Re: Cheers for Debian
And along this line, with the great regret, I send the Debian community my goodbye. This is a great bunxh of folks and I am going to miss you all more than you will ever know. This goes for those of you that I have met as well of those of you that are simply an email address or irc nick to me. My current workload will no longer allow me the luxary of following the debian lists and they simply accumulate neglected in a mailbox that is rarely read. I started with Debian in 1996 and until very recently, had a system running Debian continiously, upgraded in place, since before 1.0 was released. I have learned so much here ... Debian was a great mechanism for me when I was changing carreers from hardware design engineering to IT. The people in the community here were always there to lend me a hand when I was learning and I tried to return the favor by helping others when I could. Many of the longer-term Debian users may wonder whatever happened to me, I suppose I have not posted to these lists in several months ... it is because I have a baby at home now 2 and needing my attention and a workload that will not allow me time to do more than that in what time I have. Some of you have much more than that, I know, and still manage to keep up (hi, gecko) but I want to give my best time to my daughter and to my work. If any of you guys ever get to the Silicon Valley area and want to go out for a beer, drop me a line, it would be an honor to visit a while with you. So, my friends, so long ... I will be back later. In the meantime, please keep up the tradition I found here in this community of helping your fellow Debian users when they need it and giving back the help when you can. This world really is a little better place because of you guys. G'nite folks ... and thank you from the bottom of my heart. On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Curtis M. Brune wrote: > I just wanted to drop you folks a line and say "Thank You" for making a > great linux distribution. I and my company have been using Debian since > late 1998 and it's great. I recently upgraded my system to Potato and it > went without any problems. Very well done. Keep up the great work. > > Cheers, > Curt > > -- > WorkSpot, Inc. http://www.workspot.com > Phone 650-218-4225 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > >
Re: Potato and Helix-Gnome - Solved!
Robert Maynord wrote: > Thanks for your responses! I finally solved the Potato and Helix-Gnome > installation problem. I found that if I do NOT use the "simple" package > choice in apt-get, but use the "advanced" instead, it works. I am able to > use the Helix-Gnome CD with no problem. Are you talking about the simple/advanced prompt when you do a fresh potato install? -- see shy jo
Re: Cannot echo capital M
Thanks a million. A faulty .inputrc was the problem. PAI On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 06:02:51PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > Quoting M.K.Pai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I am facing a rather strange problem. > > > > I am unable to echo the character "M" on my bash prompt. > > > > I am able to get M by > > perl -e 'print chr(77);' > > > > I am even able to put it in an email. Note the "M" right here. > > But at the bash prompt, I just don't get any M. > > > > Most important, other users on this system, like root and all > > others, are having no problems at all > > The last person who had this sort of problem couldn't type E. > The reason was that the file ~/.inputrc contained > > "\e[E":beginning-of-line > "\e[H":beginning-of-line > "\eOH":beginning-of-line > "\eOF":end-of-line > "\EOF":end-of-line <-- the offending line > "\e[F":end-of-line > "\e[e":end-of-line > > Cheers, > > -- > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 > Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA > Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify > official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised. >
Looking for Compression algorithm
Dear Sir: We are looking for the Algorithm of data compression. We know MPEG1, MPEG2, MP3 which are compressions for Audio & Video. Its allow the data lose when compressed . But We need the algorithm of loseless compression. Like BIOS compression, Modem, Tape Compression Can you provide any algorithm of loseless compression. Thanks a lot Minfu Li VP GTK
Re: Looking for Compression algorithm
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 01:46:07PM +0800, minfuli wrote: > Dear Sir: We are looking for the Algorithm of data compression. We > know MPEG1, MPEG2, MP3 which are compressions for Audio & Video. Its > allow the data lose when compressed . But We need the algorithm of > loseless compression. Like BIOS compression, Modem, Tape > Compression Can you provide any algorithm of loseless > compression. > > Thanks a lot Minfu Li VP GTK Like "deflate" compression or "bzip[2]"? Both are lossless and free. Deflate is used in gzip and implemented in the zlib debian package. The source code is there (it's also described in RFCs 1950-2). I'm sure there are other methods. Deflate is pretty good for general purpose, but may not have as high compression as other methods like bzip2 (but also is faster). I'm sure others can expound upon this better than I. -- According to MegaHAL: The emu is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace.
Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > The wd module was there on the list, but install failed. > > The latest set of boot disks is missing the 8390 module which is > loaded before the wd module. That should be fixed soon. I installed debian 'slink' and got it working. I did not have to do any windows programming for the card as was suggested by Anrei Ivanov on this list. Probably Nathan was right, it is some kind of kernel problem. I will go to 'potato', when this problem is fixed. Both 'potato' and Corel 1.1. 'failed' to install 'wd' module, which was needed by the card. (Wd is listed there on the list of networking modules, but it was not possible to install it.) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lilo-problem
On 10 Jul 2000, John Hasler wrote: > Tom writes: > > This line in your /etc/lilo.conf is what clobbered your /dev/hda1 > > partition: > > > boot=/dev/hda1 > > > What that did was install Lilo in the boot sector of your DOS/Windows > > partition and wiped out the DOS boot record. > > Which could have been restored with 'lilo -u'. 1) My machine has got the following OS's and hd's: On the hda there is win98 and on the hdb there is 'debian' slink. The machine bios cannot boot from hdb. 2) Is it possible and safe to install 'lilo' so that I can boot both the OS directly from the hard disks? Questions: a) How should the lilo.conf file be written? b) Is it possible to get lilo 'out from the mbr' (the previous situation restored) just by 'lilo -u' command if something goes wrong? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: software watchdog
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 12:55:13AM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > > Hi! > > My home-debian-box starts to behave rather odd lately, now and then it > will freeze completely. > > The only thing working is ICMP, I can´t even get a TCP connection open, > the screen is frozen, neither mouse nor keyboard will generate any > event. > > I´ve already tried changing all I have on spare (read RAM and graphics > adapter). > > Since there´s not even a single syslog-entry, I don´t really know where > to start debugging. Would it make sense if I installed the "software > watchdog" into the kernel in this case, so that the machine would > (eventually) reboot when it hangs? This would be great because I´ll be > on a trip next week and my girl-friend needs the debian-box as gateway/ > mailserver in the meantime... What kernel version? Are you running Samba? I had a long string of mysterious hangs with 2.2.14 and smbfs finally resolved by upgrading to 2.2.15. You *should* UG to 2.2.16 for security reasons. -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpiOp3AgTk17.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: remote shell question
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 10:14:37PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > Is there any way to SSH or telnet into an account, start a command line > program such as an ftp session, get the download going, then log out and > leave the process happeneing. I would like to be able to start downloading > then close down the workstation from which I SSHed, and come back the next > day to find the task complete. You can batch an ftp session. You can run this batched session to background or with a scheduler: at now > ftp < open host > user myid password mypass > cd /somepath > get afile > put anotherfile > bye > EOF ^D ...assuming you know 'zactly what you want to do. Syntax not guaranteed. You can specify a .netrc file to automatically log in/out of specified hosts, avoiding need to put your userid/password into the script or here document. You might also look at scp and rsync if they're supported at both ends of your connection(s). -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpBTA76V3CEC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: smbmount
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi i have installed samba-2.0.5a-1.deb and it does not contain either smbclient or smbmount. the debian search-contents feature on the debian home page has indicated that smbmount is in the "otherosfs/smbfs" which i presume is the module smbfs which i have installed under modconf/fs. Not, smbfs it's a debian package of the same name as the module. Try to install it; the smbclient comes with the package smbclient, original, isn't it? but i cannot find it through updatedb/locate so how can i install smbclient/smbmount? __ Josep Llauradó Selvas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Registered User #153481 The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned. (in comp.os.linux.misc, on X interfaces.) FP: 199E 7539 13B7 AA30 0B0C 263E 5991 03A7 625F B24F __
Re: rm to mp3?
Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know how to convert a .rm file to an mp3 > format? I have downloaded several real audio .rm > files (I can play them on the linux realplayer) but I > would like to convert them to mp3 format. Any ideas? Hello Kenneth, I asked this question as well to this list a couple of months ago and was advised to use paudio - here is a quick description. It will allow you to save the sound to a wave file and then you can use your favourite encoder to convert it to a mp3 file. Title: paudio Version:0.1 Entered-date: 13JAN98 Description:paudio, or /proc/audio, is a file that when read from, will return the data that is currently being written to the audio device (/dev/audio or /dev/dsp). This is useful if an audio application doesn't allow you to save an audio file. Note that to use this effectively, a moderate knowledge of Linux modules is needed, as well as a moderate knowledge of digital audio techniques. Feel free to email me with questions (although I gaurentee no answers!). -- Cyrus Patel - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Computer Engineering Debian GNU/Linux University of New South Wales (Woody) Sydney, Australia. ICQ: 50738541
Re: Cannot echo capital M
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 06:02:51PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > Quoting M.K.Pai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I am facing a rather strange problem. > > > > I am unable to echo the character "M" on my bash prompt. > > > > I am able to get M by > > perl -e 'print chr(77);' > > > > I am even able to put it in an email. Note the "M" right here. > > But at the bash prompt, I just don't get any M. > > > > Most important, other users on this system, like root and all > > others, are having no problems at all > > The last person who had this sort of problem couldn't type E. > The reason was that the file ~/.inputrc contained > > "\e[E":beginning-of-line > "\e[H":beginning-of-line > "\eOH":beginning-of-line > "\eOF":end-of-line > "\EOF":end-of-line <-- the offending line > "\e[F":end-of-line > "\e[e":end-of-line i have a similar problem with the E -- it shows up eventually after some time-out, or once i press another key. and here's my ~/.inputrc (altho i use tcsh, not bash): set show-all-if-ambiguous on "\e[15~":reverse-search-history "\e[17~":forward-search-history what's the parallel config file for tcsh?
