Re: defrag

1997-06-20 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Peter Iannarelli wrote: > I do not have this file on my 2.1.42 linux kernel > I do have this file with my 2.1.2 kernel. The old extfs and xiafs file systems were officially discontinued and removed in the 2.1.x series kernels as obsolete.

Re: PS/2 Mouse device

1997-06-20 Thread Rob Duncan
> "SZ" == Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SZ> Can anyone tell me what the major/minor device numbers for a SZ> PS/2 mouse are? Currently gpm et al want to use /dev/ttyS0 SZ> but that is definately not working. I have /dev/mouse soft linked to /dev/psmouse, whic is in t

Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
Yes, that is true. This is precisely why this is not such a big deal for us, although it may be for people running Windows... Jim Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 19 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > > > Let's not over-react, please. This bug *only* allows people to see > > files that th

Re: setting & switching screen densities

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
"E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This looks like something similar to what I experienced with XF86Setup. > It goes like this: running XF86Setup, the program determines the modes > with the best refresh rates for my monitor/video card combination. > Seems OK, but it does so _for

Re: setting & switching screen densities

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > > stealth vram (#124), which is an S3. I've set it for 432 under 8 bits, > > and 32 under 16 (1mb vram). But it seems to insist that the higher > > density modes don't exist. It's startup messages (the one

Re: Quotas & AMD

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
Did you enable quota support in the kernel on both the client *AND* the NFS server? I work with a Debian machine with just such a setup, and there are no real problems there Felix Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anybody know how I can configure my network in order to let the > u

Re: Netscape bug: Newbies using root

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
It is stated very clearly in documentation all over that you should run as root as little as possible... Besides, it is common sense. When I first taught myself Unix, this was impressed on me very clearly. The Linux NAG and SAG mention it, I'm sure, as do some various HOWTOs. BG Lim <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Anyone has seen this before?

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eloy A. Paris) writes: > Jun 19 11:36:11 zeus kernel: Current error sr0b:00: sense key Medium Error > Jun 19 11:36:11 zeus kernel: Additional sense indicates L-ec uncorrectable > error > Jun 19 11:36:11 zeus kernel: CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 660128 > > What's happeni

Installation 1.3 failed, returned to 1.1 and upgraded

1997-06-20 Thread JIM_BURT_at_nass-fx
I pulled all the tricks I could, trying to install Debian 1.3 as on ftp.debian.org with bo/disks-i386/current/* dated June 4. I created 7 install diskettes both at work and at home, but both sets produced the same problem on my home computer (which has run Debian 1.1 si

PS/2 Mouse device

1997-06-20 Thread Stephen Zander
Can anyone tell me what the major/minor device numbers for a PS/2 mouse are? Currently gpm et al want to use /dev/ttyS0 but that is definately not working. Thanks Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: /etc/passwd

1997-06-20 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: > Just noticed this > My /etc/passwd is group owned by one of my users. > Does the group owner of this file change when a user changes his password? I don't think this is right. Do you have Netscape installed? Wasn't this a bug with an old versi

Smail and spammers

1997-06-20 Thread John Foster
Is there any way I can disable spammers from using my smail server to distribute spam? >From the logs it appears that someone is sending mail from a compuserve account that then propagates into a large batch of mails to address all over the world. The original post from compuserve and the result

Re: Xlib3.3 server probs

1997-06-20 Thread Stephen Zander
"Colin R. Telmer" wrote: > Actually, to be somewhat more secure (if you are connected to the net), > you can use (it should be xhost, not xhosts) > > xhost +fulldomainname > > so that other machines are still refused. Also, if this is the way you > choose to go, you can alternatively create

Re: Is it possible to force the serial port IRQ's?

1997-06-20 Thread stick
Howdy Carlo! Yes, there is a utility to manipulate the serial ports - it's called setserial. It's available of the Debian FTP server as: /debian/unstable/binary/base/setserial_2.12-4.deb Once installed, check out the man page: man setserial Also, check out: /usr/doc/setserial/README > > Hell

Multiple kernels & /System.map

1997-06-20 Thread Stephen Zander
Is there some way to pass an alternate name from /System.map (or /boot/System.map) to the kernel at boot? I'm mucking with a custom kernel but want to leave the 2.0.30 image safely intact. I've setup lilo.confto recognise /vmlinuz.2.0.30 as a valid kernel but can't figure out how to seperate the

/etc/passwd

1997-06-20 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Just noticed this My /etc/passwd is group owned by one of my users. Does the group owner of this file change when a user changes his password? Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Is it possible to force the serial port IRQ's?

