RE: Recognizing Kernel Update to 2.4.12
Look in /usr/share/doc/kernel-image (or something like that) and read the README. Try the wholething again, this time, start with "make menuconfig". Read up on anything that you're not sure of. then 'make-kpkg clean' (it should complain if not) then 'make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image then cd .. then you should have a kernel-image-.deb file. install it, fix grub (you're on your ownon this one) to see either kernel, and know how to boot fromyour old one) reboot, and robert is your mother's brother. -Original Message- From: eDoc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 10:11 PM To: Jeff Licquia Cc: Glen Mehn; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Recognizing Kernel Update to 2.4.12 > Did you 'make config' first? (or make menuconfig, etc?) Otherwise, you are > almost 100% sure to end up with an unusable kernel... Uh, oh. Not sure if I did this or not ... way to many iterations for my sieve-for-a-brain to recall. > running `make menuconfig` from your top-level kernel directory,however. it's > much more user-friendly, and you can go back and make changes. Too late ... see below. > I would also *highly* suggest following along in the kernel-howto as well, > while you're compiling your kernel for the first time. > glen OK. next time ... :-) > - cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.13 > > - Configure the kernel. This isn't Debian-specific. Some people >like "make menuconfig", others "make xconfig", others just plain >"make config". One handy tip: Debian kernel packages store their >configs in /boot/config-X.Y.Z, so you can start with a good kernel >config and go from there. If you do that and just want to be asked >the questions that are new since that kernel version, run "make >oldconfig". > > - Pick a Debian package revision for your kernel stuff. I generally >pick something that describes the purpose of the kernel and a >version, such as "laptop.1". > > - Run "make-kpkg clean". Ooops! Missed this step. > - Run "make-kpkg --revision= kernel_image". Uh oh. I just ran "make-kpkg" since i have frequently been told to do that. (All of my hacking around seems to have "accidently" resulted in make-kpkg "deciding" to respond!) The hundreds of choices are, as usual, poorly documented internally so I guessed on the few for which I did not accept the default. CONFIG_HOTPLUG Y PCMCIA/CardBus Y CardBus Support Y i82365 comp. bridge N (this may have been the default) ParallelPort (CONFIG_PARPORT) Y PC-Style hardware (CONFIG_PARPORT_PC) Y Support for PCMCIA Mgmt. for PC-style Ports (CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_PCMCIA) Y PCMCIA Network (CONFIG_NET_PCMCIA) Y 3com 589 Y Ham Radio Y PCMCIA Serial devices (CONFIG_PCMCIA_SERIAL_CS) M ***I was thinking this may be necessary for my PCMCIA modem*** Video for Linux Y ***Was hoping this might help to get my Nogatech USB video adapter/dongle to interface with my cancorder or other video device*** > - If that succeeds, run "make-kpkg modules_image". Did this ... tons of code scrolled by. > - If you think you may need to compile other modules for this kernel >after you've built other kernels with this source tree, run >"make-kpkg kernel_headers". Did this ... tons of code scrolled by. > - cd /usr/src OK. > - ls -l *deb HOORAY! kernel-headers-2.4.12_100.Custom_i386.deb is there! Also, from a while back, is modutils_2.4.10-3_i386.deb It is something more than before ... though I am not sure it is what I need. Is it? > You should now have a list of Debian packages on your screen, > corresponding to the kernel packages you just built (and maybe some > older ones, if you've been building kernels before). Run a "dpkg -i" > on them, and you're all set. I tried "dpkg -i kernel-headers-2.4.12_100.Custom_i386.deb" but it spit-up ... So I tried "dpkg -i *.deb" It downgraded modutils from 2.4.10-4 to 2.4.10-3 and then setup kernel_headers and modutils. Nothing new in /boot What now, please? > I *highly* suggest your installing at least the libncurses5-dev package > glen "find -name libncurses5-dev" says nada. "apropos libncurses5-dev" says nada. Ran "apt-get install libncurses5-dev" seemed to go OK. I need to "halt" for the night but should be able to resume this some time late tomorrow evening. Thanks! doc