Re: email to fax
> "J" == J H M Dassen Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: J> On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 12:49:26 -0400, Chris Mason wrote: >> Can anyone suggest an automate way to route all the email sent >> to one email address to be faxed to one fax machine. The >> purpose is to allow orders taken by email to be automatically >> faxed to a store that does not have email. J> Intercept the mail on delivery using procmail and feed it to J> one of the fax sending programs (mgetty-fax, hylafax or efax). I have written a script (or at least the bare bones) designed to convert an E-Mail to fax (mgetty-fax). I use it with postfix, but suspect any MTA will work. Please read the requirements in the code. It doesn't properly deal with attachments of different types. Now, if only I could get mgetty to look at for a given mime-type on the command line, instead of guessing based on the file extension. Also, there is a password hard-coded in the script (I don't want anybody to send faxes from me computer...). However, I believe the code to be simple and easy to understand. Sorry, it is ages since I last looked at this (it worked last time I checked!): Please send improvements back to me. Or even better, package it for Debian. I think a number of people could use similar program that is fully featured. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: email to fax
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> Sorry, it is ages since I last looked at this (it worked
Brian> last time I checked!):
Sorry, I somehow missed the attachment (perhaps gnus is
still buggy :-( here). Sending as plain text:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use MIME::Parser;
use POSIX;
# (C)opyright 2000 Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
# May be freely distributed and modified provided copyright stays intact.
# Requires:
# MIME-tools-4.124
# Mail-tools-1.13
# IO-stringy-1.207
# in addition to packages provided with Perl, Debian Potato.
# these can be found at CPAN sites.
my $tmpdir = POSIX::tmpnam();
mkdir($tmpdir,0700) or die "Cannot create $tmpdir";
END {
system("rm","-rf",$tmpdir);
}
# Parse command line parameters
my $phone = shift;
die "No phone number given" if (!defined($phone));
my $parser = new MIME::Parser;
$parser->output_dir($tmpdir);
my $entity = $parser->read(\*STDIN) or die "couldn't parse MIME stream";
my $head = $entity->head;
my $subject = $head->get('Subject',0); chomp($subject);
error("Invalid Password") if ($subject ne "obvious");
process($entity);
process_all();
exit 0;
my @files = ();
my $level =0;
sub process($) {
my $entity = shift;
$level++;
if ($entity->effective_type eq "multipart/mixed") {
process_multipart_mixed($entity);
} elsif ($entity->effective_type eq "text/plain") {
process_part($entity);
} else { error("Unknown MIME type: ".$entity->effective_type); }
$level--;
}
sub process_multipart_mixed() {
my $entity = shift;
my $num_parts = $entity->parts;
for (my $i=0; $i<$num_parts; $i++) {
my $part = $entity->parts($i);
process($part);
}
}
sub process_part() {
my $entity = shift;
my $body = $entity->bodyhandle();
if (!defined($body->path)) {
error("file not written to disk");
} else {
push @files,$body->path;
}
}
sub process_all() {
if (open(PIPE, "-|")) {
my $oldsep = $/;
undef($/);
my $msg = ;
$/ = $oldsep;
close(PIPE);
if ($? != 0) {
my $exit_value = $? >> 8;
my $signal_num = $? & 127;
my $dumped_core = $? & 128;
error("system faxspool $phone failed: exit=$exit_value, ".
"signal=$signal_num, core=$dumped_core\n\n$msg");
}
else {
success("Output from faxspool:\n\n$msg");
}
}
else {
my $rc = open(STDERR, ">&STDOUT");
if (!$rc) {
print("Can't dup stdout");
die("Can't dup stdout");
}
exec("faxspool","-F","postmaster",$phone,@files);
}
}
sub error() {
my $error = shift;
my $message =
"Sorry - your fax could not be sent as the following error occured:\n".
"\n".
"$error\n".
"\n";
sendmail("Sending fax to $phone failed",$message);
exit(0);
}
sub success() {
my $error = shift;
my $message =
"Your fax has been spooled and should be sent shortly.\n".
"\n".
"$error\n".
"\n";
sendmail("Fax spooled for $phone",$message);
exit(0);
}
sub sendmail() {
my $subject =shift;
my $message =shift;
local $SIG{PIPE} = sub { die "Pipe to sendmail broke" };
open(PIPE,"| formail -rkb -I'Subject: $subject' | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t")
or die "Cannot open pipe to send mail: $!\n";
print(PIPE $head->as_string) or die "Cannot print message to pipe: $!\n";
print(PIPE "\n") or die "Cannot print message to pipe: $!\n";
print(PIPE $message) or die "Cannot print message to pipe: $!\n";
close(PIPE) or die "Cannot close pipe to send mail: $!\n";
exit(0);
}
--
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
R: MySQL and DBI
> I'm having a problem opening the data source of the MySQL > server. The set > up of my servers are as follows: > > 1. My remote server is a Unix Apache and is with an ISP. I've > installed/unzipped the Data-Dumper, DBI, MSQL-MySQL Module and the > CGI.pm into a folder just off the root. I named the folder DBI. i have no direct experience with DBI and mysql, but i'm using quite extensively DBI with DB2 and ODBC. did you test your installation? how did you get it? was it a .deb or just a tarball? if it was a tarball, 99% you have to compile and install it before you can use it. and it's good to test it before going on developing. > 2. However, the MySQL server with the same ISP is on a separate Unix > server. > > 3. I have a client I downloaded onto my computer from the Artronic.com > web site which I use to connect to the MySQL server. With > this client, I > can create tables, run queries and other administrative > things. It's a good > client, but is still going through further development. what is exactly that doesn't work? can you provide some code and error msg? Marco Frattola (S3 - Sviluppo Software e Sistemi) - Cubecom S.p.A. Via de Marini,1 3 piano Torre WTC 16149 GENOVA tel. 010 6591184
Debian potato on an EGA display
Hello! I'm running Debian on a Celeron system with an EGA video board. Everything is fine except the cursor is displayed 2 characters to the right of where it should be. For example, if I type 'foo', I get foo _ but if I press backspace I get fo _ To solve this inconvenient I found a valid work-around with the soft cursor feature of the Linux kernel, that allows to use a software cursor instead of the hardware one. You can see Documentation/VGA-softcursor.txt in the Linux kernel for more informations. The software cursor looks ok. To enable the software cursor I simply run the command echo -e "\033[?17;0;64c" Now, with slink everything was fine, but, after upgrading to potato, vim started restoring the hardware cursor on program startup, when coming back from a shell, when coming back from suspend and leaving the hardware cursor on exit. I have no idea on how to stop this; changing editor is not an option, so I would like to know if someone can help me fixing vim behaviour or fixing the hardware cursor under EGA, whichever is easier. Thanks in advance, Enrico
Re: smbmount
smbfs is actually a package - apt-get install smbfs You also need SMB support compiled into the kernel for those commands to work. (I dont know if you can do it as a module, havent tried). Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > i have installed samba-2.0.5a-1.deb and it does not contain either > smbclient or smbmount. the debian search-contents feature on the debian > home page has indicated that smbmount is in the "otherosfs/smbfs" which i > presume is the module smbfs which i have installed under modconf/fs. > > but i cannot find it through updatedb/locate so how can i install > smbclient/smbmount? > > Thanx > > Zane > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Which software to suck a whole website ?
thanks, jaume.
Re: Which software to suck a whole website ?
Jaume Teixi writes: > thanks, wget -r url Cheers -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** I am the captain of this ship and I have my wife's permission to say so! **
Re: Which software to suck a whole website ?
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Jaume Teixi wrote: > thanks, > > jaume. > > > -- wget and gwget with a gui -- Marc Dubrowski Kind of a Network Administrator K.B.I.N.I.R.Sc.N.B. 29 rue Vautier B-1040 Brussels, Belgium
Re: Debian + other distribution
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt wrote: >I have a HD 10.2 with win95 at the begin (first 1500MB) and another Linux > dist. on a partition of 3000MB. (The distribution is Conectiva Linux, similar > to > RedHat). I want to install Debian 2.2 on another partition without remove > neither win nor my other dist. How should I proceed to do this? (...) >And more, I have a /boot partition of 16MB to boot my Conectiva Linux. > (said that because it can be an important information.) Yes, that helps. You can mount this partition in both distros, just use different names for the kernel images (though you should even be able to use the same kernel image). You should know how to setup lilo properly (or whichever boot loader you use). Should contain something like image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-debian label=GNU debian root=/dev/hda2 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14 label=old distro root=/dev/hda3 read-only but I'm not 100% sure. bye, Raoul -- The program required me to install Windows 95 or better. So I installed Linux.
Re: remote shell question
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 10:14:37PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > Is there any way to SSH or telnet into an account, start a command line > program such as an ftp session, get the download going, then log out and > leave the process happeneing. I would like to be able to start downloading > then close down the workstation from which I SSHed, and come back the next > day to find the task complete. 'nohup' runs a program, which is immune to hangups. but, a much nicer way is to use 'screen'. you could start a screen session on the remote host, start your ftp program in it, detach the screen window and close the SSH connection. later, you can login to the host again, re-attach your screen session. and, tada, you see your ftp program, as before. :] moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-Key available, encrypted Mail is welcome. */
Re: Using Netmeeting thought a Debian Firewall
Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Will NetMeeting work thought a firewall or will I need to port >the box to let it out. If I reme\mber right in the past I was able to >send video out but not receive it for the other side. Anyone haveany >ideas to fix this ? And what port will I need to open if this is the case ? I asked about this on linux-net coupla months ago and basically you'll have to hunt down existing attempts at a module (a la icmp, ftp..) and go from there. Because NetWeeping needs two ports, which differ(?) each time you just can't assume that by opening your firewall it will work.. Check the linux-net archives. HTH -- RM
emacs not obeying .Xdefaults in debian
Hi, When I start emacs in a debian machine, it is not obeying .Xdefaults file in the home directory. It takes the .Xdefaults file, if it is named as .Xdefaults-fully.qualified.machine.name Whereas, in a Redhat linux machine, emacs obeys the plain .Xdefaults. Any solutions to use .Xdefaults only. ( I have lots of machines in the network and I cannot have .Xdefaults-machine name corresponding to all machines in all accounts) Any ideas ? Suresh - Suresh Kumar.R Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Electronics & Communication College of Engineering, Trivandrum - 695 016 INDIA
Re: getting data into mails
Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all > > If I wanted to put some lines of text from, say a manual page, into an > email that I compose (in mutt/vi), how would I best / most easily do this? > > I know about vi's ":r!" command which places the output of a program > into the current file. > > I'm not using X here, just plain console with exim / fetchmail / > procmail / mutt / vim. :) you can also start emacs, use M-x man RET and then save the output to a file. -- Felix Natter
Re: Scale
Quoting Eric G . Miller (egm2@jps.net): > On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 12:33:25AM +0200, Harald Thingelstad wrote: > > Sorry to break in but.. > > Looking upon the earth as flat is a fine assumption if you're working on a > > small scale. > > You've got that backwards. Small scale is large area, large scale is > small area, cartographically. You've just changed the game by adding the word "cartographically". Harald made no mention of maps. His use of the expression "small scale" was completely correct. "Small scale tests were carried out before the process was introduced on a large scale." What's wrong with that? > It helps to remember that cartographic > scales are a fractional representation. 1:5,000 is large scale, while > 1:100,000 scale is small scale (1/5000 vs. 1/100,000). That is unit on the map>:. Also correct, but irrelevant. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Logitech trackman marble mouse 3 button
How do I get my Logitech Trackman Marble mouse to work with X windows? I use it serially rather than ps/2. I tried a few options when configuring X86 but they did not work. I have kernel 2.2.12. - Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) The FREE way to access your mailbox via any web browser, anywhere!