1997-06-20 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Hello All: I have a PPro 200 system which I dual boot between Windows95 and Debian Linux (most of the time!). I also have an internal modem installed on COM2 so I have used the BIOS to set the on-board serial port to COM4 with IRQ 11 (this is an option for my motherboard which I have not seen in

Re: Watchdog Trouble

1997-06-20 Thread Al Youngwerth
Maybe your program that opens the watchdog device is running before the watchdog file get loaded. Look through your logs for load order. You may need to edit your /etc/init.d/boot or modules file. Good luck, Al Youngwerth [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- > From: Stefan Baums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > T

Re: looking for programs

1997-06-20 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Jochen Solbrig wrote: > I'm looking for two programs: First, I need a program to > make foils (I tried LaTeX/foiltex but writing foils with > LaTeX is very difficult and takes a lot of time). Second, > I need a program to make scientific plots. Gnuplot doesn't > produce very

Re: striping, etc.

1997-06-20 Thread Rob Browning
Dima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Put RAIDed disks on one controller and / and swap on another. Well, as I understand it, if you're not using hardware raid, specifically, if you're using IDE, then having the RAIDed disks on the same IDE controller mostly defeats the purpose of RAID (at least RA

dpkg reports problems with package files

1997-06-20 Thread Ed Osinski
I installed Debian 1.3 from the recent Tri-Linux CD. When dselect was going through the packagesin the Install step, the following error message was reported: dpkg-deb: unexpected end of file in version number in /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/stable/binary/sound/timidity-patches_0.1-1.deb dpkg: err

Re: Debian 1.3 install enters a reboot cycle

1997-06-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Joost Kooij wrote: > Building a kernel with exact > support for your hardware might get you `over the hill'. > Just include support for all you need plus ramdisk and initrd support for > the installation rootdisk. Can't remember if a 'rdev /dev/ramdisk' i

Re: xdm is not comming up ......

1997-06-20 Thread Pete Harlan
> I have installed and configured xdm, at boot time xdm is launched but > nothing appears on the screens. I only have the 6 tty screens available. 1. Look at /var/log/xdm-errors for possible explanations. 2. If you power down your machine abnormally, xdm leaves /tmp/.X0-lock lying around, which

Re: 100 Mbit Ethernet

1997-06-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Linux dist. research" wrote: > Greetings, > > It seems that SMC has changed the EtherPower 9332 a bit, and has caused us > a considerable amount of grief. If you can get the older 9332DST rather > than the newer 9332BDT or 9332BVT, you are better off. A couple days ago, > I was configuring my

Re: 100 Mbit Ethernet

1997-06-20 Thread Linux dist. research
Greetings, It seems that SMC has changed the EtherPower 9332 a bit, and has caused us a considerable amount of grief. If you can get the older 9332DST rather than the newer 9332BDT or 9332BVT, you are better off. A couple days ago, I was configuring my machine as a gateway and put another card i

Problems with defrag

1997-06-20 Thread Giuliano Procida
Try this: # e2defrag /dev/mydisk I know, the defrags are not named exactly consistently with the fscks. Ideally defrag should be renamed and replaced by a script that says "use defrag.foo for foo file systems"; the script could then be upgraded to use file(1) if there was interest. Giuliano. -

Re: Debian 1.3 install enters a reboot cycle

1997-06-20 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
--- Peter S Galbraith wrote: > However, I don't think your 2940U is the problem. The no_reset > parameter is to prevent the HBA from resetting the SCSI bus, which it > does by default to allow all the SCSI devices on the bus to initialise. Then I don't need the `linux' label anyway. <...> The l

Re: defrag

1997-06-20 Thread Peter Iannarelli
dpk wrote: > > I don't think it is supported any more... here is a line from the manpage > on 'fs': > > The xia filesystem is no longer actively developed or maintained. It is > used infrequently. > > I am running the current stable kernel and was able to find the file > /usr/include/linux/aut

defrag problem solved.

