Re: Windoze 95 and Linux compatibility??
Linux can mount Windows 95 filesystems. Ther may still be a problem with NT filesystems, I'm not sure. It can be a client, server, or browse master for Windows networks. It shares disks and printers. There is very limited support for executing Windows programs under Linux. 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 -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
X S3 bug?
I'm using the S3 X server and the display doesn't map quite right. It seems to be off by a small number of pixels (leaving a slim vertical bar across the far right of the display). This is sporadic behavior, sometimes it snaps into proper alignment and sometimes it snaps out. Is this a known bug? Is there a fix? Cheers, norm --- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | On a clear disk you can seek forever Technical Director, Online Publishing | O'Reilly Associates, Inc. | Telecommuting from Amherst, MA| (413) 549-3868 Voice and FAX | http://www.ora.com/staff/norm -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
upgrading tips (was Re: Any pitfalls of upgrading to libc in unstable?)
On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, CoB SysAdmin wrote: What I need to know is, is there any magic order I need to do everything in? I know the last time I tried to futz with my libraries, my whole system *stopped* (because I rmed the old libraries before copying in the new ones. I guess cp was linked to shared libs, because I never made it that far. cp complained that it couldn't link to the shared libs, etc. I had to eventually boot the install disks and replace the original shared libs. you must have done that on a slackware system (or some other distribution which doesn't have a neat packaging system like debian) with debian, the easiest and safest way to upgrade your libc ldso is to download the relevant packages and use dpkg or dselect to install them. It's all done automatically and safely. So, seeing as how this has to happen on a *live* web server, I'd like to get any tips in advance. For example: I'm going to update ldso at around the same time. Should one come before the other? (ie, install new ldso, then new libc, or vice-versa?). shouldn't really matter. If it does, then the libc ldso packages are created so that they depend on the correct version to be installed first. As a completely hypothetical example, if ldso version 9.99 required libc5 version 5.5.55 then dpkg would not allow you to install that version of ldso UNTIL the correct version of libc5 was installed. The only gotcha is that certain packages may depend on other packages which you haven't downloaded yet. The best solution is to mirror the distribution (see below). Failing that, always check the requirements of any package with dpkg -I packagefilename.deb before installing it. (note capital -I for Info, not lowercase -i for install) once again, dpkg wont let you go wrong - if the dependancies arent installed then it wont let you upgrade. note: you can override dpkg's restrictions with the --force options. sometimes you need to. Usually you don't, but it's nice to know you can if you have to :-) Read the documentation. Hints, tricks, suggestions? use dpkg dselect to do all your upgrades. THESE TOOLS ARE THE MAIN REASON WHY DEBIAN IS SUPERIOR TO OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS - they make it easy to upgrade individual packages or the entire distribution in an automated, mostly painless, mostly safe way. It isn't 100% perfect (nothing is) but it's certainly several orders of magnitude better than doing it all by hand. Best tip I can give you is: If you have the bandwidth and/or the disk space (about 400mb for just the binaries, over 1gb if you want everything including sources for stable unstable, plus the kitchen sink), then mirror either the stable or the unstable debian tree and upgrade regularly from that. I find that I have more minor hassles upgrading the longer I leave it between upgrades. If you have a test system (i.e. one that you use but which nothing is dependant on and customers/users aren't going to scream about if it goes down) then use that to test upgrades. Upgrade it first. Find out what might go wrong. If it works fine then it's safe to upgrade your live system. Otherwise, submit a bug report, wait a few more days for fixes to trickle into the mirror and try it again. I've been doing this with my debian systems for over a year and havent yet run into any problem which couldn't be fixed in an hour or so. Most problems can be avoided entirely just by clearly thinking about and planning what you are about to do...dpkg is a great tool but it's not a substitute for making active use of your own brain. Finally, always leave yourself a way to back out to the way it was before you started changing things. Sometimes this means making sure that you have a copy of the .deb archive of the OLD version that you are about to upgrade...if you have it on CD, no problem. Summary: Use dpkg RTFM Think Leave yourself an out. Craig -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
networking problem
Okay folks...I've narrowed down my problem to /etc/init.d/network, where the first attempt to ifconfig eth0 fails, because I have no eth0! I told the installer that I was connected to the network via ethernet. NT (also on the system) says taht I have a Novell NE2000 card. What's wrong? do I have to mknod the device file myself? If so, how? (never mind why for now). Any ideas, folks? it's set to x300 irq 10, in a mixed ISA/PCI system...NT, 95, and wfw work fine (this is to be a multiplatform build machine). Thanks, if anyone can help! (btw...I tried re-installing with Debian 1.2 floppies and base. same thing) --- Allan Anderson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Re: Debian on Infomagic CD
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: Regarding InfoMagic, I think this time he only has one CD for Debian, and thus some stuff like contrib and non-free might not make it on to the CD. Hmm, the last InfoMagic Developer's Resource had only room for Debian on not even a whole disk. It had to share a single disk with some other stuff like a Wine mirror and JE (Japanese Extensions?). So it can't become worse than before... P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/ -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Re: news config -- suggested tools?
Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish Which software would be best to handle this? From the name, Hamish suck sounds like just the thing to get the news in, but I'd Hamish guess it won't be interested in batching for UUCP, so I'd need Hamish cnews or inn. I'm reasonably familar with configuring Taylor Hamish UUCP. Actually, suck does indeed batch for UUCP, after checking the article ids and stripping duplicates. Then you can use rnews to send the files to your INN. You can rnews the suck batch files: no UUCP configuration is necessary unless you need to automatically transfer the batches between hosts. ~ 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) -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Re: Help! I'm with mount problems...
Hello again. I'm new to the Linux Wonderfull World, and surfing the Web, I found the Debian page. I downloaded the Debian Linux, installed it, and used (+/-) since October, but I've not much experience, and an energy problem caused the system to display this message when the computer rebooted: -- EXT2-fs error (device 03:41): ext2_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 32 not in group (block 1310742)! [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 0,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap] [me=0x2d,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,fl=24338,ds=0,de=0,data=0,se=19456,ts=70529, ls=9471] Transaction block size=512 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:41 -- I don't understand completely this error message. It mentions both EXT-2 and MS-DOS. I assume that your root filesystem is ext2. Correct. I've attempted to boot with a diskette, and tried to manually mount the fs, because I know that there is another tables on the partition, but I don't know the 'mount' program, as the ext2-fs, *so* well. Ok, to mount an ext2 filesystem: mount -t ext2 /dev/partition mountpoint From what I see above, your partition should be /dev/hdb1. A typical mountpoint is /mnt. I tried this, but its results was an error message. :-( But beware, don't try to mount is without fsck'ing it. Try, before: e2fsck -f /dev/hdb1 And see what it says. The only boot disk that I have is the one of Debian Installation. Do you believe that its root disk hasn't the e2fsck program? Can you send this program attached in a reply, or say where can I find it? I'll mount my W95 partition with the program in it, and will attempt to use it... If it cannot fix the problems, then you'll have to use an alternate superblock, but that's another story. Can you tell me how to do it? I think the problem is in the first superblock, but don't know how to use another superblocks. If it works, you can try to mount it on mnt, check that about everything is ok, and reboot. Now, a stupid question :-) How can I check that everything is ok? I don't have books about Linux or Unix, and the little things that I learned was with the 'man' command. With my poor english, that was a true Mission: Impossible ;-) Thanks again! []'s Alexander Gieg =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= By: Alexander Gieg E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/3222 IRC: AlexG =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pdf files
Hi All, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lars, What you need is a copy of the Adobe Acrobat viewer software. Better would be Ghostscript with gv. Since most people have Ghostscript already. Ghostview is not setup to view pdf files(have this changed?) even through Ghostscript can handle it. But 'gv' on the other hand can handle pdf files and it looks much better then Ghostview. This way you don't have to waste time downloading Adobe Acrobat which is very big. Later, David -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
go-ahead for Debian 1.2
I have given the go-ahead for Debian 1.2 to be released. Currently ftp.debian.org and the mirror at BNL have up-to-date archives. Other mirrors are catching up, and we'll hold off on the release announcement until they are in sync. Most critical is that your mirror have the 1996-12-8 boot floppy set, as the 1996-12-7 one was a mess. You are welcome to jump the gun and get Debian 1.2 from the frozen directory. I'd appreciate it if a good number of the regular crowd on debian-user go through the installation procedure ASAP, so that you are able to help out people who are just starting to use Debian. As always, the Debian developers are grateful for the efforts of our regular users on debian-user. 