Re: diskless box: fanless too ?

1999-05-05 Thread Dean Carpenter
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AFAICR, a heat pipe is a sealed pipe/tube, with a convection fluid inside.
It's not just a simple tube, but does have some structure within.  Apply 
heat to one end, and natural convection causes the fluid to circulate, 
moving the heat to the other end.

I remember seeing a 1 meter heat pipe at school in Sydney Aust. way back 
when.
We took turns feeling one end while the teacher lit a match at the other 
end.
It only took a few seconds to feel our end get warm, then hot.  Pretty cool 
:)

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Subject: Re: diskless box: fanless too ?
On Tue, 4 May 1999, John C. Ellingboe wrote:
>Michael Stenner wrote:
>> I disagree that the cpu would need a fan - I used to run a very old P60
>> (a REALLY hot chip) without a fan (fan kept breaking...) and it was
>> toasty but caused no problems.  If you choose a cpu that runs cool, you
>> should be OK.  You can also look into thermoelectric (or Peltier)
>> coolers -- no moving parts.
>
>You still have to get the heat (cpu + Peltier device) out of the box. 
>Even though the cpu will be cool, when using a Pelier device the box
>will become quite toasty.  One of the heat pipe devices would be a
>better choice.  There you would have a heatsink plate mounted on the
>cpu and a tube running out side the case to a heatsink.

Admittedly, I may not be as cautious as I should be about these things,
but it doesn't seem to me that the box would necessarily get
dangerously hot.  When I was doing it, I left the box open, but as I
said, that was a VERY hot chip.  
I've never heard of a "heat pipe", but that sounds quite nice.
I'm a little confused: is it a true pipe (i.e. with air inside) that
relies on convection? or is it something like a copper rod?

I must also say that the suggestions about controlling the
Peltier cooler are quite good.  You can buy a ready-made device for
cheap.



Unidentified subject!

1999-04-06 Thread Dean Carpenter
IDE is not a good technology to use for RAID.  You can only talk to one 
drive per channel at a time.  So your read/write cycles would talk to at 
most two drives at a time, and never to both on one channel at once.

IDE has (AFAIK) more system overhead - it's a dumber interface.

Using Linux software raid will work, but I would expect it to be a dog.  
You're better off going with a cheap scsi card and a bunch of smaller 
drives.  If performance isn't too much of a deal, go with narrow (50 pin) 
drives - 10meg/sec.  For a faster system, go with wide (68 pin) 
20-40meg/sec.

For better reliability, get a hardware solution.  A DPT SmartRaid IV or V, 
AMI MegaRaid or Mylex DAC series all work well.  I use DPT at home, and the 
AMI MegaRaid and Mylex DAC960PL at another client, all with great success.

Hot-swap rules !

Dean.

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Subject: Raid 5 advice...
I want to put together a cheap server with lots of space, good 
reliability, performance is not critical.

I was thinking of a Debian Linux system with say 4 UDMA 16-20g IDE 
drives.

What is the best kernel and raid tools versions to be using for this, 
from a data security and reliability standpoint?

TIA,

Chris


graphic "df" type of util for Linux?

1999-04-02 Thread Dean Carpenter
Look at the MRTG package.  It's mainly for looking at router throughputs, 
but it will work admirable for things like diskspace, cpuload etc.  It's in

http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/devel/mrtg.html

Also, look at BigBrother and NoCol.  They aren't Debian packages, but do 
similar things.  There is a web page out there specifically on Network 
Monitoring with Linux, and most of the packages will do all sorts of 
monitoring.

http://www.btc.gatech.edu/net/management/linux/monitoring.html
http://www.ssc.com/lj/issue38/2140.html

Dean.


DHCP and problems with apache, samba etc

1999-03-14 Thread Dean Carpenter
When using dhcp, since the hostname doesn't resolve to an IP address right
away, there are a few packages that barf, like apache and samba.

These appear to attempt to find the IP address from the system name.  In
the case of dhcp, this may not be known.  You can't hardcode an address in
the /etc/hosts file, since dhcp may change it.  You can't put it in the
DNS, same reason.

