Re: Official Exim 4 package
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 08:05:38 + (GMT), Rus Foster wrote: >I'm trying to find an exim 4 package for woody. Googling turned up Fetch yourself the source of one of the Exim 4.x packages from here: >http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl? keywords=exim&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all and recompile it under Woody. Shouldn't be much of a problem, I suppose. -- L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
psaux.o not compiled as a module?!
Hi there, all of a sudden I've got a strange problem. I'm trying to compile 2.4.20-rc2 with XFS, where psaux should be compiled as a module: CONFIG_MOUSE=m CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y However the psaux.o module is not created?! This NEVER used to be a problem... Does anyone know what could be going wrong? I wasn't able to find anything on Google... Thanks, Ralf -- L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: psaux.o not compiled as a module?!
On 17 Nov 2002 19:58:01 +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: >> all of a sudden I've got a strange problem. I'm trying to compile 2.4.20-rc2 >> with XFS, where psaux should be compiled as a module: >> >> CONFIG_MOUSE=m >> CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y >> >> However the psaux.o module is not created?! This NEVER used to be a problem... > >Thats because the PSMOUSE code is compiled into the "MOUSE" modul IIRC. >Try this instead: > >CONFIG_MOUSE=y >CONFIG_PSMOUSE=m > >That may give you psaux.o (untested). I don't think that would help. Unless the menuconfig menu logic is broken my defs are ok -- I answered "m" to include the mouse driver as a module, and "y" to include the PS/2 mouse driver (this obviously goes into the same module because the "mouse drivers" selection is on a higher level.) -- L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: psaux.o not compiled as a module?!
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 11:04:54 -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: >> all of a sudden I've got a strange problem. I'm trying to compile 2.4.20- rc2 >> with XFS, where psaux should be compiled as a module: >> >> CONFIG_MOUSE=m >> CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y >> >> However the psaux.o module is not created?! This NEVER used to be a problem... > >Perhaps mousedev.o is what you are looking for. This is what 2.4.19 >uses for a ps/2 mouse driver. This file simply isn't there. The only "char" files I have are "serial.o" and "softdog.o." Apart from these modules there's only block, cdrom, ide, net, pnp, and sound modules. All this is happening under VMware (altho I don't think it matters.) The strange thing is that my gpm and also X mouse suddenly are working again, after I rebooted. In /proc/devices it says "char devices: 10 misc," but this is probably due to softdog watchdog support that I included in the kernel. There isn't a module loaded with a name that suggests it supports mice. :-( Remember that I configured mouse support NOT to be compiled into the kernel, but to be compiled as a module. Also, I'm not exactly a newbie so it's definitely not a user error. The only explanation I've got is that the driver WAS included into the kernel altho I instructed it to be compiled into a module. That would be a problem with the kernel source (configure logic.) To verify this I manually changed the two statements above to read: >> CONFIG_MOUSE=m >> CONFIG_PSMOUSE=m I will have a go at it, and should this turn out to be the problem I will report that here. -- L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: psaux.o not compiled as a module?!
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:40:43 +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote: >On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 01:28:49PM +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: >> This file simply isn't there. The only "char" files I have are >> "serial.o" and "softdog.o." Apart from these modules there's only >> block, cdrom, ide, net, pnp, and sound modules. > >I wonder, if it ever was there. It was there. I'm not halluscinating. ;-) http://www.informatik.uni-siegen.de/softdocs/howto/Module-HOWTO-11.html But it seems that it has been a while when I last spotted that module, BECAUSE: http://ken.bantoft.org/code/linux/600e/rc.modules :-) >If I read the help for "Mouse support" correctly, then: >Note that the answer to this question won't directly affect the >kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all >the questions about non-serial mice. If unsure, say Y. You're right. >IIRC there was a time, when you could compile psaux as module. Then it >merged with the keyboard driver, so you could only activate psaux or >not. There was no module anymore. But this was long ago, I think, it >happend in 2.1.x. Absolutely. >Shade and sweet water! Thanks for the good wishes. :-) May the f^Hsource be with you. ;-) -- L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: psaux.o not compiled as a module?!
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:55:59 -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: >It shows up here as >/lib/modules/2.4.19-686/kernel/drivers/input/mousedev.o This is a different file, namely to support mice driven via the input device (read "USB mice.") -- L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Somewhat) [OT]: PGP/GPG keysigning party in Aachen, Germany
Hi there, this might be interesting for Debian developers and users in and around Aachen, Germany. There will be a PGP/GPG keysigning party some time in February. If you are interested in participating, please sign up on the mailing list that will be used to coordinate the party and to announce the exact time and place where the meeting will be held. The URL to subscribe is: http://mail.lkt.uni-erlangen.de/mailman/listinfo/pgp-party Thanks, Ralf -- L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (Somewhat) [OT]: PGP/GPG keysigning party in Aachen, Germany
On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 15:52:20 +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: >There will be a PGP/GPG keysigning party some time in February. If you are I forgot to add the URL where you can get more info about PGP/GPG and the "party" itself (in German only, sorry): http://www.ccac.rwth-aachen.de/keysigning_party/ -- L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where did "rexec" go???
Hi there, it seems that there's still rexecd (note the trailing "d") available, but rexec has gone?! Where is it, why was it removed?! I need it for an old script of mine (please, no comments about the insecurity of rexec, I'm well aware of this fact.) Thanks, Ralf -- L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unexplained shutdown/restart: 2.2.9 kernel
First, no reason to worry! On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 09:17:10 -0400 (EDT), James D. Freels wrote: >I am getting unexplained system shutdowns at arbitrary times. Also No shutdowns! Or have you actually observed them yourself? I mean have you been sitting at the console watching the machine go down? >the system clock is being changed when this unexplained shutdown / >restart occurs. This is best demonstrated by the following entries in >my /var/log/messages file (Debian 2.1) > >Jun 9 06:55:21 fea -- MARK -- This is just a "still-alive" message from syslogd. You can safely ignore it (or stop it by specifying "mark.none" for /var/log/messages). >Jun 9 06:58:01 fea exiting on signal 15 >Jun 9 05:01:33 fea syslogd 1.3-3#31: restart. This is just produced by a daily script that trims the logs. To do this you have to stop syslogd/klogd, trim the logs, then restart both. If you trimmed the logs while the two daemons are still running they wouldn't be able to create/append to the logs anymore. Again: I don't think there is a reason to be alarmed. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: port redirection
On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 01:46:56 -0700, Nate wrote: >> I use statements like >> >> ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $EXT_IP pop-3 -R $INT_IP pop-3 > >ipmasqadm is a potato thingy. I'm still doing slink. Do you know how Ooops. Sorry. Can't you just upgrade the necessary packages Debian 2.1 level? >I can accomplish this with slink and kernel 2.0.36? I'm still >trying stuff out with ipfwadm. Does this sound feasible? To the best of my knowledge port forwarding wasn't available in stock 2.0.x kernels. There MIGHT however be a patch to provide port forwarding, but I don't know whether it really exists. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: port redir progress (more questions)
On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 19:53:11 -0700, Nate wrote: >Is there anything wrong with the following rule? > >ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 192.168.1.4 http -R 192.168.1.1 http You should invoke it as "-L www -R www" It probably doesn't matter whether you use "www" or "http," both are in /etc/services, but your ip addresses seem wrong. If you are connected to the internet your firewall can't/doesn't have an external ip address of 192.168.*.*. This is a reserved IP address for machines behind the firewall. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Enter mail, end with a single ".".
On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 16:12:59 +1000 (EST), Jiri Baum wrote:
>Rolf Edlund:
>> Sometimes when trying to send mail, I get these message (sendmail -q -v):
>>
>> 354 Enter mail, end with a single ".".
>> >>> .
>>
>> And it just sits there, doing nothing ?
[...]
>3) you do know that this is a server, and that user-friendly mail programs
>exist, don't you?
I think you don't get the point.
He is trying to empty sendmail's queue, i.e. send pending messages to the
receiver-MTA.
