Re: Latest licq packages seems broken
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 09:55:00PM -0600, Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I upgraded to licq 0.7.1 on my potato box today. I didn't receive any error messages, but licq won't run now. When I try to run it I get: Illegal instruction Anyone know what might be wrong? TIA This was a bug that was closed today. Wait for your favorite mirror to update and get the new licq. Rob -- Beam me up, Scotty! It ate my phaser!
Re: Strange file names
Wednesday, November 17, 1999, 3:45:18 PM, Rob wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 07:24:01AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: I thought it was part of the script's syntax. (hmm.. what an enlightenment...) Oki 18:39 ~ $ which [ /usr/bin/[ 18:39 ~ $ type [ [ is a shell builtin How strange. I can't get dpkg to find what package provides the binary, either. [ is test. test is from shellutils. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+-
ATI?
hello everybody: which is the difference between an ATI AGP and an ATI Xpert AGP video cards? thnaks a lot
Linux as a router
Hi, I have an Intel/486 and want to set it up as a router. I have installed the base slink system on it, but I'm still having problem with the NE2K network card; the module for it can't be loaded. But since Satan is not available for slink and the system is currently non functional (nowadays, if your computer can't connect to a network, basically it's not a computer), I'm going to install potato on it. (the download is currently in progress) Well, having a router with a network analyzer on board is slightly overboard. But the aim is for testing, and I think the 800M space on its disk can be made useful. BTW, is anyone already familiar with Satan? Does it need an enormous memory to do the scans? My machine has 8M of RAM. I need to scan only one system; the Sparc that has slink on it. I'd like to know whether I have set up the security settings of the system correctly. Speaking about routers, could a Linux system be set as an SNMP device? I read about snmp package in www.debian.org; does it the right package for converting a PC to an SNMP device? Thanks in advance, Oki
strange memory errors
I am running libc6.2.1.2-9 and stdc++2.10 2.95.2-2 in the last couple of
week I
upgraded to these packages and begun having some strange memory related
errors.
I've been working on some code in C/C++, and part of this involved a simple
string
class that takes caring of memory allocation, automated growing and
shrinking of
the character string memory, and null termination. I to use calloc as the
method of memory allocation so I would have less worries about null
termination and
garbage in the string buffer.
All had seemed to work well, until I upgraded to these last releases, and
my program started crashing. I pulled out gdb, and the first time gdb
reports a segfault in free(). I wasn't doing anything like freeing a freed
pointer, in fact, inside this class free is only called on destruction and
and reallocation. The only other related function in used was of course
calloc() and also memncpy(). I am fairly certain certain my code was not
the source of the probably. Recently I notice with a newer version of my
program I got working elsewhere, it wasn't crashing in free, but I was
getting strange behavior from calloc. I would run this on a system with
128megs of ram with only a couple consoles open, and calloc would return
NULL. which eventually in my class causes a bad_alloc exception to be
thrown. I can upload this code to a ultrasparc and it will execute and
compile just fine(under g++ probably different version)
Is there some new bug in this version of libc? I am attaching a copy of my
main memory reallocation function recalloc, and inthis case I am passing a
reference to the string
size variable, 36 for the size, and null for the void pointer.
Philip Thiem
--
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Computer Science Mathematics Undergraduate @ UM-Rolla
Interests: Security, Operating Systems, Numerical Computing,
Algorithm Analysis, Discrete/Linear/Modern Algebra,#include memory.h
/**
** recalloc
**-
**THIS IS A SWEET FUNCTION
** It uses calloc for dynamically resizing memory sizes
** *s must represent **t -- PERIOD
** all out arguments ARE LEFT ALONE till possibility of
**error has passed. so if you get an error the
**memory is still intact
**here are the for arugments
** *s = ns nothing happens
** *s zero and ns is non-zero acts like calloc
** *s non-zero and ns is zero acts like free
** otherwise ns is callocated, and the min(*s,ns)
**is copied
**return codes
** 0 aokay
** BADINFO stop giving me bad information
** COPYERR should never happen, an error in copying
** MEMERR error allocating RAM
** /
size_t recalloc (unsigned long *s,
unsigned long ns,
void ** t)
{
void * n=0;/* a temp allocated memory variable */
if (!s || !t) return BADINFO;
if (!(*t || *s) || (*t *s)) /* if *t = *s */
{
if (*s == ns) return 0;/* nothing to do if no sz change */
if (ns)/* if there is a new size 0*/
{
if((n=calloc(ns,1))) /* if memory can be allocated */
{
if (*s)/* if there exists data*/
{
if (!memcpy(n, *t, MIN(*s, ns))) /* if is uncopiable */
{
free(n);/*free the new mem */
return COPYERR;/*return an error*/
}
free(*t); /*free if ok */
}
}
else return MEMERR;/* no memory allocate is err */
}
else free(*t);/* act like free by (*s ns)*/
/* as *t = *s */
*s = ns; /* *s = new size */
*t = n; /* change old to new */
return 0; /* return aokay */
}
return BADINFO; /* and error of course*/
}
Re: pppd Crashes Serial Port
aphro writes: dont trust that infomration it can be flawed. the kernel just spits out what is standard for those serial ports it does not detect conflicts or even the right IRQ at times The information is correct at boot, however, the serial ports can be rearranged in the init scripts. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
trouble installing debian
I'm having trouble installing debian on my system. It's an IBM PS/1, 486sx33 w/ 8mb ram, and a 1.2gb quantum fireball hard drive, with 5 partitions. I put the rescue disk in my floppy drive, reboot, and press enter at the boot: prompt. There is some disk activity for a few seconds, and then the system freezes (the floppy drive light stays on, but there is no activity). I've tried several things to fix this problem, such as using different disks with the resc1440.bin disk image, all of them surface scanned before rawriting, using the resc1440-safe, resc1440-tecra, resc1440-safe-tecra disk images, and booting by typing linux floppy=thinkpad. Is there any other way that I can get linux to boot from my floppy drive? If not, would installing off of my HD's 5th partition, reformatting partitions 1-4, and then reformatting partition 5 once linux is up and running cause problems? DOS and OnTrack are on the 1st partition, and win95 is on the 2nd. Chris Acheson
Re: diff caches stuff in memory?
I too doubt this is directly related to diff (but I could be wrong). Is the clean_dir by chance on a network share? I did have a similar problem with a Samba share. If someone logged onto the Samba machine and modified a file, then a Windows machine on the network would not detect that the file had been changed because the Windows machine was caching the file. This was fixed by putting the option oplocks = False in the smb.conf file. I'm not sure if NFS exported directories might have similar problems. This probably doesn't help, but I thought it might be worth a shot. Gerry On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, David Wright wrote: Quoting Colin Marquardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): apparently diff caches stuff in memory. That seems unlikely. I thought linux did that itself. I noticed that when I wanted to make a patch with diff -urN clean_dir patched_dir my_patch The patch came out fine, but then I realized that clean_dir wasn´t really clean, so I made a new clean version *with the same* directory name. The second time I ran diff it went really fast. Too fast: it didn´t examine the files in clean_dir at all, it just used the data from the previous run which it had cached, so my patch was the same as before (wrong). I'm not sure what you mean by made a new clean version. (I'm sure you know that -N means any empty files that were cleaned away will have no effect on diff's output.) How can I get diff to forget what it saw? The manpage doesn´t tell me. (I didn´t think about `touch'ing the directory then, but I untarred clean_dir from a tarball, so it should have gotten a newer time stamp). I didn't know diff bothered about timestamps, and I doubt kernel caching uses them either. (Of course, programs like tar and zip do.) So, were I examining evidence, I'd be interested to know how you cleaned clean_dir, and I'd want to see a log showing diff getting the wrong answers (i.e. the diff output and two cats of affected files). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: PHP4 packages will be soon uploaded
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Gergely Madarasz wrote: There were lots of questions about php4 and when it will be packaged. 4.0b3 was released today, I'm now testing how it compiles and works with shared modules, I will package it this week. Expect an upload on Sunday. For now there will only be an apache module with separate modules for mysql, postgres, gd, xml and snmp. A cgi version and more modules will be arriving later. Just to let you know about the progress... it builds, loads, seems to work. I could even set apache up to load both php3 and php4 modules. This will need a newer php3 upstream though (or a patch applied to the current 3.0.12), so php4 will conflict with php3 at the beginning. Don't worry, the conflict will disappear later :) Anyway this is nice: Server: Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) Debian/GNU PHP/4.0b3 PHP/3.0.13-dev ;) -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. Egy pingvinre gyakorlatilag lehetetlen haragosan nezni. HuLUG: http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/
Re: Debian SPARC
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Ben Collins wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 02:42:22PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running a hybrid slink/potato system on a Sparc IPX right now. yes, slink is in general less stable/less working than potato. OTOH, potato and 2.2.13 will not run at all on my system, probably because I use a serial console. Since this is a problem we need to address before release, can you be specific to the problems you are having? This is a console log of a normal 2.2.13 boot of my IPX, kernel compiled on the IPX, console on ttya, before I wiped the drive (AM Nov 17) and reinstalled slink. Potato at that time was not letting me log in on console (PM Nov 16) saying something about a 'function not implimented' on /dev/ttyS0 BTW, kernel 2.2.13 compiled with slink (about noon, Nov 17) booted about 10-20 minutes ago with the same error. (except this time I purged setserial) 2.2.13 took about 4-5 hours to build. I'm booting with 2.0.35 (from the slink install disks) and I'm currently compiling 2.0.35 with the sparc patches (from the slink packages) and will see if that one likes me. I'm running slink with potato's apt, parts of debhelper that aren't in sparc's slink copied from my i386 slink's debhelper, and local-compiled apt-move (slow 21.6k modem connection, so I'm making up a local mirror for later reinstalls) I'd hoped to use the box as a dialup gateway, but with all this (and having learned just how badly the serial ports on it suck) I'll offer it up to test stuff. -- Ferret no baka Power-Up State Test Context Register Bit Test Context Register Addressing Test Segment Map RAM MATS Pattern Test, Context Segment Map RAM MATS Pattern Test, Context 0001 Segment Map RAM MATS Pattern Test, Context 0002 Segment Map RAM MATS Pattern Test, Context 0003 Segment Map RAM MATS Pattern Test, Context 0004 Segment Map RAM MATS Pattern Test, Context 0005 Segment Map RAM MATS Pattern Test, Context 0006 Segment Map RAM MATS Pattern Test, Context 0007 Page Map RAM MATS Pattern Test Limit 0 Register Test Counter Interrupt Level 10 Test Limit 1 Register Test Counter Interrupt Level 14 Test WARNING: Unable to determine keyboard type Synchronous Error Reg Test Synchronous Error Virtual Address Reg Test Asynchronous Error Reg Test Asynchronous Error Virtual Address Reg Test Asynchronous Error Data Reg1 Test Asynchronous Error Data Reg2 Test System Enable Register Bit Test Cache Data RAM MATS Pattern Test Cache Tag RAM MATS Pattern Test PTE Access Bit Test PTE Modify Bit Test PTE Write-Protect Bit Test PTE Write-Invalid Bit Test PTE Read-Invalid Bit Test PTE Type 2 Space Bit Test PTE Type 3 Space Bit Test Synchronous Timeout Test Asynchronous Timeout Test 16 MegaBytes Found in Address Range 0x to 0x00ff 4 MegaBytes Found in Address Range 0x0100 to 0x01ff DRAM Word MATS Pattern Test (0x00fe - 0x0100) Parity/Memory Control Registers Bit Test 33-bit SIMM Parity Test FAILURE: No Trap Taken, Exp Trap Type = 0009 Setting Segment Map Setting RAM Parity Mode Mode set to 33-bit Sizing Memory Mapping ROM Mapping RAM Probing /[EMAIL PROTECTED],f800 at 0,0 dma esp sd st le Probing /[EMAIL PROTECTED],f800 at 1,0 Nothing there Probing /[EMAIL PROTECTED],f800 at 2,0 Nothing there Probing /[EMAIL PROTECTED],f800 at 3,0 cgsix Probing /[EMAIL PROTECTED],f800 at 0,0 dma esp sd st le Probing /[EMAIL PROTECTED],f800 at 1,0 Nothing there Probing /[EMAIL PROTECTED],f800 at 2,0 Nothing there Probing /[EMAIL PROTECTED],f800 at 3,0 cgsix SPARCstation IPX, No Keyboard ROM Rev. 2.6, 20 MB memory installed, Serial #2165154. Ethernet address 8:0:20:c:dc:80, Host ID: 572109a2. Power-On SelfTest FAILED ... Replace CPU Board Testing 20 megs of memory 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 SBus slot 0 le esp dma SBus slot 1 SBus slot 2 SBus slot 3 cgsix Initializing 4 megs of memory at addr 100 3 2 1 0 Initializing 16 megs of memory at addr 0 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Type b (boot), c (continue), or n (new command mode) n Type help for more information ok boot disk Boot device: /sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],80/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 File and args: SILO boot: Uncompressing image...
