Re: OFF TOPIC: where did MICROPOLIS go?
I believe that group is ST - Singapore Technologies. The former factory is now in the process of finding someone to takeover. And no one is taking it up due to the bad sate of economy here. sorry to be a pain, but does anyone know what ever happened to Micropolis Corp.? I found an old 3243 4.3gig SCSI drive that I need info on. I've searched for Micropolis, but the phone numbers and web sites I found are all dead. Did someone take them over? Loss-making Micropolis was taken over by a Singapore group, which closed Micropolis after failing to get it out of the red. -- Jieyao [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 836655 Why waste your CPU time? Join the Singapore RC5 Team now! http://www.raffles.nus.edu.sg/~rekcah/rc5/
Help with debug message
Hi, Can anyone give a clue on the following error in /var/log/debug The whole file is filled with this error and it's taking up a big chunk of the disk space. Sep 8 18:01:13 radon kernel: ARP: arp called for own IP address Sep 8 18:01:57 radon last message repeated 24 times -- Jieyao [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 836655 Why waste your CPU time? Join the Singapore RC5 Team now! http://www.raffles.nus.edu.sg/~rekcah/rc5/
Copying files over samba
Hi, I am thinking of doing something as follows... I have a debian and a win95 connected over a network and samba is running. I am thinking of setting up something like a 'mutual backup'. That is, I want some data files on the win95 to be backup to the debian and vice versa. I was thinking of writing a perl script to do that but have no idea how to access samba. A check at CPAN did not find any modules to access samba. Is there any way to do this? TIA! -- Jieyao [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 836655 Why waste your CPU time? Join the Singapore RC5 Team now! http://www.raffles.nus.edu.sg/~rekcah/rc5/
Lotus Notes like application
Hi, We were discussing Linux vs Win one day and we got stuck when someone mentioned that there isn't any Linux application that does what Lotus Notes does. Indeed, off hand we knew of nothing that does work flow stuff or what is commonly termed 'groupware'. Is this true? I feel that there might be some application that does a bit here and there of what Notes does, but not one as integated as Notes. Perhaps there is a project some where taking care of this? Thanks. Jieyao
kernel: ARP: arp called for own IP address
I get the error kernel: ARP: arp called for own IP address in my /var/log/debug file. I have no idea where this is from any ideas? I am running IP masq with DHCP connected via cable modem to my ISP. Jieyao [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 836655 Don't waste your computer's time. Join the Singapore RC5 Effort now! http://www.raffles.nus.edu.sg/~rekcah/rc5/
Re: Connection closed
Hi, Did the telnet to the site work before you upgrade to 2.0? Are you using Xwindows? When I connect to certain hosts via telnet (similar via ftp), I'll get a messgae like this: Connected to site.whatever.edu Escape character is '^]'. which is as usual then followed by: Connection closed by foreign host. Assume for the moment that it is not an ISP problem, is there anything specific to my machine that is causing this? I'd love some hints. Jieyao [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 836655 Don't waste your computer's time. Join the Singapore RC5 Effort now! http://www.raffles.nus.edu.sg/~rekcah/rc5/
Enlightenment problem
I had installed Enlightenment on my hamm installation. I did this by downloading all the necessary slink packages and installed them. It runs fine except.. I get the following in the file .xsession-error _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 Enlightenment received an Segment Violation (Segfault) Signal from the Operating System Kernel. This means that Enlightenment or support library routines it calls have accessed areas of your system's memory that they are not allowed access to. This is most likely a bug. It is recommended to restart now. If you wish to help fix this please compile Enlightenment with debugging symbols in and run Enlightenment under gdb so you can backtrace for where it died and send in a useful bug report with backtrace information and variable dumps etc. This messages keep repeating until it fills up all the harddisk space on my partition (1GB). There is nothing abnormal when running enlightment. If it matters, I am also running Netscape 4.5 Any ideas? __o __o __o __o __\_))__\_))__\_))__\_))___. --\---\ R O W I N G Jieyao [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 836655 Don't waste your computer's time. Join the Singapore RC5 Effort now! http://www.raffles.nus.edu.sg/~rekcah/rc5/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
any risk in using /home/root
