Re: Enlightenment 0.15 .debs
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Brian Almeida wrote: > > Enlightenment 0.15 .debs are out. They will not be uploaded into the > distribution, they are placed in the GNOME staging area. This is so that Where's the GNOME staging area? For those of us who like to live dangerously...
Help
I have installed Debian 2.0. I think it installed all right, but when I try to connect online I get error message :In file /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized option /dev/modem.. Here is what I'm doing,,, Login as root,,,pon(enter),,, got message,,, /usr/sbin/pppd: in file /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized option /dev/modem. Tried to access /etc/ppp/peers/provider, got :permission denied: Tried plog,, got :ppd 2.3.5 started by root. vid 0 using interface ppp0 connect:ppp0<--> /dev/tty1 connection terminated exit in file /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized option /dev/modem What can I do about this?
Re: Kernel 2.2.3
Hi, "depmod -a" check out "man depmod" cheers Mark Wagnon wrote: > I have couple of questions about upgrading my kernel to 2.2.3. > > I downloaded the full source and went through all the steps to compile, > but when I rebooted I received an error telling me that modules.dep was > empty. I took a look at /lib/modules/2.2.3/modules.dep and yep, it's > empty. I looked at the modules.dep file under my 2.0.34 directory and it > looks like this file tells where all the modules are. > > Since mine is empty, where can I find a replacement, or how do I get it > populated? > > I ran through the compilation sequence twice, with the same results. > > Any ideas/suggestions? > > TIA > -- > Debian_GNU/_ > Mark Wagnon -o) / / (_)__ __ __ > Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: How to run a script when disconnecting a dialup connection
Tongue in cheek reply >;0). It sounds like he's after a means to "predict" when the modem drops the line. Anyway if you find one email it to me and ill customise it to show me the upcoming lottery results cheers Sorry about the wasted bandwidth , just couldnt resist. John Hasler wrote: > Ole J. Tetlie writes: > > Make a script that does what you want, and then takes down the links. > > That won't help when the link goes down for reasons other than having been > poffed. > -- > John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. > Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. > Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: I've been cracked! (hamm, 2.0.35)
This is a bit off-topic. " Raymond A. Ingles" wrote: > On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Don Erickson wrote: > > > Somebody (through jhb60.jaring.my) wandered into my system, set up a user > > account for themselves and set up a couple of programs, eggdrop and smurf. > The address seem to indicate that the intruder originates from Malaysia. > > Typically this is done by "script kiddies" who aren't particularly good > computer users, but they take scripts written by other people and use them > to break into systems. > > Then they typically use a "rootkit" to get root access and replace files, > just as you've seen. "ls" is usually the first one they hack. They > also replace system demons and so forth; probably there are now > several backdoors into your system that don't use passwords at all. Check > out www.rootshell.com, they have plenty of info and rootkits. They also > have some information on securing your system. > > At this point, you can't trust your system. You *might* be able to > restore from your last complete backup, if you are *sure* you know when > you were cracked. More likely, you'll have to save what data files you can > and then reinstall from trusted media, like a CD-ROM. Obviously, don't do > this while your machine is hooked to the net. Examine carefully any other > machines yours is hooked up to, e.g. by Ethernet. > > Don't put your system back on the net until you are reasonably confident > you've closed the more common holes. Sorry, it sucks but that's the only > way to be sure. If you want some revenge, you can try reporting to the > sysadmins of the originating system, if you can actually identify it. :-/ You may want to reconsider this "revenge". In Malaysia, there is this legislation (Computer Crimes Act 1997) which I consider absolutely draconian and the intruder if convicted is liable to either a fine (< RM50,000) or to imprisonment (< 5 years) or to both. Alternatively, the intruder could also be charged under a different section in the same Act which carries a heavier penalty.
Re: Enlightenment 0.15 .debs
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Brian Almeida wrote: > > > > > Enlightenment 0.15 .debs are out. They will not be uploaded into the > > distribution, they are placed in the GNOME staging area. This is so that > > Where's the GNOME staging area? For those of us who like to live > dangerously... It's located at http://www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage-2/ You can add an entry in your /etc/apt/sources.list like so: deb http://www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage-2 unstable main -- Any command with less than 48 switches is a Cat in the Hat book. - E. Charters
Re: Book on Xwindow
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 01:42:48PM -, Shawn Nguyen wrote: > Does anyone know a good book for Xwindow? I looked up O'reilly and > they seems to have two of them. One for MIT version and one for > Motif. I have no idea which one I should get so if anyone can > recommend a book I would appreciate it. And also, if you could > clarify about that MIT and Motif situation. Thanks. The books you saw are called _X Window System User's Guide_. There is an Athena edition and a Motif edition. For use with Debian, either is appropriate if you keep in mind that our version of Motif is a source-compatible re-implementation called Lesstif. Lesstif does not work 100% like Motif, but it tries, and is improving all the time. Many Motif applications work just fine with Lesstif. The O'Reilly series of books on X are fairly good, but I have a few gripes: 1) They're out of date. They haven't been substantially revised since at least 1993. When X11R6 came out, they put out a perfunctory book describing some of the changes at the programming level. I've heard there was some kind of political fight (maybe with the Open Group, maybe internal to O'Reilly) that caused this. Fortunately, from the user's perspective there is almost no difference between X11R5 and X11R6. The most important things to know have to do with the X server, and those are documented in in Debian by the XFree86 Project. 2) They make the books look much more impressive than they really are by reprinting the hundreds and hundreds of man pages. This might be acceptable if the books were kept up to date, but since they're not, this is just an inexcusable source of bulk, and excuse to keep the price high. 3) There's the O'Reilly parasitism factor. O'Reilly should have licensed their books the same way the X documentation is itself. There's an interesting copyright blurb on the publication data page of the O'Reilly X books that illuminates the depths of their hypocrisy. I wonder what Adrian Nye is doing these days; it would be nice if he turned away from the Dark Side of the Force and wrote some X manuals anew, for those of us in the free world. But that probably won't happen; he's probably still with O'Reilly, and probably an executive now or something. Clarify about that MIT and Motif situation, eh? Okay. To understand why there is a situation at all, it helps to understand just a little bit of X history, and how X works from a programming perspective. Probably over 99% of all programs that use the X Window System are written in C. Practically all the C programs that use X use a library called Xlib, which has shipped with the X source code for as long as there has been such a thing as X. Xlib is a set of C functions that implement the X client side of the X protocol. It is very low level, however. It handles things like "tell me what key was pressed", or "draw a line from this point to that point on the screen". It does NOT handle more complicated stuff like, "draw a dialog box using these colors, this font, and with a beveled `OK' button" -- at least not in a single function call. More complex tasks, the kind you might expect graphical-user-interface components to use, are kept in a separate library. In X parlance, this is called a widget set. A major precept of the X Window System was that as little should be dictated as possible; a "policy-free" windowing system was desired. MIT, (who originally developed X with DEC), and then the X Consortium, who gained control of X was it was a demonstrably mature product, were in the business of coming up with standards for a network-based windowing system. Their job was to create a standard, not write code. However, to prove that the adopted standard was workable (something that OSI could have learned long ago ), they created a reference implementation in C, and this what is popularly known as the X Window System. Part of this reference implementation was a sample widget set that was not explicitly designed for real use. This is known as the Athena widget set, and is what is documented in the non-Motif version of the O'Reilly book. Probably the only advantage of the Athena widget set is that because it ships with the rest of X, and because its license is the same, it is practically guaranteed to be available everywhere X is. The Athena widget set is ugly, though, and since the X Consortium invited the rest of the world to come up with widget sets, they did. It thus fell to various Unix vendors (mainly) to come up with a "standard" widget set. Needless to say, these were all closed-source efforts, so the marketplace fractured. As I understand it, things basically settled down to a war between Sun, with their "XView" widget set (also referred to as OPEN LOOK, and which actually originated from a different windowing system altogether, called SunView), and the Open Software Foundation (which was just about everyone in the Unix industry BUT Sun), with t
Re: junkbuster acting up
Hmm , just tested that by changing to /root as root then "su"->normal user no problem "ls" of course gives permission denied. Anyway i think i solved the problem in a round about way, i noticed in one of the sys logs that and error would come up with regards to user "nobody" i deleted it and recreated the user. ( this was mucking junkbuster up ) Now i believe this is a special "dummy" user so now it exists as a "real" user but at least the prior problem has dissappeared. (junkbuster runs ok ) Is this likely to create further problems, if so how would i recreate the originall "dummy" user "nobody" thanx for the response though Martin Bialasinski wrote: > >> "JL" == John Leget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JL> I now also get the following error when trying to fire it up again > JL> manually "etc/init.d/junkbuster start" which give me this > > JL> "# shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot > JL> access parent directories: Permission denied" > > This message shouldn't prevent junkbuster from starting. Check ps ax | > grep junkbuster > > JL> Hmm just tried a few things and noticed that the above error message > JL> also appears when i try to use "su" root -> normal user, when allready > JL> logged in as root, but not the other way around, huh. :( > > This error happens because you are in root's homedir. and this > directory is mode 750, so only root can enter it. If you su to another > user, this user can't determine the current directory (he doesn't have > permission to read the inode). This also happens with junkbuster, as > the init scripts does a su to nobody. > > Ciao, > Martin > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Help
Make sure you don't have a win modem, works only with windows. See http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html and http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html Hope that helps, Kent Joe wrote: > I have installed Debian 2.0. I think it installed all right, but when I > try to connect online I get error message :In file > /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized option /dev/modem.. Here is > what I'm doing,,, Login as root,,,pon(enter),,, got message,,, > /usr/sbin/pppd: in file /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized option > /dev/modem. Tried to access /etc/ppp/peers/provider, got :permission > denied: Tried plog,, got :ppd 2.3.5 started by root. vid 0 > using interface ppp0 > connect:ppp0<--> /dev/tty1 > connection terminated > exit > in file /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized option /dev/modem > What can I do about this? > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re[2]: ping script for isp autologout
thomas lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > there's a debian package for it, `pppupd': Aha. Thanks for the tip. Stupid me though, it dawned on me, when I got the pppupd package, that I'm using a new OpenBSD box for dialling up and that this Linux machine is not the place I want to do the 'keepalive' work from. Any clue as to a script that might work on that dialup machine? -- Bob Bernstein at Esmond, Rhode Island, USA === It's not over: see my 'Op-Ed History of the Impeachment' at http://www.brainiac.com/bernie ===
Re: elm sending blank mails
Max Kamenetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, I haven't tried downgrading yet, though I know that the problem is not > with the kernel version. I get the same problem with kernel 2.2.3. I'd > also be very surprised if this were an MTA problem because pine works > fine. I haven't tried downgrading glibc because that is a major task Pine and Elm may be talking in different ways to the MTA or feeding it different types of data. I'd suggest that you make a full bug report, including version numbers of everything, log files with as much debugging information as possible, a sample blank mail, and the like. Try it with different kernel versions, different libc versions, etc., replacing things one at a time until the problem goes away. > (it's a whole bunch of packages, I'm not even sure where to begin with > those). So, is there anyone out there using elm with exim and glibc2.1? > There's got to be at least one person! Well, glibc2.1 is a *very* new introduction to unstable, and as such, is, well, unstable.
