Re: DOS <--> Linux
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Matthew Hewitt wrote: > > I am running Debian 1.1. I want to use it as a file server for MSDOS > 6.22. I was wondering what can I use to facilitate this. I know that I can > use WFWG to connect to the samba server but is there such a thing for > MSDOS? I want to be able to boot off a floppy and have the Linux exported > directory structure come up as c: . Basically make a Diskless(will sort > of) dos station. Anyone hear of anything like this? Or is there a PC-NFS > or equievelent in the shareware/freeware domain. LANtastic will connect to a "lan manager" or "wfwg" server, which is what SAMBA "is". -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
DEFRAG for ext2fs
I found a program on SUNSITE (in system/filesystems) for defragmenting disks under Linux, and I was wondering if anyone has compiled it. I tried, but the compiler says function FIRST_INODE (or something close to that, sorry but the code is at home and I'm at school) is undefined. What it really is a #define statement that expands, but it requires a parameter, and I am not sure what it wants, and I don't want to experiment on my system. Has anyone fixed it, compiled it, or otherwise made it available?? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DOS <--> Linux
There is indeed a MS "DOS for Workgroups" product. You need Microfoft's free TCP/IP stack from their FTP site on top of this. If you have 8MB and at least a 486 on the client systems, run Windows 95 on them and boot it in DOS mode most of the time. You'd really only have to boot Windows mode to do configuration. It's a lot easier to find all of the pieces that way, since they are all on the Win 95 CD, and they are newer versions. Most of the work of running WFWG was getting all of the parts together. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
innd & mmap
my news box is regularly throttling with the log message "File exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling". I've found a relevant section in /usr/doc/news/inn-faq-5, which describes the problem and also has a fix (run 'ctlinnd renumber'), but this is only a patchup job...in a couple of days the problem has occured again. extract from the inn faq part 5: > QUESTION: I'm running INN 1.4, and the server throttles itself, saying > "File exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling". Why? I > have no clue, other than to note that the message is being emitted > while innd/art.c tries to link a crossposted group. > > ANSWER: Innd wrote the article to comp/foo/123 and then tried to > symlink it to alt/bar/128 and found that the symlink failed with errno > == EEXIST. This generally only happens when your active file does not > match your file/directory use. The three most common cases of that are: > > Trying to use MMAP on Ultrix > Trying to use MMAP on Linux > Some strange interaction with tind. > > If you are using Ultrix or Linux, turn off MMAP. You don't have a > choice in this. The Ultrix mmap() function does something completely > different than the Sun/BSD mmap() function. The Linux function gives > you some of the functionality that Sun/BSD mmap() function has, but > not enough. (The Linux people expect to have it fully up to spec > eventually, yeah right.) Is this still true for linux? is it a kernel or a libc problem? Has inn for debian been compiled with MMAP turned off? If not, should this be reported as a bug against inn? Craig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DOS <--> Linux
>I am running Debian 1.1. I want to use it as a file server for MSDOS >6.22. I was wondering what can I use to facilitate this. I know that I can >use WFWG to connect to the samba server but is there such a thing for >MSDOS? I want to be able to boot off a floppy and have the Linux exported >directory structure come up as c: . Basically make a Diskless(will sort >of) dos station. Anyone hear of anything like this? Or is there a PC-NFS >or equievelent in the shareware/freeware domain. I believe (though I haven't done it myself) that there is a DOS component of WFWG which you can run without Windows to allow use of WFWG networked drives and printers. I believe that you can access this using the net /start command which starts the WFWG networking before you actually run Windows. I had a friend who set a bunch of 286's up to a 486 like this a while ago. I think the service is called workstation or something similar. Look at the options for the net command. Adam -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Odd problem with XFree 3.2