RE: Recognizing Kernel Update to 2.4.12 -- Inching Closer
Did you 'make config' first? (or make menuconfig, etc?) Otherwise, you are almost 100% sure to end up with an unusable kernel... Also, with these options, in `make config`, you can press the `?` key (no quotes) and it'll tell you what you need to do. I *highly* suggest your installing at least the libncurses5-dev package and running `make menuconfig` from your top-level kernel directory,however. it's much more user-friendly, and you can go back and make changes. I would also *highly* suggest following along in the kernel-howto as well, while you're compiling your kernel for the first time. And you may even find that you dont' need to recompile your kernel. Unless you need to add device support that isn't in the stock progeny/debian system, I'm not quite clear exactly why you need to recompile the kernel-- you can run a fine debian system on a 2.2 kernel. So there's no need to worry that you're not 'fully upgraded' from progeny. Unless you have specific hardware needs, or want something that's slightly smaller, or whatever, I'd stick with the kernel you have, at least until you're more familiar with linux systems in general. glen -Original Message- From: eDoc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 12:00 PM To: Glen S Mehn; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Recognizing Kernel Update to 2.4.12 -- Inching Closer > the kernel source directory should contain a listing of files that looks > something like this: (it'll change slightly, based on where you got your > kernel source from): > > COPYINGMAINTAINERS README.Debian arch include kernel net > CREDITSMakefile REPORTING-BUGS drivers init lib > scripts > Documentation README Rules.make fs ipc mm > > irf you got the source from kernel.org, then it probably untars into a > 'linux' directory. You can skip the mv command, and go straight on to the > make config command. > > good luck. glne OK. Got there and ran the "make-kpkg" command. A couple of complaints flashed by along with tons of other text, then after defaulting to "Y" CONFIG_MODULES and CONFIG_MODVERSIONS: "Kernel module loader (CONFIG_KMOD) [N/y/?] (NEW)" If I choose "Y" does this require me to load specific modules for everything or does it merely make such more automated? I did a search on the Internet but what I need to know is unclear ... sure wish Linux would document such options alongside the request for a choice! The default is "N". Thanks! Doc
RE: Recognizing Kernel Update to 2.4.12 -- CORRECTION
One thing to know about unix is that, basically, everything is a file. It seems odd that /usr/src/linux would end up being a regular (non-dir) file, but.. Whatever. it's fixed now. I've moved the discussion off of the three lists that you posted to, and put it just on 'debian-user'. It could just as well go to 'debian-laptop', but, as many people are subscribed to all the newsgroups, they odn't want to get messages 3 or 4 times. Nettiquette asks that one normally not crosspost to multiple newsgroups. Just so you know. the kernel source directory should contain a listing of files that looks something like this: (it'll change slightly, based on where you got your kernel source from): COPYINGMAINTAINERS README.Debian arch include kernel net CREDITSMakefile REPORTING-BUGS drivers init lib scripts Documentation README Rules.make fs ipc mm irf you got the source from kernel.org, then it probably untars into a 'linux' directory. You can skip the mv command, and go straight on to the make config command. good luck. glne -Original Message- From: eDoc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 10:56 AM To: Glen S Mehn; debian-user@lists.debian.org; debian-laptop@lists.debian.org; progeny-debian@lists.progeny.com Subject: Re: Recognizing Kernel Update to 2.4.12 -- CORRECTION > You need to untar the source: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src# tar -xvzf > After that, change the directory name to 'linux', so that your uncompressed, > untarred sources are in /usr/src/linux: The usr/src/linux directory that was missing before has been created, apparently for some reason a reboot was necessary for it to show up. Problem: I only have linux-2.4.12.tar.gz file in /usr/src ... "find -name *2.4.12*" only finds "linux-2.4.12.tar.gz file in /usr/src" What is wrong, please? I have tried everything I have found in man, doc, etc. Nothing seems to successfully extract the 2.4.12 kernel-source everyone keeps referring to. Thanks! Doc > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src# mv linux > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src# cd linux