Re: emacs not obeying .Xdefaults in debian
Once upon a time, I heard Suresh Kumar.R say > Hi, > > When I start emacs in a debian machine, it is not obeying .Xdefaults file > in the home directory. It takes the .Xdefaults file, if it is named as > .Xdefaults-fully.qualified.machine.name > > Whereas, in a Redhat linux machine, emacs obeys the plain .Xdefaults. > > Any solutions to use .Xdefaults only. ( I have lots of machines in the > network and I cannot have .Xdefaults-machine name corresponding to all > machines in all accounts) > > Any ideas ? use .Xresources instead. see the evidence in startup script like /etc/X11/Xsession. Chanop -- /\ |Only Debian[EMAIL PROTECTED]| \/ pgpifGwz2ZXDy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: emacs not obeying .Xdefaults in debian
Quoting Suresh Kumar.R ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > When I start emacs in a debian machine, it is not obeying .Xdefaults file > in the home directory. It takes the .Xdefaults file, if it is named as > .Xdefaults-fully.qualified.machine.name > > Whereas, in a Redhat linux machine, emacs obeys the plain .Xdefaults. > > Any solutions to use .Xdefaults only. ( I have lots of machines in the > network and I cannot have .Xdefaults-machine name corresponding to all > machines in all accounts) Perhaps you should try ~/.Xresources ? (I may have misunderstood your question, because you say "When I start emacs". .Xresources is read when X starts, I believe.) BTW your date header has the wrong timezone: it's still only coming up to two in the afternoon in the UK. Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 16:05:39 + (/etc/localtime) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Re: Debian + other distribution
Hi debianers, And how shold I proceed to use the same /boot partition for both distributions? Should I expand it? Debian 2.2 install it's kernel image on /boot automatically? Thanks for those who answerd me. Thanks, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt > >And more, I have a /boot partition of 16MB to boot my Conectiva Linux. > > (said that because it can be an important information.) > > Yes, that helps. You can mount this partition in both distros, just use > different names for the kernel images (though you should even be able to > use the same kernel image). > > bye, > Raoul >
RE: emacs not obeying .Xdefaults in debian
> From: Suresh Kumar.R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When I start emacs in a debian machine, it is not obeying .Xdefaults file > in the home directory. It takes the .Xdefaults file, if it is named as > .Xdefaults-fully.qualified.machine.name > > Whereas, in a Redhat linux machine, emacs obeys the plain .Xdefaults. > > Any solutions to use .Xdefaults only. ( I have lots of machines in the > network and I cannot have .Xdefaults-machine name corresponding to all > machines in all accounts) I had same problem. I used .Xresources file instead, and everything worked fine. Larry
Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 09:08, virtanen wrote: > > > > The wd module was there on the list, but install failed. > > > > The latest set of boot disks is missing the 8390 module which is > > loaded before the wd module. That should be fixed soon. > > I installed debian 'slink' and got it working. I did not have to do any > windows programming for the card as was suggested by Anrei Ivanov on this > list. > > Probably Nathan was right, it is some kind of kernel problem. I will go to > 'potato', when this problem is fixed. > > Both 'potato' and Corel 1.1. 'failed' to install 'wd' module, which was > needed by the card. (Wd is listed there on the list of networking modules, > but it was not possible to install it.) You can successfully install potato with this NIC, but not using the "standard" boot floppy set. I've successfully installed using the IDEPCI set. I believe the IDE set also works. Once you've got the basic system installed you can compile your own kernel and include any other modules you need that might be missing from this flavor of rescue/root/drivers floppies. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
apt files to CD?
Hello Users, Is there a way to download all the apt files, burn them to CD and install off of that? I have a fast connection at work to d/l the files, but only a modem at home on my debian machine. This would make it a lot easier and faster if I could apt install off a CD. Any help is much appriciated! Thanks kindly, Ashby
Errors linking knapster 0.12
I can get it to compile fine but in the link phase I get lots of errors like extlistbox.o(.text+0x1d): undefined reference to `ExtListBox::QPaintDevice virtual table' What's up with that? I'm using the latest Qt 2.1 and KDE2 .debs. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Lilo-problem
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 07:27:31PM -0400, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > This line in your /etc/lilo.conf is what clobbered your /dev/hda1 > partition: > > boot=/dev/hda1 > > What that did was install Lilo in the boot sector of your DOS/Windows > partition and wiped out the DOS boot record. > > If you want Lilo in the MBR of /dev/hda you need to change that to: > > boot=/dev/hda Thanks Tom and others who replied. I am learning (although sometimes the hard way) ;) I have now also installed NT booting from /dev/hda. Can I still use Lilo or is it saver to use NT's bootloader, going to Dos and use loadlin? I do not want to learn the hard way again. Johann -- J.H. Spies, Hugenotestraat 29, Posbus 80, Franschhoek, 7690, South Africa Tel/Faks 021-876-2337 Sel/Cell 082 898 1528(Johann) 082 255 2388(Hester) "I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD." Psalms 40:1-3
named.conf
Hey everyone,
when I restart my nameserver via the "ndc reload"-command, it
tells me the following :
dialin named[984]: /etc/named.conf:9: syntax error near allow-
transfer
Jul 11 16:06:44 dialin named[984]: /etc/named.conf:12: syntax
error near '}'
Alas,
the first twenty-one lines of /etc/named.conf are
// generated by named-bootconf.pl
options {
directory "/var/named";
forward only;
forwarders {
194.231.62.3;
allow-transfer {
194.231.62.0/27;
};
};
/*
* If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
* to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
* directive below. Previous versions of BIND always asked
* questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
* port by default.
*/
// query-source address * port 53;
};
So what the hell am I doing wrong ?
Any help is appreciated very well - as always :-) !
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CD-RW (scsi emulation) & Autofs
Hi All! I have a weird problem going on: I have two kernels in my box. Both of them are exactly the same, but one of them has SCSI emulation, SCSI generic, SCSI CD, etc... compiled in so that my CD-RW (which is ATAPI) would work (CD-Writing-howto). In one kernel (no SCSI-bla-bla-bla) I have autofs working great, however, in the other one, autofs is NOT working at all! But, I could manage to probe my CD-RW. I also have a CD-ROM, which was probed as well. Actually, the probing during the bootup seems quite strange (even though cdrecord -scanbus reports what it should...): it probes 15 devices!!! 7 of them are my CD-RW and the other 7 are my CDROM!!! Any ideas?! Daniel. P.S.: Reply to this address. I am not presently subscribed to the mailing list... __ Daniel Doro Ferrante email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.physics.brown.edu/Users/students/ferrante/index.html Physics Graduate Student - Brown University Course of Molecular Sciences - USP: http://www.cecm.usp.br
Re: Debian + other distribution
>And more, I have a /boot partition of 16MB to boot my Conectiva Linux. > (said that because it can be an important information.) You can put the file /boot/vmlinuz (kernel) in that partition. Then you can add the entry to your /etc/lilo.conf.
Re: CD-RW (scsi emulation) & Autofs
Daniel Ferrante wrote: > Actually, the probing during the bootup seems quite strange (even though > cdrecord -scanbus reports what it should...): it probes 15 devices!!! 7 of > them are my CD-RW and the other 7 are my CDROM!!! Sounds like you have `multiple LUNs' enabled in the kernel. I don't know that it hurts this particular application
twig package??
Does anyone know where I can find a deb package for twig? It's a nice little web based IM. The tarball can be found at http://twig.screwdriver.net/ , but I can't seem to find any .debs anywhere. Charles Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: named.conf
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 04:15:14PM +0100, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote:
Looks like a parentheses mismatch in the forwarders clause;
> // generated by named-bootconf.pl
>
> options {
> directory "/var/named";
> forward only;
> forwarders {
> 194.231.62.3;
}; <-- add this?
>
> allow-transfer {
> 194.231.62.0/27;
> };
> };
> /*
> * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
> * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
> * directive below. Previous versions of BIND always asked
> * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
> * port by default.
> */
> // query-source address * port 53;
> };
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Re: apt files to CD?
Use apt-get with download only option, apt-move it to partial mirror, burn partial mirror, at home apt-get install from cd. I think it should work, haven't done it myself. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Users, > Is there a way to download all the apt files, burn them to CD and install > off of that? > I have a fast connection at work to d/l the files, but only a modem at home > on my debian machine. > > This would make it a lot easier and faster if I could apt install off a CD. > > Any help is much appriciated! > > Thanks kindly, > > Ashby > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
netatalk printing problem: need help!
I have installed the netatalk 1.4b2+asun2.1.3-6 from Debian/Linux 2.2 (frozen). I am almost there getting a HP LaserJet IV PS+ to print over appletalk network on my Linux bos, but am still having some problems. The papstatus shows that the printer is found and working OK. I get the following error message(s) when trying to print over appletalk: Jul 11 12:04:42 fea papd[7151]: child 7364 for "J. D. Freels HP LaserJet IV" from 5224.41 Jul 11 12:04:42 fea papd[7364]: lp_init: lock: No such file or directory Jul 11 12:04:42 fea papd[7364]: lp_open failed Jul 11 12:04:42 fea papd[7151]: child 7364 done How do I fix this problem. The printer works find over local, tcp/ip, and samba as a PS printer. Do I need to specify a .ppd file at this machine? I thought that that was taken care of at the Apple machine? Help... -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.|Phone: (865)576-8645 | | L | A | |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX:(865)574-9172 | H | I | L | |Research Reactors Division|work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | P | |P. O. Box 2008|home [EMAIL PROTECTED]| I | U | H | |Oak Ridge, TN. 37831-6392 |world's best neutrons | R | X | A | \--/
RE: apt files to CD?
