COMO CONFIGURAR UN SERVIDOR UNIX.......
Hola Amigo: Espero que te encuentres bien donde quiera que te encuentres,vi tu pagina web y me intereso muchisimo, bueno para no quitarte mucho tiempo sere breve, soy una estudiante de computacion, nos han dejado un trabajo de investigacion que se trata de lo siguiente: Implementar una red pequeña ,como una intranet,de 20 pc. , con dos servidores, una de unix, y la otra de windows nt, siendo la de unix el servidor principal, y las 20 estaciones., lo que falta se toma de la imaginacion ya que es para una empresa virtual, Lo que se pide es: - configuracion del servidor unix (SOLO LA PARTE LOGICA), para que pueda administrar y comunicarse con el otro servidor NT - configuracion del servidor NT. Si nos pudieras dar algunas pautas de los comandos que se utilizan o referencias ,nos seria de gran ayuda, mientras mas pronto mejor porque es para el martes, desde ya te agradesco. Tu amiga. Esperare tu respuesta.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] TE AGRADESCO DE ANTEMANO. _ http://www.latinmail.com. Gratuito, latino y en español.
Re: problemas con repetición de teclado
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 05:42:40AM +0100, Agustin MuNoz wrote: Con kbdrate -r 25 lo arreglo cada vez pero es un coñazo, y no he conseguido encontrar nada en el /etc/init.d/ que lo ponga así, tampoco en /etc/kbd/config. Que paquete es el que toquitea esto ? kbdrate ? porsiaca he mirado en bugs.debian.org/kbdrate pero no hay nada. El script de booteo del paquete kbd es /etc/rc.boot/kbd. Así que pon la orden kbdrate -r 25 allí. Y si no quieres que aparezca el mensaje de ese comando pon : kbdrate -r 25 /dev/null Chau. Marcelo. -- __ __ _ Marcelo Ramos | \/ __| Debian 2.1 (Slink) | |_// Linux registered user #118109 |\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]|_|\/|_|\_\ __
Return Message
The included message could not be delivered to the following invalid mail names. Please verify these names and try them again. Bad name: jcarlosh ---BeginMessage--- On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 05:42:40AM +0100, Agustin MuNoz wrote: Con kbdrate -r 25 lo arreglo cada vez pero es un coñazo, y no he conseguido encontrar nada en el /etc/init.d/ que lo ponga así, tampoco en /etc/kbd/config. Que paquete es el que toquitea esto ? kbdrate ? porsiaca he mirado en bugs.debian.org/kbdrate pero no hay nada. El script de booteo del paquete kbd es /etc/rc.boot/kbd. Así que pon la orden kbdrate -r 25 allí. Y si no quieres que aparezca el mensaje de ese comando pon : kbdrate -r 25 /dev/null Chau. Marcelo. -- __ __ _ Marcelo Ramos | \/ __| Debian 2.1 (Slink) | |_// Linux registered user #118109 |\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]|_|\/|_|\_\ __ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null ---End Message---
Re: [saK] y Recuperar de cuelgue de X y consolas
hola a todos, On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 01:50:07AM +0100, Hue-Bond wrote: El domingo 09 de enero de 2000 a la(s) 22:13:33 +0100, Manel Marin contaba: (Nadie ha sabido decirme que comando usar para reiniciar el modo grafico VGA) El paquete svgatextmode tiene buena pinta. 'man stm': Lo he probado y no soporta mi targeta gráfica. He estado investigando y todo lo que he encontrado lo adjunto en mi chuleta teoria-svga ;-) Si me equivoco en algo o sabeis algo que yo no sepa m'avisais En resumen framebuffer got the power y como no me va bien, voy a enviar un bug-report ;-) Saludos, -- Manel Marin e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Powered (Debian 2.1 slink) teoria-svga: (0.01) Un poco de teoria sobre las SVGA y el framebuffer HARDWARE SVGA NO COMPATIBLE: Desde que IBM dejo de ser el estandard de-facto con su VGA, cada fabricante ha añadido registros adicionales no compatibles entre ellos. Asi cada targeta necesita una inicialización diferente y la única manera común de hacer una inicialización es llamando a la BIOS de esa targeta. BIOS Y MODO EXTENDIDO: Parece que la BIOS solo puede utilizarse en modo real, por lo que solo puede emplearse, para fijar el modo gráfico, en el arranque antes de la descompresión del kernel... Eso es justo lo que se hace al seleccionar el modo de texto en el arranque con vga=... UN ESTANDARD: VESA 2.0 Afortunadamente los fabricantes de hardware se han puesto de acuerdo para crear un estandar que permite: - Poner la targeta en un cierto modo gráfico - Permitir el acceso a la memoria (buffer) de la targeta gráfica EL FRAMEBUFFER: Con el soporte del framebuffer en el kernel es posible utilizar una targeta gráfica no soportada por ningún servidor X Pero el formato de definición del modo de video ha cambiado... PRECAUCION: El soporte del framebuffer en los kernel 2.2 es experimental y no exitía en los kernel 2.0 CAMBIOS DE MODO DE VIDEO EN EL KERNEL: Si no se incluye soporte de framebuffer al compilar el kernel, no se hará ningún intento de cambiar el modo de video de la SVGA (ya que no sabe como hacerlo... en cada SVGA es diferente). ¿Y cuando conmutamos de las X a una consola virtual? El cambio de modo de video lo hace el servidor X que conoce la SVGA Si se incluye el soporte de framebuffer al compilar el kernel y tenemos una SVGA compatible VESA 2.0, al cambiar de consola virtual (VC) se cambia el modo de video. APLICACION DE CAMBIO DE MODO DE VIDEO: Existe el paquete svgatextmode para cambiar el modo gráfico y está basado en las X, pero es un poco antiguo y no reconoce por ejemplo mi ATI Mach64 MAS INFORMACION: Con los kernel 2.2 en: - /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/framebuffer.txt - /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
[SOLUCIONADO] Re: dselect en citius-slink no funciona con kernel 2.2.X ?solucion?
Hola a todos, Os envio una chuleta con la solución (comprobada ;-) On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 09:56:42PM +0100, Manel Marin wrote: Hola a todos, Ya me he cansado de hacerme el macho y cargar paquetes a pelo con el mc ;-) Si arranco con un kernel 2.2.X no me funciona el dselect, bueno puedo seleccionar el paquete y al darle al [I]nstalar y tras confirmar el paquete me dice que Media Change: Please insert the disk labered ... y me repite el mensaje cada vez que le doy al enter... NOTA: Obviamente he quitado la lata de cocacola de la bandeja del lector CDROM y le he puesto el CD que me pide X-) ... (por si me preguntais ;-) NOTA2: Arrancando con un kernel 2.0.X (2.0.36, 2.0.38) va bien :-? ¿Sabeis como solucionarlo? Saludos, -- Manel Marin e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Powered (Debian 2.1 slink) I-kernel-22-slink: (0.01) Cosas por hacer tras instalar un kernel 2.2 en slink A) dselect deja de funcionar (no detecta el CDROM introducido) MOTIVO: Parece que los kernel 2.2 devuelven un identificador de CD distinto de el de los kernel 2.0 SOLUCION: 1) Borrar los archivos de /var/state/apt/lists/, sin borrar directorios 2) Borrar los archivos de /var/state/apt/, sin borrar directorios 3) Borrar del archivo /etc/apt/source.list todas las entradas como: deb cdrom:Citius Debian GNU_Linux slink (2.1)... 2) Lanzar dselect, elegir Metodo (Access) 3) Escoger aptcdrom, meter todos los CDROM de la distribución 4) Hacer Actualizar (Update) AGRADECIMIENTOS: Gracias a Alberto F. Hamilton y a todos los demás de debian-user-spanish B) La impresora no imprime MOTIVO: En los kernel 2.2 la primera impresora es lp0, en los 2.0 era lp1 SOLUCION: Volver a ejecutar magicfilterconfig (paquete magicfilter) También se puede modificar a mano /etc/printcap y sustituir :lp=/dev/lp1 por :lp=/dev/lp0
Re: dselect en citius-slink no funciona con kernel 2.2.X ¿solucion?
Hola Alberto, On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 01:11:17PM +, Alberto F. Hamilton Castro wrote: ... Despues haces un 'apt-cdrom add' para CD, o directamente con dselect en Access, y el correspondiente 'update'. Me ha ido fenomenal !, Voy a enviar una chuleta detallada a la lista ;-) Gracias ;-) -- Manel Marin e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Powered (Debian 2.1 slink)
Re: Sonido, otra vez.
Hell-o Pookie! El día Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 09:55:01AM +0100 decías: no creo, si tiene un sond balster por ahi en medio tiene que poner algo de Sound Blastar 0x220 DSP 4.13 detected o similar... yo nunca he visto un mensaje como ese y mi AWE funcionaba sin problemas -- Nos leemos... SKaVeN - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Powered (Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Slink) Linux Registered User #158497 (http://counter.li.org)
Re: problemas con repetición de teclado
El dom, 16 de ene de 2000, a las 12:54:17 -0300, Marcelo Ramos va y dice: El script de booteo del paquete kbd es /etc/rc.boot/kbd. Así que pon la orden kbdrate -r 25 allí. Ok, puedo poner un script nuevo porque no hay ningún /etc/rc.boot/kbd ~# ls -l /etc/rc.boot/ total 3 -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 83 dic 16 00:09 3Welcome2L -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 48 nov 29 16:41 dnetc -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 232 jul 26 02:22 fidogate Acias, con eso lo arreglo, pero me quedo con las ganas de saber que a pasado en la actualización :-? He vuelto a mirar y no tengo instalado kbd sino el console-tools, quizás sea por eso, pero el caso es que antes de actualizar iba bien. O:) -- Un Saludo.. ;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.bigfoot.com/~guti | Fido: 2:346/3.202 ... Como diría Jack El destripador...Vamos por partes...
