[OT] avoiding recursive readline commands in .inputrc

[Peter Jay Salzman]

hi all,

in bash, i'd like to map the uparrow key to "escape uparrow".  the trouble is
that there doesn't seem to be a way to make readline avoid the infinite
recursion that results.  specifically, i'm trying to do:

$if bash
"OA": "OA"
$endif

why?  because i like using vi style editing in bash, but i hate the fact that
i have to press escape before the uparrow starts showing command history.

pete

squid 2.4.1-6 compile error

[nestea]

hi all,

here is what i did;

$ apt-get source squid

$ dpkg-source -x squid_2.4.1-6.dsc

$ cd squid-2.4.1

$ debian/rules build

pam_auth.c:74: security/pam_appl.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [pam_auth.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/etc/apt/squid-2.4.1/auth_modules/PAM'
make: *** [build] Error 2


any idea?



nestea

Re: libdb.so.3

[CaT]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 11:43:20PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Hey people. 
> 
> So, I was told that the solution to upgrading to unstable from stable and
> getting the missing libdb.so.3 library was to upgrade to testing first. That
> did not work. The same thing happened. 
> 
> I'm working around it again by ftping the lib from my working box, but
> does anyone know when this will be fixed? I can't reliably upgrade!

Dunno if this was suggested but have you tried putting in the src lines
for unstable in the apt sources.list file and then doing

apt-get -b source libdb3 (or whatever the package is called)

in some work dir?

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Re: disk usage

[Brian Nelson]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 10:07:01PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm wondering about techniques for system optimization. "df" reports that
> I am at 53% usage, which seems really high to me, even given that I
> recently partitioned the HD in two so that I could have FreeBSD running on
> my machine as well (which would of course have doubled the value reported
> by df).
> 
> There are roughly 15GB on the Debian side of things, which - okay - ain't
> the biggest space in the world anymore, but should be -plenty.- I didn't
> think I had enough candy installed to occupy over half that space ... so
> I'm wondering where crud might have a tendency to build up on a Debian
> install, how to find it and what the easiest way might be to get rid of it
> is.

info du

In particular, check out /var.  That's where most "crud" will accumulate.
 
> The real impetus for this is that I've heard, anyway, that unauthorized
> users can figure out ways to use one's unused HD space to store their
> warez, or what have you, and I sure wouldn't like it if that was what was
> going on here ...

That wouldn't normally be a problem unless your box has been
compromised, or have silly things like world writeable ftp access or
samba shares.

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libdb.so.3

[Michael P. Soulier]

Hey people. 

So, I was told that the solution to upgrading to unstable from stable and
getting the missing libdb.so.3 library was to upgrade to testing first. That
did not work. The same thing happened. 

I'm working around it again by ftping the lib from my working box, but
does anyone know when this will be fixed? I can't reliably upgrade!

Mike

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Re: disk usage

[Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Sort of a vague-y question here ... I'm getting back down into my system
> after being, uh, -laid off- on Wednesday, so I have time to play.
> 
> I'm wondering about techniques for system optimization. "df" reports that
> I am at 53% usage, which seems really high to me, even given that I
> recently partitioned the HD in two so that I could have FreeBSD running on
> my machine as well (which would of course have doubled the value reported
> by df).
> 
> There are roughly 15GB on the Debian side of things, which - okay - ain't
> the biggest space in the world anymore, but should be -plenty.- I didn't
> think I had enough candy installed to occupy over half that space ... so
> I'm wondering where crud might have a tendency to build up on a Debian
> install, how to find it and what the easiest way might be to get rid of it
> is.
> 
> The real impetus for this is that I've heard, anyway, that unauthorized
> users can figure out ways to use one's unused HD space to store their
> warez, or what have you, and I sure wouldn't like it if that was what was
> going on here ...
> 
> Anyhoo, sorry if this is unfocused and thanks in advance for any pointers
> on housecleaning.

if you have installed midnight commander, type 'mc' in console that will pop
out a menu .. switch over to 'Command' and hit enter on 'show directory sizes'

if you do this in / it will show you exactly how much disk space which
directory occupies.

there are other ways to do it, but this one is probably the simplest one, and
you can see nice tree of dirs :)

Dingo.


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Re: Modifying a Windows 95/98 FAAT 32 partition

[Slaven Peles]

On Saturday 11 August 2001 20:45, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 06:54:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On 11 Aug 2001, at 22:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > How using cfdisk , do you modify the size of a Win 98 FAT 32 partition
> > > ?
> >
> > Hi Shyam:
> >  If you are trying to slice up win98 safely without losing data, it's
> > normal to use fips for making room for linux partition. (See
> > installation and fips documentation)
>
> I intentionally didn't mention fips or parted.  While either can make
> the task of resizing partitions easier, the discipline of backing up
> what you're repartitioning is an extremely good one to foster.
> Particularly for the novice user.

Nothing prevents you to do a backup no matter which partitioning tool you're 
using. Though I partially agree with you, it's temptative to try your luck 
and not spend a couple of hours doing backup. :-)

Cheers,
Slaven

disk usage

[burningclown]

Hi,

Sort of a vague-y question here ... I'm getting back down into my system
after being, uh, -laid off- on Wednesday, so I have time to play.

I'm wondering about techniques for system optimization. "df" reports that
I am at 53% usage, which seems really high to me, even given that I
recently partitioned the HD in two so that I could have FreeBSD running on
my machine as well (which would of course have doubled the value reported
by df).

There are roughly 15GB on the Debian side of things, which - okay - ain't
the biggest space in the world anymore, but should be -plenty.- I didn't
think I had enough candy installed to occupy over half that space ... so
I'm wondering where crud might have a tendency to build up on a Debian
install, how to find it and what the easiest way might be to get rid of it
is.

The real impetus for this is that I've heard, anyway, that unauthorized
users can figure out ways to use one's unused HD space to store their
warez, or what have you, and I sure wouldn't like it if that was what was
going on here ...

Anyhoo, sorry if this is unfocused and thanks in advance for any pointers
on housecleaning.

Glenn

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Re: Modifying a Windows 95/98 FAAT 32 partition

[Slaven Peles]

On Saturday 11 August 2001 20:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [This message has also been posted.]
>
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 02:50:05 +0200, Slaven Peles wrote:
> > You should also check out GNU Parted. It comes on a single boot floppy,
> > and can do almost anything you might need to install Linux and keep
> > Windoze9x on your computer. I used it myself. Have look at:
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Slaven
>
> I don't think parted will work on a FAT32 partition.
>
> Anita

Actually I tried it on FAT32 and it worked for me :-).

Slaven

Re: Unusual filesystem/memory corruption

[Mike Brownlow]

Michael Perry wrote:
> Quoting John Toon on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 12:04:20AM +0100:
> > On 11 Aug 2001 16:37:58 -0500, Mike Brownlow wrote:
> > 
> > >  * hdparm options: -m16 -d1
> > >  * Machine is behind firewall, and has few services for external
> > >access
> > > 
> > > I suspect hardware failure caused it, but there are still a few software
> > > unknowns. I'm starting to lean on corruption due to using -m16 for
> > > hdparm. Any other suggestions appreciated...
> > 
> > Ouch. Sounds bad.
> > 
> > In general, you should _not_ use hdparm, for the simple reason that if
> > you build a custom kernel with all the necessary options, it will
> > default to optimum performance anyway (you can set "Use DMA by default"
> > under the block device options).
> > 
> > I'm running a 2.4.5 XFS patched custom kernel that I built, and DMA/32
> > bit disc access etc. is fully operational by default since I selected
> > the appropriate kernel options. With modern kernels, hdparm is totally
> > unnecessary and potentially dangerous (except for performing performance
> > tests on your drive of course!).
> > 
> > What chipset does your mainboard use?
> > 
> > John.
> >  
> Hi-
> 
> I had a similar thing occur on a system running a VIA/southbridge
> chipset on 2.2.18.  this a K7T style motherboard with a KT133 chipset.
> I had been using it with a Western Digital 6g drive and the system was
> so corrupt and unusable it could not find mounted file systems, the
> /etc/fstab file corrupt, and on...  I was also using hdparm.

Yep. Sounds like mine. Expect I was using 2.4.7 as well as hdparm.
Oops. The drive was a maxtor though. I don't think the IBM drives had
any problems though.

> I re-installed and went to a 2.4.5 kernel with the via/southbridge ide
> driver.  The system now runs happily with twin maxtor 40g ide drives on
> the 2.4.7 kernel with the via ide driver compiled in.  

Okay, I think using hdparm is what did me in. For now I just
got a 40g scsi to work on while I examine the trashed drives.

Thanks for the suggestions!

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Re: Unusual filesystem/memory corruption

[Mike Brownlow]

John Toon wrote:
> On 11 Aug 2001 16:37:58 -0500, Mike Brownlow wrote:
> 
> >  * hdparm options: -m16 -d1
> >  * Machine is behind firewall, and has few services for external
> >access
> > 
> > I suspect hardware failure caused it, but there are still a few software
> > unknowns. I'm starting to lean on corruption due to using -m16 for
> > hdparm. Any other suggestions appreciated...
> 
> Ouch. Sounds bad.
> 
> In general, you should _not_ use hdparm, for the simple reason that if
> you build a custom kernel with all the necessary options, it will
> default to optimum performance anyway (you can set "Use DMA by default"
> under the block device options).

Aha. I figured using it was going to be a "Bad Idea" eventually. :)
I compile my own kernels and have that set.

> I'm running a 2.4.5 XFS patched custom kernel that I built, and DMA/32
> bit disc access etc. is fully operational by default since I selected
> the appropriate kernel options. With modern kernels, hdparm is totally
> unnecessary and potentially dangerous (except for performing performance
> tests on your drive of course!).

Hum! I should have known this.. But it always seemed the drives were
too slow with default settings.

> What chipset does your mainboard use?

VIA. It's a KT133 chipset on a Asus A7V. The drives are on the ATA100
promise controller.

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Magnifiers

[Christopher Mosley]

Hello,
 Maybe I could get some opinions on the usefulness of various 
 packaged debian magnifiers and xwindow magnifiers in general.
 (programs to magnify part of the xwindows screen). 
Thanks

Re: Modifying a Windows 95/98 FAAT 32 partition

[Karsten M. Self]

on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 06:54:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> On 11 Aug 2001, at 22:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > How using cfdisk , do you modify the size of a Win 98 FAT 32 partition ?
> 
> Hi Shyam:
>  If you are trying to slice up win98 safely without losing data, it's 
> normal to use fips for making room for linux partition. (See 
> installation and fips documentation)

I intentionally didn't mention fips or parted.  While either can make
the task of resizing partitions easier, the discipline of backing up
what you're repartitioning is an extremely good one to foster.
Particularly for the novice user.

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Re: upgrade to testing (woody) -- failed

[Ben Collins]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 01:28:28AM +, nestea wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> tonight when i tried to upgrade a few boxes to woody, i received the 
> following error message.
> 
> any idea?
> 
> 
> ---
> perl: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.3: cannot open shared 
> object file: No such file or directory
> E: Write error - write (32 Broken pipe)
> E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
> ---

It's fixed in unstable.

