kde mirror
Hi all, Sorry but I'm not subscribed to the list, so can you please answer directly? I actually use an rsync connexion to mirror sunsite.tut.fi, unfortunately, this one is hugely sloow, does anybody knows about a *fast*, reliable and up to date mirror (with rsync) for DEBIAN-KDE? Thanks in advance, JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~
Re: DNS slow?
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 11:55:33AM +0100, Onno wrote: My experiance with older versions of netscape under windows is the same, so this -could- be a netsacpe issue... Regards, Onno Thanks Onno, I checked with lynx, which does not give the error, so it is really a nestcape issue :( JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] You have junk mail.
Re: ??? :undefined symbol: __register_frame_info
On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 07:27:45PM -0500, Bob Brown wrote: Here is my problem: My end goal is to install StarOffice 51. I loaded hamm from my cd, upgraded to slink using apt-get from ftp.debian.org, then pulled down XFree86 3.3.5 (current) for glibc. When I run startx I get this: /usr/X11R6/bin/X: error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol: __register_frame_info This primitive can be found @ http://www.suse.com, look up for XServers page, at the bottom, you'll find the regframe.rpm. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] You have junk mail.
DNS slow?
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
Re: Two problems to solve...(i hope)
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 12:22:47PM +, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: First of all Linux is unable to find my UDMA66 HardDisk. I know that exists some patches to make it working. Anyone have already tryed them? Yep, I use slink with kernel 2.2.12; patch comes from: ftp.kernel.org/people/hedrick JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Architecture, One OS also translates as One Egg, One Basket.
Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 04:41:26PM -0800, aphro wrote: I dont know what exactly is installed when(if) your using a debian binary kernel but if your compiling from source make sure you enable the Parellel printer support option in character devices when your making the kernel. Hi Nate, Sure I compiled it from the source, and enabled // port. I also suggest you cat a file directly to the port and see what happens. at least then you know you have communication and later you can work on the lpd/magicfilter problems. When I do 'cat ZZZ.txt /dev/lp0' it says 'operation not supported' JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. -- Cartoon caption
Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 07:33:29PM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I also suggest you cat a file directly to the port and see what happens. at least then you know you have communication and later you can work on the lpd/magicfilter problems. When I do 'cat ZZZ.txt /dev/lp0' it says 'operation not supported' In that case, are you sure that /dev/lp0 is correct? Have you tried /dev/lp1 or /dev/lp2? Yep, does the same thing! I don't know where it comes from, I'm totally stuck, even after a package reinstall (even trying the original /etc/printcap). I'm now asking myself if its not the motherboard fault (ABIT BE6): I was obliged to reinstall w$98, and never succeed to have the same configuration to work well again (I didn't get the SB Live! correctly installed till I disabled the HPT366 controlers...); and under Linux, I can't get my TV card to work well too (it was 4 weeks ago). I'll try to exchange it next wednesday to see what will happend. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 10:11:15PM -0800, aphro wrote: On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: jybarb I can't get my TV card to work well too (it was 4 weeks ago). jybarb I'll try to exchange it next wednesday to see what will happend. What kind of TV card? I have been using Bt848 based TV cards for ages under linux, no trouble, if its this kind i can prob help you get it workin. A MIRO PCTV (w/ bt848 chipset); that's why I think that the motherboard fault (well, in fact I think its the HPT366 controler fault, everything goes wrong, even under w$98, since its drivers are installed). as for the SB live i have a sb awe32 ..i know creative released drivers for it but they are binary only: ack. i hear they got open source stuff around the corner though. I can use the SB live under Linux; under w$98, I'm obliged to suppress it, and to re-actualize the components list to get it work. AFAI remember, there's also another problem: On the BH-6 board I'm (quite) sure that Tekram DC-390(T) said it was 'EDGE Triggered', but now it *always* says it's 'LEVEL Triggered'. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Time sharing: The use of many people by the computer.
lpr problem
Hi all, I didn't print for a long time; when I try to print a simple text file (lpr ZZZ), lpq says: waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?) I check the cable, I de-installed/re-installed the 'lpr' package (always using my conf files for a Epson 750, on /dev/lp0). Still nothing (even under X, throught 'enscript'). Any clue?? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your computer account is overdrawn. Please see Big Brother.
Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]
On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 12:12:27AM +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: Hi all, I didn't print for a long time; when I try to print a simple text file (lpr ZZZ), lpq says: waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?) Motherboard is an ABIT BE-6. Of course, // port is in the kernel. I also checked IEEE 1284 in my kernel 2.2.12, and on boot, it says 'parport0: PC-Style 0x378 [SPP, PS2]' 'parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus Photo 750' I check the cable, I de-installed/re-installed the 'lpr' package (always using my conf files for a Epson 750, on /dev/lp0). Still nothing (even under X, throught 'enscript'). I also tryied to change the // port type in bios (EPP, ECP, SPP) nothings new :( Any clue?? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
Re: databases, which one? (THANKS)
Thanxs to all of you, I think I'm gonna try MySQL + Perl JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] The next person to mention spaghetti stacks to me is going to have his head knocked off. -- Bill Conrad
Re: your mail
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 06:28:03PM +0100, Skynet wrote: 212.210.122.9 ??? = agmemnnone.penters.it
Re: kern.log error/hdb: irq timeout
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 11:29:25PM -0600, ktb wrote:
I'm getting these errors listed below. When these errors show up on my
xconsole my screen is frozen for some time and then recovers. My X
.
Nov 23 23:08:19 xyf kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Nov 23 23:08:24 xyf kernel: ide0: reset: success
Nov 23 23:13:40 xyf kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Nov 23 23:14:10 xyf kernel: ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xd0
Nov 23 23:14:10 xyf kernel: hdb: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Nov 23 23:14:10 xyf kernel: hdb: drive not ready for command
Nov 23 23:14:21 xyf kernel: ide0: reset: success
Hi Kent,
I recently had the same problem, as my machine is 6 months old it
obviously couldn't be a HD failure, so I investigate a bit, and
finally found... that the internal metal clips of the supply
connector were not enough tightened (it certainly comes from the
many tests I made with several HDs and devices).
I just tighten them with a little screwdriver, and now its working
perfectly. So, if your supply connector is very easy to (un)plug,
check that.
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The primary function of the design engineer is to make things
difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.
Re: Help
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:05:00PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please send me anything you can send. -On any and everything. I've got a boring ex-wife, can I send it to you? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] U X e dUdX, e dX, cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159...
Re: Ethernet irq #3
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 12:24:36AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I`m fairly new to all this so before I go to the extent of replacing the kernel, which I hadn`t intended to do until potato was the stable version, please could someone tell me in laymans terms how to change the IRQ that this NIC uses even if only to eliminate the IRQ as a possibility. Usually, the NICs come with a diskette, containing a small DOS pgm which can do the trick. BTW I don`t know if this is relevant but if I do lsmod the at1700 driver doesn`t show and if I domodprobe at1700 I get this message: FUDO2:/home/paul# modprobe at1700 /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/at1700.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Is this important? Yep! It seems that your IRQ3 is already in use... JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] U X e dUdX, e dX, cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159...