1997-06-20 Thread dpk
I just figure out this - unlike fsck, defrag does not check /etc/fstab so you have to explicitly use e2defrag. I guess I had problems understanding what you meant by the mimix fs, but 'defrag' will run specifically on mimix fs, and e2defrag on ext2 fs. Using e2fsck works great. Sorry about the c

Re: defrag

1997-06-20 Thread dpk
I don't think it is supported any more... here is a line from the manpage on 'fs': The xia filesystem is no longer actively developed or maintained. It is used infrequently. I am running the current stable kernel and was able to find the file /usr/include/linux/autoconf.h. Do you not have th

Re: striping, etc.

1997-06-20 Thread Dima
>>Rick Hawkins wrote: > >wow, that was fast :) > >I've downloaded it, and read the docs. I compiled the kernel with >support for these devices. > >They will go on a machine with 3 200m ide drives, which will be a poor-man's >server. My current thinking is to mount / on the first control

Re: defrag

1997-06-20 Thread Peter Iannarelli
I have been trying to compile defrag. I get the following error: /usr/include/linux/config.h:4: linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory xdump.c:56: linux/xia_fs.h: No such file or directory gcc -Wall -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DEXT2FS -c -o defrag.ext2.o defrag.c In file included fr

Re: Watchdog Trouble

1997-06-20 Thread Stefan Baums
Bruce Perens wrote: > > It sounds as if the watchdog daemon tries to start before the software > watchdog kernel module is loaded. Is watchdog in /etc/modules? Yup, you're right. In /etc/modules, I activated "auto" (letting kerneld take care of things) and deactivated the rest, rebooted, et voil

Re: defrag

1997-06-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
Whoops. Exactly right. You should umount the partition before doing an fsck. Mea culpa. -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- On

Re: defrag

1997-06-20 Thread Bruce Perens
> I'm not certain, but I think it's unwise to run this command [fsck] > on a mounted filesystem. I usually run it from a rescue root disk > if it's for my system's root partition. It'll complain if the disk is mounted for write. You should be able to boot from hard disk with the command "linux si

Re: Watchdog Trouble

1997-06-20 Thread Emilio Lopes
> "SB" == Stefan Baums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> I'm running Debian 1.3.0, kernel 2.0.30, and my software watchdog SB> timer is having trouble starting getting started at boot time. The SB> .deb installed all right, my kernel is configured SB> CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y SB> CONFIG_WATCHD

Big problem with TeX/LaTeX

1997-06-20 Thread Paul Rightley
I was wondering if anyone has run into this lately and if it is something I am doing wrong... I have used the 'new' tetex packages of Debian for some time now. I was recently 'forced' to remove X and tex from my machine temporarily. Now I have X back and running, but am having problems getting t

Re: defrag

1997-06-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> I believe it's 'e2fsck -f', which "forces" an fsck even if it seems > clean. I'm not certain, but I think it's unwise to run this command on a mounted filesystem. I usually run it from a rescue root disk if it's for my system's root partition. -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist

Re: Watchdog Trouble

1997-06-20 Thread Bruce Perens
It sounds as if the watchdog daemon tries to start before the software watchdog kernel module is loaded. Is watchdog in /etc/modules? Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65

Re: Mail Archives Stopped?

1997-06-20 Thread Bruce Perens
This was probably due to the FTP daemon not answering on master.debian.org . Simon Shapiro fixed this for us and it is working now. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D

Watchdog Trouble

1997-06-20 Thread Stefan Baums
Hello, I'm running Debian 1.3.0, kernel 2.0.30, and my software watchdog timer is having trouble starting getting started at boot time. The .deb installed all right, my kernel is configured CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT=y # CONFIG_WDT is not set CONFIG

Re: defrag

1997-06-20 Thread dpk
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > : I have an old scsi drive which I fsck'ed as ext2. I didn't get any errors > : doing so. ( this was about 4 months ago ). Now the drive is 24% > : non-contiguous and I finally found the defrag package, however when I run > : it I get this error: > >

Re: defrag

1997-06-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
I believe it's 'e2fsck -f', which "forces" an fsck even if it seems clean. -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- On Fri, 20 Jun 1997

Re: Mail Archives Stopped?

1997-06-20 Thread sacampbe
David R Baker wrote: > I am a relatively new subscriber to this list. For the 1st week or > two it appeared to be archived once a day. It has now been more than > a week since the archives accessible through www.debian.org have > been updated. Is something wrong or is this normal? The problem i

Re: where is md home page?