The above quoted message ("Enter mail") is a message that the receiver-MTA
issues during the SMTP dialog. Obviously something went wrong, like the
connection timed out.
A typical dialog looks like this:
helo foobar
mail from<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
rcpt to:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
data
.
quit
The above message ("Enter mail") is being issued by the receiver-MTA after
the "data" command has been issued.
HTH.
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Re: Enter mail, end with a single ".".
On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 23:47:06 +1000 (EST), Jiri Baum wrote: >> I think you don't get the point. >> >> He is trying to empty sendmail's queue, i.e. send pending messages to the >> receiver-MTA. > >So he is. My mistake. > >Why is the sending MTA attempting to send a blank message, then? (If that's >what it's trying to do?) May be an idea to check in its spool directory >whether the relevant message-ID is corrupt in some way. As I said, this need not be the case. It could simply be that the connection times out, and that the receiver-SMTP therefore still expects something from the sender-SMTP. >> A typical dialog looks like this: >> >> helo foobar > >Shouldn't that be "helo my.host.com" ? Well, sure, I was just giving an example. I don't have the specs (RFC) handy, but I think you should give your domain, not your hostname. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Enter mail, end with a single ".".
On Thu, 08 Jul 1999 22:22:54 +0200 (CEST), Rolf Edlund wrote: >On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Rolf Edlund wrote: > >Have now found out, that my problem has something to do with mail size. > > 250 SIZE 2097152 > >>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=6697 > 250 2.5.0 Address and options OK. > >>> RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 250 2.1.5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK. > >>> DATA > 354 Enter mail, end with a single ".". > >>> . > >That mail won't send. But a small mail (like this), will be sent without >any problem ? What you are trying to do is send an empty message, i.e. even without headers. This is not valid. You MUST at least provide something like From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: To the best of my knowledge this is the minimum you have to send during an SMTP dialog. I can't look it up at the moment, however, since I don't have the time to do so. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: ssl-certificate --force problems
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 04:04:11 -0700, Nate wrote: >Still trying to get apache-ssl working properly. > >I'm trying to see if creating a new certificate will help. > >When I type ssl-certificate --force I get the error: >/usr/sbin/ssl-certificate: ssleay: command not found > >I have /usr/doc/ssleay and /usr/lib/ssl/lib/ssleay, but no >command 'ssleay.' Maybe linking "ssl" to "ssleay" does the trick? I don't know, just a quick guess... -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Quick Question
[...] > > What I am trying to do is have my home computer on and connected to > >a separate line, and be offline. Then if I need something from my computer > >from work or somewhere else besides home, I can dial my home number, the > system > >will see an incoming call, the start the ppp/pon so I can telnet, ftp, web, > >to my machine. Kinda like diald in reverse. > It's mgetty. You need to update your inittab to run mgetty on boot ( or > when edited just run a : init q :) reread init tab ;) and that's all ) > Setup up to listen /dev/ttySx ( x=0,1, => com1, com2 in dos ). More > information /usr/doc/mgetty > Debian almost configured to handle incoming calls ;) just update inittab :) > And it will start automatically pppd ;) That's all. I fear you haven't understood what he wants to accomplish. He DOESN'T want to dial into his machine, but he wants HIS MACHINE to dial into the internet when he rings the phone once.
Re: Modprobe Question
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998 17:02:38 -0500, Mike Acklin wrote:
>Sep 24 16:49:02 debian modprobe: can't locate module pf-4
>Sep 24 16:49:02 debian modprobe: can't locate module pf-3
>Sep 24 16:49:02 debian modprobe: can't locate module pf-5
Those are harmless warning caused by the kerneld(?) trying to load "rotocol
amily 3, 4, or 5." It's about support for AppleTalk networks and such.
Following a quote from usr/src/linux/Documentation/modules.txt:
>You could add these lines as well, but they are only "cosmetic":
>
>alias net-pf-3 off # no ax25 module available (yet)
>alias net-pf-4 off # if you don't use the ipx module
>alias net-pf-5 off # if you don't use the appletalk module
> Does this have something to do with the serial port being
>passed to the ppp0 port?
No (the question doesn't make much sense, either ;-)
>Sep 24 05:25:34 debian inetd[959]: getpwnam: nobody: No such user
Probably inetd tries to look up the user "nobody," which is missing in your
/etc/passwd. You probably should create an entry like the following:
nobody:*:65535:100:nobody:/dev/null:
I'm not sure about the user-id. Either it's 65535 ("-1") or 65534 ("-2"), I
don't know. The incorrect choice can be a security risk (concerning NFS(?)) but
I don't remember the details.)
Be VERY cautious when editing your /etc/passwd. You can easily f*ck things up
so that you can't log in anymore.
Ralf
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Re: Debian Installation Problem
Stefan, On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 02:54:32 +, Stefan D. Schwarz wrote: >I guess the Debian Installation program that lets you select the >selections is located somewhere on my system, so I simply have to start >it again and pick the proper choice this time - I've been searching for >it, couldn't find it, though... I think dselect has some severe limitations, to put it friendly. Myself I'm very fed up with it. I'm a Linux user since 1991, and Hamm is my first contact with a distribution other than SLS/Slackware. I had to face a load of problems since I installed Debian, and I'm really considering dropping it in favor of something that actually works. Sorry for these harsh words, but if there is something that must be idiot proof it's the installation system. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Re: SB16 PnP
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 20:46:10 +1000 (EST), Shao Ying Zhang wrote: > I rebooted with the new kernel and everything seems fine. Did you do a "make modules_install"? > virge:/usr/src# insmod sound >insmod: sound: no module by that name found Try "insmod /lib/modules/...", i.e. use the complete path to the module. I don't know what's wrong with your setup, usually you don't need the complete path. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Re: Debian Installation Problem
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 11:21:12 +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: >Debian is harder to install then other distribution. Hear, hear. And I thought it's only "idiots" who fail installing it.... :-} -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Re: Debian Installation Problem
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 11:26:00 +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: >>> "RGRB" == Ralf G R Bergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >RGRB> Sorry for these harsh words, but if there is something that must be >idiot proof >RGRB> it's the installation system. > >Maybe it is a selection filter to prevent us from users who don't know >where RETURN is or what the dselect HOWTO is ;-) Did YOU make it past this filter? In this case you probably can easily answer how to make dselect aware of BOTH "main" and "contrib" (or even "non-free"), can't you??? >BTW: I really don't want idiots to run debian. Thanks for your kind words, you really made my day. :-} -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Re: SB16 PnP
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 21:55:01 +1000 (EST), Shao Ying Zhang wrote: >Could anyone tell me where I did wrong? Well, you DID do a "make modules", did you? A "make zImage" or "make zlilo" JUST gets you a new kernel!! -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Re: permissions of hosts.*
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998 08:07:26 -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: >> What should be the permission bits of the hosts.* files >> (hosts.allow, etc, etc). > > >hmm... well on MY system...all of them are: > >-rw-r--r-- > >Works for me. Any reasons NOT to have this the case? No. The perms are perfectly alright. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Re: Debian Installation Problem
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 08:56:28 -0500, Bruce Walzer wrote: [...] >I agree with part of this. DO NOT waste your time fiddling with dselect, you Thanks Bruce. I almost felt like an idiot fighting with dselect. :-( >Most recently when faced with the same situation as you I just installed >apt and used that to finish up the installation using apt-get. It went very >well. Will do! >Once you get a Debian system installed for the first time the ease of >maintaining it really does blow the other dists away. Short term pain, long >term gain :-) Well, this *is* the reason why I wanted to try Debian. I think once I'm thru with this hell I'll be a happy Debian user. :-) Thanks, Ralf -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Re: Kernel 2.2.1: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument ?
