Re: netscape 4.5 crashes (altmailer and mutt)
On 30-Jan-2000, J Horacio MG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just compiled altmailer to have mutt as my netscape mailer, and the damned > thing (netscape navigator 4.5) crashes everytime I click on a mailto: url. > Any chance of having this fixed? > This is a netscape bug, I believe the work around is to set your reply to field in the preferences section. Pete
Re: How to back-out an apt-get upgrade
Nick Willson wrote: > Can an apt-get upgrade (or similar) be backed-out? Say the upgrade appears > to fail, is there a way to rollback to the previous state? I am running > 2.1. APT stores the package files in /var/cache/apt/archives . The older version(s) should still be there. Michel PS: You might be interested in 'apt-get autoclean' -- Software is like sex; it's better when it's free -- Linus Torvalds __ Michel Dänzer /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ /// AmigaOS/Linux(Debian/PPC) Student of computer science at the \\\/// Team *AMIGA* ICQ #: 5675698 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology \\\/ AUGS member #163 IRC: CoOpER
Re: help with kernel compiling
"Dwayne C . Litzenberger" wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 12:25:19PM -0800, aphro wrote: > > what compiler? its suggested you use gcc 2.7.2.3 or egcs 1.1 ..probably > > should avoid anything newer its likely to cause problems like that > > > > nate > > I've been compiling with gcc 2.95.2, and things work fine (for the 2.2 > tree, anyway). The same thing for me with 2.3.40 Michel -- Software is like sex; it's better when it's free -- Linus Torvalds __ Michel Dänzer /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ /// AmigaOS/Linux(Debian/PPC) Student of computer science at the \\\/// Team *AMIGA* ICQ #: 5675698 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology \\\/ AUGS member #163 IRC: CoOpER
Re: hard disk error
Gerardo Garcia Alvarez wrote:
>
> I get this error when the kernel starts
>
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1
> hdb:hdb: set_multmode: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdb: set_multmode: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> hdb1 hdb2
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
You should take a look the helptext for "Use multi-mode by default" in
the "Block devices" section of the Kernel-configuration.
- Konrad Mierendorff
Re: Video problems
> I have tried to setup Caldera's linux x11 Windows for the first time and = > I am finding it imposible. Surely, someone can design a default = > configuration setup easier than this! I find it hard to believe that = > after two days I still cannot get a Window on the screen not even 16 = > colour vga!=20 I believe that Caldera has their own mailing list. I'll try to help regardless. You need to be able to answer these questions in order to configure XFree86: 1)What video card are you using? 2)What chipset does it use? 3)How much videoram does it have? 4)What are the horizontal sync capabilities of your monitor? 5)What are the vertical sync capabilities of your monitor? 6)What kind of mouse are you using? The XFree86-HOW-TO will help to explain the questions, and to help you explain your difficulties with XFree86. It can be found (on Debian systems, but maybe Caldera also) in /usr/doc/HOWTO. > > As someone new to Linus it seems obvious hat it should default to a = > standard vga mode, as per MS Windows. > X is very different from MS Windows. It would be both impractical and undesirable for such a "default mode" to be implemented. After you have some experience with XFree86, you will understand why. I would recommend that you use this offered information to get help from Caldera, but if this is impractical, I am willing to help. I can't say the same for the others on debian-user as they must speak for themselves. ;-) -ptw-
Re: help with kernel compiling
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 12:25:19PM -0800, aphro wrote: > what compiler? its suggested you use gcc 2.7.2.3 or egcs 1.1 ..probably > should avoid anything newer its likely to cause problems like that > > nate I've been compiling with gcc 2.95.2, and things work fine (for the 2.2 tree, anyway). I even have the reiserfs and pcsp patches (and my own numlock-on-by-default patch), and it still works fine. One question, though, why would you use 2.2.13 instead of 2.2.14? -- "If you continue running Windows, your system may become unstable." -- Windows 95 BSOD Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. Advertising Policy: http://www.redrival.com/dlitz/spamoff.html GnuPG Public Key: http://www.redrival.com/dlitz/gpgkey.asc Fingerprint: 0535 F7CF FF5F 8547 E5A5 695E 4456 FB6C BC39 A4B0 pgp2QovKKskNQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
ProFTPd bandwidth limits working?
Has anyone gotten the ProFTPd bandwidth limits to work? I just tried them and no joy. Bruce
Re: problem writing CDs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Did you change blank type? I have tried with the same blanks that worked; still error > Could be software. Did you update cdrecord between it writing and it not > writing? yes I will try with an old cdrecord. I also updated the kernel so this could be a driver error; the error sometimes happens at the beginning and sometimes it writes 630Mo before the error; > Could still be hardware. Mine was. :/ The cheap Memorex green/silver > noname blanks flaked apart in my drive and shot the write laser. I sent it > back for repair, and now it no longer recognises those blanks. ;P I even could write a short CD without error so I don't think the laser is out of order. Hubert
Re: Broken Debian Installations
Pavel Epifanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > Dear Brian, > > I understand that POTATO is not released yet. But still this > situation with broken installations was repeated several times for last > months: > > 1) unknown script had changed a permission of root directory > 2) kbd script asked for re-configiration of keyboard with low priority > and "with help" of debconf setup the french keyboard layout > 3) netscape has been removed due to dependency mistake > > All above are very serious problems which required a lot of knowledge > of system to recover. You normally can't protect well agains such > changes as soon as you need to be root to install them. > > Do you know a way to protect systems from such mistakes ? > Full system backup before _every_ installation does not looks > as best decision for the usual workstation computer. I'm not Brian but here goes. There were some crippling mistakes by packagers in potato while it was unstable. But unstable is assumed to be for those who are familiar enough with Debian to get themselves out of trouble. These users are helping to test the distribution before it becomes the next stable. It's been a problem this last round in that stable is very old and lacking some useful (and necessary for some) features. So many moved on to potato. It looks like future cycles will be much shorter. Some things you can do if you want to stay cutting-edge are to wait several days after major packages are updated -- libc, perl, bash the things that will cripple your system if you have troubles with them. During those days watch the bug report list and deb-user and deb-devel. Don't be a guinea pig unless you're confident you can get out of trouble. Another thing you can do is download a few known good packages of the major apps and hide them in a corner somewhere so you can downgrade if things go so nuts you can't bring anything in. I'd also recommend staying away from dselect. apt-get upgrade will allow you to break out in the cases where some new package decides it wants to remove dozens of conflicting packages. Dselect seems to just go ahead and do it. Rick
Re: problem writing CDs
Did you change blank type? Could be software. Did you update cdrecord between it writing and it not writing? Could still be hardware. Mine was. :/ The cheap Memorex green/silver noname blanks flaked apart in my drive and shot the write laser. I sent it back for repair, and now it no longer recognises those blanks. ;P On 30 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I used to write CDs with cdrecord without problem; > but now almost every time I try to write a CD > it ends with a SCSI error: > > cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: retryable > error > CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) > Sense Bytes: F0 00 05 00 00 00 00 28 00 07 F3 17 2C 04 00 00 > Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 > Sense Code: 0x2C Qual 0x04 (current program area is empty) Fru 0x0 > Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid) > cmd finished after 0.016s timeout 480s > > I haven't changed anything to the hardware; > I am using potato on a Celeron 333; > do you think it's a hardware error? > > thanks for helping > > Hubert > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Sound on IBM Thinkpad 390E
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 04:06:40PM -0600, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > insmod soundcore > insmod esssolo1 > mixctrl 7 0 > mixctrl 0 100 > mixctrl 4 100 > I am using Alsa and have no problems at all - Works like a charm ... conf.modules excerpt ... --- # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- # --- ALSACONF verion 0.4.0 --- alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-card-es1938 alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm1-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm1-oss options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0660 snd_device_gid= 29 snd_device_uid=0 options snd-card-es1938 snd_index=1 snd_id=CARD_1 # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- --- Suspend/Resume doesnt work (Doesnt work for IRDA either) and i have a "Feature Request" open :) Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-5241-470566 "Technology is a constant battle between manufacturers producing bigger and more idiot-proof systems and nature producing bigger and better idiots."
