Re: irc and that Free Software thing
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I apologize for preaching, but usually universities ban IRC because > it consumes finite resources which are needed for course-related work. > As a university student myself, I get pretty annoyed if I can't get > a terminal to do some work because people are browsing the web, for example. > > I don't know about .NZ, but in .AU net access isn't really too expensive. Likewise, I apologise for replying in my defence, but my university acts as an ISP. I dial in from home, I never have problems getting through so I presume that there isn't a big demand for dial in access at the times I dial in, and I pay for what I use. It was the free software thing I wanted to see on IRC. Andrew Tarr "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate" |___ http://multinet.co.nz/personalhomepages/locusmeus/antechamber.html |~~~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Setup w/large hard drives
I tried setting up bo on a friend's hard drive today -- actually, two different hard drives, one IDE and one SCSI, both 3.2 gig drives which have more than 1024 cylinders. My first attempt was to create a 64 meg primary partition which was to be root, then a swap partition, then other partitions. I did this with Debian's regular installation using cfdisk. However, when it came time to make a file system and/or mount the root partition, the system would not list out the first partition. Next, I tried making one huge partition with about 100 megs in a swap partition. The install program let me create a file system and mount this as root, but of course LILO wouldn't install to make the system bootable from the hard drive. Could someone give me a tutorial on how one should deal with large hard drives with Linux? I could've sworn I was on the right track with the small 64 meg root partition -- thus getting that under the 1024 cylinder boundary -- but that doesn't appear to be so. If anyone could give me some pointers on this, I'd greatly appreciate it. -- Regards,|Debian GNU/__ o http://www.debian.org . | / /__ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) |// /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ |...because lockups are for convicts... |What is or why Linux? Click on the below: http://www8.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/16/13/os1613.001.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: w command
Remco van de Meent wrote: > On Sun, 3 May 1998, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > > : Why when i call the w command get that message ? > : > : $ w > :bad data in /var/run/utmp > : > : What would be the reason ? I already deleted that file and it still the > : same ! > > Maybe you're half-way an upgrade from a libc5 system to a 'full' libc6 > system? If so, I think there are packages installed which corrupt your utmp > file. Does `last' give correct output? By the way, the 'last' command works fine ! What should I do ? Best regards, Nuno Carvalho Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho Dep. Informatics Engineering University of Coimbra PORTUGAL http://student.dei.uc.pt/~nemanuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Connecting to a different LAN
On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 12:04:25PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian Lynagh > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > > > >Once I install Debian I hope to set my laptop up so that the network > >card has IP 192.168.37.mumble, mask 255.255.255.0. It will also connect > >to the 'net via the modem. > > > >However, if I take it to a friends LAN which uses IPs 1.0.x.y then will > >I need to change anything? What's the best way of doing this? > > Something I probably should have mentioned, I don't want my IP address > to change. I want to be able to ping the 1.0.x.y addresses from my > 192.168.37.mumble address and vica versa. In /etc/init.d/network, add a route to 1.0.x.y on your ethernet with no gateway. Something like route add -net 1.0.x.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 should probably do it. Your friend will need to do the same on all his hosts, or at least on his gateway, if he has one. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
System hang while loading Serial Module
I recently installed Debian v1.3 on an old intel 386 test system. Everything in the installation went fine (but I did have to low-level format the hard drive to make the partitions properly). After the installation I rebooted the system like it asked me to. It seemed that everything was loading up OK until it trys to load the serial module after initializing the random number generator. Here is what it says on the screen after the number generator is loaded : Configuring serial ports/dev/ttyS0: No such device failed... Trying to load the serial module manually... Serial Driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450 After this is displayed the system hangs. I know that COM1 on this computer is IRQ 4 but the UART is only 8250.. but Linux seems to think its a 16450.. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Ian Seyler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ppp setup issues..
John, thanks, very useful. I hope this all finds it's way into a FAQ; (before it changes!). Greg Gregory Guthrie writes: > My system calls /etc/init.d/ppp, which seems to do the same general thing > as /usr/bin/pon. Right. init calls /etc/init.d/ppp which calls pppd with appropriate options. pppd reads /etc/ppp/options, reads ~/.ppprc, scans the command line for a port name, reads /etc/ppp/options.ttyXX, and then interprets the command line options. In case of conflict the later option overrides the earlier. Thus /etc/ppp/options contains defaults that always apply unless overridden, ~/.ppprc contains options pertaining to the user running pppd, options.ttyXX contains options pertaining to the selected port, and the command line contains options pertaining to this particular connection. > On my system (Debian), in init.d the ppp file calls pppd, with an > explicit `cat /etc/ppp.options_out` [note backticks] for arguments. /etc/ppp.options_out is where you should put your local customizations. IMHO '-f /etc/ppp.options_out' should have been used so that the file could be commented. > What is the difference in using "-detach &"... '-detach' says don't go into the background. '&' says go into the background. The combination does nothing. Leave it out. Debian 2.0 will use pppd-2.3.3 and handle the options in a completely different and much better way. -- Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department College of Science and Technology Maharishi University of Management (Maharishi International University 1971-1995) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setup w/large hard drives
>Could someone give me a tutorial on how one should deal with large > hard drives with Linux? I could've sworn I was on the right track Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that you can do the following, if you don't want to split your disk up into more partitions than necessary: Device Filesystem Size Mountpoint Contains - /dev/sda1 ext25mb /kernels kernels only /dev/sda2 ext28gb /Everything /dev/sda3 swap100mb none Swap space lilo.conf then looks something like - boot=/dev/sda root=/dev/sda2 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=50 read-only image=/kernels/vmlinuz label=linux image=/kernels/vmlinuz-33 label=linux-33 It's my guess that this would work, though I haven't tried it; I'm planning on doing so the next time I set up a machine with a single large drive, so let me know if it doesn't ;) You'd have to make sure you copied your kernels into the right place, of course. But it saves you the pain of having a bunch of partitions that never turn out to be the right size. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with cdwrite
mwb wrote: > > I have a Mermorex CRW-1622. Sorry for the stupid question. Is the above drive IDE? > I use kernel 2.1.94 for writing. As far as it goes, you need to > compile the kernel to use scsi emulation, generic scsi support, and > cd support. Do not include atapi cd support - it won't let the > scsi emulation see the drive. Thanks. I will try that. If I do not include atapi cd support, how do I read my regular cd's? Thanks, sridhar -- Sridhar M. A Department of Physics University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006, INDIA Tel: +91-821-516133 Fax: +91-821-516133 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IP Masquerading - getting "ipfwadm: setsockopt failed ...". Is Debian 1.3 (bo) compiled with IP-masquerading?