Unstable Stable Debian on a same machine.
Hello: The question is, Can I have unstable 'potato' on my first primary drive and stable 'slink' on my secondary drive ? As of now, I'm having 'potato' on my primary HDD with two images of the stable '2.2.13' and unstable '2.3.28' kernel. LILO resides on the first HDD ie. /dev/hda on the / partition /dev/hda2. I want to install 'slink' on my second slave HDD /dev/hdb. How do I add image parameters on my LILO on /dev/hda2 for booting into both 'potato' and 'slink' ? ragOO, VU2RGU.
/tmp permissions changed!
Hi, all of a sudden I realized the /tmp permissions had changed to: 2 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 2048 Nov 19 02:57 tmp/ so, I changed it back to sticky with: # chmod 777 /tmp # chmod a+t /tmp Now, it seems alright, but I'm not sure about the rest (most of all /var). Could anyone check against his/her filesystem, please? (also, anyone has an idea why it may have changed? All I've done is untar/ungzip 'ed a file in /tmp as a normal user; then, I've removed all the files, but it kept asking me if I wanted to delete the file substitutin such or such mode). Now it looks like: 1 drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 1024 Nov 14 11:47 ./ 1 drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 1024 Nov 14 11:47 ../ 1 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 1024 Nov 18 20:17 alt/ 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root0 Nov 19 02:45 amnt/ 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 Nov 14 16:52 bin/ 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 18 20:12 boot/ 1 drwxrwsr-x 2 root cdrom1024 Feb 1 1999 cdrom/ 18 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root17408 Nov 19 02:45 dev/ 5 drwxr-xr-x 57 root root 5120 Nov 19 02:45 etc/ 1 drwxrwsr-x 2 root floppy 1024 Feb 1 1999 floppy/ 1 drwxrwsr-x 5 root staff1024 Nov 10 00:30 home/ 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 1 1999 initrd/ 3 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 3072 Nov 14 21:30 lib/ 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root12288 Nov 9 00:41 lost+found/ 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 1 1999 mnt/ 1 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Nov 17 18:28 opt/ 0 dr-xr-xr-x 31 root root0 Nov 19 02:45 proc/ 1 drwx-- 7 root root 1024 Nov 17 23:35 root/ 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Nov 16 14:43 sbin/ 2 drwxrwxrwt 5 root root 2048 Nov 19 02:59 tmp/ 1 drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 1024 Nov 17 13:06 usr/ 1 drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 1024 Nov 14 16:50 var/ 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Nov 9 01:17 vmlinuz - boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 14 11:47 zip/ TIA -- Horacio Anno MMDCCLII ad Urbe condita mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Spain ~Spanje ~ Spanien Key fingerprint = F4EE AE5E 2F01 0DB3 62F2 A9F4 AD31 7093 4233 7AE6
Re: Debian SPARC
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since this is a problem we need to address before release, can you be specific to the problems you are having? This is a console log of a normal 2.2.13 boot of my IPX, kernel compiled on the IPX, console on ttya, before I wiped the drive (AM Nov 17) and reinstalled slink. Potato at that time was not letting me log in on console (PM Nov 16) saying something about a 'function not implimented' on /dev/ttyS0 Actually it says something about function not implemented on /dev/cua0, see: tty_io.c: process 1 (swapper) used obsolete /dev/cua0 - update software to use /dev/ttyS0 link /dev/console to /dev/ttyS0 and see if it helps. And btw what is that message about Power-On SelfTest FAILED ... Replace CPU Board ? :) The depmod problem is known, it will soon be fixed. -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. Egy pingvinre gyakorlatilag lehetetlen haragosan nezni. HuLUG: http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/
Re: PHP4 packages will be soon uploaded
Just to let you know about the progress... it builds, loads, seems to work. I could even set apache up to load both php3 and php4 modules. This I just read something about the PHP4 release that mentions that Zend is licensed under the QPL. Since PHP4 uses Zend, isn't there a licensing issue here? Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbanks PGP key: http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/~cswingle/pubkey.asc
Re: PHP4 packages will be soon uploaded
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: Just to let you know about the progress... it builds, loads, seems to work. I could even set apache up to load both php3 and php4 modules. This I just read something about the PHP4 release that mentions that Zend is licensed under the QPL. Since PHP4 uses Zend, isn't there a licensing issue here? QPL is DFSG-compliant, though not among the nicest licences out there. -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. Egy pingvinre gyakorlatilag lehetetlen haragosan nezni. HuLUG: http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/
Re: good GPLed backup program
Hi, *- On 17 Nov, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote about good GPLed backup program Hi, Looking for good reliable backup program under linux. I know BRU is good but it is priced. I want a free product. -gnana How do you define good: efficient, flashy, easy to use, flexible or multi-platform? There are kbackup, afbackup, taper, amanda(network backups), tob and the usual afio, cpio and tar. Each have their pros and cons. All are packaged for Debian. I personally wrote my own scripts for use with afio and am happy. I have tried several of these by myself. At last I settled on taper. The big win is that taper generates an index file of the archive, so it will be very quick to restore any file in the archive if you need. It just seeks to that file and restores it and no need to read all the files through to find the correct one if your tape supports. I recently had a hard disk failure. And taper helps me a lot to restore the system. -- Min Xu City College of NY, CUNY Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:(O) (212) 650-6865 (O) (212) 650-5046 (H) (212) 690-2119
Re: [Q] Setting up a primary DNS server for my domain name on a Debian box...
/usr/doc/bind/dns-setup.txt.gz looks like it more or less describes the way Paul Vixie says to set it up in some document I once read and can't recall where ... On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: : [Note: Would appreciate if you Cc-ed me on your replies to this thread] : : Hi, : : I have never configured bind before. I have a Debian (slink+potato) box. : I have bind 8.2.2p3-1 installed on this box. : : I want this box to be the primary DNS server (the one that is listed in the : whois record) for my domain name. The entries for the various things in my : domain would be pretty simple. Only one 'A' record for foo.org Everything : else would (at the moment) be CNAME records pointing to the A record. : : I tried following the instructions in the DNS HOWTO. Things work fine when : I do a nslookup from the machine which is running bind. But when I do an : nslookup remotely (setting this machine that is running bind as the server) : all queries time out. : : Would greatly appreciate step by step instructions (or pointers to step by : step instructions) on how to set up a primary domain name server on Debian. : : Thanks a lot. : : Thaths : -- :English. Pfft. Who needs that? I'm never going to England. : -- Homer J. Simpson : Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Lead Indentured Slave : : : -- : Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null : -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
Re: 14.4kbps PPP link?
* Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sometimes pinging the remote host seems to provoke the data transfer to start again (or is this coincidence?) I have seen this as well, with the 14.4k of my parents (Doze´95). At my parents, I had multiple Netscape connections open, and all of them would stall. Then, Stopping transfer and reloading it would make all connections react again. I have not pinged or anything, but maybe any new request tells the remote host you are alive. It seems that the remote host thinks that since you are accept things so slowly, it just pauses for a while. I seem to remember I was using different locations back then with the 14.4k, and all of them became respondent again after a reload request on *one* location. So it could have been a host on the route that was shared by my connections that was stalling transfer, i.e. one close to me, *if* I remember correctly. [...] Good point. However, I am worried I would have the same problems with a faster modem, too. With 56k all goes well for me. But then, it´s Debian this time. If it doesn´t go well, I´m usually thinking that my provider´s machines just have short-term problems. Colin -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
Re: diff caches stuff in memory?
Hi, * David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Colin Marquardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): apparently diff caches stuff in memory. I'm not sure what you mean by made a new clean version. (I'm sure you know that -N means any empty files that were cleaned away will have no effect on diff's output.) Okay, I haven´t been too understandable. Now I cannot reproduce it, but the explanation what I did follows nevertheless. Say, I want to do a diff against a directory that comes in a tarball (xmms-0.9.5.1.tar.gz actually). I edit some files in a copy of that directory (xmms-0.9.5.1_patch), then I diff against the original directory (xmms-0.9.5.1, clean_dir in my previous example). I then realize that was I thought was the original wasn´t really the directory as contained in the tarball because I did some modifications there too. Now, to get a clean original directory (xmms-0.9.5.1) I simply untar the tarball again (after deleting the fake original directory), which gives me the same directory name as before (xmms-0.9.5.1). Okay? The original directory is now *really* original, i.e. *different* from the former original (which was called xmms-0.9.5.1 as well), so I should get also get a different diff output. Now my second diff doesn´t recognize that the original directory has changed, it creates the same diff output as before. I didn't know diff bothered about timestamps, and I doubt kernel caching uses them either. (Of course, programs like tar and zip do.) Okay, after some experiments I see that after untarring the original directory anew, the timestamp on that directory is not the current timestamp, but the timestamp at tar file creation. (tar xvzf xmms-0.9.5.1.tar.gz) So, were I examining evidence, I'd be interested to know how you cleaned clean_dir, and I'd want to see a log showing diff getting the wrong answers (i.e. the diff output and two cats of affected files). The test case I just set up worked! I don´t know what was different... Maybe the error really was between keyboard and chair, and I´ve now gotten the brown paper bag award :-( I don´t know. Thanks for taking the time to answer, Colin -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
off-topic: quick LaTeX question
I'm writing a LaTeX document that contains two very similar tables which I would like to have side-by-side to accent their similarity: --- --- | table 1 | | table 2 | | | | | --- --- caption 1 caption 2 LaTeX wants to put them one above the other. How do I get what I want? Rob -- Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion. -- Harlan Ellison
Re: Gnome panel and Enlightenment
Harlan Crystal wrote: I've never used gnome panel, but I use enlightenment all the time. Hi, What is the spec of your machine? Mine is a Pentium 100MHz/64MB, would this one run X/Gnome/E comfortably? Oki
exim and procmail?
