On Fri, 23 Oct 1998 19:48:19 -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
>Linux doesn't ordinarily have any facility for saying _how much_ data
>goes through an if. The snmpd's base their throughput figures on
>_number of packets_, which isn't exactly the same thing. IIRC, you can
>run ip accounting and hack the
Quoting Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I've got SNMPD installed on my system so I can monitor, for the moment,
> bandwidth usage on eth0 and ppp0. The problem I'm having is that the
> incoming and outgoing usages do *NOT* show any divergance. If you want to
> see what I mean, take a look a
OK, I've installed the CMU SNMPD as well as the UCD SNMPD to verify that
this isn't a problem with the SNMPD daemons and now I'm looking for other
reasons for the following problem.
I've got SNMPD installed on my system so I can monitor, for the moment,
bandwidth usage on eth0 and ppp0. T
"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > my printer ( hp deskjet 500, debian hamm ) stops after a few lines and
> > stays busy forever. I tried dvi and ps via magicfilter. Half of the
> > page comes out, then the printer stops, busy light on, and nothing
> > happens. lpq says no jobs. Does an
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
: I tried to install debian on a computer with an adaptec 2840 scsi
: controller. (gateway 2000 486dx2-66, 16m dram) At first I had the 2840
: bios disabled and the controller with 3 drives attached was not
: detected. Then I enabled the bios on the
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Jim wrote:
: Hi,
:
: On boot I get the message eata_dma: No BIOS32 extensions present. This
: driver release still depends on it. I get the same from eata_pio: Can
: someone suggest an extension package, or an upgrade driver release?
: Computer is a NEC Versa 486sl.
I recently visited http://mysql.org (was trying to figure out whether I
should migrate to it). I haven't read their license - but there are a few
links there that suggested to me that it's not very free - because they
wanted money for it. Is it GPLed or how does it work?
---
"What is wanted is not
Hi,
On boot I get the message eata_dma: No BIOS32 extensions present. This
driver release still depends on it. I get the same from eata_pio: Can
someone suggest an extension package, or an upgrade driver release?
Computer is a NEC Versa 486sl.
Thanks,
Jim.
I'm using a GA 6BXDS (but with only one processor till now), and it works
without any problems. Hamm, Kernel 2.0.34 accepts the AIC 7895 with one CD
and one IBM UW disk, even my LS 120.
This is even more interesting as Windoze (98 and NT) refused to install...
> Hallo again,
> Is anyone using
On: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 01:03:59 -0500 John C Ellingboe writes:
>
> Install the HP Laser Jet 5L as a HP Laser Jet 4L in Magicfilter and
> it will work proper. Also install gs-aladdin, its fonts and other
> related document converters. Print from Netscape as postscript and
> Magicfilter/Gs will conv
On: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 01:03:59 -0500 John C Ellingboe writes:
>
> Install the HP Laser Jet 5L as a HP Laser Jet 4L in Magicfilter and
> it will work proper. Also install gs-aladdin, its fonts and other
> related document converters. Print from Netscape as postscript and
> Magicfilter/Gs will conv
On: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 01:03:59 -0500 John C Ellingboe writes:
>
> Install the HP Laser Jet 5L as a HP Laser Jet 4L in Magicfilter and
> it will work proper. Also install gs-aladdin, its fonts and other
> related document converters. Print from Netscape as postscript and
> Magicfilter/Gs will conv
On: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 01:03:59 -0500 John C Ellingboe writes:
>
> Install the HP Laser Jet 5L as a HP Laser Jet 4L in Magicfilter and
> it will work proper. Also install gs-aladdin, its fonts and other
> related document converters. Print from Netscape as postscript and
> Magicfilter/Gs will conv
Thank you to all who helped with this.
It turns out that all you have to do is define the HACKs in
sendmail.mc and (as long as your sendmail was configured properly)
sendmailconfig goes to the .../hack directory and puts the code right
into the sendmail.cf file when you allow it to build.
I tried to install debian on a computer with an adaptec 2840 scsi
controller. (gateway 2000 486dx2-66, 16m dram) At first I had the 2840
bios disabled and the controller with 3 drives attached was not
detected. Then I enabled the bios on the 2840 and the controller was
detected. A message 'resett
My message was not clear.
