TermCap files is at /usr/lib/perl5/Term but Slink
can't find it?? Haven't tried it on Potato yet but perlseti does run
on an old Slackware 3.5 dist. Oh well, I guess Slink isn't 'that'
stable, yet.
--
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Re: max swap ?
Subject: max swap ? Date: Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 10:42:15PM +0100 In reply to:Igor Mozetic Quoting Igor Mozetic([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| >| Does anybody know what is the maximum number of swap files >| (or partitions) and their maximum size in 2.2 kernels ? >| I vaguely remember that for 2.0 it was 16 times a 128MB, >| but couldn't find anything in 2.2.13 documentation. >| >From /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes --quote-- Among other changes made in the development of Linux kernel 2.2, the 128 meg limit on IA32 swap partition sizes has been eliminated. To use larger swap spaces, you need the new mkswap found in util-linux. You also need to upgrade util-linux to get the latest version of mount. --end quote-- HTH -- ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI! ___
Re: FrameMaker 5.5.6 for LINUX
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote: > Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hmmm. Framemaker is running fine on my potato system. It does not seem > > to > > run over remote X, at least to a system running in 16 bit color depth. > > However, it certainly works under the correct set of circumstances. > > The > > problem is not with the potato libc. Also, so far the application has > > not > > crashed on me. That's surprising for any beta. I'm just not sure I > > need it > > for anything since this one cannot edit postscript files. > > Syrus, could you please tell us how you got FrameMaker running? I have a > potato system, upgraded weekely using apt-get. FrameMaker will not run > at all, I get no error messages, I just get the $ prompt back again. Am > I perhaps missing some vital library? I added my license OK as described > in the text which came back with the license number. Hi Phillip, I sent Paul Seelig the output from 'dpkg -l' on my system that is running FrameMaker. I'll attach it here as well since it's a small file. I didn't do anything special, but here is the output from ldd: syrus$ ldd maker5X.exe libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40019000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40036000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40112000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) I've heard that FM will only run in 8-bit or 24-bit color. I've got XFREE86 running in 32 bit mode which I think is equivalent to true 24bit color. Thanks. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>UCSD Physics Dept. Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- rc a2ps4.10.3-1 Anything to PostScript converter and pretty- ii aalib1 1.2-25 ascii art library ii acroread4.0-1 Adobe Acrobat Reader: Portable Document Form ii adduser 3.11.1 Add users and groups to the system. ii ae 962-26 Anthony's Editor -- a tiny full-screen edito ii afterstep 1.6.10-1 A window manager with the NEXTSTEP look and ii anacron 2.1-5 a cron-like program that doesn't go by time ii apmd3.0beta9-2 Utilities for Advanced Power Management (APM ii apt 0.3.15 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii asclock 2.0.11-3 A clock designed with the NeXTStep look ii asmodem 0.60-2 AfterStep modem monitor ii at 3.1.8-7.1 Delayed job execution and batch processing rc auctex 9.9p-12An integrated environment for writing TeX/La ii autoconf2.13-14automatic configure script builder ii automake1.4-6 A tool for generating GNU Standards-complian ii base-files 2.1.11 Debian Base System Miscellaneous Files ii base-passwd 3.1.5 Debian Base System Password/Group Files ii bash2.03-2 The GNU Bourne Again SHell ii bc 1.05a-9The GNU bc arbitrary precision calculator la ii biff0.10-3 a mail notification tool ii bin86 0.14.9-2 16-bit assembler and loader ii binutils2.9.5.0.22-1 The GNU assembler, linker and binary utiliti ii bison 1.28-3 A parser generator that is compatible with Y ii bootpc 0.64-1 bootp client ii bsdmainutils4.6More utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite. ii bsdutils2.10d-2Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite. ii bzip2 0.9.5d-2 A high-quality block-sorting file compressor ii cdda2wav1.8a30-1 Creates WAV files from audio cd's ii cddb2.5-6 CD DataBase support tools ii cdparanoia 3a9.7-1An audio extraction tool for sampling CDs. ii cdtool 2.1.5-4some text-based commands for managing a CD ii chos0.84-6 Easy Boot loader with a Boot-Menu ii cmucl 2.4.17 The CMUCL lisp compiler and development syst ii cmucl-safe 2.4.17 A lisp core that is compiled with safe optio rc communicator-sm 4.5-1 Popular World-Wide-Web browser software (ful ii console-data1999.08.29-8 Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fallback table ii cpio2.4.2-29 GNU cpio -- a program to manage archives of ii cpp 2.95.2-3 The GNU C preprocessor. rc cracklib2 2.7-5 A pro-active password checker library ii cron3.0pl1-55 management of regular background processing ii cvs 1.10.7-2.2 Concurrent Versions System ii dc 1.05a-9T
Re: Potato from scratch. Thanks.
On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 02:46:42PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 11:02:08AM +0100, Hans wrote: > > But I've always wondered about one thing: how do you know the name > > of the package you want to install. At least with dselect you have a menu > > to search. > I use both apt-get and dselect. If I want to browse what's available, or > hunt down the name of a package I want to install, then I use dselect. If I > already know the package's name, then I use apt-get. if you just need the package tree you could use aptitude, or for wiping out redundant packages do: dpkg -l > foo vi foo so you can browse your packages an remove them by invoking a shell from within vi. for me it works just fine this way.
