Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:42, Hall Stevenson wrote: IRQ3. I guess that's one benefit of an external. They can't be PnP, can they ?? Yup. My USR 56K external is recognized as P'n'P by Windoze if it's on when I boot into that OS (sic). Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
syslinux floppy boot problem
I'm having a problem booting my firewall box from a syslinux floppy. It boots the same kernel from the HD under lilo just fine. I know that this worked once upon a time using kernel 2.2.17, but it's not working now with kernel 2.2.19, and (he sheepishly adds) I seem to have misplaced the .config I used for 2.2.17 when it was working. Here is what happens when I attempt a floppy boot: --- ... hda: 256MB, CHS=522/16/63 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 VFS: Cannot open root device 00:00 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 --- And here is how it goes when booting from the HD: --- ... hda: 256MB, CHS=522/16/63 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. (etc., everything is fine from here on) --- Anyone got any ideas (or a cluebat, even). Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: syslinux floppy boot problem
Answering my own question, here is the configuration selection (from block devices using make menuconfig) that boots from lilo but not from syslinux: [*] Normal PC floppy disk support [ ] Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support --- Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives [*] Old hard disk (MFM/RLL/IDE) driver (NEW) --- Additional Block Devices And here is the one that boots both ways: [*] Normal PC floppy disk support [*] Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support --- Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives [ ]Use old disk-only driver on primary interface [*]Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support (no intervening options selected) --- Additional Block Devices But why, he asks? On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:33, Pann McCuaig wrote: I'm having a problem booting my firewall box from a syslinux floppy. It boots the same kernel from the HD under lilo just fine. I know that this worked once upon a time using kernel 2.2.17, but it's not working now with kernel 2.2.19, and (he sheepishly adds) I seem to have misplaced the .config I used for 2.2.17 when it was working. Here is what happens when I attempt a floppy boot: --- ... hda: 256MB, CHS=522/16/63 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 VFS: Cannot open root device 00:00 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 --- And here is how it goes when booting from the HD: --- ... hda: 256MB, CHS=522/16/63 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. (etc., everything is fine from here on) --- Anyone got any ideas (or a cluebat, even). Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
2.2r3 and pseudo-image
Feel free to point me at a FM to R. I have an iso image of 2.2r2 binary 1, built using the pseudo-image kit. Q: Can I loop mount this puppy and use rsync to convert it to 2.2r3 binary 1? Seems like it should be do-able, and minimize bandwidth hogging. Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: /boot/System.map-2.2.18pre21
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 04:36, Ethan Benson wrote: in short i think sharing /boot across distributions is a bad idea, too many distributions are too broken in fscking things up in /boot for it to work very well. That may be a little too harsh. I agree that sharing /boot directly is a Bad Idea (TM), but with just a little fiddling it can be useful as a lilo base directory. I have, for example, /boot/rescue/ /boot/potato/ /boot/rock/ /boot/lilo/ /etc/lilo.conf is a symlink to /boot/lilo/lilo.conf. The contents of /boot/whatever/ are what would be in /boot/ on that particular distribution. Those things that _MUST_ reside in /boot/ for lilo to work are symlinks to files in /boot/potato/, my primary distribution, and the one from which I usually run lilo. /boot/ need not even be mounted unless you're doing maintenance (e.g., running lilo) on it. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: combo GUI/text mail client
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 13:16, Brandon High wrote: Joseph Dane wrote: * netscape and pine don't (can't?) share addressbooks, so they either get out of sync, or require more attention than one would like to offer them Probably the ugliest point. You could over engineer it and use OpenLDAP to store address books - most modern mail clients can do lookups against LDAP. I'm not this brave/foolish, and I don't need to be. I have a small address book. Once you've done it it's not that hard. I've posted a _very_ terse mini-HowTo for doing this with Debian potato at http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ldap.html Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: smart host using postfix?
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 13:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i know sendmail a lot but not postfix very well. on a few machines i am running postfix because it seems easy to get it to bind to only 1 or 2 of the interfaces on the system, i don't want a smtp running on all interfaces. but i cant find info in the config files for postfix on how to relay to a hub (or in sendmail terms, a smart host) instead of attempting delivery directly. running a grep for hub and smart host come up with nothing, so i imagine the term postfix uses is different ..I can't imagine postfix wouldn't support something like this so if someone knows the config variable to set i would appreciate it!! Here's what grep tells me: /etc/postfix/main.cf:relayhost = mail.blarg.net This is from my potato system (and main.cf was the only file I modified). Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: slrn newsreader, How do I specify my from address?
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 21:52, Brian Lavender wrote: In slrn when I post to a newsgroup, it puts my from email address as [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like it to put it as my real email address which is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a config file I need to modify? FWIW, these lines are from /home/pann/.slrnrc (potato) hostname ourmanpann.com set username pann set realname Pann McCuaig set replyto [EMAIL PROTECTED] You might want to look at /etc/news/slrn.rc and /usr/share/doc/slrn/examples/slrn.rc.gz Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
[Semi-OT] Debian-related job in Seattle
Hello all, Owing to personal and family considerations I will be relocating to the East coast in the near future. As a result my current position will be open. The announcement is at http://www.defender.org/geekjob.html Linux geek required, anti-Microsoft bigots need not apply. FWIW, I've really enjoyed the job and am concerned about finding another I'll enjoy as much. YMMV, of course. Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: OT: netscape
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 11:30, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:41:14AM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: I'm using Netscape 4.7 but the spelling feature is turned off. This is a real problem for me because I spell like an eight year old. I've got ispell installed and I can't think of what other package it might need. IIRC, the spellchecker stuff has been broken out into a separate package in Debian. Searning for 'netscape' in dselects package listing will eventually turn something up. communicator-spellchk-476 Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: domain name: internet vs. intra-net
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:17, will trillich wrote: at the risk of exposing another 'religious' issue-- let's say you have a static IP 12.34.56.78 and a public domain name 'mydomain.org' attached to it. now you add a private internal lan using 192.168.*.* so your spouse and kids can surf for bomb recipes and porn... what kind of naming setup do you use for the intRAnet? something totally different from the public access point (timmy.my.lan for example) or do you branch off the original public name (timmy.private.mydomain.org for example)? ...and explain your rationale. thanks! $ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.5 potato.ourmanpann.com potato 192.168.1.1 firewall.ourmanpann.com firewall 192.168.1.2 rescue.ourmanpann.com rescue 192.168.1.3 win95.ourmanpann.comwin95 192.168.1.4 openbsd.ourmanpann.com openbsd 192.168.1.101 laptop.ourmanpann.com laptop [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh firewall cat /etc/hosts # $Id: hosts,v 1.6 2001/03/12 03:02:33 root Exp root $ 127.0.0.1 localhost abc.def.142.58 blowfish.ourmanpann.com blowfish 192.168.1.1 firewall.ourmanpann.com firewall 192.168.1.2 rescue.ourmanpann.com rescue 192.168.1.3 win95.ourmanpann.comwin95 192.168.1.4 openbsd.ourmanpann.com openbsd 192.168.1.5 potato.ourmanpann.com potato 192.168.1.101 laptop.ourmanpann.com laptop I use my domain. And abc.def.142.58 isn't public in the sense you mean, it's not in DNS as belonging to ourmanpann.com. My web site is hosted externally. .2-.5 are all the same machine, depending on what I select at boot time. Haven't given this too much thought, it's just that one domain is plenty to keep track of for my tiny mind. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: permissions for mounted vfat
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 22:18, Vadim Kutsyy wrote: hello list, I recently setup a dual boot system w/ debian unstable/woody w/ 2.2.18 and windozs w/ a fat32 partition all goes well when mounting it as a vfat type. I can read from the partition, but I can't seem to write to it. I have tried chown root /mnt/winhd --where it is mounted. in your fstab make line something like: /dev/hdb4 /win vfat defaults,exec,rw,user,uid=1000 0 2 You have to have uid=something Nonsense. Here is my /etc/fstab entry (potato, Win95 OSR2). root has full access: /dev/hda4 /Win95 vfatnoauto,unhide And here is the mount point: drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Oct 1 18:09 /Win95/ Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: HPDeskjet692c fails to install
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 19:01, Jacques Bourdouxhe wrote: Hi, I'M a newbie and I almost competely managed to install the 2.2 Distro. The problem is with the lp device driver module installation. The printer is a HP Deskjet 692C Parallel port parameters as displayed by ( vomit ) Win98: io=0x378 irq=7 I'm following the instruction as by Installing Debian Potato by Mark Stone that I find to be more accessible to newbies than the official Install manual. I tried 2 different parameters for the lp installation: default parameters ( blank line ) io=0x378 irq=7 I received the following error message: /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/lp.o=invalid parameter parm-io Make sure you have both parport.o and parport_pc.o installed. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Missing parallel port
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 19:10, Charles Radding wrote: Print spoolers (I have tried CUPS and now lprng) cannot find my parallel port. It's there; Windows knows about it; the kernel detects it, whether the parallel port is built in or a module, whether the kernel is 2.2.18 or 2.4.2; e.g. from dmesg parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP] But no luck on actually communicating through it with the printer. In linux, that is; Windows has no trouble. Is the lp module (lp.o) installed? If so, does /etc/printcap reference it properly (lp=/dev/lp0 on my system)? Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: LILO and big HD's
