Re: Debian 1.2.2 and dependency on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)

[Joey Hess]

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > dungeon depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)
> > abuse depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)
> > filerunner depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)
> > xfig depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)
> > cthugha depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)
> > 
> The maintainers of these packages moved to the later libraries too soon.
> These packages should be rebuilt against the 1.2 libc5.

I'm the maintainer of dungeon, abuse, and cthugha. All of those packages
are in non-free. Some of them were only released after debian 1.0 was
released. 

This is really just the problem with non-free that's being discussed in
debian-devel right now: is non-free stable of unstable? I can rebuild
these packages with 1.2 libc5, but it's not clear to me that I should.

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Help with Laserjets

[Brian Schramm]

Hi,

I would like to connect my Linux machine to a HP Jetdirect card.  I know
it means setting up bootp and setting up the printercap files special. 
I just cannot find any info on how to do that.

Any ideas?

Thanks for any help.

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Re: Diald Problems....

[Philippe Troin]

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997 09:46:18 PST "Kevin Traas" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:

> Although things work, I do have some strange messages appearing in
> /var/log/messages.  Although things seem to be working okay, I think
> they're probably something that should be looked into.  Can you "shed any
> light" on this?

[log snipped]

> So, I'm quite happy in that things are working; however, I feel I should be
> concerned about the "PPP network layer died, but link did not. Probable
> configuration error." messages and how the sequence repeats 3 or 4
> times

I've got this message from time to time too. But it works anyways...
Really I don't know where it comes from... But it should cause any problem.
Now, you might want to remove the debug command from the diald.options, 
otherwise your logfiles will grow very quickly...

Phil.



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Re: how to find out who has fingered me?

[mike horansky]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete Templin) wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
> 
> > Rather than checking any log file, is it possible to find out who has
> > fingered a user.  I heard that I can create a .plan file to do it, but
> > I don't know how to do it.  Anyone knows how?
> 
> Install cfinger (a debian package), a configurable finger server.  It will
> create a .fingerlog in each user's home directory (if they are fingered),
> along with whatever central logging is normally performed by the program.

I'm not sure if this is a bug, or if I'm not versed in inetd stuff,
but after doing the debian install of cfinger, no one on my machine
could be fingered. I was able to fix this by changing the line in
inetd.conf from

finger   stream  tcp  nowait  root  /usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/sbin/cfingerd

to

finger  stream  tcp nowait  root/usr/sbin/cfingerd  cfingerd

It looks like I'm giving logging and access-control over to cfinger and
leaving tcpd out of it. Security-wise, is this proper?

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Re: Multi session cdrom

[Philippe Strauss]

* ESGER * wrote:
> 
> I've got the following problem: I wrote the debian installation files 
> (stable etc.) to a CDR. I wrote them to a second session (my cdr is a HP 
> 4020i, I wrote the cd under W95). The second session (and the first) is 
> readable under dos/W95 but not under linux. 
> 
> My cdrom on the linux machine works nicely besides that. I'ts a 12speed 
> plextor SCSI and I'm using the sg generic cdrom driver. (Had to do a 
> MAKEDEV to get the scd0 device in /dev though)
> 
> any ideas why the second session is not accessible?
> 
> ciao,

I may be wrong, but I think 2.0 *doesn't* support multisession CD's
on SCSI CDROM drive. SCSI-II spec don't include any support for multi-session
CD's. You have to take a 2.1 kernel (I recommend 2.1.17, not too much unstable 
:),

cd /usr/src/linux, make menuconfig, enable vendor specific cdrom support,
make-kpkg -revision custom.1 kernel-image, dpkg -i ../kernel-image...

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Re: Cyrix 5x86 100 with Linux?

[Carlo U. Segre]

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Jim Blaney wrote:

> Anyone having any success getting Linux to run with Cyrix 5x86 100 
> Mhz processors? I am having trouble, and I've seen a few messages 
> that imply there are problems, so I want to know whether I'm trying 
> to do the impossible .

I have used the 6x86 with no problem as well as the AMD chips.

Cheers,

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Re: More diald problems.

[Kevin Traas]

From: Orn E. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Kevin Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: More diald problems. 
Date: Monday, January 13, 1997 5:11 AM

>  I saw your message on the debian mailing list, where you described your
problem with getting up diald.

>  You should remove the line in your 'ppp-up' script where you start the
execution of 'pppd'... that should do the trick.

>  You see, diald will start the 'pppd' itself after the connection has
been
made... and set the netmask, the fake local and remote ip addresses and all
the rest... all the connect script has to do, is open the line to the
remote computer.

>  Hope this helps...

Thanks for the info!  This is exactly the information that Philippe
provided me.  He saw the same problems with my configuration.  I went with
his suggestions and things are working much better now.

Thanks for your help,

Kevin Traas
Systems Analyst
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Re: Diald Problems....

[Kevin Traas]

IT WORKS!!!IT WORKS!!!IT WORKS!!!IT WORKS!!!IT WORKS!!!   
IT WORKS!!!IT WORKS!!!

Sorry Got carried away 

Thanks for all of your help, Philippe.  

At first, the login failed, but once I increased the timeout for the login
sequence from 5 seconds to 15, everything fell into place.

Although things work, I do have some strange messages appearing in
/var/log/messages.  Although things seem to be working okay, I think
they're probably something that should be looked into.  Can you "shed any
light" on this?

I've inserted comments below:


Jan 13 09:22:11 sally diald[9849]: Using fifo /var/lib/diald/diald.fifo
Jan 13 09:22:11 sally diald[9849]: Starting diald version 0.14
Jan 13 09:22:11 sally diald[9849]: Proxy device established on interface
sl0
Jan 13 09:22:19 sally diald[9849]: Setting pointopoint route for sl0
Jan 13 09:22:20 sally diald[9849]: Establishing routes for sl0
Jan 13 09:22:20 sally diald[9849]: Changed snoop device to sl0
Jan 13 09:22:20 sally diald[9849]: Diald initial setup completed.

Jan 13 09:22:34 sally diald[9849]: filter accepted rule 32 proto 1 len 84
packet 127.0.0.2,0 => 207.68.137.65,0
Jan 13 09:22:35 sally diald[9849]: Running connect (pid = 9945).
Jan 13 09:22:35 sally diald[9849]: filter accepted rule 32 proto 1 len 84
packet 127.0.0.2,0 => 207.68.137.65,0
Jan 13 09:22:35 sally diald-up: Initializing Modem...
Jan 13 09:22:36 sally diald[9849]: filter accepted rule 32 proto 1 len 84
packet 127.0.0.2,0 => 207.68.137.65,0
Jan 13 09:22:36 sally diald-up: Dialing system 1...
Jan 13 09:22:37 sally diald[9849]: filter accepted rule 32 proto 1 len 84
packet 127.0.0.2,0 => 207.68.137.65,0
Jan 13 09:22:50 sally last message repeated 11 times
Jan 13 09:22:54 sally diald-up: Connected
Jan 13 09:22:54 sally diald-up: Logging in now...
Jan 13 09:22:55 sally diald[9849]: filter accepted rule 32 proto 1 len 84
packet 127.0.0.2,0 => 207.68.137.65,0
Jan 13 09:23:04 sally last message repeated 6 times
Jan 13 09:23:04 sally diald-up: PPP startup successful

