Re: Problems with Acer CD-RW 8432IA (cont...)
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 > >
Problems with Acer CD-RW 8432IA (cont...)
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 -- Andrew McRobert B.Sc.(Comp. Sci.) LL.B LL.M Info. Tech. Liaison Officer School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: + 61 8 9360 6479 Fax: + 61 8 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Making a bootable LILO floppy
... 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 ------ Andrew McRobert B.Sc.(Comp. Sci.) LL.B LL.M Info. Tech. Liaison Officer School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: + 61 8 9360 6479 Fax: + 61 8 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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! > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Problems with Acer CD-RW 8432IA
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 --
Adding UFS support
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
RE: Installing new SCSI driver in Dell Poweredge - a challenge?
>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) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
Installing new SCSI driver in Dell Poweredge - a challenge?
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 - Andrew McRobert LL.B B.Sc (Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer School of Law Murdoch University Ph: +61 8 9360 6479 Fax: +61 8 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mkboot
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)
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: ssh from nt? - Port forwarding
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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -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 >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*. &rw -- / Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Phone: +43 1 89933 0 Fax x533 \ \KPNQwest/AT tech staff| Diefenbachg. 35 A-1150 Wien / -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: crontab control?
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 - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -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 -- Email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home: <http://www.farrer.net/~rbf/> ICQ: pulsar 26276320 Debian GNU/HURD on Alpha: <http://hurd-alpha.sourceforge.net/>
RE: How to change machine+machine name and ip-address in Debian?
... 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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -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 > Regards > Magnus Hope this helps, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogerio Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/ Nectar homepage: http://www.linux.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/nectar/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: Resetting dselect
thanks, but that doesn't seem to be working ... (I'm still getting about 2 ga-zillion packages to install) Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -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. David Vrabel
Resetting dselect
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 Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation"
fyi: Winux??
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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation"
RE: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi
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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Console display - font & line sizes
hi all Does anyone know how to set the number of characters per line & number of lines per screen for the console?? thanks Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation"
RE: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi
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 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wilson Yau Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 10:53 PM To: Debian User Mailing List 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. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation"
fyi: Linux Office Suite Consortium - NY Times
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." --------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation"
RE: crontab
... 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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -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. Armin -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
SOLVED: RE: LILO & Kernel Image too big --> Make error
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 --------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -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. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: LILO & Kernel Image too big --> Make error
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 --------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -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. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: LILO & Kernel Image too big
bzImage :) Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -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. Bye. * Juan Ramón Jiménez García Analista Programador O.N.C.E. Dep. I+D Nuevas Tecnologias Telf: 91.589.02.93 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
LILO & Kernel Image too big
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 --------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation"
RE: Port No. 1032 - iad3
... it's listed as supporting "BBN IAD" on this list: http://members.toast.net/kmfahey/ports.html A --------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -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... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: Port No. 1032 - iad3
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 - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -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... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: vi won't work with any TERM setting
try this to set the TERM variable (this is for bash, similar syntax in others shells - check sys admin guide for details): [EMAIL PROTECTED]> sh // change to bash shell [EMAIL PROTECTED]> TERM=vt100 // set TERM to generic vt100 [EMAIL PROTECTED]> export TERM // export as env. variable then try 'telnettting' ... tks Andrew --------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -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. >-Original Message- >From: r.l. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 1:09 PM >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. > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >/dev/null > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
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"). tks Andrew --------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -Original Message- From: r.l. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 1:09 PM 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. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75
sounds like a possibility ... what are those "ferrite beads" you're talking about? cheers Andrew --------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 12:39 PM To: kmself@ix.netcom.com Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org 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? > > -- > Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself > Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! >http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org > GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Port No. 1032 - iad3
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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation"
RE: Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75
yep, it's an onboard adapter, I downloaded the X server from the mainboard manufacturer's site ... Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -Original Message- From: Tal Danzig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 11:49 AM To: Andrew McRobert; debian-user@lists.debian.org 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 -- | Tal Danzig | Join #libranet on the | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | openprojects IRC network | | http://www.libranet.com| Tal Danzig | | The TOP Desktop! | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75
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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -Original Message- From: kmself@ix.netcom.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 7:31 AM 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? -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75
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: HP OpenMail
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$^k up the machine. > > Not good. > > Michael > -- > Michael Meskes > Michael@Fam-Meskes.De > Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! > Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL! > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Re: restricting user in HOME using ProFTP
thanks for that ... On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, John Pearson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 06:40:51AM -0700, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira > wrote > > Hi all! > > > > I'm trying to restrict my FTP users in own directories using ProFTP. > > > > I used the configuration examples found in ProFTP's page but something > > is wrong. > > > > AFAICT, all you need to do is add > > DefaultRoot ~ > > somehwere near the top of /etc/proftpd.conf > and run > # /etc/init.d/proftpd reload > > They should then be locked into their home directories; > it seems to work for me. > > > John P. > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin & support:technical services > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Re: HP OpenMail
hi I downloaded the files the other day, and have just begun the process of trying to install this on our Debian server. I've only had time to get to the stage of converting the rpm's to .tgz files and extracting the files to a temporary directory. It looks like it could take a fair bit of hacking around to get it all to work properly on Debian. I've heard that running the RedHat installation scripts on a Debian box will pretty much f$^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 > > P.S.: Please CC me on replies. > -- > Michael Meskes > Michael@Fam-Meskes.De > Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! > Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL! > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
