Re: "Cannot find map file"
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Re: It's all so confusing, so should I get a CD Distribution?
> OK, I'm finding all this Linux thing really difficult because I'm using it > on my home computer and have to go to my mother's college to download > things, and I'm a total newbie so I > don't have a clue when it comes to recompiling the Kernel to put NTFS > compatibility on, and installing X Window etc. Therefore, I am considering > buying a distribution. > > 1) Would you recommend a distribution disk for a newbie? I Think a newbie (and also others with out fast and handy internet connection) should have a CD. Take a look at www.debian.org. Some commercial companies that I recall selling CDs are www.chaepbytes.com, www.lsl.com. I think that those CD cost about $20 or less, mostly for overseas shipment. > 2) Are there different ones to get? Yes. The differences are the addition to the "standard" Linux software. For example, There might be an "office" software for Linux, or an integrated clone of Motif, or a book (www.linuxpress.com), to name only some possibilities. > 3) I know this is a Debian list, but do you recommend Debian for > user-friendliness? What are its advantages/disadv. ? I read an article about > Red Hat being good, but it's expensive (£50 = $85) I would recommend Debian for user-friendliness. The fact that a package tells you what its dependencies and if they are fullfiled seems to me very user freindly. And the new deity are said to overcome the difficult sides of dselect. By the way, I think that an official Red Hat can be bought for $40 or even $20, without shipment. It may be that the mentioned $85 includes more then a bare Red Hat distribution. > 4) Can I dual-boot Windows NT and Debian? I believe you can althgough I never tried to. -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lynx get stuck (sort of...it's an annoyance)
On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 05:04:57PM -0500, Scott McDermott wrote: > > Doesn't the single key press "z - Cancel transfer in progress" do what > > you wish? This is from the help file which can be invoked by pressing > > "h" and then choosing "Key-stroke Commands". > > Z, or control-g. Stalled resolves, though, won't be interrupted unless > Lynx was compiled with the --with-nsl-fork option to configure. Note > that this may only be a feature of 2.8 . This feature is present as of the current Debian lynx package, 2.7.2-1. DS -- David Sewell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "If all things should become Dep't of Geosciences, Univ. of Arizona| become smoke, then perception WWW: http://packrat.aml.arizona.edu/~dsew/ | would be by the nostrils." | --Heraclitus -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lynx get stuck (sort of...it's an annoyance)
Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 12:31:56PM +0100: > > the CTRL-C boogie and when i do so,i lose my page (and often,i dont > > remember the URL of the page in question),does there is a way for > > configuring lynx so that after a time it say an error message that the > > server doesn't answer and recover from being stuck ??? > > > Doesn't the single key press "z - Cancel transfer in progress" do what > you wish? This is from the help file which can be invoked by pressing > "h" and then choosing "Key-stroke Commands". Z, or control-g. Stalled resolves, though, won't be interrupted unless Lynx was compiled with the --with-nsl-fork option to configure. Note that this may only be a feature of 2.8 . -- Scott -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: text-to-speech
Norbert Veber wrote: > is this one any good? I've tried rsynth before, and it was almost unbarable > :) It's a lot better than rsynth (it has a decent pronunciation dictionary). I find it very understandable. I think I'm in a minorty, though. -- see shy jo -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to login
"William D. Rendahl" wrote: >We have a box here running 1.3.1 that is only >allowing root to login. Any other account gives: > >Unable to cd to "/home/billr" > >(or that user's home) immediately after the password >is entered. The system only has one partition. So - has something happened to /home or its contents? Log in as root and see if /home/billr exists, what its permissions are and whether you can cd into it. `ls -l /home' should show something like this: drwxr-xr-x 51 billrbillr2048 Mar 16 21:30 billr If billr doesn't own /home/billr, you may not be able to use it even if it exists. That would be down to the permissions. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: text-to-speech
> Sure. Debian has a free text to speech program called "festival" that can > speak with a vaiety of voices. You will need to install debian first to use > it (note that this means installing linux - I assume you know what that > means, since you posted here). is this one any good? I've tried rsynth before, and it was almost unbarable :) -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to login
Got it. My root directory / wasn't set to 755 drwxr--r-- No group or other execute. Doh! Thanks to all that replied, Bill -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
locale problems
Every time I run a perl program, I get the following message: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "us" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). Similarly, when I run xterm, I get the following message: Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged Anyone have any ideas what's wrong? Thanks, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows under DosEmu
On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 06:56:30PM -0300, Nelson Posse Lago wrote: > The basic trick for win95 is to create a 64Mb swap partition for linux and > configure DOSEMU to report 64Mb of expanded/extended memory to > applications. Then allow full direct access to the HP partition where > win95 lives in. To switch from win95 to another Virtual Console, *first* > open a "dos prompt" under windows and then try CRTL-ALT-Fx ; this probably > has to do with the video mode. Are you saying that Win95 will run under Dosemu? Really? Please? :) That would be fantastic! Thanks, Jeff -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows under DosEmu
On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Asher Haig wrote: > I'm told that it's possible to run Windows under DosEmu. What's the truth > in this? The DOSEMU documentation mentions how to run win3 under dosemu; there's a Brazilian linux user that wrote a mini-HOWTO (in portuguese...) on running win95 under DOSEMU, and others reported success (and failure ;-). The basic trick for win95 is to create a 64Mb swap partition for linux and configure DOSEMU to report 64Mb of expanded/extended memory to applications. Then allow full direct access to the HP partition where win95 lives in. To switch from win95 to another Virtual Console, *first* open a "dos prompt" under windows and then try CRTL-ALT-Fx ; this probably has to do with the video mode. See ya, Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's Internet! -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to delete files with strange ownership and permissions.
