Problems trying to install Debian
Hi, I am trying to upgrade from linux kernel 1.2.1 (Unifix 1.6) to either Debian or Slackware. I have been persuaded by all this talk about Debian system. I followed the instructions on making floppies but unfortunately the process stops after reading the boot disk with the error message: Loading ... Boot failed: Change disks and press any key I do not understand why the error? Any help will be appreciated. Secondly I have a Brother HL630 laser printer with Laserjet IIp emulation but it cuts corners of poscript files anyone have a idea of what to do?
Graphical package management tool
I'm interested in writing a graphical package selection program for Debian. Something that runs under X Windows, maybe written in tkperl. I'm envisioning something like a cross between Debian's dselect and Red Hat's glint utility. Before I start in on it, has anyone already written anything like this? Is anything planned or in the works? Any warnings or encouragement? Thanks, -Tom --
Re: Unsubscribe from this list...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Juha Ylitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What used to be nice WWW interface for handling all the crap like >subscribing and unsubscribing from list, seems to be now broken, and I >definately can't handle current volume of this mailing-list (would need >system that supports threads etc.), so if postmaster is among readers, >please unsubscribe me from this list. Try to get your ISP to send you the linux.* newsfeed. I'm reading this list as a newsgroup, linux.debian.user and that's *much* better than using a mailing list.. and as you can see the Mail <--> news gateway is working fine so you don't have to worry about people on the mailing list never seeing your posts. Unfortunately not _all_ mailing lists are available as newsgroups, I guess I'll have to put up with that until somebody writes an integrated mail/news reader (AFAIAC mail is news is mail etc). Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SP6) | Independent Dutch ISP | horizontal | + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.cistron.nl/+ fall+
Re: Cirrus Logic GP-5446
I have a Cirrus Logic GP-75xx that I can't get working. >Hi folks, >[not me again].. >I decided to do the decent thing and switch to PCI. . >... The long and short of it is that I am stuck with a Cirrus Logic GP-5446 >(2Mb) video card that X claims it cannot id (X -Probeonly actually reports >something like 64k) I wonder if there is anyone out there who knows about these >things or has (is having) the same problem... > >Jonathan >P/s there is some report at boot-time of an unidentified PCI device (no prizes >for guessing what is indicated in /proc/PCI) > >J.
HELP for network setup
I'm recently instaling Debian 1.1. from CD-ROM. I made X11 window works. Everything seems fine and I like it except that I can not make networking up. Here is my situation: I have a office-wide LAN with a hub. Currently A freeBSD and Sun workstation are communicating through hub very well. So I don't have the direct access to Internet, but I do registered my domain name as newsham.com. I do have a PPP account (with static IP 205.198.193.254) provided by the local ISP. I have NE2000 Ethernet card installed. I am using following IP numbers for my machines 192.168.3.1 ultralean.newsham.com # Sun station 192.168.3.2 supanee.newsham.com # freeBSD 192.168.3.4 xlean.newsham.com # Linux (Debian 1.1) All this IP number are not registered, they only work locally. How can I configure the network and make PPP work under Debian. I guess the netmask is 255.255.255.0. Then what is the IP adddress of my network? what is the broadcastaddress to use on my network? what is the IP address of the default gateway system you should route to, if I do not have a gateway? Please help. I am almost desperated with Linux (I spent 3 days to install Slackware96, but Slackware96 is very buggy). Thanks in advance for any help. If you have a little time this evening and you willing to help me on networking, give me your phone number (international number is fine) I will phone you. Best Regards Tianlin Wang
HELP for network setup
I'm recently instaling Debian 1.1. from CD-ROM. I made X11 window works. Everything seems fine and I like it except that I can not make networking up. Here is my situation: I have a office-wide LAN with a hub. Currently A freeBSD and Sun workstation are communicating through hub very well. So I don't have the direct access to Internet, but I do registered my domain name as newsham.com. I do have a PPP account (with static IP 205.198.193.254) provided by the local ISP. I have NE2000 Ethernet card installed. I am using following IP numbers for my machines 192.168.3.1 ultralean.newsham.com # Sun station 192.168.3.2 supanee.newsham.com # freeBSD 192.168.3.4 xlean.newsham.com # Linux (Debian 1.1) All this IP number are not registered, they only work locally. How can I configure the network and make PPP work under Debian. I guess the netmask is 255.255.255.0. Then what is the IP adddress of my network? what is the broadcastaddress to use on my network? what is the IP address of the default gateway system you should route to, if I do not have a gateway? Please help. I am almost desperated with Linux (I spent 3 days to install Slackware96, but Slackware96 is very buggy). Thanks in advance for any help. If you have a little time this evening and you willing to help me on networking, give me your phone number (international number is fine) I will phone you. Best Regards Tianlin Wang
Re: argh, NIS!
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Patrick J. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NIS is giving me a big headache. I want to run it though... so here >is the rror it keeps coming up with: > >$ yppasswd >YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain possum.com >yppasswd: can't find the master ypserver: Can't bind to server which serves >this domain Perhaps you have setup your ethernet / localhost interfaces wrong? NIS depends on broadcasts.. If the broadcast address is wrong, it will not work. Check /etc/init.d/network. Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SP6) | Independent Dutch ISP | horizontal | + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.cistron.nl/+ fall+
Cirrus Logic GP-5446
Hi folks, [not me again].. I decided to do the decent thing and switch to PCI. . ... The long and short of it is that I am stuck with a Cirrus Logic GP-5446 (2Mb) video card that X claims it cannot id (X -Probeonly actually reports something like 64k) I wonder if there is anyone out there who knows about these things or has (is having) the same problem... Jonathan P/s there is some report at boot-time of an unidentified PCI device (no prizes for guessing what is indicated in /proc/PCI) J.
FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.24 1996/09/25 19:24:09 sr1 Exp sr1 $ 1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ ( ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/FAQ/debian-faq.html ). 1.2. Purpose of this document This document is intended to identify areas that need your contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite often, so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ. 1.3. Feedback Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mention to which version of this document your comments refer. 2. Packages needing a new maintainer Please inform me via e-mail: o when you find that you need to discontinue maintaining a package o when you believe that the following list is incomplete o when you would like to maintain one of the packages listed here. Andrew D. Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o acs DJ Gregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o biff o cdtool o unclutter o workbone o xwpe Richard Kettlewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o aout-svgalib o svgalib1 o svgalib1-bin o svgalib1-dev Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o statserial o tgif o xarchie Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o adjtimex o fdutils o hkgerman o html2latex o metamail o modules o xautolock Dale Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o lclint o mailx Ian Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o acm o aout-librl (this package might be unnecessary now) o pmake Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o seyon Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o sokoban Andrew Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xtet42 o xtron o ircii o ytalk o tcsh o xinvaders o mandelspawn o mirrormagic o p2c o rxvt Alvar Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o groff o man o ppp 3. Packages that someone is working on Programs listed in this section aren't yet available as Debian packages, but someone is working on providing a package. If you would like to work on one of these packages please contact the responsible person listed below. Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dome (http://www.netaxs.com/ cjf/jpegs.html) o and probably : xli, Tix, povray [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl R. Sackett) : o FreeLIP - large integer package o GroupKit - development library for building realtime groupware apps o LEE - Latent Energy Environments artificial life simulator o rsaref - installer scripts for the RSAREF crypto library o swarm - Objective-C based artificial life research tool o premail - e-mail privacy package Richard Kaszeta [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xmotd Mike Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mule Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xbill o LPRng Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] o sxpc (Simple Xwindows Protocol Compresser) o qfax (multi-user e-mail extension to efax). [EMAIL PROTECTED]: o tkHTML Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o giftool o canna o lx-gdb [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o BBDB (for Emacs: Big Brother Data Base, a rolodex with hooks into VM, GNUS, and RMAIL) Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o glimpsehttpd Warwick Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mercury (a purely declarative logic programming language with strong modes, strong types, and strong determinism) [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) ( http://www.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/osf_dce/RFC/rfc86.0.txt ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o CLISP David H. Silber [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dbackup - A Debian-specific backup program. o lockstep - A program to keep various directory trees in sync. o uucpconfig - A configuration program which will become part of my uucp package. o latex2html Hakan Ardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o faces - visual list monitor Brian Sulcer [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o vile (vi-like editor) o rogue o umoria Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o vtwm: Virtual Window Manager for X11 Michael Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o amanda, the University of Maryland's free network backup system. o nntplink Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o spice (circuit simulation package) o gforth Billy Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xbomb Alan Bain [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o gpc (GNU Pascal) Christophe Le Bars [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o Caml (A small, portable implementation of the ML language.) o Objective Caml: Caml dialect extended with a complete class-based object system o MMM: a WWW browser implemented in Caml Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED]> : o ppd-gs (a set of PPD files for my Ghostscript drivers) o btoa o povray Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o awk2c Jon Rabone [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o SISCAD Christian Lynbech [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ilisp (emacs interface to a number of lisp s
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Re: Missing terminfo entries?
Raymond Penners wrote: > > Perhaps not ncurses itself, but something is wrong somewhere. Several > programs such as "vim" (3.0-5), "joe"/"jmacs" (2.8-4) complain about a > missing termcap entries (e.g. when I set TERM=amiga). Here we are. ncurses is termcap compatible but doesn't provide a termcap file. To get it you have to install termcap-compat package. a grep on the Contents file is always helpfull :-) > > I did not have "termcap-compat" installed, since it mentions: > [...] You need this > package if a program [...] complains about a missing /etc/termcap > file. This was exactly your case. But, why those packages requires termcap? I have checked vim and found that 3.0-5 was linked using -ltermcap while 3.0-6 uses -lncurses Grab it from development/binary-i386/editors/vim_3.0-6.deb and install It works, I have tested it. For the other packages I don't know, but can imagine a similar problem. Try first to install the versions that are under unstable (development). ciao Fabrizio -- +-+ | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://megabaud.fi/~fpolacco/ Join the UKI Linux Project! | | fingerprint 70 1A 72 2D 2B C8 A5 63 7A C2 CC E0 2A 54 AE DA | | finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] | +-+
Netatalk borke in 2.06 to 2.0.20???
Hello all. Netatalk does not seem to be functioning on my system since upgrading to kernel 2.0.6. I upgraded to 2.0.20 to see if it would come back. Everything loads fine, but the macintosh clients don't see the Linux box's file system and printers. Nbplkup shows all the devices on the network (Mac and Linux) and I can use the equivalent of ping to bounce packets off both Mac and Linux boxes. Any ideas?? Pat Ouellette
Re: hint on handling mail volume: sortmail
"Paul Christenson [N3EOP]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could the list maintainer set up the list so that all subject lines > start with a unique string, such as [DebUser]? A number of other lists > I'm on do this; it would make automatic sorting a lot easier. (Message > number optional.) You don't need to do this if you have a decent mail program. I use GNUS, and all it takes is: (setq nnmail-split-methods '( ("duplicates" "^Gnus-Warning:") ("debian-private" "^Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]") ("debian-devel" "^Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org") ("debian-user" "^Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org") ("debian-bugs" "^Subject: \\(Re: \\)?Bug#[0-9]+:") ("executor" "^Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]") ("guile" "^Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]") ("inbox" ""))) I'm sure procmail, etc. have similar capabilities. -- Rob