I have been getting an error procmail which has been bouncing my mails to debian-user. Basically, the procmail log messages get echoed back to the debian list server. I edited a line in /etc/exim.conf: userforward: driver = forwardfile no_verify check_ancestor file = .forward ###modemask = 002 filter ... After commenting modemask the error seems to go away. I only have one user on the system right now (me). My question is why should I have been getting this error in the first place? A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients. The following address(es) failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: generated | /usr/bin/procmail -p The following text was generated during the delivery attempt: -- | /usr/bin/procmail -p -- procmail: [30016] Wed Nov 17 17:23:03 1999 procmail: Assigning PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin procmail: Assigning MAILDIR=/home/dsj/mail procmail: Assigning PMDIR=/home/dsj/procmail procmail: Assigning LOGFILE=/home/dsj/procmail/log procmail: Opening /home/dsj/procmail/log -- This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. -- Any help gladly appreciated! TIA -- David S. Jackson http://www.dsj.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. --Shunryu Suzuki
Re: Debian SPARC
Power-On SelfTest FAILED ... Replace CPU Board Umm, this concerns me, shouldn't you check into that? :) As far as the cua0 errors and the overruns on the serial console, I forgot how I fixed that on my system, but it is a simple fix. Try: rm -f /dev/cua* This will get rid of those devices and should correct that. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
test
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Newbie Questions
Hi all, I am new to Debian and Linux in general. I managed to get an install working, then got X going. I am currently using the slink versions of gnome and enlightenment. Last night I got brave and figured out apt-get and ran out and downloaded the latest gnome. Question 1) The new gnome looks good but the help icon doesn't work. When I look at it's properties I see gnome-help-browser however this doesn't seem to be installed anywhere on my machine. Where do I get this? Question 2) I decided to try and apt-get the latest enlightenment. I added unstable to my sources.list file and did apt-get update apt-get install enlightenment It went out and downloaded a ton of stuff, some of it looks suspiciously unnecessary (like g++, gcc, gnat) as well as an enlightenment *.deb file. But several errors occurred during the install and it suggested I do a apt-get update to fix. This didn't seem to work either. Any tips for getting the latest enlightenment? Question 3) How do I get sound working? I found a generic Linux FAQ in /usr/doc that talked about recompiling the kernel. This sounds scary but I could try it. But first, is there a specific Debian method that I don't know about that I could try first? Thanks very much!!! Brian
Scratchy Lines in X now
Alright, I've got X up and running at a decent resolution, with Xfree86 3.3.5-2 my chipset is supported. The only problem (and a very annoying one) is that there are scratchy horizontal lines that appear when I change something (ie scrolling windows in netscape, resizing windows, moving apps around the screen) and text boxes (Rxvt and Form fields on webpages) being filled in with solid black when I type in them. Any of you X gurus out there ever heard of this problem before, or know of any tips to fix it ? I'm using Potato now, with an SiS 5598 Chipset running an SVGA X server. Many Thanks in advance, debiangeek -- Do you do Linux? :) Get your FREE @linuxstart.com email address at: http://www.linuxstart.com
RE: Newbie Questions
First of all, upgrading from slink to potato is quite a lot of changes. The system is going to update about every package on your machine. I beleive E 16 requires a lot of things in potato, so no getting around upgrading. What error is apt giving you? For sound, I would check the How-tos or the archive. It can get involved... Bb -Original Message- From: Brian Neal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 7:16 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Newbie Questions Hi all, I am new to Debian and Linux in general. I managed to get an install working, then got X going. I am currently using the slink versions of gnome and enlightenment. Last night I got brave and figured out apt-get and ran out and downloaded the latest gnome. Question 1) The new gnome looks good but the help icon doesn't work. When I look at it's properties I see gnome-help-browser however this doesn't seem to be installed anywhere on my machine. Where do I get this? Question 2) I decided to try and apt-get the latest enlightenment. I added unstable to my sources.list file and did apt-get update apt-get install enlightenment It went out and downloaded a ton of stuff, some of it looks suspiciously unnecessary (like g++, gcc, gnat) as well as an enlightenment *.deb file. But several errors occurred during the install and it suggested I do a apt-get update to fix. This didn't seem to work either. Any tips for getting the latest enlightenment? Question 3) How do I get sound working? I found a generic Linux FAQ in /usr/doc that talked about recompiling the kernel. This sounds scary but I could try it. But first, is there a specific Debian method that I don't know about that I could try first? Thanks very much!!! Brian -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
TCP (over ppp) problem with kernel 2.2.x
Hi, I have a problem which is driving me crazy: If I use a 2.2.x kernel (as opposed to 2.0.36), I can't make any network connections (over my ppp link) that require tcp. In other works, non-tcp net stuff, like ping or dns lookup, work fine, but telnets just hang. My system is actually not a complete potato system (it's originally a slink system, and I've never done a complete upgrade), but I've upgraded most base packages to potato. I tried to use `tcpdump' to figure out what's going on, but I really don't know how to interpret the results; one obvious difference is that when using the 2.2.x krnel, tcpdump shows lots of strange options turned on in the packets, whereas the packets sent by the older kernel don't. I recall seeing a mention on debian-user about people having similar problems to mine; can someone give me a pointer, or recommend where I can look for a solution? Thanks, -Miles -- Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come. --Nietzsche
Re: New intel 820 board with linux
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Does anyone know how the new intel (I think its number is 820) board is compatible with linux? I don't see any reason why it wouldn't - just don't expect absolute top performance out of it though. -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein
Re: Cross-compiling on Debian systems?
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Ben Collins wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 02:48:55PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to set up a cross-compiler on my Lintel (AMD 266) to compile packages for my Sparc IPX. I'd preferably like to package the cross-compiler so I can esaily remove it if I no longer need it. The only cross-compiler in the slink packages list is for m68k. What do I need to do to set one up? The last cross-compiler I built (for kernel compiles) was using the m68k cross-compiler package. I just changed the m68k references to sparc, and ran dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot (change all of the m68k references in debian/ to sparc). I just did a 'debian/rules binary' in 'gcc-m68k-linux-2.8.1' after changing 'm68k' to 'sparc', and I get a build error. Looks like the gcc buildstrap isn't working. ./xgcc -B./ -DCROSS_COMPILE -DIN_GCC-O2 -I./include -I. -I. \ -I./config -g0 \ -finhibit-size-directive -fno-inline-functions -fno-exceptions \ -c ./crtstuff.c -DCRT_BEGIN -o crtbegin.o as: option `-s' is ambiguous make[1]: *** [crtbegin.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `gcc-m68k-linux-2.8.1' make: *** [build] Error 2 I get the exact same error if I use dpkg-buildpackage. I don't know enough about building gcc to know what's wrong. And this is the source package from ftp.ca.debian.org (us.debian.org not responding to me through lynx for some reason) I also found out I need the binutils-m68k-linux package, and that's being downloaded as I type.. -- Ferret no baka
Re: gnome-pager loses windows and freezes X
*grin* yeah, forgot to method i tried this. when X froze it took the keyboard with it. no C-A-F1 or C-A-DEL. thanks though! =) herbert On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 04:17:30PM -0700, Kevin M. McLin wrote: Hello, I don't think I can help you with your gnome-pager problem (I'm old-fashioned and prefer to use plain old fvwm - point and click gives me a headache). However, in terms of killing a process, why can't you just do a ctrl-alt-F3, or F-whatever, and log in on a virtual console to kill your process without having to shut off your computer? -- kevin *** Kevin M. McLinOffice: Duane C-328 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (voice) 303-492-4053 http://casa.colorado.edu/~mcl/(fax) 303-492-7178 Snail Mail: Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy CB 389, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0389 ***
My ppp connection is (stalling)
This is driving me nuts. My PPP connection seems to be stalling all the time. I'm often seeing (stalled) in Netscape, and trying to do some updates to Potato has become painful (multiple mirror sites); it'll download a bit, then stop, download a bit, then stall...you get the picture. I remember reading something about PPP and the 2.2.X kernels. Could that be what's going on? I've got my pon configured to use all the compressions I can. Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Re: Debian SPARC
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Gergely Madarasz wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since this is a problem we need to address before release, can you be specific to the problems you are having? This is a console log of a normal 2.2.13 boot of my IPX, kernel compiled on the IPX, console on ttya, before I wiped the drive (AM Nov 17) and reinstalled slink. Potato at that time was not letting me log in on console (PM Nov 16) saying something about a 'function not implimented' on /dev/ttyS0 Actually it says something about function not implemented on /dev/cua0, see: tty_io.c: process 1 (swapper) used obsolete /dev/cua0 - update software to use /dev/ttyS0 link /dev/console to /dev/ttyS0 and see if it helps. Ah, yeah /dev/console - /dev/cua0 (I'll fix that right up) And I'll try 2.2.13 with it. And btw what is that message about Power-On SelfTest FAILED ... Replace CPU Board ? :) I'm using 32-bit memory in a 33-bit system. :/ Took me a while to figure it out. The depmod problem is known, it will soon be fixed. Heard about that. One of the many reasons I reinstalled. Besides, it's practice. : -- Ferret no baka
Non-fatal (i think) Error messages while loading modules
I'm getting the following error messages when I first, boot up. Anyone know what they might mean, and how to fix them? Loading modules: vfat /lib/modules/2.2.13/fs/fat.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/19991018051253.ksyms No such file or directory /lib/modules/2.2.13/fs/vfat.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/19991018051253.ksyms No such file or directory lp /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/parport.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/19991018051253.ksyms No such file or directory parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2] insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/parport_pc.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/19991018051254.ksyms No such file or directory parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present. insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/parport_probe.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/19991018051254.ksyms No such file or directory lp0: using parport0 (polling). /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/lp.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/19991018051254.ksyms No such file or directory ne2k-pci /lib/modules/2.2.13/net/8390.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/19991018051254.ksyms No such file or directory ne2k-pci.c:vpre-1.00e 5/27/99 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ne2k-pci.html ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0x7f80, IRQ 9. eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0x7f80, IRQ 9, 00:80:C8:DD:7B:3B. /lib/modules/2.2.13/net/ne2k-pci.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/19991018051254.ksyms No such file or directory ppp CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California /lib/modules/2.2.13/net/slhc.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/19991018051254.ksyms No such file or directory PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling) PPP line discipline registered. /lib/modules/2.2.13/net/ppp.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/19991018051254.ksyms No such file or directory I have tons of space in /var. There are other date.ksyms in /var/log/ksymoops. I don't know why they can't be created now. Thanks! Marshal
Re: Scratchy Lines in X now
