Re: Printing on win95
Brant Wells writes: > Howdy all... > > I've got samba set up to where I can print to a shared printer... But > the files have to be text files, and I have to do it manually from the > smb:> prompt :( > > WP8 will go through the motions, but will not print to the printer... > > I created a script for this, /usr/bin/netprint it looks like this: > > * > #!/bin/sh > smbclient dahouse\\hpdeskje shadowgate.com -U BW07442 -P -c 'print' > * > My /etc/printcap file looks like this: > * > > lp1?Deskjet:\ > :lp=/dev/null:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ > :if=/usr/bin/netprint:\ > :df=/etc/filter.ps:\ Did you edit /etc/filter.ps and insure the PCL conversion is enabled? > :tf=/etc/filter.pcl:\ > :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\ > :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\ > :pl#66:\ > :pw#80:\ > :pc#150:\ > :mx#0:\ > :sh: > > Anyone see anything wrong?? > > Thanks a plenty, > Brant > > __ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
SoundBlaster Vibra16 card
Sorry about getting in the tail end of this thread. I just went round and round with this very same card. I have it working under Debian. This is what I had to do: 1) Go into the BIOS - PNP/ISA menu and turn off the "Is there a PNP OS installed?" option. Doing this forces the BIOS to assign default addresses/IRQ/DMA channels. 2) boot up into Win95 and look at the control_panel/system/device_manager/sound/properties/resources menu and write down the addresses/IRQ/DMA settings. 3) reboot into Linux and as root, run pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf ; edit /etc/isapnp.conf and make the file match the settings I got from Win95. 4) configure the sound driver module to the same settings and re-compile & install the new "sound.o" module. (insmod sound) Of course, /etc/modules has "sound" listed right after "auto" to insure proper installation on boot up. As a side note, the SB16 Vibra card of mine uses DMA 0,1 as the stereo channels and, on loading, the sound driver complains about a bad DMA channel. However, it works just fine! -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: printing to a win95 shared printer *sigh*
Richard A Nelson writes: > > Has anyone setup lprng to print to a win95 shared printer? > The printer in question is a HP DeskJet 870. > > I've been printing to the printer locally, but had to move the printer > to a box that runs mostly lose 95. If you haven't already installed SAMBA, you should do it since SAMBA handles it correctly. Look at document /usr/doc/samba/examples/printing/smbprint It does work when all configuration (self-documented) is done. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: _very_ reproducable WP8 X client lib error.
Stan Brown writes: > I am having a reproducable problem with WP*. It must be a clinet side > library problem, since it ccurs even on remote X servers. > > If you go to "Format", and select "Labels" then select a label, and > press "OK" WP says an X server error has occured. "Popushell must have > a non NULL parent". I have upgraded to xlib6-3.3.2.a-8 from frozen, and > it still persists. > > I know I got a good download, because I have installe from the same > tarball on a FreBSD machine, and runing it under Linux emulation there > does not reproduce the bug. > > This bug is 100% reproducable. > > Sugestions? Do you have libc5 libraries or libc6 libraries? It may be a conflict in the old vs. new libc# libraries. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: Why?!
Charles Collicutt writes: [snip] > I'm going to wait a bit longer before I make up my mind, but the > temptation to let the Winborg empire assimilate me is getting stronger - > which is a shame because you guys are a hell of a lot nicer than your Thanks for the kudos. > average Windows luser :) If anyone can think of an excellent way to save > my soul please let me know... Each OS has it's purposes/advantages/advocates/detractors. I'm sure that you've read all the various replies. Let me relate my experiences to you and perhaps you can do your soul-searching and make an intellegent decision. I switched to Linux in Jan 1995. This time frame precedes Win95, thus the only thing available was Win3.1/Dos. I came from a background of an industrial proprietary OS (OS9). OS9 suffers from the same problem as MS products. It's closed and propriety. Linux was in a state of developer's apps and a _few_ home style apps. Both Win95 and Linux have grown in available apps since that point in time. My wife uses Win95, I use Linux. She gets so mad at me because her system keeps having problems and mine keeps on trucking. One of the hidden problems inherent in Win95 is the interaction of Win95 apps with each other. I believe that since developer A is working on his product and developer B -his own - AND since they can't talk to each other, Product A can fight product B (and visa-versa). I've seen this sort of crap first hand on my wife's system. Contrast that with Linux and Open Source apps. Everyone talks and shares source code. This interaction of developers and users minimizes/eliminates conflicts between apps. You say that you'd like to see more games (I assume in the caliber of Quake) on Linux and that you are considering a career in game programming. I ask why not Linux? Consider Quake - it's source is still hidden, but the binaries are distributed. No reason that you couldn't develop games using Linux as the base platform and port to Win95. I'd guess that the Win95 version would be much more stable/bug-free than using MS development tools (considering the stability of Linux). -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: Piped unpipable output [Xserver troubles]
Christian Lavoie writes: [troubles] Christian, looks like you lack a valid "modeline". Check your monitor spec's vs the available modelines. Most video cards are capable of displaying far more video formats than the monitor is capable of displaying (without messing up or worse - burning out). -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: Piping unpipable output.
Christian Lavoie writes: [problem with capturing error messages from X server] Christain, invoke 'script' before running 'startx'. When you get back to the command line prompt (from startx), invoke 'exit' and everything which appeared on your screen will be captured in a text file called 'typescript' in the current directory. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: help please! still unknown interface and SIOCSIFADDR!!!!!
Rino Mardo writes: > So I checked everywhere (HOWTOs, #Linux, FAQs) and couldn't find out why I > can't use my 3C509B NIC even after recompiling the kernel. So I thought I'd > use the NE2000 nic since it is loaded with the kernel by default. Guess > what? Though it says 8390 loaded during the boot process (but it doesn't > appear in dmesg) I still get: > > SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by device > eth0: unknown interface > > I have setup my NE2000 to be IRQ=5 and IO=0x300. Please help!! Don't overlook an IRQ (or base address) conflict. My NIC was programmed on IRQ 3 when I changed motherboards. All of a sudden, it stopped working. After chasing this problem a while, I realized that the NIC and serial port ttyS1 were conflicting. I turned off the serial port and re-programmed the NIC to a different IRQ. And all is well in Linux land... -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: first attempt to run UUCP; failed
Eugene Sevinian writes: > Hi all, > I am trying to connect 2 Debian machine, > via uucp. I am not sure that I will find answer in this mailing list, Sorry about that, I was clouding the issue with my previous answer. OK, you will need to setup UUCP on both machines. One of the machine will have to become the "primary" and the other machine will need to become the "secondary". The primary's job will be to collect UUCP mail from other sites and to pass that mail to your ISP. The secondary machine will become the "leaf" site and will gather mail from local users to pass on to the primary via UUCP. The primary can still gather mail from it's local users as well. The point of this arrangement is that the primary will monitor it's UUCP port for incoming UUCP connections while the secondary will (via cron) periodically call the primary and exchange mail/programs. Should you add more machine to your virtual network, they will also in turn call the primary as well for UUCP connections. UUCP connectivity can be more sophisticated than my simple example. But in any case, one or more machine must listen for incoming connections while one or more machines do the initial talking. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: first attempt to run UUCP; failed
Eugene Sevinian writes: > Hi all, > I am trying to connect 2 Debian machine, > via uucp. I am not sure that I will find answer in this mailing list, > however I will try to discribe the problem shortly. At the very initial > stage of communication chat script is getting NO CARRIER and exit. > At the same time I use this line by minicom without problem, so it > seems that the phone line is ok. I think that sometihng is wrong with uucp > configuration. Hope, there are UUCP gury around here, who will help > me to understand what is going on. > > Here is the debug info from client side: > > 54.54 1060) Calling system spyur (port ttyS2) > 54.54 1060) DEBUG: fcsend: Writing "ATZ\r" sleep > 55.56 1060) DEBUG: icexpect: Looking for 3 "OK\r" > 55.56 1060) DEBUG: icexpect: Got "\r\nATZ\r\r\nOK\r" (found it) > 55.56 1060) DEBUG: fcsend: Writing sleep "ATM0L0E1Q0\r" sleep > 57.60 1060) DEBUG: icexpect: Looking for 3 "OK\r" > 57.60 1060) DEBUG: icexpect: Got "\nATM0L0E1Q0\r\r\nOK\r" (found it) > 57.60 1060) DEBUG: fcsend: Writing "ATDP" \D "562635\r" > 57.60 1060) DEBUG: icexpect: Looking for 7 "CONNECT" > 57.61 1060) DEBUG: icexpect: Got "\nATDP562635\r\r\nNO CARRIER" > 50.95 1060) DEBUG: icexpect: Found 10 "NO CARRIER" > 50.95 1060) ERROR: Chat script failed: Got "NO\sCARRIER" > 50.95 1060) DEBUG: fconn_close: Closing connection > 50.96 1060) DEBUG: fcsend: Writing sleep sleep "+++" sleep sleep "ATM0H\r" > 59.03 1060) DEBUG: Call failed: 2 (Dial failed) > 59.04 1087) DEBUG: usysdep_detach: Forked; old PID 1060, new pid 1087 > 59.04 1087) DEBUG: fsysdep_get_work_init: Found C.NVMzzTJAAAOl > 59.04 1087) DEBUG: fconn_open: Opening port ACU (default speed) > > Thanks for any tips, Sure thing - 1) turn off the command echo option of the modem. UUCP does not like having the command echoed back. 2) assuming that your modem has 2 memories for parameter storage, use one of the memories for parameters for UUCP, and one for ordinary connectivity. Use minicom to setup the UUCP memory slot and adjust your script to load that memory into the modem's working registers. If you wish, you can Email me your configuration files (with the account & password information blanked out). I also need to know if you are using Taylor or HDB mode of operation. The configuration is different depending on which you want to use. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: Win95/Linux network problem
Rodrigo Moya writes: > Hi all! > > I've got a Win95 machine and a linux machine connected via ethernet cards > (Realtek in both) but cannot 'ping' from one to another. This is the > configuration I've got: > > Windows->hostname: windows.cyllan.com > IP address: 192.168.1.2 > Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 > DNS server search order: 192.168.1.1 > Domain suffix search order: cyllan.com I recommend that you disable DNS on the win95 machine for now. You need to keep it simple while you troubleshoot the communication issue. > Linux-> hostname: debian.cyllan.com > /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1localhost > 192.168.1.1debian.cyllan.com > debian > 192.168.1.2windows.cyllan.com > windows > Set up as a DNS server > subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 Again, I recommend that you disable DNS until you get the machines to properly see each other. > > In both computers the network card is initialized correctly, and I've been > able to communicate two Win95 machines with the same cards and cable. > > I know I am missing the 'interfaces' configuration () but I don't know > where should I do it. Please help 1) What does "/sbin/ifconfig" give you on the debian machine? 2) What is the contents of "/etc/host.conf" ? 3) On the debian machine, does "ping 192.168.1.1" work? 4) Did you create HOSTS in "c:\windows"? (copy hosts.sam to hosts and edit it to reflect the debian machine's /etc/hosts) ADDITIONALLY: 5) If you plan on being able to browse the debian machine from win95, you will need to install "samba" and configure it (on the debian machine). You will need to create LMHOSTS in c:\windows. (copy lmhosts.sam to lmhosts and edit) You'll find more info in /usr/doc/samba. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: cdda2wav won't recognize my CD-ROM
