fsck output logged?

I had a power outage and had a server power cycle unattended. I was wondering, is there any place that the output from fsck is logged when the machine is coming up? I'm using Debian 2.0 thanks, Chris

DVD-RAM, CD-RW support under Debian

I am looking into getting either a DVD-RAM (most likely) or a CD-RW drive, and I curious whether there is any 'packet writing' support under Debian 2.0. Also, can I do a 'burn, erase, burn' cycle under Debian using a CD-RW or DVD-RAM disc? For that matter, is DVD even supported for writing? Tha

XDM setup, how to change default color depth

How can I convince xdm that I want to run at a 32-bit color depth by default rather than 8 bpp? Do I need to 'hack up' my XF86Config file so that 32 bpp is the only one availible, or can I somehow pass a parameter to the X server when it is started up? Thanks, Chris

why does dselect read entire CD?

I finally got a Debian 2.0 CD, and upgrading has been really easy. However, why does dselect feel the need to read every package file and say "skipping deselected file" ?? This really slows down the upgrade on my slower CD-ROM, since it aparently has to perform an access for every package file whe

as vs. as86

I noticed that I have both as (GNU assembler provided by binutils) and as86 (provided by bin86). What is the difference between these assemblers? I have a seperate machine where I've compiled the lastest GNU binutils and I would like to compile as86 as well, but I've been unable to figure out whe

Need help upgrading to hamm (libc6)

I am having trouble installing libc6_2.0.7pre1-4. Here is the error message I'm getting from dpkg: libc6 conflicts with libc5 ( <<5.4.33-7 ) version ( 5.4.33-3 ) installed I have been unable to find libc5_5.4.33-7 -- I can only find up to revision 6 in stable. Where can I get the version of l

problem with libpam0 and libpam-util in stable

I'm probably missing something obvious here, but I can't seem to get libpam0 and libpam-util to install, because aparently they depend on each other. Do I need to use dpkg --force ?? Thanks, Chris -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

problems with PPP & Debian 2.0 beta

I recently upgraded my 'base' system to 2.0 beta, and also installed PPP 2.3.5-2. However, when I did this, ppp stopped working. It will dial, and it fails with the message "peer refused to authenicate". Obviously this didn't happen before... I've checked pap-secrets and that looks the same.. in

How to run a script when disconnecting a dialup connection

I know that ip-up and ip-down are run by pppd when the link is brought up or down respectively. However, ip-down is run AFTER the link is brought down. What I'd like to do is run a script or two BEFORE the link actually goes down. Using Debian 2.0. Any hints? Thanks, Chris

Installing GNOME on a server

I have a server which exports /usr/local/ to several other PCs (which mount it under /apps/). This has worked several well with the few applications/libraries I've installed. However, GNOME is a different story. It uses the "bleeding edge" versions of many basic libraries, like zlib, libjpeg, libti

strange log messages/behavior

Has anyone ever seen these messages before? Does anyone know what they mean? Mar 14 17:27:19 server init: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Mar 14 17:28:50 server init: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Mar 14 17:29:39 server init: Id "3" respawning too fast: disa

Xfree86 3.3.3 for next Debian release or sooner?

Just wondering if XFree86 3.3.3 is being considered for the next release (2.2) or not... I would really like to have XF86 3.3.3 since it contains an X-server for the Riva TNT chipset. Thanks, Chris

'time' protocol client/server for Debian?

Does anyone know of a simple time protocol client/server pair for Debian/Linux? I am refering to RFC868, not NTP. It would be simple enough to write, but if someone has already done the work... thanks, Chris

cron without cron package??

I've noticed that on Debian systems without the cron package installed, there still appears to be some version of cron availible... however I've been unable to get it to work for anything. I can edit a crontab, but no cron daemon is running and /usr/sbin/cron doesn't seem to do anything. I did a

UPS systems and Debian/Linux?

I am looking to get a couple UPS units to protect my (2) Debian 2.0/Linux boxes. I don't need a lot of running time; I just want to be able to shutdown in case of a short power outage. I need a unit with uses a serial port to communicate its status, but statistics, etc are not needed. Also, I don't

XFree86 support for Riva TNT?