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 -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down. From miss Received: from mongo.pixar.com (138.72.50.60) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 10 Dec 1996 03:00:58 - Received: (qmail 3249 invoked from network); 10 Dec 1996 02:44:22 - Received: from primer.i-connect.net (HELO master.debian.org) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by mongo.pixar.com with SMTP; 10 Dec 1996 02:44:22 - Date: Mon, 9 Dec 96 19:50:09 GMT Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Skreeg) To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Dpkg-ftp broke and now gone completely. Resent-Message-ID: kVTyR.0.TS5.XB7ho@master.debian.org Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/1107 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Priority: non-urgent Importance: low Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi there, Got quite a serious problem here. I was upgrading parts of the system using the full whack of stable and unstable dirs. During upgrading dkpg-ftp it says it depends on libnet. Fair enough, I'll get that too only to find that during the process it barfs with a can't get libnet type of error. This has the result that dpkg-ftp is now broken (U). Pressing Shift-R has no effect it getting back to my previous state so I uninstalled dpkg-ftp hoping to install the old one back from my Iconnect CD. Wrong!. After doing a CD update I find that Dpkg-ftp isn't listed. It must be on it somewhere since it's installed from a fresh installation so it must be on the CD. Can anyone pleaae help me here. This is the second time this has happened, the last time I just done a full installation to get it back. Something I've done 8 times in the last 8 months and I have no wish to do it anymore. Thank you. Ozzy, __ _ _ / \ \ \ / / / / / |-Brian SkreegIRC:_Ozzy-| \__/ \ \ |-Lead guitarist extraordinaire-| \__/_/ |-I don't look like two zombies-| -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down. From miss Received: from mongo.pixar.com (138.72.50.60) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 10 Dec 1996 03:00:59 - Received: (qmail 3269 invoked from network); 10 Dec 1996 02:44:32 - Received: from primer.i-connect.net (HELO master.debian.org) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by mongo.pixar.com with SMTP; 10 Dec 1996 02:44:32 - Date: Mon, 9 Dec 96 19:50:09 GMT Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Skreeg) To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Dpkg-ftp broke and now gone completely. Resent-Message-ID: kVTyR.0.TS5.XB7ho@master.debian.org Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/1107 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Priority: non-urgent Importance: low Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi there, Got quite a serious problem here. I was upgrading parts of the system using the full whack of stable and unstable dirs. During upgrading dkpg-ftp it says it depends on libnet. Fair enough, I'll get that too only to find that during the process it barfs with a can't get libnet type of error. This has the result that dpkg-ftp is now broken (U). Pressing Shift-R has no effect it getting back to my previous state so I uninstalled dpkg-ftp hoping to install the old one back from my Iconnect CD. Wrong!. After doing a CD update I find that Dpkg-ftp isn't listed. It must be on it somewhere since it's installed from a fresh installation so it must be on the CD. Can anyone pleaae help me here. This is the second time this has happened, the last time I just done a full installation to get it back. Something I've done 8 times in the last 8 months and I have no wish to do it anymore. Thank you. Ozzy, __ _ _ / \ \ \ / / / / / |-Brian SkreegIRC:_Ozzy-| \__/ \ \ |-Lead guitarist extraordinaire-|
Re: Debian on Infomagic CD
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Adam Shand wrote: What I would like to see added to non-free (more than stable/unstable) is the copyright files for each package, already unpacked, so the packages don't need to be unpacked to be investigated. This would make it a lot less work determining which packages might be included under various circumstances. I agree, this would be *really* nice. then talk to Guy, it should be easy enough to extract from the archive automatically. it should be in /usr/doc/package name/copyright. Shaya -- Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Debian 1.1 (1-Jul-96) networking problem
Hello folks...I've got a CD-ROM from IConnect, made ~ the first of July. It seems to install just fine, but when it reboots, the network doesn't start up. I've got a NE2000 card, and I think that I configured everything okay...it works fine when I install from my old .93r6 cd, for instance. During bootup, it reads off a bunch of messages ( SIG* failed: device does not exist, that sort of thing...I'll get the exact errors if anyone asks.) Does anyone know what's going on here? I had the exact same problem when I first got the CD and tried to install it on another machine, with an HP lancard, so I'm thinking that it's probably a problem with the distribution. I've installed the updated netbase.deb from buzz-fixed, but the problem persists. Argh, I don't want to have to run .93r6!!! Thanks in advance for any help.. --- Allan Anderson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Re: Recompiling kernel broke my ppp
On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Paul Christenson wrote: There is something that I've been wondering.. Why is everyone so fascinated with modules? I acknowledge that they have their uses, but how many people really need to UNLOAD a module once it's loaded? If you need it, compile it into the kernel, where it belongs. You'll find that there are a lot fewer problems if you do. edwalter already brought up two good reasons. here's a third: flexibility: you can compile a kernel with modules that you need plus modules that you MIGHT need in the future. e.g. you have an ne2000 ethernet card now but you're planning to upgrade to a 3c509 in a few weeks. compile a kernel with ne2000 and 3c509 modules and just use whichever one you need at the time. You'll still have to reboot but only because you cant swap the cards without powering down :-) a more common scenario is wanting to give yourself the flexibility of running samba or netatalk or ipx stuff later. You dont need it now but as soon as you have time you'll get it working. If it's a module, just load it and experiment without having to recompile the kernel and without having to reboot. and a fourth: finding out where hardware lives without rebooting 50,000,000 times: e.g. you have to convert an old 386 box with some sort of ethernet card in it into a linux box router. of course, there is no documentation for any of the hardware and the jumper settings on the card don't make any sense to you at all. If you compile the ethernet card into the kernel you have to edit /etc/lilo.conf, run lilo reboot every time you try a new io port address and irq. With modules, you just keep on running modprobe or insmod commands from the shell prompt until the module loads successfully, make a note of the settings that worked, and edit /etc/modules or /etc/conf.modules to make those settings the defaults for that module. 5 minutes work rather than 1+ hours. this is particularly obvious when you are installing two or more ethernet cards in a machine (quite common for a router or firewall box). It's so much easier doing it with modules that i wouldn't even consider doing it any other way. BUT, no matter what hardware you've got and no matter how well the standard debian kernel works for you, it is a very good idea to compile your own kernel as soon as possible. Why waste memory on unneeded drivers? Also, many drivers add a couple of minutes to booting time while they probe for non-existant hardware. The standard debian kernel is a one-size-fits-all affair. Roll your own to suit your own hardware as soon as possible. craig -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
ppp problems
Hi all, I am trying to get ppp version 2.2.0f-18 running on my Debian 1.1 system. It is dialing up and logging in fine, but when the LCP negotiation phase starts, it seems to loop for a while, then timeout. It looks like my ISP is not acking my system's config requests. My ISP account works fine with Trumpet Winsock on Windows, and Win95 PPP- both with no fancy authentication, etc., so that should not be the problem. Follows is a portion of my ppp.log file showing what I'm seeing here (I apologize for the lengthy log file): 15:08:55 pppd[29364]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 15:08:58 chat[29365]: abort on (BUSY) 15:08:58 chat[29365]: abort on (NO CARRIER) 15:08:58 chat[29365]: abort on (VOICE) 15:08:58 chat[29365]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) 15:08:58 chat[29365]: send (ATDT962-9761^M) 15:08:58 chat[29365]: expect (ogin) 15:09:16 chat[29365]: ATDT962-9761^M^M 15:09:16 chat[29365]: PROTOCOL: LAP-M^M 15:09:16 chat[29365]: ^M 15:09:16 chat[29365]: COMPRESSION: V.42BIS^M 15:09:16 chat[29365]: ^M 15:09:16 chat[29365]: CONNECT 14400/ARQ^M 15:09:17 chat[29365]: This is WorldWide Access (SM)^M 15:09:17 chat[29365]: ^M 15:09:17 chat[29365]: enter guest to get information^M 15:09:17 chat[29365]: ^M 15:09:17 chat[29365]: (3.1) (pool1) (line112)^M 15:09:17 chat[29365]: ^M 15:09:17 chat[29365]: pool1 login -- got it 15:09:17 chat[29365]: send (Puserdeleted^M) 15:09:17 chat[29365]: expect (word) 15:09:17 chat[29365]: : Puserdeleted^M 15:09:17 chat[29365]: Password -- got it 15:09:17 chat[29365]: send (passdeleted^M) 15:09:18 chat[29365]: expect (Packet) 15:09:18 chat[29365]: : ^M 15:09:18 chat[29365]: ^M 15:09:18 chat[29365]: Packet -- got it 15:09:19 pppd[29364]: Serial connection established. 15:09:20 pppd[29364]: Using interface ppp0 15:09:20 pppd[29364]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS2 15:09:20 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x621c9b2e pcomp accomp] 15:09:24 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:24 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:29 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:29 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:30 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x621c9b2e pcomp accomp] 15:09:34 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x3 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:34 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x3 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:39 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x4 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:39 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x4 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:40 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x621c9b2e pcomp accomp] 15:09:44 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x5 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:44 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x5 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:49 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x6 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:49 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x6 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:50 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x621c9b2e pcomp accomp] 15:09:54 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x7 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:54 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x7 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:59 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x8 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:59 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x8 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:10:00 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x621c9b2e pcomp accomp] 15:10:04 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x9 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:10:04 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x9 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:10:09 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0xa mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:10:09 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0xa mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:10:10 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x621c9b2e pcomp accomp] 15:10:14 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0xb mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:10:14 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0xb mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:10:19 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0xc mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:10:19 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0xc mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:10:20 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x621c9b2e pcomp accomp] 15:10:24 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP
Re: PGP
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote: From what I understand, PGP 'international' is not supposed to be used in the US, and the US version is not supposed to be use outside of the US. Is this right? Which one should I be using? The US version is legal to use in the US, and illegal to export from the US, but whose gonna prosecute you if you use it outside the US. But you shouldn't want to use it anyway b/c the international version is faster b/c it uses a faster library than the one RSA provides for MIT to put in the US version. However b/c it uses its own library, it breaks RSA's patent in the US, therefore it is techinically illegal to be used in the US. Shaya -- Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Re: Help! I'm with mount problems...
