help recovering damaged linux file system

1997-06-03 Thread Gerry Jensen
I recently tried to install Win95 over a DOS partition hoping it would
leave my Linux partition alone.  It didn't.  Linux starts booting, then
starts spitting out errors.  If I boot from a floppy, then try to mount, I
also get the errors.  Running e2fsck on the partition gives me _many_
messages such as:

Error reading block 172104 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted
in short read) while doing inode scan.  Ignore error? yes

I haven't let it run to completion as it takes many hours and I don't have
confidence that this will fix it anyway.  Is there any hope for this
partition?  If so what?  Or should I just give up now and re-install?  I
have stuff on there I'd prefer not to lose if possible.

Thanks,

Gerry
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Re: smail does virtual domains?

1996-10-10 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Nelson Posse Lago wrote:

> > of the security leaks that appear every day; hopefully qmail/smail are 
> > better or, at least, less popular among hackers.
> 
> From what I know of mailers in general, qmail or smail is still
> susceptable to hacking.  I don't know much in the way of sendmail hacking,
> vs other mailer hacking, so someone correct me if I am wrong.

I don't know much about this either, but according to qmail's web page
(www.qmail.org), qmail was developed to fix the security holes in sendmail
and other MTAs, so it may be worth looking into.

> I think that its more of sendmail getting a bad aura due to its popularity
> in MOST platforms out there...

I think that was Nelson's point. A program that is less popular may be
more secure just because people are much less likely to have had any
previous experience hacking it. 

Gerry

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2 versions of some packages

1996-10-11 Thread Gerry Jensen
Currently, there are two versions of Lyx (one in contrib and one in
section tex). Is there any reason for this? 

Also, there are two version of gs (Aladdin and GNU versions). While I see
the need for two versions here, perhaps they should be named differently
(gs_alladin and gs_gnu both providing gs). Having two versions with the
same name confuses dftp. I don't know if dselect can cope better with this
or not. 

Gerry
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anyone got Crack to work in Debian

1996-10-11 Thread Gerry Jensen
I recently downloaded Crack_4.1 from Sunsite (I couldn't find a Debian
version, there isn't one is there?). When I ran it, I got "Version of
crypt() being used internally is not compatible with standard.
Terminating...". 

Is this true that Debian crypt() is non-standard? Has anyone got this to
work with Debian? It seemed like there might be other things that needed
to be changed to get it to run, but the crypt thing seemed like the most
serious. I did successfully run Crack a year or so ago on a Linux system.
Don't know what's changed since then.

Gerry
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Re: performance cost of modules?

1996-10-15 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, David Puryear wrote:

>   Does anyone know the performance cost of modules? I just
> compiled kernel 2.0.22 without modules and one with modules. I
> noticed that kernel without modules run noticeably faster.

I've never heard of this problem before. What modules are you loading? You
may want to ask about this on the kernel developers list. It could be a
kernel bug. 

Gerry

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Re: Apache 1.1.1 ate my website!

1996-10-22 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Marty Leisner wrote:

> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,   you w
> rite:
> >I know that at least one of the 2.0.x kernels has major problems when
> >running Apache. Sorry, I don't remember which one. So you might want to
> >try another kernel and see if that fixes your problem. 
> 
> I'm running apache on a non-busy system on 2.0* -- never a problem.
> 
> What compiler options are you using?
> 
> My recommendation is use -g -O, run gdb on the core and do a backtrace...
> 
> (source is a wonderful thing to have).

No, it wasn't a problem with Apache, it's a problem with one, or possibly
a few, Linux kernels. I'm not sure if that was the problem of the original
poster or whether it was something completely different.  I never
experienced the problem myself as I never ran that particular kernel. I
only know about it from reading the kernel mailing list. It has since been
fixed though in later kernels.

Gerry

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Re: Keyboard mess

1996-11-04 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Brian C. White wrote:

> > > I am using the latest version of Debian (brand new system installed
> > > yesterday). Is there something to be done to properly set up X?
> > 
> > I found that Debian/XFree86/whoever by default maps both the BS and Del
> > keys to , which is irritating with Netscape and when logging in on
> > other computers.
> > Netscape's problems are partially solved by overriding the  key
> > function to  in /etc/X11/Xresources.. however, still sending a
> >  when I want  to go over the line...
> 
> AR!!!
> 
> Netscape runs _fine_ if you use the Debian installer package!  Actually,
> all you really need to do is point it to the existing XKeySymDB file.

This makes the backspace key work as expected, but the delete key still
does not do what is expected, at least on my system. Both delete and
backspace are mapped to delete and both do the same thing (delete the
previous character). Does your delete key work right (delete the current
char instead of the previous)?

Gerry

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Re: ETA of the new X packages

1996-11-07 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:

> I'd like to hear more about what breaks with 2.0.24 .

Some people have reported that X is slower in 2.0.24. Linus is looking
into the cause.

Gerry

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Re: X S3 bug?

1996-12-10 Thread Gerry Jensen
On 9 Dec 1996, Norman Walsh wrote:

> I'm using the S3 X server and the display doesn't map quite right.  It
> seems to be off by a small number of pixels (leaving a slim vertical
> bar across the far right of the display).  This is sporadic behavior,
> sometimes it "snaps" into proper alignment and sometimes it snaps out.
> 
> Is this a known bug?  Is there a fix?

I've seen this too, but it happens very rarely on my machine. When it
does, usually just switching to a text mode (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and then back to
the X screen (Alt-F7) will fix the problem.

Gerry


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Re: Problems with Talk under Debian

1996-12-25 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Sat, 21 Dec 1996, John Goerzen wrote:

> I have been having problems with talk and ytalk under Linux.  Any help would
> be greatly appreciated!

I had trouble with this too.  I believe one problem is that the host name
of your machine must match the IP address of your machine.  Otherwise,
other talk daemons won't talk to you.  If you are given a dynamic IP
address by your ISP, then it almost certainly doesn't match.  So, you must
set the host name of your machine to match the given IP number after you
establish your PPP/SLIP connection.  You can set it with the "hostname"
command.  I have the following line in /etc/ppp/ip-up to do this for me
automatically whenever I establish a PPP connection: 

  /bin/hostname `/usr/bin/host $4 | head -1 | cut -f 2 -d " "`

Also, reverse name lookup must be set up correctly by whomever is in
charge of your domain (probably your ISP).  Otherwise, you will not be
able to initiate a talk connection, although I think you can still reply
if someone else initiates the talk session with you. 

