Re: system lock on boot
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 08:54:10PM -0700, e3c wrote: > Thank you for your reply, > > What I am trying to load as far as I have been able to tell is slink 2.1. > However the > package that I purchased has nothing called tecra on it. Is this another > boot image or > ? If it is a boot image is it available ftp on the www? >From http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/ Users of Adaptec 2940 SCSI cards, and other SCSI controllers with the aic7xxx chipset, will probably experience problems with the standard boot-floppies. A kind user has made some experiments which many users find to solve their problems. There are two alternative Rescue Floppies for the i386 architecture at ftp://kalle.csb.ki.se/pub/. There are also replacement kernels in that location, which you can use to simply replace the existing kernels on the boot-floppies. You'll need the Drivers Floppy from the standard location. A competing and newer set of Rescue and Driver Floppies for Adaptec users can be found at http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/. I had to use one of those images from for my 2940. -- Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor. Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day. Netscum, Bane of Elves.
Re: system lock on boot
Thank you for your reply, What I am trying to load as far as I have been able to tell is slink 2.1. However the package that I purchased has nothing called tecra on it. Is this another boot image or ? If it is a boot image is it available ftp on the www? Thank you for your time, Scott Ron Rademaker wrote: > I guess you should try using the tecra image (on the official cd release > of slink (2.1), it's on cd 2 if I recall correctly, so try booting from cd > 2) > > Ron Rademaker > > On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, e3c wrote: > > > I am new to Debian so I hope I am giving the needed information to > > recieve help from the Debian comunity. > > > > My scsi controller (Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW Dual) supports > > bootable cd-roms. I am trying to install > > Debian 2.1 (kernel 2.2.12) from a VA Linux distribution I purchased in a > > > > store. I boot from the cd-rom and press > > to start the installation. Things start to scroll > > across the screen and then the computer > > locks, not responding to anything but a warm reboot. Before > > it hangs it looks like it is loading > > drivers for my hard disks connected to my scsi card. I have > > three hard drives and two cd-roms. The > > bootable hard drive is at id 0, another at id 1, another at id 2, and > > two cd-roms at id 3 and 4. The scsi controller id is at 7. After what > > looks like the second scsi device being detected "(scsi1)" the system > > locks. The last two lines on the screen read: > > > > (scsi1) downloading sequencer code... 374 instructions downloaded > > NCR53c406a: no available ports found > > > > Also I notice that Linux identifies my scsi card incorrectly > > as a AIC 7895 U > > > > My guess is that it has found something it does not like > > with my hard drive that is at id2. (it is > > an old hard drive that came out of my first computer, an IBM > > P/S 2 80). As it still works I have kept it. I am currently running NT > > 4.0 service pack 5 on my system > > and after a brief experience with windows 2000 I am actively seeking a > > new OS. > > > > I have tried to specify (blindly I admit) a boot parameter that would at > > lest get me to the install screen. But to no avail. I have read the > > boot parameter information found through the F4 and F5 options on the > > boot disk and what I could find in the Debian tutorial and the Guide on > > the Debian web site. I still feel clueless as how to truely use a boot > > parameter. Or how to get to the install screen. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. I will be checking > > my e-mail regularly so I am able to supply > > any more information that might be needed. > > > > Thank you in advance, > > Scott > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Re: NIC sharing?
On 07/13/00, Ethan Pierce wrote: > Im running a dsl network where I have a real IP on eth0. I was > wondering I could setup a new network for use in masquerading via > eth1...can the single network card translate the non routable > network as well as the physical static one? Yes. Set up IP aliasing in your kernel, then refer to your additional network interfaces as eth0:1, etc. Works very well for me with a cable modem-based IP and a local network IP being used simultaneously. Have fun, Jesse -- For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. http://members.home.net/jmjacobsen1/glc
Re: system lock on boot
Thank you for your reply, What I thought was Debian loading drivers for the hard drives was actually Debian identifying the scsi controller since I have a dual controller card it happens twice. So it was not loading drivers as I first thought. Although I did disconnect everything except for the the cd-rom I was booting from and the hard drive I wanted to install to. No luck, still locks in the same place. Is there a way to actually determine what is causing the computer to lock. Such as something that would make the boot process go step by step with a verification of each step? Or am I destine to yank everything out of the box to see if I can get an install that way, and then install one device at a time. Although now that I have typed it that does not sound to far fetched. Any ideas? Thank you, Scott Jason Quigley wrote: > Hi Scott! > > Your SCSI card is being identified correctly. Although it's designated > AH2940x, it uses an AIC7xxx chipset. Here is the output of /proc/pci for my > card: > > Bus 0, device 11, function 0: > SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7861 (rev 1). > Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 12. Master Capable. > Late > ncy=32. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=4. > I/O at 0x8800 [0x8801]. > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xeb00 [0xeb00]. > > And the dmesg output: > > (scsi1) found at PCI 0/11/0 > (scsi1) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs > (scsi1) Downloading sequencer code... 423 instructions downloaded > enable_irq() unbalanced from cc0417b0 > scsi1 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.28/3.2.4 > > scsi : 2 hosts. > (scsi1:0:0:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. > > The NCR stuff is just there because the kernel has it. This is in order to > be able to install direct from CD to as many configurations as possible. > You can ignore it. > > Why not try to install without the old HD. You can always add it in later > when you get a stable system up and running. > > Cheers, > Jason. > > --On Thursday, July 13, 2000 18:04 -0700 e3c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am new to Debian so I hope I am giving the needed information to > > recieve help from the Debian comunity. > > > > My scsi controller (Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW Dual) supports > > bootable cd-roms. I am trying to install > > Debian 2.1 (kernel 2.2.12) from a VA Linux distribution I purchased in a > > > > store. I boot from the cd-rom and press > > to start the installation. Things start to scroll > > across the screen and then the computer > > locks, not responding to anything but a warm reboot. Before > > it hangs it looks like it is loading > > drivers for my hard disks connected to my scsi card. I have > > three hard drives and two cd-roms. The > > bootable hard drive is at id 0, another at id 1, another at id 2, and > > two cd-roms at id 3 and 4. The scsi controller id is at 7. After what > > looks like the second scsi device being detected "(scsi1)" the system > > locks. The last two lines on the screen read: > > > > (scsi1) downloading sequencer code... 374 instructions downloaded > > NCR53c406a: no available ports found > > > > Also I notice that Linux identifies my scsi card incorrectly > > as a AIC 7895 U > > > > My guess is that it has found something it does not like > > with my hard drive that is at id2. (it is > > an old hard drive that came out of my first computer, an IBM > > P/S 2 80). As it still works I have kept it. I am currently running NT > > 4.0 service pack 5 on my system > > and after a brief experience with windows 2000 I am actively seeking a > > new OS. > > > > I have tried to specify (blindly I admit) a boot parameter that would at > > lest get me to the install screen. But to no avail. I have read the > > boot parameter information found through the F4 and F5 options on the > > boot disk and what I could find in the Debian tutorial and the Guide on > > the Debian web site. I still feel clueless as how to truely use a boot > > parameter. Or how to get to the install screen. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. I will be checking > > my e-mail regularly so I am able to supply > > any more information that might be needed. > > > > Thank you in advance, > > Scott > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > > /dev/null > > > > > >
NIC sharing?
Im running a dsl network where I have a real IP on eth0. I was wondering I could setup a new network for use in masquerading via eth1...can the single network card translate the non routable network as well as the physical static one?
