Re: Mounting on a mac
At 07:25 PM 1/16/01 -0600, you wrote: Is there a way to make a directory (namely, etc/www) on a mac network, so I can just open the directory on the mac to work on the files? I was going to set up ftp, but since I'll only be working on at home within the network, I really only need it locally. Any relatively simple way to do this? Check out netatalk. http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/ Cool, got it to work, and I can mount the normal Home Directory default fine, anyone know how to set it up to use the www instead? edit /etc/netatalk/AppleShares.default or something similar... you'll see the kind of line you'll need to add. -- Criggie
Re: why use Debian?
At 03:00 PM 1/13/01 -0700, you wrote: Martin J . Hillyer wrote: Well, these geezer reminscences have probably put everyone to sleep; now back to your usual programming... Some of these stories get interesting. I'm waiting for someone to pipe up that has been computing so long that they had to bang two rocks together to get a '1'! There's one in every crowd! ;p You know you're old when you see the rocks you used to bang together to make 1 get auctioned on Ebay in the category of antiques -- Criggie
Re: Problems booting NT with Lilo
At 10:20 AM 1/13/01 -0500, you wrote: Linux boots no problems as usual. NT does not. When I boot NT I get a Blue screen of death with the error message c135 and that winsrv.dll cannot find a DLL it needs. Upon furthur investigation I have determined that somehow the second NTFS partition is getting marked as a HIDDEN NTFS partition when I boot linux. This causes NT not to be able to see it when I boot and therefore it crashes. If I make /dev/hda1 the active partition and just boot NT without LILO everything works fine. If I boot a dos disk and use partition magic to unhied the NT partition it will boot fine through LILO until after the next time I boot into Linux and then the 2nd NTFS partition is labelled as HIDDEN NTFS again and I have to go and unhide the partition. Gidday - NT is a total bastard at any time of the day or night. On my box theres a minihowto in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.txt.gz Which looks relevant, but talks about using the NT loader to start linux with lilo in the boot record of your linux root partition. -- Criggie
Re: Two serial ports on a Linux laptop?
At 07:08 PM 12/25/00 +, you wrote: Anyone done two serial ports on a Linux laptop? How did you do it? You'll need to get a PCMCIA serial port card, probably quite expensive, to get the second port. Why do you need two? If one is for a mouse then consider getting a PS/2 mouse, or if you want an external mouse and keyboard there are PS/2 Y-cables for exactly that, leaving your serial port free for other stuff. If you want to use a modem then consider buying a PCMCIA modem straight off - easier by far. Does linux support serial ports (rather than modems) on the PCMCIA bus? -- Criggie
Re: Q: Hiding M$ Exchange behind a firewall ?
At 10:00 PM 12/22/00 +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:24:16 +0100, Michael Steiner writes: snip Well, the quickfix would be a virtusertable containing something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] for eachevery user. Its just another damn thing for the admins to update :-\ My system at work is this Internet --- Linux Firewall --- Internal network The world-readable DNS says that the MX for avonside.school.nz is avonside.school.nz preference = 10, mail exchanger = smtp-queue.ihug.co.nz avonside.school.nz preference = 5, mail exchanger = mail.avonside.school.nz smtp-queue.ihug.co.nz internet address = 203.29.160.69 mail.avonside.school.nz internet address = 203.173.241.182 That IP is the only world-readable IP we have, so *everything* uses it. Now, the firewall is configured to use port-forwarding to redirect all connects on port 25 to the internal linux machine 192.168.1.2 (1) This machine is called gpu and ran sendmail, and now exim as a MTA. The same machine is also the master DNS for the internal network. The gpu dns server knows that the MX for avonside.school.nz is 192.168.1.11 (the exchange server) and so mail gets properly handed off. In reverse, the exchange server is configured to use gpu as a SmartHost (2) and the firewall knows that 192.168.1.2 is allowed full NATted connections to whatever IP it wants, whereas the exchange server is blocked off completely from direct access to the world. Why? cos its a hunk of shit and I hate it. :) Furthermore I don't trust it. (OT) If anyone has any suggestions for replacing an exchange server with something nicer I'm listening with full attention. (1) You could direct it straight to the exchange server if you want to, and it is updated against any known possible exploits. (2) Cool name for it - exchange knows it needs something smarter to actually do the work -- Criggie
Re: HT configure an IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive?
At 12:09 AM 12/13/00 -0600, you wrote: Eric G . Miller wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:28:08PM -0600, Dan Griswold wrote: Hi all, I have an internal IDE/ATAPI ZIP 100 in my box. I can mount, read/write, and umount it. But I cannot eject it. :-( I think you need a tool that can send the proper ioctl to the kernel. Think jazip or ziptool (seems not to be in woody) should work. Don't know if jaztool (which is present in woody) works with Zip drives. You need to compile scsi emulation into your kernel. So under Block Devices say yes to SCSI EMulation Support Rubbish - all you need is IDE Removeable deviced or IDE Floppy support. Which the original poster must have because he says I can mount, read/write, and umount it I think all he wants is a way to press the eject button, and cdtool.deb contains cdeject, which should do it. cdeject -d /dev/hdc -- Criggie
Re: HT configure an IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive?
At 06:26 PM 12/13/00 -0600, you wrote: You're right. I want to eject the disk, whether that's by hardware button or software utility. Other features work fine. I've tried (in configuring the kernel) IDE floppy, but I can find no option for IDE Removable. Where is that located. Under Block Devices Include IDE/ATAPI FLOPPY support (I called it by the wrong name sorry) Heres the help for it: x CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY: x x x x If you have an IDE floppy drive which uses the ATAPI protocol, x x answer Y. ATAPI is a newer protocol used by IDE CDROM/tape/floppy x x drives, similar to the SCSI protocol. x x x x The LS-120 and the IDE/ATAPI Iomega ZIP drive are also supported by x x this driver. (ATAPI PD-CD/CDR drives are not supported by this x x driver; support for PD-CD/CDR drives is available if you answer Y tox x SCSI emulation support, below). x x x x If you say Y here, the FLOPPY drive will be identified along with x x other IDE devices, as hdb or hdc, or something similar (check x x the boot messages with dmesg). Then reboot, and your ZIP drive should be identified as /dev/hdc or hdd or similar. I've also tried the SCSI Emulation Support suggested by Pascal, but that didn't solve the problem either. I've also tried (after enabling SCSI emulation) jazip suggested by Eric, to no avail. The only time SCSI emulation is required when it comes to IDE is CD Writers, and I don't know why. And lastly, I did apt-get install cdtool, and cdeject -d /dev/hdc doesn't work, but rather yields this message: cdeject: ioctl cdromeject Try the above and it should work. -- Criggie
Re: vanilla vs. compact
At 03:32 AM 12/10/00 -0500, you wrote: What are the differences between the vanilla and compact install besides the obvious listed at the Debian site? When I installed with the vanilla method (hard drive floppy-less) the console looked fine. With compact, I have this low-res penguin image on top that won't go away unless I go to another console and then back. And the cursor is block instead of underlined. And worst of all the screen is shifted over to the right. I know I can adjust that with the buttons, but nothing else does this. Yes - the compact kernel image uses the frame buffer options for the console and gives you the benefit of a 80x30 line console (with the beer-drinking penguin) Look at the command fbset for some options on how to do stuff, or get the kernel source and compile your own. -- Criggie
Re: Who are the shitheads at Debian? - laugh!
At 10:10 PM 12/8/00 -0500, you wrote: unsubscribe me, stick these 60 emails a day up your ass http://www.princeton.edu/~kroger/home/ Has anyone checked out his web site? It lists both home and work phone numbers, as does his email sig. Are there any list members prepared to POLITELY call him? (I'm in New Zealand.) I have found over time that technically literate people have an almost phobia about calling someone unknown up on the phone to facilitate a conversation. Some people would rather stagger it over 20 emails and an entire day, rather than a 30 second telephone conversation. -- Criggie
Re: Who are the shitheads at Debian?
At 01:33 PM 12/9/00 -0500, you wrote: James K. Kroger, Ph.D. To the folks flaming (albeit gently) this guy: Somehow I have a hard time believing that a PhD student,... In New Zealand you're not allowed to claim a qualification if you're working on it - so he can't be a Ph.D student (ie, studying for a doctorate) He wrote James K. Kroger, Ph.D. which to me means he is a doctor of something already. -- Criggie
Re: Help using old dos partition...
At 02:34 AM 12/10/00 +0100, you wrote: /hda1 dos /hda5 /boot /hda6 / /hda7 swap /hda8 /home Now I would like to use cfdisk to delete /hda1 and create two partitions, one for /usr/local and another for /tmp. Could someone check my steps? 1. Change to init 1 2. Use cfdisk to delete dos partition and create new two/Write/Format 3. All other names now bumped down one, so change lilo root /hda6 to /hda7 Nope - they don't bump up or down, thats where you're going amiss. 4. Change fstab settings bumping up all one and adding /usr/local and /tmp 5. Reboot. 6. Switch to init 1. Make and move over /usr/local and /tmp files The problem is I never got past stage 5 reboot. It hangs. Where did I go wrong? When I changed /hda1 to a single linux partition for /usr/local, everyting went ok. PPS Instead of everything getting out of wack and bumped down, can't I split /hda into /hda1 and /hda2. can I control the naming somehow? Thats exactly what should happen - you can have hda1 and hda2 in the same space as hda1 used to take up. FYI hda5 and upwards are called Logical partitions, and reside in what is called an Extended partition. hda1 through to hda4 are called Primary partitions, and the Extended partition is a special kind of Primary partition. To confuse the issue even more, hda1 does not have to be physically before hda2 on the disk. I mean that hda2 might be track 1 to 10 and hda1 might be track 11 to 123. -- Criggie
Re: tunneling ftp through ssh
Have you considered using scp instead? scp uses ssh, and uses a syntax like rcp scp c:\junk\index.html scarf: will prompt for a password then copy c:\junk\index.html to your home directory on machine scarf (actually its pscp on a windows box) scp scarf:/public_html/index.html . will prompt for a password then copy /public_html/index.html to the current directory on your local machine scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:public_html/index.html . will prompt for a password then copy ~criggie/public_html/index.html to the current directory on your local machine At 12:17 PM 12/8/00 -0500, you wrote: Hello, I am trying to set up ftp tunneling through ssh. I would like to have secure ftp connections, but I don't like the limited command line of sftp. I really want to be able to use ncftp through ssh. I collected several sources of documentation, and I think I am close to success. From an xterm on the remote system, I type this: ssh -L2121:REMOTEIP:21 REMOTEIP This logs me into the local server. Then, from another remote xterm, I type this: ncftp -P 2121 -u USERNAME localhost This is equivalent to ftp localhost 2121, which I have also tried. When I try the above ncftp command, I can log into the ftp server just fine, but when I try ls, I get this: connect failed: Transport endpoint is not connected. List failed. When I try it with ftp, again I can login to the ftp server, but I get this error: 500 Illegal PORT command. 425 Can't build data connection: Connection refused My understanding is that this method requires passive transfer, which I am using. I also tried without passive and got just the list failed part of the error. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Criggie
Re: PS/2 mouse on serial port?
At 05:06 PM 12/3/00 -0800, you wrote: On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 10:19:33PM +, Karl E. Jørgensen wrote: You said two serial ports, but this one lists 4? Do you have a modem in there as well? Yes, there is a modem at ttyS3 I also tried everything on ttyS0, nothing there either. Theres the problem - your modem on com4 and your mouse on com2 have IRQ conflict. Set your modem to IRQ 2 or 9 if you can - that seems the best solution. -- Criggie
Re: MegaImage MegaBook 880
Debian doesn't need drivers as such - you will need to know the type of chipset used in each component... for example you need to know that your video card uses a neomagic 256-abc (for example) If you want windows drivers (asking in a linux mailing list is not the most optimal way to answer this kind of question) look at http://www.driverzone.com/ A lot of smaller laptops are just not supported by anyone any more - this is why name-brand laptops are worth more when they're older. You can still get support for a compaq 286 potable 10 years after it was discontinued, but god help you with a philips P100. At 09:03 AM 12/2/00 +1100, you wrote: Hello, I saw a message on a message board from you regarding the MegaImage MegaBook 880. I have one and am looking for the latest driver updates etc. But MOST importantly, I have not been able to find the MegaImage manufacturer website. I have tried www.megaimage.com and www.megai.com but they do not exist. Do you know of the address of the MegaImage home site or another site with full support for this notebook? -- Criggie
Re: Port 12345?
