ultra simple mail aliases
argh. This is a RTFM problem, but I can't figure out which FM T R . . . I need to set up trivially simple mailing aliases. Particularly, I want a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go to a list of specified addresses (just 4, typically) at other sites. (This is for communication between teams in my law class). I thought that it was /etc/mh/MailAliases or /etc/mail/aliases, but these don't seem to be working. I know that I've done this before . . . (I've set the reply-to to both me and the list, as I'm getting a broken digest or two every day . . .) thanks hawk
linux disk editor/fat tarbal recover [time running out :( ]
Once more, I'm trying to recover data from a tarball on a fat partition,
but
time is running out--I have to file my tax return by October 15, and so
I need
to recover at least a week ahead of that (or I'll have to do it all
again,
and this is a big, ugly, return with lots of schedules :( )
Roughly, I created a primary fat partition, tarred /home onto a tarball
on it,
deleted the partition, and tried to resurrect it as an extended
partition.
I've learned so far that this wipes out the fat, whcih is a bad thing :)
The good news is that (I think) the tarball, which was uncompressed,
should be
the first file on the partition, so the file should be contiguous. No
files
have been written to the partition since then. I've come to understand
that
if I find one piece of it, I should be able to find therest.
I've installed the hard drive into another machine to work with. I've
used dd
to copy a primary fat partition placed in the same place as the lost
partition.
I've used dd to copy the file to recovery.2, and split that into 100M
pieces
[having discovered that you can kill the system by trying to load a 1.7G
file
into beav :) ]
I am now running a script grepall which reads
#! /sbin/sh
for file in `ls x*` ; do
echo $file
strings $file | grep -e /home -ehawk grep.${file}
done
This is based on the premise that the first two lines of the tarball
should be
something like
/home
/home/hawk
It's clear that I'll get a match in grep.xaa like this. It doesn't have
all the entries I'd expect, though. Once I hit the tarball, I should
get lots.
This locates the file to within 100MB.. I could just recursively search
at
that point, but that would just beg the question. So what do I do once
I
find which one has my tarball (or at least the beginning?)
I've compiled lde, the only disk editor I could find on freshmeat. But
I have no idea what to do with the information. I assume that somehow I
create a new file starting at the correct location and untar it. But
how do
I do this?
hawk, running out of time
--
Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my
retainer.
Re: linux disk editor/fat tarbal recover [time running out :( ] (fwd)
While I'm at it: I expect it would make more sense to search for magic numbers for the tarballs. But how in the world would I do this. Does anyoen actually understand lde (it's man page doesn't have directions for what it claims to do through ncurses . . .) -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
lynx gone mad!
Oh, the horror. I may not survive! lynx has gone *mad*. It's still using /etc/lynxcfg, at least for some things. My customizations (light background, launch new xterm with new lynx on a link by .) still work, but yesterday it stopped obeying the cookie-reject domains--while continuing to obey cookie accept. Today, it can't read my .lynx_bookmarks.html, instead telling me Unable to open bookmark file, use 'a' to save a link first [ok, I just solved that one. Today it wants lynx_bookmarks.html; until today, it worked with the . It's also reset my mode from expert to novice, and a couple of other defaults restored.] I haven't upgraded; it's the same version that was running fine on Tuesday. Is anyone else seeing this? [And what's it going to lose tomorrow??? :(] hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
lp0/lp1 defaults [was:Printer Trouble]
References: [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [This will probably not thread properly. I'm forced to use netscape for outgoing mail, and it won't let me paste the referenbces. Keith klamoured, Debian User wrote: Where can I find some docs on how to install a printer on Debian (woody)? I just picked up a Lexmark Optra E312, plugged it in, booted up, and it naturally did not work. A couple things to share... As a users I typed: cat file /dev/lp1 and received a permission denied message. So I tried it as root and was told: /dev/lp1: No such device. Uh oh...I have the magicfilter package and lpr installed. Can anyone help with this? For starters, what happens when you do 'lpr file'? Let's take a step back further: magicfilter is defaulting to /dev/lp1, which is the *second* parallel port that most computers don't have attached. Most of us need to use /dev/lp0. hawk
printing FAQ? (simple parallel)
This must be simple, but I can't find a faq, only a howto for printing. I have gs-aladdin, gsfonts, gv, lpd, and alladin installed. I used magicfilterconfig to create /etc/printcap, which looks like this: -- # # Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California. # All rights reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted # provided that this notice is preserved and that due credit is given # to the University of California at Berkeley. The name of the University # may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this # software without specific prior written permission. This software # is provided ``as is'' without express or implied warranty. # # @(#)etc.printcap5.2 (Berkeley) 5/5/88 # # This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig. # lp|ljet2p|HP LaserJet IIP:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet2p:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet2p-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: however, lpq reveals: fac13:/home/hawk# lpq waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?) Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1stroot 1.Xauthority 50 bytes 2ndhawk 2test.ps 8669 bytes The printer is online, and I can cat to it and cause output (which would get me by if it was a postscript printer . . .) I start and stop the daemon, but nothing happens. I've tried playing around with lines like gs -sDEVICE=ljet2p -sOutputfile= | cat /dev/lp0 syllabus.f00.micro.ps also to no avail I think I'm stuck help! :) Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
bad new large hard disk? [chirps]
I sent this earlier, but it doesn't seem to have made it to hte list . . . This weekend, I tried installing the 20G IBM drive I picked up on vacation, and I think it has serious problem s :( It chirps, which seems to come haveter a major (loud) move of the heads. The bios can find the drive about half the time, and reports possible geometry choices, the least number of cylinders being 2053 or so. Neiter cfdisk nor fdisk, nor the FreeBSD utilities, can read the disk, reporting various timeout problems. The FreeBSD bootloader noticed that the disk existed--once. I've tried reading it on two different computers: the K6 on a Shuttle 603 where it's supposed to live, and on an IBM P133. Neither has been able to fdisk it. If this was a sub-1024 clinder disk, I'd have called to have it replaced by now. I'm hoping that I'm missing something that would let me initialize the disk and be on my way. hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
Re: bad new large hard disk? [chirps]
Jeff Green wrote: Is said disk IDE or SCSI, if IDE IDE. I can't afford scsi :) and your motherboard is over 18 months or so old you will need to flash the motherboard bios. Uh, oh :) It's from the first set of 603's that worked (once they dropped the third sdram slot), so it's near the end of '97, I think (nearly three years?). *can* a bios be flashed from linux of *bsd? However it should be silent and should still detect as a smaller disk, Jeff It's detecting with the correct number of cylinders. Do I still need a flash? And does anyone know where shuttle/spacewalker has hid the information on the 603? I haven't found it on the last couple of trips to the site. (I presume that the board was short lived, as it was a specialty board: be the first to market with the via/amd chipset, unofficially run stably at 83mhz [oops? we put those settings on the chip :) ], and a 1M cache.) if I get a hard drive that chirps my supplier gets a prompt request for a replacement. Unfortunately, the supplier is in San Diego, and I'm in Pennsylvania, so I assume I'll deal with IBM. The chirp isn't a sqeak; I'm not convinced that it's not a result of what the motherboard is telling it to do . . . hawk
Re: sendmail not delivering at all [was: fetchmail is eating my mail]
brian moore wrote: Delete the 'smtphost' line. Unless you really want to snarf mail from email.psu.edu and send it to smtp.psu.edu hmm, it still eats everything. I'm starting to think that sendmail is the problem. Here's the new .fetchmailrc, done from scratch: # Configuration created Sat Aug 19 13:23:41 2000 by fetchmailconf set postmaster hawk set bouncemail set properties poll email.psu.edu with proto POP3 user reh18 there with password [censored] is reh18 here options keep etchmail: 5.3.3 querying email.psu.edu (protocol POP3) at Sat, 19 Aug 2000 13:38:15 -0400 (EDT) fetchmail: POP3 +OK UCB Pop server (version 1.831+timeout+afsauth) at f07n05 starting. fetchmail: POP3 USER reh18 fetchmail: POP3 +OK Password required for reh18. fetchmail: POP3 PASS * fetchmail: POP3 +OK reh18 has 5 message(s) (13361 octets). fetchmail: POP3 STAT fetchmail: POP3 +OK 5 13361 fetchmail: POP3 LAST fetchmail: POP3 +OK 0 is the last message seen. 5 messages for reh18 at email.psu.edu (13361 octets). fetchmail: POP3 LIST fetchmail: POP3 +OK 5 messages (13361 octets) fetchmail: POP3 1 fetchmail: POP3 2 2126 fetchmail: POP3 3 3256 fetchmail: POP3 4 4184 fetchmail: POP3 5 2684 fetchmail: POP3 . fetchmail: POP3 RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3 +OK octets reading message 1 of 5 ( octets) fetchmail: SMTP 220 fac13.ds.psu.edu ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 13:38:19 -0400 fetchmail: SMTP EHLO localhost fetchmail: SMTP 250-fac13.ds.psu.edu Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you fetchmail: SMTP 250-EXPN fetchmail: SMTP 250-VERB fetchmail: SMTP 250-8BITMIME fetchmail: SMTP 250-SIZE fetchmail: SMTP 250-DSN fetchmail: SMTP 250-ONEX fetchmail: SMTP 250-ETRN fetchmail: SMTP 250-XUSR fetchmail: SMTP 250 HELP fetchmail: SMTP MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] BODY=7BIT SIZE= fetchmail: SMTP 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender ok fetchmail: SMTP RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: SMTP 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Recipient ok fetchmail: SMTP DATA fetchmail: SMTP 354 Enter mail, end with . on a line by itself fetchmail: SMTP. (EOM) fetchmail: SMTP 250 NAA07679 Message accepted for delivery not flushed fetchmail: POP3 RETR 2 fetchmail: POP3 +OK 2126 octets reading message 2 of 5 (2126 octets) fetchmail: SMTP MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] BODY=7BIT SIZE=2126 fetchmail: SMTP 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender ok fetchmail: SMTP RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: SMTP 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Recipient ok fetchmail: SMTP DATA fetchmail: SMTP 354 Enter mail, end with . on a line by itself fetchmail: SMTP. (EOM) fetchmail: SMTP 250 NAA07682 Message accepted for delivery not flushed fetchmail: POP3 RETR 3 fetchmail: POP3 +OK 3256 octets reading message 3 of 5 (3256 octets) fetchmail: SMTP MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] BODY=7BIT SIZE=3256 fetchmail: SMTP 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender ok fetchmail: SMTP RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: SMTP 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Recipient ok fetchmail: SMTP DATA fetchmail: SMTP 354 Enter mail, end with . on a line by itself fetchmail: SMTP. (EOM) fetchmail: SMTP 250 NAA07686 Message accepted for delivery not flushed fetchmail: POP3 RETR 4 fetchmail: POP3 +OK 4184 octets reading message 4 of 5 (4184 octets) fetchmail: SMTP MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] BODY=7BIT SIZE=4184 fetchmail: SMTP 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender ok fetchmail: SMTP RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: SMTP 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Recipient ok fetchmail: SMTP DATA fetchmail: SMTP 354 Enter mail, end with . on a line by itself fetchmail: SMTP. (EOM) fetchmail: SMTP 250 NAA07688 Message accepted for delivery not flushed fetchmail: POP3 RETR 5 fetchmail: POP3 +OK 2684 octets reading message 5 of 5 (2684 octets) fetchmail: SMTP MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] BODY=7BIT SIZE=2684 fetchmail: SMTP 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender ok fetchmail: SMTP RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: SMTP 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Recipient ok fetchmail: SMTP DATA fetchmail: SMTP 354 Enter mail, end with . on a line by itself fetchmail: SMTP. (EOM) fetchmail: SMTP 250 NAA07693 Message accepted for delivery not flushed fetchmail: POP3 QUIT fetchmail: POP3 +OK Pop server at f07n05 signing off. fetchmail: SMTP QUIT fetchmail: SMTP 221 fac13.ds.psu.edu closing connection fetchmail: normal termination, status 0 Done. If I'm reading this correctly, it means that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is getting the mail, which is as it should be. But I still get nothing as mail. Investigating further, I've found that mailing to myself (mail hawk, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]) also does not generate mail. Ideas? inspiration? hawk