Jason Lunz writes: [snip] > I do have the generic SCSI driver installed (as a module, sg.o), and the > only other lead I've found from reading stuff in /usr/doc/cdda2wav is > that I might need to define something with /dev/MAKEDEV, but I can find devices 21,(0-6) which correspond to sg(0-6), You will probably have to make these via /dev/MAKEDEV -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: Trying to NFS mount Linux from Solaris 2.6
George Bonser writes: > On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Bruce Jackson wrote: > > > The Solaris box is getting an access denied. According to the Linux > > logs, it is specifically denying the Solaris box. The kernel is > > 2.0.35. Both automounting and manual mounting don`t work. I even > > changed the exports file to have no_root_squash. Seems mighty strange. > > Ok, which linux log is showing the denial. Are you running mountd/nfsd > under tcp wrappers? Do you have the Solaris host allowed in > /etc/hosts.allow? Good point, George! Can he telnet both ways? (solaris -> linux & linux -> solaris) I beleive a problem in the /etc/hosts.* files would show up using a known service like telnet or ftp. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: Trying to NFS mount Linux from Solaris 2.6
Bruce Jackson writes: > George Bonser wrote: > > > > On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Bruce Jackson wrote: > > > > > rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd are running. What is the lockd bug? Looked on > > > deja news and didn`t see a solution. Not trying to do it at the same > > > time now, maybe in the future. > > > > Solaris complains that it can not lock files over NFS. Seems that > > there is not a good lockd in Linux that Solaris will accept until the more > > recent 2.1.12x kernels. > > > > What error is the solaris box giving? > > > > George Bonser > > > > The Linux "We're never going out of business" sale at an FTP site near you! > > The Solaris box is getting an access denied. According to the Linux > logs, it is specifically denying the Solaris box. The kernel is > 2.0.35. Both automounting and manual mounting don`t work. I even > changed the exports file to have no_root_squash. Seems mighty strange. I've read this thread with interest since I just finished fixing the very same problem on my home network. Look at the proper format for the /etc/exports file (man 5 exports). The Linux version is syntaxically different. After I straightened out my server's /etc/exports file, the server still would not let the client connect (permission denied). So I stopped/started the NFS daemons on the Linux server (/etc/init.d/netstd_nfs stop/start), and lo and behold - all is good in the Linux world. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: [ale] Locking up Linux (how to?)
Eric Webb writes: [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > On Sat, 31 Oct 1998 11:43:05 -0500 (EST), > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [ale] Locking up Linux (how to?): > > Nick Lucent writes: > > -- Start of PGP signed section. > > > On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Eric Webb wrote: > > > > > > check the security howto, and the firewall howto. > > > > > > Nick > > > > I would like to recommend the book "Linux Network Toolkit" by Paul G. Sery > > (ISBN 0-7645-3146-8) as well as the above. > > Well, the reason for even writing this question was to try to discover why my > box is spontaneously rebooting very often. My only guess so far is that it's > a service attack, but I can't find anything. > > Ideas? As suggested by others, don't overlook hardware problems like a CPU fan going bad, power supply, reset switch, etc. I've personally had each of these go bad on me 8-) Try compiling a kernel, bad ram will show up very quickly as a SIG 11 (unless it is in the middle of the kernel itself). Try the SIG 11 web site and see if it can point you in the right direction: http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
more diald madness
I reported earlier that adding the "hostname" to the /etc/hosts file entry would stop the repeated dialdings. I found out to my chagrin, that the problem was not solved. I reread the diald.faq file and tried this solution: 1) shutdown diald 2) edit /etc/diald/diald.options and make the local IP a non-routable like 10.0.0.2 3) edit /etc/hosts and add that bogus non-routable address like: 10.0.0.2 <<< use your local hostname here 4) reboot the system (for some odd reason, if you fail to reboot, diald will use the _old_ parameters instead of the newly edited files) Maybe a guru can tell me how to flush all the buffers so that I don't have to reboot the system. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d
Moore, Paul writes: > >From:Peter Iannarelli[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Hello: > > > >Wouldn't it just be cleaner to use dial on demand (diald) > >which would automatically bring up and/or turn down the > >link based on idle time. > > Sorry, I should have said this. Diald won't work for two main reasons. > First, my ISP passes mail to me when I'm online (not via POP3 - I can > use POP3, but it's not suitable for a number of complex reasons...). So > I have to go online anyway to grab mail. Second, I want to work in a > batch-online mode, where I get everything in one big slug (which I can > run, for example, while I have my tea :-) and then scan it all offline. > > Hope this explains better, > Paul. Yep, you confuse connectivity with mail transfer. Diald only makes/breaks a PPP connection based on IP traffic. You say that you use SMTP to get your mail. "fetchmail" should fit the bill. It fetches mail via SMTP and does it as a batch job. You can use "cron" to activate "fetchmail" periodically. "fetchmail" would then activate "diald" to make the connection. >From the fetchmail manpage: ... The fetchmail program can gather mail from servers sup- porting any of the common mail-retrieval protocols: POP2, POP3, IMAP2bis, and IMAP4. It can also use the ESMTP ETRN extension. (The RFCs describing all these protocols are listed below.) ... --- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: phantom in diald queue
David S. Zelinsky writes: > Using diald, with a dynamic IP address, I sometimes get an annoying "phantom" > in the packet queue. It's usually something like: > > /80 => /1234 > > evidently coming from an aborted http transfer. The stale local address is > the IP address I had on some previous connection. > > The diald packet queue will show this for a minute, then disconnect when its > time expires. The queue will remain empty for a minute or two, and then this > same entry will reappear, and cause the link to come back up. It will sit > idle for a minute, the link will go down, and the whole cycle keeps repeating. > > I've tried: > * killing Netscape (which initiated the transfer originally) > * killing and restarting diald > > Neither of these stop the phantom from continuing to reappear. > > I've tried running lsof to see what process is opening the connection -- but > lsof doesn't show it. > > The only way I've been able to make it stop is by either waiting (it goes away > after 10 or 15 minutes); or by rebooting. > > So, can anyone tell me what is causing this request to be continually > regenerated, and/or how to stop it? A suggestion: Stop "diald" and check /var/log for "diald.fifo". I found that if "diald" is not shutdown properly, a bogus file gets created (/var/log/diald.fifo). When you restart "diald", I believe that it uses that bogus file instead of creating a new, clean fifo. If you have such a file, "rm" it. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: diald auto-dial bug/feature
Michael Beattie writes: > I imagine you have no NIC? If so, then for people that do, probably dont > need to do this. e.g.: No Sir, I do have a NIC installed. I'm using an unrouted address (192.168.x.x) And diald was doing the dirty deed 8-) inspite of the additional information in my /etc/hosts file. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
diald auto-dial bug/feature
I asked on the list if anyone could tell me how to find what process was
connecting to a socket. lsof looked promising but did not work as advertised
in it's documentation. However, I did some detective work and found that
"diald" was the culprit. Here's how it happens:
diald is started by the init process
diald reads it configuratuion files
diald does a "gethostid()"
diald then compares the machine's hostname against the /etc/hosts file
(because of the /etc/resolv.conf file)
It is at this point where the problem starts!!
The default configuration for local IP address for diald is 127.0.0.1
However, "gethostid()" returns the hostname ('westgac3' in my case)
The hostname does not match the name for IP address 127.0.0.1 (which is
'localhost' in the /etc/hosts file)
Thus diald does a DNS request to resolve the hostname! And the endless
diald-ups start!
THE SOLUTION:
1) edit the /etc/hosts file and add your hostname behind the 'localhost'
example:
old '/etc/hosts'
127.0.0.1 localhost
new '/etc/hosts'
127.0.0.1 localhost westgac3 << use the name returned by 'hostname'
2) Then reboot your system.
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look up process
I was having trouble with diald bringing up the line. A dump of the /var/log/ppp.log showed something connecting to local (127.0.0.1) and sending a DNS request (port 53 on destination IP). Is there a way to query a connection to find out which process is doing the connection? I'd sure like to know what was connecting thru local and requesting DNS. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: Cannot run any executables under Debian2.0 - Help(newbie)
Helge Hafting writes: [snip] > Note that your PATH does not contain the current directory (.) This is > default for Debian, and is considered a security feature. I believe you > can run standard executables like "ls" and such? > > To run the a.out file, use "./a.out" instead of only "a.out" > The same applies to anything else that isn't in your path. Why is this a > security thing? Because a nasty user on a multiuser system could create a > virus or something and name it "ls" > in his home directory. Someone else might cd's into that > directory and run "ls" in order to get a directory list. > Not having the current dir in PATH is then useful. Unnecessary, Just place the "." at the end of the $PATH variable so that all other directories are searched first before defaulting to the current directory "." Thus, official binaries (like /usr/bin/*) are searched before attempting the current directory. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
diald
How do I get diald to ignore a non-routable lan address like 192.168.x.x ? I had a situation were I was pinging the nodes in my 192.168.x.x lan and one machine was off-line. Diald started dialing when IMHO, it should have ignored the packet. So, I must have something not correctly configured. The manpage wasn't helpful in this matter. Thanks. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
june 1998 CDrom disk set - Debian
I recently purchased the June 1998 InfoMagic 6 CD set. On the back of the case, it clearly states that the Debian 2.0 distribution was included in the set. I mounted the "debian binary" disk and got this for the directory: Debian-1.3.1 TRANS.TBL boot doc stable READ_CD.txt bocolophon.txt frozentools SOURCE.txtbo-updatescontrib ls_lr.4 Hum. Wonder what they had in mind? I thought I purchased the 2.0 release, but it is clearly an error. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
new SCSI driver
I purchased a new PCI based SCSI card locally and was dismayed to find that the 2.0.3x kernels did not support this card. I went surfing and found the "linux ready" driver for this card (source code no less!) So my question here is: What do I have to do to fully integrate this new SCSI driver into the kernel? OR would the SCSI driver expert like to do this for all of the Linux folks? I'd be happy to forward the source files to that person. Details: card is KW-910U from Kouwell Corp. It uses the 9100U chip set from INITIO Corp. The driver handles the 9100U and 9100UW chip sets. I suspect that other brands of PCI SCSI cards also use one of these chip sets. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: OFF TOPIC: W/95 term progs > COM5?