Re: How to savely copy a disk? (a bit off topic)
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 08:10:30PM +0100, Francis Pirotton wrote: For the win95 partition :. 1 - Create another primary partition. I have already tried to do it with the fdisk of linux but I had messages like partition table corrupted Hi, just a word about this kind of error and partitionning: Not so long ago, I installed a 17.2 GB HD; I decided to partition it in 4 (at this time, it was completely under w98$) I made a primary partitition # 6 GB, I made 2 logicals # 4GB (for some reasons I wanted exactly the same size for these), and another logical for the rest (# 2.5GB) WITH the w$ fdisk. It sounds Ok, so I worked a bit, then some errors and I was obliged to reset; at the next boot, scandisk said to me that disk F: xas corrupted, but wasn't able to fix it; so I entered fdisk (w$) and made a simple addition: the total number of KB assigned to partitions was 7KB MORE than the total fo the HD! And When I tryied with the Linux fdisk, I had the error partition table corrupted. The only manner to recover from that was to re-partition from Linux. So, w$ fdisk is a sh*t because it don't cut partitions where they must be, and because it don't even know how to add numbers... JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] You will have many recoverable tape errors.
Re: +64 mb ram
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 09:06:17PM +0100, luis wrote: which are the options to have recognized by linux more than 64 mb of ram? i have put a line in /etc/lilo.conf, stating : append=mem=128m You should read the HOWTOs before, it says that giving the whole RAM is dangerous, because you run the risk to crash some shadow RAM. Better use 127m instead!. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] You will have many recoverable tape errors.
Re: Can't make menuconfig
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 01:57:43AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: I can make config and make xconfig but I can not make menuconfig. When I try, I get the following: westk03:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.1/scripts/lxdialog' gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC=curses.h -c lxdialog.c -o lxdialog.o In file included from lxdialog.c:22: dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.1/scripts/lxdialog' make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 westk03:/usr/src/linux# exit exit You should install the ncurses package JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] You will have many recoverable tape errors.
Re: Botting a Mylex DAC960 RAID controller
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:56:01PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: Try `mem=256M' instead. Please let me now how the Mylex performs ... No luck: the installation keeps hanging asking about colors. Try `mem=255M' instead. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] New crypt. See /usr/news/crypt.
phoenix maxi gamer 3D xserver [URGENT]
Hi all, I'm going to help a friend tomorrow mornig to setup Linux on his computer, he's owning this card, and I don't know if the xserver exists (and if so, where I can download it). JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] PURGE COMPLETE.
Re: OSS from 4Front Tech problems
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 09:01:37AM -0600, John Foster wrote: I have sound working fine as the root user, but it is screwed as any other. I am using commercial OSS as I have NEVER been able to get any of the other stuff to work. I presented this problem to the tech folks at 4Front and their answer was to change the permissions on /dev/dsp by using the command chmod a+rw /dev/dsp* this did not make any difference. just for the sake of being thorough I also tried changing every other sound related device to the same and even tried doing chmod a+rwx /dev/dsp* and all the others. It still only works as root. I'm puzzled. I am using kernel 2.2.13 on a slink pure stable system (not the same one as before Brian :-)) I use Gnome session loaded at boot into the icewm-gnome window manager. If I start soundon as root it will carry over to the cdplayer and mixers that run in X and the mixer in gnome but the Gnome cdplayer still doesn't connect (I think that's another problem) Are you sure your user is part of the 'audio' group? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Macintosh is Xerox technology at its best.
Re: ethernet card irq
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 03:29:36PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: eth0: transmit timed out with status 8180, IRQ conflict? eth0: timeout registers: 8180 8182 0106 e85a d920 8080 4000. What driver did you inclued in the kernel? is it a module or inclued in the kernel? Also the value for eth0 doesn`t seem to change in cat /proc/interrupts as I believe it should after I attempt to ping (?) It seems normal, as your NIC isn't active ;), what does ifconfig and route says? Should I try to change the irq of the card (from 5 to 11 maybe?) and if so what would be the best way to do this? it could work. what other cards have you got, on which IRQs? what I/O addresses did you setup on the NIC? (join a cat /proc/interrupts /proc/ioports, with the exact list of *all* devices installed (sound, hd, cd) Also are there any other ways to check if my network card is working properly? Simple answers please, I`m fairly new to Debian and know very little about networking. Usually ifconfig must return the correct address of the machine, not 0.0.0.0, try it. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Macintosh is Xerox technology at its best.
Re: recommend mp3 encoder
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 03:55:55PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: Hi all: I'm looking for the highest compression quality possible. I don't care about speed (nor about interface) at all. Is there anything compareable to Fraunhoffer encoder under win32 for Linux? I'll be encoding wavs into 256 KBps mp3's. As Remco Nathan already told you, BladeEncoder is very good: it sticks closely to the ISO standard, contrary to Frauenhoffer, which is a bit better in low streams, but not very good in hi streams. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Macintosh is Xerox technology at its best.
Re: X and the ATI Xpert 128
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 04:45:43PM -0800, Jon Hughes wrote: We have the 3.3.5 version of X, but he has a ATI Xpert 128 video card. The documentation states that it is not yet supported, but has anyone managed to get the card to work yet? I don't know this card, but if it has a Rage128 cpu, you should go to http://www.suse.com, and download the right XServer (*wtih* the regframe.RPM too!). It work ok under 3.3.4. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Macintosh is Xerox technology at its best.
Re: Extremely Strange Problem (keyboard mouse die)
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 09:38:39PM -0500, Harlan Crystal wrote: Hello: Sometimes, when I boot up my machine, it'll boot normally but when I get to the login prompt, my keyboard and mouse get no response on screen. The cursor keeps on flashing and everything seems to be working (I can telnet in and reboot the machine) and there is no error message so I have no idea what to fix. Sometimes when I start X window, I get the same effect: All my little applets and cursors are flickering like they should, but my keyboard and mouse act like they've been pulled out of the computer. Sometimes it happens when I exit X. There seems to be no method behind it, because it will happen randomly like once a week. My cousin runs a debian box at work and he says he gets the same problem there, yet not on his debian box at home Hi, It can be hardware fault: check the KBD speed in bios and do not raise it more than 8 MHz (especially if your keyboard is old), also check your cable visually and track any bad appearance, did you ever twist your cable, or fold it hardly (very small radius foldings can break the external-radius cables: if the cable's straight, the wires are connected, if is not straight, tehy're no more). JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Macintosh is Xerox technology at its best.
