Re: NFS has a file size overflow problem

2003-10-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So: presumably NFS is known to use 32 bit file sizes, but ls understands >a 64 bit file size? I also note that the fstat, stat etc system calls >return the file size as an off_t, which in the i86 header files for >2.4.22 is a

Re: NFS server setup -> 'nfs-kernel-server' or 'nfs-user-server' !

2003-10-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Emil Hägerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >someone please guide me in setup of NFS server. > >What is the difference between packages >'nfs-kernel-server' and 'nfs-user-server' >reagarding performance and config? The config is the same, and the user-server is slo

Re: update-rc.d

2003-11-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Miguel Alvarez Blanco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >As I said in the first message, I do not know how to keep a package >installed in the system and yet be able to de-activate its startup >scripts, sort of like leaving it unconfigured. # cd /etc/init.d # mv script

Re: autofs vs amd: Is there a preference?

2003-01-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Heironimus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:07:41PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: >> I'm looking at my automount situation and wondering. Is one going >> away? Which is the "way to go" for automounting, amd or autofs? > >I think that

Re: exim4 sources

2003-01-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 03:18:44PM -0500, David H. Clymer wrote: > >| Is exim4 included in testing or unstable packages? > >No, unfortunately. The maintainer is really behind on that package -- >exim4 has been stabl

Re: Configuration centralizing tool sought

2003-02-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am in search for a tool that does the following. > >- According to a list of users, the tool goes and finds a particular > file relative to the user's home directory. Let's say this file is > called foo.rc. If the user

Re: Building an IMAP server

2003-02-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hans Wilmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >1.) performance: > >My server has an IDE disk only, and it turned out that imapd >tends to heavily access the disk. Performance (700 MHz Athlon) >is ok for one user, accessing a folder holding a handful of >mai

Re: Bogus emails being sent out by me!

2003-02-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On /. today: http://www.techdirt.com/fotr/20030211/0230225_F.shtml That's nothing new. Has been going on for years. There's even a name for it: you have been 'joe-jobbed'. Mike. -- Anyone who is capable of getting thems

Re: consoling to a cisco router using inittab

2003-09-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Louie Miranda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 > >Im trying this but i could not connect to it, im trying to connect using >minicom. >But it wont get thru.. > >Any ideas? Im planning to move over to win/hyper terminal but i ch

Re: What filesystem for no-halt boot?

2003-10-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Danie Roux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I use ext3 for all my servers, and I have no problem with it. > >Except for one thing: Every now and again, you need to run e2fsck -y >after a power failure or such. > >If I read S10checkroot.sh correctly, if I specify an envir

Re: NIS problem

2002-10-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Don Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I should have been more clear about rpcinfo --- >rpcinfo -p client from the client fails Fails how? >rpcinfo -p client from the server works but shows only portmapper and >nlockmgr > >rpcinfo -p server from the client works

Re: increase FD (file descriptors) in Debian 3.0 !

2002-10-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Huy T.Q" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Debian Users, > > I am use Squid on Debian 3.0 and I only saw 1024 FD (file > > descriptors) in my Squid when system starting. > > Can i increase FD number in Debian ? > > Thank

Re: Converting router from W2K to Debian

2002-11-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >2) Get DNS set up. I used to have two zones. theloveshack.local for my >internal DNS, and the-love-shack.net for my external DNS. I'd like to >consolidate these into one. However, since my NS is the registered NS for >my do

Re: UNIX shells - Bourne and C

2002-11-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >By the way, dash will be the POSIX shell in testing/unstable >Bashism such as "export FOO=bar" is no-no :) That's not a bashism, that's valid POSIX syntax and has been for at least 10 years or so. Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: UNIX shells - Bourne and C

2002-11-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 11:41:34AM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >By the way, dash will be

Re: UNIX shells - Bourne and C

2002-11-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The old Bourne shell is not free software. Therefore only commercial >proprietary systems have it available. You won't find it in a Debian >system for this reason. In fact I know not of any free software based >system that ha