On Mon, 09 Dec 1996 16:38:05 -0200 Alexander Gieg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello! I'm new to the Linux Wonderfull World, and surfing the Web, I found the Debian page. I downloaded the Debian Linux, installed it, and used (+/-) since October, but I've not much experience, and an energy problem caused the system to display this message when the computer rebooted: -- EXT2-fs error (device 03:41): ext2_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 32 not in group (block 1310742)! [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 0,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap] [me=0x2d,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,fl=24338,ds=0,de=0,data=0,se=19456,ts=70529, ls=9471] Transaction block size=512 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:41 -- I don't understand completely this error message. It mentions both EXT-2 and MS-DOS. I assume that your root filesystem is ext2. I've attempted to boot with a diskette, and tried to manually mount the fs, because I know that there is another tables on the partition, but I don't know the 'mount' program, as the ext2-fs, *so* well. Ok, to mount an ext2 filesystem: mount -t ext2 /dev/partition mountpoint From what I see above, your partition should be /dev/hdb1. A typical mountpoint is /mnt. But beware, don't try to mount is without fsck'ing it. Try, before: e2fsck -f /dev/hdb1 And see what it says. If it cannot fix the problems, then you'll have to use an alternate superblock, but that's another story. If it works, you can try to mount it on mnt, check that about everything is ok, and reboot. Phil. -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Re: Debian on Infomagic CD
I think the license should be placed in the archive next to the package so that it is easy to read. Regarding InfoMagic, I think this time he only has one CD for Debian, and thus some stuff like contrib and non-free might not make it on to the CD. 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 -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Re: Debian on Infomagic CD
Actually, it looks as if contrib made it onto the CD, but non-free did not. 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 -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Apache and cgi-bin
Hello, I just upgraded from Debian 1.1 to pre-1.2. I tought it would be nice to have packages dwww and info2www so I installed them. But I just can't get Apache configured the way it could handle cgi-scripts. I had some problems while installing it, but it was finally installed without errors and it is running well, except with cgi-scripts. I didn't found much information about my problem form man pages nor Apaches home page. So when I'm no trying to read those indexed dwww-man-pages which all I get is error message... File Not found The requested URL /cgi-bin/dwww was not found on this server. Dpkg installed Dwww and info2www scripts as links to /usr/lib/httpd/cgi-bin. In my /etc/apache/access.conf I have following lines, which might have some connection with the problem. # This should be changed to whatever you set Document-Root to. Directory /home/www-data/webspace Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI AllowOverride None order allow,deny allow from all /Directory # /usr/lib/httpd/cgi-bin should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased # CGI directory exists, if you have that configured. Directory /usr/lib/httpd/cgi-bin AllowOverride None /Directory And in /etc/apache/httpd.conf # User/Group: The name (or #number) of the user/group to run httpd as. # On SCO (ODT 3) use User nouser and Group nogroup User www-data Group www-data LoadModule alias_module /usr/lib/apache/modules/mod_alias.so LoadModule userdir_module /usr/lib/apache/modules/mod_userdir.so LoadModule cgi_module /usr/lib/apache/modules/mod_cgi.so LoadModule anon_auth_module /usr/lib/apache/modules/mod_auth_anon.so LoadModule status_module /usr/lib/apache/modules/mod_status.so LoadModule info_module '/usr/lib/apache/modules/mod_info.so' LoadModule digest_module '/usr/lib/apache/modules/mod_digest.so' LoadModule config_log_module /usr/lib/apache/modules/mod_log_config.so LoadModule cookies_module '/usr/lib/apache/modules/mod_cookies.so' LoadModule proxy_module /usr/lib/apache/modules/mod_proxy.so And /etc/apache/srm.conf DocumentRoot /home/www-data/webspace # ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts. # Format: ScriptAlias fakename realname ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/httpd/cgi-bin/ # To use CGI scripts: AddHandler cgi-script .cgi I've tried to change /cgi-bin/ directory to the DocumentRoot, and changed configuration so that it should be there, but haven't had any luck. I would appreciate if some one would kindly give any suggestion or even post me the right and safe configuration to the cgi-bin stuff. cheers, -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Re: Debian on Infomagic CD
On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: I advised Joel to look over the licenses of the individual programs in non-free, and decide what he could legally include. I don't know if he'll have space. Since there has been discussion of splitting up non-free, how about creating a 'non-dist' for those that have distribution restrictions? Fortunately, there are not many, and if the package maintainer would include a line in the Packages entry like: mypackage-1.1.deb D-Restrictions: CD foreign Xfoo (restricted CD, foreign, or 'foo' distributions) or anotherpkg-0.1.deb D-Restrictions: none (no restrictions on distribution) This way, a grep of the packages (with standardized keywords) would give an instant list of all packages not allowed on CD-ROM. The '-Xfoo' flag is a hypothetical extended flag, here stating that distribution by method foo is specifically prohibited, but there is no recognized flag '-foo'. This could be extended to all non-free packages, with other lines, like: thispkg-2.0.deb U-Restrictions: commercial for restrictions on commercial use. Just an idea... | This is OFFICIAL WRITTEN notification that I want to be REMOVED | | from ALL commercial mailing lists. EVERY message sent from this | | account has had this request posted. ALL UNSOLICITED ADVERTISEMENTS | | SENT TO THIS ACCOUNT ARE IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL (U.S.) LAW.| -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Re: POPmail and procmail
Hi Daniel, Daniel Stringfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I send a message via locally, over my own network, procmail seems to process the file, but when mail comes in via 'popclient' from my ISP, it doesn't seem to be running the .forward file. Does anyone have this same situation. Maybe I am beating my head against a brick wall for nothing. OR is there a way to have 'popclient' pass the mail to procmail directly? I feed any mail received by popclient to procmail using the following crontab entry: 14 05 * * * popclient -3 my.mail.server -c | formail +1 -ds procmail formail splits the stream of mail coming from popclient into single messages and executes procmail for each message. Hope this will help, wolfe -- Wolfhard Strähle E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Denkendorfer Straße 25 Tel.: (049)-0711/3482825 D-73760 Ostfildern -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Re: X S3 bug?
From: Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 09 Dec 1996 16:51:19 -0500 I'm using the S3 X server and the display doesn't map quite right. It seems to be off by a small number of pixels (leaving a slim vertical bar across the far right of the display). This is sporadic behavior, sometimes it snaps into proper alignment and sometimes it snaps out. Is this a known bug? Is there a fix? Dear Norman, At http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/index.html you'll find: Q.C1- The mouse cursor doesn't display in the right position If the cursor appears to be horizontally offset by several pixels, it is probably due to the same problems that cause the display to be wrapped around. See item D1 below. Q.D1- Part of the Displayed Image is Wrapping-around or is Duplicated on the Other Side of the Screen For Diamond Stealth Video VRAM: if the server is not recognizing your card as a Diamond card, add this line to your XF86Config: Option Diamond If the above does not work or you don't have a Diamond card, try running the xvidtune program and adjusting various settings. In particular, if you have a recent S3 based card, adjust the extra S3-specific settings at the bottom. Good luck, John -- Prof. J. Rulnick Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng. Atwater Kent Laboratories WPI, 100 Institute Rd. Worcester, MA 01609-2280 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X S3 bug?
