Re: Init error on kernel v2.3.6

is loaded and INIT starts up. It looks like libc probably needs to be recompiled. Back to my trusty 2.2.3. Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless may say Neil Peart, 1985 pgp2Xv9AgaEiy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: smail immediate delivery

exim is an actively supported MTA that performs better and is easier to configure than exim anyway. I recommend you make the switch as well. BTW, there is currently 1 grave outstanding bug on smail, and the problem you described has also been reported as a bug 253 days ago. I don't think it

NIS requests overwhelm portmapper

ian potato machine with kernel 2.2.10. There are 3 NIS clients on SunOS 4.1.3 machines, but I don't think this has anything to do with this problem. Has anyone run into something like this before? Please cc me on all replies. Thanks, Max pgpwNc5v0aoYy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Amanda tape definitions

s. Also, you should have a line that says something like tapedev "/dev/nst0" If this doesn't help, e-mail me your amanda.conf file and I'll see if there are any obvious problems. You can also try contacting the amanda mailing list (see http://www.amanda.org). Max

Re: 3C905B 10/100 card "falls back" to 10MB

d to a 100 Mb LAN and that the EEPROM has been set to auto-select. If you do that, you shouldn't have to mess with the module options. 3Com cards come with EEPROM utilities (DOS only, AFAIK) that will set the right registers in the hardware. You can also get these utilities from their Web si

upgrading perl

cc me on the replies. Thanks, Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless may say Neil Peart, 1985 pgpsSKM3k02nR.pgp Description: PGP signature

clnt_call errors in NIS

rver and client. Thanks for any help, Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless may say Neil Peart, 1985 pgpDtcm9ZKXrq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Matrox G200

sible with XFree86? I understand that Xi Graphics already supports this card, so that may be my only option. E-mail replies please! Thanks, Max -- In the darkness... I was stumbling for the door To find a reason To find the time, the place, the hour Bruce Dickinson, 1994

Turtle Beach Fiji

. I'm sure the analog audio part will work with Linux, but I'd like to find out about the digital I/O part. Any clues? E-mail responses please! Max

kernel worries

sound (Turtle Beach Fiji) and Ethernet (3Com 3C905) support. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Max

swap size

d I allocate? Can I change it later without having to reinstall everything? The machine is a dual-processor workstation that will be used by 4-8 people concurrently for number crunching and all sorts of simulations. Also, is it possible to put /tmp within swap? Is that the default? Thanks, Max

wvdial and unknown prompts

vdial do what I want it to do? This built in "intelligence" is rather stupid. I'm using wvdial 1.00 Thanks, Max

Adaptec AIC-7890 and kernel 2.1.121

but I need the development kernel for some other features. Kind of suprising that it doesn't work given that all the patches were supposed to have been implemented... Thanks for any help, Max

smail and domains

o? BTW, I'm using elm if it matters. Thanks, Max

Re: smail and domains SOLVED

s searching for answers (like I do). The solution was to edit the /etc/smail/routers file and add widen_domains=stanford.edu under the inet_hosts heading. I don't know why the qualify file didn't do the trick. Max

mixed text and postscript

e with lpq. From the Sun (which sends all print requests to the Debian box), I can only get the total number of jobs, but not a job-by-job listing. What gives? Thanks, Max

JAZ, vold, and jaztool

ugh I put /dev/sdb4 /jaz vfat ro 0 0 in /etc/voltab. Thanks, Max

Re: mixed text and postscript

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ole J. Tetlie) > *-Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > | I'd like to be able to print both text and PostScript using one > | printcap entry. HP recommends setting up two separate printcap > | entries, but it seems to me that it should be possi

Arla

2). I got the latest libreadline RPM from RedHat but the linker for Arla still fails. What gives? I'd really like to get AFS working here and it looks like Arla is my only choice if I want to use the development kernel. Thanks, Max

ftp and NIS

t fine, so I would have thought that ftp would work as well... Thanks, Max

ip acct and devel. kernel

option is greyed out and I have no idea how to ungrey it so that I can enable it. Thanks for any help, Max

Re: ip acct and devel. kernel

You (Stephen J. Carpenter) wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:55:15PM -0700, Max wrote: > > Is there something special I need to do to be able to use IP > > accounting with the development kernel (2.1.121)? /proc/net/ip_acct > > doesn't exist and programs such as ip

Re: ip acct and devel. kernel

You (Stephen J. Carpenter) wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 11:15:26AM -0700, Max wrote: > > You (Stephen J. Carpenter) wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:55:15PM -0700, Max wrote: > > > > Is there something special I need to do to be able to use IP > >

forwarding all mail except root

se to be forwarded. Has anyone done something like this before? Any clues? Thanks, Max

SATAN deb?