At 11:15 AM 11/28/00 +0100, you wrote: Is there an appropriate selection of Debian packages for this? I wouldn´t know of one. I have an old serial terminal plugged into a null modem cable. It sits just to the left of my main monitor and in syslog.conf I have *.* /dev/ttys1 So all syslogd output for all machines is displayed on it. All my linux boxes run tcplogd which logs connections - its not the greatest software around, but does okay. -- Criggie
Re: samba or NFS mount
At 12:11 PM 11/27/00 +0100, you wrote: DG I was wondering what would be better to use in this situation. DG I want to basically be able to have read access to a particular LAN device DG on which the files are on a NT server and the client(s) that I want to be DG able to read files (mostly spreadsheets *.xls) that change daily. So I DG guess the question I have is would samba be better to use or some other DG nfs protocal? If you have some moneys, buy HUMMINGBIRD NFS MAESTRO server for NT: NFS Maestro Server enables UNIX workstations and network-attached NFS computers to access Windows-based resources such as Windows NT file systems, directories, printers and CD-ROMs across a network. http://www.hummingbird.com/products/nc/nfs/index.html I'm forever reading that as humpingbird must be my filthy warped mind. -- Criggie
Re: startx lxdoom - wrong colormap
At 03:39 PM 11/26/00 +0100, you wrote: There's an old P90 at my school that we use during the breaks and it's running potato Old P90 heh We still have rooms of Mac LCIIs, 386s and Mac Classics (10 years old now) Just think, you might be amusing yourself with typewriters a few years back. As for the question - I suspect that in 8 bit colour mode the window manager has a lot to do with the colour map. Try a lightweight WM like twm or similar. Or start playing tetris-bsd -- Criggie
Re: Postscript printers
I have 4 HP Jetdirects at work - they're truely sexy. Theres also a Lantronix print server which was legacy... it lacks syslog support, so when users tell me its not working I have to go run special software. The jetdirects all log to loghost, which I have displayed on an old serial terminal. Its great to be able to fix problems before the users report them thats the mark of a good network. OKI lasers are (were) all rip-offs of HPs anyway. At 11:58 PM 11/18/00 +0100, you wrote: The 12i/n does speak TCP/IP too. I think it is really cool to connect to my printer's ftp-server ;) Hey, does it also have a builtin webserver? :) -- Criggie
why windows users on debian list
I have five debian boxes and one slackware, two NT servers and 400 NT workstations, one of which is mine. But thats the corporate world :-\ Of course home is a different matter... but it piquets my sense of humour to read debian mailing lists on work time. At 10:39 PM 11/13/00 -0800, you wrote: Yes. Good point. What are people using M$ apps on Windoze doing on this list anyway. Vijay. --- Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:59:35PM -0500, Mike wrote: In case no one has noticed yet, there are a bunch of virus infected messages coming through here on the debian-users list. For information on this virus, go to: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.navidad.html Those of us using Linux for email have nothing to worry about (of course). However it seems that there are quite a few that do use Outlook Express, which - as near as I can tell - is what this virus targets. Just wanted to put out a heads-up for everyone. (Okay, okay. Technically this thing is actually a worm. But it can still do damage.) very true all they do is annoy GNU/Linux users as well as everyone else who uses a real MUA that is not vulnerable to this crap. I hearby propose that the list automatically reject all postings that appear to have been sent using MS Outlook. this way this garbage won't happen each and every time ya new Outlook worm comes out. to subscribers forced to use win* for mail please switch to a real MUA that has been designed with just a pinch of clue, say Eudora. /me is VERY tempted to write a procmail rule to scan for X-Mailer: MS Outhouse and file it all into /dev/null. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Criggie
Re: update
At 04:43 PM 11/14/00 +0100, you wrote: ...sorry, I can't tell you wether there are snafu's, 'cause I don't know what snafus are. ;) You mean problems? If you have problems, write a bug report agains the package. ;) http://everything2.net/index.pl?node_id=28184 -- Criggie
Re: [OT] power supply meltdown, part ][
At 05:54 PM 11/12/00 -0500, you wrote: I've got one here on my vintage 1993 486/33, I've unplugged the fan on it coz it was noisy and I'm too lazy to go to the basement, hunt for a voltmeter, soldering iron, and play the old 12-7V conversion game again. So I'm wondering what are the chances it'll melt down, burn out, overheat? Cause a fire? Have you considered replacing the fan? after 7 years its probably a little worn, and a new ball bearing fan shouldn't be too expensive. Otherwise cleaning the dust and fluff might help. Made my old sun 3/50 barely audible (thats what 13 years of crud does to a fan.) On a couple machines I ended up replacing the punched metal finger guard with a wire one... more air gets through. I powered off the machine and removed all the components (Don't trust metal filings in cases, and don't trust a vacuum to pick them all up) then cut off the grille, then drilled four holes for the wire fan grille which I'd salvaged from an XT I think. Some people have suggested putting the PSU outside the case with no fan - I don't like this cos its messy, and you'd probably need to lengthen all your cables. Thats too much like hard work! But one important thing - its just a 486! I have a dozen at work that I use to hold up an old door - makes a most excellent table. If it does die badly then just go find another one or two. There's not too much power-hungry gear in this machine, the hard drive spins down and the monitor blanks, the cpu doesn't have a fan, etc. The monitor doesn't use power from the PSU... the power output socket is simply switched from the front in most 486s. (some had a jumper lead which could shut off the monitor power socket if the video card or motherboard supported it - power saving before VESA and DPMS.) Never underestimate the power of a massively huge heatsink. If you find a totally mofo heatsink (you'd know one when you see it) then grab it and use that somewhere. I'm hoping there's a relationship between power drawn from the P/S and heat generated, anybody confirm this? Yes - but its not linear... halve the current drawn and heat output would drop by about 5 to 10 % -- Criggie
Re: Need hardware recommendations
At 12:49 AM 11/13/00 -0500, you wrote: I will be scavenging a sound card (SB PCI 128), video card (Matrox Millennium G200), and CD-ROM (Creative 52x) from the current desktop which will subsequently be turned into a headless server. ... Price isn't too much of a consideration since this desktop system will be a business expense and I will be leasing the system, but I don't want to go overboard :) The leasing company might not be happy with you sticking your own bits in their machine... something to watch for. (1) Motherboard I intend to get a P-III CPU (probably 800EB). One store from where I got Asus truely rocks... I have a strong preference for asus boards (note 1) (2) SCSI Which is newer: an UltraWide2-based card, or an Ultra160-based card ? SCSI 160 is the far more recent standard. Its getting hard to find U2W controllers now. (note 1) I am not sure about which HD to consider. I need a SCSI HD = 10 Gb. I haven't ever had a system with SCSI components, so is there anything else I should know ? Yes - its bloody expensive compared to the same size IDE drives, and unless you load the system (burn CDs while playing quake) then you'd not notice a huge difference. (3) Printer I am considering the HP 1100 laser printer. But have heard good things about Lexmark printers (Optra 310/E310/E312). I am looking for a laser printer that is capable of 600dpi (at least), and is easy to setup under Linux (of course!). It would be nice to get a printer that is supported under both Linux and FreeBSD, as I do intend to run FreeBSD on this machine from time to time. Okay - you mention below that you'll have a network card, and hence probably a network. Have you considered a HP 2100 TN? Twin tray, jetdirect network interface, and postscript. What more could you want for under $2000 NZ (fsck knows what it is in your local currency :) One odd thing I noticed about the HP 1100's specs on HP's site is that Windows 2000 is not listed under the supported OSes. Is this true ? I need a printer that works under Windows 2000 in addition to Linux. That'll be because the 1100 is older than win2000. (4) Network Card I need a good 10/100 PCI card. How well are DLINK cards (e.g. DLINK 10/100 RTL) supported under Linux ? I was considering the 3Com 905/vortex PCI card[*], as I have had a linux system with it and it worked flawlessly. Again - if you have a preference then go for it... I use SMC or tulip cards in servers where possible. (5) CD-Burner I was told that SCSI CD-Burners tend to perform the best under Linux and cause the least problems, which is why I decided to go SCSI in this new system. Plextor has been recommended. Are there any other SCSI CD burners that work well under Linux ? Plextor is to CD drives as Asus is to motherboards. Go hard on a plextor and it just keeps on going. (6) Removable storage How well are Iomega zip and Jaz drives supported ? Zips work fine in linux and have for years... but you have a CD writer in this system... it will do everything a zip drive would do and be 5 times the size. Jaz drives are overpriced and fragile. Of course IDE or SCSI is best for a zip or LS120, don't go parallel port, and USB is just a bit too non-standard at the moment. Also theres the 250 Mb/100 Mb drives about. Remember media costs too. note 1 - The leasing company are not selling you a computer. Most likely they have name brand machines like compaq or IBMs or Digitals that will have a higher value in three or five or six years. You might end up with whatever the standard line is. Also I suggest you investigate rent-to-own... its a lease with an added clause that you get the option of purchase at the end of the lease for a nominal one-off payment, but this is not standard in all leases. -- Criggie
Re: Debian installation from NT
At 10:44 AM 11/13/00 -0200, you wrote: I've installed and configured Debian a lot of times in my local network, always from our linux local debian mirror. But I've never installed it from a NT mirror and now I'm having some troubles installing debian via NFS from it. Does the local linux mirror use NFS to serve the files? Does NT use NFS or SMB (a-la samba) AFAIK NFS for NT is a separate product, and not part of the standard package. As I'm not an expert in the NT details, I'd like to know if someone has already experienced installing linux from an NT mirror and can give me some sugestions what my problems can be. It sounds to me like the NT box is only using netbios or SMB, not NFS. What I do in such a case is make and keep the rescue/boot and root disks, and either have the three drivers disks or keep drivers.tar.gz somewhere on disk. Then when you install put this in your environment in tcsh put this in /etc/csh.login setenv http_proxy http://192.168.1.2:3128/ setenv ftp_proxy ftp://192.168.1.2:3128/ In bash put this in /etc/profile http_proxy=http://192.168.1.2:3128/ ftp_proxy=http://192.168.1.2:3128/ export http_proxy export ftp_proxy Point the IP at your squid server add lines like this to /etc/squid.conf on the squid server refresh_pattern debian.org/.*\.deb$ 129600 100% 129600 refresh_pattern debian.org/.*Packages 120 20% 360 Then it will keep copies of any packages you download for several months (or until it runs out of space). You run squid on a machine with loads of disk space (your mirror machine say), and change the cache_dir setting to match the amount of space you have. So you'll need to do a normal apt-get of some package, which will then come via the squid server. Subsequent requests for that package will be served by the cache. -- Criggie
Re: Workstation and IP-Masquerading
Theres two options - you can do as you want and use one of the existing machines as a firewall/masq box etc, but it will have to be running linux. It will work, but will be less secure, and more confusing than the second option. Are you aware that any low-end pentium or 486 will work fine as a firewall? it doesn't have to be a flash machine... I was using a 486 SX33 with 12 Mb ram and 500 Mb HD for about 12 months. It doesn't need a monitor or keyboard (unless you want to display syslogd on it - herc mono monitors are very good for that.) The other advantage of this is that things are easier all-round. At 11:02 AM 11/11/00 +0100, you wrote: Hi, I have two PC's at home and would like to share my internet connection (DSL) between them. As I don't want a third computer here running all the time I was thinking to enable IP-Masquerading on one of them and build a firewall on it as well. It will be running Samba too. Nevertheless I'd like to continue using these PC's as Workstations. Does that seem to be a useful approach? I would really appreciate any opions or suggestions you might have. TIA. Robert -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Criggie
Re: Installing on PS/1
At 04:23 AM 11/11/00 -0800, you wrote: I have a PS/1 machine type 2133, model type E26, with 3712kb of RAM. I was trying to install debian compact set (from 1.44 floppies), and got the following error after it tried to load the ramdisk, do_try_to_free_pages failed for swapd do_try_to_free_pages failed for swapper do_try_to_free_pages failed for swapper ... the errors repeat. Is this because I am running out of RAM ? Yes - debian's a bit of a cow there it needs 12 Mb of ram to do its thing, and it needs 8 to get far enough to make some swap space. I had a 4 Mb compaq concerto that did exactly the same until I added another 16 Mb ram. In the meantime I installed smalllinux to see if it'd work. G'luck -- Criggie
Re: Bunches of virtual consoles
Yup - allocate 13-24 and you can use right-alt + F1-12 from 25 upwards you need to use alt + left/right arrow to get to them At 11:28 PM 11/11/00 -0500, you wrote: So suppose I wanted to have more than 12 virtual consoles on my system, but I only have 12 F-keys to select them with. I know the kernel supports up to 255... is there any way to use more than 12? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Criggie
TOT: linuxy humour
http://linux.freak.school.nz/tailoftux.html (btw - TOT means Totally Off Topic) -- Criggie
Re: Strange message on ps -a
You've compiled a new kernel but not rebooted to load it?
