Re: Connection closed by foreign host.
On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Jason Killen wrote: Which log is the log? I'm looked throught last and auth.log but found nothing. OK; do this: 1. Attempt a telnet session. 2. When it fails, cd to /var/log. 3. ls -ltr The error (if logged) will be in one of the last files listed. (My guess is daemon.log.)
Re: Upgrading from slackware to debian
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote: What is the difference between Red-Hat, Debian and Slackware? Slackware: One of the oldest distributions, and is showing its age. Created as a bugfixed version of SLS (Softlanding Linux System). Maintained by one person (Patrick Volkerding); home site: Walnut Creek CD-ROM (www.cdrom.com). No package tool available. Very slow to get updated; no interim upgrades. Considered by many old-timers to have lost it with the latest version (3.1), as most of the new parts are added flash, with most known security problems left untouched. Red Hat: Available in two versions; shareware and commercial. Most of the software is the same; the commercial version used to have a commercial X server included. Maintained by several paid people; home site: Red Hat Software (www.redhat.com). Package tool available. Reasonably quick in bugfixes, sometimes slow in major updates (one of the last to have a version with a 2.x kernel). Versions available for DEC Alpha and SPARC. Rumored to be one of the easiest to set up (it and I simply don't get along). Was the base for the original Caldera Network Desktop (a commercial version of Linux, with many interesting additions). Debian: Maintained by over a hundred volunteers, each maintaining one (or several) package. Package tool available; able to use Red Hat packages. Hosted by CrossLink; home page (www.debian.org). Overall, one of the fastest with updates and bugfixes; in many cases, the program author is the package maintainer. Initial installation has had its share of gotchas, mainly dealing with dependencies. (Don't install everything at once; install the recommended packages on the initial installation, then install a few packages at a time afterward.) Hope this helps.
Re: Connection closed by foreign host.
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Jason Killen wrote: I cant rlogin either but I do get mail along with other services. What happens exactally is I try to telnet in and I get Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. Is there a delay between the 'Escape' and 'Connection closed' lines? If so, it may be trying to resolve the names. However, if you deleted/recreated the hosts.deny file, then it shouldn't be worrying about that. What does the log say?
Re: Upgrading from slackware to debian
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Daniel Robbins wrote: I didn't know that Debian can use RedHat packages. Can dpkg do it or do I need something more? It's the 'alien' package.
Re: Installing debian 1.2 from december 1996 InfoMagic 6 CD set
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: I bought InfoMagic Linux Developper's Ressource 6 CD set od december 1996. I've decided to install Debian from it but a bunch of packages can't configure after installation Let me guess.. you installed all of the packages the first time you ran dselect. That got me a couple of times. So I reformatted my disk an reinstalled Debian with just the default preselected and mc with libgpm. OK; now just install the packages you want, a couple at a time. (I had to do mknod in /dev to add support to my Mitsumi FX001D CD ROM but it wasn't a problem). However there's still 3 unconfigured packages... (texbin, psfnss and an other I've forgotten) So what should I download to fix this apparently bad organised CD. The problem isn't in the CD; the install utility doesn't quite catch all the dependencies the first time through. If you re-run the install part of dselect a couple of times, everything should get installed. (The only time that this didn't work for me was when perl died on me, and some parts of dselect didn't work.)
Re: PPP tutorial (was Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!)
The base install seems to be more targeted to people with: A) a live internet connection, B) Debian on CD, or C) The Debian distribution on another filesystem or NFS. However, like I mentioned, of the people I deal with each day, about 5% of the Debian newbies fall into that group. I'd say that installing from CD would cover 95% of new installations. (Is it even possible to install Debian from floppy?)
Re: simple smail question
On Sat, 15 Mar 1997, dpk wrote: My linux box is my school domain (I work there) and currently when I send mail from it uses [EMAIL PROTECTED] as from whom it is sent by. However I want it to go to my mail server, ie. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re-run smailconfig. You'll have to use the --force flag. One of the prompts is for the visible name; the one to put on all outgoing messages.
Re: fvwmrc -- fvwmrc2
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Paul Rightley wrote: I have heard a mention here of a (Debian?) install script that might convert a .fvwmrc file to a .fvwmrc2 file. Where can I find such a utility? It comes with the fvwm2 package, and automatically makes the changes when fvwm2 is installed. However, be sure to back up your old .fvwmrc files, just in case...
Re: acct package, a bug?
