Nullmailer and Linux Resource Containers
Good Morning, I've got a Wheezy box running LXC. There are three containers running on the host. I discovered an issue the other day with Nullmailer. I had Nullmailer successfully installed and running on the host for a few weeks. Then, last week I installed Nullmailer inside one of the containers and that also seemed to work fine. However, yesterday morning, I restarted Nullmailer on the LXC host and it failed to start. After a little bit of troubleshooting, I discovered that it was failing to start because it thought Nullmailer was already running. But in fact, it was only running on one of the guests. And sure enough, once I stopped Nullmailer on the guest, I was able to successfully start it up on the host. So, my question is this: is this an issue with LXC? Or with Nullmailer? Is this a limitation of Linux Resource Containers or should I be able to do run daemons on both the host/guest at the same time? Thanks, Bryan Walton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAM91gdAro+ZWa=1wsb0_8p5qebd+z+qy8tg-4jt9cmy+voy...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Nullmailer and Linux Resource Containers
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Florian Ernst florian_er...@gmx.net wrote: nullmailer: PID check fails on lxc host (and probably openvz and other VM) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=687827 Yes, this is annoying, and should be fixed in nullmailer's initscript. Thanks Flo! I should checked the nullmailer bug reports, first. That indeed helps! Thanks, Bryan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cam91gdag+tpo8a22xwmnzwurqdtb1zr1xrr9x4kkpztdm4x...@mail.gmail.com
mozilla 1.0
Now that Mozilla 1.0 has been released, and Debian 3.0 is stuck in a frozen state, is there anyway that we can sneak Mozilla 1.0 into the release? It would be a shame to release Debian 3.0 in the next couple of weeks and not include Moz 1.0. -Bryan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
console based word processors
Does anyone have any recommendations for a good linux console based word processor? What I am looking for is a consoled based word processor similar to something like Wordstar or the early versions of MS Word or and WordPerfect. I need a program that supports underlining text, tabbing, bold text, etc. for typing research papers. I would rather not be forced to move to Abiword or Openoffice if I can help it. I saw a program called Joe but haven't looked into that much. Anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks, Bryan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ipchains/firewall oddly blocking random websites
I have a bizarre problem that I am having trouble fixing. I have a home firewall running kernel 2.2.20 with ipchains. For some odd reason, the firewall blocks about 5% of the websites I try to go to. I turned on logging for my HTTP ipchains rules and nothing out of the ordinary seems to be happening. Here is the http portion of my rules: # Allow HTTP access to remote web sites ipchains -A output -i $EXTERNAL_INTERFACE -p tcp \ -s $IPADDR $UNPRIVPORTS \ -d $ANYWHERE 80 -j ACCEPT ipchains -A input -i $EXTERNAL_INTERFACE -p tcp ! -y \ -s $ANYWHERE 80 \ -d $IPADDR $UNPRIVPORTS -j ACCEPT # Allow HTTPS access to remote secure web sites ipchains -A output -i $EXTERNAL_INTERFACE -p tcp \ -s $IPADDR $UNPRIVPORTS \ -d $ANYWHERE 443 -j ACCEPT ipchains -A input -i $EXTERNAL_INTERFACE -p tcp ! -y \ -s $ANYWHERE 443 \ -d $IPADDR $UNPRIVPORTS -j ACCEPT And here is how those variables are defined: IPADDR=66.222.30.128 EXTERNAL_INTERFACE=eth0 ANYWHERE=any/0 UNPRIVPORTS=1024:65535 Furthermore, here is a sample log from a successful attempt to access www.weather.com: Feb 22 17:08:54 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: output ACCEPT eth0 PROTO=6 66.222.30.128:62543 63.111.66.11:80 L=48 S=0x00 I= 64715 F=0x4000 T=127 SYN (#38) Feb 22 17:08:54 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: input ACCEPT eth0 PROTO=6 63.111.66.11:80 66.222.30.128:62543 L=48 S=0x00 I=0 F=0x4000 T=51 (#89) Feb 22 17:08:54 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: output ACCEPT eth0 PROTO=6 66.222.30.128:62543 63.111.66.11:80 L=40 S=0x00 I= 64971 F=0x4000 T=127 (#38) Feb 22 17:08:54 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: output ACCEPT eth0 PROTO=6 66.222.30.128:62543 63.111.66.11:80 L=454 S=0x00 I =65227 F=0x4000 T=127 (#38) Feb 22 17:08:54 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: input ACCEPT eth0 PROTO=6 63.111.66.11:80 66.222.30.128:62543 L=40 S=0x00 I=7 564 F=0x4000 T=51 (#89) Feb 22 17:08:54 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: input ACCEPT eth0 PROTO=6 63.111.66.11:80 66.222.30.128:62543 L=1500 S=0x00 I =7565 F=0x4000 T=51 (#89) Feb 22 17:08:54 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: input ACCEPT eth0 PROTO=6 63.111.66.11:80 66.222.30.128:62543 L=1500 S=0x00 I =7566 F=0x4000 T=51 (#89) Feb 22 17:08:54 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: output ACCEPT eth0 PROTO=6 66.222.30.128:62543 63.111.66.11:80 L=40 S=0x00 I= 65483 F=0x4000 T=127 (#38) Feb 22 17:08:54 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: input ACCEPT eth0 PROTO=6 63.111.66.11:80 66.222.30.128:62543 L=1500 S=0x00 I =7567 F=0x4000 T=51 (#89) Feb 22 17:08:54 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: input ACCEPT eth0 PROTO=6 63.111.66.11:80 66.222.30.128:62543 L=1500 S=0x00 I =7568 F=0x4000 T=51 (#89) Feb 22 17:08:54 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: output ACCEPT eth0 PROTO=6 66.222.30.128:62543 63.111.66.11:80 L=40 S=0x00 I= 204 F=0x4000 T=127 (#38) Feb 22 17:08:54 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: input ACCEPT eth0 PROTO=6 63.111.66.11:80 66.222.30.128:62543 L=1500 S=0x00 I =7569 F=0x4000 T=51 (#89) Feb 22 17:08:54 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: input ACCEPT eth0 PROTO=6 63.111.66.11:80 66.222.30.128:62543 L=1500 S=0x00 I =7570 F=0x4000 T=51 (#89) Feb 22 17:08:54 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: output ACCEPT eth0 PROTO=6 66.222.30.128:62543 63.111.66.11:80 L=40 S=0x00 I= 460 F=0x4000 T=127 (#38) Feb 