Hi folks. A search of the archives suggests to me that the following message was never posted: On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > Hello All. > > I'm running hamm (unstable) on a PC at home, and I somehow ended up with > some apparently corrupted files. I am unable to figure out how to delete > them, and dpkg pukes when trying to upgrade the relevant packages. Here's > are some examples (using 'ls -l'): > > br-xr-Sr-- 1 2769529285 51, 46 Mar 28 2031 ChangeLog.gz > cr-SrwS-wT 1 2826525203 99, 114 May 9 2031 INSTALL.gz > cr-sr-sr-- 1 2853126988104, 46 Aug 16 2027 changelog.Debian.gz > c--SrwS-wT 1 1182426207114, 115 Jan 15 2034 copyright > > I don't understand the permissions or the ownership and group attributes. > I cannot do anything with them using rm, chown, or chgrp. Please help. > And, please cc to me as I am not currently subscribed to debian-user. > > > Thanks. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>UCSD Physics Dept. -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FAQ's should be updated for newbies
Hiya. I just installed Debian 1.3.1 onto a spare partition of my system this weekend. The installation faq found on www.debian.org was very helpful in getting it installed on my system. However, the DSELECT faq was far from helpful... in fact, it was apalling how it ignores the novice user such as myself. So I have DSELECT up and running, and I have to choose the first item on the menu (0 - Access) in order to tell DSELECT where the packages are. Does the FAQ tell me what to do here? No. The FAQ assumes that I am an experienced user, and would know what a "Block Device" is. But I don't. The FAQ for dselect is lacking in this area. It should give step-by-step instructions on using it, so that newbies such as myself can get it up and running without having to call up their Linux-guru friends at 2am. Thanks for listening to the rant, Alec Muzzy [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wolfenet.com/~muzzy -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
msql acls trouble
Hi! I'm newbie in sql databases. I recently installed msqland I've got some troubles with acls. My /etc/msql.acl looks like this: == # SuppressMail=no # Port=4333 # Configured=yes # MailTo=tomek # Debug=general:query:error:key:trace database=* read=* write=msql access=local database=test read=* write=tomek,-* host=*.se.com.pl option=ident access=remote,local === I think it means: "user tomek can write to database 'test' from any host in domain se.com.pl, and locally, others can onlu read". But it does'nt work for me. User tomek can only read from databse and only if I try local access (msql test). All write querys fail. If I invoke msql with hostname (msql -h rabarbar.se.com.pl test) I get "ERROR : Access to database denied" logs: local access (msql test, user tomek) [msqld] Mon Mar 16 21:08:35 1998 [msqld] Query = insert into test values ('1','test') [msqld] Command Processed! But msql says ERROR : Access Denied which hostanme (msql -h rabarbar.se.com.pl) [rabarbar:tomek:~]$ msql -h rabarbar.se.com.pl test ERROR : Access to database denied [rabarbar:tomek:~]$ [msqld] New connection received on 7 [msqld] Host = rabarbar.se.com.pl [msqld] User = tomek [msqld] Command on sock 7 = 2 (Init DB) [msqld] DBName = test [msqld] Command Processed! [msqld] Command read on sock 7 failed! [msqld] Command on sock 7 = 1 (Quit) [msqld] DB QUIT! [msqld] Command Processed! Any ideas? -- * Tomek (setq disclaimer 'standard) (setq NIC 'AT144-ORG) (setq pgp-fp "53B8A68AD35A64AF A61DD53E9E5A1C0F") -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: link error when compiling kernel
On Sat, Mar 14, 1998 at 12:03:45AM -0500, David B Wilson wrote: > I tried recompiling my kernel to add FAT32 support, but when it came > time for the link part of the compile, there were a bunch of undefined > functions. I don't know why Debian 1.3 gave two kernel versions, but > it was the 2.0.30 version that I tried compiling. > > fs/fs.o: In function `init_nls_cp437': > fs/fs.o(.text+0xe): undefined reference to `register_nls' Hehehe, I got this first ;) National Language Support (nls) is *a must* with DOS FS now. The kernel config question looks like it is an option, but you have to say Yes there ;) Thank you, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mkisofs
I am trying to test a cd writer we just bought. mkisofs fails about 1/2 the way through when trying to creating a filesystem from any existing CD I try. The error I receive is: cannot open : No such file or directory However, the file does it exist, and it doesn't fail on the same file each time! (Trying it over with the same CD of course) I have plenty of disk space and this is the command I execute: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] mkisofs -r -l -L -o cdimage /cdrom Has anyone else experienced the same thing? This is Debian 2.0, and all my packages are up-to-date. Thanks, Dennis -- dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SOLVED: EXMH can not send e-mail (SMAIL/EXMH/MAILX)
On Sat, 14 Mar 1998 02:59:32 CST, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > Hi, All! > > Thanks to everyone who replyed on this message. I think problem is fixed now, > and I would like to share my little experience. [..] > For Mail program (package mailx) it is done in file: > /etc/smail/config > visible_name=domain # !! HERE !! fake name if you wish... > more_hostnames=localhost > -domains > hostnames=linuxbox.domain# here is the true name > > For EXMH/MH program one need to modify: > /etc/mh/mtstailor > > localname: domain > Thanks! This last step appears to be the the missing one I needed to make my email deliverable globally. My /var/log/smail/logfile now shows my intended hostname: Received FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HOST:u.washington.edu [127.0.0.1] While an exmh FAQ might serve to get the job of configuring exmh done, and in any event would be a good addition, I wonder if a mh-config/nmh-config or exmh-config script wouldn't be even better? Actually, the smail-config could probably be improved for the "internet" option as well. I don't know if these ideas are in keeping with relevant traditions, or if they're the best ideas, but shouldn't configuring mail for dialup networking be fairly straightforward, no matter what an individual's preferred email client, as long as it's debianized? If there are already plans to simplify mta and email client configuration, please tell me so I don't pointlessly submit wish-list items in the bug-db. -- David Stern -- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Off Subject: Mother board inquiry
On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, DAVID B. TEAGUE wrote: > Hi > > I hope someone can send or point me to specs on a motherboard. I want to > install this in my wife's machine. We plan to run a dual boot Linux/ > Lose95. > > It is a 486 Dx2/100 PCI mother board having the designation "PVI-486SP3 > Rev 1.21" stenciled on it. If you know who makes this board or have a > manual (or can point me to this information) please let me know. ASUS makes that one. I think I have that kind at home. If so, I can dig out the manual and get you the data. Until tomorrow, try looking at their website (www.asus.com, I think.) Sincerely, Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "An apple every eight hours keeps three doctors away." - B. Kliban -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Win95's FAT32 & Linux
I have just upgraded my windows 95 system to version 2 and I have used the FAT32 file system, but I am now unable to mount this partition under Linux, is this possible at when it was FAT then I just used the vfat module but this does not seem to work. Any ideas? Take a look at http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html";>Linux FAT32 Support -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tetex question
"G. Kapetanios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My question is more tex oriented but involves knowledge of tetex. Tha is > why I am asking the list. The book documentclass creates page headers with > the title of the chapter. However, if the title is long the whole thing is > meesed up. Is there a way to change that and either hjave no page headers > or use title abbreveations ? Do I need to play around with the style files > or some other sort of files ? Where would those files be in the tetex > distribution of debian ? Any ideas would be appreciated. Put a shortened form of the chapter title in an optional argument to the \chapter command. In my case it looks like \chapter[Structure of Grouped Data]{Describing the Structure of Grouped Data} -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
many many segfaults
One of my debian boxes is becoming increasingly unstable, with general protection faults and segfaults almost every day now. I checked the RAM a couple of weeks ago with the memtest utility included with hwtools (i think), and it didn't find any faults -- but I know this doesn't mean the RAM's not at fault. Is there anything else I should be considering? It's a 2 1/2 year old machine on an Intel Endeavor motherboard, P166, 2940 host adapter. Diagnostics are a bit tricky as I'm on the other side of the atlantic from the machine. Suggestions from people experienced in these matters welcomed... TIA -TL M$ slips up in true Freudian style... Seminar attendee: "Why is [Outlook] so slow?" M$ rep: "That's because it's live on the network." Seminar attendee: "As opposed to...?" Stop the madness! Free yourselves! http://www.opensource.org/ -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lilo, linux and win95