Re: Engañar a APT
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 10:12:55PM +0100, Francisco Callejo wrote: Hola. Total, que ahora cada vez que utilizo apt me da un error de dependencias y la única solución que me ofrece es desinstalar tetex-bin y todos los paquetes que dependen de él. Como no estoy dispuesto a hacerlo, tengo dos opciones: 1) No utilizar nunca apt. 2) Engañar a apt para que no tenga en cuenta las dependencias de los paquetes instalados. Tienes una tercera opción: Antes de recompilar tetex, retócalo para que dependa de la versión 1.3 en vez de la 1.3.3. Creo que se cambiaba en el fichero debian/control, pero no estoy seguro. Con rgrep se encuentra en dos patadas. Yo tengo así varios paquetes retocados que dependían de perl5 (potato) en vez de perl a secas (slink). -- Un Saludo Han Solo The Rebel Alliance Conecto, luego existo. Desconecto, luego insisto. Soy usuario de infobirria+ P.D. La firma no es mía, sino de uno que trabajaba, precisamente, en M$. Vivir para ver. pgpY9Xhwn0efQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Linux Expo en Madrid
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona wrote: algo. Pero por otro lado, es posible que den metros cuadrados gratis para poner un stand de Debian. La pregunta es, ¿interesa esto? (en Yo en principio tengo intención de estar por allí, aunque no sé si todo el tiempo en un supuesto stand de Debian, claro O:-) Pero bueno, que se cuente conmigo para lo que se pueda hacer por ahí, desde luego. Saludos! -- [http://ceu.fi.udc.es/gpul - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/eulug]
Imagen tapiz (último)
Hola. Muchas gracias a todos por las múltiples respuestas sobre el tema de colocar una imagen como fondo del escritorio. Lo que me gustaría saber es cómo (o dónde, para ser más exacto) se pueden poner esas sentencias para que se ejecuten al entrar en linux (con XDM) y ya aparezca el escritorio con la imagen escogida y no haya que ponerla manualmente cada vez. He mirado varios archivos como 'xdm-config', 'xdm.options, 'Xstartup', 'Xsetup', etc. así como la ayuda de XDM pero las pruebas que he hecho no me han llevado a nada. Gracias de nuevo.
Help with cable modem...
Hello: I am scheduled to have Road Runner service installed next wednesday. I've gone to the trouble of building a decoy box with Windows 95 installed so that the installer doesn't give me any trouble when he/she's here to install the service. I live in Topeka, Kansas, and I don't think Linux is *THAT* wide spread here, yet. I was just wondering if anyone could point me to a good (preferably Debian specific) HOWTO for getting a debian box working with the service... Any help would be appreciated!!! Thank you Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Printing woes
Hi All, When I print a document from Netscape ( e-mail or webpage) or Acroreader (.pdf doc) ,the printed fonts are huge and offset to the right half of the page.Of course, only a small portion of the page is thus printed. This does not occur when I print an ASCII page from, say, kedit. I use KDE. I have a LaserJet 5L. This is my /etc/printcap file: lp|hplj4l|HP Laserjet 4L:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet4-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: I'd appreciate any ideas. Thanks, Howard. -- Howard Mann Online Troubleshooting Resources: HOWTO http://www.newbielinux.comhttp://www.xmission.com/~howardm/t1.html
Re: Help with cable modem...
Ryan Losh wrote: Hello: I am scheduled to have Road Runner service installed next wednesday. I've gone to the trouble of building a decoy box with Windows 95 installed so that the installer doesn't give me any trouble when he/she's here to install the service. I live in Topeka, Kansas, and I don't think Linux is *THAT* wide spread here, yet. I was just wondering if anyone could point me to a good (preferably Debian specific) HOWTO for getting a debian box working with the service... This page is great : http://usmcug.usm.maine.edu/~kpesce/rr/ Other pages are linked from this one. This should get you going. Cheers, -- Howard Mann Online Troubleshooting Resources: HOWTO http://www.newbielinux.comhttp://www.xmission.com/~howardm/t1.html
Re: Where to find Printer Drivers
According to http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/show_printer.cgi?recnum=96512 it is mostly supported by ghostscript with the bjc600 driver. Bye Andreas On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 12:09:59PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I was wondering if anyone knew how I could get drivers for a Canon BJC-80 printer for Debian 2.1 Slink. I went to Linux.com, but they only had about two printer drivers, and none were Canon. Thanks, Cameron Matheson
Re: Debian Hardware Certification??
On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Carl Greco wrote: cgreco [http://www.redhat.com/support/hardware]. It would be helpful to have cgreco such a database for Debian to encourage commerical utilization. Is cgreco there one that I have overlooked? linux is linux, with the exception of some 3rd party binary modules everything that works with redhat will work on debian. since debian is not a commercial organization i dont think they would go out of their way to promote commercial use of debian since they have no commercial support system in place and probably never will. VAResearch is probably the best company to deal with if you want certified debian hardware as they recently teamed up with debian to provide the commercial front-end for those customers. i build lots of debian slink systems, and presently they consist of: K6-3 400, 64MB Kingston PC100 ram, Matrox G400 16MB OEM, dual 3COM 3c905c NICs, FIC PA2013 2MB Motherboard, IBM 9.1GB ide drives, sony 40X ide cdroms. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 4:19pm up 149 days, 4:21, 1 user, load average: 0.32, 0.32, 0.28
Re: vim / ssh / backspace
Christopher == Christopher S Swingley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christopher My .bashrc on the work machine has: stty erase ^h in Christopher it, if that makes any difference. Shouldn't you be using: stty erase ^? ??? This seems to be the Debian standard. (actually, normally you shouldn't have to include any stty erase setting in you login scripts, but exact circumstances may vary). If you still have problems, please indicate if you are using X-Windows or not, and what happens if you log on to the remote computer, run cat (no parameters), and then push backspace. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
config script for ghostscript
Hi! Isn't it possible to run the script which configures the printers in /etc/printcap (I think it is included in the gs package) a second time after installing it? I don't want to create all the directories in /var/spool/lpd manually but I can't find the script. (I think it must be a script like bindconfig or isdnconfig) Markus -- Markus Schaub, Steinacher Straße 30a, 90765 Fürth [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.fen.baynet.de/markus.schaub
Re: unexpected end of file
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'bash: /root/.profile: line 11: syntax error: unexpected end of file' i would would view this file with mc, switching to hex-mode and look for suspicious characters. -- hafi
stable innd is segfaulting
I'm encountering a really strange problem on a friend's slink box. We
were trying to fix a few things in his news configuration - rebuilding
suck with perl support and fiddling about with a few configuration files
(like newsfeeds - 'ctlinnd checkfile' is happy, BTW). Suddenly suck
stopped working, which understandably irritated us a bit. Putting all
the configuration files back to (as far as we can remember) the way they
were and reinstalling the original suck package doesn't help.
Eventually I traced the problem to innd itself dying when innxmit tries
to submit articles to it. The tail of an strace looks like this
(apologies for the long lines):
[pid 17274] setsockopt(17, SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDBUF, [24576], 4) = 0
[pid 17274] setsockopt(17, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVBUF, [24576], 4) = 0
[pid 17274] setsockopt(17, SOL_SOCKET, SO_KEEPALIVE, [1], 4) = 0
[pid 17274] write(17, 200 drmanhattan InterNetNews ser..., 65) = 65
[pid 17274] time([947982516]) = 947982516
[pid 17274] sigaction(SIGPIPE, {0x4007f8a0, [], 0}, {0x8058fb0, [],
SA_RESTART}) = 0
[pid 17274] send(3, 61Jan 16 00:28:36 innd: drmanh..., 95, 0) = 95
[pid 17274] sigaction(SIGPIPE, {0x8058fb0, [], SA_RESTART}, NULL) = 0
[pid 17274] select(18, [4 11 13 17], [], NULL, {300, 0}) = 1 (in [17], left
{299, 99})
[pid 17274] gettimeofday({947982516, 604642}, NULL) = 0
[pid 17274] read(17, ihave [EMAIL PROTECTED]..., 4095) = 53
[pid 17274] lseek(9, 278336, SEEK_SET) = 278336
[pid 17274] read(9, 274450\trec.puzzles/393\n, 23) = 23
[pid 17274] read(9, [EMAIL PROTECTED]..., 64) = 64
[pid 17274] write(17, 335\r\n, 5) = 5
[pid 17274] select(18, [4 11 13 17], [], NULL, {300, 0}) = 1 (in [17], left
{299, 98})
[pid 17274] gettimeofday({947982516, 627961}, NULL) = 0
[pid 17274] read(17, Path: news4.giganews.com!nntp2.g..., 4095) = 1019
[pid 17274] --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
... read resumed , 8192)= 0
close(0)= 0
_exit(0)= ?
I've tried reading the source, but my knowledge of the internals of innd
is not that deep and I'm stumped. Has anyone encountered this problem
before, and even better do they know how to fix it? It happens in both
streaming and non-streaming mode, and after restarting the server. I'm
going to try rebuilding the active, history, and overview files now, but
their format looks generally OK.
I'd much appreciate any advice anyone might have.