I am wondering, is the default kernel from 386-binary(bo) compiled with Masquerading? I do not know if that is my problem, but whenever I try to use the "ipfwadm" command (with [hopefully] valid switches) I always get a message "ipfwadm: setsockopt failed: Protocol not available" Thanks, Milan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setup w/large hard drives
On Sat, 9 May 1998, Pete Harlan wrote: > >Could someone give me a tutorial on how one should deal with large > > hard drives with Linux? I could've sworn I was on the right track > > Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that you can do > the following, if you don't want to split your disk up into more > partitions than necessary: > > Device Filesystem Size Mountpoint Contains > - > /dev/sda1 ext25mb /kernels kernels only > /dev/sda2 ext28gb /Everything > /dev/sda3 swap100mb none Swap space [cut] I have a similar setup with my IDE drive. I would suggest just making the "/boot" directory the mount point for the small initial partition. (I needed this to get around the BIOS limitations to use LILO). Here's my setup: /dev/hdb2 / ext2defaults0 1 /dev/hdb1 /boot ext2defaults0 2 /dev/hdb3 noneswapsw 0 0 red:/etc$ df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hdb21493162 1336422 110443 92% / /dev/hdb1 43582048 2310 47% /boot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Connecting to a different LAN
Hamish Moffatt writes > On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 12:04:25PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian Lynagh > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > > > > > >Once I install Debian I hope to set my laptop up so that the network ^^ > > >card has IP 192.168.37.mumble, mask 255.255.255.0. It will also connect > > >to the 'net via the modem. > > > > > >However, if I take it to a friends LAN which uses IPs 1.0.x.y then will > > >I need to change anything? What's the best way of doing this? > > > > Something I probably should have mentioned, I don't want my IP address > > to change. I want to be able to ping the 1.0.x.y addresses from my > > 192.168.37.mumble address and vica versa. > > In /etc/init.d/network, add a route to 1.0.x.y on your ethernet with no > gateway. Something like > > route add -net 1.0.x.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 > > should probably do it. Your friend will need to do the same on all his > hosts, or at least on his gateway, if he has one. If the laptop uses a PCMCIA network card, /etc/init.d/network should only contain entries for local loopback. The real work is done in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts . You can have different setups using different schemes, see section 5.2 of the PCMCIA-HOWTO for details. Dave Thayer Denver, Colorado USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ethernet Problems
I use the install program to install my Ethernet card. It finds the address and IRQ. I then configure the name and IP address. It says it is configuring the driver eth0. I then install the kernal, but when I reboot, the eth0 driver is not loaded and it says the network is unreachable. I have been on the news groups and several people have had ideas but nothing seems to work. When I do ifconfig -i it lists lo but not eth0. Any ideas? Thanks, J.D. Phone 503-590-5676 http://www.webberpro.com http://www.teleport.com/~jscogin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unidentified subject!
Hello! I downloaded the frozen tree at work this weekend (Lets hope that nobody had the time to delete it already...) and I'll burn the CDs today. I have a working bo system. The problem is that I enjoy Linux so much that I want to make more room for it (and leave the M$-WINDO$ only for word processing.) What is the easiest way to install hamm on the bigger partitions? Would it be better to first repartition and then install or install and then enlarge the partitions (first changing the size of the DO$ partition, then moving '/' there then recreating the /usr, /home, /var partitions (this time I want to make /home and /var together, and mount /usr as read only). BTW: I think that 15 MB '/' will be enough, won't it? BTW2: Is there a way to mount /tmp on the /var partition (isn't it needed when there is only '/'?) TIA, Liran Zvibel. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing hamm (whether on bo or on fresh system)
sorry, didn't put a subject line on the first send... Hello! I downloaded the frozen tree at work this weekend (Lets hope that nobody had the time to delete it already...) and I'll burn the CDs today. I have a working bo system. The problem is that I enjoy Linux so much that I want to make more room for it (and leave the M$-WINDO$ only for word processing.) What is the easiest way to install hamm on the bigger partitions? Would it be better to first repartition and then install or install and then enlarge the partitions (first changing the size of the DO$ partition, then moving '/' there then recreating the /usr, /home, /var partitions (this time I want to make /home and /var together, and mount /usr as read only). BTW: I think that 15 MB '/' will be enough, won't it? BTW2: Is there a way to mount /tmp on the /var partition (isn't it needed when there is only '/'?) TIA, Liran Zvibel. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setup w/large hard drives
On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 10:38:59PM -0500, Pete Harlan wrote: > >Could someone give me a tutorial on how one should deal with large > > hard drives with Linux? I could've sworn I was on the right track > > Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that you can do > the following, if you don't want to split your disk up into more > partitions than necessary: > > Device Filesystem Size Mountpoint Contains > - > /dev/sda1 ext25mb /kernels kernels only > /dev/sda2 ext28gb /Everything > /dev/sda3 swap100mb none Swap space Why do you need a separate partition to boot from? I have an 800mb root partition (which is more than 1024 cylinders, obviously) and it boots from that just fine, and that's on /dev/hdb too. Partition Table for /dev/hdb ---Starting--- EndingStart Number of # Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect CylSector Sectors -- - - 1 0x00011 0x05 127 63 397 8064 3201408 2 0x8001 398 0xA5 127 63 778 3209472 3072384 3 0x00000 0x000000 0 4 0x00000 0x000000 0 5 0x00121 0x83 127 63 204 63 1644992 6 0x0011 205 0x83 127 63 382 63 1435329 7 0x0011 383 0x82 127 63 397 63120897 I can boot from /dev/hdb2 (FreeBSD) too, and it's the second half of a 3.2gb drive. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FIPS for Ext2?
Is there an application similar to FIPS or Partition Magic which runs under Linux and will resize, copy and move ext2 partitions? David Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR
Thanks to all for all the help and ideas, but it still won't work: here's what has gone wrong: The DOS 'fdisk /MBR' ran with no errors, but made no difference to bootup. 'lilo -u /dev/hda' says "boot sector of /dev/hda does not have a lilo signature" 'lilo -u' runs fine and says that it has restored the original MBR, but now on bootup, "Lil-" comes up on the screen and the system hangs (Just glad I have a recent kernel boot disk =) ) /boot/boot.hda doesn't exist. I have no WinNT installation disks, but I remember trying this once to restore the system and it asked for my Emergency Recovery Disk, which apparently didn't have enough info on to restore anything. The only other option was to reinstall WinNT, which is what I did at the time. So I'm stuck. Here's a list of the files in /boot/ any_d.b mbr.b vmlinuz-2.0.29 vmlinuz-2.0.30 os2_d.b map boot.b psdatabase psdatabase-2.0.29 "" -2.0.30 chain.b boot.0301 System.map-2.0.29 " " -2.0.30 any_b.b Sorry for hastling everyone for the 3rd time! Tristan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lilo on serial line (was: Re: how to set up headless machine?)