Is there any way to get the apt files without using apt-get? Maybe by regular ftp? I am not sure how apt works, but I have no box here to use apt-get. I do have regular ftp access though. Would that work? Thanks, Ashby > -Original Message- > From: Antonio Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 12:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: 'debian users group' > Subject: Re: apt files to CD? > > > Use apt-get with download only option, apt-move it to partial > mirror, burn partial > mirror, at home apt-get install from cd. I think it should > work, haven't done it > myself. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello Users, > > Is there a way to download all the apt files, burn them to > CD and install > > off of that? > > I have a fast connection at work to d/l the files, but only > a modem at home > > on my debian machine. > > > > This would make it a lot easier and faster if I could apt > install off a CD. > > > > Any help is much appriciated! > > > > Thanks kindly, > > > > Ashby > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
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newusers command
Hi, I used newusers command to create large numbers of users. I find that 1. it doesnot copy files from /etc/skel to the home directory. Should it be enabled in some way ? 2. Also, it creates users with ids greater that what is existing already. (As I understand from the source code) By default in debian, thereis the nobody account with 65534 as userid and all accounts created with newusers were not working with reference to file permisions. (Precisely speaking, the new home directories created were not having the userid ownership.) I had to change the nobody user id to some value like 200 to make the newusers command work. Is there any other alternative? 3. Is it possible to use newusers command to execute some defaults script after creating users (For ex. to run smbpasswd) ? Suresh -- Suresh Kumar.R, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Electronics & Communication College of Engineering, Trivandrum - 695 016, INDIA Phone: (O) 91 471 414634/418379, (R) 91 471 443496
Re: emacs not obeying .Xdefaults, Thank you
Hi, Thanks for the help. I put them in .Xresources and it worked fine Suresh -- Suresh Kumar.R, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Electronics & Communication College of Engineering, Trivandrum - 695 016, INDIA Phone: (O) 91 471 414634/418379, (R) 91 471 443496
Installation of .tgz files
Hi, When we install some package using .tgz files, the debian package mechanism is not aware that the particular package is installed. For ex. I installed postfix*.tgz but apt is unaware of it. Therefore, when I use apt-get for installilng something else, it would say, MTA not installed and it would try to install one. Is there any way to fix it so that I can still enjoy apt-get install? Suresh -- Suresh Kumar.R, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Electronics & Communication College of Engineering, Trivandrum - 695 016, INDIA Phone: (O) 91 471 414634/418379, (R) 91 471 443496
FTP, MASQ, certian hosts timeout
For some reason, with some ftp hosts my FTPs will timeout when I try to go to them, every single time. Other hosts work perfectly fast every single time. I've got two particular hosts that I work with all the time. A Sun OS box with one ISP that works perfect. The second is a Linux box with a different ISP that is slow. Traceroutes to both ISPs actually show a closer and faster connection to the linux box. My gateway is a Debian 2.2 masq'd firewall (kernel 2.2.14). >From my PC behind the masq, my pc will timeout going to the ISP with the linux box. If I go to the linux box from a unix machine behind the masq, it will say it connected to the ISP but it will wait about 5 minutes before it prompts for a username. Once I'm connected, transfers are as fast as they should be. When I access both of these ISPs from home (DSL) I can connect immediately without any hesitation from either of them. I can ssh to both ISPs without this 5 min delay. It is specific to FTP. Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this? -- -=-=-=-=-=- Chris Wood Kitco, Inc. 801-489-2097 Wencor West, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Durham Aircraft Services -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: What to use as an MTA
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 07:52:19PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > The other problem I have with eximconfig is that it will only deliver 10 > mails at a time and then pause for a (unknown) delay. This occurs when > fetchmail gets mail from my ISP and passes it on to exim. Again, not a > big issue, and I haven't even tried to fix it. Both the message limit and, IIRC, timeout, are configurable through Exim. Exim has a pretty good set of docs, you should go through them. I believe my own message transmit is set to a low C value -- 100 messages at a time. Useful on a dialup connection prone to droppage, with several busy mailing lists. The default timeout is 30 minutes. Queue value: smtp_accept_queue_per_connection Exim's batched execution is governed by /etc/cron.d/exim, which is set at 30 minutes by default. -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpuY6gGKUsgu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: netatalk printing problem: need help!
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, James D. Freels wrote: > I have installed the netatalk 1.4b2+asun2.1.3-6 from Debian/Linux 2.2 > (frozen). I am almost there getting a HP LaserJet IV PS+ to print > over appletalk network on my Linux bos, but am still having some > problems. The papstatus shows that the printer is found and working > OK. I get the following error message(s) when trying to print over > appletalk: > > Jul 11 12:04:42 fea papd[7151]: child 7364 for "J. D. Freels HP LaserJet IV" > from 5224.41 > Jul 11 12:04:42 fea papd[7364]: lp_init: lock: No such file or directory > Jul 11 12:04:42 fea papd[7364]: lp_open failed > Jul 11 12:04:42 fea papd[7151]: child 7364 done > > How do I fix this problem. The printer works find over local, tcp/ip, > and samba as a PS printer. Do I need to specify a .ppd file at this > machine? I thought that that was taken care of at the Apple machine? Change you papd.conf so it pipes to lpr instead of placing the file in the spool directory itself. For example, if you had: laserjet4:\ :pr=laser4: Change to: laserjet4:\ :pr=|/usr/bin/lpr -Plaser4: Andy
Re: Installation of .tgz files
"Suresh Kumar. R" wrote: > > Hi, > > When we install some package using .tgz files, the debian package > mechanism is not aware that the particular package is installed. > For ex. I installed postfix*.tgz but apt is unaware of it. > Therefore, when I use apt-get for installilng something else, > it would say, MTA not installed and it would try to install one. > > Is there any way to fix it so that I can still enjoy apt-get install? I believe that you can use alien to install RPM, packages from .tgz, and (?) Slackware packages also, so that they show up, for instance, in dselect, or dpkg -l. What I don't know, and rather doubt, is that this method will Provide: dependencies, but there may be some switch that will force in a Provide:, or some other method. It's been a year since I've used it, so I'm not perfectly expert on it anymore (was I ever?), and I'll leave reading the man page, and the info page, as an exercise to the reader. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 972-729-5387 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home phone on request) http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan RE: xmailtool http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan/xmailtool/index.html I am the "ILOVEGNU" signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
RE: FTP, MASQ, certian hosts timeout
did you compile the masq modules, or are they binaries? you must have ip_masq_ftp for the inbound traffic running already, right? I'm thinking the ip_masq modules are the problem +=> -Original Message- +=> From: Chris Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +=> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 10:16 AM +=> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org +=> Subject: FTP, MASQ, certian hosts timeout +=> +=> +=> +=> For some reason, with some ftp hosts my FTPs will timeout +=> when I try to go +=> to them, every single time. Other hosts work perfectly +=> fast every single +=> time. +=> +=> I've got two particular hosts that I work with all the +=> time. A Sun OS box +=> with one ISP that works perfect. The second is a Linux box with a +=> different ISP that is slow. +=> +=> Traceroutes to both ISPs actually show a closer and faster +=> connection to +=> the linux box. +=> +=> My gateway is a Debian 2.2 masq'd firewall (kernel 2.2.14). +=> +=> From my PC behind the masq, my pc will timeout going to the +=> ISP with the +=> linux box. If I go to the linux box from a unix machine +=> behind the masq, +=> it will say it connected to the ISP but it will wait about 5 minutes +=> before it prompts for a username. Once I'm connected, +=> transfers are as +=> fast as they should be. +=> +=> When I access both of these ISPs from home (DSL) I can +=> connect immediately +=> without any hesitation from either of them. +=> +=> I can ssh to both ISPs without this 5 min delay. It is +=> specific to FTP. +=> Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this? +=> +=> -- +=> +=> -=-=-=-=-=- +=> Chris Wood Kitco, Inc. +=> 801-489-2097 Wencor West, Inc. +=> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Durham Aircraft Services +=> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- +=> +=> +=> -- +=> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe +=> [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null +=>
Re: newusers command
"Suresh Kumar. R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I used newusers command to create large numbers of users. I find that > > 1. it doesnot copy files from /etc/skel to the home directory. > Should it be enabled in some way ? > > 2. Also, it creates users with ids greater that what is > existing already. (As I understand from the source code) > By default in debian, thereis the nobody account with 65534 > as userid and all accounts created with newusers were not working > with reference to file permisions. (Precisely speaking, the new > home directories created were not having the userid ownership.) > I had to change the nobody user id to some value like 200 to make > the newusers command work. Is there any other alternative? > > 3. Is it possible to use newusers command to execute some defaults > script after creating users (For ex. to run smbpasswd) ? I'm not sure what the difference is but you might try the adduser command instead (man adduser). I've never used newusers so I can't say how it compares, but certainly adduser does almost everything you mentioned above. I don't know if it can handle #3, but you could certainly easily write your own script to call adduser and then execute smbpasswd I would think. Gary
[oclug] dhcpcd problems
Well, I tried the ne2k driver for that soho card, and it wouldn't install, saying "device or resource busy". So, I tried the tulip driver, which installed. On a reboot, eth0 was detected (woohoo!). Then, I installed dhcpcd, and gave it eth0 as the interface. It segfaulted. Now, when I boot, the boot process stops at sendmail. I can boot into single-user mode to play with it, but dhcpcd segfaults every time. I've attached my boot log, and the message from dhcpcd when it dies. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Does this mean I don't have network support in my kernel?? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier, 1Z22, SKY Tel: 613-765-4699 (ESN: 39-54699) Optical Networks, Nortel Networks, SDE Pegasus "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX Nortel Linux User's Group Ottawa: (internal) http://nlug.ca.nortel.com:8080 --- Begin Message --- Linux version 2.2.12 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #2 Thu Aug 26 11:46:26 PDT 1999 Detected 451033251 Hz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 450.56 BogoMIPS Memory: 62876k/65536k available (1244k kernel code, 416k reserved, 900k data, 100k init) CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Checking for popad bug... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb460 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size loop: registered device at major 7 PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP KA13.6, ATA DISK drive hdd: ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE 40X MAXIMUM, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP KA13.6, 13216MB w/371kB Cache, CHS=1684/255/63 hdd: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 NCR53c406a: no available ports found Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! megaraid: v1.04 (August 16, 1999) scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 100k freed Adding Swap: 200772k swap-space (priority -1) parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2] lp0: using parport0 (polling). Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling) PPP line discipline registered. PPP BSD Compression module registered tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC at 0xe400, 00 80 c6 f1 68 fa, IRQ 10. eth0: EEPROM default media type 10baseT. Unable to handle kernel NULL point dereference at virtual address current->tss.cr3 = 03d63000, %cr3 = 03d63000 --- End Message ---