Edward J Young writes: [snip] > I need to use the board to communicate serialy with some other systems. To > do this I need a com program that will work with com5 and above. I know > this is possible, but since com ports above 4 are nonstandard in the > W/World, most programs don't go up there. I believe it's simply that they > have hardcoded their programs, not that it's not possible. Ok, are the additional serial ports shown in the device manager menu? (Settings, Control panel, System, Device Manager, Ports) If they show there, you should be able to use Hyperterm. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: problem with installation
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [stuff deleted] > Maybe someone would tell me how to install linux with floppys exactly. Try a fresh format on all 7 floppies (full format, not the quick format). All it takes is one flakey sector on the floppy to torpedo you. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: Copying files over samba
Jieyao writes: > Hi, > > I am thinking of doing something as follows... > > I have a debian and a win95 connected over a network and samba is running. > I am thinking of setting up something like a 'mutual backup'. That is, I want > some data files on the win95 to be backup to the debian and vice versa. > > I was thinking of writing a perl script to do that but have no idea how to > access > samba. A check at CPAN did not find any modules to access samba. > > Is there any way to do this? > You will need two things set up: samba (to allow win95 to store files on debian hard drives) and smbmount (to allow debian to store files on the win95 hard drives). -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: SAMBA: multiple connections, same login
bmorgan writes: > I'm having trouble connecting to my debian machine from my windows > machine using samba. I've successfully done this before, but now I've > got several users connecting to the samba server for IP printing to > jet-direct boxes. Right now, I've got my SMB.CONF file set so that it > uses the workgroup "linux" and "security = user." All my users should > be able to connect with the same login name (student), and no password. > > Is it possible for multiple users to connect to the samba server all > using the same login name? Or do I need to have a separate account for > everyone who connects (the latter would NOT be a good scenario, if I can > avoid it). Is there something else I need to set in the smb.conf file > to allow multiple users with the same login name? Perhaps the "security > =" parameter? > > Believe me, I've got everything else setup correctly. Null passwords, > smbpassword file is set for no passwords as well. > As pointed out by another member of this list, you need to insure that the win95 users are logging in as the official user of the machine. If they take the easy way out and "escape" the login window, win95 will block access to _any_ available shared resources. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: cdrom ??
spOOL writes: > I was reading your response to the question about the hdc: no response > (status = 0xd0) at boot. > > I have this same problem. I think it may have occurred after I installed > the wrong PIIX4 drivers for my motherboard. Now win95, doesn't like my Should be straight forward to replace the drivers under win95 > cdrom and Linux won't use it at all. BTW, I do have another cdrom mounted > at /dev/hdd > > Should my changes be to the bios or debian ...the back of the drive ??? > If I understand your question correctly, you should re-arrange your cdrom/hard drive assignment. You might have to change the BIOS settings as well (depending upon whether you use the "auto-detect" feature or specify what drive is in which slot). I found through hard-won experience that some brands of IDE CDrom drives do not like being the master drive. When they are re-programmed as the slave drive, they work fine. /dev/hdc is the master position of the secondary IDE bus. As far as the /dev/hdd goes, it should work fine. You should not have to do anything with it. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: hdc: no response (status = 0xd0)
Zlatko Rek writes: > I've installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 on a new machine from CD. The basic > installation went OK, until I made a reboot. After that, the CD drive > is not recognized (boot from floppy or disk): > > ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7 > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf > hda: WDC AC34300L, 4104MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=523/255/63, UDMA > hdc: no response (status = 0xd0) > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 > > but, if I boot from CD and mount /dev/hda2 as root partition, the CD drive > is recognized: > > ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7 > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf > hda: WDC AC34300L, 4104MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=523/255/63, UDMA > hdc: ATAPI CDROM, ATAPI CDROM drive > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 > > The kernel is from kernel-image-2.0.34_2.0.34-4.deb and I also tried with > custom kernel, with no success. > > What to do? Any help is appreciated. > EASY, your CDROM drive does not like being programmed as a "master" drive. Reset it to slave mode and put it behind a master hard drive (as /dev/hdb). I ran into this very same problem myself. After resetting my CDROM from "master" to "slave", it has performed flawlessly. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: majordomo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello folks :-) > > > Please, I need help about create a list in majordomo. > > I read the **newlist** file (where there is instructions to create a > list), but I does not understand the step 7: > > -- > 7) Now issue a 'config .admin' command to >Majordomo. > -- > > what must I do? > > > Can somebody tell me whow must I do to create a list?I need an > example. > > REgards. > Since I haven't seen any replies, I'll try and answer this question. Easy, Email a message to majordomo. Contents of the message is outlined as above. Read /usr/doc/majordomo/majordomo.ora.gz for more detailed information. Pay attention to the "Managing the lists" section. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: Connection Refused
Kennedy Mutio writes: > I have just installed debian linux onto a machine and added it to my > network but I cannot telnet frm any other machine on the network to this > new machine. I have checked the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files in /etc > and changed them. I might have done this wrong but does anyone know what > else I should change/configure? > > Thanks, > > Ken. Ken, Debian distribution is packaged as the most secure distribution for Linux. What you can expect with Debian is very paranoid settings for networking as compared with other distributions. You most likely will have to turn on the required services. Some basics: 1) Eye-ball the /etc/inetd.conf file and make sure the appropriate services are activated. 2) Do a 'ps -ax' and make sure '/usr/sbin/inetd' is running. You may have a problem and your system might not start up inetd. 3) As suggested by other members of this list, make sure that you have installed/configured the 'server' version of the service. When you telnet from the new machine, you are using the client version of a service (like ftp or telnet). When you come into the new machine from a remote machine, you are using the server version of the service (on the new machine). 4) You might want to eye-ball the '/etc/hosts' files of the machines for consistancy. The older machines may not know about the new machine. In the case of a name server (DNS) on your network, you might want to check it's table(s). -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: [ale] SB16 PnP Problems
Benjamin Dixon writes: > > > I've never been able to get my SB16 ViBra Pnp to work. Using sndconfig I > alaways get "dsp reset failed". I'm pretty certain my isapnp.conf file is > set up correctly as I see information pertaining to it just before I see > the sound driver loading. When I try to play a sound I get a "device busy" > error. Anyone know whats going on? Dejanews had nada. > Does the "sound.o" (sound module of the kernel) match the settings of isapnp.conf? If the IRQ, BASE address, etc. are not consistant between the kernel, DOS/windowss. and isapnp.conf , you can have problems. Second thing, did you install the NAS package? It conflicts with stand-alone audio packages. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: Starting Over
Marcus Johnson writes: [snip] > On this,( my first ever installation of Linux) I installed stable > Hamm using LSL's version of the official 2.0 release. Everything went > swimmingly until I got to right before dselect/dpkg where it asks you > to pick which installation type you want. I picked complete > developer. Cool. Then some instructions to the effect that since I > was using a preselected set I didn't need to individually dselect > items to install. Unfortunately I didn't write those instructions > down -- big mistake. I hit return. Oops. I looked for a "go back > one screen type button and there was none. being able to escape back to the previous screen is really > important>. It automatically lauches dselect and I'm lost. I pick > one of the choices off the main menu that sounds like it would > complete the installation. It asked where I was going to install > from. I picked CD-ROM off of a list and then it asked me something > about which "block device" it was. Of course I had no idea. It said > I could hit ^c to interrupt. I tried that. It didn't work. call that a serious flaw. I think it was because dselect was started > from a script> Being cornered and not knowing what else to do I > rebooted (my m$ dos background showing). Sounds like you need a basic Linux "howto". Block devices are hd for IDE drives (where L is a letter and # is the partition on that drive) Primary IDE master drive is hda, slave would be hdb. If a device is a CDROM drive, no partition number is used. Serial devices would be ttyS<#>. Let's assume that you have 1 IDE hard drive with 2 partitions and a CDROM drive. So in DOS terms, you get C: = /dev/hda1 (since windows sits in the first partition) D: = /dev/hda5 (/dev/hda2 is the extended DOS partition, and logical drives start at hda5.) E: = /dev/hdb (CDROM drives do not use partition tables) COM1: = /dev/ttyS0 COM2: = /dev/ttyS1 COM3: = /dev/ttyS2 LPT1: = /dev/lp1 LPT2: = /dev/lp2 PS2 port = /dev/psaux > Okay, I reboot off the floppy and it comes up okay and I login in and > its okay, except all that cool stuff is not installed and the only > file I can see in the root directory is something like "rev_[can't > recall rest of name". I looked at that file in vi, and it looked > like a configuration/installation type of file, but it has columns > that give the program/package name and then it says "deinstall" after > each one. Hmm.. go figure. Well, I'm wondering how do I get back > into that automatic installation script that was working so well > until I lost my way. I wanted to go back to where you select which > type of installation you want and go from there. I couldn't figure > out how to do that. I started dselect. I poked around, but I ended > up back at that same screen where it asked for the block device name. > I still didn't know the answer. At least this time the ^c let me > out. Yeah! > > Well I really wanted to start over at this point. I just wanted to > wipe the partition clean and start over. So I rebooted and tried to > reinitialize my Linux root partition. That worked. I mounted it as > root. Then I tried to reinstall the kernel and base OS. Instead of > starting from a clean state I think there is still remnants on the > partition because it tries to use a "recovery floppy image" from off > of the CD-ROM, but it fails. It not only fails it takes ages to > decide to fail . So now I'm > really stuck. I have no idea where to go from here. seem to provide any help at this point> Help! Ack! > > And oh, was the answer to the block device question /dev/hdc ? > > Thank you for patiently helping a newbie, > > Marcus At this point, use MSDOS/WIn95 fdisk to delete the Linux partition. Then start over with Linux. I'd recommend that you pick up a book on Linux. While it most likely won't be Debian specific, it will have the basic information on how Linux does things. Also, make sure that you have a swap partition. A swap partition is like the virtual memory in Win95/3.1 only Linux allows up to 16 swaps and win95/3.1 only allow 1 swap. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
CPAN modules
Quick question - Where is the best directory to locate the modules to? I have the CPAN library on CD and would like a pointer on where to put them. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Linus Torvalds interview
