Re: IP Masq

[Ethan Benson]

On 18/1/2000 Timothy C. Phan wrote:


  I'd like to know if the slink kernel is built with IP Masq?
  Or could someone point me to where can I find information
  on setup a IP Masq linux box.  TIA!


Check out the IP masquerading HOWTO, on your favorite HOWTO mirror. 
it explains all the options you need to enable when recompiling your 
kernel (if you need to, i never use stock kernels for any longer then 
it takes to compile my own) it also goes over in detail how to 
configure everything properly, for both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels.


potato and possibly slink have a ipmasq package which seems to work 
right out the box if your kernel is ipmasq compiled, though i think 
it would be a good idea to read the howto and go over those rules to 
make sure they are appropriate for your environment.  (you may have 
differing security requirements etc)


Ethan

Re: libungif3g-dev: post-installation script error

[Ethan Benson]

On 18/1/2000 Christopher S. Swingley wrote:



I've been keeping up with potato fairly regularly (two or three times
a week), and occasionally I wind up with errors that look like this
(this is what I got today):

dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script:
Exec format error
dpkg: error processing libungif3g-dev (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit
status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
libungif3g-dev

Sometimes I can get things to work by doing dpkg --purge, apt-get install,
but in this case several things depend on the library.  Is there a
way around this, or should I file a bug report and wait for a repaired
package?  Where do these installation / configuration scripts live --
perhaps I can fix it myself?


go edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/libungif3g-dev.postinst (or something 
close) you will find either a missing or malformed #! /bin/sh  add 
that and the problem will go away.  there seems to be a rash of weary 
developers lately either forgetting or putting #/bin/sh and other 
such things there.  i've had about half a dozen packages do this over 
the last 2 weeks.


Ethan

Re: libungif3g-dev: post-installation script error

[Pollywog]

On 19-Jan-2000 Ethan Benson wrote:
> go edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/libungif3g-dev.postinst (or something 
> close) you will find either a missing or malformed #! /bin/sh  add 
> that and the problem will go away.  there seems to be a rash of weary 
> developers lately either forgetting or putting #/bin/sh and other 
> such things there.  i've had about half a dozen packages do this over 
> the last 2 weeks.


That's what it was; missing "!" in #!/bin/sh

thanks

--
Andrew

using openssh on slink (slightly o-t)

[Jim B]

I just grabbed the OpenSSH 1.2.1pre27 sources from the openssh web site.  
I already had a working installation of OpenSSL (also built from source).  
For the most part OpenSSH works fine, but I have 3 problems with it -- one
of which may be a bug in the Makefile/configure script, but anyway  
Really I'm just wondering if anyone else has seen these problems.  I'd
write to the OpenSSH list if it existed, but the only ones I see are for
developers and for "bug reports" and I'm not sure I'm ready to file a "bug
report" just yet.

Anyway, here they are:

1) When I send the process a HUP signal, it is unable to restart.  I see
this message in /var/log/auth.log:

sshd[21839]: Received SIGHUP; restarting.
sshd[21839]: RESTART FAILED: av0='sshd', error: No such file or directory.

Normally I would think that it was just a problem with the daemon's PATH
env variable, but even if I use "env" to run it with a path which includes
the binary's dir, I get the same error.

Ex: # env PATH=/usr/local/openssh/bin:/usr/local/openssh/sbin:$PATH
/usr/local/openssh/sbin/sshd

I have looked at the daemon's output under strace and with debug (-d) mode
enabeled but I don't see what file it can't find.


2) Though I set the pidfile dir to /usr/local/var/run, it still puts it in
/var/run.  Here was my "configure" line:

configure --prefix=/usr/local/openssh --enable-gnome-askpass --with-tcp-
wrappers --with-md5-passwords --with-pid-dir=/usr/local/var/run

Is this a bug?


3) Lastly, when I enable "UseLogin" in the sshd_config, the daemon boots
me out when I try to log in.  Here is what I see in auth.log:

sshd[22097]: debug: Allocating pty.
sshd[22097]: debug: Forking shell.
sshd[22097]: debug: Entering interactive session.
sshd[22101]: debug: Setting controlling tty using TIOCSCTTY.
sshd[22097]: debug: Received SIGCHLD.
sshd[22097]: debug: End of interactive session; stdin 0, stdout (read 125,
sent 125), stderr 0 bytes.
sshd[22097]: debug: Command exited with status 1.
sshd[22097]: debug: Received exit confirmation.
sshd[22097]: Closing connection to 127.0.0.1


And in sshd's debug output:

debug: Attempting authentication for .
Accepted password for  from 127.0.0.1 port 3695
debug: Allocating pty.
debug: Forking shell.
debug: Entering interactive session.
debug: Setting controlling tty using TIOCSCTTY.
debug: Received SIGCHLD.
debug: End of interactive session; stdin 0, stdout (read 125, sent 125),
stderr 0 bytes.
debug: Command exited with status 1.
debug: Received exit confirmation.
Closing connection to 127.0.0.1


While the client sees the following:

Warning: Remote host denied X11 forwarding.
Environment:
  SSH_CLIENT=127.0.0.1 3695 2519
  SSH_TTY=/dev/ttypf
  TERM=xterm-debian
login: No such file or directory
Connection to localhost closed.


I can log in with no problem if I don't enable the "UseLogin" option.  
Shouldn't sshd be able to find /bin/login if it's in its PATH?


Thanks for any help.

Sound from cassete to mp3

[Antonio Rodriguez]

What is the best way of transferring sound stored in cassete to mp3? Can
this be done without the microphone?
Thanks,
Antonio.

XFree86 question

[José Luis Gómez Dans]

I have just installed XF86 3.3.6 to add support for a ATI Rage
128 GL card. It all works fine, but when I get the prompt (after using
XF86Setup) to run xvidtune, the fonts on this are all fuzzy. The same
happens when I start X as a normal user: some fonts appear nicely, while
some others appear fuzzy and are impossible to read.

Maybe this is a bit vague, but :-) The relevant part of
XF86Config:

Section "Files"
   RgbPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
   
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled/"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled/"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled/"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Thank you!
José
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Radar & Communications Group
Department of Electronic Engineering
University of Sheffield UK

mutt and iso 8859 characters

[José Luis Gómez Dans]

Hi!
This is an easy one: what's the easy way to allow mutt to send
and receive all messages that have ISO 8859 1 out without problems? I am
writing this message with a couple of them: ¿¡ñóáâ. When viewed in
mutt's pager, they appear as ??. I don't know whether they're being
stripped in the process somewhere (do I need to send them encoded as
mime) or whether mutt is to blame. It won't even let me write these
characters on the subject line.

Thank you!
José
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Radar & Communications Group
Department of Electronic Engineering
University of Sheffield UK

NEW x problem :/

[claviola]

I think I discovered my problem, but another came up. Here it is: I was 
tweaking some of /etc/X11/XF86Config, where it configures the mouse. I modified 
/dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS3 (where my mouse is). X failed. Tried to use 
/dev/gpmdata (while running gpm -R), and the mouse was moving like a crazy 
coachroach in x. Now that I switched back to /dev/mouse, and _still_ running 
gpm -R, here is the error X displays (when I crash it with control alt 
backspace, since I am mouseless):

/home/cyberdemo/.xinitrc: line 3:   291 Broken pipe blackbox
xinit:  connection to X server lost.

waiting for X server to shut down
Fatal server error:
Unable to set status of mouse fd (Interrupted system call)

If I just kill gpm, I can start x normally, and even switch to the console and 
back again to x (that was my original problem). Anyone with the same 
problem/suggestions/hints/prayers to keep gpm and x running at the same time? 
I'd appreciate your help.

NEW x problem :/

[claviola]

I think I discovered my problem, but another came up. Here it is: I was 
tweaking some of /etc/X11/XF86Config, where it configures the mouse. I modified 
/dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS3 (where my mouse is). X failed. Tried to use 
/dev/gpmdata (while running gpm -R), and the mouse was moving like a crazy 
coachroach in x. Now that I switched back to /dev/mouse, and _still_ running 
gpm -R, here is the error X displays (when I crash it with control alt 
backspace, since I am mouseless):

/home/cyberdemo/.xinitrc: line 3:   291 Broken pipe blackbox
xinit:  connection to X server lost.

waiting for X server to shut down
Fatal server error:
Unable to set status of mouse fd (Interrupted system call)

If I just kill gpm, I can start x normally, and even switch to the console and 
back again to x (that was my original problem). Anyone with the same 
problem/suggestions/hints/prayers to keep gpm and x running at the same time? 
I'd appreciate your help.

Re: Advanced hard disk mirroring!

[Lindsay Allen]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:

[excellent post snipped]

A really simple way to do this is to use multicast ghost.  

Make a boot floppy with a packet driver to suit the NIC
Use it or 50 copies of it to boot the 50 workstations and run ghost
Run dhcp somewhere.
Run ghostsrv somewhere

and do the whole lab at once.

Lindsay


> Onno Ebbinge wrote:
> 
> > I'm a sysadmin and have two Debian GNU/Linux potato servers and 50
> > windows 95 workstations under my care.
> >
> > My problem is with the 50 workstations:
> >
> > (the 50 workstations have the same hardware)
> >
> > I want to install ONE workstation and then mirror the hard disk to
> > all other workstations.
> >
> > The first time I did it was with ghost and I hooked up the installed
> > hard disk to every client and mirrored it... Not a nice job to do
> > and there must be a better way do do it! I know that ghost CAN use
> > NETBIOS connections and such but I don't know how to boot it from a
> > 1.44" flop and then use ghost.
> >
> > My question:
> >
> > I want to boot the workstation to be installed from a floppy with
> > Linux or DOS. Then I want to make a connection to my server (or the
> > installed workstation) and mirror the hard disk from a file (or
> > hard disk).
> >
> > Frankly I don't care what is used or how it's being done (Linux/DOS
> > with dd/ghost or something else!) but I don't want to hook-up all 50
> > workstations again...
> >
> > Thanks for any ideas,
> >
> > Onno
> 
> --
> Jens B. Jorgensen
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> 
> 
> 
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Re: NEW x problem :/

[Ethan Benson]

On 18/1/2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


/home/cyberdemo/.xinitrc: line 3:   291 Broken pipe blackbox
xinit:  connection to X server lost.

waiting for X server to shut down
Fatal server error:
Unable to set status of mouse fd (Interrupted system call)

If I just kill gpm, I can start x normally, and even switch to the 
console and back again to x (that was my original problem). Anyone 
with the same problem/suggestions/hints/prayers to keep gpm and x 
running at the same time? I'd appreciate your help.


i have gpm configured as follows:
device=/dev/mouse
responsiveness=15
repeat_type=
type=ps2
append="-3 -a 3 -d 5 -l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\""

and i have X set to use /dev/mouse as well, i have no problems 
running both at the same time, i have even tried to cause a problem 
by moving the mouse all over the place while switching back and forth 
between the console and X, after a few months never had a problem..


the -a and -d just control the acceleration in the console the -3 
tells it i have a 3 button mouse, -l is from debian defaults...


i think your problem was leaving -R on..  the repeater method with X 
i tried but it makes the mouse work like in windoze, i simply can't 
stand that, but fortunately there seems to be no need for the 
repeater thing.