Thanks,
--
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: config script for ghostscript
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 01:34:39AM +0100, Markus Schaub wrote: Isn't it possible to run the script which configures the printers in /etc/printcap (I think it is included in the gs package) a second time after installing it? magicfilterconfig, perhaps? HTH, -- Alisdair McDiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrading multiple machines to 2.1r4
On 14-Jan-2000, Chris R. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to upgrade a few networked machines to 2.1r4, and since I have only a slow dialup connection to the net, I'd like to only download each package I need once. However, I really don't have the space or time for a full mirror. What would be the best way to make sure I can (re)use the packages I've downloaded with dselect? The other suggestions are good, but the way I do it is using wget. To see how to build a wget script for use with apt, read the file offline.txt.gz in /usr/doc/apt. HTH, Pete.
Can't find /dev/dsp
Hi all! I've been trying to get my SB Live soundcard working, and after installing a precompiled kernel (2.2.13) and dowloading and compiling the emu10k1 driver code from creative I am at last able to play a cd on my computer. However, when I run mpg123 it complains about not being able to open /dev/dsp. This seems pretty reasonable, since even I can't find a /dev/dsp (or /dev/audio for that matter). So, how do I get these devices installed? Is there any way of doing it without compiling the kernel (I tried that late last night, but the computer hung while booting, I think it's a ecgs 2.95 matter)? Thanks, --Fredrik
Re: Can't find /dev/dsp
cd /dev/ ./MAKEDEV audio should make those devices for you. On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Fredrik Appelberg wrote: Hi all! I've been trying to get my SB Live soundcard working, and after installing a precompiled kernel (2.2.13) and dowloading and compiling the emu10k1 driver code from creative I am at last able to play a cd on my computer. However, when I run mpg123 it complains about not being able to open /dev/dsp. This seems pretty reasonable, since even I can't find a /dev/dsp (or /dev/audio for that matter). So, how do I get these devices installed? Is there any way of doing it without compiling the kernel (I tried that late last night, but the computer hung while booting, I think it's a ecgs 2.95 matter)? Thanks, --Fredrik
scsi tape device
For some reason I do not have /dev/st* . I compiled my kernel with scsi tape support and I thought that would do it. Is there something that I am missing. Am I looking in the wrong spot for my tape device. I have a ICP raid card (GDT) which is fully functional and the kernel sees the tape drive Configuring GDT-PCI HA at 0/9 IRQ 3 scsi0 : GDT6518RD scsi : 1 host. Vendor: ICP Model: Host Drive #01 Rev: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Vendor: HPModel: C1537ARev: L708 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 2, id 3, lun 0 scsi : detected 1 SCSI tape 1 SCSI disk total. SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 35551845 [17359 MB] [17.4 GB] but I am just lost as to how to access it in taper or kbackup. -Ryan
Re: ATA/66 hardware detection problems
From: George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Burt Kemp [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: ATA/66 hardware detection problems Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 14:15:55 -0800 (PST) I am not sure if Debian applies the latest IDE patches from: ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ or not. The latest patch is for 2.2.14 and dated two days ago. Which kernel version are you using? On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Burt Kemp wrote: Has anyone else had experience with a 440BX board that incorporates ATA/66 support? Debian does not even realize that its there. Is there no support for them yet? I was using the default kernel that came. I could not get it to install, because it couldnt find a drive to install on. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
files appear corrupt, but aren't; kernel bug?
Over the past few hours, my potato machine has been behaving very strangely. Many of the files on my hard drive or which I read from cdrom have minor errors. Specifically, at a random point in the file, two consecutive bytes are changed to 160 and 192 (240 300 octal). Moreover, this often repeats every 4194305 bytes! (That 2 to the 22nd power, plus 1.) Only large files seem to be affected, and this makes sense given the large gap between the bad bytes. However, I believe that the files on the disks are fine because the problem goes away sometimes. For example, during a period when the computer was misbehaving, I wrote a tar file to cd. Now I get % cmp -l copy-on-cdrom copy-on-hard-drive 2078721 240 53 2078722 300 74 6273026 240 127 6273027 300 374 10467331 240 46 10467332 300 304 14661636 240 344 14661637 300 151 Notice that the copy on the hard drive is now ok; it was misbehaving when the transfer was done, and so the transfer is corrupt. Also, % bzcap kernel-source-2.2.13.tar.bz2 /dev/null used to produce bzcat: Data integrity error when decompressing. but now has gone back to being silent. I ran bzip2recover on the kernel source when it was misbehaving, and the components differ from what the file now contains by 240 300 at one spot. Can anyone tell me what might be happening here? Is there software I can use to help diagnose this? My hardware: Transmonde Vivante SE, 6G IDE HD, scsi pcmcia card hooked to Yamaha 4416S cdrw. I read the list, but you are encouraged to cc your replies directly to me. Thanks very much, Dan -- Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IMHO setup
Anyone installed IMHO with roxen? Can't get it to show up in add module listing. -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu
backup to DEC TZ87
Hello all; I just added a DEC TZ87 tape drive to my Debian system (potato) and would like to use it for creating backups. Checking /var/log/messages reports: Jan 14 19:34:46 mustang kernel: Detected scsi generic sgd at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 Jan 14 19:34:46 mustang kernel: Vendor: DEC Model: TZ87 (C) DEC Rev: 9104 Jan 14 19:34:46 mustang kernel: Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Jan 14 19:34:46 mustang kernel: Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 The problem is that there is no /dev/st0 or /dev/sgd and using /dev/sg6 results in: mustang:~# dump -0u -f /dev/sg6 / DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Jan 15 18:50:03 2000 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/sda8 (/) to /dev/sg6 DUMP: Label: none DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 766872 tape blocks on 19.71 tape(s). DUMP: Cannot open output /dev/sg6. DUMP: Do you want to retry the open?: (yes or no) yes DUMP: Cannot open output /dev/sg6. DUMP: Do you want to retry the open?: (yes or no) no DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. Now maybe I just am not using dump correctly?!? The reason I say this is because it says it will take 19.71 tapes, but each tape on the unit can hold 10GB uncompressed and 20GB compressed. This system only has two 2GB drives in it. Yes I RTFM, but I am still uncertian/confused. Any ideas/suggestions? TIA, Ron -- === = Ronald Burnett Farrer = === = mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = = http://www.farrer.net = === ||| |Alpha Linux Powered! | | http://www.alphalinux.org | |||
Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp
After buying a pcmcia nic I thought that upgrading the pcmcia-* packages and recompiling the pcmcia modules would be a good idea. While I was at it, I upgraded modutils as well. Now I'm running: pcmcia-cs_3.1.8-4.deb pcmcia-source_3.1.8-4.deb modutils_2.3.9-2.deb I didn't even start to mess with the nic yet, because this broke my ppp setup somehow. I have a 56K pcmcia modem, running as ttyS2 (pppd uses /dev/modem which is a symlink pointing to /dev/ttyS2). Now, whenever I fire up pppd I get: Jan 15 19:16:30 sirius pppd[352]: pppd 2.3.5 started by lehman, uid 1001 Jan 15 19:16:30 sirius pppd[352]: tcgetattr: Input/output error(5) Jan 15 19:16:31 sirius pppd[352]: Exit. ...just as if the modem wasn't inserted at all. But when inserting the modem, the output of cardmgr looks ok: Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius cardmgr[109]: initializing socket 2 Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius cardmgr[109]: socket 2: Serial or Modem Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius cardmgr[109]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.9/pcmcia/serial_cs.o' Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius kernel: tty02 at 0x17f8 (irq = 5) is a 16550A Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius cardmgr[109]: executing: './serial start ttyS2' And setserial says: [lehman] ~sudo setserial -a /dev/ttyS2 /dev/ttyS2, Line 2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x17f8, IRQ: 5 Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0 closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte Flags: spd_normal skip_test I checked /etc/pcmcia.conf and /etc/pcmcia/serial.opts and didn't find anything that looks offensive to me. What's going on here? I don't know how to track this down, any help appreciated... TIA -- Sent through Global Message Exchange - http://www.gmx.net
Re: Package dependency issues
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 05:55:59PM -0800, Paul McAvoy wrote: I am having a problem in that I am using qmail on my system, and the apt/dpkg system does not recognize that it fills the dependency of a mail-transport-agent. So, by default everytime I want to install something like a mail reader (mutt) I get a requirement that I need exim or something to be installed. I am unable to purge exim without breaking a bunch of dependencies. Use the equivs package. Just follow the instructions to create an equivs package that provides the same as exim does. Install (you'll need to foce it, IIRC) the new package you have created, un-install exim, and you should be right. This is what I did myself and it worked well. This is off the top of my head, so you may have to play around a bit, but basically that's what equivs is for. Cheers, damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Systems Administrator EmpireNET Melbourne, Australia
netscape proxies
I just installed navigator 4.5-1 (navigator-smotif-45) and there is no place to set proxies. Is there some reason proxies are not allowed in this version? Are proxies only available after registration? When I installed navigator I saved the registration information to a file to send it by email later, but the file wasn't saved. If navigator needs to be registered first, how do I register? Larry
Re: files appear corrupt, but aren't; kernel bug?
D == Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: D Over the past few hours, my potato machine has been behaving very D strangely. Many of the files on my hard drive or which I read from D cdrom have minor errors. Specifically, at a random point in the file, D two consecutive bytes are changed to 160 and 192 (240 300 octal). D Moreover, this often repeats every 4194305 bytes! (That 2 to the 22nd D power, plus 1.) Only large files seem to be affected, and this makes D sense given the large gap between the bad bytes. However, I believe D that the files on the disks are fine because the problem goes away D sometimes. For example, during a period when the computer was Hmmm, I would suspect either memory, or problems with the SCSI bus. For SCSI problems, it could be due to termination (only external, active termination should be used), or the cables are marginal (or marginally too long). But it kinda makes sense that it might show up only on long files -- you are stressing the system more. Or the disk is starting to die... For memory, are you running with fake-parity, true-parity, or ECC memory? The former can gererate spurious errors like you are seeing without otherwise being detected. I spend the extra money on ECC memory, because I don't want any hidden errors... Oh, and make sure that you have parity enabled on the SCSI bus peripherals, too. -- More Important Drivel from: Scott Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\/\/\ http://reality.sgi.com/scotth/
Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp
lehman == lehman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: lehman After buying a pcmcia nic I thought that upgrading the pcmcia-* lehman packages and recompiling the pcmcia modules would be a good lehman idea. While I was at it, I upgraded modutils as well. Now I'm lehman running: lehman pcmcia-cs_3.1.8-4.deb lehman pcmcia-source_3.1.8-4.deb lehman modutils_2.3.9-2.deb lehman I didn't even start to mess with the nic yet, because this broke lehman my ppp setup somehow. I have a 56K pcmcia modem, running as lehman ttyS2 (pppd uses /dev/modem which is a symlink pointing to lehman /dev/ttyS2). Now, whenever I fire up pppd I get: I recently upgraded my laptop to Linux 2.2.14 (from 2.0.36) with the latest pcmcia-* and modutils, too. I compiled both the kernel and the pcmcia-source myself. I don't know if the kernel upgrade is significant or the upgrade of pcmcia-*. (I can't compile pcmcia-source for Linux 2.0.36 as my compiler is too new. Perhaps I should try and compile pcmcia-* from slink with Linux 2.2.14??? Will that work???) I have a xircom combo Ethernet/28.8k Modem card. It works find with Linux 2.0.36 and pcmcia-* from slink. (sidenote: I have noticed recently that this card runs very hot - is this normal?) The Ethernet card part works fine. lehman Jan 15 19:16:30 sirius pppd[352]: pppd 2.3.5 started by lehman, uid 1001 lehman Jan 15 19:16:30 sirius pppd[352]: tcgetattr: Input/output error(5) lehman Jan 15 19:16:31 sirius pppd[352]: Exit. I haven't tried pppd myself, but minicom cannot talk to the modem (no errors, just nothing displayed). lehman ...just as if the modem wasn't inserted at all. But when lehman inserting the modem, the output of cardmgr looks ok: lehman Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius cardmgr[109]: initializing socket 2 lehman Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius cardmgr[109]: socket 2: Serial or Modem lehman Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius cardmgr[109]: executing: 'insmod lehman /lib/modules/2.2.9/pcmcia/serial_cs.o' lehman Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius kernel: tty02 at 0x17f8 (irq = 5) is a 16550A lehman Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius cardmgr[109]: executing: './serial start ttyS2' I get that too. Curiously, with the slink pcmcia-* packages, the modem is assigned tty03, not tty02 - could that be significant? lehman And setserial says: lehman [lehman] ~sudo setserial -a /dev/ttyS2 lehman /dev/ttyS2, Line 2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x17f8, IRQ: 5 lehman Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0 lehman closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte lehman Flags: spd_normal skip_test I get similar results from setserial -a /dev/modem, but setserial -a /dev/ttyS2 just returns an error: /dev/ttyS2: pcmcia controlled device (/var/run/stab) lehman I checked /etc/pcmcia.conf and /etc/pcmcia/serial.opts and lehman didn't find anything that looks offensive to me. What's lehman going on here? I don't know how to track this down, any help lehman appreciated... Also, this isn't the worst of my problems... If I try to bootup with the card in, or shutdown, the computer will lock up, and require a hardware reset in order to fix the problem. Inserting/removing the card after bootup seems to be OK though. When I asked about this on the linux-kernel mailing list, somebody suggested I replace the following parameter to my pcmcia.conf file with: PCIC_OPTS='pci_csc=0' however, that doesn't help :-(. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp
Hi Brian May; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Also, this isn't the worst of my problems... If I try to bootup with the card in, or shutdown, the computer will lock up, and require a hardware reset in order to fix the problem. Inserting/removing the card after bootup seems to be OK though. When I asked about this on the linux-kernel mailing list, somebody suggested I replace the following parameter to my pcmcia.conf file with: PCIC_OPTS='pci_csc=0' however, that doesn't help :-(. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] A big guess, but are you guys sure you have no interrupt or similar conflicts? I have a problem with Xircom modem which sounds similar to the ones described in pcmcia-howto in relation to the interrupt conflict even though my /proc/interrupt doesn't show one. Changing the irq works (from line being hopelessly slow to te normal speed of 56k modem). HTH, damir
Re: scsi tape device
You can create the tape devices with `/dev/MAKEDEV', for example... Try `/dev/MAKEDEV -v st0' for creating `/dev/st0' and `/dev/nst0' Jozef Skvarcek _ Dept. of Physics and Astronomy | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hunter College, City University of New York | 212-772-4032 On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Ryan White wrote: For some reason I do not have /dev/st* . I compiled my kernel with scsi tape support and I thought that would do it. Is there something that I am missing. Am I looking in the wrong spot for my tape device. I have a ICP raid card (GDT) which is fully functional and the kernel sees the tape drive Configuring GDT-PCI HA at 0/9 IRQ 3 scsi0 : GDT6518RD scsi : 1 host. Vendor: ICP Model: Host Drive #01 Rev: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Vendor: HPModel: C1537ARev: L708 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 2, id 3, lun 0 scsi : detected 1 SCSI tape 1 SCSI disk total. SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 35551845 [17359 MB] [17.4 GB] but I am just lost as to how to access it in taper or kbackup. -Ryan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: terminals
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 12:26:45AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You missed a few letters the command is '/sbin/telinit q'. At 17:12 15.1.2000 -0500, you wrote: and after a reboot you would have tty's 1 through 7. At least I *think* you have to reboot - I could be wrong on that one. But this should at I think you can just 'init q' and it will re-read the inittab. That's the one. I just tried it out - added another four VT's. I did find that just 'telinit q' worked - /sbin is in root's path by default as I remember. And doing telinit as a regular user doesn't work here. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | Where do you want to go today? ICQ# 12934898 | As far from Redmond as possible! '91 GS500E| Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.
lockfile--what is it?
What is lockfile /var/run/update-menus.pid? In slink, when I run install after apt-get, etc., I get the following message: update-menus - cannot remove lockfile /var/run/update-menus.pid I can't find any reference to this file. This has just started to appear. What is a lockfile anyway? How is this affecting my system's performance? Should I worry? Should I remove it? How? thanks, steve w. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: lockfile--what is it?
On Fri, Feb 22, 2036 at 04:30:32AM -0800, Steve Winston wrote: What is lockfile /var/run/update-menus.pid? In slink, when I run install after apt-get, etc., I get the following message: update-menus - cannot remove lockfile /var/run/update-menus.pid I can't find any reference to this file. This has just started to appear. What is a lockfile anyway? How is this affecting my system's performance? Should I worry? Should I remove it? How? thanks, steve w. Lockfiles just inform other processes not to mess around with the resources 'cause another process already is. So, you either had an update-menus crap out on you or you have a zombie process. The file just contains the process id. First, try: $ ps aux | grep `cat /var/run/update-menus.pid` (Those are grave accents not apostrophes!) If that turns up nothing besides the grep process then its okay to remove it. If it turns up a running /usr/bin/update-menus try: $ kill `cat /var/run/update-menus.pid` Then check to see if it's still running with the first command. If so, you may need to specify a different signal: $ kill -9 `cat /var/run/update-menus.pid` You can also do this from top. p.s. It doesn't effect system performance one iota, unless you have a zombie process or a process stuck in an infinite loop (eating CPU). -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++
Re: Acer machines
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 05:44:27PM -0800, aphro wrote: yes it would see the new CPU, i have read nightmare tales about people having to reinstall NT after adding a second cpu if they were not using Misinformation. NT will install the single processor kernel during installation if you only have one CPU. However, Microsoft does publish information on how to upgrade it to the multiprocessor kernel afterwards. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.
Re: Acer machines
well i read from multiple sources that their UP-SMP upgrade tool worked about 20% of the time..compaq came up with a tool that was 99-100% successful *if* you had compaq hardware.. there are many many files that had to be changed to give NT SMP support not just the kernel. nate On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: hamish On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 05:44:27PM -0800, aphro wrote: hamish yes it would see the new CPU, i have read nightmare tales about people hamish having to reinstall NT after adding a second cpu if they were not using hamish hamish Misinformation. NT will install the single processor kernel during hamish installation if you only have one CPU. However, Microsoft does publish hamish information on how to upgrade it to the multiprocessor kernel afterwards. hamish hamish hamish Hamish hamish -- hamish Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome. hamish hamish hamish -- hamish Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null hamish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 10:57pm up 149 days, 10:59, 1 user, load average: 0.49, 0.34, 0.29
apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity?
Forgive me, I've been out of the Debian world for a while. I'm having trouble figuring out the relationship between apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity (which seems to be something in development). I know what dselect and dpkg are; dselect acts as a frontend (or used to) for dpkg. How does apt and deity fit into that picture? Are they replacements? It seems like dselect uses something called apt-get now for ftp and such, but why is there a dpkg-ftp package? Thanks for any light you can shed on this. Chris
Re: apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity?
