More SCSI timeout problems

and/or suggestions on how to get back on the air here. Thanks! -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng/ "The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE..." -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Re: help with tSCSI imeout problem

suspect in my mind. Cheap, and worth it too. -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng/ "The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE..." -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Help with SCSI timeout problem?

how to fix this problem will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng/ "The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE..." -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

booting single, writable?

XDM inits because the disk is mounted read-only. What is the correct startup method to be able to write/change the hard drive? Thank You -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng/ "The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE..." -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING L

SCSI disk drive setup question

I know you can use fdisk and specify the disk geometry if the disk is 0x80 or 0x81, but what about when it comes up 0x82? Thanks! -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng "The life of a Repo Man is always INTENSE..." --

building perl 5.004?

Has anyone successfully built Perl 5.004? I get all kinds of *.h files not found errors, like /usr/include/time.h no such file or directory. This is odd, because the files are definitely there. Maybe I will have to wait for the .deb?! -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California email: [EMAIL

help booting - 2 disks with bootable partitions

ot; when I try to use the Partition Magic boot manager. I heard that there is a way to use lilo, that would let one hide partitions from one another. Can anyone tell me where that is documented? Thanks! -- Key fingerprint = D6 A7 D7 8C 92 CB 42 FD 60 D5 62 1C D7 B9 EA 8E Ken Gaug

Exabyte EXB-8505, How do I access it?

name already exists. What am I doing wrong? Thanks! -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng "The life of a Repo Man is always INTENSE..." -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EM

Help- fdisking large IDEs for Win95/Debian

disk). If anyone has successfuly done this I would like to hear the details of your configuration. BTW I am using Intel Zappa Motherboard W/AMI BIOS. Thanks! -- Key fingerprint = D6 A7 D7 8C 92 CB 42 FD 60 D5 62 1C D7 B9 EA 8E Ken Gaugler N6OSK Hybrid Networks, Inc. Cupertino, Calif

Re: DOS Fdisk doesn't see Linux partitions

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 10 May, Ken Gaugler wrote: > > > > [partition problems] > > Hello! > > Sad to say I can only offer this very general advice (which you may > already have heard and followed; in that case ignore me ;-) > > Alway

DOS Fdisk doesn't see Linux partitions

the Linux drive set up for LBA in the [AMI]BIOS, and the DOS drive is set up for Extended CHS. I hope someone can help me figure this out! Thanks. -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng "The life of a Repo Man is always INTENS

ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive

ld CD (1.1), upgrade in place to 1.2 using ftp, and then restore my favorite configuration files. Anyone have a better idea? Thanks! -- Key fingerprint = D6 A7 D7 8C 92 CB 42 FD 60 D5 62 1C D7 B9 EA 8E Ken Gaugler N6OSK Hybrid Networks, Inc. Cupertino, Calif. URL: http://www.

Re: What editors are in base?

t;Thou shalt learn vi". His argument was that no matter what flavor of unix you happen to come across in your career as a unix administrator, there will always be vi on the system. I have to admit there have been times I was very grateful he made me learn it. Having worked with at least 9

Re: What editors are in base?

Greg Vence wrote: > > Hello, > > I need to edit my ppp scripts. > > What editors come on the base install? Also, what is the input device > for 'cp ' that uses the console for input? > > Thanx -- Greg. I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no p

ftape and errors

-write.c (write_segment) - warning: 1 hard error(s) in written segment. ^ Is there a procedure under Linux to scan the tape and refresh or update the bad sector map? No manpages here for ft or ftape. Thanks! -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara

Re: SB cfg problem - need docs

ese settings you can put the MPU at 0x300 if you want. Bear in mind you will likely have to build a kernel with SB support. -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng/ "The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE..."

Re: syslogd will not start

Martin Schulze wrote: > > Ken Gaugler writes: > > > > > For some reason syslogd refuses to start in the /etc/init.d/sysklogd > > > > file. The docs say to use a -n command line argument if starting > > > > syslogd from the inits, but at bootup I se

Re: syslogd will not start

ot; is the answer > ||| ||| ||| www.enjoy.it/users/~mk/index.html Live Linux, live free! Nope. This hoses my system completely. These boot messages print: syslog: /dev/xconsole: Interrupted system call syslogd: unknown priority name "..]" syslogd: unknown priority name

syslogd will not start

"$1" in start) echo -n "Starting system log daemon: syslogd" start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /sbin/syslogd -n -- $SYSLOGD -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng "The life of a Repo Man is always INTENSE..."

boot error messages

he lp error? lpr works fine. My SCSI cdrom works fine too, as far as I can tell. Should I just ignore these errors and stay fat, dumb and happy? Thanks! -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng "The life of a Repo Man is always INTENSE..."

GlimpseHTTP anyone?

compare notes on the installation process. Thanks! -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng "The life of a Repo Man is always INTENSE..."

where are cfengine docs?