RE: Recognizing Kernel Update to 2.4.12
Hey doc: I think we were all assuming a slightly higher level of linux-ness than you've got. I'd highly, highly suggest that you read all the docs online before you go into kernel compilation, particularly the ones about lilo (or grub) and booting to an alternate kernel-- you'll really want to be able to boot if you forget to include, say, IDE support, or your filesystem support or something like that. So, it looks like you've done some sort of 'apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.somethingorother', or downloaded the source from kernel.org, or somewhere else. You need to untar the source: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src# tar -xvzf a .gz extension means it's been compressed with gzip. A tar extention means that the file is part of a unix Tape ARchive. A tgz extension means it's a tar archive that's been compressed with gzip. After that, change the directory name to 'linux', so that your uncompressed, untarred sources are in /usr/src/linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src# mv linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src# cd linux Now, read the README files in there. It's going to say some stuff about make, make modules, make modules_install--- note that debian and make-kpkg does a bunch of this for you. What you NEED to do, however, is one of: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src# make config [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src# make menuconfig [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src# make xconfig config is plain text, and kind of annoying, but it always works. menuconfig is ncurses-based (you'll need the libncurses5-dev package), and sort of like the debian install. xconfig will only work if you have x running, but it's nice if you like to use your mouse. go through all the menus. Read the helpfiles. RTFM. Have a web browser handy. Then, finally: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src# make-kpkg clean [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src# make-kpkg --revision= kernel_image cd .. dpkg --install kernel-image-2.4.12-.deb double, no, triplecheck that lilo is pointing to a good kernel for the LinuxOLD tag. Run lilo again, just to be sure. Reboot. RTFM. YMMV. This could render your system unbootable, don't cry to me if it does, just fix it ;> Good luck. glen -Original Message- From: eDoc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 09:12 AM To: Glen Mehn; debian-user@lists.debian.org; debian-laptop@lists.debian.org; progeny-debian@lists.progeny.com Subject: Recognizing Kernel Update to 2.4.12 > you need to, as in the documentation, run make-kpkg from the top-level kernel > directory, which will depend on where you put your kernel source. This is typically > either /usr/src/linux or /usr/src/kernel-source- > glen kernel-source? You mean "linux-2.4.12.tar.gz? Or do you mean "linux-2.4.12.gz"? "linux-2.4.12.tar.gz" is in /usr/src and I tried to run "make-kpkg" there. No go. Neither "linux-2.4.12.gz" or "kernel-source-2.4.12" exist according to "find -name linux-2.4.12*" and "find -name kernel-source-2.4.12*" issued from / This despite following all of the suggested commands from this list and others to cause it to be created (e.g. "tar -xvvzf linux-2.4.12.tar.gz") from docs or man or whatever resource I found that. Somewhere folks are assuming that I am taking a step that they have not explicitly stated and thus the creation of the critical kernel-source in the necessary format in the necessary location is not happening. As always I have perused man, docs, help, articles and posts, and every other online resource I can find. All assume things not explicitly stated or use terminology I do not as-of-yet understand fully. Help? Thanks! Doc
cvs/networking/aaaargh!
