Re: mixed text and postscript

1998-09-19 Thread Max
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ole J. Tetlie)
> *-Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> |
> | I'd like to be able to print both text and PostScript using one
> | printcap entry.  HP recommends setting up two separate printcap
> | entries, but it seems to me that it should be possible to do this
> | using some sort of an input filter that converts text to PostScript
> | and leaves PostScript files alone.  Has anyone done something like
> | this with LPRng?  I'm using an HP LaserJet 4000N with a JetDirect
> | card.
> 
> Have a look at magicfilter or apsfilter. They will let you print
> many different types of files directly, with conversion
> (to PS) going on in the background.

Actually, it turns out that in my case it was as simple as adding

if=/usr/lib/CTI-Print/bin/ifhp

to /etc/printcap.  Works like a charm and can even put the printer in
duplex mode.

Max


iMac

1998-09-19 Thread ryan winner
Will the Debian MkLinux work on the iMac? 
RYAN
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Arla

1998-09-19 Thread Max
Has anyone here had any success either compiling Arla or installing
the RPM package with alien?  When I try to compile, it complains about
all sorts of missing header files.  The RPM installation doesn't work
because it can't find libreadline.so.3 (Debian only provides
libreadline.so.2).  I got the latest libreadline RPM from RedHat but
the linker for Arla still fails.  What gives?  I'd really like to get
AFS working here and it looks like Arla is my only choice if I want to
use the development kernel.

Thanks,
Max


ftp and NIS

1998-09-19 Thread Max
I'm trying to get proftpd working and having no success so far.  The
damn thing refuses to allow logins.  The ftp connection goes fine, but
then it always says login incorrect.  My suspicion is that it's
somehow not interacting properly with NIS and/or shadow passwords.
Telnet works just fine, so I would have thought that ftp would work as
well...

Thanks,
Max


Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-19 Thread shaul
> Okay; I give up on the documentation. Maybe someone on the list can help.

I think you are too hasty about it. In general, documantation is not easy to 
read and understand, but it is a great source for help.

As for your problem:
1) Check Debian's FAQ-O-MATIC. I don't know what it has but I think there is 
relevant info.
2) Try to test the connection as root. Permitions problems are quite common 
and testing the connection as root helps to examine them.
3) Try to cahnge the references from /dev/modem to /dev/ttyS1 (if your modem 
on COM2, /dev/ttyS2 if it is on COM3, etc).
4) Have a look at the relevant log lines abd see if that help you focous on 
the problem.
5) Install minicom and see if you can call your ISP with it, and what is their 
response.
6) Mail the list if you need further help. Attaching the relevant log file 
lines is desirable.
 
> 
> I've got a minimal Debian 2.0 system up and running (base install from the
> floppies and that's it). I've run pppconfig and told it to create a
> connection named "bub". I haven't found any documentation that tells me how
> to use this connection. I've found several references to running pon, or
> pppd, and references to chatscript and provider and etc etc etc.
> 
> I've figured out that if I just type pon the system tries to use the
> "provider" connection (which doesn't work, presumably because the
> "provider" files aren't properly configured - it gives an error message
> about /dev/modem being an unrecognized option). But if I type pon bub
> (which is what I would have thought would've used the "bub" connection),
> all that happens is the system thinks for a couple of seconds and then
> returns me to a prompt. There's no modem activity or messages or anything.
> 
> Any suggestions as to what I can do different? Thanks!
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Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II

1998-09-19 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote:

> > >Does "ldd squake.real" say anything useful?
> > 
> > Er, que? (spot the newbie sysadmin...)
> 
> Which seems okay to me - the top one is the libc5 maths library, the bottom
> one is the libc5 C library and the middle one is the libc5 vga library.

I am having exactly the same problem with squake on my Debian 2.0
system as well, only I have a Matrox Millium(sp?) card. 'ldd `which
squake.real`' gives me: 

  libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4000b000)
  libvga.so.1 => /usr/lib/libvga.so.1 (0x40014000)
  libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40051000)
  libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4010f000)
  ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x401b4000)

Something is definetely wierd here, as linking to two libc (different
versions no less) can not be good for the health. I have tried different
values for LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_PRELOAD, but to no avail. 
The only lead I have on this is that Netscape 4.x was giving me
simular problems to this as well. If I hand installed a copy of netscape
into /usr/local/..., it would segfault on start, and an ldd showed that
that it has also linked to both libc's, 5 and 6. When I feed the debian
wrapper package for netscape the same tar.gz distrib file as I had used to
install manually, netscape magically got installed in such a way that it
looks for only libc5.
From this, I suspect that the problem has little to do with svga
lib or video cards, but with messed up linking. I need to look at the
source to the debian wrapper package for netscape, the answer probably
lies there, but I have not had time yet.
My two cents, hope they help!


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Re: [off-topic] out of mailing lists .....

1998-09-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
Nuno Carvalho wrote:
  >Hi,
  >
  > Sorry, about this mail, but is the second or third time that I stop from
  >getting mail from debian-user, debian-devel and debian-changes mailing
  >lists! To resolve it I need to subscribe again! :(
  >
  > Had this happened to someone else !?

Yes.  Any time my ISP screws up, I get dropped.  This seems to be because
the list server counts the number of bounced messages rather than the length
of time that a recipient cannot be contacted.  So a high volume list
like -devel or -user will drop you within a couple of hours.

Can this be changed to measure the length of time that an address fails -
say 2 days?  


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Best way to finish install via network drive?

1998-09-19 Thread David Karlin
Hello:
I have done a hamm install from diskette.  As this system is incomplete
(manpages and many commands are not present), I would like to continue the
installation from a disk on my win95 machine.

I have successfully installed a win95<-->linux ethernet connection; each box
can ping the other.  I have set up win95's "c" drive as shared.  My linux
kernel has samba compiled (although I did not specify any command line
parameters for smb).

What else do I need to do in order to mount a samba file system?

TIA,
David


crypt function

1998-09-19 Thread Michael Laing
Can someone tell me what package I need in order to get the 'crypt'
function?

The man page is straightforward, but the link fails because it cannot
find the entry point.

I have searched around on the debian web site and in dselect but it is
not obvious what library has this routine.

Thanks,
Michael Laing


Using Linux on MC68030 Workstation

1998-09-19 Thread John_Gay
I found a home-brew 68030 PC at the following site and was wondering how
hard it would be to port Linux to it.

http://www.derivation.com/~cyliax/ws030.html

Basically, it's a workstation designed around the 68030 processor and using
a standard ISA bus to interface with X86 type devices, hard drive, floppy,
VGA monitor etc. . .  It does have a small version of Minix that can run on
it, I was just hoping I could get Linux to run on it, or at the very least,
set it up as an X-Terminal in a Linux system. Does anyone have any ideas on
this?

Cheers,

 John Gay



Re: telnet access/telnetd

1998-09-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Shane S. wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> After a successful installation, I want to configure the telnet access
> to my debian linux.  I noticed I don't have telnetd in /etc directory.
> I searched for it and couldn't find it at all.  Do I have get this from
> somewhere to set it up.  
> 
> Also is there a documentation HOW-TO to configure and setup telnetd?

It's controlled by inetd and should be enabled by default.  See
/etc/inetd.conf for a line containing in.telnetd.  Try telnetting to
127.0.0.1, log in and type 'ps -ax'. You will see in.telnetd listed.

Bob


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MTA Frustration: Exim

1998-09-19 Thread Andrew

I've been running Linux for almost eighteen months now, and I still don't
have a fully-functional MTA. I've been reading through the exim docs, and
fooled around a bit, and I now know far more about MTAs and daemons than I
ever did before, but I still don't seem to be any closer to solving my
problem. Exim's delivering remote mail alright, but for some reason not
local mail. Smail (when I was using it) deliviered local mail but not
remote. I've just run eximconf again to get exim using a configuration
file unsoiled by my clumsy hands, but it still doesn't work. 