On 9 Dec 1996, Norman Walsh wrote: I'm using the S3 X server and the display doesn't map quite right. It seems to be off by a small number of pixels (leaving a slim vertical bar across the far right of the display). This is sporadic behavior, sometimes it snaps into proper alignment and sometimes it snaps out. Is this a known bug? Is there a fix? I've seen this too, but it happens very rarely on my machine. When it does, usually just switching to a text mode (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and then back to the X screen (Alt-F7) will fix the problem. Gerry -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PGP
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote: From what I understand, PGP 'international' is not supposed to be used in the US, and the US version is not supposed to be use outside of the US. Is this right? Which one should I be using? -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! If you're in US, use the US version. In Canada, you have choice between both. The International supposely have more option altough I don't see a little difference between the basics functionnality... Elsewhere, you're preference must go to the international. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NTFS Filesystems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Mercurial Canid wrote: Can Linux read NTFS filesystems? I looked at the partitions using fdisk and it read the NTFS filesystem as OS/2 HPFS, but when I tried to mount it calling it HPFS it didn't work. Is there any way to do this? NTFS != HPFS. Yes, is not the same fs but MS use the same ID for both... that's why fdisk is confused... I don't believe linux can mount NTFS filesystems. But, did you make sure the hpfs is compiled into your kernel? There is read-only support for NTFS: http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/ntfs.tar.gz -- Ian!! As previously say, it exists in Debian package in experimental. I had try it a time ago but the version I use doesn't support the compressed format. Because the compressed attribute is the only reason why I'm using NTFS (frankly, with dosntfs, the security of having an NTFS side to a FAT FS is really no more a reason... ;) I flushed it... and finally flushed NT at all... Mainly, Linux, especially with Debian, give me everything I need... I just find out the last reason why I really no more need a NTFS... A GPL VRML browser named VR-WEB ... Just try to find some time to spend on it and may be put it on deb... if no one else are interested to do it? - --- Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight. -- William Safire - --- Fabien Ninoles aka le Veneur|| Running Debian-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| Lover of MOO, mountains, http://www-edu.gel.usherb.ca/ninf01 || poetry and Freedom. - --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMqzZhlX6fc7jcjhFAQEfNQP6A7GlcI2JdOIK6mEedGnRWNXbN0Rp40If SblPfYtxvgpXsO23e+bTQK3XpTR8eXCcJ0jumkibTrPRFPd7cFUXMkXVk8XrJiR1 /tYHkNxhZNUnMGr/665VW6VR1fpTwNVAnBks2zNibJ24NHeee/4QXimbuJhsmOcQ SJIjTCvKIJ8= =ilbW -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tweaking cron for use on laptops
Martin == Martin Gallant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin I have been running Debian on my laptop for a few months Martin now. Good job guys. Unless I intentionally remove the Martin cron package form this machine, the hard drive will not Martin spin down. What would be nice is if I could configure Martin cron to only run say once per hour. That way I could take Martin advantage of the log cycling features of the system. Martin Reading through the vixie cron documentation and source, Martin there does not appear to be a straightforward way to do Martin this. Anyone thought about this? I've thought about that too. A friend of mine has a Thinkpad that can do a context dump to a disk partition, and start up right where you leave off. He told me that there's a desktop system available that can go to sleep like that also. I want one! I'd like to leave my machine on all the time. I've set my drives to spin down, using 'hdparm', but 'update' keeps them from stopping. There's a patch out, called 'atime' patch, if I recall, that is supposed to help alleviate this. It says it comes with a script that puts /dev/* in a ramdisk. I haven't explored it yet. But what about 'cron'? It ought to set an alarm that would wake up the computer just before a job is scheduled, run the job, and then go back to sleep. I suppose that a re-implementation of 'cron' and 'atrun' would be required to make this happen. Q: Does the real time clock have what would be required? (or a start on that?) How difficult would that be? Do those computer support something like this? They must, it seems such an obvious thing. Another thing I thought of is to install that screensaver hooks patch, and have the screensaver send a signal to a modified 'update' daemon. It could SIGUSER1 it, which would cause it to 'sync' and then toggle to OFF. When the screensaver deactivates, it would SIGUSER1 'update' again, and that would toggle update back on again. (Perhaps rather than ON/OFF, it would toggle between two update periods given on the commandline toupdate. A longer timeoutfor while screenblanker is active.) I tried to hack in a call to sync(); where the screen gets blanked in the kernel, naively. (Aiieeh!) Can't schedule during an interrupt. After I finish the bigred book, Beginning Linux Programming, I think I will get that Kernel Internals book and start on it. :-) There's a lot to learn. I'm not capable of coding any of that yet; I'm just a beginner. But I've thought about it some... :-) -- Participate in history! __ _Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg / / | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / Portland, OR, USA / /__| | | | | |_| | Proudly running Linux 2.0.25 transname \/_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ and Debian GNU public software! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ppp problems
At 10:54 PM 12/8/96 -6000, Dave Ewaldz wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get ppp version 2.2.0f-18 running on my Debian 1.1 system. It is dialing up and logging in fine, but when the LCP negotiation phase starts, it seems to loop for a while, then timeout. It looks like my ISP is not acking my system's config requests. clip My situation was similar, I think, to Dave's. As I posted here more than once, I had a new install of Debian (rex) and I was trying to get to the 'dselect-ftp' portion of the install. My PPP now works!! After a marathon session of tweaking my options files, all appears fine. It is too late tonight to try and install any packages (maybe just a teensy _little_ one :) but the modem logs in to my ISP, ifconfig reports all is well, and pinging various sites reports everything is smooth. Here's what I 'tweaked' /etc/ppp/options: The _only_ options I left enabled were crtscts lock modem passive I know these vary according to your needs, but many other options were 'on' by default and one by one I turned things off until it worked. One confusing thing (to this newcomer) was the PAP authentication: should it be on or off? I know my ISP requires it (I check that box on Trumpett :) so I kept trying in my options file to have it enabled. Not needed, apparently. I do have a /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file with my_username, *, and my_password. I don't know if it mattered in the end. One thing I read in the HOWTO was to check /etc/resolv.conf Mine had garbage in it, so I replaced that with my domain and nameserver numbers. I just had to share that the ppp now appears to be working well. On to better things!! Bri My ISP account works fine with Trumpet Winsock on Windows, and Win95 PPP- both with no fancy authentication, etc., so that should not be the problem. Follows is a portion of my ppp.log file showing what I'm seeing here: 15:08:55 pppd[29364]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 15:08:58 chat[29365]: abort on (BUSY) 15:08:58 chat[29365]: abort on (NO CARRIER) 15:08:58 chat[29365]: abort on (VOICE) 15:08:58 chat[29365]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) 15:08:58 chat[29365]: send (ATDT962-9761^M) 15:08:58 chat[29365]: expect (ogin) 15:09:16 chat[29365]: ATDT962-9761^M^M 15:09:16 chat[29365]: PROTOCOL: LAP-M^M 15:09:16 chat[29365]: ^M 15:09:16 chat[29365]: COMPRESSION: V.42BIS^M 15:09:16 chat[29365]: ^M 15:09:16 chat[29365]: CONNECT 14400/ARQ^M 15:09:17 chat[29365]: This is WorldWide Access (SM)^M 15:09:17 chat[29365]: ^M 15:09:17 chat[29365]: enter guest to get information^M 15:09:17 chat[29365]: ^M 15:09:17 chat[29365]: (3.1) (pool1) (line112)^M 15:09:17 chat[29365]: ^M 15:09:17 chat[29365]: pool1 login -- got it 15:09:17 chat[29365]: send (Puserdeleted^M) 15:09:17 chat[29365]: expect (word) 15:09:17 chat[29365]: : Puserdeleted^M 15:09:17 chat[29365]: Password -- got it 15:09:17 chat[29365]: send (passdeleted^M) 15:09:18 chat[29365]: expect (Packet) 15:09:18 chat[29365]: : ^M 15:09:18 chat[29365]: ^M 15:09:18 chat[29365]: Packet -- got it 15:09:19 pppd[29364]: Serial connection established. 15:09:20 pppd[29364]: Using interface ppp0 15:09:20 pppd[29364]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS2 15:09:20 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x621c9b2e pcomp accomp] 15:09:24 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:24 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:29 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:29 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:30 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x621c9b2e pcomp accomp] 15:09:34 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x3 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:34 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x3 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:39 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x4 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:39 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x4 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:40 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x621c9b2e pcomp accomp] 15:09:44 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x5 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:44 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x5 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:49 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x6 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:49 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x6 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:50 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x621c9b2e pcomp accomp] 15:09:54 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x7 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:54 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x7 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp
Re: Tweaking cron for use on laptops
Martin Unless I intentionally remove the Martin cron package form this machine, the hard drive will not Martin spin down. There are a few things that could be modified to facilitate spinning down the disk. Syslogd is compulsive about writing information to the disk right away just in case the system crashes. It could be given an option to buffer. Cron, as you say, is another candidate. Also, (on a much longer timeline) there are things that can be done in the filesystems. For example, the last-accessed time of a file doesn't have to be written immediately, especially if reading a block from the ram cache. Also, when a disk is spun down it should be put in the unmounted state - that is with all modifications committed to disk before it's spun down, and the mounted bit cleared in the superblock. The first write should set the mounted bit when it is spun back up. Martin Anyone thought about this? I doubt it would be much trouble to hack cron. Go for it. From: Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've thought about that too. A friend of mine has a Thinkpad that can do a context dump to a disk partition, and start up right where you leave off. Linux can do that on the Thinkpad, and many other laptops, via APM. It's really a BIOS feature. My desktop will suspend, but the BIOS doesn't save RAM to disk so the power stays on. I've set my drives to spin down, using 'hdparm', but 'update' keeps them from stopping. There's a patch out, called 'atime' patch, if I recall, that is supposed to help alleviate this. It says it comes with a script that puts /dev/* in a ramdisk. I haven't explored it yet. That's the last-accessed time. I'd rather defer writing that information until I know the disk is spinning than put the devices in a RAM disk. But what about 'cron'? It ought to set an alarm that would wake up the computer just before a job is scheduled, run the job, and then go back to sleep. Take that 60-second alarm and make it 60 minutes. See what breaks. Fix it. Another thing I thought of is to install that screensaver hooks patch, and have the screensaver send a signal to a modified 'update' daemon. Most of what you need is already in the APM driver. I tried to hack in a call to sync(); where the screen gets blanked in the kernel, naively. (Aiieeh!) Can't schedule during an interrupt. But you can ask kerneld to perform a service for you, and then return from the interrupt. It will get there in a second or two. 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: procmail won't run
I'm in the same boat. When I use ~.forward all my mail gets sent to /var/spool/mail/nobody. On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Mark W. Blunier wrote: I am unable to get procmail to start up from the ~.forward file. I can get procmail to run from the command line, formail -s procmail copy_of_an_inbox I have setting ~.forward to |IFS=' 'exec /usr/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #blunier or | /usr/bin/procmail but neither one works. When the mail comes I doesn't land in a folder. I am using smail. Mark -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help! I'm with mount problems...