Troubles with newer IMAP binaries
I have been having problems with the newer versions of the IMAP daemon. The last version the works, somewhat is the 4.4 package from BO. After upgrading a bunch of packages to the Potato versions, I noticed that Outlook would not connect to my IMAP server anymore. It just kept prompting for a username/password. So I checked the logfile on the server and found this: Dec 20 08:37:33 samhain imapd[26344]: connect from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX Dec 20 08:37:33 samhain imapd[26344]: port 143 service init from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX Dec 20 08:37:33 samhain imapd[26344]: Login failed: timm has no CRAM-MD5 password, host=.. [XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX] Dec 20 08:37:33 samhain imapd[26344]: Login failure user=timm host=.. [XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX] So I went and got the IMAP-4.5 - 4.7 source, and compiled it several different ways, slx, lnp sl4, sl5. The ones that do comile all give me the same error (see above). I have installed what libpam packages I could, but it has seemed to make no difference. Little help? Thanks Timm Gleason December 20, 1999 There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. Timm Gleason, Hardware Development Engineer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://n2h2.com/ - N2H2, Creators of Bess 900 Fourth Avenue, 34th Floor--Seattle, WA 98164
Re: cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device'
*- On 20 Dec, David Densmore wrote about "Re: cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device'" > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>always the best way to test a printer first, is to bypass any/all >>spoolers and print direct to the port, it works on most printers >>.. just echo "test blah blah" >/dev/lp0 or cat filename >/dev/lp0 >>(you probably have to be root to do this) > > I get this: > > bash: /dev/lp0: No such device > > also: > > bash: /dev/lp1: No such device > bash: /dev/lp2: No such device > bash: /dev/lp3: No such device > > This is a kernel I compiled myself. I would like to recompile it > if I knew what options to select. > This isn't a kernel issue. For some reason you do not have the lp devices in your /dev directory. Do the following to create them. If you compiled your kernel with parallel and pc hardware support you should be fine. cd /dev ./MAKEDEV lp Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: problems with debian mirrors
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: [ snip intersting HTTP proxy discussion ] : Well, since all the web traffic is going through a single machine and not : a high speed router you will see that machine saturate if their usage is : too great - note it only effect HTTP on port 80. So if a mirror was serving up HTTP on a port other than 80 this problem might go away? I'm willing to twiddle debian.midco.net to provide service to another port ... (easynews.com does this and uses port 81 FYI) -- 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: cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device'
i told you what options to select.. [general setup] parallel port pc style hardware(didnt tel you this one before but its pretty clear :) ) [character devices] parallel printer support recompile reboot and try again .. nate On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, David Densmore wrote: dden >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dden > dden >>always the best way to test a printer first, is to bypass any/all dden >>spoolers and print direct to the port, it works on most printers dden >>.. just echo "test blah blah" >/dev/lp0 or cat filename >/dev/lp0 dden >>(you probably have to be root to do this) dden > dden >I get this: dden > dden >bash: /dev/lp0: No such device dden > dden >also: dden > dden >bash: /dev/lp1: No such device dden >bash: /dev/lp2: No such device dden >bash: /dev/lp3: No such device dden > dden >This is a kernel I compiled myself. I would like to recompile it dden >if I knew what options to select. dden > dden >Thank you, dden >David Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dden > dden > dden >-- dden >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null dden > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 8:33am up 122 days, 20:22, 2 users, load average: 0.60, 0.50, 0.38
Re: Can one keep networks apart on a machine?
You shouldn't have any problem doing per-adapter setup under NT. The biggest issue I can think of is routing, since NT wants to do all of that automatically, but I think with appropriate choice of IP address and netmask, you can make it work OK. I kind of like the suggestion from a previous post that this ignorant net admin of yours be brought to task over his administrative decisions. Isn't his job ultimately to provide a network infrastructure that makes end-users more productive? Seems to me that his draconic "nothing but NT" stance runs counter to this. And this at an institute for higher learning and enlightened thinking... what a shame. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap" >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/20 10:03 AM >>> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/20/99 at 07:42 AM, "Marc Mongeon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >How about a second NIC in the Windows machine, with a cross-over cable to >the NIC in the Linux machine? Or PPP over a serial cable? You might have >some trouble convincing the Windows machine that you can establish a PPP >connection without dialing a phone number; the two services seem pretty >tightly bound in the Windows OS. That's basically what I was thinking about, but I didn't know if the two could be kept apart under NT. Even not being a network-type of person I know Linux will easily do that, but NT is a new environment for me. I have a feeling that I may end up jumping into an NT group for help on the details... yech. Thanks Marc! Kenward Kenward Vaughan .'^~;,_ Professor of Chemistry':,'~ Bakersfield College \;:/ 1801 Panorama Drive |,;| Bakersfield, CA 93305 / ', \ 661-395-4243/ o O \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) (oOoOOoOo) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) ------ ???$$???
Re: help with upgrade error (fwd)
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, dinakar desai wrote: > dpkg:error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.1.11_all.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite '/etc/inputrc', which is also in package > libreadlineg2 > Same trouble here. I helped myself with dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.1.11_all.deb Cheers, P. *8^) -- If not specific to HP please always reply to "Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
Re: Problems with distributions.
does this happen in redhat on the same drive, because that is a hardware
thing, at most it would be a kernel thing, should have nothing to do with
the distribution.
nate
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
paulo. >
paulo. >Hi all,
paulo. >I?m trying install a program call IDL in Debian distribution without
sucess.
paulo. >When I mount the CD drive and start the install program the console
show me
paulo. >the following message:
paulo. >
paulo. >"hda:irq timeout:status=0xd0{busy}"
paulo. >
paulo. >Then I need power off the machine.
paulo. >When I tried install these program in Redhat distribution all work fine.
paulo. >Somebody could help me?
paulo. >Thanks.
paulo. >
paulo. >
paulo. >
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RE: IDL? Re: Problems with distributions.
This is a language of programation (to start the program you need type idlde) and isn´t a .deb package. On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I´m trying install a program call IDL in Debian distribution without sucess. > When I mount the CD drive and start the install program the console show me What is this program? idled? do you have it as a .deb package? hv -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device'
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >always the best way to test a printer first, is to bypass any/all >spoolers and print direct to the port, it works on most printers >.. just echo "test blah blah" >/dev/lp0 or cat filename >/dev/lp0 >(you probably have to be root to do this) I get this: bash: /dev/lp0: No such device also: bash: /dev/lp1: No such device bash: /dev/lp2: No such device bash: /dev/lp3: No such device This is a kernel I compiled myself. I would like to recompile it if I knew what options to select. Thank you, David Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Non-freeness
Is there any way to get information about what makes a package non-free, whether there are free equivalents, and what other caveats are involved? For example, vrms tells me that I have the following non-free packages on my system: communicator-base-461 communicator-smotif-461 dnsutils jdk1.1 navigator-base-461 navigator-smotif-461 netscape-base-461 netscape-java-461 quake-lib ssh unzip xmame xmame-x xquake Now, I understand most of these. The netscape ones are obviously because netscape isn't free software (bring on mozilla:) ), as isn't the jdk. Quake I thought was GPL'd these days, but I guess I was wrong, that doesn't surprise me much. xmame I can believe that the license is non-free, but I'd be interested to know exactly how. unzip... does that use patented algorithms? If not, what is non-free about it? That leaves ssh and dnsutils. Now, I thought that ssh (at least openSSH) was non-US/main - wasn't that kind of the point of using openSSH rather than what we had before? And dnsutils - why on earth should I need non-free software to query dns servers? What I'm really interested in, though, is whether there is a way for me to see that information automatically, rather than having to post to the list about it :) I'd like output something like the following: --- netscape-base-461 is distributed under a license that allows redistribution, but the source code is not included and modification is not allowed. To see the license read /usr/share/doc/netscape-base-461/(something) Alternatives: mozilla, mosaic, lynx, (...) mozilla is the future version of netscape but is currently pre-alpha. It is missing SSL and Java support since netscape is unable to distribute this code. mosaic is a very old browser lacking most modern features such as tables and frames. lynx is a text-mode only browser, although it will launch external programs for graphics files and other formats it cannot handle internally. --- In other words, a very brief summary of the problem (with a reference to the license), a list of alternatives, and the possible problems you might encounter with each alternative. Thanks, Stuart.
