Re: problem ftpd
On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Comet Mercantile wrote: On 22 Apr 1997, Rob Browning wrote: Comet Mercantile [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't login into my box the ftpd denies access to everyone! I check the files /etc/hosts.deny /etc/hosts.allow /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess and they are all fine! what else could it be? I am using wu-ftpd.. Could this be the problem caused by a recent revision of the cvs package? It deleted all the entries in /etc/inetd.conf. See if yours is mostly empty. Nope it looks pretty normal to me here is what it looks like [inetd.conf snipped] Could it be that your users' shells are not listed in /etc/shells?? ftpd doesn't like that and denies access, at least on my systems. Perry -- If red tape were nutritious, we could feed the world. Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: LILO cylinder problem
On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, David Pfitzner wrote: So why in the hell does lilo report cylinder 2312 which I'm fairly sure is in hda3 when I'm setting up hda2 which starts at 817? I seem to recall reading that you can have problems with partitations where are not _entirely_ within 1023 cylinders, because the kernel image could happen to be in that part of the partition which is past the 1023 cylinder. Exactly. And what I do to deal with the problem is create a very small partition for the /boot directory, where vmlinuz and the other LILO stuff resides. Mine is 4 mb but 2 mb is more than sufficient. Perry -- If red tape were nutritious, we could feed the world. Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Trouble installing PCMCIA.
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Rajpaul Bagga wrote: Summary: Have base packages installed. Need to install pcmcia packages so that ethernet card can be used for the remaining packages. Can't get pcmcia packages to install. Background: I'm trying to install Debian on a Compaq Aero 4/33. I can get the base installion just fine (version 1.2.9). I would like to install the rest of the packages over ethernet, but I need to get the pcmcia services working. I have an IBM cardit card ethernet adaptor. Problem: When I try to install the pcmcia-modules-2.0.27 package (the kernel that came with the base was 2.0.27), it says I don't have the kernel-image-2.0.27 package installed. Well, as I understand it, that package was supposed to be included with the base. But nevertheless I tried installing the kernel-image package manually. This allowed me to install the pcmcia-modules pcmcia-cs packages, but when I reboot, it give me errors like bad symbol in table and messages saying the module doesn't match the kernel version. It scrolls by too fast for me to catch it all. Are these bootup messages logged somewhere? I am used to slackware and haven't found my way completely around debian yet. Just use the 'dmesg' command and you'll see the boot messages. The messages also show up in your log under /var/log In regards to fixing your module problem...It's been a while since I did an install but I recall that the modules.tgz on the device driver disk included pcmcia modules in it and that the modules on that disk worked with the install/rescue kernel. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Perry -- If red tape were nutritious, we could feed the world. Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Auto updating the hardware clock on shutdown.
On 12 Apr 1997, Rob Browning wrote: I assumed that the hardware clock was always written to reflect the current system time on shutdown. Is that true? The reason I ask is because we just had the daylight savings switch here, and at least one of my systems came up after a reboot with the wrong time (it was an hour off). If the clock is not by default written at shutdown, what's the best way to make sure that it is, an appropriate rc.d script perhaps? Type: man 8 clock to learn how your hardware clock is read to and written from. You can run it in your shutdown script. I run it from a cron script that synchronizes to a timeserver first, my system clock is 45 sec fast per day. Also, you can can configure your system to use GMT on your hardware clock. See /etc/init.d/boot Perry -- If red tape were nutritious, we could feed the world. Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com
Re: Debian FTP Problems
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I apologize in advance for what may be a silly question, but, I am attempting to download Debian Linux from the US site (130.207.9.21), so I log on and go to the directory: /ac184/linux/distributions/debian/rex-fixed/binary-i386/base and attempt to click on one of the many directory, for instance, getty_1.45a-3.deb and get an error saying 550 getty_1.45a-3.deb: no such file or directory It works fine when I log into my shell account, and ftp the files to my shell, then download them, but I'd prefer to download them right from the ftp site to my HD. I'm using CuteFTP to do this, and just having no luck, as I outlined above. Any suggestions? Sounds like your FTP client is not following symbolic links. Try checking the configuration, or try ws_ftp. Perry -- If red tape were nutritious, we could feed the world. Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com
Re: RPM
