Newbie administrator
I am running the only Debian server in the NYC Dept. of Education. 1. running Samba correctly (is there a way to hide the configuration files in the home directory?) 2. running netatalk correctly (I have 1 OS-X machine that can't logon on but I'm not sure where the problem is there) 3. running NFS & NIS - here is the problem I set up all users on the server with user directories in /home (of course) with the /home directory exported "rw". on the client machines (SuSE because it is so easy to install and configure) I have the /home directory mounted to the server. the logon screen shows all the users and it works well the problem is my lack of knowledge about how to set-up permissions. My users log into their /home directories but can view the /home directories of others. how can I correct this? Is there a good book for beginner adimin's like me? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie administrator
At 02:45 PM 2/26/03 -0500, you wrote: On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Phil wrote: > I am running the only Debian server in the NYC Dept. of Education. > 1. running Samba correctly (is there a way to hide the configuration files > in the home directory?) I ended up just deleting those files, as I don't have users able to log in locally anyways. I'm sure there's a better way to do it though. > 3. running NFS & NIS - here is the problem > I set up all users on the server with user directories in /home (of course) > with the /home directory exported "rw". on the client machines (SuSE > because it is so easy to install and configure) I have the /home directory > mounted to the server. the logon screen shows all the users and it works > well the problem is my lack of knowledge about how to set-up > permissions. My users log into their /home directories but can view the > /home directories of others. how can I correct this? Set the permissions of each directory so that only the user can access it. drwx-- 15 mdresser mdresser 4096 Feb 3 14:47 mdresser Like so. The command to do that is chmod, man chmod should get you started. in this case, chmod 700 is what I did. I think this should work, anyways :) do I have to do this individually for each user? (all 120 of them) is there a way to do this in the skel directory in. the future -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Error msg :VFS: limit exceeded
My first Debian machine, running potato, used for experimentation and storing files displayed an error message at the consle logon screen that went something like: Login: VFS: files open exceeded 4096 and then I couldn't login rebooting solved the problem . . .so far. what was tat about? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
man pages for xfree
It's been a while since I set up an X configuration. The last time was on a potato machine. There is no XF86Config file in /etc/X11 and when I "startx" I get /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: ursr/bin/X11/X No such file or dir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: exec: ursr/bin/X11/X cannot execute giving up (errno 111) (errno 3) seems like things weren't set-up properly. xfree-common was installed according to dselect. where ar the man pages? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: man pages for xfree
At 08:50 PM 3/3/03 +0100, you wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 02:26:26PM -0500, Phil wrote: > It's been a while since I set up an X configuration. The last time was on > a potato machine. There is no XF86Config file in /etc/X11 and when I > "startx" I get > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: ursr/bin/X11/X No such file or dir > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: exec: ursr/bin/X11/X cannot execute > giving up > (errno 111) > (errno 3) > > seems like things weren't set-up properly. xfree-common was installed > according to dselect. where ar the man pages? Which version of Debian are you using now? Woody - 3.0 just installed from CDs ~~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux enigma
Linux enigma: I recently tried to install SuSE linux on a workstation that does not boot from CDROM. There is a suse utility that writes installation files to a windows HD but alas suse could not install and put on Debian. HOWEVER! the suse installation utility created several directories that I cannot remove. In the windows partition of this machine, I have a linux directory where suse created a suse directory and a setup directory therein (windows/linux/suse/setup - when viewed from the now installed debian partition). Inside of the setup directory is an entity called '/linux' that I have tried to delete with rm and rmdir and get an error message: rm: cannot remove '/linux': No such file or directory rmdir: '/linux': No such file or directory when I try to access this entity with Midnight Commander (my trusted friend from MSDOS days) I get the following message File '/linux' exists but can not be stat-ed: No such file or directory. How does one deal with entities like this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pci video card suggestions?
I have an old box I use for a file server and experimenting/testing. it does not have a AGP video card slot, just pci slots. anyone have a suggestion for an inexpensive card linux likes? I'm tired of looking at 640x480 resolution! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
simple (non-technial) software question
I'm setting -up linux machines at a school and the teachers are interested in Mavis Beacon teaches typing and Mathblaster type programs. They want programs that are fun for the kids and teach them things at the same time. Does anyone have any suggestions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
56K modem
I have a supra 56i PCI I just upgraded, and notices it not to work under debian. ISAPNP doesn't even pickup on it. I don't think it's windows hardware, but I didn't notices under win95 a PCI modem enumerator isn't this something like the enumerators used for PNP, if so there may be hope... Or maybe the pci errors I get from the kernel about a pci.o could be blocking the detection... Any thoughts or suggestions are appreicated Philip Thiem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SSLtelnet
ANy notice that SSLtelent will not let me connect to localhost where SSL in.telnetd is running? And after the SSL3 certificate error, my display is messed up(how to I fix this by hand also) Has anyone used this with success between two machines. I'm going to be administrating a machine, and SSL telnet would be a very useful tool to have. Philip Thiem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PCI PNP was 56k Modems
The PCI modems are fairly new, be on the look out for sound cards too(ISA will eventually disappear from new motherboards thus the PCI versions). I decided to go with this to free up a ISA slot... I only have two, and one is ISA/PCI slot(shares the same case slot)! There is little doubt in my mind that Linux would support PCI modems, the only real deference is the hardware-level protocol they use(unless it like win hardware). All that is needed is the PCI support, but then I run into the problem with Plug and Play. If linux doesn't support PCI PNP, I can't find the card, let alone use it. If shouldn't be too hard to add support for.. As few additions to the pnpdumb detection code, and isapnp implementation to make PCI card exist. I'm definitely going to speak with Diamond about this(to check for "special" or non-standard uart/driver implementations). Philip Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ISAPNP won't pick it up because ISAPNP only works for ISA card. Your card is > PCI. I've never heard of a PCI modem before. I can't say whether or not any > kernel supports or doesn't support it. The Hardware-HOWTO in my beta Hamm > system doesn't indicate any support for PCI modems. If the device still acts > like a 16550A UART then you can probably configure it just by getting the IO > and IRQ info and passing that to setserial. If it doesn't then kernel support > would have to be written. > > Jens B. Jorgensen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
netscape-help!!
I've recently hit a snag with netscape: I can't get it to download pop mail. Netscape in WIn95 works, and so does fetchmail, but not netsape in linux. I tried a complete reinstall, and even erased my user-specific netscape directories. What could be causing this? User permissions for a tmp directory? (Have erased /tmp remade it, and set permissions on it) Something in /var maybe? I tried upgrading to the glibc2 version of 4.5 pre 1. I'm almost certain I'm over looking something that netscape uses: file or resource. I haven't tried outgoing mail since the prob. Oh yes, I'm not using the netscape package. I installed it with NS-install, and set MOZILLA_HOME in /etc/profile bu hand. Thanks in Advance Philip -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: netscape-help!!
