Question re:Debian and ppp...
I have Debian 1.3 (from the Boot magazine cd) installed on my amd 586, and most things are working well...got XFree86 running, starting to learn my way around but still doing a lot of thrashing, and have rtfm'd til the wee hours. I'm trying to get a ppp connection to my ISP going and have run into some problems. I think I've got all my ppp files setup up correctly, using pon and poff, modem's dialing out, everything looks good until; (When I do a tail -f /var/log/messages, this is what I see...) (I didn't include all the prior chat...the dialout script seems to be ok...) Jan 9 14:37:00 ariel chat [289]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Jan 9 14:37:00 ariel chat [289]: send (ATDT477-4400^M) Jan 9 14:37:00 ariel chat [289]: expect (ogin) Jan 9 14:37:16 ariel chat [289]: ATDT477-4400^M^M Jan 9 14:37:16 ariel chat [289]: CONNECT 31200/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS^M Jan 9 14:37:18 ariel chat [289]: ^M Jan 9 14:37:18 ariel chat [289]: ^M Jan 9 14:37:18 ariel chat [289]: port50 login -- got it Jan 9 14:37:18 ariel chat [289]: send (smorrill^M) Jan 9 14:37:18 ariel chat [289]: expect (word) Jan 9 14:37:18 ariel chat [289]: : smorrill^M Jan 9 14:37:18 ariel chat [289]: Password -- got it Jan 9 14:37:18 ariel chat [289]: send (??) Jan 9 14:37:18 ariel pppd [199]: Serial connection established. Jan 9 14:37:19 ariel pppd [199]: Using interface ppp1 Jan 9 14:37:19 ariel pppd [199]: Connect: ppp1 --- /dev/ttyS1 Jan 9 14:37:33 ariel pppd [291]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Jan 9 14:37:33 ariel pppd [291]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 9 14:37:33 ariel pppd [291]: Connect: ppp0 --- /dev/ttyp0 Jan 9 14:38:04 ariel pppd [291]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Jan 9 14:38:04 ariel pppd [291]: Connection terminated Jan 9 14:38:04 ariel pppd [291]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Jan 9 14:38:04 ariel pppd [291]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0 Jan 9 14:38:04 ariel pppd [291]: Exit Any suggestions here? When it appears the ppp link is up (like when it says Connect: ppp1, I try starting lynx, I get cannot access startfile http://www.oro.net; (my ISP) When I try ping, I get network is unreachable... Can anybody tell from this log if I've actually made a ppp connection? (Sorry if this is a _really_ stupid question...I'm real new at this!) The tech support guy at my ISP said I didn't need to do anything special to start ppp...but he did tell me I needed to do this from Xwindows...He's a umsdos linux'r. Oh yeah, and they're not using PAP. Oronet is using Debian linux for their server, btw! Also, I'm not on a network, I'm just a standalone box dialing into my ISP. Should my machine name be the same as my ISP username? or does it make a difference? Any help greatly appreciated!! -- Steve Morrill Reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Pub key id: 0xF2459FCD Debian LINUX Where I really want to go today! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Internet access with Debian --long reply
Jameson Burt writes: ...there is the Debian way which gets at this file's contents through other files, in particular /etc/chatscripts/provider. Actually, this is the pppd-2.3 way. ... My comments may refect my installed ppp package, version 2.3.1-6. They do. They also apply only to Debian-unstable. 1.3 comes with pppd-2.2, which uses a different set of config files and does not support the 'call' option. I altered his code to assure that pon starts no second pppd daemon and poff stops all pppd daemons. ... And essentially my poff is /usr/bin/killall -q -TERM pppd chat sleep 1 /usr/bin/killall -q -QUIT pppd chat This will kill at most two pppd's. You also don't need to kill the chat. pppd kills its process group before exiting. You might want to look at my improved poff. It does what you want while remaining backward-compatible. I would like to hear of another approach to viewing ppp connection speed. You can use chat's report string faciliy to log the connect string reported by the modem to a file. I feel debian needs much more documentation for the ppp user. Running ppp is more complicate than running full-time ethernet, yet the ppp home user has much less experience than the ethernet user. I agree. I think dunc-2.3 would have saved you many of those hundreds of hours. Too bad it is only available via email from me. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
How to boot multiple OS
Hi! Now I try to install the debian 1.3.1 package. It seems that the debian liloconfig does not support multiple OS boot. It does not ask me the other partition information. I look forward to attach the appropriate tag to distinguish other OS partition as done in the slackware dist. It there a solution? Thanks , in advance -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
All Package install
Hi! I would like to install all package with debian 1.3.1. How can I set in the dselect menu to select all package? Thanks In advance whkye -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Re: help with tSCSI imeout problem
Hi Bill. About the SCSI timeout problem I have been having, simply trying a new kernel will not solve this problem; I get the same behavior running Win 95 and NT, both of which I need to use on this system. At this point I need to figure out some other motherboard - this no-name one is highly suspect in my mind. Cheap, and worth it too. -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng/ The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Upgrade to libc6...
:On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Michael [badpixel/bad sector] wrote: : :: Hi! :: :: Just wondering how to uprade to libc6? Do I just install the libc6 package, :: or do I have to reinstall my hole system? ... :: :: http://www.debian.org/devel/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html :: :: Ok ... but I just have a little problem (i think!) :) :: :: the libc6 package conflicts with libc5,and when i tries to remove :: libc5 a lot of programs depends on that... :: : :Read the last paragraph of Scott Ellis's FAQ (section 4.6). The URL is :cleverly hidden in this email message. : : I read that and I was wondering what exactly the conflicts are. It mentions 'locales' and the 'format of utmp/wtmp'. What kinds of problems are caused by these conflicts? VAResearch had me upgrade to libc6 and override the conflict so that I could add another package I needed. After two days, I haven't noticed any problems (other than I now have both libc5 and libc6 in memory, I presume, when I am running X.) I have grabbed the libc5_5.4.33-3.deb package that the FAQ suggests as an alternative, but I haven't installed it yet. Is there anything I should look for? Thanks, John Marter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: All Package install
whkye wrote: I would like to install all package with debian 1.3.1. How can I set in the dselect menu to select all package? Go to the Select screen, and search for the line that reads Available packages (not currently installed) (it comes immediatly after the list of packages you already have installed) ,move the highlight to that line, and press +. ** WARNING ** : You will then get a huge list of dependancy problems. You cannot really install all packages, because some conflict with others. Dselect will detect that and make you chose to only install one package out of a set of conflicting packages. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: new smail pkg (3.2.0.100-1.deb) problems
Yup, this took care of this little problem. I still have problems with my fetchmail, though. In this (new) version of the smail a new (?) variable is added to the /etc/smail/config file named 'more_hostnames' wher it includes 'localhost'. My guess would be that should take care of the earlier problem with localhost and hostnames (but I'm not sure). What I can do: 1-- telnet to 'inforamp.net smtp' from a VC and get a 220--banner thingy 2-- telnet to 'localhost smtp' from a VC as a user and get a 220--banner 3-- my fetchmail, when invoked, sees the number of messages on the remote server (it is giving me a feedback with the number of mails), but my machine seems to be refusing the SMTP connection attempt by fetchmail ( error says something about 'SMTP connection refused by my_machine_name'). So, my guess is it has something to do with permissions to allow the access, but I don't know where to look... Any help appreciated Damir John Boggon wrote: I had the same problem as this today after upgrading last night Check the last line in your /etc/smail/config file. Mine had the last in the wrong place. Move it back one space and all should be ok. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: hamm CD in area NL?