The only problem (and a very annoying one) is that there are scratchy horizontal lines that appear when I change something (ie scrolling windows I'm using Potato now, with an SiS 5598 Chipset running an SVGA X server. I'm certainly no X guru and I'm not familiar with that chipset, but I had a similiar problem with the LCD display on my laptop (Trident Cyber9397). Turns out X was trying to find the highest vertical scan rate the vid card would support (which is a good thing) even though the LCD display doesn't really have a refresh rate in the same way a CRT does (no electron gun zapping phosphors, etc.). I solved the problem by removing all the monitor mode lines in XF86Config that referred to modes at anything but 60 Hz. You might try commenting out the mode line that X11 is choosing and see if one of the other mode lines (at the same resolution) works better. You can find out which one it chose by running X like this: startx 1 /dev/null 2 ~/tmp/xlog Then look in ~/tmp/xlog. (Incidentally, the above situation with my laptop causes all GUI install programs to fail because it correctly identifies the video card, but tries to run the display at 85 Hz) Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/ Fairbanks, AK 99775 ~cswingle PGP key: http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/~cswingle/pubkey.asc
NIS over Internet
From what I understand NIS isn't encrypted. NIS+ is, but NIS+ doesn't work out of the box and requires a bunch of extra shit to make work. Is there a way to ssh yp or something to get it working? I'd like to use it, but all my servers are spread apart. Thanks. bb
Re: Debian SPARC
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Gergely Madarasz wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since this is a problem we need to address before release, can you be specific to the problems you are having? This is a console log of a normal 2.2.13 boot of my IPX, kernel compiled on the IPX, console on ttya, before I wiped the drive (AM Nov 17) and reinstalled slink. Potato at that time was not letting me log in on console (PM Nov 16) saying something about a 'function not implimented' on /dev/ttyS0 Actually it says something about function not implemented on /dev/cua0, see: tty_io.c: process 1 (swapper) used obsolete /dev/cua0 - update software to use /dev/ttyS0 link /dev/console to /dev/ttyS0 and see if it helps. Ah, yeah /dev/console - /dev/cua0 (I'll fix that right up) And I'll try 2.2.13 with it. Fixed /dev/console and booted 2.2.13: Same type of problem: Cleaning: /tmp /var/lock /var/run. Initializing random number generator... done. Recovering nvi editor sessions... done. zs_open ttyS0, tty overwrite. zs_open ttyS0, tty overwrite. zs_open ttyS0, tty overwrite. zs_open ttyS0, tty overwrite. .. And then the kernel panic after a while. I disabled nviboot: still does it. It looks like it's doing it right when it's in runlevel 'S', right before it goes runlevel 2. I'll take a closer look at it in the morning. And btw what is that message about Power-On SelfTest FAILED ... Replace CPU Board ? :) I'm using 32-bit memory in a 33-bit system. :/ Took me a while to figure it out. The depmod problem is known, it will soon be fixed. Heard about that. One of the many reasons I reinstalled. Besides, it's practice. :
Re: PPP problems on potato
Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Using interface ppp0 Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1 Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: Connection terminated. Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0 Nov 17 21:29:47 debian pppd[137]: Exit. I had this stupid pain in the ass problem also. It seems that /etc/serial.conf sets your ttyS1 as a 16450 instead of 16550A. Change the entry in /etc/serial.conf reguarding ttyS1 to 16550A. I don't know why it does that. But it took me a week to debug that stupid stuff. It never donned on me to check something like that. Finally I just did cat /etc/*|grep ttyS1. The rest is history. --Ian Ehrenwald
Re: One for you Fetchmail experts out there
Nick Cabatoff wrote: On Nov 16, Kent West wrote: Configuration #2 -- I can further configure Eudora to delete read mail off the server after X days. After X days has transpired, the next time Eudora check the mail it deletes any messages older than X days off of the server (I assume this is based on the server's marking of the messages as having been seen or read). I don't know of any way to get fetchmail to do this. Nor I... the only solution that comes to mind which doesn't involve programming something yourself is to switch to Mutt and drop fetchmail. Mutt doesn't support the options you seek directly, but it would allow you to set up macros that would do it for you. The action of opening the folder in question can be hooked to trigger the macro, so it would happen automatically. If you're willing to contemplate changing mailreaders I'll show you how to do it. Configuration #3 -- I can further configure Eudora to delete read mail if I have deleted that mail from the local trash box. I don't know of any way to get fetchmail to do this either. This would be trickier I think. Can you describe the mechanism in more detail (that is, the sequence of events leading up to mail being deleted on the server)? I appreciate the response I'm probably confused. I thought fetchmail would POP the mail from my server, delivering it to my local box, and then I could choose from a variety of reader apps, such as mutt or tkRat. What you say indicates that mutt is both a reader and a fetcher. (At this point, I realize that perhaps I could have made my point more clear by substituting Netscape Mail for Eudora Pro Mail in my original post. I can do the same thing with Netscape, as follows.) Both Netscape Mail and Eudora Mail have options in the configuration screens to leave a copy of the message on the server, popping only a copy of the message to the local computer. Netscape does not have the option to delete popped messages after X days, but Eudora does. Both have the capability to delete the message on the next pop check if the popped message has been deleted from the local machine and the trash emptied. The process works like this: I tell Eudora to check my mail. Eudora checks the ISP's server, and finds, say for instance, ten new messages. The default behavior is for Eudora to download those ten messages to my local computer and then delete them off the ISP's server, but with the setting mentioned above, Eudora instead downloads those ten messages, but leaves a copy on the ISP's server. I set Eudora to delete those messages from the server after seven days. So eight days later, I tell Eudora to check my mail, having never deleted any of the original ten messages. Eudora finds 5 new messages. It downloads those five messages, but leaves a copy of those five on the server. However, it also sees those first ten messages still on the server, realizes they've been hanging around for seven or more days, and deletes them from the server. Now I read those five messages. On my local computer's IN box, I've got the original ten messages and the newest five, for a total of fifteen. On the server, I only have the most recent five, because the original ten have been erased based on their being older than 7 days. Of those five messages, I delete two of them. Then I empty the trash. Then I delete one more. So I've got the original ten in my IN box, two of the five in my IN box, and one of the five in my TRASH box. Next time Eudora checks for mail, it doesn't find any new messages, but it deletes from the server the two messages that were deleted and emptied from the trash. Hopefully this explains better how the process works.
shared library not found
Hi all I'm trying to run WordPerfect for linux from Corel It stops with error libXpm.so.4 not found when I try ldd xwp it shows among rest lines: libXpm.so.4 = not found when I try ldconfig -p it shows among rest lines: libXpm.so.4 (libc6) = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 what is the problem? Why ldconfig shows libXpm in cache and ldd (ld.so as well) cann't find them ? TIA Alex
natd package
Could somebody tell me what package natd is in? Is it broken with potato? Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: off-topic: quick LaTeX question
You might try a LaTeX package called subfigure. It can be downloaded from the CTAN website at ftp://ftp.duke.edu/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/catalogue.html. I don't know how well it works as I just came across it a few days ago and haven't had a chance to work with it yet, but it looks like it wil do what you want it to. -Kurt Rob Mahurin wrote: I'm writing a LaTeX document that contains two very similar tables which I would like to have side-by-side to accent their similarity: --- --- | table 1 | | table 2 | | | | | --- --- caption 1 caption 2 LaTeX wants to put them one above the other. How do I get what I want? Rob -- Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion. -- Harlan Ellison -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: Question about Update site behaviour
Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Gerardo Mauricio Sarria wrote: deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ slink-update main No, that means you suddenly get a whole new set of packages and doesn't help him at all. Wichert. --- I do not run behind a proxy server. I operate from my own web site with static addressing. I simply have not changed any of my update site selections for some time and I guess some of them have changed. The ones from the apt-get dist. file do seem to work OK. but I have been using these instead and they do not work longer. deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian dists/slink-proposed-updates/ deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome.old/gnome-stage-slink slink main deb http://ftp.netgod.net/ x/ Any suggestions? Thanks! -- AdVance-Computing Systems We sell fine quality servers and workstations. We specialize in multiprocessor units. We install Debian Linux at no extra charge! John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173
/dev/console
I'm wondering how to get /dev/console to work properly in Debian. I'm running Debian 2.1 slink, and a 2.2.12 kernel. I've seen that the Debian distribution sets /dev/console up as a symlink to /dev/tty0, while slackware and Redhat create an actual device with Major # 5 and Minor # 1. Is there a practical reason for this disparity? I'm just trying to figure out why this was done in Debian... also, I can't seem to get console messages to log to the console on my Debian box, whereas the same setup works fine in slackware. Example: I have: auth,authpriv.* /dev/console in my syslog.conf. These messages should then be logged to the console (among other places). The slackware 7 box handles it fine, but I don't get any console output at all on the Debian machine. I've even tried creating the device (MAKEDEV console) and using it for the syslog messages, but still -- I get nothing on the console. Can anyone help me with getting the console device to work properly? I really can't see what else to try, it's a fairly basic problem, it just seems to me like it should work. ;)
Cobalt Qube 2 Internet server?
Hi, is out there anybody, who has got experience on using Cobalt Qube 2? (Internet server appliance using linux, apache and smb preconfigured) We are thinking here (an educational organization, about 40 workers; 12 000 students...) to buy a www-server with easy administration tasks and uses for intranet services and www-services. The above mentioned product is one of the possibilities. For what kind of use have people used these Cobalt Cube machines? Problems? Other experiences? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Q] Setting up a primary DNS server for my domain name on a Debian box...
I'm not a wiz at DNS config but I've done some domain install with success... Here it goes: At 01:50 PM 11/17/99 -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: [Note: Would appreciate if you Cc-ed me on your replies to this thread] Hi, I have never configured bind before. I have a Debian (slink+potato) box. I have bind 8.2.2p3-1 installed on this box. update to 8.2.2p5 (security reasons I belive). I want this box to be the primary DNS server (the one that is listed in the whois record) for my domain name. The entries for the various things in my domain would be pretty simple. Only one 'A' record for foo.org Everything else would (at the moment) be CNAME records pointing to the A record. CNAME's are depreciated, go for the A records. I tried following the instructions in the DNS HOWTO. Things work fine when I do a nslookup from the machine which is running bind. But when I do an nslookup remotely (setting this machine that is running bind as the server) all queries time out. If you setup your /etc/bind/named.conf /etc/bind/db.127 /etc/bind/db.your_ip_here_without_the_lastpart /etc/bind/db.your_domain_here correctly and restarted your DNS (ndc restart) (you updated your serial numbers before every restart right?) Then check your /var/log/syslog file for any errors. Then the domain should be ok... Send me your /etc/bind dir and your /var/log/syslog and I will take a look at it, although I can promise you anything... Would greatly appreciate step by step instructions (or pointers to step by step instructions) on how to set up a primary domain name server on Debian. Thanks a lot. Thaths -- English. Pfft. Who needs that? I'm never going to England. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Lead Indentured Slave -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Cobalt Qube 2 Internet server?