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upgrade to testing (woody) -- failed

[nestea]

hi all,

tonight when i tried to upgrade a few boxes to woody, i received the following 
error message.

any idea?


---
perl: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.3: cannot open shared 
object file: No such file or directory
E: Write error - write (32 Broken pipe)
E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
---


nestea 2001

Re: Modifying a Windows 95/98 FAAT 32 partition

[ajlewis2]

[This message has also been posted.]
On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 02:50:05 +0200, Slaven Peles wrote:
> You should also check out GNU Parted. It comes on a single boot floppy, and 
> can do almost anything you might need to install Linux and keep Windoze9x on 
> your computer. I used it myself. Have look at:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html
> 
> Cheers,
> Slaven

I don't think parted will work on a FAT32 partition.

Anita

Re: Toggle English/Dvorak keybaord in wmaker?

[Noah Meyerhans]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 07:42:38PM +, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> I'm very happy with my decision to switch from Gnome to WindowMaker, but
> I can't figure out how to set up both US and Dvorak keymaps. The
> interface to toggle between keymaps is evident in the WPrefs utility, 
> but I only get the English keymap. This is working in Gnome, so I know 
> that the Dvorak keymap is installed and available to X. 

I haven't tried dvorak in a couple of years, but when I last did I was
able to find some really useful sites on the web by searching for stuff
like 'dvorak+XFree86' and just like that.

The most useful suggestion I found was to define an alias that allowed
you to type 'asdf' at the command line to switch to dvorak, and the
dvorak equivalent ("aieu"?) to switch back to qwerty mode.  All it
really used was xmodmap and a couple of bash aliases.  You could
probably figure out how to set it up if you want to read the docs on
bash and xmodmap, or you can try to find that web site.

Good luck.
noah

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Re: Modifying a Windows 95/98 FAAT 32 partition

[Slaven Peles]

You should also check out GNU Parted. It comes on a single boot floppy, and 
can do almost anything you might need to install Linux and keep Windoze9x on 
your computer. I used it myself. Have look at:

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html

Cheers,
Slaven

On Saturday 11 August 2001 18:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 11 Aug 2001, at 22:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > How using cfdisk , do you modify the size of a Win 98 FAT 32 partition ?
>
>  There are other partitioning utilities. ( partition magic for one)
>  hth Dean
>
> > I know how to make one , remove it and have it written to the partition
> > table .
> >
> > Please help me to resize
> > Thanks,
> > ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > Shyam

Re: Realplayer Stop working for now reason...

[Michael Perry]

Quoting Chun Kit Edwin Lau on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 08:23:11PM -0400:
> Hi
>   Don't know what's going on but realplayer suddenly stop working for now 
> good reason.  It gives my this error...
> 
> /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay: error while loading shared libraries: 
> /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/Codecs/cook.so.6.0: undefined symbol: atexit
> 
> anyone have that?
> 
> -- 
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> 
> 
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You must be tracking unstable.  There is an issue with the current libc6
in unstable which seems to affect a number of things like vmware,
win4lin, older versions of xv, and php4 module loading in apache.

Its been reported in debian's bug tracking system. 

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Realplayer Stop working for now reason...

[Chun Kit Edwin Lau]

Hi
Don't know what's going on but realplayer suddenly stop working for now 
good reason.  It gives my this error...

/usr/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay: error while loading shared libraries: 
/usr/lib/RealPlayer8/Codecs/cook.so.6.0: undefined symbol: atexit

anyone have that?

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enabling mozilla imap passwords

[Eric Cheney]

Hello.  I'm having trouble getting mozilla with potato to 
use imap passwords when fetching e-mail.  I have another box 
with woody that does this alright (well pop3).  Anyone know 
how I can get mozilla to be password enabled for imap (or 
anything else) on potato?  Do I have to upgrade to woody 
or are there a couple of packages I have to apt-get install?

Thank you,
Eric Cheney
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Re: Unusual filesystem/memory corruption

[Michael Perry]

Quoting John Toon on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 12:04:20AM +0100:
> On 11 Aug 2001 16:37:58 -0500, Mike Brownlow wrote:
> 
> >  * hdparm options: -m16 -d1
> >  * Machine is behind firewall, and has few services for external
> >access
> > 
> > I suspect hardware failure caused it, but there are still a few software
> > unknowns. I'm starting to lean on corruption due to using -m16 for
> > hdparm. Any other suggestions appreciated...
> 
> Ouch. Sounds bad.
> 
> In general, you should _not_ use hdparm, for the simple reason that if
> you build a custom kernel with all the necessary options, it will
> default to optimum performance anyway (you can set "Use DMA by default"
> under the block device options).
> 
> I'm running a 2.4.5 XFS patched custom kernel that I built, and DMA/32
> bit disc access etc. is fully operational by default since I selected
> the appropriate kernel options. With modern kernels, hdparm is totally
> unnecessary and potentially dangerous (except for performing performance
> tests on your drive of course!).
> 
> What chipset does your mainboard use?
> 
> John.
>  
Hi-

I had a similar thing occur on a system running a VIA/southbridge
chipset on 2.2.18.  this a K7T style motherboard with a KT133 chipset.
I had been using it with a Western Digital 6g drive and the system was
so corrupt and unusable it could not find mounted file systems, the
/etc/fstab file corrupt, and on...  I was also using hdparm.

I re-installed and went to a 2.4.5 kernel with the via/southbridge ide
driver.  The system now runs happily with twin maxtor 40g ide drives on
the 2.4.7 kernel with the via ide driver compiled in.  


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Re: Modifying a Windows 95/98 FAAT 32 partition

[destruss]

On 11 Aug 2001, at 22:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> How using cfdisk , do you modify the size of a Win 98 FAT 32 partition ?

Hi Shyam:
 If you are trying to slice up win98 safely without losing data, it's 
normal to use fips for making room for linux partition. (See 
installation and fips documentation)
 If you don't care about any information on the partition, you can 
use win fdisk. 
 There are other partitioning utilities. ( partition magic for one)
 hth Dean
> 
> I know how to make one , remove it and have it written to the partition table 
> .
> 
> Please help me to resize
> Thanks,
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Shyam
> 
> "Quality can Never be Quantified . It exists by itself and Quantity might 
> hand it an
> untimely demise if blown out of the very fragile proportions that constitute 
> it ."
> 
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Gnumeric in Sid complains about default font

[John Toon]

Hi,

I've installed Gnumeric under Sid/unstable via apt-get, but
unfortunately when the progam starts up it issues an error:

Gnumeric failed to find a suitable default font.
Your gnome-print installation is likely incomplete. 
Please try reinstalling gnome-print.

Your fontmap file does not have a valid entry for Helvetica.

---

I don't understand why it is complaining about gnome-print, since I have
the latest version of libgnomeprint installed, and all my other
GTK/GNOME programs work perfectly. Meanwhile, my Helvetica font is also
functioning fine, I can use it from within Gimp, etc.

Any ideas on how to fix this (save compiling Gnumeric from source)?

John.

Re: Unusual filesystem/memory corruption

[John Toon]

On 11 Aug 2001 16:37:58 -0500, Mike Brownlow wrote:

>  * hdparm options: -m16 -d1
>  * Machine is behind firewall, and has few services for external
>access
> 
> I suspect hardware failure caused it, but there are still a few software
> unknowns. I'm starting to lean on corruption due to using -m16 for
> hdparm. Any other suggestions appreciated...

Ouch. Sounds bad.

In general, you should _not_ use hdparm, for the simple reason that if
you build a custom kernel with all the necessary options, it will
default to optimum performance anyway (you can set "Use DMA by default"
under the block device options).

I'm running a 2.4.5 XFS patched custom kernel that I built, and DMA/32
bit disc access etc. is fully operational by default since I selected
the appropriate kernel options. With modern kernels, hdparm is totally
unnecessary and potentially dangerous (except for performing performance
tests on your drive of course!).

What chipset does your mainboard use?

John.
 

Re: Reading Quark / Pagemaker files

[hanasaki]

Thank  you very much.  I didn't know that Quark could produce PDF's

"Karsten M. Self" wrote:

> on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 12:20:15PM -0500, hanasaki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Is there any utility that will let me convert Quark / Pagemaker files to
> > HTML or RTF or something else that is less proprietary?
>
> pdf2ps
> ps2html
>
> ...though results of ps2html are not very good in my experience.  If the
> PDF is locked, you're going to be somewhat stuck.  If you're in the US,
> circumventing the lock puts you in violation of the DMCA.
>
> > Is there a clone that will let me edit Quark / Pagemaker files?
>
> Don't know.
>
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RE:Toggle English/Dvorak keybaord in wmaker?

[Andrew Agno]

Paul Mackinney writes:
 > interface to toggle between keymaps is evident in the WPrefs utility, 
 > but I only get the English keymap. This is working in Gnome, so I know 
 > that the Dvorak keymap is installed and available to X. 

I just use xmodmap.

Andrew.

Re: Cnet Pro200 PCI fast Ethernet Adapter, road runner centralflorida

[tony mancill]

Please see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/dmfe.txt for more
documentation about how to use this module/driver.

tony

On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:

> I compiled again the kernel with all possible "network devices" as M or Y,
> except for a group of ARCnet cards. Any way the module dmfe.c does not
> appear available. So I have no clue. Could that be a lacking feature in
> kernel-source.2.2.19pre17? I checked, and dmfe.c is present in
> "kernel*17/drivers/net/dmfe.c"
> Any ideas?
> Thanks.
> - Original Message -
> From: "tony mancill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Antonio Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 8:31 PM
> Subject: Re: Cnet Pro200 PCI fast Ethernet Adapter, road runner
> centralflorida
> 
> 
> > On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> >
> > > I am trying to get my Linux box connecting to the net, but for some
> reason
> > > my ethernet card does not appear to be recognized by kernel. I think I
> > > marked Y or at least M in all close options for Ethernet Adapter when
> > > creating kernel image (using 2.2.19pre17 kernel-source, potato2.2rev3).
> Any
> > > way, would some one give good pointers and/or indications to get
> connected?
> > > I am kind of clueless here. Thanks a lot,
> >
> > Hi Antonio,
> >
> > you've taken a step in the right direction by compiling a kernel with
> > modular/built-in support for all of the types of Ethernet drivers.  What
> > you need to realize is that the kernel doesn't automatically try to load
> > of the modules.  You need to use "modprobe" to load the modular driver
> > that corresponds to the chipset on your Ethernet card.  That CNet Pro200
> > is based on a Davicom chipset, which correponds to the dfme.o module, so
> > try "modprobe dfme" and then issue "dmesg" to see what the kernel had to
> > say about it.
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> > tony
> >
> >   [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Danger + Survival = Fun
> > http://www.debian.org  |(Neil Peart)
> >
> 

You single-handedly fought your way into this hopeless mess.
The savior becomes the victim.