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote: : is there somebody in (or close to) the netherlands who has the means to : burn a CD with the current hamm-distribution (main/contrib/non-free)? And : then ofcourse send it to me. I can't do this, and downloading the whole : thing on 28k8 is no fun and costs a fortune. Running around with floppy : disks ain't fun either :) Don't know if Cistron burns 'hamm'-CD's too, but you could checkout http://www.cistron.nl/debian/ for information. bye, Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
More SCSI timeout problems
Still trying to debug this situation with my AHA-2940 timing out. Background on this is I took my Intel Zappa Motherboard with the Pentium-90 out of the box, and put in this new mystery motherboard made by eurone with 200MHz Cyrix MMX cpu, and now during long file transfer operations, I get timeouts and SCSI resets. Everyone suggested I check my termination and cabling, (which was not changed when the new motherboard was put in) and I didn't see anything out of whack. Just in case I put in a SCSI cable with only 2 connectors, one end in the AHA-2940 and the other in a terminated hard drive. Lo and behold if I try to transfer large ( 1 or 2 megs) files, the timeouts occur. Here are the error messages: Dec 31 21:32:42 keng-ppp kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 3803, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 0x0a 01 3a 15 f4 00 Dec 31 21:32:42 keng-ppp kernel: aic7xxx: (abort) Aborting scb 1, TCL 0/0/0 Dec 31 21:32:42 keng-ppp kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 3804, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 0x0a 01 3b 09 f4 00 Dec 31 21:32:42 keng-ppp kernel: aic7xxx: (abort) Aborting scb 0, TCL 0/0/0 Dec 31 21:32:59 keng-ppp kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 3803, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 0x0a 01 3a 15 f4 00 Dec 31 21:32:59 keng-ppp kernel: aic7xxx: (abort) Aborting scb 1, TCL 0/0/0 Dec 31 21:32:59 keng-ppp kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 3803) timed out - resetting Dec 31 21:32:59 keng-ppp kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. Dec 31 21:32:59 keng-ppp kernel: aic7xxx: (reset) target/channel 0/0 Dec 31 21:32:59 keng-ppp kernel: aic7xxx: (abort_reset) scb state 0x1, Data-Out phase, SCSISIGI = 0x4 Dec 31 21:32:59 keng-ppp kernel: aic7xxx: (reset_device) target/channel -1/A, active_scb 1 Dec 31 21:32:59 keng-ppp kernel: aic7xxx: (match_scb) comparing target/channel -1/A to scb 0/A Dec 31 21:32:59 keng-ppp kernel: aic7xxx: (reset_device) aborting SCB 0, TCL=0/0/0 Dec 31 21:32:59 keng-ppp kernel: aic7xxx: (match_scb) comparing target/channel -1/A to scb 0/A Dec 31 21:32:59 keng-ppp kernel: aic7xxx: (match_scb) comparing target/channel -1/A to scb 0/A Dec 31 21:32:59 keng-ppp kernel: aic7xxx: (reset_channel) Resetting current channel A Dec 31 21:32:59 keng-ppp kernel: aic7xxx: (reset_channel) Channel reset, sequencer restarted Dec 31 21:32:59 keng-ppp kernel: aic7xxx: (done_aborted_scbs) Aborting scb 0, TCL=0/0/0 Dec 31 21:32:59 keng-ppp kernel: aic7xxx: (done_aborted_scbs) Aborting scb 1, TCL=0/0/0 Dec 31 21:33:01 keng-ppp kernel: scsi0: Target 0, channel A, now synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset 15. At this point I believe there must be some fundamental incompatibility between the 2940 and this motherboard. Should I run out and buy something different? This is getting expensive !! Is anyone using a 2940 with a ASUS SP 97 board successfully? I as because they are available here for around $350 with 200MHZ Intel Pentium. I would appreciate any reports and/or suggestions on how to get back on the air here. Thanks! -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng/ The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: LILO stopped working
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 15:02:08 -0500 From: Bruce Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: LILO stopped working I normally leave my computer on all the time. Just the other day I rebooted and LILO would not work. It prints LI on the screen and then freezes. I have not rebooted my computer in a few weeks and much has changed. I am running 2.0.33 with LILO 20-0.1. I have tried running LILO off of a floppy and that does not work. The drive is a Quantum SCSI disk of 3.2 gb with a 2.0 gb linux partition at the beginning. Any one have any ideas? Bruce, This has happened to me a few times, ususally because the kernel has been touched, either moved or compiled. LILO has in effect a pointer to the sector where the kernel resides. Doing anything to the kernel will usually result in it being in a different sector. Time to dig out the emergency disk, mount the disk partition that is root on / and do LILO again. For what its worth, I decided a long time ago to direct LILO to put it's stuff on a floppy. I got into too many scary senario's dickering with the MBR. Good Luck, Steve Stephen Millard Websmith Enterprises Inc. Harrisburg, Pa. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Good Linux books??