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 17:22, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: I have win and lin insalled on my computer unfortunally windows must be on the first partition wich is 20 GB's big. the next 20 GB's are for debian. Is there any chance to get LILO working under this circumstances (perhaps a new version or something like that)? The version of lilo in potato ii lilo 21.4.3-2 LInux LOader - The Classic OS loader can loa Reaches everywhere on my 30G disk partitioned like so: Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hdc1 1 14899 7509064+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc2 14900 29799 7509600 a6 OpenBSD /dev/hdc3 29800 44699 7509600 83 Linux /dev/hdc4 44700 59598 7509096 83 Linux That is, all 4 partitions are bootable via lilo. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: LILO and big HD's
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 14:08, David B. Harris wrote: To quote Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED], # Reaches everywhere on my 30G disk partitioned like so: # snip # That is, all 4 partitions are bootable via lilo. Hmm... Try putting a kernel on the last partition, and then get LILO to boot from it. If it works, would you mind sharing your lilo.conf? As luck would have it, there _IS_ a kernel on /dev/hdc4. Here is my lilo.conf, comments and blank lines stripped, and then blank lines inserted for legibility: lba32 boot=/dev/hda install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map prompt delay=100 timeout=100 vga=normal default=potato image=/boot/potato/vmlinuz-2.2.17 root=/dev/hdc3 label=potato read-only image=/boot/potato/vmlinuz-2.2.17-old root=/dev/hdc3 label=potato-old read-only image=/boot/rescue/vmlinuz-2.2.17 root=/dev/hda3 label=rescue read-only image=/mnt/boot/rescue/vmlinuz-2.2.17-compact root=/dev/hdc4 label=rescueOLD read-only optional other=/dev/hdc2 label=bsd table=/dev/hdc other =/dev/hda4 label=win95 table=/dev/hda Here are the disk partitions: Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 5 40131 83 Linux /dev/hda2 638265072+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda339 169 1052257+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 * 170 1027 6891885c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hdc1 1 14899 7509064+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc2 14900 29799 7509600 a6 OpenBSD /dev/hdc3 29800 44699 7509600 83 Linux /dev/hdc4 44700 59598 7509096 83 Linux And here is /etc/fstab from /dev/hdc4 (note that both swap and the separate boot partition are commented out): /dev/hdc4 / ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 #/dev/hda3 noneswapsw 0 0 proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/fd0/floppy autodefaults,user,noauto0 0 /dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 #/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 rw0 2 OK, I just mounted /dev/hdc4 on /mnt, ran lilo using the lilo.conf file above, and booted rescueOLD. Here is the output of mount: /dev/hdc4 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) Voila! Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Network card
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 09:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am doing a new install of Debian 2.2 onto a older box of mine. I am trying to get past the network modules installation. I started with 2 Linksys ISA cards and had no luck so pulled them out and put in a PCI Linksys Etherfast card. I tryed the ne module and ne PCI NE2000 support module but when it probes I get this error everytime. /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/net/ni5010.o: init_modlues: Device or resource busy I do have the same type of card in another Debian box which I do not recall having problems with but in saying that, it has been in there for over a year now. Stab in the dark: when you say older do you mean 486? I have had similar problems with 3C509 in 486 box not being detected, but the same kernel/NIC combination works fine in Pentium box. Compiling driver into kernel solved the problem. Another thing: at least the initial release of potato came with different sets of /boot/root/driver floppies. I had one NIC that wasn't detected by the stock set, but was by one of the special sets, -ide or -compact IIRC. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Tbackup anyone?
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 11:24, Mark Phillips wrote: A long time ago, back in the days when I used slackware, I used a backup program called tbackup. I have been looking for the Debian package of it and can't find it! Is it not packaged? From memory it was quite a good program. I can't think why it would not be packaged. It is released under GPL. I haven't yet been able to find any other programs with quite the same functionality. Is there something else better? It doesn't seem to be in a Debian package. A google search shows that it is available, and one site even mentions a Debian package that needs to be installed for tbackup to run happily on Debian system. So it shouldn't be hard to do a local install. And if you really like it and are really froggy, you could maybe package it? Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!)
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 14:39, Martin Marconcini wrote: last question (i hope). How big is it? aprox? (imagine a custom system with networking utilities and developing utilidies (plus internet apps)) no X. ~100MB Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Installing 2nd bootable debian
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 14:31, hanasaki wrote: I have a HD with /boot / = a complete install of debian I wish to install a second debian on another partion(s). How do i do this so that lilo.conf refects both debians? Wont the 2nd install make its own /etc/lilo.conf and thus make a lilo boot prompt only for the 2nd install? Here is a very crude response (but it's from a working system). Basically, I make a subdirectory under /boot for every Debian system (probably Linux system) I want to boot. All these systems share /boot. In every system /etc/lilo.conf is a symlink to /boot/lilo/lilo.conf. lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 20 Dec 9 08:36 /etc/lilo.conf - /boot/lilo/lilo.conf /boot: total 68 -rw-r--r--1 root root 515 Dec 10 10:28 README -rw-r--r--1 root root 512 Dec 2 19:14 boot.0300 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 13 Dec 10 08:16 boot.b - potato/boot.b lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 14 Dec 10 08:16 chain.b - potato/chain.b drwxr-xr-x3 root root 1024 Jan 20 13:20 lilo drwxr-xr-x2 root root12288 Dec 9 10:21 lost+found -rw---1 root root49664 Jan 20 13:20 map lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 12 Dec 10 08:16 mbr.b - potato/mbr.b lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 14 Dec 10 08:16 os2_d.b - potato/os2_d.b drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 Jan 20 13:18 potato drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 Dec 10 08:13 rescue drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 Nov 24 09:23 rescue.OLD /boot/lilo: total 7 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 Jan 20 13:20 RCS -rw-r-1 root root 5226 Jan 20 13:20 lilo.conf /boot/lilo/RCS: total 8 -r--r-1 root root 7314 Jan 20 13:20 lilo.conf,v /boot/lost+found: total 0 /boot/potato: total 1984 -rw-r--r--1 root root 170238 Jan 20 13:10 System.map-2.2.17 -rw-r--r--1 root root 265635 Sep 17 10:11 System.map-2.2.17-old -rw-r--r--1 root root 4568 Sep 25 19:20 boot.b -rw-r--r--1 root root 612 Sep 25 19:20 chain.b -rw-r--r--1 root root10452 Jan 20 13:02 config-2.2.17 -rw-r--r--1 root root12648 Sep 17 10:11 config-2.2.17-old -rw-r--r--1 root root 512 Sep 25 19:20 mbr.b -rw-r--r--1 root root 640 Sep 25 19:20 os2_d.b -rw-r--r--1 root root 506758 Jan 20 13:10 vmlinuz-2.2.17 -rw-r--r--1 root root 1042807 Sep 17 10:11 vmlinuz-2.2.17-old /boot/rescue: total 1308 -rw-r--r--1 root root 149 Dec 10 08:13 README -rw-r--r--1 root root 265635 Dec 9 10:48 System.map-2.2.17 -rw-r--r--1 root root 4568 Dec 9 10:59 boot.b -rw-r--r--1 root root 612 Dec 9 10:59 chain.b -rw-r--r--1 root root12648 Dec 9 10:48 config-2.2.17 -rw-r--r--1 root root 512 Dec 9 10:59 mbr.b -rw-r--r--1 root root 640 Dec 9 10:59 os2_d.b -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 1042807 Dec 9 10:48 vmlinuz-2.2.17 /boot/rescue.OLD: total 2026 -rw-r--r--1 root root 161419 Jul 5 2000 System.map-2.2.17 -rw-r--r--1 root root 327163 Jul 1 2000 System.map-2.2.17-compact -rw-r--r--1 root root 512 Jul 1 2000 boot.0300 -rw-r--r--1 root root 4568 Jul 1 2000 boot.b -rw-r--r--1 root root 612 Jul 1 2000 chain.b -rw-r--r--1 root root10710 Jul 5 2000 config-2.2.17 -rw-r--r--1 root root 4915 Jul 1 2000 config-2.2.17-compact -rw---1 root root37888 Oct 31 07:20 map -rw-r--r--1 root root 512 Jul 1 2000 mbr.b -rw-r--r--1 root root 640 Jul 1 2000 os2_d.b -rw-r--r--1 root root 494666 Jul 5 2000 vmlinuz-2.2.17 -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 1012567 Jul 1 2000 vmlinuz-2.2.17-compact Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: ispell no hash
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 13:21, Todd V . Rovito wrote: I have just installed Debian for the first time, and am very impressed with it. The ispell program seems to be missing the hash tables. I did apt-get install ispell to install ispell. Does anyone know where I can find the hash tables so ispell will function? Or how do I build them? I can not find a dictionary file on my system. Any help you can offer would be great. For myself, the following works: # apt-get install iamerican A quick grep, etc. on Packages suggests these might work as well: Package: iamerican Package: ibrazilian Package: ibritish Package: iczech Package: idanish Package: idutch Package: ifrench Package: ifrench-gut Package: igerman Package: iitalian Package: ingerman Package: inorwegian Package: ipolish Package: iportuguese Package: ispanish Package: iswedish You get the idea. ;- Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Small debian install
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 23:52, Neil Walsh wrote: Hey all, I have this P75 with 500MB HD and 16Mb RAM just sitting there doing nothing (unwanted present from friend) so I'm going to install Debian on it. I was wondering has anyone managed to install debian on such a spec machine with an X server. Is it even feasible? My laptop is a 486-50 with 12MB and 384MB HD. It's running hamm with X. Haven't bothered upgrading. But I'll bet your machine will do fine (although performance under X won't be that great). Choose your window manager and X apps with care. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: portmap: which package??
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 22:47, Frank Preut wrote: hello everyone, could someone please tell me where i can find portmap, that is, which package contains it (i can't find a package named portmap)?? as much as i can see i don't need it, and i would like to get rid of it (if that is stupid for some reason, please correct me, i'm not an expert..) because the whole rpc stuff seems to be rather risky and superfluous on my setup.. so what is the name of that package?? From my potato firewall box: $ dpkg -S portmap netbase: /sbin/portmap netbase: /usr/share/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz netbase: /etc/init.d/portmap netbase: /usr/share/man/man8/portmap.8.gz You sure as hell don't want to remove netbase. What I did was to use update-rc.d(8) to remove the symlinks (and kept a copy of what it did in case I needed to put them back--see below), and then stopped the /etc/init.d/portmap script and moved it to a safe place (again, in case I wanted to put it back). $ cat portmap.links /etc/rc0.d/S10portmap /etc/rc6.d/S10portmap /etc/rcS.d/S41portmap Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: QuarkXpress files in Linux?