I'm not an extremely long-term Debian user, but in the sake of getting you a quick response: Apt is a method of getting the files from the servers mostly, but it has added features now to frontend dpkg also. In dselect, you can use the apt method of getting files, which by default uses the main Debian HTTP/FTP servers, and you can edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point toward a good mirror (highly recommended). Apt also has the functionality of apt-get which frontends dpkg installation and also gets the files requested along with any dependencies. So, for example, you can type apt-get install [packagename] and it will use the information in /etc/apt/sources.list again to download the package you requested and all the packages required to install it and then it will run dpkg to do the installation. I haven't ever used dpkg-ftp, so can't comment on it's usefulness. Apt appears to have somewhat superceded it (or perhaps it's officially superceded it, I don't know...). Deity I have no information on, as I haven't tried it. Console-Apt is also available capt which looks to be an alternative to dselect. Still in development -- played with it, didn't find it all that intuitive (which is dselect's problem too...) so haven't continued using it. (It hasn't stepped up to add any usability or features that I'm aware of that dselect doesn't have, IMHO, but that will change since it's actively under development.) That's about all I know... I use both apt-get and dselect intermixed these days. Dselect to find packages of interest and apt-get to do updates, etc. For example, apt-get update; apt-get upgrade will update the Packages.gz file on your machine and download any upgraded packages. Nice for developers/testers running unstable, and I guess also a little dangerous at the same time, if a package is broken in the archives at the moment you do that update/upgrade. Good luck, welcome back. On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 01:34:00AM -0600, Chris R. Martin wrote: Forgive me, I've been out of the Debian world for a while. I'm having trouble figuring out the relationship between apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity (which seems to be something in development). I know what dselect and dpkg are; dselect acts as a frontend (or used to) for dpkg. How does apt and deity fit into that picture? Are they replacements? It seems like dselect uses something called apt-get now for ftp and such, but why is there a dpkg-ftp package? Thanks for any light you can shed on this. Chris -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others. pgpv6MaCDXUOc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity?
I also forgot to mention that there's currently quite a bit of work going on to get Debian more user friendly at installation-time. One of the big initiatives is debconf which allows packages to have a common front-end to ask the user questions about their configuration settings during package installation. You'll note that quite a few packages are starting to use it as a default way to ask questions during installation now. Very nice stuff, and getting better all the time. -- Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others. pgpBRNsyzTMn3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity?
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Chris R. Martin wrote: Forgive me, I've been out of the Debian world for a while. I'm having trouble figuring out the relationship between apt, dpkg, dselect, and deity (which seems to be something in development). I know what dselect deity is APT's development code name, and just they are the same : Deity is also the codename for the APT Native GUI that never got finished. Currently APT proper superceeds all execisting dselect methods and integrates them all under a common interface and lets you mix and match them freely. APT proper can also interface with dselect as a normal dselect method would, it has 5 native front ends (apt-get, Corel Get It, GnomeAPT, Console APT and Aptitute) APT still uses dpkg for the package installation.. Jason
Re: unexpected end of file
I do not have mc installed. I used the -x switch on the f ile (od -x .profile, this also allows files to be viewed in hex). I didn't see anything suspicious. Does anyone have any other ideas? If I was to install midnight commander what instruction would I have to give to view files in hex? The problem is worse than I at first realised, since this files contains $PATH for root and it's not being loaded. I suppose there are ways around this problem, but it would be nice to find out why the problem arose in the first place or at least how to fix it. At 01:38 16.1.2000 +0100, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'bash: /root/.profile: line 11: syntax error: unexpected end of file' i would would view this file with mc, switching to hex-mode and look for suspicious characters. -- hafi -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: ISDN SyncPPP Problem Part 2
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 04:59:26PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: Sorry- isdnPPP driver version 0.0.0 is out of date. Maybe ippp0 has no 'syncppp' encapsulation. ippp0: SyncPPP support not configured ippp0: Invalid argument The kernel hasn't enabled ISDN PPP support. Build another one which includes it: [cut] # # ISDN subsystem # CONFIG_ISDN=m CONFIG_ISDN_PPP=y CONFIG_ISDN_PPP_VJ=y [uncut] -- Bye, Dietmar
dhelp problems with slink/potato hybrid.
Hi, I finally took the plunge and started upgrading some packages to potato. I am now suffering from the much talked about problem of dhelp complaining about documentation in /usr/doc Here is an example from running apt-get install libcgi-perl Setting up libcgi-perl (2.76-13) ... cannot open dhelp file '/usr/doc/libcgi-perl/.dhelp': at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 559. I have read through a large number of postings in debian-user and debian-devel but I couldn't find any suggestions on how to resolve this. I have upgraded dhelp and doc-base but this didn't seem to help. Please CC replies to address below. Sorry if crossposting is bad, but I thought it was relevant to both lists. thanks, Iain. -- Iain Pople [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unexpected end of file
On 16/1/2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do not have mc installed. I used the -x switch on the f
ile (od -x .profile, this also allows files to be viewed
in hex).
I didn't see anything suspicious. Does anyone have any
other ideas?
If I was to install midnight commander what instruction
would I have to give to view files in hex?
The problem is worse than I at first realised, since this
files contains $PATH for root and it's not being loaded. I
suppose there are ways around this problem, but it would
be nice to find out why the problem arose in the first
place or at least how to fix it.
Its probably not as complicated as you are making it, more likely
there is just a stray or something
if there are any if then structures make sure they are terminated
with a fi, all { have a matching } and so on.
all it takes is one stray ' or ` to cause that, bash keeps looking
for the closing quote, or the fi or whatever and if it gets to the
end of file it complains.
Ethan
Re: Package dependency issues
* Damon == Damon Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damon This is what I did myself and it worked well. This is off the Damon top of my head, so you may have to play around a bit, but Damon basically that's what equivs is for. BTW: Anyone should use the equivs from potato. It is better than the slink version and easier to use. And it runs on slink. Ciao, Martin
Re: Can't find /dev/dsp
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 08:28:09PM -0500, Jim B wrote: cd /dev/ ./MAKEDEV audio should make those devices for you. Thanks, man. Everything works like a charm now. --Fredrik
Re: slink to potato?
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 01:01:51PM -0800, Michael Perry wrote: Hi all- I just got dsl here so have a system I would like to take from slink to potato using the apt-get install dist-upgrade. Has anyone done this recently? Any issues? I did the upgrade last friday on my laptop. no real problems, except that dpkg eats 13 MB Ram after installing a package. My laptop has only 24 MB so the upgrade took more than 4 hours, after the packages had been downloaded. Wouter -- Linux duckman 2.2.14 #1 Wed Jan 5 14:45:16 CET 2000 i586 unknown 11:35am up 10 days, 51 min, 1 user, load average: 0.75, 0.61, 0.50
Re: config script for ghostscript
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: Isn't it possible to run the script which configures the printers in /etc/printcap (I think it is included in the gs package) a second time after installing it? magicfilterconfig, perhaps? No, I use apsfilter. Sorry, I forgot to write it. Markus
Trouble with dselect.
