can't locate module ppp0
Whenever I reboot my machine (Debian Hamm with kernel 2.0.36) I get this: Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mar 13 18:20:11 lilypad kernel: registered device ppp0 Mar 13 18:20:10 lilypad modprobe: can't locate module ppp0 Mar 13 18:20:11 lilypad kernel: registered device ppp0 We are having high winds and that rebooted my machine this morning. Everything seems to work, but I see that error. Is there a fix? thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
Re: ssh problem on potato
FK == Ferenc Kiraly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FK I have a fresh potato install and I cannot log in to FK the machine from a remote host using ssh. I get an FK error message like this: FK Warning: Remote host failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty. Maybe you installed glibc2.1? Check with dpkg -l libc6.1 This is part of a message someone sent on debian-devel: === Glibc 2.1 has the support for new pty system. I had the same problem. From Chages file in 2.2.x kernel: Optional support for Unix98 pty devices has also been added. If you want to use the Unix98 ptys, you should be running at least glibc-2.0.9x, and you must switch completely to Unix98 pty's. The general procedure for configuring Unix98 pty support is: - Compile your kernel with CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS and CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS. - mknod /dev/ptmx c 5 2 chmod 666 /dev/ptmx mkdir /dev/pts - Add to /etc/fstab: none/dev/ptsdevptsgid=5,mode=6200 0 (Note: gid=5 is applicable for RedHat systems for which group tty has gid 5. Adjust according to your distribution. Use mode=600 if you want mesg n to be default.) - Mount /dev/pts I did this and sshd is working again. === Ciao, Martin
Re: I've been cracked! (hamm, 2.0.35)
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Don Erickson wrote: Somebody (through jhb60.jaring.my) wandered into my system, set up a user account for themselves and set up a couple of programs, eggdrop and smurf. Also, upgrade your kernel when you reinstall - a notice was posted to this list a couple of days ago mentionting an exploit in 2.0.35 Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Awk scripts Debian awk version
I have some small scripts that keep a log file of notes. The searchlog feature uses awk. Now that I have decided to move my operating from the Slackware box that the scripts work in to debian, the scripts no longer work. Doing some research I found that the boxes have different versions of awk/mawk. The slackware system: awk -W version GNU Awk 3.0.3 and debiam Slink awk -W version mawk 1.3.3 Nov 1996. Questions. Rather than load up the newer awk from the tarball at the GNU site, are there, or will there be, an updated awk in the base package of potato? Would moving to the GNU awk affect any debian specific items? Namely deselect, apt-get, dpkg? Should I just bite the bullet, bone up on awk, and fix the damm scripts? Yes I know, I _should_ know awk. Which is the newer/better/most compatiable Awk? Thanks in advance. Wayne -- Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. -- H. L. Mencken ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gcc 2.8.x deb-package
Hello... I am searching for a debian package of gcc 2.8.x . In an old mail of this list I found a statement, that such a package should be somewhere in projects/experimental... but I only find a deb package for gcc 2.9.x (gcc_2.91.63-1.1.deb) in the potato directory. Can someone help? CU, Holger -- Holger Mense
Re: gcc 2.8.x deb-package
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 07:16:32PM +, Holger Mense wrote: Hello... I am searching for a debian package of gcc 2.8.x . In an old mail of this list I found a statement, that such a package should be somewhere in projects/experimental... but I only find a deb package for gcc 2.9.x (gcc_2.91.63-1.1.deb) in the potato directory. Can someone help? CU, Holger -- Holger Mense -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null That gcc package is for egcs, a compiler which some believe is superior to GCC because it is more actively developed. Right now, Debian uses egcs for its C++ compiler (i.e. g++ filename.cc uses egcs to compile it). I believe that one of the goals of Debian 2.1 is to offer egcs as a c compiler as well. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: Awk scripts Debian awk version
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 01:48:57PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: I have some small scripts that keep a log file of notes. The searchlog feature uses awk. Now that I have decided to move my operating from the Slackware box that the scripts work in to debian, the scripts no longer work. Doing some research I found that the boxes have different versions of awk/mawk. The slackware system: awk -W version GNU Awk 3.0.3 and debiam Slink awk -W version mawk 1.3.3 Nov 1996. Questions. Rather than load up the newer awk from the tarball at the GNU site, are there, or will there be, an updated awk in the base package of potato? Would moving to the GNU awk affect any debian specific items? Namely deselect, apt-get, dpkg? Should I just bite the bullet, bone up on awk, and fix the damm scripts? Yes I know, I _should_ know awk. Which is the newer/better/most compatiable Awk? Thanks in advance. Wayne -- Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. -- H. L. Mencken ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Have you looked at the gawk pacakge? I think it does what you want. AFAIK, the mawk package is installed by default in the base system because it is smaller and space on the floppies is a premium. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: Floppy Drive Problem.