Re: I can't beleive this
Hi, On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 04:37:06PM -0500, Michael Stenner wrote: > > You're complaints hardly apply only to the computer world (I know you > didn't say they did). People just EXPECT everything in general. That > bugs me to no end also, but in this case, there's nothing wrong with > WANTING an "easy" OS. Make it idiot proof and there will be an idiot who breaks it. I am not opposed against making things easier. But, as usually, making it easier for everyone is very complex. Linux is very young. Give it another two years, and installation and setup tools will spring up like mushrooms. > What's WRONG with autodetecting hardware and > installing drivers? It doesn't work reliable. It wouldn't even work reliable if we had all the necessary specs and standards. And that's a very big "if". > Sure, it messes up sometimes, but then you just do > it by hand, like you do EVERY time in linux. Another reboot in the dust. Why spend your time on auto detection? Wouldn't it be better to make it easier to set it up manually? If you can detect parts of your system 100% reliably, I am all in favour. Otherwise, let'smake the things easier that works. > I'm just saying that the > IDEA is a good one. The code is REALLY bad, but we've got lots of good > programmers... You are dreaming. We have not enough programmers for everything. We have a lot of people talking, and we have even more people complaining. We have also lots of ideas. But we dont' have enough specs, and we don't have enough programmers (multiplied by hours). If you want to proof me the oppsoite, I'll be positively surprised (note, this is not particularly directed at you) Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
kernel 2.2.1 boot error, help.
I finally got a new kernel compiled. But when I boot it I get this error. kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt -464c errno=8 request_modle[binfmt-464c]:fork failed errno=11 it scroll up the screen and all I can do is crtl+alt+del, to reboot and stop it. Luckly I can still bot my old kernel. Any idea on what this is and how to correct it! Roddie Rod 'Man is the greatest cancer ever to be seen' -Entombed 'Contempt'
Re: [Systalk] freshmeat crashes Netscape
Mee, too. RH 5.1/2. Netscape 4.5. It happens regularly. I just keep plugging away until it works. Doesn't seem to matter which mirror it uses. Seems to help to go to a specific article in freshmeat (from, say, slashdot) first. Ted
Re: Help
> Make sure you don't have a win modem, works only with windows. See > > http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html > > and > > http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html > > Hope that helps, > Kent > This has nothing to do with winmodem. Winmodem is not recognised by the system, and not being initialized. . > Joe wrote: > > > I have installed Debian 2.0. I think it installed all right, but when I > > try to connect online I get error message :In file > > /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized option /dev/modem.. Here is > > what I'm doing,,, Login as root,,,pon(enter),,, got message,,, > > /usr/sbin/pppd: in file /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized option > > /dev/modem. Tried to access /etc/ppp/peers/provider, got :permission > > denied: Tried plog,, got :ppd 2.3.5 started by root. vid 0 > > using interface ppp0 > > connect:ppp0<--> /dev/tty1 > > connection terminated > > exit > > in file /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized option /dev/modem > > What can I do about this? Ok, make sure you are really logged in as a root. Take a look at the default provider file: # These are the options to dial out to your service provider # Please customize them correctly. Only the "provider" file will # be handled by poff and pon. # You usually need this if there is no PAP authentication noauth # The chatscript (be sure to edit that file too) connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider" # Routing defaultroute # Default Modem (you better replace this with /dev/ttySx!) /dev/modem ^ |This is where the problem might reside. What you need to is: a. Make a link to the COM port where your modem is and call it /dev/modem b. Put down the actualy COM port device here. I.e. /dev/ttyS2 for COM3 Make sure this is what your provider file (default) looks like. You can correct any mistakes, and run pppconfig again. As to permission denied: Check the permissions on the file. They could look like this: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root dip 490 Nov 10 22:57 provider # Speed 115200 # Keep Modem up even if connection fails persist HTH, Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv <--Little things for Linux.
Mending a broken Package
Hi- Whenever I use dpkg to install anything, right after it says reading database... I get an error saying that xservers-vga16 is broken. How do I fix it? Thank you, -James
Re: Help
Joe writes: > I have installed Debian 2.0. I think it installed all right, but when I > try to connect online I get error message :In file > /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized option /dev/modem > ... > What can I do about this? Run pppconfig. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Problems with dpkg
Hi- Whenever I use dpkg, while it is checking the package databse it always says: "Files list for package xserver-vga16 missing assuming package has no files currently installed" This is the file I want to install so I have a problem. Thank you, -James
Re: Help
You could also try changing the line to /dev/ttyS1 if your modme is on DOS com2... Or whichever other port. They're numbered starting with /dev/ttyS0 which is com1 on DOS. On 13 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote: > Joe writes: > > I have installed Debian 2.0. I think it installed all right, but when I > > try to connect online I get error message :In file > > /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized option /dev/modem > > ... > > What can I do about this? > > Run pppconfig. > -- > John Hasler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) > Dancing Horse Hill > Elmwood, WI > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
DHCP and problems with apache, samba etc
When using dhcp, since the hostname doesn't resolve to an IP address right away, there are a few packages that barf, like apache and samba. These appear to attempt to find the IP address from the system name. In the case of dhcp, this may not be known. You can't hardcode an address in the /etc/hosts file, since dhcp may change it. You can't put it in the DNS, same reason. For samba with Micro$oft, it's a catch-22. You can set the MS dns to use WINS for a last-ditch name resolution, which would work if samba had registered with WINS as configured in the smb.conf. But if won't config until it knows its own IP addr. Deadlock. So, I have an extremely small script in /usr/local/bin/dhcp-update-hosts if [ -f /etc/dhcpc/config ] ; then source /etc/dhcpc/config fi if [ -f /etc/dhcpc/hostinfo-$IFACE ] ; then source /etc/dhcpc/hostinfo-$IFACE fi /bin/cp /etc/hosts.src /etc/hosts echo "$IPADDR `cat /etc/hostname`" >> /etc/hosts This is kicked of by /etc/cron.d/dhcp-update-hosts every 10 minutes. */10 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/dhcp-update-hosts Very simple, it just checks the /etc/dhcpcd/config file for the interface being used, then uses that to pull the IP address from the /etc/dhcpc/host-info file. This is then added to a pristine copy of the /etc/hosts file. I've also modified the /etc/init.d/dhcpc startup file to include the -c option pointing to the /usr/local/bin/dhcp-update-hosts file, so it gets run as soon as an address is obtained. The end result is that as soon as an address is had, it's in the /etc/hosts file, available for name resolution. Whenever the lease expires and is *not* renewed (replaced with another) there's a maximum window of 10 minutes where /etc/hosts is wrong. That can be easily shortened by modifying the /etc/cron.d/dhcp-update-hosts file. Has anyone else had similar problems ? How did you solve them ? -- Dean Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 94TT :) Areyes, Inc.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "No matter where you go, there you are" sayeth Buckaroo across the Eighth Dimension
Debian 2.1 Miscellany
I'm installing Debian 2.1 from ISO-image-burned CDs onto a clean drive, /dev/hda2. I have an existing hamm beta installed on /dev/hda3, and Win95 (for games) on /dev/hda1. I have lilo installed as MBR on /dev/hda. Is it possible to configure lilo to load both different kernels from both different Linux partitions on the different drives? I'd like to use my old installation while setting up my new installation, and also to perhaps keep it around as a fallback. What are the relevant lilo.conf entries? When I install packages using Debian 2.1 (CD installation, immediately after first root login) it complains of not finding Packages.cd files. What's wrong? How do I fix this? I thought apt was the package manager de rigeur? Why does the installer still use dselect? Should I fire up apt instead to install the packages I want? Finally, I'd like kernel 2.2 on my machine. Should I just compile it myself or are there packages? The errata claims certain packages (eg, dhcpcd which I need) are broken with it, but potato packages work. How do I get potato packages into my virgin slink installation? Which reminds me, the installer asks for networking questions such as IP and netmask, but doesn't have DHCP as an option. Should I just pick my "current" values and then install dhcpcd (or another DHCP client package) afterwards? What is preferred? Thanks in advance for answers on these issues. -- SEGV MINION Project: http://www.cgocable.net/~mlepage/ RTS Game Programming: http://www.cgocable.net/~mlepage/rts/
Allowing Connections
I'm having problems getting my /etc/hosts.allow file set up correctly. I"m trying to allow any system on my network (192.168.1.X) to connect to leafnode and get the news groups. The original file had: leafnode:127.0.0.1 I've tried adding: leafenode:127.0.0.1 192.168.1.* but it does not seem to work. After reading the man pages on it, I'm still not sure what to do. So could someone please help me. Thanks, Chris
Where is ldd in potato?