On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Gith wrote: From Redhat's blurb about their new Maximum RPM book. RPM currently runs on Linux, IRIX, Solaris, SunOS, AIX, HP/UX, AmigaOS, and FreeBSD, and is quickly becoming the de-facto packaging standard for free software on the Internet. Oh really? De-facto standard? This type of bloated marketing claim reminds of another very popular commerial software company that makes operating systems for PC's. And the fact that Redhat often reminds me of them is one of the reasons I choose not to use Redhat I have to say up front that I don't like RPM. I'd like to hear more about the direction DPKG is going in. All this RPM talk is giving me a complex. Sure, you can port dpkg or RPM to another Unix. Shouldn't be that hard. But different unixes have different directory structures and require different binaries. So you gotta get people to start making packages in that format for that particular system. Redhat my have ported RPM to other platforms but I don't see any of the free software distributed over the Internet for various Unixes in RPM format. It's all in tarballs as usual. Most commercial Unixes have their own packing systems anyways. Dpkg can swallow redhat RPM's via the alien feature. So even in the unlikely event that the entire planet were to convert to RPM, we can still use dpkg! Time flies like arrows, but fruit flies like bananas Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com
Re: Support for internal IDE Zip drive?
On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Mike L. Dickey wrote: I've read the Iomega ZIP HOWTOs and noticed that they only mention 3 versions of the hardware (parallel external, SCSI internal, SCSI external). I've also browsed through the Debian website (noticed the facelift) ... there is no good site-wide search engine there, so I couldn't be as complete in my search as I'd like. I have an internal drive that I KNOW I connected to one of my EIDE controllers (plus, I don't have a SCSI host adapter at all). Is there support for this drive yet/already? I'd prefer to be able to use it as install media (instead of several floppies or the network and versus installing Linux ON the ZIP drive). I can't say for 100% sure about the ZIP internal IDE drives but I have a Syquest removable IDE drive and it works just like and other IDE hard disk. No special software support is needed other than the normal hard disk support, and the removable IDE disk support that is already included in the 2.0.x kernels. You must have a disk in the drive at bootuop so the kernel can find it. Then you use fdisk, mke2fs, e2fsck mount umount like you would any other hard disk. One snag is that if you use it as your root / partition it will software locked even after you shutdown. So you have to boot another OS to be able to remove it. The old 1.2.x kernels had a serious problems when you umount, change disks, and mount the new disk. It would think it had the smae filesystem there and complain about corruption and e2fsck would totally trash it. But the removable disk support in 2.0.x seems to have fixed that. Like I said above, I'm can't be 100% sure but I don't see why ZIP would make their internal IDE drives any different, since it's already running off the IDE controller in your box. Time flies like arrows, but fruit flies like bananas Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com
Re: Upgrading from slackware to debian
On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Dima wrote: Also, it's (Slackware's) a great first Linux for those who like to learn swimming in the deep end of the pool. Back in the pioneer days, that's all there was...a deep pool. Time flies like arrows, but fruit flies like bananas Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com
Re: does debian 1.2.x support umsdos
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Joseph Zieniewicz wrote: Does debian support umsdos? Debian does not support umsdos although with a liitle hacking you can create a umsdos partition, umsync it, and put the debian base distribution on it. However, I do not reccomend this. The performance is cruddy, and it's not necessary. Does it have xf86? Yes. What version of the linux kernel is in debian 1.2.x? Last I checked... 2.0.27 I like umsdos because you don't need lilo which can cause problems because it can mess up your MBR and it is hard to configure. I also use loadlin to boot up from my dos partition. You do not need to use umsdos just to use loadlin in leiu of lilo. Loadlin can boot linux on an ext2 partition just as easily. umsdos also lets you access all your dos files as it can coexist with dos. Linux on an ext2 can also access your dos partions. In fact if you have win95 it can access your long filenames. Time flies like arrows, but fruit flies like bananas Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com
Re: g++ file doesn't run
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Jeff Shilt wrote: //test.c The test file doesn't print out anything when I run it. try typing 'which test' and find out what program your really running then type 'man test' to see what it does. Then give your program a new name. Time flies like arrows, but fruit flies like bananas Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com
Re: errors installing with dselect/ftp
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote: NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin. DPKG ERROR bash# echo $PATH /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin bash# which ldconfig /sbin/ldconfig I don't know if this will work but try cd'ing to / before starting dselect. I've had trouble with dselect finding files in the past and that seemed to fix it. Time flies like arrows, but fruit flies like bananas Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com
Re: Running lilo from recue disk. (was NT and Microsoft can go to ...)