Does anyone know the reason why SATAN is not available as a deb package, even in the contrib or non-free sections? Has anyone been able to find it as an RPM? Thanks, Max

Re: printcap entry for HP LaserJet 4000

rd and print server, but I'm printing directly to port 9100. That means that I need to send either PostScript or PCL. Hence the need for the CTI-Print filter. Incidentally, the documentation that came with my printer provided some (really bad) example printcap entries. They work but are suboptimal for several reasons. Max

dead users in utmp

red automatically, but for some reason that's not happening. If it matters, all of my users use tcsh and this happens with both telnet and ssh logins. Any clues? Thanks, Max -- Some wounds may never heal (The ways of grace are narrow) Some secrets can't be sealed (The battle rages on) Roy S. Khan, 1995

SPARC X

to the new workstation. I remember that the terminals came with some files that had to be placed on the host workstation (SUN). Does anyone have any experience in making these things work with Debian or any other flavor of Linux? I'd prefer to keep them while we still can. Thanks for any help, Ma

nis

nyone seen this problem before? I would appreciate an e-mail response as I don't read the mailing list on a regular basis. Thanks, Max

NIS and ippl

Has anyone noticed any problems using the latest version of ippl in potato together with NIS? I have figured out that the extra network traffic seems to be due to the interaction between the two programs. Any ideas? Please reply via e-mail. Max

Re: Crashing Install with Debian 2.0

ine, but I like to know if there are other solutions.... SoonMax P.S. Linux is great!! (and a little bit hard) Tallon wrote: > Does anyone know what this means? I am trying to install Debian 2.0 > on a Cyrix MII 300 with 128Megs and 2 Fujitsu 4.3G drives. Has a > Genoa 3d

dselect screwed up

or almost every package: IOM *-- I want it to be ***, just like it's supposed to, but I don't want to have to go through every single package to change it. Any clues as to how I can just tell it to look at what's already installed and preserve it? Thanks, Max -- The hopeful

Re: dselect screwed up

* mike shupp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03/15/99 17:30] wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Max wrote: > > I just did something really bad. I somehow managed to convince > > dselect that I want to uninstall pretty much all the packages on my > > system. I haven't actually

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #483

update for the card that I ma not aware of I'm using 2.2.3 with a 3Com 3c905b card with no problem. Are you sure you set up your network stuff correctly? You need to make sure your /etc/networks and /etc/init.d/network files are correct. Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without en

proftpd permissions

ard FTP port. Port21 # Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new dirs and files # from being group and world writable. Umask 022 # Set the user and group that the server normally runs at. Userroot Group

menus gone when upgrading WindowMaker

gular basis. Thanks, Max

locking over NFS

Has anyone been able to find any solutions other than local symlinks or specifying "nolock" in /etc/fstab? Locking is there for a reason, I'd really like to get it to work as opposed to just ignoring the problem with nolock. Thanks for any suggestions, Max -- The hopeful depe

comsat error with new pts

ries. Does anyone have a fix for this? I'm using the latest version of potato with kernel 2.2.3 and glibc 2.1.1 Thanks, Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless may say Neil Peart, 1985 pgpZ9Nnnfehb1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Postgres upgrade

postgres. Can someone explain to me what needs to be done? Thanks, Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless may say Neil Peart, 1985 pgpcvMmElWbWt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Resizing ext2 filesystems

me of the space from /dev/sda7 can be added to /dev/sda6? I have heard of "resize2fs" but it appears that it's not available other than as part of Partition Magic. Is there anything else out there? Thanks, Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless

Re: Resizing ext2 filesystems

this necessary? /sbin/shutdown -h now Does the above look right to people who've done this before? Is it OK to do it all from single-user mode or should I boot up from a rescue disk with resize2fs on it? If so, how do I make a rescue disk? :) Thanks a lot for all your help, Max -- The

