Re: firewall options
> "john" == john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: john> There are a number of 'annoying' things with Smoothwall despite john> a lot of write ups. A ppp profile was partly configured in the john> setup and my moden was identified as being on 'COM1'. No changes john> can be made to a profile 'while RED is active' and I can't find john> how to deactivate the channel without going well back into the I helped a friend set up Smoothwall for his ADSL connection. On the first tab, there is a button that allows you to deactivate the RED interface. Smoothwall has a reasonably good (but rather terse) configuration manual. It is separate from the installation manual. Most of the configuration can be done with a browser. john> Any suggestions what I should consider doing? Whichever way I john> proceed, I shall need help in configuring my boxes to 'go john> through the firewall' to get email, download data and browse john> etc. I have a Debian box set up as a router/firewall. Short configuration guide: - install a minimal Debian system - activate IP Masquerading - install the ipmasq package - use netstat -a to find all open network ports and remove packages you don't need (especially inetd) Ipmasq will configure masquerading. You should need only a minimal amount of configuration, unless you want to run some services on the firewall. (The package uses a set of shell scripts that are reasonably simple once you figure it out.) On the internal machines, you only need to set the DNS addresses and you're set. The firewall will relay all traffic as expected, while blocking incoming connections. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shrink partition with fdisk
> "Brian" == Brian Stults <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> Hello, I just used resize_reiserfs to shrink a reiserfs Brian> partition. It worked fine, and df is reporting the device size Brian> that I expected. However, fdisk still reports the old size. How Brian> can I shrink the partition in fdisk so it reports the correct Brian> size, without harming the contents of the device? I'm assuming Brian> that if I simply delete the partition in fdisk, and then Brian> re-create it smaller, my data will be lost. Deleting a partition does not remove the data, nor does creating a new one in the same place. Make sure that the new partition starts at the same place as the old one, and that it's large enough to hold the complete filesystem. Remember to include the space taken by the file system metadata. For Reiserfs, that includes 32 MB for the journal + some more for other structures. Df doesn't include those. Make a backup before doing anything to your partition table. Good luck. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mgetty hangs machine
> "martin" == martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: martin> i don't think this makes sense and would like to change it. do martin> you have suggestions on how to go about preventing mgetty from martin> freezing the machine in case of a disconnected modem? Most likely a hardware problem. If you have 2 serial ports, try connecting the modem to the other one. Does this also happen if mgetty is not running? -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bugzilla setup
> "Robert" == Robert Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> installed, and mysql-server, but when I try to install Robert> bugzilla I get: Setting up bugzilla (2.14.2-0woody1) ... DBI-> connect(;localhost;3306) failed: Access denied for user: Robert> 'root@localhost' (Using password: YES) Robert> Any thoughts on where to go from here? Do you have a mysql user called 'root'? And does this user have administrator privileges? Can you use `mysql -P' to access the database? Try `dpkg-reconfigure bugzilla' to reenter the password. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Just a tip for you zip100 users
> "Deryk" == Deryk Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Deryk> The reason it's partition 4 is apparently to do with Mac Deryk> compatibility. IIRC, it's Windows compatibility. When Windows starts up, it scans all devices and assigns drive letters. (WinNT and Win9x have a slightly different algorithm, to make life interesting.) Now, if there is a disk in the drive at startup, Windows assigns a drive letter. Otherwise, it ignores the zip. When you actually use the disk, the next drive available letter is used. I don't remember the details, but using partition 4 ends up last in the sequence. This prevents Windows from getting confused by drive letters that have changed. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: first kernel belongs to package?
> "Anders" == Anders Lennartsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Anders> I mean when a fresh install of Debian is made on a, say Anders> previously empty, box, there seem to be no package that owns Anders> the first kernel, This is correct, and it's been a pet peeve of mine for a long time. You could file a wishlist bug against the boot-floppies package. Anders> I've normally compiled my own kernel-packages, perhaps the Anders> standard kernel packages remove it when they are installed? The standard kernel packages will replace the installation kernel if you use the same "flavor" as the one you used for the installation (I think). -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: swap confusion
> "Joerg" == Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joerg> ahead and set the priority in /etc/fstab with pri=PRIORITY, but Joerg> wait... the man page tells me that swap priority can have any Joerg> non-negative value, but the above kern.log tells me both Joerg> partitions have a negative value. Could someone please Joerg> enlighten me what this is all about? If you don't add a priority yourself, the kernel generates a number for you. And those numbers are negative. The swapon() system call only lets you specify a number greater than 0. This means, those swap partitions where a priority is used are used in preference to the ones that have an automatic one. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding new kernel modules
> "Patrick" == Patrick Dahiroc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Patrick> hi i've been running kernel 2.4.17 for a week now and things Patrick> are great even sound is working as a module. what i want to Patrick> do now is to have reiserfs as a module. is it possible to Patrick> just build the desired module and not reinstall a new kernel? Use make modules in the source directory, and then make modules_install. If you have only added modules to the current configuration (and not ran make clean on the kernel source), this should work. I never tried it though, and I don't really recommend it. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: How to get sound with MSI a K7T266 Pro2
> "R" == R Pac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: R> which options in the 2.4.17 kernel configuration should I R> check to get sound with the sound card integated on the MSI R> maincard K7T266 Pro2. You will need ALSA. The driver you need is called `snd-card-via8233'. I just bought the same motherboard this week, and I'm in the middle of getting the sound to work. Good luck! -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access....
> "Alexander" == Alexander Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexander> shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot Alexander> access parent directories: No such file or directory This either means your current directory has been deleted, or you don't have permissions to read the current directory. Try this: ls -ld . This should give you a line like this: drwxr-xr-x 87 ggeens ggeens 5464 Jan 9 19:27 . If you don't have read or execute permissions, set them with the following command: chmod a+rx . -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: /lib/modules/`uname -r`_[0-9]* ???