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Rick wrote: I am looking for some good books, that introduce linux and provide a good reference for the begginer, but will still be a usefull reference later on. I found Linux in a Nutshell from O'Reilly to be helpful. It is a sort of plain english command reference, like man pages only way more readable. It covers user, sysadmin, and networking commands, and talks briefly about shells. It is good for just helping you figure out what is out there as well as how it works. I also read Learning the Bash Shell (O'Reilly) which was definately worthwhile. I am unsure about the 'xxx for dummies' books, as i have recently found at my cost, they assume you really are dumb and the first half focuses more on background history, basic concept of whatever the book is about, and useless information, while the second half explanes only a few of the really basic concepts, taking 200+ pages to do it. (i am refering to Java for dummies, but the other books in this range i have looked at seem similar). I am looking for a book that lets you 'get dirty' right from page 1, and by the finish makes you feel like you've actually learnt something you hadn't figured out for yourself. Thanks Rick PS, I recently recived a spam mail (nothing unusual abou that!) but the signature text at the end was the same as the debian lists. Is this group moderated?, and if not, why not! The volume makes it a pain I guess. Email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage - http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/kitty5/ (Raytracing, 3D Animation and Emulation) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bash shell script questions
David Stern wrote: I know this isn't a bash shell script news group, but the fact is I can't find one. Since bash is the default linux shell, I was hoping news://comp.unix.shell someone could answer a few pretty simple questions. 1.) How do I insert a newline character in a double-quoted string? If you mean when using bash's built-in echo command, use echo -e Test\nMoreText 2.) What is a good method to reassign variables interactively? read VAR [snip] #!/bin/sh You should use '#!/bin/bash' really, because now sh is just a link to bash, but you are not guaranteed that in a future version it will be another shell, or that bash _will_ act more (dumb) Bourne like in the future when called as 'sh' (I for one would appreciate it). # David's Backup Utility (dbu) v. 0.1 # David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Tue Jan 6 15:31:01 PST 1998 dbu_list=/root/dbu_list destination=/backup2 device=/dev/sdb2 copymethod=safecopy2 option=0 echo ; echo David's Backup Utility v. 0.1. ; echo ; while [ $option -ne 7 ] Do surround vars in a test in double quotes, to protect the empty string, like in: while [ $option -ne 7 ] do echoSelect a backup operation echo echo1. Change source list. echo2. Change backup destination base directory. echo3. Change backup device. echo4. Change copy method. echo5. Format backup destination device. echo6. Backup selected files to $destination. echo7. Quit. echo echoSource list is $dbu_list echoDestination directory is $destination echoBackup device is $device echoCopy method is $copymethod ; echo ; ^ I suppose this belongs to the last line? read option case $option in 1) echo Change source list. echo How do I interactively reassign \$dbu_list ? ; echo ; read dbu_list Or maybe you want to use another var, test its validity and eventually reassign your old one with $SECONDVAR ? ;; 2) echo Change backup destination base directory. echo How do I interactively reassign \$destination ? ; echo ; ;; 3) echo Change backup device. echo How do I interactively reassign \$device ? ; echo ; ;; 4) echoChange copy method. echoHow do I interactively reassign \$copymethod ? ; echo ; ;; 5) echoFormat backup destination directory. ; echo ; # mke2fs -v $device ;; 6) echoBackup selected files to $destination . for source in `cat $dbu_list` do if [ -d $destination$source ] # helper then echo$destination$source exists. else echo$destination$source does not exist. # mkdir $destination$source fi echo$copymethod $source ... $destination$source ; echo ; # $copymethod $source $destination$source ##echo ; echo ls $source; echo ; ls $source ; done ;; esac done Politically biassed advice: man cpio Cheers, Rob -- Rob S. Wolfram[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] W3: http://www.mcs.nl/~rsw http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~rwolfram PGP: 768/07606049 31 09 D2 D7 57 B4 F4 FC CA FC 1F 34 8C BA C8 56 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Unix qulifications...
Robert Moody wrote: Hi there, This might be a little off topic but it is on the subject of Unix based system and I thought you helpfull Debian users might be able to help me. What I want to know is if there are any Unix based qulifications, similar to Novells CNA, CNE and Microsofts MCSE. If there are could someone point me in the right direction. SCO has one (check www.sco.com and look for ACE Certification) As I heard Redhat seems to develop something too. Also Mark Grennan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) did set up an LCSE mailing list. This would be some sort of 'freeware' Linux Certification via the Web. I don't know if it still exists, I'm not on the list. His web site: ( http://okcforum.org/~markg/markg/ ) said nothing about it last time I looked. HTH, Rob -- Rob S. Wolfram[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] W3: http://www.mcs.nl/~rsw http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~rwolfram PGP: 768/07606049 31 09 D2 D7 57 B4 F4 FC CA FC 1F 34 8C BA C8 56 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Upgrade to libc6...
John Marter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JM I read that and I was wondering what exactly the conflicts are. JM It mentions 'locales' and the 'format of utmp/wtmp'. What kinds JM of problems are caused by these conflicts? libc6 has its own locales package, so there aren't any problems caused by conflicting with the libc5 version of same. The utmp/wtmp problem is a little trickier, though: it causes libc5 programs that directly write to the wtmp file to break the 'last' command, and using incompatible versions of libc.so.5 with glibc can also break the utmp file and the 'who' commands and friends. Using the libc5 package in hamm gets around at least this last problem. -- _ / \ The cat's been in the box for over | David Maze | 20 years. Nobody's feeding it. The | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |cat is dead. | http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ | -- Grant, on Schroedinger's Cat \_/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Question re:Debian and ppp...
