Re: rc3.d
Just rename the file in /etc/ppp/no_ppp_on_boot to ppp_on_boot Mike Acklin Debian User On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 05:22:32PM -0500, Default Debian Reader wrote: > I want ppp to start at boot time so I made a script that does has the > following lines > #!/bin/sh > pon MY_ISP > i saved this file to /etc/init.d/pppstuff* > then in /etc/rc3.d/ i did ln -s /etc/init.d/pppstuff /etc/rc3.d/S20pppon > this doesn't start my ppp connection at boot..why not? > can anyone help me with this please? > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Segmentation Faults
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 01:53:48AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > This can indeed be the case. If you have more than one dimm, or more > > than two simms, you can test this by removing half of your memory, see > > if you get the same errors, then install the other half, and check > > again. It could also be the processor. If you are overclocking, stop > > doing that. If it only occurs after some time, it may be a heating > > problem. Have a look at the processor and power supply fans. > > > > You don't happen to run some development kernel I suppose? For some reason I never received this message. But I downloaded memtest86 and ran it over night and did not find any errors. It ran for about 12 hours and about 180 reps. And no, I not running any of the development kernels. I am running Slink with linux 2.0.35 kernel images from the slink distribution. But I am afraid that George has hit the nail on the head. > > In addition: If you are running a Cyrix 6x86 chip, install the set6x86 > package and reboot. Check the CPU fan, if there is one to make sure it is > turning. If there is only one system fan that blows air over a CPU > heatsink, make sure ALL covers and panels are in place and any unused > slots on the rear panel are covered. Systems such as Gateway and AST > depend on proper airflow through the box to cool the CPU and missing > covers and access plates will allow air to escape before taking the proper > path over the heatsink. > I do have a fan on the cpu and in the PS, but I have always suspected that the 6x86 is the problem. I am running the PR200+ version and am not running it overspeed. I just have problems with Winbloze and now it is starting with Linux. I am going to get some heat sink as you suggested and have already downloaded the set6x86 and have set the auto-suspend mode on the chip. As the doc said, if nothing else will set the idle speed to .03 watts verses the 24 watts that it normally runs. Thanks again for everyone's help, esp. George. Mike Acklin Debian User
Segmentation Faults
Sorry to bother everyone here, but I have been getting a lot of segmentation faults lately and I was wondering what causes them. I think I have heard on this list before that it is causes by bad memory chips and just wanted to verify this. Also have been getting general protection faults. I thought that only happened in Windoze:). Anyway could that also be caused by memory faults? I have been running Debian since April of this year and this has only been happening in the last week or so. Here is my kernal log with the gpf's. And is it random: Sep 27 02:52:32 debian kernel: general protection: Sep 27 02:52:32 debian kernel: CPU:0 Sep 27 02:52:32 debian kernel: EIP:0010:[__get_free_pages+27/444] Sep 27 02:52:32 debian kernel: EFLAGS: 00010216 Sep 27 02:52:32 debian kernel: eax: ebx: 1000 ecx: 0004292f edx: 01db1758 Sep 27 02:52:32 debian kernel: esi: 00042940 edi: 0012c99f ebp: 0003 esp: 01f88f90 Sep 27 02:52:32 debian kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Sep 27 02:52:32 debian kernel: Process mandb (pid: 1382, process nr: 45, stackpage=01f88000) Sep 27 02:52:32 debian kernel: Stack: 400a21b0 0009 bfffe2fc 0004292f 0012d9d2 0809d6c0 59f88fb4 Sep 27 02:52:32 debian kernel:01f90810 0164f000 0010a9c9 0809d6c0 0809d6c0 400a140c 400a21b0 0009 Sep 27 02:52:32 debian kernel:bfffe2fc ffda 0809002b 002b 002b 002b 000a 40076acd Sep 27 02:52:32 debian kernel: Call Trace: [sys_unlink+18/60] [system_call+85/124] Sep 27 02:52:32 debian kernel: Code: c3 83 3d 20 cc 24 00 00 74 2a 83 fb 01 74 25 ff 05 94 d3 24 --- Sep 26 19:25:48 debian kernel: general protection: Sep 26 19:25:48 debian kernel: CPU:0 Sep 26 19:25:48 debian kernel: EIP:0010:[system_call+90/124] Sep 26 19:25:48 debian kernel: EFLAGS: 00010213 Sep 26 19:25:48 debian kernel: eax: 7532cdeb ebx: 011fc437 ecx: 0804dd00 edx: 0ff0 Sep 26 19:25:48 debian kernel: esi: 01d00fbf edi: 0804ccb8 ebp: b93c esp: 01d00fbc Sep 26 19:25:48 debian kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Sep 26 19:25:48 debian kernel: Process maudio (pid: 335, process nr: 45, stackpage=01d0) Sep 26 19:25:48 debian kernel: Stack: 0804dd00 0003 0804ccb8 b93c ffda 002b Sep 26 19:25:48 debian kernel:405d002b 002b 002b 0004 405a8954 00100023 0292 b914 Sep 26 19:25:48 debian kernel:0009002b Sep 26 19:25:48 debian kernel: Call Trace: Sep 26 19:25:48 debian kernel: Code: 21 90 4b 89 11 d2 00 8b 44 24 04 00 10 04 24 7c 24 00 89 44 Thanks for any info you can provide. Mike Acklin Debian User
Re: Modprobe Question