fetchmail is eating my mail
Due to hardware problems, I've had to reinstall. I've lost the configuration that was semi-working. Fetchmail is now eating my mail. It retrieves the messages, deletes them from the server, and yet I have no mail. /var/spool/mqueue is just plain empty. I'm not having a good week . . . [I've set one of teh reply-to addresses to a safe m achine] -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
a hack that solves my dropped network (sort-of)
If anyone else has replied with a suggestion for my dropped mail problem, I've lost everything since early yesterday evening due to the fetchmail problem. I can now keep the connection up with an extra-ugly hack: a script to the effect of while true do /etc/init.d/networking force-reload sleep 5 done [I said it was ugly . . .] I've also noticed that I can ping my gateway when the network drops. Does this get us anywhere? Given that the problem persisted after moving to another building, and through a fresh installation, I'm suspecting the network card (an old isa etherpro). I'm not going to miss this machine when I get a new one . . . -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
Re: fetchmail is eating my mail
At least two people replied rapidly, even by this list's standars. More replies may have been eaten gathering the info below . . . :( John Hasler wrote: Richard E. Hawkins writes: Fetchmail is now eating my mail. You may need to add 'antispam -1' to your .fetchmailrc. I've taken a couple of stabs at this, but don't see how to accomplish it. I've put it straight into the file, and after the polling line. I've also tried it as set antispam -1 What am I missing? Marko Cehaja wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:10:37PM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: Fetchmail is now eating my mail. It retrieves the messages, deletes them from the server, and yet I have no mail. /var/spool/mqueue is just plain empty. Don't change by hand any attributes on directories like /var/spool/mqueue Just don't change anything. haven't touched it :) Install fetchmailconf and configure fetchmail. that's how I got here . . . it produces a .fetchmailrc of # Configuration created Wed Aug 16 21:55:01 2000 by fetchmailconf set postmaster hawk set bouncemail set properties set daemon 2 poll email.psu.edu with proto POP3 user reh18 there with password [censored] is hawk here options mimedecode warnings 3600 smtphost smtp.psu.edu I'm [EMAIL PROTECTED], but hawk on the local machine. I'm not seeing anything wrong here. The log from the test is: fetchmail: 5.3.3 querying email.psu.edu (protocol POP3) at Wed, 16 Aug 2000 22:06:49 -0400 (EDT) fetchmail: POP3 +OK UCB Pop server (version 1.831+timeout+afsauth) at f07n05 starting. fetchmail: POP3 USER reh18 fetchmail: POP3 +OK Password required for reh18. fetchmail: POP3 PASS * fetchmail: POP3 +OK reh18 has 3 message(s) (11204 octets). fetchmail: POP3 STAT fetchmail: POP3 +OK 3 11204 fetchmail: POP3 LAST fetchmail: POP3 +OK 0 is the last message seen. 3 messages for reh18 at email.psu.edu (11204 octets). fetchmail: POP3 LIST fetchmail: POP3 +OK 3 messages (11204 octets) fetchmail: POP3 1 3751 fetchmail: POP3 2 3723 fetchmail: POP3 3 3730 fetchmail: POP3 . fetchmail: POP3 TOP 1 fetchmail: POP3 +OK 3751 octets reading message 1 of 3 (3751 octets) fetchmail: SMTP 220 f04n01.cac.psu.edu ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 22:06:52 -0400 fetchmail: SMTP EHLO localhost fetchmail: SMTP 250-f04n01.cac.psu.edu Hello fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98], pleased to meet you fetchmail: SMTP 250-EXPN fetchmail: SMTP 250-VERB fetchmail: SMTP 250-8BITMIME fetchmail: SMTP 250-SIZE 2000 fetchmail: SMTP 250-DSN fetchmail: SMTP 250-ONEX fetchmail: SMTP 250-ETRN fetchmail: SMTP 250-XUSR fetchmail: SMTP 250 HELP fetchmail: SMTP MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE=3751 fetchmail: SMTP 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender ok fetchmail: SMTP RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: SMTP 550 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... User unknown fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED]' fetchmail: SMTP 220 fac13.ds.psu.edu ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 22:06:52 -0400 fetchmail: SMTP HELO localhost fetchmail: SMTP 250 fac13.ds.psu.edu Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you fetchmail: SMTP MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: SMTP 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender ok fetchmail: SMTP RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: SMTP 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Recipient ok fetchmail: SMTP DATA fetchmail: SMTP 354 Enter mail, end with . on a line by itself fetchmail: SMTP: (bounce-message body) fetchmail: SMTP. (EOM) fetchmail: SMTP 250 WAA12782 Message accepted for delivery fetchmail: SMTP QUIT fetchmail: SMTP 221 fac13.ds.psu.edu closing connection fetchmail: SMTP RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: SMTP 550 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... User unknown fetchmail: can't even send to hawk! fetchmail: SMTP RSET fetchmail: SMTP 250 Reset state fetchmail: POP3 QUIT fetchmail: POP3 fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from email.psu.edu fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) fetchmail: SMTP QUIT fetchmail: SMTP 221 f04n01.cac.psu.edu closing connection fetchmail: normal termination, status 10 Done. I'm not quite sure how to read this, but [EMAIL PROTECTED] should *certainly* not be involved--and what's it doing messing with receipts? The basic is: do not change system wide environment. good advice, virtually always . . . thanks hawk
need to constantly force-reload network
I've removed telnet from /etc/services, and also removed apache and wu-ftpd. I've also reconfigured exim for local delivery only. Suddenly my machine is unable to keep the connection to the router up, and I must constantly force-reload the networking daemon. Time kills it, but certain webpages (the debian search page where I might find who's asked this before :) and services (running apt-get update [yesterday]) kill the daemon. I'm sure it's a simple rtfm problem (and I think I solved this years ago with pre-1.1), but which fm? -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Assistant Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University (814) 375-4700 http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
losing network regularly
After removing wu-ftpd and apache, reconfiguring exim for local delivery only, and commenting out telnet in /etc/services, my connection to the router is constantly dropping, requiring a force-reload. Time causesthe drop, but so do certain services--the debian search page casues the drop, as does running apt-get update. I'm sure this is a simple rtfm matter, but which fm? -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Assistant Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University (814) 375-4700 http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
Re: need to constantly force-reload networking
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: need to constantly force-reload networking In-Reply-To: Message from Florian Friesdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] of Tue, 15 Aug 2000 16:54:58 +0200. [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Florian finagled, What kind of network adapter do you have? I expierenced similar problems with the rtl8139 driver. It's an etherexpress, I believe an etherexpress 10. It worked for a month or two under FreeBSD, and then under debian for a couple of weeks without a problem. But now it doesn't :(
Re: losing network regularly
jon jesticulated, are you using dhcp at all Nope; it's a local network, and I'm the only non-windows machine (which the tech people don't like, but my boss interfered on my behalf). -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Assistant Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University (814) 375-4700 http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
need to constantly force-reload networking
I have just turned off telnet, wu-ftpd, and apache. I now lose my router rapidly--loading some pages does it, apt-getupdate does it, some webpages do it. My connection was stable for weeks before this. I've tried to go to the search at www.debian.org, but it is one of the pages that seems to kill me. Help! hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Assistant Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University (814) 375-4700 http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
using outgoing smtp server with mh (where's the fm? :)
There's probably an easy, stock answer for this, but I'm not finding it. To keep the network folks happy, this machine needs to be incapable of sending mail on its own. I've reconfigured exim to deliver locally only, but I can't find what I need to do to have mail from mh sent to my outgoing smtp server with the appropriate name and password. Could someone point me to the fm I should rt? :) thanks hawk, still desparately negotiating with the powers that be to have unix on the desktop. -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Assistant Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University (814) 375-4700 http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
Re: combining unused space into files
IN my last-ditch attempt to recover a long text (actually lyx) file that was deleted, I want to combine all of the unused space on my drive into files. There's about 80M altogether, and I want to break it into 10M pieces (so I can manipulate them in the 40M partition normally assigned for swap). I want to get a literal straight read of the disk. Can anyone point out how to do this. This is likely to be a lame answer, meaning there's probably a much better one somewhere, but had I enough RAM, I'd configure a huge RAMdisk, and `dd if=/dev/hd? of=ramdisk`, then start searching. Alternatives to explore might be a program, pretty low level, to read in raw sectors, maybe write it to a file, system(perl -e ...) to search, etc, reiteratively. 20 megs of ram :) When's your deadline with this paper, anyway? bascially, before someone submits something similar to the journals . . . To complicate matters, the machine has no netwerok connectivity; it's a laptop, and the pcmcia hardware seems to have gone south . . . Ouch. Yop. kind of painful. I think I'll go to a journalliong file system as soon as I can manage . . . hawk
putting existing disk space into files
I need to turn the ~80mb of free space on my laptop into files so that I can search them. Im figuring to make them ~10mb each so that I can grep them silly, filter them, etc., in a last-ditch attempt to find my paper (I have a 40mb swap partition that can be used for this until I succeed). Can anyone tell me how to do this? TO complicate matters, this machine has no internet access, as the pcmcia apparently no longer works. hawk
my mail daemon doesn't like recipient ?