Hi! Jack Kern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm not sure I understand what is required but the lilo doc, > Manual.txt.gz, in the "Global" options section > (/usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz) seems to have a relevant passage: > > SERIAL= enables control from a serial line. The specified > serial port is initialized and LILO is accepting input from it and from > ... Did anybody get this running propperly? I added serial=1,9600n8 to my lilo.conf and on reboot I got lilo´s prompt, but wasn´t able to enter anything. When getty starts I can login. Or was this the fault of minicom running on the other end? BTW: I used bo´s lilo_19-2 Regards Rainer -- KeyID=58341901 fingerprint=A5 57 04 B3 69 88 A1 FB 78 1D B5 64 E0 BF 72 EB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IP Masq and users
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin) wrote: > Anyway what I need is to ask all users connecting (from any of the client > machines (2 * W95, 1 * Linux) > to 'login' before they're allowed net access (mainly for monitoring - who's > running up the usage bill etc.) > Is there an easy way to do this ?, the HOWTO doesn't seem to mention > requiring passwords for access, but I > might have missed it ! There are numerous ways of doing this, but I want to tell you about an interesting project I was involved at at the local highschool. The highschool was a little different in that SAMBA filesharing was an essential part of our setup, but other than that, it was an IP-Masquerading ppp Gateway. Each user had a home directory on the server, which they could mount from any of the workstations using samba. now the smbd (which accepts the samba connections)has an option to run a script, either as that user, or as the superuser, when a particular shared directory is mounted, and this script can be given the IP address of the calling machine, and the username of the client as arguments. So I used this script to trigger the appropriate ipfwadm commands when the user mounted his or her home directory, and a similar script was run when the user unmounted the home directory, which would undo each of the rules applied previously, and store the results of the accounting rule. Seemed to work quite well once some of the client-side bugs were ironed out, and if, or anyone, wants a hand with setting such a system up, I'd be glad to hear from you. -7~he 7~hought /|ssassin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR
On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 01:23:48PM +0100, Tristan Day wrote: > Thanks to all for all the help and ideas, but it still won't work: here's > what has gone wrong: Can you state the problem again? I missed your earlier posts. > The DOS 'fdisk /MBR' ran with no errors, but made no difference to bootup. Is your NT partition marked active? If you install LILO in your boot sector instead of the MBR, then the MBR should contain the standard code (done by FDISK /MBR), and either the Linux partition or the NT partition should be active. If it's the NT partition, use BOOTPART (or similar) to set up an entry in NT's boot manager for Linux. If it's Linux, add an entry to /etc/lilo.conf for NT, something like other=/dev/hda1 label=NT Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR
Hi, > Here's a list of the files in /boot/ [snip] > boot.0301 [snip] Here is what the lilo manual says: --- LILO automatically makes backup copies when it overwrites boot sectors. They are named /boot/boot., with corresponding to the device number, e.g. 0300 is /dev/hda, 0800 is /dev/sda, etc. Those backups can be used to restore the old MBR if no easier method is available. The commands are dd if=/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 or dd if=/boot/boot.0800 of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1 respectively. -- You appear to have a /boot/boot.0301 file. Have you tried: dd if=/boot/boot.0301 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count This has worked for me in the past. -Ossama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR
Sorry, that should have been: dd if=/boot/boot.0301 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 -Ossama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Memory Checker (RAM)
On 07-May-98 C.J.LAWSON wrote: > A while ago someone posted information (or was it a website) on a program > that can be used to detect intermittent RAM failure which may be missed > by the bios. > I would be grateful if anyone with this or similar information could mail > it to me (or better post it to the list) There is a simple program named 'memtest' in the debian package 'sysutils'. It is startable from within a shell. There is a tool called 'memtest86' in package 'hwtools'. It seems to be a bit more complicated, but I've not tried it yet. If someone knows more memory-checking programs I would be very happy to receive a short mail. Greetings, Florian --- Florian Hinzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PGP-Key fingerprint: DD 61 74 34 04 FB 8A BD 43 54 83 38 0C 82 EF B1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tulip Network drive
Hi, Does the hamm/kernel_2.0.33 include the Tulip network drive? Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan Intelligence Quest Research, INC. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tulip Network drive
> Does the hamm/kernel_2.0.33 include the Tulip network drive?
Yes, but you may need to download and compile newer version of the "tulip"
driver depending on the particular card you use. (I had to.)
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IPX support
I'm trying to use ncpmount, and I need IPX support in the kernel. How do I do this, please? Matthew Vernon Debian 2 sysadmin linux newbie GCB on request ;) -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward-elect of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ssh question
Hi all, After some security incident on my network I decided to set up ssh. I think I have figured most things of interest to me out. However, before I had rsh in ascript to start my mail program which is another host through FvwmButtons. Now that I disabled rsh I tried to figure a way to do the same with slogin. I figured the way but it involves setting authorisation keys without passphrases. How bad is this ? Am I loosing all security ? Am I better off with rsh in this case ? And another related wuestion: When I disabled rsh I simply chmoded the programs 700. Now I can't use rsh as a simple user (although I can as root) even if I set the permissions as they used to be. I get a message saying rcmd: socket: Permission denied Obviously the programs to set sssh involve some secure sockets. Is there a workaround or not for this ?? Thanks for any comment George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sound card support
Dear Debian people, How does one configure a sound card, and is the yamaha OPL3-SAx sound board supported, and if not, If I connect my driver CD to my website, can someone do a driver, please? I will be eternally grateful, but don't have any money right now ;) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward-elect of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
loadlin problem
I have a partition on my W95 hard disk with Debian loaded; and I boot via a floppy. I want to switch to booting from W95/DOS; so I tried loadlin. Put it into a directory with Linux, root.bin), and tried it. loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin It won't work until one reboots into protected mode DOS first; unconvenient, but OK. (There are fast reboot tools for windows, seems like this would be a nicer way to go..) It boots, but then it wants to do setup, more like a rescue/setup disk that a boot disk. Is there a better way? Even then, When I ask it to mount an already initialized partition (option G), it lists partitions, but not the linux one. If I ask it to list all partitions, it shows the ext2 Linux partition, but the mount initialized partion doesn't list it. ?? Thanks. Greg Guthrie Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department College of Science and Technology Maharishi University of Management (Maharishi International University 1971-1995) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh question
On Sun, 10 May 1998, G. Kapetanios wrote: > > Hi all, > > > After some security incident on my network I decided to set up ssh. > I think I have figured most things of interest to me out. However, > before I had rsh in ascript to start my mail program which is another host > through FvwmButtons. Now that I disabled rsh I tried to figure a way to do > the same with slogin. I figured the way but it involves setting > authorisation keys without passphrases. How bad is this ? Am I loosing all > security ? Am I better off with rsh in this case ? And another related > wuestion: When I disabled rsh I simply chmoded the programs 700. > Now I can't use rsh as a simple user (although I can as root) even if I > set the permissions as they used to be. I get a message saying > rcmd: socket: Permission denied > Obviously the programs to set sssh involve some secure sockets. Is there a > workaround or not for this ?? > > Thanks for any comment > George > ssh CAN replace both rsh and rlogin, To do things as you would with rsh, you use 'ssh '. The trick is that you must first put the public keys for each system into either /etc/ssh or your .ssh directory (in the files ssh_known_keys or known_keys respectively). The easiest way to do this is to slogin from one machine to the other, and then do the same from the other machine back again - manually approving authentication each time (by the way - slogin is just an alias for ssh). Hope that helps, chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setup w/large hard drives