ok, this is a wierd wierd wierd problem: I ahve a cvs server. I use pserver auth for it. every now and then, connections from the cvs server hang, and they seem to tear down my networking. this is what happens (when the connection hangs): if I ssh to the box, I get a "Bad remote protocol version identification: ''" telnet to port 25(smtp) is refused telnet to port 2401(cvs pserver) is refused I HAD multiple repositories. I've reduced that to one. Im' running woody currently, with a 2.2.19pre17-compact kernel. This exact same thing also happened on my woody/2.4.4 kernel(custom) box. And I thought it was due to some other problems on that box, when it was potato/stable, until I upgraded first the dist, then the kernel. The problem has seemed to chase me around, so I'm pretty sure that it has something to do with cvs. there's nothing out of the ordinary in syslog, dmesg, messages, kern.log, daemon.log. usually after ~15 minutes, everything works fine. But sometimes it doesn't. wierd thing: if I logon to the box @ the console, tehn ssh out from it ti seems to make the networking all happy. Also, connections to 'localhost' work just fine even when other connections fail (from another host). output from netstat -a: (this is the same whether or not it's rejecting connections) tcp0 20 sifl.squaretrade.co:ssh fozzie.squaretrade:2168 ESTABLISHED tcp0 0 *:https *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:cvspserver*:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* LISTEN udp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* raw0 0 *:icmp *:* 7 raw0 0 *:tcp *:* 7 Active UNIX domain sockets (servers and established) Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path unix 1 [ ] DGRAM56 /dev/log unix 0 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 66 /dev/gpmctl unix 0 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 133 /var/run/gcache_port unix 0 [ ] STREAM 135 unix 0 [ ] DGRAM59 can anyone help? I'm really stumped on this. I've searched the cvs lists, and mailed the debian/cvs maintainer (no response yet, but he could be on vacation or something) please copy me and hte list, as I only get the digest version. regards glen -- Glen S Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lead Systems Administrator SquareTrade, Inc.-- Building Trust in Transactions (sm).
RE: connecting to DSL
Run a `netstat -nr` and give us that output. Also the output from #ifdown eth0 #ifup eth0 The key should be in the errors (if any) that are there. It sounds like the gateway is not being added to the route table correctly: You could try # route add default gw 216.x.x.1 Checked for typos? If the gateway is listed as a different subnet, then the machine will have no idea where to send packets... Hope this helps. glen -Original Message- From: Kenneth Scharf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 2:08 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: connecting to DSL I (finally) seem to have a working connection via IDSL. It works fine under windows by just setting up the IP, Gateway, Netmask, and DNS entries under the tcp/ip pulldown under the networking configuration for my network card. IP 216.xxx.xxx.xxx gateway 216.xxx.xxx.1 broadcast 216.xxx.xxx.255 How do I do this under Potato? I changed the entries in /etc/networks/interfaces for my ethernet card to match the ip, gateway, and netmask that worked under windows, and the /etc/resolv.conf file I added the lines: nameserver 209.67.3.166 nameserver 209.185.207.135 which are the actual nameserver ip's I was given. I then restarted the computer and tried to ping my gateway address (that worked). I could not however ping my dns ip's (network unreachable), nor get to the debian site when I ran apt-get. Any ideas? I will also need to install a second network card, recompile the kernel to support ipmasq, and set the IP on the second card to a local lan address so I can firewall the net to another computer (actually I am building a second computer to just handle the firewall stuff and my linux workstation will be on of three computers on the local lan, the other two running windows). Any ideas on what to do here? Thanks! = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
RE: Telnet 25 connection refused
Try commenting out the smtp line in /etc/inetd.conf and then running exim as a daemon (#/etc/init.d/exim start) and see if you get error messages? glen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 6:53 AM To: Ralf G. R. Bergs Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Telnet 25 connection refused Thanks for the reply. I have infact installed exim and have configured /etc/exim.conf, though whether it's configured properly is another matter. Is it possible that something in the exim.conf is incorrectly configured or that whatever program is responsible for strating exim is not being loaded. Thanx again. Irvine >At 10:08 10.3.2000 +0100, Ralf G. R. Berg wrote: > >Telnet IS working, but obviously you aren't running a local SMTP server (this >is what you are trying to telnet to!!). Fetchmal also needs a local SMTP >server to be able to feed you the messages it just downloaded. > >I recommend you to install "Exim", far superior to the old mail daemon >"sendmail." > > >-- >Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. >http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ >of a GNU /( )\ > Generation ^^-^^
IPmasq woes
Folks: I'm running potato with two nics (netgear FA310s, Tulip driver, modular) runnign IP masquerading on them. The machine is a celeron/466 with 64 MB orf RAM. The problem I get is this: the network drops away often. Usually, the external interface (eth0) is fine, but the internal network goes awry all the time. If I run pings to the internal machines, it will drop 1/4 - 1/2 of the packets. And I get lots of dropped packets internally as well. I'm running the most potato updated IPmasq and tulip drivers on a 2.2.13 kernel. Any ideas? I'm beginning to think that these NICs (or at least one of them) is flaky. I've set up IPmasq the exact same way several times, without issue. Thanks in advance... glen -- Glen S Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] transecure.com-- building trust in transactions.