I seem to receive most of my mail, but some isn't coming through. For example, sending to me from yahoo, my sister received the bounce message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [her address] Subject: failure delivery Content-Length: 1069 Message from yahoo.com. Unable to deliver message to the following address(es). [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 146.186.61.98 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 550 relaying to hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu prohibited by administrator Giving up on 146.186.61.98. Is this *my* machine refusing to talk to yahoo? Have they been rbl'd or some such? She's not the only one that gets messages like this. hawk
Re: my mail daemon doesn't like recipient ?
It's apparent that the MTA on 146.186.61.98 (a.k.a fac13.ds.psu.edu) is rejecting mail address to user 'hawk'. But it's not rejecting all of it; just some. The debian list always comes through, for example (at least I think it's always). aack. Now bells ring. The actual address of this machine is fac13.ds.psu.edu. The machine calls itself hawkins.ds.psu.edu, which is an alias at the psu nameserver for this machine. grepping /etc/* and /etc/*/* for fac13 yeilds nothing . . . There used to be a question during mail installlation as to whether or not there were other names which might be on incoming mail; I don't recall answering this. I assume I need to change *something* in my mail configuration . . . Have they been rbl'd or some such? She's not the only one that gets messages like this. I'll Cc: the offensible address, to see what I get. I got two copies instead of 3 . . .
combining unused space into files
I thought I sent this earlier, but it doesn't seem to have arrived . . . IN my last-ditch attempt to recover a long text (actually lyx) file that was deleted, I want to combine all of the unused space on my drive into files. There's about 80M altogether, and I want to break it into 10M pieces (so I can manipulate them in the 40M partition normally assigned for swap). I want to get a literal straight read of the disk. Can anyone point out how to do this. To complicate matters, the machine has no netwerok connectivity; it's a laptop, and the pcmcia hardware seems to have gone south . . . hawk
scanning physical disk to retrieve file
Agh. this was low priority, and just went really high . . . I almost managed an rm -r *~ to get rid of the backup files from emacs and the like, but [*insert tear here*] the 8 key on my laptop is dodgy, meaning I got ~ itself. As usual, there was a single important file on the disk--a half-written journal article on the economics of free software. I've already followed the pages on file recovery, and haven't managed to find that file (though I found a couple of interesting ones I'd forgotten about :) It's a 340mb disk, with 340 devoted to drdos (hey, I can't go to conventions without master of orion, can I? :), and a 40 meg swap. There's 20 megs of ram, so I can use that for workspace instead. How do I read the raw device (ideally in 40m chunks of the unused space?) so that I can search my way through it for words phrases? And of course, I need to hit the road tomorrow at 2:30 (that which suddenly made this urgent), and need to use the laptop while I'm gone. Ill have to sacrifice this paper and start from scratch if I can't work this out by then . . . hawk
Re: display export??
Simply execute 'xhost +localhost' before doing a su. the use of xhost to do this is grequentlyh considered a security risk by folks who understand such things (But I'm not one of them, so don't ask me to explain why :) There's (at least) two secure ways to do things. One is to, as the logged in user, type xauth list $DISPLAY and receive something back like hawkins/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 89978798dea097090890907890 then, in your root window, type xauth add $DISPLAY MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 89978798dea097090890907890 (use the mouse to cut and paste; you're not likely to type that many hex digits correctly) another way is to use ssh, which tunnels X. I have the alias alias rw nice xterm -bg pink -fg black -geom 80x25-5+200 -T [EMAIL PROTECTED] -e ssh localhost -lroot to launch the terminal, label it, paint it pink as a warning, and begin the ssh session. hawk
ownership permissions of /var/spool/news/control/
I got a message of problems back from the news daemon as it tried to work with this directory. It cant do anything with it, as it is root:root and 755. I assume this is wrong. Did something weird happen to me, or should I file a bug report? hawk
standard large memory question
Ack. I've seen the answer to this dozens of times, but can't find it in the archives. I *thought* that large memory was now automatically detected, but my system on a nice fresh frozen is still only finding 64M (out of 160M) So I've used mem=160 at lilo, but the kernel panics trying to create caches. Even mem=65 does this. Am I missing something obvious? rick
Re: standard large memory question
So I've used mem=160 Am I missing something obvious? Yes. The units i.e. mem=160M ahh. That did it. gee, if it won't run in 160 bytes of ram, the port to the 8051 is doomed :) thanks
Re: molassus after bios reset massive ipx collisions
Richard Replied,
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 05:13:52PM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
On alot of MB there is a jumper which if shorted resets the bios, probably
thats what they did. When you do this you lose _all_ your settings.
Make sure internal and external cache are turned on in the bios
(advanced settings? don't know which bios you have), that more than
anything will bring your machine to a _halt_. Also check memory/bus
timings..
Yop, that seems to be it. The external cache setting was the only one
I could find--and it was off. Now this system is back to its normal
cranky self--a P5/120/24mb with about the same performance as my 486/50/
20mb laptop . . . \bitch{they got rid of computers slower than this at
ISU for *secretaries* two generations ago--and 8mb of this is memory
from one of the kids' machine!}
In the past someone told me that this was do to the windows 95 machines
on the network.
Not sure about this, IRQ conflict with NIC? Just grasping here...
Is it PP card?
It's apparently not my machine, but something else on the IPX network.
The problem is that the system seems to think it's important to tell me
this, which renders the consoles unusable until I find a few minutes to
look up how to ignore them . . .
Also, my hard drive is failing (which was why we had to go through
this). The replacement drive used to work; i successfully mounted
partitions on it. Today, when I tried to use it for the first time in
weeks, it simply doesn't talk to the controller (and in fact stops the
boot during the bios--can't even get into the bios configuration due to
trying to talk to the cdrive.
Eeeek, I'm confused. You are able to boot linux but CMOS setup won't
work? Or detect drives doesn't work?
I set the bios to disallow floppy boot, then password protected it.
I'm assuming that I managed to commit the same typo twice . . .
I did have a strange problem once where linux would boot and kind of work
but setup died, as in hung the machine. It turned out to be an error
in the MB manual about the jumper for memory voltage.
the new drive had been pulled from another identical machine that
died. dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc , then swapping the drives, gota
LIL-, but I was able to mount the partitions after swapping back. Now
the drive appears completely dead--even in other machines.
I suppose I bring in the old 540mb drive from one of the kids machines
which only works as a slave, make it /, and mount the primary (dying)
drive as ro for /usr . . .
thanks greatly,
Rick, who really hopes he lands somewhere with better equipment next
year . . .
--
Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(319) 266-7114http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk
These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer.
molassus after bios reset massive ipx collisions
Argh. This is almost impossbile to type--it's several seconds behind me . . . I got the tech folks to reset my bios (password was apparently misset). My machine is now as slow as mollassus. At the same time, I find that the network collisions have moved up from twice a minute to twice a second. I don't know which to blame. The network message is: Dec 3 17:06:17 hawkins kernel: IPX: Network number collision 24899 Dec 3 17:06:17 hawkins kernel: eth0 802.2 and eth0 802.3 In the past someone told me that this was do to the windows 95 machines on the network. I really don't know what to blame for this, or where to start looking. Also, my hard drive is failing (which was why we had to go through this). The replacement drive used to work; i successfully mounted partitions on it. Today, when I tried to use it for the first time in weeks, it simply doesn't talk to the controller (and in fact stops the boot during the bios--can't even get into the bios configuration due to trying to talk to the cdrive. rick, rustrated p.s. The machine is a gateway p5-120; the drive a caviar 1G. -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (319) 266-7114http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer.
liloing hdc as hda
I managed to scrounge up an additional identiacl hard disk to replace my dying disk. dd seems to have successfully duplicated the drive; they look the same. To write to the drive, I have it as the primary on the secondary controller. I switched cables, and it wouldn't boot, so I presume the boot sector doesn't get copied by dd? I copied /etc/lilo.config to /ec/lilo.config.c, and changed only the boot line to boot=/dev/hdc while leaving the old information about hda in the entries. Upon making it the primary, I get LIL- I could solve this easily by booting from a floppy, but that doesn't seem to be an option, as something went horribly wrong when I set the password in the bios. So how do I boot from hda and setup hdc to be hada? rick, now stumped p.s. should syslogd really go to 100% cycle usage when / switches to ro status due to disk errors? I understand it's trying to write, but is this a bug? -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (319) 266-7114http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer.