[msoulier@storm.ca: logs]
Well, I tried the ne2k driver for that soho card, and it wouldn't install, saying "device or resource busy". So, I tried the tulip driver, which installed. On a reboot, eth0 was detected (woohoo!). Then, I installed dhcpcd, and gave it eth0 as the interface. It segfaulted. Now, when I boot, the boot process stops at sendmail. I can boot into single-user mode to play with it, but dhcpcd segfaults every time. I've attached my boot log, and the message from dhcpcd when it dies. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Does this mean I don't have network support in my kernel?? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier, 1Z22, SKY Tel: 613-765-4699 (ESN: 39-54699) Optical Networks, Nortel Networks, SDE Pegasus "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX Nortel Linux User's Group Ottawa: (internal) http://nlug.ca.nortel.com:8080 --- Begin Message --- Linux version 2.2.12 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #2 Thu Aug 26 11:46:26 PDT 1999 Detected 451033251 Hz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 450.56 BogoMIPS Memory: 62876k/65536k available (1244k kernel code, 416k reserved, 900k data, 100k init) CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Checking for popad bug... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb460 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size loop: registered device at major 7 PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP KA13.6, ATA DISK drive hdd: ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE 40X MAXIMUM, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP KA13.6, 13216MB w/371kB Cache, CHS=1684/255/63 hdd: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 NCR53c406a: no available ports found Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! megaraid: v1.04 (August 16, 1999) scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 100k freed Adding Swap: 200772k swap-space (priority -1) parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2] lp0: using parport0 (polling). Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling) PPP line discipline registered. PPP BSD Compression module registered tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC at 0xe400, 00 80 c6 f1 68 fa, IRQ 10. eth0: EEPROM default media type 10baseT. Unable to handle kernel NULL point dereference at virtual address current->tss.cr3 = 03d63000, %cr3 = 03d63000 --- End Message ---
Re: newusers command
adduser is a perl script AFAIK, that uses useradd, so if you would edit the script, you can make it do what you want it to do. Ron On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Suresh Kumar. R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I used newusers command to create large numbers of users. I find that > > > > 1. it doesnot copy files from /etc/skel to the home directory. > > Should it be enabled in some way ? > > > > 2. Also, it creates users with ids greater that what is > > existing already. (As I understand from the source code) > > By default in debian, thereis the nobody account with 65534 > > as userid and all accounts created with newusers were not working > > with reference to file permisions. (Precisely speaking, the new > > home directories created were not having the userid ownership.) > > I had to change the nobody user id to some value like 200 to make > > the newusers command work. Is there any other alternative? > > > > 3. Is it possible to use newusers command to execute some defaults > > script after creating users (For ex. to run smbpasswd) ? > > I'm not sure what the difference is but you might try the adduser > command instead (man adduser). I've never used newusers so I can't say > how it compares, but certainly adduser does almost everything you > mentioned above. I don't know if it can handle #3, but you could > certainly easily write your own script to call adduser and then > execute smbpasswd I would think. > > Gary > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: imp
Hi, Mario :) > yes! IMP is working just fine. > > I don't remember exactly what I did, so I'll try to help you listing all > .deb's I've installed. > > phplib, www-mysql, php3-mysql, php3-cgi-mysql, libmysqlclient6 I installed the above packages which were not already on my system. I'm still having issues (I hope you're patient with me :). To start, here's my /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost 216.39.146.1emerald.oz.net gateway 216.39.146.44 mail.mattyt.net mail 192.168.1.1 doma.mattyt.net doma 192.168.1.5 igra.mattyt.net igra 192.168.1.10tpad.mattyt.net tpad 192.168.1.20jay.mattyt.net jay 192.168.1.30angedon.mattyt.net angedon 192.168.1.40vaio.mattyt.net vaio # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts # (added automatically by netbase upgrade) ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts The reason I've included this is that when I attempt to access http://mattyt.net/imp from outside mattyt.net (using Netscape), Netscape first resolves mattyt.net, then attempts to resolve doma.mattyt.net for some reason. It can't resolve doma. because doma. is only know inside mattyt.net. It's a Class C LAN, not a routed subnet. I don't have any idea why it would try to do this. When I do 'lynx mattyt.net/imp' from inside mattyt.net (so doma.mattyt.net -will- resolve, just to see what happens), I get the error that you originally got: Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_pconnect() in db_mysql.inc on line 73 I hope you can shed some light. TIA for any assistance. :) Cheers.. Matthew Thompson http://mattyt.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~mattyt --Someday, I'll have a web page.--
ckermit
Hi, I have an older installation of Debian Potato (like half a year old) on a machine were I also have ckermit installed. Now I would like to install kermit on another machine but I can't find kermit any more. What has happened with kermit? Thanks! _\\|//_ (-0-0-) /-ooO-(_)-Ooo-\ | Magnus Sandberg | |Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |GSM: +46-708-225 805| \-/ || || ooO Ooo
Re: imp
Hi Matthew, Is the mysql module uncommented in /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini? It should be like this: ; Dynamics Extensions extension=imap.so extension=ldap.so extension=mysql.so extension=pgsql.so Concerning your problem with mattyt.net/imp -> doma.mattyt.net check your httpd.conf and see if there is some virtual host or some kind of redirection, because this seems to be the problem: -- $ lynx --dump mattyt.net/imp Moved Permanently The document has moved [1]here. References 1. http://doma.mattyt.net/imp/ - As you can see, netscape or any other browser will try to access doma.mattyt.net because that was the answer your server sent back to it. However, the name resolution seems to be ok: $ nslookup mattyt.net Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 Non-authoritative answer: Name:mattyt.net Address: 216.39.146.44 -- Hope this help! []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 http://www.revistalinux.com.br
RE: ckermit
Hey Man Try http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ Walt -Original Message- From: Magnus Sandberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 11 July, 2000 12:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: ckermit Hi, I have an older installation of Debian Potato (like half a year old) on a machine were I also have ckermit installed. Now I would like to install kermit on another machine but I can't find kermit any more. What has happened with kermit? Thanks! _\\|//_ (-0-0-) /-ooO-(_)-Ooo-\ | Magnus Sandberg | |Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |GSM: +46-708-225 805| \-/ || || ooO Ooo -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
install manual for x86
I am planning to repartition a disk that came with w98 on it. The installation manual for intel x86 discusses repartioning and refers to a program called fips, "available in the tools/ directory on your nearest Debian mirror." Can anyone help me to find that directory and/or that program? Thanks Charles Kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: install manual for x86
Go to www.debian.org click on "Download FTP" -> http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist select a site near you, e.g. ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ select the tools directory, e.g. ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/tools/ download fips20.zip, e.g. ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/tools/fips20.zip Charles Kaufman wrote: > I am planning to repartition a disk that came with w98 on it. > The installation manual for intel x86 discusses repartioning > and refers to a program called fips, "available in the tools/ > directory on your nearest Debian mirror." > Can anyone help me to find that directory and/or that > program? > Thanks > Charles Kaufman > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev > /null
Re: install manual for x86
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 15:24:05 -0500, Charles Kaufman wrote: > a program called fips, "available in the tools/ directory on your nearest > Debian mirror." ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/tools/fips20.zip HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before.
dhcpcd segfault
Hey guys. So after getting Rogers to hook me up, I tried two modules to try to talk to my Soho PCI NIC. The ne2k module didn't work, saying, "device or resource busy". The tulip driver silently installed, and on the next reboot I was greeted with this: tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC at 0xe400, 00 80 c6 f1 68 fa, IRQ 10. eth0: EEPROM default media type 10baseT. So it looks like it's being found. So, being the good debian user that I am, I go off and do an apt-get install dhcpcd. It installs, and the install script asks me what interface to use. I tell it eth0, and it promptly segfaults. Now, I have to boot into single user mode, because otherwise the boot process stops after segfaulting dhcpcd, doing a little more, and then hangs on trying to bring up sendmail. The segfault looks like: Unable to handle kernel NULL point dereference at virtual address +current->tss.cr3 = 03d63000, %cr3 = 03d63000 Umm...help? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier, 1Z22, SKY Tel: 613-765-4699 (ESN: 39-54699) Optical Networks, Nortel Networks, SDE Pegasus "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX Nortel Linux User's Group Ottawa: (internal) http://nlug.ca.nortel.com:8080
Re: install manual for x86
Thank you for the directions to fips. Charles Kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote shell question
> Is there any way to SSH or telnet into an account, start a command line > program such as an ftp session, get the download going, then log out and > leave the process happeneing. I would like to be able to start downloading > then close down the workstation from which I SSHed, and come back the next > day to find the task complete. > > Chris Mason > Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies > Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 > USA Fax (561) 382-7771 > Take a virtual tour of the island > http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide > Find out more about NetConcepts > www.netconcepts.ai > bwz*mq > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > wget -b -- Massimo Dal Zotto +--+ | Massimo Dal Zotto email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Via Marconi, 141phone: ++39-0461534251 | | 38057 Pergine Valsugana (TN) www: http://www.cs.unitn.it/~dz/ | | Italy pgp: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +--+
Re: How to print? (Xerox DocuPrint C15)
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Horacio MG wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (please, Cc: the answer to me as I'm not on the list)
>
> just got this new brand printer, and I'm trying to get something printed
> with it, but never configured a printer before now.
>
Hello Horacio,
printing under linux is achieved by the cooperation of different pieces
of software. The general picture is as follows:
kernel:
the only thing it knows about printing is how to squeeze bytes through a
parallel port in a way ("protocol") a printer can receive them. The kernel
doesn't know what those bytes mean or how to tell the printer what to do
with them.
A user or program can take advantage of this kernel feature by writing
data to one of the /dev/lp* devices. Most (not all) printers interpret the
bytes they receive as plain text and print them in a fixed width font
unless special control bytes are sent. Try a "ls > /dev/lp0" command and
see what happens.
lpr/lpd:
* writes data to devices in the right order for printing (so two
users/programs trying to print at the same time will get their two
documents intead of one big mess).
* can optionally transform your data into something meaningful for your
printing hardware by invoking so-called "printing filters" (see below)
before it gets printed. These are not part of the lpr package, you have
to supply them.
* Is usually sufficient to print plain text in the default font, but by
itself doesn't know how to address the better features (graphics, nice fonts,
etc.) of any given printer.
A printcap entry associates a collection of configuration data (/dev/lp*
device, filters to use, spool directory and other nifty stuff) with
one or more friendly names. This is what lpr calls a "printer".