Unusual filesystem/memory corruption

[Mike Brownlow]

I run debian/unstable and I know the risks involved with that.

Woke up and I found my computer to seem to be operating normally.  The
screensaver was on and running. I clicked the mouse to turn it off and
my normal apps were still running. I used xmms open->dir to pop in some
mp3s, and the filesystem it listed was:

/
  (blank)
  (blank)
  (blank)
  (blank)
  !
  Omp
  a
  d
  d
  g
  pRac
  sbin
  v
  v

This was rather unusual so I went to an open eterm to use ls. But ls
couldn't be found. I also had two emacs open, and I was going to use
them to browse around the filesystem, but they died when I tried to use
C-x C-f. Odd. So I went to one of my eterms and tried scrolling through
the buffer using the mouse wheel. This caused the eterm to die. I'm not
sure where eterms store their buffer, but now I started to suspect
memory corruption.

So I rebooted in hopes that the filesystem thing was just memory
corruption. Nope. Something has really messed the fs up. Before I restore
from backups, I'd like to isolate what happened. And I'm wondering if
anyone has seen this kind of problem recently?

I can give whatever hardware/software configurations if needed, but
holding short for now. Here's a summary of the problem:

 * Happened overnight
 * Most recent significant OS change was a dselect update/install
   (last night)
 * Most recent hardware change was a new stick of ram
   (now about .5 months old)
 * I used the SCSI controller recently (yesterday) to access my
   CDR. I use the "old AIC7xxx" in the kernel because the new driver
   doesn't boot.
 * hdparm options: -m16 -d1
 * Machine is behind firewall, and has few services for external
   access

I suspect hardware failure caused it, but there are still a few software
unknowns. I'm starting to lean on corruption due to using -m16 for
hdparm. Any other suggestions appreciated...

All I can think of for now. Going to quarantine the drive. :)

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Re: help! kernel panic

[Cam]

Thanx for the help...i did have an old kernel left on my system i forgot
about...i realized it after i sent the email out.  Thanx again for the
help.

Justin

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Re: IMAP: new mail notification works ONLY for inbox?

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Erik Steffl wrote:

>   I am using IMAP server to access email (IMAP runs on my home
> copmputer, I use it to read email from local machine or from other
> machine, I tried several IMAP clients (mutt, netscape, mozilla, and to
> certain extend kmail, balsa, maybe some other that I forgot).
>
>   there is one problem (using all clients):
>
>   the new mail in inbox is decected by email client and I see there is
> new mail. however the new mail on other mailboxes is not detected until
> I enter the mailbox.
>

This is not an IMAP or procmail problem really.  Whether or not multiple
folders can be checked for incoming mail is a client (MUA)  issue.  For
instance pine has an incoming-folders entry in .pinerc.  Any folders
listed there will be polled for new mail.  I imagine other clients have a
similiar feature.

-- 
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Re: problems in upgrading xdm from potato to woody.

[Branden Robinson]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 02:26:58AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Please, if I'm in the wrong address, may you point to the
> good one?

In the future, please direct questions like this to the debian-user
mailing list.

> I have a big problem in upgrading xdm from potato to woody
> in the binary_i386 version of it.
> 
> In my local network, I have several X-terminals which use
> "X -indirect xdmserver" option. After the dist-upgrade
> procedure, the clients no longer have the menu, because
> the chooser is not found. The message saids /chooser is
> not found.
> 
> I tried to add the option in command line telling xdm where
> the chooser was, but the only thing I could do to fix
> the problem was to add a soft link:
> 
> ln -s /usr/bin/X11/chooser /chooser ( in the root ! )

You should probably customize the /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config file.

xdm(1) says:

   DisplayManager.DISPLAY.chooser
  Specifies the program run to offer a host menu for
  Indirect queries redirected to the special host name
  CHOOSER.  /lib/X11/xdm/chooser is the default.  See
  the sections XDMCP Access Control and Chooser.

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IMAP: new mail notification works ONLY for inbox?

[Erik Steffl]

  I am using IMAP server to access email (IMAP runs on my home
copmputer, I use it to read email from local machine or from other
machine, I tried several IMAP clients (mutt, netscape, mozilla, and to
certain extend kmail, balsa, maybe some other that I forgot).

  there is one problem (using all clients):

  the new mail in inbox is decected by email client and I see there is
new mail. however the new mail on other mailboxes is not detected until
I enter the mailbox.

  I use fetchmail to get emailfrom my pop3 accounts and postfix to
receive email directly, both of these use procmail to deliver email to
different mailboxes.

  can this be a problem:

  the procmail delivers the email to certain malibox but imap servers
does not have reason to check it unless some client requests mails
(headers) from given mailbox so imap server does not know about new
mails and therefore does not signal the new mail to MUA (unless MUA
enters the mailbox at which point the mailbox is read, new mail is
found).

  is there any way to use procmail to deliver mail to mailbox using some
imap facilities instead of writing to a file?

  I think the ideal situation would be if only imap server were to
access the mailboxes on file level, all other programs (MUAs, delivery)
should use imap to do the physical access.

  I would appreciate clarification of this issue (imap and mail delivery
or imap and new mail notification), I have already read the IMAP book
and some online docs but haven't found anything about this aspect of
imap mail serving. I am not sure what to check so some pointers would be
appreciated (I don't even know whether it's problem of MUAs not asking
for status of different mailboxes or the above problem of procmail and
imap both accessing mailboxes on file level or something else)

  my system:

  debian unstable, kernel 2.4.5
  uw-imapd-ssl
  various MUAs (mutt, netscape, mozilla etc.)

  TIA

erik

Re: Modifying a Windows 95/98 FAAT 32 partition

[Karsten M. Self]

on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 10:54:05PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> How using cfdisk , do you modify the size of a Win 98 FAT 32 partition
> ?
> 
> I know how to make one , remove it and have it written to the
> partition table .
> 
> Please help me to resize

Please set your mailer wrap to 72 characters.

You can't resize a partition with cfdisk or fdisk.  There are resizing
utilities, however I strongly recommend:

  - Backup partition(s)
  - Verify backup(s)
  - Delete old partition(s)
  - Create new partition(s)
  - Create filesystem(s)
  - Restore from backup.

I suggest tar for creating backups, to tape, networked storage, or CDR.

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Re: Plz help with adsl

[P Kirk]

#! On Sat, Aug 11, 2001, usucapiao wrote:

>I'm having a big trouble trying to make my adsl works on debian.
>
>I'm trying to use the rp-pppoe script, it works on conectiva linux, but 
>dont works on debian, red hat and slackware...
>

What sort of problems are you haveing?  Run the pon command, then plog
and plz send some of it the this list and that will make things a lot
clearer?


Patrick

Toggle English/Dvorak keybaord in wmaker?

[Paul Mackinney]

I'm very happy with my decision to switch from Gnome to WindowMaker, but
I can't figure out how to set up both US and Dvorak keymaps. The
interface to toggle between keymaps is evident in the WPrefs utility, 
but I only get the English keymap. This is working in Gnome, so I know 
that the Dvorak keymap is installed and available to X. 

I've looked in the Window Maker User's guide and the relevant HOWTOS 
without finding an answer. Anyone know how to set this up (and/or where 
it's documented?)

TIA, Paul

-- 
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Plz help with adsl

[usucapiao]

I'm having a big trouble trying to make my adsl works on debian.

I'm trying to use the rp-pppoe script, it works on conectiva linux, but 
dont works on debian, red hat and slackware...
I already have dhcpcd installed and i try to do everything like the 
howtos teach, but im without internet on linux...


If somebody can help me plz...

   
   João Laureano Leme
   
 Brasil

[yok1@zahav.net.il: ]

[Josip Rodin]

- Forwarded message from kaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Delivery-date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 20:36:29 +0200
From: "kaki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 09:34:34 +0300
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211

Hello, can you help me please.

i have wu-ftpd 2.6.0 (i dont want to upgrade or to install another verison)

1. when i login as anonymous, the login is ok.

2. when i enter email as password login failed.

i have no idea how to fix it up.

please help me, 
thanks .

- End forwarded message -

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Re: hostname with dhcp-client

[Peter P.]

Hello Carl,

Saturday, August 11, 2001, 6:03:51 PM, you wrote:

CG> "The requested URL
CG> /www/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200107/msg02249.html was not found
CG> on this server."

try it without '/www' so it's

/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200107/msg02249.html

This helped me.
-- 
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man/mandb problem -- exploit?

[Ronald Hale-Evans]

Hi--

My system was recently cracked (my impression was that it happened via
the recent Apache exploit).  Shortly before I reinstalled my system
(with better security), I lost all ability to view man pages.  Typing,
say, 'man man' would bring up a brief message about how it was
reformatting the page, then nothing.

I reinstalled, then installed an improved firewall before
bringing the system back up on the net and doing 'apt-get update;
apt-get dist-upgrade'.  During the dist-upgrade process, I received a
message on the root terminal saying something like 'su session opened
for user man'. I didn't know whether this was relevant, but noted it
in case it had something to do with the man-db exploit, for which
there was a fix released on 12 June.  I also ran the following commands,
as recommended on the man-db exploit page:

  suidregister /usr/lib/man-db/man root root 0755
  suidregister /usr/lib/man-db/mandb root root 0755
  
After the dist-upgrade, I can again no longer view man pages.  As an
ordinary user, a simple man command brings up something like the
following:

Reformatting mpage(1), please wait...
man: can't create /var/cache/man/fsstnd/cat1/393: Permission denied
zsoelim: /tmp/zmanp6L0Cn: No such file or directory
man: can't unlink /var/cache/man/fsstnd/cat1/393: No such file or directory
man: can't remove /tmp/zmanp6L0Cn: No such file or directory

After typing 'man man', a file called man.1.gz appears in
/var/cache/man/cat1, but all it contains is the following text:

--> man.1.gz <--

I purged and reinstalled the packages mandb, manpages, and
manpages-dev, with no luck.  I found a file in /tmp named zmanX,
where 'X' was a random string.  When I tried to delete or view
this file, I couldn't, because its name would change as I was trying
to do so, to zmanY, where 'Y' was another random string.
Rebooting seems to have taken care of this; there are presently no
files in /tmp, but was this normal behaviour, or part of an exploit?

Any recommendations on getting man working on my system again are
welcome.  Be very explicit, however, as I can't use man pages to
clarify any help that is cryptic.  Moreover, does it seem that my
man-db has been cracked?

Thanks...

Ron H-E

p.s. What's with the Debian list archives?  I can neither search nor
browse them.

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Re: sqrt C function(clarification)

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 03:44:17AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm sorry not to have provided more information in my first e-mail although 
> i'm very glad so many people responded to help, but i've done some more 
> testing:
> 
> specifically i'm getting 'prase error in tmp/x' where x is a long string of 
> characters that tends to change on every run of the complier (at least when 
> i'm compiling other programs). I've tried the following and gotten no errors
> 
> #include 
> #include 
> 
> double num=16.0;
> 
> int main()
> { 
>  double sqrt(double num);
> return(0);
> }

'double sqrt(double num);' is a declaration, not a function call, so
this doesn't compile to anything very useful. You probably want
something like 'num = sqrt(num);' instead.