Re: scaling on print for starcalc 5.1 (and nuking desktop)
There's a gradebook program floating about that I saw mentioned somewhere. Perhaps a search on freshmeat? Don't know what your particular needs are, but a text output piped to a2ps might do you okay. You could probably work up something pretty good with postgresql if you want to go that route. A much belated thanks. Nested within the page setup options is the scaling--it's not in printer options. And deleting all the icons on the desktop solved it's painfully slow draw. rick --
Re: How do I get rid of a package that won't purge
I am trying to get of a package using dpkg --purge but it won't saying package is in a very inconsistent state and must be reinstalled. Dpkg can't install the package. Now I am in a catch 22. Please help when all else fails, you can edit /var/lib/dpkg/status so that the program shows as uninstalled. Then reinstall it, then purge it. rick --
Re: Flow chart drawing program
I am looking for a program to make flow chart, mainly for drawing dependencies for program design. Any good programs available for the job? Xcircuit is intended for schematic design, but I find that it works well for many types of graphs. rick --
scaling on print for starcalc 5.1 (and nuking desktop)
I've given up on starcalc 3.0 for my gradesheets for a couple of reasons (scaling, hanging on start), can't use wingz reliably (it crashes, has lost data, and has scrambled the file irretrievably when crashing, as well as losing sort ranges at random, and gnumeric isn't even close to ready (basic lookup functions are missing). This leaves me with running staroffice 5.1 on another machine, which is a painful experience. It's stable by comparison to the choices, but it seems to be ignoring the scaling when printing to a generic printer postscript file (and there aren't any other choices). Does anyone know any way to get this to work? And is it possible to completely nuke the desktop? Redrawing icons that stick out is painfully slow. Rick, getting desperate. --
Re: Can't print to remote printer
I had a couple working along the lines of printername:\ :lp=/dev/null:sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/spoolname:\ :rm=fully qualified name:rp=raw where I had to create the directory /var/spool/lpd/spoolname. If you try to have multiple printers share that spool, things get flaky. Then again, lpd's been flaky in general (dying without reason) on some machines for a couple of years now. rick --
Re: how to remove a broken package (long)
When *all* else fails, you can edit /var/lib/dpkg/status, and tell it that the package isn't there. Then install it again, and purge. At this point, all of its files should be removed, and you should be able to install normally. Again, this is the *last* resort, when playing with fire is all that's left. rick --
Re: In case anyone was wondering where kde.tdyc.com went.
[While I am a lawyer, the following is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, contact an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction.] It is not that Qt is incomaptible it is the fact that KDE is linked to software under a non GPL license and KDE is under the GPL. This violates the GPL. See http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981008 for all the specifics. Keep in mind that this is for Qt v1, Qt v2 is under a different license so things are starting to change for the better. This is a common misunderstanding, even among KDE developers. No matter how many times they say it, KDE is *not* GPL, but quasi-GPL. The actions of the developers override the conflicting boilerplate in the GPL, creating a different license. This is basic and ancient law. On the other hand, being that KDE is not GPL, inclusion of other GPL'd software withing KDE could/would/does(?) violate the GPL. The bottom line is that it is legally impossible for the developers to violate their own license. It is, however, possible for them to violate other licenses by including code. --
mail not deleted from spool on inc with exmh
I've seen this problem a couple of times before, and it's happening again. My mail is not being deleted from the spool when exmh incorporates it. As a result, the same messages are incorporated again and again. Using inc from the command line seems to solve the problem. Sometimes (not always), I end up with an extraneous lock file that survives the inc orporation, but just deleting this doesn't solve the problem. I have installed: ii biff0.10-1 a mail notification tool ii elm-me+ 2.4pl25ME+48-2 MIME PGP-aware interactive mail reader [en ii exmh2.0.2-4slink2 An X user interface for MH mail. ii grepmail3.4.1-4search mailboxes for mail matching an expres ii mailx 8.1.1-10 A simple mail user agent. ii metamail2.7-31 An implementation of MIME. ii mime-support3.5-1 MIME files 'mime.types' 'mailcap', and sup ii nmh 0.27-0.28-pre8 A set of electronic mail handling programs. rc procmail3.13.1-1 Versatile e-mail processor. ii smail 3.2.0.102-1Electronic mail transport system. ii xmh 3.3.2.3a-11X interface to MH mail system any hints? --
wingz ate my file!
Fortunately, I'd already printed it out (midterm grades). Wingz whirled, clicked, and rattled the hard drive half to death (but so does anything on this machine), then segfaulted. It now has an error reading the file. Does anyone know how to recover these? I'd hate to have to type it all in again . . . rick --
Re: spreadsheet?
john jabbed, Rob Mahurin wrote: Are there any good, free spreadsheet programs out there? Anywhere? http://www.wingz.com/wingz/index.html but it's not free; it asks for $50 as shareware. rick --
Re: spreadsheet?
GNUmeric is arguably one of the best if not the best spreadsheet. ??? Unless I'm missing something big, it's missing most of the features one expects in a spreadsheet. It has the dispaly, a handful of buttons, and apparently some functions. It doesn't even pretend to be closeto finished. How can it be arguably one of the best ??? --
Re: spreadsheet?
john jousted, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: john jabbed, http://www.wingz.com/wingz/index.html but it's not free; it asks for $50 as shareware. See this. http://www.wingz-us.com/wingz/news/linux.html My copy is FREEWARE as version 3.11 I had to register but there was no charge nor did they ask for one. That could easily change. hmm. OK, I believe them. But the one I downloaded said that it wanted $50 dollars . . . --
Re: emacs or xemacs ?
Kris Kried, I honestly don't mean to start a holy war here, but I'd like to know: Is there anyone who prefers Emacs to XEmacs, and why? If you change prefer to dislike less, then me :) I still use emacs for some things that I haven't figured out how to get vim to do. Xemacs has extra buttons on the screen, which take up screen space. The last line on the terminal in vi takes more than enough, I don't want to give up even more . . . also, using emacs on CCIE (*Control Key In Exile) keyboard, causing enough long reaches on my little finger sthat I had to see a quack, is probably part (put a minor part) of my avoiding either. I want to do it, whatever it is, with as few keystrokes as possible, and without my keys leaving the keyboard to grab a mouse (though I use it to cut paste for editing.) And I want *all* of my screen real estate, so I stay away from xemacs (and anything made by microsoft after about '93) hawk --
Re: Known Windows 98 and Linux partition problems
noah noted, As you can imagine, I quickly ran out of space on the Win98 partition, so, using Linux's fdisk, I created a new FAT partition. Then I booted to Win98 and formatted this new partition. Windows was fine with this. However... When I rebooted to Linux, all the logical partitions were gone, and the extended partition had really screwed up attributes. ARGH! I was able to use the gpart program to scan the disk for ext2 superblocks and rescue a couple of the partitions, but not all of them. So, it seems to me that Win98 must have all its partitions in place and formatted before Linux is installed...I think. Maybe Win98 will always screw up extended partitions, not just when it's used to format them. I'vehad a couple of catastrophesthat have hammered partition tables. I've found that if I create new partitions in the exact same places, I get my data back. It's useful to have an fdisk printout of your configuration around. Also, if you partitioned with cfdisk during setup, you may need to use it to create those partitions--I've seen sligthly different behavior from them, and haven't been always been able to recreate cfdisk partitions with fdisk rick --
Re: emacs or xemacs ?
rob rote, Richard E. Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: also, using emacs on CCIE (*Control Key In Exile) keyboard, causing enough long reaches on my little finger sthat I had to see a quack, is probably part (put a minor part) of my avoiding either. You probably know this, but you can easily remap caps-lock etc. to be control... Also, you can get a better keyboard for about $3 at goodwill here. Of course that still won't help you if you prefer vim ... nothing will : Yep. But at the time, I was either on a non-unix machine using telnet, or at a decstation that I couldn't do that to. As for the mac running macbsd, ignore those rumors that I did something to the keyboard. But that little piece of plastic that I found in my desk sure looks like the toggle piece in the capslock on a mac keyboard might look like--but since I'd never open a university keyboard, I wouldn't know :) --
scp trying to launch netscape???
