Re: Looking for rpc.bootparamd
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, write s: >Howdy! > > I'm a recent convert to Debian, and it looks like I'm only missing > one package to make this installation complete. I need to find > rpc.bootparamd. I've attempted to look through the various pkgs > available in stable/non-free/contrib, but I can't find anything > that looks promising. > > So, this spawns two questions: > > 1) What package do I need to grab to get rpc.bootparamd? netstd > > 2) Is it possible to get dselect to show the files that are > contained within a package? (I flipped through the three > information "choices", but none showed files contained) > Not with dselect. From a command line, use dpkg -S, thus: $ dpkg -S rpc.bootparamd netstd: /usr/man/man8/rpc.bootparamd.8.gz netstd: /usr/sbin/rpc.bootparamd -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better idiot. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Looking for rpc.bootparamd
On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, write > s: > >Howdy! > > > > I'm a recent convert to Debian, and it looks like I'm only missing > > one package to make this installation complete. I need to find > > rpc.bootparamd. I've attempted to look through the various pkgs > > available in stable/non-free/contrib, but I can't find anything > > that looks promising. > > > > So, this spawns two questions: > > > > 1) What package do I need to grab to get rpc.bootparamd? > > netstd That doesn't appear to be true with the netstd package that I retrieved when I installed 1.3.1. dpkg -L netstd doesn't show any signs of rpc.bootparamd. Just so we're on the same page, I've got netstd-2.13-1 installed here, and I've not seen a message from dselect saying that a newer version is available. > > > > 2) Is it possible to get dselect to show the files that are > > contained within a package? (I flipped through the three > > information "choices", but none showed files contained) > > > Not with dselect. From a command line, use dpkg -S, thus: > $ dpkg -S rpc.bootparamd > netstd: /usr/man/man8/rpc.bootparamd.8.gz > netstd: /usr/sbin/rpc.bootparamd Actually, what I was hoping for was an information screen which would show the contents of the highlighted package _which isn't installed yet_. In this case, I knew the executable that I needed, but didn't have a clue which package I needed to grab in order to get that executable. This is a bit of a frustrating situation as you're basically forced to try and guess which package might contain the file you want (ie: thinking logically, netboot or nfsroot might both possibly contain that file -- download both and you've wasted 600k of transfers because neither one of them are appropriate). Now, I realize that complete contents lists for each package, contained in the Packages.stable/Packages.contrib/etc would increase their sizes by huge amounts, and I'm not advocating that a change to include them occur. Just trying to extract a little more wisdom out of longer-term Debian users than myself as to whether what I was trying to accomplish (finding the package which contained rpc.bootparamd) could have been done more easily than jumping on IRC and asking around. Despite all this, I've yet to find the appropriate package. I've since jumped over to sunsite and grabbed the NetKit-rpc.bootparamd package from there and I'm just installing it by hand. --Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Looking for rpc.bootparamd
I think it's called "bootpd", and it _is_ in netstd by that name. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Looking for rpc.bootparamd
Oops, maybe bootpd is a different protocol from rpc.bootparamd. There's a Contents and Contents.gz file in the distribution that provides a mapping from file names to the package containing them. This supplements the Packages file. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Proposal: User list forking.
Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > Hello fellow Debian users. > > I propose that we fork the debian-user list such that there are one or two > lists whose content is limited to technical questions and answers. If we > had a debian-help list, we could have a rule to keep political/policy > discussions off the list. This could be accomplished by giving N warnings > to an individual who is misposting, followed by removal from the list. > This would allow users who just want to get things done to avoid the > occaisional flame war over policy, etc. > > Thanks. Syrus. I agree Jorge. -- Jorge JUAN-CHICO Centro Nacional de Microelectronica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Edificio C.I.C.A. Phone: 34-5-4239923 Av/ Reina Mercedes s/n Fax: 34-5-4231832 41012-SEVILLA, SPAIN -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
list mail snafu-ed
Some list mail and other debian mail will have its delivery delayed. The mail delivery agent was accidentaly replaced on our main system and now I have an smail queue of this morning's messages. Smail proved it was not as fast as qmail. I'll get that queue delivered later today, meanwhile I have switched qmail back on. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Modem Test?