1997-06-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
I don't believe there is a home page. The docs are pretty good, all things being equal (It's Linux, the author is French and the docs are in (very good) English, this is rapidly changing software ...) At any rate, I found no mention of a home page in the docs. There is a mailing list at vger.rut

Re: PPP with a dynamic address?

1997-06-20 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I guess my question at this point is, "What purpose is served by the line: > > 199.44.34.24dwarf.polaris.net dwarf > > in /etc/hosts?" > > If I don't need such a line when dynamic IPs are used, why do I need one > when it is a static IP?

Re: defrag

1997-06-20 Thread Christoph Lameter
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : I have an old scsi drive which I fsck'ed as ext2. I didn't get any errors : doing so. ( this was about 4 months ago ). Now the drive is 24% : non-contiguous and I finally found the defrag package, however when I run : it I get this error: : bash# defra

Re: How to deliver mail over the modem

1997-06-20 Thread Randy Edwards
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Johannes Martinez wrote: Uh-oh, I'm on thin ice with some of your mail questions as I've barely got my system running so I'll let some other chime in with their responses there (as you can see, you've almost exhausted my puddle-deep pool of mail knowledge:-). > This i'd li

Re: 100 Mbit Ethernet

1997-06-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
In particular, see http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov/~becker/100mbs.html The Tulip card are supported to be very good. I just bought an SMC EtherPower (not the II model), but our network is still 10mbs. Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Richard L Shepherd wrote: > > > Does Linux suppo

Re: striping, etc.

1997-06-20 Thread Debian user mail
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > > They will go on a machine with 3 200m ide drives, which will be a > > > poor-man's > > > server. My current thinking is to mount / on the first controller, and > > > use the other pair as /usr on the second interface. /usr will be NFS > > > export

NCR 875

1997-06-20 Thread Geir A. Bjune
Hi! I am (I think) going to buy a NCR 875 SCSI-controller for use with debian 1.3. Should I be worried about problems ? Will it work ? What kernel should I use (if not 2.0.30) Geir -- \\\|/// Geir Bjune - Student ved IFD,HiBu \\ ~ ~ //http://home.sn.no/home/gbjune ( @ @ )

Re: Debian 1.3 install enters a reboot cycle

1997-06-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Ben Gertzfield wrote: > > The PC is a Compaq Deskpro 6000: > > PPro 200, 64 MB > > Adaptec 2940U SCSI (IRQ 11) w/ one 4.3 GB disk attached. > > ATAPI PD-CD (The CD shows up as /dev/hdc on Slackware) > > Matrox Millenium graphics card, IRQ11 > > SMC EtherPower 10/100 (Tulip-based) Ethern

Re: Xlib3.3 server probs

1997-06-20 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Brian Skreeg wrote: > > > Only the user that runs the xserver (startx) can run apps on it > > any attempt to run an app by another user is refused. eg below; > > Two solutions. You can allow any user to run apps by executing

Re: Xlib3.3 server probs

1997-06-20 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Brian Skreeg wrote: > Only the user that runs the xserver (startx) can run apps on it > any attempt to run an app by another user is refused. eg below; Yes I've noticed this problem as well. Two solutions. You can allow any user to run apps by executing: xhosts + The s

Re: 100 Mbit Ethernet

1997-06-20 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Richard L Shepherd wrote: > Does Linux support any/all 100 Mbit capable ethernet cards? i.e. is it > possible to use 100 Mbit ethernet with Linux? Yes, no problems. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Debian 1.3 install enters a reboot cycle

1997-06-20 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The PC is a Compaq Deskpro 6000: > PPro 200, 64 MB > Adaptec 2940U SCSI (IRQ 11) w/ one 4.3 GB disk attached. > ATAPI PD-CD (The CD shows up as /dev/hdc on Slackware) > Matrox Millenium graphics card, IRQ11 > SMC EtherPower 10/100 (Tulip-ba

Re: Debian 1.3 install enters a reboot cycle

1997-06-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Nathan E Norman wrote: > I'm guessing the kernel name is 'linux'. > No matter, as you can hit the key at the boot prompt to > see a list of valid boot images. I tried that, but it didn't work. Perhaps this hints to a bad image? I'll try booting with the same diskette on another PC...