On Tue, 09 Feb 1999 15:02:36 -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > route add -net 127.0.0.0 > > Its the route command thats generating the "SIOCADDRT: Invalid >argument". I'm up to date with potato, (I got the kernel deb from >there) so what could this be? The kernel automatically sets the route to the interface. Remove the above line, and all will be well again. :-) -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
ipportfw under kernel 2.2: Could not open /proc/net/ip_portfw
Hi, I need to get IP port forwarding working ASAP on my 2.2.1-ac5-kernel system. However I'm new to the 2.2.x masq and/or port fw stuff and I can't find a solution to my problem myself. The installed version of ipportfw is 1.11-7, ipfwadm's version is 2.3.0, and ipchains' version is 1.3.8, 27-Oct-1998. This is the rule I'd like to establish: ipportfw -A -t /21 -R 192.168.1.1/21 I compiled support for IP masquerading and port forwarding into modules, and I've loaded them: Server:/usr/doc/ipmasq# lsmod Module Size Used by ipip4872 0 (unused) ip_masq_user2608 0 (unused) ip_masq_mfw 2992 0 (unused) ip_masq_ftp 2216 0 (unused) ip_masq_autofw 2196 0 (unused) ip_masq_portfw 2232 0 (unused) [...] However if I execute the above ipportfw line I get ipfwadm: setsockopt failed: Protocol not available Why does it say "ipfwadm"? "string" suggests ipportfw does NOT call "ipfwadm" but that it's a message that ipportfw itself prints to the console. If I execute "ipportfw -L" I get Could not open /proc/net/ip_portfw Indeed, there ain't such a file. Can it be that I have an incorrect version of ipportfw installed that doesn't work with 2.2.x kernels? There's another problem I've just discovered: Altho IP masquerading seems to work fine (I can surf the web and ping other hosts,) I can't seem to be able to send mail (I sent this message by telnetting into a Unix host I have an account on.) Each time I contact our SMTP server it tries to run the AUTH service on my gateway host. Even if I allow the service to be run the message is not accepted. HOWEVER if I manually telnet into the SMTP server and deliver my message this way, it DOES work. What's going on??? Hope someone can help me Ralf -- Ralf G. R. Bergs, Welkenrather Str. 100, 52074 Aachen, Germany | Team +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax), e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OS/2 Earth is flat, pigs can fly, and nuclear tests are safe. --- Greenpeace.
Re: trouble booting from CD
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 12:34:12 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >However, at this point, the machine hangs. Is there anything I can do to get >around this problem? (I tried Loadln with the file from the cd and got the >same results.) Obviously you don't have a problem booting from CD, but you have a problem with THAT particular kernel. Try a different kernel. I *think* there is a special kernel for laptops (it might be on the source code CD, which is also bootable.) Ralf -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Re: loadlin...
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 16:45:12 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Partition check: > hda hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 > >VFS: Cannot open root device 08:02 >Kernel panic VFS: Unable to mount root rs on 08:02 > >If someone could explain the meaning of this message I'd appreciate it. >Note: I have / partition at hda6 already configured. Root device "08:02" means major 8 (SCSI hd), minor 2, which is equivalent to /dev/sda2. This is the root filesystem the kernel tries to mount. Start loadlin like this: loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 (If that doesn't work look into loadlin's docs. I'm not sure anymore whether you can pass the "cleartext" root filesystem name, or whether you have to specify major/minor 0306 for /dev/hda6.) Ralf -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Re: make-kpkg funny
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:58:24 -0700 (MST), Bob Nielsen wrote: >I just compiled 2.2.2 using make-kpkg (kernel-package 6.07) and using the >command 'make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image' it created a file > >kernel-image-.._custom.1.0_i386.deb > >Where does make-kpkg get the kernel version? Makefile shows: > >VERSION = 2 >PATCHLEVEL = 2 >SUBLEVEL = 2 >EXTRAVERSION = > >I'm a bit afraid to install, as I get a message that it wants to put the >modules in /lib/modules/.. > >Any ideas as to what went wrong here? NOTHING went wrong. It was YOU yourself who told make-kpkg to use the Debian(!) version no. "custom.1.0". The part after "kernel-image-" in the filename should contain the Linux kernel version no. And what's wrong about /lib/modules? This is the place where the modules belong, after all. :-) -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Re: make-kpkg funny
E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > Read the mail again. Instead of 2.2.2 for the kernel-version, he gets > `..'. This is no good. Sorry, I misunderstood him. I thought he used ".." as an ellipsis to indicate that he left something out.
Re: A question about HP DeskJet 710C
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 13:18:33 -0600, Matt Garman wrote: [...] >I believe the 710c is the same series of the 712c. I accidentally >bought a 712c, which _IS_ a Windows-only printer. I returned it for a >697c, which I'm very happy with, and works great under Linux. You're right. According to the HP US web site the two only differ in that the 712C doesn't come with a CD-ROM. One interesting note: The German website says the 710C is a "HP PCL 3 Enhanced" printer! See http://www.hewlett-packard.de/printer/ink/dj710p.html Strange, eh? -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Re: fetchmail doesn't put email...
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 20:52:49 +0100, Jens Ritter wrote: [...] >fetchmail delivers to your MTA (Mail Transport Agent --- read smail, >sendmail, exim, whicheveryouuseplacedhere). The MTA is responsible for >placing the mail in the right place. > >> What do I need in my ~/.fetchmailrc file to make it put the mail >> in the right place? > >You have to install an MTA. Paul obviously doesn't have one installed. That leads to the question: Is the fetchmail package broken in that it (erroneously) doesn't depend on an MTA? I would verify this myself if I wasn't under NT right now writing a CD. :-) -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Re: fetchmail doesn't put email...
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:35:45 +, Matt Folwell wrote: [...] >> That leads to the question: Is the fetchmail package broken in that it >> (erroneously) doesn't depend on an MTA? I would verify this myself if I >> wasn't under NT right now writing a CD. :-) > >No, you can use it with procmail. I have mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d $USER" >in my .fetchmailrc Really? I thought that the respective feature (i.e. to use a MDA) has been removed? -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Re: ipmasqadm question
On Thu, 04 Mar 1999 13:25:07 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >1- Am I on the right track with the ipmasqadm? Yes. YOu invoke it like this: ipmasqadm portfw ... >2- Is there a .deb out there for ipmasqadm? Yes. I'm pretty sure that I did NOT compile it myself. I think I fetched the "unstable" version of the program. I'm not sure whether it's a "stand- alone" package, or whether it's included in some net* package. In case you can't find it ask me again and I will look it up (I'm under NT right now.) -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok! Sign the EU petition against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/
Re: ipmasqadm question
On Thu, 04 Mar 1999 15:51:51 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Please help me find this beast :-) I *think* it's http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary- i386/net/ipmasq_3.3.1.deb Unfortunately I'm still under NT (:-) and I can't easily boot into the Debian system I have the binary installed under since this would involve removing my IDE hard drive and replacing it against the other drive, and I need to get work done at the moment. Could you check the above URL, and if it turns out that this is NOT ipmasqadm get back to me? Ralf -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok! Sign the EU petition against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/
Re: ipmasqadm question
On Thu, 04 Mar 1999 20:24:38 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I believe ipfwadm only works with kernels < 2.1.90 or so. The reading >I get from the kernel source with 2.2.1 is that ipmasqadm is required. You're right. ipfwadm is obsolete for 2.2.x kernels. Ralf -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok! Sign the EU petition against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/
Re: ipmasqadm question
On Thu, 04 Mar 1999 19:52:34 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I checked with dselect and found I have ipmasq 3.3.1 installed already. >There is NO sign of ipmasqadm on my system anywhere. > >I have run 'find / -name ipmasqadm' with no hits. > >I do appreciate your help. Please don't stop now, but I am in no big >hurry. Perhaps there are others out there that have the needed info. Ok, another day, another try. :-) Here's the info you want, but you may not like it: #dpkg -S ipmasqadm netbase: /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm [...] #dpkg -l netbase Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status, ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==-= ii netbase 3.12-2 Basic TCP/IP networking binaries As you see it's the "unstable" version of netbase. Don't worry you can install it without having to fear that it breaks your system (at least it didn't on my system ;-) >Danke, (sp?) You're welcome. (The spelling of "Danke" is right. :-) Ralf -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok! Sign the EU petition against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/
/etc/modutils/ not used? (was Re: what is module net-pf-5 ?
