Increasing maximum number of groups
Hello, Since the maximum number of groups of 32 doesn't fit my needs and I don't want to use ACL I'm trying to increase the maximum number of groups to 256 (which should do). So I've edited include/linux/limits.h and include/linux/limits.h and include/asm-i386/param.h setting NGROUPS_MAX and NGROUPS to 256. I recompiled, made a new entry in lilo, ran lilo, rebooted the new kernel, everything works the way it did with the previous kernel... And when I say everything, I mean everything :(, the maximum number of groups is still 32. Any ideas?? Thanks, Ron PS. I'm not on the list so could you please cc any replies to me? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Group of new files
Hello, I got bunch of directories, each owned by a different group. Some users can only access (if I say access I mean rwx) one directory (so are only in 1 group), others are in more groups. Now if a user with default group foo creates any new files in a directory of group bar I want the files he or she created to be owned by group bar... Not by group foo. Most of the users barely know how to use ftp... So learning them how to user chown or sg is out of the question. Any ideas? Thanks, Ron PS. I'm not on the list so could you please cc any responses to me? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Raid system
Hello, I'm trying to get RAID to work on my server. I got 2 disks (80 GB ATA) and a motherboard with RAID controller (ASUS PC-DL). The BIOS recognizes my RAID system, however debian (testing) doesn't. I guess it's a kernel driver problem, but I have no idea what to include in my kernel. Thanks, Ron PS. Could you please cc any replies to me because I'm not on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mkinitrd question
Hello, This 'll probably be a piece of cake for those of you who have any experience using mkinitrd, I found a howto on how to get my raid system to work. However I gotta make an image, the howto was written for RH and the mkinitrd of Debian seems to be something else. If anyone could tell met how to do the following with Debian I would very much appreciate it: /sbin/mkinitrd -- preload scsi_mod --preload sd_mod --with ft3xx initrd-2.4.22.img 2.4.22 BTW. I'm using testing Thanks, Ron PS I'm not on the list, so could you please cc me any replies, thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Initrd modules
Hello, I've created a cramsfs initrd image and while booting the kernel says it's loaded okay. I've set the modules to all in mkinitrd.conf and just to be sure I've added the following modules to the modules file: scsi_mod, sd_mod and pdc-ultra (what seems to be the correct driver for my Promise 20378 RAID controller... It recognised my controller when using modprobe). I removed my hd's from their ordinary IDE connectors and attached them to the RAID controller (master has complete debian installation, slave is unpartitioned) and rebooted. However the kernel doesn't seem to modprobe the modules before trying to mount the root filesystem... And therefore panics :( Any ideas on how to fix this? Thank, Ron PS. I'm not on the list so could you please cc any replies to me? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Initrd modules
That's doesn't seem to be it... I came a little further since I've send this mail. The mounting didn't go the way it should, so I'm trying romfs instead of cramfs now, first try didn't work out. BTW. I'm using 2.4.22 -Original Message- From: Shaul Karl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 October 2003 15:56 To: Ron Rademaker Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Initrd modules On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:22:22AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Hello, > > I've created a cramsfs initrd image and while booting the kernel says > it's loaded okay. I've set the modules to all in mkinitrd.conf and > just to be sure I've added the following modules to the modules file: > scsi_mod, sd_mod and pdc-ultra (what seems to be the correct driver > for my Promise 20378 RAID controller... It recognised my controller > when using modprobe). I removed my hd's from their ordinary IDE > connectors and attached them to the RAID controller (master has > complete debian installation, slave is unpartitioned) and rebooted. > However the kernel doesn't seem to modprobe the modules before trying > to mount the root filesystem... And therefore panics :( Any ideas on > how to fix this? > > Thank, > > Ron > > PS. I'm not on the list so could you please cc any replies to me? You might try adding these modules to /etc/modules, and perhaps to have related files in /etc/modprobe.d (assuming this is a 2.6 kernel). -- Shaul Karl,shaulk @ actcom . net . il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Initrd trouble
Hello, I'm still trying to get my system running with an initrd image, I'm at a lost :( Here is the output when trying to boot... Any ideas on what I should do would be very much appreciated (especcialy because I got to put this server in a serverpark within 24 hours...): RAMDISK: romfs filesystem found at block 0 RAMDISK: Loading 2213 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... Done Freeing initrd memory: 2213k freed FAT: bogus logical sector size 4144 FAT: bogus logical sector size 4144 VFS: Mounted root (romfs filesystem) readonly mount: wrong fs type, bad option, badsuperblock on tmpfs, or too may mounted file systems Freeing unused kernel memory: 280k freed initrd-tools: 0.1.53 warning: can't open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 modprobe: Can't locate module pdc-ultra modprobe: Can't locate module ide-disk mount: wrong fs type, bad option, badsuperblock on tmpfs, or too may mounted file systems mknod 'dev2/root2': Read-only filesystem mount: special device /dev2/root2 does not exist mount: special device /dev2/root2 does not exist mount: special device /dev2/root2 does not exist mount: special device /dev2/root2 does not exist mount: special device /dev2/root2 does not exist modprobe: Can't locate module cramsfs mount: fs type cramfs not supported by kernel mount: special device /dev2/root2 does not exist umount: dev: not mounted pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init: 217: cannot open dev/console: No such file kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! I use romfs... So I guess I shouldn't need cramfs, why it tries to load it, no idea. I created the initrd with mkinitrd (the debian package) and I've set modules and root to all I do have the pdc-ultra module (this module is the reason I need an initrd image), and using local loop device to mount the image: it is there!! If anyone could help me I would very much appreciate it, Thanks, Ron PS. Could you please cc any replies to me? I'm not on the list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RAID controller
Hello, I'm still trying to get my system to work with RAID, bit by bit I get a little further but now I've crossed across the next problem. I got my system booting with 2 hds attached to the Promise 20378 (SATA378), however when I activate RAID in the BIOS... The driver for the controller suddenly stops working (says there aren't any cards). Here's how I do things now: I've compiled a kernel scsi_mod and sd_mod I compiled the pdc-ultra module I created a EXT2 initrd - from Documentation/initrd.txt in the kernel source tree Changed lilo.conf and fstab to go from /dev/hda to /dev/sda Shutdown -h now Open case - move IDE cable from normal IDE controller to RAID controller Turn on again It worked fine, the SATA378 was recognised :-) I rebooted, turned on RAID in the BIOS, the raid bios recognised the active array The system starts booting... When it tries to modprobe pdc-ultra it fails :-( Any thoughts on this? Thanks, Ron PS. Could you please cc any replies to me? I'm not on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache - groups - can anyone explain this?
Hello, If anyone could tell me how this is possible... Please do because I have no idea: My apache runs as user / group www-data / www-data I got Options ExecCGI Within my VirtualHost When I try to access: index.cgi on this virtualhost -> Forbidden Logs tell me: file permissions deny server execution When I: su - www-data ./index.cgi It works! The file permissions are: 770, www-data is in the group owning the cgi This happens to ALL my cgi-scripts Thanks, Ron PS. Could you please cc any replies to me? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache2 and.... php
Hello, I guess this discussion has come along quite a few times already :) But I want to get it to work, I only want to use it! I've had it running fine for over a year on a RH server, but I just want to use debian. I'm running testing but found some php 4.3.3 packages that I installed... Why are they only for apache 1.3.x? I really don't understand this, if I remember correctly creating a php module for apache 1.3.x or for apache 2.x is nothing but a configure option, so creating a php module for apache2 should be a piece of cake (I would do it myself if I'd know how) and belongs (IMHO) in at least unstable. Alright, the above is perhaps more for the devel list, I just wanted to get it of my chest, anyone knows about a php4 debian package that works with apache2? I want to stick with only .debs instead of starting to compile all kinds of things when I require a new package. Thanks, Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netinst and Intel 82547
Title: Message Hello, I'm trying to install debian on a new system using network install, this system has a asus pc-dl mainboard with onboard Intel 82547 Gigabit Lan controller... as you no doubt understand I'll need to have this LAN controller up and running in order to be able to install my system. The install program tries to load e1000 (of which I think it''s the right driver), but it doesn't work. Could anyone tell me how I can get my network to work? Thank, Ron PS. I'm not subscribed to the list, could you please cc to me?
