I have recently gotten a laptop at work that I need to run Win95
and later, likely NT. It would be great to also load Linux in the same
partition. Can Debian be installed using an umsdos file system in a fat32
partition?
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I recently had a large portion of my hard disk got trashed.
Somehow a directory in my home director got mutated into a device file.
Even logged in as root I can't seam to get rid of it. Any ideas. I'm
trying to clean up to do a final backup before trashing everything and
starting over.
Is there a way to disable the screen saver on the console? I have
a machine that normally runs without a keyboard and it would be nice to
turn on a monitor and see what is going on.
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Night before last I booted my bo system and the system wanted to be
booted in single user mode. After running e2fsck there were several
hundred files in lost+found. Several things such as sendmail and ps
didn't work any more. After uninstalling several packages and
reinstalling them I ha
I need to compile FCGI-0.31 but when I run "perl Make.PL" the
error:
Your perl isn't compiled with perlio/sfio support.
Still, you have glibc, so this might work.
Writing Makefile for FCGI
Things go down hill from there. Is this supposed to happen and do
I need to compile my own
Last night, when I booted my system it came up and asked to go
into single user mode. After running e2fsck there were several hundred
files and quite a few directories in lost+found. My dilemma is whether to
fix the system of upgrade to hamm. I have been forced to uninstall
sendmail then
I have an old 386 with 4 Megs of ram and it is probably easiest to
install the old 1.1 distribution then upgrade it but I don't know of an
archive of it around. Can anyone help. ( the old 1.1 easily installs in
4 Megs of RAM)
Thanks,
Chris
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I regularly get an error message in my xterm that says that an
application can't allocate the color map if, say, Netscape is already
running. Also xcolorsel won't run because it says that there are only 233
colors available where there should be 12000 or some other large number.
This is an
I am supplying web access for local church and would like to set
up simple email to go along with it. They have their own registered
domain and their mx records point to one of my hosts. The system runs
sendmail and has their domain in the sendmail.cw file so that that machine
can pick up
I am currently fetching mail over an established uucp link. It
works great! I would like to send file over this link as well. Afer
reading the uucp man page it appeared simple but something is not right.
uucp local_file remote_uucp_node_name!user_name!remote_filename
bash: !user_name!
I was installing a bunch of packages while telnetting into a
machine. The Telnet session died while the install was running and now I
can't change the access method, Install or update the database. How do I
remove the lock?
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I carry a SuperZip drive around all the time for work and it is
nice to be able to use it on both PCs and Macs. I wondered if it would
work under Linux on a SCSI or parallel port. I'd get the straight SCSI
and a cheaper SCSI card but there are places that it would be nice to
have the para
I need to use perl 5.004 and would currently like to avoid setting
up libc6. Is there a good reason not to get the source and compile it.
>From the dosc as www.perl.org it doesn't really look like that much of a
problem. Are there any problems that would be caused by doing this?
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I would like to run fetchmail in my ip-up to pick up mail from a
couple of different places. Would it be best to run it via su so that it
is run using my account? Is there a better way? All of the accounts have
different user names. Not my choice.
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I was wondering if there was basically a MUA that was a cgi
script. There are obviously quite a few folks doing it on the web. My
situation is that I have a K12 school district where most of the faculty
use public computers such as in the libraries. It is not reasonable for
these folks
I am looking for a means of running a CGI script that would be
able to do a function similar to telnet. The idea would be that I could
access a Linux machine by means of any web browser and do standard shell
operations. Currently I work at a k12 school district and it is extremely
common
I am trying to install Debian 1.3 on a machine that has an
AMD 32 bit pcnet vesa bus card. The card is made by Mitron. None of
the modules seam to load properly. Which module is the appropriate
one?
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If I send a message out via sendmail that has [EMAIL PROTECTED]
format sendmail returns the message with an error that appears to be
looking for ip_address to be a DNS that it can't find. Is there a feature
that I need to change in my sendmail.mc file?
Chris
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I have an older Dell mother board that has a BIOS that will in no
way deal with large disks. After reading thru the large disk FAQ and lilo
docs it looked like I would be able to make a small partition ~ 2 Megs,
leave the rest of the disk as one large ~4 Gig partition, put the kernel
and l
I am looking for some sort of flow diagram or detailed text on the
boot process used by Debian. The Linux System Administrator's guide
has a small text on this and the /usr/doc/sysvinit has little.
Some pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.
Chris
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I am looking for suggestions on a good book for writing shell
scripts. O'Reilly publishes a book on bash and another on awk & sed.