IDL? Re: Problems with distributions.
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I´m trying install a program call IDL in Debian distribution without sucess. > When I mount the CD drive and start the install program the console show me What is this program? idled? do you have it as a .deb package? hv
help with upgrade error (fwd)
Hello Everyone: When I try to use apt-get upgrade on potato i get the following message. I would appreciate, if someone could help (Reading database 18738 files and directories currently installed.) preparing to replace base-files 2.1.10 (using .../base-files_2.1.22_all.deb) unpacking replacement base-files ... dpkg:error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.1.11_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/etc/inputrc', which is also in package libreadlineg2 Errors were uncountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.1.11_all.deb E:sub-process returned an error code (1) Thank you for your help. With best regards Dinakar
Problems with distributions.
Hi all,
I´m trying install a program call IDL in Debian distribution without sucess.
When I mount the CD drive and start the install program the console show me
the following message:
"hda:irq timeout:status=0xd0{busy}"
Then I need power off the machine.
When I tried install these program in Redhat distribution all work fine.
Somebody could help me?
Thanks.
Re: cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device'
Frank Barknecht wrote: >Do you have the lp.o, parport.o, parport_pc.o and parport_probe.o >(last one is maybe not needed, the others are essential) >in /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc ? No, I don't, but I have parport and parport_pc compiled directly into the kernel. Here is an excerpt from my .config file: CONFIG_PARPORT=y CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y # CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set I can't find the string CONFIG_PARPORT_PROBE anywhere in the .config file. Nor can I find CONFIG_LP. Should I recompile the kernel with these all as modules as opposed to directly into the kernel? I'm concerned that I didn't find: # CONFIG_PARPORT_PROBE is not setand # CONFIG_LP is not set anywhere in .config. How will I configure them if they are not options? Should I just start over and compile a new kernel? What would be the best approach to take (ie: what in the kernel and what as modules)? Thank you, David Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Useless (broken?) IDE HD
Let the drive sit, for a few days, maybe a week and write down all you
want to recover off of it ..
(hard to believe but it works!)
then power it up, and see if it works, one of my servers suffered a root
drive failure(after 3 years! on a 720MB ide drive..) the system ran
despite the hdd failure(no new processes would spawn) for about 2 weeks
then it went dead. it sat there powered down for another 2 weeks, and we
powered it up and BANG it booted. i then powered it off again to change
drives, and then i needed something off of it and tried to power it up
agian and it was a no go.
write down what you want off that drive so you can copy it as quickly as
you can, i reccomend putting that drive on a second controler of another
system so it doesnt have to go through the pains of booting a kernel and
loading services. or boot off a rescue disk. copy everything you need as
fast as you can ..and hopefully you get it. don't try to copy the whole
disk it would probably put too mcuh stress on the drive and it would die
again.
of course this may not work, but there is a good chance it will, let the
drive rest some first though
nate
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote:
gzahn >Hi there,
gzahn >
gzahn >I know it's somehow OT, but you were the only guys I thought could
gzahn >give me some ideas...
gzahn >
gzahn >well... at home I've got a VA34324A Samsung HD (IDE, 4.3Gb) that
gzahn >decided to stop working this weekend. As I'm completely out of money for
gzahn >at least 2 months and short of backups for a big chunk of the data it
gzahn >contains, I'd like to see if there's any way to put it back to service,
gzahn >even if just for a short time. Here's what happens now that it's
gzahn >installed as 2nd master in my work PC:
gzahn >
gzahn >1) When I turn on the computer, BIOS recognizes OK it and it passes all
gzahn >tests fine;
gzahn >
gzahn >2) Linux boots, kernel recognizes hdc: SAMSUNG VA34324A, 4124MB w/478kB
gzahn >Cache, CHS=14896/9/63, UDMA (i.e.: fine);
gzahn >
gzahn >3) fdisk sees all four partitions OK and warns of no problems;
gzahn >
gzahn >4) When I try to mount any of the partitions, I get a lot of equal
gzahn >messages:
gzahn >
gzahn >hdc: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error
gzahn >}
gzahn >hdc: read_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
gzahn >ide1: reset: success
gzahn >
gzahn >The FAT32 partition mount in the end, still gives me more error messages
gzahn >but I can at least browse through it and retrieve some files) but the
gzahn >ext2 won't mount (ext2 filesystem panic, of course, because of the read
gzahn >errors).
gzahn >
gzahn >When I boot Win98 (still w/ the broken HD as 2nd master), win98's fdisk
gzahn >won't even notice there's a 2nd HD and Partition Resizer win warn of an
gzahn >error (something like ?partition 1 out of boundaries?) and won't
gzahn >recognize anything (not even the 1st HD)...
gzahn >
gzahn >Now, is there any chance that it's not a hardware fault? If so, how
gzahn >could I try to make it work? I'm accepting mostly every possible idea,
gzahn >no matter how risky or absurd it may seem, as the worst that could
gzahn >happen as losing the HD I can't use now!
gzahn >
gzahn >TIA,
gzahn >
gzahn >Guilherme Zahn
gzahn >
gzahn >PS: Please c/c myself on the replies, OK? Due to the heavy traffic on
gzahn >the list I had to sign it through another e-mail address, and it's been
gzahn >hard to check it lately!