Hi: I recently installed the XFree 3.2 packages from unstable in my machine. Although most things seem to work fine, I'm experimenting a very odd problem with the xrdb command. If I run xrdb -merge .Xresources I get the message: xrdb: cannot run '/lib/cpp -traditional -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -DX_LOCALE -DHOST=naoma -DSERVERHOST=naoma -DSRVR_naoma -DDISPLAY_NUM=0 -DCLIENTHOST=naoma -DCLNT_naoma -DVERSION=11 -DREVISION=0 -DVENDOR="The XFree86 Project, Inc" -DVNDR_The_XFree86_Project__In c -DRELEASE=3200 -DNUM_SCREENS=1 -DEXT_XFree86_DGA -DEXT_XFree86_Misc -DEXT_XFree86_VidModeExtension -DEXT_DOUBLE_BUFFER -DEXT_RECORD -DEXT_XC_MISC -DEXT_XKEYBOARD -DEXT_SYNC -DEXT_MIT_SCREEN_SAVER -DEXT_MIT_SUNDRY_NONSTANDARD -DEXT_BIG_REQUESTS -DEXT_XTEST -DEXT_XInputExtension -DEXT_MIT_SHM -DEXT_SHAPE -DSCREEN_NUM=0 -DWIDTH=1024 -DHEIGHT=768 -DX_RESOLUTION=2951 -DY_RESOLUTION=2954 -DPLANES=8 -DBITS_PER_RGB=6 -DCLASS=PseudoColor -DCLASS_PseudoColor=34 -DCOLOR -DCLASS_PseudoColor_8=34 -DCLASS_DirectColor_8=35 -DCLASS_GrayScale_8=36 -DCLASS_StaticColor_8=37 -DCLASS_TrueColor_8=38 -DCLASS_StaticGray_8=39' This seems like xrdb is not being able to find the C preprocessor as /lib/cpp, even despite the fact that /lib/cpp is a valid link to /usr/bin/cpp. However, if I try xrdb -cpp '/lib/cpp -traditional'-merge .Xresources this works just fine (???). But, after this, there is something really strange. If, after issuing the last command, I issue a new xrdb -merge .Xresources it works fine (!!!). Summarizing, xrdb fails when I use it for the first time, but after specifying the C preprocessor's path once, it starts working correctly. Any ideas of what may be happening? M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Virtual Terminals Greater Than tty8.
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:30:56 CST ugs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just did mknod to create tty9 through tty12. Everything seems to > be working fine, but I thought I would just check to make sure those > vt's weren't disabled for a reason. No, no problem with it. Go ahead. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dftp and some problems
> > I tried to connect and then choose ftp from the dselect access menu but > > I couldn't get the pppd to connect right. as far as I can see everything > > is exactly the same (Except lots of stuff that should be in /usr/bin and > > /usr/sbin is in /bin and /sbin instead.. pppd and chat are in /usr/sbin > > though) If you are using "dselect", then you mean "dpkg-ftp" as opposed to "dftp" which is a self-contained program. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- if you have a 50% chance of guessing right,you will guess wrong 75% of the time -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dftp and some problems
Woops.. caught the spamfilter (Only mildly annoying) here is the original > Okay, I fsck'd up bad :) Instead of doing the smart thing and deleting > Dos/WFWG (Actually, I need to keep dos until I get the BBS up under > Linux) then making all my drives ext2 I just used one. > > /dev/hda is fat-16 (Dos C:) > /dev/hdb is (was) fat-16 (Dos D: but now mounted on /usr as ext2) > /dev/hdc1 ext2 mounted as / > /dev/hdc2 swap (30 Megs) > > okay, now I have most everything fixed.. mostly :) How the *&#$)(&#$ do > I use ftp to install the stuff I want? > > I have net access over a dialup PPP link, I have pppd in /usr/sbin and > the ppp modules load when I boot. > > The modem is there, everything is the same as before but I can't connect > (I have to reboot into dos/windoze to use winsock) > > I tried to connect and then choose ftp from the dselect access menu but > I couldn't get the pppd to connect right. as far as I can see everything > is exactly the same (Except lots of stuff that should be in /usr/bin and > /usr/sbin is in /bin and /sbin instead.. pppd and chat are in /usr/sbin > though) > > Feeling a little stupid for crashing my system (Wouldn't do anything > except dump core because I filled the disk and didn't catch it in time) Mike - Muralynd Rev. Mike Martin Hrothgar the Smith, SCA Blacksmith par excellance Eclectic Celtic/Discordian Witch Pope and POEE, LSD, AUM's, and CCC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.networkamerica.com/~muralyndFNORD #include ICBM: 40 45 13 N 86 04 08 W 649' Finger me for Geek code and Bio! I Love Multi-Orgasmic Women |Myers-Briggs PGP fingerprint: 67 25 E4 67 2B 57 86 CE F9 33 37 BA EC 66 3E AE | ENFX -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DOS <--> Linux
I have heard that there is an SMB client for DOS. Check out: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/ Also look at: http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/docs/smb_serv/html/smb_se-2.html#clients Good luck. Chris -)- On Nov 27, 11:29am, Matthew Hewitt wrote: > Subject: DOS <--> Linux : : I am running Debian 1.1. I want to use it as a file server for MSDOS : 6.22. I was wondering what can I use to facilitate this. I know that I : can use WFWG to connect to the samba server but is there such a thing : for MSDOS? I want to be able to boot off a floppy and have the Linux : exported directory structure come up as c: . Basically make a : Diskless(will sort of) dos station. Anyone hear of anything like this? : Or is there a PC-NFS or equievelent in the shareware/freeware domain. >-- End of excerpt from Matthew Hewitt -- Christopher R. Hertel -)- University of Minnesota [EMAIL PROTECTED] Networking and Telecommunications Services -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DOS <--> Linux