Re: Disk Compression - Stacker - Drivespace, etc.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Joe Manarolla wrote: jman>I am curious whether or not the conventional PC disk compression utilities jman>such as Stacker and Drivespace are compatible with the Linux O/S? jman> jman>I heard that Stacker 4.0 for O/S2 was a compatible utility. Fact or jman>Fantasy? there is for dublespace here is the LSM entry: - - Begin2 Title= Linux Filesystem for DoubleSpace (readonly) Version = 1.1 Desc1= With this kernel module Linux is able to read Desc2= a DoubleSpace compressed Filesystem. Author = Thomas Scheuermann AuthorEmail = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maintainer = Thomas Scheuermann MaintEmail = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Site1= ftp.ai-lab.fh-furtwangen.de Path1= /pub/os/linux/local/ File1= thsfs.tgz FileSize1= 12076 Required1= kernel 1.1.12 or newer with changes CopyPolicy1 = See copyright on files. Basically free Keywords = Filesystem DoubleSpace Comment1 = First version Comment2 = Try it :-) Entered = 04OCT94 EnteredBy= Thomas Scheuermann CheckedEmail = [EMAIL PROTECTED] End - --- ^^ ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/thsfs.tgz and another one: - --- Begin3 Title: dmsdosfs Version:0.7.0 Entered-date: 23AUG96 Description:dmsdos filesystem for Linux: extends msdos filesystem to allow full read and restricted write access to msdos/win95 compressed partitions (msdos files like dblspace.xxx and drvspace.xxx and stacvol.xxx). The following configurations are supported: - DoubleSpace / DriveSpace compressed msdos 6.x partitions (read-write), - DoubleSpace and DriveSpace 3 compressed win95 partitions (read-write with some restrictions for DriveSpace 3), - and Stacker 3 and 4 compressed partitions (read-only). This version is compatible with the 1.2.13, most 1.3.xx, pre-2.0.x and the 2.0.x kernels. It can run together with vfat or umsdos and can handle win95 long filenames itself. This version includes the new dmsdos daemon for fast write access. Support for Linux < 2.0.1 is likely to disappear soon. Keywords: Linux filesystem doublespace drivespace stacker Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Gockel) Maintained-by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Gockel) Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/dosfs 140 kB dmsdosfs-0.7.0.tgz Alternate-site: ftp.uni-stuttgart.de /pub/systems/linux/local/system 140 kB dmsdosfs-0.7.0.tgz Original-site: Platforms: Linux 1.2.13, 1.3.xx, pre-2.0.xx, 2.0.x, msdos 6.x, win95 Copying-policy: GPL End - the same place but in dosfs dir hope that helps Good luck P.S i didn't tryed it - just know it exists P.P.S forget about the dos compressed sh.. use linux :) borik ___ Boris Beletsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For pgp public key, e-mail me with subject "get pgp-key." ___ In Linux veritas -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia+ Charset: latin1 Comment: Boris Beletsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> iQCVAwUBMkiO2gz8DjY6pgpxAQFu2QP9FQLdvpnE0odkDf3NHq/edOPH1bqolBGt era3+2Zr+cuOzeBCLIVrLquliQqAltnqMZNgYSpLlrIcIFjvs9+z58CiJbfI0VYL 7iIKdvLLpNr07h0zGQbFk9XdsTrlJVAgCQBjdMCaMQ/vB7rOrBC8ZZ9VUSYL07PO e7URiri9rt0= =dYJD -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [Linux-ISP] Re: Using reserved addresses
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote: > On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: > > My question is, will the workstations which use reserved IPs be able to > > go out into the net? If those reserved IPs are not routed "outside", then > > how would a workstation be able to properly communicate? > > > > What are the limitations/issues with using the reserved IPs? > > It is my understanding that it IS possible to use these reserved numbers > and still be connected to the Internet. However, you have use IP > Masquerading. There is a mini-HOWTO on sunsite. > See > > http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade I tried IP-masq on a 1.2.13 kernel and it worked fine; some ip services (ping, chat, possibly ftp (don't recall) ) did not work 100% in that version. I understand that the 2.0.x kernels support more robust IP masq capability. You could also run proxy services on a firewall/gateway system. Finally, I've seen write-ups where the "gateway" system used a reserved ip address for the internal ethernet and connected to the Internet using a shell dialup running slirp on the Internet-connected host. Steve Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Linux-ISP] Using reserved addresses
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: > My question is, will the workstations which use reserved IPs be able to > go out into the net? No. This is a good thing. > If those reserved IPs are not routed "outside", then > how would a workstation be able to properly communicate? Using a proxy service on a firewall machine. My home LAN has Squid from http://www.nlanr.net/Squid running on the gateway machine providing ftp, http and gopher proxy services. For news I run plug-gw from the TIS firewalls toolkit available at ftp.tis.com (make sure to get both the source archive *AND* the documentation archive). > What are the limitations/issues with using the reserved IPs? People on the outside can't get in an snoop. Great limitation. At home I also run raproxy from RealAudio and have plug-gw's set up for Compuserve and AOL access. Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> Is this still Debian related? > > > bigl> think that any "censorship" should be used very careful. > > > > Especially when the previous posts were about the shortcomings of the > > Debian LaTeX system and merits of a LaTeX distribution that is a > > potential debian package. Such a debian package will be welcomed by > > many (including myself). > > I publicly apologise for questiong whether the discussed subject was > Debian related. Please accept my apologies, I'll post more carefull in > the future. After this explaination I understand that the matter being > discussed is in fact very Debian related. > > Erick Don't be so serious and sad Erick - this is normal on mail-lists :-) As a clearing - maybe such messages shoul be on debian-devel not on debian-user, but again -- the edge is not so sharp :-)) Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bootup messages
Easy enough to fix... Edit your /etc/conf.modules and add the following: alias net-pf-4 off alias net-pf-5 off alias netmask off alias broadcast off (I only use the first two on my system, but it works for me...) -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.et.byu.edu/~andersee/ 2485 South State St. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Springville, Ut 84663phone: (801) 489-1231 --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons-- Chris R. Martin wrote: > > I recently recompiled, packaged, and installed a 2.0.20 kernel. > I edited /etc/modules so that no modules are loaded at bootup (just using > "auto"). However I now get the following messages at bootup: > > modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4 > modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5 > """modprobe: can't locate module netmask > """modprobe: can't locate module broadcast > SIOCDSIFADDR: no such device > > These messages are repeated 2-3 times during startup. Everything seems to > work okay, including my ethernet card. Could someone please tell me the > nature of these messages, and how to get rid of them?? > > Thanks, Chris. > > === > Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www: http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~crm7479
Re: Missing terminfo entries?
Fabrizio Polacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Both TERMCAP and TERMINFO are unset. Setting TERMINFO to > > /usr/lib/terminfo doesn't help either. So, IMHO, the Debian ncurses > > package is broken. > > > What kind of test did you do to say that? Perhaps not ncurses itself, but something is wrong somewhere. Several programs such as "vim" (3.0-5), "joe"/"jmacs" (2.8-4) complain about a missing termcap entries (e.g. when I set TERM=amiga). I did not have "termcap-compat" installed, since it mentions: --8<--- You do not need to install this package to run Debian-packaged programs since Debian Linux uses terminfo and not termcap. You need this package if a program fails to run with the following error message "...: can't load library 'libtermcap.so.2'" or complains about a missing /etc/termcap file. --8<--- So, IMHO, the above text needs to be changed (since both vim and joe are Debian-packaged programs) or these packages should require/suggest termcap-compat. > I re-read your first message and noticed that you refere to > "Amiga terminal emulation" > ncurses and terminfo are not for terminal emulation, on the contrary > they allow a terminal (for example an amiga running a terminal emulator) > to log in the host and run curses applications. That's exactly what I am doing: logging in from the Amiga to the Linux box, running Emacs. -- Raymond Penners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)
> >> Is this still Debian related? > bigl> think that any "censorship" should be used very careful. > > Especially when the previous posts were about the shortcomings of the > Debian LaTeX system and merits of a LaTeX distribution that is a > potential debian package. Such a debian package will be welcomed by > many (including myself). I publicly apologise for questiong whether the discussed subject was Debian related. Please accept my apologies, I'll post more carefull in the future. After this explaination I understand that the matter being discussed is in fact very Debian related. Erick
Re: 386 Dx-40
My web server, primary DNS, sendmail and mailagent are running on a 386DX/33 running Slackware. It's got 8MB of RAM and two 200MB hard drives. I've upgraded it to a 2.0.10 kernel (which I compiled on my Pentium/90 Debian machine -- much faster). Upgrading Slackware to a 2.0.x kernel was somewhat painful -- my next upgrade will probably involve switching the whole system to Debian. It also acts as a router, connecting my home LAN to the Internet full time over a 28.8k modem. I don't run X on it. Cheers, - Jim
gs_4.01-4.deb and deskjet 510
Hello fellow debians, I just installed the new gs package gs_4.01-4.deb. installing was no problem, but when I tried to use it with the magicfilter, I get garbage out of my HP Deskjet 510. THis filter uses -sDEVICE=deskjet. However, when I replace it with the `djet500' device (hmm.. in my old gs, version 2.6..., this was still `dj500'), I get output. Is the deskjetdevice broken in the 4.01 version, or did I do something wrong? If you debians can shed some light in this darkness, I would be pleased. regards, Marc
Re: server sides in apache.