Subject: Floppy Drive Problem. Date: Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 09:23:24AM -0500 In reply to:Person, Roderick Quoting Person, Roderick([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hey guys, The first question of the day for me has to due with Debian and Floppy drives. When I first installed debian, I had no problems with floppy drives, and in the quest for the perfect Deb Box something when wrong, I guess. It seems that I can format ext2 fs on floppy. At first I thougth my FD was just dying, so I replaced it. Now when I make a ext2 disk it won't mount and info to it is not copied to it. Now, I can read DOS, ext2 floppys that I already have but once I write to them, I can no longer read them. I have tried changing fstab fd0 entry from auto to ext2 to msdos, but it all the same. Anyone have a clue on this one. Roderick P. Person ? 454-2616 [EMAIL PROTECTED] As I see no one has answered I'll give it a shot. To use a floppy it first has to be formated. superformat /dev/fd0 hd. That low level formats the disk. Then you have to put a file system on the disk So mkfs -t ext2 /dev/fd0 will do that. To copy to the floppy it must first be mounted, so mount /dev/fd0 -t ext2 /mnt. Then a cp xyx /mnt will copy file xyz to the disk. You could put a line in /etc/fstab to speed up the process. I will leave that for you to research. See man page mkfs for other options to mkfs. Are these the steps you used? -- The day-to-day travails of the IBM programmer are so amusing to most of us who are fortunate enough never to have been one -- like watching Charlie Chaplin trying to cook a shoe. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: C Program confused me
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 01:57:58PM +0800, ivan wrote: Check out sci.math the sci.math FAQ (lost the url-sorry) - the faq has extensive descriptions of several different algorithms for calculating pi. I don't know if it's there, but I like the Monte Carlo method the best. You draw a circle in a square (diameter two, square has edges of length two, too). Then you throw stones and count the nr of stones in the circle, C, and the number of stones in the square but not in the circle, S, (stones outside of the square don't count at all --- ignore them). Then 4*C/(C+S) is near pi. Of course, you would need a good random number generator to implement this. /dev/urandom will be slow, but a good choice. Also, to implement this, I would use coordinates that go diagonally through the square (then a stone is inside the square iff |x+y| = 1, which is hopefully faster then |x|=1 and |y|=1, and in the circle, iff x²+y²=1, which is fast, too) If you use or = shouldn't matter, because a line has no area (the limit should be the same). But then, this is not the best method to calculate PI, but it has interesting philosophical implications if you try to define it this way (or even if you want to proof that this definition is equal to other). Sorry, I was carried away :) Maybe we need debian-math. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
Enlightenment 0.15 .debs
Enlightenment 0.15 .debs are out. They will not be uploaded into the distribution, they are placed in the GNOME staging area. This is so that Debian can make sure all the packages for gnome/gtk/imlib work together, and working packages will be uploaded, not broken ones. In the meantime, you can access the .debs at http://www.debian.org/~bma/enlightenment/ They are also apt-accessible. Add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://www.debian.org/~bma enlightenment/ If you encounter any problems with these, please email me directly, instead of using Debian's bug tracking system, since they are not released officially yet. Enjoy! bma Uber-E maintainer for Debian pgpUfAmsGyzED.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: lilo.conf problems
Nicholas W Kopan wrote: I am having problems configuring lilo to dual boot to debian and win98. I have two hard drives: Primary /dev/hda, one partition, /dev/hda1 = win98 boot FAT32 3.2Gb Secondary /dev/hdb, two partitions, /dev/hdb1 = linux boot 4.0Gb [snippage] Here is lilo.conf boot = /dev/hda1 That should be boot=/dev/hda -- Debian_GNU/_ Mark Wagnon -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
new user unable to install Slink
Hi everybody, I am trying to install slink for CDs (I' ve just burned them). During the boot process, I got the following (after indentification of cd and hard drive) (scsi0) Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter found at PCI 11/0 (scsi0) Wide channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code ... 419 instructions downloaded and the computer got frozen My computer is a Dell OptiPlex GXa : Pentium II 300Mhz 96 Mb ram scsi adapter : Adaptec AHA-2940 (SCSI ID =7) network card : com fast etherlink XL PCI adapter 3c905 cd-rom : don't know no pcmia I hope someone can help me ... Sincerely, Olivier Ripoll.
