I keep getting the following message when trying to NFS mount any of the
exported filesystems.
mount clntupd_create: RPC: Program not registered
Check that on the nfs server that mountd is running. This one is usually
NOT started from inetd but instead is started from one of
Martin Str|mberg wrote:
Hello.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'm running OS/2 Warp with HPFS on several of my drives.
I noticed that Linux 1.1 fdisk reveals two different file system
identifiers for HPFS partitions:
/dev/sda5 id 7 OS/2 HPFS
/dev/hda2 id 17 Unknown
A couple of days ago, I wrote:
I fetch mail from my ISP using a line like:
popclient -3 -P ~/.my_password_file my_ISPs_mailhost
This mail is processed by my ~/.rules file, and messages which aren't
automatically refiled as a result of matching one of the rules are then
stored in the
After hearing all this stuff about viruses and password security I started
getting nervous, so I grabbed Crack 4.1 off of the net, compiled it, and
started running it over the password files of all the systems whose security I
care about. On the very small password file of my personal machine it
I discovered (more or less) what was happening, by a fluke experience!
I have another account at another ISP on which I had never previously
checked my mail til today. My user name at the other ISP is just susan.
Now, the likelihood that they've had (in the past) another user named susan
is
SNAP ON
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From: salwen[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 1996 1:23 AM
To: billy.chow
Cc: debian-user
Subject: Re: X11 and LaTeX minimal install
A minimal X (and LaTeX) installation requires several debian packages,
but most people either do not want X or want
Perhaps I misunderstand the dselect installation process, but I thought
that dselect unpacks the all selected packages before running the
installation and configuration scripts. If one configuration goes badly
wrong, doesn't this leave a bundle of unpacked and unconfigured packages
lying about?
Problem is, most of Arizona doesn't observe Daylight time.
Good old Slackware used to let me select US/Arizona, which
got things right.
You can get Arizona by using America/Phoenix (submenu 3 from
'tzconfig'). You should probably file two bug reports with the debian
bug tracking system (that
Hamish,
One thing I find a bit annoying with dselect/dpkg is the way it checks
the version of EVERY package when you pick Install. Last night I did
an NFS installation (and the remote source was from CD-ROM), and this
step was very slow. Can anything be done about this, eg trusting
the packages
SNAP ON
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From: Hamish Moffatt[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 1996 4:56 PM
To: debian-user
Subject: Re: kernel size
I like your suggestion of configuring packages as a separate step. The
option in dselect to 'configure remaining unconfigured packages' could
However, given the amount of problems seen recently on the list about
Netscape,
and matching the right debian Netscape package with the right Netscape tar
file, let me tell you how I do it for myself without netscape.deb package.
There are no problems. People just have to be a little
Hi all,
Following the thread about how to enhance dselect/dpkg to ease
re-installation, I would like to suggest my idea:
A menu item in dselect to store the present configuration on the
base diskettes.
One of the main uses for the root, boot and base
diskettes is in case there is serious
Background: Got and installed motifnls_2.1-1.deb and
netscape_3.0-beta6-1.deb. Got the right tar.gz file off of Netscape's
Well, you need libXpm. Which you can get in the xpm4.7 package.
netscape should probably be fixed to depend on this package.
Consider it done.
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Juha Ylitalo wrote:
XKEYSYMDB='/usr/local/lib/netscape/XKeysymDB'; export XKEYSYMDB
XNLSPATH='/usr/local/lib/netscape/nls'; export XNLSPATH
Do those XKeysymDB and XNLSPATH really provide something useful or have
you used them only because they are provided ?
The
SNAP ON
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From: James A. Robinson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 1996 2:48 AM
To: Christopher R. Hertel
Cc: debian-user
Subject: Re: Please explain Motif issues (was: StarOffice under Debian)
Can someone point me toward the FAQ or HOWTO that will explain
Hi Larry --
You said (ages ago, sorry):
Trying to install libtiff3-gif says it depends on libtiff3, but the
dependency listing says libtiff3 doesn't appear to be available.
What's the deal here and how can I fix it?
This means that the list of available packages in dselect's memory does
not
SNAP ON
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From: Bruce Perens[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 1996 9:34 PM
To: bruce; salwen; Happy Linux Users; Charles A. Schuman
Subject: Re: #1, make it boot! Engage.
