Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, May 04, 1997 at 10:23:39PM +, Sam Ockman wrote: > Found this on terminal 7, probably came from X Is it a bad, bad thing, > or just somewhat bad? > > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2356919, > s

Re: Where would I submit a new feature for the kernel?

1997-05-06 Thread Brian N. Borg
Solaris uses a numbering scheme based on the scsi controller, target, disk (in case of bridge boards that may have more than one disk on the same target, or scsi id) and partition (or slice). Specifically, /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 refers to the first partition on the first disk on the first target on

Re: Where would I submit a new feature for the kernel?

1997-05-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
Jonas Bofjall wrote: > > On Sat, 3 May 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: > > > This is what caused me to finally break linux. I moved OpenDOS from a > > primary (sda2) to a logical (sda5). > > I know Solaris numbers disks differently, I think it is based on the disks > serial number. A very good soluti

Re: Broadway

1997-05-06 Thread Steve Dunham
Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What's the scoop on broadway? Is it going to be deb'd soon? Is it all > the x.org web page makes it out to be, fast remote execution etc...? > Broadway is version 6.3 and we seem to still be using 6.2 from what I see > reported when I start X. Is there

GIF for KDE

1997-05-06 Thread Rick Jones
What package is libgif2 in? It's needed to install the kde packages. --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

ssltelnet -- how secure?

1997-05-06 Thread Paul Serice
I've installed ssltelnet, but can't find much documentation. Is this thing secure? Do all I do is telnet in and out using the new programs? How do I know if a secure connection has been established? If a secure connection is established, does it just protect the password or does it protect the

Re: hot-change disk arrays...can I do it on Linux?

1997-05-06 Thread Brian N. Borg
The drives themselves are not any different. The hot swap trays have the functionality to power the drives down before removal or up after insertion. Such trays and drives could be used with the md utilities under Linux to provide striped (raid 0), mirrored (raid 1), or striped and mirrored a

Re: hot-change disk arrays...can I do it on Linux?

1997-05-06 Thread Lawrence Chim
Brian N. Borg wrote: > > The drives themselves are not any different. The hot swap trays have > the functionality to power the drives down before removal or up after > insertion. Such trays and drives could be used with the md utilities > under Linux to provide striped (raid 0), mirrored (raid 1

Re: starting/stoping program on boot/shutdown

1997-05-06 Thread Brian N. Borg
What is start-stop-daemon ? The problem I have is that I can find absolutely no documentation on "start-stop-daemon". There is a useless stub of a man page that directs one to the --help output or the source code. /sbin/start-stop-daemon is apparently a perl script, but I do not know perl no

Re: Shadow installation.

1997-05-06 Thread Brian N. Borg
If you really need shadow, you could conceivably edit the files yourself. I have done it sucessfully under Solaris after ftping a working passwd file from a Dgux system. I was naieve and did not know that Sun provided a utility to do this. Read the man pages to get the syntax right, but ess

Re: starting/stoping program on boot/shutdown

1997-05-06 Thread Klee Dienes
Brian N. Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is start-stop-daemon ? > [...] > I think that if it is enough of a Debian standard that virtualy > all of the scripts that dpkg installs in /etc/init.d use it, > we are due an explanation of what it does, how it is used, etc. You're absolutely

Re: Metamail Error

1997-05-06 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
> Hi, > I am expiriencing problems with metamail after a recent upgrade to > metamail 2.7-20. Whenever it is invoked, I get the following error: > > bash: /usr/bin/metamail: No such file or directory > $ dpkg -l metamail > > ii metamail2.7-20 An implementation of MIME. > > $ l

Re: Help installing dosemu

1997-05-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 5 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > Have you looked in the /etc/dosemu directory? > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 May 1 15:13 conf -> > ../../usr/lib/dosemu/config.dist > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root4 Apr 16 17:32 users I had to `dpkg --purge dosemu' before installin

updating packages with dselect

1997-05-06 Thread Lacharme Jean-Paul
Hi, I would just update my installed packages with deselect, but the procedure to do so doesn't seem very clear to me. All that I get is 0 packages to load. What is wrong ? Regards, JP L Jean-Paul LACHARME. GREQAM UMR 9990 au CNRS, Centre de la Vieille Charite, 2,rue de la Charite,F13002 MARSEIL

Re: ssltelnet -- how secure?