I need a new video card (my Riva128 is acting up) and I was hoping to replace it with a Riva TNT-based card.. however I need support under Debian/Linux! Anyone know if the TNT will currently work under X? Chris

How to organize NFS server?

I have an old 486 with a few hard drives in it that I want to use as a server. I'd like to store debian-packaged apps such as gcc, x11, xemacs etc on the server, yet keep some functionality on my local drive so I don't need the server all the time. what is the best way to do this under debian? I t

playing around with PPP parameters, how?

I'm running Debian 1.3.1. I would like to tweak some of the ppp driver parmeters, such as MTU size and a few others... where do I even start to look for that stuff? Thanks Chris Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Engineeringweb: http://http.tamu.edu/~crm7479/ Te

Installing applixware for redhat under Debian

ware for RedHat under Debian, please let me know how you did it! Please Cc: me via email when replying. Thanks, Chris. Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Engineeringweb: http://http.tamu.edu/~crm7479/ Texas A&M University"... I'm a 21st cent

thread support?

you can shed on the subject. Please, consider me a complete novice when replying. Chris Chris R. Martin Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Engineering (EE)WWW: http://http.tamu.edu/~crm7479/ Texas A&M University "If you must have delusions, at least have the

man page for mkfs.ext2 ??

man pages... Thanks Chris Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Engineeringweb: http://http.tamu.edu/~crm7479/ Texas A&M University"... I'm a 21st century digital boy, I don't know how to re

HELP: Using sgvalib and ARK 2000 chipset

r puts my monitor to sleep, or gives a seg fault. I am going to try a few other SVGAlib programs and I will let you all know the results. I am fairly familiar with monitor timing stuff, so if someone could provide a working SVGAlib config for ARK 2000PV I could probably adapt it to my setup.

wierd ld problem

m ld: cannot open -lm: File format not recognized what am I doing wrong? according to the man page, this is correct syntax for ld.. Please help me out here... I have libc5(-dev) 5.4.33-6, ldso 1.8.12-1, binutils 2.7.0.9-3 any clues? Thanks, Chris Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Com

CVS for debian?

Just wondering if there is a CVS package for Debian. I looked through the Packages files but didn't see it. Thanks, Chris please cc: me in your reply Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Engineeringweb: http://http.tamu.edu/~crm7479/ Texas A&M University&

Re: Iostream.h

quot; to compile, rather than "gcc" (they are included with libg++). Chris. Chris R. Martin Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Engineering (EE)WWW: http://http.tamu.edu/~crm7479/ Texas A&M University "If you must have delusions, at least have the

problems with "makedepend" and ctype.h

ng Debian 1.3.1, with libc5(-dev) 5.4.33-3 please cc to me any responses from the list, as I've had to remove myself from it temporarily.. thanks for any help Chris Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Engineeringweb: http://http.tamu.edu/~crm7479/ Texas A&M Unive

color for minicom?

I installed the minicom package, but I cannot get any colors to work on it. The screens always come up in plain grey on black. I have all the ncurses stuff installed. Is there an env variable I need to set or something? Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

problems with X

misc/" TRANS(SocketUNIXConnect) () can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. I tried typing X, and got a Segmentation fault. How can I start X ?? The XF86Config looks oka

problems with maelstrom

). What's going on? I checked /etc/vga and the config file, and I couldn't find anything wrong... I can post it if anyone thinks it will help. Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~crm7

ppp package

Where are the ppp-on, ppp-dialer, and ppp-off scripts that are supposed to come with pppd ?? I can make a ppp connection manually, but I have no idea how to automate the process! thanks, chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http

Re: problems with X

t. typing "X" gives me a seg. fault, and "xdm" does nothing. Additional: I added the 75dpi, 100dpi, and PEX fonts in addition to fntbase -- I still get the above errors (the font messages have largely disappeared though). Please, someone help me start X!! Chris. === Chri

The X story so far...

bout it. I can kill the original xdm and type "xdm" again but this does nothing. What sort of things should I be looking for? What configuration files should I be looking at? Thanks for all your help. Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The X story so far...