Well I don't have any exact error, but I'm having some strange occurances now. I thought I had the problem fixed by downgrading, but then it started up again. Here are my observations. Fetchmail has been able to download most messages if netscape "freezes" The freeze seems to a stall the download(I've wait a long time for progression before) One time I got all my msgs with fetchmail, and netscape still said some were on the server, none there were according to fetchmail. I also noticed everytime I sent a msg to the server to test it out(I was using mailx to send the test message), netscape would add one message to the count even if I download the test message with fetchmail Recently I was downloading 300 some message from my pop server and the download froze on msg 39. I tried getting them, but fetchmail told me none were there (where do 300 messages go???) If neither work netscape under win95 works fine(I don't like to use it) I one got some strange messages, one day about "THESE ARE IMRPORTANT EMAIL FILES, THEY ARE NOT MESSAGES, DO NOT DELETE THEM" win95 downloaded and I expect erased them anyway... Here's what I have done recently. Erased and reinstalled netscape. I left the .netscape alone, since I've already tried clean out anyway. I replaced smail wtih exim. I don't suppose netscape writes to logs? I have seen anything that would indicate this Philip George Bonser wrote: > > Exactly what error is he getting? There could be several reasons. > > On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: > > > Hi... > > > > Bah. Use fetchmail then; it's probably a better idea anyway. (make it a > > cron job or something; then you can download your mail on demand too) > > > > Alex > > > > On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Phil wrote: > > > > > Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:49:20 -0500 > > > From: Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > Subject: netscape-help!! > > > Resent-Date: 17 Jul 1998 14:48:50 - > > > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; > > > > > > I've recently hit a snag with netscape: > > > > > >I can't get it to download pop mail. > > > > > > Netscape in WIn95 works, and so does fetchmail, but > > > not netsape in linux. I tried a complete reinstall, and > > > even erased my user-specific netscape directories. What could be > > > causing this? User permissions for a tmp directory? (Have erased > > > /tmp remade it, and set permissions on it) Something in /var > > > maybe? I tried upgrading to the glibc2 version of 4.5 pre 1. I'm > > > almost certain I'm over looking something that netscape uses: file > > > or resource. I haven't tried outgoing mail since the prob. > > > > > > Oh yes, I'm not using the netscape package. I installed it with > > > NS-install, and set MOZILLA_HOME in /etc/profile bu hand. > > > > > > > > > Thanks in Advance > > > > > > Philip > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > > George Bonser > > Microsoft! Which end of the stick do you want today? > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
getting Sawfish
I updated and now have problems with Gnome. It seems I don't have a Gnome compliant window manager. is there an apt-get method to get sawfish? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
strcpy HELP!!!!
I'm using libc6 2.0.7pre1-4 and strcpy gives me a segmentation
error!
I've attached my C test program for inspection(source only).
I only do a few things. malloc memory for a variable(forgot a
corresponding free)
copy a string in this varible, copy this string to another
string, print both
on the screen. The exact error message is attached to the
source.
I will now check bug track.
Thanks in advance
Philip
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#include
#include
void main(void)
{
char *temp1, *temp2;
temp1 = malloc (10);
strcpy (temp1, "high all");
strcpy (temp2, temp1);
printf("%s %s", temp1, temp2);
}
/* error --- program recieved signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation Fault.
* 0x40050be7*/
Home network problem
The linux server running file and printer sharing for windows, Apple and linux clients does not get the internet in KDE. I get an IP address and subnet mask info, and RX & TX packet flow when I issue a ifconfig command on eth0 (the only NIC) I can ping all local machines, the DSL router and the print server. Local machines can see the linux server. I can even ping google but only with their octal IP, it doesn't work with www,google.com. when I click in the Windows network icon on the desktop, I get a network unreachable and bug report message . but again browsers, SSH and FTP do not work in KDE. I have no command line FTP or SSH clients installed. Should I test this or is there somewhere else I can look? I don't know how to go forward. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Home network problem
At 03:40 PM 6/12/2005, Craig Russell wrote: Phil wrote: The linux server running file and printer sharing for windows, Apple and linux clients does not get the internet in KDE. I get an IP address and subnet mask info, and RX & TX packet flow when I issue a ifconfig command on eth0 (the only NIC) I can ping all local machines, the DSL router and the print server. Local machines can see the linux server. I can even ping google but only with their octal IP, it doesn't work with www,google.com. when I click in the Windows network icon on the desktop, I get a network unreachable and bug report message . but again browsers, SSH and FTP do not work in KDE. I have no command line FTP or SSH clients installed. Should I test this or is there somewhere else I can look? I don't know how to go forward. Phil- What is in your /etc/resolv.conf. If you can ping google by IP than it seems like it must be a resolution issue rather than a networking issue. When using ssh, ftp etc are you trying to connect with an IP address or a hostname? Craig Resolv.conf did the trick Thank you all very much Phil ** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Broadcom wireless driver
I got a brand new Dell laptop with a Broadcom BCM 943056 wireless card. I was told they (broadcom) put out a linux driver for it but then pulled it back. because I can't use it under linux, I'm stuck using windows more than I want to. does anyone know where I can find this driver?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NIC driver needed
I got a brand new Dell laptop with a Broadcom BCM 943056 wireless card. I was told they (broadcom) put out a linux driver for it but then pulled it back. because I can't use it under linux, I'm stuck using windows more than I want to. does anyone know where I can find this driver?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WinFast 3D L2300
I got a problem to setup x-window with video card "WinFast 3D L2300". Have anyone installed this card? Which clockchip should be choose for it? Phil
XF86config
I have install Debian on my PC and start X sucessfully. However, the windows and icons are to large. Althought I could cycle the resolution by "++" , but I still want to start X at correct resolution mode. So I want to reorder the modeline in the "screen" section of the XF86config file. I could see the screen sections for SVGA, MONO, VGA16 and accel X-servers. I couldn't see the screen section for my X-server : XF86_3Dlabs What's the problem with it? or How to do the purpose I wanted? Phil
[Potato] IRQ/DMA/IO config with ISA PnP card (Was: Re: Soundblaster 16)
de1 13f8-13ff : serial(set) # cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 343134 XT-PIC timer 1: 10962 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 4: 26386 XT-PIC serial 5: 1 XT-PIC soundblaster # => [ok with the BIOS : Audio/Midi IRQ : IRQ 5 (default value)] 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 12: 0 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu 14: 249676 XT-PIC ide0 15: 8 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 # cat /proc/dma 1: SoundBlaster8 # => [ok with the User's Manual : compatibility : Sound Blaster Pro(tm) 3.01] 4: cascade # cat /proc/devices Character devices: [...] 14 sound [...] but, when I use xmms, I get (xsonsole) : Aug 22 13:34:46 ile kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error ? could somebody explain us how to configure (editing the files) IRQ/DMA/... ? > From: Steven Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Soundblaster 16 > Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 04:07:47 -0700 > Another posibility you could try is installing the sndconfig package. > I know it available in sid (unstable) but I don't know if it's packaged > for stable. not in Potato :( PS: I don't have M$/Windo$e ! -- Phil (in digest mode)
[Potato] IRQ/DMA/IO config with ISA PnP card (Was: Re: Sound cards & Linux?)
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 08:42:10AM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > Most SB compatibles mean the SB16 'standard'. > You need to add the lines > soundcore > sb > to /etc/modules to get it to load at boot. > and run "insmod soundcore" and "insmod sb" to get it to run now. > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 06:53:35AM -0700, David Frischknecht scribbled... > > Hello, > > > > I just want to express my appreciation for all the help I've gotten from > > the members of this list. I'm practically a Linux newbie, so all of the > > configuration that's needed to get it up and running is unfamiliar to me. > > I'd like to know how I could get my ESS Audiodrive sound card to work > > with Linux. I know it's SoundBlaster compatible, but I'm not sure which > > SoundBlaster protocol it's compatible with. Could somebody help me out > > with this? Thanks a bunch. :-) see : Subject: [Potato] IRQ/DMA/IO config with ISA PnP card (Was: Re: Soundblaster 16) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 19:37:11 +0200 any links/docs ? -- Phil
e100 NIC module problems
I got a new Dell poweredge 400SC that comes with an embedded NIC. Lspci refers to the ethernet controller as an "Unknown device e100 (rev 02)" I tried using eepro and eepro100 modules but they wouldn't work. Both returning error messages saying " Hint: you are trying to install a module without a GPL compatible license . . . Looking for the proper module, I found a "e100 module at the Intel web site that would create an rpm. And a source file on the debian site. Both seem to want to work in the 2.4 kernel. I have old debian disks that I have always used and then upgraded with apt. If I can't get the NIC running I can't upgrade. Is there a module that will get this NIC running in this kernel Is there something else I can do -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ppp problems
I'm trying to set up a home server (as practice) and having trouble with finding module for a dell e100 imbedded NIC. It seems that one exists on the debian site but the NIC doesn't work so I can't logon. So, I dug out a serial modem and plugged it in and got it to log into my ISP . . . I think ??? It does the hand shaking thing, lights go on, The RI and RD lights flicker regulary every 20 seconds (approx) but when I enter an address into Mozilla there is clearly no reaction. The modem is maintaining a connection to the ISP, and I can clearly logon through windows on another machine. Is this HW, software or configuration. I'm using pppconfig (as I have done before on other machines). Where do I go from here? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RPMs on debian
Is there a way to install RPMs on Debian? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Modules from other dist's ??