I have the standard desktop pc which dials to an ISP for internet access.
 My machine's name is Caliban,
my user name ajt and my email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
All I want is: 
* automatic delivery of local mail, mostly to /var/spool/mail/ajt
* delivery of fetchmail'd mail to /var/spool/mail/ajt
* everything else goes outside with From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

and I'd be very happy. 

Is this line right from exim.conf? 
local_domains = csc.canterbury.ac.nz:student.canterbury.ac.nz

Should Caliban be there also? What happens if I try to email
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

What's the canonical way to stop and restart exim? 

There must be tons of people in my position, on average a lot more
email-stupid than those with complex networks to manage. There should
really be a file saying "here's what you do if you're a single machine
user with a dial-up account". Maybe there is already, but I never found
it. Maybe it should be in the FAQ, or the FAQ_O_MATIC, or in the eximconf
script itself. 


Andrew Tarr
"We were so close to heaven --- Peter came out and gave us badges, 
proclaiming us `The Nicest of the Damned'" 
-- They Might Be Giants



NIS groups HOWTO?

1998-09-19 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi,

How do I setup NIS groups in Debian? I have two machines, one
running up-to-date slink and the other one running hamm (if that matters).
The hamm machine is the NIS server. If I put 

netgroups:  nis

on /etc/nsswitch.conf on both machines and 

mygroup (,host-a,) (,host-b,) (,host-c,)

in hamm's /etc/netgroups and then

/some/fs/   @mygroup

in hamm's /etc/exports, it doesn't work. What's the trick, or does "it's
kind of buggy" mean "doesn't work at all" in the libc6 documentation
regarding NIS groups?

TIA,

Marcelo Magallon


Re: sound mixer program

1998-09-19 Thread Phillip Neumann
Xiaonan Ma wrote:

> Is there a program that allows multiple applications to play audio
> at the same time? Like a mixer daemon ... If so, could someone point
> it to me?
>
> Thanks.
>
> xiaonan
>

Check out alsa's sound  driver. I think i have read somthing about it here...
http://alsa.jcu.cz/



Bye,





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Re: Multiple hosts & hosts.equiv

1998-09-19 Thread Paul Miller
Gunnar Strand wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> However, I can't get rlogin/rsh/rcp working "passwordlessly".
> I have added + in /etc/hosts.equiv on both boxes and gone
> through /etc/login.defs with no success. I even get a password

login.defs is for shadow passwords.

> prompt when doing 'rlogin localhost'! I'm sure there is a config
> somewhere I've missed. How do you declare a host's chummy friends
> besides hosts.equiv?
> 
Each user sets up who they trust with their account by defining a
.rhosts file is their home directory. It should look like

trusted.host.DNS user

where the DNS is a fully qualified domain name and user is the name of
the user on the trusted machine. You will then recieve no prompt for a
password.


> Secondly, what is the best way to propagate the passwd and group
> files? I consider using NIS but haven't put my teeth in it yet.
> I though perhaps an 'rcp' would do it, but since I can't rcp due
> to the password prompt, well, you get the picture.
> 
NIS is surely one way. I have found it to flakey at best, but it does
work (did that just make sense :-/ ). rcp will also work, but remeber to
set up root to have rlogin rights. I do not remember how to do that.
Maybe someone else can follow up on this.


Hoe this helps.
-- 
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Re: ATI Xpert-98 8MB video card

1998-09-19 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
I have this card and have it running perfectly using the Mach64 server. And i 
must
says its as smooth as butter in terms of performance.

Mohammad


Lars Steinke wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:
>
> > dear all,
> >
> >   anyone know if this is supported, and if so do I use the SVGA
> > server, a SUSE one, or something else?
>
> Of course I cannot garantuee that card to work, but as it features the
> RagePro chipset with builtin RAMDAC just like the [EMAIL PROTECTED] and @Work 
> it
> should work fine with the mach64 XF86-Server that comes with Debian...
>
> Regards,
>
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AcceleratedX4.1.1 work with GLIBC ?

1998-09-19 Thread aphro
I had slackware runnin great for about 2 years, could never get XFREE
running on slack but was shocked to see it setup perfectly in debian 2.  I
still wanted to try to get AcceleratedX working, but when I installed it,
and hit startx, or Xsetup, nothing happened..no errors..just got a new
command prompt. Does AccelX run with glibc? i have the libc5-compat package
installed.. and nowhere in my AccelX manual nor on the cd's documentation
does it say _anything_ about glibc problems.

Also, any way to get Staroffice 4 to run on Debian 2 ? when i tried the
installer, it crashed(saw the readme say it didn't support glibc)
..Staroffice5 ? what about applix how's that run in glibc. I saw an email a
week or 2 back about getting SO3 to work in debian, saved it will look over
it again later..or maybe it mentioned SO4 i forgot. since this list
generates so much traffic i had to make another account just for this list
;) if you reply to this would you be so kind as to send it/cc it to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] as well, as that is one of my main addresses. I usually
download this mail once a week in packages of 900+ and it'd be hard to sort
thru them all :|

one last question ..can anybody reccomend a POP client for X that can
handle multiple accounts smoothly. 5 of my accounts i try to check
regularly. (keep different ones for different purposes)

I got a pretty good linux-links page up as well ..not just linux links it
has other things too if your interested - http://yahoo.aphroland.org .
About 350 links total, around 160-170 linux-specific. made it cuz it was a
pain to keep my favorites/bookmarks available through 2 computers, 5 OSs,
and about 8 different browsers ack! heheh (and before you flame me for
using eudora..im only using win95 to test out my new v90 flash!! honest! :>
--sofar it sucks )

nate

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Re: MTA Frustration: Exim

1998-09-19 Thread AJT60
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, George Bonser wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Andrew wrote:
> 
> > Is this line right from exim.conf? 
> > local_domains = csc.canterbury.ac.nz:student.canterbury.ac.nz
> 
> If you want all email for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be delivered to the local machine, yes.

right, I don't want to do that. 

> What exactly are you trying to do? If your machine is>
 calabash.student.canterbury.ac.uk then THAT is what you need as the
local

> domain. Any domain that is not your machine is not a local domain. A local
> domain means the local machine ... not one within a few miles of your
> location.

eximconfig asks:

What is the `visible' mail name of your system? This will appear on 
From: lines of outgoing messages.

I answered student.canterbury.ac.nz, because that's what I want on the
From: lines of outgoing messages. eximconfig puts it on the local_domains
list. I take it this is not what I want. 

> THis of course assumes that calabash.student.canterbury.ac.uk is a real
> machine with real DNS and can have mail delivered directly to it from the
> internet. Otherwise, you are probably better off using your university
> mail server as your smarthost and set your mail client to read pop3 mail
> from their server just like Windows clients

That's what I want to do. Outgoing mail is working fine. The only
other thing I want is for local mail (such as [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to be
delivered. At the moment it's not being delivered, and I have no idea why. 



Andrew Tarr

"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate"
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Naming machines on network.

1998-09-19 Thread Chris Hoover
I need some advise on how to name the machines on my network.  Here is
the current setup:

internet---machine1---hubmachine2

My isp has given me a name of ci1000135-a.grnvle1.sc.home.com with a
static ip.
I also have aquired the name choover.ml.org for the same ip.

Is it possible for a machine to have more than one name (i.e. I'd like
to know machine 1 as waxman.choover.ml.org).  Also, what should I name
machine2 (I'd like tux.choover.ml.org).  I'm using ip masq. on machine 1
to hide my network which consists of private ip's (192.168.1.1
192.168.1.2).

So far, everything is working as far as internet access from both
machines.  However machine 2's mail is screwed up, and from comments an
a previous question, it looks like a naming issue.

Also, is it possible for me to set up the network where I can access
either machine from the internet?

TIA,

Chris


Re: Naming machines on network.

