Re: Dial Script
Tim Sailer wrote: I have a web page that people can use to page me on my numeric pager. It uses a very stupid program (npage) to dial the phone. I was wondering if someone has a better way, maybe perl, chat, a well written C program, etc. to do this. I don't know if this is exactly what you're looking for, but the hylafax program includes support for sending both faxes and pages. Hylafax is a very cool system once you get it working. It might be too much for your needs however. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installation XFree86 klappt nicht...
On Tue, Feb 10, 1998 at 12:11:14AM +0100, Gartzke wrote: First of all you might not have noticed but this is an international mailing list so only few people will be able to understand. Well, if I think of it a little bit longer I get the feeling that you're using every mailing address you can find. That's not a good idea as some of them are dedicated to special user groups. Apart from that I thought Georg has already answered your question. Speziell XFree86 will nicht laufen. Da auf der mir zu Verfuegung stehenden Distribution (Debian 1.3.1) kein X-Server für meine Grafikkarte (Viper V 330 mit Riva 128 Chip)ist habe ich von der S.u.s.e Homepage den Passenden Server xnvidia.tgz sowie die xsuseconfig.tgz geladen und wie beschrieben mittels tar entkomprimiert, was auch problemlos funktionierte.Leider war es anschließend nicht moeglich, die Datei xf86xonfig zu starten. This seems to be a libc5 / libc6 problem. As SuSE also ships XFree86 I also get the feeling that you're server should be located inside of hamm's XFree86 packages. This means that you have to install Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1 and upgrade to hamm. You may easily use the auto-upgrade script from http://taz.net.au/autoup/ to upgrade the system from bo to hamm (libc5 to libc6). You should also read the Upgrade HOWTO at http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html After that you may install the new packages X-Servers that support your graphics card. Eine testweise Installation des auf der Debian-CD befindlichen SVGA- bzw- VGA 16-Server mit nachfolgender Entkomprimierung Eurer Dateien fuehrte immerhin dazu, dass die Datei xf86xonfig gestartet werden konnte und auch die Viper V 330 in der Liste(Nr. 145) auftauchte. Leider fuehrte der anschließende Start von startx nur zu Fehlermeldungen (siehe Anhang, Ausgabedatei x.out). This was already answered by Georg, missing files. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / linux: Unbekannter Terminaltyp/ / Ich weiß nicht, auf was für einem Terminaltyp Sie arbeiten - / / alles, was ich habe, ist 'linux'. -- Solaris 2.5 / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dial Script
Behan Webster wrote: Tim Sailer wrote: I have a web page that people can use to page me on my numeric pager. It uses a very stupid program (npage) to dial the phone. I was wondering if someone has a better way, maybe perl, chat, a well written C program, etc. to do this. I don't know if this is exactly what you're looking for, but the hylafax program includes support for sending both faxes and pages. Hylafax is a very cool system once you get it working. It might be too much for your needs however. Yup.. I know Hylafax.. since it was FlexFax.. I was a beta tester for Sam Leffler on $CO Unix many years ago. It's way overkill for my needs. Right now, the command line I run to page myself looks like: beep -n 555-1212555-1313 /dev/ttyS1 This will dial 555-1212, pause for 2 secs, (hoping the other end picks up) and enters 555-1313 as the number that will show up on the pager. The program has no concept of busy, no dialtone, etc... it looks for nothing from the modem.. it just talks blind to it. Maybe I'll rape some code out of mgetty.. dunno... Tim PS: Maybe kermit can be coerced into doing this.. -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Paranoia is a heightened state of awareness. -- 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: Hard Install
George R wrote: Has anyone had Win95 change your CMOS settings? George, I don't know: how could I tell, unless it's evidence would be a mess up of something obvious like my clock? Dave -- --David E. Scott Ohio Administrative Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Automating PPP with cron?
On Mon, 09 Feb 1998 18:03:00 +0400, Timothy M. Hospedales wrote: Sounds like a dooable crack. I see a cron.daily, weekly monthly directory in /etc, with scripts in it, which I presume get executed daily weekly and month respectively. I'de like it to run every 6 hours. I tried read the cron cron tab manpages, but I'm still clueless as to how to do this I can't find any howto's on this either. :(. Any pointers to doc files, (or actual help:), on this subject? For things I might forget, I like to put reminder remarks in my files and align the columns for easy reading. This is the for the system crontab, but the columns should be the same for all users (except for the `user' column, obviously). # m h dom mon dow usercommand 21 21 * * * rootrun-parts /etc/cron.daily 31 21 * * 0 rootrun-parts /etc/cron.weekly 41 21 1 * * rootrun-parts /etc/cron.monthly m minutes (0-59) h hour (0-23) dom day of month (0-32) mon month (1-12 or jan-dec) dow day of week (0-6 or sun-sat) commas may separate entries like so: 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /home/kotsya/.checkformail 1 /dev/null 2 /dev/null asterisks of course match all -- D a v i d S t e r n -- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Hard Install
On 02/09/98 at 07:41 PM, David E. Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: George R wrote: Has anyone had Win95 change your CMOS settings? George, I don't know: how could I tell, unless it's evidence would be a mess up of something obvious like my clock? Weird things, like the drive you have on your secondary ide disappears. After checking the CMOS you find the secondary controller disabled. If you have a CMOS controlled CPU speed, the speed changes after a lockup and restart in safe mode. Having the defaults loaded, even though you know some settings weren't default. George reply to: grimel @icx Sorry for the trouble, I'm just getting to much spam. .net --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Viewing bootup message
How can you view the entire list of messeges that show when you boot into linux? It all either scrolls by too fast or too much read/decipher as it rolls off the top. Is there a file that mirrors that output or someway I can re-direct it to a file for perusal? Thanks, Chris '\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\ Live on Real Audio Thursday nights 8-11 EST http://www.uvm.edu/~wruv T-SNAKE [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN:1868354 A DJ on a mission CROSSFADE RECORDS http://www.crossfade.com/ Drug free techno ,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Hard Install
On 02/09/98 at 07:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerald V. Livingston lI) said: Try replacing the CMOS battery. I had one that would do strange things when I shut it off - I figured if the battery got low enough it would start going wierd on resets too. Not the problem, unless of course 3 differant boxes all have bad batteries, and it occurs mostly when Win95 freaks out, usually when rebooting in safe mode due to improper shutdown. Just one of many unexplained events MS certified techs tell me can't happen, even if I reproduce the event before their eyes. Blows my mind when they watch me crash 95 and say that can't happen, it must be hardware. Then reproduce the crash on another box and hear that can't happen, it must be some software. Oh, well that's why I use other stuff at home. George a wise man learns from his mistakes; a genius learns from the mistakes of others reply to: grimel @icx Sorry for the trouble, I'm just getting to much spam. .net --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
network status thru voice
Hi, I would like our users to know if our local or international link to the internet is up or down. One solution I'm looking at is our users would dial a tel. no. and they would be greeted with a voice saying the link is up or down. Is there a program for this? Perl or C program would do? regards, == == Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated == == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 == = == ==== == E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] == WebPage : www.lasaltech.com/andre.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Viewing bootup message
On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 09:11:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can you view the entire list of messeges that show when you boot into linux? It all either scrolls by too fast or too much read/decipher as it rolls off the top. Is there a file that mirrors that output or someway I can re-direct it to a file for perusal? dmesg will show you the kernel stuff, eg dmesg | less. Most of it is in the logs in /var/log too. There's no way (that I know of) to see all the non-kernel stuff. Note that scroll lock will pause the display. 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: Hard Install
On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 07:52:19PM +, George R wrote: Weird things, like the drive you have on your secondary ide disappears. After checking the CMOS you find the secondary controller disabled. If you have a CMOS controlled CPU speed, the speed changes after a lockup and restart in safe mode. Having the defaults loaded, even though you know some settings weren't default. Well, anything can happen in a good-sized crash. Windows 95 can't change individual settings because their locations aren't standardized between BIOS manufacturers (AMI, Phoenix, Award, MR BIOS etc). Some of the basic settings are (like hard drive types) but none of the settings you spoke of are. 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: Viewing bootup message
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can you view the entire list of messeges that show when you boot into linux? It all either scrolls by too fast or too much read/decipher as it rolls off the top. Is there a file that mirrors that output or someway I can re-direct it to a file for perusal? Thanks, Chris You are looking for the command: dmesg Pipe it through your favoriate pager: dmesg | more dmesg | less etc. Keith -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: network status thru voice
A. M. Varon wrote: I would like our users to know if our local or international link to the internet is up or down. One solution I'm looking at is our users would dial a tel. no. and they would be greeted with a voice saying the link is up or down. Is there a program for this? Perl or C program would do? There's a package in debian (unstable) named festival that does voice synthesis. That's part of what you want, but you'll have to figure out how to get the sound out over the telephone, I guess. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Hard Install
On 02/10/98 at 01:47 PM, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Well, anything can happen in a good-sized crash. Windows 95 can't change individual settings because their locations aren't standardized between BIOS manufacturers (AMI, Phoenix, Award, MR BIOS etc). Some of the basic settings are (like hard drive types) but none of the settings you spoke of are. Is this just Win95 or do other OS's mess with the CMOS? In 10+ years I've only experianced this with Win95. Once again the answer to a weird Win95 question comes from a Linux user. Am I seeing a trend? George reply to: grimel @icx Sorry for the trouble, I'm just getting to much spam. .net --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dial Script
The qpage package may do what you need. It's in the unstable/net directory. On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 06:18:57PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: I have a web page that people can use to page me on my numeric pager. It uses a very stupid program (npage) to dial the phone. I was wondering if someone has a better way, maybe perl, chat, a well written C program, etc. to do this. Thanks, Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Paranoia is a heightened state of awareness. -- 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] . -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Qddb or other databases
Has anyone installed qddb on debian. Could you tell me the correct changes to make to the Makefile. Also I there is any significant reason to prefer a different database(msql, mysql, adabas etc) I'd like to hear it. Thank you -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: StarOffice4.0 and Debian
Original Messsage On 2/9/98, 6:09:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tony mollica) wrote regarding StarOffice4.0 and Debian: Has anyone installed StarOffice 4.0 on a Debian system yet and were there any problems to watch out for? I installed the english version and it seems to work really well. I had no problems. I installed it for single user use only, so I can't comment on the multiuser installation script that is floating around. Erv Graduate Student[EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Chemistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univ of Wisconsin-Madison [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Memory overload error noted ... Meltdown now evident. -- tagline 1.00 by xopy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
help with man-db
Hi. I'm having problems with Motif man pages which I installed on my system. If I run, say, man XmString I get the following error messages: Reformatting XmString(3x), please wait... zsoelim: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XmString.3x:292: \\$1: No such file or directory zsoelim: \\$1.gz: No such file or directory zsoelim: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XmString.3x:292: warning: failed .so request zsoelim: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XmString.3x:329: /tmp/pI.tmp.: No such file or directory zsoelim: /tmp/pI.tmp..gz: No such file or directory zsoelim: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XmString.3x:329: warning: failed .so request input in flex scanner failed And then only part of the page is displayed. Meanwhile, zcat /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XmString.3x.gz | groff -Tascii -tmandoc - | less works perfectly. If anyone have any idea on how to fix that, I would be very obliged. I can send the example of the problem page, if needed. Thanks a lot. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SCSI
