The ftp site I gave doesn't seem to be carrying the Linux
clients. You can get the Linux clients from
ftp://portal.stwing.upenn.edu:/pub/rc5
-or-
http://www.i-connec.net/
Sorry about the misinformation there..
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Howdy,
I have had two problems with dselect v.1.4.8 for a couple of months now and
I am at my wits end.
1) After I upgraded to 1.2, I have had a problem with packages that I select and
dselect silently ignores them. The three files that I have found are
'menu', 'macutils', 'gv-3d'. The last
Very wierd. I install apm which I've disabled but since I did this gpm
says /dev/mouse: Device or resource busy.
Cat /proc/interrupts shows that the mouses interrupt 10 isn't in use by
anybody.
lsof /dev/mouse shows nothing.
So this is usually the kernel saying that there's no mouse support?
I
The ftp site I gave doesn't seem to be carrying the Linux
clients. You can get the Linux clients from
ftp://portal.stwing.upenn.edu:/pub/rc5
-or-
http://www.i-connec.net/
Sorry about the misinformation there..
I'd suggest you slow down a bit and *check* those URLs before sending your
messages:
On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Brian Hutchinson wrote:
Here is some more information on my sad state!
Maybe I'll be the first to answer the simplest of your questions:
The dos mbr can be replaced with dos fdisk:
c:\= fdisk /mbr
...RickM...
The ftp site I gave doesn't seem to be carrying the Linux
clients. You can get the Linux clients from
ftp://portal.stwing.upenn.edu:/pub/rc5
-or-
http://www.i-connec.net/
Where exactly is the software on the i-Connect site? I don't see any sign
of it.
-Randy
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On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Robert Nicholson wrote:
Very wierd. I install apm which I've disabled but since I did this gpm
says /dev/mouse: Device or resource busy.
Did you look at /dev/mouse? Was it pointing at the right device? In your
case it's supposed to point at /dev/psaux. If it's not
Hello
Is there copy of the .config file used to build the kernel for the
install/rescue disk available?? I've looked all over for it and can't
find it.
Thanx
Perry
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Okay this is weird.
I can FTP to my machine, but only to anonymous. UNLESS, the account that
I am FTPing to is running bash for a shell. If it is running tcsh, it
says: user access denied.
Any ideas?
I find this rather strange.
J
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I can FTP to my machine, but only to anonymous. UNLESS, the account that
I am FTPing to is running bash for a shell. If it is running tcsh, it
says: user access denied.
Make sure tcsh is listed in /etc/shells. Most FTP daemons won't let a
user in unless they have a valid shell.
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On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Bubonic wrote:
Okay this is weird.
I can FTP to my machine, but only to anonymous. UNLESS, the account that
I am FTPing to is running bash for a shell. If it is running tcsh, it
says: user access denied.
Any ideas?
I find this rather strange.
Yeah, you
Hi,
Thanks for your note but I'm still having problems. Most likely, I'm
doing something really wrong but, when I look in master.debian.org's
unstable directory, I still find ldso_1.8.9-1.deb. I also can't find
libc5_5.4.23-1.deb. Have I forgotten something simple?
Thanks,
J. Goldman
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On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Bubonic wrote:
I can FTP to my machine, but only to anonymous. UNLESS, the account that
I am FTPing to is running bash for a shell. If it is running tcsh, it
says: user access denied.
I find this rather strange.
So did I until I RTFM.
You need /usr/bash in
Oops. I should have said tcsh, not bash, needs to be in /etc/shells...
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I can FTP to my machine, but only to anonymous. UNLESS, the account that
I am FTPing to is running bash for a shell. If it is running tcsh, it
says: user access denied.
I
I got mine from ftp://portal.stwing.upenn.edu/pub/rc5
If only I had masquerade for the other 4 computers, damn.. Now,
only one computer eats on the tacos.
Ioannis Tambouras
[EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida
Signed pgp-key on key server.