On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 01:08:51PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Did you mean you *commented out* those lines or that you *uncommented* > those lines. To kill the error messages, these line need to be > *UNcommented out*. I just discovered, though, that for whatever reason, > the new location of the config files, in /etc/modutils/, isn't being > read. Only /etc/conf.modules is being read. Don't know why. I'm also > using a custom-compiled kernel, with no modules built for the above > protocols, so that may make a difference (are standard "kernel-image" > packages built with everything as modules?). > > > > -- > Ed C. > Thanks again, Ed. Yes I meant to say I UNcommented them OUT. But I didn't know about the /etc/conf.modules and had checked the /etc/modules/aliases and they were UNcommented out already. But when I check the /etc/conf.modules the AppleTalk was not UNcommented out. (is that an "Exclusive OR" or NOR? :)) Anyway UNcommented the AppleTalk protocol as the APX and IPX were already uncommented. As for the standard Kernel-Images, I am not familar with it so I can't answer that part of your question. Thanks again Mike Acklin Debian User
Re: Modprobe Question
On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 11:51:08AM -0500, Greg Norris wrote: > I'm assuming that you mean net-pf-[3-5], rather than just pf-[3-5]. > Assuming that your system is otherwise working correctly, add the > following lines to /etc/conf.modules: > > alias net-pf-3 off > alias net-pf-4 off > alias net-pf-5 off > > What's happening, is that the system is seeing packets for various > networking protocols, and attempting to load modules to support them > (which weren't selected when your kernel was compiled). net-pf-3 is > ax25, net-pf-4 is ipx, and net-pf-5 is appletalk. > Yes, that is what I meant. I looked at my /etc/modules/aliases (I am running Slink) and all three of the lines were uncommented out. So I guess it was something that was being sent by my ISP. I just used the Linux 2.0.35 Images and I am sure when it was compiled those protocols were compiled in. I just don't use them. Thanks for you reply. And I will ignore them from now on. Mike Acklin Debian User
Re: PPP & ibm.net
On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 02:20:01PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Any have the scripts necessary o contect to ibm.net from ppp or wvdial? I > get a dial tone and the sound when one connects > to a server but I am always disconnected. I imagine that the server is not > receiving my login and password. I have tried > the HOWTO scripts but they don't seem to work either. I am using Hamm but > don't know how to tell which version of pppd I > am using. > > Thanks > > Lance Lance, Look at your /var/log/ppp.log. It will tell you what is going on. Also did you try using the minicom program to see what is going on? Try this and see if you can connect up and input your logon namd and password. If you can, then see if IBM is sending the PPP start sequence. But most of all look at the ppp.log as it will tell you the most informtion and can work from there. Also to find out what version of ppp your are running try: debian:/etc# pppd -h You should get something like this pppd version 2.3 patch level 5 Usage: pppd [ options ], where options are: Communicate over the named device Set the baud rate to : Set the local and/or remote interface IP addresses. Either one may be omitted. asyncmap Set the desired async map to hex authRequire authentication from peer connect Invoke shell command to set up the serial line crtscts Use hardware RTS/CTS flow control defaultrouteAdd default route through interface file Take options from file modem Use modem control lines mru Set MRU value to for negotiation See pppd(8) for more options. Hope This Helps Mike Acklin Debian User
Re: Quick Question
Thanks for the pointers from both you and Ray. And to David Engle for the Debian Package. I have done some fiddling around and have a work around on your two points. On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 09:48:52AM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > > There are two things I would like to add.(Hope you find it interesting) > > 1. When I installed xringd, it could not find the modem and -m option did > not work.So I recompiled xringd and explicitly defined modem device as > /dev/ttyS1 1. This is probably the best solution, but I am not very good at recompiling things. So what I did was link /dev/ttyS1 (my setup) to /dev/modem and it started working fine. I hope this was right as I issued the following command in the /dev dir: ln -s /dev/ttyS1 modem I now have a soft link to the ttyS1 to the modem. > > 2. When you start pon it resets the modem and after you do poff, xringd > will NOT detect incoming calls. I did not find any clever way to overcome > this problem, except making cron execute > > start-stop-daemon -stop -s HUP xringd > > every hour. This resets xringd and thus the modem. > > I do not know how generic such a situation is, but I thought you might > find it interesting.. > 2. On this one, I used Ray's idea of using the ip-up directive in /etc/ppp/ip-up but I expanded it a little. I ended up adding "/etc/init.d/xringd stop" in the /etc/ppp/ip-up script and when I log off, I added "/etc/init.d/xringd start" in the /etc/ppp/ip-down script. This works great and RESETs and starts monitoring the ttyS1 port after ppp is down. The reason I stopped xringd with the ip-up, is basically I know it isn't going to be used and why waste resources when it isn't needed. Thanks to David Engle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for setting up the package it self and using the /etc/init.d/xringd script. I guess if it hadn't been for the initial debian setup, and your's and Ray's pointers, I would have been pretty well lost and would probably never got it working right. But as far as I can tell everything is working like I expected it to. > > ZORO Thanks to everyone that replied and helped me out on this one. There wasn't too much available on xringd on the net as I looked and couldn't find very much information Mike Acklin Debian User
