Re: Hint: slow Netscape
I recently wondered why my Netscape is so slow to start. I found that some Debian packages adds entries to /etc/mailcap many times and Netscape is *very slow* in processing them. You can find out what has installed itself into /etc/mailcap by running the command: install-mime --list Netscape is slow because it runs all the test conditions at startup. It runs them incorrectly, too, thus causing many of the test conditions to fail. I do not know yet the fundamental problem but I guess that I am not the only one. If your Netscape is even slower than you could expect, check the file. There should be just one copy of each lines. And Netscape is still faster if you remove lines you do not think to use. Removing them from /etc/mailcap is not a solution. The next time a package installs itself there, that file will be regenerated with all the lines intact. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel 2.0.25 expected for Debian 1.2
The fix for X slowness under kernel 2.0.24 was tracked down to a networking bug (thanks to Winfried Truemper for bringing this to my attention). That means that there will be a 2.0.25 soon. When the dust settles I'll build a boot disk for 1.2 . Thanks Bruce Bruce Perens K6BP -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Moving files to a new partition. Please help.
My friend and I have installed debian, but he has not signed up to this list. He just got a new larger hard drive for debian, and wanted to move his installed setup onto the new one. I have the old one mounted as root, and the new one mounted on '/mnt'. I have run mkfs on the new HD. I need to know how to copy the files from the old to the new, without having and links destroyed, and without entering the neverending loop with regards to '/mnt/mnt/mnt/...'. All attempts that I have done have resulted in files that links pointed being copies, instead of just making a link, and having '/mnt' copied recursively. Thanks ahead of time for your help. Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/Siliconvalley/Park/6562/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Moving files to a new partition. Please help.
Hi Adam, You wrote: Adam Adam My friend and I have installed debian, but he has not signed up Adam to this list. Adam Adam He just got a new larger hard drive for debian, and wanted to Adam move his installed setup onto the new one. I have the old one Adam mounted as root, and the new one mounted on '/mnt'. I have run Adam mkfs on the new HD. Adam Adam I need to know how to copy the files from the old to the new, Adam without having and links destroyed, and without entering the Adam neverending loop with regards to '/mnt/mnt/mnt/...'. All Adam attempts that I have done have resulted in files that links Adam pointed being copies, instead of just making a link, and having Adam '/mnt' copied recursively. Adam Adam Thanks ahead of time for your help. Adam 'cp -a' will do it i.e do the folowing: --- cd / cp -a boot bin sbin usr dev etc home lib root sbin usr var mnt/ mkdir /mnt/proc mkdir /mnt/tmp --- hope that helps borik d879e90x8 P.S Don't try to cp /proc just create it in /mnt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing Tex,Latex, etc.
On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: Hello, I'm new to Tex and Latex and would like to install it to learn more about it. However, after getting my machine configured, I tried to do an ftp install. This worked for the most part, except for a few packages that were in the Packages file but not on ftp.debian.org or ftp.caldera.com. What really bit the dust was texbin and latex. First, texbin choked on its postinstall script. I checked and it wasn't even doing anything! It gave an error 139. But when I ran it by hand, everything worked fine. So, I changed the post-inst to just echo I did this by hand, and dpkg --configure texbin worked fine. I'm not sure this was a good idea though. The next thing to install was latex. This started going fine, but quickly filled up my disk with the latex.log file. This was growing larger than 400mb! I had to CTL-C out of it. I wound up uninstalling latex and all related components (dselect kicks ass). Bad idea I think in fact... TeX needs all to be well configure... Install the base font, the mf font, the mflib, etc... The only package I doesn't catch how to install is auctex... he always throw me an error in the installation script. Good luck. --- Little Billy goes to the zoo: Looks mom! an elephant like those on the Internet! === Fabien Ninoles aka Baggus Mage || Not knowing where you go [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| always lead you to a http://www-edu.gel.usherb.ca/ninf01 || Baggus End... --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fixed: Latex, Tex, PCMCIA
Hello, PCMCIA: Thanks to everyone who helped me get this stuff working. Brian and Luis got me past the PCMCIA sestup with a little hand holding. It seems that I answered the question about being connected to a network yes which meant the networking got configured at boot time in /etc/init.d/network. This script gets run before the PCMCIA stuff gets setup, so when the PCMCIA stuff gets setup, the routes, gateway, etc are already set, and things get confused (at least they did for me). The solution I used was to remove the setup info from /etc/init.d/network and put it in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts (thanks Brian). The rest of the problems regarding latex, tex, etc. were resolved when I upgraded to libc5_5.4*. Now I just need to get X working with this laptop docked! Thanks everybody. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- *** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. *** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] From miss Received: from mongo.pixar.com (138.72.50.60) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 8 Nov 1996 02:58:57 - Received: (qmail 18524 invoked from smtpd); 8 Nov 1996 02:45:58 - Received: from primer.i-connect.net (HELO master.debian.org) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by mongo.pixar.com with SMTP; 8 Nov 1996 02:44:38 - Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Thu, 7 Nov 1996 21:45:44 -0500 From: Ami Ganguli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Ganguli Consulting Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org, Jason Kusnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Moving files to a new partition. Please help. References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: ZPDHI2.0.di6.Q6gWo@master.debian.org Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/1632 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Priority: non-urgent Importance: low Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adam Heath wrote: I need to know how to copy the files from the old to the new, without having and links destroyed, and without entering the neverending loop with regards to '/mnt/mnt/mnt/...'. All attempts that I have done have resulted in files that links pointed being copies, instead of just making a link, and having '/mnt' copied recursively. Try cp --archive. Works great! ... Ami. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing Tex,Latex, etc.