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: You are using Cyclades boards? I believe (in a FAQ somewhere) that the device names can only be 2 chars, like ttyC0. If you go over C9, you'll have to use Ca, Cb, etc. The problem was that the 1.x kernels could not support device names over 5 characters; the 2.x kernels can handle at least 6. Some people use ttyC0 - ttyCf (or ttyCv, for 32 port) on the first board, ttyD0 for second board, etc. I don't speak for Cyclades anymore, ever since they decided they didn't want to pay for qualified support people. Now I have a less stressful job with a much better paycheck. Thanks, guys...
Re: System hangs on SCSI reset (AHA 1522).
Christopher R. Hertel wrote: This is with two flavors of Slacware and with Debian. It seems to be a problem that my SCSI adapter has with Linux in general. On Sep 22, 6:34pm, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Subject: Re: System hangs on SCSI reset (AHA 1522). : Problem: The system hangs when the SCSI bus is reset. : Config: Adaptec 1522 SCSI controller :Two different motherboards :Three different versions of Linux : : More specifically, I cannot perform a soft reboot from Linux. Could you give the actual failure message? We had a client with a similar problem with one of our cards. Turns out that his sound card wasn't fully honoring the bus reset, and was grabbing the IRQ out from under the Cyclades card. From a power-on start, the system worked fine, but after a three finger salute, or even pushing the reset button, the card didn't work. Something like this would hang your system if the SCSI card suddenly found itself without the IRQ it was set for... and sound cards LOVE to grab IRQ 11. It works with DOS does not mean that there is not a hardware conflict. The DOS drivers probably initialize the hardware differently. Standard procedure is to pull out everything except the minimum necessary to boot (plus the offending card, if not a required card). Add cards until the problem resurfaces. -- ++ | Technical Support Engineer, Cyclades Corporation | | 800/88-CYCLADES (882-9252) or (510)770-9727, x258 | | Maker of High Performance Multiport Serial Cards | | Unsolicited mail ads subject to a $25 handling fee | ++
Re: dosemu 0.60.3-1 won't run
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to report that I got dosemu 0.60.3-1 to work (or whichever the version is in the Debian 1.1 stable tree is) when booting from the hdimage instead of booting from the floppy. I must also admit that I got the message ERROR: can't get floppy parameter of /dev/fd0 (Interrupted system call) when trying to boot from the floppy, and then kicked off. I got dosemu to work as advertised once I installed the (I believe) xcompat package. This should be a requirement for the package. Now, how do I go about submitting a bug report for dosemu? -- ++ | Technical Support Engineer, Cyclades Corporation | | 800/88-CYCLADES (882-9252) or (510)770-9727, x258 | | Maker of High Performance Multiport Serial Cards | | Unsolicited mail ads subject to a $25 handling fee | ++
Re: Unidentified subject!
Fernando Tadeu Caldeira Brandt wrote: I just just installed Debian from the August 96 release of Infomagic's 6 CD set and I would like to know how to access (using dselect) the local and non-free packages. Are they in the CD set? No, they are not. The 'local' set is just that; ones that you made locally for use on your machine. Say you have a network of machines with the same cards in them (not unusual in a commercial network), and you built a package with the 2.0.20 kernel with all the drivers you need. You make this package available in your 'local' set. Or, you want to keep an older version of a program around. (You get the idea.) I have no idea why the 'non-free' set is not included on the CD set, other than for space reasons, as most of the programs in that set are included in the other distributions. -- ++ | Technical Support Engineer, Cyclades Corporation | | 800/88-CYCLADES (882-9252) or (510)770-9727, x258 | | Maker of High Performance Multiport Serial Cards | | Unsolicited mail ads subject to a $25 handling fee | ++
Re: can't seem to get internalmodem running
Rob Hanson wrote: I am a bit new to the linux thing, and I seem to be having some trouble locating my modem. It is an internal 33.6 cardinal voice modem, and it uses com3 on my win95 setup. You need to use the 'setserial' command to tell the system about your modem. You should be able to convince Windoze to tell you the IRQ and base address of the card; you'll need this for setserial. If any of you have any suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated, as copying .deb files to floppy in win95 then installing them in linux really sucks, but until I can find my modem, I can't grab anything while in linux. Assuming that you don't swap hard drives, you should be able to simply mount the Windoze partition under Linux, and forget about floppies. -- ++ | Technical Support Engineer, Cyclades Corporation | | 800/88-CYCLADES (882-9252) or (510)770-9727, x258 | | Maker of High Performance Multiport Serial Cards | | Unsolicited mail ads subject to a $25 handling fee | ++
Re: Anyone got a microcom working with diald?