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, smorrill wrote: Jan 9 14:37:18 ariel chat [289]: port50 login -- got it Jan 9 14:37:18 ariel chat [289]: send (smorrill^M) Jan 9 14:37:18 ariel chat [289]: expect (word) Jan 9 14:37:18 ariel chat [289]: : smorrill^M Jan 9 14:37:18 ariel chat [289]: Password -- got it Jan 9 14:37:18 ariel chat [289]: send (??) Jan 9 14:37:18 ariel pppd [199]: Serial connection established. Jan 9 14:37:19 ariel pppd [199]: Using interface ppp1 Jan 9 14:37:19 ariel pppd [199]: Connect: ppp1 --- /dev/ttyS1 Jan 9 14:37:33 ariel pppd [291]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Jan 9 14:37:33 ariel pppd [291]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 9 14:37:33 ariel pppd [291]: Connect: ppp0 --- /dev/ttyp0 Jan 9 14:38:04 ariel pppd [291]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Jan 9 14:38:04 ariel pppd [291]: Connection terminated Jan 9 14:38:04 ariel pppd [291]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Jan 9 14:38:04 ariel pppd [291]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0 Jan 9 14:38:04 ariel pppd [291]: Exit Hmmm... ppp1 and ppp0? Oh, 2 different pppd sessions. /dev/ttyp0 is wrong, did you call ppp some funny way? I would try minicom, dial in by hand, and see what happens when you get past the login. Also, make sure /etc/resolv.conf is set up correctly. You should see something like: Jan 9 20:19:53 cnhobbes pppd[320]: local IP address 209.96.153.139 Jan 9 20:19:53 cnhobbes pppd[320]: remote IP address 209.96.152.32 after the connect. Then you will have a route to the host and can do your networking. HTH, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: LILO stopped working
Quick lesson in LILO from /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz: LILO start message - - - - - - - - - When LILO loads itself, it displays the word LILO. Each letter is printed before or after performing some specific action. If LILO fails at some point, the letters printed so far can be used to identify the problem. This is described in more detail in the technical overview. Note that some hex digits may be inserted after the first L if a transient disk problem occurs. Unless LILO stops at that point, generating an endless stream of error codes, such hex digits do not indicate a severe problem. (nothing) No part of LILO has been loaded. LILO either isn't installed or the partition on which its boot sector is located isn't active. L error ... The first stage boot loader has been loaded and started, but it can't load the second stage boot loader. The two-digit error codes indicate the type of problem. (See also section Disk error codes.) This condition usually indicates a media failure or a geometry mismatch (e.g. bad disk parameters, see section Disk geometry). LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer. LIL The second stage boot loader has been started, but it can't load the descriptor table from the map file. This is typically caused by a media failure or by a geometry mismatch. LIL? The second stage boot loader has been loaded at an incorrect address. This is typically caused by a subtle geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer. LIL- The descriptor table is corrupt. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/map without running the map installer. LILO All parts of LILO have been successfully loaded. Good luck, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bash shell script questions
On Fri, 09 Jan 1998 23:01:54 +0100, Rob S. Wolfram wrote: David Stern wrote: [..] news://comp.unix.shell I know now. 1.) How do I insert a newline character in a double-quoted string? If you mean when using bash's built-in echo command, use echo -e Test\nMoreText I'll use that in the future. 2.) What is a good method to reassign variables interactively? read VAR Got it, thanks. #!/bin/sh You should use '#!/bin/bash' really, because now sh is just a link to bash, but you are not guaranteed that in a future version it will be another shell, or that bash _will_ act more (dumb) Bourne like in the future when called as 'sh' (I for one would appreciate it). Noted. However I thought that /bin/sh was more un*x-compatible, thus more extensible across other platforms where bash may not be available, therefore making /bin/sh preferred. True?/Not true? (When, if ever, do you think use of /bin/sh is appropriate?) echo ; echo David's BackupUtility v. 0.1. ; echo ; while [ $option -ne 7 ] Do surround vars in a test in double quotes, to protect the empty string, like in: while [ $option -ne 7 ] Noted. Thankyou very much. echoCopy method is $copymethod ; echo ; ^ I suppose this belongs to the last line? I set email linewrap to 72, but allowed a few more in my code. read option case $option in 1) echo Change source list. echo How do I interactively reassign \$dbu_list ? ; echo ; read dbu_list Or maybe you want to use another var, test its validity and eventually reassign your old one with $SECONDVAR ? Exactly. Immediately following the original post, a number of thoughts I was having formed ideas, which dawned some realizations and I haven't really mapped out where I want to take this, because some of my ideas will require more error handling than I think is suited for a bash script. Fortunately, I got it to work and added a few of my ideas, so it works well enough to pass proof test, which allows me to use it a little and see how I'd like it to develop. Politically biassed advice: man cpio Although I'm not intimate with cpio yet, that's the agenda. In any event, my default copy method (safecopy2) implements cpio. I've intentionally made this modular so I don't have do any deathly hacking should I decide to make any changes. Thanks to you all, it works pretty well. :-) I more or less figure this is amateur code, but it works pretty well, so if anyone wants to use or mangle it, feel free to have a go at it. :-) message/external-body; name="/home/share/bin/safecopy2"; access-type=LOCAL-FILE; site="localhost.localdomain": Unrecognized message/external-body; name="/home/share/bin/dbu"; access-type=LOCAL-FILE; site="localhost.localdomain": Unrecognized David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya/
exmh questions become exmh questions
Hi everyone, Thanks for the suggestion to look at GNUS and the other responses. My setup is similar to what Daniel Martin? described on his web page. I had to enter several lines in the frommap to correct what the different mail programs considered to be the from address: bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Bradshaw) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Bradshaw) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Bradshaw) freefall is my host, and mindspring.com is my isp and is set in visible name. I'm still having a problem with local mail though. I can send mail to a username without problems, but replying to this mail generates an invalid address. For example, in elm a reply to a local message From: bradshaw, would be addressed To: [EMAIL PROTECTED](none). I could qualify all from addresses even in the local transport so that replies would be forced through the isp, but I'd rather keep the mail local. I saw a suggestion to use someething like @home.net for local users. The MUA's I've seen try to qualify the username and that dummy address might be the thing to use. Please send your suggestions, or I'll post if I get things improved a little more. Thanks, -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Next Level Communications[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
browser with strong encryption?