Netinst and Intel 82547
Hello, I'm trying to install debian on a new system using network install, this system has a asus pc-dl mainboard with onboard Intel 82547 Gigabit Lan controller... as you no doubt understand I'll need to have this LAN controller up and running in order to be able to install my system. The install program tries to load e1000 (of which I think it''s the right driver), but it doesn't work. Could anyone tell me how I can get my network to work? Thank, Ron PS. I'm not subscribed to the list, could you please cc to me? PS2. If this is the second time you can read this message, my apologies, I don't know if the first one was readable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrading kernel for netinst cd
Hello, I'm trying to install a system with a Intel 82547 LAN controller using network install, however the e1000 driver doesn't support the 82547 until 2.4.22pre2, are there any netinst cd's that use the 2.4.22 kernel (or later)? Or is there any way I can create such a cd? Thank, Ron PS. I'm not on the list so could you please cc to me? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Umask trouble
Hello everyone, I'm trying to find some umask settings, however I'm afraid the ones I look for don't exist. Here's what I'm trying to achieve: When a user makes a file: -rwxrwxr-- When a user makes a directory: drwxrwx--x However when I use a umask that makes the files okay... the dirs are also readable and when I use a umask that makes the dirs okay... fhe files are no longer readable. Any suggestions? Thank, Ron PS. Please CC any reactions to me as I'm not on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dependency trouble after installing backport
Hello, I've installed a backport of exim4 for woody (because I want to use xasm and xasm needs exim 4), however this has caused some trouble. Namely pretty much any package that depends on exim (like mailscanner) thinks something is wrong and wants to completely remove my exim4 installation and reinstall exim. I want to know if it's possible to make apt think that exim4 provides exim so that everything will be back the way I want it. (Add | exim4 to every depend line in the control files before making the .deb and installing it would be a bad solution I guess). Unfortunately I don't know where to find the backport source files. Thank, Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Converting to raid
Hello, I've nearly finished installing a new server, this server has the Asus PC-DL mainboard with onboard RAID controller. I installed on one hd (a 80 GB ATA 100), but I do have another one of those hd's. Now I want create a mirroring RAID array between those two hd's, but I don't want to lose any data... Anyone knows a good howto or something like that to do this? Thanks, Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dhcp and ssh
Hello, I've set up my network to use dhcp, there's one debian server and a couple of window$ workstations. The only problem I have now is that I can't login to the server with ssh any longer, the host file on the server is no longer correct and ssh disconnects me. Anyone know how I can set the dhcp server sp that the hosts file is updated okay? (Another solution would be fine too). Thanks, Ron PS. Could you please cc any replies to me as I'm not on the list. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Limit network speed
Hello, I have a little network at home with 2 window$ workstations and 1 debian gateway / dns / dhcp server. My network speed is pretty high (both on upload and download), however I want to limit the upload speed (cause I have a upload limit). The reason I want this is because when I use BitTorrent it uses a lot of data traffic, something I don't want (because of the upload limit)... can anyone tell me how I could do this (obviously when I want to upload something I want to be able to disable the limitation for a while). Thank, Ron PS. Could you please cc to me as I'm not on the list, thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel VM problems.
Looks like you're out of swap space or memory to me, I guess you'll probably have more luck posting this to the kernel-list, because this is a kernel problem. You could try to create a (bigger) swap partition, perhaps that will work. Ron Rademaker On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Morten Liebach wrote: > Hello Debians. > > I seem to have some Kernel VM problems, but I'm not sure why. > > Sometimes I see my machine nearly freezing, and then becoming good > after a minute or two. > In the logs I get up to several hundred lines like these: > > Aug 20 18:22:13 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for gpm... > Aug 20 18:22:16 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for gpm... > Aug 20 18:22:18 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for gpm... > Aug 20 18:22:18 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for > ssh-agent... > Aug 20 18:22:23 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for > syslog-ng... > Aug 20 18:22:55 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for > syslog-ng... > Aug 20 18:22:57 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for gpm... > Aug 20 18:22:57 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... > > Aug 20 18:22:57 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for init... > Aug 20 18:22:57 pc89225 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for > syslog-ng... > > etc., etc. ... > > (it usually repeats the same message more often than this example). > > I do see ``kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ...'' > in the logs from time to time, but they are most often only one or two > at a time, and they aren't felt at all. > > My kernel is a selfcompiled (with make-kpkg) 2.2.17pre6 kernel from the > kernel-source deb, no extra patches. > > I usually happens when I fetch mail with fetchmail, invoking exim, > procmail and lbdb in the process, but it seems to be all running > programs that's affected by it. > > It's annoying, though it only happens once or twice per week, I'd like > if there were some kind of fix. > > I hope someone more knowledgeable than me knows what's going on, it > might be a suptle misconfiguration in my kernelconfig ... > > Kind regards > Morten > > -- > UNIX, reach out and grep someone! > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
c2perl ??
Anybody knows if there's something like c2perl, which converts c source to perl ?? Ron Rademaker
Re: potato cd-images
You can get unofficial images on: ftp.fsn.hu I haven't had any succes finding a listfile (when I looked a month ago) for potato. Ron Rademaker On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Petteri Heinonen wrote: > Could I get Debian Gnu/Linux 2.2 (potato) CD-images somehow? I think I'd > need a listfiles to make pseudo-images and ftp-site that contains potato > CD-image to make final image with rsync. > > Petteri Heinonen > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > tel.: +358 (0)50 3363 286 > addr.: Pehkusuonkatu 21 B 38 > 33820 Tampere, FIN > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Prob. with NT & Samba authent.
Try to set a password for one one the users and see if that fixes the problem: - login as root and type: smbpasswd -a - now type a password fopr thisa user and try using samba with this password (and user of course ;)) Ron On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > > Did you use smbpasswd?? The older versions of samba use /etc/passwd for > > No, we dont. We switched to using clear-text passwords. > We run Samba 2.07 on the machine that re-asks for passwords when > connecting net-shares. I couldn't find anything in any of the logs > either...? No authentication failure, nothing...? Why does that machine > re-ask for the password when logging into NT? > > TIA > S. Burgener (CC me, please) >
Re: Prob. with NT & Samba authent.
Hmm, what does the smb.conf look like?? Ron On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > > Try to set a password for one one the users and see if that fixes the > > problem: > > - login as root and type: smbpasswd -a > > Done. > > > - now type a password fopr thisa user and try using samba with this > > password (and user of course ;)) > > No success. :( When reconnecting drives at logon, I still get prompted > to re-enter my passwd...!? Hmm, this is a tough one... > > Sven (CC me, please) >
Re: Prob. with NT & Samba authent.
Oke, I've edited some things, try it... Ron On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > > > > Try to set a password for one one the users and see if that fixes the > > > > problem: > > > > - login as root and type: smbpasswd -a > > > > - now type a password fopr thisa user and try using samba with this > > > > password (and user of course ;)) > > > > Done. > > > No success. :( When reconnecting drives at logon, I still get prompted > > > to re-enter my passwd...!? Hmm, this is a tough one... > > > Hmm, what does the smb.conf look like?? > > Here you go: > > ;[global] [global] ; Do not comment this... > workgroup = WG > ; printing = bsd > ; printcap name = /etc/printcap > ; load printers = yes >guest account = guest ; guest account = guest ; Comment this ;) > ; This next option sets a separate log file for each client. Remove > ; it if you want a combined log file. >log file = /usr/local/samba/log.%m > ; You will need a world readable lock directory and "share modes=yes" > ; if you want to support the file sharing modes for multiple users > ; of the same files > lock directory = /usr/local/samba/var/locks > share modes = yes > map archive = no public = yes ; So anybody can enter security = user ; Comment ONLY if you want people who do not have an ; account on your linux server to have access to the ; shares (not likely I guess) > > (all shares are somewhat very similar to the following one) > [share] > comment = data > path = /data > public = yes > writable = yes > force group = group > case sensitive = yes > default case = lower > create mode = 0777 > printable = no > > TIA! > Sven (CC me, plz) >
Re: startx command
Those are: /etc/init.d/xdm and all symlinks in /etc/rc.d that look something like Sxdm (the Kxdm are responsible for stopping X when you shutdown..) Ron Rademaker PS. You can probably do anything you want, whatever it is you want with only /etc/init.d/xdm (except if you want xdm to run in some runlevels and not in other runlevels). On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey there folks. Maybe I just woke up too early this morning, but > I'm having some problems here. > > I'm looking for the line(s) responsible for starting my X session > automatically when I boot this machine. Can someone point me in > the right direction? > > Thanks > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: mounting root via NFS
Check out hte package: diskless Ron On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Michal F. Hanula wrote: > Is it possible to do this? I would like to set up an ``almost diskless'' > workstation, having only the kernel and a swap partition on the local HD. > aTdHvAaNnKcSe > Miso&Frankie > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Debian and router
What does your route tables looks like, what does ifconfig give, what does ipchains -L give as output?? Ron Rademaker On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Andreas Palsson wrote: > Hello. > > Anyone got any good information on using Linux as a router? > > I have a Slink-box that is supposed to route traffic between 3 networks. > It's equipped with 3 3Com cards and on of them is connected to a > Cisco-router (Internet). > > Everything works between the two networks, but I can't get any traffic in > or out from the Cisco. Not even ping it. > > Any info, sites, docs can be helpful. > > Thanks. > >== andreas pålsson == [EMAIL PROTECTED] == > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Debian and router