Re: setting & switching screen densities

1997-06-20 Thread Rick Hawkins
> > > > (--) there is no mode definition mamed "1024x768" > ^--- > > (--) removing mode "1024X768": from list of valid modes" > ^--- > > It looks like you use a capital 'X' when you define the mode, and > lowercase 'x' when

Re: setting & switching screen densities

1997-06-20 Thread Carl Johnson
Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > X is now running, but it seems to be ignoring options. It's a Diamond > stealth vram (#124), which is an S3. I've set it for 432 under 8 bits, > and 32 under 16 (1mb vram). But it seems to insist that the higher > density modes don't exist. It's start

[no subject]

1997-06-20 Thread Kharaghani, Ali
I'm getting " FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition. Press any key to exit fdisk" during installation. The first partition on my hard drive hda1, I guess is not recognized by fdisk or cfdisk within the installation program (on resc floppy). This happen on option "B: Partition a hard disk", for a Sw

Re: Linux FS Question

1997-06-20 Thread David Wright
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > Actually it's not superstition at all. I think you can still recover a file > > that's been overwritten once with zeroes... just open the HD (in a clean > > room, of course) and read off the sectors with a electron microscope (or > > I think the older

Re: defrag

1997-06-20 Thread dpk
I have checked the manpage of fsck to find what produces it. I had an unclean reboot the other day so when the system came up it fsck'ed the disks and printed output of the % contiguous. I don't suggest clicking the reset button on your linux box to find out however. hehe. I'm sure someone else

Re: xdm is not comming up ......

1997-06-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Eddie Katz wrote: > > I have installed and configured xdm, at boot time xdm is launched but > nothing appears on the screens. I only have the 6 tty screens available. > Doing "ps -x" shows that xdm is running. > So where is it. > > Of course, loggin in to a tty screen and executing "startx" works

where is md home page?

1997-06-20 Thread Lawrence Chim
Is there a home page for md's driver/utils? Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

RE: How to install when a Boot Manager is present?

1997-06-20 Thread Kharaghani, Ali
I'm getting " FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition. Press any key to exit fdisk" during installation. The first partition on my hard drive hda1, I guess is not recognized by fdisk or cfdisk within the installation program (on resc floppy). This happen on option "B: Partition a hard disk", for a Sw

Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My concern was for someone running Netscape as root. This should never occur. People should not run Netscape as root. (In a nutshell: Java The thought of running unknown programs as root should send a shiver down your spine...) > And thirdly, si

Xlib3.3 server probs

1997-06-20 Thread Brian Skreeg
Hi, I recently upgraded my Xfree setup to 3.3 from unstable. But now I seem to have some problems. Only the user that runs the xserver (startx) can run apps on it any attempt to run an app by another user is refused. eg below; # xhost Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

Re: striping, etc.

1997-06-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: : :> > They will go on a machine with 3 200m ide drives, which will be a poor-man's :> > server. My current thinking is to mount / on the first controller, and :> > use the other pair as /usr on the second interface. /usr will be NFS :> > exported. Or

Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)

1997-06-20 Thread Behan Webster
Rick Hawkins wrote: > > > already knows the names of these files. On a Debian 1.3 machine, > > which uses shadow passwords, essentially the only thing that would be > > of use for people would be files in your home directory. And since > > there are no predictable patterns for these files, it wo

Re: striping, etc.

1997-06-20 Thread Rick Hawkins
> > They will go on a machine with 3 200m ide drives, which will be a poor-man's > > server. My current thinking is to mount / on the first controller, and > > use the other pair as /usr on the second interface. /usr will be NFS > > exported. Or would I be better off putting the two /usr drives

Re: Debian 1.3 install enters a reboot cycle

1997-06-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
I'm guessing the kernel name is 'linux'. It's actaully the label name in LILO, if you had a label ... otherwise it's the name of he image, I believe. No matter, as you can hit the key at the boot prompt to see a list of valid boot images. However, I don't think your 2940U is the problem. The n

Re: Debian 1.3 install enters a reboot cycle

1997-06-20 Thread Clint Adams
> None worked. Any idea how to get passed this hurdle? Try 'linux'--you can probably find out for sure by hitting TAB. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)

1997-06-20 Thread Rick Hawkins
> already knows the names of these files. On a Debian 1.3 machine, > which uses shadow passwords, essentially the only thing that would be > of use for people would be files in your home directory. And since > there are no predictable patterns for these files, it would be > difficult to construc

Re: xdm is not comming up ......