> "martin" == martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: martin> can't say when this started, but what the heck are directories martin> like 2.4.17+time_3573 and 2.2.20-compact_2169 doing in martin> /lib/modules??? 2.2.20-compact isn't even install (2.4.17+time martin> *is* my kernel image), and i remember deleting the If you install the same kernel version several times, kernel-package tries to move the old modules out of the way. (The installation script should ask you whether you want that.) (Normally, I don't use that option and delete the modules directory manually.) -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Swap Partition/File
> "Paul" == Paul A Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> 1: I've booted from disk (CD) 1 and 2: both state they are Paul> recovery disk/boots... but then allow you to go into the Paul> installation applet. The Debian installation disks/CDs also double as recovery CDs. You can use it to install the system (by following the screens), or you can switch to a different console (with Alt-F2) and enter a shell to restore a system. Paul> 2: Related to #1 above: How many CD's should there be for Paul> Debian's current release? I have three however in reading the Paul> man (manual?) page for cfdisk at debian.org they reference 4 Paul> CD's. The fourth CD is most likely the `non-free' CD which contains programs that cannot be freely distributed. You don't need that for a first install. (Although it contains some useful programs.) You can check on http://cdimage.debian.org if they provide a download. (Site is down at this moment.) If you have internet access, you can specify that you want the non-free packages in the post-installation. Paul> my goal here is to create a 'kernel' partition of 5 megs, a 10 Paul> meg Swap partition, and whatever for general file use. I can Paul> create all of the partitions and can make one of them a 'swap' Paul> partition, however the GUI? ( Graphical interface of Paul> dbootstrap which uses keyboard command to negotiate through it Paul> ), after I write the changes to the drive, tells me I need to Paul> create a swap drive. If I try to activate the partition I just Paul> created and marked as a 'swap' partition the program states Paul> there are no new 'swap' partitions on the drive. In cfdisk, create the partitions. For the swap partition, you need to change the partition type to `linux swap'. Press `t', scroll down the list of partition types, and accept the default (82). When offered the choice to initialize the swap partition, you should be able to select it. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: How X keyboard maps work in Deb
> "Greg" == Greg Wiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Greg> Does Debian put the 'kbd' file in /etc/X11? Is it even needed Greg> under Debian or is some other mechanism used to do keyboard Greg> mapping? If it turns out that I need the file, what package Greg> contains it? AFAIK, X11 doesn't use a `kbd' file. This is probably something for another distribution. You need to edit the file /etc/XF86Config (or /etc/XF86Config-4). Look for lines like this: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Change the XkbLayout parameter to the keyboard you have. (Alternatively, run xf86config to review all X11 settings.) -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Using Archives
> "Stephen" == Stephen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stephen> How do I use archives? It looks lik a Smartlist archive. The `latest' directory contains only (surprise!) the latest messages sent to the list. How many is a parameter set by the administrator. In your example, it seems that a new message arrived between your request for the directory and the retrieval of the file. This has caused Smartlist to delete the file (and save a new one). Long-term archives are available in the archives (IIRC) directory. (Note that this is also subject to configuration options - the list admin may have disabled that feature.) -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: User process killer script..
> "Petre" == Petre Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Petre> much free time on yourself..i don't. I was thinking at a script Petre> run either from root's crontab that would check all processes Petre> and if the users that started them are not logged in (here i'm Petre> stucked) Maybe it's not exactly what you want, but take a look at and. It is mainly used to renice CPU-intensive jobs, but it can also kill processes. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: What's a debian kid look like?
I'm a 29-year old `kid', living in Belgium. I have a degree in engineering, but I'm now employed as an IT consultant. (Meaning: I write programs for use by large corporations.) I've been into computing since 1983, when my uncle bought me a ZX Spectrum. Later, I switched to an Atari ST, and finally ended up running Linux. I used Slackware for a while, but recently, I converted all my systems to Debian. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Sending faxes with efax as a normal user
> "Neilen" == Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Neilen> The permissions on /var/lock are: Neilen> drwxr-xr-t 3 root root 1024 Dec 21 17:18 /var/lock/ Neilen> so, users should not be allowed to write. I assume its this Neilen> way for a reason. On my system, I have this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home$ ls -ld /var/lock drwxrwxrwt5 root root 120 Dec 25 18:20 /var/lock This allows everyone to create lockfiles, but a user may only delete files owned by themselves. AFAIK, this is the default setting. I don't know why your system is different. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: /etc/hosts strange
> "Joel" == Joel Franco Guzmán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joel> Hi guys, plz, i have troubles with the hosts file. it says: Joel> 127.0.0.1 thor localhost You can always remove your hostname from the localhost line, and add another one with your real IP address. (Or if you have DNS set up, not have this line at all.) This should make no difference for most programs. But if you now connect to your nfs mount, the kernel will treat it as coming from over the network. If you need access over the loopback address, you can specify localhost. (Alternatively, change your /etc/exports to allow incoming connections from 127.0.0.1.) -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: floppy mounted on diferent uid
> "J" == J A Serralheiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: J> Hi! Its been a while I'm having a small problem. Every time I mount J> a floppy using my usual username account, the floopy directory uid J> is set to a diferent uid. In this case, my sister's uid. The J> problem is that I cant mout/unmount, but cant write to the floppy. J> When I format it with ext2, using mkfs, the problem seems to go J> away, but latter returns. I have seen this problem somewhere else, J> also using debian, but I wasnt told how to fix it. Check /etc/fstab . On the line for /floppy, you will probably see the option `user'. Change that to `users' and you will be able to unmount a floppy regardless of who mounted it. As for the file permissions: A FAT (DOS-formatted) floppy has no user IDs stored on it, so Linux assigns the value of the user who mounted it. With an ext2 (or minix) floppy, the files do have owners, and Linux will respect the permissions the same way it does on your hard disk. You can change the permissions of the floppy root directory when it is mounted (chmod a+rw /floppy). If the floppy is not mounted, this will change the permissions of the mount point itself, and that is not what you want. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: EXT2 trouble?
> "Davi" == Davi Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Davi> Is it dangerous? Either your filesystem is corrupt, or your hard disk has errors on it. Try running badblocks (use -n for a non-destructive write test). If that doesn't find anything, run e2fsck on the partition. Make sure the partition is not mounted, or only read-only. (Use a boot disk to be sure.) -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Problems booting from hard drive.