Re: Autologin on Serial Console
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Simon Tennant wrote: > I currently have a Dec VT320 hooked up to my Debian box via a serial line > on /dev/ttyS1. This box sits in the kitchen spewing the output of a > tcpdump and provides and interesting way to monitor network activity in > the house. Cool ;) > > I currently have to login and run "tcpdump -i eth1". I'd like tcpdump to > be run automatically when the console is powered up and for no input to be > accepted from the keyboard. > > To that end I've investigated getty-ps and mgetty. Both want a login or > at lease a username in the case of getty-ps. > > Has anyone successfully managed to get a prelogged in console working? > Never tried, but maybe you can do something with a script in /etc/init.d, or instead of running a getty on the terminal a script?? Ron > Thanks. > > -- > Simon Tennant, Web Team, Linuxcare, Inc. > 415.577.6719 tel, 415.701.7457 fax > pgp id: 05F76248FF62442C4D0010C09851C0746410974D > Linuxcare. Support for the revolution. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
SCSI tape errors
Hi i have set up a SCSI DAT tape onto debian slink with kernel 2.0.38 and nfs (no_root_squash) mounted an IBM AIX directory. I use a simple backup program which tars the files from the AIX directory onto tape. It works for a little while but i think it gets into trouble when it trys to proccess a large file (200MB). I started the backup at 9:30pm and it started having problems by 11pm. Here is the error message : Jul 13 23:11:40 tapier kernel: ASC= 4 ASCQ= 1 Jul 13 23:11:40 tapier kernel: Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0e 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x04 0x01 0x00 0x00 Jul 13 23:11:40 tapier kernel: st0: Error with sense data: extra data not valid Current error st09:00: sns = 70 2 Backup program errors are : tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error tar: Too many errors, quitting tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now I tried doing a tar listing of the tape this morning and it said the the start record was unable to be read. Does anyone know what is going on... it is a simple proceedure i am doing and am frustrated and perplexed as to why i am having difficulties. Thanx Zane
Re: system lock on boot
I guess you should try using the tecra image (on the official cd release of slink (2.1), it's on cd 2 if I recall correctly, so try booting from cd 2) Ron Rademaker On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, e3c wrote: > I am new to Debian so I hope I am giving the needed information to > recieve help from the Debian comunity. > > My scsi controller (Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW Dual) supports > bootable cd-roms. I am trying to install > Debian 2.1 (kernel 2.2.12) from a VA Linux distribution I purchased in a > > store. I boot from the cd-rom and press > to start the installation. Things start to scroll > across the screen and then the computer > locks, not responding to anything but a warm reboot. Before > it hangs it looks like it is loading > drivers for my hard disks connected to my scsi card. I have > three hard drives and two cd-roms. The > bootable hard drive is at id 0, another at id 1, another at id 2, and > two cd-roms at id 3 and 4. The scsi controller id is at 7. After what > looks like the second scsi device being detected "(scsi1)" the system > locks. The last two lines on the screen read: > > (scsi1) downloading sequencer code... 374 instructions downloaded > NCR53c406a: no available ports found > > Also I notice that Linux identifies my scsi card incorrectly > as a AIC 7895 U > > My guess is that it has found something it does not like > with my hard drive that is at id2. (it is > an old hard drive that came out of my first computer, an IBM > P/S 2 80). As it still works I have kept it. I am currently running NT > 4.0 service pack 5 on my system > and after a brief experience with windows 2000 I am actively seeking a > new OS. > > I have tried to specify (blindly I admit) a boot parameter that would at > lest get me to the install screen. But to no avail. I have read the > boot parameter information found through the F4 and F5 options on the > boot disk and what I could find in the Debian tutorial and the Guide on > the Debian web site. I still feel clueless as how to truely use a boot > parameter. Or how to get to the install screen. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. I will be checking > my e-mail regularly so I am able to supply > any more information that might be needed. > > Thank you in advance, > Scott > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Debian and WordPerfect
I have run both WP 7 and 8 under slink and potato. WP 7 works flawlessly, while WP 8 seems to have problems with some window managers (I can't seem to focus on the document window) but works well with others. Be sure you have all the necessary (libc5) libraries installed. On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 09:44:38PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone been able to run WordPerfect under Slink or Potato. I get a > segmentation fault on both. > > Does anyone know of a reason for this? -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
Re: system lock on boot
Hi Scott! Your SCSI card is being identified correctly. Although it's designated AH2940x, it uses an AIC7xxx chipset. Here is the output of /proc/pci for my card: Bus 0, device 11, function 0: SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7861 (rev 1). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 12. Master Capable. Late ncy=32. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=4. I/O at 0x8800 [0x8801]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xeb00 [0xeb00]. And the dmesg output: (scsi1) found at PCI 0/11/0 (scsi1) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs (scsi1) Downloading sequencer code... 423 instructions downloaded enable_irq() unbalanced from cc0417b0 scsi1 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.28/3.2.4 scsi : 2 hosts. (scsi1:0:0:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. The NCR stuff is just there because the kernel has it. This is in order to be able to install direct from CD to as many configurations as possible. You can ignore it. Why not try to install without the old HD. You can always add it in later when you get a stable system up and running. Cheers, Jason. --On Thursday, July 13, 2000 18:04 -0700 e3c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am new to Debian so I hope I am giving the needed information to recieve help from the Debian comunity. My scsi controller (Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW Dual) supports bootable cd-roms. I am trying to install Debian 2.1 (kernel 2.2.12) from a VA Linux distribution I purchased in a store. I boot from the cd-rom and press to start the installation. Things start to scroll across the screen and then the computer locks, not responding to anything but a warm reboot. Before it hangs it looks like it is loading drivers for my hard disks connected to my scsi card. I have three hard drives and two cd-roms. The bootable hard drive is at id 0, another at id 1, another at id 2, and two cd-roms at id 3 and 4. The scsi controller id is at 7. After what looks like the second scsi device being detected "(scsi1)" the system locks. The last two lines on the screen read: (scsi1) downloading sequencer code... 374 instructions downloaded NCR53c406a: no available ports found Also I notice that Linux identifies my scsi card incorrectly as a AIC 7895 U My guess is that it has found something it does not like with my hard drive that is at id2. (it is an old hard drive that came out of my first computer, an IBM P/S 2 80). As it still works I have kept it. I am currently running NT 4.0 service pack 5 on my system and after a brief experience with windows 2000 I am actively seeking a new OS. I have tried to specify (blindly I admit) a boot parameter that would at lest get me to the install screen. But to no avail. I have read the boot parameter information found through the F4 and F5 options on the boot disk and what I could find in the Debian tutorial and the Guide on the Debian web site. I still feel clueless as how to truely use a boot parameter. Or how to get to the install screen. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I will be checking my e-mail regularly so I am able to supply any more information that might be needed. Thank you in advance, Scott -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: display export??
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Ragga Muffin wrote: > > do I need to export DISPLAY localhost? Im not sure of the syntax...am I on > > the right track? > > Yes and no. What yuo need to do is temporarily permit x-connections from > your localhost if you want to start an x program with a different > user than the current session (in this case root) > > Simply execute 'xhost +localhost' before doing a su. I think that doing xhost local:root is better. There are 2 reasons for this: 1. You're specifying a user name, which gives added security if you've got a multi-user system. 2. You're specifying a local connection, not a connection that uses a network interface. The X server connections with use Unix sockets, not TCP sockets. This gives you less overhead since you don't have to send all your data through a TCP stack. noah ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOW5kTIdCcpBjGWoFAQGFjAP/V/dalkL6GK7O8Mwbgd//3GpLQLU7e5GG wPl9hHIZm8tjx1FOHlxtnpxHw8RREof1ttubhR1n2Rvs8UVXfHpqIf0V5nQf2FGA viuMT6NUtFfi2fcvq9607vc2nPPR8yqwe5aMFhVV3fj13PpIYRqxz0nnuH7NoU+F 3AN2DeTRBDo= =MEnf -END PGP SIGNATURE-
system lock on boot
I am new to Debian so I hope I am giving the needed information to recieve help from the Debian comunity. My scsi controller (Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW Dual) supports bootable cd-roms. I am trying to install Debian 2.1 (kernel 2.2.12) from a VA Linux distribution I purchased in a store. I boot from the cd-rom and press to start the installation. Things start to scroll across the screen and then the computer locks, not responding to anything but a warm reboot. Before it hangs it looks like it is loading drivers for my hard disks connected to my scsi card. I have three hard drives and two cd-roms. The bootable hard drive is at id 0, another at id 1, another at id 2, and two cd-roms at id 3 and 4. The scsi controller id is at 7. After what looks like the second scsi device being detected "(scsi1)" the system locks. The last two lines on the screen read: (scsi1) downloading sequencer code... 374 instructions downloaded NCR53c406a: no available ports found Also I notice that Linux identifies my scsi card incorrectly as a AIC 7895 U My guess is that it has found something it does not like with my hard drive that is at id2. (it is an old hard drive that came out of my first computer, an IBM P/S 2 80). As it still works I have kept it. I am currently running NT 4.0 service pack 5 on my system and after a brief experience with windows 2000 I am actively seeking a new OS. I have tried to specify (blindly I admit) a boot parameter that would at lest get me to the install screen. But to no avail. I have read the boot parameter information found through the F4 and F5 options on the boot disk and what I could find in the Debian tutorial and the Guide on the Debian web site. I still feel clueless as how to truely use a boot parameter. Or how to get to the install screen. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I will be checking my e-mail regularly so I am able to supply any more information that might be needed. Thank you in advance, Scott
Re: Dialup Help!