Ethan

Re: NEW x problem :/

[Larry Fletcher]

On Jan 18, 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I think I discovered my problem, but another came up. Here it is: I was
tweaking some of /etc/X11/XF86Config, where it configures the mouse. 
I modified /dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS3 (where my mouse is). X failed. Tried
to use /dev/gpmdata (while running gpm -R), and the mouse was moving like
a crazy coachroach in x. Now that I switched back to /dev/mouse, and 
_still_ running gpm -R, here is the error X displays (when I crash it
with control alt backspace, since I am mouseless):
> 
> /home/cyberdemo/.xinitrc: line 3:   291 Broken pipe blackbox
> xinit:  connection to X server lost.
> 

> waiting for X server to shut down
> Fatal server error:
> Unable to set status of mouse fd (Interrupted system call)
> 
> If I just kill gpm, I can start x normally, and even switch to the console
>and back again to x (that was my original problem). Anyone with the same
>problem/suggestions/hints/prayers to keep gpm and x running at the same
>time? I'd appreciate your help.

I just setup X for the first time a couple of weeks ago and had the
same problem with a PS2 mouse.  I boot directly to X with four open
consoles and the mouse works everywhere I if start gpm after X is
loaded.  Basically I just disabled gpm on startup and run it at the end
of /root/.profile.  I don't know why this works or if it would work on
your system, but it works for me. 

   Larry

Re: About Exim : HELP ME !!!!!!

[Shao Zhang]

Why do you send the same emails three times?? Please consider that
debian is a Non-profit organisation, and it costs them money!

While I am willing to help, I cannot understand your question, and that
is why I did not reply your first 2 emails.


You said:

Lorenzo Zampese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am not able to send remote e-mails by 'Exim', but only locally.

and then you said:
> When I send e-mails to internet, my exim's configuration seems to work
> fine,

and then you said:
> but my addresses don't receive my e-mails at all.

So is your problem receiving or sending??

> When I run 'fetchmail' it says something like this :
>   "SMTP error, I can't relay mail for following addresses : "

paste a couple lines from fetchmail logs would be very usefull. Have
you checked that exim is actually listening on port 25?
telnet localhost 25 see if you can get anything...

And what mda you are using to to deliver local mails? Procmail, or you
simiply forward them to port 25? You might have a look at the FAQ for
exim about the issues between procmail and exim.

> NOTE 1: my ISP's user name is different than my Linux's user name,
> so I need to use the exim's DB-rewrite feature,
> that I tested successfully with 'exim -brw '.

why do you need this? You should be able to use your ISP's smtp with no
problem if you are dialing up from them


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re: Is potatoe's exim 3.12-1 OK?

[russell cook]

Mark,
  I have the same problem.  My messages eventually freeze, and the
error is SMTP timeout while connected to ...
many bytes weritten written, but message not completed.
I would have quoted your earlier post, but I'm mailing this
via telnet to port 25 of my ISP, because I can't post out
with Exim.
  Suggestions welcome (by both of us)!

Thanks much,
Russ
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re: re: Problem with Wordperfect8 for Linux

[russell cook]

To Robert Kerr,
  You were right.  I was running Xwindows in 24 bpp mode, and 
switching to 16 bpp mode cleaned everything up nicely.  Funny
the installation docs made no mention of this restriction.
Anyway, thanks much, and thanks to all who replied.
  As others have said, help like this is why I recommend
Debian to others.

Regards,
Russ
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Re: Advanced hard disk mirroring!

[Dwayne C . Litzenberger]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 11:43:17AM +0100, Onno Ebbinge wrote:
> I'm a sysadmin and have two Debian GNU/Linux potato servers and 50 
> windows 95 workstations under my care. 
> 
> My problem is with the 50 workstations:
> 
> (the 50 workstations have the same hardware)
> 
> I want to install ONE workstation and then mirror the hard disk to 
> all other workstations.
> 
> The first time I did it was with ghost and I hooked up the installed 
> hard disk to every client and mirrored it... Not a nice job to do 
> and there must be a better way do do it! I know that ghost CAN use 
> NETBIOS connections and such but I don't know how to boot it from a 
> 1.44" flop and then use ghost.
> 
> My question:
> 
> I want to boot the workstation to be installed from a floppy with 
> Linux or DOS. Then I want to make a connection to my server (or the 
> installed workstation) and mirror the hard disk from a file (or 
> hard disk). 
> 
> Frankly I don't care what is used or how it's being done (Linux/DOS 
> with dd/ghost or something else!) but I don't want to hook-up all 50 
> workstations again...
> 
> Thanks for any ideas,
> 
> Onno
> 

I'm doing the same with a 486 server and a bunch of 386 workstations, all
IBM stuff with MCA buses, over a token-ring network, with small (~70MB-~200MB)
SCSI drives.  Basically, I made a boot disk that mounts a NFS filesystem
over the network and chroots to it. That image mounts another NFS
filesystem with all the Win95 stuff on it.  Everything pretty much works,
except the bootblock stuff (which I should get working tomorrow), and I
have yet to add the small random-number generator that will assign a
unique SMB computer name to the computer in a registry file that will be
imported on first bootup.

This all needs to be on one disk, because we all know the windows
computers will periodically have to be scratched and reinstalled, and this
is a one-time job for me, so I need to make it as easy as possible for
those who will "maintain" it. 

If all your hard drives are the same size, you could probably just
do a dd from, say, /dev/sda or /dev/hda to a file and back, and that would
copy all the partition tables and the like.

Anyway, if you need some specific help, by all means, e-mail me and I'll
see if I can help. 
 
 
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Re: package hell

[Dwayne C . Litzenberger]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 03:01:58AM -0800, Guyren G Howe wrote:
> How do I get out of package hell?
> 
> In trying to install Enlightenment on my Debian/Corel machine, I've got
> myself trapped in all sorts of loops where apt-get, dselect and dpkg all
> refuse to install any of the things I need because they can't install other
> things that those things depend on.
> 
> I've somehow managed to get my X Server uninstalled, and I can't reinstall
> it. I get several screens of errors about things that it can't install, and
> I can't find any way of piping this output to less or anything so I can see
> all the errors. The ones I can see say, for example, that things can't be
> installed because they depend on xfree86-common, which it doesn't get up to
> installing, because of these errors that come up first.
> 
> I've tried everything I can think of. Just now, for example, I told dselect
> to remove everything. Then I told it to install xfree86-common. It complains
> it can't because "cannot open help file
> '/usr/share/doc/xfree-86common/.dhelp'"
> 
> I've tried apt-get update followed by apt-get upgrade, but I just get the
> same errors.
> 
> I thought this whole package thing was supposed to make this stuff easier.
> This makes windows look like something well organised.
> 
> Hlp!
> 
> 

First, try "dselect update ; apt-get -f -y dist-upgrade".  It will cause
hell and remove and install a bunch of packages, but it might solve your
dependency problems enough to use dselect again. 

If you're stuck in a mutual dependency loop (I've gotten it with
kernel-image and alsa-modules packages), figure out what everything needs,
make sure you're right, and dpkg --force-depends -i the packages. 

But do this with small groups of packages at a time.

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Re: mutt and iso 8859 characters

[Eric G . Miller]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 12:53:17AM +, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
> Hi!
>   This is an easy one: what's the easy way to allow mutt to send
> and receive all messages that have ISO 8859 1 out without problems? I am
> writing this message with a couple of them: ¿¡ñóáâ. When viewed in
> mutt's pager, they appear as ??. I don't know whether they're being
> stripped in the process somewhere (do I need to send them encoded as
> mime) or whether mutt is to blame. It won't even let me write these
> characters on the subject line.
> 

I believe the easiest way is to set you LANG env variable.
For instace:
export LANG=en_US

Put this in your ~/.bashrc and/or /etc/environment.
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Re: Problem with Wordperfect8 for Linux

[Dwayne C . Litzenberger]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 08:13:47PM -0600, russell cook wrote:
> I have wordperfect running ... sort of.  The graphics icons are garbled.
> I have XPM4.7 version 3.4k-5.  I don not not have XPM4.7-alt dev 
> installed
> because I have a conflict.  Can someone tell me wahat packages I must have
> installed on my Potato system for Wordperfect to run properly?  If the 
> necessary
> packages are obsolete, can you please tell me where to find them?
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Regards,
>   Russ
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 

Sort of offtopic, but try this.  Make sure grammar proofreading is on.

Type:

There's 10 of us.

and hit enter.  Apparently, if you have bad grammar, it segfaults!

At least for me it does.  
 
 
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Re: fidogate resend

[Brian May]

> "Paul" == Paul  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Paul> Please copy to this email address as fetchmail is now down
Paul> as well so I`m using Netscape on another email account to my
Paul> mailing list subscription.  I`ve just tried to install
Paul> fidogate and inn, with a lot of error messages which I hope
Paul> I`ve sidestepped for the present, but now when running
Paul> fidonetconfig it says "/usr/sbin/fidogateconfig: Please
Paul> install innd!: command not found" Problem is i managed to
Paul> install inn and ps aux shows innd as a running process(if
Paul> that`s the right term):

Paul> "news 20553 0.0 4.5 7936 2128 ?  S 21:13 0:00
Paul> /usr/lib/news/bin/innd -p7 " Has anyone got any experience
Paul> with fidogate and could help me out, this is way over my
Paul> head!

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Re: fidogate resend

[Brian May]

> "Paul" == Paul  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

PS I apologize about my previous post. I accidently pushed C-c C-c in
xemacs (send) instead of C-c C-t (add address to To: field).

Paul> I`ve sidestepped for the present, but now when running
Paul> fidonetconfig it says "/usr/sbin/fidogateconfig: Please
Paul> install innd!: command not found" Problem is i managed to
Paul> install inn and ps aux shows innd as a running process(if
Paul> that`s the right term):

I have never used fidogate, but have been told it is better then
ifgate which I am currently using. However, when I last tried to
install fidogate (IIRC potato version), the preinst and postinst
scripts were horrible, and wouldn't work properly unless you used
sendmail. I use Postfix...

I think you need to find out eactly what fidogateconfig
means when it gives that error. It might be something else
has gone wrong, and fidogateconfig is just displaying a generic
error message.

I doubt that fidonetconfig is looking for the inn binary, more likely,
it is looking for a copy of ctlinnd.

If fidogateconfig is a binary executable, I would try
strace -o/tmp/out -ff /usr/sbin/fidogateconfig

If it is a sh executable, I would try
sh -x /usr/sbin/fidogateconfig

I think you should be able to do something similar with perl to, but
not sure what the best way would be.

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Re: mutt and iso 8859 characters

[Brian May]

> "José" == José Luis Gómez Dans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

José> Hi!  This is an easy one: what's the easy way to allow mutt
José> to send and receive all messages that have ISO 8859 1 out
José> without problems? I am writing this message with a couple of
José> them: ¿¡ñóáâ. When viewed in mutt's pager, they appear as

That seems to be OK here, with slink mutt on Linux textmode console.

To make sure it is correct:

The first two are ?! upside down, the following are noaa with accents
removed.

Are you using an X-Windows?
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apt/squid errors

[Brian May]

Hello,

Background:

I have apt configured to receive data from my squid proxy server.  The
data comes over a PPP connection. Anything from 14.4Kbps to 34.4Kbps
causes the following problem.

I never noticed the problem until I upgraded from the initial slink
release of apt to the latest security fix.

It is:

Could not connect to proxy (202.12.87.129).

When this problem occurs, all further transfers fail with the same
error. If I restart apt immediately, the same errors occur. I have to
wait about 5-10 seconds and then restart apt, and everything works
fine.

Any ideas what is going wrong?

Thanks in advance.
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xfs will not start

[Howard Mann]

Hi,


I am trying to get xfs to start on bootup.