Re: Kernal Upgrade and WINE questions
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 04:08:08PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 09:52:04AM -0500, Tom Allard wrote: VMware is kinda heavy on the requirements side, too (minimum 96MB memory recommended). If you just need to run an app or two, VMware is overkill. And it's not so speedy; I have a K6-2 350 with 128Mb RAM and it took well over an hour to install Windows 98. I thought it was the regular amount of time to install it ;) JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Macintosh is Xerox technology at its best.
open ports
Hi all, I made a 'netstat -a --inet', and it returns me 3 ports I don't know opened: tcp 00 *:sunrpc *.*LISTEN udp 00 *:sunrpc *.* raw 00 *:1 *.* raw 00 *:6 *.* Is it normal? Am I obliged to leave them opened? If not, how can I close them? I was also returned an 'imap2' opened port??? I did not installed such a package (in fact it was purged long ago). Why is it still present? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Macintosh is Xerox technology at its best.
Re: open ports (1/2 oops!)
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 10:58:16AM +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: I was also returned an 'imap2' opened port??? I did not installed such a package (in fact it was purged long ago). Why is it still present? Sorry, forget about this one, it was still opend by inetd. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] User hostile.
Re: OSS from 4Front Tech problems
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 10:43:09AM -0600, John Foster wrote: Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: Are you sure your user is part of the 'audio' group? -- Yes. I did check and it made no difference. Thanks for the idea. Any others? Huuh? that's a mess! Well, I checked my user groups, and they are: niff-iff (the user), disk, lp, mail, cdrom, floppy, audio, irc, src, users. the permissions of /dev/audio are: crw-rw 1 root audio 14, the permissions of /dev/dsp are: crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14,3 the permissions of /dev/dsp1 are: crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14,19 IF you've got the same, I really don't know where it come from :( JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Security check: INTRUDER ALERT!
Re: Ethernet irq
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 06:17:59PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: eth0: AT1700 found at 0x320, IRQ 5, address f4aacbbd auto-sense interface. at1700.c:v1.15 4/7/98 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Good, its well recognized /proc/interrupts and ioports are as follows; FUDO2:/home/paul# cat /proc/interrupts 0: 25782398 timer 1: 25004 keyboard 2: 0 cascade 5: 1 eth0 6:1758994 + serial 10: 4640 sound blaster 12:1165915 PS/2 Mouse 13: 1 math error 14: 160883 + ide0 Hey, I remind now that, on my svr (486 from 1991), IRQ 5 sounds empty, but when I tryied to setup a NIC on this IRQ, it fail... !! (I still don't know why!). However, my sound card works perfectly on this same IRQ (???!) Try another IRQ! (and make sure, if its an old MB that the IRQ sharing is setup in EDGE (not LEVEL)). FUDO2:/home/paul# cat /proc/ioports -001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : npu 0100-0107 : serial(set) 01f0-01f7 : ide0 0220-022f : sound blaster 02f8-02ff : serial(set) 0320-033f : eth0 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f0-03f5 : floppy 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR 03f8-03ff : serial(set) ffa0-ffa7 : IDE DMA ffa8-ffaf : IDE DMA ^^^ Quite strange, the svr gives me: 01f0-01f7 : ide0 (486 w/PCI slots) : 03f6-03f6 : ide0 and the station gives me : 01f0-01f7 : ide0 (PII/400 Abit BE6) : f000-f007 : ide0 : 0170-0177 : ide1 : f008-f00f : ide1 : b400-b407 : ide2 : b802-b802 : ide2 : bc00-bc07 : ide2 I can successfully ping myself (FUDO2,localhost and 10.0.0.1) and also my isp`s nameserver. ifconfig and netstat -r are as follows; seems normal FUDO2:/home/paul# netstat -r Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface nsrv-cam1.cam.d * 255.255.255.255 UH 552 0 0 ppp0 localnet* 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 0 lo 10.0.0.0* 255.0.0.0 U 1500 0 0 eth0 default nsrv-cam1.cam.d 0.0.0.0 UG 552 0 0 ppp0 normal too However I still can`t ping out to the win95 box which I believe is correctly configured as 10.0.0.2 (it can certainly ping itself at that address) For some while now I`ve been unable to use my floppy drive because of i/o errors, might this have some bearing on the irq situation? It`s possible that it may have gone wrong at the same time as the at1700 driver was installed. What are you're ipchains rules ? JY Hope it will help... -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. -- Steinbach
little www svr
Hi folks, I'm on a cable connection, and my isp changed its upolod limit from 150 to 500 MB [ better than nothing :( ]. So I intend to have a small www svr, BUT I would like to be able to contain it within my limits: stop the svr if my upload is 400 MB; and I don't know which svr I must use (isn't Apache too big for the purpose?) As it will be on my svr (connected to the web and to the LAN), if you have any trick about security, you'll be welcome. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disks travel in packs.
Re: Dual-ethernet
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 03:25:00PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: Hi, I'm wondering whether it's possible to load ne.o module for a dual ethernet machine. Can it be done? I have tried to load the same module twice (with different iobase's), but it wouldn't work. Do I have to recompile the kernel for including the support for NE2K in it? add an append line in you /etc/lilo.conf read /usr/doc/HOWTO/BootPrompt.HOWTO JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory... (By Larry Wall)
Re: 2nd Linux installation
One of the things I use the linux box for is an FTP server for my LAN, and I was wondering if it is okay to share the /home/ftp/pub directory between the 2 distros so that as it gets modified in one distro the modifications will be updated in the other. For example if my partitions are: hda /dev/hda1 /boot /dev/hda2 / /dev/hda3 /usr /dev/hda4 swap hdb /dev/hdb1 /boot /dev/hdb2 / /dev/hdb3 /usr /dev/hdb4 swap /dev/hdb5 /home/ftp/pub shared between both distros will this work? Yes, but why separate /boot, you'd better use a partition for /home I should be able to boot the second distro through the existing lilo file on my mbr of hda correct? I need to edit lilo.conf but then what is the rest of the proceedure for that? 2 blocks: image=/vmlinuz # or the name of rh kernel if its different root=/dev/hda2 label=r # RedHat read-only image=/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb2 label=d # debian read-only Then edit /etc/fstab of debian and add this line: /dev/hdb5 /home/ftp/pub ext2 defaults (or whatever) 0 2 One other question for now. The second hd is a 15.2 gb Ibm which is autodetected in the bios, are there any problems with that, or are there boot parameters I should have in Lilo? Use fdisk, not cfdisk; if you encounter problems, try to add this line to /etc/lilo.conf: linear JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory... (By Larry Wall)
Re: Linux as a router
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 07:16:40AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: BTW, would using a floppy for the system be better than a HD in terms of security? Or, it just means that a floppy will have less data so that even if the system badly hacked, the recovery would be pretty simple (just make a copy from the backup floppy, and the router will just run as before). I think it could be possible, using a large amount of ram, and ram disks. But a good firewall is working very well, and allow you to keep traces (logs) of the attack. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory... (By Larry Wall)
Re: Re-Partioning
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 06:37:43PM -0600, Brian Neal wrote: Hi, I put my /var on it's own partion, but didn't realize it got used so much and made it too small. Several times it has almost filled up during apt-gets. I also have /usr/local on another partion which is pretty much empty. Can I tar off the contents of /var and /usr/local and put them on one of my bigger drives, then go back (using the rescue floppy) and combine my /var and /usr/local Yes, but why a rescue floppy? copy the contents on other partitions, modify /etc/fstab, reboot, modify your previous partitions, format them, restore the contents, re-change the /etc/fstab, reboot, et voilà ! JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory... (By Larry Wall)
Re: Dual-ethernet
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 09:19:57AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: I did that (append=ether=5,0x300,eth0 ether=10,0x320,eth1), it wouldn't boot. I recall that boot options will not work for modules. Is this correct? I don't really know, since I only use modules for sound in my kernels. If it is, the only way is to recompile the kernel (which means downloading kernel sources gcc that may bog down a 28.8 modem line) If the above mentionned is true, that's the only way. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] The flow chart is a most thoroughly oversold piece of program documentation. -- Frederick Brooks, The Mythical Man Month
Re: Xfree-changing default
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 11:17:57AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: How do I change my default starting of Xserver to 32 from 8 or so? I have several modes avalable, but if I try from the command prompt: startx -- -bpp 32 it says: Xserver already running. Can't, or something similar. So, what should I do to swithch to 32? You can add a line in the Screen section: DefaultColorDepth 8 JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Who cares if it doesn't do anything? It was made with our new Triple-Iso-Bifurcated-Krypton-Gate-MOS process ...
Re: secure pop3 via ssh
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 01:38:08PM -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: Hi, How can I set a secure pop3 server using ssh? Don't know, I'm interested too ;) How do I implement the server? The qpopper package work perfectly for me (without touching any config file) JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Real Users find the one combination of bizarre input values that shuts down the system for days.
Re: Debian 2.0 booting problem
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 05:25:02PM +, Suresh Kumar.R wrote: Sometimes it boots up well. I have installed only the base system and netwoking code (NIS and Automount) Sometimes the boot process hangs with the following error message: qlogicisp: PCI bios not present eata_dma : No BIOS32 extensions present. This driver still depends on it 0 Skipping scan for PCI HBAs eata_pio: No BIOS32 extensions present. This driver still depends on it 0 Skipping scan for PCI HBAs When the machine boots up properly, the above stage does not occur. I dont I might ask for a stupidity, but how old is the battery of the cmos clock/ram ? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Macintosh is Xerox technology at its best.
Re: fetchmail and deleting read mail
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 06:49:17AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: Is there any way to make fetchmail delete each mail at source as soon as it's fetched? I have nearly a thousand mails to fetch and I keep getting errors and having to start again from scratch. Please mail answers to me at a.campbell.doctors.org.uk as well as to this list or I may not see them! Yes, your .fetchmailrc should look like this: poll pop.myisp.kosovo with POP3 user anthony there with password passwd if geronimo here options keep fetchall Just remove the 'keep' JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the long run, every program becomes rococco, and then rubble. -- Alan Perlis
Re: X11 virtual display size
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 09:19:56AM +, Bernhard Rieder wrote: Hi, Is there a way to prevent X11 from scrolling when you have a virtual display size larger than the physical display size ? I think the answer is contained in the question ;) If you set a virtual screen larger than the resolution you use, it is to have a virtual screen... JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the long run, every program becomes rococco, and then rubble. -- Alan Perlis
Re: X11 virtual display size
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 11:48:52AM +, Bernhard Rieder wrote: Maybe I re-formulate my Question: Is there something (a Key combination) that locks the physical display to a fixed position on the virtual display (=prevents scrolling). Sorry Bernhard, I don't know it it exists. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] The best way to accelerate a Macintoy is at 9.8 meters per second per second.
Re: Capture sound/video under linux
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 07:14:15PM -0800, aphro wrote: For all of those of you that have been(like me) dreaming for the day of being able to capture FMV with audio under linux there is now a stable(appears) program available. XawTV 3.01 (Nov 14) Sorry to disturb you again Nate, I'm under slink, kernel 2.2.13, donwloaded xawtv-3.0.1, bttv-0.7.3 and lm-sensor-2.4.3, as the html page said. I successfully made and aplyied the lm-sensorpatch to the kernel sources (did not re-compile it yet). But when I try to compile the new bttv driver, I've got many warnings errors (from within /usr/src/bttv-0.7.3/driver): bttc.c: In function `attach_inform': bttc.c:303: `I2C_DRIVERID_MPS3400' undeclared (first use of this function) bttc.c:303: (each undeclared identifier is reported only once bttc.c:303: for each function it appears in.) bttc.c:304: `I2C_DRIVERID_TDA8425' undeclared (first use of this function) bttc.c:307: `I2C_DRIVERID_TUNER' undeclared (first use of this function) bttc.c:312: warning: unreachable code at beginning of switch statement bttc.c: In function `detach_inform': bttc.c:322: `I2C_DRIVERID_MPS3400' undeclared (first use of this function) bttc.c:323: `I2C_DRIVERID_TDA8425' undeclared (first use of this function) bttc.c:326: `I2C_DRIVERID_TUNER' undeclared (first use of this function) bttc.c:329: warning: unreachable code at beginning of switch statement make[2]: *** [bttv.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/bttv-0.7.3/driver' make[1]: *** make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel/2.2.13' make *** [Here] Error 2 Do you know where it come from??? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] This dungeon is owned and operated by Frobozz Magic Co., Ltd.
Re: ATI Rage 128 VR (AGP)
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 04:17:09PM +0100, Sergey Lishchuk wrote: Hi What X server must I use to make potato work with ATI Rage 128 VR (AGP) video card? VGA16 works, but I need larger resolution. SVGA does not work. I tried to install manually the SUSE package XFCom_Rage128, but unsuccesfully. Hi Sergei, I'm under slink, so I don't know for potato. Did you also downloaded/installed the RegFrame.tgz ?? I installed under xfree86 3.3.4, kernel 2.2.12, and its working perfectly (I first turned .tgz into .deb with alien). JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [A computer is] like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy. -- Joseph Campbell
tracing the HD access
Hi all, I'd like to optimize my partitions locations for the maximum of speed Is there a utility which can trace the partition access (in order)? 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
Re: Large disks
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 04:18:47PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: .. to the global (top) section of/etc/lilo.conf. Now the only problem is that I've got a 534 Mb partition that I can't decide where to mount, so it's just sitting there, still unused... (Any suggestions?) You could enlarge it a bit, and use it to make your images for CDz JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'OK' first. (Arno Schaefer's .sig)
Re: Interested
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 01:25:14PM -0500, Donta' Watson wrote: Hello I am trying to find my way in this gigantic way of networking and communications. I have recently graduated and I am looking toward working with some other product other than Microsoft. I have heard about Linux and I linked to your site. I am intrigued by what Debian is and would like to find out more info. Thanks Hi, Do make a research on Linux in your favourite browser first, read all what's in http://www.linux.org http://www.debian.org. And don't wait for anybody to drive your hand... Linux is quite complex, so, you'll have to learn it by yourself... and that's a very good thing: you will have to know the basics when you will try to go further; of course that doesn't mean nobody will not help you. But that means you can't sign for the 1000 miles car race, without beeing (a bit) a mechanic :) Debian is a distribution of Linux, among the others, it have unique specs, and its a bit like a love story with it for all of us ;) JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wasn't there something about a PASCAL programmer knowing the value of everything and the Wirth of nothing?
Re: networking options
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 03:09:48PM -0800, Michael Hunter wrote: I have a six-year-old 486DX with 24MB running Debian, and I'd like to connect it to my home network, which currently consists of two Win98 machines connected by 3Com network cards. What is the best way to connect my Debian box in? As I see it, I have two choices: -- Use a null modem cable to hook up to one of the Windows boxes -- Install a 3Com network card in the Debian box Secondly, one of the Windows boxes now has a DSL modem and the other has a printer and scanner attached. Here I see three choices: -- Leave the peripherals where they are -- Hang the peripherals off the Debian box -- Hang one or two of the peripherals where they are and hang the other(s) off the Debian box What is my best option? How do I go about configuring Debian to use that option? Hi Mike, IMHO I would say: transfer the printer and DSL modem to the Linux box (with samba for printing, 2 NICs, and a good firewall too), and leave the scanner on a w$ box, as sane (scanner gestion under Linux) is not very easy to use. This way you'll use the best side of both systems: a real professional head of network, a light weight for printing on w$ boxes, and usefull programs to comes with your scanner. But I'm not a huge specialist, so perhaps better solutions exists ;) JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wasn't there something about a PASCAL programmer knowing the value of everything and the Wirth of nothing?
Re: Realtek NIC speed issues
On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 08:21:44AM +1000, Daniel Thomas wrote: Hi, Hopefully someone can help me on this as I've just about given up. I have a realtek8029 based PCI network card. Under windows this card performs well, getting good (50+kb/s) from local sites. Under Debian however I'm doing well if I average 10kbs from the same location. Does anyone have any ideas? Some other info that may be useful: I upgraded from 2.1 to 2.2 about a month ago, it was during this process that I first noticed the speed dfference. Hi, I use a REALTEK-8029 NIC, without any problem (slink, 2.2.12 kernel) dmesg says: ne2k-pci.c:vpre-1.00e 5/27/99 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ne2k-pci.html ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0xa400, IRQ 11 eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xa400, IRQ 11, 00:20:18:24:25:26 JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Multics is security spelled sideways.
Re: ls doesn't work on my Anonymous FTP!
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 07:18:17AM +, Jens K. Olsen wrote: I have set up an anonymous FTP according to the guidelines in the ftpd man page. Everything seems to work fine, except ls. When I do ls, I get no information. pwd gives me the correct path. I have tried to give full permission to everything in ~/ftp, but ls still does not give anything. Any ideas what can be wrong? Did you tryied to put your ftp client in passive mode ? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix is the worst operating system; except for all others. -- Berry Kercheval
Re: FIXED: audio cdrom broken in 2.2 kernels???
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 07:48:12PM -0500, Rob Mahurin wrote: One of my friends reminded me that hdparm works on ATAPI drives too. It turns out that the CD-ROM was going to sleep and not waking up properly. hdparm -S 0 /dev/cdrom fixed the problem. Will I break anything by adding this to /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh? Hi, it might be usefull to install the hwtools package, as it already contains an entry to hdparm in /etc/rc/boot/hwtools. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] A CONS is an object which cares. -- Bernie Greenberg.
Re: creating ttyS5?
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 10:52:21AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: I just purchased a pci-modem from Actiontec that uses a Lucent chip and on the box it says it is compatible with Linux. I have to create a ttyS4 (com 5) I have done a /dev/MAKEDEV ttyS4 and this appears to create the file. I'm not a specialist of serial, but on my box, I have /dev/ttys0 to /dev/ttysf, from the regular install (pure slink) ^ ^ JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] A CONS is an object which cares. -- Bernie Greenberg.
Re: Mirroring
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 04:08:38PM +, Brian Schramm wrote: Is there a way to mirror directories in a two way fasion? I want to update the directories that have older files in it with it's counterpart on another machine. This way my mini network will always act the same no mater what computer it is on and I can still have some private stuff for that computer only. Hi, wget with the --timestamping option might do the trick. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] THEGODDESSOFTHENETHASTWISTINGFINGERSANDHERVOICEISLIKEAJAVELININTHENIGHTDUDE
Re: netscape navigator 4.5
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 04:35:17PM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote: Hi, I installed the following packages from slink: navigator-base-45_4.5-1.deb netscape-base-45_4.5-1.deb netscape-base-4_5.deb now I try to run netscape from X, but the only netscape executable around is `netscape-remote' ...? all I want is to have the navigator installed (no communicator), what's missing then? Hi Horacio, The packages you installed are just loaders, not programs :) JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] My sister opened a computer store in Hawaii. She sells C shells down by the seashore.
Re: Pine
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 06:23:25PM +, John wrote: [SNIP] Also, Pine depends on libc6 =2.1 (my slink has 2.0.7) and libncurses ^^^ Forget this version, lic6-2.1 is for potato, and it is almost impossible to go back once ver. 2.1 is installed; use a former version instead. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] RADIO SHACK LEVEL II BASIC READY _
Re: X screen resolutions.
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 08:11:47AM +, Jens K. Olsen wrote: I am sure my machine was displaying 1280x1024 when I was using Windows, but in X I can't get it to work. Can anyone please help me. Hi, are you sure this resolution was 'plain' and not compresses, like on LCD for projectors? If so, I don't think this specific mode is supported by xfree. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] TRANSACTION CANCELLED - FARECARD RETURNED
Re: MiroPCTV and ATI 128
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 06:19:56PM -0800, aphro wrote: its best to avoid the video4linux drivers in the kernels, they are somewhat outdated. try grabbing the latest bttv drivers from the homepage http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html i use the latest driver with both a TNT and an Imagine 128S2 (XF86 3.3.3.5) on a hauppauge card(forgot which one, Wincast PCI ?? maybe) and it works perfectly on both xawtv and kwintv(i prefer kwintv) under That might be the problem, I missunderstood some of the README, and the v4l-conf is still here. I'm gonna try kwintv too ;) afterstep and kernel 2.2.10. never had the freeze you are referring to. It may be a hardware issue..anything show up in the logs during that freeze ? some kind of errors maybe .. The entries seems normal in all .log, except in message.x, I've got some -- MARK -- lines; don't know what that is. Thanks Nate JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] An engineer is someone who does list processing in FORTRAN.
drive not ready...
Hi, this is for those who met the same errors I just have this kind of problem; I was scared about a HD failure, as many mails are talking about. Since it is an 8 months HD, I was quite sure is was not a failure. So I opened the beast and had a look: it was simply the power supply connector of this HD, which was a bit loosen, and, thus, giving a bad connection, especially when the HD was working vibrating hard... I tighten the four circular connectors, and now its working perfectly. As I seen, every other supply connectors where in this state (might be all the tests I made, plugging unplugging many times); so before buying a new HD, check this :) JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time. -- KR
Re: KDE 1.1.2 for slink problem - kfmclient
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 08:30:11PM +0100, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: Hello! I've used KDE 1.1.1 (naturally from kde.tdyc.org) on my slink system without problems but some days ago I've upgraded it to version 1.1.2. Everything works OK except kfmclient. When I try to browse any directory on KDE Desktop (my home directory from icon on Desktop or any other directory) or try to open any URL address kfmclient opens window swith all menus and with empty content - it works forever. I can stop it and try to reload but without success. It dosn't show anything. Is it bug in my KDE setup or in KDE itself? No, this is not a bug: I use KDE 1.1.2 (not 1.1.1 before) and its working perfectly. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Real computer scientists don't program in assembler. They don't write in anything less portable than a number two pencil.
MiroPCTV and ATI 128
Hi all, I wonder if I'm alone with the following problem: When I watch TV (xawtv, KDE 1.1.2, kernel 2.2.12), sometimes, it hangs; evrything is stuck for # 7-12 seconds, then it goes on; I really mean goes on, because if I have a clock opened, the hand of seconds don't jump: it go fast from the seconds it was stuck to the good position. That's boooring! If somebody has a clue... JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Real computer scientists don't program in assembler. They don't write in anything less portable than a number two pencil.
sblive and speak-freely
Hi all, Does anyone succeeded to run speak-freely on an sblive? I can't even have it to work in loop mode (local). JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Real computer scientists don't program in assembler. They don't write in anything less portable than a number two pencil.
Re: SB Live Module
On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 05:22:18PM +0100, SGaerner wrote: Hi! There are still problems with the SB Live kernel module. I have added the following lines... Makefile: -I/usr/src/linux/include to the line CFLAGS += -I$(INCLUDEDIR) -I. newline-- CFLAGS += -I$(INCLUDEDIR) -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include Hi, I'm on a pure slink system, 2.2.12 kernel. The *only* thing to do to get a nice compilation is to modify 1 line in the Makefile. change from: INCLUDEDIR = /usr/include to: INCLUDEDIR = /usr/src/linux/include JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] The program isn't debugged until the last user is dead.
Re: SB Live
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 11:45:52PM +0100, SGaerner wrote:
I used th e dpkg -S command but no file was found.
The other problem is I have installed the libc6-dev.
Do you have now any idea??? ;-)
Hi Sven,
I finally found what's wrong with sound.h :
The program refers to /usr/include/.
instead of: /usr/src/linux/include/..
JY
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Re: SB Live
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 01:42:36AM +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: I finally found what's wrong with sound.h : The program refers to /usr/include/. instead of: /usr/src/linux/include/.. Raaahhh, too simple: there are many things to change :(( (BTW I work under 2.2.12, and the part which is compiled is the one for 0x20100 ?? WHY such a cruelty ?) Sorry its a bit long, I don't know how to make a patch: in 'platform.h': //#include linux/sound.h #include /usr/src/linux/include/linux/sound.h .. //#include linux/soundcard.h #include /usr/src/linux/include/linux/soundcard.h .. in the block defining 'typedef int spinlock_t', comment all lines (from this one, to 'else'), and change: //#include asm/spinlock.h #include /usr/src/linux/include/asm/spinlock.h comment then 'endif = in 'main.c': Lines # 294, 304, 314 323, replace the FIRST calls to 'register_sound_.' with the following (the one with a final '-1') Ouf, c'est fini :)) JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Macintosh is Xerox technology at its best.
Re: Obscure Hardware
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 01:50:51PM +1100, Andrew Clark wrote: I'm wondering if anyone out there knows where I could get a pH probe with serial output and a water hardness probe with serial output. Hi Andrew, You can call HANNA INSTRUMENTS, they have a Ph-meter with RS232 Sorry I don't have the address nor ohne number. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer programmers do it byte by byte.
Re: SB Live
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 02:29:44AM +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: Raaahhh, too simple: there are many things to change :(( Sorry, forget it: the PB was comming from the include directories as many people, I began with 2.0.36, which is always set in /usr/include; so I just changed, in Makefile INLCUDEDIR from /usr/include to : /usr/src/linux/include. And now everything's allright :)) JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. -- Rich Kulawiec
Re: Booting from floopy slow
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 07:55:59AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I installed Debian slink in a second hard drive, which is hdb1 (there are hda1 to hda4), my system does not allow booting from a slave hard drive, so I use the floppy system, but it is very slow. What can I do to accelerate it? Is there any command to type that will speed it, say redirect it to hdb1? When I made the installation I also enabled booting from hard disk. For the diskette, just answer YES when you've compiled a new kernel to the question 'Make a boot diskette ?'. For the HD, read /usr/doc/LILO-HOWTO JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSDOS is not dead, it just smells that way. -- Henry Spencer
Re: setting the date with date [ Netdate ]
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 09:22:25AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: What's the difference between netdate and ntpdate (other than that ntpdate is a separate package)? netdate seems to be the former form of ntpdate. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] May Euell Gibbons eat your only copy of the manual!
Re: Backup Media
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:03:37PM -, Bernadette McKevitt wrote: I am based in small office with 2 pc's and 1 laptop. The computers are set up on a local network and I am trying to decide which backup media device would be best for this office. Bernie, Hi Bernie, Well it depends on your kind of need... ;-)) If its just data, and there's not very much of them, and data are to be modified very often, use a HD in a drawer or a zip unit, if there's a great amount of data, use a DAT; If there's a huge amount of data *and* you need to make 2 or more backups per day, use a DLT. Remember that for intensive use, the DAT is quite fragile (PB with heads azimuts, and load/unload mechanics). DLT is the best (speed # 12 MB/sec, reliability...), but is very expensive. HD is fast and inexpensive. Its very difficult to give you an advice without knowing what you exactly intend to do. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] The meat is rotten, but the booze is holding out. Computer translation of The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Re: [LRP: DHCPCD] ISP rotate IP-Adresses
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 09:58:23PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello, I have a 2 MBit cable modem with DHCP and my ISP rotate all 3-4 weeks the IP-Adresses. How can I check with a simpel and small program that the connection is broken ??? The program must force the router to rebooting ??? I don't understand your question. I think, it is good, if the program check the connectivity all 5 or 10 minutes. Just setup your dhcp-client for a lease time of 600 sec. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why use Windows, since there is a door? (By [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andre Fachat)
Re: Trouble getting local ntp server working
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 05:59:18PM -0800, Iain Lamb wrote: Note that netdate tcp 192.168.1.1 works fine on .2. That means your xntpd is not loaded, otherwise it should return: 2 Nov 03:21:51 ntpdate[5563]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting Check you've got a symlink in /etc/rc2.d, alike: S20xntp3 - ../init.d/nxtp3 JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] C makes it easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes that harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
Re: Disk error! ACK!
