debian package run vs. inittab entry

Hi, I have a small daemon type program that I would like to run. It maintains a communication channel via sockets with another copy of itself. I would like it to always be running, and if it dies, I wish to restart it. The debian package run is suitable for this task, however the author warns

disk duplication question

Hi, I would like to duplicate a hard drive that has Debian installed to use of several additional computers. I can write a script which does: sfdisk to partition the new drive; mke2fs to make file systems on the new drive; mkswap to initialize the swap area on the new drive; cd

Re: disk duplication question

Hi Andrew, Thanks for the response. But no the drives are not exactly the same. However, the original drive and its partitions will comfortably fit in the new drive. That is why I need a less simple approach using sfdisk, mke2fs, cpio, etc. thanks, Stuart Quoting Andrew Perrin ([EMAIL

appropriate compiler for kernel

Hi, I use some kernel patches that cause trouble for the standard debian compiler. The particular errors are like: utime.c: In function `update_jiffies_u': /usr/src/linux/include/asm/mutime-M586.h:73: Invalid `asm' statement: /usr/src/linux/include/asm/mutime-M586.h:73: fixed or

nis+ status?

Hi Folks, I would like to run some debian machines as nis+ clients. Is this possible? The NIS howto is old and unclear to me. Thorsten Kukuk's suse website for nisplus http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/nisplus/index.html indicates that some some additional tools and tweaking to the pam system are

nis+ status?

Reply-To: Hi Folks, I would like to run some debian machines as nis+ clients. Is this possible? The NIS howto is old and unclear to me. Thorsten Kukuk's suse website for nisplus http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/nisplus/index.html indicates that some some additional tools and tweaking to the pam

firewalls for dummies?

Hi, I am planning to setup a firewall for a public network containing two class C subnets. The machine is a potato box running 2.1.10 compiled with the appropriate firewall stuff turned on. I have studied the various HOWTO's (ipchains, firewall, ...) but I think I am missing something. My

secure Xterminal scheme?

Hi, I am hoping to set up some low end pc's running debian where we use them as xterminals. That is, we do: X -query some xdm host It works well and allows running an 8-bit color display off of a sun host while keeping a 16-bit color display on the local linux host. In this case we

did ldd disappear?

Hi, Did the ldd program go away? The man page is still there from the ldso package in slink but I don't have an ldd anymore. Anyone know where/why it is gone? Stuart

Re: did ldd disappear?

Hi, Sorry to answer myself but I re-installed ldso (1.9.10-1) and ldd is back. Don't know what happened. Stuart

suggestion to installation team regarding /var

Hi, I have one suggestion to the folks who write the installation instructions. Please mention that Debain uses piles of space in /var/lib/dpkg and that consequently, those folks who make their /var be a separate partition should make it 20MB bigger than they think it should be. Same goes for

CVS Version: 1.9.29-1 breaks wrappers?

Hi, I just upgraded my system from cvs 1.9.26 to 1.9.29 and now get this message: cvs checkout CVSROOT/modules cvs [checkout aborted]: -t/-f wrappers not supported by this version of CVS Does anybody know what gives? The html docs still have the -t/-f wrapper

sendmail config behind firewall?

Hi, I have several machines behind a firewall. Let's say they are named cam1,cam2,cam3,cam4 with addresses 192.168.1.[2-5] with a firewall machine at 192.168.1.1 having 2 eth interfaces. The firewall also does ip masquerading. I want to be able to send mail from the cam? machines with the

where to look for linux programmers?

Hi, Is it appropriate to mention (part-time) job oppurtunities on this list? thanks, Stuart

need firewall advice

Hi, I will be setting up a firewall and need to decide what type of computer to buy. It will be a debian intel pc running as a packet filtering system (restricting various ports, etc) and will have 2 100 BaseT interfaces. I plan to use 2.1.XXX kernels and ipchains. In the future it may get

Re: need firewall advice

Hi, In this case I actually want to get the full 100 BaseT bandwidth because the firewall is between our department and the rest of our site. The actual link to the internet is quite high speed (much more than T1). So the question remains I think: how much cpu power does it take to get full

advice installing motif

Hi, I am about to install motif (2.1.10) from metrolink and I am wondering about the best way to do it. I can use either tar.gz or .rpm files. If I use the rpm's I can run them through alien to get debs. My concern, if all of this gets installed in /usr (instead of /usr/local), is how to