And lastly, Sun's talk seems to be incompatible with just about every
other OS's talk that I've tried, including Linux.  So, if you're trying to
talk to someone on a Sun, you're probably SOL.  It would be nice if
someone would hack the talk that comes with Linux so that it could talk to
Suns as well.  

Gerry
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Re: Problems with Talk under Debian

1996-12-27 Thread Gerry Jensen
On 26 Dec 1996, Guy Maor wrote:

> Gerry Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > And lastly, Sun's talk seems to be incompatible with just about every
> > other OS's talk that I've tried, including Linux.
> 
> Unless you use ytalk.  ytalk can communicate with both kinds of talk
> daemons.  Unfortunately there is no ytalkd, a talk daemon which could
> communicate with both kinds of clients.

Even using ytalk on Linux, I am unable to establish a talk connection with
the Suns at my school.

Gerry
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On Wed, 25 Dec 1996, Nelson Posse Lago wrote:
> Hi,
> This is a very tricky problem. poppassd is a small app that calls passwd 
> to change the password. Well, it passes some arguments to passwd and 
> expects some responses from it. All very fine. Now, the newer debians use 
> a passwd program that does a few checks on the password. If the 
> new password is too similar to the old one, or if it is too short, or if 
> it has too many repeated characters, etc. it will issue an error message 
> and prompt you for a new (hopefully better) password. poppassd was not 
> desinged to deal with this. It just waits for passwd to issue the prompt 
> "re-enter new password" while password is saying "too simple: try again".
> Try entering a very random, 8 chars password to see if it works. To solve 
> your problem, you must try to find a passwd program that doesn't do these 
> checks (at the expense of security) or hack poppassd to be smarter. I 
> don't know if debian has a simpler passwd program.

I checked to see if this is the problem by logging into the server
directly and changing my password to the same thing I attempted to change
it to with Eudora and 'poppasswd'.  That worked just fine the first time. 

My configuration is Debian 1.2 stable (poppasswd_1.2-4) and Eudora Pro v.
3.0 flailing away on Windoze '95.  The connection just hangs after I
specify the new password for the second time.  The Eudora dialog box just
sits with a 'newpasswd' text. If I look on the server, there are idle
'poppasswd' and 'passwd rcb' processes running.  Also, as expected, typing
in my original password incorrectly will cause Eudora to abort the
operation.  It really appears as if 'poppasswd' itself is just hanging
after it receives the 'newpass' command - this is what I got if I 'telnet'
direct to port 106 and go through the protocol sequence.

Any ideas?

Roy
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Re: what's module net-pf-3?

1996-05-01 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, Michael Harnois wrote:

>   modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-3
>   modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4
>   modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5

I get this too but haven't a clue as to why.  I get this whenver I connect
with either SLIP or PPP.  I'm using kerneld and I thought that may have
something to do with it but I don't know.  Are you by chance running
kerneld too? 

Gerry
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Re: smail 3.1.29.1-22 append_header="..." problem

1996-05-01 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Wed, 1 May 1996, Scott Barker wrote:

> Lars Wirzenius said:
> > Don't do that.  Mail bombing is worse than junk mail.
> 
> But it's not a bomb. You're just helping the spammer along by showing him a
> bunch of examples of other people's junk mail :) You're providing them a
> service, and should charge for it :)

What if the spammer faked his email address.  You could be bombing a 
innocent person.

Gerry


lingering Bash and FTP processses

1996-05-07 Thread Gerry Jensen
Sometimes, a telnet or FTP session to our Debian system does not end
correctly.  I think this usually happens when someone's network connection
dies while they are still connected.  When this happens (I don't think it
happens every time), their shell or FTP process does not die, but lives on
forever until I kill it or the system gets rebooted.  A lingering FTP
process takes little or no CPU time, but a lingering bash process seems to
take up a *lot* of CPU time for some reason.  Each one takes up a little
bit of memory as well. 

Is this a normal thing?  Are others experiencing this?  If so, how are you
dealing with this?  Shouldn't these processes be dying automatically when
their network connection dies?  It is not really a big problem now, but I
imagine it could be in the future as we are getting more and more users on
our system all the time. 

Thanks,

Gerry
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Re: 1.1 X setup default: bs/del don't work with motif apps.

1996-05-10 Thread Gerry Jensen
It's interesting that people are having problems now with Motif apps,
because suddenly, my problems with Motif apps have been magically solved. 
That is, the backspace key now works correctly for both Motif and
non-Motif apps.  Previously, if I wanted the backspace key to work
correctly with Motif apps, I would have to map it to backspace (where the
default was mapped to delete).  But, if I did this, then it would not
work correctly with non-Motif apps because they generally want the delete
key instead of backspace.  There was usually a fix for each of these
non-Motif apps but *each* app had to be fixed individually which was a
pain.  So, I just left the backspace key mapped to delete and used ^H when
using Motif apps.  

Thanks to whoever fixed this.  Please don't change it back to the way it 
was. 

So, if people are having trouble now, and they've previously mapped
backspace to backspace (^H) for Motif apps, try changing the mapping back
to delete and see if this solves the problem. 

Gerry
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On Thu, 9 May 1996, Yves Arrouye wrote:

> The subject says it: none of these keys work with Motif apps on a
> fresh installation. I'm sure some xmodmap commands (though I'm not
> sure which ones, if you can help) would do the trick, but I wonder
> what neither of them is usable by default?
> 
> YA.
> 
> 


Unidentified subject!

1996-05-15 Thread Gerry Jensen
Does anyone know of an easy way to make it so that 
cron.daily/weekly/monthly jobs get executed even if the system is not on 
at the specified time?

For instance, I typically only run my home system an hour or two per 
day.  How could I make it so that the first time I boot my system each 
day, /etc/cron.daily jobs gets run, the first time I boot each week that 
/etc/cron.weekly gets run, and the first time I boot at the beginning of 
a new month that /etc/cron.monthly gets run?  As it is now, these almost 
never get run unless I do it manually.

Thanks,

Gerry
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Re: which..

