lp connection refused
I have LPRng installed on my Debian 1.3.1 system. I had magicfilter installed, but it did not filter ps files (or I dind't set it up, which is more likely). Anyway, I removed the magicfilter package and installed APSfilter, because it has that neat-o setup script. After installing that, I cannot print. When I try to "lp file" I get the following error: connection to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed - Connection refused job 'cfA304localhost' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed after 1 attempts And I dunno why this is. I also did a "ps ax | grep lp" and there is no lpd running! I su'd to root, then manually ran /usr/sbin/lpd, and still, lpd does not run! Why is this? Thanks for any help! Matt -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Configuring smail
Try "TulipTree". I don't think _'s are legal in host names although they work with many programs. On Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 01:18:34AM -, John L. Way wrote: > When installing and configuring smail (3.2.0.92-3) with dselect, I get > an error msg: > > setting up smail > Please upgrade your smail config file > Error: system's FQDN hostname (Tulip_Tree) doesn't match > RFC1035 syntax; cannot configure the mail system. > > What do I do now? > John Way. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: problem with RealPlayer 5
Are you running NAS? I had the same problems until I killed NAS. cd /etc/init.d; sudo ./nas stop On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 12:10:39AM -0500, Xiaonan Ma wrote: > > I just updated the system to hamm and tried to install rvplayer5.0, > however I can't make it work. After dpkg -i rvplayer_5.0-2.deb > and set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH virable, first I tried to run rvplayer > directly with the included welcome.rm, but no sound was played out > (I can cat *.au > /dev/audio and it's fine). Actually it only showed > a few images after I clicked some menu button (such as preferences). > When I chosed File->Open Location->pnm://video.real.com/welcome.rm, > it said "playing 19.1 Kbps network stream ..." but did nothing. > I also tried to use it in netscape(4.04) following the instruction, > however, it was even worse, I got error messages like > "sh: rvplayer/tmp/MO35BAB6600D010B.ram: No such file or directory", which > I don't understand at all. > > Could anyone give some suggestion? Thanks a lot in advance. > > Xiaonan > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Printer.................
Hi, Im looking for a graphical interface for having my printer "under control". What would be a good software?? I dont understand good the difference between lpr and lprng. What are the difference?? Is one "better'' than other ?? Im using magicfilter. And have a cannon 4100 printer. In the filters option is only the filter named canon 600. It works, but a little slow. Windows95 has a cacnon4100 driver and print much more faster. I cannot print in colors too. where can i get a canon 4100 filter for magicfilter?? Thanks, Phillip Neumann. [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Win95 and Win98 can do it. Re: Question about screen size in X and questions about Netscape
Hey, it works both ways. Say I'm in 1600x1200 and using Netscape and I'm looking at cool screenshots of some guy's enlightenment or windowmaker desktop and the jpg is 1600x1200. I can switch to 1800x1440 and Netscape will be maximised for me when the mode switch is complete so that I can see the entire desktop picture. iAlexey Vyskubov wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 12:31:48PM -0700, Christopher Barry wrote: > > > Netscape would automatically be maximised on screen. You don't need to > > cram 1024 points into 640, you just need the mode switching in X up to > > Windows 95 standards for God's sake so that it is intelligent enough to > > resize windows for you. > > For God's sake Linux do not think it's clever than I. > When I change screen resoulution to 880x660 from 1024x768 I do it because I > want to see a part of my screen BIGGER, not because I like bigger screen dot, > as > Winduze guess. > > -- > Alexey Vyskubov -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Balsa.................
Hi, Im trying to compile Balsa, a gnome-email program. But i have some troubles. Is "balsa" avaible as a debian package?? If not how can i compile it? It trought me the folowing message after doing make: gcc -g -O2 -I../c-client -c main.c -o main.o main.c:18: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory In file included from error.h:23, from main.c:19: main_window.h:23: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory In file included from main.c:20: index_interface.h:21: gdk/gdk.h: No such file or directory In file included from postoffice.h:21, from index_interface.h:22, from main.c:20: mail_structs.h:21: glib.h: No such file or directory mail_structs.h:27: mail.h: No such file or directory mail_structs.h:28: osdep.h: No such file or directory mail_structs.h:29: rfc822.h: No such file or directory mail_structs.h:30: smtp.h: No such file or directory make: *** [main.o] Error 1 Should i get some libs fisrt?? I have : gnome-core, desktop, media, panel and terminal. Also imlib 1.7 with imlib-dev and base. --- Thanks for help, Phillip Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PS: a, other quick question what is gnome-desktop for?? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: any risk in using /home/root
there's one other small cosideration that I can think of. While I don't do this, I know some people keep scripts/binaries for sysadmin use in /root. If any of these are suid then you'll have a problem if you mount /home as nosuid (something that I do). I sometimes have an suid program in /root if I'm trying out a new version of a system utility (mount, for example). This type of thing can be difficult to find. (As you can tell, I got burned by this once :-). On 26 Jul 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > On: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 10:43:55 +0800 Jieyao writes: > > > > I have one partition which I had mounted as /home. I figured that > > since this is gonna store user information and files, I might as > > well put the root home there too. So I created /home/root and > > change /root to a symbolic link to /home/root Is there any security > > risk in doing this? > > > > One problem that I can think of is if there is any serious problem > > and the other partition can't mount than probably root can > ^^^ > > login. This is correct? > > I assume you meant "can't" here ;-) > > If the home directory of some user don't exists, it is automatically > logged on with HOME=/ (I just tried it with root). The only problem > would be the unusual environment if you used to define some helpful > aliases and shell functions. But a sysadmin should be able to work > without these. > > A bigger problem would be a shell that lies on a separate partition > (such as /usr), this is the only reason I still use /bin/bash as login > shell for root (otherwise /usr/bin/zsh would be my favorite). > > I can't see any other problem with the root's home directory on a > separate partition, if you used the correct file and directory > permissions. > > Torsten -- kc Kevin Conover: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Balsa.................
On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, phillip Neumann wrote: > > Im trying to compile Balsa, a gnome-email program. But i have some > troubles. Is "balsa" avaible as a debian package?? If not how can i > compile it? It trought me the folowing message after doing make: > Looks like you don't have Gtk installed. This is a bad sign. :-) Balsa and the rest of Gnome is very alpha software, and you are going to have to do a lot of reading docs and know something about automake/autoconf, libraries, headers, gcc options and environment variables. If you aren't interested in development you are probably better off just waiting a while. Balsa is not useful for reading email yet. (This is why there's no Debian package.) > Should i get some libs fisrt?? I have : gnome-core, desktop, media, > panel and terminal. Also imlib > 1.7 with imlib-dev and base. > You should probably read the directions on www.gnome.org. You will need glib, gtk+, and gnome-libs, the three core gnome libraries. > PS: a, other quick question what is gnome-desktop for?? > ??? What do you mean? desktop-properties? desktop-links? Havoc Pennington http://pobox.com/~hp -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Mission-critical upgrades
>Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 00:33:26 +1000 (EST)
>From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Upgrade to 2.0
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>Hi,
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>Just a question:
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>I have an EXTREMELY important machine running debian 1.3. I can't afford
>this machine to be down for an extended period of time, nor for massive
>reconfiguring. I would, however, like to upgrade to 2.0. Is it possible
Anything is possible with appropriate planning.
For machines that are as important as make this one sound, you should
probably spend some timec thinking about WHY you want to upgrade and what
your VIS(Very Important System) will gain by the upgrade.
If you're just doing this to keep up with jones.com, it may not be that
good of an idea to begin with.
What's "an extended period of time" ? An hour or two?, overnight? a
day?
>From tghe sounds of it, I'm guessing vyou might have to pull this off in a
few hours. If this is the case, I'd probably clone a 2.0 install on a
seperate hard disk and then test that out on another machine.
If it works, just swap your drives, notifying whatever passes for your
PROM monitor or loader of any changes it needs to know about and then boot
it. If all goes well, you can just mount your old drive onto /mnt or
something and copy stuff over (config files, licensing, etc.) to
taste/need.
The key to anything like this is planning. Memorize the install dox for
your particular config and *ALWAYS* give yourself a way to bail and
recover back to the old system.Scope it out in enough detail ahead of time
and you can probably have it booting 2.0 with only about an hour of
downtime.
You've neglected to mention your architecture("Debian:It's not just for
Intel anymore!") so I'm afraid I can't be any more specific than that.