For samba with Micro$oft, it's a catch-22.  You can set the MS dns to use
WINS for a last-ditch name resolution, which would work if samba had
registered with WINS as configured in the smb.conf.  But if won't config
until it knows its own IP addr.  Deadlock.

So, I have an extremely small script in /usr/local/bin/dhcp-update-hosts

if [ -f /etc/dhcpc/config ] ; then
source /etc/dhcpc/config
fi
if [ -f /etc/dhcpc/hostinfo-$IFACE ] ; then
source /etc/dhcpc/hostinfo-$IFACE
fi
/bin/cp /etc/hosts.src /etc/hosts
echo "$IPADDR   `cat /etc/hostname`" >> /etc/hosts

This is kicked of by /etc/cron.d/dhcp-update-hosts every 10 minutes.

*/10 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/dhcp-update-hosts

Very simple, it just checks the /etc/dhcpcd/config file for the
interface being used, then uses that to pull the IP address from the
/etc/dhcpc/host-info file.  This is then added to a pristine copy of the
/etc/hosts file. 

I've also modified the /etc/init.d/dhcpc startup file to include the -c
option pointing to the /usr/local/bin/dhcp-update-hosts file, so it gets
run as soon as an address is obtained.

The end result is that as soon as an address is had, it's in the
/etc/hosts file, available for name resolution.  Whenever the lease
expires and is *not* renewed (replaced with another) there's a maximum
window of 10 minutes where /etc/hosts is wrong.  That can be easily
shortened by modifying the /etc/cron.d/dhcp-update-hosts file.

Has anyone else had similar problems ?  How did you solve them ?

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Running identd through a Debian firewall ?

1999-03-08 Thread Dean . Carpenter
Hmmm.  I've recently set up a small Debian system for use as a firewall.
The only thing hiccuping is when using irc from another Debian system
*behind* the firewall, via the ip_masq_irc module.  The irc servers all want
identd to be running, and it is running on the firewall, but apparently not
answering correctly.

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DPT SmartRaid IV vs Mylex DAC960-PL

1999-02-24 Thread Dean Carpenter
Has anyone done any performance comparisons between the DPT SmartRaid IV 
and Mylex DAC960PL scsi raid controllers ?  I know the DPT drivers have 
been around for a long time, and the IV supports up to 64meg of cache, but 
I highly respect Leonards coding prowess, even though the DAC960PL only 
supports 32meg cache.

Looks like the DAC960 has a big plus in that it is controllable from Linux, 
where the DPT is not.

Comments ?

Dean.


RE: apt-get update failing

1999-02-05 Thread Dean . Carpenter
Yup.  I've removed the Packages.gz files and had mirror reget them several
times.  I also tried right from the ftp site ...

# cat /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian frozen main  contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/binary-i386/

# deb file:/amnt/mirrors/debian frozen main contrib non-free
# deb file:/amnt/mirrors/debian/debian-non-US unstable non-US
# deb file:/amnt/mirrors/debian project/experimental/
fsmail:~#
fsmail:~#
fsmail:~# apt-get update
Get http://ftp1.us.debian.org frozen/contrib Packages
Get http://non-us.debian.org unstable/binary-i386/ Packages
Get http://ftp1.us.debian.org frozen/main Packages
Get http://ftp1.us.debian.org frozen/non-free Packages
Fetched 2040k in 3s (596k/s)
Updating package file cache...
E: Line 3 in package file
/var/state/apt/lists/ftp1.us.debian.org_debian_dists_frozen_main_binary-i386
_Packages is too long.(2)
fsmail:~#

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-Original Message-
From: Jason Gunthorpe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 1999 7:45 PM
To: Carpenter, Dean
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: apt-get update failing


On Thu, 4 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Thanks to Nils and Jason for the *really* fast replies ...
> 
> Just upgraded to apt_0.1.10 from potato - same problem.  Looks like there
> are a few others out there seeing the same thing.