I see the following message on bootup:

Starting X font server: xfs/etc/rc2.d/S20xfs : line 44 : 282 Aborted
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pid $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON

( I haven't noticed this message before)

This appeared - I believe -  after I edited the " catalogue" line in
/etc/X11/xfs/config file , and tried to restart xfs with :  
/etc/init.d/xfs restart

ps -aux does not show xfs 

lsof | grep LISTEN does not show xfs listening to port unix/:7100 ( It
did before)

I do not see an entry for a "xfs.pid" in /var/run

What happened here ?  What have I done wrong?


Thanks,


Howard Mann.

Re: xfs will not start

[Howard Mann]

Howard Mann wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to get xfs to start on bootup.
> 
> I see the following message on bootup:
> 
> Starting X font server: xfs/etc/rc2.d/S20xfs : line 44 : 282 Aborted
> start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pid $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON
> 

Clarification :


Sorry - the full message is :

Starting X font server: xfs/etc/rc2.d/S20xfs : line 44 : 282 Aborted
 start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pid $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON

already running   <<< I left this out in the original post.


Howard Mann.

Re: xfs will not start

[Eric G . Miller]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 11:41:09PM -0700, Howard Mann wrote:
> Howard Mann wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am trying to get xfs to start on bootup.
> > 
> > I see the following message on bootup:
> > 
> > Starting X font server: xfs/etc/rc2.d/S20xfs : line 44 : 282 Aborted
> > start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pid $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON
> > 
> 
> Clarification :
> 
> 
> Sorry - the full message is :
> 
> Starting X font server: xfs/etc/rc2.d/S20xfs : line 44 : 282 Aborted
>  start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pid $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON
> 
> already running   <<< I left this out in the original post.

The question is, does /etc/init.d/xfs start work? And, have you been
messing with that script?
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Re: xfs will not start

[Howard Mann]

Howard Mann wrote:
> 
> Howard Mann wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to get xfs to start on bootup.
> >
> > I see the following message on bootup:
> >
> > Starting X font server: xfs/etc/rc2.d/S20xfs : line 44 : 282 Aborted
> > start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pid $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON
> >

Sorry, it was the infamous "typo"   :-(  :

In /etc/X11/xfs/config, I had :  default-resolutions =
100,100,7575

instead of :  default-resolutions = 100,100,7575

Oh, my aching eyes.

All is now well.

Cheers,

Howard.

Re: Transparent network bridge+filter?

[Onno Ebbinge]

At 02:08 PM 1/18/00 -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote:
>Can anything that runs on Linux do reliable network bridging & filtering?
>I need a transparent filter that I can drop into an existing network.
>
>Ipfilter will do the job with Open/NetBSD.  It may work on Linux, but
>requires kernel 2.0.35 and isn't compatible with glibc.

Another guy ask -something like that- before,
I replied with an answer that worked ;-)

Here is my reply and maybe you can use 
parts of it:
(You don't want to use this route config ;-)

> This has been a while but here it goes:
> 
> Please test if the next settings will do the trick.
> The debian box cannot be reached from the inet or lan,
> We can do something about the lan connection though...
> 
> Note: Filtering firewall is WIDE open!
> Note: There is a route for all IP's because they are 
>   on the same subnet (netmask) but NOT on the 
>   same network device!
> Note: Youre gateway is 63.225.131.78
> 
> root# ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> root# ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 promisc
> root# ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 promisc
> 
> root# route add 63.225.131.73 eth0
> root# route add 63.225.131.74 eth0
> root# route add 63.225.131.75 eth0
> root# route add 63.225.131.76 eth0
> root# route add 63.225.131.77 eth0
> root# route add 63.225.131.78 eth1
> 
> root# ipchains -P input ACCEPT
> root# ipchains -P forward ACCEPT
> root# ipchains -P ouput ACCEPT
> root# ipchains -F
> root# ipchains -X
> 
> Please send me your results
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Onno

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

[Onno Ebbinge]

Hmmm, does incremental backups sound good in this situation?
Anyone?

Regards,

Onno

At 07:44 PM 1/18/00 +, John Gay wrote:
>
>
>I've got some good suggestions, and apparently raised a few questions as well.
>Let me outline my reasons for asking and what I hope to do:
>
>I've got a CD-RW. I plan to use this for back-ups as well as software
>publishing. I've also got a SCSI tape drive, but I'm not quite sure how to use
>it yet. I've got / as a 500M partition. This is perfect for putting onto a
>bootable CD-RW for emergency recovery. Being new, I've already screwed up my
>system to the point where it wouldn't boot. Last time I had to do a complete
>install.
>
>I would like to keep the other partitions small enough to put onto just a few
>CD's each. Worst-case scenario, I trash a complete partition, I can recover 
>from
>just a few CD's. This also makes backing up each partition less work. I also
>want to have a few partitions set aside for CD images. I would feel better
>having a number of smaller partitions that I can back-up and recover quickly,
>plus fsck would run faster, that just a few really big partitions and lots of
>sym-links to hide the facts. I've read the multi-disk HOW-TO, as it has some
>good info on partitions sizes and such. I've also read the FHS info as well. I
>know StarOffice wants to install in /opt, and apt-get uses /var quite heavily. 
>I
>expect only three users, and maybe a business account, so mail shouldn't be too
>much. At the moment I'm more concerned with being able to recover the various
>system and user programmes before I make my next mistake as root, rather than
>and user data. This would indicate a good scheme for recovering /usr. Probably
>spitting it up may help, as long as my / partition would have enough to recover
>the rest of the system in case of catastrophic failure.
>
>Thanks again for your input. I'll have another read of the FHS documents and a
>good think.

apt-get confused, how to repair?

[Tapio Lehtonen]

Hello all,

I seem to have a confused apt-get:

vendredi:~# apt-get check
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  debconf: Depends: fileutils (>= 4.0-5) but it is not installed
  debhelper: Depends: fileutils (>= 4.0-2.1) but it is not installed
  kernel-package: Depends: fileutils (>= 3.16-4) but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
vendredi:~#

vendredi:~# apt-get install fileutils
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 86 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 533kB of archives. After unpacking 1024B will be used.
Get:1 ftp://linux.tellabs.fi potato/main fileutils 4.0l-3 [533kB]
Fetched 533kB in 1s (516kB/s)
(Reading database ... 52491 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace fileutils 4.0l-2 (using
.../fileutils_4.0l-3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement fileutils ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.0l-3_i386.deb
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/bin/chgrp', which is also in package
perl-5.005-base
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.0l-3_i386.deb
E: Sub-process returned an error code (1)

-- 1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 533kB of archives. After unpacking 1024B will be used.
Get:1 ftp://linux.tellabs.fi potato/main fileutils 4.0l-3 [533kB]
Fetched 533kB in 1s (516kB/s)
(Reading database ... 52491 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace fileutils 4.0l-2 (using
.../fileutils_4.0l-3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement fileutils ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.0l-3_i386.deb
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/bin/chgrp', which is also in package
perl-5.005-base
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.0l-3_i386.deb
E: Sub-process returned an error code (1)
vendredi:~#

It seems to me that /bin/chgrp is not in perl-5.005-base, apt-get just
thinks so. I have tried apt-get clean and autoclean, -f like apt-get
instructs, and running dselect but nothing helps. 

How should I proceed to get this system fixed? Is there a way to
recreate the database apt-get uses to store the installation state of
the system?
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Re: Sound from cassete to mp3

[Stephan Engelke]

Hi Antonio,

Antonio Rodriguez writes:
> What is the best way of transferring sound stored in cassete to mp3? Can
> this be done without the microphone?

you should be able to get an adaptor cable of the form "2-Chinch ->
3.5mm" (whatever this type of plug is called in English :-). These
cables are often part of a soundcard package.  If you do not own such
a cable, visit you local Hifi store.

Then connect your sound cards line in with the tapedecks output
sockets, hit record on your computer and play on you tapedeck.

If you own one of those compact stereos you'll have to check what type
of output sockets this machine offers.

I have to mention one thing,thoug:

Typically the sound quality of a regular tape is fairly low compared
to CD's, additionally there is always some background noise created by
the tape machine's motors.   You may be disappointed with the results
of your experient.  I'd simply see if I can buy the CD..

TTUL8R -- Stephan
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Spell checker which "understands" HTML

[Stephan Engelke \(Club Céronne\)]

Hi!

is anyone aware of a spellchecker that ignores HTML-tags while doing
its job?  Preferably one for which a German dictionary exists.  I know
that ispell is TeX- and nroff-aware (according to the manual), but I
have had no luck with HTML. I am running the ispell included in the
slink distribution - maybe I just missed a command line switch?!

Thanks for any hints in advance.

TTUL8R -- Stephan
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Configuration of Exim

[lorenzo . zampese]

Hi to all!

I am not able to send remote e-mails by 'Exim', but only locally.

I have got a dial-up Linux Box (Debian 2.1), without a local network,
and I wish to deliver e-mails by my ISP's smart host.

I used 'eximconfig', but it didn't seem to set a good configuration for my
needings.
I have changed for a lot of times "/etc/exim.conf" but I can deliver
locally
only.

When I send e-mails to internet, my exim's configuration seems to work
fine,
butmy addresses don't receive my e-mails at all.
When I run 'fetchmail' it says something like this :
   "Error 550, SMTP error, I can't relay mail for the following addresses :
 "

NOTE 1: my ISP's user name is different than my Linux's user name,
so I need to use the exim's DB-rewrite feature,
that I tested successfully with 'exim -brw '.
NOTE 2: my ISP connection works fine and it is well configured.
NOTE 3: '.fetchmailrc' is well configured too.

I don't know if I have to change something in '/etc/host' or what...
Please, is there anybody who can show me where I have to put the following
parameters in '/etc/exim.conf' ?

my hostname  :  xyz
Linux's user name:  myself_linux
my ISP account   :  myself
my address   :  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SMTP server  :  smtp.mail.company.it
POP3 server  :  pop3.mail.company.it


THANKS TO ALL.

Savage4 and Xserver question

[Kovács Tamás]

Hi!
 
I have an Eagle S3 Savage4 card. I try 
the default Svga X server on it, but this X server not support them. I 
finded on a Net one "handmade" svga X server ( i forget who made 
it..)
It's working now, but it's too slow. The 
window-moving on the 1024*765 resoution very "staccato". Otherwise, I use 
the latest stable Debian version (slink). I look for a faster X server for 
my Savage4 card.Can somebody help me?
 
Thanx
Tamás Kovács
 
 

Re: Is potatoe's exim 3.12-1 OK?

[Wouter Hanegraaff]

I had similar problems when I didn't use an smtp while sending mail to
certain adresses, only I use postfix. My error was:

(conversation with columbo.hvu.nl[145.89.50.200] timed out while sending
end of data -- message may be sent more than once)

However, this turned out to be a router problem, not a Postfix
problem. So you might have the same problem. Have a look at
http://www.postfix.org and go to the FAQ. The exact description is at 
the item "Mail fails with timeout or lost connection".

If you have this problem, you can't solve it yourself because it's
caused by some router fragmenting packets it should not fragment. 

Hth,

Wouter
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Re: Spell checker which "understands" HTML

[Joey Hess]

Stephan Engelke Club Céronne" wrote:
> its job?  Preferably one for which a German dictionary exists.  I know
> that ispell is TeX- and nroff-aware (according to the manual), but I
> have had no luck with HTML. I am running the ispell included in the
> slink distribution - maybe I just missed a command line switch?!

In potato at least:

  -h The input file is in html format.