Jan 13 09:23:04 sally diald[9849]: Running pppd (pid = 9956).
Jan 13 09:23:05 sally pppd[9956]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
Jan 13 09:23:05 sally pppd[9956]: Using interface ppp0
Jan 13 09:23:05 sally pppd[9956]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
Jan 13 09:23:05 sally diald[9849]: filter accepted rule 32 proto 1 len 84
packet 127.0.0.2,0 => 207.68.137.65,0
Jan 13 09:23:08 sally last message repeated 3 times
Jan 13 09:23:08 sally pppd[9956]: local  IP address 204.244.143.173
Jan 13 09:23:08 sally pppd[9956]: remote IP address 204.244.143.6
Jan 13 09:23:08 sally diald[9849]: New addresses: local 204.244.143.173,
remote 204.244.143.6.
Jan 13 09:23:14 sally diald[9849]: Setting pointopoint route for ppp0
Jan 13 09:23:15 sally diald[9849]: Establishing routes for ppp0
Jan 13 09:23:15 sally diald[9849]: Changed snoop device to ppp0

Jan 13 09:23:15 sally diald[9849]: PPP network layer died, but link did
not. Probable configuration error.
Jan 13 09:23:22 sally diald[9849]: Setting pointopoint route for sl0
Jan 13 09:23:22 sally diald[9849]: Establishing routes for sl0
Jan 13 09:23:22 sally diald[9849]: Removing routes for ppp0
Jan 13 09:23:22 sally diald[9849]: Changed snoop device to sl0
Jan 13 09:23:22 sally diald[9849]: New addresses: local 204.244.143.173,
remote 204.244.143.6.
Jan 13 09:23:31 sally diald[9849]: Setting pointopoint route for ppp0
Jan 13 09:23:31 sally diald[9849]: Establishing routes for ppp0
Jan 13 09:23:32 sally diald[9849]: Changed snoop device to ppp0

Jan 13 09:23:32 sally diald[9849]: PPP network layer died, but link did
not. Probable configuration error.
Jan 13 09:23:38 sally diald[9849]: Setting pointopoint route for sl0
Jan 13 09:23:38 sally diald[9849]: Establishing routes for sl0
Jan 13 09:23:39 sally diald[9849]: Removing routes for ppp0
Jan 13 09:23:39 sally diald[9849]: Changed snoop device to sl0
Jan 13 09:23:39 sally diald[9849]: New addresses: local 204.244.143.173,
remote 204.244.143.6.
Jan 13 09:23:45 sally diald[9849]: Setting pointopoint route for ppp0
Jan 13 09:23:45 sally diald[9849]: Establishing routes for ppp0
Jan 13 09:23:45 sally diald[9849]: Changed snoop device to ppp0
Jan 13 09:23:45 sally diald[9849]: PPP network layer died, but link did
not. Probable configuration error.
Jan 13 09:23:55 sally diald[9849]: Setting pointopoint route for sl0
Jan 13 09:23:55 sally diald[9849]: Establishing routes for sl0
Jan 13 09:23:56 sally diald[9849]: Removing routes for ppp0
Jan 13 09:23:56 sally diald[9849]: Changed snoop device to sl0
Jan 13 09:23:56 sally diald[9849]: New addresses: local 204.244.143.173,
remote 204.244.143.6.
Jan 13 09:24:03 sally diald[9849]: Setting pointopoint route for ppp0
Jan 13 09:24:03 sally diald[9849]: Establishing routes for ppp0
Jan 13 09:24:04 sally diald[9849]: Changed snoop device to ppp0
Jan 13 09:24:04 sally diald[9849]: filter accepted rule 32 proto 1 len 84
packet 204.244.143.173,0 => 207.68.137.65,0

Jan 13 09:24:18 sally diald[9849]: fil

Re: Cyrix 5x86 100 with Linux?

[Carl Greco]

According to Jim Blaney:
> 
> Anyone having any success getting Linux to run with Cyrix 5x86 100 
> Mhz processors? I am having trouble, and I've seen a few messages 
> that imply there are problems, so I want to know whether I'm trying 
> to do the impossible .

According the the latest(?) Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO (v6969,
14 November 1995) the Cyrix CPU is supported.  Apparently, there were
some problems with some older chips and earlier versions of the
kernel.
o What type of problems are you having?

o Where did you see messages about problems with the Cyrix CPU
  and what were the reported problems?

Also, does anyone have a copy of a later version of the Hardware-HOWTO?
Just checked tsx-11 and this was the latest from there.
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Re: emergency action

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

Fundamental wrote:
> 
> im curious, being not so familiar with debian as i am with solaris, if i
> somehow edit a file which on reboot, prevents my debian box from
> rebooting, is there a way to get back into the box and edit out my
> changes?
> 
> For instance, on a solaris machine i just stick my boot disk/cd in, when it
> gets to the configuration screen i can cntrl break out of it into a shell
> and hack around at will, is this possible on a debian box?
> 
> thanks
> 

Well, you just do the same thing you would for Solaris, except that
instead of a CD you have to boot with you have disks. Debian also
has the option of exiting to a shell you do the install. At that
point you should be able to mount any filesystems and edit things
as necessary to get everything back in order.

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Re: More diald problems.

[Orn E. Hansen]

  Hi,

  I saw your message on the debian mailing list, where you described your
problem with getting up diald.

  Now, what is happening is your 'ppp-up' script.  Diald is informing you
in the log, that it doesn't get a return code from this script.  It never
returns to diald, so diald thinks that no connection has been made, and
thus terminates the line.  Now, you might ask how come the connection works
and the answer to that is that that part is taken care off by pppd, which
you execute on your own in your 'ppp-up'.

  You should remove the line in your 'ppp-up' script where you start the
execution of 'pppd'... that should do the trick.

  If that doesn't work, you should change the 'ppp-up' script... or actually
bypass it.  Which means you can clean up your 'ppp-dialer' script, so that it
contains only these parts for chat (i.e. not the 'chat -v' etc.):

ABORT   BUSY
ABORT   "NO CARRIER"
.
.
.
OK  ATwDT...
  ^- if you are using your home line, this will wait for a carrier
.before dialing.   That means your wife doesn't have to hear
.the loud sqeak on the line, if the computer decides to dial
.while she's on the phone.

asswd:  "boo"

  After this, you change the connect line in the diald.options file to
be something like:

connect "chat -f "

  You see, diald will start the 'pppd' itself after the connection has been
made... and set the netmask, the fake local and remote ip addresses and all
the rest... all the connect script has to do, is open the line to the
remote computer.

  Hope this helps...
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No Subject

[Michael Appleby]

Dear All,

I'm having trouble installing olvwm, I have installed libc5-dev ( 5.14-17), but 
needs libc5 ( 5.14-17), but I can only find libc5( 5.14-13).

I have installed the x server for svga, I have a Matrox millennium graphics 
card, has any one had experience using with the Matrox Millennium card ?


Best regards.

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Re: Cyrix 5x86 100 with Linux

[JD Thomlinson]

I'm running a Cyrix 586/120 with essentially no problems. Minor 
problem: Colorado FC-20 interface for tape backup requires that 
I turn off "turbo" system clock and backup slow (~7-8MB/min). 
Otherwise, system works fine. JohnT



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Sony cdu31a problem

[Matt Lawrence]

I'm trying to install Debian 1.2 off of the Dec. InfoMagic CDs.  After
typing in "cdu31a=0x340" at the boot prompt, the kernel recognizes the CD
drive, but there isn't an entry in /dev.  It's easy enough to create one,
but I don't know the appropriate major and minor device numbers.  Any
suggestions?  By the way, the drive is hooked to a Sony controller.

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The Java Package

[Gith]

I've installed the following packages:
jdk-apidocs 1.0.2-1Java 1.0.2 API.
jdk-common  1.0.2-3JDK (Java Development Kit)
jdk-static  1.0.2-3JDK (Java Development Kit) - Static part

I keep getting an error like:
java was not found in /usr/lib/jdk/i486/bin/java
and the binary isn't there.
Are there some more steps I need to take to set this up or is this
a bug? From what I see, things should be working fine.


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Re: Arghh.. Problems with install.