First of all, I guess you'll want ip masquerading, you'll have to put that on in your ipchains. Can je ping outside from x.y.26.62 ? This is also the box you really should set up masquerading! Ron On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Andreas Palsson wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > Some background: I got a range IP:nrs from x.y.26.0 to x.y.26.63. > The Cisco is located at x.y.26.62. > I've divided the whole net into three parts, 0->31, 32->48 and 49->63. > > The debian-box is supposed to be located at x.y.26.61. > I understand that I have to make the Cisco route all traffic for the 0->63 > network to x.y.26.61, but do I also have to tell it that I have three > subnets there? > > Here we go: > --- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> route -n > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway GenmaskFlags Metric Ref Use Iface > x.y.26.480.0.0.0 255.255.255.240 U 0 0 0 eth0 > x.y.26.48x.y.26.61255.255.255.240 UG1 0 0 eth0 > x.y.26.320.0.0.0 255.255.255.240 U 0 0 0 eth1 > x.y.26.32x.y.26.46255.255.255.240 UG1 0 0 eth1 > x.y.26.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.224 U 0 0 0 eth2 > x.y.26.0 x.y.26.30255.255.255.224 UG1 0 0 eth2 > 127.0.0.00.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo > 0.0.0.0 x.y.26.620.0.0.0 UG1 0 0 eth0 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:n0:nA:41:4A:11 > inet addr:x.y.26.61 Bcast:x.y.26.63 Mask:255.255.255.240 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:119800 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:6362 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:6 txqueuelen:100 > Interrupt:5 Base address:0x7000 > > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:n0:nA:41:4A:14 > inet addr:x.y.26.46 Bcast:x.y.26.47 Mask:255.255.255.240 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:121726 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:99 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:1 txqueuelen:100 > Interrupt:10 Base address:0x7400 > > eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:n0:nA:41:48:C6 > inet addr:x.y.26.30 Bcast:x.y.26.31 Mask:255.255.255.224 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:115245 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:15373 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:4448 txqueuelen:100 > Interrupt:3 Base address:0x7800 > > loLink encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 > RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ipchains -L > Chain input (policy ACCEPT): > Chain forward (policy ACCEPT): > Chain output (policy ACCEPT): > --- > > (Sorry for the x.y's and n's, but since this is supposed to be a firewall > later, I don't want any visitors right now :] ) > > Thanks. > Andreas > >== andreas pålsson == [EMAIL PROTECTED] == > > > > What does your route tables looks like, what does ifconfig give, what does > > ipchains -L give as output?? > > > > Ron Rademaker > > > > On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Andreas Palsson wrote: > > > > > Hello. > > > > > > Anyone got any good information on using Linux as a router? > > > > > > I have a Slink-box that is supposed to route traffic between 3 networks. > > > It's equipped with 3 3Com cards and on of them is connected to a > > > Cisco-router (Internet). > > > > > > Everything works between the two networks, but I can't get any traffic in > > > or out from the Cisco. Not even ping it. > > > > > > Any info, sites, docs can be helpful. > > > >
Re: your mail (netdate)
I used to use netdate also, but I found a fine replacement in rdate ;) Ron Rademaker On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > The command netdate found in slink seems to be missing in > potato. A search for this in potato at www.debian.org shows that it > is not there, while it is there in netstd in slink. > > Is there any equivalent replacement potato? > > > Sebastian Canagaratna > Department of Chemistry > Ohio Northern University > Ada, OH 45810 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: permissions
The b mean black device, the group / owner of the file are ID's you don't have on your system. You can't remove it, that could be because of attributes of the file, check out what lsattr gives you. The file is probably a corrupt file that should be there... Ron Rademaker On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > I have the following file in /lost+found: > > br-xr-srw- 1 4462 25959147, 103 Jul 25 2019 #1355791 > > Can somebody explain the following to me please: > > 1. The meaning of 'b' in the permissions. > 2. The group end owner of the file > 3. Why this file is so much different than the others I removed from > the same directory? > > The abovementioned file refuses any chmod or removal even by root. > > Regards. > > 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) > "Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; do not fret- > it leads only to evil."Psalms 37:8 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: jserv package
There is one in woody, I just checked, don't about potato or slink... Ron Rademaker On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, John F. Davis wrote: > Hello > > Is there a debian package for jserv? I have apache installed and > I want to install jserv without downloading the tar file as > described on servletcentral.com. > > John > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: lilo
Try adding lniear to your lilo.conf and rerun lilo... Ron Rademaker On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Howdy... > Can someone tell me why LILO just hangs on LI when I start my > machine? > > If you would be so kind as to take that a step farther and let me > know how I can fix it I would be greatly appreciative. > > thanks > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: PICO
It'n in pine, pine is in non-free, you'll have to install the pine sources and the diffs, then build a binary debian package that you can install. Ron Rademaker On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Thiago wrote: > Wich package at deselect have the PICO TEXT EDITOR? i would like to use > them. > > Thanks!! > > > HISS - Hackers Internet Security Services > www.hacker.com.br > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: PICO
Tried to forward the message, but the mail address has permanent errors... Ron On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, S.P. van Noort wrote: > Install Nano, it's interface is exactly like Pico, especially the latest > version in woody. It is GPL, so it is in main. > > Greetings, > > Sander > > P.S. I've lost the address of Thiago, so could someone (Ron ?) please send > this message directly to him ? > > > > On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 04:49:55PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > It'n in pine, pine is in non-free, you'll have to install the pine sources > > and the diffs, then build a binary debian package that you can install. > > > > Ron Rademaker > > > > On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Thiago wrote: > > > > > Wich package at deselect have the PICO TEXT EDITOR? i would like to use > > > them. > > > > > > Thanks!! > > > > > > > > > HISS - Hackers Internet Security Services > > > www.hacker.com.br > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: apt-get dist-upgrade
With potato the dist-upgrade will do the same as the normal upgrade,if you upgrade to woody, after that you don't upgrade for a while, you might have to do a dist-upgrade to really upgrade the system. I like to think: don't expect a upgrade to go smoothly, just be happy if it does... Ron Rademaker On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hello > > With a sources.list like the following, will "apt-get dist-upgrade" > cause the system to be upgraded the same way as it would happen with a > simple "upgrade"? (I am running potato now) > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib > non-free > deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free > > To upgrade to woody, I would need to change potato to woody in > sources.list and rerun dist-upgrade? (Preceeded by an apt-get update, of > course) > Is that all correct? Would / should / will the upgrade go smoothly? :) > > TIA > Sven > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: apt-get & kernel question
The kernel doesn't matter AT ALL where the packages install, this is specified in the debian package. Ron Rademaker On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Dean wrote: > Hi: >I recently upgraded to potato and decided to upgrade kernel to 2.2.15 > > same time. Everything went smoothly except I no longer have ppp > in the kernel. I still have the old kernel to boot to which has ppp. > My question is if I use the old kernel to apt-get something, will > this put whatever I install in the wrong place or doesn't the kernel > matter as far as where the packages go? TiaDean > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: speakfreely in tm5300 notebook
I guess it could be something with resources that run out, or perhaps a buffer overflow that writes some instructions in memory it shouldn't write in which causes wrong instructions to be executed (you could imagine that if a program is writing data in the wrong place of memory where at that moment is a proces that is being executed ( worse case the kernel ), it's going to contain wrong instructions, which are going to be executed). I got no idea how go can check these thing, I know about libsafe, a library that sends a SIGKILL to a proces when a buffer overflow occurs ( I made a debian package, you can get it at: ftp://rademaker.dhs.org in pub/linux/debian/packages/binary-i386/ ). However, this buffer overflow is only something that I think could be it, I'm not saying it is the problem! Ron Rademaker On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, erasmo perez wrote: > hello everybody > > hi guys! long time not seeing you > > i have a small problem, that turned out to be important > > i have a notebook travelmate 5300 (texas inst.) which works > fine under linux, it has a sounblaster sound card, i guess that > integrated to the mainboard > > the problem that interest me now is the reception of sound using > speakfreely > > this machine can reproduce sound, can record sound, can play mp3 > files, can record using sound-recorder, and can send sound using > speakfreely, and in fact, it can also receive sound using speakfreely (sf) > > the problem is that when it is reproducing sound using sf, after some > moments of paceful reproduction of sound, the machine hangs, stops and > i need tu turn off the power button, as in an interruption request > problem > > but when i check /proc/interrupts there is no interruption collision, > and, by the way, i could install the module of sound without interrupt > collision problems > > so, it is interesting because this problem only arises after some > seconds of paceful reproduction, since it starts playing the sound of > sf, *last* some seconds and after that the machines hangs :-( > > which could be the reason for this problem, and how could i overcome > this situation ? > > thanks a lot > > erasmo > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: boot error
Looks like your root file system is mounted read only, try to do (as root): touch /a (if no error occurs, don't forget to do rm /a). If it's mounted read only, you can remount it read-write, but you better check out your /etc/fstab. Ron Rademaker On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hi all > > Anyone know why do I get the following error upon bootup: > > insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/unix.o cannot create > /var/log/ksymoops/2619212757.ksyms Read Only Filesystem > > Indeed that file doesn't exist. Should I create it using /dev/null > or what? > > If I should post more infos, please let me know. Oh yes, almost forgot: > running up-to-date potato here. > > TIA > Sven > -- > Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
RE: boot error
AFAIK, the root filesystem is mounted read-write and remounted read-only on errors... Ron On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Moore, Paul wrote: > From: Ron Rademaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > > > > > Anyone know why do I get the following error upon bootup: > > > > > > insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/unix.o cannot create > > > /var/log/ksymoops/2619212757.ksyms Read Only Filesystem > > > > > Looks like your root file system is mounted read only, try to do (as > > root): touch /a (if no error occurs, don't forget to do rm > > /a). If it's mounted read only, you can remount it read-write, but > > you better check out your /etc/fstab. > > But the message comes at bootup. AFAIK, the root FS is always mounted > read-only in the first instance, and is then remounted read-write later in > the boot sequence. > > So this looks like a problem in the base Debian boot sequence, trying to > insmod unix.o too early in the boot process, before root is remounted. > > BTW, I have this problem too, so I can confirm that it occurs in a clean > Potato (unofficial CDs from about 25th May) install. > > See bugs #51379 (seems to imply that it's fixed in modutils 2.3.7-1, but > it's still there in my version, 2.3.11-6), #50921 (similar), #49059 > (different, but also ksymoops and the boot sequence). > > Paul. > > PS Is there really no search facility in the bug tracking system? I had to > get a full listing, and then use my browser's search. And that only finds > bugs with the word in the title :-( > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Re-send contents of a mail file
Can't he get it from his old box (get it with pop..) Ron On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Marcus Johansson wrote: > Hi! > > I have a pretty huge mail file for a user who want that transfered to his > Lotus Notes mail box. Is there any way of re-sending the contents of this > mail > file to his new mail address? All new mails are of course forwarded to this > new account, so that's no problem... > > Is this something sendmail can do, or is there a tool in Debian for this? Or > can I make a script or something... > > /Marcus > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Problem Compiling mod_perl in Apache
Why compiling if there's a debian package?? Ron On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Derek Wueppelmann wrote: > I have been working at this all morning, and most of the afternoon and I > just can't seem to figure out how to solve this problem. I am trying to > compile mod_perl 1.24 statically with apache 1.3.12 and I keep getting the > same errors no matter what I try to do. I keep getting an error message that > says '_dl_default_scope' is undefined, found in function doit.2. Why would I > be getting this and how do I fix it. I am running with a pretty standard > install of Debian 2.1 with a few upgraded packages from potato. > Anybody have any thoughts on this? > > 0 / Derek Wueppelmann > (D Libraxus Inc. > / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Unidentified subject!