I couldn't get my NIC to work because the module didn't exist in except on the internet. (can't logon). I found the module I need (e1000.o) when I put SuSE the machine. Can I copy the e1000.o file into the /lib//net/ directory when I put Debian back on and use it?? or are these things complied differently for different distributions?? sorry if this is a stupid question. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
testing PPP connection
I've created a dial-in connection to my ISP, I pon and get BSD compression messages and the like, the modem lights all go on and seem to be functioning properly, the data transmit lights seem to send the the data necessary to logon but browsers don't work in KDE or Gnome. How can I test this situation in terminal mode to see if this PPP connection is really working. why are the browsers not accessing the web?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: testing PPP connection
At 01:21 PM 4/14/04 -0600, you wrote: Incoming from Phil: > I've created a dial-in connection to my ISP, I pon and get BSD compression > messages and the like, the modem lights all go on and seem to be > functioning properly, the data transmit lights seem to send the the data > necessary to logon but browsers don't work in KDE or Gnome. > > How can I test this situation in terminal mode to see if this PPP > connection is really working. why are the browsers not accessing the web?? ping -c 2 64.233.167.104 ping -c 2 www.google.com If the latter says something like "unknown host" or "cannot resolve www.google.com", you've a dns problem. What's in /etc/resolv.conf? If neither of them say anything intelligible, then you haven't actually created a connection. Neither ping works. the ip address returns 0 packets received, 100% loss the google ping returns nothing needed to "ctrl C" to break out resolv.conf contains ip addresses I do not recognize. should I put in the primary and secondary DNS numbers for my provider? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: testing PPP connection
At 01:21 PM 4/14/04 -0600, you wrote: Incoming from Phil: > I've created a dial-in connection to my ISP, I pon and get BSD compression > messages and the like, the modem lights all go on and seem to be > functioning properly, the data transmit lights seem to send the the data > necessary to logon but browsers don't work in KDE or Gnome. > > How can I test this situation in terminal mode to see if this PPP > connection is really working. why are the browsers not accessing the web?? ifconfig shows the PPP0 interface but I can't ping anything!! someone on this list said to use pppstatus to check the connection but I have no such command on my machine. any ideas?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Troubleshooting NIS
I'm trying to setup some servers at school. I'm using NIS because I've use it before an it was easy. ypserv and ypbind come up as running on their respective machines, but the client machine - at first seemed to authenticate and then give "can';t write to /home folder" messages and now seems not to authenticate at all. NFS is up and running. I can see and access the server's home folders from the client machine. Where does one start to trouble shoot?
Re: Troubleshooting NIS
On Saturday 24 June 2006 22:38, Gerard Sharpe wrote: > Phil wrote: > > I'm trying to setup some servers at school. I'm using NIS because I've > > use it before an it was easy. > > > > ypserv and ypbind come up as running on their respective machines, but > > the client machine - at first seemed to authenticate and then give > > "can';t write to /home folder" messages and now seems not to authenticate > > at all. > > > > NFS is up and running. I can see and access the server's home folders > > from the client machine. > > > > Where does one start to trouble shoot? > > Hi Phil, > > Check that the portmap daemon is running on the NFS server: > --- > $ ps auxw | grep portmap > daemon 126 0.0 0.0 1380 432 ?Ss May30 0:00 > /sbin/portmap --- > > Check the server is responding by using rpcinfo on the client: > --- > /usr/bin/rpcinfo -p > --- > > What do you have in your /etc/exports file? > What logging in messages/syslog do you get when you startup ypbind/ypserv? > > > R > Gerard Thanks for responding. I checked rpcinfo already and got THIS: kermitplace:/home/phil # rpcinfo -p program vers proto port 102 tcp111 portmapper 102 udp111 portmapper 151 udp856 mountd 152 udp856 mountd 151 tcp859 mountd 152 tcp859 mountd 132 udp 2049 nfs 132 tcp 2049 nfs 191 udp758 yppasswdd 142 udp667 ypserv 141 udp667 ypserv 142 tcp670 ypserv 141 tcp670 ypserv I did your ps command and got this line: bin 3723 0.0 0.0 1420 564 ?Ss Jun23 0:00 /sbin/portmap (BTW, what does the "auxw do?) Additionally I have been able to dump my passwd and shadow.byname files with a ypcat command on one of the clients. when I issue a ypwhich with the -x flag on one of the clients (who are running SUsE 10,1) I get the shared map files. I read something about incompatible versions of NIS, how do I check versions?? Is there anything else to check? Phil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Gimp-user] Next gotcha
On 25/07/2016 9:45 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > (Bringing it back to both lists so those who are telling Gene he > should upgrade his debian can get a clue.) > > > On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 23 July 2016 05:41:29 Michael Schumacher wrote: >> >>> On 07/22/2016 10:32 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> But when I hit the help menu, up pops the help for 2.6! So I fire >>>> up synaptic and check to see if I am out of date, because the >>>> "context help" doesn't work at all. Yup, I'm up to date allright, >>>> got gimp-2.8.2 but the doc files are for 2.6.x. Debian wheezy at >>>> your service, NOT. >>> >>> Well, actually you are not up-to-date at all - this is because you >>> choose to run the oldstable Debian release. >>> >>> This also means you're missing most of the bug fixes that have >>> happened in 2.8 since 2.8.2 has been released (minus some security >>> fixes, maybe). >>> >>>> Did this train lose its conductor a few stops back? Or how can I >>>> back it up to when it Just Worked(TM) quite a bit of the time? >>> >>> You should check whether you can and want to upgrade to a more current >>> Debian release. Or, in train terms: check if you want to board a train >>> that is actually going somewhere, instead of the museum train that's >>> running around in circles on its closed track. >> >> True, but I am stuck with a distribution that can run LinuxCNC, which has >> a need for a real time capable kernel. The guys are working on it but so >> far have not managed to get good enough IRQ response with kernels post >> 3.4.9-55 to run stepper motors direct, they have to be delegated to >> specialized control cards that run from $90 to 3 or 400, depending on >> the complexity of the machine being controlled. > > (I suppose I should restrain myself, and it doesn't help Gene at all > for me to say, to the pro-systemd sheeple, that this is what I was > warning about. But this is what I was warning about. > > Oh, for someone to foot me a few hundred million JPY to fork the > kernel and strip it of all the damage done in trying to deal with that > cabal. > > Ah, but I'd prefer to write a new kernel from scratch and get rid of a > whole lot of cruft. Linus has done well, and the bazaar has worked > well, but the committee effects take their toll. Systemd was just the > worst visible evidence of the committee effect to date. And I doubt > anyone reading this except Gene understands my mumbling, so I really > should restrain myself. :-< ) > No Joel i'm sure plenty of us understand exactly what you are getting at . . . -- “Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in the hospital, dying of nothing. ” Regards, Phil signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
StarOffice for potato
I have old x86 machines (I work at a public school) and managed to get Debian 2.1 running but I'm having trouble getting software. mozilla,and staroffice are not installing because of glibc conflicts. wher can I find old packages that will install on 2.1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Modeline Calculator
I need to calculate valid modelines for a configuration. Does anyone know where in the world (or on the web) that modeline calculator is??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
disable xdm
how can I disable xdm and boot into terminal mode. I prefer to use startx. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
get XFree on one screen
I have Debian on an antique machine and have Xfree86 and gnome running. However the only device I could get to run was the VGA16 and it seems to recognize the 640x480 modeline configuration but repors thatit is running in virtual 800x600 mode.In the mode the screen does not fit on the monitor and scrolls when the mouse gets to the edge of the monitor screen. is there ant\y way to get the image on one screen? I would like to play with KDE. Is there a Debian release or do Debian people only use Gnome? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Software installation question