>> >>Something else: >> >>will there be an "/info" and "/status", besides logging of HTTP_REFERER and >>HTTP_USER_AGENT, in the new distribution (with apache-1.1.1) ?? > >does the standard apache have referer/agent stats? >i ask because mine doesnt seem to be generating any? > 1.0.5 doesn't // Remco van de Meent (nParago on IRC) // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://cal052012.student.utwente.nl // " Never make any mistaeks. "
Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)
> "bigl" == bigl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bigl> On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Is this still Debian related? >> >> Erick >> bigl> As far as I read this list about 70-80% of messages are bigl> "off-topic" but there is no sharp edge between normal unix bigl> questions (or specialy about one package) and "Debian bigl> questions". I've found on this list many interesting things not bigl> about creating .deb packages or something like this but about bigl> something really different (thanks to all of you :-) ). So i bigl> think that any "censorship" should be used very careful. Especially when the previous posts were about the shortcomings of the Debian LaTeX system and merits of a LaTeX distribution that is a potential debian package. Such a debian package will be welcomed by many (including myself). -- Billy C.-M. Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Linux
bootup messages
I recently recompiled, packaged, and installed a 2.0.20 kernel. I edited /etc/modules so that no modules are loaded at bootup (just using "auto"). However I now get the following messages at bootup: modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4 modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5 """modprobe: can't locate module netmask """modprobe: can't locate module broadcast SIOCDSIFADDR: no such device These messages are repeated 2-3 times during startup. Everything seems to work okay, including my ethernet card. Could someone please tell me the nature of these messages, and how to get rid of them?? Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~crm7479
Re: 386 Dx-40
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Dear M[sr]. Lawson I just upgraded from a 386DX-25 on which I'd been running Linux (Debian 0.96R6) with no problem. I had 4 MB RAM and an aged RLL hard drive (100 MB). X would run, but so slowly that I didn't bother with it (but I also had a non-accelerated ISA video card with a whole 512 kbyte RAM). It wasn't a screamer, but I found it acceptable for TeX, mail, and occasional hacking. Other reports say that with more RAM (>= 8 MB), even X is OK. I had to upgrade because it wouldn't run my 5-year-old daughter's educational games :-). Hope this helps. - -- Sincerely yours, Max Hyre **>> What's all this garbage at the bottom of my message? It's a security blanket for paranoids---ask me for details, or check out http://www.efh.org/pgp/pgpwork.html Key fingerprint = EFEC 0067 6803 852D B1DB 751E 6754 14EA -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMkk/LfJa20+mce5pAQFE4QQAq37H4wFfovBEVi0YDXdys+6yql65pcVe UxkU5de6TA2MDThBfTYgd7m2YovHtiGE4LRwC/EKI9Y1E+fQvsAMvyXFDvTVC2YS xl2Ze4hJcGiOms6eJGGGQ3Qj7tdj5jNrWiv+WojbVyy+8T8a3zVgUtX2fHxzKaMC ymC0gs8YTfA= =szDT -END PGP SIGNATURE-
RE: Scsi errors
Can anyone help me here? I've got an AHA1542 with a quantum XP32150W as the only device on the chain. I keep getting errors like the following: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 198, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 27 88 b0 00 00 76 00 scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 198, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 27 88 b0 00 00 76 00 It looks like your drive failed to respond to a write request within the Linux disk IO timeout period. SCSI host 0 abort (pid 198) timed out - resetting SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. Sent BUS DEVICE RESET to target 0 Sending DID_RESET for target 0 Sending DID_RESET for target 0 Sending DID_RESET for target 0 Sending DID_RESET for target 0 It looks likes Linux is resetting the SCSI bus and the SCSI disk. aha1542_intr_handle: Unexpected interrupt tarstat=0, hastat=0 idlun=10 ccb#=5 aha1542_intr_handle: Unexpected interrupt tarstat=0, hastat=0 idlun=10 ccb#=7 It looks like the the Adaptec SCSI card finally tried to return the disk requests, it said the target status (the disk) and the host adapter status (the Adaptec) were ok. Although I wouldn't always trust what an Adaptec controller was telling me. Too bad your logs don't give timing information. From the data given (and my limited knowledge of how Linux disk drivers work) I'd say that Linux's timeout on IO requests may be too short, causing a race condition between when the status of the async disk IO is is returned and when Linux goes in to reset mode. (Linux times out, sends the bus and device reset (which should cause this disk to forget about any IOs) but after all of that's over, the Adaptec tries to say the IOs completed successfully). Last time I was writing SCSI disk drivers (about 1992) newer disks were capable of queuing 64 commands. That number could be up substantially now. If an average IO takes 10ms to process, 256 queued IOs could take 2.5 seconds to process; may be bumping into Linux's SCSI device driver timeout. Just a theory... Then again this whole problem may be as simple as a bad SCSI cable or termination (very common problem and usually intermittent) or disk controller or host adapter brains going south. I don't have the source for the SCSI disk controller, If I get a chance I'll download some source and try to look through it to see what the timeouts are and if they're easily configured. Good Luck, Al Youngwerth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is this still Debian related? > > Erick > As far as I read this list about 70-80% of messages are "off-topic" but there is no sharp edge between normal unix questions (or specialy about one package) and "Debian questions". I've found on this list many interesting things not about creating .deb packages or something like this but about something really different (thanks to all of you :-) ). So i think that any "censorship" should be used very careful. Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using reserved addresses
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: > Hi, > > I have a client who would like to use the reserved addresses internally > throughout his LAN... > > My question is, will the workstations which use reserved IPs be able to > go out into the net? If those reserved IPs are not routed "outside", then > how would a workstation be able to properly communicate? > > What are the limitations/issues with using the reserved IPs? It is my understanding that it IS possible to use these reserved numbers and still be connected to the Internet. However, you have use IP Masquerading. There is a mini-HOWTO on sunsite. See http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade Hope this helps. Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~crm7479
Using reserved addresses
Hi, I have a client who would like to use the reserved addresses internally throughout his LAN... My question is, will the workstations which use reserved IPs be able to go out into the net? If those reserved IPs are not routed "outside", then how would a workstation be able to properly communicate? What are the limitations/issues with using the reserved IPs? Thanks, Ricardo
Re: server sides in apache.