Re: Error when PPP starts up
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 02:57:15PM -0500, Marc Sherman wrote: > I'm running potato, with pppoe to connect to my ISP. > When pppd starts at boot time, I get the following error > message: > Couldn't open pty slave /dev/pts/0: No such file or directory > > What does this message mean? There is indeed no /dev/pts/0; > infact, there are no files/dirs named /dev/pt*. Do I have > to create this device using MAKEDEV? > There's currently a bug with /etc/init.d/devpts.sh which is supposed to set-up the mounts. Fix the script by making the last brace of the function make_devpts() a closing brace rather than an opening brace. Then re-run it. -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++
Video problems
I have tried to setup Caldera's linux x11 Windows for the first time and I am finding it imposible. Surely, someone can design a default configuration setup easier than this! I find it hard to believe that after two days I still cannot get a Window on the screen not even 16 colour vga! As someone new to Linus it seems obvious hat it should default to a standard vga mode, as per MS Windows. If I cannot get it going tomorrow I will have to revert to hated Gates products.
Re: netscape 4.5 crashes (altmailer and mutt)
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 07:23:04PM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote: > Just compiled altmailer to have mutt as my netscape mailer, and the damned > thing (netscape navigator 4.5) crashes everytime I click on a mailto: url. > Any chance of having this fixed? I tried that and never got it to work either... > > Also, the ~/.netscape/preferences.js file cannot be changed with vim as > a user, but it worked when I changed it as root with nvi, is this the way > I am supposed to change such a file? That is very wrong. You should be the owner of that file, so I don't know why you can't change it. It should have perms "-rw-r--r--". Also, make sure Netscape is closed first, though. Otherwise, it'll just overwrite your changes. -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++
Error when PPP starts up
I'm running potato, with pppoe to connect to my ISP. When pppd starts at boot time, I get the following error message: Couldn't open pty slave /dev/pts/0: No such file or directory What does this message mean? There is indeed no /dev/pts/0; infact, there are no files/dirs named /dev/pt*. Do I have to create this device using MAKEDEV? Thanks, - Marc
apt-get upgrade: config fails
This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Robb Aley Allan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Be sure to reply to that address. New to Debian and having a funny problem. Recently performed a dist-upgrade from slink to potato with no problem. Lots of packages were "held back". However, when I performed a straight upgrade thereafter, many new packages were downloaded (inc'g auctex and cvs), but when the config phase started, both auctex and cvs threw up a graphics mode config dialog that would not accept any keypresses: I had to ctl-C back to the prompt, aborting all further configs. What gives? Geocrawler.com - The Knowledge Archive
Re: dselect and mc
Just locate the files in question on your cd's and install them manually ie " dpkg -i < filename>" cheers Michael Zielinski wrote: > The Debian web-site tutorial mentioned using Midnight Commander (mc), > so I thought I would try it out. I do not have it on my system > (version 2.1), so I ran dselect to install it. > > I found it in the list and it had a couple of dependancies (gpm and > libgpmg1). I accepted those to be installed also. The first time I > tried to install, I had forgotten to mount my CD. I mounted my CD and > re-ran dselect and removed the 3 packages. I then selected mc and the > dependancies for install again. None of the 3 packages installed. I > get the following errors. (This is my first attempt at dselect, so > please give me as much detail as you can). > > I did my original Basic install from this CD, so I know it is working. > If it makes a difference, this is the CD that came with the O'Reilly > book. > > Err File:/cdrom/ stable/main gpm1_14-3 > File not found > Err File:/cdrom/ stable/main libgpmg1_14-3 > File not found > Err File:/cdrom/ stable/main mc 4.5.1-1.1 > File not found > Failed to fetch > file:/cdrom/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/misc/gpm1_14-3.deb > File not found > Failed to fetch > file:/cdrom/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/libs/libgpmg1_1.14-3.deb > File not found > Failed to fetch > file:/cdrom/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/utils/mc_4.5.1-1.1.deb > File not found > > Thanks, > Mike > > = > "If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops > moving, subsidize it." - Ronald Reagan explaining the bureaucrat's and > lawmaker's mind-set. > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
problem writing CDs
I used to write CDs with cdrecord without problem; but now almost every time I try to write a CD it ends with a SCSI error: cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: retryable error CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: F0 00 05 00 00 00 00 28 00 07 F3 17 2C 04 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x2C Qual 0x04 (current program area is empty) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid) cmd finished after 0.016s timeout 480s I haven't changed anything to the hardware; I am using potato on a Celeron 333; do you think it's a hardware error? thanks for helping Hubert
netscape 4.5 crashes (altmailer and mutt)
Just compiled altmailer to have mutt as my netscape mailer, and the damned thing (netscape navigator 4.5) crashes everytime I click on a mailto: url. Any chance of having this fixed? Also, the ~/.netscape/preferences.js file cannot be changed with vim as a user, but it worked when I changed it as root with nvi, is this the way I am supposed to change such a file? p.s. (please, send me a cc) running 2.2.10, libc 2.1.2-10, and a mixed slink/potato system. TIA -- Horacio Anno MMDCCLIII ad Urbe condita [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valencia - ESPAÑA Key fingerprint = F4EE AE5E 2F01 0DB3 62F2 A9F4 AD31 7093 4233 7AE6
Re: crash diagnostics
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 11:31:30AM -0800, aphro wrote:
> try running your mahcine w/o a swap partition setup to see if the problem
> persists, (its just a shot in the dark..) you may have bad sectors on the
> drive where the swap partition resides.
Is it possible to start linux w/o a swap partition? I checked the drive
(UW-SCSI) with the diagnostic program of the Adaptec-Controller and didn't
found any bad blocks.
I think it's rather a problem with the RAM. I just checked a core after
a program failed with seg fault. The message found ("Cannot access memory
in 0xa346e32") points to a RAM problem. I think I really have to exchange my
RAM.
Werner
winmodem revisited
I recently found a couple sites of interest on winmodems. If missed their references in the recent discussion, I apologize. http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html http://linmodems.org/ Mike = "If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." - Ronald Reagan explaining the bureaucrat's and lawmaker's mind-set. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
dselect and mc
The Debian web-site tutorial mentioned using Midnight Commander (mc), so I thought I would try it out. I do not have it on my system (version 2.1), so I ran dselect to install it. I found it in the list and it had a couple of dependancies (gpm and libgpmg1). I accepted those to be installed also. The first time I tried to install, I had forgotten to mount my CD. I mounted my CD and re-ran dselect and removed the 3 packages. I then selected mc and the dependancies for install again. None of the 3 packages installed. I get the following errors. (This is my first attempt at dselect, so please give me as much detail as you can). I did my original Basic install from this CD, so I know it is working. If it makes a difference, this is the CD that came with the O'Reilly book. Err File:/cdrom/ stable/main gpm1_14-3 File not found Err File:/cdrom/ stable/main libgpmg1_14-3 File not found Err File:/cdrom/ stable/main mc 4.5.1-1.1 File not found Failed to fetch file:/cdrom/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/misc/gpm1_14-3.deb File not found Failed to fetch file:/cdrom/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/libs/libgpmg1_1.14-3.deb File not found Failed to fetch file:/cdrom/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/utils/mc_4.5.1-1.1.deb File not found Thanks, Mike = "If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." - Ronald Reagan explaining the bureaucrat's and lawmaker's mind-set. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: Way test CD-Rom Drive for read capability w/Linux Needed
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 03:46:44PM +, John Foster wrote: > I have recently noticed that my Cd-Rom drive seems to be skipping. I > noticed it while running windows one day but it seemed to clear up when > I went back to Linux. Now it is doing the same thing in linux. This > happens when playing music. I have not noticed any problems in reading > other CD's. Is there an application to test the read capability of this > with Linux. It is about 3 years old and should not be crapping out as it > is only rarely used. Thanks! When's the last time you cleaned the lens of that drive? If it's been a while that could be all that needs done. Those lenses have a tendancy to collect grunge even if they are rarely used - we've had similar problems here at home with a number of different drives, CD and others. Ran a cleaning cycle and the drive started working a lot better. -- 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.
Re: Misskey resulted in chown entire directory tree
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Pavel Epifanov wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, John Foster wrote:
>
> >=that the result is the changing of the owner/group of every file on my
> >=complete directory tree to a single username.groupname. Any Suggestions
> Please correct me if I missed one way.
I sent a suggestion privately to John. I probably should have sent it
publicly. So I am going to post it publicly now.
Note: This only works for user's home directories, and it will be
confused by original hard links.
For those who don't read awk, the password file is separated into
7 fields by colons. This program separates those fields, checks to
see if the field that contains the user's home directory contains
/home, then it recursively chowns all the files in that home
directory back to the proper user and group.
> > awk -F: '
> > {
> > user = $1
> > group = $4
> > home = $6
> > }
> > home ~ /^\/home\// {
> > cmd = sprintf( "chown -R %s:%s %s", user, group, home )
> > system( cmd )
> > }
> > ' /etc/passwd
> > Of course you would have to be root first.