What in the world have I done that causes this? (the file doesn't copy, either) smithttyp1:lynx2-8-3scp INSTALLATION hawkins.cba.uni.edu: Enter passphrase for RSA key '[EMAIL PROTECTED]': [1] 4569 smithttyp1:lynx2-8-3netscape: Command not found. Write failed flushing stdout buffer. write stdout: Broken pipe smithttyp1:lynx2-8-3 somehow, it's trying to launch a background netscape. Does scp run a shell init file on the foreign machine? --
Re: IPX, 2.2, and collisons [was: 2.2.* on slink]
mirek mentioned, But can someone tell me what causes IPX collisons? I get lots of Sep 10 12:49:53 hawkins kernel: IPX: Network number collision 24899 Sep 10 12:49:53 hawkins kernel: eth0 802.3 and eth0 802.2 messages. Is this me, or is there something wrong on the network? [Our tech support *barely* tolerates me using linux, so i can't ask them] Colisions generated by misconfigurated W'95 stations that have settings frame-auto. Ahh, so then it's not my fault, and I can tell them about it :) Thank you rick --
Re: Linux checks only 8 chars of the password...
william wailed, Anyway, 8 meaningful characters is plenty for adequate security provided that your password is a good one. Unless, of course, it starts with MyPassword before getting to the good stuff :) --
Re: lpd: daemon not started.
justin jabbered, I also get no daemon present with this command but printing nevertheless works. I think a second lpd daemon is spawned when you start printing. There seem to have been ongoing problems with lpd in slink since day one. I've observed it on three machines now, two of which lose the lpd daemon a couple of times a week, and another that was picking up an extra (which fails to print just as thouroughly). Someday I'll get around to tossing in a cron script to chsck fix status automatically, but not today :) --
Re: How do you LOW FORMAT a hard drive
Guilherme grunted, But you shouldn't ever low level format a hard drive. It isn't necessary any more since the 80's. More that that, it's REALLY dangerous to do so in new IDE drives (something to do with geometry parameters, if I'm not mistaken)... I have an old one I'd like to try it on, but the bios doesn't do it. I stuck it in another machine briefly, and now it absolutely refuses to work as a primary (but is just fine as a slave). It's an old caviar 540 for the kids' machine. Right now they have my machine, because that machine can't boot from the slave (or even use it without a primary present), nor can it recognize more than 1024 cylinders (or use the alternate modes). So it sees my 8g drive as a 540 or so :( I noticed the box on a new 20G at sam's club yesterday claimed it had software to get around old bios's, but I'm not willing to pay $250 just to get an old 486 running (the kids' stuff is almost all windows, so I have to deal with bios problems :( rick Now, how would I LOW FORMAT a floppy disk??? That should happen on a regular formatk, shouldn't it? (the current command is superformat) --
Re: How do you LOW FORMAT a hard drive
thanks, I'll give this a try. I'd sure like to avoid buying the disk if possible. Rick --
Re: Printer stair stepping
Guilherme guided, Well... The solution I found wasn't really 'The Debian Way' of doing it, but worked perfectly... I just installed the lpr magicfilter DEB's via DPKG RedHat's printtool ( control-panel, needed by printtool) via alien, and now my printing is just fine (probably exactly the same way as Mandrake's... ;-) I found that order seems to make some difference. I'd suggest purging dpkg magic filter, and manually deleting /etc/printcap if it survives this for some reason (i've seen it do that). Then install any untilities, such as djtools, that your printer needs. Then install and configure lpd, then ghostscript. Only after these are in and nominally working should you install magicfilter. There may be other ways, but this is the only way I've ever succeded. rick, who's just discovered that exmh is not formatting to 72 lines on send, even though the configuration file says it is. --
Re: Magicfilter question?
Look for your the config file for your printer in /etc/magcfilter/nameh ere , and check for the binaries it uses (or just grep it for bin). It turned out that the deskjet uses djscript. I found the package by grepping a Contents-i386 file from the base directory the distribution, but grepping /var/lib/dpkg/available for the name (not path) might do it, too. Then again, it could be something entirely different. I never did get magicfilter working on any of the printers I tried before. rick --
Re: can't send mail back and forth between debian local domain
Mark mentioned, On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:20:12PM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: I can send mail from my debian box to anywhere except my local domain. You don't provide any details of your configuration - which MTA are you using (smail?), and how did you set it up? It's smail, as an internet site. visible_name=hawkins.cba.uni.edu more_hostnames=localhost -domains hostnames=hawkins.cba.uni.edu:uni.edu hmm, is this it? The debian box is hawkins.cba.uni.edu, and any mail to any account at=20 uni.edu yields the result, hawkins at uni.edu: loses; [USER] 550 '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'=20 hawkins@(nodomain) not matched: (ERR_100) unknown user. post: 1 addressee undeliverable Where does this error message come from? Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-Date: Tue Sep 7 12:35:35 1999 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from hawkins.cba.uni.edu (really [127.0.0.1]) by hawkins.cba.uni.edu via in.smtpd with esmtp (ident hawk using rfc1413) id [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian Smail3.2.0.102) for hawk; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 12:35:34 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hawk Subject: send failed on enclosed draft Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 12:35:32 -0500 From: Richard E. Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] connelly at uni.edu: loses; [USER] 550 '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' connelly@(nodomain) not matched: (ERR_100) unknown user. post: 1 addressee undeliverable Message not delivered to anyone. hmm, so this is coming from my machine? I had interpreted the text as coming from uni.edu. rick --
IPX, 2.2, and collisons [was: 2.2.* on slink]
mario mentioned, IPX also has a bug that prevents me to use 2.2. with my slink. I'm using 2.0.38 on the machine that needs IPX support and 2.2 in the rest. In that case, i'm not going to worry about the problem that's stopping me from booting with 2.2 :) But can someone tell me what causes IPX collisons? I get lots of Sep 10 12:49:53 hawkins kernel: IPX: Network number collision 24899 Sep 10 12:49:53 hawkins kernel: eth0 802.3 and eth0 802.2 messages. Is this me, or is there something wrong on the network? [Our tech support *barely* tolerates me using linux, so i can't ask them] rick --
Re: IPX, 2.2, and collisons [was: 2.2.* on slink]
mario mentioned, But can someone tell me what causes IPX collisons? I get lots of This is exactly what happened here. My 2.2. generated a lot of collision on the network and I was cut off (my fiber was removed) till I downgraded to 2.0.38. I think 2.2 is the problem. Seems that ipx code has changed and didn't get good enough. But I'm getting these with 2.0.36. It can't just be 2.2 that's the problem here. Also, I can use the network. noone's complained so far, but my text consoles are unusable due to the constant messages. rick --
can't send mail back and forth between debian local domain
I can send mail from my debian box to anywhere except my local domain. The debian box is hawkins.cba.uni.edu, and any mail to any account at uni.edu yields the result, hawkins at uni.edu: loses; [USER] 550 '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' hawkins@(nodomain) not matched: (ERR_100) unknown user. post: 1 addressee undeliverable Message not delivered to anyone. --
Re: Magicfilter question?
I have been trying to get my printer to operate correctly using magicfilter and it does not have the correct filter forit to work correctly. However the printer works great with Wordperfect for Linux. Is there a way to replace gv and its filter with WP and its filter, or a way to use the filter from WP maybe in apsfilter or some other printer system? what kind of printer? Some, such as deskjets, require other packages for which magic filter has no dependencies. rick --
setting up print queue with gs for novel printer
The documentation for ncp suggests that it is possible to create a normal print que for sending to novell networked printers. However, I can find no hints for this either there or in anything to do with printcap. To complicate matters, it is not a postscript printer. However, I have found that I can print to it by going through ghostview, seting the ghostscript interpreter to gslj rather than gs, and using nprint as the print coommand. It would certainly be nice, though, to be able to do this all directly. Any hints? rick --
more on setting up print queue with gs for novel printer
Hmm, I also just found that gs can print to it without resetting gs to gslj, if that makes a difference. rick --
Re: printer setup
i would try to run magicfilterconfig. I finally got this to work, to my surprise (makes me about 1 for 6 with that package). Ultimately it took purging it and lpr, reinstalling configuring lpr, and only then letting it try to install magicfilter. Oh, and for a deskjet 500, it is absolutely necessary to install the djtools (?) package, as binaries from it are used. rick --
Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?
Damon dabbled, Seeing Debian is such an internet-centric (ie., apt) distribution, it would be nice if you could install the whole thing with one the one or two boot disks (I'm sure you can with redhat). Even if the boot disk had a little FTP client (like wget or curl), so you could switch to a VT and put them on that newly made EXT2 partition. This *is* the install method for FreeBSD. But they had to go to two disks about two releases ago, seems they'v accumulated too many drivers. --
Re: CVS problem: cannot open /root/.cvsignore
I'm shooting in the dark here, but when I had this type of problem, it was from doing the initial checkout as root, and later as a user who had rwx access to the source directory, but lacked read access to the root directory where the cvs key was stored (/root/.cvsignore). rick --
Re: Apple LaserWriter IINT
Anyone had any success getting a Apple LaserWriter IINT working with linux? Was that one of the non-postscript printers? If so, ignore this :) If not, just use it as a garden variety printer. Now If only i could figure out the pins to swap on the cable to use my original DeskWriter as an original DeskJet . . . --
Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?
How does zero floppy install stack up? I installed my latest Debian slink from a single CD with no floppy at all. In fact the floppy did not work at all, a fact I didn't discover until much later. Once the system was up, I pulled all the updates off the net. That puts you a cd behind :) The single-floppy is a downloaded floppy, which then sucks the rest off the net without even having a cd drive. And the floppy costs a lot less :) --
Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?
ron rattled, Richard said: That puts you a cd behind :) The single-floppy is a downloaded floppy, which then sucks the rest off the net without even having a cd drive. And the floppy costs a lot less :) True, but incredibly slow, unless you have your own T1. A standard workstation install is 400 mb or so. Try that on your modem! ethernet directly to the T3 :) And then waiting for a p120/16mb to sort it all out :( --
Re: Printer configuration
I don't know how to do network printing. Sorry. I'm sure there is a way to do it though. entries like this: kh-lj5:\ :lp=/dev/null:sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/kh-lj5:\ :rm=kh-lj5.somedomain.something:rp=raw will send to network printers. rick --
a2ps using too big of paper on dj500, and magicfilter eats text
I briefly had magicfilter working, but now it simply spins the desket, draws no paper, and prints nothing. a2ps is being just as uncooperative, making pages that are a bit too long. I found a default setting to change in gv (now it's letter), and /etc/paper reads letter. How in the world do I solve this? I've never used anything but networked laserprinters before. rick --
latex not finding the .tfm file after making it
*arghg* this new installation is driving me nuts.
This all used to work with a 600dpi laser printer, tehn successfully
converted to freebsd, and now it won't work again.