[Sven Rudolph]

"Troy M. Lubbers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Alright, I'm attempting to install Debian. (That's good right?) Well, 
> I've encountered my first problem. When I boot with the Rescue disk, I 
> get all the error messages probes etc, that it's supposed to do. Then it 
> comes to what I'm sure it's not supposed to do. When it gets to the point 
> where it says
> 
> RAMDISK:Compressed image found at block 0
> 
> it then continues with these error messages
> 
> Couldn't get a free page.
> out of memoryVFS:mounted root(minix filesystem)
> init:cache '/etc/ld.so.cache' is corrupt
> 
> and then NOTHING. That's it frozen solid. Ctrl-Alt-Delete reboots and if 
> you leave it in it does the same exact thing. I've tried using different 
> disks to no avail, they all seem to do it.
> 
> I've got a 386DX/33 manufactured by Zeos computers. With 4M RAM and a 
> 130MB ST1144AT HD. Mediavision Jazz chipset based soundcard integrated 
> with a Future domain TMC8XX SCSI controller and 2x CD-ROM. The error 
> message is the same whether or not I include the boot flag 
> "tmc8xx=0xce000,11" or not. I also have a Diamond Stealth VRAM SVGA card. 
> 1.44 and 1.2 meg floppies. 
> 
The next release of the installation disks will be released this week
and can be used on machines with only 4MB RAM.

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Re: Any IRC channels for (Debian) Linux?

[Remco van de Meent]

At 08:25 AM 1/13/97 -0600, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
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>
>*poke* Do I look Finnish to you? ;) Amurrican-side.
>
And I. Do I look Amurrican to you?


got it?
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Re: Any IRC channels for (Debian) Linux?

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*poke* Do I look Finnish to you? ;) Amurrican-side.

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Re: how to find out who has fingered me?

[Pete Templin]

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:

> Rather than checking any log file, is it possible to find out who has
> fingered a user.  I heard that I can create a .plan file to do it, but
> I don't know how to do it.  Anyone knows how?

Install cfinger (a debian package), a configurable finger server.  It will
create a .fingerlog in each user's home directory (if they are fingered),
along with whatever central logging is normally performed by the program.

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Re: How to set up man?

[Dale Scheetz]

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Lu Jimmy Chenji wrote:

> 
> I dowloaded bsdmantl.deb, groff.deb, libgpp27.deb, and man.deb from
> Debian-1.2-fixed/msdos-i386/ directories.  And I used deselect to
> install these files to my pc's hard drive.  The installation was 
> successful.  But when I try to run man, I got the following error.
> 
> 
> After I type # man 1 man
>  ^^^ ^ ^^^
> Reformatting man(1), please wait...
> /usr/bin/tbl: can't load library 'libstdc++.so.27'
> groff: can't load library 'libstdc++.so.27'
> 
> 
> I checked files in /usr/lib, I found libstdc++.so.27.2.1 there.
> 
> Can someone tell me how to fix my problem?
> 
This is a problem with the libg++27 package in 1.2. You have two choices:
The new version in bo has this problem fixed, or you can provide the
missing link by hand.
First: cd to /usr/lib
Then: ln -s libstd++.so.27.2.1 libstdc++.so.27
Run: ldconfig (just to make sure)
Things will work for you now.

Luck,

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Re: Debian 1.2.2 and dependency on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)

[Dale Scheetz]

On 13 Jan 1997, Tony Robinson wrote:

> Whilst trying to upgrade using the ftp method to the latest stable
> release (i.e. rex-fixed a.k.a. Debian-1.2.2) I have the following
> conflicts:
> 
> dungeon depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)
> abuse depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)
> filerunner depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)
> xfig depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)
> cthugha depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)
> 
The maintainers of these packages moved to the later libraries too soon.
These packages should be rebuilt against the 1.2 libc5.

> This was from both my local mirror and a similar message from ftp.debian.org.
> 
> On Sat 11 Jan 1997 I tried to install a machine from scratch which
> failed miserably due to dependency problems - I couldn't catch the
> output but part of the problem was as above and part was a LaTeX problem
> (appended).
> 
> 
> Tony Robinson
> 
> 
> kpathsea: Running MakeTeXTFM manfnt.tfm 
> Running MakeTeXPK manfnt.tfm
> mf \mode:=nullmode; mag:=1; scrollmode; input manfnt \ mf: can't load library 'libXt.so.6'

>From the problems list:

1. Already reported as a bug:  Can't find xlib6 so file.  
Add /usr/X11R6/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig.

This should let things move ahead for you,

Dwarf

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Multi session cdrom

[* ESGER *]

I've got the following problem: I wrote the debian installation files 
(stable etc.) to a CDR. I wrote them to a second session (my cdr is a HP 
4020i, I wrote the cd under W95). The second session (and the first) is 
readable under dos/W95 but not under linux. 

My cdrom on the linux machine works nicely besides that. I'ts a 12speed 
plextor SCSI and I'm using the sg generic cdrom driver. (Had to do a 
MAKEDEV to get the scd0 device in /dev though)

any ideas why the second session is not accessible?

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Re: Help: problem with booting from HD

[Riku Saikkonen]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>Thank you for the suggestion.  this is what I got so far.  I repartitioned
>the disk with a 500mb primary partition for DOS (06) (some of my pc 
>friends insisted I put DOS as the first one :-), forllowed with 
>two 300mb primary linux partitions, and a 64mb logical linux swap, and
...
>image=/vmlinuz
>/vmlinuz points at /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.27, which is there.

Where is /boot? The kernel image (and, I think, the LILO map file,
/boot/map) usually needs to be in the first 504 Mb for the BIOS to be able
to find it. Try moving your kernel image and /boot/map to a directory on
your DOS partition and rerunning LILO.

For example (assuming /dos is your mounted DOS partition):
  mkdir /dos/boot.lnx
  cp /vmlinuz /dos/boot.lnx/vmlinuz
  mv /vmlinuz /vmlinuz.backup
  ln -s /dos/boot.lnx/vmlinuz /vmlinuz
  cp /boot/map /dos/boot.lnx/map
  mv /boot/map /boot/map.backup
  ln -s /dos/boot.lnx/map /boot/map
  lilo

(I hope LILO didn't need anything else than the kernel image and /boot/map
in the first 504 Mb. Someone reply to this and tell us? :))

>Also I was trying to use dselect to do the install from Yggdrasil Winter 97
>CD collection's Debian 1.1 i386 distribution.  dselect asked me to "enter 
>the block device name"  what I suppose to enter.

If it asked you that after you chose "cdrom" as the installation method, I
think it's asking for the device name of the CD-ROM drive (/dev/sonycd or
whatever it is)...

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Colors in an Xterm

[Luis Francisco Gonzalez]

Hi,
I have just installed a new debian box and I am missing the diferent colors
that ls uses to distinguish the files. This works ok in a virtual console but
not in an xterm. Before there used to be a color-xterm package that was needed
but it has disappeared. From the manual page for xterm, it would seem that it
does understand the coloring when using the +cm option. But this does not
produce the desired result but only prints some files using boldface. What am
I missing? Any hints would be welcome!

Thanks in advance!
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Re: Cyrix 5x86 100 with Linux?

[Dick Arnold]

I'm using Cyrix 586/120 with no problems. Linux sees it as a 486 but it
runs great.

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On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Jim Blaney wrote:

> Anyone having any success getting Linux to run with Cyrix 5x86 100 
> Mhz processors? I am having trouble, and I've seen a few messages 
> that imply there are problems, so I want to know whether I'm trying 
> to do the impossible .
> 
> thanks,
> Jim Blaney.
> 
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Re: automatic mounting of CDs

[Andree Leidenfrost]

Hi Kai,

you can use 'amd' for your purpose. It is a little complicated to set up
but once configured it does it's job very well.

However, make sure you grab the package 'amd_upl102-6.deb' from
'unstable/binary-i386/net/' because it fixes some heavy bugs and has
some additional information especially for what you intend to do.

