while ago; I have been very busy since then).
Now I'll try using of the Debianized 4.2 packages people indicated,
and I will read up on libc6 issues between woody and testing before
I decide which way to go.
You're a high-performance list, guys!
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, Doug! That answers an even better question than the ones I
asked. It's been heck to get an X-server running on this notebook,
but if I save my XF86Config-4 very very safely, I think your
suggestion is the way to go.
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continue life with apt-get?
All kinds of anticipatory gratitude,
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he mutt package expects the system to have some kind of
MTA, I'd guess. An MTA is a normal part of a typical system.
Options for overriding such dependencies should be covered in the
man page somewhere.
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All kinds of anticipatory gratitude,
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ading up on diald or something like that? (What I'd like
most is bandwidth-on-demand: linkwise demand dialing.)
The fine print: Potato à la Bunk; kernel 2.4.9, pppd 2.4.1; the
hardware under the PPP interface is an AVM B1 ISDN card.
Many TIA,
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Craig Sampson wrote (on 24 Mar 2002 at 16:22):
> Like all RPM (or rather non APT)
> distros its a nightmare to update and keep updated but you don't
> care about this when you are completely new and can't get
> anything running.
LOL!
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with the kernel-
image_2.4.17-bf... package, which is intended to run on most
equipment, then I started with its config file when I needed a
custom 2.4.x kernel.
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Michael Kines wrote (on 15 Mar 2002 at 10:43):
> I accidentally erased my /etc/issue .
> Now, when I switch alt-ctrl f1, there is no
> indication of what tty I am on. Where can
> I get that back again? Thanks.
And read "ISSUE ESCAPES" in man getty(8).
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This is very clever and effective. I tried it today and it
worked like a
charm to get a good package list for backup and of course purge
deinstalled packages as per a).
BTW, How can I find why a package is on hold?
Thanks again,
Eric
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of a system I got stuck with), and it was very entertaining to
see a few people there who know something of the world
explaining to the others about really dependable dependencies,
apt-get, and something like Debian's bug tracker. Welcome!
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> kwrite & not emacs. Please, can't menu items just say what they
> are?
I'm hip. Let's file a bug.
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whatever boot loader
you're using can find the kernel without it.
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> Hi, when will "Woody" be out?
Use it now, while it's still "in" ...
Sorry. But seriously, it's running very well for lots of people
already.
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> startup?
If there's an /etc/init.d/ppp*, that might be an appropriate
place. If not, there's always /etc/init.d/networking, or copy
that to a new name, edit it a lot, and read man update-rc.d
about the order of execution of the init scripts and see how to
set your routes after the interfaces are up.
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> dpkg -S /etc/wgetrc
> wget: /etc/wgetrc
Without looking, lemme guess: maybe they're tarred from one
location and installed to another (after some install-time
modification) by a post-install script?
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> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:16:15PM +0100, Tony Crawford wrote: >
> > By experimenting, I found out that the long lookup occurred
> when my > iptables rules used a netmask that does not correspond
> to a known > subnet, namely
I wrote (on 20 Feb 2002 at 13:08):
> Karl E. Jorgensen wrote (on 20 Feb 2002 at 9:57):
>
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:13:47AM +0100, Tony Crawford wrote: >
> > Hi Gang! > > [...] > > Running iptables -L by hand, I see that
> > it's very slow. It tak
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote (on 20 Feb 2002 at 9:57):
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:13:47AM +0100, Tony Crawford wrote: >
> Hi Gang! > > [...] > > Running iptables -L by hand, I see that
> it's very slow. It takes > a minute or two to read out the
> FORWARD chain i
Tony Crawford wrote (on 20 Feb 2002 at 9:13):
> The questions:
[...]
> -- Is there anything to be gained by removing anacron and using
> only cron?
That one I have now answered myself: No, no help.
Meanwhile here's the pstree:
init-+-apcupsd---apcupsd
|-atd
louie miranda wrote (on 20 Feb 2002 at 4:56):
> try useradd
Did you?
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stuff compiled as modules.
Anticipatory gratitudes,
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/etc/interfaces. Just set up eth0 like a normal LAN interface.
Then pppoe will automagically put another interface, ppp0, on
top of it (on account of its command line argument) and that one
will be ppp.
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Thaw messages with "exim -Mt "
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(BTW I'd guess that "would" was an attempt at a past tense of
"will" in the obsolete sense of "want to": "...someone who was
trying to formulate...")
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> On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 07:21:34PM +0100, Tony Crawford wrote:
> > Richard Gaywood wrote (on 16 Feb 2002 at 18:05):
> >
> > > Hi. I'm having massive grief configuring a standalone ISDN
> > > router and
Richard Gaywood wrote (on 16 Feb 2002 at 18:05):
> Hi. I'm having massive grief configuring a standalone ISDN router
> and I could desperately use some pointers.