We did not mount /etc writable. The hacker sent a a long packet
which we think overflowed buffer and caused /etc to be mounted
writable.
The bug is real, and Debian has a fix. See security
lists in Debian. If you are running Debian 2.0
you might have a securi
I'm using Pine 4.05 on a Debian 2.0 platform at work. MS Office is the
standard desktop automation application around here except for a small
band of Unix enthusiasts. I've just installed Star Office, mostly so I
can read the MS Word documents everybody sends me. I'm trying to
reconfigure Pine s
Hi,
I have a wierd problem: during boot process mount fails with the following
message:
Starting portmapper... Mounting remote filesystems...
mount: RPC: Program not registered
But after the boot "mount -a" works perfectly.
This runs latest slink from unstable.
I did not have such a problem on a
Howdy,
Does anyone have Hamm running on a Zenith Z-NOTEFlex? I only have 4MB of RAM
so I am not expecting this to be a speed demon, but it would be nice to have
a portable UN*Xlike box. I have tried all of the bootdisks that I can get my
hands on. The only one that works is the 'resc1440tecra.bin'
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 09:34:53AM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
> You should be able to get apt from slink, use the apt method from dselect
> and set it up with several sources:
>
> file://path1
> file://path2
> file://path3
Last I tried, it didn't like that. It complained about the other CD's
wh
What's Up,
I have been trying to compile Siag office and wmfind for awhile now, but
I can't seem to get them to compile.
For Siag office, I have no clue as to why it won't compile. I have xpm,
Xaw3d, tcl\tk and perl, but it will not make the executable files. I did
notice in compile it is looking
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 05:34:46PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Which is the way to access several CD's from dselect at the same time?
>
> I believe that there is no such way, unless you have several CD-ROM
> drives so that you can mount
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 11:35:23AM -0400, Jim foltz wrote:
> The subject summarizes the question.
My high-school teacher of writing technique used to say that one
should never explicitly refer to the title or any subheadings in the
main body of a text.
Anyway, the question was, whether th
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 05:34:46PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Which is the way to access several CD's from dselect at the same time?
I believe that there is no such way, unless you have several CD-ROM
drives so that you can mount all of them simultaneously. Sorry.
There has been talk in t
Hi,
The subject summarizes the question.
--
Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello!
I'm just upgrading from bo to hamm.
Which is the way to access several CD's from dselect at the same time?
Thank you
Javi
Hey folks,
I've got a brand spankin' new Dell PowerEdge 6100 server with the works,
four processors, 86 gigs of RAID-5 space, one gig of memory. So I'm
happy, my boss(es) want me to put Debian on it, I'm even more happy.
However, I've got a bit of a problem related to the RAID card -- to the
bes
mount /dev/fd0 /floppy/ seems to do the trick. Is there a script I can set up
that would run
fdflush every time I want to access the floppy?
Thanks,
Jim
Ole J. Tetlie wrote:
> *-Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> |
> | Now, I find that when trying to mount /fd0 I get the error "can't find
> /fd0 in
>hi,
>i just intalled my linux on Intel PII 333 using
>debian and i need gcc binaries for the same.
>Any resources on net ?
>thanks in advance
>
Are they not in the distribution? You mean gcc, the GNU C compiler?
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, dpk wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, trio wrote:
>
> I'm spending a lot of time reading the stuff at
>sendmail.org. I've found all kinds of explanations of the
>check_rcpt HACK, but no explanation as to where i put it. Does it
>go in sendmail.cf somewhere? Whe
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote:
> Anybody having trouble using dselect/ftp to slink
> thru a Squid proxy? Or is it just me...
Nope, No problems here :) I did have some probs with the change from
1.1 to 1.2 (otherwise know as 2.0), they arose from the change in the
conf file. have you tr
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 11:16:47AM -0400, Sriram Bhamidipati wrote:
> i just intalled my linux on Intel PII 333 using
> debian and i need gcc binaries for the same.
GCC is included with Debian. Just install the package gcc and its
dependencies. For C++ development, install g++, too.
Did I unde
hi,
i just intalled my linux on Intel PII 333 using
debian and i need gcc binaries for the same.