Good luck,

Andree
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IP Masquerading

[Olivier Abad]

I'm using IP Masquerading on a Debian 1.2 box at work. It works very
well except for one thing : authentification on our NT domain.

The configuration of our network is the following :
- The PCs on our LAN (behind the Debian box) are masqueraded.
- Our Window$ NT server is not masqueraded (it has an official internet
  address).

In this situation, the PCs can't open a session on the NT domain (but
they can access the shared resources !!).

We found a work around to this problem : as the physical network for all
the machines is the same, we can use the NetBEUI protocol on the PCs
and the NT server, not passing through the masquerading gateway.
But we would like to physically separate the networks, and get rid of
all protocols except IP.

Did someone have the same problem (and perhaps solved it) ?

TIA,

Olivier


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automatic mounting of CDs

[Kai Grossjohann]

Hi there,

Sun Solaris has vold which watches the CD-ROM drive and mounts the CD
when you insert one.  Is there a similar program for Debian?

tia,
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Cyrix 5x86 100 with Linux?

[Jim Blaney]

Anyone having any success getting Linux to run with Cyrix 5x86 100 
Mhz processors? I am having trouble, and I've seen a few messages 
that imply there are problems, so I want to know whether I'm trying 
to do the impossible .

thanks,
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amd makes link to ISP come at at boot time

[Andree Leidenfrost]

I recently switched to diald which is a great thing and worked rather
out of the box. However, I encounter the following problem with amd:

When the machines boots everything is fine up to the point, where amd
gets started. Here the bootprocess is delayed. Diald establishes the
connection to the ISP, some packets are exchanged and diald hangs up
again. After the packets are exchanged the botprocess continues
normally. I have enclosed the respective log and config data (diald.conf
and diald.defs are not modified but taken directly from the
diald-package). It seems to me that amd performs some kind of domain
name query. Amd works fine without connecting to the ISP. So, my
question is, how can I stop amd doing so. Thanks a lot for your time.

Regards,

Andree


from the log
Jan 12 11:32:57 aurich diald[162]: Using fifo /var/lib/diald/diald.fifo
Jan 12 11:32:57 aurich diald[162]: Starting diald version 0.14
Jan 12 11:32:57 aurich kernel: SLIP: version
0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY-MODULAR (dynamic channels, max=256).
Jan 12 11:32:57 aurich diald[162]: Proxy device established on interface
sl0
Jan 12 11:32:57 aurich diald[162]: Setting pointopoint route for sl0
Jan 12 11:32:57 aurich diald[162]: Establishing routes for sl0
Jan 12 11:32:57 aurich diald[162]: Changed snoop device to sl0
Jan 12 11:32:57 aurich diald[162]: Diald initial setup completed.
Jan 12 11:41:09 aurich diald[162]: filter accepted rule 24 proto 17 len
70 packet 136.172.111.70,1031 => 136.172.100.240,53
Jan 12 11:41:10 aurich diald[162]: Running connect (pid = 289).
Jan 12 11:41:14 aurich diald[162]: filter accepted rule 24 proto 17 len
70 packet 136.172.111.70,1032 => 136.172.100.240,53
Jan 12 11:41:24 aurich diald[162]: filter accepted rule 24 proto 17 len
70 packet 136.172.111.70,1034 => 136.172.100.240,53
Jan 12 11:41:44 aurich diald[162]: filter accepted rule 24 proto 17 len
70 packet 136.172.111.70,1035 => 136.172.100.240,53
Jan 12 11:41:50 aurich diald[162]: Running pppd (pid = 290).
Jan 12 11:41:50 aurich kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the
University of California
Jan 12 11:41:51 aurich kernel: PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel
allocation)
Jan 12 11:41:51 aurich kernel: PPP Dynamic channel allocation code
copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc.
Jan 12 11:41:51 aurich kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
Jan 12 11:41:51 aurich kernel: registered device ppp0
Jan 12 11:41:51 aurich pppd[290]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
Jan 12 11:41:51 aurich pppd[290]: Using interface ppp0
Jan 12 11:41:51 aurich pppd[290]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS2
Jan 12 11:41:54 aurich pppd[290]: local  IP address 136.172.111.70
Jan 12 11:41:54 aurich pppd[290]: remote IP address 136.172.111.1
Jan 12 11:41:55 aurich diald[162]: Setting pointopoint route for ppp0
Jan 12 11:41:55 aurich diald[162]: Establishing routes for ppp0
Jan 12 11:41:55 aurich diald[162]: Changed snoop device to ppp0
Jan 12 11:41:55 aurich diald[162]: filter accepted rule 25 proto 17 len
146 packet 136.172.100.240,53 => 136.172.111.70,1032
Jan 12 11:41:55 aurich diald[162]: filter accepted rule 32 proto 1 len
174 packet 136.172.111.70,0 => 136.172.100.240,0
:
Jan 12 11:41:56 aurich diald[162]: filter accepted rule 25 proto 17 len
146 packet 136.172.100.240,53 => 136.172.111.70,1035
Jan 12 11:41:56 aurich diald[162]: filter accepted rule 24 proto 17 len
72 packet 136.172.111.70,1036 => 136.172.100.240,53
Jan 12 11:41:56 aurich diald[162]: filter accepted rule 25 proto 17 len
110 packet 136.172.100.240,53 => 136.172.111.70,1036
Jan 12 11:42:01 aurich diald[162]: filter accepted rule 25 proto 17 len
146 packet 136.172.100.240,53 => 136.172.111.70,1034
Jan 12 11:42:01 aurich diald[162]: filter accepted rule 32 proto 1 len
174 packet 136.172.111.70,0 => 136.172.100.240,0
Jan 12 11:42:30 aurich diald[162]: Closing down idle link.
Jan 12 11:42:31 aurich diald[162]: Setting pointopoint route for sl0
Jan 12 11:42:31 aurich diald[162]: Establishing routes for sl0
Jan 12 11:42:31 aurich diald[162]: Nonzero exit status (7) on command
'/sbin/route add default gw 136.172.111.1 metric 2000 dev sl0'
Jan 12 11:42:31 aurich diald[162]: Removing routes for ppp0
Jan 12 11:42:31 aurich diald[162]: Changed snoop device to sl0
Jan 12 11:42:31 aurich pppd[290]: Terminating on signal 2.
Jan 12 11:42:31 aurich pppd[290]: Connection terminated.
Jan 12 11:42:37 aurich pppd[290]: Serial link disconnected.
Jan 12 11:42:37 aurich pppd[290]: Exit.
Jan 12 11:42:37 aurich diald[162]: Setting pointopoint route for sl0
Jan 12 11:42:37 aurich diald[162]: Establishing routes for sl0
Jan 12 11:42:38 aurich diald[162]: Closing modem line.
Jan 12 11:42:39 aurich diald[162]: Delaying 30 seconds before clear to
dial.
Jan 12 11:44:31 aurich kernel: PPP: ppp line discipline successfully
unregistered

---amd.master
-a /amd -x noinfo  -r -c 5 /mnt_amd /etc/amd/amd.server

---amd.server
 EXPORT_FEHN type:=ufs;dev:=/dev/sda7;

 dos type:=ufs;dev

Re: gcc can't find headers

[Paul Serice]

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Alexander Gieg wrote:

> You need to install the packages "libg++27_2.7.2.1-3.deb" and
> "libg++27-dev_2.7.2.1-2.deb". The headers that you have are
> for the cross-compiler win32 version of gcc.

That did it.  Thanks!