Re: 2.5.50 kernel compilation problem

2002-12-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Miguel Griffa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi all >I've been trying to compile the 2.5.50 kernel and after _many_ >configuration changes (to make it comilable) I've arrived to an error >which I have no clue about. If you want to mess around with current 2.5 kernel

Re: Demon's (isp) debian mirror

2002-12-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Penn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My closest mirror is my ISP (Demon), but it has taken some time for the >mirror to update since Woody was released. Is it worthwhile changing my >sources now, or are these problems not unusual for this site? I'm not sure, you

Re: port :80 and my ISP

2002-12-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >http://www.cablemodemhelp.com/portscan.htm >worked - it said port 80 is closed, but how can i tell if there is >something on my computer closed it or if the ISP closes it? Maybe a >program that will tell me it has recieved r

Re: mbox--> maildir with getmail, procmail,mutt

2003-08-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >in .procmailrc >add line >MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir >and in individual recipes, add trailing slash to all of the old mbox names. > >will procmail then still try to deliver to /var/spool/mail/username >when messages fall through

Re: /etc/rc.boot

2003-08-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.08.21.1554 +0200]: >> Why not just write a single script, /etc/init.d/local or something, >> which you add to as necessary? > >also sprach David Z Maze <[EM

Re: /etc/rc.boot

2003-08-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carlos Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:55:13 +0200 martin f krafft wrote: >> /etc/init.d/rcS says that /etc/rc.boot is run only for >> compatibility. What's the Debian standard for rc.local/rc.boot now? >> Please don't make me write init.d s

Re: nis installation question

2003-08-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Z F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a question regarding NIS+ client installation. > >I am doing it for the first time and I think I followed all procedures >from the NIS-HOWTO correctly. > >I am running unstable. > >The problem is that it worked, but after reboo

Re: xterm starts with LINES=24 s/b 25

2002-12-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <1040715997.31918.22.camel@localhost>, Mark L. Kahnt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >XTerms stick to the standard computer >terminal geometry - to hard-change that, you'd need to burrow into the >source (I presume a header file with such constants) - otherwise if you >feel that you must use

Re: getty and inittab

2002-12-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Narins, Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think "init q" re-reads inittab. Correct. >But, a long time ago, on a job, I did "init -q" on a SysV box, or was it >BSD? Regardless, it was the wrong one, and I rebooted all our production >machines in the middle of a run

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:18:58AM -0800, nate wrote: >> I haven't tried GRUB, but with LILO the serial options doesn't let me >> interact with lilo, it just spits the information out to the serial port. > >This I find har

Re: getting around a firewall?

1999-06-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a little dilemma.  My work PC (windoze) is on a (gov't) network.  >The firewall blocks all ports save http, ftp, telnet, and maybe a few >others  -- ssh is most certainly blocked.   I want to be able to >securely connect to a

Re: qpopper error message

1999-06-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, > >mail.mattyt.net(doma) is running slink with qpopper installed. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] can retrieve their mail just fine, but >when they do, xconsole says: > >Jun 13 00:33:22 doma in.qpopper[710

Re: POP3 server

1999-06-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Varga Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >don't use qpopper version <2.51 since it has security holes in it. > >there is a qpopper 2.3 debian package in stable, contact the maintainer to >know whether it has fixes to close the sechole, if it is not fixed, then >try t

Re: Kernel Panick: VFS: Unable to mount root.fs on 16:02

1999-06-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Oliver Elphick wrote: >Johann Spies wrote: > >I got this message after recompiling my kernel and I cannot find out what > >is causing it. I have a single computer that uses a dialup ppp connection > >to the ISP. > > > >Before the error message in the subject l

Re: Kernel Panick: VFS: Unable to mount root.fs on 16:02

1999-06-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Johann Spies: > On 26 Jun 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > It also says (because of request_module[block-major-22]) that IDE disk > > support was not compiled into the kernel, which ofcourse poses a small > > problem if the root file system is on an IDE d

Re: Kernel Panick: VFS: Unable to mount root.fs on 16:02

1999-06-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to David Teague: > Device with major 22 and minor 2 is /dev/hdc2 > > My reason for jumping in is to ask: Will somebody please tell me > What the 16 in 16:02 means? 0x16 == 22 Mike. -- Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.