Software installation question I finally got Debian with X running on an old Compaq box. I got a copy of StarOffice (5.2) as a downloaded file and installed it by running the very large file named: "so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin..bin" I was thrilled that I got my first piece of software installed, and it all work when I was logged-on as root, (the logon I used to install). My best efforts couldn't get it to run as a user because StarOffice couldn't find files and "register" files when trying to repair itself when starting up as a user. I believe my problem was that I did not use apt or deselect to install this file. Is this a good guess?? I have completely uninstalled StarOffice in anticipation of doing this correctly. Can I issue an "apt install /path/so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin..bin". I was under the impression Debian packages have a .deb file name extension. BTW: I have not as yet got PPP to work so this ,machine. Being a dual boot machine, I have all the download files a windows directory that I have mounted and can access. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Software installation
OK let me re-phrase my question! How can I turn a bin package into a Debian package so that apt-get install to run it ?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Configuring a NIC
I installed Debian and never got the network card recognized. I've been looking over past NIC configuration inquiries on this forum as well as at DebianHELP.org. Most of the solutions seem to involve finding drivers, making modules and compiling a new kernel. unfortunately downloading drivers is the only part of that process I can claim familiarity with! is there any place with Thorough documentation and step by step explanation? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring a NIC
At 01:09 PM 6/15/02 -0700, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Saturday 15 June 2002 12:53 pm, Phil wrote: > I installed Debian and never got the network card recognized. I've been > looking over past NIC configuration inquiries on this forum as well as at > DebianHELP.org. Most of the solutions seem to involve finding drivers, > making modules and compiling a new kernel. unfortunately downloading > drivers is the only part of that process I can claim familiarity with! is > there any place with Thorough documentation and step by step explanation? Which nic? Accton En 1207D on (irq 11) Which release of debian? Debian 2.2 (potato) Which kernel? I know one finds the kernel info in a file, but could you tell me where? Modules or compiled into? (yer choice) I'd love to try to do both however I'm not much past compiling the "Hello World" program. If you give us more info (out of the gate) we can make our responces a tad more consise! :--) - -- __ OutCast Computer Consultants of Central Oregon http://outcast-consultants.redmond.or.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] (541) 504-1388 /\IRC: 205.227.115.251:6667:#OutCasts /\ICQ: UIN 138930
Re: OFF TOPIC How can I help a friend remove coPilot?
And if anyone thinks for one millisecond that it actually removes it . . . . On 9/11/24 18:55, George at Clug wrote: If anyone remembers the original question... Today I checked our Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers and in Settings, Apps, Apps & Features, I was able to select "Copilot" and then select Uninstall. That simple. George. On Wednesday, 06-11-2024 at 20:25 Keith Bainbridge wrote: Good evening All I know some of you work in a corporate environment, so have possibly had to deal with removing it. The most promising hint I have found is Copy and paste in the command below and press enter: reg add HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot /v TurnOffWindowsCopilot /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f If it is successful, sign out It's the IF successful that worries me; especially after finding this: did as you followed, opened word, still saw the accursed copilot line. I think my computer is doomed, not even microsoft help could understand why it wouldn't work, and they used the registry key disable of copilot. I think my computer's just ducked... All suggestions welcome PLEASE Thanks -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC + 10:00
X Windows has strange color scheme
Hi all - I'm kind of new to this list but I've been using Debian since 2.0 and now I've got a problem I can't figure out. I was running unstable up until last month with no noticeable problems but I decided, because I didn't want to get any problems, to down-grade to testing and update my installation at roughly the same time. Well everything works - I've got the 2.4.20 kernel and it runs and X runs - but, it has this really weird 'rainbow' like color scheme running through everything. The root window comes up lime-green with the window borders a lovely shade of pink! The icons in Moz, which used to work fine, are so 'scrambled' I couldn't tell what they were if I didn't have them memorized - but they work right when I click on them. I can't seem to change color depths either. No matter what I do - use -bpp on the command line or change the color depth line in XF86Config-4 manually - nothing changes. And when I click on xsetroot in the window menu it changes to a kind of coarse gray (from the lime-green) and then won't do anything else. Do we debian users have a nice graphical configuration utility anymore? I seem to remember one that went through everything graphically, step by step, even to options to choose clock chip speeds and ramdac settings (whatever that is). Was that XF86Setup for X.3 and if so do we have a debianized version of something similar today? Please don't say xf86cfg because that has _never_ worked for me and still doesn't (I have a functioning serial mouse in my many hued windows and xf86cfg can't even find that; so I have to go about with the keypad keys trying to maneuver over the icons that aren't really there and then click with the plus key - or should I double click with the 5?? . But even if I go through that it still never does anything.) I've tried totally purging and re-installing all the X packages and it did exactly the same thing! I've tried every different configuration procedure I could find - X -reconfigure, dpkg reconfigure X (?), xf86congigure, etc. and it always comes out the same. And this exact same computer has worked fine for at least a year on unstable! Well anyway, thanks in advance for any help anyone might be willing to offer. Phil N -- Phil Newcombe 57 3030 Trethewey St Abbotsford BC V2N 4N2 604 853 3329 e mail - philn at telus dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X Windows has strange color scheme
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:17:22AM -0800, Phil Newcombe wrote: I can't seem to change color depths either. No matter what I do - use -bpp on the command line or change the color depth line in XF86Config-4 manually - nothing changes. And when I click on xsetroot in the window menu it changes to a kind of coarse gray (from the lime-green) and then won't do anything else. [ snip ] It sounds like you're stuck in some very low color depth ... perhaps you could tell us what kind of hardware you have and post your XF86Config-4 ? Personally I never had any luck with GUI config of X; I use vi. Thanks to all ( I posted that at, like, 4:30 am then went to bed - just got up). I don't have a degause button - it does it automatically and it's worked fine ever since I've owned the monitor. I'm wondering about the color depth too so here is my config file: (XFree86 ver 4.2.1) Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "XFree86 Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "xtrap" Load "speedo" Load "type1" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option"Protocol" "Microsoft" Option"Device" "/dev/mouse" EndSection Section "Monitor" #DisplaySize 320 240# mm Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "OEC" ModelName"17db" Option"DPMS" HorizSync 30-54 VertRefresh 40-120 EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: : integer, : float, : "True"/"False", ### : "String", : " Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "SWcursor" # [] #Option "PciRetry" # [] #Option "NoAccel"# [] #Option "SetMClk"# #Option "MUXThreshold" # #Option "ShadowFB" # [] #Option "Rotate" # [] #Option "VideoKey" # #Option "NoMMIO" # [] #Option "NoPciBurst" # [] #Option "MMIOonly" # [] #Option "CyberShadow"# [] #Option "CyberStretch" # [] #Option "XvHsync"# #Option "XvVsync"# #Option "XvBskew"# #Option "XvRskew"# Identifier "Card0" Driver "trident" VendorName "Trident" BoardName "3DImage975" BusID "PCI:1:1:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor"Monitor0" DefaultDepth 16 #SubSection "Display" #Depth 1 #EndSubSection #SubSection "Display" #Depth 4 #EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "800x600" "640x480" "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "800x600" "640x480" "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Thanks again pn -- Phil Newcombe 57 3030 Trethewey St Abbotsford BC V2N 4N2 604 853 3329 e mail - philn at telus dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dummy
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 10:03:42AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: > I guess you are right. I tried today to install as a root using rpm, and I > got the reply you say: "database doesn't exist". Is alien in the > distribution of Debian or should I grab it apart? I think I'll have a look. alien is in the distribution. I used it twice, IIRC, to install some things that weren't available as .deb. I later removed one, and upgraded the other, which had become available as a .deb, but that particular machine still thinks I installed it with alien. -- Phil Reynolds (PGP now available) o Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |L_ \ / Web: http://www.tinsleyviaduct.com/phil/ (_)- \/ Waltham 67, Emley Moor 69, Droitwich 79, Windows 95 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can I handle this situation?
