Re: My upgrade 1.1-1.2
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I'm using the InfoMagic CDrom set (Dec 96) to upgrade. Here are some notes: ... 3) several packages have 2 versions and dselect happily installs both versions without trying to distinguish between them. And because of the directory order (checked with 'ls -U'), the older version gets installed last 8-( the newer version is purged. These offenders are: ... If you need any of these packages, I'd recommend installing these packages by hand. If you return to dselect to install other things, will it leave these packages alone, or will it try to upgrade/downgrade these? Daniel -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: qmail, was RE: mta suggestions?
On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Remco van de Meent wrote: At 01:22 PM 12/30/96 -0600, Roy C Bixler wrote: On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Remco van de Meent wrote: Maybe zmailer is another option? Seems to be very fast also... Yes, this works well, but unfortunately there is no Debian package available for it. Is anyone working on such a thing? I hope so, because I *can* compile it, but I cannot get it to work together with piped things like majordomo. Are you using the latest version (2.99.44 + patch)? If converting your majordomo lists is an option, I find it works with 'smartlist'. The only thing you have to do there is add the list administrator user to the 'zmailer' group (in /etc/group) of trusted users (see the 'trusted.cf' file for the default list). Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with installing Debian 1.2 (#2)
Xinbing Liu wrote: Well, I sort of stumbled through the two problems I reported earlier (see the included message below). To solve the unable to open initial console problem with the created boot floppy, I found out that I had to press ENTER twice at the boot: prompt. (If I don't it will hang, very, very strange. BTW, I was using the rescue disk created on Dec. 8. Now the new problem: Debian 1.2 boots up, asks for root password and a user name, etc. All goes okay until it drops me into 'dselect'. I select ftp as the installation method. Then following the prompt on screen, I choose 'ftp.debian.org' as the ftp site, etc. But it hangs at 'connecting to ftp.debian.org', nothing happens. I had to control-C to get out. I checked my ethernet connection with 'ifconfig' command, it seems to be working okay--it receives and transmits packets. I checked 'ftp.debian.org' with another computer, it connects to santanni.cc.gatech.edu. I tried this name too, same thing. It seems ftp in the dselect software is not working correctly, any ideas? Xinbing --- Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 11:26:28 -0500 (EST) From: Xinbing Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help with installing Debian 1.2 Hi, I'm trying to install Debian 1.2 stable version for the fiest time. I downlowaded the six floppies from www.debian.org. My computer's configuration: P 90 MHz, 32 MB, PCI bus, two SCSI disks, scsi controller is NCR53c810 (so the computer reports), first disk 1 GB with MS DOS installed, second disk 2.5 GB where I want to install Debian, one 1.44 MB floppy, no CD-ROM. I have been running Slackware linux for 2 years. Here are the problems: ---When booting from the Rescue disk, if I just hit return at the boot: prompt, it hangs at the $ld cm206.c v.99. ... Exp$ line. After some fiddling, I found that if I say linux cm206=0 at the boot: prompt, it reports unable to find the device (something to that effect) at the $ld cm206 line, and goes on. After that I was able to install the base system and the device drivers. ---At the end of install, I was asked to make a boot floppy, so I put in a new disk and made one. After that I was asked to reboot the computer with the boot floppy, so I did. With this boot floppy, I still had to enter linux cm206=0 at the boot: prompt, otherwise it would hang. But after that and some messages later, the computer reports unable to initialize console or something like that and hangs. And I don't know what to do! Please help. Many thanks. PS. I've seen two other people on this list with similar problems. If these two people got private answers, please forward them to me. Thanks. Xinbing Ok, so the interface is up. Do you also have the correct IP set? Do you have the correct routes set? Do you have /etc/resolv.conf set as well? (You can test these all at once by trying to ping ftp.debian.org). -- 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: [Linux-ISP] problems with st0 - HELP! :)
On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: Dec 27 09:17:00 irvine kernel: st0: Error with sense data: extra data not valid Current error st09:00: sns = 70 3 Dec 27 09:17:00 irvine kernel: ASC= 3 ASCQ= 2 Dec 27 09:17:00 irvine kernel: Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x03 0x02 0x00 0x2a Any clues out there? Bad cables or a dirty tape drive? -- Jon Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Unsolicited commercial e-mail will Network Administrator | be proof-read for $199/hr. Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key___ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HELP! - me recover from 1.2 aborted install
Hi - OK, I give up. I've spent over a day trying to get my root partition to mount. The stupid move - I tried to upgrade to 1.2 selecting multiple items in deselect. Yes, stupid, do it incrementally. The result - lilo loads the kernel, kernel does initial checks, checks partitions, the console displays VFS: mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly, then nothing. Init never starts. I can boot with my rescue floppy set, and mount hda3 (my root) on a mount directory (/mnt). Yes, I can e2fsck it, and it passes. A cmp of /sbin/init /mnt/sbin/init shows no differences. Used rdev to check those kernel parameters (after I tried command line params to lilo). Tried single boot. No cigar. Hid fstab and mtab, no help. Of course this is my main machine, the one with man and source. So, I'm stuck. I've another machine with some 1.1 on it, which could help. (I've never figured how to make boot floppies that mount root on a RAM disk, so I only have one root floppy to work with. ;-( Any and all suggestions and opinions will be welcomed! Best Regards for the New Year! JohnT !-- Life is non-orthogonal and big endian. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is Trident chipset supported ?