On Mon, 08 Mar 1999 16:58:55 -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: [...] > Or modules.conf, or etc/modutils/aliases. conf.modules and >modules.conf are allegedly going away, but my system isn't reading >anything in /etc/modutils/ so I have to keep modules.conf anyway. You have to invoke "update-modules" in order to convert the stuff under /etc/modutils/ to a file /etc/conf.modules. HTH, Ralf -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok! Sign the EU petition against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/
Re: portforwarding question
On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 09:31:04 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I have a web site on my Debian box visible to the >> world. Of course this is using xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80. >> >> I also have an internal web site visible to the world >> using portforwarding xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:. >> >> Question 1- Which port(s) should I forward to allow >> this visibility and not overrun my real web site already >> on port 80? I'm not sure whether I understand your problem, but it should be obvious that you cannot access the internal web server on the same external port as the web server on the external machine, so let's assume that you use port 8080 to access the internal server. Therefore you would forward :8080 to :80. I don't see anything else you would have to do to make this work. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok! Sign the EU petition against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/
Re: portforwarding question
Hi Bill, On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 13:59:19 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >You are correct in the assumption of using port 8080 below. That is >exactly what I am doing now, (it works great BTW!). Is 8080 the Nice for you. I also tried to forward port 80 to an internal host, but I wasn't as successful. The connection WAS forwarded, but the web server's reply didn't get thru?! :-( >correct port to use? Now that 8080 will be in use, can I just start >pulling ports out of the air for other web services, (that is if I >had any others)? I am not very "port smart" yet. In theory, yes. You should NOT use "well-known" ports for this purpose, however, i.e. those below 1024 and in use by standard services (see /etc/services for what might be in use by your system.) Another port that is sometimes used for http is , but you could also use 4711 or 6969. Just be sure that you don't use ports that are used by other services running on your external machine. Ralf -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok! Sign the EU petition against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/
Re: Segmentation fault - help please -
On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 22:45:17 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>$ pon provider
>hda: irq timeout: status=0x50 { Drive Ready SeekComplete }
You obviously have hardware problems with your hard drive...
>/usr/bin/pon: line2: 5552 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/pppd call
>${1:-provider}
...that lead to corruption of program code.
Sorry, but the diagnosis seems quite clear.
Maybe your IDE cable is too long? Or it's simply bad? Or (holding breath)
your hard drive is dying?
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Re: debian-cd for slink ?
On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 22:02:55 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>I want to make Debian CDs, but I cannot find debian-cd package in slink >>or potato. [...] >http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~stevem/DebianCD/ > >contains some information about slink_cd, my package to build CD images >for slink. I don't understand this. Why don't you just download the ready-made CD images? I did it the day before yesterday, and it worked fine. What is the advantage of downloading the packages and then building an image of yourself? -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok! Sign the EU petition against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/
Re: German NFS-Server
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:54:11 +0100 (CET), Florian 'Papa Flo' Streck wrote: >Does anybody know a debian-mirror in Germany that I can access via NFS? >I already tried the ftp-mirrors but always got a time-out message. >Could it be that I just tried the wrong Paths? Or do those servers >(ftp.de.debian.org ftp.tu-clausthal.de os.inf.tu-dresden.de) not support >NFS? showmount -e -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: debian-cd for slink ?
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 23:46:02 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: [...] >>I don't understand this. Why don't you just download the ready-made CD >>images? I did it the day before yesterday, and it worked fine. >> >>What is the advantage of downloading the packages and then building an image >>of yourself? > >Who are you asking here? Him or me? In my case, I find it useful to be I'm asking everyone you can answer my question. :) >able to make custom CDs. Oh, and slink_cd was made to make the official CD >images too... :-) I see. Well, in this case... :-) -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
"shutdown -r" instead of "reboot"? (was Re: ack! I've hosed init
On Wed, 09 Dec 1998 00:33:53 +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >Besides, it is good practice to use "shutdown -r now" instead >of reboot. Or just press ctrlaltdel, because then init just calls >the command "shutdown -r now" for you. Could you please explain why? Thanks. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Re: Problems with make menuconfig
On Wed, 09 Dec 1998 11:50:33 +0200, Michael Kirchner wrote: >dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory You need to install the ncurses-devel package. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
RE: New/old kernel devices disappearing?
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:16:04 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >that can be fixing with lilo if you put it its configuration file >append="mem=128Mo" No French spoken here. :-) Make that append="mem=128M" Ralf -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Re: Violence: Lethal StarOffice, terminal Apache, broken partitions...
On Wed, 16 Dec 1998 19:57:26 -0600, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: >I had a whole spectra of freezes, crashes, etc. I thought that's because of >Cyrix processor. Took me a while to realize that I had a bad memory chip. >Try memtest86. I was about to suggest the same -- what Peter described sounds VERY much like hardware problems, most likely (as you already mentioned) bad memory. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Re:Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® is here! (fwd)
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998 12:58:31 -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: >On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 12:33:00PM -0500, Person, Roderick wrote: >> Here's the link. According to the stats I was 3rd to download, so I figured >> it was hard to find. > >The stats said that for me too, so something must be broken. I'm currently no. 2, so *I* win. :-) -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Re: WP Question
On Sat, 19 Dec 1998 09:51:22 -0500 (EST), Peter Kovacs wrote: >On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: > >> but then I did this: >> ln -s /usr/local/wp/wpbin/xwp /usr/local/bin/xwp >> >> and when I run it I got the following msg: >> Error: File not found -- admintxt.us > >Same thing happened to me. For some reason it assumes you're going to >install it directly into /usr/local. It's looking for a file called >/usr/local/shlib10/admintxt.us, so you need to link that directory >(shlib10) into /usr/local. To make it easier on myself, I just linked >every directory in /usr/local/wp/ into /usr/local/ and it works fine now. Now, wait a minute This is VERY strange... I installed WP into /usr/local/wp80, and it worked fine from the first time on I tried it, both as root and as ordinary user. It would NOT run when I linked xwp to /usr/local/bin/xwp, but I had to change into the wpbin directory and execute it from there. Strangely enough when I today tried to demonstrate it to some friends it produced the exact same error message as above. What gives?! -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Case of WP8 installation file (was RE: WP 8 Problem
Guys (and gals,) I don't know what your problem is. Tar DOES NOT CARE in any way whether it extracts from FOOBAR.MY.FANCY.EXTENSION or GUIL001.GZ or GUIL001.TAR.GZ or guil001.gz or whatever. Just invoke it as tar xvfz and it will extract the "Runme" script and the other installation files. Then, invoke ./Runme and it will properly install WP8. It's really that simple, no need to mess around with the case of the name of the file you downloaded. Ralf -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Re: print in WP8
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:15:54 +0100, Jens Ritter wrote: [...] >> I am using HP5L. and I could't print from WP8. >> >> It prints something like: >> >> Error: /undefined in >> >> Operand stack: Execution Stack: %interp_exit --nostringval -- [...] >This is a postscript error message. You're right, but since the 5L is a NON-PostScript printer... >I don't know whether this is from the HP5L or wether ghostscript >produces this message... ... it CAN only be GhostScript who is responsible for the error message... :-) -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Re: compiling mc: glib.h sought for at the wrong place
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:03:36 + (GMT), Marc Haber wrote: [...] >glib is present in /usr/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h and has been >placed there by the Debian setup. I believe that configure doesn't >properly catch this. > >I don't have a clue about the conventions where to place include files >and would suggest changing configure/Makefile to include >/usr/lib/glib/include into the include directories. As a quick hack you can always create a symbolic link so that the compiler finds the include file. If you include a source file as follows #include this file must be present in /usr/include in order to be found. Thus, create a link like this: ln -s /usr/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h /usr/include/glibconfig.h and you should be done. >Is that an mc or a Debian problem? I guess it's a Debian problem. The glibc package should be responsible for its include files to be found without user intervention. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Extract DEB files under Windoze (was Re: Entpacken von Dateien im .deb-Format
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:28:25 -0800, Jeff Katcher wrote: >> Kann ich die Dateien im .deb Format auch in einer Windows-Oberfläche >> entpacken? Und wenn ja, wie? > >I'm just curious as to wether there is a german? language list we could >direct these kind of query's to. or wether there is someone German >speaking who could translate? He would like to know whether he can also extract DEB files under Windoze, possibly from within a graphical (GUI) program. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Re: Moving the filesystem
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 12:12:15 -0600 (EST), Steve Beitzel wrote:
> I recently bought a SCSI Hard Drive (thanks much to all who gave
>me recommendations -- I'm glad I didn't waste the $$ on a U2W), and I was
>wondering the best way to go about moving my entire filesystem to the new
>drive. I have my whole filesystem on one partition, /dev/hda1.