master{root}~#apt-get update
Get file:/debian/debian/ dists/proposed-updates/ Packages
Get file:/debian/debian/ slink/contrib Packages
Get file:/debian/debian/ slink/main Packages
Get http://nonus.debian.org unstable/non-US Packages
Get file:/debian/debian/ slink/non-free Packages 
Get file:/debian/debian/ stable/contrib Packages

Get file:/debian/debian/ stable/main Packages

Get file:/debian/debian/ stable/non-free Packages

Fetched 41.3k in 0s (50.1k/s)

Updating package file cache...done
Updating package status cache...done
Checking system integrity...ok
master{root}~#apt-get | head --lines 1
apt 0.1.5 for i386 compiled on Jul 23 1998  22:05:22 

Hmm.. Are you sure you package files are not corrupted? 

Jason


RE: apt-get update failing

1999-02-04 Thread Dean . Carpenter
Thanks to Nils and Jason for the *really* fast replies ...

Just upgraded to apt_0.1.10 from potato - same problem.  Looks like there
are a few others out there seeing the same thing.

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-Original Message-

On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 11:26:20AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have an slink machine trying to do an "apt-get update" via an
> autofs-mounted nfs directory mirror of ftp.us.debian.org on a remote
> machine.  (Got that ? :) I'm getting the following error ...
> 
> fsmail:~# apt-get update
> Get file:/amnt/mirrors/debian/debian-non-US/ unstable/non-US Packages
> Get file:/amnt/mirrors/debian/ frozen/contrib Packages
> Get file:/amnt/mirrors/debian/ frozen/main Packages
> Get file:/amnt/mirrors/debian/ frozen/non-free Packages
> Get file:/amnt/mirrors/debian/ project/experimental/ Packages
> Fetched 600k in 0s (1640k/s)
> Updating package file cache...
> E: Line 3 in package file
>
/var/state/apt/lists/amnt_mirrors_debian_dists_frozen_main_binary-i386_Packa
> ges is too long.(2)
> fsmail:~#


apt-get update failing

1999-02-04 Thread Dean . Carpenter
I have an slink machine trying to do an "apt-get update" via an
autofs-mounted nfs directory mirror of ftp.us.debian.org on a remote
machine.  (Got that ? :) I'm getting the following error ...

fsmail:~# apt-get update
Get file:/amnt/mirrors/debian/debian-non-US/ unstable/non-US Packages
Get file:/amnt/mirrors/debian/ frozen/contrib Packages
Get file:/amnt/mirrors/debian/ frozen/main Packages
Get file:/amnt/mirrors/debian/ frozen/non-free Packages
Get file:/amnt/mirrors/debian/ project/experimental/ Packages
Fetched 600k in 0s (1640k/s)
Updating package file cache...
E: Line 3 in package file
/var/state/apt/lists/amnt_mirrors_debian_dists_frozen_main_binary-i386_Packa
ges is too long.(2)
fsmail:~#

Kind of weird.  This is the file in question ...

fsmail:~# ls -la
/var/state/apt/lists/amnt_mirrors_debian_dists_frozen_main_binary-i386_Packa
ges
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1678480 Feb  3 21:21
/var/state/apt/lists/amnt_mirrors_debian_dists_frozen_main_binary-i386_Packa
ges

And here's the first 10 lines ...

fsmail:~# head -10
/var/state/apt/lists/amnt_mirrors_debian_dists_frozen_main_binary-i386_Packa
ges
Package: 2utf
Version: 1.07
Priority: optional
Section: text
Maintainer: Ricardas Cepas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Depends: libc6
Recommends: locales | wg15-locale, man-db (>= 2.3.10-37)
Suggests: tcs, kbd (>= 0.95) | console-utilities
Architecture: i386
Filename: dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/text/2utf_1.07.deb
fsmail:~#

I don't see anything amiss in the package file there, do you ?  

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Apache modules compiling ?