RE: DNS setup question
If you set up your DNS server correctly with the IPs that you want, and tell it that it's the SOA record for animedia.com, then it'll point itself and any 'puters that point to it as primary DNS to the IP address, regardless of the root servers. It's a good way to test your DNS setup. You can also use interactive nslookup. If you just type nslookup without any arguments, you'll get a prompt: > then you can say nameserver and it'll lookup stuff through that nameserver. It's also a good way to debug stuff. Adding the nameserver is as simple as adding a line to your /etc/bind/named.conf and setting up the zone file for it. The BIND-HOWTO has answers on this one. Regards, Glen -Original Message- From: Alec Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 2:12 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: DNS setup question Right now I've got my Debian-based server acting as a DNS cache. I'm in the process of moving a domain from one hosting company to another, and I'd like to be able to test things as if this domain was pointed at the new server instead of the old. I'm not quite ready to update the domain records with InterNIC though. Is there some way I can make my local DNS server report back to me that amimedia.com is 209.68.1.210 instead of the old IP, but without having to change things for the rest of the world? I'm not a Bind whiz, so pointers are much appreciated. I don't want to drop the DNS cache since it speeds things up most of the time. Eventually I'd like to add DNS to another LAN I run, so I'd like to use this as a chance to start learning how to configure Bind as opposed to just adding another entry for DNS caching (to point at Pair Network's DNS for the new amimedia.com IP). Alec Smith
RE: Help & HOWTO's
Whoa there boy! Slow down! Phew. Maybe we should try one thing at a time. Do you have web access? Go to www.linuxdoc.org and look at the printing-HOWTO. Or, if you installed the Debian Docs and HOWTOs, they'll be in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/ and they'll look funny. Try this: # gunzip .txt.gz Then # less .txt That'll allow you to start browsing through the howto. You should also know that Linux has several Virtual Terminals available to you. You can scroll through these by using ALT-F1 (through F6). So you can, say, pull up a man page in one term and then make your changes in another. Hope this helps. I think that your post might have been a little overwhelming, kind of like your first stab at linux. Usually, you'll get really quick, fast answers on these types of lists if you say something like: I want to print these man pages out. I'm running Debian 2.1 (or whatever version you're running) I have an type of printer, which is (USB, parallel, network attatched) How do I install the printer drivers? That being done, how do I then print? (it usually helps if you've at least read the man pages/HOWTOs first) Regards, Glen -Original Message- From: JB Popnoe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 1:04 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Help & HOWTO's Beginner Linux - Up and running / need lots of examples and will start slow - using man help and would like to print some pages - mouse running but still need X11 -Debian manual back cover says intro - however Chpt. 9 makes a lot of assumptions that I don't know ?? Someone cookbook me on Printers first - then I will get with X11 - checking packages installed and still looking -JBThank you for any help you can point me too. ???