Thanks Nathan! You hit the nail on the head. I was using the NCR7,8xx driver. Once I changed it to the NCR8xxx, the card was detected and the drives spun up. Now, I am having problems with RAID5. I can get RAID0 to work fine, but I cannot figure out to get past a certain error message. I get the following error when I try to #mdrun -p5 /dev/md0 md:08:01: invalid raid superblock magic (6c6c6c6c) on block 8886144 /dev/md0: invalid argument Any clues on what I am doing wrong? Let me know, and thanks for the help. Greg Green AdvantageCom Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Greg Green wrote: : Hello all: : : I am having problems detecting my scsi drives. I have three drives all : jumpered correctly and I recompiled the kernel for raid5, and also for : my correct scsi controller. I installed the correct raid145 patch, and : raidtools, and the latest linuxthreads. The problem is that I cannot : mkfs or mdcreate on these drives. I cannot even fdisk them, I keep : getting unable to open /dev/sda. The PC Bios detects the SCSI card on : boot up, but then Linux detects 0 scsi. I have a NCR53875J SCSI : controller. : Below is my dmesg, I would appreciate any suggestions. : Thanks, : Greg Green You need to compile the correct driver into the kernel. It is ncr8xx, not ncr7,8xx ... this drove me crazy for a day or two. We're running an NCR53875 here, though I don't know if I like it yet. HTH : Below is my dmesg, I would appreciate any suggestions. : : Console: 16 point font, 400 scans : Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63) : pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fae70 : pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfb310 : pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb340 : Probing PCI hardware. : Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 59.80 BogoMIPS : Memory: 63160k/65536k available (772k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1220k : data) : Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0 : NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035. : Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034 : IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP : VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized : : Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting. : : Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok. : Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. : moving IDT ... ... done : Linux version 2.0.32 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.1) #1 Mon Feb 9 : 07:11:26 MST 1998 : Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2 : Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled : tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A : tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A : PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed. : Real Time Clock Driver v1.07 : ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 : ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007 : ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f : hda: ST32140A, 2015MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=1023/64/63 : hdc: 655A, ATAPI CDROM drive : ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 : ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 : Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M : FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 : md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 : linear personality registered : raid0 personality registered : raid1 personality registered : raid5 personality registered : scsi : 0 hosts. : scsi : detected total. : PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) : TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of : California : PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc. : PPP line discipline registered. : eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0x6100, 00:60:08:04:3c:f8, IRQ : 11 : 8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/MII interface. : eth0: MII transceiver found at address 24. : Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. : eth0: Overriding PCI latency timer (CFLT) setting of 32, new value is : 248. : 3c59x.c:v0.46C 10/14/97 Donald Becker : http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html : Partition check: : hda: hda1 hda2 hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 : VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. : Adding Swap: 130748k swap-space (priority -1) : Module inserted $Id: cdrom.c,v 0.8 1996/08/10 10:52:11 david Exp $ : eexpress.c: Module autoprobe not recommended, give io=xx. : loading device 'eth1'... : eexpress.c: Failed to register card at 0x0. : : : : : : -- : TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : : -- 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
StarOffice and Debian (2)
Thanks for the info to those who posted. Now that I know StarOffice 4.0 will install and work, has any of you installed version 4.0 over a StarOffice 3.1 installation or would it be better to remove as much of the 3.1 stuff as possible? thanks again, -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
NAGLE disabled in Config.in
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, I remember having to answer questions about 'The Nagle Algorithm' and 'Subnets are local'. These are now commented out, and I was wondering if this was due to improvements in the networking code, and no longer applicable? - -- Walter L. Preuninger IIwaldo @ irc.wasteland.org:#unix [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] L I N U X Where You Really Should Be! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNN/vFAOUh++SVhLlEQJx6wCdEp1A/t+1RFhE4cq/ee1yJ3DPZuYAn06d uctsPggeTr+2wn6YvYyvR+Xl =/4XG -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do I convert data e-mailed from a mac?
At 14:19 -0500 1998-02-09, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jpmaster.dvi This is a application/mac-binhex40 Check out the program frommac in the macutils package (which contains all sorts of utilities for converting to/from binhex and macbinary formats). No, 'frommac' is a serial file transfer utility, 'hexbin' decodes binhex. -- Joel Espy Klecker Debian GNU/Linux Developermailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.espy.org/http://www.debian.org/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: StarOffice
try this site, it is a lot more responsive ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/linux/packages/staroffice4/final/01 regards kusuma Torsten Hilbrich wrote: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Group, I keep seeing posts regarding StarOffice. Where can I get this? ftp://ftp.stardiv.de/pub/so4/linux/final http://www.on-line.de/~michael.hoennig/AutoMultiUserSetupForSO40Linux.tar might be of interest too (see the message of Paul Seelig some days ago, [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more details). Torsten -- I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere. Fortune Cookie PGP Public key available -- 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: network status thru voice
On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 06:51:09PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: A. M. Varon wrote: I would like our users to know if our local or international link to the internet is up or down. One solution I'm looking at is our users would dial a tel. no. and they would be greeted with a voice saying the link is up or down. Is there a program for this? Perl or C program would do? There's a package in debian (unstable) named festival that does voice synthesis. That's part of what you want, but you'll have to figure out how to get the sound out over the telephone, I guess. You can probably convince vgetty (a modified mgetty for voice) to do this for you, although I've always found it too hard to find sufficient documentation to get it running. It would play pre-recorded sounds for you. 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: Hard Install
On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 09:56:49PM +, George R wrote: On 02/10/98 at 01:47 PM, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Well, anything can happen in a good-sized crash. Windows 95 can't change individual settings because their locations aren't standardized between BIOS manufacturers (AMI, Phoenix, Award, MR BIOS etc). Some of the basic settings are (like hard drive types) but none of the settings you spoke of are. Is this just Win95 or do other OS's mess with the CMOS? In 10+ years I've only experianced this with Win95. Well, Windows 95 has only been out for two and a half so that could be difficult! :-) But in nearly 10 years I've never seen anything do it at all. If certain junk gets written to the appropriate IO ports the CMOS will get trashed. I can't think of a reason why Windows 95 in particular would cause this more than other systems, but there might be a reason and it's not necessarily a Microsoft plot either. Once again the answer to a weird Win95 question comes from a Linux user. Am I seeing a trend? I don't understand what you mean. 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: samba/win95
At 22.42 07/02/98 -0500, Paul Miller wrote: When I set samba to USER mode, it doesn't accept passwords from windows machines.. It works from linux machines.. I'm using encrypted password and the lastest samba release. I believe that the problem is simply in the login in win95 network (netbeui, ipx/spx, TCP/IP) because the line 'security=user' in the smb.conf presume that the account on the server samba must be identical on both machines. perhaps there is another possibility: you can use the username.map in the samba config Another problem is that the $IPC resource isn't public, so windows computer won't browse the shares.. Everything works in SHARE mode; unfortunately, I need to use user mode. Anyone have this problem? How can I fix this? Thanks --- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED], finger for public PGP key sorry for imperfect english, ciao Antonio -- Antonio Doldo Istituto Superiore di Sanita' Laboratorio di Chimica del Farmaco Viale Regina Elena, 299 I-00161 ROME phone +39 6 49.90.26.82 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Upgrading from libc5 to libc6
I'm upgrading a fairly new bo system to hamm following the libc5 to libc6 howto. I've run into a problem when it comes to install libc6_2.0.6-3.deb as it reports a conflict with libc5. So I did as the HOWTO says and downloaded the older version of libc5 from the link in the HOWTO - libc5_5.4.33-3.deb and installed that, and repeated to install the new libc6, but still got the conflict. Where should I go from here, would it be safe to force the install? Is it safe to shutdown my system considering I've already upgraded ldso, but have been unable to upgrade to libc6 yet. Thanks for any info jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Hard Install
On 02/10/98 at 06:33 PM, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 09:56:49PM +, George R wrote: Is this just Win95 or do other OS's mess with the CMOS? In 10+ years I've only experianced this with Win95. Well, Windows 95 has only been out for two and a half so that could be difficult! :-) But in nearly 10 years I've never seen anything do it at all. Well, I've only messed with 95 for a few months. DOS, OS/2, Win3.x didn't ever do that and Win3.x seemed to major in unstable. If certain junk gets written to the appropriate IO ports the CMOS will get trashed. I can't think of a reason why Windows 95 in particular would cause this more than other systems, but there might be a reason and it's not necessarily a Microsoft plot either. Hadn't considered a MS plot. Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Once again the answer to a weird Win95 question comes from a Linux user. Am I seeing a trend? I don't understand what you mean. Well, in various Linux newsgroups, MS supporters troll/advocate WinXX as being stable/wonderful. Some non-windows user brings up problem xyz that caused their exodus from MS. The MS drone claims it can't happen, the complainer is an idiot. Some Linux user(fairly new convert) then give the why it happened and how(if possible) to minimize/prevent it from happening again. So, the trend seems to be: bang your head against MS until you have the answers to the problems that can be fixed and the thing still crashes. Then go find something else(Linux being a popular choice). George reply to: grimel @icx Sorry for the trouble, I'm just getting to much spam. .net --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ddd doesn't do a thing
On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 09:40:52PM +0100, Maarten Boekhold wrote: Some time ago I upgraded to ddd-2.1.1 with lesstifg-0.82-4, and ever since, ddd doesn't do a dd thing anymore. It starts up, and that's it. I can't even open a menu to open a file, or typw in the console window. Anybody knows how to fix this? I really start to miss my debugger Maarten, what's the precise version number of ddd? You say lesstifg, so I presume it's 2.1.1-5 (as that is the only 2.1.1 that's libc6). DDD needed to be changed for use with libc6. The first change was in 2.1.1-5, but there was a second change in 2.2-1 relating to this. Unfortunately, there are still severe problems in LessTif (X lockups and memory leaks), so there's no LessTif-using DDD that I can guarantee to works fine. I'm still looking for a new LessTif maintainer (I don't really have the expertise to maintain it)... Basically, there are three options you can consider: - Use ddd-smotif (or ddd-dmotif if you have motif) from contrib, which doesn't use LessTif, and should be OK. - Use the latest DDD from unstable (2.2.3-1). This should fix the doesn't do anything problem, but still has LessTif problems. - Downgrade to ddd_2.1.1-1 (in bo-updates). HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: hdd problems
Did you tag the Drive/partition you want to boot as active?