I am running Debian 1.1. I want to use it as a file server for MSDOS 6.22. I was wondering what can I use to facilitate this. I know that I can use WFWG to connect to the samba server but is there such a thing for MSDOS? I want to be able to boot off a floppy and have the Linux exported directory structure come up as c: . Basically make a Diskless(will sort of) dos station. Anyone hear of anything like this? Or is there a PC-NFS or equievelent in the shareware/freeware domain. Matthew Hewitt Room: 343 Christie Hall Phone: (503) 240-1075 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Portland "INSANITY is a matter of perspective" -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape - bus error
Pedro Quaresma wrote: > > Hi. > > I want to install Netscape in my Debian-Linux 486DX2 (66Mhz). > $ netscape > > unable to obtain ... (I do not remenber exactly something about colors) > > unable to obtain ... > > bus error > $ > > Can you help me? Netscape is unable to allocate colors for its display. Try doing "netscape -ncols 64" and see if the "unable to obtain" erros go away. If not, try numbers smaller than 64 or close some applications that are using lots of colors. If the bus error goes away, you should report this as a bug to Netscape (see "how to give feedback" under the help menu). Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Generated by Signify v1.01. For this and more, visit http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Posting rejected - please read and agree to mailing list rules. (fwd)
"Andrew" == Andrew Martin Adrian Cater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Johnie> Yes, the exact same thing happened to me, apparently because Johnie> 2.1.13 does not understand the "#!/usr/sbin/perl --" line in the Johnie> script. No script which gives an argument to its processor works Andrew> My guess is that Perl has moved - the canonical location has Andrew> possibly moved from /sbin (very restricted in terms of who can Andrew> use it) to /bin (any user) to avoid all the suid problems ?? Andrew> Just my thought. Sorry -- I mistyped that. The line really says "#!/usr/bin/perl --". My theory is the problem lies in changes to fs/binfmt_script.c. Every script with extra stuff after the interpreter filename now fails with something like "bash: no such file" (I don't remember exactly -- I'm back to 2.0.25 now). I was going to test the theory by replacing binfmt_script.c with the 2.0.25 version, but make-kpkg didn't work under 2.1.13, and by the time I re-liloed and booted the stable kernel, the heat of the moment had passed :-) ~ mm mm Johnie Ingram, Network Technician mm mm Research & Development, The Library Network m m m 33030 Van Born Road, Wayne, MI 48141 +1 313 326 8910 x144 mm mm GO BLUE PGP E4 70 6E 59 80 6A F5 78 63 32 BC FB 7A 08 53 4C "Ibala lami elimnyama, ndiya zidla ngalo" -- One by One (Disney's Rhythm of the Pridelands) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shell scripts (first line -- what is that called?)
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Johnie Ingram wrote: > This is the first 2.1 kernel I've tried, so I don't know if its a bug > or a feature. (Its startup messages mentioned being POSIX-certified, > mabye things like "#!/usr/bin/perl -w" and "#!/usr/bin/make -f" are > unsupported now?) Nope. It's just a bug. By the way, the "#!" is called the "magic number". I don't know a canonical name for the rest of the line, although I've called it the "interpreter command". From: William Burrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Is this not the realm of the shell? I know that the kernel looks at the > start of an executable to support Java, but it should not be changing it. The kernel looks for #! as the first two bytes in any executable. If it finds them, it considers the rest of the line as arguments to exec(), and adds the pathname of the file you actually exec-ed at the end. So, if file "foo" has this line "#! /bin/sh -v", what is actually executed is "/bin/sh -v ./foo". Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mailing lists back up
The $1000 charge for advertising (it's not really a fine) is a donation to Debian's still-in-formation corporation, "Software in the Public Interest". I doubt I'll be collecting it any time soon, it's mostly a strategy to put off spammers. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: displaying pgp public key and xface in finger info???