Paul


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RE: mime and elm (was RE: X-wm question and ZipDrive)

[Casper BodenCummins]

Hamish Moffat wrote:

>>>Good. Any chance you could not send all messages as MIME, either?
>>>Real PITA to read with plain jane elm on a character terminal.
>> 
>> Couldn't you pre-filter your email with procmail and a MIME extraction
>> program? Maybe the packages mime-support (which `can be used to turn
>> virtually any mail reader program into a multimedia mail reader') or
>> mpack?
>
>I'd love to. But this machine is not a Debian box, it's my
>account at university running Solaris 5.5.1, and there's no procmail,
>or munpack, etc. Only metamail, which isn't very friendly.
>Unfortunately, I doubt my disk quota runs to a permanent copy of
>procmail, which sounds quite featureful and therefore probably
>quite large.

If you're using OpenWindows, the standard mail program `mailtool'
understands MIME. (Couldn't your admins install a system-wide copy of
procmail?)

>> After all, MIME is so well established and you're imposing the lowest
>> common denominator on us.
>
>True, but I see no advantage in sending absolutely plain text messages
>as MIME when some people (such as me) will complain. When attachments
are involved, I agree, MIME simplifies things significantly
>and metamail handles this adequately. Although I still use
>Netscape when I'm trying to send file attachments.

I agree with you and Dale on this. I assumed we were talking about
uuencoding `attachments' instead of MIMEing them - having a
MIME-compliant mailer, I'm not aware of the extent of the problem.

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Re: Any IRC channels for (Debian) Linux?

[Linux Lists]

At 08:41 PM 1/11/97 -0600, Ben Gertzfield wrote:

>Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> On which network?  Efnet? 
>
>Whoops, yes. EFnet. :) I'm only on EFnet and YiffNet anyway :)
>
>Ben

So.. US-side of EFnet? Or European side?

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Re: More diald problems.

[Andree Leidenfrost]

This IMHO is not correct. From the diald-man-page:

PPPD OPTIONS
   When diald is being used in PPP  mode extra options can be
   passed on to pppd  by specifying them after a "--" on  the
   command  line.   This  should not normally be necessary as
   default options can be placed  into  the  /etc/ppp/options
   file.  But,  if you need to run multiple instances of pppd
   with different options then you will have to make  use  of
   this  ability.   Note that some pppd options should not be
   specified, not even in the /etc/ppp/options file,  because
   they  will  interfere  with the proper operation of diald.
   In particular you should not specify the tty  device,  the
   baud  rate,  nor  any  of  the  options  crtscts, xonxoff,
   -crtscts, defaultroute,  lock,  netmask,  -detach,  modem,
 
   local, mtu and proxyarp.  Use the equivalent diald options
   to control these pppd settings.

This to my mind clearly states that the defaultroute option has to go in
the *diald* options file *not* in the one for ppp.

Regards,

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Re: ATI Mach64 Cards notice

[Paul Serice]

This was a really nice letter.  I'm glad ATI is assisting the LINUX
community by helping out the developers of X drivers.  It only reconfirms
my decision to buy an ATI video card. 

Paul Serice


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Re: Any IRC channels for (Debian) Linux?

[Hanno Wagner]

Hi!

On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Jim Blaney wrote:

> Are there any IRC channels specifically for discussing setup 
> issues related to (Debian) Linux?

On which Net?
There is EFNet (american part), IRCnet (european part), LinuXNet,
HappyNet, CityNet,...
I am on the IRCnet, normally on #Linuxger (german linux support
channel), and will be on LinuxNet (if I can connect to a server
;-)

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changing/correcting dependencies

[Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler]

Hello,

 somehow there's a problem with X11R6 dependencies in Debian 1.2.
 Trying to install gimp-smotif dselect says, that X11R6 is needed
 but doesn't seem to be available. Of course I installed it and it
 even works :)
 This should be a problem in xbase, I think. I tried to correct it
 by inserting
  Provides: X11R6
 for the xbase package in /var/lib/dpkg/available and /var/lib/dpkg/status.
 Now gimp installs fine.
 
 My question: Is there any caveat in doing this? Should there be any other
 changes made to the database?

 BTW, is there a possibilty to use 'force' in dselect for programs that
 have to be configured? I was able to install gimp using 'Q' after selecting
 it, but it couldn't be configured.

Thanks,

 Ulf

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Debian 1.2.2 and dependency on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)

[Tony Robinson]

Whilst trying to upgrade using the ftp method to the latest stable
release (i.e. rex-fixed a.k.a. Debian-1.2.2) I have the following
conflicts:

dungeon depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)
abuse depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)
filerunner depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)
xfig depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)
cthugha depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)

This was from both my local mirror and a similar message from ftp.debian.org.

On Sat 11 Jan 1997 I tried to install a machine from scratch which
failed miserably due to dependency problems - I couldn't catch the
output but part of the problem was as above and part was a LaTeX problem
(appended).


Tony Robinson


kpathsea: Running MakeTeXTFM manfnt.tfm 
Running MakeTeXPK manfnt.tfm
mf \mode:=nullmode; mag:=1; scrollmode; input manfnt \= 3.1415-4); however:
  Package texbin is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xypic (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex:
 latex depends on texbin (>= 3.1415-5); however:
  Package texbin is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing latex (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of babel:
 babel depends on texbin (>= 3.1415-5); however:
  Package texbin is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing babel (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ghostview:
 ghostview depends on gs; however:
  Package gs is not installed.
dpkg: error processing ghostview (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gv:
 gv depends on gs; however:
  Package gs is not installed.
dpkg: error processing gv (--install):
dpkg: error processing ltxmisc (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of psnfss:
 psnfss depends on latex; however:
  Package latex is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing psnfss (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bibtex:
 bibtex depends on tex; however:
  Package tex is not installed.
  Package texbin which provides tex is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing bibtex (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of amslatex:
 amslatex depends on latex; however:
  Package latex is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing amslatex (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mfnfss:
 mfnfss depends on latex; however:
  Package latex is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mfnfss (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ltxtool:
 ltxtool depends on latex; however:
  Package latex is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing ltxtool (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bibtool:
 bibtool depends on bibtex; however:
  Package bibtex is not configured yet.
  Package bibtex which provides bibtex is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing bibtool (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 texbin
 amstex
 xypic
 latex
 babel
 ghostview
 gv
 xfig
 mgetty-fax
 ltxgraph
 ltxmisc
 psnfss
 bibtex
 amslatex
 mfnfss
 ltxtool
 bibtool

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.mirror file request

[Karl M. Hegbloom]

> "Ryan" == Ryan Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Ryan> i was wondering if someone could send me their mirror
Ryan> configuration file that they use to mirro the debian
Ryan> distribution tree so that i can work off of it.

 Could I also have a copy?  TIA

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How to set up man?

[Lu Jimmy Chenji]

I dowloaded bsdmantl.deb, groff.deb, libgpp27.deb, and man.deb from
Debian-1.2-fixed/msdos-i386/ directories.  And I used deselect to
install these files to my pc's hard drive.  The installation was 
successful.  But when I try to run man, I got the following error.


After I type # man 1 man
   ^^^ ^ ^^^
Reformatting man(1), please wait...
/usr/bin/tbl: can't load library 'libstdc++.so.27'
groff: can't load library 'libstdc++.so.27'


I checked files in /usr/lib, I found libstdc++.so.27.2.1 there.

Can someone tell me how to fix my problem?

Thanks in advance.

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how to find out who has fingered me?

[Lawrence Chim]

Rather than checking any log file, is it possible to find out who has
fingered a user.  I heard that I can create a .plan file to do it, but
I don't know how to do it.  Anyone knows how?


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Re: shadow-suite?

[Darren Klein]

On 12 Jan 1996, Guy Maor wrote:

> Darren Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > I tried getting there with dselect and the ftp option.  I could not enter 
> > the dir.  When it asks for the distriubtion I tried experimental, project 
> > , contrib, unstable.
> 
> Unfortunately you can't use dpkg-ftp to install the few packages that
> are in experimental.  Download them with ftp and install them with
> dpkg -i ...