mounting cdrom : mount -t iso9660 Info on perl: man perl (there's a lot of info there) Ron Rademaker On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, laxmisunil prakash wrote: > Dear friend, > I am using Debian linux.Please can I get some info on how to mount a > cdrom on my linux machine .please also some info on using PERL. > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Sendmail giving errors
Knowing the errors would be nice ... ;) Ron On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Derek Wueppelmann wrote: > I seem to be having troubles with sendmail giving me errors when trying to > access the /etc/aliases.db file. Is there anything I can do remove these > errors, they seem to be causing sendmail to not send any mail, which makes > it kinda useless to have it running then. > > 0 / Derek Wueppelmann > (D Libraxus Inc. > / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Package Information
You can find this in dselect (of course) or you can get the files Packages or Packages.gz (gzipped version) from the a mirror. In these files are all descriptions and what the packages depend on, suggest, recommend etc. Ron Rademaker PS. You can also use dpkg -s for info on On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: > Hello Group, > I have been playing with debian for about a month now and would like > to get more information on the packages available. Where can I > get information on the available packages and a description of what > they do? > thanks > -- > > If Windows is the answer, then I want the problems back! > > Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. > http://www.debian.org > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Login Message
I guess you mean the message of the day, just edit /etc/motd and you done... Ron Rademaker On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Bill wrote: > Hi all > Can anyone tell me where to change the login message > when logging into Debian Box with SSH. > > Thanks in advance > Bill >* > The Mind is like a parachute; >it works much better when it's open. >* > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: strange eth0 error
I've had similar errors, they dissapeared when I recompiled the kernel (and went from not-modules drivers to modules). Ron On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, David C Ables wrote: > > I have a somewhat unpredictable problem with my network card. it's using > the tulip driver module with potato and kernel 2.2.15. > > sometimes, without any noticeable pattern yet, after I do > ifconfig eth0 192.168.36.1 > > it will wait a while and then start spitting this out over and over: > > eth0: Tx hung, 7 vs. 0 > eth0: Transmit timed out, status e406, CSR12 00c6, resetting... > > this repeats until I do ifconfig eth0 down. the only thing that changes is > that the hex number after CSR12 is either 10c6 or 10ce each other > time it appears. the message appears on all of the virtual terminals, > regardless of whether or not I'm logged in there. > > this happened once soon after I installed the card. then it disappeared > for a few days and now it's back. I've tried rebooting, but the problem > remains. > > tia, > -david > > > --- > David C. Ables > MIT 3D Printing Lab > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Lost root access :-(
I prefer booting with a lilo option like init=/bin/sh, remounting the root partition read-write and edit again... Or perhaps you got sudo installed and configed?? That'll be the easiest ... Ron Rademaker On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Harald Thingelstad wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Frank van der Hulst wrote: > > > Help!!! > > > > I just installed Debian GNU/Linux, everything was going well. > > > > Then I decided I'd change the shell for root to the C shell. So I used > > emacs to change the /etc/passwd entry for root, so that root's shell is > > /bin/tcsh > > > > Then, I found that tcsh isn't in the /bin directory! And I've logged out > ... > > This is normally the kind of problem maintenance partitions are meant for! > (Great for troubles with your base system, and also for fiddling > with the main root partition. Hope you have some disk space available. > You can trash your swap partition if needed.) > > A maintenance partition is an extra linux installation on the same system, > bootable via floppy or lilo. Contains a usable system plus basic utilities > like mount and a small editor in your case, but also disk (repair) tools, > , maybe some kernel compiler necessities, lilo, chroot et cetera. > 100 Mb should suffice. > > Get my idea? > Should be on any system. Or at least, should be *installable* on any > system. > > I *will* fix my mailer someday. > Harald > > Philosophy, law, medicine and even theology, alas! I studied everything with > an ardent will and here I am, poor fool, just as far behind as ever. > No more advanced than before. > Goethe - Faust > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: how to upgrade debian to 2.2
Just edit the sources.list of apt, I guess it'll be wise to do something like: apt-get update apt-get install ldso apt-get install libc6 apt-get install perl-5.005 apt-get dist-upgrade Upgrading ldso, libc6 and perl first will PROBABLY prevent some difficulties, but it doesn't mean the upgrade will go completely smooth (don't know how the upgrade goes now, but a few months ago I experienced problems with libc6 and perl), but I think it won't give you much trouble. Maybe you can check out www.debian.org if you can find some more details on upgrading to potato. Ron Rademaker On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Nick wrote: > how do i upgrade my box > i have debian 2.1 w/ a 2.15 kernel > > i wanna try potato > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: how to upgrade debian to 2.2
I prefer upgrading the kernel by downloading the source, do a make menuconfig and the a: make dep && make clean && make bzImage && make modules && make modules _install After that I copy the bzImage to /boot, edit my lilo.conf, run lilo and I'm ready to boot again. I don't throw away old kernel, just in case. Ron PS. I don't think it would be a good thing if you could upgrade your kernel with apt-get, because the best kernels are those you compiled for your computer, not those general thing... On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Will Trillich wrote: > On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 12:52:37AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > Just edit the sources.list of apt, I guess it'll be wise to do something > > like: > > > > apt-get update > > apt-get install ldso > > apt-get install libc6 > > apt-get install perl-5.005 > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > > > Upgrading ldso, libc6 and perl first will PROBABLY prevent some > > difficulties, but it doesn't mean the upgrade will go completely smooth > > (don't know how the upgrade goes now, but a few months ago I experienced > > problems with libc6 and perl), but I think it won't give you much > > trouble. Maybe you can check out www.debian.org if you can find some more > > details on upgrading to potato. > > > > Ron Rademaker > > that'll probably help head off some difficulties for many of us! > > how about getting the kernel upgraded as well? what's the > magic incantation there? (apt-get upgrade apparently leaves > the kernel itself alone...) > > and how newbie-difficult is it to keep the old kernel around > to put out a fire or two, Just In Case? >
Sendmail and multiple domains
I got something I want to do with sendmail, what I think is very easy: I have some domains running on one server, I need to make pop boxes for and mail aliases for all domains. E.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] has to go to another mailbox as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] has to go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] has to go to some mailbox. Ron Rademaker
sendmail problem: HELLLPPPPPP!!!
Alright I get the following message when I try to generate sendmail.cf: Configure sendmail with the existing /etc/mail/sendmail.mc? [Y] Updating sendmail databases ... Checking sendmail.cf and databases. Scanning /etc/mail/sendmail.mc Creating /etc/mail/Makefile. done. Generating /etc/mail/sendmail.cf ... makemap: Type dbm not supported in this version Reload the running sendmail now with the new configuration? [Y] Reloading sendmail ... I want to use dbm for virtusertable (docs told me to do so, how do I get Makemap to work with it?) Ron Rademaker
Re: sendmail problem: HELLLPPPPPP!!!