I just noticed that I no longer have ldd on my system. I see in the changelog for ldso that it was removed and is now provided by glibc 2.1. I have also seen messages which infer that glibc 2.1 isn't quite ready for use. What is suggested here? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: ping script for isp autologout
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 01:06:00AM +, Bob Bernstein wrote: > thomas lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > there's a debian package for it, `pppupd': > > Aha. Thanks for the tip. Stupid me though, it dawned on me, when I got the > pppupd package, that I'm using a new OpenBSD box for dialling up and that this > Linux machine is not the place I want to do the 'keepalive' work from. > > Any clue as to a script that might work on that dialup machine? > > > -- > Bob Bernstein at Esmond, Rhode Island, USA > > === > > It's not over: see my 'Op-Ed History of the Impeachment' at > > http://www.brainiac.com/bernie > > === > You might want to read the fine print of your 'contract' with the ISP, as most of them forbid using programs that periodically send traffic with the intent of keeping your connection alive, and they can use this as grounds for terminating your service. Just a thought... Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680
Upgraded Potato, now I can't telnet/ssh in
I've been keeping up to date with the Potato release, and I've recently upgraded to the newest distribution sometime yesterday, March 12. Now, when I try to telnet/ssh in, I get an immediate disconnection, and the following message in my system logs. Mar 13 23:00:12 edgy inetd[27942]: getpwnam: root: No such user I tried replacing the in.telnetd, but that doesn't seem to be the problem. Does anyone know where I should look? Ben
Re: SMP with kernel 2.2.3
Hi, Seems to work ok here, runnning potata SMP with kernel 2.2.3 also running the distributed-net client and top shows full utilisation, i was also using xosview but that seems to be broken with my current setup :( Interestingly some months back when i went SMP top showed 200% for a while :). After some upgrades this changed, xosview showed both active ( when it worked ). cheers Max Kamenetsky wrote: > Has anyone here tried running an SMP system with kernel 2.2.3? If so, can > you get it to use both processors? For some reason, I can get it to > recognize two processors (this shows up in xproc), but top shows that at > most 50% of the CPU is getting used, i.e. only one of the processors. At > first I thought that top was wrong, but it does seem much slower than with > kernel 2.1.121. > > Thanks for any help! > > Max Kamenetsky > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Upgraded Potato, now I can't telnet/ssh in
I know on Slink I can't login as root because of the way login is configured. Can you log in as a regular user and then use 'su'? That would be my uneducated guess as to your problem. On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Benjamin Suto wrote: > > I've been keeping up to date with the Potato release, and I've recently > upgraded to the newest distribution sometime yesterday, March 12. > > Now, when I try to telnet/ssh in, I get an immediate disconnection, and > the following message in my system logs. > > Mar 13 23:00:12 edgy inetd[27942]: getpwnam: root: No such user > > I tried replacing the in.telnetd, but that doesn't seem to be the > problem. Does anyone know where I should look? > > Ben > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Re: Upgraded Potato, now I can't telnet/ssh in
Alec Smith wrote: > > I know on Slink I can't login as root because of the way login is > configured. Can you log in as a regular user and then use 'su'? That would > be my uneducated guess as to your problem. > No, I can log in locally as a user, then su to root, but when I try to telnet in, it disconnects me before I can even get a login prompt with the following error in the syslog: > Mar 13 23:00:12 edgy inetd[27942]: getpwnam: root: No such user Ben
Re: Upgraded Potato, now I can't telnet/ssh in
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 23:14:01 -0500, Benjamin Suto wrote: >No, I can log in locally as a user, then su to root, but when I try to >telnet in, it disconnects me before I can even get a login prompt with >the following error in the syslog: Check your hosts files and make sure that you don't have yourself locked out or paranoid turned on. - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. - ---+- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPsdk version 1.0 (C) 1997 Pretty Good Privacy, Inc iQA/AwUBNus45npf7K2LbpnFEQI6cwCgq4OZGdyo/rxevx+cNGKWIxPiiAoAoLAl 5Dlgr7s441Ka92Dgx72CBl2z =tVIY -END PGP SIGNATURE-
init runs away with glibc2.1
Shortly after installing the new glibc 2.1 packages, I noticed that
init had started to run away:
USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 12.5 13.0 8944 8300 ? R17:42 44:26 init [2]
(That RSS is awfully big, too, but doesn't seem to be growing.)
Installing the new version of sysvinit didn't help any. I haven't
submitted a bug report yet because I'm not sure which package is at
fault here.
ii sysvinit2.76-3.1 System-V like init.
ii libc6 2.1.1-0pre1.2 GNU C Library: shared libraries
ii ldso1.9.10-1.1 The Linux dynamic linker, library and utilit
I've also tried "telinit q", "init q", "telinit 2" and "init 2".
They did nothing as far as I could tell. I cannot use strace on
init ("attach: ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, ...): Operation not permitted").
Would a reboot fix things up, or would it just make matters worse?
(Is it safe to reboot at this point, or should I drop back to glibc 2.0?)
Please Cc: me on replies because I'm not subscribed to this list.
--
Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | because a CPU is a terrible thing to waste.
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Netscape won't go
I had had Netscape working once under Caldera OpenLinux, but had to do a re-install. Naturally, I thought since it worked before it would be easy to get Nescape going again. HA!! I cannot figure out for the life of me what I'm doing wrong. I am now trying to get it to go under RedHat (since I'm studying that through ZDU) but no go. I put the DNS #'s the way I thought I had them before, but it no work. I just finished a twenty-minute wait for Netscape to find the home page and finally gave up and killed X-windows. So here I am, writing this obviously in Winblows Outlook Express. The only way I can get on to the Web. >From what I heard, even on a bad day AOL wasn't that bad (waiting 20 minutes). (A little humor so I won't go mad!) Thanks. Ed
Directory Stats & Mounting Partitions
How do I list the total size of all files in a directory in bytes (not including ./ and ../)? How do I list the total size of a directory recursively showing total bytes, number of sub directories and number of files without actually listing them all like ls -R, which does not list the grand total. I just want a summary. How do I mount a partition manually with the same permissions that are specified in /etc/fstab /dev/hda2 /dosc vfatdefaults,umask=002,uid=0,gid=101 Which allows me write permission on my vfat partition as a regular user. I know this is in the mount manpage but I can't can't get the syntax right. I wish the manpages had more examples. Thank You, David Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sound Card Plug-n-Play
Hi, Does anyone have a sound card with an AD1816 chip that they have successfully configured to work? I found a sound driver for it at http://www.student.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~tek/projects/linux.html Doug Dine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.xoom.com/dougdine http://members.xoom.com/loveless NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download.html
Re: Allowing Connections
> I've tried adding: > leafenode:127.0.0.1 192.168.1.* Try leafnode: 127.0.0.1 192.168.1 Hope this works, Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv <--Little things for Linux.
E 0.15.1 debs
Well, a new release, a new set of debs. Same thing as before: http://www.debian.org/~bma/enlightenment/ Apt line: deb http://www.debian.org/~bma enlightenment/ Also, people asked about the gnome staging area - apt line deb http://www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage-2 unstable main Imlib 1.9.4 debs are there, along with much more. As before, any comments should be mailed directly to me, not to the bug tracking system. NOTE: These debs contain a bunch of fixes from the first set. I'll paste from the changelog. enlightenment (0.15.1-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release -- Brian M. Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 23:53:57 -0500 enlightenment (0.15.0-3) unstable; urgency=low * Added postinst scripts for the themes, so the user can decide the default theme * All themes now Provide: enlightenment-theme * enlightenment[-nosound] now only Recommends: enlightenment-theme, it's possible for a user to just get a theme of a site, and have E read it from ~/.enlightenment * enlightenment-nosound now contains /usr/share/enlightenment/config * Changed description of enlightenment-docs to be more accurate -- Brian M. Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 16:52:27 -0500 enlightenment (0.15.0-2) unstable; urgency=low * Whoops, didn't make Recommends: enlightenment | enlightenment-nosound for all the packages -- Brian M. Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 15:28:18 -0500 enlightenment (0.15.0-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release * Added enlightenment-nosound package * Split themes up into seperate packages, courtesy of Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Added undocumented manpages for eesh and epp * Versioned dependency on imlib -- Brian M. Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 00:51:26 -0500 pgpksy296X5pZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: elm sending blank mails
On 13 Mar 1999, John Goerzen wrote: > Max Kamenetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > No, I haven't tried downgrading yet, though I know that the problem is not > > with the kernel version. I get the same problem with kernel 2.2.3. I'd > > also be very surprised if this were an MTA problem because pine works > > fine. I haven't tried downgrading glibc because that is a major task > > Pine and Elm may be talking in different ways to the MTA or feeding it > different types of data. > > I'd suggest that you make a full bug report, including version numbers > of everything, log files with as much debugging information as > possible, a sample blank mail, and the like. Try it with different > kernel versions, different libc versions, etc., replacing things one > at a time until the problem goes away. Actually, I was finally able to narrow the problem down a bit. It seems that elm is unable to send messages that are less than about 4K in size. This happens both from the command line and inside elm. E-mails larger than that (and the headers count too) go through just fine. Neither pine nor mail have this problem. Downgrading to exim 2.0.5 didn't solve the problem, so I'm starting to think that this may have something to do with elm and glibc2.1. Any other clues? Which deb files do I need to get to downgrade glibc to 2.0.7? Max
Re: SMP with kernel 2.2.3
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, John Leget wrote: > Seems to work ok here, runnning potata SMP with kernel 2.2.3 also running the > distributed-net client and top shows full utilisation, i was also using > xosview but > that seems to be broken with my current setup :( You are right, I think it works fine, it's just that the CPU utilization (and maybe process priorities) are different than under my old 2.1.121 kernel. Incidentally, I can't get xosview to work any more either, but /proc/cpuinfo does show 2 processors and I can get the CPU utilization to go up to 100% if I really try. Anyway, I guess I was just confused. > Interestingly some months back when i went SMP top showed 200% for a while > :). After > some upgrades this changed, xosview showed both active ( when it worked ). Yup, I had the same 200% problem for a while, but then I think they fixed it in February. Max > Max Kamenetsky wrote: > > Has anyone here tried running an SMP system with kernel 2.2.3? If so, can > > you get it to use both processors? For some reason, I can get it to > > recognize two processors (this shows up in xproc), but top shows that at > > most 50% of the CPU is getting used, i.e. only one of the processors. At > > first I thought that top was wrong, but it does seem much slower than with > > kernel 2.1.121.