1996-05-17 Thread Gerry Jensen

On Thu, 16 May 1996, Rob Browning wrote:

> I would say that Debian needs a FAQ for this, but after the new
> release is out it'll be irrelevant.  The upcoming 1.1 release has
> which.  It's just a bash shell script that calls bash's built in type
> command:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> type -path $*

I'm glad "which" is now included with Debian, but I think it would be 
better to use a real program (perhaps borrowed from Slackware) instead of 
the bash shell script.  A problem with the bash script is that it doesn't 
handle shell builtins like one would expect "which" would.  For example:

which test

returns nothing.  While which should return /usr/bin/test on a Debian 
system. 

Gerry


modules/kerneld problem

1996-05-19 Thread Gerry Jensen
I recently upgraded several packages in the unstable directory including the
modules package.  I am running kerneld.  After the upgrade, when I tried 
to execute pppd I get "Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support".  
When I try to do insmod ppp I get:

slhc_free undefined
slhc_init undefined
slhc_toss undefined
slhc_uncompress undefined
slhc_remember undefined
slhc_compress undefined
Loading failed! The module symbols (from linux-1.99.5) don't match your 
linux-1.99.5

I suspected the problem might have been the new /etc/conf.modules file so
I put the old one back.  After rebooting, it worked again as before.  But,
for some silly reason I didn't believe it was a problem with the new
/etc/conf.modules and moved the new one back over the old one that was
working.  Now I have the same problem again.  Are other people having this
problem?  I can still do "insmod slhc ; insmod ppp" and have things work,
but it's not loaded automatically by kerneld anymore apparently because
some dependency information is wrong. 

Any thoughts anyone?

Gerry
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where is dftp 1.5?

1996-05-20 Thread Gerry Jensen
I remember seeing a *long* time ago that dftp 1.5 had been uploaded to 
the Debian FTP site.  Yet, I still only see 1.4.  What happened to 1.5?

Gerry
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Re: PPP problem w/ 1.1 install

1996-05-29 Thread Gerry Jensen

On Tue, 28 May 1996, Nils Rennebarth wrote:

> Never compile PPP into the kernel. Always compile it as a module and load
> it via /etc/modules. This is because slhc.c says it needs to be compiled
> as a module and ppp relies on it.

I have ppp compiled into my kernel (not as a module) and it's working fine
for me.  I believe you have to answer 'No' to 'Set version information on
all symbols for modules' in order for ppp to work correctly this way
though. 

Gerry


Re: Multiple pp configurations

1996-06-05 Thread Gerry Jensen

On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Shawn Asmussen wrote:

>   I use my debian machine for connecting to the internet via ppp,
> however I also want to set it up to use the ppp access at work (We're
> behind a firewall at work, so I can't just connect to my ISP and telnet to
> work.) I can configure it for either way, but it seems kind of unwieldy to
> reedit the hosts file and the resolv.conf file and etc each time I want to
> log into one or the other. What's the best way to set it up so that I can
> be properly configured for whichever one I want to dial into at the time.

There probably isn't a reason to re-edit the hosts file.  Just list all
the hosts you want in your hosts file.  As for the resolv.conf files, you
could have 2 files (resolv1, resolv2), then make 2 script files to start
your PPP connections for each ISP.  At the start of each have a line like: 

cp /etc/resolv1 /etc/resolv.conf
  or
cp /etc/resolv2 /etc/resolv.conf

However, you may want to try just putting both nameservers into a single
resolv.conf and just trying that.  I have a similar situation and both
providers' nameservers seem to provide name service no matter which
provider I'm connected to.  If one will not provide service when you're
connected to the other ISP, and that namerserver is the first one listed
in resolv.conf, then the first will time out and the second will kick in. 
But this will be quite slow. 

Gerry


Re: Problem with telnet login

1996-06-11 Thread Gerry Jensen
I remember seeing in the kernel mailing list that pre2.0.13 breaks
incoming telnets.  Are you by chance using this kernel? 

Gerry
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 On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Brian Sulcer wrote:

> I recently upgraded one of our machine's base packages and other packages
> to the latest 1.1 versions.  Now when attempting to telnet to the machine,
> a connection is established, the issue file is printed and then we see this:
> 
> You must exec login from the lowest level shell.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> Anyone have a clue on what might be the cause of this?  Any suggestion
> would be helpful.  Thanks.
> 
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Re: FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

1996-06-12 Thread Gerry Jensen

On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Michael Meskes wrote:

> Sven Rudolph writes:
> >   4.  Packages that someone is working on
> > 
> >   Programs listed in this section aren't yet available as Debian
> >   packages, but someone is working on providing a package.
> >   [...]
> >   o  Xemacs
> 
> Has been released a while ago.

Really?  Where is it?

Gerry
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Re: routing problem solved

1996-06-12 Thread Gerry Jensen

On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Rick Hawkins wrote:

> Under the beta releases with 1.3.9x, the following file is created:
> 
> #!  /bin/sh
> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> route add 127.0.0.1
> IPADDR=129.186.31.38
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> NETWORK=129.186.31.38
> BROADCAST=129.186.31.255
> GATEWAY=129.186.31.254
> ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
> route add -net ${NETWORK}
> route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
> 
> these last two lines simply aren't working with the variable names.  I
> added 

The reason the last "route add -net ${NETWORK}" is not working is that it
is expecting a network address (ending in .0) and it is getting a host
address instead.  In the above example, change the "NETWORK=129.186.31.38" 
line to "NETWORK=129.186.31.0" and things should work.  If this is indeed
getting created this way by a Debian script, it needs to be changed
immediately.  I don't think 0.93 had this bug, so perhaps people 
upgrading from that release won't experience this problem.

Gerry
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No terminal capabilities after upgrade

1996-06-14 Thread Gerry Jensen
HELP!  I just upgraded to Debian 1.1 from .93.  Now whenever I try to
run anything that requires any terminal capabilities, I get something
like "xterm: unable to find usable termcap entry", or "Terminal type
vt100 is unknown".  I have ncurses-base-1.9.9e-1,
ncurses-bin-1.9.9e-1, and ncurses3.0-1.9.9e-1 all successfully
installed.  Strangely, I had an /etc/termcap file which belonged to no
installed package (by running dpkg -S /etc/termcap) on the system.
Does anyone have any idea what might have gone wrong?

Thanks,

Gerry



Re: No terminal capabilities after upgrade

1996-06-14 Thread Gerry Jensen

> HELP!  I just upgraded to Debian 1.1 from .93.  Now whenever I try to
> run anything that requires any terminal capabilities, I get something
> like "xterm: unable to find usable termcap entry", or "Terminal type
> vt100 is unknown".  I have ncurses-base-1.9.9e-1,
> ncurses-bin-1.9.9e-1, and ncurses3.0-1.9.9e-1 all successfully
> installed.

