Re: Installing large files
From: "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > U, yeah sure, if only you could find a Linux port of LapLink or > Intersvr... Linux has PLIP too but I don't think you can get PLIP for > DOS. I think this was getting a bit confused. If you have a Laplink Cable, you can use the Laplink Cable to connect the Windows 95 system and the Linux system via PPP. My local computer store sells "Laplink" cables, actually null-modem serial cables, for a reasonable price, so maybe you can find them. Run Linux as the PPP server and Windows as the PPP client. Start with the serial connection at 9600 baud, and then see how fast you can go. You may be able to get it working at 115,200. I gatewayed my wife's Windows 95 system to the Internet via my Linux system using a 30-foot serial cable and this scheme for a while. Then I bought two thin-net cards. Bruce > > I would reccommend using a null-modem serial connection between your > > laptop > > and the machine which has the debian files. The newer versions of 95's > > dialup > > networking support this. Just get ppp set up on the laptop and proceed > > from there. > Even better, if you have a program like LapLink, or DOS's Intersvr and > Interlnk, you can use a null parallel cable. It's amazingly faster. > -- 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]
Repost: some experiences of a Rex installation
Did this ever made to the list. I have got some confusing automatic messages. Esa I have installed two machines from the current Rex distribution. The distribution was aligned on Monday to my mirror FTP.FUNET.FI that is usually quite up-to-date. There has not been modifications in the mirror this week any more and so I hope to have the final one. The base set of the system was installed last week with previous boot set (28-11). I had some problems but I uderstood that they should be solved by now. I found the following dependency problems: - gs-aladdin should depend on libpng1 (shouldn't the non-free be frozen with rex?) - kbd recommends too strongly on svgatextmode there are all kind of problems with svgatextmode especially in internationalization and I do not want to use it yet (forcing kbd without svgatextmode works fine) - mc should depend on libgpm1 And some likely bugs: svgatextmode: 8-bit international ISO Latin 1 characters are displayed incorrectly in all the fonts I tried. X: The keyboard maps of XKB extension of XFree 3.2 are not working really well. If you select Finnish from menu you are not going to get the right map. It seems that if you - run new xf86config (keyboard do not work with old) - but do *not* select keyboard extension in the configuration then you'll get the right keyboard map from the kbd package. (In fact, the resulting keymap is the best I have ever managed to get to work in X with *all* the right dead keys.) I do not have any xmodmap settings. msql: it tries to send messages to the msql user which it has correctly created but forgotten to create /var/spool/mail/msql which means that smail stores the message in 'error' subdirectory. The error message email repeats at 15 second interval. The message says "Can't start server : UNIX bind : Permission denied". The reason may be the permission problems of the '/tmp' being root.root rwxr-xr-x after the base installation. This generates an interesting amount of trash mail files. Updatedb is never run. The likely reson is that cron seems to die. One interesting note is that I must *not* have bind installed to get NFS partitions mounted in the boot. If I have local DNS it is not up yet and the server names are not resolved at all (in a small installation they are in /etc/hosts but I have decided not to do that). If I do not have local bind, it correctly asks tha names from configured external nameservers. BTW: I have tried to use network masks in /etc/export. I have got them to work in *the last line* of the file. If I have three lines in the file, just the third export allows mounts according the mask. BTW2: Are you sure that nameservers should be separated with comma in /etc/resolv.conf like suggested in the boot set dialog. I have used just blank and it seems to work. Never tried comma. I would be happy with CD drivers in the kernel if there would be a way to disable autodetection of the devices that are not there. Is there a boot option to do that? Space is not such a big issue anymore. I have not found xload yet. fvwm95 is missing it. The old configuration file is missing xterm_color as well but it seems to be obsolete now(?) (I prefer this, the green cursor is awful.) Esa - Esa Turtiainen http://www.turtiainen.dna.fi [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +358-0-801 3008 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sound Card
Hi. I've been running Debian 1.1 for a few months now. I haven't had any problems, except I can't get the sound card to work. Actually, it is a modem/sound combination card. The modem part works, and I can listen to audio cd's, but I can't play audio files. I recently upgraded to the 2.0.23 kernel, and it gave a little more descriptive info on bootup: sound sb: Interrupt test on IRQ7 failed - device disabled How would I go about getting this sucker to work? Thanks. -- Joe Lillibridge - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://web.nmsu.edu/~jlillibr My PGP fingerprint: 58 7E 84 A6 BC 3A 67 3A 01 F6 F0 F8 10 B6 68 14 PGP Public Key available at http://web.nmsu.edu/~jlillibr/PublicKey.html If you have PGP, please encrypt all e-mail to me. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What package do I need ? (libXpm.so.4)
Hi David, You wrote: > > Hello all... > >Installed the new 1.2 - loved it... > > 1) did any body else out there notice some funky things going on > inside the drivers/modules selection menu? It worked but there was > some strange goings on when I moved the selection bar up and down. > > 2) also - I installed the xfree packages. The new GUI setup app is > great. > > 3) but after installing the fvwm2 & afterstep Window managers. I > get: > > fvwm2: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'. > afterstep: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' > > What package do I need to install to get this lib? You need 'xpm4.7' and it's in ~/x11/ directory. May be there should be bug report on those packages. Later, David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with 3com509B network card.
I had two wd8013 cards installed in my machine (Bo distribution). My customer kernel 2.0.27 has support for both 3com and wd8013 network cards. I had to replace one of the wd8013 by a 3com509B. Both cards are recognized at boot but the 3com509B is not working although the wd8013 one does. The route and ifconfig configurations are fine because they were working before with the two wd8013 cards. Does anyone has a clue about what the problem might be? Sorry for sending this message to Debian user list, but I remember seeing two other messages today about problems with the 3com509B card. Thanks for any help. Ramos. - J. RAMOS Goncalves | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Physics - University of Reading - England - U.K. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PGP
Hello, > I'm not sure about PGP, but DES actually gets _weaker_ if encrypted with > two keys. Three keys does make it much stronger, though, as you say. actually encrypting 3 times with keys of size n if never stronger as encrypting one tome with keysize n*3 (if there is no waekness in the algorithm for special keysizes). The reason why 3DES exists at all is simply because the keysize of DES (56) was too small for nowadays needs and it IS hard to find new secure methods. There is no proof that 3DES is as strong as a modified DES with 168 bit would be. It is expected that it is weaker, and that it is much slower. Using Algorithms like IDEA or others which support larger keys is the better solution. Thats one reason why PGP does not use DES or 3DES. Greetings Bernd -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re[2]: PGP