gzahn >
gzahn >
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Re: cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device'
there are 2 config options in 2.2.x for parallel port/printers. 1 is for the parallel port itself, and the other is for parallel printers, both must be turned on in order for printing to work. the parallel printer option is in the character device section in kernel config. always the best way to test a printer first, is to bypass any/all spoolers and print direct to the port, it works on most printers .. just echo "test blah blah" >/dev/lp0 or cat filename >/dev/lp0 (you probably have to be root to do this) if your using a packaged kernel(not compiled by you) im not sure what to suggest other then compile your own, i've never used a packaged kernel for longer then it took to compile a new one. check the archives, those files do have info in them, see this post recently by me to another person that had a similar problem: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9912/msg00699.html nate On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, David Densmore wrote: dden >I upgraded to kernel 2.2.13 from 2.0.35 and can't print anything under dden >the new kernel. I changed /dev/lp1 to /dev/lp0 in /etc/printcap as dden >suggested. I have uninstalled and re-installed lprng and magic filter dden >and configured them all over, but no luck. I booted the old kernel dden >and could print fine (after changing /dev/lp0 back to /dev/lp1), but dden >upon booting 2.2.13 I again lost the ability to print. dden > dden >I suspect that parport is not configured correctly under the 2.2.13. dden >here is an exerpt from the status.lp file in the spool dir: dden > dden >opening device '/dev/lp0' at 1999-12-20-04:28:07.270 dden >cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device', attempt 1... dden > dden >I see this in the boot messages: dden > dden >parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2] dden > dden >I have these files on my system: dden > dden >/proc/parport/0/autoprobe dden >/proc/parport/0/devices dden >/proc/parport/0/hardware dden >/proc/parport/0/irq dden > dden >but they are all zero bytes. Should they contain some information? dden >If so could someone please send me examples of these files so I can dden >configure them? dden > dden >Did I not compile something into the kernel that I should have? dden >I did not add plug and play support, should I have? dden > dden >Can anyone tell me how to fix this? dden > dden >Thank you, dden >David Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dden > dden > dden > dden >-- dden >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null dden > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:23am up 122 days, 19:13, 2 users, load average: 0.42, 0.33, 0.30
Re: Monochrome XFIG
Riku Saikkonen wrote: > > Hmm... Does the "xlogo" program show the X Window System logo in color > or monochrome? (The colors in the logo should be white and red.) It > uses the application default files XLogo and XLogo-color in the same > way as XFig. > The Xlogo shows up in monochrome :( > You could try running XFig with "xfig -xrm '*customization: -color'", > just in case that helps. If it does, there is some sort of problem in > your X startup scripts - either /etc/X11/Xresources/xfree86-common is > not loaded, the X server does not define COLOR for some reason, or > there is another *customization resource set somewhere. > Yes, running xfig like this brings back the colors! > As a somewhat more "brute force" approach, you could also try creating > a file /tmp/Fig containing everything in > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Fig _and_ > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Fig-color, except for the "#include > "Fig"" line. Then try running XFig with the environment variable > XAPPLRESDIR set to /tmp/, that is, "XAPPLRESDIR=/tmp/ xfig" if you use > bash. > Yes, this also works; I get a color xfig. > Which version of the Athena widget set (Xaw) do you use? (To find this > out, see which Xaw-related directory is listed first in > /etc/ld.so.conf. For me, it's /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d, since I use > xaw3d.) I think they all support color settings, but I'm not sure. > It's the same thing for me. > That's all I can think of for now. For what it's worth, XFig has > always worked in color for me, with most buttons being yellow, and so > on, without doing anything special... > So, who is supposed to load /etc/X11/Xresources/xfree86-common? and, how come the X server does not define COLOR? Shall I reinstall X from scratch? Thank you for your help, -- Pedro
Re: Troubles with moving /var
i moved /var /home /usr with the command cp -a which preserves everything, i did it on 2 main servers and have nbot had a single problem so i bet its a safe way of doing it(the servers have been online since april) cp -a doesn't work on more obscure platforms like irix..there is a tar command..that acts like cp -a i saw it posted in a magazine(Maximum Linux) but i forgot what it was, if its linux its safe to use cp -a nate On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Alberto Bigazzi wrote: albbig > albbig >The / partition on my home PC is fairly small and sometimes gets filled albbig >up because ov /var, so I've decided to migrate /var somewhere else. albbig > albbig >I have /usr and /home as separate partitions and would like to leave /usr albbig >alone, thus putting /var under /home, which is quite large and nearly albbig >unused (it's just a home PC, and use it to connect to the 'real' one at albbig >work). albbig > albbig >Q: Which is the correct way to do this? albbig >=== albbig > albbig >I actually did it "by hand", by tar-ing /var, copying it under /home and albbig >untaring it there. Then deleting /var and symlinking /home/var to /var. albbig > albbig >But I guess this is something VERY BAD as I ended up with lots of problems albbig >with PERMISSIONS. Now normal users CANNOT write into directories under albbig >/var, like /var/log or /var/lock, so I get lots of troubles of any albbig >kind... albbig > albbig >Alberto. albbig > albbig > albbig > albbig > albbig >-- albbig >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null albbig > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:23am up 122 days, 19:13, 2 users, load average: 0.42, 0.33, 0.30
Re: Setting up virtual hosts
i setup virtual domains often, by hand..if you find something lemme know ..id be interested in it..also something that could modify the DNS database(s) and update my script that generates webstats.. im in the process of learning perl but it'll be a while before i can do this :/ nate On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: patric >I hope to be able to offer about 100 people the ability to run virtual hosts on my server and need a script to set them up as users, give them home directories and set up virtual servers for them. patric > patric >The basic steps needed are: patric > patric >1. Add a user patric >2. Give an eight character password from random list patric >3. Give a home directory with a www subdirectory patric >4. Create a virtual server in the name http://www.localdomainname/user with root documents in /home/user/www patric >5. Add a new virtual domain like www.anydomain.com for apache and have its root documents in a subdirectory of the user called anydomain patric >6. Make sure the user has no read access at all outside their own directory yet is able to read email. patric >7. Deny the user telnet. patric > patric >Obviously I'm not the first person to need to do this so does anyone know where I can find a script to use as a prototype? patric > patric >All help appreciated. patric > patric >Patrick Kirk patric > patric > patric > patric >-- patric >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null patric > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:23am up 122 days, 19:13, 2 users, load average: 0.42, 0.33, 0.30
Receive FAX/DATA/VOICE with efax
Hi: I have been trying to setup the efax 0.9 in /etc/inittab such that it can accept fax/dada/voice adaptively according to 'man efax'. So far, I only succeeded in getting the fax reception. My modem is a class1 33.6k fax/data/voice internal modem. Has anyone better luck with efax? And what is the fone mentioned in the fax script, where can I find it? Thanks. Min Xu CCNY, Dec20, 99
Re: Can one keep networks apart on a machine?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/19/99 >at 11:56 AM, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >Would it be acceptable to just set up the Linux box with a static route > >pointing at your NT box and no default route? This would prevent it from > >talking to any other machines even if it's physically using the same wire. > > They are concerned about broadcast packets (mentioned in another post). I'm > not sure that this would work if the wire is shared. I was thinking of a > direct connection between the two machines in the same office. > > I apologize for not being a network-aware person (strictly home-grown) so my > understanding of some suggestions is limited. Suffice it to say that support > at work is going to be VERY limited, too. > > Kenward I'm not a network person either, but here's a kludge if nothing else works. Do a parallelport-to-parallelport network between your Debian box and the Windows box. I don't know the particulars; it's just a hazy idea.