Bob Bernstein writes: > Help me understand why the absence of a shell login process on these > machines constrains them from using a simple exchange of username and > password. It doesn't. You can use username/password authentication to connect to a machine on which you can not get a shell. It's just a matter of what method of authentication the administrator chooses to implement. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: Debian and WordPerfect
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone been able to run WordPerfect under Slink or Potato. I get a > segmentation fault on both. I had no luck getting WP to run under Slink. Some of my notes should be in the archive for this group; I'm attaching my first message to the WP8 "support" Corel mailing list below. There are a number of libraries that must be installed: xlib6, libc5, & xpm4.7 are the ones most often mentioned as not present and thus the source of problems. In the end i decided to write it off as a problem with my video driver which was some SuSE contribution to the XFree project that hadn't been incorporated into the Slink package. I think that conclusion was motivated by some comment i saw on this list. My install with Potato was flawless, and I'm pleased with WP8 over the Star Office version i have (the version before acquisition by Sun). (Note that the problematic video driver had been incorporated into Potato.) AbiWord seems pretty cool, too; if you can't solve the WP problem, try that. Good luck, judith Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:11:50 Author: "Judith Bush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Word Perfect fails Debian Slink install with libraries Body: I'm running a straight Slink Debian system with the Y2K upgrades. I definitely have xlib6, libc5, & xpm4.7 installed. I can't seem to get my CD version of Word Perfect 8 to install. The graphical interface fails, the character-based install *claims* to install the program, yet never asks for a path to place the program in. The 'installed' binaries, found in the listed directories below off the root directory, give seg faults. Following is a list of the created directories and a script of the installation (with lots of control characters, but not all, removed). TIA for your suggestions, cheers, judith samples wpexpdocs wpgraphics shbin10 wplearn shlib10 wpmacros wpbin wplib Script started on Sun Dec... Stand-alone shell (version 2.1) > ./install.wp Please Wait ... ./install.wp: line 11: 1297 Segmentation fault $Platform/ins/wpinstg color grey >/dev/null 2>/dev/null ./install.wp: line 13: 1298 Segmentation fault $Platform/ins/$Exec $Menu $Values $bgcolor Warning: The graphical install program has failed. Trying to run the character-based install program. ./install.wp: line 21: 1302 Segmentation fault $Platform/ins/$Exec $Menu $Values 2>>shared/log cat: .wptemp: No such file or directory cat: .wplist: No such file or directory cat: shared/license.: No such file or directory ./install.wp: line 30: 1326 Segmentation fault $Platform/ins/$Exec $Menu "$Values" $bgcolor 2>>shared/log ./install.wp: line 30: 1341 Segmentation fault $Platform/ins/$Exec $Menu "$Values" $bgcolor 2>>shared/log cat: .wptemp: No such file or directory cat: .wptemp: No such file or directory ./install.wp: line 30: 1366 Segmentation fault $Platform/ins/$Exec $Menu "$Values" $bgcolor 2>>shared/log cat: .wptemp: No such file or directory cat: .wplist: No such file or directory ./install.wp: line 30: 1383 Segmentation fault $Platform/ins/$Exec $Menu "$Values" $bgcolor 2>>shared/log cat: .wptemp: No such file or directory cat: .wptemp: No such file or directory ./install.wp: line 30: 1400 Segmentation fault $Platform/ins/$Exec $Menu "$Values" $bgcolor 2>>shared/log cat: .wptemp: No such file or directory cat: .wptemp: No such file or directory ./install.wp: line 30: 1417 Segmentation fault $Platform/ins/$Exec $Menu "$Values" $bgcolor 2>>shared/log cat: .wptemp: No such file or directory cat: .wplist: No such file or directory ./install.wp: line 30: 1439 Segmentation fault $Platform/ins/$Exec $Menu "$Values" $bgcolor 2>>shared/log cat: .wptemp: No such file or directory cat: .wplist: No such file or directory wc: .wplist: No such file or directory ./install.wp: [: : integer expression expected ./install.wp: line 30: 1470 Segmentation fault $Platform/ins/$Exec $Menu "$Values" $bgcolor 2>>shared/log cat: .wptemp: No such file or directory cat: .wptemp: No such file or directory mv: .wplist: No such file or directory ./install.wp: line 30: 1492 Segmentation fault $Platform/ins/$Exec $Menu "$Values" $bgcolor 2>>shared/log cat: .wptemp: No such file or directory sed: can't read .wplist: No such file or directory ./install
ms sidewinder gpad 2.4.0test fix
Hello If anyone is running a 2.4test kernel with the v2 input drivers, and has the problem with the sidewinder gamepad directional controls not working, I have a replacement sidewinder.c file from Vojtech Pavlik that fixes it. It's only 20k but I don't like attachments on the mailing lists so I won't bother anyone with them. If you need it, mail me. Jonathan
Re: Autologin on Serial Console
Simon Tennant wrote: > > I currently have a Dec VT320 hooked up to my Debian box via a serial line > on /dev/ttyS1. This box sits in the kitchen spewing the output of a > tcpdump and provides and interesting way to monitor network activity in > the house. > > I currently have to login and run "tcpdump -i eth1". I'd like tcpdump to > be run automatically when the console is powered up and for no input to be > accepted from the keyboard. > > To that end I've investigated getty-ps and mgetty. Both want a login or > at lease a username in the case of getty-ps. > > Has anyone successfully managed to get a prelogged in console working? > > Thanks. Simon, I've not done anything like this on Linux, but did a similar thing once on a SCO Xenix system. Basically, you want to have the 'tcpdump' program run with its I/O redirected to the terminal line. To do this, you would have to disable logins on the serial line and have the tcpdump start up in an rc script during boot, being sure it comes up after networking support is initialized. I did this in a shell script that first redirected its stdin/out/err to point to the proper device (/dev/ttyS1 in your case). Since you don't want keyboard input, you'd want to close the stdin part rather than redirect it. You may also have to use 'stty' to set the serial line parameters, since getty would do this normally (and you have disabled it). I'm sorry I can't give you specifics at this point, I don't have access to any UNIX system where I could play with this type of stuff (being as root privileges are needed). Let me know if you need more help, though, and I'll see what I can do later at home. -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kerneld message
> You should check your startup scripts. Somewhere, you have enabled > starting kerneld, you need to find that place and disable it. cd /etc/init.d mv kerneld kerneld.old reboot Jonathan
Re: kerneld message
Ragga Muffin wrote: > > Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > I have just compiled my first kernel (!) on my Debian frozen box. It is > > 2.2.15 > > After the reboot all seems well, except a message during boot: > > > > kerneld: you almost certainly don't want to be running kerneld > >with >= 2.2.x > > > > I assume that to be true. I am not sure if this just appears since the > > kernel update or that I have missed it earlier on. > > I have not done a lot of tweaking on this machine, so I have no idea > > what has caused this. > > >From the kerneld manpage > > kerneld is obsolete as of Linux kernel 2.1.90, it was >replaced by the kmod kernel thread and cron entries. Do >not even think of using kerneld unless you are running a >2.0 kernel. > > HTH > -- > Ragga You should check your startup scripts. Somewhere, you have enabled starting kerneld, you need to find that place and disable it. -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: uninstall help
Jake wrote: > > Hi, > I just installed Debian 2.2 version but I want to unstall and then reinstall > it.I want to uninstall it because: > 1) I have win-98 on it with two partitions of 2.6 GB which I might not able > to access once LiLo is booted.Can u help me with that? > 2) I am not able to configure my network in the Linux /Debian > So I thought I will have to reinstall it setting some options for me to go > to DOS -WIn 98 if I want. The simplest way to "uninstall" is just to reinitialize your partitions used for Linux, but it won't buy you alot to do that. Why not just edit /etc/lilo.conf so that you shall have dual-booting options? man -k lilo . man lilo . man lilo.conf The network configuration is a separate issue. What problem are you having with that? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 972-729-5387 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home phone on request) http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan RE: xmailtool http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan/xmailtool/index.html I am the "ILOVEGNU" signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Re: Dialup Help!
The PAP protocol for user authentication sends the user name and password, just as you would use if using a login. But the authentication process is handled by the PAP protocol implementation on the host rather than by a login implementation. I think there may have been confusion with the PAP protocol, which, like CHAP, is a protocol defining a method of verifying a "user" to a "host" when the user and host are trying to set up a PPP connection. The PAP or CHAP protocol "runs on top of" PPP. This means the PPP connection happens first, then authentication over the PPP connection. A login based authentication process runs as normal text over a serial line (just like with a terminal) to login on the host, which then starts up the PPP program on the host (the "shell", if you like), which then establishes a PPP connection with the user. Bob Bernstein wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 02:35:32PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > > Nils asked about connecting some machines that serve Windows dialup clients > > from Linux: i.e., what kind of weird authentication are they likely to use? > > Joey answered that they most likely just use PAP. Turns out he was right. > > Help me understand why the absence of a shell login process on these > machines constrains them from using a simple exchange of username and > password. Is there no other implementation of ppp that can use > username/password? > > I have dialed up many an ISP with Dial-up Networking using this method, and > I doubt I was in a shell login process. (Or is this where I'm wrong?) PAP > has become popular, and ATT uses CHAP, but in principle is there anything > about not having a shell login that makes impossible an exchange of username > and password? Could it just be that on the system Nils has to connect to PAP > is what's been implemented? > > (I don't mean to be quarrelsome; I'm just trying to understand.) > > -- > Bob Bernstein > at http://www.ruptured-duck.com > Esmond, R.I., USA > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kerneld message
Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I have just compiled my first kernel (!) on my Debian frozen box. It is > 2.2.15 > After the reboot all seems well, except a message during boot: > > kerneld: you almost certainly don't want to be running kerneld >with >= 2.2.x > > I assume that to be true. I am not sure if this just appears since the > kernel update or that I have missed it earlier on. > I have not done a lot of tweaking on this machine, so I have no idea > what has caused this. >From the kerneld manpage kerneld is obsolete as of Linux kernel 2.1.90, it was replaced by the kmod kernel thread and cron entries. Do not even think of using kerneld unless you are running a 2.0 kernel. HTH -- Ragga
kerneld message
I have just compiled my first kernel (!) on my Debian frozen box. It is 2.2.15 After the reboot all seems well, except a message during boot: kerneld: you almost certainly don't want to be running kerneld with >= 2.2.x I assume that to be true. I am not sure if this just appears since the kernel update or that I have missed it earlier on. I have not done a lot of tweaking on this machine, so I have no idea what has caused this. Can someone provide a suggestion? Thanks a lot. -- Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Autologin on Serial Console
I currently have a Dec VT320 hooked up to my Debian box via a serial line on /dev/ttyS1. This box sits in the kitchen spewing the output of a tcpdump and provides and interesting way to monitor network activity in the house. I currently have to login and run "tcpdump -i eth1". I'd like tcpdump to be run automatically when the console is powered up and for no input to be accepted from the keyboard. To that end I've investigated getty-ps and mgetty. Both want a login or at lease a username in the case of getty-ps. Has anyone successfully managed to get a prelogged in console working? Thanks. -- Simon Tennant, Web Team, Linuxcare, Inc. 415.577.6719 tel, 415.701.7457 fax pgp id: 05F76248FF62442C4D0010C09851C0746410974D Linuxcare. Support for the revolution.
