Stable hamm & PCMCIA network cards...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have one Toshiba Portege 610CT (Pentium 90MHz, 24M memory, 512M disk and broken LCD) with 3c589C PCMCIA network card. I installed stable release into it and hoped that it would run as smoothly as all previous releases. However at least one problem that I seem to face is that when system is booted up, you won't be able to access it remotely until you run "/etc/init.d/network start" manually. What needs to be fixed ? - -- Juha Ylitalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hiomo 5/1/Maisema http://wwwinhel.ntc.nokia.com/~jylitalo +358 9 511 23313 http://www.iki.fi/~jylitalo Both WWW locations have pgp.html file for public PGP keys. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNdfOCH0Uf7d7m5h1AQFxgQP+KtOyAzTBj6XbjmeU1APTECrmtn92YUj1 PvJJctD31NzKbeaA3Asc14LBUS/R68ELtL3t+yC8bbXAYnvAs4wYHbUtsl6FKYBD wcVCN8yFW4sjKHylHbJWWPJhOZHHFB9qFV0xBfBDAfqN88aWGScv7lGDo94n5JRv w3PPu4KQuRo= =J9dV -END PGP SIGNATURE-
LPRng and banners...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I am trying to setup Linux printer spooler for our UNIX machines with latest stable debian and its LPRng and CTI-ifhp filters, all taken from debian packages (except 2.0.35 kernel, which I compiled myself to get automounter work). Basic printing appears to be working without any problems to my test printer, which is HP's Laserjet 4Si with IP address. Only problem is that when people are doing pretty massive printing, you need some real banners to those print jobs. So far only banner that I've managed to create has been " User: jylitalo Host: foobar.at.somewhere.com Class: A Job: brief.ps " in pretty standard text format regardless what I have in my printcap. To give you some idea about what I've been trying, here is copy of my latest printcap:" h51mps|rlp :[EMAIL PROTECTED] :sd=/var/spool/lpd/h51mps :fx=flpv # :if=/usr/lib/CTI-Print/bin/ifhp :of=/usr/lib/CTI-Print/bin/ofhp :vf=/usr/lib/CTI-Print/bin/ifhp -c :sb@ :bp=/usr/lib/CTI-Print/bin/psbanner.sh :ps=/tmp/foobar.status # :mx#0 # :sh " I've also tried to use banner.sh instead of psbanner.sh, but no visual effect :( All help would be preciated, because this would be first Linux machine in some critical position in our department. - -- Juha Ylitalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hiomo 5/1/Maisema http://wwwinhel.ntc.nokia.com/~jylitalo +358 9 511 23313 http://www.iki.fi/~jylitalo Both WWW locations have pgp.html file for public PGP keys. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5.3 iQCVAwUBNgDqxn0Uf7d7m5h1AQFs9gP+ILQf/V0TVXWYHQFJdYX1XFiBRvv5GDb2 V74vpmFDw68kq0BZqJygqtNsolfuUccHhk8wBUDEwYJtqhuY8pac8vowjuCqwYYA poli6p4ChNgcp6Xln1xU+f1LtcGK8OLe/veXN+8xwYFCM7v/MalBkMVAHLEoItrB cvaRn49h4Zo= =vEOR -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Swap Distribution
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 19:33, Vineet Kumar wrote: ... > debian's maintenance and upgrade facilities blow everything at redhat > out of the water. Completely. In the redhat world, a reinstall is SOP. > With Debian, you'll never have to reinstall. Upgrades just work. While I am using Debian in my server at home, I've upgraded bunch of RedHat Linux machines from 7.3 to 8, 8 to 9, 9 to Fedora Core 1 with apt-get (that has been compiled for RPMs) without any major problems. Of course, you can do RedHat Linux upgrade with bood floppies/CDs, but there has been easier ways for while... > > read that debian use apt, how long did debian keep support?, RedHat keep > > releasing uptades for 5 years for each version. > > I don't know where you get that figure. This: ... > I haven't been paying all that close attention, but I'm pretty sure 9 > wasn't released in 1999, nor even 8.0 for that matter. I guess he was referring to RedHat Enterprise Linux. http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/ says following: Stability 12-18 month release cycle and five years of support for every version. [end of quote] Downside in RHEL is that you have to pay those yearly fees, but thats the price you have to pay, if you want/need to run Oracle or some of the other close source applications, which they only support on specific Linux distributions, or you need to be certain that your platform is supported for next five years. Debian doesn't give you similar guarantees, since it all depends on how long some volunteers are willing to maintain old versions from their packages. Most common reply to this kind of comments is that you can always buy similar support for Debian, but www.debian.org/consultants doesn't list any big companies like IBM, etc. that could guarantee global support. Even www.progeny.com, which probably has some kind of support for Debian, doesn't have any figures which system administrator could use for making some rough calculations on expected expenses, when they make purchase orders. For these reasons, redhat.com provides convening one-stop service point, where you can purchases all that you need for next x years. -- Juha Ylitalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] +358 40 562 6152 http://www.iki.fi/jylitalo "Some tools are used, because its policy, others because they are good." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: where is wish ?
