Status of wide character support in Linux
I'm curious if anyone knows the status of wide character support under Linux, and under gcc/g++ in particular. I know its coming, but I hope for a 2, 5, or 10 year availbility estimate, and a remark on 'whatz happening.' David - David B Teague | Ask me how user interface copyrights software patents [EMAIL PROTECTED] | make programing a dangerous business. spy counter-intelligence wild porno sex gold bullion Soviet Bosnia clipper Mossad data encryption munitions Serbian hydrazine ammonium nitrate fuel oil -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
read-only root and usr partitions
i don't have a ups but i do leave my linux system up all the time. it occurred to me that it might be a good idea to mount my root and usr filesystems read-only, so that if the power cut out, they would be as safe. what do i need to do in order to mount these in such a manner? i know of only one file specifically that is written to on those two partitions: /etc/mtab. is this the only one? if not, what are the others? if so, where is the proper place to repartition it so i can mount root and usr read-only? thanks, paul j. thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: read-only root and usr partitions
On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Paul J. Thompson wrote: i know of only one file specifically that is written to on those two partitions: /etc/mtab. is this the only one? if not, what are the others? if so, where is the proper place to repartition it so i can mount root and usr read-only? I'm going through the process of configuring tripwire on one of my systems and am exploring this issue as well. I have a stripped down system so there may be more files that are mutable. Here's what I've found so far: /etc/amandates From amanda which is a backup system /etc/adjtime From clock /etc/dumpdates From dump /etc/ioctl.saveFrom init /etc/mtab From mount /etc/wtmplock From login /dev/log Created by sysklogd but can configure to another directory /dev/tty[0-9] Changes ownership /dev/ttyS[0-9] Changes ownership Other terminal devices /dev/urandom /dev/initctl I sure there are more files modified in the /dev directory. I find it unfortunate that /etc cannot be mount read-only. Will the FHS address this problem? -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: read-only root and usr partitions
Jean Pierre, thanks for the response. it seems like quite an undertaking, however -- a lot more files then i expected. maybe it really isn't a reality to mount root read-only but a better idea to simply keep it very regularly backed up. maybe, however, usr can still be mounted read-only. do you know of any files there which would prohibit this? I find it unfortunate that /etc cannot be mount read-only. Will the FHS address this problem? what is the FHS? -- paul j. thompson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Increasing DOS partition
I just performed some fall cleaning by running a fresh install (like the one-disk install, thanks!). All went relatively smoothly except on the DOS side. I totally repartitioned the disks although I left /dev/sda1 as the DOS partition, only bigger. cfdisk in Linux showed the increased partition size, fdisk on a DOS boot floppy was also happy, but a dir in DOS showed the old size, and a format /s also formatted based upon the old size. One other hint: when I mount the partition from Linux, it also shows the old size. Any tips as to how I can format (or whatever) the DOS partition so that the OSs recognize the entire partition? And hopefully do this without destroying all my work on the other partitions. Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs. If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
boa under hamm is catching SIGBUS
I am running the boa Web server on a Debian (hamm) system. Package: boa Status: install ok installed Section: web Maintainer: Jon Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 0.92-5 The server is dying, usually within a day of being restarted. The last parts of the access and error logs are reproduced below. I would welcome suggestions of what might be going wrong. $ tail -3 /var/adm/boa/access_log 198.213.2.20 - - [06/Sep/1997:03:49:13] GET /pub/R/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html HTTP/1.0 200 2888 198.213.2.20 - - [06/Sep/1997:03:50:02] GET /pub/R/src/base HTTP/1.0 302 0 198.213.2.20 - - [06/Sep/1997:03:50:32] GET /pub/R/doc HTTP/1.0 302 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/spare3/bates $ tail -2 /var/adm/boa/error_log [05/Sep/1997:14:06:18] request from 206.10.88.120 GET /pub/Sbook/VR2compl.pdf HTTP/1.0: write: Broken pipe [06/Sep/1997:03:50:32] caught SIGBUS, dumping core $ -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Increasing DOS partition
On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Bill Wohler wrote: I totally repartitioned the disks although I left /dev/sda1 as the DOS partition, only bigger. cfdisk in Linux showed the increased partition size, fdisk on a DOS boot floppy was also happy, but a dir in DOS showed the old size, and a format /s also formatted based upon the old size. One other hint: when I mount the partition from Linux, it also shows the old size. Any tips as to how I can format (or whatever) the DOS partition so that the OSs recognize the entire partition? And hopefully do this without destroying all my work on the other partitions. is it a 12-bit FAT partition or 16-bit FAT partition? 12-bit FATs can't go beyond 32MB in size (could be wrong on the 32mb, but it's around that). try changing the partition type in linux fdisk to 16-bit FAT. otherwise, delete the partition with DOS FDISK and recreate it before formatting. as with anything involving the partition table, it is a good idea to backup your important data first. this is especially true if you use MS code (like DOS' FDISK.EXE) to do it. craig -- craig sanders networking consultant Available for casual or contract temporary autonomous zone system administration tasks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 2 CPU servers