At 16:03 24/09/96 +0200, you wrote: >At 14:56 24-09-96 +1000, Fundamental wrote: >>Hi, ive solved all my web server related problems since i changed from NCSA >>to apache - accept this one... All my server side includes are now failing >>with an error message [an error occured trying to process this directive] .. >>is there something ive missed? This is how i call serversides in my html... >> >> >> >>My srm is configured coreectly (well, its no different in thsi particular >>area than the old NCSA srm.conf) >> > > >But did you also include the exec_cgi-module during compile-time? > >(I dunno if the "standard" debian-apache has). How do i find out? > > > >Something else: > >will there be an "/info" and "/status", besides logging of HTTP_REFERER and >HTTP_USER_AGENT, in the new distribution (with apache-1.1.1) ?? does the standard apache have referer/agent stats? i ask because mine doesnt seem to be generating any? Pachi, - 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.
Re: Re[6]: Am I the Only One Waiting??
> Great! thanks a lot Guy. One related question: > How can I add the bunch of messages to my mail box so to read > them off line with say mail or exmh? For any MUA that keeps the mail in mbox format, you can just cat the new mail onto the end of the file. The MUA takes care of sorting and threading. Guy
Re[6]: Am I the Only One Waiting??
>'m talking about the archives on the *ftp* mirrors in >/debian/debian-lists. Sorry if that was not obvious. >The archives on the web site should be up before too long also. >Guy Great! thanks a lot Guy. One related question: How can I add the bunch of messages to my mail box so to read them off line with say mail or exmh? I use exmh that but if with other MUA is easier for this job just let me know. And what about doing that on HPUX 9.0 at work using Softbench mail? Lazaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re[2]: Trashed disk
I you have an Adaptec card, you may want to check the disk using the utilities provided with the card to test the disk (alt-A at boot time before linux is booted). You can also check the grown defects list with the MS-Windows utilities provided with EZSCSI. Don't know if there is some linux utility providing the same functionality. good luck! lazaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Reply Separator _ Subject: RE: Trashed disk Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink Date:25.09.96 08:51 >From my SCSI days of long ago... I believe your disk is telling you that it tried to write to a sector = but that when it went to read it back to verify the data written was = correct, the verify failed. Typically SCSI disks will then automatically = reallocate the bad sector with some reserved sectors at the end of the = disk. To find out for sure if the disk is saying this, you would need = the tech manual for your fujitsu disk and look up the codes contained in = the sense data. If this is the case and you're consistently seeing these messages, I'd = say your disk is spiraling downward. Eventually the disk will run out of = sectors to re-map and a SCSI write will fail. If Linux does not support = its own remapping on failed writes (does anyone know if it does?) you'll = probably get a panic, your system will halt and you'll probably have a = hell of a time trying to repair the volume and remount it to back it up. Your disk could last for years to come or it could fail in minutes. My = experience with these types of failures is that they tend to spiral = relatively quickly (hours to days). I'd back up immidiately and start = shopping for SCSI hard drives (almost free these days). Al Youngwerth [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- From: Bill Wohler[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 1996 1:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Trashed disk Folks, I've just noticed that I've been getting the following messages for the last couple of weeks. Sep 24 00:00:28 gbr kernel: scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 2, lun 0, CDB: 0x03 00 00 00 10 00=20 Sep 24 00:00:28 gbr kernel: Current error sr08:11: sns =3D f0 3 Sep 24 00:00:28 gbr kernel: ASC=3D10 ASCQ=3D 0 Sep 24 00:00:28 gbr kernel: Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x06 0xc0 0xe9 0x28 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x10 0x00 0x00 0x80=20 Sep 24 00:00:28 gbr kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:11, sector 442568 My first reaction is to toss the disk, but I thought I'd see if anyone on this list would offer that it is salvageable (and if so, what precautions would be necessary). It's an old Fujitsu that I bought used 2.5 years ago and it's been running non-stop since.
Available tools for making clickable WWW imagemaps?
Are there such tools in Debian packages? If not, what do you recommend me (I only known mapedit 1.1.2) that I could get and Debianize? Yves. -- Yves Arrouye Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7, avenue Leon BolleeWeb: http://www.fdn.fr/~yarrouye/ 75013 Paris Work: +33 45 95 64 59 France Home: +33 53 61 09 55
argh, NIS!
NIS is giving me a big headache. I want to run it though... so here is the rror it keeps coming up with: $ yppasswd YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain possum.com yppasswd: can't find the master ypserver: Can't bind to server which serves this domain $ domainname possum.com $ ps -ax | grep yp 1941 1 S 0:00 /usr/sbin/ypserv 1942 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.yppasswdd -e chsh 1944 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/ypbind 2002 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/ypbind 2004 5 S 0:00 grep yp $ I'm running nis-1.20-1, and followed the /usr/doc/nis/* and /usr/doc/HOWTO/NIS* instructions, but still nothing. What am I doing wrong? --- "There still exist secrets that should remain... secrets. Truths that people are not ready to know. The world's reaction to such knowledge would be too dangerous" (Deep Throat, X-Files) --- Patrick J. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cs.usask.ca/undergrads/pje120/ finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP Key Key fingerprint = 9F 45 7D 6E C0 A4 B4 0D 48 C7 14 CA 23 B0 B4 F8
NTeX for Debian & generalized packaging
There has been talk recently about replacing the debian version of the TeX stuff with teTeX or NTeX. I myself have been using NTeX and have found it very good. The only problem is that because I haven't installed the debian versions of TeX, when I want to install another package that wants you have have TeX stuff, eg lyx etc, dselect wants you to install all the TeX stuff. It would be much nicer to have something like NTeX as part of the official Debian distribution. Some time ago, I emailed the creator of NTeX, Frank Langbein. He runs debian himself, so I asked him about the possibility of debianizing his distribution. He said that he wouldn't and gave the following reasons: > To provide a debian package I would have to reconstruct all the install > procedures, etc. Once thing that will no longer be possible is the free > choice of the various installation directories. And if I use the special > debian package dependencies I have to provide a binary for installation. > This causes trouble if NTeX is install on any non-Linux system. Currently > I'm rather happy with the installation scripts form NTeX even if they are > a bit slow. Since I'm not part of the debian project I prefer to have my > own packaing system. Can any of his concerns be addressed? I know very little about the mechanics of the Debian package system, but could the packaging system be made more general so that the same packaging system could be used on multiple platforms? Ie, if the debian packaging tools were general enough, he (or another volunteer) could distribute NTeX using these tools, not just on debian systems, but on a range of platforms. Perhaps the debian package tools could be modified to provide the flexibility needed for use on a range of systems. Each system would then set parameters to mold the packaging system to the platform in question. The Debian packaging system would be simply one version of a more generic packaging system. Perhaps what I'm suggesting is simply infeasible, but it's worth asking. It would be great if somehow NTeX could be packaged for Debian. Mark Phillips. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Re[4]: Am I the Only One Waiting??