I personally do not own CQ but what I know from debian-mips, they're using their own, modified version of a Linux kernel. It should be available in a source form from their homesite. They also run some mailing lists (as mentioned at www.linux.sgi.com), maybe you should better ask there. Radim Gelner On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, virtanen wrote: Hi, is out there anybody, who has got experience on using Cobalt Qube 2? (Internet server appliance using linux, apache and smb preconfigured) We are thinking here (an educational organization, about 40 workers; 12 000 students...) to buy a www-server with easy administration tasks and uses for intranet services and www-services. The above mentioned product is one of the possibilities. For what kind of use have people used these Cobalt Cube machines? Problems? Other experiences? [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: PPP problems on potato
I'm not an expert on this bit I have an idea... Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Serial connection established. Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Using interface ppp0 Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1 Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Here the error starts, the next line drops your connection. Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: Connection terminated. Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0 Nov 17 21:29:47 debian pppd[137]: Exit. Your link expects probably an 8N1 setting but finds a 7 somthing setting. Again I'm not an expert on this... What do these lines mean? How can they be corrected? Did someone experience the same difficulties on potato installation? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Rickie
Re: /tmp permissions changed!
No problem here... I installed from the potato boot flops. Regards, Onno At 03:10 AM 11/19/99 +0100, J Horacio MG wrote: Hi, all of a sudden I realized the /tmp permissions had changed to: 2 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 2048 Nov 19 02:57 tmp/ so, I changed it back to sticky with: # chmod 777 /tmp # chmod a+t /tmp Now, it seems alright, but I'm not sure about the rest (most of all /var). Could anyone check against his/her filesystem, please? (also, anyone has an idea why it may have changed? All I've done is untar/ungzip 'ed a file in /tmp as a normal user; then, I've removed all the files, but it kept asking me if I wanted to delete the file substitutin such or such mode). Now it looks like: 1 drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 1024 Nov 14 11:47 ./ 1 drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 1024 Nov 14 11:47 ../ 1 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 1024 Nov 18 20:17 alt/ 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root0 Nov 19 02:45 amnt/ 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 Nov 14 16:52 bin/ 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 18 20:12 boot/ 1 drwxrwsr-x 2 root cdrom1024 Feb 1 1999 cdrom/ 18 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root17408 Nov 19 02:45 dev/ 5 drwxr-xr-x 57 root root 5120 Nov 19 02:45 etc/ 1 drwxrwsr-x 2 root floppy 1024 Feb 1 1999 floppy/ 1 drwxrwsr-x 5 root staff1024 Nov 10 00:30 home/ 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 1 1999 initrd/ 3 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 3072 Nov 14 21:30 lib/ 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root12288 Nov 9 00:41 lost+found/ 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 1 1999 mnt/ 1 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Nov 17 18:28 opt/ 0 dr-xr-xr-x 31 root root0 Nov 19 02:45 proc/ 1 drwx-- 7 root root 1024 Nov 17 23:35 root/ 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Nov 16 14:43 sbin/ 2 drwxrwxrwt 5 root root 2048 Nov 19 02:59 tmp/ 1 drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 1024 Nov 17 13:06 usr/ 1 drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 1024 Nov 14 16:50 var/ 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Nov 9 01:17 vmlinuz - boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 14 11:47 zip/ TIA -- Horacio Anno MMDCCLII ad Urbe condita mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Spain ~Spanje ~ Spanien Key fingerprint = F4EE AE5E 2F01 0DB3 62F2 A9F4 AD31 7093 4233 7AE6 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: UDP port 1025(Blackjack)
Thanks for the great tip! Regards, Onno At 07:31 PM 11/17/99 +, Chris Schleifer wrote: Hi, I don't know a lot about this stuff but I can help a little I think. When you are using a network, ports will get opened on your machine whenever you make a connection, this way the remote machine has somewhere to talk to. This is probably why you are seeing ports open during one scan and closed the next time. Nmap uses an internal database of service to port mapping. When it says Blackjack, it is just a guess as to what could be running on that port. You will see things like nmap telling you Back Orifice is running on a linux box because of this. Take whatever service nmap says with a grain of salt. You can also do 'grep 1025 /etc/services' to do a simple check for yourself. But the main thing I want to suggest is to not use nmap for scanning your machines. Use lsof instead (apt-get install lsof). Lsof is VERY cool and useful for many things. Install it, do 'lsof -i' as root, and it will show you exactly which ports are open, which process is using it, which user owns the process, and more. I run 'lsof -i' after every apt-get upgrade to quickly make sure it hasn't decided to add a server I don't want (happened last week with the changes to netstd in potato). Hope this helps, Chris Schleifer aphro wrote: During the process of closing non important ports on my new server i noticed it has port 1025(UDP) and the service is Blackjack according to nmap. Anyone know what this is? i dont see anything in the dpkg list for blackjack and its not on my machine at home, and its not on my main server. tia nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 10:51pm up 89 days, 10:24, 2 users, load average: 1.87, 1.81, 1.69 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: encryption licenses
Maybe the guys at debian-legal (licensing issues) know the answers to your questions. Regards, Onno At 08:47 AM 11/17/99 -0800, aphro wrote: It's been really hard for me to get whats needed in terms of liceses(if any) for encryption. What i'd like to know, if anyone can enlighten me is whats teh deal with using encryption in a commercial enviornment? I downgraded my SSH 2 servers to SSH1 a while back when i heard that the license had changed in regaurds to commercial use. Another question is SSL ..there are a few GPL/free SSL servers/modules out there..but are they clear for commercial use? Or do you just have to pay/register to use the certificates for SSL transactions? and lastly i am in the process of installing vpnd and testing it out as a encryption method for a (doh) vpn :) it has encryption too..and is GPL..whats the general rule to go about this kind of stuff? i've seen a lot of legal stuff on pages (like the mod_ssl homepage) but its really beyond me as to what applies to me and what doesn't. thanks! nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 8:42am up 89 days, 20:16, 1 user, load average: 1.65, 1.62, 1.61 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: How to install pine on slink from source
on 18 Nov 99, Philip Lehman wrote... The first message in this thread did not reach me, so I don't know who initiated the query. I am a novice and asked the same question . If you go to the archives and look up Alec Smith's reply to me on 10th Nov, you will find a fully detailed step by step guide covering Pine4.20. It worked for me and if I can do it anyone can! (Avoid the error I made in interpreting step2 - follow up messages cover this if you have any difficulty). Hope this helps whoever has the problem. On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Daniel Mashao wrote: I once did it, but I forgot what I did. Searching the archives I could not find pine installation messages. Anyone remember? I just can't get used to mutt. It smells too much like vi and I find vi hard. Get the source from any Debian mirror, last time I checked they were in debian/project/experimental - Get foo.orig.tar.gz, foo.diff.gz, and foo.dsc (where foo is something like pine plus the version number) - `dpkg-source -x foo.dsc` - `cd foo` - as root: `debian/rules binary` You also need dpkg-dev and the development packages of the libs required by Pine. This will patch the source, compile, and build binary debs ready to install with dpkg/dselect. HTH -- Philip Lehman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: /dev/console
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Nagilum wrote: Example: I have: auth,authpriv.* /dev/console in my syslog.conf. These messages should then be logged to the console (among other places). The slackware 7 box handles it fine, but I don't get any console output at all on the Debian machine. I have the lines # The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility. To use it, # you must invoke `xconsole' with the `-file' option: # #$ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...] # # NOTE: adjust the list below, or you'll go crazy if you have a reasonably # busy site.. # daemon.*;mail.*;\ news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\ *.=debug;*.=info;\ *.=alert;\ *.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsole at the bottom of my syslog.conf, which seems to do the thing you want to. Martin - -- If Windows is the answer, can we please have the problem back? For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBODPGvLCGSMW7I2etAQFIiQP/SKKufVct3zGHIo9owOm5DEIZjEusDfax 4NLKntdQ83Ql0I6w9xiuWPu2GCt2e/Pqys4fQxe5i+pnzCa4R1x+9PNdTJDfVix9 cItuoqocBgP208wYW/x3DyA7LvJK9X6kVwJA9g0XrVnnf5QC7iYqtpyjT5QUoXHr KbkW90Yq5+s= =FEKd -END PGP SIGNATURE-
maillinglist news interface down?
Hi folks.
Does anyone know what happended to the Debian list to news gateway. I
did not get any knews from linux.debian.devel fro about a week. In
linux.debian.user there were only a dozen in the last days, which seem
to be come in over news directly and not via the mailling list.
Is the gateway down?
Do I have to resubscribe to the mailling list, to be able to read it
again?
Christoph
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How to savely copy a disk?
Hello, my harddisk is on the edge (still dma/ irq errors). Is there an easy way to copy all partitions (Vfat WinNT/ Debian Linux/ Linux Swap) to new one without reinstalling all things? TIA -- Peter -- Peter Weiss InterFace AG phone +49 (0)89 / 610 49 - 231 Leipziger Str. 16fax+49 (0)89 / 610 49 - 85 D-82008 Unterhaching http://www.InterFace-AG.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
dselect vs apt
Though it might be a lamer question, I would like to know the major differences between dselect and apt. I do not upgrade my boxes via ftp, I allways (more or less :-)) ) wait till the new release is assembled in CD images. Why would I switch to apt? Regards, Gabor Urban --- Lufthansa Systems Hungaria KfT mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : (36)-1-431-2949 Fax :(36)-1-431-2977 I am not a cat to play with the mouse.
Re: How to savely copy a disk?
Depending on what type of harddrive you have. For example Seagate and Quantum have a utility to transfer content of a whole harddrive to another one (even bigger). But the free versions available work only with their hardware. Also, I've tested it with fat32, not with ext2fs :-(. Radim Gelner On 18 Nov 1999, Peter Weiss wrote: Hello, my harddisk is on the edge (still dma/ irq errors). Is there an easy way to copy all partitions (Vfat WinNT/ Debian Linux/ Linux Swap) to new one without reinstalling all things? TIA -- Peter -- Peter Weiss InterFace AG phone +49 (0)89 / 610 49 - 231 Leipziger Str. 16fax+49 (0)89 / 610 49 - 85 D-82008 Unterhaching http://www.InterFace-AG.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Mouse, please help
Hello, I have a problem with the mouse. After the installation finished, and i startx there is no mouse. I see an x in the middle of the screen. I only installed debian yesterday, so be patient with me. I did crtl+alt+del dropped to console and typed gpm but it said command not found.i also typed gpmconfig and also command not found. I try to run XF86Setup but i cannot move through the menus because there is no mouse. is there a console solution to this, or how can i do it manually.Maybe the package gpm is not installed.How do i install it? Is gpm responsible for the mouse in Xserver too or only for console? Maybe is running and i don't know it. Maybe i need to tell kde to recognise the mouse, but how can i communicate with kde if i have no mouse? Thanks
Re: off-topic: quick LaTeX question
Rob Mahurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm writing a LaTeX document that contains two very similar tables which I would like to have side-by-side to accent their similarity: --- --- | table 1 | | table 2 | | | | | --- --- caption 1 caption 2 Put each of them into a minipage-environment and maybe a \hfill between. Greetings, joachim
xv instead of IM in mailcap?
I manually exchanged ImageMagicks display against xv on /etc/mailcap. But every time I install an application which alters /etc/mailcap, display is again inserted. How can I prevent that? Stef
How to savely copy a disk?