> "Alberto" == Alberto Cabello Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alberto> I just installed potato r3 on P75, 16 MB RAM and all worked Alberto> fine. But booting from hard drive seems impossible to me. I suspect a hardware problem. Try running `badblocks /dev/hda' -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: apt-localpurge
> "benfoley" == benfoley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: benfoley> under what conditions is it advisable, or not, to run benfoley> apt-localepurge? i've checked the man page but still don't benfoley> get why i should or shouldn't use it. I use apt-localepurge on a couple of systems with small hard disks. Those are server-type machines that don't need any user access (besides maintenance from a sysadmin). Advantage: you win some disk space. Disadvantage: it's not easily reversible. If you later decide to add another locale, you'll have to reinstall (almost) every package on your system. My advice: don't bother with it unless you're really short on hard disk space. A hard disk is relatively cheap these days, but for older machines this can be an issue. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Python and python-base dependency problems
> "Sean" == Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sean> On 22-Nov-2001 Daniel Toffetti wrote: Daniel> Since yesterday I'm having dependency problems with python and Daniel> python-base. Dselect wants me to remove Koffice. Can somebody Daniel> give me a clue ?? Put the python-base package on hold until Koffice is upgraded. Sean> python-base (which was python 1.5) went away. Debian still has Sean> python 1.5 hwoever the default is now 2.1. If Koffice is Sean> misbehaven it probably needs to be recompiled and have its Sean> depends straightened. Fetchmailconf has the same problem. You could file a bug against those packages. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: 2 GB limit with ext2
> "Antti" == Antti Tolamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Antti> Anywaa around it? I'm trying to do a tarball as a backup for my Antti> system but after 2 GB process stops to an error. And yes, I do Antti> have over 4 GB free space where I'm trying to make tarball. XFS should be able to handle large files. You can download the patches and utilities from SGI's website. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: making lilo pretty
> "Jason" == Jason Currey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> I noticed some previous emails about creating a lilo splash Jason> screen. My question is what version of lilo do you need to be Jason> running to add the splash screen? The current version in testing has support for splash screens compiled in. No need to patch anything. The package lilo-doc has the explanation (and some sample files) of how to set it up. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: reiserfs (root partition) on lvm
> "list" == list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: list> lvm -- lvm_chr_ioctl: unknown command 4004fe0a lvm -- list> lvm_blk_ioctl: unknown command 21264 list> Any ideas on what might be causing this ? The stock 2.4 kernel doesn't work with lvm-10. The -ac versions work though. Otherwise, download the lvm source (version 1.0 or later) from www.sistina.com and patch the kernel source. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: question about /var/log/ksymooops
> "Steve" == Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> I just saw a lot of files inside, it takes 15Mb hard disk. My Steve> question is, is there a automatically mechanisim to manage Steve> those files (like logrorate for all log files)? All files in that directory older than two days are cleaned up by the program /sbin/insmod_ksymoops_clean, called from cron.daily. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: cvs
> "Tom" == Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> But when I (as joe-user) do: cd ~/myproject cvs import -m "Import Tom> Source" myproject fatco1 rel0 I'm pummelled with "Permission Tom> Denied"... You should set the CVSUMASK variable. It doesn't matter as long as you're the only one working on the repository, but once there are other developers, it becomes necessary. In your case, the value should be: CVSUMASK=002 -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: cvs
> "Tom" == Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [CVS client/server using ssh] Tom> I'm not very clear on how to set this up on the client side. Is Tom> there anything I need to do here? Just set CVSROOT to an appropriate value, e.g.: export CVSROOT=:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs And set CVS_RSH: export CVS_RSH=ssh Tom> More importantly, and probably more difficult, I would like to be Tom> able to have multiple CVS servers available from a single client. Tom> I have no idea how this even begins You can switch between CVS servers by changing the CVSROOT environment variable. Most of the time, you don't even need to do that: once you are in a work directory, cvs will automatically use the repository stored in the administrative files. The only time you need to set CVSROOT is when checking out a new repository. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Which kernel is recommended to run in debian testing?
> "Eric" == Eric G Miller writes: Eric> $ uname -a Linux calico 2.4.14 #1 Sat Nov 10 16:29:17 PST 2001 Eric> i686 unknown Eric> Won't compile at all? Perhaps something breaks, that I'm not Eric> using...? I don't have a DVD drive... Loopback device is broken. Otherwise it compiles fine. (Kernel still compiles when loop is a module, but it complains about missing symbols.) I tried it a couple of days ago, but it wouldn't load my initrd. :( -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: allowing root X apps
> "Justin" == Justin R Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Justin> What is the best, most secure way to allow root to run X-based Justin> apps while I'm logged in as my non-privileged user? I've tried Justin> xhost +localhost and that does not seem to do the trick. Have a look at sux: http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/ It was mentioned in DWN a while ago. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: not cleanly unmounted?
> "bobrye" == bobrye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bobrye> hi. after recompiling 2.4.10, my boot process is fine until bobrye> the end where i get an error: "/dev/hdd2 was not cleanly bobrye> unmounted, check forced" and fsck goes and does its business bobrye> for a couple of minutes. i find this annoying, as i DO cleanly bobrye> unmount before i off the machine. any clues for a newbie? bobrye> thanks. My current sysvinit (2.83-1) has this in the changelog.Debian: * Turn off write-caching on all IDE disks prior to unmounting filesystems. On some systems that poweroff on halt the system powers off before the IDE disk write cache is flushed. You do need to have hdparm installed to get this to work. I suppose this is the problem. Try installing the sysvinit and hdparm from woody (or maybe sid) to see if that fixes the problem. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: how to remove task-packages
> "Felix" == Felix Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Felix> hi, is there a way to completely remove task-packages (task-kde Felix> for example) including dependencies ? AFAIK, there is no easy way. If you have woody or sid, try debfoster or deborphan to help cleaning up unused packages. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Changing default console keymap
> "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: Karsten> How do you make it ***stay*** changed. Do dpkg-reconfigure console-common, and select the keymap you want. (Or select NONE to keep the upgrades from touching it.) -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Samba problem with user level share permissions under Windoze
> "Andrew" == Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> Hi, I'm trying to configure a Windoze 98 PC on my home network Andrew> to use user level share permissions instead of share level Andrew> permissions, and when I go to add users to a particular share, Andrew> Windows barfs: Do you have a smbpasswd file set up? -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Help: I forgot my root password :(
> "Tao" == Tao Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tao> Now I can give arguments to kernel when boot. I tried : LILO Tao> Linux init=/bin/sh Tao> but my / (reiserfs) is mounted readonly. I can't change my Tao> /etc/shadow After you boot, use `mount -o remount,rw /' to change it. BTW: there is no need to mount a reiserfs read-only on boot: it won't be checked anyway. (Not in the traditional sense at least.) Just let the kernel replay the transaction log. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Mounting a windows partition with full access
> "ace22b" == ace22b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Eduard" == Eduard Bloch wrote: Eduard> Put "umask=000" to the other options in /etc/fstab. "man Eduard> mount" will tell you more about needed options, eg. gid or Eduard> uid. ace22b> I know it's '000', but why ? ace22b> Why not 666? I was rather puzzled by this a couple of years ace22b> ago... Umask is the `reverse' of the permissions. If a bit is set in the umask, it means `don't set this bit in the permissions of a new file/directory'. So, using umask=0 will give you all permissions bits set. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: followup to 2.4.9 boot problems
> "bedlam" == bedlam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bedlam> Thanks everyone for the help, Adrian's page helped quite a bedlam> bit, now I'm starting to boot, but after about two screens of bedlam> stuff I get a repeated message: kmod: failed to exec bedlam> /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno = 8 The system is trying to load a program, but it doesn't recognize the file format. - either one of your binaries is corrupt, - or you don't have the right binary format compiled into the kernel. (You did compile ELF support into the kernel, did you?) -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Bogus swap usage problem?