Subject says it all. -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng "The life of a Repo Man is always INTENSE..."

how to boot single-user

A while back someone told me how to boot in single-user mode. I can't seem to find that email, and there is no man page for boot or single. Could someone please refresh my memory? And I wonder why commands like 'shutdown -s' do not result in a single user boot? TIA -- Ken

Re: PPPproblem

ch is only readable by root and contains my username, password, and the isp's telephone number: "" ATDT9342100 CONNECT "" ogin:-BREAK-ogin: ssword: Works fine for me. -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng "The life of a Repo Man is always INTENSE..."

xconsole problem

o an icon. There is no information in the xconsole window. If I use the command 'xconsole &' I get another xconsole window, with the message Couldn't open console in it. Does any of this make sense? What should I be looking for to get this working? Thanks! -- Ken

no brushes available

Installed gimp-smotif version 0.54.1-5 and gimp-plugins version 1.0-1, and when trying to draw something, I see the error message: gimp warning: No brushes available for use with this tool. Is there a separate brush package that has to be installed? -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara

problems with shmget

Ran into this error when trying to use the GIMP: shmget failed: Function not implemented gimp fatal error: shmget failed! Is there something I need to configure to get the function shmget working? Thanks! -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http

to xlib6 or not to xlib6?

espect to elf-x11r6lib, or what should I do? Thanks! -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng "The life of a Repo Man is always INTENSE..."

Re: what is frcode?

Sorry I asked! :-) -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng "The life of a Repo Man is always INTENSE..."

errors installing with dselect/ftp

h ldconfig /sbin/ldconfig Is there another configuration file I need to fix or something? I didn't see this problem mentioned in the Jan97 or Feb97 archives. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.

[Fwd: Re: MIME-capable non-X newsreader?]

This guy must not really want anyone to send him help via email! -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng "The life of a Repo Man is always INTENSE..." --- Beg

what is frcode?

Walked up to my machine to find the disks crunching merrily along, so did a ps and found that updatedb was running; no problem. But I also saw this entry: 398 ? S 0:00 frcode Can anyone tell me what that is? There is no man page for it. Thanks! -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara

Re: Framegrabbers

John Zachary wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anyone have experience with a particular brand of framegrabber > under Debian that they would like to share? > > John Sure. John Bradley's 'xv' has a frame grabbing function, among many other useful features.

xterm_color HOWTO?

Is there a good writeup available that describes how to get the xterm_color to work? My old Slackware system had that by default, but I have never been able to get it to work under Debian. -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng

Security Packages

Seems like there used to be a COPS package, or something similar, that did a fairly automated security audit of one's Linux system. Can't seem to find or recollect what it was. Anyone know of a program to do this? Is it a Debian package? Thanx! -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara,

Re: mt eof + Travan = Operation not permitted

archives on a tape, > but I've *never* used the eof command for mt. Why not use the 'fsf' > command for mt? Perhaps that will work? > > -- > Jens B. Jorgensen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, this works fine. NOTE however that you must first use the mt -f /dev/rft0 erasecommand on any tape you want to do this with. Otherwise you will not be able to read past the first archive (at least not with my hardware). -- Ken Gaugler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng "The life of a Repo Man is always INTENSE..."

using orielly "cgrep" in cgi under Apache

cannot execute the cgrep program. Any ideas how to figure what is going on? TIA! -- Ken Gaugler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng "The life of a Repo Man is always INTENSE..."

cc compile error

include/errno.h, I see that the compiler is indeed looking for a file called /linux/errno.h and there is indeed no such file or directory. Is there some global variable I have not set right in my system? How to fix this? Thanks! -- Ken Gaugler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.wco.com/~ke

logging messages from pppd

messages. Is this correct? Thanks! -- Ken Gaugler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://users.aimnet.com/~keng "The life of a Repo Man is always INTENSE..." -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Recompiling kernel broke my ppp

0.6 kernel-source with and without kernel ppp support. Did the make modules and modules_install. I am stumped. What should I try to get this fixed? I am sure it is simple but it escapes me. Thanks! --- Ken Gaugler Systems Engineer, Hybrid Networks, Inc. (home: 'keng at aimnet dot

Re: time to split the list?

aybe debian-user and debian-install, to keep it simple? --- Key fingerprint = D6 A7 D7 8C 92 CB 42 FD 60 D5 62 1C D7 B9 EA 8E Ken Gaugler N6OSK Hybrid Networks, Inc. Cupertino, Calif. URL: www.hybrid.com (home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: users.aimnet.com/~keng) "The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE..."

re: errors making fvwm95

By the way, as for xpm.h missing, I already installed xpm4.7-3.4g-5.deb, so not sure where this file is supposed to be. Did a find, and it is not on my machine... -- Ken Gaugler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://users.aimnet.com/~keng "The life of a Repo Man is always INTENSE..."

errors "make"ing fvwm95 :(

make this work, that is !!!) Thanks! -- Ken Gaugler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: users.aimnet.com/~keng "The life of a Repo Man is always INTENSE..."

