ftp.egr.msu.edu
I have finally received all the hardware and ftp.egr.msu.edu is back online. It should be healthy and reliable now for sometime: 1. The boot disk was replaced. 2. The network card was replaced. 3. A 105 GB SCSI Raid was added for Debian specifically. It is still connected at 100 Mbps full-duplex directly to our Gigabit backbone. Paths to the Debian archive: ftp/debian http /debian rsync debian Likewise, the GNU and EnCore archives are available in /pub via ftp and http. Thanks for your patience. p.s. I won't be crushed if I make it back into the http.us.d.o rotation and push mirror setup. :) Dennis Kelly Network Administrator College of Engineering Michigan State University
ftp.us.debian.org unavailable
The server for ftp.us.debian.org ran out of disk space earlier this week. Implementing a raid has forced me to rebuild the archives for both Debian and GNU. Hopefully this should be done soon. (If someone can provide a faster rsync mirror than ftp.debian.org it will help) Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Dennis Kelly Network Administrator College of Engineering Michigan State University -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: ftp.us.debian.org unavailable
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:59:23PM -0400, Dpk wrote: The server for ftp.us.debian.org ran out of disk space earlier this week. Implementing a raid has forced me to rebuild the archives for both Debian and GNU. Hopefully this should be done soon. (If someone can provide a faster rsync mirror than ftp.debian.org it will help) Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. ftp.us.debian.org is available once again: ftp: /debian/ http: /debian/ rsync: debian/ This site is connected at 100 Mbps full-duplex to a Gigabit Ethernet backbone that has multiple connections (OC-3, O-12) to Abeliene and a multiple connections to commodity Internet (T3, T3, OC3). We also provide GNU and EnCORE archives. Thanks to Ted Cabeen @ uchicago.edu and Nathan Norman @ midco.net for helping us speed up our rebuilding process. Thanks for your patience, Dennis Kelly Network Administrator College of Engineering Michigan State University -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: ftp.us.debian.org unavailable
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:59:23PM -0400, Dpk wrote: The server for ftp.us.debian.org ran out of disk space earlier this week. Implementing a raid has forced me to rebuild the archives for both Debian and GNU. Hopefully this should be done soon. (If someone can provide a faster rsync mirror than ftp.debian.org it will help) Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. ftp.us.debian.org is available once again: ftp: /debian/ http: /debian/ rsync: debian/ This site is connected at 100 Mbps full-duplex to a Gigabit Ethernet backbone that has multiple connections (OC-3, O-12) to Abeliene and a multiple connections to commodity Internet (T3, T3, OC3). We also provide GNU and EnCORE archives. Thanks to Ted Cabeen @ uchicago.edu and Nathan Norman @ midco.net for helping us speed up our rebuilding process. Thanks for your patience, Dennis Kelly Network Administrator College of Engineering Michigan State University
ftp.us.debian.org unavailable
The server for ftp.us.debian.org ran out of disk space earlier this week. Implementing a raid has forced me to rebuild the archives for both Debian and GNU. Hopefully this should be done soon. (If someone can provide a faster rsync mirror than ftp.debian.org it will help) Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Dennis Kelly Network Administrator College of Engineering Michigan State University
ftp.us.debian.org upgraded
The host ftp.egr.msu.edu (or ftp.us.debian.org) has been upgraded to a Pentium Celeron 450 w/384 MB of RAM. An additional 18 GB of storage was added and it is now directly connected at 100 Mbps full-duplex to the MSU Gigabit backbone (with an OC-3 Internet link). The Debian archive is available via: archive-ftp:/debian/ archive-http: /debian/ archive-rsync: /debian/ This should fix the hardware problems we have had as of recent, providing a fast stable mirror. Fyi. Dennis Kelly Network Administrator College of Engineering Michigan State University
Re: Pine question
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 10:50:02PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, peter karlsson wrote: Johann Spies: I get the following error mentioned in the subject line when I want to read or save a html-attachment from a local electronic newspaper: [Error: Formatting error: Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding] What does the string in question look like in real life? It might really be bogues, and if so, Pine is correct in complaining. I can only view the attachment when I use Mutt which calls lynx to do it. With pine I can not even save it to be viewed manually by a browser. Pine would not even include the attachment when I forward it otherwise I could have send you a copy of the attachment. From the main menu in pine: 1. Type 's' for 'Setup' 2. Type 'c' for 'Config' 3. Scroll the very bottom and select (hit enter) on 'url-viewers' 4. Type 'lynx' and hit enter 5. Type 'e' for 'Exit' From the config, you can also set your mailcap and mime.types search path to /etc/mailcap and /etc/mime.types, respectively. This will configure viewers for various applications as well as html. Hope this helps, Dennis -- Dennis Kellyemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator College of Engineering Michigan State University
Re: Unidentified subject!
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 02:42:18PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I own a Compaq Qvision videocard and I would like to know which accelerated server I can use, so I can get a bet colordepth than 8 bit and a better resolution than 640x480 (my monitor can handle that). You will find a list of video cards and the corresponding server listed here: http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html Dennis -- Dennis Kellyemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator College of Engineering Michigan State University
Re: DHCP client
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 12:05:00AM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote: Just out of curiosity, are there plans to include dhcpcd in the base system for Potato? There has been mention of including *a* dhcp client package, but I don't think anything is being done on it right now. I don't read the political threads much, but I believe the boot-floppy group is in need of help before anything like dhcp support is added. (something I may be able to help with shortly) Right now I'm just attempting to make the dhcpcd as bug free as possible (without writing my own dhcp software) and hope to include added features from requesting users. Dennis -- Dennis Kellyemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator College of Engineering Michigan State University
Re: mutt, signitures, and ^M
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:27:52PM -0400, Jonathan Lupa wrote: Hi all, I'm having a stupid problem with mutt or emacs... don't know which. I have a sig setup (which looks normal when I edit it regularly using vim or emacs), but when I go to send the a mail in mutt, it fires up my default editor (emacs), and puts the signiture in there. At the end of every signiture line is a ^M. If I delete the ^M, the sig will look ok (hopefully like it is below). If I don't, all the lines of the sig will be glommed together. I'm not setting any funky charset that I know of, and I'm sure I'm just on the clueless boat with this one, so any help will be greatly appreciated! Your sig is in DOS format, try the following: prompt$ perl -pi -e 's/\r//;' ~/.signature (You may need to replace ~/.signature to your corresponding sig file if it differs from my example) Dennis -- Dennis Kellyemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator College of Engineering Michigan State University
Re: DHCP client
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:51:33AM -0400, E. S. Venkatraman wrote: I have a PC on a network where the IP addresses are assigned using a DHCP server. I tried installing Debian 2.1 and I have the following problem. If I say I am connected to a network it requires me to type in the IP address (which I don't have). If I don't configure the network, when I try to install the dhcpcd package, it fails with a post installation error (does not tell what the error is). How does one do a fresh install of Debian 2.1 in this case? Thanks I recently adopted the dhcpcd package and have verified this bug. I have uploaded dhcpcd_1.3.17pl2-4 which should fix this as well as other issues relating to pcmcia support. Please let me know if you would like a temporary download location for this package. Dpk -- Dennis Kellyemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator College of Engineering Michigan State University
Re: DHCP client
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 02:51:12PM -0400, Dpk wrote: On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:51:33AM -0400, E. S. Venkatraman wrote: I have a PC on a network where the IP addresses are assigned using a DHCP server. I tried installing Debian 2.1 and I have the following problem. If I say I am connected to a network it requires me to type in the IP address (which I don't have). If I don't configure the network, when I try to install the dhcpcd package, it fails with a post installation error (does not tell what the error is). How does one do a fresh install of Debian 2.1 in this case? Thanks I recently adopted the dhcpcd package and have verified this bug. I have uploaded dhcpcd_1.3.17pl2-4 which should fix this as well as other issues relating to pcmcia support. Please let me know if you would like a temporary download location for this package. Dpk Duh, this is for potato, not slink. My apologies. I have done (and probably will be doing much more) a lot of work on the potato version of dhcpcd. I have found potato to be quite stable, so you might try installing it. Or alternatively configure the network with a dummy address so slink will install. Dennis
wmaker configuration
I am hoping to switch from afterstep to wmaker, but I want to be able to switch workspaces by moving my mouse to the edge of the workspace. I thought this would correlate to EdgeResistance, but it doesn't appear to work: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/GNUstep/Defaults] grep Edge WindowMaker EdgeResistance = 0; Any clues? Dennis
Re: What happened to /usr/sbin/in.ftpd?