My aim was to build a custom kernel, so I installed the kernel-source package for 2.0.38 kernel version. I propably should have also installed the headers package as well, but I did not notice it since it is located in the base section, not the development. It was after this that the problems occured: dselect refuses to install or remove the kernel source packages. Here are the error messages that I got last time: installation script returned error exit status 139 unpacking kernel-source... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-source-2.0.38_2.0.38-0_all.deb (--unpack) subprocess dpkg-dep --fsys -tarfile killed by signa (Segmentation fault) Errors where encountered while processing: /var/... (the same file as above) ... _all.deb E:Subprocess returned an error code (1) ( some text like: fix the errors and install later) Press enter to continue inst script returned error exit status 100 The system seems to be just okay otherwise. dselect even installs other packages than the source or the header packages. Please, help me. I am xtremely grateful for all the assistance I can get for fixing this thing (=getting the package installation going again.) Jussi Mattila
Re: printer
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Error in suidunregister
Hi, yesterday I ran 'apt-get upgrade' on my potato machine. By running the installation scripts I get the following error. Global symbol $username requires explicit package name at /usr/sbin/suidunregister line 173. Global symbol $groupname requires explicit package name at /usr/sbin/suidunregister line 174. Global symbol $inode requires explicit package name at /usr/sbin/suidunregister line 178. So I cannot install mount, telnetd-ssl and so on. Please help me as soon as possible. Bye, Sven
RE: Error in suidunregister
On 16-Jan-2000 Sven Gaerner wrote: Hi, yesterday I ran 'apt-get upgrade' on my potato machine. By running the installation scripts I get the following error. Global symbol $username requires explicit package name at /usr/sbin/suidunregister line 173. Global symbol $groupname requires explicit package name at /usr/sbin/suidunregister line 174. Global symbol $inode requires explicit package name at /usr/sbin/suidunregister line 178. So I cannot install mount, telnetd-ssl and so on. Please help me as soon as possible. I just removed the suidmanager package and then I was able to install the other packages. The most recent suidmanager package is broken. I reinstalled the previous version and all is well, but you don't really need it; you can do without it until it gets fixed. -- Andrew
xcolorsel won't grab colors
Hi, Using the latest XFree packages from Potato, I'm having problems with xcolorsel not being able to grab a color. It craps out saying: tea:/usr/home/antipode$ xcolorsel X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 91 (X_QueryColors) Value in failed request: 0x8000 Serial number of failed request: 1661 Current serial number in output stream: 1661 Any idea what this could be? Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com 'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..' (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)
Re: ssh encryption
hypnos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I started sshd with the -d (debug) option to try to figure this out, and I think I have my answer, but I want to make sure. Am I correct in assuming that the encryption between client/server is started before any exchange of data takes place? Specifically, I'm wondering if the username is passed in clear-text or encrypted when using the -l username option to ssh client. User name and password sent over ssh are encrypted. -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com 'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..' (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)
Re: Need file converter for
John Pearson wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 01:37:36PM -0600, John Foster wrote I need an application or plugin for netscape to decode or convert these type of files. I THINK they are some type of Microsoft proprietary file format. Netscape, WordPerfect, Gnotepad,Lyx, StarOffice, and nothing else that I have installed or set up will allow me to read messages that are sent to me in this format. They are usually sent as attachments to regular e-mail. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks! Type: application/ms-tnef Encoding: base64 This turned up on Freshmeat a few weeks ago: http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/04/944347228.html Perhaps it will do the trick? --- Thanks for the suggestion and thanks to all of you that replied. John -- AdVance-Computing Systems We sell fine quality servers and workstations. We specialize in multiprocessor units. We install Debian Linux at no extra charge! John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173
Installation showstopper
Hello, I have a problem with FTP-based installation of Debian Linux for which I could find no information on debian.org or in the howto's. I have: architecture: i386 model: Dell Dimension XPS266, PII memory:192Mb scsi: none cd-rom:Toshiba, ATAPI network card: none pcmcia:none I downloaded version 2.1r4 files from: ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/ I made a rescue disk, a drivers disk, and the 7 base14-*.bin disks. I am able to boot from the rescue disk, and the other disks appear intact as well. I also have all the .bin files on a FAT16 partition, along with base2_1.tgz (downloaded ultiple times from disparate sources in an attempt to solve my problem). I'm running WinNT with 2 IDE hard drives: Drive 1: 3 partitions, 1 primary and 2 logical, all FAT 16, 4Gb total Drive 2: 3 primary partitions, FAT16, Linux, NTFS, in that order, 8Gb total The .bin files are on the 1st logical partition of the first disk, if that matters. I want to keep WinNT on the machine, but add linux to the 2Gb partition on my second disk drive. PROBLEM: I can boot to dos, run install.bat from the logical partition, and made it up to the Install Base System item. It can find and start unpacking the base2_1.tgz file, but crashes mid-way through unpacking with File error!! There was a problem extracting the Base System from /instmnt/debian/base2_1.tgz and halts, only allowing me to try that option again I re-downloaded the file multiple times, to no avail. WinZip is able to uncompress and untar the file with no trouble (100+Mb free on the FAT16 partition, 2Gb on the linux partition). That's when I made the base14-*.bin floppies, and tried installing from floppy rather than from a DOS partition. Again, I got up to the Install Base System item, loaded in all 7 disks (apparently without trouble), and then it crashed with a similar error after the 7th disk had finished loading. I could find no other menu items (from the install.bat program) that would help. Browsing the linux partition with the help of a shell, I found /usr, /bin, /sbin, /dev, and more. But, I'm assuming I'm not done installing, seeing as the process crashed. Any help, pointers to relevant doc, or suggestions are welcome. Gary
OT: need M4 help-macros/stripping arg. spaces
I'm writing some macros for a latex package which uses M4 to preprocess them
before heading into Perl. This is a first time for me in scripting such
things, and I'm learning by example and the info page on M4 how to decide
various things.
My question relates to managing the following scenario:
In latex, writing
_cox(_oh,-)
should expand based on the definition
define('_cox', 'branch { atom(C,C);
ifelse($2,'-',' bond(l+,=C) atom(O,C); bond(l--) $1; ',
' bond(l+) $1; bond(l--,=C) atom(O,C); ')
} ')
(BTW, I use joe and don't know how to allow the back-tic character... so
I've substituted with the normal forward tic in the above.) (One day I'll
move to a real editor. Is there one like what is used in mc, BTW?)
The issue involves managing times when I (or someone else) types
_cox(_oh, - ) or _cox(_oh,- )
which adds the extra space onto the 2nd argument (I understand leading
spaces are stripped). At this point the ifelse statement fails.
I tried substituting
ifelse(substr($2,1,1),'-', ... )
but this failed as well.
Is there a way to deal with this (either through some manipulation or use
of a different flag which wouldn't be affected this way)?
Thanks very much for any help!
Kenward Vaughan
Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp
A big guess, but are you guys sure you have no interrupt or similar conflicts? I have a problem with Xircom modem which sounds similar to the ones described in pcmcia-howto in relation to the interrupt conflict even though my /proc/interrupt doesn't show one. I have the same problem whenever I try to compile the most recent PCMCIA sources. Right now I'm running from pcmcia-cs.3.1.3 because all the newer once cause the problems mentioned by the first poster (everything seems OK but pppd can't get the modem). Changing the irq works (from line being hopelessly slow to the normal speed of 56k modem). What did you change the irq to, and how? I tried to do this by excluding IRQ's in the PCMCIA config.opts file but each time it still failed, until finally there were no IRQ's left and the serial module wouldn't load. I hope this goes away in 2.4 when PCMCIA is part of the kernel. . . Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/ Fairbanks, AK 99775 ~cswingle PGP key: http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/~cswingle/pubkey.asc
Re: suidregister problems after dist-upgrade today
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 08:55:52PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: 0 S Jan 14 Adam Klein Uploaded suidmanager 0.42 (source all) to master That'll fix it. It worked. THANK YOU!!! I had been struggling with the same problem for a couple of days. That kind of timely advice is what makes this list so great. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)
failed ppp setup
Hello I need help with a partially configured ppp server. I have dial in working, but I can't get ppp to start. Currently, I can login to the proposed ppp server (via the modem from another linux computer using minicom) and get a shell. However, when I try to login as the ppp user, I get a permission deinied error and ppp doesn't start. Here's the minicom log: login as: ppp password: /etc/motd snipped No mail. /etc/ppp/ppplogin: Permission denied --- The facts The computer/os info: Debian Linux slink (2.1 with latest patches installed.) i386 2.0.36 kernel Viking serial modem connected to COM1 (ttyS0). - The setup files and their contents - mgetty related - /etc/inittab: (relevant line only) s0:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS0 -n1 /etc/mgetty/mgetty.config: (complete) debug 4 fax-id speed 38400 ppp related - /etc/ppp/options (complete file contents) asyncmap 0 crtscts lock modem debug proxyarp lcp-echo-interval 30 lcp-echo-failure 4 noipx lock domain johndavis.net /etc/passwd: (relevant line only) ppp:x:1003:30:ppp,,,:/tmp:/etc/ppp/ppplogin /etc/group: (relevant line only) dip:x:30:ppp /etc/shells:(relevant line only) /etc/ppp/ppplogin /etc# ls -l /usr/sbin/pppd -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip105532 Jun 18 1998 /usr/sbin/pppd /etc/ppp/ppplogin: #!/bin/sh mesg -n stty -echo exec /usr/sbin/pppd -detach crtscts modem #exec /usr/sbin/pppd passive crtscts modem So that ppp is not started on boot, I have no_ppp_on_boot file in /etc/ppp John Davis
Re: Clarification on setting window manager
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 04:55:09PM -0800, Guyren G Howe wrote: Okay, I asked the question a little while back about how I can set my window manager. So far I have been advised to edit, in different messages from different people: /etc/X11/window-managers ~/xinitrc ~/.xsession The first named window manager in /etc/X11/window-managers which is found on your system is the one which will be started. It is a system wide setting so all users will get this window manager unless they specify otherwise in a ~/.xsession file. The window manager you get is controlled by the action of the Xsession file in /etc/X11. Before reading /etc/X11/window-managers it will invoke .xsession if it exists. Your .xsession should be executable and, as a minimum, contain #!/bin/sh exec window manager of your choice As far as I can determine ~/.xinitrc is not required as the display manager (xdm) and startx both use /etc/X11/Xsession by default. The manual page for Xsession is worth reading. I've also been advised to run register-window-manager --default, but when I run it, it advises me that it will soon be superceded! I wasn't aware of this program but the man page is informative. One of its uses appears to be to allow the editing of /etc/X11/window-managers. Usefull though this may be the same objective may be achieved using your favourite text editor. Any or all of these look plausible. None of them actually seem to work (they currently *all* say kde, but I'm still getting enlightenment). What is the *real* answer here? Apart from appreciating that KDE is not a window manager but Enlightenment is, I'm not going to be of much help here as neither are on my system. It looks as though the command to start KDE is incorrect. You could try removing ~/initrc and putting exec startkde in ~/xsession, or startkde as the first line of /etc/X11/window-managers. BTW, enlightenment looks like shit. I get stray lines all over the screen when I resize windows, most of the little icons don't do anything, and the right mouse-click on the desktop, which all the enlightenment documentation (which is a generous term) I've been able to find advises me to do, doesn't do anything. Is enlightenment just crap, or am I missing something here? When something does not function as I anticipate it is usually because I have an imperfect understanding of what is involved :). Regards, Brian. -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
exim and /etc/hosts
I've got this machine set up to have my mail/diald server handle all mail for local users. Getting this set up required some heavy digging through documentation because the eximconfig 'satellite' setup uses bydns in the smarthost route_list and my server's not listed in DNS. Bad assumption on the config script's part and bad documentation in the generated config script for not mentioning this assumption or what to do if it's wrong... Anyhow, I was able to find bydns in the documentation along with the list of options that can be used in its place, and changed the bydns to byname. I am now able to send mail. However, byname still does a DNS check instead of just finding the hostname in /etc/hosts and going with that. (Yes, it appears that I've got my system configured correctly to use /etc/hosts - ping, ftp, telnet, ssh, and everything else I've tried will go from one machine on my network to another whithout trying to contact DNS. Only exim refuses to cooperate.) Can exim be told to look in /etc/hosts and skip the DNS lookup? If so, how? -- Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P L++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- !V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv- b++ DI D G e* h+ r++ y+
Re: files appear corrupt, but aren't; kernel bug?