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 16:30, Bart Szyszka wrote: Is there any program that'll allow me to open QuarkXpress files (layout doesn't need to be exact, I just need to be able to select and copy the text) in Linux or convert them to a format that Linux can read? I believe SSC, Inc., the publishers of Linux Journal magazine use Quark (and Linux). You might do a search at either of these sites: http://www.ssc.com/ http://www.linuxjournal.com/ Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: dist upgrade
You don't want dist-upgrade. You're not upgrading from one release to the next (potato to woody, for example), you're just making potato current. apt-get upgrade is what you want. On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 00:23, Philipp Schulte wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:34:35PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: I have Debian 2.2_r0 installed and a set of 2.2_r2 CD's on the way. Can I do a dist upgrade from the new CD's? What would the steps be to do this? Sure you can do a dist-upgrade with these CDs. You can add those CDs to your /etc/apt/sources.list with the tool apt-cdrom. Then do an apt-get update and an apt-get dist-upgrade. Phil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: djscript ?
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 13:11, Seung-woo Nam wrote: I used magicfilter to configure my printer and it does print pdf file.However when I try to print a txt file it didn't print anything and in /var/log/lp-errs, it says it couldn't find /usr/bin/djscript. Where can I get this program? 'apt-get install djscript' doesn't seem to find it. $ dpkg -S djscript djtools: /usr/bin/djscript djtools: /usr/share/doc/djtools/djscript.README.gz djtools: /usr/share/doc/djtools/djscript.ChangeLog djtools: /usr/share/man/man1/djscript.1.gz Looks like you need the djtools package. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: how to keep portmap from running?
Search the list archives. I suggested a (relatively clean) method no more than a couple of weeks ago. On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 14:59, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: bleah. how do i keep this program from starting on boot? i looked in /etc/init.d. can't even find a startup script for this thing! it's not in inetd.conf either. how does this thing get started? pete Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Removing portmapper, Re: firewalling
I think the cleanest way to do this is # cp -p /etc/init.d/portmap /root/ # update-rc.d portmap remove and then keep track of the links (which update-rc.d will tell you about) in case you need to put it back. # ls portmap* portmap portmap.links # cat portmap.links /etc/rc0.d/S10portmap /etc/rc6.d/S10portmap /etc/rcS.d/S41portmap On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 15:21, David Wright wrote: Quoting Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): - I did a nmap localhost and discovered that unwanted ports 'sunrpc' (111) and 'printer' (515) are open. I have not found these in inetd.conf and I do not know how to turn these off. I have already tried removing sunrpc.o from the modules, but the computer would not do that. What is this port used for? To turn off portmapper (111) in potato (where it's not a separate package), you could try: # /etc/init.d/portmap stop # mv -i /etc/init.d/portmap /etc/init.d/portmap-hidden (or remove its execute permission). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Linux-run hosting service?
I've been very happy with Hurricane Electric http://www.he.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh silver.he.net Last login: Tue Oct 10 15:27:37 2000 from sense-sea-megasu Hurricane Electric No mail. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux silver.he.net 2.2.16 #1 SMP Mon Jun 19 04:39:21 PDT 2000 i686 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 14:23, sc wrote: Hey all, I'm looking for a U.S. Linux-based hosting service for personal use. Nothing fancy, but just a place where I could set up a personal web site / e-mail, remotely (and securely) log-in, etc. Would be cool if I could fool around with a mySQL and PHP set-up over there too. Admittedly, this isn't a Debian-specific request, but if the place used Debian, that'd be a plus. Any suggestions? Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: w3m wouldn't load http://localhost
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 08:46, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: :: Andre Berger writes: I have apache installed and lynx, netscape and mozilla do not have a problem to load http://localhost. However, links and w3m fails. Links' error message is: Host not found and w3m's: Can't load http://localhost;. Exactly the same as here. See a thread some time ago on telnet not finding localhost... We founf no solution to the problem at that time. Try: telnet localhost 80 This is what I get here: telnet: could not resolve localhost/80: Temporary failure in name resolution Sounds like it may be a name resolution problem. Here's my experience: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet localhost 80 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. ^] telnet quit Connection closed. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.5 potato.ourmanpann.com potato 192.168.1.1 firewall.ourmanpann.com firewall 192.168.1.2 rescue.ourmanpann.com rescue 192.168.1.3 win95.ourmanpann.comwin95 192.168.1.4 openbsd.ourmanpann.com openbsd And I'm not running bind on this box, FWIW. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Samba uprade 2.0.5a - 2.0.7 fails
I was running 2.0.5a on a slink box with kernel 2.0.36 and upgraded to potato. Had similar problems. Something in the deep dark recesses of my mind (probably saw a posting on this list in the past) told me to upgrade to kernel 2.2.17 before I started trying to truly diagnose the problem. Worked peachy. YMMV, of course. On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 23:22, Erik van der Meulen wrote: Because I wanted to hook up a Win2000 machine to my network, someone suggested me to upgrade my Samba server to 2.0.7 Things used to be working, 2.0.7 is in stable, so I just did apt-get install samba. No luck. Now my smb log shows ugly things like: [2000/11/05 22:15:20, 1] smbd/server.c:main(641) smbd version 2.0.7 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998 [2000/11/05 22:15:20, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216) file_init: Information only: requested 1 open files, 246 are available. [2000/11/05 22:15:42, 0] lib/util_sec.c:assert_gid(72) Failed to set gid privileges to (-1,1004) now set to (0,0) uid=(0,0) [2000/11/05 22:15:42, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(2381) PANIC: failed to set gid Does any one have a clue what is going on? Thanks a lot. -- Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Printer DOC's
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 13:45, Helgi Örn wrote: I need to configure my printer (Epson Stylus Color 640) in Potato but I can't figure out howto do that, there's no doc's on that and not one word in 'Learning Debian GNU/Linux either, neither do I find the program 'xconfig' to get the right module (potato didn't want to install lp during the main installation process). So the queation is; how do I install and configure printer in Debian 2.2? You'll need the parport and parport_pc (assuming i386) modules installed to install the lp module. Then, here are my notes from my potato install (YMMV): # apt-get install lpr magicfilter djtools # apt-get install gs-aladdin gsfonts a2ps enscript # magicfilterconfig --force (/dev/lp0 -- not /dev/lp1 which is the default) Another question is; is there a friendly program for reading all the HOWTO's and FAQ's in a convenient manner? Install apache or boa and use a browser: lynx http://localhost/doc/ Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: IPCHAINS and potato
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 23:11, Burkhard Zombronner wrote: Does anybody can give me an advise if the box standard kernel 2.2 from potato supports already ipchains+masquerading and how can I find out? Alas, there are several box stock kernels in potato, depending on how you installed. But, all will do the following for you: $ ls /boot System.map-2.2.17 chain.bmbr.bvmlinuz-2.2.17 boot.b config-2.2.17 os2_d.b And then you can have a look: $ grep FIRE /boot/config-2.2.17 CONFIG_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y $ grep MASQ /boot/config-2.2.17 CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_ICMP=y CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_MOD=y CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_IPAUTOFW=m CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_IPPORTFW=m CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_MFW=m Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Running procmail on an existing mailbox
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 07:50, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: How can I run an already-flooded mailbox through procmail's filters, preferrably supporting both maildir and mbox input formats? man formail Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Stormix and Brokerage Fees
The problem is UPS (at least in B.C.). They _will_ act as customs broker for their Canadian shippers and they _will_ charge the recipient a fee unless the shipper is big enough to make other arrangements. I doubt Stormix qualifies. You might suggest to Stormix that they use Canada Post unless the customer specifies (and knows what he's getting into) UPS. The OpenBSD project mails me CDs from Alberta, and they just attach a little customs sticker to the package. If there is a customs charge for the Stormix package, it will always be the same; Stormix will have to pay Canada Post when the package is mailed, and they can collect it from you along with GST when they calculate your total charge. Just depends on how badly they want to do business in the US. On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 10:20, Bill Ramsey wrote: If you live in the US, be aware that if you order anything from Stormix you will charged a brokerage fee when the package is delivered. I ordered the deluxe boxed set from Stormix: Storm Linux 2000 Deluxe Edition 69.951 0.00 GST: 4.89 Tax Total: 0.00 Shipping: Express - USA: 21.99 Grand Total: 91.94 Imagine my surprise when the UPS guy tells me that I owe him $38 in brokerage fees !! I refused the package and I've canceled my order. I don't need stormix that bad. I'll just have to learn how to install Debian the hard way -- I've tried 3 times so far : slink and now potato. With Potato I've gotten X-Windows up - but I can't connect to the internet (WVDial fails with my ISP) and I can't print (the LP module wouldn't install during the installation). Just to let everyone know about the brokerage fees. Bill -- Bill Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Does my potato need an upgrade?