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 10:29:56AM -0400, Kristopher Johnson wrote: After upgrading from slink to potato, I notice that /usr/sbin/in.ftpd is gone, and that the corresponding line in /etc/inetd.conf has been marked #off#. All the other /usr/sbin/in.*d daemons seem to still be there. Anyone know what happened, and what I should do to fix it? I believe they are starting to seperate programs previously included in netstd into their own packages. apt-get install ftpd Dennis -- Dennis Kellyemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator College of Engineering Michigan State University
Re: dhcp on 2.0.x kernel and potato
On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 02:54:55PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: Hi all, I'm running a potato system, and I'm still using a 2.0.x kernel. I have an account with the @home service and I decided to set my eth0 up to use dhcp to get the necessary info whenever my IP lease runs out. I grabbed and installed the dhcpcd package from unstable, and I ran into trouble getting it to work. I took a look at the README and it informs me that this particular version doesn't work with 2.0.x kernels. The README is incorrect. The dhcpcd package will work for both 2.0.x and 2.2.x kernels. As to why it is not working, do you receive any error messages starting it up? You might try doing the following: /etc/init.d/dhcpcd stop rm /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.cache rm /var/run/dhcpcd-eth0.pid /etc/init.d/dhcpcd start Dennis -- Dennis Kellyemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator College of Engineering Michigan State University
Re: HP JetDirect and Debian
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 11:15:30AM +0200, Cleto Pescia wrote: Hello, I am experiencing a strange problem with an HP JetDirect J2552A (firmware A.3.0.16) printer server installed in an HP DesignJet 750C plotter. I can telnet to the plotter and configure it from a Debian 2.0 box, but I can not send anything to it. I have tried *everything* reported in the Printing-HOWTO, included the small Perl script to directly access the JetDirect through port 9100, but without success.. The Debian box has LPRng installed on it, and the spooling software works perfectly. I have read on the Bug Tracking mailing-list that LPRng seems not to be able to talk to networked printers, but I am not sure if that applies to my case as well, since even direct TCP connection does not work for me... LPRng can be used to talk directly to the plotter, here is a simple printcap for HP Laserjet 4MVs/5SIs/4000s/8000s: queuename :lp=jetdirect.box.net%9100 :if=/usr/lib/filters/ifhp :[EMAIL PROTECTED] @defaults :rw:sh:sf :mx#0 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P :af=/var/spool/lpd/%P.acct :lf=/var/spool/lpd/%P.log :ps=/var/spool/lpd/%P.status Just replace jetdirect.box.net with your host or IP. The %9100 tells it to connect to 9100. You may need to create the spool directories and log files manually. You can then test, and check the logs to see what it reports. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU
Re: printer accounting
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 03:49:05AM +0200, Armin Wegner wrote: Hello, can you suggest me a software for printer accounting, please? Try LPRng. There is a debian package for it, and their online FAQ is detailed with very useful information: http://www.astart.com/lprng/LPRng-HOWTO.html Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU
Re: [Email Converter] Eudora 3.06 (Windows) to Linux ...
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Michelle Konzack wrote:
Hello,
I am using a Workstation on WfW 3.11 with my E-Mailer Eudora 3.06.
Now I upgrade to a Debian 2.1 Workstation and I like to keep all
E-Mails (around 300 MBytes) from my Windows Workstation. Disk
space is no problem !!! What is with E-Mail clients which user
compressed Mail-Folder ??? OK, curently I have no XFree86 or
anything else (only the base installation) and I do not know, which
E-Mail program I can/must use.
But I need a very good E-Mail client with the functionality of
Eudora.
If you are interested in a GUI e-mail client, try netscape mail. elm
is an easy-to-use terminal based e-mail client, however most people
have converted to using mutt since it is much more powerful.
Note, that I like to install XFree86.
But curently I get one million errors while installing !!!
I am looking for a Mail-Folder converter.
I have attached below a perl script I wrote to convert Eudora
mailboxes (.mbx files) to unix mailbox format. Just forwarning, I
have only had to use it a couple of times, so it isn't widely tested.
Make sure you keep your Eudora mailboxes until you know they were
converted correctly! :) Also, it doesn't deal with attachments. You
will need to place script below in a file called eud2unix.pl and make
it executable (chmod 700 eud2unix.pl will do the trick). You can then
copy over you Eudora inbox and execute:
./eud2unix.pl inbox.mbx mailbox
This will save the unix formated mailbox in the file 'mailbox'. You
can test if it was converted succesfully by running the elm mail
client (fairly simple to use):
elm -f mailbox
Hope this helps. Please feel free to e-mail me if you run into
problems.
Dennis
--
Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Network Adminstrator
College of Engineering, MSU
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# ===
#
# eud2unix.pl
# Coding by Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# For bug reports, comments, questions, email:
#Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
# ===
if( $#ARGV != 1 )
{
print Usage: eud2unix.pl [eudora.mbx] [outfile]\n;
exit 1;
}
my $flag = 0;
my $infile = shift;
my $outfile = shift;
open(FILE, $infile) or die E: Cannot open $infile\n;
open(WRITE, $outfile ) or die E: Cannot write $outfile\n;
while( FILE )
{
s/\r//;
if( /^From MAILER-DAEMON/ )
{
$flag = 1;
next;
}
elsif( /^From [EMAIL PROTECTED] (\S.*)/ )
{
$flag = 0;
$date = $1;
print WRITE \n;
next;
}
elsif( /^Return-Path: (\S+)/ )
{
print WRITE From $1 $date\n;
}
next if $flag == 1;
print WRITE $_;
}
close FILE;
close WRITE;
Re: Apt faster with FTP or HTTP?
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Andreas Tille wrote: Hello, I'm sitting behind a quite slow modem. Coudl I gain a little more speed with http or ftp addresses if I have the choice. I have heard that people get slightly better performance with http, hence the addition of the debian mirror being available via http. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager)
Re: Exim, Pine, and smtp-server
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Jor-el wrote: Hi, I use exim as the MTA and the relay_domains option is not set (commented out). When the smtp-server parameter is configured in pine to be that for the machine running the MTA, I get an error whenever I send mail to non-local addresses. The error says that the administrator has set up the MTA so that relaying mail for anything other than non-local domains is prohibited. However, when the smtp-server parameter is not set in pine, I can send mail just fine. Is this expected behaviour or a bug in pine? Expected... Due to your configuration, when pine makes a connection to port 25 (smtp), your machines does not recognize it as local. If you configure an smtp-server, pine will attempt to make a direct connection to the server to send the e-mail, otherwise (no smtp server) it will submit it through /usr/lib/sendmail. I tested this with my default install of exim and received the same response when configuring the smtp-server option. I have been running without it configured for over a year and have not had any other problems. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU
Re: MP3 to WAV?
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Michael Meskes wrote: Is there a tool that allows me to transform MP3 files back to WAV? Michael P.S.: Please CC me on your answer since I'm not subsribed here. If you are not subscribed it might be beneficial to check the mailing-list archives, as many a time you will find the answer: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ Below is a response recently posted regarding this. Fyi, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jun 25 08:47:00 1999 Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:56:16 -0400 (EDT) From: eric a. Farris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: MP3 -- WAV Resent-Date: 24 Jun 1999 18:56:36 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; On 24 Jun, Hans van den Boogert wrote: Does anybody know of an app that decodes MP3 to WAV or AU? All *nixes excel at providing little tools that, when used together, can replace a lot of stand-alone tools on other platforms. if you have mpg123 and sox (both available as debian packages), you have everything you need. this line has worked for me: mpg123 -b 1 -s file.mp3 | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - file.wav -- eric Farris [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bigfoot.com/~eafarris Microcomputer Support Specialist Academic Computing Frostburg State University www.frostburg.edu This message composed in an MFCE (Microsoft Free Computing Environment) courtesy of Debian GNU/Linux www.debian.org The moment i let go of it was the moment i got more than i could handle The moment i jumped off of it was the moment i touched down...