Their other books seam to be quite good are there good choices and
are there others worth looking at. I'v been administering Debian
systems for a while an
I have been trying to figure out weather mod_actions it enabled on
my apache server. According to the apache web page it is compiled in
by default but does it have to be activated in the http.conf or is it
already active?
Chris
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I have just set up NIS on several of my machines and I am having a
little trouble adding a user. If I use adduser the group, shadow and
passwd files in /etc are all updated properly but adduser doesn't
complete properly properly. It terminates before asking for any
information on the
What has to be put into the sendmail.cf to allow forwarding for a
specific domain other than the domain that the sendmail server is
part of?
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Sorry about that I'v gone brain dead again. I am looking for gated
but it was routed that I was thinking of and that's fine.
> I was looking for a daemon to do rip. It was in one of the net
> packages but I don't see it now. Very possible that I overlooked it.
>
>
I was looking for a daemon to do rip. It was in one of the net
packages but I don't see it now. Very possible that I overlooked it.
Chris
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For the past couple of weeks I have been using a package called
MRTG. Both the current release and the beta for the next release are
running nicely, showing html graphic display of SNMP data. The package is
set up for monitoring network traffic but can be easily modified to monitor
other
I have been having a problem that has now gotten really bad with the
new Netscape 4.03. When I am using X and change to one of the other
virtual terminals then come back to X the server shuts down and I end
up back at the xdm prompt. It is almost guaranteed to happen with
Netscape 4.0
I have set up a server that was originally intended to supply FTP
and http services on the internet. As a convenience to my self I set
up NFS and started using it for various temporary uses. When one of
the guys found out that it was available he set up the means for
access to my NFS
I wondered if anyone knows weather cron responds correctly to a
SIGHUP or not? I did the following and managed to kill it all
together.
kill -HUP `ps -aux|grep [c]ron|awk '{print $2}'`
Is there a different signal to send it or is it a daemon that has to
be killed then restarted?
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I have some users that heavily use a couple of web sites that
contain documentation and manuals. The standard mirror package is
only for FTP from what I see. Is there a tool to mirror web sites
too?
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I have compiled my kernel with ipx support at home. It was
intended that I connect via ppp to our novel server at work. When I put
any of the ipx related commands into the /etc/ppp/option file I get a
message that the command is no good. They are out of the pppd man page.
Does Debian ppp
I am trying to do a install fresh install of Debian 1.3 but my
machine is locking up with the last message on the screen:
eata_pio: No BIOS32 extensions present. This driver still depends on it.
Skipping scan for PCI HBAs.
Then it's dead. I'm wondering if I need to build a new
I am going to set up a new machine at home this weekend to replace
one that is currently running Caldera Standard 1.1. While reading
the list mail I had seen mention that the system could be installed
via NFS. After reading the install doc on my mirror here at the shop
I couldn't find
I have had problems from time to time in places like at home where I
simply run a
script to get my ppp connection going. Like you my sendmail was getting
unhappy. One simple
solution can be to add your machine to the /etc/hosts file and them sendmail
will be able to use
the informa
I have been looking at the simplest way to back up a couple of
small machines. For example this machine has primary DNS server and
backup mail relay for my domain. There are a few other things but that's
really the important part. Complete off site backups and such would be
basically a w
I have been looking at what would make Linux complete for me to
use without reliance on other systems. The biggest thing that I can't
seam to find is a Computer Aided Drafting package. Something that would
handle .dwg or .dxf (Autocad) formats would be especially nice. From
looking at th
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Mark Stone wrote:
> I've just done my first Debian installation, after having used Slackware
> for a couple of years, and I've got my ppp connection working. My next
> challenge is to get domain name resolution working properly so I can
> navigate by something other than IP nu
I have a similar problem using kernel 2.0.27 with the really odd part
being that I
can play audio CDs using xplaycd. If something like saytime is run I get that
/dev/audio
is busy. In the kernel readme or sound howto it talks about checking that the
device isn't being
used by some oth
A bit of a different approach is to allow sendmail to run outbound mail
SMTP and
have the inbound mail as uucp. That is what I'm doing and it works OK. Kind
of sloppy in
some ways but if the q time is fairly short it seams to work well enough. This
only works, of coarse,
based on
I am looking at a similar question. There is a company that is
supposed to be laying out web pages for my company. I would like to have
them set up so that they can FTP their data in, both us and them can look
at it and off we go. It seamed that the easiest way was to set them up as
a us
I forgot to mention that if I do a rpcinfo -p it does tell me
that nfsd and mountd are running. May help may not.
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I am trying to get NFS working for the first time on 2 Linux
boxes and can't seam to get it to work properly. The /etc/exports is
setup and I can NFS mount a directory on the local machine in both
cases but I can't mount the other machine in either direction. In
both cases it comes back
When I woke up this morning I went to check my E-Mail and found
that everything in /home was gone. Directories data and everything.