[off topic] Microsoft advertises for Linux team product manger
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 - Andrew McRobert IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation"
RE: Location of "/etc/rc.d" directory Debian v RHAT
thank you sir :) Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -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 > > ----- > Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) > IT Liaison Officer, School of Law > MURDOCH UNIVERSITY > Perth, Western Australia > Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] > Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" > > > -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 rc.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/rc.d under > Debian. > > -- > Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself > Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! >http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org > GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
RE: Location of "/etc/rc.d" directory Debian v RHAT
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 - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -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 rc.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/rc.d under Debian. -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
Location of "/etc/rc.d" directory Debian v RHAT
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 - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation"
RE: restricting user in HOME using ProFTP
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- From: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Resizing "/var" ie. /dev/sda6
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 - Andrew McRobert IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation"
Proftpd - intial directories
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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math"
RE: Alien to .tar.gz
cheers - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math" -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 ... .tgz == .tar.gz -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Alien to .tar.gz
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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math"
Printer Setup - Netscape etc. & SMB
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 ----- Andrew McRobert IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math"
HP OpenMail on Debian (M$ Exchange alternative)
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
RE: Debian in Academic and Public Organisations
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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math" -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: Debian in Academic and Public Organisations
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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math" -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 (817) 556-4720 - phone (360) 397-7952 - fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 > together! > > Simon Read > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: filesystem-hierarchy
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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math" -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. -- sean -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: noise from monitor, HELP!
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).
John P.
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fsck for UFS?? (fwd)
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: Ethernet cards on network
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 send network 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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math" -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
RE: Tape backup software?
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, -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: I need help please
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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math" -Original Message- 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. > > Kindest regards, Melissa. > -- > Melissa Stirling > Regional Office > TCSS LTD > 185 East Road, Cambridge, CB1 1BG > Tel :01223 350216 Fax : 01223 350230 > website: www.tcss-uk.com Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > All prices quoted are subject to Vat @ 17.5% > We reserve the right to revise any quoted price as a consequence of > currency > fluctuations, product price increases or increased costs outside our > control. > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
vmlinuz-2.2.12scsimod
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 --------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math"
Boot floppy - quick qstn
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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math"
RE: Samba Headache
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 -- It feels so good, It's a marginal risk, when I clear off windows with fdisk Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. http://www.debian.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: debian cron: How do I change when /etc/cron.daily/standard is scheduled?
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
EDS (Australia)
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Majordomo Approvals
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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math"
RE: Quick netsat qstn
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? -- 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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math" -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
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 - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math"
RE: Get install to Recognize Hard Drive
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)" 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)" > 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. > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > > /dev/null > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
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)" 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. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
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. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: help! ... doin' the samba
... 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 - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math" -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
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 - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math"
samba error
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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math"
RE: very quick question :)
thanks
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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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very quick question :)
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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math"
umask
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 - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math"
samba passwords
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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math"
RE: Port 139
... 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.) -- daw daw dit, daw daw daw, daw dit dit dit daw, dit dit daw dit, dit dit, dit dit dit, dit dit dit dit, daw dit dit dit daw, -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Port 139
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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math"
Aeromail
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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math"
RE: Would this be applicable to the API issue?
... 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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: fetchmail with ssh
... 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 is $USER here password #- -- daw daw dit, daw daw daw, daw dit dit dit daw, dit dit daw dit, dit dit, dit dit dit, dit dit dit dit, daw dit dit dit daw, -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Samba passwords - Session setup error
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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Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci)
IT Officer, School of Law
MURDOCH UNIVERSITY
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RE: Win 2000 smbmount problems
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? > Thanks > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
quick sendmail question
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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PHP3 cgi/apache
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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
REPOST: No high memory space
[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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: RFC 1878 documents for subnet
they should be on the IETF site ... I'm guessing www.ietf.org A -Original Message- 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. -- ¶ One·should·only·use·the·ASCII·characterset·when·compos » ing·email·messages. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
No high memory space
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 --------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: internet connection
hi Scott ... all you should need to do is run pppconfig (to set up the connection properties for your ISP), and then run "pon ". 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 Scott ___ GO Network Mail Get Your Free, Private E-mail at http://mail.go.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: XFCOnfiggin'
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 -Original Message- 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 > > -- > "I'm not a crook" > Richard Nixon > > Debian GNU/Linux > Micro$loth-free Zone -- "I'm not a crook" Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: XFCOnfiggin'
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
RE: XFCOnfiggin'
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
XFCOnfiggin'
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 - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: is there a gui frontend in X for dialing ppp?
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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: help!!!!!!