Are you using pppd or ipppd? What version? Have you read in the
man page about the "demand" and "persist&
d keep archives.
After a HD upgrade, I installed Woody recently from the rescue
floppy images + FTP, and the whole PCMCIA bit came up
automagically. You might want to consider trying that.
Tony
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Tony Crawford wrote (on 12 Feb 2002 at 15:57):
> A couple of weeks ago I mounted an iso9660 image as a loopback
> device. The CD image seemed to be in good order, but umount
> failed, and ever since then ps aux has shown:
>
> root 6747 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW< Jan
kill -9. Meanwhile "rmmod loop"
returns:
loop: Device or resource busy
Any advice?
Tony
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> Or not use it :)
How about an option in the .deb installation script saying
something like "Would you like Gnome to provide a humorous
surprise on your desktop now and then? [y]/n"
(BTW I once found an Easter egg I wasn't looking for. It was in
the back of my closet, a
installation
for a friend on Tuesday...
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> What information is needed by people who might give me advice?
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> account, which is often not what's wanted).
If your /etc/aliases contains the reverse table of your
/etc/email-addresses, the local replies will stay local.
If that doesn't turn out to be true for you, hit me up for
config details: it works f
;
> > I'm running unstable on i386.
I get the same thing, running potato on i386 with 2.4.9, which I
built and installed using make-kpkg! I've been living with the
warning for a while, but of course I'd like to make it go away.
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8:24am up 391 days, 9:20, 2 users, load average: 0.03,
0.07, 0.01
So your system was "up" all through that, eh ;-)? Well, you
missed a prime opportunity to test whether your disk motors can
still do the old zero-to-sixty.
T.
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Funny, I'm not in the list, but I can't see where that pipeline
leaves out those of us with "Debian" in the first "Received"
stamp.
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incoming filters when the PPP link is up.
Other configuration info available of course. I'm clueless what
to do. Try other NICs on speculation? Downgrade the kernel
version?
How can I figure out where the problem is?
TIA,
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And/or where is Donald Becker's NIC driver work now?
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be glad to share my config--just say GO--but I have to say I'm
not using the new script system from the current Debian package!
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manual. (Read also about -t to go with that.) But your script
might be safer, and will in any case be more portable, if you
pipe the message to "mail".
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version 2.0.7-3.
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that boot fine
from the 2.2r3 CD.
Still curious,
Tony
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At first I thought I had a coaster, but it boots fine on other
machines. FWIW the Progeny 1.0 CD I got off a magazine cover
won't boot on the Toshiba either.
Very curious (and holding on to those 2.2r0s),
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y `uname()' contains only one component, Exim passes
it to `gethostbyname()' in order to obtain the fully qualified
version.
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dules.
I'm running an AVM A1 on 2.2.17 with ipppd and a B1 on 2.4.3
with CAPI and pppd. I can't really help much with your
combination.
> any help or pointers appreciated.
Well, there's the i4l newsgroup, de.alt.comm.isdn4linux, and an
AVM-B1 mailing list which is on-topi
rules, including a MASQ rule, the
way you do, in /etc/init.d/my_ip_filters, then supplement them
with interface-specific rules in /etc/ppp/ip-
up.d/00more_ip_filters (and clean up in /etc/ppp/ip-
down.d/ZZmore_ip_filters).
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pointed out the /set /yes arguments.
(b) make sure both computers have meaningful timezone settings!
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Has something been broken? Is anyone interested in more detail?
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ble = No
[kyocera]
comment = Kyocera FS-1000
path = /tmp
guest ok = Yes
printable = Yes
printer = kyocera
printer driver = Kyocera FS-1000
printer driver location = \\%L\PRINTER$
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t needs to be run directly from boot off of
> floppy in real mode of processor).
Also boots from LILO now apparently!
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spool was corrupt.) Before this happens
again, maybe somebody can recommend ways to test for decaying
silicon? Preferably in-service; if that's not possible then at
least without booting a different OS?
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setup (but
not in the computer's BIOS), then nailed all the other cards to
fixed IRQs in the BIOS PCI/PnP settings, leaving 9, 10, 12 and
15 free. The 3c509 came up on IRQ 10 and that was the end of
hours of struggle. Kernel 2.4.2.
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ich said the
ISDNutils were not ready. So I kept the ones I had, and they
worked OK--at least, ipppd did. Sorry, that computer's not here
so I can't give you exact version info. But you can always check
for fresh isdn software at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/isdn4linux/
What kind of
on *in the
ISDN section* of the kernel configuration? That's
CONFIG_ISDN_PPP and friends in the .config file as opposed to
CONFIG_PPP.