> "Chris" == Chris Ruvolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> Thanks for the info and your suggestion, but it doesn't seem to Chris> change things. I have noticed under 2.4.8 that in-use swap Chris> space doesn't grow as rapidly as 2.4.7, but the problem Chris> persists. Perhaps I should take this up with the linux-kernel Chris> list? I'm on 2.4.9 for the moment. Swap usage seems relatively normal, but I haven't had time to investigate the situation thouroughly. (This kernel seems to have a few other weird things.) My system is up for 25 hours now, so it's a little early to say if there's still a swap leak. In any case, the linux-kernel list would be the best place to discuss your problem. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: various for kernels
> "Greg" == Greg Wiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Greg> Is the kernel configuration file used for the build Greg> also stored somewhere on my machine? It's in /boot/Config- Greg> 2) Are the modules listed in /etc/modules distinguished somehow Greg> between different kernel images? /etc/modules is not kernel-specific. You could change /etc/init.d/modutils to load a version-specific file. E.g., add something like this: version=`uname -r` if [ -f /etc/modules.$version ]; then inputfile=/etc/modules.$version else inputfile=/etc/modules fi # replace /etc/modules by $inputfile in the rest of the file. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Permissions on /floppy
> "Eamon" == Eamon Roque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eamon> Hi! After I upgraded to unstable, I've been getting strange Eamon> default settings on my /dev/floppy. No matter what I enter, a.e Eamon> -o rw,user etc., the mount options on the device are always the Eamon> same: /dev/fd0 on /floppy type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) If you mount the floppy as an ordinary user, you always get those permissions by default. If you want to be able to execute programs from the floppy, change the options in the fstab to `user,exec'. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: IOMEGA ZIP-100 / ZIP-250 -- banging my head against the wall
> "F" == F Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Peter" == Peter Bartosch wrote: >> > I've never heard why they come with slice 4 as the active >> partition. Peter> that is/was because of compatiblity-reasons to mac's No, there are special Mac formatted ZIP disks. I assume they hold a Mac-compatible partition table and (of course) a Macintosh file system. The 2.4 kernel has support for several partitioning schemes, including Macintosh. So it should be possible to mount such a disk. F> I thought it's got something to do with MS DOS/Win. There was a F> discussion about ZIP drives on this list a couple of weeks ago were F> someone metioned this. I've glanced through that discussion. IIRC, it tricks DOS/Windows so it assigns a drive letter first to all fixed partitions, and then to the ZIP drive. That way, the letters stay the same if you boot without a disk in the drive. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: two problems with building a bootdisk
> "Martin" == Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> and just sits there forever. /sbin/getty is never executed, Martin> and i can't get into the system. then, every now and then, Martin> init complains about both getty's restarting to quickly and Martin> disabled them for 5 additional minutes. Either the getty program is not on the boot disk, or one of the libraries it needs. Use `ldd /sbin/getty' to find out which libraries. (On my system, it only needs libc, which should be on the floppy already.) Also check that /dev/tty1 and /dev/tty2 exist on the floppy image. If you still can't find anything, try changing the inittab line to execute sh. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: shutdown permission to users?
> "Brian" == Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> And with the NOPASSWD setting, you could avoid exposing your Brian> root password. Sudo never asks for the root password, only the user's own password. The NOPASSWD will allow people to execute the command without typing any password. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: yet another apt question
> "Joerg" == Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joerg> Hi List Where does apt store the packages.gz files it Joerg> downloaded when doing apt-get update? My idea is to copy them Joerg> to another computer (which has no internet access) for doing a Joerg> dist-upgrade. Take a look at apt-move. I never used it myself, but it should help you do what you want. Good luck. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: hostname with dhcp-client
> "Carl" == Carl Greco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Carl> Anyone know how to set the hostname under dhcp?
Carl> send host-name "peregrine.cox-internet.com";
Carl> lease {
Carl> interface "eth0";
Carl> option host-name "peregrine.cox-internet.com";
Carl> }
You can set your hostname the same way as without DHCP: through
/etc/hostname
You shouldn't put a `lease' into the dhclient.conf: that's only used
to help configure the network if the DHCP server is down.
The `send host-name' directive is meant to tell the server the
hostname you'd like to have. I use this to update the DNS information
for my home network.
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Re: LT WinModem and kernel headers
> "Paul" == Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> I'm still reading every fine manual I can but can you tell me Paul> how I identify the kernel? Are you talking about executable or Paul> source? I actually D/L'd the entired source last night but I'm Paul> not sure if I installed it correctly. apt-get install left me Paul> with a tar.bz2 and I 'm not sure I unpacked in the right folder. Normally, you should end up with a directory /usr/src/kernel-source-. Debian doesn't really force you to use this directory[1], you can use the location you like. To build the ltmodem package, just specify --with-kernel-dir= Paul> I was trying not to do that but I couldn't find header files Paul> which seemed to be the exact same version as the kernel that I Paul> had installed. I did my install from official CD's but I don't Paul> remember every step. There are supposed to be fout flavors of Paul> 2.2.19pre17: vanilla, compact, idepci and udma66. I only found Paul> headers for compact and idepci. I'm not sure what the differences are between the header packages. Try using the vanilla one. [1] /usr/src has even been deprecated AFAIK. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: HP Colorado 20gb travan
> "Ali" == Ali Ender Yalcin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ali> can someone help me with this tape ? i m trying since 3 days to Ali> access this tape 4 a backup but meanwhile i have no more ideas to Ali> get it running. its connected at the first ide-channel and Ali> running in slave mode. have loaded two modules: ide-ftape and Ali> ide-scsi i tried 2 do a backup with tar (äh..which device ?) and Ali> also i downloaded the free arkeia backup software. but no hope to Ali> get it running :( I have a Colorado 8Gb, and I have the following modules loaded for it: st (scsi-tape) ide-scsi In /etc/modules.conf: below st ide-scsi below ide-scsi ide-probe-mod Finally, you should add `hdb=scsi' to the kernel command line. If you have all that, the tape is accessible as /dev/st0 (auto-rewind) and /dev/nst0 (no auto-rewind). -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: LT WinModem and kernel headers
> "Paul" == Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> I am trying to get my LT WinModem running under potato Paul> 2.2.19pre17 #1 I have downloaded what seem to be the files I Paul> need. Running the install script appropriate for Debian I get Paul> this which I believe is the relevant part of the script output: Best way to make the package, is to use the --with-kernel-dir= option to tell it where the kernel is. (I usually compile my own kernels, so I had the full source tree installed. Never tried it with only the headers.) The latest version seems to have problems when you try to compile against a different kernel version than the one you're running. I had to reboot with the new kernel before the build succeeded. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: timer command?
> "Wayne" == Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wayne> On Potato it does. On Woody 'atd' isn't starting, no Wayne> var/run/atd.pid file. So forget 'at' on Woody presently. There must be something wrong with your installation: it works fine on my system. The .deb is still the same as in potato, and I wouldn't expect any problems with it. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: attempted break-in?
> "Allen" == Allen Wayne Best <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Allen> hello: i am curious if anyone else is seeing an attempt by a Allen> user anonymous with a password of [EMAIL PROTECTED] to ftp into Allen> their system. i found the following snippits in the message log Allen> this morning. it sent up a red flag for me. i've immediately Allen> blocked access for ftp not originating from the internal lan. Propably a warez-dood trying to find a server to store his stuff. Check your anonymous FTP area to see if any files have been created. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Help with ip-spoof protection in Debian
> "Patrick" == Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Patrick> apt-get dist-upgrade asks questions about ip addresses to Patrick> set-up ip spoofing. I only entered 10.1.0.1 and hit return. Patrick> My concern is that if the machine is rebooted 23 angry users Patrick> will call me. If you have a 2.2 kernel, you don't need to worry about anything: the values are not used. Otherwise, do `dpkg-reconfigure netbase'. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
SCSI termination (was: Re: freevxfs?)
