running chkexploit
has anyone successfully run chkexploit on Debian 1.3.1? Does it have to be in a certain directory? I put it in my home directory and it says: chkexploit: can't find 'strings' Any ideas? -- ` Aaron Walker Work: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com/aaron Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] `` -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Colours with Lynx
On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 12:22:13PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: the program lynx from bo comes with predefined colours. That's fine, but I don't like them. I tried to re-configure them but couldn't find a user-based way. I thought this should be able to do on ~/.lynxrc but how? The only way was to comment out the COLOR statements in /etc/lynxrc and modify them. Btw. how do I know what those numbers reflect? It also makes Lynx nearly impossible to use on MDA systems. MDA is still quite a good display for server type systems; I only recently upgraded my home server to VGA, and only because I had a spare monitor. I could never work out how to disable the colours either. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: is anyone using NE1000?
On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 11:16:35AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hamish Moffatt writes: The ne module handles both NE2000 and NE1000 cards. Just add ne to your /etc/modules, and something like options ne io=0x280 irq=10 I just installed an NE2000 with 2.0.32, and couldn't get it recognized at irq 10. I had to move it to 2/9. Odd, because the excerpt I posted is straight out of the conf.modules on the machine I'm using right now. /proc/interrupts confirms. It's a plain old NE2000 clone, not PCI or anything. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Colours with Lynx
On Mon, Dec 22, 1997 at 11:40:39AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: the program lynx from bo comes with predefined colours. That's fine, but I don't like them. I tried to re-configure them but couldn't find a user-based way. I thought this should be able to do on ~/.lynxrc but how? The only way was to comment out the COLOR statements in /etc/lynxrc and modify them. Btw. how do I know what those numbers reflect? It also makes Lynx nearly impossible to use on MDA systems. MDA is still quite a good display for server type systems; I only recently upgraded my home server to VGA, and only because I had a spare monitor. I could never work out how to disable the colours either. Ok, as nobody showed me a different way, I think this should be reported as a bug and forwarded to the upstream maintainers. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / Ich glaube nur der Statistik, die ich selbst gefälscht habe! / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: is anyone using NE1000?
On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 04:01:31PM -0500, Aaron Walker wrote: Thanks to everyone for your help. I got Debian to see my NE1000 at 0x320 and IRQ 5. The problem was that in the /etc/conf.modules file it said: options ne io = 0x320 irq = 5 I changed it to: options ne io=0x320 irq=5 (I just got rid of the spaces between the numbers and the equal sings) Now it loads the ne module w/o hanging. Maybe it's worth sending in a bug report on linux-kernel or to the authors direct if the spaces really make it hang; they shouldn't. It could be modutils' fault, or it could be the ne driver. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: booting single, writable?
On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 03:33:59PM -0800, Ken Gaugler wrote: I got a new motherboard and CPU (triton III with a Cyrix PR200MMX) and of course there are problems booting now. It looks to me like if I can disable XDM, I can get a handle on fixing things up. However, booting from a floppy using emergency root=/dev/hda4 I cannot move the XDM inits because the disk is mounted read-only. What is the correct startup method to be able to write/change the hard drive? Once you are logged in with emergency, run mount -o remount,rw -n / which will remount / as read-write, and not note this (-n) in /etc/mtab, which isn't writable yet anyway. Then when you are done you should mount -o remount,ro -n / before continuing with booting (which will expect a read-only root partition so it can run fsck) or rebooting. Maybe run sync a few times for good measure too. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: booting single, writable?
George Bonser wrote: One trick is NOT to use emergency mode. The better way is to do: mount -n -o rw,remount / Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. - John Morley ** 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: is anyone using NE1000?
I wrote: I just installed an NE2000 with 2.0.32, and couldn't get it recognized at irq 10. I had to move it to 2/9. Hamish Moffatt writes: Odd, because the excerpt I posted is straight out of the conf.modules on the machine I'm using right now. /proc/interrupts confirms. It's a plain old NE2000 clone, not PCI or anything. I compiled in the driver and let the kernel probe for it. Since I had 2/9 free I didn't put much effort into getting it to work on 10. It's just a generic clone: maybe the problem is in the card. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: is anyone using NE1000?