On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
Well it sounds like LILO is trying to boot from the wrong partition. Or,
perhaps the kernel is loading but the root device is wrong. I'm guessing
this is the case since I wouldn't expect very elaborate messages such as you
site below from LILO. When you get to where LILO prints hit scroll-lock to get
the prompt and type:
Linux root=/dev/hda1
where 'Linux' is the name of your linux image (if you don't know what the name
of the image is you can hit TAB at the prompt to get a list of images) and
/dev/hda1 is the device path of your root partition. Once you get booted up
look at your /etc/lilo.conf file. There should be a 'root=...' line in it
which is probably incorrect.
As to the BIOS detection, it probably still wants to find two drives. Go into
the BIOS setup and tell it there's no secondary drive and it'll be happy.
Ian Keith Setford wrote:
Yo-
I recently removed my Windows drive from a machine that runs Debian 95%
of the time. The previous arrangement was as follows:
/dev/hdaWindows (master primary controller)
/dev/hdbDebian (slave primary controller)
/dev/hdcCD-ROM (master secondary controller)
I removed /dev/hda (Windows) and switched the Debian drive cable and
set the jumper to master. I *thought* I was thinking ahead when I
re-configured LILO to boot from the actual Linux drive instead of from the
boot sector on the Windows drive. I ran /sbin/lilo and I also configured
fstab before I physically removed the drive.
After removal Linux will not boot. The BIOS detection of the HDD also
takes about 2 minutes whereas previously it took about 5-10 seconds.
Debian error says, DMA reset, irq timeout {SEEK ... SEEK ... }' etc..
I am unsure of what is actually wrong. I also booted with a rescue disk
and a boot disk but both will die with error, Unable to open Initial
Console.
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Failing to install on an FIC-PA2007 mb with an AMD K6-166
product: Debian 1.3.1 CD Problem: Various halts and core dumps to the screen during the boot phase. Symtoms: When booting from thr CD the boot screen comes up ok, then pressing return the boot will abort. This is not allways in the same place. Note: if it type in rescue, then the boot will continue to the point where it tries to mount the boot partion, then fails. This is a clean system with no disk partitions on the drive at all. Also, the RedHat Linux version will get past the boot phase (but, it falls over elsewhere ... but they state that they dont support the K6). I have followed the notes on the CD, and the BIOS has all the caches turned off, and not shadowing of devices. System: Board: FIC PA-2007 - 1mb on board cache CPU:AMD K6-166 mem:32mb SDRAM HD: Quantum Fireball St2.1 CD: Toshiba 24x -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
latex2html problem
Hi, I've got debian 1.3 distribution and I just cannot make latex2html work. It doesn't covert equations to gif files correctly, gifs remail of zero length. Here's the part of output from latex2html: ... (- 2531_image049) tex.prospecial.pro[49] (- 2531_image050) tex.pro special.pro[50results.onemax.psresults.onemax.ordering.ps] GSRunning ppmquant for img8.gif Writing img8.gif giftopnm: error reading magic number Error: No such file or directory No GIF file! Could not make img8.gif transparent: Illegal seek GSRunning ppmquant for img45.gif Writing img45.gif giftopnm: error reading magic number Error: No such file or directory sh: /usr/bin/pbmmake: No such file or directory sh: /usr/bin/pnmcat: No such file or directory sh: /usr/bin/ppmtogif: No such file or directory Error: Illegal seek No GIF file! Could not make img45.gif transparent: Illegal seek GSRunning ppmquant for img9.gif Writing img9.gif ... what might be the problem? thanx for help Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Hard Install
Well, I must confirm. Every time I reinstall win95, it reenables the default APM configuration in my BIOS, and I don't even have a standard one, but rather the obscure Acer BIOS. This behaviour has been very consistent, and I can easily reproduce it. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Failing to install on an FIC-PA2007 mb with an AMD K6-166
On Tue, Feb 10, 1998 at 12:14:23PM -, gormans wrote: Problem: Various halts and core dumps to the screen during the boot phase. Symtoms: When booting from thr CD the boot screen comes up ok, then pressing return the boot will abort. This is not allways in the same place. This sounds a lot like hardware problems. It could be CPU related, but it could also have to do with other parts of your hardware. Check out http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ for a list of potential causes to similar problems. HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: latex2html problem
On Tue, Feb 10, 1998 at 01:37:32PM +0100, Martin Pelikan wrote: sh: /usr/bin/pbmmake: No such file or directory sh: /usr/bin/pnmcat: No such file or directory sh: /usr/bin/ppmtogif: No such file or directory what might be the problem? You don't appear to have netpbm installed, which latex2html needs in order to convert LaTeX mathematics to graphic images. HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Viewing bootup message
On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, tsnake wrote: How can you view the entire list of messeges that show when you boot into linux? It all either scrolls by too fast or too much read/decipher as it rolls off the top. Is there a file that mirrors that output or someway I can re-direct it to a file for perusal? Thanks, Chris Although dmesg and /var/log/messages are useful, the best method of seeing *everything* is to use Shift-PageUp/Down. This is always present in VCs just so long as you look before you switch to another VC (which throws away everything above the top of the screen). -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
What browser to use under Linux?