Scott Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: D == Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: D Over the past few hours, my potato machine has been behaving very D strangely. Many of the files on my hard drive or which I read from D cdrom have minor errors. Specifically, at a random point in the file, D two consecutive bytes are changed to 160 and 192 (240 300 octal). D Moreover, this often repeats every 4194305 bytes! (That 2 to the 22nd D power, plus 1.) Only large files seem to be affected, and this makes D sense given the large gap between the bad bytes. However, I believe D that the files on the disks are fine because the problem goes away D sometimes. For example, during a period when the computer was Hmmm, I would suspect either memory, or problems with the SCSI bus. Thanks for the suggestion. It's definitely not a SCSI problem, because it happens on both my IDE hard drive and on my SCSI cdrom. And I'm doubtful that memory is the problem, since the bad bytes are always 160 followed by 192, whereas I would expect flakey memory to just flip a few random bits. I suspect that my memory is fake-parity but I don't know for sure. Further info: the problem seems to be completely gone now. It lasted for a few hours, and was consistent during those few hours. Every file I read that had bad bytes, consistently had the same bytes bad until the problem went away. Then the bytes were back to their correct values. I don't think this is a caching issue, since I tested this on lots of very large files, larger than the ram I have available. And I have proof that I wasn't just imagining things: while there were problems I copied a bad file to another file name. Now the original is file, but the copy is still bad. Very strange. Does anyone have any other ideas? Dan -- Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After buying a pcmcia nic I thought that upgrading the pcmcia-* packages and recompiling the pcmcia modules would be a good idea. [...] this broke my ppp setup somehow. I have a 56K pcmcia modem, running as ttyS2 (pppd uses /dev/modem which is a symlink pointing to /dev/ttyS2). Now, whenever I fire up pppd I get: Jan 15 19:16:30 sirius pppd[352]: pppd 2.3.5 started by lehman, uid 1001 Jan 15 19:16:30 sirius pppd[352]: tcgetattr: Input/output error(5) Jan 15 19:16:31 sirius pppd[352]: Exit. ...just as if the modem wasn't inserted at all. [...] And setserial says: I found two solutions to this problem. The easiest is to remove the setserial package. Doing this solved my problems immediately, so unless you need setserial for some reason, it seems like a good thing for you to try. A more awkward fix that I stumbled upon by trial and error was to run the following script near the end of the boot process, after cardmgr starts and sees the card: #!/bin/sh # This seems to make my pcmcia modem work. Didn't need to do this # before upgrading from slink to potato. This assumes that the # modem will be in slot 0, the top slot. echo Setting /dev/ttyS1 irq to 7; ejecting cards; inserting cards. setserial /dev/ttyS1 irq 7 sleep 1 cardctl eject 0 sleep 3 cardctl insert 0 Of course, the irq you choose may need to be different. Hope this helps. Dan -- Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Keyboard autorepeat
I just upgraded my machine to current potato, and the keyboard autorepeat settings have changed: delay is now 500ms instead of ~300ms as it was before. I've no idea which package this can be configured in. I've fixed the problem in X by editing my XF86Config file (added AutoRepeat 300 5 in the Keyboard section) but the virtual console setting is still wrong. Where can I change this setting? Thanks in advance, -- Alisdair McDiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xwindow help needed
Yay! I have X again. Ok for those also having similar trouble (Hi Steve :) I'm going to try and set down what I did in the hopes that this will help till Vincent can get back to someone :) (_anyone_ :) I had gone into /var/cache/apt/packages and dpkg -i'd everything xfree86'ish that I had 3.3.5 packages for Unfortunately I didn't have packages for the fonts. So this morning I did an apt-get remove xf86setup (because it was broken without the fonts) Then I did an apt-get upgrade, it upgraded all the x things that I had installed at 3.3.5 but held back on xserver-common (so now I have everything 3.3.6 except that which is still installed at 3.3.5) (oh and I did have to go into /usr/lib/menu/xbase-clients and put some \'s in after each hints=Clocks line and rerun update-menus during the install of xbase-clients) But I was still missing my fonts so I did an apt-get -d install of each of the font packages (because each one threatened to yank both my xserver-common and my xserver-i128 if I did just a plain install) and then did a dpkg -i on each font package from within /var/cache/apt/archives Now, the reason I'm sharing this with the whole list is that I'm a relative Debian newbie and I'm sure this was a fairly messy way to go about doing all this. If anyone can think of any ways that it would have been easier to do all this or things that I might have to watch out for (besides having to hit 'R' and 'Q' in dselect a lot till the conflicts get worked out a bit more) because of how I did this, please speak up, I'd love to learn :) (and let's face it, in just about any linux isn't it true that the best way to learn is the ' *poke*, kewl :) *poke*, kewl :) *poke*, ... oops?' method? :) -Alice
Re: failed ppp setup
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, John Davis wrote: Hello I need help with a partially configured ppp server. I have dial in working, but I can't get ppp to start. Currently, I can login to the proposed ppp server (via the modem from another linux computer using minicom) and get a shell. However, when I try to login as the ppp user, I get a permission deinied error and ppp doesn't start. Here's the minicom log: login as: ppp password: /etc/motd snipped No mail. /etc/ppp/ppplogin: Permission denied How about ls -ld /etc/ppp ls -l /etc/ppp/ppplogin either user 'ppp' or group 'dip' must be able to read both. ppp related - /etc/ppp/options (complete file contents) asyncmap 0 crtscts lock modem debug proxyarp lcp-echo-interval 30 lcp-echo-failure 4 noipx lock domain johndavis.net /etc/passwd: (relevant line only) ppp:x:1003:30:ppp,,,:/tmp:/etc/ppp/ppplogin /etc/group: (relevant line only) dip:x:30:ppp /etc/shells:(relevant line only) /etc/ppp/ppplogin /etc# ls -l /usr/sbin/pppd -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip105532 Jun 18 1998 /usr/sbin/pppd /etc/ppp/ppplogin: #!/bin/sh mesg -n stty -echo exec /usr/sbin/pppd -detach crtscts modem #exec /usr/sbin/pppd passive crtscts modem So that ppp is not started on boot, I have no_ppp_on_boot file in /etc/ppp John Davis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gerard MacNeil, P. Eng [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Supercity Internet Services http://www.supercity.ns.ca
Re: suidregister problems after dist-upgrade today
On 16-Jan-2000 Joe Bouchard wrote: I had been struggling with the same problem for a couple of days. That kind of timely advice is what makes this list so great. I think it sets Debian apart from some of the other Linux distributions, too. -- Andrew
How to auto-login
I'm running a machine for the lab at school and I want it to automatically login to a default user account. (i.e. instead of asking for login and password, it assumes login is user, user account having null password) How do I do this? The only accounts on the machine being root and user. (Pardoning my grammar =]) I will only need to login as root via su. I will have startx in the profile so that it will bring up the GUI automagically when powered on. = Fish of Borg Visit me on the web! http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Frontier/4874/stccg.html ///Archaeologists near mount Sinai have discovered what appears to be a missing page from the Bible. The page is currently being carbon dated in Bonn. If genuine it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to read To my Darling Candy. All Characters portrayed within this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.///Red Dwarf __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
ppp hangup question
Hi all, Just one small quwstion. I would like my modem connection to hang up as soon as I get an incomming phonecall. Any idea how to handle that ? I use pon/poff Best regards Joakim Svensson
Fvwm on Potato
After a bit of fiddling, I finally have Fvwm working on my Potato system. It seems that a symlink needed to be made from /etc/X11/fvwm to /etc/X11/fvwm2 (if I recall). However, I still have one glitch that needs to be worked out. When I launch a program, I always get an outline of the window and have to click to place it on the desktop. I'd like to get Fvwm working so that it will automatically place windows just as it did in Slink, and as other window managers do in Potato. I've been fiddling with WindowMaker some, but at this point I'd rather keep using Fvwm. The system is Debian 2.2 / fvwm 2.2.4 (from the .deb). Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
ipfwadm
when i try to do : ipfwadm -A -f The answer is : ipfwadm : setsockopt failed: Protocol not available Does anyone can help me ? Thank didier
Re: Keyboard autorepeat
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 06:53:25PM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: I just upgraded my machine to current potato, and the keyboard autorepeat settings have changed: delay is now 500ms instead of ~300ms as it was before. I've fixed the problem in X by editing my XF86Config file (added AutoRepeat 300 5 in the Keyboard section) but the virtual console setting is still wrong. No it's not, I'm just being stupid. By the way, where did this change in the recent upgrade? Somewhere in the X packages? -- Alisdair McDiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: small lab
Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to set a small lab where one machine will be a server and 3 or 4 others clients. These clients will mount /home from server and I would like to have a central authentication. All machines already run potato. I did this for 15 workstations and 1 server with NFS and NIS -- following the Debian installation instructions for NIS there were no problems with that (only shadow passwords had to be turned off). I use no automounter as recommended here because I don't see any need for this (why unmount /home?). What's the better way to do this? Better as more secure would be to use cfengine (packaged in Debian, of course), but I never managed to set up a working script and took the lazy approach above -- it worked `out of the box'. On the other hand, my users are not the hacker type and mostly don't have any Unix knowledge at all, so I hope not to take some bigger risks. I would like to try replacing NIS with LDAP, but by now this seems not obvious (= uncomplicated) for me. Greetings, joachim