Hello, > The International Version of PGP is a slightly modified algorithm with > fewer bits. No. This is not true at all. The international PGP Version has the same algorithms with the same number of bits. There is completely no difference between the algortihms used. In facte the International Version was capable to build Larger Keys than the american one. The Reason for this is that RSA in america requires all to use RSAREF library for non-commercial use. There is a european rewrite of this RSA lib. Because it is a rewrite there are no copyright problems with the lib. Because it is not in america u r free to use RSA, cause the RSA patent is only (if at all) valid in the states. The Block chifre used in PGP (IDEA) is developed in Swiss and uses 128Bit in the international and american Version. > Currently, it is illegal under the Data Encryption and > Privacy Act (modified) of 1995 to export encryption programs which use > 56+ bits outside the United States. IMHO is the limit 40Bits for Block chifres. Anyway, it IS illegal to export PPG from the sates (even if that is totally nonsense, since the encrypting algorithms are developed in the free world.) > 1) encrypt with key 1 > 2) decrypt with key 2 > 3) encrypt with key 3 For most existing encryption algorithms there is no proof that will show you that u r realy more secure with that. > Wish everyone all the luck in the world to crack that. Even a machine > capable of a billion processes per second would have to have a million > such processers in order to break even 30bit keys in less time than > the universe is old! Of course the algorithm which uses 3x30 Bits is considered an algorithm with 90bits and illegal to export, too. BTW: afaik is the RSA License valid on US therretory not for US citizens. This is just like even in the states german citizens have to drive like US Law says. a) it is illegal to use PGP-i without RSAref in the states due to RSA Inc. beeing the patent holder for RSA and requires to use RSAref. b) is is illegal to use PGP outside of USA, due to the copyright of RSAI on RSAREF. c) it is illeagl to export PGP from US, due to ITAR rules. d) it IS should be legal to use PGP-i with RSAREF in the states. Just recompile. e) ASCON ZH has the (even in europe) valid patent on IDEA and can charge fees for commercial PGP usage (in the staes and in europe). AFAIK the will not yet charge fees in Europe, since there is no commercial Distributor in Europe and they don't want to mess with small money amounts of thousands of commercial endusers. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +4972573817 BE5-RIPE (OO) If privacy is outlawed only Outlaws have privacy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing large files
Allan Anderson wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > Fred Zarnowski wrote: > > > > > > I am trying to install Debian on a laptop with no network connection and > > > no > > > CDROM. I have been ftp'ing files to a W95 desktop then sneaker net via > > > floppy to the laptop. Unfortunately, I haven't solved large files like > > > Xbase that won't fit on a 1.44 floppy. I did get minicom going on the > > > laptop so I could download from a BBS if I could find one. > > > > > > I would appreciate any suggestions or comments. Thanks. > > > > I would reccommend using a null-modem serial connection between your > > laptop > > and the machine which has the debian files. The newer versions of 95's > > dialup > > networking support this. Just get ppp set up on the laptop and proceed > > from there. > Even better, if you have a program like LapLink, or DOS's Intersvr and > Interlnk, you can use a null parallel cable. It's amazingly faster. > U, yeah sure, if only you could find a Linux port of LapLink or Intersvr... Linux has PLIP too but I don't think you can get PLIP for DOS. Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)
On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: > i've had the dubious pleasure of running into the same problem on > a variety of machines (mainly because the hardware supplier seems > completely unable to provide the same motherboards in each new batch of > machines). 486 motherboards are starting to be hard to get...a shame, > 486s or amd 586s are perfectly suited to what i'm builing these boxes > for (dialin servers for staff & students at various schools)...Pentium > would be overkill and significantly more expensive. > > There have been a few pentium boxes. award bios. > > The 6 most recent boxes (5 built and installed on site since monday - a > busy week!) have all been AMD 586-133 machines. Some with Award bios, > some with Phoenix bios, and some with the bletcherous AMI graphical > bios. All motherboards have been PCI. Some Plug'n'Pray. > > MBR hasn't worked on *any* of them. > > In other words there is such a complete failure to work on any of the > machine I've tried it on that I must admit to being a little surprised that > MBR works for anyone. But, nobody else seems to be reporting any problems > with it so it must be something i'm doing. > > I remember that MBR used to work on the first debian 0.97 or was it 1.1 > machines that I built. I suspect it may be the Maximise partition option > in cfdisk. Partly because it's the only thing i can think of which might > be doing weird things to the partition table and partly because i > remember that i used to use normal fdisk which didn't have that > option. I'll try it without this in a few days. If you want a consistant supply of hardware, WE can do it. :) I work for SOAR Technology. We only deal with two motherboards for 486's... (each from two different distributors, both local to us.) One is a vesa local. and the other is pci. (vesa hard to get) We love the AMD cpu's.. about 95 bucks a piece for the pci boards. :) Quantity pricing is available. Anyway, it might just be the maximise.. I ran a maximized partition on a system with MBR, with version .99 of debian, that I upgraded to 1.1.? so.. hmm.. I sold that system though... (it was a nameserver on my network, and didn't really want it because it was slow.) :) I'm going to install a p133 server with debian 1.2 in a day or so. (deciding on what hard drive to through in it) I'll try the MBR with maximise. -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VIM questions
"Chris R. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >1) Will there ever be a debian version of Vim which supports -g under X, >or will I have to compile my own? 4.5-4, in bo. (This has been the cause of a couple of bug reports from people who believe there should be a separate version without X support. This ain't policy, folks. Sorry...) >2) How can I get my keys mapped properly? I want del to delete the >character under the cursor, bs to delete the previous character, home to >move to the beginning of the line, end to move to the end of the line, pg >up to go up a page, pg dn to go down a page, etc... where do I start? I >would like behavior both in console mode and in an xterm. I'm not too sure about this. I'm such a diehard vi user, I use the standard vi commands for these :-) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with mkaliases
System Account <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi there. i have upgraded to debian 1.2. i also upgraded my smail to > smail_3.2-3.deb. since then i have not been able to exec /usr/sbin/mkaliases. > it tells me: > /usr/sbin/mkaliases: unknown file type, , for /etc/aliases > > the mode for /etc/aliases is -rw-r--r-- > any ideas?? smail supports several different types of alias lookups. You have to edit the line that says ALIASES_TYPE='' in mkaliases to put in the type you want to use. That has to match what's in the aliases director in /etc/smail/directors. Ideally, mkaliases would read directors to figure out the type in use. I filed a bug report that it should at least print out a better error message until that's implemented. Anyway, the default type is `lsearch' (linear search). In that mode, mkaliases does nothing more than a consistency check on your /etc/aliases file. There are much more efficient types which you might want to use if you have a lot of aliases and process a lot of email, namely bsearch (binary search) and dbm. If you didn't understand any of that :), just edit the mkaliases file so it says ALIASES_TYPE='lsearch', and you'll be ok. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with mkaliases