HTH,
Armadillo
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Re: problem with RealPlayer 5
No, I commented out S20nas from /etc/rc2.d sometime ago since I found it launched /usr/X11R6/bin/au and occupied /dev/dsp (so when I cat *.au > /dev/audio it would report device busy). But I am still having that problem, what else can I do? On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > Are you running NAS? I had the same problems until I killed NAS. > > cd /etc/init.d; sudo ./nas stop > > On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 12:10:39AM -0500, Xiaonan Ma wrote: > > > > I just updated the system to hamm and tried to install rvplayer5.0, > > however I can't make it work. After dpkg -i rvplayer_5.0-2.deb > > and set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH virable, first I tried to run rvplayer > > directly with the included welcome.rm, but no sound was played out > > (I can cat *.au > /dev/audio and it's fine). Actually it only showed > > a few images after I clicked some menu button (such as preferences). > > When I chosed File->Open Location->pnm://video.real.com/welcome.rm, > > it said "playing 19.1 Kbps network stream ..." but did nothing. > > I also tried to use it in netscape(4.04) following the instruction, > > however, it was even worse, I got error messages like > > "sh: rvplayer/tmp/MO35BAB6600D010B.ram: No such file or directory", which > > I don't understand at all. > > > > Could anyone give some suggestion? Thanks a lot in advance. > > > > Xiaonan > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- > Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) > Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: startup info
Richard wrote: > > This works for redhat: > Edit innitab and put in --noclear as follows in the relevant line. > > 1:12345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 --noclear > > After bootup the screen is not cleared for login, you can then > use shift pageup to see all the bootup text. A trick I found > on the RH list. (not tested it on deb yet as I am waiting for > my 2.0 cd before changing over) > > Regards all > Richard > > Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Robert Rati wrote: > > > > > > Can someone tell me where all the information at startup is logged? Dmesg > > > doesn't show me enough of the info. Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > This comes up occasionally, and the answer is that, unfortunately, > > not > > all of what is printed during boot-up is saved in logs. True, but mingetty isn't the standard getty used by debian. The standard getty doesn't clear the screen anyway. I'm not sure that the --noclear switch even applies to it (--noclear is a mingetty switch). I was referring to the fact that not everything that is printed during boot-up is stored in a log file anywhere. This was an issue that came up a couple of months ago in this list. There is currently no way to 'fix' this problem (would require major, non-trivial kernel hack - and maybe just isn't possible). -- Ed -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: startup info
On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 09:48:13PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > True, but mingetty isn't the standard getty used by debian. The > standard getty doesn't clear the screen anyway. I'm not sure that the > --noclear switch even applies to it (--noclear is a mingetty switch). I > was referring to the fact that not everything that is printed during > boot-up is stored in a log file anywhere. This was an issue that came > up a couple of months ago in this list. There is currently no way to > 'fix' this problem (would require major, non-trivial kernel hack - and > maybe just isn't possible). I thought it was found to be possible to have the entry in init for the startup scripts pipe the output in to tee, which can then write it to both a file and the console? That should capture almost everything. 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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: logged out automatically because of excess idle time
I am using tcsh, and I put "unset autologout" in to /etc/csh.login. However, my session got killed again just a while ago. Is what I did for the autologout variable correct? One thing I noticed is that autologout will log the session out in almost exactly the number of minutes set by autologout, and displayed the message "auto-logout". But my system logged me out without the message (it did send a mail from root to me with subject "excess idle time"), and it only happened at **:*0 (12:10, 18:50, etc.). Thanks. On Sun, 26 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | > | echo $TMOUT > | > | >From the bash manpage: > | > | TMOUT If set to a value greater than zero, the value is > | interpreted as the number of seconds to wait for > | input after issuing the primary prompt. Bash ter > | minates after waiting for that number of seconds if > | input does not arrive. > | > > > For tcsh shell the autologout variable controls the same thing. > > And from the tcsh man page: > >autologout (+) >The first word is the number of minutes of inac >tivity before automatic logout. The optional sec >ond word is the number of minutes of inactivity >before automatic locking. When the shell automat >ically logs out, it prints `auto-logout', sets the >variable logout to `automatic' and exits. When >the shell automatically locks, the user is >required to enter his password to continue work >ing. Five incorrect attempts result in automatic >logout. Set to `60' (automatic logout after 60 >minutes, and no locking) by default in login and >superuser shells, but not if the shell thinks it >is running under a window system (i.e. the DISPLAY >environment variable is set), the tty is a pseudo- >tty (pty) or the shell was not so compiled (see >the version shell variable). See also the afsuser >and logout shell variables. > > -- > Brian > > Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: startup info
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 09:48:13PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > True, but mingetty isn't the standard getty used by debian. The > > standard getty doesn't clear the screen anyway. I'm not sure that the > > --noclear switch even applies to it (--noclear is a mingetty switch). I > > was referring to the fact that not everything that is printed during > > boot-up is stored in a log file anywhere. This was an issue that came > > up a couple of months ago in this list. There is currently no way to > > 'fix' this problem (would require major, non-trivial kernel hack - and > > maybe just isn't possible). > > I thought it was found to be possible to have the entry in init for > the startup scripts pipe the output in to tee, which can then write > it to both a file and the console? That should capture almost everything. > > Hamish The conversation on this list earlier seemed to suggest that the earliest bootup messages from the kernel couldn't be captured in such a way because the underlying system routines to do so weren't yet in existence. So, I took the gist to be that the earlier messages couldn't be saved. -- Ed -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
apsfilter printcap doesn't work
I removed the magicfilter package from my system, and installed apsfilter instead. I have used apsfilter in the past with success on my slackware system. However, after I installed it, I cannot print anything. For instance, if I type "lp file.txt", I get the following message: no printcap for printer 'ascii' job 'cfA962localhost' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed after 1 attempts What does this mean, and how do I fix this? Here is what my /etc/printcap file looks like: # begin /etc/printcap ascii|lp1|epson-letter-ascii-mono|epson ascii mono:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/epson-letter-ascii-mono:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/epson-letter-ascii-mono/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/epson-letter-ascii-mono/acct:\ :if=/usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-epson-letter-ascii-mono:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: # lp|lp2|epson-letter-auto-mono|epson auto mono:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/epson-letter-auto-mono:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/epson-letter-auto-mono/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/epson-letter-auto-mono/acct:\ :if=/usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-epson-letter-auto-mono:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: # lp3|epson-letter-ascii-color|epson ascii color:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/epson-letter-ascii-color:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/epson-letter-ascii-color/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/epson-letter-ascii-color/acct:\ :if=/usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-epson-letter-ascii-color:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: # lp4|epson-letter-auto-color|epson auto color:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/epson-letter-auto-color:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/epson-letter-auto-color/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/epson-letter-auto-color/acct:\ :if=/usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-epson-letter-auto-color:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: # raw|lp5|epson-letter-raw|epson auto raw:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/epson-raw:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/epson-raw/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/epson-raw/acct:\ :if=/usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-epson-letter-raw:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: # end of /etc/printcap Any hints? Thanks! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Win95 and Win98 can do it. Re: Question about screen size in X and questions about Netscape
Christopher Barry wrote: > When I was using Windows 95 I downloaded the "power toy" quickres and I > was able to switch between multiple color depths and resolutions on the > fly and all the windows would properly resize themselves. If I was using > 1600x1200 and with Netscape maximised on screen and came to a web page > with a lot of fine print, I could just quickres to 1280x1024 and > Netscape would automatically be maximised on screen. You don't need to > cram 1024 points into 640, you just need the mode switching in X up to > Windows 95 standards for God's sake so that it is intelligent enough to > resize windows for you. This is what we lose by separating X into components like X servers and window managers. The components arn't too closely tied together and cannot communicate in some ways - for example a window manager doesn't get notified when you change resolutions in X [1]. We gain a hell of a lot though. Choices of different window managers. Even the ability to run the X server on one computer and the window manager on another. I think it's worth it. -- see shy jo [1] I assume - I don't know X internals. As you may tell by my probable misuse of the term "X server" ;-) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: mt and Colorado Jumbo 250 problems
> Well, that's not quite the device you want to use anyway. If you're > trying to position the tape, you need to use /dev/nrft0. This is the > "non-rewinding" device. When you use /dev/rft0, it rewinds after every > operation. Yes, that seems to be working now. Thanks. :) 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" | -- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
where is pari?
Hello - I'm interested in getting pari. It used to be possible to get it from www.debian.org. Where is it now? Also, what is the easiest way to install .deb packages so that files are placed in the right directories. Dan Golosovker [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: where is pari?
*-Frederick Stanley (26 Jul) | | Also, what is the easiest way to install .deb packages so that files are | placed in the right directories. dpkg -i .deb -- Brian Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
looking for info from dpkg
G'day -- Could anyone tell me if there is an option in dpkg command line which will tell me what packages are _not_ used and/or needed but already installed? I have recently discovered hat I had isapnp-related package installed on my system, but I do not recall ever putting that package on the system (it may have come during initial install from floppies, who knows..). When I purged it I had no problems whatsoever, specially in the view that I do not have any cards that would not work without it. Now my curiosity would not let me alone until I find out if there are any other packages on the system (installed and not needed) Any info or pointer to the info is welcome, TIA damir -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: logged out automatically because of excess idle time
/etc/autolog.conf: # Enter a regular expression for the username, group and tty line. # All three expressions must be matched before the rest of the line will # be applied to any process. If the process has been idle (or connected) # more than "idle" minutes, autolog will attempt to kill the process. If # idle=0, the process is exempt. If "nowarn" is asserted, the user will # not be warned that it is about to be killed. After "grace" seconds, # autolog will attempt to kill the process. If "mail" is asserted, mail # will be sent to the user telling how his process met its end. If "hard" # is asserted, the process will be killed after "idle" minutes # of total session time (rather than idle time). name=root line=tty[1-7] idle=0 name=guest idle=5 grace=60 nomail hard name=ppp-.* line=ttyS2 idle=0 # line=pty.* idle=30 grace=30 nomail nolog group=games idle=10 grace=60 group=lynx.* idle=10 grace=60 clear #idle=60 Worked for me, dunno if this has been answered yet or not... later, troy Troy Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dakota.net/~troy Xiaonan Ma wrote: > > After updated the system, now when I logged in and started X, > the system always automatically logged me out saying "no keyboard > touch for 63 minutes ...", even though I did work under X (looks like > it only checked the tty which I logged in on). I checked > /var/spool/cron/crontab but didn't find the reason. What should I > do to avoid this? > > Thanks. > > xiaonan > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: logged out automatically because of excess idle time
That's it. Now it has stopped killing. Thanks for all your help. regards xiaonan On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Troy wrote: > /etc/autolog.conf: > # Enter a regular expression for the username, group and tty line. > # All three expressions must be matched before the rest of the line > will > # be applied to any process. If the process has been idle (or > connected) > # more than "idle" minutes, autolog will attempt to kill the > process. If > # idle=0, the process is exempt. If "nowarn" is asserted, the user > will > # not be warned that it is about to be killed. After "grace" > seconds, > # autolog will attempt to kill the process. If "mail" is asserted, > mail > # will be sent to the user telling how his process met its end. If > "hard" > # is asserted, the process will be killed after "idle" minutes > # of total session time (rather than idle time). > > name=root line=tty[1-7] idle=0 > name=guest idle=5 grace=60 nomail hard > name=ppp-.* line=ttyS2 idle=0 > # line=pty.* idle=30 grace=30 nomail nolog > group=games idle=10 grace=60 > group=lynx.* idle=10 grace=60 clear > #idle=60 > > > Worked for me, dunno if this has been answered yet or not... > > later, > troy > > Troy Hanson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.dakota.net/~troy > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Printing problems