> the following warns me that 'function sqrt does not match global variable' 
> but still compiles
> 
> #include 
> #include 
> 
> float num;
> 
> int main()
> { 
>  float sqrt(float num);
> return(0);
> }

That's because sqrt() is already declared in , and you're trying
to redeclare it as something different.

> and this one just doesn't work at all giving the parse error previously 
> described:
> 
> #include 
> #include 
> 
> double num;
> 
> int main()
> { 
>   num = 16; /*i've also tried 16. and 16.0 here*/
>   double sqrt(double num);
> return(0);
> }

That's because declarations can't go after function calls. Again, you
almost certainly don't want it to be a declaration anyway.

> I'm sorry I was not more clear with my first e-mail and hope this points out 
> the problem better.  Also, how do I let gcc know that I want math.h to be an 
> available library so i dont' have to use the -l option every time if run it?

You can't. Try using a makefile instead. Here's an example (the tab at
the beginning of the second line must be a real tab:

foo: foo.c
$(CC) $< -o $@ -lm

$(CC) is the C compiler (cc by default, which is a link to gcc on most
GNU systems), $< is the current source file (i.e. foo.c), and $@ is the
current target file (i.e. foo). The whole thing, put in a file called
'Makefile', lets you type 'make foo' and have it work.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need devfs help

[Russell Coker]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 00:20, Svante Signell wrote:
> Compiling the latest kernel (2.4.7) I decided to enable devfs support
> and also start devfsd at boot. Most things seem to work fine except
> the sound card, the cdrom (both mounting and playing CDs) and cdrw,
> Accessing these one gets complaints of /dev files missing.

Create a file /etc/modutils/devfs-aliases containing:
alias /dev/dsp sound-device
alias /dev/mixer sound-device
alias /dev/midi sound-device

Where "sound-device" is replaced by your sound module, then run 
update-modules.

I suggest that in future you ask such questions on debian-user and CC the 
package maintainer (which means me for devfsd).

There is an advantage of CCing the maintainer (apart from the fact that the 
maintainer is most likely to know the correct answer).  The maintainer will 
often have some plans for future changes and will give advice on how to avoid 
future complications taking into account unannounced new features and the 
results of testing new upstream betas.

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Vmac and Basilisk II

[JakeCatfox]

Hi, I'm trying to get Basilisk II or vMac (preferably Basilisk II) running on 
my Debian laptop. However, whenever either one tries to boot from the floppy, 
it just reads the drive for a second, then gives up immediately. vMac never 
recognizes there's a disk, Basilisk II won't run because there's nothing to 
boot from. The ROM is good, I've checked that out. In each one I told the 
program to use /dev/fd0 or made a symlink with the name of its default floppy 
device, linked to /dev/fd0. I even tried compiling in Mac filesystem support 
into my kernel, but to no avail.

Has anyone had this problem or know what I'm doing wrong?
-- Deven Gallo

2.4.7 kernel boot hangs with "cramfs: wrong magic"

[Jerome Acks Jr]

I have been trying unsuccessfully to get a 2.4.7 kernel to boot. My PC 
has a AMD-K6-II and runs woody. My most recent attempt used the kernel 
image is from kernel-image-2.4.7-k6_2.4.7-1.i386.deb. The boot sequence 
runs until the hard disk partition check and then hangs. The final part 
of the boot post is:


Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [EZD] [remap 0->1] [700/255/63] p1 p2 

/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: [PTBL] [remap 0->1] [2491/255/63] p1 
p2 p3 p4 

cramfs: wrong magic
VFS: Mounted root (est2 filesystem) readonly
change-root: old root has d_count=2
Freeing unused kernel memory: 184k freed

The boot hangs at this point. Sometimes is hangs at the line "cramfs: 
wrong magic"


When I boot with my 2.2.19 kernel, partition check reports:
hda: [EZD] [remap 0->1] [700/255/63] hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 >
Is it normal for a 2.4.x kernels to report partitions as p1, p2, etc. 
vice hda1, hda2, hdb1, etc?  What does "cramfs: wrong magic" mean, and 
does anyone have suggestions on how to fix this problem?


My lilo.conf is:

vga=normal
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
default=linux-2.2.19

image=/vmlinuz-2.2.19
   label=linux-2.2.19
   read-only
   alias=1

image=/vmlinuz
   label=linux
   read-only
   initrd=/boot/initrd
   alias=2

#other is Windows98 boot partition
other=/dev/hda1
   label=dos
   alias=3


/boot/initrd is linked to /boot/initrd-2.4.7-k6. /vmlinuz is linked to 
/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-k6

hda contain a Windows 98 installation and fat32 partitions.
hdb are my linux partitions
hdc is a HP Colorado 8GB tape drive.
hdd is CDROM
The PC also has an Adaptec AHA2940 scsi adaptor that currently connects 
to my zip drive.


Any ideas and suggestions would be appreciated. thanks.

--
Jerome

Re: Cnet Pro200 PCI fast Ethernet Adapter, road runner centralflorida

[Antonio Rodriguez]

Well, I recompiled the kernel again, did say Yes to question about
experimental, development drivers. Then marked Yes to Cnet Pro200 PCi in net
devices section. Installed the new image, rebooted, but still not there. Any
ideas? I have none.
Thanks.
- Original Message -
From: "Nathan E Norman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Debian Users" 
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: Cnet Pro200 PCI fast Ethernet Adapter, road runner
centralflorida

Re: help! kernel panic

[Craig Dickson]

Cam wrote:

> Well, I patched up to 2.4.8 and recompiled the kernel and I _thought_ I
> did everything right.  I rebooted so that I could reload a couple of
> modules and on the reboot it just stops says Kernel panic: cannot mount
> root fs.  So basically here's the question.  There a way to fix it without
> doing a format of my linux partion?

Don't you still have your old kernel? Or a boot floppy? Or a rescue floppy?

I generally have at least two kernels on the hard disk, plus a boot floppy
that has been verified to work. This became a religious observance for me
after the time I installed a new kernel and forgot to run LILO...

Craig

Re: Server/Gateway Linux Box

[Mike Egglestone]

Hi there...

How many workstations are you going to have?
A dually motherboard is nice... but I would recommend those
if your running LTSP...or 100 + workstations...
(unless you have lots of )

If you want file sharing installed... I recommend Samba...
samba.org is a good place to start if your unfamiliar...
or netatalk if you ever have any apples...

Mike




Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

> Hi, I'm building a Linux box that will serve as a server and gateway to
> split 
> internet access from a cable modem to numerous machines (some Linux,
> some 
> Winblows.) I'm putting in 2 network cards and a dual-processor
> motherboard 
> with 2 Pentium II processors. What do I need to do to set it up to
> perform IP 
> Masquerading, and how do I turn on dual-processing support in Linux? Do
> I 
> just compile in Symmetric multiprocessing support into the kernel? Also,
> how 
> do I set up file sharing so that every machine on my network can access
> the 
> files on any other?
> 
> Thanks,
> -- Deven
> 
> 
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help! kernel panic

[Cam]

Well, I patched up to 2.4.8 and recompiled the kernel and I _thought_ I
did everything right.  I rebooted so that I could reload a couple of
modules and on the reboot it just stops says Kernel panic: cannot mount
root fs.  So basically here's the question.  There a way to fix it without
doing a format of my linux partion?

feeling dumb,

Justin

=
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latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to 
hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his 
intelligence."-Albert Einstein

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Re: Reading Quark / Pagemaker files

[Karsten M. Self]

on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 12:20:15PM -0500, hanasaki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Is there any utility that will let me convert Quark / Pagemaker files to
> HTML or RTF or something else that is less proprietary?

pdf2ps
ps2html

...though results of ps2html are not very good in my experience.  If the
PDF is locked, you're going to be somewhat stuck.  If you're in the US,
circumventing the lock puts you in violation of the DMCA.

> Is there a clone that will let me edit Quark / Pagemaker files?

Don't know.

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Modifying a Windows 95/98 FAAT 32 partition

[shyamk]

How using cfdisk , do you modify the size of a Win 98 FAT 32 partition ?

I know how to make one , remove it and have it written to the partition table .

Please help me to resize
Thanks,
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Shyam

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Re: gateway

[Karsten M. Self]

on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 06:56:59PM +0200, Daniel Link ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> hi ,
> 
>   i want to use a p133 as a gateway so the other computers on my
>   network have access to the internet. i have one network card and one
>   isdn cards which both run fine. what do i need to install/configure?

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Cable-Modem/index.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/nag2/index.html

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Re: X freezes (was XMMS hanging system?)

[Karsten M. Self]

on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 09:22:57AM -0400, Steve Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hello all,
> I'm still trying to chase down some freezes on my box.  For sake of
> clarity, I'll try to give the relevant details all at once.  About a
> week and a half ago, I started having total lockups on my box while
> running X.  It's never happened outside of X, and at first it only
> seemed to happen while I was also running XMMS (admittedly, I run it
> quite often while I'm working).  I tried removing XMMS, and it still
> hung.  The freezes are total, i.e., no keyboard access, mouse is
> frozen, etc.  

How about networked access or serial port?  If you don't have a network
but do have a Palm or Handspring, get a terminal emulation package, run
a getty on your serial port, and log in.  Then try to replicate the
crash and check for response.

Good news is that a GNU/Linux crash almost always indicates a problem,
usually hardware, some bad kernel drivers, or a bad X config.

> Can't do anything except hit the reset switch.  I'm keeping an eye on
> the memory usage to see if that's the problem, although I have a fair
> amount so it shouldn't be.  Anyway, here are some details:
> 
> uname -a
> Linux gashuffer 2.4.7 #1 Tue Jul 24 14:29:31 EDT 2001 i686 unknown (running
> woody)
> 
> Box is a PIII chip, Via Apollo chipset on the board, hard drives, CD
> Drive, SCSI CD Burner, USB interface for superdisk.  Rage 128 video
> card, SBLive sound card.  Up until this I couldn't have been happier
> with the setup[...] I have looked through the various /proc files, and
> don't see any obvious interrupt conflicts or other such obvious clues,
> and the various /var/log files also don't seem to have anything
> obvious in them.  

Clue for log files:

  - System crashes.
  - Boot into a shell, as root, with:

  LILO: linux shell=/bin/bash vga=ask

...this both prompts you for screen resolution -- pick something like
80x50 or 80x60 so you can see more, and it gives you very minimal system
functionality, but *no system logging is started*, meaning you're pretty
close to where the system was when it crashed (you can get a similar
effect by booting from a rescue or recovery disk).  Go to your logs
directory and run:

   $ ls -lt -I '*.gz' | head -40

...varying the lines to suit.  Start poking through the logs that have
been most recently active, particularly messages and kernel logs.  You
may get some precursor clues.  I'd also look at the XFree86* logs.