In trying to set up iptables I get the following messages. Can someone please tell me what I have to do to correct it. Please don't tell me that I have to compile the kernel (unless you have to ;]) I have been trying to get a working copy of Debian Linux up for over a week. I have had everything working except ipchains in 2.2 and now iptables in 2.4. I can't get on the web to upgrade until I get these working, even though I can connetc to the net. deb:/# iptables -L -v Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/modules.dep deb:/# uname -a Linux deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown deb:/# modprobe ip_tables Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/modules.dep /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: insmod ip_tables failed deb:/# iptables -L Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/modules.dep /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: insmod ip_tables failed iptables v1.2.6a: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables who? (do you need to insmod?) Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. I guess what I need is an answer to that last question Linux is asking. Thanks in advance...I appreciate any and all help... Phil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How can I handle this situation?
Right on Christian, thank you very much... -Original Message- From: Christian Schoenebeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 7:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How can I handle this situation? On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 16:43:34 -0600 "Phil Sager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > deb:/# iptables -L > Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than > /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/modules.dep > /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: > init_module: Device or resource busy > Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, > including invalid IO or IRQ parameters > /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: > insmod/lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o > failed/lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: > insmod ip_tables failed > iptables v1.2.6a: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables > who?(do you need to insmod?) > Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. > > I guess what I need is an answer to that last question Linux is > asking. > > Thanks in advance...I appreciate any and all help... I'm just guessing, but it looks like you have installed another kernel version recently. Have you tried 'update-modules' and 'depmod -a'? Regards, Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
spamassassin and exim in woody
My mail system runs exim and I am wanting to integrate spamassassin into it too. I am not sure of the best way to do this, and would appreciate some assistance with the configuration. I am using the versions of both packages contained in woody. -- Phil Reynolds (PGP now available) o Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |L_ \ / Web: http://www.tinsleyviaduct.com/phil/ (_)- \/ Waltham 67, Emley Moor 69, Droitwich 79, Windows 95 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NTFS support
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:35:07PM +0200, Cerber SPN wrote: > Hi! > > Wich library i have to include to mount and read NTFS? > and what about write? In the kernel configuration, the module for NTFS, for reading. Write support is experimental and potentially dangerous. You need to turn on "include experimental options" to access that. -- Phil Reynolds (PGP now available) o Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |L_ \ / Web: http://www.tinsleyviaduct.com/phil/ (_)- \/ Waltham 67, Emley Moor 69, Droitwich 79, Windows 95 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mapping eth0 two ways
If you read "man interfaces", an example set of stanzas is given which, subject to an external script to determine whether the machine is at home or at work, sets up eth0 to either have a static address or to dhcp for one. I would like to know how I can implement such a scheme, if I travel with my laptop, which now seems probable. Can anyone offer me some guidance? -- Phil Reynolds (PGP now available) o Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |L_ \ / Web: http://www.tinsleyviaduct.com/phil/ (_)- \/ Waltham 67, Emley Moor 69, Droitwich 79, Windows 95 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Burning a CD without ide-scsi
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 04:26:13PM +, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > I've always burnt CD's using ide-scsi and xcdroast. However I'm wondering > is there a way I can burn CD's onto my IDE burner without using SCSI > emulation? Not that I know of in Linux. Are you having problems with it or just looking for a change? -- Phil Reynolds (PGP now available) o Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |L_ \ / Web: http://www.tinsleyviaduct.com/phil/ (_)- \/ Waltham 67, Emley Moor 69, Droitwich 79, Windows 95 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mapping eth0 two ways
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:18:13AM +0100, Ulf Katzenberger wrote: > Hi , > > there is a package called netenv, use this for yout latpop, > here's the description: > > netenv > Description: Configure your system for different network environments. > Netenv creates a file containing variable assignments which reflect the > current environment. It is especially useful for notebook computers, since > it is used (if configured) by the PCMCIA setup scheme included in the > Debian pcmcia-cs package and the plip setup script included as an example > in this package. You can also use netenv configure your windowmanager or > your printing environment. > . > Note that you either have to specify a kernel parameter or enter the chosen > environment by hand during boot time. The boot process will stop until you > entered something. Unfortunately, there seems to be little if any documentation for this on how to get it to achieve what I need. -- Phil Reynolds (PGP now available) o Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |L_ \ / Web: http://www.tinsleyviaduct.com/phil/ (_)- \/ Waltham 67, Emley Moor 69, Droitwich 79, Windows 95 msg25388/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: give me the command line
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 02:17:33PM +0100, Hans Christian Andersen wrote: > I recently installed woody (vanilla) and KDE on a 400Mhz box > on my home LAN. I want it to go to KDE only after my commanding > startx. As it is now it starts KDE without prompting me. > How do I change that without reinstallation? If this is before you log in, remove the link "S99kdm" from /etc/rc2.d, assuming 2 is your normal runlevel. -- Phil Reynolds (PGP now available) o Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |L_ \ / Web: http://www.tinsleyviaduct.com/phil/ (_)- \/ Waltham 67, Emley Moor 69, Droitwich 79, Windows 95 msg28272/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: cdrecord: What does "BURN-Free is OFF" mean?
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 12:09:44PM +1100, Russell wrote: > Thanks. What i really meant was: does ide-scsi need to be used for read-only > atapi CD drives too? From what i've seen in replies, it seems that it's > only a > requirement for atapi CD writers. If so, is ide-scsi needed for reading CDs > in > an atapi CD read/writer drive, or only for writing CDs? If you want to write CDs, all access to the writer needs to be using ide-scsi. (whether reading or writing) For a read-only drive, you do not need to use it, but many people find it easier to do so if they also have a writer. An ATAPI CD writer will function as a read-only drive if you let the ide-cd driver loose on it. -- Phil Reynolds (PGP now available) o Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |L_ \ / Web: http://www.tinsleyviaduct.com/phil/ (_)- \/ Waltham 67, Emley Moor 69, Droitwich 79, Windows 95 msg28489/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
nfs setup question
I've setup nfs a couple of times with potato, but to check if nfs is running, I would issue a rpcinfo -p and usually get 2 or 3 lines from protmapper and status.d (or something like that) if nfs is not running, and if nfs is running the rpcinfo -p commandf would return about 15 lines including nfs and mountd. "rpcinf -p servername" now returns rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper RPC: remote system error - connection refused. what did I do wrong? what did I overlook? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NFS setup problem
when I check to status of nfs on the server I';m trying to setup, the rpcinfo -p "servername" command returns rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper RPC: rompte system error - connection refused the lsmod command shows nfsd, nfs and lockd. what did I do wrong? what am I overlooking. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NFS setup problem
On 11 Feb 2003 08:56:06 -0700 "Andreas J. Guelzow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 07:51, Phil Beder wrote: > > when I check to status of nfs on the server I';m trying > to > > setup, the rpcinfo -p "servername" command returns > > > > rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper RPC: rompte system > error > > - connection refused > > > > the lsmod command shows nfsd, nfs and lockd. what did > I do > > wrong? what am I overlooking. > > Hi, > > did you remember to set up /etc/hosts.allow ? > You should have something like: > > portmap:10.10.0.0/255.255.0.0 127.0.0.0/255.255.255.0 > mountd:127.0.0.0/255.255.255.0 10.10.0.0/255.255.0.0 > EXCEPT 10.10.10.10 > statd:10.10.0.0/255.255.0.0 127.0.0.0/255.255.255.0 > > Andreas ~~~ thanks but I don't seem to have man pages for hosts.allow, exports, and exportfs. Am I missing something? what is the package name for nfs? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NFS problem
> > when I check to status of nfs on the server I';m trying > to > > setup, the rpcinfo -p command returns > > > > rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper RPC: remote system > error > > - connection refused > > > > the lsmod command shows nfsd, nfs and lockd. what did > I do > > wrong? what am I overlooking. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Disabling USB devices?