I have one partition which I had mounted as /home. I figured that since this is gonna store user information and files, I might as well put the root home there too. So I created /home/root and change /root to a symbolic link to /home/root Is there any security risk in doing this? One problem that I can think of is if there is any serious problem and the other partition can't mount than probably root can login. This is correct? TIA -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Diald problem
I am having some problem with diald. Iam using it with ppp and ip masquerade. I have an internal network which I assign the standard 192.168.0.x This is working fine. The modem is connected to the linux box. If I don't use diald, pppd works fine and I am able to go out using ip masquerade, no problem. Now, the problem start when I add diald. When it dial out, it some how does not change the default route from pointing at sl0 to ppp0 so the network can't go out. So what I do is at the ip-up and ip-down scripts I manually delete the default sl0 before ppp is up and add default sl0 when ppp is down. This makes it work. But am I doing it correctly? I thought diald is supposed to handle all this rerouting?? TIA -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
module missing
When I start up I get the following net-pf-5 missing char-major-10 missing This happens after hda2 and hda3 are mounted.. The error also appears in the syslog now and then. What am I missing? __o __o __o __o __\_))__\_))__\_))__\_))___. --\---\ R O W I N G Jieyao [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 836655 Don't waste your computer's time. Join the Singapore RC5 Effort now! http://www.raffles.nus.edu.sg/~rekcah/rc5/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
- MARK --
Hi, I have a long /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog contain the following. Can any one tell me what is the cause? Thanks Jul 5 10:28:19 superman -- MARK -- Jul 5 10:48:19 superman -- MARK -- Jul 5 11:08:19 superman -- MARK -- Jul 5 11:28:19 superman -- MARK -- Jul 5 11:48:19 superman -- MARK -- Jul 5 12:08:19 superman -- MARK -- Jul 5 12:28:19 superman -- MARK -- Jul 5 12:48:19 superman -- MARK -- Jul 5 13:08:19 superman -- MARK -- Jul 5 13:28:19 superman -- MARK -- Jul 5 13:48:19 superman -- MARK -- __o __o __o __o __\_))__\_))__\_))__\_))___. --\---\ R O W I N G Jieyao [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 836655 Don't waste your computer's time. Join the Singapore RC5 Effort now! http://www.raffles.nus.edu.sg/~rekcah/rc5/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Please help with IP Aliasing
I am currently setting up a Mail and Webserver (hamm, 2.0.33). I have got a whole package of 256 IP addresses that I want to assign to this server. In the NET-3-HOWTO I read that I have to set it up like this: Why do you want to give the machine 256 ips? It's pointless unless you do webhosting, and there are better ways of doing that eg with apache's VirtualHost setup. Correct me if I'm wrong, I believe that even for apache you still need IP for each virtualhost since each is going to be a diffenent domain. I think there are some way to do non-IP virtualhost but you would be handicapped in other services. Any ideas? __o __o __o __o __\_))__\_))__\_))__\_))___. --\---\ R O W I N G Jieyao [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 836655 Don't waste your computer's time. Join the Singapore RC5 Effort now! http://www.raffles.nus.edu.sg/~rekcah/rc5/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
e2fsck
I had a few question regarding e2fsck. Can I assume e2fsck is something like Norton Disk Doctor for Linux. When I run it, it gave me /dev/hda1 is mounted. Do you really want to continue (y/n)? What is the danger of continuing? When I do a forced check on bootup (using shutdown -F) I almost always get some error, like zreo dtime and wrong information or stuff like that, and it auto fixes. The problem is after that those file that are so called 'fixed' will be missing. What is happening? What are the causes of the errors? How can I prevent them? TIA! __o __o __o __o __\_))__\_))__\_))__\_))___. --\---\ R O W I N G Jieyao [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 836655 Don't waste your computer's time. Join the Singapore RC5 Effort now! http://www.raffles.nus.edu.sg/~rekcah/rc5/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
How to clear screen before login prompt
I was trying to do a clear screen after I logout from the console before the login prompt appears. Any idea how this can be done? I tried some escape sequence but doesn't work. TIA. __o __o __o __o __\_))__\_))__\_))__\_))___. --\---\ R O W I N G Jieyao [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 836655 Don't waste your computer's time. Join the Singapore RC5 Effort now! http://raffles0005.pc.nus.sg/~rekcah/rc5/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to enable pop3?