Hi, Does anyone know of a browser with 128-bit encryption. I need access to a site that requires 128-bit encryption (it detects 40 or 56-bit encryption and disables features on the site) and I'd hate to have to use win95. Does netscape plan to make Navigator or Communicator available with 128-bit encryption for linux? Are there any other options? -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Next Level Communications[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Suck and Inn
hello everubody , Since my News provider has disable the NEWNEWS command i've decided to use Suck with Inn. How to use this package for full compatibility with Inn ? i've modified the get-news script to have -M flag and the target directory, because in the original version the articles are stored in /var/lib/suck/msg.hostname and Inn don't look that. tks for help Tony Tony Schonfeld * F5GIT * Grenoble ( FRANCE ) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.voiron.com/associations/ham/ ax25: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail_Voice / Data / Fax : (33) (0)476910062 get-news.me Description: Troff ME-macros document
Re: browser with strong encryption?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a browser with 128-bit encryption. I need access to a site that requires 128-bit encryption (it detects 40 or 56-bit encryption and disables features on the site) and I'd hate to have to use win95. Does netscape plan to make Navigator or Communicator available with 128-bit encryption for linux? Are there any other options? I spoke to a friend at Netscape a few weeks ago about just that very question, and he replied with something about a general lack of attention to UN*X versions lately (he likes Linux...). Linux receives much less attention than IRIX or Solaris/SunOS, of course. I thought I heard that caldera was supporting a linux version of some of Netscape's products, including tech support. Perhaps they are selling the US version (which uses stronger encryption). As for 128 bit, I assume you mean something like IDEA? Or maybe something like Triple DES, or RC5 with a 128 bit key? I am not sure what Navigator/Communicator use anymore... it's been a while. Hope that helped a little, at least. -dh -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SEGMENTATION FAULT
Faiz ul Haque Zeya [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All the Xprograms (my own or source) compiled on my system (gcc) exits immediately showing Segmentaion fault when run . They however get compiled and linked without showinig any error . Any help . Sounds like a mismatch between your libc and your Xwindows libs. I had this too, and I had to upgrade just about everything to hamm before things started working properly again. Now everything works except Netscape, which I can't possibly recompile!!! :( --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SEGMENTATION FAULT
Faiz ul Haque Zeya [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All the Xprograms (my own or source) compiled on my system (gcc) exits immediately showing Segmentaion fault when run . They however get compiled and linked without showinig any error . Any help . Sounds like a mismatch between your libc and your Xwindows libs. I had this too, and I had to upgrade just about everything to hamm before things started working properly again. Now everything works except Netscape, which I can't possibly recompile!!! :( --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
socks 5 debian module?
Does anyone know why there isn't a socks5 debian module in hamm? I compiled it myself and have it in /usr/local but would rather have it installed properly... --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
patch for man command
Hi,
i've installed debian 1.3 by
cd availeble on various zines.
someone knows how to patch the command man?
if hi enter :
#set PAGER less; export PAGER
i get this error:
sh: exec: pager: not found
man: command exited with status 32512: /bin/gzip -dc
'/var/catman/cat1/ftp.1.gz' | { export MAN_PN LESS; MAN_PN='ftp(1)';
LESS=$LESS\$-Pm\:\$ix8mPm Manual page $MAN_PN ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte
%bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\\%..; exec pager -s; }
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Re: Help: System time lags CMOS time
Oz Dror [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My system time lags after the CMOS time. They start as the same time, but then through the day the system time lags. By 12 hours it is about one hour behind. This started since I have added a new SCSI-UW disk, I have transfered the linux root to the new disk, the old EIDE is still the master boot. Does anyone have any idea why, and how it can be fixed. Do I need to recompile linux on the new hard disk. Slave your system to a trusted Net host using 'netdate' and then set your CMOS clock from that using 'hwclock'. I have a cron job that does this nightly; you may wish to run it every 3 or 4 hours. It's probably due to your SCSI card stealing interrupts that would otherwise update the clock. You might be able to configure your SCSI host adapter to use less interrupts or get a bus mastering adapter. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help: System time lags CMOS time
Oz Dror [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My system time lags after the CMOS time. They start as the same time, but then through the day the system time lags. By 12 hours it is about one hour behind. This started since I have added a new SCSI-UW disk, I have transfered the linux root to the new disk, the old EIDE is still the master boot. Does anyone have any idea why, and how it can be fixed. Do I need to recompile linux on the new hard disk. Slave your system to a trusted Net host using 'netdate' and then set your CMOS clock from that using 'hwclock'. I have a cron job that does this nightly; you may wish to run it every 3 or 4 hours. It's probably due to your SCSI card stealing interrupts that would otherwise update the clock. You might be able to configure your SCSI host adapter to use less interrupts or get a bus mastering adapter. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: misc questions: screen, version notation
On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 12:31:22AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: G. Crimp wrote: I am in an interrogative mood this evening. There are two things that have often caught my eye when cruising the dselect selection browser. The screen package is one. From the description it seems to me to be pretty much the same thing as the virtual terminals that come part and parcel with Linux. Are they the same, or do they provide something the VT's don't ? Screen is useful becuase you can use it in situation where you're not at the console -- telnet to a remote host and run screen therem run it in your xterm, or from a dumb terminal. It also has additional handy features, most notable is the ability to detach the programs running under screen, and reattach to them later, from elsewhere. How does one read the version numbers in the dselect window ? Eg., gsfonts 4.01-5. What does the -5 stand for ? It's the debian version number. Note that when the upstream version (i.e. 4.01) increases, then the debian version starts from 1 again. (just for completeness) If a non-maintainer release is made (because the normal maintainer can't for some reason), then the debian version is increase by 0.1 rather than 1. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: misc questions: screen, version notation
On Wed, Jan 08, 1997 at 11:17:42PM -0600, Asher Haig wrote: G. Crimp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 1/8/98 10:51 PM I am in an interrogative mood this evening. There are two things that have often caught my eye when cruising the dselect selection browser. The screen package is one. From the description it seems to me to be pretty much the same thing as the virtual terminals that come part and parcel with Linux. Are they the same, or do they provide something the VT's don't ? Screen is more for over telnet sessions etc. It also provides the ability to detach (either great, or evil, depending on who you ask) screens and resume them later. I have a DEC vt420 terminal hooked up and the screen package allows me to do virtual terminals on that (including cutpaste between the terminals) :-) Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Libc6 (again) - missing files