To my knowledge those spaces did make it hang at boot. When I took the spaces away, it didn't hang. Now, it didn't totally lock up, because when it hanged at boot, all I had to do was hit CTRL-C and it skipped it and resumed booting. Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 04:01:31PM -0500, Aaron Walker wrote: Thanks to everyone for your help. I got Debian to see my NE1000 at 0x320 and IRQ 5. The problem was that in the /etc/conf.modules file it said: options ne io = 0x320 irq = 5 I changed it to: options ne io=0x320 irq=5 (I just got rid of the spaces between the numbers and the equal sings) Now it loads the ne module w/o hanging. Maybe it's worth sending in a bug report on linux-kernel or to the authors direct if the spaces really make it hang; they shouldn't. It could be modutils' fault, or it could be the ne driver. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- ` Aaron Walker Work: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com/aaron Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] `` -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /usr full !?
On Thu, 18 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mario Filipe writes: Try looking for a core file on /usr. Sounds like something may have core dumped. I did (as root): cd /usr find . -name core Just found this : ./src/linux/net/core ./src/kernel-source-2.0.27/net/core wich are 2 directories with source files. Thanks anyway Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.uevora.pt/~mjnf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mounting linux drive on dos/win95
Hi, can i mount the hd partitions used by linux to folders on dos/win95 (in a similar way to mounting the msdos/vfat partitions from linux)? Thanks Rick Email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage - http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/kitty5/ (Raytracing, 3D Animation and Emulation) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
displaying text on login
is there a way to display text when the login prompt shows? For instance, on my machine the hostname is chaos. When I boot, it says: Debian GNU Linux 1.3 chaos tty1 chaos login: How can I change it to say, for example, Welcome to Chaos.net!? Also... How can you change what it says after you log in? On my system, it says Most of the programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are redistributable... and so on. is there a way to change this? Thanks for your help. -- ` Aaron Walker Work: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com/aaron Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] `` -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Full Root
My root partition, of 400 megs is full. The partition /usr and that of /var are all on their own partition. I have looked in every directory for a core file, and have scanned for viruses. There is no reason that the root partition should be filled to capacity and I can't seem to find the reason that it is. Fsck, shows the drive as find. Any help in this matter would be much appreciated. Thanks Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mounting linux drive on dos/win95
Not easily. Windows does not understand the ext2 format. It says not formatted, would you like to format. Try this w/ an ext2 floppy. If they are on separate machines samba can be used to link the two. Samba translates unix/linux hd format into windows readable format. No client needed, just the samba server on the linux/unix box. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Bootdisk for PCMCIA?
Hi, Is there a boot floppy set which supports installation over a pcmcia network card? If not, how is the simplest way to do it? -- Lukas Eppler -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: HAMM kernel-source OK with libc5 BO?
Just today I installed that source package on a Bo system and compiled a kernel the Debian way. No error messages and everything seems to be working fine. Best, Curt Rick Macdonald wrote: Is it OK to install the unstable (HAMM) kernel source (2.0.32) with my stable (BO) 1.3.1.r6 system, or should I just get the original source tar file and use that? ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- C.L. Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
suck config
Hi,
I'd like to know what is the entry 'outgoingfile' in the
/etc/suck/get-news.conf for?
What shall be the correct values for this entry? Thanks!
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Another Darn Upgrade problem/question.