Amanda rescue floppy

appreciated! Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless may say Neil Peart, 1985 pgp3W18WSnMbR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Debian on old SPARC

e all the networking stuff and X on such a small amount of disk space? The machines would then be used to run X that would allow users to ssh to a server for all real work. Thanks for any suggestions, Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless may say Neil

http proxy with Apache

of the form "/blah/index3.html" get interpreted as http://foo.com/blah/index3.html, which obviously fails. Does anyone know how to fix this and force ALL links on bar.com to go through http://foo.com/bar? Thanks, Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hop

Boot failure on SPARCstation 2

.debian.org with the 2.2.1 kernel. Thanks, Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless may say Neil Peart, 1985 pgpZ42o6BTmz7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: http proxy with Apache

gt; change the links or the target site would have to use *only* > relative links. Is there anything that needs to be done in my Apache settings in order to enable him to do that? Thanks, Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless may say Neil Peart

pam-pwdb + NIS + ssh

ure it? Thanks, Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless may say Neil Peart, 1985 pgp01rC04KdeR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: pam-pwdb + NIS + ssh

* Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04/23/99 16:49] wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 04:42:45PM -0700, Max wrote: > > I noticed that the latest version of ssh in potato introduced PAM > > support and totally screwed up ssh for me. It created an > > /etc/pam.d/ssh file

Re: pam-pwdb + NIS + ssh

* George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04/23/99 17:20] wrote: > On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Max wrote: > > > > anyone know how to configure it? > > > > > > edit /etc/pwdb.conf I believe > > > > OK, I just had to add nis to the entries in pwdb.conf. &

acct going berserk!

Any clues? Thanks, Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless may say Neil Peart, 1985 pgpVojsxncs4v.pgp Description: PGP signature

tty problems

I'm running the latest version of potato and I get the following problem chinook:~> finger finger: /dev//ttydirs/xxx/xx: No such file or directory Login Name Tty Idle Login Time Office Office Phone maxk Max Kamenetskydi 1:06 May 19 12:47 (:0.

"You have new mail" disappeared

What happened to the "You have new mail" prompt on potato? It now says "You have mail" when I log in, regardless of whether it's new mail or old mail that I've already ready but just haven't deleted yet. Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end What

DNS fails on Sun after moving NIS

this behavior is controlled by /etc/nsswitch.conf. Does anyone know how to fix this on SunOS? Thanks, Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless may say Neil Peart, 1985

adding local TeX sty files

If I wanted to add my local teTeX sty files, where on the system is the proper Debian place to put them? For example, I would like to add figdef.sty which doesn't come with the distribution. Do I need to make any configuration file changes? Thanks, Max -- The hopeful depend on a

Re: DNS fails on Sun after moving NIS [fixed]

It turns out that SunOS is almost entirely braindead and tries to rely on NIS for everything. The solution involves compiling resolv+ and substituting it in place of libresolve, as well as patching libc. The explanation is in ftp://ftp.ececs.uc.edu/pub/sun-faq/FAQs/DNS-wo-NIS.FAQ Max -- The

gnomecard doesn't load card file

still produces an error. Thanks, Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless may say Neil Peart, 1985 pgpmpmL2sRKKv.pgp Description: PGP signature

dumps failing with "could not connect to data port"

S server on the same machine and it looks like the backups started failing around the same time. Could this have something to do with it? I'm using Debian potato with Linux kernel 2.2.3 and glibc 2.1.1, so I'm cc-ing this to the Debian mailing list as well. Please cc all replies to me direc

high load but idle CPU

w CPU activity. Any clues? Thanks, Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless may say Neil Peart, 1985 pgpz1QUKCNLDr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: high load but idle CPU

arla 5 days ago and sxid is trying to traverse the entire AFS tree? :) I guess I'll have to wait till the next reboot to clear these D processes out. In the meantime, editing sxid.conf is a good idea. :) Thanks, Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless

Development for QNX?

le to do it in Linux using my existing development environment or some other tool. Has anyone done something like this before? Are there 3rd party tools that allow this? Thanks for any suggestions, Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless may say Neil Peart,

backup programs

of sophistication and features as Amanda that can append to tapes? How does afbackup stack up? Any others? Thanks, Max

smail & libc

thing that will be fixed soon. Thanks, Max

Is sysklogd OK now?