Turtle Beach Montego
I have a turtle beach montego sound card. Can it work under linux? If so what driver do i use? I have a dual boot macine and by the time you read this Hope fully I will have kernel 2.2.3 installed(hopefully reiterated)!! any info is greatly appreciated (newbie here:) Jesse Lee (aka Dade)
Kernel patches
Hi, Where can I download patches for the Linux kernel? I have 2.0.36 currently and am seeing that everyone else has 2.2.x Thanks. Doug Dine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.xoom.com/dougdine http://members.xoom.com/loveless NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download.html
Re: PLEASE READ! IMPORTANT! ALL THE MEMBERS! PLEASE READ!
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >groups. I use mutt to read my mail, and it threads email. >GNUs also does this. If worst comes to worst, and you >_MUST_ use a news reader to read debian-user, use mail2news >with a filtering program (exim or procmail) and run your >own news server. Worst? Hello? Mutt's threading of email is imho pretty basic, but I'm used to using trn for reading mailing lists... There are disadvantages, but I think in balance I prefer it this way... lots... ;) SRH -- Steve HaslamValidation Engineer, ARM Limited, Cambridge, England I will protect you from your visions to save you from illusions I will protect you from ideals to save you from defeat[covenant]
Re: Kernel patches
http://www.kernel.org and look at the mirror list for latest versions. On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Doug Dine wrote: > Hi, > > Where can I download patches for the Linux kernel? I have 2.0.36 > currently and am seeing that everyone else has 2.2.x > > Thanks. > > Doug Dine > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://members.xoom.com/dougdine > http://members.xoom.com/loveless > > > NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? > Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at > http://www.netzero.net/download.html > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
rvplayer segfault
This is truly bizarre, but I can't get rvplayer to work on my system. I'm
using kernel 2.2.3 with glibc2.1.1 and rvplayer segfaults every time I try
to start it. I'm attaching the full strace in the hope that someone knows
what's going on. It seems to barf as soon as it opens locale.alias, but
there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with that file as far as I can
tell. I'd be grateful for any suggestions. Oh yeah, I'm using rvplayer
5.0-9 with a potato system.
Max
execve("/usr/bin/X11/rvplayer", ["rvplayer"], [/* 38 vars */]) = 0
brk(0) = 0x80a6ccc
open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY)= 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=0403, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap(0, 18, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40016000
close(3)= 0
open("/lib/nfslock.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3"..., 4096) = 4096
mmap(0, 8024, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40017000
mprotect(0x40018000, 3928, PROT_NONE) = 0
mmap(0x40018000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) =
0x40018000
close(3)= 0
munmap(0x40016000, 18) = 0
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap(0, 31154, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40019000
close(3)= 0
open("/lib/libreadline.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3"..., 4096) = 4096
mmap(0, 172432, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40021000
mprotect(0x40046000, 20880, PROT_NONE) = 0
mmap(0x40046000, 20480, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
0x24000) = 0x40046000
mmap(0x4004b000, 400, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4004b000
close(3)= 0
open("/lib/libncurses.so.4", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3"..., 4096) = 4096
mmap(0, 260876, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4004c000
mprotect(0x4008, 47884, PROT_NONE) = 0
mmap(0x4008, 32768, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
0x33000) = 0x4008
mmap(0x40088000, 15116, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40088000
close(3)= 0
open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3"..., 4096) = 4096
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x40016000
mmap(0, 12616, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4008c000
mprotect(0x4008e000, 4424, PROT_NONE) = 0
mmap(0x4008e000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x1000)
= 0x4008e000
close(3)= 0
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)= 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3"..., 4096) = 4096
mmap(0, 1089400, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4009
mprotect(0x4017b000, 126840, PROT_NONE) = 0
mmap(0x4017b000, 114688, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
0xea000) = 0x4017b000
mmap(0x40197000, 12152, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40197000
close(3)= 0
munmap(0x40019000, 31154) = 0
personality(PER_LINUX) = 0
getpid()= 16967
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 1075408896) = 0
open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|0x8000) = 3
close(3)= 0
brk(0) = 0x80a6ccc
brk(0x80a7000) = 0x80a7000
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, ~[], [], 1075408896) = 0
brk(0x80a8000) = 0x80a8000
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 1075408896) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, ~[], [], 1075408896) = 0
brk(0x80a9000) = 0x80a9000
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 1075408896) = 0
getuid()= 2231
getgid()= 32
geteuid() = 2231
getegid() = 32
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 1075408896) = 0
time(NULL) = 921397908
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, ~[], [], 1075408896) = 0
brk(0x80aa000) = 0x80aa000
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 1075408896) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 1075408896) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="chinook
Re: rvplayer segfault
There's bugs in kernel 2.0.x which RealPlayer takes advantage of. These
holes were closed during development of 2.2.x, therefore breaking
RealPlayer. I believe there is a way around the problem, but I do not have
it as I'm using 2.0.37pre8 on my workstation.
What really needs to happen is RealNetworks putting out software which
doesn't take advantage of specific kernel bugs as the current version 5.0
does.
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Max Kamenetsky wrote:
> This is truly bizarre, but I can't get rvplayer to work on my system. I'm
> using kernel 2.2.3 with glibc2.1.1 and rvplayer segfaults every time I try
> to start it. I'm attaching the full strace in the hope that someone knows
> what's going on. It seems to barf as soon as it opens locale.alias, but
> there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with that file as far as I can
> tell. I'd be grateful for any suggestions. Oh yeah, I'm using rvplayer
> 5.0-9 with a potato system.
>
> Max
>
> execve("/usr/bin/X11/rvplayer", ["rvplayer"], [/* 38 vars */]) = 0
> brk(0) = 0x80a6ccc
> open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY)= 3
> fstat(3, {st_mode=0403, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> mmap(0, 18, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40016000
> close(3)= 0
> open("/lib/nfslock.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3
> fstat(3, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3"..., 4096) = 4096
> mmap(0, 8024, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40017000
> mprotect(0x40018000, 3928, PROT_NONE) = 0
> mmap(0x40018000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) =
> 0x40018000
> close(3)= 0
> munmap(0x40016000, 18) = 0
> open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
> fstat(3, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> mmap(0, 31154, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40019000
> close(3)= 0
> open("/lib/libreadline.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3
> fstat(3, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3"..., 4096) = 4096
> mmap(0, 172432, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40021000
> mprotect(0x40046000, 20880, PROT_NONE) = 0
> mmap(0x40046000, 20480, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
> 0x24000) = 0x40046000
> mmap(0x4004b000, 400, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4004b000
> close(3)= 0
> open("/lib/libncurses.so.4", O_RDONLY) = 3
> fstat(3, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3"..., 4096) = 4096
> mmap(0, 260876, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4004c000
> mprotect(0x4008, 47884, PROT_NONE) = 0
> mmap(0x4008, 32768, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
> 0x33000) = 0x4008
> mmap(0x40088000, 15116, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40088000
> close(3)= 0
> open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3
> fstat(3, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3"..., 4096) = 4096
> mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
> 0x40016000
> mmap(0, 12616, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4008c000
> mprotect(0x4008e000, 4424, PROT_NONE) = 0
> mmap(0x4008e000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
> 0x1000) = 0x4008e000
> close(3)= 0
> open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)= 3
> fstat(3, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3"..., 4096) = 4096
> mmap(0, 1089400, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4009
> mprotect(0x4017b000, 126840, PROT_NONE) = 0
> mmap(0x4017b000, 114688, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
> 0xea000) = 0x4017b000
> mmap(0x40197000, 12152, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40197000
> close(3)= 0
> munmap(0x40019000, 31154) = 0
> personality(PER_LINUX) = 0
> getpid()= 16967
> rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 1075408896) = 0
> open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|0x8000) = 3
> close(3)= 0
> brk(0) = 0x80a6ccc
> brk(0x80a7000) = 0x80a7000
> rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, ~[], [], 1075408896) = 0
> brk(0x80a8000) = 0x80a8000
> rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 1075408896) = 0
> rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, ~[], [], 1075408896) = 0
> brk(0x80a9000) = 0x80a9000
> rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 1075408896) = 0
> getuid()= 2231
> getgid()= 32
> geteuid() = 2231
> getegid() = 32
> rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 1075408896) = 0
> time(NULL)
Re: rvplayer segfault
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Alec Smith wrote: > There's bugs in kernel 2.0.x which RealPlayer takes advantage of. These > holes were closed during development of 2.2.x, therefore breaking > RealPlayer. I believe there is a way around the problem, but I do not have > it as I'm using 2.0.37pre8 on my workstation. Yes, I'm aware of the sound bugs in rvplayer, but this seems to be something else because from what I heard, the sound bugs simply prevent you from hearing sound without actually causing rvplayer to segfault. Here, it segfaults as soon as it accesses locale.alias, so I'm thinking that this may be something else. Max
Re: Allowing Connections