hi there. i have upgraded to debian 1.2. i also upgraded my smail to smail_3.2-3.deb. since then i have not been able to exec /usr/sbin/mkaliases. it tells me: /usr/sbin/mkaliases: unknown file type, , for /etc/aliases the mode for /etc/aliases is -rw-r--r-- any ideas?? i tried to install smartlist and that said "newaliases: command not found" is this related? -Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Shaya Potter wrote: > > 1. ftp is still missing from the base install set. This makes it > > difficult to install a custom compiled kernel. Actually impossible > > if you don't have your kernel available on an nfs mount or floppy > > disk. > > Don't know what you mean. I used the original rex disks to install and I > was able to install the whole system by dpkg-ftp, and I was able to ftp > to any machine I wanted to. /usr/bin/ftp, the command line ftp client. not dpkg-ftp. i don't use dpkg-ftp at all. no need to, i mirror debian and it's much more convenient to nfs mount my debian archive onto the build system to do the install. craig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote: > On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > > > > MBR doesn't work for me. No matter what I do, I can not get a machine > > > to boot linux from the hard disk if MBR is in the master boot record. > > > > Can you figure out why? > > What BIOS do you have? (Brand and bios date) I think this may end up > being the cause of this problem... but if its not, don't hold me to it. :) i've had the dubious pleasure of running into the same problem on a variety of machines (mainly because the hardware supplier seems completely unable to provide the same motherboards in each new batch of machines). 486 motherboards are starting to be hard to get...a shame, 486s or amd 586s are perfectly suited to what i'm builing these boxes for (dialin servers for staff & students at various schools)...Pentium would be overkill and significantly more expensive. There have been a few pentium boxes. award bios. The 6 most recent boxes (5 built and installed on site since monday - a busy week!) have all been AMD 586-133 machines. Some with Award bios, some with Phoenix bios, and some with the bletcherous AMI graphical bios. All motherboards have been PCI. Some Plug'n'Pray. MBR hasn't worked on *any* of them. In other words there is such a complete failure to work on any of the machine I've tried it on that I must admit to being a little surprised that MBR works for anyone. But, nobody else seems to be reporting any problems with it so it must be something i'm doing. I remember that MBR used to work on the first debian 0.97 or was it 1.1 machines that I built. I suspect it may be the Maximise partition option in cfdisk. Partly because it's the only thing i can think of which might be doing weird things to the partition table and partly because i remember that i used to use normal fdisk which didn't have that option. I'll try it without this in a few days. Craig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Empty messages from debian list servers
Yes, I know about the empty messages sent by the Debian list server. The system that delivers the list mail had a full filesystem, and the system that manages the subscriber list had its disk restored. One of these things confounded the mailing lists. All subscribers got empty messages. At least 50 people pointed them out to me :-) . Only a few of them got a reply. The problem seems to be better now. 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: Installing large files
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Fred Zarnowski wrote: > > > > I am trying to install Debian on a laptop with no network connection and no > > CDROM. I have been ftp'ing files to a W95 desktop then sneaker net via > > floppy to the laptop. Unfortunately, I haven't solved large files like > > Xbase that won't fit on a 1.44 floppy. I did get minicom going on the > > laptop so I could download from a BBS if I could find one. > > > > I would appreciate any suggestions or comments. Thanks. > > I would reccommend using a null-modem serial connection between your > laptop > and the machine which has the debian files. The newer versions of 95's > dialup > networking support this. Just get ppp set up on the laptop and proceed > from there. Even better, if you have a program like LapLink, or DOS's Intersvr and Interlnk, you can use a null parallel cable. It's amazingly faster. In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dream. --- Joseph Campbell -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
spam filter
If you post to the Debian lists from several different machines, try to persuade your mailer to use the same "From: " address from each one. Then you'll only have to deal with the Spam Filter once. For example, my .mailrc says: set replyto="Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" That gives me the same "From: " on all machines. The filter saved us from "SEXY SINGLES" and "HOT STUFF" over the last few days. 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]
[Fwd: ] Why
I wonder why this message keep sending to me a few times. -- -- Paul Chau ACSnet/Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telstra Australia Facilities Management & SupportPhone: +61 2 287 4647 231 Elizabeth St., Sydney Fax:+61 2 287 5754 Snail: ISG/FMS, Locked Bag 6728, G.P.O. Sydney, N.S.W. Australia 1100 --- Begin Message --- -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down. --- End Message ---
Re: redhat pkg -> debian
It's called "alien", and it's part of the debmake package. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem in some FTP mirrors of Debian-1.2/disks-i386/1996-12-8
> When selecting modules, there are still some windows that are not drawed > properly. We have a new volunteer working on modconf, who hopefully will fix it. He has also written a lot of new information on the drivers. > I really thought that was not the final disk set... There will be more, but I didn't want to hold up the release any longer. > BTW: Is that tiny ash to be supposed to have filename completion? No, and no command history. Getting that much of a system in a 1.44MB root filesystem is a bit of a challenge. I can't make it bigger without locking out the 4MB systems. 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]
Unidentified subject!
There was a recent mention on debian-user of a conversion utility that could covert a red hat package to debian. I lost the reference and could not find it in the archive. Could someone refresh my memory? Thanks, Richard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with 1.2 and 3com during install
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Vatiainen Heikki wrote: >Thaks for your mail. I made a record of the terminal session and I'm >attaching it here. I made a completely fresh install with the >1996-12-8 floppies and only selected nfs from the device driver >modules. I tried to install 3c509 but it failed with or without the >irq and base io given as parameter. > >I also tried the boot floppies from November but they didn't fix the >3com problem either. > >The motherboard is a Tyan TomcatIII, and there's also a SoundBlaster >32 PnP installed. And that together with the PnP motherboard is the problem. Get isapnp, run pnpdump before loading the modules and all is fine. I put the following in /etc/init.d/boot if [ -x /sbin/pnpdump ]; then echo "Deconfiguring PnP devices" pnpdump > /dev/null fi (This problem had driven me mad for about a day, Hope it helps you) Nils -- \ /| Nils Rennebarth --* WINDOWS 42 *-- | Schillerstr. 61 / \| 37083 Göttingen | ++49-551-71626 Micro$oft's final answer | http://www.nus.de/~nils -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install not showing the net modules correctly
Yes, I had the same problem. It looked confusing, but I was able to select and enable the module with no problems. Still, it should be fixed. In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dream. --- Joseph Campbell -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dselect pre-dependency problem
Hi! I just tried to upgrade to Debian 1.2. Unfortunately, dpkg has the following problem: # dselect dpkg: cannot see how to satisfy pre-dependency: perl pre-depends on libdl1 dpkg: cannot satisfy pre-dependencies for perl (wanted due to perl) installation script returned error exit status 1. When I looked into /lib, I found: # ls -l /lib/libdl* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Nov 15 03:38 /lib/libdl.so -> libdl.so.1.7.14 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Nov 15 03:38 /lib/libdl.so.1 -> libdl.so.1.7.14 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6991 Apr 12 1996 /lib/libdl.so.1.7.14 So what's wrong? I have PERL installed, I have the lib installed. BTW is there a way to tell dpkg to check installed packages and report "broken" installations, missing files etc? Thanx in advance Alex -- Alexander List, Neue-Welt-Hoehe 52a, A-8042 Graz, Austria, EU phone: +43-316-474737 Home address: Dafens 4, A-6824 Schlins, Austria, EU phone: +43-5524-8560 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sbox.tu-graz.ac.at/home/alexlist -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.3i mQCNAzKUShwAAAEEAKSeONtZF24pqL5eK3Q3PHJis0dI3uOKMFjOWwiwSyVyaKHp FCCmHCayDabMVgGUnjHxIUZj7Rmlz5RT1GGKMBSK67yFD0mGVrl8eGoH1bBDviGj S+quQ45SY/upp670EOqrxyp6pJk1uR+RjteFepzZ5am55tEMjGWTYnZjEXP1AAUR tEJBbGV4YW5kZXIgTS4gTGlzdCA8YWxleGxpc3RAc2JveC50dS1ncmF6LmFjLmF0 PiA0NDAyMDIwNzc0IDkzMzI1NTSJAJUDBRAylEocZZNidmMRc/UBAVyBA/9l8Qff Iuva0vmzrE4EbVfgonVjY4BKRVcB5QgxC9PTAILu2/aM4NyT8lOEhCjw4x5wzxLJ Z3FWw3kTe9R/r0RKU49SA1pE7Fge+sbdXH/Z7g+SLZ1myMVX3sZaVFDzhCOO0C7I FA4Izn2zQulIxsxcBaqEV5qIUW58cF7+JbJj6A== =SyLK -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xterm-color : green cursor??