my video card spec : chipset-trident 9660, videoram - 2048k, ramdec-sierra sc1148 my monitor spec : vendor- samsung electronics, model - sycnmaster 15 gle For 2 weeks, I tried to setup X window. But I failed. Common error maeesge is SVGA : Too little memory for virtual resolution 1600 1200 But my vdio card has 2M bytes memory. I don't know what is the problem. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Set up PPP for two ISPs
Dear Debian users, I am using Debian 1.2. I set up my box to connect to an ISP using PPP, I invoke the connection by the script pon, it all work out fine. Now I want to join another ISP. How do I set up my box, to connect to two ISP, one at a time? Please help. Godfrey -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2 things
I'm fighting a few problems tonight with my boxes: 1. Network - I can only talk on my network from my machine named dst, IF I am connected to the Internet... which makes no sense, since this network is LOCAL... (dst is 192.168.1.1) and the machine I am trying to talk to is 192.168.1.2 (named spacewalker) On dst I am running diald. Since I am connected to the internet so much, I didn't notice this before. :) 2. Machine spacewalker doesn't like to boot! I made myself a custom kernel, and it doesn't want to boot. I get up to the point of mounting the root partition, and kernel panics. I'm booting my kernel off of /dev/hda1 which is /boot, and root is /dev/hda2 (swap is hda3) I have a Western Digital 2.5Gb HD. (Not in LBA mode) the default installation kernel works ok though.. -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.southeast.net/~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]
cfengine errors from cron output
Hello all. I'm getting those beloved errors from cfengine on a cron job. What's the fix to get rid of the errors? error message: cfengine:/etc/cfengine/cfengine.conf:23: parse error cfengine::23: Warning: actionsequence is empty cfengine::Execution terminated after parsing due to errors in program --Pete ___ Peter J. Templin, Jr. Client Services Analyst Computer Communication Services tel: (717) 524-1590 Bucknell University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A.out binaries in debian 1.2 ??? nah....
Mike, Thanks for the explanation. I have installed the new version with no problems. I think the setup is just fine. Happy new year, Jim On 30 Dec 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: It's not just a recompile for ELF. It has some extra utilities in it, and more documentation. Also every night from cron the UUCP queue and the logfiles are cleaned up and a summary is mailed to root. For mailing that summary, mailx is needed... If people have problems with this, I guess I could fix the scripts to generate headers on the mail messages and stuff them into sendmail instead. Mike. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
groups?
Im currently using shadow password, and was wondering if there was anyway i could convert my groups into one group, like users, instead of a group per user. thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
my problems with booting
I was able to solve my problem with booting, concerning my machine named spacewalker. It was because WatchDogTimer was enabled. It was configuring itself to use io=240,irq=14. I have no watchdog hardware board installed on this computer. Once I compiled with WDT support, everything works ok... and the new kernel is nice and fast, and just what my box needs. :) no extra fluff. I'm still puzzled about the network connection problem, (diald runs my connection) which is: local ethernet only accessible if I am connected to Internet via PPP. I was also wondering if I could one could run diald on a machine that is also a IP MASQ'ing firewall, so that diald would dial out if a machine on ethernet wants to get on the Internet... TIA -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.southeast.net/~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: Is Trident chipset supported ?
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, HongYun Kim wrote: my video card spec : chipset-trident 9660, videoram - 2048k, ramdec-sierra sc1148 my monitor spec : vendor- samsung electronics, model - sycnmaster 15 gle For 2 weeks, I tried to setup X window. But I failed. Common error maeesge is SVGA : Too little memory for virtual resolution 1600 1200 But my vdio card has 2M bytes memory. Add the line Videoram 2048 To your XF86Config file. At what point in the file to put the line is left as an exercise for the reader (since I don't know :-). Cya, Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Set up PPP for two ISPs
My kludgy, but servicable and robust approach to this is to keep two sets of files. Mine are named *.isp1 and *.isp2. I then have two connect pre-scripts that simple copy all the correct files and then call the ppp-on script or whatever you use to start up ppp. The files of interest are: /etc/resolv.conf /etc/ppp/options (and any files referenced here, like chatscripts) /etc/ip-up(if you use them) /etc/ip-down Basically any file that you have to alter for the second ISP. As an example here is my ppp.aracnet script that I use to connect to aracnet.com: #!/bin/bash cp /etc/resolv.conf.aracnet /etc/resolv.conf cp /etc/ppp/options.aracnet /etc/ppp/options /etc/ppp/ppp.up I use an options file with chatscript built right in (Not much chatting to do with a PAP login), and ppp.up is basically just a loop that keeps trying to dial every 20 seconds or so until it finds the link up. It is sort of a poorman's redialler. I am sure that there are many fancy ways to this sort of thing, but this method has working steadily for me for about 3 years now. I suppose you could play tricks with some of the other files in /etc also. I am not sure how some programs like their hostname changing underneath them, so I leave HOSTNAME alone. Good Luck. D.L. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]Virtual .sig file #2342371. You are \ \ David Lutz viewer number #63. Have a nice Day! / On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, gli wrote: Dear Debian users, I am using Debian 1.2. I set up my box to connect to an ISP using PPP, I invoke the connection by the script pon, it all work out fine. Now I want to join another ISP. How do I set up my box, to connect to two ISP, one at a time? Please help. Godfrey -- 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: List of installation problems for 1.2
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 17:51:31 -0500 From: Daniel S. Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] The following list was composed from reports of those who have already installed Debian GNU/Linux 1.2. If you are having any trouble with your installation, consult this list for possible solutions. ... Could someone maintain this as a web page somewhere? (Unless it's posted repeatedly or maintained somewhere, we won't be able to accumulate other problems as they surface.) Daniel S. Barclay O.K., here's a first cut (thanks mostly to Dale Scheetz's earlier post for the initial content): http://ece.wpi.edu/~rulnick/GlinuX/debian-1.2-faq.html Please send me updates/corrections (or better yet, take it over from me ;-) John -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: modules 2.1.13
At 05:04 PM 12/30/96 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
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At 04:53 PM 12/29/96 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
any sign of a modules 2.1.13 package?