1998-09-19 Thread Guoqiang Dai
Chris Hoover wrote:
> 
> I need some advise on how to name the machines on my network.  Here is
> the current setup:
> 
> internet---machine1---hubmachine2
> 
> My isp has given me a name of ci1000135-a.grnvle1.sc.home.com with a
> static ip.
> I also have aquired the name choover.ml.org for the same ip.
> 
> Is it possible for a machine to have more than one name (i.e. I'd like
> to know machine 1 as waxman.choover.ml.org).  Also, what should I name
> machine2 (I'd like tux.choover.ml.org).  I'm using ip masq. on machine 1
> to hide my network which consists of private ip's (192.168.1.1
> 192.168.1.2).

I think you need to setup your own dns server and config ml.org to point
to it. Then you can give machine1 whatever name under your own domain
(i.e. choover.ml.org). You can name your machine2 to whatever you like
because it won't be accessable directly from Internet.

> So far, everything is working as far as internet access from both
> machines.  However machine 2's mail is screwed up, and from comments an
> a previous question, it looks like a naming issue.

Don't know the details of your setup.

> Also, is it possible for me to set up the network where I can access
> either machine from the internet?

I think you need things like redir.

> TIA,
> 
> Chris
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Re: MTA Frustration: Exim

1998-09-19 Thread AJT60
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, George Bonser wrote:
> 
> Right, because if you have a local user of foo, it tries to deliver it to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> because that is what you have told it to do. It then finds that another
> server is the official mailhost for student.canterbury.ac.nz and tries to
> deliver it there but since there is no [EMAIL PROTECTED], it
> probably bounces.

 
> Try this:
> 
> rerun eximconfig, select staellite system, let it configure your system.
> Add an /etc/alias entry for each real user on your local system:
> 
> joe:  real-joe
> bill: real-bill
> jeff: real-jeff
> 
> exactly as shown. Any user with real- prepended gets delivered locally.

I saw that in the docs somewhere. I thought it looked useful, but I had no
idea how to use it. 

Unfortunately, it doesn't work. I've also tried running eximconfig and
selecting local system (mail is sent and recieved only locally). This
doesn't work either. This is making me quite suspicious: maybe something
else is broken. Is it possible exim doesn't like my machine name
("Caliban") starting with a capital? 

Andrew Tarr

"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate"


Re: iMac

1998-09-19 Thread Shaleh
ryan winner wrote:
> 
> Will the Debian MkLinux work on the iMac?
> RYAN

Ryan, mklinux is NOT Debian Linux.  That is the one supported by Apple. 
Ours is pure PPC code.  And no, not yet.  No one does.  The iMac is all
USB, so we have to get USB support in Linux.  It is happening quickly. 
Prolly around end of the year.  Maybe sooner.
-- 
Can't buy what I want because it's free.
-- Pearl Jam


Re: problem with installation

1998-09-19 Thread dsb3
On 18 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>  I got a problem when I installed debian-linux according to the installation 
> guide.
>
>Hardware: 32 RAM/2 GB disk/IBM compatable 586
>
>1. Installation with disk
>
>   I copied files:resc1440.bin,drv1440.bin,base2_0.tgz,linux,install.bat and 
> loadin.exe into DOS directory. when I started install.bat ... got error 
> messages like: 'I/O error'
>
>2. Installation with floppy disks
 >  I put the resc1440.bin into drive A and restarted the computer. After
 >the 'boot:' prompt was appeared , I took many choice for boot prompt but
 >all failed and got message like 'con't mount VFS '...
>
>
>Maybe someone would tell me how to install linux with floppys exactly.
>  
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Re: crypt function

1998-09-19 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Michael Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Can someone tell me what package I need in order to get the 'crypt'
| function?
| 
| The man page is straightforward, but the link fails because it cannot
| find the entry point.
| 
| I have searched around on the debian web site and in dselect but it is
| not obvious what library has this routine.

You need the package libc6-dev. It contains (among other things) libcrypt.

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network monitoring

1998-09-19 Thread Norbert Veber
Anyone know of some good network monitoring tools for linux?  Better yet,
are there any in debian?  What I'm looking for is something that will show
graphs or statistics of network traffic on a per host basis, show the number
of collisions, possibly track down the hosts that cause the most colisions,
etc etc..


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Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 09:56:49AM -0700, mjv wrote:
> Also, I assume I can create a Linux fs on a zip disk - and I assume that since
> we can squeeze 1.6meg from a regular floppy, the same could be true with 
> squeezing
> extra space from the Zip floppy. Anyone have any experience with this? 

I'd say no chance. The floppy drive allows you to use higher density
and more tracks than are usually used on floppy disks, but there's no
reason to think that the Zip drive will let you do this. Since it's
Iomega-controlled, I'm pretty sure they'd be using the absolutely
maximum reliable capacity of the disk. With floppy drives, individual
manufactures can't just started calling their drives 1.6mb because
they're standard drives.

Hamish
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Re: Second try--can someone interpret these install boot messages?

1998-09-19 Thread Curt Daugaard
On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 12:20:27PM -0700, Ian Eure wrote:
> > 
> In some cases, with older drive types and/or systems, you can cheat a bit
> by enabling the system ROM shadow option in your CMOS. I really doubt
> that this would work on a PS/2, but my older AMD 386DX/40 (a truly super
> system) with dual seagate 40meg MFM drives (yeah!) didn't like to boot
> linux without having the main bios shadowed. If it was unshadowed, it
> wouldn't autodetect the drive geometry. Kinda weird, but it's a kinda
> weird box, right? Anyways. Neat trick nonetheless. :)
> 
>
Thanks for the suggestion.  Unfortunately, for the PS/2 it was
another dead end.  Since Linux seems not doable for this machine,
I've installed WFWG and I'll run Samba.

My thanks to those who posted suggestions.

Curt Daugaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


Modules problems

1998-09-19 Thread Remo Badii
Dear Debs,

I have an annoying boot error message concerning the PCMCIA services
(and the CDROM), after I started using a newly compiled kernel.
First of all, I could work well with an ACCTON EN 2212 PCMCIA Card and
the CDROM drive with the default Debian 2.0.34 kernel.
In /lib/modules/2.0.34, there was a subdirectory pcmcia with lots of .o
files.
I have recompiled the kernel (still 2.0.34) after moving /lib/modules/2.0.34
to *.save. I have used make menuconfig, selected what seemed to be relevant
for PCMCIA (I can provide the configuration file), done
make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image and
dpkg -i ../kernel-image.custom.x.x.x.x.deb.
The system works, I have a link to the original kernel and the saved
/lib/modules/2.0.34.save directory, so that I can restart from the "origins".
However, I get the boot message
...
Starting kerneld vs. 2.1.85
Starting PCMCIA services: module directory /lib/modules/2.0.34/pcmcia not found
...
Questions:
Which step in the new kernel building should create this directory?
If none, is it the installation of pcmcia-cs that does it? Then, should I
reinstall it?
If none of the above is correct, is there a "config whatever" to do in the
pcmcia-cs directories? Or anything to change in /etc/modutils/conf.i386?

Manoj Srivastava wrote:

Possibly you did not build and install the pcmcia
 modules? The pcmcia modules are added on to the kernel, and come
 separately. Install the pcmcia source package and look for
 instructions on using make-kpkg to create pcmcia modules.

I could not find instructions for the creation of pcmcia modules: have they
been created in the original Debian setup while installing pcmcia-cs?
If this is the case, I repeat my question above: must pcmcia-cs be
reinstalled with the new kernel running?

Finally, also the /lib/modules/2.0.34/cdrom directory is empty, although I
have selected IDE_CD as a module in menuconfig. Is anything else necessary?
Indeed, I get the boot message
Loading modules: cdrom can't locate module cdrom.

If not even this works with the new kernel, I can't load anything since I
can neither use the CD nor connect with the net.

Thank you
Remo


Which X Server?

1998-09-19 Thread David Densmore
My video card is a Diamond SpeedStar Pro with the Cirrus Logic
CL-GD5426 chip.

Which X server should I use?  I want to run -bpp 16 color depth.