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On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Shaya Potter wrote:
I am currently using a debian system to masquerade all the traffic from
my high school's win95 lan to the internet. This is ok for a temporary
manner, but my school wants me to implement a way to track where all the
students are going, can't have
Turns out that I installed a new version of pcmcia_cs and along the way
it hoarked my configuration..
OK Tecra owners what irq do you use for your ethernet?
I try to use 11 and so with 12 being the ps/2 mouse I tried setting
PCIC_OPTS=irq_mask=0xe7ff to exclude those two interrupts but it turns
Well after reading some of the LILO manual (which I should have done
more of!) I realize what I have done.
I first ran lilo with boot=/dev/hda. Since I didn't want lilo installed
at all on my P90 and I ran lilo as an accident I thought I may as well
try to get it to boot my linux
Unfortunately, I don't have any experience with HyperNews, but I am
interested in contributing to this project.
Please let me know if there is something I can do to assist.
Cool. I'll set up HyperNews on the machine - it should be ready
by the middle of next week. It doesn't look too hard
On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Lars Hallberg wrote:
Do anyone know how to configur MH nowdays or how to get smail to REWRITE the
From: field?
it's been a while since i last used smail but i think what you are looking
for is the visible_hostname (or is it visible_name?) field in
/etc/smail/config
I
So the solution for me would be the download the compressed root image
of the rescue disk and rebuild a rescue disk using a kernel of my own.
In reply to my own question above:
Thanks to a message of
From: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re:
I am currently using a debian system to masquerade all the traffic from
my high school's win95 lan to the internet. This is ok for a temporary
manner, but my school wants me to implement a way to track where all
the
students are going, can't have them going to sighs which arn't kosher,
I tried to install Debian on a friend's Thinkpad 365X, and it gets to
the Loading stage and then locks up. I've tried the
floppy=thinkpad option at the boot prompt with no effect.
I found someone else had asked about this on the list, and there was
no definitive answer. Also there were a
I've convinced one of my good friends to install debian over
redhat/slackware. he also has problems with his ethernet card, even
under the other distributions. his card is a 3c509b, a combo card, using
the 10baseT port. however the standard driver for 3c509 only detects the
bnc port. is
I'm getting a lot of ICMP redirect messages from my ISP.
(The server is connected to his ethernet.) He suggests
ignoring them, but also suggested I might wish to listen
to them. What software would I use to do this -- gated?
He implies that his FreeBSD servers just learn routing
like this with
dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
under the other distributions. his card is a 3c509b, a combo card, using
the 10baseT port. however the standard driver for 3c509 only detects the
bnc port. is there away around this to show my friend the ever most
powerful distribution of debian?? sorry if
On Fri, 21 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the linux console doesn't do underlining... i use setterm -ulcolor
It does on Hercules video systems (ie old, old mono).
For what that's worth.
Hamish
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He implies that his FreeBSD servers just learn routing
like this with apparently no extra daemons!
Sounds like you want routed. It doesn't run on a debian system by
default because most people have no use for it (see man routed).
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Thanks Stan!
permisions of /dev/mouse rw-rw-rw-
BUT
permisions of /dev/ttyS0 rw-rw
(I must get the hang of links sometime)
so, a dab of chmod and it seems cured.
Thanks again,
Robert Varley
Trowbridge, Wilts
On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Stan Brown wrote:
Hi Folks.
I have a puzzling
Hi Gertjan
I made myself a system like this, just to see. Debian detects the ZIP
drive on startup, so you must have the drive attached AND a disc in the
drive at this time.
You can then proceed as for a 'normal' installation. The big drawback is
that the parallel port drive is so slow, at
please disregard my previous message. i figured it out. fyi, for this
type of card you have to load the 3com ether disk to manually change the
nis transceiver type to the 10baseT instead of auto detect. the utility
was called 3c5x9cfg.exe from the file 3c5x9x.exe. i'm a dork, thank you,
and
dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
please disregard my previous message. i figured it out. fyi, for this
type of card you have to load the 3com ether disk to manually change the
nis transceiver type to the 10baseT instead of auto detect. the utility
was called 3c5x9cfg.exe from the file
Have you tried using the 3com setup diskettes to determine what the state of
your 3C509 is and manually set it to BNC, RJ45 or AUI.