> "Robert" == Robert L Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> Ok, I'll learn to read one day. Right now I'm trying to figure Robert> out why high IO locks this machine up dead tight (which Robert> requires a FSCK of a dirty disk, thus the thought of vxfs)... It's probably a hardware issue. Robert> Got a good link on scsi termination? I've got the last disk Robert> doing term power and that's it so I'm now confused. Search for `scsi faq' on google. I don't know the exact URL. The `term power' bit sounds wrong to me: this will set the device so it supplies power to the terminator. It is only needed if you have a very long SCSI chain. (Normally, the adapter card is able to handle that.) You have to enable termination (usually labeled `term') on the last device on the bus. Some disks don't have a jumper, so you might need to buy a separate terminator. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: can xdmcp be made secure...
> "Walter" == Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Walter> as far as i can see the initial login passes the passwd in Walter> cleartext? obviously once I'm logged in I can use ssh to login Walter> into other hosts with relative security,but what about the Walter> initial login on an x-terminal? I'm not sure of any program that encrypts X traffic. Maybe someone else knows more about this. Just beware: If you log into an X-terminal, and then do ssh to another host, the communication between the terminal and the login host is not protected by ssh. So your ssh password is transmitted in cleartext! -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Why automatic tools can change /etc/resolv.conf?
> "Michele" == Michele Dalla Silvestra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Michele> But is correct that an application change /etc/resolv.conf
Michele> even if the administrator write it entirely by hand?
Both pppd and dhclient can receive information about available DNS
servers, and they will try to make that available to other
applications (by adapting /etc/resolv.conf).
Pppd is even nice enough to revert to the original file after
disconnecting.
Michele> How can I prevent it?
For pppd, the answer has already been mentioned. If you want to
prevent dhclient from changing /etc/resolv.conf, create a file
/etc/dhclient-enter-hooks with the following contents (it should be
executable):
# redefine the function which changes resolv.conf to do nothing
make_resolv_conf() {}
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Re: home and end keys not working in xterm
> "Mike" == Mike Pfleger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mike> I've migrated to a newer HDD, which I installed with potato, and Mike> upgraded to testing. Now I have most of my stuff on this drive, Mike> and I've noticed that the home and end keys no longer work on Mike> the command line in xterms. Still works in the non-X console, Mike> though. What do I need to mess with to get this working? Add these lines to /etc/inputrc: "\e[1~": beginning-of-line "\e[3~": delete-char "\e[4~": end-of-line "\e[d": backward-word "\e[c": forward-word -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: DHCPd/pump domain search list issues
> "Bill" == Bill Vinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bill> I determined what my problem was. I was using vinson.home as my Bill> domain as I don't own a real one. When I switched it to Bill> vinson.com it started working. It seems pump requires a real dns Bill> name. Probably a pump issue. I use .geens.internal on my internal network, and dhclient doesn't complain about it. But then again, I also run a DNS server for this domain. BTW: I have a beta version of DHCP v3 installed (compiled it myself) and it's set up to update the DNS if needed. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Wake on LAN question
> "Robert" == Robert Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> What would be the steps to go about setting linux up for Robert> wake-on-lan access? Disclaimer: I never used wake-on-lan, but I can make a few educated guesses about how it might work. YMMV. To get the machine to suspend, you should only need to install the APM package, and boot the kernel with `apm=on'. The BIOS will alert the machine when something happens on the network. Next step: getting the client machines to awaken the firewall. You probably need to set up an ARP entry for the firewall. (See man arp for more info.) Hopefully, this is enough to get the server out of sleep mode. If you have a dynamically assigned IP address on the external network, you might need to restart the DHCP client (and reinstall firewall rules) on APM resume. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: what does "cramfs" mean?
> "Tao" == Tao Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tao> Hi, I use kernel 2.4.7 , when I turn on my computer, I can see Tao> ... VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) Waiting for 5 seconds, Tao> press Enter to obtain a shell The system first loads an initial ramdisk (initrd), before initializing the hardware. Tao> if I press Enter, it says 9: Terminated sh: can't access tty; job Tao> control turned off You don't need to do anything there. Just let it continue. Normally, you should get a prompt if you press enter. I don't know why it doesn't work. It might be a bug in the initrd-tools package. Try booting without doing anything, to see if that works. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: esound
> "Steve" == Steve Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> connect to UNIX socket /var/run/esound/socket". I checked to Steve> make sure it wasn't something silly, like the directory not Steve> existing, but sure enough, the directory is there. It's owned Steve> by root, but I assume that's as should be. Any suggestions? Add yourself to the audio group (log out and back in again to make it work), or do this: chown root:audio /usr/bin/esd chmod g+s /usr/bin/esd -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: DHCPd/pump domain search list issues
> "Bill" == Bill Vinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bill> I am having problems with dhcpd and pump. I run dhcpd on another Bill> system to manage my home net's IPs, but I can't get the Bill> domainsearch list to be populated in /etc/resolv.conf. When I Bill> obtain a lease with pump, it changes /etc/resolv.conf to include Bill> my DNS servers, but it also blanks out the search line "search Bill> " Add the following to /etc/dhcpd.conf: option domain-name ""; -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: New device names after kernel update from 2.2 to 2.4
> "Herbert" == Herbert Pirke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Herbert> As far as I know, some block device names changed with the Herbert> 2.4 kernel, so I wonder if that changes a lot. Maybe some Herbert> changed/added simlinks fix the problem. Normally, you shouldn't need to change anything. The kernel doesn't care about device names, it only looks at the major/minor device numbers in the inode. I don't know exactly which device names have changed, but it should only affect you if you have some special hardware. (Devfs is a different issue, but you don't have to use that if you don't want to.) I expect a thorough reorganization of /dev during the 2.5 series, but the kernel gurus haven't yet decided on how to do this. Herbert> Also, is it possible to have a 2.2 and a 2.4 kernel on one Herbert> machine and let lilo either boot one or the other? Yes, all the software that can handle 2.4 can also work with a 2.2 kernel. Woody is fully 2.4-ready (off course it also works for a 2.2 kernel). For potato, look for the packages Adrian Bunk has made. (I don't have the URL here, but they're mentioned on the list from time to time.) -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: remote administration methods
> "Martin" == Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> however, i am thinking that there has to be a tool out there, Martin> because there is a UNIX tool for everything, and the problem i Martin> am experiencing is surely shared by hundreds of admins... Take a look at rdist: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/lilo-doc$ apt-cache show rdist Package: rdist Priority: optional Section: net Installed-Size: 200 Maintainer: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 6.1.5-3 Replaces: netstd Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.97) Filename: pool/main/r/rdist/rdist_6.1.5-3_i386.deb Size: 79738 MD5sum: d607dc10256f5997ee1612775aba98b9 Description: Remote file distribution client and server. Rdist is a program to maintain identical copies of files over multiple hosts. It preserves the owner, group, mode, and mtime of files if possible and can update programs that are executing. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Oracle on Debian?
