Re: upgrade turned off lpd?
Qian Gong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My lpd stopped several times with unknown reason. Command /etc/init.d/lpd restart will let it work again. On a debian system, the canonical command is (as root, of course): invoke-rc.d lpd restart Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changing locale
Selecting a default locale with dpkg-reconfigure does not make that locale effective. Is there any way to change the locale of the system without rebooting? Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing locale
Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Bob Hilliard wrote: Selecting a default locale with dpkg-reconfigure does not make that locale effective. Is there any way to change the locale of the system without rebooting? You can check if your settings were saved by editing /etc/environment. Please don't forget to completeley log out to apply the changes. Thanks. That is the answer I was looking for. I hadn't been logging out. To answer another poster's question - if `locale' returns the new locale I consider the change has been effective. I would also like to know how to generate and set the `POSIX' locale. Although /usr/share/i18n/locales/POSIX exists, `dpkg-reconfigure locales' does not offer it as a choice, and if it is manually added to /etc/locale.gen, a subsequent `locale-gen' ignores POSIX. (I don't really want to run the POSIX locale. I am writing a script that needs to know the value of `LC_CTYPE' in the POSIX locale.) Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.5 series kernel experiences
Alex Malinovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone care to share any experiences with the 2.5 series kernels? I'm looking at moving my primary desktop and my laptop over to 2.5.75. Linus has said that 2.6 betas would be out this month, so I figure now's a good time to get a head start. Any particular things I should watch out for? I'm going to be using make-kpkg and friends to do all the work. Any issues with that? Also, how about .config? Can I just copy over my 2.4.21 .config and add new selections as necessary? Check out make oldconfig in the README in the top level of the kernel source, under CONFIGURING the kernel. It's a great time saver. I can't offer any words of wisdom regarding 2.5. HTH, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get / sources.list
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I added the sourcelines for unstable and run an apt-get update the information about the packages was fetched, but when reading the packagelist, apt stoped with an error message saying, that it has not enough memory. You didn't quote the exact error message, so I can't be sure, but I think you need something like the following line in /etc/apt/apt.conf: APT::Cache-Limit 25165824; HTH, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HOWTO change a subscriber email address ?
Courtney Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to change my email address immediately. Please advise me how to do it. First, unsubscribe the old address (using the directions at the bottom of this mail), then subscribe the new address. HTH. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: logging apt-get/dpkg activity
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Care to enlighten us? I didn't see anything outside POSIX sh other than the use of echo escape sequences. The redirection 21 isn't portable - it doesn't work with /bin/dash. I have the impression the back-quotes for command redirection aren't standard either - at least a number of people object to them. I am not familiar with any shell other than bash, so I'm never sure what is or is not a bashism. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: logging apt-get/dpkg activity
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob Hilliard wrote: The redirection 21 isn't portable - it doesn't work with /bin/dash. Yes it is, and yes it does. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~dash $ perl -e 'print STDERR foo\n' /dev/null foo $ perl -e 'print STDERR foo\n' /dev/null 21 $ My bad. I was thinking of the `' construct. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: logging apt-get/dpkg activity
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Probably both. Has anyone been interested enough to implement it themselves and send a patch? I suspect the easy availability of script(1) discouraged people from expending any effort on it. I finally got tired of editing out all the bogus newlines (^M) from script's output, so I wrote the following wrapper for apt-get, which I have installed as /usr/local/bin/upgrade: #! /bin/bash # A script to wrap `apt-get -dist-upgrade' to keep a log of upgrades echo -e \n\n `date`\nupgrade_log apt-get -qu dist-upgrade 21 |tee -a upgrade_log exit 0 This contains several bashisms, so it shouldn't be run with #!/bin/sh. You still have to stand by to answer apt's and debconf's questions. HTH Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: logging apt-get/dpkg activity
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: You could eliminate all of the non-portable stuff in the above by changing the single 'echo -e' to 'printf'. This is functionally equivalent. That isn't the only bashism in that script. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Keymap on a laptop
I am trying to get sid set up on a new Compaq Presario 2100 laptop. I have successfully installed from a woody CD, using the 2.2.20-idepci kernel. However, all the kernel patches I am aware of for ACPI and the built-in modem are for 2.4 kernels. Since there are no serial ports on the machine, I must use USB peripherals, and, AFAIK, USB is not supported on 2.2 kernels. I have compiled and installed 2.4.18 and 2.4.20 kernels several times, but the keyboard or the key mapping is screwed up. When I type my login `bob', it appears as `b[Cb'. About half of the keys produce similar characters - some like `[C' for `o', others like `[2~' for `'m'. The backspace and several other key produce `keyboard: unknown scancode e0 30'. Occasionally, after reporting an invalid login, everything is displayed in upper case. `dpkg-reconfigure console-common' resets this to the normal broken behavior, but does not provide a usable keyboard. I first tried compiling kernels with gcc-3.2, which produces a flood of compiler warnings, but no compiler error messages. Every kernel I have compiled with 3.2 results in a completely non-functional keyboard. Compiling with gcc-2.95 gives the results described above. Any suggestions for what to try next? Regards. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Removable Media: What is the practical answer??
Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, I know I will have trouble convincing her when it comes to removeable media. For example, Mom has been using a computer for a long time and has boxes and boxes of floppies. And she needs to find that letter to Aunt Edith written on the 286 in 1991, and she is sure it is on a floppy in one of these boxes... Check out the mtools package. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: setup ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i am trying to install debian stable, but once i get the option of choosing the langue ( english ) us eng , after i have done that it loops back to the langue page the first one i get where i choose en (english) ?? don't see anything about this on faq or help files if it is up there sorry i checked 3 times then i didn't see it ; ) Reply-To: set to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is a more appropriate list for this question. I suggest you try one or more of the several kernel options (Press F3 to see the options). I recently installed stable on a new Compaq Presario 2100 laptop. When I tried to use the bf24 kernel, the machine froze on the language chooser and I had to use the power switch to exit. If I remember correctly, I had the problem you describe with another kernel option, but installed successfully with the 2.2.20-idepci, which is the default. I think this type of problem is hardware-specific, but at least one of the kernel options should work on almost any hardware. If you have further problems, come back on debian-user and someone will be able to help. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [~OT] tax program for linux
Mark Laird Copper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This year I'm trying something radical: all the forms and instructions are available on irs.gov. I figured if I could install Debian, I should be able to work through the tax instructions. It's sort of like using the command line instead of a GUI. You answer all the same questions and you get the same output. The primary advantage of programs like Turbo-Tax is printing out the forms with your data typed in. I have always done my own taxes using some Lotus templates I made to fit my own situation, but for the last few years I have used Turbo-Tax to print it out. I use my own calculations to check Turbo-Tax (and vice versa), but the time savings over copying the data by hand to the IRS forms and proof reading the result is worth it to me. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I apt-get upgrade the kernel for debian-390?