> I recently installed xterm-color, but now ALL my xterm windows have a > nasty green cursor in them... is there ANY way to tell xterm to use a > specific cursor color, either for each window or globally? You can get all this from the xterm man page, I believe, but here are the lines I put in my .Xresources file: XTerm*alwaysHighlight: false XTerm*background: navy XTerm*foreground: white XTerm*cursorColor: yellow XTerm*font: 10x20 XTerm*internalBorder: 2 XTerm*jumpScroll: true XTerm*reverseWrap: false XTerm*saveLines:1024 XTerm*scrollBar:true XTerm*scrollTtyOutput: false XTerm*scrollKey:true XTerm*scrollLines: 1 Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Debian GNU/Linux! Search it at http://insite.verisim.com/search/debian/simple -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PGP
> The International Version of PGP is a slightly modified algorithm with > fewer bits. Currently, it is illegal under the Data Encryption and > Privacy Act (modified) of 1995 to export encryption programs which use > 56+ bits outside the United States. The international version supports at least 1024 bits. That is the reason why the US government has been giving Phil Zimmerman (author of PGP) a hard time, though he recently won his court case. > There is, of course, a workaround to get superior encryption with the > Internation versions (not only of pgp, but RSA and DES as well). Make > 3 keys and do the following: > > 1) encrypt with key 1 > 2) decrypt with key 2 > 3) encrypt with key 3 I'm not sure about PGP, but DES actually gets _weaker_ if encrypted with two keys. Three keys does make it much stronger, though, as you say. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- if you have a 50% chance of guessing right,you will guess wrong 75% of the time -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unidentified subject!
hello all... I should have been more specific when I spoke of the strangeness I saw in the drivers selection menu. I saw this in the "net" selection for ethernet device drivers. This was not serious because I could recognize my ethernet card by the description - BUT the "3c509" was not mapped correctly to the description of the card. _in_fact_ I didn't see it at all until I moved my section bar down to the next entry (which is not the 3c509 anymore). Well - that's what i see anyway ... anybody else see this behavior ??? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem in some FTP mirrors of Debian-1.2/disks-i386/1996-12-8
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 12 Dec 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > 344cbc40324ebd10a526a1e83263c7b7 md5sum.txt Oops! This is the set I was testing yesterday. When selecting modules, there are still some windows that are not drawed properly. When I select a module, I don't see the plus sign "+" at the left until it is really installed (which I don't know whether this is the intended behaviour, but it is counter-inituitive, IMHO. Some sign indicating that you have selected a module to be installed would be nice). ftape module installation fails *always* (with Debian 1.1 disks, it failed always the first time, but the second time it succeed). There are some drivers without *any* description (for example, xd). How the user will know which driver to install? This could be the same as selecting packages with dselect. I really thought that was not the final disk set... BTW: Is that tiny ash to be supposed to have filename completion? (It does not work). It is not very friendly to have to write ln -s /mnt/rex/disks-i386/current/base1_2.tgz /tmp to install from the ZIP drive. Well, I don't want this to be considered "complaints". I will gladly convert it into bug reports, if that helps to achieve a better set of disks before 1.2. Anyway, thanks for your good work. (Which some day may be "our", since I'm currently waiting for my account on master :-). Regards, -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBMrBTnSqK7IlOjMLFAQEViwP/RKaFk2rEiIuO9MLvTQSzd2itP8hNNUEG /I18uHREePHSYS4QDzyM7X8SCblfKrtWl0KX/j+FIezFr9ZBFNMnJJcAX2zhlkfT Re02mpwwvKsTkM5KXtVx00rGiMwrJJpCAfK64ghmWrFIguRw+x6R/vaA5EdjaXjR RQAsjk+g+rA= =J0un -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: Format problem
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Eric Budd wrote: > Forgive for asking a stupid qeustion, but here goes. . . > > I am building a system from used parts to run debian on, and the hard drive > I have is DOS-formatted, but not as a system disk. Is there any way that i > can format that disk for Debian straight from the floppies without having to > find a system to remount the drive on and format as a sys. disk? If so, > will this cause any problems with the Debian system? There are no stupid questions... (Maybe some stupid answers, but that's something else entirely.) I'm making these assumptions from your message: - you have a hard drive with the DOS (FAT) system on it - you want to make it an exclusively Debian drive That's simple. Just follow the standard installation procedure; it reformats the drive anyway. | 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.| -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What package do I need ? (libXpm.so.4)
> > Hello all... > >Installed the new 1.2 - loved it... > > 1) did any body else out there notice some funky things going on > inside the drivers/modules selection menu? It worked but there was > some strange goings on when I moved the selection bar up and down. > > 2) also - I installed the xfree packages. The new GUI setup app is > great. > > 3) but after installing the fvwm2 & afterstep Window managers. I > get: > > fvwm2: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'. > afterstep: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' > > What package do I need to instll to get this lib? So, you're the second to report this. Maybe others know why this is, but I fail to see how it comes about. What you are obviously missing is the xpm4.7_3.4g-7.deb package. But, fvwm_2.0.43-BETA-0 depends on xpm4.7, so you must have that installed. The only thing I can think of is that you have a lower soname of xpm installed, and that fvwm is refusing to load it. If so, the fvwm package should declare a dependancy on xpm4.7-dev_3.4g-7. Could you check, what the output of the following commands is on your system: dpkg -s "xpm4.7" file /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.* I'm getting convinced there is a bug somewhere, but I dont know where. 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: Problem with 1.2 and 3com during install
Thaks for your mail. I made a record of the terminal session and I'm attaching it here. I made a completely fresh install with the 1996-12-8 floppies and only selected nfs from the device driver modules. I tried to install 3c509 but it failed with or without the irq and base io given as parameter. I also tried the boot floppies from November but they didn't fix the 3com problem either. The motherboard is a Tyan TomcatIII, and there's also a SoundBlaster 32 PnP installed. You wrote: > How does exactly insmod fails? What are the error messages? I'm > loading the 3c509 module from kernel 2.0.23 here without any trouble. > All I need to do is to include a line with > > 3c509 > > in /etc/modules, and a line with > > options 3c509 io=0x210 irq=7 > > in /etc/conf.modules. Everything works really nice with only that. After the first reboot I installed 3c5x9 configure program and the bsdutils package so I could use script to record the session. The 3c509 card was first initialized in dos to it's default settings. Here's the transcript. The new 3c5x9 setup program says that the card is active but there was no such message with the previous version dated 6/9/95. Script started on Thu Dec 12 21:55:41 1996 # lsmod Module:#pages: Used by: nfs 124 # ./3c5x9 -v 3c5x9setup.c:v0.04 12/11/96 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) A potential 3c5*9 has been found, but it appears to still be an active. Either shutdown the network, or use the '-f' flag. # ./3c5x9 -f 3c5x9 found at 0x300. Model number 3c509 version 5, base I/O 0x300, IRQ 10, 10baseT port. Primary physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2 Alternate physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2 # insmod 3c509 io=0x300 Initialization of 3c509 failed # insmod 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10 Initialization of 3c509 failed # lsmod Module:#pages: Used by: nfs 124 # ./3c509 --new-base-address 0x210 --new-irq 7 A potential 3c5*9 has been found, but it appears to still be an active. Either shutdown the network, or use the '-f' flag. # ./3c5x9 -f --new-base-address 0x210 --new-irq 7 3c5x9 found at 0x300. Would write new IRQ entry 0x7f00 (old value 0xaf00). Would write new transceiver/IO entry 0x0001 (old value 0x0010). Would write new checksum entry 0x7a71 (old value 0x7ab0). (The new EEPROM values will not be written without the '-w' flag.) Model number 3c509 version 5, base I/O 0x210, IRQ 7, 10baseT port. Primary physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2 Alternate physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2 # ./3c5x9 -f -w --new-base-address 0x210 --new-irq 7 3c5x9 found at 0x300. Writing new IRQ entry 0x7f00. Writing new transceiver/IO entry 0x0001. Writing new checksum entry 0x7a71. Model number 3c509 version 5, base I/O 0x210, IRQ 7, 10baseT port. Primary physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2 Alternate physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2 # ./3c5x9 -f -w --new-base-address 0x210 --new-irq 7 3c5x9 found at 0x300. Model number 3c509 version 5, base I/O 0x210, IRQ 7, 10baseT port. Primary physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2 Alternate physical address is 00:20:af:c4:60:b2 # insmod 3c509 Initialization of 3c509 failed # insmod 3c509 io=0x210 irq=7 Initialization of 3c509 failed # cat /proc/interrupts 0: 51951 timer 1: 1893 keyboard 2: 0 cascade 8: 0 + rtc 13: 1 math error 14: 7263 + ide0 15: 99 + ide1 # cat /proc/ioports -001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-007f : rtc 0080-009f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : npu 0170-0177 : ide1 01f0-01f7 : ide0 0376-0376 : ide1 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f0-03f5 : floppy 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR # cat /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 17, function 0: VGA compatible controller: Matrox Millennium (rev 1). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe080. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe000. Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: Intel 82371SB Natoma/Triton II PIIX3 (rev 0). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0x9000. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: Intel 82371SB Natoma/Triton II PIIX3 (rev 1). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No bursts. Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Intel 82439HX Triton II (rev 3). Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32. # exit Script done on Thu Dec 12 22:00:20 1996 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 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' Well, if you are pure Debian-1.1, and didn't upgrade anything between "a few weeks ago" and now, then you clearly need to check your computer. But, if you did upgrade gcc/libc5_5.4.13, then, yes, you should install the new libg++ libs (although I've never heard of the trouble you are refering to). > > Do I need to upgrade any libraries ? > Can anybody help me sort this out please ? Not without a (small) sample of the code that doens't link -- 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: problem in some FTP mirrors of Debian-1.2/disks-i386/1996-12-8
Santiago Vila Doncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could you please tell us the md5 sum of the md5sum.txt file? 344cbc40324ebd10a526a1e83263c7b7 md5sum.txt Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Grab updates from a non-Debian machine ?