Thanks, Jon!! This fixed it!! MY question now goes to the Debian maintainers.. WHY is this not WELL documented?? This should certainly be in a info file somewhere!! Thanks to all who replied. Chris. On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, John Labovitz wrote: > Chris R. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

ALT doesn't work under X

he "alt bindings" are commented out, which should mean both ALT keys become meta. What else should I check? Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~crm7479 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

resetting a virtual console

How do I reset a textmode virtual console? I got one messed up the other day... I had to login to different console. Is there a reset keystroke or command? Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://http.tamu.edu:8000

Re: Callback Internet Link

t want to [snip] I was under the impression that setuid *scripts* are NOT supported under any version of the Linux kernel. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~crm747

PPP with dialup scripts.

I am having problems getting ppp to work with a script. It works *fine* manually, using minicom to dial, and executing 'pppd /dev/ttyS2 38400' I've tried this as root. Thanks for any suggestions you might have! Chris. # tail /var/log/daemon.log Oct 28 22:25:56 wraith pppd[316]: pppd 2.2.0 sta

.xinitrc / .xsession / .fvwmrc ???

ame of the window manager, right? .fvwmrc has a bunch of configuration stuff... .xinitrc appears to be ignored. Any hints? Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~crm7479 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MA

restarting X w/o reboot

ystroke to restart xdm (and re-read the XF86Config file) ? Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~crm7479 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PRO

xterm-color : green cursor??

I recently installed xterm-color, but now ALL my xterm windows have a nasty green cursor in them... is there ANY way to tell xterm to use a specific cursor color, either for each window or globally? Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key upon request

VIM questions

the end of the line, pg up to go up a page, pg dn to go down a page, etc... where do I start? I would like behavior both in console mode and in an xterm. Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key upon request www: http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~crm7479

color-ls??

I can't seem to find the color-ls package. Has it been replaced by something else? Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key upon request www: http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~crm7479 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

1.2 release?

Will 1.2 be officially released soon? Also, when can I expect to find it on CD-ROM distributions (I'm NOT downloading all that stuff again...too slow!) Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key upon request www: http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~cr

Gold v. Green Debian CDs

Does anyone know which CDs containing Debian distributions are "gold" versus "green" (CD-Rs). My CD-ROM drive does not like CD-Rs very well, and I want to make sure I get something I can read reliably. thanks for any responses!! Chris. === Chris R. Martin ema

Re: Gold v. Green Debian CDs

t your CDROM-drive doesn´t like the green ones. I've never seen a "gold" CD-r but I know that my CD-ROM does not like "green" ones. Perhaps a "gold" one would work better... *shrug* Thanks for the clarification. Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [

Re: Gold v. Green Debian CDs

d in shipping, but > nothing drive specific. > What kind of CD-ROM drive do you have, and how is it interfaced? It's a Toshiba 8X IDE CD-ROM. It works perfectly with all my CDs except the two "green" CD-Rs I have. Those two CD-Rs worked perfectly with my old 4X IDE. Any sugg

Re: Gold v. Green Debian CDs

On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Nick Busigin wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Chris R. Martin wrote: > > > Does anyone know which CDs containing Debian distributions are "gold" > > versus "green" (CD-Rs). My CD-ROM drive does not like CD-Rs very well, and > > I

how to upgrade from 1.1 ??

e first? I need to keep this system running as much as possible! Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key upon request www: http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~crm7479 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

Digest list availible and web archive

Is the digest debian-user still availible? How do I subscribe to that? Also, is the web archive for debian-user broken? It seems to be mostly empty. Thanks, Chris. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

setserial program

Is the setserial program contained in any of the Debian packages, or will I have to install it seperately? Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

where's man ??

ot;command not found" -- and it's not in /usr/bin. what gives?? Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

no liloconfig?

I had lying around, but I was wondering why it wasn't included -- it's not that big, and is very useful! Thanks again, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~crm7479

where is kernel-package ?