Re: T-Shirts
I particularly like the "100% Suck Free!" version. I'll have to see about getting a few to hand out at the next LUG meeting... maybe along with a few css_descramble shirts! On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 11:15:38PM -0800, Darren O. Benham wrote: > I am happy to announce that Debian T-Shirts are available from > Copyleft, the Free Software "goodies" outfitter... > > Check out http://www.copyleft.net/ pgpsrVuw3VTbb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Font doesnt work on X, so please help me.
Hi everybody. I need your help on XFree86. I installed XFree86 3.3.6 running on Debian 2.0. After I did XF86Setup, X-windows opened, but fonts do not work. I mean I cannot see any character except for some vertical bars in the windows. I found all fonts in the correct directory (at least if I understood correctly. My video card is ATI Rage Fury which has been supported in the XFree86 which I am now using. Please help me otherwise I don't know how I can fix the problem. Thank you, Take Saitoh
Way test CD-Rom Drive for read capability w/Linux Needed
I have recently noticed that my Cd-Rom drive seems to be skipping. I noticed it while running windows one day but it seemed to clear up when I went back to Linux. Now it is doing the same thing in linux. This happens when playing music. I have not noticed any problems in reading other CD's. Is there an application to test the read capability of this with Linux. It is about 3 years old and should not be crapping out as it is only rarely used. Thanks! -- 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
Re: Misskey resulted in chown entire directory tree
Pavel Epifanov wrote:
> I have done the same lately on /usr. Very funny.
>
> The possible solutions as I can see are:
>
> = if you have a backup - restore it. Preferred way I afraid. Did not work
> for me because daily potato upgrades.
>
> = if you have Tripware installed - there is a check for permissions as well.
> Does not work for me as well because reason above (very frequent updates).
>
> = Using existed Tripware database and perl/bash script to recover
> permissions only. Occasionally I have no time to find out the format
> of Tripware database and make script. Have someone done it already ?
>
> = The way I am going to use - reinstall Potato as soon as it will
> be released. It should be OK for my test computer. And it also
> remove a lot of garbage from dpkg/apt status file.
>
> Please correct me if I missed one way.
Since this box was pretty thouroughly screwed, I decided to experiment
with it's system. I got several suggestions, one of them from George
Swan, shown below, was partially successful in restoring the system to
working order. I was also able to log in as root and manually change the
ownership of the main system directories back to root. As soon as I had
these system commands working, I upgraded to potato, even though it has
some pretty rough sections at present. It seems to have cleaned up most
of the problems, everything is working now including all of my
non-debian stuff such as StarOffice, Wordperfect, and several others. I
did check and a few of the /etc/dev files were also changed to the
correct ownership. I do NOT think all of them were changed back to their
original installation state. Since everything is running OK I will
continue to use this box as my test site. I have converted my former
test site to a full production system as it did not have any problems.
Feel free to check back with me if you have other questions.
> George Swan wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, John Foster wrote:
> >
> > Well, the following would be a start:
> >
> > awk -F: '
> > {
> > user = $1
> > group = $4
> > home = $6
> > }
> > home ~ /^\/home\// {
> > cmd = sprintf( "chown -R %s:%s
%s", user, group, home )
> > system( cmd )
> > }
> > ' /etc/passwd
> >
> > Of course you would have to be root first.
>
EXPLANATION OF SCRIPT:
It is an awk program. Everything between the quotes
is an awk
program. You see the awk on the first line? Well it
has three
arguments. The first one is " -F: ", the second one
is the program
between the quotes, and the third one is "
/etc/passwd ".
/etc/passwd is your password file. The original
design of UNIX was
that the password file would be universally readable.
Lots of
programs read it to discover what a user's real name
is. The
passwords are encrypted, which used to be secure.
Nowadays most
systems keep the actual password in an unreadable
file /etc/shadow,
byt the file is still called the password file.
It contains one entry per user and each user's
description has seven
fields. The first field is the user's login name.
The 2nd field is
their password. The 3rd field is your numeric user
id. This is what
is stored in a file's inode, not your name. The
fourth field is your
default group id number. There will be a
corresponding name for this
number in /etc/group. Each file's inode also
contains a group id.
But not necessarily the default one. The 5th field,
historically was
the GECOS field. On original Bell Labs UNIX systems
it contained the
user's password for their honeywell GECOS account.
Used if they were
printing on the GECOS printer, or submitting a batch
job to the GECOS
system. Nowadays it is divided up into sub-fields
that contain the
user's name, office number, phone number and so on.
The 6th field
contains the user's home directory. And the 7th
field contains their
default login shell.
So the awk program opens the password file. For
every line it assigns
three variables, "user", "group", and "home". That
is the stuff
between the first pair of braces. The stuff between
the second set of
braces only gets executed conditionally. The
variable "home" has to
match a regular expression. It has to start with
"/home". On UNIX not
every user in the password file is a real human
being. Some are
"daemons". Daemons do regular, lower priority system
tasks. They sit
around all the time, wake up, check to see if there
is anything for
them to do, and then go to sleep. When a daemon
doesn't need to be
run as root, it typically used to be run as the user
daemon. But then
some daemons, like uucp, got userids of their own.
This script is
only supposed to change the ownership of the files in
the home
directories of real live users.
Which brings us the stuff between the 2nd pair of
braces. sprintf
builds a string, called cmd, which conta
Re: where can I find info on how to install a iomega zip disk in debian?
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, john said" > hello, > > I was wondering on where can I get documentation on how to install a iomega > zip disk to debian. I can't seem to find any man pages on that subject. > > thank you. > __ see the Zip-Drive Mini How-To. It should be in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini. -ptw
Upgrade 2.0 -> 2.1: Should I stay or should I go?
Hi, I have a Debian 2.0 box, which I would like to upgrade to 2.1. I have, some time ago, manually upgraded to libc6 v.2.1 because I wanted to use mutt1.0. Now if I follow instructions on: http://www.nl.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html it tells me to get: apt_0.1.8_i386 Installing this conflicts with my version of libc6, so I got apt_0.3.10slink11 This did install allright. Now if I pursue with: apt-get -f -s dist-upgrade, I receive the following error information: E: Fatal, conflicts violated libc6 E: Fatal, conflicts violated libc6 E: Fatal, conflicts violated libc6 E: Fatal, conflicts violated libc6 E: Fatal, conflicts violated libc6 E: Fatal, conflicts violated libc6 E: Fatal, conflicts violated libc6 Along with the output of the command which is: Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: timezones The following NEW packages will be installed: libncurses4 libjpeg62 kbd-data samba-common The following packages have been kept back whiptail lynx util-linux ae 90 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 1 to remove and 4 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Inst zlib1g [libc6 on timezones] [php3 libc6 ] Inst perl [libc6 on timezones] [php3 libc6 ] Inst perl-base [libc6 on timezones] [php3 libc6 ] Conf perl-base [php3 libc6 ] Inst mime-support [libc6 on timezones] [php3 libc6 ] Inst apache [libc6 on timezones] [php3 libc6 ] Inst apache-common [libc6 on timezones] [libc6 ] Inst php3 [libc6 on timezones] [libc6 ] Remv timezones Inst libncurses4 Conf libncurses4 Inst bash Conf bash Inst dpkg Conf dpkg Inst mount Conf mount Inst sysvinit Conf sysvinit Inst shellutils Conf shellutils Inst bsdutils Conf bsdutils Inst debianutils Conf debianutils Inst diff Conf diff Inst e2fsprogs Conf e2fsprogs Inst findutils Conf findutils Inst grep Conf grep Inst gzip Conf gzip Inst sed Conf sed Inst tar Conf tar Inst base-files Conf base-files Inst ncurses-base Conf ncurses-base Inst ncurses-bin Conf ncurses-bin Inst libreadlineg2 Conf libreadlineg2 Inst netstd Inst elvis-tiny Inst libc5 Inst libdb2 Inst netbase Inst m4 Inst procmail Inst deliver Inst sendmail Inst at Inst bc Inst bsdmainutils Inst cron Inst groff Inst lilo Inst man-db Inst kbd [] Inst kbd-data Inst makedev Inst modutils Inst procps Inst setserial Inst sysklogd Inst cpp Inst data-dumper Inst libnet-perl Inst dpkg-ftp Inst elm-me+ Inst gpm Inst ncurses3.4 Conf ncurses3.4 Inst ispell Inst iamerican Inst ibritish Inst less Inst liblockfile0 Inst sharutils Inst apache-doc Inst archie Inst dhcp-beta Inst dhcpcd Inst ee Inst idutch Inst libgpmg1 Inst libjpeg62 Inst libjpegg6a Inst libstdc++2.8 Conf libstdc++2.8 Inst libtiff3g Inst magicfilter Inst mc Inst metamail Inst modconf Inst netpbm1 Inst netpbm Inst netpbm-nonfree Inst procmail-lib Inst samba-common Inst syslinux Inst xntp3 Inst xntp3-doc Inst dpkg-mountable Inst isapnptools Inst lprng Inst lprng-doc Inst mgetty Inst mgetty-docs Inst mgetty-fax Inst samba Inst uucp Conf zlib1g Conf perl Conf mime-support Conf apache-common Conf apache Conf php3 Conf netstd Conf elvis-tiny Conf libc5 Conf libdb2 Conf netbase Conf m4 Conf procmail Conf deliver Conf sendmail Conf at Conf bc Conf bsdmainutils Conf cron Conf groff Conf lilo Conf man-db Conf kbd-data Conf kbd Conf makedev Conf modutils Conf procps Conf setserial Conf sysklogd Conf cpp Conf data-dumper Conf libnet-perl Conf dpkg-ftp Conf elm-me+ Conf gpm Conf ispell Conf iamerican Conf ibritish Conf less Conf liblockfile0 Conf sharutils Conf apache-doc Conf archie Conf dhcp-beta Conf dhcpcd Conf ee Conf idutch Conf libgpmg1 Conf libjpeg62 Conf libjpegg6a Conf libtiff3g Conf magicfilter Conf mc Conf metamail Conf modconf Conf netpbm1 Conf netpbm Conf netpbm-nonfree Conf procmail-lib Conf samba-common Conf syslinux Conf xntp3 Conf xntp3-doc Conf dpkg-mountable Conf isapnptools Conf lprng Conf lprng-doc Conf mgetty Conf mgetty-docs Conf mgetty-fax Conf samba Conf uucp Now my question really is: can I pursue with the upgrade (and will apt know that my libc6 is already on par)? Or do I need to do something drastic and unload libc6 or something? Maybe even forget about the whole thing? I am a little scared... Any pointers much appreciated! -- Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
parse-xf86config error?