What browsers have had good success under Linux? Where can I get one? Regards, -c -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: What browser to use under Linux?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 10 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What browsers have had good success under Linux? Netscape Navigator and Comunicator are the most used ones also for text-only mode lynx is very good, wich also doesn't requiere the amount of memory wich netscape wants... Where can I get one? They are provided as .deb packages at your prefered debian mirror Regards, Ulisses -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: latin1 Comment: PGP public key avaliable at http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver iQB1AwUBNOBasQ/N+5+NQ63pAQHhswL/Y5xJFR89Lp/894YZFO2qBEnFhmb3HxC3 nTjdswdCrD3fRC84Cmo6MA3Ib3lYE83tZpsoSk6SqvTzM7Gghe6RxNb53Zbg9d38 qzDQaEZK5zrVq8LOj7jwrnGRXHD6DtKO =EHjT -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problems with CD-ROM by installing Debian.Linux
I want to install Debian.Linux from my MITSUMI FX001D CD-ROM with an own controller-card on the isa bus. From the DRIVER-DISK, i created, i have used the -mcdx MITSUMI-driver. mcdx (MITSUMI CD-ROM) installed at 0x300,irq11 (FIRMWARE version D2) cd /dev rm -f cdrom in -s mcdx0 cdrom Installation succeeded If i want to install the base from cd-rom linux told me to install cd-rom-driver. I answerd done from the modules of the driver-disk without installing them again. By the try to read from cd the following Error-warning received: mount:/dev/cdrom: can`t read superblock The CD-ROM was not mounted successfully! After the 20th try to install debian.Linux i`m destroyed and i think i need every help i can get. I use a VLB-I/O-Card and the secundary port is free, but i don`t know if that works together?? Thank You very much for Your help under my e-mail-adress: [EMAIL PROTECTED] With kind regards walter PS.: thank god now readable :-))) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Viewing bootup message
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 09:11:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can you view the entire list of messeges that show when you boot into linux? It all either scrolls by too fast or too much read/decipher as it rolls off the top. Is there a file that mirrors that output or someway I can re-direct it to a file for perusal? dmesg will show you the kernel stuff, eg dmesg | less. Most of it is in the logs in /var/log too. There's no way (that I know of) to see all the non-kernel stuff. I could shift/page right back to the bios messages after startup until I upgraded svgatextmode (currently Version: 1.8-4.) Now I cannot go back past whatever is on the screen when svgatextmode starts. Has anyone got a fix for this? Note that scroll lock will pause the display. Hamish 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: SCSI
On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Greg Green wrote: : Thanks Nathan! : : You hit the nail on the head. I was using the NCR7,8xx driver. Once I : changed it to the NCR8xxx, the card was detected and the drives spun up. : Now, I am having problems with RAID5. I can get RAID0 to work fine, but I : cannot figure out to get past a certain error message. : : I get the following error when I try to #mdrun -p5 /dev/md0 : md:08:01: : invalid raid superblock magic (6c6c6c6c) on block 8886144 :/dev/md0: : invalid argument : : Any clues on what I am doing wrong? : : Let me know, and thanks for the help. : : Greg Green : AdvantageCom Did you use mdcreate (IIRC) when you created your raid array? I've never run any raid level other than 0 (using the md driver, anyway) so I can't be of much help in the way of practical experience. However, I do remember that my raid 0 arrays never worked unless I used mdcreate and let it make the mdtab, etc. ... There's a mailing list for linux raid. I believe the name of the list is linux-raid ... hmm, is it at vger? I forget. The address is in the md docs, at any rate. I don't have them handy. Good luck! -- 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: Problems with CD-ROM by installing Debian.Linux
Hi! If you compile the kernel, solved the problem Reading, Kernel HOWTO.. WALTER HOLUBARZ (Tel 31423) 작성함: I want to install Debian.Linux from my MITSUMI FX001D CD-ROM with an own controller-card on the isa bus. From the DRIVER-DISK, i created, i have used the -mcdx MITSUMI-driver. mcdx (MITSUMI CD-ROM) installed at 0x300,irq11 (FIRMWARE version D2) cd /dev rm -f cdrom in -s mcdx0 cdrom Installation succeeded If i want to install the base from cd-rom linux told me to install cd-rom-driver. I answerd done from the modules of the driver-disk without installing them again. By the try to read from cd the following Error-warning received: mount:/dev/cdrom: can`t read superblock The CD-ROM was not mounted successfully! After the 20th try to install debian.Linux i`m destroyed and i think i need every help i can get. I use a VLB-I/O-Card and the secundary port is free, but i don`t know if that works together?? Thank You very much for Your help under my e-mail-adress: [EMAIL PROTECTED] With kind regards walter PS.: thank god now readable :-))) -- 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: SCSI
Ok thanks. I did use mdcreate, but still no dice. I will check out the mailing list. Thanks again for your help. Greg Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Greg Green wrote: : Thanks Nathan! : : You hit the nail on the head. I was using the NCR7,8xx driver. Once I : changed it to the NCR8xxx, the card was detected and the drives spun up. : Now, I am having problems with RAID5. I can get RAID0 to work fine, but I : cannot figure out to get past a certain error message. : : I get the following error when I try to #mdrun -p5 /dev/md0 : md:08:01: : invalid raid superblock magic (6c6c6c6c) on block 8886144 :/dev/md0: : invalid argument : : Any clues on what I am doing wrong? : : Let me know, and thanks for the help. : : Greg Green : AdvantageCom Did you use mdcreate (IIRC) when you created your raid array? I've never run any raid level other than 0 (using the md driver, anyway) so I can't be of much help in the way of practical experience. However, I do remember that my raid 0 arrays never worked unless I used mdcreate and let it make the mdtab, etc. ... There's a mailing list for linux raid. I believe the name of the list is linux-raid ... hmm, is it at vger? I forget. The address is in the md docs, at any rate. I don't have them handy. Good luck! -- 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: Procmail, qmail and file locking
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues wrote: David Maslen writes: I'm a bit unsure if it's safe to use procmail with qmail. qmail only uses flock as a locking mechanism (no dotlocking). If your procmail binary also uses flock, there should be no problem. Try 'procmail -v' to check: Locking strategies: dotlocking, flock() Please, note that Debian procmail -v says: Locking strategies: dotlocking as mandated by our policy. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNOB8QCqK7IlOjMLFAQHrigP+KK7qmliclnxaxg9MS5U/LK8ANR/qEqMU +gQPOlB58mqJU8SpXXKCFjeRFS3ZE1L7zQNvuDALHcb4WpWMSjv5lu7OLyE+MLUG qzTyCUhMmLQOc+q73x2SCz3+79vy/dGrFyFZ1j9J4MUp9uK3ZUlioTWG1Vq0POr9 p5FwjYVWsLQ= =UF9p -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Dselect with floppy
I've just installed debian (kernel 2.0.29) on an IBM ThinkPad 360 which neither has a CD-ROM nor a network connection (yet). Therefore I wanted to use dselect with the floppy drive (/dev/fd0 - msdos), but when I try to install new *.deb-files I get the following error message: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 sector 0 mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device Does anybody what's going wrong here? TIA Stefan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: What browser to use under Linux?
Ulisses Alonso Camaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Netscape Navigator and Comunicator are the most used ones also for text-only mode lynx is very good, wich also doesn't requiere the amount of memory wich netscape wants... Where can I get one? They are provided as .deb packages at your prefered debian mirror This is true for lynx, but not for netscape/communicator. There is an installer programm for the latter though. But you have to download a binary distribution of netscape for linux from a ftp.netscape.com mirror yourself. Jens --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key from: http://www.weh.rwth-aachen.de/~jens/public.asc Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Compute Farm
The powers-that-be around here have almost decided to scrap Slowaris x86 for the 200 machine PPro compouter farm, and go with Linux... I need to convince them to use Debian and not RH. They want to be able to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to each machine in the farm, without having to go to each of the remaining 199 and configure it by hand. Someone told them that RH made this easy, and no other dist could do it! Someone help me out here! This will be running the RHIC project in 1999 here.. I'd love to see Debian get that kind of exposure! Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Too much information running through my brain, too much information, driving me insane. -- The Police ** 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] .
CDE
Hello. I have aquestion about CDE. Is there a version of CDE for Debian (can I hope that it will be). OK. Debian user: Matej Grasic -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SCSI Controllers
Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would highly recommend Buss Logic to anyone needing a SCSI interface. That's my impression as well. I've also heard that for the truly performance crazed, DPT cards are the answer, but are also more expensive. ( This thread really should be moved to debian-user if continued. ) For low-cost, high-performance, well-maintained cards, though, I don't think you can beat NCR. ASUS has a Ultra-Wide card that you can find for $120 that has been benchmarked (for all that's worth) outperforming an Adaptec. Mike. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Qddb or other databases
I struggled with this question for quite a while. What I wanted had to satisfy the following criteria: 1. A decent license such as GPL or BSD-style. 2. Flexible and powerful. 3. Actively developed. Only a handful of databases satisfy these criteria. IMHO, Postgresql seems to be the easiest and most mature. I use it both locally and remotely with the Roxen web server. It not only satisfies my personal database needs but also is a skill that I can market to small businesses, etc. I think the database/web server combination will explode in popularity. Sorry I cannot help you with Qddb. Is it still being actively developed? Bake -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: What browser to use under Linux?
What browsers have had good success under Linux? Netscape Navigator and Comunicator are the most used ones also for text-only mode lynx is very good, wich also doesn't requiere the amount of memory wich netscape wants... If it would take the mouse to select links, I would strongly prefer lynx in general. Unless you really need the pictures, it's more stable, faster, and takes less memory. Also, it doesn't force you to download those moronic maps full of links, but displays the links that netscape keeps hidden, and handles cookies far more intelligently--it allows the option of always or never accepting cookies from a site, as well as yes/no. -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: CDE
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Matej Grasic wrote: Hello. I have aquestion about CDE. Is there a version of CDE for Debian (can I hope that it will be). CDE is commercial software. You can buy a Linux version from RedHat and convert the RPM using the alien package into a .deb to install. -- Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Xemacs and missing /usr/spool link
Hi all, I finally tracked down a problem with Xemacs19 and gnus, and hope this can help someone else. I'm tracking unstable, and generally having very few problems (thanks!). The past few days, however, xemacs has refused to recognize that I have mail in my mailbox, and gnus doesn't see it either. Xemacs, gnus, and some other packages (efs, prim, reportmail, rmail, crontab, and vm), all look for mail in /usr/spool/mail/user. On Debian systems, this is a symlink to /var/spool/mail/user, so all is well. This symlink seems to have been removed by some package recently, however, and problems began developing. Was this a deliberate policy decision? I seem to have missed discussion of it. I currently have added a line to my .emacs (so display-time will show the status of the mailbox): (setq rmail-spool-directory /var/spool/mail/) and one to my .gnus: (setq nnmail-spool-file /var/spool/mail/npreyer) and this works. Or I could replace the /usr/spool link. What's the best way to handle this? xemacs 19.16-1 Thanks! --Norris -- Norris Preyer (541) 962-3310 (office) Physics Program (541) 962-3873 (fax) Eastern Oregon University [EMAIL PROTECTED] La Grande, OR 97850http://physics.eou.edu/npreyer.html finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: On the fly compression with ext2
Ulisses Alonso Camaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! I would like to know when there will be ext2 on the fly file compression, supported in the kernel, ext2 has already support but kernel seems to not support it yet, nor the 2.1.8x kernels... Does this will be introduced prior 2.2 version? There is a Debian package called e2compr including a kernel patch and an update chattr. Package: e2compr Essential: yes Installed-Size: 337 Maintainer: Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Version: 1.06-2 Replaces: e2fsprogs Provides: e2fsprogs (= 1.06-2) Pre-Depends: libc5 (= 5.4.0-0) Conflicts: e2fsprogs Size: 259884 Description: EXT2 utilities with support for Kernel level compression This is a modification of the regular e2fsprogs package adding tools for kernel level compression. Also contains the patch for the kernel. Torsten -- I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere. Fortune Cookie PGP Public key available -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
latex2rtf - where is it?