From: Charles A. Schuman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# fdisk (then p)
Device Boot Begin Start End
I just picked up the LAN adapter mentioned in the subject; it
replaces a Cogent BusMaster 960 that sporadically locked up under
heavy load [ick!].
It works perfectly under my primary OS-- NEXTSTEP-- but I can't find
a driver that works for Linux. The driver that
The recent discussion of the Motif and lesstif libraries reminded me
of my desire to compile the `mp' and `mptool' programs. The source
code is available as
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/mpdist-3.3.2.tar.Z
`mp' provides pretty PostScript printing of mail messages, digests,
etc. I
SNAP ON
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From: Hamish Moffatt[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 1996 4:56 PM
To: debian-user
Subject: Re: kernel size
I like your suggestion of configuring packages as a separate step. The
option in dselect to 'configure remaining unconfigured packages' could
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
Can someone point me toward the FAQ or HOWTO that will explain the
issues with Motif? Why is Motif hard to come by and what is Lesstif?
Thnax!
Chris -)-
(Anybody should jump in here if I make a mistake)
Motif is a widget set
I just made the switch the debian distribution,
and I'm fairly impressed with it so far. However,
with the installation of the elm 2.4pl25-2
package, filter appears to be broken. It panics
when it tries to lock, reporting:
filter (Wed Aug 21 09:30:32 1996 eamon): Mailing message to
If you like, I'll email you a script to run through a file containing
filenames and permissions as set on my system and set the permissions
similarly on yours. This would cure most of your files. My installation
is quite new and I've made no radical permission changes, so it's safe
enough, I
I've seen many people mention that they manually dial their
ISP with minicom and manually suspend minicom, then manually
start pppd or whatever at each end.
The following is one way to automate this, free for your
enjoyment!
I've been using minicom's runscript for automating this
proceedure
renald loignon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Could someone knowledgeable in low-level kernel matters take a look at the
: following? I looked at the Web page, and though it sounds interesting
: overall (and it WOULD solve a serial problem I experienced with Debian 1.1.1
: and kernel 2.0.6), there
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Vebjoern Forsmo wrote:
/tmp
Several programs seems to prefer /tmp over /var/tmp. I have a 30MB /
partition, and only about 10MB space free on /tmp. This didn't work very
well while trying to restore a 50MB file from taper. (I've now mounted
100MB on /tmp to avoid
Several programs seems to prefer /tmp over /var/tmp.
/tmp should probably be a symbolic link to var/tmp .
I believe the way to do it is to have /tmp be a real directory in the
root filesystem, and then mount a larger filesystem over it later.
Programs that get run before /tmp is mounted over
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Miro Torrielli wrote:
John Houwen wrote:
Miro,
I appreciate your comments, but that is part of the problem ... smail
*won't* install unless sendmail is removed! At the same time, dpkg
refuses to remove sendmail unless smail is installed ... like Catch-22 :)
Hi Christian --
Your pe package sounds very interesting.
You asked:
It would be nice if someone can give me some hints about how it can be
included in the main distrib. Yes, I read all the FAQs/HOWTOs but they
seem pretty old and I didn't find any information.
If you get any version of dpkg
Recently, another company approached us requesting to take our domain name
from us. They claim they have it trademarked which we haven't really
investigated yet. Anyway, if we do have to change our domain name, we
might want to change it to 'opti-med.com'. Does anyone know if it is
legal to
Hi folks here's what I want to do:
I have a dos partition that I made of about 20megs that I put
DOS/WINDOWS install programs on.
so now I have 4 partitions one for WIN95, Linux, Linux-swap,and a Dos
partition.
I have read the help and information docs on dselect but could not find
or understand
I am reluctant to bring this up again, since I saw it just a few
months ago on this list, and didn't pay attention at the time. So,
at the risk of rehashing this problem (if that is what it is), I am
submitting it again since I am now having the same difficulty myself.
I am using the
diald will allow one to dial manually and start ppp w/out requiring minicom.
--
Todd Fries .. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Hamish --
You asked:
Will dselect still work with nothing but a local directory,
Sure. Just specify the local directory with option 1, Access method.
or should I just use dpkg by hand?
That would work too.