Ian Lynagh wrote: > > Hi all! > > I was wondering if anyone could help me resolve a printing prblem > I have got? > > I have an HP LaserJet 4L. If I do > lpr textfile.txt > then it works fine. However, printing in lyx appears to work fine, > but nothing is printed :-( [snip] > > Save your money - someday it may be worth something. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Are you using the 'lpr' package or the 'lprng' package? I had the same problem when using the 'lprng' package. I switched back to the regular 'lpr' and the problem was solved. Its kind of a lame way to fix it but it works. If you need to keep 'lprng' then there is another package for HP printers called 'cti-ifhp' (I think) that might help. Mark. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Debian-M68K install problems
Hans-Olov Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > This is my first post to the list and I hope someone out there can help me? > (Tell me if i should send this to the m68k-list instead.) > > I boot Debian with "root.bin" which automagically runs the installer. After > I've entered the path to were my archives are and the file "resc1440.bin" I > get this requester and these error-messages: > > Unable to mount the Rescue Floppy. > > affs_bmap(): No ext_cache!? > loop: block 0 not present > end_request: I/O error, dev 07:00 sector 0 > FAT bread failed > Mount /dev/loop0 (type ms-dos) on /floppy: wrong filesystemtype or bad > superblock on /dev/loop0 > > Anyone who know what's wrong? Try to copy the files to an ext2 partition. It seems that loopback filesystems have problems with affs. May the Source be with you. Mrvn -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: any risk in using /home/root
-> there's one other small cosideration that I can think of. While I don't -> do this, I know some people keep scripts/binaries for sysadmin use in -> /root. If any of these are suid then you'll have a problem if you mount -> /home as nosuid (something that I do). I sometimes have an suid program -> in /root if I'm trying out a new version of a system utility (mount, for -> example). This type of thing can be difficult to find. (As you can tell, -> I got burned by this once :-). hmmm maybe i'd mount /home as noexec too... users could hate it cause it would prevent from using scripts and e.g. links to ssh (like fantomas.fantomas.sk. -> /usr/bin/ssh which would call ssh to fantomas.fantomas.sk) but that might be security advantage...imo -- Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at NETLAB+ Kosice, Slovakia BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
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Re: Problems with kernels 2.1.110 & 2.1.111
> > > found that I am getting the following error(s) whenever I boot: > > > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 40k freed > > ===> stuck on smp_invalidate_needed IPI wait (CPU#0) > > Adding Swap: 130748k swap-space (priority -1) > > > > I have exactly the same problem here (GA 686 LX2 Dual PII 266, NE2000 Clone, > NCR810, Matrox Mill. II AGP). > > My observations: > 2.1.10[3-9] seemed to have worked reliable. > 2.1.110 sometimes freezes badly (3 times in 2 days) during parallel > compilation > jobs (no log-file entry, only cold-start possible). Afterwards, the partitions > which were used during these compilation jobs are corrupted. > 2.1.111 hangs with the symptoms described above. > > Ralf. > I applied the pre-2.1.112-1 patch, and have not had this problem since. So... It appears they've fixed the problem in the pre-2.1.112 patch. Taren -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: logged out automatically because of excess idle time
It is in Extra/Admin, so it shouldn't be installed automatically. If it is, the package name is autolog. later, troy Troy Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dakota.net/~troy George Bonser wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Xiaonan Ma wrote: > > > > > That's it. Now it has stopped killing. Thanks for all your help. > > > > regards > > xiaonan > > > > Question ... did you install that package or was it preselected for you? > I really don't care for people doing me these kinds of "favors". If it is > preselected, I need to know before I do any installs so I can make sure > that I turn that bloody thing off. > > George Bonser > > Microsoft! Which end of the stick do you want today? > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: startup info
On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 10:09:14PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I thought it was found to be possible to have the entry in init for > > the startup scripts pipe the output in to tee, which can then write > > it to both a file and the console? That should capture almost everything. > > > > Hamish > > > The conversation on this list earlier seemed to suggest that the > earliest bootup messages from the kernel couldn't be captured in such a > way because the underlying system routines to do so weren't yet in > existence. So, I took the gist to be that the earlier messages couldn't > be saved. The kernel saves everything until init starts (and later kernel messages) and they can be retrieved with dmesg, and they are sent to klogd. What else is missing? 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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Bill Wohler: Linux security tips
In a recent Usenix login; magazine, an article on security noted the following configurations for Linux. I noticed that most are already in place in my 2.0.33 kernel (I haven't upgraded to hamm yet, but soon!) I couldn't find mention of the last one (CONFIG_SECURE_STACK) anywhere. Has this already been folded into the kernel? If not, perhaps it should be considered. --- Forwarded Message To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Linux security tips From:Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:Tue, 02 Jun 1998 07:57:36 -0700 To prevent Linux from forwarding any packets, recompile the kernel with the option CONFIG_IP_FORWARD off. To prevent forwarding any source-routed packets or accepting any source routed packets destined for itself, use CONFIG_IP_NOSR on. To defend against SYN flooding, use CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES or CONFIG_RST_COOKIES on. To prevent responding to pings altogether, use CONFIG_IP_IGNORE_ECHO_REQUESTS on. If firewall, use CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG on to protect machines behind it from IP fragmentation attacks. To mark the stack as nonexecutable apply patch at www.false.com/security/linux/secure-linux.tar.gz and use CONFIG_SECURE_STACK on. Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs. If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. --- End of Forwarded Message -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Incorrect behavior with close-on-exec and dup?
Perhaps one of you might be a little more knowledgeable than I. A friend of mine asked me if the following were true: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Steinbroner) > > "Linux does the wrong thing with the close-on-exec > flag when you dup()licate a file descriptor - Linux's behavior in this > case violates the POSIX standard." > > -- hesh Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs. If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: Graphical Linux Logo on boot
You can have a look at the linuxlogo (or something like this) package. It displays the penguin at the login screen. I like it. Franck >Hello, >I am wondering if there is any Linux version of the boot >screen like in Win95. So as linux is booting instead of seeing >all that informtion it will > be a graphical image of Linux or something. If there isn't one >I would like to make one. Is it even possibly to make it? >Will I have to modify the > kernel or what? > >Curt -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: From RH 5.1 to Debian
> > > On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Robert Lyonnais wrote: > > Is there an easy (I guess I mean > > straightforward) way to go from RH 5.1 to Debian 2.0 without a format > > being required in between. > > > > If this is possible, are there any disadvantages? Would I be better > > off doing an instal from scratch? > > > There actually is a recipe on how to do this on http://www.netgod.net/, did anyone on the list try this? HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
gdb problems
Hi, my gdb seems to be having problems lately. I need to make SIGSEGV a "nostop" and "noprint" for gdb, but it's refusing to do it, lately. Take a look: GNU gdb 4.17 Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i586-pc-linux-gnu". (gdb) handle nostop SIGSEGV SignalStop Print Pass to program Description SIGSEGV Yes Yes Yes Segmentation fault (gdb) handle noprint SIGSEGV SignalStop Print Pass to program Description SIGSEGV Yes Yes Yes Segmentation fault Is there anything I'm missing, or a gdb bug? Thanks! -- Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella Product Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.conexware.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
OFF-TOPIC : Job interview questions
Hi I wonder if anyone could help me. What kind of questions would you guy's do to a candidate to sys admin? (Can you give some examples)! Thanks and sorry for this offtopic post. Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf | Agora bilingue (PT e EN) -> Now bilingual (PT and EN) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Bill Wohler: Linux security tips
-> To prevent Linux from forwarding any packets, recompile the kernel -> with the option CONFIG_IP_FORWARD off. who does compile linux with packet forwarding on when he des not want it to be a router ? -> To prevent responding to pings altogether, use -> CONFIG_IP_IGNORE_ECHO_REQUESTS on. hmmm that i imho a very BAD idea. machine SHOULD (i've heard RFC says it MUST) respond any ICMP echo packet; maybe there could be some protection against ICMP flooding but machine should not ignore echo requests -- Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at NETLAB+ Kosice, Slovakia BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: Graphical Linux Logo on boot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You can have a look at the linuxlogo (or something like this) package. It > displays the penguin at the login screen. I like it. Yes, but I believe the question was about a graphical logo that shows up instead of boot-up kernel messages /Frock -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Help: Upgrade to Hamm failed !?
Once upon a time I was running a nice stable system: Debian 1.3 with Kernel 2.0.35 on a Pentium2 But then I needed PPP 2.3.5 and the "disaster" was born: First I got the stupid I idea just to take the PPP 2.3.5 tar.gz follow the instructions in the included readme file and recompile the kernel. But the compiling errors and a short view on the debian page teached me that I would need libc6 for PPP 2.3.5. So, I decided to get it all and to upgrade to Debian 2.0 (Hamm), which ,the package page promised, would already include PPP 2.3.5. Upgrading seamed to be quiet easy: Having a ftp connection to a mirror site, knowing thhe path to "hamm", running autoup.sh, moving wtmp file , truncate utmp file and rebooting. (At least that was what I kept in mind after reading the "autoupREADME".) Everything went fine with these steps but I was suprised when I saw while rebooting that I was still running PPP 2.2.0. Well, I wasn't really suprised, as I always thought PPP has to be compiled into the kernel and I didn't compile the kernel after upgrading. So, here is my first question: Question 1 How do I install a package like a new PPP version or PPTP, as dselect does not offer instlalling these things (or am I blind). A step by step guide would be great. O.K. the "disaster" goes on: I started "dselect" (don't remember the actual reason but I found "splay" that I wanted to have) when pressing RETURN to tell dselect that I have decided what to take it showed me some conflicts concerning libc5, libc5.dev? (sorry, don't remember the details). I just pressed RETURN (dselect help said, that by pressing RETURN I would accept dselects proposal to solve the problem an eberything would be fine) but I only could switch between the help page and the page showing the conflict. So I decide to stop this mess by pressing X. As this problem didn't disapaer (How could it, I didn't change anything) I decide to use dselects: "Remove unwanted packages" to have a clean system. But, Ooops, dselect removed more than I expected (sorry, don't remember the details). But one thing that I'm really missing is "ftp" especially as I use ftp as dselects access method. So here are some more questions: Question2 How do I get back "ftp" (I'm still running Netscape with it's ftp) Question3 Can I run autoup.sh just one more time or is there the risk to get the system into an unstable state. Question4 How do I know if I really managed to upgrade to hamm. (Any command to the version) Question5 Does anyone know what went wrong after, while upgrading to hamm. What do I have to do to avoid this dselect conflict problem? So, after all it isn't a real disaster, as the system is still up an running but I still need PPP2.3.5... Thanks in advance Jan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Bill Wohler: Linux security tips
On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Bill Wohler wrote: > In a recent Usenix login; magazine, an article on security noted the > following configurations for Linux. I noticed that most are already > in place in my 2.0.33 kernel (I haven't upgraded to hamm yet, but > soon!) > > I couldn't find mention of the last one (CONFIG_SECURE_STACK) > anywhere. Has this already been folded into the kernel? Hi, Nope... you can't find it in the linux kernel. You have to patch the linux kernel with a file from Solar Designer's security patch (www.false.com/security). It's quite good. > If not, perhaps it should be considered. I certainly hope so. regards, == == Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated == == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 == = == ==== == E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] == WebPage : http://andre.lasaltech.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Burning debian CD-ROM problem
Hi! I'm just going to burn my Debian 2.0 CD set. There is no problem with binary, and source - each of them fits oin one disc. However I would like to put contrib and non-free-non-us into one CD. I have following files: 117037056 Jul 1 09:51 non-us-non-free.raw 284753920 Jul 24 04:05 contrib.raw What is the easiest way of putting them together in one CD? I see the following possibilities: 1) Write them in one session as two tracks cdrecord -eject -v -isosize speed=2 dev=0,6,0 -data -pad \ non-us-non-free.raw contrib.raw 2) Write them in two sessions: cdrecord -multi -eject -v -isosize speed=2 dev=0,6,0 -data -pad \ non-us-non-free.raw cdrecord -eject -v -isosize speed=2 dev=0,6,0 -data -pad \ contrib.raw 3) mount both images with loop devices, copy their contents into one directory, make the new CD image with mkisofs and burn it. Which way is the best? How Linux kernel handles the multitrack (1) or multisession (2) CD's? Thanks for any help or suggestions Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Printer.................