Re: Debian and WordPerfect
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone been able to run WordPerfect under Slink or Potato. I get a > segmentation fault on both. > > Does anyone know of a reason for this? Which version of Word Perfect? I've got WP8 here, and it runs just fine. I'm currently running woody, but I know I had WP at least with potato - not sure if I had WP with slink or not, but I think I did. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E| Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.
Re: unable to unmount
"Suresh Kumar. R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > If I mount a cdrom and nfs mount it on some other machines, even after > the other machine is switched off, I am unable to umount the cdrom ~~~ Please elaborate. Do you mean you just shutdown the other machine ? Or that you umount the cdrom ? > from the server. I am using potato. I am forced to reboot the machine > to get the cdrom out. I tried fuser but no use This shouldn't be necessary. The problem is with nfs semantics and the linux implementation (fstab + /proc). If the cdrom is NOT mounted by ANYBODY then you should be able to umount it on your end and get it out. Other than that you can try to shutdown nfsd (don't count on that, I haven't tried it) > Any suggestions ? Inform the other parties that they don't forget to umount the cdrom after use ? ;) HTH -- Ragga
Re: XFree86 server for ATI Rage 128 Pro
Thanks to all who responded. I discovered that the Rage128 support in the XFree86 3.3.6 SVGA xserver does work with this card if you tell it what the video chipset identification. It appears that the Rage 128 Pro chips are not properly detected as can be seen in the lines below. I got it to work by putting the following line in the Device section ChipId 0x5246 Note that this is not the ChipId reported by /proc/pci. That value (0x5046) gives the same blank screen. Perhaps this should be inserted in the xf86config database for the Rage Fury Pro and the Xpert 2000 Pro which are the cards using the Rage 128 Pro chip. Cheers, Carlo >> . >> ((--) SVGA: PCI: ATI Rage 128 PF rev 0, Memory @ 0xe000, MMIO @ >> 0xefefc000, I/O @ 0xac00 >> Using XFree86 ATI driver version 4.7. >> Unknown graphics controller detected. >> Unknown chip descriptor in BIOS: 0x3F3F. >> Unknown video adapter detected. >> Brooktree 476 or similar RAMDAC detected. >> Support for this video adapter is highly experimental! >> >> - /proc/pci dump - >> >> Bus 1, device 0, function 0: >> VGA compatible controller: ATI Unknown device (rev 0). >> Vendor id=1002. Device id=5046. >> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Master Capable. >> Latency=64. Min Gnt=8. >> Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe000 [0xe008]. >> I/O at 0xac00 [0xac01]. >> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xefefc000 [0xefefc000]. >> -- Carlo U. Segre -- Associate Professor of Physics Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.iit.edu/~segre
Re: display export??
"Ethan Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im new to debian so Im not familiar with all the display settings. When I > used mandrake, there were certain programs that needed to be run as root - > like linuxconf/mtv/xcdroast etcall I needed to do was su and run them. > Now in debian when I try such a move, i get a "cant set display" not > authorized > > do I need to export DISPLAY localhost? Im not sure of the syntax...am I on > the right track? Yes and no. What yuo need to do is temporarily permit x-connections from your localhost if you want to start an x program with a different user than the current session (in this case root) Simply execute 'xhost +localhost' before doing a su. HTH -- Ragga
Debian and WordPerfect
Has anyone been able to run WordPerfect under Slink or Potato. I get a segmentation fault on both. Does anyone know of a reason for this? Barry Samuels
Re: display export??
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Bolan Meek wrote: > I'm not understanding how to > directly change this, but an easy work-around is to CTL-ALT-F2...F3, > log in as root, and startx -- :1. This starts a new display. > > Then, you can flip between them with CTL-ALT-F7 ... CTL-ALT-F8. There's a much easier workaround for this: Give root permission to access the display (i.e. the X Server). There are many issues with allowing any kind of access to the X server, and you don't want to do it unnecessarily. But in this case, since everybody (your user and the root login via su) it's probably safe. As the user who owns the X session, run 'xhost local:root' Then as the root user (in the shell where you'll be running commands as root), run 'export DISPLAY=:0' to tell X clients run within that shell what display to access. HTH. noah ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOW4nHodCcpBjGWoFAQGtawQAgMuiiXPKGc88BnGhkJ4fcZwVMgbdGWCe enXp1bekaKKl4cvV+DUihdJ0E+SuozpgR+Bo3gGYa0NTG3okvEAYVB34Obo3TTYC S52XQsLv9gUaT3UpOyhM/6EdPlM66r4QxhRTHC0wHHsZDVd6OnQOLP7WHi0B2bMc DGBg1vEfC+M= =qV/t -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: compiling 2.4.0 kernels on potato
Moritz Schulte wrote: > > There are a few other chages required depending on arhcitecture / what > > drivers you are compiling so I would get the latest patch from testing > > (6, which I'm just about to compile - hopefully it has repaired the > > parport_pc problem that the last few have had, although there's a patch > > for that too). > > good luck :) didn't need it ;-) test4-pre6 seems to have fixed the irritating "can't get it to compile" problems. nice... Jonathan
Re: display export??
> Ethan Pierce wrote: > > Im new to debian so Im not familiar with all the display settings. > When I used mandrake, there were certain programs that needed to be > run as root - like linuxconf/mtv/xcdroast etcall I needed to do > was su and run them. Now in debian when I try such a move, i get a > "cant set display" not authorized > > do I need to export DISPLAY localhost? Im not sure of the syntax...am > I on the right track? The problem is that the xserver session belongs to you as a user, and it doesn't want anyone else, including root, to be executing clients on the same platform. I'm not understanding how to directly change this, but an easy work-around is to CTL-ALT-F2...F3, log in as root, and startx -- :1. This starts a new display. Then, you can flip between them with CTL-ALT-F7 ... CTL-ALT-F8. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 972-729-5387 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home phone on request) http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan RE: xmailtool http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan/xmailtool/index.html I am the "ILOVEGNU" signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
uninstall help
Hi, I just installed Debian 2.2 version but I want to unstall and then reinstall it.I want to uninstall it because: 1) I have win-98 on it with two partitions of 2.6 GB which I might not able to access once LiLo is booted.Can u help me with that? 2) I am not able to configure my network in the Linux /Debian So I thought I will have to reinstall it setting some options for me to go to DOS -WIn 98 if I want. Can you please help me I really need help. Thank you, Charles
Re: Dialup Help!
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 02:35:32PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Nils asked about connecting some machines that serve Windows dialup clients > from Linux: i.e., what kind of weird authentication are they likely to use? > Joey answered that they most likely just use PAP. Turns out he was right. Help me understand why the absence of a shell login process on these machines constrains them from using a simple exchange of username and password. Is there no other implementation of ppp that can use username/password? I have dialed up many an ISP with Dial-up Networking using this method, and I doubt I was in a shell login process. (Or is this where I'm wrong?) PAP has become popular, and ATT uses CHAP, but in principle is there anything about not having a shell login that makes impossible an exchange of username and password? Could it just be that on the system Nils has to connect to PAP is what's been implemented? (I don't mean to be quarrelsome; I'm just trying to understand.) -- Bob Bernstein at http://www.ruptured-duck.com Esmond, R.I., USA
display export??
Im new to debian so Im not familiar with all the display settings. When I used mandrake, there were certain programs that needed to be run as root - like linuxconf/mtv/xcdroast etcall I needed to do was su and run them. Now in debian when I try such a move, i get a "cant set display" not authorized do I need to export DISPLAY localhost? Im not sure of the syntax...am I on the right track?
Again about random signatures...