Re: dhcp server
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
Hi,
I tried to setup the dhcp-beta (server) under slink. The machine
has two interfaces. I would like to serve only one, say eth1.
I edited the dhcp.conf file, the server was started but the
clients couldn't get dynamic IPs. Both, Win98 and Linux clients.
The conf file has just simple entries, since a single
192.168.9.0/24 range will be served.
The relevant parts are:
-
server-identifier 192.168.9.1 # eth1
option domain-name boo.br;
option domain-name-servers 200.136.xx.xxx;
subnet 192.168.9.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.9.2 192.168.9.254;
option domain-name-servers 200.136.xx.xxx;
some other options; # I didn't recall from memory
}
What could be wrong with this? What else should I configure?
The eth1 interface support MULTICAST. Even though, I set I route
for 255.255.255.255 manually, but didn't help.
With tcpdump, I can see bootp and bootps being sent to
255.255.255.255. The clients machines, when booted in Win98, auto assign
some random IP if can't get via DHCP. After this I can see bogus data
being generated from them. So the network cables are okay! If I define
appropriated routes, I can even ping them.
Please, I would appreciate any help, hint or suggestion on this.
Under your 'some other options', make sure you include:
option routers xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx; # This default gateway passed to clients
option subnet-mask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx # The subnet mask passed to clients
Dennis
--
Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Network Adminstrator
College of Engineering, MSU
Re: dhcp server
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: Under your 'some other options', make sure you include: option routers xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx; # This default gateway passed to clients option subnet-mask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx # The subnet mask passed to clients Yes, I did this. I set routers to 192.168.9.1 (my eth1) which will be masquerade, since I'm using a reserved IP range. And the subnet-mask was set to 255.255.255.0 (a full class C). Is this correct? Thanks for your help. Yes, this is correct, and should work. If it still doesn't, check to see if you machines are getting any IP settings (run the command 'winipcfg' from a DOS prompt) at all. Could you send your tcpdump output if you don't get any settings? (you don't have to send this to the list, just reply my address) Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager)
Re: IMAP default mailbox in user's home dir
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Rigacci wrote:
I'm setting an IMAP server for math students. I wish the user
mailbox to be in each home directory, so quota can prevent someone
filling the /var/spool/mail.
I yet configured smail and pine to search for the user inbox in
${HOME}/mail/inbox file. In the same mail directory Pine creates
its folders.
The IMAP server (imap 4.4-4) is OK to store folders in
${HOME}/mail/ but it insists on searching /var/spool/mail/${USER}
for the inbox.
I have two questions:
1) Is it possible to change imap without recompiling it? I read a
lot of warning for using a configuration file.
2) Is there a Debian policy about mail in user's home directory?
I know this isn't one of your questions, but why not give each user
disk quota in the directory /var/spool/mail? This would avoid
questions 1 2.
Dennis
--
Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Network Adminstrator
College of Engineering, MSU
Re: PGP troubles
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I installed the pgp 2.6.2-us on my potato box. I use it with XFmail and it works fine. The problem is that I actually have friends running Windows (!) and I can not verify their signatures. They use PGP 6.0.2 and when I try to verify I an error messaged telling me the ASCII armor has an error: HASH: Sha1. The people using PGP 6.0.2 also say they can not verify my signature. Aren't these versions of PGP compatible? What can I do? Can I install PGP 5 and hope that will work? Installing PGP 5 should fix it. You might want to look into gnupg, as it should handle both types of keys. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU
Re: Refusing to deliver mail
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: Hi Is there a way to configure the email server (sendmail 8.9.3) so that it refuses mail coming from a specified address to a specific email. Let me clarify: My user A doesn't wan't to receive mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it possible (with sendmail or something else) to make b's message bouce back complaining about the unavailability of a ? You can use the access database feature: http://www.sendmail.org/m4/anti-spam.html With this feature enabled, you can use the file /etc/mail/access: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 We do not accept spam. spamming.domain.com 550 We do not accept spam from your domain. I'm not sure if you are familiar with M4, but I'm sure the Debian package includes a default M4 file that you can modify (adding the access_db feature) and regenerated your sendmail.cf. I'm not sure since the default MTA, exim, has sufficed on all my Debian machines. (sendmail experience is on Slowlaris) Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU
Re: Window Maker
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Ann Henderson wrote: Thank you so much to William and David for their help with dselect, I got everything that I needed this time. Now I have another problem. I'm trying to get Window Maker working and I can't figure out what this means: /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker fatal error: could not open display I get that when I type wmaker at my prompt. I've just configured my display, so I don't know how to save that as my WindowMaker default display. Any suggestions? Thanks muchly :) You will need to use xdm or xinit to start a Windows manager. (You don't start them directly. Here is how to use xinit: 1. Edit (as root) the file /etc/X11/window-managers. Make /usr/bin/X11/wmaker the first entry. Here is what mine looks like: # This file contains a list of available window managers. The default # Xsession file will start the first window manager that it can # in this list. /usr/bin/X11/wmaker /usr/bin/X11/afterstep /usr/bin/X11/twm 2. You can then type 'startx'. This will start WindowMaker. PS Yes this is my first Debian install, so I'm a newbie! I hope it won't be the last install. Welcome! Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU
Re: Recursively changes rights for directories only?
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: As root I moved a directory structure. So that any user could read/write files I recursively changed modes for all files and directories to rw (i.e. chmod 666 *). Dumb me, eh? I now need to recursively change all directories only to xr instead of rw. What is an easy and quick way to do this? I thought of using 'ls -dR' and piping 'chmod' through it: ls -dR | chmod 555 * but ls -d just gives me . .. and no directory names. What should I do to change these rights? chmod -R go-w+rX * Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU
RE: More Qs about Net Connection (was Connecting to the Net)
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Andrew J Fortune wrote: When you run pppconfig, and it asks for the modem port and the default says /dev/modem, change it to /dev/ttyS[0-3], with the 0-3 being the number of the COM port your modem is on minus one. For example, if the modem is on COM2, you'd specify /dev/ttyS1. I have done this. I have checked that indeed my modem is on COM2, and so therefore, I set pppconfig to /dev/ttys1. However, I anm now getting the following error (...and I dont have the foggiest notion why I am getting it ) : /usr/sbin/pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This could be because the PPP kernel module is not loaded, or because the kernel is not configured for PPP. See the README.linux file in the ppp-2.3.5 distribution. Has anyone else had this sort of error before ? Your kernel does not currently support PPP. As root, execute: insmod ppp If you do not receive any errors, try to connect. If you receive errors, you may need to compile a kernel/modules for ppp. (Unless you have changed your kernel from the default installed, the ppp module should arlready exist) If this works you can use 'modconf' to have ppp automatically included. 'insmod ppp' is good for testing, but won't survive a reboot. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU
Re: procmail pine
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have pine 4.10 sitting in /usr/local and was trying to get the following .procmailrc to work (it's almost straight from procmailex man page) PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/mail #you'd better make sure it exists DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox #completely optional LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from #recommended :0: * ^TOdebian debian #eof the idea was to shunt the massive loads email from this list to a folder, but I've really no idea how to set this up, and the man pages have stumped me... I don't believe that filter will match the debian lists. I'm sure people have more sophisticated/better ways, but this is what I use, and it catches most everything, for debian-user/devel: #= Debian Mail :0 * ^X-Mailing-List: debian-user@ debian-user :0 * ^X-Mailing-List: debian-devel@ debian-devel Fyi, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager)
Re: procmail pine