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # apt-cache search 'kernel*' # apt-cache search kernel\* Plain kernel* will do unexpected things if you happen to have any files in the current directory whose names begin with kernel. However apt-cache searches on a regex (does it use grep?), so `kernel' gets the smae match as `kernel*'. bob:vc-p2:bobapt-cache search kernel|wc 5274402 32495 bob:vc-p2:bobapt-cache search kernel*|wc 5274402 32495 Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: scsi emulation howto (was Re: buying a cd writer)
Joris Huizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can anybody provide a howto on scsi emulation in Debian ? I'm using a 2.2.20 kernel and I hope I don't have to compile a hole new kernel for this scsi emulation; /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/CD-Writing-HOWTO.gz deals with CD-writing, and in the process explains what is necessary for scsi emulation. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: repartitioning: joining two partitions
Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you want 5 or more (usable partitions), you'll have to create at least one extended partition. Each extended partition can hold up to 4 more partitions. An extended partition is not limited to 4 logical partitions. From /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini/Partition.gz: The primary partition used to house the logical partitions is called an extended partition and it has its own file system type (0x05). Unlike primary partitions, logical partitions must be contiguous. Each logical partition contains a pointer to the next logical partition, which implies that the number of logical partitions is unlimited. However, linux imposes limits on the total number of any type of partition on a drive, so this effectively limits the number of logical partitions. This is at most 15 partitions total on an SCSI disk and 63 total on an IDE disk. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple network interfaces
Mark L. Kahnt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) Linux, iirc, requires a kernel driver for each individual ethernet card, meaning that if you have two or more identical ethernet cards, you need the driver twice. The only way to do that is to compile it as a module, rather than into the kernel, and then set it up in /etc/modules I have two identical NICs in my machine. I use `ether=0,0,eth1' appended to the kernel line in my /boot/grub/menu.lst file (it will also work in lilo and loadlin). I believe I successfully used this when I was running a monolithic kernel, but I now have the drivers as a module. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian SID ISOs
Sharninder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is there a place from where i can ISO images for debian SID, and does SID have kde3.1 ? Not ISO, but jigdo files are available (apt-get jigdo-file) http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/#which click on Unofficial jigdo files for the unstable distribution on CD (i386, regenerated weekly) Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is the bootup log? [Eth0 missing]
Michael Rudmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyhow, I just got my XWindows system running, but noticed that the Ethernet card is now not being recognized. I can briefly see some of the messages about this, but then it goes into GDM, so I can't see them any more. Is there some place that the log files are stored, that I can look for more information, or post error messages? And how do I separate one bootup from another, in the log? Or is the log for only the most recent boot? `dmesg|less' will show the kernel bootup messages for your most recent boot. Kernel boot messages (not just the last boot) are also in /var/log/syslog and /var/log/syslog.?. The log entries are time stamped, so you can easily see which is which. Neither will show the messages that are from init and the /etc/init.d scripts, which are displayed after the kernel is booted. However, I believe the kernel messages are what you want. If you need to see the others, you should disable gdm (and startx manually later). [SHIFT] [PG UP] will scroll the display back to allow you see more than one screen of information. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg and config files
Brad Tilley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to instruct Debian to *never* touch this file while doing updates, but I don't understand how to do this. Could someone point me to information that describes how to do this? Put `force-confold' in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg. This is mentioned as a command line option in dpkg(8). dpkg will then output messages similar to the following: Configuration file `/etc/logcheck/violations.ignore.d/logcheck-innd' == Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. == Package distributor has shipped an updated version. == Using current old file as you requested. for each new conffile. Caveat - if you enable this option, you should log your upgrades (using script, or something similar) so you can see which new conffiles you have skipped, and check to see if you need to do something about it. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question about scripts in /etc/rc6.d
Qian Gong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In /etc/rc6.d there is a link S30urandom. But run level 6 means reboot, which should stop (K) urandom, instead of start (S). More interesting is that init 6 actually stops urandom. Another link is S35networking whose name means start, but in fact networking is stopped. Any idea to explain? Thanks in advance. This is a quirk in the sysvinit system. It is explained in /usr/share/doc/sysvinit/README.runlevels.gz, and in Debian policy Section 10.3. From policy 10.3.1: The two runlevels 0 (halt) and 6 (reboot) are slightly different. In these runlevels, the links with an `S' prefix are still called after those with a `K' prefix, but they too are called with the single argument `stop'. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Emacs Key Bindings
Charlie Reiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Original Message- From: Bob Hilliard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 12:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Emacs Key Bindings I like to indent the first line of each paragraph. By default, emacs (in text mode) considers only blank lines and page delimiters as paragraph delimiters, and binds the TAB key to indent-relative. To change this, I have the following lines in .emacs: (setq default-major-mode 'paragraph-indent-text-mode ) (add-hook 'paragraph-indent-text-mode-hook `local-set-key \t `tab-to-tab-stop) Try: (add-hook 'paragraph-indent-text-mode-hook (lambda () (local-set-key \t `tab-to-tab-stop))) It looks like you incorrectly copied someone who did the equally valid: (defun my-paragraph-indent-text-mode-hook () (set-blah blah)) (add-hook 'paragraph-indent-text-mode-hook 'my-paragraph-indent-text-mode-hook) This latter techinque is a bit better since you can use your hook later if you need it in a different mode. It also makes it easier to tweak things without restarting emacs, since then you just need to redefine the function rather than trying to replace your lambda in the hook list. Thank you very much, Charlie. I have used your second technique, and added it and the following to my .emacs: (add-hook 'message-mode-hook 'my-paragraph-indent-text-mode-hook) Your suggestion works like a charm for editing text, and the addition makes the TAB key work properly in Gnus' message mode. I have tried several variations to try to make message mode act like paragraph-indent-text-mode without success. Can you suggest a way to accomplish this? Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Emacs Key Bindings
I like to indent the first line of each paragraph. By default, emacs (in text mode) considers only blank lines and page delimiters as paragraph delimiters, and binds the TAB key to indent-relative. To change this, I have the following lines in .emacs: (setq default-major-mode 'paragraph-indent-text-mode ) (add-hook 'paragraph-indent-text-mode-hook `local-set-key \t `tab-to-tab-sto p) When I open a text file in emacs, I find my major mode is (correctly) paragraph-indent-text-mode, but the TAB key is still bound to indent relative. I can, of course, manually bind TAB to tab-to-tab-stop, but this gets old fast. Composing messages in Gnus is even worse. Gnus now uses Message-mode for composition, which apparently doesn't honor either message-mode-hook or text-mode-hook, so I must manually change to paragraph-indent-text-mode, and then re-bind the TAB key. Of course, then I have to switch back to message mode before I can send the message. Any suggestions for .emacs lines to solve this problem? I am using emacs21 21.2-5, and gnus 5.9.0015-1, but emacs behavior, in this respect, has been the same since the first release of emacs20. Regards. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt-get failure
I have a cron job that runs every morning that includes: apt-get -q update apt-get -q -s dist-upgrade Today it produced the following error message: Fetched 6713kB in 28s (238kB/s) Reading Package Lists... E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing aspell (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. My last upgrade was January 15, and this cron job ran successfully on the 16th and 17th, so I doubt if it is a bug in a newly upgraded package. /var/lib/dpkg/status looks normal, and has the following permissions: -rw-r--r--1 root root 718493 Jan 18 10:36 /var/lib/dpkg/status I don't know if Dynamic MMap ran out of room refers to memory, but I have plenty available: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 1030220 876292 153928 0 128236 488572 -/+ buffers/cache: 259484 770736 Swap: 2096624 02096624 What is the probable cause of this failure? Regards Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cloning my debian install onto my new hard disk?
