With respect to the dreadfully OLD phf problem, I've implemented a
unique solution. Here's what I use in place of the old phf... It gives
fun replies to id, uname and passwd (as in /bin/cat%20/etc/passwd).
For example, it generates a unique passwd file each time at random.
Interesting
I am trying to conigure the box do accept a dialup pp conection. I am
getting an error message that I don't understand.
mgetty fatal: ys0 login' etc/mgetty/login.config must be root/0600
You need to change the permissions on the /etc/mgetty/login.config. After you
login or su to root
try:
hi all,
recently installed debian linux 1.2 on my NEC versa 6030H
after installing the .deb for pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules-2.0.27 (my
kernel, the default installed kernel, is 2.0.27 according to uname -a),
the card stuff comes up at boot time but tells me, among other errors:
Loading
I have a working 2.1.31 kernel that I compiled. Some of the modules,
such as vfat and serial, load ok but scsi_mod has missing symbols
that prevent my aic7xxx from loading.
--Brian.
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Anyone having much luck with 2.1.3x?
I'm running 2.1.29 and it's fine, except that
hi all,
recently installed debian linux 1.2 on my NEC versa 6030H
after installing the .deb for pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules-2.0.27 (my
kernel, the default installed kernel, is 2.0.27 according to uname -a),
the card stuff comes up at boot time but tells me, among other errors:
The error message is misleading, to say the least. The problem is
most likely that between the kernel and the modules, one is compiled
with CONFIG_MOD_VERSIONS set and the other is not. To fix it you
could install the kernel sources, run make menuconfig, and
compile the kernel and modules:
hello
As a somewhat unix/Linux newbie I have a few questions for this list:
they are in no spesific order:
1: I have a text file that in of itself is a list of files. I would like
to take that list and grep though them to find a string. I think this can
be done with a shell script (Bash) but I
Thantks for the help. I'll give that a try.
On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Rob MacWilliams wrote:
I am trying to conigure the box do accept a dialup pp conection. I am
getting an error message that I don't understand.
mgetty fatal: ys0 login' etc/mgetty/login.config must be root/0600
You need
For question 1:
grep foo `cat name.of.file.with.list.in.that.file`
For question 2:
lsof /usr/lib/cows
This will show you which file is currently opening /usr/lib/cows.
Regards.
Paul
Kevin J Poorman wrote:
hello
As a somewhat unix/Linux newbie I have a few questions for this list:
I have a machine that will start to boot the boot disk to install Debian 1.2
on.
intel i486 dx-2 80
8M of ram -- is this a problem ?
1 300M ide
2 2.0G seagate barracuda's
1 VLB ide controller
1 Buslogic VLB SCSI controller with floppy controller disabled
1 TechWorks ThunderBolt video card
1 SMC
What you say about Afterstep is no longer accurate, as of 0.99pre6-1
(upstream 1.0pre6) since I have changed things so that the Debian
Afterstep now has m4 support compiled in so that we can now use m4
includes for the Debian menus. This is much better than the old method
of using a skeleton file
Brian N. Borg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a working 2.1.31 kernel that I compiled. Some of the modules,
such as vfat and serial, load ok but scsi_mod has missing symbols
that prevent my aic7xxx from loading.
--Brian.
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Anyone having much luck with
On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote:
hello
As a somewhat unix/Linux newbie I have a few questions for this list:
they are in no spesific order:
1: I have a text file that in of itself is a list of files. I would
like to take that list and grep though them to find a string. I think
Samba worked fine when I installed it ... for 49 days to be exact. Then I
rebooted and now the windows box does not see my printer.
purging and reinstalling samba fixes it but a reboot kills it again. I
suspect that something is not getting started correctly.
Any ideas?
George Bonser
[EMAIL
Douglas Bates writes:
It appears that the 2.1.3x series of kernels are indeed development
versions. I think I will stay with the 2.0.3x series for a while.
2.1.29 seems pretty stable. From what I gather, for later ones you
are better off not using modules and then I think you're safe.
Dave Cinege writes:
On 21 Apr 1997 03:58:51 -, Richard Sharman wrote:
Dave Cinege writes:
...
Aaaa! And you are using this with linux? Are you sure it is opening
the
16650 at 230K?
Well, I *think* so. How can I tell? I use setserial with spd_cust
and a divisor of 1
Loose nut behind the wheel.