This is relatively simple.
- Partition the new hard drive (fdisk or cfdisk),
- make the filesystems ("mkfs -t ext2" AKA "mke2fs") on your new hard drive,
- mount your new root filesystem to /newdisk,
- then "cp -ax / /newdisk".
- After that, edit /newdisk/etc/lilo.conf to reflect the future position of
LILO and your root filesystem,
- edit /newdisk/etc/fstab to also reflect your future root filesystem,
- invoke LILO using the NEW config file, and you should be done.
You might have to include a LILO line to tell LILO the correct sequence of your
hard drive (as the bios sees it), like follows:
disk=/dev/sda
bios=0x80
Bios device code "0x80" means first hard drive (i.e. the one you boot from,)
0x81 means second one, 82 means third one, etc.
Good luck.
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Re: Is SupraExpress 288i PnP Modem a WinModem?
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 14:34:28 -0600, Kent West wrote: >I've just installed the base portion of potato and can't seem to >get a response from my SupraExpress 288i PnP modem. Does anyone >know if this is a winmodem? To the best of my knowledge, it is NOT. I strongly suggest you disable PNP. Then it should be pretty easy to get the thingy running... -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast
Hi, since I upgraded our server machine to kernel 2.2.0 I periodically (every 3 mins.) get the following error or warning message: sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast Does anyone know what this means? I guess the machine whose IP address is mentioned is misconfigured? Anyway, before I upgraded I did NOT have this error message in my logs Thanks, Ralf -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Re: Kernel 2.2.0 on a 486DX2/66
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:14:27 +1300, Carey Evans wrote: >Philip Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> ARe you using 2.2.0 with IDE? I found a message on dejanews listing >> severals bugs on include freezing and corruption of certain IDE >> drives. > >Actually, I'm now running 2.2.1 with IDE drives. I had one mysterious >lockup with -pre8, where new programs didn't want to start, and with >-pre6 (I think) logging funny messages, but aside from that I haven't >had any problems with 2.2.x. This is strange -- I too had a mysterious lockup with the same symptom you describe, but with 2.2.0 (the release version.). I'm running a 5X86-133 (this is a 486 from AMD) on an ASUS PCI/I-SP3. I'm currently running 2.2.1-ac1 (Alan Cox' patch #1 applied,) and all is well again. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Apache-SSL "suppresses" inlime images?
Hi, I have a very bizarre problem with Apache-SSL 1.3.3+1.29-2. Maybe one of you by chance can help me? Ok, here we go: I have a webpage that consists of static html pages, frames, inline images, and several Perl cgi scripts that dynamically create html pages. The server machine has two IP addresses: the external one visible from the Internet, and the internal one only visible from the LAN. When I access the server internally (i.e. I establish a connection to its internal IP address) I've no problems whatsoever. But when people access the machine from the Internet (talking to the external IP) it often "forgets" inlime images, i.e. Netscape only displays the "broken image" symbol. When they click reload it often shows more images, and after they've clicked a couple of times all images are there. The connection originates from the campus network and terminates in the campus network, i.e. there's no transmission problems, no network congestion. The connection is NOT a SSL connection, but a standard port-80, unencrypted http connection. I don't yet know whether things change if they use SSL because I've not yet asked them to try SSL. In the browser they're not using proxies, and by my instructions they've cleared memory and disk cache before trying to go to my page. There's NO errors in Apache's log file. The access log file does NOT show that the client tried to GET the missing images. The other images that are being displayed DO appear in the access log file. That could either mean that the client -- for whatever reason -- doesn't request them, OR that the server doesn't log and fill the request. Ok, that's bizarre, isn't it? Any ideas?! Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Apache-SSL "suppresses" inlime images?
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 17:03:50 -0700 (PDT), Ernest Johanson wrote: >Well, I'm not sure but again I have a question. What about things like >MinSpareServers, MaxSpareServers and KeepAlive? If there aren't enough >spare children running, then some requests may drop. Subsequent requests >find some graphics in the local cache and then request the ones that >didn't make it last time. Dunno, but take a look. Again I doubt this could be the reason. Remember that if I access the server internally *everything* is being displayed, i.e. no inline graphics are dropped, and this way I have the highest thruput and the lowest latency, compared to accesses from the internet. Anyway, here's the relevant excerpts: = 8x = MaxKeepAliveRequests 100 KeepAliveTimeout 15 MinSpareServers 3 MaxSpareServers 10 StartServers 3 MaxClients 50 MaxRequestsPerChild 30 = 8x = I'm still clueless as to what could be the reason... :-( Thanks for your help, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: SNMP
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 17:00:31 -0500, David Engel wrote: >On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 05:27:04PM -0400, Ken Long wrote: >> Well, since reading your message, I've been trying.pretty >> unsuccessfully, however. I notice with the default configuration, I can't >> even connect from the localhost! I don't suppose there's a nice little HOWTO >> file somewhere, is there? > >Please see /usr/doc/snmp/FAQ.gz. I take it that you know more about SNMP than me, so allow me to ask you a question too: Why is it that I get incorrect results for my ATM interface atm0? The interface thruput that MRTG displays is only about one half (or even less) of the real thruput. Is this due to a problem in the SNMP agent, or is it a bug in the ATM driver or protocol stack? How can I debug the problem? Thanks, Ralf PS: Please cc me in your reply, I might miss it here on the list. Thanks. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Dying services due to low memory?
Hi there, can anyone point me to a solution for the following problem? I have several machines running as Internet servers, mainly FTP and HTTP. They're relatively low-end machines (P100 and 486-133 with 48 resp. 64 MB RAM.) Every couple of days I have to restart inetd or other stand-alone services (like syslogd, klogd, snmpd, apache.) I'm pretty sure the reason why the processes fail is that memory usage is too high (it's *definitely* not due to memory problems, like failing RAM modules or overclocked CPUs.) Memory usage is permanently about 99%, swap usage only a few percent. But obviously processes are dying because they can't allocate "real" memory?! Of course a work-around would be to reduce the no. of concurrent FTP users that I allow, but I cannot easily do that. I simply cannot accept that services die as easily as they do. Isn't there a way to prevent this? I need a high availability of my machines, and having to constantly check and possibly restart services is not acceptable. :-( Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Dying services due to low memory?
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 02:31:44 -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: >>[...] >> RAM.) Every couple of days I have to restart inetd or other stand-alone >> services (like syslogd, klogd, snmpd, apache.) >>[...] >Ralf, ugly as it is, you could have a cron job restart inetd every five >minutes. I have heard that there is a debian package to ensure that daemons >are always running, I have forgotten the name of course. Well, this *is* ugly indeed. I'd rather fix the reason, not the symptom. :-) I mean I can't believe that there isn't an "elegant" way to stop *already running* processes from dying(sp?) because of memory shortage. >Perhaps you could check ebay, ubid, etc for used memory? Sorry, it took me a minute to understand what you are suggesting. My first thought was "I've never heard about these programs." :-))) I don't think that's an option. I have a very limited budget and already spent much more than I originally wanted to spend. Also, it's a matter of principle: We're talking about Linux, not Windoze, ok? So why can't the machine just run, even under memory shortages? There's lots of free swap space available, I don't understand why that doesn't suffice to keep the processes running? Before I had that many FTP users on one of the machines, I had the machine running for half a year without a single reboot or me having to restart services. Now sometimes I have to restart inetd twice a day. If I hadn't sshd running which fortunately doesn't die I even had to drive a mile or two to fix the machine. :-( Any other idea? Pointers to "watchdog" programs that restart services? -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Dying services due to low memory?