You need to install the pop3 package Last I know there were 2 packages that can do pop3 I think one is called qpopper. How can I enable pop3 support in Debian 1.3.1? I added a line saying: pop-3 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.pop3d to /etc/inetd.conf (copied that from Slackware), but in.pop3d seems not to exist in Debian (checked the Contents-i386 file) __o __o __o __o __\_))__\_))__\_))__\_))___. --\---\ R O W I N G Jieyao [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 836655 Don't waste your computer's time. Join the Singapore RC5 Effort now! http://raffles0005.pc.nus.sg/~rekcah/rc5/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Samba: password for mapping network drives
Hi, If you are running your samba in an internal network like for my case (at home), you can try commenting off security = user Then you will not be prompt for password at all. Any comment about this? Security? I'm running the nmbd and smbd Samba daemons, and having trouble mapping a network drive on my windows machine to any of my mounted drives. I've tried the following ways of connecting using windows' map utility (i.e. in explorer): \\debian\hda# (where # = appropriate drive partition) \\debian\usr (or \root, \var, or \usr) In either case, the map utility prompts me for a password to connect to these resources. I've tried the root password, and all the passwords for individual users, but it always comes back and says, the password is incorrect, please try again. Is there another password that I'm not aware of that I need to be entering here, or another daemon I'm not yet running to be able to map a network drive in this way? The man pages didn't provide as much help as I wished. running hamm, 2.0.33 kernel\ Brian PS: apologies on posting that ZDnet article earlier. In the future, I'll only post the address to such articles (if they're worth it). Thanks again, everyone for being patient with a newbie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] __o __o __o __o __\_))__\_))__\_))__\_))___. --\---\ R O W I N G Jieyao [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 836655 Don't waste your computer's time. Join the Singapore RC5 Effort now! http://raffles0005.pc.nus.sg/~rekcah/rc5/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unstable networking
I wonder if anyone experiences the following. The system reboots ok. ifconfig and route are runand network set up. If you put a line in the boot up file with the command 'ifconfig' and 'route' it shows that eth0 is up and the routing is set up. But when you log in, the route is lost. If you run the command 'route' it will You are probably running a routing daemon, such as routed. If you don't need it (and it looks like you don't), turn it off. Comment it out in /etc/init.d/netstd_init. BTW, it's turned off by default .. If it is off by default I don't think I had turn it on. let me check it's there but ps doesn't show... __o __o __o __o __\_))__\_))__\_))__\_))___. --\---\ R O W I N G Jieyao [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 836655 Don't waste your computer's time. Join the Singapore RC5 Effort now! http://raffles0005.pc.nus.sg/~rekcah/rc5/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux system Instalation - CRC Error
I have a feeling that Debian /Linux is particularly sensitive to media defect. Even when I use disk that are formatted perfectly in win95, I still get error during installing. Something retrying works. But the easiest way out is to get a new box of floppy. You would need 9 disks, about a box. BTW, what's the root disk for? I don't think it was used for installation. Sounds like you there may be a media defect on the floppy you used for the rescue disk. Use another floppy. This is pretty common. Here is what I do do make a Debian boot floppy set. It is kinda time consuming, but it has pretty much eliminated this kind of problem for me. DOS (Win95, whatever) format the stack of floppys that you plan to use for your installation set. Watch the output messages. If the format program marks any sectors as bad, toss the disk or at least dont use it to make your installation set. __o __o __o __o __\_))__\_))__\_))__\_))___. --\---\ R O W I N G Jieyao [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 836655 Don't waste your computer's time. Join the Singapore RC5 Effort now! http://raffles0005.pc.nus.sg/~rekcah/rc5/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel-source dependence