Steve Lamb writes: > > On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 12:03:58PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ever try replacing a Motherboard on a "win95" system? > > Yes. In fact, I swapped machines around the HDs to test a theory of > mine. > > > That "fabulous, great, decent OS" loses it's mind! You see, all > > information about the hardware is kept in the registry files. When the > > Id's of the old MB (in the registry) don't match the new Id's of the new > > MB, all H-LL breaks loose. > > That hell, of course, is that Windows is updating the drivers supplied > by the manufacturer(s) for their motherboard. One reboot is all that is Why? I didn't have to update the drivers of Linux. It came up and running. Win95 on the other hand kept on insisting on rebooting the system for each "updated driver". > needed. I know, like I said, I did it. Swapped a whole machine around the > HDs. One machine had Win95 on it, another had Win95 and WinNT. > > Am I advocating Windows? No. What I am doing is quelling some serious > BULLSHIT here. Not serious BS, just personal experiences. IMHO, if your WinXX machines work ok for you, you probably (I'm guessing here) have the latest patches applied to fix the bad bugs (with or without your knowledge). Everytime you load the latest "MS" product, patches are applied. (Again, my opinion based on experience) Ok, let's talk a concrete example: I loaded "Barney on the farm" for my daughter (Official MS Win95 game for children). The setup routine got to the "Parent's Room" segment of the installation. I was not given a choice as to whether or not I wanted IE installed. The setup routine announced that it was installing IE (and all necessary support) PERIOD. No 'cancel' buttons available! I prefer Netscape over IE but here goes this official setup program installing unwanted software and 'lord knows' whatever other patches. The unwanted software had nothing to do with the game program and does not have to be present for the game to run. Like you, I did some testing as well 8-) -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: linux software
Geoff Brimhall writes: > > Create a binary file, that contains the bit you want. > > The on the shell command line, execute the following command: > > cat binary_file_name > /dev/lp1. > > or whichever device is your printer. If you store the word as a sequence of 10 bytes, you could simulate a serial port with appropriate timing loops. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Linus Torvalds interview
Please allow me my two cents of experience with Lost95 (if they don't 'Win', they 'lost') C.J.LAWSON writes: > > On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: > > Well, Windows is a decent OS if you know how to use and configure it right > > (and work around its many bugs). If you can't deal with bugs in an OS you > > don't deserve to be allowed to use a computer, or even own one. Windows > I wonder if you would have the same attitude if you loose vital data on a > computer crash. You sound as if you can predict when the crash is going to > occur (I have seen windoze freeze a few minutes after a systems reset) Ever try replacing a Motherboard on a "win95" system? That "fabulous, great, decent OS" loses it's mind! You see, all information about the hardware is kept in the registry files. When the Id's of the old MB (in the registry) don't match the new Id's of the new MB, all H-LL breaks loose. In contrast, Linux boots up without so much as a single hick-up and runs fine! Why would one want to change the MB? MEMORY! I found that newer memory DIMMs are not recognized properly by the older BIOS'es. Example, a 64Meg DIMM is reported as a 16Meg DIMM or a 128Meg DIMM is reported as a 8Meg DIMM. Upgrading the MB to a newer one fixes the problem! > > > took many years to develop into its present state of glory and bugs alike. > > Do you think MS took only 5 minutes to design and implement the UI? Or > > FAT32? I don't think so. > Not that Trovalds took any longer ... I think we are missing the point > here. The length of time one takes to achieve a task is irrelevant > (particularly so when there are standards which have to be met/adhered > to). The fact that I take two weeks to assemble the components of a > computer 'does not' make it better than one assembled in two hours by > default. You are right, the time is irrelevent, however, where is the "peer" review of the inner workings of Win95/98? I get extremely irritated when an application hoses the whole nine yards and I lose hours of labor to the "blue screen of death". I've yet to lose anything within Linux. Apparently, the "Win95 advocates" think that it is ok for the OS to lock down or freeze. Perhaps they are numbed by the inability to fix the problem(s). -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Time is still not right.
Keith writes: [snip] > > > I need some more help with this problem. > > > > Ok, look at /etc/init.d/boot and let us know what the 'GMT=' line is set to. > > I think you have found the problem. Here is what it says in my > /etc/init.d/boot > > # Set GMT="-u" if your system clock is set to GMT, and GMT="" if not. > GMT="-u" > > This is wrong since my hardware clock is not set to GMT. I think I need to > set it to GMT="-5", but I don't know much about timezones. Like I said before > I am in the Eastern timezone, US. Set the line to read: # Set GMT="-u" if your system clock is set to GMT, and GMT="" if not. GMT="" And leave your timezone as EST5EDT. All will be ok (might have to reboot after making the changes, though) -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Time is still not right.
Keith writes: > > My time is still not right. > > My hardware clock is right if I type clock this is what > I get: > > debian# clock > Thu Jul 23 20:07:06 1998 > --- > If I type date this is what I get > > debian# date > Thu Jul 23 16:07:40 EDT 1998 > --- > > I don't know what the lines are for, but I want my linux > time to say what the hardware clock says. I thought that > maybe my timezone was wrong, here is what my timezone file has > in it: > > EST5EDT > > I live in Florida Eastern time zone -5:00 GMT. > > > I need some more help with this problem. Ok, look at /etc/init.d/boot and let us know what the 'GMT=' line is set to. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: hdparm
Gary L. Hennigan writes: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | Martin Oldfield writes: > | > > | > > | > I'd like to improve the IDE performance of my system. The IDE > | > controllers are on a newish Intel motherboard; /proc/pci says: > | > > | > IDE interface: Intel 82371AB 430TX PIIX4 (rev 1). > | > > | > The drives are older: > | > > | > Model=QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4A, FwRev=A0F.0800, SerialNo=15672304 > | > Model=QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM3840A, FwRev=A6B.1T00, SerialNo=39662361 > | > Model=ST32140A, FwRev=08.08.01, SerialNo=JBF24417 > | > Model=ST32140A, FwRev=08.08.01, SerialNo=JB770285 > | > > | > Can anyone suggest more aggressive (yet safe!) options for hdparm to > | > make things run more quickly; alternatively is there a repository of > | > known good settings. > | > | Here's a script I added to /etc/init.d (with link in /etc/rc2.d) for better > | performance. Use the '-i' option alone to find out the number for the '-m' > | option. (man page explains all) This script is the last thing executed > during > | bootup. Enjoy! Oh BTW, my transfers jump from 5 Mb/sec to 35Mb/sec. > > You're saying you get 35 mega Bytes per second? That seems highly > unlikely! > > I'm not disputing the fact that your script might improve performance, > haven't tried it, but there's not a hard drive in existence, excluding > specialty solid state drives and RAIDs, that can sustain 35MB/s (I'm > assuming by Mb you meant Mega Bytes and not Mega bits, which is what > Mb is generally used for?). Shoot, I don't even think the UDMA bus can > acheive that? I believe it's theoretical maximum is 33MB/s. Whatever > you're using to get this performance number isn't measuring your disk > throughput but your cache performance. > > Of course, if you meant what you wrote and get 35 mega bits/sec I > could believe that, although if the drive was getting 5Mb/s to start > with it's time for a new drive! > > Try using > > hdparam -t -T /dev/ > > for a little better estimate. Thanks for the tip. You were right, the 35 Mb/sec were Megabytes but in the disk cache. Your suggestion shows an 8 Mb/sec disk read when ran. 8Mb/sec is probably more realistic! -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: hdparm
Martin Oldfield writes: > > > I'd like to improve the IDE performance of my system. The IDE > controllers are on a newish Intel motherboard; /proc/pci says: > > IDE interface: Intel 82371AB 430TX PIIX4 (rev 1). > > The drives are older: > > Model=QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4A, FwRev=A0F.0800, SerialNo=15672304 > Model=QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM3840A, FwRev=A6B.1T00, SerialNo=39662361 > Model=ST32140A, FwRev=08.08.01, SerialNo=JBF24417 > Model=ST32140A, FwRev=08.08.01, SerialNo=JB770285 > > Can anyone suggest more aggressive (yet safe!) options for hdparm to > make things run more quickly; alternatively is there a repository of > known good settings. Here's a script I added to /etc/init.d (with link in /etc/rc2.d) for better performance. Use the '-i' option alone to find out the number for the '-m' option. (man page explains all) This script is the last thing executed during bootup. Enjoy! Oh BTW, my transfers jump from 5 Mb/sec to 35Mb/sec. --- #!/bin/sh # # uncomment next line if you are swapping around the IDE drives #exit 0 echo Testing IDE.. /usr/sbin/hdparm -t /dev/hdc echo Set up hard drives for multiple sector /usr/sbin/hdparm -m 32 /dev/hdc /usr/sbin/hdparm -m 16 /dev/hda echo Turning on DMA access /usr/sbin/hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc /usr/sbin/hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda echo Testing IDE.. /usr/sbin/hdparm -t /dev/hdc -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
FIXED IT! - IDE stopped working
Jaakko Niemi writes: > Check that you did include support for IDE/ATAPI cd-roms and enchanced > IDE/MMF/RLL support. Also check that did you include support for SCSI- > emulation. > > One thing could be that some card goes to irq 15 in boot and messes things > up. > > If those do not help, try .34. Jaakko, I want to thank you for hanging in there. I swapped /dev/hdb (hard drive slave on primary bus) for /dev/hdc (cdrom master on secondary bus). Two things have become self-evident: 1) If the kernel does not see any valid devices on the secondary IDE bus, the kernel will disable the bus (this fact was unknown to me) 2) Some CDrom drives prefer to be slave drives and do not properly respond to the kernel's inquiry when jumpered as a master drive (again, an unknown fact) Full use of my system has now been restored and perhaps the members of the debian-user list will benefit from this experience. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Missing (files)
Brandon Mitchell writes: > > On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Syed Huq wrote: > > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/ > > > > All the files are there except base14-1.bin ... base14-6.bin. Instead of > > these, I see the files base-1.bin ... base-5.bin. > > > > Q1)Should I download the base-1.bin ... base-5.bin instead of the missing > > base14-1.bin ... base14-6.bin ? My floppy drive is 1.44MB. > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/hamm/main/disks-i386/current/ > It's not stable yet. I think the instructions need a little touch up. > > > I intend to buy a Debian CD and install from there. What was not clear in > > the 'Installing Debian Linux 2.0' documentation is if I still need to > > use all the floppies mentioned in section6.1 or are all these files for a > > floppy installation only. > > I guess this may be considered a bit confusing (it's hard to tell when > you've done it several times). If you have the cd, all of these files > will be one it. You will need the resc1440 and drv1440 disks. "root" > isn't needed for 1.44 disks, and you only need the tecra for goofy > laptops. You can mount your cdrom and access base2.0.tgz from there. Ok, > I guess it is a little confusing. The nice thing about the cd is that you > can do a 0 floppy install by clicking on the install.bat if you have dos. > Also, newer systems can boot from the cdrom, acheiving the same effect. > True, but in the wacky world of win9x and laptops, a 0 floppy install might not be possible. I just installed Debian on a Compac laptop. The system came pre-loaded with Win95. The problem was that the DOS mode lacked the proper CDrom driver. Thanks to the floppy install available with Debian, I was able to tame that "wrascly wabbit" and get a decent operating system on board. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: IDE stopped working