22 17:08:54 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: input ACCEPT eth0 PROTO=6 63.111.66.11:80 66.222.30.128:62543 L=1500 S=0x00 I And then, here is a sample log from a failed attempt to access www.wunderground.com: Feb 22 17:20:53 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: output ACCEPT eth0 PROTO=6 66.222.30.128:62556 66.28.69.136:80 L=48 S=0x00 I= 20688 F=0x4000 T=127 SYN (#38) Feb 22 17:20:56 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: output ACCEPT eth0 PROTO=6 66.222.30.128:62556 66.28.69.136:80 L=48 S=0x00 I= 21200 F=0x4000 T=127 SYN (#38) Feb 22 17:20:56 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=6 66.28.69.136:80 66.222.30.128:62556 L=48 S=0x00 I=627 80 F=0x4000 T=51 (#26) Feb 22 17:20:59 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=6 66.28.69.136:80 66.222.30.128:62556 L=48 S=0x00 I=629 45 F=0x4000 T=51 (#26) Feb 22 17:21:02 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: output ACCEPT eth0 PROTO=6 66.222.30.128:62556 66.28.69.136:80 L=48 S=0x00 I= 4 F=0x4000 T=127 SYN (#38) Feb 22 17:21:02 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=6 66.28.69.136:80 66.222.30.128:62556 L=48 S=0x00 I=632 56 F=0x4000 T=51 (#26) Feb 22 17:21:06 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=6 66.28.69.136:80 66.222.30.128:62556 L=48 S=0x00 I=637 68 F=0x4000 T=51 (#26) Feb 22 17:21:14 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: output ACCEPT eth0 PROTO=6 66.222.30.128:62556 66.28.69.136:80 L=48 S=0x00 I= 24272 F=0x4000 T=127 SYN (#38) Feb 22 17:21:14 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=6 66.28.69.136:80 66.222.30.128:62556 L=48 S=0x00 I=644 17 F=0x4000 T=51 (#26) Feb 22 17:21:18 cortafuegos kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=6 66.28.69.136:80 66.222.30.128:62556
Re: FreeSwan
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:22:33AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: Hi, I was trying to install the .deb, but I had the following: Kernel support for IPSec not found, aborting. What kernel version should I use? Not sure if you got this question answered for you. You need the kernel-patch-freeswan package. You then need to compile a kernel and patch in the freeswan support. The readme talks about this. -Bryan
Re: DHCP v3.x in woody?
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 09:41:05PM +0100, Chris Halls wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:31:49PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 11:42, Jeff Vincent wrote: Has anyone used DHCP 3.0 on woody? The mantainer of the ISC DHCP client just went through a long discusion on the subject of version 3 on the debian devel mailing list. It's been in the experimental distribution on all debian mirrors since it was first beta in 1999. Dare I ask . . . is it fairly stable? Thanks, Bryan Walton
question regarding udhcpd
Hi, Don't ask me why (perhaps for fun?) but I started playing around with udhcpd, the small dhcp server in the debian package archive. I have been using the regular dhcpd package for some time now, without any problems. This is for a small network. The DHCP server has two nics, and should be giving out addresses on eth1. However, for the life of me, I can't get udhcpd to give out addresses at all. All of the other factors between my server and clients seem to be OK (they all get assigned addresses from the dhcpd program without any trouble). Below is my config file, /etc/udhcpd.conf. Does anyone have any ideas what the problem might be? the daemon starts up and is running, but the daemon log doesn't show anything happening. Thanks! Bryan # udhcpd configuration file (/etc/udhcpd.conf) # The start and end of the IP lease block start 192.168.0.2 #default: 192.168.0.20 end 192.168.0.254 #default: 192.168.0.254 # The interface that udhcpd will use interface eth1 # The maximim number of leases (includes addressesd reserved # by OFFER's, DECLINE's, and ARP conficts max_leases 254 # If remaining is true (default), udhcpd will store the time # remaining for each lease in the udhcpd leases file. This is # for embedded systems that cannot keep time between reboots. # If you set remaining to no, the absolute time that the lease # expires at will be stored in the dhcpd.leases file. remaining yes # The time period at which udhcpd will write out a dhcpd.leases # file. If this is 0, udhcpd will never automatically write a # lease file. (specified in seconds) auto_time 7200 # The amount of time that an IP will be reserved (leased) for if a # DHCP decline message is received (seconds). decline_time3600 # The amount of time that an IP will be reserved (leased) for if an # ARP conflct occurs. (seconds conflict_time 3600 # How long an offered address is reserved (leased) in seconds offer_time 60 # If a lease to be given is below this value, the full lease time is # instead used (seconds). min_lease 60 # The location of the leases file lease_file /etc/udhcpd.leases # The location of the pid file pidfile /var/run/udhcpd.pid opt dns 205.173.176.11 opt router 192.168.0.1 option domain binc.net option lease 864000
apt-get -f dist-upgrade removing dpkg-dev
This morning, I ran a apt-get -f -s dist-upgrade on my laptop running testing. Here is what apt-get wants to do: work-linux:/home/walton# apt-get -f -s dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: alien cpio debhelper dpkg-dev kernel-package realplayer tpctl-modules-source 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 7 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Remv alien (7.30 Debian:testing) Remv tpctl-modules-source (2.5-4 ) Remv kernel-package (7.74 Debian:testing) Remv debhelper (3.0.51 Debian:testing) Remv dpkg-dev (1.9.18 Debian:testing) Remv realplayer (8.0.5 Debian:testing) Remv cpio (2.4.2-38 Debian:testing) Inst tar (1.13.25-1 Debian:testing) Conf tar (1.13.25-1 Debian:testing) Looks like the upgrade of tar wants to remove some stuff that shouldn't be removed. Any ideas on why this is happening, and the best way to fix it? Thanks, Bryan Walton
problems with kernel compile on 2.2.20