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > howdy all.:-) > > Just installed Debian linux and win95 on a system and wish to have dual boot > > system with LILO as boot manager. > > cfdisk shows: > > /dev/hda1 Boot Primary Dos FAT16 (has Win95 installed on it) > /dev/hda5 Logical Linux > /dev/hda6 Logical Linux Swap >From the numbering above, I can surmise that you installed linux into an Extended DOS partition. > > If I run LILO and tell it to generate a new /etc/lilo.conf and then answer: > > Install a partition boot record to boot linux from /dev/hda5?yes > Install a master boot record on /dev/hda yes > Make /dev/hda5 the active partition? yes > > then LILO will generate the following error message: > > 5: not a valid partition number (1-4) > > > If I answer yes to the first two questions but no for the third the system > can only boot with Win95to boot linux I must use my emergency disk. > > Any suggestions on why this is happening? > >From the LILO manual ... LILO boot sector is designed to be usable as a partition boot sector. (I.e. there is room for the partition table.) Therefore, the LILO boot sector can be stored at the following locations: - boot sector of a Linux floppy disk. (/dev/fd0, ...) - MBR of the first hard disk. (/dev/hda, ...) - boot sector of a primary Linux file system partition on the first hard disk. (/dev/hda1, ...) - partition boot sector of an extended partition on the first hard disk. (/dev/hda1, ...)* * Most FDISK-type programs don't believe in booting from an extended partition and refuse to activate it. LILO is accompanied by a simple program (activate) that doesn't have this restriction. Linux fdisk also supports activating extended partitions. It _can't_ be stored at any of the following locations: - boot sector of a non-Linux floppy disk or primary partition. - a Linux swap partition. - boot sector of a logical partition in an extended partition.* - on the second hard disk. (Unless for backup installations, if the current first disk will be removed or disabled, or if some other boot loader is used, that is capable of loading boot sectors from other drives.) * LILO can be forced to put the boot sector on such a partition by using the -b option or the BOOT variable. However, only few programs that operate as master boot records support booting from a logical partition. ... Now based on the above information, you need to run the _Linux_ version of Fdisk (/sbin/fdisk) and make the extended partition (/dev/hda2) active. Other members of this list use extended partitions for Linux. My personal perference is to use primary partitions only. Without starting over from scratch, as root, you should try tweaking the lilo.conf file by hand and running lilo afterward. Reboot and check. As always, keep that bootable floppy handy just in case 8-) Perhaps others can offer tips on how you can configure the lilo.conf file for your particular setup. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell XPS/60
could be that your P60 overheat,my 486 do it too when open more than 48 hours (the CD drive to be exact),that can cause problem when having moderate to heavy load (or even light load depending on how your system is well cooled),check that you have a CPU cooling fan and that it work !! p.s.my 486 is a 50 mhz,this problem can hapen sooner on a faster chip,another thing is that my bedroom is trully warm when my computer have been left open for a lot of time !!! Alain Toussaint -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OFF: Re: viewing binary files
Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I often make a script called my.reset that simply echo's ^O (letter o). > If this attachment worked right, then you should be able to use it without > any problem. Fyi, ^O puts the terminal back into text mode which is the > only problem I've ever had after reading a binary. Um... That's not _quite_ correct. Ctrl/O shifts to the primary character set, which is usually the right one. (The escape sequences necessary to change the primary char. set are rather unlikely to appear in a binary file, but they can happen - especially if, for example, the binary was of a program that did a lot of screen manipulation) I always go with outputting -c, which resets the terminal (and ends up clearing the screen too; oh well). I think the keyboard HOWTO has all sorts of information like this. (The reason it's so common to need the ^O fix is that to get the terminal to switch to the secondary character set (which starts out on well-behaved terminals as the graphics set) one only needs to send the terminal a ^N; assuming characters are evenly distributed in a binary, it gives a binary file about a one-in-two chance of leaving the screen in a messed-up state). -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: your mail
On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, rick wrote: > Timothy M. Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | My backspace key has suddenly stopped working in X. > | Now it acts like a [Delete] Key. > | This happened when my KBD package died along with my /usr/loal/ > | directory, but did not recover when I reinstalled KBD. > | > | Any ideas how to fix this? > > I'm in the middle of this myself. I think my problem is > /etc/kbd/default.map is gzipped. > > init.d/kbd-boot.sh says this about that: > > if [ -r /etc/kbd/default.map -o -r /etc/kbd/default.map.gz ] > then > loadkeys /etc/kbd/default.map > fi > > I gunzipped default.map and rebooted (hate doing that) and all seems > well, although I'm still finding and removing some other things I > tried -- stty ^H, .Xmodmap changes... -- so I'm not sure yet. I'm seeing the opposite, delete works like backspace, but only in Netscape 4.04. Other X applications behave correctly. Does anyone have an idea what would cause this and how to fix it? 'xmodmap -pk' shows delete as keycode 107 and backspace as keycode 22, which looks correct. The Netscape.ad file refers to the FAQ, but I don't find this covered there. Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/ -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unable to login
We have a box here running 1.3.1 that is only allowing root to login. Any other account gives: Unable to cd to "/home/billr" (or that user's home) immediately after the password is entered. The system only has one partition. Any help or hints would be GREATLY appreciated! Please CC me directly so I don't have to wait for the digested version. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Win95's FAT32 & Linux
Hello, I have just upgraded my windows 95 system to version 2 and I have used the FAT32 file system, but I am now unable to mount this partition under Linux, is this possible at when it was FAT then I just used the vfat module but this does not seem to work. Any ideas? Also when I try to install LILO I keep get an error saying that it cannot access the drives, I currently have 3 hard drives in my system 2 on the primary controller (which is running my windows 95 system) and 1 on the secondary controller (which is running Linux) can anyone tell me why LILO won't install? This has ment that I have to boot Linux from floppy (using the boot disc created when I installed my kernel). Is there ny program avaliable that would create my lilo.conf file for me as liloconfig does not seem to do this anymore. Finally can anyone tell me why linux is not finding my new memory, I have just upgraded from 64Mb to 128Mb, and Linux still thinks I only have 64Mb, I have been told to add MEM=128 to the LILO prompt (i.e. linux mem=128) but I cannot do this because of the LILO problem I am having. Regards Graham -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Serial line appears to be looped back.
On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Catalin Popescu wrote: > I managed quite easily to get my ppp running (using the config scripts > included with the Debian 1.3 instalation). Everything was OK until a few > days ago. I've noticed that after phoning and connecting succesfully to > my ISP I get the following message "Serial line appears to be looped > back". > > I suspect that this is due to friend of mine who tried to config some > applications. He probably modified something somewhere and made my > ppp-connection unusable. He's away for a while and I don't know > where to look to fix this problem. The connection sequence has probably been modified on your machine or your isp. The file is /etc/ppp.chatscript (see "man chat"). The loopback means that what you type is echoed back which means the isp didn't start up the ppp connection. (If you can't figure it out from log files and the chatscript, dial in with minicom and remember what the isp sends and what you respond with to get the ppp garbage to start arriving.) My termonology may be wrong, but you get the idea, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds" Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How did you got these lines ?