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 15:21:28 -0400 (EDT), William T Wilson wrote: >On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > >> modules or overclocked CPUs.) Memory usage is permanently about 99%, swap >> usage only a few percent. But obviously processes are dying because they > >Then you are not running out of memory. The kernel likes to leave all the Well, this is what I initially thought too. Once upon a time :) I learnt that under a system that uses virtual memory swap is as good to a process as RAM (apart from access time, of course.) Therefore in theory if I make my swap file large enough I should be fine, and no process should ever die from memory shortage. Right? Ok, I will substantially increase my swap memory on one machine from 64 MB to 128 MB (48 MB RAM) and check whether it makes a difference. >memory allocated. It uses it for a disk cache and just gives it to user >programs as necessary. You'll get "can't get a free page" messages on >console when you really start to run out. Normally this will happen when I can't see console output because the machine in question doesn't have a console. I only occasionally plug in a serial cable connected to a workstation in the same room (if I goofed really bad :-) >> I need a high availability of my machines, and having to constantly >> check and possibly restart services is not acceptable. :-( > >What is the problem with your inetd? It simply dies, as do several other services, like Apache, SNMP, Samba, etc. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: whois server?
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999 16:37:10 +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: >I just found that whois isn't working because nic.ddn.mil, the default >reverse server doesn't exist, do you know which server I could use? I use the following script to query the different whois servers which are in charge depending on which continent the target machine is located. It shows the whois servers I'm aware of. == 8x #!/bin/sh whois "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" whois "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" whois "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" whois "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" whois "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" == 8x Usage is as follows: mywhois HTH, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
FSSTND question: Where to mount NFS FS?
Hi there, is there a "standard" directory in which to mount NFS filesystems, like /net or /nfs? For local filesystems you usually use /mnt, but where do you mount remote FS? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: FSSTND question: Where to mount NFS FS?
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999 08:21:08 -0500 (EST), Brian Servis wrote: >> is there a "standard" directory in which to mount NFS filesystems, like /net [...] >FSSTND is obsolete and is now called FHS, see >http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ for more info. For temporary mounts the FHS Right, I remember that I heard about this a while ago. Thanks for the refresh. >suggest /mnt, regardless of type, local or nfs. But remember that NFS >mounts are useful for mounting /home, /usr, /usr/local, etc. for large >distributed networks. Right, I don't want a temporary mount, but a permanent one. I'd like to mount a directory "server:/var/tmp/foo" on machine "client." I should probably use a mount point of "/var/tmp/[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or something like that, or do you have a better suggestion? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Dying services due to low memory?
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999 10:04:20 +0100, Joop van Son wrote: >Maybe you can test on your machine if the services are dying at the moment >you are starting to use your swap space (start some big programs). >I think your memory (-chips) is OK but you have probably bad blocks on your >swap space. This is very improbable since this would produce error messages in syslog. No, as I already wrote in my previous message to the list, the reason for the failures is probably that swap is too small for my peak memory usage. I have drastically increased swap size, and I'm positive that this will have solved my problems. Thanks. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Dying services due to low memory?
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 14:37:06 +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: [...] >> I'm pretty sure the reason why the processes fail is that memory usage is >> too high (it's *definitely* not due to memory problems, like failing RAM >> modules or overclocked CPUs.) Memory usage is permanently about 99%, swap >> usage only a few percent. But obviously processes are dying because they >> can't allocate "real" memory?! > >As far as I know the Unix processes don't care if something is physical >memory or not. They simply use virtual memory and it's kernel's job to >proviede it to them. Well, this is also my information. Seems to be common knowledge. :) >As for the memory amount, i don't think that running a box at its full >memory capabilities does something bad to Linux. I myself used to administer >a box which had as little as 8 MB of RAM (Pentium 90Mhz) with the following >services: httpd, ftpd, squid and sometimes even X! For about a year I ran a similar machine: It also acted as an answering and fax reception machine. Everything was fine, even with only 8 megs. >It was trashing horribly, but was usable and hardly ever crashed. >So it's not the amount of physical memory you have.. i'd rather think of >making more swap (don't know how much your box has...), since some peaks in >memory usage can be lethal to Linux. This is what I'm currently blaming for the dying of the processes. I have drastically increases swap sizes, and I will observe whether this solves my problems. Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Alan Cox's patches
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 18:28:52 -0400, Sean wrote: >Are the ac-kernel patches applied in order? > >For instance, if I wanted to apply patch #6, would I first have to apply >patch 1->5? No. You ONLY apply the latest patch. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: What is x11amp?
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:29:32 +0200, Armin Wegner wrote: >What is the program x11amp good for? It's most probably an MP3 player for X. MP3 is a format for storing music on your PC. It uses lossy compression to reduce the size of the file by a factor of about 8-12 compared to the "raw" dump (uncompressed WAV file with 44 kHz, 16 bits.) -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Burn the Official Debian CD
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:06:17 +, Shao Zhang wrote: >I have got the official debian 2.1 and would like to make a copy of >it. I am wondering if I need any special >software in order to make them still bootable. Since the machine where >the burner connected has got Windoze, I have got no idea how to do this. No special measures are necessary. The CD is a simple one-data-track-only CD. You can copy it with whatever program you want to use, under whatever platform you like, PROVIDED that your software copies the complete data track (do NOT copy it file by file, by selecting or dragging files from the CD into a compilation, thereby creating a "virtual" image, otherwise the CD can't boot anymore.) -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Serial console w/ Debian: only partial output?
Hi there, I followed the instructions in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial- console.txt in order to control a Debian box from a serial terminal. However I had only partial success. There IS "some" output on the screen, but it's not nearly as much as appears on the VGA console, nor can I login on the serial console. I get the impression that "init" might be the culprit. Even if I set the serial device to be the only console device, as soon as init has been started the output appears on BOTH the serial and the VGA console. Any hints what I could be doing wrong, or what could be sabotaging my otherwise fine setup? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
/dev/console wrong on upgraded systems (2.0 -> 2.1)
Hi, I discovered that on ALL my systems that originally were Debian 2.0 and have been upgraded to Debian 2.1 /dev/console is wrong. It's a link to /dev/tty0 instead of a device special file (mknod -m 622 /dev/console c 5 1). Can anyone pls. check whether this is the case with "native" 2.1 systems? Anyone know who to inform in case the bug is also present in 2.1? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
(mostly) SOLVED (was Re: Serial console w/ Debian: only partial output?