Re: /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm?

1999-06-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonathan Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Now, this is getting nonsensical. First, you tell me that the reason that [rant deleted] Why can't you simply use -I/usr/src/linux/include if you need those specific kernel includes. Mike. -- Beware of Programmers who

Re: POP3 server

1999-07-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Leszek Gerwatowski: > On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 04:04:23PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > Most of the 2.4 and early 2.5 qpopper packages had a license > > that made it impossible to include it with Debian, so Debian shipped > > with a fixed 2.3 instead.

Re: Squid hogging memory with children

1999-07-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just upgraded Squid (to 2.1.2-1, the newest in stable). It's >started to spawn a bunch of (16) child processes that consume a lot of my >memory. Despite my best efforts with the config file, I can't change >the number of

Re: RedHat 6.0 Root Remote Login

1999-07-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gordon Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Theres lots of excellent reasons to want to do it though. Eg. I want to >copy a file to a dozen other Linux boxes and now I have to use scp which >is a lot slower than rcp. Recently I had to move 20GB's of data from one >

Re: squid question

1999-07-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > Is there anyway to rebuild the index file swap.log.0 file from the > actual cache?? > > We have accidentally removed the swap file, and we still have 32GB of > cache... we don't want to waste all of that...

Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Andrew: > >I believe that this is exactly how lock files are supposed to work. When >getty is active, it is using the serial port, and no other application should >be able to access it. Well, yes, that's probbaly what it doe

Re: Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Andrew MacIntyre: > As I was used to agetty and minicom cooperating nicely on an ancient > Slackware box, I expected this to work on this much more recent Debian box > . That is because that worked with the cua/ttyS devices (kernel based locking between dialin/dialout) which has off

Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Andrew MacIntyre: > >Source of both agetty and mgetty is available on all debian mirrors. > > Could you tell me where then please. AFAICT, getty is packaged as > base/getty, however such a package appears not to exist, either > source or binary. mgetty I found w/o any probs. It's

Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?

1999-07-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrei Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > Also check that in /etc/rc.d at the appropriate runlevel you have a umount >> > script (it's the script that will get executed upon the shutdown to umount >> > all the partitions). >> >> This should already be in

Re: clnt_call errors in NIS

1999-07-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Max: > After upgrading to the new 3.3.3 version of nis in potato, I started > getting the following errors when logging in or doing an su on nis > client machines: > > yp_all: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out That's an error produces by glibc. > I also upgraded to libc6 2.1.2 recently, but

Re: clnt_call errors in NIS

1999-08-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> People think that the NIS package does far more than it actually does; >> the only thing it does is keeping an eye on the

Re: Can less read its input from the stderr ? How ?

1998-07-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
ou tell someone to perform some command as root while you yourself are not even sure what it does!] Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: qpoper?

1998-07-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
nt to do that install the qpopper from the previous Debian version, 1.3, nicknamed "bo". Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: No color in second xterm

1998-07-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
it can do color and has many other extensions" you'd end up with a messed-up display. So you set TERM=xterm-debian to hint that you have an extended xterm. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -

Re: boot: unable to open initial console

1998-08-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dirk Bonne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >They should with tar. e.g.: > > tar cf - . | (cd somewhere; tar xvf -) > >Of course, you must set umask to 000 beforehand Or use the "p" option with tar when you unpack i.e. tar xpvf - Mi

Re: Vim leaves ~ files

1998-08-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Danny ter Haar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hint for the maintainer: please set a default of NO backups ! Has already been done in the version in slink IIRC Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to compile against libc5?