I updated my X packages and ran into a problem: when rebooting xdm would not start up automatically because there was a "parse-xf86config" error. I was left at the console prompt and had to type startx, and everything worked fine. Below is the error ouput when trying to update the X packages. This is remarkably similar to the errors I was getting at boot time. Does anyone know what's going on? Thanks. Setting up xserver-svga (3.3.6-3) ... /usr/sbin/parse-xf86config:D:35: Impossible parser error. Please contact the maintainer of this program. Stopped at /usr/sbin/parse-xf86config line 1565, chunk 35. Do you want to create the XFree86 configuration file? (y/n) [y] Checking existing /etc/X11/XF86Config for problems (E = error, W = warning, A = advisory)... /usr/sbin/parse-xf86config:E:34: No argument for field FontPath. /usr/sbin/parse-xf86config:D:35: Impossible parser error. Please contact the maintainer of this program. Stopped at /usr/sbin/parse-xf86config line 1565, chunk 35. dpkg: error processing xserver-svga (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 Setting up xserver-vga16 (3.3.6-3) ... /usr/sbin/parse-xf86config:D:35: Impossible parser error. Please contact the maintainer of this program. Stopped at /usr/sbin/parse-xf86config line 1565, chunk 35. Do you want to create the XFree86 configuration file? (y/n) [y] Checking existing /etc/X11/XF86Config for problems (E = error, W = warning, A = advisory)... /usr/sbin/parse-xf86config:E:34: No argument for field FontPath. /usr/sbin/parse-xf86config:D:35: Impossible parser error. Please contact the maintainer of this program. Stopped at /usr/sbin/parse-xf86config line 1565, chunk 35. dpkg: error processing xserver-vga16 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xf86setup: xf86setup depends on xserver-vga16 | xserver; however: Package xserver-vga16 is not configured yet. Package xserver is not installed. Package xserver-svga which provides xserver is not configured yet. Package xserver-vga16 which provides xserver is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing xf86setup (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: xserver-svga xserver-vga16 xf86setup E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ld.so problem
After i made a 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main, many programs said: /lib/ld.so : invalid dynamic linker option -1073742904 or: /lib/ld.so : invalid dynamic linker option -1073742768 then exit,how can i do?
Which packages are new in potato
Hi, I'm looking for a list of all packages that are new (not only a newer version) in potato compared to slink. Is something like that available somewhere? Thanks, Adrian
Re: mail filtering techniques
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > I am wondering what different methods people here are using to filter > your mail? (ie each mailing list to its own mailbox or other such > techniques of dealing with several high volume lists) I fetch mail from my IP's POP3 mailserver using fetchmail. The fetched mail is then handed to Exim to filter and deliver. Simple and elegant. Here is my ~/.fetchmailrc poll pop.clara.net protocol pop3 username scgf is gsmh on this system password xxx Exim gets involved in filtering mail into folders because I have a ~/.forward file like this: # Exim filter <<== do not edit or remove this line! if error_message then finish endif logfile $home/eximfilter.log if $header_to: contains "sah1" then deliver scott elif $h_x-mailing-list matches "^" then seen save $home/Mail/Debian elif $h_subject: contains "CLOS_Linux" then seen save $home/Mail/Corel elif $h_subject: contains "dvduk" then seen save $home/Mail/DVD elif $h_subject: contains "Debian-uk" then seen save $home/Mail/Debian elif $h_subject: contains "Pilot-Unix" then seen save $home/Mail/Pilot-Unix elif $h_subject: contains "AWL" then seen save $home/Mail/Applix endif The second rule is neat because it catches all the Debian mailing list messages. I used to use procmail to deliver mail, but I prefer the Exim approach. -- Phillip Deackes Debian Linux
Re: where can I find info on how to install a iomega zip disk in debian?
check out the HOWTO documents ie, install doc-linux-text or, if you have the hard disk space, doc-linux-html and look in /usr/doc/HOWTO. there should be a HOWTO in the mini directory called something like ZIP-drive-HOWTO or ZIP-HOWTO or ZIP-drive html or something like that. good luck from da Bobstopper > hello, > > I was wondering on where can I get documentation on how to install a iomega > zip disk to debian. I can't seem to find any man pages on that subject. > > thank you. > __ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
apt-cache question
Hi list, I have some questions about cleaning up my install a bit. I tried the command apt-cache unmet and got quite a long list of suggested and depend packages. What techniques do you usually use to manage an installation? (apt, dpkg, ? ) I am running a home machine and I am using unstable. Any suggestions are welcomed Best regards Joakim Svensson
Re: ntp and 0.0.0.0 address
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Brian May wrote: > snoopy# ntptrace > localhost: stratum 16, offset 0.000160, synch distance 0.69316 > 0.0.0.0:*Timeout* Please send all the relevant configuration files attached when you report bugs like this one... ntpd binds to 0.0.0.0 to receive packets from any interface, and this is not a problem. Now, it should not try to TALK to 0.0.0.0, but you didn't show ntpd talking to 0.0.0.0, rather *ntptrace* was trying to talk to 0.0.0.0... A small test shows that the bug is likely to be in ntptrace, and it is harmless. It should be fixed or documented (if it isn't documented already, I didn't check), but it isn't a release-critical (important) bug IMO. The bug can be triggered just after you start ntpd and before it syncs to the timeservers (in my system this takes about 5-10 minutes, so this is NOT a small window). ntptrace tries to connect to the upstream peer (or something like that), which is reported as 0.0.0.0 (I think), because ntpd doesn't have one choosen yet. Try ntpq -p -n and you'll probably see your ntpd is working just fine (if it is correctly configured, anyway). I didn't read the RFCs, so I don't know if a supposed 0.0.0.0 answer in the first sync window is right (bug in ntptrace) or wrong (bug in ntpd). > Also, ntpdate and ntpd often cannot get a response from the server > (this seems a bit unpredicatable). Other people have been using the Is your connection to the servers your localhost server is in sync with down? Are you sure it is not a DNS problem? If you often cannot connect to the *remote* server, that network path/server is not suitable for NTP (at least not as a sole server). Try pinging the servers when you notice you cannot connect to them, to access if the problem is the network path. Anyway, if you reply to the above questions, you should probably take the BTS out of the reply headers... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
where can I find info on how to install a iomega zip disk in debian?