Do you know in what order the Shadow files should be installed?  Is it 
just the 3 shadow*.deb files that need to be installed for it to work?

What if there is a problem?  Can it be un-installed, and returned to the 
pre-shadow state?

Thanks for your help.


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Re: Debian dselect question

[Robin Rowe]

>No, you should enter /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8, not indices.

Sounds logical, but dselect still didn't work. 

The screen output is something like this:

|-
| Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name [] __/dev/sonycd__
| ISO9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
|
| All directory names should be entered relative to the root of the CD-ROM.
|
| I would like to know where on the CD-ROM the top level of the Debian 
| distribution is - this will usually contain the Packages-Master file.
|
| .
| . [more text]
| .
|
| Distribution top level? [none] __/cdrom/Debian-1.1.8__
| /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/stable/binary-i386 does not exist
|
| .
| . [repeat of above]
| .
|-

My input has the underlines around it. By the way, I also tried mounting the
CD-ROM drive first, before loading dselect.

How do I convince dselect I don't need the non-existant 'stable' directory
on my CD-ROM?

Robin

>
>On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 17:30:01 PST Robin Rowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
>wrote:
>
>> When I run dselect it asks me for the location of the Packages-Master file.
>> I assume what it wants is /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/indices/Packages-Master-i386,
>> and therefore enter the directory path to that file. However, dselect
>> objects that it can't find /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/indices/stable/binary-i386.
>> There is no 'stable' directory on my CD.
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net-pf

[Bill Wohler]

  With the recent upgrade to kernel 2.0.27 and diald 0.14-8 I'm
  getting the following messages in /var/log/daemon.log:

Jan 11 15:56:34 gbr modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4
Jan 11 15:56:38 gbr modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-5

  I learned how to shut them up by adding 

alias net-pf-4 off
alias net-pf-5 off

  to /etc/conf.modules, but this seems that it only cures the symptom
  rather than the cause.  Was this a reasonable thing to do, or do I
  have something incorrectly configured, or is there a bug?

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Re: Problems with rex+bo mixed bag ...

[Joey Hess]

> I'm getting these type of messages every now and again.  Any
> ideas???
> 
> richr:4:$ xfd
> xfd: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdout_'
> xfd: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdin_'
> 
> Its happened with more than just xfd, but I don't remember what
> else at the moment.  What other info would be helpful here?

This only happens if you are using a athena widgets replacement (xaw3d,
xaw95, nextaw, etc). The cause seems to be that the programs are
statically linked to libc. I just finished reporting a slew of bugs
against packages for this problem . Other affected programs include: xmh,
xconsole, xoj, xvidtune. I already have a bug open on xbase becuase it has
the same problems with xmh and xconsole -- I'll add xfd to the bug report. 

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Re: using .rhosts?

[Bob Clark]

Is you user-id (number in /etc/passwd) the same on both machines?

--Bob

Benedikt Eric Heinen wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
>   there's one problem that arose on my two debian machines at home, that I
> noticed a couple of days ago, but I can't find a solution yet...
> 
>   I am mainly working on the 'better' machine - the 'smaller' machine is
> the one connected to the internet. Under debian 1.1 I used several scripts
> from the better machine to access the internet programs on the other
> machines via rsh - since I upgraded the internet machine to Debian 1.2
> this no longer works. 'rsh icemark' comes back with permission denied, and
> 'rlogin icemark' now prompts me for my password.
> 
>   I didn't change /etc/hosts.equiv or .rhosts during the update. Now, how
> can I get my .rhosts entries back working?
> 
>   Benedikt
> 
> signoff
> 
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> SWITZERLAND
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Problems with rex+bo mixed bag ...

[Richard G. Roberto]

I'm getting these type of messages every now and again.  Any
ideas???

richr:4:$ xfd
xfd: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdout_'
xfd: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdin_'

Its happened with more than just xfd, but I don't remember what
else at the moment.  What other info would be helpful here?

Thanks in advance.

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Re: emergency action

[Daniel Stringfield]

On 12 Jan 1996, Guy Maor wrote:

> > This will put it into single user runlevel.
> 
> No, emergency is not the same as single.
> 
> emergency does the bare minimum - mounts root ro and launches a
> shell. single will still run the scripts in /etc/rc.boot, mount all
> your partitions, start update, turn on the swap device, etc.  You
> really only need emergency if you have a serious problem with your
> drive or something.

My mistake. :)

But it still does what he wanted. (Just got the single user mode wrong..)
Haven't broken my setup that bad lately. :)

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Re: .mirror file request

[Warwick HARVEY]

Ryan Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i was wondering if someone could send me their mirror configuration file
> that they use to mirro the debian distribution tree so that i can work off
> of it.

The mirror package comes with such an example already.  Have a look at
/etc/mirror/packages/ftp.debian.org

You may also want to look in
/usr/doc/mirror/examples

Warwick


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ATI Mach64 Cards notice

[John Hoffmann]

>From: ATI Technical Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: Linux XFree86 Configuring
>Date: 	Fri, 10 Jan 1997 17:13:52 -0500
>
>Dear Mr. Hoffman,
>
>	ATI Customer Support has received numerous requests asking for assistance with ATI products in use with the XFree X Windows System under the LINUX shareware operating system. 
>	Due to the nature of LINUX and XFree, the way in which they have been developed and the lack of a supporting vendor, it is not possible for ATI to assist end-users in configuring these pieces  of software. With other Unix Operating Systems we recommend contacting the UNIX vendor for assistance. LINUX users areencouraged to check the X-Windows or LINUX newsgroups on the Internet.
>	ATI has worked with various LINUX developers to assist them in designing and writing drivers to support ATI boards. ATI does NOT write the drivers. 
>	Since you are experiencing problems getting Xfree86 to work, we recommend that you specifically contact the Xfree86 group at www.xfree86.com.  If you can provide us with the 113 number on the top of the card, we can tell you what chipset etc... this particular Mach64 card uses.
>
>Regards,
>Irwin Tan
>ATI Technical Support
>
>Due to the holiday season ATI Technical Support is currently experiencing an increase in Customer inquires for information and assistance.  ATI Technical Support apologizes for any delays which may be incurred during this time.
>
>
>
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Re: improvements

[tomk]

Ralph Winslow writes:
> 
> When Kendrick Myatt, et. al. wrote, I replied:
> > Somebody wrote:
> > >> communications  non-networking communications
> > >> documentation   all documentation
> > >> development as is currently
> > >> games   all games
> > >> graphicsanything which creates, massages, transforms graphics
> > >> misccatch all- math, electronics, hamradio, "misc", etc.
> > >> networking  any networking functions- mail, news, utilities, etc.
> > >> printinganything dealing with printing- TEX, lout, etc.
> > >> system  admin, base, shells, X windows, etc.
> 
> IMHO X deserves a heading of its own. Perhaps TEX/Ghost*/(the package
> that handles MIME)/etc. need an area as they cut across printer/X.

I proposed the above catagories, and I said that it wasn't "set in concrete"
8-) The key here is the catagory (what ever it is) must be application
oriented. IMHO, X windows are not an application, rather X windows are an
extension to the OS and as such, you run X windows applications in that
extension. Keep in mind that I am only referring to Xbase, Xlib, Xfonts, &
Xserver as Xwindows - not XQuake, or XV, or any other application which would
require the basic Xwindows.
Try to think in terms of the DOS user who installs DOS and then adds his/her
favorite application(s) (be it word processing, or anti-virus utility, or
printing program for making labels, etc. etc.)


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Re: A proposal to improve dselect

[Chow Chi-Ming]

> "Pete" == Pete Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Pete> On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote:

>> No, this is wrong. A new user should not have to read long
>> documents prior to installation. The configure scripts which runs
>> directly after the installation should make reading docs
>> unnecessary.