Hi, I have fairly easily upgraded to hamm However I have had some uh ... Kinks. Heres the latest ... I upgrades the ncurses packages to : ncurses3.0 ncurses3.4 which seem to live together nicely from a debian perspective however when I got the new Kernel source from ftp.kernel.org and untar'd it I then tried to run make menuconfig and it went for awhile ... stuff about loading default ... and then the screen cleard and I got a long text paragraph tellling me that my ncurses setup was bad ... specificly(SP) saying that it thought I had more than one ncurses package installed How do I fix this ... I thought I could just purge the lic5 based ncurses (ncurses3.0) but alot of my system is still based off libc5 and libc5 nucurses short of upgrading everything what do I need to do to fix the ncurses thing so I can compile the new kernel TIA -Kevin, kc5vxy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Col, 3:23 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: displaying text on login
Look at the following files: /etc/issue /etc/issue.net /etc/motd There is manpage for issue and motd to help you out if you need it. Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Systems/Network | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: is there a way to display text when the login prompt shows? For instance, on my machine the hostname is chaos. When I boot, it says: Debian GNU Linux 1.3 chaos tty1 chaos login: How can I change it to say, for example, Welcome to Chaos.net!? Also... How can you change what it says after you log in? On my system, it says Most of the programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are redistributable... and so on. is there a way to change this? Thanks for your help. -- ` Aaron Walker Work: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com/aaron Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] `` -- 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] .
Re: booting single, writable?
On Sun, 21 Dec 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote: : Hi Folks. : : I got a new motherboard and CPU (triton III with a Cyrix PR200MMX) and : of course there are problems booting now. It looks to me like if I can : disable XDM, I can get a handle on fixing things up. : : However, booting from a floppy using emergency root=/dev/hda4 I : cannot move the XDM inits because the disk is mounted read-only. : : What is the correct startup method to be able to write/change the hard : drive? mount -n -o remount,rw / The -n tells mount to avoid updated /etc/mtab, since it is (in this case) currently read only. I think you can guess what the other options do. : : Thank You : -- : Ken Gaugler N6OSK URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng/ : The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE... : -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Arrgh, its the newbie again...
On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Will Lowe wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Rick wrote: dpkg -i /dos-d/linux/packages/the_name_of_file.deb Why don't you move them into /tmp? Careful, /tmp gets wiped at reboot. So if you want to make sure the files stay around till you're done with them, keep them out of /tmp. ** MICHAEL SCOTT ORR [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ** 1405 NE 56th Street, Seattle, WA 98105 USA *Russki * ** Tel: +1 (206) 522-9627, fax: 328-6209 * Deutsch * ** * Esperanto * * (Insert silly quote here) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
noname motherboard
Hi all, Can some one suggest me a good place for info about noname motherboard for alpha..? Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for all thanks Kusuma -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
bash and less
Recently I upgraded to unstable (Thanks to all who are working for this project.) and all seams to work quite well so far. However concerning the new bash- package I have a question. Before upgrading I had the following lines in my ~/.inputrc file \e[1~: beginning-of-line \e[3~: delete-char \e[4~: end-of-line and in ~/.Xresources *VT100.Translations: #override \ AltKeyPress: string(0x1b) insert() \n\ KeyBackSpace: string(0x7F)\n\ KeyDelete:string(0x1b) string([3~)\n\ KeyHome: string(0x1b) string([1~)\n\ KeyEnd: string(0x1b) string([4~) Now the new version comes with a global configuration file /etc/inputrc containing $if term=linux \e[1~: beginning-of-line \e[3~: delete-char \e[4~: end-of-line $endif $if term=xterm \e[H: beginning-of-line \e[F: end-of-line \C-?: delete-char $endif Therefor I had to remove the above lines from my ~/.Xresources file. However as far as I know less hasn't the ability to distinguish between term=linux and term=xterm with the consequence that now Home and End work only at a virtual console and not within a xterm. What can I do to have Home moving to the beginning and the End Key moving to the end of a document read with less in both xterm and a virtual console with these settings? By the way: In the Consistent Keyboard Configuration article of June 1997 they likewise dont make a distinction between xterm and term=linux in inputrc. Many thanks in advance, Markus. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
update - cache always dirty
On one of my Debian boxes I hear the hard drive being accessed every five seconds and it is really starting to bug me. This is so even when all major applications are stopped and the box is off the network. The culprit is update and the question is Why does the cache always come up dirty? As a matter of interest I have been corresponding with update's author who says that he has dropped it in favour of bdflush! Any ideas? Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 248632.0125S 115.8445Evk6lj Debian Unix =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Error Talk
matthew tebbens wrote: After switching my servers(2) around I now get the following message when I try to talk with anyone: [Couldn't bind to control socket : Cannot assign requested address (99). Why ? What can I do to fix it I'm sure it just a configuration error as I didn't change anything else. Ports in the range 1-1024 can only be bound by root. This is a security feature. I'm not sure why talk would try to use port 99. Perhaps the exe was really supposed to be set-user-id root. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Cyrix MediaGX system + Debian ???