Hello to all... I manage to set up signify to have a random signature for mutt. My question now is: how can I make this also with slrn ? I try to play with the slrnrc file but have no luck. Any suggestion ? Thanks bye Gianluca -- Home Page Contro i brevetti sw Boicotta Microsoft www.infinito.it/utenti/chewbe no-patents.prosa.it/ www.boycott-ms.org/ FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and crystallography weenies.
PCI 338-A3D sound card driver????
Does any body have this, or knows how to get it? Is not supported by ALSA, yet. Thanks, antonio.
Re: compiling 2.4.0 kernels on potato
Mike Garfias wrote: > > Ok, its been too damned long since I've had to apply patches to anything. > Can you tell me the way the directories need to look in order to apply > > > the patch OK assuming your kernel source is in /usr/src/linux, dump the file e.g. test4-pre6.gz into /usr/src/linux and go:- zcat test4-pre6.gz | patch -p1 then make away. Jonathan
Re: Dialup Help!
Bob Bernstein writes: > Did I misunderstand the question? Nils asked about connecting some machines that serve Windows dialup clients from Linux: i.e., what kind of weird authentication are they likely to use? Joey answered that they most likely just use PAP. Turns out he was right. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
Re: compiling 2.4.0 kernels on potato
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 07:56:25PM +0100, Jonathan Heaney wrote: > Moritz, the patch has subsequently been corrected - you can use the > updates in pub/linux/kernel/testing to get the latest patch. I've > amended the relevant section below. [...] > wrong way round, it's now > [...] thnx for the information. i saw the patch, i posted, on lkml. > There are a few other chages required depending on arhcitecture / what > drivers you are compiling so I would get the latest patch from testing > (6, which I'm just about to compile - hopefully it has repaired the > parport_pc problem that the last few have had, although there's a patch > for that too). good luck :) moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-Key available, encrypted Mail is welcome. */
Re: compiling 2.4.0 kernels on potato
Ok, its been too damned long since I've had to apply patches to anything. Can you tell me the way the directories need to look in order to apply the patch? Umm, as well as the command needed to apply the patch. Jeez, I feel like a gimp Jonathan Heaney spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: > Moritz, the patch has subsequently been corrected - you can use the > updates in pub/linux/kernel/testing to get the latest patch. I've > amended the relevant section below. > > >use the following patch: > > > > --- linux/kernel/timer.c.orig Thu Jul 13 15:51:31 2000 > > +++ linux/kernel/timer.cThu Jul 13 15:53:25 2000 > > @@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ > > p->counter = 0; > > p->need_resched = 1; > > } > > - if (p->priority < DEF_PRIORITY) > > + if (p->nice < DEF_NICE) > ^^^ > wrong way round, it's now > > > or else everything is inverted. > > There are a few other chages required depending on arhcitecture / what > drivers you are compiling so I would get the latest patch from testing > (6, which I'm just about to compile - hopefully it has repaired the > parport_pc problem that the last few have had, although there's a patch > for that too). > > Jonathan > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: lilo
It's just how lilo works.
There is a hint in the manpage as to a case you may want to be in a
different directory other than your / directory (the -r switch, which
does a chroot to the dir you specify). The example given where this may
be useful is if you are repairing a setup from a boot floppy.
> It seems to me that everytime I upgraded or installed a new
> version of the lilo, the configuration would also failed unless
> the currect directory is at root ('/').
>
> Any idea why and/or fixes? TIA!
Ours is not to reason why, just to get on with it!!!
Jonathan
lilo
Hi,
It seems to me that everytime I upgraded or installed a new
version of the lilo, the configuration would also failed unless
the currect directory is at root ('/').
Any idea why and/or fixes? TIA!
---
tcp
Re: keeping track of used IRQs?
cat /proc/interrupts is great, thanks to all who suggested this. -chris On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Brendan Cully wrote: > On Thursday, 13 July 2000 at 10:31, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > How can I keep track of the IRQs that different devices use? > > Is there a utility for this? -chris > > I guess you want something more than > cat /proc/interrupts > or > lspci -v > > ? > > -- > was ist los? bist du krank? >
Re: compiling 2.4.0 kernels on potato
Moritz, the patch has subsequently been corrected - you can use the updates in pub/linux/kernel/testing to get the latest patch. I've amended the relevant section below. >use the following patch: > > --- linux/kernel/timer.c.orig Thu Jul 13 15:51:31 2000 > +++ linux/kernel/timer.cThu Jul 13 15:53:25 2000 > @@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ > p->counter = 0; > p->need_resched = 1; > } > - if (p->priority < DEF_PRIORITY) > + if (p->nice < DEF_NICE) ^^^ wrong way round, it's now > or else everything is inverted. There are a few other chages required depending on arhcitecture / what drivers you are compiling so I would get the latest patch from testing (6, which I'm just about to compile - hopefully it has repaired the parport_pc problem that the last few have had, although there's a patch for that too). Jonathan
Re: Debian + other distribution (more questions)
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 11:49:27AM -0300, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt wrote: > > Hi again, debianers, > > continuing my questions about two distributions on the samen HD, > > Somebody told me that Debian could use the same swap partition of my > RedHat. So, when I install Debian, should I select it to initialize the > existent swap partition or this will damage my RedHat? How should I proceed if > the answer be of you: "No, don't initialize the existent swap partition!" Just use the same swap, I know it can even be done with OpenBSD and Linux sharing the same swap ... I can't think of any problems with Linux + Linux, but you might need to use 2.2.* kernels on both, but I'm not sure. HAND Morten -- Morten Liebach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; http://home1.stofanet.dk/liebach "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men (Martin Luther King, Jr.)"
unable to unmount
Hi, If I mount a cdrom and nfs mount it on some other machines, even after the other machine is switched off, I am unable to umount the cdrom from the server. I am using potato. I am forced to reboot the machine to get the cdrom out. I tried fuser but no use Any suggestions ? Suresh -- Suresh Kumar.R, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Electronics & Communication College of Engineering, Trivandrum - 695 016, INDIA Phone: (O) 91 471 414634/418379, (R) 91 471 443496
Re: libssl09 vs libssl095a
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Whelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am trying to install libapache-mod-ssl, but am unable to for the >following reason: libapache-mod-ssl depends on openssl and libssl09. >openssl depends on libssl095a. libssl09 and libssl095a conflict with one >another, making the whole thing unresolvable. :( > >Any ideas on how to get around this, or should a bug report be filed >with someone? Bugs have already been filed. Check out the bug list against libssl095a in the BTS (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/) No response from the maintainer yet though. Mike.
Re: keeping track of used IRQs?
On Thursday, 13 July 2000 at 10:31, Krzys Majewski wrote: > How can I keep track of the IRQs that different devices use? > Is there a utility for this? -chris I guess you want something more than cat /proc/interrupts or lspci -v ? -- was ist los? bist du krank? pgp5pJt9HUUAN.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: keeping track of used IRQs?
cat /proc/interrupts > -Original Message- > From: Krzys Majewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 12:32 PM > To: Debian user list (undigested) > Subject: keeping track of used IRQs? > > > How can I keep track of the IRQs that different devices use? > Is there a utility for this? -chris > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Re: Dialup Help!
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 11:22:51AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > Joey, typo, yes? (And yeah, it's just ppp.) > > PPP with PAP authentication. Did I misunderstand the question? Dialup Networking in Windows is not restricted to PAP. -- Bob Bernstein at http://www.ruptured-duck.com Esmond, R.I., USA
keeping track of used IRQs?
How can I keep track of the IRQs that different devices use? Is there a utility for this? -chris
wu-ftpd chroot environment
Hi all Debian users, I use proftp as a ftp server but now I have to maintain a wuftpd server and want to know how to restring a client to a chroot dir (he can login into ftp server but dont have to permit he to change to other dir another his home) with wuftpd. Anyone knows how to this? Thanks, Paulo Henrique
Re: MS Proxy with Linux
The MS Proxy Server supports the special, proprietary Microsoft Proxy Server service and also optionally supports the Socks4 protocol. The socks4 protocol must be enabled by the administrator. Once this is enabled you may use the debian socks4-client (or whatever it's called) with the run-socks script to run programs socksified. I have been successfully using this for over a year now. - Original Message - From: "Timothy C. Phan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User" Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 9:01 AM Subject: MS Proxy with Linux > Hi, > > Have anyone been able to use MS Proxy Server with > Linux client? > > Please explain the configuration of the MS proxy server > as well as the Linux client box! > > TIA > > --- > tcp > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Dialup Help!
Bob Bernstein writes: > Joey, typo, yes? (And yeah, it's just ppp.) PPP with PAP authentication. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: Dialup Help!
Nils Lohner writes: > Searching through the packages didn't show anything that could emulate > the windoze dialup procedures... or is the dialup networking just PPP > negotiation? Probably. Just run pppconfig and see what happens. Email me if you need help. What are these machines running? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: Lastest sawfish debs?