It's in unstable
Not in the base directory on either {ftp,master}.debian.org
nor debian.crosslink.net ...
All I remember is that I upgraded to it by using dselect and I am following
unstable.
Shaya
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Re: Set up PPP for two ISPs
I have a dumb question... why is there a need for two ISP dialins? If they are in the same calling area, you don't need to log into both, just one, and you can grab all your email, etc, from both. A need for a second isp is understandable if you are traveling elsewhere, though. -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.southeast.net/~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: 99.9% load in /sbin/sylsogd - upgrade errors
Look in /etc/syslogd.conf, and make sure all of the log files are there. It's generally a missing news log file. It was the syslogd.conf. I deinstalled inn, these lines weren't taken out. Thanks. Mark -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 99.9% load in /sbin/sylsogd - upgrade errors
On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: Look in /etc/syslogd.conf, and make sure all of the log files are there. It's generally a missing news log file. When innd was deinstalled, it must have left some news lines in /etc/syslog.conf. Took them out and it worked. Sorry if you got two of these. Sometimes I hit control-X control-C in pine, locking it up when I try to send mail. Mark -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Linux-ISP] Re: problems with st0 - HELP! :)
On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: Dec 27 09:17:00 irvine kernel: st0: Error with sense data: extra data not valid Current error st09:00: sns = 70 3 Dec 27 09:17:00 irvine kernel: ASC= 3 ASCQ= 2 Dec 27 09:17:00 irvine kernel: Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x03 0x02 0x00 0x2a When was the last time you cleaned the drive? DAT's need frequent cleaning. -- Jon Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Unsolicited commercial e-mail will Network Administrator | be proof-read for $199/hr. Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key___ ~~ To [un]subscribe to this list, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please send contributions for the mailing list to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please contact the mailing-list-owner as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: qmail, was RE: mta suggestions?
I'll try to get a 1200K rescue disk built - I'm still working on the install set for 1.2.1 . 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: Set up PPP for two ISPs
Well, to make a long story short. I am going to switch ISP. There may have other reasons why some folks need two or more different ISP, may be one of them is for work etc. On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote: I have a dumb question... why is there a need for two ISP dialins? If they are in the same calling area, you don't need to log into both, just one, and you can grab all your email, etc, from both. A need for a second isp is understandable if you are traveling elsewhere, though. -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.southeast.net/~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] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SVGATextMode and S3 card problem
Hi, Video Card: Diamond Stealth Video Vram (3200) When Switching from Xfree to SVGATextMode, the monitor (S3 Card) become out of sync. I have to run the command SVGATextMode to resync the monitor. Is there a way to fix that -Oz -- NAME Oz Dror, Santa Monica, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 396-5798 -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.2 mQBtAzA/tLQAAAEDAKUy/TEjQ/jiZ+9/WJb/+NHxqkvOxGZ3W/F2JCNm5v5ZTZz+ BVZC9GM/I+plQ8xz+7B+KhDSVax8gxNTAkJ+I7P/zAP2ZDMwVf4lq5ZFxMJC+7c7 ET+hNtmQUt8vCVR8hQAFEbQZT3ogRHJvciA8ZHJvckBuZXRjb20uY29tPg== =EU23 -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]
Wanted
I am looking for Marsala [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The Debian user sent me a message after I post a question here. I replied your mail but it was bounced. If you see this, please sent me your scripts example, and your correct address, please. Godfrey -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SVGATextMode and S3 card problem
On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Oz Dror wrote: Hi there, Video Card: Diamond Stealth Video Vram (3200) When Switching from Xfree to SVGATextMode, the monitor (S3 Card) become out of sync. I have to run the command SVGATextMode to resync the monitor. Is there a way to fix that You already applied the workaround. The fix would be the XF86_S3 Server. You may contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] He is maintainig the S3 servers. Yours, -- martin // Martin Konold, Muenzgasse 7, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany // // Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Linux - because reboots are for hardware upgrades -- Edwin Huffstutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Just go ahead and write your own multitasking multiuser os ! Worked for me all the times. -- Linus Torvalds -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
texbin can't configure
I'm installing Debian 1.2 from the December InfoMagic LINUX Developers Resource. I thought I had it made, until now. I've installed xlib6 and texbin. However, even though I can find /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6, mf can't so 'dpkg --configure texbin' fails. What did I miss? Thanks, Frank -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Set up PPP for two ISPs