Johan Ehnberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are a few important steps. I did this on my little server and it worked just the way it should. Read http://www.storm.ca/~yan/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html and follow the instructions there. It's very straight-forward and not too difficult. Takes some time, though. I used to use the cp -ax method with great success, but more recently the -x option doesn't work. The following is copied from my bug report #168685: cp -ax target dest does not restrict the copy to one files system. If target is /, cp copies /home, even if it is on a separate file system, and tries to copy /proc. Copying /proc fails, and stops the copy. cp -a -x gives the same result as cp -ax. This problem is not new with the current version. I have experienced it frequently in the past, but have been too lazy to file a report. Because of this issue, I had to use find / -xdev | cpio -vdump /mnt for my last system copy. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange Number Lock Behavior
Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 09:07:59PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 11:49:06PM -0500, Erinn wrote: Hi, Previously, I had an all text Debian firewall. Everytime I would boot it, the number lock would turn off. I thought it was specific to that box until I installed Debian on my workstation. The behavior persists and as I'd never witnessed it in any previous operating system, I thought it was Debian-specific, and was wondering two things: 1. Has anyone else experienced this? All Linux users have. The kernel pretty much assumes the BIOS is an idiot and ignores it. 2. If so, is there any way to stop it? Probably. Easiest is to hit number lock. 8:o) Take a look at /etc/console-tools/config. I use `setleds -D +num' from the console-tools package. I put a script in /etc/init.d to invoke this for all consoles. This is only for the console. For X you need numlockx, from the package of the same name. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/resolv.conf keeps getting overwritten
Nori Heikkinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: as root, i modified the search line in my new box's /etc/resolv.conf to include a few more domains i want searched. the changes persist anywhere from two minutes to two hours, but it always seems to get overwritten with the initial one! this is really obnoxious, as i don't want to have to keep typing in full domain names. i don't changed anything as root between relapses, so i can't figure out what's causing this. any ideas? Are you using DHCP? dhcp_client writes the /etc/resolv.conf when it gets a lease from the dhcp_server. /etc/dhclient.conf may be configured to prepend or append additional domains to /etc/resolv.conf. See dhclient.conf (5). Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ntpdate from cron -- DON'T DO THAT! - more
How does rdate compare to chrony and nptd? Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Removing devfsd
How can devfsd be removed safely? I have purged the package, cleaned out /dev and reconstructed the device files with `MAKEDEV generic', but the partition is then unbootable. On boot, fsck reports: fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hda6. To recover, I have booted another partition, mounted hda6 on /mnt, chrooted into hda6 and re-installed devfsd. This is reproducible - I have done it three times. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thread Stealing (was: Installing debian via network)
David Gaudine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob Hilliard writes: But most Windows mailers make you read mail on-line, which is an abomination. Outlook Express requires me to go online to download messages or to upload replies. It does not require me to be online while reading or composing. Neither does Eudora, as I recall. What Windows mailers are you referring to? I stand corrected then. I thought Outlook required you to read on line. (I haven't used Windows since long before Outlook was written.) Most Windows users I am familiar with use Netscape instead of a real mailer, and stay on line to read and reply to messages. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thread Stealing (was: Installing debian via network)
Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I seem to be making a habit of being misunderstood at the moment! Sure, Linux lets you do anything you want - that's why I like it - it just seemed that the general philosophy was online all the time. That of Windoze seems to be OK, we'll let you be offline most of the time, but we'll keep wanting to go online unexpectedly to do something you probably wouldn't want if we told you what it was. But most Windows mailers make you read mail on-line, which is an abomination. My puzzlement was due to Linux apparently having a more resource-hungry philosophy on this point, in contradiction to the usual situation. Must be the Unix networking heritage. Before I was able to use a cable modem, I was on a dialup connection. At first, the length of a connection was limited, and my monthly fee covered a limited number of hours. I did my best to prevent installed programs from deciding when I would be online. I did not run ppp or my mailer as a daemon (this usually requires overriding the default setup - usually inserting `exit 0' at the top of the startup scripts in /etc/init.d.). The MTA should be configured to queue all mail, and wait for an explicit `runq' before sending. I included runq and mail downloading scripts in the ip-up.d directory. You are correct - the default setting for most packages assume constant internet access, and need to be adjusted for a dialup user. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Rebuilding the Kernel Mini HOW TO
Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Did you read make-kpkg documentation especially by Kent West? I think instead of reinventing wheel, suppliment existing good document as patch bug report. /usr/share/doc/make-kpkg/README.gz (last section is by Kent) For this, use unstable version. This is the most intelligent comment I have seen in this entire thread. A multiplicity of documents, trying to cover the same thing, is always a mistake. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should I convert to ext3?
jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: not too long ago, i posted the same question about converting to ext3. i had to see for myself exactly what was the big deal. as far as speed goes, i don't see much of a difference. but that wasn't my main concern. what was driving me nuts was the fsck every 20 mounts with ext2. I use ext3, but fsck every 20 mounts is not, in itself, a valid reason to switch. See man tune2fs: -c max-mount-counts Adjust the maximal mounts count between two filesystem checks. If max-mount-counts is 0 then the number of times the filesystem is mounted will be disregarded by e2fsck(8) and the kernel. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dual boot win2k and debian
Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just put in a new HD (80Gigs of which only 32G are used currently b/c my bios is old) and I put Win2k on the first 15 Gigs; then a Lin Swap drive of 512Megs; then my Debian install of Sarge on various partitions after that to consume the rest of the 32Gigs... . . . Is there a way I can boot either system without using the floppy (ie; from HD)? I am assuming your Debian root partition is /dev/hda3 - if not adjust the partition designations below. After making your menu.lst file to suit you, as root issue the command grub, then from the grub prompt: root (hd0,2) setup (hd0) I don't think the old bios will affect this - grub understands file systems, and I don't think it refers to the bios. On my old system I have Windows ME on /dev/hda1, DOS 6.22 on /dev/hdb1, and Debian on /dev/hdc2. The following menu.lst works for me: (It is probably more complex than you need for simply dual booting). # NOTE: Changes in this file will not take affect until GRUB is # reinstalled as follows. The GRUB and menu files are only required # on the grub root (hd 2,1) or /dev/hdc2. # grub root (hd2,1) # grub setup (hd2) # Boot automatically after 5 secs. timeout 5 # By default, boot the first entry. default 0 # For booting Linux title Debian Woody root (hd2,1) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc2 ro ether=0,0,eth1 # For booting DOS title DOS 6.22 on /dev/hdb1 hide (hd0,0) unhide (hd1,0) map (hd1) (hd0) map (hd2) (hd1) rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 # For booting Windows ME title Windows ME on /dev/hda1 unhide (hd0,0) hide (hd1,0) rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 HTH, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ifup/ifdown are not idempotent
Christian Jaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, two other things I'm wondering about ifup/down: - when an interface is really down (as seen with ifconfig), why does ifup refuse it's operation saying device already configured? It could determine that Sometimes ifdown will bring an interface down, but will not make the necessary changes in /etc/network/ifstate. ifup will then return device already configured as you have noted. (I have not experimented enough to detail the circumstances in which this occurs.) In thus case you can issue ifdown --force iface, the rerun ifup. From man ifup: --force Force de/configuration of interface. HTH, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can i trust you with this project
David Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Our University's Director of Security sent around a news article about a bunch of Nigerians being arrested in South Africa for involvement in wire fraud in connection with the Nigerian e-mail scam. I will forward it to anyone who asks by email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Google 419 for more than you ever wanted to know about the Nigerian Scam. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Grub and /dev/hdg: Need help please
Jerome Acks Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 02:18:19AM -0400, Jeremy wrote: I'm new to using grub for booting my OS's. I recently bought a new HD, and I've dedicated that one to Linux and left Windows 2000 on the old one. The new HD is /dev/hda. I have a Zip100 on hdb, my dvd-rom on hdc, and my cd burner on hdd. I have a ATA card installed that the old HD is attached to (along with a couple of other HDs that aren't booted, but just used for storage), and it winds up being /dev/hdg, with Windows on hdg1. AFAIK Windows won't boot at all unless it is on /dev/hda. But you can fool Windows. I have DOS 6.22 on /dev/hda1 and Windows ME on /dev/hdb1. The following stanzas in menu.lst let me boot either one, as well as linux: # For booting DOS title DOS 6.22 on /dev/hda1 hide (hd1,0) unhide (hd0,0) rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 # For booting Windows ME title Windows ME on /dev/hda1 unhide (hd1,0) hide (hd0,0) map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 I may have gone overboard somewhat on the `map' clauses, but it works for me. I have another DOS partition (for data) on /dev/hdc1, and the above makes DOS think /dev/hdc1 is both drive D: and E:, which is a little odd, but no problem. HTH Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XF86Config
I am going to have to use an old, undocumented machine while I am on vacation for the next several weeks. I plan to bring my own hard disk with Debian installed, but my XF86Config-4 will not work with this undocumented monitor. Is there any tool that will probe the monitor and determine the allowable refresh rates and/or other parameters? Is there a generic configuration that can be used safely with most monitors? Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT Any web site that teaches how to make LAN cable connection
faisal gillani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is there Any web site that teaches how to make LAN cable connection i mean like cross over straight wires ? also you can ask question lelated to cabeling ? apt-get install doc-linux-text, then see Section 5.2 of /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Ethernet-HOWTO.gz Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material
Timothy R. Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I wanted to read Mein Kampf (sp?) by Adoph Hitler, do you think I could get that at my library? I certainly hope not. My local public library (a small county) has one copy in German and 4 English translations listed in the card catalog. Those who forget the past are condemned to re-live it. Winston Churchill read Mein Kampf in the late 1920s. He felt that if a few more British and European political leaders had read it then, they would have been willing to join him in opposing Hitler early, when he could have been stopped without a war. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!
Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ulf Rompe, 2002-Mar-01 10:25 +0100: alias rm = 'mv --backup=numbered --target-directory=/tmp/Trashcan' This is nice, and I'm starting to use this from my root and user account on my laptop. However, how would I delete from the Trashcan, save removing the alias temporarily? ``/bin/rm'' or ``\rm'' will execute th rm binary, not the alias. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: dictd quite memory hungry...
David B Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dictd is not really meant to be run by an end-user. This is not true. There is no reason an end-user should not run dictd, and many reasons why it can be desirable. Uninstall dictd, the 'dict' client will go out and look up dictionaries on the 'net. True. If you have a fast, always on, Internet connectivity this is a viable option. However, dict.org has not installed updated dictionaries as often as I have uploaded them to Debian. Many of the dictionaries on dict.org are at least one revision older than those available on Debian. The memory used by dictd will be swapped out when another process needs it. I do not fully understand the kernel's memory management, and the way tools like ps and free interface with it, but I have noticed that if I check memory with free, then kill dictd and run free again, my free memory has not changed significantly. Bob dictd maintainer -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: need email removed
Jeremy Vaught [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have been receiving list information at a number of email accounts. Some were deleted and so in the absence of those accounts they are sent to my admin account. Now I don't know the accounts that were deleted so I can't remove them from the lists. Can you tell me all the accounts that are set up under votcom.com, or just delete them outright. You will have a better chance of getting something done if you write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: C Manual
dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | See the term bullschildt in the jargon file. I just did, on ESR's web site. It's not in the 'jargon' package. The term was added to the Jargon File in version 4.2.2. The version of dict-jargon in potato is based on jargon 4.0. Jargon 4.3.0 is in dict-jargon 4.3.0-1 in woody. (None of the dict-* packages use any shared libraries, so the woody versions may be installed on a potato system.) Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Debian Weekly News - December 12th, 2001
(This message was sent to Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the -devel list. I screwed up the copy to -user.) Too Many Acronyms? The Debian mailing lists are rife with Linux gurus and newbies alike. When a newbie wanders into a discussion the acronym and jargon ratio is usually more than they can bear. Mark Bucciarelli [9]brought this up on the Debian Java list, but it's a problem on other lists as well. Even competent computer users get confused because many acronyms are Debian-specific. (Like NMU, ITP, BTS, etc...) Naturally a technical community like the Debian crowd isn't going to stop using jargon and acronyms -- nor should they, they're more efficient and that's why they're used in the first place. Perhaps it's time for a Debian Glossary project, though? I (Zonker) am throwing the idea out there to see if people are interested. If so, I'll set up an alias for folks willing to work on such a project. I (Joey) am already maintaining such a [10]list, contributions are welcome, of course. Joey Hess began compiling a Debian Dictionary several years ago, and I offered to package it formatted for the Dict protocol. After discussion, he and I decided it was too small to warrant a separate package, and would be best combined with the FOLDOC (Free On-line Dictionary of Computing). I have submitted many Debian-specific terms and acronyms to the editor of the FOLDOC, and Debian-specific acronyms to the editor of V.E.R.A. Most of these have been incorporated in the upstream packages, and I include the others in the debian packages pending their incorporation upstream. Most of these Debian-specific terms and definitions have been submitted to me by Debian users and developers, and I am always happy to receive more. For the benefit of those new to Debian: apt-get install dict dictd - provides the infrastructure to access these dictionaries. apt-get install dict-foldoc dict-vera dict-jargon - provides computer related dictionaries that include many Debian-specific terms as well as general computer-related terms. apt-cache show dictd - The package description lists the other dictionaries packaged for Debian. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Accessing URLs from a MUA
Until recently, I could right-click on a URL in a mail message, and my running copy of Netscape would access that URL. For some time now this has failed to work. I'm sure the path to my Netscape must be shown in some configuratiOn File, but I can't locate it. I would appreciate being pointed in this direction. I am using GNUS 5.3, with emacs 19.34.1 and Netscape 4.77. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Make a deb package from the running system?
Steve Kieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I once found it when running dselect ; but now I need it and completely forget its name, poor me, pls remind. I need to make several deb packages from the running woody apt-get install dpkg-repack Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: rdate can't connect socket
Samuel Tardieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 16/09, Bob Hilliard wrote: | This has worked consistently for a long time, but for the past | week or two it returns: | rdate: Could not connect socket: Connection refused | | This message returns almost instantly - too quickly, I believe, | to be a connection refused at the remote server. | | Can this be a socket on my machine that refuses a connection? Did you by chance update your firewall? Could it be rejecting this outgoing connection? I don't have a firewall as such. I deny ALL in /etc/host.deny, and have most services commented out in /etc/inetd.conf, but nothing has changed in these areas since long before rdate started failing. However, see below. Michael B. Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I cant say whether your theory is correct or not. It sounds plausible. However, I did have the same problem a while back. I am pretty sure it the remote server refusing. I resolved the problem by installing the nptdate package, and using my name server as a time host also. You seem to be right. I have successfully tried rdate nameserver. As a matter of interest, I have a rather clueless isp (local cable company) using M$ software. The time returned from its nameserver is three to four minutes slow. My domain is hosted by Greenbush Technologies, which uses Debian, and is run by a clueful administrator. That nameserver gives the correct time. Thanks to both of you for your responses. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Linux Administration ?'s
on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 11:04:03AM -0700, Stephen Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED] m) wrote: I am relatively new to Linux, and have a class that I am required to be a Linux Administrator for. I need to know some of the basic questions to ask in order to be effective. I am using Linux Mandrake. Thanks for the help. apt-get sysadmin-guide Package: sysadmin-guide Priority: optional Section: doc Installed-Size: 604 Maintainer: Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: all Version: 0.6.2-3 Filename: pool/main/s/sysadmin-guide/sysadmin-guide_0.6.2-3_all.deb Size: 130452 MD5sum: 51d23b92d1f780481568456946710b0f Description: The Linux System Administrators' Guide The Linux System Administrators' Guide from the Linux Documentation Project. Aimed at novice system administrators. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
rdate can't connect socket
I have the following command in a cron.daily script: rdate time.mist.god This has worked consistently for a long time, but for the past week or two it returns: rdate: Could not connect socket: Connection refused This message returns almost instantly - too quickly, I believe, to be a connection refused at the remote server. Can this be a socket on my machine that refuses a connection? I have rdate 1.3-3. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Using Visioneer Scanner under Debian
Is anyone using a Visioneer 4400 Scanner successfully under Debian? -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Relational Data Base Managers
Can some one give an objective comparison of the several relational database managers in debian (postgresql, mysql - are there any others?). Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: [OT] What is he talking about ? - debian and kernel headers
ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could someone knowledgable about such things explain this to me? Makes me curious. Maybe I should be compiling my kernels without kpkg? Debian was the first to get this right, and a lot of people outside of Debian complained about it, but now even Linus agrees with us. Read /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.headers for a detailed explanation. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Onshore TimeSheet
Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, does anyone have any experience with the Onshore Timesheet application? bob:vc-/3:bobapt-cache show onshore-timesheet Package: onshore-timesheet Priority: optional Section: web Installed-Size: 748 Maintainer: Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: all Version: 2.2-1 Depends: perl5 | perl, apache | apache-ssl, postgresql, postgresql-client, libpgperl (= 6.4.2-5), libcgi-perl Filename: dists/woody/main/binary-all/web/onshore-timesheet_2.2-1.deb Size: 212860 MD5sum: 4b1812f3b70ac2b41357fc3ca32a5098 Description: A complete, Open Source, Web-based Time-Billing solution A commercially supported, GPL'd web application to allow for the collection and approval of hours via the Web. Clients, jobs, personnel, and hours are modeled and managed by the system. Nightly reports give managers a list of their jobs and unapproved hours. A flexible backend is provided for integration with billing systems. . See http://www.onshore-timesheet.org/ for more information and inquiries about commercial support, integration, or development. I don't know anything about the company or the package, but Adam Di Carlo is very active in Debian, and is definitely still around. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: oldlibs
Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to make an old compiled application to work, but it is one of the 'olddays' compilations. That means that I need old library's. I know that there is a package under Slackware called oldlibs6, but I cannot find then under Debian. Anyone know where I can find them? Look in in the Packages file for Section: oldlibs. There are a great many old libs there. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Emacs works differently within X and outside
Alan == Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I run emacs so that it creates an x-window to run in then the behaviour is different. In this case DEL and BKSP both work the same and delete the character to the left of the cursor). Any ideas? I have the following in my .emacs file: ; To try to get BS/DEL right in emacs in x and in gnus (global-set-key [delete] 'delete-char ) (global-set-key [backspace] 'delete-backward-char ) Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Value too large for defined data type?