Peter Weiss writes: | Hello, | | my harddisk is on the edge (still dma/ irq errors). Is there an easy way | to copy all partitions (Vfat WinNT/ Debian Linux/ Linux Swap) to new one | without reinstalling all things? dd --- diskdump --- is what you want. Byte for byte copying. Mx.
Re: My ppp connection is (stalling)
*- On 17 Nov, David J. Kanter wrote about My ppp connection is (stalling) This is driving me nuts. My PPP connection seems to be stalling all the time. I'm often seeing (stalled) in Netscape, and trying to do some updates to Potato has become painful (multiple mirror sites); it'll download a bit, then stop, download a bit, then stall...you get the picture. I remember reading something about PPP and the 2.2.X kernels. Could that be what's going on? I've got my pon configured to use all the compressions I can. Thanks. I had similiar problems as well. What worked for me was to reduce the default mtu/mru settings by about half. If you do this and have an internal network make sure and set the mtu of the network to the same value as your ppp link. Different mtu settings seems to cause problems with ip masqurading. Other pppd options that I played with and had varying degrees of success are bsdcomp, deflate and vj-max-slots. A lot of the ppp stalling problems tend to be compression negotiation between you and the isp. And since each isp may use different software the correct combination will be different in each case. HTH, Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Quick Latex question
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 11:33:34AM +, Jose Marin wrote:
Just use the minipage environment for each of the tables. Do something
like this: (for instance)
\begin{minipage}{0.4\textwidth}
\begin{table}[t]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}[]{}
% Table entries here
\end{tabular}
\caption{Table on the left}
\label{tab:left}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\end{minipage}
\hfill % Stretchable spacing
[duplicate above]
This gives this error:
! LaTeX Error: Not in outer par mode.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H return for immediate help.
...
l.6 \begin{table}[t]
? h
You've lost some text. Try typing return to proceed.
If that doesn't work, type X return to quit.
If I remove the [t], it fails on \begin
{center}.
If I comment out the minipage lines, the table comes out fine. With
them in, In either case, my minipage doesn't print. What's happening?
I'm going to put this back on the list in case anybody else knows.
Thanks a lot,
Rob
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no list mail
Hey guys, I'm writing this, but I won't be able to see I did. I'm not getting any mail at all from debian-user. Have any idea why this might be? cc me please, -- -t
Re: Mouse, please help
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Haris Siakalis wrote: Hello, Maybe the package gpm is not installed. How do i install it? 1) There exists a package called 'gpm'. 2) Did you install it? 3) Which method of intallation did you use? 4) Did the intallation procedure ask anything about the configuration of the gpm package? I think that it should have done so. 5) How to install it depends on your installation method. Basically it is easiest to use afterwards apt or dselect. Just start 'dselect' and/or 'apt' again and look for gpm by 'Acces' - 'Update' - 'Select' and '/' which produces: 'search for'. Answer 'gpm' and hit enter. Look at the package if it is installed or not. 6) If it is installed OK, you should find in /usr/doc/gpm a file called 'faq.gz'. Read that using a command 'most faq.gz' Maybe some of these faqs suit to your situation. Read man gpm as well. Which kind of mouse do you have? Start again XF86Setup. 7) If it isn't installed hit '+' and enter to install it. And try again configuring... It depends on your mouse type, how to define it while running XF86Setup. Mine is 'Logitech M-S 48' with that funny roller on the midel button... it took quite a long time to find out that it must be defined as /psaux... hv [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quick Latex question
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Rob Mahurin wrote:
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 11:33:34AM +, Jose Marin wrote:
Just use the minipage environment for each of the tables. Do something
like this: (for instance)
\begin{minipage}{0.4\textwidth}
\begin{table}[t]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}[]{}
% Table entries here
\end{tabular}
\caption{Table on the left}
\label{tab:left}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\end{minipage}
\hfill % Stretchable spacing
[duplicate above]
This gives this error:
! LaTeX Error: Not in outer par mode.
Ooops! Yes, the table environment can't go inside a minipage; it should
be the other way around: a table environment engulfing two minipages, each
containing just a tabular environment. And if you don't want to make it
float, just remove the table environment (and the label and caption)
altogether.
Oh, and I shouldn't have left blanks between the two minipages!
See below.
Jose
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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
This should work\ldots
\begin{table}[t]
\begin{center}
\begin{minipage}{0.4\textwidth}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}[t]{||l|r||}
\hline
\emph{type} \emph{style} \\ \hline
big good \\
small bad \\
better worse \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{minipage}
\hfill % Stretchable spacing
\begin{minipage}{0.4\textwidth}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}[t]{||l|r||}
\hline
\emph{type} \emph{style} \\ \hline
big good \\
small bad \\
better worse \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{minipage}
\caption{Tables showing blah...}
\label{tab:mytables}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\end{document}
%%% Local Variables:
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Re: How to savely copy a disk?
Norton Ghost would be a good util, see if you can borrow it from a friend. Regards, Onno At 11:26 AM 11/18/99 +0100, Peter Weiss wrote: Hello, my harddisk is on the edge (still dma/ irq errors). Is there an easy way to copy all partitions (Vfat WinNT/ Debian Linux/ Linux Swap) to new one without reinstalling all things? TIA -- Peter -- Peter Weiss InterFace AG phone +49 (0)89 / 610 49 - 231 Leipziger Str. 16fax+49 (0)89 / 610 49 - 85 D-82008 Unterhaching http://www.InterFace-AG.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: the gimp?
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 12:44:00PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Debian guarentees that everything in it's main distribution is free, which makes preprending -free to package names quite pointless. The gimp package suggests gimp-nonfree, which means that if you use dselect or any other reasonable tool for selecting gimp, and you have set up your system to access the nbon-free archives, you will be shown gimp-nonfree when you select gimp for installation. Really? peon:~# apt-get install gimp Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: gimp 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. Need to get 2884kB of archives. After unpacking 6989kB will be used. Get:1 ftp://ftp.sunsite.utk.edu unstable/main gimp 1.0.4-2.0.1 [2884kB] Fetched 2884kB in 8s (342kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package gimp. (Reading database ... 73286 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking gimp (from .../gimp_1.0.4-2.0.1_i386.deb) ... Setting up gimp (1.0.4-2.0.1) ... peon:~# gimp-nonfree is definitely available (it's reinstalling right now). But I already knew about it. I remember finding out about it being a PITA, though. For those of us who don't spend our free time reading package dependencies, the name gimp doesn't suggest there's a gimp-nonfree any more than shellutils suggests a shellutils-nonfree. Gimp-nonfree is not a complete gimp package, it just contains the gimp plugin. The gimp has a plugin architecture; the fact that Debian omits one non-free plugin from their base gimp package is not a good reason to say we should not call that package gimp. I see your point here. Perhaps a line like this could be added to apt's (dpkg's?) output, to make these reasonable installation methods: Package 'gimp' suggests the following packages, which are not installed: freefont, sharefont, gimp-nonfree, gimp-data-extras (= 1:1.0.0) Please consider also installing these packages. Rob -- The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 A.M. -- Charles Pierce
Re: My ppp connection is (stalling)
I had the same problem. My connection worked fine with a 2.0.36 kernel, but when I used 2.2.13 I would stall after 50K or so downloaded. I read a posting about certain ISPs using Ascend routers, which don't work well with the bsd_comp and ppp-deplate compression schemes used in potato. I added a different account with a different ISP and all my problems disappeared. Concentric was the ISP with the problem, my new account is with Earthlink. Michael Heyes David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/17/99 11:32:57 PM To: Debian listerv debian-user@lists.debian.org cc:(bcc: Mike Heyes/LincolnFP/BerisfordPlc) Subject: My ppp connection is (stalling) This is driving me nuts. My PPP connection seems to be stalling all the time. I'm often seeing (stalled) in Netscape, and trying to do some updates to Potato has become painful (multiple mirror sites); it'll download a bit, then stop, download a bit, then stall...you get the picture. I remember reading something about PPP and the 2.2.X kernels. Could that be what's going on? I've got my pon configured to use all the compressions I can. Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Gnome panel and Enlightenment
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 07:48:25AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: What is the spec of your machine? Mine is a Pentium 100MHz/64MB, would this one run X/Gnome/E comfortably? I gotta bite... I sit in front of a Dual PII 400 w/ 512MB ram at work and recently switched back to afterstep (from Gnome/Enlightenment) largely because of speed. (Maybe afterstep spoils me, but still...) -Michael -- Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513 Duke University, Dept. of Physics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305
Re: Mouse, please help
Hi, gpm is not responsible for your mouse in X. To find out, if gpm-package is installed, type dpkg -l gpm. Now there should be something like coma:~# dpkg -l gpm Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- ii gpm 1.14-3 General Purpose Mouse Interface If the last line is something like the next line, the package is not installed. coma:~# dpkg -l gpmd No packages found matching gpm. For XF86Setup I think, it works with TAB and the arrow-keys (how are they called ?) instead of the mouse. But there are still open questions : What type of mouse do you use ? psaux or serial ? To find out, what your mouse device is, type cat /dev/mouse or ttyS... . It wprked fine for me. If you found the right device, you get output on your console. KD
Re: Quick Latex question
That worked quite nicely, thank you. Also, if I put my \label and
\caption between \end{tabular} and \end{center}, I can have separate
captions on the tables, like I wanted. Awesome. Thanks a lot.
Rob
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Just the facts, Ma'am
-- Joe Friday
RE: Sane / Scanner problem
The scanner (HP 4c) id was set to 2. When I booted with the scanner off, and entered the echo line you suggested, the scanner mounted and I was able to access it. Hmmm. My lilo.conf forced recognition with append=aha152x=0x140,9,2 so I tried changing the scsi id from 2 to 3 in the append line and rebooted. The scanner was detected fine, and only at scsi id 2. Dmesg showed scsi generic sga at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0. It works, I'm happy, but I don't understand the behavior. Any ideas? Michael Heyes Ingles, Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/17/99 11:19:26 AM To: Mike Heyes/LincolnFP/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: RE: Sane / Scanner problem From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] When I boot, though, I get the scanner detection message, but I get messages detecting generic sga at scsi id 0, generic sgb at scsi id 1 ---generic sgf at scsi id 7. Are you positive the scanner's ID is 2? If it's set to the same ID as the SCSI card (usually 7), you can see that behavior. Also, some broken SCSI hardware doesn't autodetect well. SCSI allows for an ID and a LUN, logical unit number. This allows a SCSI device to have sub-devices; for example, a CD changer will have each CD slot on a seperate LUN. Some hardware only checks the ID, and responds to multiple LUNs. There may be a way for the 152x driver to not probe all LUNs or something like that. Finally, if nothing else works, there's a way to add a specific SCSI device after the kernel is booted or the module is loaded. The command is echo scsi add-single-device w x y z /proc/scsi/scsi (which must be done as root), where w = scsi host #, x = channel number (some SCSI cards have multiple channels), y = ID, z = LUN. So, in your case, you'd boot with the scanner turned off. Then, turn on the scanner, and do... echo scsi add-single-device 0 0 2 0 /proc/scsi/scsi (I'm assuming the 152x is the only SCSI card.) Sincerely, Ray Ingles(248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windows 2000... will have lots of stuff you used to pay extra for but is now built in for free, although none of it works. - Eric Lundquist
autoload balancing
Hi there. I really need to know if it's possible to use autoload balancing on the ethernet and, if yes, how can I configure it. Thanks Petr Vacha
Presentations with latex
Hello, I use latex to prepare my presentations. Before installing Debian Slink (default workstation setup), I had a latex class called seminar.cls available. Nevertheless, I cannot use it now bacause it is not installed. Which package(s) do I have to install? Are there any other latex recomended packages to install? Thanks in advance, Manuel Arenaz
Re: Cross-compiling on Debian systems?