> Why do you need a separate partition to boot from? > I have an 800mb root partition (which is more than 1024 cylinders, > obviously) and it boots from that just fine, and that's on /dev/hdb > too. This is what I thought too! As I said, I initially tried a 64 meg / partition thinking I could keep /boot and other things in that space, and then have /usr /home /var /tmp, etc., on different partitions just for flexibility. But with that situation the install program would not give me the option to select the / partition (the first, primary partition on the first hard drive). Then I took the tactic of one huge, multi-gigabyte partition. LILO refused to install onto that. There is one variable here that I haven't mentioned. This system (SCSI using an Adaptec 2920 controller) had a SCSI hard drive as SCSI ID #6, a ZIP drive as SCSI ID #5, and a SCSI CD-ROM as SCSI ID #4. In my mind, Linux should have seen the hard drive as /dev/sda, correct? In this case, Linux kept putting the ZIP drive as /dev/sda and the hard drive as /dev/sdb. Is this the source of my problems? If so, how can one cure that (the Zip drive only allows itself to be set as SCSI ID #5 or #6)? -- Regards,|Debian GNU/__ o http://www.debian.org . | / /__ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) |// /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ Teacher/Tech. Coord.|...because lockups are for convicts... |What is or why Linux? Click on the below: http://www8.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/16/13/os1613.001.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stupid question for the day
Okay, you can tease me later :-), but for now, could someone please answer this stupid question for today? I've looked and apropros'ed myself to near death, but nowhere can I find out what that command is to automagically set up a program in /etc/init.d to run properly at the various run levels. Last time I set one up I did it manually and would like to avoid that this time. The program I want to run is simply a series of ipfwadm calls to set up my masquerading, along with some insert modules on start and rmmod's on stop. Anyone know the command I'm talking about? Thanks in advance. -- Regards,|Debian GNU/__ o http://www.debian.org . | / /__ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) |// /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ Teacher/Tech. Coord.|...because lockups are for convicts... |What is or why Linux? Click on the below: http://www8.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/16/13/os1613.001.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ethernet Problems
On Sat, 9 May 1998, jscogin wrote: > I use the install program to install my Ethernet card. It finds the address > and IRQ. I then configure the name and IP address. It says it is configuring > the driver eth0. I then install the kernal, but when I reboot, the eth0 > driver is not loaded and it says the network is unreachable. I have been on > the news groups and several people have had ideas but nothing seems to work. > When I do ifconfig -i it lists lo but not eth0. You need to have the kernel compiled to support your type of card or use loadable modules. Have you done either? -- Jean Pierre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stupid question for the day
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Randy Edwards wrote: >I've looked and apropros'ed myself to near death, but nowhere can I > find out what that command is to automagically set up a program in > /etc/init.d to run properly at the various run levels. Last time I > set one up I did it manually and would like to avoid that this time. > The program I want to run is simply a series of ipfwadm calls to set > up my masquerading, along with some insert modules on start and > rmmod's on stop. Anyone know the command I'm talking about? Thanks update-rc.d -- Jean Pierre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with cdwrite
On Sun, 10 May 1998, XRD Lab wrote: > mwb wrote: > > > > I have a Mermorex CRW-1622. > > Sorry for the stupid question. Is the above drive IDE? YES, it is IDE. > > > I use kernel 2.1.94 for writing. As far as it goes, you need to > > compile the kernel to use scsi emulation, generic scsi support, and > > cd support. Do not include atapi cd support - it won't let the > > scsi emulation see the drive. > > Thanks. I will try that. If I do not include atapi cd support, how do I > read my regular cd's? You can read and write cd's using the scsi interface. To read the cd, you mount the drive as you would if it were a scsi drive, the command line I use is: mount /dev/sr0 /cdrom -t iso9660 -ro What won't work, or at least won't work for me, is ripping audio off the disks through scsi emulation. So I want to copy CDs I boot to an ATAPI kernel, rip my CDs, then boot a scsi kernel and write the CDs. Mark W. Blunier [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
W95 access to Debian files..
I run a Debian partition as a second OS on my W95 disk. [also primary OS on several others!] The utility "fsdext2" is a real joy; it allows one to view (read-only) any Linux partitions, in case one has other important tools in their W95 environment. Many thanks to the author! Unfortunately it is pretty unstable, and locks up the machine regularly after only a short time. The author is not maintaining it anymore. It would sure be nice if there was a new version, or other options for this. Thanks for any pointers if such exists. Gregory Guthrie [ from: http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk/ w/ source available! ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: W95 access to Debian files..
Dear Gregory, I guess you probably want to send this to the developer's list... :) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward-elect of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setup w/large hard drives
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Randy Edwards wrote: > > Why do you need a separate partition to boot from? > > I have an 800mb root partition (which is more than 1024 cylinders, > > obviously) and it boots from that just fine, and that's on /dev/hdb > > too. > > This is what I thought too! As I said, I initially tried a 64 meg / > partition thinking I could keep /boot and other things in that space, and then > have /usr /home /var /tmp, etc., on different partitions just for flexibility. > But with that situation the install program would not give me the option to > select the / partition (the first, primary partition on the first hard drive). With the old IDE drives, the bios did not read past 512k. So it the kernel was written to an area past you 1024 (?) cylinders, lilo would not be able to find it, and then the boot would fail. As I understand it, you could get luckly when the kernel was written, and it would fall in the range that was readable, and it would boot, but the next time you compiled the kernel you might not get that lucky. Once the kernel booted up, you can read past the 512k. The EIDE cards do not have this limitation. Mark W. Blunier [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sudo and super
HI Could someone explain to me the difference between the sudo and super packages. From the description in Packages file they serve the same purpose. Thank you ZORO -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MBR -- Getting tiresome. I really am sorry! (was Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR)
The
dd if=/boot/boot.0301 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1
went through, ("1+0 in, 1+0 out" etc) but made no difference to booting --
still "Lil-" and system hangs.
also tried `lilo -U /dev/hda1' which seemed to work okay but didn't make any
difference to bootup either.
I also tried (treading dangerous ground now!) making every partition
unbootable apart from the NT partition, but that didn't work either, so I
restored it. Currently the ones active are:
/dev/hda6 -- that's my linux partition
/dev/hda2 -- that's a 4mb partition with boot.ini, io.sys and others, for
the NT boot loader
/dev/hda5 -- that's the NTFS partition containing NT
My system _did_ work before -- honest!!
Thank you all for still taking a notice of me (this is the 4th letter
concerning the MBR!)
Tristan
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DOSEmu 97.7
Has anyone managed to make DOSEmu 97.7 work? There doesn't seem to be a .deb file, so I downloaded the source from the dosemu site. It compiled fine and everything in setup seemed to go fine to the point where I tried to run dos. Then I get this error: CPU speed set to 167/1 MHz Running on CPU=586, FPU=1, rdtsc=1 CONF: memcheck - Fatal error. Memory conflict! Memory at 0x16400:0x is mapped to both: 'Base DOS memory (first 640K)' & '(null)' Everywhere I've asked, no one seems to know what it is. Nothing I've read seems to reference any kind of question like this. Does anyone know either how I can make this work or where I can get a .deb of the newest DOSEmu? (97.7 at this point) == | Asher Haig[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Pager/Voice Mail (972) 328-9247 | == "It was like a visit by Don Carleone. I expected to find a bloody computer monitor in my bed the next day." -- Mark Andreessen regarding the visit from Microsoft. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to build Debian Linux cluster?