Mark Warburton wrote: I have been using a 14400 modem with debian for some time now using the diald system. Recently, I purchased a 28800 Microcom Deskporte 28.8S to speed things up a bit. Now diald will not work. I find it dials the number and then refuses to talk to the computer on the other side. If I use seyon and set the baud to 115200 then it connects fine. I can then exit seyon and use pppd. To use 115200, you need to use setserial on the port with the spd_vhi flag, and tell diald/pppd to use 38400. However, since it connects under minicom, that's telling me that you aren't using the proper setup string. Try using the same init string under diald as you use under minicom. -- ++ | Technical Support Engineer, Cyclades Corporation | | 800/88-CYCLADES (882-9252) or (510)770-9727, x258 | | Maker of High Performance Multiport Serial Cards | | Unsolicited mail ads subject to a $25 handling fee | ++
Re: Mouse problems
Scott Danzig wrote: it registers as a PS/2 type mouse, using IRQ 12. They all didn't work. Did you recompile the kernel with PS/2 mouse support? -- ++ | Technical Support Engineer, Cyclades Corporation | | 800/88-CYCLADES (882-9252) or (510)770-9727, x258 | | Maker of High Performance Multiport Serial Cards | | Unsolicited mail ads subject to a $25 handling fee | ++
dosemu 0.60.3-1 won't run
I'm trying to run dosemu, version 0.60.3-1. However, whenever I go to run it, I get: = moe:~ dosmoe:~ dos dos: can't load library '/usr/lib/libX11.so.6' Unknown error dos: can't load library '/lib/libX11.so.6' Unknown error dos: can't find library 'libX11.so.6' moe:~ = However, I do have /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 on the system. Symlinking does not help. Help??? -- +---+ . | Technical Support Engineer, Cyclades Corporation | | 800/88-CYCLADES (882-9252) or (510)770-9727, x258 | | Maker of High Performance Multiport Serial Cards | +---+
Re: Version 2.0
Bruce Perens wrote: However, you will be able to download a package from our FTP site and upgrade your system to 2.0.20 . Installing a package takes a one-line shell command. So, when will the kernel-package appear on the CD-ROM distributions? I had to recompile the kernel before I could get net access, and I needed net access before I could (properly) rebuild the kernel. My problem was that the NE2000 module would crash the system when I tried to load it. For some reason, it has to be compiled into the kernel. -- +---+ . | Technical Support Engineer, Cyclades Corporation | | 800/88-CYCLADES (882-9252) or (510)770-9727, x258 | | Maker of High Performance Multiport Serial Cards | +---+
Re: HELP: Probs configuring X
[forwarded by request] ---BeginMessage--- Paul Christenson wrote: Justin Stodola wrote: Ok, X works ok, with one annoying problem: Down the left hand side of the screen is a fairly narrow(~.25 inch) band of increased intensity that makes anything that fall within it unreadable. This occurs in all video modes with resolutions higher than 640x480. Anyone have any suggestions? Most likely, that bright band is caused by retrace, which is from the electron beam coming on too soon. A few minor adjustments in the XF86Config file will take care of that. There's a good document on making these adjustments. On a Slackware system, it's /var/X11R6/lib/doc/VideoModes.doc; don't know where it hides on a Debian system. The document you mention is in /usr/doc/X11. Also, Justin, you might want to try xvidtune. This is an application that allows you to interactively adjust your X settings. As a last resort, you may want to fetch the most recent X11 S3 server from ftp.xfree86.org, and install it in /usr/local/bin, then edit your file /etc/X11/Xserver so that the first line is /usr/local/bin/your-new-server-file. Good luck, Susan Kleinmann ---End Message---
Custom installation boot disks?
I need to create a custom installation boot disk to install Debian on a system at work. This is a custom server, with a SCSI main drive on an Adaptec 2940UW controller. Once I get the main drive supported and the base installed, I can finish it from there. I've heard here that the custom kernels available do not work. Can they be made to work, or would creating my own be better? (I have a working Debian machine at home.) Where are the docs hiding to create my own install boot disks? Speed is important here; I have to have this machine operational by Thursday morning. -- +---+ . | Technical Support Engineer, Cyclades Corporation | | 800/88-CYCLADES (882-9252) or (510)770-9727, x258 | | Maker of High Performance Multiport Serial Cards | +---+