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : I've seen some tape loaders change tape when sent mt offline, which : make them usable under linux. You might want to check first though. I'm happily using an HP Surestore 12000e DDS autochanger with dump and amanda to do backups on a set of systems, including various Debian platforms. The tape server is a Debian 1.3.1 system, with selected packages from unstable... The amanda and dump filesets were still libc5 when I grabbed them... Bdale -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: read-only root and usr partitions
Paul J. Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: thanks for the response. it seems like quite an undertaking, however -- a lot more files then i expected. maybe it really isn't a reality to mount root read-only but a better idea to simply keep it very regularly backed up. maybe, however, usr can still be mounted read-only. do you know of any files there which would prohibit this? I keep /usr mounted read-only, and I remount it read-write before I install a new package. (OK, I remount it read-write _after_ dpkg fails the first time.) Nearly anything writing there is a bug. There a two things I know of: /usr/src/linux needs to be rw. /usr/src should be a different partition or, like I have here, a symlink to /var/src (or /home/src). XFree86 3.3-3 has a bug where it needs to write to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled. This is symlinked to ../../../../../var/lib/xkb here as a temprorary measure. -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ kernel: Warning: possible SYN flooding. Sending cookies. kernel: validated probe(17f, 17f, 11557, 5010, -1645409555) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: read-only root and usr partitions
No. The FSSTND was designed to support a read-only /usr. The FHS is the next iteration of FSSTND, the Linux file system standard. -- Jean Pierre On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Paul J. Thompson wrote: thanks for the response. it seems like quite an undertaking, however -- a lot more files then i expected. maybe it really isn't a reality to mount root read-only but a better idea to simply keep it very regularly backed up. maybe, however, usr can still be mounted read-only. do you know of any files there which would prohibit this? I find it unfortunate that /etc cannot be mount read-only. Will the FHS address this problem? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problem with dselect, apache mod_perl
I installed Apache 1.2.4 recently. Initially there seem to be some problem leading to number of packages being required or conflicting with eachother. I finally get apache to install and along the way upgaded a number of packages among them are perl and related packages, dpkg, libg++272, libg++27, libc5 and libc6. However I now find that I can't get mod_perl in Apache to work, the error I get when running apacheconfig is -- Stopping Apache webserver...sleeping...starting again...[Mon Sep 8 13:43:09 1997] Can't locate DynaLoader.pm in @INC at /usr/lib/perl5/Apache/Constants.pm line 9. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Apache/Constants.pm line 9. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Apache.pm line 4. Can't load Perl module `Apache', exiting... failed. -- I tried restalling perl but it doesn't help. On top of that my dselect now can't work with the ftp method. It give me the follow error update available list script was terminated by a signal: Segmentation fault. (It left a coredump.) I'm sure all these errors are the result of my upgrading. Can anyone give me an idea of how to retify them. They are giving a good number of sleepless night. My sincere thanks in advance. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Prompt in Bash [fixed]
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yup, kill the eval and life is good. Thanks, Mr. Browning.
You're welcome, but sheesh, call me Rob :
One final word for those who were following this thread.
This
if [ ${PS1:-UNSET} = UNSET ]
should have been
if [ ${PS1:-UNSET} = UNSET ]
Without the quotes, you can get problems when you have a prompt with
escape characters.
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Re: Samba package
I know what's happening because I went throught this problem before: the /var/lib/dpkg/info/samba.prerm script stops any nmbd and smbd that could be running. It does this by calling start-stop-daemon but the script does not consider the case of no daemons running. To solve the problem just edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/samba.prerm and add the option --oknodo to the invocation of start-stop-daemon. This option makes start-stop-daemon return a succesful code even in the case of no daemons running, so the prerm script does not fail. This is definitely a bug in the Samba package that the new maintainer should take care of. E.- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I have the samba package installed but want to remove it, everytime i try I : get the following: : : Shadow:~# dpkg --remove samba : (Reading database ... 14226 files and directories currently installed.) : Removing samba ... : dpkg: error processing samba (--remove): : subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 : Errors were encountered while processing: : samba -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9431645 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Who knows stuff about WAN cards?
