Re: Maintaining multiple Debian boxes

Martin Konold scripsit: |A free Anrew File System like setup would be nice to deal with these kind |of nfs perfomrance problems. I don't know, I have never used it, and it doesn't seem to be very widespread. |We do use a commercial tool called venus for administering our linux |Ppro Cluster toge

Re: Maintaining multiple Debian boxes

ngs by hand, like upgrading the libc first to save dependencies or something along those lines. Arrigo P.S.I added debian-users in the Cc: field 'cos I think it is of interest over there. -- Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~agbt Mathematics Dept. I

Re: Maintaining multiple Debian boxes

Ben Gertzfield scripsit: |Ick. :) Yes, that would be slow on a slow net. I've heard wonderful |things about a Linux distribution out there that will cache NFS files |on a local hard drive, but I forget which it is. There must be some |way to to it and save bandwidth... Well, think about it from a

Re: Maintaining multiple Debian boxes

ep up with this. Propagation of local binaries is done via rdist, as long as they are placed in /usr/local. Of course this means having rules for programs which require machine-specific configuration using the "special", for example Condor (batch processing), etc. Arrigo -- Arrigo

Re: LaserJet IIIp and apsfilter

Martin Konold scripsit: |No, I think that you are able to get 300x300 dpi with your setup. Mmh, I am not sure - when I do so I get an error on the HP saying "Memory overflow"... that is why I had to reduce to 150x150. Any ideas? Ciao, Arrigo -- Arrigo Triulzi <[EM

/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file zapped by upgrade

e Debian way"? Thanks, Arrigo -- Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~agbt Mathematics Dept. Imperial College of Science & Technology - London - UK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Maintaining multiple Debian boxes

perhaps put together a group to add suggestion to the main Debian developers for supporting installations with lots and lots of boxes? Ciao, Arrigo -- Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~agbt Mathematics Dept. Imperial College of Science &

LaserJet IIIp and apsfilter

alternative (I am using the ljet3 driver, and have tried all the others in an attempt to get 300x300, of course with no positive results). Any help will be gratefully appreciated, Arrigo -- Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~agbt Mathematics Dept. Im

utmp still confused with new base-files 1.2.0-3

Hello, X still confuses w: the entry for :0 appears with finger but not with w. Even after a reboot - could it have something to do with the contents of /etc/X11/Xresources: XTerm*utmpInhibit: false This is the only "novelty" introduced into the file by the switch to 3.2-1.

xrdb in 3.2-1 needs LD_PRELOAD

p and ignore your .Xresources file... Ciao, Arrigo -- Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~agbt Mathematics Dept. Imperial College of Science & Technology - London - UK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe&

XFree 3.2 International Users HOWTO

pi mode you are particularly fond of you can recycle the old 3.1.2 XF86Config from the "Monitors" section onwards without any changes. Save this new config file and restart xdm. You will get back your proper keyboard mappings and be able to log in. Hope this helps someone else, Ar

X 3.2 and utmp entry

Hello all, X 3.2 seems to be corrupting the utmp entry for :0, LoginName Tty Idle Login Time Office Office Phone arrigo Arrigo Triulzi *:036d Dec 5 20:26 () unprintable arrigo Arrigo

[Update] X 3.2 login problem

Hello all, sorry for the previous rushed message. So, the problem is better described as follows: o login from virtual consoles is OK, both local and NIS accounts o login from X11 results in "Login incorrect" both for root (clearly local) and NIS accounts. Passwords ha

Serious: X 3.2 and YP don't work!

