umsdos run on fat32 ?
I have recently gotten a laptop at work that I need to run Win95 and later, likely NT. It would be great to also load Linux in the same partition. Can Debian be installed using an umsdos file system in a fat32 partition? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can't remove device even as root
I recently had a large portion of my hard disk got trashed. Somehow a directory in my home director got mutated into a device file. Even logged in as root I can't seam to get rid of it. Any ideas. I'm trying to clean up to do a final backup before trashing everything and starting over. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Disabling screen saver on console.
Is there a way to disable the screen saver on the console? I have a machine that normally runs without a keyboard and it would be nice to turn on a monitor and see what is going on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fix brocken bo system or upgrade to hamm
Night before last I booted my bo system and the system wanted to be booted in single user mode. After running e2fsck there were several hundred files in lost+found. Several things such as sendmail and ps didn't work any more. After uninstalling several packages and reinstalling them I have a usable system. I don't know exactly know what to do to fix the system and know that it is fixed. Since hamm is quite close to release is it a better option to "upgrade" to hamm or fix the current system? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can't compile perl library on hamm
I need to compile FCGI-0.31 but when I run "perl Make.PL" the error: Your perl isn't compiled with perlio/sfio support. Still, you have glibc, so this might work. Writing Makefile for FCGI Things go down hill from there. Is this supposed to happen and do I need to compile my own perl? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fix my broken bo or go to hamm.
Last night, when I booted my system it came up and asked to go into single user mode. After running e2fsck there were several hundred files and quite a few directories in lost+found. My dilemma is whether to fix the system of upgrade to hamm. I have been forced to uninstall sendmail then reinstall it along with several other packages to get a usable system. One of the most frustrating things is that delete doesn't work in rxvt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian 1.1 archive still around?
I have an old 386 with 4 Megs of ram and it is probably easiest to install the old 1.1 distribution then upgrade it but I don't know of an archive of it around. Can anyone help. ( the old 1.1 easily installs in 4 Megs of RAM) Thanks, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Color map in X
I regularly get an error message in my xterm that says that an application can't allocate the color map if, say, Netscape is already running. Also xcolorsel won't run because it says that there are only 233 colors available where there should be 12000 or some other large number. This is an area that I'm not familiar with at all and am not sure where to start looking for information. I probably have a basic configuration parameter set wrong but don't know where to look. The video card is an ATI Wincharger with 2 Megs of memory using the Mach64 server. Resolution is 1024x768. Also how do I change resolution? I believe it can be done on the fly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Funneling a donain's mail to one account.
I am supplying web access for local church and would like to set up simple email to go along with it. They have their own registered domain and their mx records point to one of my hosts. The system runs sendmail and has their domain in the sendmail.cw file so that that machine can pick up mail as their domain. Could a mailertable entry be set up to deliver the mail locally so that they can pick up the mail using the qpopper that is running or via telnet if they wish? Something like this: church.org local:pastor to deliver it to the local user pastor. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to send files over uucp
I am currently fetching mail over an established uucp link. It works great! I would like to send file over this link as well. Afer reading the uucp man page it appeared simple but something is not right. uucp local_file remote_uucp_node_name!user_name!remote_filename bash: !user_name!remote_filename: event not found Where am I going wrong? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dselect problem (method locked)
I was installing a bunch of packages while telnetting into a machine. The Telnet session died while the install was running and now I can't change the access method, Install or update the database. How do I remove the lock? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Will SuperZip drive run under Linux.
I carry a SuperZip drive around all the time for work and it is nice to be able to use it on both PCs and Macs. I wondered if it would work under Linux on a SCSI or parallel port. I'd get the straight SCSI and a cheaper SCSI card but there are places that it would be nice to have the parallel port ability. If I get up the guts I may try it out on the parallel port. It is unlikely to hurt it. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Compiling perl5.004 without libc6.