> "J" == J F Gratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: J> Stan, Awhile back (last november) I tried to install Oracle 8.1.6.2 J> on Debian 'potato' and it's true, it just won't work. Worst of it, J> you won't get any error messages. Oracle will link its binaries J> without a hitch, but whenever you'll try "startup nomount" it will J> just hang there. I don't know about the client-side of this, as I J> needed the server-side before being able to use the clients :) Did you read the Oracle8-HOWTO? It gives a few hints. IIRC, most common problems seem to be an incorrect libc version, or the wrong JDK (HOWTO mentions the version Oracle wants). I tried installing Oracle 8 on my home machine once. After selecting the options, the installation started and gave me an error after a couple of hours of grinding disks. Probably removed some component it needed. After that, I figured I didn't really want Oracle on my machine. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: [OT] NFS question
> "Hall" == Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hall> How are the permissions of an NFS mount determined ?? I've got Hall> two directories I'm mounting via NFS and they're "acting" the Hall> same. Hall> When they're not mounted, they're both owned by hall.users. When Hall> they're mounted, they're owned by amy.hall. Are you talking about the mount points? I think what you see is this: Linux requires a directory to exist before anything can be mounted there. When the mount command is executed, the mount point is `replaced' by the remote directory, including the permissions of the latter. The permissions of the local mount point only matter when the directory is not mounted. Normally, you would set permissions that will prevent a user from accidently writing to it. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: "No such file or directory" - huh?!
> "Gary" == Gary Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gary> What's going on? The script file is definitely there, I can Gary> 'more' it, 'jed' it, whatever I like except run it. I'm sure I'm Gary> missing something real simple here... Either /bin/sh doesn't exist, or your root filesystem is mounted with the noexec flag (unlikely). -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: running out of room on root system
> "Paul" == Paul Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [mv of directory across file systems] Paul> Sorry GuyMike's way worked fine first time Turns out it does work, and looking at the changelog, it has been working for a long time. Must be some other system I worked on where it was not supported. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: running out of room on root system
> "Mike" == Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Paul" == Paul Campbell wrote: Paul> hard drive partitions Paul> hda1 root 50meg Paul> hda2 swap 100meg Paul> hda3 usr 2 gig Paul> hda5 home 2 gig Paul> hda6 fat32 storage for transferred win docs etc Mike> Do this, but make sure you don't reboot before this has Mike> completed. Mike> mv /var /vr Mike> mv /vr /usr/var The last command won't work: mv cannot move directories across partitions. Replace it with this: mkdir /usr/var (cd /vr && tar cf - .) | (cd /usr/var && tar xf -) rm -rf /vr Mike> ln -s /usr/var /var Do this in single user mode (as suggested in another post). -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: it keeps crashing
> "Martin" == Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> instead, it keeps crashing on me... kernel panic in pid 0 Martin> "process swapper." however, memtest86 reports no errors for Martin> the RAM chip, and badblocks, run with the destructive write Martin> option, reports no bad blocks within the swap partition. My guess is that you simply have not enough memory. Swap space will only help to a certain extent. There is some kernel-related data which cannot be swapped out, and once the physical memory is full (with things which cannot be swapped out), nothing can help you. Try disabling all daemons and kernel modules you don't really need and see if it helps. Also recompile your kernel (preferably on a larger machine) so it only contains the drivers you actually use. In your case, I suggest you look at the Linux router project, which is aimed at setting up a router on a very limited machine. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-135 (daemon.log)
> "listmgr" == listmgr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: listmgr> I have tracked this down to the point that I know it is an listmgr> alias for the real time clock, and that it only occurs soon listmgr> after switching to run-level 6 and run-level 0. I also know listmgr> that the alias exists in two files, that I know of; listmgr> /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modutils/arch/i386. Removing the listmgr> alias from i386 has no effect. The file /etc/modules.conf is generated from all the files in /etc/modutils/ . After you change something in one of those files, run `update-modules' to generate the modules.conf. You can get rid of the message by adding `alias char-major-10-135 off', but this only hides the real problem: some process tries to access the RTC, but this functionality is not compiled in your kernel. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Safe mode (was: Re: But ....)
> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joost> Perhaps it uses the standard bios interfaces only when in "safe Joost> mode". IIRC the standard vga bios interface is limited to a Joost> 640x480 resolution. Standard VGA resolution, minimal device drivers loaded, no networking, no sound, ... Basically, the closest thing to `linux 1' you can get on a Windows system. It's only there so you can repair driver/IRQ settings and then reboot. (Or when there's a problem booting the system - in that case, simply reboot and hope it won't happen again :) -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: How to get an Iomega 100MB USB Zip Drive to work with Debian?