Dwight, apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade My /etc/apt/sources.list is attached. Note particularly the pointer to security.debian.org. On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:06, Dwight Johnson wrote: I have my 2.2 box installed from CDs and all applications are working. Now do I need to update packages for security and bug fixes that have been released since the CDs were burned off the Internet like I always have to with Red Hat? If so, what is the precise apt-get or other command option I would use for that? For the moment, I want to stay with packages that are stable. This is not a request to 'upgrade to woody'. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool. # $Id: sources.list,v 1.2 2000/09/26 03:28:06 root Exp root $ #deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free #deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free #deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work #deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free #deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US deb http://debian.midco.net/debian/ potato main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free #deb-src http://debian.midco.net/debian/ potato main non-free contrib #deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free
Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was Mutt's Editor
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 23:56, will trillich wrote: On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 12:51:24PM -0500, Jeff Howie wrote: I cut my teeth on vim (4.x or so). and haven't looked back. On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:59:06AM -0500, will trillich wrote: emacs fans, please turn the other cheek-- how does vim compare to elvis? which is the resource hog? Not sure about that, but I would assume that vi(elvis) would be on the leaner side (less features = smaller footprint?). according to packages.debian.org/vim: stable18% vim 5.6.070-1 (309.4k) Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor according to packages.debian.org/elvis: stable17% elvis 2.1.4-1 (493k) A much improved vi editor with syntax highlighting. elvis's blue suede shoes look more piggish than vim's. nearly by a factor of 2? or is it just docs? If you want vim to be really useful you need the vim-rt package as well. I suspect that tips the balance. Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was Mutt's Editor
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:59, will trillich wrote: emacs fans, please turn the other cheek-- how does vim compare to elvis? which is the resource hog? which does better syntax highlighting? which makes your teeth whiter? FWIW, I was an early (early 90's) user of elvis. I switched to vim several years ago and haven't looked back. I still use nvi on occasion 'cause it will show me ^M's in a file and it's easier to `nvi file` than to look up how to get vim to do it. ;- Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: 486DX Install
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 05:18, Gregg C wrote: I have an old AST 486DX (23Meg RAM/170MegHD) that I have been using as a router for a few months. I installed 2.2 back when it was frozen, or maybe even a month or so before. I had no problems with it, until I compiled a new kernel for it, and for some reason the map file was screwed up, so I decided the quickest thing to do was reinstall. But now I can't get the eepro module to recognize the IntelEtherExpress NIC. Previously it worked fine. I tried some old 2.1 base floppies, and it worked fine, so it can't be the hardware itself. I pass no arguments to the driver, never have. This may be a problem with the kernel on the boot floppies you're using. There are several sets of boot floppies with different configurations. Try another one. IIRC either compact or idepci solved a similar problem for me. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Is Debian the last OS ?
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 20:53, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 10:42:29AM -0400, Adam Scriven wrote: I'm still very much getting used to Debian, however, and the long time between releases is stopping my Dad from switching, since he wants to switch to the most updated release possible if he switches, but even Potato's just 2.2.16/17. As opposed to what? An unstable 2.3.x release? A 2.4.x with known problems? That's a silly argument to not use a distribution (and always has been). Kernel sources are *always* available at www.kernel.org. Whaddya wanna bet he's comparing to RedHat 6.2 or Mandrake 7.1? Sigh. Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: HELP! 2.1 install from PCMCIA cdrom
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 09:56, Jim Gale wrote: I didn't have any luck finding this topic in the archive, but I'm sure it's come up before... I'm being tortured by a Sony Vaio laptop which does not have a built in CDROM. Instead it has a PCMCIA connected CDROM drive. Happily the laptop is able to boot from the CDROM, so I just stuck my 2.1 CD in and tried to install Debian. It boots and I can fix up the harddrive, but unfortunately I can't install the operating system because Debian can't find the CDROM. (even though it booted from it!) Could somebody tell me how I can install Debian on this thing? (I'm installing 2.1 because I have CDs for it but I plan to upgrade to 2.2 immediately, so let me know if this could be done better starting with 2.2) I found a little bit in the HOWTO documents about installing from a PCMCIA device, but it didn't look pretty. I thought I'd check to see if there was a proper Debian way to do it. Thanks, Jim To help narrow down the possibilities, here are my other resources: a computer with debian 2.2 (but no net access, if I need to download something, it could be tricky) a Sun with net access (but Solaris) a PCMCIA NIC for the laptop (NFS boot?) I can't burn CDROMs I have plenty of floppies around if that's what I have to do. If you have another OS on this laptop, windows perhaps, that can see the cd-rom, then you can install the base system from floppies (around 10 for slink, if memory serves). I believe you'll find the images under -- wait, let me check, I just happen to have a very old slink CD -- let me stick it in the drive on this windows machine (ssh'ed to my debian box at home) . . . How about ../dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/ You'll need rawrite2.exe from ../tools/rawrite2/ to create the floppies under windows. Once you get the base system up, you can use your PCMCIA NIC to finish the install. Although it's really old now, dating from the days of hamm, there's a step-by-step page at the URL in my sig, that even mentions laptop gotchas. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: from slink to potato - 'wd' ethernet card?
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 09:19, virtanen wrote: I'm thinking that it might be nice to upgrade for potato now when I've got slink working more or less well. My problem with installing directly potato did not work, because the wd module needed for my old ethernet card did not work with the kernel. It was pointed out by 'Nathan' on this list that the problem is with the kernel. The problem is not actually with the kernel per se, but with the kernel compiled for the boot floppy you used. I have potato running on a box with a wd80x3 NIC, and I installed it from scratch. I had to use the ide flavor (or was it idepci?) of the boot floppies to do so. You could search the debian-testing list for my comments on the situation. But if I upgrade for potato by changing the apt sources for 'frozen', what would happen to my networking? (All the network sevrvices seem to be working with slink, but potato I didn't manage to install at all, because of that module...) Upgrading will not change the kernel so your networking services will continue to work just fine. When you do get around to upgrading your kernel (a good idea) either compile your own or select the idepci flavor of the kernel image. If you're using lilo to boot, the kernel-image package will arrange for you to be able to boot from using your new kernel image or your old kernel image when lilo is run as part of the package install. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 09:08, virtanen wrote: The wd module was there on the list, but install failed. The latest set of boot disks is missing the 8390 module which is loaded before the wd module. That should be fixed soon. I installed debian 'slink' and got it working. I did not have to do any windows programming for the card as was suggested by Anrei Ivanov on this list. Probably Nathan was right, it is some kind of kernel problem. I will go to 'potato', when this problem is fixed. Both 'potato' and Corel 1.1. 'failed' to install 'wd' module, which was needed by the card. (Wd is listed there on the list of networking modules, but it was not possible to install it.) You can successfully install potato with this NIC, but not using the standard boot floppy set. I've successfully installed using the IDEPCI set. I believe the IDE set also works. Once you've got the basic system installed you can compile your own kernel and include any other modules you need that might be missing from this flavor of rescue/root/drivers floppies. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: slink to potato ssh failed
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 18:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I recently upgraded my slink box to potato with apt. Everything works well but the new ssh: neptun:/home/papt# dpkg --configure ssh Setting up ssh (1.2.3-5) ... ^ I think this was fixed around -7, and I believe -8 is current. Get the current version and install it. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: apt-move, merge ??
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 01:20, Rogerio Brito wrote: On Jul 06 2000, Pann McCuaig wrote: apt-move rocks! The idea of building a partial local mirror using debs downloaded by apt-get is right on. Indeed it does. It's a great idea to manage debs downloaded. That means that it also saves me from typing apt-get autoclean. :-) I usually build a partial local mirror and then burn copies on CDs so that I can give them to friends (with some extras like StarOffice and Helix Gnome). So how do I download those packages only once? I usually use # apt-get -d install package It only downloads the packages and then I use apt-move to move them to my local mirror. Hope this helps, Roger... Well, I'd already grokked this much. But that requires # apt-get -s install package ... on the client machine (to see what that machine needs). I'd hoped to forego the -s and move them to the server after they were installed. Thanks for the response. Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: need help with installing potato(on line)
Forget about the sound card until you get your ne2000 working. I had a similar problem with a wd80x3 card. Used a different rescue floppy to solve it. At least for the latest pre-release boot floppies, available from http://www.debian.org/~joeyh/bf/ there are several versions. Try -ide or -idepci. My wild-assed guess is that the kernel on the standard rescue disks probes something that causes brain damage to the NIC. I discovered that after attempting an install with that disk I had to power-cycle the box before Tom's could see the controller again. Luck, Pann On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 02:06, Kahro Raie wrote: System: I have a 200mmx pentium dell network card: NE2000 compatible all the installation seems to go well except for thenetwork d and sound card. What I did/do? I downloaded all files form /debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386 then copied the inside folder current to my harddisk Then I did boot to dos and ran the install.bat file so i got into the installation system. i did all steps just like I used to with slink and arrived a problem aread! when i try to install the ne driver-NE1000/2000 support, I get the errors: Note: /tarket/etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.15/modules.d ep /lib/modules/2.2.15/net/ne.o: init_module: Device or recourse busy Hint: this error can be caused of incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.2.15/net/ne.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15/net/ne.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.15/net/ne.o: insmod ne failed Installation failed. I left the paremeters blank but also tried io=0x300 irq=10 and many other variants of these lines. Sound: joy-creative - Creative Labs Blaster Note: /tarket/etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.15/modules.d ep /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/joy-creative.o: init_module: Device or recourse busy Hint: this error can be caused of incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/joy-creative.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/joy-cre ative.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/joy-creative.o: insmod ne failed Installation failed. IF ANYBODY HAS ANY IDEAS AND SOLUTIONS PLEASE ANSWER THANKS! -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
apt-move, merge ??
apt-move rocks! The idea of building a partial local mirror using debs downloaded by apt-get is right on. But here's the deal. I have multiple debian (potato) machines on my network, and only one with the disk space for a mirror. It's a server and doesn't have X installed. However, pretty much all the other Linux boxen on the net will have X installed. So how do I download those packages only once? Obviously I have room to build a temporary mirror on a client box (or apt-get wouldn't work in the first place). Is there a straightforward way to merge the debs on the client box into my partial mirror on my server? TIA, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: kernel 2.2.17 boot disk prob! (HELP!)