RE: apt-get remove gnome-bin problem:
THAT DID IT thankyouthankyouthankyou. glen -Original Message- From: Johan Ur Riise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 12:53 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Glen S Mehn Subject: Re: apt-get remove gnome-bin problem: On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 11:00:31AM -0800, Glen S Mehn wrote: > Global Symbol "$username" requires explicit package name at > /usr/sbin/suidunregister line 173 > Global Symbol "$groupname" requires explicit package name at > /usr/sbin/suidunregister line 174 > Global Symbol "$inode" requires explicit package name at > /usr/sbin/suidunregister line 178 This appears to be a perl-bug in /usr/sbin/suidregister. The error disappeared when i upgraded package suidmanager with the command apt-get install suidmanager before other upgrades Johan
apt-get remove gnome-bin problem:
OK. Here's the situation. I'm a bit stumped: Debian 2.2, running on a p133 32MB Trying to install some stuff via apt, apt decided to remove gnome-bin. Which is OK with me: I don't really use gnome anyway. Except that it's not trying to remove gnome-bin each time, and breaking apt's functionality (as well as dpkg). Error(s): Global Symbol "$username" requires explicit package name at /usr/sbin/suidunregister line 173 Global Symbol "$groupname" requires explicit package name at /usr/sbin/suidunregister line 174 Global Symbol "$inode" requires explicit package name at /usr/sbin/suidunregister line 178 execution of /usr/sbin/suidunregistrer aborged due to compilation errors. dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 255 Errors were encoutnered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-bin_1.0.54-1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Since this has happened, I can only sometimes apt-get install or upgrade, I can partially remove stuff. I've tried removing gnome-bin with apt and dpkg. dpkg suggests that I reinstall the package to remove it (package gnome-bin_xxx is seriously damaged. Perhaps you should reinstall?), but I get the same errors when I try to reinstall (again, from apt or dpkg) except that the errors are in /usr/sbin/suidregister. Any ideas? I'd be happy to manually deinstall or reinstall the thing (from source?) Am I hosed? Help? glen > <>
RE: Is potatoe's exim 3.12-1 OK?
You might have a problem with the local_domains setting in /etc/exim.conf. It'll only accept *@mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 6:39 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: re: Is potatoe's exim 3.12-1 OK? Mark, I have the same problem. My messages eventually freeze, and the error is SMTP timeout while connected to ... many bytes weritten written, but message not completed. I would have quoted your earlier post, but I'm mailing this via telnet to port 25 of my ISP, because I can't post out with Exim. Suggestions welcome (by both of us)! Thanks much, Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: CVS server?
>From the CVS manual: There's no CVS Daemon. The pserver connection is run from inetd. Check out the online manual at http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~dpc/cvs/ But it won't show up in a 'ps', just like exim won't, 'cause it's run from inetd. In your /etc/inetd.conf you should have a line which reads: cvspserver stream tcp nowait root/usr/bin/cvscvs --allow-root= pserver (this is all on one line. You need to make sure you have the lines: cvspserver 2401/tcp cvspserver 2401/udp in your /etc/services file. Though I had to put in the raw port number (2401) in inetd.conf. Hope this helps. There's a ton of info in the manuals-- don't forget to RTFM! -Original Message- From: Aaron Van Couwenberghe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 10:18 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: CVS server? Hi all - Where in Debian can one find a pserver CVS daemon? I couldn't find one in any of the '*cvs*' packages. Thanks in advance! -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain
LILO fails to load
Hi: When I boot my machine, I get LI at the lilo prompt. The lilo docs say this can be caused by "a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer" Neither of these are things that I'm quite sure of. I just built a custom kernel with make zlilo, which is meant to do all the lilo dependencies for you. I'm running on a Penguin Computing 2U rackmount server with a SCSI bus (the kernel is compiled for the AIX 7XXX card). Debian potato. Please respond via private email as well as to the list (I only get the digest) Regards! Glen S Mehn