Re: Modprobe Question
On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 11:36:19AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > About the modprobe errors: > > This doesn't have anything to do with xringd. Its refering to various > network protocols built as modules when you compiled your kernel. In > /etc/conf.modules or the newer location /etc/modutils/alias, make sure > the following lines are uncommented: > > alias net-pf-3 off > alias net-pf-4 off # IPX > alias net-pf-5 off # DDP / appletalk > > > If you *are* using IPX or Appletalk, then the modprobe error message > really is an error message that is saying it can't find the requested > module to load. > > > -- > Ed C. Ed, Thanks for the info. I do not have IPX or Appletalk. I don't know what the pf-3 is but I went ahead and commented all three of them out. All I have is TCP/IP via a dial-up account from my ISP. I do have slip installed so I can use diald. But really don't know what else to do. I really didn't compile the kernel, as just downloaded the 2.0.35 image and that is why I am probably getting that error message. Thanks again for the help. Mike Acklin
Re: Quick Question
On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 09:34:31AM -0400, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > > you just described "xringd". :-> I've heard of it but haven't installed > it, so I'm not sure if there's a .deb file for it. Even if you have to go > find it, it's exactly what you need. > > Sincerely, > > Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Two rules for success in life: >1. Don't tell people everything you know. Ray, Thanks for the reply and yes there is a deb file for xringd. The latest version is in Hamm and slink. And I am in the process of installing it. Also your suggestion about adding it to the ip-up/ip-down is excellent. Xringd via dselect is installed and a start file is created in the init.d directory. So just adding the command "/etc/init.d/xringd stop" might be the exact thing it needs to get it to work right. I will have to experiment a little to find out if this works. But right now, I am in the process of getting it to work just on the rings. Again thanks for your reply... Mike Acklin
Re: About mount FAT32
On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 08:01:22PM +0800, Chan Min Wai wrote: > Hi, > I had met problem on mounting a Fat32 drive (Win98), I don't know > Which kind of fat should I use in the mount command. > > For normal Fat16, We use:mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /hd1 > ^ > but for Fat 32 What Should we use in state of vfat. > Hey, here's one I can answer. You can use vfat also on Fat32. In fact I have used vfat on all the disks I mount. Of course, I think you have to have the Kernel of 2.0.34 or 2.0.33 at least and it has to be compiled into the kernel. HTH Mike Acklin
Modprobe Question
Hello Again, Well still working on the xringd program but started watching the syslog file and found something I had not seen before. I was working with diald yesterday and finally got it working just fine. But I was debugging it with /var/log/ppp.log so really didn't see the /var/log/syslog. Then today while working with the xringd I see this: Sep 24 16:49:02 debian modprobe: can't locate module pf-4 Sep 24 16:49:02 debian modprobe: can't locate module pf-3 Sep 24 16:49:02 debian modprobe: can't locate module pf-5 So I killed xringd and continued to see those messages when diald is running. What exactly does it mean and what can I do to correct it. I have looked in /lib/modules/2.0.35 and cannot find anything to do with pf-4, 3, or 5. I am at a loss. Now when diald is not running, it does not get entered in the syslog. Does this have something to do with the serial port being passed to the ppp0 port? I just want to make sure I am not missing something. But as far as I can tell diald is working fine. I dials out and sends messages, goes to webpages, etc just like it is suppose to and then drops carrier after 30 second, just like it is set up in the config file. And while I was at it I found something else interesting. What does this mean?: Sep 24 05:25:34 debian inetd[959]: getpwnam: nobody: No such user Is someone probing my system looking for something? Just wondering. Again thanks for all the responses I got with the xringd question. Maybe one of these days I will be able to answer questions instead of asking them. Mike Acklin
Re: Quick Question
On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 07:42:59AM -0600, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > > Not mgetty. That's if you want to run a PPP server, among other > things. What you want is xringd. It allows you to call your computer > and run any command you want, including whatver you use to initiate > your PPP link, depending on the ring pattern. It's probably in slink, > certainly in hamm. > > Gary Thanks Gary, I am going to look at that right after reading the mail. I really appreciate all the responses to my orginal quesion. That is why linux and Debian is so GREAT! Try asking someone with MS products and see what you get. Mike Acklin
Re: Quick Question
On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 08:53:49AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I think you want xringd. This a daemon that watches for incoming ring
> patterns i.e ring-ring-pause 60 sec.-ring. Then when a preset ring
> pattern is caught it will execute a command for that ring pattern, ie.