Re: Awk scripts Debian awk version
I believe you only need to install the gawk package (from the /interpreters section) to get what you want. You will have to repair any explicit references to awk (changing them to gawk), but that should be enough to make the scripts work. I got bit by mawk myself. Also, I believe that mawk/gawk use update alternatives, with the priorities set to prefer mawk over gawk. You can change this preference by changing the symlink (see the docs on update-alternatives). This could allow you to avoid any changes to your scripts. Luck, On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: I have some small scripts that keep a log file of notes. The searchlog feature uses awk. Now that I have decided to move my operating from the Slackware box that the scripts work in to debian, the scripts no longer work. Doing some research I found that the boxes have different versions of awk/mawk. The slackware system: awk -W version GNU Awk 3.0.3 and debiam Slink awk -W version mawk 1.3.3 Nov 1996. Questions. Rather than load up the newer awk from the tarball at the GNU site, are there, or will there be, an updated awk in the base package of potato? Would moving to the GNU awk affect any debian specific items? Namely deselect, apt-get, dpkg? Should I just bite the bullet, bone up on awk, and fix the damm scripts? Yes I know, I _should_ know awk. Which is the newer/better/most compatiable Awk? Thanks in advance. Wayne -- Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. -- H. L. Mencken ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of The Debian Linux User's Guide _-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_-
newbie unable to install Slink
Hi everybody, I am trying to install slink for CDs (I' ve just burned them). During the boot process, I got the following (after indentification of cd and hard drive) (scsi0) Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter found at PCI 11/0 (scsi0) Wide channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code ... 419 instructions downloaded and the computer got frozen My computer is a Dell OptiPlex GXa : Pentium II 300Mhz 96 Mb ram scsi adapter : Adaptec AHA-2940 (SCSI ID =7) network card : com fast etherlink XL PCI adapter 3c905 cd-rom : don't know no pcmia I hope someone can help me ... Sincerely, Olivier Ripoll. PS : I am not sure the first message was correctly sent, so I resent this. Sorry if there are two.
Re: Kernel 2.2.3
I have couple of questions about upgrading my kernel to 2.2.3. I downloaded the full source and went through all the steps to compile, but when I rebooted I received an error telling me that modules.dep was empty. I took a look at /lib/modules/2.2.3/modules.dep and yep, it's empty. I looked at the modules.dep file under my 2.0.34 directory and it looks like this file tells where all the modules are. Since mine is empty, where can I find a replacement, or how do I get it populated? I ran through the compilation sequence twice, with the same results. Any ideas/suggestions? TIA -- Debian_GNU/_ Mark Wagnon -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
Slink CDs.
1) I saw some CD vendors who claim that they ship their CD with a multi-cd method. Isn't the multi-cd method part of the official CD ? Is it required inspite the inclusion of apt ? 2) Some CD vendors say that their CDs include contrib + non-US + parts of non-free. Others only mention non US. However, if the official CD has about 1150 packages then is it wrong to conclude that any vendor who ships 4 or 5 CDs with about 2550 packages must have include contrib + non-US + parts of non-free ?