Thanks
David Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-19 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 09:56:49AM -0700, mjv wrote:
> That's funny, I just mounted the zip w/o the -t msdos, and it still mounted 
> fine. 
> Am I playing Russian Roulette by doing that? 
> 
> Also, I assume I can create a Linux fs on a zip disk - and I assume that since
> we can squeeze 1.6meg from a regular floppy, the same could be true with 
> squeezing
> extra space from the Zip floppy. Anyone have any experience with this? 
> I wish to create a backup disk for all the programs I download (the dos 
> format 
> truncates the names - and I'd rather store Linux files on a Linux file system)

You can squeeze more out of a floppy by doing a more efficient low-level
format (which divides the disk into little bits).  However since the Zip
disk is seen as a SCSI disk, I doubt you can get more than the ~100MB they
store.

You can repartition and reformat them (high level reformat) with a ext2
filesystem - I did this so that I can have /dev/sda1 rather than the silly
/dev/sda4! 

Adrian

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configuring my kernel

1998-09-19 Thread Tom Malloy
Following up on my question about hardware, if I can't get the specs for
the hp lan card how will I know which module to compile into the
kernel?  Yes, I did try the ones marked hp, but they were rejected
Once again the card is HP ethertwist pc link 27247-60001

Any help is appreciated.  
Thanks
Tom


Adding/Editing a Magicfilter filter ?

1998-09-19 Thread Eric Jacoboni
Hi,

I've a HP Deskjet 890C : to print, i'm using gs and Magicfilter from
the Hamm distro : the filter i've choosen is ljet4l and i've edited
the ljet4l to replace 300 by 600 in order to have a 600 dpi output.

Is there a more 'elegant' way to configure such a filter ?

I've downloaded the latest gs deb from slink distro because it has the
cdjcolor driver for HP 850 : how to create a filter for Magicfilter in
order to use this driver for color outputs ? Editing an existing
filter (say, cdj550c) ? or is there a doc to explain this job ?
-- 
---
Éric Jacoboni « J'ai épuisé le tout-venant, je vais me risquer dans
le bizarre » (M. Audiard)
---


Re: Which X Server?

1998-09-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
I used the SVGA driver with one of these.  It's been a few years, but I
believe it worked with -bpp 16.

Bob

On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, David Densmore wrote:

> My video card is a Diamond SpeedStar Pro with the Cirrus Logic
> CL-GD5426 chip.
> 
> Which X server should I use?  I want to run -bpp 16 color depth.


Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tucson, AZ  AMPRnet:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DM42nh  http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen


Re: ftp and NIS

1998-09-19 Thread A. M. Varon
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Max wrote:

> I'm trying to get proftpd working and having no success so far.  The
> damn thing refuses to allow logins.  The ftp connection goes fine, but
> then it always says login incorrect.  My suspicion is that it's
> somehow not interacting properly with NIS and/or shadow passwords.
> Telnet works just fine, so I would have thought that ftp would work as
> well...

I was once have that same problem. It turned out that his shell was not
defined in /etc/shells. After I fixed the problem, ftp now works.

regards,

== == Andre M. Varon  Lasaltech Incorporated
== == Technical Head  Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836
== = ==
==== ==   E-mail  : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 ==   WebPage : http://andre.lasaltech.com


libraries have no symbols

1998-09-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Most of the system libraries do not have any symbols in them;
certainly all the core ones don't like libc.

This makes it hard to debug programs, because you can't see any
library calls made. I have installed libc6-dbg, but it makes no difference,
although I think I've been told in the past that it should. I don't
know gdb well and I've never messed with any configuration, but I thought
it should pick up the symbols automatically.

It appears the only way to use the debugging libraries right now
is to link -static, but I don't have time right now to download 4mb of
lesstifg-dbg just to debug some Motif stuff.

Why do the system libraries not have symbols? /lib/libc.so.1 on Solaris 2.6
certainly has symbols! And gdb uses them too.


thanks,
Hamish
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Re: libraries have no symbols

1998-09-19 Thread jdassen
On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 01:14:30AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Why do the system libraries not have symbols?

They do have some symbols in them. Try e.g. 
nm --dynamic --defined-only /lib/libc.so.6

Ray
-- 
ART  A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. 
I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking 
his name in vain. 
- The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan 


Re: configuring my kernel

1998-09-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Tom Malloy wrote:

 : Following up on my question about hardware, if I can't get the specs for
 : the hp lan card how will I know which module to compile into the
 : kernel?  Yes, I did try the ones marked hp, but they were rejected
 : Once again the card is HP ethertwist pc link 27247-60001

If you can't find any information about your NIC, and you can't get any
of the modules to work with it, I think you're screwed.  Is it
impossible to replace the NIC?

--
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MidcoNet  410 South Phillips Avenue  Sioux Falls, SD
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Re: network monitoring

1998-09-19 Thread Amos Shapira
On Sat, September 19 1998, Norbert Veber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|
|--aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx
|Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
|
|Anyone know of some good network monitoring tools for linux?  Better yet,
|are there any in debian?  What I'm looking for is something that will show
|graphs or statistics of network traffic on a per host basis, show the number
|of collisions, possibly track down the hosts that cause the most colisions,
|etc etc..

A nice graphing utility is MRTG.  It caters mostly for SNMP but you
can monitor and graph pretty much anything.  It's not quite the
easiest to get to use but MRTG 3 should impruve it dramatically once
it gets out the door.

(there is a debian package for MRTG, of course, as well as a helpfull
mailing list)

--Amos

--Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for
133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st.  |  glory, for its people had been chosen
Jerusalem 93 805  |  by the finest judges in England."
ISRAEL[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Anonymous


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Install problems

1998-09-19 Thread EGRET Lures



Received the lsl CD's last week and installed to C:(3.2 IDE). Everything
seem to function and boot brought  up prompt. Installed a second drive
(5.1) and cleaned C:. C:was repartitioned for DOS and NT4WS (200mb &
3gb). Linux was then installed on D w/ 3 primary and a 130mb swap. Lilo
was installed on hdb1. Bios was set to boot from D: and "LI" appeared with
system hanging.
Reinstalled with same results. Oddly enough the floppy creation failed
every time on the reinstalls unless the disk was repartitioned. Did not
change the partition sizes.
Any help would be appreciated.
Henry




OFF TOPIC: W/95 term progs > COM5?

1998-09-19 Thread Edward J Young

Sorry to ask about a W/95 issue here, but I need to validate a board on
W/95 before I use it on Linux. 

I need to be able to talk to my extended serial ports using a terminal
program. I can't find any Software that will open a terminal and talk to
anything above COM4. PCPlus, hyperterm, etc are hardcoded to COM4 and
below, so I can't even get started with those. 

I am using a Cyclades 4yo board which adds 4 more serial ports and works
under Linux. Too bad W/95 apps are limiting me. 

Ed Young





Re: [lug] OFF TOPIC: W/95 term progs > COM5?

1998-09-19 Thread Jason Ray Vallery
Well, I think that windows looks at COMS 5-8 as COM1-4 with a different
IRQ. So, Im not that familiar, but you should be able to just select the
coresponding COM with the correct IRQ...

Hope that helps, sorry I couldn't be of more assitance. 

On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Edward J Young wrote:

> 
> Sorry to ask about a W/95 issue here, but I need to validate a board on
> W/95 before I use it on Linux. 
> 
> I need to be able to talk to my extended serial ports using a terminal
> program. I can't find any Software that will open a terminal and talk to
> anything above COM4. PCPlus, hyperterm, etc are hardcoded to COM4 and
> below, so I can't even get started with those. 
> 
> I am using a Cyclades 4yo board which adds 4 more serial ports and works
> under Linux. Too bad W/95 apps are limiting me. 
> 
> Ed Young
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -
> Boulder Linux Users Group:  http://lug.boulder.co.us
> -
> 


glibc

1998-09-19 Thread Rahul Sood
Does Debian 6.0 come with glibc or libc6? Will the supplied packages work
with glibc?

-R. Sood
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


ISDN-Setup

1998-09-19 Thread Helmut Metzdorf
Hi there,

this is a request for approval (or corrections) and some questions.