hello, I was wondering on where can I get documentation on how to install a iomega zip disk to debian. I can't seem to find any man pages on that subject. thank you. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: Compiling KDE programs
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Bart Szyszka wrote: >=I keep having the same problem when compiling KDE-based >=programs. The ./configure command stops at: >=-- >=checking for KDE... configure: error: >=in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed. This will >=fail. >=So, check this please and use another prefix! First, which KDE version you rea talking about. I spent one weel last month with attempts to recompile KDE2. Really it was not KDE2 but QT 2.1 because you have to compile this first. This is real hell ! The minimum source set KDE2+QT2.1 will be more than 50 MB ! You computer for compilation should be at least PII/AMD2+64MB RAM. And there is no QT2.1 realeased yet so for me no one version gives me the good deb package for normal KDE2 compilation (the best was QT 1.89 which I was able to compile till deb packages but it contains at least one broken header file which did not allow me to compile KDE2-base package ) I would pretty recommend to wait till they release at least QT 2.1. --- Regards, Pavel Epifanov. [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Broken Debian Installations
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, brian moore wrote: >=The upgrade of libc6 will delete libc6-bin, which will removed >=netscape-base-4, which will remove the rest of netscape. Dear Brian, I understand that POTATO is not released yet. But still this situation with broken installations was repeated several times for last months: 1) unknown script had changed a permission of root directory 2) kbd script asked for re-configiration of keyboard with low priority and "with help" of debconf setup the french keyboard layout 3) netscape has been removed due to dependency mistake All above are very serious problems which required a lot of knowledge of system to recover. You normally can't protect well agains such changes as soon as you need to be root to install them. Do you know a way to protect systems from such mistakes ? Full system backup before _every_ installation does not looks as best decision for the usual workstation computer. --- Regards, Pavel Epifanov. [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system requirements for SCSI
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Brian J. Stults wrote: >=I want to by a SCSI drive and controller for one of my older computers >=so it can act as an ftp server. [..] >=The computer is a Gateway P166 with 32MB of EDO I am using computers like or less than 486 + RAM 16 MB for the gateways. If you recompile kernel (mine is about 450kb) to keep only neccessary things your hardware will run just fine. Thanks to Debian. --- Regards, Pavel Epifanov. [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mail filtering techniques
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
>=I am wondering what different methods people here are using to filter
>=your mail? (ie each mailing list to its own mailbox or other such
>=techniques of dealing with several high volume lists)
I am using fetchmail+procmail+pine+postfix.
fetchmail - get mail from POP3 accounts
procmail - filter/place mails to right folders
pine - read/create mail
postfix - local delivery on machine and delivery my mail directly to MX hosts.
My ~/.procmail file looks like:
===cut===
# $Id: .procmailrc,v 1.25 2000/01/28 20:53:46 xxx $
# system
VERBOSE=on
LOGFILE=/var/log/mail/procmail.user
TODAYSDATE=`date +%c`
# log
LOG = "..New"
# create copy of all mail before processing
:0 c
/var/log/mail-backup
# spam (no To: field)
# exception: CityCat
:0 H
* !^TO
* !^From: Citycat
mail/spam
# anacron (in From:)
:0 H
* ^From:.*\(Anacron\)
mail/noteroot
# JobServe
:0 H
* ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
mail/jobs
# Debian-Russian
:0 H
* ^X-Loop: debian-russian
* ^Precedence: list
mail/Deb-RU
# The rest of CityCat
:0 H
* ^From: CityCat
mail/CityCat
# confirmation for mails
# not DAEMON, CityCat, Me
# with Return-Receipt ON
:0 Hhcw
* !^FROM_DAEMON
* !^X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* !^From: Citycat
* !^From:.*\<[EMAIL PROTECTED]
* ^Return-Receipt-To.*
* ^Subject: \/.*
| (formail -rt \
-A "Precedence: junk" \
-A "X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" \
-I "Subject: Receipt: $MATCH" ; \
echo "Dear Sir/Madam, "; \
echo " "; \
echo "Your message <$MATCH> "; \
echo " has been delivered to <$LOGNAME> at <$TODAYSDATE>."; \
echo " "; \
echo "-- "; \
echo " PROCMAIL confirmation routine at <$HOST> "; \
) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t
# MIME uncompressing
:0
* ^Content-Type: *text/plain
{
:0 fbw
* ^Content-Transfer-Encoding: *quoted-printable
| mimencode -u -q
:0 Afhw
| formail -I "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit"
:0 fbw
* ^Content-Transfer-Encoding: *base64
| mimencode -u -b
:0 Afhw
| formail -I "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit"
}
===cut===
---
Regards,
Pavel Epifanov.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Misskey resulted in chown entire directory tree
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, John Foster wrote: >=that the result is the changing of the owner/group of every file on my >=complete directory tree to a single username.groupname. Any Suggestions I have done the same lately on /usr. Very funny. The possible solutions as I can see are: = if you have a backup - restore it. Preferred way I afraid. Did not work for me because daily potato upgrades. = if you have Tripware installed - there is a check for permissions as well. Does not work for me as well because reason above (very frequent updates). = Using existed Tripware database and perl/bash script to recover permissions only. Occasionally I have no time to find out the format of Tripware database and make script. Have someone done it already ? = The way I am going to use - reinstall Potato as soon as it will be released. It should be OK for my test computer. And it also remove a lot of garbage from dpkg/apt status file. Please correct me if I missed one way. --- Regards, Pavel Epifanov. [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diald does not bring ppp
I have slink (no updates) and diald installed from debian CDs. My diald.options file is almost straight from the examples. I am using 'pon' in my connect line in diald.options. The problem is that although diald dials and appears to bring up the link when requested, no traffic is occurring on the link. I have 'mode ppp' in my options file. I have dynamic IP assignment and have given 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 as dummies for the local and remote, respectively. Ifconfig says loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 RX packets:20445 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:20445 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:AF:B7:A9:24 inet addr:192.168.0.40 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:30298 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:34532 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:342 Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300 ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:195.197.43.120 P-t-P:195.197.52.149 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:1524 Metric:1 RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 Memory:36e038-36ec04 sl0 Link encap:Serial Line IP inet addr:10.0.0.1 P-t-P:10.0.0.2 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 but route -n says: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 10.0.0.20.