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How do I get rid of a package that won't purge
I am trying to get of a package using dpkg --purge but it won't saying package is in a very inconsistent state and must be reinstalled. Dpkg can't install the package. Now I am in a catch 22. Please help Bruce Jackson
Re: Help setting up Exim as relay host for private network
David Natkins wrote: Bruce, Exactly what does Exim say? (check /var/log/exim/mainlog). Bruce Jackson wrote: I am trying to setup exim 3.02 on a potato system. The system is the firewall/gateway for my network. The problem is that I can accept email for the internal host but the email is not routing to the internal host. Exim does not know what to do with it. The internal host is in the /etc/hosts file of the gateway. Exim does not seem to look there. I can ping and traceroute to the internal email server. How exactly do I configure exim.conf to do this. exim.conf qualify_domain = gateway.home.com qualify_recipient = internal.home.com receiver_unqualified_hosts = 172.16.1.2 local_domains = localhost:gateway.home.com local_domains_include_host = true local_domains_include_host_literals = true relay_domains = *.home.com never_users = root host_lookup = * host_accept_relay = 127.0.0.1:172.16.0.0/24 # percent_hack_domains=* trusted_users = mail smtp_verify = true ## # TRANSPORTS CONFIGURATION # ## # ORDER DOES NOT MATTER# # Only one appropriate transport is called for each delivery.# ## remote_smtp: driver = smtp end ## # DIRECTORS CONFIGURATION # # Specifies how local addresses are handled # ## # ORDER DOES MATTER # # A local address is passed to each in turn until it is accepted. # ## real_local: prefix = real- driver = localuser transport = local_delivery system_aliases: driver = aliasfile file_transport = address_file pipe_transport = address_pipe file = /etc/aliases search_type = lsearch # user = list # Uncomment the above line if you are running smartlist userforward: driver = forwardfile file_transport = address_file pipe_transport = address_pipe reply_transport = address_reply no_verify check_ancestor file = .forward modemask = 002 filter localuser: driver = localuser transport = local_delivery smart: driver = smartuser new_address = [EMAIL PROTECTED] end ## # ROUTERS CONFIGURATION # #Specifies how remote addresses are handled # ## # ORDER DOES MATTER # # A remote address is passed to each in turn until it is accepted. # ## lookuphost: driver = lookuphost transport = remote_smtp literal: driver = ipliteral transport = remote_smtp LAN_deliver: driver = domainlist transport = remote_smtp route_list = aes1.aes.ac.in bydns_a end Thanks in advance for your help in this matter. -- Bruce Jackson Debian Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades! www.debian.org www.fsf.org www.linux.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- David Natkins Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax to: (718) 488-1780 Phone: (718) 403-2474 I forgot the error message :) It is: unrouteable mail domain bydns_a -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!!! info: www.debian.org
Help setting up Exim as relay host for private network
I am trying to setup exim 3.02 on a potato system. The system is the firewall/gateway for my network. The problem is that I can accept email for the internal host but the email is not routing to the internal host. Exim does not know what to do with it. The internal host is in the /etc/hosts file of the gateway. Exim does not seem to look there. I can ping and traceroute to the internal email server. How exactly do I configure exim.conf to do this. exim.conf qualify_domain = gateway.home.com qualify_recipient = internal.home.com receiver_unqualified_hosts = 172.16.1.2 local_domains = localhost:gateway.home.com local_domains_include_host = true local_domains_include_host_literals = true relay_domains = *.home.com never_users = root host_lookup = * host_accept_relay = 127.0.0.1:172.16.0.0/24 # percent_hack_domains=* trusted_users = mail smtp_verify = true ## # TRANSPORTS CONFIGURATION # ## # ORDER DOES NOT MATTER# # Only one appropriate transport is called for each delivery.