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 11:09:06PM +0800, Corey Popelier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thats all good and well if you want to upgrade to helix gnome. > What if you just want to run standard gnome, and use sawfish Helix GNOME is "standard" GNOME. GNOME itself no longer provides packages; that is left up to separate packaging projects (Debian, Red Hat, Helix) instead. The difference between the Debian and Helix packages is that the Helix packages are always more up to date because Peter Teichman (the Helix Debian guy) is paid to package GNOME for Debian, rather than doing it in his free time. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I have the metabolism of a dead turtle." --David Austin pgpeRZSupZ2tC.pgp Description: PGP signature
kdelibs3 in latest KDE2 builds working?
Hi, Has anyone else been having trouble getting the latest kdelibs3 for KDE2 in kde.tdyc.com working? It looks like the July 2-3 builds are still the latest ones and I haven't been able to get them working because it can't install kdelibs3. Keeps saying something about subprocess returning an error... 1. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Get paid for using Netscape or Internet Explorer: http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=ARD582
Re: Dialup Help!
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 06:33:47AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > It's probably just PAP but I've never actually had to try it. ^^^ Joey, typo, yes? (And yeah, it's just ppp.) -- Bob Bernstein at http://www.ruptured-duck.com Esmond, R.I., USA
Re: ownership & permissions of /var/spool/news/control/
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 10:27:25AM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > I got a message of problems back from the news daemon as it tried to > work with this directory. It cant do anything with it, as it is > root:root and 755. FWIW, a (somewhat) recent install of inn2 on potato here resulted in: (ls -l /var/spool) drwxr-sr-x9 news news 4096 Jun 12 19:40 news which seems to work fine. > I assume this is wrong. Did something weird happen to me, or should I > file a bug report? Is this a brand new install of inn, or something that popped up after inn had been running for awhile? -- Bob Bernstein at http://www.ruptured-duck.com Esmond, R.I., USA
Re: apt-get problems
Frodo Baggins wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > kmself@ix.netcom.com scripsit: > >On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 02:15:49PM +0200, Jens Luedicke wrote: > >> Hi there ... > >> > >> ...apt-get fetched all the lists but when it was reading/parsing > >> the lists, I got an error message: > >> > >> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room! > >> ... > > > >Looks suspiciously as if you're out of memory. Not unlikely when trying > >to install a mess of packages. What's your memory situation look like? > >Swap? > > It's not exactly the same thing, but I'd like to give you a warn (I > know, I know, I sould signal it as a bug... I'll do). In the In the > "Installing Debian/Linux 2.1 for Intel x86" document they say, about > partitioning (section 4.2. Planing the use of the System"): > > [...] Notably, the Debian '/var' partition contains a lot of state > information. [...], you should usually allocate at least 50Mb for > /var. > > Well, I did it. I even allocated 128Mb, just to be on the sure > side. But during istallation it crashed. Infact, apt uses a > subdirectory of /var to put packages dowloaded but not yet installed > and at installation time you need a lot of packages. > > Then it seems to me that there are only two alternatives: > > make an huge /var partition, knowing that there will be a lot of > unused space after your installation is complete, or > > don't make a partition neither of /var nor /usr, make a huge / > partition and let the system use the space as it needs. Like Yoda said, "There is another...": Don't choose _everything_ you're going to want all at once at installation time. Get your software in stages. And... hey! Where'd that little hobbit go? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 972-729-5387 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home phone on request) http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan RE: xmailtool http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan/xmailtool/index.html I am the "ILOVEGNU" signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Re: Creative Soundblaster 16 PnP ISA
Its a PNP, so you need: 1. Install isapnp package. 2. Run pnpdump and create a config file for your card. 3. Run isapnp with that file. Use IRQ,IO, etc settings same as you supply to your kernel (if possible. pnpdump will tell you). 4. Compile sound support as a module. 5. reboot with your new kernel, and insert sound modules. I have a small guide written up on how to configure modem with isapnpits the same thing. http://arshes.dyndns.org/Linux/ HTH. Andrei - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arhses.dyndns.org UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: Lastest sawfish debs?
Thats all good and well if you want to upgrade to helix gnome. What if you just want to run standard gnome, and use sawfish 0.30? Does the development of helix gnome now mean sawfish wont be packaged into woody as a standalone window manager now? Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Marti Hooijmans wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Richard Black wrote: > > >Hi all > > > >I was wondering when the latest sawfish (aka sawmill) debs are likely to > >arrive on the scene? The latest seems to be 0.26 (in woody) but the > >official release is 0.3. > > Hello Richard, > > If you add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list, you > directly access the deb-archives of the helix-gnome project, > and they have all the latest in gnome, sawmill (inc sawmill 0.30), > etc.: > > deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable > main > > Now you can access the latest gnome-helix packages using apt. They > will end in -helix, signifing that they're not official debian > packages but Helix packages, ex. : > > ii sawfish-gnome 0.30-helix1GNOME components for Sawfish > > I don't know if you're willing to count Helix Code as a part of the > 'scene'. But they provide the debs. > Greets, > > Marti Hooijmans > > > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: dial-up
Chris Mason wrote: > > I'd like to add one dial-up access modem to my firewall machine. What do I > need to install to the machine to allow dial-up access? > mgetty, pppd, & a modem!
Debian + other distribution (more questions)
Hi again, debianers, continuing my questions about two distributions on the samen HD, Somebody told me that Debian could use the same swap partition of my RedHat. So, when I install Debian, should I select it to initialize the existent swap partition or this will damage my RedHat? How should I proceed if the answer be of you: "No, don't initialize the existent swap partition!" Thanks again, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt Em qui, 13 jul 2000, Ricardo wrote: > Hi debian community, > > Well, > > I erased all on my HD and installed just RedHat, > Now I want to install Debian 2.2 without erase RedHat. > My question is about lilo. On the installation of RedHat I installed lilo > on the MBR. But my version of lilo is a bit old. So I prefer to use Debian's > lilo. How should I proceed to do this? > I thought in install Debian's lilo on it's partition and live RedHat's > lilo on the MBR, so I would use my old lilo ( I think it wouldn't be so > bad). Maybe I erase RedHat's lilo and install Debian lilo's on the MBR and > configure it's lilo.conf too boot both distro's. If I install two lilos, one > on the MBR and the other on debian's partitions this won't confuse the > computer > on the boot? What should I do? > I'd like that you explain it step by step. > >Thanks, > Ricardo Gabriel Herdt
kernel null pointer violations
Well, I ditched dhcp last night and tried setting up the ethernet card with just ifconfig and a static IP. I got the same kernel complaints. So, it's not dhcp. Now, I looked on the cdrom that Rogers gave me. Under directory /cdrom/NETCARDS/SOHOware/SFA110A.PCI/LINUX I find... [EMAIL PROTECTED] LINUX]$ ls README.TXT TULIP.C The readme says to use the tulip driver, which I have, and it has detected the ethernet card perfectly. So, I'm convinced that I have the right driver. I think it's a problem in the kernel. Since I have no idea what VA Linux Systems did to this kernel, I'm going to grab 2.2.17 from Potato. Hopefully that'll fix the problem. *g* Mike -- Michael P. Soulier, 1Z22, SKY Tel: 613-765-4699 (ESN: 39-54699) Optical Networks, Nortel Networks, SDE Pegasus "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX Nortel Linux User's Group Ottawa: (internal) http://nlug.ca.nortel.com:8080
Re: swap partition too small
Many thanks to Jeff and Matthew for the advice on my swap dilemma. On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Jeff Green wrote: > Find someone who owns a copy of pq-magic. The DOS version will run from On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > (this will give you a file 4Mb large, containing all 0's, in the root > directory) > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1k count=4096 > > (format it as a swap file) > # mkswap /swapfile 4096 >
Re: XFree86 server for ATI Rage 128 Pro
I had to upgrade to 4.0 you use my card. The debs aren't available yet for reasons that have already been discussed on this list. However, you can get the binaries or source code from xfree86.org. I used the binaries and it was a snap. The driver is called "r128". They have pretty good documentation for how to get it running in the Release Notes. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
Re: swap partition too small
I use a bootable partition magic diskette to move partitions around.works flawlessly. Let me know if you want the disks - Original Message - From: "Tony Laszlo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 12:58 AM Subject: swap partition too small > In trying to conserve the little hard disk space > (110M) that I have, I have unfortunately made the > swap partition too small when installing Debian. I > know I should probably pay penance and do the install > all over again, but am wondering if there is a way to > carve out a portion of the hard disk for swap at this > stage of the game. Something like a fips that can shrink > a Linux partition. No? Just thought I'd ask before > reinstalling... > > Tony Laszlo > Tokyo > > > > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Re: Lastest sawfish debs?
Richard Black wrote: > > Hi all > > I was wondering when the latest sawfish (aka sawmill) debs are likely to > arrive on the scene? The latest seems to be 0.26 (in woody) but the > official release is 0.3. > > thanks > > Richard I got the .30 version via apt a couple days ago. You might want to check again. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
ownership & permissions of /var/spool/news/control/
I got a message of problems back from the news daemon as it tried to work with this directory. It cant do anything with it, as it is root:root and 755. I assume this is wrong. Did something weird happen to me, or should I file a bug report? hawk
Re: Lastest sawfish debs?