On Thu, 07 Nov 1996 21:13:09 EST. Fabien Ninoles wove together: [ Bad idea I think in fact... TeX needs all to be well configure... [ Install the base font, the mf font, the mflib, etc... The only package I [ doesn't catch how to install is auctex... he always throw me an error in [ the installation script. I was messing with this one tonight. I figured out that you need to add (require 'tex-site) at the end of the /etc/emacs/site-start.el Then you can run the auctex-auto-load script Further up and Further on... -- The AtticKeeper: David Morris mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending... -- Unknown --- The Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.netins.net/showcase/nerdnosh The Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ PGP Public Key available via Finger --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Name Server
On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, M. Filizzi wrote: I finaly got ppp working but now I can't get it to telnet anywhere except for the places in /etc/hosts file, I did set the DNS in the resolv.conf and well it still wouln't let me go to anywhere else... it wouln't let me view web pages other then the ones at those places... and it's the same with ftp... any suggestions? Fizz Here is my /etc/resolv.conf The first name server is my own DNS server for my network. nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver 204.254.251.3 nameserver 198.6.1.1 nameserver 192.48.96.22 domain dsnc.net and here is my host.conf *(IMPORTANT!!)* order bind hosts multi on -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: accessing files over serial cable?
Yes, it is called PPP. You make a PPP connection over the serial line and you access the host on the other end of the cable via NFS or FTP or any other network means. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Rulnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a simple way to access a linux filesystem over a serial cable? For example, I would like to run dselect from my laptop and access files residing on mounted partitions of my desktop linux system. Thank you. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Window Setup Concerns
Hi Gang! I've finally gotten to the point where I'm about to install the SVGA server package on my system and after aborting one attempt decided I'd best check to see what the right settings are for my monitor. I'm a bit concerned about accidentally frying the system (or installing it in a very non-optimized state). I have a very old Forefront monitor (14) that came with my Zeos computer that I'd like to use. In the manual it gives the following information: Horizontal Scan Frequency: 31.468 kHz, 35.52 kHz, 35.16 kHz, 35 kHz Vertical: 60Hz/70Hz, 87Hz (interlaced), 56Hz, 67 Hz Resolution: 640x350/640x480/720x400/800x600/1024x768 My questions are: Can I use the standard response options given during the server installation process or do I need to devise some specific files to deal with the discreet horizonal scan frequencies given? What would be the best settings given the information listed for this monitor? Thanks again for your very kind help! Dennis P.S. - I am using a SpeedStar Plus VGA card (unaccelerated ET4000) and have 8 megs of motherboard memory. - Vermont Rep. Bernie Sanders (Independent - Socialist) won re-election with 56% of the total vote. This included over six of 10 moderate voters and a third of conservatives. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Libc5 woes
If I install any of the libc5-4-x packages my box has problems. But only when I am logged in as root. An extract from my dselect script: Version 2.10-8 of setserial already installed, skipping. Version 1.3-11 of sysklogd already installed, skipping. Version 1.20-0 of syslinux already installed, skipping. Version 7.48-3 of timezone already installed, skipping. Version 2.5-7 of util-linux already installed, skipping. Preparing to replace libc5 5.2.18-11 (using .../base/libc5_5.4.7-6.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc5 ... dpkg-deb (subprocess): failed to exec tar: Not a directory dpkg-deb (subprocess): failed to exec gzip -dc: Not a directory dpkg-deb: subprocess tar returned error exit status 2 dpkg: error processing /debian/development/binary-i386/base/shellutils_1.12-5.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 dpkg-deb (subprocess): failed to exec gzip -dc: Not a directory dpkg-deb (subprocess): failed to exec tar: Not a directory dpkg-deb: subprocess tar returned error exit status 2 dpkg: error processing /debian/development/binary-i386/base/textutils_1.19-1.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 installation script was interrupted. Press RETURN to continue. Many things do not work - it seems that anything involving a sub-shell will fail. Could be wrong here. But if I am logged in as username everything works normally. If I su to root everything still works. It is only as root that I have trouble. Downgrading libc5 to 5.2-18 fixes it. Avoiding root logins is not a solution as I get errors during boot. Any ideas? I'm an ex dos/Novell person and have no hope of fixing this on my own short of a complete re-install. Lindsay -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help
My friend help me install Debian on my machine. It works very well. But I cannot swap to Linux part after I quit from Win95. The message is that the memory is not sufficient. Can someone help solve this problem ? Furthermore, can we go to Win95 when we are in LInux part ? Thank you in advance. |Hongjin Chen |Electrical and Computer Engineering | | |University of Manitoba| |_|Winnipeg, MB | |[EMAIL PROTECTED] |CANADA R3T 5V6 | |_|__| -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
using dselect to install from both CD and FTP
How to use stuff from FTP and stuff from CD in the same dselect session: This is useful if you want to download new packages from a directory like non-free and have your CD satisfy dependencies of those packages. Download whatever you want from non-free, and put it in a directory. Use dpkg-scanpackages to make a Packages file for that directory. Get into dselect and select the mounted method. Say none to the first question. Answer the following queries, giving the paths to the directories you want to use on your CD, and the non-free directory you have created on your hard disk. This will break if you download packages that depend on more recent versions of other packages than the ones on your CD. I haven't tested this. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
installing .tgz's and Red Hat packages
Download the latest version of the debmake package from unstable and read man alien. Be aware that this is very little tested and you will be liable to hit bugs. Write to Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] about your experiences. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with xscreensaver xdm