Jaakko Niemi writes: > > >> Jaakko Niemi writes: > >> > > >> > >> Jaakko Niemi writes: > >> > >> > > >> > >> > >> All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, > >> > >> > >> the secondary > >> > >> > >> IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen > >> > >> > >> shows the IDE > >> > >> > >> primary bus as being probed, but no secondary bus. I use LILO to > >> > >> > >> boot. How can > >> > >> > >> I get the kernel (2.0.32) to properly probe/detect the secondary > >> > >> > >> IDE bus? > >> > >> > > >> > >> > Does the BIOS find your CD ? > >> > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> Yes, The BIOS does properly identify the CDrom Drive. Funny thing , > >> > >> now that I > >> > >> think about it, is that Win95 could not see the secondary IDE bus or > >> > >> the CDROM > >> > >> drive until I loaded a driver under Win95 (supplied by the MB > >> > >> manufacturer). > >> > >> Perhaps the registers for the secondary IDE bus are sufficiently > >> > >> different > >> > >> from the "norm" that a special driver is needed. > >> > > >> > That's a reeaally old 95 'buglet' that it did not recognize the > >> > secondary IDE > >> > channel on Intel chipsets and at worst disabled it entarily. > >> > > >> > If you do a cat /proc/interrupts , do you see int. 15 allocated to ide1 > >> > there? > >> > >> NO, only IDE0 is present. A stand-alone PCI bus probe program would come in > >> handy right about now 8-) > > Hmm. if the cd works fine in 95, you might want to check the relevant kernel > settings. What is the chipset used with that mb ? TX? Do you have any pnp > cards ? Kernel settings? I'll have a look at it since I compile my own kernel. You may have hit on something with the chipset - "Intel 430TX PCIset" with "PCI Bus Master" IDE controller. I do have PNP cards on the PCI bus, but all of them are recognized and initialized properly. If I upgrade the kernel to 2.0.34, do you think that might fix this situation? -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: IDE stopped working
Jaakko Niemi writes: > > >> Jaakko Niemi writes: > >> > > >> > >> All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, the > >> > >> secondary > >> > >> IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen shows > >> > >> the IDE > >> > >> primary bus as being probed, but no secondary bus. I use LILO to > >> > >> boot. How can > >> > >> I get the kernel (2.0.32) to properly probe/detect the secondary IDE > >> > >> bus? > >> > > >> > Does the BIOS find your CD ? > >> > > >> > >> Yes, The BIOS does properly identify the CDrom Drive. Funny thing , now > >> that I > >> think about it, is that Win95 could not see the secondary IDE bus or the > >> CDROM > >> drive until I loaded a driver under Win95 (supplied by the MB > >> manufacturer). > >> Perhaps the registers for the secondary IDE bus are sufficiently different > >> from the "norm" that a special driver is needed. > > That's a reeaally old 95 'buglet' that it did not recognize the secondary IDE > channel on Intel chipsets and at worst disabled it entarily. > > If you do a cat /proc/interrupts , do you see int. 15 allocated to ide1 > there? NO, only IDE0 is present. A stand-alone PCI bus probe program would come in handy right about now 8-) -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: IDE stopped working
Jaakko Niemi writes: > > >> All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, the > >> secondary > >> IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen shows the IDE > >> primary bus as being probed, but no secondary bus. I use LILO to boot. How > >> can > >> I get the kernel (2.0.32) to properly probe/detect the secondary IDE bus? > > Does the BIOS find your CD ? > Yes, The BIOS does properly identify the CDrom Drive. Funny thing , now that I think about it, is that Win95 could not see the secondary IDE bus or the CDROM drive until I loaded a driver under Win95 (supplied by the MB manufacturer). Perhaps the registers for the secondary IDE bus are sufficiently different from the "norm" that a special driver is needed. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
IDE stopped working
All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, the secondary IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen shows the IDE primary bus as being probed, but no secondary bus. I use LILO to boot. How can I get the kernel (2.0.32) to properly probe/detect the secondary IDE bus? -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
memory leak
Something that I'm running is leaking memory like crazy. How do I find this memory leak and more importantly, how does one fix it? I have 128Meg of memory on the system and when I first boot up, the system has 99Meg free. After running for a day or two, I'm dipping into the swap space and the /proc/meminfo shows 90 Meg tied up in "buffers:" -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?
Ulisses Alonso Camaro writes: > On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > > > > As the data is available (via Shift-Pageup) then there surely must be a > > way of getting to it and saving it. I tried with /dev/vcs* but got only > > the current screen. Maybe in /proc/??? somewhere? A Linux guru is > > needed. > > > > Then we could have a script run as the final boot-up process to save it to > > a file. > > I don't know how to do it, but In HPUX 10 the bootup process output is > saved and rotated in separate files... I think I would be cool to make > something similar... > > Maybe copy /dev/vc* contents is not a good idea cause (I think so) is > limited to video memory The information has to be stored somewhere. Otherwise, the shift-pageup could not work. Just a matter of chasing down what memory buffer holds it and saving it out to a file. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?
David Wright writes: > > On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Mark Yobb wrote: > > > > I know how to use `dmesg` but I would really like to be able to get > > the info that scrolls across my screen (on bootup) when /etc/init.d/boot is > > executing. Is this message sent to a log file or something? How can I look > > at this after booting? > > Simple. Just use shift page up and down. This works at any time, just so > long as you don't switch consoles. And, as long as you don't change /etc/issue so that it clears the screen. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .maildelivery, "to:" line, exmh, & spam
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. writes: > > > reading through a newsgroup, someone pointed out what should have been > obvious: bulk emailings almost never have a "to:" or "cc:" in the header, > and > that mail could be filtered to a junk box in this manner. > > But looking through the exmh documentation about .maildelivery, this doesn't > seem to be an option: I can sort by the contents of any field, but it > doesn't > mention the *existence* of any field. > > Or would > > To* | ? "/usr/lib/mh/rcvstore +inbox" > > put an article into the inbox if there was something in the To line, and do > nothing if no such line existed? > Perhaps the way to sort the "junk" mail from the legit, wanted mail is to 1) match any mail which meets your critera and put that mail into your normal mailbox and 2) default all other mail to a junk account which you can have "cron" delete it periodically. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A must read for all Linux and computer lovers
Shaleh writes: > > There is an article from a month or so ago on Salon Magazine's site by > Ellen Ullman. She discusses her trip into the world without Microsoft > from a techie point of view. It is an absolute must read for anyone who > wants to know "why", rather than just use something. The URL is: > http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/feature/1998/05/cov_12feature.html. > BTW she actually answers her e-mail too. Excuse my ignorance, but how do you folks find these tantalizing tidbits? I read the article and other related articles and found them fascinating. Perhaps the linux community can get permission to use that article for advocacy purposes! -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: print permissions
Hamish Moffatt writes: > > On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 08:14:00AM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: > > How can I control who can print and who can't? > > I am guessing, but I guess you could put everyone who may print > in the lp group, and remove the setgid bit on /usr/bin/lpr* -- but > then those users will be able to play with the files in /var/spool/lpd > directly, which they normally cannot. > Or, one could use the TCP wrapper methodology. Rename lpr, create a wrapper and call it "lpr". Then have the wrapper check a "allowed user" file when a print request comes in. It then either passes on the printing job to the real lpr or rejects it with a diagnostic message (as a courtesy). -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wav to mp3
Jens Ritter writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Beattie) writes: > > > On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 10:31:59AM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: > > > > "Timothy C. Phan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > I'd like to know if there is a tool that would convert wav file > > > > > to mp3 file! > > > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > package l3enc (non-free shareware trial version). > > > > > > This seems to have dissapeared from both bo and slink for some reason. > > > The > > > package name was l3, anyone know anything about this? > > > > the package has disappeared, along with l3enc off of the web... But its > > successor, mp3enc, is available at the home page... cant remember where... > > put "+mp3enc +download +linux" into altavista and you should find it. > > mp3enc has a 30 sec limit. Seems the shareware approach didn`t work. > > :-( > > The official site has win95 Software for $50, the linux software costs > $200! > > :-((( > > (Where the other way round would yield more money (today)!) > > Jens > > --- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter > Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 > Take a look at www.8hz.com ; the linux version of their mp3 encoder is free. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wav to mp3
Timothy C. Phan writes: > > Hi, > > I'd like to know if there is a tool that would convert wav file > to mp3 file! > > Thanks! > Go to www.8hz.com They have a "FREE" wave to mp3 converter. I've used it and it works pretty slick. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting stops since CD-Recorder is connected
Stefan Kunkel writes: > > Hi > I have a little Problem with my Debian-Kernel since i have connected > my Yamaha CDR-102 ! > When i boot from DOS, the Kernel finds all SCSI-Devices (including > the Recorder), but then he tries to find something on the ID of the > Recorder with the LUN of 1 and tries to reset the SCSI-Controller > (Tekram 390-U) > and then nothing happens !!! Everything stops !!! > What should i do ??? > Stefan I have the same problem with "stock" kernels (ie. one built into the installation floppy set). It seems that someone compiles in the multi-LUN option into the SCSI driver. I run a mix of IDE and SCSI drives. When this occurs, I disconnect the SCSI controller and boot pure IDE. I then recompile the kernel to get rid of that (useless to me) option and install the modified kernel (complete with bootable floppy). After shutdown, I re-install my SCSI controller and boot from the modified kernel and all is well! It seems to me that if someone _insist_ on compiling in the multi-LUN option, the driver _should_ timeout and continue with the bootup process (rather than hang up the system). -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: samba
Timothy C. Phan writes: > > Hi, > > I've trying to work on the samba for file/directory sharing > from my Linux box to NT without any luck. Would someone please > tell me which doc in the /usr/doc/samba to look at? Thanks! > > I just want other PC can read file from /pub/debian in this case. > Here is my smb.conf > > [global] >printing = bsd >printcap name = /etc/printcap >load printers = yes >guest account = nobody >invalid users = root >workgroup = Elite >domain logins = yes > > [debian] > comment = Debian mirror > path = /pub/debian > writeable = no > public = yes > writable = yes Make sure that the permissions in the Linux enviroment permit access to the designated directory for all who would access it. Also, it probably would be a good idea to eliminate duplicate statements in your smb.conf file. Under [debian], you have two "writable" statements 8-) -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
StarOffice
Disregard my previous request for help. I figured it out. 1) un-tar the files in /usr/local (as root), 2) cd to the new directory "StarOffice-3.1" and run : ./setup /net as your normal login account. When prompted for a directory to store the files, use the default. Worked slick as a button and the home directory (~/StarOffice-3.1) is a bunch of links to /usr/local/StarOffice-3.1 -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
StarOffice
I know that this has been asked before, but how does one install StarOffice for multiple users? I've downloaded "common", "english", and "statbin" tarballs of StarOffice. Thanks! -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux as a eMail/Internet server.