Regards,
Susan Kleinmann
Eric Query: Is there any way I can manually dial in, login, and initiat PPP,
Eric then ask 'pppd' to start?
There is a way using minicom,
[...]
but the cycle:
becoming root
issuing pppd
reading /var/log/messages
killing pppd
reissuing pppd with another
I've a friend who is installing debian and he asked me to ask these questions..
why does the perl package depend on csh?
why does 'libc-dev' have a conflicting dependency with 'libc5' ?? It won't
let him install libc5-dev for some odd reasion.
--
Todd Fries .. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Eddie --
You asked:
is there a record of pcmcia packages that use 2.0.6 kernel. the new one
expects the 2.0.7 kernel and I need the older one.
I'm not sure, but the general answer is:
should I just upgrade my kernel?
Yes.
is this hard to to?
No.
Go to any Linux FTP archive.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hi!
I just installed the whole tex stuff. I now am trying to configure it
to make the fonts for my Epson Stylus 800 printer.
I've changed the dvips-file config.ps:
D 360
M epstylus
and added to Metafont's modes.mf
mode_def epstylus = %
From: Casper BodenCummins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perhaps I misunderstand the dselect installation process, but I thought
that dselect unpacks the all selected packages before running the
installation and configuration scripts. If one configuration goes badly
wrong, doesn't this leave a bundle of
Hi i just grabbed the unstable apache package. I tried to install it
and it wouldnt because it need libc5 and libdbgm1 (?). I grabbed these
packages installed libc5 and then tried installing libdbgm1, guess what,
libdbgm1 wont intsall because it wants version libc5-16 while i have
libc5-18.
I am trying to install the 7-14-96 debian release on a machine
with over 500 megabytes on an IDE hard disk. I want to have a DOS
partition and a linux partition. At present fdisk shows:
Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda111 356
Anyone here on the Debian-L know the secrets of using the ipfwadm
utility to set up masquerading? I've built a kernel with the proper
options but I'm concerned about whether I'm really masquerading, or
just forwarding packets. How do I prove it? There was a recent LJ
article on using
Well, it would seem that the problem is that the libtiff package is
not in the released version, only the unstable. So installing the
stable version sort of failed to find the libtiff package :)
Thanks for the response tho :)
-Larry
--
Larry Daffner| Linux: Unleash the workstation
Susan G. Kleinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Suggestion: if you have a SCSI tape drive, you might wish to check that
you can read from it, and/or you might wish to upgrade your kernel.
Here's a data point: I didn't have any problems reading my Exabyte
SCSI drive with 2.0.0 last night when
There is some new documentation that I think is essential for all
prospective Debian developers to read. It's in the dpkg_1.3.6 package,
which you can find in the project/experimental directory on our FTP
archives. Since this is unreleased developmental software, you might
not want to install it
Following the thread about how to enhance dselect/dpkg to ease
re-installation, I would like to suggest my idea:
A menu item in dselect to store the present configuration on the
base diskettes.
Or on a separate diskette reserved for that purpose...
Hi, im trying to install the apache package from unstable. The package
needs libc5 and libdbgm1 (i cant remember exatly what it was called:) i
found both lib packages after installing libc i tried installing libdb1,
guess what, this package wants libc5-16 i have libc5-18 (grr) where can i
get
Hi, im trying to install the apache package from unstable. The package
needs libc5 and libdbgm1 (i cant remember exatly what it was called:) i
found both lib packages after installing libc i tried installing libdb1,
guess what, this package wants libc5-16 i have libc5-18 (grr) where can i
get
In your email to me, Gerry Jensen, you wrote:
Recently, another company approached us requesting to take our domain name
from us. They claim they have it trademarked which we haven't really
Research it. IF you had the domain before they had the trademark, they
are SOL. Check with the
Pete Harlan writes:
I believe the way to do it is to have /tmp be a real directory in
the root filesystem, and then mount a larger filesystem over it
later. Programs that get run before /tmp is mounted over have the
limited space, and all others (i.e., just about everyone) see the
large
I have read the help and information docs on dselect but could not find
or understand what I should do to make this work.
Hi,
dpkg, is a manual version of dselect. dselect is simply a
user friendly interface to dpkg. I think the best way to find out more
about dpkg is to do
dpkg
On Thu, 22 Aug 96 00:28 BST, Ian Jackson wrote:
If you delete the `Packages' files, or fail to download them, dselect
will offer to scan the .deb files that are actually on your disk.