Hi! Now I'we got libc6 installed! :) ... but it still gives me some problems. Here's one of them: In file included from lxdialog.c:22: dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/scripts/lxdialog' make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 I show up, when I try to do make menuconfig or make xconfig I can do a make config thoug. AND compile and install the kernel. Am I missing som dev files? Also ... when i try to install ie. Netscape 3, it runs a little script, but stop with the error: unknow function mulk That error also show when i try to install the enlightenment package... Any ideas? Thanks! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Question re:Debian and ppp...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jan 9 14:38:04 ariel pppd [291]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Jan 9 14:38:04 ariel pppd [291]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0 Jan 9 14:38:04 ariel pppd [291]: Exit Hmmm... ppp1 and ppp0? Oh, 2 different pppd sessions. /dev/ttyp0 is wrong, did you call ppp some funny way? I would try minicom, dial in by hand, and see what happens when you get past the login. Also, make sure /etc/resolv.conf is set up correctly. You should see something like: In addition to that: The above lines from the logfile indicate, that your chatscript is too short. Do you have to enter ppp after entering your password in the terminal window? You don't have such a line in your chatscript. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: new smail pkg (3.2.0.100-1.deb) problems
Damir J. Naden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: remote server (it is giving me a feedback with the number of mails), but my machine seems to be refusing the SMTP connection attempt by fetchmail ( error says something about 'SMTP connection refused by my_machine_name'). So, my guess is it has something to do with permissions to allow the access, but I don't know where to look... What does hostname --fqdn say? If it is something like mybox.inforamp.net, then make sure you have a entry for this name in /etc/hosts or your box asks your ISP's nameserver about the mybox host in the inforamp.net domain. Then: a) the nameserver doesn't know about a host mybox or b) there is a host with this name already at the domain, but it doesn't have the IP you got on dialin. In both cases your box refuses connection due to the ALL:PARANOID line in /etc/hosts.deny. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: exmh questions become exmh questions
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I saw a suggestion to use someething like @home.net for local users. The MUA's I've seen try to qualify the username and that dummy address might be the thing to use. Please send your suggestions, or I'll post if I get things improved a little more. This was my suggestion. This is *no* dummy address. This is a perfectly legal domain for you intranet. If you have only one computer, let's call it a net anyway. My first suggestion was home.net, but let me correct this: Consider the case that you have no connection to the internet and only have a intranet with a couple of hosts. Then you have to specify a domainname and hostnames for the computers. Now you chose a domain for the intranet. Let it be home.koeln. You have three hosts named basement, office and entry. (FYI: koeln is the city where I live.) I have chosen a not-existent topleveldomain, so that there won't be any trouble if there is (or will be) a legal home.net domain and you connect to the internet. Now setup /etc/hosts on the three hosts, so that they can resolve the names. You could also set up a DNS Server for your home.koeln domain. So you can send mail between the three systems and of cause between the users on each host. You now decide, that entry.home.koeln gets a modem to make a connection to the internet. On dialin, entry gets an additional IP address and host+domainame from your ISP. Entry is part of *two* domains. So if you send mail from basement to a) user it is delivered locally (pine will expand this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) b) [EMAIL PROTECTED] will work as before. c) [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be forwarded to your ISP's mailserver (if you chose a smarthost) or delivered directly by entry. Read more about this in the Networkadministrator's Guide at the Linux Documentation Project homepage. For your case, you have to reduce this explanation to one host, but the principle is the same. And maybe you will have more then one box someday. You may want to browse the december archive of debian-user for some articles about how to change your hostname and domain (you have to change multiple files and I have never done this, so I don't know which :-) ) Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
netscape install - unknown function mulk (or mulc)
Hi! I have a litle problem with subject... I am very sorry for asking all these stupid questions. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
make xconfig - unknown command: wish
Hi! Which package do i install know? :) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: make xconfig - unknown command: wish
On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Michael [badpixel/bad sector] wrote: Which package do i install know? :) You need to install one of the tcl packages. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Graphics Board URGENT
Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The S3 Virge has been supported for a while under Xfree86 and is probably pretty stable by now. Most any board should work in generic svga mode, ^^^ Not true. The new Diamond Stealth II S220 based on the Verite' 2100 chip does not work even with xserver-svga. It seems unlikely that drivers will become available for it in the near future so watch out for it. I got caught in the situation of ordering a machine with the Diamond Stealth thinking I would get the S3 card only to get this new Verite' card. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Libc6 (again) - missing files
On Sat, Jan 10, 1998 at 01:00:07PM +, Michael [badpixel/bad sector] wrote: Hi! Now I'we got libc6 installed! :) ... but it still gives me some problems. Here's one of them: In file included from lxdialog.c:22: dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/scripts/lxdialog' make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 curses.h not not part of the libc but of ncureses: usr/include/curses.h devel/ncurses3.4-dev You should install that package from the devel directory, too. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / Whenever you meet yourself you're in a time loop / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ or in front of a mirror / pgpwOZJVQElll.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re:libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script