okay, I a little further now, only every mail stays in the mailq with the message: Deferrred HELP!! please Ron On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > > Alright I get the following message when I try to generate sendmail.cf: > > > > Configure sendmail with the existing /etc/mail/sendmail.mc? [Y] > > Updating sendmail databases ... > > Checking sendmail.cf and databases. > > Scanning /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > > Creating /etc/mail/Makefile. done. > > Generating /etc/mail/sendmail.cf ... > > makemap: Type dbm not supported in this version > > Reload the running sendmail now with the new configuration? [Y] > > Reloading sendmail ... > > > > > > I want to use dbm for virtusertable (docs told me to do so, how do I get > > Makemap to work with it?) > > You don't get dbm to work with current libc6. > > Simply change dbm to hash and run makemap and recreate sendmail.cf > (if you've make: >0) cd /etc/mail >1) update sendmail.mc (change dbm to hash) >2) touch virtusertable >3) make > ) > > -- > Rick Nelson > Life'll kill ya -- Warren Zevon > Then you'll be dead -- Life'll kill ya >
Weird sendmail problem
I got a really weird sendmail problem, all the messages I sent to the machine a put in the queue with reason deferred, in neither mailq, mailq -v, the syslog or the mail.log, mail.err, mail.info or mail.warn is any other information available then Deferred. No reason why, just deferred... If anyone has got a clue about this, please let me know, I've been dealing with this for hours now and I'm kinda going insane here ;( Ron Rademaker
exim question
How can I use multiple domains with exim, eg both the domains domain.com and otherdomain.com run on a machine and I want this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user foo [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user bar [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user bar Ron Rademaker
Re: Kernel upgrade
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: > Hello Group, > I decided to upgrade my kernel from 2.2.12 to 2.2.15 and ran into a > problem. This is what Im doing. > I extract the kernel while im in the /usr/src/ directory. Then I > made a directory /usr/src/linux-2.2.15 and then cd /usr/src/linux-2.2.15 > and ln -s linux-2.2.15 linux. You should make the symlink when you're in /usr/src, not in /usr/src/linux-2.2.15. How about extracting the sources, domv linux linux-2.2.15 ln -s linux-2.2.15 linux Ron Rademaker > After doing that I cd /usr/src/linux and run make menuconfig. That > seems to work fine and I save the kernel. After saving I use > make deb;make clean;make bzImage;make modules;make modules_install. > and that seems to compile fine. Now here is the problem. > I cd /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot then > cp bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.15 but I get file or directory does not > exist. Apparently the vmlinuz-2.2.15 isnt there. I can see the old > vmlinuz-2.2.12 but thats it. I have compiled many systems this way > before. Any idea's on what Im doing wrong? Im running potato if > that helps. > Thanks again > Jay > -- > > 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 > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: su question
Perhaps sudo can help you, with sudo you just do: sudo and it's executed with root privileges (after ofcourse you have given the user permission to use sudo). Ron Rademaker On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, tom wrote: > howdy guys, > > This is one of those things that has > been pestering me. while logged in as a user in x, how can I > edit files that require su privilages? (like /etc/fstab). I > usually su from eterm and "jed filename". can I su from within > emacs? nedit? > > thanks! > > -tom > > -- > > -tom > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: apt-get upgrade: now I can not login at ALL!!!help
Try booting with the lilo option: init=/bin/sh This will provide you with a root shell where you can try to fix things... Ron Rademaker On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Jose M de Aguiar wrote: > Help! > > I have my Debian kernel 2.2.14. Today, as I periodically do, I run > apt-get update > then apt-get upgrade. During the process I answered ALL QUESTIONS WITH > KEEPING THE INSTALLED CONFIGURATION.(Default=N) . Once finished the > upgrade, I was not able to use Real Audio. My default windows manager > was > fvwm95. I restarted the windows manager and doing a login in Debian, as > usual. > But the windows manager was twm. I DID NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES AT ALL > DURING UPGRADE!!! > > I decided to reboot the machine. It did go well, however once xdm starts > now I > don't have the Debian Login Window. Instead, now it comes XWindow. > But the worst is: I CAN NOT LOGIN AS USER OR ROOT. It is really serious. > > Something is NOT WORKING IN THE DEBIAN PACKAGE. > > WHAT CAN I DO?? HOW CAN I RESCUE MY SYSTEM AND FIX IT? > > Please, URGENT reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thanks a lot!!! > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Database program
I don't know about memory usage, but I think MySQL will work for you... Ron Rademaker On Sat, 8 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm looking for some sort of database or spreadsheet application to use > as a personal filing system. I'll be organizing a lot of different > things that I own and so I anticipate that the file may become extremely > large. I'm running debian on an Intel 486 with 16mg RAM. I worried that > if I don't get a good program that can handle a large file I may run into > memory problems. This may not be a problem since when I installed debian > I made a 64mg swap partition. I'm not sure. > > Can anyone suggest a program, preferably one that does not run on X? I > just want a plain text based app that gracefully deals with low memory. > > Thanks in advance > M.Henry > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: networking questions
I guess you'll want to take a look at samba, with samba you can share your disks on your debian box to windows and the other way around AFAIK. But first off all you'll have to get the network to work. Ron Rademaker On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Franco Cone wrote: > Howdy! > >I have a few networking questions..hope you guys won't mind :) I have 2 > networked machines (win98 & debian GNU) as of this moment using ethernet > 10baseT cat 5 connected to a hub. My questions are: > > 1.how do I let win98 see the debian box thru network neighborhood? > 2.how do I make debian see win98? I don't thinks there's network > neighborhood for debian..is there? > > Sorry for my stupid questions but I'm kinda new here and I don't know > where to start.If anybody can give me a head start & point me to some good > documentation/explanation out there Regarding this matter I would forever be > in > your debt ;) > > -- > please CC me...I'm leaving this list in a minute > > Sent through Global Message Exchange - http://www.gmx.net > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: reboots while backing up
I just checked, sitback isn't in woody... is it a debian package?? Anyway, is it a script?? If it is, I guess you add some commands to see where it reboots... (I would do this by adding echo lines). Ron Rademaker On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all > > I have a new server which has 2 scsi tapes attched to it and a backup > package called "sitback" which uses the common tar/cpio commands to > facilitate backups. I am using it to back up database files on a AIX > system which has it's files shared through samba. To access the files i > use the command "mount -t smbfs //aixserver/share /mountpoint". > > 5 minutes into the backup... the backup server reboots!!! why is this > happening?? I have checked the messages, syslog files but they do not > contain any relevant info related to the reboot. > > Perhaps I need a better backup package, or perhaps backing up samba shares > is not a good idea. > > Any ideas??? > > thanx > > Zane > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: begone ctrlaltdel!
I changed my line to ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/bin/echo "Won't work" (The line echo outputs is changed different, but means the same, it's dutch..) Ron Rademaker On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > Bob Bernstein wrote: > > > I had in mind 'none' in the sense of "no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del." Without > > the -a switch it's available to everyone. (Am I missing something here?) > > In other words you want to completely disable the Ctrl-Alt-Del combo? I'm > not sure if this would work, but perhaps changing: > > ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now > > to > > ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/bin/false > > or something like that? Or perhaps replace /bin/false with the path to a > shell script that put saomething like: > Permission denied! Go away! > onto stdout. > -- > Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" > | "As far from Redmond as possible!" > '91 GS500E| > Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Network problems
What do you get if you do: ifconfig route Ron Rademaker On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am currently building my own webserver but still I do have a > problem with my 3com 3C900-NIC. > > Although the kernel (2.2.16) is compiled with network-support and > the module for the NIC is loaded properly, I get a "connect : > Network is unreachable"-message each time I try to ping any > machine - neither the ones in our network are reached nor any > external... of course ! I have also defined our standard gateway > here and our DNS so what do I still do wrong ? > > Any clues are really appreciated ! > > --- > Mit freundlichem Gruss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Oliver Schoenknecht Join us at http://www.kapa.de > > KOSTENLOS! Online-Auktion bei KAPA! > Teilnahme unter: http://www.flohmarkt.kapa.de > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: packages contained with the xfree86 distribution
xfree86 4.0 isn't packaged for debian (yet), patience... patience On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Michael O'Brien wrote: > Hola~ > > I had to upgrade my xserver to 4.0. Does anyone know which debian packages I > need to version to 4.0 so that I can safely use apt-get dist-upgrade? > > MO > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: packages contained with the xfree86 distribution
I don't know, but I guess this will be a working workaround: change the name of /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11 create phony /etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6 run apt-get dist-upgrade change all dirs back again Ron On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Michael O'Brien wrote: > Hola~ > > >-- On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 12:34:53AM +0200, % wrote: > > xfree86 4.0 isn't packaged for debian (yet), patience... patience > > Right. However, I needed to install it so I could use my graphics card. So, I > ran the binary install from xfree86.org. Now, I would like to update the > versions of the correct debian packages so that I can still use apt-get > dist-upgrade and not have to worry about apt stomping all over my xfree86 > installation. > > For example, xf86setup and xserver need to be updated. What are the others? > > MO > > > > > On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Michael O'Brien wrote: > > > > > Hola~ > > > > > > I had to upgrade my xserver to 4.0. Does anyone know which debian > > > packages I > > > need to version to 4.0 so that I can safely use apt-get dist-upgrade? > > > > > > MO > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > >
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: system lock on boot
I guess you should try using the tecra image (on the official cd release of slink (2.1), it's on cd 2 if I recall correctly, so try booting from cd 2) Ron Rademaker On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, e3c wrote: > I am new to Debian so I hope I am giving the needed information to > recieve help from the Debian comunity. > > My scsi controller (Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW Dual) supports > bootable cd-roms. I am trying to install > Debian 2.1 (kernel 2.2.12) from a VA Linux distribution I purchased in a > > store. I boot from the cd-rom and press > to start the installation. Things start to scroll > across the screen and then the computer > locks, not responding to anything but a warm reboot. Before > it hangs it looks like it is loading > drivers for my hard disks connected to my scsi card. I have > three hard drives and two cd-roms. The > bootable hard drive is at id 0, another at id 1, another at id 2, and > two cd-roms at id 3 and 4. The scsi controller id is at 7. After what > looks like the second scsi device being detected "(scsi1)" the system > locks. The last two lines on the screen read: > > (scsi1) downloading sequencer code... 374 instructions downloaded > NCR53c406a: no available ports found > > Also I notice that Linux identifies my scsi card incorrectly > as a AIC 7895 U > > My guess is that it has found something it does not like > with my hard drive that is at id2. (it is > an old hard drive that came out of my first computer, an IBM > P/S 2 80). As it still works I have kept it. I am currently running NT > 4.0 service pack 5 on my system > and after a brief experience with windows 2000 I am actively seeking a > new OS. > > I have tried to specify (blindly I admit) a boot parameter that would at > lest get me to the install screen. But to no avail. I have read the > boot parameter information found through the F4 and F5 options on the > boot disk and what I could find in the Debian tutorial and the Guide on > the Debian web site. I still feel clueless as how to truely use a boot > parameter. Or how to get to the install screen. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. I will be checking > my e-mail regularly so I am able to supply > any more information that might be needed. > > Thank you in advance, > Scott > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Autologin on Serial Console
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Simon Tennant wrote: > I currently have a Dec VT320 hooked up to my Debian box via a serial line > on /dev/ttyS1. This box sits in the kitchen spewing the output of a > tcpdump and provides and interesting way to monitor network activity in > the house. Cool ;) > > I currently have to login and run "tcpdump -i eth1". I'd like tcpdump to > be run automatically when the console is powered up and for no input to be > accepted from the keyboard. > > To that end I've investigated getty-ps and mgetty. Both want a login or > at lease a username in the case of getty-ps. > > Has anyone successfully managed to get a prelogged in console working? > Never tried, but maybe you can do something with a script in /etc/init.d, or instead of running a getty on the terminal a script?? Ron > Thanks. > > -- > Simon Tennant, Web Team, Linuxcare, Inc. > 415.577.6719 tel, 415.701.7457 fax > pgp id: 05F76248FF62442C4D0010C09851C0746410974D > Linuxcare. Support for the revolution. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Domain names in spain
Sorry for the off topic question, but I know there are people here that know the answer to my question: Where can I register domain names in Spain? (top level domain .es if I'm right) Thanks, Ron Rademaker
Re: no ftp at all.