I solved my problem, but I still don't know the cause.  Re-installing the
above 3 packages restored my terminal capabilities.  This is strange
because it had shown that they were all successfully installed before.  I
also installed libc4, libc5-dev and ncurses-developer before re-installing
the packages which may have had some effect (but probably not).

>  Strangely, I had an /etc/termcap file which belonged to no
> installed package (by running dpkg -S /etc/termcap) on the system.

Still don't know where this termcap file comes from.  It's also on my
Debian system at home and also belongs to no installed package.

Gerry
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where's Xforms?

1996-06-16 Thread Gerry Jensen
I see that the xforms library is listed in the Packages file under section
x11.  But, when I look under the x11 subdirectory, I don't see it.  Does
anyone know what happened to it? 

Gerry
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xbiff: cannot convert to type Pixmap

1996-06-16 Thread Gerry Jensen
I recently upgraded our system to 1.1.  Now, when I run xbiff, I get:

Warning: Cannot convert string "flagup" to type Pixmap
Warning: Cannot convert string "flagdown" to type Pixmap

And a silly pixmap of shelves or something is shown instead of the
mailbox pixmap.  I had this same problem on my home system when I upgraded
some time ago, but the problem was solved by adding some other packages.
I *thought* the packages I needed to add were aout-xpm and xcompat so I
installed these packages but it hasn't solved the problem this time.  Does
anyone know what other package I need to add to make xbiff display the
pixmaps properly?

Thanks,

Gerry
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mc requires gpm

1996-06-16 Thread Gerry Jensen
When trying to run mc (Midnight Commander) I get:

mc: can't load library 'libgpm.so.1'

Gpm is only listed as suggested under mc.  However, since mc won't even
run without gpm, shouldn't mc be changed to depend on gpm rather than just
suggest gpm?

Gerry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


Suggestion: ncpfs should not depend on ipx

1996-06-17 Thread Gerry Jensen
I downloaded ncpfs.  It depends on ipx.  However, ncpfs will work fine
without the ipx tools if you are running the Mars netware server and you
set it up to configure your ipx network.  In fact, the ipx package will
break your ipx configuration if you are using Mars to configure your ipx
network.  So, I suggest that ipx is only suggested for ncpfs instead of
ncpfs depending on ipx. 

Gerry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


Re: xbiff: cannot convert to type Pixmap

1996-06-18 Thread Gerry Jensen

> > I recently upgraded our system to 1.1.  Now, when I run xbiff, I get:
> > 
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "flagup" to type Pixmap
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "flagdown" to type Pixmap
> > 
> > And a silly pixmap of shelves or something is shown instead of the
> > mailbox pixmap.
> 
> Strange.

The problem was really trivial.  Xbiff just couldn't find the flagup and
flagdown bitmaps.  The package that contains xbiff (xcontrib) does not
have these bitmaps (I think it should though). xdevel does contain these
bitmaps. After installing xdevel, all works again. 

Perhaps this should be reported as a bug.

Gerry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


Re: mounting other file systems (novell & afs)

1996-06-18 Thread Gerry Jensen

>Re your need for Novell connectivity, I'm acquainted with two
> packages of interest (neither Debianized yet):
> 
>ncpfs (Netware Core Protocol Filesystem) makes your Linux box a
> Novell client.  I got version 0.21 running with minimial hassle last
> week, on my 0.93R6 box; I think the code's up to 0.24 now---it's a
> fast-moving target.  I can read and write disks, which is everything
> desired; I'm a happy camper.  An old LSM entry is:

Ncpfs *is* available as a Debian package.

Gerry


Re: Novell-Internet question

1996-08-01 Thread Gerry Jensen

On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Michael Meskes wrote:

> Gerry Jensen writes:
> > This is a problem for your NT machine, not the Linux machine.  If you have
> > a valid Internet IP address for the Linux machine, then the NT machine
> > needs to be set up to act as a router for the rest of your LAN and then
> > the Linux machine would be on the Internet.  Or, if you don't have a valid
> > IP address for the Linux machine, then you need to set up the NT machine
> > to act as a firewall and a proxy server.  I'm not familiar at all with NT
> > to know what software is available or included with that OS to do either
> > of these.
> 
> So it doesn't matter whether it's a Novell net or anything else?

Correct.  A Novell (IPX) network and a TCP/IP network can co-exist on the
same physical network.

Gerry




Re: PPP not in kernel?

1996-08-03 Thread Gerry Jensen

On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Berntsen wrote:
> 
> > I've now recompiled the kernel, and I answered yes
> > to PPP support in 'make config'.
> > I've also installed the PPP package.
> > Anyway, when I now try to use pppd, I get an error
> > message saying that PPP is not supported in the kernel.
> > What's wrong with my setup?
> > 
> As far as I know, PPP must still be compiled as a module, not built-in.
> Try M instead of Y for your response. It should work then.

I don't believe that it's ever been true that PPP must be compiled as a
module.  PPP can be built into the kernel as long as you answered 'N' to
"Set version information on all symbols". If you answered 'Y' to this,
only then must PPP be built as a module. 

Gerry



Re: Questions

1996-08-05 Thread Gerry Jensen

On Fri, 2 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>   I am installing debian linux from CDROM.
> My CDROM is panasonic CR-562 CDROM. I select
> the "sbpcd" module. Is that correct? When the system
> boots, the busy light in CDROM flashes. But when I use
> "dselect", it ask me the block device name. How do I answer it?
> And when I use "mount" command, it doesn't show CDROM is mounted.
> What's happened?

Read the CDROM-HOWTO.  It has the answers to all your questions.

Gerry



Re: Real Audio

1996-08-12 Thread Gerry Jensen

On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Christian Lynbech wrote:

> I upgraded to 2.0.0 and found much to my pleasant surprise that my
> soundblaster card had started to work. Then I upgraded to 2.0.6 and it
> stopped working again (I haven't had time to properly report it yet,
> so I haven't the error message at hand but it was something about
> allocating an IRQ). Downgrading back to 2.0.0 fixed things.