On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Amos wrote: Amos [ recommandations for SDL and Emerging Technologies deleted for Amos bravity ] Amos Amos I know of at least 3 Sangoma 508 boards running at 64Kb Amos frame-relay, and about to install one in my home machine soon. Amos Their web site (http://www.sangoma.com) shows relatively new Amos boards with CSU/DSU included, but I was worried that the Amos standards here in Israel possibly being a little different and Amos so it isrisky to get this part integrated - you might want to Amos check the service in your area before ordering. Amos Amos BTW, Sangoma are the people who donated (and apparently still Amos maintain) the WAN support to Linux. Amos Amos (Debian related - two of the three running cards (and my home Amos machine) use it under Debian bo release, the other one runs Amos RedHat). Amos Amos Hope this helps, I would also recommend to look at the Incarda router card, it's about the same price (if I am not mistaken) as Sangoma. The reason why I prefer to use it is because it's completely independent router with hardware firewalls and other Ip filters, and all the routing compatibilities are already in the card so you don't have to waste computer resources on building firewalls and running gated. It is managed by telnet (the only thing that card takes from the computer is power, it is not related to the software that runs on the computer) or menu based dos program. The site is http://www.sourcecom.com/ products: http://www.sourcecom.com/pub/products/products.htm There are also external models (same card just in small box and power supply) which CSU/DSU support. (this product family is called InRoute) Good Luck, borik -- Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institute of Computer Science, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hebrew University Home: +972 2 6411880 Jerusalem Israel Work: +972 2 6585690 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xrsh?
On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Heikki Vatiainen wrote:
How about using ssh? Since I switched to ssh I have not had any need to
do those
'xauth extract - $DISPLAY | rsh otherhost xauth merge -' tricks anymore.
Ssh crypts the connection and as an extra bonus automagically sets
DISPLAY and xauth authorization records during the login process.
Unfortunatelly I had trouble with ssh... the X connections are forwarded
through the ssh channel, encrypted... and sometimes they get broken.
For example I was unable to run an xv through an ssh connection, xv exited
with server kill or something like that immediatelly :(
Then something must have been wrong. I run xv (and fvwm2, emacs, xterm,
whatever) regularly under ssh.
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afterstep icons
i all. I've just installed debian 1.3.1 on 2 seperate machines. On both machine the icon on the top of the warf bar (afterstep and X windows) is missing. The AFstep.xpm file exists and is viewable using xv, but it won't appear. Also, xload won't run because it claims to ne libproc.?.11 and I have ?.12 installed. Is this the type of thing one reports as a bug to the package maintainer? Boy it would be an improvement on the redhat system if it were that easy!! Cheers David.. Binary Bar - Australia's first free access internet bar/cafe/gallery. 243 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia. 12:00pm - 11:00pm http://www.binary.net.au -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fetchmail and smail
I've run into a problem, I upgraded fetchmail and smail and my whole system actually, now using libc6, fetchmail is grabbing my mail and putting it somewhere but not in my local mail acocunt so I cna't read it once its fetched, any help would be appreciated With fetchmail the mail goes to /var/spool/mail/*username*, unless you have specified otherwise in .fetchmailrc. Also check that your settings for procmail are OK, if you are using it. I had a small problem with lost mail, when upgrading my system and fetching mail at the same time (forgot that I was connected talk about multitasking :)) and procmail dumped sorted mail into files in my homedir. --j -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: locales, msgfmt, and compiling KDE from source
Hm. I've looked in the old localebin and new locales packages and neither of them contain msgfmt, so now I'm really stumped. Where does msgfmt come from? Ben. On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Synergistic Effect wrote: I have a mixed libc5/libc6 system that is fairly up-to-date with unstable. I'm having trouble compiling KDE from source which I think relates to the fact that I don't have a locales package. If I try selecting locales, I get the following: _* Std adminlocales Locale data files and utilities. **- Req base libc5The Linux C library version 5 (run-time libraries U*- Opt libs tcl76The Tool Command Language (TCL) v7.6 - libc5 Run- U*- Opt libs tk42 The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11 v4.2 - libc5 Run-T **- Xtr non-free xsnowSnow in your X server **- Std mail biff a mail notification tool **- Opt contrib gimp-plugins A set of fairly standard plug-ins for the GIMP. **- Req base sysklogd Kernel and system logging daemons **- Opt non-free pine An e-mail reader with MIME and IMAP support. **- Opt net wu-ftpd A powerful replacement for the standard ftpd locales not installed; install (was: purge). Standard libc5 conflicts with locales (= 2.0.4-1) Without locales installed on my system, however, the make bombs out in the middle of building kdebase complaining that it can't find msgfmt, which I believe, from speaking with friends with RedHat, is part of locales support. What do I do here? I'm too deeply into libc6 to back that out. I can't live without the libc5 apps that locales disagrees with above. Can I fall back to an older locales? Can I install locales anyway? Finally, I had one other little snag with KDE. I installed qt-dev in with a --force-depends in spite of the fact that it said it required libc5-dev. I do have libc5-altdev on my system. Is this OK? Ben. -- 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: read-only root and usr partitions