You could check your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny, and are you running a ftpd?? Another thing could be ipchains... Ron Rademaker On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Hans wrote: > Here another riddle which I can't seem to solve > > I have two potato boxes (192.168.1.1 and 3) and a win95 laptop > (192.168.1.2) on a local network. I can ping from to and from 192.168.1.3, > use telnet, but not ftp. Connection is refused when I ftp in from 1 and 2 > and also when I ftp out from 3. I checked /etc/services and the ports are > there. Other config-files are basically the same except for name and IP > number. Anybody any idea? > > Hans > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: no ftp at all.
You'll have to install a ftpd if you want to be able to login to them with ftp. You could use something like wu-ftpd. Ron Rademaker On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Hans wrote: > hosts.allow is empty, hosts.deny has ALL: PARANOID. Both files are equal on > 192.168.1.1 and 3. I amended hosts.allow with the line ALL: .orchard.nl > (being my local domain name), but to no avail. I haven't installed the > package ftpd, only ftp, but isn't ftp supposed to work right out of the > box, being an essential service. 192.168.1.1 and 3 have basically the same > setup, with 3 being a bit outdated (May this year) and 1 spanking brand new > (last week). Another thing is that when I last used 3 with a ppp connection > to the net I could easily ftp and run apt-get. > > Hans > > > At 06:02 PM 7/16/00 +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > >You could check your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny, and are you > >running a ftpd?? > > > >Another thing could be ipchains... > > > >Ron Rademaker > > > > > >On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Hans wrote: > > > >> Here another riddle which I can't seem to solve > >> > >> I have two potato boxes (192.168.1.1 and 3) and a win95 laptop > >> (192.168.1.2) on a local network. I can ping from to and from 192.168.1.3, > >> use telnet, but not ftp. Connection is refused when I ftp in from 1 and 2 > >> and also when I ftp out from 3. I checked /etc/services and the ports are > >> there. Other config-files are basically the same except for name and IP > >> number. Anybody any idea? > >> > >> Hans > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > >> > > > > > --- > > It's nice to be like, but better by far to get paid -- Liz Phair >
Re: how to automatically execute things?
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Joseph de los Santos wrote: > Hi, > > Hoping someone can help me out with this..for example I want an ordinary > user that when he or she logs in a terminal this is what will happen: > 1.automatically starts x-window Why not use xdm? > 2.all hot keys will be disabled..ie cntrl+alt+del etc. You should disable that in /etc/inittab > 3.run netscape automatically and it will remain opened and it cannot be > closed without giving the correct password. > Why would you want such a thing?? I mean not allowing to close netscape... Perhaps there something in xdm that can start netscape, I don't know. Ron Rademaker > > please help me a lost and tormented soul! > > Thank you. > > :) > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: telnet and ftp in potato
About telnet: It COULD be a misconfigured firewall (see what ipchains -L gives you) About ftp: firewall could also be the problem, but maybe you're not running a ftpd. Ron Rademaker On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Triggs; Ian wrote: > Hi, I just installed potato and set up the computer correctly for use on > my LAN, I can ping it, and it can ping out. The trouble is however, when > I try to telnet into the computer it connects but no login prompt > appears. The same applies with ftp, it says connected, but again no login > prompt. When i telnet localhost from itself it functions correctly, but > ftp'ing localhost doesn't work. My hosts.allow is allowing everyone and > hosts.deny is denying no-one. Any suggestions?!? > > > Thanks is advance, > > Ian > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: anyone knowledgeable enough pls help!
For the starting of x-windows, I guess you could but startx in .login in the users home-dir. The netscape part it quite a bit more difficult ( I guess you can start it using .Xsession or something, but you'll have to check the docs of that for more info), the closing part, here the idea I got on that ( I can't provide it to you because I'm not good at c): Create a c-program that starts netscape and include signal.h that intercepts the SIGTERM, when the SIGTERM arrives the user is prompted for a password (netscape will be closed at that moment), if the password is correct, the program is terminated and netscape isn't running anymore, if the password is incorrect, netscape is restarted. Perhaps this can be of any help. Ron Rademaker On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Joseph de los Santos wrote: > I'm going out of my mind > > when a user logs in a terminal this is what will happen: > -automatically starts x-window, all keybindings and or hotkeys will be > disabled, run netscape and it can't be closed without asking for the user's > password. Can a script be used for this? and anyone kind enough to show me? > Also, Maybe this can be done by adding/modifying xmodmap in the user's > .xinitrc? if so, how? any help with be greatly appreciated. > > btw, what's the difference between keycodes and keysyms? > > Thanks in advance :) > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Monitoring program
Why don't you try to mount the floppy or the cd, if it succeeds, there's a disk / cdrom, if it fails, there not... Ron Rademaker On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Brian Schramm wrote: > Is there a program that I can run in Linux that will tell me if there is a > disk in a floppy or a cd in a cdrom drive on a machine? I control > machines remotly and it would be nice to know if someone stuck a disk in a > drive that has the potencial of booting off it so I know if a reboot will > do what I want. > > Brian > > Brian Schramm > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.linuxexpert.org > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Monitoring program
How about cat /dev/fd0 will that work? Ron Rademaker On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Brian Schramm wrote: > That only works on normal floppies. If I have a boot floppy in there that > was created a special way most systems will not mount them directly. But > they will still boot from them. > > > Brian Schramm > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.linuxexpert.org > > > On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > > Why don't you try to mount the floppy or the cd, if it succeeds, there's a > > disk / cdrom, if it fails, there not... > > > > Ron Rademaker > > > > On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Brian Schramm wrote: > > > > > Is there a program that I can run in Linux that will tell me if there is a > > > disk in a floppy or a cd in a cdrom drive on a machine? I control > > > machines remotly and it would be nice to know if someone stuck a disk in a > > > drive that has the potencial of booting off it so I know if a reboot will > > > do what I want. > > > > > > Brian > > > > > > Brian Schramm > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > www.linuxexpert.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > >
Re: Cloning an installation
I guess you want to use dpkg --get-selections and dpkg --set-selections To get the same packages installed on the other do: dpkg --get-selections < file (on the installed machine) copy the file from thatmachine to the new one dpkg --set-selections < file (on the new one) Ron Rademaker On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Pascal Martin wrote: > I have the following problem: I have one fully installed computer, > and I want to install a second one the exact same way. > > I would like to avoid selecting all the packages manually. > > Is any automated way exists ? Something like listing all packages > from the existing system and generating an installation script for > the new one out of it ? > > Pascal. > >
Re: broken mouse in x session
What if you stop gpm, and try again. (Start a x session, go back to console and do /etc/init.dgpm stop as root, or stop gpm first and then start an x session). Ron Rademaker On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > Hi. I'm experiencing technical difficulties, > if you can help I'll love you forever... > > I'm running what was CorelOS, pretty much converted to woody (remove > all the packages with "corel" in them, edit sources.list, then apt-get > update && apt-get upgrade). My mouse doesn't work in X, much as if I had > the wrong argument to Protocol in 'Section "Pointer"' of XF86Config. > > Odd thing is, 24 hours ago it worked fine. It stopped when I was apt-get > install'ing things left and right [1], so I'm not sure what triggered it. > (it stopped working right after I installed ssh. Hm.) In XF86Config, the > Protocol and Device for the pointer (mouse) were "PS/2" and "/dev/mouse" > (/dev/mouse isa symlink to /dev/psaux). In the console, gpm still works > fine, and it has the equivalent settings in its config file > (/etc/gpm.conf; device=/dev/psaux, type=ps2). > > I have a very normal, 3-button, contemporary-model Logitech mouse, with a > PS/2 connector. In XF86Config, I tried changing the Protocol to (almost) > everything listed in man XF86Config; and changing the Device to /dev/psaux > and /dev/ttyS[0123]. In short, I tried every suggestion I found in the > archives in debian-user and my head. No avail. > > I did find that changing Device to be "/dev/gpmdata" and Protocol to > Microsoft, MouseMan, or MouseSystems, it worked fine except my mouse's > middle button didn't work. I use this button a lot. I can > Emulate3Buttons, but it's not the same. > > btw, this seems independent of WM (tested with twm; and enlightenment, > both with and without gpm). > > Thanks in advance. > Aaron > > [1] CorelOS is OK, except for the packages it's missing on the distro CD. > Didn't even have emacs, for chrissakes... > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: LINUX ON FAT32
Do you want to remove win98? If so, you can repartition your hd during the installation of Debian (uses cfdisk), in this process you remove the fat32 partition(s) and you can make ext2 and a swap partition, if you also want win98, you can also make a fat32 partition where you can install windows (you'll have to install win98 again, except if you got more then one partition already, in that case you can just remove one of those partitions and replace them by ext2), after that you can use lilo to set up multiboot. Hope this is of any help. Ron Rademaker On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have win98 on FAT32. I want to partition the h/d with fips, but it is not > allowing me since my pc is with FAT32. I want to load linux after > paritioning. > > Thx. > > -Vijay. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: installing MS PS/2 mouse Debian Linux2.1
What mouse do you got, subject tells me PS/2 and the mail says MS Bus mouse, if it's PS/2, you should use /dev/psaux. Ron Rademaker On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, William Smith wrote: > After installing Debian Linux2.1 I tried installing X11 but get an error : > > "Fatal server error: Cannot open mouse (Operation not supported by device)" > > there is no /dev/mouse device installed and when I try using modconf to > install an MS Bus Mouse I get an error : > > "/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/msbusmouse.o: init_module: Device or resource > busy. Installation failed" > > any suggestions? > > Bill > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: mysql-server root password
You can also change the password by loggin in as root, and use mysql,
change the password entry in the table user (with SQL statements, don't
forget to use password=password('$password') instead of
password=$password).