Re: How to migrate a Debian system to another hard drive?

them manually, but I got the systems up and running without too much pain. I am interested to hear others' opinions about this. --- Key fingerprint = D6 A7 D7 8C 92 CB 42 FD 60 D5 62 1C D7 B9 EA 8E Ken Gaugler N6OSK Hybrid Networks, Inc. Cupertino, Calif. URL: www.hybrid.com (home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: users.aimnet.com/~keng) "The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE..."

Debian Color-ls Command?

pendent on anything I haven't >already installed. > >I may be overlooking something obvious, but are there any settings/files I >need to edit to get what I want? Color's the only thing I'm missing since >switching from Slackware. In everything else, I'm delighted. >

Re: Problem

a and see if your eth0 (not sure what it is called in RedHat) is configured for whatever network address you gave it. You did set up your networking, didn't you? >-- >#### ##### ## > ### ## ## > ### ###### ###### ### > ### ###### ### ### > ### ###### ### ### > ### ###### ### ### ### > # # #

can't open xconsole

ne else encountered and solved this problem? A kind reader of this group suggested I might need to define and export the DISPLAY variable in my .bashrc, which I plan to try ASAP. Any other ideas out there? TIA! --- Key fingerprint = D6 A7 D7 8C 92 CB 42 FD 60 D5 62 1C D7 B9 EA 8E

xconsole error

ks fine. What is it about this xsession file that is trashing my xconsole? Any ideas greatly appreciated! -- Ken Gaugler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: users.aimnet.com/~keng "The life of a Repo Man is always INTENSE..."

Re: Digested version of this list?

ci.ucsd.edu/~gobbel/ > >NOTICE: I DO NOT ACCEPT UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL EMAIL MESSAGES OF ANY KIND. I >CONSIDER SUCH MESSAGES PERSONAL HARRASSMENT AND A GROSS INVASION OF MY >PRIVACY. > > > Check out http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ --- Key fingerprint = D6 A7 D7 8C

Re: lilo installation on IDE disk > 500 megabytes

drive, putting Linux / into /dev/hda1, swap in /dev/hda2, /usr in /dev/hda3, and Windows 95 in /dev/hda4. The entire Linux system was under 500 Megs, so I did not have to do _anything_ tricky to get it to work. (Getting the Linux system to work the way I wanted it to has _not_ been so smooth, b

Re: Need help to set right ownerships

ate e-mail. Thank you very much, > >Lazaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > You should have used chown -R lds:users ./.[a-zA-Z]* --- Key fingerprint = D6 A7 D7 8C 92 CB 42 FD 60 D5 62 1C D7 B9 EA 8E Ken Gaugler N6OSK Hybrid Networks, Inc. Cupertino, Calif. URL: www.hybrid.com (home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: users.aimnet.com/~keng) "The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE..."

ftape format warning!!!

EA 8E Ken Gaugler N6OSK Hybrid Networks, Inc. Cupertino, Calif. URL: www.hybrid.com (home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: users.aimnet.com/~keng) "The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE..."

Problem with 3C509 ifconfig

ings OK? Thanks for your help! --- Key fingerprint = D6 A7 D7 8C 92 CB 42 FD 60 D5 62 1C D7 B9 EA 8E Ken Gaugler N6OSK Hybrid Networks, Inc. Cupertino, Calif. URL: www.hybrid.com (home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: users.aimnet.com/~keng) "The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE..."

Installing Netscape with dpkg

get away with using one of the newer binaries? Do I need to tweak anything to get it to install using dpkg? Thanks a lot! --- Key fingerprint = D6 A7 D7 8C 92 CB 42 FD 60 D5 62 1C D7 B9 EA 8E Ken Gaugler N6OSK Hybrid Networks, Inc. Cupertino, Calif. URL: www.hybrid.com (home: [EMAIL

Netscape and XKeysymDB

>I am getting lots of messages about the key symbols >not being right. I remember from BSDI that you had >to have the nls directory set up in a special place. >Tried to hack this but still not getting the desired >result (i.e. no more messages about missing keysyms). > >The docs say that a suitabl

how to boot single-user mode?

Last night I tried and tried to get my system to come up in single user mode (so I could do some major filesystem changes). I couldn't get it to come up single-user. I tried booting from the original install boot floppy, and to my surprise it booted up my kernel on the hard disk?!?!?! I couldn't

Netscape and XKeysymDB

I am getting lots of messages about the key symbols not being right. I remember from BSDI that you had to have the nls directory set up in a special place. Tried to hack this but still not getting the desired result (i.e. no more messages about missing keysyms). The docs say that a suitable XKeys

help getting X and openwin to work?

mewhere, possibly between /usr/X11/lib and somewhere. Do you know anything about this, or can I give you any more information to help me solve this? Thanks!! --- Ken Gaugler URL:http://users.aimnet.com/~keng "The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE..."

RE: help setting up X and openwin

A7 D7 8C 92 CB 42 FD 60 D5 62 1C D7 B9 EA 8E Ken Gaugler N6OSK Hybrid Networks, Inc. Cupertino, Calif. URL: www.hybrid.com (home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: users.aimnet.com/~keng) "The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE..."