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH1 00 sl0 195.197.52.157 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 84 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 71 lo 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 U 1 04 sl0 This is a part of ppp.log (I have removed username and password) Jan 29 14:05:50 komppi diald[3541]: Running connect (pid = 3556). Jan 29 14:05:51 komppi pppd[3557]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 Jan 29 14:05:51 komppi chat[3558]: abort on (BUSY) Jan 29 14:05:51 komppi chat[3558]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Jan 29 14:05:51 komppi chat[3558]: abort on (VOICE) Jan 29 14:05:51 komppi chat[3558]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Jan 29 14:05:51 komppi chat[3558]: abort on (NO ANSWER) Jan 29 14:05:51 komppi chat[3558]: send (ATZ^M) Jan 29 14:05:51 komppi chat[3558]: expect (OK) Jan 29 14:05:52 komppi chat[3558]: ATZ^M^M Jan 29 14:05:52 komppi chat[3558]: OK Jan 29 14:05:52 komppi chat[3558]: -- got it Jan 29 14:05:52 komppi chat[3558]: send (ATDT41024321^M) Jan 29 14:05:52 komppi chat[3558]: expect (CONNECT) Jan 29 14:05:52 komppi chat[3558]: ^M Jan 29 14:06:14 komppi chat[3558]: ATDT41024321^M^M Jan 29 14:06:14 komppi chat[3558]: CARRIER 33600^M Jan 29 14:06:15 komppi chat[3558]: ^M Jan 29 14:06:15 komppi chat[3558]: PROTOCOL: LAP-M^M Jan 29 14:06:15 komppi chat[3558]: ^M Jan 29 14:06:15 komppi chat[3558]: COMPRESSION: V.42BIS^M Jan 29 14:06:15 komppi chat[3558]: ^M Jan 29 14:06:15 komppi chat[3558]: CONNECT Jan 29 14:06:15 komppi chat[3558]: -- got it Jan 29 14:06:15 komppi chat[3558]: send (\d) Jan 29 14:06:16 komppi pppd[3557]: Serial connection established. Jan 29 14:06:17 komppi pppd[3557]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 29 14:06:17 komppi pppd[3557]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1 Jan 29 14:06:17 komppi pppd[3557]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 ] Jan 29 14:06:17 komppi pppd[3557]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 < 00 04 00 00> < 11 04 05 f4> < 13 10 01 6a 55 5a 4c 36 73 6b 36 6b 30 36 71 63>] Jan 29 14:06:17 komppi pppd[3557]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 < 00 04 00 00> < 11 04 05 f4> < 13 10 01 6a 55 5a 4c 36 73 6b 36 6b 30 36 71 63>] Jan 29 14:06:17 komppi pppd[3557]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 ] Jan 29 14:06:17 komppi pppd[3557]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 ] Jan 29 14:06:17 komppi pppd[3557]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 ] Jan 29 14:06:17 komppi pppd[3557]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0x159f2937] Jan 29 14:06:17 komppi pppd[3557]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user="xx" password="x"] Jan 29 14:06:17 komppi pppd[3557]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x0] Jan 29 14:06:17 komppi pppd[3557]: rcvd [PAP AuthAck id=0x1 ""] Jan 29 14:06:17 komppi pppd[3557]: Remote message: Jan 29 14:06:17 komppi pppd[3557]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 ] Jan 29 14:06:17 komppi pppd[3557]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 ] Jan 29 14:06:17 komppi pppd[3557]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 ] Jan 29 14:06:17 komppi pppd[3557]: sent [
Re: DNS setup question
if i understand what your asking you should be able to nslookup server domain.com where domain.com is the domain you want to lookup. the DNS will tell you what it thinks the IP is. if it is configured right it will show what you expect. the server command tells nslookup to change it's default DNS to ask some other server info. nate On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Alec Smith wrote: alec >Right now I've got my Debian-based server acting as a DNS cache. I'm in the alec >process of moving a domain from one hosting company to another, and I'd alec >like to be able to test things as if this domain was pointed at the new alec >server instead of the old. I'm not quite ready to update the domain records alec >with InterNIC though. alec > alec > alec >Is there some way I can make my local DNS server report back to me that alec >amimedia.com is 209.68.1.210 instead of the old IP, but without having to alec >change things for the rest of the world? I'm not a Bind whiz, so pointers alec >are much appreciated. alec > alec >I don't want to drop the DNS cache since it speeds things up most of the alec >time. Eventually I'd like to add DNS to another LAN I run, so I'd like to alec >use this as a chance to start learning how to configure Bind as opposed to alec >just adding another entry for DNS caching (to point at Pair Network's DNS alec >for the new amimedia.com IP). alec > alec > alec >Alec Smith alec > alec > alec >-- alec >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null alec > [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] ]-- 11:43pm up 163 days, 11:51, 1 user, load average: 1.04, 1.19, 1.12
How to back-out an apt-get upgrade
Can an apt-get upgrade (or similar) be backed-out? Say the upgrade appears to fail, is there a way to rollback to the previous state? I am running 2.1. -- Nick
Re: Debian instructions contradictory?
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, da said: > > perfectly understandable rant, but was it really necessary? i didn't really > think their question was deserving of something so... harsh? good blow against > ppl who think debian owes them something and i fully agree but still, perhaps > a more appropriate time to bring it up would have been good. > You are right. I apologise to David and to all. -ptw
T-Shirts
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Re: More ppp problems
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Jonathan said: > > 1. From time to time, my ppp0 interface just stops working. Such as: > Sith:~# ifconfig ppp0 > ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol > inet addr:207.158.172.195 P-t-P:206.84.176.80 Mask:255.255.255.255 > and > From ppp.log's point of view, it stops recieving lcp replies (though > it keeps sending requests). From message's kernel logs, it gets a > bunch of protocol 17 messages and then just "dies" (i.e. doesnt record > anything else for whatever reason). > > OK, so thats weird. > > My SECOND problem is that my modem just up and hangs up > occaisionally. As far as this is concerned, I just hope someone can > tell me how to start determining if it was due to a change on my side > or the ISPs side. > > Both of these problems "go away" when I hangup and re-connect. > Most likely the ISP, but may be the phone lines between your computer and the ISP. If you know anything about interior phone wiring, then check and/or replace the lines between your computer and your demarkation box. (thats the box between the phone company's property and yours) If that doesn't help, then ask someone at the ISP. They'll deny any fault, and probably blame your phone company, but the problem may go away.
Re: dselect problem with potato
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 01:07:02AM -0500, paul wrote: > Please read this earlier thread (on this list): > "BEFORE YOU UPGRADE TO POTATO LOOK AT..." > > I hope this answers your questions. Thanx for the pointer!
Re: Debian instructions contradictory?
> *START RANT HERE* > > Everyone has an opinion. As Debian is developed, organised, and debuged by a > large group of volunteers. As you can imagine it is an incredible amount of > work for someone to do in their spare time, no matter how skilled they may > be. > Sometimes documentation becomes out of date, or must be written in a hurry. > Some areas of the website are partially incomplete or slightly out of date. > they remain this way until someone involved with Debian (me, you, a > developer, > or just about anyone else who may care) decides to do something about it. > Debian people are notorious for being individualistic and self reliant. They > do work on Debian for no other reason than they feel that it is the right > thing to do. The help you are recieving on this list is given to you for > free, and voluntarily by people who are under no obligation to give you the > time of day (unless they maintain a time server at work). ALMOST NO ONE IS > GETTING PAID AND NO ONE IS PAID BY DEBIAN FOR ANYTHING. We like to hear > from, > and to help, other users. > > *STOP RANT* > perfectly understandable rant, but was it really necessary? i didn't really think their question was deserving of something so... harsh? good blow against ppl who think debian owes them something and i fully agree but still, perhaps a more appropriate time to bring it up would have been good.
Re: dselect problem with potato
Please read this earlier thread (on this list): "BEFORE YOU UPGRADE TO POTATO LOOK AT..." I hope this answers your questions. -ptw-
Re: How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock
Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > > >already on Feb 15, 2000. digging through the package database i came across > > >ntp and ntpdate and installed both (i have an always on connection to the > > > > ntpdate is used to do a "one time only" update to your clock. ntp is used to > > discipline your clock and will in fact keep the RTC in a short leash > > updating it every 11 minutes. > > I don't believe ntp is what Patrick needs. "ntp" is the daemon, i.e. > the server. "ntpdate" is the "client software". I think what Patrick > wants is ntpdate and info on available public servers to access, not > to setup his own ntp server for a sub-net of others. > The info you want Patrick is in ntp-doc, at least. ntp-doc is docs > in HTML form. They include a link to a list on the net of public > primary and secondary servers (I'm pretty sure this list can be found > elsewhere in ntpdate or ntp-doc packages). For most of us, we should > access a secondary server, there is no reason for an "end-user" like > us to be using primary servers. I seem to remember also that some > primary servers require "permission to access" first. Get to that > list, write down 3-4 of the secondary servers that are geographically > close, and plug that info into ntpdate's config file. == I think this is the server site lists that you are seeking: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.htm -- 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
Re: Debian instructions contradictory?