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 20:17:00 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Ralf G. R. Bergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I followed the instructions in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial- >>console.txt in order to control a Debian box from a serial terminal. > >That should work. The guy who wrote the serial console kernel stuff, >also wrote sysvinit, and also happens to maintain the Debian sysvinit >package :) I'm aware of that, and I know that YOU are the guy. :) >>There IS "some" output on the screen, but it's not nearly as much as appears >>on the VGA console, nor can I login on the serial console. > >Did you: > >a) create a new /dev/console > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5, 1 Apr 24 10:22 /dev/console Ok, I'm an idiot. :-( I DID check that the device nodes are ok, but obviously I checked them on the wrong system. :-/ (I have several Linux boxes at home, and I was logged in on a different one to do some sysadmin stuff.) >b) run a getty on /dev/ttyS0 (or S1, or whatever) > S1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L 9600 ttyS1 No, I did not. I was under the impression that I need not explicitly start a getty on the serial line if the kernel command-line contains "console=ttyS0,9600". I thought that a line like this would make the serial console EXACTLY the same as the VGA console, i.e. that I could use both in parallel (everything gets output to both the VGA and serial console, and everything I type on each console gets accepted.) Ok, now that I corrected /dev/console and started a getty on /dev/ttyS0 my setup is working almost as intended with one exception: If I include append="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600" in my lilo.conf EVERYTHING that one would expect gets output to the serial console, BUT there's a lot of stuff missing on the VGA console. If I reverse the two "console" statements above, the output changes accordingly (everything appears on the VGA console, but only a subset appears on the serial console.) The problem seems to be related to kernel logging (klogd), since klogd doesn't log ALL messages to syslogd either (there are the SAME lines missing in /var/log/kern.log as in the cases described above.) I already tried starting klogd with "-c 8" but to no avail. The volume of output doesn't change. I also tried the "debug" kernel command-line parameter -- didn't help either. Any idea that could make me happy again? :) Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Direct serial connection
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 11:39:53 -0500 (CDT), Jor-el wrote: >Is this possible? Yes. See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial-console.txt. I've just done it (after having some trouble due to an incorrect /dev/console device). You need a 2.2.x kernel for this to work or a patched 2.0.x one. Basically you use a kernel command-line parameter of "console=ttyS0" to make a serial terminal (box A in your setup) hooked to /dev/ttyS0 on machine B the display for machine B. You also need a getty running on /dev/ttyS0. If you need further assistance feel free to ask here in the list or via personal mail to me. Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: /dev/console wrong on upgraded systems (2.0 -> 2.1)
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:42:49 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > >I discovered that on ALL my systems that originally were Debian 2.0 and have > > > >been upgraded to Debian 2.1 /dev/console is wrong. It's a link to /dev/tty0 > >instead of a device special file (mknod -m 622 /dev/console c 5 1). > > > >Can anyone pls. check whether this is the case with "native" 2.1 systems? > >Anyone know who to inform in case the bug is also present in 2.1? > >This is the relevant bit of /dev/MAKEDEV (makedev package): [...] >if [ $kern_rev1 -eq 2 -a $kern_rev2 -ge 1 ] >then >makedev console c 5 1 $cons >else >symlink console tty0 >fi > >Therefore, if your kernel is 2.1 or greater, you can delete the console >symlink and run `MAKEDEV console' to create a new console device. Right, I forgot to mention that I'm running 2.2.x. >Since 2.1 (slink) ships with kernel 2.0.3x, the symlink is correct for >it. Perhaps the makedev package should contain something to look at the >kernel version and upgrade automatically? Shouldn't there be an automatic mechanism that upon system boot checks the kernel version and forces certain vital device special files to be correct? Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Direct serial connection
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 18:41:44 -0500 (CDT), Jor-el wrote: >> You need a 2.2.x kernel for this to work or a patched 2.0.x one. Basically >> you use a kernel command-line parameter of "console=ttyS0" to make a serial >> terminal (box A in your setup) hooked to /dev/ttyS0 on machine B the display >> for machine B. You also need a getty running on /dev/ttyS0. > Do you know where to get hold of the patch for the 2.0.x kernels? A quick web search yielded: http://www.linuxhq.com/patch/20-p0100.html ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/os/linux/kernel/v2.0/unoff-patches/ The latter probably is the "canonic" site since this is the domain the author (Mike van Smoerenburg(sp?)) is mailing from. > Also, the kernel command line parameter that you described - is it >for box A or box B? I need the monitor to be a console for Box A as well >as Box B (preferably on different ttys). The kernel command line parameter is for box B. It tells box B to redirect console output to its serial port. You would then start a terminal program like minicom or Seyon on box A that listens on box A's serial port that is connected with a null-modem to box B's serial port. Does that make things clearer to you? Or have I made it worse? :) Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: (mostly) SOLVED (was Re: Serial console w/ Debian: only partial output?
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999 12:36:42 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: [...] >Yes. The _kernel_ logs to both consoles, but whatever opens /dev/console >connects to just _one_ console. I see. Well, that makes it perfectly clear. Thanks for filling me in! >> The problem seems to be related to kernel logging (klogd), since klogd >> doesn't log ALL messages to syslogd either (there are the SAME lines >> missing in /var/log/kern.log as in the cases described above.) > >klogd only logs kernel messages, it doesn't log what is written >to /dev/console as those are not kernel messages. I must have been stupid not to recognize this myself. :-( Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: /dev/console wrong on upgraded systems (2.0 -> 2.1)
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999 16:30:51 +, Lazarus Long wrote: [...] >If I add 2.2.x to lilo at some point, choosing between 2.0.36 and 2.2.x >at boot will not be adequate? (This is what I've suspected, but been >told otherwise.) I *think* 2.0.36 is a kernel version that also/already understands the new device nodes. When I upgraded my Debian 2.0 system (running kernel 2.0.36 if I'm not mistaken) to kernel 2.2.x I did NOT have to update the device nodes (except from /dev/console as I learnt these days.) However my ancient Slackware 2.1(?) system needed to be upgraded. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: lilo: 'Kernel /vmlinuz is too big'
Tony Crawford wrote: > > I got this error after throwing out a 386/387 mainboard and putting > in a Pentium 133/PCI, then recompiling the kernel with the new > processor type and PCI bios support. Now Lilo doesn't want to install > the new kernel, grr-grr! The old one was already over 700 KB and the > new one is <900, so what's the big deal? And: what's the remedy? I You should *definitely* exclude support for things you don't need. This makes your kernel much smaller. Very helpful also is to compile things you don't absolutely need to boot your machine into modules, like floppy disk, tape, cd-rom drivers, network drivers, etc. You later load these modules after the kernel has mounted the root filesystem (this can even be done automagically by use of the kernel daemon or the respective kernel thread.) > tried make bzImage, I tried all three HD geometries offered by the And why didn't it work? This *is* the solution to your problem... > new BIOS, I tried "linear" (which I'd *had* to use on the 386) ... I Those two points won't help you at all, they don't have anything to do with your problem.
Re: LILO - System.map conflict
Fethi A. Okyar wrote: > [...] > Now I moved the new kernel to /boot as bzImage.x.y.z and I also > moved the new System.map to /boot/map.x.y.z. I edited my > /etc/lilo.conf file so that it has the entries such as > > ... > boot=/boot/map.x.y.z > ... > linux=/boot/bzImagex.y.z > ... > > but what happens each time I run lilo is, it (lil0) destroys the > new System.map file I just moved there, by replacing it by a much > smaller file, from where it gets this file I have no idea. [...] > Is the map file that is mentioned in lilo.conf not the same file > as the Syetm.map file, and am I supposed to place the System.map > file in a special location without lilo's knowledge? To the best of my knowledge these two files are TOTALLY different. System.map contains kernel symbols and is used by klogd to display kernel symbols instead of numerical addresses in case of kernel oopses. It's also used by "ps", AFAIR. You should copy it to the root directory or to /boot. (cf. "man klogd") The map file LILO can make use of contains the layout of the kernel on your hard drive. I don't know, however, for which exact purpose Linux uses the map file. On one of my systems I've never used the LILO map file, and still it's working since 2,5 years.
Re: What is SCI UNIX?