Re: Netscape 4.5 and locale C not supported

Hi, I found a temporary work around. There were some messages in the archives about the problem that indicated that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale got wiped out by some X package. A dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale indicated that it should have been installed by xlib6g so I downloaded and

debian list archives under netscape

Hi, I have experienced problems with netscape freezing up when accessing debian's mailing list archives (debian-user, debian-development). This has happened intermittently with every netscape version I have used as far back as I can remember. I have never known where the problem really is (my

cable-modem woes (TCI/@HOME)

Hi, I am having trouble getting my cable-modem working and I am wondering if somebody out there knows the right way. Here is the info: - works in win98 - looks like a subnet of a class A network (this could be my problem) - ip address is 24.1.106.xxx (xxx not shown) - netmask from

passwd vs. yppasswd under nis setup question

Hi, I have a small network of machines with one of them acting as the nis master. Currently it looks like using the passwd program on the master will change the password file but not update the nis map. I seem to recall long ago that the nis installation made passwd call yppasswd? I am

apt-get to get stable-updates?

Hi, Can I use apt-get to go after the packages in the stable-updates directory at ftp.debian.org? If so, how? I could not find anything mentioned on the web pages or the apt docs. thanks, Stuart

startx fails/freezes machine (hamm)

Hi, On a fresh Debian 2.0 installation I am having severe problems running X. It seems like some hardware incompatibility and I've exhausted my own knowledge of what to try. I have to suspect the video and scsi cards but they work together just fine in text mode. Now for the details: Symptoms:

2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards?

Hi, I am a happy debian user (since 0.93R6) and I am wondering if I can do something a bit unusual. I suffer from having 2 computers in my office, one is a debian PC, the other a sun workstation. I would really like to cut that down to just the PC by using a remote sun computer. Is there some

Re: 2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards?

): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. Quoting Ted Harding ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On 20-Jul-98 Stuart Marshall wrote

Re: 2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards?

Hi, Sorry to reply to my own post but it looks like the reason the second session failed was because I am running the extra font server that is using the socket. When the second session tries to open it it fails. I won't know until tomorrow. Stuart Quoting Stuart Marshall ([EMAIL PROTECTED

any cvs users out there? (and bug #22392)

Hi, We use cvs for managing the source code of a multi developer project. On 13, May 1998 after a frozen update I discovered a new cvs feature/bug and filed a bug report (#22392). I haven't heard much about it since then so I thought I would ask the other users if anybody has the same problem

how to set up headless machine?

Hi, I need to set up a debian/linux PC for use without a keyboard or monitor. The frozen distribution is already installed and it has an ethernet connection. Ages ago I saw info on running a serial console and I was hoping to do that. I have a second machine which has a spare serial port. I

infnan()?

Hi, I would like to use NaN's. It appears that isnan() works as advertised so I can check for NaN. However, there is a man page for infnan() but no such function appears to be available. Does anyone know the proper way to generate a NaN value? (I am using NaN as an initialization value so

backspace key under X in vim

Hi, There have been previous discussions on this topic but I never quite understood them. As near as I can tell, an out of the box hamm/frozen system has the backspace key configured differently than it was in Debian 1.3. The particular example that concerns me most is under the application

jdk1.1-dev depends on jdk1.1-runtime

Hi, Choosing jdk1.1-dev in dselect on frozen/hamm dumps me into the conflict resolution thing with the message jdk1.1-dev depends on jdk1.1-runtime Is this true? Where do I get jdk1.1-runtime? thanks, Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

/etc/exports config question

Hi, I have a network of several debian 2.0 machines. One of these acts as the NIS master and each machine exports disks to all the others. Currently I am using an NIS distributed netgroup entry in /etc/exports to indicate which hosts are allowed to mount. (eg. /data/a1

cvs_pserver_setup

Hi, I am having a problem getting cvs's pserver method to work. Both machines are running hamm with cvs version 1.9.10+openbsd-2. The repository machine has a /etc/cvs.conf file: # # Configuration file for the Debian CVS-related scripts # # Please do not touch

Re: home directories

Hi, Just make /home a soft link to /usr/local/home. as root: (with nobody logged in!) copy /home to /usr/local/home: cd / tar cf - /home | ( cd /usr/local; tar xpf - ) check that it copied okay: ls -l /usr/local/home remove and relink: rm -rf /home ln -s /usr/local/home /home that's all,

unstable and/or 2.1.xx kernels

Hi, I need to use some spiffy timing patches from: http://hegel.ittc.ukans.edu/projects/utime/ in order to increase the temporal granularity of our linux system. (We are running some hardware and would like to improve the real-time characteristics a bit.) These patches are against kernel