"phillip Neumann" wrote: > Im looking for a graphical interface for having my printer "under >control". What would be a good software?? Try the package printop. >I dont understand good the difference between lpr and lprng. What are >the difference?? Is one "better'' than other ?? "Description: lpr/lpd printer spooling system The LPRng software is an enhanced, extended, and portable version of the Berkeley LPR software (the standards UNIX printer spooler) You can use this for local and remote printers." also " ABSTRACT The LPRng software is an enhanced, extended, and portable version of the Berkeley LPR software. While providing the same general functionality, the imple- mentation is completely new and provides support for the following features: lightweight (no databases needed) lpr, lpc, and lprm programs; dynamic redirec- tion of print queues; automatic job holding; highly verbose diagnostics; multiple printers serving a sin- gle queue; client programs do not need to run SUID root; greatly enhanced security checks; and a greatly improved permission and authorization mechanism." So that means better, in the authors' opinion, at least. I can't help about your Canon 4100 filter. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 "But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." James 3:17 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: shell programming question
Keith wrote:
>I was wondering if someone could help me with this shell programming
>language question. I am trying to remove some entries from a database
>file.
>Here is what the database file looks like:
>
>Joe,Walsh,134 Mockingbird Way,New Orleans,LA,33456,(444)768-1287
>Becky,Walsh,432 Rodeo Drive Apt C,Hollywood,CA,90312,(555)555-
>
>Here is the function that I am using to remove one of the entries.
>Instead of removing only one of the entries it removes both. It does
>this because I am removing the entries by lastname. SO if more than
>one person has the same last name they will all be deleted instead
>of just the one I want. I need to know if there is a way to modify
>this script to delete entries by first and last name, not just the
>last name.
>
>Here is the script.
>
>remove_records() {
> if [ -z "$lastname" ]; then
>echo You must select an address first
>find_ad n
> fi
> if [ -n "$lastname" ]; then
>echo "You are about to delete $firstname $lastname"
>get_confirm && {
> egrep -f "$firstname" "$lastname" $address_file > $temp_file
> mv $temp_file $address_file
> lastname=""
> echo Entry removed
>}
>get_return
> fi
> return
>}
Why `egrep -f $firstname' ?
-f FILE, --file=FILE
Obtain patterns from FILE, one per line. The empty
file contains zero patterns, and therfore matches
nothing.
Presumably you need to test for $firstname as well, if you need to
use it to distinguish entries.
Altered lines are marked thus: <--
remove_records() {
if [ -z "$lastname" ]; then
echo You must select an address first
find_ad n
fi
if [ -n "$lastname" -a -n "$firstname" ]; then <--
echo "You are about to delete $firstname $lastname"
get_confirm && {
grep -v "^$firstname,$lastname," $address_file > $temp_file<--
mv $temp_file $address_file
lastname=""
echo Entry removed
}
get_return
fi
return
}
--
Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1
"But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then
peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of
mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without
hypocrisy." James 3:17
--
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problem with xcdroast
Hi everyone, We are having problems burnig CD's on a bo/partially hamm system. A lot of CD's that are burned show one file wich gives an IO error upon reading. Sometimes this error shows up when verifying the CD in xcdroast, sometimes it shows up afterwards, when checking md5sums. The error is reproducible: burning the disk again produces the error in the same file on the disk. We are using the folowing packages: xcdroast_0.96d-final-2.deb mkisofs_1.11-2.deb cdrecord_1.6final-0.2.deb Anyone familiar with these symptoms? Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: problem with xcdroast
It would help, if you told us the commands/options/switches you used for burning the cd's /Frock > -Original Message- > From: E.L. Meijer (Eric) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 27. juli 1998 11:47 > To: debian > Subject: problem with xcdroast > > > Hi everyone, > > We are having problems burnig CD's on a bo/partially hamm system. > > A lot of CD's that are burned show one file wich gives an IO error > upon reading. Sometimes this error shows up when verifying the CD in > xcdroast, sometimes it shows up afterwards, when checking md5sums. The > error is reproducible: burning the disk again produces the error in the > same file on the disk. We are using the folowing packages: > > xcdroast_0.96d-final-2.deb > mkisofs_1.11-2.deb > cdrecord_1.6final-0.2.deb > > Anyone familiar with these symptoms? > > Eric Meijer > > -- > E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 > Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 > Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Mounting Win95 Shares with samba
Hello, I would like to mount (if possible) a win95 shared directory under debian. I'm not sure, but I think that could be done with smbmnt. Am I wrong? Anyway I haven't been able to do it via smbmnt/smbmount. I think that one must prepare a mount point via smbmnt and then mount the share with smbmount, however I don't know how. Any help? examples? Thanks, Cesar Talon -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Mounting Win95 Shares with samba
Hello Cesar: Your are not wrong. Peter -Original Message- From: Cesar Talon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, July 27, 1998 5:34 AM Subject: Mounting Win95 Shares with samba >Hello, > >I would like to mount (if possible) a win95 shared directory under debian. >I'm not sure, but I think that could be done with smbmnt. Am I wrong? > >Anyway I haven't been able to do it via smbmnt/smbmount. I think that one must >prepare a mount point via smbmnt and then mount the share with smbmount, >however I don't know how. > >Any help? examples? > >Thanks, > >Cesar Talon > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Mounting Win95 Shares with samba
On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Cesar Talon wrote: : I would like to mount (if possible) a win95 shared directory under : debian. I'm not sure, but I think that could be done with smbmnt. Am I : wrong? That's possible indeed. : Anyway I haven't been able to do it via smbmnt/smbmount. I think that one : must prepare a mount point via smbmnt and then mount the share with : smbmount, however I don't know how. : : Any help? examples? Make sure the mount point /mnt/samba (or something else) exists. Now do $ smbmount //server/share /mnt/samba -I 1.2.3.4 After -I, you can specifiy the IP-number of the server, if smbmount cannot find the server without specifying it. Good luck, -Remco -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Unable to allocate DMA memory
Hi! mcopy and mpg123 and wavplay tell me: floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory Can't open /dev/fd0: No such device or address Cannot initialize 'A:' mcopy: File "a:*" not found Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer Can't open /dev/dsp! Does anybody know how to free up DMA buffers? Or is a kernel problem? The only important thing that the machine is doing while doing this is a recording a cdrom. But it should be a problem as I've played, copied and burned stuff at the same time before. TIA! Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\<;_mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available --- (_)/ (_) http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
2.1.104 & diald/route/masquerade problems
I have installed 2.1.104, mostly to experiment with raidtools, and have been able to get most things working OK. I have altered my startup scripts to accommmodate ipchains and the new routing code. However, routing fails for masqueraded hosts behind this machine, e.g. a ping causes diald to bring up the ppp connection tnd I can see outgoing pings but the masqueraded host sees no response. I suspect diald, as the routing table looks 'funny' - several duplicate entries. I set the '-reroute' option but still no soap. Anyone have any suggestions? ml -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: problem with xcdroast
Hi, > > It would help, if you told us the commands/options/switches you used for > > burning the cd's Setup: 2x Philips CDD2600 (SCSI), no problems until recently Adaptec 152x SCSI driver Image type: Rock-Ridge + Win95/NT (standard options) No problems, until upgrade to libc6. Ronald (sent to the list by Eric, just to confuse people :) -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: no pon!
> When I type pon, nothing is happening. I ran plog and got the message > that "Device ttyS1 is locked by pid 109" > ttyS1 was working fine for weeks. > who is this pid 109 and what does it want with my life? PID is simply a process identification number. What that message was telling you was that another process (program) was using the comm port so that pon couldn't access it. You can check to see what process 109 is by using the ps command. Try typing a "ps ax | less" and you'll have all of your processes piped into the less command so you can page back and forth and look at them. The PID is the left-hand column, find 109 and you can identify the program that it is. I usually get such things when I leave a regular modem terminal program (e.g. Seyon or minicom) running in another session. This type of process locking a comm port is really slick -- it allows you to run all sorts of programs on the comm port and to have them get along and share the modem port fairly nicely. Read up on "man ps" for more info. -- Regards,|Debian GNU/__ o http://www.debian.org . | / /__ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) |// /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ http://www.golgotha.net |...because lockups are for convicts... Tech. Coord./Teacher|What is or why Linux? Click on the below: http://www8.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/16/13/os1613.001.html -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
looking for customized system
Hi, I want to buy a system to run debian on. I don't want to buy the parts separately, yet I want to be able to choose which parts I want, and let them install them for me. For example I want my SCSI card to be buslogic, but since the system will be used mostly as a server, I don't want any fancy video card, any 2 mb video card that can run X will do. I'm looking to spend about $5000. Sadly I have to use Intel, no alphas :( So anyone knows any reseller that will let me do that? Thanks a lot -- *) Aria -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
raidtools-0.42
Hello, i tried to install raidtools on 2.0.35 kernel ; It said: You're using a kernel version older than 2.1.63. This package is not designed to work with it. You should install the mdutils package instead or upgrade your kernel. hmmm afaik 1. 2.0.35 is newer then 2.1.63 2. it CAN do RAID. is it a bug of raidtools or should I really use 2.1 kernel ? -- Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at NETLAB+ Kosice, Slovakia BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: raidtools-0.42
Hello, i tried to install raidtools on 2.0.35 kernel ; It said: You're using a kernel version older than 2.1.63. This package is not designed to work with it. You should install the mdutils package instead or upgrade your kernel. hmmm afaik 1. 2.0.35 is newer then 2.1.63 2. it CAN do RAID. is it a bug of raidtools or should I really use 2.1 kernel ? 2.0.35 may be *released* after 2.1.63, but what is meant is that you need to install a 'development' kernel instead of a stable one. Use mdutils as suggested with stable kernels that support linear/raid. Thanks, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Help: Upgrade to Hamm failed !?
