Problems with Acer CD-RW 8432IA

2001-01-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all

I've been trying to get my new Acer CD-RW drive working with no luck so far 
(after 4-5 weeks - on and off).
I first tried under Win98 SE and Win2000 (including updating firmware, 
motherboard drivers  ASPI layer
etc.) - but Windows would sometimes not detect the drive at all, or hang when 
running Explorer or hang 
when starting a burn.

I'm now trying to get it working under Linux (which if it doesn't work I'm 
taking it back to the shop). I've
followed all the steps from the CD-Writing-HOWTO, but I'm getting similar 
problems to those under Windows 
(ie. using cdrecord through Xcdroast or gcombust hangs the system for 10-15 
secs and then aborts
with an Illegal address, check condition or another error.

Here's the output from 'dmesg' - which to me looks a-ok:

start
Linux version 2.2.17 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 2220 (Debian 
GNU/Linux)) #1 SMP Mon Jan 8 12:45:23 WST 2001
mapped APIC to e000 (0028c000)
Detected 451028 kHz processor.
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 897.84 BogoMIPS
Memory: 184496k/188352k available (940k kernel code, 424k reserved, 2440k data, 
52k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 256k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k)
Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K  L1 D Cache: 32K
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K  L1 D Cache: 32K
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 12.48 usecs.
CPU0: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c
SMP motherboard not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb280
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536)
Starting kswapd v 1.5 
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
request_module[parport_lowlevel]: Root fs not mounted
lp: no devices found
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.13)
apm: disabled on user request.
Linux telephony interface: v1.00
$Id: ixj.c,v 3.31 2000/04/14 19:24:47 jaugenst Exp $
SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 01
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: ST38410A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: QUANTUM BIGFOOT_CY2160A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: 8X4X32, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: ST38410A, 8223MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1048/255/63
hdb: QUANTUM BIGFOOT_CY2160A, 2014MB w/67kB Cache, CHS=1023/64/63
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP line discipline registered.
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2  hda5  hda3 hda4
 hdb: hdb1
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 52k freed
Adding Swap: 257032k swap-space (priority -1)
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 1 host.
  Vendor: ATAPI Model: CD-R/RW 8X4X32Rev: 5.AX
  Type:   CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
PPP BSD Compression module registered
end

After booting, the 'lsmod' command shows the following modules installed:

start---
Module  Size  Used by
ppp_deflate39392   0  (autoclean)
soundcore   2564   0  (autoclean) (unused)
bsd_comp3880   0 
vfat8988   2 
fat29056   2  [vfat]
sr_mod 16968   0  (unused)
sg 12256   0  (unused)
ide-scsi7252   0 
ide-cd 22936   0 
cdrom  26332   0  [sr_mod ide-cd]
scsi_mod   51512   3  [sr_mod sg ide-scsi]
---end

I've configured most of the drivers as modules, as compiling them into the 
kernel didn't work either.

If anyone can see where I'm going wrong I'd appreciate it ... otherwise I'm 
going to put it down as
either a motherboard or CD-RW hardware error ... and the CD-RW is easier to 
replace!

thanks
Andrew


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Re: Making a bootable LILO floppy

2001-01-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
... I always just use 'mkboot [image]' on my main kernel image, which
gives me the same lilo config on the floppy as for the HDD.

Andrew

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On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Sebastiaan wrote:

 Hi,
 
 from /usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt:
 
 /sbin/mke2fs /dev/fd0
 mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
 cp /boot/boot.b /floppy
 cp /vmlinuz /floppy
 echo image=/floppy/vmlinuz label=linux | /sbin/lilo -C - -b /dev/fd0 -i
   /floppy/boot.b -c -m /floppy/map
 umount /floppy
 
 
 For bigger configurations it may be handier to:
 /sbin/lilo -C floppylilo.conf  -b /dev/fd0 -i /floppy/boot.b -c -m /floppy/map
 
 
 Greetz,
 Sebastiaan
 
 
 On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Tom Schuetz wrote:
 
  How would I save a LILO configuration to a floppy's MBR, so as to run LILO 
  from the floppy?
  
  Thanks in advance!
  
  
  
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Problems with Acer CD-RW 8432IA (cont...)

2001-01-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all

I tried the command line suggestion of:

cdrecord -v -dummy speed=2 dev=0,0 cd_image.raw

with no luck ... here's the output from cdrecord if someone can help?!?!?

thanks

start--
Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
atapi: 1
Device type: Removable CD-ROM
Version: 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info: 'ATAPI   '
Identifikation : 'CD-R/RW 8X4X32  '
Revision   : '5.AX'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO
Drive buf size : 1634304 = 1596 KB
FIFO size  : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data   67 MB
Total size:  77 MB (07:38.30) = 34373 sectors
Lout start:  77 MB (07:40/23) = 34373 sectors
Current Secsize: -1
  ATIP start of lead in:  -12525 (97:15/00)
  ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
Disk type: Long strategy type (Cyanine, AZO or similar)
Manuf. index: 26
Manufacturer: TDK Corporation
Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 325476
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in dummy mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 9 seconds.8 
seconds.7 seconds.6 seconds.5 seconds.4 
seconds.3 seconds.2 seconds.1 seconds.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
Starting new track at sector: 0

Track 01:   0 of  67 MB written.cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi 
sendcmd: retryable error
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
CDB:  2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 21 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x21 Qual 0x00 (logical block address out of range) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) 
cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 40s

write track data: error after 0 bytes
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Writing  time:5.021s
Fixating...
WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode.
Fixating time:0.002s
cdrecord: fifo had 128 puts and 1 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.
end

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Re: Problems with Acer CD-RW 8432IA (cont...)

2001-01-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

thanks Jaye ... I've tried quite a few different kernel configurations,
including the one in your e-mail. I haven't been able to get this drive
working at all under linux or Windows  I think it's time to write Acer
off as a bad mistake ...

Andrew

- Original Message -
From: Jaye Inabnit ke6sls [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Andrew McRobert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: Problems with Acer CD-RW 8432IA (cont...)



 Andrew,

 Have you ever had this writer working under linux? It almost sounds like a
 problem I had following a kernel upgrade from 2.0.36 to 2.2.17! I had left
 in the atapi drivers in the kernel when I compiled it - - - I was kind of
 going nutz over the whole deal. Finally my brother sent me a small email,
and
 that did the trick. I'll add it for you, and perhaps this might help.

 Re: no scsi found
 From: G. L. `Griz' Inabnit [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



 Message was signed by unknown key ID 0x2FFB4B4A
 Fire up 'make menuconfig' and follows this check list.

 1.   Block Devices
 1a.  Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support   = N
 1b.  SCSI emulation support = y

 2.   SCSI SUPPORT
 2a.  SCSI support  = y
 2b.  SCSI CD-ROM support = Y
 2c.  Enable vendor-specific extensions (for SCSI CDROM =Y
 2d.  SCSI generic support = Y


 On Sunday 10 December 2000 14:33, you were accused of writtng something
like
 this:

   Griz,
 
  I'm stumped. I have checked and recheckd and even re-re-compiled the
kernel
  just to double make sure. I have included generic scsi and scsi
emulation,
  but cdrecord -scanbus finds nothing. i'm reading the howto:
  http://www.guug.de/~winni/linux/cdr/html/CD-Writing-2.html
  But it is telling me that I can't include some things in the kernel and
  should be using ^m^ for modules. Did you mod the scsi stuff last time? I
  don't recall ever using modules on anything :|
 
  tnx

 I hope this is helpful.

 regards

 On Monday 08 January 2001 18:34, Andrew McRobert wrote:
  hi all
 
  I tried the command line suggestion of:
 
  cdrecord -v -dummy speed=2 dev=0,0 cd_image.raw
 
  with no luck ... here's the output from cdrecord if someone can
help?!?!?
 
  thanks
 
  start--
  Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling
  TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
  scsidev: '0,0'
  scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
  Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
  atapi: 1
  Device type: Removable CD-ROM
  Version: 0
  Response Format: 1
  Vendor_info: 'ATAPI   '
  Identifikation : 'CD-R/RW 8X4X32  '
  Revision   : '5.AX'
  Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
  Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
  Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO
  Drive buf size : 1634304 = 1596 KB
  FIFO size  : 4194304 = 4096 KB
  Track 01: data   67 MB
  Total size:  77 MB (07:38.30) = 34373 sectors
  Lout start:  77 MB (07:40/23) = 34373 sectors
  Current Secsize: -1
ATIP start of lead in:  -12525 (97:15/00)
ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
  Disk type: Long strategy type (Cyanine, AZO or similar)
  Manuf. index: 26
  Manufacturer: TDK Corporation
  Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 325476
  Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in dummy mode for single session.
  Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 9 seconds.8 seconds.7
  seconds.6 seconds.5 seconds.4 seconds.3 seconds.2 seconds.1 seconds.
  Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
  Starting new track at sector: 0
  Track 01:   0 of  67 MB written.cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1:
  scsi sendcmd: retryable error status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
  CDB:  2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00
  Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 21 00 00 00
  Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
  Sense Code: 0x21 Qual 0x00 (logical block address out of range) Fru 0x0
  Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
  cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 40s
 
  write track data: error after 0 bytes
  Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  Writing  time:5.021s
  Fixating...
  WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode.
  Fixating time:0.002s
  cdrecord: fifo had 128 puts and 1 gets.
  cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.
  end
 
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Adding UFS support

2000-12-22 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all

I just put a SCSI disk from an old sparc-station into my server, but when I
try to mount it with:

mount -t ufs -o ufstype=sun /[mount] /[mount_point]

I get a message that the kernel doesn't support the UFS filesystem ...
excuse my ignorance, but does anyone know if its possible for me to run a
UFS module with 'insmod' or something along those lines?

cheers
Andrew McRobert




Installing new SCSI driver in Dell Poweredge - a challenge?

2000-11-26 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all

Thanks for the helpful comments re: my LILO problem. I've temporarily
abandoned adding a SCSI drive from an old sparc station, and have got the
server booting properly again through LILO. Here's what I'm trying to do
though, if anyone has any ideas they'd be much appreciated.

The HDD is a 50pin SCSI drive from an old Sun sparc station (which was
running Debian also - and has linux  Sun partitions) - the old HDD does not
boot. What I'd like to do is install this drive into the newer Dell server
we have here at the Uni. The Dell server has an on-board SCSI Ultra-2
controller for two Seagate drives, and a separate PCI SCSI card for the DDS4
tape drive. This separate card has both an Ultra-2 channel and a separate
Fast/Ultra channel for older SCSI devices.

My basic plan of attack has been to install the old Sun HDD internally and
hook it up through the Ultra channel on the SCSI card. Everything's
terminated correctly, and at boot time the controller correctly identifies
the SCSI id and type of the old Sun HDD. The Sun disk is set at id 3, the
two Seagate drives are set at id's 0 and 1.

The problem is that the PCI SCSI controller initialises prior to the onboard
Ultra-2 controller (which controls the drive that I want the system to boot
off). This means that the old Sun HDD becomes /dev/sda, while the two
Seagate drives become /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc respectively. LILO is set up on
the Seagate HDD at id 0, and the config file tells LILO to look for the
kernel and root partition on /dev/sda1.

If I boot the server with the old Sun HDD attached, I get a message along
the lines of can't find boot device, if I take it out again, the Seagate
drive can't boot (it gets to LI and hangs). What I'd like to do is make
sure that the old Sun HDD is /dev/sdc - NOT /dev/sda - in which case the
machine should boot a-ok. However, for the life of me I can't get Linux to
recognise it as anything but /dev/sda. I've tried setting it's id to 0, and
the normal Seagate boot drive to 1 (and changed the SCSI controller to boot
from 1) - but this doesn't work either - the Sun disk is still /dev/sda.
I've also told the BIOS to give the on-board controller a higher boot
priority than the PCI SCSI controller - but this doesn't change Linux-world.

I realise know that it's probably the fact that the PCI SCSI controller
initialises before the on-board, meaning that the old Sun HDD is detected
before the two Seagate drives attached to the on-board controller.

I'm not sure if, and how, I can get the on-board controller to kick-in
first, meaning that my main system drive (SCSI id 0), is /dev/sda???

*Any* help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks
Andrew


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RE: Installing new SCSI driver in Dell Poweredge - a challenge?

2000-11-26 Thread Andrew McRobert
this is simple, just get a lilo boot: prompt and type:

linux root=/dev/sdc1

which will override the root= line in lilo.conf

I realise that i can do this, and have actually changed the lilo.conf
setting (and run lilo) to boot from /dev/sdb1, but I get Warning: /dev/sdb
is not the first hard disk. If I then try to boot with that configuration,
I get the LI situation ...

tks
Andrew


-Original Message-
From: Ethan Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, 26 November 2000 9:23 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Installing new SCSI driver in Dell Poweredge - a challenge?