> I'm assuming that the system is locking before it can write to syslog.
> The only obvious error messages are from the XFree86.log, and are as
> follows:
> 
> Operating System: Linux 2.2.19 i686 [ELF] - Shouldn't be right, as I'm
> running the 2.4.7 kernel (although I think this may have been the first
> kernel I installed - I did it from an old Slink disk)

Installing a kernel and getting it to run requires three things (I'm
assuming you're running lilo, details differ for grub, though general
concept is similar):

  - Install kernel (put in on disk).
  - Update /etc/lilo.conf
  - Run 'lilo' to update the MBR (master boot record).

...the kernel should come up, or at least show up in the kernels list on
your next boot.

I haven't installed a stock Debian kernel for a while, but doing so
*should* handle most of this for you.  I roll my own using make-kpkg.

> (WW) Cannot open APM - should be fine, the board uses ACPI, and that's
> enabled in the kernel and seems to function normally.

You have to enable APM at boot time on stock Debian kernels.  That's
either:

LILO: linux append="apm=on"

or a line:

apm=on

...in your /etc/lilo.conf (don't forget to re-run 'lilo').  See
/usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz for more details.

> (WW) System lacks support for changing MTRRs - I don't know what this
> means at all.

I don't really either, but you can read about this in 

/usr/src/linux/Documentation/mtrr.txt

On Intel Pentium Pro/Pentium II systems the Memory Type Range
Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control processor access to memory
ranges. This is most useful when you have a video (VGA) card on a
PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining allows bus write transfers
to be combined into a larger transfer before bursting over the
PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance of image write operations
2.5 times or more.

> PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file  Roman_M

No clue.

Google, however, turns up the following which should be reassuring:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2001/debian-x-200102/msg00060.html


HS> PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file  Roman_M
HS> ^^^

The PEX extension (PHIGS over X) is misconfigured.  As the PEX
extension is all but obsolete (nowadays, people use GLX instead),
this doesn't matter.

If you're using 4.*, you might as well comment out the ``Load
"GLX"'' line in your c

Reading Quark / Pagemaker files

[hanasaki]

Is there any utility that will let me convert Quark / Pagemaker files to
HTML or RTF or something else that is less proprietary?

Is there a clone that will let me edit Quark / Pagemaker files?

Thank you,

RE: upgrading more then one box by downloading the files once!

[Arno Baier]

>I have done it 3 ways.
>
>1) Set the /var/cache/apt/archive directory as an NFS dir, mount it on
>the system to upgrade.
>
>2) Use ssh.  scp the files you want to the other boxen archives
>directory.  I used this now as it was faster and less work.
>
>3) If you have a cd burner bnd all the system have a cdrom, backup the 
>archives dir to cd.  Option 2 is still faster.

I'll try the first one.
Thanks
Arno

Re: Cnet Pro200 PCI fast Ethernet Adapter, road runner centralflorida

[Nathan E Norman]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 04:50:06AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> I compiled again the kernel with all possible "network devices" as M or Y,
> except for a group of ARCnet cards. Any way the module dmfe.c does not
> appear available. So I have no clue. Could that be a lacking feature in
> kernel-source.2.2.19pre17? I checked, and dmfe.c is present in
> "kernel*17/drivers/net/dmfe.c"
> Any ideas?

You need to say yes to the very first question about experimental /
development drivers.

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gateway

[Daniel Link]

hi ,

  i want to use a p133 as a gateway so the other computers on my
  network have access to the internet. i have one network card and one
  isdn cards which both run fine. what do i need to install/configure?

-- 
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Re: Server/Gateway Linux Box

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Hi, I'm building a Linux box that will serve as a server and gateway to split
> internet access from a cable modem to numerous machines (some Linux, some
> Winblows.) I'm putting in 2 network cards and a dual-processor motherboard
> with 2 Pentium II processors.

That's a bit much but if you insist...

> What do I need to do to set it up to perform IP Masquerading,

man ipchains

> and how do I turn on dual-processing support in Linux? Do I just
> compile in Symmetric multiprocessing support into the kernel?

Correct.

> Also, how do I set up file sharing so that every machine on my network
> can access the files on any other?

http://www.samba.org


Phil

hostname with dhcp-client

[Carl Greco]

Anyone know how to set the hostname under dhcp?  I have
dhcp-client [2.0pl4-2]
debian 2.2 - potato [patched to date]
kernel [2.2.19]
I establish a lease with dhclient with the following config file, i.e.,
[/etc/dhclient.conf]

send host-name "peregrine.cox-internet.com";
lease {
  interface "eth0";
  option host-name "peregrine.cox-internet.com";
}


I have used several combinations in the above config file including
setting the hostname and domain names separately.

I don't find an error message from dhclient; however, the hostname
assigned by DNS, i.e., from nslookup on the ip address, is not
`peregrine' but some combination of letter, numbers and dashes.

I found several messages in the Debian Mailing List Archives that
may be useful but it appears there is a problem with the database.  I
get the following message when I attempt to read one of the messages:

"The requested URL
/www/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200107/msg02249.html was not found
on this server."


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dpkg/dselect config files

[David Dayan-Rosenman]

Hi,
Iscrewed up and erased the /var/lib/dpkg/status* files for dpkg/dselect, is 
there anyway to restore them ?

David

Re: problems Debian 2.2

[Wayne Topa]

Subject: problems Debian 2.2
Date: Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 04:24:53PM +0200

In reply to:fouad HENNI

Quoting fouad HENNI([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I installed Linux Debian 2.2 r0 on my PC but I cannot
> execute tha 'traceroute' command.

Did you install it?  whereis traceroute
if not then
apt-get install traceroute

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Re: kernel 2.4.x in potato?

[Wayne Topa]

Subject: kernel 2.4.x in potato?
Date: Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 09:53:12AM -0400

In reply to:Bob Koss

Quoting Bob Koss([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> 
> I'm still trying to get my OnStream tape driving working in Debian. I
> was mistaken when I said that the driver was in the kernel. The driver 
> doesn't appear until 2.4.  The kernel patches from OnStream are only
> for 2.2.14 and 2.2.16. I'm running potato with 2.2.19.
> 
> So, can I upgrade my kernel to 2.4.? Has anybody taken a newly
> installed potato system and just upgraded the kernel to 2.4? What
> headaches are in my future?

I changed 4 boxen to 2.4.x.  No worries.

Add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list
# Use these for kernel 2.4 update to Potato
deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main

then run
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

I use the kernels from ftp.us.kernel.org so don't recall if you
get the kernel source with the upgrade or not.  If not you will have
to install the source & header packages.

I don't recall any headaches at all.  Do get the latest kernel tho.
2.4.7 is running fine here.
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Re: problems Debian 2.2

[Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, [iso-8859-1] fouad HENNI wrote:

fH> I installed Linux Debian 2.2 r0 on my PC but I cannot
fH> execute tha 'traceroute' command.

try /usr/sbin/traceroute

Dingo.


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Re: exploring debian's users and groups

[John Hasler]

Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a writes:
> I can confirm that on Solaris 2.5, bin is the owner and group of most
> files in /bin, /usr/bin, et al.

Likewise on System III on my Onyx, IIRC.
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problems Debian 2.2

[fouad HENNI]

I installed Linux Debian 2.2 r0 on my PC but I cannot
execute tha 'traceroute' command.

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Re: problems with configuring Debian

[Wayne Topa]

Subject: problems with configuring Debian
Date: Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 10:52:36AM +0200

In reply to:fouad HENNI

Quoting fouad HENNI([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>  I installed Linux Debian 2.2 r0 on my computer and I
> need solution for the problems below:
> 
> 1) My video card is "Trident Blade 3D PCI/AGP (IPC)",
> so I installed the XF86_SVGA
>server but the computer often blocks when I
> 'startx'. I used to reinstall Debian. 
>When it works, the only graphic mode that I had is
> the 320x200 with a very big police.
> 
> 2) My network interface is a Realtek 8029 and I didn't
> find in 'modconf' a driver for it.

search /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Covfigure.help for
'RealTek 8029' to find which module it requires
> 
> 3) My modem is a 'Motorola SM56 PCI speakphone Modem
> #2' and was not detected.

external or internal?

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kernel 2.4.x in potato?

[Bob Koss]

I'm still trying to get my OnStream tape driving working in Debian. I
was mistaken when I said that the driver was in the kernel. The driver 
doesn't appear until 2.4.  The kernel patches from OnStream are only
for 2.2.14 and 2.2.16. I'm running potato with 2.2.19.

So, can I upgrade my kernel to 2.4.? Has anybody taken a newly
installed potato system and just upgraded the kernel to 2.4? What
headaches are in my future?


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Re: exploring debian's users and groups

[Marcelo E. Magallon]

>> Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 > > I can confirm that on Solaris 2.5, bin is the owner and group of most
 > > files in /bin, /usr/bin, et al. I don't go back all that far in unix, so
 > > I don't know why that is.
 > 
 >  I can confirm the same for AIX 4.3.3

 FWIW, on IRIX most files in /bin[0], /usr/bin, /sbin and /usr/sbin are
 root:sys.  On HP/UX[1] /bin[2], /usr/bin, /sbin and /usr/sbin contain
 files owned by bin:bin, with a few seemingly random exceptions owned by
 root:sys.

[0] This is actually a link to usr/bin.
[1] aka, a Developer's Nightmare (but I actually find it cute to be
greeted by "(c)Copyright 1979, 1980, 1983, 1985-1993 The Regents of
the Univ. of California", among a screenful of others, at login)
[2] Same deal, the link points to /usr/bin.

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Re: messages log file

[Dave Sherohman]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 12:34:57AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> hi ya craig
> > I am suspicious of my ISP
> > "filtering" the connections (although after speaking to them they tell me
> > they don't),
> 
> Most ISP do NOT filter traffic to/from you... they have bigger worries

This was true two weeks ago, but several ISPs (including some big ones
like AT&T) are now blocking inbound port 80 in an attempt to control
the Code Red worm.  Whether the blocks will be removed once the problem
pases remains to be seen.

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Re: backups using tar - /dev/ht0

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya bob

...beg/borrow/steal a (real) dds1, dds2, dds3 ide tape drive...
- hp series, exabyte series, etc

and try to read/write to that drive

c ya
alvin

On 11 Aug 2001, Bob Koss wrote:

> > "Alvin" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> Alvin> if the device is made properly... it should be like
> Alvin> crw-rw 1 root disk 37, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/ht0
> 
> 
> Alvin> until "ls -la /dev/ht0" looks liek the above line...  there
> Alvin> is no point to doing any mt/tar commands..
> 
> 
> Okay, a few chgrp's and chmod's later, my ls -al looks like you want
> it to look. 
> 
> But I still get:
> 
> mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind 
> mt: /dev/ht0: Input/output error
> 

Re: messages log file

[Dave Sherohman]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 04:57:58PM +1000, Craig W wrote:
> This may sound really stupid, however I cannot seem to locate anything about
> it anywhere.
> When I view the messages log file it is full of --MARK-- , what does this
> mean?