I need to use perl 5.004 and would currently like to avoid setting up libc6. Is there a good reason not to get the source and compile it. >From the dosc as www.perl.org it doesn't really look like that much of a problem. Are there any problems that would be caused by doing this? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Running fetchmail in ip-up
I would like to run fetchmail in my ip-up to pick up mail from a couple of different places. Would it be best to run it via su so that it is run using my account? Is there a better way? All of the accounts have different user names. Not my choice. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
CGI scripts to send and recieve email eg. MUA
I was wondering if there was basically a MUA that was a cgi script. There are obviously quite a few folks doing it on the web. My situation is that I have a K12 school district where most of the faculty use public computers such as in the libraries. It is not reasonable for these folks to come to a machine and configure it for pop mail every time that they sit down to read mail. Most of the folks are using Hotmail accounts but this is problematic since there are many places that filter out Hotmail and many others because of spam. I don't see these folks getting a computer on every teacher's desk in the near future. Web based mail would be a good temporary solution. cgiemail may work for sending but receiving and managing an account is a different thing. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
CGI script for telnet or shell access
I am looking for a means of running a CGI script that would be able to do a function similar to telnet. The idea would be that I could access a Linux machine by means of any web browser and do standard shell operations. Currently I work at a k12 school district and it is extremely common for a facility to have no other Internet access than a web browser. Being able to access a Linus machine that would be able to run a shell via the web would be invaluable. The shell could be accessed directly or via telnet. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Which ethernet module to use.
I am trying to install Debian 1.3 on a machine that has an AMD 32 bit pcnet vesa bus card. The card is made by Mitron. None of the modules seam to load properly. Which module is the appropriate one? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Sendmail and email addresses with ip address
If I send a message out via sendmail that has [EMAIL PROTECTED] format sendmail returns the message with an error that appears to be looking for ip_address to be a DNS that it can't find. Is there a feature that I need to change in my sendmail.mc file? Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Old bios and large disk setup.
I have an older Dell mother board that has a BIOS that will in no way deal with large disks. After reading thru the large disk FAQ and lilo docs it looked like I would be able to make a small partition ~ 2 Megs, leave the rest of the disk as one large ~4 Gig partition, put the kernel and lilo files from /boot on the 2 Meg partition then mount the 4 Gig partition as /. I can't seam to get this to work. The kernel starts to load and gets to the point of looking for SCSI hardware (which there is none). After that the machine locks. There is no data in /etc/log/messages from that boot. If I boot from floppy that was made during install all is well. Can someone help? Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Flow of boot process.
I am looking for some sort of flow diagram or detailed text on the boot process used by Debian. The Linux System Administrator's guide has a small text on this and the /usr/doc/sysvinit has little. Some pointers in the right direction would be appreciated. Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Book for writing shell scripts.
I am looking for suggestions on a good book for writing shell scripts. O'Reilly publishes a book on bash and another on awk & sed. Their other books seam to be quite good are there good choices and are there others worth looking at. I'v been administering Debian systems for a while and have hacked at scripts a little here and there but only modifying other folks work to get slightly different results. Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Apache mod_actions enabled by default?
I have been trying to figure out weather mod_actions it enabled on my apache server. According to the apache web page it is compiled in by default but does it have to be activated in the http.conf or is it already active? Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
adding users after installing NIS
I have just set up NIS on several of my machines and I am having a little trouble adding a user. If I use adduser the group, shadow and passwd files in /etc are all updated properly but adduser doesn't complete properly properly. It terminates before asking for any information on the user with a message that says that the user doesn't exist and NIS knows nothing about the user. The user is being added to the machine that is the master server. Is there a different way to add users after NIS is installed? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Sendmail forwarding for other domain.
What has to be put into the sendmail.cf to allow forwarding for a specific domain other than the domain that the sendmail server is part of? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Where is ripd or gated
Sorry about that I'v gone brain dead again. I am looking for gated but it was routed that I was thinking of and that's fine. > I was looking for a daemon to do rip. It was in one of the net > packages but I don't see it now. Very possible that I overlooked it. > > Chris > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Where is ripd or gated
I was looking for a daemon to do rip. It was in one of the net packages but I don't see it now. Very possible that I overlooked it. Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Any interest in SNMP web based network monitor?