1998-08-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
TH et voila Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. <*>

Re: INN, Cleanfeed and Debian Hamm

1998-09-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric Jacoboni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've noticed that the inn server shiped does not contains perl filter >capabilities and that there is no cleanfeed files. What can i do to >have a Inn server with Perl filtering enable ? I'd like to have a pure >deb system s

Re: INN, Cleanfeed and Debian Hamm

1998-09-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 1 Sep 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > : Well actually I am waiting with a new release for inn 2.2 or so .. > >Great! I'm glad to hear this. 2.0 was frighteningly buggy, and I >hav

Re: Local News Server

1998-09-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Hank Fay: > Is INN what I would use to set up a news server for my personal use > (with > clients coming over the net to use it, of course), with no usenets groups, > sucking, feeding, etc? You could. > Or is there something else I should look at? Very possible, but I have no

Re: -ltermcap option...

1998-09-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Luis Sismeiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Matt McLean wrote: >> change the -ltermcap to -lncurses. AFAIK, debian doesn't use termcap >> anymore. > >And why is that? Because otherwise we'd have to keep /etc/termcap and /etc/terminfo in sync, now w

Re: debian 2.0 stable?

1998-09-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi! > > I've just read some postings complaining that their systems crash too >often with debian 2.0 I think they have a library problem, or a ld.so problem. Don't know what causes this though. > Is debian 2.0 stab

Re: Database Client

1998-09-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi All. > I'd DEARLY love to get Linux established on my university campus, but >one of the stumbling blocks is that one of our major apps is based on an >SQLServer 6.5 database running on an NT Server. The clients are all >Win95

Re: 2.1 kernel

1998-09-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I thought I saw Linus make a comment to someone that "That feature is >going to have to wait for 3.1, this kernel is frozen with regard to new >features" or something along those lines. If the next devel kernel is 3.1 >then I

Re: yp and nfs not registered?

1998-09-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >whenever I try to use nfs or yp on my debian 2.0 machines they complain >about the program not being registered. >here's what happens when I try to mount nfs: >mount: RPC: Program not registered Either the portmapper is not running, or y

Re: yp and nfs not registered?

1998-09-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >OK I got nfs mounting to work, but the yp stuff still doesn't work. I just >make hosts.allow = all and hosts.deny = "blank". >What do I have to do to add NIS to portmapper? Read /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz It might have to do with

Re: Serial Console

1998-09-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Sailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Has anyone actually gotten the serial console stuff to work with the >newer kernels? Yes, I have ;) You mean the 2.1.x kernels I presume? I'll talk about that. BTW, there is a backport of the 2.1.x serial console stuff to 2.0.x

Re: A question on runlevels

1998-09-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Tremblett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've just installed Debian 2.0 for the first time (in fact it is the first >time I've installed Debian). I'm well experienced with Linux and UNIX in >general, but I've hit something that I've never had to do before. Debia

Re: Installation troubles

1998-09-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Sheehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I decided to re-install Debian 2.0 today from scratch, because I wanted >to re-partition my hardisk. I have the official Debian CD and using that >I repartitioned my disk so that it now has 4 linux partitions - 1 large >root

Re: How to get a screenshot?

1998-09-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want to take a screenshot of a window running under X and eventually >to convert it to a .gif file. > >I assume the Gimp can handle the conversion. But how does one get a >screenshot under [Debian] Linux? Is there anything c

Re: NIS groups HOWTO?