On Fri, 13 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > very near the beginning and: > > > > Initializing random number generator... > > Configuring serial ports > > done. > > /dev/ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > > /dev/ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A > > Typematic Rate set to 15.0 cps (delay = 500 mS) > > INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 > > How did you produced these lines ? Are they are written in one of the log > files ? Well, yes, I start with dmesg, and I keep that output in a directory of configuration data. Also /var/log/messages. Then I use a reboot, an editor on a neighbouring machine, and Shift-PageUp/Down to read it off. Nothing too high-tech. I have several Debian machines, subtly different, some being rather modern PnP machines. If I get a problem, I have plenty to help me including the installation floppies, all the .deb files I have installed, output files like the one I quoted, ifconfig, route, various /proc files, records of how I configured the installation, kernel, X, network etc. CMOS settings, etc. etc. Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: passwords
On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, David B Wilson wrote: > When I boot into Debian 1.3, it eventually prompts me for a password > without ever having asked me for a login name. If I don't respond, > it keeps prompting me. > > Also, when I initially installed, when I logged in as root, it > prompted me for a new password. But no matter how many times I gave > it a (good) password, it rejected it. Eventually I had to login > via a different virtual console, and edit the /etc/passwd file with > emacs. (I selected password shadowing during the install.) Sounds like the 2nd problem caused the first. If the installation doesn't complete, you get left with a bespoke version of /etc/inittab. I think you'll see the real one with a similar name and you should rename them, updating the new one with any changes you made to the old one. I don't know why the 2nd problem occurred. Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dell XPS/60
I have a PC machine here on which I have installed Debian stable. It is an early Pentium, a Dell XPS/60. It is giving me a lot of problems. When it has been on for a while, it starts giving me floating point exceptions in several programs (including troff and fvwm2). What can be the cause of this? Does it have to be a hardware problem, and if so, can I do anything to get around it (FPU emulation etc.)? Thanks for any ideas on this.. // Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2:201/262.37] -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IP Masq and ftp on the LAN
On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Chuck Peters wrote: > > What is a good way to solve the ftp problem that our Windoze LAN users > experience? > > I half heartily tried setting up an IP tunnel without success and that > isn't a good solution anyway because I am running a static IP dialup > account and it requires setup on the dialup server side as well. I want > something that would be an ideal solution for a small office and not > create problems if they hop from one ISP to another. You should use IP Masquerading, not tunneling. You will need to install the ip_masq_ftp module. See /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade.gz. Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/ -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: php/fi and mysql
> Is there debian packaged mysql ? > Yes there is. I have one installed on my box. As well as PHP. As PHP can talk to different databases you will find different packages of PHP. > I compiled php/fi on debian 1.3 woth mysql support, bu t when i reload > apache it show these messages: > Starting Apache webserver.../usr/sbin/apache: can't resolve symbol > '__moddi3' > /usr/sbin/apache: can't resolve symbol '__divdi3' > Error loading /usr/lib/apache/modules/mod_php.so: Unable to resolve > symbol. > I'm really not sure. Those libraries are internal gcc libraries. It's called libgcc.a (/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.3/libgcc.a in my Debian 2.0 distribution) I used to get those messages when I compiled php as CGI module using CC compiler. Once I switched to GCC problem problem disappeared. > Can you help me? > I'm not sure how helpful is above information. You may want to ask those questions in PHP mailing list. They are usually very quick and helpful. Sasha. > > -- > E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What SCSI should I buy?
On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 08:21:07AM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Thanks to everybody who replied. I believe every SCSI-adaptor is > succesfully used by at least one person :-). Advansys seems to be > the best choice (or buslogic, but that wasn't one my friends initial > shopping list). Although I'm worried about one thing: my friend noted > that on the box of the Advansys U-version (he didn't give me any > id of the board sorry) Linux-support was mentioned but on the UW-version > there was nothing about Linux. Does anybody know Advansys' policy? I mean > are they commited to providing Linux support for all their SCSI-adaptors? If you look in the kernel source code, you'll see this: /* Documentation for the AdvanSys Driver A. Adapters Supported by this Driver B. Linux v1.2.X - Directions for Adding the AdvanSys Driver C. Linux v1.3.1 - v1.3.57 - Directions for Adding the AdvanSys Driver D. Linux v1.3.58 and Newer - Upgrading the AdvanSys Driver E. Source Comments F. Driver Compile Time Options and Debugging G. Driver LILO Option H. Release History I. Known Problems or Issues J. Credits K. AdvanSys Contact Information A. Adapters Supported by this Driver AdvanSys (Advanced System Products, Inc.) manufactures the following Bus-Mastering SCSI-2 Host Adapters for the ISA, EISA, VL, and PCI buses. This Linux driver supports all of these adapters. The CDB counts below indicate the number of SCSI CDB (Command Descriptor Block) requests that can be stored in the RISC chip cache and board LRAM. A CDB is a single SCSI command. The driver detect routine will display the number of CDBs available for each adapter detected. The number of CDBs used by the driver can be lowered in the BIOS by changing the 'Host Queue Size' adapter setting. Connectivity Products: ABP510/5150 - Bus-Master ISA (240 CDB) (Footnote 1) ABP5140 - Bus-Master ISA PnP (16 CDB) (Footnote 1, 3) ABP5142 - Bus-Master ISA PnP with floppy (16 CDB) (Footnote 4) ABP920 - Bus-Master PCI (16 CDB) ABP930 - Bus-Master PCI (16 CDB) (Footnote 5) ABP930U - Bus-Master PCI Ultra (16 CDB) ABP960 - Bus-Master PCI MAC/PC (16 CDB) (Footnote 2) ABP960U - Bus-Master PCI MAC/PC Ultra (16 CDB) Single Channel Products: ABP542 - Bus-Master ISA with floppy (240 CDB) ABP742 - Bus-Master EISA (240 CDB) ABP842 - Bus-Master VL (240 CDB) ABP940 - Bus-Master PCI (240 CDB) ABP940U - Bus-Master PCI Ultra (240 CDB) ABP970 - Bus-Master PCI MAC/PC (240 CDB) ABP970U - Bus-Master PCI MAC/PC Ultra (240 CDB) Dual Channel Products: ABP752 - Dual Channel Bus-Master EISA (240 CDB Per Channel) ABP852 - Dual Channel Bus-Master VL (240 CDB Per Channel) ABP950 - Dual Channel Bus-Master PCI (240 CDB Per Channel) Footnotes: 1. This board has been shipped by HP with the 4020i CD-R drive. The board has no BIOS so it cannot control a boot device, but it can control any secondary SCSI device. 2. This board has been sold by Iomega as a Jaz Jet PCI adapter. 3. This board has been sold by SIIG as the i540 SpeedMaster. 4. This board has been sold by SIIG as the i542 SpeedMaster. 5. This board has been sold by SIIG as the Fast SCSI Pro PCI. B. Linux v1.2.X - Directions for Adding the AdvanSys Driver These directions apply to v1.2.13. For versions that follow v1.2.13. but precede v1.3.57 some of the changes for Linux v1.3.X listed below may need to be modified or included. A patch is available for v1.2.13 from the AdvanSys WWW and FTP sites. There are two source files: advansys.h and advansys.c. Copy both of these files to the directory /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi. 1. Add the following line to /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/config.in after "comment 'SCSI low-level drivers'": bool 'AdvanSys SCSI support' CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS y 2. Add the following lines to /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/hosts.c after "#include "hosts.h"": #ifdef CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS #include "advansys.h" #endif and after "static Scsi_Host_Template builtin_scsi_hosts[] =": #ifdef CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS ADVANSYS, #endif 3. Add the following lines to /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/Makefile: ifdef CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS SCSI_SRCS := $(SCSI_SRCS) advansys.c SCSI_OBJS := $(SCSI_OBJS) advansys.o else SCSI_MODULE_OBJS := $(SCSI_MODULE_OBJS) advansys.o endif 4. (Optional) If you would like to enable the LILO command line and /etc/lilo.conf 'advansys' option, make the following changes. This option can be used to disable I/O port scanning or to limit I/O port scanning to s
RE: tetex question
The "fancyheadings" package (sometimes called fancyhdr) is probably what you want. Try "\usepackage {fancyhdr}" to see if you have it. My system has support for it in emacs via auctex. There is a manual in .dvi on the system for fancyhdr (fancyhdr.dvi.gz). jim -- From: G. Kapetanios[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 16, 1998 7:31 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: The recipient's address is unknown. Subject:tetex question Hi all, My question is more tex oriented but involves knowledge of tetex. Tha is why I am asking the list. The book documentclass creates page headers with the title of the chapter. However, if the title is long the whole thing is meesed up. Is there a way to change that and either hjave no page headers or use title abbreveations ? Do I need to play around with the style files or some other sort of files ? Where would those files be in the tetex distribution of debian ? Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: gated dying
Sounds like multicast support was left out of the kernel. Try going through the configuration step to see if it is there. jim -- From: George Bonser[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 16, 1998 1:39 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: The recipient's address is unknown. Subject:gated dying It looks like gated is dying instantly on startup. It gives the following complaint: task_set_option: task ICMP socket 7 option MulticastLoop(13) loop 0: Protocol not available Mar 15 22:30:31 calvin gated[27810]: Abort gated[27810] version 3-5-8: Protocol not available What am I missing? bo system upgraded to libc6 but not completely upgraded to hamm. George Bonser Just be thankful that Microsoft does not manufacture pharmaceuticals. http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Serial line appears to be looped back.