> Below is a quote copied directly from the Debian web page FAQ for > downloading CD images located at http://cdimage.debian.org/faq.html: > > >-?- But what CDs do I need? > >-!- If you want to install Debian, you should get only the "Binary-1" > >CD for your platform (e.g. "i386" for IBM-compatible PCs). The other > >"Binary-X" CDs (X>=2) contain very specialistic software that is used only > >by very few people -- these are not needed at all for fresh installs. > > You do not NEED the cd to install Debian. The first cd has all of the packages you need in order to get a system running. The "specialistic" (I'm not sure why this word is used.) software mentioned is not actually needed to do the install. It is very likely that most people only install one or two packages from the second disk. The cd images are very large, so only the MAIN distribution is included on any cd set. Also this is why it is reccomended that you only download the first cd. You can install any other packages you need using apt-get or using apt with deselect. Using the apt access method, finish your install with dselect. If this is your first time installing Linux, it is likely that you are selecting many packages that you will never use. Don't worry about this, as you will be better at installing next time around. > > AND, if the web page is correct, that you only need the one CD, then why > do the same Debian people tell you that installing from a single CD is > passe', and you should install from the multiple set. > *START RANT HERE* Everyone has an opinion. As Debian is developed, organised, and debuged by a large group of volunteers. As you can imagine it is an incredible amount of work for someone to do in their spare time, no matter how skilled they may be. Sometimes documentation becomes out of date, or must be written in a hurry. Some areas of the website are partially incomplete or slightly out of date. they remain this way until someone involved with Debian (me, you, a developer, or just about anyone else who may care) decides to do something about it. Debian people are notorious for being individualistic and self reliant. They do work on Debian for no other reason than they feel that it is the right thing to do. The help you are recieving on this list is given to you for free, and voluntarily by people who are under no obligation to give you the time of day (unless they maintain a time server at work). ALMOST NO ONE IS GETTING PAID AND NO ONE IS PAID BY DEBIAN FOR ANYTHING. We like to hear from, and to help, other users. *STOP RANT* > This just makes no sense at all, and I would be very grateful to anyone > who can explain it. > I hope I just did. -ptw-
Re: keyboard repeat rate
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Attila Csosz wrote: > How could I set the keyboard repeat rate and the speed? > Because when I start X and end my X session I observe the following: > when I press some key I must wait a while to get any character on the screen. > Then the keyboard echos the characters normally onto the screen. > Without X the keyboard works normally( I have vindozer keyboard ). kbdrate -- Jean Pierre
Languages & Mutt or Console
Languages other than English mail to and show in mutt here just fine, but fonts for such languages are garbled when forwarded by mutt. ...any of you know which packages I should download to forward other language fonts from mutt in a VC (virtual console)? Art
Re: permissions / replacing packages
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > I was moving my files back and forth to and from CD-RWs, and I just > realised that my CDs were made with rational rockridge (sets everything to > owned by root, read-only, and removes suid bits, and sets world-readable > to everything), instead of standard rockridge extensions. Whoops! > Is there any way (on a Debian system), that I can get apt to re-download > and install the packages I have currently installed over top of what's > already here, to fix things? I had to do something very similar just last night. The superblock on my /usr partition got screwed up, and I couldn't recover it. The rest of the system was fine. Of course, I had to deal with some other ugliness that you're going to be spared (e.g. dpkg is in /usr; I had to find a replacement!). Try something like this: # dpkg --get-selections > /root/packages # cat /dev/null > /var/lib/dpkg/status # dpkg --set-selections /root/packages Then you should be able to run dselect, select [I]nstall from the menu, and go, assuming your sources are up to date and pointing to the right mirrors. Dpkg will ask you before overwriting any of your config files, but just to be sure I kept a backup of /var and /etc. But that probably won't be an issue for you, since you've got everything on CD. You'll still have to go through /var and /etc and check those perms, because most of the contents of those directories will not be replaced. There may very well be a better solution to your problem. This is what comes to mind first for me. Good luck. noah PGP Public Key available at http://www.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html or by `finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOJPBi4dCcpBjGWoFAQG3GgP/dw8YMTJlG09ziP7+JJHW5Bm4Sx9YIC/q GfV+bs3i0F7d6ez9GUOTRVH6TrCsGOVfI1Bu+V/n+HnukkP2vAN9mOcI0Z1dAjPE he+gQhk2clnecYeBq1gpB7zYJBQxYSJEBX523Thf7G19nxShvk4ICIqIkcvZSrxd XuGvvS29onM= =/jT/ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
permissions / replacing packages
I was moving my files back and forth to and from CD-RWs, and I just realised that my CDs were made with rational rockridge (sets everything to owned by root, read-only, and removes suid bits, and sets world-readable to everything), instead of standard rockridge extensions. Whoops! Specifically, /usr/X11R6, /usr/local, /usr/lib, and /home were messed up. I've pretty much got /usr/local under control, but what should I do with the other three? I've already run suidregister, and fixed my GPG/PGP permissions. Is there any way (on a Debian system), that I can get apt to re-download and install the packages I have currently installed over top of what's already here, to fix things? At least I'm getting good performance with reiserfs! .-) -- "If you continue running Windows, your system may become unstable." -- Windows 95 BSOD Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. Advertising Policy: http://www.redrival.com/dlitz/spamoff.html GnuPG Public Key: http://www.redrival.com/dlitz/gpgkey.asc Fingerprint: 0535 F7CF FF5F 8547 E5A5 695E 4456 FB6C BC39 A4B0 pgpt8kiInkDun.pgp Description: PGP signature
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hello. since i turned off bsd compression (in my last email) i've been getting really slow connections through my gateway machine. i don't think this is because of the compression though. my gateway is a 486 33MHz with 16M of RAM. i'm thinking it's old hardware that's slowing down the connection. would i be right? does anyone know of any problems involved with connecting from linux to NT with bsd compression turned on or off? i had a lot of troubles with it turned on (nobody's replied to my last email concerning this i believe). thanks from da Bobstopper
Re: kernel panic on hda
Paul McDermott wrote: > > Hi Steve, it looks like you might have misconfigured the kernel. did you > include ext2 filesystem in your configured kernel. and, steve, the ext2 should no be compiled as module :) -- hafi
Re: More ppp problems
> My SECOND problem is that my modem just up and hangs up > occaisionally. As far as this is concerned, I just hope someone can > tell me how to start determining if it was due to a change on my side > or the ISPs side. I don't have any ideas on your first problem, but I do have a bit of experience with the second. The hang-ups could be something as simple as a timeout on the ISP side because you haven't been doing anything for awhile. But I'm sure you've thought of this. I think you could use tcpdump to see if the hangup coincides with a long interruption in packets -- if so it might be an automatic hangup on the ISP's part (or a low value for idle in your ~/.ppprc or /etc/ppp/options). I had a similar problem a few months ago where my modem would hang up after exactly 32 minutes. Turned out it was our cordless phone. At the suggestion of the phone company, we unplugged it and from then on everything has worked just fine (except for the crappy line quality, of course). This probably isn't what's going on either, but before considering the computer-side issues, it's worth a look into what other devices are sharing your modem line and what they might be doing. 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
More ppp problems
Any help on pointing me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. I am experiencing 2 frustrating problems: For reference: pppd 2.3.10, linux 2.2.12. All ppp and ipmasq modules are compiled as modules and I verified that they were loaded durring these "occurances". I also talked to my ISP to verify that they don't have policies on connect times, or daily down times. This is going to wrap a little... :/ 1. From time to time, my ppp0 interface just stops working. Such as: Sith:~# ifconfig ppp0 ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:207.158.172.195 P-t-P:206.84.176.80 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:29157 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:28257 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:10 Sith:~# ping 206.84.176.80 PING 206.84.176.80 (206.84.176.80): 56 data bytes --- 206.84.176.80 ping statistics --- 14 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss Sith:~# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 206.84.176.80 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 0 0 ppp0 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 0.0.0.0 206.84.176.80 0.0.0.0 UG0 0 0 ppp0 From ppp.log's point of view, it stops recieving lcp replies (though it keeps sending requests). From message's kernel logs, it gets a bunch of protocol 17 messages and then just "dies" (i.e. doesnt record anything else for whatever reason). OK, so thats weird. My SECOND problem is that my modem just up and hangs up occaisionally. As far as this is concerned, I just hope someone can tell me how to start determining if it was due to a change on my side or the ISPs side. Both of these problems "go away" when I hangup and re-connect. Thanks!!! Jonathan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG public key available from http://www.jamdata.net/~jjlupa/gpg.asc pgpSt2neGQ99V.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ext2 fs issues when copying between disks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > >I suspect this problem has something to do with 'sparse files'. > > Right idea, though not the usual terminology so documentation searches > might have failed you (that reminded me of sparse superblocks or perhaps > files containing "holes", both of which are entirely different; that's > probably just me free-associating again, though). No, you were right. I was referring to files with "holes", though after reading your reply and giving it some further thought, it's pretty obvious that none of the operations I performed would have created sparse files. > The block size on your > new /usr is larger than that on your old /usr, that's all. Use > '/sbin/tune2fs -l /dev/sda10' and '/sbin/tune2fs -l /dev/sda11' to see > the various parameters of the two filesystems. (Make sure to unmount the > filesystem or remount it read-only before changing any filesystem > parameters with tune2fs, though.) Exactly right. Thanks a whole lot for such a quick reply! Ooh, this is bringing back fond memories of my operating systems classes in school. One of them focused almost entirely on filesystems, so this blocksize issue and the space/speed issue that comes with different size blocks are somewhat familiar to me. Interesting... noah PGP Public Key available at http://www.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html or by `finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOJOrIIdCcpBjGWoFAQHG0AP/ZETpSbZNfEaSvkbd62lonFWgmE5iwxtJ rcKWUyjCRdW12BrrpZFEVGsgbrdj/NRuqIJtv8S3P7dOjVktMHcQXB3uYay8gYuz NItFmohLSAOyLTKVsqcfPIGWvQh3AazkDcxHD3ip/WEQaNWOh36RQljZNLWPJYTm r6u//QF7T54= =LiKd -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: ext2 fs issues when copying between disks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Noah L. Meyerhans) wrote:
>I just moved /usr/ to a new partition. Everything went smoothly, and the
>new /usr is mounted. However, disk usage is dramatically higher on the
>new /usr than on the old one. I have confirmed (using 'find . -xtype f
>- -exec cmp {} /mnt/tmp/{} \;') that the directory structures are identical
>between the two filesystems. However, the files on the new filesystem are
>bigger. Here's what I mean:
[...]