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Andrew Y Ng wrote: > What file do I put my PGP public key in to have it displayed in my > finger info in Debian Linux? ~/.pgpkey c u... Magic --- Artur Zaworski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Posting rejected - please read and agree to mailing list rules. (fwd)
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johnie Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >"Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Hamish> Ooops. I just bounced this post, hoping elm would let me edit >Hamish> it. :-( I tried Linux 2.1.13, and found that >Hamish> start-stop-daemons, which Debian uses extensively during >Hamish> bootup, did not work, and possibly some other scripts. Hence >Hamish> 2.1.13 was useless and I am back to 2.1.10. Has anyone else >Hamish> experienced this? > >Yes, the exact same thing happened to me, apparently because 2.1.13 >does not understand the "#!/usr/sbin/perl --" line in the script. No >script which gives an argument to its processor works with that >kernel. > >Miraculously, almost everything will work normally if you change the >line to "#!/usr/bin/perl". Seems like start-stop-daemon is the only >key script that gives arguments to its processor. > >This is the first 2.1 kernel I've tried, so I don't know if its a bug >or a feature. (Its startup messages mentioned being POSIX-certified, >mabye things like "#!/usr/bin/perl -w" and "#!/usr/bin/make -f" are >unsupported now?) > > >~ > > mm mm Johnie Ingram, Network Technician > mm mm Research & Development, The Library Network > m m m 33030 Van Born Road, Wayne, MI 48141 +1 313 326 8910 x144 > mm mm > GO BLUE PGP E4 70 6E 59 80 6A F5 78 63 32 BC FB 7A 08 53 4C > > "Ibala lami elimnyama, ndiya zidla ngalo" > -- One by One (Disney's Rhythm of the Pridelands) > > >-- >TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > My guess is that Perl has moved - the canonical location has possibly moved from /sbin (very restricted in terms of who can use it) to /bin (any user) to avoid all the suid problems ?? Just my thought. Andy -- Andrew Martin Adrian Cater -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shell scripts (first line -- what is that called?)
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Johnie Ingram wrote: > This is the first 2.1 kernel I've tried, so I don't know if its a bug > or a feature. (Its startup messages mentioned being POSIX-certified, > mabye things like "#!/usr/bin/perl -w" and "#!/usr/bin/make -f" are > unsupported now?) Is this not the realm of the shell? I know that the kernel looks at the start of an executable to support Java, but it should not be changing it. -- William Burrow -- Fredericton Area Network, New Brunswick, Canada Copyright 1996 William Burrow This line left intentionally blank. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
qmail compatible MUA
Hi, I am looking at using qmail as a replacement for smail/sendmail. I am using now on a sun workstation for testing, and it seems to work fine. My question is does anyone know of a reader that can access the maildir files (that is the qmail-preferred way of storing mail)? Right now I must use mailfile format for the MUA's that I have. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Charlie -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Posting rejected - please read and agree to mailing list rules. (fwd)
"Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hamish> Ooops. I just bounced this post, hoping elm would let me edit Hamish> it. :-( I tried Linux 2.1.13, and found that Hamish> start-stop-daemons, which Debian uses extensively during Hamish> bootup, did not work, and possibly some other scripts. Hence Hamish> 2.1.13 was useless and I am back to 2.1.10. Has anyone else Hamish> experienced this? Yes, the exact same thing happened to me, apparently because 2.1.13 does not understand the "#!/usr/sbin/perl --" line in the script. No script which gives an argument to its processor works with that kernel. Miraculously, almost everything will work normally if you change the line to "#!/usr/bin/perl". Seems like start-stop-daemon is the only key script that gives arguments to its processor. This is the first 2.1 kernel I've tried, so I don't know if its a bug or a feature. (Its startup messages mentioned being POSIX-certified, mabye things like "#!/usr/bin/perl -w" and "#!/usr/bin/make -f" are unsupported now?) ~ mm mm Johnie Ingram, Network Technician mm mm Research & Development, The Library Network m m m 33030 Van Born Road, Wayne, MI 48141 +1 313 326 8910 x144 mm mm GO BLUE PGP E4 70 6E 59 80 6A F5 78 63 32 BC FB 7A 08 53 4C "Ibala lami elimnyama, ndiya zidla ngalo" -- One by One (Disney's Rhythm of the Pridelands) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netscape - bus error