1997-05-06 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On May 5, Paul Serice wrote > I've installed ssltelnet, but can't find much documentation. > > Is this thing secure? Do all I do is telnet in and out using the new > programs? How do I know if a secure connection has been established? If > a secure connection is established, does it just protec

Re: Amiga Filesystem mounting bother.

1997-05-06 Thread BOMBENGER Pierre
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Brian Skreeg wrote: > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Apr 29 16:43:06 1997 > > X-ApparentlyTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 19:27:13 -0200 (GMT+2) > > From: Nicola Bernardelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Reply-To: Nicola

Re: postgres95 / libbsd.so

1997-05-06 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
THANK YOU *SO MUCH* Karl Nicola Bernardelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Please use <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for messages from any kind of robot, such as mailing lists. From that address no autoresponse messages will return e

Re: Metamail Error

1997-05-06 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
> metamail uses /lib/ld-linux.so.2 but should /lib/ld-linux.so.1. > I submitted this question as Bug#9391 to debian-bugs. > I maked a link: cd /lib; ln -s ld-linux.so.1 ld-linux.so.2 and got metamail to run but this may produce other problems. Mirek -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: postgres95 / libbsd.so

1997-05-06 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Mon, 5 May 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: > Sad to say I don't give you a solution. Running the postmaster daemon > actually results in a complain that it needs that library file and I don't > have it in Debian 1.2.4 nor it was in 1.1 and it isn't in none of the 6 CD > of InfoMagic Linux

Re: Metamail Error

1997-05-06 Thread Chiel Postma
> > Hi, > > I am expiriencing problems with metamail after a recent upgrade to > > metamail 2.7-20. Whenever it is invoked, I get the following error: > > Upgrade to metamail 2.7-21. Then it works fine again. Chiel -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [E

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-06 Thread Ed Down
A couple of times my machine has been brought down by a power failure and I have got similar messages to the original poster, during the file system check after bootup failed. I have all my files on a single partition, plus swap and dos. Kernel 1.0.2? from memory, xdm doing logins. I boot from a c

Certification Authority for Apache-1.1.3

1997-05-06 Thread Petr Barta
Hi all, I've got a problem I've stuck with. I try to set up an secure apache web server (apache 1.1.3 + SSL 0.6.4) and self-signed certification authority for our network. Regarding the SSL itself and secure server I've succeeded, I've set it up and working. But I'm not able to set up a CA.

Re: NIS problem, please Help

1997-05-06 Thread Richard Zoni
On 2 May 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Richard Zoni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > : Hello, > : > : we have a debian linux NIS server running on a 166Mhz Pentium with 64Mb, > : it serves a cluster of 20 debian linux boxes. > : We have very big maps (600 lines in passwd and 2 hundreds more in gro

chicken and egg problem with installation on a floppyless system

1997-05-06 Thread K. Desai
Hi there, Ive been trying to install DEBIAN onto my laptop for quite a while now. at one point i did succeed but now im screwed and have run out of ideas. in a nutshell: i have a compaq contura aero 4/25 this machine has an external pcmcia floppy drive i also have a pcmcia ethernet card for it.