Pete> I disagree.  You should understand what you are doing.  If you
Pete> don't even want to know what is going and how you are to use it,
Pete> what is the point of having it?  Bragging to your friends?
 
I think both of you have valid points.  It is clear that there is a
compromise to be reached.  The installation scripts should ``remind''
user of important features while some document reading are necessary
before the extensive use of a package.

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Re: installing pico

[Daniel Stringfield]

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, esoR ocsirF wrote:

> Hello,
> Has anyone got an idea where I can find info on installing pico?
> If this message is not appropriate, please let me know. I am ...
> (look sideways, and whisper)... a newbie.

Hello. Me again.  I'm the pine/pico maintainer.  Its in the non-free
section.  goto ftp.debian.org and look in
/pub/debian/bo/non-free/binary-i386

As far as "info".  Uhm.. its a editor.  Comes with docs.  nothing
needed special to install it. 
 
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installing pico

[esoR ocsirF]

Hello,
Has anyone got an idea where I can find info on installing pico?
If this message is not appropriate, please let me know. I am ...
(look sideways, and whisper)... a newbie.

 
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Re: Debian Package

[Daniel Stringfield]

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, esoR ocsirF wrote:

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Re: Debian Package

[esoR ocsirF]

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote:

> 
> umm, is any one allowed to make a debian package? if so, is there a HOWTO
> on it?
> 
Hi, try downloading the manual at the following URL
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/programmer.ps.gz
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Re: Debian dselect question

[esoR ocsirF]

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Robin Rowe wrote:

>... objects that it can't find /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/indices/stable/binary-i386.
> There is no 'stable' directory on my CD.
> 
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Re: Debian dselect question

[Philippe Troin]

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 17:30:01 PST Robin Rowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:

> When I run dselect it asks me for the location of the Packages-Master file.
> I assume what it wants is /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/indices/Packages-Master-i386,
> and therefore enter the directory path to that file. However, dselect
> objects that it can't find /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/indices/stable/binary-i386.
> There is no 'stable' directory on my CD.

No, you should enter /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8, not indices.

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Debian Package

[Fundamental]

umm, is any one allowed to make a debian package? if so, is there a HOWTO
on it?

thanks


SaHua

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Debian dselect question

[Robin Rowe]

Hi. In October I got Debian on the CD-ROM from Dale Scheetz, but had some
problems getting it to work with my CD-ROM. I got sidetracked and have only
recently gotten back to trying to finish installing Debian. I now have the
base system installed but have a problem installing any packages.

When I run dselect it asks me for the location of the Packages-Master file.
I assume what it wants is /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/indices/Packages-Master-i386,
and therefore enter the directory path to that file. However, dselect
objects that it can't find /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/indices/stable/binary-i386.
There is no 'stable' directory on my CD.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.

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Re: Majordomo

[Fundamental]

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, System Account wrote:

listinfo ># added for majordomo (Dec 12 96) (stupid fuckin thing)
listinfo >aliasinclude:
listinfo >driver=aliasinclude, nobody;
listinfo >copysecure, copyowners 
listinfo >

Yes, thanks it did:)  I noticed you werent to impressed by the addition ^
;-)

PaChi

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Re: Majordomo

[System Account]

hi there
i made these changes in the /etc/smail/directors file. i commented
out the lists and replaced it as below (the lists are for smails use).
Then add in the aliasinclude for majordomo.

--- CUT FROM /etc/smail/directors --- 
#lists:
#driver=forwardfile, sender_okay, owner=owner-$user,
#caution, nobody;
#file=lists/${lc:user}
lists:
driver=forwardfile,
sender_okay,
caution,
nobody,
owner=owner-$user;
file=lists/${lc:user}

# added for majordomo (Dec 12 96) (stupid fuckin thing)
aliasinclude:
driver=aliasinclude, nobody;
copysecure, copyowners 

hope it helps
-Rob


On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote:

> 
> Started playing with the majordomo package recently, in the middle of the
> dpkg -i it gives an error that i have smail installed but dont have
> aliasinclude running.  Ive checked the man pages for smail and did  a
> search of the packages at ftp.debian.org and can find no reference to this
> function.
> 
> Any one else have this problem?
> 
> 
> "The world is full of fools, and he who would not see it should live alone 
> and smash his mirror."
> 
> -Claude le Petite
> 
> 
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Re: emergency action

[Fundamental]

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Daniel Stringfield wrote:

servo >> For instance, on a solaris machine i just stick my boot disk/cd in, 
when it
servo >> gets to the configuration screen i can cntrl break out of it into a 
shell
servo >> and hack around at will, is this possible on a debian box?
servo >
servo >>From LILO boot prompt (press shift when LILO comes up) type "linux
servo >emergency"
servo >
servo >This will put it into single user runlevel.

Thanks, thats it exactly.  It actually seems more powerfull then the
solaris version of single user mode.  Thanks.

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Majordomo

[Fundamental]

Started playing with the majordomo package recently, in the middle of the
dpkg -i it gives an error that i have smail installed but dont have
aliasinclude running.  Ive checked the man pages for smail and did  a
search of the packages at ftp.debian.org and can find no reference to this
function.

Any one else have this problem?


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Re: More diald problems.

[Philippe Troin]

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 16:09:00 PST "Kevin Traas" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:

> > So what happens is that pppd is started while diald thinks you're
> connecting... It cannot install the defaultroute too...
> 
> Wow!  That explains things!  
> 
> Thanks *so* much for your help!  And an answer in only 14 minutes too!  How
> can you beat that?  

You just got lucky I was logged at that time :-)

> > Here are my scripts:
> 
> Thanks!  I'll go over them tomorrow (when I get back to work) and implement
> the appropriate changes and give it a try then.  (I particularly like the
> option for multiple phone numbers)

Yep. I picked this script in the ppp (or was it diald ?) examples 
directory and added the capability for multiple phone numbers to be 
tried in a row. Now I'm not using it anymore, but I kept it.

> I'll let you know how things go.

Yes please.

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Re: syslog errors

[Tim Sailer]

In your email to me, Walter L. Preuninger II, you wrote:
> 
> Last night while trying to figure out why cron was not starting up, there
> were no S89cron files in /etc/rc[2-5].d, something happened to my syslog.
> Now all I get is
> Jan 12 13:39:47 walterp kernel: klogd 1.3-0, log source = /proc/kmsg
> started.
> Jan 12 13:39:47 walterp syslogd 1.3-0#11: restart.
> Jan 12 13:39:47 walterp syslogd: select: Bad file number
> Jan 12 13:40:17 walterp last message repeated 140355 times
> 
> I cant find anything wrong with /etc/syslog.conf, and finally have my
> system set up the way I like, so I dont want to reload.

Heh. I bet you had inn loaded at one point, and then deleted it.
Make sure the dir /var/log/news exists, and it should be better.

Tim

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Re: More diald problems.

[Kevin Traas]

> From: Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Kevin Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: More diald problems. 
> Date: Sunday, January 12, 1997 3:49 PM
>
> Here it is !!!
> Diald starts pppd itself, you don't have to start it in your dial script.
The dial script is just for dialing, not starting ppp.
> 
> So what happens is that pppd is started while diald thinks you're
connecting... It cannot install the defaultroute too...

Wow!  That explains things!  

Thanks *so* much for your help!  And an answer in only 14 minutes too!  How
can you beat that?  

Now that I know my problem, I'll probably find something obvious somewhere
in the docs  
 
> Here are my scripts:

Thanks!  I'll go over them tomorrow (when I get back to work) and implement
the appropriate changes and give it a try then.  (I particularly like the
option for multiple phone numbers)

I'll let you know how things go.