I managed quite easily to get my ppp running (using the config scripts included with the Debian 1.3 instalation). Everything was OK until a few days ago. I've noticed that after phoning and connecting succesfully to my ISP I get the following message "Serial line appears to be looped back". I suspect that this is due to friend of mine who tried to config some applications. He probably modified something somewhere and made my ppp-connection unusable. He's away for a while and I don't know where to look to fix this problem. Please help, Catalin Catalin M. Popescu, Dermatologist str. Marcu M. Ruxandra 6 bloc A3 sc A ap 17 77306---BUCHAREST, ROMANIA PGP Pub Key ID 14951FAD Tel/Fax: +40 (1) 726 5703 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do something right once, someone will ask you to do it again. -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LINUX "Proxy"
PMan: Well, out of the five responses I got from a post in the debian users group, I got four mentions of IPMasq, and two mentions of a proxy called SQUID. Nobody even mentioned SOCKS, but I have definitely heard of it from my many run-throughs of NT configuration. Which way do y'all have it set up at your home? Remember that we will have three users instead of the two, and would usually prefer to use the proxy than a straight dial-up. Just what quality connections could we expect to get out of the following system: Cyrix PR200MX (Super-TX Mother w/Award PnP BIOS) 512 PB cache 32 mB EDO 2 gB EIDE (Samsung) HD 56k X2 USR Sportster internal PnP (Model 1787, not 1785) 4 mB Trident video (does the video card matter too much?) Microdyne NE2500-compatible 10-Base-T 10-Base-T mini-hub We don't expect to have a bunch of extra crap running on server, but I would like the usual bourne-again stuff and some development tools for C++, PERL, and maybe Tcl. I recently heard (while checking out different packages) about a new thing being developed by OpenMarket called FastCGI. What's that deal? Are these the same OpenMarket guys who are trying to patent certain encryption/commerce processes? If I understand it correctly, they're not trying to say they came up with these things first, just that no one had patented them yet, so they would. Have you caught wind of any of this? It supposedly went down in the last two weeks. I know that's alot to respond to. Just reply as time permits, of course, and the performance expectations are really all that I need to know. But if you have the time, I always enjoy getting you informed opinion on anything you think might be helpful or just plain KeWl. Thanks. Jay Winks P.S. If you would, when you reply, please cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John and Mike) -- they really need to be in on the process of getting informed about the decisions being made. After all... it's their server, too. -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question about CDRW
I just want yo mount the drive and work with it like the CD-ROM or the Zip Drive. Thx mwb escribió: > On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Alex Maneu Victoria wrote: > > > --IMPORTANT!! PLEASE REPLY TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] , thanks > > > > Hi. > > > > There's a friend of mine that has recently bought a Cd-rewriter (HP > > CD-writer plus). How can he configure his fstab to make it work? > > Same as any other cd. Can you be more specific in what you want to > be able to do with it? > > > > And, another questions: are there good programs for writing CDs, copying > > things, creating Audio CDs, etc? If so, where can I find them? > > I have a Memorex CRW-1622 Rewriteable. I can read audio tracks > using cdda2wav, with the drive installed as eide. To write disks > I use cdrecord, but to get it to work the drive has to be loaded as > a 'scsi' for cdrecord to work (and then I can't read audio tracks). > Files can be read using either method. So far I have been unable to > rewrite the rewritables. > > Mark -- - Àlex Maneu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) MAN Soft Magazine http://www.maptel.es/pagpersonal/mansoft - -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Communicator and News reading
I have fallen WAY behind on the latest with Netscape Communicator, so forgive me if this has been answered... I checked on the debian faq-o-matic and support pages first. I am running Communicator 4.04, Debian version 1.3+ Whenever I attempt to read news, I get a bus error. Are there any workarounds for this problem? I installed it without using the debian install scripts, since I had installed it long ago without them into /usr/local ... Thanks Dan Hugo -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[no subject]
Newsgroups: local.deb Path: emma.panam.wimsey.com!rick From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BackSpace Key Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (rick) References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980117 (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.33 (i486)) Organization: Debian GNU/Linux site Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 01:16:21 GMT Timothy M. Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | My backspace key has suddenly stopped working in X. | Now it acts like a [Delete] Key. | This happened when my KBD package died along with my /usr/loal/ | directory, but did not recover when I reinstalled KBD. | | Any ideas how to fix this? I'm in the middle of this myself. I think my problem is /etc/kbd/default.map is gzipped. init.d/kbd-boot.sh says this about that: if [ -r /etc/kbd/default.map -o -r /etc/kbd/default.map.gz ] then loadkeys /etc/kbd/default.map fi I gunzipped default.map and rebooted (hate doing that) and all seems well, although I'm still finding and removing some other things I tried -- stty ^H, .Xmodmap changes... -- so I'm not sure yet. Rick -- -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No SPAMMING - NEED YOUR HELP
Hi -my name is Diane Standley and I am 85% disabled so every keystroke is a struggle - I have 2 e-mail addresses that I need to be removed from Spam lists - if you could help, I'd appreciate it. They are: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks - Diane
RE: X Help
I am running Debian 1.31. I want to install X windows on my system. Keep in mind that I have run X windows on this machine in the past using XFree86. So I know there is no incompatability in the software hardware issue. Here is the problem: I cannot run XF86Setup. It will not show anything on my monitor. I configure it by way of xf86config and run startx and get a blank screen also. I have tried the copy off my CD and the copy on the debian FTP site with the same results. BTW, it must be loading because all I have to do is wait for the hard drive activity to stop and press CTRL-ALT-Backspace and get back to my CLI. This has to be something simple that I have overlooked since I cannot see the system not working. BTW, I have looked at the configuration file from my old install and cannot find anything meaningfull different between the two. Here is my hardware: HP Pavilion 7166 133 MHZ Pentium 36 MEG RAM Several HD's IDE CD-rom S3 Trio64 V+ built in vidio card with 1 MEG ram HP Pavilion 15" Monitor Hope this helps. Thanks Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- > I cannot run XF86Setup. It will not show anything on my monitor. I Have you tried to run XF86Setup and NOT use defaults found in XF86Config file? Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \(")| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- __ Yes I have. I cannot get it to run in ether mode. Please reply with your email address since I get this by way of the debian digest and for some reason it cuts off the email addresses of everyone on the list. Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IP Masq and ftp on the LAN
What is a good way to solve the ftp problem that our Windoze LAN users experience? I half heartily tried setting up an IP tunnel without success and that isn't a good solution anyway because I am running a static IP dialup account and it requires setup on the dialup server side as well. I want something that would be an ideal solution for a small office and not create problems if they hop from one ISP to another. Chuck -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SEUL: Anybody home
Hi David: You write: > From: IN%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "David Cary" 16-MAR-1998 01:55:25.72 > To: IN%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "Keith Dart", IN%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > CC: > Subj: RE: SEUL: Anybody home > I just installed Debian on a fresh system last week just for the experience. > > (Anyone want to see my ~8 KB stream-of-consiousness notetaking as I was > installing it ?) Would you please post the file, mail me an attached copy or (perhaps best) post a URL? > The most obvious flaw was that once the standard text-mode UNIX was up and > running, there wasn't any hint as to what to do next to get graphics going. > (run "deselect", pick "X Windows", let "dselect" install it, run the > XConfigurator, run "startx"). That is true. I'm still (after years using LInux, unfortunately) a newbie on a whole lot, and configuring X still gives me grief --David --- LINUX: the FREE 32 bit OS for [3456]86 PC's available NOW! David B Teague | Ask me how user interface copyrights & software [EMAIL PROTECTED] | patents make programing a dangerous business. spy counter-intelligence wild porno sex gold bullion Soviet Bosnia -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dwww and dhttpd??