My approach to two ISP's is a little different than the one David described. One of my ISP's is my employer (so I don't want my kids connecting there by mistake), the other is Together Networks (a Burlington, Vermont based ISP). I have duplicate sets of files for each ISP: /etc/sendmail.cf /etc/named.boot /etc/resolv.conf PPP options files In my ppp-on script, I verify the person is really me to connect to my employer (at least well enough that my kids can't get around it yet). Depending on whether ppp-on is connecting to IBM or to Together Networks, it will call pppd with different options (specifically the -file parameter to specify which options file to read). It is the job of my ip-up script to determine which network was connected to and put the correct /etc/resolv.conf, named.boot, and sendmail.cf files into place (with a stop/start for named and sendmail). On the flip side, when ip-down gets called, it puts back my local files so the name server won't hang me up forever when I send mail without being connected anywhere. I've also got a sendmail.cf file for when I'm not connected that just queues the mail (and since I don't run the queue if I'm not connected to one ISP or the other, it'll sit there until I do next connect). Here's my ip-up script (Warning: it's from a slackware distribution) #!/bin/sh # # ip-up: shell script hook called by pppd when the interface is brought up # # Parameters are: # $0: name of the script (ip-up or ip-down) # $1: name of the network device (such as ppp0) # $2: name of the tty device (such as /dev/ttyS0) # $3: speed of the tty device in Bits Per Second (such as 115200) # $4: the local IP address in dotted decimal notation # $5: the remote IP address in dotted decimal notation # # /tmp/local_name is a file with my local machine name # /etc/hosts.local is the default /etc/hosts file with # 127.0.0.1 localhost as the only entry # # This script handles: #1) getting the correct /etc/resolv.conf (either ibm or together.net) #2) making it possible to ping my own address #3) updating my /etc/hosts file to have the address and name # #echo ip-up parameters are: $* /dev/console LOGGER=/usr/bin/logger -t pppd $LOGGER ip-up parameters are: $* # 0) determine connect speed CSpeed=`/usr/bin/grep ARQ /etc/ppp/ppp.log | /usr/bin/tail -1 | \ /usr/bin/sed -e 's/.*: *//' -e 's|/.*||'` #echo Connected at $CSpeed /dev/console # 1) make it possible to ping my own address /sbin/route add -host $4 lo # # 2) Determine whether this is my internal network or not # # Determine the network connected to NETWORK=`/usr/local/bin/netmath -a $4 255.0.0.0` if [ x$NETWORK != x192.0.0.0 ]; then # 3) Set up /etc/resolv.conf and named.boot files based on #the network connected to. # if [ x$NETWORK = x9.0.0.0 ]; then /bin/cp -p /etc/resolv.ibm /etc/resolv.conf /bin/cp -p /etc/named.ibm /etc/named.boot else if [ x$NETWORK = x204.0.0.0 ]; then /bin/cp -p /etc/resolv.together.net /etc/resolv.conf /bin/cp -p /etc/named.together.net /etc/named.boot else if [ x$NETWORK = x207.0.0.0 ]; then /bin/cp -p /etc/resolv.together.net /etc/resolv.conf /bin/cp -p /etc/named.together.net /etc/named.boot else if [ x$NETWORK = x208.0.0.0 ]; then /bin/cp -p /etc/resolv.together.net /etc/resolv.conf /bin/cp -p /etc/named.together.net /etc/named.boot else echo Bad NETWORK value '$NETWORK' /dev/console fi fi fi fi # 4) Reload nameserver # -- Debian version #/etc/init.d/bind reload # -- Slackware version if [ -f /var/run/named.pid ]; then # echo Reloading nameserver /dev/console kill `cat /var/run/named.pid` /usr/sbin/named # echo Done... nameserver /dev/console fi # 5) update /etc/hosts file # # Put generic hosts file in place # Determine the name of my address /usr/bin/host $4 | fgrep Name | cut -c7- /tmp/ip_name # Put my address in a file echo $4 /tmp/ip # Build a new line for /etc/hosts /usr/bin/paste /tmp/ip /tmp/ip_name /etc/hostname /tmp/host_bottom # Build the new /etc/hosts file /bin/cat /tmp/host_bottom /etc/hosts.local /etc/hosts # Update hostname #hostname `cat /tmp/ip_name` # Update /etc/sendmail.cw file cat /tmp/ip_name /etc/sendmail.cw # clean up /bin/rm -f /tmp/ip /tmp/ip_name /tmp/host_bottom # 6) Recycle the sendmail daemon: # -- Debian version #/etc/init.d/sendmail stop #/etc/init.d/sendmail start # -- Slackware version /bin/ps ax | /usr/bin/grep sendmail | /usr/bin/grep -v grep /tmp/xx while read PID x; do if [ x$PID != x ]; then kill $PID fi done /tmp/xx /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q10m # Now get rid of /tmp/xx /bin/rm -f /tmp/xx fi # end of if [ x$NETWORK != x192.0.0.0 ] # Tell everyone it's up #echo PPP link on interface $1
Re: texbin can't configure
I'm installing Debian 1.2 from the December InfoMagic LINUX Developers Resource. I thought I had it made, until now. I've installed xlib6 and texbin. However, even though I can find /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6, mf can't so 'dpkg --configure texbin' fails. What did I miss? Thanks, Frank I had the same problem. Edit the /etc/ld.so.conf and add /usr/X11R6/lib. Then run the ldconfig. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2nd debian 1.2 upgrade problem: console hung
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], James D. Freels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In upgrading machine #2 (see earlier post on problems with machine #1) from debian 1.1 to 1.2, and rebooting. I got an error on reboot something about unable to initialize console and the machine hung. I thought it may have been a problem with my upgrade. Later I decided to wipe out the drive, repartition, and install a fresh minimum Debian 1.2 system. Now I can reboot the system fine from the hard drive (via loadlin on the DOS side), but when I reboot from a rescue disk (bootbable kernel disk), the system hangs as before failing to find the console. I don't have a clue how to fix this problem. You are probably booting the kernel with the wrong root file system. Normally the kernel would complain (cannot mount root file system) but probably there is another Linux file system (say /usr) on the partition the kernel tries to use as the root file system. So it will boot the kernel and then before starting /sbin/init the kernel will try to open /dev/tty0 as the console.. which fails. And then the kernel will print the message Unable to open an initial console. Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg| Sticky tape is like the Force - it has a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | dark side, it has a light side, and it | | 8--8 | holds the universe together - Carl Zwanig | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
my machine won't let me login!
Continuing with my saga of little problems, my machine spacewalker isn 't letting anyone log in. not through telnet, or console mingetty. its like its allowing it to log in. but then logs you back out. i was on it last night, and all was well. now this morning.. uh. nope! BTW, if I do a three finger salute, it won't reboot, just kicks the hard drive once. -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.southeast.net/~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:Re: Debian 1.2 International
Hi all, and thanks to all, which have answered to my question. Following your hints, I have set my debian box to speak French(only to verify the correct working of nls) and it work. Now I know that the nls support in debian 1.2 is working. Thanks again! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: my machine won't let me login!