I have the environmental variables set as follows in .cshrc:
setenv TEXINPUTS ~/isuthesis/:
setenv PKFONTS :/home/hawk/fonts
setenv TEXPKS $PKFONTS
I have the following variants of parkavenue in /home/hawk/fonts:
ls ~/fonts/parkave*
/home/hawk/fonts/parkave.1080pk/home/hawk/fonts/parkave.afm
/home/hawk/fonts/parkave.1200pk/home/hawk/fonts/parkave.pfb
/home/hawk/fonts/parkave.1440pk/home/hawk/fonts/parkave.tfm
/home/hawk/fonts/parkave.1800pk/home/hawk/fonts/parkave10.1800pk
/home/hawk/fonts/parkave.540pk /home/hawk/fonts/parkave10.300pk
/home/hawk/fonts/parkave.600pk /home/hawk/fonts/parkave10.600pk
/home/hawk/fonts/parkave.660pk /home/hawk/fonts/parkave14.1800pk
/home/hawk/fonts/parkave.720pk /home/hawk/fonts/parkave14.300pk
/home/hawk/fonts/parkave.840pk /home/hawk/fonts/parkave9.1800pk
But on running latex, I get
...
(/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/ifthen.sty)kpathsea: Running mktextfm
parkave
mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input parkave
This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.2)
kpathsea: Running mktexmf parkave
! I can't find file `parkave'.
* ...=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input parkave
Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
* ...=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input parkave
Transcript written on mfput.log.
mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input parkave' failed.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
! Font \lawoffice=parkave at 14.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not
found.
to be read again
\relax
l.23 \newfont {\lawoffice}{parkave at 14.0pt}
?
But parkeave.tfm is right there, and these same settings used to work.
I must be missing something really simple. Any hints? :)
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Re: Another try - help to fix arrow keys in X
kent kalled, Anyone know how to fix my non-functioning arrow keys, page-up/down keys, etc in X? They work fine in the console mode. Not having these keys is pretty crippling. The first step is to use xev, which will tell you what events are happening. If you post what it tells you keys are, someone (maybe me, more likely not :) probably knows what they mean. Launch xev (in the xcontrib package), point to it's window with the mouse, and hit the problematic keys. Post the output. rick --
Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?
nathan nattered, True package management, including installation scripts. And a process in place to keep packages out of the main distribution that don't follow a standard for file locations, and other stuff. But the biggest single reason: this list. Most problems get resolved in a matter of hours. I actually prefer FreeBSD (everything from licensing to packages), but the support on this list for debian more than makes up for that. -- These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer.
Re: Text processing under Linux - newbie question
(Lyx is based on Tex Actually, it isn't :) It used to describe itself as a front end for latex, but it went beyond that a couple of years ago. Therehad been plans for 1.2 to use latex as its file format, but that was dropped. It imports almost all latex with reLyX, and still outputs by using latex, but keeps information that would be lost in latex format. Also, other formats (xml) will be added. and everything, which is possible with tex is possible with lyx. But lyx is almost WYSIWYG, which tex is not.) WYSISYM--what you mean -- These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer.
light spreadsheet for stable?
I need to find as light as possible a spreadsheet that still works reasonably will for stable. I'll recall Thumper's daddy's advice, and not say anything at all about oleo and siag. Staroffice 5 in 16mb is out of the question, an gnumeric seems to want gnome, which suggest that it too will suck resources. I really only need this for grades (so I need the elementary lookup functions), and to hold/sort data to dump for mail-merge. But it needs to play nicely with other applications on a 16mb system (And I'll leave aside the issue of issuing faculty 16mb P120's . . . :) -- These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer.
Re: fonts and tetex
When I have added new fonts and run texhash I will still on occasion get failures and messages like those you report. The only way I have found to fix it is to run metafont by hand on the relevant source files (i.e. those with the .mf extension in the `source' directory) and move the generated .tfm files into the relevant directories by hand (then run texhash again). I don't recall seeing my reply, so here goes again: It turned out to be a bug in dselect, which I've filed. Dselect? how? apt-get was timing out with only a partial package on one of the tetex files. Nonetheless, dselect got the idea that the package installed separately (I thought it used the same database as dpkg, which knew it wasn't installed . . .) After about four fails this way, and filing a bug against tetex for the wrong md5sum, i found that I could download the package with netscape and install by hand. rick
Re: No cut/paste on lynx
I can cut and paste with left and middle mouse button without problem from one xterm to another. Not so if lynx is running in an xterm: I can neither cut nor paste. Hold down the SHIFT key when you select text in lynx. Works for me either in a text console (gpm) or X. Yep, that works. Thanks! Still strange that cut and paste without SHIFT does not work... Now that someone suggests it, t sounds like something we all should have realized :) Kind of like shift-alt-arrow instead of alt-arrow in netscape. There's a handful of applications that use shift to shift events under X when their own definitions of an event and X's default to the same keys . . .
mail loop with exmh?
My unread messages are breeding! My configuration for exmh has largely been unchanged for years, save for those needed to accomodate for the differences between FreeBSD and debian in .maildelivery. Suddenly, the messages oin the open mailbox are duplicating themselves every few minutes. And with a weekend's full of debian-user . . . I've added an extra address for another account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to the reply line, as I'm afraid that replies will be lost in the exploding mail . . . -- These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer.
Re: Problem with cfdisk - need help!
when i run linux cfdisk, i go to partition the hard drive to create linux partitions, and i get the following message: FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition Press any key to exit fdisk i can 'view partitions' with cfdisk. it shows me that there are 2 FAT32 partitions on my hard disk. Could you send us the entire output? I'd say print the allocation table from dos, but it won't recognize the output. Specifically, give us the start/stop information, and the file system types or numbers. also, what size of disk is it? And fwiw, here's mine: cfdisk 0.8l Disk Drive: /dev/hda Heads: 64 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 525 NameFlags Part Type FS Type [Label]Size (MB) -- hda1BootPrimary DOS FAT16 (big) [ ] 338.63 hda2Primary Linux Swap 127.97 hda3Primary Linux ext2 567.00 [Bootable] [ Delete ] [ Help ] [Maximize] [ Print ] [ Quit ] [ Type ] [ Units ] [ Write ]
Re: mail loop with exmh?
let me revise that--it is not a loop for the open mailbox. Closer inspection shows that exmh is not deleting mail from the spool after incorporation, causing it to be reincorporated every few minutes. I've been using exmh for about three years, with the same configuration (save for different path names when using FreeBSD), and never seen anything like this. Rick
Re: make-kpkg and 2.2.12
The order should be apply patch make config make-kpkg clean = make-kpkg --revision .. Ah-hah! thanks. After reading the manpage, I had thought that the distclean launched by clean would wipe out the config. Looking again, it seems that it saves .config somewhere. Thanks greatly rick --
Re: Page length using a2ps
I have a text document that is formatted with page length = 68 rather than the 65 which is the default for a2ps. However, whenever I try to format the text using a2ps into a 68 lines per page document (using the --lines-per-page option), it doesnt seem to make a difference : I still get a postscript document with 65 pages. What am I doing wrong? Try changing the order of the options you use; iirc, that's one of the ones that fussy about its placement. You might also try chars-per-line instead. a2ps can be just a bit cranky at times. rick --
Re: install
I should like to install the X-Windows system under my Debian-Linux 1.3.1. distribution, but I have some problem with using the mouse. It seems so easy to install the mouse, but this is the case. I have a two-button Microsoft mouse connected to the PS/2 port and it doesn't response. What could I do? I use the xf86config for configuring the system. Use XF86Setup (in the vga16 package) instead. Use Alt-M to get to the mouse menu, and the arrow keys to set the mouse type to PS/2, and the port to /dev/psaux. Then use arrow keys to get to Apply, and your mouse will owrk for the rest of the configuration. rick -- These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer.
ipx printing, the parallel port, and ipx collisions
I had the deskjet attached to this thing working, at least for postscript printing. I then installed ncp to use the novell laser printers, successfully printed to one, and now I can't print to the deskjet by my side. Even printing something trivial, I get hawkinsttyp0:hawklpq waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?) Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1sthawk 22 cs.ps 16921 bytes The printer is most definitely on line, and I printed a page from windows. I've tried stopping and starting lpd to no avail. Possibly related (i've never dealt with novell befre) is that I now receive plenty of messages to the xconsole of collisioins: Aug 26 12:53:02 hawkins kernel: IPX: Network number collision 24899 Aug 26 12:53:02 hawkins kernel: eth0 802.3 and eth0 802.2 Aug 26 12:53:07 hawkins kernel: IPX: Network number collision 24899 Aug 26 12:53:07 hawkins kernel: eth0 802.3 and eth0 802.2 Aug 26 12:53:23 hawkins kernel: IPX: Network number collision 24899 Aug 26 12:53:23 hawkins kernel: eth0 802.3 and eth0 802.2 Aug 26 12:53:25 hawkins kernel: IPX: Network number collision 24899 Aug 26 12:53:25 hawkins kernel: eth0 802.3 and eth0 802.2 Finally, is there an extra how-to around for magic filter? It claimed to have configured successfully and accepted the printer I told it, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything; I still get the stair-case effect on text files (and this machine is a bit low on horsepower to use ghostscript all the time). While I'm pushing my luck, the IPX howto mentioned that it's possible to set up queues to use normal linux printing to send to novell network printers; is there an explanation for this anywhere? rick --
make-kpkg and 2.2.12
I actually managed to successfully build 2.2.11 with make-kpkg on the first try. Hours later, the .12 patch came out, and I applied it in / usr/src/linux, and tried again. But it bombs with: if test -f debian/official -a -f debian/README.Debian ; then \ install -p-o root -g root -m 644 debian/README.Debian \ debian/tmp-source/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/README.Debian ; \ else \ sed -e 's/=V/2.2.12/g' -e 's/=A/i386/g' \ /usr/lib/kernel-package/README.source \ debian/tmp-source/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/README.Debian ; \ fi install -p-o root -g root -m 644 .config debian/tmp-source/usr/src/kernel-so urce-2.2.12/.config.save chown -R root.root debian/tmp-source chmod -R og=rX debian/tmp-source (cd debian/tmp-source/usr/src/; tar zcf kernel-source-2.2.12.tar.gz kernel-sourc e-2.2.12;\ rm -rf kernel-source-2.2.12;) dpkg-gencontrol -pkernel-source-2.2.12 -Pdebian/tmp-source/ dpkg-gencontrol: error: package kernel-source-2.2.12 not in control info make: *** [stamp-source] Error 29 I've always used raw kernels, as I can rarely get make-kpkg to produce a kernel that does what I want. Is there something I need to do besides apply the patch, make config and make dep, then run make-kpkg again? rick --
I don't seem to have gotten fonts with my tetex
This is one I've never seen before. I don't seem to have gotten fonts
with my tetex. Here's the really simple file:
%% This LaTeX-file was created by hawk Wed Aug 25 16:58:29 1999
%% LyX 1.0 (C) 1995-1999 by Matthias Ettrich and the LyX Team
%% Do not edit this file unless you know what you are doing.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\makeatletter
%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\makeatother
\begin{document}
An itty bitty file.