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 22:07, Sven Burgener wrote: What I'm looking for is a way of creating a boot disk like the one I created when installing debian initially. Do you still have that disk? There is a file on there named linux. Delete it and replace it with a copy of /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17. That boot disk says SYSLINUX... when it is started. This type of boot disk works fine with my IDE disk which isn't detected by my ugly BIOS. If you don't still have the disk, boot your rescue disk (just like you were going to do a fresh install), select a keyboard, activate your swap partition, mount your linux partition(s), and then select Make a bootable floppy from the menu. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: kernel 2.2.17 boot disk prob! (HELP!)
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 00:12, Sven Burgener wrote: On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 02:41:40PM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: What I'm looking for is a way of creating a boot disk like the one I created when installing debian initially. Do you still have that disk? There is a file on there named linux. Delete it and replace it with a copy of /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17. I did that and it just did the job. :) Thanks! At first, it complained about missing dependencies but on the next bootstrap this was fine. How often can this be repeated? I mean, do any other files on there need replacing sometime? Install the syslinux package if it's not already installed and RTFM. :-) $ dpkg -l | grep syslinux ii syslinux 1.42-2 Bootloader for Linux/i386 using MS-DOS flopp $ ls -l /usr/doc/syslinux/ total 18 -rw-r--r--1 root root 1215 Dec 5 1998 README -rw-r--r--1 root root 342 Dec 5 1998 TODO -rw-r--r--1 root root 1986 Dec 17 1998 changelog.Debian.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 2780 Dec 5 1998 changelog.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 1327 Dec 17 1998 copyright -rw-r--r--1 root root 7635 Dec 5 1998 syslinux.doc.gz (this is from my slink++ system) Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: potato kbd (was: kernel-image 2.2.15)
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 14:37, Moore, Paul wrote: Unrelated question - how do you find what packages are on hold, and/or unhold them? I just did an apt-get dist-upgrade to potato (finally got a CD!!!) and found that the kbd package was held, for no reason that I could discern. I tried to find what I should have been looking at to notice this earlier, bit I couldn't see anything. I managed to force kbd to upgrade, but I'd rather know how to unhold it, so the dist-upgrade could work by itself... If memory serves, 'apt-get install kbd' will take care of things after the dist-upgrade. Seems like a package has to be removed as part of this process and dist-upgrade doesn't know enough about the situation. Shrug? Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: X on a 486
On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 11:03, Sven Burgener wrote: Apropos 486 and firewall: what requirements are there for a firewall / masq. gateway to serve a LAN of approx. 20 - 50 clients? I mean, I have seen a 486 25sx w/z a cable modem serve up to 5 clients completely fine. It has IIRC 48 mbs of ram and was using about 100 ipchains rules. Are there any tests / comparisons on this subject? I once used a 486-DX100 between a 35+ client internal network and a 1.1MB DSL line. No problems. May still be running for all I know, I don't work there anymore. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
naming kernel images (potato)
Whenever I've built a kernel I've used the following syntax: # make-kpkg --rev tux.1.0 kernel_image where tux identifies the machine to me and 1.0 identifies which of my revisions of the kernel I'm dealing with. I install the resulting kernel-image-...-.deb with dpkg -i. I recently upgraded a box to potato, grabbed the source for kernel-2.2.15, and built and installed a kernel. No worries. But, # apt-get update ; apt-get -s upgrade offered to upgrade kernel-image-2.2.15 for me. :-( I definitely don't want that to happen. It's never happened before under slink, hamm, bo, or rex that I recall. Deep in the vague recesses of my memory I seem to recall an issue similar to this being discussed, with a suggestion for naming kernel images to avoid the problem. Details, anyone? Thanks. Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Problems with TeTex
This should be a FAQ by now. Make sure your slink TeTeX packages are up to date (check your local mirror). If you use older packages (off a CD for example) you'll run into this problem. Something 'expired' after a year. You can search this list for gory details, but the fix is: install the latest available slink TeTeX packages. On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 23:13, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: Hi folks, I've installed TeTeX on my machine (from slink), but I can't get it running. I ran texhash texconfig all as root, but when I try to translate a file with latex file of tex file I get the following error message This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2) I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! The FAQ says to do a texconfig init, but that won't help either. A locate .fmt shows nothing. Something, that might be related is that kpsexpand -p fmt shows a path with !! at the beginning of some entries, as in .:/home/viktor/texmf/web2c:!!/usr/lib/texmf/local/web2c:!!/usr/lib/texmf/web2c Any ideas? MfG Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HertzSCHLAG: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/hs/ Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: ip masquerading on debian slink
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 02:09, Brad Reid wrote: hello i've got a LAN setup and would like a linux box on it to be a gateway. the LAN works fine but it is a class C network and i would like to enable ip masquerading on the linux box (debian slink). i'm having two problems: 1. debian distributions don't compile ip masquerading into the kernel, right? 2. kernel compile problems. problem 1: decoding an error message generated while trying to enable ip masquerading on kernel without ip masquerading enabled. error messages: # ipchains -F input ipchains: setsockopt failed: Protocol not available # ipchains -F ipchains: cannot open file '/proc/net/ip_fwnames' 2.0.x kernels don't use ipchains, but its predecessor, whose name escapes me at the moment. problem2: compiling the kernel. i configure the kernel the way the IP Masquerade howto suggests for 2.0.x kernels. the compilation almost completes and generates a command 'as86' which generates a command not found error. any suggestions? You need to install the bin86 package. BTW, when you get the kernel properly compiled the ipmasq package drops right in and gives you what you want. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Printing to a Hewlett Packard Jet Direct card
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 17:57, A. Scott White wrote: I am trying to set my Debian box to print to an HP LJ-8000 with a Jet Direct card. has anyone ever done this? Yup, doing exactly this. See below. I want the name of the printer to be surgery. Assuming 111.222.333.444 is the IP of the Jet Direct card, here is my current setup: printcap: # lp|surgery|Surgery:\ :lp=/dev/null:sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/surgery:\ :rm=111.222.333.444:rp=raw: surgery-text:\ :lp=/dev/null:sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/surgery-text:\ :rm=111.222.333.444:rp=text: # If I enter the command line: lpr -P surgery-text myfile.txt or: lpr -P surgery mypsfile.ps I get nothing. If I check lpq, it shows that a job was processed by the queue, but nothing comes out of the printer. Any ideas? Thanks. This works, either printing from the Linux (slink) box or from a multitude of Windoze boxen via samba (with box-stock printer stuff in /etc/samba/smb.conf). # This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig. # lp|hp8000|HP LaserJet 8000:\ :lp=/dev/null:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp8000:rm=docketp:rp=hp8000:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet4-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: $ grep docketp /etc/hosts abc.def.37.12 docketp.domain.org docketp ii lpr 0.48-0.slink2 BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system ii samba 2.0.5a-1 A LanManager like file and printer server fo ii samba-common2.0.5a-1 Samba common files used by both the server a Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: isapnp.conf
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 22:35, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I'm trying to get my ethernet NE2000 clone to work in linux. The HOWTO said to read up about isapnptools, so I started looking at the README.debian, and it has someone's config file here. Anyways, I can't make any sense of it. It says: # EDI0119 Serial No 2368613654 [checksum 13] # ANSI string --PLUG PLAY ETHERNET CARD-- # Logical device id EDI0119 #Device support I/0 range check register (CONFIGURE EDI0119/236861364 (LD 0 Where can I find out what the logical device id (and serial no) are? Somewhere in /proc? pnpdump --configure is your friend. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Another dpkg or apt-get question from a new user
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 09:58, Maury R. Merkin wrote: [How] can I get a listing of the files installed with a package? I.e., if package dork.deb was installed on my box last week, can I see what files were installed? If so, how? cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/dork.list Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: how do you set your system clock from a remote time server?