# ## remote_smtp: driver = smtp end ## # DIRECTORS CONFIGURATION # # Specifies how local addresses are handled # ## # ORDER DOES MATTER # # A local address is passed to each in turn until it is accepted. # ## real_local: prefix = real- driver = localuser transport = local_delivery system_aliases: driver = aliasfile file_transport = address_file pipe_transport = address_pipe file = /etc/aliases search_type = lsearch # user = list # Uncomment the above line if you are running smartlist userforward: driver = forwardfile file_transport = address_file pipe_transport = address_pipe reply_transport = address_reply no_verify check_ancestor file = .forward modemask = 002 filter localuser: driver = localuser transport = local_delivery smart: driver = smartuser new_address = [EMAIL PROTECTED] end ## # ROUTERS CONFIGURATION # #Specifies how remote addresses are handled # ## # ORDER DOES MATTER # # A remote address is passed to each in turn until it is accepted. # ## lookuphost: driver = lookuphost transport = remote_smtp literal: driver = ipliteral transport = remote_smtp LAN_deliver: driver = domainlist transport = remote_smtp route_list = aes1.aes.ac.in bydns_a end Thanks in advance for your help in this matter. -- Bruce Jackson Debian Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades! www.debian.org www.fsf.org www.linux.com
Re: How do I setup smail as a gateway for another email program
George Bonser wrote: On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Bruce Jackson wrote: messages are allowed in to the Groupwise. I have tried various things and have gotten various 5xx error messages on smail. The novell machine does not have a fully qualified dns entry. It is on a private class B network. I desparately need the current situation fixed. Any help would be very much appreciated. I am not familliar with Groupwise but you may be able to: 1. Masquerade the outbound SMTP with the Debian gateway and using rinetd redirect connections on port 25 to the debian box directly to port 25 on the internal groupwise server. How exactly would you do this? Would the debian box still be able to receive mail addressed directly to it? I need this capability. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!
How do I setup smail as a gateway for another email program
I have a network that consists of a debian slink machine as a firewall running smail. It has local email on it for some users. These users can access their email either through POP3 or IMAP. It works great. The problem is that I have a Novell machine inside the network running Groupwise 5.5 that needs to be able to send and receive email to the Internet through the debian machine. The debian machine can currently relay the messages out. The problem that I am having is that the no messages are allowed in to the Groupwise. I have tried various things and have gotten various 5xx error messages on smail. The novell machine does not have a fully qualified dns entry. It is on a private class B network. I desparately need the current situation fixed. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!
Re: NCR53C8xx Problem
Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 11:25:04AM -0700, Dean Allen Provins wrote: Tim Buller Stephen Ryan Ulisses Christoph Steve Beitzel Bruce Jackson Lawrence Walton Ruslan Ermilov Gentlemen: On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Tim Buller wrote: I'm trying to install on a Dual PII 450 Intel 440BX-based system. This MB has an integrated Symbios SYM53C876 SCSI controller, which uses the NCR53C8xx SCSI driver. The 2 9GB drives are recognized by the BIOS, and by ncr53c875-0: copying script fragments into the on-board RAM SCSI host 0 abort (pid 23) time out - resetting SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0 ncr53c8xx_reset: pid 23 reset_flags=2 serial_number=$INC \ serial_number_at_timeout=$INC ncr53x875-0: restart (scsi reset) Did any of you every resolve your problem? I've been experiencing very similar symptoms since moving to the 2.0.34 kernel supplied with Debian's V2 system just after Christmas. It seems that everything is fine (i.e. I can access all three devices: tape, CD and disc) UNTIL I fire up X. From that moment on, I can't access any of them without experiencing symtoms like those you cite above (irrespective of whether X is still running or not). The SCSI controller is a 53c810 rev 1 (the original) on the mainboard. I've just tried the 3.1c driver on the 2.0.34 kernel, unsuccessfully. It's worse with that combination. The whole system freezes - it didn't with the 2.5f.1 driver - just got the messages, but could bring down the system without difficulty. Regards, Dean Provins PS: It worked fine with an old Slackware release and Donald Becker's version of the driver. I've upgraded the bios on the server (Intel MB440LX) to the latest one, and it works now like a charm. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the [EMAIL PROTECTED]United Commercial Bank +380.652.247.647Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age I upgraded to the 2.2.2 kernel and everything appears to be working now. I got my ide cd-burner to work:) again. -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!
HP Web Jetadmin
Has anyone managed to get the HP Web Jetadmin for Redhat to work under Debian? I would appreciate any help you can give. -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!!!