Does anybody know how to run lilo once you've executed a shell from the rescue disk? Basically I'm having a problem because / is the /ramdisk0 and not my harddrive. I think I need to rerun Lilo. However, the error I'm getting, Thanks to NT, is Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root on 08:13 You should be able to run lilo from the dinstall menus. Running it from the rescue shell is kinda tricky because you root which is normally / is now /target. Thus your kernel image /vmlinuz is /target/vmlinuz, your /etc/lilo.conf is at /target/etc//lilo.conf etc. etc. What you can do is dd your /target/vmlinuz onto a floppy, make sure your root is set on it correctly with rdev and then boot your system on it. Then all your directories have their real paths and running lilo will be as usual. Time flies like arrows, but fruit flies like bananas. Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.perrypip.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Documentation for install/rescue kernel????
Hello Is there copy of the .config file used to build the kernel for the install/rescue disk available?? I've looked all over for it and can't find it. Thanx Perry -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help! Messed up my MBR (PART III)
On Sat, 22 Feb 1997 23:23:05 -0500 (EST), you wrote: Well after reading some of the LILO manual (which I should have done more of!) I realize what I have done. I first ran lilo with boot=/dev/hda. Since I didn't want lilo installed at all on my P90 and I ran lilo as an accident I thought I may as well try to get it to boot my linux partition on /dev/hdb1. So I edited my /etc/lilo.conf file except this time I had boot=/dev/hda1. I read that this is bad because /dev/hda1 is my DOS partition! So I really hosed things up and had lilo on both /dev/hda /dev/hda1. Yep, I thought so. I did that once before. Several nice people have e-mailed me and told me to do a fdisk /mbr to wipe out lilo on the mbr (/dev/hda) but what about lilo on /dev/hda1? Have I trashed my DOS partiton information? What can I do now? Lilo most likely backed it up. Boot back into your Linux system. If you can't boot into linux use a floppy to do so. If you don't have a floppy you can use the rescue disk to get to your system and use dd to create a floppy that will boot your into your Linux system. Once you have done so just type: /sbin/lilo -u The -u option will restore your backup. I did run fdisk and the partition information looked correct. It knew the partition was all dos and it was bootable/primary. Yes but I'll bet if you try typing dir c:\ at the a:\ prompt DOS won't be able to read it, because the boot sector contains essential FAT info. Time flies like arrows, but fruit flies like bananas. Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.perrypip.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: no NFS mounts from other hosts (!)
Ioannis Tambouras wrote: You should uncomment the lines to start the nfsd and mountd on the other hosts in the file /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs. Well, not if the only thing I want is to mount volumes. In that case you only need rpc support from the kernel. That is all. Thanks for all who replied. I will do some additional checks on the rpc calls with tcpdump to find why mountd failed to register with portmapper, then I will file a bug report. Check /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny On my network, closing a host out with these results in the same exact error. Time flies like arrows, but fruit flies like bananas Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sendmail redirects all *local* mail to domain MX ?????
I just installed debian in one of my boxes (from slakware) and noticed a problem. All local mail on the system and all mail from outside address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is being re-addressed by sendmail to the main MX for may domain. I want mail specifically addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be delivered to thishost.mydom.com *not* mxhost.mydom.com. That's how it worked on slackware. I reran the config script several times to no avail. Then I was all over the sendmail cf file. I even copied in a slackware cf file that worked right on slackware and it still didn't work. (mail worked, just this delivery problem). Whats going on here? Any documentation? Any ideas? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail redirects all *local* mail to domain MX ?????