autoup.sh and dselect are pretty smart, but they are not brilliant. You do need to clean up after dselect occasionally by running dpkg manually. I suggest you start to clean up your system by getting the instructions for manually upgrading to hamm (from the same place you got autoup.sh prolly) and checking to see that all the listed packages were successfully installed. If not, you will need to fix these problems first. Try to identify the most critical broken packages. Try to find out why they did not install cleanly. Sometime, you can fix a dependency problem by fetching a package manually and installing it manully with dpkg -i foobar.deb. Once you fix one problem, see what else will conifure with dpkg --configure. There is such a thing as a ppp package in hamm, but I think thats been downgraded from "standard" to "optional" now. ppp-pam is the "standard" package. Mike On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 10:29:42AM +0200, Jan Speich wrote: > Once upon a time I was running a nice stable system: Debian 1.3 with > Kernel 2.0.35 on a Pentium2 > But then I needed PPP 2.3.5 and the "disaster" was born: > > First I got the stupid I idea just to take the PPP 2.3.5 tar.gz follow > the instructions in the included > readme file and recompile the kernel. But the compiling errors and a > short view on the debian > page teached me that I would need libc6 for PPP 2.3.5. > > So, I decided to get it all and to upgrade to Debian 2.0 (Hamm), which > ,the package page promised, > would already include PPP 2.3.5. > > Upgrading seamed to be quiet easy: Having a ftp connection to a mirror > site, knowing thhe path to > "hamm", running autoup.sh, moving wtmp file , truncate utmp file and > rebooting. (At least that was > what I kept in mind after reading the "autoupREADME".) > > Everything went fine with these steps but I was suprised when I saw > while rebooting that > I was still running PPP 2.2.0. Well, I wasn't really suprised, as I > always thought PPP has > to be compiled into the kernel and I didn't compile the kernel after > upgrading. > > So, here is my first question: > > Question 1 > How do I install a package like a new PPP version or PPTP, as > dselect does not offer > instlalling these things (or am I blind). A step by step guide would > > be great. > > > O.K. the "disaster" goes on: I started "dselect" (don't remember the > actual reason but I found "splay" that I > wanted to have) when pressing RETURN to tell dselect that I have decided > > what to take it showed me some > conflicts concerning libc5, libc5.dev? (sorry, don't remember the > details). I just pressed RETURN > (dselect help said, that by pressing RETURN I would accept dselects > proposal to solve the problem an > eberything would be fine) but I only could switch between the help page > and the page showing the conflict. > So I decide to stop this mess by pressing X. > > As this problem didn't disapaer (How could it, I didn't change anything) > > I decide to use dselects: > "Remove unwanted packages" to have a clean system. > But, Ooops, dselect removed more than I expected (sorry, don't remember > the details). > But one thing that I'm really missing is "ftp" especially as I use ftp > as dselects access method. > So here are some more questions: > > > Question2 > How do I get back "ftp" (I'm still running Netscape with it's ftp) > > Question3 > Can I run autoup.sh just one more time or is there the risk to get > the system > into an unstable state. > > Question4 > How do I know if I really managed to upgrade to hamm. (Any command > to the version) > > Question5 > Does anyone know what went wrong after, while upgrading to hamm. > What do I have to > do to avoid this dselect conflict problem? > > > So, after all it isn't a real disaster, as the system is still up an > running but I still need PPP2.3.5... > > Thanks in advance > > Jan > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Printing problems
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Harrison ozemail.com.au"@ozemail.com.au> writes >Ian Lynagh wrote: >> >> I have an HP LaserJet 4L. If I do >> lpr textfile.txt >> then it works fine. However, printing in lyx appears to work fine, >> but nothing is printed :-( > >Are you using the 'lpr' package or the 'lprng' package? I was using lprng. >I had the same problem when using the 'lprng' package. I switched back >to the regular 'lpr' and the problem was solved. Its kind of a lame way >to fix it but it works. >If you need to keep 'lprng' then there is another package for HP >printers called 'cti-ifhp' (I think) that might help. Using lpr seems to work :-) I'll try lprng with cti-ifhp and see if that works too. Thanks Ian -- Ian Lynagh - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.sol.no/~balchen/igloo/ Discoveries are made by not following instructions. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: raidtools-0.42
On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 02:06:28PM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > Hello, > i tried to install raidtools on 2.0.35 kernel ; It said: > > You're using a kernel version older than 2.1.63. This package is > not designed to work with it. You should install the mdutils > package instead or upgrade your kernel. > > hmmm afaik > 1. 2.0.35 is newer then 2.1.63 true 2.0.35 is much newer (time wise) than 2.1.63 but...it is part of the "stable" 2.0.x kernels...this would seem to imply that raidtools uses features from 2.1.x (soon to be 2.2.x stable) many of these are just not in 2.0.x even in the newest versions (remember no new features in stable... just bug fixes...well ok thats not exactly true but...) > 2. it CAN do RAID. yes the 2.0.35 kernel config has options under "multiple devices driver" for RAID up to RAID 5...it also (in the help) gives a URL to the page where the needed utils are... (running make menuconfig now to see it) from the help: raidtools, a set of user-space tools which create and maintain RAID1/4/5 sets, is available at: http://luthien.nuclecu.unam.mx/~miguel/raid is that where you got it? if so...maybe you just need to "use the source" and "modify" its routine for checking kernel version? Maybe it is just old and doesn't realize that kernel 2.0.35 has the features it needs? > is it a bug of raidtools or should I really use 2.1 kernel ? could be either...id make sure you have the latest version BTW very first thing to check (before even thinking of looking at the raidtools source and modifying it) is to see if your kernel has the proper drivers compiled in... you need to: A) turn on "Floppy, IDE, and Block Devices->Multiple Devices Driver Support" and under that at least 1 of: < >Linear (append) mode < >RAID-0 (striping) mode < >RAID-1 (mirroring) mode < >RAID-4/RAID-5 mode -Steve > -- > Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at NETLAB+ Kosice, Slovakia > BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux" -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Mounting Win95 Shares with samba
On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 12:51:05PM +0200, Remco van de Meent wrote: > Make sure the mount point /mnt/samba (or something else) exists. Why do you need /mnt subdirectories? Red Hat seems to encourage this, but I would think that anything that you mount semi-regularly should have its own mount point. I have /cdrom, /zip, /local (which contains /usr/local and /home via symlinks), etc. 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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: looking for customized system
Sure, there's a number of "configure and ship" places on the net. The one I recently used for most of my new system can be found here: http://www.esc-tech.com/toc.htm They were very good when I dealt with them, although their selection of components is a bit limited. Another one that also does this, which I have bought individual components, from can be found here: http://www.lsmicro.com/ Tom Aria Prima Novianto wrote: > > Hi, > I want to buy a system to run debian on. I don't want to buy the parts > separately, yet I want to be able to choose which parts I want, and let > them install them for me. For example I want my SCSI card to be buslogic, > but since the system will be used mostly as a server, I don't want any > fancy video card, any 2 mb video card that can run X will do. > I'm looking to spend about $5000. > Sadly I have to use Intel, no alphas :( > So anyone knows any reseller that will let me do that? > Thanks a lot > -- > *) Aria > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: no pon!