Re: GIF for KDE

1997-05-06 Thread Joey Hess
Rick Jones: > What package is libgif2 in? It's needed to install the kde packages. libgif2 is in the libgif2 package. It's still in incoming, as is kde. You can also get them from ftp://kite.ml.org/pub/code/debian/ -- See shy Jo. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsu

Re: GIF for KDE

1997-05-06 Thread Steve Dunham
Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What package is libgif2 in? It's needed to install the kde packages. You know there is a huge security hole in kfm(which the author apparently doesn't care to fix...) It uses a tcp socket to send commands (like delete file) to it's slave processes...S

Re: GIF for KDE

1997-05-06 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Dunham: > You know there is a huge security hole in kfm(which the author > apparently doesn't care to fix...) It uses a tcp socket to send > commands (like delete file) to it's slave processes...So essentially > (if you're on the net) anyone in the world can delete files on your > machine

Re: chicken and egg problem with installation on a floppyless system

1997-05-06 Thread Steve Dunham
"K. Desai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bg > Now for the problem: > a few months ago, i installed debian using the 2.0.6 kernal. > i made a set of boot/root/base/modules disks and successfully installed > everything i wanted [or could fit onto my 170 MB drive]. > now, i bought a new 1.3GB drive

Re: problem: getting nfs up and running

1997-05-06 Thread Michael J Devine
Trying to get nfs running, but something just isn't right... > > What does your /etc/exports look like ? > # /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported # to NFS clients. See exports(5). /home *.ewu (rw) > > Do you have the portmapper running ? > T

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-06 Thread Dima
You wrote: >On Sun, May 04, 1997 at 10:23:39PM +, Sam Ockman wrote: ... >> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ... >It could be just an incompatibility of some kind between your hard disk, >disk controller, and Linux, or something. Try disabling DMA; there >should be a

kernel message

1997-05-06 Thread m*
'Unable to load interpreter.' anyone ever seen this? m* -- "The Shining One" -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-06 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello, in order to give technical help people need more information about your computer hardware configuration, hardware setup, hardware technical specifications. Please foward me all of this information to me through the list or not I am very interested in this problem, because I have a simil

ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive

1997-05-06 Thread Ken Gaugler
Yeah, that time is here again, when I need more disk space. I have been thinking about moving my Debian to a larger drive, so I can take out the smallest drive to make room for a big one. This is a heartwrenching decision; It has taken a long time to get my system working like I want it; includin

Debian PnP tools package?

1997-05-06 Thread Christopher Ray Martin
Is there a debian package which will allow me to configure my PnP ISA 2Mbps tape drive accelerator card? Thanks, Chris. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive

1997-05-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
Ken Gaugler wrote: > > Yeah, that time is here again, when I need more disk space. I > have been thinking about moving my Debian to a larger drive, so > I can take out the smallest drive to make room for a big one. Here we go again. You're gonna get endless messages with cpio and tar flags and

Re: Debian PnP tools package?

1997-05-06 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Christopher Ray Martin, you wrote: > > > Is there a debian package which will allow me to configure my PnP ISA > 2Mbps tape drive accelerator card? Take a look at the 'isapnptools' package from Bo Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.bu

changing login message?

1997-05-06 Thread Christopher Ray Martin
How can you change the text that appears before the login: prompt? Mine still says I have Debian v1.1 installed... I would to customize it a bit as well. thanks, Chris. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PR

Re: changing login message?

1997-05-06 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Christopher Ray Martin, you wrote: > > > How can you change the text that appears before the login: prompt? Mine > still says I have Debian v1.1 installed... I would to customize it a bit > as well. /etc/issue Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: GIF for KDE

1997-05-06 Thread Rick Jones
Yes. I saw the posting to the kde list by Alan Cox, I believe it was. I wonder if you, or another Debianite, could tell me just how easy it would be to attach to a tcp port and send/recv commands to take advantage of that security hole? I know a programmer would have no trouble exploiting this.

Re: changing login message?