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I'm still not quite sure how to make pine work with this either, I can make 'incoming' and plain folders... but when making an incoming folder it asks what host it is on, putting localhost makes it think a lot, then do nothing, and leaving it blank makes an incoming folder, but it's not in $HOME/mail or /var/spool/mail so I'm a lil confused Instead of using pine to create the folders, try this: - Exit any instance of pine you have running - Edit your ~/.pinerc file - Search for the line that starts: incoming-folders= - Change it to this: incoming-folders=debian ~/mail/debian - If you wish to add more than one: incoming-folders=debian ~/mail/debian, folder2 ~/mail/folder2, folder3 ~/mail/folder3 (Use tabs to justify the folders 2-?, I'm not sure if it makes a difference, but since that is how pine creates them, it is better safe than sorry.) thanks for the help so far... I think I'll make a dummie account to test this on because I might have missed a few suggestions while screwing around (doh!) Might be good! You can then use the (b)ounce command to forward some of your list e-mail to the test address to see if it is saved properly. Hope this helps. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager)
PIIX Triton
I am 'attempting' to install linux on a very old Pentium 90, however when it boots a Slink boot disk I receive the following error: ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 ide0: BM-DMA at 0x01f0-0x01f7 hda: ERROR, PORTS ALREADY IN USE This error stems from the file, drivers/block/ide-probe.c, in the linux source. The only thing I can find on the web is regarding a patch for kernel version 1.3.75, info from the patch is: * ide_init_triton() prepares the IDE driver for DMA operation. * This routine is called once, from ide.c during driver * initialization, * for each triton chipset which is found (unlikely to be more than * one). [SNIP] + printk(ide: 430FX (Triton) on PCI bus %d function %d\n, bus, fn); It seems that this error has been addressed in previous kernels, has anyone else occcured this or know of a fix? Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU
FYI: ftp.us.debian.org downtime
For those of you who use ftp.us.debian.org (debian.egr.msu.edu), for ftp/http/rsync access, downtime has been scheduled: Wednesday, 5-5-1999 8-10am EST Fyi, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU
Matrox G200 and X
I have downloaded the latest SVGA driver from Xfree86 [1] for my new video card - a Matrox G200. However, I am getting poor performance, like 320x200x256. I have used both XF86Setup and xf86config without success. I have had no problems with Diamond and Matrox cards in the past, but this is my first AGP... I don't believe that makes a difference though. (let me know otherwise!) I did notice my Video and Network cards share the same IRQ, 9... Would this affect it? I have never been a PC hardware guru, but if this could be the problem, could someone give me a pointer, webpage, or HOWTO for resolving this? Thanks, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU [1] 3.3.3.1, and I would have used the debian packages for 3.3.3 from ~vincent on master.debian.org, but I receive this error from apt-get: [snip] Fetched 1607kb in 8s (197kb/s) E: Size mismatch for package xlib6g
Re: removing old kernel packages
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Aaron M. Stromas wrote: hi, i upgraded my kernel from 2.0.34 to 2.0.36. then, using dpkg -r, i went to remove kernel-[image|source]-2.0.34 but it complained about /lib/modules/2.0.34 and a number of directories under /usr/source/kernel-source-2.0.34 not being empty an didn't remove them. i'm tempted to remove those manually (or should i use dpkg --purge?) but something warns me that i may regret doing this later. dpkg --purge is the way to go... it will remove configuration files and directories previously used by a package. why dpkg behaves that way and how can i get rid of 2.0.34 stuff? i intend to install kernel-source-2.0.36 (kernel-image-2.0.36 is obvously already installed). tia, I don't know for sure, but my logical guess for having a difference between -r and --purge, is that you can keep your previous configuration for a software package after removal, in the case you want to re-install it. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager)
Re: Is ssh 2 incompatible with ssh 1?
On 23 Apr 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: Hi all: I've installed ssh 2.10 and tried to connect to my school via ssh (I know that they run ssh protocol) and got the following: bash-2.01$ ssh cdf.utoronto.ca Disconnected; protocol version not supported. They are using vershio 1, AFAIK. Does this mean that v.2 is incompatible with it or do I have smth misconfigured? From the ssh webpages (http://www.ssh.fi/sshprotocols2/index.html): * compatibility with ssh1 works correctly ONLY IF your ssh1-version is 1.2.26 or better (1.2.26 is the latest). So be sure you have that! Most likely your school is not using 1.2.26. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU
Re: Matrox G200 and X
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Lawrence Walton wrote: I have a faily vanilla slink box in front of me with a g200. Performance seems pretty good, to get it to work I used a .deb from http://master.debian.org/~vincent/xfree-3.3.3.1/xserver-svga_3.3.3.1-0_= Using this single debian package worked, oddly enough! (1024x768 @ 32 bpp looks fine) Is there much difference between the pre-compiled binary from Xfree86 and the Debian package? Anyway, thanks! Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager) On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 10:05:21AM -0400, Dpk wrote: I have downloaded the latest SVGA driver from Xfree86 [1] for my new video card - a Matrox G200. However, I am getting poor performance, like 320x200x256. I have used both XF86Setup and xf86config without success. I have had no problems with Diamond and Matrox cards in the past, but this is my first AGP... I don't believe that makes a difference though. (let me know otherwise!) I did notice my Video and Network cards share the same IRQ, 9... Would this affect it? I have never been a PC hardware guru, but if this could be the problem, could someone give me a pointer, webpage, or HOWTO for resolving this? Thanks, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU [1] 3.3.3.1, and I would have used the debian packages for 3.3.3 from ~vincent on master.debian.org, but I receive this error from apt-get: [snip] Fetched 1607kb in 8s (197kb/s) E: Size mismatch for package xlib6g
Re: Daylight Savings Time
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, David Gaudine wrote: One of my Slink systems, a fresh install, currently reports all times in EST, i.e. it doesn't acknowledge daylight savings time. My other system, which was upgraded from Hamm, reports times in EDT. How can I control this? Did you check /etc/timezone ? Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager)
Re: pine
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Chris Leishman wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 01:53:55PM +0200, scratch wrote: JHM, ssh -t remotehost pine works just fine! Thanks, this is what i call user support :) Good to see your happy :) Can anyone possibly explain what is going on here? Why is the -t necessary? Just for personal interest. From the ssh manpage: -tForce pseudo-tty allocation. This can be used to execute arbitary screen-based programs on a remote machine, which can be very useful e.g. when implementing menu services. Otherwise pine would not have the proper stdin/out to work properly (ie. a terminal): stdin: is not a tty stdin: is not a tty Can't access terminal or input is not a terminal. Redirection of standard input is not allowed. For example pine file doesn't work. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager)
Re: identd!
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Pall Magnusson wrote: Can sumone tell me why a package of identd isn't available in the stable section?? It is included in the package netstd. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager)
netatalk - nbplkup
When I execute 'nbplkup |more' to view all the AppleTalk devices on my network, my terminal becomes corrupted after the first page of devices. I must kill the window since 'reset' won't fix it. 'nbplkup :Workstation' or 'nbplkup :LaserWriter' work fine, but since none of those generate anything longer than a screen's worth of information, I cannot determine if it is related to that or if it is using nbplkup without arguments. Anyone else experience this? If so, a fix? Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager)
Re: comsat error with new pts
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Max wrote: For some reason, comsat doesn't work anymore on remote terminals and writes the following error to auth.log: comsat[15719]: '/' in /dev/pts/0 Both write and wall also produce errors, so my guess is that none of them have been updated to deal with the new terminal entries. Does anyone have a fix for this? I'm using the latest version of potato with kernel 2.2.3 and glibc 2.1.1 Since my machine has few users I just did the following cd /dev ln -s pts/0 ln -s pts/1 . . . ln -s pts/n I did this for pts/0-5. If you have more users than say 10 at a time, you may want to find another solution. Fyi, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager)
Re: Error with kernel 2.2.5 on Debian
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Alec Smith wrote:
When booting kernel 2.2.5 under Debian 2.1, I get the error as
attached. Once booted, everything seems to work fine. I'm guessing
this error has something to do with networking... Any hints?
This error is generated from the startup script /etc/init.d/network.
With kernels 2.2.x, it appears you need not set a route for the local
network (route add -net ${NETWORK}) as it is done by the kernel.
Fyi,
Dennis
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FYI: ftp.us.debian.org
The mirror ftp.us.debian.org (debian.egr.msu.edu) now offers both contrib and non-free once again, due to the addition of an 18 GB disk for the Debian project. The distribution is now also available via http, as well as ftp, from our site. Fyi, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager)
Re: where is Pine?