It works junst fine windows problem.
George Bonser
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I've set up a box, and got IP-Aliasing going. The trouble is that if I
ping it from outside the LAN all the ICMP reponses come back twice!
What does that mean, and how do I fix it?
The machine is a Cyrix box, with a NE2000 clone that otherwise seems
to work very well.
Debian 1.2.8
John Foster
Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk writes:
According to the man page for system(), it should return the return
code of the command run, or else -1 or 127.
For me it is returning RC * 256: that is, if the return code is 1,
system() returns 256; if 2, 512 and so on.
Code fragment:
char *s =
dselect kindly give me this stuff for a long while, don't know what's
wrong.
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/setup: line 8: 7921 Broken pipe
find $mountpoint$2 -follow -name '*.deb' -print 2/dev/null
7922 Done| head -1
7923 Done| grep .
Using `/mirror/debian/development/binary-i386' as main binary dir.
Using `/mirror/debian/development/binary-i386/Packages.gz' for main.
Using `/mirror/debian/contrib/binary-i386' as contrib binary dir.
Using `/mirror/debian/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz' for contrib.
Using
Hi,
I am trying to set my system clock, but get the error:
/sbin/clock -u -w
ioctl: Invalid argument
Any ideas about what's wrong?
Thanks.
-
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm certainly interested because I intend to be getting a byte runner
16650
card and ISDN TA in a about a week.
Something to think about before getting a 16650 card... From the 2.0.30
kernel serial.c:
} else if (info-type == PORT_16650) {
/*
*
On Tue, 22 Apr 1997 21:16:19 -0500 (CDT), Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Douglas I just compiled a fresh 2.1.35 kernel for my home machine (IDE-based).
Douglas When I try to boot this kernel, either from the IDE disk or from a
Douglas floppy disk, I get the messages about uncompressing
On Apr 17, R. Chris Ross wrote
I am quite new at the world of IP networks and have been doing
some testing on a Debian 1.2 system and Free BSD. Last night I ran a
test as described in one of the ethernet FAQs by running FTP on a
file that was ~2.5Meg the rate came out at 1.09M/sec.
Steve == Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm certainly interested because I intend to be getting a
byte runner 16650 card and ISDN TA in a about a week.
Steve Something to think about before getting a 16650
Steve card... From the 2.0.30 kernel serial.c:
patch for
On 22 Apr 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
Comet Mercantile [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I can't login into my box the ftpd denies access to everyone! I check the
files /etc/hosts.deny /etc/hosts.allow /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess and they are
all fine! what else could it be? I am using wu-ftpd..
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nico De Ranter) writes:
I'm trying to install Debian Linux on a Compaq Deskpro XL.
I have located the Linux Compaq Deskpro XL HOWTO but there
is only information on how to create the bootdisks for Slackware
and RedHat. Did anybody try to install Debian on such a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin J Poorman) writes:
1: I have a text file that in of itself is a list of files. I would like
to take that list and grep though them to find a string. I think this can
be done with a shell script (Bash) but I have know idea how. Can anyone
give me some pointers and or
I was refering to the 16650 (not 16550)... :-)
^
On 23 Apr 1997, Adrian Phillips wrote:
Steve == Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm certainly interested because I intend to be getting a
byte runner 16650 card and ISDN TA in a about a week.
I think this was already discussed before, but can someone tell me if the
'cdwrite' package is the best CD-ROM authoring program out there for
linux, or if there are others I ought to look at as well?
Thanks
--
Stephen Hsieh Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Hi Steve:
There is a cd authoring tool called xcdroast. Go to the
debian HOW-TO pages. There is a HOW TO doc on
authoring CDs. In that page you can find out where
to get xcdroast.
I have it but I haven't been able to get it to work yet.
Regards
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From: Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 23 Apr 1997 06:35:12 -0400, Peter Iannarelli wrote:
Hi Steve:
There is a cd authoring tool called xcdroast. Go to the
debian HOW-TO pages. There is a HOW TO doc on
authoring CDs. In that page you can find out where
to get xcdroast.
I have it but I haven't been able to get it to work
On Apr 23, Christian Leutloff wrote
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin J Poorman) writes:
:
: 1: I have a text file that in of itself is a list of files. I would like
: to take that list and grep though them to find a string. I think this can
: be done with a shell script (Bash) but I have know idea
On Wed, 23 Apr 1997 03:24:11 -0400 (EDT), Steve Hsieh wrote:
I'm certainly interested because I intend to be getting a byte runner
16650
card and ISDN TA in a about a week.