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Something might still be wrong. As of 25-Sep-96 8:30 GMT+1, and pointing > my browser to http://www.debian.org/List-Archives I find: I'm talking about the archives on the *ftp* mirrors in /debian/debian-lists. Sorry if that was not obvious. The archives on the web site should be up before too long also. Guy
RE: Trashed disk
>From my SCSI days of long ago... I believe your disk is telling you that it tried to write to a sector but that when it went to read it back to verify the data written was correct, the verify failed. Typically SCSI disks will then automatically reallocate the bad sector with some reserved sectors at the end of the disk. To find out for sure if the disk is saying this, you would need the tech manual for your fujitsu disk and look up the codes contained in the sense data. If this is the case and you're consistently seeing these messages, I'd say your disk is spiraling downward. Eventually the disk will run out of sectors to re-map and a SCSI write will fail. If Linux does not support its own remapping on failed writes (does anyone know if it does?) you'll probably get a panic, your system will halt and you'll probably have a hell of a time trying to repair the volume and remount it to back it up. Your disk could last for years to come or it could fail in minutes. My experience with these types of failures is that they tend to spiral relatively quickly (hours to days). I'd back up immidiately and start shopping for SCSI hard drives (almost free these days). Al Youngwerth [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- From: Bill Wohler[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 1996 1:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Trashed disk Folks, I've just noticed that I've been getting the following messages for the last couple of weeks. Sep 24 00:00:28 gbr kernel: scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 2, lun 0, CDB: 0x03 00 00 00 10 00 Sep 24 00:00:28 gbr kernel: Current error sr08:11: sns = f0 3 Sep 24 00:00:28 gbr kernel: ASC=10 ASCQ= 0 Sep 24 00:00:28 gbr kernel: Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x06 0xc0 0xe9 0x28 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x10 0x00 0x00 0x80 Sep 24 00:00:28 gbr kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:11, sector 442568 My first reaction is to toss the disk, but I thought I'd see if anyone on this list would offer that it is salvageable (and if so, what precautions would be necessary). It's an old Fujitsu that I bought used 2.5 years ago and it's been running non-stop since.
Re[4]: Am I the Only One Waiting??
On 25.09.96 04:17 Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Therefore the newest postings archived on the server and >> mirrors are those of June 96. Don't hold your breath :-) > >Check again; they're being updated now. There's a glitch right now so >that postings past about mid September aren't there, but that should be >fixed very soon. >Guy Something might still be wrong. As of 25-Sep-96 8:30 GMT+1, and pointing my browser to http://www.debian.org/List-Archives I find: Debian Linux mailing list archives You can subscribe or unsubcribe to these mailing lists using a form. Public mailing lists [snip] debian-changes: Package upgrades announcements June 1996 January 1996 [snip] debian-user: Help and discussion among users of Debian June 1996 May 1996 [snip] __ Reply Separator _ Subject: Re: Re[2]: Am I the Only One Waiting?? Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink Date:25.09.96 04:17 On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Therefore the newest postings archived on the server and > mirrors are those of June 96. Don't hold your breath :-) Check again; they're being updated now. There's a glitch right now so that postings past about mid September aren't there, but that should be fixed very soon. Guy
Re: debian startup scripts & dedicated ppp
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Joey Hess wrote: > > You should propagate the PPP startup script before the NFS > > mounts occur. This is a site specific configuration that > > probably isn't that common. Never the less, I think Debian > > 1.2 will probably deal with this better (I think). In the > > I hope so. I didn't have much trouble getting the nfs stuff working, but > I didn't like what I had to do and I felt it should work better out of the > box without requiring editing of the rc scripts. Well, I don't know about that. I can't get ppp working under Solaris without editing the asppp scripts and creating a startup script, etc. Of course, Debian is better than Solaris :-) I know that Bruce plans on including some kind of ppp configuration utility in 1.2 that would produce a chat or diald script. It shouldn't be too difficult to add the functionality of choosing where to place it in the startup. Most people don't have a "full time" ppp connection AFAIK. I believe the average ppp user only connects when she/he needs to and works "offline" the rest of the time. I could be wrong though. Slackware has a section of its installation that sets up NFS mounts. Maybe Debian should look into including something like this too? Maybe it has it and I forgot? > > > system in front of me right now (mine's floating in the > > Pacific at the moment :-)), so this is the best I can do. > > This should get your ppp up prior to going to the mount > > phase. > > Are you the guy who's doing data collection with a underwater linux > system? I think that'd make a great Linux Journal article :-) No, I'm the guy who just moved overseas and doesn't have any of his stuff because its being shipped via ocean liner. My wife and I both pulled a smooth move and packed up all of our shoes (except the ones we were wearing when the movers came). As much as I miss my Debian system, we can't wait to get our shoes! (It should be noted here that my wife does _not_ miss my Debian system ;-)) > > I think Solaris 2.5+ has a functional fuser command > > that could be used to kill all processes (close all open > > filehandles) on a mount point. The shutdown procedure could > > then kill processes on NFS mounted filesystems first, > > unmount NFS filesystems, then do its normal routine of > > killing all processes and umounting all filesystems. > > > > Anybody know if Debian's fuser command supports this? > > Anybody got any other ideas here? > > It looks like fuser will support this, it has a -k flag that will kill all > processes accessing a file. fuser -m -k /home should kill every process > using the /home partition. Well, I'd have to have a Debian system running to do some testing, and we'd have to have a way of dealing with automounted filesystems (addressing the correct mount point), but it looks like we should be able to implement a shutdown procedure that takes care of NFS mounts prior killing all processes. If you're interested in pursuing this, please e-mail me privately. I'd be glad to try to implement something and submit it for inclusion in later Debian releases (unless someone already has :-)). Thanks. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7810 - Tokyo, Japan -- *** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. ***
Unidentified subject!
> I'm working on a machine that has a 1.2 gb hdd in it (scsi) > > 1 gig is ms-dog > 200 mb is debian. > > because I have transferred my debian system to a dedicated machine, I > would like to reclaim that 200 meg and "append" it to the 1 gb dos > partition without reformatting the 1 gb partition and the data that's > on it. > the one way that I know off is with a package called Partition Magic. Costs about $50 - but worth every penny if you have DOS partitions to deal with on a large disk. Enables you to delete, create, move, and resize partitions non-destructively! Unfortunately, although it recognizes Linux partitions you can't do anything other than delete them. For your situation though its fine. Just delete the Linux partition and resize the DOS partition, although personally with a disk that size I would split it into multiple partitions to cut down on cluster size. Hope this helps
Re: mime? nslookup?