Hi, I've installed xscreensaver and added line: xscreensaver -silent -timeout 5 -cycle 5 in the /etc/X11/Xsession. But it fails to start with message: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Error: Can't open display: :0 I use xdm to start X. If startx is used instead, everything is OK. Another strange thing with regard to xdm is that SHELL variable is not set. Any help is appreciated. Best regards. Zlatko __ Dr. Zlatko Rek | Phone:+386 61 177 3746 Jozef Stefan Institute | +386 61 177 3900 National Supercomputing Centre | Fax: +386 61 219 385 Jamova 39, P.O.BOX 300 | E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SI-1001 Ljubljana, SLOVENIA | http://www2.ijs.si/~rek/ __ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Libc5 woes
Look at some of the environment variables that are set when root logs in. Look especially at $SHELL and $PATH. Type alias and see if any well-known programs are aliased. These would be set by files like /root/.profile . Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lprng problems;
Hi folks. I'm experimenting with lprng on a client machine, the server is still running the normal BSD lpr/lpd for now. /etc/printcap says lp|bj20|epson printer :[EMAIL PROTECTED] ps|postscript :[EMAIL PROTECTED] This works fine for root; [7:56pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# lpq Printer: lp is [EMAIL PROTECTED] no entries [7:57pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# lpq -Pps no entries but not for a user; [7:58pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ lpq Printer: lp is [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/lpd: ps: Malformed from address silly's hosts.equiv says that hamishpc is allowed to use the printers. root can print fine to either queue from hamishpc. However the ps queue won't work for a vanilla user. lpr doesn't work either; [8:00pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ls | atp | lpr -Pps usr/sbin/lpd: ps: Malformed from address job 'cfA880hamishpc.rising.com.au' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed after 1 attempts Any suggestions would be appreciated. hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problems rebuilding hello
As an experiment (before working on a package myself) I am trying to rebuild the hello binary package. Source is from hello_1.3-13; running debian/rules build compiles fine, but debian/rules binary-arch gives, after a while, dpkg --build debian/tmp .. dpkg-deb: building package `hello' in `../hello_1.3-13_i386.deb'. dpkg-deb: maintainer script `postinst' has bad permissions 700 (must be =0555 and =0775) make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2 Seems a bit strange; 0555 = 700 = 0775 as far as I can see. [8:27pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/hello-1.3# ls -l debian/ total 15 -rw--- 1 root root 2561 Nov 8 20:22 changelog -rw--- 1 root root 612 Nov 8 20:22 control -rw--- 1 root root 2412 Nov 8 20:22 copyright -rw--- 1 root root 37 Nov 8 20:26 files -rw--- 1 root root 122 Nov 8 20:22 postinst -rw--- 1 root root 68 Nov 8 20:22 prerm -rwx--x--x 1 root root 2171 Nov 8 20:22 rules -rw--- 1 root root 33 Nov 8 20:26 substvars drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Nov 8 20:26 tmp thanks, Hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache config error
I think I may have found why people are so unhappy with the new release of the Apache httpd: when it moves the directories, they become owned by root, rather than the special user 'www-data'. The new directory that is created, /usr/lib/httpd, gets the permission of 700, which means that apache cannot access any cgi-bin scripts or icons in that directory. I hope this is useful information. Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Q: Can someone please explain to me the difference between Java and C? A: Java is an island north of Australia, whereas C is the Roman numeral for 100 - (Ken Nicolson, comp.lang.c) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems in HD after 'hard'ware upgrade
Hi After an hard upgrade of my PC (from DX4-100MHz to P133 -PCI - i430FX (I guess:)), I have noticed some problems in ext2 fs. I detected the problems after reading the /var/adm/message file, where some strange lines appear, as well as those bombing my console. They are: Nov 7 16:45:46 tucano kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:42): ext2_find_entry: bad entry in directory #24466: inode out of bounds - offset=0, inode=286610, rec_len=12, name_len=1 --- Nov 8 06:19:49 tucano kernel: free_one_pmd: bad directory entry 0004 Nov 8 06:19:57 tucano kernel: free_one_pmd: bad directory entry 0004 Nov 8 06:44:23 tucano kernel: free_one_pmd: bad directory entry 0002 PC configuration: P133 - PCI - i430FX - Pipelined cache 256k, 2HD's: hda: QUANTUM TRB850A, 810MB w/96kB Cache, LBA, CHS=823/32/63, DMA hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALL1280A, 1222MB w/83kB Cache, LBA, CHS=621/64/63, DMA Diamond Stealth 2MB DRAM Some hint? []s, mario Mario O.de Menezes - oo-O-oo- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Nuclear and Energetic Research Institute - IPEN-CNEN/SP | | BRAZIL - fone (+55) 011-816.9175 fax (+55) 011-8l6.9188 | | http://tucano.ipen.br - http://www.ipen.br/~mario/mario.html | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems rebuilding hello
As an experiment (before working on a package myself) I am trying to rebuild the hello binary package. Source is from hello_1.3-13; running debian/rules build compiles fine, but debian/rules binary-arch gives, after a while, dpkg --build debian/tmp .. dpkg-deb: building package `hello' in `../hello_1.3-13_i386.deb'. dpkg-deb: maintainer script `postinst' has bad permissions 700 (must be =0555 and =0775) make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2 Seems a bit strange; 0555 = 700 = 0775 as far as I can see. [8:27pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/hello-1.3# ls -l debian/ total 15 -rw--- 1 root root 2561 Nov 8 20:22 changelog -rw--- 1 root root 612 Nov 8 20:22 control -rw--- 1 root root 2412 Nov 8 20:22 copyright -rw--- 1 root root 37 Nov 8 20:26 files -rw--- 1 root root 122 Nov 8 20:22 postinst -rw--- 1 root root 68 Nov 8 20:22 prerm -rwx--x--x 1 root root 2171 Nov 8 20:22 rules -rw--- 1 root root 33 Nov 8 20:26 substvars drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Nov 8 20:26 tmp thanks, Hamish It is probably meant to be compared digit by digit: 0 = 0 = 0, 5 = 7 = 7, but 5 != 0 = 7. ^ Note the NOT operation. I don't know why the permissions must be rx for all, however. Either it's a bug in the hello package or a bug in dpkg, I dare say. Courageous, MartinS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Weird NFS/automounter problem.