Hi. I want to install Netscape in my Debian-Linux 486DX2 (66Mhz). I had obtained from my CD destribution, and from the archives the netscape_3.01-1.deb and netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz then I try to install "dpkg -i netscape_3.01-1.deb" and all works fine (no error messages), but when I try to run netscape I obtain the following output: $ netscape unable to obtain ... (I do not remenber exactly something about colors) unable to obtain ... bus error $ Can you help me? -- At\'e breve === Pedro Quaresma de Almeida Departamento de Matem\'atica Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia Universidade de Coimbra P-3000 COIMBRA, PORTUGAL e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://www.mat.uc.pt/~pedro/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ATAPI CDROM errors
The ATAPI 6X CDROM on my Sharp 9080 notebook seems to work OK but generates the following errors: hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 hdc: packet command error: error=0x50 hdc: code: 0x70 key: 0x05 asc: 0x20 ascq: 0x00 I always get them when I mount the CDROM, and occasionally thereafter. I usually get several sets. Can anyone point me in th right direction? Thanks, Michael -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Virtual Terminals Greater Than tty8.
I just did mknod to create tty9 through tty12. Everything seems to be working fine, but I thought I would just check to make sure those vt's weren't disabled for a reason. Thanks Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Odd X message
Guy Maor writes: > Add this to your XF86Config file: > > Section "Modules" > Load "pex5.so" > Load "xie.so" > EndSection Alternatively, if you don't use PEX and XIE then don't add the Load lines. Save yourself a bit of memory... Steve Early -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Managing a network of Debian machines?
Nelson Minar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : What's the right solution? Assume disk is cheap, bandwidth is fairly : cheap, but sysadmin time is really expensive. If Debian could provide : some solution, it would be a big help to Linux administrators. The solution running here is: 1) /, /etc, /var in one partition locally on each machine. Configuration is still too machine dependent. 2) /usr mounted via NFS. The disk really hosting the /usr files is a DEC-Alpha but each Linux machine could serve as well. 3) /usr/local is a symbolic link to /local on each machine. Here, machine specific applications are stored. They should not be touched by Debian packages. Due to the strict separation between configuration files and programs in Debian, this works quite well. All programs except for those installed in /usr/local have to be maintained only centrally. The netload due to the program loading on execution is still relatively small compared to the load produced by the real data which are also often treated via NFSi here. Hope this helps. Best regards -- Volker Volker Ossenkopf, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Astrophysikalisches Institut und\\/// Universitaets-Sternwarte Jena ( . . ) Tel.: 03641/630324 --oOo--(_)--oOo- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mailing lists back up
(I don't think this has very much to do with debian-devel, so I removed it from the headers) > "HM" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HM> I just noticed this. I wonder if perhaps the wording could be HM> made a little friendlier; I found it a bit intimidating, HM> especially about the $1000 fine. What if someone takes a dislike I think the $1000 fine is quite OK; but I think it should indicate who the fee should be payed to. Debian Project? List maintainer? HM> to me and can argue in court that my mail was "spam"? The mail "There is a $1000 charge for commercial advertising", etc. I think that's pretty clear. HM> filter also assumes guilt rather than innocence. :-( I haven't HM> noticed their being any spam problems on this list anyway to date HM> .. ? There have been at least two or three messages (that I saw, I might have skipped some others) in the last couple of weeks. I think the filter is a _very_ good idea. -- Juri Pakaste/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: aztcd driver needs DOS to initialize sound card IDE port?