Alistair Phillips writes: > > Hi there fellow Linux fans (Debian and the like!) > > About 6 months ago I stumbled upon the greatest find of my life. Someone > had told me about a wonderful OS that multitasked great, handled 100's of > users, had very little requiremets and was a all round OS for anyone. So, > I downloaded Debain GNU Linux and gave it a try. I was most impressed by > it AND by the help I got from this list. Via this list I managed to get a > copy of tri-linux for free (postage included to South Africa). I now have > a great little 386 running Debian Linux that I use to fiddle with. I now > consider myself quite an "expert" with it :) > > I am only 16 years old and do WWW site design, computer repairs and > installations, etc... I am currently working at a Computer Resourse > Centre. We have decided to get an account with the Western Cape Schools > Network (as we are part of a school) which offers UUCP email with a domain > (i.e [EMAIL PROTECTED]) for a negligible amount. The software > that they recomend for Windows will cost us a fortune. They have not > suggested anything else in the way of software. I then sugested to the > owner about Linux. I spent the day explaining to him all about it. He was > very impressed and said that it would be a great option to think about... > > We have about 20 + computers ranging from P100's to P200's. They all have > win95 osr 1 or 2 and NE2000 compliant network cards. The network is > running on Windows IPX stuff. (Totally a microsoft network). We would > like to have the Linux server dial up as needed to offer email (via uucp) > and internet access (via ppp) for the pupils/customers. I want UUCP to > dial up on a schedule and have the ppp connection connect when needed (ie > when Netscape for IE starts on the win95 computer) > > I was hoping that someone out there may be able to help me through this and > give me (step my step!) instructions or better ideas on what to do. > > I was going to create an account for all of the students on the Linux box > and get UUCP to filter email accordingly. Then I was going to run a pop > server (slakware has one "built in") on the Linux side and let the > computers "connect" via the network to Linux with Outlook express and get > the users email. > > The Linux box will NOT have a direct connection to the Internet. I have > managed to get a PPP connection with my ISP at home with Netscape on X. > That is as far as i have gotten! > > I would appreciate ANY help that I can get. I am not on this list, so > could you please maybe email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let's see if I understand this correctly: ISP <-- UUCP --> LINUX <-- network --> win95 boxes If the above is correct, 1) to satisfy the UUCP requirement, you will need to install the UUCP & CRON packages (plus whatever else they may need in support) 2) to satisfy the network requirement, you will need a POP3 server (plus whatever else it needs in support) PLUS you have to have networking installed and configured. (ie. you can telnet to the LINUX box from a MSDOS window on a win95 machine, ping both ways, etc.) 3) to glue it together, you will need an MTA (mail transfer agent) like "sendmail" Assuming that all configuration is correct, "cron" will periodically start the "uucico" agent. "uucico" will exchange mail with the ISP. When finished, "uucico" will invoke "uuxqt" which will in turn invoke "rmail". "rmail" is a link to the MTA. Thus "uuxqt" invokes "sendmail". The typical win95 setup assumes that you are the only user of the system. So the easiest way to glue the POP3 side is to assign accounts for each machine on the LINUX side and let the POP3 server do it's thing. "fetchmail" is a client, not a server. Try "qpopper". Something else that you may want to consider is installing "samba" and using the LINUX box as a printer server as well. 8-) [snip] > Linux rulez No question about that! -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is
DAVID B. TEAGUE writes: [snip] > > HEAR HEAR! This is not inappropriate discussion for the Deb User list. > > I too play double bass myself (or bass violin as Professor Murray > Grodner called it, and the folk who succeeded Professor Grodner and his > wife at Lemur Music call it as well.) > > Marcus, I share your classic guitar interest, as well, though I > certainly wouldn't say I _play_ classical guitar. I have attempted to > play it, and would not find a word or two about either topic > inappropriate. > > If you want to talk double bass, instruments, music, etc, I'll be > delighted to talk to you about it. Is this is maybe more border line > than Windows 95 crud software? Nah, no more borderline than some of the spam that has been on this list before 8-) Those who do not wish to participate in the thread, please use the "delete" function. "bass violin"... never knew that 8-) The closest I get to "playing" any instrument is via MIDI sequencing. I wonder if "jazz" ever got debianized -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?
Paul Miller writes: [snip] > hmm... I have 64 megs of EDO RAM and two ~104 meg swap paritions and Linux > rarely touches them, and even if it does, it only uses less than 10 megs.. > Has Linux decided my 6-year old, 208 meg drive is too slow? NO, Linux does not care. You have to determine if that drive is too slow for your usage. > > I've also had a swap parition on a 3-year old 1.2 WD drive, it's not UDMA, > but it is 310% faster than the older drive.. Linux didn't touch that > either .. I've even tried to make Linux use it by openning tons of huges X > programs (i.e. multiple Netscape windows) and it'd only use about 15 megs > at max. Try using different programs. Shared libraries make using the same program a lesson in futility (as it should be). I suggest cdda2wav + X-windows/netscape + find as a better test. > > I have a 6.4 WD UDMA drive installed now, maybe I should try it out. Is > it worth it? > > BTW- the hdparm -t values for those IDE drives are approximately 1.05 > megs/sec, 3.27 megs/sec, 8.51 megs/sec, respectively. Yep, those are about right. A SCSI-1 system is around 5 Megs/sec, A SCSI-2 around 10 megs/sec, and SCSI-3 about 20 megs/sec. I believe a ultra-wide SCSI-3 tops at 40 megs/sec. Anyone knowing better than I is invited to enlighten/educate me. 8-) Try this just giggles: /usr/sbin/hdparm -c1 -X34 -m16 (or whatever the multisector factor is) /dev/hda (or whichever drive you want) The above combination should bring up your IDE performance. Check the manpage for hdparm _before_ invoking the above. 8-) -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New drive--->lilo warning
Mark Phillips writes: [snip] > > Why have two "DOS" bootable drives? In my experience, "DOS" only likes to > > see > > one main bootable drive. [snip] One other item which I did not mention: The bootable "DOS" drive _must_ be the first one detectable by "DOS". > > This is the setup of my three drives (according to cfdisk): > > /dev/hda1 Boot PrimaryLinux 814.08 > > /dev/hdb1 PrimaryDOS FAT16 [ ] 100.23 > /dev/hdb2 PrimaryLinux 177.25 > /dev/hdb3 PrimaryLinux Swap 48.02 > > /dev/hdc1 Boot PrimaryDOS FAT16 [NO NAME] 504.00 > Pri/LogFree Space 11.82 [snip] Re-arrange your drives like this and let me know if it fixes the situation: HDA - ok HDC - Set as HDB HDB - Set as HDC (Linux does not care where additional partitions are) ps. fix the /etc/lilo.conf file as well and re-run LILO -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New drive--->lilo warning
Mark Phillips writes: [snip] > I tried booting anyway but it failed, complaining that it wasn't a system > disk. However my Dad (whose disk it was before giving it to me) swears it > was bootable. > > So what's wrong? On my father's computer the disk was disk C: where as > now it is /dev/hdc (that is, disk E: in dos-speak). Could this change > affect anything? Why have two "DOS" bootable drives? In my experience, "DOS" only likes to see one main bootable drive. Anyhow, back to LILO, Another gentleman on this list had a similar LILO problem. He found out that the additional boot partition was corrupted and as a consequence, LILO would not install properly. Any chance that you might have a corrupted drive? Also, is the bootable flag set for all participants in your LILO configuration file? -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?
Remco Blaakmeer writes: > > The second thing that you can do is to move up to the new "ultra-DMA" > > IDE drives. The bandwidth (bytes per second) is much higher than the > > standard IDE drives and will speed up Linux as a whole. > > If you want to really speed up your hard drives, switch to multiple SCSI > drives. Period. > Yes, to a point! If one is to go all the way, then make it "wide fast SCSI3" drives which spin at 10,000 rpm and use a PCI based RAID SCSI controller with _many_ of these GIGAbyte drives! Did anyone mention "myriabucks"? (one myriabuck = $10,000) 8-) The newer SCSI controllers will handle up to 15 drives per cable. 8-) (not to mention the startup current blanking out half a city and the resonances sounding like a jet plane taking off 8-) ) In all due seriousness, while an IDE drive will never match a decent SCSI setup, IDEs are less expensive and "ultra-DMA" IDE drives, IMHO, represent the most "bang for the buck" (performance for the money) -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?
