RE: chkconfig is to redhat as ___ is to debian?
On 03/06/2002 at 19:54:28, Arthur H. Johnson II said: Why dont you just create the symlinks yourself. Its what I do. Because that's dirty. Use Debian's update-rc.d utility instead. Regards, Neil Darlow M.Sc. -- 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint = 359D B8FF 6273 6C32 BEAA 43F9 E579 E24A 531F 9048
RE: chkconfig is to redhat as ___ is to debian?
On 3/7/02, 12:42:05 PM, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: How is creating the symlinks yourself any less clean than using a program to create the symlinks automatically? I think this is mostly a difference of opinion. Simply, that by using update-rc.d no knowledge of the directory structure of /etc/rcN.d or /etc/init.d is required. The utility also makes acceptable assumptions depending on how much command line information is provided. Regards, Neil Darlow M.Sc. -- 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint = 359D B8FF 6273 6C32 BEAA 43F9 E579 E24A 531F 9048
Re: Where to find unzip?
On 11/23/00, 9:53:36 PM, Alson van der Meulen wrote: On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:32:31PM +0100, H?kan wrote: I'm new to Debian. Before I have used the RHdist- however finally got right dist. However, where do I find the unzip command or package. I have installed the zip packed but as written above whatabout unzip? there's a package named unzip too It's in non-free so won't be on the Official CDROM set. I use the zip-crypt and unzip-crypt packages which are in non-US. Regards, Neil Darlow. -- 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 359D B8FF 6273 6C32 BEAA 43F9 E579 E24A 531F 9048
Re: debian 2.2 CRASHES often easily
Hi Folken, The do_try_to_free_pages failures are symptoms of a bug in the 2.2.17pre6 kernel that ships with 2.2. I have a K6/2 233 machine with 64M RAM which displays these errors occasionally. They don't appear to be fatal but could be leaking memory? I also have a 486SLC 33 machine with 8M RAM which displays these errors a lot during installation and package upgrades. Again they're not fatal. Your problems could be related to this bug and running out of swap space. Neither of my machines have done this, the first has 512M of swap and runs X and StarOffice. The second doesn't run X - with 8M of RAM it doesn't run anything big :) You can configure additional swap space using a file. You will need to use dd to create the file and mkswap then swapon to create and activate the swap area. I suggest reading the manpages for these. The alternative is to install a more stable kernel e.g. 2.2.17 final. I haven't done this myself yet. Regards, Neil Darlow. -- 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 359D B8FF 6273 6C32 BEAA 43F9 E579 E24A 531F 9048 On 11/22/00, 6:21:00 PM, Folken Lacour wrote: I'm a Linux newbie, but I know this should not be happening. I can't get an uptime 36 hours -- Linux just freezes in X. Occassionally, I'm able to switch over to another VC, where I see VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for application ... (There are about 10 lines for each application I'm running). But for the most part, the entire system freezes I'm forced to do a *hard* reboot (and let fsck do its thing). After the reboot, /var/log/kern.log has a bunch of VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for application ... last message repeated x times (x varies from 2 to 31).
Talk refused by default?
Hi, Out of curiosity (how else do you learn *nix systems?), I attempted to talk between two logins on separate Debian 2.2 machines. I received an error message that the remote-end was refusing connects which seems contrary to the lines in /etc/default/devpts e.g. TTYGRP=5 TTYMODE=620 The comment associated with TTYMODE says change to 600 to make mesg n the default. If I execute mesg y on the remote machine I can talk to it. What am I missing here? Regards, Neil Darlow. -- 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 359D B8FF 6273 6C32 BEAA 43F9 E579 E24A 531F 9048
Re: Gome and window managers.
On 11/19/00, 7:17:30 PM, Stan Brown wrote: Could someone pleas explain the relationship between Gnome and windo managers? GNOME provides the desktop and network environment. The window manager provides window decorations e.g. Borders, Title Bars and anything related with moving/resizing/opening/closing etc. windows. Is there a Gnome Prefered window manager? How do I set up to sue it if there is? If not couldsomeone give me a recomenadtion as to which one to use with Gnome? It's a matter of personal preference really. As GNOME is quite heavy resource-wise, I prefer lightweight window managers. I use Sawmill but I suggest you experiment and find what suits you. You can do most configuration from the GNOME Control Center applet which allows you to switch between window managers and run their own configuration tools. Regards, Neil Darlow. -- 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 359D B8FF 6273 6C32 BEAA 43F9 E579 E24A 531F 9048
Re: wvdial
Marcelo, Just add yourself to group dialout. Regards, Neil Darlow. -- 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 359D B8FF 6273 6C32 BEAA 43F9 E579 E24A 531F 9048 On 11/16/00, 6:53:26 PM, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: I am running a fresh debian machine as a single user. When I try to connect to my ISP through wvdial or pon from my personal account I get a message complaining that I have no privilege to do the operation, I should be root to do it. I don't want to log as root each time I need the connection. How should I define the right privileges in order to run wvdial or pon from my personal account?