Re: NCR53C8xx Problem
I am having the same problem with scsi emulation with a IDE burner. It also worked fine with 2.0.36. Anyone have any idea what is going on here. If I try and insmod ide-scsi the terminal hangs as well. -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!
How do I get RAID 1 to work?
Could someone please help me to get RAID1 to work under 2.0.36. I have compiled the kernel with RAID support. When the computer boots up the md driver and RAID 1 are loaded. The problem happens when I try and mdrun /dev/md0. If I use the mdutils package, I can create the /etc/mdtab entry. If I mdadd -a it works. When I mdrun -a I get the following error: /dev/md0: Invalid argument. The hardware is two IDE drives. The kernel was compiled using the kernel-source-2.0.36-2 source. Any help would be appreciated. -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!
Re: Problems with StarOffice 5.0 Registration
Steve Beitzel wrote: Hello all, I know that people are always asking questions about how to install StarOffice, but I couldn't find an answer in the archives about this. I recently downloaded and successfully installed StarOffice 5.0, except when I try to do the online registration, it fails for some reason. The failure is odd, because I see the webpage that says Thank you for joining StarDivision and whatever, and I get the Registration key by email, but I am not allowed to activate the key -- the program keeps that button ghosted. It seems that the online part of the registration process was successful and there is something wrong with the program. Any ideas? I just upgraded successfully to Slink in the hopes that it would solve the problem, with no luck. Thanks for your help. L8r, Steve /\ / \ /\ / /\/\ \ /\ Steve Beitzel / /\ /\ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \/ \/ \ http://www.iit.edu/~beitste / /\ \ICQ#: 19510745 \ \/ / \ ___/ \ /___\ / \ \___/ / \ / \/ \ / \/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Make sure that you use the exact same name and email that you used to register. The key appears to be a hash of those two. -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!
Re: Trying to NFS mount Linux from Solaris 2.6
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruce Jackson writes: George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Bruce Jackson wrote: rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd are running. What is the lockd bug? Looked on deja news and didn`t see a solution. Not trying to do it at the same time now, maybe in the future. Solaris complains that it can not lock files over NFS. Seems that there is not a good lockd in Linux that Solaris will accept until the more recent 2.1.12x kernels. What error is the solaris box giving? George Bonser The Linux We're never going out of business sale at an FTP site near you! The Solaris box is getting an access denied. According to the Linux logs, it is specifically denying the Solaris box. The kernel is 2.0.35. Both automounting and manual mounting don`t work. I even changed the exports file to have no_root_squash. Seems mighty strange. I've read this thread with interest since I just finished fixing the very same problem on my home network. Look at the proper format for the /etc/exports file (man 5 exports). The Linux version is syntaxically different. After I straightened out my server's /etc/exports file, the server still would not let the client connect (permission denied). So I stopped/started the NFS daemons on the Linux server (/etc/init.d/netstd_nfs stop/start), and lo and behold - all is good in the Linux world. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- I goofed on /etc/exports Thanks for all help -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades
Trying to NFS mount Linux from Solaris 2.6
When I try and mount my Linux server from Solaris 2.6 the Linux box denies it. Any ideas. I have another Linux box that can NFS mount the server. -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!
Re: Trying to NFS mount Linux from Solaris 2.6
George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Bruce Jackson wrote: When I try and mount my Linux server from Solaris 2.6 the Linux box denies it. Any ideas. I have another Linux box that can NFS mount the server. Might it be the old lockd bug? I have trouble getting solaris to mount from Linux all the time. There are some kluges. Have a look on deja-news. ALso, is your /etc/exports set up to properly export the filesystem, is portmap running, what about rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd. George Bonser The Linux We're never going out of business sale at an FTP site near you! rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd are running. What is the lockd bug? Looked on deja news and didn`t see a solution. Not trying to do it at the same time now, maybe in the future. -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!