> "Joern" == Joern Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joern> I am new to Linux, and have just installed Debian/GNU Linux on Joern> a Dell Dimension XPS R400. The only problem I am facing, is - Joern> how to get an Iomega 100MB USB zip drive to work with Debian Joern> 2.2r3? I have installed the module for USB-storage, but have no Joern> clue how to go from there. Make sure your kernel has support for SCSI disks. You will also need the `hotplug' package. Once you have that installed, plug the ZIP drive into the USB port. You can access the disk as /dev/sda . Standard ZIP disks use partition 4, so you should be able to do mount /dev/sda4 /mnt Don't forget to umount the disk before removing it or the drive. Joern> Also - how do I get my computer to accept Mac-files? (I forgot Joern> to install the module for Macintosh files.) For Mac text files, you have to convert end of line characters. E.g., tr '\r' '\n' unix-file.txt Other files should be copied as-is. If you want to mount Mac-formatted ZIP disks, you need a few options in the kernel. HFS file system, and probably Macintosh partition support. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: mformat, boot disks
> "R1nso" == R1nso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: R1nso> the disk created with mkboot does work to boot the system. R1nso> however, i have made boot disks using basically the method you R1nso> described (dd and rdev) and they don't work. the only R1nso> difference between the two methods is that i used dd with a R1nso> blocksize of 8192 (bs=8192) and then checked to make sure it The blocksize should not matter. R1nso> was set to the first partition on the hard disk (rdev /dev/fd0 R1nso> << /dev/hda1), and it was correct, so i didn't need to set it R1nso> again, right? perhaps i should have mentioned that after R1nso> printing several dots following 'loading' it began to rapidly R1nso> print "200" then on a new line "AX: " new line R1nso> "BX:" and so on until 'DX' another thing I That looks like a kernel panic: something has made the kernel crash. Very strange. The same kernel works when booted by LILO. I looked at mkboot and it doesn't add any flags besides the root device. R1nso> recently discovered is that there is a file called "vmlinuz" in R1nso> the root '/' directory. i have also tried dd - ing it to fd0, R1nso> checking it w/ rdev but only to produce the same results. Which R1nso> file should i use, and how can i make it work? /vmlinuz is actually a link to /boot/vmlinuz-x.x.x, so either one should work. (Do `ls -l /' to see for yourself.) As far as I can see, you did everything correct. There are two other options I can think of: - your floppy drive is defective/strange. LILO manages to work around the problem, but the loader built into the kernel doesn't. - the floppy this you used for the raw kernel image is defective. Try a different one. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: mformat, boot disks
> "R1nso" == R1nso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: R1nso> When i simply type 'mformat' i get a similar error message. R1nso> Should I worry about this? Even if it is not a problem, why am R1nso> i getting this message? It means you don't have the mformat command installed. You'll find it in the mtools package. Superformat formats a floppy and then puts on a MS-DOS file system. R1nso> 2. I have successfully made a lilo boot disk using "mkboot R1nso> /boot/vmlinuz2.2.17pre19". But i have also tried copying the Does this floppy work to boot your system. R1nso> binary to the disk using 'cp' and 'dd'. However, these disks R1nso> are recognized as system boot disks, but the do not R1nso> successfully boot linux. When booting for these disks the R1nso> monitor simply displays "loading" but does not R1nso> successfully load. Am I copying the wrong file, or will this R1nso> method simply not work with Debian? Regardless, how can I R1nso> create a 'normal' boot disk? (one that doesn't use lilo) If you copy the kernel manually, you have to set the root device as well: dd if=/boot/vmlinuz2.2.17pre19 of=/dev/fd0 rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda1 # <- fill in your root partition here. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Problem: 'only root can unmount "/dev/something" from "/somewhere"'
> "Norbert" == Norbert Nemec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Norbert> Hi there, on quite a number of machines I've encountered the
Norbert> problem, that a normal user can mount filesystems
Norbert> ("user"-flag set in /etc/fstab) but when trying to unmount,
Norbert> the above error is given instead. It seems a problem in
Norbert> either kernel 2.4 series or one of the new versions of
Norbert> "mount", since I never had that problem before.
Newer versions of mount have given a different meaning to the `user'
flag. Only the user who issued the mount command can do the umount.
If you want to have the old behaviour, change the fstab flag to
`users'.
(This feature is described in the mount man page.)
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Re: RAM size.
> "Dave" == Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave> I would guess, based on their respective legacy codebases, that Dave> Win2k uses HLT and ME/XP don't, but I haven't heard anything Dave> definite about them to date. AFAIK, WinXP is based on the NT codebase, just like W2k. So I would assume that it uses the HLT instruction. ME, on the other hand is based on the DOS/Win95 kernel, so I expect it behaves like its predecessors. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: root access on serial port denied >-(
> "Nico" == Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nico> Howdy, I'm setting up a number Linux servers in our lab. All Nico> servers will be connected through the serial port to a console Nico> master. Unfortunately it turns out the Debian installation Nico> (testing) refuses root login on the serial console because PAM Nico> consideres it "not secure" >-(. Is there any way to turn this Nico> behaviour off? Add the following to /etc/securetty: ttyS0 ttyS1 # devfs devices tts/0 tts/1 See man 5 securetty for more info. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Unable to create native thread
> "Nelson" == Nelson Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nelson> I'm benchmarking a chat server and after a little over 100 Nelson> connections (each connection requires two Java threads) the Nelson> program failed with the message: A friend of mine recently did a similar test, and he ran into the same problem. The threads library has a limit of 256 threads per process. It is possible you'll also need some kernel patches. Try searching the IBM Developper Works site for more information. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: need help to disable dynamic IP addresses.
> "luther" == luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: luther> Since then, i changed the /etc/network/interfaces file to be luther> the same as on the old install, and when runnning luther> /etc/init.d/networking restart, ifconfig shows that the luther> correct IP address is used. luther> But after a small time, i don't know why, the dynamic IP luther> address is again taken. This means that the DHCP client is still running. If you don't need it, deinstall it. The package will be named pump, dhcpcd or dhcp-client. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: 3com NIC question
> "Sunny" == Sunny Dubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sunny> hey, I have a 3c509 NIC. Sunny> I tried getting an IP for this NIC by using DHCP. (I used Sunny> dhcpcd) But for some odd reason, it wouldn't work, and so I Try `modprobe 3c509' and restart the network with `/etc/init.d/networking restart'. Apart from disabling PNP, I never had any problems with this card. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Swap fscked in 2.4.5?
> "Sean" == Sean Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sean> Upgrading to 2.4.6 seemed to work rather well for me. There is Sean> some documentation of vm issues in the kernel changelogs. My Sean> machine has been up for 7 days as I write this and is only using Sean> 10 out of 200 megs of swap. I agree. Until 2.4.5, I could see my swap usage increase slowly. I still have the feeling 2.4.6 uses more swap than it should, but it definitely is an improvement. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: GRUB & Rieserfs
> "csj" == csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [Line from GRUB menu.lst] csj> I don't think so. The line: csj> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.5 root=/dev/hda3 single csj> is an instruction for the OS kernel. By this time the kernel csj> should have taken over. So yes, it makes a difference when you csj> specify: Not quite. GRUB will read the kernel image, which is in the root directory of the /boot partition (hd0,0). It will then pass the rest of the line to the kernel as arguments (that's why you specify the device with the Linux syntax /dev/hda3). -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: LILO question
> "mannequin" == mannequin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mannequin> I know this has probably been asked on here before, but I'm mannequin> running Debian Stable on my i686 and I'm having problems mannequin> with LILO. Basically, I have Debian installed on /dev/hda mannequin> and Windoze on /dev/hdb. LILO is install on the boot block mannequin> of /dev/hda. So here is where my problem lies; I cannot get mannequin> LILO to boot my Windoze drive at all. I've looked through AFAIK, Windows doesn't like to be booted from the second hard disk. Swap the drives, and life will be a lot easier. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Problems with logcheck.ignore rules
> "Hanasaki" == Hanasaki JiJi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hanasaki> I have the following three rules in my logcheck.ignore file. Hanasaki> PAM_unix.*: \(imap\) session [opened, closed] for .* Change this to: PAM_unix.*: \(imap\) session (opened|closed) for This can replace both your other rules. The vertical bar `|' means `either the left or the right side', and the parentheses specify the beginning and end of the choice. Square brackets mean `one of these characters'. Note: you don't have to put `.*' at the start or end or a regex: it's implicit. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: mason firewall building tool
> "kiteless" == kiteless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: kiteless> hello all i was just wondering if any of you have ever tried kiteless> using a program / package called mason to build firewalls on I tried mason once. It has an `auto-learn' mode where it will scan the network and add filtering rules for everything which passes through the firewall. I found it generated way too many rules, and required quite a bit of hand-tuning. Later on, I switched to ipmasq, which sets up a NAT firewall out of the box. You'll still have to add specific rules for filtering services. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
initrd problem fixed!