It's best for now to mount root for write and /usr read-only. Under normal operations I think the files in /etc are only written at system start-up and shut-down (and during backups) and it might be possible to have root read-only at other times. The _dates_ in /dev are changed but the actual files are not except for the case of named pipes or unix-domain sockets that are created there by some daemons (lpd?). I think that stuff belongs in /tmp, not /dev. I think it's desirable to be able to run with a read-only root, especially since we are so close to being able to do it now, but it's not my highest priority. I'd be interested in seeing others work on it. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: read-only root and usr partitions
On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: It's best for now to mount root for write and /usr read-only. Under normal operations I think the files in /etc are only written at system start-up and shut-down (and during backups) and it might be possible to have root read-only at other times. The _dates_ in /dev are changed but the actual files are not except for the case of named pipes or unix-domain sockets that are created there by some daemons (lpd?). I think that stuff belongs in /tmp, not /dev. There are a few other cases. /etc/mtab for example is written whenever mount is used. I think it's desirable to be able to run with a read-only root, especially since we are so close to being able to do it now, but it's not my highest priority. I'd be interested in seeing others work on it. I agree. However, it does cause problems when security is a priority. I'm hoping that the FHS will address this issue. When it is released, we might want to focus on this. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Fetchmail/smail [fixed]
well I managed to fix my fetchmail problem by going back to the fetchmail version in stable, not sure what the problem with the unstable version was but at least now Im getting my mail again :) G'razel the shifty kitty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.aye.net/~kestrel found on Tapestries FurryMUCK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Long FAT filenames and Linux ?
Hi ! Just wondering if it is possible so make Linux read/write long filenames and a FAT partition ? (FAT16 - with 95win) I have the VFAT module installed, but it doesn't seem to work... Regards, badpixel of bad sector michael legart -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW icq uin - 2565176 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Colors in the prompt like in slackware ?
Hi ! instead of using the $LS_OPTIONS environment variable, which by the way was quite different in that old Slackware: Sorry ... I think you have misunderstud my question. I didn't mean that the colors should look exactly like they do is Slackware, but I just wantet some colors, so that I can see which of the objects are directories, and which are files. But thanks anyway ! Regards, badpixel of bad sector michael legart -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW icq uin - 2565176 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: IP Masquerading
Hi ! Now I'm working on IP Masquerading (finally!) and in the HOWTO, there is a command called ipfwadm. I can't figure out what package it is under (and it curently doesn't exist on my system) A little question ... do you have to use ipfwadn to use ip masquerading ? - It is for use on a network, just for a weekend (at a little party) Regards, badpixel of bad sector michael legart -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW icq uin - 2565176 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Building the Ultimate Linux NT System
Hi, I have had a real nightmare trying to get linux up an running on my lowly compaq presario. It was a decent windows 3.1 machine and it has over 32mb of ram, but mounting the scsi cdrom on the sb16 adaptec 1510/1522 combo is a real pain. Therefor i have decided to go and start building a real killer machine, i think i can build a unit better and cheaper than what i can buy complete, anyway it could be designed for compatibility. let me have your ideas on the subject and your suggestions are greatly appreciated. regards, allan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Building the Ultimate Linux NT System
Hi, I have had a real nightmare trying to get linux up an running on my lowly compaq presario. It was a decent windows 3.1 machine and it has over 32mb of ram, but mounting the scsi cdrom on the sb16 adaptec 1510/1522 combo is a real pain. Therefor i have decided to go and start building a real killer machine, i think i can build a unit better and cheaper than what i can buy complete, anyway it could be designed for compatibility. let me have your ideas on the subject and your suggestions are greatly appreciated. regards, allan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Long FAT filenames and Linux ?