Re: Trying to NFS mount Linux from Solaris 2.6
George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Bruce Jackson wrote: rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd are running. What is the lockd bug? Looked on deja news and didn`t see a solution. Not trying to do it at the same time now, maybe in the future. Solaris complains that it can not lock files over NFS. Seems that there is not a good lockd in Linux that Solaris will accept until the more recent 2.1.12x kernels. What error is the solaris box giving? George Bonser The Linux We're never going out of business sale at an FTP site near you! The Solaris box is getting an access denied. According to the Linux logs, it is specifically denying the Solaris box. The kernel is 2.0.35. Both automounting and manual mounting don`t work. I even changed the exports file to have no_root_squash. Seems mighty strange. -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!
How do I get FTP to work through ipfwadm
I need to be able to get both Netscape and regular command line ftp to
work.
Here is my script. I get the following error under Windows command
line FTP: PORT argument must be 1025 or greater. The following is my
script:
#!/bin/sh
ISP_IP=`ifconfig ppp0 | grep 'inet addr' | awk '{print $2}'| sed
-es/addr\://`
echo $ISP_IP
FIREWALL_SERVER=192.168.1.1
NETWORK=192.168.1.0/24
ALLIP=0.0.0.0/0
HIPORTS=1024:65535
#Flush out any existing rules
ipfwadm -I -f
ipfwadm -O -f
ipfwadm -F -f
#Start by denying everything
ipfwadm -I -p deny
ipfwadm -O -p deny
ipfwadm -F -p deny
#Deny Spoofed packets
#ipfwadm -I -a deny -V $ISP_IP -S $NETWORK -D $ALLIP
#ipfwadm -I -a deny -V $ISP_IP -S $ISP_IP -D $ALLIP
#Allow unlimited internal traffic
ipfwadm -I -a accept -V $FIREWALL_SERVER -S $ALLIP -D $ALLIP
ipfwadm -O -a accept -V $FIREWALL_SERVER -S $ALLIP -D $ALLIP
ipfwadm -F -a accept -V $FIREWALL_SERVER -S $ALLIP -D $ALLIP
#Allow outgoing tcp packets for www, smtp, nntp and dns
echo step 1
ipfwadm -O -a accept -P tcp -S $NETWORK $HIPORTS -D $ALLIP www smtp
pop-3 nntp domain
ipfwadm -O -a accept -P tcp -S $ISP_IP $HIPORTS -D $ALLIP www smtp pop-3
nntp domain
ipfwadm -O -a accept -P udp -S $NETWORK $HIPORTS -D $ALLIP domain
ipfwadm -O -a accept -P udp -S $ISP_IP $HIPORTS -D $ALLIP domain
#Allow incoming packets that have the ACK bit set (i.e. are responses)
echo step 2
ipfwadm -I -a accept -k -P tcp -S $ALLIP www smtp pop-3 nntp domain -D
$NETWORK $HIPORTS
ipfwadm -I -a accept -k -P tcp -S $ALLIP www smtp pop-3 nntp domain -D
$ISP_IP $HIPORTS
# This allows ftp servers to set up the second data channel, whatever
that
# means, basically you need it to use ftp
echo step 3
ipfwadm -O -a accept -P tcp -S $NETWORK $HIPORTS -D $ALLIP ftp ftp-data
ipfwadm -O -a accept -P tcp -S $ISP_IP $HIPORTS -D $ALLIP ftp ftp-data
ipfwadm -I -a accept -P tcp -S $ALLIP ftp ftp-data -D $NETWORK $HIPORTS
ipfwadm -I -a accept -P tcp -S $ALLIP ftp ftp-data -D $ISP_IP $HIPORTS
ipfwadm -I -a accept -P udp -S $ALLIP domain -D $NETWORK $HIPORTS
ipfwadm -I -a accept -P udp -S $ALLIP domain -D $ISP_IP $HIPORTS
#enable masquerading of packets
echo step 4
ipfwadm -F -a masquerade -S $NETWORK -D $ALLIP
echo step 5
Thanks in advance for any help.
Bruce Jackson
Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!!
Automatic login from MAC to Linux machine??????
Anyone had any experience doing this? I will have to set this up this weekend. Any ideas would be appreciated. -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!
Intel Pro 10/100 PCI ethernet adapter
Does this adapter work with Linux 2.0.35? -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!