> execute pon and dialup your isp so you can connect to your machine
> over the internet. You can have an infinite set of ring patterns.
> Mgetty is used for dialin access to your machine. ie. your machine will
> answer the phone and try and estabish a modem connection with the
> incoming call.
>
> --
> Brian
Brian,
That sounds more like what I need. I was looking over the doc and
didn't really see anything about my original question. But I am glad that I
did get mgetty as I was going to work with faxes also. But that was another
project on my TODO list.
Again thanks for the info
Mike Acklin
Re: Quick Question
On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 02:15:12PM +0200, Zilvinas Valinskas wrote: > It's mgetty. You need to update your inittab to run mgetty on boot ( or > when edited just run a : init q :) reread init tab ;) and that's all ) > Setup up to listen /dev/ttySx ( x=0,1, => com1, com2 in dos ). More > information /usr/doc/mgetty > Debian almost configured to handle incoming calls ;) just update inittab :) > And it will start automatically pppd ;) That's all. > > also look at /usr/doc/pppd > there are some samples. Thanks, I will look at it. I don't have it installed but will now! Again, thanks for the quick reply... Mike
Quick Question
Hello Everyone, I have a quick question about linux/debian. Does anyone know of a way or a program that if you call your Modem (With it being offline), it will monitor the port and if it sees "RING", the system will automagically start pon? What I am trying to do is have my home computer on and connected to a separate line, and be offline. Then if I need something from my computer from work or somewhere else besides home, I can dial my home number, the system will see an incoming call, the start the ppp/pon so I can telnet, ftp, web, to my machine. Kinda like diald in reverse. Has anyone ever heard of such? Just wondering as I was looking through dselect and didn't see anything. I am running Debian Slink, diald, pppd, I have slip and ppp compiled into the 2.0.35 kernel. If you have, please let me know. Thanks... Mike
Re: kernel 2.0.35
Yes it is available in the slink distribution. I am running it now, works fine. Get the apt package and it will update all the packages to the slink distro HTH Mike On Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 08:20:11PM +, Tony Schonfeld wrote: > The kernel 2.0.35 is it available in .deb packages ? > If yes where ? > > tkanks for comments > > tony > > > Tony Schonfeld - F5GIT - GRENOBLE - Voice/Data/Fax: +33 (0)476932598 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WWW: http://schonfeld.home.ml.org - http://www.voiron.com/associations/ham/ > Hamnet (ax25): [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: xlib6g
On Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 03:27:51PM -0300, Ralph Winslow wrote: > Unavailability of xlib6g seems to be the basis of several > problems that I'm having in finishing this upgrade. Where > can I get this package? > > BTW, Is a list of the mirrors with the appropriate paths > available? When running dselect, I'm usually unsuccessful > in using other than my tried and true site unless I explore > it with ftp first. Also, the apt method has http*bnl*gov > as a built-in alternative, but if it's down or busy, I > have no clue to alternatives. > -- > - > Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ralph, Believe or not I have found an excellent site to download Debian files and it is usally pretty fast. Has been up to date just about everytime I have logged on also. I have it set up as my default ftp site in dselect. It is at ftp.caldera.com and the main directory is /pub/mirrors/debian. After that I just enter the hamm/hamm, hamm/non-free, and hamm/contrib. You should update the Packages list first and then you will be able to download then xlib6g files. Get the xlib6g-dev files also. I have found that the '-dev' files usally contain the missing lib files that I always have to go back and get... Hope this helps -- Mike Acklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Newbie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Soundblaster 16 PnP Help
Hello again, I am in the process of trying to get my SoundBlaster 16 pnp card set up and have read through the Kernel-Howto, Sound-Howto, and SB16 pnp mini-howto, and had a couple of questions on how to do this. If anyone has this set up, SB16pnp card and Debian 2.0 (Deep Frozen), along with the Kernel 2.033, I would like your input. 1. What card do I select when compiling the kernel? I thought I would chose the Sound Blaster 16, but wanted to make sure. 2. In the mini-how to it says to add a few lines in your boot up process to load the monuals. But I cannot find the /etc/rc.d/rc.M file. What is the debian equivalent? (This is the /sbin/isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf line). I did try compiling the kernel yesterday and failed totally. It would not boot. So I am asking everyone here for some help. Just not real sure what to do to get it working. Thanks for you help in advance. Mike Acklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Newbie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X Windows, how to set up?