Re: Awk scripts Debian awk version
Subject: Re: Awk scripts Debian awk version Date: Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 01:25:15PM -0600 In reply to:Stephen Pitts Quoting Stephen Pitts([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 01:48:57PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: I have some small scripts that keep a log file of notes. The searchlog feature uses awk. Now that I have decided to move my operating from the Slackware box that the scripts work in to debian, the scripts no longer work. Have you looked at the gawk pacakge? I think it does what you want. AFAIK, the mawk package is installed by default in the base system because it is smaller and space on the floppies is a premium. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org Thanks Stephen, that was the fix. doh! Why I hadn't looked for gawk I don't know. I sure knew about cut I guess I got lost in the trees! Changing the awk call to gawk fixed it Thanks!! -- There are two ways to write error-free programs. Only the third one works. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I've been cracked! (hamm, 2.0.35)
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Then they typically use a rootkit to get root access and replace files, just as you've seen. ls is usually the first one they hack. Thanks to all for the good advice, I'm using this as an excellent excuse to upgrade my creaky 486 and start over with a whole new system and a whole new machine. Rooting around on rootshell.com, it's possible that the cracker got in through wu-ftpd. I'd noticed some odd things in the logs before, and there were two times that my root partition had filled up for no discernable reason. A classic sign of system compromise, I understand. Both my ls and du executables were replaced by bogus versions, which is why it took me a week to figure out what had happened. Yeah, some weird things were happening, but one hates to get paranoid, you know. Regards, -Don -- .sig lite
Re: kernel Image Size.
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 11:04:21AM -0500, Person, Roderick wrote: What FF is the larges size a Kernel can be to get mounted!! My smallest kernel so far is 808,536 in size. My largest was over a Meg. Help ! All I maked was to hear Window Maker! That's all Try installing the kernel-package and using make-kpkg to compile the kernel. It's the _right_ way to do it under Debian, and I've _never_ and any problems with it. BTW, my kernel (2.2.3) is 664Kb compiled with egcs. Under gcc it was only 652Kb. -- Pedro Guerreiro (aka digito)([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Diplomacy: the art of letting someone have your own way.
ping script for isp autologout
My local mom 'n pop ISP (brainiac) was sold to a large ISP (who shall for the moment remain anonymous) that - I *think* - engages in the practice of logging users out after a certain period of idle time. (I'm waiting for their support to get back to me on this question.) I know folks have devised scripts to auto-ping remote sites in order to defeat this practice. Could someone give me a steer towards one or two of these scripts?
Re: ping script for isp autologout
there's a debian package for it, `pppupd': pppupd - Keeps a ppp connection alive PPPupd, is a simple daemon which maintains a dialup PPP connection. PPPupd is able to: + Execute a redial script, should the connection drop. + Send out periodic pings to keep a connection up, which might be disconnected by unruly ISP's who kick their well paying members off, after a predetermined number of minutes of inactivity. On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Bob Bernstein wrote: From: Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 21:20:45 + (GMT) Subject: ping script for isp autologout My local mom 'n pop ISP (brainiac) was sold to a large ISP (who shall for the moment remain anonymous) that - I *think* - engages in the practice of logging users out after a certain period of idle time. (I'm waiting for their support to get back to me on this question.) I know folks have devised scripts to auto-ping remote sites in order to defeat this practice. Could someone give me a steer towards one or two of these scripts? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null .. please forgive my abrupt ending hre - but my conection is xtrememleyyhiclmelyey BAD hiccuppy etc must sign off - EF D8 33 68 B3 E3 E9 D2 C1 3E 51 22 8A AA 7B 98 umbra (!)