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 10:54, Maury Merkin wrote: I saw, just a few days ago, a post with a command to get the current time and reset the system clock. I didn't pay much attention then 'cause I thought the script I used to use with RH would work. They don't. (No 'rdate' and no 'clock'). $ dpkg -S rdate netstd: /usr/man/man8/rdate.8.gz netstd: /usr/sbin/rdate $ dpkg -S hwclock sysvinit: /usr/doc/sysvinit/examples/hwclock.sh util-linux: /sbin/hwclock util-linux: /usr/man/man8/hwclock.8.gz util-linux: /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh $ cat /root/bin/setclock.sh #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/rdate -s time.nist.gov /sbin/hwclock --systohc So, you need to have the netstd and util-linux packages installed, and use hwclock (as of libc6) instead of clock. No worries! Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Corel Lilo
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 11:34, Camilo Alejandro Arboleda wrote: Hello: I was trying the Corel Linux, and I got impressed with the boot look. Someone had tried the Corel's lilo? Were can I get the source code? I looked at corel web site, but I couldn't find it. You might want to try the Storm Linux lilo. It's at ftp.stormix.com/storm/dists/rain/main/binary-i386/ I dropped it right into a mostly slink (some potato) system. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
2nd REQUEST: slink and /usr/share/man/
I recently went to look something up and found my dpkg man pages had gone missing. A brief search found them under /usr/share/man/. I have dpkg 1.4.1.18.99.slink.0 which I got from deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ slink-update main There are other packages I've obtained from unofficial sites that have deposited their man pages under the /usr/share/man/ tree. I assume this is because they were converted from potato to slink, and that man pages in potato have moved from /usr/man/ to /usr/share/man/. What I need to know is: is there a proper way to tell man to look for man pages in /usr/share/man/ _in addition_ to the places it normally looks? My RTFM-ing would seem to indicate that /etc/manpath.config is the proper place. The MANDATORY_MANPATH mapping is obvious, but I'm concerned about the MANPATH_MAP mapping. There are no many-to-one mappings in the current file. Is it proper to have both the following lines? MANPATH_MAP /usr/bin/usr/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/bin/usr/share/man And what to do about /var/catman/ ? Thanks, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
slink and /usr/share/man/
I recently went to look something up and found my dpkg man pages had gone missing. A brief search found them under /usr/share/man/. I have dpkg 1.4.1.18.99.slink.0 which I got from deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ slink-update main There are other packages I've obtained from unofficial sites that have deposited their man pages under the /usr/share/man/ tree. I assume this is because they were converted from potato to slink, and that man pages in potato have moved from /usr/man/ to /usr/share/man/. What I need to know is: is there a proper way to tell man to look for man pages in /usr/share/man/ _in addition_ to the places it normally looks? My RTFM-ing would seem to indicate that /etc/manpath.config is the proper place. The MANDATORY_MANPATH mapping is obvious, but I'm concerned about the MANPATH_MAP mapping. There are no many-to-one mappings in the current file. Is it proper to have both the following lines? MANPATH_MAP /usr/bin/usr/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/bin/usr/share/man And what to do about /var/catman/ ? Thanks, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Wordperfect for Linux
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 09:31, Sandy Shapiro wrote: I have Debian 2.1 (Slink). I downloaded Wordperfect 8 for Linux (guilg00.gz). During the install I get numerous error messages. It seems to be looking for subdirectories that don't exist on my system, and the program won't run. Will Wordperfect only work on the Corel Linux, or is there a way to get it to work on Debian? I have it running on slink, but the file I downloaded is -rw-r--r-- 1 pann pann 23711095 Jan 6 09:43 /usr/local/WordPerfect_tar.gz It's been awhile since I downloaded it, but I can't imagine I changed the name. Do they offer more than one download file? If you're running slink make sure you don't download something that wants glibc 2.1 or kernel 2.2. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Can't install tetex on slink
quick answer: 1) dpkg --purge all your tetex packages 2) make sure you have a pointer in /etc/apt/sources.list to a current mirror 3) apt-get update 4) apt-get install all the tetex packages you want I notice in the text below that you're trying to install/configure some -1 packages, and there came a problem with those packages once they were more than one year old (or some such thing, search the list if you care). Here's my current slink system, just updated this morning: ii tetex-base 0.9.981113-2 basic teTeX library files ii tetex-bin 0.9.981113-4 teTeX binary files ii tetex-doc 0.9.981113-2 teTeX documentation ii tetex-extra 0.9.981113-2 extra teTeX library files ii tetex-nonfree 0.9.981113-2 non-free teTeX library files On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 14:38, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: Hello, I'm running slink (the one which comes with Debian GNU/Linux Unleashed) on a Pentium II. Ok. I've been trying to install tetex since yesterday without success... I've tried to install from the cd-rom, from the debian site (with apt-get), and I got the same problem (with the tetex-bin package)... I've tried to run Install and Configure several times, but it didn't work. Is there anything else I could try? (I really need some LaTeX package here). Thank you very much, J. Setting up lacheck (1.26-1) ... Setting up tetex-base (0.9.981113-1) ... Setting up tetex-bin (0.9.981113-2) ... /usr/bin/texconfig: No $TEXMFMAIN in texmf.cnf file. /usr/bin/texconfig: set TEXMFCNF variable to the directory where teTeX's texmf.cnf file is in. dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Setting up tetex-doc (0.9.981113-1) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tetex-extra: tetex-extra depends on tetex-bin (= 0.9-1); however: Package tetex-bin is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing tetex-extra (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dvidvi: dvidvi depends on tetex-bin; however: Package tetex-bin is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing dvidvi (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: tetex-bin tetex-extra dvidvi -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Permissions on PalmPilot
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 17:15, Kent West wrote: I'm just now getting around to playing with my PalmPilot III on Linux. I seem to be able to do everything if I do it as root, but if I try as a normal user I get permission errors. Does anyone know what permissions need to be changed where to solve this? Maybe you don't have permissions on the serial device? Try adding yourself to the 'dialout' group. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: How to add a user to a group on the fly
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 17:31, Kent West wrote: If I want to add my normal user (westk) to the dialout group, I know I can (as root) edit the /etc/group file and add westk to the end of the # adduser westk dialout is much easier. :- dialout line. However, I then have to log out (and shut down vmware and NT-on-vmware) and shut down X, etc, then log back in and fire everything back up in order to get the change to take affect. Is there any way I can get the change to take affect without logging out/logging back in? I don't know of a way. It _might_ be sufficient to open an xterm or rxvt or whatever with the -ls option after the change, and then run your dialout app from that shell, but I dunno. I don't use X much meself, so logging out and then back in is a 5 second process. :-) Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Troubleshooting My PPP
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 12:27, Lane Lester wrote: But I still need to know how large to make my replacement boot partition below 1024 cyl. I've routinely made a 32MB /boot for years, but noticed that I never came close to using that space, so I've recently started making them 8MB. Of course, I don't recall ever having more than 3 kernels present either. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: creating a bootdisk
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 21:57, Attila Csosz wrote: How could I create a new bootdisk like created the debian installer after the installation? I think it is not enough 'dd if=zImage of=/dev/fd0' only because I see some syslinux related files. The easiest way to do this is to boot your rescue floppy (you _do_ have a rescue floppy, don't you?), pretend as if you're going to do a fresh install, but _do not_ partition the hard disk. Instead, accept the alternate selections and mount the partitions you already have. When all your partitions are mounted the installer will offer to make you a boot floppy, and will write the kernel you're currently using to it. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: firewall
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 20:40, Mike Werner wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 11:46:45PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this to be a dial-up router? If so, I'd say to look at: http://mpsdr.unx.nu/MINI/ This thing runs off of a single 3.5 floppy - doesn't even use the hard drive. I've got it running here on a 486DX2/66 with 16 megs RAM, but it's advertised as being able to run on anything down to a 386 with 8 megs RAM. Once I had it downloaded and onto a floppy, it took all of about 10 minutes to setup. It does demand dialing, IP Masq, and cacheing DNS. I like it. A lot. Sounds nice and the infos at there homepage looks good, but where to get it? Down at the bottom of the page - there's a banner labelled Download. Under that banner are two links: Download by http and Download by ftp Which are both broken. :-( However, if you go up a level, and then follow your nose, eventually you'll get to an ftp link that works. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: What is the name of the Debian text-based logon with swirl logo?
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 10:05, Phillip Deackes wrote: I used to have a Debian test-based logon screen with a red swirl logo on the left composed of ASCII characters. I can't for the life of me remember the name of the package to re-install it. I have searched www.debian.org with all manner of words -boot, debian-boot and so on but I can't find it. Anyone know it? The package is linuxlogo and it mostly comes with a penguin. The one with the Debian swirl was apparently short-lived. This came up awhile ago and I found I still had the deb sitting in /var/cache/apt/archives/ so I put it up for anonymous ftp. ftp.ourmanpann.com/pub/pann/linuxlogo_3.0-3_i386.deb Just a reminder (no, there's nothing funny about this package). You should think twice about installing packages that you don't get from an official source. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
[SOLVED] Incoming PPP, slink
Bingo! Thanks. And do I love Debian, or what? Dial up the server with minicom, make menuconfig (not rendered as well as I'd like but I only had one option to change), nohup make-kpkg and log off. Check back after the compile has had time to complete, dpkg -i kernel-image... followed by shutdown -r now. Wait for the disconnect. Pour a cup of coffee, call back in 5 minutes and (no surprise!) the server answers. All looks well, so boot into Windows (ugh!, but I gotta test this thing), use Dial Up Networking to contact the server, and all the TCP/IP stuff is fine. Still some problems related to the smb network, but I'll chase that at work on Monday where my samba books reside. On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 10:34, John Pearson wrote: It may be that your server is not configured to perform IP forwarding. This is a kernel compile option. On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 09:02:54AM -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote At work I administer an ethernet network of several dozen Win95 desktops and a couple of Linux boxen running samba. I'm trying to set up incoming PPP on an up-to-date Debian slink box. The goal is for an employee to be able to dialup this box from her Win95 machine at home and be a full citizen of the network. mgetty is installed, and I've followed the instructions for setting up incoming PPP for Win95 machines that exist in both the /usr/doc/ppp/ and /usr/doc/mgetty-doc/ directories. I can dialup and connect fine. The problem is this: The Win95 box sees only itself and the server---it can't reach any other boxes on the ethernet network. The reverse is also true---the server can ping the Win95 box when it's connected but none of the other boxes on the network (either Win95 or Linux) can ping the dialup box. First thought is a routing problem. Perusing the docs suggests that the server, through the PPP 'proxyarp' option, will pretend to the other machines on the network to be the dialup box. /var/log/ppp.log shows the proxyarp option took, but nonetheless, there is no communication between the ppp0 and eth0 interfaces. Suggestions? TIA If you're running kernel v2.2, you must also enable forwarding at run-time; Try # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward If the answer is 0 then forwarding is disabled; you can turn it on with # echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward It's also possible that you have IP firewall rules getting in the way. To check your routing rules, dialin from Win95 and then try # traceroute win95 ip address from a different box on the main LAN, and confirm that it gets at least as far as the server you've dialled in to. HTH, John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything. - Bill Gates in Denmark -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: SCSI Adapter Settings/Debian
At the lilo prompt, try append aha152x=iobase[,irq[,scsi-id,[,reconnect[,parity To make my SB16-SCSI card with CD-ROM drive visible, I use append aha152x=0x340,11,7,1 YMMV. On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 19:58, Todd Suess wrote: Greetings folks, I have an Adaptec 152x SCSI card attached to a Archive Python DAT drive. This all works fine in windows, but in Debian it is trying to assign the wrong IRQ to the adapter card, thus the tape drive never gets detected. All relevant kernel modules have been compiled into the kernel, which is 2.2.13 on Potato/Woody hybrid. The address range for the card is correct, but Debian is looking for the card on IRQ 12 when it is really on IRQ 9. What do I need to change to tell it to look on the correct irq? I don't believe I had to set the address range when I compiled the kernel, it seemed to find it on it's own. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks! Todd -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Incoming PPP, slink
At work I administer an ethernet network of several dozen Win95 desktops and a couple of Linux boxen running samba. I'm trying to set up incoming PPP on an up-to-date Debian slink box. The goal is for an employee to be able to dialup this box from her Win95 machine at home and be a full citizen of the network. mgetty is installed, and I've followed the instructions for setting up incoming PPP for Win95 machines that exist in both the /usr/doc/ppp/ and /usr/doc/mgetty-doc/ directories. I can dialup and connect fine. The problem is this: The Win95 box sees only itself and the server---it can't reach any other boxes on the ethernet network. The reverse is also true---the server can ping the Win95 box when it's connected but none of the other boxes on the network (either Win95 or Linux) can ping the dialup box. First thought is a routing problem. Perusing the docs suggests that the server, through the PPP 'proxyarp' option, will pretend to the other machines on the network to be the dialup box. /var/log/ppp.log shows the proxyarp option took, but nonetheless, there is no communication between the ppp0 and eth0 interfaces. Suggestions? TIA Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 16:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pann proposed, Believe it or not, this is a date (not Y2K) related problem. Install the newer tetex package(s) from proposed-updates. We have a winner :) Wow. Do you happen to know how they got a non-y2k date bug in? I wasn't expecting to worry about those for another 30 years :) Or was this a debian quirk--the slightly older packages on that other debian box weren't bothered and still worked. Nope, the selfsame package that I had installed on many other machines over several months failed (just like yours did) when I finally freed up enough disk space to install teTeX on my home box. (And the installations on those other boxen kept working.) I attempted most of the manual fixups that have been suggested on the list and none of them worked. If memory serves (and that's a big if) something in the package just said to hell with you, it's been more than a year since I was built so I'm not gonna play any more. I think the drop-dead date was 08-Dec-1999. The date on my /usr/local/tetex directory is 13-Dec-1999, so I didn't fight it long before going to the tetex site and doing a /usr/local install. And as I recall, it was less than a week later that a fixed package was uploaded to proposed updates. Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!