Auto detect network interface could be off on this card?
I've convinced one of my good friends to install debian over
redhat/slackware. he also has problems with
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Hutchinson) wrote:
Here is some more information on my sad state!
[All information zapped...]
From what you've written, I gather that you inadvertedly told LILO to
overwrite the boot sector (_not_ the MBR) of your DOS partition. DOS
keeps some important bookkeeping
One of the places you can find the 3c5x9 setup program are the authors www
pages. The url is http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/diag/diagnostic.html.
I just used the program this week and noticed that when you change interfaces
(10baseT, 10base2, etc), be sure to press the reset button when
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gertjan Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Hutchinson) wrote:
Here is some more information on my sad state!
I'm coming into this late. Mail me if any of this does not make sence!!
I'm assuming MS-DOS was on your primary C: drive partition.
[All
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Lars Hallberg wrote:
Do anyone know how to configur MH nowdays or how to get smail to REWRITE the
From: field?
it's been a while since i last used smail but i think what you are looking
for is the visible_hostname (or is it
Hello,
Sorry, but it seems that it isn*t possible to install Debian 1.2.6. I
have installed Linux (Delix-DLD2.1) 2 Years before and it was an easy
thing... But Debian seems to be unuseable. Somtimes there are librarys
missing sometimes other things are not correct. For example you must
manualy
Remco van de Meent typed:
At 10:16 21-2-97 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Remco van de Meent typed:
Anybody any idea how to config smb.conf and lpd.*/printcap for adding
printer services to samba?
I assume this means it is not working? This is strange as I just used the
default parameter
On Fri, 21 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the linux console doesn't do underlining... i use setterm -ulcolor
It does on Hercules video systems (ie old, old mono).
For what that's worth.
With the SVGATextMode package installed, you can enable
underlining in *all* VGA and SVGA text
To all debians:
I have just finished installing by version of Linux 2.0.6 on my system.
I has taken me a little over a week to figure it all out however I think
it was worth it. Came close to tossing the thing a couple of times but,
live and learn !!!
I would like to say that this Linux stuff
Gertjan Klein wrote:
From what you've written, I gather that you inadvertedly told LILO to
overwrite the boot sector (_not_ the MBR) of your DOS partition. DOS
keeps some important bookkeeping information in it's boot sector, among
which the size of the partition, the number of sectors in a
Robert Nicholson writes:
I've heard that the acceleration is worth it. Particularly on my Tecra.
So are the .deb's available for 3.2A?
No. Debian only includes software for which source is available; the
XFree86 betas are binary only releases.
If you are only interested in the
Daniel Karlsson wrote:
Hi
It's been a while since I wrote about this but it's been a tough week. I
repeat my problem.
I'm trying to install debian linux on my computer. It works fine until I'm
supposed to partition my hard drive. Then fdisk complaints that it can't
seek on it. This is
I have a generic 496 running Debian with a NE2000 clone as it's
Ethernet card. One morning about 4 days ago, the other machines on the
network stopped seeing it. Not this was probably about the time cleanup
scripts are run.
I have swapped the card with a
Hi Stan:
Try to determine the status of you network interface via ifconfig. If it is
up and running,
ping that card. If thats OK, check the physical connections. Perhaps you were
moving
things around and something is loose.
Stan Brown wrote:
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I have a generic 496 running
Has anybody here ever tried and succeeded to compile a custom
XF86_SVGA X server from the sources delivered with Debian 1.2.4?
I have installed the sources as provided complete with the Debian
specific patches but just can't find out how to compile a XF86_SVGA
server containing just the graphic
I recall that there is a way to scroll back up and see boot messages
from the console. I can't remember what it was though. Can someone
refresh my memory.
Also why are not all boot message logged into /var/log/messages ?
Thanks.
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You can use the console scrollback with the Shift-PageUp/PageDown keys. The
alternative is the dmesg (8) command which shows the kernel bootup and all the
later messages.