Useless (broken?) IDE HD
Hi there,
I know it's somehow OT, but you were the only guys I thought could
give me some ideas...
well... at home I've got a VA34324A Samsung HD (IDE, 4.3Gb) that
decided to stop working this weekend. As I'm completely out of money for
at least 2 months and short of backups for a big chunk of the data it
contains, I'd like to see if there's any way to put it back to service,
even if just for a short time. Here's what happens now that it's
installed as 2nd master in my work PC:
1) When I turn on the computer, BIOS recognizes OK it and it passes all
tests fine;
2) Linux boots, kernel recognizes hdc: SAMSUNG VA34324A, 4124MB w/478kB
Cache, CHS=14896/9/63, UDMA (i.e.: fine);
3) fdisk sees all four partitions OK and warns of no problems;
4) When I try to mount any of the partitions, I get a lot of equal
messages:
hdc: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error
}
hdc: read_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ide1: reset: success
The FAT32 partition mount in the end, still gives me more error messages
but I can at least browse through it and retrieve some files) but the
ext2 won't mount (ext2 filesystem panic, of course, because of the read
errors).
When I boot Win98 (still w/ the broken HD as 2nd master), win98's fdisk
won't even notice there's a 2nd HD and Partition Resizer win warn of an
error (something like ¨partition 1 out of boundaries¨) and won't
recognize anything (not even the 1st HD)...
Now, is there any chance that it's not a hardware fault? If so, how
could I try to make it work? I'm accepting mostly every possible idea,
no matter how risky or absurd it may seem, as the worst that could
happen as losing the HD I can't use now!
TIA,
Guilherme Zahn
PS: Please c/c myself on the replies, OK? Due to the heavy traffic on
the list I had to sign it through another e-mail address, and it's been
hard to check it lately!
Re: Xterm and function keys
Riku Saikkonen wrote: > Andy Spiegl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >In an xterm the function keys produce the following: > > F1 -> ^[OP > > F2 -> ^[OQ > > F3 -> ^[OR > > F4 -> ^[OS > > F5 -> ^[[15~ > > F6 -> ^[[16~ Oops, that was a type. Correct is: > > F6 -> ^[[17~ > But the ^[OP etc. are "normal" for xterms. Hm, okay I start to understand... > All of the xterm, xterm-debian and xterm-xfree86 terminal types are > specified so that F1=^[OP. (You can see this by executing "infocmp > xterm-debian" and looking for "kf1=\EOP" in the output (^[ = \E = the > ESC character). Interesting! > So, basically, please don't care about it. :) I really would like to, but I can't. Besides the fact that my coworkers who are running SuSE-Linux are always trying to find weaknesses of Debian (and vice versa :-), I am running into problems when remote administring non-Debian machines: I have to set the TERM-type to from xterm-debian to xterm, but then curses based tools (like SuSE's YaST for example) don't recognize the function keys. > please look at /usr/doc/xterm/README.Debian first, though the problems > it talks about concern mostly the Backspace and Delete keys). I know the this README, but as you say, it only talks about Backspace and Delete. I just tried the terminfo approach and that seems to work! So I guess I solved my problem, but I still don't really like it. However I now understand that it's not a Debian problem, but a general X problem. Things should be standardized better. :-( Thanks for your help, Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de PGP/GPG: see headers o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\<,__`\<,__>(_) (_)/<_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ A feature is a bug with seniority.
Re: how to clone a system?
*- On 20 Dec, rogalsky wrote about "how to clone a system?" > I have to clone a system without copying it. In other words: How can I > make a new instalation of a system using the same packages as an already > installed system? > > Olaf Rogalsky On old system issue the command: dpkg --get-selections > /tmp/selections On new system do a new install until it asks you for the 'configuration' of the machine(server, workstation, etc.) and don't select any or select the custom selection (I can't remember exactly). Exit and copy the above selections file to the new machine. Then on the new machine issue the comand: dpkg --set-selections < selections Then run the Update and then Install part of dselect after having set up your Access method. Or for using apt-get I think you should be able to do: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade You will of course have to configure all the packages that are installed. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Bootable MSDOS filesystem from Linux
MK> MK>That's useless for what I need. I need to make *hard drive partitions* of MK>all different sizes bootable (with Windoze). All I need to know is how to MK>get IO.SYS to take up the first few sectors of the disk. MK> Hello, on SimTel.Net you will find some tools to read a bootsector and write it to a file. With the same tool you can write the bootsector back. So if you read the WinSuck 95 bootsector you can copy it to any machines. There was a SYSLINUX tool on http://www.linuxrouter.org/ which can do it. Michelle
Re: Bootable MSDOS filesystem from Linux
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 07:23:15AM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: [...] > That's useless for what I need. I need to make *hard drive partitions* of > all different sizes bootable (with Windoze). All I need to know is how to > get IO.SYS to take up the first few sectors of the disk. ^^^ This was needed in pre MS DOS 6.0 (or even 5.0) time. Now you need a proper boot (and maybe master boot) sector and (I'm not shure) not fragmented IO.SYS ... Mirek
Re: how to clone a system?
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 02:15:02PM +0100, rogalsky wrote: > I have to clone a system without copying it. In other words: How can I > make a new instalation of a system using the same packages as an already > installed system? I think coping filesystem or raw partition (when disks are identical) is much quicker. When you need installation by dpkg use dpkg --get-selections > file on one and dpkg --set-selections < file on second machine. Mirek
apt-get upgrade failure
When using: apt-get upgrade on the potato distribution I get an error running the upgrade as soon as I have finished the configuration questions. The error is this: Syntax error at /tmp/sometmpfile line 263: E: sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (2) E: failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt I don't seem to be able to do anything about this... I realise that the potato distrib is unstable and that I have to accept the thing being a bit wobbly but this seems to be more than just wobbly packages... it seems to be the apt system itself. Can anyone help please? Nic Ferrier
Re: Can one keep networks apart on a machine?