I have set my Debian Linux box up with the sutmounter so that I can access all the machines on my local network. After I boot the machine, all this works fine. I can change directory to /net(name_of_machine) and see everything. But over night something weird happens. First I get the folowing error message: NFS server [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/net not responding, still trying. And I can't get to any of the automounted drives. Rebooting fixes this. The first time this happend I thought it was related to having rebooted the target mahcin, but It's now happening every night even though the only machine that has been rebooted is the Linux machine. Any ideas. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead...Henry Spencer (c) 1996 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
EROLS IS Provider access problem
Has anyone been able to establish a PPP connection with Internet Service provider EROLS.COM under Linux. For DOS-Windows EROLS uses the SHIVA PPP, which works fine. It uses dynamic addressing for both LOCAL and REMOTE But establishing the same connection under LINUX, trying to use DIP or PPPD has still been unsuccessful. Static SLIP under Linux to a prior provide was not a problem. I could provide several details, but though I'd first see if someone had an effective connection with EROLS. Marv Stodolsky -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: non frees on CD
Thomas Degner writes: Tom However, using 'deselect' i cannot use *different* Tom source media during *one* deselect session. I.e. Tom i cannot say look for 'buzz' on CD and for 'non-free' Tom on my hard drive /zip drive. There used to be a time when you could select a special menu entry which would allow you to specify a directory for every kind of package: contrib, non-free, ... I haven't used dselect for a long time now so I don't know if it disappeared. kai -- I wonder why nobody don't like me, or is it de fact dat I'm ugly? -- Harry Belafonte -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: non frees on CD
Kai Grossjohann wrote: Thomas Degner writes: Tom However, using 'deselect' i cannot use *different* Tom source media during *one* deselect session. I.e. Tom i cannot say look for 'buzz' on CD and for 'non-free' Tom on my hard drive /zip drive. There used to be a time when you could select a special menu entry which would allow you to specify a directory for every kind of package: contrib, non-free, ... You can do that. Just mout media yourself and say mounted in the source menu. Then just specify locations of all parts. Easy. Pawel. -- Pawel T. JochymInstitute of Nuclear Physics e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cracow, Poland tel. 37-02-22 ext. 269 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pppd problems
Help! (-: I've installed versions of netbase and pppd from the unstable/ hierarchy on ftp.debian.org. Originally, I also had diald, though I never used it or even really looked at it. I got PPP working, even managing to finger myself from another machine, so I decided to finish off by using dselect to purge diald. Since then, all the PPP stuff still appears in the boot sequence messages as usual, but now I get: # pon Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support (from pppd, I think) # lsmod Module:#pages: Used by: slip 20 bsd_comp 10 ppp5[bsd_comp] 0 slhc 2[slip ppp] 0 sound 170 serial 71 lp 20 isofs 50 nfs 124 vfat 30 cdrom 10 xd 30 # kerneld starts when it should, and I've no idea why purging diald should have stopped pppd from working. I've tried reinstalling netbase, netstd and ppp with no change in the problem, and I don't see how rebuilding my kernel could help when it used to work and clearly still thinks it has PPP in it. Does anyone have any idea what might have gone wrong? Many thanks indeed, Mark -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppd problems
# pon Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support (from pppd, I think) AFAIK is this a 2.0.24 Kernel problem, since others reported that, too. Greetings Bernd -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppd problems
In your email to me, Bernd Eckenfels, you wrote: # pon Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support (from pppd, I think) AFAIK is this a 2.0.24 Kernel problem, since others reported that, too. Then there are systems like buoy.com that are running 16 ports with ppp and no problem with 2.0.24... shrug Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps The squeaky wheel gets the grease, but gets changed at the next opportunity if it squeaks habitually. ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: accessing files over serial cable?
Is there a simple way to access a linux filesystem over a serial cable? For example, I would like to run dselect from my laptop and access files residing on mounted partitions of my desktop linux system. Someone else mentioned PPP, and he's right. However, if you just want to acces your labtop, I find PLIP to be much faster and easier. There's a file in the kernel (plip.c) with some docs on how to make a paralell NULL modem cable, and connect the two systems. You'll get about 30k/s, as opposed to, I guess, at most 28 bits/s with serial lines. -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Docs for cron.daily?
I've been unable to locate any information on how to make changes to _when_ cron.daily runs. Can anyone point me to some documentation or tell me how to specify a specific time? Thanks, -- Lamar Folsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~fols9488 Life is wasted on the living. - The Master -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unidentified subject!
Hello all ... Some idiot here has given me a vax! Specifically a 4100. Anyway I have no desire to run VMS - but I would consider running any form of a free Linux / unix on it. Q: is there a version of linux available for this platform ??? if there is no linux distrib available - does anybody have any other suggestions. IM NOT GOING TO RUN VMS OR ULTRIX - i don't have the funds to pay for the licenses ... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Docs for cron.daily?