Mark Phillips writes: > > > I have been wondering about whether putting a swap partition on one IDE > drive, while putting most of linux on a different IDE drive will speed up > swap by allowing both disks to be accessed at the same time. > > Unfortunately I think I read somewhere that when you have a Master/Slave > IDE pair, only one of the disks can be accessed at any one time, so that > having the swap partition on a separate disk doesn't help. > > However my motherboard is capable of using 4 ide devices. It has two > pairs: > > Primary Master/Primary Slave > and > Secondary Master/Secondary Slave > > What if I put linux on one of the primary disks, and the swap partition on > a secondary disk, will that mean both disks can be accessed at the same > time, hence giving a swap speedup? You need to think in terms of available "bandwidth". If the swap partition is on the same cable as the root partition, then it has to share the bandwidth with the other partition(s). Moving the swap partition to the secondary controller (where it is by itself), will increase available bandwidth. You can use this trick with a CDROM drive also. The second thing that you can do is to move up to the new "ultra-DMA" IDE drives. The bandwidth (bytes per second) is much higher than the standard IDE drives and will speed up Linux as a whole. The third thing that you can do to speed up your system is add more memory so that you don't even need to access the swap partition. And lastly, if you are using EDO memory SIMMs and your motherboard supports SDRAM memory, switch over to SDRAM. You can get a large speed up doing this alone. My kernel compile times used to be ~35 minutes. When I changed from EDO to SDRAM, the kernel compile times dropped to 12 minutes (without any other changes). -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New drive--->lilo warning
Mark Phillips writes: > > > Hi, > > I have just installed a third IDE hard drive (my board supports up to 4). > I have configured the BIOS. Now I want to use lilo to make it possible to > boot from it (it currently has DOS on it), but when I try, it comes up > with: > > # lilo > Added linux * > Added dos > ide: probable bad entry for /dev/hdc > ide: to fix it, run: /usr/src/linux/scripts/MAKEDEV.ide > Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible > ide: probable bad entry for /dev/hdc > ide: to fix it, run: /usr/src/linux/scripts/MAKEDEV.ide > Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible > Added dad > > I don't know whether to believe its explanation. I suspect something else > might be wrong. Any ideas? The answer comes straight out of the LILO manual (/usr/doc/lilo/manual*) More than two disks - - - - - - - - - - On systems with more than two disks, typically only the first two can be accessed. The configuration choices are therefore the same as with two disks. When attempting to access one of the extra disks, LILO displays a warning message ( Warning: BIOS drive 0x may not be accessible ) but does not abort. This is done in order to allow the lucky few whose BIOS (or controller-BIOS) does support more than two drives to make use of this feature. By all others, this warning should be considered a fatal error. Note that the two disks restriction is only imposed by the BIOS. Linux normally has no problems using all disks once it is booted. = In a nutshell, since your BIOS supports 4 drives, ignore the warnings. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Outgoing Message Error
Michael Acklin writes: > > Hello, > > I have just installed majordomo version 1.94.1 on my Linux (debian) > system, version 1.3.1, kernel 2.029. I am using smail version 3.2.3. All > programs, majordomo and smail were compiled for debian linux version 1.31. > > I was wondering if anyone has seen this problem and if so what I need to > do to correct it. The config-test ran with out any errors. When I send a Yes, modify the /etc/smail/directors file and add the following as the very _first_ listing in the file: # added for majordomo aliasinclude: driver=aliasinclude,nobody; copysecure, copyowners There is a shortcoming in smail and adding the above lines will fix it. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel 2.0.33
Since I've upgraded to this kernel(2.0.33), whenever a "vfat" partition is mounted, the kernel complains about not being able to find "NLS charset cp437" module. I haven't found anywhere in the "menuconfig" options a listing for that module. Any hints as to where one can find it? -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why does the kernel suck up memory?
Klaus Wacker writes: [snip] Thanks for you reply. Strangely enough, the original problem of all physical ram being allocated was solved by upgrading the kernel from 2.0.30 to 2.0.33 Just wanted everyone to know 8-) -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
swap space
I asked earlier on this list about why memory is sucked up into buffers. I appreciate the answers and thank everyone who responded. Now I have a new question: why won't the kernel release the swap space that it apparently needed sometime earlier? The kernel is 2.0.30 Here's a snapshot of /proc/meminfo. Please note that it has 29 megs of physical memory available, but still insist on using swap space. total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 97660928 68157440 29503488 11612160 48906240 5804032 Swap: 33026048 319488 32706560 MemTotal: 95372 kB MemFree: 28812 kB MemShared:11340 kB Buffers: 47760 kB Cached:5668 kB SwapTotal:32252 kB SwapFree: 31940 kB -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
why does the kernel suck up memory?
I've noticed that when I added more memory, the extra memory went into "buffers". Why? I don't have a heavily loaded system which would require massive buffers. How can I change the kernel to stop with this unnecessary behavior? I'm trying to keep from using swap space. Once a swap partition is accessed, it is never dropped and I need to _not_ access swap space for performance reasons (IO bandwidth). -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sdram and linux
tony mollica writes: > > Hi. Just looking for a little more info. > > Just installed 64megs 168 pin sdram (replacing the 64megs of the usual > type 72 pin edo stuff) in my system and it appears > to be causing file system corruption, as indicated on boot > up by fsck (attempted boot up, actually). Booting from the rescue > disk and running fsck reports lots of problems, fixes them all, but the > problems reappear at the next reboot from the hard disk drive. Also ran > into a problem with programs exiting unexpectedly and core dumping for > no apparent reason. > > Tried my Debian kernels 2.0.30 and 2.0.33 with the same > result and put the original memory back, which seems to > have fixed the problem with either kernel version. > > Has there been any similar reports or other problems using > 168 pin sdram type memory or are there any hardware or kernel > settings that I may have overlooked to make this work? The > memory works ok on 'other' o.s.'s and machines. Did you check the BIOS settings and make sure the BIOS is setup for SDRAM? The typical access time of SDRAM is 10 ns, whereas EDO access time is typically 60 ns. You may have a timing problem. Remember, Linux is very demanding when it comes to hardware. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: On Debian, currently.
Manoj Srivastava writes: > Well, some one has indeed moved on to wider Horizons. The > ex-project leader of Debian, who is very widely respected, has indeed > left the project, and we are poorer for that. No argument about that. 8-) > > But then, everything changes and adapts (or it is moribund). Like a good wine (isn't that a Debian package?), Debian only gets better with each release. I see more and more "windows-style" applications available in Debian. With each new application, Debian is less of a curiosity and more of a fulfilled dream. > > Whether we are going downhill remains to be seen (everything > seems to go downhill when one gets older than 30. In my day ;-) I know what you mean about that 8-) -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
multi-tray IDE CDrom drives
Picked up a NEC 4 tray IDE CDrom drive. Debian sees the base tray (1 of 4). How does one access the other 3 trays? It would be cool to be able to load binary and source disks into the same drive and have access to both (probably with different mounting points) 8-) -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lilo, linux and win95
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > howdy all.:-) > > Just installed Debian linux and win95 on a system and wish to have dual boot > > system with LILO as boot manager. > > cfdisk shows: > > /dev/hda1 Boot Primary Dos FAT16 (has Win95 installed on it) > /dev/hda5 Logical Linux > /dev/hda6 Logical Linux Swap >From the numbering above, I can surmise that you installed linux into an Extended DOS partition. > > If I run LILO and tell it to generate a new /etc/lilo.conf and then answer: > > Install a partition boot record to boot linux from /dev/hda5?yes > Install a master boot record on /dev/hda yes > Make /dev/hda5 the active partition? yes > > then LILO will generate the following error message: > > 5: not a valid partition number (1-4) > > > If I answer yes to the first two questions but no for the third the system > can only boot with Win95to boot linux I must use my emergency disk. > > Any suggestions on why this is happening? > >From the LILO manual ... LILO boot sector is designed to be usable as a partition boot sector. (I.e. there is room for the partition table.) Therefore, the LILO boot sector can be stored at the following locations: - boot sector of a Linux floppy disk. (/dev/fd0, ...) - MBR of the first hard disk. (/dev/hda, ...) - boot sector of a primary Linux file system partition on the first hard disk. (/dev/hda1, ...) - partition boot sector of an extended partition on the first hard disk. (/dev/hda1, ...)* * Most FDISK-type programs don't believe in booting from an extended partition and refuse to activate it. LILO is accompanied by a simple program (activate) that doesn't have this restriction. Linux fdisk also supports activating extended partitions. It _can't_ be stored at any of the following locations: - boot sector of a non-Linux floppy disk or primary partition. - a Linux swap partition. - boot sector of a logical partition in an extended partition.* - on the second hard disk. (Unless for backup installations, if the current first disk will be removed or disabled, or if some other boot loader is used, that is capable of loading boot sectors from other drives.) * LILO can be forced to put the boot sector on such a partition by using the -b option or the BOOT variable. However, only few programs that operate as master boot records support booting from a logical partition. ... Now based on the above information, you need to run the _Linux_ version of Fdisk (/sbin/fdisk) and make the extended partition (/dev/hda2) active. Other members of this list use extended partitions for Linux. My personal perference is to use primary partitions only. Without starting over from scratch, as root, you should try tweaking the lilo.conf file by hand and running lilo afterward. Reboot and check. As always, keep that bootable floppy handy just in case 8-) Perhaps others can offer tips on how you can configure the lilo.conf file for your particular setup. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tiff to rla?
Bruce Dobrin writes: > > Thanks for the suggestion, Are there different versions? The version of I= > magemake (convert) that I have will read rla's but not write them You may want to check with the Debian maintainer and/or the upstream maintainer/developer to see if a newer version exists. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: netscape install
tony mollica writes: > > I have used the netscape install scripts to install 4.03 and > then upgrade to 4.04 without any problems at all. Of course, > dpkg doesn't know it's there, but netscape communicator works > just fine. Instructions are in the readme files in the > downloaded .tar.gz. > Just wanted you to know that your solution worked the best 8-) Got tired looking for files which were not where people said that they would be. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
netscape install
I am ready to install netscape on my system, but have a problem. The netscape loader is for version 3.01. "ftp.netscape.com" only has version 3.04 or the newer communicator 4.0x versions. Version 3.01 is not available. My system is a bo (1.3.1) system. What can I do to get netscape installed? -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
default blanking
I know that this has been asked before, but please refresh my memory... The default screen blanking is shutting off the X windows display preventing the long term usage of the screen savers. How do I disable the console default blanking so that I can use the screen savers instead? Thanks. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: massive fetchmail frustration
Britton writes: [snip] Sorry, can't help you with fetchmail, Yet 8-) > Some related questions: > > Is there an elegant userland way to bring up a ppp link and retrieve mail > every day at a specified time (like 4 AM)? Options that occur to me are: I use UUCP and wanted to do the same sort of retrieval. I created a shell script which calls the appropriate daemon (UUCICO in my case). I then added an entry into the cron table, /etc/crontab, and cron then runs the script as root and picks up the mail at designated intervals. The permissions on the script are set as 700 and are owned by root:root. Smail/elm simply queue the out-bound mail until the script is ran. In-bound mail is automatically distributed. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: AVI viewer
iquest writes: > > Hi, > > Is there a .avi viewer on Linux/X11 ? xanim works very well! You will find it in the "non-free" section on a debian ftp site like ftp.debian.org -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Zero Length Files on the CD...