On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good small server to use with dwww for viewing > the debian documentation? I'm the maintainer of wn so ... I would recommend wn. Small, efficient, can be run from inetd. Only issue is that it is significantly more security minded than others which makes its more difficult to set up. Boa is another small server that I've seen mentioned. -- Jean Pierre -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tetex question
Hi all, My question is more tex oriented but involves knowledge of tetex. Tha is why I am asking the list. The book documentclass creates page headers with the title of the chapter. However, if the title is long the whole thing is meesed up. Is there a way to change that and either hjave no page headers or use title abbreveations ? Do I need to play around with the style files or some other sort of files ? Where would those files be in the tetex distribution of debian ? Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Household proxy
G'day >This is probably a dumb question, but exactly what is proxy, how does it >differ from IP masquerading and why would one use it instead of IP masq? Nah, no such thing as a dumb question! That's why the list is here :) Basically, with the growth of the internet, getting more than 1 IP address is getting particularly difficult (they're almost impossible to get in Australia). So most ppl use IP addresses on their local network that can't be routed onto the net, like the 10.0.0.0 subnet. So, as these can't be routed onto the net, none of the machines on your LAN can access the net, only your gateway (your machine with the modem) can. To get around this you can do thwo things... 1. Install a proxy server. A proxy server caches content. Basically netscape on any computer on the LAN can talk to the gateway computer, and the gateway computer can talk to the net. So Netscape asks the proxy for a file, and the proxy goes out and gets it, then gives it to netscape... Everything you do must be done thru the proxy. This is inconvienent because a lot of things don't work well with proxy servers. 2. Use IP Masquerading. IP masq is, like the proxy, installed on the gateway computer. Unlike the proxy tho, it allows all the machines on the LAN to access the net without a proxy, as if they were directly connected. It does this by looking at all the IP packets that go thru, and remembering who asked for what, and making sure it gets delivered back to the right place when it gets back. Hope some of that made sense... You can use both if you like, as a proxy tends to work well with web browsers. IP Masq tends to be more transparent, but is conceptually a little more different to understand, so a lot of ppl tend to get discouraged. In reality, everything is safely hidden from the end user, and it's pretty easy to get working... Hope that went some of the way towards explaining it... damon Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web Page: www.sub.net.au/~tr It's not a sense of humor. It's ICQ UIN:2920281 a sense of irony disguised as one. PGP Key ID: 0x232C09E1 - Bruce Sterling -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: routing daemons for debian
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : you can find a (hamm/libc6) debian package of gated at : http://debs.fuller.edu, christoph's unofficial debian archive. What about bo/libc5? Unfortunately, we have only libc5 based systems in our network. Ciao ... ... PIT ... -- -- Peter Allgeyer | http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~allgeyer Birkenstr. 10 | _-_Phone: 0 86 23 / 91 98 25 84558 Kirchweidach | 0(o_o)0 linux inside ... ---oOO--(_)--OOo-- -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pid
Try "ps". Type in "man ps" to get detailed description of this command. You may also use "top" to get danymically changing table of processes. Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Pete Poff wrote: > What command do I use to see the list of pids in use? I.e. so I can > kill one if i need to. > > Pete > > Pete Poff > E-Mail Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lynx get stuck (sort of...it's an annoyance)
i'm writing because when i visit web pages in lynx and when i press on a link who's not working,lynx patiently wait for the server to answer (witch can take a very long time sometime) and i cannot do anything except doing the CTRL-C boogie and when i do so,i lose my page (and often,i dont remember the URL of the page in question),does there is a way for configuring lynx so that after a time it say an error message that the server doesn't answer and recover from being stuck ??? Alain Toussaint -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bash 2.01 with bo
Hello, > > I need to install Bash 2.01 on a Debian 1.3.1 bo-based system. > > How safe is it to use bash-2.01 from bo-unstable? Does anyone have had > > problems with that? > > I used essentially that same bash 2.01 on my bo box for at least two > months before upgrading to hamm, and never had any problems. (I did > have a problem upgrading to hamm, but that was because the bash 2.01 > package I was using had a version numbering problem which isn't > present in the bo-unstable one) Thanks Daniel! I've installed it and up to now everything seems just fine! BTW, I also compiled bash 2.01.1 from the sources on prep.ai.mit.edu and that too works fine on the full bo-system. Cleto -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
any Hardware watchdog experiences
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all again! Anybody here uses this kind of cards? Are they "reliable"? Are you satisfied with it? Any kind comment about it will be greatly appreciated, Ulisses - - "Computers are useless. They can only give answers."Pablo Picasso -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: latin1 Comment: PGP public key avaliable at http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver iQB1AwUBNQzl1g/N+5+NQ63pAQFoHAMAtqOTogVAQueZiAA/DLbDWll6w78bK2F7 sFaSBZ6Q2zUt3uyjOJcWmbifA6Fk3a3LVTXG5K/9nDYFItP1OvYIOqhIn70Blxyn rMKeQaLiBO9JQiZUExPbZxMSHbBdi3vI =GPY3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Backup solution for Linux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello I'm interested in backup solutions for Linux (+-10G without compression) What hardware is avaliable for Linux? DAT/DLT? Wich software should I use? Where I can find docs about it? Thanks in advance Ulisses - - "Computers are useless. They can only give answers."Pablo Picasso -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: latin1 Comment: PGP public key avaliable at http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver iQB1AwUBNQzk3w/N+5+NQ63pAQE2dgL+O7k9lL0ep40IuHpSTs/30PEpY82d8FYM wOd5RZcHtlPJ2a2GDC46F8Lgjh9BhlVkQ3D3oVsHcKV/OB8RLnAz/R0x+o9tCb0T a5HGfsmHW6105CFCSyPPO5Nlroei4iF1 =pk8x -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UPS (want to collect past articles)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello I'm now interested about UPS and Linux, I'll appreciate a lot if anybody can send me the past articles about it (that were a lot) Many thanks Ulisses - - "Computers are useless. They can only give answers."Pablo Picasso -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: latin1 Comment: PGP public key avaliable at http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver iQB1AwUBNQzhEQ/N+5+NQ63pAQFWgQL+MwR4HgeD+lxtvJcu+OEOTpB0Dna3tjmx /HtelkhC0Ks8j4y925fRHHyK+BqdOfzsm7rwfnIs+ZmEdmhj50aqKTAoIHiy1iPJ aemFaY2i6t4EdpBLDwPuCx4PdXwivJGw =O36d -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What SCSI should I buy?