On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 03:51:18PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote:

 the Seagate HDD at id 0, and the config file tells LILO to look for the
 kernel and root partition on /dev/sda1.

this is simple, just get a lilo boot: prompt and type:

linux root=/dev/sdc1

which will override the root= line in lilo.conf

 If I boot the server with the old Sun HDD attached, I get a message along
 the lines of can't find boot device, if I take it out again, the Seagate
 drive can't boot (it gets to LI and hangs). What I'd like to do is make
 sure that the old Sun HDD is /dev/sdc - NOT /dev/sda - in which case the
 machine should boot a-ok. However, for the life of me I can't get Linux to
 recognise it as anything but /dev/sda. I've tried setting it's id to 0,
and
 the normal Seagate boot drive to 1 (and changed the SCSI controller to
boot
 from 1) - but this doesn't work either - the Sun disk is still /dev/sda.
 I've also told the BIOS to give the on-board controller a higher boot
 priority than the PCI SCSI controller - but this doesn't change
Linux-world.

the linux kernel assigns the device nodes dynamically, whatever disk
it notices first will get /dev/sda, its much simpler to just fix
/etc/fstab and lilo.conf then try and convince the kernel otherwise.

as for the LI stuff maybe you should try grub, i think its much less
fragile then lilo, its also much more powerful and smarter.  (you
don't have to reinstall it everytime you touch the kernel files)

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mkboot

2000-11-25 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all

Can anyone tell me a reliable way to make a boot disk? I've tried the
mkboot util, and I have to say it's pretty average - it hasn't
successfully booted a disk, only get's to:

LILO boot:
Loading linux

and dies ... I'm pretty sure there's a way to make a boot disk with dd,
but can't remember how. The machine I'm trying to boot uses a 2.2.14
kernel and mounts the second SCSI drive as the root partition ...

cheers
Andrew



HELP! - LILO (SCSI)

2000-11-24 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all

I tried adding a ULTRA SCSI hard disk to the server (on the separate ULTRA
SCSI channel on the controller), and while the system correctly identifies
all of the attached SCSI devices (including the two other HDDs), it gives
me this message when I connect the ULTRA SCSI drive:

can't locate boot device

If I disconnect it, ie. take my system back to exactly the way it was
before, LILO stops at LI???!?!?!?

Does anybody have any idea why this is happening??

thanks a lot
Andrew




RE: crontab control?

2000-09-04 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

it is controlled by /etc/crontab, one possibility why it's not running may
be the execute permissions on either the /etc/cron.daily directory or the
specific scripts ...

Andrew

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-Original Message-
From: Ron Farrer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 11:00 PM
To: Debian User
Subject: crontab control?



Hello;

What controls when '/etc/cron.daily/*' gets run? I thought it was
'/etc/crontab' but for some reason it doesn't run at the times I
specified.


TIA,

Ron
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RE: ssh from nt? - Port forwarding

2000-09-04 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all

I tried a little while back to forward VNC connections through an SSH tunnel
(by telling SSH to listen for connections on local port *X1* and forward
them to foreign port *Y3* -- and then VNC-ing to *X1*). However, I got an
error from Teraterm Pro (with TSSH ext.), along the lines of application
tried to connect to forwarded port, and then it terminates. Does anyone
have any experience with this?

cheers
Andrew


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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 9:46 AM
To: William Jensen; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: ssh from nt?


There are three that I know of:

* TeraTerm
* PuTTY
* SecureCRT
(to complete the list)
* F-secure SSH

snip
Note, however, that TeraTerm and PuTTY will only work with SSH v1; if you
need SSH v2 your only choice (that I know of) is SecureCRT.

f-secure does ssh2 also, but if I had the choice, I=B4d go for teraterm,
much easier to configure, use and *free*.

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RE: How to change machine+machine name and ip-address in Debian?

2000-08-20 Thread Andrew McRobert
... you could also use the following commands instead of editing all the
files:

yourputer@ hostname [type hostname]
yourputer@ ifconfig eth0 [your ip] netmask [type netmask] broadcast [type
brdcst add.]

... I'm not familiar with a command to change your nameservers (I'm sure
there wld be one though), so you'll probably need to manually edit
/etc/resolv.conf to change those (if necessary).

cheers
Andrew

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-Original Message-
From: Rogerio Brito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 7:03 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: How to change machine+machine name and ip-address in
Debian?


On Aug 20 2000, Magnus Ericson wrote:
 I am new to Linux and Debian and needs to find out how to change the
 name (both machine and domain) and ip-address.

To change these parameters of your machine, edit the following
files:

/etc/hostname
/etc/hosts
/etc/init.d/network (if you use slink aka Debian 2.1)
/etc/network/interfaces (if you use potato aka Debian 2.2)

I guess that these should be the first places where you should
take a look at.

You might also like to change other places like:

/etc/resolv.conf
/etc/host.conf

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 Magnus

Hope this helps, Roger...

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Resetting dselect

2000-08-18 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all

Does anyone know a quick way to unselect (hold I guess) all the packages in
dselect (as opposed to going through the whole list and hitting =)???

thanks
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RE: Resetting dselect

2000-08-18 Thread Andrew McRobert
thanks, but that doesn't seem to be working ... (I'm still getting about 2
ga-zillion packages to install)

Andrew

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-Original Message-
From: David Vrabel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 4:41 PM
To: Andrew McRobert
Subject: Re: Resetting dselect


On 18 Aug 2000, Andrew McRobert wrote:

 Does anyone know a quick way to unselect (hold I guess) all the packages
in
 dselect (as opposed to going through the whole list and hitting =)???

If you press the key when the section header line is hightlighted it will
affect all the packages in that sections.

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fyi: Winux??

2000-08-17 Thread Andrew McRobert
looks like the 'blue screen of death' is coming to a computer near you ...

... from today's AustralianIT (http://australianit.com.au)

WINUX RUMOUR

WinInfo says Microsoft has been working for the past year with a company
called Mainsoft to port Windows to Linux and, possibly, other versions of
UNIX. It's apparently a complicated business to get Windows applications to
run normally in Linux, and so far results are disappointing. See
http://www.wininformant.com/display.asp?ID=2874

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Console display - font line sizes

2000-08-15 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all

Does anyone know how to set the number of characters per line  number of
lines per screen for the console??

thanks
Andrew

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RE: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi

2000-08-15 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi again

... it looks to me like the SPARC is trying to boot from the network, as
Christopher said, hit Stop+A or Ctrl+Break to get yourself a prompt. On the
Sparc here, I have to type n for new command mode, and then boot /fd to
boot from the floppy ...

Andrew

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-Original Message-
From: Christoph Gaitzsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Christoph Gaitzsch
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 1:43 AM
To: Wilson Yau
Cc: Andrew McRobert; 'Debian User Mailing List'
Subject: Re: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi


 WY == Wilson Yau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Where did you fail in the boot process? ie. did the Sun access the
floppy
and spit out an error message, or did it simply say something like
can't
find boot image off the HDD?

   WY When the system started booting, I saw it soughting the floopy drive
as
   WY the green light was on and off several times.

   WY Shortly after displaying the system information like:

   WY SPARCengine(tm) Ultra CP1400 (UltraSparc-IIi 303MHz) OpenBoot 3.10.9
ME
   WY with 192MB RAM.

   WY Got this message:

   WY  Drive not ready
   WY  Boot device: net  File and args:

Hi,

try changing the boot device. Type STOP + a, then boot floppy.

Greetings, Christoph


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RE: Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
yep, it's an onboard adapter, I downloaded the X server from the mainboard
manufacturer's site ...

Andrew

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Subject: RE: Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75


Hi,

Sounds like you may be using the wrong xserver.

Are you sure you are using the correct xserver for you video card?

Tal


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Port No. 1032 - iad3

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all

Does anyone know what port 1032 is used for on a Windows machine (or any
machine for that matter)? Running a port scan on my computer shows this port
open and labelled as supporting iad3??

thanks
Andrew


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RE: Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
sounds like a possibility ... what are those ferrite beads you're talking
about?

cheers
Andrew

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Subject: Re: Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75




Shadowing.. Sounds like a cable problem actually. I get the efect on my
system because I'm running it through a KVM switch. One of the systems I
use where I work is also run through a switchbox and displays the same
kind of problem. Perhaps you could try using a shorter cable (if the cable
can detatch from the monitor) or add one or two of those ferrite beads
around the cable. Might or might not work.

On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:

 On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 02:51:41PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote:
  hi
 
  Does anyone have a good Modeline for this monitor? I can get X running @
  1024x768 with 16bpp, but there's a bit of shadowing around eterm windows
  etc 

 Have you fiddled with xvidtune?

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RE: vi won't work with any TERM setting

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
... when you log into the potato box, what's the value of the TERM
environment value (get this by typing env).

tks
Andrew

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To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: vi won't work with any TERM setting


hello

Problem is that no matter what TERM setting I use, and I've tried everyone
listed in terminfo, I cannot get vi to operate correctly. The closest TERM
value is 'sun' which will use the full screen idea ok but neither the
cursor keys nor h/j/k/l will move about the page. Other TERMs produce
rather worse responses.

I've also tried stty sane and looked at individual stty options, to no
avail.

I am connecting to 'potato' via telnet from a solaris box which I interact
with via an OpenWindows xterm. I have also tried a vanilla telnet app. and
get the same results.

I am new to debian, having arrived here from Solaris via (a brief stop at)
redhat. Not being able to edit files is a bit of a handicap at this early
stage.

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks

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RE: vi won't work with any TERM setting

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
try this to set the TERM variable (this is for bash, similar syntax in
others shells - check sys admin guide for details):

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] TERM=vt100   // set TERM to generic 
vt100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] export TERM  // export as env. 
variable

then try 'telnettting' ...

tks
Andrew

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-Original Message-
From: r.l. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 1:24 PM
To: Andrew McRobert
Subject: RE: vi won't work with any TERM setting


... when you log into the potato box, what's the value of the TERM
environment value (get this by typing env).

TERM=unknown
Which is rather odd. vi will then complain as 'unknown' is not - obviously
- in terminfo.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Rolf.


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To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: vi won't work with any TERM setting


hello

Problem is that no matter what TERM setting I use, and I've tried everyone
listed in terminfo, I cannot get vi to operate correctly. The closest TERM
value is 'sun' which will use the full screen idea ok but neither the
cursor keys nor h/j/k/l will move about the page. Other TERMs produce
rather worse responses.

I've also tried stty sane and looked at individual stty options, to no
avail.

I am connecting to 'potato' via telnet from a solaris box which I interact
with via an OpenWindows xterm. I have also tried a vanilla telnet app. and
get the same results.

I am new to debian, having arrived here from Solaris via (a brief stop at)
redhat. Not being able to edit files is a bit of a handicap at this early
stage.

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks

Rolf.


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RE: Port No. 1032 - iad3

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
rl alerted me to this mail thread on that port (yep, I noticed it's not in
/etc/services):

http://www.securityportal.com/list-archive/firewalls/1999/Feb/0303.html

tks
Andrew

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-Original Message-
From: Eric G . Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 1:27 PM
To: Debian-Users (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Port No. 1032 - iad3


On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:36:55PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote:
 hi all

 Does anyone know what port 1032 is used for on a Windows machine (or
 any machine for that matter)? Running a port scan on my computer shows
 this port open and labelled as supporting iad3??

$ grep 1032 /etc/services

Shows nothing.  No idea about Windows...


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RE: Port No. 1032 - iad3

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
... it's listed as supporting BBN IAD on this list:

http://members.toast.net/kmfahey/ports.html

A

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To: Debian-Users (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Port No. 1032 - iad3


On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:36:55PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote:
 hi all

 Does anyone know what port 1032 is used for on a Windows machine (or
 any machine for that matter)? Running a port scan on my computer shows
 this port open and labelled as supporting iad3??

$ grep 1032 /etc/services

Shows nothing.  No idea about Windows...


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LILO Kernel Image too big

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

I've just compiled a 2.2.12 kernel on a test machine here, and when I try to
update LILO to boot the new kernel image I get the following message:

Fatal: Kernel /vmlinuz is too big

The new kernel is bigger than I expected it to be, ls -l lists it as 1.8MB
(the old kernel is about 500K). Anyone have any ideas how to solve this?

thanks
Andrew

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RE: LILO Kernel Image too big

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert

bzImage :)

Andrew


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-Original Message-
From: Juan Ramon Jimenez Garcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 3:54 PM
To: 'Andrew McRobert'; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: LILO  Kernel Image too big


Hi..
  Did you make a 'make zImage' or a 'make bzImage'?

 With make bzImage you will get a compressed kernel.

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RE: LILO Kernel Image too big -- Make error

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi again

I just ran bzImage again, and the last few lines of output show this error:

make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/arch/i386/boot
as86 -0 -a -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.s
make[1]: as86: Command not found
make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/arch/i386/boot
make: *** [bzImage] Error 2

I'm guessing that the second line there is the problem, and that the rest of
the problems flow from there. Does anyone know what would cause this error?

thanks
Andrew

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-Original Message-
From: Mike Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 4:23 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: LILO  Kernel Image too big


Juan Ramon Jimenez Garcia wrote:
 Hi..
   Did you make a 'make zImage' or a 'make bzImage'?

  With make bzImage you will get a compressed kernel.

Actually, it gets compressed with either of those two methods.  I'm guessing
that he copied the wrong file from ... wherever it is that the files come
from.  I always use bzlilo ... can't remember where the various files get
dropped.