Re: lilo
Subject: lilo Date: Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 06:51:33PM +1100 In reply to:Shao Zhang Quoting Shao Zhang([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, I have got a 4.3GB harddisk, and due to that, lilo cannot see my kernel which is stored outside 1024 cylinders. The following is my configuration file, but I still cannot get it working. AmI missing anything below? Thx. install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal disk=/dev/hda bios = 0x80 sectors = 63 heads = 16 cylinders = 8400 root=/dev/hda1 boot=/dev/hda1 image=/vmlinuz append=hd=8400,16,63 label=Linux read-only I also tried the linear option. But it does not work Thx. # Start LILO global section boot = /dev/hda # Device containing boot sector compact # faster, but won't work on all systems. prompt # Force boot prompt map = /boot/map # Default = /boot/map Default = Slink2.2.3# Default = /boot/boot.number Timeout = 250 # Wait val/10 sec. after prompt then boot default# End LILO global section # Start LILO global section boot = /dev/hda # Device containing boot sector compact # faster, but won't work on all systems. prompt # Force boot prompt map = /boot/map # Default = /boot/map Default = Slink2.2.3# Default = /boot/boot.number Timeout = 250 # Wait val/10 sec. after prompt then boot default # End LILO global section Image= /boot/Slink-2.2.3 label = Slink2.2.3 Root = /dev/hdb2 VGA= 0xb append = lp=parport0 parport=0x378,none I think your boot = has to be changed, but I am not a lilo expert! HTH -- A Law of Computer Programming: Make it possible for programmers to write in English and you will find the programmers cannot write in English. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I've been cracked! (hamm, 2.0.35)
Probably a good idea long-term to subscribe to BUGTRAQ, or at least, debian-security-announce. usually you'll have some leeway between discovery of an exploit and potentially being attacked with it, but if you're wide open for weeks it's definitely asking for trouble. it's also worth shutting down as much on the machine as possible -- only run minimal services necessary, and be aware of what net-facing services you're running when following security news. -thomas On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Don Erickson wrote: Thanks to all for the good advice, I'm using this as an excellent excuse to upgrade my creaky 486 and start over with a whole new system and a whole new machine. .. please forgive my abrupt ending hre - but my conection is xtrememleyyhiclmelyey BAD hiccuppy etc must sign off - EF D8 33 68 B3 E3 E9 D2 C1 3E 51 22 8A AA 7B 98 umbra (!)
Re: auto sorting mail clients
Hmmm, would this sort of set up work for netscape, then i can just set up a cron to fetch the mail and have it ready when i get home ;0). To read with netscape say. cheers Nicolas PROCHAZKA wrote: Try procmail, it's very good stuff, and it's independant of your email client , an example of procmailrc : :0: * ^Cc:.*debian.* myEmail/Mailing :0: * ^To:.*debian myEmail/Mailing Put all debian mailing list into myEamil/Mailing mailbox then I use pine for example to read them NP On 11 Mar 1999, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi ! im looking for a good email client (graphical and non-graphical) w/c can automatically sort out emails like put all mails where either the to: or the cc: fields contain debian-user@lists.debian.org etc etc. seems like there are just too many of them to try out one by one. can anyone suggest something to me and maybe tell me in a few lines why they prefer that client ? I prefer gnus. The reason is that it is shamelessly general and can do almost anything you want, including sorting (I still haven't managed to tell it to get me cup of tea for every message with exactly 395 bytes, but I expect that it were possible if my robotics skills improved). I wouldn't really recommend gnus if you don't program in lisp. -- The only way tcsh rocks is when the rocks are attached to its feet in the deepest part of a very deep lake. (Linus Torvalds) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elOle. :-] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
HELP INSTALLING X USING DPKG FOR A NEWBIE
Hi- I am trying to install X and have posted about 5 messages. I am new to Linux and Unix (I'm running WIN95) currently I have not done anything productive with it except get frustrated. I downloaded Debian 2.1 onto a 80386 with 250 MB of disk space for / and a 30 MB swap. I want to get X running so I downloaded it from XFree86.org there I ran the setup script and it said something about a.out and that it could not run. So I tried a dpkg. I downloaded several .deb files and every time it said something about a package list not comple or a broken package or a dependancy probelem. All of it was greak to me so I came to this list. I tried dselect but I could not figure that out even after reading the readme. If someone could tell me how to use dpkg correctly, I've been using a command like dpkg -i /dos/floppy/xserve~1.deb, and tell me what packages to download plus the order in which to install them that would be great. Thanks in advance -James