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: Hi, All there are new wave of cheap i86 systems based on Cyrix MediaGX chip with integrated video and sound (and Ethernet in the future). The price makes it quite attractive as X terminal and such. I had this same thought, so at work we picked up 2 of 'em. The VGA server worked fine, but other than that we didn't have much luck. Our main interest was the built-in TV/RF out on the back, but unfortuanatly it's crap with X. So I gave up and turned them into ip_masq/diald boxes for some of our customers. For this they work geat! Is such system Debian Compatible? 100% haven't had a problem yet. What about video? It's UMA system - it takes 2M out of system memory but still 14M left and it's quite enough for kernel and X server. If you get 'em to run X decently, please tell me : I just didn't have time or desire to put the effort in. good luck, mike Mike, GGI team releases support for MediaGX chip - you have to compile custom kernel and install X-GGI server. OK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Networking Info?
On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 04:30:53AM +0100, Peter Prohaska wrote: Do you have the Net-3-HOWTO (some information) and the Nag (Network Administration Guide). The second is from LDP and you can get it at sunsite. Maybe we should package the LDP Books for Debian. Good idea !!! It´s really ineffective that everyone has to download them on his own. Especially for new users, they are a good point to start ( own experience :) I will think about it (there will be a user book especially for debian, so I will wait till I become a developer, and then look what books are up to date and worth to package). Thank you, Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god. Debian GNU/Linux Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Error Talk
When I switched the servers around, I forgot to edit /etc/hosts which had my server name with the old IP address. Took a whole day just to find that ! :) Thanks for the reply anyway ! Matthew On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: matthew tebbens wrote: After switching my servers(2) around I now get the following message when I try to talk with anyone: [Couldn't bind to control socket : Cannot assign requested address (99). Why ? What can I do to fix it I'm sure it just a configuration error as I didn't change anything else. Ports in the range 1-1024 can only be bound by root. This is a security feature. I'm not sure why talk would try to use port 99. Perhaps the exe was really supposed to be set-user-id root. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PCL printer doesn't respond to lpr command
My /etc/printcap looks like this: lp|oki6e:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
why doesn't magicfilter setup work?
I've installed magicfilter and have this /etc/printcap setup: lp|oki6e:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :if=/usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig:\__ :tf=/etc/filter.pcl:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\ :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\ :pl#66:\ :pw#80:\ :pc#150:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: But if I `lpr page.ps', the printer's LED blinks but does not print page.ps. What's wrong? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mounting linux drive on dos/win95
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Shaleh wrote: Not easily. Windows does not understand the ext2 format. I have absolutely no idea where to find it or what it is called (I never had need or desire to do so), but apparently there *is* a program that allows you to read ext2 filesystems under Windows. I have seen several mentions of it on mailing lists. Sorry I can't be of more help... Sincerely, Raymond Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] They said there'd be snow at Christmas; They said there'd be peace on Earth. Halelujah Noel, be it Heaven or Hell; The Christmas we get we deserve. -ELP, I Believe in Father Christmas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Full Root
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Anthony Landreneau wrote: My root partition, of 400 megs is full. The partition /usr and that of /var are all on their own partition. I have looked in every directory for a core file, and have scanned for viruses. There is no reason that the root partition should be filled to capacity and I can't seem to find the reason that it is. Fsck, shows the drive as find. Any help in this matter would be much appreciated. OK, lets do this systematically: df -- will show you how much space you have left du -sx /* -- will sum up the diskspace your toplevel directories use (excluding your /usr and /var which are on different partitions) find / -xdev -size 500k -- will find all files bigger then 500k on your disk (excluding your /usr and /var which are on different partitions) You could also check if /usr and /var *are* on different partitions (cat /etc/mtab) Ciao, Martin - Who always has too few diskspace :-) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: displaying text on login
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, dpk wrote: Look at the following files: /etc/issue /etc/issue.net /etc/motd There is manpage for issue and motd to help you out if you need it. And also edit /etc/init.d/boot: # Set EDITMOTD to no if you don't want /etc/motd to be editted automatically EDITMOTD=no Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian Package Document in PS
Hi,
I'd like to know if there is a Postscript version of the Debian
package document!