Bruce Perens wrote: > > From: Alberto Brizio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Here is the problem, the Sound Card. For the aztcd driver to work, it > > needs that the IDE port of the Sound Card be initialized, so the best > > way I've found (many thanks to Prof. Zimmermann) is to use loadlin after > > booting DOS setting up the Sound Card IDE controller this way. > > I've copied this message to Werner Zimmerman, the driver author. What > sound cards exhibit this problem? My sound card is a MAD16PRO, it's based on the OPTi 82c929 chip and has 4 connectors for CD-ROM, a standard IDE, a Panasonic, a Sony and ... damn', I can't remember now. This SC is sometimes known as a SoundStorm and I suppose it's quite the same as the Turtle Beach Tropez. The manufacturer is "PRIMAX". BTW I've not tried to setup the sound module yet: can anybody give me some hints about it? The Sound-HOWTO says this card is supported but it is not clear if I've got to pass some options. I don't want to recompile the kernel. > I have a Wearnes controller (someone > at Orchid crossed out the word Wearnes on the printed circuit card and > packed it in the box with my Orchid 3110) and it does not exhibit this > problem. > > Thanks > > Bruce > -- > Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. > PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 Hope that helps Alberto Brizio CSTV - CNR Str. delle Cacce, 91 - Torino Tel.: +39 11 3919 242 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Re: Mailing lists back up
> The mailing lists are back up. A spam filter is in place. If you post from > an address the list doesn't recognize, [EMAIL PROTECTED] will > mail you a copy of the list rules, and will insist that you send it AGREE > before it will let you post. I just noticed this. I wonder if perhaps the wording could be made a little friendlier; I found it a bit intimidating, especially about the $1000 fine. What if someone takes a dislike to me and can argue in court that my mail was "spam"? The mail filter also assumes guilt rather than innocence. :-( I haven't noticed their being any spam problems on this list anyway to date .. ? thanks, Hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bo seems to be empty on master?
bo always seems to be empty on master; nothing in the directory. Is this just me? Running ncftp, on this SPARC/Solaris .. hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Posting rejected - please read and agree to mailing list rules. (fwd)
Ooops. I just bounced this post, hoping elm would let me edit it. :-( I tried Linux 2.1.13, and found that start-stop-daemons, which Debian uses extensively during bootup, did not work, and possibly some other scripts. Hence 2.1.13 was useless and I am back to 2.1.10. Has anyone else experienced this? thanks, Hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shadow password
> > > > > > root:x:0:root,"your loginname" > > > ... > > I don't like that. It seems unsafe to me. There's gotta be > > a better solution > > > > Currently, I am putting in special users in /etc/suauth > > but I only know the syntax for making su ask for the current > > users passwd, and not root's. Would like to prompt it to > > ask for root's password. Workaround anyone? > > > > Roger Endo > > > yep, its safer to but the usernames in suauth > > looks like (file /etc/suauth): > > root:ALL EXCEPT login1,login2:DENY > > or > > root:ALL EXCEPT login1,login2,GROUP root:DENY > > watch out! keyword GROUP let the parser know that all words behind GROUP > are group names - only the ":" escapes. > the examples let the users login1 and login2 and all users in group root > (2nd examp.) to get root access by enter the roots password, all others > will receive the message access denied. > > root:login1:NOPASS > root:login2:OWNPASS > root:ALL EXCEPT login3:DENY > > let the user login1 get root access without passwd > the user login2 have to put in his own passwd and > the user login3 have to use the root passwd all other user cant get in > > so if you want the users login1 login2 and login3 to be promted for the > root password you use: > > root:ALL EXCEPT login1,login2,login3:DENY > > hope that helps > >ciao Helmuth (irc: Pvppet) > > __Blasch Helmuth,Graz University of Technology, Austria > \/ Computing and Information Services Center > L\in/uX Steyrergasse 30/Parterre (CE04), 8010 Graz, Austria >\/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel.: + 43 316 873 6883 (FAX 7699) > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > OK to chmod 640 suauth? What other files in the debian distribution in /etc can be made more unreadable by the world? Seems like a shell user can learn a lot by snooping around in /etc (i.e hosts.deny, hosts.allow) Thanks, Roger -- ~~ Roger Endo President, Warp 9 Technologies LLC SBnet, Internet for Santa Barbara [EMAIL PROTECTED] 805-961-0150 ~~ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: soft windows
Fundamental wrote: > > Can debian handle dual processors and does debian (or any linux) have a > windows/win95 emulator? > dual processors - yes, you need to compile the kernel by yourself windows 3.1 - yes with wine (free) or WABI ($200) windows 95 - NO lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
soft windows