elm sending blank mails
I just upgraded my potato system to the latest version of libc and exim, and I'm not faced with the problem of elm sending blank e-mails. If I send a test message or reply to someone else's e-mail, the message comes out blank. The mail buffer gets written to a file in /tmp just like it's supposed to, and I can see that it's there right before I press s to send. The strange thing is that the message is sent empty, even though it gets written properly to my sent folder. There are no error messages in exim's mainlog. What is even stranger is that if I send a MIME message, it goes through OK. Pine also works fine. So, does anyone know what's going on? I'd really like to get this fixed ASAP, but it seems that the Debian version of elm wasn't compiled with debugging support. I'm running glibc2.1 under kernel 2.1.121. Thanks, and please reply via e-mail! Max Kamenetsky
Re Installing X to Debian for a Newbie
Hi- I will mail an answer to you if I can find one. And if you find out could you mail how to me? -James
Re: elm sending blank mails
Max, I don't know if this is a problem with glibc2.1 or Exim -- neither of which I have the opportunity to test (my development platform is Alpha running sendmail). It is possible that your kernel version is causing trouble; being an unstable and development kernel could have its risks. Have you tried downgrading system components one by one to make sure that it's really an elm problem and not a glibc2.1 one? What happens with other MTAs? Max Kamenetsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just upgraded my potato system to the latest version of libc and exim, and I'm not faced with the problem of elm sending blank e-mails. If I send a test message or reply to someone else's e-mail, the message comes out blank. The mail buffer gets written to a file in /tmp just like it's supposed to, and I can see that it's there right before I press s to send. The strange thing is that the message is sent empty, even though it gets written properly to my sent folder. There are no error messages in exim's mainlog. What is even stranger is that if I send a MIME message, it goes through OK. Pine also works fine. So, does anyone know what's going on? I'd really like to get this fixed ASAP, but it seems that the Debian version of elm wasn't compiled with debugging support. I'm running glibc2.1 under kernel 2.1.121. Thanks, and please reply via e-mail! Max Kamenetsky
Re: Slink CDs.
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 10:56:27PM +0200, shaul wrote: 1) I saw some CD vendors who claim that they ship their CD with a multi-cd method. Isn't the multi-cd method part of the official CD ? Is it required inspite the inclusion of apt ? The problem is that even Just main is bigger than 1 CD and APT doesn't have a multi-cd option yet (not that I know of anyway). 2) Some CD vendors say that their CDs include contrib + non-US + parts of non-free. Others only mention non US. However, if the official CD has about 1150 packages then is it wrong to conclude that any vendor who ships 4 or 5 CDs with about 2550 packages must have include contrib + non-US + parts of non-free ? If you are getting just 1 CD than you get most of main and that's it. It has everything needed for the default package selections (workstation, server etc.). If you get more CDs then CD-2 has the rest of main and all of contrib. I think CDs 3 4 are source and 5 is non-free. I'm not sure where non-us goes but there should be room on either 2 or 5. BTW this is from memory so if anyone has a correction then please... -- Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP INSTALLING X USING DPKG FOR A NEWBIE
*- On 13 Mar, Robert Aisenberg wrote about HELP INSTALLING X USING DPKG FOR A
NEWBIE
Hi-
I am trying to install X and have posted about 5 messages. I am new
to Linux and Unix (I'm running WIN95) currently I have not done anything
productive with it except get frustrated. I downloaded Debian 2.1 onto a
80386 with 250 MB of disk space for / and a 30 MB swap. I want to get
X running so I downloaded it from XFree86.org there I ran the setup
script and it said something about a.out and that it could not run. So I
tried a dpkg. I downloaded several .deb files and every time it said
something about a package list not comple or a broken package or a
dependancy probelem. All of it was greak to me so I came to this list. I
tried dselect but I could not figure that out even after reading the
readme. If someone could tell me how to use dpkg correctly, I've been
using a command like dpkg -i /dos/floppy/xserve~1.deb, and tell me
what packages to download plus the order in which to install them that
would be great.
Thanks in advance
-James
James, X is not any easy thing, so don't get too frustrated. Also,
this don't expect all questions to get answered on this list. It is
a very high traffic list and lots of users just skim the subjects,
skipping as they see fit.
Have you looked at the deselect-beginners guide at
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/dselect-beginner.html
?