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: http://ompages.com/debian/pkgs/pine/pine.html The above URL seems to need www.ompages.com. I looked at pine 4.05 back in October, and found that it no longer reads and modifies /var/spool/mail directly. It copies the mail to its own mail file in my home dir. I couldn't find an option to retain the old behaviour. Does anybody know if it's still possible? If not, I guess I stick with 3.96 or run imapd? ...RickM... If the file ~/mbox exists, pine will move your inbox mail to this file. To maintain your mailbox in /var/spool/mail you can either: 1. (re)Move the file ~/mbox 2. Disable this option in your ~/.pinerc by modifying the disable-these-drivers line to read: # List of mail drivers to disable. See technical notes. disable-these-drivers=mbox Hope this helps. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager)
Re: How to open xterm with and a program at once
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, how do I open xterm with a program? Let's say I want an icon on my desktop opening mc or mutt. What would the command be to have an xterm with one of these programs open automatically with xterm? This will execute mutt, setting the Title bar and the icon name to 'mutt': xterm -n mutt -T mutt -e mutt Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager)
Re: compiling 2.2.3 problems
On Sun, 21 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
make zImage
gives me the following error
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -malign-loops=2
-malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=686 -c -o checksum.o
checksum.c
checksum.c:200: redefinition of `csum_partial_copy'
checksum.c:105: `csum_partial_copy' previously defined here
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:188: Fatal error: Symbol csum_partial_copy already
defined.
make[2]: *** [checksum.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib'
make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib'
make: *** [_dir_arch/i386/lib] Error 2
someone tell me what i should do please
This happened to me as well. You must have untar'ed 2.2.3 on top of
an existing (old) kernel source. Remove the directory /usr/src/linux
and go through the kernel installation procedure again.
Dennis
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Re: Decompressing Mac .sit.hqx files
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Michael Beattie wrote: I got a file sent to me from a friend that has been compressed with Stuffit... I cannot find a program that will successfully decompress this file. any ideas? Try the package macutils. Although I have never used it, from the file /usr/doc/macutils/README.unsit: /* unsit - Macintosh StuffIt file extractor Version 1, for StuffIt 1.31 This program will unpack a Macintosh StuffIt file into separate files. [snip] Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager)
Re: how to run compiled programs?
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Rick Hunter wrote:
i can't seem to run the programs i compiled
ie int main(){printf (Hi, world!\n);}
it compiles but i get the command not found error mesg.
what am i doing wrong?
Most likely you are typing the command name incorrectly or you need to
specify the path to the command (since the path to it is not currently
defined).
Most likely you will need to just type './a.out' to specify that the
command is in the current directory:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] gcc test.c
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] ./a.out
Hi, world!
Dennis
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Re: Pine: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Brian Morgan wrote: This is a non-Linux question, but I was hoping someone could help me with a problem I'm having in pine. We recently put the new version of pine on our Digital Unix machine which supplies email accounts for about 1000 users. Many users use POP clients to access their mail, while our students use pine. Since the upgrade to the newest pine, users who normally use POP clients get the message (below) when they check their mail through pine. The message only shows up when they go back to their POP client again (after using pine) to check mail. Is there a setting in pine to not send out these FOLDER INTERNAL DATA messages? Our POP users get really confused about such cryptic messages, and often swarm the help-line with fears of viruses and other nonsense! Can anyone help? The answer to your question can be found in the release notes for pine 4 or at the Pine website: http://www.washington.edu/pine/ Scroll down to 'Noteworthy Items' and click on 'What are the messages with the subject DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA about?' Fyi, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager) X-POP3-Rcpt: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 17:48:40 -0600 (CST) From: Mail System Internal Data [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA X-IMAP: 0920418395 02 This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system software. If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created with the data reset to initial values.
Re: istalling lprng
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Micha Feigin wrote: Anyone know where i can find documentation on how to install lprng (or is wiling to explain); I intalled the package, i can print text files using ' lpr file name' when i tried to print from the kde editor it just did nothing when i tried to print from ghostview, it just sent out the raw postscript to the printer. The LPRnG FAQ is quite extensive... I find it very easy to follow and it contains clear explanations for many common, and not-so-common problems: http://www.astart.com/lprng/LPRng-HOWTO.html It sounds like your printer does not support postscript. You can find this information usually from the Vendor's website under its technical features. Magicfilter, which is a debian package, contains filters for many known printers that will convert the file type or cancel the job if your printer is incapable of printing it. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager)
Re: cti-ifhp question on duplex printing
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Thomas Adams wrote: I use cti-ifhp in order to print on an HP4000N network printer. This device has a duplexing unit installed and I wonder if I can use it somehow from Linux? printername :if=/path/to/ifhp -Zduplex Fyi, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager)
Re: suid script
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Pere Camps wrote: Hi! I want my users to be able to execute this script: #!/bin/bash /sbin/kbdrate -r 30 -d 250 /etc/init.d/gpm stop /etc/init.d/gpm start The problem is that these programs need root's privileges. I've suid the script root:root but still the programs say I don't have he right permisions to execute them. What's going wrong here? A better/more secure way is to install the package 'sudo'. Then you can add the command to the /etc/sudoers file: #= Give 'username' permission to execute 'mycommand' as root username ALL=/path/to/mycommand Hope this helps! Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager)
Re: Mail Question
On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: Hi all, I want to put a couple of lines in ip-up, so that everytime my ppp is on, it will automatically contact my mail server, send out my username and passwd, retrieve all the mails from the server, and append them to my local INBOX(.incoming-mail). Could anyone please teach me how to do this?? Though I have not had the need to use it myself, I believe the package 'fetchmail' will do the trick. Others have used it with good success. Cheers, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager)
Re: Where is uudecode?
yOn Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Ross D. Gardler wrote: I am trying to install a piece of software that is distributed as a script. The script contains a UUEncoded section and attempts to decode this section with the uudecode command. My problem is I don't have the command available on my machine. Which package can I find it in? In shareutils: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] dpkg -s sharutils Package: sharutils Status: install ok installed Priority: standard Section: utils Installed-Size: 316 Maintainer: Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 1:4.2-8 Depends: libc6, debianutils (= 1.6) Conflicts: shar, uuencode Description: shar, unshar, uuencode, uudecode Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager)
Re: Ifconfigy
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Amanda Shuler wrote:
I have a question about ifconfig.
I have a machine that I am trying to configure to put onto a local
network.
I'm an assigning it IP address 192.168.76.76
I type:
ifconfig eth0 192.168.76.76
then I check it with ifconfig and everything is correct. I reboot the
machine, and recheck ifconfig -- it's wrong. It resets the IP address to
192.168.1.1 everytime!
Currently, I do not have this machine physically hooked up to the network,
because I was just doing the configuration and I didn't want to knock
another (very important) machine off the network. If the ethernet card is
not actually hooked up to the network, will that cause this reset to
happen upon every boot?
How do I get it to stay at 192.168.76.76?
Your machines startup files are located in /etc/init.d. The network
configuration is done in /etc/init.d/network. A default Debian config
for the file you gave would be:
#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0
IPADDR=192.168.76.76
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.76.0
BROADCAST=192.168.76.255
GATEWAY=192.168.76.1
ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
route add -net ${NETWORK}
[ ${GATEWAY} ] route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
If you do not have a gateway configured, you may need to customize the
script /etc/init.d/network to the necessary ifconfig commands.
Hope this helps.