I would like to compile my own kernel, but I can't find kernel-package anywhere on ftp.debian.org... I found kernel-headers, and kernel-source, but I already have a tar.gz of the source. Do I even need the kernel-package? What benifits will it give me? Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. M

Re: can't seem to get internalmodem running

. you can find this out in linux fdisk. just type "fdisk /dev/hd? " where ? is the drive in question. then type "p" to print the partition table. don't worry, fdisk won't do anything unless you tell it to. Just be sure to get help if you need it. I've copied stuff

Re: Using reserved addresses

you have use IP Masquerading. There is a mini-HOWTO on sunsite. See http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade Hope this helps. Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~crm7479

bootup messages

ernet card. Could someone please tell me the nature of these messages, and how to get rid of them?? Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~crm7479

pty-redir package?

Is there a debian package containing the pty-redir program? Thanks, Chris Martin --- "I chose not to choose Life. I chose something else." -- Renton, Trainspotting ---

Apache default configuration?

I've installed Apache 1.3.9-13.1 (from frozen) I can access the default page from my windoze box, but any other page (including the links on the default page) gives 403 Forbidden. I've check and all the directories and files should be world accessible. Why is the debian package configured lik

PLEASE help me with apache package

I've installed Apache 1.3.9-13.1 (from frozen) I can access the default page from my windoze box, but any other page (including the links on the default page) gives the client 403 Forbidden. I've checked and all the directories and files should be world accessible (read, execute world). Why

suppressing ip-up/down scripts with pppd?

Is there any option you can give to pppd that will suppress the running of the scripts in the ip-up.d and ip-down.d ?? I'm trying to set up a vpn using ppp but it seems like that this will cause a problem when I start the second pppd process (I use a dynamic DNS service, and I definitely don't

setting up new samba

I recently installed the 2.0.5a-1 version of samba, and now I've seemed to lost access to shares stored on this machine from my win98 boxes. I'm using the same smb.conf file, but windoze either says "no permission to access resources" or asks for a password for "//SERVER/$IPC" or something like

login.access v. login-PAM

I recently upgraded my server to frozen, however now I cannot telnet in as root from my local network. In my old login.access I had: +:root:LOCAL What is the equivalent for login-PAM? Thanks, Chris

please help with new samba

I upgraded my samba package to frozen (2.0.6), and now it doesn't work with my old smb.conf file. I've been up and down the samba docs and I've tried all sorts of options which don't seem to have any effect (which probably means I'm missing something basic). I can't even list the shares on the

Apache "initial" webpage

I've installed Apache 1.3.9-12 and apache-doc 1.3.9-12. The initial web page that Apache installs has a link to the documentation, but I get "403 Forbidden" when I click on it. I've tried creating symlinks to the documentation from /var/www to /usr/doc/apache, but no matter what I do, I always

no ssh in frozen?

I noticed there is no ssh package in frozen.. is it not to be included in the next release? Can the ssh in stable be used with the other packages in frozen? Thanks Chris

Re: no ssh in frozen?

Just to answer my own question, I *DID* find the ssh package in frozen.. I forgot to look at a non-US mirror. Stupid export laws. Thanks, Chris Martin

upgrading multiple machines to 2.1r4

I'd like to upgrade a few networked machines to 2.1r4, and since I have only a slow dialup connection to the net, I'd like to only download each package I need once. However, I really don't have the space or time for a full mirror. What would be the best way to make sure I can (re)use the packa

apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity?

Forgive me, I've been out of the Debian world for a while. I'm having trouble figuring out the relationship between apt, dpkg, dselect, and "deity" (which seems to be something in development). I know what dselect and dpkg are; dselect acts as a frontend (or used to) for dpkg. How does apt and

bad modem?

I recently got a modem for my Linux server, and it seem to have some problems. When I first connect it seems to work okay, but after a varying amount of time (5-15 min) I see the following log messages: Jan 30 18:21:21 server pppd[255]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 magic=0x8e98729b] Jan 30 18:21:23