Thanks!
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Re: Missing fsck
On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: The installation finished without an fsck, which would prevent normal booting. I had encountered this problem in an earlier test, and was not sure if I had made the correct choices in the dselect (S)elect phase, so I re-ran the installation, being very careful about my choices. Same problem here. Not many details, as I simply fixed it and did not take any notes at the time, since I misdiagnosed it as some random screwup on my part. -- Todd Graham Lewis Manager of Web Engineering(800) 719-4664, x2804 **Linux** MindSpring Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mounting linux drive on dos/win95
Rick, Check out ext2tool_1_1.zip from sunsite.unc.edu or login.dknet.dk/pub/ct. It provides a collection of DOS programs that allow you to read a Linux ext2 file system from DOS. --Bob Rick wrote: Hi, can i mount the hd partitions used by linux to folders on dos/win95 (in a similar way to mounting the msdos/vfat partitions from linux)? Thanks Rick Email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage - http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/kitty5/ (Raytracing, 3D Animation and Emulation) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
exabyte tapes
I hhave an exabyte 8505xl drive hooked up to my linux box. It writes and reads using /dev/st0 fine but I have a number of data tapes written on sun's and DEc Ultrix boxes taht I need to read and can't be read trivially using /dev/st0. Does anyone know or can point me to where I can find theh default block sizes and other incantations assumed by linux and/or solve my particualr problem? It would also be nice to know whether st0 thinks the drive is an old low density 8200 or the high density 8505. Thanks for any enlightenmight. Tom Irving -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
smail config for an ISP with PPP+SMTP+POP3 - How to do?
Hi all! I'm not a real u**x freak, and so I have a (probably very simple) question: I'm connecting to the Internet using an ISP with dynamic IP-adresses, and a SMTP/POP3 mail system. Now I want to send / get my mail with debian, but I'm not sure, which of the five standard smail options I should choose. Can anyone help me with example config files or something else (eventually a book?). Bye Daniel Gross -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: FastSCSI Card recommendations
Damir J. Naden wrote: G'day everybody -- I decided to invest into new computer, and since I already have two SCSI-2 HD's (Quantum and IBM), I'd like to keep them. My current system is VLB-based so I have to buy a new card for PCI-based pentium class system. I am looking into choosing between three diff adapters at the moment: -NCR 53C810-based card from swt -looks inexpensive (a BIG plus) I used one of these and found it to be very stable under linux and seemed to perform well (I didn't ever try to run any performance measurements). Be aware that your motherboard *must have* BIOS support for this card in order to use it. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
HELP: Permission problem in /home with new install
I am a wet-behind the ears newbe who has just installed Debian 1.3.1. /home did not have a subdir /ahurd (my user name) even tho I am listed with that home dir in passwd file. I tried mkdir ahurd in /home and got cannot make directory ahurd: readonly filesystem. An ls -l indeed showed home as readonly. I then tried chmod u+rw home and it failed with same message: Readonly filesystem, even when I try it as root. /home is the only directory except proc marked readonly. What do I do now. Help would be much appreciated. Albert Hurd -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.63 1997/12/22 23:28:11 johnie Exp $ 1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/. 1.2. Purpose of this document This document is intended to identify areas that need your contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite often, so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ. 1.3. Getting newer versions of this document Newer versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP: o http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html o ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective- packages.txt o ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective- packages.html 1.4. Feedback Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to the WNPP maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mention to which version of this document your comments refer. Try to change the subject of your mail to reflect the packages you're talking about, it makes it easier for to sort out all Re: Work- Needing and Prospective Packages emails. A suggested subject line reads WNPP: removing foopackage or WNPP: working on barpackage. Thanks. 