The driver included in the 2.1 kernels DOES support the UW card. I would suggest getting that driver, it does work with the 2.0 (and the 1.2) kernels. I am not sure which version of the driver is being shipped with Debian's kernel. That is driver version 3.1D and goes in /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi as advansys.c and advansys.h. I can ship you a copy, if you need them. They are about 578K in size combined. On 16-Mar-98 Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Thanks to everybody who replied. I believe every SCSI-adaptor is > succesfully used by at least one person :-). Advansys seems to be > the best choice (or buslogic, but that wasn't one my friends initial > shopping list). Although I'm worried about one thing: my friend noted > that on the box of the Advansys U-version (he didn't give me any > id of the board sorry) Linux-support was mentioned but on the UW-version > there was nothing about Linux. Does anybody know Advansys' policy? I mean > are they commited to providing Linux support for all their SCSI-adaptors? > > Thanks again, > > Nico > > -- > -- > Nico De Ranter > Sony Objective Composer (SOCOM) > Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) > 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth > Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > *** > New Phone number +32 2 724 86 41 !!! > *** > > > -- > E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > George Bonser Just be thankful that Microsoft does not manufacture pharmaceuticals. http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What SCSI should I buy?
Thanks to everybody who replied. I believe every SCSI-adaptor is succesfully used by at least one person :-). Advansys seems to be the best choice (or buslogic, but that wasn't one my friends initial shopping list). Although I'm worried about one thing: my friend noted that on the box of the Advansys U-version (he didn't give me any id of the board sorry) Linux-support was mentioned but on the UW-version there was nothing about Linux. Does anybody know Advansys' policy? I mean are they commited to providing Linux support for all their SCSI-adaptors? Thanks again, Nico -- -- Nico De Ranter Sony Objective Composer (SOCOM) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** New Phone number +32 2 724 86 41 !!! *** -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help With Upgrade to Hamm
In regards to using the autoup.sh upgrade script to upgrade from bo to hamm, should I get libc5 and ncurses3.0 from the /oldlibs directory? I am ftp'ing from the ./hamm/binary-i386 directory. Thanks. Art Lemasters -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Household proxy
O.K. So we've got 3-1/2 for IPMasq and 1-1/2 for squid, or something to that effect . I checked out the associated URL. Looks good. Thanks for helping a new guy get into the FreeOS thing. Hey, FreeOS -- rhymes with BeOS -- hmmm ;) Jay D. Winks -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lilo, linux and win95
On Sun, 15 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > dev/hda1 Boot Primary Dos FAT16 (has Win95 installed on it) > > /dev/hda5 Logical Linux > > /dev/hda6 Logical Linux Swap > > > > If I run LILO and tell it to generate a new /etc/lilo.conf and then answer: > > > > Install a partition boot record to boot linux from /dev/hda5?yes > > Install a master boot record on /dev/hadayes > > Make /dev/hda5 the active partition? yes > > > > then LILO will generate the following error message: > > > > 5: not a valid partition number (1-4) > > If I am not mistaken: > 1) you can not set a logical partition as the active partition. > 2) The first four partitions are reserved for primary partitions. > 3) You can not change the disk partitions without cfdisk and freinds. I agree with you on those.. except one of the first four partitions can be an extended partition (contains logical partitions) to have more than four partition's total... Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- WinErr: 007 System price error - Inadequate money spent on hardware --- Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out! -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lilo, linux and win95
On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > > > On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, David Stern wrote: > > > There doesn't need to be hda2, hda3 AND hda4. There does need to be ONE > If that is the case one of them apears to be missiing The partition with internal logical partition's (hda5 and above) is sometimes not shown on a partition listing. In this case it would be hda2. A quick check, hda2 is shown on my machine in fdisk with the "p" command, but it is not shown in cfdisk's listing. > > What happened to CC:'ing the person who wrote the remarks in question? > For the life of me, I cannae imagine what happened to that I think the original poster's address was [EMAIL PROTECTED] bit hard to CC to it I see he/she has fixed it.. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- Don't worry. I backed it up to the RAM disk yesterday. --- Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out! -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: gated dying
It looks like the kernel I was using is not configured for multicasting. On 16-Mar-98 George Bonser wrote: > It looks like gated is dying instantly on startup. It gives the following > complaint: > > task_set_option: task ICMP socket 7 option MulticastLoop(13) loop 0: Protocol > not available > Mar 15 22:30:31 calvin gated[27810]: Abort gated[27810] version 3-5-8: > Protocol > not available > > What am I missing? > > bo system upgraded to libc6 but not completely upgraded to hamm. > > > > George Bonser > Just be thankful that Microsoft does not manufacture pharmaceuticals. > http://www.debian.org > Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. > > > -- > E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > George Bonser Just be thankful that Microsoft does not manufacture pharmaceuticals. http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gated dying
It looks like gated is dying instantly on startup. It gives the following complaint: task_set_option: task ICMP socket 7 option MulticastLoop(13) loop 0: Protocol not available Mar 15 22:30:31 calvin gated[27810]: Abort gated[27810] version 3-5-8: Protocol not available What am I missing? bo system upgraded to libc6 but not completely upgraded to hamm. George Bonser Just be thankful that Microsoft does not manufacture pharmaceuticals. http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Household proxy
On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Florian Attenberger wrote: > Jay D. Winks wrote: > > > > I have researched a few different distributions and found Debian to be > > the best-documented of the group, and that's important to me. My mates > > and I seek only to inplement a household proxy for concurrent connection > > to the 'Net at the moment, but we will doubtless want to do more in the > > future. Does anyone know a good way under Debian to set up a proxy that > > 2 windogs clients and a macinslosh client can share locally? Please > > reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Try the squid package. This is IMO the most widely used proxy. > On my System it works fine. This is probably a dumb question, but exactly what is proxy, how does it differ from IP masquerading and why would one use it instead of IP masq? Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/ -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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dwww and dhttpd??
I installed dwww and dhttpd with dselect. I didn't have any problems with the installation, but I haven't been able to do anything useful. When I first started dwww, I got an message related to lynx. I don't know why this didn't show up in the dependency checks, but I downloaded lynx and tried again. Now when I start dwww, lynx starts with the following message: dhttpd/1.02: Error 403: Forbidden! 403: Forbidden! _ You do not have permission to access that file. Sorry! I noticed in the notes that dhttpd doesn't support cgi-bin. Could that be part of this forbidden problem? I started netscape to try to look into the dwww directories. I noticed cgi-bin in serveral of the links. Should dselect allow dhttpd to satisfy the web server requirements for dwww? Can anyone recommend a good small server to use with dwww for viewing the debian documentation? Thanks, -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Next Level Communications[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X help
> I cannot run XF86Setup. It will not show anything on my monitor. I Have you tried to run XF86Setup and NOT use defaults found in XF86Config file? Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \(")| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X help
I am running Debian 1.31. I want to install X windows on my system. Keep in mind that I have run X windows on this machine in the past using XFree86. So I know there is no incompatability in the software hardware issue. Here is the problem: I cannot run XF86Setup. It will not show anything on my monitor. I configure it by way of xf86config and run startx and get a blank screen also. I have tried the copy off my CD and the copy on the debian FTP site with the same results. BTW, it must be loading because all I have to do is wait for the hard drive activity to stop and press CTRL-ALT-Backspace and get back to my CLI. This has to be something simple that I have overlooked since I cannot see the system not working. BTW, I have looked at the configuration file from my old install and cannot find anything meaningfull different between the two. Here is my hardware: HP Pavilion 7166 133 MHZ Pentium 36 MEG RAM Several HD's IDE CD-rom S3 Trio64 V+ built in vidio card with 1 MEG ram HP Pavilion 15" Monitor Hope this helps. Thanks Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: "Cannot find map file"
"DAVID B. TEAGUE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, Mar 15, 1998 at 06:52:34PM -0500: > "Cannot find map file" This usually means that the kernel you are running is not the same as the kernel that you have most recently compiled. It refers to the file, `System.map' which is usually in the root of the linux source tree, or in your boot directory. If you have recompiled your kernel and not yet rebooted off the image, herein lies your problem. Certain tools like lsof, and kernel oops resolution, will not work unless the map file corresonds to the installed kernel. On the whole though, your system will run fine; there is no loss of functionality. -- Scott -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lilo, linux and win95
> dev/hda1 Boot Primary Dos FAT16 (has Win95 installed on it) > /dev/hda5 Logical Linux > /dev/hda6 Logical Linux Swap > > If I run LILO and tell it to generate a new /etc/lilo.conf and then answer: > > Install a partition boot record to boot linux from /dev/hda5?yes > Install a master boot record on /dev/hadayes > Make /dev/hda5 the active partition? yes > > then LILO will generate the following error message: > > 5: not a valid partition number (1-4) If I am not mistaken: 1) you can not set a logical partition as the active partition. 2) The first four partitions are reserved for primary partitions. 3) You can not change the disk partitions without cfdisk and freinds. -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on Thinkpad 560x...