Something to think about before getting a 16650 card... From the 2.0.30
kernel serial.c:
Hmm this is not good,
We have had Debian running for several weeks now and been using dselect
without incident. On monday, dselect started having trouble in ACCESS.
What we see is:
clip ===
Using FTP to check directories...(stop with ^C)
Connecting to ftp.debian.org...
Net::FTP:
I have got mgetty answering the phone and allowing me a terminal session but
how do I get
it to run pppd once I have logged in ?
There is an entry in the /etc/mgetty/login.config for /AutoPPP/ but it just
seems to be ignoring it
Can any one help ?
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There is an entry in the /etc/mgetty/login.config for /AutoPPP/ but it just
seems to be ignoring it
AFAIK there must be an Define in the Makefile, but
I am not familiar with mgetty as a Debian package
From the Makefile:
# If you want to auto-detect
I am trying to help my friend install debian. He is getting the following
error when dselect tries to mount his cdrom:
mount: /dev/hdd has wrong major or minor number
unable to mount /dev/hdd on /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt
type iso9660
Anyone know what major/minor number mean?
By
Hi,
I am a new Debian user.
Just finished my second Debian 1.2 (stable) installation (in two days :-)
The strange thing I noticed was a kind of looping in dselect, at least twice
I saw him Replacing gcc etc.
The real problem appeared later:
# dump 0f - /
DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING!
Segmentation
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Hello,
I have an ISA SCSI controller (AHA1522B) to which Iomega Jaz external
and Plextor SCSI CD-ROM internal are attached and a PCI SCSI (AHA2940UW)
with two wide hard drives attached (C:, D:).
When I tried to boot from Debian Linux (Debian GNU/Linux 1.2.2), the
first SCSI controller (AHA1522B)
I have a serious problem with my printer: it does not print.
If I try to print anything (via cat as root, or with lpr),
the device seems to receive data, because its display says
so (PROCESSING...WAITING... and then READY).
But it still does not print.
My Debian is 1.2 of the InfoMagic
Comet Mercantile [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hope this helps! its very annoying and I haven't really done any changes
for this to have happenned! I am using BO btw maybe thats it.
Hmm, it looks OK to me too. Did you check the /etc/shells problem
that others mentioned...
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Rob
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If this is a postscript only printer, are you sending it a postscript
file or just characters to /dev/lp0? The fact that it says processing
suggests that it is receiving your data, but it can't understand what
you're sending it. Try cat'ing a real (short) postscript file to the
printer and see
Petri Wessman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, life on the bleeding edge is always interesting :-)
I'd be a little careful with 2.1.25. At least on my system, clock()
always returned 0. Not good.
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I have a serious problem with my printer: it does not print.
If I try to print anything (via cat as root, or with lpr),
the device seems to receive data, because its display says
so (PROCESSING...WAITING... and then READY).
But it still does not print.
This is
But they are enabled for 16550A, which is the only type you will find
these days.
Bob
On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote:
I'm certainly interested because I intend to be getting a byte runner
16650
card and ISDN TA in a about a week.
Something to think about before
Hi there
if my memory still serves me, 16650 was issued with
bug in FIFO handling, so you can easily loose
bytes. After some time bug was fixed and now
good 16650 are in production. Unfortunately, there is
no way to find out chip info, i.e. there is no
difference between good 16650 and buggy
OK that fixed the error message. Now when I dial up with Win95 I get an
eror message on my side. It sais the machine you are conecting with could
not establish a dialup networking conection, please verify username and
pasword. I verified and I am thinking that I missed something in the
setup.
I
I'm using the lastest xserver_s3v from hamm with a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000
(S3 virge chipset). I can't get it to work in 16 bpp mode with a screen
size of 1024x768.
Supposedly, that's because the former s3v specs only allowed a maximum
rate of 80MHz in 16 bpp mode.
Since then, S3 relaxed the
Hi,
On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Mathieu Guillaume wrote:
I'm using the lastest xserver_s3v from hamm with a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000
(S3 virge chipset). I can't get it to work in 16 bpp mode with a screen
size of 1024x768.
hmm...
it worked for me ( actually, my boss ) up to
16bpp x 1152 x 868.