Hi I've been trying to connect through my schools dial up system for sometime now with no luck. I'm starting to think that my modem is not configured correctly. I think that my modem is on /dev/tty0. I deleted the device /dev/modem that present initially and made a new symbolic from /dev/tty0 to /dev/modem. Is there any diagnostic test I can run to see if /dev/tty0 is indeed the correct device driver? Thanks Patrick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Modem Test?
Have you tried something like minicom. It just dials your modem but is nice for doing some diagnostics. You can tell it to use either /dev/tty?? or /dev/modem. You could also tell your ppp dialer to use a tty instead of modem. /dev/modem is just a convenience -- not a requirement. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian developer How to....
Hi, I was just thinking that I would like to be more involed in debian and as I am just learning C++ I thought I would ask this list (specificly Bruce) how to become a debian package maintainer ... as there are some programs that I would like to see .deb's made of . Thanks... -Kevin, kc5vxy > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Magic filter setup....
Hi, I as per a responce to my last question I installed magicfilter to allow StarOffice to print on my arcayic(SP) Epson Lx-80 ... I also installed and setup lprng since the documention refered to it often... Now my question arises in that when I try to print something on the command line #/root/personal/: lp I get a list of info about the print job id and such ... then in the syslog I get messages saying ...jane tcplog: printer conection attempt ...jane tcplog: lpt1 out of paper now when I ran magicfilterconfig I told it the printer was on /dev/lp0 so I think thats set up right ... also the /etc/printcap file says that my printer is on /dev/lp0 ... does anyone know what the problem is and or how to fix it? someone else sugested that I use apsfilter can someone give me the pros/cons of the both ot them ? TIA -Kevin, kc5vxy > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Modem Test?
> Hi > > I've been trying to connect through my schools dial up system for sometime > now with no luck. I'm starting to think that my modem is not configured > correctly. I think that my modem is on /dev/tty0. I deleted the device > /dev/modem that present initially and made a new symbolic from /dev/tty0 > to /dev/modem. Is there any diagnostic test I can run to see if /dev/tty0 > is indeed the correct device driver? I think you want /dev/ttyS0 - that's a serial device. I believe /dev/tty0 would be one of your consoles, which you don't want. (unless I'm mistaken) Cheers, - Jim pgpX347QLwbfn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Modem Test?
Hi, For the starters you could try /dev/ttyS0 instead of /dev/tty0. If /dev/ttyS0 doesn't work try ttyS1-ttyS3. The /dev/ttyS0 through /dev/ttyS3 are the com devices in Linux. For testing you could try minicom (comm/minicom_1.75-2.deb in stable) and issue some AT commands (ATI4 might output some info about the modem) to see if the modem responds. I hope this helps. PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: > > Hi > > I've been trying to connect through my schools dial up system for sometime > now with no luck. I'm starting to think that my modem is not configured > correctly. I think that my modem is on /dev/tty0. I deleted the device > /dev/modem that present initially and made a new symbolic from /dev/tty0 > to /dev/modem. Is there any diagnostic test I can run to see if /dev/tty0 > is indeed the correct device driver? > > Thanks > Patrick // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How to setup symbolic links in a package?