I am trying to compile a 2.2.20 kernel using the kernel-source in unstable and using kernel-package. I am compiling on a laptop running aen up-to-date testing distribution of Debian. After unpacking the source, and running make menuconfig, make dep, make-kpkg clean, I then run: make-kpkg --revision=custom.2.2.20 kernel_image After a few minutes of the compile, the compile errors out. Here is what is spit out to me: make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.20/arch/i386/boot' cc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.20/include -E -D__BIG_KERNEL__ -traditional -DSVGA_MODE=NORMAL_VGA bootsect.S -o bbootsect.s as86 -0 -a -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.s make[2]: as86: Command not found make[2]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.20/arch/i386/boot' make[1]: *** [bzImage] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.20' make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2 Can anyone give me some pointers as to what may be happening here? Thanks, Bryan Walton
Re: problems with kernel compile on 2.2.20
That did it! Thanks Mike! -Bryan On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 10:42:18AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Bryan K. Walton wrote: I am trying to compile a 2.2.20 kernel using the kernel-source in make[2]: as86: Command not found You need bin86, which provides as86. apt-get install bin86 Hope this helps, Mike
Re: Mutt - sent-date hook?
Hi Patrick, I have this in my .muttrc and it works great: set record==sent-mail-`date +%Y-%m` -Bryan On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 06:58:32PM -0500, Patrick Mahoney wrote: Hello all, Since Mutt since to be a hot topic, might as well... I'm looking for a way to put my outgoing mail in a month-dependent-mailbox so i could retrieve a sent mail more easily. I would have mailboxes of the form Sent/Oct-01 , Sent/Nov-01 , etc... -- Bryan K. WaltonNetwork Operations Center Analyst Berbee...putting the E in businesshttp://www.berbee.com/ GPG Key Fingeprint: 42FC 3177 3E63 2490 DF3F 68A1 B565 120C 1EE1 8F37 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
Re: why? [Fwd: Delivery Notification: Delivery has timed out and failed
I haven't had this problem in particular. However, the debian lists seem to be having some rather persistent problems. Personally, I haven't received a digest in a few weeks and all attempts to resubscribe go unanswered. I know others have had various problems recently, and nobody has offered up any ideas AFAIK. -Bryan On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:51:08AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: some of my messages that I send to debian-user go through just fine but ome of them are delayed and fail (not sure if all delayed ones fail in the end). Any ideas why this is happening? I am sending messages to debian from few accounts and I haven't investigated (yet) whether it's just one account that has problems or more of them. I regularly use both of the accounts to send other email and don't remember anything suspicious, no other emails are delayed/failed. any ideas? erik Internet Mail Delivery wrote: This report relates to a message you sent with the following header fields: Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:34:15 -0800 From: Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: rc.local Your message is being returned; it has been enqueued and undeliverable for 7 days to the following recipients: Recipient address: debian-user@lists.debian.org Reason: unable to deliver this message after 7 days Reporting-MTA: dns; mta5.snfc21.pbi.net Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 (unable to deliver this message after 7 days) Original-recipient: rfc822;debian-user@lists.debian.org Final-recipient: rfc822;debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: rc.local Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:34:15 -0800 From: Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vittorio De Martino wrote: Having experience of Linux RedHat, is there anyone out there able to tell me where is the equivalent of the rc.local file in Debian and where can I find it? Vittorio there is no such thing. generally you add your script to /etc/init.d directory and create links in /etc/rc.* directories so that script is called when system enetes/leaves certain run level. see update-rc.d for more info. the script in /etc/init.d should support start/stop/restart as first command line argument and act accordingly. IMO it makes sense to have some convention as far as file naming goes, so that you know which ones are created by you and which ones came with debian packages. erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bryan K. Walton Network Operations Center Analyst Berbee 5520 Research Park Drive Madison, Wisconsin 53711 608.288.3000 Berbee...putting the E in business - End forwarded message - -- Bryan K. Walton Network Operations Center Analyst Berbee 5520 Research Park Drive Madison, Wisconsin 53711 608.288.3000 Berbee...putting the E in business
Trying to fix exim from woody upgrade
I am running the latest version of woody (including the brand new version of libc6 : 2.1.94-3). I am also running the latest version of exim (3.16-3.1). Ever since upgrading to this version of exim, I can't send any mail. When I try, this is what I get: 2000-09-30 14:42:10 13fSWQ-0001GF-00 Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//13fSWQ-0001GF-00-D: Permission denied 2000-09-30 14:42:10 13fSWQ-0001GF-00 Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//13fSWQ-0001GF-00-D: Permission denied 2000-09-30 14:42:10 13fSWQ-0001GF-00 Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//13fSWQ-0001GF-00-D: Permission denied I can't downgrade to the stable version of exim because I get a message saying that it conflicts with the new version of libc6. Is this simply a permissions issue in my mail spool at the error sugggests? I haven't altered the permissions manually (don't know if apt-get did it for me when upgrading exim). Here is the permissions on my /var/spool/exim directory: drwxr-x---5 mail mail 4096 Sep 30 12:41 exim and my input directory: drwxr-x---2 mail mail 4096 Sep 30 12:42 input Thanks, Bryan Walton
pump replacing dhcpcd?