1998-12-31 Thread Dean . Carpenter
I want to add the mod_auth_pam module from 

Ingo Lütkebohle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

from http://blank.pages.de/pam/ to my existing apache-ssl setup.
Unfortunately, he only supplies it in source form, with instructions for
adding it to the source tree and recompiling the whole shebang.  I really
don't want to install all the source and compile the whole thing just to get
this one little module 

Anyone know just what the gcc line would be to compile from the command line
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Re: slink rescue disk

1998-11-23 Thread Dean Carpenter
> From: Yosef B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: slink rescue disk
> 
> Well, this gets me further.  "rawrite2 -f  resc1743.bin -d a:"  writes all
> cylanders but returns a bad sector message at the end of the run.  When I
> try to boot from this disk I get "Boot Failed".
 
I had the same problem with the resc1743.bin file.  I tried the
resc1743-safe.bin image and that one at least boots.  Once the install
starts though, it asks for a root image disk.

I looked in the syslinux.cfg on the disk, and it isn't acually loading
a root image, so I changed that to point to the root.bin file on the
diskette.  That loads, but the install can't *find* the root image.

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PyNG package ?

1998-04-16 Thread Dean Carpenter
Has anyone messed with the PyNG package ? (http://www.cb.hva.nl/PyNG)  It's
very similar to MRTG in that it allows one to do snmp queries to routers,
switches, whatever and build traffic graphs.  Very slick.

It's python based, and requires the GD module
(http://daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au/~richard/gdmodule) and the SNMP module
(http://www.rdt.monash.edu.au/~anthony/snmpy/snmpy.html).

I managed to get the GD module installed, but the snmp module is evading
my efforts.
 
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Re: Leafnode oddities ?

1997-08-07 Thread Dean Carpenter
> Dean Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Does anyone know of any problems with Leafnode ?  It doesn't appear to get
> > a full chunk of news when fetch runs ...  Here's a sample session from a
> > logged in session as news :


 
> What version of leafnode do you have installed?  The current version
> is 1.4-1 which needs libc6.

This is a standard bo 1.3.1 install, so it has leafnode-1.0-3.  libc6 
isn't installed.

> Check if the /var/lib/leafnode/groupinfo file has the correct permission:
> -rw-r--r--   news news   
> The /var/spool/news directory should have
> drwxr-sr-x   news news

Yup, all OK.

/var/spool/news is a 600meg partition.  I noticed it was almost full, 
so ran texpire manually.  That removed a bit, but not much.  Then I 
deleted about 100meg of articles in various groups - just the 
articles, not the equivalent message.id entries.

Next day, there was over 250meg available ...  Later I remembered 
that the actual article files were all hard links to the message.id 
files and cross-posts.  Only had 7 cylinders firing that night :)

> Take a look at /var/log/messages too, maybe leafnode complains about
> anything.  You need to use a news reader to startup the leafnode
> server program (or telnet localhost nntp).

No complaints. 

It's still only doing the partial news downloads.  At least, it 
seems to be when I use -v.  Without -v it seems to run longer, but 
I can't tell if it really cycled through all the interesting 
groups.  Any problems with installing libc6 and leafnode-1.4-1 ?

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Leafnode oddities ?

1997-08-06 Thread Dean Carpenter
Does anyone know of any problems with Leafnode ?  It doesn't appear to get
a full chunk of news when fetch runs ...  Here's a sample session from a
logged in session as news :