Peter Weiss writes: > probably this belongs to debian devel: > > Making some experiences in generating my own .deb files I run in the > following problem: > > How do I set up an absolut symbolic link during the package generation? > > What I'd like to have is something similiar to the XF86Config file > provided by xbase: The XF86Config file is an absoulte link: > > ~:1> ll /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Aug 21 17:02 > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config -> /etc/X11/XF86Config > > Setting up a link debian/tmp/etc/ to debian/tmp/ > does not work. Or should this be done by one of the install scripts? > > In the xbase example I couldn't find one looking at them and dpkg -L > xbase doesn't show me this link either. Using ln -s you do specify the text that is stored in the file record in the directory. So ln -s /etc/X11/XF86Config debian/tmp/this/link/is/stupid will create a link: debian/tmp/this/link/is/stupid -> /etc/X11/XF86Config (at least it should...) In your example you could also use a relative linkt ../../etc/X11... Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /verursacht durch kaputte Gatesoftware auf der CyberBox / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problems with bash 2.01
I recently downloaded the source for bash2.01 from sunsite and compiled it my self. I copied the bash executable to /bin, being sure to backup the old executable. Now most things seem to work fine. I had read the reason helper apps don't work with Netscape was a bug in bash 2.0. I can now call Real Audio Player from Netscape with no problems. But I am having one really annoying problem. In Netscape and XFMail the backspace key now works as delete. It deletes the character to the right of the cursor. I am running Debian 1.3.1 with the key mappings unmodified. In my xterms and at the console the backspace key works correctly. In XFMail it actually works correctly in the subject and to fields but not in the composition window. I know this is caused by bash because I can change back to the old executable and the backspace key works correctly. Can any one help? Also is there going to be a stable and safe way to upgrade to bash 2.01 (by way of a deb package) any time soon? Of is there already and I don't know about it? I would like to install as few programs from unstable as possible. Thanks. - E-Mail: Travis Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.methow.com/~tcole -- Get my Public Key here Date: 25-Aug-97 Time: 14:10:22 The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music. - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian developer How to....
> Hi, > > I was just thinking that I would like to be more involed in debian and as > I am just learning C++ I thought I would ask this list (specificly Bruce) > how to become a debian package maintainer ... as there are some programs > that I would like to see .deb's made of . > > Thanks... > > -Kevin, kc5vxy > > Check out the docs in the developers-reference package. There is also some information in the FAQ ( http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ ), I believe. The more, the merrier. :-) Cheers, - Jim pgp6HgcArEOSz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian developer How to....
Hi Kevin! > I was just thinking that I would like to be more involed in debian and as > I am just learning C++ I thought I would ask this list (specificly Bruce) > how to become a debian package maintainer ... as there are some programs > that I would like to see .deb's made of . I'm happy to hear. We need both, people taking over maintenance of existing but orphaned packages as well as people who are in the need of some packages we actually don't have included for some reason. Please go into the doc directory on your favourite Debian mirror and take a look inside of the directory package-developer. There are lots of files which contain most of the information that new maintainers need. Best regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /verursacht durch kaputte Gatesoftware auf der CyberBox / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Bash upgrade,Netscape helpers...
Jens B. Jorgensen writes: > >Damir J. Naden wrote: >> >> Hi, everyone -- >> >> I was following the thread that was going on for a while here regarding >> the bug in bash 2.0 that is holding us back in using some Netscape >> helpers. I must admit that I missed the final point: what is the best >> way of fixing this problem? Usualy i'd go to unstable and fetched and [snip] > >I have ftp'd bash-2.01 from mit. I tar -xzf'd it. Ran ./configure. >Ran make, make tests, and everything looks kosher. I'm replacing the >bash I have. My system is "stock" 1.3.1 from a Greenbush Technologies >Gold CD. The size is 412800 bytes uncompressed, 188709 compressed >with gzip -9. I'll email it to anyone who wants it (no warranties, >expressed or implied as to the usability or fitness for a specific >purpose, etc. etc. etc.). It seems to work fine on this system, though >I've just compiled it and been using it. I've been using it on our >Solaris system for weeks and have had no problems. > >-- >Jens B. Jorgensen >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Regardless of the status of libc6, the change over to 1.3.x or 1.3 Rev x, the desire to keep changes to the stable tree to a minimum, or whatever, this needs to be upgraded NOW. I have had a few other apps crap out on this bash 2.0 bug and since the Debian system lives and dies by bash it needs to be fixed A.S.A.P. by the maintainer, and or the development team, not kind Jens who got sick of it enough to download the source. My $0.02(US) Brian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: error message:shel-init: cannot get working directory