When I go to the debian web site and look up info on the pump package, one of the things that the page tells me is: This is the DHCP/BOOTP client written by RedHat. This replaces the dhcpcd package. I take this to mean that the dhcpcd client is no longer be worked on? The reason I ask is that I use to use dhcpcd and like it very much. I am currently using pump, but for some reason, pump seems to keep removing my localhost address from my /etc/resolve.conf file. No big deal, but I would like it o quit removing it. I might just revert to the dhcpcd package, any thoughts? But I don't want to hold on to a package that may be growing quickly out of date. Thanks, Bryan
Family proofing a Debian box
This is a general question for the list. I have a computer at home that I want to make availble for the family to use. However I want to try and ensure that they won't be able to do anything that could cause damage to the OS. What is the list's thoughts regarding what should I make sure is off-limits to the users. If they don't have root, are there things that I should make off-limits that might not be on a stock Debian 2.2 system? Thanks, Bryan
Making /tmp temporarily bigger
Hello everybody, I am trying to install StarOffice on a laptop running Debian 2.2. I have run into a problem in that StarOffice needs to utilize the /tmp directory and there doesn't seem to be enough space for it. I don't have anything in there taking up the space, it seems that the problem is that the directory just isn't big enough. So, I thought, OK, I will symlink the /tmp directory to another directory but I am having trouble. On the computer in question, /tmp is off of the root partition (/dev/hda5). It appears that Debian won't allow me to symlink the /tmp directroy to someplace else. I tried: ln -s /usr/local /tmp But that didn't work. That simulates the /usr/local directory as a directory inside (ie: /tmp/local/ What I need is /tmp=/usr/local but when I type: ln -s /usr/local / Debian won't let me do that. Any suggestions for making more space for /tmp? Thanks, Bryan Walton
/tmp got deleted! help
Hello, I made a horrible mistake today. I accidentally deleted the /tmp directory and its contents. I quickly realized my mistake. I created it again (but wasn't able to replace the contents of it). Now, I can start X as root, but I can't start X as any other user. I can't find any errors anywhere. I have tried replacing and deleting the user .xsession files and have tried startx, wdm, and xdm, all to no avail. Can anyone explain to me what I blew away in the /tmp folder and how can I replace or fix it? (I also made a new user and that user has the same problem as users that were on the box before /tmp got blown away.) Any help would be appreciated!!! Thanks, Bryan Walton
Re: /tmp got deleted! help
Thanks to both Sean and Andre for the info about the permission on the /tmp directory. Gross oversight on my part, but my panic is gone. Thanks! Bryan
Pine hanging on send
Hi everybody, I convinced a friend of mine to recently switch from Red Hat to Debian and she has hit a road block that I am struggling to solve. She built the pine package using the Debian src and diffs. Everything seemed to compile OK and all worked well for about a week. However starting yesterday, when she tries to send an email, Pine hangs for about 30 seconds before sending the message. I have checked everything (it seems). This happens with every message. The SMTP server she is using (the same as mine) is fine. We work side by side and I can send at will while she cannot. I thought maybe that the server was trying to verify who she was and that perhaps her IP address wasn't reversing, but that is not the case. We have even tried different SMTP servers, all with the same result. Can anyone give me some pointers here? Do we need to recompile Pine? Oh, this is Pine running on a Thinkpad running Debian 2.2 (installed via the official Debian 2.2 CDs). Thanks!! Bryan
Re: Pine hanging on send
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:41:06AM -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote: However starting yesterday, when she tries to send an email, Pine hangs for about 30 seconds before sending the message. Figured it out, it was a damaged .pinerc file (apparently). We blew away the entire file, made a new one, and presto, Pine is working fine again. Don't know if this is common or not, I have been using Pine for close to a decade and have never seen this happen. Thanks, Bryan
DHCP and Debian 2.2?
Greetings! Quick question: For the longest time, I was running Debian 2.1 in a network environment where my laptop computer obtained an IP address via DHCP. I had the dhcpcd .deb file installed which obtained the IP address for me. Last Friday I installed Debian 2.2 from the official CDs. The installation was smooth. My questions is this: how am I getting an IP address via DHCP? From what I can tell, the dhcpcd .deb is not installed, nor is the bootpc .deb. Can someone tell me what program is working the DHCP process for me? Thanks, Bryan
apt-get dist-upgrade = [shellutils on hurd]?!
Hello, This morning, as always, I come into work and update my Debian OS. I got into the habit a long time ago of typing: work:/home/walton# apt-get update followed by: work:/home/walton# apt-get -f -s dist-upgrade | less before actually updating my distribution. This morning I am a little confused. Apt-get wants to upgrade 86 packages and next to each of the package names, it says [sheellutils on hurd]. Now, I don't have the hurd installed on my computer currently. I did in the past, but that partition is no longer in existence. What does this mean? Thanks, Bryan
Re: apt-get dist-upgrade = [shellutils on hurd]?!