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 19:52:42 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Ben Collins wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 02:48:55PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to set up a cross-compiler on my Lintel (AMD 266) to compile packages for my Sparc IPX. I'd preferably like to package the cross-compiler so I can esaily remove it if I no longer need it. The only cross-compiler in the slink packages list is for m68k. What do I need to do to set one up? The last cross-compiler I built (for kernel compiles) was using the m68k cross-compiler package. I just changed the m68k references to sparc, and ran dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot (change all of the m68k references in debian/ to sparc). I just did a 'debian/rules binary' in 'gcc-m68k-linux-2.8.1' after changing 'm68k' to 'sparc', and I get a build error. Looks like the gcc buildstrap isn't working. make bootstrap doesn't work for cross compilers, have a look at the cross gcc FAQ: http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/ . ./xgcc -B./ -DCROSS_COMPILE -DIN_GCC-O2 -I./include -I. -I. \ -I./config -g0 \ -finhibit-size-directive -fno-inline-functions -fno-exceptions \ -c ./crtstuff.c -DCRT_BEGIN -o crtbegin.o as: option `-s' is ambiguous make[1]: *** [crtbegin.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `gcc-m68k-linux-2.8.1' make: *** [build] Error 2 I get the exact same error if I use dpkg-buildpackage. I don't know enough about building gcc to know what's wrong. And this is the source package from ftp.ca.debian.org (us.debian.org not responding to me through lynx for some reason) Looks like you're using the native binutils instead of cross binutils. I also found out I need the binutils-m68k-linux package, and that's being downloaded as I type.. You also need libc and kernel header files for the target system. The kernel has to be configured for the target system, but that can be done on the build host. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2785859 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/
Re: Cross-compiling on Debian systems?
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 02:38:26PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 19:52:42 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
./xgcc -B./ -DCROSS_COMPILE -DIN_GCC-O2 -I./include -I. -I. \
-I./config -g0 \
-finhibit-size-directive -fno-inline-functions -fno-exceptions \
-c ./crtstuff.c -DCRT_BEGIN -o crtbegin.o
as: option `-s' is ambiguous
make[1]: *** [crtbegin.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `gcc-m68k-linux-2.8.1'
make: *** [build] Error 2
I get the exact same error if I use dpkg-buildpackage. I don't know enough
about building gcc to know what's wrong. And this is the source package
from ftp.ca.debian.org (us.debian.org not responding to me through lynx
for some reason)
Looks like you're using the native binutils instead of cross binutils.
Installing binutils-multiarch and compiling a native gas handles this.
I also found out I need the binutils-m68k-linux package, and that's being
downloaded as I type..
You also need libc and kernel header files for the target system. The
kernel has to be configured for the target system, but that can be done on
the build host.
Install dpkg-cross and convert the native sparc libc6 and libc6-dev
packages. This will install them into /usr/sparc-linux/{include,lib} for
the cross-compile.
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Re: Presentations with latex
Manuel Arenaz Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before installing Debian Slink [..], I had a latex class called seminar.cls available. Nevertheless, I cannot use it now bacause it is not installed. Which package(s) do I have to install? Are there any other latex recomended packages to install? You have to install the seminar package. Probably you also have to install the pstricks package. You can find them in the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN), e.g. at ftp.shsu.edu under /tex-archive, or at www.cs.ruu.nl. In the archive there is a pointer to a search engine that helps you to find the items. Paul Huygen
Re: diff caches stuff in memory?
Quoting Colin Marquardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The test case I just set up worked! I don´t know what was different... Maybe the error really was between keyboard and chair, and I´ve now gotten the brown paper bag award :-( I don´t know. Thanks for taking the time to answer, That's OK. It did just occur to me that there is software out there that might suffer in the way you described, for example, mc (I use slink). If you browse a zip file in mc, but change its contents in another process*, I don't know how to make mc throw away its unzipped cache short of exiting or unzipping something else big. Mind you, I don't use C-x d (compare directories) at all, let alone in a zip file. * something I do regularly. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Compatible notebook
hi I am trying to buy a notebook , and I will be installing debian or free bsd on that. Has anybody got a suggestion about processor type , graphics card or n/w card. or as a whole . rajesh This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows NT reboot! Do you remember how to -think- ? Do you remember how to experiment? Linux is an operating system that brings back the fun and adventure in computing. Rajesh Mittal, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 (0)1628 580600 direct no - +44 (0)1628 580623 Fax:+44 (0)1628 580610 Resi no - +44 (0)1628 778481 InfoGain Limited, 1 Bell St, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 1BU. U.K. URL: www.infogain.com
how to start an obnoxious daemon at boot?
hi, I have a BestPower UPS (it is a `smart' one) and I am trying to start the monitoring daemon with a /etc/init.d/ script like everything else (using the init.d/skeleton for a template), however i have a problem: this daemon does not create .pid files, and it forks several times when its first starting up so start-stop-daemon --make-pidfile gets the pid of a process that is killed as soon as the daemon is finished connecting to the UPS, so the `stop' part of the script won't work :( and if that is not enough this daemon always leaves a zombie process after it starts up, so trying to fix the .pid with pidof does not work either since it finds 2 pids... I have been trying various scripting tricks to replace start-stop-daemon creating an empty file in /var/run so i can tell when its running or not, the other problem I have is the way this daemon forks and exits it seems to cause my script to aport prematurely. BestPower supplies the full source code to their software (and gives full specification on the comm protocol to anyone who asks), but I am not skilled enough of a programmer to fix these problems (that and the code is kinda gross...) does anyone have any suggestions for how to do this? does there happen to be a replacement software for these UPSs (that works in smart mode) ? Best Regards, Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/
Re: Perl5 (Potato) ... [satan]
El jue, 18 de nov de 1999, a las 12:35:54 +0100, Klaus Drews dijo: Hi, just a small hint : somewhere there is a README in the docs, which says, that you have to load and unload and convert things to work with 5.005. Look for it, befor upgrading. I crashed my system some time ago because I ran the fast way, just installing. By the way - if anyone has a proper description, what to look for, I would by appriciated receiving a copy. I've been looking around and can't find any such document. Since, as you say, a wrong upgrade might crash the system, I won't until it's safe. Please, if you are told where to find that README, let me know. Regards, -- Horacio Anno MMDCCLII ad Urbe condita mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Spain ~Spanje ~ Spanien Key fingerprint = F4EE AE5E 2F01 0DB3 62F2 A9F4 AD31 7093 4233 7AE6
Burning CD-Rs with Debian?
Hi! I finally managed to get access to a CDR writer connected to the Internet. I read the FAQ, but I think it is rather meagre in the information it provides. I'd like to know what is the latest version of debian that I might download (I guess it's slink.something). I'd like to know if I could download a version of potato (the official CD would be a slink based thing, woudln't it?), and how much size could one expect this mighty thing to take up (I know that potato probably takes up more than slink, but...). Also, what do I get for my money :) here? Do I just get main or do you get the non-free bits as well? Sorry if the questions are a bit stupid, but this is my first time. So far, I kept going with network installs, but now it's time to upgrade the old box at home. Thanks a lot! Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student Radar Communications Group Department of Electronic Engineering University of Sheffield UK
Re: How to install pine on slink from source
Quoting Daniel Mashao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I once did it, but I forgot what I did. Searching the archives I could not find pine installation messages. Anyone remember? I just can't get used to mutt. It smells too much like vi and I find vi hard. I must stop avoiding vi at once :-) I just built pico for someone, and I keep notes: --8 Ftp to ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/ dists/slink/non-free/source and copied the .tar.gz .diff.gz and .dsc files for pine_3.96M-2 to ~debian/slink-2.1. mkdir ~/src and cd to it. dpkg-source -x ~debian/slink-2.1/pine_3.96M-2.dsc unpacks the distribution. cd pine-3.96L debian/rules build press enter to accept advice. bin/pico is what I wanted. --8 Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Re: Linux as a router
You wrote: I have an Intel/486 and want to set it up as a router. You might want to try the Debian-based Linux Router Project, at http://www.linuxrouter.org/ The whole thing runs off a write-protected floppy, so you can't be hacked as badly as with a HD. The docs on the official site are not too good, but here's a good one: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/9660/lrphowto.html - Brian
Re: How to savely copy a disk?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 18 Nov 1999, Martyn Pearce wrote: Peter Weiss writes: | Hello, | | my harddisk is on the edge (still dma/ irq errors). Is there an easy way | to copy all partitions (Vfat WinNT/ Debian Linux/ Linux Swap) to new one | without reinstalling all things? dd --- diskdump --- is what you want. Byte for byte copying. AFAIK dd can make the copied data useless, when the target hd isn't identicaly to the source hd (and with identicaly I mean it: same geometry and partitioned in the exact same way). ext2 partitions can easyly moved along with tar, and for swap partitions it makes no sense to copy them. vfat/winNT partitions seem to me mor tricky (I've never did that) Martin - -- If Windows is the answer, can we please have the problem back? For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBODQSeLCGSMW7I2etAQEy4AP9FcR9WVl5vv0WNZni2SGjVv654S9chFFz NkrmQxoYMNqhraqwg/FFL4k/uhx8eU8ny9hJSs86E8hlFi3Fcu1aPk1lthr4Pyz4 PSm6Jg6T+c9VTIIJZ2rZeizi/kZdg25k6CVUk5CA9AimNdimA6xqk3LKrfZVIvSk GbbAaIPzLgQ= =Kg14 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: How to savely copy a disk?
Martin Fluch writes: | AFAIK dd can make the copied data useless, when the target hd isn't | identicaly to the source hd (and with identicaly I mean it: same geometry | and partitioned in the exact same way). | | ext2 partitions can easyly moved along with tar, and for swap partitions | it makes no sense to copy them. | | vfat/winNT partitions seem to me mor tricky (I've never did that) Hm, this discussion moved off the list. I later qualified the dd suggestion with the observation that it should work iff both disks are set to LBA. Otherwise, as you say, dissimilar geometries will sink (almost always). In the LBA case, one shouldn't even need to rerun LILO, I think. In the non-LBA case, the partitions must be re-created on the target disk, and the partitions copied one-by-one. The LBA case is as you say wasteful on swap partitions, but the speed of convenience should more than make up for this. Mx.