. Machines are running 2.0.26, X server is S3 (Trio64+). Arrigo -- Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~agbt Mathematics Dept. Imperial College of Science & Technology - London - UK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

BUG: utmp and w output

lains about not being able to open (null)/mbox (I wonder why...). Any clues? I have the frozen tree as of Friday 29th November. Thanks, Arrigo -- Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~agbt Mathematics Dept. Imperial College of Science &

Fortran I/O problems

0 0 001 152 121 40 2 59 Not very impressive... Any information/help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Arrigo -- Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~agbt Mathematics Dept. Imperial College of Science & Tech

16-bit X modes and clients from Suns

x27;t enough to go round. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Arrigo -- Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~agbt Mathematics Dept. Imperial College of Science & Technology - London - UK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: g77 & f2c serious problems

work. So far no solutions whatsoever, even the latest f2c is of no avail. It seems that the -fforce-saves isn't working as advertised, or rather it is still working at 80-bit precision. I frankly don't know. We are re-running all our code and cross-checking numbers on architectures. Arrigo -

Re: g77 & f2c serious problems

Douglas Bates scripsit: |Are the differences in floating point results relative to other |machines based on Intel processors? Remember that the floating point |registers on Intel processors use an 80 bit IEEE extended |representation. Other architectures such as SPARC use the 64 bit IEEE |represe

g77 & f2c serious problems

f2c developers. Incidentally, should I send a bug report to the Debian developers too? Thanks, Arrigo -- Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~agbt Mathematics Dept. Imperial College of Science & Technology - London - UK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAIL

[Solution] NIS slave hosts map problem

Hello all, the solution to the problem described previously (slave server unable to transfer the hosts.{byaddr,byname} maps due to a DBM error) is solved by upgrading ypserv to version 1.1.1 (distributed version is 1.0.4). This version can be found at: ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/NYS/servers f

perl 5.003.07-1 breaks Yard 1.7

ke_root_fs line 37. even though there is a use FileHandle; in the file. Thanks, Arrigo -- Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~agbt Mathematics Dept. Imperial College of Science & Technology - London - UK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIS

NIS ypxfr of hosts.{byaddr,byname}

: # /usr/lib/yp/ypxfr -f -h ypserver hosts.byaddr ypxfr: Local dbm operation failed Any suggestions are welcome. Ciao, Arrigo -- Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~agbt Mathematics Dept. Imperial College of Science & Technology - London -

Re: [Poss. Solved] gsfonts 4.01-3

joost witteveen scripsit: |That works, but it's better to upgrade to gs-aladdin_4.03-4 or |gs_3.33-2. That also solves it. Absolutely true, only that my mirror didn't have it on Friday ;-) I have now upgraded and fixed it the "proper" way. Thanks, Arrigo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAIL

ypxfr and hosts.{byaddr,byname}

Hello all, I seem to be unable to get ypxfr to receive hosts.{byaddr,byname} from the main NIS host. My secondary server (slave for purists) complains about a DBM error: ypxfr: Local dbm operation failed similarly the scripts ypxfr_1perhour, etc. because, of course, they run ypxf

libc5-dev upgrades

Hello all, I know that it is intended that kenel header files come with libc5-dev and are not symlinks to the kernel source tree. Ok, this said let us come to my humble request: I would dearly like to use the symlink to my current kernel source on all boxes, this is because of some driver

Elm problem

Hello, we have the Elm package installed and people are unable to use it for sending e-mail which always fails with a bad call: sh: -oi not found I have the impression that it is trying to tag the -oi flag to the sendmail command but never actually adds the sendmail in front. Are

Re: libpaper?

David C. Winters scripsit: |The gs and ghostscript packages depend on the libpaper package, which is |currently listed as unavailable. Is there a problem with it, or is it |somewhere other than in stable, non-free, or contrib? You can find it in the unstable tree (at least, here on the UK mirror

Re: Kernel Installation Issues

to /boot/psdatabase-2.0.0. I |couldn't find any corresponding files in the newly compiled kernel |directory structure. It would seem that I should have a |psdatabase-2.0.13-pnp as well. Just do rm /boot/psdatabase psupdate ln -s /boot/psdatabase-2.0.13-pnp /boot/psdatabase Ciao,

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work under X?

Hello Thomas, Thomas Baetzler scripsit: |The way we have handled this at a customer installation is that |we created a user "shutdown" who was privileded to run shutdown. You are not the only one to suggest this... the problem with this is that it is highly insecure (well, you might say so is C-A

C-A-Del and X

t is a bunch of students playing tricks on each other. Thanks to all for helping, Ciao, Arrigo -- Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~agbt Mathematics Dept. Imperial College of Science & Technology - London - UK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAIL