IBCS and Recent Debian Releases
Has anyone got IBCS working with a recent Debian release kernel 2.2.20? I've got 2.2r5 loaded and need this functionality for Informix databases. Seems like the deb is lost in space. I'd appreciate any pointers. Thanks.
Password Security
In addition to forced password changes, I'm looking for something to sit between the user and passwd to enforce variably strong passwords. Anyone have any favorite techniques/programs they'd care to share? Thanks for the input Mike
Bridges Anyone?
Hi all! Here's the story... I'd like to setup a dual NIC Debian box to act as a filtering bridge. The goal is to filter IP traffic in by port and, hopefully, other protocols. For example, I'd like to ship traffic destined to two (or more) web servers to their respective hosts untouched. However, any other IP requests for port 80 would be silently dropped. The traffic through the bridge would use real IP addresses which makes NAT unsuitable. Any pointers, hints, greatly appreciated
HELP
iBCS broken with 2.2.19
ibcs-2.1-981105 compiles and works find with 2.2.18 but with 2.2.19 this happens: pogo:/usr/src# modprobe iBCS /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/iBCS: unresolved symbol strlen_user /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/iBCS: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/iBCS failed /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/iBCS: insmod iBCS failed Any pointers greatly appreciated.
Samba 2.2.0 and Debian 2.2r3
Hi all.. Unstable has Samba 2.2.0 but it requires a newer version of libc than is supplied with 2.2r3. I'm a bit anxious about upgrading lib6 so I got the sources and compiled Samba under 2.2r3. It compiled fine. Anyone know of any issues to be aware of? I really need the new Samba in an attempt at ditching a few NT Servers! Thanks in advance
RE: problem with installing Debian on a ide raid controler
The easiest way around this issue is to use the motherboard IDE ports for the install. After you've got everything rolling, you can go looking for some UDMA drivers for your card. Check the Debian site for pointers. SCSI only systems work because the Debian boot floppy kernel has drivers for most of the common brand SCSI cards. Cheers -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 1:15 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: problem with installing Debian on a ide raid controler Hi all, I've a problem installing Debian on my system: 2 x PIII 500MHz ASUS P2B-D 128MB Matrox G200 Abit Hot Rod 100 Pro (IDE raid controler - pci) Maxtor Diamond Max 8GB Lite On CDRom 32x I've plugged the controler on a pci slot and connected the hdd to it. In the bios I set boot device to SCSI - the controler bios then detects the hdd. If I boot form Debian CD and try to install Linux on the hdd drive - the install prog doesn't find any hdd drive. How can I install Debian - what do you do if you try to install Debian on a SCSI-only system (maybe this should also work with the Abit controler). thanks a lot, Oliver PS : If I set the hdd to the mobo ide controler -all works fine.
RE: problem with installing Debian on a ide raid controler : PART 2
-Original Message- From: Nate Amsden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 2:43 PM To: Oliver Kowalke Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: problem with installing Debian on a ide raid controler : PART 2 Oliver Kowalke wrote: Dear all, I forgot to say that I want to install Debian 2.2 on a raid 0 array. So - installing Debian on a drive on motherboard ide controler will not work. Maybe should I compile a new kernel with a driver for my ide raid controler card an put it on the boot floppy? 99% of those IDE raid controllers are indeed NOT raid, but standard ide controllers that come with raid software. If this is the case(it is difficult to determine wether or not the controller is hardware sometimes, a good example is the Promise ATA raid controller you can turn a standard promise ata controller into raid by just adding a piece of circutry to it and flashing the bios. If your raid card is infact software based then it is not a raid card because the raid portion is all software, since linux already has raid builtin to it, you don't need the software even if you could use it on linux. 1) don't hold your breath on installing linux on an ide raid controller 2) You don't need to install the core OS onto raid -- more on this later 3) booting off a raid controller onto a raid set is extremely difficult and only possible with certain controllers. The problem - if the drives are in raid mode, and the raid driver is loaded after the system boots(or more accurate while it is booting) how is the system supposed to boot off the drives if the driver is loaded yet?) This is possible using some hardware raid controllers(i've yet to see a ide raid controller that can stand up to a scsi raid, not only that but abit's quality control is crap) ^^ It's very important to add 'IMO' when not providing a shred of evidence for claims like this. SNIP nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oracle 8i and Debian?
Subject says it all... anyone got this setup going and if so, was it a bunch of work? Seems like RedHat's 2 grand is a bit much for a "certified" Linux for Oracle. I'd much rather use Debian. Any amd all comments welcome.
Serial IO Aiee
Hi All, Using Debian 2.1 on a P166, 64 M RAM, Adaptec 2940W, Cheetah 4 GB, Asus P55T2P4 MB. All was well until I tried to setup UUCP which resulted in the Aiee at the end of this message. I thought UUCP was the culprit but cu and mgetty cause the same problems. Man.., I thought serial port drivers were under control! The same hardware worked fine with 2.0. Any ideas appreciated. Thanks.. ~# dmesg|more all Trace: [0011858f] [0010a7df] Code: 1Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c501ad98 current-tss.cr3 = 034f5000, %cr3 = 034f5000 *pde = 0009e067 *pte = Oops: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[0010ad48] EFLAGS: 00010212 eax: 0010 ebx: 002b ecx: 0501ad98 edx: 003e1810 esi: edi: 003e7000 ebp: 003e6f68 esp: 003e6f0c ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 0010 gs: 002b ss: 0018 Process mgetty (pid: 18216, process nr: 22, stackpage=003e6000) Stack: 002b 0001a000 003e6f68 02b7ec0c 0500 0580 0500 02b70018 00111b6a 001b058d 003e6f68 0011189c fff0 0010 001eeb00 00177295 00f8ff18 03592264 0010a9b0 003e6f68 0010 Call Trace: [0500] [0580] [0500] [00111b6a] [0011189c] [0 0177295] [0010a9b0] [0501ad98] [0501ad98] [0011858f] [0010a7df] Code: 64 8a 04 0e 0f a1 88 c2 81 e2 ff 00 00 00 89 54 24 10 52 68 Aiee, killing interrupt handler
RE: Need SCSI Tape Help
Thanks, MAKEDEV did work but tape support was already in my custom (SMP) kernel. The machine that has all the proper devices without my intervention is running 2.0, so, I guess something is missing in the kernel build process. If I knew where to start, I'd go looking and post a fix. In any case, thanks for all the responses. They were *all* workable which a lot more than I can say for my $calls$ to Redmond :) -Original Message- From: Keith G. Murphy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 10:29 AM To: 'Debian List' Subject: Re: Need SCSI Tape Help Mike Barton wrote: Hi all! I'm using slink with an SMP kernel (2.0.36) on a dual Pentium Pro 200 with 256M RAM. The HD setup is a pair of 4 GB Seagate Barracudas on an Adaptec 2940UW along with an SCSI CDROM and a Tandberg 4222 tape drive. I've got a really sweet server here except that I just noticed there are no /dev/st* for the tape drive. Anyone know at what point during the installation these get created? I've got another machine here with an SCSI tape with lots of /dev/st*. I'd sure hate to mknod 'em all by hand on the new beast. Your kernel is configured for SCSI tape support, right? I don't think that's the default. Do a 'make menuconfig' and look for it. If it's there, I believe you can cd to '/dev' and do a MAKEDEV, and that will create all the proper devices for you automatically. Folks, isn't the kernel build process supposed to do this for you? I remember having to do this myself, for a SCSI tape also, I believe. I used make-kpkg, then installed the binary package.
Need SCSI Tape Help
Hi all! I'm using slink with an SMP kernel (2.0.36) on a dual Pentium Pro 200 with 256M RAM. The HD setup is a pair of 4 GB Seagate Barracudas on an Adaptec 2940UW along with an SCSI CDROM and a Tandberg 4222 tape drive. I've got a really sweet server here except that I just noticed there are no /dev/st* for the tape drive. Anyone know at what point during the installation these get created? I've got another machine here with an SCSI tape with lots of /dev/st*. I'd sure hate to mknod 'em all by hand on the new beast. Thanks
Debian Progress and iBCS
Hi all! I have Debian 2.1 running with the default 2.0.36 kernel. iBCS for 2.0.36 isn't available as a *.deb so I Debinized an iBCS Redhat RPM and installed it. After moving things around to the proper directories, modprobe iBCS seems to work as far as I and lsmod know. However, trying to run _progres produces a segmentation fault. I have this version of Progress running on Debian 2.0 with a 2.0.33 kernel since there is an iBCS.deb for that kernel. I suspect I'm missing some SCO libs but, from looking at the two machines, I can't figure out what the differences are. The Progress version is 5.2 for SCO. The SCO box is going to be retired along with the OS as soon as I can get Progress running on the new Debian 2.1 box. Any comments, leads or othr help very much appreciated...
RE: How do you LOW FORMAT a hard drive
Actually, low formatting most SCSI drives is useful since it tests the drive and updates the dud sector map with the results. SCSI and IDE drives that would be damaged in some way by low formatting *usually* return success with out doing anything when asked to do a low level format. IOW, hard drives are very smart now-a-days. Formatting a floppy drive IS a low level format combined with writing out the FAT for DOS. -Original Message- From: Guilherme Soares Zahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 9:18 AM To: William T Wilson Cc: Patrik Magnusson; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How do you LOW FORMAT a hard drive I need to Low Format a hard drive - I have a drive that has at some stage Some BIOSes lets you do this. But you shouldn't ever low level format a hard drive. It isn't necessary any more since the 80's. More that that, it's REALLY dangerous to do so in new IDE drives (something to do with geometry parameters, if I'm not mistaken)... Now, how would I LOW FORMAT a floppy disk??? []'s Guilherme Zahn
RE: MICROSOFT BS FUD
-Original Message- From: David Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 16, 1999 9:06 AM To: Mike Barton; debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: David Wright Subject: Re: MICROSOFT BS FUD Quoting Mike Barton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I suppose you just forgot to post an even minor semblance of proof? Please correct the error and let us all in on it. Better yet why not answer my iBCS anyone post of a few days ago. Seeing as the modules in -2.0.34 and -2.0.35 compare equal, and that both they and that in -2.0.33 all contain the string 2.0.33, I'd say that there's been a slip-up in versions. It's happened before and may happen again, but really only affect those people who don't compile their own kernels. Useful information, thanks. Nobody answered your post probably because they couldn't guess from not having any luck why you couldn't just compile the module along with whatever kernel version you're using. I included shell output from both an attempt to load the module and an attempt to compile it. I'm not quite sure what having a view on the report has to do with capability to answer your question. FWIW I can't see how people place any faith in independent comparisons of products paid for by one of the parties. Thereagain, the company involved doesn't even claim that comparisons are amongst the services they provide, and they place such a strong disclaimer notice at the end that one wonders about their own faith. The point is the same as that in the Mazda TV commercial that features a racy looking dude blasting through the twisties in a 626. We all know he's doing this on a closed track, under controlled circumstances and that a 626 is hardly a sports sedan. Similarly, benchmarks and other computer company advertising is all to be taken with a grain of salt.
RE: MICROSOFT BS FUD
I suppose you just forgot to post an even minor semblance of proof? Please correct the error and let us all in on it. Better yet why not answer my iBCS anyone post of a few days ago. -Original Message- From: Kenneth Scharf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 3:21 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: MICROSOFT BS FUD Well it finally happened. Microsoft has paid someone off to fix a benchmark showing that Windows NT is actually better than linux. http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html === Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
iBCS Anyone?
I've got Debian 2.1 running on a dual PPro with 256 Megabytes of RAM, Adaptec 2940 and a Seagate 4 GB Cuda drive. All's fine except that I really need to run a legacy application which requires iBCS. Since the newest iBCS.deb package was compiled for 2.0.35, I installed and compiled the sources for this kernel rev. This was the result: fwd:~# modprobe iBCS /lib/modules/2.0.35/misc/iBCS: kernel-module version mismatch /lib/modules/2.0.35/misc/iBCS was compiled for kernel version 2.0.33 while this kernel is version 2.0.35. Thinking I'd made a mistake, I removed and re-installed iBCS2.0.35.deb with the same results as above. The iBCS mailing list seems dead and I've never had any luck compiling the emulator from source. This issue is holding up an entire project and I'd sure appreciate any suggestions as to where to go from here. Thanks to all and I hope Debian keeps going strong really _good_ stuff :)
RE: Linux to NT Server printing
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 3:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Linux to NT Server printing John: I would just like to know if any one has been able to print from a Linux machine to a printer attached to a Window NT 4 (sp3) Server based machine. ---snip I am just wondering if there is something particular with NT server... any clues. Appreciate any info anyone has. Thanks. John I went through the same experience, without success. I eventually got the NT system administrator to load up TCP/IP-based remote printing, for UNIX hosts: (i.e. in your Linux printcap file, lp:lp=:rp=NT_host:rm=NT.somewhere.org) They were reluctant because (unlike Linux/UNIX), they have no way of ensuring that only selected hosts /or users can access the printer. But it works just fine. Dean .. If you have Samba running, you can setup a printer interface file to handle this. I think there's an example in the Samba docs. If not, I could send you a sample from one of our SCO boxes. Works fine and since it's spooled via lp, you can control who uses it. Mike
RE: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?
-Original Message- From: dsb3 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 27, 1998 11:40 PM To: Miquel van Smoorenburg Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian? On 27 Sep 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wojciech Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi There was a lot of noise about the y2k problem in old COBOL and M$ applications, but what about the Y2K+38 disaster in the POSIX world? I was pretty sure that the new libc6 library implements 64 bit time_t, It's a kernel issue. On 32 bit platforms time_t will probably always be restricted to 32 bits, but on 64 bits systems such as the alpha time_t is 64 bits .. and by 2038 I expect everyone to be running at least a 64 bit machine. I think it's this attitude that caused y2k to be so large and sudden, at least i part. Though it may be true, and though I would like it very much to be true, I'd hate to bet on EVERYBODY moving to a 64 bit system. After all, count the billions of dollars being spent on mainframe systems. I would quite expect many companies to bleed those systems even drier now they've been forced into spending so much money on them ... Mechanically, in less than 15 years, we've gone from $800 72 MB 5 1/4 full height HDs to $600 fit in your shirt pocket 8 GB drives. Electronically, the advance has been far more exciting. IMO, I'd find it easy to bet that 32 bit machines and the Y2K++ problem will be a long since thing of the past in 39 years.
re: Logoff clear screen
On 22 Sep 1998, Ruud de Bruin wrote: I want to issue a clearscreen in or after a logout command so that the next login is on a blank screen. How can I accomplish this? Terry Carney wrote: If you are using bash then create a file named '.bash_logout', if one dowsn't exist, and add the single command 'clear' . You can also add: trap clear 0 at the top of /etc/profile This will clear the console screen irrespective of which VT that's in use or who's using it. It's just a single entry in one file. Mike
RE: differential SCSI adapter supported?
There are at least 2 differential driver standards. The current, popular one is LPD or Low Power Differential. The 2940U2W supports LPD _only_. Be sure to get the details on those IBM drivers before you do any bidding :)I think Linux support is beta but check for the latest at: ftp.dialnet.net. FYI, I'm currently using a 2940U2W and a Seagate ST34502LW Cheetah on an NT server. VERY fast!! I am thinking of getting several 18GB IBM drives. The ones I see being auctioned right now have differential interfaces. I see that Adaptec has a model 2940U2W that seems to support this interface. Is it supported by linux? Are there any other decent supported differential adapters I should look at? Thanks, Michael Laing
RAM Sizing
Hi all! I've got a Debian 2.0 system running on a GateWay NS/7000 - 2 200 MHZ PPros 256M RAM. My question is how to size the RAM. The machine currently reports 65M RAM so I assume that I'll need to specify the actual amount of RAM at startup. What's the best way to do this? Has anyone come up with a way for the loader/kernel to automatically do this? Thanks ..
RE: Linus Torvalds interview
Just to add my experiences of win95 into the frey, i have also done the MB swap thing and while after a lot of rebooting in managed to recover, on the other hand my bro's machine is almost identical to mine (only minor differences lijke graphics card, HD make) failed miserable to survive the same swap, it just shows that if you make any major hardware changes best to reinstall. (apart from the fact that windows is a joke) .. Fray is right! Say, did you try an Alpha MB, Z-80 or 6809 maybe? How well does an Apple PPC MB swap work? Since Linux doesn't survive such swaps any better than anyone else, what are you writing about to begin with? If this is yet-another herd like MS bash, think about using IRC or the National Enquirer. Better yet, why not spend your time writing some software. Linux could use things like Delphi, Access, Excel, DBase, SQL Server... well you get the picture. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Free Interbase
Want a good RDBMS for Linux??? check www.interbase.com they have a FREE port of version 4.0 for Linux. It runs on Debian1.3.1 I didn't have the chance to try it on Hamm cos I need to upgrade. Jorge Sousa It may appear free but you ought to have a look at the license agreement. It says RedHat *only*. License agreements like this are good reasons to *avoid* software. So, InterBase, make what you can when you can but NOT from me. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