got it going. thanks all. On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Randy Edwards wrote: > > When I type pon, nothing is happening. I ran plog and got the message > > that "Device ttyS1 is locked by pid 109" > > ttyS1 was working fine for weeks. > > who is this pid 109 and what does it want with my life? > >PID is simply a process identification number. What that message was > telling you > was that another process (program) was using the comm port so that pon > couldn't access > it. > >You can check to see what process 109 is by using the ps command. Try > typing a "ps > ax | less" and you'll have all of your processes piped into the less command > so you > can page back and forth and look at them. The PID is the left-hand column, > find 109 > and you can identify the program that it is. I usually get such things when > I leave a > regular modem terminal program (e.g. Seyon or minicom) running in another > session. > >This type of process locking a comm port is really slick -- it allows you > to run > all sorts of programs on the comm port and to have them get along and share > the modem > port fairly nicely. Read up on "man ps" for more info. > > -- > Regards,|Debian GNU/__ o http://www.debian.org > . | / /__ _ _ _ _ __ __ > Randy | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) |// /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ > http://www.golgotha.net |...because lockups are for convicts... > Tech. Coord./Teacher|What is or why Linux? Click on the below: > http://www8.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/16/13/os1613.001.html > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: looking for info from dpkg
Look at pkg-nodep in the pkg-order package. On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 12:02:54AM -0400, Damir J. Naden wrote: > Could anyone tell me if there is an option in dpkg command line which will > tell me what packages are _not_ used and/or needed but already installed? -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: "Free" Interbase
It works just fine with Debian 1.3.1 Jorge Sousa > > >>Want a good RDBMS for Linux??? >> >>check www.interbase.com they have a FREE port of version 4.0 for >>Linux. It >>runs on Debian1.3.1 I didn't have the chance to try it on Hamm cos >>I need to upgrade. > >>Jorge Sousa > >Mike Barton wrote: > >> It may "appear" free but you ought to have a look at the license >> agreement. It says RedHat *only*. License agreements like this are good >> reasons to *avoid* software. So, InterBase, make what you can when you >> can but NOT from me. > >It gets worse: > >``You may install and use the Software or the foregoing components provided > that (1) the Software is used only with the Red Hat Linux 4.2 operating > system,'' > >Version 4.2? Who would even uses that any more... >-- >Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada >P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 > 6623'rd Linux user at the Linux Counter -- http://counter.li.org/ > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Alt keys stopped working in Xemacs
Hi, Sometime between Saturday and Monday morning my Alt keys stopped working in Xemacs. I thought the only change I made was adding (setq delete-key-deletes-forward t) however after backing out this change Alt still doesn't work. The Ctrl-Alt-Fx combination still works to change to a virtual terminal from X, so the alt key seems to be working. Ex. prints "A-x not defined" in the minibuffer. "Esc-x" prints the correct "M-x". I tried to insert the character into a buffer with . I received the following message in the minibuffer: key read cannot be inserted in a buffer: # Does anyone have any suggestions on debugging this problem? -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
e2compr and Debian 2.0
Hi I have been using Debian 1.3.1 at home for a year and have had to use the e2compr package that uses a compressed ext2fs file system to save space... If i upgrade to Release 2.0 will I still be able to access the filesystem correctly as I see that e2compr_1.06-2 which is /projects/misc/orphaned is the version I am still runing at home ? Will there be libc5/libc6 problems or worse ? Yours Cormac McGuinness -- --- Cormac McGuinness e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Experimental Physics Department,Tel:+ 353 1 706 2205 University College Dublin, Fax:+ 353 1 283 7275 Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Question about screen size in X and questions about Netscape
Nico Fritschi wrote: > > > My next question is about Netscape 4.05 . When i set up my mail and news > server i always get the message "unknown host mail.gmx.de" or > "news.gmx.de". I tried that on- and off-line but both did not work. Do I > have to list them in a config file somewhere? > it could be that u haven't a resolv.conf file with the dns ; but it coul be that is a netscape bug .try to setup mail and news adresses while you're connected on internet ; in netsc 3.01 gold it works! > My last question is a bit off topic. I'm a newbie in the Linux world and > would like to change totally from this toy os Windoze to Linux. On both > systems I use Netscape 4.05 and i want to use my mail and news files in > my mail and news directories which i got from Netscape (windows) in my > linux Netscape. Momentarily a got a fat 16 partition which I mount and > on which i got my mail and news files, so i changed the directory setup > in Netscape (linux) to these dirs. But nothing happened. Has someone > done this already and can help me? > it's not as simple as u think 'cause file in ms-dos or w95 partition has the ^M .so the inbox in which u would like to append the mail and news is seen by linux with a lots of ^M which give problem to nets. on the other hand if u append to inbox-msdos some mail with netsc-linux u could have problems with netsc-w95 while reading mail u get in linux . i can suggest u to have 2 inbox one on linux and the other on fat 16 ... if u like to see under linux inbox-msdos typefrom linux tr -d '\015' < inbox-msdos >>/var/spool/mail/..your username usually root that's a filter which read the inbox-msdos and copy it without ^M on to the mail of linux .. after that u can use pine mail , elm to see your inbox-msdos . that's the only thought i can give u !! samuele tonon -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: samba printing problems
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Turn off print spooling on the Win machine. I forget exactly the proce > dure for this on Win3.1, it has been to long. It thinks it is printing > to a local printer and is sending the data in chunks to the printer, > which is fine for a directly connected printer. The Win machine does > not need to spool, that is what lpr is for. I don't think print spooling is on. The "Use Print Manager" checkbox, is off. That was un-checked before this all started, so if that is how print spooling is turned off, that wasn't the problem. I have some new symptoms that might make good brain candy for anyone who understands this: It has NEVER had a problem printing from Netscape 3.x. The problem always crops up when I'm trying to print a .PCX (screen-shot) file from Paintbrush. Since Netscape 3.x doesn't seem to like .PCX files or .BMP files, I haven't found a way to load the image in Netscape and print it from there, or I'd try that and see what happens. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: samba printing problems
*-Patrick Olson (27 Jul) | | On Thu, 23 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | > Turn off print spooling on the Win machine. I forget exactly the proce | > dure for this on Win3.1, it has been to long. It thinks it is printing | > to a local printer and is sending the data in chunks to the printer, | > which is fine for a directly connected printer. The Win machine does | > not need to spool, that is what lpr is for. | | I don't think print spooling is on. The "Use Print Manager" checkbox, is | off. That was un-checked before this all started, so if that is how print | spooling is turned off, that wasn't the problem. | | I have some new symptoms that might make good brain candy for anyone who | understands this: | | It has NEVER had a problem printing from Netscape 3.x. The problem always | crops up when I'm trying to print a .PCX (screen-shot) file from | Paintbrush. | | Since Netscape 3.x doesn't seem to like .PCX files or .BMP files, I | haven't found a way to load the image in Netscape and print it from there, | or I'd try that and see what happens. Do the apps that create the problems have an option for 'background' printing or something similiar? They send the print data to the spooler in chunks when the program is not busy. That might be something to look for. -- Brian Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
new imap-4.2-1 and lockfiles
I recently upgraded to the new imap package (thanks for maintaining it Jaldhar!) and noticed a significant change in lockfile management. The imap daemon runs as the user/group of the person executing the daemon instead of the group "mail". This causes a problem since I currently have the spool directory ownership/permissions set to: drwxrwsr-t root mail/var/spool/mail My MUA (i.e. pine) warns that the mailbox is vulnerable since a lockfile is not created. What's strange is if I allow global writes, no lockfile actually written but the MUA is happy. What should be the ownership/permission of /var/spool/mail? Or should /usr/sbin/imapd be sgid mail? Thanks, -- Jean Pierre -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Partition size
Hi All. Any recommendations for partition sizes on a 504 MB hard drive. I'm thinking in terms of a 32 MB swap partition, and then having two partitions for / and /usr. Should I instead keep / and /usr on one partition instead of two. If I do make them as two partitions, what size should I make them? Thanks. === Kent West | Technology Support/Customer Service | Abilene Christian University| Voice: 915-674-2557 FAX: 915.674.6724 | ACU Station, Box 29005 | E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Abilene, TX 79699-9005 | Ham:KC5ENO, General | === -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
ping: sendto: Operation not permitted
What exacly is this? I have been running two net cards w/ masquerading for over a year now, yesterday I upgraded about 130 packages, and tonight the machine crashed for me (it use to do this every now and then, but I have never had any serious problem with that) and I just could not get the network to work again... Same kernel, same libc6, same network configuration... The really strange thing is that everything works perfect with a kernel from Debian 1.3.1 (v2.0.29)... The card's are found propperly, the routing table look good etc, etc... An strace of ping in action, shows no mediate problems... If I boot up in emergency mode (-b in lilo) I can configure the loopback, and also ping it, but if I boot in singeluser (single in lilo), I can not configure it, nore ping it... -- --- Turbo __ _ Debian GNU Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just ^/ /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ selective about who its friends are / / | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / papadoc.nocrew.org _ /// / /__| | | | | |_| |> < Turbo Fredriksson[EMAIL PROTECTED] \\\/ \/_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ PGP#788CD1A9 www5.tripnet.se/~turbo --- PGP: B7 92 93 0E 06 94 D6 22 98 1F 0B 5B FE 33 A1 0B - -- SEAL Team 6 Clinton Marxist South Africa counter-intelligence jihad $400 million in gold bullion Waco, Texas explosion NORAD domestic disruption arrangements FBI BATF Albanian pgpWeUXoiYM2y.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: new imap-4.2-1 and lockfiles
Oh dear, I had a feeling something like this might happen. Unfortunately because the critical security bug in imap had to be fixed with just hours to go before the hamm deadline, I wasn't able to test as thouroughly as I wanted to. I'm sorry. imapd has the wrong permissions. It should be 2755, root.mail. According to debian policy (policy manual section 4.5) /var/spool/mail should be 2775, mail.mail . This is what I've got on all my debian systems and the funny thing is locking does seem to work. If for instance I open MS outlook express to a folder and then open the same folder in pine, outlook gives me an error about "Lost mailbox lock." as it should. So I don't know if it is the problem or your non-standard permissions. I am compiling a fixed version of the package as we speak. I suggest you try that and see if that works. (or you can just set the permissions of imapd yourself.) If that doesn't work try changing your mailspool permissions to the Debian standard. If that doesn't work either, I'll investigate further. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > I recently upgraded to the new imap package (thanks for > maintaining it Jaldhar!) and noticed a significant change in > lockfile management. > > The imap daemon runs as the user/group of the person executing > the daemon instead of the group "mail". This causes a problem > since I currently have the spool directory ownership/permissions > set to: > > drwxrwsr-t root mail/var/spool/mail > > My MUA (i.e. pine) warns that the mailbox is vulnerable since a > lockfile is not created. What's strange is if I allow global > writes, no lockfile actually written but the MUA is happy. > > What should be the ownership/permission of /var/spool/mail? Or > should /usr/sbin/imapd be sgid mail? > > Thanks, > > -- > Jean Pierre > > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Ordering Debian 2.0 CDs is confusing!
One of the only main sites to `have' CDs listed on the web pages is www.lsl.com, but... The main link to Debian 2.0 has: Debian 2.0 (Official) Contrib (CDR) L000-059 $3.95 Debian 2.0 (Official) i386 2 CD's L000-060 $1.95 Debian 2.0 (Official) Non Free (CDR) L000-062 $3.95 Debian 2.0 (Official) Non Free, Non US (CDR) L000-063 $3.95 But here's what they offer on the order form: Debian 2.0 (Official, CDR) Contrib L000-059 $3.95 - -> okay, this is the same Debian 2.0 (Official) Intel (CDR) L000-060 $3.95 - -> This is identified as a $1.95 2 CD set on the main link. Here it appears to be a single CD at $3.95. Debian 2.0 (Official, CDR) Non FreeL000-063 $3.95 - -> Identified as Non Free, Non US on main link. Maybe because I'm not ordering from the US? Debian 2.0 (Official, CDR) L000-064 $3.95 Debian 2.0 (Official, CDR) Source L000-065 $3.95 - -> I suppose these two make up the Officail source and i386 CD? Debian 2.0 (Official) Intel (2 CD Set) Shipping by 1st Aug L000-066 $1.95 So what is the 2-CD set? L000-060 at $1.95 available now L000-066 at $1.95 Shipping by 1st Aug What do I order? What have otehrs on this list ordered... I want my 2.0! -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd Linux user at the Linux Counter -- http://counter.li.org/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: no pon!
Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> "DP" == David Parmet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > DP> who is this pid 109 and what does it want with my life? > > pid = Process ID > > To check what prozess has ID 109 do a "ps ax|grep 109" Incidentally, if you have the process id already, all you have to do is: ps That is, ps 109 The advantage of this is that you also get the headers telling you what each column means; for example when one does: ps u 1 And gets: USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.2 76876 ? S Jul 26 0:03 init [2] One has at least some chance of figuring out what all that information means. The "ps ax | grep " idiom is so common that it's sometimes easy to forget that ps does take non-option arguments. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: Ordering Debian 2.0 CDs is confusing!
I just ordered from Cheap Bytes. It's there. You have to go into the CD list to get there but it is there. On 27-Jul-98 Peter S Galbraith wrote: > One of the only main sites to `have' CDs listed on the web pages is > www.lsl.com, but... -- http://benham.net/index.html -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS d+(-) s:+ a29 C++$ UL++> P+++$ L++> E? W+++$ N+(-) o? K- w+++$(--) O M-- V- PS-- PE++ Y++ PGP++ t+ 5 X R+ !tv b DI+++ D++ G++>G+++ e h+ r* y+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Ordering Debian 2.0 CDs is confusing!
It says: Expected to be shipping the week of August 10. That's a full 10 days later than lsl ! Can I wait that long? I admit that the `CheapBytes Debian 2.0 CD-ROM Install + Add-on Pack' doesn't state this date, but the `CheapBytes Debian 2.0 Official Binary CD-ROM' entry does... Peter Darren Benham wrote: > I just ordered from Cheap Bytes. It's there. You have to go into the CD lis > t > to get there but it is there. > > On 27-Jul-98 Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > One of the only main sites to `have' CDs listed on the web pages is > > www.lsl.com, but... > > -- > http://benham.net/index.html > -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- > Version: 3.1 > GCS d+(-) s:+ a29 C++$ UL++> P+++$ L++> E? W+++$ N+(-) o? K- w+++$(-- > ) > O M-- V- PS-- PE++ Y++ PGP++ t+ 5 X R+ !tv b > DI+++ D++ G++>G+++ e h+ r* y+ > --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- > -- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
partition memory
Hello, I would like to know what is the shell command to know what is the available, used and free memory on the current partition ? Thanks, yanick. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: partition memory
I think you mean disk space not memory, but the format or df commands could possibly help you. Yanick MICHOU wrote: > > Hello, > I would like to know what is the shell command to know what is the > available, used and free memory on the current partition ? > > Thanks, > yanick. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/nullbegin: vcard fn: Joel Keating n: Keating;Joel org:Wisconsin Electric Power Company adr;dom:W237 N1500 Busse Rd.;;;Waukesha, WI 53188;;; email;internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] title: Information Resources Consultant tel;work: (414) - 544 - 7256 tel;fax:(414) - 574 - 6080 tel;home: (414) - 697 - 3477 x-mozilla-cpt: ;-1360 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: logged out automatically because of excess idle time
However, I don't think I explicitly chosed this package during my initial installation and the recent update. I had no idea what the autolog does before yesterday. regards xiaonan On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Troy wrote: > It is in Extra/Admin, so it shouldn't be installed automatically. > > If it is, the package name is autolog. > > later, > troy > > Troy Hanson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.dakota.net/~troy > > George Bonser wrote: > > > > On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Xiaonan Ma wrote: > > > > > > > > That's it. Now it has stopped killing. Thanks for all your help. > > > > > > regards > > > xiaonan > > > > > > > Question ... did you install that package or was it preselected for you? > > I really don't care for people doing me these kinds of "favors". If it is > > preselected, I need to know before I do any installs so I can make sure > > that I turn that bloody thing off. > > > > George Bonser > > > > Microsoft! Which end of the stick do you want today? > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: partition memory
Yanick MICHOU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > I would like to know what is the shell command to know what is the > available, used and free memory on the current partition ? You mean the available used and free disk space? The command is df - I believe it stands for something like "disk free". It'll tell you how much is available on each partion. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Suspect daily,weekly cron causing hangs
I suspect the same here, although I'm a newbie (one year on this one box). cron/spawned processes seem to precede virtual console login screen and afterstep ugliness here each morning. ...a mis-malloc or two, maybe? hamm is running on this box. Art On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 12:03:18PM -0400, Martin Weinberg wrote: > > Folks, > > I have a Beowulf-type Debian-based cluster of 16 dual > PII 333Mhz boxes (Asus P2L97-DS) Debian 1.3.1. > > They run hard, often under full load with high network > traffic for days or not weeks. The current application > is an MPI application using a master-slave paradigm. > > I've noticed that the "master" machine often hangs just > after daily or weekly crons. In fact, 6:48 or a bit later > is a very popular hang time. Hangs on Sunday are the most > popular (much to my chagrin!). The fact that the master > hangs preferentially correlates with high network traffic. > At first, I disabled (dpkg -r) xntp3 which seemed to be > an obvious culprit but I'm still getting occasional hangs. > > Any thoughts? I suppose I could just disable these > crons altogether but I'd like to see if any of you have > run across this sort of problem first. > > --M > > === > > Martin Weinberg Phone: (413) 545-3821 > Dept. of Physics and Astronomy FAX: (413) 545-2117/0648 > 530 Graduate Research Tower > University of Massachusetts > Amherst, MA 01003-4525 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: DHCP and hostname
Getting a static IP address is not feasible. Also to get the DHCP server to return the right hostname might not be feasible. Will it be feasible to get the hostname from the DNS once the IP address has been assigned (either when I boot the machine up or when the lease for the address is renewed) and run the "hostname" command automatically so that the correct hostname is in effect? I do it now manually by logging in as root (use "ifconfig" to get the IP address and "host" for the name). Thanks Venkat On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Troy Hanson wrote: > The simplest way is to get a static address assigned (outside of the DHCP > pool). And have a static DNS entry for that address. > > The second way is to have the DHCP Administrator add a static-mapping for > your ethernet card address, so you always get the same IP (whether your > lease expired or not). Also, have a static DNS entry for that reserved lease. > > As far as your question about asking the DNS for your IP, you can't query > a name server until you have an IP address, which puts you in a catch-22 > situation. In addition, the DHCP server + DNS would need to have dynamic > DNS ability (to keep the DHCP addresses associated with the names). WINS > does this, but only for NetBIOS/NetBEUI names, not hostnames. > > In theory, you could get a random IP, find out what name is assoiciated > with that IP, and have a script go through every file that contains your > hostname, change that hostname, and restart all the affected daemons. :) > > later, > troy > > At 12:35 PM 7/24/98 -0400, you wrote: > >My linux machine is in a network where the IP addresses are assigned > >using DHCP. I use "dhcpcd" to get the IP address but it also mangles > >my machine's hostname (probably because the DHCP server is not properly > >configured). Is there a way to query the DNS server for the correct > >hostname from the assigned IP address and assign it? Can this be > >automated? Thanks. > > > >Venkat > > > > > >-- > >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > > > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Ordering Debian 2.0 is confusing!
I wrote about the confusing state of the www.lsls.com web site concerning the Debian CDs... I got a reply from LSL so here it is (Since they appear to be shipping two weeks before cheapbytes, I'll be ordering from them). Peter - From: LSL Information <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Ordering Debian 2.0 is confusing! Sorry for the confusion. We are trying to cater for two groups of people (and it is a challenge ;+) Group A - --- Want Debian 2.0 *NOW* and dont care (within reason) about the price, want to select their own combination, dont care if it is on CDR and are actively contributing to "My Debian!" Group B - --- Are price sensitive, *dont* want the CDR and are prepared to wait till 30th July for the manufactured CD's to be shipping (Group A are in a *real* hurry to get the CD's). We will try to make things more obvious, but, if you can wait till Thursday when the CD's arrive from the Plant, the $1.95 is a bargain for TWO CD's; the Binary and the Source. We will change the Web site to reflect this. Thank you for choosing LSL, and apologies for the confusion we may have caused you, Warm regards -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Ordering Debian 2.0 CDs is confusing!
On 27-Jul-98 Peter S Galbraith wrote: > I admit that the `CheapBytes Debian 2.0 CD-ROM Install + Add-on Pack' > doesn't state this date, but the `CheapBytes Debian 2.0 Official Binary > CD-ROM' entry does... hmmm.. only read the debian+add-on entry :( -- http://benham.net/index.html -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS d+(-) s:+ a29 C++$ UL++> P+++$ L++> E? W+++$ N+(-) o? K- w+++$(--) O M-- V- PS-- PE++ Y++ PGP++ t+ 5 X R+ !tv b DI+++ D++ G++>G+++ e h+ r* y+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Can less read its input from the stderr ? How ?
Supose I have a program that output long text to stderr. Can I use the less command to page in it ? How ? Can I switch the stdout with the stderr ? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Can less read its input from the stderr ? How ?
Maybe running your program as % program 2>&1 |less works. This redirects stderr (file descriptor 2) to where stdout goes. // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Can less read its input from the stderr ? How ?
On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 09:32:45PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Supose I have a program that output long text to stderr. Can I use the less > command to page in it ? How ? > Can I switch the stdout with the stderr ? command 2>&1 | less you can redirect stderr (fd 2) with 2> file or 2>&1 (stderr goes to same place as stdout) -- this is useful for a few things.. like redirecting ALL output to a file.. like: reallyverboseprogram > /dev/null 2>&1 note that this is not the same as 2>&1 > /dev/null -- as this redirect stderr to the terminal.. then redirects stdout to /dev/null -- while err is still going to terminal hope that helps =) Raz.. -- [ Razathorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] [ PGP public key http://www.sound.net/~fileland/pubkey.shtml ] [ Finger Print: B8 9B 4B F5 67 1C A3 86 2F 91 F2 81 08 08 79 49 ] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RAID Controller
I have a Dell Server with a PowerEdge RAID controller. It is supposed to be able to be a bootable device. But the install for the newest version of Debian doesn't pick it up. Does anyone have any ideas? --- Johnny Matthews Greenville College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 618-664-2800 ext. 4248 Fax:618-664-1373 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Floppy Setup
Hi, Try running the dos fdisk program with the mbr option "fdisk /mbr" (Be carefull) and then re-install lilo on the Master boot record ... That should do the trick. On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > > I recently installed Debian Linux from floppies. Now when the system > loads, I directly boots into DOS. I have to use the "Custom Boot Disk" > to boot the system into Linux. Is this the bootup mechanism with > floopy based installations? I don't even get the LILO propmpt to enter > the OS name. > > Thanks. > > Dinesh > > _ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Jonathan Lawson --- Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford. UK. email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Can less read its input from the stderr ? How ?