OK, sorry for the last email. Found my problem: I mistakenly had my sources.list file set for unstable. Glad I didn't do the dist-upgrade and move to unstable by accident. However, still perplexed by the [shellutils on hurd]. Anyone know what this means? Thanks, Bryan On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Bryan K. Walton wrote: Hello, This morning, as always, I come into work and update my Debian OS. I got into the habit a long time ago of typing: work:/home/walton# apt-get update followed by: work:/home/walton# apt-get -f -s dist-upgrade | less before actually updating my distribution. This morning I am a little confused. Apt-get wants to upgrade 86 packages and next to each of the package names, it says [sheellutils on hurd]. Now, I don't have the hurd installed on my computer currently. I did in the past, but that partition is no longer in existence. What does this mean? Thanks, Bryan
Adding commands to Debian Program Menu
Hello, I have what is probably a very simple question for this list. How can I add commands to the Debian Program Menu. For example, imagine that I install a program called binary to my computer. I can run it by typing binary at a shell prompt. But how can I get it added to the Debian program menu in my window manager (fvwm). I know how to add it to the Gnome program menu, but I am not running Gnome. Any suggestions? Thanks, Bryan Walton
Depmod Error on installing ALSA modules
Yesterday, I sent the following message to debian-user. Still trying to figure out how to fix this problem. Is it possible that the error is a result of a bug in the alsa-source package? Or is it something else? I am afraid I don't know much about ELF headers. Thanks! Bryan Greetings! I am running frozen on an IBM Thinkpad 390E with a 2.0.36 kernel. This morning, I compiled a new kernel (2.2.15) using make-kpkg. I also built the pcmcia and ALSA modules using kpkg. All seems to have gone well (I have done this before on another box). However, when I installed the newly compiled ALSA modules deb package, this is what happens: work:/usr/src# dpkg -i alsa-modules-2.2.15_0.4.1i-5+2.2.15-90_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package alsa-modules-2.2.15. (Reading database ... 52672 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking alsa-modules-2.2.15 (from alsa-modules-2.2.15_0.4.1i-5+2.2.15-90_i386.deb) ... Setting up alsa-modules-2.2.15 (0.4.1i-5+2.2.15-90) ... depmod: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory depmod: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory work:/usr/src# Any ideas as to what this means? How can I fix this? Thanks!! Bryan Walton
Re: Depmod Error on installing ALSA modules
Fixed it, just in case anybody was curious, the problem was a missing library: libelfg0-dev Thanks! Bryan -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 07:25:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Bryan K. Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-User Mailing List debian-user@lists.debian.org, Debian Laptop Mailing List debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Depmod Error on installing ALSA modules Resent-Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 07:11:52 -0500 Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Yesterday, I sent the following message to debian-user. Still trying to figure out how to fix this problem. Is it possible that the error is a result of a bug in the alsa-source package? Or is it something else? I am afraid I don't know much about ELF headers. Thanks! Bryan Greetings! I am running frozen on an IBM Thinkpad 390E with a 2.0.36 kernel. This morning, I compiled a new kernel (2.2.15) using make-kpkg. I also built the pcmcia and ALSA modules using kpkg. All seems to have gone well (I have done this before on another box). However, when I installed the newly compiled ALSA modules deb package, this is what happens: work:/usr/src# dpkg -i alsa-modules-2.2.15_0.4.1i-5+2.2.15-90_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package alsa-modules-2.2.15. (Reading database ... 52672 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking alsa-modules-2.2.15 (from alsa-modules-2.2.15_0.4.1i-5+2.2.15-90_i386.deb) ... Setting up alsa-modules-2.2.15 (0.4.1i-5+2.2.15-90) ... depmod: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory depmod: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory work:/usr/src# Any ideas as to what this means? How can I fix this? Thanks!! Bryan Walton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Error install ALSA modules
Greetings! I am running frozen on an IBM Thinkpad 390E with a 2.0.36 kernel. This morning, I compiled a new kernel (2.2.15) using make-kpkg. I also built the pcmcia and ALSA modules using kpkg. All seems to have gone well (I have done this before on another box). However, when I installed the newly compiled ALSA modules deb package, this is what happens: work:/usr/src# dpkg -i alsa-modules-2.2.15_0.4.1i-5+2.2.15-90_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package alsa-modules-2.2.15. (Reading database ... 52672 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking alsa-modules-2.2.15 (from alsa-modules-2.2.15_0.4.1i-5+2.2.15-90_i386.deb) ... Setting up alsa-modules-2.2.15 (0.4.1i-5+2.2.15-90) ... depmod: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory depmod: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory work:/usr/src# Any ideas as to what this means? How can I fix this? Thanks!! Bryan Walton
Re: kernel-image and apt-get -f dist-upgrade