-- 
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Re: Several problems

[Dänzer]

--- "I can. Thank you." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have seen the same problem with the XF86_SVGA server with ATI cards. I
> could not switch between X and a virtual console without blanking the
> screen, freezing things, and other unpleasantness.
> I would suggest using an accelerated server if one is available, not only
> because it is much more stable and able to switch between video modes, but
> they're also typically a lot faster

And aren't free (neither as in beer nor as in speech ;)

XFree86 4.0 will beat 'em in most respects performance wise.

Another good idea might be to report this bug to XFree86 (include all
relevant logs and other server output please)


Michel


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Come on lorenzo, pleas stop the madness..

[Wouter Hanegraaff]

Hi lorenzo,

On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 10:01:50AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Return Receipt
>
>  YourRe: Is potatoe's exim 3.12-1 OK?  
>  document: 
>
>  was Lorenzo Zampese/Electrolux Professional   
>  receivedS.P.A./Italy/Electrolux Group 
>  by:   
>
>  at: 10.33.44 Today
>

I keep getting mails like this from you if I send an e-mail do
debian-users. Would you please be so kind to configer your mailer properly? 

I know you're out there because you just posted a message to debian-user
so please do something about it.

Slightly irritated,

Wouter

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Re: exponential dial PPP

[Dänzer]

--- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "Dave" == Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> Dave> I'm pretty sure that diald will do this.  Send it a 'force'
> Dave> command and it will retry failed/dropped connections with
> Dave> options for starting and maximum interval between retries.
> 
> diald seemed to be an overkill for this application. I downloaded it
> and had a quick look (I didn't see the bit on intervals, so perhaps I
> was too quick), and saw that it required slip support to be compiled
> in the kernel. While I could compile SLIP support into the kernel, I
> doubt SLIP support is required in order to do what I want...
> 
> I think diald is aimed at dial-on-demand, where my connection is
> permenant (or meant to be).

Have you looked at pppd's options, especially 'persistent' and the likes?


Michel


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Can't give non-root X access

[Guyren G Howe]

How do I give access to X from anything other than root? I get an error that
the user is not allowed to run X.

I realise that this probably involves xauth. But the explanations I can find
about how it works might as well be in Greek. They all talk about the name
of the host, for example. Why should I need this when I want to just be able
to create a non-root login on the same computer?

Can someone explain for me, step-by-step, how I let my non-root login use X?

Many thanks.

Re: fidogate resend

[Paul]

Thanks for the help Brian and Colin, as you can see I`ve still got a lot
of learning to do about Linux in general but I really want to get on
fidonet. I`ve been given  a point but I never realised that the software
would be so difficult.
Here`s the latest problems;

Brian May wrote:

> 
> If it is a sh executable, I would try
> sh -x /usr/sbin/fidogateconfig


Here`s the last bit of output from the above command:

+ /etc/init.d/sendmail reload
+ inndcf
+ '[' '!' -f /usr/sbin/innd ']'
+ 'Please install innd!'
/usr/sbin/fidogateconfig: Please install innd!: command not found
+ return
+ rm -f /tmp/1323.tmp  

Colin Watson wrote:

>/usr/lib/news/bin isn't normally on the PATH, which might be the
>problem. You could either put it on the PATH with 'export
>PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/news/bin' (but if fidogate itself, as well as its
>configuration program, needs it then you might have to do a lot of
>fiddling), or you could symlink /usr/sbin/innd to
>/usr/lib/news/bin/innd.

>(Debian inn doesn't normally install the daemon itself to
>/usr/lib/news/bin. I take it this is a self-compiled package?)


This was a debian package. I tried to make a directory called
/usr/sbin/innd and link it to /usr/lib/news/bin/innd  with the
command:   

ln -s /usr/lib/news/bin/innd /user/sbin/innd  

In return for which I get:

 ln: cannot create symbolic link `/user/sbin/innd' to `/usr/lib/news/bi
n/innd': No such file or directory  


This is without doubt the most difficult software I`ve encountered on
Debian to date.
 
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Re: NEW x problem :/

[Dänzer]

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I think I discovered my problem, but another came up. Here it is: I was
> tweaking some of /etc/X11/XF86Config, where it configures the mouse. I
> modified /dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS3 (where my mouse is). X failed.

Have you set the correct mouse protocol/type in XF86Config?


Michel


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Realtek 8139 support ?

[Johan De Messemaeker]

Hi, yesterday, I installed Debian (frozen dist). I tried to compile my own
kernel 2.2.5.

However, i seems that there are no Realtek 8139-network drivers installed.
How comes ?
Should i download and install them manually ?

Thx, Johan

Re: help -- UDMA install....

[Burt Kemp]

From: Paul McAvoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: help -- UDMA install
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 23:34:38 -0800

A couple of things I would try also:

1) examine the motherboard to find out what type of UDMA support it has.  I
have an Asus MB with UDMA support but it only does UDMA-33.  I also have a
quantum 13gig UDMA-66 drive. I was having some problems with it, and went 
to
the quantum website.  I found there a util which somewhat described a 
problem

I was having, and there was a utility to 'fix' the drive to UDMA-33.  This
didn't actually relate to my problem but the idea is to check out info on 
your

drives by the manufacturers and find out about what support the MB has.

2) I would also selectivly remove drives from the machine to see if another
drive is causing the problem.  Same ide channel?  Different ide channels?
Slaves / master conflict?

The drives should work on your MB.  There might in fact be a problem with 
the

maxtor drive.

As to UDMA support.. I am using the current stable kernel, and it does not
support my ide chipset.  So, I can't use UDMA support for my drives.  But
regardless, I can still function normally... It's just that disk/disk xfers
kind of suck.

Good luck.

- Paul

On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 09:07:12AM +0100, Onno Ebbinge wrote:
> Just a few things you should check:
>
> Master/slave settings, isa card interferance,
> broken PCI cards, BIOS init, BIOS: NO PNP OS,
> broken chipsets, etc
>
> I hope this helps...
>
> Regards,
>
> Onno
>
>
> At 01:26 PM 1/14/00 -0600, Marc D Chapman wrote:
> >I'm currently trying to help a friend install Linux onto his
> >system.  However, we are running into some massive problems.  Whenever 
it
> >gets to the point where it is checking the disk for errors, or 
formatting
> >the disk (basically any large amount of disk access), the system will 
lock

> >up completely.  One of his drives is a UDMA with on-motherboard support
> >for this (there are a total of 3 hard drives and 1 CD-ROM on the IDE), 
the

> >drive is a Maxtor 6 GB (I don't recall the model number).
> >
> >We tried a number of different distributions (Debian 2.1, Redhat 6.1,
> >Mandrake), but all do the same thing.  Does anyone have any ideas as to
> >what could be up (I checked the UDMA HOWTO, which didn't help, and also
> >tried playing with drive settings (LBA vs. Large) also to no avail).  
Any

> >help is appreciated
> >


I also had problems with Linux not detecting my ATA/66 (UDMA/66) drive.  My 
board supports ATA/66 but the current kernel does not.


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Re: NEW x problem :/

[Kovács Tamás]

Hi.
Can you try with XF86Setup?


- Original Message -
From: "Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: NEW x problem :/


>
>
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I think I discovered my problem, but another came up. Here it is: I was
> > tweaking some of /etc/X11/XF86Config, where it configures the mouse. I
> > modified /dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS3 (where my mouse is). X failed.
>
> Have you set the correct mouse protocol/type in XF86Config?
>
>
> Michel
>
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Re: Keyboard autorepeat

[Ed Cogburn]

"Michel Dänzer" wrote:
> 
> --- Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >   There is, to me, something suspicious that I haven't noticed before.
> > The last lines of the text console after starting X now include:
> >
> >   SetKbdSettings - type: 0 rate: 5 delay: 105 snumlk: 0
> >   SetKbdSettings - succeeded
> >
> > Where is this coming from?  Its NOT the AutoRepeat thing in
> > XF86Config, this is something new thats been added recently.
> 
> Let's repeat it: It _is_ the AutoRepeat thing. It was ignored in former
> versions of XFree86.


Then there is another problem that I'm seeing because AutoRepeat does
nothing at all.  I can change the 250 to 500 or the 5 to 0, 6, or 15
and rerun X.  NO CHANGE.  Also, the SetKbdSettings lines do not change
either, the rate remains 5 and the delay 105.


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Re: Hint: Finding packages with needed files

[Dänzer]

--- Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > > > 1. I have a USR V90 56k modem. If I let it connect at anything above
> > > > 33600, the RX rate drops drastically - to around 1kB/s. Any
> > > > suggestions?
> > 
> > But, do you think it will also help with this problem? It also shows up
> > with virtually no load...
> 
> Try doing a large zmodem download with minicom, if you get CRC
> errors when the HD is active then irqtune should fix it up.

Haven't tried that, but I am using irqtune now and the problem with disk
access stalling the serial device is gone. Thanks Bruce.

However, the above problem still remains. If I just initialize the modem with
'AT&F1', it connects at 4 something bps. But I only get transfer rates
around 1 kB/s! Uploads are as fast as ever. OTOH after 'AT&F1&N21', it
connects at only 33600 bps, but I get 3.5 kB/s constantly.

Anyone has a suggestion about this one? Have I misconfigured my modem?
Doesn't my ISP support V90? ...


Michel


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Re: Realtek 8139 support ?

[Robert Varga]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Johan De Messemaeker wrote:

> Hi, yesterday, I installed Debian (frozen dist). I tried to compile my own
> kernel 2.2.5.
> 
> However, i seems that there are no Realtek 8139-network drivers installed.
> How comes ?
> Should i download and install them manually ?
> 
No, it is only that the driver is in the experimental section. Set the
flag concerning experimental features to set.

Robert Varga

problems setting horde

[Mario Olimpio de Menezes]

Hi,

I'm having troubles setting horde (from frozen). The postinst
script gives me a error I could not solve. I even downgrade to pre6
version w/o success. 
Running dpkg --pending --configure gives:
-
Setting up horde (1.2.0.pre6-1.2) ...
dpkg: error processing horde (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 horde

The same error occurs with pre7 (frozen version).
Do you know what's wrong?

[]s,
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IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails"
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Re: Come on lorenzo, pleas stop the madness..

[Wouter Hanegraaff]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 10:01:55AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am very sorry for my return receipt, but if I could disable it I would do
> it.

I don't  really believe that. 
Please contact your system administrator, look at the options, or
unsubscribe from debian user and subscribe with another mail addres,
perhaps a webmail service or something like that... 

The reward for answering your mail is a lot of crap from your mail
software, so that won't encourage people to answer your questions
either.

Wouter

> 
> If somebody help me to configure 'exim', then I will not disturb anybody
> with my e-mails,
> and with my return receipts, because in that case I would use my Linux box,
> with a good
> MUA like MUTT.
> 
> Sorry again.
> 
> 
>-- Memo - Header ---
> 
> To:   Lorenzo Zampese/Electrolux Professional S.P.A./Italy/Electrolux
>   Group
> 
> cc:   debian-user@lists.debian.org
> 
> From: Wouter Hanegraaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Date: 19/01/2000 09.44.08 GMT
>   19/01/2000 10.44.56
> 
> Subject:  Come on lorenzo, pleas stop the madness..
> 
> - Memo - Message --
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi lorenzo,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 10:01:50AM +0100,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Return Receipt
> >
> >  YourRe: Is potatoe's exim 3.12-1 OK?
> >  document:
> >
> >  was Lorenzo Zampese/Electrolux Professional
> >  receivedS.P.A./Italy/Electrolux Group
> >  by:
> >
> >  at: 10.33.44 Today
> >
> 
> I keep getting mails like this from you if I send an e-mail do
> debian-users. Would you please be so kind to configer your mailer properly?
> 
> I know you're out there because you just posted a message to debian-user
> so please do something about it.
> 
> Slightly irritated,
> 
> Wouter
> 
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> 
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scsi-ide module

[Aaron Stromas]

hi,

could someone tell me where the scsi-ide module may be found? either in
binary for i386, kernel 2.0.36 or source. tia,

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Re: scsi-ide module

[Peter Ross]

On 19-Jan-2000, Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi,
> 
> could someone tell me where the scsi-ide module may be found? either in
> binary for i386, kernel 2.0.36 or source. tia,
> 
have a look in /lib/modules/2.0.36/scsi for ide-scsi.o

Pete

Re: scsi-ide module

[Aaron Stromas]

i did. also ran modprobe -l, it's not there.