Believe it or not, this is a date (not Y2K) related problem. Install the newer tetex package(s) from proposed-updates. On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 13:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think I've ever seen this before. Having replaced the dying hard disk, I've done a clean install of slink. The ability to use latex seems to come and go (mostly go), and I've given the tetex files a purge/reinstall cycle, but still no luck. The output is hawkinsttyp0:ch_1.scarcitylatex scarcity.tex This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2) I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! I've used find on a working machine, and this file doesn't seem to exist anyway. I was briefly able to make the system work through lyx, but now I get the output (from a postscript preview) of: This is dvips(k) 5.82 Copyright 1998 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) dvips: ! DVI file can't be opened. I assume that this is something very simple, but I'm stumped. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Y2K problem with slrn?
There was one more pass. You can (or at least could) get it from the same place. $ dpkg -l | grep slrn ii slrn0.9.5.3-6 threaded news reader (fast for slow links) On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:18, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 03 Jan 2000, Pann McCuaig wrote: On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 13:05, Joey Hess wrote: Joey Hess wrote: I have just uploaded slrn 0.9.5.3-5 for stable, which fixes this bug. You can get it temporarily at ... Er I meant to say at http://va.debian.org/~joeyh/slrn_0.9.5.3-5_i386.deb Pann, Jim please download that and let me know if it really fixes the problem. Downloaded, installed, seems to be all better now. Thanks. Cheers, Pann -- This worked for me at first but it's stopped doing so now. Anthony Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Changing font size for xterm
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 19:41, Brian Servis wrote: To get a list of all available fonts run the command xlsfonts(in the xbase-clients package). To get an interactive selection of all available fonts runt he command xfontsel(in the xcontrib package). Wow. Thanks for the pointers. Had no idea there were so many fonts on my system. Now then, where to read about all the parameters one gets to choose in xfontsel? A general overview of font selection, description and use under X? Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Y2K problem with slrn?
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 13:05, Joey Hess wrote: Joey Hess wrote: I have just uploaded slrn 0.9.5.3-5 for stable, which fixes this bug. You can get it temporarily at ... Er I meant to say at http://va.debian.org/~joeyh/slrn_0.9.5.3-5_i386.deb Pann, Jim please download that and let me know if it really fixes the problem. Downloaded, installed, seems to be all better now. Thanks. Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Y2K problem with slrn?
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 22:09, Colin Watson wrote: Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is my $HOME/.jnewsrc.time: NEWGROUPS 1000102 173956 GMT Looks like there's a 100 where a 2000 ought to be. See: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=53811 Thanks. Looking at the bug report it's probably been fixed upstream but they'll have to release a newer upstream version for slink. I imagine there'll be a new release of slrn out soon that solves this problem. Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Yahoo messenger
On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 19:16, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Does anybody know if yahoo messenger (java version) works fine in UNIX? Is there any other instant messenger such as ICQ, or ATT I am here for Linux? The Java version of Yahoo Messenger works for me. Debian slink, Kernel 2.0.36, Netscape Navigator 4.5. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Y2K problem with slrn?
Here is my $HOME/.jnewsrc.time: NEWGROUPS 1000102 173956 GMT Looks like there's a 100 where a 2000 ought to be. Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
rdate fails Y2K?
# ping time.nist.gov PING time.nist.gov (192.43.244.18): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.43.244.18: icmp_seq=0 ttl=47 time=85.3 ms 64 bytes from 192.43.244.18: icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=92.2 ms --- time.nist.gov ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 85.3/88.7/92.2 ms # rdate -p time.nist.gov rdate: Could not read data: No such file or directory $ uname -a Linux desktop 2.0.36 #1 Sun Jul 4 16:20:36 PDT 1999 i586 unknown $ cat /etc/debian_version 2.1 $ dpkg -l | grep netstd ii netstd 3.07-7slink.3 Networking binaries and daemons for Linux I noticed that my nightly time sync failed at Sat, 1 Jan 2000 01:45:00 -0800 (PST) and then got the above when doing a manual attempt. Ideas? Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: rdate fails Y2K?
On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 11:51, Ben Collins wrote: On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 08:35:10AM -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote: # ping time.nist.gov PING time.nist.gov (192.43.244.18): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.43.244.18: icmp_seq=0 ttl=47 time=85.3 ms 64 bytes from 192.43.244.18: icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=92.2 ms --- time.nist.gov ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 85.3/88.7/92.2 ms # rdate -p time.nist.gov rdate: Could not read data: No such file or directory After looking at the source, it seems that either time.nist.gov was returning too much data, or none at all. Note, this worked when I used my ISP's local Solaris time server, so this isn't a problem in rdate itself, it has something to do with the time.nist.gov server. Now after checking, it seems that it is returning more data than rdate expects. Thanks very much! Off to find a different server. Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Error with LaTeX
On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 09:59, Paul Huygen wrote: Brian Lavender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the error I get: [..] I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! Is there supposed to be a latex.fmt somewhere on my system? Yes, there is. You can generate one using either a program initex or to run TeX in a special way. Usually latex.fmt comes with the TeX distribution or it is generated on the fly during the installation of the TeX package. I suggest you to look at the documentation of your TeX package. Alas, this won't work (I'm assuming the package from slink). Some critical date has 'expired'. I saw that an upload to correct this happened a few days ago so you might start looking for it in incoming if you have access or proposed-updates. An alternative (what I did when this happened to me a couple weeks ago) is to go to the teTeX site and get the tarball and do a /usr/local/ install. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
CyberPower (was APC UPS (Back-UPS Pro 650)
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 22:17, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Then buy a CyberPower instead. Much cheaper. I picked up a 1500 VA CyberPower for US$99. It runs my computer for an hour! Vendor, anyone? Thanks. Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: [potato] rdate problem
On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 10:28, Ron Farrer wrote: What is wrong with '# rdate tock.usno.navy.mil'?? It always gives an error: rdate: Could not read data: No such file or directory or rdate: Could not connect socket: Connection timed out. Any ideas? Use a host that supports rdate? $ /usr/sbin/rdate -p time.nist.gov Wed Dec 22 12:19:23 1999 $ /usr/sbin/rdate -p tock.usno.navy.mil [^C here after 30-second hang] Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: [potato] rdate problem
On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 13:08, Ron Farrer wrote: Pann McCuaig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Use a host that supports rdate? $ /usr/sbin/rdate -p time.nist.gov Wed Dec 22 12:19:23 1999 I'd love to: # /usr/sbin/rdate -p time.nist.gov rdate: Could not read data: No such file or directory Something isn't working... Can you reach the host? $ ping time.nist.gov PING time.nist.gov (192.43.244.18): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.43.244.18: icmp_seq=0 ttl=43 time=70.1 ms 64 bytes from 192.43.244.18: icmp_seq=1 ttl=43 time=65.6 ms Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Allowing weak passwords
On my slink system if I (as root) _remove_ the 13-character encrypted password for a user from /etc/shadow (/etc/passwd if shadow passwords aren't enabled) then that user can log in with _no_ password (not even asked). BTW, this is the standard way to recover, with a rescue floppy, from the Oh, Shit! Nobody knows the root password for this machine syndrome. On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 15:43, Dave Sherohman wrote: Ben Collins said: Edit /etc/login.defs and modify the minimum password length config. That allows _short_ passwords, but not _weak_ ones. After changing it to 1, I just had the following exchange with passwd: Enter the new password (minimum of 1, maximum of 8 characters) Please use a combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers. New password: a Bad password: a palindrome. Try again. New password: abc Bad password: too simple. Try again. How do I disable those checks? Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Updating hamm to slink
On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 08:31, Wacek Gocki wrote: I want to update my server running with hamm to slink ... What's the safest way to do this ? I'd prefer not to use dselect, just update necessary libraries and installed software. I've got a fairly sketchy but also fairly complete (if that makes _any_ sense) guide for doing this at: http://www.ourmanpann.com/slink-upgrade/ Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: running two webservers on the same machine
On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 16:35, Shao Zhang wrote: I would like to know if it is possible: to run two different web servers on the same physical machine binded to two different ip addresses, both of them using port 80 We have a specially situation where we need to run both zeus and apache. Try it. (This is always my first answer to this sort of question.) You may have to muck with the config files of either or both web servers to get them to ignore port 80 on IP addresses that don't belong to them. I've done this with Apache and Roxen using ports 80 and 81, respectively, but not with two servers on port 80. It's almost surely possible but may not drop in and run, something we Debian users usually enjoy. ;- Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
MySQL from Netgod hoses DBI???