RE: problems forwarding X over SSH...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could do it a little kludge-ily by adding the laptop's IP or actual hostname in /etc/X0.hosts (you might possibly even be able to add .* If you have to add it each time, you'll have to, obviously, restart xdm. But it's certainly doable. Hope it helps? Regards, Glen > Subject: Re: Problem forwarding X over ssh > Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 22:17:58 -0400 > From: William Burrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 01:49:55PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > what network it was attached to. This local name doesn't necessarily > > correspond to its real name on the network and thus ssh was setting > > the display to this local name instead of the laptops real network > > name. Obviously this disallows a functional forward of X11. > > > > In my case I need to figure out how to set the host name to the "real" > > name of the laptop depending on what network it resides (maybe PCMCIA > > has some provision for this?). For now I can set it's host name > > manually via the "hostname" command to it's real network name and that > > fixes the problem. > > You might be able to get around it by generating a cookie for the host name > as it is seen from the network: > > xauth generate outside.name:0 . > > Dunno if that will work or not. > > -- > William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada > A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task -- you feed in input and > out comes the output, just as God and Larry Wall intended. > -- brian moore > > -- -- Glen S Mehn GoMo.com Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can your email do this? http://www.gomomail.com
re: SSH pam
With ssh you have to connect with a secure client, which you can get on any unix, and there's a free one for win32, called putty, which is very nice. Supports telnet, too. The problem with telnet is that nayone who wants to sniff your network can get every packet decrypted from plain old text. So they watch you type username: pass and get it. Or if they're really great they watch for you to type su: pass and then they've got your root. Bad thing. And really easy to do. Putty is ~200k to d/l, so it's pretty easy to get anywhere-- I* think you can even run it off of a floppy... Regards, Glen > Subject: ssh pam > Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 15:29:46 + > From: Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Hi all, > > I rarely access my box other than by telnet and I'm > told that I should use a more secure setup. > > What is the Debian recommended approach? ssh? PAM? > Are they hard to implement? I often use a different PC > so I need a sloution that does not require a secure client. > > Thanks in advance. > > Patrick Kirk > -- Glen S Mehn GoMo.com Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can your email do this? http://www.gomomail.com
SSH .deb files
Add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US and then type apt-get install ssh. Ssh uses cryptography that you technically have to license in the US to use, so it's a "non-US" package. Regards, Glen -- Glen S Mehn GoMo.com Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can your email do this? http://www.gomomail.com
ThinkPad boot disk
RTFM for ThinkPads! Laptops! Installs! One laptop is not the same as all! I think the boot disk you need is "resc-tecra.bin" or "resc-tecra-safe.bin" Other things: @ the boot prompt, try floppy=thinkpad, mem=http://www.debian.org. Different combinations of this should work. There's also :debian-laptop@lists.debian.org And the TP model # would help. Regards Glen > Subject: Bootdisk for ThinkPad > Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 19:59:59 + (GMT) > From: Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > CC: debian-boot@lists.debian.org > > My Compaq died last Sunday, so I rented a replacement to take me to the > LSP specification meeting this weekend. Well the short version is that it > is an IBM ThinkPad, and the Debian 2.1 boot disks will not work. (root.bin > gets loaded as does the kernel, but there it hangs without uncompressing > the kernel) > > Can someone point me to a rescue disk for the ThinkPad? I can install Red > Hat 6.1 and Caldera 2.3, but not Debian! > > Please CC me on your reply, as I am not subscribed to debian-user at this > time. > > Thanks, > > Dwarf > -- > _-_-_-_-_- Author of "The Debian Linux User's Guide" _-_-_-_-_-_- > > aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 > Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 > > _-_-_-_-_-_- See www.linuxpress.com for more details _-_-_-_-_-_-_- > -- Glen S Mehn GoMo.com Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can your email do this? http://www.gomomail.com
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #2082
Did you check the bootprompt HOWTO? There are sometimes special parameters for SCSI cards. The kernel won't compile with multiprocessor support on the install-- it'll just use the first processor. So you'll need to recompile after your install with multiprocessor support. Regards, glen > Subject: Problems with Asus P2B-DS/350 and double PIII 450 > Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 11:56:24 +0100 (MET) > From: Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Hello! > > I have a dual Pentium III 450 system with an Asus P2B-DS/350 main board, > in which I removed everything but the floppy drive and the IDE CD-Rom, > master on the second channel. > > The standard Debian boot disk hangs probing the Adaptec SCSI card bundled > in the main board; I tried making custom boot kernels with 2.2.13 and > everything hangs asking if I have a color monitor. > > I'm trying to build the smallest possible 2.2.13 boot kernel for that > server, but I have no idea what could be the cause. > > Is there some boot problem HOWTO or some other source of information about > problems booting linux or hardware problems with Linux in general? Windows > NT boots, installs and seems to work fine. > > Is there some known problem with Linux and this Asus mainboard, or with > double Pentium III? > > TIA, Enrico > -- Glen S Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] GoMo Technologies Systems Administrator Can your email do this? http://www.gomomail.com