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 10:50:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm having problems getting my /etc/hosts.allow file set up correctly. > I"m trying to allow any system on my network (192.168.1.X) to connect > to leafnode and get the news groups. [...] > I've tried adding: > leafenode:127.0.0.1 192.168.1.* > > but it does not seem to work. > > After reading the man pages on it, I'm still not sure what to do. ^^^ You are sure? >From 'Manual page hosts_access(5)': [...] A string that ends with a `.' character. A host address is matched if its first numeric fields match the given string. For example, the pattern `131.155.' matches the address of (almost) every hoston the Eindhoven University network (131.155.x.x). [...] An expression of the form `n.n.n.n/m.m.m.m' is interpreted as a `net/mask' pair. A host address is matched if `net' is equal to the bitwise AND of the address and the `mask'. For example, the net/mask pattern `131.155.72.0/255.255.254.0' matches every address in the range `131.155.72.0' through `131.155.73.255'. [...] Then you have to use `192.168.1.' or `192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0' . Mirek
Re: gcc 2.8.x deb-package
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: > > I am searching for a debian package of gcc 2.8.x . In an old mail of this > > list I found a statement, that such a package should be somewhere in > > projects/experimental... but I only find a deb package for gcc 2.9.x > > (gcc_2.91.63-1.1.deb) in the potato directory. > That gcc package is for egcs, a compiler which some believe is superior > to GCC because it is more actively developed. Yes, I know already, after examining the deb-file with dpkg :) > Right now, Debian uses egcs for its C++ compiler Hmm... I'm using Debian 2.0, and I've got still gcc 2.7.2.3 . > uses egcs to compile it). I believe that one of the goals of Debian 2.1 > is to offer egcs as a c compiler as well. Well, at least, I'm searching for a deb package for gcc 2.8.x, because I think, switching from gcc 2.7.x to gcc 2.8.x is easier than switching to egcs 1.1.x . - or am I wrong? CU, Holger -- Holger Mense
Re: I can't beleive this
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, William Schwartz wrote: > >it goes on the first bootable partition, PERIOD, > > Well, not true, if you are using NT, you can install it on what ever > partition you would like. All it needs is the NT loader to exist on the boot > device. This could be a floppy... H. Windows and DOS both insist on being on the boot device, which means what they see as the first partition of the first disk. In actuality, this turns out to mean the first partition described in the boot disk's Master Boot Record, so by fiddling the MBR they can be made to think they have this privileged position when in fact they are not on the first physical partition. There's a dandy program called the Ranish Partition Manager (supplied with several non-Debian Linux distributions) which makes use of this and allows one to put Windows (including Win 9x) and DOS on seperate partitions, with true--rather than simulated multi-boot capabilities. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Shupp California State University, Northridge Graduate Student, Dept. of Anthropology http://www.csun.edu/~ms44278/index.htm
Re: Kernel 2.2.3
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 08:39:00PM +, Mark Wagnon wrote: > I have couple of questions about upgrading my kernel to 2.2.3. > > I downloaded the full source and went through all the steps to compile, > but when I rebooted I received an error telling me that modules.dep was > empty. I took a look at /lib/modules/2.2.3/modules.dep and yep, it's > empty. I looked at the modules.dep file under my 2.0.34 directory and it > looks like this file tells where all the modules are. > > Since mine is empty, where can I find a replacement, or how do I get it > populated? This is done by 'depmod -a'. In my system (slink) I have modutils package which installs file /etc/init.d/modutils with sequence: [...] echo -n "Calculating module dependencies... " depmod -a > /dev/null echo "done." [...] Mirek
Re: can't locate module ppp0
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Pollywog wrote: > Whenever I reboot my machine (Debian Hamm with kernel 2.0.36) I get this: > > Unusual System Events > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Mar 13 18:20:11 lilypad kernel: registered device ppp0 > Mar 13 18:20:10 lilypad modprobe: can't locate module ppp0 > Mar 13 18:20:11 lilypad kernel: registered device ppp0 > > We are having high winds and that rebooted my machine this morning. Everything > seems to work, but I see that error. > > Is there a fix? > Try adding "alias ppp0 off" to /etc/conf.modules if you are sure that nothing if breaking. -- Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Elwood: What kind of music do you get here ma'am? Barmaid: Why, we get both kinds of music, Country and Western.
Re: Kernel patches
AFAIK there's no patch path through the 2.0.x -> 2.2.x barrier. You could try to install the kernel-source package of the kernel you wish to upgrade to, or you could get the raw source from ftp.kernel.org, the "official" site. On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Doug Dine wrote: > Hi, > > Where can I download patches for the Linux kernel? I have 2.0.36 > currently and am seeing that everyone else has 2.2.x > > Thanks. > > Doug Dine > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://members.xoom.com/dougdine > http://members.xoom.com/loveless > > > NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? > Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at > http://www.netzero.net/download.html > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gcc 2.8.x deb-package
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 19:16:32 +, Holger Mense wrote: > I am searching for a debian package of gcc 2.8.x . In an old mail of this > list I found a statement, that such a package should be somewhere in > projects/experimental... Its packaging was extremely old, and incompatible with the current gcc and EGCS packages. On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 19:35:39 +, Holger Mense wrote: > Well, at least, I'm searching for a deb package for gcc 2.8.x, because I > think, switching from gcc 2.7.x to gcc 2.8.x is easier than switching to > egcs 1.1.x . - or am I wrong? You're wrong. FSF gcc 2.8.x is to all intents and purposes a dead development line. EGCS is actively maintained; its C++ has significant improvements over FSF gcc. IMO its only a matter of time until the FSF accepts reality, and blesses EGCS as the official FSF gcc. Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Re: Mozilla Fault
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 09:31:44 -0800, Rob Pratt wrote: > I got Mozilla installed from Debian packages, but when I run it, it > creates two small windows (in fvwm95) then closes and returns the message, > "Segmentation fault." Can anyone help me troubleshoot this one? Not really. The current Debian mozilla packages are quite old. A lot of changes have been made in Mozilla since then (e.g. the switch to Gtk instead of Motif for the GUI library). Several people have expressed interest in adopting the mozilla package. Hopefully, we'll have a working mozilla package in potato in the not too distant future. Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Re: Help
Alec Smith writes: > You could also try changing the line to /dev/ttyS1 if your modme is on > DOS com2... Or whichever other port. They're numbered starting with > /dev/ttyS0 which is com1 on DOS. He appears to be trying to run pppd with the default provider files distributed with ppp. They need a lot more work than just fixing the /dev/modem line. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Re: I can't beleive this
At 06:27 PM 3/12/99 -0800, George Bonser wrote: >Look, people, I could make a Linux distribution JUST as easy as Windows to >install if I build it like the Windows installation ... it goes on the >first bootable partition, PERIOD, it does not allow multi-boot of other >operating systems, AT ALL, I install the base OS in a set configuration >(no partitioning, etc by the user during install) with a specific set of >applications that the user has no control over. It will install quite >nicely and the longest part is the reformat of the hard drive to remove >that "alien" filesystem that it found living there. Not being good enough to write the programme myself I still don't see why a programme can't be written to automate the defrag. windows partition, add an amount of free space (say 10% of overall disk capacity) and partition and format the balance as 64Mb swap, everything else fs2. No questions asked. George, I know you know that Windows _does_not_delete_ the "alien filesystem" :) > >The problem comes in when you want to give control over the installation. >The more control you give the more difficult it becomes because you HAVE >to assume that the person with the control knows what to do with it. > Why not, then, for the initial installation remove the choices ? That is, the dselect maintainers make their best judgement regarding MTA, MUA, picture viewers, sound players, editors, etc... This choice should be based solely on ease of use. eg. select ae rather than vi/emacs for the initial editor. This way, at least, a fully functional system is present immediately and without any knowledge whatsoever. All that needs to be done then is give the new user to pointer to the other packages that are available and all is well with the world. As was mentioned by someone else, it is important that apparently pointless questions are not asked. eg. Byte compiling makes it go faster. Do you want to byte compile ? I genuinely don't know what byte compiling is, I don't know what, if any, negatives there are to byte compiling and so _every_time_ I will say "y". Leave those sort of questions for "expert edition" of the installation script. >Comparing the two operating system's installation procedure is apples and >oranges. The closest you can come with a commercial OS is POSSIBLY OS/2 >... and you know what people complained that OS/2 was too difficult >to install. Never used OS/2 so can't comment but Steve Lamb makes a good point that no matter what is done, someone, somewhere is going to want it to be easier. My point is that I believe that Windows is a poorly implemented Very Good Idea. Ivan. > > > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > >
Re: E 0.15.1 debs
> Well, a new release, a new set of debs. You have really done a great work. Enlightenment now looks like it is possible to use it day-to-day. Only the icE does not want to appear in the theme menu. Well done. Andreas.
Re: Re[2]: ping script for isp autologout
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Aha. Thanks for the tip. Stupid me though, it dawned on me, when I got the > pppupd package, that I'm using a new OpenBSD box for dialling up and that this > Linux machine is not the place I want to do the 'keepalive' work from. > > Any clue as to a script that might work on that dialup machine? well, you could get the source for pppupd and compile it on your OpenBSD box. sources are on your debian mirror in the same directory as 'binary-i386' or whatever. otherwise, the 'ping' command has a switch, -i, which tells it how many seconds to wait between packets. 'ping -i 300 host.example.com' will ping your isp's dialup server every five minutes while you've got your connection up (replace the address, obviously). hth, -thomas .. please forgive my abrupt ending hre - but my conection is xtrememleyyhiclmelyey BAD hiccuppy etc must sign off - EF D8 33 68 B3 E3 E9 D2 C1 3E 51 22 8A AA 7B 98 umbra (!)