On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Tan Wee Yeh wrote: : Dear all, : : I have just gotten a thinkpad 560x and would like to put : debian (preferably 2.0) in. My previous attempts were : taunted by the system rebooting upon loading the kernel (it : passed the LILO prompt). : : I located the linux on tp560 homepages. Success was : reported on the tp560x but I did not manage to catch the : authors of the page by email. The problem is probably due : to the apm incompatibility discussed in the page. : : I suspect my best bet will be to create my own bootup : floppies. I am soliciting information on kernel : configurations that will work on the thinkpad. : : TIA Have you tried the tecra disks from the boot-floppies directory?? -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: It's all so confusing, so should I get a CD Distribution?
G'day >1) Would you recommend a distribution disk for a newbie? > >2) Are there different ones to get? > >3) I know this is a Debian list, but do you recommend Debian for >user-friendliness? What are its advantages/disadv. ? I read an article about >Red Hat being good, but it's expensive (£50 = $85) Well, I have now installed both RedHat 4.2 and Debian 1.3, and found them both pretty easy to install (actually, debian was a bit of a pain, but only because I was using an old laptop with a small HD and no CD-ROM!), and if I had to install one again, i think i'd probably go with debian... Redhat is pretty easy to install, but it seems to me (even tho I've only been using Linux for a few months) that the guts of Debian is a little easier to get a hand on than RedHat... RedHat has some nice X-Windows configuration tools, but using them you never really learn what's going on, and changing something by hand then becomes quite difficuly... >4) Can I dual-boot Windows NT and Debian? Yes, you certainly can... My system boots between RedHat, Win95 and WinNT4. There is actually a HOWTO that describes how to add Linux to the NT boot loader, which it pretty cool :) NTFS support in Linux is still a little shakey (seems to work, but i wouldn't want to bet important data on it) YMMV, but I tended to find that Linux was easist to set up on a disk by itself (that's if you have a HD to spare...) but lots of ppl seem to be using dual-boot systems, so I guess it can't be too hard! Anyway, hope that helped a little... damon Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web Page: www.sub.net.au/~tr It's not a sense of humor. It's ICQ UIN:2920281 a sense of irony disguised as one. PGP Key ID: 0x232C09E1 - Bruce Sterling -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Household proxy
G'day, >I have researched a few different distributions and found Debian to be >the best-documented of the group, and that's important to me. My mates >and I seek only to inplement a household proxy for concurrent connection >to the 'Net at the moment, but we will doubtless want to do more in the >future. Does anyone know a good way under Debian to set up a proxy that >2 windogs clients and a macinslosh client can share locally? Please >reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have found the easiest way to do this is to use IP masquerading, and use a non-internet subnet (I tend to like 10.0.0.0). Set up your linux box with the modem, assign it an IP something like 10.0.0.1 and set up IP masq, then use it as a gateway for the rest of you windoze machine... I wont go into detail here how to do it, but the IP Masq (mini-)HOWTO is very easy to follow... I had it up and running in about 30 mins (not including recompiling IP Masq support into the kernel Alternatively you could use a proxy server like squid, but IMHO IP Masq is much sexier, and lets you do a lot more stuff over your network... Hope that helps, damon Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web Page: www.sub.net.au/~tr It's not a sense of humor. It's ICQ UIN:2920281 a sense of irony disguised as one. PGP Key ID: 0x232C09E1 - Bruce Sterling -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Host name of outgoing mail
Hello, My ISP has upgraded and reconfigured sendmail to refuse to relay mail from any host other than from it's dynamic addresses, which are ppp[0-48].acorn.net. Now it won't accept mail from my pc which is named pc1.net. I need to have at least a address of acorn.net to use my ISP as a smarthost. So, what do I need to configure get my ISP to accept email from me? I use smail on a hamm system. -- Jim -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian on Thinkpad 560x...
Dear all, I have just gotten a thinkpad 560x and would like to put debian (preferably 2.0) in. My previous attempts were taunted by the system rebooting upon loading the kernel (it passed the LILO prompt). I located the linux on tp560 homepages. Success was reported on the tp560x but I did not manage to catch the authors of the page by email. The problem is probably due to the apm incompatibility discussed in the page. I suspect my best bet will be to create my own bootup floppies. I am soliciting information on kernel configurations that will work on the thinkpad. TIA Just me, Wire ... -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] For PGP public key : finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = EC A6 98 25 5B D9 38 40 74 BC 0C C9 0F 81 BE 92 -- The configuration of the tp is: P233MMX + 64 MB RAM + 4 GB Harddisk + standard IBM external floppy + XirCom CEM56/100 (means I need PCMCIA 3??) -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Household proxy
Jay D. Winks wrote: > > I have researched a few different distributions and found Debian to be > the best-documented of the group, and that's important to me. My mates > and I seek only to inplement a household proxy for concurrent connection > to the 'Net at the moment, but we will doubtless want to do more in the > future. Does anyone know a good way under Debian to set up a proxy that > 2 windogs clients and a macinslosh client can share locally? Please > reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Try the squid package. This is IMO the most widely used proxy. On my System it works fine. cu flo -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Cannot find map file"
Hi For some time my system gives me this error mesage on boot up. "Cannot find map file" My messages log files only go back to Feb of this year. Each of these have have this error message at each boot. I think the error goes all the way back to installation of Debian 1.1 over a year ago. This message occurs the following context: Mar 15 12:16:11 frodo syslogd 1.3-0#6: restart. Mar 15 12:16:11 frodo kernel: klogd 1.3-0, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Mar 15 12:16:12 frodo syslogd 1.3--0#6: restart. Mar 15 12:16:12 frodo kernel: Cannot find map file. [] I am (still) running Debian 1.1 on a 486/66 with 16 MB Ram and a AHA2840 SCSI controller and several disks. While I am not aware of any problems, I want to know whether this is inoccuous. Do I need to fix this? I'm about to upgrade to Hamm. I don't really want to do anything about this unless it will give me grief in the upgrade. --David --- LINUX: the FREE 32 bit OS for [3456]86 PC's available NOW! David B Teague | Ask me how user interface copyrights & software [EMAIL PROTECTED] | patents make programing a dangerous business. -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]