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Richard Black wrote: >Hi all > >I was wondering when the latest sawfish (aka sawmill) debs are likely to >arrive on the scene? The latest seems to be 0.26 (in woody) but the >official release is 0.3. Hello Richard, If you add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list, you directly access the deb-archives of the helix-gnome project, and they have all the latest in gnome, sawmill (inc sawmill 0.30), etc.: deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main Now you can access the latest gnome-helix packages using apt. They will end in -helix, signifing that they're not official debian packages but Helix packages, ex. : ii sawfish-gnome 0.30-helix1GNOME components for Sawfish I don't know if you're willing to count Helix Code as a part of the 'scene'. But they provide the debs. Greets, Marti Hooijmans
Re: VM problem.
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 04:00:36PM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 10:56:04AM +, Marcio Rosa da Silva wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > Jul 13 08:39:12 brain kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for > > > > http... > > > [...] > > > > I'm using unstable with kernel 2.2.17 > > > [...] > > > > > > 2.2.17? do you mean 2.2.16 or 2.2.17pre? it's a problem in 2.2.16. if > > > you are running .16, try the latest .17pre. > > > > yes, I'm running 2.2.17pre. > > which? pre10 or pre11? > if this doesn't solve the problem, you should report it on linux > kernel mailing list.. pre10 is better (than previous) but didn't cure this problem. I saw this this message many times on kernel list :( Mirek
Re: VM problem.
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Moritz Schulte wrote: > which? pre10 or pre11? > if this doesn't solve the problem, you should report it on linux > kernel mailing list.. No. pre6-1 which is in unstable. I just used dselect and selected the most recent avaliable there. Maybe I must download another version and compile. Thanks! Marcio /*** * MARCIO ROSA DA SILVAe-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Assistant Professor [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Electrical Engineering Department * Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS * Av. Unisinos, 950 * Sao Leopoldo - RS - Brazil * Phone: +55 51 590- R:1781/1782 * FAX: +55 51 590-8172 * http://www.eletrica.unisinos.br/~marcio ***/
Re: VM problem.
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 10:56:04AM +, Marcio Rosa da Silva wrote: > > [...] > > > Jul 13 08:39:12 brain kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for http... > > [...] > > > I'm using unstable with kernel 2.2.17 > > [...] > > > > 2.2.17? do you mean 2.2.16 or 2.2.17pre? it's a problem in 2.2.16. if > > you are running .16, try the latest .17pre. > > yes, I'm running 2.2.17pre. which? pre10 or pre11? if this doesn't solve the problem, you should report it on linux kernel mailing list.. moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-Key available, encrypted Mail is welcome. */
Re: compiling 2.4.0 kernels on potato
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 10:24:55AM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > I'm trying to compile 2.4.0-test3 on potato unsuccessfully! it's a kernel problem.. [...] > timer.c: In function `update_process_times': > timer.c:580: structure has no member named `priority' > timer.c:580: `DEF_PRIORITY' undeclared (first use in this function) > timer.c:580: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once > timer.c:580: for each function it appears in.) [...] use the following patch: --- linux/kernel/timer.c.orig Thu Jul 13 15:51:31 2000 +++ linux/kernel/timer.cThu Jul 13 15:53:25 2000 @@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ p->counter = 0; p->need_resched = 1; } - if (p->priority < DEF_PRIORITY) + if (p->nice < DEF_NICE) kstat.cpu_nice += user_tick; else kstat.cpu_user += user_tick; -- /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-Key available, encrypted Mail is welcome. */
Re: Debian + other distribution
Hi debian community, Well, I erased all on my HD and installed just RedHat, Now I want to install Debian 2.2 without erase RedHat. My question is about lilo. On the installation of RedHat I installed lilo on the MBR. But my version of lilo is a bit old. So I prefer to use Debian's lilo. How should I proceed to do this? I thought in install Debian's lilo on it's partition and live RedHat's lilo on the MBR, so I would use my old lilo ( I think it wouldn't be so bad). Maybe I erase RedHat's lilo and install Debian lilo's on the MBR and configure it's lilo.conf too boot both distro's. If I install two lilos, one on the MBR and the other on debian's partitions this won't confuse the computer on the boot? What should I do? I'd like that you explain it step by step. Thanks, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt
Re: Any recommendations for notebooks that work well with Linux?
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, I. Tura wrote: > At 19.39 11/7/00 -0300, heu escrit: > > > > Dear fellow users, > > > > I'm now in the market for a portable computer and I'd like to > > buy an inexpensive notebook (I've got a limited budget for > > that). While a have considerable experience with running Linux > > for desktop computers, I have never used a notebook for more > > than a few minutes. look at: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ there is a list of notebooks and the problems/solutions to install Linux in. []s, Marcio /*** * MARCIO ROSA DA SILVAe-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Assistant Professor [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Electrical Engineering Department * Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS * Av. Unisinos, 950 * Sao Leopoldo - RS - Brazil * Phone: +55 51 590- R:1781/1782 * FAX: +55 51 590-8172 * http://www.eletrica.unisinos.br/~marcio ***/
Re: VM problem.
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Moritz Schulte wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 08:47:04AM +, Marcio Rosa da Silva wrote: > > [...] > > Jul 13 08:39:12 brain kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for http... > [...] > > I'm using unstable with kernel 2.2.17 > [...] > > 2.2.17? do you mean 2.2.16 or 2.2.17pre? it's a problem in 2.2.16. if > you are running .16, try the latest .17pre. yes, I'm running 2.2.17pre. Marcio /*** * MARCIO ROSA DA SILVAe-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Assistant Professor [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Electrical Engineering Department * Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS * Av. Unisinos, 950 * Sao Leopoldo - RS - Brazil * Phone: +55 51 590- R:1781/1782 * FAX: +55 51 590-8172 * http://www.eletrica.unisinos.br/~marcio ***/
Lastest sawfish debs?
Hi all I was wondering when the latest sawfish (aka sawmill) debs are likely to arrive on the scene? The latest seems to be 0.26 (in woody) but the official release is 0.3. thanks Richard begin:vcard n:Black;Richard tel;fax:416-971-4159 tel;home: tel;work:416-217-4350 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Algorithmics Inc adr:;;185 Spadina Avenue;Toronto;Ontario;M5T 2C6;Canada version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Financial Engineer x-mozilla-cpt:;-18400 fn:Richard Black end:vcard
Re: automated data distribution
On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 02:02:45PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: > I'm trying to find some software that will work with Linux to > facilitate automatic data distribution across a Win9x/NT network. Does > anything like this exist for Linux? Preferably Free (speech, not beer) > but I'll take any suggestions. It's for distributing a custom warranty > application at a networked office I help out at. > > I'd really like something clean, am I just going to have do something > with logon scripts under Samba? or is there another way? > if you want to install a ftp on every client you can do it with ftp. But you could do it with smbclient (part of samba), too. -- Thomas Guettler Office: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.interface-business.de Private: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://yj.org/guettli
Re: dselect doesn't work on 8Meg machine anymore?
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 05:21:03PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > My brother is trying to upgrade debian from slink to potato on his > 8Meg RAM machine. He has about 20Meg swap as well. Dselect is very > very slow --- lots of swapping. And try to install stuff, and it > bombs out with not enough memory! > > Now his machine has always been a bit slow, but we've always been able > to use dselect before. What's changed? Too many packages? And what > can be done about it? (We are used the apt method to install.) > > Cheers, > > Mark. > I installed with dselect on my laptop (8M RAM, 40 Swap). It is very slow. But it worked once. Now I use dpkg. -- Thomas Guettler Office: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.interface-business.de Private: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://yj.org/guettli
Re: Dialup Help!
Nils Lohner wrote: > I need to set up a Debian box (potato) to connect to to some machines that > are set up to receive the 'Dialup Networking' connection from Windoze, and > there's no shell access so you basically need the protocol as far as I can > tell. Is there any way to set this up to allow Debian boxes to connect via > ppp to these machines? Searching through the packages didn't show anything > that could emulate the windoze dialup procedures... or is the dialup > networking just PPP negotiation? It's probably just PAP but I've never actually had to try it. -- see shy jo
compiling 2.4.0 kernels on potato
Hi, I'm trying to compile 2.4.0-test3 on potato unsuccessfully! The error is: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -fno-strict-aliasing -c -o timer.o timer.c timer.c: In function `update_process_times': timer.c:580: structure has no member named `priority' timer.c:580: `DEF_PRIORITY' undeclared (first use in this function) timer.c:580: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once timer.c:580: for each function it appears in.) make[3]: *** [timer.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/kernel' make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/kernel' make[1]: *** [_dir_kernel] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux' make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2 Does somebody successfully compile 2.4.0 in Potato? Any help is welcome! []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 http://www.revistalinux.com.br
Re: MS Proxy with Linux
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 08:01:26AM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote: => Hi, => => Have anyone been able to use MS Proxy Server with => Linux client? => => Please explain the configuration of the MS proxy server => as well as the Linux client box! Try to use the tsocks library, setting the LD_PRELOAD env to the library bye Gianluca -- Home Page Contro i brevetti del sw Boicotta Microsoft www.infinito.it/utenti/chewbe no-patents.prosa.it/ www.boycott-ms.org/ "If we have to file a thousand lawsuits a day, we'll do it. It's less expensive than losing CONTROL of YOUR creative works." ---Jack Valenti, President and CEO, Motion Picture Association of America
MS Proxy with Linux
Hi, Have anyone been able to use MS Proxy Server with Linux client? Please explain the configuration of the MS proxy server as well as the Linux client box! TIA --- tcp
Dialup Help!