I seem to to have a manpage for latex2rtf, but nothing that the system can find. Does anyone know which package it is in? Tony -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dselect with floppy
I assume that /dev/fd0 exists (as you must have installed from them) (2) is the diskette corrupt (3) what does your /etc/fstab look like? -- Jonathan On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Stefan Palm wrote: I've just installed debian (kernel 2.0.29) on an IBM ThinkPad 360 which neither has a CD-ROM nor a network connection (yet). Therefore I wanted to use dselect with the floppy drive (/dev/fd0 - msdos), but when I try to install new *.deb-files I get the following error message: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 sector 0 mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device Does anybody what's going wrong here? TIA Stefan -- 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: On the fly compression with ext2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- There is a Debian package called e2compr including a kernel patch and an update chattr. Hello Torsen This is a great notice for me! thanks for your info! It will help me a lot! Regards, Ulisses -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: latin1 Comment: PGP public key avaliable at http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver iQB1AwUBNOCo4Q/N+5+NQ63pAQHzowL/YT/4qSAwStkgzND+YV221v4Ex06yW3/3 CON8NG3E+t1EYgCSL3D0CzkuiHqEYaU9JKHKcQnQe/x2mN9iZExrqGnB5wnSMtUZ Spvodl6siFMgYIT38iX/1AXGsjuu44hs =VpVq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: latex2rtf - where is it?
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Tony wrote: I seem to to have a manpage for latex2rtf, but nothing that the system can find. Does anyone know which package it is in? Hate to do this, but it is in the latex2rtf package:) Now to be helpful - I assume you mean man latex2rtf works, but there seems to be no latex2rtf executable. Here's a few things to try to help track down the problem: try dpkg --status latex2rtf to see the status of the package. Maybe it was removed but failed to erase the man page. try whereis latex2rtf to search the whereis database to see if it lists the executable. The output should look like cgowave-3-77:~/tsp/citibase$ whereis latex2rtf latex2rtf: /usr/bin/latex2rtf /usr/lib/latex2rtf /usr/man/man1/latex2rtf.1.gz try find /usr -name latex2rtf to find the executable. If the package is there but latex2rtf is not in the path (or the executable is missing, etc) remove the package and reinstall it. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Kingston, Ontario, Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: On the fly compression with ext2
On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 09:40:23PM +0100, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: Ulisses Alonso Camaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! I would like to know when there will be ext2 on the fly file compression, supported in the kernel, ext2 has already support but kernel seems to not support it yet, nor the 2.1.8x kernels... Does this will be introduced prior 2.2 version? There is a Debian package called e2compr including a kernel patch and an update chattr. But for some reason, the patch isn't included. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Interaction between SGI and Linux printing software
I help to maintain a lab of SGI boxes. Lately we've been having trouble getting the printer, which is connected to a Linux box, to print properly. The pages come out backwards; i.e., reflected across a line running vertically down the page. The printer is an Apple Color LaserWriter 12/600 PostScript; the SGIs are O2s running IRIX 6.4. Does anyone have any suggestions? If any more information would be helpful, let me know. Thanks in advance, Ben. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Sendmail
I saw tons of smail stuff here... but I've descided to use sendmail. Are there any resources other than usenet or buying the bat book where I can get info about how to actually get it working right? It starts up upon boot, but I can't seem to figure out much about setting it up RIGHT. I went through the auto-setup during the dselect install process, but it's not doing what I though it should... so I'm stuck. I'm not looking for a tutorial from the list (unless some poor soul has already got one typed up for us bozos), but something I can download and read along with as I set it up. After that... I attack apache :} -- '\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\ Live on Real Audio Thursday nights 8-11 EST http://www.uvm.edu/~wruv T-SNAKE [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN:1868354 A DJ on a mission CROSSFADE RECORDS http://www.crossfade.com/ Drug free techno ,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
problem with StarOffice-4.0
I have installed the new StarOffice-4.0 onto my stable (bo) distribution of Debian/GNU Linux (1.3.1.r6). When I startup via the soffice script, I get the following messages followed by a Segmentation Fault error. Any idea what is the matter? Environment $XENVIRONMENT $DISPLAY:0.0 $SAL_VISUAL $SAL_FONTPATH /home/StarOffice-4.0/fonts/type1:/home/StarOffice-4.0/fonts/75dpi $SAL_NOSEGV $SAL_IGNOREXERRORS $SAL_PROPERTIES $SAL_WM $SAL_SYNCHRONIZE $XPPATH /home/StarOffice-4.0/xp3 Client Hostfea Display Host:0.0 Vendor (Release)The XFree86 Project, Inc (3310) shift ctrl alt Shift_L (0xFFE1) Control_L (0xFFE3) Alt_L (0xFFE9) XMaxRequestSize 262140 4194300 [bytes] Properties 0x2FEB Windowmanager 8 Screen Resolution/Size 75*75 1280*1024 21.8 BlackWhite 0 65535 RGB 0xf800 0x7e0 0x1f Visual 16-bit TrueColor ID=0x20 Images (Shared) 0x8000 (8000) Segmentation fault ___ P.S. The installation appeared to go flawlessly. Kind of a no-brainer (nothing to do). -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division |work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008 |home e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392|world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PPTP for remote connection
Does anyone know about PPTP (Point-to-point Tunneling Protocol). It's supposed to be a secure version of PPP (used on WinNT servers). My employer just started using it, and my old PAP setup to dial-in from home stopped working. Do I need a new program instead of pppd? I also think (based on a sparse usenet search) that it won't run on 2.0.x kernels, but only on 2.1.65 or so. Any pointers appreciated... -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada 418-775-0852 - FAX 418-775-0546 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Packages Menus and debian user list
I HOPE that this message gets through to the list... the last ones I sent were bounced back with a message about the SMTP server I am using not stopping spammers (I have been using the delphi one because my acount is on delphi and it is a reliable one) I am now attempting to use helix (a local network smtp sevrer that I have no acount on.. yes I know that I don't need an acount to use SMTP...but I just like using servers that I have permission to use...not that the helix people here at work would mind but..) anyway I have had a slight problem with menu (the package for making the default menus in the Debian Xwindows system) I installe dthe GIMP from source (and also installed netscape from netscapes own installer) and wanted them on the menus...unfortunalty the menu program works in conjuction with the package management system to make sure a package is installed b4 processing its menus GIMP and Netscape were locally installed...so..whats the PROPER way to add default menus for them? I solved the problem by saying that the package that the menu was for wa sthe menu package itself it seems like a working solution (I mean..menu itself HAS to be installed fo rit to even matter) It works great but...I don't really LIK Ethat solution it would be nice if there was a way to add package names and limited info (or is there already a way) for locally installed packages... for example the Apache webserver that i compiled and installed from source is it just me? am I missing something? -Steve -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: samba/win95
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Antonio Doldo wrote: At 22.42 07/02/98 -0500, Paul Miller wrote: When I set samba to USER mode, it doesn't accept passwords from windows machines.. It works from linux machines.. I'm using encrypted password and the lastest samba release. I believe that the problem is simply in the login in win95 network (netbeui, ipx/spx, TCP/IP) because the line 'security=user' in the smb.conf presume that the account on the server samba must be identical on both machines. I don't think the protocol changes in the security setting is changed. My Linux box currently doesn't even support ipx.. and I don't know about netbeui... perhaps there is another possibility: you can use the username.map in the samba config What is username.map? Is it where samba checks the password against a list of valid users? That doesn't sound too secure. -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dselect with floppy
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Stefan Palm wrote: I've just installed debian (kernel 2.0.29) on an IBM ThinkPad 360 which neither has a CD-ROM nor a network connection (yet). Therefore I wanted to use dselect with the floppy drive (/dev/fd0 - msdos), but when I try to install new *.deb-files I get the following error message: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 sector 0 mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device Does anybody what's going wrong here? TIA Stefan IBM Thinkpads have some kind of weird floppy controller and you need to add floppy=thinkpad to your lilo or loadlin command. At least, that's what people have said...it doesn't seem to help on my 380ED. --Norris -- Norris Preyer (541) 962-3310 (office) Physics Program (541) 962-3873 (fax) Eastern Oregon University [EMAIL PROTECTED] La Grande, OR 97850http://physics.eou.edu/npreyer.html finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
No network to me..
Hi all, Please help me, i'm going crazy. I'm installing Debian/Linux in a Pentium mmx 233, PnP BIOS, just like a several pc's that i've done before. The Network Card is 3com 3c905-TX PCI (it doesn't matter, because i changed that card - NE2000 - and the problem didn't disappear), and its drive is installed fine. But this computer simply doesn't want to see the network. Nothing. It doesn't ping to nobody, no telnet, ftp, ...even to a computer on my local net. The net card's lead is lightning ok. I'm thinking the BIOS is bugging me. :-? Bruno -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPTP for remote connection
No, it isn't any version of PPP. PPTP is what the name implies, a tunneling protocol. That is, it allows you to pack IP packets inside of IP packets (and supports encryption/authentication in the process). It is used to create Virtual Private Networks and is unrelated to PPP. If your dial-in stopped working set PPP to log packets and check them out. Perhaps your employer switched from PAP to CHAP. Post the packet log back here and we'll have a look-see. Peter S Galbraith wrote: Does anyone know about PPTP (Point-to-point Tunneling Protocol). It's supposed to be a secure version of PPP (used on WinNT servers). My employer just started using it, and my old PAP setup to dial-in from home stopped working. Do I need a new program instead of pppd? I also think (based on a sparse usenet search) that it won't run on 2.0.x kernels, but only on 2.1.65 or so. -- 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: Sendmail
T-Snake, You may want to give www.sendmail.org a shot. There is a lot of great information on the site that should help out. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] T-SNAKE wrote: I saw tons of smail stuff here... but I've descided to use sendmail. Are there any resources other than usenet or buying the bat book where I can get info about how to actually get it working right? It starts up upon boot, but I can't seem to figure out much about setting it up RIGHT. I went through the auto-setup during the dselect install process, but it's not doing what I though it should... so I'm stuck. I'm not looking for a tutorial from the list (unless some poor soul has already got one typed up for us bozos), but something I can download and read along with as I set it up. After that... I attack apache :} -- '\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\ Live on Real Audio Thursday nights 8-11 EST http://www.uvm.edu/~wruv T-SNAKE [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN:1868354 A DJ on a mission CROSSFADE RECORDS http://www.crossfade.com/ Drug free techno ,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/ -- 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] .