I guess the reason that not all the messages don't show in /var/log/messages
is that they are generated by the startup
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
Robert Nicholson writes:
I've heard that the acceleration is worth it. Particularly on my Tecra.
So are the .deb's available for 3.2A?
No. Debian only includes software for which source is available; the
XFree86 betas are binary only releases.
If
On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, dpk wrote:
I've convinced one of my good friends to install debian over
redhat/slackware. he also has problems with his ethernet card, even
under the other distributions. his card is a 3c509b, a combo card, using
the 10baseT port. however the standard driver for
Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SHIFT PGUP/PGDN works for me during boot time.
Yes, except that once the login prompt has popped up, you lose your
entire scrollback buffer (at least I do). So you have to use scroll
lock to pause the boot process before you get to that point. Then you
Help!
I set up X to start when the machine is booted, and I changed the monitor
in my Accelerated X configuration file. This was a mistake. I rebooted,
and X tries to start over and over again in an infinite loop. I have
about 1/4 of a second window of time at the login prompt, then the
Is there any way to skip the XDM startup file? Maybe if I start up in
single user mode? Is there a LILO option for that?
Assuming that linux is your kernel image with lilo, at the lilo prompt,
you can try one of the following:
LILO: linux single
or
LILO: linux emergency
single brings you up
Hi,
I may have misunderstood your problem but, from you letter, I'm guessing
that you get a standard xdm login/password box which then keeps resetting.
If that's the case, did you try using an alternate virtual console?
(ctrl-alt-F1 for example). This should get you to a text prompt from which
Try dmesg
Gary Lee
On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Stan Brown wrote:
I recall that there is a way to scroll back up and see boot messages
from the console. I can't remember what it was though. Can someone
refresh my memory.
Also why are not all boot message logged into
Jesse Goldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I may have misunderstood your problem but, from you letter, I'm guessing
that you get a standard xdm login/password box which then keeps resetting.
If that's the case, did you try using an alternate virtual console?
I've gotten bitten by this problem
Hi,
I'm running Debian 1.1 (kernel 2.0.6) and am getting ready to drop
buck$ into a faster motherboard. (I've read the hardware howto on
sunsite and haven't found my questions addressed there.) Pointers to
other docs or lists welcome.
I'm considering single vs. dual cpu Pentium or PPro boards
On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Bubonic wrote:
I can FTP to my machine, but only to anonymous. UNLESS, the account that
I am FTPing to is running bash for a shell. If it is running tcsh, it
says: user access denied.
Check that the shell is listed in /etc/shells, ftpd check if the user's
shell is
I am setting up a linux box for proxy masquing what is the what is the
lowest motherboard I can get with decent performance.
I will be using maybe an ethernet card and/or a local talk card and/or an
internal modem.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://home.eznet.net/~seth
Thanx
and may God Bless you
Seth R
Hi all:
I've done this as well. The only way I was to resolve it was to boot of a
custom floppy.
Mount the root file system.
Remove the S99xdm (actually just move it some where else).
Get the system running without xdm
Put the S99xdm back where it belongs
Rerun xf98config
Restart xdm manually to
For Speed freaks:
I have a dual PP200. I've run with and without 2 CPUs on a TYAN FX Pro mother
board.
The second CPU really boosts the performance when running multi threaded apps.
(java)
Otherwise I did not experience much of a performance improvement.
Compiling the entire Linux kernel to
On Sat, 22 Feb 1997 23:23:05 -0500 (EST), you wrote:
Well after reading some of the LILO manual (which I should have done
more of!) I realize what I have done.
I first ran lilo with boot=/dev/hda. Since I didn't want lilo installed
at all on my P90 and I ran lilo as an accident I thought
Jesse Goldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I may have misunderstood your problem but, from you letter, I'm guessing
that you get a standard xdm login/password box which then keeps resetting.
If that's the case, did you try using an alternate virtual console?