-a

Peter Ross wrote:

> On 19-Jan-2000, Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > could someone tell me where the scsi-ide module may be found? either in
> > binary for i386, kernel 2.0.36 or source. tia,
> >
> have a look in /lib/modules/2.0.36/scsi for ide-scsi.o
>
> Pete

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Re: mutt not y2k compliant???

[David Wright]

Quoting Brian May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> ii  mutt0.95.3-0.2 Text-based mailreader ...
> 
> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 00 12:59:30 +1100
> 
> Most programs recognise "00" as the year 2000 (eg Gnus). Not mutt
> though - it displays the same entry as:
> 
>  188   * Feb 16 Ger Vloothuis   (   0) Y2K roll call
> 
> How can mutt get so confused it replaces 10 Jan with 16 Feb???

It's actually completely screwed up; the year is 2036 though
you can't see it. It will only handle years 1970 through 2038
correctly. 0 and 1 catch it out and produce this screw-up,
most other dates seem to make it choose a different source
than the Date: header (after all there are plenty to choose from).

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ntp socket

[Tim Thomas]

Can anyone tell me why I am getting this ?
 What else would be using that socket ?

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From: root (Cron Daemon)
To: root
Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ntpdate tick.usno.navy.mil >> 
/var/log/timechange
X-Cron-Env: 
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Re: IP Masq

[Timothy C. Phan]

Hi Ethan,

  Many thanks on the IP masquerading HOWTO. I'll download it
  and read it.

  I used to remember that debian has different way to compile
  the kernel.  Is there an HOWTO on Debian kernel compile/install.

  Secondly, I looked at all the packages that I've mirror on slink,
  I saw the base directory has only kernel-image-2.03[3-8]_2.3..
  My question is what is version 2.0 and 2.2 that you mentioned
  in your email(included).  What diff, and which to use.

  Lastly, what is in the ipmasg package?

  Thank you very much again!

Ethan Benson wrote:
> 
> On 18/1/2000 Timothy C. Phan wrote:
> 
> >   I'd like to know if the slink kernel is built with IP Masq?
> >   Or could someone point me to where can I find information
> >   on setup a IP Masq linux box.  TIA!
> 
> Check out the IP masquerading HOWTO, on your favorite HOWTO mirror.
> it explains all the options you need to enable when recompiling your
> kernel (if you need to, i never use stock kernels for any longer then
> it takes to compile my own) it also goes over in detail how to
> configure everything properly, for both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels.
> 
> potato and possibly slink have a ipmasq package which seems to work
> right out the box if your kernel is ipmasq compiled, though i think
> it would be a good idea to read the howto and go over those rules to
> make sure they are appropriate for your environment.  (you may have
> differing security requirements etc)
> 
> Ethan

Re: scsi-ide module - FOUND

[Aaron Stromas]

i found  the source in the kernel source package. thanks,

Peter Ross wrote:

> On 19-Jan-2000, Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > could someone tell me where the scsi-ide module may be found? either in
> > binary for i386, kernel 2.0.36 or source. tia,
> >
> have a look in /lib/modules/2.0.36/scsi for ide-scsi.o
>
> Pete

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potato - where's lp

[Kenneth Scharf]

I found it.  Oops!  You have to say yes to parallel
device in general setup to get printer support in char
devices.  Maybe I'm loosing my marbles but I didn't
remember this connection in the 2.0 kernel config. 
Also the help calls the parellel device option out for
things like zip drives etc... not printers in general.
 Is this connection new in 2.2?

Also I thought that there was support for USB in 2.2,
but I havn't found it in the menu config items (yet). 
I did select prompt for experimental code.  

One last question is potato now linked to frozen? 
Should I change my sources.list to point to frozen or
potato instead of unstable now?

Thanks.

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Re: Transparent network bridge+filter?

[Jeff Noxon]

You have an interesting idea, but it won't work in my case.  I have to
put this between a pair of Cisco routers running EIGRP.  They won't see
each other if the router discovery packets (etc.) aren't forwarded by
a bridge.  I also can't guarantee that the address of the router on one
side won't change -- it is not under my control.

Thanks!!

Jeff

On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 08:42:00AM +0100, Onno Ebbinge wrote:
> At 02:08 PM 1/18/00 -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> >Can anything that runs on Linux do reliable network bridging & filtering?
> >I need a transparent filter that I can drop into an existing network.
> >
> >Ipfilter will do the job with Open/NetBSD.  It may work on Linux, but
> >requires kernel 2.0.35 and isn't compatible with glibc.
> 
> Another guy ask -something like that- before,
> I replied with an answer that worked ;-)
> 
> Here is my reply and maybe you can use 
> parts of it:
> (You don't want to use this route config ;-)
> 
> > This has been a while but here it goes:
> > 
> > Please test if the next settings will do the trick.
> > The debian box cannot be reached from the inet or lan,
> > We can do something about the lan connection though...
> > 
> > Note: Filtering firewall is WIDE open!
> > Note: There is a route for all IP's because they are 
> >   on the same subnet (netmask) but NOT on the 
> >   same network device!
> > Note: Youre gateway is 63.225.131.78
> > 
> > root# ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> > root# ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 promisc
> > root# ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 promisc
> > 
> > root# route add 63.225.131.73 eth0
> > root# route add 63.225.131.74 eth0
> > root# route add 63.225.131.75 eth0
> > root# route add 63.225.131.76 eth0
> > root# route add 63.225.131.77 eth0
> > root# route add 63.225.131.78 eth1
> > 
> > root# ipchains -P input ACCEPT
> > root# ipchains -P forward ACCEPT
> > root# ipchains -P ouput ACCEPT
> > root# ipchains -F
> > root# ipchains -X
> > 
> > Please send me your results

Re: potato - where's lp

[Philip Blundell]

>devices.  Maybe I'm loosing my marbles but I didn't
>remember this connection in the 2.0 kernel config. 
>Also the help calls the parellel device option out for
>things like zip drives etc... not printers in general.
> Is this connection new in 2.2?

Yes, it is new in 2.2.

>Also I thought that there was support for USB in 2.2,
>but I havn't found it in the menu config items (yet). 
>I did select prompt for experimental code.  

I don't think there is any (usable) USB in 2.2.  Upgrade to 2.3 or wait for 
2.4.

p.

severe xfree86 hassles

[Steve Winston]

I continue with xfree86 problems. After downloading and configuring version
3.3.6, startx fails with what appears to be a keyboard error.
I use a Microsoft natural keyboard. Any suggestions? HEPppp
The messages:
System: '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1
-R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11xkb -xkm -m us_microsoft -eml "The XKEYBOARD keymap
compiler (xkbcomp) reports: " -emp ">" -eml
"Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the Xserver"
keymap/xfree86 compiled/xfree86.xkm'
Fatal Server error:
Could not open default font 'fixed'
x connection to: 00 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)


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Re: potato - where's lp

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

[...]
> Also I thought that there was support for USB in 2.2, but I havn't
> found it in the menu config items (yet).  I did select prompt for
> experimental code.

You also need to modify arch/i386/config.in and uncomment the line

# source drivers/usb/Config.in

for the item to show up.  But be aware that there are reasons that you
need to go through this extra hoop: the USB code in 2.2.x is pretty much
useless with anything but keyboards and mice.

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Re: GRUB problems with Deb 2.0

[Lars Weber]

Hi!

David Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A GRUB floppy won't boot my old system which has a 486/66, 16 MB
> RAM, VL bus mother board, adaptec 2840 with (now) one 1GB scsi drive
> (Bios is enabled on the controller for that drive)  and a scsi CD
> ROM.  Linux 2.0 is on /dev/sda1, swap is on /dev/sda2. 2.0.34
> Kernel. The kernel is redev'ed to these parameters. 
[...]

I've heard that older versions of GRUB are having problems with ext2
file-systems created by recent versions of the e2fsprogs.  As you say
that you have reinstalled your system, you might want to try a newer
one (I don't know when exactly this has been fixed - I'm using 0.93.1
which works fine).

> I thought that grub understood ext2 file system and could
> thereby avoid the 500MB/1024 cylender problem. Can this  
> be wrong?!?

It's right, but only if you are using LBA.


Hope this helps,
Lars
 LocalWords:  LBA

Re: Can't give non-root X access

[Ethan Benson]

On 19/1/2000 Guyren G Howe wrote:



How do I give access to X from anything other than root? I get an error that
the user is not allowed to run X.

I realise that this probably involves xauth. But the explanations I can find
about how it works might as well be in Greek. They all talk about the name
of the host, for example. Why should I need this when I want to just be able
to create a non-root login on the same computer?

Can someone explain for me, step-by-step, how I let my non-root login use X?


nope /etc/X11/Xserver  first line is the path to your selected X 
server, the second is who is permitted to run it, options being 
RootOnly, Console (local ttys NOT ptys) and AnyBody (remote, local 
anyone with a shell)


Ethan

Re: IP Masq

[Ethan Benson]

On 19/1/2000 Timothy C. Phan wrote:



  Many thanks on the IP masquerading HOWTO. I'll download it
  and read it.

  I used to remember that debian has different way to compile
  the kernel.  Is there an HOWTO on Debian kernel compile/install.


yes but its not required, get the kernel-package package and read its 
docs, it lets you create kernel  .debs like debian distributes.



  Secondly, I looked at all the packages that I've mirror on slink,
  I saw the base directory has only kernel-image-2.03[3-8]_2.3..
  My question is what is version 2.0 and 2.2 that you mentioned
  in your email(included).  What diff, and which to use.


kernel 2.0 is used in slink, potato uses kernel 2.2, 2.2 is a better 
kernel to use for ip masq IMO.  I am not certain if any debian 
packaged kernel has IP masq compiled in though, i suspect they do.



  Lastly, what is in the ipmasg package?


basically a set of prewritten ipchains rules to protect the internal 
private network, prevent spoofing and to set up the masqerading.  you 
install it and your done pretty much, i have looked at it and it 
seems sufficient.  do note that it does nothing to protect the 
firewall itself, it works on the assumption you disable all its 
services.  if not you need to setup some ipchains rules yourself 
(which i am now trying to do...)



  Thank you very much again!


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Help gettin' X to work...

[Rob Hensley]

Hi, i recently ran 'apt-get install xf86setup xserver-svga' and installed
the svga x server as my default. After configuring it and everything, I
tried to run 'startx', but it didn't exist. So then I went into
/usr/X11R6/bin/ and ran './startx'. That's where I got the error:

X: X: cannot execute binary file

Then it just sits there. Is there anyway somone could give me
step-by-step directions on installing a working x windows system with
gnome and enlightenment? I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks a lot. Bye.

Rob Hensley

Double-Image in X

[Kent West]

Okay, I've struggled with this for two days, and tried to find
the answer myself to avoid adding traffic to the list, but no go.