2. Recent Changes 2.1. Since version 1.62 1997/12/15 o Elie Rosenblum mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] has adopted the arpd package. o The lxtools packge is now being maintained by Mark Eichin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Joel Klecker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is now maintaining 9fonts, 9menu, 9term, 9wm, and mimedecode. o Juergen Menden mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] has adopted dialdcost. o Martin Mitchell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] has adopted flin, and is working on synaethesia (a cd player with graphical effects). o Steve Kostecke mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] has adopted linuxlogo. o The Linux Explorer, DQS, and PVM are now uploaded. o Orphaned majordomo, ratfor77 and ftnchek. o Steve McIntyre mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] has adopted unarj, lha, nas, giftrans, and xpostitplus. o Request for debian administration tool dropped, since as Brian Bassett mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is now packaging COAS. 3. Orphaned packages (An orphaned package is a package that has no current maintainer.) Please inform [EMAIL PROTECTED] via e-mail: o when you find that you need to orphan a package o when you believe that the following list is incomplete o when you would like to maintain one of these packages. Emilio Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ratfor77 (old source format) o ftnchek Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o majordomo Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o kde o giflib Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o glimpse Dominik Kubla o vgrind Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o blt Helmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o auctex o ghostview o lacheck (libc5) o libc5 o libc5-altdbg o libc5-altdev o libc6.1 o libc6.1-dbg o libc6.1-dev o libc6.1-pic o libproc-dev o procps o xproc o xxgdb Orn E. Hansen : o xega o xmailtool o xspread Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o compress-package o ppd-adobe-common, ppd-adobe-extra, ppd-adobe-misc, ppd-gs o psptools Dominik Kubla [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o arpd o csh Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o zyxel Raul D. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o j1 (in old source format) o sam Michael Nonweiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mh-papers o term Doug Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o apsfilter Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mathpad o mfbasfnt o wenglish Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xarchie o bibindex Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o pgcc Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o fsp Guy R. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dld (do we still need this ?) Patrick J Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mailpgp Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o motifnls Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o file-rc David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o tcl74 o tcl75 o tk40 o tk41 Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o tclx74 o tclx75 o tix40 Michael Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o javalex o java-cup o rsynth Karl Sackett [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o courtney o freelip o groupkit o imgstar o lee o objpak o pgapack o premail o saoimage o snns o tcs o tkdiff o wily o xbattle o xephem-smotif Hakan Ardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o addressbook Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o hyperlatex o latex2rtf Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o gettyps Others: o rc o xcompat (should we drop it ?) o libc4 (a.out compatibility) 4. Packages needing a new maintainer Please inform [EMAIL PROTECTED] via e-mail: o when you find that you'd like to discontinue maintaining a
Re: Full Root
Anthony Landreneau wrote: My root partition, of 400 megs is full. The partition /usr and that of /var are all on their own partition. I have looked in every directory for a core file, and have scanned for viruses. There is no reason that the root partition should be filled to capacity and I can't seem to find the reason that it is. Fsck, shows the drive as find. Any help in this matter would be much appreciated. Is it possible that you have data in /usr on the root partition, which is hidden when you mount the separate partition on /usr? (Or /var, of course.) To test, umount the partitions and then ls the /usr and /var directories. There should be nothing in them. You can use du to find out how much space is taken up by a directory. Do this with only the root partition mounted: cd /; du -s * (Another responder said to use `du -sx /*', but I find that this does not ignore other partitions; the man page leaves me uncertain about its intended effect.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending such will be invoiced for telephone time used in downloading together with a £25 administration charge. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Alternatives to NIS?