Although this might not be your problem, there is a major bug with the
sound driver (at least with Sound Blaster16) in some of the 2.0.x kernels
(sorry, I don't remember which ones).  I think 2.0.0 is ok, and it may
have been fixed by now in the latest 2.0.x kernels but I don't know.  The
usual effect is that it completely locks up your system the 2nd time the
sound module is loaded (or autoloaded via kerneld).  This can be fixed by
not including MIDI support in the sound driver when compiling your kernel
(of course if you need MIDI support you're SOL).  Like I say, this *may*
have been fixed by now in the latest 2.0.x kernels.

Gerry




Re: UncorrectableError from two disk sectors

1996-08-13 Thread Gerry Jensen

On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Douglas Bates wrote:

> `dmesg' shows a lot of messages about two sectors on my disk.  For
> example
>  hda: read_intr: error=0x01 { AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=1097170, 
> sector=48787
>  hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
...
> 
> Should this be a concern?  What action would be recommended?
> 

I also get this.  It's lead to several system crashes.  I would recommend
you back up.  If possible, post that you are getting these messages along
with the output from dmesg to the linux-kernel mailing list
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) so as to give the developers as much
information as possible to figure out where the problem is. 

I have a 1.5g Maxtor hard drive.  My motherboard has the Intel Triton
chipset.  Do we have anything in common here?  I'm currently running
2.0.11 but have had this with other 2.0.x kernels as well. 

Regards,

Gerry





Re: cdplay & sound.o autoloading

1996-08-20 Thread Gerry Jensen

On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Derek Lee wrote:

> I have been seeing something strange on my system. The autoloading of
> the sound module works most of the time. The problem is with the CD
> playing programs (cdplay from cdtool 1.0 or workman). They do not send
> a request the sound module to kerneld. But they work if the module has
> been loaded at some point in the past. In fact, they would continue to
> work even if the sound module has been removed from the kernel!

Playing audio CDs does not use the sound driver.  However, unless the
sound card has been initialized, you will not be able to hear audio CDs
through your soundcard (you can probably hear them if the speakers are
plugged directly into the CD player though).  The sound card is
initialized when the sound module is first loaded. After that, audio CDs
will still play even if the sound module is removed because the card has
already been initialized and that's all that's needed.

You could play a sound clip upon bootup or when you login to initialize
the card.  Perhaps just putting something like 
"modprobe sound ; rmmod sound"  in a boot file would do the trick too. 

Gerry



Can domain names have a dash (-)?

1996-08-22 Thread Gerry Jensen
Recently, another company approached us requesting to take our domain name
from us.  They claim they have it trademarked which we haven't really
investigated yet.  Anyway, if we do have to change our domain name, we
might want to change it to 'opti-med.com'.  Does anyone know if it is
legal to have a dash (-) in a domain name?  If it is legal, could any
problems arise from it's use (like confusing mail readers)? 

Gerry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

PS: Sorry, I know this isn't a Debian-specific question, but I thought I'd
ask here because I know Debian users are the smartest, most coolest guys
(and gals) around.  :)



hard drive problem - cannot mark bad blocks

1996-08-22 Thread Gerry Jensen
Recently, I posted that I got these errors with my hard drive:

hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2342358,
sector=2342294
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01, sector 2342294

It also crashed on occasion.  Running "e2fsck -cvf /dev/hda1" didn't fix
the problem.  At Bruce's suggestion, I tried running the badblocks
program.  It found 48 bad blocks.  I then ran "e2fsck -l BadBlocksFile
/dev/hda1"  where BadBlocksFile was the output from running badblocks. 
Everything appeared to worked great for a while after that.  I did a
complete backup of the hard drive without getting any of these messages
(previously, I got many of these errors during backups and sometimes a
crash).  Running the badblocks program after that did not turn up any bad
blocks. 

I then left town for a few days.  When I came back, we were once again
getting these messages.  I tried doing the same fix as before.  Running
badblocks revealed the same 48 bad blocks as before.  However, now after
running "e2fsck -l BadBlocksFile /dev/hda1" the problem still persists. It
appears that the bad blocks aren't being put in the list of bad blocks for
the filesystem.  But, running "dumpe2fs /dev/hda1" shows that those blocks
are indeed marked as bad blocks! 

Any thoughts on what could be happening and what I could try next? 

Thanks,

Gerry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



Re: ipfwadm?

1996-08-22 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Anyone here on the Debian-L know the secrets of using the ipfwadm
> utility to set up masquerading?  I've built a kernel with the proper
> options but I'm concerned about whether I'm really masquerading, or
> just forwarding packets.  How do I prove it?

[stuff deleted]

> So, I ran tcpdump on wb2oyc while doing this.  Sure enough, there I see
> packets sent from the Web host directly to the address of the laptop (!)
> which is assigned the address in the 192.168 reserved space and shouldn't
> ever get thru my ISP's router!  In other words, I was not masquerading for
> its address; I don't think.  Bummer!  Worse, my ISP is not stopping those
> packets.

I doubt that is really what is happening.  Even if you are sending packets
out onto the Internet from the reserved address (i.e. masquerading not
working), a site on the Internet would have no way of knowing how to route
packets back to the reserved address.  My hunch is that masquerading is
indeed working for you and that you're just misinterpreting the output
from tcpdump. The masquerading is perhaps translating to the reserved
address before you are seeing the output from tcpdump so it looks as if it
is really routing directly to the reserved address which is impossible. 

I've seen the behavior you describe though (that it can only access some
of the sites that the firewall machine can access directly).  Some things
that helped fix things for me were:

* Turn on "IP: always defragment" in the kernel configuration if you
  haven't done so.  
* Make the MTU settings the same on all sections of the link.  If you're
  connected to your ISP via PPP/SLIP, and the laptop is connected via
  ethernet, set the MTU of the PPP/SLIP link to 1500 because that's what
  is the default for ethernet.  (You may be able to lower the MTU of the
  ethernet link to what your PPP/SLIP link is too, but I've always done
  it the other way).

Actually, either of the above tips by themselves may fix the problem as I
think they are essentially doing the same thing.

For what it's worth, this is how I set up masquerading on my machine, but
I know there are several ways to do it.  The way you are doing it sounds
like it is working.

  /sbin/ipfwadm -F -a masquerade -S 192.168.100.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0

Good luck,

Gerry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



Re: Fix for your serial/PPP problems

1996-08-25 Thread Gerry Jensen
> I've been trying it for over 24 hours, and I must say I'm quite impressed.
> PPP  performance has really increased. It is streaming for long periods 
> without
> interruption. And no kernel Ooops or no problems.
> Seemingly no problems...
> Can anyone confirm these subjective enhancements ? I mean my PPP connection
> might just be better by other means...