For the past couple of weeks I have been using a package called MRTG. Both the current release and the beta for the next release are running nicely, showing html graphic display of SNMP data. The package is set up for monitoring network traffic but can be easily modified to monitor other parameters. There are several things that are nice about this package. 1. The graphs are generated as gif files with a html that can be put right onto your web server for easy access by anyone with a web browser. 2. There are no other data collectors necessary. MRTG handles it all. 3. The log files don't grow, The data is kept in daily, weekly, monthly and yearly form with corresponding graphs. ( Drawback is that an old time can't be looked at in detail.) 4. The only additional packages needed are libdg that I believe is in unstable and the current pearl that stable is using. (I compiled libdg from it's origin and didn't find it until later in the Debian tree so I 'm not really sure about it.) If there are folks that are interested I'd like to try and package it. Never done that before but I think that it would be a nice addition to Debian. Several folks have told me that this would have come in handy for different tasks. When I set it up at work, some of the data that we got was extremely interesting. Cheers, Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
X server or window manager dies when changing virtual terminals.
I have been having a problem that has now gotten really bad with the new Netscape 4.03. When I am using X and change to one of the other virtual terminals then come back to X the server shuts down and I end up back at the xdm prompt. It is almost guaranteed to happen with Netscape 4.03 and sometimes with tkmail. It is rare if there are only xterm or rxvt sessions running. Any ideas would be great. Thanks for the help. Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Maintaining file system integrety.
I have set up a server that was originally intended to supply FTP and http services on the internet. As a convenience to my self I set up NFS and started using it for various temporary uses. When one of the guys found out that it was available he set up the means for access to my NFS server via one of the Novell NetWare file servers here. Once we found out how well it worked and that the resources to maintain this system were far less than expanding the Novell servers, the powers that be decided to add about 4 times the storage to my server and start off loading a great deal of the "junk" that is hanging out on the primary Novell server to my Debian box. During some testing a week or so ago the Debian box locked up due to a problem on the main ext2 file system. The server was rebooted, fsck took care of the problem and off we went. If my recollection is correct a huge quantity of data was being deleted or had just been deleted and a new large chunk was going on again when it died. I wondered it there was something that could be done to insure that there were as few of these kind of problems as possible. Basically I figure that there are some parameters that are standardly set in the Debian distribution that could be altered in favour of better server as opposed to work station performance. Things like the level of nice on kflushd. Any direction in this area would be great. Thanks all. Chris, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
cron question.
I wondered if anyone knows weather cron responds correctly to a
SIGHUP or not? I did the following and managed to kill it all
together.
kill -HUP `ps -aux|grep [c]ron|awk '{print $2}'`
Is there a different signal to send it or is it a daemon that has to
be killed then restarted?
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Is there a tool to mirror web sites?
I have some users that heavily use a couple of web sites that contain documentation and manuals. The standard mirror package is only for FTP from what I see. Is there a tool to mirror web sites too? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ipx via ppp.
I have compiled my kernel with ipx support at home. It was intended that I connect via ppp to our novel server at work. When I put any of the ipx related commands into the /etc/ppp/option file I get a message that the command is no good. They are out of the pppd man page. Does Debian pppd support ipx or do I need to compile it on my own? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Can't boot 1.2 or 1.3 rescue floppy.
I am trying to do a install fresh install of Debian 1.3 but my machine is locking up with the last message on the screen: eata_pio: No BIOS32 extensions present. This driver still depends on it. Skipping scan for PCI HBAs. Then it's dead. I'm wondering if I need to build a new kernel for it. Would building it a custom kernel mean having to build a rescue disk too. This is kind of a new one on me. Haven't really had these problems for quite a while. Any help would be appreciated. Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
How to NFS install.