On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Hubert FAUQUE wrote: > I have tried > make xconfig > to generate a new config file for the kernel but it gives an error >wish not found > Could somebody tell me what is wish and in which package it is? You need tcl/tk packages. In plain english its tk41 and that file (tcl75 ?) which is requests for dependencies. One useful way for tracking down needed packages is to download those Contents files and then grep for program that you wish to get, i.e. grep wish Contents on Debian distribution would have pointed out tk40 and tk41 as packages which have it. -- Juha 'Ylis' Ylitalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] +358 0 511 23313http://www.helsinki.fi/~jylitalo "True friendship is never serene." - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
Re: [Fwd: Virus Alert]
On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Robbie Honerkamp wrote: > > I remember reading about this several months ago. It was the opinion > > of most people at the time to be just a joke. Anyone know for sure > > if it is anything other than a joke? > > Not true. You can't get a virus from reading an email message. Actually this is something that can be disputed quite lot, but thankfully its not something that would happen while using Debian/Linux. Just to point out, what I mean by that is that one of the most common ways that I know for passing around all those macro viruses, that now exist in M$-Word and Excel, will quite heavily spread around throught M$-Mail or about any other mailer that supports easy interface for adding those documents or spreadsheets as attachments. -- Juha 'Ylis' Ylitalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] +358 0 511 23313http://www.helsinki.fi/~jylitalo "True friendship is never serene." - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
PPP and kernels
I guess best way to describe my current status with Debian is that I am
still in process of moving to Debian from system that was originally based
on Slackware 3.0.
Anyway. I installed Debian 1.1.4 without too many problems and got
everything basically working (fvwm95, emacs and PPP as most important
pieces). At that point, I wanted to compile my very own kernel and
downloaded Linux-2.0.13 sources and compiled it. All seemed to go
beatifully, but for some reason it broke my PPP.
Reason why I am asking this here instead of some generic Linux groups is
that when I copy that linux 2.0.13 image to my old slackware partition and
boot it, PPP works just beatifully. While on Debian side, only way to keep
things working beatifully is by sticking on boot disk.
To give you more exact view about problem, here is sort of description
about problem and below is configuration file that was used on kernel
compilation.
Quote from my ppp-on script:
pppd /dev/$DEVICE $SPEED
echo "Started pppd" 1>&2
IP=""
while test "$IP"x = "x"
do
echo "Waiting for IP address" 1>&2
sleep 1
IP=`/sbin/ifconfig | /usr/bin/grep -1 ppp0 | /usr/bin/grep "inet addr"|\
/usr/bin/awk '{print $2}'| /usr/bin/awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"} {print $2}'`
done
While running this on Slackware or with boot disk, it usually goes around
something like 3-4 times before information gets into ifconfig. With my
2.0.13 on debian, I wait 25 lines and cancel it at that time. Once I tried
rsh command from other virtual console and got response that network was
unreachable.