On Tue, 10 Dec 1996 00:39:00 -0200 Alexander Gieg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've attempted to boot with a diskette, and tried to manually mount the fs, because I know that there is another tables on the partition, but I don't know the 'mount' program, as the ext2-fs, *so* well. Ok, to mount an ext2 filesystem: mount -t ext2 /dev/partition mountpoint From what I see above, your partition should be /dev/hdb1. A typical mountpoint is /mnt. I tried this, but its results was an error message. :-( Looks like it's verty f**cked'up then... You linux root fs is on the first partition of the second hard drive right ? Its device is /dev/hdb1 right ? But beware, don't try to mount is without fsck'ing it. Try, before: e2fsck -f /dev/hdb1 And see what it says. The only boot disk that I have is the one of Debian Installation. Do you believe that its root disk hasn't the e2fsck program? Can you send this program attached in a reply, or say where can I find it? I'll mount my W95 partition with the program in it, and will attempt to use it... Mmmh. I've sent it to you in a separate message (no need to send this to the lists). I'm not 100% sure it will work as this is Debian 1.2's e2fsck, there might be some library problems. If it doesn't work, email me and I'll make you a statically linked version. If it cannot fix the problems, then you'll have to use an alternate superblock, but that's another story. Can you tell me how to do it? I think the problem is in the first superblock, but don't know how to use another superblocks. Use the -b option on the command line. SuperBlock backups are stored every 8192 blocks (if you did format it normally, but I guess you did). You will want to: e2fsck -b superblock -f /dev/hdb1 The -f forces the check. You can try superblock=1 (will do the same as without the -b), superblock=8193, etc... (yes is starts at 1). If you've got a small root fs, and got some spare room somewhere, make a copy of the fs. In case something goes wrong, you'll be able to restart from scratch. To do this, mount your spare space on /mnt and do: dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/mnt/copy-of-root-fs bs=1k Be sure you've got enough room... Now, a stupid question :-) How can I check that everything is ok? I don't have books about Linux or Unix, and the little things that I learned was with the 'man' command. With my poor english, that was a true Mission: Impossible ;-) If e2fsck completes, it should be ok. Then retry to e2fsck the root fs without any option. It should recheck everything, and you shouldn't get anymore errors. If possible take note of the questions e2fsck asks when repairing. It might tell you it found unlinked files, etc... Good luck. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
suid problem
In the past few weeks I've had a lot of problems with various binaries losing their suid bits. For example, I upgraded smail to the latest (package), and started getting errors from smail telling me it couldn't write to the paniclog. It wasn't suid, as it should've been. A few people have told me in mail that this is a Linux 2.1 bug. However I spoke to someone on the kernel mailing list, and he said that as far as he knew, it was a feature, and is in most unixes and to his knowledge even Linux 2.0. To my testing it is not in Linux 2.0, but it is in Solaris 5.5, for example. Is this a problem with regard to the debian package system? It bothers me that my binaries are losing their suid status quite often. As an example; [8:03pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/X11R6/bin# ls -l XF86_S3 -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 2025716 Nov 22 15:18 XF86_S3 [8:03pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/deb/x# dpkg -i xserver-s3_3.2-1.deb (Reading database ... 22830 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace xserver-s3 3.2-1 (using xserver-s3_3.2-1.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xserver-s3 ... Setting up xserver-s3 (3.2-1) ... [8:03pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/X11R6/bin# ls -l XF86_S3 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2025716 Nov 22 15:18 XF86_S3 Now X won't run, of course. H, maybe there's a different problem. The SUID bit has been lost on the above, and I'm running Linux 2.0.27 ... which doesn't fail my usual test for this behaviour. Any suggestions? hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pdf files
Better would be Ghostscript with gv. Since most people have Ghostscript already. Ghostview is not setup to view pdf files(have this changed?) even through Ghostscript can handle it. But 'gv' on the other hand can handle pdf files and it looks much better then Ghostview. This way you don't have to waste time downloading Adobe Acrobat which is very big. I've tried gv; it looks nice, but for me, it doesn't have scrollbars in the file open window, which makes it useless! Version 2.7b5-3. hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: news config -- suggested tools?
Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish Which software would be best to handle this? From the name, Hamish suck sounds like just the thing to get the news in, but I'd Hamish guess it won't be interested in batching for UUCP, so I'd need Hamish cnews or inn. I'm reasonably familar with configuring Taylor Hamish UUCP. Actually, suck does indeed batch for UUCP, after checking the article ids and stripping duplicates. Then you can use rnews to send the files to your INN. You can rnews the suck batch files: no UUCP configuration is necessary unless you need to automatically transfer the batches between hosts. Yes, I need to feed mail and news to another machine with uucp over dialup. This server doesn't need to have any news capabilities of its own (well, it will read news by NNRP on demand), but I want it to feed news to this other machine by uucp. Mind you, I'm having enough trouble just getting smail to send mail to uucp sites. Perhaps another post is in order on that one. I think I'd have more luck with sendmail and the m4 config files than I'm having with smail so far. So, I know suck can indeed get news and put them in uucp batches, but how do I (a) get these compressed and sent to the host; can suck do this for me, or should I rip out relevant parts of the inn sendbatch script, and (b) can I get suck to produce news filenames with unique numbers (ie sequence numbers) as required for uucp? thanks, Hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: suid problem
In the past few weeks I've had a lot of problems with various binaries losing their suid bits. For example, I upgraded smail to the latest (package), and started getting errors from smail telling me it couldn't write to the paniclog. It wasn't suid, as it should've been. A few people have told me in mail that this is a Linux 2.1 bug. I don't think so. I suspect this is a bug in the version of dpkg you're using. Please check if the setuid bit is set in the '.deb' file: dpkg-deb --contents smail*deb; if it is, and it is not present after dpkg -i smail*deb, it is definitively a problem with your dpkg version. However I spoke to someone on the kernel mailing list, and he said that as far as he knew, it was a feature, and is in most unixes and to his knowledge even Linux 2.0. To my testing it is not in Linux 2.0, but it is in Solaris 5.5, for example. No. This is about setuid _scripts_. Setuid scripts are a security hole on almost every system, because of a time window in which the script might be replaced after the setuid has gone effective, but before the interpreter has read it. Solaris is free from this hole. In linux, setuid bits on _scripts_ are ignored. Hope this helps, Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen | RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may [EMAIL PROTECTED] | not be a better one than the one the blocks | live in but it'll be a sight more vivid. | - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: suid problem
In the past few weeks I've had a lot of problems with various binaries losing their suid bits. For example, I upgraded smail to the latest (package), and started getting errors from smail telling me it couldn't write to the paniclog. It wasn't suid, as it should've been. A few people have told me in mail that this is a Linux 2.1 bug. I don't think so. I suspect this is a bug in the version of dpkg you're using. Please check if the setuid bit is set in the '.deb' file: dpkg-deb --contents smail*deb; if it is, and it is not present after dpkg -i smail*deb, it is definitively a problem with your dpkg version. H. I just reinstalled smail and the suid bit was maintained. However the X (S3 server) package seems to be missing the suid bit. Could be a bug, but the vga16 server has the same. Anyway, this is wandering off the topic. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GS 3.33 vs. 2.61, weak rendering, WHY?