If so, then this is one of the few times in linux when a reboot is required.
At 09:09 AM 11/8/00 +0100, you wrote:
Hello Everybody
The following message appears each time I make ps or ps -a:
{floppy_open} {scsi_init_free}
Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.17 does not match kernel data.
Then the running processes are listet just right. Any idea what happened
to my System.map? I compiled my own kernel (with buolt-in floppy and
scsi-support). Things ran fine for some time, this message came up
yesterday for the first time. I cannot remember having changed anything
in my base-configuration
--
Criggie
Re: running ftpd other than root
At 05:34 PM 11/4/00 -0600, you wrote: Is it possible, for securities sake to run wu-ftp as another user other than root? I can't find any info on this. Thanks! Yes, absolutely... but any ftp daemon must be started as root to open ports below 1024. All of the popular ones drop to a designated ftp user for normal running though. Users would have to connect to ftp://foo.blag:12345/ where 12345 is your ftp port. -- Criggie
Re: World's largest mailing list?
At 12:23 PM 11/2/00 -0700, you wrote: Its not exactly a Debian/Linux question, but does anyone know how many email addresses are on the world's largest mailing list, and the OS/HW it runs on? Average messages per day? Well, I can tell you that the debian.org list server has 8 subscribers to all of it's lists. The largest list is debian-announce with 14 thousand. The total traffic we do is on the order of 50 remote deliveries per day, with peak traffic rates of 30-40 remote deliveries per second. Till recently it was running on an older P166 with IDE disks, now it has a PII 400. It runs Debian GNU/Linux and qmail with smartlist (bleck). My Devil's Advocate is whispering in my ear. I'd be very worried if it wasn't a debian-based machine! I wonder if there are any major linux vendors who don't use their own distros for internal use I once visited the machine room of a large local power company who was thoroughly in bed with Compaq. They had 20-odd proliant servers, and their NT-based office network PDC was a HP E70 (?) -- Criggie
Re: cron, syslogd, klogd died
I have this problem periodically on a P133 with a slightly screwey scsi root disk. It will mount / read-only, then many processes die due to being unable to write to disk. The sign is that / is mounted read-only, and that syslogd (which is still running) says scarf kernel: Last message repeated 12(ish) times every 62ish seconds. A reboot is the only patch - a new drive is in next years budget. At 12:29 PM 10/25/00 -0400, you wrote: Quite serendipitously I discovered that the above processes had stopped running on a potato system (i386) I have here. I noticed my 'locate' command did not seem to be returning good results, and when I looked it was dated Oct 18. Then 'ps ax' told the Rest of the Story. A reboot brought those three services up and all seems well now. Three questions occur to me: 1] What might bring about those three processes (and no others, apparently) dying? 2] What might be the reason I did not get notification that there was a problem? I notice the user aliased for root and postmaster's mail did not get notified of the problem, and in fact does not seem to be getting *any* system reports. I coulda sworn I ran 'newaliases' after I set up /etc/aliases. 3] I note this language in 'man aliases': After aliasing has been done, local and valid recipients who have a .forward file in their home directory have messages forwarded to the list of users defined in that file. Does this mean the user who I have aliased to get root and postmaster's must have a .forward file in his home directory in order to get mail for root and postmaster? I don't understand the connection between aliasing and .forward files. I have the used the latter, for instance with procmail, or send mail on to another email address, but why this mention of .forward in 'man aliases'. Sorry to go on so long here. Many tia's for light shed on any of the above confusions! -- Bob Bernstein at Esmond, R.I., USA -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Criggie
Re: caching/buffering/ram usage (linux-, not debian-specific)
At 06:39 AM 10/25/00 +0200, you wrote: As long as I had 128 megs there were ~ 3 megs free with some 60 megs used for buffers. Now I have 320 megs ram, but only about 150 are used for buffers, 100 are free. totalusedfree shared buffers cached Mem:321784 224244 97540 11820 155660 10608 -/+ buffers/cache: 57976 263808 Swap: 128516 80436 48080 Thats a helluva lot of ram for a workstation! You're only using 57 Mb of ram, but 47 Mb of swap in there... Is there something bizzaire about the machine's uptime? Has it been running for months or something? Do you run netscape on it a lot? Are there many zombie tasks or inordinately memory-hungry tasks running? What can I do to increase the amount of ram used for buffering/caching so that only 5-10 % are left free? (Or would that be a bad idea (tm)?) It makes good sense to me - but perhaps (and I'm guessing) theres a process that says I might want to alloc lots of ram fast Perhaps someone else in the list can comment better. If I´m not mistaken the whole swapped-out pages should acutually fit into the free ram, so swapping here seems rather, umm, less than optimal? Well - theres always stuff that gets swapped out because it hasn't been needed for ages, imagine if you had a scsi card driver in your kernel (ignore modules) that either didn't find its hardware, or you have a scsi card that you haven't used since the system has booted. Theres some allocated memory that can be paged out to leave free ram for when its needed. The system is an up-to-date potato Linux cruncher 2.2.15 #1 Thu Jun 1 10:47:16 EST 2000 i686 unknown Its not up-to-date if its not running the latest kernel in the range - 2.2.17 at the moment :) But I don't recall any memory-related changes there. TIA for every hint (and FM to R ;), I've had this one sitting in my in-box for a bit, waiting for responses I'm interested to know. -- Criggie
Re: Samba setup
At 08:59 PM 10/24/00 +0200, you wrote: Does anyone know if it is possible to replace a Windows NT domain controler by a samba server so that a newly installed client system creates its entry in the domain automatically? I think MS works that way, doesn't it? Kinda - it depends on your clients more than anything. Samba 2.0.7 is the latest official version, and can act as a domain controller to authenticate and provide file and print sharing for win95/8 machines. It cannot act as a PDC for a domain of NT workstations though. Samba 2.1.x is *supposed* to have full PDC/BDC support for NT domains, but its still work in progress, I have a dozen win95b machines using an old pentium as a samba server - rocks seriously hard considering the budget was $100 NZ, and that was spend on the O'Reilly book Samba. I thoroughly recommend it to you. -- Criggie
Re: Squid problems
At 12:16 PM 10/24/00 -0500, you wrote: I have a squid proxy server that wont go to a specific site. The site its not going to is www.quill.com and i am sure that the only problem is the squid because I can get to it without going through the proxy server. Anyone have any ideas on why this wouldnt be working? What happens on the users side of things is the site never comes up and it locks the browser up. I tried using a ACL and telling it to allow the site direct contact...but that didnt work either. I am not seeing anything in the squid logs saying access denied or anything, so im not sure what is wrong. Try bypassing your squid server - either turn off proxy in your browser, or run lynx on your linux box. I get no data at all - is it possible theres no web site there? -- Criggie
Re: Samba across a highly weird network setup.
God thats one weird network set up. Can I ask why the world visable IPs? I mean - do you host web pages or something? If so then those boxes should be either outside the firewall and not used as workstations, or put them inside the firewall and use port forwarding on the firewall to permit external people to access them. Other than that - you need to decide why it is like it is, and decide what tasks are most important. More IPs would help, but then they'd all be outside the masq firewall and naked and vulnerable. Not a good look. At 09:56 PM 10/22/00 +, you wrote: Ok, need help guys. We're trying to configure here a network setup for samba. Say this is setup in 2 rooms. 1st room. You have 3 machines, one that has a modem, and controls the connection, 2 workstations, on an external network (internet visible IP's), with a network cable going to a 4th machine in the 2nd room 2nd room. 3 more machines, one with a gateway type setup (hence cable mentioned above) which is also a wins server, and 2 machines using ip masquerading. Many may ask, WHY??? rofl, but situation is, we don't have enough ip's to go around. only enough to cover the 3 machines in the 1st room, and the gateway box in the 2nd. Question is, how would we enable samba to work through the gateway from the masq'd boxes to the machines on the external network. We can go masqbox external, but can't go external masqbox. The machines on the external network can see the names of the masq'd network, but can't access them. Anyone know how to? short of getting more ip's or bunging the whole lot on a masq'd connection? -- Criggie
Re: TO ALL!
At 01:36 PM 10/22/00 +0200, you wrote: Dear Martin! I respect you and your meaning. I looked at http://www.tu-berlin.de/www/software/hoax.shtml and thik this: Ok, a chain Too much mail chokes up my email servers - email without a definite purpose is just a waste of time and space. If its not useful to me and I didn't ask for it then I don't want it. Don't fret though - everything is a learning experience. -- Criggie
Re: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed
1) Has anyone out there managed to fix the kernel VM problem by upgrading to the 2.4 kernel? Oct 22 03:11:26 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for rxvt... Oct 22 03:11:26 debian last message repeated 2 times Oct 22 03:11:26 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for init... Oct 22 03:11:26 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for init... Oct 22 03:11:26 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for netstat... Other people have reported this problem on the list and it was recommended that they upgrade to 2.2.18, but searching around with google and dejanews I found a few 2.2.18 people who were still having the same problem. On a similar but different note - I get this booting the potato disks on a laptop with 4 Mb ram, but its Oct 20 14:22:55 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for init... Oct 20 14:22:55 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for swapper... Can you free up ram by running sync periodically? Is there something common in swap partition configs? 4) Will I need to upgrade anything else if I move up to the 2.4 kernels? Modutils comes to mind straight away -- Criggie
Re: Book Recommendations...