1997-06-20 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Eddie Katz wrote: > I have installed and configured xdm, at boot time xdm is launched but > nothing appears on the screens. I only have the 6 tty screens available. > Doing "ps -x" shows that xdm is running. > So where is it. > > Of course, loggin in to a tty screen and exe

Re: setting & switching screen densities

1997-06-20 Thread Rick Hawkins
> Actually, there's something weird with the latest xf86config. > A few days ago i got rid of my old 15" monitor and got a 17", so I made a > backup copy of my /etc/X11/XF86Config file and ran xf86config. > It seemed to work perfectly. I set the mouse, keyboard, video card, > monitor (filled in

Re: LAN configuration problem?

1997-06-20 Thread Rob Browning
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, Randy's question was about an IP Masquerading setup. He almost > certainly doesn't want ip_forwarding turned on. Hmm. I'm not sure but I think as far as the kernel is concerned masquerading may count as a form of forwarding. All I do know is th

Debian 1.3 install enters a reboot cycle

1997-06-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Tried to install debian 1.3 from the TRI-Linux CD. At some point during Linux loading, the system reboots and enters an infinite cycle. I have an Adaptec 2940U and tried to pass "aic7xxx=no_reset" to the kernel, but I don't know what the kernel name is! I tried: boot: default aic7xxx=no_reset boo

Re: bizarre netscape behavior

1997-06-20 Thread Rick Hawkins
> > next day, however, i get a message that I have 3.00 resources instead of > > 3.01. Do i need a daily install? :)There has never been any other > > netscape on this installation; just the *deb file from unstable, and the > > *tgz file from netscape > Do you have any cron jobs that make mod

Re: eth0: Too much work !!!!!!!!???????

1997-06-20 Thread Paul Wade
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Eddie Katz wrote: > I am getting in regular intervals on the tty console the message: > > eth0: Too much work on interrupt, 0x01 > > What is that ?? My network is working fine, no problems, maybe it comes > out becaude my ethernet "wd" driver is set as module ??? > >

Re: I need help again please?

1997-06-20 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Dominic Torruellas wrote: > OK I've done what all you nice peaple have told me to do, I've turned of > my cache cand shadow ram stuff and tried to boot off teh rescue disk, > now it says non-system disk error, anyone know how I can fix this? This sounds very much like the bi

Re: problems with Adaptec AHA2x4x at installation

1997-06-20 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, schaffer wrote: > > I have tried unsuccessfully tried several versions of Debian on machines > with Adaptec 2x4x SCSI adapters. I haven't gotten around yet to see how > the kernel is actually configured, but on bootup it recognizes the adapter > and tries to initialise it en

xdm is not comming up ......

1997-06-20 Thread Eddie Katz
I have installed and configured xdm, at boot time xdm is launched but nothing appears on the screens. I only have the 6 tty screens available. Doing "ps -x" shows that xdm is running. So where is it. Of course, loggin in to a tty screen and executing "startx" works ! Any help please. -- TO

eth0: Too much work !!!!!!!!???????

1997-06-20 Thread Eddie Katz
I am getting in regular intervals on the tty console the message: eth0: Too much work on interrupt, 0x01 What is that ?? My network is working fine, no problems, maybe it comes out becaude my ethernet "wd" driver is set as module ??? Any ideas ?? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Re: plip connection to laptop breaks after laptop disk powers down

1997-06-20 Thread Geir A. Bjune
At 04:29 PM 6/20/97 +0200, Gerd Bavendiek wrote: >recently I connected my laptop B via PLIP to my Tower A at home. Both are >running Debian 1.2 (Kernel 2.0.27). >Everything works wells as long as the laptop's disk is busy. After 120 >sec been idle the disk is run down. This is the moment when the >

Re: How do I find the source of the spammers?

1997-06-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Paul Wade wrote: > > The problem of "relaying" can be solved by restricting access to the local > subnet. However, that would irritate some good customers. Suppose I am > traveling with my laptop and want to read and answer my email. I don't > want to pay for a toll call to the dialup because I ca

THANKS

1997-06-20 Thread Richard Harran.
I was having trouble downloading debian by ftp. The problem was, as many people on this list suggested, that my 3c509 ethernet card was mis-configured, and trying to broadcast through the coaxial socket when my network connection was through a 10-base-T cable. I was able to configure it correctl

Re: defrag

1997-06-20 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, dpk wrote: > I have an old scsi drive which I fsck'ed as ext2. I didn't get any errors > doing so. ( this was about 4 months ago ). Now the drive is 24% > non-contiguous I've seen a few people state their fragmentation percent. How do you get this number? ...RickM... --