Now, that I am nearly finished with switching to Debian and going to switch other 15 boxes as well there is one annoying thing left: - The preview produced by gs 3.33 (4/10/1995) is - unreadable, compared with that by gs 2.61 - (5/28/1993), due to missing horizontal lines in - letters as H, f and so on. No matter what resolution, these horizontal lines tend to be rounded off. How could we get a more readable rendering? Else we would have to switch down to the old version. Thanks, Andreas. -- Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: (0202) 439 - 3009 Dr. Andreas Wehler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian 1.1 (1-Jul-96) networking problem
It seems you NE2000 is not configured, because you are using module. Add in you '/etc/modules' one line : ne to say kerneld to load module ne at boot time and add in your /etc/conf.modules something like : ne irq=10 io=0x300 to give parameters to module ne, because MODULE ne can't autoprobe its parameters OR include ne in your kernel ( you have to recompile all your kernel) Hello folks...I've got a CD-ROM from IConnect, made ~ the first of July. It seems to install just fine, but when it reboots, the network doesn't start up. I've got a NE2000 card, and I think that I configured everything okay...it works fine when I install from my old .93r6 cd, for instance. During bootup, it reads off a bunch of messages ( SIG* failed: device does not exist, that sort of thing...I'll get the exact errors if anyone asks.) Does anyone know what's going on here? I had the exact same problem when I first got the CD and tried to install it on another machine, with an HP lancard, so I'm thinking that it's probably a problem with the distribution. I've installed the updated netbase.deb from buzz-fixed, but the problem persists. Argh, I don't want to have to run .93r6!!! Thanks in advance for any help.. --- Allan Anderson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down. -- Spineux Alain == Spineux Alain E-MAIL : [EMAIL PROTECTED] INSTITUT STEVIN Catholic University of LouvainFAX: 32-10-472501 PLACE DU LEVANT 2 PHONE : 32-10-472516 B-1348 LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE (BELGIUM) === -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reading X manual pages
Hi, I have noticed that since upgrading to the new X server I can't get the manual pages for X. The pages are in the system and mandb says it is processing the corresponding directories but I can't read them unless I specifically read the file I want using man -l /usr/X11R6/man/man1/XFree86.1x.gz for XFree86 for example. Any idea of what might be going on? Thanks! Luis. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mpeg_play, can't load libXt.so.6
As root add the line /usr/X11R6/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf then run ldconfig Hi == I am trying to use mpeg_play to visualize some videos (in mpeg format). The installation with dselect (or with dpkg -i) seems OK, no error messages, but when I try to run mpeg_play the message can't load library '/usr/lib/libXt.so.6' unknown error can't load library '/lib/libXt.so.6' unknown error can't find libXt.so.6 The libraries libXt.* are in '/usr/X11R6/lib/'. I tried to make symbolic links to then 'ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6' ... , but the same message appears after trying to run mpeg_play. Can you help me? Thank you for your answer, but that was not the problem I looked at /etc/ld.so.conf and the line /usr/X11R6/lib was (and is) there. The problem it is that mpeg_play need the xcompat (X11R5 compatibilty mode) package (thanks to Shaya Potter). -- 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]
FAQ-FAQ-FAQ...
Hi everybody, well, I happen to be one of them new Debian Linux users, you know, with them stupid questions, stuff you've heard of thousands of times. So please, if this ain't the right place let me know first, then flame if I insist. Just got my hands on Infomagic's Linux 6 CD set distrib. Looked at it, then at it's contents. Got perplexed. Very perplexed. Got dozens of HOWTOs, 5 or 6 various distribs of Linux, but the one I want is Debian and the 2 they document are Redhat Slackware... Bad pick if you ask me. So, how d'you install the sucker on a PC, uh? -- Papy-EFB Peg: What are you thinking? Al : If I wanted you to know, I'd be talking instead of thinking. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help! I'm with mount problems...
Ok, to mount an ext2 filesystem: mount -t ext2 /dev/partition mountpoint From what I see above, your partition should be /dev/hdb1. A typical mountpoint is /mnt. I tried this, but its results was an error message. :-( Looks like it's verty f**cked'up then... You linux root fs is on the first partition of the second hard drive right ? Its device is /dev/hdb1 right ? Yes. Yes. But beware, don't try to mount is without fsck'ing it. Try, before: e2fsck -f /dev/hdb1 And see what it says. The only boot disk that I have is the one of Debian Installation. Do you believe that its root disk hasn't the e2fsck program? Can you send this program attached in a reply, or say where can I find it? I'll mount my W95 partition with the program in it, and will attempt to use it... Mmmh. I've sent it to you in a separate message (no need to send this to the lists). I'm not 100% sure it will work as this is Debian 1.2's e2fsck, there might be some library problems. If it doesn't work, email me and I'll make you a statically linked version. I tried, but there is the need of a libuuid... library. Please, send the other version. If it cannot fix the problems, then you'll have to use an alternate superblock, but that's another story. Can you tell me how to do it? I think the problem is in the first superblock, but don't know how to use another superblocks. Use the -b option on the command line. SuperBlock backups are stored every 8192 blocks (if you did format it normally, but I guess you did). You will want to: e2fsck -b superblock -f /dev/hdb1 The -f forces the check. You can try superblock=1 (will do the same as without the -b), superblock=8193, etc... (yes is starts at 1). If you've got a small root fs, and got some spare room somewhere, make a copy of the fs. In case something goes wrong, you'll be able to restart from scratch. To do this, mount your spare space on /mnt and do: dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/mnt/copy-of-root-fs bs=1k Be sure you've got enough room... In the second winchester (/dev/hdb) I've only two partitions: the Linux partition (/dev/hdb1) with +/- 790Mb, and the Swap (/dev/hdb2) with +/- 30Mb. My first winchester (/dev/hda) has only one partition with 340Mb for my (eeck!) Windows 95 system. When I really know what I'm doing in Linux, I'll stop using W95 :-) Now, a stupid question :-) How can I check that everything is ok? I don't have books about Linux or Unix, and the little things that I learned was with the 'man' command. With my poor english, that was a true Mission: Impossible ;-) If e2fsck completes, it should be ok. Then retry to e2fsck the root fs without any option. It should recheck everything, and you shouldn't get anymore errors. If possible take note of the questions e2fsck asks when repairing. It might tell you it found unlinked files, etc... Good luck. I'll need it! :-) Thanks! []'s Alexander Gieg =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= By: Alexander Gieg E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/3222 IRC: AlexG =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
upgrade to 1.2
Last night, I upgraded 2 machine to 1.2 from 1.1. All went fairly smooth, with 2 hitches. First, I had to install the 'rex' ld.so, because dselect/dpkg couldn't resolve the pre-depends on libdl. 2nd, cron was killed/died, and not started up again. I didn't catch this until this morning when I dnd't see all the mail from the nightly cron jobs. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Management decisions have no effect on the laws of physics. -- anon ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pdf files
Hi, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I've tried gv; it looks nice, but for me, it doesn't have scrollbars in the file open window, which makes it useless! Version 2.7b5-3. You don't need scrollbars. You can move up and down right or left of click and drag of page on display. I find this very useful since I don't have to move the screen to move the page. Later, David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PGP
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote: From what I understand, PGP 'international' is not supposed to be used in the US, and the US version is not supposed to be use outside of the US. Is this right? Which one should I be using? 1) That is completely right. 2) The i-version since it is better, unless you live in USA *and* you are an extremely law-abiding person (no matter how stupid the laws are) who never used pirated software or music. If you want to know more about the i-version, look at: http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/ // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: procmail won't run
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Lindsay Allen wrote: I'm in the same boat. When I use ~.forward all my mail gets sent to /var/spool/mail/nobody. On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Mark W. Blunier wrote: I am unable to get procmail to start up from the ~.forward file. I can get procmail to run from the command line, formail -s procmail copy_of_an_inbox I have setting ~.forward to |IFS=' 'exec /usr/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #blunier or | /usr/bin/procmail but neither one works. When the mail comes I doesn't land in a folder. I am using smail. Mark What is your ~/.procmailrc? Your mail seems to be catch by it. - --- Homework cannot be created or destroyed, but merely converted to another form-- First Law of Serfodynamics - --- Fabien Ninoles aka le Veneur|| Running Debian-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| Lover of MOO, mountains, http://www-edu.gel.usherb.ca/ninf01 || poetry and Freedom. - --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMq164VX6fc7jcjhFAQHuUgQAnhJjHu2MhXVmXwE9rw8yq641yk7VQw3G xr1ImY46EBL/aO8eZpzICtoHFcxEwmwW9Jqoq/LWkmHsJTJ2PlKxsNKfJjosFvPc aEjVnneyBKZdrjKOdrPxRTCUWSIQMQuQAF5L2McfNWZKWazMe+X5mtgaBEaNBCQx xvTsQ4l2tR4= =MzTJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Procmail story...