A machine is running sid with a 2.4.20 kernel, and has some very power-hungry USB devices plugged into it. The devices themselves don't have power switches, but we'd really like to be able to turn them off and save power. Why not just unplug them? We could, but the physical arrangement of the machine, the devices in question, the other gear in the room, and the pesky walls holding up the roof make the plugging/unplugging a hassle, not to mention dangerous to the other gear (think stray elbows). Is there a "power this USB device down and ignore it" command? Phil -- Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. - Brian W. Kernighan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Java (JRE) support package for mozilla?
Hello. For earlier versions of Netscape, there was a netscape-java-477 package, which provided the Java runtime for the browser. Is there such a package available for Mozilla 1.1? I've been scanning through lists of packages but haven't found anything. Thanks for your time, Phil -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met. - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rage128 and dri (?)
I am trying to get XFree86 4.2 to like my rage 128 video card. I can get a grey X screen up and mouse around, but thats all. When I ctrl-alt-backspace, I see these messages on the console: I am running kernel 2.4.18 - bf2.4 on sid. (EE) R128(0): No DFP detected (EE) R128(0): [dri] R128DRIScreenInit failed because of a version mismatch. [dri] r128.o kernel module version is 2.1.6 but version 2.2 or greater is needed. [dri] Disabling the DRI (EE) R128(0): [drm] failed to remove DRM signal handler DRIUnlock called when not locked. I do not know what DFP, dri or drm refers to, but the need for version 2.2 of r128.o seems clear. How can I get that at least? Thanks in advance, Phil Reardon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
booting to console
How can I boot to the console? I am stuck in a loop at the graphical login screen due to a faulty XF86Config file (I think!) Phil Reardon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mozilla icon in titlebar
Once upon a time (mozilla 1.0, I think) the titlebar menu icon (and thus the icon on things like the KDE panel) was a little Mozilla icon. Lately it's reverted to the standard X that gets put on all X11 apps which do not specify their own icon. What do I need to change to get the little distinctive Mozilla icon back? Phil -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met. - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla icon in titlebar
> Right Click on the KDE panel (right hand side of the task-bar), move your > mouse up to the top of the pop-up menue entry, that says panel. Now select > "add," then on this new pop-up menus select "non-KDE-Application." this > will bring up a file browser, titled "select an executable." Now surf off > to whatever the app it is you want inclueded is This is how I added > Netscape 7.0 and its executable is in /usr/local/netscape, but you want > /usr/lib/mozilla. No, sorry, let me be more clear. The icon to /start/ Mozilla is fine. I'm talking about a /running/ Mozilla in the taskbar. For example, once I start gvim, its icon is a little capital "V". When I play a music CD, the CD player has a little green equalizer display. Basic X11 apps (e.g., xterm) have a little X icon. Mozilla used to have a little moz icon, a miniature version of the big one used to start the browser. Since 1.1 it's the same X11 icon as anything else. What do I need to do to restore the mozilla icon for my users? Phil -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met. - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla icon in titlebar
Ah, the techhouse.org icons did it. Thanks on behalf of all my users! :-) Phil -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met. - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to use the libstdc++5-dbg package?
After setting LD_LIBRARY_PATHY to /usr/lib/debug, and firing up the debugger, I can see that the correct libstdc++.so is being found (i.e., the one with the debugging symbols). And stepping into those functions works, in that it knows the file/line location. However, the debugger can't print any useful source, because of course it doesn't know where to look to get the libstdc++ source, which makes the dbg package much less useful. Am I missing a package? I know enough about the libstdc++ source (*cough* :-) to know that simply pointing ddd/gdb at the top of the library source tree won't work, because the files are renamed during build and install. Is there a "source package for use when debugging"? Thanks, Phil -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met. - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sid-sawfish windows borders missing
I just did a dist-upgrade from stable to unstable and all is well except my windows have no borders, so I can't resize or move them at all. How can I do turn on windows borders? Thanks, Phil Reardon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sid-sawfish windows borders missing
Thanks for your help. When I typed sawfish at the prompt, I got the borders and decorations, and also an access error on the session. When I checked, I saw identd was the owner of .sawfish/sessions, so I changed that. Works now. Phil Reardon On Monday 02 December 2002 22:14, Oki DZ wrote: > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 07:00:15PM -0700, Phil Reardon wrote: > > I just did a dist-upgrade from stable to unstable and all is well except > > my windows have no borders, so I can't resize or move them at all. > > It seems that your wm (sawfish) wasn't running yet. > Try to get an xterm running, and type: sawfish. > > BTW, the Gnome2 Control Center doesn't have option for setting the window > manager; pretty strange. > > Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, do as I say!
After seeing repeated upgrades of coreutils, and noting that the description for the other three central *utils packages had been changed to "empty package for upgrading, remove at will," I told it to purge shellutils and textutils.[*] And I got WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! shellutils textutils [...] You are about to do something potentially harmful To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!' I think this is a hilarious choice of confirmation phrases. Good pick, dpkg authors! You made my day. (Preventing stupid people from trying "/usr/bin/yes | apt-get ...", perhaps?) Phil [*] fileutils is depended on by the kernel source package -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met. - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"What satisfies this dependancy?"
Here's a simple question, I'm sure: We all know how packages can provide meta-virtual-package-dependancy thingies, e.g., the mailx package requires a mail-transport-agent package, and a bunch of packages all provide mail-transport-agent, so take your pick. How do I discover what installed package is currently providing/satisfying one of those kinds of dependancies? Continuing the above example, how do I find out which of the many possible packages is providing mail-transport-agent on an installed system? (The actual problems at hand are with libraries, but the solution should be the same, or similar enough.) Thanks, Phil -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met. - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: "What satisfies this dependancy?"
I'll go give grep-dctrl a try, then. Thanks for the suggestions! Phil -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met. - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
held back packages
Hello: After a dist-upgrade from Woody to Sid, I find subsequent upgrades are leaving behind lots of packages, abot 350 in fact. Have I done anything wrong or are so may packages being held back for everyone these days. And if so, why? Phil Reardon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mutt: GPG sign and encrypt
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 10:07:14PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > The example fragments in /usr/share/doc/mutt/gpg.rc for gpg encrypt & > sign fail horribly in reality with... > > Invoking PGP... > usage: gpg [options] --sign --encrypt [filename] > Press any key to continue... > > Has anybody found a fix for this? I just plain installed both mutt and gpg, and to my surprise, it worked straight away without me having to fix anything. -- Phil Reynolds (PGP now available) o Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |L_ \ / Web: http://www.tinsleyviaduct.com/phil/ (_)- \/ Waltham 67, Emley Moor 69, Droitwich 79, Windows 95 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
cups and hpijs driver
How do I get the hpijs driver for cups on my debian sid box? I am trying to configure an hp photosmart 7350 printer, but when I went to http://localhost:631/ and tried to set up the printer, there were only three hp drivers listed, one each for deskjets, laserjets and new deskjets. Thanks in advance. Phil Reardon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cups and hpijs driver
It turns out there is a debian package called hpijs, so I installed that along with foomatic-bin. But it still did not show up in the driver list. What do I do now? Phil Reardon Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On Monday 16 December 2002 13:41, Phil Reardon wrote: How do I get the hpijs driver for cups on my debian sid box? I am trying to configure an hp photosmart 7350 printer, but when I went to http://localhost:631/ and tried to set up the printer, there were only three hp drivers listed, one each for deskjets, laserjets and new deskjets. Have you looked at the foomatic packages? I struggled a long time with my HP OfficeJet printer before I found that. Which reminds me (new question to list): Is there a way to have apt-get list the Recommended and Suggested packages of the package just installed? For a newbie, it takes time to discover things like that, and such a feature would help newbies a lot, I think. Best Kjetil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software that can be used with MSN
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:03:23AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I have two questions regarding free software that can be used with MSN: > > 1.) What program can I use as an alternative to MSN messenger? I know there > was something called everybuddy (Is that what I should apt-get?). I would recommend using gabber, getting a Jabber account and using Jabber's MSN gateways. everybuddy does indeed work but the version in woody is well out of date. -- Phil Reynolds (PGP now available) o Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |L_ \ / Web: http://www.tinsleyviaduct.com/phil/ (_)- \/ Waltham 67, Emley Moor 69, Droitwich 79, Windows 95 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The "c102" libraries want to kill KDE. How do I protect them?
