What do you think is causing this:
May 5 07:23:26 panther kernel: hda: WDC AC21200H, 1222MB w/128kB Cache,
LBA, CHS=2484/16/63, DMA
Keep in mind that I'm not using LBA mode. Maybe I'm mistaken, but doesn't
that field that says LBA mean the drive is in LBA mode?
Ofcourse, you can tell it's
On Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 David B. Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 6 May 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
cp -ax certainly is much simpler than using find and cpio. Is
there any option to cp (I can't find one) that would keep it from
copying /proc, like the -prune option in find?
This is why I thought my brain storm of using MC to tag/untag directories
was the ticket with the retain UID/GID set. Ofcourse since it didn't keep
the permissions of the directories this was a bite in the ass.
However! If you use mc to tag/untag the proper directories and type cp
-a [^C t]
Just take a look at the bottom of each email message from the list ..
directions on unsubscribing are there.
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On Wed, 7 May 1997, Eric Nesser wrote:
This is likely not the right address to be sending this to, but I'm not
I have a Digiboard Portserver II on my LAN that I currently have modems
hanging off of. I've configured it so that any incoming terminal
connections are automatically telnetted to another location. This works
great; however, there are some *serious* performance problems associated
with the
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I downloaded the kernel-source-2.0.30_2.0.30-4.deb and instaled
it. But when I do a make something, this happens:
[stress]:/usr/src/linux# make clean
make: *** File `Rules.make' has modification time in the future
make: *** File `arch/i386/Makefile'
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Sorry, I seen the date of my system, it was in 1996. :)
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Carlos Marcos Kakihara wrote:
I downloaded the kernel-source-2.0.30_2.0.30-4.deb and instaled
it. But when I do a make something, this happens:
Do you have any idea on how to setup mgetty to automatically telnet an
incoming connection to another system. (i.e. anyone connecting to ttyS31
should be automatically telnetted to aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd.)
I know that this can be done as we used to do it... but I can't remember
how we used to do it :(
I've just installed isapnptools. It works great on my PnP soundblaster
clone. The one problem is that now I can't use my non-PnP midi card. The
midi card just happens to sit at the same irq as the soundcard (which has
really corny midi emulation). Is there some way to get my midi card to
live
As list manager, I often assist people in the process of unsubscribing
from Debian lists. Occasionally, I end up with a person who is receiving
Debian mail from a mailing list that is _on_ a Debian mailing list. Many
of these lists serve excellent purposes (they're based in a locality that
has
I have *another* newbie type question. (Do they ever stop?) I am using
debian release 1.2 on my 586/133mhz. When I originally ran dselect
after doing my base system install, I skipped over configuring a number
of programs, like ppp, etc.
I've also made some mistakes (I think) on some of my
Debian 1.3 seems to turn messages off by default for users. I know I can
put mesg on in the default login files either in skel or etc, but is
there anyway to do it that is not shell specific
Thanks,
Sam
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Is anyone here running Debian on a ThinkPad ?
I would like to install Debian on my ThinkPad 755cx.
Thanks,
Matthew
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Some time ago it was rumored that cp cannot copy files with holes, it
just fills the holes :-( There's even a package to work around this,
perforate. Is it still true that cp -a cannot preserve holes?
Carlos
No, this rumor is quite easy to falsify. GNU cp makes a copy with
holes iff the
Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH writes:
Hi,
When I installed Debian, I made some errors while configuring options of gpm.
Now, I know what to do, but I am unable to change the default configuration
of
gpm at boot time. How could I do this ?
Just log in as root and type
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
What do you think is causing this:
May 5 07:23:26 panther kernel: hda: WDC AC21200H, 1222MB w/128kB Cache,
LBA, CHS=2484/16/63, DMA
Keep in mind that I'm not using LBA mode. Maybe I'm mistaken, but doesn't
that field that says LBA mean the drive is
On Wed, May 07, 1997 at 08:49:14AM -0400, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
IP address) and UDP broadcast packets are *not* routed which
means if 1.1.1.3 is trying to find 1.1.1.2 by name, it won't find
it. The solution to this is to set up a WINS server--sorta like
a DNS server. You can do this in
Andre M. Varon wrote:
Indeed, there is something really wrong. Something really is
wrong with the harddisk. Few months ago there was a thread in a linux
mailing list about the how unreliable some western digital harddisk are.
many disgruntled linux users. you could check out www.wdc.com.
This may be a FAQ, if so please point me to the
right place.
I have kernel 2.0.27 and could not make a PPP
connection.
I can dial and login to my ISP OK, but can't seem
to get a PPP session.
When I use my old Slackware 1.3.x PC on the same
modem with the same setup I get a connection and
This is interesting:
panther# pwd
/usr/src/kde/kdelibs
panther# find /usr -iname kfdial*
/usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kgreeter/kfdialog.cpp
/usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kgreeter/kfdialog.moc
/usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kgreeter/kfdialog.h
/usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kfdialog.cpp
panther# cd ../kdm*
panther# pwd
I normally receive 20 to 30 messages a day but the last 2 days I have received
4 ?