Dennis
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Re: netdate
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: I use netdate to sync my machine's clock to several other clocks. However, netdate does not change the BIOS clock along with the system clock so each time my machine is rebooted (which is often right now, nasty memory leak somewhere) the clock is out of sync again. This is also happening on my laptop. How can I set the BIOS clock from inside Linux and is there a time syncing program which can poll other machines and do this? I use 'hwclock --systohc' to set the BIOS clock to the current system time. I have a ntp server and I sync clients using rdate (since I'm not concerned with millisecond accuracy) nightly in cron. Thanks, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager)
Re: Emacs command line option
On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Mika Fischer wrote: Hi! I've got a problem with Emacs. I want it to be started in auto-fill-mode. No problem so far. But I have to use an numeric argument with it. This is not possible with the '-f' CMD-line option. So how can I start Emacs in 'auto-fill-mode 70'? My e-mail client invokes emacs as the editor and so I want it to wrap lines at 70 Chars. At the moment I am breaking line manually :-( I hope someone can help me. Create a ~/.emacs file with the following lines: (setq default-major-mode 'text-mode) (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'auto-fill-mode 70) If you plan on using emacs a lot, I would install dotfile-emacs... It is a good starting point to customizing emacs. Hope this helps! Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager)
Re: Where do i put the sendmail HACKS?
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, trio wrote: Hi, I'm spending a lot of time reading the stuff at sendmail.org. I've found all kinds of explanations of the check_rcpt HACK, but no explanation as to where i put it. Does it go in sendmail.cf somewhere? Where? Does it get listed in sendmail.mc? But then how do i get the .m4 to relate to it? sendmail! argh Depends on what you are trying to accomplish. I suggest building your sendmail.cf using M4. You mention the check_rcpt ruleset, which hints that you are trying to block spam. If this be the case I would look at this page: http://www.sendmail.org/m4/anti-spam.html It describes M4 features for blocking spam. These features utilize the check_rcpt, check_relay, etc rulesets. When you generate your sendmail.cf the rulesets will be created automatically and you can then control their functionality via text or database files. I can send you a copy of our M4 config for example. (Just let me know) Hope this helps, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager)
Off Topic: Samba
I have searched the Debian and Samba website for answers, as well as /usr/doc, and newsgroups for a resolution. I would like to use encrypted passwords, but not have to maintain a samba password file as well as /etc/passwd. Is it possible to do this with Debian/samba? If so, could someone point me in the right direction of sites and solutions I should research? Thanks in advance. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875
Ext2: Superblocks
It appears the power outages we experienced last week may have done some disk damage to our ftp mirror of Debian! It appears I cannot read the superblock on the ftp drive/partition. I believe ext2 stores this information elsewhere on the disk and can fix this by using something other than the default superblock. I have heard of it on this list, but am having a rough time finding this info to fix the problem! Can anybody help me out? Thanks, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875
Re: ftp.mi.us.debian.org
ftp.mi.us.debian.org is currently down. We are having campus-wide power problems. Unfortunately we have no estimate on the downtime length. Thanks for your patience. fyi. ftp.mi.us.debian.org is now operational again. Thanks, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875
ftp.mi.us.debian.org
ftp.mi.us.debian.org is currently down. We are having campus-wide power problems. Unfortunately we have no estimate on the downtime length. Thanks for your patience. fyi. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875
Re: raidtools-0.42
Hello, i tried to install raidtools on 2.0.35 kernel ; It said: You're using a kernel version older than 2.1.63. This package is not designed to work with it. You should install the mdutils package instead or upgrade your kernel. hmmm afaik 1. 2.0.35 is newer then 2.1.63 2. it CAN do RAID. is it a bug of raidtools or should I really use 2.1 kernel ? 2.0.35 may be *released* after 2.1.63, but what is meant is that you need to install a 'development' kernel instead of a stable one. Use mdutils as suggested with stable kernels that support linear/raid. Thanks, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Custom Rescue Disk kernel
And how can I build my own boot or root or whatever disk, that can start the installation with my own kernel? The original has problem with the aic7xxx driver if the controller is VLB based, and mobo's hasn't PCI bios... I wouldn't know off hand,.. maybe a developer will catch this and be able to help. Sorry! Thanks, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Custom Rescue Disk kernel
Building the kernel with ramdisk and initrd support rescue disk mounted in /mnt dir cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /mnt/linux rdev /mnt/linux /dev/ram0 gzip -c /usr/src/Linux/System.map /mnt/sys_map.gz After booting, the disk start the existing linux partition, instead of starting the install procedure. What do I wrong? Nothing. Your disk only contains a Linux kernel, not the Debian installation program. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: HOWTO on setting up NFS?
/etc/exports already has a few entries in it, yet dmesg doesn't reveal that the init scrip's been called. When I call it manually it tries to launch the daemons yet none of them starts up. At least they're not there according to 'ps -a'. When I launch rpc.nfsd manually I get this: root# rpc.nfsd -F -d call nfsd[167] 07/16/98 17:25 Could not bind name to socket 0.0.0.0:2049: Address already in use nfsd[167] 07/16/98 17:25 could not make a udp socket Any ideas what's going on? Debian runs the rpc.* daemons from inetd, so they should fire-up as needed. (i.e. - when you attempt to mount from another machine) If you want to run them as standalone daemons you must comment out the appropriate lines in /etc/inetd.conf and 'kill -HUP pid of inetd'. I don't know if this is suggested practice or not. Thanks, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: - MARK --
I have a long /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog contain the following. Can any one tell me what is the cause? Thanks Jul 5 10:28:19 superman -- MARK -- Jul 5 10:48:19 superman -- MARK -- From the manpage: -m interval The syslogd logs a mark timestamp regularly. The default interval between two -- MARK -- lines is 20 minutes. This can be changed with this option. If syslogd does not write any information within 20 minutes to logfiles, it will mark a timestamp - intended to let you know that syslogd is running. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: More Urgent HAMM Install help needed
Initially errors were that ef2sprogs conflicts with dump and perl pre-depends libc5 (or something like that !) After those errors things looked good for a while BUT then a million errors ( certainly too many to read ) scrolled up the screen and dselect again gave up in disgust ! There should be no pre-dependencies on libc5 when installing a Debian 2.0 (Hamm/libc6/glib2/etc). Make sure you are using the disks under Hamm. When you run dselect, under 'Access', make sure the distributions to download are set to: dists/frozen/main dists/frozen/non-free dists/frozen/contrib I think this is most likely where the problem lies. Hope that helps. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: helper_0.97.deb
http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/ devel/debhelper_0.97.deb 404 Not Found I tried looking for the file on ftp.debian.org and it was not there.Any idea where I can find it. You can retreive it via ftp from debian.egr.msu.edu (ftp.mi.us.debian.org) from the directory /debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/devel. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Last Question (I hope!)