IPmasquerading FIXED Thanks to all
It turns out that the server I have been using has networking screwed up. I have been upgrading this thing for over three years by hand. Through countless upgrades the networking got hosed somehow. I installed the modem into a fresh install on a spare computer and ipmasquerading worked first time. Goes to show you that UBF kills you every time. Thanks to all who gave replys. Next step is email over dial up line. Any suggestions? -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!
IPmasquerading HELP for LINUX server EMERGENCY
I am having a huge problem with ipmasquerading. My network and ppp connection appears to works by themselves. Once I try to use ipmasquerading I cannont do anything. I cannot connect to anything (either LAN or Internet) I use a modem to access the Internet. When ipmasquerading is turned on I cannot ping, traceroute, or use DNS for LAN or Internet. I am really starting to pull my hair out as this is absolutely necessary for using this Linux box to connect the LAN at work to the Internet. If I cannot get this to work, it will be back to NT. WE DON`T WANT THAT. Please if anyone can give step by step instructions for setting up ipmasquerading using PPP over a modem connection I would be very greatfull. I have looked at the ipmasquerading HOW-TO and it is very poorly written and not very helpful. I have looked in dejanews to no avail. I have tried setting it up by hand and using the dotfile generator. Nothing has worked so far. -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!
IP Masquerade and PPP
Has anyone got IP Masquerade to work with PPP. I have followed the how-to`s and looked all over the `net, but I still can`t get it to work. I have compiled the kernel with IP Masquerade and all the assorted options. My network is working properly. When I connect to the Internet using PPP I can`t ping, traceroute, etc the Internet. Says ping, etc. not allowed. I can still ping my network. Even a simple ipfwadm does not work. Any help would be very appreciated. Kernel 2.0.33-8 deb package. -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IP Masquerade and PPP
You mean to tell me that with a simple firewall I will not be able to ping and traceroute. This does not seem logical to me that a firewall should prevent this. Anyways, I can`t surf the net, even using ip addresses. Steve Lamb wrote: On Sat, 23 May 1998 09:21:08 +0530, Bruce Jackson wrote: Has anyone got IP Masquerade to work with PPP. Yup, I've got a Linux and a WinNT/Win95 box behind another Linux IPMasqing system, works fine. the Internet using PPP I can`t ping, traceroute, etc the Internet. Says Of course not. Generally incoming connections from the outside will not work. This is normal. The true test is can you *TELNET* out from the boxes behind the IPMasqing. -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus| employer's. They hired me for my ICQ: 5107343 | skills and labor, not my opinions! ---+- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IP Masquerade and PPP
Steve Lamb wrote: On Sat, 23 May 1998 12:44:16 +0530, Bruce Jackson wrote: You mean to tell me that with a simple firewall I will not be able to ping and traceroute. This does not seem logical to me that a firewall should prevent this. Why doesn't it seem logical? Withouth the proper Masquerading modules installed such things will not work. That is common knowledge. I didn't even read any docs on it and I understand why. You are familiar with what IPMasqing does, correct? Here is a simplified explination. Machine 1 Machine 2 (gateway)Some-site 192.168.0.2-192.168.0.1 207.131.56.10blah.foobar.com On the way out, machine 1, which is behind the IPMasqing, sends out some packet that requires an incoming connection to be formed (FTP, DCC, ICQ chat/file requests, ping are some common ones). It's packet hits machine 2, the gateway, and is changed to come from the gateway's IP, 207.131.56.10. That heads out to the machine, blah.foobar.com. Some-siteMachine 2 (gateway)Machine 1 blah.foobar.com-207.131.56.10 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.1 Now, with any protocol which requires an incoming connection to be established the outside machine, blah.foobar.com, creates a *NEW* connection to the address it recieved, 207.131.56.10. However, since that machine has no clue what to do with that new connection (remember, there could be hundreds of machines behind the IPMasqing machine) it does not forward it on. It does not know *WHERE* to forward it to. The reason IPMasqing works in most cases is because the connection made from one machine to the next is the same connection data goes over in both directions. Since the gateway machine made the connection and data comes back over that connection it knows where to forward it on to. As I said, ping, FTP, ICQ chat/file requests, DCC all require incoming connections independant of the outboung connection. Most internet games are the same way. You connect the server, the server opens up a UDP port back to the IP it was given. There are modules that can be loaded into IPMasqing, or so I've heard, that will allow certain protocols to work. How they work their magic, I don't know. Anyways, I can`t surf the net, even using ip addresses. Make sure your ipfwadm rules are loaded and set correctly. Here are mine from my IPMasqing machine: ipfwadm -F -p deny ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.0.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0 I copied them almost verbatium out of the IPMasqing HOWTO. I have used these exact same rules as well as using info I found on the Internet using Dejanews and I have tried the dotfile maker. All with now success. If we follow the How-to it says that you should try to connect to the Internet and browse using the ip address 152.2.254.81. Can`t seem to find this address. This tells me that the firewall is blocking everything. I have not seen any modules for ping, or traceroute. I have seen modules for quake, raudio, etc. Maybe I am missing something, but basic services like ping and traceroute should not be denied. These are excellent diagnostic services. Without them, it becomes difficult to diagnose. -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus| employer's. They hired me for my ICQ: 5107343 | skills and labor, not my opinions! ---+- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: x-fer /home to new drive?!