It might be of some additional help.
You will probably need the following to get started.
xfree86-common
xbase-clients
xserver-common
xfonts-75dpi
xfonts-base
xfs
xlib6g
xpm4g
xterm
zlib1g
and
xserver-{your video cards chipset} , like xserver-mach64 for most ATI
cards.
If you can not figure out dselect, download all the files to an empty
directory and then install them all at once with 'dpkg -i *'. I did
not check all the dependcies of the above but I think that should be a
complete set.
Good luck,
--
Brian
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Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes,
because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes.
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Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis
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Re: Kernel 2.2.3
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: I have couple of questions about upgrading my kernel to 2.2.3. I downloaded the full source and went through all the steps to compile, but when I rebooted I received an error telling me that modules.dep was empty. I took a look at /lib/modules/2.2.3/modules.dep and yep, it's empty. I looked at the modules.dep file under my 2.0.34 directory and it looks like this file tells where all the modules are. Since mine is empty, where can I find a replacement, or how do I get it populated? I also noticed this when I first started compiling kernels, and soon found out that the computer automatically made modules.dep on boot. I don't know what makes it or how. It just does.. Anyone know what package/program does this ? Roy -- Unsolicited commercial email with be billed at $350/message Roy Larsen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To send me an email remove `.nospam' from the address.
ether= parameter doesn't work
Hello, == I am using 2.2.1 kernel and I have 3 Ethernet cards in my Linux box (all are Realtek 8029 PCI). The 3rd was added recently. I wanted to preserve my settings - I knew that adding the 3rd card would change my present eth0 and eth1 name-to-adapter assignments. So I added an append line to my lilo.conf, filled it with proper values, ran lilo and restarted my server. After booting it up I ended up with swapped names of cards so I thought I made a mistake somewhere. I made more experiments - and I observed that the ne2k-pci driver completely ignored the values specified in ether= parameters. Is it possible that ne2k-pci looks for more than one network card automatically (and therefore disregards the ether= parameter)? If so, do all drivers do the same, or is this just a speciality of ne2k-pci? I haven't noticed any message telling me that I've supplied a wrong parameter to the kernel. Does any of you know if something has changed in 2.2.x about that ether= parameter? Again, I am using 2.2.1 kernel with built-in ne2k-pci driver (not as a module). By the way, where can I get some information about new parameters which can be passed to 2.2.x kernels? Is BootPrompt HOWTO updated already? Thank you in forward. All the very best, Peter -- * * Peter Paluch * * Kukucinova 939/35 * * 024 01 Kysucke Nove Mesto * * Slovakia, Europe * * - * * cell phone: +905 16 44 32 * * home phone: +421 826 421 2542 * *
Re: elm sending blank mails
On 13 Mar 1999, John Goerzen wrote: I don't know if this is a problem with glibc2.1 or Exim -- neither of which I have the opportunity to test (my development platform is Alpha running sendmail). It is possible that your kernel version is causing trouble; being an unstable and development kernel could have its risks. Have you tried downgrading system components one by one to make sure that it's really an elm problem and not a glibc2.1 one? What happens with other MTAs? No, I haven't tried downgrading yet, though I know that the problem is not with the kernel version. I get the same problem with kernel 2.2.3. I'd also be very surprised if this were an MTA problem because pine works fine. I haven't tried downgrading glibc because that is a major task (it's a whole bunch of packages, I'm not even sure where to begin with those). So, is there anyone out there using elm with exim and glibc2.1? There's got to be at least one person! Max Max Kamenetsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just upgraded my potato system to the latest version of libc and exim, and I'm not faced with the problem of elm sending blank e-mails. If I send a test message or reply to someone else's e-mail, the message comes out blank. The mail buffer gets written to a file in /tmp just like it's supposed to, and I can see that it's there right before I press s to send. The strange thing is that the message is sent empty, even though it gets written properly to my sent folder. There are no error messages in exim's mainlog. What is even stranger is that if I send a MIME message, it goes through OK. Pine also works fine. So, does anyone know what's going on? I'd really like to get this fixed ASAP, but it seems that the Debian version of elm wasn't compiled with debugging support. I'm running glibc2.1 under kernel 2.1.121. Thanks, and please reply via e-mail!