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On Wed, 7 May 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
Nicola == Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rather than commenting out the -ltermcap, you could replace it with
-lncurses, and it will link fine. Ncurses has termcap emulation.
GREAT! Actually, I was wondering about that... good that
Excellent, I have a Western Digital 1.6 gb harddrive, the same one that
their web page admits to having problems withGateway is sending me a
new one, I only hope this one lasts until then..
(It does take some guts for WD to admit they messed up, and replace the
drives.)
Thanks for all
Must be a problem. I've sent more than that myself. I've seen less than
usual but not too bad.
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Stephen Davey wrote:
I normally receive 20 to 30 messages a day but the last 2 days I have
received 4 ?
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On Thu, 8 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
panther# cd ../kdm*
panther# pwd
/usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4
panther# find /usr -iname kfdial*
/usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kgreeter/kfdialog.cpp
/usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kfdialog.cpp
try putting quotes around kfdial*.
e.g.
find /usr -iname kfdial*
Rather than commenting out the -ltermcap, you could replace it with
-lncurses, and it will link fine. Ncurses has termcap emulation.
GREAT! Actually, I was wondering about that... good that you gave a look
at the diff file, thank you!
Ah, at my system this was resolved automagically
Thanks for that little tid-bit. I've used the find command for about two
years and never discovered this before except when the wild card is in
front it caused a problem and I'd use quotes. I don't think I've ever
searched for a file from a directory that contained one matching the
pattern
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
Andre M. Varon wrote:
Indeed, there is something really wrong. Something really is
wrong with the harddisk. Few months ago there was a thread in a linux
mailing list about the how unreliable some western digital harddisk are.
many disgruntled linux
sysklogd used to work fine. Recently it has started dumping core. I
purged and reloaded the -15 version of the package and it still does the
same thing.
Here is the error message during boot (runlevel 2):
Starting system log daemon: syslogd klogd/etc/init.d/sysklogd: line
51: 429
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
On Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 David B. Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 6 May 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
cp -ax certainly is much simpler than using find and cpio. Is
there any option to cp (I can't find one) that would keep it
It has been quite a chore getting procmail to run at all here. No
success
at all with the .forward hack; any time it is run, the mail goes to
nobody. Anyway I managed to get procmail running after finding a clue
and hacking /etc/smail/transports like this:
# This is the Smail transports file,
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
This is interesting:
panther# pwd
/usr/src/kde/kdelibs
panther# find /usr -iname kfdial*
/usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kgreeter/kfdialog.cpp
/usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kgreeter/kfdialog.moc
/usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kgreeter/kfdialog.h
From: Matthew Tebbens[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 07 May, 1997 23:34 PM
To:debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc:The recipient's address is unknown.
Subject: Debian on a ThinkPad
Is anyone here running Debian on a ThinkPad ?
I would like to install Debian on my ThinkPad
It seems really impractical to try to copy the data from one
disk to another (correct me if I am wrong, please) because symlinks
tend to get lost or messed up.
It seems really impractical to try to copy the data from one
disk to another (correct me if I am wrong, please) because symlinks
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Wieboldt, David wrote:
Is anyone here running Debian on a ThinkPad ?
I would like to install Debian on my ThinkPad 755cx.
Sure! Have it running on a 760L. I think I have seen reports of it
running on various other stinkpads too. Regular stuff, networking, apm,
pcmcia
Mo Oishi wrote:
I've just installed isapnptools. It works great on my PnP soundblaster
clone. The one problem is that now I can't use my non-PnP midi card. The
midi card just happens to sit at the same irq as the soundcard (which has
really corny midi emulation). Is there some way to get my
Wieboldt, David wrote:
It has been quite a chore getting procmail to run at all here. No
success
at all with the .forward hack; any time it is run, the mail goes to
nobody. Anyway I managed to get procmail running after finding a clue
and hacking /etc/smail/transports like this:
# This
Kevin Traas wrote:
I have a Digiboard Portserver II on my LAN that I currently have modems
hanging off of. I've configured it so that any incoming terminal
connections are automatically telnetted to another location. This works
great; however, there are some *serious* performance problems
In your email to me, Jens B. Jorgensen, you wrote:
Do you have any idea on how to setup mgetty to automatically telnet an
incoming connection to another system. (i.e. anyone connecting to ttyS31
should be automatically telnetted to aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd.)
Yes. mgetty will still prompt them
Alex Monaghan wrote:
This may be a FAQ, if so please point me to the
right place.
I have kernel 2.0.27 and could not make a PPP
connection.
I can dial and login to my ISP OK, but can't seem
to get a PPP session.