I think that some questions may be solved here... ;) FAQ-launcher-URLs: http://www.jazzie.com/ii/faqs/archive/mail/filtering-faq/ http://www.best.com/~ii/faqs/archive/mail/filtering-faq/ Magic --- Artur Zaworski, Computer Center, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pg.gda.pl/~magic phone(office): 47.27.88 W naturze czlowieka lezy rozsadne myslenie i nielogiczne dzialanie. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lpr, lprm on remote machines
Hello, we have a small problem using the combination of lpr, lprm on a remote machine. A user, who started a printjob with lpr is not allowed to remove his own printjob on the other machine. The /etc/passwd and /etc/group files are distributed with nis, so both computer use the same user-id and group-id. Although the apsfilter cannot access the contents of the cf* files. Evaluation of the permisssons leads to: On the computer that started the print job: -rw-rw 1 daemon lp 72 Dec 10 16:03 cfA064Aa00955 -rw-rw 1 dirk lp 9763 Dec 10 16:03 dfA064Aa00955 On the print-server -rw-rw 1 root lp 72 Dec 10 16:01 cfA064plus.lfm.RWTH-Aachen.DE -rw-rw 1 root lp 9763 Dec 10 16:01 dfA064Aa00955 Why are the jobs started with root.lp and not with the users id? Thanks Dirk -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with Compaq Prosignia vs
Howdy, I'm trying to install Debian 1.1.4 on a Compaq Prosignia vs which has only a SCSI-harddisk and CD-ROM (no IDE). However the SCSI-controller is integrated on the motherboard and I do not have a clue what kind of card this is. Apparently Linux does not recognize it, but since I don't know the name of the SCSI-board I also don't know if it is possible to correct this using any boot-paramters or whatever. Anyway, if somebody managed to install Debian on such a system or knows how to handle it, please give me a call. Thanks in advance, Nico. -- -- Nico De Ranter Sony Objective Composer (SOCOM) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 17 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fvwm won't start.
I have X all nicely set up now, but fvwm won't run. I have both fvwm and fvwm2 installed (fvwm version 1.24r-24) and when I try to start fvwm (and several other graphical programs) I get the message fvwm: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' I am running X 3.2, and have several 'libX**.so.6' files in /usr/X11R6/lib, but not that one. Any suggestions? By the way, this group (both in response to my questions and in the archives) is largely responsible for my getting linux up and running. Thanks. Robert Platt McGill University -- Montreal Children's Hospital Research Institute For every complex and difficult problem there is always a simple and easy solution... and it's wrong -- H.L. Mencken -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: upgrading tips (was Re: Any pitfalls of upgrading to libc in
The only problem I had with upgrading debian was the information on how to do it. Now that I know, I see that it is VERY simple and straightforward, but maybe, it should be discussed somewhere in the install guide or some such (I could not find a description on the debian.org web site). I am extremely grateful to those who assembled this distribution. The upgrade path (now clear to me) is truly outstanding. It is entirely too simple if one is on the net to get dpkg-ftp running and then upgraded in a relatively automated fashion. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lpr, lprm on remote machines
Hello, we have a small problem using the combination of lpr, lprm on a remote machine. A user, who started a printjob with lpr is not allowed to remove his own printjob on the other machine. The /etc/passwd and /etc/group files are distributed with nis, so both computer use the same user-id and group-id. Although the apsfilter cannot access the contents of the cf* files. Evaluation of the permisssons leads to: On the computer that started the print job: -rw-rw 1 daemon lp 72 Dec 10 16:03 cfA064Aa00955 -rw-rw 1 dirk lp 9763 Dec 10 16:03 dfA064Aa00955 On the print-server -rw-rw 1 root lp 72 Dec 10 16:01 cfA064plus.lfm.RWTH-Aachen.DE -rw-rw 1 root lp 9763 Dec 10 16:01 dfA064Aa00955 Why are the jobs started with root.lp and not with the users id? Thanks Dirk -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This happens also if NIS is not there but /etc/hosts.lpd has the corresponding entry. It seems to be a bug in the implementation of lpd (Correct me if I am wrong). I changed the lpr package and use lprng. Now it works. Hope this helps! Luis. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Networking problem solved.
Thanks! You folks are great. All I had to do was install the module with the apropriate conf info (io=0x300 irq=10) and it is working great. Next I'll recompile the kernel to get rid off all those extraneous CD drive checks...but first, maybe I'd better see if I can mount the smb share with the source for our product (what, do work?:) --- Allan Anderson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: suid problem
On Tue, 10 Dec 1996 20:28:56 +1100 Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED] rmit.edu.au) wrote: H. I just reinstalled smail and the suid bit was maintained. However the X (S3 server) package seems to be missing the suid bit. Could be a bug, but the vga16 server has the same. Anyway, this is wandering off the topic. No this is correct, the actual server XF86_* doesn't have any suid bit set, but the /usr/bin/X11/X wrapper is setuid root. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with Compaq Prosignia vs
Try the boot disk set in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/frozen/disks-i386/1996-12-8 . It has more disk controllers set up to autoconfigure. You can probably figure out what SCSI controller you have that way. 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: fvwm won't start.
I have X all nicely set up now, but fvwm won't run. I have both fvwm and fvwm2 installed (fvwm version 1.24r-24) and when I try to start fvwm (and several other graphical programs) I get the message fvwm: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' I am running X 3.2, and have several 'libX**.so.6' files in /usr/X11R6/lib, but not that one. Well, the question is, how did you install fvwm? The fvwm package depends on xpm4.7, and so you should not be able to install fvwm without also installing xpm4.7. (One question: do you maybe have an aout version of xpm installed that is also called xpm4.7? If so, you've discovered a fvwm bug). Any suggestions? Well, install xpm4.7_3.4h-1 (or later?) -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GS 3.33 vs. 2.61, weak rendering, WHY?
Now, that I am nearly finished with switching to Debian and going to switch other 15 boxes as well there is one annoying thing left: - The preview produced by gs 3.33 (4/10/1995) is - unreadable, compared with that by gs 2.61 - (5/28/1993), due to missing horizontal lines in - letters as H, f and so on. No matter what resolution, these horizontal lines tend to be rounded off. How could we get a more readable rendering? Else we would have to switch down to the old version. Well, I don't know the reason. But could you - try gs-aladdin_4.03, (in non-free), maybe that's better? - send me a gzipped, uuencoded sample of the failing ps files? Thanks, -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: suid problem
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the past few weeks I've had a lot of problems with various binaries losing their suid bits. This is bug 5479 in dpkg. It contains a patch which you can use until a new version of dpkg fixes it. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GS 3.33 vs. 2.61, weak rendering, WHY?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr.-Ing. Andreas Wehler) writes: - The preview produced by gs 3.33 (4/10/1995) is - unreadable, compared with that by gs 2.61 - (5/28/1993), due to missing horizontal lines in - letters as H, f and so on. Try looking at it with antialiasing turned on, for example with gv frontend. It's much more readable. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reading X manual pages
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luis Francisco Gonzalez) writes: I have noticed that since upgrading to the new X server I can't get the manual pages for X. You probably have the MANPATH environment variable set. Unset it. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ppp problems
I had a similar problem. It turned out that pppd started the negotiation phase too early when the peer had not finished send all the preliminary junk. I fixed it by adding a \d (a timeout of about 1 sec) to the last chat transmit. hope it works -alex On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Dave Ewaldz wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get ppp version 2.2.0f-18 running on my Debian 1.1 system. It is dialing up and logging in fine, but when the LCP negotiation phase starts, it seems to loop for a while, then timeout. It looks like my ISP is not acking my system's config requests. My ISP account works fine with Trumpet Winsock on Windows, and Win95 PPP- both with no fancy authentication, etc., so that should not be the problem. Follows is a portion of my ppp.log file showing what I'm seeing here (I apologize for the lengthy log file): 15:08:55 pppd[29364]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 15:08:58 chat[29365]: abort on (BUSY) 15:08:58 chat[29365]: abort on (NO CARRIER) 15:08:58 chat[29365]: abort on (VOICE) 15:08:58 chat[29365]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) 15:08:58 chat[29365]: send (ATDT962-9761^M) 15:08:58 chat[29365]: expect (ogin) 15:09:16 chat[29365]: ATDT962-9761^M^M 15:09:16 chat[29365]: PROTOCOL: LAP-M^M 15:09:16 chat[29365]: ^M 15:09:16 chat[29365]: COMPRESSION: V.42BIS^M 15:09:16 chat[29365]: ^M 15:09:16 chat[29365]: CONNECT 14400/ARQ^M 15:09:17 chat[29365]: This is WorldWide Access (SM)^M 15:09:17 chat[29365]: ^M 15:09:17 chat[29365]: enter guest to get information^M 15:09:17 chat[29365]: ^M 15:09:17 chat[29365]: (3.1) (pool1) (line112)^M 15:09:17 chat[29365]: ^M 15:09:17 chat[29365]: pool1 login -- got it 15:09:17 chat[29365]: send (Puserdeleted^M) 15:09:17 chat[29365]: expect (word) 15:09:17 chat[29365]: : Puserdeleted^M 15:09:17 chat[29365]: Password -- got it 15:09:17 chat[29365]: send (passdeleted^M) 15:09:18 chat[29365]: expect (Packet) 15:09:18 chat[29365]: : ^M 15:09:18 chat[29365]: ^M 15:09:18 chat[29365]: Packet -- got it 15:09:19 pppd[29364]: Serial connection established. 