Need help!
I'm installing it from ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/Debian-1.3/disks-i386/current/ and ive read and mostly understood the install.html file. But I just have 4 MB of RAM, when I get to the part when it stands: This system has relevately low memory, special procedures are required Here's what it looks like: 1.Run the disk partitioning program to add a linux swap (type 82)And on.. 2.Then initialize the swap partion. 3.Then initialize the temporary root partion. 4.Reboot. I can choose these 2 options: 1.Run the disk partitioning program inorder to create a swap partition. 2.Reboot When I type 1 I get here: The following drives are available: Drives that are named /dev/hdx are IDE, ATA, MFM, or RLL drives. Drives that are named /dev/sdX are SCSI drives. /dev/hda Please type a driver name from the above list: I dont know what i should type here. I will be very glad if someone could help me! /Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ 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: CDE
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Scott Ellis wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Matej Grasic wrote: Hello. I have aquestion about CDE. Is there a version of CDE for Debian (can I hope that it will be). CDE is commercial software. You can buy a Linux version from RedHat and convert the RPM using the alien package into a .deb to install. I just tried installing the RedHat CDE package into a Debian unstable system. It was compiled with an oldish version of libc5 and not libc6 which the unstable release is based on. I was successful in converting the rpm files to deb files using alien. Unfortunately, when I tried to start CDE using dtlogin, I received a core dump. I received no response from RedHat technical support. Its a real pity that Debian doesn't have support for the primary window enviornment used by all commercial UNIX vendors. Maybe we should try to work directly with TriTeal, the suppliers of CDE for RedHat, a seperate package for Debian. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm
Tim Sailer wrote: They want to be able to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to each machine See if the recent aricle in Linux Journal might be of help. The article concerned the use of 160 Alpha Linux boxes for graphics rendering. I belive it was the Jan '98 issue. http://www.ssc.com/lj/ hunter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dselect with floppy
This is the error message that is generated if you try to mount the drive without a floppy in it. The floppy must be in the drive before it is mounted, and should not be removed before it is unmounted. Bob On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Stefan Palm wrote: I've just installed debian (kernel 2.0.29) on an IBM ThinkPad 360 which neither has a CD-ROM nor a network connection (yet). Therefore I wanted to use dselect with the floppy drive (/dev/fd0 - msdos), but when I try to install new *.deb-files I get the following error message: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 sector 0 mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Problems with CD-ROM by installing Debian.Linux
WALTER HOLUBARZ[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : I want to install Debian.Linux from my MITSUMI FX001D CD-ROM with an own controller-card on the isa bus. From the DRIVER-DISK, i created, i have used the -mcdx MITSUMI-driver. Use mcd instead, I've never successed with mcdx but mcd works as a charm. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
www.Sendmail.org
You may want to give www.sendmail.org a shot. There is a lot of great information on the site that should help out. Well, I've been to this site MANY times trying to see where it really fits in with where I am and it doesn't seem to speak to me. There seems to be mostly information that would only make sense to someone who already understands what is going on, which wouldn't be me unfortunately. ;) Half of the FAQs are broken and they don't seem to give rudimentary setup/configuration help. I'll keep poking around, as always... :) Chris -- '\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\ Live on Real Audio Thursday nights 8-11 EST http://www.uvm.edu/~wruv T-SNAKE [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN:1868354 A DJ on a mission CROSSFADE RECORDS http://www.crossfade.com/ Drug free techno ,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: No network to me..
Bruno Simoes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, Please help me, i'm going crazy. I'm installing Debian/Linux in a Pentium mmx 233, PnP BIOS, just like a several pc's that i've done before. The Network Card is 3com 3c905-TX PCI (it doesn't matter, because i changed that card - NE2000 - and the problem didn't disappear), and its drive is installed fine. But this computer simply doesn't want to see the network. Nothing. It doesn't ping to nobody, no telnet, ftp, ...even to a computer on my local net. The net card's lead is lightning ok. Did you check ifconfig's and route's output? I had a similar problem with a SMC. It was the Ram shadowing of the BIOS. Turn off Shadow RAM completely. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm
Hunter H Marshall wrote: Tim Sailer wrote: They want to be able to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to each machine See if the recent aricle in Linux Journal might be of help. The article concerned the use of 160 Alpha Linux boxes for graphics rendering. I belive it was the Jan '98 issue. http://www.ssc.com/lj/ Since Tim wants reason to use Debian instead of Redhat, and the article you suggest talks of using Redhat, that probably won't be very helpful. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm
Behan Webster wrote:
Hunter H Marshall wrote:
Tim Sailer wrote:
They want to be able
to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to each machine
See if the recent aricle in Linux Journal might be
of help. The article concerned the use of 160
Alpha Linux boxes for graphics rendering. I belive
it was the Jan '98 issue.
http://www.ssc.com/lj/
Since Tim wants reason to use Debian instead of Redhat, and the article
you suggest talks of using Redhat, that probably won't be very helpful.
I do not have the article in hand. I was afraid of
something like that!
:-{
hunter red-faced marshall
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RE: Compute Farm
Tim Sailer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They want to be able to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to each machine in the farm, without having to go to each of the remaining 199 and configure it by hand. Someone told them that RH made this easy, and no other dist could do it! Well...there are many many ways to do itand it depends on what the setup is How homogeneous are the machines? for the most partif the hardware on em isn't terribly strange... it would be littl emore than an issue of mirroring 1 hard drive image over to all of the machines With a network setup that could be quite easy Hell I just recently was moving from one PC to another and I did a Drag and Dropjust took out the hard drive and pu tit in the new machine and boom...up came linux once the BIOS was happy (486/DX66 from a 486SX/25 system...differnt amount of RAM, diff vid card...) There is apcakage in debian that I have not played with but saw...which allows you to setup 1 computer andinstall the package,... then it makes a boot disk...goto any machine..pop in the boot disk... no install..instant workstation! and it is setup to do everything the server can do (by default) then come questions...is there going to be a single network filesystem? for the most part (as per the FHS) you should be able to share /usr beween all machines (assuming the same rchitecture of course) same for /home etc Suposedly redhat kickstart is suposed to be able to automate this... but with a tiny bit more work it should be very easily doable with debian hmmm just a slightly evil thought anyone tried cat /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1 assuming hda1 and hdb1 are similar partition sizes and types -Steve -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Using hamm? READ THIS about /usr/spool and related links...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello. This mail is intended for the user who is running the current Debian unstable distribution (a.k.a. hamm). I'm the Debian maintainer who removed the /usr/spool symlink and some other symlinks that were part of the `base-files' package... Not only the FHS but also the old FSSTND says that the mail spool is /var/spool/mail, so every program should look for mail there, not in /usr/spool/mail. Everything that the FSSTND and the FHS says about the symlink /usr/spool - /var/spool is that it may be present (but it is not mandatory). It also says Once a system no longer requires any one of the above symbolic links, the link may be removed, if desired. Well, our goal for Debian 2.0 is obviously to comply with the standards, so we *must* modify all our software to use /var/spool and not /usr/spool. But then: How will we know which programs do not use /var/spool yet? The answer is very simple: Just remove the symlinks and see which programs break. Of course, this has to be done in *unstable*, where every program may break. So if a program breaks because it uses /usr/spool, *that* is a bug. If you want to help us on this, you may report all those bugs through the Debian bug tracking system, see /usr/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt or http://www.de.debian.org/Bugs. [ Of course, if you want to help us even more, you may take a look at the bug database first to make sure that the bug is not already reported ]. As it is often said: I apologize for the inconvenience, etc. etc. Thanks. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNODHCiqK7IlOjMLFAQEfDAQApFmgt81FUwk0e791lu7cTxVvb7NS0KwP PFGEK6noWEboVFIWFqNpmnQdTNDikwHi2YyQlF9Ak4WpbQy+tGzfeUc9/+cxfeTD Pli5Oe71dusZ2zQkhu0k9+mwq7wXFnFdEO2ZPUoaTUfcnijz4qCs6dz5sJaKyn3n WSbvLPuxZrg= =0KN/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Xemacs and missing /usr/spool link
Norris Preyer wrote: Debian systems, this is a symlink to /var/spool/mail/user, so all is well. This symlink seems to have been removed by some package recently, however, and problems began developing. I had the same problem with RedHat 4.1 when I tried to install a pop3 server I don't know about debian policy (as much as I really like debian...im not a big fan of the policies) re-inserting the sym link shouldn't hurt anything IMHO I would suggest strongly leaving OUT the symlink My rational: acording to the filesystem standards /var/spool is proper and /usr/spool is not...thus leaving out the link breaks packages which are wrong This allows the problems to be found and fixed so that someday noone will need the sym link Thats what I did I got the pop3d package from sunsite... the docs said it looks in /var/spool/mail ..the man page said /var/spool/mail it never worked...then I inserted the sym link and it worked again I looked through the source and found that the program looked for /usr/spool... so I deleted the sym link and fixed the source...1 line of editing and it worked again unfortunatly I was unable to contact the maintainers of this particular server... and that was b4 my recent hard drive crash so really...in truth (as it is YOUR system) its up to you the question is do you want things to work the first time... or to show up as broken and work right after you fix them? -Steve -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm
Stephen Carpenter wrote: Tim Sailer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They want to be able to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to each machine in the farm, without having to go to each of the remaining 199 and configure it by hand. Someone told them that RH made this easy, and no other dist could do it! Well...there are many many ways to do itand it depends on what the setup is How homogeneous are the machines? They are going to be almost identical. for the most partif the hardware on em isn't terribly strange... it would be littl emore than an issue of mirroring 1 hard drive image over to all of the machines With a network setup that could be quite easy Hell I just recently was moving from one PC to another and I did a Drag and Dropjust took out the hard drive and pu tit in the new machine and boom...up came linux once the BIOS was happy (486/DX66 from a 486SX/25 system...differnt amount of RAM, diff vid card...) There is apcakage in debian that I have not played with but saw...which allows you to setup 1 computer andinstall the package,... then it makes a boot disk...goto any machine..pop in the boot disk... no install..instant workstation! and it is setup to do everything the server can do (by default) then come questions...is there going to be a single network filesystem? for the most part (as per the FHS) you should be able to share /usr beween all machines (assuming the same rchitecture of course) same for /home etc Suposedly redhat kickstart is suposed to be able to automate this... but with a tiny bit more work it should be very easily doable with debian All that would work if you wanted to take the machines offline to do that, but these machines are going to be handling 30MB/min of streaming data for 6 months at a clip. There's no way that would work. :( hmmm just a slightly evil thought anyone tried cat /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1 assuming hda1 and hdb1 are similar partition sizes and types Tried it... doesnt work. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Nihil illegitemi carborvndvm. --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: Using hamm? READ THIS about /usr/spool and related links...