Anywhere?  Try man syslogd:

   -m interval
  The syslogd logs a mark timestamp  regularly.   The
  default interval between two -- MARK -- lines is 20
  minutes.  This can be  changed  with  this  option.
  Setting the interval to zero turns it off entirely.

Calling this a timestamp is slightly inaccurate, in that logs are only
MARKed when the interval passes without anything being written to the log.
The reason you don't see this on RH boxes is that they use messages
as their generic catch-all log, so it's never quiet for 20 minutes.
Debian hardly uses messages at all and instead dumps everything into
/var/log/syslog.

> Also any ideas on why I have ssh running & can log in from my internal
> network, I have allowed the IP range from work access, I can scan the box
> from work & it reports that the ports I have open are definitely open, yet I
> cannot connect

ping, traceroute, ssh -v, and check syslog on your home machine.
sshd is usually pretty good about logging the reason why it's refusing a
connection attempt.  It could also be tcpwrappers refusing the connection
before ssh/apache sees it, and it's decent with its logging as well,
though it tends to just log the refusal and not the reason.  Oh, also,
if your usernames are different, don't forget to use ssh -l .

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Re: .forward file format for exim

[Dave Sherohman]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 04:46:42PM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote:
> #debian lists
> if $h_From: contains "debian-user" or
>$h_To: contains "Debian-user"
>then
>save mail/debian
> endif
>  
> theoretically, this should tell exim to sort incoming
> mail into the files specified as per the exim documentation
> at www.exim.org
> 
> since it doesn't work, i must be doing something wrong.

Take a look at the From: and To: headers on list messages.  None of
them are From: the list address and many replies are To: the original
message's sender and Cc: the list.

Try filtering on the X-Mailing_List: header instead.

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Re: missing gnumeric dependancies

[J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 00:50:51 -0500, Colin Watson wrote:
> It's waiting for various things to be fixed before it can migrate to
> unstable.
  testing, ITYM.

> A recent reorganization of the libgal* packages

I talked to libgal's maintainer about it being a running target, and offered
a suggestion on how to make multiple libgal versions coexist peacefully; he
indicated he'd follow that suggestion.

> (still waiting in incoming for approval) will help.

I hadn't noticed that yet; good to see!

Ray
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between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would
have the decency to betray his country.  
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Chrooting a user?

[Sunny Dubey]

hey

How would i Chroot a user?  I want him to be able to log into the machine 
like any other user, however his home directory would be his root directory, 
and he could do whatever he wants below it.  Something like this ..

(must have fixed-width font)
/home/user  -->  /  
 |
 |->/bin
 |->/usr
 |->/var

and so forth.

Any ideas or pointers would be really appreciated, thanks.

Sunny Dubey

Re: backups using tar - /dev/ht0

[Bob Koss]

> "Alvin" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Alvin> if the device is made properly... it should be like
Alvin> crw-rw 1 root disk 37, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/ht0


Alvin> until "ls -la /dev/ht0" looks liek the above line...  there
Alvin> is no point to doing any mt/tar commands..


Okay, a few chgrp's and chmod's later, my ls -al looks like you want
it to look. 

But I still get:

mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind 
mt: /dev/ht0: Input/output error


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Upgrade broke gpm?

[Mark Carroll]

I'm currently tracking 'testing', and run dselect's 'update', etc. fairly
frequently. I prefer 'stable' but it's just so far behind some things.

My mouse has stopped working. I use gpm as a repeater to X.

I'm reasonably certain that it stopped working since I did my update
yesterday, gpm was upgraded, I answered no to something about restarting
it, and I later rebooted. syslog tells me nothing.

gpm-mouse-test mostly hangs, but once it did seem to find my PS/2 mouse on
/dev/psaux and got it running again. A reboot, and it died again.

I've also been trying a different mouse, to no avail.

Has anyone else upgraded very recently and had a similar experience?

-- Mark

kernel panic

[Marco Herrn]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 03:20:15PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote:
> Does your BIOS see the ram as all good?  If so you may need to find
> something that tests the memory a bit more rigorously.

The BIOS doesn't see anything bad.

> 
> A quick scan of the packages list gives memtest86 and memtest.  Both
> look like they should help you out in testing your ram.

I tried memtest86 now (only with cache disabled, because I needed access to
my machine again and this part already took 11 hours ;-).
It didn't find any errors.

But I will try the test with cache enabled and memtest, when I have the
time.

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Key ID: 0x94620736 

kernel panic

[Marco Herrn]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 03:20:15PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote:
> Does your BIOS see the ram as all good?  If so you may need to find
> something that tests the memory a bit more rigorously.

The BIOS doesn't see anything bad.

> 
> A quick scan of the packages list gives memtest86 and memtest.  Both
> look like they should help you out in testing your ram.

I tried memtest86 now (only with cache disabled, because I needed access to
my machine again and this part already took 11 hours ;-).
It didn't find any errors.

But I will try the test with cache enabled and memtest, when I have the
time.

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Re: backups using tar - /dev/ht0

[Bob Koss]

> "Alvin" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Alvin> so you do NOT have /dev/ht0 as a device

Alvin> manually creaate a device called /dev/ht0 with mknod...
Alvin> and give it the type, and major and minor id

Alvin> if the device is made properly... it should be like
Alvin> crw-rw 1 root disk 37, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/ht0

Based on the instructions that you kindly provided yesterday, I have:


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /dev
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ ls -al ht0
crw-r--r--1 root root  37,   0 Aug 10 19:50 ht0
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ 



Alvin> until "ls -la /dev/ht0" looks liek the above line...  there
Alvin> is no point to doing any mt/tar commands..

It looks like we're close.


Alvin> what kind of tape drive do you have etc would dictate which
Alvin> tape driver yu are gonna be using

This is an OnStream DI-30. The driver is supposed to be part of the
kernel. I'm running Potato with the supplied 2.2.19pre17 kernel.



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Re: Kernel panic, system crash, 01 01 01: help

[Stig Brautaset]

* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus:
> Yesterday while browsing the ftp.xfree86.org via lynx, via a dialup 
> connection, 
> my terminal suddenly started spouting warnings. I wasn't able to capture 
> them, 
> but one said, "Unable to mount fs, unable to mount hdb".
> 
> The other virtual terminal (F1) was logged on as root, and moments later it 
> got 
> hit the same way.
> 
> I'm running Potato 2.something on hdb

Not anymore I'm afraid -- sounds to me like your hd has performed harakiri.

> on dual boot system with win98 on hda.  So. I rebooted, and the system can't
> even make it to LILO...I get the dreaded 01 01 01 01...thing.
> 
> The startup floppy made it to a point, and then echoed "Kernel panic: unable 
> to 
> mount root file system".
> 
> Other conditions: it was 100 degrees in the shade yesterday, and we do not 
> have 
> air conditioning. Could that be a factor?

Very possible; in that heat I would take drastic measures as well.

> I'm interested in any advice re. etiology and solutions. Have not tried 
> reinstalling yet. 

I believe you will find that your hd has 'gone fishing', if you catch my drift.

Stig

Re: dosemu

[Stig Brautaset]

* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 10:40:47PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> | How do you use 'dosemu' and what is it ?
> 
> It is a DOS emulator that, IIRC, requires DOS to really be installed
> on a partition.  It is useful if you have some programs that only run
> under DOS and you want to use them under Linux (for example the m68k
> cross-assembler and simulator the textbook came with last year).

heh, I ran this on my laptop right in front of my teacher -- he thought
he had found a way to trick me into using windows :) (Didn't have that 
textbook though.)

Regards, Stig

Re: exploring debian's users and groups

[Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 04:31:52PM -0500, Aaron Hall wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> > bin:
> >
> > HELP: No files on my system are owned by user or group bin. What
> >   good are they? Historically they were probably the owners of
> >   binaries in /bin? It is not mentioned in the FHS, debian
> >   policy, or the changelogs of base-passwd or base-files.
> 
> I can confirm that on Solaris 2.5, bin is the owner and group of most
> files in /bin, /usr/bin, et al. I don't go back all that far in unix, so
> I don't know why that is.

I can confirm the same for AIX 4.3.3

Regards

Javi

Re: sqrt C function(clarification)

[Paul Scott]

Shaul Karl wrote:

I'm sorry not to have provided more information in my first e-mail although 
i'm very glad so many people responded to help, but i've done some more 
testing:


specifically i'm getting 'prase error in tmp/x' where x is a long string of 
characters that tends to change on every run of the complier (at least when 
i'm compiling other programs).



You could still have told us what your command looked like but with 
answers you are getting you may not need to now.


None of the many variations of code that I tried gave the above error.

Were you thinking C or C++?  A slightly relevant point is that the 
optimizer removes the sqrt line in every case below since you are not 
using the result of the sqrt.


If you are thinking C then the casting you are doing should be (double) 
or (float) not just double or float.  That one change gets rid of all 
the errors from the following.



I've tried the following and gotten no errors

#include 
#include 

double num=16.0;

int main()
{ 
double sqrt(double num);

return(0);
}

the following warns me that 'function sqrt does not match global variable' 
but still compiles


#include 
#include 

float num;

int main()
{ 
float sqrt(float num);

return(0);
}

and this one just doesn't work at all giving the parse error previously 
described:


#include 
#include 





double num;

int main()
{ 
 num = 16; /*i've also tried 16. and 16.0 here*/

 double sqrt(double num);
return(0);
}



[12:13:02 tmp]$ cat sqrt.c
#include 
#include 

double num;

int main()
{ 
  num = 16; /*i've also tried 16. and 16.0 here*/

  double sqrt(double num);
return(0);
}
[12:13:10 tmp]$ gcc -Wall sqrt.c -o sqrt -lm
sqrt.c: In function `main':
sqrt.c:9: parse error before `double'
[12:13:25 tmp]$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4/specs
gcc version 2.95.4 20010319 (Debian prerelease)
[12:21:32 tmp]$ 

You can not have a deceleration (double sqrt(double);) after a command (num = 
16;) in the same block. Replacing the order of

num = 16
and 
double sqrt(double num);



This is another way of saying what I said about casting above.  In C++ 
declarations can occur anywhere but in C they must precede all of the 
executable statements.


As a last point Craig was correct about the optimizer - at least for gcc.

  float x = 5;

does indeed convert the integer 5 to a float 5 at compile time.