Thanks again for all your help,

Kevin Traas
Systems Analyst
Edmondson Roper 
Chilliwack, BC, Canada
http://users.uniserve.com/~erca

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Re: emergency action

[Daniel Stringfield]

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote:

> im curious, being not so familiar with debian as i am with solaris, if i
> somehow edit a file which on reboot, prevents my debian box from
> rebooting, is there a way to get back into the box and edit out my
> changes?
> 
> For instance, on a solaris machine i just stick my boot disk/cd in, when it
> gets to the configuration screen i can cntrl break out of it into a shell
> and hack around at will, is this possible on a debian box?

>From LILO boot prompt (press shift when LILO comes up) type "linux
emergency"

This will put it into single user runlevel.

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Re: 16 bpp and 1280 x 1024

[Orn E. Hansen]

Michael Gajhede <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> (--) S3: Using Trio32/64 programmable clock (MCLK 70.000 MHz)
> (--) S3: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 80.000 MHz
> (--) S3: Clock for mode "1280x1024" is too high for the configured hardware.
> Limit is  80.000 MHz
> (--) S3: Removing mode "1280x1024" from list of valid modes.
> (--) S3: Clock for mode "1152x864" is too high for the configured hardware.
> Limit is  80.000 MHz
> (--) S3: Removing mode "1152x864" from list of valid modes.
> (--) S3: Clock for mode "1024x768" is too high for the configured hardware.
> Limit is  80.000 MHz
> (--) S3: Removing mode "1024x768" from list of valid modes.

  The (--) says the value is probed from the driver, which informes you
that the maximum dot clock allowed is 80.000 MHz (Which is a little wierd,
the builtin limit is 90.000 MHz).

  Those modes, for a greater resolution than 800x600 need a dot-clock higher
than 80.000 MHz... since you are using 16 bit planes... so you need a driver 
that supports greater speed for the dot-clock (if the chipset for your
programmable clock supports it), obviously.

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Re: routing

[Philippe Troin]

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 18:32:21 EST Daniel Stringfield 
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> hello all.
> I have TWO Debian boxes sitting side by side (plus more, but they aren't
> hooked up as of yet)
> 
> My problem is:
> 
> When DIALD is running, nothing works over ethernet.  If I run TCPDUMP, I
> can see traffic going OUT, and I can see the other box sending data, but
> not as a response per se.  Machine with modem is a P133 box running the
> latest diald from bo, (have never been able to get it to work, with any 
> available diald version)  it has a 33.6k modem that I use to get onto the
> Internet with.  On the other debian box, I have nothing except ethernet,
> for a connection to the outside world.
> 
> If DIALD is running, the other machine won't answer ICMP echo requests, or
> anything else.  If diald is disabled, ethernet works ok.

A thought: do you have IP forwarding (CONFIG_IP_FORWARD) set in your kernel ?

Phil.



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Re: More diald problems.

[Philippe Troin]

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 15:29:48 PST "Kevin Traas" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:

> As requested, I've included my configuration files throughout the message
> below.  I hope this helps in figuring out what my problem is.  (I've
> stripped out my username & passwords from the files)

I think I can understand the problem:

> Jan  9 09:58:50 sally diald[3243]: Connect script timed out. Killing
> script.

You connect script never terminates and diald thinks it has hung 
(default timeout: 60 secs).

[diald.options: ]

> defaultroute
> connect "/etc/ppp/scripts/ppp-up"

> And here's my script to crank up the connection: /etc/ppp/scripts/ppp-up
[snipped]
> exec /usr/sbin/pppd debug /dev/ttyS0 38400 \
> $LOCAL_IP:$REMOTE_IP \
> connect $DIALER_SCRIPT


Here it is !!!
Diald starts pppd itself, you don't have to start it in your dial script. The 
dial script is just for dialing, not starting ppp.

So what happens is that pppd is started while diald thinks you're connecting... 
It cannot install the defaultroute too...

Here are my scripts:

=== Diald.options:
mode ppp
accounting-log /var/log/diald.log
mtu 1500
local  207.104.147.8
remote 207.104.147.7
netmask 255.255.255.0
dynamic
two-way
reroute
defaultroute
connect "/etc/ppp/connect"
lock
speed 115200
modem
crtscts
connect-timeout 90
redial-timeout 10
kill-timeout 30
redial-backoff-start 2
redial-backoff-limit 600
dial-fail-limit 0
up

===/etc/ppp/connect:
#!/bin/sh
# Copyright (c) 1996, Eric Schenk.
#
# This script is intended to give an example of a connection script that
# uses the "message" facility of diald to communicate progress through
# the dialing process to a diald monitoring program such as dctrl or diald-top.
# It also reports progress to the system logs. This can be useful if you
# are seeing failed attempts to connect and you want to know when and why
# they are failing.
#
# This script requires the use of chat-1.9 or greater for full
# functionality. It should work with older versions of chat,
# but it will not be able to report the reason for a connection failure.

# Configuration parameters

# The initialization string for your modem

MODEM_INIT="+++ATZ"

# The phone number to dial
PHONE_NUMBERS=1
PHONE_NUMBER1="MYNUMBER"

# The chat sequence to recognize that the remote system
# is asking for your user name.
USER_CHAT_SEQ="ogin:"

# The string to send in response to the request for your user name.
USER_NAME="MYNAME"

# The chat sequence to recongnize that the remote system
# is asking for your password.
PASSWD_CHAT_SEQ="assword:"

# The string to send in response to the request for your password.
PASSWORD="MYPASSWORD"

# The prompt the remote system will give once you are logged in
# If you do not define this then the script will assume that
# there is no command to be issued to start up the remote protocol.
PROMPT1='bash$ '

# The command to issue to start up the remote protocol
PROTOCOL_START="MYCOMMANDTOSTARTPPP"

# The string to wait for to see that the protocol on the remote
# end started OK. If this is empty then no check will be performed.
START_ACK=""

# Pass a message on to diald and the system logs.
function message () {
[ $FIFO ] && echo "message $*" >$FIFO
logger -p local2.info -t connect "$*"
}

# Initialize the modem. Usually this just resets it.
message "Initializing Modem"
chat TIMEOUT 5 "" $MODEM_INIT TIMEOUT 45 OK ""
if [ $? != 0 ]; then
message "Failed to initialize modem"
exit 1
fi

# Dial the remote system.

i=1
connected=0
while [ $i -le $PHONE_NUMBERS ]
do
message "Dialing system $i"
eval phone=\$PHONE_NUMBER$i
chat \
TIMEOUT 45 \
ABORT "NO CARRIER" \
ABORT BUSY \
ABORT "NO DIALTONE" \
ABORT ERROR \
"" ATDT$phone \
CONNECT ""
case $? in
   0) message Connected; connected=1;break;;
   1) message "Chat Error"; exit 1;;
   2) message "Chat Script Error"; exit 1;;
   3) message "Chat Timeout"; exit 1;;
   4) message "No Carrier"; exit 1;;
   5) message "Busy";;
   6) message "No DialTone"; exit 1;;
   7) message "Modem Error"; exit 1;;
   *) message "Unkown Error";exit 2;;
esac
let i=i+1
done

if [ $connected -eq 0 ]
then
message "All phone lines busy"
exit 1
fi

# We're connected try to log in.
message "Loggin in"
chat \
TIMEOUT 5 \
$USER_CHAT_SEQ \\q$USER_NAME \
TIMEOUT 45 \
$PASSWD_CHAT_SEQ $PASSWORD
if [ $? != 0 ]; then
message "Failed to log in"
exit 1
fi

# We logged in, try to start up the protocol (provided that the
# user has specified how to do this)

eval PROMPT=\$PROMPT$i
if [ $PROMPT ]; then
message "Starting Comm Protocol"
chat TIMEOUT 90 $PROMPT $PROTOCOL_START GOPPP
if [ $? != 0 ]; then
message "Prompt not received"
exit 1
fi
fi

if [ $START_ACK ]; then
chat TIMEOUT 15 $START_ACK ""
if [ $? != 0 ]; then
message "Failed to start