At 11:35 PM 10/22/00 -0400, you wrote: Moral to the story: get comfy with vi. It will sneak up on you when you least expect it. The small O'Reilly book _Learning the vi Editor_ is relatively inexpensive and features a simple walk-through tutorial that will stand the uninitiated in good stead. It too comes with a handy reference card. Too true - vi is often the only editor on a rescue/boot disk for space reasons, and if the only vi command you know is Esc : q Enter then you're in trouble. cat filename EOF type-out-file-contents-carefully ^D Thats a *last* resort, especially if the file is XF86Config or something huge. A complex lilo.conf is bad enough :) -- Criggie
Re: calculating disk space
Multiply them together C * H * S * kilobytes per sector sector size is normally 512 bytes/sector. caffeine:~# fdisk /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1048 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes caffeine:~# bc 255*63*1048*.5 8418060.0 -- 8ish Gb At 11:20 PM 10/19/00 +0200, you wrote: How can one calculate the amount of space a hard disk provides given only the disk's CHS values? -- Criggie
Re: disk files too large to fit on floppy disks
No dude - the files that you have will be disk dump archives... essentially images of a disk To create the disks from dos/windows you'll need an executeable called rawrite2.exe, which you can download from the same place you got the images. Or if you have a unix box usedd if=imagename of=/dev/fd0 At 01:50 PM 10/15/00 -0700, you wrote: I tried copying the Debian base disk files to actual floppy disks, and they are too large by about 30kB. I had to reformat my copy disks to use 81 tracks, which is risky. I am just now continuing this process, getting disk write errors... -- Criggie
Re: HP 4L
At 11:34 AM 10/16/00 +0300, you wrote: I've tried to make my HP Laserjet 4L to work for two nights now, and I am in need for some help. The problem is: gs prints ps-files so that only one fourth (top-left corner) of ps is actually printed (fitted on one sheet). I've checked ps's with ghostview, and they are shown just like they should be. I've tried with many of gs's Laserjet drivers, with same result. Command I've used: gs -q -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=/dev/lp0 test.ps HOWTO points out this problem, but tells that I should tweak driver's source. Is this really the only way? And what about ifhp, could I use it instead of gs? With it I've been able to print text files perfectly, but from ps's only couple of lines containing postscript commands prints out. How much ram does your printer have? I did work with a LJ 6L (ugly little vertical thing) that had only 2 Mb ram. I mean - my wristwatch has more than that! Another 2 Mb of HP ram was gong to cost $195 NZ (170 litres of petrol) and a Hypertech 16 Mb module was $150ish NZ. 18 Mb of ram and such problems went away :) -- Criggie
Re: OT: WD-40
At 02:09 AM 10/14/00 -0400, you wrote: I've been having terrible problems with xwindow crashes, screen distortion, ibm mouse port and serial ports. In desperation I squirted a little WD-40 on the cpu fan, well all the problems went away. I'm using a cyrix 686 233 MII, seems quite sensitive to a slight decrease in fan speed (increase in temperature). Any suggestions for a good cpu fan ,other cooling methods or any tips. Are there any comparable cpu's compatible with a bios from a couple of years ago, that use just a heat sink? Hmm - scary. Sounds like the fan on the CPU cooler is a sleeve-fan. That means that the motor in the middle uses a plastic sleeve as an axle. That's all well and good until the sleeve wears, allowing play in the blades. The sloppiness then allows the blades to wiggle as they rotate, and the motor is not quite as good as it was power wise, hence the drop in revs/rise in heat and noise. Getting a new fan and heatsink sounds like the best bet. Goldenorb coolers are well known, but any new heatsink/fan combo should last till the end of the machine's life. Point of advice, if a cooler doesn't say Ball bearing on it, then its a sleeve fan, and should be avoided. -- Criggie
Re: which software for professional Mailling? OT: Actual help
At 04:38 PM 10/14/00 +0200, you wrote: Matthias Mann writes: In germany, my home country, it is entirely legal to send others letters with advertising material into their letterboxes. The same is valid for emails. John Hasler: What has legal got to do with it? Do you labor under the delusion that everything that is legal is right? No! Nevertheless this is the only way for me to advertise for my new buisnes, cause i have not enought budget to pay for other possibilitys. And i think i have the right to get my existence. And isn´t it all the same if you see publicity on busstops, tv, websites or your mailbox? Who don´t like commercial messages can look away and delete mails like that. I do the same. Where is the problem? Okay - we seem to have a group consensus that spam is bad. Now can a large group of intelligent and highly knowledgeable people come up with some useful advice for Mister Mann ? Sure we can tell him that spam is not the answer until we're blue-in-the-face, but I challenge the group to provide an alternative. My suggestion would be word-of-mouth, combined with a high-quality service. Make sure that the work you do for your customers/clients is of the best quality, and that they are always happy with the result, and you will find that they'll tell three other people. If one of those people could use the same or similar service, then theres free advertising which is not intrusive, doesn't annoy people, and as a side effect you have very happy clients. Note - very happy not just satisfied. The client has to think Wimmern! - Diese Person ist erstaunlich -- Criggie
Fwd: Re: Samba Win 2000
At 04:44 PM 10/14/00 -0700, you wrote: on your linux box... make sure you have /home/foo exported in /etc/exports if you want your NT to see the linux home dir... /etc/exports is related to NFS, nothing to do with samba make sure /etc/smb.conf also has /home defined in its config file Uhhh - why do you need /home shared via smb? I think you mean the [homes] section in /etc/samba/smb.conf make sure you have smbd and nmbd running on the linux side Yes - correct. make sure tht you have fat/msdos/ntfs compatibility enabled in the kernel if you want to read/write to/from the nt... Nope - smbfs is what you need - its a kernel option under remote network file system. You do not need fat to read a smb share, because you're reading via SMB, not from a fat drive attached locally. make sure you run the smbpasswd -j domain_name -r nt_server thingie tooo To be honest - this might not work with win 2000 domains. MS have buggered it all up, and I hear that samba is forking development - one branch will focus on win2000 support. This command tells nt_server (the PDC of the domain called domain_name) that your linux box is to join the domain and participate as a domain controller. on the NT side make sure you have C:\\something defined as a share... If theres a directory on the NT machine you want to access from the linux box then yes, otherwise you don't need to create shares on the NT side FYI, NT workstation/server always has \\machinename\c$ as a hidden share with administrator full access. You'd need to use this command to mount a NT share into your linux filesystem smbmount //servername/c\$ /mnt -o username=ADMINISTRATOR the c\$ escapes the dollars sign so that the shell doesn't look for a variable. On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Eileen Orbell wrote: I have tried and tried to get Windows 2000 to see my linux box through Samba so I can share files etc. But no matter what I tried I have no success. Is there anyone out there who knows how to do this? -- Criggie Damn psycho mail programs - sorry if its a repost :( -- Criggie
Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
At 11:28 PM 10/13/00 +0200, you wrote: HiYou! I like to work with big archives of mailadresses and need a program that is able to send SPAM and organize to let it be, that people they don´t like my SPAMS will get never a Mail of me again. And i could need a tool that can scan the web for mailadresses. Is there somthing like that on the 4CD set of Debian 2.2r0 potato? Thanx for every useful tip! Certainly - you need to call the Federal Trade Commission on 1-800-3825-948 (1) and ask for the e-mail spam department. They will advise you on the nearest mafia detachment and advise them to come and beat some nettiquite into you with steel bars. Spam is bad. Understand? Go to http://www.cauce.org/ for more information on why spam is bad. If you were in my family, you wouldn't be for much longer. -- Criggie
Re: Port 1002 - how to figure what process is using a port.
At 04:04 PM 10/12/00 +0200, you wrote: does anyone know whats on port 1002. I can't find it in the /etc/services and a nmap on the IP says unknown. To find out what is running on a port (as opposed to what a port is supposed to be for) (example uses port 2064) As root run fuser -n tcp 2064 Which returns 2064/tcp: 222 That means PID 222 is bound to port 2064. Then do a ps auxw | grep 222 Which returns root 222 0.0 0.8 1608 532 ?SJul20 1:33 /usr/local/proxy/proxyper root 1270 0.0 0.6 2220 436 ?SJul30 0:57 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D root 22144 0.0 0.6 1112 440 pts/5S07:19 0:00 grep 222 ^ ^ User PID As you can see, /usr/local/proxy/proxyper is PID 222, and therefor is using port 2064. -- Criggie
Re: AW: some general (samba) questions
Sorry - I should have said... the line must contain NO PASSWORDXX -- and there must be 21 Xs after, then the second lot of Xs there must be 32. At 03:57 PM 10/10/00 +0200, you wrote: I did as you told me, but it doesn't work. The user's line also doesn't have the X... part, but just any other types. Do I have to delete the user and recreate him to get him work with an empty password? -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von:C. Falconer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet am:Freitag, 6. Oktober 2000 23:03 An: Christian Schoenebeck Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff:Re: some general (samba) questions At 06:23 PM 10/6/00 +0200, you wrote: I've got some questions. Hope that somebody can help me with that. Is it possible to create a samba-user with an empty password? Because if I try so with smbpasswd the program denies the change. Edit /etc/samba/smbpasswd and change the user's line from bob:3000:::[U ]:LCT-363F96AD: to bob:3000:NO PASSWORDX::[U ]:LCT-363F96AD: -- Criggie
Re: three issues w/ my upgrade (fsck, modules, link)
At 05:02 AM 10/8/00 -0700, you wrote: 1) fsck during the boot sequence. I changed from a small root partition to several partitions. Now when the machine boots, it runs fsck on the former (and still) root partition, which passes, but the second time it runs fsck (shortly thereafter) it tries to run fsck on both the unmounted partitions *and* the root partition, then says fsck failed cuz the partition is mounted. I think my mtab and fstab are ok, but I'm not sure what's happening here. I thought there was an option in the secondary partition check that is supposed to make it skip over the root partition, but it doesn't appear to be. # file system mount point type options dump pass /dev/hda1 / ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 Check the last number on the line in /etc/fstab and make sure its a 1 for the root partition, and all the other automatically mounted partitions (home/usr/whatever) are 2 in the pass column. BTW, /etc/mtab is for mounted filesystems, and thus shouldn't be edited by hand. 2) When I install and build a kernel, should /usr/include/linux/include be a symlink to /usr/src/linux/include? cuz right now, it ain't. Not on my potato boxen it isn't. 3) I built all my soundblaster modules (soundlow, sound, uart401, sb) but how to make them load automagically? modules.conf says not to edit i'm not sure what to do. Seems like such a simple thing, but... man update-modules ps: here are the mtab and fstab: (fstab) /dev/hda13 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda10 noneswap sw 0 0 proc/proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda5 /usrext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda7 /usr/local ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda8 /cdimageext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda9 /optext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda11 /tmpext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda12 /varext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda13 / ext2 defaults 0 2 You've got / listed twice doofus :) remove the last line and it'll work fine. -- Criggie
Re: some general (samba) questions
At 06:23 PM 10/6/00 +0200, you wrote: I've got some questions. Hope that somebody can help me with that. Is it possible to create a samba-user with an empty password? Because if I try so with smbpasswd the program denies the change. Edit /etc/samba/smbpasswd and change the user's line from bob:3000:::[U ]:LCT-363F96AD: to bob:3000:NO PASSWORDX::[U ]:LCT-363F96AD: How can I get a view which users are created on my linux-machine? This would be helpful to control which users should be deleted from the system (f.g. if a person doesn't work there anymore)? less /etc/shadow And last question: how can I remove an user from a samba server? When I just try userdel user will the user also be deleted from the smbpasswd file or do I have to take further steps to cleanly remove the user from the system? you'll have to remove them manually from smbpasswd -- Criggie
Re: Bind error in /var/log/daemon.log
At 02:38 PM 10/5/00 -0400, you wrote: I'm noticing the following in /var/log/daemon.log for some of my zones Oct 5 14:31:08 bugs named[13618]: Zone home.shadowstar.net (file /etc/bind/home.shadowstar.net): No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead Oct 5 14:31:08 bugs named[13618]: master zone home.shadowstar.net (IN) loaded (serial 200010041) with the following as the SOA @ IN SOA bugs.home.shadowstar.net. alec.shadowstar.net. ( 200010041 ; serial number 3600; refresh (1 hour) 1800; retry (30 mins) 604800 ; expire (7 days) 3600 ) ; minimum (1 hour) As near as I can tell, my values are correct... How can I go about eliminating the 'No TTL' error and still have resonable values in my tables? $TTL604800 @ IN SOA bugs.home.shadowstar.net. alec.shadowstar.net. ( 200010041 ; serial number 3600; refresh (1 hour) 1800; retry (30 mins) 604800 ; expire (7 days) 3600 ) ; minimum (1 hour) Thats all you need :) Isn't it curious how questions on the list can sometimes cover exactly something you've fixed or worked on in the last week? -- Criggie
Stuart Andrews Sun 3 questions
Stuart Andrews - your email address isn't working. Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 28409 invoked by uid 0); 27 Sep 2000 09:22:52 - Received: from unknown (HELO flick.ihug.co.nz) (202.89.141.10) by 0 with SMTP; 27 Sep 2000 09:22:52 - Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 21:19:06 +1200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Andrews) From: C. Falconer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sun 3/50 question In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed At 09:35 PM 9/26/00 +, you wrote: Mr Falconer, ( apologies iof the gender assumption is wrong ) Its a safe guess in the geek world (sadly) Sorry I can't help with the question but thanks for the info that the Debian 2.2 will boot a Sun 3/50. I have a Sun 3/60 at home and was wondering if you had any tips for the setup. I have a couple of Intel boxes that will allow me to boot the Sun using NFS root etc and runnningm a diskless client. I have done Intel to Intel before but was wondering which dists and whether you had an NFS kernel with initrd working that you could email. I am quite OK building the NFS / and /usr filessystems on the intel but from memory, your kernel would be customised already. Also, what is the method of booting via the le (lance) device. When I run minicom from the Intel and get the Sun3 equivalent of the sparc ok prompt, what is the boot command? I have tried things like boot le (0,0,0) and so on. Do I also need a RARP server. Forgive the many questionss. It's been a while since I had a look at the Sun3 and getting it working. Most of that is straight-forward... The only bit I don't know involves making the machine use le0 as the default boot device. Mine was like that when I got it... did yours have a drive installed or something? Anyway - I had mine going fine with my potato box as an everything-server. The sun now reports memory errors on boot... I think its poked :-\ To get it to work I downloaded a file called linux-xkernel2.0e.tar.gz This file contains an entire tree for you to put under /usr/export on your linux server, and that contains all the files needed to boot the sun, and give it a root filesystem. Its about 3 Mb, yell out if you want me to mail it to you, or you might find it somewhere on the web too. Changes I had to make to get it working 1) I had to go from the kernel-space NFS drivers to the user-space ones... not a big deal because nothing else here uses NFS. 2) I couldn't get it working with kernel 2.4.x the rarpd support is in kernel 2.2 only. I did however find a rarpd program which kinda worked. Other than that - there are some options required in your kernel, but everything is fairly well documented in the attached readme. As soon as xdm is running, the documentation stops. It was quite a puzzle to find out that I lacked a ~/.xsession, and that the default windowmanager is twm. Yell out if you want this file emailed to you. -- Criggie
Re: bitchx and forward delete key
At 03:34 PM 9/29/00 -0400, you wrote: Is there any reason that anyone would object if I changed the forward delete key to do something sane, like delete forward, instead of toggling cloaking? Replies just to me, please. I don't have an answer to your question sorry - but why request replies not go to the list? I happen to have started using bitchx at work, and I might be interested in someones answer... also the thread can diverge into another semi-related area which other people will find interesting. Just a thought. -- Criggie
Re: different file timestamp on samba
Weird - would it help to synchronise all the win95 clocks with the samba server at login? At 08:40 AM 9/28/00 +0200, you wrote: Hello! I have Samba 2.0.7 on Potato. File dates after a modification are: -for Win95 clients the clients date and time -for WinNT clients the Samba server's date and time. How can I make for Win95 clients the file modified timestap to be the server one, like for WinNT clients? -- Criggie
TOT: Virus reports to the list and x-envelope-to:
Have you noticed that since that virus attachment was sent to the list, there have been four or five warnings/reports from Exchange server anti-virus plugins? 1) They're replying to the list, rather than to the x-envelope sender... whats the difference between my.netvigatr.com errors and these virus warnings? 2) Isn't it amusing that there are no such messages from Antivirus filter for Sendmail/Exim/qmail/$mta-of-choice -- Criggie
Re: Getting CPU load (from /proc/?)