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. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Webmail
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 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X Weirdness
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). - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FW: Dumb X Windows Question
-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 " 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? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
"libX11.a"?
" needs hsync freq of 89.62 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 91.15 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 107.16 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode "512x384" needs vert refresh rate of 85.09 Hz. Deleted. (**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/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). - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FW: Tape Backup Problem
... 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 -Original Message- 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. -- Jesse Jacobsen, Pastor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grace Lutheran Church (ELS) http://www.jvlnet.com/~jjacobsen/ Madison, Wisconsin GnuPG public key ID: 2E3EBF13 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: S3, S3V, or XF86_SVGA server
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
Shadow passwords with SAMBA
hi all ... does anyone know the configure option to compile samba with shadow password support? (It's not listed on the samba.org site with all the other options). thanks ANdrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apology for dumbass qstn
>sorry, I hadn't seen the FAQ section on error 111 which basically equates >to "the server caused an error but I'm damned if I know what it actually was" > >tks > >Andrew > >
REPOST: Laptop Screen Size Problems (cont...)
needs hsync freq of 89.62 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 91.15 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode "1600x1200" needs hsync freq of 93.75 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode "1600x1200" needs hsync freq of 105.77 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 107.16 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode "1800X1440" needs hsync freq of 96.15 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode "1800X1440" needs hsync freq of 104.52 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode "512x384" needs vert refresh rate of 85.09 Hz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode "400x300" needs hsync freq of 48.08 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode "480x300" needs hsync freq of 48.00 kHz. Deleted. (**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/: unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ 75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Ty pe1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/,/usr/ X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" (--) SVGA: PCI: S3 Unknown chipset (0x8c12) rev 17, Memory @ 0xf000 (--) SVGA: Unknown S3 chipset: chip_id = 0x8c12 rev. 11 (--) SVGA: chipset: generic (**) SVGA: videoram: 8192k (**) SVGA: clocks: 25.18 (**) SVGA: Using 8 bpp, Depth 8, Color weight: 666 (--) SVGA: Using builtin driver modes (--) SVGA: Builtin Mode: 320x200 (--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 320x204 (--) SVGA: SpeedUp code selection modified because virtualX != 1024 System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m us -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp "> " -eml "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server" keymap/xfree86 compiled/xfree86.xkm' xinit: connection to X server lost. waiting for X server to shut down My manual puts sync rates @: Hrz (48.3, 60.0, 68.7) & Vrz (60, 75) ... I'm only getting a 640x480 res (which sits in a small centred section of the laptop's screen). thanks Andrew Original Mailing - hi ... yeah I was trying to keep the initial installation as simple as possible as I hadn't installed Debian on a laptop previously (eg. running XF86_SVGA server etc.). Machine video specs follow: 8 MB Video RAM Max Res: SVGA - 1280 * 1024, Char. Matrix 8x16, Freq. Ver: 60Hz, Horiz: 48.3/60.0/68.7 wld like to run it @ supported mode -> 1024x768; Freq. Ver: 60/75Hz, Horiz: 48.3/60.0/68.7 ... is an S3 chipset (Adapter= S3_Inc. Savage /IX w?MV - according to Win98 display properties). thanks Andrew -Original Message- From: Bret Comstock Waldow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 3:59 PM To: SMITH Paul Cc: Debian-Laptop (E-mail); Andrew McRobert Subject: Re: laptop screen size problem Hello, Explanations and answers are interspersed below: SMITH Paul wrote: > If you select the full resolution of the LCD, it may use the full screen. I > think this is a Toshiba problem. No, this is not a Toshiba problem. The pixels (dots) on the laptop are physical little cells, each with it's own transistors to make it work. The pixels don't get bigger or smaller when you switch to a higher or lower resolution -- just more or less are activated by the display adapter in the computer. That's why the picture becomes larger or smaller. On a CRT monitor (like most desktops), the circuitry adjusts it's scan size to fill the physical screen, regardless of the resolution, so the picture fills the screen... please see below for an explanation of the real problem here... > I've recently installed debian on a laptop here @ work (Toshiba Sat Pro. > 4260) & configured X-Windows. I'm having problems though with the size of > the screen running linux. > > As with most laptops, the original start up screen (say for Win98) runs in a > small centred section of the screen (say 1/3 of the size of the 14" screen, > centred). Win98 then expands into the whole of the screen when its login > page is displayed. This is because Win98 is going to a resolution which fills the screen, likely 1024x768. > However, linux, whether running the CLI or X-Win only displays in this > small, centred, section of the screen. I've tried a number of things to fix > this but haven't had any luck ... any help wld be greatly appreciated. > > My config file follows: > > # File generated by xf86config. [much snipping here...] You don't say what video chip your system has, for now I'll assume it's using the XF86_SVGA server. Look at the lines labelled 'Modes' in the sections below. With the exception of the "The 16-color VGA server" and "The Mono server" sections, all the modes are 640x400 or 640x480. You aren't using either of them -- they