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: But then: How will we know which programs do not use /var/spool yet? The answer is very simple: Just remove the symlinks and see which programs break. Of course, this has to be done in *unstable*, where every program may break. So if a program breaks because it uses /usr/spool, *that* is a bug. how about this as a start: #!/bin/sh for i in /bin /sbin /sbin /usr/sbin /usr/X11R6/bin [...etc...] ; do for j in $i/* ; do strings -a $j | grep -q /usr/spool echo $j uses /usr/spool done done btw, i agree with removing the /usr/spool symlink. programs that use /usr/spool have to be found and fixed. craig -- craig sanders -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm
Hunter H Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tim Sailer wrote: They want to be able to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to each machine See if the recent aricle in Linux Journal might be of help. The article concerned the use of 160 Alpha Linux boxes for graphics rendering. I belive it was the Jan '98 issue. http://www.ssc.com/lj/ Look at http://www.ssc.com/lj/issue46/2494.html They provided a master disk to the manufacturer who copied it to all of the other machines. A script changed all the needed values (IP, Hostname, etc.). With debian you can use, dpkg --get-selections, dpkg --set-selections and installation via ftp. A problem is, that you can`t leave the installation process unattended, because you have to answer some questions e.g. about precedence of mime applications or setup for x11. AFIAK the new installation program will address this issue (questions asked first, then installation, automatic setup for farms --- it`s expected to come with Debian 2.1). At the moment, copying the disks seems to be the best solution. HTH, Jens --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key from: http://www.weh.rwth-aachen.de/~jens/public.asc Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
libc5 (not libc6) by default? (was: CDE)
I just tried installing the RedHat CDE package into a Debian unstable system. It was compiled with an oldish version of libc5 and not libc6 which the unstable release is based on. I was successful in converting the rpm files to deb files using alien. Unfortunately, when I tried to start CDE using dtlogin, I received a core dump. I received no response from RedHat technical support. Its a real pity that Debian doesn't have support for the primary window enviornment used by all commercial UNIX vendors. Maybe we should try to work directly with TriTeal, the suppliers of CDE for RedHat, a seperate package for Debian. I'm sure there is not the problem that the package is not *.deb. The problem here is that it was not linked with specific major version of libc. If you try to do ldd /path/to/some/CDE/executable/or/library I bet that you'll get dependence on libc6. Same thing happens to my Motif: libXm.so.2.0 seems to depend on libc6 while both of them used libc5 headers. The solution is to configure shared lib loader to use libc5 by default. If somebody can tell me how to do it, I would be very gratefull. Thanks. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Using hamm? READ THIS about /usr/spool and related links...
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: But then: How will we know which programs do not use /var/spool yet? The answer is very simple: Just remove the symlinks and see which programs break. Of course, this has to be done in *unstable*, where every program may break. So if a program breaks because it uses /usr/spool, *that* is a bug. how about this as a start: #!/bin/sh for i in /bin /sbin /sbin /usr/sbin /usr/X11R6/bin [...etc...] ; do for j in $i/* ; do strings -a $j | grep -q /usr/spool echo $j uses /usr/spool done done here's what a similar loop run on my /usr/bin reports: # cd /usr/bin # for i in * ; do strings -a $i | grep -q /usr/spool echo $i uses /usr/spool ; done Broken pipe epic4 uses /usr/spool mailserver uses /usr/spool Broken pipe ncftp uses /usr/spool nn uses /usr/spool nnbatch uses /usr/spool nncheck uses /usr/spool nngrep uses /usr/spool nnpost uses /usr/spool nntidy uses /usr/spool nnview uses /usr/spool Broken pipe pine uses /usr/spool strings: smath: Too many levels of symbolic links sortmail uses /usr/spool Broken pipe xemacs uses /usr/spool Broken pipe xemacs-20.2 uses /usr/spool the broken pipe messages are presumably from binaries with no strings in them. on my system, /usr/bin/smath is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/smath. /etc/alternatives/smath is a symlink to /usr/bin/smath. i suppose it's a good think i don't use smath for anything :-). smath is from staroffice. it's installed weirdly on my systems...i have it installed on kali.taz.net.au and have /usr/lib/StarOffice3.1 nfs mounted on my workstation siva.taz.net.au because kali has gobs of free disk space and i built siva with a way-too-small /usr partition a long time ago. it may be necessary for bug reports to be filed against the other packages - depends on whether they are written to only use /usr/spool or if the string is in there because they can use it as a second-choice alternative to /var/spool. craig -- craig sanders -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm
All that would work if you wanted to take the machines offline to do that, but these machines are going to be handling 30MB/min of streaming data for 6 months at a clip. There's no way that would work. :( hmmm just a slightly evil thought anyone tried cat /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1 assuming hda1 and hdb1 are similar partition sizes and types Tried it... doesnt work. you can't use cat, but if the drives are identical you can use dd (We use that to clone identical copies of drives here). As for package maintenance, once you have one machine set up the way you want, you can get the package list using dpkg --get-selections, save that to a file. Then reverse it (ie: dpkg --set-selections filename) on the next machine after updating the package list. Then you you don't need to use dselect or do much work on the other machines and maintenance becomes pretty painless. Come these things into an install/update script and then you can pretty much automate everything except for answering all the questions that come up during an install (in my case, I just keep tabs of these config files on the master machine and rdist them across afterwards). This is how I keep our 50 or so linux machines in sync... If you are using hamm the dpkg-mountable method is pretty nice since it only loads packages that are needed as opposed to recursing down all the directories. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: Stephen Carpenter wrote: hmmm just a slightly evil thought anyone tried cat /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1 assuming hda1 and hdb1 are similar partition sizes and types Tried it... doesnt work. The correct answer is dd if=/dev/hda1 of=hdb1 bs=1024. This doesn't care what is one the drive, even win 95 (known by experience), and it will act like a perfect mirror. The proper thing to do is to nfs export everything on one system, make a boot disk that can mount the nfs drive, partition/mount the new drive, and edit any specific info (hostname and ip) all by a simple boot script. It's way above my head, but when set up right, would be almost as easy to do 100 as it is to do 5. I think this is what the titanic team did (in the lj article). I don't think they used redhat's easy method. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: Stephen Carpenter wrote: Tim Sailer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They want to be able to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to each . . . hmmm just a slightly evil thought anyone tried cat /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1 assuming hda1 and hdb1 are similar partition sizes and types Tried it... doesnt work. A more evil one, assuming /mnt is setup to mount /dev/hdb .. (umount /mnt;cd /;tar cvzf - ./)|(mount /mnt; cd /mnt;tar xvzf -) ?? J. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Using hamm? READ THIS about /usr/spool and related links...