At 04:39 PM 9/27/00 +0100, you wrote: Arcady Genkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would I get a real-time CPU load information? I found /proc/loadavg, but that's not what I need, since it only gives average load values. You could try 'vmstat 1', which will poll every second. Ignoring the first line, which is an up to the time vmstat was started figure, the last field in each line is the percentage of time the CPU is idle. I can't speak for how accurate it is, but it seems to be fairly reliable. Rememebr heisenberg's uncertanty principle - you can't measure an attribute of the system without affecting the system attribute you are measuring. Running vmstat means there is a running process - which means the machine might never be idle enough to suspend Just chucking a crescent in the gears :) -- Criggie
Re: Firewall, IPMASQ, Debian
At 08:33 PM 9/24/00 -0400, you wrote: I'm unable to receive files from ICQ, Unable to access my gateway(which is the firewall, and my webserver) from outside of my LAN, using telnet or ssh. But i'm able to send files over ICQ. ICQ is a bit like that... look at any of these sites for ip_masq_icq primary:http://members.xoom.com/djsf/masq-icq/ alternate: http://www.chat.ru/~djsf/masq-icq/ http://djsf.webjump.com/masq-icq/ http://djsf.tripod.com/masq-icq/ If you're on 2.4.x then its not gonna work. It does work very well with 2.2.17 here As for the rest of it your firewalling script is probably what needs changing. Generally speaking, any internal machine should be able to do whatever it wants (if you trust your users) External boxes should only see your firewall you cannot ssh straight to an internal machine from outside, unless you either do something tricky with proxies, or configure incoming connections on ppp0 to be portforwarded to the internal IP. Clear as mud? Any other questions - ask. -- Criggie
Sun 3/50 question
Gidday - I have an old Sun 3/50 that I have used in the past as an xterminal to my linux server. I've recently changed to debian 2.2 (potato) from an ancient install of slackware 3.0 I have followed all the instructions in linux-xkernel-2.0e and have the system starting to boot, but it dies on attempting to run init. Heres a chunk of the 3/50's display: ... EEPROM boot device... le(0,0,0) Using IP Address 192.168.28.100 = C0A81C64 Booting from tftp server at 192.168.28.2 - C0a81C02 Downloaded 101800 bytes from tftp server. Using IP Address 192.168.28.100 = C0A81C64 hostname: forest domainname: (none) servername 'caffeine' root pathname '/usr/export/root/Xkernel.sun3' root on caffeine:/usr/export/root/Xkernel.sun3 fstype nfs Boot: vmunix Size: 381328+90184+66264 bytes SunOS Release 4.1.1 (DEATHROCK) #5: Thu Feb 10 12:15:14 MST 1994 Copyright (c) 1983-1990, Sun Microsystems, Inc. mem = 4096K (0x40) avail mem = 3432448 Ethernet address = 8:0:20:0:47:24 zs1 at obio 0x0 pri 3 le0 at obio 0x12 pri 3 bwtwo at obmem 0x10 pri 4 bwtwo0: resolution 1152x900 hostname: forest domainname: (none) root on caffeine:/usr/export/root/Xkernel.sun3 fstype nfs swap on ns0b fstype spec size 3240K dump on ns0b fstype spec size 3216K panic: init died syncing filesystems... done 00068 low memory static kernel pages 00038 additional static and sysmap kernel pages 0 dynamic kernel data pages 1 additional user structure pages 0 segmap kernel pages 0 segvn kernel pages 0 current user process pages 0 user stack pages 00117 total pages (117 chunks) dumping to vp f007bc4, offset 4560 0 total pages, dump failed: error 19 rebooting... and the whole process repeats endlessly. Heres the relevant info from my syslog on the debian box. /var/log/user.log Sep 23 15:11:09 caffeine rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from forest.theflat.gen.nz:1020 for /usr/export/root/Xkernel.sun3 (/usr) Sep 23 15:11:17 caffeine rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from forest.theflat.gen.nz:1023 for /usr/export/root/Xkernel.sun3 (/usr) /var/log/daemon.log Sep 23 15:11:06 caffeine in.tftpd[3521]: connect from forest.theflat.gen.nz Sep 23 15:11:06 caffeine tftpd[3522]: tftpd: trying to get file: C0A81C64 Sep 23 15:11:06 caffeine tftpd[3522]: tftpd: serving file from /boot Sep 23 15:11:21 caffeine in.tftpd[3525]: connect from forest.theflat.gen.nz Sep 23 15:11:21 caffeine tftpd[3526]: tftpd: trying to get file: C0A81C64 Sep 23 15:11:21 caffeine tftpd[3526]: tftpd: serving file from /boot -- Criggie
Re: Sun 3/50 question
Oooops - re-read the documentation and notice that the installed NFS server was a kernel space one the 3/50 requires the user space nfs implementation. Sorry for wasting your time At 03:30 PM 9/23/00 +1200, you wrote: Gidday - I have an old Sun 3/50 that I have used in the past as an xterminal to my linux server. Criggie
Re: off topic - scsi partitions swap raid
Concur with Wesley - raid on one drive is like mounting a ramdisk as /tmp - pointless because any benefits from the technique are nullified by the way you've done it. Now for: raid 0 (striping) min drives 2, reads and writes faster, no reduncancy. raid 1 min drives 3, 2/3 of your total disk space is available. Fault tolerant. raid 4 min drives 3(?) One whole drive is for parity. raid 5 min drives 3, distributed parity bits, allows one disk to fail. raid 6 min drives 4, distributed parity bits, allows for two disks to fail. I'd recommend two more 18 Gb drives for a speedy 54 Gb raid 0, or a 36 Gb raid 1 or 5. (from the guy who has been playing with raid on three 80 Mb conner scsi drives.) (next plan is to make a raid 0 or 5 over a raid0(80+80+80) + raid0(80+160) + 250 Mb drives. Need more power supplies first :) At 03:31 PM 9/20/00 -0500, you wrote: I picked up a 18 gig drive. I was planning on doing 3 6 gig partitions and raid'n two of the partitions for linux. Question is what about the swap? Would I really need to do two 6 gig, 2 128 meg, then what's left for windows? This will be my first time for raid scsi under linux, is there a nice howto that covers both? -- Criggie
Re: off topic - scsi partitions swap raid
At 08:57 AM 9/21/00 -0400, you wrote: Now for: raid 0 (striping) min drives 2, reads and writes faster, no reduncancy. raid 1 min drives 3, 2/3 of your total disk space is available. Fault tolerant. You mean minimum 2 drives, don't you? And usable space is 1/2? I believe raid 1 is also known as mirroring. Yup yup - sorry about that... too much fudging on my part :) To all the geeks of the list - If you want to go on and do something, learn something new then messing with raid is a good thing to do... install bonnie and raidtools, and decide for yourself whats good and bad about raid. -- Criggie
Opinions: Woody bits in potato - whats the best way?
Gidday - I have a couple standard Potato machines at work, and one at home as a standard Masquerading gateway. I've been playing with licq and Xvnc. On discovering that licq was up to version 0.85 from the 0.76 I was using I tried apt-get install licq Package licq is at the latest version Right - makes sense... I'll add some woody lines to /etc -- Criggie
Opinions: Woody bits in potato - whats the best way?
Gidday - I have a couple standard Potato machines at work, and one at home as a standard Masquerading gateway. I've been playing with licq and Xvnc. On discovering that licq was up to version 0.85 from the 0.76 I was using I tried apt-get install licq Package licq is at the latest version Right - makes sense... I'll add some woody lines to /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update apt-get install licq About to install 20 Mb worth of stuff like esound and so forth. Hmmm - that can't be right... Perhaps I'll download the deb direct from www.debian.org dpkg -i licq_085.deb depends on libqt2, licq-plugin, etc etc After delving through a fair list of dependancies I ended up with two things that depended on each other and wouldn't install without the other, as well as libqt2 conflicting with qt. My question - whats the safest way to install a woody package into a mostly potato system? (sorry for the half-post earlier, I'm using eudora for which control-E is send, not End-Of-Line as I wanted :) -- Criggie
Re: samba lock problem
At 10:31 AM 9/14/00 +, you wrote: My /var/log/syslog is filing up with lots of: Sep 14 10:24:16 hurricane nmbd[1753]: ERROR: nmbd is already running. File /var/lock/samba/nmbd.pid exists and process id 1546 is running. Sep 14 10:24:16 hurricane inetd[205]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status 0x1 Sep 14 10:24:16 hurricane nmbd[1754]: connect from 192.168.200.30 Sep 14 10:24:16 hurricane nmbd[1754]: [2000/09/14 10:24:16, 0] lib/pidfile.c:pidfile_create(86) by the way hurricane is 192.168.200.30 samba seems to be running ok, this is a new install of potato since the upgrade from slink didn't Any ideas? You're running nmbd (part of samba) as a daemon (faster, slightly more resource hungry) and also starting it out of inetd.conf. Then when a connection is detected, inetd spawns a process of nmbd, which finds itself already running, and dies with this error. Put a # in front of the samba lines in /etc/inetd.conf and then killall -HUP inetd -- Criggie
RE: Potato install fails to load ROOT image
At 09:45 AM 9/14/00 -0400, you wrote: Sorry to reply to myself, but I've come to the conclusion after further testing that my floppy drive is 100% busted and I'm not going to be able to do anything useful off it. I also can't (practically) replace it. Bugger! Go buy a new floppy drive - standard PC ones are $40 NZ (probably no more than $15 US) However if this machine is a laptop a floppy will be expensive. I paid $450 NZ for a TI floppy drive last year. If this is the case, have you got a CD Rom drive that can boot? Or perhaps you can borrow a floppy drive for long enough to get things going. A friend here has a Toshiba Libretto with a PCMCIA floppy drive, perhaps that will boot in your machine. Or as a last resort - use a 2.5 to 3.5 IDE adapter, take out the hard drive and boot it on a normal workstation. Good luck ! (down with laptops) -- Criggie
Re: ISDN newbie
Is there the potential for a winmodem-style ISDN adapter? I mean, an internal PC device that looks like a modem/ISDN adapter, but uses a special windows driver to do its processing... is it feasable? At 11:17 PM 9/11/00 +0200, you wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 03:27:08PM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: Well, my doubts are: is it possible to use this RS232 to connect to Linux serial port and then to use ISDN4Linux? I don't think so. I had an external dynalink ISDN modem for some time but I just used wvdial for it. I read the ISDN4Linux faq but as far as I could understand, the faq deals only with the case where one has and isdn adaptor inside his PC. That is not my case, yet! When I used this dynalink thing I didn't find out how to use some ISDN utils with it. For the computer it is just another external modem. Now I have an internal modem and that works a bit different. (better) Anyway, AFAIK you can't do ISDN things with this external modem. But I am not an expert on this. I only know that the internal modem is a lot easier to use (after some configuration startup problems) -- Criggie
Re: Extreme disappointment. :(
Yeah - it sounds useless, but its prime use is to fsck iso-style images mounted in the file system, before burning them to CDROM At 10:44 AM 9/10/00 -0700, you wrote: Shane Pearson wrote: I noticed that fsck /cdrom reveals the possibility of fsck.iso9660, so do you know where I can get that version of fsck? It is not installed by default. im not sure what you are asking... you trying to run fsck on a CDROM ?? since it is a read only media, there is no way to repair errors on it. -- Criggie
Re: memory usage
At 12:51 PM 9/2/00 -0400, you wrote: When I boot up, and launch, gdm, log in, it runs sawfish and I run licq, netscape, some xterms, etc. When I type 'free' I'm told that about 40mb ram is being used, and no swap. Over the course of a day, this number grows to about 75 megs being used for the same stuff. Before starting X, my box takes about 15mb ram, but if I simply log out of X, and do a free in console mode, it's using 40 mb without running X! Top does not report any processes that have run away with a bunch of ram, and x is properly shut down... I want to know where my ram is going! Also, eventually swap space gets used. After about a week of running, I'm using on avg 70mb ram and 60 mb swap all the time. Maybe I'm missing something about these numbers? Maybe I actually have more available free memory than it's telling me? Could someone help me understand this? Okay - memory is used for different things. Some background info on my machine. caffeine:~# uptime 9:56am up 8 days, 15:24, 2 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 caffeine:~# uname -a Linux caffeine 2.4.0-test4 #8 Sun Jul 16 09:15:15 NZST 2000 i586 unknown This machine does Masq, a little squid, samba file serving, and RC5 proxy and client. Heres the output of free on my wee 32Mb home server. caffeine:~# free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 30556 29848708 0384 12216 -/+ buffers/cache: 17248 13308 Swap:67028 12180 54848 Theres 30556 Kb total after the kernel has grabbed a couple of Mb for vital (ie, unpageable) things. Of that, 29848 is used, and 708 Kb is free. There is no memory used by shared libraries (?) and there are 384 files buffered in ram, which use 12216 Kb. Line 2 says how much ram is free and used if the buffers were to be freed up. Of the 29848 used, 12216 is buffers (thats like disk caching) so theres really only 17248 used, and 13308 free. Line three talks about swap space. I have 64 Mb of swap, of which 12180 Kb is used and 54848 is free. This machine needs a little more ram for comfort, but is perfectly adequate. One of my work servers has 96 Mb of ram, and can have up to 50 Mb in buffers. Thats okay, because (heres the point) unused memory is wasted... Linux uses any spare ram for file buffers. Did that answer the question? If not, then run top and press Shift-M to sort by memory usage. The hungriest processes on this box are squid, ntpd, top, tcsh, and so forth. -- Criggie
RE: Please remove me from the subscription list......