On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 11:00:48 PDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > shel-init: cannot get working directory : getcwd: cannot access parent > directories > > This is only with user accounts. Root doesn't do this. Check that all directories above your home directories are rwxr-xr-x. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [Performance] 386vs486 compilation
On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > From: Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Have you ever seen numbers for running Pentium code on a 486 and 386 vs > > native code? > > I think the Pentium code generator now uses Pentium-specific instructions. > Before then, Pentium code on 386 and 486 sometimes ran faster than the 386 > and 486 code, because it avoided some instructions that turned out to be slow. Yes, this is what I usually hear about most compilers. P5 Code runs as fast or faster on 486's. What GCC needs is a to have the 486 generator perform pentium optimizations and not use pentium/386 instructions. Then we could compile everything for this. The speed hit on a pentium would drop on alot of apps and the 486/386 would not have any hit.. I wonder what instructions gcc uses on the 586, I don't recall seeing that many usefull ones for general purpose stuff.. Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: diald and ethernet
On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > > I'm back at school for the fall now, and I'm back to having a full-time > 10-Base-T connection. I'd like my machine to use this as a default > instead of the diald/ppp link I used all summer from home. The problem is > that our campus ethernet is sometimes plagued by power outages, so I > don't want to simply remove diald and ppp, besides that I don't want to > have to reinstall them at winter break and again next spring. > > So, is there a way to enable diald and ppp but set it up so that the ppp > link isn't used unless it's either needed or specifically requested? I'd > like to make the ethernet link the default... > > I don't know much about unix network configurations, so anything anyone > can suggest is appreciated. > Coincidentally, earlier today I uploaded a .deb of PPPupd which you may find useful. PPPupd is a simple daemon which as the name suggests was designed for keeping a PPP connection alive. It pings a host you specify at regular intervals (every minute by default.) The way I packaged it, PPPupd runs pon and poff to automatically to bring back a disconnected PPPxonnection. But it is very configurable. You could use it to ping the other end of your ethernet connection and if the ping fails, it could run a script that starts up diald. When the ethernet connection comes back up, it would kill diald. As I said I just uploaded it today so it will be a short while before it shows up on mirrors. In the mean time you can get the .deb and source from http://www.braincells.com/pub/debian/Local . -- Jaldhar -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Weird network problem
I have a very weird problem. I can connect to FTP servers but I can't "get", "dir" or "ls", although I can "cd". I also just noticed that I cannot receive e-mail from any outside account, although I can receive e-mail from an account inside prognet.com (my domain) Any ideas what could be going on? My system had been working just fine. --Gardy-- ** Edgardo I. Nazario | "Make it as simple as possible, not simpler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -A. Einstein- ** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Weird network problem
From: The Gardyan of Greyskull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I can connect to FTP servers but I can't "get", "dir" or "ls", although I > can "cd". > I also just noticed that I cannot receive e-mail from any outside account, > although I can receive e-mail from an account inside prognet.com (my > domain) Probably outside hosts have no route to you. Prognet.com may have to install a route for you, or you may have to use their proxy for FTP and their mail forwarder to get your mail through their firewall. Try "traceroute" to your system from outside, and see how far it gets. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: upgrade path
On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > From: Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > P.S. One reason to have 1.1 is because the base disk will work on the > > thinkpads that reject the 1.2 and 1.3. I think this could be fixed if we > > released a rescue disk that doesn't need to be a bzimage (is that the > > right term?). > > Oh, curses upon people who design incompatible caches. Have you tried the > latest cache-invalidate-after-A20-gate patches with the thinkpad? Yes, curses on them, where's my voodoo doll :-). Unfortunately, I have no clue what the cache-invalidate-after-A20-gate is and I don't have a thinkpad, I was just relaying concerns I've heard before. If someone understands what Bruce is talking about, and has a thinkpad that can be tested, could you try this and send some step by step notes. Maybe we can make a section in the installation notes describing this. Thanks Bruce, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7877/home.html PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