On Wed, 19 May 1999 23:17:43 +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote: >I have some old ethernet cards (EZ-3200P+ series, which are supposed to be >NE2000 compatible) and the disk with it has a Unix driver, but specifically >an SCO one. What does SCO stand for and might the driver be compatible with >Linux? SCO=Santa Cruz Operation. SCO Unix is one of the major PC Unix dialects. No, the driver is NOT compatible with Linux. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Solaris 7 and Debian
On Tue, 25 May 1999 19:32:46 +0100 (BST), richard newton wrote: >Does anyone know if it's possible to dual boot Solaris 7 and Debian GNU/Linux? Yup. I do it using OS/2's Boot Manager, but it should be possible using LILO, too. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Replacement for Netscape
On Sun, 23 May 1999 20:51:55 -0500, Matthew W. Roberts wrote: >Netscape 4.51 for X is just too slow on my slightly dated pentium. Does Huh??? Netscape 4.51 is everything else but slow. You probably simply have too little memory. I suggest to install at least 128 megs. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Replacement for Netscape
On Wed, 26 May 1999 13:45:23 -0500 (CDT), Kent West wrote: >On Wed, 26 May 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > >> On Sun, 23 May 1999 20:51:55 -0500, Matthew W. Roberts wrote: >> >> >Netscape 4.51 for X is just too slow on my slightly dated pentium. >> >> Huh??? >> >> Netscape 4.51 is everything else but slow. You probably simply have too >> little memory. I suggest to install at least 128 megs. > >Ya know, we really oughtta quit advertising the idea that Linux runs well >on 486's with low memory and drive resources Should there be irony in these your words?! :-) Seriously, I agree with what you wrote above. Our in-house server only had 8 megs of RAM and just a 486-66 CPU. Nevertheless it played the role of an ISDN router, fax receiver, file/mail/news server, and a couple of other things I forgot. Does that convince you? :-) Netscape *is* a memory hog, especially if it's statically linked against Motif, but as someone else already pointed out, once it's loaded it runs fine. You can't expect to run Linux, X, and Netscape in 32 megs, however. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Mattrox Millenium card
On Thu, 27 May 1999 23:50:11 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Oh the other hand.. Is the matrox card supported for 3D acceleration? I fear it isn't. The G200 is driven by the SVGA X server, and to the best of my knowledge this one doesn't use any "acceleration," like e.g. the S3 server. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Mattrox Millenium card
On Fri, 28 May 1999 13:25:45 +1000 (EST), Tadeusz Bak wrote: >Sorry, its not Debian specific but I am a Debian user :-). I have found >that Matrox Millenium G200 is supported by latest XFree86 but I am not >sure what version -- AGP or PCI? Or maybe both? Any experience? Both versions are supported. I have a PCI one myself, and it works. Since the PCI version is somewhat exotic, I bet the AGP version will be supported too. :-) -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Mattrox Millenium card
On Fri, 28 May 1999 09:06:58 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I fear it isn't. The G200 is driven by the SVGA X server, and to the best of >> my knowledge this one doesn't use any "acceleration," like e.g. the S3 >> server. >> >According to xfree86.org Matrox cards are the best-accelerated, but it Ok, I stand corrected. :-) >ATI, on the other hand, seems to be still in the position of refusing to >support their own hardware. :/ Great. I like these companies... :-} -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: NTFS support
On Wed, 02 Jun 1999 08:58:25 -0500, Nadarajah, Dinesh wrote: >I am trying to findout how I can enable NTFS support on my Debian 2.1 >system. I am to access some files on my Windows NT partition but I am unable >to mount the partition. Any suggestions??? You need to mount it using filesystem type "ntfs." If you don't have that filesystem available (check /lib/modules//fs) you need to recompile your kernel to include that filesystem. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
netfilter package? Alternatively: How to create custom debian packages?
Hi there, I'd like to create myself a Debian package for the new netfilter tools (since there isn't yet one available to the best of my knowledge.) Which tools do I need and where to look for instructions? I thought that dpkg- dev was the right package, but the docs for dpkg-dev say to look in /usr/doc/dpkg, and the docs for dpkg are pretty useless. Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Which UID to run ProFTPD under for anon access?
Hi there, ProFTPD comes with a default setting of ftp.nogroup for anonymous ftp. Unfortunately there isn't a user "ftp" on my system. Because I was too lazy to create the user (and didn't know either which uid to give it) I tried to use "nobody.nogroup," but to no avail. ProFTP doesn't accept "ftp" or "anonymous" in this case, it behaves as if "ftp" was a normal user and wants a password. Should I create a user "ftp," or what else should I do to make things as safe as possible? I'm basically using the default config file, and I'm running the server stand- alone. Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
pppd: How to setup call-back server?
Hi there, I need to setup a system to be a call-back server for incoming ppp calls. Unfortunately I don't find any info on this topic in the docs that come with ppp, only for client-side callback. Can you point me to some website where I can find a howto document that describes how to set things up on the server? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
NIS question: ypserver=localhost in yp.conf on slave NIS?
Hi there, I've a question regarding the use of NIS under Debian. In my LAN I have two NIS servers, a master and a slave. I followed the small NIS HOWTO that comes with the NIS package very closely. However I have a little problem that I seem to have solved by executing a step that is NOT contained in the howto. Ok, here's my problem and how I solved it: Whenever my master server was unreachable the slave server couldn't read the passwd map. So I entered "ypserver localhost" in /etc/yp.conf, et voila, things worked again. Is this The Right Thing(TM) to do? Or why didn't the library functions on the slave server machine automatically use the slave NIS instead of the master NIS server after the disappearance of the master server was detected? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: [Q] Setting up a primary DNS server for my domain name on a Debian box...
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 13:50:30 -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: [...] >I tried following the instructions in the DNS HOWTO. Things work fine when >I do a nslookup from the machine which is running bind. But when I do an >nslookup remotely (setting this machine that is running bind as the server) >all queries time out. Can it be that your upstream router blocks access to your nameserver port? To verify this you could configure your firewall to log access to nameserver/UDP. *If* your upstream router properly routes nameserver requests you would see something in your kernel log. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: exim and procmail?
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 21:52:03 -0500, David S. Jackson wrote: >I have been getting an error procmail which has been bouncing my mails >to debian-user. You should probably not invoke procmail via .forward, but directly as a local transport. Grep for procmail in /usr/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz and modify exim.conf accordingly. This is how I do it and I don't have any probs with my setup. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: [Q] Setting up a primary DNS server for my domain name on a Debian box...
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:37:03 -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: >[Now I tried doing an nslookup from a remote machine] >datagram from [207.1.145.44].1392, fd 22, len 31 >req: nlookup(www.aunet.org) id 54197 type=1 class=1 >req: found 'www.aunet.org' as 'www.aunet.org' (cname=0) >req: nlookup(aunet.org) id 54197 type=1 class=1 >req: found 'aunet.org' as 'aunet.org' (cname=1) >ns_req: answer -> [207.1.145.44].1392 fd=22 id=54197 size=145 rc=0 >datagram from [207.1.145.44].1392, fd 22, len 31 >req: nlookup(www.aunet.org) id 54197 type=1 class=1 >req: found 'www.aunet.org' as 'www.aunet.org' (cname=0) >req: nlookup(aunet.org) id 54197 type=1 class=1 >req: found 'aunet.org' as 'aunet.org' (cname=1) >ns_req: answer -> [207.1.145.44].1392 fd=22 id=54197 size=145 rc=0 > >So What is happening? Help would be greatly appreciated. Good question. >From the above log it seems as if everything goes right (but I'm no bind expert.) I'm clueless why things don't work for you, sorry. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Lost root passwd
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 00:52:49 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser wrote: [...] >ALlow me to translate. Boot the rescue disk as if you are installing, [whole story deleted] Hey guys, why so complicated??? What's wrong with giving LILO a kernel command line of "init=/bin/sh"? This way you boot straight into sh, and you can then change the root password. This is how I usually do it under Slackware, and even tho Debian uses shadow passwords it should work the same way. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Re: Internet via Proxy-Server?
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 11:04:03 +0200, Norbert Nemec wrote: >my ISP (GermanyNet) offers Internet Services only via a Proxy-Server. >Is there any way to use this Debian-wide? Only way I could find out was Yes. You could recompile your kernel to include transparent proxy support. This would automagically redirect all connection attempts to the corresponding proxy servers. >Can I configure lynx to use a proxy? or ftp, dftp, etc.? Lynx: yes, ncftp: yes. Unfortunately I cannot tell you out of my memory how this works. If I remember correctly Lynx has a global config file where you can define your proxy. NCFTP can be configured interactively by invoking a command (props? config?). -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