To test if you're actually seeing improvement with irqtune, I'd try
transferring a large file between your machine and the machine you're
connected with (or a machine that's only a few links away) before
installing irqtune.  Note the transfer rate.  Do this a few times to get
an average as each time will vary a bit.  Then load irqtune and try
transferring the same file again several times and see if there's any
substantial improvement in the average transfer time. 

After I saw the original post about irqtune here, I decided to ask about
it on the kernel list.  Linus is looking into it now.  Apparently, irqtune
only helps with some (probably buggy) interrupt controllers.  Below is
Linus' reply along with a kernel patch that *may* possibly have the same
effect as irqtune on systems where irqtune does make a difference.  On my
system, I see no improvement whatsover with irqtune.  But, others have
seen substantial improvement.  Someone told me he saw some improvement but
at the cost of slowing down his SCSI drive.

Gerry

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On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Russell Berry wrote:
> 
> I got this, installed it on both my machines (home/work), and can see a 
> marked 
> increase in ppp performance.  However, I'm concerned about interrupt 
> priorities, 
> does this effect _ONLY_ the timer interrupt priorities, or does it actually 
> tweak
> the way the kernel interprets all system interrupts???

I don't like the fact that irqtune helsp interrupt performance, because the
way Linux tries to handle interrupts it _shouldn't_ make a difference. The
fact that irqtune obviously _does_ make a difference would indicate that the
irq handling has some problem, and irqtune just masks that problem by
changing the interrupt priority levels. 

Essentially, Linux does a "EOI" immediately when it gets the interrupt, and
that EOI _should_ mean that all other interrupts will get through, regardless
of whether they have lower or higher priority (because the EOI tells the
interrupt controller that it can forget about the interrupt that we're now
handling).  As such there should be no effect from irqtune, because the
interrupt priorities shouldn't really matter. 

However, Linux uses the "nonspecific" EOI to do this, and while that should
work, it may turn out that some interrupt controllers don't like it, and for
some reason mask the wrong interrupt. People who see a difference with
irqtune, could you test this patch instead (it changes the low-level
interrupt handlers to use the "specific" EOI to tell the controller that that
specific interrupt is now handled). 

I'd be very interested in reactions to this patch indeed, can you please 
try it out and tell me whether this makes any difference?

(This is against 2.0.14, but it should patch in cleanly against just about
any reasonably recent kernel. Certainly all of the 2.0.x series)

Linus

--- v2.0.14/linux/include/asm-i386/irq.hSun Mar 10 09:28:56 1996
+++ linux/include/asm-i386/irq.hFri Aug 23 08:18:12 1996
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
  * a bit - without them it seems that the harddisk driver won't work on
  * all hardware. Arghh.
  */
-#define ACK_FIRST(mask) \
+#define ACK_FIRST(mask,nr) \
"inb $0x21,%al\n\t" \
"jmp 1f\n" \
"1:\tjmp 1f\n" \
@@ -90,10 +90,10 @@
"outb %al,$0x21\n\t" \
"jmp 1f\n" \
"1:\tjmp 1f\n" \
-   "1:\tmovb $0x20,%al\n\t" \
+   "1:\tmovb $0x60+&qu

Re: "Netiquette" of requesting package updates

1996-08-25 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, David Sewell wrote:

> As a new Debian user who migrated from Slackware, one of the
> few things I find a comparative disadvantage is being dropped
> back to earlier releases of certain programs.

If you have not done so, you might want to check out the unstable
directory to see if there's a more current version of the program(s) you
need there.

Gerry



Re: Fix for your serial/PPP problems

1996-08-25 Thread Gerry Jensen
Linus' attempt to fix the serial/interrupt problem that some systems
experience is now in the 2.0.15 kernel.  For those of you that are using
these systems where irqtune does makes a difference, try this new kernel
and see if it has the same effect.

Gerry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



Re: Fix for your serial/PPP problems

1996-08-25 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote:

> Linus' attempt to fix the serial/interrupt problem that some systems
> experience is now in the 2.0.15 kernel.  For those of you that are using
> these systems where irqtune does makes a difference, try this new kernel
> and see if it has the same effect.

Maybe this was bad advice.  I'm seeing a lot of people on the kernel list
are having problems with this kernel.  Beware.

Gerry



Re: Irqtune: some stats (was Fix for your serial/PPP problems)

1996-08-27 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Philippe Troin wrote:

> Test I was done on a 2.0.14 kernel with a 100kb nul file (dd 
> if=/dev/zero...)
> Test II was done on a 2.0.14 kernel with irqtune and a 100kb nul file.
> Test III was done on a 2.0.15 kernel with a 100kb nul file.
> Test IV was done on a 2.0.15 kernel with irqtune and a 100kb nul file.
> Test V was done on a 2.0.15 kernel with a 100kb random file.
> Test VI was done on a 2.0.15 kernel with irqtune and a 100kb random 
> file.

> I  IIIII IV V  VI
> Count Time Rate  Time Rate  Time Rate  Time Rate  Time Rate  Time Rate
> --
> Avg.  59.17 1.7  36.66 2.7  58.53 1.7  34.60 2.9  57.09 1.7  26.93 3.7
> Dev.  10.32   5.18   9.15   6.31  11.58   0.05
> 
> The figures are quite clear. Irqtune really improves my serial 
> performances, even with kernel 2.0.15 (see previous messages, 2.0.15 
> included a patch which might have helped serial performance).
> What I don't understand is why a file consisting of zeros only do not 
> get the same transfer rate as a random file. 

If I understand your data, you're saying you get a much faster
transfer rate with the random file over the all-zeros file, right?
This is very bizarre.  The random file and a file consisting of all
zeros should *not* get the same transfer rate on any modern modem
which does hardware compression (most do).  The all zeros file should
get a much faster transfer rate than the random file.  The reason is
that it is not possible to compress a random file so the best transfer
rate possible would be the line speed (28.8 kbs for a 28.8 modem).  A
file of all zeros is easily compressible so you should do much better
(theoretically 115200 kbs for a 28.8 modem which does hardware
compression but in practice probably much less).

Are you sure your numbers are right?  If so, perhaps you're still
getting overruns even with irqtune, but now much less.  But the
all-zeros file is getting transferred so fast (because of the
compression) that it is seeing many more overruns than the random file
and correcting the overruns is slower than just transferring the file
at the slower rate that the random file is being transfered at.