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 10:24:27PM -0500, Jon Hughes wrote: I'm cautious about clearing some illegal block for fearing I'll lose data or what not. And you're right :) Try to change it again, but this time with 'fdisk' instead of 'cfdisk', some cdfisk versions are not very good, especially with large HD. (Mine was giving me out of bounds sectors) JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Deliver yesterday, code today, think tomorrow.
Re: problem with telnet
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 10:58:22AM +0100, Markus Lenzing wrote: Hello, I'm trying to set up a little server with debian linux. When I connect to my server via telnet and try to change my configuration files (like smb.conf), I get a 'permission denied'. The user account I have used has the nessecary rights. Where can I change this? Hi Markus, Don't change it, make an 'su' command instead. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Deliver yesterday, code today, think tomorrow.
Re: Where I find kernel and netscape?
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 06:17:49PM -0200, Ribamar FS wrote: Hello! Sorry my english (I brazilian) :) Where do I find the packages of the kernel of Debian? I bought Debian 2.1 in just a CD (Cheapbytes) and I am having difficulties of finding the kernel and the netscape. Can anybody help me? HI, for the kernel, go to http://www.kernel.org, and look up for mirrors (I think there's one in Brazil). for netscape... http://www.netscape.com JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are three kinds of people: men, women, and unix.
Re: samba questions : thanks
Thanks to you, I'm gonna mount it this W.E. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] What this country needs is a good five cent microcomputer.
Re: boot sequence
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 07:57:38AM -0500, Lyno Sullivan wrote: I seek info showing the sequence that Debian uses when starting its devices. What URL's have such a list? If I had gotten my machine to boot and completed the install, where would I look to study (and perhaps modify) the boot sequence? First, read all the docs in /usr/doc/sysvinit :) JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
Re: 7s(%\%+3ufP,9q$l*=P2000:
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:16:00PM +0200, Ingo Reimann wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:16:24PM +0200, HCI wrote: kewl, what kind of language is that? Ingo Seems to be korean. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... A booming voice says, Wrong, cretin!, and you notice that you have turned into a pile of dust.
Re: Network config problems - please help
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 02:23:16PM +0200, Stephan Hachinger wrote: Hello! I've finally solved it! Great, now you should have a look at your MUA and MTA, because you posted the same mail 5 times! JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Perl hashing problem
Hi all,
I have a problem with 2 hash tables in perl:
My first table contains long files names size in byte
As it comes without ordering on sizes, I want to sort it
in another hash table, so I make:
@New_Table = sort { $File_Table{$a} cmp $File_Table{b} } keys %File_Table;
but when I print both tables on the screen, New_Table is empty, why ??!
(I took it from a book, and also test it with '=' instead of 'cmp',
but I'm still stuck)
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
JY
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Text processing has made it possible to right-justify any idea, even
one which cannot be justified on any other grounds.
-- J. Finnegan, USC.
Re: Netscape and exim?
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:23:45PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: I have recently installed netscape 4.7 communicator on my slink system. I don't want to use for all my email, but would like to use it to email messages to webmasters or while I am browsing the web. I cannot figure out how to do it. What is the movemail program netscape refers to? Does netscape use exim? And fetchmail? To me it seems if it provides its own pop software. No, it uses the pop3 svr you did tell him. And the same for smtp svr. i.e.: I have a svr which retrieves automatically my mail from all the P.O. boxes I have, and I have exim installed on it. So, I setup Netscape to send mail to my svr, and to retrieve it from it too; but if you have no mail svr @ home, you can set them to external svrs. Can I use pine, exim, fetchmail, procmail and netscape together for email or is it not recommended. In this case, avoid to setup the P.O. box auto-seek because it will drop all the mail in ~/nsmail/Inbox. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Re: modem speed
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 05:13:33PM +0200, Attila Csosz wrote: I'm looking for a program that measures the speed of downloading( for example for the wget program ). ( better if it is console based or can be X-based ) Thanks Attila Hun, hun :))) Use 'iptraf' on another console JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Re: Linux/X and LCD projectors (sort of video beamer)
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 06:06:57PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: Hi, The hardware vendor said that the projector can't show up modes at high frequencies, only about 60--70 hz. There's no problem with flickering because basically it is a LCD display. AFAIK the LCD's projectors cannot go further than 1280x1024 in compressed mode (forget it!). So you'll not able to go further than 1024x768. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] This file will self-destruct in five minutes.
Re: restart exim
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 12:11:11PM -0400, Richard Weil wrote: How do you restart exim after changing exim.conf? The manual says to send the daemon process a SIGHUP signal, but I can't find the daemon process pid. Hi Richie, do: kill -HUP exim pid, or /etc/init.d/exim restart JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] This file will self-destruct in five minutes.
Re: Outlook doesn't send over linux dialup gateway
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 12:51:24AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a little pc running as a dialup gateway to the internet. i hooked my stuff up with dynip.com to get a static ip and run my own mail server ... pop3 sending mail from linux pc does all work. but i can't send from outlook express to the sendmail on the linux pc. Error Message : Relaying denied Please help me... Add a line to the Linux PC's /etc/exim.conf: i.e. for my small LAN: sender_net_accept_relay = 192.168.1.0/30 JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] VMS is like a nightmare about RXS-11M.
Re: hdparm settings
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:19:55PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: Thats the idea. Make a small script in init.d directory and link from runlevel /etc/rc*.d to it. Andrew Heeemm, hdparm is, by default, contained in script: /etc/rc.boot/hwtools JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blinding speed can compensate for a lot of deficiencies. -- David Nichols
Re: Kernel 2.0.38 binaries .deb??
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:06:35AM +0200, Lars Nixdorf wrote: hallo, I want to update to kernel 2.0.38. Are there .deb packages to do that? Is it a problem for debian , when I install kernel-2.0.38 from a tar.gz file to komile the kernel (/usr/src/kernel-2.0.38 and link linux to this)? Hi Lars, You're right, unpack the source in /usr/src and symlink it to 'linux'. And use 'make-kpkg kernel_image' to produce an installable .deb for your new kernel. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blinding speed can compensate for a lot of deficiencies. -- David Nichols
Re: getting exim to clear queue immediatly (w/o exim -qf)
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 03:42:15AM -0600, David Karlin wrote: in a queue. It is cleared out of the queue and delivered by exim -qf but it used to just go out right away, which was more convenient to me. Can anyone tell me what I need to change so mail will clear out from the queue right away, instead of sitting there? Hi Dave, Try to add 'smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0' in the first section of 'exim.conf' (MAIN CONFIGURATION SETTINGS). It will avoid exim to wait for (default) 10 mails to be in queue before sending. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blinding speed can compensate for a lot of deficiencies. -- David Nichols
Re: hdparm settings
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:34:24AM +0200, Ingo Reimann wrote: Heeemm, hdparm is, by default, contained in script: /etc/rc.boot/hwtools Yummi, could you be so kind to tell us, in which package this script should be? I didn't find it on my system... Ooops, you're right, it's a different package from 'hdparm': it is the 'hwtools' package. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blinding speed can compensate for a lot of deficiencies. -- David Nichols
Re: gnu-pop3d
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 01:43:58PM +0100, Richard Clarke wrote: [SNIP] Hi Richie, Have a look to 'la gazette' #43, I think its all you need. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX enhancements aren't.