\end{document}
latexing this yields
hawkinsttyp5:/tmplatex a
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2)
(a.tex
LaTeX2e 1998/06/01
Babel v3.6j and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n
ohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 1998/05/05 v1.3y Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
(/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)kpathsea: Running mktextfm ecrm1000
mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000
This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.2)
kpathsea: Running mktexmf ecrm1000
! I can't find file `ecrm1000'.
* ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000
Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
* ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000
Transcript written on mfput.log.
mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000' failed.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
! Font T1/cmr/m/n/10=ecrm1000 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not fou
nd.
to be read again
relax
l.98 \fontencoding\encodingdefault\selectfont
?
I've tried running texhash as root, and it didn't help. I'm sure I'm
missing something real simple here, but I have no idea what it is.
fwiw, when I run this on a two page file from lyx, with lots of
itemized lists, it prints the bullets but not the text.
rick
--
Re: escaping novell network and 21041 ethernet card
jens wrote, NETMASK=255.255.255.0 Ok, here's the problem. Your network by the looks of it should be a class B network, which means that your netmask should be 255.255.0.0. That should fix it. james wrote, : NETMASK=255.255.255.0 Try NETMASK=255.255.0.0 : NETWORK=134.161.248.0 : BROADCAST=134.161.248.255 : GATEWAY=134.161.1.1 This address is not in the network 134.161.248.0/24, which is the network you told ifconfig this interface connects to ... yep, the combination of NETMASK, as well as changing the network to 134.161.0.0 did it. Thank you so much. As soon as I confirm I can print to the novell printers, I can nuke win95. Although it was amusing to name it darkside in lilo, yielding the message pair loading darkside staring Windows 95 :) I can't believe they're using an unsubnetted Class B, but here's hoping They have switches instead of routers, but still . . . thanks again rick
Re: slink -- potatoe (hi dan quayle! :)
seth supplied, btw -- the reason why I decided to try debian was its users -- many of the users evangelize debian, absolutely lauding it. The support. Oh, and the support :) Every year or two something gets me irked, and I go play with FreeBSD. Just try to get a question answered there. I don't think that one in twenty questions to freebsd-questions ever get answered. Here, you usually have an answer in hours, even on the exotic stuff (which fate seems to have decreed is the only type of problem that I'm ever to have :). And the people are nice. And almost everything almost always works, especially if you stay with stable. So I had to try it. So far it seems like the perfict fit for me. the users I have seen mention it though didn't carry a holier-than-thou attitude with them -- users that like their way of doing things, since many did things the other way before. Yes, debian does seem to have somewhat less of that. And I'm much calmer since I figured out how to edit the GNU/ out of /etc/issue. You all seem like a nice bunch of folks. If you keep it up, you will probably keep getting more converts. :) (Heck, I liked the idea enough that *I* want to be a debian developer -- just no clue what to develop. heh heh. :) oops, now you've done it. You've volunteered for *anything*. There's still a backlog of orphaned packages waiting for adoption. Subscribe to the developers' list, and I'm sure they'll be happy to hand you a couple . . .
Re: escaping novell network and 21041 ethernet card
What exactly do you mean when you say you can't get the network to 'start'? /etc/init.d/network/start returns the message SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable with no other information. I switched to the tulip driver as James Lewis suggested, and it loads with no messages (de4x5 gave me messages about requiring irq11), and I still get this message from the netwrok start. You can't ping anything? not even the next machine. Have you got the right ifconfig and routes? I presume so. From this machine, the path is smithttyp3:hawktraceroute hawkins.cba.uni.edu traceroute to hawkins.cba.uni.edu (134.161.248.148), 30 hops max, 40 byte packet s 1 router111.iastate.edu (129.186.111.254) 0.973 ms 0.932 ms 1.295 ms 2 b06br2-vlan253.tele.iastate.edu (129.186.253.5) 3.662 ms 1.421 ms 1.401 m s 3 b31br4-atm.tele.iastate.edu (129.186.251.31) 1.284 ms 1.361 ms 1.849 ms 4 ICN-ISU-t3.icn.state.ia.us (205.221.255.5) 3.392 ms 3.558 ms 3.237 ms 5 UNI-1-ICN-t1.icn.state.ia.us (205.221.255.186) 71.605 ms 135.451 ms 132.1 99 ms 6 starbase1.uni.edu (134.161.1.1) 152.496 ms 40.859 ms 9.195 ms 7 hawkins.cba.uni.edu (134.161.248.148) 16.941 ms 9.768 ms 11.78 ms I find the jump straight from the university gateway to my machine odd, but there doesn't appear to be a router at 134.161.248.148 (it answers pings, but ignores telnet connections. Besides, it seems possible to reach my machine without going near it). I've listed the .1.1 address as my router.0 Do you need dhcp? I've assumed not. I get the same IP address every time, so I presume that they're static. I don't know what that means on a network the tech support people (in explaining why I'd waived support by the sin of installing linux) claim is pure novell (TCP/IP is actually disabled on the network printers). The IPX faq seems to cover printing directories on novell well enough for me to deal with, but first I need access to the world :( rick
Re: escaping novell network and 21041 ethernet card
jens wrote,
Ok. SIOCADDRT is the ioctl call which adds a route. My guess is that the
error comes when the script is trying to add the default route, i.e. the
default gateway that's specified isn't reachable on the network your
ethernet card is connected to (at least according to the route that's set
for the card). Why don't you send along your /etc/init.d/network and
perhaps the output of 'ifconfig' and 'netstat -nr' after the networks
script has run.
Script started on Mon Aug 23 13:54:27 1999
hawkins:~# modprobe tulip
hawkins:~# /etc/init.d/netbase start
Setting up IP spoofing protection...done.
Starting base networking daemons: portmap inetd.
hawkins:~# /etc/init.d/network start
SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
hawkins:~#
hawkins:~#
hawkins:~# cat /etc/in
inetd.conf init.d inittab inputrc
hawkins:~# cat /etc/init.d/network
#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0
IPADDR=134.161.248.148
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=134.161.248.0
BROADCAST=134.161.248.255
GATEWAY=134.161.1.1
ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
route add -net ${NETWORK}
[ ${GATEWAY} ] route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
hawkins:~#
hawkins:~#
hawkins:~#
hawkins:~# ifconfig
loLink encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Collisions:0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:C0:77:41:E6
inet addr:134.161.248.148 Bcast:134.161.248.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:247 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Collisions:0
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xf880
hawkins:~#
hawkins:~#
hawkins:~# netstat -nr
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window
irtt Iface
134.161.248.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0
0 eth0
hawkins:~#
hawkins:~#
hawkins:~# ifconfig
loLink encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Collisions:0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:C0:77:41:E6
inet addr:134.161.248.148 Bcast:134.161.248.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:247 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Collisions:0
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xf880
hawkins:~#
hawkins:~#
hawkins:~# netstat -nr
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window
irtt Iface
134.161.248.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0
0 eth0
Ok, well if that's helping you not get nasty messages then that's gotta be
a good thing, right!
:)
btw, this is the stock base2_1, with nothing more (i do have a minimal
sstem on another hard disk that I can stick in, if necessary )
rick
escaping novell network and 21041 ethernet card
The new^h^h^h machine waiting on my desk when I arrived here was, as I expected, on the dark side. I've performed the preliminary exorcisms, but can't get the network going. This thing is on a novell network, and has an SMC ethernet card with a dec 21041 chip. The de4x5 module installs just fine, but I can't get the network to start. I've looked at the howto, but the only novell references seem to be about using novell servers (which is one of next week's tasks). For the moment, I just want this working;. Under windows, it seems to have the same IP address every time. I can ping traceroute this address once I telnet out, and it seems to be the same one every time. There is only one hop at the university before this mac hine, and it is at 1.1 in the Class A domain for the University. I've told the network configuration that this is my rooter. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get the network running? The prospect of using windows and word is more than a little chilling . . . rick
Re: Installation on an i386 with *only* 40 Mb HDD
Tom's Unix on a Floopy (do an alta vista search) could be a good place tos start. Boot from the floppy, then use it to set up install on the hard disk . . . rick --
Re: lost sound after changing video card
Allen added, On 1999-04-27 16:23, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: The only obviuos thing that I think think of is IRQ, DMA or IO conflict which would prevent the (sound) driver to prosper. The device busy is normal though - at least, I've seen that with working cards as well. eyryttyp0:hawkcat /proc/ioports -001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 01f0-01f7 : ide0 02f8-02ff : serial(set) 0300-031f : NE2000 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f8-03ff : serial(set) 6300-6307 : ide0 6308-630f : ide1 eyryttyp0:linuxcat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0:6147164 XT-PIC timer 1: 39264 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 4: 282277 XT-PIC serial 10: 809859 XT-PIC NE2000 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu 14: 98993 XT-PIC ide0 NMI: 0 But now i notice that there seems to be no entry in /etc/modutils to configure the sound module, and I need these because the defaults for the sb module are for an uncommon irq. I had to put these in befroe to get it to work, I wonder where they went. And does anywone know what they are offhand for a 16bit soundblaster clone? (I can't remember what I did with them). No, wait; that's not right. I know what I did with them, they just seem to have left :) --
Re: lost sound after changing video card
Having just gotten an SB16 to work yep. Irq 7 io 220 dma 1 dma 5 There are also io's for 320? and 388. (I think, I had to change mine around alot, so I might be wrong with these two). I had to recomple the module using the values I needed before the card would work. And activate the thing using isapnp with the same values. What a pain. that was a 2.0.x kernel, i assume? 2.2.x doesn't take the parameters for the sound modules, so they have to be specified later. rick --
Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...