To top it all the /home directory had permissions of 555 and was both
root owned and root group. "/" is mounted read only and there is a
core dump in the
I wondered if the D3 Rage chip set boards would work with
XFree86. They are supposed to be quite hot and someone offered to
trade me a Wincharge for one even up.
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I set up a DNS on my FreeBSD box which is behind my Debian box
and it worked fine. At the time I didn't think to ask the question I
just added the secondary line to my named.boot for my ISP and
restarted named.
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I have installed apache web server with cgi and the caned cgi
scripts to try it out. It seamed obvious to also try man2html and
info2www. The scripts that are in the cgi-bin directory off of the
document root run fine. When simlinks to man2html and info2www are
made an error is returne
It would be nice to be able to run a few things under dosemu
however the other partitions on the hard drive are win95. Does
anyone have any suggestions on doing this and insuring that my win95
doesn't die. I'd really hate to have to deal with the wife it I
ended up killing it.
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> >To: "Steve Hsieh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Cc:
> > > > After burrowing around some, I finally found some info and docs on
> EQL;
> > > > however, Multilink PPP is mentioned as a newer, and improved
> alternative.
> > >
> > > > Unfortunately, I can't find any info on Multilink PPP in the HowTo'
I have been looking for a xterminal that could be used on
windows 3.1 or win95 to operate with XFree86. Does such a thing
exist? My shop is primarily DOS based and such a thing would make my
life much easier. After talking to a friend from digital, he says
that they have an I'mplementa
I tried to look at the man page for FTP using xman and the
format got all blown out of shape. I think that it happened when the
page was formatted the first time and now I keep looking at an
incorrectly formatted page. If the formatted file is gotten rid of
then I'll be back in business
I am quite new at the world of IP networks and have been doing
some testing on a Debian 1.2 system and Free BSD. Last night I ran a
test as described in one of the ethernet FAQs by running FTP on a
file that was ~2.5Meg the rate came out at 1.09M/sec. From what I
can tell this is quite
I recently sent a message regarding a problem that I am having
with my mouse on XFree86. The mouse is a PS2 style of Mouse Systems
mouse. According to the documentation that I have found the only
setting in the XF86Config file that will work in the PS2 setting.
When I run XF86Setup the
I have been running XFree86 with a 2 button PS2 mouse with the
HP name on it and haven't had any problems with it. After using X for
a bit it looked like it would be nice to get the functionality of a 3
button mouse so I just picked up a 3 button Mouse Systems mouse
PN 404097-002 (PS2 st
I know that there is quite a bit of support for Novel networks
in linux. Does anyone know if there is an MHS mail transport
available? Currently I am running a DOS based remote client to my
shop but it would be great if there were something in linux. dosemu
is a possibility I suppose b
I know that there is quite a bit of support for Novel networks
in linux. Does anyone know if there is an MHS mail transport
available? Currently I am running a DOS based remote client to my
shop but it would be great if there were something in linux. dosemu
is a possibility I suppose b
I have a Debisn 1.2 system which I had been using on the net at
one time. For various reasons I had to stop using it and now I am
trying to get it going again however there is a problem with PPP. In
the ppp.log file the dymamic ip addresses are acknolaged and a lock
established then th
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From reading the X card support I see that it is supposed to
support Trident tvga9000 cards. I installde my card into a friends
machine that has linux installed and the card didn't work. (Don't
know the distribution or revision.) The card is a tvga9000 with BIOS
D4.01E (16). The error
With the complete set of proper base disks things work a bit
better but I'm currently hung at verify after formatting the boot
floppy. ( The saga continues.)
I recieved the following message which got me thinking in a bit
different direction.
>To: R Chris Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Mr Chris Ross
> Maybe the solution to your problem is that you should try the
>installation in two steps:
> repeat the normal installations
I recieved the following message which got me thinking in a bit
different direction.
>To: R Chris Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Mr Chris Ross
> Maybe the solution to your problem is that you should try the
>installation in two steps:
> repeat the normal installations
Well I tried installing 1.1 last night with no success. The
first time I used the default of using the ramdisk. After booting
and loading the ramdisk it loadid the keyboard map then one other
command that I don't remember. Shortly it said dinstal was unable to
fork. I went at it again
A while back I attempted to install Debain on a NEC Versa S
laptop. Since I only had 4 megs of ram the install wouldn't run.
The install was for .93R6, but is the 1.1 install runable in low
memory machines? I had no problem loading Slackware so the thing
runs Linux fine. Any suggestio
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