Re: the gimp?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Rob Mahurin wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 12:44:00PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Debian guarentees that everything in it's main distribution is free, which makes preprending -free to package names quite pointless. The gimp package suggests gimp-nonfree, which means that if you use dselect or any other reasonable tool for selecting gimp, and you have set up your system to access the nbon-free archives, you will be shown gimp-nonfree when you select gimp for installation. Really? peon:~# apt-get install gimp Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: gimp [...] gimp-nonfree is definitely available (it's reinstalling right now). But I already knew about it. I remember finding out about it being a PITA, though. For those of us who don't spend our free time reading package dependencies, the name gimp doesn't suggest there's a gimp-nonfree any more than shellutils suggests a shellutils-nonfree. Dselect will prompt you for every sugested and recommended package, which is not installed (apt-get don't, one could file a wishlist-bug against apt, who about an comand line option to show not installed, suggested packages, something like 'apt-get show-suggested gimp' in this case). But when using dselect you don't have to look at the dependencies. [...] Martin - -- If Windows is the answer, can we please have the problem back? For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBODQUfLCGSMW7I2etAQEUXgP/XfN0C10zVKUxEWMWVG2NF4cYME1KeKsH BGY7M5AhWV0lxsT+zbVKe+4OU8vdoUG37qvnKwWVT0q7oyzFxj7hZzhom6AfuSsk hIoUPCwlpGC9dEXsVafYclBjcg2g6CG8t+Dq0botQsrClDvFxSUHXHo35i5G8NI1 usHxzc4zCIQ= =ZJxk -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: How to savely copy a disk?
dd --- diskdump --- is what you want. Byte for byte copying. I'm not so sure this would work around bad sectors on the hard drives. - Brian
Re: shared library not found
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote: Hi all I'm trying to run WordPerfect for linux from Corel It stops with error libXpm.so.4 not found when I try ldd xwp it shows among rest lines: libXpm.so.4 = not found when I try ldconfig -p it shows among rest lines: libXpm.so.4 (libc6) = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 what is the problem? Why ldconfig shows libXpm in cache and ldd (ld.so as well) cann't find them ? grab libc5 libXpm and all would be ok OK
Re: How to savely copy a disk?
Brian Boonstra writes: | dd --- diskdump --- is what you want. Byte for byte copying. | | | I'm not so sure this would work around bad sectors on the hard drives. If you mean bad blocks, then the HDD will not present them to the outside world. Mx.
Re: Presentations with latex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: I use latex to prepare my presentations. Before installing Debian Slink (default workstation setup), I had a latex class called seminar.cls available. Nevertheless, I cannot use it now bacause it is not installed. Which package(s) do I have to install? Are there any other latex recomended packages to install? tetex-nonfree There is an posibility to search for packages containing a specific file at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages called Search the 'Contents of the Latest Release'... Martin - -- If Windows is the answer, can we please have the problem back? For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBODQVuLCGSMW7I2etAQH+cQP/SCENOQSpk9BZmsU6GJLjFUj16lO0a7xQ qeOho49q+JAj7sxxU6G8JA/NcWHOBcGvgzHtVINT0pqyJVDU8cyg/IXjC++nnK4T 7OvsdaFToJBUXt5E9dy0/IK+U9BjEcnLL+i0+oBx81w1JxpS3jx5gP5S5h7mQQEY 9HWKnl+0heI= =tfHs -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: how to start an obnoxious daemon at boot?
*- On 18 Nov, Ethan Benson wrote about how to start an obnoxious daemon at boot? does anyone have any suggestions for how to do this? does there happen to be a replacement software for these UPSs (that works in smart mode) ? You didn't mention if you tried the bpowerd Debian package. Package: bpowerd Priority: extra Section: admin Installed-Size: 37 Maintainer: Mitch Blevins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Version: 2.2-1 Provides: ups-monitor Depends: sysvinit (= 2.69), libc6 (= 2.0.7u) Conflicts: ups-monitor Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/admin/bpowerd_2.2-1.deb Size: 11992 MD5sum: 7fd176f6f425f68e8dab71aad3da3f05 Description: monitor UPS status for Best Patriot power supplies bpowerd is used to monitor a serial port for the status of a Best Patriot power supply. It runs as a daemon and sends status information to the system log. bpowerd can detect powerfail, battery-low, and power-restore condi- tions. The status is communicated to init via /dev/initctl. bpowerd can also send a signal to the power supply's inverter by using the -k switch. -- Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: pppd Crashes Serial Port
On 17 Nov 1999, John Hasler wrote: john The information is correct at boot, however, the serial ports can be john rearranged in the init scripts. i read somewhere that the kernel just assumes what is what, i know for a fact that the kernel incorrectly identifies my modem which i hardcode to IRQ9 (IRQ2) and it detects the incorrect I/O address as well (forget it off hand i dont have access to the machine from here). during the 5 hour process of trying to get 3 com ports working on different irqs and different I/o addresses i read that. as a result of the misdetection i have to use setserial manually to reconfigure the serial port on the modem found it.. in the setserial manpage, if this is incorrect it should be fixed(?) [from setserial manpage] During the normal bootup process, only COM ports 1-4 are initialized, using the default I/O ports and IRQ values, as listed below. (...) The standard MS-DOS port associations are given below: /dev/ttyS0 (COM1), port 0x3f8, irq 4 /dev/ttyS1 (COM2), port 0x2f8, irq 3 /dev/ttyS2 (COM3), port 0x3e8, irq 4 /dev/ttyS3 (COM4), port 0x2e8, irq 3 [end excerpt] nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:04am up 90 days, 18:38, 1 user, load average: 2.12, 1.92, 1.84
Re: Cross-compiling on Debian systems?
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Erik Mouw wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 19:52:42 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Ben Collins wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 02:48:55PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to set up a cross-compiler on my Lintel (AMD 266) to compile packages for my Sparc IPX. I'd preferably like to package the cross-compiler so I can esaily remove it if I no longer need it. The only cross-compiler in the slink packages list is for m68k. What do I need to do to set one up? The last cross-compiler I built (for kernel compiles) was using the m68k cross-compiler package. I just changed the m68k references to sparc, and ran dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot (change all of the m68k references in debian/ to sparc). I just did a 'debian/rules binary' in 'gcc-m68k-linux-2.8.1' after changing 'm68k' to 'sparc', and I get a build error. Looks like the gcc buildstrap isn't working. make bootstrap doesn't work for cross compilers, have a look at the cross gcc FAQ: http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/ . How was the package suppsed to build itself then, by hand? *g* ./xgcc -B./ -DCROSS_COMPILE -DIN_GCC-O2 -I./include -I. -I. \ -I./config -g0 \ -finhibit-size-directive -fno-inline-functions -fno-exceptions \ -c ./crtstuff.c -DCRT_BEGIN -o crtbegin.o as: option `-s' is ambiguous make[1]: *** [crtbegin.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `gcc-m68k-linux-2.8.1' make: *** [build] Error 2 I get the exact same error if I use dpkg-buildpackage. I don't know enough about building gcc to know what's wrong. And this is the source package from ftp.ca.debian.org (us.debian.org not responding to me through lynx for some reason) Looks like you're using the native binutils instead of cross binutils. I also found out I need the binutils-m68k-linux package, and that's being downloaded as I type.. I can't get the cross' binutils-sparc (package hacked from binutils-m68k) to build. dpkg-gencontrol -Pdebian/tmp/binutils -pbinutils-sparc-linux dpkg-gencontrol: error: source package has two conflicting values - binutils-sparc-linux and binutils-m68k-linux make: *** [binary-arch] Error 29 I edited all the references in debian/* from m68k' to sparc', and I don't know enough about the package to even guess what else might need to be tweaked. You also need libc and kernel header files for the target system. The kernel has to be configured for the target system, but that can be done on the build host. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2785859 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/
get info on installed debian system
How can I get version info etc. about the dist of debian that is already installed on a machine? Thanks Evan
Re: TCP (over ppp) problem with kernel 2.2.x
On 18 Nov 1999, Miles Bader wrote: miles Hi, I have a problem which is driving me crazy: If I use a 2.2.x kernel miles (as opposed to 2.0.36), I can't make any network connections (over my miles ppp link) that require tcp. In other works, non-tcp net stuff, like miles ping or dns lookup, work fine, but telnets just hang. check the routing table? 2.2.x handles initialization of routes slightly differently, although ive never had any probs going from 2.0 to 2.2 (just upgraded 2 machines yesterday. and what kernel are you using? exactly ? check your firewall rules too.. that ipmasq package has been nothin but trouble for me, pisses me off :) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:04am up 90 days, 18:38, 1 user, load average: 2.12, 1.92, 1.84
Re: How to savely copy a disk?
| my harddisk is on the edge (still dma/ irq errors). Is there an easy way | to copy all partitions (Vfat WinNT/ Debian Linux/ Linux Swap) to new one | without reinstalling all things? In my experience these dma/irq errors don't necessarily mean that your hd is about to die. I had these with some older hard disks and they (the errors) vanished when i turned off DMA data transfers (there is an option in the kernel configuration for that, or you could use hdparm). ext2 partitions can easyly moved along with tar, and for swap partitions it makes no sense to copy them. vfat/winNT partitions seem to me mor tricky (I've never did that) I've used cp -a to transfer both ext2 and vfat filesystems without any problems. I don't know if there are some risks in copying open files, anyway i played it safe and booted from cdrom before copying. Hope this helps Matthias
Re: Cross-compiling on Debian systems?
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Ben Collins wrote:
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 02:38:26PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 19:52:42 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
./xgcc -B./ -DCROSS_COMPILE -DIN_GCC-O2 -I./include -I. -I. \
-I./config -g0 \
-finhibit-size-directive -fno-inline-functions -fno-exceptions \
-c ./crtstuff.c -DCRT_BEGIN -o crtbegin.o
as: option `-s' is ambiguous
make[1]: *** [crtbegin.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `gcc-m68k-linux-2.8.1'
make: *** [build] Error 2
I get the exact same error if I use dpkg-buildpackage. I don't know enough
about building gcc to know what's wrong. And this is the source package
from ftp.ca.debian.org (us.debian.org not responding to me through lynx
for some reason)
Looks like you're using the native binutils instead of cross binutils.
Installing binutils-multiarch and compiling a native gas handles this.
MM. binutils-multiarch and dpkg-cross are in slink for Sparc, but are
only in potato for i386. Time to compile, most likely.
I'll try this stuff out and then get back to the lists if I have any
further problems.
But let me make sure I have this one right. I need to compile an
i386-binary gas that will compile for sparc?
I also found out I need the binutils-m68k-linux package, and that's being
downloaded as I type..
You also need libc and kernel header files for the target system. The
kernel has to be configured for the target system, but that can be done on
the build host.
Install dpkg-cross and convert the native sparc libc6 and libc6-dev
packages. This will install them into /usr/sparc-linux/{include,lib} for
the cross-compile.
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Re: PPP problems on potato
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 09:28:34AM +0100, Onno wrote: I'm not an expert on this bit I have an idea... Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Serial connection established. Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Using interface ppp0 Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1 Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Here the error starts, the next line drops your connection. Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: Connection terminated. Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0 Nov 17 21:29:47 debian pppd[137]: Exit. Your link expects probably an 8N1 setting but finds a 7 somthing setting. Again I'm not an expert on this... What do these lines mean? How can they be corrected? Did someone experience the same difficulties on potato installation? I get these occasionally. AFAICT, it is the result of the ppp negotiation with your ISP failing. It could very well indicate a problem at the ISP end of the link, however. Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