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 05:15:26PM -0600, Kenneth L. Summers wrote: > > Could you please give more details about that. Imagine I need to update > > some > > package (perl for example) on 6 nodes simultaneously, what do I do? > It was posted a week or so ago, but here's what they said: > a) Install one machine with all the packages you like. > b) Get the selection with > dpkg --get-selections > my.selection > c) Install the next machine > Quit dselect after you specified the access method > d) Add the selection from the other machine with > cat my.selection | dpkg --set-selections > e) Run dselect to install the files Or if you need batch mode > mount /pub/debian under /mnt and then > cd /mnt > dpkg -iGROEB hamm/hamm hamm/contrib hamm/non-free That's good for selecting packages but if you are just updating the things, my suggestion would be a local mirror and apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get clean. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - it's a valid address w/o spam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setup w/large hard drives
On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 11:52:45AM -0400, Randy Edwards wrote: >Then I took the tactic of one huge, multi-gigabyte partition. LILO > refused to > install onto that. > >There is one variable here that I haven't mentioned. This system (SCSI > using > an Adaptec 2920 controller) had a SCSI hard drive as SCSI ID #6, a ZIP drive > as > SCSI ID #5, and a SCSI CD-ROM as SCSI ID #4. In my mind, Linux should have > seen > the hard drive as /dev/sda, correct? In this case, Linux kept putting the ZIP > drive as /dev/sda and the hard drive as /dev/sdb. Is this the source of my > problems? If so, how can one cure that (the Zip drive only allows itself to > be > set as SCSI ID #5 or #6)? The Adaptec BIOS will try to boot (i.e. load lilo) from the lowest id SCSI disk it finds. Try to set your hard drive to id #0. Also put linear in /etc/lilo.conf Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L> Linus Torvalds, W> Winfried Truemper | | L>this is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | W>Umh, oh. What do you mean by "special easter release"?. Will it quit | * W>working today and rise on easter? * pgpwiNY2NpS1x.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Setup w/large hard drives
On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 09:02:16PM -0400, Randy Edwards wrote: >I tried setting up bo on a friend's hard drive today -- actually, > two different hard drives, one IDE and one SCSI, both 3.2 gig drives > which have more than 1024 cylinders. What is the drive the computer boots from? Is ist selectable in the BIOS setup? If not you need to place the master boot record on the one the BIOS tries to boot from. >My first attempt was to create a 64 meg primary partition which was > to be root, then a swap partition, then other partitions. I did this > with Debian's regular installation using cfdisk. However, when it > came time to make a file system and/or mount the root partition, the > system would not list out the first partition. This is strange. Did you try the latest bootdisks? This has however nothing to do with your lilo problem. >Could someone give me a tutorial on how one should deal with large > hard drives with Linux? This should not be a problem anymore provided that a) the drive does support LBA addressing (all but a few older drives will, and yours certainly as IDE drives of that capacity didn't came up much more than a year ago) b) the BIOS does support LBA adressing (and I have yet to see a Pentium Mainboard that does not) If these conditions are fulfilled please forget all what is written about large harddrives and lilo and simply put linear in /etc/lilo.conf (In case you really have an old mainboard, try to get a BIOS upgrade first. If that is not possible, you really need to read the lilo manual carefully, but no short tutorial will cover this) Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L> Linus Torvalds, W> Winfried Truemper | | L>this is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | W>Umh, oh. What do you mean by "special easter release"?. Will it quit | * W>working today and rise on easter? * pgpEZC7qiGYey.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Connecting to a different LAN
On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 11:29:33AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 12:04:25PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian Lynagh > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > > >However, if I take it to a friends LAN which uses IPs 1.0.x.y then will > > >I need to change anything? What's the best way of doing this? > > Something I probably should have mentioned, I don't want my IP address > > to change. I want to be able to ping the 1.0.x.y addresses from my > > 192.168.37.mumble address and vica versa. > > In /etc/init.d/network, add a route to 1.0.x.y on your ethernet with no > gateway. Something like > > route add -net 1.0.x.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 > > should probably do it. Your friend will need to do the same on all his > hosts, or at least on his gateway, if he has one. The real solution here is to use ip aliases. If you have the debian kernel image installed (and are not using a custom one) it is sufficient to use the ip_alias module Let's assume a free IP adresss on your friend's subnet is 1.0.2.3 with netmask 255.255.255.0 then the following will do what you want: # modprobe ip_alias # ifconfig eth0:0 1.0.2.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 1.0.2.255 # route add -net 1.0.2.0 There is no need to do something on the other side. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L> Linus Torvalds, W> Winfried Truemper | | L>this is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | W>Umh, oh. What do you mean by "special easter release"?. Will it quit | * W>working today and rise on easter? * pgpsFuHxiIKVs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ssh question
> ssh CAN replace both rsh and rlogin, To do things as you would with rsh, > you use 'ssh '. The trick is that you must first put the public > keys for each system into either /etc/ssh or your .ssh directory (in the > files ssh_known_keys or known_keys respectively). The easiest way to do > this is to slogin from one machine to the other, and then do the same from > the other machine back again - manually approving authentication each > time (by the way - slogin is just an alias for ssh). yes, but even then ssh asks for a password, I've tried every authentication method described in the ssh man page, but I couldn't get it to login without manual authentication (with rsa keys it asks for the passphrase). The other thing I don't like about ssh is that it doesn't enforce the /etc/login.access /etc/limits or the comment field in /etc/passwd (which allows you to set the priority at which users processes run at).. As I have no real need to have my sessions encrypted, I see no advantage to using ssh over telnet.. pgphOHNgtWMMF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Getting file information
What is the name of the command in debian that shows information about files? Things like last access time, last modification time and so on. I could swear that I once used a command 'stat' for this purpose, but it either wanished, or it never was in debian (might have been in my redhat days).. pgpHPfpphqEMA.pgp Description: PGP signature
XF86Setup not finding where Xfree86 is installed
I have downloaded what I belienve to be all of Xfree86. I have followed the instructions to the letter for installing Xfree86. When I try to run XF86Setup I get an error saying that it could not find where I have installed Xfree86 and that I should set the XWINHOME evironment variable to point to the parent directory. I don't know what they are saying. I put the path statement in my .bash_profile for /usr/X11R6. the only thing that I can think of is that i haven't downloaded the right files. Here is a list of files that I downloaded if this is not right or I need more files let me know. Also on a couple of these files when I extracted them after it seemed they extracted I got a message saying 'Broken Pipe'. This is what I used to extract the files, 'gzip -dc X332bin.tgz | tar xfB - ' that is what they say to use in the HOW-TO. X3321upd.tgz X3328set.tgz X332bin.tgz X332cfg.tgz X332doc.tgz X332fnts.tgz X332jdoc.tgz X332jset.tgz X332lib.tgz X332upd.tgz X332man.tgz X332set.tgz X332upd.tgz Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how do I delete not empty directories
I have been trying to delete directories that are not empty. I try doing a rm -d * but I get a response that the operation is not allowed. I am logged in as root. What am I doing wrong. I am looking something that works like deltree in dos. Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting file information
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: > What is the name of the command in debian that shows information about > files? Things like last access time, last modification time and so on. I > could swear that I once used a command 'stat' for this purpose, but it > either wanished, or it never was in debian (might have been in my redhat > days).. > There's a stat command, it appears to be in its own package in the "utils" section. Havoc Pennington http://pobox.com/~hp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh question