I am going to set up a new machine at home this weekend to replace one that is currently running Caldera Standard 1.1. While reading the list mail I had seen mention that the system could be installed via NFS. After reading the install doc on my mirror here at the shop I couldn't find mention of it. The machines that are running right now were installed as Debian 1.2 and upgraded so I haven't seen the 1.3 install disks. All of the installs of Debian that I have done going back to .93R5 were done on floppy. Is there a separate document that has other info on NFS install? It probably isn't all that hard to figure out but a point in the right direction would be nice. Thank you. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Sendmail and domain name
I have had problems from time to time in places like at home where I simply run a script to get my ppp connection going. Like you my sendmail was getting unhappy. One simple solution can be to add your machine to the /etc/hosts file and them sendmail will be able to use the information there. My boot process was ungoddly slow until I did this. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Backing up entire machine.
I have been looking at the simplest way to back up a couple of small machines. For example this machine has primary DNS server and backup mail relay for my domain. There are a few other things but that's really the important part. Complete off site backups and such would be basically a waist. In this case because the primary desire is to get running quickly again without having to do a fresh install, configuration etc. What I was looking at was simply to NFS mount a large server and use something like cpio to transfer the whole thing over there. If each file could be gzipped in the process of transfering them it would be helpfull. Does this sound like a reasonable approach and is there a more simple means of doing this. I tend to find that the biggest problems on a system like this one is that someone trashes up a particular file, deletes it or I have a disk crash. ( The bearings in the drive don't sound really healthy at this moment. ) Getting an archive of this system would be a big plus as far as I can see. Any help or suggestions would be extremely helpfull because this is kind of a new area for me to deal with on Linux systems. Thanks All. Chris Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Any Drafting packages for Linux.
I have been looking at what would make Linux complete for me to use without reliance on other systems. The biggest thing that I can't seam to find is a Computer Aided Drafting package. Something that would handle .dwg or .dxf (Autocad) formats would be especially nice. From looking at the lists of Linux software around there doesn't seam to be anything of this sort around. Possibly I'm just looking in the wrong place. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: domain name resolution
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Mark Stone wrote: > I've just done my first Debian installation, after having used Slackware > for a couple of years, and I've got my ppp connection working. My next > challenge is to get domain name resolution working properly so I can > navigate by something other than IP number. > > My IP number is assigned dynamically by my ISP. In Slackware, configuring > domain name resolution is a matter of having my ISP's machine listed in > etc/hosts, and having the IP number of my ISP's name server listed as a > name server in /etc/resolv.conf. That's the place for the setver to be. My file is like so: nameserver 209.14.23.189 search seitz.com You also have to have a hosts.conf with something like: order hosts,bind multi on If the "bind" is not in there then the system will never make the call do name resolution. This tells it to look in the hosts file then make a call to bind. >In Debian, however, the resolv.conf file > does not appear to be present, and adding it does not appear to help. > Where does Debian look for a name server for a dynamically assigned PPP > connection? > > > Mark Stone > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SoundBlaster
I have a similar problem using kernel 2.0.27 with the really odd part being that I can play audio CDs using xplaycd. If something like saytime is run I get that /dev/audio is busy. In the kernel readme or sound howto it talks about checking that the device isn't being used by some other application and it is always free. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Best mode for uucp over tcp.
A bit of a different approach is to allow sendmail to run outbound mail SMTP and have the inbound mail as uucp. That is what I'm doing and it works OK. Kind of sloppy in some ways but if the q time is fairly short it seams to work well enough. This only works, of coarse, based on uucp over TCP. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ftp web pages updating in apache?