I finally got it to work. I re-read one of the patches I applied before, and I noticed something at the top of the file. The text said I should add `ramdisk_blocksize=4096' to the boot parameters. I did that, and the system booted flawlessly. (Except for one typo in the initrd image, which I could fix myself.) -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: initrd problem: not yet fixed
> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joost> I'll let you into my secret magic passage to knowledge: Try Joost> typing "cramfs initrd patch" in google's search box. That's how Joost> I found that link. ISTR that the topic has been brought up Joost> several times on the linux-kernel mailing list, also. Google gave me this page: http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/unofficial/index200107.html Which points to the patch I need. (And some other interesting things.) -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Unzip in Debian 2.2r3 ??
> "infernal" == infernal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: infernal> I coudn't find the Unzip utility in my "potato".. but the infernal> zip. where in debian.org can I find it ? I can't Unzip and zip are packaged separately for historical reasons. You can find them in the non-US section of the archives. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
initrd problem: not yet fixed
>>>>> "Guy" == Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joost> Maybe http://www.escape.de/users/outback/linux/ ? Guy> Looks like it will do the trick. (Followup to my own post.) I installed the patch, and rebooted. The kernel rcognizes the cramfs image, and tries to mount it. The mount fails with the message `wrong magic'. This message appears in the cramfs code, and it's printed when the code finds an invalid magic number in the superblock. (Rather obvious.) This is very strange, since the previous message indicates the magic number is there. I mounted the initrd image on a loop device: OK. I copied the image to a ram disk, and tried to mount that: I get the same error (wrong magic). This seems to indicate the problem is in the ramdisk code. Any hints? Kernel is 2.4.5. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: initrd problem
> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joost> Maybe http://www.escape.de/users/outback/linux/ ? Looks like it will do the trick. Thanks! -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: grub
> "Regnat" == Regnat Nikolaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Regnat> There are differences between the bootsector and it's backup. Regnat> Differences: (offset:original/backup) 28:3d/3f, 29:65/00, Regnat> 30:9c/00, 71:44/00, 72:41/4f, 73:54/20, 74:45/4e, 75:4e/41, Regnat> 76:20/4d, 77:20/45, 78:20/00, 79:20/00, 80:20/00, 81:20/00 Not Regnat> automatically fixing this. I grepped through the grub source, and I couldn't find this message. My guess is that it's generated by your BIOS. Consult the manual for your motherboard to find out more. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
initrd problem
I just tried the following: - build a kernel (2.4.5 with LVM patched to the latest beta version) with CRAMFS support, - create an initrd image using mkinitrd, - boot the new kernel using GRUB. The boot process proceeds until the kernel tries to mount the ramdisk image. The last message shown is: RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. I looked at the kernel source, and I found that the initrd code does not recognize a cramfs file system. Is there a specific patch for this? Thanks in advance -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: devfs
> "Andrew" == Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> I was wondering if anyone out there has an oppinion on devfs. Andrew> I'm considering it for a system that I'm building and some Andrew> real life experiences with it would be helpful. Devfs is quite stable. I use it on two different machines. The only drawback is that it doesn't seem to handle modules very well. (That is partly a configuration issue, but I haven't looked into it deep enough.) -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Using different DNS per ISP
> "lists" == lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: lists> I'm using two different ISPs depending on time of day, and lists> cost. Problem is that they will only accept their own lists> nameserver under /etc/resolv.conf. Is there a way around this, lists> or do I need a script which changes resolv.conf before dialing? Most ISPs will send their NS servers as part of the ppp setup. If you add the following to /etc/ppp/options, the resolv.conf file will be updated automatically: usepeerdns -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Does JDK 1.3.1 work with testing?
> "Christian" == Christian Kreibich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christian> I recently updated to testing and a self-compiled kernel Christian> 2.4.3 and things work great, except for java. Basically any Christian> java application segfaults on startup. I'm using (well, er, Christian> was using :) Sun's jdk 1.3.1. Am I missing something? Christian> Apologies if this is a faq, but I couldn't find an Christian> up-to-date answer anywhere and just subscribed. Is glibc Christian> 2.2.3 the problem? I prefer the blackdown Java to the Sun version. There was site posted on this list for Debian packages for 1.3.1 just a couple of days ago. This version works fine for me. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/fonts$ java -version java version "1.3.0" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build Blackdown-1.3.0-FCS) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build Blackdown-1.3.0-FCS, mixed mode) If you want to try, add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de/pub/Java/Linux/debian woody non-free Note: skip the -docs package for now. It can't handle the 1.3.1 docs from Sun. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Setting the system's classpath
> "Daniel" == Daniel de los Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> What is the appropiate place to set system wide Daniel> classpath? should I make an init script for it, or is there Daniel> one I should use to include it? Add it to /etc/environment. Make sure you have `.' (the current directory) in there. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Transfers interrupted when uploading
> "Alberto" == Alberto Bigazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alberto> Problems arise when I try to serve files by either uploading Alberto> them directly via ssh or ftp towards some remote, or by Alberto> connecting to a remote and try to retrieve files from my Alberto> machine. It seems that your modem is giving up after a while. Try upgrading to the latest kernel (2.2.19) and PCMCIA packages to see if it works better. (I assume it's a PCMCIA modem since you're working on a laptop. If it's an internal modem, you probably should visit www.linmodems.org to find the latest drivers for it.) -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: HELP: esd=Unable to connect to UNIX socket /var/run/esound/socket
> "Bruno" == Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bruno> hello! i am using latest unstable, and esd stopped working Bruno> i get the error message : Unable to connect to UNIX socket Bruno> /var/run/esound/socket Either do: chgrp audio /usr/bin/esd chmod g+s /usr/bin/esd Or: add all users who need sound to the `audio' group. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: Netscape 4.77 Java Fonts too large
> "Harold" == Harold Bibik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Harold> Using Netscape 4.77 on a Progeny-Debian (Newton)system with Harold> Gnome 1.4, I get HUGE bold fonts in Java Applets. I long time ago, I found a page with tips on how to make Netscape fonts look better. I can't find it now, but this page seems to have the information you need: http://www2.arnes.si/~mrihta3/ns-unix.html Also, install the msttcorefonts package. This gives you access to Microsoft's TTF fonts which are used by many web sites. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: broken terminal 'a'
> "Michael" == Michael P Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> Hey people. Currently, in terminal mode without X Michael> running, the top half of all of my 'a' characters is missing. Michael> I'm confused. What could cause this?? First guess: a broken font. Try: `apt-get --reinstall install console-data' to see if this fixes the problem. (You might need to reboot before the changes take effect.) -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