Dennis a million thanks - i just checked and sure enough dselect defaults to the /stable directories - no doubt you are entirely correct !!! surely many of the /stable packages are the same as the frozen dist and so i do not wish to download yet again everything (8-10 hours MINIMUM). are you aware of method by which i can ask dselect to remake the default choices and only download new packages and upgrade existing - i assume this would be substantially quicker ?? if i have downloaded, essentially, the bo distribution will autoup do this ??? Since I don't think you downgraded your base files you won't need to run autoup. I think dselect will fix thing since you changed it to download from the hamm distribution. Dselect will only download/upgrade needed packages, so it may require the 8-10 hour download. Sorry if that be the case... but good luck! thanks again for your help No problem. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: bo--hamm: 'iso9660 not supported'
while configuring the kernel i saw no option to choose iso9660 support ...did i miss something? Under 'filesystems' click on 'yes' for 'Native Language Support (NLS)'. Once this is done you will see iso9660, vfat, etc options. [menuconfig came up in bw instead of color (not that i care)...just weird.] I just tried 'menuconfig'... I get color when using a console window, but if I am in X using an xterm I get bw. I think that may be the way it is supposed to work. also, ps2 mouse doesn't work as a module, only if it is built into the kernel...is this peculiar to my system or generally the case...just curious...related to this...why do i get the following during boot regardless of whether device support is built-in or selected as module: cdrom: can't locate module cdrom psaux: can't locate module psaux serial: can't locate module serial in the case of the mouse and serial ports doesn't seem to affect function and they are correctly configured during boot process later on Did you specify support for the above devices to be configured as modules, or directly supported by the kernel? If you specified module, did you execute 'make modules; make modules_install' ?? If your kernel directly supports these devices, just comment out the appropriate lines in /etc/modules. Sorry I cannot help with slirp, as I have never used it. :( For ppp connections I configure /etc/ppp/peers/provider and /etc/chatscripts/provider and just run 'pon'. I don't know exactly what they are since I am at work right now... Let me know if you would like them for example and I can send them later. Upgrades do not affect the configurations, either. I'm not sure if they do, but if chat/pppd packages prompt you during installs/upgrade, you should keep the existing configuration files instead of installing the maintainers configs. Keeping existing config files is usually the default. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Samba: password for mapping network drives
Can you help me with that share name thing? Does that go in the global section? I've checked the man page for smb.conf, and still couldn't find anything about this parameter. I've set the workgroup for the appropriate windows workgroup name. Is this what you were talking about? I've got the password correct, but now the message comes up The share name was not found. Make sure you typed it correctly. Thanks again, Brian Adding a share is fairly simple... Say for instance you wanted to share out your CDROM which is mounted on your system as '/cdrom', you could add this to the bottom of your smb.conf: [cdrom] comment = CD-ROM drive path = /cdrom guest ok = no read only = yes You can then try mounting the share \\yourhost\cdrom on the Win95 PC. There are more options that you can give to a share that are documented in the man pages. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is Perl Base for Debian v2.0 (Hamm)
Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I am a newbie who is trying to upgrade from Debian 1.3.1 r6 to Debian v2.0 (Hamm). However I am unable to find the Perl Base package required for the upgrade using the autoup.sh script. Can someone point me to the correct place? Thanks. Best Regards, Chee Seng ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) You will find it in the directory '/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/base' on ftp sites (such as ftp.mi.us.debian.org and ftp.debian.org). Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Samba: password for mapping network drives
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Brian Morgan wrote: [snip] In either case, the map utility prompts me for a password to connect to these resources. I've tried the root password, and all the passwords for individual users, but it always comes back and says, the password is incorrect, please try again. Is there another password that I'm not aware of that I need to be entering here, or another daemon I'm not yet running to be able to map a network drive in this way? The man pages didn't provide as much help as I wished. Two things to check: 1. Make sure you have a share name in the smb.conf such that the filesystem you are attempting to mount is accessible through samba. There are various examples in the default smb.conf already. 2. Make sure your smb password is up-to-date by running 'smbpasswd username'. This won't be needed when PAM support is readded to samba. See /usr/doc/samba/README.debian for further details. There is extensive information in /usr/doc/samba that is not provided in the manpages. Hope this helps! Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: alternative ftp sites
Does anyone know of an alternative site that has the debian packages that I might try? Many thanks, Katharine Osborne Katharine, Try debian.egr.msu.edu (ftp.mi.us.debian.org is another name for it). Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ftp.debian.org
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am perhaps asking this question in the wrong place, but here goes... I keep a local mirror of ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/hamm for my personal use. I noticed a few messages about some sort of reorganization of some of the mirror sites, and was wondering if this mirror path will remain valid after the release of 2.0 or am I going to wake up one day and find that the mirror program just deleted my files? Should I be using a different path for my mirror? I did notice that the mirror site at ftp.mi.us.debian.org uses a slightly different directory structure, and my mirror configuration won't work there without modifications. ftp.mi.us.debian.org follows the guidelines for 'official mirrors' which states the distribution should be found under /debian. So removing '/pub' (using /debian/dists/hamm) will retreive the same information from both ftp.mi.us.debian.org and ftp.debian.org. Dpk -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Window Maker
WindowMaker and related files can be found in: ftp://debian.egr.msu.edu/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/x11/ WindowMaker has quite a few dependencies, but you will find the packages on the ftp site likewise, under the corresponding Section directory. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Matt Kopishke wrote: Would any one happen to now were I might find Window Maker (windowmaker.org) in a debian pakage (.deb). Thanks, -Matt- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midcoast.com/~kopishke http://169.244.147.29 MSAD#40 Home Page http://169.244.147.29/ss/MVHS Seed Savers Project http://169.244.147.29/MVCUG/Medomak Valley Computer User Group -- | *To see tomorrow's PC, Look at todays Macintosh* | -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't get Perl5.004.04 to compile on Bo
Do you have the libc5-dev package? I think the dl library is found there. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Christopher Fury wrote: I'm trying to compile perl5.004.04 on my debian 1.3 system... when I run the configure script I get a problem when it trys to link with the dl library (libdl). libdl is in /lib... I don't see any other packages (I did install dld, though I don't know if it's necessary, it's not very descriptive) Anybody have this compiled? Anybody know what I'm doing wrong/missing? Here's the [condensed] version of sh Configure -d in the perl directory. [...] Checking for optional libraries... [...] Found -ldb (shared). [...] Any additional libraries? [-lndbm -lgdbm -ldbm -ldb -ldl -ldld -lm -lc] [...] Checking your choice of C compiler, libs, and flags for coherency... I've tried to compile and run a simple program with: cc -O2 -Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib -o try try.c -lndbm -lgdbm -ldbm -ldb -ldl -ldld -lm -lc ./try and I got the following output: ld: cannot open -ldl: No such file or directory I can't compile the test program. (The supplied flags might be incorrect with this C compiler.) You have a BIG problem. Shall I abort Configure (and explain the problem) [y] Ok. Stopping Configure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ftp.debian.org and ftp.us.debian.org
On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 1998 00:55:59 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Do either of these require reverse lookups on FTPs? I can't get in from home, which currently is not resolving on reverse lookups. I can get in from work, however. To answer my own question, both ftp.debian.org and ftp.us.debian.org refuse connections to sites which do not reverse lookup. Pity. :/ I have turned off PARANOID for ftp... you should be able to get in now. Dpk -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ftp.debian.org and ftp.us.debian.org
On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: Anyone know what is up with these two sites? ftp.debian.org appears to be refusing connections and ftp.us.debian.org looks like the daemon is there but inactive. :/ ftp.us.debian.org (debian.egr.msu.edu) had SCSI problems early today. An fsck did the job, and is now back in business! Thanks for your patience. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian and Afterstep1.4.5.3-1
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: 1.4.x doesn't use .steprc, look in /usr/share for the things that go in ~/GNUstep/Library/Afterstep I think. And good luck configuring that mess. I've given up. Join the club! I successfully configured 1.4 to function like my old .steprc, however I recently upgraded again, which changed the configuration even more. Reconfiguring again, the wharf many times won't show up (sometimes restarting fixes it)... which leads me to find a new Windows Manager. I know many others are as frustrated as I,... what are people switching to? Any recommendations for a fast, slick, and easily configurable wm? Thanks, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian and Afterstep1.4.5.3-1
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 08:15:37 -0400 (EDT), dpk wrote: I,... what are people switching to? Any recommendations for a fast, slick, and easily configurable wm? Why not just stick with the 1.0 series? Probably just me being picky... but 1.0 series is not going to have maintenance or developement done on it. I also do not want to revert to using 'bo' packages, since at some point in time they will be gone. Maybe as afterstep reaches a point of configurability/stability with the new standard I will revert back. I just don't have much time for tinkering right now. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FTP site