How about a second NIC in the Windows machine, with a cross-over cable to the NIC in the Linux machine? Or PPP over a serial cable? You might have some trouble convincing the Windows machine that you can establish a PPP connection without dialing a phone number; the two services seem pretty tightly bound in the Windows OS. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap" >>> Onno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/20 6:42 AM >>> At 09:27 AM 12/19/99 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have a dilemma at work. They use Windoze (NT at the moment) and will not >allow me to use Linux instead. Yet Linux is my choice both personally and >professionally (given the tools my discipline has which run under the two >environments, Linux is a born winner). I Am allowed to use it as long as it >_cannot_access_ the LAN. So I wondered... Is it possible to network it to my >office NT box without there being any crossover to the outside LAN? Perhaps >this sounds silly, but rebooting is a Bear between systems (I have both on >the one machine at this time). > >(Linux is considered a Maverick system by our newly hired administrator.) Let your boss ask him WHY he doesn't want another OS on the LAN. If he can't come up with a reasenable answer, fire him and get a new one. Regards, Onno -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Bootable MSDOS filesystem from Linux
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 03:58:09PM +, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Dwayne C . Litzenberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I'm making a bootdisk that repartitions, erases, and mirrors from a > > network a Win9x (yeah, I know) system, but how do I get io.sys allocated > > to the boot sector so it will boot? Just copying it to the partition > > first doesn't work. (I basically need a SYS.COM-type program for Linux). > > > > Any suggestions? > > Clone a bootable floppy with dd (and compress and keep the disk image > for next time)? > > Cheers, > That's useless for what I need. I need to make *hard drive partitions* of all different sizes bootable (with Windoze). All I need to know is how to get IO.SYS to take up the first few sectors of the disk. -- "I already have all the latest software." -- Laura Winslow, "Family Matters" Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. Advertising Policy: http://www.redrival.com/dlitz/spamoff.html GnuPG Public Key: http://www.redrival.com/dlitz/gpgkey.asc Fingerprint: 0535 F7CF FF5F 8547 E5A5 695E 4456 FB6C BC39 A4B0 pgpsvcJrRnIKq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Slink Iso image
I built my slink ISO 9660 image using the pseudo-image kit, which assembles the image on the fly from the Debian mirror of your choice, then patches it against an actual image. Quite impressive to watch, BTW. Of course this was at work over T3. The preferred distribution mechanism for ISO 9660 images is via the pseudo image kit. Why? Because there aren't that many mirrors willing to host entire ISO images, but there are many mirrors (one of them close to you!) that can offer all the individual *packages*. The question dialogue at http://cdimage.debian.org/ may make you feel like you're not getting the direct information, but I learned to trust it. That was how I found the pseudo-image kit. C'mon...trust it. If it turns out you actually need to make ISO images at all, you'll get to either http://cdimage.debian.org/ch1211.html for the pseudo-image kit or http://cdimage.debian.org/ch1212.html for the ISO images themselves. Again, though, I'd urge you to 1) use the dialogue and 2) avoid downloading the image from an image mirror unless that's your only option. c - Original Message - From: "Tony Schonfeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 2:59 AM Subject: Slink Iso image > Sorry to ask again but i've read this week slink iso image is available at > cdimage.debian.org but i can't find it. > Please can you tell me if slink r4 ISO image is available for download in > other ftp site ? > > many thanks > Tony
how to clone a system?
I have to clone a system without copying it. In other words: How can I make a new instalation of a system using the same packages as an already installed system? Olaf Rogalsky -- \\|// (. .) +-oOOo-(_)-oOOo+ I Dipl. Phys. Olaf Rogalsky Institut f. Theo. Physik I I I Tel.: 09131 8528440 Univ. Erlangen-Nuernberg I I Fax.: 09131 8528444 Staudtstrasse 7 B3 I I [EMAIL PROTECTED] D-91058 Erlangen I +--+
Re: Troubles with moving /var
On 20/12/99 Alberto Bigazzi wrote: I actually did it "by hand", by tar-ing /var, copying it under /home and untaring it there. Then deleting /var and symlinking /home/var to /var. But I guess this is something VERY BAD as I ended up with lots of problems with PERMISSIONS. Now normal users CANNOT write into directories under /var, like /var/log or /var/lock, so I get lots of troubles of any kind... sounds like you forgot the -p switch to tar, which preserves the permissions, without it everything gets set according to your (probably root's) umask, if you have already nuked the real /var then your in for a bunch of chmoding i suppose.. I am not sure the best way to find out what the permissions are supposed to be other then have someone send you a recursive ls -l of their /var hierarchy. I am not aware of any quick way to restore the permissions to the proper values other then manually at this point, perhaps someone else has some ideas? just a couple i can tell you now, /var/lock is mode 1777, /var/log is mode 755 (users should not be able to write there), /var/spool/mail is mode 2775 those are the most important `special' directories i can think of right now, but there are several daemons with special directories under /var that have different owners/modes to allow them to run non-root. always mv the old directory out of the way and test your change before rm -rfing it ! :-) -- Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/
Apache-SSL: How to instal a certificate.
HI, I'm trying to install a VeriSing certificate with Apache-SSL + SSLeay Apache-SSL: Version: 1.3.3+1.29-2 SSLeay: Version: 0.9.0b-1 The doc i've found tells about the command getca and getversign Neither of them are in my system. Please help. thanks. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tel. 09.874.60.17 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Potenciado por Ql/Linux http://www.qlsoft.cl __
Re: cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device'
David Densmore hat gesagt: // David Densmore wrote: > here is an exerpt from the status.lp file in the spool dir: > > opening device '/dev/lp0' at 1999-12-20-04:28:07.270 > cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device', attempt 1... > > I see this in the boot messages: > > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2] > > I have these files on my system: > > /proc/parport/0/autoprobe > /proc/parport/0/devices > /proc/parport/0/hardware > /proc/parport/0/irq > > but they are all zero bytes. Should they contain some information? Yes, if the parport and the lp modules are loaded. > If so could someone please send me examples of these files so I can > configure them? They get filled with some info by the kernel if it finds the devices or the hardware. You do not edit them. > Did I not compile something into the kernel that I should have? > I did not add plug and play support, should I have? Do you have the lp.o, parport.o, parport_pc.o and parport_probe.o (last one is maybe not needed, the others are essential) in /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc ? > Can anyone tell me how to fix this? Hope so. Check your modules settings. You need to have: alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc in /etc/modules.conf and maybe: options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278 also. If you load the parport module, lsmod should show something like this: Module Size Used by parport_probe 3204 0 (autoclean) parport_pc 5828 2 (autoclean) lp 4644 0 (autoclean) parport 7048 2 (autoclean) [parport_probe parport_pc lp] -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Downloading potato
Hello, I tried to download the potato-version of debian to zip-diskettes at the university and wanted to install it at home. I have the problem that I can download only 500MB per day, though I need about four days to get it. But because the distribution actualizes packages in these days my Packages file at home is not up to date (though dselect cannot install many packages) and the new Packages file at the debian server is too much up to date.. Does somebody knows a workaround, for example how can I manually make an Packages list update. I have already a running linux machine to do this...
Re: Can one keep networks apart on a machine?