Any resources on net ?
thanks in advance
Sriram
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 10:59:03AM -0400, Ted Llewellyn wrote:
> emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/tm emacs20
> xemacs20 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 26.
This is a bug in tm (#27288, among others), fixed in slink. Either
upgrade tm to 7.106.0-2 (in s
On a new install of debian 2.0, emacs installs but won't set up.
Several other packages that I really want won't install because emacs
doesn't finish correctly, but emacs itself does start (I don't know if it
works right but it starts and stops normally).
This box is a P60 with 128M, 1G SCSI, A
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 03:23:10PM +0100, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 11:11:31AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [...]
> > >
> > > If this directory is mounted readonly it will fail, I think is a common
> > > practice to h
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 11:11:31AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
> >
> > If this directory is mounted readonly it will fail, I think is a common
> > practice to have /etc readonly when an installation is stable (no more
> > software updat
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 02:17:40PM +0100, G. Kapetanios wrote:
>
> I had the same proble. My HP 6L would not work. I tried magicfilter. ASCII
> text printed fine but postscript dvi e.t.c. were garbage.
> I then wrote a little script which uses explicitly gs and dvihp as filters
> to turn ps and
Before going for all these detailed solutions, let me say that my HP 6L
works fine with magicfilter. According to my printcap, I used hplj4. If
the 6L person still has problems with that, we may want to do version
checking to see what differs. I think I started using this printer in bo
and I'm u
On 23 Oct 1998q, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote:
> Hi!
> First of all, I'd like to thank the response that my previous
> posting to the list had. Most welcome :D Anyway, I tried one of the
> most common references people gave me (ie, use magicfilter, and use
> the ljet4l package). The printer prints
George Bonser wrote:
>
> On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Philip Thiem wrote:
>
> > You'd be surprises how often that can happen. I purchase from a
> > wholesaler, and they don't check to see if the drives are good, though
> > they have allways been good about replacing them. Many resalers are
> > similar,
I had the same proble. My HP 6L would not work. I tried magicfilter. ASCII
text printed fine but postscript dvi e.t.c. were garbage.
I then wrote a little script which uses explicitly gs and dvihp as filters
to turn ps and dvi files into the printers native languge (PCL I think )
It essentially
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, trio wrote:
Hi,
I'm spending a lot of time reading the stuff at
sendmail.org. I've found all kinds of explanations of the
check_rcpt HACK, but no explanation as to where i put it. Does it
go in sendmail.cf somewhere? Where? Does it get listed in
sendm
Hi!
First of all, I'd like to thank the response that my previous
posting to the list had. Most welcome :D Anyway, I tried one of the
most common references people gave me (ie, use magicfilter, and use
the ljet4l package). The printer prints now text fine, but when a
postscript file is sent
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 11:19:41AM +0200, Robert Claeson wrote:
> Is anybody aware of whether it's possible to set up a Linux system to
> serve Appleshare over IP, as in Apple's Appleshare IP?
>
I am inclined to belkieve netatalk can do it. I am running and have been
runnign a netatalk server he
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 11:11:31AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>
> Hi all,
>
> the ftpshut command shutdowns the wu-ftpd service (not the process) by
> writting in /etc/shutmsg, the question is
>
> If this directory is mounted readonly it will fail, I thi
Anybody having trouble using dselect/ftp to slink
thru a Squid proxy? Or is it just me...
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Mitch Blevins | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Trying to recover data from messed up MSDOS floppy
Date: Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 06:07:43PM -0700
In reply to:Paul Rightley
Quoting Paul Rightley([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> We saved some important data from one of our experiments to a floppy
> in one of our digital oscillisco
Actually I was able to figure out enough of deselect to be able to
install debian 1.3.1 (after two attempts). To be fair, my first
attempt at using deselect was on a low memory (8mb) slow (386) machine
with a monochrome monitor (vga). When I tried using apt under dselect
for 2.0 I couldn't get th
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Derek McCabe wrote:
> Hi, people!
> I have a problem. I have tried to install Xwindows on my 486100, but
> it 'cannot find the packages'. I've used dpkg to... de-package the files
> but none of the resulting files run at all.
What exactly are you trying to do? you should
On 22 Oct 1998q, John Forest wrote:
> I might be totally wrong, flame me if I am, but...