Can debian handle dual processors and does debian (or any linux) have a windows/win95 emulator? thanks Sahua, - mIcHaEl ///\ The Australian Internet Company c-00 ISP par Excellence \ > http://www.electric-rain.net/ (mine) |\_- http://www.aic.net.au/ (not mine) \ / . "On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of victory, sat down to wait and waiting died." -G.W Cecil/Adlai Stevenson. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnus isn't the culprit (too bad I don't know what is:(
ME? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I set the permissions to those you have, but I get this message > approxamately 5 min after doing "echo test | mail lars" at any given > terminal: Are you runnning sendmail, or smail? > Reading active file from lars_mail via nnml... > nnml: Reading incoming mail... > Getting mail from /root/.gnus-crash-box... > Error, unknown mail format! (Possibly corrupted.) This is what happens when gnus encounters a problem moving your mail from your /usr/spool/mail box to your local directory. You can get things back in a reasonable state by moving the ~/.gnus-crash-box file to another namYou should check its contents to make sure you didn't lose anything important. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnus isn't the culprit (too bad I don't know what is:(
ME? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm starting to think there are serious problems with my mail setup, and > I have no clue as to whether they are related or not :( > Thanks again You could also have a leftover (stale) lock file that's tripping everyone up. Just for comparison (user names changed to protect the innocent :>) 501$ ls -al /var/spool/mail total 59 drwxrwsr-t 2 mail mail 1024 Nov 26 06:50 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 1024 Nov 20 02:34 .. -rw--- 1 user1mail0 Nov 28 1995 user1 -rw--- 1 user2mail0 Nov 21 01:43 user2 -rw--- 1 root mail56691 Nov 26 06:50 root # ls -al /var/spool/mqueue total 2 drwx-- 2 root root 1024 Nov 26 15:58 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 1024 Nov 20 02:34 .. # -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: More Gnus problems
ME? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here is my .gnus file: (BTW, should I put this stuff in .gnus, or > .emacs, or does it matter?): Don't know. All my stuff's in my .emacs monstrosity. A couple of things. The folder that you want mail to go in to in your home directory may (or may not) need to already exist, so you might try deleting it if it does exist, or adding it if it doesn't, and see what happens. Also, I've had a couple of cases where by starting up with a slightly bogus config file, I caused gnus to write a .newsrc.eld or .newsrc file that caused all future launches to fail, even though I fixed the problem. You should probably try a rm .newsrc* and then run emacs and gnus and see if that helps. I believe this is partially related to the fact that gnus actually writes the server configuration paths, etc into the rc file the first time it opens the server, and it never changes them again. This can be a problem if you change them in your .emacs file. The only way currently to propagate that change AFAIK is to manually edit the .newsrc* files, or delete the files and let gnus rebuild them. WARNING: deleting the .newsrc* files will lose all your state information about articles you have read or marked as important, etc. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VFAT32 support?
> > Is linux kernel vfat support compatible with the vfat32 from the > > microsoft recent OEM WIN95 release? > > > > lawrence, > > I would strongly doubt it. vfat used to be just a superset of the fat > filesystem so it was too difficult to add support. vfat32, on the > otherhand, is a big jump considering the fact that most dos utilities > won't work with it either. Its a FULL 32 bit FAT.. they are trying *really* hard to make everybody run NT, whether the person knows it or not. :) (NT and 95 look almost identical now, and are merging utilities back and forth..HMMM...) You CAN however NOT install the vfat32 on the system, and use the "old" win95 vfat. -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replacing CPP with GCC
Hi, > You can do this one of two ways (There may actually be more ways than > this): > dpkg -i --force-conflicts /path-to-package/gcc*.deb > dpkg --purge cpp You can even NOT do it, since gcc Depends: on cpp. Actually it would have deleted cpp already if it conflicts with gcc. Greetings Bernd -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replacing CPP with GCC
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Edward Urenda wrote: > I had installed the cpp package in lieu of installing gcc. I find myself > getting more into programming and will require gcc. > > I have tried to avoid using deseled, opting to choose dpkg -i instead. > How can I remove cpp without breaking any dependencies and replace it with > gcc, since the two cannot coexist. > You can do this one of two ways (There may actually be more ways than this): dpkg -i --force-conflicts /path-to-package/gcc*.deb dpkg --purge cpp or dpkg --purge --force-depends cpp dpkg -i /path-to-package/gcc*.deb Hope this helps, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