But, this method does not use the descriptions, or dependency lists,
either. I kind of like that information,
renald loignon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Could someone knowledgeable in low-level kernel matters take a look at the
: following? I looked at the Web page, and though it sounds interesting
: overall (and it WOULD solve a serial problem I experienced with Debian 1.1.1
: and kernel 2.0.6), there
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Vebjoern Forsmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Several programs seems to prefer /tmp over /var/tmp.
/tmp should probably be a symbolic link to var/tmp .
I too thought about doing it this way, but I'm a bit unsure about what
happens if the partition /var/tmp resides on
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Todd Tyrone Fries wrote:
why does the perl package depend on csh?
Perl uses 'csh' for filename globbing (that is, for *.* sort of
constructs.) Yes, that's strange behavior, and the dependency probably
will eventually be removed, but not anytime soon.
Andy Dougherty
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE wrote:
For myself (I have a look-alike partitions table), I prefer
to boot with a floppy and rerun LILO on my MBR. You will
set it by replacing your boot line by boot=/dev/sda who
will write on your sda MBR, in place of /dev/sda2 who
would write
Recently, I posted that I got these errors with my hard drive:
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2342358,
sector=2342294
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01, sector 2342294
It also crashed on occasion. Running
Hello Debian-world,
a small question: after a successful install of Debian by FTP, the cron
process generates a lot of output along the lines of runq: command not
found. I could not find it either. Is this a bug or a feature ? :-)
--
Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Please excuse the german prologe. Here's a warning concerning the actual
bash shell.
-- Forwarded message --
Nachfolgend an Sie weitergereichte Informationen bezueglich eines Problems
mit der bash-Shell erreichte uns von IBM ERS (ein Team, das kommerziell
Emergency Response
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Scott J. Geertgens wrote:
I keep getting the following message when trying to NFS mount any of the
exported filesystems.
mount clntupd_create: RPC: Program not registered
Check that on the nfs server that mountd is running. This one is usually
NOT
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:19:21 CDT Todd Tyrone Fries
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I've a friend who is installing debian and he asked me to ask these
questions..
why does the perl package depend on csh?
Duh, sure about that one ? Never seen it
why does 'libc-dev' have a conflicting
It seems like most ppp interface programs expect ppp-on and ppp-off or
up/down to be around. Since I assume this can be just like
/etc/init.d/ppp start|stop, would it be bad for me to create a C
wrapper program (suid root) to call start-stop-deamon on pppd? What
things do I have to watch out
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote:
might want to change it to 'opti-med.com'. Does anyone know if it is
legal to have a dash (-) in a domain name? If it is legal, could any
problems arise from it's use (like confusing mail readers)?
There are bazillions of them, like my old one:
I'm unfamiliar with filter and elm, so this may be on the wrong track.
Anyhow, I had a similar problem trying to use two mail user agents
simultaneously (on a Sun, as it happens). The first program had placed a
lock on the mailbox while the second program, using the same protocol,
saw the lock
Dashes are allowable, but you'll probably be refused the new name
because it's too similar to the old one. If it confuses a mail reader,
the mail reader's author should be shot.
Casper Boden-Cummins.
--
From: Gerry Jensen[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 21 August 1996 20:43
To:
Hi all,
I'm happily running Debian 1.1 with Kernel 2.0.10 on several different
machines here, but last week one of these began to show these messages (after
a crash due to a power failure):
EXT2-fs warning (device 16:01): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode
24481
EXT2-fs warning
I am considering to buy a 2940 Ultra Wide SCSI card. Does anyone
using it? Does the kernel support it yet?
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The reason for the question is this; the ipfwadm -M -l shows no masquerade
rule set.
My setup command is more or less like yours, and I can see my masquerade
rule set with 'ipfwadm -Fl', as it is shown with a msq type.
/___
/_
/___manuele ([EMAIL
Gerry Jensen wrote:
:
: might want to change it to 'opti-med.com'. Does anyone know if it is
: legal to have a dash (-) in a domain name? If it is legal, could any
: problems arise from it's use (like confusing mail readers)?