Thanks Noah! That did it! --Bryan On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Bryan K. Walton wrote: However, the next time I do an apt-get -f dist-upgrade, apt wants to mess this all up. I have tried naming my kernel 2.2.15-9, custom.2.2.15-9, work.9, custom.1, and simply 1. I thought that naming it 2.2.15-9 would finally take care of this issue, but it hasn't. Not only does apt-get want to replace my custom kernel-image, but it also wants to remove (without any replacement at all) my alsa and pcmcia modules. You need to define and 'epoch' for your kernel. When running make-kpkg, prepend something like '3:' to your kernel version. So it would look something like: # make-kpkg --revision 3:2.2.15-9 The debian kernel images (the ones distributed on the servers) use the default value of '0' for the epoch, so they'll never replace your image. HTH, noah PGP Public Key available at http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html or by `finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOVd1OodCcpBjGWoFAQEeIQP7BOWJ7q5qDzHAmm37Xv7ap1RpqeyjwvZS SQ3aDFUOi8ZF1ZwTV63KQ2LjX0W5dN1n6pFuwy23id1cex6ffWzSNXA+q3PrTsAy Lt+fGfMcXO6jNfOnVI50V6x89eDyOA28gY5SE0JqEQUU/oWpJ1fr8hrf9VDrwKh9 gmRDi6YaQQM= =H02v -END PGP SIGNATURE-
kernel-image and apt-get -f dist-upgrade
Greetings to the list, I know this issue has come up before (I have searched through the mailing list archives), yet even after trying all of the suggestions in the archives, I STILL have this recurring problem: I used make-kpkg to build my own 2.2.15 kernel (using kernel-source package). I also used the alsa-source and pcmcia-source package to build the alsa and pcmcia modules, using make-kpkg. Everything works GREAT with this! However, the next time I do an apt-get -f dist-upgrade, apt wants to mess this all up. I have tried naming my kernel 2.2.15-9, custom.2.2.15-9, work.9, custom.1, and simply 1. I thought that naming it 2.2.15-9 would finally take care of this issue, but it hasn't. Not only does apt-get want to replace my custom kernel-image, but it also wants to remove (without any replacement at all) my alsa and pcmcia modules. It seems to me that this shouldn't be so difficult. I must be missing something. However, I have yet to find out what to call this kernel-revision so that apt doesn't mess with it or my modules. Can someone PLEASE help me on this. I am beginning to see this as a major drawback to make-kpkg. Thanks, Bryan Walton
Problems leaving computer on overnight
Greetings to the list. First, thank you to everyone who continues to provide usefull and helpful advice for me regarding the maintenance of my Debian machine. OK, now on to my present problem: I have a Thinkpad 390E (266mhz and 128 meg of Ram) running Debian frozen at my place of work. Historically, I have shutdown my laptop every night and then rebooted every morning. But, as I understand that Linux doesn't need to be rebooted all of the time, I thought I would start to leave it running, but it presents me with some problems. I have apm disabled in the bios. But when I come in each morning, my computer is CREEPING. From the wdm login screen, it takes about 5 minutes to load Gnome. But even if it loads, it then takes another minute to open any program such as Netscape. When I run top, nothing shows up odd. The only way I have found to fix this problem is to reboot. Is there a program out there that I need to install to fix this? Is this a bug in frozen? How can I, or should I give my computer a jolt of energy? Any ideas? Thanks, Bryan Walton
New Mozilla (M14-1) causes seg fault
Hi everyone, This morning I performed my daily distribution upgrade on frozen, and to my delight, my Mozilla was upgraded from M13 to M14! BUT WAIT! . . . I can't get Mozilla to start. When I run it, this is what I get from the shell startup: $ mozilla Profile Manager : Profile Wizard and Manager activites : Begin Profile Manager : Command Line Options : Begin Profile Manager : Command Line Options : End ProfileManager : GetProfileDir ProfileManager : GetProfileDir Profile Manager : Profile Wizard and Manager activites : End Segmentation fault --Any ideas? Thanks, Bryan Walton
Re: New Mozilla (M14-1) causes seg fault
Thanks to all who offered up suggestions for fixing the seg fault with Mozilla M14. The first email I got suggested creating the sym link, and that fixed the problem. Thanks! Bryan *** Bryan K. Walton Network Operations Center Analyst Berbee 5520 Research Park Drive Madison, Wisconsin 53711 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 608.288.3000 Berbee...putting the E in business On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Davide wrote: On 9 Mar 2000, Bryan K. Walton wrote: Date: 9 Mar 2000 14:20:12 - To: Debian-User Mailing List debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Bryan K. Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: New Mozilla (M14-1) causes seg fault Hi everyone, This morning I performed my daily distribution upgrade on frozen, and to my delight, my Mozilla was upgraded from M13 to M14! BUT WAIT! . . . I can't get Mozilla to start. When I run it, this is what I get from the shell startup: $ mozilla Profile Manager : Profile Wizard and Manager activites : Begin Profile Manager : Command Line Options : Begin Profile Manager : Command Line Options : End ProfileManager : GetProfileDir ProfileManager : GetProfileDir Profile Manager : Profile Wizard and Manager activites : End Segmentation fault --Any ideas? Thanks, Bryan Walton I had the same problem, you have to create a symbolic link called icons to /usr/lib/mozilla/icons in your $HOME/.mozilla, like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.mozilla$ ls -l icons lrwxrwxrwx1 evo evo22 mar 5 23:14 icons - /usr/lib/mozilla/icons Ciao, Davide
Mounting Novell Drives for Linux
I have a question for you: I am trying to mount a novell network where I work. I have created a mount point: /mnt/netware I then issue the following command: /usr/bin/ncpmount -S BINC-MSN -A binc-msn.binc.net -U username /mnt/netware This works for my colleagues using Redhat. However, when I enter this in, I am told that -A is an invalid option. Can anybody give me some pointers for getting my novell network mounted? Thanks, Bryan
Looking for an old copy of dhcpcd-sv 1.3.16-1