Thing is, there's a pre-compression file that gets left somewhere, and then
there's the post-compression file.  My guess is that it was the
pre-compression file that he copied.

Ah, there it is.  According to the Kernel-HOWTO ...

  7.11.  `Not a compressed kernel Image file''

  Don't use the vmlinux file created in /usr/src/linux as your boot
  image; [..]/arch/i386/boot/bzImage is the right one.

I'd guess it was the vmlinux file that he grabbed.
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SOLVED: RE: LILO Kernel Image too big -- Make error

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
thanks to Mike. I've installed the bin86 package, run 'make bzImage'  lilo
again and set the system up to boot. Is the bin86 package only needed for
compressing the kernel image, or is it needed to make dep, make modules
etc?

thanks
Andrew

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-Original Message-
From: Mike Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 4:40 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: LILO  Kernel Image too big -- Make error


Andrew McRobert wrote:
 hi again

 I just ran bzImage again, and the last few lines of output show this
error:

 make[1]: Entering directory
'/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/arch/i386/boot
 as86 -0 -a -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.s
 make[1]: as86: Command not found
 make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127
 make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/arch/i386/boot
 make: *** [bzImage] Error 2

 I'm guessing that the second line there is the problem, and that the rest
of
 the problems flow from there. Does anyone know what would cause this
error?

This is another common one to run into.  The package you need to install is
the bin86 package.  as86 is the assembler used on the x86 platform.  It's
not a required package, as not everyone uses the kernel on an x86 machine.
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RE: crontab

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
... it's also worth noting that there's two competing cron systems under
Debian ... the normal one (invoked through crontab command etc.) and the
/etc/crontab file ... and they actually work independently of each other.
For example, I run a bunch of backup scripts etc from /etc/crontab, and just
run a backup tape reminder through something like:

crontab remindme.txt

Andrew

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-Original Message-
From: Armin Joellenbeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 4:54 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: crontab


On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 01:25:13AM -0400, Jacob Stowell wrote:

 i read many pages about how to set the crontab, which seems pretty
 straight forward, but i seem to be missing something.  this is what i
 have done so far:

 crontab -e

 #test to make sure the dns is current
 30 6 * * * /usr/local/bin/addns-0.73c.pl  /home/jake/addns.txt


Hi,

I can't see if you stripped empty lines of the above output.
But give a try to the following from crontab(5) manpage:

   Note that if the line does
   not have a trailing newline  character,  the  entire  line
   will  be  silently  ignored  by both crontab and cron; the
   command will never be executed.


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fyi: Linux Office Suite Consortium - NY Times

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
fyi guys

from:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/08/biztech/articles/14linux.html

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13 -- A group of key Linux software developers and
major computer manufacturers are planning to announce on Tuesday at a
Silicon Valley computer conference the first effort to compete directly with
Microsoft's Office suite of applications for the personal computer.

On Tuesday, a group of Linux organizations will announce the creation of the
Gnome Foundation, which will have the support of I.B.M., Compaq,
Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and several other major computer vendors.

The foundation plans to announce a set of initiatives, including a unified
desktop user interface and a set of productivity programs intended to
compete as a free alternative to Microsoft Office.

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RE: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

Where did you fail in the boot process? ie. did the Sun access the floppy
and spit out an error message, or did it simply say something like can't
find boot image off the HDD?

Andrew




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Subject: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi


Hi!  Do anyone have the experience of successful installation of Debian
Linux on a Sun UltraSparc IIi?
I download the 1.44 floppy image for sparc (rescue, root, driver and
base) rom a mirror site, but the box did not boot the rescue disk.
Thanks for all your sharing.


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Re: HP OpenMail

2000-08-13 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi again

Sure, all I did though was run alien -t [rpm name] on the RPMs though, I
think there was one *warning* but certainly nothing fatal, and I've been
able to extract the files from the converted .tgz file.

How should I send you the .tgz's

Andrew

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Michael Meskes wrote:

 On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 11:40:44PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote:
  I downloaded the files the other day, and have just begun the process of
  trying to install this on our Debian server. I've only had time to get to
  the stage of converting the rpm's to .tgz files and extracting the files
  to a temporary directory. It looks like it could take a fair bit of
 
 I tried making debs from it but alien moans about the rpm being incorrect.
 
 Is there a chance I could get your .tgz's?
 
  hacking around to get it all to work properly on Debian. I've heard that
  running the RedHat installation scripts on a Debian box will pretty much
  f$^k up the machine.
 
 Not good. 
 
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Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75

2000-08-13 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

Does anyone have a good Modeline for this monitor? I can get X running @
1024x768 with 16bpp, but there's a bit of shadowing around eterm windows
etc 

thanks!
Andrew



RE: Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75

2000-08-13 Thread Andrew McRobert
yeah, and it lets me widen the image on the screen, but not stretch it
vertically, and doesn't really help with the shadowing (which isn't so bad,
I'd just prefer it wasn't there).

thanks
Andrew


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From: kmself@ix.netcom.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75


On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 02:51:41PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote:
 hi

 Does anyone have a good Modeline for this monitor? I can get X running @
 1024x768 with 16bpp, but there's a bit of shadowing around eterm windows
 etc 

Have you fiddled with xvidtune?

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Location of /etc/rc.d directory Debian v RHAT

2000-08-11 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all

I'm trying to install a Rhat RPM (HP's OpenMail) on a Debian system here.
A bunch of files in openmail-core-6.0.5-8.tar need to go in the
/etc/rc.d directory under Rhat --- Under the Debian file hierarchy,
there's the following directories in /etc: rc0.d, rc1.d, rc2.d, rc3.d, rc4.d
 rc5.d (ie. no rc.d).

Is there any danger in creating the /etc/rc.d directory and storing the
relevant files from the RPM there?

thanks
Andrew


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RE: Location of /etc/rc.d directory Debian v RHAT

2000-08-11 Thread Andrew McRobert
many thanks mate. Excuse my ignorance, but what are the rcN.d directories
for? (I know about init.d, no so much about rc0.d etc.)

cheers
Andrew

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-Original Message-
From: kmself@ix.netcom.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 3:51 PM
To: Debian-Users (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Location of /etc/rc.d directory Debian v RHAT


On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 03:46:21PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote:
 hi all

 I'm trying to install a Rhat RPM (HP's OpenMail) on a Debian system
here.
 A bunch of files in openmail-core-6.0.5-8.tar need to go in the
 /etc/rc.d directory under Rhat --- Under the Debian file hierarchy,
 there's the following directories in /etc: rc0.d, rc1.d, rc2.d, rc3.d,
rc4.d
  rc5.d (ie. no rc.d).

 Is there any danger in creating the /etc/rc.d directory and storing the
 relevant files from the RPM there?

/etc/rc.d is a RedHat-ism which is going away, IIUC, in the current/next
release of RedHat.

The location of the init directories rcnumber.d and init.d do *not*
matter to the software package.  They *do* matter to the system which
finds and executes startup and shutdown scripts.

Install the scripts and links in /etc/init.d and /etc/rcnumber.d under
Debian.

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RE: Location of /etc/rc.d directory Debian v RHAT

2000-08-11 Thread Andrew McRobert
thank you sir :)

Andrew

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-Original Message-
From: kmself@ix.netcom.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 4:11 PM
To: 'Debian-Users (E-mail)'
Subject: Re: Location of /etc/rc.d directory Debian v RHAT


less /etc/init.d/README

On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 04:04:47PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote:
 many thanks mate. Excuse my ignorance, but what are the rcN.d directories
 for? (I know about init.d, no so much about rc0.d etc.)

 cheers
 Andrew

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 -Original Message-
 From: kmself@ix.netcom.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 3:51 PM
 To: Debian-Users (E-mail)
 Subject: Re: Location of /etc/rc.d directory Debian v RHAT


 On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 03:46:21PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote:
  hi all
 
  I'm trying to install a Rhat RPM (HP's OpenMail) on a Debian system
 here.
  A bunch of files in openmail-core-6.0.5-8.tar need to go in the
  /etc/rc.d directory under Rhat --- Under the Debian file hierarchy,
  there's the following directories in /etc: rc0.d, rc1.d, rc2.d, rc3.d,
 rc4.d
   rc5.d (ie. no rc.d).
 
  Is there any danger in creating the /etc/rc.d directory and storing
the
  relevant files from the RPM there?

 /etc/rc.d is a RedHat-ism which is going away, IIUC, in the current/next
 release of RedHat.

 The location of the init directories rcnumber.d and init.d do *not*
 matter to the software package.  They *do* matter to the system which
 finds and executes startup and shutdown scripts.

 Install the scripts and links in /etc/init.d and /etc/rcnumber.d under
 Debian.

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[off topic] Microsoft advertises for Linux team product manger

2000-08-11 Thread Andrew McRobert
Microsoft advertises for Linux team product manger

Computer giant Microsoft has advertised for a product manger to drive its
corporate Linux strategy.
http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/breaking/2811/A63247-2000Aug11.html

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Re: HP OpenMail

2000-08-11 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

I downloaded the files the other day, and have just begun the process of
trying to install this on our Debian server. I've only had time to get to
the stage of converting the rpm's to .tgz files and extracting the files
to a temporary directory. It looks like it could take a fair bit of
hacking around to get it all to work properly on Debian. I've heard that
running the RedHat installation scripts on a Debian box will pretty much
f$^k up the machine.

Andrew

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Michael Meskes wrote:

 Is there anyone out there running this on a Debian machine? I'd like to try
 it, but the download simply gives me a damaged rpm. 
 
 Michael
 
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Re: restricting user in HOME using ProFTP

2000-08-11 Thread Andrew McRobert
thanks for that ...

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, John Pearson wrote:

 On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 06:40:51AM -0700, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira 
 wrote
Hi all!
  
I'm trying to restrict my FTP users in own directories using ProFTP.
  
I used the configuration examples found in ProFTP's page but something
is wrong.
  
 
 AFAICT, all you need to do is add
 
 DefaultRoot ~
 
 somehwere near the top of /etc/proftpd.conf
 and run
 # /etc/init.d/proftpd reload
 
 They should then be locked into their home directories;
 it seems to work for me.
 
 
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Resizing /var ie. /dev/sda6

2000-08-10 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

Does anyone know of a tool that will let you resize an ext2 partition (I
need to give more space to the /var filesystem) ... I guess I could use
Partition Magic ... any other suggestions?

thanks
Andrew

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RE: restricting user in HOME using ProFTP

2000-08-10 Thread Andrew McRobert

sorry, I don't have an answer to this myself, but I'm also interested in
knowing how to do this ...

thanks
Andrew


-Original Message-
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Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 9:41 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: restricting user in HOME using ProFTP


  Hi all!

  I'm trying to restrict my FTP users in own directories using ProFTP.

  I used the configuration examples found in ProFTP's page but something
  is wrong.

  Thanks for any info,  Paulo Henrique


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Proftpd - intial directories

2000-08-09 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all

Quick question, I want to allow a user to log in for an ftp session but only
have access to one specified directory ... ie. /var/www/ethics. Is there a
short section I can add to the /etc/proftpd.conf file to accomplish this?

thanks
Andrew

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HP OpenMail on Debian (M$ Exchange alternative)

2000-08-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

I was wondering if anyone has had any experience in getting HP's OpenMail
working on a Debian box? One of the features of OpenMail is that it can
serve as an alternative to M$oft's Exchange Server software, and allows
calendar sharing etc. between employees in an enterprise.

The evaluation version on HP's site links to a bunch of RPMs (for RedHat
6.0) ... and I seem to recall some discussion on this list that has
suggested that trying to install RPMs under Debian will create a bit of a
mess ...??

if anyone has got this working, especially if they have installation
instructions for Debian or a port ... I'd be most grateful!

cheers
Andrew




Printer Setup - Netscape etc. SMB

2000-08-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

I've been running Samba on a Debian box here for a while now, and using
smblient  smbprint. What I'd like to know is if there's a way to configure
Gnome so that applications like Netscape  file editors print to a networked
printer through some kind of smbprint wrapper. In other words, if I hit the
Print button in Netscape it prints automatically to a Windows printer
(hanging off the PDC).

thanks
Andrew

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Alien to .tar.gz

2000-08-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz.
The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the closest
thing listed is alien -t [file] which produces [file].tgz ...

tks
Andrew

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RE: Alien to .tar.gz

2000-08-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
cheers

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-Original Message-
From: Mike Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 11:15 AM
To: Debian-Users (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Alien to .tar.gz


Andrew McRobert wrote:
 hi

 Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz.
 The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the closest
 thing listed is alien -t [file] which produces [file].tgz ...

filename.tgz == filename.tar.gz
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RE: Debian in Academic and Public Organisations

2000-08-07 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi, saw this thread while tidying up my mailbox ...

I'm the IT Liaison Officer @ the School of Law, Murdoch University in
Western Australia. We use a Debian box as a samba fileserver  web server,
and debian's used by at least two or three other departments here.

tks
Andrew

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-Original Message-
From: Charles Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 4:06 AM
To: debian-user
Subject: Re: Debian in Academic and Public Organisations


We use debian all over this campus (routers, firewalls, mail servers, web
servers, samba servers, etc) and I know that they have at least one debian
box in the CS department.