At 05:02 PM 9/2/00 -0400, you wrote: Once again the issue comes up. Here are the unsubscribe instructions from a couple Debian mailing lists: To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Tell me, which of these sets of instructions is more clear? Which is more helpful to a newbie with limited Unix/Linux experience who's probably never used shell redirection in his/her life? Am I really off in my claim that the first of the two sets of instructions will be most helpful to such a person? Why is it that the devel, security, and probably many other Debian lists have nice, clear instructions about unsubscribing, while the user list has instructions that will only be helpful to somebody that understands that they're looking at a command line that can be copied into a shell window? Cos users who are smart enough to understand the instructions are smart enough to stay on the list... it is one of those paradox things, like in Pirates of Penzance. -- Criggie
Re: Linux crashes a lot
To be honest - it sounds like flakey hardware. Maybe not extremely faulty... but enough to do weirdness like this. Can you compile a kernel on this box? What are the hardware specs and approximate ages? At 02:52 AM 9/1/00 -0500, you wrote: Yep, that's what I said. Linux crashes a lot. It commonly seems to coincide with Netscape crashing, but it almost always takes the whole system with it. I can't Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or change to another console. Occasionally I can telnet into the box and try to kill X, but it never works. I always end up having to hit the reset button, which doesn't make me happy. Twice, it has crashed while running dselect from a console. Additionally, I had something else weird happen today. I couldn't log into my box from another machine, xdm, or a console, but it was still running IPMasq services, etc. I finally had to reset it, since I couldn't get into it at all. It would never complete the validating process. The kernel logs showed the output like I see sometimes when it crashes and I'm at the console - several lines of addresses and numbers. Any suggestions to prevent this from happening again would also be helpful. Is your CPU overclocked? or overheating? Does windows run okay on the same machine? -- Criggie
Re: samba problems (rather Access programmers)
At 08:57 PM 8/31/00 -0300, you wrote: the stupid Access programers coded the path into code statically. So the program search the dbm files at \\SERVER\\ACCDOC and more he has to map the network drive under E: . But the ACCDOC is under a folder SOLTSYS. So the structure is Soltsys\accdoc . Here comes the problem. The Soltsys at server has to be seen as P: . Summarize : \\SERVER\SOLTSYS has to be mapped as P: and \\SERVER\SOLTSYS\ACCDOC has to be mapped as E: . The rules from our smb.conf are included. Please help me set up the directory structure and shares that the users can access the dirs with right mapped drivers... With... [SOLTSYS] comment = Soltsys path = /home/soltsys public = yes writeable = yes printable = no write list = @users create mask = 0765 [ACCDOC] comment = Soltsys path = /home/soltsys/accdoc public = yes writeable = yes printable = no write list = @users create mask = 0765 you get two shares in the guindoz browser; just map them to the letter you'd like. You forgot one detail... shoot those access programmers They're called DBFs for a reason (Data Base Fsckers) :) -- Criggie
Re: Fwd: Newbie questions
You're not going to get a huge response by asking the Debian mailing list
about how to make users under Redhat.
Now, if it was debian I'd run this command:
useradd -u uid [-g group] [-G group,...] [-d home] [-s shell] [-c
comment] [-m [-k template]]
[-f inactive] [-e expire ] [-p passwd] username
Or write a wee shell script something like this
#!/bin/tcsh
foreach user (criggie bob joe )
useradd -s /bin/bash -d /home/${user} -p $user $user
end
Note - linux is linux - generally the command line to do something in
debian is the same as the command line in redhat. The main variance is in
X applications... (hence the benefit behind having no X on your server)
When in doubt - try it out.
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Hi,
I just change my machine from Debian to Redhat6.2 and before I sweep out all
of the things under debian,I compassed all of the things under home
directory and put them to another machine. After finish the installation, I
took them back and uncompress them, since there are several users at this
machine, now I just wondering how to make the former users use the machine
smoothly. Do I need use the adduser command and make the users connect with
their directory? How to use it?(now the situation is all of the stuff about
other users have been
under the home directory, however, obviously, they can not login)
Any information is high appreciated!
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Re: netatalk nits
H - I have a similar box... It could be the windows machines doing op-locks on files. Another faulty looking thing is if the file has restrictive Unix permissions - the mac gives some daft errors. Email me at work as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll mail you back my smb.conf and netatalk.conf for a compare with yours. At 01:35 PM 8/14/00 -0700, you wrote: Hi, I installed netatalk on a potato system (which is also a Samba server). When I try to copy a folder from a share to a Mac, the folder itself is created OK but for every file foo in the folder the Mac displays the following message: The file foo couldn't be read, because it is in use. Do you want to continue copying? The folder is on one of the Samba shares (actually, I set the netatalk shares to be the same as the Samba ones), and Windows machines can read and write it fine. -- Criggie
Re: ftp.de.debian.org - or FAQ Why apt-get stopped working when potato became stable.
Check your /etc/apt/sources.list Make sure it says potato and not frozen - there is no frozen any more cos potato is now stable, and slink is now officially old. At 12:03 PM 8/15/00 +0200, you wrote: Hi, is something wrong with ftp.de.debian.org? I tried an apt-get update yesterday and it was not accessible. Today it still does not work. Regards, Kerstin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Criggie
Re: Complete local mirror.
At 09:37 AM 8/15/00 -0400, you wrote: I've been toying with the idea of setting up a complete local mirror for all of my machines here. It wouldn't be public (at least not yet), but it would cut down on my network traffic, and it would cut down on the debian servers that are being pummelled right now. ... I plan on having Debian on at least 4 machines (I've already got it on 3), probably on the 4th by the end of the day. I suggest you install squid on one of your boxes and point apt-get there... squid will cache the packages from the first download, and they'll be fast for the subsequent ones. Its hardly worth using 10 Gb for a couple machines to get packages faster. -- Criggie
Re: Routing Problem
At 04:37 AM 8/12/00 -0700, you wrote: ##here is the out put of netstat -nr: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U0 0 0 eth0 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U0 0 0 eth1 looks correct ##In case it will help, here is output of ifconfig: loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:62 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:62 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:35:22:86:45 inet addr:192.168.1.12 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:146 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xff80 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:C9:0A:C3:FA inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:524 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:604 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:4 Interrupt:9 Base address:0xff40 That looks okay... ##and here is me pinging an internal network comp: PING 192.168.1.12 (192.168.1.12): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.1.12: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=2.6 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.12: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=1.5 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.12: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=1.5 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.12: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=1.5 ms --- 192.168.1.12 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 1.5/1.7/2.6 ms No - just a clarification. Thats you pinging the IP of eth0... ##And finally, here is me trying to ping the computer on the school network: PING 192.168.1.5 (192.168.1.5): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Operation not permitted ping: wrote 192.168.1.5 64 chars, ret=-1 ping: sendto: Operation not permitted ping: wrote 192.168.1.5 64 chars, ret=-1 --- 192.168.1.5 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss Weird. Firstly, can you ping hosts out on the 192.168.0. network? Is your cabling okay? are you using a crossover UTP or BNC or a hub/switch? Do they work? -- Criggie
Re: [off topic] Talent Contest
And for Mulder and Scully - why is the original message not in my inbox? Do THEY have it? Is it being transmogrified into an SSH contest? Or *gasp* has Micros~1 kidnapped the message to Embrace and Extend? Will we be seeing MS Talent Contests where all authentication is NTLM-based??? All this and more... you know the drill. At 11:30 PM 8/8/00 -0700, you wrote: I can repel people with my dancing, do i qualify? On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, John Brooks wrote: To Whom this is i am advertising a Talent Contest throught out hawkes bay could you help -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Criggie
Re: Debian in Academic and Public Organisations
Whats the email address for the original poster? I *assume* he wants to be CCed. Gidday I am the network admin at Avonside Girls' High School in Christchurch New Zealand. We currently run two NT servers for main file and print sharing and email based on Exchange. In addition the firewall runs bastard linux - a severely secured distribution a couple of friends brewed up. Our CDROM server is slackware based, but will become debian as soom as I get time to do that. We have a couple of old 486 based debian print servers that do absolutely marvellously. My favourite debian box is the one that replaced an ageing macintosh SE/30 running Macjanet. Its now a P120 running debian, netatalk, samba and webmin for a room of old Mac LCIIs. It can serve PCs as well as Macs now, and goes about 500 times faster. Debian rocks. No other word for it. At 03:05 PM 8/6/00 -0500, you wrote: We use debian all over this campus (routers, firewalls, mail servers, web servers, samba servers, etc) and I know that they have at least one debian box in the CS department. Charles Lewis, Director of Adminstrative Computing Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, TX 76059 (817) 556-4720 - phone (360) 397-7952 - fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] Folks, I am a Computer Science professor at American University in Washington D.C. I want to recommend that we replace Solaris in our Computer Science department with Debian. In doing so, I know that we will encounter problems wuite specific to the public (as in non-profit, public sector) and academic nature of the enterprise. I want to advocate Debian over RedHat and TurboLinux who are trying to sell into this market. Is there anyone else out there in this kind of organisation, who is using Debian in this kind of environment? Contact me and let's band together! Simon Read -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Criggie
Re: MS Intellepoint Optical (humour)
At 08:34 AM 8/7/00 +0200, you wrote: On 7, aug, 2000 at 02:54:59 +1000, Andrew J Cosgriff wrote: Ethan Pierce wrote : Has anyone had any luck getting this to work in debian? How bout all five buttons? Section Pointer Protocol IMPS/2 Device/dev/mouse ZAxisMapping 4 5 Buttons 7 EndSection The mouse itself works ok, but I didn't have any luck making the extra 2 buttons work (the Buttons 7 didn't seem to help). It didn't bother me enough to want to investigate further... X can't use more than 5 buttons, period! How many fingers do you have? Or is it a two-handed mouse (+6 2H mouse of doom sounds like something from Moria or Nethack) -- Criggie
Re: [Q] Can Samba mount 'shared' (not 'served') Win drives ?