1998-09-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marcelo E. Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The hamm machine is the NIS server. If I put > > netgroups: nis > >on /etc/nsswitch.conf on both machines and > > mygroup (,host-a,) (,host-b,) (,host-c,) > >in hamm's /etc/netgroups That's wrong. Th

Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:01

1998-09-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Samuel Landau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >dear mister, that's the orginal doc from de kernel source, not the >Debianized one. >well, with Debian there are some more files that are necessary for the >kernel to work >(e.g. : /boot/SystemMap) That's nonsense. I have ne

Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:01

1998-09-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > VFS: Can't open root device 03:01 > Kernel Panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:01 Sounds like you didn't compile in the driver for your harddisk. You did compile in (not as module) the IDE driver right? And support for the

Re: [CtrlAltEnd] as [CtrlAltDel] ?

1998-09-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Horacio M.G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >how can I make a key combo work? > ># What to do when CTRL-ALT-END is pressed. >ca:12345:ctrlaltend:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -h now > >which was just a guess, and obviously didn't work. I suppose I >should first of all configur

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wojciech Zabolotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi >There was a lot of noise about the y2k problem in old COBOL and M$ >applications, but what about the "Y2K+38 disaster" in the POSIX world? >I was pretty sure that the new libc6 library implements 64 bit time_t, It's

Re: viewing ansi graphics

1998-09-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Stutz wrote: >On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Matt Garman wrote: > >> >> Does anyone know of a way (or a utility) to view ansi graphics under >> Linux? > >"cat" will do this after changing the console font to a font that will >properly display all of the extended ASCI

Re: rc3.d

1998-09-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In /etc/init.d/ I made a file called wmnetstartup.sh that contains: > >#!/bin/sh >ipfwadm -A in -i -S 0.0.0.0/0 >ipfwadm -A out -i -D 0.0.0.0/0 > >and then in /etc/rcS.d/ I made a symlink to that script called: >S60wmnet

Re: DATING SERIOUS ASIAN GIRLS

1998-09-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >http://www.floor-kramer.nl > >Only for SERIOUS Dating. Sorry for this, as a service to our customers (and a convienience to the debian developers at cistron) we have local *only* newsgroups for several mailing lists. Unfortunately one o

Re: What causes single user boot?

1998-10-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Spiegl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi! > >I've got a webserver which is running constantly. A few days ago >we had to reboot it, because of a SCSI problem with the JAZ drive. >(side note: can you imagine the load went up to 115 still growing!?) > >Well, after t

Re: single user question / problem ?

1998-05-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
uot; or "telinit 1". That will go to level 1 first and stop all running services, and will _then_ switch to level 's'. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: redirecting display of program over telnet (with DISPLAY)

1998-05-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
t a lot of passwords that way when I was still at the University.. even the root password. (Not very exiting, I already had it officially, but still..) Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
te and gate the interesting mailing lists to _local_ newsgroups and back). Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /etc/init.d

1998-05-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
an exactly with "root used to log in automatically on bootup." ? >I removed the responsible entry from /etc/inittab. Which one? >The problem I encounter now is, that the root login does no longer require a >password, even though it is set. What do you mean with "the r

Re: /etc/init.d (2)

1998-05-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
adow options), and turn it back on with "/usr/sbin/shadowconfig on". Even the off -> on transition might solve your problem. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: php?

1998-06-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
At the moment it's still 3.0rc4, don't know when 3.0-release will be out. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.0.34

1998-06-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
etty old version of netbase, right? Okay I'll copy an ifconfig from my computer at works which is more recent (3.09-1): # ifconfig eth0 203.14.18.1 netmask 255.255.255.128 broadcast 203.14.18.127 # No errors .. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EM

Re: Which pop3: qpopper or cucipop?

1998-06-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
provider) - no problems at all.. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re[4]: pop3 mail problem

1998-06-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
. But fixes will continue to be integrated into the debian qpopper_2.3 package. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
or something? How can I look >at this after booting? No, that's not possible at the moment. It isn't stored anywhere. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
am working on is to use the TIOCCONS ioctl to redirect all console output to a pseudo terminal while booting, and printing it to the real terminal + a logfile by a "bootlogd". It can also keep the output in memory until / is mounted read-write etc (catching root f/s fsck output etc). I'

Re: Postgres, php question

1998-06-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there a tutorial for the php3 program? See http://www.php.net/ Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBS

Re: unstable networking

1998-06-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
turn it off. Comment it out in /etc/init.d/netstd_init. BTW, it's turned off by default .. Mike/ -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to install Debian?