I've just installed Debian for a friend on his Gateway P5-120
upgraded to P5-180. It has a 1MB Cirrus 5446 card in it.

When I start X, I get a double-image, one atop the other (imagine
squeezing your monitor's image to half-height, then making a
xerox copy of it, then placing them so the bottom edge of the top
image touches the top edge of the bottom image).

I've tried running both XF86Setup and xf86config several times,
both modifying the existing XF86Config file and removing it
entirely and starting over from scratch.

I've tried both the SVGA and VGA_16 servers.

I've tried all manner of modeline configurations and resolution
settings.

I've tried xvidtune.

If instead of choosing the 5446 card (or STB Nitro Video or
STB Nitro) in the XF86Setup list and choose "Unsupported
VGA Compatible" instead, I can get a working 640x480 display, but
it's ugly and full of flicker.

I did an ftp (apt) install from Stable, so whatever version of X
is there is what is on this box.

Thanks for any clues!

gpm repeating Intellimouse protocol?

[ferret]

Has anyone gotten gpm to repeat in Intellimouse protocol for X? I'm trying
to get my wheel mouse (logitech forst mouse+ serial) to work with wheel
events alongside my USB generic 3-button.

According to

Zephaniah E. Hull (GPM's maintainer) says that the gpm in Potato (which my
machine is running) will repeat into ms3 protocol. Unfortunately, when I
set up X to use protocol IntelliMouse with device /dev/gpmdata I get the
classic `pointer stays in top left corner and acts jumpy' behaviour. X
works with MouseSystems protocol even when gpm is (supposedly) repeating
in ms3 protocol. (gpm -t ms3 -R ms3). gpm repeating in raw mode didn't
seem to work with ANY X mouse protocol I tried.

Looks like a bug somewhere, but is it that potato's gpm is supposed to
repeat intellimouse but doesn't, or is it a bug in my setup? >

Re: gpm repeating Intellimouse protocol?

[Zephaniah E. Hull]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 08:10:02AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Has anyone gotten gpm to repeat in Intellimouse protocol for X? I'm trying
> to get my wheel mouse (logitech forst mouse+ serial) to work with wheel
> events alongside my USB generic 3-button.
> 
> According to
> 
> Zephaniah E. Hull (GPM's maintainer) says that the gpm in Potato (which my

> in ms3 protocol. (gpm -t ms3 -R ms3). gpm repeating in raw mode didn't

> 
> Looks like a bug somewhere, but is it that potato's gpm is supposed to
> repeat intellimouse but doesn't, or is it a bug in my setup? >

There was a bug in the init scripts up until a few days ago, you want
'-Rms3' not '-R ms3'..

Sorry

Zephaniah E. Hull.

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Re: Sound from cassete to mp3

[Bob Billson]

Stephan Engelke writes:
> > What is the best way of transferring sound stored in cassete to mp3? Can
> > this be done without the microphone?
> 
> you should be able to get an adaptor cable of the form "2-Chinch ->
> 3.5mm" (whatever this type of plug is called in English :-). These
> cables are often part of a soundcard package.  If you do not own such
> a cable, visit you local Hifi store.
> 
> Then connect your sound cards line in with the tapedecks output
> sockets, hit record on your computer and play on you tapedeck.

Also take a look a the package gramofile.  It was originally written
to transfer those old "antique analog CDs" (otherwise known as
records) :) to digitized form.  I've been using it very successfully
to transfer old Jean Shepherd radio shows on cassette to mp3.

gramofile has a nice graphic (ncurses) VU-meter so you can properly
set record levels.  The resulting digitized file is not an mp3,
however.  It is a .wav.  So you will need to wav to mp3 encoder.  I've
used both bladeenc and lame.  On my 486/133, lame seems to do a better
job for me.  (I'm not sure if lame is debianized.)

Make sure you have plenty of hard drive space available.  A 45-minute
radio show ends up as an ~500 MB .wav.  When converted to an mp3, it
ranges from ~10 to ~17 MB depending on the bitrate you choose to
encode it at.

> Typically the sound quality of a regular tape is fairly low compared
> to CD's, additionally there is always some background noise created by
> the tape machine's motors.   You may be disappointed with the results

Agreed.  Tape->mp3 will definitely not be of CD quality.  However, 
if you are willing to accept the lower sound quality or if there is no
CD available, this might do the trick.

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Re: GRUB problems with Deb 2.0

[David Teague]

On 19 Jan 2000, Lars Weber wrote:

Hi Lars.
 
> David Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > A GRUB floppy won't boot my old system which has a 486/66, 16 MB
> [...]
> 
> I've heard that older versions of GRUB are having problems with ext2
> file-systems created by recent versions of the e2fsprogs.  

This is Debian 2.0, so the version of e2fs is not recent.

> As you say that you have reinstalled your system, you might want
> to try a newer one (I don't know when exactly this has been fixed
> - I'm using 0.93.1 which works fine). 

This is the GRUB off a Dec 30 1999 snapshot of Potato, right off the
server. I'll check the version, but I suspect it is quite recent.
 
> > I thought that grub understood ext2 file system and could
> > thereby avoid the 500MB/1024 cylender problem. Can this  
> > be wrong?!?
 
> It's right, but only if you are using LBA.

No LBA on this 1Gig drive, it is scsi. I got whatever Adaptec 2840
gives me.  Can I change geometry in some way?

It looks like I'll have to save my data, make a small boot partition
where I'll put the kernel, and reinstall. It WILL be Potato this
time, dadgummit. 

Many thanks.

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help with ftp site please

[dkphoto]

I am trying to download a basic package for the 68K Mac from the Debian 
ftp site and could use some help please.

 Files seem to be spread all over with no rhyme or reason. As a result I 
can't be sure what I need or where to find it (and I've installed Debian 
once before and BSD once too). There seems to be a basic package that is 
not clearly labeled as such (just "Debian") and is, to my way of 
thinking, way too small to be a full basic install. (About 14 megs 
stuffed, including the Base2.1gz file which of course was somewhere else 
on the ftp site. WHY?WHY?WHY?). The minimalist information on the web 
site also seems to suggest very strongly that there are no man pages 
included with the above "package", but that the man pages must be 
downloaded separately, also difficult to make sense of, from a separate 
page. The packages page took me a couple of hours to find at all, then 
when I did, it made little sense. I opened the X windows page and found 
everything in there EXCEPT X windows!!! Unless the Debian folks have 
performed a Guiness class miracle in compact software design, Xwindows is 
certainly not contained in the "Debian" package, it also isn't in the X 
folder of the ftp site, so can anyone give me a clue as to where it might 
be?

Why on earth can't they put together some basic packages and clearly 
label them?:

1. minimal system install
2. full system install
3. full system + Xwindows install
4. all the other stuff you might need or want thrown in a box

Do they really think that someone wanting to install Linux might not want 
the man pages? Is that why they are off in some other corner of the web 
site? I can accept the argument, "Linux is difficult to install." I can 
also accept the argument that, "Linux is difficult to learn." But I find 
it hard to accept the argument that, "Because they're Linux files, it is 
difficult to clearly organize and label them on the ftp site."

Thanks for letting me blow off steam. And TIA for helping me make sense 
out of this gibberish.

David Kachel

Re: severe xfree86 hassles

[John Gould]

Looks to me like you've got the fonts missing. The message says that the
keyboard error is not fatal to the server.

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On 19 Jan 2000, Steve Winston wrote:

> I continue with xfree86 problems. After downloading and configuring version
> 3.3.6, startx fails with what appears to be a keyboard error.
> I use a Microsoft natural keyboard. Any suggestions? HEPppp
> The messages:
> System: '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1
> -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11xkb -xkm -m us_microsoft -eml "The XKEYBOARD keymap
> compiler (xkbcomp) reports: " -emp ">" -eml
> "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the Xserver"
> keymap/xfree86 compiled/xfree86.xkm'
> Fatal Server error:
> Could not open default font 'fixed'
> x connection to: 00 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
> 
> 
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Re: severe xfree86 hassles

[aphro]

the problem is not keyboard related it is font related. make sure you have
xfonts-base installed.

nate

On 19 Jan 2000, Steve Winston wrote:

xee42 >I continue with xfree86 problems. After downloading and configuring 
version
xee42 >3.3.6, startx fails with what appears to be a keyboard error.
xee42 >I use a Microsoft natural keyboard. Any suggestions? HEPppp
xee42 >The messages:
xee42 >System: '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1
xee42 >-R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11xkb -xkm -m us_microsoft -eml "The XKEYBOARD keymap
xee42 >compiler (xkbcomp) reports: " -emp ">" -eml
xee42 >"Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the Xserver"
xee42 >keymap/xfree86 compiled/xfree86.xkm'
xee42 >Fatal Server error:
xee42 >Could not open default font 'fixed'
xee42 >x connection to: 00 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
xee42 >
xee42 >
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IBM PS/1 Consultant problem

[Bradley Pursley]

Well, I'm pulling out of the mailing list, but I
wanted to leave you all with the results of what I
discovered after playing around with my settings on my
computer and such.

I found that no-way-no-how will Linux boot from
the floppy drive on my PS/1 Consultant (486 based)
computer, but it will boot and install from the Hard
Drive just fine and dandy.  I had to do an install
from a DOS partition in order to install it on my
system and then discovered that the packages I need to
get it running on my system exceeded the amount of
space on my Hard Drive that I was willing to use.  So,
I removed it and this is why I am pulling out for now.
 

There are no BIOS settings that can be changed to
eliminate this problem on this computer and I have no
idea why it won't boot from only the floppy drive.

I would like to thank you all for what little
input and help was given to me on this problem and
hope to try this again sometime in the near future.

   -Bradley

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Re: Come on lorenzo, pleas stop the madness..

[Mike Werner]

> On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 10:01:55AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > If somebody help me to configure 'exim', then I will not disturb anybody
> > with my e-mails,
> > and with my return receipts, because in that case I would use my Linux box,
> > with a good
> > MUA like MUTT.

Are you not reading your email?  I sent my *entire* exim.conf to the list
last night.  I know it made it to the list because I got a copy back from
the list last night - hours before you sent the bit I quoted above.  And if
I've counted correctly you've sent your request to the list seven times now.
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Re: ntp socket

[Mike Werner]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 08:26:19AM -0600, Tim Thomas wrote:
> Can anyone tell me why I am getting this ?
>  What else would be using that socket ?
> 
> - Forwarded message from Cron Daemon  -
> 
> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 06:00:05 -0600
> From: root (Cron Daemon)
> To: root
> Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ntpdate tick.usno.navy.mil >> 
> /var/log/timechange
> X-Cron-Env: 
> X-Cron-Env: 
> 
> X-Cron-Env: 
> X-Cron-Env: 
> 
> 19 Jan 06:00:05 ntpdate[12943]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting

I was getting that message when xntpd was running.