What is your hostname? I can manually add it to the /etc/hosts file to retreive the correct information. Thanks, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote: The problem is not the server being up or down. When it is up, I am not able to connect because the server cannot reverse-resolve my hostname. Connected to ike.egr.msu.edu. 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection ftp Connected to santanni.cc.gatech.edu. 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection ftp These servers both cannot resolve my hostname. I am not alone with this problem, there are many people that use dial-up connections experiencing the same thing. -Matt On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote: I am still not able to log into the debian ftp server, seems it cannot resolve my hostname. My machine has two dns entries, could that be a problem? I think the Debian ftp server (ftp.debian.org) is down since I was able to connect to it a few days ago. Have you tried a mirror like: ftp.us.debian.org -Ossama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fast Ethernet
What type of card is it? You will most likely have to add the corresponding module or compile a kernel with support for the card you have. There is a linux ethernet HOWTO at the following url: http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html Hope that helps, Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 On Tue, 19 May 1998, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: I have an Fast Ehernet card and don't know how to start then as an ordinary Fast Ethernet Card! 10/100 PCI! TIA Leonardo Ruoso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adaptec aic 7895 aha2940
Do you have scsi support and the aic7xxx driver compiled into your kernel? If so '/proc/scsi' and '/proc/scsi/aic7xxx' should exist. If not - download/install the kernel packages. The READMEs in /usr/doc should help you out. Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 On Wed, 20 May 1998, Telesforo L wrote: I am trying to install debian linux in a 2 400mhz processors with a host adpater Adaptec AIC-7895 but when I try to install the debian linux linux don't detect the host adapter. How can i solve this problem? thanks -- E-Mail: Telesforo L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 20-May-98 Time: 14:59:52 This message was sent by XFMail -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Folders in pine
:0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./mail/archive/debianuser :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./mail/archive/debianuser Or be anal and conserve minute space on your harddrive: :0 * ^(To|Cc)[EMAIL PROTECTED] ./mail/archive/debianuser Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network Problem
This is due to tcp wrappers on the ftp server of ftp.debian.org. In the /etc/hosts.deny they probably had the line 'ALL: PARANOID'. This will disconnect hosts with name/address discrepencies. For instance, you connect as 'myhost.ml.org'. ftp.debian.org looks up the address for 'myhost.ml.org' and finds that IP aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd is assigned to 'myhost.myisp.net'. Since 'myhost.ml.org' != 'myhost.myisp.net' you get disconnected. Thanks, Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 On Fri, 1 May 1998, Michael Acklin wrote: Hello, Well I got the basic hamm from disks working fine last night. But when i started to download the rest of the packages from ftp.debian.org, I got a Connection Refused message or something similar. I really believe this is being caused by a reverse lookup or lookup from ftp.debian.org. I can log onto other ftp sites, ie sunsite, without any problems. But would rather download the packages via Debian. A little background, may help with my question. I am running on a PPP connection and connect up to my local ISP. I have been assigned a static IP. The address goes something like aux-xxx-xx-xxx.myisp.net. I have since changed that address via the magic of Monolith to something.ml.org, which has propagated for over a month now. I have placed in the hostnames the ml.org address. The other day, I had lost my static IP from my ISP and was being assigned a Dynamic IP address. And I could log onto ftp.debian.org with no problem at all. My question is, has anyone else seen this happen before? And if so, how do I fix it so I can log onto ftp.debian.org? If not, what am I doing that is different from a Static IP to a Dynamic IP to have debian.org let me on? And what do I need to do with my network files to get this to work? When I was running bo, I had the same problem, but I just got the files off sunsite so was not a big deal, but now with hamm, sunsite doesn't have the Package files up to date and I was wanting to get my system back up. Thanks for any help. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tape drive
I have an exabyte 8mm tape drive. I have compiled in scsi support, and scsi tape drive support into the kernel. It shows up in dmesg: Vendor: EXABYTE Model: EXB-8200 Rev: 2618 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 however, a device is not assigned to the drive. How do I tell which device it is? I looked at the SCSI HOWTO and it didn't say much about them except for that exabyte tape drives are supported. I also tried a few of the defaults without success. Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD-R, CD-RW
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Martin Oldfield wrote: Has anyone any experience of using a CD-R, or preferably a CD-RW drive with Linux ? I'm particularly interested in SCSI based drives. I have recently started working with a Sony CDU924S (CD-R) with a Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller using cdrecord. Following the CD-Writing HOWTO was a snap. In return I have burned around 7 CDs successfully, with no misburns. Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/etc/dhcpd.conf
How would I set the domain search order in /etc/dhcpd.conf? I couldn't find it in the man page nor in my O'Reilly TCP/IP admin book. Thanks, Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/dhcpd.conf
On 27 Mar 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: How would I set the domain search order in /etc/dhcpd.conf? I couldn't find it in the man page nor in my O'Reilly TCP/IP admin book. The domain search order is set in /etc/resolv.conf, not in a DHCP config file. See resolver(5) for details. I understand that, but I was hoping to set the search order information for a Win95 client to my dhcp server. Does the dhcp daemon actually send information found in /etc/resolv.conf to the clients? On Fri, 27 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, dpk wrote: : How would I set the domain search order in /etc/dhcpd.conf? I couldn't : find it in the man page nor in my O'Reilly TCP/IP admin book. I'm sure you knew this, but the option domain-name statement will add one domain to the search order for the resolver. You probably want multiple domain names there, and I'm not sure how to do that. I did find this, but you guessed right... I was hoping to set multiple domain names. Thanks anyway! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rumba package?
Ben, I belive he is looking/needing the software package 'rumba'. Actually rumba is a software package for a *Linux* client to mount an NT share via SMB. Samba is for a windows client to mount a drive from a linux server. I don't believe there is a package for rumba yet. I have seen it for freeBSD. I would actually be interested in packaging this software if someone could point me in the right direction to do so. Thanks, Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 On 25 Mar 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: is there a rumba (ramba?) package? ..a program that allows users to mount shares over SMB...? You're looking for samba. Yes, it's in the distribution, in the otherosfs section. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fat - ext2
Is there a way to retrieve the original filename when moving from a fat/dos filesystem to ext2? A script/command would be nice, if it exists. If not, is there an algorithm to extract this information? Thanks, Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fat - ext2
I'm a little confused about what you mean by `original filename'. The file on the fat partition has a filename, right? Isn't this the original filename and can't you copy it to the ext2 partition with the same name? Sorry, I have a file that started out as say 'filename' that was transfered to a fat filesystem and was renamed by the system to 'filena~1'. Is there an algorithm or way to retreive the original filename? Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup howto needed!
I would use the 'dump' program to do tape backups. (Found in 'utils' section) It has a interactive tool called 'restore'. Once installed the documentation under /usr/doc for it will get you going. Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: Hi, I just received a sony dds tape drive for our linux server and now I would like to do backups of some data. I have tried with tar but with little success; I can do a tar cvf /dev/st0 /home and it seems to do the job. But I wasn't able to recover a single file from the tape with tar xf /dev/st0 file_to_extract. Could somebody help me with basics steps to backup? A howto would be fine, if there is some! Maybe there is a better way to do! Someone here? []s, Mario O.de MenezesMany are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wtmp-libc6 (solved)
I previously had tried the steps of removing the wtmp, rebooting, etc without success. I tried the libc6 upgrade procedure again, without success also. It was due to the non-US package 'ssh'. The wtmp file remained readable until I ssh'ed to my machine - it then became a binary mess. I downloaded/compiled/installed the source for ssh and haven't had any problem since! I know there is another victim of this out there,.. I hope he can share the same solution. Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wtmp-libc6 (solved)
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, dpk wrote: I previously had tried the steps of removing the wtmp, rebooting, etc without success. I tried the libc6 upgrade procedure again, without success also. It was due to the non-US package 'ssh'. The wtmp file remained readable until I ssh'ed to my machine - it then became a binary mess. I downloaded/compiled/installed the source for ssh and haven't had any problem since! I know there is another victim of this out there,.. I hope he can share the same solution. Is your ssh linked against libc5? In that case, get the newest ssh in 'debian-non-US/hamm', which is linked against libc6. I have no problems at all with it. Thanks, it works. Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mkisofs
I am trying to test a cd writer we just bought. mkisofs fails about 1/2 the way through when trying to creating a filesystem from any existing CD I try. The error I receive is: cannot open filename : No such file or directory However, the file does it exist, and it doesn't fail on the same file each time! (Trying it over with the same CD of course) I have plenty of disk space and this is the command I execute: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] mkisofs -r -l -L -o cdimage /cdrom Has anyone else experienced the same thing? This is Debian 2.0, and all my packages are up-to-date. Thanks, Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hamm woes...
On 13 Mar 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: I upgraded to hamm about 2 months ago. I *still* have the problem with last/wtmp after following the instructions for removing the libc5 files and rebooting. I cannot use man: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] man man man: can't open /tmp/zman07736aaa: Bad file descriptor No manual entry for man Usually the particular problem with man can be fixed by rebuilding the man database. This can be done, IIRC, using a particular command-line option, or by deleting the database on disk, or by reinstalling the man package. (Of course, this might not be your problem.) I tried rebuilding the man-db, which didn't. However I tried the reinstall and that seemed to fix it. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