Ron Rademaker
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Northwest Advantage wrote:
>
> Please cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I am not currently subscribed to the list.
>
> When I installed mysql-server debconf said to set the mysql root
> password. Then it referenced /usr/share/doc/mysql-server/README.Debian
> for the instructions to do so. The instructions tell you to change it
> with /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'
>
> This is what happens when I run this command.
>
> frodo:~# /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password blah
> /usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> error: 'Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: YES)'
>
> Does it have something to do with the hosts file or is it an error in the
> instructions or possibly something else?
>
> frodo:~# cat /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 216.64.138.18 frodo.nwadv.com frodo
> 192.168.1.1 frodo.nwadv.com frodo
>
> -Kirt
>
> P.S. The box was a potato test cycle 2 install that has been kept
> current.
>
>
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Re: Sendmail feature wanted
You should use hash instead of dbm. Ron Rademaker On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi All, > I use Sendmail to send and recive mail through Internet but I want the > following feature: when an e-mail comes to an unknow user, it will be > delivery > to a know user. > > At Sendmail homepage, tells me to use a Virtual Domains and the command: > # makemap dbm /etc/mail/virtusertable > sourcefile > to create the virtusertable.db. > But this command not works and give a error: > # makemap dbm /etc/mail/virtusertable > sourcefile > # makemap: Type dbm not supported in this version > > My version of sendmail is 8.9.3-23 from Debian Potato. > I try to use a BerkeleyDB3.1 but I dont understand how I can make a db > with this. > If someone knows a way to do this work, I thanks so much. > Regards, Paulo Henrique > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Newbie needs help with IP-Masquerading
What does it say when you do: ipchains -L Ron Rademaker On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Jason Schepman wrote: > HELP!! I can't get IPMASQ working. I've recompiled my kernel to add MASQ > support and I'm pretty sure that I got it right. I've read through the > HOW-TO but I had problems following along (I think it was written with BSD > in mind.not Sys5). Anywaysany ideas or suggestions would be > helpful. I can't even tell you exactly what the problem is. All I know is > that my windows machine can't hit the internet when going through the debian > box. > > (It's not a DNS thing because I can't ping the DNS server from windows > either.) > > -Jason > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: missing perl manpages
The manpages are in perl-5.005-doc, you'll have to remove perl 5.004 if you want to get rid of it. Ron Rademaker On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Michael Soulier wrote: > > Hey guys. I have the following installed: > > in perl-5.004(no description available) > in perl-5.004-base (no description available) > in perl-5.004-doc(no description available) > ii perl-5.005 5.005.03-7.1Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and > Report L > ii perl-5.005-base 5.005.03-7.1The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish > Lister > in perl-5.005-suid (no description available) > ii perl-base 5.004.05-1.1Fake package assuring that one of the > -base pa > > First of all, why's perl 5.004 listed when to my knowledge, I > installed 5.005 over it? Can I fix this? > > Also, when I type "man perl", I get the main perl manpages, but > none of the other perl manpages seem to be installed, like perlvar, > perlfunc, etc. > > ?? > > Mike > > "To listen to the words of the learned, and to instill into others the > lessons of science, is better than religious exercises." > -- Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: scrambled chars on tty
You'll probably get the tty right again if you login on the tty and use 'reset' or 'setterm -reset'. Ron Rademaker On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Umum Wijoyo wrote: > Hi... > > I'd just like to ask: > Why do several of my tty-s display scrambled characters? > I can't login using them; if I do, I also get a scrambled shell prompt. > What's happening? > > OK! Thanks. > > Regards, > > Umum Wijoyo > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Apache w/ Potato, strange .CGI functionality.
Some pointers: - Is the first line of the script: #!/usr/bin/perl ?? or did you try the execution from the commandline by 'perl
Re: Location of eth0 files
In Slink (2.1) you can find what you're looking for in /etc/init.d/network, in Potato (2.2) and Woody (2.3) you can find it in /etc/network/interfaces. Ron Rademaker On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, cxpx wrote: > I originally installed debian w/ dhcp.I am now going through a > firewall. I > can't seem to find the files that contain the correct information so I can > modify them to use the new information. Right now I have to type 'ifconfig > eth0 down' then bring it up with the correct information. > > When I modify the info using linuxconf it doesn't keep the changes. How do I > go about changing this info permanently? > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Fixing Monitors Frequency
It'll probably work if you remove all the frequently lines from /etc/X11/XF86Config you don't wish to use... Ron Rademaker On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Kai Weber wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to start X with a fixed monitor frequency? My monitor is > able to do more than 100Hz but then the display is not as good as with > 85Hz. > > Where can I say: use alway 85Hz for my modes? > > Kai. > -- > + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~bond/ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: non xfree-related question about installing xfree4
The easiest way would be waiting for debian packages of xfree 4.0.1 ;) But if you don't want to wait, you could make something like this: - backup your current x-stuff (copy /usr/X11R6 to /usr/X11R6.3 and /etc/X11 to /etc/X11.3) - install xfree 4.0.1 to /usr/X11R6.4 and /etc/X11.4 - make symlinks /usr/X11R6 -> /usr/X11R6.4 and /etc/X11 -> /etc/X11.4 - run ldconfig - config x Now before every upgrade you do: - remove the symlinks - make symlinks /usr/X11R6 -> /usr/X11R6.3 and /etc/X11 -> /etc/X11.3 - run ldconfig After the upgrade, you put the symlinks back to pointing to the xfree 4.0 dirs and run ldconfig. Ron Rademaker On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Richard P. Groenewegen wrote: > Hi, > > I was thinking about installing xfree4.0.1 on my debian system, but > then I started worrying about how it would interfere with the debian > package management. > > For instance, say I just install XF4, overwriting all the older stuff > that debian has put there. What will happen when debian thinks it > should `upgrade' to a newer version? Will it overwrite my files? Or > what if I would deselect xfree-common? Will I have problems with > depencies? (Yes, probably!) > > So, what's the right way to persue this? As I said in the subject, I > don't think this is xfree-related, it's just about installing a newer > version of some debian package for which debian has lots of > dependencies. (And making them live in harmony.) > > regards, > Richard > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: installation problem
Is there an error?? My guess is that 60 meg is just not enough... Switch to another tty (ALT+F2) and type df, to see how much free space is left. Ron Rademaker On Mon, 14 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear sirs: > > I bought the Debian installation book by Thomas Down with the CD and followed > the instructions for installation on the CD. I have a 486-8MB mother board > with an 80 MB hard drive. I allocated 60 MB for Linux, 20 for DOS. I can > follow thru the steps all the way to installing BASE system. Then get stuck. > Every time I went thru it the screen keeps coming back to the same place > asking me to install BASE system. It happens in a circle. Can any one help > me with a solution to the problem? > Thank you for lisening. > > Yours, > > Shih Chang > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: apt-get help
Did you try: apt-get -f install, as it says?? It looks like you got exim installed, exim depends on some stuff and this is giving trouble... Ron Rademaker On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Ted Roden wrote: > this is a pretty dumb question, but its driving me > crazy... > > I'm trying to install software with apt-get and i'm > getting errors for packages I didn't try to install. > Not the dependancies of the package i want, > but a totally unrelated package... > > ie: > > $ apt-get install lynx > Reading Page lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > You might want to run `apt-get -f install` to correct these: > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > exim: Depends: libpcre1 but it is not going to be installed > eximon: Depends: xlib6g (>= 3.3-5) but it is not going to be > installed > E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install` with no packages (or > specify a solution) > > how can i get rid of this? > > Thanks. > ted. > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Licensing Information Request
I'd advice you to go to www.debian.org and read the social contract, I think it'll give you enough information. Ron Rademaker PS. Basically it says that debian is and will remain 100% free (it also says what's meant by free), and some other things... On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Dompnier, Frank wrote: > > Name: Frank Dompnier > > Company Name: Talisman Energy Inc. > > Address: Suite 3400, 888 3rd Street SW > > Calgary, Alberta T2P 5C5 > > Phone: (403) 237-1284 > > Fax: (403) 237-1674 > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Request type: S/W Export restrictions > > > We are interested in purchasing Debian Linux for our subsidiary company > based in Khartoum, Sudan. Please confirm that the use of this technology > will not constitute a prohibited export of goods or technology under > existing United States sanctions laws for this country. If I've contacted > you in error, please forward this correspondence to your sales or legal > representative. > > I look forward to your reply. > > Regards, > > Frank Dompnier > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Exim and multiple domains