Re: Who is using up my root partition?
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 02:38:43PM +, Pedro Sanchez wrote:
Hello,
My root partition is reported as full but I fail to identify the files
that are taking up all the space. /tmp and /var are symlinks to
/usr/local/{tmp,var} which are in a different file system just 1% used.
I use the command du -x to get a report on only the root partition and
it says that it is using less than 8 MB out of about 50 MB. So, why is
that df says something different from du?
I'd appreciate any hint. The machine is running slink with kernel
2.0.36.
I had (quite) the same PB on my server in /var/spool, because of
wwwoffle: as the server's still in use, the use inodes aren't
really reflected through 'df'.
Perhaps you've got a process that filled up the / directory
without noticed you.
BTW did you made a 'bonie' to make a test?: its working by default
in /, with a 100MB file.
JY
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Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UNIX enhancements aren't.
expert engine
Hi folks, I wonder if such an engine (in GNU/GPL) exists? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and crystallography weenies.
Re: make to dep package?
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 12:18:34PM +0200, Benak Istvan wrote: Hi again! I've a short question: If I download a tar.gz file and if I want to compile it, can I make from the source a deb package? Because If I install it from the source I can't purge it, not? But If I can make a deb from the source i can remove it with the dpkg. Have any solution? Yep: use 'alien -d file.tgz' BUT it makes a .deb who install on / :( So, you better first untar it (usually in /usr/src), then re-tar it *with* path, then alienize it; so, this way its gonna be installed in the right directory ;) JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card. -- Dennis M. Ritchie
Re: adding win 95 partition
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 12:58:35PM -0500, James Ruby wrote: I'm wondering if this can be donw with out re-installing debian? I have a 20 gb drive with 5 gb for root and 5 gb for user and 128 mb swap they are all primary partitions. Now I have a little over 9 gb left, I would like to devide this in half and make partitions that windows 95 can see and use, can I do this with out trashing the drive and starting over? So far the things I've tried with cfdisk did not work, there are about four different win 95 fat 32 options. Hi James, I actually have (quite) the same setup on a HD: *warning* I'm using w98$ (/dev/hda1) and it doesn't like to see that /dev/hdc has more than 1 primary partition! Even if they were all from Linux type :((( (With one of my friend, we have a strong doubt about a possible M$ trick to bother Linux users...). With 4 primaries partitions, w98$ takes 12 minutes to boot!!! (zapping like a crazy HD without swap...) So now, I've only one primary (Linux) partition on /dev/hdc In order for win$ to recognize its children, you need to setup the extended partition in win95 type (which is f), and the w95$ partition type to b. here is my setup: /dev/hda1b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda2f Win95 Extended (LBA) /dev/hda5b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda8b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hdc1 83 Linux native /dev/hdc2f Win95 Extended (LBA) /dev/hdc5 83 Linux native /dev/hdc6 83 Linux native /dev/hdc7 83 Linux native /dev/hdc8 83 Linux native /dev/hdc9 83 Linux native /dev/hdc10 83 Linux native /dev/hdc11 b Win95 FAT32 Another advantage to put W$ partitions ALWAYS in logical drives on another HD is to avoid W$ drives' shifting :) Et voilà! JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I'd known computer science was going to be like this, I'd never have given up being a rock 'n' roll star. -- G. Hirst
Re: automated md5sum checks
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 06:25:27PM -, Pollywog wrote: Is there an app which can perform md5sum checks of binaries on an automated basis, like once a week or so? Would doing this just slow down my machine? thanks Have a look at the cruft package, and put it in a cron job, with a redirection of the output to a file. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I'd known computer science was going to be like this, I'd never have given up being a rock 'n' roll star. -- G. Hirst
Re: Debian and M$ Outlook Off Topic
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 07:12:46PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote:
Is there an IMAP client [not Netscape] for Gnome or KDE that is at version 1
or beyond?
Patrick
I'm not so sure ('cos I tryied it only once) but I think
ISHMAIL can do that.
JY
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Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If I'd known computer science was going to be like this, I'd never have
given up being a rock 'n' roll star.
-- G. Hirst
Re: Parallel port problem - No printing possible
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 06:08:15PM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, compiling with auto detect I can see the printer detected, but on parport0 (or something like that) instead of lp0. I am not able to print either way though. How can check that my parallel port works like it should? How can I see that lp0 really receives the documents? And finally, what might be the reason I am not able to print at all? First check whats heppening in the spool with lpq. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I'd known computer science was going to be like this, I'd never have given up being a rock 'n' roll star. -- G. Hirst
Re: Stateful Packet - Firewall
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 07:58:36PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: Does anyone know of a Stateful packet inspection firewall for Linux (preferably debian) ? I was given this URL, which tests my firewall; I don't know if it is an overall test, but it says I'm not attackable :) http://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Function reject.
Re: another question about my monitor
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 10:41:50PM -0600, jh wrote: [SNIP] My question is: What if I reinstalled Windows 3.11 Would there be some kind of utility that would show me what settings Windows is using for the monitor sync? Or Dos? Nope, they don't manage to tell you about SYNCs and refresh rates. First try with low VESA modes (in /etc/X11/XF86Config), and comment out all other modes to avoid frying your screen. Then, when you'll have VESA modes working, try the same resolutions with regular modes, growing from low to higher clock speed. *keep your hands on CTRL_ALT_BACKSPACE* to avoid your monitor to burn if you selected a wrong mode! JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Function reject.
Re: kernel-source: make menuconfig does not run ?
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:18:18AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: I have no such problems with linux-2.2.13.tar.bz2 (not debinaized). I wonder if there is a problem with kernel-source-2.2.12 ? No: I use a pure slink, not any PB with 2.2.12. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Function reject.
Re: Winbond-based generic NICs
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 12:51:49AM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: Hi all - Trouble is, on this one machine I can't get the NIC driver to load :(. It has a winbond chip in it, and it's supposed to be 'ne2k compatible,' but the ne2k-pci module won't load. I get some of the more common module loading errors (device is busy... etc). My question is this: does anyone know what to do about not-quite ne2000 clones (PCI) that won't probe? the card's plug and play, and the kernel sees it -- a cat of /proc/pci lists the NIC loud and clear, including IRQ and base I/O address. Try also regular ISA NE2000 driver, then try SMCs drivers; if it don't work, contact the NE2000 Maintainer (see /usr/doc/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO) And disable 'Plowed Pray' from your kernel JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Function reject.