> Are there mime and nslookup packages for debian? Yes. Debian has all sorts of packages :-) -- John Goerzen | System administrator & owner, The Communications Custom programming| Centre and Complete Network (complete.org) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Free Unix shell access, 316-367-8490 w/ your modem.
Re: Problem with GIMP
Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the same problem here. I'm afraid it's a GIMP bug. I'll see about forwarding it upstream, but there's a major upgrade the works so chances are this would be wasted effort. -- Rob
Re: Missing terminfo entries?
Raymond Penners wrote: > > I do have "/usr/lib/terminfo/a/amiga". But it is not listed in > "/etc/terminfo/a" (here only "ansi" is present). I think it is there only because it is needed during the installation (and it belongs to ncurses-base). /usr/lib/terminfo/a/ansi is a symlink ti /etc/terminfo/ , but _only_ ansi (in a/ dir). ncurses by default looks for terminfo compiled files in /usr/lib/terminfo, and you have it there. > > Both TERMCAP and TERMINFO are unset. Setting TERMINFO to > /usr/lib/terminfo doesn't help either. So, IMHO, the Debian ncurses > package is broken. > What kind of test did you do to say that? I just tryed tput -T amiga and got the correct sequencies. I re-read your first message and noticed that you refere to "Amiga terminal emulation" ncurses and terminfo are not for terminal emulation, on the contrary they allow a terminal (for example an amiga running a terminal emulator) to log in the host and run curses applications. ciao Fabrizio -- +-+ | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://megabaud.fi/~fpolacco/ Join the UKI Linux Project! | | fingerprint 70 1A 72 2D 2B C8 A5 63 7A C2 CC E0 2A 54 AE DA | | finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] | +-+
ppp/slhc won't load on 1.2.13 kernel under Debian 1.1
Hi all, I have to run the 1.2.13 kernel for MATLAB. I have compiled a new 1.2.13 kernel and modules using all the a.out gcc and libs, no problems. In /lib/modules I have separate directories for 1.2.13 and 2.0.0 with all the subdirectories with all the modules in them. But when I try to load the slhc module it complains that it can't get the kernel version and does not load. Hence ppp fails because of the dependency on slhc. I really need ppp to work under 1.2.13. Any pointers? The modules.dep looks fine. Am I missing a lib? Help! Thanks, Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone got a microcom working with diald?
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Paul Christenson [N3EOP] wrote: > To use 115200, you need to use setserial on the port with the spd_vhi > flag, and tell diald/pppd to use 38400. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the spd_vhi flag is really necessary anymore for most programs. The spd_hi and spd_vhi flags were a hack when most programs only supported speeds up to 38400 while some modems were beginning to be available that could support higher speeds. Most programs now support speeds up to 115200 directly. I know pppd does. Gerry
Re: can't seem to get internalmodem running
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: > ${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/cua2 ${AUTO_IRQ} skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS} > > If so, you need to change it to this: > ${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/cua2 ${AUTO_IRQ} skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS} > spd_vhi > > Or you could be more brute-force about it and simply do this: > ${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/cua2 irq 4 skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS} spd_vhi This stuff is in the file /etc/rc.boot/0setserial on Debian systems. Modify it to suit your system. Also, you need to make sure you have no IRQ conflicts with other devices. A few programs may work fine in DOS/Windows with IRQ conflicts, but probably things will not with Linux. First off, I would try the AUTO_IRQ option as Susan mentioned. But if you have problems, then I would suggest investigating whether you have IRQ conflicts. Typically, IRQ 4 is used for COM1, so it probably should not be used for COM3. COM2 usually uses IRQ 3. IRQs 5 and 7 are usually safe to use for a modem on COM3 or COM4. However, if you have a sound card, it probably uses one of these so you'll need to find out which one it uses then use the other one for your modem. Generally, IRQs are changed on an internal modem with jumpers. Look in your modem manual for details (sometimes the cards are labeled too). Then modify /etc/rc.boot/0setserial appropriately. Gerry
Re: 386 Dx-40
Hi, > A Q. Q. is anyone out there using still using a 386 dx-40 (running > Linux) and if so could you let us know what problems you are having if any > I am considering the purchase of one.. I'm running a 386DX33-256k-8M-1GB/ide-270MBsyquest-ET4000/1MB with no problems. Sure X11 is very Memory consuming but the system is very usable in textmode. I have attached a vt220, a V.34+ Modem and a second Display with MDA. My Mainboard does not allow to upgrade the RAM :( With 16MB this system would even be useable for some X11 work. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/A2C51749 [EMAIL PROTECTED] +4972573817 *plush* (OO) If privacy is outlawed only Outlaws have privacy
Re: LaTeX
There have been a few buggy LaTeX packages around. I had the same problem. I found that by explicitly defining the variables below everything would work ok. I understand this shouldn't be necessary, but for some reason kpathsea doesn't do its job right on my system (by the way, you could try and set the varibale KPATHSEA_DEBUG=1/2/4/8/16/32 -- read the info file through emacs-- this will show a bunch of info about where kpathsea is looking for the various files and more. This is what lead me to explicitly set the variables below). Good luck, Giuseppe # TeX, LaTeX etc. TEXMF=/usr/lib/texmf TEXMFLOC=/usr/local/lib/texmf TEXMFUSR=$HOME/texmf TEXINPUTS=.:$TEXMFUSR//:$TEXMFLOC/tex//:$TEXMF/tex// export TEXINPUTS
How to move the system to a new hard disk?
I am planing to install a new bigger hard disk. I will keep the old one but I would like to move Debian Linux to the new disk. Is it safe to use dd? If not, what would be the most pratical way to do that without having to remember all customization, etc? Fernando
Re: Re[2]: Am I the Only One Waiting??
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Therefore the newest postings archived on the server and > mirrors are those of June 96. Don't hold your breath :-) Check again; they're being updated now. There's a glitch right now so that postings past about mid September aren't there, but that should be fixed very soon. Guy
Re: Anyone got a microcom working with diald?
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996 22:45:45 PDT "Paul Christenson \[N3EOP\]" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > To use 115200, you need to use setserial on the port with the spd_vhi > flag, and tell diald/pppd to use 38400. > > However, since it connects under minicom, that's telling me that you > aren't using the proper setup string. Try using the same init string > under diald as you use under minicom. Gasp, I thought it was needed only for old serial boards ? Do you actually need the above trick or does connecting directly at 115200 works ? Phil.