Now to the Linux kernel part:
#
# Automatically generated by make menuconfig: don't edit
#
#
# Code maturity level options
#
# CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is not set
#
# Loadable module support
#
CONFIG_MODULES=y
# CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set
# CONFIG_KERNELD is not set
#
# General setup
#
# CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set
CONFIG_NET=y
# CONFIG_MAX_16M is not set
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y
CONFIG_M586=y
#
# Floppy, IDE, and other block devices
#
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_ONLY is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set
#
# Networking options
#
# CONFIG_FIREWALL is not set
# CONFIG_NET_ALIAS is not set
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_FORWARD=y
# CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set
# CONFIG_IP_ACCT is not set
# CONFIG_IP_ROUTER is not set
# CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set
# CONFIG_INET_PCTCP is not set
# CONFIG_INET_RARP is not set
# CONFIG_NO_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY is not set
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
# CONFIG_IPX is not set
# CONFIG_ATALK is not set
# CONFIG_AX25 is not set
# CONFIG_NETLINK is not set
#
# SCSI support
#
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
# CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR is not set
# CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS is not set
#
# SCSI low-level drivers
#
# CONFIG_SCSI_7000FASST is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1740 is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_IN2000 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AM53C974 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_BUSLOGIC is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_DTC3280 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_DMA is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_PIO is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_FUTURE_DOMAIN is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C406A is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_PPA is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_PAS16 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_FAS is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_ISP is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_SEAGATE is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_T128 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_U14_34F is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_ULTRASTOR is not set
#
# Network device support
#
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=y
# CONFIG_EQUALIZER is not set
# CONFIG_PLIP is not set
CONFIG_PPP=y
# CONFIG_SLIP is not set
# CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not set
# CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET is not set
# CONFIG_TR is not set
# CONFIG_ARCNET is not set
#
# ISDN subsystem
#
# CONFIG_ISDN is not set
#
# CD-ROM drivers (not for SCSI or IDE/ATAPI drives)
#
# CONFIG_CD_NO_IDESCSI is not set
#
# Filesystems
#
# CONFIG_QUOTA is not set
# CONFIG_LOCK_MANDATORY is not set
# CONFIG_MINIX_FS is not set
# CONFIG_EXT_FS is not set
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
# CONFIG_XIA_FS is not set
# CONFIG_FAT_FS is not set
# CONFIG_MSDOS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_VFAT_FS is not set
# CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS is not set
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
# CONFIG_ROOT_NFS is not set
# CONFIG_SMB_FS is not set
# CONFIG_ISO9660_FS is not set
# CONFIG_HPFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_SYSV_FS is not set
# CONFIG_UFS_FS is not set
#
# Character devices
#
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
# CONFIG_DIGI is not set
# CONFIG_CYCLADES is not set
# CONFIG_STALDRV is not set
# CONFIG_RISCOM8 is not set
# CONFIG_PRINTER is not s
Re: Netscape Library Error
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Eric Liu wrote: > Problem: Typing 'netscape' yields > netscape: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' You are probably missing xpm4.7. Its among standard packages in section x11. FVWM* are also needing this package, so in that sense its worth of installing. -- Juha 'Ylis' Ylitalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] "True friendship is never serene." - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
Re: Netscape Library Error (netscape without .deb)
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Jean Orloff wrote: > 1) I have /usr/local/bin/netscape as a script: > > #! /bin/sh > # netscape startup script, to get around uggly config problems > > XKEYSYMDB='/usr/local/lib/netscape/XKeysymDB'; export XKEYSYMDB > XNLSPATH='/usr/local/lib/netscape/nls'; export XNLSPATH Do those XKeysymDB and XNLSPATH really provide something useful or have you used them only because they are provided ? Reason for wondering this is that for sometime, I used to untar those netscape packages and copy only netscape image to /usr/local/bin. Later I have started to copy that java_30 to /usr/local/lib/netscape, even though I have Java as disabled. Anyway, so far I haven't got any error messages and I am using pretty much default Debian package (compiled FVWM '95 and done some work on Xresources, but only for Xterm and Emacs). -- Juha 'Ylis' Ylitalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] +358 0 511 23313http://www.helsinki.fi/~jylitalo "True friendship is never serene." - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