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 01:28:15PM +0200, Tomas Petersson wrote: > Hello, I have installed the base system and standard packages. > Can anyone me tell if this is enough for running X Windows? > If not, what do I need more, and where can I find documentation. > > /Tomas Petersson > Tomas, Yes, you have all that is necessary to INSTALL X Windows. I basically had the same set up and ran dselect and selected Xbase, which selected, xfntbase, xfnt75, and xserver-vga16. I made one change to the list and that was to add xserver-svga. Dselect downloaded, installed, and helped configure everything and it ran out of the box with one exception. I have a Trident Video Card and I had to set the option to "noaccel" and Xwindows worked great. I also installed afterstep last night as the Window-manager and I HIGHLY recommend it as the WM. I was totally impressed with that package. Really nice interface. But as I said before, you should have no problem setting up your xwindows. Just make sure you have your Video Card and Monitor Manuals handy, as during the Configuration Phase it will ask a lot of questions about those 2 items. Hope this helps and Good Luck Mike Acklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> aka Harry Tuttle Debian Newbie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Telnet Timeouts
Hello everyone, I know I have seen this question posted before, but for the life of me I cannot find it in the List Archives. I have looked for Time, Timeout, Telnet, and have not found it. Anyway, how do I set the interactive time out for Telnet Sessions? I do alot of accessing from work to my home machine and if I am compiling or getting News, it may take longer than what the session is set to time out (Default) and I get logged off the session. And have to start all over. I have looked just about everywhere in the man pages, info files, etc. under Telnet, timeout, settings, and can not find it. I am pretty new and really don't know for sure where to look exactly. There is just so many commands. Also what is the command to look at just the boot up log. I know someone posted it a while back and I used it once or twice. But if you don't use it all the time, at least I do, I forget the commands. Here's a good one, does anyone have all the commands available on a web page or print out? I guess it would a pretty big file:) Anyway thanks for any help. And like my sig says, please bear with me. Mike ________ Mike Acklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home) Debian Newbie (Please bear with me!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SOLVED! Re: Outgoing Message Error
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 10:13:53AM +0700, Michael Acklin wrote: > > |- Message log follows: -| > > no valid recipients were found for this message > > |- Failed addresses follow: -| > > :include:/var/log/majordomo/lists/crew702 ... failed: unknown user > ^^^ > log? > > > I have checked the aliases file and it shows: > > > > crew702:"|/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper resend -l crew702 crew702-list" > > crew702-list: :include:/var/doc/majordomo/lists/crew702 > doc? > > As far as I'm aware, both those should be /var/lib/majordomo/lists/crew702. Thanks AJ, That was one problem I found, like you said, the directories were all messed up. I have put all files in the /var/lib/majordomo/lists now. When I did that the crew702 still did not work, so I switched to sendmail from smail. Believe it or not, I got sendmail working first time. Amazing! Anyway crew702 still didn't work as I was getting the same messages that the file could not be found. So, went back to the drawring board and did exactly as the NEWLIST info file said and set up a list called "test". It worked fine with no problems at all. So tried adding another list called "phoenix" and it worked also. But crew702 still would not work. My conclusion is that majordomo or MTA programs don't like lists with numbers at the end. That is not what the NEWLIST doc says. But I did get it working now and just have to use the "Phoenix" list name. No big deal. Thanks for your reply and help. Mike Mike Acklin -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home) -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) PGP Key Available on Key Servers: KEY ID 8713D5B1 Fingerprint: 61 75 71 BE 0E E2 9A F2 47 88 DB 33 38 D0 61 06 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hard Disk Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I am about to buy a new hard drive and would like to know what the max size Debian/Linux can recognize. I have looked over the documentation and FAQs but could not make out exactly what all they meant. I know it says 1024 sectors and 16 heads by 512 bytes per sector, but I just need to know how big all this means. I am planning to buy a 8.4 Gig drive and was going to partition it to 2.1 for Win95 and the remaining 6.3 for Debian. If this is a problem please let me know. Thanks Mike Acklin -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home) -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) Debian Newbie -> (Pleae Bear with Me!) PGP Key Available on Key Servers: KEY ID 8713D5B1 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNSjnoZmGWCaHFdWxAQF7SAf+Ne6jCRlyoewJRg/UOoiJ8pCwNLwqpn/q WTsiqTIcA5Ktl3xe6Lay2T6G5vTX2113fhBItX8VKIwlmHxNMumoHhWdjhgIYrAk 1zh2AHf+YKfqupyDRl9QyVvyhJC0peKOsi6pRnPsmcT3XWOMD7XMvx9FEChOvqY0 fejusrQ/7WGWODAVWzfqG4dg7rHjpOhE8NeuJ64JZvHr3jxdhEiAshJPbLB4Bc8M DuT2fnXvPW4pYAgSCWAaj9gyL+7aJ1+q8OfHDtaYbAgb+A6J6FixX0B3D4xFM9Hj eU1xNcCMqsmQth+gdp49ZoKSieNh75D1Mj5RzaIHWTsQcgXRBEALJA== =19OT -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best Book for Linux/Unix
What is the best book to learn Linux/Unix as for overall basics. I am not into programing yet, but would like to learn as much as I can about running a system. Like how to set my system for every day use. Editing the .bash_profile to make it usable. How to set up at and crontab. Directory sturctures, etc, and I know the list could go on. I have heard some people talking about O'Reily and Associate's Bible. What exactly is this book. What is the name of the actual book. There are so many books out, I don't know which one to get. I was wanting to learn what all is available for this system. Thanks in advance. _______ Mike Acklin >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Newbie -->(Please Bear with Me) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Deity looks AWESOME
Sorry, I must be dense today. Stuph, I guess is like the dog in Louisiana, Phideaux (fido) :-) ___ Mike Acklin >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Newbie -->(Please Bear with Me) On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Wintermute wrote: > Mike Acklin wrote: > > > > What exactly is Deity? When you say stuph, what exactly is that? but > > thanks for the early review :-) > > > > Sorry. As George has said, it's a graphical replacement for dselect > with a boat-load of new features. It should make package management a > dream. > > Stuph - is well.. stuff, only cooler. Note the "ph". See Also: Phrack, > Phun, and Keen. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Deity looks AWESOME