In your email to me, Lamar Folsom, you wrote: I've been unable to locate any information on how to make changes to _when_ cron.daily runs. Can anyone point me to some documentation or tell me how to specify a specific time? /etc/crontab Read it... it'll be self evident Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps The squeaky wheel gets the grease, but gets changed at the next opportunity if it squeaks habitually. ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SCSI Hard disk not detected.
Hello, I am a installing Linux for the first time. The log file after booting from the Bootdisk and rootdisk shows like this: 4Console: 16 point font, 400 scans 4Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63) 4pci_init: no BIOS32 detected 4Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 33.18 BogoMIPS 4Memory: 14936k/16672k available (756k kernel code, 384k reserved, 596k data) 4This processor honours the WP bit even when in supervisor mode. Good. 6Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0 6NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.12 for Linux NET3.035. 4Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034 4IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP 5VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized 4Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting. 4Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok. 4Linux version 2.0.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2) #1 Mon Jun 10 18:52:32 CDT 1996 6Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled 6tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A 6tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A 6PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed. 4Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 49152K size 4hda: CD-ROM CDU55E, ATAPI CDROM drive 4ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 6Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M 4Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2 6FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 4scsi : 0 hosts. 4scsi : detected total. 4Partition check: 5VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into ramdisk and press ENTER 7VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:1c 5RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 6JAVA Binary support v1.01 for Linux 1.3.98 (C)1996 Brian A. Lantz 4VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem). 7VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:00 The configuration of the PC is It has got 2 hard disks SCSI ID#4 MAXTOR 7213-SCSI Drive C: SCSI ID#6 CONNER CFP1080S Drive D: It has got Host Apadter AHA1542CF Host Adapter is present at port #230 The setting for it are: IRQ 11 DMA Channel5 SCSI ID7 SCSI Parity Checking Enabled DMA Transfer Rate 5.0 MB/sec SCSI Termination Enabled I have win95 on the C: drive and would like to install Linux on E: drive which is the logical partition of the second disk. Since the log file says that SCSI : 0 hosts detected it is not recognizing the hard disks. With this kind of configuration what shall I do next such that I can partition the disk for the Linux native. I tried to go through the document SCSI-HowTo but could not get anything out of it. ~ Thanks and regards Harsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Docs for cron.daily?
cron.daily, etc run at the times specified in the file /etc/crontab . The format's pretty obvious, basically MINUTE, HOUR, DAY OF MONTH, MONTH, DAY OF WEEK, with a * meaning run always. # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab # Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab' # command to install the new version when you edit this file. # This file also has a username field, that none of the other crontabs do. SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin # m h dom mon dow usercommand 42 6 * * * rootrun-parts /etc/cron.daily 47 6 * * 7 rootrun-parts /etc/cron.weekly 52 6 1 * * rootrun-parts /etc/cron.monthly * * * * * rootatrun -d -l 0.5 Thus, by default, cron.daily is run at 6:42am everyday, cron.weekly as 6:47am every Sunday and cron.monthly at 6:52 every 1st of all months. Hope that helps, Graeme -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mkwhatis?
How do i generate a whatis database in Debian Linux? P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/ Here is the shell script that I use for this. Note that its not terribly intelligent about what it does. It just rebuilds everything in my MANPATH. - cut here - #!/bin/sh # # create 'whatis' directory file in man directories DIRS=$MANPATH IFS=: if [ $DIRS = ]; then echo No MANPATH specified. exit 1 fi for d in $DIRS; do if [ $d != ~/man ]; then cd $d whatis -M $d -w \* | sort $d/whatis fi done -- Lamar Folsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~fols9488 Life is wasted on the living. - The Master -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Virtual host support for smail aliases?
Hallo Joe Emenaker Does smail support virtual hosts for its aliases? For example, would it work to have an aliases file like so: postmaster: root webmaster: jdoe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: client1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: client2 If this isn't supported, does anyone know of any mail trasnports that *do* support this? hmmm smail support these things if you have separate ip# for each virtual host ... read the documentation in the smail-3.2 source ... if you only have different names for one ip#.. hmmm ... (write me ... I can send you information about it) ... i'll add it to the next smail-3.2 debian-release coming next week... regards Soenke -- Soenke Lange Wohnheim Artillerieweg Netzwerkverwaltung -- I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. -- Isaac Asimov -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppd problems
# pon Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support (from pppd, I think) AFAIK is this a 2.0.24 Kernel problem, since others reported that, too. Ack! sigh I wonder why purging diald started it off not working - how intriguing. Do you know of any work-arounds? Will a different version of pppd work? I do hope I don't have to change my kernel... (having never done such a thing before, as I've never run Debian on a particular system long enough for one to get badly out of date) If I have to change my kernel version, can anyone suggest the easiest and most painless way? I guess I'll have to make a new bootdisk, too. Hmm... off to find a debian-bugs archive, in case anything handy's there, though I didn't notice anything about this last time I looked. -- Mark (most of whose experience is still to come, it seems) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mkwhatis?
Hi, How do i generate a whatis database in Debian Linux? I dont have the whole Mail with the question, but in Debian you dontneed to run mkwhatis. mandb is building its own database for apropos and whatis everytime new pages are detected. Of course yu can rerun mandb to rebuild this index. Greetings Bernd -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mkwhatis?