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ck, then used date to set the clock more or less
to the minute. After that, ntpdate worked (and is now adjusting
time upon PPP dial-up but no more than once an hour).
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with an intermittently unrecognized 3c509)
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> (and nobody cares about it)." -- Bill Joy 6/21/85
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our configuration directory that might be
getting in the way?
Correct paths etc. in your apccontrol script?
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it should go in stable.
Considering I've already manually messed with my /etc/init.d and
/etc/ppp/ip-up.d scripts enough, let me just ask for the
specifics before upgrading: certain internal problems with
segfaults due to certain mail content are fixed in the version
now in woody?
Tony
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-and do screw that to the wall--then use pre-
crimped patch cables. That way your network can stand being
plugged and unplugged a few hundred times.
If most of your computers are in one room, of course, you'd want
to put the switch there and just run patch cables (up to 15') to
the NICs.
más, nos ama,
es una de las creaciones más audaces de la literatura
fantástica. --Jorge Luis Borges
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ivers that are in the 2.4s, though,
since the back-ports to 2.2 are somewhat backlogged.
In anticipatory gratitude for all kinds of astute tips,
Tony
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you hsve put
> >
> > deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free
^
There's a space after .org/
Did you miss it by any chance?
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and pcmcia, and a symlink to /usr/src/linux/ called build.
Tony
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Germano Leichsenring wrote (on 7 Apr 00, at 16:52):
> Hi, did you try this?
>
> update-modules ; depmod -a ; /etc/init.d/pcmcia start
I did the depmod and start--didn't know about update-modules (why
update them? they're brand new) but I'll try it, thanks!
Tony
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Tony
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You need to watch the error messages and feed
it some old libraries from the "oldlibs" and maybe "X11" sections of
the Debian installation--search the archives of this list or just ask
Corel if you can wait a few days for the answer.
T.
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+F2 out of the dbootstrap routine and disable the
init.d/pcmcia script before rebooting, but then what--go to dpkg and
install kernel and pcmcia module sources and recompile before
finishing the installation? That can't be the intended behavior.)
Tony
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in
> prompt. has this something to do with permissions or something?
I had this symptom recently. Somehow my /dev/null permissions had got
changed so that xrdb couldn't read from it except as root. chmod 666
/dev/null fixed it.
Tony
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or else, use
> the character console...
I had the same symptom after Corel WP 8 and then some old libs that
it required. After a long search, the problem turned out to be the
permissions of /dev/null: the read bits had been disabled and needed
to be turned back on.
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correspondence from German into English. Anyone interested in
contributing their skills?
Tony
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ond the whole X server
crashes. Whereupon xdm restarts it and the Login prompt is back.
I read 'man xrdb', but found no clues. I've checked all the
permissions I can think of, and as far as I can see the users
should be able to read and run anything root can, as far as
X11 is concerned.
see
the users should be able to read and run anything root can in the
/etc/X11 tree.
Grateful for any hints,
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"La idea de un Dios sabio, todopoderoso y que, además, nos ama, es una
de las creac
and bingo. Go figure.
So I'm no wiser, but quite thrilled with how many people pitched in
to try and help me out. Thanks guys!
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> logic to handle loading the bigger kernel.
Okay! How do I tell lilo about this?
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do
> with your problem.
Good to know. I'm not really looking forward to a fresh installation
... but I can always boot from floppy and tar everything first if it
comes to that.
Thanks for your tips, though!
Tony
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Grateful for any tips,
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> 'keep up with the Jones'.
Which would bring the Linux league one step closer to the corporate
league. The next subsequent step being that the bugs left in the
release would be denied (or renamed "issues") in the marketing
litera
> MCV> runnign in.talkd and in.ntalkd doesn't stop me getting "no
talk
> MCV> daemon on pick.sel.cam.ac.uk" errors. Where should the talk
> MCV> daemons be started?
Mine comes up on "mesg y". You could put that in your profile I
guess.
Tony
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> Apr 10 17:29:43 pumpkin in.qpopper[17472]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -ERR System
> error, can't open temporary file, do you own it?
>
> What should the permissions for /var/spool/pop be, or is there
> something else I'm doing wrong?
>
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something else I'm doing wrong?
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die ganze Skripterei verwirrt mich.)
Just mail me--this won't interest very many on the list, I
reckon.
Thanks,
Tony
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On 18 Aug 98 at 23:10, count zero wrote:
> hi to all,
> when i boot up my linux debian 2.0 i find this message
>
> modprobe: can't locate module char-major-10
Me too! Can you please forward any personal replies you get
that don't go through the list?
Tony
Tony Cra
tom half of the dselect access methods screen refers
to the man page for "source.list", apparently a typo!)
Tony
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letely missing the easy way?
Sorry about the confused sentences ... Thanks for your attention!
Tony
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