When I use my old Slackware 1.3.x PC on the same
modem with the same
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Wed, May 07, 1997 at 08:49:14AM -0400, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
IP address) and UDP broadcast packets are *not* routed which
means if 1.1.1.3 is trying to find 1.1.1.2 by name, it won't find
it. The solution to this is to set up a WINS server--sorta like
a DNS
Hi,
I´m trying to install xtacacds here, but I haven´t had any
success. Everytime I try to authenticate a password, there´s an entry in
the log file that says invalid password and that´s it.
Anyone here using xtacacsd under Debian? Can I have your
makefile/config?
TIA,
Greetings,
I have a few IP based CD towers that I am mounting to a debian box.
The mount is going fine, however the sub-directories that the mounts are
listing are only available to root. I need to make these sub-directories
exportable to another nfs mount, so I need to make the owner
Hi,
I recently upgraded to 1.2.4. and now cannot get my keyboard to boot in the uk
configuration. I've set the default to uk but it is ignored. Any help ?
Best Rgds,
John
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Tim Sailer wrote:
In your email to me, Jens B. Jorgensen, you wrote:
Do you have any idea on how to setup mgetty to automatically telnet an
incoming connection to another system. (i.e. anyone connecting to ttyS31
should be automatically telnetted to aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd.)
Yes.
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I have a problem making lprng work with a printer attached to a serial
line. First I had to change the permission to root.lp, this was simple and
sensible IMHO. But then it refuses to print, only sometimes the old needle
printer spews out a few characters or a
I can mount my Linux server through a modem connection using mgetty.
I am using NFS to mount a Novell file server.
I am running Samba on all of my UNIX machines and can see all of them
from remote access.
I need to be able to mount and access a Win95 box from remote locations
through remote
I have noticed that since some time, when I close a session, if I have
launched some programs in background, these programs aren' killed. What is
the packages that has changed this?
Is a kernel decision? ... I use [pre-2.1.37-5] kernel.
PS. I think it' s a useful thing.
Thanks in advance.
Bye.
Last night I was running Netscape 3.01 Gold, looking at files on
my local drive and the machine stopped responding to the keyboard and
mouse buttons. The prockmeter was running, monitoring the ppp line
to my ISP, it was running fine. When I telneted into the system and
did ps -a and
Andy Scott wrote:
I can mount my Linux server through a modem connection using mgetty.
I am using NFS to mount a Novell file server.
I am running Samba on all of my UNIX machines and can see all of them
from remote access.
I need to be able to mount and access a Win95 box from remote
greetings.
could someone email me their mirror configuration files for mirroring
the debian site? i've got the 1.2.4 CD from cheapbytes but would like
to mirror bo. i'm on a different system at the moment and cannot check
example configurations.
many thanks.
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Chris == Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Chris Last night I was running Netscape 3.01 Gold, looking
Chris at files on my local drive and the machine stopped
Chris responding to the keyboard and mouse buttons.
Do you have your window manager configured to auto-raise on
In your email to me, Ryan Shaw, you wrote:
greetings.
could someone email me their mirror configuration files for mirroring
the debian site? i've got the 1.2.4 CD from cheapbytes but would like
to mirror bo. i'm on a different system at the moment and cannot check
example
We are in the process of setting up several stand-alone intel boxes
running debian linux. Have other users come up with good solutions to
the following:
1. Maintaining uniform installations without nfs-mounting a
common filesystem. We'd rather have redundant /usr
pattern before. I never knew it expanded the wild card before it
searched. Gotta be the old DOS mentality.
Actually, no. It is the *shell* that expands the wildcard on a
unix-system. If you want to pass a wildcard to a program, you have to
explicitly make it clear to the shell *not* to expand
The attached mail is as forwarded to me by my ISP after it had crashed
Netscape Mail several times. I called my ISP and had them cut this item
out of my mail file (they use an NT server) after which my remaining
mail
came up OK. Prior to that, I'd tried to pull my mail four times. Each
time I
Yes, compilation was possible also with -ltermcap just commented out,
but _maybe_ (I haven't done a serious test) that the server log file was
not exactly the same as with -lncurses after the intense regress test
(wasn't it bigger without -lncurses?).
Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL
On Thu, 8 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We are in the process of setting up several stand-alone intel boxes
running debian linux. Have other users come up with good solutions to
the following:
1.Maintaining uniform installations without nfs-mounting a
common filesystem.
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
On Thu, 8 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. Maintaining uniform installations without nfs-mounting a
common filesystem. We'd rather have redundant /usr
filesystems than have our machines freeze after each hiccup on
the net. Is
I can't get nfsd and mountd to allow NIS netgroups in the /etc/exports
file. I can list the hosts explicitly and it works fine. Also, NIS
works fine in all other aspects.
Both hosts can ypmatch the netgroup in question as well, and
I even tried listing the hosts in question in /etc/hosts, but
KH == Kevin Hilman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
KH I can't get nfsd and mountd to allow NIS netgroups in the
KH /etc/exports file. I can list the hosts explicitly and it works
KH fine. Also, NIS works fine in all other aspects.
I figured out the problem. When mountd looks up the IP address
of
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