Here's a thought - are you attempting to mount \\desktop\c$ as the name of the share? If so, your shell will probably be getting confused by the dollars sign. (For those who don't know, NT W and NT S create shares of c$ and d$ and so on for the root of each drive. The $ stops the share being browseable (to use samba terminology) ) Try creating a new share on the same drive, and call it something else. I think the $ was a bad choice of character on MS part. At 08:25 AM 8/4/00 -0400, you wrote: This might be a trivial questions with a quick No! as the answer ... At work, in a predominantly NT environment, I use Samba to mount drives of the NT servers on the Lan. However, I'd also love to access files on my (vanilla NT 4.0) desktop at work which is set to let other 'share' its files. I tried mounting these from a Linux box but failed. Is there a way to get to these files so that I could access the files from Linux? CC's welcome as I am not currently subscribed here... Thanks, Dirk -- According to the latest figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Criggie
Re: Squid
Restrict in what way? Do you want one machine to have permission to use the cache, and another machine to be denied permission? then look into the ACL rules in squid.conf. If you want to filter web pages then look at an externel authenticator program - I use squidGuard (on a slackware box - dunno if theres a deb) squidGuard has lists of good and bad URLs and can also filter against a couple of regular expressions too. I used to use it with an Approved list (ie, these are the sites you're allowed), but now I use it as a blocked list (these sites are not allowed) At 05:52 PM 7/28/00 -0700, you wrote: I am running a proxy server and would like to restrict access to the web(well atleast some web pages) on one of my clients. What will I need to add to the squid.conf and can I restrict one machine and allow access to another machine on the same network ? -- Criggie
Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data
Okay - call it a Martian[1] solution, but the only way your linux box could hold a virus is if the data was writeable by users. I have 18 Gb of CDROMS shared via samba - the entire partition is mounted read only, and clients can't write to the share anyway. OR the other solution is to run your standard windows virus checker on the contents of the share And you won't need another license cos you're running an existing license. The drawback there is every infectable file will have to be read over the network but thats what schedualled birus checks are good for. [1] I can call it a martian solution - theres no martians around to object :) At 03:03 PM 7/18/00 +0900, you wrote: Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Dear Debians, I'm looking for any kind of info on vulnerability to viruses on Debian and/or Linux. Pointers to anti-virus programs are also very welcome. If I can't convince some people here at work, I'm about to be told to disconnect from the net or use (heaven forbid!) Windows for any kind of internet activity beyond our firewall. And that seems to include sending email like this to the list. Gack! It sounds like they're trying to give you an excuse to make life easier for Microsoft administrators by getting rid of Linux. Don't think so. I'm administering the Debian boxes myself. It seems their prime concern (for the moment?) is anti-virus software. A system that runs any version of Windows 95 or better (is there? ;-) and has Norton Anti-Virus installed and running at least once a month is okay with them. The fact is that viruses are almost unheard of on Linux. I've only heard of 2 Linux-specific viruses in the last 3 years; neither has been seen since 1997. Do you have any pointers? There are antivirus programs that run under Linux - McAfee (now Network Associates) makes one, for example. However, due to the lack of Linux/UNIX viruses, these anti-virus programs are meant to be run on servers - mail servers, file servers, or anything else that has to interact with Windows PCs. Thanks for this pointer. I'll look into it. The biggest problem relating to viruses on Linux is running untrusted scripts on your machine, just like on Windows. However, there is one very important differece between Linux and Windows in this regard: unlike Windows email programs, Linux email programs *do not* execute programs recieved as attachments automatically - you need to 1) save the program to disk and 2) manually execute it before any damage can be done. And then they only run under the user id and with the permissions you set. Thanks for your reply, -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Criggie
Re: [OFFTOPIC] Eudora mail client behind MASQ'ing debian?
Eudora 4.3 sounds like the best option. http://www.eudora.com/
Please - why so many masqerading layers? Who is dialing-up who? Where is
her mail server in relation to the masq boxes?
At 09:44 AM 7/18/00 -0600, you wrote:
i have a client going trough the roof cause she can't send any mail with
Eudora (v3.01 or around there). her machine is behind a debian box (potato
not-so-current, k2.2.14) which masq's. that potato box is behind another one
that masq's her (same potato), which in turn is behind a really old POS
slakware 4.0, kernel 2.0.33 which masq's everything to the net.
i remember that like 3 months ago (when we installed their network) she had
the same prob, i read around a bit, remember seeing something about eudora
having probs behind masq'ing boxen running linux. but then she stopped
complaining and told us the prob was fixed, so we didn't care. a week ago
she starts calling again, bitchin every five minutes. so the question is: is
there a prob with eudora? or should i look in the linux boxen?
more info: if she dials-up, she can send mail. with outlook express i can
send mail. her box got rebuild like two weeks ago, and since then eudora
craps out ('Connection Refused' error) when sending mail. i can send mail
telnetting to port 25 of her mail server, so the rules are fine (i guess).
TIA,
Alberto Brealey.
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Re: Attempt to access beyond end of device
Well - its definitely /dev/sda1 thats having the problem, the 08:01 means major device 8 and minor device 1, which is the first partition on the first scsi disk. ls -l /dev/sda1 brw-rw1 root disk 8, 1 Jun 8 03:44 sda1 Is your swap space sda1 ? Second: I see in the output for fdisk below /dev/sda1p1 Is this linux? or is it something else? I've not seen this before... do you have any weird kernel options turned on? Does your scsi host adapter do something strange ? I advise you to backup ASAP, not because the drive is failing, but because it just looks wrong to me. At 11:16 PM 7/16/00 +1000, you wrote: Hi gang, I have a small but recuring, and annoying problem. Every now and then, my little xconsole starts spewing out the messages below, after which X, and sometimes the whole system, usually crashes. It's somewhat disconcerting. Jul 16 23:00:32 rei kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Jul 16 23:00:32 rei kernel: 08:01: rw=0, want=131384, limit=128488 Jul 16 23:00:32 rei kernel: dev 08:01 blksize=4096 blocknr=32845 sector=262760 size=4096 count=1 Jul 16 23:00:32 rei kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Jul 16 23:00:32 rei kernel: 08:01: rw=0, want=131388, limit=128488 Jul 16 23:00:32 rei kernel: dev 08:01 blksize=4096 blocknr=32846 sector=262768 size=4096 count=1 Jul 16 23:00:32 rei kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Jul 16 23:00:32 rei kernel: 08:01: rw=0, want=131392, limit=128488 Jul 16 23:00:32 rei kernel: dev 08:01 blksize=4096 blocknr=32847 sector=262776 size=4096 count=1 My guess is that there is a problem somewhere with the swap device, and when trying to access this, somethings going wrong, resulting in memory corruption and a crash. That is only a guess so far, but it's the best I can come up with. What I would like some clues on is, is this the likely problem, and if so, what can I do to fix it. As I'm writing this, I decided to include the output of the partition table on this disk to help diagnose the problem. To me, it doesn't look especially healthy! Disk /dev/sda1: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 527 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/sda1p1 ?115306236915 976827065+ 6c Unknown Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(80, 10, 0) logical=(115305, 135, 4) Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(371, 101, 33) logical=(236914, 223, 5) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(371, 101, 33) should be (371, 254, 63) /dev/sda1p2 ?120529208571 707199029+ 74 Unknown Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(367, 97, 46) logical=(120528, 70, 23) Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(370, 104, 37) logical=(208570, 123, 12) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(370, 104, 37) should be (370, 254, 63) /dev/sda1p3 ? 1 1 0 20 Unknown Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(288, 68, 18) logical=(0, 0, 33) Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(32, 32, 32) logical=(0, 0, 32) Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(32, 32, 32) should be (32, 254, 63) This disk is a 4.something G SCSI Quantum Fireball. I haven't experienced any problems with it until recently. The only thing that seems to be showing problems is the swap (I have lots of data on this drive, and haven't lost anything recently). Anyone have any ideas? cheers. damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) / It's not a sense of humor. * Criminologist / It's a sense of irony * Webmeister / disguised as one. * Linux Geek / - Bruce Sterling - Running Debian GNU/Linux: Doing my bit for World Domination (tm) - -- Criggie
Re: samba Passwords
1) As root, runsmbpasswd -a newusername That will add newusername to the smbpasswd file and set the password for you. 2) CDROMs Make sure your /etc/fstab contains a line like this /dev/hdd /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 then make sure theres a section like this in /etc/samba/smb.conf ; A sample share for sharing your CD-ROM with others. [cdrom] comment = Samba server's CD-ROM writable = no locking = no path = /cdrom public = yes ; The next two parameters show how to auto-mount a CD-ROM when the ; cdrom share is accesed. For this to work /etc/fstab must contain ; an entry like this: ; /dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0 ; /dev/hdd/cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0 ; The CD-ROM gets unmounted automatically after the connection to the ; If you don't want to use auto-mounting/unmounting make sure the CD ; is mounted on /cdrom preexec = /bin/mount /cdrom postexec = /bin/umount /cdrom That will automatically mount the cd if a client machine requests it. 3) Samba as a domain controller. Firstly samba CANNOT act as a PDC for a NT network, neither can it partake in elections as a BDC to an existing NT server. What samba can do is use an existing NT server to authenticate usernames and passwords from, or it can act as a domain controller for win9x clients (that means not NT or 2000 (not sure about ME)) My suggestion is to look at either buying Using Samba by O'Reilly or look at the samba website www.samba.org At 04:39 PM 7/7/00 -0700, you wrote: ...I have a shared directory that I can access fine but when I try to access the /home/user directory I am promted for a password. I then enter the password but it fails. I looked in the smbpasswd file but its empty. So I tried smbpasswd neutec but after entering the pass I receive an error that it failed to add it. So my first question is how to add new users to Samba ? And I read somewhere that if I want to share a CD-Rom I will need to add something to the fstab file. What do I need to add there ? I cant find the man page on this. And for my last question, Does anyone know where I can get some info on setting up Samba as a Domain Controller? -- Criggie
Re: software watchdog
1) Temperature... has a CPU fan, case fan, or PSU fan seized up and died? 2) Have you changed anything recently? moved it, rebooted it, run a new kernel? 3) Run top, procinfo, vmstat -1, pppstats -w 1, netstat, free, df, and look for anything odd or wrong. 4) Take the GF with you on your trip - they make great company. At 12:55 AM 7/8/00 +0200, you wrote: My home-debian-box starts to behave rather odd lately, now and then it will freeze completely. The only thing working is ICMP, I can´t even get a TCP connection open, the screen is frozen, neither mouse nor keyboard will generate any event. I´ve already tried changing all I have on spare (read RAM and graphics adapter). Since there´s not even a single syslog-entry, I don´t really know where to start debugging. Would it make sense if I installed the software watchdog into the kernel in this case, so that the machine would (eventually) reboot when it hangs? This would be great because I´ll be on a trip next week and my girl-friend needs the debian-box as gateway/ mailserver in the meantime... tia, rw -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Criggie
Re: What drive is the dir on ?
At 09:55 PM 7/7/00 -0400, you wrote: For example, on my box here I get: HAL9000:~$ mount /dev/hda1 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/hdb1 on /space/part1 type ext2 (rw) /dev/hdb2 on /space/part2 type ext2 (rw) /dev/hdb3 on /space/part3 type ext2 (rw) /dev/hdb5 on /space/part4 type ext2 (rw) /dev/hdb6 on /space/part5 type ext2 (rw) /dev/hdb7 on /space/part6 type ext2 (rw) Might I ask why you have seven partitions on hdb ? -- Criggie
Re: Supported Hardware.