At 09:27 AM 12/19/99 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have a dilemma at work. They use Windoze (NT at the moment) and will not >allow me to use Linux instead. Yet Linux is my choice both personally and >professionally (given the tools my discipline has which run under the two >environments, Linux is a born winner). I Am allowed to use it as long as it >_cannot_access_ the LAN. So I wondered... Is it possible to network it to my >office NT box without there being any crossover to the outside LAN? Perhaps >this sounds silly, but rebooting is a Bear between systems (I have both on >the one machine at this time). > >(Linux is considered a Maverick system by our newly hired administrator.) Let your boss ask him WHY he doesn't want another OS on the LAN. If he can't come up with a reasenable answer, fire him and get a new one. Regards, Onno
Re: Interface to NT, mount? Samba? Rumba?
> > - To allow Windows to natively see Linux partitions on your local > machine, use the "ext2fs" utility for Windows 95/98, or a similar > utility whose name escapes me for Windows NT. Just a remark: the utility for windows 95/98 is called fsdext2 (http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk/). It is not actively being maintained, and the versions I tried long ago are still on the web page. It provides read only access, and is `moderately stable' on some PC's, and hopeless on others. Not something I'd recommend for even slightly serious work. HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
apt-find
After having upgraded (using apt-get) my slink distribution (intel i386) the usefull apt-find doesn't work any more. It exits with a : Parsing apt sources list... It is an absolute dist thingy... Boy they suck major ass. It is an absolute dist thingy... Boy they suck major ass. Segmentation fault any idea? Thanks .oesse. -- -- +-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |m|a|r|c|o| |g|i|a|r|d|i|n|i| +-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ TecnoGi spa Tel. +39 0321 885422 Strada per Gravellona Fax +39 0321 885333 Borgolavezzaro (NO) http://www.tecnogi.com Key fingerprint = B5 B4 AA 91 89 50 43 8F B1 6B C6 8C 34 79 5A 7F
Re:
At 11:03 PM 12/17/99 -0600, ktb wrote: >> Steve Helms wrote: >> >> what is debian? > >It is an operating system. Go to the website for more details, Nope, a distribution... >http://www.debian.org/ > >hth, >kent > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > >
Re: possible break-in
At 06:15 PM 12/17/99 +0100, Robert Varga wrote: > >Last weekend we have a misterious breakdown of one of our servers... > >It is one a leased line, fix ip, UPS. There was no powerouts. > >It has qmail, wu_ftpd, apache, sshd1, telnetd on it. It has all the >patches on security.debian.org. DNS is 8.2.2p5-1 compiled by me from the >potato source. You do have named running under a UID/GID other than root, I hope... Regards, Onno
cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device'
I upgraded to kernel 2.2.13 from 2.0.35 and can't print anything under the new kernel. I changed /dev/lp1 to /dev/lp0 in /etc/printcap as suggested. I have uninstalled and re-installed lprng and magic filter and configured them all over, but no luck. I booted the old kernel and could print fine (after changing /dev/lp0 back to /dev/lp1), but upon booting 2.2.13 I again lost the ability to print. I suspect that parport is not configured correctly under the 2.2.13. here is an exerpt from the status.lp file in the spool dir: opening device '/dev/lp0' at 1999-12-20-04:28:07.270 cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device', attempt 1... I see this in the boot messages: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2] I have these files on my system: /proc/parport/0/autoprobe /proc/parport/0/devices /proc/parport/0/hardware /proc/parport/0/irq but they are all zero bytes. Should they contain some information? If so could someone please send me examples of these files so I can configure them? Did I not compile something into the kernel that I should have? I did not add plug and play support, should I have? Can anyone tell me how to fix this? Thank you, David Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Interface to NT, mount? Samba? Rumba?
> "clark" == clark sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
clark> I have Debian Linux and NT installed on my laptop. I would
clark> like to be able to transfer files from one partition to
clark> another. More generally, I would like to be able to move
clark> files from any NT machine on my network to any Linux
clark> machine on my network.
These are two completely separate tasks, depending on whether you have
separate Windows/Linux partitions on your local harddrive, or you want
to share files over the network.
- To access VFAT or NTFS partitions on your local harddrive, you
need a kernel with "vfat" and/or "ntfs" support (or corresponding
kernel modules).
- To access Windows Network Neighborhood network drives, use
"smbfs" (which consists of kernel support for "smbfs", as well
as a user-space "smbmount" utility), or "smbclient" (which is
part of Samba).
("apt-get install smbfs smbclient")
- To allow Windows to natively see Linux partitions on your local
machine, use the "ext2fs" utility for Windows 95/98, or a similar
utility whose name escapes me for Windows NT.
- To allow Windows to see Linux network shares, use SAMBA.
("apt-get install samba").
clark> My version of Linux does not support NTFS (I wonder how
clark> NT2000 is going to format drives?) Is there a version of
clark> Linux which supports NTFS, via the mount command. I would
clark> like to be able to read, write and compare timestamps.
The default Debian 2.1 kernel comes with a "ntfs" module, that can be
autoloaded by inserting the following line in /etc/modules:
auto
After insterting the line, run /etc/init.d/modutils. Now you can:
mount -t ntfs /dev/ /mnt
clark> A friend of mine mentioned Rumba as a solution. I took a
clark> brief look at the Rumba page, it looks simular to
clark> Samba. Could rumba let me move files around with no
clark> problem. Is this practical? Has anyone done anything
clark> similar?
Rumba used to be the opposite of Samba - a SMB/CIFS client that
allowed you to mount Windows Network Neighborhood shares. It was
discontinued, because the author went ahead and created a commercial
version with a different name.
For Linux, "rumba" never had any use, because the native 'smbfs'
kernel support takes care of this feature. Rumba was mostly for other
UNIX systems. Also, nowadays there is the "smbsh" utility, which is
really a wrapper around "smbclient" (provided in Samba) - replacing
the need for Rumba also on these other systems.
-tor
Troubles with moving /var
The / partition on my home PC is fairly small and sometimes gets filled up because ov /var, so I've decided to migrate /var somewhere else. I have /usr and /home as separate partitions and would like to leave /usr alone, thus putting /var under /home, which is quite large and nearly unused (it's just a home PC, and use it to connect to the 'real' one at work). Q: Which is the correct way to do this? === I actually did it "by hand", by tar-ing /var, copying it under /home and untaring it there. Then deleting /var and symlinking /home/var to /var. But I guess this is something VERY BAD as I ended up with lots of problems with PERMISSIONS. Now normal users CANNOT write into directories under /var, like /var/log or /var/lock, so I get lots of troubles of any kind... Alberto.
Re: DNS slow?
My experiance with older versions of netscape under windows is the same, so this -could- be a netsacpe issue... Regards, Onno At 12:59 AM 12/17/99 +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: >Hi all, > >I've a 486 as DNS/FW/ROUTER and a PII400 as a station. > >Sometimes when I surf the net, if I quit a site and instantly >click on another link (netscape 4.7), the browser tells me >tha site is unreachable. When I click a second time, it works >w/o problem. >Have you any clue? (i.e. a parm to change, to avoid that). > >JY >-- >Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what >you want. > -- D. Cohen > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > >
Re: Unidentified subject!