Paul Scott

Re: new install nfs not working

[Wayne Topa]

Subject: new install nfs not working
Date: Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 10:20:04AM -0700

In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> uname: Debian of course.
> Linux 2.4.5 #1 Sat Jun 16 07:33:46 PDT 2001 i686 unknown
> 
> Hello all.  Just installed nfs using apt-get but haven't got it to work
> yet. My /etc/exports hosts.allow and deny files are listed below but I
> think they are correct. On the client side the command:
> 
> # rpcinfo -p my.nfs.server  My /etc/exports hosts.allow and deny files
> are listed below but I think they are correct. On the client side the
> command:
>

I don't.
No expert on NLS but I have it working so I'll try to heelp


> ---and the 3 config files
> # cat /etc/exports 
> 
> #sample /etc/exports file:
> #/dir machine.foo.com(ro)
> /home/ 192.168.1.1(rw) 
> 
Not what I have

# /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be
# exported
#   to NFS clients.  See exports(5).
/pgm2  192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 (rw) hard,intr,no_root_squash,nohide

Any box on the home network is allowed.
> -
> # cat /etc/hosts.allow 
> 
>portmap: 192.168.1.1  
> lockd: 192.168.1.1  
> rquotad: 192.168.1.1
> mountd: 192.168.1.1
> statd: 192.168.1.1

# hosts.allow  
portmap: 192.168.1.3 : allow
rpc.ugidd:   192.168.1.3 : allow

This is to allow 192.168.1.3 to access files from 192.168.1.1
NO mountd here in mine.
> 
> --
> 
> # cat /etc/hosts.deny 
> 
Looks OK

I took a tip from the NFS Howto
Quote
  If you edit /etc/exports you will have to make sure nfsd and mountd
knows that the files have changed.  The traditonal way is to run
exportfs.  Many Linux distributions lack a exportfs program.  If
you're exportfs-less you can install this script on your
machine:

  __
  #!/bin/sh
  killall -HUP /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd
  killall -HUP /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd
  echo re-exported file systems
  __

I run this on each of my NFS Servers. My Potato & Woody boxen didn't have this.

HTH

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Re: Re: OH NO! I can't login with any display-manager!!!

[Bernard Reißberg]

Hi Kent!

I think it's not window-manager related. I tried different windowmanagers and 
it's all the same problem. The display manager tells me "login failed" (in kdm) 
or "authentication failed" (in gdm) everytime I try to login with the correct 
log-in and password. So the only way to get into KDE or something like that is 
to start X manually. I have also the blackbox and the enlightment installed. If 
I start X with startx, the blackbox is loaded as the default. Could it be, that 
there occurrs a conflict, if X is started then automatically by kdm or so? Do I 
have to edit a config-file to change something?

Thanks,
Bernard




[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 08.08.01:
> Bernard Reißberg wrote:
> 
> > BeRnArD29ReIsSbErG04IlMeNaU1980
> > 
> > Hi folks!
> > 
> > I installed newly Debian potato on my laptop and got the KDE 2.1.2 from 
> > kde.debian.net. Everything worked fine but one: I can't login with kdm. 
> > Everytime I try this, the login fails. But in textmode I can login without 
> > any problems. I think this is not a problem caused by kdm, because the same 
> > problem occured also if I try it with gdm or xdm. I tried it also with 
> > different times of new installations of the whole system. But now I have no 
> > more ideas what to do. I don't think that something is broken. The packages 
> > are all actual from the potato-servers. Could somebody give me a hint, 
> > please? I can only start my gui with startx. This should not be bad and is 
> > maybe sometimes better than the automized start of of X, but I'm really 
> > interested in the reason for this problem. Thank you very much!
> > 
> > Bernard
> 
> 
> I suspect it may be window manager related. Perhaps startx is starting 
> one wm, such as icewm, and kdm/gdm/xdm/wdm is trying to start a 
> different wm, such as sawfish, and that one is non-functional. I believe 
> kdm offers a pull-down menu to try different wm's, so you might try that.
> 
> Or is it telling you that it really is a logon issue, perhaps with a 
> message like "Invalid logon" or something, in which case it's not window 
> manager related.
> 
> Kent
>  

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Re: sqrt C function(clarification)

[Fredrik Jagenheim]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 03:44:17AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm sorry not to have provided more information in my first e-mail although 
> i'm very glad so many people responded to help, but i've done some more 
> testing:
> 
> specifically i'm getting 'prase error in tmp/x' where x is a long string of 
> characters that tends to change on every run of the complier (at least when 
> i'm compiling other programs). I've tried the following and gotten no errors
> 

With this;

#include 
#include 

double num;

int main()
{
  num = 16; 
  num = sqrt(num);  
  return 0; 
}   

I don't get any problems with neither gcc version 2.95.4 20010703
(Debian prerelease) or gcc version 3.0.1 20010801 (Debian prerelease).

Both compiles just fine, and runs without any segfaults.

My bet would be that your compiler-enviroment is broken. Did you
compile/install it yourself?

//Fredde

Re: sqrt C function(clarification)

[Shaul Karl]

> I'm sorry not to have provided more information in my first e-mail although 
> i'm very glad so many people responded to help, but i've done some more 
> testing:
> 
> specifically i'm getting 'prase error in tmp/x' where x is a long string of 
> characters that tends to change on every run of the complier (at least when 
> i'm compiling other programs). I've tried the following and gotten no errors
> 
> #include 
> #include 
> 
> double num=16.0;
> 
> int main()
> { 
>  double sqrt(double num);
> return(0);
> }
> 
> the following warns me that 'function sqrt does not match global variable' 
> but still compiles
> 
> #include 
> #include 
> 
> float num;
> 
> int main()
> { 
>  float sqrt(float num);
> return(0);
> }
> 
> and this one just doesn't work at all giving the parse error previously 
> described:
> 
> #include 
> #include 
> 
> double num;
> 
> int main()
> { 
>   num = 16; /*i've also tried 16. and 16.0 here*/
>   double sqrt(double num);
> return(0);
> }
> 


[12:13:02 tmp]$ cat sqrt.c
#include 
#include 

double num;

int main()
{ 
  num = 16; /*i've also tried 16. and 16.0 here*/
  double sqrt(double num);
return(0);
}
[12:13:10 tmp]$ gcc -Wall sqrt.c -o sqrt -lm
sqrt.c: In function `main':
sqrt.c:9: parse error before `double'
[12:13:25 tmp]$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4/specs
gcc version 2.95.4 20010319 (Debian prerelease)
[12:21:32 tmp]$ 

You can not have a deceleration (double sqrt(double);) after a command (num = 
16;) in the same block. Replacing the order of
num = 16
and 
double sqrt(double num);
fixed the warning for me. I can not reproduce the tmp/x error you are 
reporting. Maybe you should try to type the whole file from scratch, possibly 
in another dir?


> I'm sorry I was not more clear with my first e-mail and hope this points out 
> the problem better.  Also, how do I let gcc know that I want math.h to be an 
> available library so i dont' have to use the -l option every time if run it?
> 


Do not know the answer for getting -lm by default. You might try info gcc. 
This will not be an issue with larger projects since one would use make:

[12:29:37 tmp]$ cat Makefile 
CFLAGS  = -Wall
LDFLAGS = -lm

sqrt:sqrt.c
cc -o $@ $< $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS)
[12:29:39 tmp]$ make
cc -o sqrt sqrt.c -Wall -lm
[12:29:46 tmp]$


> one final thing: did any of you try comiling the non-working examples on your 
> gcc's? did you get any errors?
> 
> thanks a lot
> 
> 
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Re: matrox g450 and dri

[Cyan Ogilvie]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 09:10:20PM -0500, Matthew Garman wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 06:54:09PM -0500, Matthew Garman wrote:
> > I replaced /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o with the file of the
> > same name from Matrox's website.  I also dropped in the file names
> > mga_hal_drv.o from the Matrox site.
> 
> This was my problem... in my haste, I didn't notice that the driver from
> Matrox's site are for XFree 4.0.x, whereas I'm running 4.1.0.
> 
> Hopefully this might be useful to someone else down the road :)

Hmmm, I recently got a G400 working with X 4.1.0 using the matrox
mga_drv.o and mga_hal_drv.o (claims 4.0.3 or something).  Using the
drm from dri.sf.net (version 3.0.something).  DRI working on first
head, multihead working great.  Had two days of pain before discovering
that xinerama and DRI won't play together :(

The mgapdesk util (from matrox, also avail as a debian package) is
great trying to get multihead going, then I just added the lines
to load dri and glx and all is happy.

Cyan

Re: .forward file format for exim

[tempsch]

On 11 Aug, Sam Varghese wrote:
> i have the following .forward file in my home directory:
> 
> 
> #debian lists
> if $h_From: contains "debian-user" or
>$h_To: contains "Debian-user"
>then
>save mail/debian
> endif
>  
> theoretically, this should tell exim to sort incoming
> mail into the files specified as per the exim documentation
> at www.exim.org
> 
> since it doesn't work, i must be doing something wrong. this
> box uses potato with a 2.2.19 kernel.
> 
> could someone enlighten me?

Well, I run exim 3.12 here...

I don't know if case matters or not, but in my .forward I have
lowercase $h_from etc. and they work. I haven't played with logical
or'ing rules though, instead I use two or more rules after each other,
saving to the same folder. 
 
As to filtering mail from this list; why not use the X-Mailing-List
header?
This is what I use:
if $message_headers contains "X-Mailing-List: 

Re: Galeon (unstable): Cannot find a schema for galeon preferences (gconf)

[Karsten M. Self]

on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 11:08:47AM +0200, Leo Laursen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> 
> > I'm getting a dialog box with the following error when running Galeon
> > after the latest unstable upgrade:
> 
> > Cannot find a schema for galeon preferences.
> > Check your gconf setup, look at galeon FAQ for more information.
> 
> > Expert mode
> > ---
> 
> > 1. Edit the "path" file in the directory $sysconfdir/gconf/1.
> 
> > A basic configuration for the default backend would look
> > like:
> 
> > xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory
> > include "$(HOME)/.gconf.path"
> > xml:readwrite:$(HOME)/.gconf
> > xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults
> 
> > =2E..I don't find a setup-gconf-source file in the Galeon package.  I'm
> > sufficiently a non-GNOME user that I've no idea how to go about setting
> > up a gconf schema (let alone what the damned things are).
> 
> > I did find /etc/gconf/schemas/galeon.schemas, but it doesn't appear to
> > be doing the trick.  Note it's listed in conffiles (below).
> 
> > Anyone got a fix for this?

First, I'm redirecting response to list.  This is of general interest,
I'd hope.

> Making "/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" world _writable_ fixes it.
> Faq said chmod -R 755; but that did'nt help.
> I tried chmod -R 777, and that works. (a litle drastic)
> After that Galeon wrote a lot of "stuf" in the dir.

WTF is /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults doing being world writeable?  Isn't
that just crying out for all kinds of nastiness?  And no, this isn't
aimed at Leo.

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Re: unable to stat

[harsha]

hi,
   
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 03:34:38AM -0400, Daniel T. Chen wrote:
> I remember this in 2.4.4 as a vm bug that trashed my ext2 fs. Mount that
> partition readonly and e2fsck it. More than likely the file is probably
> being reported as some insane size like ~14 GB. Upgrade to 2.4.7+ as soon
> as possible, then repair your fs.
> 

I am using the 2.4.7 kernel. I thought it was an installation problem. I
just checked it out.

ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/uuidgen.1.gz

p-wx--xr-x1 1577316331 12254897930 Feb 20  1910 
/usr/share/man/man1/uuidgen.1.gz

I deleted that file and then the upgrade went on smoothly. Does that
mean that the vm bug still exists or the possible reason is that it was
due to a improper shutdown?

thank you
regards
harsha

Re: messages log file

[Karsten M. Self]

on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 04:57:58PM +1000, Craig W ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This may sound really stupid, however I cannot seem to locate anything
> about it anywhere.  When I view the messages log file it is full of
> --MARK-- , what does this mean? I have never seen it on any other of
> the Linux boxes I have (running RH though). I am slowly trying to get
> to grips with Debian before I go swapping out all the RH boxes.

It's a timestamp.  You'll find the generating script in one of your
system crontabs.

> Also any ideas on why I have ssh running & can log in from my internal
> network, I have allowed the IP range from work access, I can scan the box
> from work & it reports that the ports I have open are definitely open, yet I
> cannot connect (I even set up Apache to see if I could get a webpage, ie:
> some sort of connection happening between the box & the remote) & yet I
> still get "connection refused by remote.." 

Try running the client with verbose option:

$ ssh -v 

Check your sshd server messages, generally in /var/log/auth.log.

> I have triple-checked that I have the ipchains set up correctly ( &
> ran a packet through the chains to ensure the chains weren't to
> blame), any ideas, I have checked the config of ssh & all appears
> sweet, although I get this error when I even try to get the default
> page up in a browser on the  remote. 

What happens if you telnet port 80 from a remote site?  Does the request
show up in any system logs?

> I am suspicious of my ISP "filtering" the connections (although after
> speaking to them they tell me they don't), although wouldn't a std.
> nmap scan show my ports as closed or filtered if this is the case?

Check your ISP's AUP.  More and more are denying users server ports.

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problems with configuring Debian

[fouad HENNI]

 I installed Linux Debian 2.2 r0 on my computer and I
need solution for the problems below:

1) My video card is "Trident Blade 3D PCI/AGP (IPC)",
so I installed the XF86_SVGA
   server but the computer often blocks when I
'startx'. I used to reinstall Debian. 
   When it works, the only graphic mode that I had is
the 320x200 with a very big police.

2) My network interface is a Realtek 8029 and I didn't
find in 'modconf' a driver for it.

3) My modem is a 'Motorola SM56 PCI speakphone Modem
#2' and was not detected.

Thank you.

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Re: Cnet Pro200 PCI fast Ethernet Adapter, road runner centralflorida

[Antonio Rodriguez]

I compiled again the kernel with all possible "network devices" as M or Y,
except for a group of ARCnet cards. Any way the module dmfe.c does not
appear available. So I have no clue. Could that be a lacking feature in
kernel-source.2.2.19pre17? I checked, and dmfe.c is present in
"kernel*17/drivers/net/dmfe.c"
Any ideas?
Thanks.
- Original Message -
From: "tony mancill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Antonio Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: Cnet Pro200 PCI fast Ethernet Adapter, road runner
centralflorida


> On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
>
> > I am trying to get my Linux box connecting to the net, but for some
reason
> > my ethernet card does not appear to be recognized by kernel. I think I
> > marked Y or at least M in all close options for Ethernet Adapter when
> > creating kernel image (using 2.2.19pre17 kernel-source, potato2.2rev3).
Any
> > way, would some one give good pointers and/or indications to get
connected?
> > I am kind of clueless here. Thanks a lot,
>
> Hi Antonio,
>
> you've taken a step in the right direction by compiling a kernel with
> modular/built-in support for all of the types of Ethernet drivers.  What
> you need to realize is that the kernel doesn't automatically try to load
> of the modules.  You need to use "modprobe" to load the modular driver
> that corresponds to the chipset on your Ethernet card.  That CNet Pro200
> is based on a Davicom chipset, which correponds to the dfme.o module, so
> try "modprobe dfme" and then issue "dmesg" to see what the kernel had to
> say about it.
>
> Hope that helps,
> tony
>
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>

Re: Galeon (unstable): Cannot find a schema for galeon preferences (gconf)

[Karsten M. Self]

on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 11:56:51PM -0700, Karsten M. Self 
(kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
> I'm getting a dialog box with the following error when running Galeon
> after the latest unstable upgrade:
> 
> Cannot find a schema for galeon preferences.

I was pointed to the following post on debian-devel:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200108/msg00464.html

Correcting for typos, running:

$ gconftool --shutdown  
$ su -
$ GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=xml::/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults  gconftool 

...doesn't solve my problem.

...and, BTW, where's the gconftool manpage, eh?

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Re: Server/Gateway Linux Box

[Osamu Aoki]

I think you need to install task-newbie or install debian with newbie selected.
Then you have mc (midnight commwander) and documentation.  Just point
and click.

Then start mc and go to /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt.

There is all the answer.  Or you can go to www.linuxdoc.org

I did it prety much what you describe and have my memo as quick ref on
my site.  But you need to read real doc.

ipmasq package for basic masqarading.

samba for fileshare with M$.

nfs for file share w/ linux.

SMP need you to recompile kernel if 2.2.

cable modem (check protocol, fix ip, dhcp or pppoe?)


On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 12:49:55AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, I'm building a Linux box that will serve as a server and gateway to split 
> internet access from a cable modem to numerous machines (some Linux, some 
> Winblows.) I'm putting in 2 network cards and a dual-processor motherboard 
> with 2 Pentium II processors. What do I need to do to set it up to perform IP 
> Masquerading, and how do I turn on dual-processing support in Linux? Do I 
> just compile in Symmetric multiprocessing support into the kernel? Also, how 
> do I set up file sharing so that every machine on my network can access the 
> files on any other?
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sqrt C function(clarification)

[R1nso13]

I'm sorry not to have provided more information in my first e-mail although 
i'm very glad so many people responded to help, but i've done some more 
testing:

specifically i'm getting 'prase error in tmp/x' where x is a long string of 
characters that tends to change on every run of the complier (at least when 
i'm compiling other programs). I've tried the following and gotten no errors

#include 
#include 

double num=16.0;

int main()
{ 
 double sqrt(double num);
return(0);
}

the following warns me that 'function sqrt does not match global variable' 
but still compiles

#include 
#include 

float num;

int main()
{ 
 float sqrt(float num);
return(0);
}

and this one just doesn't work at all giving the parse error previously 
described:

#include 
#include 

double num;

int main()
{ 
  num = 16; /*i've also tried 16. and 16.0 here*/
  double sqrt(double num);
return(0);
}

I'm sorry I was not more clear with my first e-mail and hope this points out 
the problem better.  Also, how do I let gcc know that I want math.h to be an 
available library so i dont' have to use the -l option every time if run it?

one final thing: did any of you try comiling the non-working examples on your 
gcc's? did you get any errors?

thanks a lot

Re: messages log file

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya craig

> This may sound really stupid, however I cannot seem to locate anything about
> it anywhere.
> When I view the messages log file it is full of --MARK-- , what does this
> mean? I have never seen it

it means your system is not as busy as it should be

if your system was bz you'd see tons of stuff between --MARK-- that
makes those entries less significant noise in the log file

> on any other of the Linux boxes I have (running RH though). I am slowly
> trying to get to grips with Debian
> before I go swapping out all the RH boxes.
> 
> Also any ideas on why I have ssh running & can log in from my internal
> network, I have allowed the IP range from work access, I can scan the box
> from work & it reports that the ports I have open are definitely open, yet I
> cannot connect

which is it... that you can login or that you cannot ???

am assuming you cannot...
- check that sshd is running on the target machine you are trying
to get into

- check that ssh is properly installed ... 
/etc/ssh/*  - check for the files and ip# and if you
allow/disallow root to login etc


> (I even set up Apache to see if I could get a webpage, ie:
> some sort of connection happening between the box & the remote) & yet I

what does "telnet www.your_machine.com 80"   say

is httpd running on that amchine ( www.your_machine.com )

> still get "connection refused by remote.." I have triple-checked that I have
> the ipchains set up correctly ( & ran a packet through the chains to ensure
> the chains weren't to blame),

doesnt sound like ipchains is passing it thru...


> any ideas, I have checked the config of ssh &
> all appears sweet,

how do you know its "sweet" ??? is it working???

> although I get this error when I even try to get the
> default page up in a browser on the  remote.

> I am suspicious of my ISP
> "filtering" the connections (although after speaking to them they tell me
> they don't),

Most ISP do NOT filter traffic to/from you... they have bigger worries

> although wouldn't a std. nmap scan show my ports as closed or
> filtered if this is the case?

nmap from where to who ???

any namp from  a machine to anotehr is subject to the ethernet traffic
and firewalls, routers, packet filters, and all the gizmos along the way


collection online free nmap audit(ors)... 
http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Audit/nmap.test.gwif.html

urls to trojan detections, scanners, detectors, etc..etc...
http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Audit

c ya
alvin

Re: unable to stat

[Daniel T. Chen]

I remember this in 2.4.4 as a vm bug that trashed my ext2 fs. Mount that
partition readonly and e2fsck it. More than likely the file is probably
being reported as some insane size like ~14 GB. Upgrade to 2.4.7+ as soon
as possible, then repair your fs.

---
Dan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GPG key: www.cs.unc.edu/~chenda/pubkey.gpg.asc

On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, harsha wrote:

> hi,
> recenlty my system went haywire and had to run fsck when i did some
> clearing and fixing of wrong values. among them was
> /usr/share/man/man1/uuidgen.1.gz. 
> 
> I thought that the problem was solved, but when I ran apt-get update &&
> apt-get update. I came across this problem.
> 
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.22-2_i386.deb 
> (--unpack):
>  unable to stat `./usr/share/man/man1/uuidgen.1.gz' (which I was about to 
> install): Value too large for defined data type
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.22-2_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> Hmmn is this a filesystem error or the package is corrupt? I did a
> search on google. The reference where to some large file as much as 2Gb
> gettting tarred or untarred.

Re: Courier-IMAP

[Ramin Motakef]

Waldemar Brodkorb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hello Ramin,
>
> ..
>
> Hmm, where you find this attribute?
> $ grep -ir mailMessageStore /etc/ldap/schema
> $ 

In the qmail.schema: ftp://ftp.eyeo.com/qmail/qmail.schema

ramin

unable to stat

[harsha]

hi,
recenlty my system went haywire and had to run fsck when i did some
clearing and fixing of wrong values. among them was
/usr/share/man/man1/uuidgen.1.gz. 

I thought that the problem was solved, but when I ran apt-get update &&
apt-get update. I came across this problem.

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.22-2_i386.deb 
(--unpack):
 unable to stat `./usr/share/man/man1/uuidgen.1.gz' (which I was about to 
install): Value too large for defined data type
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.22-2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Hmmn is this a filesystem error or the package is corrupt? I did a
search on google. The reference where to some large file as much as 2Gb
gettting tarred or untarred.

what shall I do about this?

regards
harsha