P. D. Tisdale writes: > > I have another problem.. I have downloaded and tested all of the chunks > that make up the Debian Binary CD. Also have put them together as > stated in the instructions (yes I connected them in order). Lastly, I > burned the CD. However, I'm not sure if this problem is normal for > these CDs, but there are quite a few ZERO LENGTH FILES on the CD. Is > this normal or did I do something wrong?? I used EZCD Pro for Windows > 3.1, and a 650Mb CD. (My CD Burner is a Creative Labs 4210). This is normal. Windows(3.x) doesn't have a clue as to how to handle a symlink. Most likely, the zero-length files are symlinks to other parts of the CDrom file structure. Have you tried mounting the CD under Linux and checking it there? -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: I need help
Ivan & Ines Rojas writes: > > Hi there, > I just finish installing and setting my linux box, which wasn't a easy job > for a windows user :-) and then I decided to use PPP. > I install the module accordingly with the PPP-HOWTO but I'm missing the > ppp-on and ppp-off files. > > I have no idea if I did something wrong, eventhough I didn't do much either. > > But any ways, my question is: how can I put these files in my system? can I > just create them from the scratch using emacs or any editor? if that's so, > where can I get the file templates? > > Please help me, I really want to try linux connected to internet, I've been > trying 4 months to setup this machine and right now I just can logon, mess > around and type "shutdown -r now". I'm starting to feel a little frustrated > :-( > > Thanks a lot. > > Ivan You probably need to force the de-installation of the PPP package and re-install it from scratch. I ran into that problem when I first tried to finalize PPP. Once you re-install the PPP package, follow the directions in /usr/doc/ppp/README.debian.gz That file will have the most "up-to-date" info. I kept reading horror stories about how difficult PPP was. When I de/re-installed PPP and followed the indicated file directions, PPP started up ok! The only thing which you might want to shutoff from the debian default in /etc/ppp/options file is the "proxyarp" option if you don't need it. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Sorry This is probably a stupid question.
Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 writes: > > Hi all, > > Sorry to ask this but what is hamm, No stupid questions, just information requests 8-) Anyhow, to answer your question, "hamm" is a project name for the _next_ stable release of Debian. The current stable release is "bo". Debian provides 2 kinds of releases (distributions), stable and unstable. The stable release is the older, "least-amount-of-bugs", distribution (as the catagory implies). The unstable release is the "cutting-edge", developmental, distribution. When you install an "unstable" distribution, you can expect problems, crashes, installation variations, afterall, it is "unstable"! OTOH, the stable release should install with the least number of problems. Once installed correctly, it should not crash - because it is "stable". "hamm" is currently "unstable". -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xdm?
Christopher Jason Morrone writes: > > > I'd like to use xdm on my box. I've tried editing /etx/X11/config to > change > > no-start-xdm > no-xdm-start-server > > into > > start-xdm > xdm-start-server > > abd then I rebooted. It said "starting xdm" but there's no X login > screen. Whats up? (I tried putting xdm-start-server before start-xdm > too...) > > I'm running a hamm system...kernel 2.0.33...SVGA server. Any ideas? Have you check your Xserver by using "startx"? Sounds like you may have a Xserver configuration problem. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Hard drive block
How does one tell the IDE driver to use block read/writes whenever possible? I ran into a situation where I was playing a wave file in the background and I had to check a directory on that same drive. As soon as I invoked "dir", the sound went down the tubes and I noticed the excessive access of the hard drive by the wave player program. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: E-mail server setup
eugene mendoza writes: > > I'm trying to setup a email server on linux box which > has sendmail ver 8.6.12. > I've a subdomain of my own. > What is the simplest way of doing this? > The email will be stored on the linux server > which will also be a name server and provide other > services. > Much Obliged. > Best Regards, > Eugene > I'm not exactly sure of what you have in mind when you state that you want to "setup an email server", however, if you mean distribution of email, sendmail should be sufficient to do the job. The capabilities of the "procmail" package might be what you have in mind. If you mean an email list server, several packages are available: majordomo (which I use), berolist, and smartlist. Hopefully this will help you! Adios! -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dual mode?
I've been eyeing some multi-processor motherboards. After checking several web sites, I've come across a factiod that only Intel supports "dual mode". So, what is "dual mode"? And does one need "dual mode" to run Debian under SMP kernel option? Or can one use non-Intel processors? -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
majordomo package
When I upgraded the majordomo package to the current release, it broke the existing majordomo setup. I've straightened it out, but what a hassle! -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ImageMagick Guru
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > The problem is as follows: > the input file is a tiff image who has 1 bit/sample and after an=20 >mogrify -geometry x%=20 > i get an image with 8 bit/sample. > > I've search the man page without success. > Please Help. It's very critical. Tryman convert The "convert" program handles a very wide range of image file formats and will change from one to another quite easily. As a word of caution, try and view the intended target image under the intended OS. I have found that wrong options can give wierd results. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: permissions on uucico
Catalin Popescu writes: > > I have the following permissions for uucico: > > -rwsr-sr-x 1 uucp dialout212932 May 8 1997 uucico > > > I try to change permissions to allow ordinary users to invoke uucico > (directly or via a script), but don't know what I'm doing wrong. [snip] Please excuse my ignorance, but why would you want to do that? Why not have "cron" start a UUCICO process at regular intervals? If a UUCICO process is still on the line, the new one will automatically die; thus no conflicts! -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Can't install Debian Linux on a 586 with 166mmx tech!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > When i get to the place where it says to install base files i choose to > install from a floppy. It asks for disk#1 and when i do it comes up > with the message of it dosen't look like disk#1 and i tryed it again and > it still comes up with the same message! Could you help me with the > installation of Debian Linux. I have all of the files nessary files to > install Debian Linux. I have 32 mega byites of ram do I need the base > floppies? The base Images from the ftp site do not look like the ones > on the web page about installing Debian inux. On that web page it hase > the base14-1.bin and so on, and on the ftp site it has base-1.bin. What > do I to put the base image on the 1.44 floppy disks. The way it is on > the ftp site, when i use rawrite to put the base images on to the floppy > it rites the source code one the floppy. the base-2.bin it makes the > floppy unuseable. Please tell me How to do it right so I can install > Debian Linux Operating system on my machine. I want to be able to use > Debian Linux. > From: Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Download base-1.bin,...,base-4.bin, drv1440.bin, and resc1440.bin > files from ftp.debian.org/bo/disks-i386/current/. > Use rawrite2 to make 7 floppies from the above files. > Insert resc1440 floppy and reboot the computer. > A little later it askes to insert _RESCUE_ disk (i.e resc1440) and only > then base-1, etc. Note, that resc1440 should normally be in the drive at > the time it is asked to be inserted. The problems with disks are usually > the reflection of bad blocks on them. Use rawrite2 to create another > set of disks on different floppies. Additionally, I recommend that you format the floppies just prior to using rawrite2. Floppies with a fresh format have fewer problems (just my personal experience). -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PGP Which?
Ben Pfaff writes: > >pinepgp depends on pgp and i went to ftp.de.debian.org and i found pgp_i >and pgp_us. Which one shoud i pick? in any case i think that dpkg will >complain. > > If you are inside the U.S. you must use pgp-us. Otherwise, use pgp-i. Just curious, but why "must" a US based site use pgp-us? -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Xresources
Remco Blaakmeer writes: > > On Sun, 25 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Is there a list of all the variables used in the .Xresources file? > > No, that list would be far too large. Many programs have a file in How large is "too large"? 8-) > /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/ that contains some defaults. You are not > supposed to edit these files, but anything you put in .Xdefaults will > override them. > > Also, you can use the editres program to find out what resources a program Thanks for the tip. I just found out another "command" that I didn't know that I had. 8-) > knows of. You can use this program to change them, but it can not display > the current values. It is a program you can do cool things with, though. > Imagine changing the color or the font of one specific button. It can save > any changes you made to a file that you can merge into Xresources. > > Remco -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Xresources
Is there a list of all the variables used in the .Xresources file? -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X and the All-In-Wonder (ATI)
Robert LaGrasse writes: > > Hi all, > > Just a quick note to let everyone know that the X-Server for the Mach64 > family of video cards found on "www.suse.de" will work with the ATI > All-in-Wonder 4MB card, and lists this card specifically (along with > every other Mach64 card you can think of). > > Big "Thanks" to Florian Attenberger for the pointer. > > This will of course lead in to a barrage of stupid X-newbie questions > authored by yours-truly, now that I finally have it up and working :-P > > Thanks in advance for your help and patience, > Rob I was just looking at that very same card the other day and I was wondering if there exist a driver/program to enable one to use the video digitizer? -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Lilo: How to install it? ( Part II )
Ivan Rojas writes: > > Well, tanks to all that helped me last week with the lilo problem, but > I'm stil in trouble with it. > > I got Lilo to boot, I mean when the computer starts lilo appears asking > for what OS to launch. If I select Linux it goes ok, but if I select > Win95 ( default ) it will launch lilo again!(??) > > My lilo.conf is: Faulty! Make the following changes and re-run LILO. That should fix you up! > > boot=/dev/hda1 Boot partition: Do you really want the Win95 boot sector over-written? I recommend either use the MBR (master boot record) or the Linux boot sector as follows: boot=/dev/hda ## MBR - head off Win95 and jump directly to LILO OR boot=/dev/hda2 ## Use Linux to boot Linux. Your choice, if you elect to use the MBR, make Win95 the active partition. If you elect to use Linux, make Linux the active partition. > install=/kernel/boot/boot.b > map=/kernel/boot/map > delay=50 > timeout=70 > compact > prompt > default=Win95 > image=/kernel/boot/vmlinuz > root=/dev/hdb1 > label=Linux > vga=normal This next section need re-working... > other=Win95 > label=Win95 > loader=/kernel/boot/chain.b Change the above to read: other=/dev/hda1 table=/dev/hda label=Win95 -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