The boot-floppies that go with potato do the job, they are a bit buggy and out of date but I prefer them above the slink-upgrade path. Regards, Onno At 04:11 PM 12/16/99 -0500, Marshal Wong wrote: >I find that installing the slink base from CD (i.e. going through the >whole install process. not picking any task-packages, and going >through deselect choosing the defaults.) and then changeing the >source.list for apt to unstable, and then using dselect to update and >install the packages works well. > >Marshal > >From: "Jason Winters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: >Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 12:44:49 -0800 > >> what is the best way to install potato? > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > >
priority of sources.list entries
Hello Debian, Is there a way to tell apt to install a package from one medium prior to another? I'd like packages available on CD to be installed using the CD even if they're available by http entry. Thanks for hints -- Peter -- -- Peter Weiss, Baldestraße 14, 80469 München, Tel. 089/ 20232434 -- ---The foolish ones taught more to me than the wise ones ever could--- --
ppp problem
I've installed 2.1 Now I've the following ppp problem Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean all had bit 7 set to 0 How can I solve this problem. I didn't have this problem in 2.0 HTH Cuno
Setting up virtual hosts
I hope to be able to offer about 100 people the ability to run virtual hosts on my server and need a script to set them up as users, give them home directories and set up virtual servers for them. The basic steps needed are: 1. Add a user 2. Give an eight character password from random list 3. Give a home directory with a www subdirectory 4. Create a virtual server in the name http://www.localdomainname/user with root documents in /home/user/www 5. Add a new virtual domain like www.anydomain.com for apache and have its root documents in a subdirectory of the user called anydomain 6. Make sure the user has no read access at all outside their own directory yet is able to read email. 7. Deny the user telnet. Obviously I'm not the first person to need to do this so does anyone know where I can find a script to use as a prototype? All help appreciated. Patrick Kirk
Re: ESDI Disk
On Fri, 17 Dec, 1999 à 04:03:43PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I have an rather! old IBM Thinkpad Model 720. It has MCA architecture and the >> disk is an ESDI disk, but no CDROM. >[...] >> eda: eda1 eda2 eda3 >> I assume that eda1 is my old DOS, while eda2 and eda3 are the Linux ext2 and >> Linux Swap partitions (which I have created before). > >How did you created them without the devices files ? I used my old OS/2 'fdisk'. Still a very handsome program. > >[...] >> When I shell-out and check /dev, I can not see any /dev/eda or /dev/eda1 >> devices. Are there devices missing? Which? How can I create them? > >Does /dev/MAKEDEV exist ? If so, /dev/MAKEDEV eda would suffice, if not then use >mknod to create the block devices (mknod b 36 0 /dev/eda ; mknod b 36 1 >/dev/eda1...) Yes, an 'mknod /dev/eda b 36 0', 'mknod /dev/eda1 b 36 1' and 'mknod /dev/eda2 b 36 2' have done the job (Meanwhile I have erased the old DOS partition completely; just ext2 and swap ). Then I then 'exit' back to 'dbootstrap', the installation continues as normal with 'Assign Swap' and 'Mount Linux partition'. Of course after the following re-boot with the kernel from the disk, I had to issue the 'mknod' commands again to create the devices permanently on the disk (and not only on the RAM-disk). > >> Is it sufficient to do this an the ash shell and continue installation or has >> the root.bin to be changed? Am I right, if I assume that the resc1440.bin does >> not exactly fit to the root.bin in my situation? > >Not sure Now I'm quite sure, that there is a real (although not serious, because it affects only very few users) problem with the combination of the SLink resc1440.bin and the root.bin, because the kernel supports EDSI disks (very welcome for me) but the root file system in root.bin does not have the devices created. Maybe someone responsible for the installation diskettes can have an eye on that! > >> What do I have to do? I have another system running where I can compile a kernel >> or something else, if this would help! >> >Manually format /eda2 and mount it on /target then proceed with the menu >after initialize a linux partition (you'll have to create /etc/fstab too I >think) but try to let the menu does all the work once you've created the >device files. All that (format, mount, fstab entry) was automatically done during the following installation by 'dbootstrap'. Thanks Laurent PICOULEAU for your ideas. Best Regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen Roland Oberle
please help
Hi There I would like to know what to download, or maybe there is an image to download Debian for my iMac. If you could point me to the exact set of files I will need to download. Regards Yaniv
Re: news binaries upload
On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 02:33:11PM +0100, Remco van 't Veer wrote: > Pan is fine for downloading binaries from news servers but is there > any package which can upload binaries? Something to batch maybe? dunno if it's in .deb but you may look for small proggie bgrab.
Re: pentium-optimized debian?
> > the main argument is optimizing for pentium ONLY helps the original > pentium, not any other chip (including PII, PIII etc) and for the > majority of software the optimization is so negligible that it is not > worth bloating the archive further with it. (debian is already HUGE) > to put it simply, the bigger machines simply dont gain much from the special compilation. So we add even more packages, which only some people can use, and for very little gain. As the original reply says, look in the archives, this was hasked out in the past. Distributions that claim speed gains are for the most part using skewed metrics. If you have a specific package that needs optimizing, apt-get source , edit the debian/rules file to add whatever compiler options you want, and recompile. For the few applications that benefit, everyone wins if the individual would handle their own special cases. Remember for CPU opts to help, the app must spend most of its time in CPU cycles -- think number crunchers.
Slink Iso image
Sorry to ask again but i've read this week slink iso image is available at cdimage.debian.org but i can't find it. Please can you tell me if slink r4 ISO image is available for download in other ftp site ? many thanks Tony
Re: pentium-optimized debian?
On 19/12/99 Matt Garman wrote: Is there any type of project that maintains a "pentium optimized" Debian distribution? Or is there an FTP site that maintains a collection of Debian packages built with an optimizing compiler (i.e. pgcc)? nope don't think so, not official anyway. Is anyone interested in working on something like this? I think it would be nice to have a Debian equivalent of the Stampede, Enoch, and Mandrake distributions, which are compiled for Pentium or better systems. Just an idea. just another flame war :-) go search the debian-devel archives for this topic you will find a [few] massive flamewars over the issue. the main argument is optimizing for pentium ONLY helps the original pentium, not any other chip (including PII, PIII etc) and for the majority of software the optimization is so negligible that it is not worth bloating the archive further with it. (debian is already HUGE) please do not take the above comment as invitation to start more flamage ;-) -- Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/