After i read on this list about problems with autoup i decided for a 
clean new install of Debian 2.0 instead. Having carefully backed up
all my personal settings etc. all went rather smooth.

But when i installed the isdnutils-package and some configuration script
was run (isdnconfig) i firsthand decided to read some docu first. There
i noticed that a lot of the layout in the config files has changed. 
Having now read (i think) all availible documentation i made my mind up
how to continue. But beeing unsure i´d like your comments on my
procedure.

1: use the old config files (pap-secrets, host.conf, hosts,
resolv.conf)by copying them to the appropriate places (/etc,
/etc/ppp).

2: my old entries in isdnlog.conf are placed in callerid.conf.

3: country- and areacode as well as my MSN and my providers phonenr
   have to be set in isdn.conf.
   
 Question: There was mentioned a ~/.isdn, where to find any info on
   that, and what is it good for?

4: take my old ioptions file and edit device.ippp0 accordingly, ignoring
   the mass of new options.

 Question: do i have to use the no..-options where i had
-..-options   before e. g. novj instead of -vj?  

5: lookup the scriptfile that sets the base values via isdnctrl   
(isdn.ippp0?) and check it against the old script i was using.
   
 Question: there the defaultroute is set, mustn´t i delete it again to 
   disable dial-on-demand?

6: the option file for isdnlog (isdnlog.isdnctrl0?)
 
 Question: should i change some of the default parameters or can i
leavethem untouched?

7: edit /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/isdnutils to disable dial-on-demand.

8: remove the "not configured" lines from the config files.

Until here i´m rather shure there will be no major misstakes, but from
now there´s only questions left. 

How to change, set permissions (which permissions?) to initiate an
internet session as user xyz, preferably using xmonisdn and how to
change the according scripts besides eliminating the leading "exit 0"
- working examples wellcome - ?

Can i insert the commands for mail-processing in
/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/isdnutils and do i have to precede the fetchmail
command with su -u xyz when the acording .fetchmailrc is in /home/xyz?

In my old setting i had a one line script to reset the default route
because sometimes it happened that it was lost during a session, should
i keep it?

Oh, i see this has gotten longer than intended, but i can´t help it.

Thanks in advance

Helmut


Re: MTA Frustration: Exim

1998-09-19 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 02:44:23PM +1200, Andrew wrote:

[snip]
> There must be tons of people in my position, on average a lot more
> email-stupid than those with complex networks to manage. There should
> really be a file saying "here's what you do if you're a single machine
> user with a dial-up account". Maybe there is already, but I never found
> it. Maybe it should be in the FAQ, or the FAQ_O_MATIC, or in the eximconf
> script itself. 

A detailed description of a setup for a "single machine user with a
dial-up account" can be found at the URL in my sig. It uses smail, not
exim, 'cause that's sort of the debian "default" and it worked for me.

Luck,
Pann
-- 
 What's All the Buzz About Linux? 

 http://www.rdrop.com/users/pann/


Re: crypt function

1998-09-19 Thread Michael Laing
> *-Michael Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> |
> | Can someone tell me what package I need in order to get the 'crypt'
> | function?
> |
> | The man page is straightforward, but the link fails because it cannot
> | find the entry point.
> |
> | I have searched around on the debian web site and in dselect but it is
> | not obvious what library has this routine.
> 
> You need the package libc6-dev. It contains (among other things) libcrypt.
> 
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]   [-: .elOle. :-]   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
Thanks for the hint. I have libc6-dev installed but upon review of the
docs I found that because of US DES export restrictions, the crypt
function is in a separate library (at least in the US) that must be
explicitly linked using -lcrypt. That worked for me.

Michael Laing


Re: glibc

1998-09-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Rahul Sood wrote:

> Does Debian 6.0 come with glibc or libc6? Will the supplied packages work
> with glibc?

It's Debian 2.0 and yes it does come with glibc.  glibc and libc6 are the
same thing, GNU libc version 2 (2.0.7 in the latest Debian package).

(Yes, the use of multiple forms of nomenclature is confusing.)

Bob


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Re: glibc

1998-09-19 Thread Paul M. Foster


On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Rahul Sood wrote:

> Does Debian 6.0 come with glibc or libc6? Will the supplied packages work
> with glibc?

I assume you mean Debian 2.0 (Hamm). There is no Debian 6.0.

glibc2 == libc6

Most packages will work with libc6, but some may require the version 5
libraries, in which case they should specify that when you run dselect.

Paul M. Foster



Microchannel architecture support

1998-09-19 Thread Jor-el
Hi,

What support if any does the debian distribution offer for MCA
hardware? Are there precompiled binaries for the i386 architecture, or
do I have to apply an MCA patch to the source and build it?

Kenneth


PPP AUTHENTICATION ERROR

1998-09-19 Thread BOB'S MAIL
A new installation.  My modem connects but I have a PAP Authentication
problem.  After executing 'pon' from 'root' here is the return of 'plog'

PAP Authentication failed
LCP Terminated by peer

I execute 'pon' a second time and 'plog' reports:

Connection established using interface ppp0
connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS3

But, there is no ppp connection!  I have reviewed /etc/ppp/peer/provider,
/etc/chatscript/MY_ISP_NAME, /etc/resolv.cong, /etc/hosts ,
etc/ppp/pap-secrets, /etc/hosts.allow , /etc/HOSTNAME and everything looks
OK [ TO ME ]

Please tell me what to do now.

TIA,

Bob Barth
email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]



Building Dev. Kernels

1998-09-19 Thread Robert Wilderspin
Is there any Debian-specific things that need to be done to compile
development kernels correctly?  I'm considering downloading and trying
out 2.1.122, and would like to know whether I should be looking out
for any pecularities caused by Debian's layout, or something like
that.  Will it work "out of the box" using make-kpkg?


Rob Wilderspin
--
The problem with people is that half of them are
below average intelligence. And don't realise it.
-= (send replies to rob@)


Applixware 4.4 w/ Debian?

1998-09-19 Thread Wayne Cuddy
Is anyone using Applixware 4.4 with Debian.  I am using 4.3 on my
redhat system and would like to use Debian with 4.4.  Looking for success
stories.

Thanks in advance,

Wayne Cuddy
CRB-WEB (C & H Consulting)
http://www.crb-web.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


apache server-parsed error. Really!

1998-09-19 Thread Kent Andersen
ok got a new install and have the AddHandler for server-parsed enabled.
why am I getting?
[warn] handler "server-parsed" not found, using default handler for:
/var/www/index.htm

where is the handler located to be installed? is it a module or what?


thanks
kent


Re: Modules problems

1998-09-19 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 19 Sep, Remo Badii wrote:
[snip]
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> 
> Possibly you did not build and install the pcmcia
>  modules? The pcmcia modules are added on to the kernel, and come
>  separately. Install the pcmcia source package and look for
>  instructions on using make-kpkg to create pcmcia modules.
> 
> I could not find instructions for the creation of pcmcia modules: have they
> been created in the original Debian setup while installing pcmcia-cs?
> If this is the case, I repeat my question above: must pcmcia-cs be
> reinstalled with the new kernel running?
> 
[snip]

Try /usr/doc/pcmcia-source/README.  
-- 
Stephen Ryan   Debian GNU/Linux
Mathematics graduate student, Dartmouth College


After ftp upgrade of slink, module loading fails

1998-09-19 Thread Ed Cogburn
After allowing an upgrade of slink packages without watching too
closely, I then discovered that the auto loading of modules
(ppp,sound,vfat) fails for all modules.  I can use insmod to *manually*
load these modules (in dependency order) and everything works.  The
modules.dep file is correct (depmod -a doesn't help), it has the right
dependencies and locations.  I have done nothing to the kernel; no new
kernel.  I booted up this morning with everything working, connected to
an ftp site with dselect, allowed it to upgrade about a dozen packages,
and afterword all module loading is broken.  Anybody seen this?


-- 
Ed C.


Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:01

1998-09-19 Thread matt
My Hamm system is a couple weeks old, and I'm trying to roll my own kernel.  
The first few trys seemed to work, (removing PCI support, setting processor 
type to 486, etc...), but now, no matter how simple of a kernel I try to build, 
the system won't reboot.  The kernel loads, then, after about 3/4 of a screen 
of normal startup messages, the system halts with:

 VFS: Can't open root device 03:01
 Kernel Panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:01

What do these messages mean, what have I done to myself, and how can I undo it?

I installed the 2.0.34 kernel source package.  I think I'm following the 
instructions in /usr/doc/kernel-source-2.0.34/README.  I do:

make mrproper
make menuconfig
make dep
make clean
make zImage
make modules
make modules_install
cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34
lilo

Here is some other potentially relevant info:

$ less /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda1
root=/dev/hda1
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only

$ ls -l /vmlinuz
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   19 Sep  7 15:01 /vmlinuz -> 
boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34

$ ls -l /boot
total 295
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  512 Sep  7 15:27 boot.0301
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 4536 Nov 21  1997 boot.b
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  300 Nov 21  1997 chain.b
-rw---   1 root root 6656 Sep 15 23:12 map
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  444 Dec 12  1997 mbr.b
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  308 Nov 21  1997 os2_d.b
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root   281865 Sep 15 23:12 vmlinuz-2.0.34

Thanks,

Matt Miller

 "Software is never finished, it is only released"
 Mike Gancarz, The Unix Philosophy


chown for the floppy group

1998-09-19 Thread Mark Panzer
I noticed when I'm logged in as a normal user (not root) I cannot write
to the floppy drive.  I checked out the permissions, I'm in the floppy
group but /floppy belongs to root and is of the group root.  While I was
root user I tried to 

chown .floppy /floppy 

but it says, root is not a member of the group floppy.

thanks for your help,

Mark Panzer


Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:01

1998-09-19 Thread Mark Panzer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> My Hamm system is a couple weeks old, and I'm trying to roll my own kernel.  
> The first few trys seemed to work, (removing PCI support, setting processor 
> type to 486, etc...), but now, no matter how simple of a kernel I try to 
> build, the system won't reboot.  The kernel loads, then, after about 3/4 of a 
> screen of normal startup messages, the system halts with:
> 
>  VFS: Can't open root device 03:01
>  Kernel Panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:01
> 

You might be making your kernel too simple if you don't include support
for the minix fs then it cannot mount the root partiton.  Try remaking
your kernel and be sure to include ext2 support.

> What do these messages mean, what have I done to myself, and how can I undo 
> it?
> 

Next time also try to use the kpkg utility, all you do is enter the
source directory enter kpkg and it creates a .deb of the kernel (well
almost you'll have to read the doc's or ask me for more info if you want
it). When you do a dpkg -i kernel-XX.deb it does everything for you,
even runs lilo!

> I installed the 2.0.34 kernel source package.  I think I'm following the 
> instructions in /usr/doc/kernel-source-2.0.34/README.  I do:
> 
> make mrproper
> make menuconfig
> make dep
> make clean
> make zImage
> make modules
> make modules_install
> cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34
> lilo
> 
> Here is some other potentially relevant info:
> 
> $ less /etc/lilo.conf
> boot=/dev/hda1
> root=/dev/hda1
> install=/boot/boot.b
> map=/boot/map
> vga=normal
> delay=20
> image=/vmlinuz
> label=Linux
> read-only
> 
> $ ls -l /vmlinuz
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   19 Sep  7 15:01 /vmlinuz -> 
> boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34
> 
> $ ls -l /boot
> total 295
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  512 Sep  7 15:27 boot.0301
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 4536 Nov 21  1997 boot.b
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  300 Nov 21  1997 chain.b
> -rw---   1 root root 6656 Sep 15 23:12 map
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  444 Dec 12  1997 mbr.b
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  308 Nov 21  1997 os2_d.b
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root   281865 Sep 15 23:12 vmlinuz-2.0.34
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt Miller
> 
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>  Mike Gancarz, The Unix Philosophy
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Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:01

1998-09-19 Thread Samuel Landau
>  VFS: Can't open root device 03:01
>  Kernel Panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:01

strange
maybe you compiled the root fs as a module (which is not to be
done), but how would you boot?...
ah there's the answer:

> I installed the 2.0.34 kernel source package.  I think I'm following the 
> instructions in /usr/doc/kernel-source-2.0.34/README.  I do:
>
> make mrproper
> make menuconfig
> make dep
> make clean
> make zImage
> make modules
> make modules_install
> cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34
> lilo

dear mister, that's the orginal doc from de kernel source, not the
Debianized one.
well, with Debian there are some more files that are necessary for the
kernel to work
(e.g. : /boot/SystemMap)
you have to use the make-kernel package tools, or whatever is its name :

# cd /usr/src/linux
# make-kpkg clean
# make xconfig  /* sorry I like it :) */
# make-kpkg -r custom.1.0 binary

which buils all you need in /usr/src

then

# cd /usr/src
# dpkg -BRGiE kernel-image 2.0.34_custom.1.0.deb

but before :
$ man make-kpkg
$ cd /usr/doc/kernel-(uh what's its name? look for it!)
and rtfd
:)
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Compiling kernel?

1998-09-19 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I compiled kernels before (under slackware). How do I do it properly
in Debian? I think the proper way will be to have a .deb package in
the end. How do I do that? Is there information on the web on how to
do that?

Stef


Re: NIS groups HOWTO?

1998-09-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Marcelo E. Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The hamm machine is the NIS server. If I put 
>
>   netgroups:  nis
>
>on /etc/nsswitch.conf on both machines and 
>
>   mygroup (,host-a,) (,host-b,) (,host-c,)
>
>in hamm's /etc/netgroups

That's wrong. The syntax is (host,user,domain). So if you are adding
hosts to a netgroup file then you should use (host-a,,) (host-b,,)

> and then
>
>   /some/fs/   @mygroup
>
>in hamm's /etc/exports, it doesn't work. What's the trick, or does "it's
>kind of buggy" mean "doesn't work at all" in the libc6 documentation
>regarding NIS groups?

Well even if you fix the netgroup syntax, there is no guarantee that
the NFS server is NIS aware. You should try that (or read the source).

Mike.
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Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:01

1998-09-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Samuel Landau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>dear mister, that's the orginal doc from de kernel source, not the
>Debianized one.
>well, with Debian there are some more files that are necessary for the
>kernel to work
>(e.g. : /boot/SystemMap)

That's nonsense. I have never used the Debian style and always installed
my own kernels. /boot/System.map is not essential for the boot
process either.

Remember.. Debian is just Linux .. there's nothing special about
the kernel.

Mike.
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Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:01

1998-09-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> VFS: Can't open root device 03:01
> Kernel Panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:01

Sounds like you didn't compile in the driver for your harddisk. You
did compile in (not as module) the IDE driver right? And support
for the ext2 filesystem?

>make modules
>make modules_install
>cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34
>lilo

You might want to cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.0.34. "ps" uses
this ("l" option) and klogd to decode OOPSes if you get one.

Mike.
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Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:01

1998-09-19 Thread matt
On Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 03:41:47PM -0500, Mark Panzer wrote:
> > What do these messages mean, what have I done to myself, and how can I undo 
> > it?
> > 
> 
> Next time also try to use the kpkg utility, all you do is enter the
> source directory enter kpkg and it creates a .deb of the kernel (well
> almost you'll have to read the doc's or ask me for more info if you want
> it). When you do a dpkg -i kernel-XX.deb it does everything for you,
> even runs lilo!


Thanks.  I should have figured Debian had a wrapper around kernel building.

Matt Miller.


Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-19 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Not only that, but I don't think that you can low level format a zip
drive, as you can with a floppy.  You MUST buy preformatted zips,
which is why they come in PC and Mac flavors.
---
On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 09:56:49AM -0700, mjv wrote:
> Also, I assume I can create a Linux fs on a zip disk - and I assume
that since
> we can squeeze 1.6meg from a regular floppy, the same could be true
with squeezing
> extra space from the Zip floppy. Anyone have any experience with
this? 