I am looking at a similar question. There is a company that is supposed to be laying out web pages for my company. I would like to have them set up so that they can FTP their data in, both us and them can look at it and off we go. It seamed that the easiest way was to set them up as a user then symlink the directory that is the document root for apache in the /home/user directory then they would have access. If I understand correctly, when a user logs in via FTP they are put into their home directory by default they would cd to the document root. On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Beauvalot Erik wrote: > > Normally the web pages of the users are like that > > http://www.yourweb.com/~username > > In the user directory you should have a public_html directory > (It's the default) and all the pages of the user are in this directory > so if the user connect himself with his userid via FTP, he will be able > to change evry thing in this directory. > > > At 11:55 28/07/97 +0200, dada wrote: > >Hi > > > >How can I do to permit that one user, that have count in my computer > >(attached to and TCP/IP local network),can actualice your web pages? > > > >I want the next: > > > >1.- If the user make an authenticated ftp access,he must go to directory > >where is his web pages (but *only* to thats directory). > > > >2.- If the user make an anonymous ftp, he must go to my ftp server > >(that works OK now) > > > > > >bye > > > > > > > >-- > >TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] . > >Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > > - > Erik BEAUVALOT AT&T R&D Lab Manager of Paris/EMEA > Tel : +(33)1 47 67 46 06 GSM: +(33)6 09 48 32 11 > E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.beauvalot.com/ > - > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: RPC timeout during NFS mount
I forgot to mention that if I do a rpcinfo -p it does tell me that nfsd and mountd are running. May help may not. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RPC timeout during NFS mount
I am trying to get NFS working for the first time on 2 Linux boxes and can't seam to get it to work properly. The /etc/exports is setup and I can NFS mount a directory on the local machine in both cases but I can't mount the other machine in either direction. In both cases it comes back with a RPC timeout. What does this mean? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
/home was DESTROYED last night.
When I woke up this morning I went to check my E-Mail and found that everything in /home was gone. Directories data and everything. To top it all the /home directory had permissions of 555 and was both root owned and root group. "/" is mounted read only and there is a core dump in the / directory. Looking at last there was no one else logged into the system since I was working last night in my /home/chris directory. WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON AND WHAT DO I DO TO FIX IT? This surely doesn't give me a warm feeling about using a system like this as a server right now. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Will ATI 3D Rage chips work with XFree86?
I wondered if the D3 Rage chip set boards would work with XFree86. They are supposed to be quite hot and someone offered to trade me a Wincharge for one even up. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DNS question
I set up a DNS on my FreeBSD box which is behind my Debian box and it worked fine. At the time I didn't think to ask the question I just added the secondary line to my named.boot for my ISP and restarted named. > >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: Debian User List > >cc: "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I think I know the answer to this already, BUT is it possible to run a > secondary DNS through an IP masq firewall? > > Just wondering since I'm about to network my home systems via an IP masq > firewall and would rather use one of my other systems as secondary. > > I haven't researched IP masq firewalling yet. Is this the BEST way to put > a machine on the net without it's own IP? > > > > --Rick > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
man2html and info2www give permission not allowed.
I have installed apache web server with cgi and the caned cgi scripts to try it out. It seamed obvious to also try man2html and info2www. The scripts that are in the cgi-bin directory off of the document root run fine. When simlinks to man2html and info2www are made an error is returned stating that permission is denied. The permissions are set to 755 on /usr/lib/httpd/cgi-bin /usr/lib/cgi-bin /usr/lib/httpd/cgi-bin/info2www /usr/lib/cgi-bin/man2html If man2html is moved into cgi-bin off the document root it runs but can't create the html that it needs to. I am a little confused about what permissions need to be set. Can someone help? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dosemu and win95
It would be nice to be able to run a few things under dosemu however the other partitions on the hard drive are win95. Does anyone have any suggestions on doing this and insuring that my win95 doesn't die. I'd really hate to have to deal with the wife it I ended up killing it. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Again - Multilink PPP vs. EQL