Read some RFC's or simply ask the DNS for e.g. `ardenne-at.de' ...
a small question: after a successful install of Debian by FTP, the cron
process generates a lot of output along the lines of runq: command not
found. I could not find it either. Is this a bug or a feature ? :-)
What kind of mail-transport agent are you using. On my system runq is
part of the
|
|
| a small question: after a successful install of Debian by FTP, the cron
| process generates a lot of output along the lines of runq: command not
| found. I could not find it either. Is this a bug or a feature ? :-)
|
|What kind of mail-transport agent are you using. On my system runq is
Hi Todd --
You said:
why does 'libc-dev' have a conflicting dependency with 'libc5' ?? It won't
let him install libc5-dev for some odd reasion.
dpkg --info libc5-dev_5.2.18-9.deb
yields
.
.
.
DEPENDS: libc5 (=5.2.18-9)
CONFLICTS: libc (4.6.27-11), libc-dev, pthreads-dev
PROVIDES: libc-dev,
Hi Bill --
You said:
One thing to think about is the blocksize. If you've run mt -f
/dev/st0 setblk 0 (which is good for reading tapes written by SunOS
and AIX I have found) you won't be able read tapes written with the
default block size (whatever that is) and vice-versa.
I
Hi Fun --
You said:
Hi i just grabbed the unstable apache package. I tried to install it
and it wouldnt because it need libc5 and libdbgm1 (?). I grabbed these
packages installed libc5 and then tried installing libdbgm1, guess what,
libdbgm1 wont intsall because it wants version libc5-16
I've a friend who is installing debian and he asked me to ask these
questions..
why does the perl package depend on csh?
You can glob filenames in perl
@filenames = *;
print @filenames;
But perl doesn't have the globbing built in. It actually calls csh to do
the magic for it.
why
Hi Charles --
I tried creating a subdirectory c:\linux in DOS, then from linux:
mkdir ./dos
mount /dev/hda1/linux ./dos
cp /boot ./dos
Your mount command (as given above) is making a DOS file system accessible
under a Linux directory. That seems unusual.
If you just
(couldn't mail directly to netcom.com)
Look at http://www.cheapbytes.com they hace a lot of linux stuff on the
cheap side. They also have other versions of Motif, that are a little
cheaper, but they don't really mention what the difference b/w them are.
Shaya
--
Shaya
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
Hello.
I am trying to install the 7-14-96 debian release on a machine
with over 500 megabytes on an IDE hard disk. I want to have a DOS
partition and a linux partition. At present fdisk shows:
Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda11
Hi,
# ipfwadm -F -i masquerade -P all -S 192.168.210.0/0 -D 0.0.0.0/0
this is OK.
The reason for the question is this; the ipfwadm -M -l shows no masquerade
rule set.
ipfwadm -M -l (or netstat -M) will only show you masqueraded connections,
not the rules. The rules are displayed with ipfwadm
SNAP ON
--
From: Charles A. Schuman[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 1996 11:52 PM
To: Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE
Cc: Happy Linux Users
Subject: No Subject
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE wrote:
For myself (I have a look-alike partitions table), I
SNAP ON
--
From: Daniel Lynes[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 1996 9:07 PM
To: Debian Users
Subject: Re: Non-existent .deb's
On Thu, 22 Aug 96 00:28 BST, Ian Jackson wrote:
If you delete the `Packages' files, or fail to download them, dselect
will offer to scan
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
There is some new documentation that I think is essential for all
prospective Debian developers to read.
The documentation is also available at:
http://chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk/~ian/policy.html/
http://chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk/~ian/programmer.html/
Note the
I'm really mazy from kernel headres in Debian distribution. I have installed
libc5, kernel_source and kernel_headers and I have 3 different headers!
I think old Slackware idea (/usr/include/{linux,asm,net} are links to
/usr/src/linux/include/{linux,asm,net}) is more better. I can simly upgrade
Bruce Perens wrote:
There is some new documentation that I think is essential for all
prospective Debian developers to read. It's in the dpkg_1.3.6 package,
Since this is unreleased developmental software, you might
not want to install it.
However, it's worth unpacking the
package
You only need to copy the kernel image to the DOS partition, for example:
cp /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.6 ./dos/vmlinuz
Then when you've booted DOS type (make a batch :-)
loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro
Or have alook at the loadlin documentation.
Some tips for advanced use of this boot
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