Charles Lewis, Director of Adminstrative Computing
Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, TX 76059
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 Folks,

 I am a Computer Science professor at American University in Washington
 D.C.

 I want  to recommend that we  replace Solaris in  our Computer Science
 department with  Debian.  In doing so,  I know that  we will encounter
 problems  wuite  specific to  the  public  (as  in non-profit,  public
 sector) and  academic nature  of the enterprise.   I want  to advocate
 Debian over  RedHat and  TurboLinux who are  trying to sell  into this
 market.

 Is there  anyone else out there  in this kind of  organisation, who is
 using Debian in  this kind of environment?  Contact  me and let's band
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RE: Debian in Academic and Public Organisations

2000-08-07 Thread Andrew McRobert
I forgot to mention that I recently installed Debian on an old Sparc station
here after Solaris crashed and burned the root partition on the SCSI drive
 why will always be a mystery - (and one which I haven't got time to
solve). After a few initial installation problems, I got the floppy images
to work and the machine has been running smoothly for a couple of weeks now.
At the moment it's just running as a Web server ... debian's web space is
actually just a bunch of symbolic links to the Web pages on the Sun
partitions that weren't f#*#(d after the crash.

tks
Andrew

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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Robert Norris
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 4:39 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Debian in Academic and Public Organisations


Here at Monash University in Australia, we use both Solaris and Linux.
Solaris
is used for most mission critical services, but most of the time we use it
because we need the grunty Sun hardware that it comes with it.

Linux is being used more and more within the IT department. We've found it
especially good for 'farms' of machines (eg web proxies, mail, etc). It's
also being used as a 'black box' at remote locations - offers web proxy,
DNS,
SMTP, etc for people with flaky connections.

The two Linux-related projects I'm working with involves two services - web
proxy and mail exchanger. The original implementor of the web proxy farm
(setup
some time ago) chose Redhat for the machines. A couple of years on, and they
work - but need quite a lot of hand-holding.

The mail exchanger stuff I'm currently working on now involves Debian and
Postfix on a bunch of extremely tasty boxes (Intel Hudson servers - RAID
cages,
hot-swappable power supplies, that sort of thing). Although not in
production
yet, they've stood up to everything I can throw at them.

As far as Linux is concerned, its been very pro-Redhat around here for a
while
(probably because its the most common) but people are starting to realise
that
Debian just works and pretty much takes care of itself.

Debian is my personal favourite mostly because of the ease of maintenance. I
have three Debian workstations on my desk, each with uptimes of over a
month,
and the only time I've had to reboot is to install a new kernel - never for
any other upgrade. It also runs my personal web and mail server.

I've also set up Debian for my family (who know nothing outside Windows, and
not even that very well) to use as a masquerading gateway. They live over
500km
away from me so I only get to visit twice a year. Last time I was there it
had been up for over a year, and apparently that was only because someone
pulled the wrong plug out of the wall.

Debian just works. And if I ever get around to trying Debian Sparc, maybe I
can
get rid of Solaris on those Sun boxes ;)

Regards,
Rob.



RE: noise from monitor, HELP!

2000-08-02 Thread Andrew McRobert
I usually just hit mine :)



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-Original Message-
From: John Pearson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 11:26 AM
To: Debian User
Subject: Re: noise from monitor, HELP!


On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 07:07:18PM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote

 I've been running Debian for years and my monitor (20 IBM P200) has
 been working fine with it's current setting for months. Now all of a
 sudden I get a VERY high pitched noise from it when in X. It does not do
 this on the console! It has become more and more frequent and is
 starting to drive me nuts (well more then usual :) I know it's the
 monitor because I can turn it off while it's doing it and the noise
 stops. Does anyone know what the problem might be?


If it is a regular CRT-style monitor, there are wire coils
wrapped around the CRT to deflect the electron beam to provide
horizontal  vertical deflection; these are probably glued in
place (or at least, in bundles) using epoxy resin or something
similar.

Probably, the epoxy has cracked or come loose from whatever it's
anchored to at some point and what you can hear is some or all
of the windings on the horizontal deflection coil rattling back
and forth in time to the horizontal scan, in accordance with
Newton's laws (For every action there is an equal and opposite
reaction).  Just maybe, it's some other part of your monitor's
yoke doing the same thing.  It's irritating as hell if you can
hear it, but it shouldn't affect the monitor's performance or
reliability.

Possible solutions:
  - Pay someone to fix it.  If you take it in for a service, be
*very*clear* about the problem or it probably won't get fixed
(chances are, most of their techs won't be able to hear it).
  - Swap monitors with someone who can't hear it;
  - Listen to a few hours of something load every day until the
problem goes away (what most people, wittingly or not, do);
  - Get a new monitor (big bucks for something that size).


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Re: filesystem-hierarchy

2000-08-02 Thread Andrew McRobert
I don't know of one @ the Debian WWW site, but there's one in the O'Reilly
Learning GNU/Linux book ... which may be at least partly on the Web ...

Andrew

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-Original Message-
From: S. Champ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 12:11 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; debian-doc@lists.debian.org
Subject: filesystem-hierarchy


hi.

if memory serves, i came across something of a debian filesystem-hierarchy
standard, somewhere at debian.org

if anyone knows where this is , please ... can you send-along the URL?



thank you.


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RE: Ethernet cards on network

2000-07-25 Thread Andrew McRobert



hi

Have you set up your kernel's routing tables? You can 
check the current configuration with "netstat -r". You'll probably have to 
execute a couple of command to tell the kernel where to sendnetwork 
traffic, eg. something like this:
#$ route add -net X.X.X.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 
eth0
#$ route add default gw X.X.X.1 
eth0

... and a similar thing for the eth1 
interface.

Perhaps if you could post the results of a "netstat -r" 
command and a "netstat -a" command.

cheers
Andrew


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  -Original Message-From: Allen Lim 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 11:23 
  AMTo: debian-user Mailing listSubject: Ethernet cards on 
  network
  Hello all,
  
  This is my first time writing to this list so 
  forgive me if I do anything wrong.
  
  I have a problem with trying to get a server 
  which is meant to be a proxy server up.
  
  Everything works fine. The computer is able to 
  detect the 2 3Com ISA Etherlink III cards inside and I am able to configure 
  them.
  
  The reason why there are two network cards is so 
  that one network card would connect to the LAN and the other would connect to 
  an ISP on another floor who has provided a static IP and a gateway IP 
  address.
  
  Problems/Questions are as below:
  
  (01) An error message keeps coming up saying 
  eth0:transmit timed out Tx_status 00 status 2003 FIFO room 976. Can anyone 
  help by telling me what this means?
  
  (02) I have set up the etc/init.d/network file to 
  see both cards and yet I can't ping out. It can ping the 'lo' section and all 
  the range of addresses. I intend to use eth0 for connection to the ISP and 
  eth1 for connection to the LAN. Could someone please advise on what needs to 
  be done. I have never used it and have only just taken a short crash course 
  from this book I bought.
  
  (03) Can someone also tell em how to find out if 
  TCP/IP is loaded. I know this may sound stupid but I can't tell.
  
  (04) How do I re-configure Linux so that should I 
  change hardware, it will be able to see it? The last time I was desperate and 
  decided to just re-install Debian from the CD which came with the book. I 
  changed the NICs.
  
  (05) Is there anyone out there who is willing to 
  be a mentor to me.
  
  Thanks in advance.
  
  Allen Lim


fsck for UFS?? (fwd)

2000-07-25 Thread Andrew McRobert
I sent this to the debian-sparc list ... but thought it might be worth
copying to here too ... tks

-- Forwarded message --
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:51:54 +0800 (WST)
From: Andrew McRobert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
Subject: fsck for UFS??

hi all

One of the old Sun boxes here (running Solaris 2.6) [EMAIL PROTECTED] itself 
recently
... though I've managed to get a Debian base system running off one of the
unused partitions and have mounted the Sun's root partition with the
following command:

mount -t ufs -o ufstype=sun /dev/sda1 /temp/sda1

The system mounts ok, though with a couple of errors ... when I list the
contents of /temp/sda1 I get the following listing:

VFS-fs error (device 08:01): ufs_readdir: bad entry in directory #2,
sized 512: i node out of bounds - offset=56, inode=8960, reclen=12,
namelen=3
total  8
drwx--   2   rootroot   8192  Dec  18  1997  lost+found
?-   0   rootroot  0  Jan   1  1970  usr


I was wondering if anyone knew what could cause this, or if there's a way
to fix the inode errors. I was hoping someone may know the name of an
fsck type utility for Solaris partitions??

thanks
Andrew McRobert




RE: Tape backup software?

2000-07-24 Thread Andrew McRobert
I have to say that i find that tar covers all bases pretty well ...
depends what you're used to I guess.

tks
Andrew


-Original Message-
From: Olaf Meeuwissen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 10:47 AM
To: Krzys Majewski
Cc: Kelly Corbin; Debian Userslist
Subject: Re: Tape backup software?


Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Tar!
 -chris

 On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Kelly Corbin wrote:

  Has anyone had much experience w/ tape backup in Linux?  I am looking
  for tape backup software and was wondering if anyone knew which was the
  best.  Any input would be appreciated.  It would be for an ATAPI tape
  backup drive.  THANKS!

With Linux the device doesn't really matter in most cases, so your
question boils down to what is a good backup solution.  The answer
depends on the situation (as always ;-).

I'm using tob with afio to backup my users (all ten or so of them).
Wrote some simple scripts for monthly full, weekly differential and
daily incremental backups and things work just fine.  The archives
are written to external HD right now, but I may change to CD-RW or
MO disk.

You may also want to look at dump, taper, kbackup, afbackup and/or
amanda.  The latter two seemed a bit overkill in my situation.

Hope this helps,
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vmlinuz-2.2.12scsimod

2000-07-18 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the above kernel, if it exists?

I'm trying to build boot disks for my Debian laptop, which only seems to
boot off the Tecra kernel image , of which I have v2.0.36, but that kernel
version doesn't load any PCMCIA drivers (ie. it can't find
/var/lib/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia ...). My root partition does have all the
correct drivers (including PCMCIA), for 2.2.12 version kernels.

thanks
Andrew

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RE: I need help please

2000-07-18 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

I'm running Debian on the Sat Pro 4270 ... and the problem's with running X
on this machine have been well documented on this list, and the
debian-laptop list (have a flick through the archives).

However, I haven't tried the new X server for the 3D Savage card available
@:

http://www.probo.com/timr/savagemx.html

Which may fix the problem(s). If you've got any specific questions, feel
free to e-mail me.

cheers
Andrew



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From: CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 9:50 AM
To: 'Melissa Stirling'
Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
Subject: RE: I need help please


Don't know about the rest of the hw but Debian/GNU Linux does support the
3Com cardhowever, I would suggest that the potential buyer obtain the
latest pcmcia packages(tgz) from the pcmcia homepage.have fun!

 -Original Message-
 From: Melissa Stirling [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 5:22 PM
 To:   debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Subject:  I need help please

 I have a customer who would like to purchase a Toshiba from me and intends
 to run Debian Linux as the operating system.

 His question is this:

 He will either buy the Satellite Pro 4320 or 4270 which have with an AGP
 or PCI 3D Savage graphics card built in, does Debian support this hardware
 please?

 He also intends to use a 3Com PCMCIA 10/100BaseT Ethernet card with it to,
 model no. 3CCFE575BT.  Do you know if this is also supported?

 Please could you let me know either way ASAP as he would like to place his
 order today.

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Boot floppy - quick qstn

2000-07-16 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all

I lost the boot floppy for my Linux laptop (Tosh. Sat Pro 4270), so I
downloaded the tecra images from the debian.org site. System boots fine with
the rescue disk, but after I mount the root partition (/dev/hda2), and
select the Make Boot Floppy option, i get the following error:

Creation of boot floppy failed. Please make sure that the floppy was not
write protected, and that you put it in the first floppy drive. Try another
floppy if the problem persists.

I've now tried about 4-5 disks, new ones, so I'm sure it's not a media
problem. I've also tried switching to the second virtual terminal and
executing mount /dev/fd0 /floppy, but that doesn't seem to help either.

any ideas?

many thanks
Andrew

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RE: Samba Headache

2000-07-07 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi Jay

First of all, I'd recommend subscribing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's a general
mailing list for SAMBA-related issues, and the people on it r very helpful
(generally :) ).

Ok, when you ran sambaconfig, did you specify the INETD option or to 'run as
daemon' option. In your case, if you're running the samba server on a home
network I'd go for the INETD option. Basically INETD will listen for SMB
session requests on port 139 and start up a smbd for the relevant
authenticated user. Setting up the INETD option can involve a little bit
more tinkering that the daemon option though, so I guess the second option
has convenience on its side.

Your problem at the moment sounds like the samba box isn't running SMB
services (ie. Samba as a daemon or through INETD). What happens when you
click on the linux box in Network Neighborhood?