1997-05-06 Thread Tim O'Brien
At 04:41 PM 5/6/97 -0400, you wrote: >In your email to me, Christopher Ray Martin, you wrote: >> >> How can you change the text that appears before the login: prompt? Mine >> still says I have Debian v1.1 installed... I would to customize it a bit >> as well. > >/etc/issue You might also want to

Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive

1997-05-06 Thread Rick Jones
You will get plenty of advice about this. I just did the same thing, using copy in mc. mc has an option to maintain UID and GID on copy. It only worked for the files. The directories were made with root's umask. I didn't loose any symlinks. The only problem I had was the directory permissions

Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive

1997-05-06 Thread Rick Jones
I forgott about this one. This is the one I would use if I had to do over again. My perdicament is what Rick is refering to when he says here we go again, I believe :) On Tue, 6 May 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Ken Gaugler wrote: > > > > Yeah, that time is here again, when I need more disk s

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-06 Thread Rick Jones
Would that include the SB16 software configureable card? What used to be called PNP by some. I have this card and just found after further checking that I am having this error also. It isn't often it's only happened on 6 days in the past 3 months from what I can see by my logs. At any rate it

Debian mirror

1997-05-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
Hi there ... I've got some empty high speed SCSI drives laying around and thought it would be fun to mirror the debian distribution. Our company uses the debian distribution so we'd like to make it easier for others to get the software, too. (Also, having a local copy makes new installs a lot fa

Re: Debian mirror

1997-05-06 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Nathan E Norman, you wrote: > > Hi there ... I've got some empty high speed SCSI drives laying around > and thought it would be fun to mirror the debian distribution. Our > company uses the debian distribution so we'd like to make it easier for > others to get the software,

Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive

1997-05-06 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 6 May 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Ken Gaugler wrote: > > > > Yeah, that time is here again, when I need more disk space. I > > have been thinking about moving my Debian to a larger drive, so > > I can take out the smallest drive to make room for a big one. > > Here we go again. > > Y

mac software

1997-05-06 Thread Richard Sevenich
This is somewhat of a bizarre question for this group, but you can assimilate it. I've just encountered a gentleman from Beijing who has a mac program which he would like to run on a Intel PC platform. I've heard mention of a mac software emulator that runs under Unix. I wish I had more info, but

Re: Wavelan cards and PCI ethernet

1997-05-06 Thread Richard L Shepherd
Well I solved this problem very simply: get a machine whose ISA slots actually work! After having successfully used the WD8003 card on 4 other machines, but not this one, I decided there must be something wrong with this one. So I tried another machine and it all went first pop! On Thu, 24 Apr 1

mailx and signature

1997-05-06 Thread Dany Dionne
Hi, I would like to know if i can setup mailx in such way that mailx append a signature to every mail i compose with it. Thanks, Dany Dionne -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Epson LQ1050+ not print in 360x360 with gs-aladdin

1997-05-06 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
I use magicfilter to filter my mail. I include my /usr/sbin/epsonlq-filter generated by magicfilter. If I change the two lines that configure gs: # PostScript 0 %! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r360x180 -sDEVICE=epson -sOutputFile=- - 0 \004%! fil

adduser??

1997-05-06 Thread Ralph Winslow
Having used adduser to add me as a user to my system, when I try to login, I get the message: ksh: Cannot determine current working directory I do get a $ prompt, and when I cd /home/rjw; ls -l, I see my directory and it's content (largely stuff placed there by me as root). I've logged in to X a

Newbie Debian + X Questions

1997-05-06 Thread Marco Verhoeven
Hi, I just finished installing Debian 1.2 and after downloading all the necessary packages for X Windows I decided install X too. I've never worked with Linux/Unix before btw so everything is new to me. Considering the horror stories I read on the net I was prepared for the worst but within the

.gif rot

1997-05-06 Thread Ralph Winslow
After X has run for awhile, I notice a substantial degradation in the quality of the .gif images that I display. There might also be a bit of decline iin the image quality of the .jpg images as well. I've decided to spring for the $20 that another Mb of Vidcard memory will set me back, but should

Re: changing login message?

1997-05-06 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Tim" == Tim O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tim> You might also want to link /etc/issue with /etc/issue.net I found that it's not just that simple. I use a `figlet` logo in my issue files, and the "/etc/issue" has to have all '\' characters doubled up, while the "/etc/issue.net"