HAL9000:/etc/init.d# ntpdate tock.usno.navy.mil
19 Jan 11:51:49 ntpdate[1204]: step time server 192.5.41.41 offset -27.728177 
sec
HAL9000:/etc/init.d# ./xntp3 start
Starting /usr/sbin/xntpd...
HAL9000:/etc/init.d# ntpdate tock.usno.navy.mil
19 Jan 11:52:00 ntpdate[1208]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting
HAL9000:/etc/init.d# ./xntp3 stop
HAL9000:/etc/init.d# ntpdate tock.usno.navy.mil
19 Jan 11:52:09 ntpdate[1211]: adjust time server 192.5.41.41 offset -0.047750 
sec

Try killing xntpd before doing the ntpdate, then restarting xntpd afterward.
Or just kill xntpd period.  I'm really not sure what the relationship is
between the two - other than they won't play nice together. ;)
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weird ppp output (fwd)

[2]

I've been getting weird protocol junk on my ppp logs:


Jan 20 00:02:18 butler pppd[2071]:  41 41 41 41 41 41 2f 36 55 61 6c 69 6e a6 
da d4 2e 68 74 6d 22 3e 20 47 92 15 37 3a 30 74 61 72 67 03 86 7f 48 54 59 09 
3a 20 48 57 18 76 f7 6e 20 32 30 30 30 77 38 8e f6 28 81 c9 64 6f 63 75 6d 65 
6e 74
2e 70 58 19 20 28 5b 32 a9 97 2e 30 49 6e 3f 3e 20
Jan 20 00:02:18 butler pppd[2071]:  74 52 10 92 2a 71 95 11 75 6e 74 79 e2 c9 
8c 16 67 41 50 6f 72 64 65 72 3d 30 0b da c0 15 ad b9 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 
41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 0d 17 01 20 72 6f 72 
65 73
74 20 00 7c 04 6c 1e be 82 20 42 3f 06 e6 87 a3 67
Jan 20 00:02:18 butler pppd[2071]:  90 31 b8 6d 73 6e 2e 63 6f 6d 2f 63 67 69 
2d 32 30 30 20 4f 4b 2c 48 f8 f8 2e 6d 73 6e 2e 63 6f 22 3e 3c 2f 61 3e 3c 2f 
74 64 3e 0a 3c 2b 0a 10 00 00 3f 62 6f 78 20 68 a6 65 8c 1a 00 00 41 41 41 41 
41 41
41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 0d
Jan 20 00:02:18 butler pppd[2071]:  b3 ca]
Jan 20 00:02:18 butler pppd[2071]: rcvd [proto=0x11] df 25 a5 4e 6e 28 22 14 2b
fc 99 69 6d 67 20 73 72 63 3d 20 69 6e 73 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 
41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 
41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 8c 7a 67 41 41
Jan 20 00:02:18 butler pppd[2071]:  41 42 91 1b 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 
41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 0d 0a 41 41 ec d9 00 00 07 08 67 41 41 41 42 34 5f 
cf 3e ff 6e 6e 69 3c 61 20 68 05 5d ff 5b 62 6f 6f 9d 9e 57 35 c8 76 2f 66 6f 
6e 74
00 3f 06 27 62 22 bc c9 a7 3e 00 42 69 76 70 61 32
Jan 20 00:02:18 butler pppd[2071]:  41 41 41 41 41 41 2f 36 55 61 6c 69 6e a6 
da d4 2e 68 74 6d 22 3e 20 47 92 15 37 3a 30 74 61 72 67 03 86 7f 48 54 59 09 
3a 20 48 57 18 76 f7 6e 20 32 30 30 30 77 38 8e f6 28 81 c9 64 6f 63 75 6d 65 
6e 74
2e 70 58 19 20 28 5b 32 a9 97 2e 30 49 6e 3f 3e 20
Jan 20 00:02:18 butler pppd[2071]:  74 52 10 92 2a 71 95 11 75 6e 74 79 e2 c9 
8c 16 67 41 50 6f 72 64 65 72 3d 30 0b da c0 15 ad b9 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 
41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 0d 17 01 20 72 6f 72 
65 73
74 20 00 7c 04 6c 1e be 82 20 42 3f 06 e6 87 a3 67
Jan 20 00:02:18 butler pppd[2071]:  90 31 b8 6d 73 6e 2e 63 6f 6d 2f 63 67 69 
2d 32 30 30 20 4f 4b 2c 48 f8 f8 2e 6d 73 6e 2e 63 6f 22 3e 3c 2f 61 3e 3c 2f 
74 64 3e 0a 3c 2b 0a 10 00 00 3f 62 6f 78 20 68 a6 65 8c 1a 00 00 41 41 41 41 
41 41
41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 0d
Jan 20 00:02:18 butler pppd[2071]:  b3 ca]
Jan 20 00:02:18 butler pppd[2071]: rcvd [proto=0x11] df 25 a5 4e 6e 28 22 14 2b
fc 99 69 6d 67 20 73 72 63 3d 20 69 6e 73 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 
41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 
41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 8c 7a 67 41 41
Jan 20 00:02:18 butler pppd[2071]:  41 42 91 1b 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 
41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 0d 0a 41 41 ec d9 00 00 07 08 67 41 41 41 42 34 5f 
cf 3e ff 6e 6e 69 3c 61 20 68 05 5d ff 5b 62 6f 6f 9d 9e 57 35 c8 76 2f 66 6f 
6e 74
00 3f 06 27 62 22 bc c9 a7 3e 00 42 69 76 70 61 32

this fills my log files in a rediculous manner and lags all internet 
traffic, eventually causing the ppp connection to be killed. has anyone seen
this before and can tell me what the problem is? the ppp connection is 
between Debian Linux and Microsoft NT.

thanks

da Bobstopper
(Robert Marlow)

Re: terminals

[Joe Block]

Mike Werner wrote:
> What you should do is add lines like these - one line for each tty that
> you want.  For example to add one more tty you would add the line:
> 7:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty7
> and after a reboot you would have tty's 1 through 7.  At least I *think*
> you have to reboot - I could be wrong on that one.  But this should at
> least point you in the right direction.

I think you can just kill -HUP 1 as root

jpb
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X Windows Video

[Michael Zielinski]

Warningnew user...terminology may not be completely correct. ;-)

I've installed distribution 2.1 that comes with the O'Reily book and
have been using it via the bash shell and learning various commands. 
Now I would like to install X Windows, but I can't quite figure out my
video chipset.

I have an ATI Rage 128 Pro 16MB.  I went to the ATI site to determine
if it uses one of the Mach chipset, but it appears that the Rage Pro is
its own chipset.  If I'm correct on this, will any of the other xfree
installs work for me?

I have subscribed to the user list but did not receive any additional
message in response to my confirmation reply.  On other lists, I'm used
to having a welcome message come back giving me additional instructions
and commands.  Please CC: me in case I'm not subscribed correctly.

Thanks,
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Re: help with ftp site please

[David Wright]

Quoting dkphoto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I am trying to download a basic package for the 68K Mac from the Debian 
> ftp site and could use some help please.
> 
>  Files seem to be spread all over with no rhyme or reason. As a result I 
> can't be sure what I need or where to find it (and I've installed Debian 
> once before and BSD once too). There seems to be a basic package that is 
> not clearly labeled as such (just "Debian") and is, to my way of 
> thinking, way too small to be a full basic install. (About 14 megs 
> stuffed, including the Base2.1gz file which of course was somewhere else 
> on the ftp site. WHY?WHY?WHY?).

I think you might have missed the installation guide in
debian/dists/slink/main/disks-m68k/current/mac/install.txt which
tells you which files you need to get started, viz.

 * mac/install.sit.hqx (StuffIt archive of the installation files),
   or
 * mac/Debian-m68k-2.1-Mac.img.hqx (DiskCopy 4.2 image of the 'rescue'
   floppy), and
 * mac/resc1440.bin ('rescue' floppy image)
 * mac/drv1440.bin ('drivers' floppy image)
 * common/base2_1.tgz

base is in the common/ directory because all the other m68k machines
use it too.

> The minimalist information on the web 
> site also seems to suggest very strongly that there are no man pages 
> included with the above "package", but that the man pages must be 
> downloaded separately, also difficult to make sense of, from a separate 
> page.

If you look in common/, you will see that people who are installing
from floppies have to download 7 (or 13) more floppies. Were the
man pages included, this number would increase dramatically.

The installation uses a bootstrap principle, where the first
rescue disk contains enough to run a linux system on a file system
in memory, which builds the small linux system on disk, which can
then download the packages (by ftp, CD etc.) you need to build the
type of system you want.

The multiple pages, or directories, are designed to keep the huge
number of package files organised into manageably-sized directories,
by distributions, licence categories, chip architectures, etc.

> The packages page took me a couple of hours to find at all, then 
> when I did, it made little sense. I opened the X windows page and found 
> everything in there EXCEPT X windows!!! Unless the Debian folks have 
> performed a Guiness class miracle in compact software design, Xwindows is 
> certainly not contained in the "Debian" package, it also isn't in the X 
> folder of the ftp site, so can anyone give me a clue as to where it might 
> be?

I'm not sure what you mean by the X windows page or the "Debian" package
or the X folder. The X packages are in
debian/dists/slink/main/binary-m68k/x11/ but using dselect (which the
installation process automatically starts) avoids your having to type
all that.

> Why on earth can't they put together some basic packages and clearly 
> label them?:
> 
> 1. minimal system install
> 2. full system install
> 3. full system + Xwindows install
> 4. all the other stuff you might need or want thrown in a box

If the installation dialogues are the same for macs as x86, you
will be asked for a machine "profile" just before entering dselect,
though it's not obligatory to choose one.

> Do they really think that someone wanting to install Linux might not want 
> the man pages? Is that why they are off in some other corner of the web 
> site?

See above. What appears to be a "corner" is "the right place" for
dselect to find it, according to your chosen distribution, architecture,
etc.

> I can accept the argument, "Linux is difficult to install." I can 
> also accept the argument that, "Linux is difficult to learn." But I find 
> it hard to accept the argument that, "Because they're Linux files, it is 
> difficult to clearly organize and label them on the ftp site."

The "labelling" is via the Packages files which are designed for
programs like dselect to read and present to the user.

> Thanks for letting me blow off steam. And TIA for helping me make sense 
> out of this gibberish.

So the intention is not that you peruse the directories (though you can
do that if you're familiar with them), but to get the disks-m68k files
you need, and then use the tools as they present themselves.

Good luck.

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B&W vs color, bsd vs linux

[dkphoto]

Do I understand this correctly?

netBSD will boot only in B&W on the 68Kmac, while DebianLinux will boot 
in color??? Is that correct?


David Kachel

Re: X Windows Video

[aphro]

you need Xfree86 3.3.6 to get rage128 to work in debian.

you can get it by adding:

deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main

to your /etc/apt/sources.list

then run apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade

to upgrade your X windows installation, then run XF86Setup to configure
it.

good luck!

nate

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Michael Zielinski wrote:

mzieli >Warningnew user...terminology may not be completely correct. ;-)
mzieli >
mzieli >I've installed distribution 2.1 that comes with the O'Reily book and
mzieli >have been using it via the bash shell and learning various commands. 
mzieli >Now I would like to install X Windows, but I can't quite figure out my
mzieli >video chipset.
mzieli >
mzieli >I have an ATI Rage 128 Pro 16MB.  I went to the ATI site to determine
mzieli >if it uses one of the Mach chipset, but it appears that the Rage Pro is
mzieli >its own chipset.  If I'm correct on this, will any of the other xfree
mzieli >installs work for me?
mzieli >
mzieli >I have subscribed to the user list but did not receive any additional
mzieli >message in response to my confirmation reply.  On other lists, I'm used
mzieli >to having a welcome message come back giving me additional instructions
mzieli >and commands.  Please CC: me in case I'm not subscribed correctly.
mzieli >
mzieli >Thanks,
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RE: Is potatoe's exim 3.12-1 OK?

[Glen S Mehn]

You might have a problem with the local_domains setting in /etc/exim.conf.
It'll only accept *@mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 6:39 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: re: Is potatoe's exim 3.12-1 OK?