15:09:20 pppd[29364]: Using interface ppp0 15:09:20 pppd[29364]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS2 15:09:20 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x621c9b2e pcomp accomp] 15:09:24 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:24 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:29 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:29 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:30 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x621c9b2e pcomp accomp] 15:09:34 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x3 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:34 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x3 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:39 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x4 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:39 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x4 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:40 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x621c9b2e pcomp accomp] 15:09:44 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x5 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:44 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x5 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:49 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x6 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:49 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x6 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:50 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x621c9b2e pcomp accomp] 15:09:54 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x7 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:54 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x7 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:59 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x8 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:09:59 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x8 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:10:00 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x621c9b2e pcomp accomp] 15:10:04 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x9 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:10:04 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x9 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:10:09 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0xa mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:10:09 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0xa mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:10:10 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x621c9b2e pcomp accomp] 15:10:14 pppd[29364]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0xb mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x2b74da6a pcomp accomp] 15:10:14 pppd[29364]: sent [LCP
Debian Boot Problem
I have a problem booting the Debian Kernel 2.0.25 as it hangs with this on the screent: GSCD: Version 0.4a Oliver Raupach ... GSCD: Trying to detect a Goldstar R420 .. GSCD: GoldStar Interfac Adapter does not exist or H/W error $id: cm206.c,v 0.99.1.1 1996/08/11 10:35:01 david Exp $ The cursor is left following the last $. This problem occurs with the boot disks and the the system I built. The boot disk will comeup on another system but not this one. I had built a system with 2.0.23 and it was okay. Does someone have some suggestions? Thanks. Butch Butch KemperFree sound advice available Networks 'R Us 95% sound and 5% advice Texas AM UniversityRefunds cheerfully provided -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Boot Problem
For now, please boot your system with the command: linux reserve=0x340 or linux cm206=0x350 Where 0x350 is any unused address on your system. I'll have to remove this from the next kernel. I wanted to see if more than one person hit this problem, or if it was simply someone with odd hardware. I'm really bummed by having to exclude from the generic kernel drivers that don't auto-probe well enough to reject the wrong device (the cm206), and drivers that hang forever if the device isn't there (some NCR SCSI controller), and drivers that take forever to auto-probe (the SoundBlaster CD driver). I'd prefer not to start a new career nudging people on the linux-kernel list to fix this stuff, but I guess I have little choice. 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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: repartitioning hard drive
On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, David Morris wrote: This is a variation on the theme of moving parts of the directory tree to another hard drive that was on this list a while ago. As I contemplate the move I think it could get very sticky. As I see it this is what might happen... Current Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 *11 413 416272+ 6 DOS 16-bit =32M /dev/hda2 414 414 799 389088 83 Linux native /dev/hda3 800 800 82526208 82 Linux swap Projected Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 *11 200 ... 6 DOS 16-bit =32M /dev/hda2 201 201 413 ... 83 Linux native /dev/hda3 414 414 799 389088 83 Linux native /dev/hda4 800 800 82526208 82 Linux swap First, am I correctly understanding what will happen when I fdisk and create the new partition between 201 and 413? Well, I did a little fips and fdisking when I installed 1.1, and based on what I saw, I think it'll be more like: Projected Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 *11 200 ... 6 DOS 16-bit =32M /dev/hda4 201 201 413 ... 83 Linux native /dev/hda2 414 414 799 389088 83 Linux native /dev/hda3 800 800 82526208 82 Linux swap I think you should have an alternate plan if this is what you get. Of course, I may have done something stupid... Sincerely, Raymond Ingles (810) 377-7735[EMAIL PROTECTED] They said there'd be snow at Christmas; They said there'd be peace on Earth. Halelujah Noel, be it Heaven or Hell; The Christmas we get we deserve. -ELP, I Believe in Father Christmas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problems with ftp-sites
Hi, seems like problems with the ftp sites recurring... master.debian.org:/debian/ is empty again. uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu:/pub/systems/linux/distributions/debian is outdated.. the rex/disks-i386 has only 1996-11-28 Seems like only ftp.debian.org is still up and running. I don't know about the others as the connections from here is really a drag. Can the relevant people please look into it... Thanks. Just me, Wire ... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new boot floppies being uploaded
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello. I had Debian 1.1 updated with many rex packages. I upgraded my kbd package from kbd_0.91-6.deb to kbd_0.91-12.deb and the following happened: My /etc/kbd/config CONSOLE=/dev/tty0 TERM=linux KEYMAP=es.map SOFTFONT=iso01.f16 disappeared! And now I don't have softfont on boot. (I'm unable to see España, for example) Will this be fixed before Debian 1.2? This is very important to almost every non-us Debian user. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBMq3Y9SqK7IlOjMLFAQGcsAP9GND8wpoY5easYlU8WUn+sUyuCWDe0Eu5 nEI4epjRqU5gMW0wbjHHUBSB4RclSN+kc5O0EIWfTGRM3xEjG5xF1F89jC3LJ5Zj LZL8PUEPgUfAyUDhRUurBaTq+qdgTOdtBP+IMQIw1/z/TdUpa2m7oYp8WfsvZ4dH DbUL6a6Jcho= =Hyg+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new boot floppies being uploaded
The configuration file is changed - I think you have to copy /usr/lib/keymaps/es.map into /etc/kbd/default.map . I'm surprised the package didn't do this for you while upgrading. 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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spreadsheet
I've been experimenting with the commercial Wingz product. They have a shareware version available at sunsite.unc.edu. Very nice! --- Jean Pierre On Mon, 9 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any good spreadsheet for Linux (X11) ? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
upgrading kbd messed up softfont in old config (was : ...)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: The configuration file is changed - I think you have to copy /usr/lib/keymaps/es.map into /etc/kbd/default.map . I'm surprised the package didn't do this for you while upgrading. Oh, yes, the package have put an /etc/kbd/default.map for the spanish keyboard. But this was not the only information the old /etc/kbd/config had (!). Maybe I did'n explain well: I *can* write España, but I don't see España but a plus/minus sign instead of the ñ. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBMq3dWSqK7IlOjMLFAQFo+wP+PD8sQar8xmF3f7Bg6ByFUNdEkYOgcKQl WrMQtJDt73OxYQ4+RIIXPgGdMJQBZgxNpgKIJTTuSjiTnhPrWi8PwhKqJhXwAoBE bgn8spHaRqfrZ3K0FAKYNN/UCIl2I/0gn8nNEW5K8GrDwb7OxPrNoz/a4EbSyEN0 /3WnvsVug+M= =SpPY -END PGP SIGNATURE- Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
g++ undefined reference to '__getfpucw'
Hello, I am still Debian1.1 - compiling a C++ program, which used to compile cleanly only a few weeks ago, gives me the following error message: /lib/libm.so.5: undefined reference to '__getfpucw' Do I need to upgrade any libraries ? Can anybody help me sort this out please ? -- Marek -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: suid problem
On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote: [8:03pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/X11R6/bin# ls -l XF86_S3 -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 2025716 Nov 22 15:18 XF86_S3 [8:03pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/deb/x# dpkg -i xserver-s3_3.2-1.deb (Reading database ... 22830 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace xserver-s3 3.2-1 (using xserver-s3_3.2-1.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xserver-s3 ... Setting up xserver-s3 (3.2-1) ... [8:03pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/X11R6/bin# ls -l XF86_S3 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2025716 Nov 22 15:18 XF86_S3 Now X won't run, of course. Why not? In debian, /usr/X11R6/bin/X is not a link to the Xserver but its a wrapper program... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -la /usr/X11R6/bin/X -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 4032 Nov 22 05:20 /usr/X11R6/bin/X which parses the /etc/X11/config file and then runs the X server which itself is not suid, so a user couldnt get around the /etc/X11/config Greg -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Boot Problem
On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Butch Kemper wrote: I have a problem booting the Debian Kernel 2.0.25 as it hangs with this on the screent: GSCD: Version 0.4a Oliver Raupach ... GSCD: Trying to detect a Goldstar R420 .. GSCD: GoldStar Interfac Adapter does not exist or H/W error $id: cm206.c,v 0.99.1.1 1996/08/11 10:35:01 david Exp $ The cursor is left following the last $. This problem occurs with the boot disks and the the system I built. The boot disk will comeup on another system but not this one. Same for me, the new 1.2 boot floppy (1996-12-8) will crash on my computer at this point but not on some other computers. It bothers me that some computers can't boot with this floppy disk. Bruce what is more important? To provide support for people who will install debian 1.2 with a cm206 cdrom player or to provide a boot floppy that will have less chances of crashing? Is the base of installed cm206 important enough to justify that others (like me) can't install Debian 1.2 at all? :) Maybe the default base IO probing of the cm206 (#define CM206_BASE 0x340) is too agressive? Could it be changed in the built kernel? Will alternate 1.2 boot floppies be provided? Regards. -- Farzad FARID Administrateur Reseau SGIP - Publicis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