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote: Continuing with my saga of little problems, my machine spacewalker isn 't letting anyone log in. not through telnet, or console mingetty. its like its allowing it to log in. but then logs you back out. i was on it last night, and all was well. now this morning.. uh. nope! Did you try it via ftp? Maybe it is a .profile problem? BTW, if I do a three finger salute, it won't reboot, just kicks the hard drive once. hmm, what happens when you boot from a rescue disk set? Yours, -- martin // Martin Konold, Muenzgasse 7, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany // // Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Linux - because reboots are for hardware upgrades -- Edwin Huffstutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Just go ahead and write your own multitasking multiuser os ! Worked for me all the times. -- Linus Torvalds -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1.1 memory management issue ??
Martin Konold writes: [snip] Thank heavens! 1.1 had terrible memory management. 1.2 (REX) is _much_ better. The memory management issue mentioned here with 1.1 may explain some slowness with my (1.1) machines. I do not get the point! Memory management is the job of the kernel. How does it depend on the distribution? Well, if you upgrade your system as a distribution, rather than piece-meal, on-the-fly, method (via dftp), it sure does make sense that a distribution influences memory management issues. I choose to wait until a stable distribution has been declared and upgrade my entire system in one sitting. That way, I _know_ that all the necessary packages have been upgraded. Unlike another gentleman on this list who upgraded the kernel, but did not upgrade the libc5 module and could not understand why his machine was slow. 8-) -- -= Sent by Debian 1.2 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1.1 memory management issue ??
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank heavens! 1.1 had terrible memory management. 1.2 (REX) is _much_ better. The memory management issue mentioned here with 1.1 may explain some slowness with my (1.1) machines. I do not get the point! Memory management is the job of the kernel. How does it depend on the distribution? Well, if you upgrade your system as a distribution, rather than piece-meal, on-the-fly, method (via dftp), it sure does make sense that a distribution influences memory management issues. I choose to wait until a stable distribution has been declared and upgrade my entire system in one sitting. That way, I _know_ that all the necessary packages have been upgraded. Unlike another gentleman on this list who upgraded the kernel, but did not upgrade the libc5 module and could not understand why his machine was slow. 8-) Sorry I still do not get the point. Debian 1.1 never seemed to be slow to me compared to any other distribution. Of course any broken setup you might get by unstable/partial updates might slow down your machine to any degree. But this still means that contradictionary to the above statement 1.1 was not slow. Yours -- martin // Martin Konold, Muenzgasse 7, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany // // Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Linux - because reboots are for hardware upgrades -- Edwin Huffstutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Just go ahead and write your own multitasking multiuser os ! Worked for me all the times. -- Linus Torvalds -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pgp packages, where are they?
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rm -r/-R/--recursive doesn't seem to work
I just built a distribution tree from a CD on my hard disk. I tried to remove all the TRANS.TBL files from the tree by using: rm -r TRANS.TBL If I do this in a directory that has a TRANS.TBL it, and only it, gets removed. If I do this in an upper directory without a TRANS.TBL file, I get the error no such file or directory Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug in rm? TIA, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 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: rm -r/-R/--recursive doesn't seem to work
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: Hi Zwerg, I just built a distribution tree from a CD on my hard disk. I tried to remove all the TRANS.TBL files from the tree by using: rm -r TRANS.TBL Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug in rm? TIA, Dwarf You missunderstodd the purpose of 'rm -r' This command lets you recursively remove a directory structure like 'rm -rf /home'. Please have a look at 'man find' 'man rm' After checking these man pages you might be enlighted. If you really cannot figure it out yourself then pleas contact me directly. I will then mail you the command line. Yours, -- martin // Martin Konold, Muenzgasse 7, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany // // Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Linux - because reboots are for hardware upgrades -- Edwin Huffstutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Just go ahead and write your own multitasking multiuser os ! Worked for me all the times. -- Linus Torvalds -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rm -r/-R/--recursive doesn't seem to work
I just built a distribution tree from a CD on my hard disk. I tried to
remove all the TRANS.TBL files from the tree by using:
rm -r TRANS.TBL
If I do this in a directory that has a TRANS.TBL it, and only it, gets
removed. If I do this in an upper directory without a TRANS.TBL file, I
get the error no such file or directory
Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug in rm?
Dwarf:
try this:
find . -name TRANS.TBL -exec rm \{\} \;
(you need the backslashes to escape {} ; because these have special meaning
in the bash shell - see find(1) for more details on the -exec parameter
of the find command)
Them rm -R command does do what you want. I have used it to delete an entire
subdirectory structure as in: rm -Rf subdir. Here, everything under subdir
gets deleted, including the directory subdir itself.
Good luck.
E.-
P.S. I love the find command :-)
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Re: rm -r/-R/--recursive doesn't seem to work
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
I just built a distribution tree from a CD on my hard disk. I tried to
remove all the TRANS.TBL files from the tree by using:
rm -r TRANS.TBL
If I do this in a directory that has a TRANS.TBL it, and only it, gets
removed. If I do this in an upper directory without a TRANS.TBL file, I
get the error no such file or directory
Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug in rm?
TIA,
Dwarf
Dale,
I didn't think that was how the recursive remove was supposed to work. My
understanding is that it is supposed to get everything (files,
directories) under and including the specified file. That way,
rm -R bad.dir
would delete not only bad.dir, but if it is a directory, it would also get
all of the contents of bad.dir. From your description, I think you want
to do something like this:
find . -name TRANS.TBL -exec rm {} \;
Hope this helps.