On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Michael Legart wrote: Just wondering if it is possible so make Linux read/write long filenames and a FAT partition ? (FAT16 - with 95win) I have the VFAT module installed, but it doesn't seem to work... You probably also have msdos fs support which is operating by default. Have you tried specifying the vfat type in your mount command? mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt The above command should give you the behavior that you want. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED]UCSD Physics Dept. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
gcc
Hi! Was trying to compile a program with gcc and it gave me the error: gcc: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1': No such file or directory I installed it correctly.. Thanks, Jens -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
shadow password
what is the advantage comparing to dis in shadowing password? kusuma
Unable to open initial console
About every 1 out of 3 times my computer boots I get a message that says something to the effect of: Unable to open an initial console and the boot process stops. I'm not familiar enough with the boot process to know what might be causing this and was unable to find anything helpful in the booting Howto. Does anyone have any advice for me? It's not a major problem, just annoying. Information that may be related (?) or may indicate a completely separate problem: Two error messages always appear in the kernels boot records: Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI Card! I don't have any SCSI drives on this computer (to my knowledge!). PPA: unable to initialise controller at 0x378, error 2 What is PPA? Hardware is: DFI G586-IPV motherboard with Intel 430VX 512K and AMD-K5 PR90 CPU. Award bios. 16 mb EDO 60ns Very old Maxtor 213MD hard drive Hopefully that's too much information, but better too much than too little!!? Thanks very much for your assistance! Jess Stryker -- Free Irrigation Tutorials on Design, Installation, and More! -- Visit them at: -- http://www.netyard.com/jsa/index.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: read-only root and usr partitions
It's best for now to mount root for write and /usr read-only. Under
normal operations I think the files in /etc are only written at
system start-up and shut-down (and during backups) and it might be
possible to have root read-only at other times. The _dates_ in /dev
are changed but the actual files are not except for the case of named
pipes or unix-domain sockets
... and the ownerships of /dev/tty*
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$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
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Re: Unable to open initial console
About every 1 out of 3 times my computer boots I get
a message that says something to the effect of:
Unable to open an initial console
and the boot process stops. I'm not familiar enough
with the boot process to know what might be causing
It's linux/init/main.c:1005
if ((open(/dev/tty1,O_RDWR,0) 0)
(open(/dev/ttyS0,O_RDWR,0) 0))
printk(Unable to open an initial console.\n);
Thus, the kernel cannot find /dev/tty{1,S0}. Now, I doubt very much
that those files appear or reappear spontaniously, so I very much
suspect that you eighter mount a different partition as root once every
3 reboots (how do you do that?), or your hardisk isn't as
reliable as it should be.
BTW, the kernel apparently does go on forking init() etc. Do
you see anything in the system logs for those failed boots?
(I guess not).
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI Card! I don't
have any SCSI drives on this computer (to my knowledge!).
And that's where your root partition resides? seems like that
could be the source of your problems.
PPA: unable to initialise controller at 0x378, error 2
What is PPA?
Hardware is:
DFI G586-IPV motherboard with Intel 430VX 512K and
AMD-K5 PR90 CPU. Award bios.
16 mb EDO 60ns
Very old Maxtor 213MD hard drive
Maybe other people with Very Old Maxtor HD's will be able
to give you more info, but it seems to me that it's time
to by a new HD. (213M, how much are they, these days? $50?)
I strongly suspect that you'll see that 33% ratio go up
as time goes by, to suddenly go up to 100%. If I were you, I'd
make sure to make backups before it goes to 100%.
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xemacs19 error
I've just had to start from scratch on my debian install and I thought I would cut to the chase and start with a hamm system. However, in trying to get xemacs 19 running on the console I hit this error. I remember seeing someone write about it earlier before I lost all my email in the crash. The error: xemacs: can't resolve symbol '__sigsetjmp' What might I be missing? (I know it worked on the libc6 system I had running last week) -- David Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Language cannot do everything-- chalk it on the walls where the dead poets lie in their mausoleums. - A. Rich --- Home Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ PGP Public Key available there or via Finger. --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xemacs19 error
On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, David Morris wrote: get xemacs 19 running on the console I hit this error. I remember seeing someone write about it earlier before I lost all my email in the crash. The error: xemacs: can't resolve symbol '__sigsetjmp' The problem is with the latest release of compfaces. Downgrade to the version in stable. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Where should I install non debian software?
I remember reading guidlines for installing non debian software, but I can't seem to find them again. Any pointers where to find them? The software is WINE which doesn't seem to exist in package form. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: afterstep icons
On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, David wrote: I have had the same problem...but I have installed both Xload, and Xproc. I still am mising the top icon also. Maybe we both have something messed up?...or maybe it is a bug? I don't know. If anyone knows how to solve this problem, please help me out. As I recall, when I switched to the reduced color icons, the top one magically appeared (and Netscape had colors again). Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Where should I install non debian software?
Debian ignores /usr/local. Any non-package should go there. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