I've gotten bitten by this
On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
I know there are at least 6 machines running for [EMAIL PROTECTED],
and Redhat has 37... lets outnumber 'em! :)
The redhat machines appear to be running for [EMAIL PROTECTED]
They have enough blocks themselves to appear on the top 15 lists
of
Peter Iannarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've done this as well. The only way I was to resolve it was to boot of a
custom floppy.
Mount the root file system.
Remove the S99xdm (actually just move it some where else).
Get the system running without xdm
Put the S99xdm back where it belongs
Peter Iannarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Compiling the entire Linux kernel to about 10 minutes.
You must be low on memory or something. I get less than 5 minutes on
my single PP200.
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Hi All!
There is currently running a competition on how fast one (where one is
the whole net community) can brake 56-bit rc5 cryptography. for more
details, see:
http://zero.genx.net/
Here at debian, we have joined the fun, and you can join in too.
all you need to do is download the client from
I'm using Debian 1.2, libc 5.4.20-1, gcc 2.7.2.1-4, libg++ 2.7.2.1-6.
Whenever I try a make depend with the Makefile below, it stops with the
following error message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:7 make depend
makedepend test.cpp basechr.cpp baseitem.cpp dice.cpp bchrtem.cpp
basearm.cpp display.cpp
On Sun, 23 Feb 1997 13:52:23 GMT, I (myself) wrote:
Sorry, but it seems that it isn*t possible to install Debian 1.2.6. I
have installed Linux (Delix-DLD2.1) 2 Years before and it was an easy
thing... But Debian seems to be unuseable.
Juhuuu. I have set up my X11 (nearly) correctly now. Wow.
Yes, except that once the login prompt has popped up, you lose your
entire scrollback buffer (at least I do).
You lose your scrollback buffer when you switch away from your virtual
console. For example, when X starts.
Under FreeBSD, I can switch to another vty, switch back, and still
scroll
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This is a message for all the Debian SmartList users:
I have just received an important bug report about the smartlist package:
Currently, if you *upgrade* smartlist (from rex to bo, for example), you
may lost all your list aliases in /etc/aliases. This is
Sorry to bring this to the list, but I remember a post which came up in
the last couple of months about someone working on perl scripts to ping
mirrors which have debian, and output results.
I've begun to cram perl info into my mind(read that learn), and would
appreciate seeing what this person
Last night, I added one 133Mz to the effort. Here are few simple tips
for those with dial-up isp accounts and with similar machine:
(1) Connect to isp and get several Keyspaces by excecuting this several
times:
% nohup /usr/bin/nice -9 loop.sh rc5-client-linux-i486 -i [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
I finally decided to jump from stable to unstable. I pointed dselect to
unstable and as a result I was faced with an enormous number of new and
updated packages.
Among the updated packages were e.g. bash 2.0 that's known to break at least
some of the scripts that work with the older
On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Seth Reinosa wrote:
I am setting up a linux box for proxy masquing what is the what is the
lowest motherboard I can get with decent performance.
I will be using maybe an ethernet card and/or a local talk card and/or an
internal modem.
I did just this last week, setup a
On 23 Feb 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
Peter Iannarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Compiling the entire Linux kernel to about 10 minutes.
You must be low on memory or something. I get less than 5 minutes on
my single PP200.
My 386SX16 just spent 12 hours compiling the kernel only to run out
Heikki Vatiainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there something I should know or keep my eye on during this jump? For
example, is it wise to install the new bash straight ahead or should I put it
on hold instead and install it after all the other packages?
I'd say put bash-2.0 on old for a
The goal of cracking this key is to test the government endorsed
encryption standard called DES. The data received from this contest
will assist researchers and developers in new encryption techniques.
ftp://portal.stwing.upenn.edu/pub/rc5
Please note that RC5 and DES are not the same
Heikki Vatiainen wrote:
Hi all,
I finally decided to jump from stable to unstable. I pointed dselect to
unstable and as a result I was faced with an enormous number of new and
updated packages.
Among the updated packages were e.g. bash 2.0 that's known to break at least
some of the
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