I'd say no chance. The floppy drive allows you to use higher density
and more tracks than are usually used on floppy disks, but there's no
reason to think that the Zip drive will let you do this. Since it's
Iomega-controlled, I'm pretty sure they'd be using the absolutely
maximum reliable capacity of the disk. With floppy drives, individual
manufactures can't just started calling their drives 1.6mb because
they're standard drives.





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new monitor-need new video card

1998-09-19 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I just bought a new 19" monitor to replace my old 15".  Now I can use
better than 1024x768 and be able to read it!  But my 2m s3 card
probably has maxed out.  I can get a pci s3v card with 4m for $40,
anyone have an idea which server will play, and what max res it will
give me?  The monitor will sync up to 85khz hor and 160hz vertical!




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bug in xboard/gnuchess

1998-09-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've tried to install gnuchess + xboard from both stable and unstable. In
both cases the board appears in X but when I start the game I first get an
error message that there is no global file in /etc/gnuchess. I tried
making a file called "global"; I then got another message about a broken
pipe to gnuchessx. 

Does anyone know what the problem is here - has anyone got it working?

Anthony


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Re: new monitor-need new video card

1998-09-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 03:05:16PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> I just bought a new 19" monitor to replace my old 15".  Now I can use
> better than 1024x768 and be able to read it!  But my 2m s3 card
> probably has maxed out.  I can get a pci s3v card with 4m for $40,
> anyone have an idea which server will play, and what max res it will
> give me?  The monitor will sync up to 85khz hor and 160hz vertical!

x*x*0.75*color depth/8 <= 4*2^20

colordepth: 8 bit => 2364*1773
   16 bit => 1672*1254
   24 bit => 1365*1024

Maybe enough for your needs. I wouldn't care about the refresh rates.
Calculating the modelines will be fun.

Marcus

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Using apt-get to upgrade to slink

1998-09-19 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
I'm thinking about making the upgrade to slink since it has a couple
of additions I'd like to try. After hearing all the great things about
apt-get I thought I'd give it a try. I have a local mirror of the
Debian ftp site and I'm having trouble figuring out how to modify
sources.list to point to it. The trick is that my mirror isn't on an
anonymous ftp server, I have to log in to it with my username and
password. How can I make apt-get use these when it attempts the ftp?
I think I want something along the lines of:

deb ftp://my.local.machine/usr/local/mirror/debian slink main contrib non-free 
non-US

but is there any way to get it to prompt me for a username or
password? The man page for sources.list says that the ftp method is
highly configurable and to see the ftp.conf(5) man page. Trouble is
that man page didn't seem to get installed on my hamm system, even
after installing apt from slink?

Help, as always, is appreciated!
Gary


Re: Compiling kernel?

1998-09-19 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> Install the kernel-package package then:
> 
> man make-kpkg

OK, I did that, but I still feel stupid: Do I have to do

make xconfig
make
make-kpkg binary

in the source directory now? Or did I miss something?

Stef


viewres and listres

1998-09-19 Thread Samuel Landau
both distributed binaries didn't work (core dump), I had to rebuild them

I notice that it was the same with Debian 1.3
is it a bug?
--
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Re: Compiling kernel?

1998-09-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote:

 : > Install the kernel-package package then:
 : > 
 : > man make-kpkg
 : 
 : OK, I did that, but I still feel stupid: Do I have to do
 : 
 : make xconfig
 : make
 : make-kpkg binary
 : 
 : in the source directory now? Or did I miss something?

You missed /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz

A quick (and potentially dangerous) synopsis:

cd 
make config (or make menuconfig or make xconfig)
make-kpkg clean
make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image

make-kpkg now supports fakeroot, I believe, and has a zillion other keen
features besides.  Check out the README.

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Re: Using apt-get to upgrade to slink

1998-09-19 Thread dsb3
On 19 Sep 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:

>I'm thinking about making the upgrade to slink since it has a couple
>of additions I'd like to try. After hearing all the great things about
>apt-get I thought I'd give it a try. I have a local mirror of the
>Debian ftp site and I'm having trouble figuring out how to modify
>sources.list to point to it. The trick is that my mirror isn't on an
>anonymous ftp server, I have to log in to it with my username and
>password. How can I make apt-get use these when it attempts the ftp?
>I think I want something along the lines of:
>
>deb ftp://my.local.machine/usr/local/mirror/debian slink main contrib non-free 
>non-US
>

typically if you need to specify username/password in a URL you'll use the
form:

ftp://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/file

let us know if this works for me.

- dave

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HELP! Seriously messed up bo -> hamm

1998-09-19 Thread Michael Stutz
Please help -- I really messed up my 1.3 system today trying to upgrade to
2.0 using the 2-cd set from LSL. I'd like to be able to find a way out of
this mess and be able to upgrade properly rather than having to save my
/usr/local and /etc and then reinstall new...

This is what happened:

* The autoup.sh on the cd-rom didn't run as listed in the documentation (not
executable); 

* So I decided to try the apt method, since it'd worked so nicely on another
machine I had. I installed apt, and then changed /etc/apt/sources.list to
point to the cd-rom. 

* I ran "apt-get update". This is where the trouble started:

Get file:/cdrom/debian/ stable/main Packages
0%  [Packages ' 0]   
Updating package file cache...done
Updating package status cache...done
Checking system integrity...dependency error
You might want to run apt-get -f install' to correct these.
Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet
dependencies:
  wget: Depends:libc6
  wine: Depends:libc6 Depends:libwine0.0.971116 Depends:xlib6g Depends:xpm4g
/cdrom/upgrade #

* So then I went ahead with "apt-get -f dist-upgrade" anyway:

/cdrom/upgrade # apt-get updat^H^H^H^H^H-f dis^Gt^G^G-upgrade
Updating package status cache...done
Checking system integrity...dependency error
Correcting dependencies...ok
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  wine xpdf 9fonts gv apache-modules gs-aladdin getty tk42-dev playmidi
  ncurses3.0-dev splay libg++27-dev tcl76-dev imgstar xdaliclock pstoedit
  xsnow svgalib1-dev ghostview libnet 9wm xloadimage xcolorsel 9menu
  tetex-extra libc5-dev libreadline2-dev libpthread0 libdb1-dev tetex-bin
  libgdbm1-dev tgif xfig 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libmime-base64-perl libpng2 xpm4g libpaperg svgalibg1 netpbm1 freetype1
  libdb2 liblockfile0 libnet-perl libstdc++2.8 whiptail zlib1g dpkg-perl
  perl-base sgml-base libhdf4g libgdbmg1 tcl8.0 tcl7.6 libg++272 libpng0g
  libtiff3g newt0.21 data-dumper libgpmg1 libmpeg1 libc6 gawk ncurses3.4
  cdrecord libjpegg6a libreadlineg2 slang0.99.38
The following packages have been kept back
  xaos wily fvwm2 xext xserver-vga16 xbase rxvt floatbg swisswatch rgrep
  afterstep xcdroast xfnt75 xfntbase transfig mctools-lite tk42 xfntbig
  xcontrib xserver-s3 fvwm-common imagemagick xfnt100 xcolors
  xlockmore xfntscl xfntcyr xspread xfntpex 9term jed xbooks xpaint tix41
  tetex-dev 
173 packages upgraded, 34 newly installed, 33 to remove and 35 not upgraded.
3 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0b/56.1M of archives. After unpacking 3017k will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 27573 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing ghostview ...
Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background)
Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock)
Removing wine ...
Removing libgdbm1-dev ...
 install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
dpkg: error processing libgdbm1-dev (--remove):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
 install-info: unrecognized option --description=The GNU Database Routines'
Try install-info --help' for a complete list of options.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Removing libdb1-dev ...
Removing tk42-dev ...
Removing tcl76-dev ...
Removing libg++27-dev ...

[...]