On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 03:28:40PM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote: > yes, but even then ssh asks for a password, I've tried every authentication > method described in the ssh man page, but I couldn't get it to login without > manual authentication rhosts with RSA host authentication is what you wish. Be aware that there had been a ssh verision in the debian archives that didn't try this authentication. The current one is ok. You will need to have the other host id in your ~/.ssh/known_hosts and the name in ~/.shosts Works fine here. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L> Linus Torvalds, W> Winfried Truemper | | L>this is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | W>Umh, oh. What do you mean by "special easter release"?. Will it quit | * W>working today and rise on easter? * pgp9Ee8OKaCN2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how do I delete not empty directories
On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 11:10:45AM -0400, Keith wrote: > I have been trying to delete directories that are not empty. I try doing > a rm -d * but I get a response that the operation is not allowed. I am > logged in as root. What am I doing wrong. I am looking something that > works like deltree in dos. You want rm -r And it's a dangerous command that can wipe your disk if you are not careful. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L> Linus Torvalds, W> Winfried Truemper | | L>this is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | W>Umh, oh. What do you mean by "special easter release"?. Will it quit | * W>working today and rise on easter? * pgpW6oAyWSh1O.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how do I delete not empty directories
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 11:10:45AM -0400, Keith wrote: > > I have been trying to delete directories that are not empty. I try doing > > a rm -d * but I get a response that the operation is not allowed. I am > > logged in as root. What am I doing wrong. I am looking something that > > works like deltree in dos. > You want > rm -r > > And it's a dangerous command that can wipe your disk if you are not careful. A not so dangerous command would be: cd dir rm * cd .. rm dir -Egon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how do I delete not empty directories
Keith wrote: > > I have been trying to delete directories that are not empty. I try doing > a rm -d * but I get a response that the operation is not allowed. I am > logged in as root. What am I doing wrong. I am looking something that > works like deltree in dos. I have no idea how deltree works, but to remove a directory, it's files, and subdirectory(s) and their files & sub-directory(s): rm -rf /path/to/the/directory_you_want_to_be_rid_of will do the job. man rm will tell you about this and other rm capabiliies it detail. > > Keith > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XF86Setup not finding where Xfree86 is installed
Keith wrote: >I have downloaded what I belienve to be all of Xfree86. I have followed >the instructions to the letter for installing Xfree86. When I try to run >XF86Setup I get an error saying that it could not find where I have >installed Xfree86 and that I should set the XWINHOME evironment variable >to point to the parent directory. I presume you have some reason for not installing the Debian packages of X, but the consequence is that you get installation problems. You are also likely to break your system if you then install a Debian X package without entirely removing the ones you have just installed now. Furthermore, if you ask for help, you may get confusing answers, because people will assume a Debian package, with files in particular places. Enough of that... Normally, most of X is under /usr/X11R6; this is probably where it is looking for it. If you have put it (lib, bin) somewhere else, you have to tell it where. The syntax would be export XWINHOME=/usr/X11R6 or whatever the correct path is. You mentioned setting PATH; this was correct, but it only allows the system to find executable programs. Here XF86Setup is asking where to find the other parts of X. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 "My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline and do not resent his rebuke, because the LORD disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in." Proverbs 3:11,12 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XF86Setup not finding where Xfree86 is installed
Why do you don't use the deb packages and let install dselect this for you? A shortcut to gzip and tar would be tar xvpfz *.tgz -Egon On Sun, 10 May 1998, Keith wrote: > I have downloaded what I belienve to be all of Xfree86. I have followed > the instructions to the letter for installing Xfree86. When I try to run > XF86Setup I get an error saying that it could not find where I have > installed Xfree86 and that I should set the XWINHOME evironment variable > to point to the parent directory. I don't know what they are saying. I > put the path statement in my .bash_profile for /usr/X11R6. the only > thing that I can think of is that i haven't downloaded the right files. > Here is a list of files that I downloaded if this is not right or I need > more files let me know. Also on a couple of these files when I extracted > them after it seemed they extracted I got a message saying 'Broken > Pipe'. This is what I used to extract the files, 'gzip -dc X332bin.tgz | > tar xfB - ' that is what they say to use in the HOW-TO. > > X3321upd.tgz > X3328set.tgz > X332bin.tgz > X332cfg.tgz > X332doc.tgz > X332fnts.tgz > X332jdoc.tgz > X332jset.tgz > X332lib.tgz > X332upd.tgz > X332man.tgz > X332set.tgz > X332upd.tgz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: loadlin problem
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > I have a partition on my W95 hard disk with Debian loaded; and I boot via a > floppy. I want to switch to booting from W95/DOS; so I tried loadlin. > Put it into a directory with Linux, root.bin), and tried it. > loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin > > It won't work until one reboots into protected mode DOS first; > unconvenient, but OK. (There are fast reboot tools for windows, seems like > this would be a nicer way to go..) Yes, it does take a while for Win95 to switch to DOS--I seem to recall that the time is increased if one is using DRVSPACE. > > It boots, but then it wants to do setup, more like a rescue/setup disk that > a boot disk. Is there a better way? > > Even then, When I ask it to mount an already initialized partition (option > G), it lists partitions, but not the linux one. If I ask it to list all > partitions, it shows the ext2 Linux partition, but the mount initialized > partion doesn't list it. ?? Here's what I use: d:\loadlin\loadlin d:\loadlin\bzimage root=/dev/hda6 ro This works exactly the same as booting from a floppy or booting Linux directly with LILO. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh question
Thanks for all the replys. The RSA keys method can be made not to ask for anything if you put no passphrase, and that is my question. I can do what I want without a passphrase. But is this safe ?? The man page of ssh-keygen says that if you put no passphrase YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. This is the scary bit. The man page does not bother to explain what the consequences of no passphrase are. Does anyone know ?? Thanks George On Sun, 10 May 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: > > ssh CAN replace both rsh and rlogin, To do things as you would with rsh, > > you use 'ssh '. The trick is that you must first put the public > > keys for each system into either /etc/ssh or your .ssh directory (in the > > files ssh_known_keys or known_keys respectively). The easiest way to do > > this is to slogin from one machine to the other, and then do the same from > > the other machine back again - manually approving authentication each > > time (by the way - slogin is just an alias for ssh). > > yes, but even then ssh asks for a password, I've tried every authentication > method described in the ssh man page, but I couldn't get it to login without > manual authentication (with rsa keys it asks for the passphrase). The other > thing I don't like about ssh is that it doesn't enforce the > /etc/login.access /etc/limits or the comment field in /etc/passwd (which > allows you to set the priority at which users processes run at).. As I have > no real need to have my sessions encrypted, I see no advantage to using ssh > over telnet.. > --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound card support
On Sun, 10 May 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > Dear Debian people, > > How does one configure a sound card, and is the yamaha OPL3-SAx sound > board supported, and if not, If I connect my driver CD to my website, can > someone do a driver, please? Yes, it is supported. You will have to recompile your kernel. Install the kernel source and look at /drivers/sound/Readme.cards. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how do I delete not empty directories