I don't quite understand your question - you are selling some hardware, and want to make sure the components are supported by Debian? Look at this address to find out: http://www.linux.org/help/ldp/howto/Hardware-HOWTO.html Yeah - I could have looked up each item for you - but now you have the link you can do it yourself in the future. (Light a cold man a fire, keep him warm for a day Light a cold man on fire, keep him warm for the rest of his life) At 08:48 AM 7/5/00 +1000, you wrote: I'm about to quote on a number of servers with Intel's ISP1100 1RU rack mount servers. I need compatiblity for debian linux for: Adaptec 29160LP Low Profile PCI Ultra 160 SCSI card Matrox* Millennium G200 SD 8 MB SDRAM PCI Intel Pro100+ 10/100 Ethernet Intel Pro1000 100/1000 Ethernet Thanks
RE: MS Proxy
Erm - people... MS Proxy is not a firewall in itself. Perhaps the NT machine that runs Proxy also has a modem/other device in it, in which case it is doing firewall-style duties (perish the thought though... an NT based firewall) Whereas if you have another device controlling your link, then use that device's IP as your default gateway. You may need to configure said device to accept/route/proxy/etc your IP. Look at [start] -- settings -- control panel -- Network then click on the /Protocols\ tab then double click TCP/IP then click on the /Gateway\ tab then note the IP for the gateway. There may be more than one, but the top one is the primary. Then go to your debian machine, and edit /etc/networks/interfaces Mine looks like this # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface iface lo inet loopback # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation # (network, broadcast and gateway are optional) iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.1 (yes - that third paragraph was a dig at NT toadies, and I have two of the bloody things at work.) At 11:03 AM 7/5/00 +1000, you wrote: I've been fiddling with getting through a MS Proxy from a debian box in the last few days, and the ease of getting through it greatly depends on the proxy configuration. I believe our proxy is set up to only let through http traffic. Any other protocol that gets through therefore 'pretends' to be talking http. I have not yet found a way to telnet out in this manner (but a windows machine can telnet using the MS Proxy client, so it must be possible _somehow_). I have however had greater success with lftp, which happens to be available as a debian package of the same name. However .. if you have the options of doing socks, I would certainly recommend that as the better option. I just wish I had that choice :) - Chris Kenrick (Shaun wrote...) Another option might be dante-clients. Have to either choose to stick with this POS dial-up connection and pay the $20/month, or get better bandwidth for free and figure how to work around that evil program.. M$ Proxy offer socks4 server - You can use this support with the sockified versions of ftp and telnet : http://www.socks.nec.com/http://www.socks.nec.com/ Davide -- Feel free, feel Debian ! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- -- Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting from network
Sorry - missed the original on this... Do you have a rarpd server on the network? Later kernel 2.3 and all 2.4 does not support rarp any more (I have the same problem, and rarpd the new daemon for rarp won't compile for me) At 08:46 AM 6/28/00 +1000, you wrote: Jim == Jim Koontz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jim When I boot the sparc machine, it displays this message: Jim Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet Jim Jim Obviously, the server is not seeing the sparc client's Jim request, but I don't know what else to check. Does anyone Jim have any suggestions? Are you sure the server is not seeing the request? Or perhaps, the sparc client cannot see the reply? Use tcpdump on the server to find out if the server is responding or not. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
rarpd support
Okay - who whipped rarp support out of kernel 2.4 ? I have a couple sun 3/50s here acting as xterminals, and without rarpd they don't know their IPs. dhcpd can't handle that functionality the same - what can I do? I have tried dhcpd.deb which can't do it I've downloaded and compiled and installed rarpd from freebsd, solaris, and linux - no joy. The official statement is to get rarpd source from a stated site, and compile it, but it depends on libnet and libpcap - both of which are twitchy. The only option I really have left is to return to 2.2.x... any suggestions? -- Criggie
RE: dhcpcd and esound
Weird... is the only word for it. With the sound card in use... try pinging another machine on the network, then traceroute to it, etc I half-suspect theres an IRQ conflict. -- From: Destrius[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 23 June 2000 2:43 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:dhcpcd and esound I'm not entirely sure if this is the best forum to ask this question, but I figured I'd try here first before bringing up what may not be a bug to the respective developers. When I run esd, and pump an lot of data into the mixer (like playing MP3s thorugh XMMS, for example), and then run the DHCP client daemon (dhcpcd), the daemon sits there doing nothing (I'm monitoring my network traffic using wmifs, and no LEDs are flashing), till I stop sending data to esound. Once I press the pause button on XMMS, dhcpcd immediately starts intefacing with my ethernet card. Apparently dhcpcd freezes up after dhcpcd[4140]: broadcasting DHCP_DISCOVER and only displays dhcpcd[4140]: broadcastAddr option is missing in DHCP server response. Assuming 202.166.111.255 after pausing XMMS. This does not happen when I'm playing directly to the sound card without going through esd, so it can't be an IRQ conflict between the ethernet card and the sound card. Changing the port esd uses doesn't help either. My guess is that somehow esd is blocking dhcpcd from calling some network function or something along that line. I don't know enough about either program to find out the answer, though. I'm running woody, with the latest versions of esd and dhcpcd. -- +--+ | Destrius dest rius @ big foot.com | | http://web.hjc.edu.sg/~8223332f/ ++ +| He walks away, | | Remove spaces in email address | Leaving nothing| +| But a notion of his music. | ++ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: ?q?l $I ?C?u ?s?ia??P
Yes - definitely.
Be sure to compile support for Ic?cU?s?i|e?P in the kernel - either as a
module, or compile it in. Is it ISA or PCI?
isapnp is awkward - it runs much better if you can disable pnp and set an IO
and IRQ specifically.
Other than that - upgrade your kernel, make sure your sshd is up to date, and
close all non-essential ports.
Also, disable java and javascript in your browser.
Ob-hint - English please.
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RE: serial config
Two possibilities... 1) you plugged the serial header cables into the motherboard backward, or off-by-one, or you're using different ones from before which are wired differently. 2) shorting the motherboard to the case has fritzed the serial controller. Can you plug in an ISA IO card? I nuked the FDC on a P75 once - the only way to get a floppy was to install a MFM / FDC controller :) -- From: I am alone in a world of weirdos.[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply To: I am alone in a world of weirdos. Sent: Monday, 19 June 2000 4:36 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:serial config heya, i have a serial mouse which i am trying to get to talk to my debian system. thre isn't anything complicated about it, just a mouse on ttyS0. it used to work with the motherboard i am using, but i moved my system to a bigger case, and for various reasons when i did that i reinstalled the OS. since then it has not worked. its not just the mouse either, i try connecting my Palm III to ttyS1 and the palm claims i am trying to talk to a modem. needless to say the palm also used to work with this motherboard, and works on my ol' 486. my com ports are turned on in the bios, my /dev/ttyS* are all set to world rwx (i am not particularly concerned with security at the moment.) my serial.conf looks fine, and i am stumped. i edited the serial.conf in order to get my modem working on ttyS3, which it did. i have commented and commented that bunches of times, and even tried reinstalling the setserial package. when i first moved the motherboard to the new case i had some problems with the motherboard shorting out, but i have since insulated and fixed that and everything else except the com ports are working now. it seems like this is something stupid that has continued to slip past me, but i cannot figure it out. thanks, ~mark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This email is free email, and may be modified and/or distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License available at: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html Copyright (C) 2000 Mark A. Torrey Esq. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: samba auto-unloads
smbd and nmbd can run from inetd or in daemon mode. inetd is slower but uses less ram. Running as daemons is faster, but resource useage is greater. I run it as a daemon, and it looks like you do too. -- From: Brian Stults[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 15 June 2000 9:17 AM To: debian Subject:samba auto-unloads There are entries in my inetd.conf like this: #:OTHER: Other services #off# netbios-ssn stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/smbd #off# netbios-ns dgram udp waitroot/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/nmbd -a But it appears they are commented out. I also have the standard startup script in /etc/init.d for samba. I sifted through the SMB-HOWTO, but couldn't find reference to this. Can someone help?
RE: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...
H - I elected debian after using slackware for four+ years, because its what Pitr runs :) http://www.userfriendly.org/ Seriously - I chose debian because it was recommended for servers. I didn't want a distribution that needs wishy-washy X-based tools to deal with packages. Does debian need a x-based newbies set of defaults? -- From: Randy Edwards[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 9 June 2000 7:18 AM To: I. Tura Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free... A typical newbie won't start with Debian While that is probably true, I don't think that should be the basis for Debian's mode of operation. Debian needs new users and it needs to be designed to appeal to new users while still maintaining the qualities that separate it from the other GNU/Linux distributions. -- Regards, | Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.debian.org - More software than .| *any* distribution, rock solid reliability, quality control, Randy| seamless upgrades via ftp or CD-ROM, strict filesystem layout, | adherence to standards, and militantly 100% FREE GNU/Linux! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: Samba printing question
Specifically about your question, I don't know but I have a DJ 850 here shared via samba (off the linux machine) and my win9x boxes have the HP driver for the 850 (1) Why do you need to use a laserwriter driver? (1) the HP drivers give much better quality colour than Micros~1 supplied drivers -- From: Bob Nielsen[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 4 June 2000 10:50 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Samba printing question I have set up samba so my wife can print from Windows 95 to the printer on my Linux box (dj520 configured with magicfilter). It prints fine, but after the page ejects, a second page is printed with: %%[ Page: 1 ]%% %%[ LastPage ]%% I suppose this is some PostScript code, probably generated by the Windows Laserwriter II NT driver I selected. Is there any way to suppress this? Bob -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY (RN2) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Advice required - Macjanet to debian/netatalk/samba
Okay - bear with me for the explanation on this. I work at a secondary school (3)... we have a room of Macintoshes, with 27ish LC2s on ethertalk (10baseT ethernet). They tend to die in interesting and expensive to fix ways (1) The current Macintosh server is a SE/30 with 16 Mb ram and a 2G SCSI drive. It runs Waterloo Macjanet, and there is one HP Laserjet 4M+ with a jetdirect. Thats the current situation. We have been donated a dozen Compaq 486s and I have obtained a P120 with 96 Mb ram and 3 Gb of scsi disk (2) which I intend to use as a server for this room. The room in question is not attached to the rest of the network, and will not have any internet access, however it is fully cabled for 10baseT. I intend to use the remaining 27 macs and 5 486s to bring the number of terminals back up to a class size. My questions: Can netatalk and samba cooperate nicely in such an environment? What print charging solutions can deal with a mixed mode environment? LPRng or LPR ? What packages should I grab now while it has net access ? What pitfalls might I strike? (1) Macintosh Power-insert, Power-eject floppy drive goes for about $480 NZ, which is approximately $230 US at current rates. (2) Got it at an auction - it was labelled as having a 1 Gb drive plus a 2 Gb drive, so I check the back and its SCSI. It was also supposed to have 16 Mb ram, and had 96. The final price was $475 NZ... I think I scored well :) (3) Avonside Girls' High School in Christchurch New Zealand http://www.avonside.school.nz/ -- Criggie
RE: Ethernet Error
Try as root /sbin/route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 window 16384 eth0 assuming your eth0 has an IP in the range 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.254 If that works fine then add it to something in /etc/init.d -- From: Steve[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 31 May 2000 1:32 PM To: Ron Rademaker Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: Ethernet Error Ok. That sounds like a plan. When I run route, I see an entry for the localnet associated with eth0 and an entry for the lo (no gateway assigned to either). I'm not completly familiar with route tables. Could I get a hand with them? What shows for route is: DestinationGatewayGenmaskFlagsMetricRef UseIface locatnet* 255.255.255.224U 0 01 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0U 0 01 lo I might also add that the activity LED for the on the card ON solid. - Original Message - From: Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 6:10 PM Subject: Re: Ethernet Error Why do you think the problem is with the card? What about your route table, is all correct there? And ipchains, you don't have them so you can't get anything out or in can you? What exactly does it say when you try to ping? Sound like a route problem to me! Ron Rademaker On Tue, 30 May 2000, Steve wrote: Hello, I'm using Slink on an AMD-233 powered computer. I have a 3Com905-TX Ethernet card installed. The modules appears to be loading with the kernel as eth0. When I run ifconfig I can see the the eth0 card with the correctly assigned IP information. The problem: I can't ping to the cards IP address, but I can ping localhost. Any ideas on troubleshooting the card further? Thanks in advance. -Steve -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: (no subject)
Yes - that is definitly possible. However you have to remember to compile support into your kernel, or compile as a module. Check the docs for the correct command-line options, and be sure that you have a fairly recent version. Naturally this will use some ram and some CPU time, but this would only affect you if you're running on a bm20 machine :) I'll have my end done by Tuesday - when can I expect you to be finished? (note - j/k) -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 27 May 2000 3:32 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:(no subject) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: SCSI bus reset when burning
Does your SCSI drive work if you try to mount it like a CDROM ? Do you have any other SCSI devices (hard drive/another CD etc) Have you considered setting the scsi ID to something like 2 through 5? the card is often ID6. Can you please post the dmesg lines from boot that show what scsi devices are detected? -- From: Rob Rati[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 23 May 2000 5:23 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:SCSI bus reset when burning My scsi bus appears to want to reset everytime I try to burn a CD. My dmesg log gets errors like this: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 232511, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 0x2a 00 00 00 2f e0 00 00 10 00 (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 236020, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 0x2a 00 00 00 1f 30 00 00 10 00 (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 237829, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 0x2a 00 00 00 08 40 00 00 10 00 (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. Scsi id 0 is my burner, so it appears to be having some kind of problem. Does anyone know how to solve this or why the scsi bus wants to reset? Any help would be appreciated since I can't burn CDs until this is figured out. TIA. Rob -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X O ICQ# 2325055| LI N NN U U X | LLL I N N UUU X X O Shackles cannot keep me bound | Those who can, do. forever. I'm outta here. | -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