Re: can't locate module tap0 (tap1,tap2,...,tap15)
On 11/13/00, 5:57:28 PM, Krzys Majewski wrote: How do I fix this? More generally, where do I look if I'm having problems of this form? -chris alias tap0 ethertap options tap0 -o tap0 unit=0 ... alias tap15 ethertap options tap15 -o tap15 unit=15 There's an ethertap readme with diald and the kernel docs also have something on this. Regards, Neil Darlow. -- 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 359D B8FF 6273 6C32 BEAA 43F9 E579 E24A 531F 9048
Re: Dexter?
On 11/10/00, 8:54:27 PM, Hubert Chan wrote: Try adding Option NoAccel to the graphics device section in your XF86Config file (The section that has `Driver s3virge'. It turns off hardware acceleration, so things may be slower, but at least it will work properly. Are we talking XFree86-3.3.x and XF86_S3V server here? I use S3 Virge/DX cards and follow the recommendation for using the XF86_SVGA server. The XAA features work nicely and a hardware cursor is implemented. A good compromise. Regards, Neil Darlow.
Re: Help with apache
On 11/10/00, 6:57:06 PM, Eileen Orbell wrote: I need a little help with apache and setting up the following code to run. At this moment it is contained in my .hmtl file and nothing happens other than the other html code I have in there !--#exec cgi=http://hostname/cgi-bin/count.cgi-- I have 3 files in my /etc/apache directory httpd.conf srm.conf access.conf If this helps any I can run .cgi files in the cgi-bin directory fine... I do appreciate any help. I have tried this for days now and nothing!!! Newer versions of apache only use the httpd.conf file. The others used to be included into httpd.conf but now they're commented out. Your problem may be due to not being able to execute SSI includes for the directory where your .html file is located. There are a number of Directory entries in httpd.conf each of which becomes less restrictive. Chances are that one of these may have an entry for Options that doesn't say Includes or says IncludesNoExec. Either of these would prevent your SSI tag from doing it's business. There is also a requirement to use a script-aliased directory if you want to execute cgi-bins or SSIs outside the document root. This is detailed in httpd.conf itself. Regards, Neil Darlow.
inetd startup warns portmapper not running?
A long time ago, in a galaxy far... far away, Neil Darlow wrote: My potato system has started warning that portmapper isn't running during the execution of /etc/init.d/inetd at boot. Further investigation shows that most of the time rpcinfo returns program 10 not available This is odd as portmap is started in rcS.d and inetd later in rc2.d. I have a solution which seems to work. In /etc/init.d/inetd, change one line in checkportmap, From: if ! /usr/bin/rpcinfo -u localhost portmapper /dev/null 2/dev/null To: if ! ps ax | grep -v grep | grep portmap /dev/null While this doesn't test that portmap is alive-and-kicking it at least indicates that it was started. I hope this is of use to anyone experiencing similar problems on their systems. Perhaps the developers may come up with a better solution. Regards, Neil Darlow.
inetd startup warns portmapper not running?
Hi, My potato system has started warning that portmapper isn't running during the execution of /etc/init.d/inetd at boot. I've checked that portmap is indeed running and I've even manually executed the logic that leads to this message. After boot it doesn't match the failing condition (rpcinfo returning non-zero). The RPC services are working. I can talk between virtual consoles. All I've done recently is install security updates and packages from the official CD-ROMS (2.2 r0). Does anyone have any idea as to why this is happening? TIA, Neil Darlow.
diald and fetchmail
Hi, I'm using fetchmail to collect mail by POP3 over a diald-controlled ppp link under Debian 2.2 r0. My problem is that the POP3 mailserver is sometimes sluggish and diald drops the link before any/all mail is retrieved. Can anyone suggest an appropriate edit to /etc/diald/standard.filter to prevent this from happening. I am polling two separate POP3 servers with a timeout setting of 120 seconds, using an unmodified /etc/diald/standard.filter. TIA, Neil Darlow.