>I suspect this problem has something to do with 'sparse files'.
Right idea, though not the usual terminology so documentation searches
might have failed you (that reminded me of sparse superblocks or perhaps
files containing "holes", both of which are entirely different; that's
probably just me free-associating again, though). The block size on your
new /usr is larger than that on your old /usr, that's all. Use
'/sbin/tune2fs -l /dev/sda10' and '/sbin/tune2fs -l /dev/sda11' to see
the various parameters of the two filesystems. (Make sure to unmount the
filesystem or remount it read-only before changing any filesystem
parameters with tune2fs, though.)
>What can I do to fix it?
You'll need to recreate it (using mke2fs) with more precise options. The
man page has plenty of details. I'm afraid it's not possible, as far as
I know, to change parameters like the block size of an already-existing
filesystem, but you still seem to have the old one around anyway so it
shouldn't be too much of a problem.
--
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ext2 fs issues when copying between disks
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I just moved /usr/ to a new partition. Everything went smoothly, and the
new /usr is mounted. However, disk usage is dramatically higher on the
new /usr than on the old one. I have confirmed (using 'find . -xtype f
- -exec cmp {} /mnt/tmp/{} \;') that the directory structures are identical
between the two filesystems. However, the files on the new filesystem are
bigger. Here's what I mean:
ant:~$ df /usr /mnt/tmp
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda10 1512832688712747272 48% /usr
/dev/sda11 2734835595615 1997808 23% /mnt/tmp
Notice that the 'Used' column is greater on /usr than on /mnt/tmp (old
usr). Doing something like du -sk /usr/sbin and du -sk /mnt/tmp/sbin
shows that the contents of the sbin subdirectory are slightly larger on
the new /usr...that's the case with all the subdirectories.
I suspect this problem has something to do with 'sparse files'. The
command I used to copy the filesystem was:
cd /usr && tar cpf - . --exclude local --exclude lost+found | (cd
/mnt/tmp/ && tar xpf -)
However, I saw the exact same behavior in an earlier attempt using
'cp -ax'
Has anybody got any idea why this new filesystem is "bigger" than the
orginal? What can I do to fix it?
TIA!
noah
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Re: kernel panic on hda
Hi Steve, it looks like you might have misconfigured the kernel. did you include ext2 filesystem in your configured kernel. Paul On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, steve doerr wrote: > I just compiled and installed the 2.2 kernel with the debian kernel > package and I got the following error on booting: > > Partition check > hda: driver not present > VFS: Cannot open root device 03:01 > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01 > > Did I do something wrong with the kernel's IDE configuration (I have a > IDE 2.5 GB Quantum Bigfoot)? I reran LILO after installing the kernel > deb. It won't boot from the kernel floppy I created either so I'm > inclined to think the kernel is misconfigured for IDE. > > Any help greatly appreciated. > Thanks, > Steve > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Reiser filesystem
Some what recently, Arne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Reiser filesystem >:) Hello, >:) Does anyone already install a Debian-linux on a Reiser-File-system? >:) >:) http://devlinux.com/projects/reiserfs/ >:) >:) I am perhaps going to change from SuSE to Debian, but SuSE now gives the >:) possibility to install on Reiserfs. >:) The reason for changing is the poor network-features of SuSE. >:) I did this on one new machine. Install only a base system on / partition only, then copy my own compile kernel.deb and reiser fs from another machinem then mkreiserfs on target partition and install the rest. Chanop -- ,-. | Chanop Silpa-Anan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Australian National University | | Tel. +61 2 6279 8826, +61 2 6279 8837 (office hour) | | +61 2 6249 5240 (home +voice mail) | | Debian GNU/Linux ICQ uin 11366301 | `-'
Re: sources.list
"Ariel S. Betan" wrote: > > I'm new to debian. > Can someone send a /etc/apt/sources.list file for potato? > > TIA deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
Re: RPM vs. Debian package format
dkphoto wrote: > > >You can find out how robust (and picky) debs are by packaging > >something. A couple weeks and a couple hundred pages of > >developer docs later, you'll appreciate what goes into a deb. > >The alien command will convert between rpms and debs and > >you can compare the results. > > Would someone mind explaining to me just what a "deb" is? > > TIA > > David Kachel A "deb" is a Debian package file (filename ends in ".deb"). It contains the program(s) you're installing, along with instructions to dpkg about how to install it and where to install it and how to configure it and what questions to ask of the sys admin, etc. An "RPM" is a Redhat package file (filename ends in ".rpm"). It does more-or-less the same for Redhat that a deb does for Debian, but not as cleanly/well-implemented.
pppd problems (CCP ResetReq)
I recently set up a dial-in ppp server at work. It's running potato and has two ISA 3Com modems plugged into it. Whenever I dial in from home I see the following in the logs on my home machine (the one calling): Jan 29 16:08:34 raven pppd[2118]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x1 magic=0xd71da192] Jan 29 16:08:35 raven pppd[2118]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x1 magic=0x26ed91ff] Jan 29 16:08:45 raven pppd[2118]: rcvd [CCP ResetReq id=0x4] Jan 29 16:08:45 raven pppd[2118]: sent [CCP ResetAck id=0x4] Jan 29 16:08:55 raven pppd[2118]: rcvd [CCP ResetReq id=0x5] Jan 29 16:08:55 raven pppd[2118]: sent [CCP ResetAck id=0x5] Jan 29 16:08:55 raven pppd[2118]: rcvd [Compressed data] 00 5e 82 34 c4 0b c1 0d ... Jan 29 16:08:55 raven pppd[2118]: sent [CCP ResetReq id=0x2] Jan 29 16:08:56 raven pppd[2118]: rcvd [CCP ResetAck id=0x2] Jan 29 16:09:03 raven pppd[2118]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x2 magic=0x26ed91ff] Jan 29 16:09:03 raven pppd[2118]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x2 magic=0xd71da192] The LCP EchoReq lines make sense, but periodically I get those CCP ResetReq / CCP ResetAck messages. These coincide with a loss of TCP/IP packets (during an apt-get, the download stops, it sits there for thirty seconds, and then starts downloading again). I know it's my home machine in because it connectes to a different dial in server just fine. Anybody know what I've done wrong? 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: DNS setup question
If you set up your DNS server correctly with the IPs that you want, and tell it that it's the SOA record for animedia.com, then it'll point itself and any 'puters that point to it as primary DNS to the IP address, regardless of the root servers. It's a good way to test your DNS setup. You can also use interactive nslookup. If you just type nslookup without any arguments, you'll get a prompt: > then you can say nameserver and it'll lookup stuff through that nameserver. It's also a good way to debug stuff. Adding the nameserver is as simple as adding a line to your /etc/bind/named.conf and setting up the zone file for it. The BIND-HOWTO has answers on this one. Regards, Glen -Original Message- From: Alec Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 2:12 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: DNS setup question Right now I've got my Debian-based server acting as a DNS cache. I'm in the process of moving a domain from one hosting company to another, and I'd like to be able to test things as if this domain was pointed at the new server instead of the old. I'm not quite ready to update the domain records with InterNIC though. Is there some way I can make my local DNS server report back to me that amimedia.com is 209.68.1.210 instead of the old IP, but without having to change things for the rest of the world? I'm not a Bind whiz, so pointers are much appreciated. I don't want to drop the DNS cache since it speeds things up most of the time. Eventually I'd like to add DNS to another LAN I run, so I'd like to use this as a chance to start learning how to configure Bind as opposed to just adding another entry for DNS caching (to point at Pair Network's DNS for the new amimedia.com IP). Alec Smith
what exactly is SMP?
kernel panic on hda
I just compiled and installed the 2.2 kernel with the debian kernel package and I got the following error on booting: Partition check hda: driver not present VFS: Cannot open root device 03:01 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01 Did I do something wrong with the kernel's IDE configuration (I have a IDE 2.5 GB Quantum Bigfoot)? I reran LILO after installing the kernel deb. It won't boot from the kernel floppy I created either so I'm inclined to think the kernel is misconfigured for IDE. Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks, Steve
sources.list
I'm new to debian. Can someone send a /etc/apt/sources.list file for potato? TIA
[OT] Knuth saying about a mice with an OS is like an elephant?
Can some one give me the exact saying of Knuth about a mice with an OS is like an elephant? Where and when does it published for the first time? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