Ian Keith Setford wrote: Yo- I have had my sytem running on a WD 2.1G for over a year but I just bought a Mylex SCSI card and a WD Enterprise drive. I have everything working fine but now I want to mount /home on its own partition on the new faster drive. What is the best way to accomplish this? Is it even advisable? TIA, -Ian _ Ian K. Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] H: 940.566.0461 Pgr: 817.901.0255 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] The easist way is to use midnight commander. Mount the new partition and copy /home there, change the fstab to mount at boot time and voila /home has been moved. That is what I did. -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Remco Blaakmeer writes: If nobody objects to it, I'll file bug reports for the following annoyances I have encountered when X is misconfigured: - If the X server fails to start, xdm seems to be restarting it indefinitely. I'd say that if the X server is restarted too often too fast, it should be disabled because it is obviously not working. Just like init disables processes that are respawning too fast. YES! Do that! It has bothered me for a long time, now. That's one reasons I'm more affraid to use xdm. What if your video card starts having problem? What if you test a new resolution, and the computer reboots? I guess the bug is in xdm. It should even try a default VGA mode if it fails to load in the default resolution, before giving you a text console, and a error message. -- Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella Product Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.conexware.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] This makes perfect sense to me as I have been locked out by xdm before. Very iritating. -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound problems
You must compile sound into the kernel. See Sound How-to. Tristan Day wrote: I can play CDs through my headphone jack on the drive, but Debian doesn't like my sound card. Tkdesk always looks for one at /dev/audio and tells me that it doesn't exist. I know that /dev/audio doesn't exist but how do I get it there? I looked for a sound card driver package, and only found AWE ones and nas. nas tells me it can't connect to the audio server or something like that. I tried man nas which told me that nas is for playing sound over a network, so is this really what I want? All I want to do is: 1) Play CDs thru sound card 2) Listen to/Record .wav files 3) Listen to MIDI files Is there a package that I've missed that'll support my soundblaster 16 compatible card? Thanks, Tristan | | | This message was sent using | | Micro$oft Express. - Don't blame me, mother | | insists. | | | | You're Not Our Brightest Year - Mr Boon, | | Headteacher of St Bede's, Cambridge | | | | Tristan you're so annoying!! | | I'm sorry, you're not really, you're very sweet | | -Mrs Myers, Maths Teacher| * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hi
Tristan Day wrote: I have a genuine Intel P200 MMX, with 32mb RAM It runs v. well in Linux but in Windows it's disappointing unless you have a really nice graphics card (like at least 8 meg) but anyway, memory and hard drive speed is what slows down my computer, so I'd recommend 64meg and an ultra-fast-wide-scsi hard drive as swap memory is always needed. Those two things in my opinion are essential if you want to exploit the potential of the cpu because I don't think my machine would run any faster even with a PII because swap space on hard drive is used as memory and slows the whole thing down, so even a P200 isn't working to 100% usage most of the time. Maybe we need to take a little course in hardware. Most of the time the CPU is doing very little (ie less than 1% utilization). Only when an application or the OS needs CPU cycles does the CPU do anything. Most modern OS`s do not use many CPU cycles. It does not matter what CPU you have if you don`t do anything. Once you start using the CPU you WILL notice a faster CPU. The extra RAM and a UW SCSI disk are nice. Although most people will never notice a UW SCSI disk. BTW, I happen to own one. I actually use it. The jab about swap space only comes into play when you run out of physical RAM. Look carefully at your swap utilization under Linux. You will probably rarely use it. Under windows, that is entirely different. Then again Microsoft is still trying to figure it out. Should only take another 10 years :) Anyway, try your best to get a PII because you won't be able to upgrade much at all, and socket 7 motherboards will become obsolete. This is my problem. Like you