Re: I can't beleive this
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 08:05:11PM +0800, ivan wrote: > > George, I know you know that Windows _does_not_delete_ the "alien > filesystem" :) Try to install MS DOS 6.0 It will insist of *erasing* the complete disk, *repartitioning* it to one big partition, and then install DOS. It will NOT let you do anything else. It checks if there are other partitions, and won't install, but suggest to delete them. it says "the disk is not prepared for MS-DOS" Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
Re: I can't beleive this
At 03:14 PM 3/14/99 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: >On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 08:05:11PM +0800, ivan wrote: >> >> George, I know you know that Windows _does_not_delete_ the "alien >> filesystem" :) > >Try to install MS DOS 6.0 > >It will insist of *erasing* the complete disk, *repartitioning* it to one >big partition, and then install DOS. Sincere apologies to all ... I stand corrected. Ivan. > >It will NOT let you do anything else. It checks if there are other >partitions, and won't install, but suggest to delete them. > >it says "the disk is not prepared for MS-DOS" > >Thanks, >Marcus > >-- >`Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ >Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org master.debian.org >[EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key >http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > >
New glibc & java problems
Apologies if this is off topic for this list; I remember seeing that a list had been opened up for debian & java but when I went to the mailing lists page on www.debian.org I didn't see it Anyway, I recently decided to check out Java, and (not being entirely sure what I was doing) installled the jdk1.1, jdk1.1-dev, guavac and tya packages. Didn't get a chance to check anything out until today and having retrieved & installed a new glibc via apt-get last night, am not sure what is causing this problem (however, the glibc docs say something about recompilation being necessary for errors such as these) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > java -version /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../bin/i586/green_threads/java: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../lib/i586/green_threads/libjava.so: undefined symbol: _dl_symbol_value (this happens no matter what I do with the java program... appletviewer has the same problem, and guavac segfaults.) I'll just list the various package versions ii guavac 1.0-5 A java compiler. ii jdk1.1 1.1.7v1a-2 JDK 1.1.x (Java Development Kit) - Runtime o ii jdk1.1-dev 1.1.7v1a-2 JDK 1.1.x (Java Development Kit) ii libc6 2.1.1-0pre1GNU C Library: shared libraries ii libc6-dev 2.1.1-0pre1GNU C Library: Development libraries and hea ii tya 1.2v4-2JIT-compiler for Java If anyone has recently set up the JDK on debian, and could help, 'twould be much appreciated :) If someone else can replicate it, I'll file it as a bug, but its probably just my system. ali. ps: please Cc: messages to me as I'm only subscribed to the digest version of this list :)
Re: web link checker
> Thus spake Colin Telmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Why not just install the debianized version? I don't know about stable, > > but it is in unstable. Cheers. > > So, in addition to the tarball, you can snag a deb at: > > http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/linbot.html > or, a slightly less newer version at (the unstable version is perfectly fine) > http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/web/linbot.html The unstable version is significantly better than stable. I recommend that you install that version. A new update will be posted in a few days. -- Jean Pierre Debian linbot package maintainer
Re: init runs away with glibc2.1
Greg Wooledge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Shortly after installing the new glibc 2.1 packages, I noticed that > init had started to run away: > (Is it safe to reboot at this point, or should I drop back to glibc 2.0?) Well, my computer decided the matter for me. About half an hour after writing that, my X session went wacky, and I also couldn't telnet in. I waited a while and hit the reset button, and everything seems to be OK. I probably should've upgraded libc from a virtual terminal, rather than an rxvt under X. Silly me, I guess... but that still doesn't explain why init ran away. -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because a CPU is a terrible thing to waste. http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ |
Stupid Question
Hi- I was wondering how I could view a text file like dos's type Thanky you, -James
Re: Stupid Question
At 10:24 AM 3/14/99 -0500, Robert Aisenberg wrote: >Hi- >I was wondering how I could view a text file like dos's type > cat If the file is longer than 25 lines I suggest you use more or less. e.g. cat |moreor cat |less see the manual for cat, more, less, tail hth Ivan. >Thanky you, >-James > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > >
DPKG PROBLEM, PLEASE HELP!!
Hi- When I use dpkg I get an error when it checks the database saying: "Files list for xserver-vga16 missing assumeing package has no files currently installed!" The file I want to install is that server. Thank you for your help, -James
PPP connection
Hi, when I am logged on to my ISP and do a "ps a" I get the following: /sbin/getty 38400 tty1 Does this mean I have something set wrong. My modem connects at 44-48000, so this puzzles me. A newbie needs help :) --- Regards Christian Dysthe E-Mail: Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 14-Mar-99 Time: 10:20:57 This message was sent by XFMail for Linux ---
Re: Stupid Question
>> "i" == ivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: i> If the file is longer than 25 lines I suggest you use more or less. i> e.g. cat |more or cat |less You don't need the cat in this case. Just do less filename or more filename Less is better then more. Ciao, Martin
Re: DPKG PROBLEM, PLEASE HELP!!
Robert Aisenberg wrote: > > Hi- > When I use dpkg I get an error when it checks the database saying: > > "Files list for xserver-vga16 missing assumeing package has no files > currently installed!" > > The file I want to install is that server. > Try 'dpkg -i [name of .deb file]' -- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]begin:vcard n:Miller;Paul x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Talons adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:President note:The Spirit of the University of North Texas x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Paul Miller end:vcard
Re: Turtle Beach Montego
I'd love for someone to prove otherwise, but as far as I know there is still no driver available for any Vortex or Vortex2 card, which of course includes the Turtle Beach Montego. SJG On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Jesse Lee wrote: > I have a turtle beach montego sound card. Can it work under linux? If so what > driver do i use? I have a dual boot macine and by the time you read this Hope > fully I will have kernel 2.2.3 installed(hopefully reiterated)!! > > any info is greatly appreciated (newbie here:) > > Jesse Lee (aka Dade) > >
Re: PPP connection
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > when I am logged on to my ISP and do a "ps a" I get the following: > > /sbin/getty 38400 tty1 > > Does this mean I have something set wrong. My modem connects at 44-48000, so > this puzzles me. This line refers actually to a program which is listening on the first virtual console (which you get to with alt-f1 or ctrl-alt-f1 from X) waiting for a login. the 38400 does refer to a serial linespeed but is just a bit of a holdover from when all terminals were on serial lines. if you want to find out how fast your modem is connecting have a look at /var/log/ppp.log (just type 'plog -f' to follow this file as you are connecting) something like: Mar 14 16:42:15 grummet chat[18251]: CONNECT 44000/ARQ/x2/LAPM/V42BIS^M ^ is what you're looking for. -thomas .. please forgive my abrupt ending hre - but my conection is xtrememleyyhiclmelyey BAD hiccuppy etc must sign off - EF D8 33 68 B3 E3 E9 D2 C1 3E 51 22 8A AA 7B 98 umbra (!)
Re: rvplayer segfault
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Max Kamenetsky wrote: > This is truly bizarre, but I can't get rvplayer to work on my system. I'm > using kernel 2.2.3 with glibc2.1.1 and rvplayer segfaults every time I try > to start it. I'm attaching the full strace in the hope that someone knows > what's going on. It seems to barf as soon as it opens locale.alias, but > there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with that file as far as I can > tell. I'd be grateful for any suggestions. Oh yeah, I'm using rvplayer > 5.0-9 with a potato system. Hmmm... I'd point the finger at realplayer's interaction with glibc2 -- i'm running potato with 2.2.3 same version of realplayer and no problems. it's quite likely that realplayer uses unpublished bits of glibc2 that have been eliminated from glibc2.1, tripping up realplayer. however, i'm guessing. unfortunately I'm not sure if there's a way of downgrading to 2.0.7. i'd be careful. -thomas, who's not upgrading to glibc2.1 for at least 2 months. .. please forgive my abrupt ending hre - but my conection is xtrememleyyhiclmelyey BAD hiccuppy etc must sign off - EF D8 33 68 B3 E3 E9 D2 C1 3E 51 22 8A AA 7B 98 umbra (!)
Re: I can't beleive this
That is why when you insert the DOS disks (dos 6.22 for example) you dont just let it do what it wants to do... You can still hold the right hand shift key while starting and it will skip the boot files... You can then run FDISK manually to do what you want to... will -Original Message- From: ivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; ivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, March 14, 1999 9:24 AM Subject: Re: I can't beleive this >At 03:14 PM 3/14/99 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: >>On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 08:05:11PM +0800, ivan wrote: >>> >>> George, I know you know that Windows _does_not_delete_ the "alien >>> filesystem" :) >> >>Try to install MS DOS 6.0 >> >>It will insist of *erasing* the complete disk, *repartitioning* it to one >>big partition, and then install DOS. > >Sincere apologies to all ... I stand corrected. > >Ivan. > >> >>It will NOT let you do anything else. It checks if there are other >>partitions, and won't install, but suggest to delete them. >> >>it says "the disk is not prepared for MS-DOS" >> >>Thanks, >>Marcus >> >>-- >>`Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ >>Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org master.debian.org >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP >Key >>http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID >36E7CD09 >> >> >>-- >>Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >/dev/null >> >> >> > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
diald question
Do I need *both* a diald.conf and a diald.options? I am using only diald.options and cannot seem to get disconnect-timeout 0 to work when I put in in diald.options. When I get disconnected, diald waits 30s to reconnect. thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
Re: PPP connection
Hi again, I do not get anything about the speed when I do "plog -f". The only thing I get there is "connect ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1. However, in my Xisp dialer I get the following: OK PROTOCOL:LAPM COMPRESSION:V42B CONNECT 44000 Is this the same? On 14-Mar-99 thomas lakofski wrote: > On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > >> when I am logged on to my ISP and do a "ps a" I get the following: >> >> /sbin/getty 38400 tty1 >> >> Does this mean I have something set wrong. My modem connects at 44-48000, so >> this puzzles me. > > This line refers actually to a program which is listening on the first > virtual console (which you get to with alt-f1 or ctrl-alt-f1 from X) > waiting for a login. the 38400 does refer to a serial linespeed but is > just a bit of a holdover from when all terminals were on serial lines. > > if you want to find out how fast your modem is connecting have a look at > /var/log/ppp.log (just type 'plog -f' to follow this file as you are > connecting) > > something like: > Mar 14 16:42:15 grummet chat[18251]: CONNECT 44000/ARQ/x2/LAPM/V42BIS^M > ^ is what you're looking > for. > > -thomas > > .. > please forgive my abrupt ending hre - but my conection is > xtrememleyyhiclmelyey BAD hiccuppy etc must sign off - > EF D8 33 68 B3 E3 E9 D2 C1 3E 51 22 8A AA 7B 98 umbra (!) > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null --- Regards Christian Dysthe E-Mail: Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 14-Mar-99 Time: 12:10:47 This message was sent by XFMail for Linux ---
Linux and Mpact AGP Display Card
I have installed Red Hat 5.2 Linux in my GATEWAY 2000 computer. It has a AGP Display Card with Mpact Media Processor from Chromatic Research Inc. Now I am trying to run X Windows in my system but I did not find the correct display driver for this card. So how can I use X Windows ? Is there any way ? Please notify me. Thanks for your help. Nitesh Sthapit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nepal.