Jonathan D. Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 07:20:17PM -0600, William Jensen wrote: :rm: cannot remove `/tmp/save.tar': Value too large for defined data type : :I was storing the save.tar in /tmp. I'm running stable version with kernel :2.4.0. I have tried as root also to remove this file. How can I get rid :of this bugger? Try `cat /dev/null /tmp/save.tar` worked for similar problems on different OS... If you get the error message: bash: /tmp/save.tar : cannot overwrite existing file which means the -C (noclobber) option is set, you can use: `cat /dev/null | /tmp/save.tar` to override noclobber. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Fw: difference b/w comipling kernel and source.deb
Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the differnce b/w compiling a kernel from tar form and installing a kernel-image.deb of the same version. A kernel-image.deb has many more of the possible options compiled into it than any one person would ever need, therefore it is larger and slower than one compiled with just the options that fit your preferences and your hardware. All of your messages to the list are duplicated. If you are not re-sending them manually, either you or your ISP need to adjust some settings in your mail software. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: dictonary
Pap Tibor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm looking for an English definition dictonary (I mean English to English) for Linux. I know there are some dictonary programs for Linux, but I haven't found yet English to English dictonary. The dict client (apt-get dict) will permit accessing the public dict servers operated by the DICT Development Group. If you have limited disk space and more or less continuous broad band net access, this may serve your needs. Adding the dictd server (apt-get dictd) will permit you to avoid going on the net for dictionary access. If you install dictd, I recommend, as a minimum, the dict-web1913 and dict-wn packages for general English definitions. dict-jargon and dict-foldoc provide computer specific definitions, and dict-vera provides definitions of computer related acronyms. There are a number of other specialized dictionaries available in Debian (dict-*). The package description (displayed by dselect or apt-cache show) for dictd summarizes the available dictionaries. The README file for dictd (/usr/share/doc/dictd/README.Debian.gz) gives more detailed information about the available dictionaries. All of the available dictionary databases are architecture independent, and have no dependencies, so the latest versions (in Woody) may be safely installed on any system. The jargon, foldoc and vera packages are frequently updated, so the Woody packages are recommended. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: dictonary
Hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any front-end GUI available for dict, or ways to access it via a browser? --hans word-inspect Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Linux filesystem structure
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Bill Wohler wrote: I'm looking for the URL to the latest Linux Filesystem Structure document. The best I have is: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/1.2/fsstnd-toc.html apt-get debian-policy The debian-policy package includes the (obsolete) fsstnd and the current FHS. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Autmatically switch Num Lock to on at Login
Raffaele Sandrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I set in my bios, that it should enable Num Lock at Startup but Linux switches it of when it starts. How can i configure bash or anything other to enable Num Lock at Login? How can configure X-Server to switch it automatically to on? /usr/bin/setleds (from the console-tools package) works for the console. For X download numlockx from http://dforce.sh.cvut.cz/~seli/en/khotkeys/numlock.php3. It should be in Debian, but it didn't make it. :-( Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: /dev/ttyS0 permissions changing...
Hugo van der Merwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Something on my machine is periodically changing /dev/ttyS0's permissions to 640, whereas it needs to be 660 to use the modem ppp changes the permissions to 640 on the device it is using, and restores them when it exits. If it exits abnormally (crash, kill -9, etc) the permissions are not restored. I have suspected that it does not always restore them on a normal exit, but haven't been able to prove that to my satisfaction. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Build Packages-file
Frank Grimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm wondering if it is possible to build the Packages-file that tells apt about packages in a directory-tree, on my own. man dpkg-scanpackages (dpkg-scanpackages is in the dpkg-dev package) Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Advice on HD partitioning
Rick Commo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goal: Gain experience with two different distros yet maintain a usable machine under both of these distros. Plan: Install a 20GB hard disk and partition it as shown below: -- Detailed partition layout snipped -- You should have no problem with this setup. I have a similar setup, except it is spread over three hard drives, and the partition sizes are quite different. I have a Woody partition, a Potato partition, backup partitions for each, a /local partition that is symlinked to my home directory, and a large /usr/local partition, primarily for building my packages. I also have a DOS 6.22 partition and an WIN95 partition. I can boot into any of these partitions using GRUB, and my home and /usr/local are mounted in any of the Linux partitions. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: hd failure (maybe), please adivse
D-Man [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the info. On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 08:22:36PM -0800, Mircea Luca wrote: [snip] | | My advice as a hardware tech,get a replacement drive from Maxtor,trade | it for Where can I trade it in? (assuming I can find the warranty info) | something else(except Samsung) and never ever touch a Maxtor again.I've | replaced What make/model is your favorite? | a lot of them in the last 2 years(well over a hundred).If it clicks it's | as good as dead.The slowdown in apps it's the first sign and it's a | strange one becuse if you run specific DOS based diags or hdparm in | Linux they'll show a normal | transfer rate. | You can download Powermax, a hardrive diagnostic tool, from www.maxtor.com. Unfortunately, you have to run it from DOS. If it indicates your drive is bad, you can get information about warranty replacement from that site. You don't need any warranty paperwork - the warranty period is based on the drive model. If it is in warranty, there is an RAM Request Form on the site. If your drive is in warranty, and you request an Advanced RMA they will ship a replacement drive within 2 days, and you can return the bad one after you install the new one. It makes the process almost painless. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Holding packages w/o dselect
James Di Toro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've looked through the help screens and man pages of both dpkg and apt-get and I can't find anything that will let me place a package version on hold using these tools. I'd like to avoid using dselect if possible since a) the structure of the categorys is at times unintutive, and b) the last time I wen't int there is screwed up some dependancys and I got stuck in an infinate dependancy conflict resolution. Don't want to go through that again. Try the following script from Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ---cut here--- #! /bin/bash # dpkg-hold -- command line tool to flag package(s) as held. # # by Craig Sanders, 1998-10-26. This script is hereby placed into the # public domain. # # BUGS: this script has absolutely no error checking. this is not good. if [ -z $* ] ; then echo Usage: echo dpkg-hold package... exit 1 fi for i in $@ ; do echo $ihold done | dpkg --set-selections ---cut here--- Despite the caveat about error checking, I have had good results with it. It is trivial to modify it to make dpkg-unhold. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux
Saqib Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, how is it possible to tripple boot dos/win/linux? what i have done so far is: I believe it can be done with lilo, but I'm not familiar with lilo. I do exactly what you want with GRUB. Following is part of my GRUB menu.lst file: # Boot automatically after 10 secs. timeout 10 # By default, boot the first entry. default 0 # For booting Linux title Debian Woody root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro ether=0,0,eth1 # For booting DOS title DOS 6.22 on /dev/hda1 hide (hd1,0) unhide (hd0,0) root (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 # For booting Windows95 title WIN95 on /dev/hdb1 unhide (hd1,0) hide (hd0,0) map (hd1) (hd0) map (hd2) (hd1) rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 This has two minor problems. When I boot Windows, I get the following message: Non-System disk or disk-error Replace and press any key when ready When I press [ENTER], it boots normally. After it is booted, Windows thinks hd1 (/dev/hdb) is C: and hd2 (/dev/hdc) is D:. This is what is desired. However, it thinks /dev/hdc is also E:. Neither of these problems are show-stoppers as far as I am concerned. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Package Garbage Collection
Matt Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do I detect packages on which nothing depends? I know I must have accumulated a number of these that I no longer want. Short of running dselect (or storm?) and performing a package- by-package examination, what can be done to detect this potential garbage? apt-get install cruft Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: possible move to unstable..