are going to be able to upgrage a socket 1 motherboard. Dude do you even know what you are talking about? The MMX instruction set is what speeds up an MMX CPU, and Linux doesn't use this, because MMX is really aimed at Win95 people for games and graphics (Corel 8 is MMX enhanced) anyway, MMX claims to be 20% faster for any _non_ MMX application anyway (ie a P166 MMX is 20% faster than a normal P166 in linux or unix or anything.) Apparantly the newest binutils does, but you know that because you are a developer, correct :) It is not aimed at win95 people. MMX is a very poor attempt by intel. Where do you get the 20% from. Of all the benchmarks I have seen (many, many) there is around 6% increase, due to the extra internal cache. You knew that, right :) The AMD K6 is quite good and I think it's much cheaper but its performance varies. With some benchmarks and applications it runs faster than intel but others it doesn't. I wouldn't but a K6 purely because of higher performance because I'm not convinced. Faster integer performance, slower floating point performance. Understand the architectural differences and you will know why. In other words, the difference between a P200 and a P200MMX is nada. no no no! It's 20% faster! The 20% is pure speculation on your part. Show me some SPEC numbers! Good luck, try to find a cheap P2 so you'll be able to upgrade, Upgrade to what? Look at the intel roadmap for the next 12 months. Not much to upgrade to. Pentium II is fast right now, but in 12 months current PII won`t be top. Oh the life cycle of the computer. Gotta love technology. Looks like its time to replace the old Pentium 262mhz :) Tristan | | | This message was sent using | | Micro$oft Express. - Don't blame me, mother | | insists. | | | | You're Not Our Brightest Year - Mr Boon, | | Headteacher of St Bede's, Cambridge | | | | Tristan you're soo annoying!!| | I'm sorry, you're not really, you're very sweet | | -Mrs Myers, Maths Teacher| * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] How`s about getting a little hardware knowledge before giving out the wrong info. Make the world a better place. Regards, -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hi
Sorry, yes I do mean slot 1. UBF for a little while :) Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, Anyway, try your best to get a PII because you won't be able to upgrade much at all, and socket 7 motherboards will become obsolete. This is my problem. Like you are going to be able to upgrage a socket 1 motherboard. Dude do you even know what you are talking about? You mean slot 1, not socket 1, don't you? :) -Ossama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgraded bash now can`t log in-/dev/tty1: Bad file descriptor
G`day all I upgraded bash to 2.0.1-1 and it did not install properly. Unfortunately my computer went off because of a power failure. Now I can`t login. I have booted using the rescue disk and changed /etc/passwd to ash. When I reboot I can`t login. After the password I get a unable to change tty /dev/tty1: Bad file descriptor Anyone know how I can get around this? If I press ctrl-alt-del I get a maintenance prompt and it asks for the root password. I get in but I can`t do anything says no job control processes. I desperately need to get my machine back running. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LILO stopped working
I normally leave my computer on all the time. Just the other day I rebooted and LILO would not work. It prints LI on the screen and then freezes. I have not rebooted my computer in a few weeks and much has changed. I am running 2.0.33 with LILO 20-0.1. I have tried running LILO off of a floppy and that does not work. The drive is a Quantum SCSI disk of 3.2 gb with a 2.0 gb linux partition at the beginning. Any one have any ideas? -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Monster 3D (was Re: best Linux video card)
Gary L. Hennigan wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 1997 Oleg Krivosheev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Pere Camps wrote: Oleg, are 3dfx based - check diamond monster 3d. you'll have accelerated OpenGL under Linux and Windows and can play GLQuake with decent frame rate. Does the monster need a 2D card, or can it provide 2D graphics as well? i believe you have to have 2D card as well. Any cheap (~$50) S3 card will do it. My friend just bought diamond monster 3d and will install debian in a couple of days. I'll inform you about the results The 3Dfx cards are passthru, i.e., they only supply 3D capabilities. They rely on a 2D card being installed in the machine and an