What exactly is Deity? When you say stuph, what exactly is that? but thanks for the early review :-) ___ Mike Acklin >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Newbie -->(Please Bear with Me) On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Wintermute wrote: > I've been hearing snippets of praise for Deity lately. > > I just downloaded it to give it a try... WOW. This is REALLY cool > stuph. Whoever is responsible, you have my applause. Excellent work! > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Hamm & Dselect
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Wintermute wrote: > > At 03:20 PM 3/28/98 -0500, you wrote: > > Unfortunately I don't see a /debian/frozen directory on ftp.debian.org. > > Hmmm. Maybe someone else could help out here. I am almost sure it was frozen, but I looked via http and didn't see it either. All I did see was the hamm files. I could have sworn that they said frozen was the directory. Sorry to lead you astray ____ Mike Acklin -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home) -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) Debian Newbie ---> (Please bear with me) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Hamm & Dselect
At 03:20 PM 3/28/98 -0500, you wrote: >Is it ok to set dselect to use the package files in /debian/hamm/ yet? >I was using /debian/dists/unstable before now, and I noticed the other >day that my package list went to nothing. > I think that the correct dir is /debian/frozen as hamm went frozen on Thursday and is suppose to go stable on the 20th of April. That is what I have been reading on the list here the last few days. ____ Mike Acklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home) Debian Newbie (Please bear with me!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: EXIM Help
At 03:35 PM 3/27/98 -0800, you wrote: > >DUH! It looks like Fetchmail is attempting deliver. Configure it to pass >the mail to SMTP. > > George, Rob, List Ok I think I have exim now the SMTP host, but now I am getting a message when I run fetchmail --verbose. fetchmail: SMTP>rect to fetchmail: SMTP<501 : recipient address must contain a domain fetchmail: listener doesn't like recipient address 'htuttle' fetchmail: SMTP<501 : recipient address must contain a domain fetchmail: can't even send to calling user! fetchmail: POP3>QUIT Where do I let fetchmail/exim the domain of htuttle? I have tried putting it in .fetchmailrc and then it complains about wrong user '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@mail.dallas.net'. So take it out of there and put it in exim.conf and it make no difference as I get the same message as above. Looked over the info exim and it said to try using the .netrc. So put it in there and still got the above. Where do I let exim know of my domain. I think that is what is my problem and it is not accepting the messages. I have a system name of archangel, user names of root and htuttle. My POP3 account it listed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and all I want to do is get the mail off the server mail.dallas.net without having to shutdown and start winblows95. Thanks for everyone help Mike Acklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home) Debian Newbie (Please bear with me!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: EXIM Help
At 02:45 PM 3/27/98 -0800, you wrote: >On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Mike Acklin wrote: > >> reading message 1 (2580 bytes) >> fetchmail: found received address 'htuttle' >> fetchmail: no local matches, forwarding to root >> fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed >> fetchmail: POP3>QUIT > >It is having trouble finding an account on your local system called >htuttle. Do you have a htuttle login account on your local machine? If >not, create an alias in /etc/aliases for it like this: > >htuttle: username > >where username is a valid login account on your local linux box. > > George, Yes I have a username of htuttle and the name of the system is htuttle. Does that mess things up? I also have the aliases set up with htuttle. Thanks for the reply... Mike Acklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home) Debian Newbie (Please bear with me!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
EXIM Help
Hello again, I am sorry to be such a pain, but I can not get exim working properly. I have tried reading all the info pages/man pages/FAQ's/archives/homepages for the last two days. I guess I am in a special class by myself. All the above all talk about ethernet/workstations/networked systems. All I have is a small system that connects to my ISP and all I want to do is get my mail. I am having to go back and forth between debian and winbloze95 to get any help. First I entered a exim.conf like the one I found in the archives. When I ran exim, it kept complaining about the lines I put in so # them out. Now when I run fetchmail I get the following: reading message 1 (2580 bytes) fetchmail: found received address 'htuttle' fetchmail: no local matches, forwarding to root fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed fetchmail: POP3>QUIT Now I can send mail fine with Pine and it configured to send via my ISP. There is no problem there. And it goes there. It is that I cannot download my mail. What am I doing wrong. I am very new at this and don't know to much about setting up accounts etc. I don't know how to look at logs as I don't know which ones are available. I have looked in the log directory and about the only one I see is syslog and it doesn't say to much about exim. I only have 2 accounts that were created when I installed debian. root and htuttle. That's it. Second: I tried something else (find . -name exim.conf -print) and got the following message: EXT2-fs warning (Device 03:42): ext_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 89435 How do I fix this or can I. Is there a chkdsk for debian? Third: How do I set my time right. When I installed debian it looked at my system clock and asked if I wanted to be on GMT and what my TZ was. I said to use GMT and that I was in CST6CDT. Now when I boot my time is wrong. When it is 1600 in my wallclock time my system says it is 1000. I use the "bash: date 03271600", but when I reboot it always goes back to the -6. I know I screwed it up, but how do I fix it with out having to do it everytime I boot up. Also by bios clock is correct for walltime. Sorry to bother everyone, but I am really confused and I don't know where to look for info. Mike Acklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home) Debian Newbie (Please bear with me!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Exim/Fetchmail (Re:Was Unidentified subject!)