Hi, How do i generate a whatis database in Debian Linux? I dont have the whole Mail with the question, but in Debian you dontneed to run mkwhatis. mandb is building its own database for apropos and whatis everytime new pages are detected. Of course yu can rerun mandb to rebuild this index. Greetings Bernd You don't need mkwhatis for Debian's man implementation, but TkMan complains about not having a 'whatis' database. Just to make it stop complaining, I put that script together. -- Lamar Folsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~fols9488 Life is wasted on the living. - The Master -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mkwhatis?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do i generate a whatis database in Debian Linux? P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/I just suffered through this problem recently. Read your WHATIS and MANPATH documentation first. BASH_PROFILE in the Debian distribution comes without MANPATH specified. 1st run the supplied manpath executable. It will output a MANPATH to manually put into your BASH_PROFILE. Then doman whatis This documentation does specify a whatis Arguments which when implemented does build the whatis database. The command mkwhatis doesn't seen to exist in the Debian distribution. You also want this database setup before installing the TKMAN package or there will be warning messages on execution. Developers, Perhaps the WHATIS documentation should be edited to take our the misleading reference to the missing mkwhatis command, or for the default BASH_PROFILE to come with MANPATH specified. MarvS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: accessing files over serial cable?
Given that you have 16550A-compatible serial interfaces (or something else with a deep serial buffer), you should be able to go 115,200 bits per second over serial lines from one Linux to another. Get a Laplink cable from the computer store. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
too many open files?
Hi guys, I tried running apache and got back the too many open files error. How can I check/monitor the number of file descriptors being used?? Where do I change it if it needs to be increased? thanks. Ricardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: accessing files over serial cable?
Is there a simple way to access a linux filesystem over a serial cable? The simplest way I can think of is to use SLIP or PPP. It would be just like setting up a PPP server and a PPP dial-up, only no modem init strings and such. - Joe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Moving files to a new partition. Please help.
I need to know how to copy the files from the old to the new, without having and links destroyed, and without entering the neverending loop with regards to '/mnt/mnt/mnt/...'. All attempts that I have done have resulted in files that links pointed being copies, instead of just making a link, and having '/mnt' copied recursively. Well, the standard way (to me, anyway) to copy a tree to another location has been to use tar to archive to stdout and then have it unpack from stdin in another directory, like so: (cd /source/dir; tar -cf - . ) | (cd /dest/dir; tar -xpf -) The p in the -xpf is supposed to preserve permissions as much as possible on some versions of tar. I don't know what difference it makes, exactly, but preserve seems like something I'd want switched on when trying to transparently move a tree. If you want to watch the filenames go ripping by, you can use -xpvf to make the unpacking verbose. This method is nice because it retains symbolic links, pipes, device files... etc. It's great. Now, *YOUR* problem (which I've also run into in the past) is that you don't want all of the directories to be copied over. What's worked well for me in getting around this is to do an ls to get the filename, use egrep to filter out the ones you don't want, and then use xargs to put them onto tar's command line. So, you'd want something like this: (cd /; ls | egrep -v ^proc|mnt$ | xargs tar -cf - ) | (cd /mnt; tar -xpf -) Now, if you've got some other partitions mounted, you'll either want to unmount all partitions except root and the one in mnt, or you can exclude them in the egrep line, like: egrep -v ^prog|mnt|var|home|usr$ . You get the idea Hope this helps. If this works for you, I think someone might want to toss this into that Linux bag-o-tricks HOWTO that I read once Just a thought. - Joe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fvwm2-cde
Is anyone planning on packaging up the fvwm2-cde for debian? I've seen this running (on a sparc/Slowaris), and it looks great! Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Very Pete Townshendish. Who? Exactly. -- Anon ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can Debian install from a UMSDOS filesystem?
On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: I imagine that you can do this. During beta testing of 1.1, I copied the entire binary hierarchy to a DOS partiton. I mounted this partition and then ran dselect pointed at the appropriate binary directory. I don't think it matters if you use UMSDOS or any other mountable filesystem. You just need to know how to mount it. If necessary, you might need to execute the insmod command to load the appropriate filesystem support. Since UMSDOS support is a kernel configuration option, I figured it would depend on what support was compiled into the install kernel. (Bruce? :-) ...RickM... -- This message was distributed manually by [EMAIL PROTECTED] after the list initially failed to distribute it.
Installing packages from an MSDOS partition
You can pull the entire archive on to a straight MSDOS partition. That's why we provide an MSDOS area on the FTP system. After you get the system running, install dpkg-1.4.x.x.deb by hand, and then run dpkg-scanpackages on all of those packages. You can then use dselect to select and install them. Bruce -- This message was distributed manually by [EMAIL PROTECTED] after the list initially failed to distribute it.
Re: Installing packages from an MSDOS partition
On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: You can pull the entire archive on to a straight MSDOS partition. That's why we provide an MSDOS area on the FTP system. After you get the system running, install dpkg-1.4.x.x.deb by hand, and then run dpkg-scanpackages on all of those packages. You can then use dselect to select and install them. Thanks Bruce! I have my mirror on a UMSDOS filesystem. I was going to back it up with a DOS tape backup and restore to another machine. I guess I'll let my mirror make the MSDOS links, then back up those names instead. I thought maybe the install kernel had UMSDOS on it. ...RickM... -- This message was distributed manually by [EMAIL PROTECTED] after the list initially failed to distribute it.