Linux and Mpact AGP Display Card
I have installed Red Hat 5.2 Linux in my GATEWAY 2000 computer. It has a AGP Display Card with Mpact Media Processor from Chromatic Research Inc. Now I am trying to run X Windows in my system but I did not find the correct display driver for this card. So how can I use X Windows ? Is there any way ? Please notify me. Thanks for your help. Nitesh Sthapit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nepal.
Linux and Mpact AGP Display Card from Gateway 2000
I have installed Red Hat 5.2 Linux in my GATEWAY 2000 computer. It has a AGP Display Card with Mpact Media Processor from Chromatic Research Inc. Now I am trying to run X Windows in my system but I did not find the correct display driver for this card. So how can I use X Windows ? Is there any way ? Please notify me. Thanks for your help. Nitesh Sthapit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nepal.
a tiff viewer for faxes
Since I am unable to get fax to work in Linux, I want to use the e-fax service offered on the net, but I will need a tiff viewer for faxes. Does Debian have such a thing? thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
Re: a tiff viewer for faxes
On 1999-03-14 18:25, Pollywog wrote: > Since I am unable to get fax to work in Linux, I want to use the > e-fax service offered on the net, but I will need a tiff viewer for > faxes. Does Debian have such a thing? mgetty+fax was pretty easy to get going here (granted it's not as full featured as one might wish - hylafax fits that defitition better, I believe). Lots of packages provides tiff viewing - imagemagick, xv. Search through /var/lib/dpkg/availble for a complete list. /Allan -- Allan M. Wind Phone: 781.938.5272 (home) 687 Main St., 2nd fl. Fax:781.938.6641 (fax/modem) Woburn, MA 01801Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home)
[gnome] panel just segfaults :(
Hi! I run linux 2.2.3 and potato, and i'm trying to install gnome. I used to packages from www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage2 or something like that, but panel (and gmc) just segfaults when i try to start em. Ä(~)> panel ** CRITICAL **: file connection.c: line 973 (iiop_get_fd): assertion `giop_connection->connection_type == GIOP_CONNECTION_IIOP' failed. Segmentation fault (core dumped) any ideas why? -- michael legart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] kaffe? http://image.dk/~badpixel/kaffe/
Version 2.0 to 2.1 upgrade
Hi All I just updated from 2.0 to 2.1. Everything went smoothly except for the sendmail installation. Sendmail found my existing install and asked me whether I wanted to keep it or not, I said keep. Unfortunately there seem to be a few side effects with this. 1) sendmail.cf has been moved from /etc to /etc/mail, but the script /etc/init.d/sendmail checks for the existence if the /etc/sendmail.cf command before it executes anything. 2) I found that submitting mail from the Linux box worked but submitting it from a workstation did not, giving an error about "relaying". The only way I could get round this was to add domain names for all my clients into the /etc/mail/relay-domains file. This seems to work, but it is a real drag. Thank God I did the upgrade over the weekend. Are there any better ways to address these problems? Am I the only one to have seen these problems? TIA --- | Simon Martin | "By definition, all software is faulty. | | Project Manager | It is just a mere coincidence if it| | Isys | ever seems to work" ;-)| --- mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian Linux
Re: a tiff viewer for faxes
On 14-Mar-99 Allan M. Wind wrote: > On 1999-03-14 18:25, Pollywog wrote: > >> Since I am unable to get fax to work in Linux, I want to use the >> e-fax service offered on the net, but I will need a tiff viewer for >> faxes. Does Debian have such a thing? > > mgetty+fax was pretty easy to get going here (granted it's not as full > featured as one might wish - hylafax fits that defitition better, I > believe). > > Lots of packages provides tiff viewing - imagemagick, xv. Search > through /var/lib/dpkg/availble for a complete list. > Thanks. I just never understood how to get fax to work in Linux because the HOWTO's assume knowledge I do not possess. I would need a HOWTO that starts from scratch. I was not sure xv would do the trick. I will check KDE's site too. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
Xterm not showing Xresources changes
I'm using KDE 1.1 & Debian 2.1 (slink): I want my xterms to be yellow on black, and use a geometry that I choose: Here's my /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm file: XTerm*background: black XTerm*foreground: yellow XTerm*geometry: 69x28 Any way I open up an Xterm window, it displays full screen in black on white. Why isn't it reading my resources file? -Jay
Creating a vfat file system
[Please reply to me personally as well as to the list. I don't usually have the time to keep up with this list.] Is there a way within Debian GNU/Linux i386 to make a VFAT file system on a hard disk partition? Background to the question: My laptop came with Windows 98. I repartitioned keeping the Windows 98 in /dev/hda1. I installed Debian GNU/Linux on /dev/hda3 with a swap partition on /dev/hda5 and /users on /dev/hda6. /dev/hda2 was reserved for Windows NT in case I wanted to use that at work. Eventually I decided to remove NT. I would now like to use /dev/hda2 as a second VFAT partition. I used cfdisk to reset the partition type to Win95 FAT32 (0B), which is the same type as /dev/hda1. When I started up Windows 98 it found that the "D" drive was not formatted and I agreed to have it format that drive. Then Win98 wanted to run Scandisk with the "thorough" option. I allowed that. It got about halfway through the partition according to its calculations then went into a tight loop. Apparently Scandisk was detecting every block as being corrupt and marking them as corrupt. I think it was Scandisk that had the problem not the disk itself. Next time I booted Linux there were all sorts of errors on /dev/hda6 of all places. Fortunately /dev/hda3 looks ok. Is there a mkfs.vfat or something like it within Debian that I can use to create the VFAT file system safely? My experience with Microsoft utilities is not encouraging. I would prefer to manipulate my file systems under Linux where I have some chance of understanding what is going on.
Re: Version 2.0 to 2.1 upgrade
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Simon Martin wrote: > 1) sendmail.cf has been moved from /etc to /etc/mail, but the script > /etc/init.d/sendmail checks for the existence if the /etc/sendmail.cf > command before it executes anything. There should be a file /etc/init.d/sendmail.dpkg-new -- you might want to replace the /etc/init.d/sendmail file with this one so that it looks in the right place. > 2) I found that submitting mail from the Linux box worked but submitting it > from a workstation did not, giving an error about "relaying". The only way I > could get round this was to add domain names for all my clients into the > /etc/mail/relay-domains file. This seems to work, but it is a real drag. > Thank God I did the upgrade over the weekend. This relaying protection is actually something that you definitely DO want. If you're running sendmail open to all relaying on the Internet, before long some spammer will discover it and happily steal your bandwidth and cpu to send their crap all over the Internet, possibly resulting in the blacklisting of your mailhost stopping you from mailing about 30% of the net. You should be able to use appropriate wildcards in the relay-domains file so you don't have to do it by host, but by IP ranges (172.16.*) or whole domains (*.example.com). Yes it's more of a pain than unrestricted access, but having your mailer exploited by spammers is more of a pain than anything (and many people will dislike you for it.) hope this helps, -thomas .. please forgive my abrupt ending hre - but my conection is xtrememleyyhiclmelyey BAD hiccuppy etc must sign off - EF D8 33 68 B3 E3 E9 D2 C1 3E 51 22 8A AA 7B 98 umbra (!)