My question : How does one get Debian updates from a Debian ftp site using a non-Debian machine ?? I read that there is a 'dftp' C-shell-script in the 'contrib/tool' directory in the ftp site but I couldn't find it !! Does anyone know where it is ?? I also have difficulties in finding out more info about how to use this script, if it ever exists, to grab the updates. Pointers to these questions would be much appreciated. H.C. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem in some FTP mirrors of Debian-1.2/disks-i386/1996-12-8
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > We've been moving disks around today and apparently the master copy of > Debian-1.2/disks-i386/1996-12-8 was corrupted. The bad version is currently > on ftp.debian.org . The version at debian.crosslink.net was not damanged. Could you please tell us the md5 sum of the md5sum.txt file? (Just to be sure). -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBMrBFUSqK7IlOjMLFAQEXhQP/ZRnTQEFOJbeOjhTbMiKQ3rT7r+8dxmhL r2H8g/Wzti7p23anaH2+RuwCRnYVRlEOgl/VTQe3g+huzfqd5gG8sc4hTKLbRs8O Um7VCA5T2owl5YWxzId/33RAD1bDc94AdCczfkqVtCje+C7x6K73SwVf1KJe82D5 ZO/WPsNLA+0= =U+2p -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: Virtual Hosting
the Edward Blevins writes: > On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, CoB SysAdmin wrote: > > Good thing, too. We've got enough IP-space cramping as it is. > Agreed! Um ipv6 anyone? Read the specs. Our little 32bit ip pool is about to get a 96bit boost. (technically 65bits when you consider that is what they are allocating for ip addresses that mean a single host). Before we run out of 32bit ips, to boot. Supposedly that is 1,000+ ip's per square meter of surface area of the planet. So what happens when we go into space? -- -- Todd T. Fries .. finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key PGP fingerprint = B6 3B 70 46 BC 0F 8C DD 14 D4 C7 D1 47 F6 23 FA pgpJlKlXWGnsV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: xterm-color : green cursor??
"Chris R. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently installed xterm-color, but now ALL my xterm windows have a > nasty green cursor in them... is there ANY way to tell xterm to use a > specific cursor color, either for each window or globally? Set the `XTerm*pointerColor' resource. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xterm-color : green cursor??
with XFree86 3.2, the xterm has built in color capabilities. unfortunately, it's one of the things i haven't gotten around to setting up yet. i think you have to insert something like the following into your Xresources file: #ifdef COLOR *customization: color #endif although someone will almost certainly need to correct me on this point. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What package do I need ? (libXpm.so.4)
Hello all... Installed the new 1.2 - loved it... 1) did any body else out there notice some funky things going on inside the drivers/modules selection menu? It worked but there was some strange goings on when I moved the selection bar up and down. 2) also - I installed the xfree packages. The new GUI setup app is great. 3) but after installing the fvwm2 & afterstep Window managers. I get: fvwm2: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'. afterstep: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' What package do I need to install to get this lib? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VIM questions
1) Will there ever be a debian version of Vim which supports -g under X, or will I have to compile my own? 2) How can I get my keys mapped properly? I want del to delete the character under the cursor, bs to delete the previous character, home to move to the beginning of the line, end to move to the end of the line, pg up to go up a page, pg dn to go down a page, etc... where do I start? I would like behavior both in console mode and in an xterm. Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key upon request www: http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~crm7479 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
which 1.2 packages?
I am about to make a fresh install of Debian 1.2 and am trying to determine which packages I need. Debian's web pages has two sites for downloading; an interface to the ftp site, and a direct connection to the ftp site. The interface contains a list of packages which is much shorter than the number of packages from the direct connection. If I download just the packages listed on the interface, will that be enough for a full installation? What types of packages will be missing that are on the direct ftp site? --Greg -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with 1.2 and 3com during install
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > But back to the mission impossible. Last night I tried with different > irq and base io addresses using both the dos and linux version of > the config programs. The linux version finds the cards, tells the > irq and io address but insmod fails. The command I used is 'insmod > 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10' or whatever irq and base address I happened > to try at the moment. How does exactly insmod fails? What are the error messages? I'm loading the 3c509 module from kernel 2.0.23 here without any trouble. All I need to do is to include a line with 3c509 in /etc/modules, and a line with options 3c509 io=0x210 irq=7 in /etc/conf.modules. Everything works really nice with only that. Regards, M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing large files
Fred Zarnowski wrote: > > I am trying to install Debian on a laptop with no network connection and no > CDROM. I have been ftp'ing files to a W95 desktop then sneaker net via > floppy to the laptop. Unfortunately, I haven't solved large files like > Xbase that won't fit on a 1.44 floppy. I did get minicom going on the > laptop so I could download from a BBS if I could find one. > > I would appreciate any suggestions or comments. Thanks. I would reccommend using a null-modem serial connection between your laptop and the machine which has the debian files. The newer versions of 95's dialup networking support this. Just get ppp set up on the laptop and proceed from there. Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xterm-color : green cursor??
I recently installed xterm-color, but now ALL my xterm windows have a nasty green cursor in them... is there ANY way to tell xterm to use a specific cursor color, either for each window or globally? Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key upon request www: http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~crm7479 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
noteboot install
I'm having to do a scratch install of debian 1.2 on 2 Toshiba Tecra 500CDT notebooks, and I'm slowly losing my mind from lack of sleep. It took an hour or so of fiddling to finally come up with 'disable all cache' to get the machine to boot from the floppy. Everything else went fairly normal, but a little slow. I copied the pcmcia stuff via floppy, then configured the card, nice and smooth. Now the fun started. From a local (on the ethernet) mirror, installing the rest of the packages with dselect via nfs took 5 hours! This is a p5-133 folks! Now, using loadlin to try to boot failed with the normal error I've seen about not enough memory, so I installed lilo, rebooted into DOS, enabled the cache, and rebooted... and rebooted... and rebooted. It gets to Uncompressing Linux, and reboots. OK.. I'm fairly intelligent (so I think). It must be the kernel, with all the compiled in goodies. I disabled the cache and rebooted, and am now recompiling the kernel still compiling after *7 hours*! And... it died with unreferenced symbols at the vmlinux linking. Does anyone have any ideas about speeding this up? Sorry about the rambling... I've had about 30 mins of sleep in the last 50 hours.. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "Paranoia is a survival mechanism." -- 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]
Building a Debian bootable CD-Rom ?