Re: Travan Tape Drive Problems
Hi Dan -- You said: On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: The tapedrive is identified in win95 as a QIC3020. This is a SCSI tape drive. (I've seen it ONCE as IDE although..) ... Open up your case, and see what cable its attached too... Only use FTAPE if its hooked up through the floppy drive cable. (Slow!) Maybe there's more than one version of a QIC3020. My understanding is that QIC3020's are not SCSI tapes, but are controlled by a very fast floppy disk controller. The interface board from Exabyte provides the required performance if your on-motherboard system doesn't. If you do not have a sufficiently fast fdc and you are not using the Eagle96 interface board, then you have to use 3010 tapes (which have half the capacity) and you will write data at about one-quarter of the speed you'd otherwise get. Also, on Oct. 8, Bas Laarhoven wrote to comp.os.linux.hardware: Ftape-2.10 will be out R.S.N. It supports QIC-3020 at 2 Mbps and the Exabyte Eagle drive... HTH, Susan Kleinmann -- This message was distributed manually by [EMAIL PROTECTED] after the list initially failed to distribute it.
Re: Reading news offline
I have a dial-up connection to my ISP. I want to be able to read the usergroups offline. I have downloaded suck, inn and inews and also trn. After I have read their documentation and also the News-HOWTO, I still do not know how to do it. I can read news with trn and gnus, but only while I am connected to the ISP. I tried out suck. It made contact with the ISP's NNTP-server and did nothing further but complaining about not finding a history-file. When I use the -H (or is -h) option it stopped complaining but still did nothing. How can I download the newsgroups I want to subscribe and read them on my own system in my own time? It was a straight forward thing when I used Windows (even without reading a single bit of documentation). After a few hours of reading and experimenting in Linux, I had no success and I do not even know which road to travel. Thank you for your patience in the past. I trust you will be patient with me this time also. Johann Spies. -- sound like you need a special sofware to do it for you... i heard that the leafnode can do offline news reading... but i didn't try it b4 it is a include package from the dilinux distribution good luck -- This message was distributed manually by [EMAIL PROTECTED] after the list initially failed to distribute it.
RE: shadow password
In reply to the honourable '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' who said: Im sick of solaris x86, we want to migrate or user machine from solaris x86 to debian. The only problem is, i dont want to have to convert 500 passwd/shadow entries into debian passwd entries. Can debian (a package perhaps?) handle shadow? and is the solris encryption the same as the debian? im using debian v2.0.23 with shadow passwords and opie on top of that, no problems here running debian and shadow, except for one small glitch that sometimes happens. if you run pwconv it creates a new /etc/npasswd file with 600 mode, just change it to 644 after renaming it. -- +--+---+ | Software Engineer - C++ and SQL | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +--+---| -- This message was distributed manually by [EMAIL PROTECTED] after the list initially failed to distribute it.
Interesting idea (was: Apache config error)
I think I may have found why people are so unhappy with the new release of the Apache httpd: when it moves the directories, I ran into this problem when I tried to upgrade, too. The upgrade moved the log files from /var/log/apache-httpd to /var/log/apache. This caused my custom /etc/cron.weekly/apache script to look in the wrong place when it wanted to rotate the logs even after I downgraded to the stable apache. So, I had an idea (as, I sometimes do) What if packages came with a script called locations that would be in their directory in /etc. So, Apache would have a /etc/httpd/locations script. Basically, this would read something like: export LOGS=/var/log/apache export DOCS=/var/web/webspace export CGI=/var/web/cgi-bin etc... This allows for some nice things. For example, if I wanted to rotate my logs with /etc/cron.weekly/apache, I could just make the script something like so: . /etc/httpd/locations # Load ENV with location vars savelog $LOGS/* Or something like that. Also, for some packages, it would be possible to actually change where the programs are looking for and storing info by changing the locations script. Now, this probably wouldn't be possible with Apache since logfile and Document root locations are explicity in the config files. However, I think there *may* exist somewhere in this idea the ability to avoid more configuration change hassles than it would create. Any thoughts? - Joe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppd problems
Help! (-: [snip] # pon Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support (from pppd, I think) Okay, first off... this message is VERY misleading. What this really means is that the pppd was denied, and it's assuming that the kernel lacks support for it. In my case, it was that I was giving it the wrong tty to operate through, or something like that. So, if you're fairly sure you've got the support loaded, look for other things that could boosh pppd. The first thing I'd look at is something locking the tty you're trying to use - Joe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mkwhatis?
Sorry for being late, but I read debian-user-digest ... I have also missed a post with a script, I suppose as reading Bernd's reply on debian-devel. Paul Seelig wrote: How do i generate a whatis database in Debian Linux? the manpage for whatis says: To produce an old style text whatis database from the relative index database, issue the command: whatis -M manpath -w '*' | sort manpath/whatis where manpath is a manual page hierarchy such as /usr/man. The command /usr/bin/whatis and its manpage are installed by the 'man' package. The most recent version is rex/binary-i386/doc/man_2.3.10-13.1 I'm very sorry to say that the whatis manpage (in german) installed by manpages-de (and also the italian one :-( ) refers to a different version and is to be considered WRONG. I'll raise some bugs. Hope that this helps. Fabrizio -- +-+ | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://megabaud.fi/~fpolacco/ Join the UKI Linux Project! | | fingerprint 70 1A 72 2D 2B C8 A5 63 7A C2 CC E0 2A 54 AE DA | | finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] | +-+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] From miss Received: from mongo.pixar.com (138.72.50.60) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 8 Nov 1996 22:42:57 - Received: (qmail 11664 invoked from smtpd); 8 Nov 1996 22:18:46 - Received: from primer.i-connect.net (HELO master.debian.org) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by mongo.pixar.com with SMTP; 8 Nov 1996 22:17:07 - Date: Fri, 8 Nov 96 22:16:27 GMT Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Skreeg Brian Skreeg) To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: dpkg-ftp directories. Resent-Message-ID: KbaRN3.0.vA4.kHxWo@master.debian.org Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/1675 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Priority: non-urgent Importance: low Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quick one this. When using dpkg-ftp which directories do I want to scan to d'load things like the new Xfree863.2? stable contrib non-free unstable . That right? Ozzy, __ _ _ / \ \ \ / / / / / |-Brian SkreegIRC:_Ozzy-| \__/ \ \ |-Lead guitarist extraordinaire-| \__/_/ |-I don't look like two zombies-| -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Docs for cron.daily?