In order to get a bug fixed, I'm doing an upgrade. Dependencies on dependencies on dependencies have started to pull in a bunch of the *c102 transition libraries... ...which conflict with most everything installed on the system (by design)... ...such as all of KDE: /usr/bin/apt-get -y -d dselect-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: gnome-applets gnome-control-center gnome-games gnome-media gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-session gnome-terminal gnome-utils kchart kde-theme-qnix kdeartwork-style kdebase kdebase-audiolibs kdebase-libs kdelibs3 kdelibs3-bin kdepasswd kdepim-libs kdevelop kdevelop-data kdf kdm kedit kfind kfloppy kfocus kformula kfract kgeo kghostview khexedit kiconedit kivio kjezz kjots kjumpingcube kleandisk klines klpq kmago kmahjongg kmail kmines kmix kmoon knetload knode knotes kodo koffice koffice-libs konq-plugins konqueror konquest konsole kontour konverse korganizer korn koshell kpackage kpaint kpat kpm kpresenter kprof kreatecd krecord kreversi kruler ksame kscd kscreensaver kshisen ksirc ksmiletris ksnake ksnapshot ksokoban kspaceduel kspread kstars ksysv ktalkd kteatime ktexmaker2 ktimer ktuberling ktux kugar kuser kview kvirc kweather kwin4 kword kworldclock libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libfam0 libgnome-desktop-0 libgnome2-0 libgnomeui-0 libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgtk-common libkdegames libkdenetwork1 libkmid libkonq3 libpanel-applet2-0 libpango-common libstlport4.5 rep-gtk-gnome yelp The following NEW packages will be installed: fontconfig libast2 libfam0c102 libmagick5.5.3 libssl0.9.7 libstartup-notification0 libstlport4.5c102 The following packages will be upgraded [ many ] 182 packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 116 to remove and 1 not upgraded. How do I tell dselect (or apt-get, if that's what I need to use) to leave k* the hell alone? It bitches at me if I try to put them on hold manually. Phil (Yes, I would love to downgrade to testing, but dselect doesn't know what to do when required packages don't exist in "more-stabler" distros.) -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met. - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changeover of SCSI buses
I have been using Debian for some time now, and over that time have acquired several new items of hardware. I have a CD writer, which is IDE, and therefore needs SCSI emulation. This was always device 0,1,0 when specifed to cdrecord. I also have a digital camera, which is USB mass storage. I know cdrecord at least should be able to cope with me specifying /dev/sg1 so I may well try that. It seems that, at some time recently, the two buses have swapped over, so the USB is now 0, and the IDE 1, so the CD writer is now 1,1,0. The camera still mounts, as it is referred to as /dev/sda1. Why might these buses have swapped over? If I can refer to the CD writer as /dev/sg1 in cdrecord, this won't matter, but I consider this a strange thing to happen anyway. -- Phil Reynolds (PGP now available) o Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |L_ \ / Web: http://www.tinsleyviaduct.com/phil/ (_)- \/ Waltham 67, Emley Moor 69, Droitwich 79, Windows 95 msg24780/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
wmaker-gnome crashes with netscape mail
Can anybody else confirm? WindowMaker .53 will crash if you have the messenger window open (not minimized) in Netscape 4.6 and get a new email -- dyer
install-device driver problem
Hi, I am new to Linux. During installation of debian linux from Debian CD package, I got problem about configuring device drivers. So I skip it by just press next button to the next step. I have no idea about the device drivers and how to get the right one. My hardware is as below: IDE 7.4 G quantum HD 1.44Mb Floppy Disk 56k Modem IDE ATAPI cdrom 128 Mb Ram 8Mb Leadtek Winfast 3D L2300 vedio card No SCSI device. The other question: How to mount block devices such as floppy disk and cdrom? Where could get infomation about modules (device drivers)? Thanks Phil
Device Driver Problem Again
I still haven't got the answer about how to configuring device drivers for my computer. Could anyone tell me how to chose the modules when I run "modconf". Or where to get the install guide for this problem. Thanks! My hardware as below: quantum 7.4G IDE HD 1.44Mb Floppy Disk 8 Mb Leadtek Winfast 3D L2300 Vedio card 128Mb Ram Atapi IDE CD-ROM Phil Phil
Re: hamm dist sites
Robert Rati wrote: > Are there any ftp sites with the hamm dist still on them? All ther ones > I've found only have slink and potato. Thanks. > > Rob > > http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/dists/ ftp://debian.midco.net/debian-archive/dists/ HTH -- dyer
Installation-dselect
Hi all, I have instaledl debian on my PC. After the standard debian installed, I would like to install other packages such as X window. So I tried to use 'dselect' to install the packages. However, I have idea how to use 'dselect' tool. I typed 'dselect' to enter the program. then is provided 7 methods as below: [A]ccess [U]pdate [S]elect [I]nsatll [C]onfig [R]emove [Q]uit I chose "Access" to specify the access path, then in this method I chose "multi_cd " for the access method. After that it asked me few question as below: 1. Where on the CD-ROM the top level of Debian distribution is - this will usually contain the 'dists' directory? My answer: /debian 2. Where is the _non_free 'Package.cd' file? My answer: /debian/dists/slink/contrib/binary-i386 3. Where is the _non_US_ 'Package.cd' file? My answer: /debian/dists/slink/contrib/binary-i386 4. Where is the _local_ 'Package.cd' file? My answer: /debian/dists/slink/contrib/binary-i386 Is these answer correct? What is the 'Package.cd' file? If I finished the access path, what is the next step to install X window. The other question about mouse. After I installed the standard debian, the nouse wasn't work. How to make it work? Thanks. Phil
Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?