At 10:25 AM 3/26/98 -0600, you wrote: >Right, I'm pretty sure this is a DNS config problem. Are you running >bind on this machine, or are you just using /etc/hosts? > >I think this is on the right track. If you aren't running bind, what >do your /etc/hosts, /etc/nsswitch.conf, and /etc/resolv.conf files >look like? This problem can probably be fixed by either changes to >one of these files, or by a change to /etc/exim.conf. > > >The best source for docs on exim is to install the exim-doc package, >and then run "info exim". There's also a great mailing list where you >can nearly always get all the help you need. It should be listed in >the docs. Also check out /usr/doc/exim/* > >-- Thanks Rob, I will go through the info exim, as I did download the docs when I installed exim. I always do, but didn't know how to access them. Do now thanks to you. Will let you know what I find out Mike Acklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home) Debian Newbie (Please bear with me!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Exim/Fetchmail (Re:Was Unidentified subject!)
> >1. I hope I am not out in left field, but have you configured Pine? I no > longer use it but recall having a simular problem until I did the > 'Setup-Config' in Pine. > >2. Do you have the line '127.0.0.1 localhost' in /etc/hosts? > >3. Do you have export MAILUSER=your_name in .bash_profile? > > >HTH > > > Hello, Well I checked #2 and #3 and everything was there, but still not getting mail. But thanks for helping me out. Mike Acklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home) Debian Newbie (Please bear with me!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Exim/Fetchmail (Re:Was Unidentified subject!)
At 08:10 PM 3/25/98 -0600, you wrote: > >If you're going to move from smail to anything else at the moment, I'd >recommend exim over sendmail unless you're already really comfortable >with sendmail. There's even been some noise recently about Debian >switching from smail to exim as the default mailer. > >With respect to your fetchmail problems, holler again if exim doesn't >fix the problem, and I'll see what I can suggest. > >-- >Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 Rob, Sounds like you have a handle on this. I am using exim and fetchmail. I started to use smail, but advice from someone else on the list convenced me to use exim. So that is installed and running. Now I can send mail with no problem with Pine. But receiving mail is another story. I get an error message from the POP3 server that the name is not acceptable. It wants a domain name on it. Here's the headers from a message I sent myself from debian to my other system. (which I am in now). Received: from htuttle ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [209.44.47.233]) by mail.dallas.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id SAA17270 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 18:17:54 -0600 (CST) Received: from htuttle [209.44.47.233] (root) by htuttle with smtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0yI0Pz-O6-00 (Debian); Wed, 25 Mar 1998 18:21:15 -0600 Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 18:21:14 -0600 (CST) From: htuttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Test Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 7 Status: O One of the guys on IRC said this was one of the FAQ's and had me place "receiver_unqualified_net = 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0" in my /etc/exim.conf file. But I still got the same response from the pop server. I wished I could save the messages I get but I don't know how to do that. I did see the messages as I executed "fetchmail --verbose". I know that the name "htuttle" is the problem. I think my server is looking for something like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or something else. BTW, I log in and it accepts my p/w fine. It is just when it trys to get the mail, I keep getting error code 9. Is there somewhere I can find a FAQ or Howto for exim or fetchmail. I have tried the EXIM home page, but to no avail. I tried the Howto site but the HOWTO Electronic mail is gone. and not maitained. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network/PPP Help
Michael, That did it. As soon as I typed "route add default ppp0" everything started working just fine. The DNS's, Hosts, Pings, Everything. Thanks. There is nothing in the Docs or HOWTO's that say that. I did a "route -n" and got the following: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window Use iface 204.40.41.223 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 UH 1500 0 1 ppp0 127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 3584 0 11 lo 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0 5 ppp0 I thought it was suppose to show something else but everything is working. Thanks for everyone's help with this. I really appreicate it. Now if I can figure out how to get the ip-in and ip-out things to work and try automating it. But I won't bother anyone on that one. I have taken up to much of the list time now. Maybe I will be able to repay everyone for the help. Mike Acklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network/PPP Help