1998-06-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
Then the work starts to remove all old slackware files from your system.. it might be a good idea to remove as much non-essential stuff beforehand. Good luck! Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNS

Re: Samba: password for mapping network drives

1998-06-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
windows' map utility (i.e. >in explorer): > >\\debian\hda# (where # = appropriate drive partition) >\\debian\usr (or \root, \var, or \usr) Ofcourse, you need to define your "shares" (ugh) first in /etc/smb.conf Samba, like most other programs, need to be configured fi

Re: saving copies of sent mail with mutt

1998-06-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
want to put it in.. Another option is my_hdr Bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to enable pop3?

1998-06-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
tandard installation. You need to install the "qpopper" package. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to enable pop3?

1998-06-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
s >proved the patches worthless. Not the patch that I wrote and used! I know there still is a small bug in it, but that is NOT exploitable. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: NFS/Network locking available?

1998-06-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
. Is network locking >supported in hamm? No, hamm use the standard Linux 2.0.3x kernel and those kernels have no support for NFS locking. The 2.1.x kernel does have support for NFS locking but is still under development. I expect a 2.2 Linux kernel release in 6 months or so .. Mike. -- Miqu

Re: serial troubles

1998-07-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
cated when used. >can dialout fine from minicom but ppp script fails >(can't initialize the modem). Smells like a modem problem. Maybe the modem is set to non-echo? Try using the init string from minicom in the ppp script. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to

Re: can't set quotas bigger than about 3.8GB

1998-07-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
a again the values are much >lower! > >Is the quota system limited at 4GB?? What am I doing wrong? I think so. Remember, 4GB == the maximum of what fits into 32 bits. It would probably work fine on an Alpha (64 bits). Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time,

Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit

1998-07-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
they are accessible by all? man mount Options uid=, gid= and umask= >From my /etc/fstab: /dev/hda2 /dos/c vfat defaults,uid=2101,gid=10,umask=027,conv=binary,dots,showexec,noauto,user 0 0 Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL P

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
Try this: $ ulimit -c unlimited $ sleep 60 CTRL-\ zsh: quit (core dumped) sleep 60 $ ls -l core -rw--- 1 miquels staff 262144 Jul 17 00:42 core Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Getting Squid to work

1998-07-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
can find squid_1.1.17 for Debian-1.3 (libc5) on ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/miquels/debian/libc5-compiled/ Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: init file structures; changed in hamm?

1998-07-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
ood look at your existing installation if you only now discover Debian uses sysvinit - it has always done so .. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Debian 1.3 & libc6

1998-07-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
our goal is to *avoid* >buggy software, not improve it. > >I do some beta testing, but I like to do it on purpose and only on >packages I *know* I'm beta testing. Debian 2.0 _is_ stable (and it will be officially so in just a few hours). Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our visio

Re: where is "rc.local"

1999-02-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The last thing /etc/init.d/rcS does is look for a file called >/sbin/setup.sh and if it exists, it runs it. I put all my local stuff >here. Ugh .. that's quite wrong. That hook is there only for the initial installation pr

Re: sulogin and MD5 pwds

1999-02-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Soeren Sonnenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Its me quoting myself. >I've had a look at sulogin.c and discovered that the max. pass-string-length >is about 15 characters. >Is there anyone to patch that ? (I guess MD5 allows max. 127 characters) so >the only thing to

Re: ROOT created chaos !

1999-02-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Bal K. Paudyal wrote: > > : As root, I typed the following: > : > : "chsh /bin/usr/tcsh" when I meant "chsh /usr/bin/tcsh". > : > : I just wanted to change the shell. But now because that shell file

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