$ /usr/sbin/fetch -v
verbosity level is 1
LIST ACTIVE done only 253668 seconds ago, skipping
alt.games.descent: considering articles 72149-73962
alt.games.descent: receiving article 73796 (4 outstanding)
alt.games.descent: receiving article 73828 (3 outstanding)
alt.games.descent: receiving article 73853 (2 outstanding)
alt.games.descent: receiving article 73884 (1 outstanding)
alt.games.descent: receiving article 73943 (0 outstanding)
alt.security: considering articles 45085-45487
alt.security: receiving article 45413 (34 outstanding)
alt.security: receiving article 45432 (33 outstanding)
alt.security: receiving article 45451 (32 outstanding)
alt.security: receiving article 45452 (31 outstanding)
alt.security: receiving article 45453 (30 outstanding)
alt.security: receiving article 45454 (29 outstanding)
$ /usr/sbin/fetch -v
verbosity level is 1
LIST ACTIVE done only 253683 seconds ago, skipping
alt.games.descent: considering articles 72149-73962
alt.games.descent: receiving article 73796 (4 outstanding)
alt.games.descent: receiving article 73828 (3 outstanding)
alt.games.descent: receiving article 73853 (2 outstanding)
alt.games.descent: receiving article 73884 (1 outstanding)
alt.games.descent: receiving article 73943 (0 outstanding)
alt.security: considering articles 45085-45487
alt.security: receiving article 45413 (30 outstanding)
alt.security: receiving article 45432 (29 outstanding)
alt.security: receiving article 45455 (28 outstanding)

After running it the first time, I immediately ran it again.  It seems to
downloading articles multiple times, and not continuing on to other
groups.  I have about 15 groups in the interesting.groups list ...

The only change I made to /etc/leafnode was to up the maxfetch to 4000.

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(Fwd) bash block problem

1997-07-31 Thread Dean Carpenter
This is a copy of a msg I sent to the bash-maintainers ID a couple of 
days ago.  Some additional information - I just got an email from 
CRON claiming the same error while running runq for smail.

 Hmmm...  Just got the following error on a Debian 1.3.1 
Linux standard install.  There's a perl process running in the 
background that's comparing thousands of files, and this is on a 4gig 
scsi drive.  Kernel is 2.0.30.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] images $ block on free list clobbered
Tell [EMAIL PROTECTED] to fix this someday.
Stopping myself...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] images $ 

It's version 2.0.3 of bash ...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] images $ dpkg -l bash
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
|
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installe
d |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription
+++-===-==-===
= ii  bash2.0-3  The GNU Bourne Again
SHell [EMAIL PROTECTED] images $ 

Anything special I should do ?  Is this a problem ?

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Re: We should help this guy...

1997-07-31 Thread Dean Carpenter
> >Not if you just burn the msdos-i386 directory :) It has names for all
> >the packages in 8.3 format.
> 
> Yeah, I thought of that too - *after* I had already downloaded the whole
> binary-i386 directory tree  
> 
> I decided against my two available options:
> 
> - download the whole msdos-i386 directory tree (via 33.6Kbps)
> - rename all the files in binary-i386 to their msdos equivalents
 
Go ahead and download the msdos-i386 directory.  Lots of files, but 
they're all small symlink files to the real ones.  Won't take too 
long ...


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Re: samba and windows NT

1997-07-23 Thread Dean Carpenter
> On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote:
> 
> I have a colleague here who can no longer mount, via samba, his home
> directory since he applied service-pack 3 to his NT 4.0 machine.  It's a
> big problem here because suddenly lots of people can no longer access
> their samba volumes on our main WWW (unix) servers the way they used to.
> I don't yet know of a satisfactory solution.

Check out this page ...

http://www.netspace.net.au/~bmiller/linux/NT-SAMBA-problem.html 

Full details on the problem and solutions.
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Re: FIC PA2011 Board (Was: Debian for PPC Macs)

1997-07-18 Thread Dean Carpenter
> On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:
> 
> > I'm leaving in a few days for a workshop, so I'll buy second week of
> > august.  If the "Hot 603" motherboard is out, and reasonably priced,
> What about this motherboard?  I read a lot about board but never heard
> about it.
> 
> > i'll try for one of those with a k6.  If not, I think it's a FIC 2011
> > with a K6-200.  I've found I can get that in a full tower with 3gb, 32mb
> I decided, that FIC PA2011 is the only one which fits the following:
> 
>1) 1MB Cache (supports more than 64MB memory)
>2) supports SDRAM chips (which I consider to be the better ones
>   in terms of flexibility or the possibility of overclocking)



I would suggest taking a look at the ABIT motherboards.  I've put 
together five systems based on the IT5H, and they all work 
flawlessly.  Check out Tom's Hardware Page for a rave review - you 
can pick them up for about $135 or so with 512k pipeline cache.