termcap/info help
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i frequently login to a remote freebsd system. freebsd uses termcap. is there a way to convert my linux and xterm-debian entries from terminfo to termcap format? tic *claims* to be able to convert terminfo *source* to termcap but it doesn't work; even if it did it doesn't know how to convert terminfo binary to source (i had to do it on the termcap-using other system... odd, huh?). are there any veterans in the battle against terminfo databases on this list? if not, is there anyone who knows what list i should be writing to? tia, - --p. The reader this signature encounters not failing to understand is cursed. PGP 5.0 key available at http://www.cif.rochester.edu/~phouchg/pgpkey.txt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.1, an Emacs/PGP interface Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNuwNf549M+7gJHRJEQKVwwCg/qn2lDrjoyC9iBPBlGKMFA3h6wgAoOGr zEpotSd3PADNIjx8/2c3aOjO =Q5WO -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Stupid Question
In a message dated 3/14/99 9:22:21 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi- > I was wondering how I could view a text file like dos's type > > Thanky you, > -James > cat will work the same as type will. you can also use: more to do the same thing, but one page at a time. -Jay
Re: mutt-Netscape and nmh
To get mutt to read a MH folder all you have to is 'touch FOLDER_NAME/.mh_sequences' . Mutt looks for this file to determine mailbox type. If you do use MHfolders add the line 'set mh_purge' , if you don't then Mutt just move the message file to ,filename and does not actually delete it. I found that when I was wondering why I had a 9Meg mailbox with only 5 messages in it. On Sat, Mar 06, 1999 at 02:37:08PM -0500, Seth M. Landsman wrote: > On Sat, Mar 06, 1999 at 12:49:38PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > I have been using Netscape and more recently mutt to download and read > > mail. I installed nmh so that I > > could 'burst' digests apart but it doesn't seem that nmh and > > netscape/mutt folders are compatible. Is > > this a correct assumption? If I use 'folders' nmh lists my folder > > directories but doesn't list any mail folders such as 'Psycholoquy' or > > 'Debian-User' which mutt and netscape read and put mail into. > > How can I get nmh to recognize these folders? When I searched dejanews > > people talked about converting mh folders to Netscape but not the other > > way around. Or am I way off and just not using the syntax correctly? > > I have tried 'scan', 'burst', and 'folders' but nothing seems to work. > > There doesn't seem to be much documentation for this system either. I > > downloaded mh-papers but am not sure how to read the tex documents. As > > you can tell I am not very experienced with either nmh or TEX. > > I was under the impression that mutt was capable of reading > mh-style mail folders. (in fact, I've been debating moving over to > mh-style folders, to make syncrhonization across machines and my pilot > easier). > Checkout the mutt web site, mutt.org, I think. > > I don't know anything about netscape. > > Let me know if you figure out how to get mutt to natively read mh. > > -Seth > -- > "It is by will alone I set my mind in motion" > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: diald question
Pollywog writes: > Do I need *both* a diald.conf and a diald.options? "diald.conf"? I don't have one, nor does the diald man page mention it. > I am using only diald.options and cannot seem to get disconnect-timeout 0 > to work when I put in in diald.options. 'disconnect-timeout' doesn't do what you want. It tells diald how long to wait for the disconnect script to complete before giving up. Most people don't need a disconnect script at all. You want 'redial-timeout'. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
other tools like Xadmin?
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searching for files on cdrom
Hi... I have a problem: sometimes I need some special files for a Linux Installation (actually its msgfmt :) , but I don't know in which .deb-package it is. Does someone know how to search the whole cd-rom for a special file, or, is their a possibility to list recursivly with "dpkg --contents" the contents of all(!) .deb-files on the cd-rom? I tried with "dpkg --contents `find -name *.deb`", but that doesn't work correctly, because the result of "find -name *.deb" is given to "dpkg --contents" when this processed is finished, but "dpkg --contents" only allows one more parameter... :( Any hints? CU, Holger P.S.: Or can someone tell me, in which package "msgfmt" is? :) -- Holger Mense
Re: Xterm not showing Xresources changes
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 02:08:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using KDE 1.1 & Debian 2.1 (slink): > > I want my xterms to be yellow on black, and use a geometry that I choose: > Here's my /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm file: > > XTerm*background: black > XTerm*foreground: yellow > XTerm*geometry: 69x28 > > Any way I open up an Xterm window, it displays full screen in black on white. > Why isn't it reading my resources file? Have you restarted X? I did that this morning to get X to read a Xresources file I was making. And do you have a ~/.Xresources file? I believe settings in there will override settings in the system-wide Xresources file. HTH, James
Re: diald question
On 14-Mar-99 John Hasler wrote: > Pollywog writes: >> Do I need *both* a diald.conf and a diald.options? > > "diald.conf"? I don't have one, nor does the diald man page mention it. > >> I am using only diald.options and cannot seem to get disconnect-timeout 0 >> to work when I put in in diald.options. > > 'disconnect-timeout' doesn't do what you want. It tells diald how long to > wait for the disconnect script to complete before giving up. Most people > don't need a disconnect script at all. You want 'redial-timeout'. Thanks, I probably misunderstood the diald man page. I had a diald.conf when I used Caldera OpenLinux, but it does not seem necessary in Debian. The two files have the same content, just different names, I believe. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 KeyID 0x5EE61C37]
Re: searching for files on cdrom
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 07:42:14PM +, Holger Mense wrote: > Hi... > > I have a problem: sometimes I need some special files for a Linux > Installation (actually its msgfmt :) , but I don't know in which > .deb-package it is. > > Does someone know how to search the whole cd-rom for a special file, or, > is their a possibility to list recursivly with "dpkg --contents" the > contents of all(!) .deb-files on the cd-rom? > > I tried with "dpkg --contents `find -name *.deb`", but that doesn't work > correctly, because the result of "find -name *.deb" is given to "dpkg > --contents" when this processed is finished, but "dpkg --contents" only > allows one more parameter... :( > > Any hints? > > CU, Holger > > P.S.: Or can someone tell me, in which package "msgfmt" is? :) zgrep msgfmt Contents-i386.gz HTH, James
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Re: Kernel 2.2.3
John Leget wrote: > > Hi, > > "depmod -a" > > check out "man depmod" > > cheers Thanks, I'll check that out. -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
Re: searching for files on cdrom
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Holger Mense wrote: > Does someone know how to search the whole cd-rom for a special file, or, > is their a possibility to list recursivly with "dpkg --contents" the > contents of all(!) .deb-files on the cd-rom? I got it myself with help from a friend... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # for X in `find -name *.deb`; do echo $X; dpkg --contents $X | grep file_you_want_to_know; done >list.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # less list.txt ... and then search for file_you_want_to_know. I think it is possible to optimize this, but I am not very good in bash script. Time for reading some docs... ;) > P.S.: Or can someone tell me, in which package "msgfmt" is? :) It's in gettext. CU, Holger -- Holger Mense
dosemu troubles: permissions & a missing cursor
I've run into two problems running dosemu. (1) I can't start dosemu in an X-window or use the modem unless I'm running as root, this despite the fact I have "all c_all" permissions in the user config file. (Before upgrading to v. 98.1 I could run in X, but I'm not sure about the modem.) (2) When I open a session in a 3270 emulator package I use (IBM passport for dos), the cursor becomes invisible. (The cursor is visible when I first fire up the program, before opening a terminal session.) I've looked at video settings for running under X, but I can't see any options that look like a potential fix. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Curt Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel 2.2.3
Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > This is done by 'depmod -a'. In my system (slink) I have modutils package I did that and received a bunch of strange messages for my effort. I took a look at the Changes file that comes with the kernel sources. I a have versions of some packages that are older than what the documentation suggests. I should me receiving my 2.1 disks in the mail pretty soon, so I'll just wait and try again then. I don't really have the time to get apt installed and grab all the packages required for compiling the kernel right now. I'll probably have a few questions at that time, so thanks for the response. -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
Re: Creating a vfat file system
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 01:17:06PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote: > [Please reply to me personally as well as to the list. I don't > usually have the time to keep up with this list.] There is nothing special about VFAT filesystem. You can just create regular FAT16 partition with mkdosfs form dosfstools package. I do not know if there is a way to create FAT32 from under Linux. VFAT is just an extension to FAT that does not require any special formatting, it's just the way directory entries are being created. There is no connection between VFAT & FAT32. I doubt however that the problem will go away. Since Win98 has overwritten /dev/hda6, I suspect that this might be 1024 cyl problem. At least Win95 will corrupt partitions when trying to write past 1024 cylinders. Does you BIOS set up for LBA? How many cylinders linux fdisk is showing? If Win98 shows the number of cylinders - what is it? Another reason may be if you did not erase the first sector of /dev/hda2 after repartitioning with linux fdisk You should do "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda2 bs=512 count=1" before MS format can work. For further help be sure to post the printout of partitions from linux fdisk. > Is there a way within Debian GNU/Linux i386 to make a VFAT file system > on a hard disk partition? > > Background to the question: My laptop came with Windows 98. I > repartitioned keeping the Windows 98 in /dev/hda1. I installed Debian > GNU/Linux on /dev/hda3 with a swap partition on /dev/hda5 and /users > on /dev/hda6. /dev/hda2 was reserved for Windows NT in case I wanted > to use that at work. Eventually I decided to remove NT. I would now > like to use /dev/hda2 as a second VFAT partition. > > I used cfdisk to reset the partition type to Win95 FAT32 (0B), which > is the same type as /dev/hda1. When I started up Windows 98 it found > that the "D" drive was not formatted and I agreed to have it format > that drive. Then Win98 wanted to run Scandisk with the "thorough" > option. I allowed that. It got about halfway through the partition > according to its calculations then went into a tight loop. Apparently > Scandisk was detecting every block as being corrupt and marking them > as corrupt. I think it was Scandisk that had the problem not the disk > itself. > > Next time I booted Linux there were all sorts of errors on /dev/hda6 > of all places. Fortunately /dev/hda3 looks ok. > > Is there a mkfs.vfat or something like it within Debian that I can use > to create the VFAT file system safely? My experience with Microsoft > utilities is not encouraging. I would prefer to manipulate my file > systems under Linux where I have some chance of understanding what is > going on. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Turtle Beach Montego
I called the OSS people recently, and they said they would have a driver by May or June. Anyone know a good, very cheap soundcard I could use until then? On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Scott J. Geertgens wrote: > > >I'd love for someone to prove otherwise, but as far as I know there is > still no driver available for any Vortex or Vortex2 card, which of course > includes the Turtle Beach Montego. > > SJG > > On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Jesse Lee wrote: > > > I have a turtle beach montego sound card. Can it work under linux? If so > > what driver do i use? I have a dual boot macine and by the time you read > > this Hope fully I will have kernel 2.2.3 installed(hopefully reiterated)!! > > > > any info is greatly appreciated (newbie here:) > > > > Jesse Lee (aka Dade) > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Matthew Sachs [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- random fortune quote -- Good day to avoid cops. Crawl to work.