Babel 3.6-4 (from ftp.lh.umu.se unstable section)
I've had problems concerning babel 3.6-4. When I try to install it through dselect, I get following problems with it: Setting up babel (3.6-4) ... Building new format(s) with babel support using install-fmt-base(8) Rebuilding `latex' format ... done Rebuilding `tex' format ... kpathsea: Running MakeTeXTFM manfnt.tfm Running MakeTeXPK manfnt.tfm mf \mode:=nullmode; mag:=1; scrollmode; input manfnt \ ...=nullmode; mag:=1; scrollmode; input manfnt Please type another input file name: ! Emergency stop. <*> ...=nullmode; mag:=1; scrollmode; input manfnt Transcript written on mfput.log. Metafont failed for some reason on manfnt.tfm kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. If I let it run without interruption, it will create nice swapping and also fill my filesystem with one of its logs. strace shows that it definately goes into endless loop. Any advises how to get around it ? (gzip -dc Contents.gz | grep manfnt.mf didn't produce anything as its output) As some other issues, it seems that you need to have at least one *deb file in binary, non-free/binary and contrib/binary directories or dselect stops. This happens even if I haven't selected any files from those directories (the whole issue came up, because I have to download stuff to my own disk first and install it from that, since I doubt if dpkg's own ftp supports ftp gateways (even ncftp needs nowdays patching for it :(). I guess thats all for now... -- Juha 'Ylis' Ylitalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hiomo 5/1/Maisema http://sam.ntc.nokia.com/~jylitalo +358 0 511 23313http://www.helsinki.fi/~jylitalo "True friendship is never serene." - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
Re: What is fvwm-95 and where can it be found
On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Jim Worthington wrote: > What is fvwm-95 and where can it be found? From the name, it sounds > like it might emulate the Windows95 four button window format. Is this > the case? Yes, its bit modified fvwm2. All modifications have been done towards Windows '95 appearance. fvwm2 usually name taskbar as only improvement, but there is also one new focusing mode, fvwm menus stay active bit longer and there are those four buttons on each window title. > Where is fvwm-95 located and what is it's developmental status. http://ltiwww.epfl.ch/~barth/fvwm95.html is their official WWW page. Considering debian, situation is currently such that someone is creating package about it, but it hasn't yet reached unstable level (or just haven't been mirrored to the sites that I check). However it seems to be reasonably easy to compile, if you don't mind doing some minor work for it. -- Juha 'Ylis' Ylitalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hiomo 5/1/Maisema http://sam.ntc.nokia.com/~jylitalo +358 0 511 23313http://www.helsinki.fi/~jylitalo "True friendship is never serene." - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
Unsubscribe from this list...
What used to be nice WWW interface for handling all the crap like subscribing and unsubscribing from list, seems to be now broken, and I definately can't handle current volume of this mailing-list (would need system that supports threads etc.), so if postmaster is among readers, please unsubscribe me from this list. -- Juha 'Ylis' Ylitalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] +358 0 511 23313http://www.helsinki.fi/~jylitalo "True friendship is never serene." - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
Heimdal in more than one host...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My home network currently has 3 Debian machines (running frozen potato) and I've been trying to setup Heimdal's (version 0.2l-7) Kerberos 5 realm to work between those machines. Once I figured out that heimdal's packages don't create correct /etc/krb5.conf file for me, it was relatively painless to get everything working within KDC machine. However once I wanted to add more hosts into realm, I found myself in trouble, because I was unable to figure out how I am supposed to get correct /etc/krb5.keytab files to non-KDC machines. KDC machine has all things nicely, because I gave add host/some.thing in KDC machine. After surfing around in web and trying to modify bits and pieces that I found from there, I started to wonder if I would have to give myself "get" priviledges in /var/lib/heimdal-kdc/kadm5.acl, so that I would be able to get host keys, when using ktutils and kadmin from remote machines. Even though that kadm5.acl is appearantly supposed to be file, where you simply can't do things in wrong way (you just add name and wanted priviledges), it didn't seem to work for me... (or at least kadmin kept on telling me that I have "none" privileges, when I was trying to use it with anything else than "kadmin -l" in KDC host) Any advices from Kerberos users on how to make those keytab tables so that they would be correctly setup between KDC and other hosts? - -- Juha Ylitalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] UPS 3/4 B427 http://wwwinhel.ntc.nokia.com/~jylitalo +358 40 562 6152 http://www.iki.fi/~jylitalo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine iD8DBQE43+nts9o7tOc1jEMRAoOBAJ4hC5lajtNU81837Q36eJIO9PX2DwCfVBkd RHLiXwyyu/qymV+7mCQXi8Q= =2Tnq -END PGP SIGNATURE-