> >To: "Steve Hsieh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Cc: > > > > After burrowing around some, I finally found some info and docs on > EQL; > > > > however, Multilink PPP is mentioned as a newer, and improved > alternative. > > > > > > > Unfortunately, I can't find any info on Multilink PPP in the HowTo's, > > > etc. > > > > I thought mutlilink PPP was something only available for ISDN? If i'm > > incorrect, someone correct me. I have been looking at multilink ppp right now. (Trying to understand it really.) There is an RFC on it that gives a broad description of it and directly states that it is not intended to be used on only one link service. From the way it reads it should be able to handle one dial up analog modem and one ISDN (or more) at the same time. My ISP has currently been moving to a new location and has been supporting a Fractional T1 frame relay line to handle one of his old modem banks. A few days ago the router on the CSU/DSU died and the T1 bill came in at the same time. For the heck of it he set up several modems on the modem server for multilink ppp and had one call the new office. If several people call into the old modem bank one of the other modems dials up and starts sharing the load. He let old Bell kill the T1 line and now only uses the dialup. The response isn't too fast but it's miles cheaper than T1. Once the modems are running together the second doesn't drop our right away so it works ok. This message will actually go over that link. If you would like to know what the RFC is I can find out, it's at work and I am extremely interested in it. The modem server brand escapes me right now but I can find that out too. > > Nope, you're correct. It was something new to me to, but after some > well-received "guidance", I've got things straightened out > > > By the way, Kevin -- what docs have you found on eql? Do you know if one > > has to use eql_enslave to enslave links, and if so, is the latest > > eql_enslave the one stored inside one of old eql patches on > > sunsite.unc.edu? > > About all I've found on EQL was in the NET3-Howto. I haven't tried any of > this yet (soon, though), but from the docs it looks as if all you need is > to run "ifconfig eql up/down" to establish the driver/interface. (Of > course, you need kernel support for EQL as well.) Once that's done, there > are additional steps required to establish connections to the remote > system, but I can't remember those steps and I don't have access to the > Howto right now. > > Also, I'm sure there are others _much_ more knowledgeable about EQL than I > am - I'm a true newbie in this area. > > Thanks for the help, > > Kevin Traas > Systems Analyst > Edmondson Roper CA > http://www.eroper.bc.ca > > > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Is there an xterm for windows or win95.
I have been looking for a xterminal that could be used on windows 3.1 or win95 to operate with XFree86. Does such a thing exist? My shop is primarily DOS based and such a thing would make my life much easier. After talking to a friend from digital, he says that they have an I'mplementation to run on their systems so I thought such a thing might exist here. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Man page format trashed.
I tried to look at the man page for FTP using xman and the format got all blown out of shape. I think that it happened when the page was formatted the first time and now I keep looking at an incorrectly formatted page. If the formatted file is gotten rid of then I'll be back in business. What file am I looking for? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Ethernet performance.
I am quite new at the world of IP networks and have been doing some testing on a Debian 1.2 system and Free BSD. Last night I ran a test as described in one of the ethernet FAQs by running FTP on a file that was ~2.5Meg the rate came out at 1.09M/sec. From what I can tell this is quite good for 10 Base2 since this indicates a rate around 8Mbit/sec of data not including overhead. With no tuning at all it is supprising to get proformance on this order or am I faking my self out? Debian running on a pentium 133 Mhz 32Meg RAM as server. FreeBSD running on 486SLC 25 MHz 8 Meg RAM. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
XFree86 Mouse problem on PS2 mouse.
I recently sent a message regarding a problem that I am having with my mouse on XFree86. The mouse is a PS2 style of Mouse Systems mouse. According to the documentation that I have found the only setting in the XF86Config file that will work in the PS2 setting. When I run XF86Setup the only driver setting that seams to come close is the PS2 setting because the MouseSystems driver seams to only be set up for a serial mouse and this mouse is NOT a serial mouse. I have tried quite a selection of things and am getting quite frustrated. When using the PS2 driver the 3 buttons work fine and the mouse works fine going left to right or bottom to top. The problem is when going the other direction, where the mouse shoots immediately to the edge of the screen. This really is interesting to use. The thing works perfectly fine in Win 95 so the mouse is fine I just can't get the thing to respond properly in X. Please help. Chris
XFree86 problem with Mouse Systems mouse
I have been running XFree86 with a 2 button PS2 mouse with the HP name on it and haven't had any problems with it. After using X for a bit it looked like it would be nice to get the functionality of a 3 button mouse so I just picked up a 3 button Mouse Systems mouse PN 404097-002 (PS2 style). It seams to bave a big problem, when the mouse moves from left to right or bottom to top all is fine. Whan the mouse is moved from right to left or top to bottom the pointer jumps to the edge of the screen. I did change the confightation so that it should use the 3 buttons as far as I can tell. The same problem seams to occur on the vertual consoles and there was no previous problem there. The mouse works fine in Win95 with the lack of use of the middle button. Thanks all for any help. Chris
MHS mail transport available for linux ?