No you can't use the less command. To switch stdout with stderr do # ln -s /dev/stdout /dev/stderr or the other way around. I'm not sure which way you like it (Perhaps because i have no idea why you want to do that.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Supose I have a program that output long text to stderr. Can I use the less > command to page in it ? How ? > Can I switch the stdout with the stderr ? > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/nullbegin: vcard fn: Joel Keating n: Keating;Joel org:Wisconsin Electric Power Company adr;dom:W237 N1500 Busse Rd.;;;Waukesha, WI 53188;;; email;internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] title: Information Resources Consultant tel;work: (414) - 544 - 7256 tel;fax:(414) - 574 - 6080 tel;home: (414) - 697 - 3477 x-mozilla-cpt: ;-1360 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: new imap-4.2-1 and lockfiles
Ok it took loonger than I thought (What is this "work" thing people keep bothering me with?) but the fixed version has been uploaded and can be found at Incoming mirror sites such as ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian/Incoming Please let me know how it turns out. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Oh dear, I had a feeling something like this might happen. Unfortunately > because the critical security bug in imap had to be fixed with just hours > to go before the hamm deadline, I wasn't able to test as thouroughly as I > wanted to. I'm sorry. > > imapd has the wrong permissions. It should be 2755, root.mail. > According to debian policy (policy manual section 4.5) /var/spool/mail > should be 2775, mail.mail . This is what I've got on all my debian > systems and the funny thing is locking does seem to work. If for instance > I open MS outlook express to a folder and then open the same folder in > pine, outlook gives me an error about "Lost mailbox lock." as it should. > So I don't know if it is the problem or your non-standard permissions. > > I am compiling a fixed version of the package as we speak. I suggest you > try that and see if that works. (or you can just set the permissions of > imapd yourself.) If that doesn't work try changing your mailspool > permissions to the Debian standard. If that doesn't work either, I'll > investigate further. > > -- > Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > > > I recently upgraded to the new imap package (thanks for > > maintaining it Jaldhar!) and noticed a significant change in > > lockfile management. > > > > The imap daemon runs as the user/group of the person executing > > the daemon instead of the group "mail". This causes a problem > > since I currently have the spool directory ownership/permissions > > set to: > > > > drwxrwsr-t root mail/var/spool/mail > > > > My MUA (i.e. pine) warns that the mailbox is vulnerable since a > > lockfile is not created. What's strange is if I allow global > > writes, no lockfile actually written but the MUA is happy. > > > > What should be the ownership/permission of /var/spool/mail? Or > > should /usr/sbin/imapd be sgid mail? > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > Jean Pierre > > > > > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Partition size
I tried setting the size of my root partion at 250, /usr at 150, /var at 100, and swap at 16 (approx. numbers). However, now when I try to install the default stuff (using the DIALUP-type-system choice in the installation), I have even less space available for everything than I did the first time around when I just had two partitions plus swap. So, I'm thinking maybe I should go back to just having one partition for root and one for swap. Is there any great advantage to having /usr and /var on their own partitions? Thanks. At 12:35 PM 7/27/1998 -0500, you wrote: >You swap size is dependent on your memory. As a rule I always try to >add 1.5-2 times the amount of swap as memory. (Remember you can't have >swap over 128 though) As for having seperate partition for / and /usr >it is up to you...just enough size to fit all the apps is plenty for >/usr, you might also consider making a partition for /var also. If i >were you would go with 250 root 100 /var 100 /usr and the rest swap... > >Kent West wrote: >> >> Hi All. >> Any recommendations for partition sizes on a 504 MB hard drive. I'm >> thinking in terms of a 32 MB swap partition, and then having two partitions >> for / and /usr. Should I instead keep / and /usr on one partition instead >> of two. If I do make them as two partitions, what size should I make them? >> >> Thanks. >> >> === >> Kent West | Technology Support/Customer Service | >> Abilene Christian University| Voice: 915-674-2557 FAX: 915.674.6724 | >> ACU Station, Box 29005 | E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| >> Abilene, TX 79699-9005 | Ham:KC5ENO, General | >> === >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > === Kent West | Technology Support/Customer Service | Abilene Christian University| Voice: 915-674-2557 FAX: 915.674.6724 | ACU Station, Box 29005 | E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Abilene, TX 79699-9005 | Ham:KC5ENO, General | === -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Is there support for Cisco 675 Ethernet to ADSL Router
I was thinking of getting a RADSL line from US Werst to switch from splashing in an inner tube to true "surfing". This requires putting a Cisco 675 Ethernet to ADSL Router in my machine. Needless to say US Werst has no plans to support Linux. Where can I found out if the Linux community currently has created the drivers necessary for this hardware or if they have the information necessary to create it. (Or if I'm feeling really ambitious - who's working on the project and looking for help). -Thank You, Chip Grandits -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Where is the trick?? (LPRng)
Hi, I wanted to use printop, so i had to change from lpr to lprng. All works almost fine, because when i print (a text file) the printer dont trough the paper out when its finided. So i have to press a button in the printer to do it. Obsiously i dont want to do that... What trick sould i do to make lprng work fine?? -- Thanks, Phillip Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Booting a machine with only a cdrom ..
Hi, I am not allowed to install Linux on one of the machines on the college, however I must get the machine to run Linux in order to write a Linux CDROM. However, the machine has a CDROM drive which I can use. I am just wondering if it is possible to boot from floppy and pass the arguments root=/dev/hdb/live to the kernel so it can boot off the 'live' part of an existing CDROM which I have. ... I then assume that I can mount /dev/hda on /mnt and /dev/hdc on /cdrom (both mnt and cdrom are on /hdb/live) and then simply 'tar xvzf /mnt/linux.tgs' from the appropriate directory Please could I have your opions and comments on this BTW: I will obtain permission to do this first. Jonathan Lawson --- Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford. UK. email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Compressed image found at block 0
When installing Linux from the boot floppies for the first time, I get a fatal message : Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 2 lines before that is the error: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 invalid compressed format (err=1)[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 0, ... Any idea what it could be or what to do? The drive WAS set up as a compressed drive. It has since been formatted, fdisked, low-level formatted, and every combo in-between. Kelly Stuard [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Q: Proper location for dynamically-loadable modules
I am developing an application which loads most of its code at run-time from a set of shared-libraries. These libraries are code modules which are not generally usable from other applications. Under Debian's file-system standards, can I put these shared libraries in a subdirectory of /usr/local/lib, say /usr/local/lib//*.so (a script would set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include this path, then call the executable), or should the libraries be in /usr/local/lib? -- Christopher Lee http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chrislee [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Compressed image found at block 0
I've had similar problems. I tried different floppies and tried rawriting them several times; eventually I got a floppy that would boot properly. At this point, I think your problem is with the boot floppy, not the hard drive. Someone told me that floppy installs are notoriously unreliable, and that he's known of people who had to try formatting/rawriting a floppy several times before it would work (like in my case, mentioned above). Also, in the disk images directory of the ftp.debian.org site, which is where I downloaded my images from, there's a couple of alternative resc1440 images, one of which is specifically for most laptops and some desktops that have trouble reading the compressed image on the normal resc1440.bin disk. It's called resc1440-tecra.bin, or something similar. If reformatting/rawriting your floppy several times doesn't work, or if trying 3 or 4 different floppies doesn't work, you might try this alternative image. At 04:41 PM 7/27/1998 -0500, you wrote: >When installing Linux from the boot floppies for the first time, I get a fatal message : >Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 > >2 lines before that is the error: >RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 >invalid compressed format (err=1)[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 0, ... > >Any idea what it could be or what to do? >The drive WAS set up as a compressed drive. It has since been formatted, fdisked, low-level formatted, and every combo in-between. > >Kelly Stuard >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > === Kent West | Technology Support/Customer Service | Abilene Christian University| Voice: 915-674-2557 FAX: 915.674.6724 | ACU Station, Box 29005 | E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Abilene, TX 79699-9005 | Ham:KC5ENO, General | === -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Green monitor power_saver not working on XDM login screen!
Hi, all. I'm running XFree86 3.3. Here are the relevant entries in my XF86Config: [Section "Device"] option "power_saver" [Section "Screen"] BlankTime 5 StandbyTime 10 SuspendTime 15 OffTime 20 When I login to an user account, everything works as expected: the screen blanks out on the 5th min and the power automatically turns off on the 20th min. However, if I leave it on the xdm login screen, things do not work out entirely. The screen still blanks out on the 5th min as expected. But the power never turns off. Any idea what's wrong? Thanks. -- Hong Huang -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Getting Samba working on BO
On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > This is probably a stupid question, but I guess I'll ask it anyways. Not as bad as some I've asked :) Sorry to take so long to reply, I am sometimes really slow about reading the mailing lists I'm on. > How do I get Samba working on my BO system. I used dselect to download and > install it. I have looked through the files but I have not seen anything with > debian specific information in it. I have a win95 system on the same network > and it does not seem to see the debian system. Is there a file telling me who > extra steps need to be done to enable it? I'm going to take a guess that samba is working and that maybe your Win95 machine needs a kick in the seat. I hope this helps... 1.Go into Control Panel, click Networks 2.Find the box that has the phrase "The following network components are installed" Note: You can have lines I don't even mention and not have a problem. I think what matters is that the following IS there. 3.There should be: - a line that says "Client for Microsoft Networks" - a line with the name of your network card (example: "NE2000 Compatible") - a line that says "TCP/IP ->" followed by your network card (example: "TCP/IP -> NE200 Compatible") 4.Click on the TCP/IP -> your network card line, then click the Properties button 5.At the top of the "TCP/IP Properties" window, click the "Bindings" tab. 6.The words "Client for Microsoft Networks" should be there and the little box next to it should have a check mark in it. If you have any questions, feel free to ask... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: samba printing problems
On Mon, 27 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Do the apps that create the problems have an option for 'background' > printing or something similiar? They send the print data to the > spooler in chunks when the program is not busy. That might be > something to look for. Nope. Paintbrush has very few options, none of which are anything like that. It's built into Windows 3.1 (c:\windows\pbrush.exe on my computer), so it's a pretty simple program. Good idea though. Thanks, Patrick -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