Re: 386 Dx-40
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A Q. Q. is anyone out there using still using a 386 dx-40 (running > Linux) and if so could you let us know what problems you are having if any > I am considering the purchase of one.. It runs fine. Of course, depending on the amount of memory, speed/size of the disk, presence or absense of memory cache, etc, performance may vary widely. Some time ago (with slackware and kernel 1.2.8), a 386DX40Mhz with 4Mb of ram and 64K cache memory compiled the kernel in about 4 hours. More memory means a *big* difference here. I even used netscape on this machine (X + static netscape), but it used to take a long time for it to startup (again, the main point is memory). The speed of the disk is also important; some older disks are *much* slower than others. Other than that, it's just as stable as linux ever was, i.e., very (I *never* experienced a lockup). See ya, Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Missing terminfo entries?
Fabrizio Polacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > My newly installed Debian system doesn't seem to recognize less > > standard terminal emulations. For example, Amiga terminal emulation > > (export TERM=amiga) is not present. > > You should install ncurses-term to get /usr/lib/terminfo/a/amiga As stated in my earlier message, I do have the following packages installed: ncurses-base1.9.9e-1 ncurses-bin 1.9.9e-1 ncurses-term1.9.9e-1 ncurses3.0 1.9.9e-1 ncurses3.0-dev 1.9.9e-1 I do have "/usr/lib/terminfo/a/amiga". But it is not listed in "/etc/terminfo/a" (here only "ansi" is present). > You should also NOT have the TERMCAP environment variable set. (it > should be absent) so also the TERMINFO variable should be unset, or > pointing to /usr/lib/terminfo Both TERMCAP and TERMINFO are unset. Setting TERMINFO to /usr/lib/terminfo doesn't help either. So, IMHO, the Debian ncurses package is broken. > Also check if exist a terminfo (or .terminfo) in your home. > I think you should not have one, unless you need to customize some > terminfo file. I don't have one. -- Raymond Penners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Disk Compression - Stacker - Drivespace, etc.
I am curious whether or not the conventional PC disk compression utilities such as Stacker and Drivespace are compatible with the Linux O/S? I heard that Stacker 4.0 for O/S2 was a compatible utility. Fact or Fantasy? Joe
Re: adobe acrobat viewer in debian?
I have installed the Acrobat3 reader with no problems. Just a warning message about: Warning: charset "STRING" not supported, using "ISO8859-1" which pops up when I start the application. --Derek Lee
Re: 386 Dx-40
Oops - I forgot to add that tigger is the 386 !! David On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 09:35:02 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi folks, > A Q. Q. is anyone out there using still using a 386 dx-40 (running > Linux) and if so could you let us know what problems you are having if any > I am considering the purchase of one.. > > Jonathan > __ David J. Evans AMS, Virology Research Group, The University of Reading Whiteknights, P.O. Box 228, Reading RG6 6AJ Tel : +44 (0)118 9318893 Fax : +44 (0)118 9316537 http://skpc10.reading.ac.uk/
Re: debian startup scripts & dedicated ppp
> You should propagate the PPP startup script before the NFS > mounts occur. This is a site specific configuration that > probably isn't that common. Never the less, I think Debian > 1.2 will probably deal with this better (I think). In the I hope so. I didn't have much trouble getting the nfs stuff working, but I didn't like what I had to do and I felt it should work better out of the box without requiring editing of the rc scripts. > system in front of me right now (mine's floating in the > Pacific at the moment :-)), so this is the best I can do. > This should get your ppp up prior to going to the mount > phase. Are you the guy who's doing data collection with a underwater linux system? I think that'd make a great Linux Journal article :-) > This seems to be a very popular problem. Debian, RedHat, > Slackware, SunOS, Solaris, Irix all kill all processes prior > to unmounting filesystems. The theory behind this is that > if a filehandle is open on a filesystem, it can't be > unmounted. The problem is when the process killed is ypbind > or pppd and you can't resolve the hostname of the NFS > server. I did like redhat's solution; it worked for me, but I can think of situations where it wouldn't.. > I think Solaris 2.5+ has a functional fuser command > that could be used to kill all processes (close all open > filehandles) on a mount point. The shutdown procedure could > then kill processes on NFS mounted filesystems first, > unmount NFS filesystems, then do its normal routine of > killing all processes and umounting all filesystems. > > Anybody know if Debian's fuser command supports this? > Anybody got any other ideas here? It looks like fuser will support this, it has a -k flag that will kill all processes accessing a file. fuser -m -k /home should kill every process using the /home partition. > > I see that red hat uses a "nfsfs" script that's responsible for > > starting/stopping nfs services at the appropriate time. Unless I'm just > > totally missing something with my problems as I described them above, I > > propose that a similar script be added to debian. > > How does this script handle the open filehandles issue on It doesn't handle them at all. The key thing is, it's a standard sysv init script, so the sysadmin can change the order it's executed in my changing the symlink, and so can ensure that anything else that's using the nfs mounts gets killed before the script is executed. (In theory, anyway.) > Do you have a copy of the script? Here's a copy of the script: #!/bin/sh # # nfsfs Mount NFS filesystems. # # Version: @(#) /etc/init.d/skeleton 1.01 26-Oct-1993 # # Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # # Source networking configuration. . /etc/sysconfig/network # Check that networking is up. [ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0 # See how we were called. case "$1" in start) echo -n "Mounting remote filesystems." mount -a -t nfs touch /var/lock/subsys/nfsfs echo ;; stop) echo -n "Unmounting remote filesystems." umount -a -t nfs rm -f /var/lock/subsys/nfsfs echo ;; *) echo "Usage: nfsfs {start|stop}" exit 1 esac exit 0 -- #!/usr/bin/perl -lisubstr($_,39+38*sin++$y/9,2)=$s # [EMAIL PROTECTED] for($s=' '||McQ;$_='JOEY HESS 'x8;print){eval$^I} # Joey Hess "He. He. He." - - Herman Toothrot
Re: 386 Dx-40
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi folks, > A Q. Q. is anyone out there using still using a 386 dx-40 (running > Linux) and if so could you let us know what problems you are having if any > I am considering the purchase of one.. > > Jonathan > I'm using 386DX40 without any problems. I've 8MB (but it worked also with 4MB), 210MB IDE drive, VGA , Ethernet and everything's going just fine! I've also 386SX16 with exactly the same configuration running also my home WWW server without any problem!!! They're a part of my home network. Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I use longtable in LaTeX
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says: >I want to compare three documents in paralel columns in a report. The >comparison will stretch over about 20 pages. I believe LaTeX have the >possibility to do that. >So far I could not find any documentation on how to use "longtable" that, >according to one of the LaTeX-newsletters can do it. > I wouldn't use long table for this. Try multicols (I think now it's a permanent component from LaTeX2e or close to that). Each time you need to change document, force a newcolumn, each time to synchronize the columns close and reopen the columns. Currently there is now way to ge automatic pagebreaks with this. :-( ciccio