The key here is that the board is JUMPERLESS.  All settings are done 
in the bios, including bus speed, voltages, etc.  Changing cpus, 
mucking about with overclocking and so on are a breeze.

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Problem with Samba, PAM and NT

1997-07-10 Thread Dean Carpenter
There appears to be a problem with Samba in the stable distribution I 
think.

I have a small debian box named aeidns here configured to use an NT 
domain controller for authentication, which doesn't appear to be 
working.  here are the relevant /etc/smb.conf lines ...

/etc/smb.conf
-
[global]
   debug level = 5
   security = server
   preferred master = no
   wins support = no
   wins server = 10.10.0.76
   workgroup = AEIDOM
   password server = dccaeipdc.darien.aeilogis.com
   domain controller = dccaeipdc

dccaeipdc is 10.10.0.76, and is in the DNS.  From a Windows95 
machine logged in tthe AEIDOM domain, attempting a :

net use e: \\aeidns\share   (just a test share)

results in the following from the /var/log/auth.log and /var/log/smb

/var/log/auth.log
---
Jul 10 17:50:02 aeidns pam[124]: (other) illegal module type: OTHER
Jul 10 17:50:02 aeidns pam[124]: (other) illegal control flag: auth
Jul 10 17:50:02 aeidns pam[124]: unable to dlopen(/usr/lib/security/required)
Jul 10 17:50:02 aeidns pam[124]: [dlerror: File not found]
Jul 10 17:50:02 aeidns pam[124]: adding faulty module: 
/usr/lib/security/required
Jul 10 17:50:02 aeidns pam[124]: (other) illegal module type: OTHER
Jul 10 17:50:02 aeidns pam[124]: (other) illegal control flag: account
Jul 10 17:50:02 aeidns pam[124]: (other) illegal module type: OTHER
Jul 10 17:50:02 aeidns pam[124]: (other) illegal control flag: password
Jul 10 17:50:02 aeidns pam[124]: (other) illegal module type: OTHER
Jul 10 17:50:02 aeidns pam[124]: (other) illegal control flag: 
session

Hmmm.  /etc/security only has three files ...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]# ls -la /etc/security/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 1024 Jul  9 17:25 .
drwxr-xr-x  26 root root 3072 Jul 10 17:47 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 2145 Mar 16 02:44 group.conf
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 1289 Mar 16 02:44 limits.conf
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 2147 Mar 16 02:44 time.conf

/var/log/smb

  :
Connecting to 10.10.0.76 at port 139
connected to password server dccaeipdc.darien.aeilogis.com
dccaeipdc.darien.aeilogis.com rejected the session
Selected protocol NT LM 0.12
  :

I assume the session is being rejected because of the PAM problems ?  
Any ideas ?

Dean Carpenter  [EMAIL PROTECTED]94TT :)
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Dimension


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Frozen - couple of gotchas

1997-05-04 Thread Dean Carpenter
I just did an install of frozen/bo the other day, and noticed a couple
of small gotchas ...

The disk images still aren't on the mirror (debian.crosslink.net) so I
had to use the ones from greenbush.

The packages list under bo/binary-i386 has an entry for :

unstable/binary-i386/interpreters/cpp_2.7.2.1-7.deb

which doesn't exist.  Taking a look in the packages list under
unstable/hamm I see an entry for :

unstable/binary-i386/interpreters/cpp_2.7.2.1-8.deb

which also doesn't exist.  In fact, the only cpp package I can find :

rex-updates/binary-i386/cpp_2.7.2.1-4.deb

The crux of all this is that the install fails because netstd can't
configure without the cpp package.  Once I manually installed the
-4.deb version, it was able to finish.

I have the sneaking suspicion I'm missing something here, not doing
"the right thing" for the frozen install.

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