This version should be close to good enough. The major change since the last one that was posted is the ability to upgrade from files in the current dir instead of a local mirror requirement. This script still needs testing. --cut here-- #! /bin/sh # upgrade a libc5 (bo) machine to libc6 (hamm). # based on Scott Ellis' excellent Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO # document at http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html # Author: Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Copyright Status: This script is hereby placed in the public domain # # Revision History: # v0.0: 1998-01-08 (morning) # - a rough transcript of scott's doc and my own experiences # v0.1: 1998-01-08 (night) # - a few bugfixes # - i got unlazy and put in the right subdirectories for each package. # should run a lot faster. # - now checks for failure at critical points and exits with a different # exit code for each failure. # - now uses 'binary-$(dpkg --print-installation-architecture)' instead # of 'binary-i386'. # v0.2: 1998-01-09 # - fixed the perl-base/perl install (thanks Lindsay!) # - improved the DEVPACKAGES=$(dpkg --get-selections...) and added -dbg # packages. # v0.3: 1998-01-09 (p.m.) # - fixed some directories # - changed -iB to -iBE so that if the script fails and is run again # it will not disturb things already in place. # - added a final dpkg --configure --pending. # - sanity check that we are in the right place added # v0.4: 1998-01-10 (Igor Grobman) #-made it possible to place all packages in current dir. #-added -pic packages to removal list. #-make sure dpkg-dev does not get selected for removal. #-moved dpkg-ftp and dpkg-mounted to the end. #v0.5: 1998-01-10 (Igor Grobman) #-added a note about upgrading libraries # # # TODO: (probably by somebody else. this script is mostly good enough imo) # - error checking echo This script will install the packages necessary to ensure a safe echo upgrade to hamm. You need to either have a local or remote mirror echo mounted, or have the following packages available in the current echo directory: ldso, libc5, libc6, timezones, locales, echo ncurses3.0, ncurses3.4, libreadline2, libreadlineg2, bash, libg++272, echo dpkg, dpkg-dev, dpkg-ftp, dpkg-mountable, libgdbm1, libgdbmg1, perl-base, echo and perl. If you are using a mirror, press 'm'. If you have the files echo -n if you have the files in the current dir, press 'c': (m/c) read answer case $answer in m) #local mirror available # first, build up a list of installed -dev packages so that we can # remove them. remove wg-15-locale too. # # this is necessary even on machines which aren't doing libc6 # development because libc5 can't be upgraded to latest version without # removal of libc5-dev which also necessitates removal of other -dev # packages like libdb1-dev and libdl1-dev if they are installed. DEVPACKAGES=$( dpkg --get-selections | grep -v dpkg-dev | grep -v deinstall | cut -f1 | grep -- -dev$\|-pic$\|-dbg$ ) dpkg --remove -B $DEVPACKAGES wg15-locale || exit 1 # now install the new versions of things. Just the bare minimum to let # the user safely run dselect for the rest of the upgrade. # change this to prompt the user for the location of the debian archive. cd /debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-$(dpkg --print-installation-architecture) # sanity check that we are in the right place [ -f base/libc6_* ] || exit 9 # libc # dpkg -iBE base/ldso_*.deb base/libc5_*.deb base/libc6_*.deb \ base/timezones_*.deb admin/locales_*.deb || exit 2 # libreadline, ncurses, and bash # dpkg -iBE libs/ncurses3.0_*.deb base/ncurses3.4_*.deb || exit 3 dpkg -iBE oldlibs/libreadline2_*.deb || exit 4 dpkg -iBE base/libreadlineg2_*.deb || exit 5 # paranoia says run ldconfig NOW. don't laugh, i've needed to do this on # some libc5-libc6 upgrades. i know that the postinst scripts for the # libs are supposed to do it but ldconfig dpkg -iBE base/bash_*.deb || exit 6 # new dpkg # dpkg -iBE devel/libg++272_*.deb || exit 7 dpkg -iBE base/dpkg_*.deb utils/dpkg-dev_*.deb # perl # dpkg -iBE base/libgdbm1_*.deb devel/libgdbmg1_*.deb || exit 8 # paranoia says run ldconfig now. ldconfig dpkg -iBE base/perl-base_*.deb || exit 9 dpkg -iBE interpreters/perl_*.deb # strictly speaking, dpkg-ftp and dpkg-mountable are not essential to # upgrade right now but they're both very useful. dpkg -iBE base/dpkg-ftp_*.deb admin/dpkg-mountable_*.deb # paranoia says to run this at the end dpkg --configure --pending # paranoia says: run sync, so lets do it :-) sync ; sync ; sync ;; c) #all packages in current dir # first, build up a list of installed -dev packages so that we can # remove them. remove wg-15-locale too. # # this is necessary even on machines which aren't doing libc6 # development because libc5 can't be upgraded to latest version without # removal of libc5-dev which also necessitates removal of other
Re: libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script
Igor Grobman wrote: This version should be close to good enough. The major change since the last one that was posted is the ability to upgrade from files in the current dir instead of a local mirror requirement. llug.sep.bnl.gov is a public nfs mount for debian. You can point the scripts there if they are net connected too. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else. - George Halas ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
upgrade to development kernel
Hi, Today for the first time I tried to compile a devwelopment kernel. Using the kernel package everything went ok during compilation. I installed the kernel at /boot as usual run lilo and did everything I uisually do for a kernel upgrade. However when I rebooted and chose my new kenel it said something about kernel 2.1.78 as usual and then rebooted immediately as it started loading the kernel. Anybody has any ideas ??? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
The Debian Gnu logo?
Hi! Is there a site, where I can get the Debian logo in different sizes/formats? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Package Installation....
Hi! I just downloaded StarOffice 3.1 from Caldera, and debianized the RPMs with Alien. (Thanks for the help with my Alien problem, it works now!). When I try to install it, it wants to install onto /opt/StarOffice-3.1. But my root partition doesn't have enough space for 100mb's of staroffice!! Any ideas or pointers to relevant documentation on how I can get it to install onto my /usr partition like everything else? I could just install the .rpms with RPM, because RPM seems to have an option to set destination directory, but the rpm man page says I should use Alien for .rpms unless you know exactly what your doing... Could I break anything by using RPM to install it? Thanks! Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Package Installation....
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Timothy M. Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I just downloaded StarOffice 3.1 from Caldera, and debianized the RPMs with Alien. (Thanks for the help with my Alien problem, it works now!). When I try to install it, it wants to install onto /opt/StarOffice-3.1. But my root partition doesn't have enough space for 100mb's of staroffice!! Any ideas or pointers to relevant documentation on how I can get it to install onto my /usr partition like everything else? Create a /usr/opt and make /opt a symlink to it (ln -s /usr/opt /opt) Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Package Installation....
Hi Timothy, Why not use the .deb with the staroffice tarballs in /tmp? --- Package: staroffice3 Version: 3.1-4 Maintainer: Martin Schulze Depends: libc5 (= 5.4.4-0) Filename: dists/unstable/contrib/binary-i386/editors/staroffice3_3.1-4 .deb Size: 22054 Description: Star Office 3.1 installer Star Office 3.1 is a suite of office productivity applications containing the following [..snip..] The StarOffice 3.1 binaries can be found in ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linu x/staroffice/ They need to be placed in /tmp or $TMP respectively. Also, StarOffice 4.0 should be released by months end (that's when the current beta expires), and hopefully it will have English menus. It's considerably faster than StarOffice 3.1(static), looks like Office97. If you like all those features, it's very impressive, installs very cleanly with it's own installation script, and you can specify the directory. If you can't read German and want to try out the German StarOffice 4.0 Linux Beta, I have a webpage which outlines the procedure for getting that going: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya/staroffice.html Regarding space, the staroffice install lets you select individual components if you choose the custom install method. I think the minimum required space is around 30MB. As mentioned, a symlink from /opt to /usr/opt also works. Have fun! :-) -- David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
w == Work-Needing and Prospective Packages. [...] WNPP 3. Orphaned packages [...] WNPP Helmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] WNPP o lacheck (libc5) [...] I will take care of lacheck as the maintainer. Thanks, Davide G. M. Salvetti - IW5DZC [JN53fr] Take a look at Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org/. Debian is the free operating system with open development model. pgppxGnWflL7s.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Question re:Debian and ppp...