- Don
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Re: rm -r/-R/--recursive doesn't seem to work
Them rm -R command does do what you want. I have used it to delete an entire ^^ subdirectory structure as in: rm -Rf subdir. Here, everything under subdir gets deleted, including the directory subdir itself. OOPPP!!! I really meant: the rm -Rf command DOES NOT do what you want Sorry for the mistake. 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]
Re: 2nd debian 1.2 upgrade problem: console hung
On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, James D. Freels wrote: In upgrading machine #2 (see earlier post on problems with machine #1) from debian 1.1 to 1.2, and rebooting. I got an error on reboot something about unable to initialize console and the machine hung. I thought it may have been a problem with my upgrade. Later I decided to wipe out the drive, repartition, and install a fresh minimum Debian 1.2 system. Now I can reboot the system fine from the hard drive (via loadlin on the DOS side), but when I reboot from a rescue disk (bootbable kernel disk), the system hangs as before failing to find the console. I don't have a clue how to fix this problem. Check the kernel on the rescue disk, using rdev, and make sure that the root device is correct. I have had this kind of error message from kernels trying to mount the wrong partition as root. Hope this helps, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 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: Sbpcd and MAKEDEV
On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, James W. Benson wrote:
I have the basic disks installed.1.2 and the new-resq144. I added the
module for sbpcd. When I boot from Lilo I can't find the CDROM anywhere.
There is no sbpcd in /dev and when I try to run MAKEDEV it won't run from
root and from a login in it complains that there is an unexpected { in
column 2 line34 of the Makedev.cfg?? Should I dwnld the resq144 and use
it? And why
doesn't the boot up sequence find my serial ports cua1 etc.? The sbpcd
module is apparently installing from the boot messages I get showing the
probe and then the devicedo I have to compile a kernel to remove the
probing for other
cd devices?
If memory serves, there is an omit clause at the end of makedev.conf that
needs to be removed.
Hope this helps,
Dwarf
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Re: List of installation problems for 1.2
On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Daniel S. Barclay wrote: From: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] The following list was composed from reports of those who have already installed Debian GNU/Linux 1.2. If you are having any trouble with your installation, consult this list for possible solutions. ... Could someone maintain this as a web page somewhere? (Unless it's posted repeatedly or maintained somewhere, we won't be able to accumulate other problems as they surface.) I forget who maintains the web site, but I would happily forward a copy of the list to him. I have been maintaining the list, and will continue to add problem reports as they surface. So far (I'm still recovering from the holiday) I have seen no reports that indicate any new problems. Should I just post the list to debian-user about once a week? Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 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: My upgrade 1.1-1.2
On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Daniel S. Barclay wrote: If you return to dselect to install other things, will it leave these packages alone, or will it try to upgrade/downgrade these? You can insure that dselect leaves them alone, by marking them with an H. This will hold off any action on those packages. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 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]
Problem linking with libtermcap!
Hello Mailing List!, I seem to be having a problem linking with the Termcap library when specifying -ltermcap on the gcc command line. Explicitly specifying libtermcap works fine (i.e. gcc -o program program.o module1.o /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8). But doing a -ltermcap results in ld saying that it can't open it! I have a copy of libtermcap.so.2.0.8 in my /lib directory. I also have a libtermcap.so.2 symlinked to it in that directory; presumably placed there by ldconfig, because I didn't put it there. Doing a ldconfig -v verifies this, because libtermcap.so.2 = libtermcap.so.2.0.8 gets listed. Anybody have any ideas? The current workaround right now is simply explicityly specifying libtermcap.so.2.0.8 on the gcc command line. But this is a pain in the butt when compiling other people's programs which uses termcap. I'm using Debian GNU/Linux v1.1, libc v5.4.13, gcc v2.7.2, and I'm not really sure which version of ld.so I'm using (I guess the one that's in Debian 1.1), but the version of ld I'm using (as reported by ld -v) is v2.6). Thanks in advance for any help with this! == Arcadio Alivio Sincero, Jr. Undergraduate Computer Science Major/Linux Enthusiast/Competitive Bodybuilder email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW:Not available yet -- still looking for free webspace! Bare feet magnetize sharp metal objects so they point upward from the floor, especially in the dark. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pgp packages, where are they?
I've looked all over and can't seem to find the pgp packages. Where might I find them? See at ftp://ftp.lh.umu.se/pub/linux/debian-non-US 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]
Ramdisk
Is there any reason I should set the ramdisk size to 0 ? -- - Willie Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.quicklink.net/~gith/ - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: texbin can't configure
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Frank Swasey wrote: I'm installing Debian 1.2 from the December InfoMagic LINUX Developers Resource. I thought I had it made, until now. I've installed xlib6 and texbin. However, even though I can find /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6, mf can't so 'dpkg --configure texbin' fails. What did I miss? 1. Already reported as a bug: Can't find xlib6 so file. Add /usr/X11R6/lib to ld.so.conf and run ldconfig. Sounds like I need to publish the problems list again ;-) This should get you back on track. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 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: pgp packages, where are they?
* == Alexander Gieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've looked all over and can't seem to find the pgp packages. Where might I find them? * See at ftp://ftp.lh.umu.se/pub/linux/debian-non-US I found them at ftp.pgp.net. There's no .deb package there, but there is an RPM, which I unpacked with 'alien'. I had to install it manually, though. Nathan L. Cutler Linux Enthusiast http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~nlc -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
status of hylafax?
Hi, I remember someone was working on a hylafax pkg for debian... What's the status? AFAIK no distributions for linux have a hylafax pkg... (does redhat?) but freebsd does have one... Ricardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pgp packages, where are they?