>
> I upgraded my kernel to 2.0.34 and somehow I was able to 'look' at joilet type
> cd's. Before the upgrade the links did not show. This presented me with
> similar problems.
> So, perhaps you could upgrad
To all who replied so helpfully, thanks. I now have a working setup.
Basically, the simplest solution for me is to add the "idle" option to
my ppp options, to hangup the line when there is no more activity.
A number of people suggested diald - it certainly looks good, and I may
well look into it
M.C. Vernon wrote:
>
> > my printer ( hp deskjet 500, debian hamm ) stops after a few lines and
> > stays busy forever. I tried dvi and ps via magicfilter. Half of the
> > page comes out, then the printer stops, busy light on, and nothing
> > happens. lpq says no jobs. Does anyone know the problem
Hi,
Trying to set up a debian box. There is an odd device built in, it is a
scanner card with a NCR scsi chip, but only to be used for the scanner.
>From the file:///usr/doc/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO.gz
4.2.16. Pro Audio Spectrum (`pas16=')
The PAS16 uses a NCR5380 SCSI chip, and newer models s
Is anybody aware of whether it's possible to set up a Linux system to
serve Appleshare over IP, as in Apple's Appleshare IP?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:
| Did you install a new sysklogd as well? It has known problems -
| install at least -30 and CERTAINLY NOT -28 or -29 !
Well, I had -27 which was the latest in my Debian mirror when I
updated packets. I upgraded to -30 now -- we'll see if that
fi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hi all,
the ftpshut command shutdowns the wu-ftpd service (not the process) by
writting in /etc/shutmsg, the question is
If this directory is mounted readonly it will fail, I think is a common
practice to have /etc readonly when an installation is stable (no mo
Yes there is one called lde which you can find in the utils directory on
your CD or the ftp site. It doesn't specifically support the FAT file
systems, but you can look at the raw sector by sector data.
For the FAT file system, Norton's Disk Editor is a very good tool. The
Linux dd command is also
I recently added an Adeptec AIC-6X60 ISA single chip scsi
controler and 3 older external scsi drives to my system.
The scsi drives are ID'ed 0,4,&6. I would like to install
Debian on the disks and dual boot with W95.
W95 is on the internal 800MB IDE drive. I was able to create
a couple of fat16 p
Hi Saisanthosh
There are two approaches that you can try to sort out your problem.
1) purge the package and reinstall it.
2) copy the .deb file to a temporary directory and unpack it. (I think this is
done with dpkg-deb, but I don't have access to my Debian system at the moment
so I can't check t
> At our school our system administrator (who is very good) was
> running Red Hat 5.1 and someone broke in and got root privileges.
> Since he had written a Lan watch, we think we know how it happened.
>
> The Lan Watch showed someone form Israel send a very long
> packet to mountd. Shortly afte
> my printer ( hp deskjet 500, debian hamm ) stops after a few lines and
> stays busy forever. I tried dvi and ps via magicfilter. Half of the
> page comes out, then the printer stops, busy light on, and nothing
> happens. lpq says no jobs. Does anyone know the problem ( and solution )?
If the bu
>
>
> "Helge Hafting" wrote:
>
> > You don't have "." in your path, so files are *not* considered executable
> > just because they are in the *current* directory.
> >
> > This is a security feature. (Some user could make a nasty script called
> > "ls" or similiar in his home directoy. If you
*-Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Now, I find that when trying to mount /fd0 I get the error "can't find /fd0
in /etc/mtab
| or /etc/fstab
| I have edited /etc/fstab to include this line...
| /dev/fd0 /floppyauto noauto,sync 0 0
| as per the instructions I found at
www.de
Hi,
I'm spending a lot of time reading the stuff at sendmail.org. I've
found all kinds of explanations of the check_rcpt HACK, but no
explanation as to where i put it. Does it go in sendmail.cf somewhere?
Where? Does it get listed in sendmail.mc? But then how do i get the .m4
to relate to i
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Steve Rothanburg wrote:
> I've got it setup at work. All I've done is install the XDM package with
> dselect and
> have it start automagicly. I use it on a few systems and connect from Win9x
> machines
> running Xwin32.