I remember seeing an entry for this in a normal crontab file. It must be in /etc or /var/spool/cron/root, or something like that. Simon Martin[EMAIL PROTECTED] Old software engineers never die, they just fail to boot Any Trademarks used in this document are recognized as Registered Trademarks of their respective owners. -- From: Lamar Folsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Docs for cron.daily? Date: 08 November 1996 11:16 I've been unable to locate any information on how to make changes to _when_ cron.daily runs. Can anyone point me to some documentation or tell me how to specify a specific time? Thanks, -- Lamar Folsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~fols9488 Life is wasted on the living. - The Master -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pppsetup
I've noticed alot of questions on this list have been about setting up PPP links. Here's a script I found that will (hopefully) make things a little easier for people. I myself have never used it (I'm on ethernet) but I hear it works quite nice. PS. I am NOT the author of this script... (cut here) #!/bin/sh ### # # PPPSETUP -- Script to set up pppd ### echo echo PPPSETUP echo echo You have to be root to run this procedure echo echo answer all that apply and leave blank what does echo not applyleave blank by hitting [enter] echo press [enter] read x clear if [ ! `whoami` = root ]; then echo You must be root to run this script. exit 1 fi while [ -z $PHONENUM ] do echo echo To begin setting up your PPP connection, I need to know a echo few things. For starters, what is the phone number of your echo Internet service provider? echo echo (Note: in the USA, use *70, [comma required!] to turn off call echo waiting.) echo echo -n Phone number : read PHONENUM if [ -z $PHONENUM ]; then echo You must enter a phone number! :) sleep 1 fi done if [ -e /dev/modem ]; then echo echo -n Found your modem...( echo -n `ls -l /dev/modem | cut -b56-80` echo ) echo DEVICE=/dev/modem else while [ -z $DEVICE ] do echo echo Secondly, what is the name of your modem device? echo echo 1) /dev/cua0 (COM1: under DOS) echo 2) /dev/cua1 (COM2: under DOS) echo 3) /dev/cua2 (COM3: under DOS) echo 4) /dev/cua3 (COM4: under DOS) echo echo -n Select device : read devnum case $devnum in 1) DEVICE=/dev/cua0 ;; 2) DEVICE=/dev/cua1 ;; 3) DEVICE=/dev/cua2 ;; 4) DEVICE=/dev/cua3 ;; *) echo Sorry, $devnum isn't a legal selection. ;; esac done fi while [ -z $BAUDRATE ] do echo echo What baud rate is your modem? echo echo0)115200(Ye-HAW!!! ) echo1) 38400(Hangin' ten on the 'net!) echo2) 19200(Better known as 14.4) echo3) 9600(Kinda pokey, ain'tcha? ) echo4) 2400(God help you. : ) echo echo -n Baud rate : read baudnum case $baudnum in 0) BAUDRATE=115200 ;; 1) BAUDRATE=38400 ;; 2) BAUDRATE=19200 ;; 3) BAUDRATE=9600 ;; 4) BAUDRATE=2400 ;; *) echo Sorry, $baudnum isn't a legal selection. sleep 1 ;; esac done echo echo What is the IP address of your Internet provider's nameserver? echo echo Note: Your service provider's technical support can provide you echo with this information. echo echo -n Nameserver IP : read DNSIP echo /etc/resolv.conf echo nameserver $DNSIP /etc/resolv.conf OLDDIR=`pwd` cd $HOME echo echo Now comes the tough part. :) I need to know what your echo dialup system prints to your screen, and I need to know what echo you respond with. echo echo ( End with '***') echo echo ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' '' ATDT$PHONENUM .pppscript while [ ! $MESSAGE = *** -a ! $YOUSAY = *** ] do echo -n Dialup server says : read MESSAGE if [ $MESSAGE = *** ]; then continue fi echo -n ...and you say : read YOUSAY if [ $YOUSAY = *** ]; then continue fi echo $MESSAGE $YOUSAY .pppscript done rm -f ppp-go echo #!/bin/sh ppp-go echo /usr/sbin/pppd connect '/usr/sbin/chat -f $HOME/.pppscript' defaultroute $BAUDRATE $DEVICE ppp-go chmod 755 ppp-go cd $OLDDIR echo echo To connect to your remote system, cd to your home directory ($HOME), and type: echo ./ppp-go echo echo Then wait 2 minutes or
Re: Virtual host support for smail aliases?
if you have separate ip# for each virtual host ... read the documentation in the smail-3.2 source ... if you only have different names for one ip#.. hmmm ... I don't see any reason why smail can't just look at the To: field in the header and look for any matching aliases that contain @s and then, failing that, look for any global matches. I *do* have separate IP's for each of our virtual hosts... but I still don't see why smail (or *any* MTA, for that matter) can't figure out what machine *name* it was addressed to and look for an alias that matches it explicitly, site name and all... - Joe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