At 10:58 AM 3/22/98 -0600, you wrote: >> I really don't know what files to edit to correct this, so will probably >> reinstall... > >I think that all you need do is run smailconfig. >-- >John Hasler >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) >Dancing Horse Hill >Elmwood, WI > Thanks John, I have just download the files and will install them now and give that a whirl. Thanks for the message and the help. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network/PPP Help
At 10:51 AM 3/23/98 +1200, you wrote: >Do you use "defaultroute" in your pppd options? >if you dont, try "route add default ppp0" after running pppd. > >IMHO, if your ISP does not use PAP auth. then I think it would probably be >easier to set up the pon/poff scripts... but then, thats my opinion. > > > Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Michael, I will try this. I have tried some other variations of route default. Like I say: route add default and get: SIOCADDRT: network is unreachable Or I try: route add net and get Net: host name lookup failure The problem is I think is I am not running an network. I am not connected to a network other than through PPP and my ISP. I get a good connection and can stay connected just fine. The problem is I can not get past the Host. When I try pinging I can ping my host but no where else. I did see in my plog, CCP: Timeout sending config-request. I have also tried the "route -n" and get "no default route". I have printed out your other message and will try all that. Am having to switch back and forth as under debain, I am unable to connect to the net. So have to shutdown and boot up "the bad word" and see if I can get any more help. But thanks for yours and Bill's help and the others that have written. I'll be back Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network/PPP Help
Thanks Bill, I think you are right. I went back over the Install doc and one thing it did say was to configure you network, even if you are not connected. THEN it says, if you are not connected to a network you only have to answer the first 2 questions which are 1) Your computer name 2) are you connected to a network. I answered yes to the second question and added all the Network info from my ISP. That is what is messing things up as you said. When I boot up it is looking for the network and of course it isn't there. I really don't know what files to edit to correct this, so will probably reinstall as I really don't have anything on the system yet, other than minicom. But I have that where I can reinstall that also. Again thanks for all your help. I have already learned alot about debian and love it. Mike Acklin>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (DH/DSS) Harry Tuttle --->[EMAIL PROTECTED] (RSA) For Public Keys, Finger User: htuttle Address: brazil.dyn.ml.org OB: System - Cyrix 6x86 PR 200+, 48 Meg Ram, Win 95 OSR2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network/PPP Help
At 12:26 AM 3/22/98 -0500, you wrote: >then type: >bash-2.01$ plog >Mar 21 18:57:44 gandalf chat[1554]: bleach^M >Mar 21 18:57:44 gandalf chat[1554]: Password: >Mar 21 18:57:44 gandalf chat[1554]: -- got it >Mar 21 18:57:44 gandalf chat[1554]: send (^M) >Mar 21 18:57:45 gandalf pppd[1553]: Serial connection established. >Mar 21 18:57:46 gandalf pppd[1553]: Using interface ppp0 >Mar 21 18:57:46 gandalf pppd[1553]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem >Mar 21 18:57:50 gandalf pppd[1553]: Cannot determine ethernet address >for proxy ARP >Mar 21 18:57:50 gandalf pppd[1553]: local IP address 207.53.8.93 >Mar 21 18:57:50 gandalf pppd[1553]: remote IP address 207.53.8.251 > >Now this will probably be quite different for you (ie: since you are >starting the session manually you won't have any of the 'chat' lines. >Notice that the local and remote IP addresses match the ones that I had >in my ifconfig report. Ok I did the plog and I did see one entry that said "CCP: Timeout sending config-requests". But everything looked like it should as far as I could tell. I did see the local IP address had been changed to the IP address my ISP gave me and did see the remote IP address. So looked like that was all working. I think the problem is in the router section and I don't really know what to do. When I do the "route -n" I get: kernal routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window Use Iface 204.47.44.4 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 15000 ppp0 127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0U 3584 0 lo But in the HOWTO it says that I should have a "default" in this table, but I don't. When I do the "route add default" it says, "SIOCADDRT:Network is unreachable". And then when I do a "route add net" I get "Host Name lookup failure". I think this may be a problem when I installed debain. It asked me if I was connected to a network and I said "Yes" and gave the info provided by my ISP. Such as the DNS addresses and the default gateway info. But when I boot up I see the same SIOADDRT message. Should I reinstall? and answer no to being connected to a network. The installation docs were not very clear on this. Hopefully someone has had this problem before. I have checked the FAQ's and the Network HOWTOs but can't figure this one out. Again thanks for your help. Mike Acklin>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (DH/DSS) Harry Tuttle --->[EMAIL PROTECTED] (RSA) For Public Keys, Finger User: htuttle Address: brazil.dyn.ml.org OB: System - Cyrix 6x86 PR 200+, 48 Meg Ram, Win 95 OSR2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