Is the latest version of sysklogd in slink (-30) OK now? I saw all the warning about -29 and I'm hoping that those bugs were fixed. Thanks, Max

emacs warning

rid of it? Thanks, Max

X warnings (was: emacs warning)

and all the fonts are there. What's going on? Thanks, Max

Re: matrox marvel g200

y work for the Marvel as well, given that the Marvel is a souped up Mystique. Take a look at: http://www.suse.de/XSuSE/XSuSE_E.html I've been using it with no problems for a couple months now. Max -- Some wounds may never heal (The ways of grace are narrow) Some secrets can't

Re: matrox marvel g200

You (Joachim Trinkwitz) wrote: > Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > S.U.S.E. has a server that supports the Millennium/Mystique G200. It > > may work for the Marvel as well, given that the Marvel is a souped up > > Mystique. Take a look at: > > > >

unresolved symbol errors

ything compiles fine, so I don't understand why I'm getting these errors. Thanks for any help, Max

whois default

Is there any way to change the default whois server from the Internic one to something else? I know that I can specify a different server with -h, but I'd like to change the default itself. The manpage doesn't mention anything and there are no obvious files in /etc. Max

Re: unresolved symbol errors

You (Michael Beattie) wrote: > Give `modprobe xfs` a go... It says there aren't any dependencies. Max > On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Max wrote: > > I'm trying to compile a program (Arla) that creates a module called > > xfs.o. When I try to load that module with ins

Re: whois default

You (wb2oyc) wrote: > You could edit the named.ca file. As in /etc/named.ca? That file doesn't currently exist and I couldn't find any references to it in the named man pages (but then I don't see what named has to do with whois). Could you explain? Thanks, Max

Re: unresolved symbol errors (SOLVED)

Turns out that an upgrade to the latest version of Arla fixed the symbol errors. That's the benefit (?) of using alpha software. Max

biff and comsat don't work

I don't see how this should make a difference. Thanks for any help, Max

cracklib mail

I keep on getting bizarre mail from cracklib every single day with the following message: /etc/cron.daily/cracklib: 45375 45375 Looking in /etc/cron.daily/cracklib doesn't tell me why it's mailing me with those two numbers, and neither do the cracklib man pages. Any clues? Thanks, Max

Re: cracklib mail

-- Start of included mail From: Jean Pierre LeJacq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Max wrote: > > > I keep on getting bizarre mail from cracklib every single day with the > > following message: > > > > /etc/cron.daily/cracklib: > > 45375

Re: lprng and logs

it's not enabled, edit your /etc/printcap and add the following entry for the desired printer: :af=/var/log/lp-acct Max

Re: lp accounting -- lprng [pages?]

magic filter, but I get page accounting from the ifhp filter, which should work for all LaserJets. Max

tty's under X

they don't show up in utmp and the ownership on the ttyp's doesn't get changed correctly. What's going on? Max

Turtle Beach

If anyone here has successfully been able to use a Turtle Beach Multisound Fiji (or Pinnacle), I would like to talk to you. I've been struggling with this card for quite some time now with absolutely no success (except for the uncanny ability to completely crash the system). Max -- Some w

tty's under X (continued)

Apparently, this problem with tty's not being assigned under X disappears if I do "startx" as root. So, is something somewhere not getting the permission to assign the tty? Max -- Some wounds may never heal (The ways of grace are narrow) Some secrets can't be sealed

Re: tty's under X (continued)

xvt didn't have this problem. The fact that it doesn't set itself up as suid root is a bug in slink. Max

socket destroy delayed

I keep on seeing the following error message appear over and over in /var/log/syslog: Nov 10 13:21:46 chinook kernel: Socket destroy delayed (r=112 w=0) Does anyone have any idea what this might be about? Max

device or resource busy

Rvplayer just crashed on me and now I keep on getting "device or resource busy" errors whenever I try to reinstall the sound modules. Does anyone know a way of resetting this other than rebooting? I tried removing /dev/dsp and recreating it with mknod, but that didn't help. Thanks, Max

Dialpad or Net2phone for Linux?

es to me as I'm not subscribed to the mailing list. Thanks, Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless may say Neil Peart, 1985 pgpyTtOO66lBP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Mozill and spell checking.

you can download from ftp.netscape.com the spellchecker version for NS6.1. usually you need to copy it in /tmp the spellchecker.xpi file and as root in mozilla address field write: file:/tmp/spellchecker.xpi ciao, MaX On Sun, 2001-09-16 at 06:12, hanasaki wrote: > Has anyone seen a date

Re: netatalk on potato

ne for me. ... a setup problem? If you want i can send you my conf files and a little article. ciao, MaX > First I never got netatalk1.4+asun to work reliably on linuxppc. After > many trial and errors I got it working but then the macs accessing my > box suddenly froze up every few files/o

How to create ALSA device nodes?