Mark,
  I have the same problem.  My messages eventually freeze, and the
error is SMTP timeout while connected to ...
many bytes weritten written, but message not completed.
I would have quoted your earlier post, but I'm mailing this
via telnet to port 25 of my ISP, because I can't post out
with Exim.
  Suggestions welcome (by both of us)!

Thanks much,
Russ
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Re: help with ftp site please

[Ron Rademaker]

Find out which packages you need and then use apt to install them:
apt-get update (get the newest packagest list)
apt-get install   ... (downloads and
installs automatically)

Ron

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, dkphoto wrote:

> I am trying to download a basic package for the 68K Mac from the Debian 
> ftp site and could use some help please.
> 
>  Files seem to be spread all over with no rhyme or reason. As a result I 
> can't be sure what I need or where to find it (and I've installed Debian 
> once before and BSD once too). There seems to be a basic package that is 
> not clearly labeled as such (just "Debian") and is, to my way of 
> thinking, way too small to be a full basic install. (About 14 megs 
> stuffed, including the Base2.1gz file which of course was somewhere else 
> on the ftp site. WHY?WHY?WHY?). The minimalist information on the web 
> site also seems to suggest very strongly that there are no man pages 
> included with the above "package", but that the man pages must be 
> downloaded separately, also difficult to make sense of, from a separate 
> page. The packages page took me a couple of hours to find at all, then 
> when I did, it made little sense. I opened the X windows page and found 
> everything in there EXCEPT X windows!!! Unless the Debian folks have 
> performed a Guiness class miracle in compact software design, Xwindows is 
> certainly not contained in the "Debian" package, it also isn't in the X 
> folder of the ftp site, so can anyone give me a clue as to where it might 
> be?
> 
> Why on earth can't they put together some basic packages and clearly 
> label them?:
> 
> 1. minimal system install
> 2. full system install
> 3. full system + Xwindows install
> 4. all the other stuff you might need or want thrown in a box
> 
> Do they really think that someone wanting to install Linux might not want 
> the man pages? Is that why they are off in some other corner of the web 
> site? I can accept the argument, "Linux is difficult to install." I can 
> also accept the argument that, "Linux is difficult to learn." But I find 
> it hard to accept the argument that, "Because they're Linux files, it is 
> difficult to clearly organize and label them on the ftp site."
> 
> Thanks for letting me blow off steam. And TIA for helping me make sense 
> out of this gibberish.
> 
> David Kachel
> 
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Re: Double-Image in X

[Howard Mann]

> Okay, I've struggled with this for two days, and tried to find
> the answer myself to avoid adding traffic to the list, but no go.
> 
> I've just installed Debian for a friend on his Gateway P5-120
> upgraded to P5-180. It has a 1MB Cirrus 5446 card in it.
> 
> When I start X, I get a double-image, one atop the other (imagine
> squeezing your monitor's image to half-height, then making a
> xerox copy of it, then placing them so the bottom edge of the top
> image touches the top edge of the bottom image).
> 

I suggest you try the following :

1. Upgrade XFree86 to the latest version via http://www.debian.org/~vincent, 
using apt-get

2. Read :  http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/cirrus.html for options you may have to 
include in the XF86Config file.

3. Specify the XF86_SVGA x -server when you configure X.

Cheers,

Howard Mann.

Re: Hint: Finding packages with needed files

[Bruce Sass]

Shooting in the dark here, I'd be looking at the ppp log and maybe the
compression scheme the modem is using (different init strings), or maybe
you just have a really slow ISP... but what do I know, I don't have a
tcp/ip 'net connection so have never really played with ppp stuff. 


later,

Bruce
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> --- Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > > > > 1. I have a USR V90 56k modem. If I let it connect at anything above
> > > > > 33600, the RX rate drops drastically - to around 1kB/s. Any
> > > > > suggestions?
> > > 
> > > But, do you think it will also help with this problem? It also shows up
> > > with virtually no load...
> > 
> > Try doing a large zmodem download with minicom, if you get CRC
> > errors when the HD is active then irqtune should fix it up.
> 
> Haven't tried that, but I am using irqtune now and the problem with disk
> access stalling the serial device is gone. Thanks Bruce.
> 
> However, the above problem still remains. If I just initialize the modem with
> 'AT&F1', it connects at 4 something bps. But I only get transfer rates
> around 1 kB/s! Uploads are as fast as ever. OTOH after 'AT&F1&N21', it
> connects at only 33600 bps, but I get 3.5 kB/s constantly.
> 
> Anyone has a suggestion about this one? Have I misconfigured my modem?
> Doesn't my ISP support V90? ...

hard disk not recognized

[richart1]

I just bought a Dell Dimension XPS T600 with a Maxtor 13.6GB hard disk. I
wanted to install Linux so I repartitioned the drive to leave 6GB free.
Windows works fine on its 7GB. The Linux boot disk (I've tried both Debian
and Red Hat) tells me I don't have a hard drive. I read that the boot
partition needs to be in the first 8.4GB. The existing partition is only 7GB
so I think that is OK. Can anyone tell me what I need to do? Thanks

Bob

apt-get remove gnome-bin problem:

[Glen S Mehn]

OK. Here's the situation. I'm a bit stumped:

Debian 2.2, running on a p133 32MB

Trying to install some stuff via apt, apt decided to remove
gnome-bin. Which is OK with me: I don't really use gnome anyway.

Except that it's not trying to remove gnome-bin each time, and
breaking apt's functionality (as well as dpkg).

Error(s):

Global Symbol "$username" requires explicit package name at
/usr/sbin/suidunregister line 173
Global Symbol "$groupname" requires explicit package name at
/usr/sbin/suidunregister line 174
Global Symbol "$inode" requires explicit package name at
/usr/sbin/suidunregister line 178

execution of /usr/sbin/suidunregistrer aborged due to compilation
errors.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status
255
Errors were encoutnered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-bin_1.0.54-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Since this has happened, I can only sometimes apt-get install or
upgrade, I can partially remove stuff. I've tried removing gnome-bin with
apt and dpkg. dpkg suggests that I reinstall the package to remove it
(package gnome-bin_xxx is seriously damaged. Perhaps you should reinstall?),
but I get the same errors when I try to reinstall (again, from apt or dpkg)
except that the errors are in /usr/sbin/suidregister.

Any ideas? I'd be happy to manually deinstall or reinstall the thing
(from source?)

Am I hosed?

Help?

glen

>   
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500meg free partition, how to use?

[Oleg Krivosheev]

Hi, All

after getting new disk i found that 
500meg partition on old disk is free.

i'm running mostly potato in workstation regime - 
not a lot logs and from light to moderate load.

what this partitino is good for? i'm thinking about
setting it to /var, but is there better choice?

maybe /usr/share ? or /tmp?

any ideas are greatly appreciated

OK

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

[Laurent PICOULEAU]

Hi,

On Wed, 19 Jan, 2000 à 10:17:54AM +1100, Peter Ross wrote:
> well.  AFAIK the only directories that need to be on the / partition are
> /bin, /sbin, and /etc.
> 
Are you sure you don't need /lib and /dev ?

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Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 19 Jan, 2000 ? 10:17:54AM +1100, Peter Ross wrote:
> > well.  AFAIK the only directories that need to be on the / partition are
> > /bin, /sbin, and /etc.
> > 
> Are you sure you don't need /lib and /dev ?

You're right; you usually do need them.  Not always, though: sometimes
many programs in /bin and /sbin (the ones needed at boot time) are all
statically linked, so /lib isn't needed, unless you have any modules
/lib/modules, at which time you have no choice :)

/dev is only needed if /dev isn't populated at boot time by either a) a
script or b) there's a pseudo filesystem (like /proc, or /dev/pts if
you've seen a fresh install of potato) where nothing sits there anyway,
and the device nodes are created dynamically as drivers are loaded by
either a user-level daemon, or bey the kernel.

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S3 Trio3D

[erasmo perez]

hello

thanks for reading this email

more or less one week ago, i see in this lists the report of a S3
Trio3D video card that refuses to work in SVGA, just accepting VGA

and now i face the same problem, is there some way to overcome this
failure ?

the SuperProbe gives the following result:

First video: Super-VGA
Chipset: S3 Trio3D (PCI Probed)
Memory:  4096 Kbytes
RAMDAC:  Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC
 (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode))

but X11 has not worked either with the SVGA or the S3 xservers, only
with the VGA16 server

thanks a lot for any help you could send

erasmo

tcd

[Ralph E. McGregor]

does anyone know if the tcd cd-player has had a name change between the
slink and potato distributions?  i find the source in slink but not in
potato?  

-just lookin for the latest src.

tanks,
wawf

vt220 or higher and 8 bit terminal with latin-1

[Hans Ekbrand]

I have problems with this: Conex7.5 on the DOS-side of the null-modem cabel
and getty 38400 vt220 in /etc/inittab

The problem is that ascii characters in the 160-255 range is displayed
alright, but I can't type them from the terminal(emulator). I don't think
conex is the problem, but everything worked alright when I used Telix3.5 and
8 bit vt102 emulation. (I thought 8-bit emulation was implemented firstly
with the vt220, but debian did 8 bit with vt102, conex only does 8-bit 
emulation in vt220 and higher). I'd
rather not use Telix as it is very slow on my XT-laptop.

Anyone got vt220 or higher working with 8-bit terminals? How do I set it up?


Hans Ekbrand

Re: weird ppp output (fwd)

[Paul J. Keenan]

Robert Marlow wrote:
> I've been getting weird protocol junk on my ppp logs:
> 

> 
> this fills my log files in a rediculous manner and lags all internet 
> traffic, eventually causing the ppp connection to be killed. has anyone seen
> this before and can tell me what the problem is? the ppp connection is 
> between Debian Linux and Microsoft NT.
> 
> thanks
> 
> da Bobstopper
> (Robert Marlow)

Look in /etc/ppp/options.  If the debug option is enabled, you see all
the packets, according to the blurb.  You can safely comment out this
line.  It's around line 150.

It also mentions that there is extra debugging available as a compile
time option, but this shouldn't apply if you're using the stock debian
version.

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Re: Installation problem: how to recognize hard drive?

[Konrad Mierendorff]

Hi,

first of all you should mention if you use slink or potato. In the
former case it is possible that the kernel does not recognize your "new"
IDE-interface. You should check the kernel-messages for something
refering to the IDE-interface.
Anyway you should post as much information as possible!

- Konrad Mierendorff

Re: max processes

[Konrad Mierendorff]

aphro wrote:
> 
> i was wondering what people do for max processes for a webserver, until
> recently my system was doing fine with a max of 30 processes, but i added
> a new(big) virtual domain which eats up a lot of them, i increased it to
> 120 ..how high can i go and still be safe?  running linux
> 2.0.36+securelinux patch

My common sense tells me that that depends on your hardware.

- Konrad Mierendorff

vt220 or higher and 8 bit terminal with latin-1

[Hans Ekbrand]

I have problems with this: Conex7.5 on the DOS-side of the null-modem cabel
and getty 38400 vt220 in /etc/inittab

The problem is that ascii characters in the 160-255 range is displayed
alright, but I can't type them from the terminal(emulator). I don't think
conex is the problem, but everything worked alright when I used Telix3.5 and
8 bit vt102 emulation. (I thought 8-bit emulation was implemented firstly
with the vt220, but debian did 8 bit with vt102, conex only does 8-bit 
emulation in vt220 and higher). I'd
rather not use Telix as it is very slow on my XT-laptop.

Anyone got vt220 or higher working with 8-bit terminals? How do I set it up?


Hans Ekbrand