Greetings to the list: I have Debian 2.1 running on my laptop with an updated 2.2.13 kernel. Also, I have libc6 version 2.07(?) running. Therefore I am in a crunch: I would to get a copy of a dhcpcd .deb package to install. The current stable version doesn't work with my updated kernel. The frozen version requires a newer version of libc6 than what I have. Apparently, what I need is a deb package called dhcpcd-sv 1.3.16-1, made by Sergei Viznyuk. But I can't find it anymore. Does anyone know where I can get it? Thanks, Bryan Walton
Sound on IBM Thinkpad 390E
Hello to the list, I am trying to get sound to work on my IBM Thinkpad 390E running Debian 2.1. I have been unable to get sound to work until very recently. I was told that I could type the following, as root, upon bootup, to make sound work: insmod soundcore insmod esssolo1 mixctrl 7 0 mixctrl 0 100 mixctrl 4 100 I was able to type the first two lines and this dig get sound running -- but it sounds like chipmunks talking. I assume that the next three commands will slow the speed down. When I try to type the last three lines, I get the following: bash: mixctrl: command not found I searched the debian website and found no reference to the command mixctrl. Can someone tell me what program I need to have running for Debian to recognize this command? Thanks, Bryan Walton
Re: TCP/IP problems
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, s. keeling wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 06:38:33AM -0600, Bryan K. Walton wrote: [snip] fine). I have a DHCP client on my computer, and when I start it up, it gives me back an IP address. However, I cannot generate any further outgoing or incoming traffic. When I open up my browser, I can't browse web pages via domain names or IP addresses. I can't FTP anywhere, or do What does can't mean exactly? What happens when you ping another host? What does ping say exactly? When I ping another host, I get the following: ping: sendto: Operation not permitted ping: wrote (INSERT IP HERE) 64 chars, ret=-1 ping: sendto: Operation not permitted What's in your /etc/resolv.conf? My /etc/resolve.conf file contains the following: domain binc.net nameserver 208.139.220.11 nameserver 205.173.176.11 This is valid. Advice? Thanks, Bryan
Re: TCP/IP problems
Nate, THANKS Indeed, IP Masquerading was the guilty party! Thanks, Bryan On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, aphro wrote: On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Bryan K. Walton wrote: walton When I ping another host, I get the following: walton ping: sendto: Operation not permitted walton ping: wrote (INSERT IP HERE) 64 chars, ret=-1 walton ping: sendto: Operation not permitted 99% chance that the problem is your firewall is blocking it, check to see if the ipmasq package is installed, if it is reconfigure it(i _always_ delete it it has caused me NOTHING but trouble) flush the firewall by running ipchains -F if you got kernel 2.2.x or ipfwadm -ftype where type is type F (forward) I(insert) A(append). if your not specifically using the ipmasq package the system will automatically re add the firewall rules blocking aLL incoming and outoging traffic, if you want ipmasq, id suggest you delete that $#@ package and setup the firewall manually(ipmasq only needs 1 rule, or 2 if your security minded). i spent many many hours trying to figure out what was screwing my servers up till i found the ipmasq package was doing it. nate [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] ]-- 11:53am up 145 days, 23:53, 2 users, load average: 0.33, 0.31, 0.30 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null *** Bryan K. Walton Network Operations Center Analyst Berbee 5520 Research Park Drive Madison, Wisconsin 53711 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 608.288.3000 Berbee...putting the E in business
iplogger is crashing my computer
Greetings everyone, I am running 2.1 with a 2.2.13 kernel on my Thinkpad 390E in a network environment using DHCP. Today, oddly, I was informed while attempting to open an x terminal that my system was temporarily out of resources. I did a little research and it turns out that some processes called tcplogd were strangling my computer. Something being run by a program called iplogger. Can anyone tell me a little more about this program? How can I prevent this from using all of my resources in the future? Thanks, Bryan Walton
Xircom RealPort Ethernet/Modem on Debian
Hi everybody, Has anyone got these new Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56 PCMCIA cards to run on Debian? If anybody has any ideas, I would be most appreciative. Thanks, Bryan Walton
Fixing the Master Boot Record
Hi everybody, In trying to get Slink installed successfully on my laptop (IBM Thinkpag 390E) I have learned that it is important to upgrade the Bios first. So, for the short term, I am taking some steps backwards. I downloaded a bios upgrade program on to a diskkette from IBM's website. To perform the upgrade, I need to boot up the computer with this diskette in the floppy drive. When I do that however, the computer gives me an error message saying that there is an invalid system disk in the floppy drive. I am instructed to remove it and then hit any key to continue. This doesn't happen with any disk as I can still boot up from a boot floppy. I think this is due to my installing LILO on the MBR. So I did an fdisk /mbr to remove LILO and then attempted to perform the bios upgrade again. I still get this error. So I then downloaded the upgrade program on to another diskette (in case the disk was the problem) and I still get this message. Can anyone tell me how can I fix my mbr so that I can boot up into this program and upgrade my BIOS? Thanks, Bryan Walton *** Bryan K. Walton Network Operations Center Analyst Berbee Information Networks Corporation 5520 Research Park Drive Madison, Wisconsin 53711 Phone: 608.288.3000 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: list problems?