X and /dev/psaux
OK, this one is maybe easy? Debian 2.2, latest release of X, running on a Micron millenia w/ a nVidia Riva 128 (8MB) graphics card using SF_XVGA and a ms intellimouse(ps/2): I get a fatal error starting X: not able to connect to mouse. At first I realised that I had set it to point to /dev/ttyS0, changed it to /dev/psaux, but X still crashes right when it loads. Regards, glen -- Glen S Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] GoMo Technologies Systems Administrator Can your email do this? http://www.gomomail.com
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1994
"unstable" in potato means it isn't a "final" release, meaning that whatever goals for potato aren't met yet, which, as I seem to hear, means that the boot floppies arent' what the Debian folks want them to be yet. Officially, it's 'install at your own risk', but several folks that I know are running it in production (my own co., the IWW, MSRI, etc.) Works just like a charm, though the install is more klunky than, say, RH. But if you've done slink, potato will be really similar, just more disks. If you add a line for 'unstable' in your /etc/apt/sources.list i.e: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free then run apt-get update and apt-get install satan. Subject: Re: Encounter with Satan Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:14:48 +0700 From: Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Ben Collins wrote: > It's a potato package. I see. It's a reason to upgrade. But, why do I need to...? I'm trying to getting used to slink. BTW, what is the meaning of "unstable" in potato? Crashes periodically? It's OK, but install at your own risk? Oki -- Glen S Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] GoMo Technologies Systems Administrator Can your email do this? http://www.gomomail.com
RE: Encounter with Satan
Call me silly, but it's right there in the dpkg list when you install. Try apt-get install satan and see what happens. Regards, glen Subject: Encounter with Satan Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:44:11 +0700 (JAVT) From: Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Hi, I have visited Satan's site. I think it is a useful tool for testing (whether they are crackable or not) your systems' security. But when I visited www.debian.org, I didn't see any mention about it. There is a version for Linux, but all I can get is the tarball (after you have gotten used to apt-get, tarballs are supposedly something in the past). Isn't there any interest in "porting" Satan to Debian...? (Or, did I just miss something here?). Oki -- Glen S Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] GoMo Technologies Systems Administrator Can your email do this? http://www.gomomail.com
re: apt-get
If you do a "man apt-get", you get several options. I think the command is apt-get -f dist Of course, you'll have to make sure that somewhere in your sources.conf file you have "unstable" as well as stable so that you can get potato (the "unstable" release that runs several whole companies that I know of...) I think that the -f flag tells it to upgrade dependencies. it could be apt-get upgrade dist or something. Somewhere there's a list of apt-get commands. Under bash it might eben be apt-get ?? Regards, glen -- Glen S Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] GoMo Technologies Systems Administrator Can your email do this? http://www.gomomail.com
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1917
> The things: Lilo must be on a primary, and bootable. Or at least shoudl be on a primary. It can point whatever. NT can be on whatever, but if you're using the NT bootloader, it needs to be on primary. Highly suggested to use NT with FAT and not NTFS if it's a dual boot machine. Thassall. Glen S Mehn GoMo Technologies Systems Administrator http://www.gomomail.com -- Can your E-Mail do this? > > Subject: Re: debian installation woes > Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 18:22:54 -0600 > From: John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > Subject: Re: debian installation woes > > Date: Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 10:59:08AM -0800 > > > > In reply to:aphro > > > > Quoting aphro([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > you can't boot a logical drive, it must be primary.. > > > > > > nate > > > > OH?? Gee, I wonder why my potato dist is working so well > > on hdb10. A 1 gig logical partition, the last partition, > > on a 6.4 gig drive. Am I just lucky, or might you be mistaken? > > > > Where did this gem "it must be primary.." come from anyway? I've > > heard others "quote" this before. > -- > Same here! I have both slink and potato each on logical partitions as > well as Win98 with no probs. The only thing that I ever ran into was > NT: that's one cow that will never fly, unless it's on the primary > partition. That's likely because NTFS is incompatible with most > anything > else. > -- >