Carl Fink wrote: > Is there a way to try KDE/GNOME on stable that I'm missing? I did > some fairly extensive searches via www.debian.org's package search > engine. I should specify that I want a reasonably new release of > either, not the alpha GNOME in stable. > Doing a search on the archives of: KDE; slink yielded me this for my first result. ;-) --snip-- add one of these lines to /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://snowcrash.tdyc.com potato kde contrib rkrusty if you're running "unstable" or deb http://snowcrash.tdyc.com slink kde contrib rkrusty if you're running "stable" (Debian 2.1) --snip-- I'm running KDE 1.1.1 on slink and loving it! -- dyer
Re: Corel Wordperfect nightmare
Paul wrote: > > First I was told that I didn`t have "libm.so.5" so the graphical > Installer wouldn`t work, then a load of error messages saying "wp.No > such file or directory" Finally it askes me for an installation > directory so I type in /usr or > /home and it says "invalid directory" and quits. > > I assume that the first message means I have to install libc5? Will this > bugger up anything else? Yes, you need libc5. You can get it from the oldlibs/ directory. It won't bugger ya' up. you may as well get xpm4.7 while you're there. Start from there and see if that takes care of the rest of the problems. > > > -- dyer
Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)
Salman Ahmed wrote: > > > (5) Initially, I tried to get the .debs for XFree86-3.3.3.1-2 from the > following site : ftp.netgod.net. Upon instructions from another Debian > user, who has been kind enough to offer email support during my > installation nightmare (Hi Kris!), > I added the following line to the end of /etc/apt/sources.list : > > deb http://ftp.netgod.net/debian x/ > I think the correct line for the slink debs is: deb http://www.netgod.net x/ or deb ftp://ftp.netgod.net x/ (notice no '/debian')^ HTH dyer
dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile often fails
Often when using dpkg to upgrade this or that xxx.deb file, I get something like this: Preparing to replace ... Unpacking replacement ... gzip: stdout: Broken pipe dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 dpkg: error processing .deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 When I dpkg-deb --extract the files, there is nothing wrong. Why would the --fsys-tarfile option be having problems? Thanks, -- Phil
chatscript permissions
Since I upgraded to hamm, only root is allowed to run pon. /var/log/ppp.log reports that my user logon does'nt have permission to open /etc/chatscripts/provider. --open /etc/chatscripts/provider failed :access denied. All users have read perm. What file is holding it back? thanx, Phil Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it-- and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again-- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." Mark Twain, "Following the Equator" __
RE: chatscript permissions (fixed)
> Since I upgraded to hamm, only root is allowed to run pon. > /var/log/ppp.log reports that my user logon does'nt have permission to > open /etc/chatscripts/provider. --open /etc/chatscripts/provider failed > :access denied. All users have read perm. What file is holding it back? The users must also have execute permission on /etc/chatscript. This a known bug in the ppp package. -- That's it, just had to give execute to /etc/chatscripts. Thanks. -- Phil Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it-- and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again-- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." Mark Twain, "Following the Equator" __
Re: /tmp permissions
Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's a "good policy" for /tmp directory to have 777 > permissions !? With such permissions any user could write on > that directory until even > there's no more space on device, > rigth !? Yup, though if he's not the root user, he won't be able to use up the root-reserved part of the disk (about 6%). But yes, /tmp (where ever it happens to live) is designed to be a scratch area for all users. -- Phil Humpherys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DriverSoft Unix Systems Administrator Mobile: +1.801.725.3257 WWW/PGPkeys: http://www.spire.com/~humphery
Re: 386SX-33 for pop3 server and proxy server
Oliver Thuns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >I have a 386sx-33 with: > >4mb ram > >100 mb hard disk > >10mbit ethernet card > > > >Would this be enough for pop3 server and proxy server for a 25 node network > >with one dial up connection ? > > I think you need more than 4 MB to install Linux (or FreeBSD). No, 4MB is the minimall installation requirement. -- Phil Humpherys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DriverSoft Unix Systems Administrator Mobile: +1.801.725.3257 WWW/PGPkeys: http://www.spire.com/~humphery
Re: Getting mail from a POP3 server
"Mitchell Surface" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings, > > This should be an easy question but I can't seem to find an answer. I > want to get my e-mail from my ISP's POP server. I've been messing around > with sendmail (which is overkill, I now realize) without any luck. Can > someone point me to a straight forward solution, preferably with > examples of the config files? I don't really care which software I use, > just so long as I can get it to work. I highly recommend fetchmail. -- Phil Humpherys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DriverSoft Unix Systems Administrator Mobile: +1.801.725.3257 WWW/PGPkeys: http://www.spire.com/~humphery
Re: How to find my IP address
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Okay, this oughtta be an easy one. How do I determine what IP address > I've been given by my dhcp server? > > Okay, I just figured out one way: ping HOSTNAME. Duh. But is there > another way? /sbin/ifconfig ppp0 -- Phil Humpherys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DriverSoft Unix Systems Administrator Mobile: +1.801.725.3257 WWW/PGPkeys: http://www.spire.com/~humphery
hamm upgrade/c++ libraries
I upgraded to hamm yesterday and have run into a problem. I used autoup.sh with an ftp connection to get the required packages. Now I cannot compile c++ code, as it cannot find the libs. (iostream.h, fstream.h, string, list, etc). Doing a locate says they are nowhere on the system. Is there a package that I missed? I'm using kernel 2.0.33. Thanks, -- Phil Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it-- and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again-- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." Mark Twain, "Following the Equator" __ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hamm and login question
Just upgraded to hamm, and now when I login I get:Unknown item 'ISSUE_FILE_ENAB'this comes after login prompt and before passwd prompt. /etc/login.defs is set to ISSUE_FILE_ENAB no What's the deeeal with that? thanks, -- Phil Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it-- and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again-- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." Mark Twain, "Following the Equator" __ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
boot parameters
Hello: I would like to go to debian from my present redhat 5.1 system. I have an Adaptec 2920 controller and a Seagate ST-34555N disk. Both of these may require some parameters at the boot prompt . My question is, given that I am now using linux, how can I find out what those parameters should be? For the controller I think I need iobase(?), irq(?), scsi-id (=0), and reconnect (?). For the disk I need mbm-base(?) and irq(?). So I now only know one out of the six parameters. Can you help, please?
Re: magic cookie error
Pollywog wrote: > I am getting this MAGIC COOKIE error when I try to run some X stuff as root. > Is there something I can add to my profile in order to avoid it? > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key > ktail: cannot connect to X server :0.0 > > thanks > > -- > Andrew > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/nullman man xhost
Re: configuring modem, installing netscape communicator
Daniel Kahraman wrote: > Hello All: > > How do I install my modem? I think it is already installed. So the > question becomes how do I set up the dial-up configuration (manually) > for my local ISP? > > Dan > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Dan, run pppconfig. ( I assume you are using at least hamm...) This will walk you thru a ppp setup. You need to know what device your modem is attached to, in Windows com1 is ttyS0, com2 ttyS1, ... Then you can run pon and poff to connect/disconnect. HTH dyer
Re: partitions for sun sparc 10
>>>>> "AW" == Armin Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AW> I would like to install debian on a sun sparc 10 with 64 megs and AW> 4 gigs of disk space. AW> How many partitions can I create? Are there primary and extended partitions? AW> There are following partitions on the system now. AW> /root 128.25 MB AW> /swap 128.25 MB AW> /var 128.25 MB AW> /opt 128.25 MB AW> /usr 128.25 MB AW> /usr/local1.13 GB AW> /home 2.26 GB AW> Can you give me some hints, please? You can create as many partitions as you please, but I see no need to do this. As far as I know, the primary and extended partition restrictions are DOS/Intel limitations. Your existing partitions are fine: I'd leave them as is, except change /usr and /usr/local around, i.e. /root 128.25 MB /swap 128.25 MB /var 128.25 MB /opt 128.25 MB /usr/local 128.25 MB /usr 1.13 GB /home 2.26 GB You can change these assignments by simply editing the /etc/fstab file. For a base Debian install, you won't _need_ the /opt or /usr/local partitions, but you might install some KDE or StarOffice applns, and then these partitions might be a convenient place to put them. -- Phil
fetchmail and ssh
Hi fetchmail/ssh guru's, I connect to work with a ppp session from my Debian/GNU Linux box (running potato), and need to fetch my mail from my mail-server there (named "harpo"; running SunOS 4.1) using IMAP. Previously I have had this working like so: /usr/bin/fetchmail --invisible --syslog --daemon 250 --timeout 90 \ --interface "ppp0/150.101.132.131" --silent \ --mda "/usr/bin/procmail -Yf- -d %s" \ --folder "/users/phil/.mail/home-xfer" \ harpo I run this and then enter my password for my account at work when asked for it. Now I want to extend this to use ssh, without any passphrase, so that I can start fetchmail from an ip-up.d script, and avoid having to enter any passwords at all. I can now do `ssh harpo', and connect successfully. After reading the POP3 example in the fetchmail man-pages, I tried it like this: /usr/bin/fetchmail --invisible --syslog --daemon 250 --timeout 90 \ --silent --mda "/usr/bin/procmail -Yf- -d %s" \ --folder "/users/phil/.mail/home-xfer" --verbose harpo With this `~/.fetchmailrc' file: poll harpo via localhost port 1234 with protocol imap preconnect "ssh -f -L 1234:harpo:143 harpo sleep 20 < /dev/null >/dev/null"; However, there are two problems: (1) I'm still prompted for a password, and (2) I get this error: 4.7.6 querying harpo (protocol IMAP) at Sat Mar 13 01:14:35 1999 socket error while fetching from harpo Query status=2 fetchmail: sleeping at Sat, 13 Mar 1999 01:14:40 +1030 (CST) Can anyone suggest what I can do to get this going? TIA, -- Phil.