John Goerzen wrote: At my location, we are dealing with a large Unix network composed of machines from multiple vendors -- Debian, RedHat, Sun, DEC, etc. We are moving largely in the direction of Debian and some of the legacy systems will be dropped within a few years anyway (due to Y2K nonconformity). We have approximately 2500 users that can pick any of a few dozen machines to log in to. Currently, we use NIS to propogate passwd information (login, password, UID, etc.) I am aware that NIS is widely considered to be insecure. I am wondering what alternatives Debian might support that would provide a more secure solution than NIS. The latest version of NIS uses encryption and authentication. I don't know if software is available for debian (or anyone other than Sun). Sun calls it NIS Plus. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
strange kernel error messages
Hello, I just noticed that my Debian Linux 2.0.32 box has some 'unreliable' behaviour, some programs are crashing more and more often with the well-known 'segmentation fault' message. The messages in /var/log/kern.log are actually harmful, I think (I stripped the time in the following log): kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e17c2377 kernel: current-tss.cr3 = 017a4000, r3 = 017a4000 kernel: *pde = kernel: Oops: 0002 kernel: CPU:0 kernel: EIP:0010:[save_i387+45/148] kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246 kernel: eax: 017c2018 ebx: bc60 ecx: 0121dfbc edx: bce0 kernel: esi: 0121dfbc edi: 001c ebp: 01979dc0 esp: 0121df4c kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 kernel: Process dselect (pid: 300, process nr: 23, stackpage=0121d000) kernel: Stack: bbe0 0121dfbc 001c 0010a51e bc60 01979dc0 001c kernel: 0010a5ea 01979dc0 0121dfbc 001c 001c 0121dfbc kernel:0010a84d 001c 01979dc0 0121dfbc 0814175c 08141648 kernel: Call Trace: [setup_frame+266/380] [handle_signal+90/144] [do_signal+557/632] [signal_return+18/56] kernel: Code: dd b0 14 03 00 00 c7 05 a4 a9 23 00 00 00 00 00 9b 0f 20 c0 [ and some minutes later ] kernel: general protection: kernel: CPU:0 kernel: EIP:0010:[save_i387+45/148] kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246 kernel: eax: 00ba9018 ebx: b598 ecx: 01422fbc edx: b618 kernel: esi: 01422fbc edi: 001d ebp: 005eb1dc esp: 01422f4c kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 kernel: Process emacs (pid: 839, process nr: 40, stackpage=01422000) kernel: Stack: b518 01422fbc 001d 0010a51e b598 005eb1dc 001d kernel: 0010a5ea 005eb1dc 01422fbc 001d 001d 01422fbc kernel:0010a84d 001d 005eb1dc 01422fbc b684 kernel: Call Trace: [setup_frame+266/380] [handle_signal+90/144] [do_signal+557/632] [signal_return+18/56] kernel: Code: dd b0 14 03 00 00 c7 05 a4 a9 23 00 00 00 00 00 9b 0f 20 c0 I suspect an hardware problem, because all is working as expected if the system remains several hours power-off; but after 15-30 minutes, the program are crashing again. My configuration is a Pentium 200, running Debian/Linux 2.0.32 with latest hamm packages; I have another P200 with the same software and hardware configuration ... that never crashes; that's why I suspect an hardware defect. Has anybody already seen this kind of problem? Can somebody give me some clues about what is the most probable cause of such general protection or unable to handle kernel paging request errors ? CPU, RAM, swap partitions ? Thanks in advance for any answer. Alain Nissen -- _ | | | _| | * Alain Nissen - Unix System Management - SEGI * | | | | | | * University of Liege, B-4000 Liege (Belgium) * | | |___| | * Phone: (+32)-4-3664929 Fax: (+32)-4-3662920 * | \_/ | *E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* \_/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: strange kernel error messages
Hello, I suspect an hardware problem, because all is working as expected if the system remains several hours power-off; but after 15-30 minutes, the program are crashing again. My configuration is a Pentium 200, running Debian/Linux 2.0.32 with latest hamm packages; I have another P200 with the same software and hardware configuration ... that never crashes; that's why I suspect an hardware defect. Yes, it looks to me as hardware defect too. In my opinion is something wrong w. coolig fan, or some other part goes too hot. Has anybody already seen this kind of problem? Can somebody give me some clues about what is the most probable cause of such general protection or unable to handle kernel paging request errors ? CPU, RAM, swap partitions ? Thanks in advance for any answer. Ax -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