Re: Package dependency issues
Paul McAvoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I submitted this question a while ago, and didn't get much of a response. [... Problems with home made qmail as MTA ...] At least I responded (and you never raised any objections to my solution): || You'd better install the debian package qmail-src, which compiles and || installs qmail for you, so you have qmail in the dpkg database. Maybe I should be more explicit: as root, type in an xterm: apt-get install qmail-src and then again: build-qmail The package's script will compile qmail for you and automatically build a debian package qmail_xxx.deb (depending on the version number you've got), and it will even install it for you if you answer yes to the appropriate question. Of course, qmail is registered as 'mail-transport-agent' in the Debian package databases then. Greetings, joachim
Re: JDK says can't open /proc/xxxxx
aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sounds like the JDK bug with newer kernels, see the linux-kernel mailing list or the archives of this list, the solution is usually downgrade the kernel or upgrade your JDK. I had the same problem on my potato box since kernel 2.2.12, and indeed it vanished when going back to 2.2.10. this bug only affects older JDK with newer kernels, JDK tries to call an So there is a newer JDK than that in potato? Any plans to integrate the newer one before the freeze? Greetings, joachim
Re: stable innd is segfaulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: I'm encountering a really strange problem on a friend's slink box. We were trying to fix a few things in his news configuration - rebuilding suck with perl support and fiddling about with a few configuration files (like newsfeeds - 'ctlinnd checkfile' is happy, BTW). Suddenly suck stopped working, which understandably irritated us a bit. Putting all the configuration files back to (as far as we can remember) the way they were and reinstalling the original suck package doesn't help. Eventually I traced the problem to innd itself dying when innxmit tries to submit articles to it. The tail of an strace looks like this (apologies for the long lines): [snip SIGSEGV] I've tried reading the source, but my knowledge of the internals of innd is not that deep and I'm stumped. Has anyone encountered this problem before, and even better do they know how to fix it? It happens in both streaming and non-streaming mode, and after restarting the server. I'm going to try rebuilding the active, history, and overview files now, but their format looks generally OK. That didn't help, but the next day I zapped all of suck's batch files that had piled up and things seemed to work OK (and continue to do so). I don't think I should have been able to get innd to segfault under any circumstances, though, and I'm concerned that it could happen again. I'd report this as a bug if I (a) could replicate it and (b) had some idea of what on earth was going on ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
modem permissions
First time I`ve had to come back for a while! I`m trying to set up minicom but I can`t access the modem. Here`s the relevant info: bash-2.03$ minicom minicom: cannot open /dev/ttyS2: Permission denied bash-2.03$ ls -l /dev/ttyS2 crw-r-1 root dialout4, 66 Jan 16 19:23 /dev/ttyS2 bash-2.03$ groups paul mail dialout dip I thought these permissions were correct for the device. Am I missing something obvious? -- Paul Walton * Powered by * Cambridge* Debian GNU Linux * U.K. * http://www.debian.org * * PGP Public Key: http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu/ * pgphhFObTzNeJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
problem compiling licq's qt-gui
I just downloaded the source to licq 0.75.1 and compiled it fine, no problems. However, I'm trying to build the qt-gui that it comes with and am getting an error and I might need some help figuring out just what is wrong with my setup. I am pretty certain it doesn't have anything to do with qt, but rather with the libraries installed on my machine. I installed qt-1.44 and 2.0 myself and have compiled many things with them, including this qt-qui (older versions). However, since the last time I did this, I ran into some dependency problems trying to install the y2k-update packages from http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ . The packages are no longer there for obvious reasons. :) But some of them were g++, libstdc++, and libstdc++-dev. I had been downloading the .debs and using dpkg -i to install, and some of them were dependent upon *each other* so it was impossible to install that way. Later I just put the URL into my sources.list and let apt and dselect do it for me and it ended up working. At any rate, here is the error (please bear with me for a minute): gcc -shared adduserdlg.lo authuserdlg.lo awaymsgdlg.lo chatacceptdlg.lo chatdlg.lo editgrp.lo editskin.lo eventdesc.lo ewidgets.lo fileacceptdlg.lo filedlg.lo icqfunctions.lo licqgui.lo mainwin.lo messagebox.lo mledit.lo optionsdlg.lo outputwin.lo passworddlg.lo plugindlg.lo qmultilineeditnew.lo registeruser.lo searchuserdlg.lo securitydlg.lo showawaymsgdlg.lo sigman.lo skin.lo skinbrowser.lo userbox.lo utilitydlg.lo wharf.lo qmultilineeditnew.moc.lo -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/local/qt/lib -L/usr/local/lib -lqt -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lXext -lXss -lstdc++ -lnsl -lc -Wl,-soname -Wl,licq_qt-gui.so -o .libs/licq_qt-gui.so ld: cannot open -lstdc++: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [licq_qt-gui.la] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jamesb/src/licq-0.75.1/plugins/qt-gui-0.70.1/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jamesb/src/licq-0.75.1/plugins/qt-gui-0.70.1' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 I believe this has something to do with my hack-job attempt at installing those y2k-update packages a little while back. I can't figure out what the heck I am missing though. Here's something that may be related. In dselect (yes I have updated the package list) I see this: --- Removed Required packages in section base --- ** Req base libstdc++2.9 none none But if I run dpkg --status libstdc++2.9 I get the following output: Package: libstdc++2.9 Status: install ok installed Priority: required Section: base Installed-Size: 552 Maintainer: Debian EGCS maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: egcs (1.1.2-0slink2) Version: 2.91.66-0slink2 Replaces: libstdc++2.9-ss ( 2.91.67) ... etc. My /etc/apt/sources.list has the following lines: deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free How can this be? Something just isn't making any sense. Can anyone assist?
Re: problem compiling licq's qt-gui
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 16:42:54 -0500, Jim B wrote: libstdc++, and libstdc++-dev. I had been downloading the .debs and using dpkg -i to install, and some of them were dependent upon *each other* so it was impossible to install that way. No it's not. Mutually dependent packages can be installed with dpkg -i if they're both provided in the same commandline. gcc -shared Always call g++ to link/compile C++ code, not gcc. ld: cannot open -lstdc++: No such file or directory Make sure you have libstdc++-dev installed, and check that /usr/lib/libstdc++.so is a symlink to an existing libstdc++*.so* file. HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would have the decency to betray his country. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Re: problem compiling licq's qt-gui
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: No it's not. Mutually dependent packages can be installed with dpkg -i if they're both provided in the same commandline. Aha! I thought it was odd to have been dumped into such a quandary. :) Thanks, I'm sure that will prevent much future frustration. gcc -shared Always call g++ to link/compile C++ code, not gcc. OK. It was shipped this way, not sure why. :-\ /usr/lib/libstdc++.so is a symlink to an existing libstdc++*.so* file. That did the trick. Thanks! It compiles now.
netscape sharing win98/linux
i think i remember a past post about how to get netscape commicator to share the mail box between win9x/linux partiions.. what's i've done is put the mail box on the windows partition .. mount it from linux and point there.. but it doesn't seem to be working.. i have communicator 4.7 any clues.. or any better suited email programs.. what i really want is the ability to share across my partitions.. and have folders.. -jason When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. -Einstein
Re: modem permissions
The permissions for my serial ports are all: crw-rw ^ You need to be able to write to the serial port. -- On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First time I`ve had to come back for a while! I`m trying to set up minicom but I can`t access the modem. Here`s the relevant info: bash-2.03$ minicom minicom: cannot open /dev/ttyS2: Permission denied bash-2.03$ ls -l /dev/ttyS2 crw-r-1 root dialout4, 66 Jan 16 19:23 /dev/ttyS2 bash-2.03$ groups paul mail dialout dip
WMSOUND: Error on Play Event
I'm using Windowmaker 0.20.3-5 under Slink and 2.0.36 and
wmsound-0.9.4. When I start wmsound I get Error on Play Event.
When I run strace on it I get:
open(/home/dsj/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Sounds/NatureStartup.wav,
O_RDONLY) = 4
fstat(4, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0)
= 0x4000c000
read(4, RIFF\320k\1\0WAVEfmt 2\0\0\0\2\0..., 4096) = 4096
close(4)= 0
munmap(0x4000c000, 4096)= 0
write(2, Error on Play Event\n, 20Error on Play Event
) = 20
write(3, +\0\1\0, 4) = 4
read(3, 0xbb28, 32) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource
temporarily unavailable)
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL)= 1 (in [3])
read(3, \1\2\23\0\0\0\0\0\217\0\200\0\0\0..., 32) = 32
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0
read(3, 0xb330, 32) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource
temporarily unavailable)
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL
Can anyone tell me what's going on here?
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Re: netscape sharing win98/linux
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, jason wrote: i think i remember a past post about how to get netscape commicator to share the mail box between win9x/linux partiions.. what's i've done is put the mail box on the windows partition .. mount it from linux and point there.. but it doesn't seem to be working.. i have communicator 4.7 any clues.. or any better suited email programs.. what i really want is the ability to share across my partitions.. and have folders.. If it doesn't have to be an X app, consider pine and pcpine. Never tried that (that is, the pcpine part of it), but it should work. -- Philip Lehman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