Tom Pfeifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is getting away from the thread's original subject, but the new lilo package that did make it into woody (21.6-2) *is* broken as far as I'm concerned. It replaces your /etc/lilo.conf with it's own (wrong) idea of what should be there, even if you cancel out of the configuration. That's very bad form. You should file a bug report against lilo in that case. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Wrap-up: Driver for DSL Modem
I wrote: My local telephone company (BellSouth)is offering an attractive deal on DSL service. They will supply a 3COM HOMECONNECT ADSL MODEM PCI (I think it is model 3CP3617), but they only support Windoze (support means they supply a driver). Is anyone successfully using BellSouth DSL service under Debian? Does anyone know of a Linux driver for this modem? Thanks to all who responded. This is an internal DSL modem, not an NIC. 3com's tech support people say this is one of only 2 modems they make that do not have linux drivers. They suggest that I use an external modem. BellSouth would provide an external modem that uses pppoe, but that would require buying the modem for $150 (the 3Com internal modem would be free), and would involve a $200 installation charge. The installation with the internal modem is done by the customer, with no installation charge. It is not worth this much more to me, since I have broadband access through the local cable system. Although I have issues with their customer service, the service nightmares from Bell Atlantic described in the reference Jaye Inabnit sent are indeed daunting, and I have heard such tales regarding other Telco companies. I have canceled my BellSouth order, and will keep on struggling with the cable company. Thanks again to all of you. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: upgrade -1?
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey people. What's the accepted way to upgrade everything on your system, except for an exclusion list? Looking at apt-get -s upgrade, I want to exclude a package or two but still have the convenience of upgrade. Is that possible? Put the packages you don't want to upgrade on hold. The following script, posted spume time ago by Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] will do it for you: ---cut here--- #! /bin/bash # dpkg-hold -- command line tool to flag package(s) as held. # # by Craig Sanders, 1998-10-26. This script is hereby placed into the # public domain. # # BUGS: this script has absolutely no error checking. this is not good. if [ -z $* ] ; then echo Usage: echo dpkg-hold package... exit 1 fi for i in $@ ; do echo $ihold done | dpkg --set-selections ---cut here--- You can also give the same command manually. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Driver for DSL Modem
My local telephone company (BellSouth)is offering an attractive deal on DSL service. They will supply a 3COM HOMECONNECT ADSL MODEM PCI (I think it is model 3CP3617), but they only support Windoze (support means they supply a driver). Is anyone successfully using BellSouth DSL service under Debian? Does anyone know of a Linux driver for this modem? Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: true? rescue floppy
Xucaen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what do you mean by true? I thought the resuce disk he was looking for was the boot disk for the debian installation. By a true rescue disk I mean a floppy that has a bootable kernel and enough utilities to repair a damaged system. I don't know how many tools are on the debian boot disk, but I don't think it is as extensive as the tomsrtbt. The following is from the tomsrtbt FAQ: | 3) Contents | | Stuff (modules, manpages, scripts, binaries, kernel): | | 2.0.37 3c589_cs BusLogic CVF DEC_ELCP EEXPRESS EEXPRESS_PRO EL2 EL3 | EXT2 FAT FAT32 FD IDE IDECD IDEFLOPPY IDEPCMCIA IDETAPE ISO9660 | JOLIET LOOP MATH_EMULATION MINIX MSDOS NE2000 NFS PROC RAM SD | SERIAL SLIP SMC SR ST TR ULTRA VFAT VORTEX WD80x3 ah152x_cs aha152x | aha1542 aic7xxx ash awk badblocks bdflush bzip2 cardbus cardmgr cat | ce ce.help chattr chgrp chmod chown chroot clear cmp cp cpio cut | date dd ddate debugfs df dirname dmesg dmsdos ds du dumpe2fs dutil | e2fsck eata echo egrep elvis emacs extend false fdflush fdformat | fdisk fdomain filesize find findsuper fmt fsck.ext2 fsck.msdos fstab | grep gzip halt head hexedit hostname i82365 ifconfig ifport ile init | inittab insmod kill killall5 ksyms length less libc.so.5.4.13 lilo | lilo.conf ln loadkeys login losetup ls lsattr mawk md5sum memtest | mingetty miterm mkdir mkdosfs mke2fs mkfifo mkfs.minix mklost+found | mknod mkswap mnsed more mount mt mv nc ncr53c8xx nmclan_cs ntfs pax | pcmcia pcmcia_core pcnet_cs ping plip ppa printf ps pwd qlogic_cs | qlogicfas reboot rescuept reset rm rmdir rmmod route rsh rshd script | scsi_info seagate sed serial_cs setserial sh slattach sleep slip | snarf sort split stty swapoff swapon sync tail tar tcic tee telnet | test touch tune2fs umount undeb update vi vi.help wc My cable modem has just gone south, and I can't get a service call very soon, so this may be delayed. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: rescue floppy
Knud Sørensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been looking for a rescue floppy image on ftp.uk.debian.org but i can't seams to find one. For a true rescue floppy, look at Tom's Root/Boot Disk at http://www.toms.net/rb/. It isn't Debian specific, but it works well on my Debian system. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Full System Restore with tar: Reminder!
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dpkg --get-selections foo does not create a full backup, it only creates a backup of installed packages, NOT removed packages. =20 dpkg --get-selections \* full will give you a true full backup.=20 do both commands and then diff the two files. =20 Why do this? If I purge (I _never_ remove) a package it is because I don't want it on my system anymore. I run a new dpkg--get-selectionsfoo whenever I remove a package. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Full System Restore with tar: Reminder!
csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dpkg --get-selections filename dpkg --set-selections filename Bob Yes, but where would dpkg fetch those files? Can it fetch it, say, from my local mirror? No. It gets the information from /var/lib/dpkg/status. You should run dpkg --get-selections periodically, and keep it on a separate partition, a floppy, or some other safe place. Once your /var is hosed, it's too late to do it. But it's a lot quicker and easier to run dpkg --get-selections than to make a full backup. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Is there any way to prevent a package from upgrading?
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: $ echo packagename hold | dpgk --set-selections If you don't want to remember the command sequence, Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted the following script on debian-devel some time ago: ---cut here--- #! /bin/bash # dpkg-hold -- command line tool to flag package(s) as held. # # by Craig Sanders, 1998-10-26. This script is hereby placed into the # public domain. # # BUGS: this script has absolutely no error checking. this is not good. if [ -z $* ] ; then echo Usage: echo dpkg-hold package... exit 1 fi for i in $@ ; do echo $ihold done | dpkg --set-selections ---cut here--- Despite the disclaimer about error checking, I have had good results with it. I have also reversed it to make dpkg-unhold. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Full System Restore with tar: Reminder!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 16 Jan 2001 13:38:25 +0200 , Kalle Olavi Niemitalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about system restores... ...and I'd like to continue the theme. If the worst were to happen, what would be the best way of getting the same installed packages as before? Is it possible to give dselect (or apt-get if you're one of /those/ people ;-) a file with a list of packages to install? Ideally you should be able to just generate this from within your preferred install mechanism and then you could keep it somewhere safe and point the re-installation process to it and just let it have its wicked way with your Debian CD-ROM (or whatever). dpkg --get-selections filename dpkg --set-selections filename HTH Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Grub vs LILO
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob == Bob Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob # For booting Windows95 title WIN95 on /dev/hdb1 unhide Bob (hd1,0) hide (hd0,0) map (hd1) (hd0) map (hd2) (hd1) Bob rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 I didn't think Windows could boot from a slave drive? I thought it can only boot from a primary partition on the first master drive. That is the purpose of the map command in the GRUB menu. Windows (or DOS as the case may be) thinks it _is_ booting from the master drive. Another poster to this list said lilo similarly supports remapping of drives. Since I've never used lilo I don't know the specifics. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Grub vs LILO
While of the GRUB gurus are listening, I have two minor problems with GRUB. I have the following stanzas in my menu (linux stanzas omitted): # For booting DOS title DOS 6.22 on /dev/hda1 hide (hd1,0) unhide (hd0,0) root (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 # For booting Windows95 title WIN95 on /dev/hdb1 unhide (hd1,0) hide (hd0,0) map (hd1) (hd0) map (hd2) (hd1) rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 The DOS stanza works perfectly, but when boot Windows from this, I get a message saying: Non-System disk or disk-error Replace and press any key when ready When I press [ENTER], it boots normally. After it is booted, Windows thinks hd1 (/dev/hdb) is C: and hd2 (/dev/hdc) is D:. This is what is desired. However, it thinks /dev/hdc is also E:. Neither of these are more than minor irritations, but it would be nice to cure them. (In the Windows stanza I have used both rootnoverify (hd0,0) and root (hd0,0) without making any difference.) Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: minicom (was Re: Serial terminal software.)