I know that there is quite a bit of support for Novel networks in linux. Does anyone know if there is an MHS mail transport available? Currently I am running a DOS based remote client to my shop but it would be great if there were something in linux. dosemu is a possibility I suppose but I was really trying to avoid that if possible since the DOS based system wouldn't really integrate into linux properly.
MHS mail transport available for linux ?
I know that there is quite a bit of support for Novel networks in linux. Does anyone know if there is an MHS mail transport available? Currently I am running a DOS based remote client to my shop but it would be great if there were something in linux. dosemu is a possibility I suppose but I was really trying to avoid that if possible since the DOS based system wouldn't really integrate into linux properly.
PPPproblem
I have a Debisn 1.2 system which I had been using on the net at one time. For various reasons I had to stop using it and now I am trying to get it going again however there is a problem with PPP. In the ppp.log file the dymamic ip addresses are acknolaged and a lock established then there is a line that says that it is attempting to add an ethernet address to the arp table. What ethernet address? his or mine? If mine I don't have one and if his what should it care since it is running via modem? After this line the link is dropped. At other places amd at the end there are ppp.log entries that say the line is not 8 bit clear and that bit 7 is 0. What does this mean? At some point my ISP's system was taken out of service for maintainance but it may have been at that point that I started recieving this second error. Any help would be greatly appriciated. Chris
Date: 26-Aug-1996 10:47:04 -0400
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Trident VGA card problem with X
From reading the X card support I see that it is supposed to support Trident tvga9000 cards. I installde my card into a friends machine that has linux installed and the card didn't work. (Don't know the distribution or revision.) The card is a tvga9000 with BIOS D4.01E (16). The error that I got was Trident chipset version: 0x43 (UNKNOWN). Should this card work with the X this is in the 1.1 Beta of Debian?
Re: 4 Meg ram install kind of worked.
With the complete set of proper base disks things work a bit better but I'm currently hung at verify after formatting the boot floppy. ( The saga continues.)
4 Meg ram install kind of worked.
I recieved the following message which got me thinking in a bit different direction. >To: R Chris Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Mr Chris Ross > Maybe the solution to your problem is that you should try the >installation in two steps: > repeat the normal installations as you followed last night until you >prepares the hardisk an put ON THE SWAP partition. > Then restart again your pc with a floopy with booting system >(I mean that that allow you to mount your / partition directly without >lilo, I don't know if it possible to you build one from the step one) >and then install the rest of the base system. The idea is try to >reboot the machine allowing linux to put on the swap from the hardisk >an then you have the oportunity to install the rest... A similar >procedure I used time ago when I try to install slackware in a 4MB PC. >The difference was that previously to the installation slackware allow >us to use the command swapon.. I'm new in unix-linux, but I hope this >can help you a little. avelino Since I had a formatted swap and main linux partition I had someplace to operate. After booting from floppy again with "linux load_ramdisk=0" and getting to the install menu on the root floppy I shelled out and used ae to add a starting line to /etc/rc to activate my swap partition ( swapon /dev/hda4). At this point I rebooted and ran the install normally with the ramdisk. The installer had to be tricked a bit by telling it that I didn't want to use swap space which, it said was a bad idea then I could have it mount the ext2 partition that was already there. (This partition was made while running with the floppy as / during a previous session.) After the main partition was mounted and made / I tried loading the base. This I crashed once because I was using the color install screend. When monocrone was used the base loded and attempted to uncompact. As far as I can tell this functioned properly. Due to my own stupidity I had picked us 1 base dated April 27 and 2 dated April 18. The mirrors were out of sync and I didn't think to check the dates. Shortly I'll pick up a single set of base floppies and give it a shot again. If there is something that I should do to clean out the bad install I did please let me know. From what happened at the end it looks like it should load fine. Thanks for the help. Chris