> I suspect an obscure PPP problem.

I suspect you're right.  Have you set up PPP to use hardware flow
control?  Have you enabled hardware flow control with your modem init
string (it may be the default anyway)?  Are you setting the port speed
to 115200?

Another possibility is that your 16550A UART is not what it claims to be. 
With a non-buffered (8250) UART, I've seen this kind of behavior of faster
transfers actually becoming slower because of the overruns.  I suspect
that irqtune would have much more of an impact on that type of UART as
well.

You might want to try using a communications program like minicom and see
what kind of transfer rates you get there.  This might help isolate
whether it's really a serial problem or a PPP problem. 

Gerry




Re: I'm looking for a demo user ...

1996-08-28 Thread Gerry Jensen
> > - How do you manage updates? 
> > I've copied the debian distribution to CD. How to perform any updates,
> > when you cannot change the files on CD. Is it possible use a second
> > distribution on the harddisk, where I put only the files I want to
> > upgrade? 

> Sure.  I use the mirror program (in the mirror package, in the net directory
> on the FTP sites) to download a fresh copy of the Debian distribution
> every once in a while, then one can update the packages from there,
> either directly, using 
> dpkg -i package.deb
> or through dselect, setting the access method to a mounted hard disk.

Another method that I like to use is Brian White and Robert Browning's
dftp program.  There's a new version currently in the Incoming directory
that's much faster than the older version.  It downloades the Packages.gz
files for the directories you're intersted (e.g. stable, contrib,
non-free) and presents you with a list of packages.  These are placed in
various sections: new upgrades, downgrades, new packages, ignored
upgrades, and ignored packages.  You then select the packages you want 
and dftp downloads and installs them.  This makes it very easy to have
your Debian system 100% current all the time and you aren't downloading
packages that you aren't going to install.

Gerry




Re: Irqtune: some stats (was Fix for your serial/PPP problems)

1996-08-28 Thread Gerry Jensen
> Just at a guess (and I don't know ppp internals that well), it
> might be PPP escaping the zero as a control character.  If the
> software had to handle the escape sequence for "N thousand"
> nulls, it might bog it down a bit, and those escape sequences
> might themselves take up more space, as they often do.  Really,
> though, I can't see that accounting for the difference on a
> modem that does compression.  The compression should be more of
> a factor than escaping every character even, assuming it IS a
> compressed link.
> 
> I don't know if PPP even escapes nulls.

You set up what characters you want escaped (in the receive direction) in
the /etc/ppp/options file (or ~/.ppprc) with the "asyncmap " option. 
 is a 32 bit hex number with each bit representing a character to
escape.  "asyncmap 0x" will escape no characters which is what one
would want in the general case (8-bit clean line, hardware flow control). 
If you omit the asyncmap option, *all* control characters (0-31 decimal)
are escaped.  So forgetting to put in the asyncmap option will slow down
your PPP connection by about 12.5% (if my math is correct) for random
data.  Transfering a file of all zeros should make your connection twice
as slow if your modem is not doing hardware compression.

Gerry




Re: joe and lynx on a short terminal

1996-08-29 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:

> On 28 Aug 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> 
> > Probably a terminfo problem. Your terminal may have auto-wrap (auto-margins)
> > and terminfo says it doesn't, or vice verse. Also make sure that you do
> > have the right terminfo entry: if you set term to "linux" its terminfo
> > entry says it has 25 lines.
> > 
> This bring up another issue. This terminal obviously has special needs. Is
> there a way in /etc/profile (or somewhere else) to set up the proper
> conditions based on the terminal rather than the user? That is, can I
> determine at login time what tty is being used and set the proper
> conditions reguardless of the user logging in?

I have this in my .bash_profile to set my terminal to vt320 if I'm
calling in on the phone which I rarely do anymore::

TTY=`tty`
case $TTY in
  /dev/ttyS?) TERM=vt320 ;;
esac

Actually, this brings up yet another issue.  vt320 doesn't seem to be
supported anymore (or maybe it never was on Debian, I don't know). If I
try to use vt320 I get: 

Cannot open termcap file
  vt320 not builtin

  or

Unknown terminal.

Does Debian support vt320?  I see there is a vt320 file under
/usr/lib/terminfo/v/vt320.  Am I doing something wrong?

Gerry



Re: caffiene-free netscape

1996-08-31 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, David Morris wrote:

> The browser works fine, but I can't get any java applets to work. I have
> the setting set right and used the package setup that Brian put together,
> but something still isn't working. I don't receive any errors when I aim
> at a page that I know has an applet on it, it just doesn't work. The
> applet space is blank.

A possibility is that you're not waiting long enough.  In my experience,
it looks like the page is loaded (Netscape will indicate that the document
is loaded) and there is just a blank where the applet is supposed to run,
but in reality, either the applet is still loading or it is just taking a
long time to initialize or whatever.  The delay will probably be longer if
you do not have a lot of RAM as the applets seem to use lots of memory. 

Gerry



Xemacs: -f function doesn't work

1996-09-11 Thread Gerry Jensen
I recently tried Xemacs for the first time from the rex directory tree.
While for the most part I like it better than regular Emacs, I can't seem
to get the command-line switch -f to work. Under Emacs, I would do:

emacs -f auto-fill-mode filename 

to start in auto fill mode.  The same thing in Xemacs doesn't work though.
Anyone know why?

Thanks,

GerryUtah   17
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Utah State 20  Go Big Blue!



Re: apache package

1996-09-11 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Stoyan Kenderov wrote:

> you may want to know, that the package version  1.0.5-1 gives me
> on an ordinary machine, ordinary setup a lot of "oops"

What kernel are you using? I know there is a bad kernel which causes
apache to have big problems. I think it is 2.0.15 but don't remember for
sure. I think 2.0.13 and 14 are reasonably good. Try one of those and see
if your problem goes away.  I think 2.0.15,16,17 are not very stable and
should be avoided. 

Gerry



Re: HELP: Probs configuring X

1996-09-17 Thread Gerry Jensen
> There's a good document on making these adjustments.  On a Slackware
> system, it's /var/X11R6/lib/doc/VideoModes.doc; don't know where it
> hides on a Debian system.