ALso, do you have the 'homes' share configured? What security mode are you
using (SECURITY=USER?), and have you added users to the smbpasswd file (in
/etc/samba)?

tks
Andrew

-Original Message-
From: Jay Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 1:26 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Samba Headache


Hello All,
Well Im still working on getting samba to work with Windows 98. I have
configured the smb.conf to share my home directory on the linux box.
Then I open Network Neighorhood in windows and can see the linux box.
I then try to Map a drive on the linux box and get a error. Windows
pops up a dialog box saying: \\Neutec is not accessible
The computer or sharname could not be found. Make sure you typed it
correctly, and try again Now when I change the Window Primary Network
Logon from Windows Logon to anything else I can no longer see the Linux box.
This cant be that hard, what am I doing wrong ? I tried to install
Swat but I couldnt get it to work as well, I was received a error
connection refused.
Thanks for you help guys

settings to log
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RE: debian cron: How do I change when /etc/cron.daily/standard is scheduled?

2000-07-04 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

Under Debian, you just need to edit the /etc/crontab file. The system
automatically reloads the file, you can double-check for the reload by
looking at the cron log, e.g. tail -n 20 /var/log/cron.log, for an entry
like this:

Jul  3 00:02:01 [servername] /usr/sbin/cron[295]: (*system*) RELOAD
(/etc/crontab)

tks
Andrew

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-Original Message-
From: Ewing, Jeff I [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 5:22 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: debian cron: How do I change when /etc/cron.daily/standard is
scheduled?


Please help.

My Debian workstation is veerry slow for 30 minutes at 06:30 a.m. when I
start work.
The following command is running:
 find / /dev/pts /var /usr /redhat .
This is called from :
22821 22770  0 06:50 ?00:00:00 sh /usr/sbin/checksecurity
which is called from:
22770 21282  0 06:50 ?00:00:00 sh /etc/cron.daily/standard
which is called from
21282 21281  0 06:25 ?00:00:00 run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily

How do I reschedule this maintenance to around 03:00? The 'man cron' page is
not clear:

/etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} directories allow to  add a  crontab file
to /etc/cron.d.

Thank you

Jeff
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Majordomo Approvals

2000-07-02 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all

I've set up a couple of majordomo-managed mailing lists on the Debian box @
work. The subscription policy is set to open+confirm, but now and again I
get a message from majordomo asking me to approve the addition of new
subscribers. My understanding is that I shouldn't be getting these messages
unless the list policy was set to closed. The real pain in the butt is
that if I do send the admin password  other info back to majordom I get the
following response:


Subject: Majordomo results: RE:
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--

 approve [passwd_appears_here]  subscribe dtlj_sub  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 approve: invalid list or password.

 Help for [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:

thanks for any help 

Andrew

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Quick netsat qstn

2000-06-21 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all

i was wondering what it means when netstat shows a connection at:

[my.computer.dom]:smtp  [foreign address]

... does it simply mean that someone is sending mail to my.computer.dom?

thanks
Andrew

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RE: Quick netsat qstn

2000-06-21 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

thanks for that. We have a campus policy prohibiting e-mail relaying (after
some spamming incidents) ... that's why i was interested in the connection
actually ... i was curious because the machine isn't really used for MTA
purposes, though it hosts a few mailing lists. What exactly did you mean by
verifying the address?

thanks
Andrew

-Original Message-
From: C. Falconer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 1:19 PM
To: 'Andrew McRobert'
Subject: RE: Quick netsat qstn


Basically yes.  It means there is a connection to the SMTP port of
my.computer.dom from foreign.address.

We *presume* it is sending you mail... but it could be someone sending
email to one of your relayed domains, or VRFYing an email address.  Does
this server deny routing email for non-local accounts?

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From:   Andrew McRobert[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:   Wednesday, 21 June 2000 5:10 PM
To: Debian-Users (E-mail)
Subject:Quick netsat qstn

hi all

i was wondering what it means when netstat shows a connection at:

[my.computer.dom]:smtp  [foreign address]

... does it simply mean that someone is sending mail to my.computer.dom?

thanks
Andrew

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help! ... doin' the samba

2000-06-19 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi, I've had this problem for a while and can't seem to get around it ...

When a normal user tries to change his/her passwd using smbpasswd or SWAT,
they get the following error:

machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the session setup. Error was : ERRSRV - ERRbadpw
(Bad password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or
Session Setup are invalid.).
Failed to change password for mcrobert

... but the users are contained in the smbpasswd file  the /etc/passwd
file. What's happenin' here???!!? I'm using a bare bones smb.conf file:
shown below:

# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from [my machine]
# Date: 2000/06/19 12:43:05

# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup =
interfaces = [machine's IP]/22 127.0.0.1
encrypt passwords = Yes
debug level = 2
guest account =

[homes]
browseable = No

[mcrobert]
path = /home/mcrobert
writeable = Yes

[jlange]
path = /home/temp

... the relevant lines from the /var/log/smb file (at log-level 2) are:

[2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] param/loadparm.c:do_section(2481)
  Processing section [homes]
[2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] param/loadparm.c:do_section(2481)
  Processing section [mcrobert]
[2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] param/loadparm.c:do_section(2481)
  Processing section [jlange]
[2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] lib/interface.c:add_interface(83)
  added interface ip=134.115.227.50 bcast=134.115.227.255
nmask=255.255.252.0
[2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] smbd/server.c:main(746)
  Changed root to /
[2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_special(97)
  netbios connect: name1=127.0.0.1name2=
[2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] smbd/connection.c:utmp_claim(560)
  utmp_claim: conn NULL
[2000/06/19 12:37:01, 1] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(988)
  Username  is invalid on this system
[2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(408)
  Closing connections

thanks a lot for any help!!
Andrew

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RE: help! ... doin' the samba

2000-06-19 Thread Andrew McRobert
... that's what's really weird. The log file is for a smbpasswd session on
the Samba box (ie. typing 'smbpasswd' at the terminal).

If I map a network drive in WinNT, and give the same username and password,
it connects to the Samba box just fine!?!?!?

I'm using mcrobert as the username on both the NT and Samba box ...

tks
ANdrew

ps. I'm on the samba mailing list, but no-one seems to have an answer to
this there ...

-Original Message-
From: James Sasitorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 10:30 PM
To: Andrew McRobert; Debian-Users (E-mail)
Subject: RE: help! ... doin' the samba


So in the excerpt:
---
[2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] smbd/connection.c:utmp_claim(560)
  utmp_claim: conn NULL
[2000/06/19 12:37:01, 1] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(988)
  Username  is invalid on this system
[2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(408)
  Closing connections
-
It seems that the username from the win machine is null.
the message says Username [insert here] is invalid on this system.

what name are you logining in your windows box with? you can change that
name and/or map user names for your samba account.

under global username map = /etc/samba/users.map
and in users.map [unix name]  = my name

james


-Original Message-
From: Andrew McRobert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 11:43 PM
To: Debian-Users (E-mail)
Subject: help! ... doin' the samba


hi, I've had this problem for a while and can't seem to get around it ...

When a normal user tries to change his/her passwd using smbpasswd or SWAT,
they get the following error:

machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the session setup. Error was : ERRSRV - ERRbadpw
(Bad password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or
Session Setup are invalid.).
Failed to change password for mcrobert

... but the users are contained in the smbpasswd file  the /etc/passwd
file. What's happenin' here???!!? I'm using a bare bones smb.conf file:
shown below:

# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from [my machine]
# Date: 2000/06/19 12:43:05

# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup =
interfaces = [machine's IP]/22 127.0.0.1
encrypt passwords = Yes
debug level = 2
guest account =

[homes]
browseable = No

[mcrobert]
path = /home/mcrobert
writeable = Yes

[jlange]
path = /home/temp

... the relevant lines from the /var/log/smb file (at log-level 2) are:

[2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] param/loadparm.c:do_section(2481)
  Processing section [homes]
[2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] param/loadparm.c:do_section(2481)
  Processing section [mcrobert]
[2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] param/loadparm.c:do_section(2481)
  Processing section [jlange]
[2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] lib/interface.c:add_interface(83)
  added interface ip=134.115.227.50 bcast=134.115.227.255
nmask=255.255.252.0
[2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] smbd/server.c:main(746)
  Changed root to /
[2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_special(97)
  netbios connect: name1=127.0.0.1name2=
[2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] smbd/connection.c:utmp_claim(560)
  utmp_claim: conn NULL
[2000/06/19 12:37:01, 1] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(988)
  Username  is invalid on this system
[2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(408)
  Closing connections

thanks a lot for any help!!
Andrew

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RE: Get install to Recognize Hard Drive

2000-06-19 Thread Andrew McRobert
... is your BIOS set to auto-detect your HDDs ... and do they show up at
startup?

tks
A

-Original Message-
From: Cody Cutrer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 8:07 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Get install to Recognize Hard Drive


I can get all the different ways to boot into the install program to work,
but once there, it says I have no hard drive. My partition table is (Not
exact):

1st DOS FAT32 vol: Windows98 Size: about 25 GB
2nd DOS FAT32 vol: Linux Size: 2176 MB
3rd and 4th empty

I used fips to shrink Windows98 and am going to change Linux partition into
a 2048 MB Linux Native and a 128 MB Linux Swap during setup. It is a 27 GB
HD. It's really weird because when I go to BIOS setup it isn't in there
either. In System properties in windows it says my HD controller is a Intel
82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller. Under disk drives in the same
place It has a non-removable disk IBM-DPTA -372730. I think this is my hard
drive. I would really appreciate any help. Thanks.


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RE: Get install to Recognize Hard Drive

2000-06-19 Thread Andrew McRobert
the information at start up may be useful, during the startup sequence, hit
the Pause button ... usually next to your Scroll Lock ...

a

-Original Message-
From: Cody Cutrer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 11:00 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Get install to Recognize Hard Drive


Yes the BIOS is set to auto-detect my HD. It is weird though. When I go to
setup IDE devices, my DVD and CD-RW show up when in auto-mode, yet the
primary master says none when in auto mode (I left it in auto mode like it
was before.) When I boot up I get the GeForce ROM screen, then Phoenix BIOS,
RAM check, keyboard/mouse check and DVD and CD-RW OK in one screen. Then in
a screen that flashes by really fast that I could barely see in the top
section was an Ultra66 Controller ROM or something like that. Then in
another section I see four lines, and in the top line I made out LBA before
it disappeared. I can't remember what was below. Just so you know, Windows
98 does boot up and detects the hard drive just fine. I don't know.

- Original Message -
From: Andrew McRobert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Debian-Users (E-mail) debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 8:20 PM
Subject: RE: Get install to Recognize Hard Drive


 ... is your BIOS set to auto-detect your HDDs ... and do they show up at
 startup?

 tks
 A

 -Original Message-
 From: Cody Cutrer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 8:07 AM
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Subject: Get install to Recognize Hard Drive


 I can get all the different ways to boot into the install program to work,
 but once there, it says I have no hard drive. My partition table is (Not
 exact):

 1st DOS FAT32 vol: Windows98 Size: about 25 GB
 2nd DOS FAT32 vol: Linux Size: 2176 MB
 3rd and 4th empty

 I used fips to shrink Windows98 and am going to change Linux partition
into
 a 2048 MB Linux Native and a 128 MB Linux Swap during setup. It is a 27 GB
 HD. It's really weird because when I go to BIOS setup it isn't in there
 either. In System properties in windows it says my HD controller is a
Intel
 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller. Under disk drives in the same
 place It has a non-removable disk IBM-DPTA -372730. I think this is my
hard
 drive. I would really appreciate any help. Thanks.


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RE: Get install to Recognize Hard Drive

2000-06-19 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi again

is the 25GB beast the only hard drive installed in your machine? I've found
that the most common problem of an OS not seeing a hard drive is incorrect
jumper settings (Master/Slave/Cable Select). However, it look like Win98
sees your hard drive(s)? On the linux install, what's the error your getting
(that indicates it doesn't see your HDD).

tks
A

-Original Message-
From: Cody Cutrer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 11:27 AM
To: Debian Users
Subject: Re: Get install to Recognize Hard Drive


Did not know there was any use for that pause key. Now I know. Here is that
last screen I couldn't see:

Ultra66 (tm) BIOS Version 1.12 (Build 0518)
(c) 1998-1999 Promise Technology, Inc. All rights reserved.

D0  IBM-DPTA-372730   LBA 26105MB  Ultra DMA 4
D1  Not Detected
D2  Not Detected
D3  Not Detected

IDE BUS Master Enabled

That is the third screen, character-for-character, space-for-space. Now
maybe you can help me some more. Thanks.