SMP with kernel 2.2.3
Has anyone here tried running an SMP system with kernel 2.2.3? If so, can you get it to use both processors? For some reason, I can get it to recognize two processors (this shows up in xproc), but top shows that at most 50% of the CPU is getting used, i.e. only one of the processors. At first I thought that top was wrong, but it does seem much slower than with kernel 2.1.121. Thanks for any help! Max Kamenetsky
Re: which package provides ldd
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 12:01:39AM +0100, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: On Wed, 10 Mar, 1999 à 10:46:59PM -0500, dyer wrote: Matt Garman wrote: Which package has the ldd program in it? I could swear this utility used to be on my computer, now it's not (I had that dselect removal disaster mentioned in an earlier post). base/ldso And what about slink ??? turing:/home/lcrpic# dpkg -l ldso Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- ii ldso1.9.10-1 The Linux dynamic linker, library and utilit turing:/home/lcrpic# dpkg -L ldso /. /sbin /sbin/ldconfig.new /usr /usr/bin /usr/lib /usr/lib/lddstub [snip rest of listing] There's still a man page for ldd but no more ldd :-? Try to install this package again. I've had the same problem but it did went away when I reinstalled the package. root:~ # dpkg -l ldso Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- ii ldso1.9.10-1 The Linux dynamic linker, library and utilit root:~ # dpkg -l ldso /. /sbin /sbin/ldconfig.new /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/ldd /usr/lib /usr/lib/lddstub /usr/man /usr/man/man8 /usr/man/man8/ld.so.8.gz /usr/man/man8/ldconfig.8.gz /usr/man/man1 /usr/man/man1/ldd.1.gz /usr/doc /usr/doc/ldso /usr/doc/ldso/copyright /usr/doc/ldso/README.gz /usr/doc/ldso/changelog.gz /lib /lib/ld.so.1.9.10 /lib/ld-linux.so.1.9.10 /lib/ld-linux.so.1 /lib/libdl.so.1.9.10 /lib/libdl.so.1 What's going on guys? -- Pedro Guerreiro (aka digito)([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Diplomacy: the art of letting someone have your own way.
freshmeat crashes Netscape
This is odd. freshmeat.net crashes my Netscape 4.5 (on Debian Hamm) and has been doing so for at least a week. Anyone else have this experience? -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
Re: [Systalk] freshmeat crashes Netscape
This is odd. freshmeat.net crashes my Netscape 4.5 (on Debian Hamm) and has been doing so for at least a week. Anyone else have this experience? me too BUT only on 1 box my other box is fine (altough it's slower) netscape 4.5 on a PII233 with 256Mb of ram will crash displaying freshmeat sometimes BUT on a P200 with 64Mb ram (mostly used and going into major swap) it works perfectly , go figure? and the netscape tree was just copied out of the other box. netscape 4.08 on a sun sparc running solaris (don't know what version) works perfectly with freshmeat oh yes netscape 4.51 is out also go figure? Jeffrey Borg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade to 2.2.1 kernel, sound problems
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 10:32:04PM -0600, Mark Panzer wrote: I upgraded to the 2.2.1 kernel (it should be somewhat stable being an even release number) and my AWE 64 sound card now fails to work. I have isapnp installed to configure the soundcard on bootup, that works fine (prints out board id etc...). However when I attempt to use mpg123 to play mp3 files I recieve the following error. Can't open /dev/dsp! However I do have dsp in my device driver dir (/dev/). ls -l /dev/dsp crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 May 12 1998 /dev/dsp Make sure you belong to group audio, or you'll never get permition to write/read from /dev/dsp. Can you shed any light on my problem? (I also noticed that the config script for the kernel never asked for io/irq/dma etc.. addresses what's up?) Just add the configuration to the /etc/modutils/options file and then run update-modules, that will do the trick. It did for me:-) I've got an AWE32 PNP with a 2.2.3 kernel running with no problems. -- Pedro Guerreiro (aka digito)([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Diplomacy: the art of letting someone have your own way.