raymond rote, On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: i can remember approximate partition sizes and order. Is there any way to recover partition table and the system as well ? Well, *maybe*. If it's only approximate, you could be in trouble. I'd advise looking for a disk editor and start perusing disk blocks. Look for filesystem boundaries around where you think they are. I *think* they have signatures - FAT has aa55, and I forget what ext2's is. I'd see if you can find something on the web about that. I have recovered ext2 partitions, and ext2 extended partitions, by using fdisk in this manner on multiple occasions. But I did know the *exact* way that I'd created them. Important note: create them in the same order as you originally did. Otherwise minor (but fatal) misallignment occurs. Also, findsuper will help you find the superblocks, which may be of help. 2. If you're going to run Windows, get at least decent freeware antivirus software. This is what pentiums are for. Safe computing dictates that you should draw one around your computer before loading windows or otherwise trafficcing in demons :) --
lost sound after changing video card
I don't think that these should be related, but I've lost my sound after changing video cards. eyry:/home/hawk# lsmod Module Size Used by ne 5372 1 83905944 0 [ne] eyry:/home/hawk# modprobe sb /lib/modules/2.2.6/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy sound: Device or resource busy eyry:/home/hawk# lsmod Module Size Used by uart401 5588 0 sound 54380 0 [uart401] soundcore 2100 3 [sound] ne 5372 1 83905944 0 [ne] sound was working, and even autoloading, right until i rebooted (I'm pretty sure i was under the same kernel; i had to reboot fairly often due to X crashing contaminating withtheis screwball videocard). i'm sure that I'm missing something simple here . . . rick --
Re: How unstable is unstable?
steve stipulated, So my question is: Does unstable mean you will have all kinds of crashes and unexpected behavior, or does it mean that some programs might have more bugs than running in the stable distribution? Unstable means that at any time a package could be a show stopper. Show stopper being, Got a rescue disk? ... Unstable, for the most part, is stable. I followed it from Hamm frozen through the first stages of potato with only that one problem. The thing is, when things break, they *can* break bad and you need to have the knowledge and skill to back out of the updates and repair the system. IE, it is called unstable for a reason, use some common sense, and ride it at your own risk. ;) It seems to depend heavily on what day you do an update :) I used unstable from .9 through bo without major problems. Hamm gave me a couple of hard-core show-stoppers, and slink rendered the machine unusable about every other month. I've given up on running unstable. For that matter, slink is still a little cranky. It shut off servies in inetd.conf without asking, and we're having lpd troubles on both machines (we seem to get a random number of lpd daemons, in the 0-2 range). --
Re: building pcmcia modules for 2.2.6
Peter proposed, Hello Richard, I've got the same problem here on my slink notebook, but I think you're a little ahead of me. Could you please tell me what pcmcia-packages I need from potato to have the modules compiled and packaged by make-kpkg? On my notebook there was a little bug in the pcmcia's Configure script that doesn't mention the 2.2.x kernels. But it fails to compile some references in the kernel source tree. I just got the pcmcia-source from potato. I also got the package, but i'm compiling on a desktop, so it doesn't seem to be important rick --
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #721
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KDE license (was: redhat need not apply)
Ray rote, that is essentially the GPL with an additional clause that it can be linked with Qt. ... The KDE people need to track down the authors of the GPL code that much of their project is based on, though, to get permission to use it under the new license. I suspect authors of GPL-ed code would more readily go along with a GPL-except-linking-with-qt-is-ok license than with a change to a wholly different license. Although I need more data to comment on KDE, this is very likely the case already for their own (non-third-party) code, in spite of any claim of GPL. We went into this in depth with LyX, and concluded that lyx was never truly GPL in the first place. I've written at length about this elsewhere (check for Lyx License in dejanews in gnu.misc.discuss), but it comes down to the author's actions being inconsistent with the purported license, and the specific (actions and requests) overrides the general/boilerplate (the GPL). However, the lyx code is stubstantially all (all?) developed by lyx, and my understanding is that this isn't even close to the case for KDE. The real question is whether lyx could be taken under actual GPL with the linking dependent -source clauses, or whether it's stuck without permission from all contributors. I expect that there is implicit permission to release under the purported license rather than the actual license, but I won't be sure without some research, and that won't happen unless someone pays my retainer :) However, as a starting position, and not legal advice, I suspect that the original work by KDE is quasi-GPL as you describe, and the applications are violations of the licensing for the original applications. But I won't be following this up with research, either--I use lyx daily, and occasionally write code for it, but I have absolutely no use for a GUI set; all I want is plain old X, xterms, an the ability to launch x applications from scripts or xterms. rick --
Re: building pcmcia modules for 2.2.6
Shaleh shaid, On 21-Apr-99 Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: ... It's time to update the kernel for my laptop,and I'm trying to use make-kpkg to do this. I've managed to get the kernel image .deb built, but not the pcmcia stuff. I've updated to the pcmcia-source from potato, and note that it has .debs for up to 2.2.5. However, make-kpkg modules_image fails with messages like, snip Actually those are warnings. We need the real errors. Or maybe I should compile 2.2.6 on my laptop. Still running 2.2.5. ok, here's the entire output: for module in /usr/src/modules/* ; do \ if test -d $module; then \ (cd $module; \ ./debian/rules KVERS=2.2.6 KSRC=/usr/src/linux \ KMAINT=rick hawkins KEMAIL=[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ KDREV=thinkpad.2 kdist_image; ); \ fi; \ done make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs' test -f man/pcmcia.5 -a -f debian/rules test root = `whoami` test -f man/pcmcia.5 -a -f debian/rules rm -f build build-modules cat debian/control-source debian/control-cs \ debian/control make clean make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs' set -e ; for d in modules clients cardmgr flash debug-tools man etc ; do make -C $d clean ; done make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/modules' rm -f core core.* *.o .*.o *.s *.a *~ .depend .depfiles/*.d make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/modules' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/clients' rm -f core core.* *.o .*.o *.s *.a *~ .depend .depfiles/*.d make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/clients' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/cardmgr' rm -f core core.* *.o *.s *.a *~ .depend .depfiles/*.d rm -f cardmgr cardctl ifport ifuser ide_info probe make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/cardmgr' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/flash' rm -f core core.* *.o *.s *.a *~ .depend .depfiles/*.d rm -f ftl_format ftl_check make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/flash' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/debug-tools' rm -f core core.* *.o *.s *.a *~ .depend .depfiles/*.d rm -f dump_tuples dump_i365 dump_tcic dump_cisreg make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/debug-tools' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/man' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `clean'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/man' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/etc' set -e ; make -C cis clean make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/etc/cis' rm -f *.dat make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/etc/cis' make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/etc' rm -f .prereq.ok config.mk include/pcmcia/config.h rm -f include/linux/modversions.h make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs' rm -f modules/linux/config.h modules/linux/version.h \ include/pcmcia/config.h cardmgr/cardinfo debug-tools/dump_cis \ debug-tools/pack_cis config.out rm -f -r */.depfiles rm -f -r *~ */*~ debian/tmp debian/tmp-modules debian/src debian/*~ \ debian/files* debian/control.tmp debian/substvars \ debian/KVERS debian/MODVERS test -f man/pcmcia.5 -a -f debian/rules make -f debian/rules MOD_DIR=/usr/src/linux binary-modules make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs' test -f man/pcmcia.5 -a -f debian/rules test root = `whoami` ./Configure -n --kernel=/usr/src/linux --srctree --cardbus Linux PCMCIA Configuration Script The default responses for each question are correct for most users. Consult the PCMCIA-HOWTO for additional info about each option. Linux source directory [/usr/src/linux] The kernel source tree is version 2.2.6. The current kernel build date is Mon Apr 19 14:44:34 1999. Alternate target install directory [] Module install directory [/lib/modules/2.2.6] C compiler name [gcc] Linker name [ld] Compiler flags for debugging [] Build 'trusting' versions of card utilities (y/n) [n] Include 32-bit (CardBus) card support (y/n) [y] The PCMCIA drivers need to be compiled to match the kernel they will be used with, or some or all of the modules may fail to load. If you are not sure what to do, please consult the PCMCIA-HOWTO. How would you like to set kernel-specific options? 1 - Read from the currently running kernel 2 - Read from the Linux source tree 3 - Set each option by hand (experts only!) Enter option (1-3) [2] Kernel configuration options: Symmetric multiprocessing support is disabled. PCI BIOS support is disabled. Advanced Power Management (APM) support is enabled. SCSI support is disabled. Networking support is enabled. Radio network interface support is disabled. Token Ring device support is disabled. Module version checking is disabled. DEC Alpha UDB target platform is disabled. /proc filesystem support