So now, every time I run apt, I get this error:

Updating package status cache...done
Checking system integrity...dependency error
You might want to run apt-get -f install' to correct these.
Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet
dependencies:
  wget: Depends:libc6
  libg++27-dev: Depends:libc5-dev
  libgdbm1-dev: Depends:libc5-dev

Running dselect doesn't help, either. dpkg is broken -- every time I run it
I get something like:

(Reading database ... 23523 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing wget ...
install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
dpkg: error processing wget (--remove):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
 Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background)
 Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock)
 Errors were encountered while processing:
  wget
 
And a lot of packages have been removed from my system -- it's not useable
as it is right nowI downloaded the new autoup.sh on debian.org, and that one
worked -- but I still get the above errors. I really need help -- what
should I do? 

Thanks.

m


gs-aladdin 5.10 always crashing

1998-09-19 Thread Alex Graf
I installed the gs-aladdin package, but I get an error message like this
whenever I try to use gs:

$ gs
Aladdin Ghostscript 5.10 (1997-11-23)
Copyright (C) 1997 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights
reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Unknown paper size: (A4).
Unrecoverable error: stackunderflow in dup

Unexpected interpreter error -17.
Error object: dup(d84)name(0x818af74#449)
Execution stack at 0x818855c:
0x8191934: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x 0x08079630 = %interp_exit
0x819193c: 0x03 file --G-rxe-- 0x0001 0x081950a4
0x8191944: 0x05 mpry --G-rxe-- 0x0039 0x081c89e6
Dictionary stack at 0x8188484:
0x8192164: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x 0x081922bc
0x819216c: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x0819 0x081d5418
0x8192174: 0x02 dict --Lwrx--- 0xbfff 0x0819928c
0x819217c: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x 0x081922bc

This is preventing me from printing any PostScripts or PDF or viewing
them with GV.  Any help on this would be appreciated.

Alex.


lilo setup

1998-09-19 Thread Richard Heller
Hi,

I just installed Debian Linux and have some questions about lilo.  I used
Linux a few years ago and the way lilo worked then was that when you
booted the machine, you got a LILO: prompt and then could type linux, dos,
or whatever to boot the desired operating system.  There was also a way to
have it not time out so that it would just sit there until you told it
which one to boot.  I would like to have that same sort of thing setup
now, but that doesn't seem to be the default anymore.

When I installed lilo, it requires that the shift key be held down for
the lilo boot prompt to come up, which can best be described as
"annoying", and for some reason it won't boot linux for me.  Instead of
entering a name for the OS to load, it wants a partition number and the
only one it lets me use is my Win98 partition.

Does anyone know how to set up lilo the way I described?  I basically want
the LILO prompt to come up when I boot my machine, I don't want it to time
out, and I want to be able to enter english names for the different OS's I
want to load (of which there are two, Linux and Win98).

Thanks,
Rich



Re: After ftp upgrade of slink, module loading fails

1998-09-19 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> After allowing an upgrade of slink packages without watching too
> closely, I then discovered that the auto loading of modules
> (ppp,sound,vfat) fails for all modules.  I can use insmod to *manually*
> load these modules (in dependency order) and everything works.  The
> modules.dep file is correct (depmod -a doesn't help), it has the right
> dependencies and locations.  I have done nothing to the kernel; no new
> kernel.  I booted up this morning with everything working, connected to
> an ftp site with dselect, allowed it to upgrade about a dozen packages,
> and afterword all module loading is broken.  Anybody seen this?

i got hit with this one too, but good, yesterday.  I noticed something
going to slink about modules being handled differently, but the message
and the instructions flew by.

Having caught that it had something to do with modules, i reinstalled 
modconf & modutils from hamm, and seems to work again.

also, it didn't merely stop at not autoloading, they didn't seem to stay
properly loaded once inserted.  in particular, i'd log in, insert the ppp
module, log out, connect and try to start a ppp session, and the "host"
where i was doing this would report to syslog that the kernel didn't 
support ppp.

anyway, downgrade the two modules, and it seems to work.  For that matter,
putting ppp in /etc/modules still gave me the "not supported" problem.

rick


Real3D StarFighter video card

1998-09-19 Thread Richard Heller
Hi,

I have a Real3D StarFighter AGP video card, which is based on the Intel
i740 chipset.  Unfortunately this chipset is currently unsupported by
XFree86, at least it is according to their FAQ.  The only place I've seen
that offers an X server for this chipset is XiG.  The problem is that
they want $100 for it.  That just seems a bit much for something that I
was expecting to be free.  My question is, does anyone know of any other
place to get an X server for the i740 chipset?  Or should I just bite the
bullet and pay the money?

Thanks,
Rich



Re: Rescue Disk

1998-09-19 Thread shaul
I think that in most cases simply dd the approptaite file will do.

dd if=resc1440.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync ; sync 

> Can anyone tell me the correct procedure for creating a rescue disk after
> installation.
> I had a problem with my floppy during the install and it could not create
> one, now
> the floppy is fixed and I would like to make one. Thanks in advance.









Ipip/redir

1998-09-19 Thread Philip Thiem
This is a little off topic so a more approiate place to direct this
question if it existed would be appreciated..

Here a really in depth programming question relating these two

I have a computer within a firewall, that is prevented from accepting
outside connections(Though www/ftp/telnet all work as normal).  I gone
an ethernet connect to eastablish servers, not to be blocked off...

So I have been working on solution to fix this bug :)

I've been inside out redir's source and know it very well(I fact rewrote
it use generalized functions, to make easier to read).  And I just
gotten ipip's tar.gz.orig
to look at(I will have to create a server/client to estblish the
connection from inside) But anywhat In this method. a modified redir
would access this modified ipip so I can route multiple sockets over the
one socket establish from my inside computer.  Since I don't have IP
numbers to give out(except over the vitrual tunnel network), I don't
think I'll be able to use the normal route.  instead redir will have to
interface to the ipip daemon more directly.  My question is how to I
create sockets so that they are guaranteed to use a cretian ip interface
in linux the socket functions memntioned in the info file under sockets
are awful general and don't give me control I need.  Any help/existing
programs/other source would be appreciated.


Philip Thiem

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Re: lilo setup

1998-09-19 Thread dsb3
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Richard Heller wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I just installed Debian Linux and have some questions about lilo.  I used
>Linux a few years ago and the way lilo worked then was that when you
>booted the machine, you got a LILO: prompt and then could type linux, dos,
>or whatever to boot the desired operating system.  There was also a way to
>have it not time out so that it would just sit there until you told it
>which one to boot.  I would like to have that same sort of thing setup
>now, but that doesn't seem to be the default anymore.

look at the lilo manual pages.  you probably need to tweak the timeout=
setting.

>When I installed lilo, it requires that the shift key be held down for
>the lilo boot prompt to come up, which can best be described as
>"annoying", and for some reason it won't boot linux for me.  Instead of
>entering a name for the OS to load, it wants a partition number and the
>only one it lets me use is my Win98 partition.

if you press  it lists the labels it knows about.  each one of these
is defined in /etc/lilo.conf

>Does anyone know how to set up lilo the way I described?  I basically want
>the LILO prompt to come up when I boot my machine, I don't want it to time
>out, and I want to be able to enter english names for the different OS's I
>want to load (of which there are two, Linux and Win98).

man lilo.conf should give you all you need to make it do this

dave

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control characters with bit 8 high & ppp

1998-09-19 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.


I've finally managed to make a ppp connection over my isn (not isdn)
line; the connection is made and i can ping other machines.

I've set asyncmap at both ends to 0x to block all control
characters from being used.  However, the hardware on the isn line
uses ^S/^Q.  However, it does this in hyardware for both the values
themselves, and for the corresponding values with bit 8 high.  So 
my connection doesn't stay up long enough to do anything useful--
even launching & xterm & telnet session is too much for it.

So is there any way to add the "high" control characters to the 
asyncmap?  Or do I have to switch over to a 6 bit slip instead
of ppp?

rick