I've heard somewhere that 1.2 could be bootable from a CD. Well, I have a CD-writer (under Win NT, no chance :-)) a complete mirror of the Debian distribution. But i've no experience writing a CD. I would appreciate any help. Thanks, Pierre Blanchet. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to print dvi files??
According to Hamish Moffatt: > > > Is there way to print dvi files? I know I can print it by converting it > > to ps file but I would like to skip this step if there is way. > > E, isn't the whole point of dvi that it is device independent, > ie it must be converted into something else to print? dvips (to > postscript) is the common example, but I think there's also dvilj4 and > the like to convert to PCL for HP LaserJets. I use a Bubblejet > so I use dvips + ghostscript to print. What printer are you try to use? There are a couple of "magic" filters available to allow printing dvi files directly. Actually, they convert the dvi file to ps (or whatever is required for your printer). I use magicfilter with a HP DeskJet 660C. Also, look at apsfilter. -- \/ \ Carl Greco PHONE voice: (402) 496-3381 / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \==/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with X and gcc
Howdy one and all, I upgraded to 1.2 from 1.1 and I have been banging my head on my keyboard trying to fix the two problems I ran across. *** gcc *** This probably has to do with the upgrade I tried last week. According to 'dpkg --list', everything is installed and configured. That is all fine and dandy but when I tried to compile one of my programs, I get something like 'gcc command not found'. If I try to 'find / -name "gcc"' the only thing that it finds is the copy-write notice. This is not a good thing, in fact this can even be filed under bad things. Is anyone else having this problem? Does anyone have any advice or theories? *** X *** OK This one should be easy. When I tried to start the upgraded X11 (version 3.2 I think), I get a fatal error complaining: (--) SVGA: clgd5426: Specifying a Clocks line makes no sense for this driver SVGA: 'clgd5426' is an invalid chipset *** None of the configured devices were detected.*** Fatal server error: no screens found _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. I went looking for 'clgd5426' in all of the files in /etc/X11 but I didn't find it. Where else should I be looking. Thanks in advance for any help you can give. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re[2]: PGP
The International Version of PGP is a slightly modified algorithm with fewer bits. Currently, it is illegal under the Data Encryption and Privacy Act (modified) of 1995 to export encryption programs which use 56+ bits outside the United States. There is, of course, a workaround to get superior encryption with the Internation versions (not only of pgp, but RSA and DES as well). Make 3 keys and do the following: 1) encrypt with key 1 2) decrypt with key 2 3) encrypt with key 3 Wish everyone all the luck in the world to crack that. Even a machine capable of a billion processes per second would have to have a million such processers in order to break even 30bit keys in less time than the universe is old! Good luck, S. Ryan Quick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun/Sequent Admin Value Behavioral Health Hmmm, as far as I know is the Us version only for US-Citizes in the US and the -i for all outside. What to do for a non-US-citizen in the states like me ? So the stupid law forbids pgp at all ?? donnow, correct me if I am wrong -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
g3topbm uses WAAAAY too much ram/swap
I just setup mgetty/vgetty+sendfax today and was testing out faxes when this happened. I figure it shouldn't. :) -=-=- [root:/var/spool/fax/incoming] ls -la ff2ad00aeS1-_-FAXBACK_.01 -rw-rw 1 root fax47031 Dec 10 01:19 ff2ad00aeS1-_-FAXBACK_.01 [root:/var/spool/fax/incoming] g3topbm ff2ad00aeS1-_-FAXBACK_.01 > testfax.pbm Out of memory for g3topbm. Killed [root:/var/spool/fax/incoming] free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 15044 3460 11584 1616128 1516 -/+ buffers: 1816 13228 Swap:20124 6496 13628 -=-=- You'd think 24mb combined free memory would be enough to convert a 47k g3 fax into a pbm image. :) Anyone else had this problem? -- Paul Haggart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - /\oo/\ Debian Linux - PGP 0xD61313E9 GCS a19 d-(pu) s:+ C+++ L+++>$ P+++ W+ N* w-- PS++ Y+ PGP++ X+ R+ tv++@ h! y* "Is all the world jails and churches?" - Rage Against the Machine -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with 1.2 and 3com during install
I have both the dos and linux versions of the 3c509 config program. The linux version can be found from ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/setup/ . There seems to be a new version of the program, dated 12/11/96. http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/linux.html has stuff about linux network drivers and config programs. But back to the mission impossible. Last night I tried with different irq and base io addresses using both the dos and linux version of the config programs. The linux version finds the cards, tells the irq and io address but insmod fails. The command I used is 'insmod 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10' or whatever irq and base address I happened to try at the moment. The card works fine with Win NT and dos, so it'll have to work with linux too. I guess I'll try the boot floppies from November and see if the program goes away. Is it ok to compile 2.0.27 kernel on a different machine with only the necessary drivers and then put that on the resque disk? It's easy to open the image file with the loopback device and do the modifications. I guess I'll try that too. > Find the floppy disk that came with your 3com card and run it (I'm afraid > you'll have to boot a DOS floppy to do that). There's also a place where > you can get the 3com configuration utility over the net, someone please tell > us. It'll tell you what address the card is configured for, or will allow you > to reconfigure it. // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem in some FTP mirrors of Debian-1.2/disks-i386/1996-12-8
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Vatiainen Heikki wrote: > In ftp.lh.umu.se the following files seem to have different sizes than the > ones in debian.crosslink.net. > > o drv1200.bin > o drv1440.bin > o linux > o md5sum.txt > o resq1440.bin > > Ok, thanks for pointing that out. The problem is resolved now. /Björn - - - - umop apisdn 'sdoo - - - - Bjorn Isaksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem in some FTP mirrors of Debian-1.2/disks-i386/1996-12-8
In ftp.lh.umu.se the following files seem to have different sizes than the ones in debian.crosslink.net. o drv1200.bin o drv1440.bin o linux o md5sum.txt o resq1440.bin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem in some FTP mirrors of Debian-1.2/disks-i386/1996-12-8
We've been moving disks around today and apparently the master copy of Debian-1.2/disks-i386/1996-12-8 was corrupted. The bad version is currently on ftp.debian.org . The version at debian.crosslink.net was not damanged. The bad version has disk image files that are some size other than 1.44MB or 1.2MB. If you see that, use another mirror. Other than that, there appear to be no problems with the archive. 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: how to print dvi files??