Diego Biurrun [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello! I have compiled a fresh kernel with serial console support and tried to connect my notebook with minicom to it. However I only managed to get it to work with a 4800 speed connection. A VT320 terminal works at 9600 and 19200. Any hints how I can improve speed? I found my minicom connections very slow, although the default serial port setting is supposed to be 38.4 kb. I fixed it with the following command at the shell prompt: setserial /dev/ttyS1 spd_vhi (The device name depends on where your modem is located). /etc/init.d//setserial saves the serial port settings when you shutdown, and restores them on bootup. Another place to check is minicom configuration. In minicom, CTRL A O, choose Serial port setup. HTH Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Problem building dot-forward for qmail
Alec Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When trying to compile the dot-forward-src .deb for qmail on Debian 2.2, I get the following error: Press ENTER to continue... dh_testdir make: dh_testdir: Command not found make: *** [build-stamp] Error 127 dh_testdir is a debhelper command, so debhelper should be a build-depend for this package. apt-get install debhelper Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Grub vs LILO
Tom Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anybody know much about pros/cons of grub for a boot manager? I've always used loadlin, so I don't know much about lilo. Grub is easy to configure and install, and has the capability to make a partition bootable (active in MS terms), hide/unhide partitions, and map drives to other drives. This is very helpful if you want to boot two different that OSes allow only one active partition and insist on being on the first disk. I have DOS 6.22 on /dev/hda1 and WIIN95 on /dev/hdb1, and can boot either. I don't think lilo permits that. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559 PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: wacky kernel question
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Carel Fellinger wrote:
it's because on a teletype you couldn't erase, so backspacing wouldn't
help in keeping things readeable:)
Hm, ok, that makes sense. I was thinking in the context of dumb
terminals; teletypes were slightly before my time.
Even after the use of CRT terminals became general, that deleting
convention was still used in some cases. The built in editor with the
version of BASIC included in many CPM and/or Radio Shack machines
required deletions to be done that way, even though it was probably
never used on a true teletype terminal.
Incidentally, TTY originally meant a teletype. The first
definition of TTY in the foldoc is:
1. {teletypewriter}.
Bob
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Re: eml attached file problem
uuenview/uudeview (from the uudeview package) will code/decode base 64 and a number of other formats. Bob David B. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To quote Erdmut Pfeifer [EMAIL PROTECTED], # Copy these lines into a file, e.g. base64dec.pl, make it executable # and call it like this # # base64dec.pl in.base64 out.gif # # in.base64 is your chunk of cryptic-looking data you're having # problems with. It should consist of the part *between* the separator # lines (there should be two identical lines, one above the Content-* # lines and one below the data block) -- use an editor to cut out the # block in between. # # If everything works as expected you should be left with your image # file. If not, let me know. Oooo... Thank you :) Thank you thank you :) I've been on a few lists, where patches were posted and I promptly lost(hard drive failure a few months ago). Nobody could find the patches themselves, either. :( There are archives of these lists, but attachments are in-lined, and I couldn't figure out how to extract them(even manually!). I tried perl(I don't know very much), but no luck. This is exactly what I was looking for :) Thanks Dave
GNUS can't find netscape
I have just started using gnus 5.8.7-2. (This is the gnus in its own package, not the one distributed with emacs.) If I click on a highlighted URL, it beeps and displays this message: Searching for program: no such file or directory, netscape I'm sure there is a variable that can be set to give gnus the path to netscape, but I can't find it. Any hints will be appreciated. Please Cc: me on any replies. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palm City, FL USA PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: connect to Internet via cable modem
Matthew Quigley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any thought on how I can do this? Any packages out there to do this? 1. Read /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini/Cable-Modem.txt.gz (from the Package: doc-linux-text package. 2. Get and install an ethernet card (often the cable ISP will provide this) and compile a kernel with support for this card. 3. Install the dhcp-client package. (This worked for me - some people recommend the pump package as an alternate.) 4. Have the cable provider make the installation, which usually includes providing and installing a cable modem. In my case (with Adelphia Power Link) that was all. I did not have to configure dhcp-client at all. YMMV :-) Most cable providers installers and tech-support people don't know anything about Linux. You have to tell them that you can handle it all after they get the cable modem properly hooked up and working. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: how to make .deb packages?
Fox, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Basically my question is, how do I make a deb kernel image, so that it can be transferred to other machines and used. Since all the machines are on the same hardware. And another thing I am curious about, is if compile something to my system, how could i turn the compiled/installed program into a deb file ready to use on another machine. So how do the package maintainers make there deb packages to be submitted to the package tree? I am very interested to know, and use it for my own benefit. Who knows I might someday become a maintainer of my own package :) To make a kernel image .deb, get the kernel-package package: : Package: kernel-package : Version: 7.03 : Priority: optional : Section: misc : Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Depends: perl5, dpkg (= 1.4), dpkg-dev (= 1.4.0.9), fileutils (= 4.0) : Recommends: libc-dev, gcc, debianutils, make : Suggests: kernel-source : Architecture: all : Filename: dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/misc/kernel-package_7.03.deb : Size: 149642 : MD5sum: 2e2e026fa21a1aceb8b30cf62979a23f : Description: Debian Linux kernel package build scripts. : This package provides the capability to create a debian : kernel-image package by just running make-kpkg kernel_image in a : kernel source directory tree. It can also build the kernel source : package as a debian file, the kernel headers package. In general, this : package is very useful if you need to create a custom kernel, if, for : example, the default kernel does not support some of your hardware, or : you wish a leaner, meaner kernel. : . : If you are running on an intel x86 platform, and you wish to compile a : custom kernel (why else are you considering this package?), then you may : need the package bin86 as well. (This is not required on other platforms). : installed-size: 644 For making .debs in general, go to http://www.debian.org/devel/ and look at the documents under Packaging Information, and also read the Debian Policy Manual, listed under Debian Policy on that same page. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: ftp.jimpick.com disappeared...
Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: ftp.jimpick.com seems to have disappeared. I was using it as a Debian non-US mirror. Anybody know about this (or does it still resolve for you)? apt-get update worked for me just now. I haven't been able to mirror on any non-US site for about a year, so I have to get it off the net. (Care to send me a working non-US mirror setup?) These remote directories work for me on nonus.debian.org. Other sites may require different prefixes. see README.non-US in any mirror. remote_dir=/debian-non-US/dists/woody/non-US/main/binary-all remote_dir=/debian-non-US/dists/woody/non-US/main/binary-i386 remote_dir=/debian-non-US/dists/woody/non-US/contrib/binary-all remote_dir=/debian-non-US/dists/woody/non-US/contrib/binary-i386 remote_dir=/debian-non-US/dists/woody/non-US/non-free/binary-all remote_dir=/debian-non-US/dists/woody/non-US/non-free/binary-i386 Note the capitalization of non-US in the remote directory -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Need help with mirroring non-US (fwd)
Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the reply. I later sent the post below, showing my mirror.defaults file. The paths look correct to me, using the same server as you. If I run in debug mode, it does read and xfer the dir contents, but it hangs at the end. Perhaps if you wouldn't mind sending your entire mirror file I can pick it apart and resolve this. I've tried many times for hours each time over what seems an entire year. Your remote directory line is: remote_dir=/debian-non-US/dists/potato/non-US What I sent was: remote_dir=/debian-non-US/dists/woody/non-US/main/binary-all remote_dir=/debian-non-US/dists/woody/non-US/main/binary-i386 remote_dir=/debian-non-US/dists/woody/non-US/contrib/binary-all remote_dir=/debian-non-US/dists/woody/non-US/contrib/binary-i386 remote_dir=/debian-non-US/dists/woody/non-US/non-free/binary-all remote_dir=/debian-non-US/dists/woody/non-US/non-free/binary-i386 Of course, s/potato/woody/. It appears to be necessary to list the directories under woody/non-US, but I don't understand why, since recursive is supposed to be the default. A year or so ago, non-US was not divided into main, contrib, and non-free. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Linux only sees half my RAM
sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe if you would the question u would see that I dont use lilo. I tried adding it to loadlin and that didn't work. ~Sam On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: ok, First let me say that I do NOT use lilo so don't tell me edit lilo.conf. I boot with loadlin, have 128mb of RAM but Linux sees only 64mb of it. When I type free it says: let's start a competition: the most asked FAQ :-)=) RTFM! *g* ... or just add mem=128M to your lilo.conf - ehhhmm (*eg*) --- loadlin command line. Maybe if you read the reply you would see that he did address loadlin as well as lilo. The /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/BootPrompt-HOWTO.txt.gz doesn't say it is required, but you might try adding append = mem=128m to your loadlin command line. You might have to make it append = mem=128m, I'm not sure. If it doesn't work then, read the HOWTO mentioned above. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: .signature and random fortune ?