Re: setting & switching screen densities

1997-06-20 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> Actually, there's something weird with the latest xf86config. > > A few days ago i got rid of my old 15" monitor and got a 17", so I made a > backup copy of my /etc/X11/XF86Config file and ran xf86config. > > It seemed to work perfectly. I set the mouse, keyboard, video card, > monitor (filled

Re: Quotas & AMD

1997-06-20 Thread Lukas Nellen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Ok. I know that. I'm starting rpc.rquotad in my netstd_misc script (on > the server), so it is not the problem... When I mount the filesystems on > the clients, via NFS too, directly in the fstab (not in AMD) the quotas > are shown normaly (if I didn't have started the

Re: setting & switching screen densities

1997-06-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Daniel Doro Ferrante wrote: > I suppose you have already run the 'xf86config'. Have you set > everything that it asks for? In a machine I installed a friend of > mine forgot to set the mouse under X and it didn't worked without the > mouse installed... Things like this can hap

defrag

1997-06-20 Thread dpk
I have an old scsi drive which I fsck'ed as ext2. I didn't get any errors doing so. ( this was about 4 months ago ). Now the drive is 24% non-contiguous and I finally found the defrag package, however when I run it I get this error: bash# defrag /dev/sda1 defrag 0.61 defrag: bad magic number in

ANNOUNCE: updated deb-view.el V1.3 for Deb file viewing

1997-06-20 Thread Rick Macdonald
Last summer I wrote a deb file browser for emacs. I'm sure it will be made obsolete by the deity project but it may be of use to some people until then. Apparently MC has similar functionality. Somewhere along the way deb-view stopped differentiating between new and old style deb files on Debia

Re: setting & switching screen densities

1997-06-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > stealth vram (#124), which is an S3. I've set it for 432 under 8 bits, > and 32 under 16 (1mb vram). But it seems to insist that the higher > density modes don't exist. It's startup messages (the ones that are > left) annnouce > > (--) there is no mo

Re: How do I find the source of the spammers?

1997-06-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jun 20, 1997 at 07:50:01AM +1000, John Foster wrote: > This post is probably a bit off topic, but maybe one of you can give > me a pointer in the right direction. > > I'm looking after the servers of an ISP, and someone is using us for > bulk mailouts. > > I get a lot of mail in postmaste

plip connection to laptop breaks after laptop disk powers down

1997-06-20 Thread Gerd Bavendiek
Hi, recently I connected my laptop B via PLIP to my Tower A at home. Both are running Debian 1.2 (Kernel 2.0.27). Everything works wells as long as the laptop's disk is busy. After 120 sec been idle the disk is run down. This is the moment when the connection between Tower and laptop seems to be

Re: RPM to deb package conversion

1997-06-20 Thread joost witteveen
> > According to the announcement for Debian 1.3 at the Debian web site, > dpkg can now be used to install RPM files (at least that's how I read it). > I upgraded to 1.3, but I don't see anything about this in the dpkg docs or > man page. I tried it on an rpm file ( dpkg -i something.rpm) b

Re: Netscape and bash 2.0

1997-06-20 Thread Clint Adams
> It was initially installed with the installer package. Does it have > to be purged and re-installed? Yes. There seems to be no mechanism for upgraded versions to compensate for the absence of the patch in previous ones. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" t

Re: Anyone has seen this before?

1997-06-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
Sounds like you need to recreate the filesystem on the SCSI disk, and do a badblock check.. I had a Quantum Empire drive that was giving me problems like this ... I created a filesystem and ran a bad block check, and I haven't seen a media error since. Doing the bad blocks check on a 2 gig drive a

Re: striping, etc.

1997-06-20 Thread Brian White
> They will go on a machine with 3 200m ide drives, which will be a poor-man's > server. My current thinking is to mount / on the first controller, and > use the other pair as /usr on the second interface. /usr will be NFS > exported. Or would I be better off putting the two /usr drives on > sep

Re: bizarre netscape behavior

1997-06-20 Thread Brian White
> I've now had this happen twice. When i install netscape, it works. The > next day, however, i get a message that I have 3.00 resources instead of > 3.01. Do i need a daily install? :)There has never been any other > netscape on this installation; just the *deb file from unstable, and the >

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