-Configuration.txt says "Use the /dev/MAKEDEV script to create the nessecary device nodes.".. but my MAKEDEV script doesnt know anything about ALSA (it knows audio, but not alsa). Should "MAKEDEV alsa" work? Or is there some other script that creates ALSA device nodes? thanks, Max

Re: How to create ALSA device nodes?

On Sunday 31 October 2004 00:25, Andreas Janssen wrote: > That script is included in the alsa-base package: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate snddevices > /usr/share/alsa-base/snddevices exactly what I needed! thanks, Max -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: USB Memory

w do I mount the usb filesystem? mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/memstick should work > How can I rectify this problem? if you cat /proc/bus/usb/devices, does it list your memstick when it is plugged in? Max -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VIA sound problem

nd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd soundcore ... make sure the "sound" (and via82cxxx_audio) modules are _not_ loaded as they are oss. See if that helps.. Max -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2nd NIC: Netgear FA-330, insmod problem

Hi, I am trying to put in a second NIC, a Netgear FA-330/FA-331. lspci shows: 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) The first one is my old card, so I guess the second one is the new card. I am

Why is Debian not telling the truth about its security fixes?

This is a text-only version of my post on https://medium.com/@maxwillb/why-is-debian-not-telling-the-truth-about-its-security-fixes-85f0f85f19a0 It is missing hyperlinks and illustrations. Comments, corrections and suggestions are very welcome. --- WHY IS DEBIAN NOT TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT IT

Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

January 22, 2022 1:52:16 PM CET "Marco Möller" wrote: > Without transparency the Debian project does not present itself as community > driven, but as a closer circle of directing minds hiding the reasoning for > their decisions. Indeed. In the US, one can demand to read the archived emails

Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

January 24, 2022 2:23:12 AM CET Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > None here are public officials, this is a private corporation even if it's of > public utility. Nor was I suggesting otherwise. I'm just saying that it's odd for a moralistic organization like Debian to be less transpa

Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

January 24, 2022 3:44:51 AM CET Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > You don't have other interest ? This seem to be the only thing you talked > about and never asked a question on another subject. You must have missed by post about https://medium.com/@maxwillb/why-is-debian-not-telling-t

Re: Why is Debian not telling the truth about its security fixes?

January 22, 2022 2:42:39 PM CET Jim Popovitch wrote: > I was interested, until I realized your Medium post is that Google Chrome is > not updated fast enough by Debian. Not at all. It's about the fact that the claims on debian.org/security are counterfactual. -- Sent with https://mailfence

Re: Why is Debian not telling the truth about its security fixes?

January 22, 2022 3:51:28 PM CET "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > Debian does fix security problems The question is when: 0 days or 6 months after the CVE announcement? I mean, if you need 6 months, that's fine. Just don't claim that you do it in 0 days. That's dishonest. Does this make sense? >

Re: Why is Debian not telling the truth about its security fixes?

d it list them on its security-tracker? Have you thought of that at all? > Now that I read the press release paragraph and the reference to Pocock's > "excommunication", I start wondering if Max, who never wrote on any Debian > List before last month is yet another trollesque i

Re: Why is Debian not telling the truth about its security fixes?

January 22, 2022 2:23:48 PM CET max wrote: > https://medium.com/@maxwillb/why-is-debian-not-telling-the-truth-about-its-security-fixes-85f0f85f19a0 I've updated the post taking into account the feedback so far (There weren't any corrections, but there were misunderstandings, and I

Re: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

For comparison, RMS is publicly against singular "they", and Debian developers voted not to censure him. https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html Seems like a double standard, but whatever. BTW, Norbert, I have used TeX on Debian many times. So let me take this opportunity to say

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