The printer names can be chosen totally arbitrary. The only
exception is that if you don't specify a printer to lpr, it assumes you
mean printer "lp". Thus, one of the names of the most frequently used
printer should be lp.
printing filters:
look at the data they're given, determine the data format (PostScript,
jpeg image, man page, etc.) and try to translate it into the language
(e.g. PCL for HP LaserJet or ESC/P for Epson dot matrix printers) some
specific printing hardware understands. Most filters will in turn use
other programs like ghostscript for substantial parts of the work they
have to do.
The Debian distro contains at least two printing filter packages,
magicfilter and apsfilter, both containing filters for a collection
of different printer models. Their respective configuration scripts will
ask you some questions and then create a suitable printcap entry for
you.
Personally, I prefer magicfilter, but the important question is not taste
but whether one of the packages contains a filter that will translate
into a language your Xerox DocuPrint knows. Have a look at both.
> The printer is recognized, as advertised by the relevant parts of dmesg:
>
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2]
> parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven
> operation.
> parport0: Printer, Xerox DocuPrint C15
Recognized is a bit too much. The message just means the thing wired to
the first parallel port has identified itself as a printer called
"Xerox DocuPrint C15".
>
> lp0: using parport0 (polling).
>
So the right device to send bytes to the printer is /dev/lp0
>
> I had lpr installed, and have just installed several other programs
> (Aladdin Ghostscript). Then went to read the relevant howtos, but I
> can't see it clear enough.
>
> I've tried to print a postscript file from 'gv', and also tried a
> simpler 'man man | col -b | lpr', but all I get is those jobs in the
> spool:
>
> $ lpq
> waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
> Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
> 1sthoracio2/home/horacio/tmp/phakic.ps 496596 bytes
> 2ndhoracio5(standard input) 23645 bytes
>
> and the status is:
>
> $ lpc status
> lp:
> queuing is enabled
> printing is enabled
> 2 entries in spool area
> waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
>
> Ok, so there must be something I haven't done... sure, I haven't set the
Yes, your /etc/printcap is wrong. See below.
> environment variable in .profile. According to the howtos this should
> be set as:
>
> PRINTER="printer_name"; export PRINTER
Shouldn't be necessary if you have only one printer. Just call the
printcap entry "lp".
>
> Ah, but what's printer_name? Is it perhaps that I have to make a
> symlink in /dev/ to /dev/lp0 (say, /dev/xerox -> /dev/lp0), and then:
>
> PRINTER="xerox"; export PRINTER
>
> or?
No.
>
> Also, I didn't apply any changes to /etc/printcap, so the only
> uncommented lines are:
>
> lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\
> :lp=/dev/lp1:\
^^^
If you change this to lp0, you may at least be able to print plain text.
There is nothing connected to lp1 (most likely you
random signature
Hi all Is there a way to put some sort of random signature system to use in mutt? If not, can any other mail client do this? (I dont want / have X on this box here) TIA Sven -- Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
Re: ckermit
Walter Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey Man > > Try http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ > > Walt > > -Original Message- > From: Magnus Sandberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, > > I have an older installation of Debian Potato (like half a year old) on a > machine were I also have ckermit installed. Now I would like to install > kermit on another machine but I can't find kermit any more. What has > happened with kermit? I believe Magnus wanted to know what happened to the Debian package. >From my understanding it was axed because of a restrictive license, essentially requiring permission from Columbia U. before being redistributed. I believe CU had a proposed change to the license to make it less restrictive but I don't know if they finalized it or not. I did see a message from the former maintainer that you can pick up a deb file from the URL http://master.debian.org/~vaidhy/kermit/ckermit If further info is desired you can go to the Debian website and search the debian-devel mailing list for "kermit" to find out what the specifics are. I think there's even a contribution to the thread by THE Kermit guy, Frank da Cruz. Gary
need help from linux community!!
I installed debian 2.2 this afternoon on a partition without erase neither my RedHat nor win95 and when I try to boot MBR appears, and not lilo. How should I proceed? I need to correct this quickly. When I press TAB it runs win95 , HELP What is this MBR? How run lilo instead this MBR? Please, I need help. Thanks, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt
Re: imp
> Hi Matthew, > > Is the mysql module uncommented in /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini? > It should be like this: > > ; Dynamics Extensions > extension=imap.so > extension=ldap.so > extension=mysql.so These were all here, but this one: > extension=pgsql.so ...wasn't so I added that line and the fatal error went away. :) > Concerning your problem with mattyt.net/imp -> doma.mattyt.net check > your httpd.conf and see if there is some virtual host or some kind of > redirection, because this seems to be the problem: Well, there didn't seem to be any particular virtual host settings that I could see, but I changed ServerName to www.mattyt.net and VOILA!, a working IMP from inside and outside mattyt.net! > Hope this help! It helped *immensely*, thanks Mario! :) The only thing I'm wondering about now is whether to switch from qpopper over to an IMAP-based mail system. Part of the reason for this is that IMP still wants to display IMAP as the default Server, even though I changed the value in defaults.php3.in to 'pop3' & '110' (port) and ran update-imp. I also want users to have access to their mail folders, which I believe becomes possible with an IMAP-based system, correct? Are there any issues to consider when converting from POP3 to IMAP? Any recommendations as to which package is easiest to set up for a small system? (fewer than 20 users) Anything else to consider? Anyone? Bueller? ;) Thanks again, Mario. :) Cheers Matthew Thompson http://mattyt.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~mattyt --Someday, I'll have a web page.--
crack?
Hi all, I wanted to test out crack on my /etc/passwd file...someone told me it takes 6 days to run for good passwords. While my root password is non dictionary, will crack work? Im very curious about how much a user can gain if he/she is able to cat my /etc/passwd
kpkg
debs, i read yesterday that "kernel-package" is the 2d most beneficial feature of dlinux (after apt-get--untouchable!)so i thought i'd give it a whirl. using kernel-package (6.05), i've been trying to test a custom (compliled) 2.2.16 kernel in 2, slink lapboxes. after i run "make menuconfig," i, "make-kpkg." at this point, i don't know where the kernel image is. isn't it supposed to have the ".deb" extension (like "kernel-image-2.2.16*.deb")? if it exists, i should be able to install it merely by "dpkg -i kernel-source-2.2.16*.deb," right? there's "kernel" in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386, but i doubt that it's debianized. output from "dpkg -i kernel-source-2.2.16*.deb": # dpkg: error procession kernel-image*.deb (--install): cannot access archive: no such file or directory. errors were encountered while processiong: kernel-image*.deb i tried to rt*fm, but found "no manual entry for kernel-package." ...suggestions? ia, t. bentley taylor. //
Re: random signature
Build a shell script, it's trivial. Took me a grand total of 15 min to write the scripts and 30 min to type the signatures. On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hi all > > Is there a way to put some sort of random signature system to use in > mutt? If not, can any other mail client do this? (I dont want / have X > on this box here) > > TIA > Sven > -- Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kpkg
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, cls--colo spgs wrote: > debs, > > i read yesterday that "kernel-package" is the 2d most > beneficial feature of dlinux (after > apt-get--untouchable!)so i thought i'd give it a > whirl. > > using kernel-package (6.05), i've been trying to test a > custom (compliled) 2.2.16 kernel in 2, slink lapboxes. > after i run "make menuconfig," i, "make-kpkg." at this > point, i don't know where the kernel image is. isn't > it supposed to have the ".deb" extension (like > "kernel-image-2.2.16*.deb")? if it exists, i should be > able to install it merely by "dpkg -i > kernel-source-2.2.16*.deb," right? there's "kernel" in > /usr/src/linux/arch/i386, but i doubt that it's > debianized. > > output from "dpkg -i kernel-source-2.2.16*.deb": > > # dpkg: error procession kernel-image*.deb > (--install): cannot access archive: no such file or > directory. errors were encountered while processiong: > kernel-image*.deb > > i tried to rt*fm, but found "no manual entry for > kernel-package." > > > ...suggestions? > Do you have the kernel-package installed? There is pretty good documentation for it in /usr/doc/kernel-package/README. After compiling the kernel with make-kpkg, the kernel image is in the parent directory of the kernel source. Usually the kernel source would be in /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.14 (replace the specific version number with what is appropriate in your case of course). You would be in this directory to do all of the kernel configuring and making. The resulting kernel image package would be in /usr/src and should have a name something like kernel-image-2.2.14_custom.1.0_i386.deb (depends upon the --revision argument you give to make-kpkg). So from the kernel source directory, you just do 'dpkg -i ../kernel-image-2.2.14_custom.1.0_i386.deb' to install the kernel you just compiled and packaged. You can also transfer this kernel image package to other machines and install it there with dpkg -i. This is pretty well covered in /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.
Re: need help from linux community!!
> I installed debian 2.2 this afternoon on a partition without erase neither > my RedHat nor > win95 and when I try to boot MBR appears, and not lilo. How should I proceed? > I need to > correct this quickly. When I press TAB it runs win95 , HELP What is this > MBR? How run > lilo instead this MBR? Try booting into RedHat with your savedisk and executing lilo. Take care of the following 2 options: -r root-directory Before doing anything else, do a chroot to the indicated directory. Used for repairing a setup from a boot floppy. -C config-file lilo reads its instructions about what files to map from its config file, by default /etc/lilo.conf. This option can be used to specify a non-default config file. Raoul -- The program required me to install Windows 95 or better. So I installed Linux.
Re: Debian + other distribution
> And how shold I proceed to use the same /boot partition for both > distributions? Should I expand it? Debian 2.2 install it's kernel image on > /boot automatically? I think it does. If not, look in /etc/lilo.conf where it is and move it to /boot. You dont need to enlarge the partition. Edit lilo.conf. Use man lilo.conf. Bye, Raoul -- The program required me to install Windows 95 or better. So I installed Linux.
Re: Lilo-problem
Johann Spies wrote: > Thanks Tom and others who replied. I am learning (although sometimes > the hard way) ;) > > I have now also installed NT booting from /dev/hda. Can I still use > Lilo or is it saver to use NT's bootloader, going to Dos and use loadlin? > > I do not want to learn the hard way again. > > Johann Yes, you could still use Lilo for that. Did you install NT to a separate primary partition, or did you install it so that you can now choose DOS or NT from the NT boot menu? If the latter, that means both DOS and NT actually boot from /dev/hda1, so you can just keep the same /etc/lilo.conf and, of course, install Lilo in /dev/hda. If you used separate primaries for DOS and NT, it's a little more complicated. You would need to modify /etc/lilo.conf so that it sets the primary that you boot from active (DOS or NT). Tom
Re: crack?