Hi, Do you think there is a dependence on bin86 missing for the kernel-source package? I was unable to compile the kernel for some thing and sent time digging at all places before I discover I did not install the bin86 package. Why wan't bin86 installed? Well I tried to trim the system, leaving out package that don't sound familiar hoping the dependence checking would warn me. __o __o __o __o __\_))__\_))__\_))__\_))___. --\---\ R O W I N G Jieyao [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 836655 Don't waste your computer's time. Join the Singapore RC5 Effort now! http://raffles0005.pc.nus.sg/~rekcah/rc5/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Page counting / Print quota
This is interesting, I didn't encounter it before. But it don't seem to work for my case. I have a printer connecter to my debian box and is shared via samba to my win95 boxes. I sent my print job from my win95 machines to the printer but there is no accounting data. Did I miss something? Have you tried pac, the printer accounting utility? Do a man pac do get some additional information. As far as I know, pac is part of the default Debian installation. Here is an excerpt from the pac man page: __o __o __o __o __\_))__\_))__\_))__\_))___. --\---\ R O W I N G Jieyao [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 836655 Don't waste your computer's time. Join the Singapore RC5 Effort now! http://raffles0005.pc.nus.sg/~rekcah/rc5/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
unstable networking
Hi, I wonder if anyone experiences the following. The system reboots ok. ifconfig and route are runand network set up. If you put a line in the boot up file with the command 'ifconfig' and 'route' it shows that eth0 is up and the routing is set up. But when you log in, the route is lost. If you run the command 'route' it will stuck there as if looking forever for something that is not there. If I run 'ifconfig eth0 down' and then the file /etc/init.d/network everything is back to normal. BTW, I don't think it got anything to do with logging in, I just need to log in to see things and run commands. What could be wrong? __o __o __o __o __\_))__\_))__\_))__\_))___. --\---\ R O W I N G Jieyao [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 836655 Don't waste your computer's time. Join the Singapore RC5 Effort now! http://raffles0005.pc.nus.sg/~rekcah/rc5/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unstable networking
: The system reboots ok. ifconfig and route are runand network set up. If you put : a line in the boot up file with the command 'ifconfig' and 'route' it shows that : eth0 is up and the routing is set up. : But when you log in, the route is lost. If you run the command 'route' it will : stuck there as if looking forever for something that is not there. : If I run 'ifconfig eth0 down' and then the file /etc/init.d/network everything is back : to normal. How do you know the route is lost? Typing `route' will result in a slew of DNS lookups - that could be your delay. Try `route -n'. (`netstat -rn' does the same thing and has the added benefit of being in a user's default path :) Well I I don't know for sure. What I know is before I do anything, it takes forever to find the route. But if I rerun the network setup, route pops up immediate. And not only that, external network can't reach it until I rerun the network setup. If `route -n' doesn't show anything, then yes, you've got a problem. I think I do... any idea what I can do? BTW, your emailer tries to use unusally long lines. Meaning?? Lines are not warped? __o __o __o __o __\_))__\_))__\_))__\_))___. --\---\ R O W I N G Jieyao [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 836655 Don't waste your computer's time. Join the Singapore RC5 Effort now! http://raffles0005.pc.nus.sg/~rekcah/rc5/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tear-Drop (ip_fragment bug) anyone apply the patch?
Regarding patching the kernel source I tried to patch the debian kernel source 2.0.30-9 using 2.0.31 and 2.0.32 from the usual kernel distribution sites but there are always error and I can't complie correctly. Anyone has any idea how I can do it correctly? Normally I download the debian kernel source, configure it then use make-kpkg to make a image package to be installed by dpkg. How do I do it with patches? Regards. __o __o __o __o __\_))__\_))__\_))__\_))___. --\---\ R O W I N G Jieyao [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join the Singapore RC5 Effort now! http://raffles0005.pc.nus.sg/~rekcah/rc5/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