- Original Message -
From: Andrew McRobert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Cody Cutrer' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Debian-Users (E-mail) debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 9:03 PM
Subject: RE: Get install to Recognize Hard Drive


 the information at start up may be useful, during the startup sequence,
hit
 the Pause button ... usually next to your Scroll Lock ...

 a

 -Original Message-
 From: Cody Cutrer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 11:00 AM
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Subject: Re: Get install to Recognize Hard Drive


 Yes the BIOS is set to auto-detect my HD. It is weird though. When I go to
 setup IDE devices, my DVD and CD-RW show up when in auto-mode, yet the
 primary master says none when in auto mode (I left it in auto mode like it
 was before.) When I boot up I get the GeForce ROM screen, then Phoenix
BIOS,
 RAM check, keyboard/mouse check and DVD and CD-RW OK in one screen. Then
in
 a screen that flashes by really fast that I could barely see in the top
 section was an Ultra66 Controller ROM or something like that. Then in
 another section I see four lines, and in the top line I made out LBA
before
 it disappeared. I can't remember what was below. Just so you know, Windows
 98 does boot up and detects the hard drive just fine. I don't know.

 - Original Message -
 From: Andrew McRobert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Debian-Users (E-mail) debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 8:20 PM
 Subject: RE: Get install to Recognize Hard Drive


  ... is your BIOS set to auto-detect your HDDs ... and do they show up at
  startup?
 
  tks
  A
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Cody Cutrer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 8:07 AM
  To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
  Subject: Get install to Recognize Hard Drive
 
 
  I can get all the different ways to boot into the install program to
work,
  but once there, it says I have no hard drive. My partition table is (Not
  exact):
 
  1st DOS FAT32 vol: Windows98 Size: about 25 GB
  2nd DOS FAT32 vol: Linux Size: 2176 MB
  3rd and 4th empty
 
  I used fips to shrink Windows98 and am going to change Linux partition
 into
  a 2048 MB Linux Native and a 128 MB Linux Swap during setup. It is a 27
GB
  HD. It's really weird because when I go to BIOS setup it isn't in there
  either. In System properties in windows it says my HD controller is a
 Intel
  82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller. Under disk drives in the same
  place It has a non-removable disk IBM-DPTA -372730. I think this is my
 hard
  drive. I would really appreciate any help. Thanks.
 
 
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samba error

2000-06-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

when a normal user tries to change his/her passwd using smbpasswd or SWAT,
they get the following error:

machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the session setup. Error was : ERRSRV - ERRbadpw
(Bad password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or
Session Setup are invalid.).
Failed to change password for mcrobert

the last line of the /var/log/smb file is:

[2000/06/15 10:44:47, 1] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(988)
  Username  is invalid on this system

... but the users are contained in the smbpasswd file  the /etc/passwd
file. What's happenin' here???!!?

TIA
Andrew

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umask

2000-06-09 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all

When a user creates a new directory/file in their home directory, the setuid
bit is always set for group members, ie.

drwxr-sr-x

umask = 022, what do I need to set it to, for new files to = drwxr-xr-x ...
and is this ok security-wise ... the execute bit?

thanks

Andrew

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very quick question :)

2000-06-09 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

does anyone know the syntax of the 'grep' command to check all files on a
machine for a pattern e.g. lawpc34, I've been trying:

grep -r / -e lawpc34 -H  lawpc34.log 

but that doesn't seem to work

thanks a lot

Andrew

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RE: very quick question :)

2000-06-09 Thread Andrew McRobert
thanks



-Original Message-
From: Steve Lamb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 5:37 PM
To: Debian-Users (E-mail)
Subject: Re: very quick question :)


On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:12:03AM +0200, Antonio Moragues Ramón wrote:
  grep -r / -e lawpc34 -H  lawpc34.log 

  but that doesn't seem to work

 Try grep -r lawpc34 /  lawpc34.log 

Or: find / -exec grep lawpc34 \{\} \; -print  lawpc43.log

Maybe, but that is how I'd do it.

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samba passwords

2000-06-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

I've had this problem for a while, hoping someone knows what is causing it.
Users are unable to change their passwords for samba either through the SWAT
interface or through smbpasswd at the command line. THe error is:
-
machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the session setup. Error was : ERRSRV - ERRbadpw
(Bad password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are
invalid.).
Failed to change password for [user]

however, root can change passwords either through SWAT or the shell. I'm
using:

samba 2.0.7-2
kernel 2.2.14
shadow passwords

thanks!!

Andrew
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Samba passwords - Session setup error

2000-06-05 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all

I'm getting the following error when a normal user tries to change their
password through SWAT, or through smbpasswd @ the command line:

machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the session setup. Error was : ERRSRV - ERRbadpw
(Bad password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are
invalid.).
The passwd for 'mcrobert' has NOT been changed
The only explanation given in FAQs is that the interfaces list must
include 127.0.0.1. However, this doesn't work - I've tried the following
values for this setting (eth0  [server ip]/22 127.0.0.1). The odd thing
is that root can use either SWAT or smbpasswd on command line to change a
user's password. Perhaps the problem has something to do with the fact that
the smbpasswd program can't read the existing user password from
/etc/samba/smbpasswd (as the root user doesn't care about the old password).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Andrew


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RE: fetchmail with ssh

2000-06-05 Thread Andrew McRobert
... if it is a mail server name problem, you can get the server's name
through a whois query ..

Andrew

-Original Message-
From: Eric G . Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 12:16 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: fetchmail with ssh


On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 09:02:01PM -0700, wtstacey wrote:
 I'd like to get fetchmail to retrieve my mail after I login to my ppp
 account, so I can read mail offline. I tried to get fetchmail to pop my
 mail (without ssh) with this rc file:

   set daemon 300  # Poll at 5-minute intervals
   set logfile .fetchlog

   poll hostname.org protocol POP3 username USERNAME password 
  I take it this is not the real mail server.

 but I get this in the log file:

   fetchmail: starting fetchmail 4.6.4 daemon
   fetchmail: 4.6.4 querying hostname.org (protocol POP3) at Sun Jun  4
   16:51:08 2000
   fetchmail: fetchmail: POP3 connection to hostname.org failed: Connection
   refused
   fetchmail: terminated with signal 15

My guess is you have the wrong mail server name.  A typical ISP might
have a server named 'mail.isp.net'.  If that's not it, check your
username and password and make sure ~/.fetchmailrc is chmod 600.

My .fetchmail looks like:
#-
poll mail.isp.net
protocol pop3
timeout 60
username there is $USER here
password get your own!
#-

snip ???

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RE: Would this be applicable to the API issue?

2000-06-05 Thread Andrew McRobert
... I didn't notice any earlier mailings on this, so I'm coming in cold a
little. Trade dress in the US is like passing off in Australia. It doesn't
give you any more extensive protection than trade mark registration *e.g.
for the debian swirl* and is harder to prove, because with TM protection,
unlike 'trade dress'/passing off, you have to prove reputation in the
relevant trade or service mark.

... there's also the problem *at the risk of starting heated debate* that
the Debian web site layout is quite indistinctive ... and therefore a trade
dress infringement would be quite difficult to establish ... this is kinda
my area, so if you've got any queries, feel free to mail me.

ta

Andrew

-Original Message-
From: Andrew Weiss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 12:11 PM
To: debian-legal@lists.debian.org; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Would this be applicable to the API issue?


It seems as if this would bundle the Debian Swirl and the look of Debian's
website and cover any issues rather than dealing with it as copyright
infringement and/or trademark infringement.

Excerpt from an article dealing with Apple sueing Emachines for the eOne: on
MacWeek News

Trade dress

Trade dress is protectable as an unregistered trademark and is a subset of
trademark law and principles; it is designed to ensure that a product or
service's shape, appearance, color, packaging or even sales techniques are
not copied by a competing product. In the past, trade dress has been used by
an ironing-board maker to prevent competitors from duplicating its
distinctive green color and by Ferrari to block the production of
replicars that mimicked the shape of that company's distinctive cars.

A company filing a complaint of trade-dress violation must demonstrate two
things. First, it must prove that its trade dress is distinctive and linked
to the product's source in the mind of consumers. Second, it must show that
the competing product, by using the first company's trade dress, will likely
confuse customers into thinking that the competing company is affiliated
with the first company or that the competing goods are in some way approved
by it.

Some legal commentators, however, believe that Apple's cases are based not
on these factors but on related U.S. trade-dress statutes that protect trade
dress from dilution. Such cases don't depend on the likelihood of confusion
or direct competition; instead, they apply to any activity that reduces the
ability of the elements of the original product to signal the source,
quality or origin of the good and services associated with the product.

Regards,
Andrew Weiss
Director of Linux Development
Boxx International Corporation


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Aeromail

2000-06-05 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi, is anyone using aeromail, the web-based e-mail front-end? I'm pretty
happy with it so far (I only want something quick  simple  free), but it
won't let me create folders on the server (apart from INBOX). The php3-imap
package is installed, and the directory permissions for the mail directory
specified in config.inc seems to be ok ...

tks

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Port 139

2000-06-05 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

output from netstat | more shows a connection from a remote machine to:

[my server].139 

I was wondering what port 139 is used for ...

thanks

Andrew

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RE: Port 139

2000-06-05 Thread Andrew McRobert
... actually that gives me an idea as to what it is. I think 139 is used
when a user uses the map network drive feature in windows (ie. an SMB
share).

ta

Andrew

-Original Message-
From: Eric G . Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 4:11 PM
To: Debian-Users (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Port 139


On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 03:46:55PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote:
 hi

 output from netstat | more shows a connection from a remote machine
 to:

 [my server].139

 I was wondering what port 139 is used for ...

$ cat /etc/services | grep 139
netbios-ssn 139/tcp # NETBIOS session service
netbios-ssn 139/udp

You got SAMBA? (Don't know if SAMBA uses it? Can't think of anything in
*nix land that does.)

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RE: Win 2000 smbmount problems

2000-06-04 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

... can you remember how to configure Samba to support shadow passwords?

tks

Andrew

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 9:06 PM
To: Paulo Henrique Baptista; Debian User
Subject: Re: Win 2000 smbmount problems


Hi

I had  a similar problem problem.  If I recall it was an issue with the way
passwords
were being encrypted (ie they are under NT with service pack = 3).  You may
want to
check this.  Also, are you using shadow passwords on linux?  If so, has the
samba
been configured for this?

HTH

Richard

Paulo Henrique Baptista wrote:

 Hi all,
 I have a Debian server machine SMBmounting a Windows NT to get
.dbf
 files to import and use in a gtk/perl program. But now this machine is
 upgraded to Windows 2000 and it is giving me an error about acess denied
 altought the NT expert said that I can view (access) the desired dir from
 a Windowze 95 machine.
 I'm using kernel 2.2.* and smbmount-2.1.*
 Anyone knows if Windows 2000 has a problem with smbmount?
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quick sendmail question

2000-06-02 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all

... the output from ps -eax | grep sendmail shows that sendmail is
rejecting all connections requested on its port (no. 25). Does anyone know
how I can quickly change it so that it will accept connections?

thanks

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PHP3 cgi/apache

2000-06-01 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

...pls excuse the dumb-ness of this qstn, but how do I tell if I'm running
php3-apache OR php3-cgi? does the former run automatically when apache runs?
(provided there's a valid php3.ini file). If so, then how does php3-cgi run?

thanks

Andrew

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RE: internet connection

2000-05-31 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi Scott

... all you should need to do is run pppconfig (to set up the connection
properties for your ISP), and then run pon name of connection configured
in pppconfig. You must have also set the IP addresses of your ISP's
nameservers, in /etc/resolv.conf

A

-Original Message-
From: T [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 11:12 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: internet connection


Hi,
i have set up debian base system and was advised to get on the net with that
computer to get the rest of the system.  I am having trouble configuring my
internet connecti0on.  I have it on a win computer, and the terminal window
comes up with a menu, where i switch to ppp and then log in.  I tried to set
this up with pppconfig, and entered a pre login chat bbut i can't get it to
work.  Is there a way i can bring up somethin resembling a terminal window
on a debian?  Thanks for your help

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No high memory space

2000-05-31 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

I've had a number of problems getting X to run on my Toshiba ... I know
think it may have something to do with a message I receive @ startup. THe
message is no high memory area available (or words to that effect). I seem
to remember reading something about Linux + 128MB ram  greater ... is there
some issue there? My laptop has slightly more than 128 ...

thanks

Andrew

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RE: RFC 1878 documents for subnet

2000-05-31 Thread Andrew McRobert
they should be on the IETF site ... I'm guessing www.ietf.org

A

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From: Eric G . Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 1:16 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: RFC 1878 documents for subnet


On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:41:21PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote:
 Where to got RFC 1878 documents for subnet mask
 and the valid addresses.

debian has a doc-rfc package containing many of these.  If you don't
want the whole package (it's pretty big) just do a net search on the
RFC.  There are a number of servers that mirror them.

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REPOST: No high memory space

2000-05-31 Thread Andrew McRobert
[Andrew McRobert]  ,

hi, I thought I'd repost this in case someone with the answer to my question
missed this  thanks

I've had a number of problems getting X to run on my Toshiba ... I know
think it may have something to do with a message I receive @ startup. THe
message is no high memory area available (or words to that effect). I seem
to remember reading something about Linux + 128MB ram  greater ... is there
some issue there? My laptop has slightly more than 128 ...

thanks

Andrew

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RE: is there a gui frontend in X for dialing ppp?

2000-05-30 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

... given the absolutely beautiful simplicity of pon and poff ... who
wld want a clunky GUI?