I guess you should go to www.exim.org, somewhere on that site you can find examples on configuring things (a tar.gz), a while ago I also configured exim for multiple domains and one of the examples (I can't recall which one) was a great help! Ron Rademaker On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Alec Smith wrote: > Using Exim, how can I configure it to process mail for multiple domains? > Specifically I want mail to domaina.com processed by the .procmailrc in > User A's home directory while mail to domainb.com is processed by the > .procmailrc in User B's home directory. Exim is already configured to > accept mail for the domains, but doesn't do any special processing based on > the domain name. > > At the same time, I'd like to take some mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > deliver it directly to someotheruser on the same machine. Is there a way to > do this without having to use .procmailrc and process the e-mails twice? > (ie [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> someotheruser and someuser2 -> domain.com are > mapped in an Exim database -- Something along the lines of Sendmail's > virtusertable file) > > Alec > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
debugfs and superblock
I want to change the filesystem size (according to the superblock), because it's different from the physical size. I guess I should do this with debugfs (or perhaps fsck), if anybody has any ideas on how to do this I'd like to hear them. Ron Rademaker PS. For those who wonder how I managed to get in this situation, I dd-ed a partition to another partition that was just a little bit smaller ;)
Re: Debian 2.2 setup problem
What kind of errors do you get? I guess you get the problem when installing lilo, did you set the boot-flag on the partition (when partitioning the hd)? You don't need to load any drivers to complete the installation (except the driver for your network if you install over a network). Ron Rademaker On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Conry, Lance wrote: > Hi list, > Firstly, let me apologize if this shouldn't be posted here, if so, please > let me know, and point me to a more appropriate source. > > I'm trying to set up debain 2.2. > > When getting to the stage where I make the hard disk bootable, I says it > can't do it. I've tried using an 8mb partition (primary) at the beginning > of the disk, as well as directly to the MBR, all to no avail. > > The disk in IDE 2.5gb. My one question is, should I have loaded an IDE > driver when choosing drivers? could that be the problem? I also tried > making a boot floppy which failed too. The worst bit about this is that I > loose 45min's work overtime I restart the computer. > > Only linux is going on this disk (primary master) > > System is: > P166 > 96mb ram > 2.5 gb IDE (linux) > 4gb SCSI (win95) > > All help would be greatly appreciated. > > Regards > Lance > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Please help with command "man"
Try apt-get update before you try to install man. Ron Rademaker On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, A. Tuazon wrote: > Hi, I'm a Linux newbie using version 2.2 of Debian GNU/Linux on an old 486 > with 16megs of ram and 268 megs of HD space. I just installed Linux and > read the tutorial found on-line at the Debian web site. While reading > through the tutorial I came across the command "man" and it said to try the > command "man -k Postscript" as a demonstration. I typed in the command and > I got the message " bash : man : command not found ". I went on IRC to the > debian channel and the people there told me to go to logon root and type the > command "apt-get install man" or "apt-get install man-db" either one > resulted in an error message : " E: couldn't find package man ". > > > Could someone please help me and tell me how do I get the "man" command > working or installed into my system. Thank you ! > > > at > > P.S. I checked the /usr directory and I did find the directory of /man there > as well as the subdirectories of /man : /man1 , /man5, and /man8. These > three directories had filed that ended in .gz > > Any help would be appreciated. > > thanks again > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Help again with command "man".
You should have man, but if you don't you can download the appropiate package (man-db), just go to a local mirror, or if you don't know any to ftp.debian.org and download the file man-db_.deb, get it to your system and do: dpkg -i man-db_.deb (of course replace by the version of man-db you've downloaded / are going to download). Ron Rademaker PS. If you're using tcsh, you should do rehash before you can actually use man. On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, A. Tuazon wrote: > Well I just found out why I can't use the method : apt-get install man-db > manpages or all the other versions of that string. The machine running > Debian is NOT connected to the internet. > > However, when I was installing the OS via floppies only, shouldn't the > installation have installed "man" for me ? Or do you still have to install > "man" after you install the system ? > > Therefore, could someone please tell me if there is a way to install "man" > via floppies. I'm using an ancient 486 and it only has a hd and 1.44 floppy > drive. I'd appreciate any help and thanks again to all those who replied to > my previous message. > > Thanks > at > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: win and linux
And if you're booting then; DON'T FORGET to press a key (I find caps-lock working nice) and then, at the LILO prompt type the label of the OS to boot (TAB shows your choices). Ron On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > I'm too new for linux and loaded to my computer linux yesterday. However I > > want to use my old O.S.(windows 95) too but now I can only use linux. How > > can I use linux and windows together. I have got some documnets but I > > coludn't find any satisfactory answer. I added something to lilo.conf but > > there is no change. I know this question is very simple for you but any > > solution or reference to a document will be very good for me... > > > you have to run lilo after each change of lilo.conf. did you? > > the right satements should be > > other = /dev/hda1 > label = dos > table = /dev/hda > > if your WinBlows resides on the first partition. > > -- > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! > -- > Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: newbie questions - kill and lpd
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > Hi All. Two newbie questions. First - I've just had netscape crash and > > kill -9 pid failed to work. I got a netscape zombie according to top. > > Any suggestions about what to do now? > This indicates, that the parent process of netscape is hanging or > something. Don't care much about it: zombies take nearly no memory. Nearly no memory is still too much; try: killall netscape, I might work (think not), if it doesn't help you can do ps aux and kill -9 . NOTE: By using slay EVERY process of that user will be killed (including shell, so the user will be logged out), so make sure you have NO open files you were editing, because not saved data WILL be lost! > > > Second - I get messages about lp1 being out of paper - I have no printer > > attached at the moment. I've killed the lpd daemon, and its stopped the > > messages, but what is the correct way to deal with this? > > Thanks in advance for help. > remove the lpd symlinks in /etc/rc.d/.../ Works fine also, I prefer renaming the script name in /etc/init.d, which also works fine (but is a bit faster). Ron > > -- > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! > -- > Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need. > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: usb keyboard + mouse and xfree86
USB is not supported in the 2.2.x kernels, however it is supported in the 2.3.x (I don't know in any version, but the newer ones support usb). You should try a 2.3 kernel. Ron On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Kendall Shaw wrote: > Do you think it's possible to use usb keyboard + mouse in xfree? The > keyboard and mouse are unresponsive in XF86Config under 3.3.6. > > Kendall > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: apt-get problem
Looks like your dns isn't working the way it should. Ron On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Bill wrote: > Hi all, > can someone tell me what is to be done to fix this problem. > > > sources.list > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US > > > debian:~# apt-get update > > Err http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Packages > Could not resolve 'non-us.debian.org' > Err http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Release > Could not resolve 'non-us.debian.org' > Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages > Could not resolve 'http.us.debian.org' > Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Release > Could not resolve 'http.us.debian.org' > Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages > Could not resolve 'http.us.debian.org' > Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Release > Could not resolve 'http.us.debian.org' > Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages > Could not resolve 'http.us.debian.org' > Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Release > Could not resolve 'http.us.debian.org' > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://http.us.debian.org > unstable/main Packages' > (/var/state/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i > 386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://http.us.debian.org > unstable/contrib Packages' > (/var/state/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_contrib_binar > y-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://http.us.debian.org > unstable/non-free Packages' > (/var/state/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_non-free_bina > ry-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US > Packages' > (/var/state/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_bi > nary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