4 Meg ram install kind of worked.
I recieved the following message which got me thinking in a bit different direction. >To: R Chris Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Mr Chris Ross > Maybe the solution to your problem is that you should try the >installation in two steps: > repeat the normal installations as you followed last night until you >prepares the hardisk an put ON THE SWAP partition. > Then restart again your pc with a floopy with booting system >(I mean that that allow you to mount your / partition directly without >lilo, I don't know if it possible to you build one from the step one) >and then install the rest of the base system. The idea is try to >reboot the machine allowing linux to put on the swap from the hardisk >an then you have the oportunity to install the rest... A similar >procedure I used time ago when I try to install slackware in a 4MB PC. >The difference was that previously to the installation slackware allow >us to use the command swapon.. I'm new in unix-linux, but I hope this >can help you a little. avelino Since I had a formatted swap and main linux partition I had someplace to operate. After booting from floppy again with "linux load_ramdisk=0" and getting to the install menu on the root floppy I shelled out and used ae to add a starting line to /etc/rc to activate my swap partition ( swapon /dev/hda4). At this point I rebooted and ran the install normally with the ramdisk. The installer had to be tricked a bit by telling it that I didn't want to use swap space which, it said was a bad idea then I could have it mount the ext2 partition that was already there. (This partition was made while running with the floppy as / during a previous session.) After the main partition was mounted and made / I tried loading the base. This I crashed once because I was using the color install screend. When monocrone was used the base loded and attempted to uncompact. As far as I can tell this functioned properly. Due to my own stupidity I had picked us 1 base dated April 27 and 2 dated April 18. The mirrors were out of sync and I didn't think to check the dates. Shortly I'll pick up a single set of base floppies and give it a shot again. If there is something that I should do to clean out the bad install I did please let me know. From what happened at the end it looks like it should load fine. Thanks for the help. Chris
Re: Is 1.1 instalable on a 4 Meg memory machine?
Well I tried installing 1.1 last night with no success. The first time I used the default of using the ramdisk. After booting and loading the ramdisk it loadid the keyboard map then one other command that I don't remember. Shortly it said dinstal was unable to fork. I went at it again with the command line "linux load_ramdisk=0" doing this I was able to run the installer, partition the disk, format and activate both swap and the main linux partitions. The problem came in when it came to loading the base system. Since my laptop only has one floppy and my / was mounted on /dev/fd0 I was stuck. Unfortunitely I didn't have the viles on the DOS partition of the drive because I could have shelled out or possibly mounted it in the install program and loaded the tar that way. ( It was getting late and I didn't think of this before going to bed.) Any suggestions? At this point I'm sure that something easy can be done to make this work. When I did shell out and look around the main linux partition was nicely mounted as /target and there seamed to be a good number of utilities availible. With a little direction and head scratching I could probably get it running manually without too much trouble. The biggest question for me was how to get the main linux partition (/dev/hda3 it ext2 and /dev/hda4 is linux swap) to be / while running the install disks. I thought that the installer was doing that but it didn't so I couldn't remove the floppy. Thanks for any help Chris
Is 1.1 instalable on a 4 Meg memory machine?
A while back I attempted to install Debain on a NEC Versa S laptop. Since I only had 4 megs of ram the install wouldn't run. The install was for .93R6, but is the 1.1 install runable in low memory machines? I had no problem loading Slackware so the thing runs Linux fine. Any suggestions would be appriciated.