** Reply to note from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 9 Jan 1998 21:57:44 -0500 (EST) hand, and see what happens when you get past the login. Also, make sure /etc/resolv.conf is set up correctly. You should see something like: Jan 9 20:19:53 cnhobbes pppd[320]: local IP address 209.96.153.139 Jan 9 20:19:53 cnhobbes pppd[320]: remote IP address 209.96.152.32 after the connect. Then you will have a route to the host and can do your networking. Perhaps you can clear up something for me...does the resolv.conf file get erased before an ISP connection and then rewritten once the dynamic IP connection is made? Thanks:-) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
debian ftp crashes redhat
Hi, I have a strange problem which may have to do with ftp services. A RedHat Linux box (2.0.30) acts as a gateway to the internet. I has a built-in ISDN card (avm fritzcard) and is connected to a virtual ethernet with Linux, BSD, SCO and Minix machines. Via ip forwarding the rest of the ethernet can do ftp, http etc. That of course basicly works. But: my main workstation is a pentium with debian linux 1.3.1 (2.0.30). When I do ftp to the internet via the gatway (redhat) the redhat machines crashes totally. The last message is: kernel panic: skpush: under: 001a4bf0:2 in swapper task - not syncing. Now only a hard reset brings the redhat box back to live. This happens not every time I use ftp via debian but very often. And definetly it only happns from the debian box. Using FreeBSD, SCO OpenServer, SCO Unixware or even Minix is OK over weeks and months. Any idea what can be the reason for my problem ? Btw: network adaptors are WD8013 (redhat) and 3com509 (debian). thx berni mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] - / - homepage http://homepages.giessen.netsurf.de/~nk00455 /_ --- _ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Compiling with libc5 under libc6 based system
I have upgraded my system to libc6 with not much troubles. Now, it seems that some programs have to be compiled under libc5 anyway. Therefore altgcc and altdev-libc5 have been loaded into the system. Now i need some documentation about how to instruct 'make' to use the alternative environment. Is there any on line reference out there? Thank you for your suggestions Paolo Pumilia --- CSTC - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[Q]Getting Error 111 when starting X srv
Hello, during debian installation I was prompted to run XF86Setup, when configured my card and display I hit the 'Done' button to start the server but I was getting Xsomething something cannot connect to socket error (-111) What can it be? I had debian on my computer installed before and X run just fine (I also configured it via XF86Config). I remember seeing a message on this list regarding this problem but cannot find it now. Thanks in advance for any help. Vladislav -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
FW: [Q]Getting Error 111 when starting X srv
This mail was returned somehow, so I am resending it. -- From: Vladislav Papayan x285 Sent: Saturday, January 10, 1998 4:00 PM To:debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: [Q]Getting Error 111 when starting X srv Hello, during debian installation I was prompted to run XF86Setup, when configured my card and display I hit the 'Done' button to start the server but I was getting Xsomething something cannot connect to socket error (-111) What can it be? I had debian on my computer installed before and X run just fine (I also configured it via XF86Config). I remember seeing a message on this list regarding this problem but cannot find it now. Thanks in advance for any help. Vladislav -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compiling with libc5 under libc6 based system
Linux-Debian == Linux-Debian Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Linux-Debian I have upgraded my system to libc6 with not much Linux-Debian troubles. Now, it seems that some programs have to Linux-Debian be compiled under libc5 anyway. Therefore altgcc and Linux-Debian altdev-libc5 have been loaded into the system. Now Linux-Debian i need some documentation about how to instruct Linux-Debian 'make' to use the alternative environment. Is there Linux-Debian any on line reference out there? Thank you for your Linux-Debian suggestions It's actually quite simple. All you need to do is set your PATH to have /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/bin at the beginning, and then make, gcc, et all will use the -altdev packages. -- Brought to you by the letters T and M and the number 18. I put my feet on the Ottoman.. Empire. -- Moxy Fruvous Ben Gertzfield http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/ Finger me for my public PGP key. I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet and YiffNet IRC as Che_Fox. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [Q]Getting Error 111 when starting X srv
Vladislav == Vladislav Papayan x285 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vladislav Hello, during debian installation I was prompted to run Vladislav XF86Setup, when configured my card and display I hit Vladislav the 'Done' button to start the server but I was getting Vladislav Xsomething something cannot connect to socket error Vladislav (-111) Do you have the xfntbase and xfnt75 packages installed and configured? Make sure there's nothing showing up in any of the system logs (/var/log/*).. -- Brought to you by the letters U and D and the number 9. Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla (Stop That) -- Alliances Ben Gertzfield http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/ Finger me for my public PGP key. I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet and YiffNet IRC as Che_Fox. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
HELP! Netscape under hamm??
Whenever I try to run Netscape, v3 or v4, under my HAMM system I get 'Segmentation Fault'... I suspect it's because it was compiled for libc5 and I'm using libc6. Any way I can get it to work --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ICQ for Java
Has anyone got ICQ for Java to work? Mine goes fine until it has to contact the ICQ server for creating a new account, whereupon it gives a warning message and then gets stuck in some kind of a loop between the warning message and the last page of info to fill out. It also screws up when I try to register an existing account; it says error contacting the server, but that message comes up so quickly that I don't think it actually tries. Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Graphics Board URGENT
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, quick question: my supplier offers me the following boards: S3 TRIO PCI S3 VIRGE PCI Mystique Millenium 2MB Millenium 4MB no further information is given. If I don't care about graphic performance and possibilities what should be the safest bet for Linux? I'm using two different S3 TRIO PCI cards in my two Linux boxes without any problems. Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Upgrade to libc6...
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, John Marter wrote: : : :On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Michael [badpixel/bad sector] wrote: : : : :: Hi! : :: : :: Just wondering how to uprade to libc6? Do I just install : the libc6 package, : :: or do I have to reinstall my hole system? ... : :: : :: http://www.debian.org/devel/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html : :: : :: Ok ... but I just have a little problem (i think!) :) : :: : :: the libc6 package conflicts with libc5,and when i tries to : remove : :: libc5 a lot of programs depends on that... : :: : : : :Read the last paragraph of Scott Ellis's FAQ (section 4.6). : The URL is : :cleverly hidden in this email message. : : : : : I read that and I was wondering what exactly the conflicts are. : It : mentions 'locales' and the 'format of utmp/wtmp'. What kinds of : problems are caused by these conflicts? : : VAResearch had me upgrade to libc6 and override the conflict : so that I could add another package I needed. After two days, : I haven't noticed any problems (other than I now have both : libc5 and libc6 in memory, I presume, when I am running X.) : : I have grabbed the libc5_5.4.33-3.deb package that the : FAQ suggests as an alternative, but I haven't installed : it yet. Is there anything I should look for? : : Thanks, : John Marter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I did this once, when the new Apache-SSL package came out and I wanted to play with it. It needed libc6, so I just installed that. A few days later I noticed that the system was (surprise) unstable ... Apache-SSL segfaulted on a regular basis, and the whole system was generally weird. So I nuked the whole thing and started over. Following Scott's howto worked flawlessly and the system's been solid as can be. I would have to say that upgrading to libc6 in a non-standard manner is playing with fire. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