Hi,
I'm having trouble finding the source for the package passwd on the ftp
sites. The package itself is in binary-i386/base just like dselect says,
but the source isn't in source/base. I'm having the same problem finding
ncurses. What directory is this code kept in? Thanks
J. Goldman
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I don't understand why lilo is doing this. I've never had this problem
before.
I just repartitioned my drive and put linux on hda2. When I try to run
lilo to boot linux from hda2 instead of hda1 it gives me this error about
my cylinders.
geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (2312
Hi all: I'm fairly new to linux. Lately I've been getting a lot of fatal
signal 11's.
It seems to occur when my system has been up for a few days under light
load or up a day under a heavier load, running some job in the background
for about 24 hours. Then I get, compiling using g77 (I had
On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Jesse Goldman wrote:
Hi,
I'm having trouble finding the source for the package passwd on the ftp
sites. The package itself is in binary-i386/base just like dselect says,
but the source isn't in source/base. I'm having the same problem finding
ncurses. What directory is
Apologies to those who get easily insulted, but
is the article in question. Perhaps this
should not be posted.
-W.T.
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[Image] Your news
I didn't include the article, it would be a waste.
All I have to say is...what a fu**ing maroon. He has obviously never even
looked at a computer with Linux on it. And he calls himself a
Journalist?!?
--Rick
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I'll have to agree with Rick. I cannot believe that this person is
a journalist !?!? I could tell right away that he did alot of research
on the subject ! :)
The article was written by a windows95 cult member who tried to break
away, but failed. Last I heard he boarded a UFO in route to some
There's something in the kernel 2.0 readme about this problem. It is
related to hardware problems. For me, it turned out to be a problem with
the external cache in my motherboard.
Al Youngwerth
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Thank you all for trying to answer my question. I think I have forgotten
to say, that I am indeed cat-ing a postsript-file (not raw text or
anything else, but I admit that I tried...) to the printer,
but it does not work. Under DOS the command copy junk.ps lpt1
prints every postscript-file
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:49:04 -0500
From: Lauralyn Gorham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Ted. I'm going to be installing the 2.0.01 Debian Linux here shortly,
in hope to find autoconfig.h file. Our UK office has a customer that seems
to be missing it, and it causes the driver install to
OK here's an update on this one. Hopfully not to many are thinking about
the last one. I got the modem to anser and conect with PPP. I had to
inter the IP in win95 before it would work. I then proseded to telnet the
the debian box. I loged in and had a victory dance. However I soon
On 23-Apr-97 Matthew Tebbens wrote:
I'll have to agree with Rick. I cannot believe that this person is
a journalist !?!? I could tell right away that he did alot of research
on the subject ! :)
On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
All I have to say is...what a fu**ing maroon. He has
Mathieu Guillaume wrote:
Since then, S3 relaxed the specs to allow a rate of 94.5MHz in this mode,
so I wondered if a package would soon come which would allow this. If not,
I read from comp.windows.x.i386unix a few days ago that new XFree86 beta
versions allow it. So either wait for the beta
Hi,
Could you please ask the customer what versions of
libc{5,6}-dev, and kernel-{source,header,image}-X.X.XX packages are
installed on their system?
I have kernel-source-2.0.30 on ,y machine, and I could not
find any autoconfig.h on my system either (I have performed a make
Hello, Thank you for responding so quickly.
It is a customer of a coworker of mine from the UK. I'm in the US, so I
don't know when I can get an answer to which version of libc he has. I do
know he has the kernal revision 2.0.21. To be honest, I don't know if the
customer has Debian, but I do. I
From: Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 23 Apr 1997 16:59:13 -0500
Could you please ask the customer what versions of
libc{5,6}-dev, and kernel-{source,header,image}-X.X.XX packages are
installed on their system?
I have kernel-source-2.0.30 on ,y
Thomas Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What naming convention should I use? I can't very well upload two
foo_2.1-1_i386.changes and foo_2.1-1_i386.deb files simultaneously.
foo_2.1-1_i386-libc6.changes or .deb, maybe?
Or should I just release the libc5 version as foo_2.1-1, and the libc6
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 17:17:21 -0500
From: Lauralyn Gorham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It is a customer of a coworker of mine from the UK. I'm in the US, so I
don't know when I can get an answer to which version of libc he has. I do
know he has the kernal revision 2.0.21. To be honest, I
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