Ethan Pierce wrote: > > Hi all, I wanted to test out crack on my /etc/passwd file... > someone told me it takes 6 days to run for good passwords. > While my root password is non dictionary, will crack work? If it _really_ is non-dictionary, probably not, but I can't answer for sure without studying if crack will go on from intelligent cracking methods to the brute force of trying everything, whether tracked-pseudo-randomly, or in order, but I doubt so, since that should, theoretically and statistically speaking, take _much_ longer than only six days. You'll just have to try it out. > Im very curious about how much a user can gain if he/she is > able to cat my /etc/passwd The same ability to run crack on it as you do, without having to guess at login names, as it would be without it. Plus the ability to see if any logins have no password, some of which, if not all, being so, present vulnerabilities. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 972-729-5387 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home phone on request) http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan RE: xmailtool http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan/xmailtool/index.html I am the "ILOVEGNU" signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Any recommendations for notebooks that work well with Linux?
Dear fellow users, I'm now in the market for a portable computer and I'd like to buy an inexpensive notebook (I've got a limited budget for that). While a have considerable experience with running Linux for desktop computers, I have never used a notebook for more than a few minutes. I was surfing the web looking for information about Notebooks running Linux and reading the howto about notebooks (i.e., partly doing my homework), but they generally only give abstract recommendations about what I should look for when buying a notebook and I'd like more precise information like which models work with Linux. As I understand it, support for the little thingies is a bit of a problem (I don't understand what I'm talking about here, but the impression I get is that it is hard to get the PCMCIA cards working), the modems are usually winmodems. I'd like to avoid that. So, my question is: what is the luck you people are having with notebooks? Would you recommend me any machine? Should I avoid any particular model? I'd basically want something not very expensive as I don't need the fastest performance in the world. I don't plan on using Windows on the machine -- the first thing I will do is to wipe the HD and install Debian on it. So it is very important the the hardware has got good support for Linux. I don't have any problems if I need to recompile some packages on my own. Thank you very much for your much appreciated comments, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogerio Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/ Nectar homepage: http://www.linux.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/nectar/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: apt files to CD?
On Jul 11 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Use apt-get with download only option, apt-move it to partial > mirror, burn partial mirror, at home apt-get install from cd. I > think it should work, haven't done it myself. I do it all the time and it works like a champ! The only thing that I'm going to make now is to study the debian-cd scripts so that I can also put the base system image and boot floppies on this partial mirror. It will be nice. :-) []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogerio Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/ Nectar homepage: http://www.linux.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/nectar/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: Lilo-problem
virtanen wrote: > 1) > My machine has got the following OS's and hd's: > > On the hda there is win98 and on the hdb there is 'debian' slink. > The machine bios cannot boot from hdb. > > 2) Is it possible and safe to install 'lilo' so that I can boot both the > OS directly from the hard disks? > > Questions: > > a) > How should the lilo.conf file be written? > b) > Is it possible to get lilo 'out from the mbr' (the previous situation > restored) just by 'lilo -u' command if something goes wrong? Yes, no problem. You can use essentially the same /etc/lilo.conf as Johann did, with a couple of possible changes: 1) His root partition is /dev/hdb2. Just substitute yours in the "root=" line. 2) If you're running slink, you have the old Lilo, so the "lba32" line is not valid. You don't need that anyway if your root partition is below 1024 cylinders. Here's a start: (I added a couple of minor things) boot=/dev/hda (install Lilo in MBR) compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map prompt timeout=100 vga=normal image=/vmlinuz(assumes this is where your kernel is) root=/dev/your_root_partition label=Linux read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=win98 Look at the file /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt for explanations of options, or to find others you may want to use. Lilo automatically backs up the sector that it replaces when you run the 'lilo' command. 'lilo -u' will reverse that process, and put back whatever was there before. However, unless you specify otherwise, it will only make the backup the FIRST time you install lilo to any particular location such as /dev/hda. It names the backup file according to where Lilo was installed and keeps that file in /boot. So in your case where you're installing to the MBR (boot=/dev/hda), the original MBR that you replace will be the one that 'lilo -u' will put back. In other words, you can install Lilo a 2nd or 3rd or 4th time to the MBR if you want to tweak things, but still be able to restore the original MBR with 'lilo -u'. Again, see /usr/doc/Manual.txt or 'man lilo' for more info. Tom
Re: smbmount
thanx for the replies, it is all working now... it is weird how a redhat Samba rpm package would have smbmount/smbclient included whereas a Debian Samba package doesn't. BTW, what is more reliable as a means for copying great quantities of files : 1) smbmount from an AIX samba shared directory or 2) nfs mount from an AIX NFS shared directory with no_root_squash? Corey Popelier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/07/2000 21:20:29 To: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic Labs/64 cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: smbmount smbfs is actually a package - apt-get install smbfs You also need SMB support compiled into the kernel for those commands to work. (I dont know if you can do it as a module, havent tried). Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > i have installed samba-2.0.5a-1.deb and it does not contain either > smbclient or smbmount. the debian search-contents feature on the debian > home page has indicated that smbmount is in the "otherosfs/smbfs" which i > presume is the module smbfs which i have installed under modconf/fs. > > but i cannot find it through updatedb/locate so how can i install > smbclient/smbmount? > > Thanx > > Zane > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: kpkg
...yepa...works fine, now. good info. thx. bentley taylor. // "Stephen A. Witt" wrote: > > > Do you have the kernel-package installed? There is pretty good > documentation for it in /usr/doc/kernel-package/README. After compiling > the kernel with make-kpkg, the kernel image is in the parent directory of > the kernel source. Usually the kernel source would be in > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.14 (replace the specific version number with > what is appropriate in your case of course). You would be in this > directory to do all of the kernel configuring and making. The resulting > kernel image package would be in /usr/src and should have a name something > like kernel-image-2.2.14_custom.1.0_i386.deb (depends upon the --revision > argument you give to make-kpkg). So from the kernel source directory, you > just do 'dpkg -i ../kernel-image-2.2.14_custom.1.0_i386.deb' to install > the kernel you just compiled and packaged. You can also transfer this > kernel image package to other machines and install it there with dpkg -i. > This is pretty well covered in /usr/doc/kernel-package/README. // On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, cls--colo spgs wrote: > > > debs, > > > > i read yesterday that "kernel-package" is the 2d most > > beneficial feature of dlinux (after > > apt-get--untouchable!)so i thought i'd give it a > > whirl. > > > > using kernel-package (6.05), i've been trying to test a > > custom (compliled) 2.2.16 kernel in 2, slink lapboxes. > > after i run "make menuconfig," i, "make-kpkg." at this > > point, i don't know where the kernel image is. isn't > > it supposed to have the ".deb" extension (like > > "kernel-image-2.2.16*.deb")? if it exists, i should be > > able to install it merely by "dpkg -i > > kernel-source-2.2.16*.deb," right? there's "kernel" in > > /usr/src/linux/arch/i386, but i doubt that it's > > debianized. > > > > output from "dpkg -i kernel-source-2.2.16*.deb": > > > > # dpkg: error procession kernel-image*.deb > > (--install): cannot access archive: no such file or > > directory. errors were encountered while processiong: > > kernel-image*.deb > > > > i tried to rt*fm, but found "no manual entry for > > kernel-package." > > > > > > ...suggestions? > > >
Re: random signature
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 09:30:50PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hi all > > Is there a way to put some sort of random signature system to use in > mutt? If not, can any other mail client do this? (I dont want / have X > on this box here) sigrot, among others. -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgp6RRRqXruL0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Any recommendations for notebooks that work well with Linux?
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 07:39:27PM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > I was surfing the web looking for information about Notebooks > running Linux and reading the howto about notebooks (i.e., > partly doing my homework), but they generally only give > abstract recommendations about what I should look for when > buying a notebook and I'd like more precise information like > which models work with Linux. The Linux on Laptops website has specific information on successes (and failures) installing Linux on a wide range of hardware. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgp0LZ0zaRzcl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mutt and IMAP - Specifying server
Hi Patrick,
Quoth Patrick Kirk,
> Does anyone have an example of a .muttrc that works with an IMAP
> server? I can do everything except put the name of the server in.
Mutt, as shipped with debian (slink and potato), doesn't do imap all
that easily. At least, I've never worked out the secret!
One was in which to specify an imap server is to use `c' (change folder)
and tell it to change folder to:
{your.imap.server}INBOX
(or whatever). While that works well, I've never worked out what one
needs to put in the .muttrc to make it easier.