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/html/VideoModes.html

Gerry



Re: HELP: Probs configuring X

1996-09-17 Thread Gerry Jensen

> Yes. The blank signal after the horizontal sync may be to short for
> your monitor. 
> You have to edit the file /etc/X11/XF86Config.
> Increase the fifth number of the modeline by about 32. 
> (You can experiment which value yields the best result.)
> An example:
> Assume the modeline in question looks like this:
> Modeline "800x600" 70 800  876  1020 1164   600  600  618  625 +hsync 
> +vsync
> then increase this number -->

The program "xvidtune" may be of benefit here to help you tweek these
values.

Gerry



Re: Swap partition and fdisk

1996-09-21 Thread Gerry Jensen

> > I have got 16MB of RAM on my machine. Could someone tell me if it would
> > still be necessary for me to create a Linux swap partition. 
> 
> The terse form of the formula is:
> 
>   swap needed = total memory need - physical memory size
>   
> (Forget everything about "twice physical size". That is an evil
> prank that people play on the uneducated rich who have bouth
> 512 MB of RAM.)

While it may be untrue that you *need* twice the physical memory size, I
believe it's true that twice the physical memory size is about the limit
of what you can effectively use if you need it. That is, if you have 4 MB
of RAM, a 128 MB swap is pretty much a waste. If you ever do anything in
that scenario that needed much more than about 12 MB total memory, your
system would become so slow as to be unusable. 

Similarly, if you had 32 MB RAM, 64 MB swap may be usable if you ever
needed it. For a single user system, this would probably never be the
case. But for a system with many users, it is quite possible. Therefore,
if disk space is plentiful on your system, I always would allocate around
1.5 to 2 times the amount of physical RAM for a swap just in case you need
it some day.

Gerry



Re: /dev/ttyS1 root only.....

1996-09-21 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Ed Down wrote:

> I'm trying to configure my modem and, as recommended in the Serial-HOWTO,
> I've been using kermit to test it out. Problem is that /dev/ttyS1, which
> is the serial port my modem is on, seems to only allow root access. Anyone
> recommend a fix? Also any tips on mgetty setup would be appreciated.

You need to have read/write permission to the device. I did a "chgrp
dialout /dev/ttyS1" (you must do this as root of course). Then "chmod 660
/dev/ttyS1" (don't remember if this was necessary or if the permissions
were already that way). Then add your username to the dialout group in
/etc/group. I think you may need to log back in after you make these
changes. You should then have access to that port. 

Gerry



Re: can't seem to get internalmodem running

1996-09-25 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:

> ${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/cua2 ${AUTO_IRQ} skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS}
> 
> If so, you need to change it to this:
> ${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/cua2 ${AUTO_IRQ} skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS} 
> spd_vhi
> 
> Or you could be more brute-force about it and simply do this:
> ${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/cua2 irq 4 skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS} spd_vhi

This stuff is in the file /etc/rc.boot/0setserial on Debian systems. 
Modify it to suit your system. 

Also, you need to make sure you have no IRQ conflicts with other devices.
A few programs may work fine in DOS/Windows with IRQ conflicts, but
probably things will not with Linux.  First off, I would try the AUTO_IRQ
option as Susan mentioned. But if you have problems, then I would suggest
investigating whether you have IRQ conflicts. 

Typically, IRQ 4 is used for COM1, so it probably should not be used for
COM3. COM2 usually uses IRQ 3. IRQs 5 and 7 are usually safe to use for a
modem on COM3 or COM4. However, if you have a sound card, it probably uses
one of these so you'll need to find out which one it uses then use the
other one for your modem. Generally, IRQs are changed on an internal modem
with jumpers. Look in your modem manual for details (sometimes the cards
are labeled too). Then modify /etc/rc.boot/0setserial appropriately.

Gerry



Re: Anyone got a microcom working with diald?

1996-09-25 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Paul Christenson [N3EOP] wrote:

> To use 115200, you need to use setserial on the port with the spd_vhi
> flag, and tell diald/pppd to use 38400.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the spd_vhi flag is
really necessary anymore for most programs. The spd_hi and spd_vhi flags
were a hack when most programs only supported speeds up to 38400 while
some modems were beginning to be available that could support higher
speeds. Most programs now support speeds up to 115200 directly. I know
pppd does.

Gerry



Re: Setting up Mail Services, Linux, Emacs, and ppp.

1996-09-26 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, alan davis wrote:

> I am able to send mail to distant sites fine, but mail to
> addresses at the domain of my ISP usually fails, from within Emacs
> (but seems to work from within Pine, at least some of the time).
> Actually, mail sometimes gets out from emacs to local addresses
> too.  Invariably, when sending mail to the same domain, I receive
> a message from the "mailer-daemon" that the recipient cannot be
> located; even so, _some_ of these messages are received by the
> recipients, and I haven't successfully separated out the variables
> that are responsible.  

Perhaps it is a network configuration problem. Can you ping the machines
that you are unable to send mail to from Emacs? If not, I suspect the
problem is with your ISP, not with your configuration.

Gerry


Re: ppp with pap woes....

1996-09-30 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Sat, 28 Sep 1996, Christopher L. Cousins wrote:

> at the command line.
> 4.  Dials in fine.  connects. authenticates.
> then hangs up.

The /etc/ppp/options file that comes with Debian contains the options:

lcp-echo-interval 30
lcp-echo-failure 4

This caused my connection to hang up at some random time after connecting.
Removing these options solved the problem. The "-detach" and "lock"
options may also be useful if you have another program that might try to
use your modem (e.g. mgetty).

Gerry

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cfingerd and .plan question

1996-10-02 Thread Gerry Jensen
This is probably a dumb question, but with cfingerd 1.2.2-3, I can't get
it to display my .plan file. I've made it world readable and the
configuration is supposedly set up to show .plan files (as the default).
However, I always get:

   Plan:
   This user has no plan.

Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks

Gerry
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postgresql support broken in php4 (testing)

2004-09-04 Thread Gerry Jensen
I have a PHP script I run from the command line
(rather than from a web page) that accesses a
PostgreSQL database.  I've used it for over a year
without a problem.  Today I upgraded all my packages
against the testing distribution.  Now when I try to
run my script, I get:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function:  pg_connect()
...

I'm not sure if php4 and/or php4-pgsql were among the
packages upgraded (is there a package install history
file located somewhere?).  php4 version is 4.3.8-9 and
php4-pgsql is 4.3.8-1.  Any help is appreciated.




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