I recently upgraded MySQL from www.netgod.net/x/ and now my DBI stuff doesn't work. Here are the relevant (I think) packages: ii libmysqlclient6 3.22.25-1 mysql database client library ii libmysqlclient6 3.22.25-1 mysql database development files ii mysql-client3.22.22-2 mysql database client binaries ii mysql-doc 3.22.22-2 mysql database documentation ii mysql-server3.22.22-2 mysql database server binaries ii libdbi-perl 1.02-1 The Perl5 Database Interface by Tim Bunce ii libdbd-mysql-pe 1.2005-1 mySQL database interface for Perl ii perl5.004.04-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report ii perl-base 5.004.04-7 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister ii libc6 2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: shared libraries And here is the error: install_driver(mysql) failed: [Sun Dec 12 17:50:00 1999] address.pl: Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so' for module DBD::mysql: libmysqlclient.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/DynaLoader.pm line 166. And here is the library I have: $ locate libmysqlclient.so /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.6 /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.6.0.0 The potato versions of libdbi-perl and libdbd-mysql-perl both want libc6 2.1 and perl 5.005. Is there any hope or should I just downgrade MySQL and wait until I move to a potato system? Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Telnet client choices?
Are there any telnet clients available other than the one that comes in the telnet package? I'm running ii telnet 0.12-4slink.1 The telnet client. ii telnetd 0.12-4slink.1 The telnet server. and according to the telnet man page BUGS The source code is not comprehensible. I have a great opportunity at work to replace a Windoze box using Attachmate to telnet into a remote unix box with a Linux machine, but I need to be able customize F-keys and that sort of thing. Help? Thanks, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Do I need a news server?
On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 09:39, Mark Wagnon wrote: I'm learning to use slrn to read newsgroups, but everytime I start it, I have to download all the message headers/bodies again. I'm not looking to become a news server for other sites, I just want my local users (basically just me) to be able to read a few selected NGs. You need slrnpull also, methinks. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Password encryption
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 00:40, Oliver Elphick wrote: Strictly, password encryption is authentication, rather than encryption, because password encryption is one-way: you cannot decrypt a password. Well, yes, but . . . What do you call discovering a weak password using the tools created for that purpose? Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Password encryption
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 22:24, Greg Wooledge wrote: Pann McCuaig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What do you call discovering a weak password using the tools created for that purpose? It is most certainly not decryption. We usually call it cracking, or more specifically, brute-force cracking. Please define decryption for me. In my state of ignorance I would have thought a simple definition would be recovering plaintext from ciphertext and wouldn't speak to method. Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Serious Warning? [SECURITY] New versions of lpr released
What's this serious warning business all about? Why should the lpr package care what kernel source package I have installed? (2.0.36 FYI), but I might well want to install lpr with _NO_ kernel source files installed. - desktop# dpkg -i lpr_0.46-1-0slink1_i386.deb (Reading database ... dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `kernel-source-2.2.12' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. 24200 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace lpr 1:0.33-3 (using lpr_0.46-1-0slink1_i386.deb) ... Stopping printer spooler: lpd. Unpacking replacement lpr ... Setting up lpr (0.46-1-0slink1) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/lpd ... Starting printer spooler: lpd. - Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Serious Warning? [SECURITY] New versions of lpr released
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 12:23, Ben Collins wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 09:03:00AM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: What's this serious warning business all about? Why should the lpr package care what kernel source package I have installed? (2.0.36 FYI), but I might well want to install lpr with _NO_ kernel source files installed. - desktop# dpkg -i lpr_0.46-1-0slink1_i386.deb (Reading database ... dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `kernel-source-2.2.12' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. This has nothing to do with lpr. It's from dpkg checking it's install files (/var/lib/dpkg/info/*) and making sure all is well before proceeding with the upgrade. Apparently, you removed (or something removed) the kernel-source-2.2.12 .list file from that directory, so dpkg removes the references to it from /var/lib/dpkg/status, since it now believes the package is not installed. You are so right. I now recall that I attempted to install kernel-source-2.2.12 (forgetting which machine I was on and running out of disk space). I recovered by killing the dpkg -i process and deleting the .deb file and the partial /usr/src/kernel-2.2.12 tree. Now I have this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l | grep kernel ii kernel-doc-2.0. 2.0.36-3 Linux kernel specific documentation. ii kernel-image-2. Compaq.3.0 Linux kernel binary image. ii kernel-package 6.05 Debian Linux kernel package build scripts. ii kernel-source-2 2.0.36-3 Linux kernel source. iHR kernel-source-2 2.2.12-4 desktop# dpkg --purge kernel-source-2.2.12 dpkg: error processing kernel-source-2.2.12 (--purge): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: kernel-source-2.2.12 desktop# ls /var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-source* /var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-source-2.0.36.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-source-2.0.36.postinst /var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-source-2.0.36.postrm Any suggestions? Thanks. Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)
I'll give you credit for chasing this thing! I've got only one further contribution: On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 23:40, Daniel Barclay wrote: [snip!] Oh yeah, another thing: In non-Java 90% CPU mode, I could quit, but the netscape process would keep running, using 90% CPU. I didn't seem to be only temporary (e.g., to update the history or bookmarks files or something). I have seen this, very occasionally on my own box, and sometimes on other users' boxen at my last job. Never chased it, just killed it and continued. I'd guess that it happens on average once every two person-weeks of fairly heavy Netscape usage, but have no idea of how Netscape was being used (even in my own case :-). Since I usually run a 32MB box I just assume somebody ran out of memory. Killing the rogue Netscape process always makes things well again. Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 16:17, Daniel Barclay wrote: You might not be using Netscape extensively enough to trigger the bugs. Maybe usage pattern differences are something to explore. Do you (and others): - - have Java enabled? Yup. - - have Javascript enabled? Yup. - - typically open just one or two windows or open many? One or two, sometimes as many as four. - - have just a few bookmarks or a big, messy pile (like, say, 2000 of them) you'll never quite get sorted? Not 2000, maybe 100. - - open a lot of windows using open in new window (middle mouse button)? Nope. Please check this one for me (I don't see how this can be anything other than a Netscape bug, but if it is something else, I'd like to know): On any Unix (X11) version of Communicator: Alas, I use only Navigator, not the whole Communicator package. - - open the bookmarks window - - click on a bookmark to select it - - open the bookmark properties window (via the right-click menu) - - leaving the bookmark properties window open, - - click on a separator in the bookmarks window - - click on some other bookmark window entry Does Communicator crash with a bus error?? Nope, works just fine -- I can click until I'm blue in the face and Netscape (Navigator) just keeps on truckin'. I'm not suggesting that Netscape is bug free, but it sounds to me like you're on a mission to stress test it to failure. Why 2000 bookmarks for heaven's sake? How many Netscape windows is it useful to have open at once? Other things I'd look at: What window manager are you using? Does Netscape give you fits under several different window managers? What other tasks are running? What does top tell you about your resources? Etc., etc. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
lpd dies quietly, why?
Happens if a couple days pass without printing anything. Running a slink system with kernel 2.0.36. The only other untoward thing that happens with this system is that occasionally X dies right after I switch from a VC. Apparently has to do with the mouse, perhaps an interaction with gpm? I haven't thought to look and see if perhaps lpd dies at the same time. (I don't print very often, but I'd like to figure out what's going on.) ii lpr 0.33-3 BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system ii magicfilter 1.2-28 automatic printer filter. # This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig. # lp|dj694c|HP DJ694C:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/dj694c:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/dj550c-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm30 Aug 22 04:47 /var/log/lp-errs.6.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm30 Aug 29 04:47 /var/log/lp-errs.5.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm30 Sep 5 04:47 /var/log/lp-errs.4.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm30 Sep 12 04:47 /var/log/lp-errs.3.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm30 Sep 19 04:47 /var/log/lp-errs.2.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm30 Sep 26 04:47 /var/log/lp-errs.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 0 Oct 3 04:47 /var/log/lp-errs.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 0 Oct 10 04:47 /var/log/lp-errs -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm30 Aug 22 04:47 /var/log/lp-acct.6.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm30 Aug 29 04:47 /var/log/lp-acct.5.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm30 Sep 5 04:47 /var/log/lp-acct.4.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm30 Sep 12 04:47 /var/log/lp-acct.3.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm30 Sep 19 04:47 /var/log/lp-acct.2.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm30 Sep 26 04:47 /var/log/lp-acct.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 0 Oct 3 04:47 /var/log/lp-acct.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 0 Oct 10 04:47 /var/log/lp-acct Any ideas? Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
LinuxLogo package -- swirl
I found it lying around. ftp://ftp.ourmanpann.com/pub/pann/linuxlogo_3.0-3_i386.deb Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