Santiago Vila Doncel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello. This mail is intended for the user who is running the current Debian unstable distribution (a.k.a. hamm). I'm the Debian maintainer who removed the /usr/spool symlink and some other symlinks that were part of the `base-files' package... Ahh, that's the package! I grepped /var/lib/dpkg/info/* for /usr/spool, but didn't find anything. I shoulda tried harder. Not only the FHS but also the old FSSTND says that the mail spool is /var/spool/mail, so every program should look for mail there, not in /usr/spool/mail. So if a program breaks because it uses /usr/spool, *that* is a bug. If you want to help us on this, you may report all those bugs through the Debian bug tracking system, see /usr/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt or http://www.de.debian.org/Bugs. [ Of course, if you want to help us even more, you may take a look at the bug database first to make sure that the bug is not already reported ]. As it is often said: I apologize for the inconvenience, etc. etc. Thanks. All this is cool, I just couldn't figure out which package removed the link, so I wasn't sure which package to file a bug against. Thanks! --Norris -- Norris Preyer (541) 962-3310 (office) Physics Program (541) 962-3873 (fax) Eastern Oregon University [EMAIL PROTECTED] La Grande, OR 97850http://physics.eou.edu/npreyer.html finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: Stephen Carpenter wrote: hmmm just a slightly evil thought anyone tried cat /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1 assuming hda1 and hdb1 are similar partition sizes and types Tried it... doesnt work. The correct answer is dd if=/dev/hda1 of=hdb1 bs=1024. This doesn't care what is one the drive, even win 95 (known by experience), and it will act like a perfect mirror. The proper thing to do is to nfs export everything on one system, make a boot disk that can mount the nfs drive, partition/mount the new drive, and edit any specific info (hostname and ip) all by a simple boot script. It's way above my head, but when set up right, would be almost as easy to do 100 as it is to do 5. I think this is what the titanic team did (in the lj article). I don't think they used redhat's easy method. I used this (well, similar) method to install 58 machines in the computer lab. They're all same, with 2.1G hard drives. I installed both linux and windoze95 (well, it wasnt me, but a collegue ;)) on one machine (about 50%-50% for linux and w95). I made a boot disk, which sets up the network with bootp, booted the installed machine off it, nfs mounted the server, and then gzipped the whole disk (/dev/hda) with dd if=/dev/hda | gzip -c /mnt/diskimage.gz. Then I booted another machine with the bootdisk, mounted the server and did a gunzip -c /mnt/diskimage | dd of=/dev/hda. I run 4-10 of these simultaneously (had to start them at the same time, so they dont slow down because of reading different parts of diskimage.gz). I didn't need to edit any bootup scripts, everything is setup thru bootp. It all went perfectly, no need for partitioning either, /dev/hda contains that info too. Windows95 had some problems though, it cannot get its name from the bootp server, and it had to install another network card driver because its pnp serial number changed. With linux this was no problem, I used a pnpdump/sed script on /etc/isapnp.conf before running isapnp. So this installation went perfectly, the only problem is that it is slow. 58*480Megs (this was the diskimage.gz size) thru a 10Mb network ... well, it took around 10 hours. Since then I thought of a better, faster way to do this, I've already written the programs for it, just cant test it yet. So the idea is: run a program on the already installed machine, which opens /dev/hda and then udp broadcasts it to the network. Each client catches the broadcasted packets, which has some information about block number, block size and a crc, checks it, writes it to the disk, and marks the block received. When the server finishes, it sends a block with length 0, then the clients can send querys to the server for the missed blocks. I'll try these programs in a few weeks... I expect it to finish the installation of the whole lab in less than an hour. Greg -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. Egy pingvinre gyakorlatilag lehetetlen haragosan nezni. HuLUG: http://www.cab.u-szeged.hu/local/linux/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Using hamm? READ THIS about /usr/spool and related links...
On 10 Feb 1998, Norris Preyer wrote: All this is cool, I just couldn't figure out which package removed the link, so I wasn't sure which package to file a bug against. The package that removed the link is fine. It is the packages that try to use the link that bugs should be reported against. In other words, packages shouldn't use the link, but should refer directly to /var/spool. If you find a package that tries to use the link and fails (because the new base-files removed it), please file a bug report against that package (and then if you need to use the buggy package, just create the soft-link yourself). Santiago: Will further future upgrades of base-files again remove the link? I would think that would be a good thing as it will root out buggy packages. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Kingston, Ontario, Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: The powers-that-be around here have almost decided to scrap Slowaris x86 for the 200 machine PPro compouter farm, and go with Linux... I need to convince them to use Debian and not RH. They want to be able to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to each machine in the farm, without having to go to each of the remaining 199 and configure it by hand. Someone told them that RH made this easy, and no other dist could do it! Someone help me out here! This will be running the RHIC project in 1999 here.. I'd love to see Debian get that kind of exposure! Tim, from my experiences with (much smaller scale but still essentially the same) mass-duplication of debian, all you need to do is duplicate the hard disk and change half a dozen (or less) files under /etc: /etc/hostname /etc/init.d/network /etc/hosts and maybe some others, depending on your particular needs and your particular hardware setup. e.g. if the hardware is not identical (in particular, same network card) and identically configured then you will also need to change /etc/modules. you probably don't need to change /etc/mailname or the mail configuration - just make them all masquerade as the domain name if they need to send. BTW, it will be much easier to do if all the machines have identical hard disks. then you can just install debian on one disk and use dd to duplicate the disk, and then run a script to 'individualise' the hostname and ip address details. FWIW, i auto-build debian based dialin servers (to be installed at schools for staff and students) by installing the latest stable release, and then run a fairly simple script which asks for the host domain name, and ip address and then uses ed to modify a handful of config filesthe ones listed above plus stuff in /etc/ppp it really is easy to do. if you need any help at all i am more than willing to lend a hand... I find consistency in design to be one of the nicest features of debian: I can build a standard machine which can be made to perform any function (workstation, file server, ppp dialin server, mail server, squid proxy, etc) just by installing the relevant packages. it gives me an extraordinarily high level of consistency across the machines i have to look after...they only differences are just the network config, and the config files for one or two packages. best of all, if a machine happens to die and i have kept a backup copy of it's unique config files i can rebuild it very quickly. squid is a good example - twice i've had the hard drives on a squid box fail under the heavy load. rebuilding the box was very easy (it takes me about half a day to build a debian box including unpacking all the hardware from the packing cases). While i was building the replacement box, I used linux's IP aliasing to make another machine on the network pretend to be the proxy server (but with only a tiny 100mb cache spool) so that customers weren't inconvenienced by the downtime. As far as I am concerned, the cheaper price of commodity hardware is far more valuable than any X-hour support contract offered by a commercial *nix vendor. In the X hours i have to wait for their engineer to come out, i can completely rebuild the machine from spare parts that i have lying around. Spare parts that I can afford because they are a third (or less) of the price of the high end gear. It is undeniable that, for example, Sun harware is more reliable than PC clone hardwarebut it isn't reliable enough to be worth 3 to 5 times the price. we've got some $30,000 (Australian $) sun boxes at work which were bought a few months before i started thereif i had been around at the time, we almost certainly would have bought $5,000 to $10,000 PC boxes plus a few thousand dollars worth of spare parts instead. power supplies, hard disks, memory, motherboards, cpus...enough to build a whole machine or two. including the cost of the support contract, this would have saved us over $20,000 per machine. we have 3 of these machines. over $60,000 could have been saved. OTOH, it's nice to have some ultra sparcs to play withi may even be able to rebuild one as a debian sparc box by re-arranging server loads more efficiently :-) craig -- craig sanders -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
8086 assembler for linux device driver
Hello, is there an 8086 assembler available for converting Windows95/NT frame-grabber device driver to linux? Existing assembler source is about 12000 lines including several protected ring-0 opcodes. This code is typical device driver stuff: interrupt service routines, mapping physical memory and thousands of memory-mapped i/o operations. ( 32-bit Microsoft MASM) thank you in advance Bernhard Mindermann
Re: Using hamm? READ THIS about /usr/spool and related links...
how about this as a start: #!/bin/sh for i in /bin /sbin /sbin /usr/sbin /usr/X11R6/bin [...etc...] ; do for j in $i/* ; do strings -a $j | grep -q /usr/spool echo $j uses /usr/spool done done Running this script I got the following list: bash uses /usr/spool rbash uses /usr/spool sh uses /usr/spool mailserver uses /usr/spool strings: smath: Too many levels of symbolic links xemacs uses /usr/spool xemacs-20.2 uses /usr/spool xbiff uses /usr/spool Sasha. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: Tim, from my experiences with (much smaller scale but still essentially the same) mass-duplication of debian, all you need to do is duplicate the hard disk and change half a dozen (or less) files under /etc: /etc/hostname /etc/init.d/network /etc/hosts no need for changing these files, bootp can handle them (there is an example rc.bootp which can be put in /etc/init.d/network) Greg -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. Egy pingvinre gyakorlatilag lehetetlen haragosan nezni. HuLUG: http://www.cab.u-szeged.hu/local/linux/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
CD Changer
Hi, Has anyone out there had any experience using an IDE CD-Changer with Debian? How does it tell which disk it's supposed to hit (something like /dev/hdc1...7 ???) responses requested from anyone who's done this. I don't have a drive yet, but am considering purchasing one. Thanks, Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Compiling w/shadow support
Hi, I've recently switched over to Debian, and have shadow support installed. I seem to have a reacurring problem when I need to compile my own software. I've figured out that I need to add -I/usr/src/linux/include to many of my CFLAGS, but when the make gets down to the -lshadow area, ld dies with the old: ld: cannot open -lshadow: No such file or directory This happens on many programs I attempt to compile. Is there a simple solution for this on Debian systems? Thanks for any help, Mark == Mark A. Bialik (414) 290-6700 Systems/Security Administrator www.pmihwy.com/~markb Preferred Medical Informatics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Infinity HealthCare, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mequon, WI USA www.linux.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Need help!
On Tue, Feb 10, 1998 at 09:33:40PM +0100, mr anonym wrote: I'm installing it from ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/Debian-1.3/disks-i386/current/ and ive read and mostly understood the install.html file. But I just have 4 MB of RAM, when I get to the part when it stands: This system has relevately low memory, special procedures are required Here's what it looks like: 1.Run the disk partitioning program to add a linux swap (type 82)And on.. 2.Then initialize the swap partion. 3.Then initialize the temporary root partion. 4.Reboot. I can choose these 2 options: 1.Run the disk partitioning program inorder to create a swap partition. 2.Reboot When I type 1 I get here: The following drives are available: Drives that are named /dev/hdx are IDE, ATA, MFM, or RLL drives. Drives that are named /dev/sdX are SCSI drives. /dev/hda Please type a driver name from the above list: I dont know what i should type here. Well, /dev/hda is the name of your hard disk. Linux found one IDE hard drive. So you enter /dev/hda there. I will be very glad if someone could help me! /Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ 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] . -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PPP disconnects while running X
Hello, I have encountered an odd problem. My PPP connection to my ISP has been working perfectly for over a year but recently I noticed the connection would hang up from time to time. I did a little experiment and found it only disconnected while I am in X. The connection is very stable at the console and never hangs up. Has anyone ever had a similar problem and what might be the cause? -- Jim -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