:)

A

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Taupter
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 12:21 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: is there a gui frontend in X for dialing ppp?


  1.what is a good gui program for dialing ppp instead of using pon blah
in
  the console or term.

pon is some sort of script who calls pppd call connection.
Gnome-Dialup is some sort of front-end for pppd call, as pon is.


Taupter


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XFCOnfiggin'

2000-05-30 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi again

Can someone tell me why an XF86Config file from an identical laptop will not
work on mine (ie. identical model, CPU, RAM, HDD, Video Card, Sound Card
etc.)  BUT ... mine's Debian as opposed to Red Hat ... ?

tks

A

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RE: XFCOnfiggin'

2000-05-30 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

.. this has actually been a long-running saga on the list (well for yours
truly anyhow). Both laptops are running 3.3.6 (mine's 3.3.6-6), not sure
about the other. The S3 Savage card is supported in all versions of 3.3.6
(apparently). I've also downloaded a specific XF86_SVGA server for my card.
The generic SVGA server didn't recognise my chipset, but the new one does
(which is something of a breakthrough). However, when I run 'startx' all I
get is a blank screen. If I Ctrl+F1 to TTY1 then I see the message explicit
kill or server shutdown. The output of startx is below, I'm running out of
ideas...

tks, A

XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
Release Date: January 8 1999
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer
than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting
problems.  (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
Operating System: Linux 2.2.12-20 i686 [ELF]
Configured drivers:
  SVGA: server for SVGA graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0):
  NV1, STG2000, RIVA 128, RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2, RIVA ULTRA TNT2,
  RIVA VANTA, RIVA ULTRA VANTA, RIVA INTEGRATED, GeForce 256,
  GeForce DDR, Quadro, ET4000, ET4000W32, ET4000W32i, ET4000W32i_rev_b,
  ET4000W32i_rev_c, ET4000W32p, ET4000W32p_rev_a, ET4000W32p_rev_b,
  ET4000W32p_rev_c, ET4000W32p_rev_d, ET6000, ET6100, et3000, pvga1,
  wd90c00, wd90c10, wd90c30, wd90c24, wd90c31, wd90c33, gvga, r128, ati,
  sis86c201, sis86c202, sis86c205, sis86c215, sis86c225, sis5597,
  sis5598, sis6326, sis530, sis620, sis300, sis630, sis540, tvga8200lx,
  tvga8800cs, tvga8900b, tvga8900c, tvga8900cl, tvga8900d, tvga9000,
  tvga9000i, tvga9100b, tvga9200cxr, tgui9400cxi, tgui9420, tgui9420dgi,
  tgui9430dgi, tgui9440agi, cyber9320, tgui9660, tgui9680, tgui9682,
  tgui9685, cyber9382, cyber9385, cyber9388, cyber9397, cyber9520,
  cyber9525, 3dimage975, 3dimage985, cyber9397dvd, blade3d, cyberblade,
  clgd5420, clgd5422, clgd5424, clgd5426, clgd5428, clgd5429, clgd5430,
  clgd5434, clgd5436, clgd5446, clgd5480, clgd5462, clgd5464, clgd5465,
  clgd6205, clgd6215, clgd6225, clgd6235, clgd7541, clgd7542, clgd7543,
  clgd7548, clgd7555, clgd7556, ncr77c22, ncr77c22e, cpq_avga, mga2064w,
  mga1064sg, mga2164w, mga2164w AGP, mgag200, mgag100, mgag400, oti067,
  oti077, oti087, oti037c, al2101, ali2228, ali2301, ali2302, ali2308,
  ali2401, cl6410, cl6412, cl6420, cl6440, video7, ark1000vl, ark1000pv,
  ark2000pv, ark2000mt, mx, realtek, s3_savage, s3_virge, AP6422, AT24,
  AT3D, s3_svga, NM2070, NM2090, NM2093, NM2097, NM2160, NM2200,
  ct65520, ct65525, ct65530, ct65535, ct65540, ct65545, ct65546,
  ct65548, ct65550, ct65554, ct6, ct68554, ct69000, ct64200,
  ct64300, mediagx, V1000, V2100, V2200, p9100, spc8110, i740, i740_pci,
  Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3, smi, generic
(using VT number 7)

XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
(**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
(**) XKB: rules: xfree86
(**) XKB: model: pc104
(**) XKB: layout: us
(**) XKB: variant: nodeadkeys
(**) Mouse: type: IMPS/2, device: /dev/psaux, samplerate: 60
(**) Mouse: buttons: 5
(**) Mouse: zaxismapping: (-)4 (+)5
(**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: S3 Savage IX/MV
(**) SVGA: Monitor ID: Primary-Monitor
(**) FontPath set to
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unsca
led,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib
/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
(--) SVGA: PCI: S3 Savage/IX (Macrovision) rev 17, Memory @ 0xf000
(--) SVGA: SAVAGE: Savage/MX rev 11, Linear FB @ 0xf000
(--) SVGA: Detected S3 Savage/MX
(--) SVGA: using driver for chipset s3_savage
(--) SVGA: videoram:  8192k
(--) SVGA: Ramdac speed: 250 MHz
(--) SVGA: Detected current MCLK value of 83.045 MHz
(--) SVGA: VBE Version 2.0
(--) SVGA: BIOS label is S3 Incorporated. M7 BIOS
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).



-Original Message-
From: Eric G . Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 3:42 PM
To: Debian-Users (E-mail)
Subject: Re: XFCOnfiggin'


On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 03:02:01PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote:
 hi again

 Can someone tell me why an XF86Config file from an identical laptop
 will not work on mine (ie. identical model, CPU, RAM, HDD, Video Card,
 Sound Card etc.)  BUT ... mine's Debian as opposed to Red Hat ...
 ?

Crystal Ball is a little cloudy today... but I'm seeing different
versions of X -- one that supports certain graphics hardware and one
that does not.  A likely course of action is to run x86config on the
machine where X isn't working, and find out if the display hardware is
supported.  If yes, continue with configuration, using the other Config
file as a reference.  If no, update X (which

RE: XFCOnfiggin'

2000-05-30 Thread Andrew McRobert
nope :)

A

-Original Message-
From: Ron Rademaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 4:15 PM
To: Andrew McRobert
Cc: 'Eric G . Miller'; 'Debian-Users (E-mail)'
Subject: RE: XFCOnfiggin'


Are you out of quota or out of diskspace ?

Ron Rademaker

On Tue, 30 May 2000, Andrew McRobert wrote:

 hi

 .. this has actually been a long-running saga on the list (well for yours
 truly anyhow). Both laptops are running 3.3.6 (mine's 3.3.6-6), not sure
 about the other. The S3 Savage card is supported in all versions of 3.3.6
 (apparently). I've also downloaded a specific XF86_SVGA server for my
card.
 The generic SVGA server didn't recognise my chipset, but the new one does
 (which is something of a breakthrough). However, when I run 'startx' all I
 get is a blank screen. If I Ctrl+F1 to TTY1 then I see the message
explicit
 kill or server shutdown. The output of startx is below, I'm running out
of
 ideas...

 tks, A

 XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System
 (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
 Release Date: January 8 1999
   If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer
   than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting
   problems.  (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
 Operating System: Linux 2.2.12-20 i686 [ELF]
 Configured drivers:
   SVGA: server for SVGA graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0):
   NV1, STG2000, RIVA 128, RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2, RIVA ULTRA TNT2,
   RIVA VANTA, RIVA ULTRA VANTA, RIVA INTEGRATED, GeForce 256,
   GeForce DDR, Quadro, ET4000, ET4000W32, ET4000W32i,
ET4000W32i_rev_b,
   ET4000W32i_rev_c, ET4000W32p, ET4000W32p_rev_a, ET4000W32p_rev_b,
   ET4000W32p_rev_c, ET4000W32p_rev_d, ET6000, ET6100, et3000, pvga1,
   wd90c00, wd90c10, wd90c30, wd90c24, wd90c31, wd90c33, gvga, r128,
ati,
   sis86c201, sis86c202, sis86c205, sis86c215, sis86c225, sis5597,
   sis5598, sis6326, sis530, sis620, sis300, sis630, sis540,
tvga8200lx,
   tvga8800cs, tvga8900b, tvga8900c, tvga8900cl, tvga8900d, tvga9000,
   tvga9000i, tvga9100b, tvga9200cxr, tgui9400cxi, tgui9420,
tgui9420dgi,
   tgui9430dgi, tgui9440agi, cyber9320, tgui9660, tgui9680, tgui9682,
   tgui9685, cyber9382, cyber9385, cyber9388, cyber9397, cyber9520,
   cyber9525, 3dimage975, 3dimage985, cyber9397dvd, blade3d,
cyberblade,
   clgd5420, clgd5422, clgd5424, clgd5426, clgd5428, clgd5429,
clgd5430,
   clgd5434, clgd5436, clgd5446, clgd5480, clgd5462, clgd5464,
clgd5465,
   clgd6205, clgd6215, clgd6225, clgd6235, clgd7541, clgd7542,
clgd7543,
   clgd7548, clgd7555, clgd7556, ncr77c22, ncr77c22e, cpq_avga,
mga2064w,
   mga1064sg, mga2164w, mga2164w AGP, mgag200, mgag100, mgag400,
oti067,
   oti077, oti087, oti037c, al2101, ali2228, ali2301, ali2302, ali2308,
   ali2401, cl6410, cl6412, cl6420, cl6440, video7, ark1000vl,
ark1000pv,
   ark2000pv, ark2000mt, mx, realtek, s3_savage, s3_virge, AP6422,
AT24,
   AT3D, s3_svga, NM2070, NM2090, NM2093, NM2097, NM2160, NM2200,
   ct65520, ct65525, ct65530, ct65535, ct65540, ct65545, ct65546,
   ct65548, ct65550, ct65554, ct6, ct68554, ct69000, ct64200,
   ct64300, mediagx, V1000, V2100, V2200, p9100, spc8110, i740,
i740_pci,
   Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3, smi, generic
 (using VT number 7)

 XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
 (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
 (**) XKB: rules: xfree86
 (**) XKB: model: pc104
 (**) XKB: layout: us
 (**) XKB: variant: nodeadkeys
 (**) Mouse: type: IMPS/2, device: /dev/psaux, samplerate: 60
 (**) Mouse: buttons: 5
 (**) Mouse: zaxismapping: (-)4 (+)5
 (**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: S3 Savage IX/MV
 (**) SVGA: Monitor ID: Primary-Monitor
 (**) FontPath set to

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unsca

led,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib
 /X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
 (--) SVGA: PCI: S3 Savage/IX (Macrovision) rev 17, Memory @ 0xf000
 (--) SVGA: SAVAGE: Savage/MX rev 11, Linear FB @ 0xf000
 (--) SVGA: Detected S3 Savage/MX
 (--) SVGA: using driver for chipset s3_savage
 (--) SVGA: videoram:  8192k
 (--) SVGA: Ramdac speed: 250 MHz
 (--) SVGA: Detected current MCLK value of 83.045 MHz
 (--) SVGA: VBE Version 2.0
 (--) SVGA: BIOS label is S3 Incorporated. M7 BIOS
 X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).



 -Original Message-
 From: Eric G . Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 3:42 PM
 To: Debian-Users (E-mail)
 Subject: Re: XFCOnfiggin'


 On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 03:02:01PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote:
  hi again
 
  Can someone tell me why an XF86Config file from an identical laptop
  will not work on mine (ie. identical model, CPU, RAM, HDD, Video Card,
  Sound Card etc.)  BUT ... mine's Debian as opposed to Red Hat

RE: XFCOnfiggin'

2000-05-30 Thread Andrew McRobert
thanks guys, but I've run xf86config  XF86Setup about 300,000 times (almost
no embellishment there!!) ... I've also got a server flag for don't die if
the mouse fails ...

oh well

Andrew

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vitux
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 6:58 AM
To: debian-user
Subject: Re: XFCOnfiggin'


Vitux wrote:

 Ron Rademaker wrote:
 
  Why don't you just run xf86config on your laptop (debian)?? That should
  make X work
 
  Ron
 
 I second. My experience with different cards and monitors is
 that I often have to run xf86config a few times to straighten
 things out and achieve the best modes...
 There could be lots of reasons why X craps out on you. Even a
 wrong mouse-setup could do this kind of thing...
 Good Luck
 Vitux

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RE: help!!!!!!

2000-05-29 Thread Andrew McRobert
hehe, spot the Microsoft user ... sorry, must be constructive ... what is
the exact problem you're having?

Andrew

-Original Message-
From: John Archuleta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 1:13 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: help!!


To Whom It May Concern,


 I recently purchased your version of linux, but am having trouble
installing it.  I was hoping you had tech support that could walk me through
it.  I would appreciate it if you could send me this phone number. Thanks!

Sincerely,
John A.