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Re: rm -r/-R/--recursive doesn't seem to work
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Don Prezioso wrote:
all of the contents of bad.dir. From your description, I think you want
to do something like this:
find . -name TRANS.TBL -exec rm {} \;
Thanks to all who replied to my stupidity. This list is the greatest!
I use rm -r all the time, for it's proper use, and should have known
better than to expect it to work the way I did. The find line, of course,
is the proper way to do this. I probably just need to be drinking
something with more caffeine in it ;-)
Thanks again to all,
Dwarf
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Re: rm -r/-R/--recursive doesn't seem to work
Don Prezioso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
find . -name TRANS.TBL -exec rm {} \;
find . -name TRANS.TBL -print0 | xargs -0 rm
is better as it starts many fewer processes.
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hda3 won't mount as root - ok on /mnt - ??? HELP!
Ouch! Still same problem. Tried to upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2 (selecting multiple items in deselect). The install bombed, kernel panic, (probably disk space?). I had to use the reset switch. Now no boot. The partition containing only /var (with deb files of course) was corrupted. All other partitions checked out ok. When trying to boot, lilo loads the kernel ok. Kernel does initial checks. The console displays VFS: mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly, then nothing. Keystrokes are echoed to screen, but init never starts. CtlAltDel works to reboot to the same thing. Booting from floppy I can mount hda3 (my root) on /mnt. Yes, I e2fsck'ed it, and it passes. Re-ran lilo (ROOT=/mnt /mnt/sbin/lilo), went ok, but still no hda3 mount as root. So, I'm stuck. I've another machine with some of 1.1 on it, which could help if I knew what to try. I'd just like to recover my 1.1 system (2.0.6) so I can restart upgrading to 1.2. Lots of files in /usr /home I'd like to keep, so re-install is an absolute last try. Any and all suggestions and opinions will be welcomed! Best Regards for the New Year! JohnT !-- Life is non-orthogonal and big endian. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems list for 1.2 upgrade/install
This is the current list of known problems with the 1.2 installation. 1. Already reported as a bug: Can't find xlib6 so file. Add /usr/X11R6/lib to ld.so.conf and run ldconfig. 2. Dselect fails to satisfy pre-depends for perl (libdl1) Installing ldso by hand solves the problem. 3. Bug#5659: dpkg-gencontrol fails in chown new files listfile. Possible patch. Only a problem for package builders. 4. New sendmail fails to use old .cf file One report indicates re-installation fixes the problem. 5. Cron dies. (actually never starts) Run update-rc.d cron defaults 6. Gcc depends on cpp, but cpp conflicts with gcc. Retag gcc and re-run deselect. 7. Modconf messes up screen display on some lines. Possible dialog problem? 8. /bin/perl disapears and reappears during installation. Replace link by hand: ln -s /usr/bin/perl /bin/perl Or, install perl by hand: dpkg -i perl_xxx.deb. 9. Bug#5479 dpkg fails to preserve set id bits when copying files. No fix reported (possible patch) 10. gpm preinstall can't remove old gpm Remove by hand using dpkg --purge. 11. xbase can't remove xdm and xfs Remove by hand using dpkg --purge. 12. libg++ and libg++-dev conflict. Re-running the installation fixes it. 13. dependent packages bomb because libc5 is not installed first Upgrade base first. 14. no /dev/sr0 from MAKEDEV New version fixes this. 15. Gimp fails because there is no .gimprc file Create an empty .gimprc 16. Base-files should Provide: base Was: Smartlist and possibly other programs as well, depend on base. Fixed in the next version. 17. Adduser depends on perl-suid, not in base. Install by hand using --force-depends 18. Mc fails to declare it's dependence on libgpm. Should declare dpendence on libgpm. Install the gpm package. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 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]
base diskette problems
Okay... I have made 3 different sets of diskettes with 3 different machines and 3 different copies of the .bin files, but I can't get past the base 1 diskette encountering an end of file at about 1.2MB. This is *really* starting to annoy me :( Anybody care to share a sure-fire way to get the base diskettes to work? I'd appreciate it :) TIA! Regards Happy New Year! Kendrick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem linking with libtermcap!