external cable connects the two. I have one in my PC, along with a Millenium I, and had no trouble with Debian and it coexisting peacefully. Debian was installed before I installed my Monster 3D, but I doubt it would make a difference. As far as I can tell Linux completely ignores my 3Dfx based Monster 3D. Oleg is correct in that any cheap 2D card will do, unfortunately, as far as I know, that's all Linux uses so you're likely to be unhappy with the Linux/X video performance if you have a cheap 2D card. Does anyone know of a GL library that takes advantage of the 3Dfx under Linux? It'd be great to display GL apps running on my SGI workstation at work on my PC at home but as far as I know SGI's are the only platform with full GL support. Gary Hennigan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . There is the mesagl library. 2.5 is still in beta. Once it is finished glquake for linux will be released. The mesagl library and the glide library from 3dfx will give you opengl support. -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Bruce Perens
Matt Thompson wrote: Well, it seems to me the returns are in. *Everyone* who responded to dc's comments supports Bruce, and wishes dc would make good on his promise and just leave. I propose that from here on out we ignore dc, don't resond to anything he posts, and perhaps he *will* live up to his promise, and apply his talents elsewhere. Here's my personal toast to an excellent distribution which continues to get better. *clink* :) Thanks, matty -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . It seems that the overall opion of this list is that Bruce is doing a good job. He is not always in an enviable position. I applaud his dedication and perseverence to the Debian project. I am also thankful for all of the developers` work. This next point is to Dave. You have once again ended up in my killfile. If you want to be master of your own distribution then go for it. Otherwise you can shut the hell up. We have listed to your endless complaining on a few occasions and judging by the overwhelming support for your ideas :) it would appear that your distribution will do well :). Please keep your crusade against Bruce a private matter and not bother the rest of us. -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: problem installing debian
Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Hasibul Haque wrote: I have a quantum fireball ST6 IDE hardrive with Pentium II 233 cpu. I have 1 primary partion with win95 and 2 logical drives - one of them is empty for linux install the other one has windows nt. I am able to boot the rescue floppy but at the menu when I choose 'partition hard disk' I am getting a message thats saying hard drive could not be detected and to check cables or change driver settings at boot: prompt or load a driver. Thanks. Hmmm... I've never had a problem detecting an IDE drive, but I've never seen a Pentium II system up close. Dale, do you have any ideas? Could there be a driver incompatibility with the new Pentium II motherboards? I have not yet heard any examples of people running Linux on Pentium II systems. Hasib, I suggest that you search through the newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware and/or comp.os.linux.setup, comp.os.linux.misc for references to Pentium II systems, and see if there is any useful info. Thanks. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED]UCSD Physics Dept. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Is this one of the new ultra dma drives (33 mb/s). I don`t know if they are supported yet. It should not be a problem with the motherboard. You should do a search on ultra dma drives and see what you find. -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XFree386 3.3.1
All you have to do is install X 3.3 and then manually install the server for the Matrox card from 3.3.1. I had to do this in order to use my card (ATI 3D Expression). This worked fine for me. Nelson, R.A (Richard/Rick) wrote: I got my system up and running now, except for X - I'm using a Mystique 220 and therefore need to install 3.3.1. I can find this at the XFree site, but does debian.org also keep this type of updated around (in .deb format)? I went through ftp.debian.org/debian and couldn't find anything looking promising... Thanks, Richard Nelson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Win NT OS loader
Go to http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~sedmison/diretboot.html and read how to do it. I followed the instructions and got it to work with Debian, NT and 95. No problems so far. Bruce Jackson