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FW: Dumb X Windows Question

2000-05-23 Thread Andrew McRobert


-Original Message-
From: Andrew McRobert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 12:04 PM
To: 'Jay Kelly'
Subject: RE: Dumb X Windows Question


... try these .debs at least

xfree86-common
xlib6g
xf86setup

... just apt-get update  then apt-get install package-name


Andrew


-Original Message-
From: Jay Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 11:57 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Dumb X Windows Question


Ok I have another dumb question.
If I want to install X Windows what do I do. I have already tried apt-get
install xserver-svga and it installs, but when I try to run the XF86Config
I get command not found and I get the same for XF86Setup. What did I
forget to install?


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X Weirdness

2000-05-23 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

I've installed X 3.3.6-6 on my Toshiba Sat Pro 4270 (laptop). The machine
has an S3 Savage card, and I've installed the latest drivers from the s3
site. The server is identifying my machine's video card correctly, and is
not producing any errors on start up ... BUT ... all I get is a blank screen
when I 'startx' ... the output from my X session is as follows:



XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
Release Date: January 8 1999
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer
than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting
problems.  (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
Operating System: Linux 2.2.12-20 i686 [ELF]
Configured drivers:
  SVGA: server for SVGA graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0):
  NV1, STG2000, RIVA 128, RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2, RIVA ULTRA TNT2,
  RIVA VANTA, RIVA ULTRA VANTA, RIVA INTEGRATED, GeForce 256,
  GeForce DDR, Quadro, ET4000, ET4000W32, ET4000W32i, ET4000W32i_rev_b,
  ET4000W32i_rev_c, ET4000W32p, ET4000W32p_rev_a, ET4000W32p_rev_b,
  ET4000W32p_rev_c, ET4000W32p_rev_d, ET6000, ET6100, et3000, pvga1,
  wd90c00, wd90c10, wd90c30, wd90c24, wd90c31, wd90c33, gvga, r128, ati,
  sis86c201, sis86c202, sis86c205, sis86c215, sis86c225, sis5597,
  sis5598, sis6326, sis530, sis620, sis300, sis630, sis540, tvga8200lx,
  tvga8800cs, tvga8900b, tvga8900c, tvga8900cl, tvga8900d, tvga9000,
  tvga9000i, tvga9100b, tvga9200cxr, tgui9400cxi, tgui9420, tgui9420dgi,
  tgui9430dgi, tgui9440agi, cyber9320, tgui9660, tgui9680, tgui9682,
  tgui9685, cyber9382, cyber9385, cyber9388, cyber9397, cyber9520,
  cyber9525, 3dimage975, 3dimage985, cyber9397dvd, blade3d, cyberblade,
  clgd5420, clgd5422, clgd5424, clgd5426, clgd5428, clgd5429, clgd5430,
  clgd5434, clgd5436, clgd5446, clgd5480, clgd5462, clgd5464, clgd5465,
  clgd6205, clgd6215, clgd6225, clgd6235, clgd7541, clgd7542, clgd7543,
  clgd7548, clgd7555, clgd7556, ncr77c22, ncr77c22e, cpq_avga, mga2064w,
  mga1064sg, mga2164w, mga2164w AGP, mgag200, mgag100, mgag400, oti067,
  oti077, oti087, oti037c, al2101, ali2228, ali2301, ali2302, ali2308,
  ali2401, cl6410, cl6412, cl6420, cl6440, video7, ark1000vl, ark1000pv,
  ark2000pv, ark2000mt, mx, realtek, s3_savage, s3_virge, AP6422, AT24,
  AT3D, s3_svga, NM2070, NM2090, NM2093, NM2097, NM2160, NM2200,
  ct65520, ct65525, ct65530, ct65535, ct65540, ct65545, ct65546,
  ct65548, ct65550, ct65554, ct6, ct68554, ct69000, ct64200,
  ct64300, mediagx, V1000, V2100, V2200, p9100, spc8110, i740, i740_pci,
  Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3, smi, generic
(using VT number 7)

XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
(**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
(**) XKB: rules: xfree86
(**) XKB: model: pc104
(**) XKB: layout: us
(**) XKB: variant: nodeadkeys
(**) Mouse: type: IMPS/2, device: /dev/psaux, samplerate: 60
(**) Mouse: buttons: 5
(**) Mouse: zaxismapping: (-)4 (+)5
(**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: S3 Savage IX/MV
(**) SVGA: Monitor ID: Primary-Monitor
(**) FontPath set to
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unsca
led,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib
/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
(--) SVGA: PCI: S3 Savage/IX (Macrovision) rev 17, Memory @ 0xf000
(--) SVGA: SAVAGE: Savage/MX rev 11, Linear FB @ 0xf000
(--) SVGA: Detected S3 Savage/MX
(--) SVGA: using driver for chipset s3_savage
(--) SVGA: videoram:  8192k
(--) SVGA: Ramdac speed: 250 MHz
(--) SVGA: Detected current MCLK value of 83.045 MHz
(--) SVGA: VBE Version 2.0
(--) SVGA: BIOS label is S3 Incorporated. M7 BIOS
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

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IT Officer, School of Law
MURDOCH UNIVERSITY
Ph: 9360 6479
Fax: 9310 6671
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Webmail

2000-05-23 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

while I'm waiting in hope re: my X Win qstn, does anyone know of a good Web
mail package (ie. let's you download mail from another POP server  look @
it through WWW.

ta

A

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libX11.a?

2000-05-22 Thread Andrew McRobert
/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/us
r/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/
X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X
11/fonts/100dpi/
(--) SVGA: PCI: S3 Savage/IX (Macrovision) rev 17, Memory @ 0xf000
(--) SVGA: SAVAGE: Savage/MX rev 11, Linear FB @ 0xf000
(--) SVGA: Detected S3 Savage/MX
(--) SVGA: using driver for chipset s3_savage
(--) SVGA: videoram:  8192k
(--) SVGA: Ramdac speed: 250 MHz
(--) SVGA: Detected current MCLK value of 83.045 MHz
(--) SVGA: VBE Version 2.0
(--) SVGA: BIOS label is S3 Incorporated. M7 BIOS
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

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IT Officer, School of Law
MURDOCH UNIVERSITY
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Fax: 9310 6671
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FW: Tape Backup Problem

2000-05-17 Thread Andrew McRobert
... i'm using tar  smbtar on a Dell Poweredge (with SONY DDS3 tape drive)
running Debian 2.2.14 (potato) ... works very nicely ... tar's a great
little program  very useful for your shell scripts ... backing up several
gig with no problems, I'd stay away from GUI tape drive managers, there's
really no need for them

Andrew

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From: Jesse Jacobsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 4:52 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Tape Backup Problem


On 05/16/00, Robert Waldner addressed Re: Tape Backup Problem:
 I had the same experience on kernel 2.0.38 with a HP DDS-2 when
 using taper and/or kbackup. Settled down for plain tar.

Plain tar is nice in some ways, but unless there's hardware
compression, using compression is risky.   I've been using afio, which
allows you to compress file-by-file.  Like tar, it fits nicely into
scripts, and creates reasonably accessible archives.

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RE: S3, S3V, or XF86_SVGA server

2000-05-15 Thread Andrew McRobert
I'd be interested in any variants of the XF86_SVGA server for Savage cards
that you've got ... X Windows is saying that I'm running a unrecognised S3
chipset ... then defaults to VGA server @ 640x480 

Andrew

-Original Message-
From: rink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 3:50 PM
To: Bret Comstock Waldow
Cc: Heather; Andrew McRobert; Debian-Users (E-mail); Debian-Laptop
(E-mail)
Subject: Re: S3, S3V, or XF86_SVGA server





 On that basis, it seems the XF86_SVGA server is the right one for the
 Savage chips, and it looks as though the XF86_S3V server is obsolete.


H, guess you're right on that. I was running a Savage4-based card in
my system some weeks ago, and it only worked well with the SVGA server. We
also tried that on a laptop system with Savage4 onboard and had severe
problems there both running XF 3.3.6 or one of the S4-modified servers (as
XF86_S3SAV by Creative which happens to be a patched XF3.3.3-SVGA-server)
and, finally, got the machine working fine there with framebuffer support
and the Framebuffer-X-Server... :))

Regards,
Kris



RE: Laptop Screen Size Problems (cont...)

2000-05-11 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

I've installed xfree ver 3.3.6-6, still having problems though. Have
included the output from running 'startx' (thorough startx  startxout).

Would be grateful for any assistance ...

XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
Release Date: January 8 2000
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer
than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting
problems.  (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
Operating System: Linux 2.2.14 i586 [ELF]
Configured drivers:
  SVGA: server for SVGA graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 1):
  NV1, STG2000, RIVA 128, RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2, RIVA ULTRA TNT2,
  RIVA VANTA, RIVA ULTRA VANTA, RIVA INTEGRATED, GeForce 256,
  GeForce DDR, Quadro, ET4000, ET4000W32, ET4000W32i, ET4000W32i_rev_b,
  ET4000W32i_rev_c, ET4000W32p, ET4000W32p_rev_a, ET4000W32p_rev_b,
  ET4000W32p_rev_c, ET4000W32p_rev_d, ET6000, ET6100, et3000, pvga1,
  wd90c00, wd90c10, wd90c30, wd90c24, wd90c31, wd90c33, gvga, r128, ati,
  sis86c201, sis86c202, sis86c205, sis86c215, sis86c225, sis5597,
  sis5598, sis6326, sis530, sis620, sis300, sis630, sis540, tvga8200lx,
  tvga8800cs, tvga8900b, tvga8900c, tvga8900cl, tvga8900d, tvga9000,
  tvga9000i, tvga9100b, tvga9200cxr, tgui9400cxi, tgui9420, tgui9420dgi,
  tgui9430dgi, tgui9440agi, cyber9320, tgui9660, tgui9680, tgui9682,
  tgui9685, cyber9382, cyber9385, cyber9388, cyber9397, cyber9520,
  cyber9525, 3dimage975, 3dimage985, cyber9397dvd, blade3d, cyberblade,
  clgd5420, clgd5422, clgd5424, clgd5426, clgd5428, clgd5429, clgd5430,
  clgd5434, clgd5436, clgd5446, clgd5480, clgd5462, clgd5464, clgd5465,
  clgd6205, clgd6215, clgd6225, clgd6235, clgd7541, clgd7542, clgd7543,
  clgd7548, clgd7555, clgd7556, ncr77c22, ncr77c22e, cpq_avga, mga2064w,
  mga1064sg, mga2164w, mga2164w AGP, mgag200, mgag100, mgag400, oti067,
  oti077, oti087, oti037c, al2101, ali2228, ali2301, ali2302, ali2308,
  ali2401, cl6410, cl6412, cl6420, cl6440, video7, ark1000vl, ark1000pv,
  ark2000pv, ark2000mt, mx, realtek, s3_savage, s3_virge, AP6422, AT24,
  AT3D, s3_svga, NM2070, NM2090, NM2093, NM2097, NM2160, NM2200,
  ct65520, ct65525, ct65530, ct65535, ct65540, ct65545, ct65546,
  ct65548, ct65550, ct65554, ct6, ct68554, ct69000, ct64200,
  ct64300, mediagx, V1000, V2100, V2200, p9100, spc8110, i740, i740_pci,
  i810, i810-dc100, i810e, Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3, smi, generic
(using VT number 7)

XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
(**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
(**) XKB: keymap: xfree86(us) (overrides other XKB settings)
(**) Mouse: type: Microsoft, device: /dev/ttyS0, baudrate: 1200
(**) Mouse: buttons: 3, 3 button emulation (timeout: 50ms)
(**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: asdf
(**) SVGA: Monitor ID: asdf
(--) SVGA: Mode 1024x768 needs vert refresh rate of 86.96 Hz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode 640x400 needs vert refresh rate of 85.08 Hz. Deleted.
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(--) SVGA: Mode 1024x768 needs hsync freq of 56.48 kHz. Deleted.
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(--) SVGA: Mode 1024x768 needs hsync freq of 62.50 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode 1152x864 needs hsync freq of 62.42 kHz. Deleted.
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(--) SVGA: Mode 1024x768 needs hsync freq of 70.24 kHz. Deleted.
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RE: root tries to automatically log in

2000-05-11 Thread Andrew McRobert
do you have any other system users created in /etc/passwd?

Andrew

-Original Message-
From: Mark Crotts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 12:29 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: root tries to automatically log in


I reinstalled my 2.1 debian base last week. When it got to the point
where the box reboots then asks me to set a root password, it
rejected every password I tried. I tried various combinations of
numbers and letters but everything was rejected.

So I rebooted, and then my box logged in root automatically with
no password. I changed roots pw and rebooted again. This time it
tried to log root in again, but since I had changed the pw from
blank to  the box couldn't log in. Instead it sits at the
password prompt.

Now if I type in roots password it will log root in. If root then
types exit it again tries to log root in automatically. Here's the
output

daylonius:~# exit
logout
Password:

I've tried looking over the init scripts without luck. I'm new to
debian so I really don't know where to look to fix this. Can someone
help me?


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_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2000-05-11 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi

when I run XF86Setup and then test my settings I get the following error:

_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
etc. etc.


any ideas?

thanks

Andrew

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Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci)
IT Officer, School of Law
MURDOCH UNIVERSITY
Ph: 9360 6479
Fax: 9310 6671
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