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Keith wrote: > I have been trying to delete directories that are not empty. I try doing > a rm -d * but I get a response that the operation is not allowed. I am > logged in as root. What am I doing wrong. I am looking something that > works like deltree in dos. rm -rf Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XF86Setup not finding where Xfree86 is installed
It is MUCH simpler to install the Debian packages, xbase plus a server, etc. On Sun, 10 May 1998, Keith wrote: > I have downloaded what I belienve to be all of Xfree86. I have followed > the instructions to the letter for installing Xfree86. When I try to run > XF86Setup I get an error saying that it could not find where I have > installed Xfree86 and that I should set the XWINHOME evironment variable > to point to the parent directory. I don't know what they are saying. I > put the path statement in my .bash_profile for /usr/X11R6. the only > thing that I can think of is that i haven't downloaded the right files. > Here is a list of files that I downloaded if this is not right or I need > more files let me know. Also on a couple of these files when I extracted > them after it seemed they extracted I got a message saying 'Broken > Pipe'. This is what I used to extract the files, 'gzip -dc X332bin.tgz | > tar xfB - ' that is what they say to use in the HOW-TO. > > X3321upd.tgz > X3328set.tgz > X332bin.tgz > X332cfg.tgz > X332doc.tgz > X332fnts.tgz > X332jdoc.tgz > X332jset.tgz > X332lib.tgz > X332upd.tgz > X332man.tgz > X332set.tgz > X332upd.tgz Since the linux version of tar supports gzip compression, it would be easier to use 'tar xzf filename.tgz'. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how do I delete not empty directories
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Keith wrote: > I have been trying to delete directories that are not empty. I try doing > a rm -d * but I get a response that the operation is not allowed. I am > logged in as root. What am I doing wrong. I am looking something that > works like deltree in dos. rm -r directoryname will recursively remove "directoryname" and any files or directories in it. WARNING WARNING WARNING This is a dangerous command to run as root, because you can destroy your system and make it unbootable (like doing "deltree c:\" in dos) ... make absolutely sure you want to get rid of whatever's in that tree, and that your system doesn't need any of that stuff to run... Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| -- | You think you're so smart, but I've seen you naked | | and I'll prob'ly see you naked again ... | | --The Barenaked Ladies, "Blame It On Me" | -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NTSC Composite TV Output from X or svgatextmode?
I'm looking for a way to get NTSC composite video from my computer. I know that a number of external converter boxes are available, but I'd rather have it come directly from the video card, if possible. Do any cards support this under Linux? I tried an ATI Xpression PC2TV card, and it only worked in 80x25 text mode -- and looked like crap on my TV. I'd rather use 40x25 for this, or possibly 320x200 under X. I'm developing a custom home theater application under Linux... Thanks Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how do I delete not empty directories
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > On Sun, 10 May 1998, Keith wrote: > > > I have been trying to delete directories that are not empty. I try doing > > a rm -d * but I get a response that the operation is not allowed. I am > > logged in as root. What am I doing wrong. I am looking something that > > works like deltree in dos. > > rm -r directoryname > > will recursively remove "directoryname" and any files or > directories in it. > WARNING WARNING WARNING > This is a dangerous command to run as root, because you can > destroy your system and make it unbootable (like doing "deltree c:\" in > dos) ... make absolutely sure you want to get rid of whatever's in that > tree, and that your system doesn't need any of that stuff to run... > > Will Good point. It's actually a dangerous thing to do period. It's not a question of if you will one day trash crucial stuff, it's when. I reccoment you make up a ~/recycle directory or something like it and then use mv -R whatever ~/tmp. > > > -- > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | > | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | > |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| > -- > | You think you're so smart, but I've seen you naked | > | and I'll prob'ly see you naked again ... | > | --The Barenaked Ladies, "Blame It On Me" | > -- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting file information
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: > What is the name of the command in debian that shows information about > files? Things like last access time, last modification time and so on. I > could swear that I once used a command 'stat' for this purpose, but it > either wanished, or it never was in debian (might have been in my redhat > days).. > ls -l Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| -- | You think you're so smart, but I've seen you naked | | and I'll prob'ly see you naked again ... | | --The Barenaked Ladies, "Blame It On Me" | -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how do I delete not empty directories
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Britton wrote: > Good point. It's actually a dangerous thing to do period. It's not a > question of if you will one day trash crucial stuff, it's when. I Yes, I've done this a few times, so I was speaking from experience. Always manage to do it when a project's on my drive, to ... Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| -- | You think you're so smart, but I've seen you naked | | and I'll prob'ly see you naked again ... | | --The Barenaked Ladies, "Blame It On Me" | -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how do I delete not empty directories
Dear all, Is it essential to send pgp sigs with everything? I can't remove them with pine before I save the message, and they eat into my space on cus... Thanks :) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward-elect of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libc6 package
Hi, I'm trying to do an upgrade from my libc5 system to libc6 ! I already used the autoup.sh script but unfortunally I still had the error on 'w' command: $ w bad data in /var/run/utmp $ This happens when I make the libc5 (version 5.4.38) upgrade ! So, I'm trying to upgrade from an older version (in my case it's 5.4.33-3) that hasn't that error (I think is the change of struct from the utmp file) but I still not found a libc6 package that could accept libc5 package ! So, I'm trying to find a libc6 package which could I install with this libc5 package ! What I'm doing wrong !? What should I do ? Could someone tell me where could I get that package ? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho P.S. I'm using Debian Linux 1.3.1 Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho Dep. Informatics Engineering University of Coimbra PORTUGAL http://student.dei.uc.pt/~nemanuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stupid question for the day
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Randy Edwards wrote: >I've looked and apropros'ed myself to near death, but nowhere can I > find out what that command is to automagically set up a program in > /etc/init.d to run properly at the various run levels. Last time I I don't think there is one. > set one up I did it manually and would like to avoid that this time. > The program I want to run is simply a series of ipfwadm calls to set > up my masquerading, I do this in /etc/init.d/networks -- just add them to the end of the file. Of course, this won't work if you want to do it only in certain runlevels. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| -- | You think you're so smart, but I've seen you naked | | and I'll prob'ly see you naked again ... | | --The Barenaked Ladies, "Blame It On Me" | -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting file information
Norbert Veber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the name of the command in debian that shows information about > files? Things like last access time, last modification time and so on. I > could swear that I once used a command 'stat' for this purpose ls -l gives some of this info. Read the manpage for ls - there are many options that will get much of this information. stat is a C function call that gives all available information about a file. There is also a package stat: Package: stat Priority: optional Section: utils Installed-Size: 21 Maintainer: Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 1.1-3 Depends: libc6 Filename: dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/utils/stat_1.1-3.deb Size: 6038 MD5sum: d580977d0b9c661b4718da715d883274 Description: wrapper for stat() call Display all information about a file that the stat() call provides. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IPX and Soundcard - loadable modules?