cheers,
damon
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Logitech Mouseman + ps/2
Hi, Im having difficulty getting my mouse to work under X properly...particularly the middle mouse button. xf86config just plain kills x, but I can get x running with XF86Setup. The problem is the middle mouse button, what mouse "Server" to use and what device exactly is it running from. Its a ps/2 mouse and many have told me to just use mouseman/no emulate/no chordive actually tried them all but cannot for the life of me get the middle paste button to work. I guess my options of port are /dev/mouse /dev/psaux or /dev/gpmdata?? If anyone has any ideas, or better yet if you have this mouse...could you send me the lines from XF86Config that tell X how to handle the mouse? Thanks -Ethan
net-help needed : adsl + dyn-IP (? + dhcp ?) . (re-)starting from scratch
hello. -- -- -- -- an excerpt from the text, below, which may be the root of the issue: 2) crucial question: do i need to have dhcpcd up-and-running before or after i start-up the pppoe client-daemon ? and why do i need to have dhcpcd running, at all? ( shouldn't the pppoe software be handling this? ) -- -- -- -- and, if you might have the time, i would appreciate some comments and suggestions regarding the following. i have a number of unanswered questions about the net-setup here. ( and will continue to make sure they are answered, eventually. i.e.: by posting them more clearly. maybe now will be the "when", for some of them. ) i've marked each section of this email, as per the topics which i am having some problems with. -- -- -- -- the current situation, and the previous work: i've tried to get an installation of debian (potato) working with an adsl connection, and have been failing completely. i'd like to start from square zero, to see what learning that i might miss-out on if i was otherwise able to use a "plug and play" solution. ( "instant gratification", and no lessons-learned ... the ms-w method?) i've looked through howtos (ethernet, pppoe? , * ), and other documents, to no avail. maybe i'm missing something. i've tried, in various combinations: the deb package of pppoe ; dhcpcd ; pump . none of these combinations have worked. i tried something like "pppoe -d" with whatever argument is used to send the debug output to a file, and got a command-line full of odd-looking characters, and a file full of hexadecimal values that i have no idea about the meaning of. this file i chose the IPv6 module, when installing debian, because it seemed like a neat thing (value-added for my impression of the installed OS). i'm wondering if this might be the cause of any problems. i cannot currently contact the DSL provider for assistance, as my account is severely delinquent, and one note to them about this could spoil the connection. furthermore, i'm very unsure about their ability to be a help with this. ( the microsoft marketing-program, while far from stamping-out the usage of Linux [ and foolish of them, if they thought that otherwise might happen ] has left a blank-spot where "linux" should be, in the collective public knowledge-set . i find it to be a personal goal to remedy this, to provide a better system if, we can. we darn well should be able to, with the wealth of (free!) available tools. ) -- -- -- -- 'route-add's, and the general dynamic-ip-assigning process: i've looked through the log-file of the connection-client (?) that was provided by Pacific Bell, for connecting to the DSL service from ms-windows. i'd found two "route add" commands, each with the same gateway and netmask, but each with a different metric. for some reason, the log-file, today, is only showing one "route add", with metric 2. i'm wanting to know how this is (?supposed to be?) handled with the tools on debian: excerpts from the (ms-w dsl-connection client) log-file: " Connect: Tap IPAddress: 169.254.131.55 " ... " Dest:fea9 mask: Gate:3783fea9 If:304 Metric:2 " ... " route add 169.254.0.0 MASK 255.255.0.0 169.254.131.55 METRIC 2 " ... " Setting IP Address through DHCP" ( in the older log-file, there was a line after that which read something like: " route add 169.254.0.0 MASK 255.255.0.0 $ipAddress METRIC 1 " where $ipAddress = 169.254.0.130 , which is different than what's in the log-file today. ...and how can the address have a zero in it, like that? ... and looking at the log-file again, the METRIC 1 is used /on _disconnect_/. why is it not just a simple "goodbye" that can be offered to the server? (e.g.: why another "route add", and why the different metric? ) 07/02/2000 23:20:06 - Disconnect: Tap IpAddress: 169.254.0.130 07/02/2000 23:20:06 - Route supports METRIC command. 07/02/2000 23:20:06 - Dest:fea9 Mask: Gate:8200fea9 If:304 Metric:1 07/02/2000 23:20:06 - AddChangeRouteApi - Error [87] from Add Route 07/02/2000 23:20:06 - route add 169.254.0.0 MASK 255.255.0.0 169.254.0.130 METRIC 1 07/02/2000 23:20:06 - ExitCode [0] from Route Add ) -- -- -- -- access-concentrators: i have some sort of an address, which i hope is an access-connector, though (as far as I know, which isn't very far on this) it may be something simply pointing to the "router" (what i want to call the DSL-modem) that they also provided ( == the thing that has the dsl-line from the phone-line splitter connected to it, as well as the ethernet cable ) : 13041039917991-rback1.frsn01 it's what is at the end of the ms-w client log-file: "s-champ successfully connected to 13041039917991-rback1.frsn01 -- -- -- -- netmasks: my confusion is compounded by the fact that i have two different subnet-masks, and am not sure which should be used, though i've used the one for the ethernet-card, with debian. "Kingston EtheRx PCI ...": 2
Re: dhcpcd segfault
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hey guys. So after getting Rogers to hook me up, I tried two > modules > to try to talk to my Soho PCI NIC. The ne2k module didn't work, saying, > "device or resource busy". The tulip driver silently installed, and on the > next reboot I was greeted with this: > > tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC at 0xe400, 00 80 c6 f1 68 fa, IRQ 10. > eth0: EEPROM default media type 10baseT. > > So it looks like it's being found. So, being the good debian user that > I am, I go off and do an apt-get install dhcpcd. It installs, and the > install script asks me what interface to use. I tell it eth0, and it > promptly segfaults. Yes, the card was correctly detected. > Now, I have to boot into single user mode, because otherwise the boot > process stops after segfaulting dhcpcd, doing a little more, and then > hangs on trying to bring up sendmail. The segfault looks like: Sendmail 'hangs' because it's trying to access the network (which it can't) to do a lookup on it's IP #. If you wait a minute or so everything should continue booting. > Unable to handle kernel NULL point dereference at virtual address > +current->tss.cr3 = 03d63000, %cr3 = 03d63000 That's not a segmentation fault - that's a kernel oops (the Linux equivalent to a Windows Blue Screen of Death). What's the output of the command 'uname -a'? -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstien
Re: Logitech Mouseman + ps/2
Once upon a time, I heard Ethan Pierce say > Hi, Im having difficulty getting my mouse to work under X > properly...particularly the middle mouse button. xf86config just plain kills > x, but I can get x running with XF86Setup. The problem is the middle mouse > button, what mouse "Server" to use and what device exactly is it running from. > > Its a ps/2 mouse and many have told me to just use mouseman/no emulate/no > chordive actually tried them all but cannot for the life of me get the > middle paste button to work. I guess my options of port are /dev/mouse > /dev/psaux or /dev/gpmdata?? > For Logitach MouseMan ps/2, I use just plain "PS/2" for the protocol and "/dev/psaux" for the mouse port in XF86Config and use "ps2" and "/dev/psaux" for gpm. Chanop -- /\ |Only Debian[EMAIL PROTECTED]| \/ pgpzReWgvHoeR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apt files to CD?
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 09:41:00AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Users, > Is there a way to download all the apt files, burn them to CD and install > off of that? > I have a fast connection at work to d/l the files, but only a modem at home > on my debian machine. > > This would make it a lot easier and faster if I could apt install off a CD. > > Any help is much appriciated! > > Thanks kindly, > > Ashby > Have a look at apt-move. -- Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Savor the sun; when the clouds come, make animals. -- Nicholas Hexum
Running Samba as a PDC
Hello Group, I have samba running as my Domain Controller and Im using Windows98 machines for clients and everything work fine. But I have ran into a small problem here. I want to name my domain something different from my workgroup. Everything I have read says that the workgroup name will be the domain name for windows users. So I have something like "neutec" for a workgroup andneutec for a domain name in windows. So is there any way to add a different name domain to samba without changing the workgroup. If I change workgroup in the smb.conf to the domain I want, I can no longer see the samba server in Network Niehorhood. Not a big deal but I would like to get it working. Thanks Guys. -- It feels so good, It's a marginal risk, when I clear off windows with fdisk Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. http://www.debian.org
Re: net-help needed : adsl + dyn-IP (? + dhcp ?) . (re-)starting fromscratch
"S. Champ" wrote: > > hello. > > -- -- -- -- > > an excerpt from the text, below, which may be the root of the issue: > > 2) crucial question: > >do i need to have dhcpcd up-and-running before or after i start-up the > pppoe > client-daemon ? and why do i need to have dhcpcd running, at all? ( shouldn't > the pppoe software be handling this? ) Some suggestions: 1. Get right with your ISP. If your account is "severely delinquent" (whatever that means), it doesn't matter how you configure Debian, you're not going to connect to the Internet. 2. Make sure your NIC is properly installed and configured. This is not necessarily easy. 3. Install the pppoe.deb package. Read the README in the pppoe.deb package. It will tell you exactly how to configure all necessary files in /etc and how to start and stop pppd to connect via your DSL line. Do exactly what the README tells you; it works just fine with PacBell's flavor of DSL. 4. Read the info at the PacBell site about system settings to connect via DSL. What you mostly need from there are the ip addresses for the DNS servers at PacBell. You add those nameserver addresses to /etc/resolv.conf. If your account at PacBell is delinquent, you won't be able to get to this information. See step 1. 5. That's all there is to it to get connected via a PacBell DSL line. PacBell certainly doesn't make it easy, but they don't prevent it either. They just leave everything as "an exercise for the student" but that's the way Linux folk like it, eh? HTH Oh yeah, you definitely do *not* need DHCP to connect via pppoe to PacBell's DSL. Stan > > -- -- -- -- > > and, if you might have the time, i would appreciate some comments and > suggestions regarding the following. i have a number of unanswered questions > about the net-setup here. ( and will continue to make sure they are answered, > eventually. i.e.: by posting them more clearly. maybe now will be the "when", > for some of them. ) > > i've marked each section of this email, as per the topics which i am having > some > problems with. > > -- -- -- -- > > the current situation, and the previous work: > > i've tried to get an installation of debian (potato) working with an adsl > connection, and have been failing completely. > > i'd like to start from square zero, to see what learning that i might miss-out > on if i was otherwise able to use a "plug and play" solution. > > ( "instant gratification", and no lessons-learned ... the ms-w method?) > > i've looked through howtos (ethernet, pppoe? , * ), and other documents, to no > avail. maybe i'm missing something. > > i've tried, in various combinations: the deb package of pppoe ; dhcpcd ; pump > . > none of these combinations have worked. > > i tried something like "pppoe -d" with whatever argument is used to send the > debug output to a file, and got a command-line full of odd-looking characters, > and a file full of hexadecimal values that i have no idea about the meaning > of. > this file > > i chose the IPv6 module, when installing debian, because it seemed like a neat > thing (value-added for my impression of the installed OS). i'm wondering if > this might be the cause of any problems. > > i cannot currently contact the DSL provider for assistance, as my account is > severely delinquent, and one note to them about this could spoil the > connection. > furthermore, i'm very unsure about their ability to be a help with this. ( > the > microsoft marketing-program, while far from stamping-out the usage of Linux [ > and foolish of them, if they thought that otherwise might happen ] has left a > blank-spot where "linux" should be, in the collective public knowledge-set . > i > find it to be a personal goal to remedy this, to provide a better system if, > we > can. we darn well should be able to, with the wealth of (free!) available > tools. ) > > -- -- -- -- > > 'route-add's, and the general dynamic-ip-assigning process: > > i've looked through the log-file of the connection-client (?) that was > provided > by Pacific Bell, for connecting to the DSL service from ms-windows. > > i'd found two "route add" commands, each with the same gateway and netmask, > but > each with a different metric. for some reason, the log-file, today, is only > showing one "route add", with metric 2. > > i'm wanting to know how this is (?supposed to be?) handled with the tools on > debian: > > excerpts from the (ms-w dsl-connection client) log-file: > > " Connect: Tap IPAddress: 169.254.131.55 " > ... > " Dest:fea9 mask: Gate:3783fea9 If:304 Metric:2 " > ... > " route add 169.254.0.0 MASK 255.255.0.0 169.254.131.55 METRIC 2 " > ... > " Setting IP Address through DHCP" > > ( in the older log-file, there was a line after that which read something > like: > " route add 169.254.0.0 MASK 255.255.0.0 $ipAddress METRIC 1 " > > where $ipAddress = 169.254.0.130 , which is different than what's in the > log-file today. > > ...and how can the address h