I need to set up a Debian box (potato) to connect to to some machines that are set up to receive the 'Dialup Networking' connection from Windoze, and there's no shell access so you basically need the protocol as far as I can tell. Is there any way to set this up to allow Debian boxes to connect via ppp to these machines? Searching through the packages didn't show anything that could emulate the windoze dialup procedures... or is the dialup networking just PPP negotiation? Please copy me on replies; I'm not on -user. Thanks, Nils.
dselect doesn't work on 8Meg machine anymore?
My brother is trying to upgrade debian from slink to potato on his 8Meg RAM machine. He has about 20Meg swap as well. Dselect is very very slow --- lots of swapping. And try to install stuff, and it bombs out with not enough memory! Now his machine has always been a bit slow, but we've always been able to use dselect before. What's changed? Too many packages? And what can be done about it? (We are used the apt method to install.) Cheers, Mark. P.S. Please cc replies directly to me as I read the list via the archives, and there is a several day delay. -- _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"
ssh and telnet connecting problem
Hi, i can't connect from a ssh or telnet client to my Linux machine. I've installed everything that is needed. i get the message: "connection established" and then nothing happens. no problem with FTPclient. do i have to add some lines in /etc/inetd.conf or any other configuration file? Any deamons to start? thanx for your help
Creative Soundblaster 16 PnP ISA
Hi List, i can't get my soundblaster to work. i' ve compiled it in the kernel with the io, irq, dma, and dma16 settings i have in DOS (io=220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5). i also tried other settings but it doesn't work! dmesg output: "sound initialisation start" "sound initialisation end" nothing more. i have a bootable Linux Mp3 player disk which works great with my soundblaster. anyone has a suggestion what i forgot? if it helps i use kernel 2.2.14 and Debian 2.1 R4 thanx
Re: user space nfsd?
Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone enlighten me? The remote machines to which I have access are > all Solaris, not Debian. What is "userspace nfs" and how do I set it up? > Or, where can I get the source for Solaris nfsd and will it work if I'm not > root? Presumably I will need to use some arbitrary non-privileged port; > will Linux mount(8) understand this? -chris Solaris comes with nfs (heh, nfs was sun's invention afterall). Check tha manual pages for 'nfsd' and 'sharetab'. And yes, you must be root to make any settings etc.. It's actually very probable that you have nfsd running, but with blank settings... And as I said, we have no problems here mounting those files from linux clients. (Don't worry about user vs kernelspace, that's for linux only) HTH, == Ragga
Re: Any recommendations for notebooks that work well with Linux?
Sorry Rogerio to sending the message to you twice. Absent-minded I am. If Microsoft has not changed its contract (EULA or similar) you can demand a refund for the OS you are not going to use. I read this from a man in Australia that also wiped W98 to use just Red Hat in its notebook. He had to deal with surprised Toshiba people and wait some months, but at last he had his check. I thought you would find this interesting as you mention your budget. Found this on Altavista about eight months ago. I. At 19.39 11/7/00 -0300, heu escrit: > > Dear fellow users, > > I'm now in the market for a portable computer and I'd like to > buy an inexpensive notebook (I've got a limited budget for > that). While a have considerable experience with running Linux > for desktop computers, I have never used a notebook for more > than a few minutes. _ \___||/ \__| els fills abandonats |___/ \_||__/ from BarcelonaCatalonia ___ Do You Yahoo!? Achetez, vendez! À votre prix! Sur http://encheres.yahoo.fr
RE: Swat too slow
Title: RE: Swat too slow This sounds like a DNS lookup problem. Check your (Windows) network configuration. My 0.02 €... -Original Message- From: Willi Dyck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 2:14 PM To: debian-user-list Subject: Swat too slow Hi List, it is not really a problem, but when I call swat from a windows client, it takes a very long time til I get an answer. (3-5 min.). After this time I can use swat normally. Can anyone help me? thanx -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Swat too slow
Hi List, it is not really a problem, but when I call swat from a windows client, it takes a very long time til I get an answer. (3-5 min.). After this time I can use swat normally. Can anyone help me? thanx
Re: VM problem.
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 08:47:04AM +, Marcio Rosa da Silva wrote: [...] > Jul 13 08:39:12 brain kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for http... [...] > I'm using unstable with kernel 2.2.17 [...] 2.2.17? do you mean 2.2.16 or 2.2.17pre? it's a problem in 2.2.16. if you are running .16, try the latest .17pre. moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-Key available, encrypted Mail is welcome. */
Re: error messages from dpkg
Subject: Re: error messages from dpkg Date: Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 02:26:04PM -0400 In reply to:Michael Soulier Quoting Michael Soulier([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 11:22:59AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > Go to /var/lib/dpkg/info and run the script by hand > > (it should be called something like "dhcpcd.postinst"). > > If it's a sh script (starts with #!/bin/sh) you can put a > > set -x > > on the line after the #!/bin/sh and then run the script. > > This will print every command as it is executed. > > -chris > > Cool, I'll try that. Thanks. Or just $: bash -x /var/lib/dpkg/info/dhcpcd.postinst works fine. :-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-) -- Best file compression around: "DEL *.*" = 100% compression ___
dial-up
I'd like to add one dial-up access modem to my firewall machine. What do I need to install to the machine to allow dial-up access? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetConcepts www.netconcepts.ai bwz*mq
VM problem.
Sometimes, the CPU of my machine goes up and this appears in my /var/log/messages: Jul 13 08:39:12 brain kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for http... Jul 13 08:39:16 brain kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for wmppp... Jul 13 08:39:16 brain kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for wmifs... Jul 13 08:39:16 brain kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for gpm... (the applications change, ie, it doesn't happen with the same applications) What is happening??? I'm using unstable with kernel 2.2.17 Thanks! Marcio /*** * MARCIO ROSA DA SILVAe-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Assistant Professor [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Electrical Engineering Department * Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS * Av. Unisinos, 950 * Sao Leopoldo - RS - Brazil * Phone: +55 51 590- R:1781/1782 * FAX: +55 51 590-8172 * http://www.eletrica.unisinos.br/~marcio ***/
RE: annoying C-s terminal freeze
Hi, Michalowski Thierry writes: > I think you can bind the freezing of the terminal to other keycodes than > Ctrl-s, but I did not try to, so I suggest you read the appropriate manuals > for the appropriate terminal emulators...unless others have already working > tips! stty is your friend."stty stop ^s" is a default setting. Check stty's manpage for details. Ragards -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** I am the captain of this ship and I have my wife's permission to say so! **
RE: annoying C-s terminal freeze
Title: RE: annoying C-s terminal freeze Hi, if you have a terminal without (enough) scrolling capabilities and a lot of messages you do want to read when they appear, then "freezing" is just handy. I think you can bind the freezing of the terminal to other keycodes than Ctrl-s, but I did not try to, so I suggest you read the appropriate manuals for the appropriate terminal emulators...unless others have already working tips! HTH Thierry Michalowski From: Thomas Guettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >I can't see why some wants its terminal to >freeze.
RE: networking questions
As all M$ Windows 95/98/NT/2000 uses a protocal called SMB (Sesssions Message Block), you will have to install SaMBa (http://www.samba.org). The debs are kept in net and otherosfs. To configure SaMBa, I strongly suggest you also download/ apt-get SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool). Once installed, use SWAT to configure the smb.conf in /etc/.and remember to include a line in your smb.conf: browseable = yes; so that your Win machines can see the shared directories in the Network Neighborhood. If you have any trouble/ difficulties, you can e-mail me and I will guide you through. Cheers. Patrick Where do you want to go today ...as far away from Redmond as possible Only dead fish go with the flow.. > -Original Message- > From: Franco Cone [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 5:17 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: networking questions > > Howdy! > >I have a few networking questions..hope you guys won't mind :) I have 2 > networked machines (win98 & debian GNU) as of this moment using ethernet > 10baseT cat 5 connected to a hub. My questions are: > > 1.how do I let win98 see the debian box thru network neighborhood? > 2.how do I make debian see win98? I don't thinks there's network > neighborhood for debian..is there? > > Sorry for my stupid questions but I'm kinda new here and I don't know > where to start.If anybody can give me a head start & point me to some good > documentation/explanation out there Regarding this matter I would forever > be in > your debt ;) > > -- > please CC me...I'm leaving this list in a minute > > Sent through Global Message Exchange - http://www.gmx.net > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null