If you say the host is already configured (Which is go
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Moore, Paul wrote:
> >From:Michael Beattie[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, mwb wrote:
> >> Although I haven't tried it, but you might try putting poff (or your
> >> query script) as the last item in ip-up.
> >
> >Exactly like what I would have suggested.
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Evan Van Dyke wrote:
> Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > If some user is capable of putting a fake `ls' in a random directory where
> > you might trip on it, that user is far more likely to put it in your ~/bin
> > directory! (Same privileges are required)
> >
> > Just a thought.
On 22 Oct 1998, Stan Heckman wrote:
> What is the correct way to downgrade a package?
> I can remove it and then reinstall, but removing xbase wants
> to remove an awful lot of other packages with it. (I want to
> downgrade xbase because, after installing Version: 3.3.2.3a-4,
> I don't seem to h
Yo-
I decided to upgrade to "frozen" slink and I used dselect to to do it.
Now I am getting libncurses.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No
such object or directory. Did a package not get installed or is my system
hosed now? Sorry if this is an old question but I haven't had the need to
upgr
I am trying to use postscript fonts in plain TeX (I have no trouble in
LaTeX) and get the following message when tex'ing the .tex file:
! Font \times=Times not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
\par
l.9
?
! Emergency stop.
\par
l.9
End of file on the
Hi, people!
I have a problem. I have
tried to install Xwindows on my 486100, but it 'cannot find the packages'. I've
used dpkg to... de-package the files but none of the resulting files run at all.
I've tried doing it from my Win98 partition, but same result. I've used dselect,
but agai
Hi,
I have an Netgear ISDN router on a private subnet and everything works
fine except when I try and connect to the X server (from Win95 Xtra!X).
I keep getting a fatal XDMCP error complaining that it cannot export to
DISPLAY 192.168.0.2:0.0. The ISP issues dynamic IP addresses so I have
to rout
Lukas> Once someone posted this script to find the fastest debian mirror,
Lukas> which could be used in some way in the postinst of apt:
IIRC Chris Lameter wrote this as part of one of his misc. utility packages.
I rewrote it in perl (and added a thing or two) as part of the mirror package
w
Hi,
When I boot my machine I get these two error lines:
SIOCADDRT: invalid argument
SIOCADDRT: invalid argument
Can somebody please explain me the problem ?
With the present config I can browse the net. My computer is unreacheable from
outside because the admin of the local net have changed my
Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I thought I'd got apt-get to read my local cdrom but it seems I was wrong. It
> will update the packages but won't install anything. I have a Cheapbytes
> cdrom.
>
> The entry in my sources.list is as follows:
>
>
> deb file:/cdrom/debian main/binary-i386/
John writes:
> Write a script to go in ip-up.d that does something like:
Yes, I could do this, but I don't need to: my isp doesn't use 'dynamic
dns'.
My interest is in helping new users whose isp's won't tell them the
nameserver ip's because they use dynamic dns. Someone reminded me that
pppd
I wrote:
> Are you saying that 'demand' now works in Linux?
Mitch Blevins writes:
> Don't use it. I had assumed from the man page and a VagueMemory(tm)
> that I had heard of it working...
Actually, 'demand' purportedly does work in Linux but, according to the
documentation, filtering doesn't. A
Hi,
I'll be performing some work on the debian.midco.net mirror site tonight
(like , I already started :). This means that there will be periods of
time when the archive will NOT be available. Sorry for any
inconvenience.
On the bright side, if all goes as planned we'll go from an 18 G spool
to
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, King Lee wrote:
: Hello,
:
: At our school our system administrator (who is very good) was
: running Red Hat 5.1 and someone broke in and got root privileges.
: Since he had written a Lan watch, we think we know how it happened.
:
: The Lan Watch showed someone form I
I screwed things up. I wanted to install E on my system but didn't want to go
the long route of finding every single file I did to update so I downloaded
chunks of slink with the package file and used the mounted option. I had
previously installed from using the mountable option and merging the 3
We saved some important data from one of our experiments to a floppy
in one of our digital oscilliscopes. The o'scope can write to MSDOS
formatted floppies only. I usually then copy the data over to my Debian
machine for processing. However, this floppy turned out to have some
bad areas (mostly
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