Dear Debian, I need support for a soundcard and IPX. I have been informed by some helpful people that I need to recompile and include support for these. Can I do this via loadable modules, or do I need to recompile (which is scarey for a newbie - how do I do it?) Thanks for your time, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward-elect of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IPX and Soundcard - loadable modules?
hi, Mr. or Ms. Vernon, here is what I did for Debian 2.0 kernel re-compiling. FAQ from debian willl surely help. URL=http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/debian-faq-10.html #you have to be root or alike. #change to where you installed the kernel source. #linux is a symbolic link to your kernel source. Mine is kernel-source-2.0.33 cd /usr/src/linux #answer 'y' to sound support and '?' to see help make config # start to compile kernel. It may take quite a while on a 486. make-kpkg --revision 2 --zImage #make-kpkg is supposed to make a .deb file. But, it didn't on mine. #otherwise you may install the new kernel like just another debian package. make dep #for the illusionary make modules make modules_install #you many need to do this if you have choose to run as modules. cp /boot/System.map-2.0.33 /boot/System.map.old cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.0.33 cd /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot #where zImage locates. cp zImage /boot/vmlinuz.new cp zImage /dev/fd0 #to make a bootable floppy with the new kernel vi /etc/lilo.conf # to reflect change #keep the old one untouched: a good practice. #and try it out without doing anythign real /sbin/lilo -Nv # run lilo for real, in verbose mode. /sbin/lilo -v #reboot with new kernel. shutdown -r now #after several days of trial running. cd /usr/src/linux make clean Good luck. YU, Zhongbin In Nature I believe:-) Chem. Dept., Emory University | Surface Chem. Lab, Fudan U. http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~zyu | Shanghai, 200433 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Tel: (404)251-9072 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 10 May 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > Dear Debian, > > I need support for a soundcard and IPX. I have been informed by > some helpful people that I need to recompile and include support for > these. > > Can I do this via loadable modules, or do I need to recompile > (which is scarey for a newbie - how do I do it?) > > Thanks for your time, > > Matthew > > -- > Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo > > Steward-elect of the Cambridge Tolkien Society > Selwyn College Computer Support > http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ > http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ > http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to build Debian Linux cluster?
> > That's good for selecting packages but if you are > just updating the things, my suggestion would be a > local mirror and apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && > apt-get clean. > What is apt-get? I can't find any references to it anywhere on my system... Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh question
On Sun, 10 May 1998, G. Kapetanios wrote: > > Thanks for all the replys. The RSA keys method can be made not to ask for > anything if you put no passphrase, and that is my question. I can do what > I want without a passphrase. But is this safe ?? > The man page of ssh-keygen says that if you put no passphrase YOU SHOULD > KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. This is the scary bit. The man page does not > bother to explain what the consequences of no passphrase are. Does anyone > know ?? > Thanks > George >From my understanding (which is far from complete) ssh does its main authentication via two public/private keys (one for the server and one for the client). When you first connect via ssh there is a chalenge/answer session that goes on so that the server can confirm the identity of the client. Once this is confimed the session is encrypted and from there it is just like rsh. So the passphrase prompt you see is the same as you would get when using rsh from an untrusted client. Thus if the client truely is a 'trusted' host then you can set it up so that you don't need to enter the passphrase. This is alot safer than using rsh from a 'trusted' host, as you are not open to spoof attacks (where some other machine pretends to be the trusted host). On the other hand, I'm sure there are some *extremely* complicated ways to abuse the trust of the server to gain entry to the system from somewhere else - but if you trust your network enough to use rsh with no passphrase, then you will have no worries about using ssh with no passphrase. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tulip Network drive
> (Alex Yukhimets) wrote:
> >
> > > Does the hamm/kernel_2.0.33 include the Tulip network drive?
> >
> > Yes, but you may need to download and compile newer version of the "tulip"
> > driver depending on the particular card you use. (I had to.)
> I have a NetGear 10/100 Fast Ethenet Card. Does this require
> a newer version of the "tulip"?
No idea :)
I would give a 50/50 chance. You will see whether your card will _work_.
(It will be recognized by the kernel in any case).
In general, refer to http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html
This is _the_source_ of the information about tulip driver.
Goos luck.
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Re: how do I delete not empty directories
> I have been trying to delete directories that are not empty. I try doing
> a rm -d * but I get a response that the operation is not allowed. I am
> logged in as root. What am I doing wrong. I am looking something that
> works like deltree in dos.
rm -rf dirname
In general, refer to "man rm", or "man ". They have ALL the answers.
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Re: How to build Debian Linux cluster?
On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 05:16:09PM -0600, Kenneth L. Summers wrote: > > That's good for selecting packages but if you are > > just updating the things, my suggestion would be a > > local mirror and apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && > > apt-get clean. > What is apt-get? I can't find any references to it anywhere on my system... It's the backbone for Apt, a replacement for dselect (The (G)UI is still in development, although the snapshot looked great.) Look at project/experimental. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - it's a valid address w/o spam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tulip Network drive
Yo- > > > > Does the hamm/kernel_2.0.33 include the Tulip network drive? > > > > > > Yes, but you may need to download and compile newer version of the "tulip" > > > driver depending on the particular card you use. (I had to.) > > > I have a NetGear 10/100 Fast Ethenet Card. Does this require > > a newer version of the "tulip"? > > No idea :) > I would give a 50/50 chance. You will see whether your card will _work_. > (It will be recognized by the kernel in any case). > In general, refer to http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html > This is _the_source_ of the information about tulip driver. I have the same network card. Driver support is included in kernels higher than 2.0.32. So if you are using 2.0.33 all you have to do is compile in support for the card. Don Becker's driver works great and it will still auto-sense the "spped" of your network and adjust itself accordingly. -Ian _ Ian K. Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] H: 940.566.0461 Pgr: 817.901.0255 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to build Debian Linux cluster?
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Kenneth L. Summers wrote: > What is apt-get? I can't find any references to it anywhere on my system... Like someone's already said, it's the new package manager interface backend. I'd suggest you get it from project/experimental. It can be used as a method for dselect (after installing apt-get, hit the "access" command in dselect) and it seems to be much faster and niftier. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| -- | You think you're so smart, but I've seen you naked | | and I'll prob'ly see you naked again ... | | --The Barenaked Ladies, "Blame It On Me" | -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