Tolga KILICLI [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Do you know how to add random fortunes to the .signature file. (each mail with different .signature ?) One of the following packages may answer your needs: Package: signify Version: 1.06-1 Priority: optional Section: mail Maintainer: Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Depends: perl5 Architecture: all Filename: dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/mail/signify_1.06-1.deb Size: 13518 MD5sum: affa7df0e5fe12f3d80eca7f2db57ce7 Description: Automatic, semi-random .signature rotator/generator Signify is a neat little program that allows a random signature to be generated from a set of rules. Each section can be one of an unlimited number of possibilities, each with its own weighting so those really cool quotes can appear more often than others. Sections can also be placed next to each other vertically to create columns. Each section can be formatted independently as left/right/center and top/bottom/vcenter. installed-size: 38 Package: sigrot Version: 1.1-2 Priority: optional Section: mail Maintainer: Christopher J. Morrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Depends: libc6 Architecture: i386 Filename: dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/mail/sigrot_1.1-2.deb Size: 6604 MD5sum: 39883546ff3df1409f6a8386ffd3ddaf Description: Signature file rotation program. Rotates your signature file every time the sigrot is run. Includes an option for a non-rotating header and/or footer with a rotating middle. installed-size: 21 Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: MST7MDT timezone broken?
Touloumtzis, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. are you running with EST5EDT? I thought so, but I see it is now America/New_York. which is equivalent. I don't know when it changed, or why. I think it happened when timezones moved from its own package to libc6. 2. if so, what is the file size for /etc/localtime? 1250 bytes Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: MST7MDT timezone broken?
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul writes: Same problem here. Both of my servers and my workstation had to be manually changed. (EST-EDT). No problems here. What versions of the relevant packages do you have? No problems here, either, using up-to-date potato with libc6 2.1.3-7. I haven't seen it documented, but from experience, I believe the daylight saving change is only done if the hardware clock is set to GMT (UTC=yes in /etc/default/rcS). For those who complained about cron being off, see man (8)cron: Special considerations exist when the clock is changed by less than 3 hours, for example at the beginning and end of daylight savings time. If the time has moved forwards, those jobs which would have run in the time that was skipped will be run soon after the change. Conversely, if the time has moved backwards by less than 3 hours, those jobs that fall into the repeated time will not be run. Only jobs that run at a particular time (not specified as @hourly, nor with '*' in the hour or minute specifier) are affected. Jobs which are specified with wildcards are run based on the new time immediately. Clock changes of more than 3 hours are considered to be corrections to the clock, and the new time is used immedi ately. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Any possibility of reading MS Works files in Linux?
Jeronimo Pellegrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello; I receive wps (Microsoft Works) files regularly... And they are important files. The person who sends them to me is not really a computer person, and I've already tried to ask for the files in some other format, but this is not an option, as far as I can see. I've tried StarOffice and Corel WordPerfect, but they won't read these files. So... Is there any chance that I'll be able to read those files without having to ask for someone else convert them into .doc ot .txt? Try word2x: Package: word2x Version: 1:0.005-1 Priority: optional Section: text Maintainer: Matthew Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Depends: libc6, libc6 (= 2.1), libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 Architecture: i386 Filename: dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/text/word2x_0.005-1.deb Size: 60200 MD5sum: e86f815c5a55732c502898b638192272 Description: Translates Word files into ascii text or LaTeX Takes Word files and transforms them into ascii text or LaTeX installed-size: 141 Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Help with module problems on Upgrade to 2.1
Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob, thanks for the help. I tried it, to little avail. (session below). I can't tell if 1) just better tool usage is needed, 2) my configuration is broken, and if so how to recover, 3) the tools are broken (less likely..) But, how does one probe into the details of: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status? You can look at the prerm script with `less /var/lib/dpkg/info/samba.prerm'. If you can see a line in the script that appears to be causing the problem, you can comment it out. If you can't see the cause of the problem, you could insert `exit 0' at the top of the script. Then try `dpkg --force-depends -r samba' again. I am not familiar with samba, but I see it has a _lot_ of files. By-passing the prerm might leave some directories, or even files, on your disk that would otherwise be removed. Since you intend to re-install samba, that probably won't be a be a problem, but you could always run cruft (../admin/cruft_*.deb) to locate files that aren't needed. In general, using --force options to dpkg, and/or modifying the maintainer scripts, have the potential to damage your system. In the present case, samba is already broken, so I don't see much chance of damaging anything but samba. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Help with module problems on Upgrade to 2.1
Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 12:11 PM 04/01/2000 -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob, thanks for the help. - again! But, how does one probe into the details of: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status? You can look at the prerm script with `less /var/lib/dpkg/info/samba.prerm'. If you can see a line in the script that appears to be causing the problem, you can comment it out. If you can't see the cause of the problem, you could insert `exit 0' at the top of the script. Then try `dpkg --force-depends -r samba' again. -- I checked the file, and found out that the problem is (was) that the pre-rm script was trying to stop two daemons, neither of which was running, so it would exit(1), and nothing else would work. This seems like an install error to me, if the daemons are not running it is OK to remove it. Anyway, I added the -oknodo to the stop commands, and then it removed fine. But now I cannot re-install it. Then, dselect to install samba reports that there is a dependency problem, that Samba depends on libpam0 (=0.56-1) but libpam0 does not exist. (I am using a 2.1 CDROM) It sounds like the samba on the CD has bad dependencies, or the library versions changed between when that samba was built and when the CD was made. I think your best bet is to download the current slink version of samba. At the present, that is 2.0.5a-1. It depends on samba-common and libc6. The apt-get update messages you quote indicate you have http.us.debian.org in sources.list, but you say you are using the 2.1 CD. If you have the mirror in /etc/apt/sources.list, and are still on line when you do apt-get install samba, apt should download samba and samba-common, and then install them. Since you have removed the old samba, apt-get update would not retrieve the samba packages. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: Help with module problems on Upgrade to 2.1
Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 02:19 PM 03/30/2000 -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I took a new CDrom (2.1) and did re-deselect, which did a lot of upgrades to various stuff. ... dependency problems - not removing Errors were encountered while processing: samba libpam0 libpam-util Try `dpkg --force-depends --purge libpam0 libpam-util', then do apt-get install samba -- Bob, thanks, I tried it, and now get: (see below). It looks like you got rid of libpam0 and libpam-util. apt-get is picky about having a broken system, but dpkg is less so, especially with the forcing options. You might try dpkg -i pathsamba* (unlike apt, dpkg requires a full pathname to the .deb for installation, but just the package name for purge, remove, or configure). I don't have a recent slink Packages file. In the one I have, samba has no dependencies other than netbase and libc6. If that is no longer true, it should tell you what dependencies it needs. You can append them to the dpkg command line above. It might be necessary to remove samba with `dpkg -r samba'. If dpkg refuses, try ` dpkg --force-depends -r samba'. If this doesn't work look at `dpkg --help' and `dpkg --force-help' for other possibilities. After samba is removed, `apt-get install samba' should work, automatically installing any missing dependencies. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