I don't know how this list is set up, but some lists are set up so that if your email address ever bounces, you are automatically removed from the list. Therefore, maybe the list has unsubscribed you? I might try subscribing again and see if that works. Bryan *** Bryan K. Walton Network Operations Center Analyst Berbee Information Networks Corporation 5520 Research Park Drive Madison, Wisconsin 53711 Phone: 608.288.3000 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This makes me wonder even more. The list must be up, or you wouldn't have received my email. However, when you responded to it, I only got the response that went to me, not the cc to the list. I have subscribed another account that I have on a different network, but I still haven't seen any traffic! What's up with this?? I'm confused! noah On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Martin Fluch wrote: On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: I haven't seen any mail on this list since sunday morning. I can't imagine all list traffic simply went away. Is there something wrong with the list, or with my mail? I can't imagine it's a problem on my end since I have no problem getting the modperl list from apache.org. If anybody gets this message, and has any insight, please let me know what's up. I have seen the trafic going down, too ... (berhaps we get it up, if now every body on the list replies, that he has realiced the same ;- ) Martin -- For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key available at http://www.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html or by `finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOB28T4dCcpBjGWoFAQGIkQP9EnkH7j1PUNOE14L8MZKbtb9U3xuvOPCy 1PROVCbxBKnR4ZykklbJWZJjuWBBuk6EYb0EnYYEwoOibW7CVtOry7Cir7hOIrgf dIeST86EsMOjBN0ljDyOJyW8+N10/nZEE/ftPuQgSMztPvRY07qnnV0Qzn2t0xTE 1Vy81AcA2lg= =6/ez -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Fixing the Master Boot Record
Thanks to everyone on this simple issue. Turned out to be two problems, I didn't have a bootable floppy, and the IBM program needed to be extracted (something that I never saw mentioned on their download page). Thanks, Bryan *** Bryan K. Walton Network Operations Center Analyst Berbee Information Networks Corporation 5520 Research Park Drive Madison, Wisconsin 53711 Phone: 608.288.3000 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Fixing the Master Boot Record
I wanted to clarify regarding what I said below, Thanks to everyone on this simple issue. Turned out to be two problems, I didn't have a bootable floppy, and the IBM program needed to be extracted (something that I never saw mentioned on their download page). I PERSONALLY missed the note about the file needing to be extracted. I didn't mean to imply such a statement doesn't exist on IBM's page. Sorry. Thanks, Bryan
Trying to access msdos in debian 2.1
Hi everybody, I am trying to install Precision Insight's NeoMagic X Server so that I can get my IBM Thinkpad 390E up and running with X Windows. At this point in time, I do not have internet access on this laptop. On another computer (Win98), I downloaded the x server onto a floppy with a msdos filesystem. Then, I inserted the floppy into my Thinkpad and attempted to mount the floppy by typing: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy I then got a message saying that the kernal in Slink does not support the MSDOS filesystem. I also tried saying it was an ext2 filesystem just to see if it would work (and it didn't). How can I get this file copied off of my floppy to my /var/tmp directory? Thanks, Bryan Walton *** Bryan K. Walton Network Operations Center Analyst Berbee Information Networks Corporation 5520 Research Park Drive Madison, Wisconsin 53711 Phone: 608.288.3000 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Giving up on Slink, moving to potato?
Hi, I have an IBM Thinkpad 390E and have been trying to install Debian 2.1 on it for about two weeks now. I can install it no problem, except that I cannot get X Windows configured correctly. I even updraded to XFree86 3.3.5, and still can't get it to work (although I can get Red Hat 6.1 installed on it in my first try). The problem is that I don't want Red Hat, I want to run Debian. I even had two linux engineers here where I work try to get it running, and they had no success. I have checked out linux resources for IBM Thinkpads on the net, and have also received much useful information from this list. But, I think I am giving up on slink. I may have to move to Red Hat, even though I don't want to. But first I want to ask a question. I have never used an unstable release. (And I am also a newbie). Is it worth giving Potato a try? Should Potato make this problem easier to tackle for me? Or would the fact that it is unstable, only make life more difficult? Thanks, Bryan Walton
Embarassing NEWBIE Question
Hi, Please forgive me for asking such an embarassing question: I have installed Debian 2.1 on my laptop and have struggled to correctly configure X. So I am now preparing to install XFree86 3.3.5 which I have been told will fix my problem. I have all of the XFree86 3.3.5 files burned onto a CD-ROM. I need to copy the files from the CD-ROM to a temp directory on my /usr partition. Can someone please tell me exactly what I need to type in order to do this? How do I get into the CDROM directory and how do I make Debian copy everything from that CDROM to /usr/temp (a subdirectory I created for this purpose)? Thanks! Bryan
Configuring X
Hi, Due to the advice of a few wise individuals, I continue to make slow, but steady progress in getting Debian 2.1 installed on my IBM 390E laptop. I am a newbie and am currently trying to get X Windows running. I have tried both xf86config and XF86Setup and still am having problems. (A little background): My video card is a NeoMagic 256AV with 2.5meg of memory. My screen is capable of 1024 X 768 resolution at 60kHz. When I try to start X Windows, I get a fatal server error: No valid modes found. Can anyone give me some advice regarding what to do next? Or, is there by any chance someone out there running Debian on an IBM 390E that can give tell me how they have configured X? Thanks, Bryan Walton
Can't start X Windows
I have installed Debian 2.1 off of an official CD. I chose the devel_comp package of software and everything installed. But when I type startx or xinit at the shell prompt, I get an error message informing me of a fatal server error. Specifically, it says that there wasn't a config file found! It tried looking in /etc/X11/XF86Config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config.home /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config but didn't find anything. I thought that maybe the file had not installed but couldn't find it in dselect. Can someone give me some ideas on what is happening here and how I can get X-Windows running? Thanks, Bryan Walton
Configuring LILO in Debian
Hi everybody, I have installed Debian 2.1 on one of my machines. I am also running Windows 98. On my second machine (dual boot Red Hat and Windows 98) Red Hat installed and configured LILO so that I get a boot: prompt at startup where I can either tell it to boot linux or dos. But with my Debian installation, I wasn't given the option to dual boot. When my machine starts up, I get a boot: prompt, but it quickly defaults to linux. If I type in dos, it tells me that I don't have that option and that linux is the only option I have. I KNOW that I have Windows on another partition and need to be able to use LILO to boot both operating systems at various times. Is it possible to go in and configure LILO to add dos as a boot: option? If so, can someone tell me how to do this? Thanks, Bryan Walton