Put a link in libtermcap.so to the version you want (Note the ending is `so'. I guessing the binutils new default behaviour accounts for this. -Walter On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Carnage wrote: Hello Mailing List!, I seem to be having a problem linking with the Termcap library when specifying -ltermcap on the gcc command line. Explicitly specifying libtermcap works fine (i.e. gcc -o program program.o module1.o /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8). But doing a -ltermcap results in ld saying that it can't open it! I have a copy of libtermcap.so.2.0.8 in my /lib directory. I also have a libtermcap.so.2 symlinked to it in that directory; presumably placed there by ldconfig, because I didn't put it there. Doing a ldconfig -v verifies this, because libtermcap.so.2 = libtermcap.so.2.0.8 gets listed. Anybody have any ideas? The current workaround right now is simply explicityly specifying libtermcap.so.2.0.8 on the gcc command line. But this is a pain in the butt when compiling other people's programs which uses termcap. I'm using Debian GNU/Linux v1.1, libc v5.4.13, gcc v2.7.2, and I'm not really sure which version of ld.so I'm using (I guess the one that's in Debian 1.1), but the version of ld I'm using (as reported by ld -v) is v2.6). Thanks in advance for any help with this! == Arcadio Alivio Sincero, Jr. Undergraduate Computer Science Major/Linux Enthusiast/Competitive Bodybuilder email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW:Not available yet -- still looking for free webspace! Bare feet magnetize sharp metal objects so they point upward from the floor, especially in the dark. -- 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: Set up PPP for two ISPs
gli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am using Debian 1.2. I set up my box to connect to an ISP using PPP, I invoke the connection by the script pon, it all work out fine. Now I want to join another ISP. How do I set up my box, to connect to two ISP, one at a time? Please help. What I did was use this script as /usr/local/bin/pon #!/bin/sh if [ $# = 0 ] ; then CHAT=/etc/ppp.chatscript elif [ $# = 1 ] ; then CHAT=/etc/ppp.chat.$1 else echo usage: pon [destination] exit 1 fi if [ ! -r $CHAT ] ; then echo pon: can not read $CHAT exit 1 fi if [ -r /etc/ppp.options_out ]; then /usr/sbin/pppd connect /usr/sbin/chat -v -f $CHAT `cat /etc/ppp.options_out` else echo You do not have permissions to access /etc/ppp.options_out fi exit 0 where /usr/local/bin/ comes before /usr/bin/ in my path. I then made an /etc/ppp.chatscript file for every ISP I wish to connect to: compute root: ls -lta /etc/ppp.chat* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Dec 31 10:20 /etc/ppp.chatscript - ppp.chat.softsound -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 169 Dec 26 22:11 /etc/ppp.chat.softsound -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167 Dec 4 07:44 /etc/ppp.chat.demon -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 169 Nov 27 18:19 /etc/ppp.chat.magpie [ N.B. I abbreviated chatscript to chat for readability ]. /etc/ppp.chatscript is a symbolic link to the default, and if you supply an argument to pon it uses that script instead. This works because non of the files in /etc/ppp/ are ISP specific. It works fine for me. I'm told (by the maintainers) that the next version of ppp will have it's own solution. Tony Robinson -- http://www.SoftSound.demon.co.uk/ email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax +44-1223-562588 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Switching to Debian from old Slackware 2.1; orientation?
I've started upgrading to Debian 1.2 from Slackware Pro 2.1 (yes, very old). Given the difference in distributions and other changes in Linux, I feel quite blind. I don't where everything is and how things work now. Also, I'm not clear on how to configure and customize things without screwing up dpkg. Can someone point me to (or provide) any of the following information? - The recommended way to customize startup scripts. (For example, on my old system, I put commands to swap the control and caps-locks keys, to add extra swap space, etc., in rc.local. Where do things like that go now?) - How I can and should set the video mode to something other than 24 X 80 when the kernel boots. (This is probably just a general Linux question on which I'm quite behind. I used to used vidmode (rdev) on the kernel image on a kernel boot floppy. That doesn't work any more (at least on the normal Debian 1.2 installation's custom kernel boot floppy (which isn't just a kernel anyway)).) - What I can customize and configure without messing up dpkg. Also, how to tell dpkg I'm customizing something. (I saw a --divert option somewhere. When do I need to use it? For example, for dealing with two ISPs, I have two sets of some configuration files, and swap around the links to them. Would I need to tell dpkg not to disturb my link files, or to not get confused by changes or timestamp changes?) - How to install or remove modules. (That is, how to add or remove modules to whatever boot-time script loads them, not necessarily the actual loading or unloading of modules.) (The Debian installation sets this up initially, but doesn't point to how to change it. I would guess that's now a standard Linux system management operation--but I don't know it.) Generally, does anyone know of good source of information on what's changed in Linux recently (well, since around kernel 1.2.13 and Slackware 2.1 and before ELF)? (I mean besides re-reading all the documentation just to look for changed things.) I'm probably doing a lot of things some very old ways. Oh, one more question: If problems are noted in this mailing list, is someone submitting bug reports to Debian, or should we report all these recent 1.2 bugs to Debian? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel S. Barclay Compass Design Automation, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 100, 5457 Twin Knolls Rd. Columbia, MD 21045 USA -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
system clock messed up
Hi there. I have a linux box running Debian pre-1.3 distibution, kernel version 2.0.27, and installed xntpd. The latter doesn't seem to prevent the system time from veering off wildly. As a band-aid solution I have netdate running every 12 hours. Each time it runs it has to correct by 300 to 500 seconds. Thinking that maybe xntpd was working against it, I turned it off, but then netdate had to make even larger corrections. My machine is using a Tyan S1668 motherboard. Below is the ntp.conf file, partially borrowed from a solaris machine that has proper system time: --- # NTP configuration file (ntp.conf) # servers # connection name version prefer #server clock-a version 3 # avallone, 36.56.0.152 #server clock-b version 3 # mashhad, 171.64.64.64 server clock-c version 3 prefer # argus, time, 36.56.0.151 #server clock-d version 3 # ee, 36.20.0.185 server clock-e version 3 # leland, 36.21.0.69 server clock-f version 3 # jessica, 36.21.0.20 # Miscellaneous stuff logfile /var/log/xntpd #precision -18 # clock reading precision (usec) driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift# path for drift file statsdir /var/log/ntpstats/ # directory for statistics files statistics loopstats peerstats clockstats filegen loopstats file loopstats type day enable filegen peerstats file peerstats type day enable filegen clockstats file clockstats type day enable # Authentication stuff #keys /usr/local/bin/ntp.keys # path for keys file #trustedkey 1 2 3 4 14 15 # define trusted keys #requestkey 15 # key (7) for accessing server variables #controlkey 15 # key (6) for accessing server variables #authdelay 0.72 # authentication delay (SPARC4c/65 SS1+ DES) #authdelay 0.000159 # authentication delay (SPARC4c/65 SS1+ MD5) - Mail any answers directly to me, and I will mail a summary to the list. Any help would be appreciated. -- -Mike Horansky, Leland Consultant (http://consult.stanford.edu/) [EMAIL PROTECTED] OPINIONS EXPRESSED BY ME ARE NOT NECESSARILY SHARED BY MY EMPLOYERS. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