At 10:47 PM 1/13/97 -0500, Pete Templin wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Perry Piplani wrote: I just installed debian in one of my boxes (from slakware) and noticed a problem. All local mail on the system and all mail from outside address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is being re-addressed by sendmail to the main MX for may domain. I want mail specifically addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be delivered to thishost.mydom.com *not* mxhost.mydom.com. That's how it worked on slackware. A guess, and let me reiterate that it is just a guess, would be that sendmail on the local machine has one (or both) of these configuration errors: Well, it appears to be fixed now. I uninstalled reinstalled sendmail and serveral packages (removing some left over files in between) 1) It has been set up to forward all mail to a mailhub (Null client). That was my first guess. 2) It doesn't recognize thishost as its host name. And this my second. For #1, look for options in the sendmail.cf such as: DS (smart relay host) -or- DH (hub host) (to which all mail is sent) -or- DH (who gets all local email traffic). None of the above. In fact, I have another box that is a dual boots win95/debian that runs sendmail when in debian and works fine. When I copied the sendmail.cf from that machine it still happened. That points to your guess # 2... For #2, double check that /etc/hostname is the same as a reverse DNS lokup on the IP address of the machine. But it was resolving correctly. I'm a bit surprised that mx.mydom.com accepts your mail, as /etc/mail/sendmail.cw (in the debian implementation, was formerly in sendmail.cf as CW) must contain thishost.mydom.com. Unless of course that you are sending to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and wanting it to be delivered locally, in which case you need to add mydom.com to the /etc/mail/sendmail.cw. It was removing thishost from the address, which points back to guess #1. Let me know if any of this makes sense, let alone fixes the problem. Yes it does, but it seems only uninstalling reintalling a few packages worked. Perhaps it was a sendmail larva Thanks, Perry -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Debian over existing Slackware--pointers?
At 05:22 PM 12/21/96 -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: Let me first say that I have the requisite rescue and base floppies at home on my hardrive running Slackware---I placed them in a subdirector under / --- I don't want to repartition my hardrive for obvious reason---I have files I want preserve Do you have a backup system. Can you bacjk up that one directory. Perhaps on anther hard drive partition that you already have?? --- My possible approach: use the boot/root floppies from slackware and remove as many unnecessary files as possible, then use the rescue floppy from Debian to being installation of the base distribution. Can I do this from the hardrive, or should I put the base images on floppies as per the instructions in install.txt under disks-i386 or is it just enough to use the rescue floppy, boot it, and then indicate the location of the files to be installed on the hardrive. I have a feeling it would be easier to use the floppy approach. I think you have to do it from the floppies. --- how do I get rid of the existing /dev directory under slackware prior to reinstalling the new version under Debian, afterall when using a boot/root floppy one generally mounts the /dev/hda under /mnt and so erasing /dev would be prevent umounting it? When you boot/root with slackware you /dev will not be the /dev you need to delete. The /dev you need to delete will be /mnt/dev But you don't even need the slackware boot/root. you can get to a shell and do these thing from the debian disks. Good luck. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Q: re: dpkg-ftp
Anthony Thompson wrote: Im a recent convert from slackware to Debian1.2 (well in the process of install it). I too am a slackware veteran. I just installed debian one one of my machines yesterday. This is my first mail via netscape mail. Away im having a problem getting the ppp link up and running. Im able to establish the ppp connection ok. I check it using the ifconfig command and i see that i have a ppp connection to my ISP. Does ping work. ping your defaultroute IP address. The problem is that if attempt to run ftp (standalone) to test the link i receive 'host lookup failure'. Now i have had no problems previously with slackware getting ppp connection setup.. What have i done wrong? Ive checked my resolv.conf and it is the same as my old slackware config.. I to had FTP problems when I installed yesterday. My resolve conf had nameserver ww.xx.yy.zz, ww.xx.yy.zz I changed it to two lines nameserver ww.xx.yy.zz nameserver ww.xx.yy.zz And it worked fine. Don't know if this will help but good luck. Perry -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