> Is there way to print dvi files? I know I can print it by converting it > to ps file but I would like to skip this step if there is way. E, isn't the whole point of dvi that it is device independent, ie it must be converted into something else to print? dvips (to postscript) is the common example, but I think there's also dvilj4 and the like to convert to PCL for HP LaserJets. I use a Bubblejet so I use dvips + ghostscript to print. What printer are you try to use? hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: innd startup
> In your email to me, Hamish Moffatt, you wrote: > > Weird, but inn will not load on startup for me. > > /etc/init.d/inn looks correct, runs fine by hand for root > > (although it doesn't specify a path, but adding that didn't > > seem to help); it just doesn't run on startup. S21inn > > exists in /etc/rc2.d as a symlink to /etc/init.d/inn. > > Permissions all ok, etc. > > > Fore some reason, /etc/init.c/inn calls innd directly. I hacked mine > to call rc.news, and all is well. Mine runs /etc/news/boot. Actually, I tracked it down; the history files were owned by root.root, not news.news, so when it ran (as news) during startup it couldn't read those files and aborted. Changing the ownership fixed it. Of course, it's a bug that inn created its own history files as root.root, not news.news ... :-( hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
innd startup
In your email to me, Hamish Moffatt, you wrote: > > Weird, but inn will not load on startup for me. > /etc/init.d/inn looks correct, runs fine by hand for root > (although it doesn't specify a path, but adding that didn't > seem to help); it just doesn't run on startup. S21inn > exists in /etc/rc2.d as a symlink to /etc/init.d/inn. > Permissions all ok, etc. > > Any ideas? Unfortunately I have not been able to > look at the console while it boots to see if there's > any signs of trouble; the machine doesn't > usually have a console. Fore some reason, /etc/init.c/inn calls innd directly. I hacked mine to call rc.news, and all is well. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "Cogito, ergo sum. Cogito, ergo doleo. Cogito sumere potum alterum." I think, I am. I think, I am depressed. I think I'll have another drink. -- Rob Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** 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: Avoinding separate ppp options files for multiple ttys
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, CoB SysAdmin wrote: > > I've got four modems that people can use to dial into my linux machine. > I keep the standard defaults in a file called "options.std.dialin", and > then I've got four files that merely read like so: [snip] > It seems kinda silly that there's no way to have just one file that maps > IP's to ttys rather than having to have a separate file for each > one. [snip] > Anybody had any success with any alternatives? YES! I haven't used it in a while, (on the internet, nobody can dial in ;) ) BUT! it works great, and it won't allow multiple connections. AND! If you have a particular user that for some reason needs a permanant IP, it will look for that user and give THAT user THE IP no matter what tty s/he's on. You will have to modify what it tells you to do, but if you have questions on how its modified (it took 2 seconds to mod it correctly, for me) fire them at me! Its called isp-pppshells. Its not even 3kb, so I attached it. -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! isp-pppshells.tar.gz Description: PPP shells
installation and packages...
i recently made the rather unpleasant mistake of fsck'ing my mounted root filesystem. oops. as a result of this, i decided to just reinstall from scratch and use my backed up home directories. here's some observations and bugs that i've noticed (i don't know how to use the bug reporting system, if someone would like to enlighten me or do the work for me, that'd be great). i used the disks from frozen, and they worked fine for me. they take _forever_ to load the kernel image. is there somewhere obvious to put a message about the possiblities of compiling a kernel for each system? although not relevent for all users, it'd be nice to tell people that they can do that. i downloaded packages from bo. i suspect that many of these problems might apply to rex as well, but i haven't checked. xpm-dev and xpm seem to share a few files -- they were overwritten because of the force option that dselect enables automatically. because they have the same version number, i assume this doesn't even make a difference, but it does give a warning. minor gripe: when installing fvwm2, it spews out a long message about converting .fvwmrc files in home directories to .fvwm2rc files (i think it only does this the first time it's installed). it then spits out a message about how no .fvwmrc files were found. not surprising, as i've never used the original fvwm. i suspect this may be the case for many other users. it seems like it should be a simple matter of moving some lines in the preinst script (i think it was before installation) so that the long message is only printed out if .fvwmrc files are found to begin with. there are strange dependencies on xbase that aren't listed. in particular, for the xservers. some others too i think, but those are the ones i remember (sigh. dselect needs some sort of default logging.) xbase does not provide X11R6. this is a problem with several packages (gimp, among others). it seems that ltxtool, ltxgraph, and psnfss should depend on latex. the line "/usr/X11R6/lib" is missing from /etc/ld.so.conf . this broke a few packages before i figured it out (i think there were already some messages on this, though). major problem: several programs require that zlib1 have a version greater than 1.03 . However, the version in bo is 1.0.4 . according to the debian ordering of such things, it appears that 1.0.4<1.03 . this is causing some problems with downloading things. maybe change the version numbering to 1.04 or else change the requirements of all the other packages that depend on zlib1? i don't know how such things are usual resolved. thanx to the debian team for a great system! -david -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to print dvi files??
In your email to me, David Puryear, you wrote: > > Hi All, > > Is there way to print dvi files? I know I can print it by converting it > to ps file but I would like to skip this step if there is way. Install apsfilter. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "Cogito, ergo sum. Cogito, ergo doleo. Cogito sumere potum alterum." I think, I am. I think, I am depressed. I think I'll have another drink. -- Rob Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** 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: deliver and biff and comsat
> I chose to just change the ling in sendmail that points to procmail, > since I don't regenerate sendmail.cf very often. The symlink would > work too, though. Hi, thanks again for your response. I chose the symlink method because I generate sendmail.cf very often. It works great. As you know, sendmail depends on deliver. I think it should depend on a local delivery agent (local mailer) and not just deliver, and the user should be given the choice of which local mailer to use. Thanks, Eloy.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to print dvi files??
Hi All, Is there way to print dvi files? I know I can print it by converting it to ps file but I would like to skip this step if there is way. Thanks, David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: "resq1200.bin" is missing
I haven't constructed it yet. Unfortunately, it's two disks not one. 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: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: > this fixes most of the problems i had with the 1996-12-7 set. I'm still > having a few problems with the new disks: > > 1. ftp is still missing from the base install set. This makes it > difficult to install a custom compiled kernel. Actually impossible > if you don't have your kernel available on an nfs mount or floppy > disk. Don't know what you mean. I used the original rex disks to install and I was able to install the whole system by dpkg-ftp, and I was able to ftp to any machine I wanted to. Shaya -- Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getty
"Lord Of The CLUTZ's" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering, when I installed debian it installed getty (or so I thought) > however when I do "man getty" it gives me the man page for agetty, I would > prefer to have getty, because it does a clear screen after logout, I prefer > that better... any Idea what I can do? or where I can get a copy of the real > getty that is debianized? The version of getty we use by default is agetty. Sorry if that isn't more clear. If you want getty to clear the screen before its prompt, just do this: tput clear > /tmp/x cat /tmp/issue >> /tmp/x mv /tmp/x /tmp/issue See man pages for issue(5), getty(1), tput(1) for more details. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing large files
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Fred Zarnowski wrote: > I am trying to install Debian on a laptop with no network connection and no > CDROM. I have been ftp'ing files to a W95 desktop then sneaker net via > floppy to the laptop. Unfortunately, I haven't solved large files like > Xbase that won't fit on a 1.44 floppy. I did get minicom going on the > laptop so I could download from a BBS if I could find one. Check out pkzip, in the manual.doc, under Create multi-volume archive. > > I would appreciate any suggestions or comments. Thanks. > > Any opinions expressed are those of the sender and do not necessarily > reflect the views of the State of Connecticut Dept of Transportation > > Any opinions expressed are those of the sender and do not necessarily > reflect the views of the State of Connecticut Dept of Transportation > Third time makes it true. ;-) Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: suid problem
Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh dear. I have just installed a complete Debian system for a new recruit > who is now 4 hours away by jet. Is there any automated way of finding > missing bits? Yes - track updates to 1.2 as they are released, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, etc. > Or what is my best course of action? Regarding this bug? It only manifests in 2.1 kernels, about 2.1.10 (not sure of the exact version), so just run a 2.0 kernel or apply the patch. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > > MBR doesn't work for me. No matter what I do, I can not get a > > machine to boot linux from the hard disk if MBR is in the master > > boot record. > > Can you figure out why? no, the only thing remaining for me to try is to NOT use the Maximise option in cfdisk when creating the / partition. Do you normally use that option? I did try it yesterday when I built the last server but ended up figuring out how to do the chroot & lilo thing before I rebooted, so it never got tested. Next time I build a debian box I'll try that and let you know if it makes any difference. i've built all the machines i currently need for work but my father has been hassling me to build the linux internet gateway box that i've been promising him for months...with any luck i'll have the time to build that on the weekend. After working 12+ hour days all week staring at screens it's hard to summon up much enthusiasm for doing more of the same on the weekends :-( > I can put the chroot-ed shell environment in the menu. cool. craig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > > MBR doesn't work for me. No matter what I do, I can not get a machine > > to boot linux from the hard disk if MBR is in the master boot record. > > Can you figure out why? What BIOS do you have? (Brand and bios date) I think this may end up being the cause of this problem... but if its not, don't hold me to it. :) -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Avoinding separate ppp options files for multiple ttys
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, CoB SysAdmin wrote: > I've got four modems that people can use to dial into my linux machine. > I keep the standard defaults in a file called "options.std.dialin", and > then I've got four files that merely read like so: > > -- > # Set IP address... > :xxx.yyy.zzz.200 > > file /etc/ppp/options.std.dialin > --- > > It seems kinda silly that there's no way to have just one file that maps > IP's to ttys rather than having to have a separate file for each > one. yes, i find that silly too. so silly that i refuse to use it. i'd much rather have all the ip addresses defined in one file (it's much easier to vi one file than several to make global changes). my solution is to NOT use /etc/ppp/options.tty*, (i find they're too inflexible - it's IMPOSSIBLE to override any option specified in the options.* files) but to just use a bare bones /etc/ppp/options file and have a /usr/local/bin/ppplogin.sh script which execs pppd with the correct options. e.g. something like: #!/bin/sh tty=`basename \`tty\`` PPPIDLE="idle-disconnect 900" LOCIP=203.16.167.1 OPTIONS="-detach modem crtscts passive proxyarp" # default is to assign IP address by port number. # also ttyS0 is dedicated to user ljs. no one else is allowed # to use that line. case $tty in ttyS0)if [ "$LOGNAME" -ne "ljs" ] ; then echo You are not authorised to use this line. exec /bin/false fi ;; ttyS1)REMIP=d01.taz.net.au ;; ttyS2)REMIP=d02.taz.net.au ;; ttyS3)REMIP=d03.taz.net.au ;; esac # override default dynamic IP address for certain login names. This # allows assigning static IPs to certain users. case $LOGNAME in ljs)REMIP=nightowl.taz.net.au ; PPPIDLE="" ;; helenst)REMIP=helenst.taz.net.au ; PPPOPTS="-d" ;; Ptest)REMIP=203.16.167.53 ;; ppac)REMIP="" ; PPPIDLE="" ;; esac exec /usr/sbin/pppd $OPTIONS $PPPOPTS $PPPIDLE $LOCIP:$REMIP ppp users have this script as their login shell in /etc/passwd. There are minor complications when using this with mgetty's AutoPPP option. Everything works, except for being able to restrict ttyS0 to user ljs. It's not a huge issue for me at the moment as no-one else knows the phone number. One of these days i'll install idled or timeoutd or something and configure it so that everyone but ljs has 0 minutes on ttyS0. Edit /etc/mgetty/login.config so that it runs /usr/local/bin/ppplogin.auto for the /AutoPPP/ line: change: /AutoPPP/ - -/usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login to /AutoPPP/ - - /usr/local/bin/ppplogin.auto The ppplogin.auto shell script is simpler because there is no way of determining who the user is until after pppd has been run.: #!/bin/sh tty=`basename \`tty\`` PPPIDLE="idle-disconnect 900" LOCIP=203.16.167.1 OPTIONS="-detach modem crtscts passive proxyarp auth -chap +pap login" case $tty in ttyS0)REMIP=nightowl.taz.net.au ;; ttyS1)REMIP=d04.taz.net.au ;; ttyS2)REMIP=d05.taz.net.au ;; ttyS3)REMIP=d01.taz.net.au ;; esac exec /usr/sbin/pppd $OPTIONS $PPPIDLE $LOCIP:$REMIP Another variant of this that i have used on other systems is to have an /etc/slip.hosts style file which is parsed by the ppplogin sh/perl script to assign a static IP address based on either login name, or a dynamic IP address based on port number if the specified IP address is the string "-dynamic-". Craig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)
From: Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ftp is still missing from the base install set. Might not get fixed in 1.2, I'm out of space. > MBR doesn't work for me. No matter what I do, I can not get a machine > to boot linux from the hard disk if MBR is in the master boot record. Can you figure out why? I can put the chroot-ed shell environment in the menu. 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]
Some experiences of a Rex installation
I have installed two machines from the current Rex distribution. The distribution was aligned on Monday to my mirror FTP.FUNET.FI that is usually quite up-to-date. There has not been modifications in the mirror this week any more and so I hope to have the final one. The base set of the system was installed last week with previous boot set (28-11). I had some problems but I uderstood that they should be solved by now. I found the following dependency problems: - gs-aladdin should depend on libpng1 (shouldn't the non-free be frozen with rex?) - kbd recommends too strongly on svgatextmode there are all kind of problems with svgatextmode especially in internationalization and I do not want to use it yet (forcing kbd without svgatextmode works fine) - mc should depend on libgpm1 And some likely bugs: svgatextmode: 8-bit international ISO Latin 1 characters are displayed incorrectly in all the fonts I tried. X: The keyboard maps of XKB extension of XFree 3.2 are not working really well. If you select Finnish from menu you are not going to get the right map. It seems that if you - run new xf86config (keyboard do not work with old) - but do *not* select keyboard extension in the configuration then you'll get the right keyboard map from the kbd package. (In fact, the resulting keymap is the best I have ever managed to get to work in X with *all* the right dead keys.) I do not have any xmodmap settings. msql: it tries to send messages to the msql user which it has correctly created but forgotten to create /var/spool/mail/msql which means that smail stores the message in 'error' subdirectory. The error message email repeats at 15 second interval. The message says "Can't start server : UNIX bind : Permission denied". The reason may be the permission problems of the '/tmp' being root.root rwxr-xr-x after the base installation. This generates an interesting amount of trash mail files. Updatedb is never run. The likely reson is that cron seems to die. One interesting note is that I must *not* have bind installed to get NFS partitions mounted in the boot. If I have local DNS it is not up yet and the server names are not resolved at all (in a small installation they are in /etc/hosts but I have decided not to do that). If I do not have local bind, it correctly asks tha names from configured external nameservers. BTW: I have tried to use network masks in /etc/export. I have got them to work in *the last line* of the file. If I have three lines in the file, just the third export allows mounts according the mask. BTW2: Are you sure that nameservers should be separated with comma in /etc/resolv.conf like suggested in the boot set dialog. I have used just blank and it seems to work. Never tried comma. I would be happy with CD drivers in the kernel if there would be a way to disable autodetection of the devices that are not there. Is there a boot option to do that? Space is not such a big issue anymore. I have not found xload yet. fvwm95 is missing it. The old configuration file is missing xterm_color as well but it seems to be obsolete now(?) (I prefer this, the green cursor is awful.) Esa Turtiainen - Esa Turtiainen http://www.turtiainen.dna.fi [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +358-0-801 3008 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
