Re: debian 1.3 upgrade: my first success with one minor problem
James D. Freels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] dpkg --remove lesstif-bin (Reading database ... 11943 files and directories currently installed.) Removing lesstif-bin ... dpkg: error processing lesstif-bin (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: lesstif-bin If there is not an easy fix for this, I'll post it as a bug. It's probably a bug anyway, but my easy fix would be: mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/lesstif-bin.prerm /tmp # Just in case echo '#!/bin/true' /var/lib/dpkg/info/lesstif-bin.prerm -- Carey Evans * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lies, damn lies, and computer documentation. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Non-interactive modem hangup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] What I'm after is something simple I can put into a script for sudo to kill the ppp daemon and also hang up the line, freeing /dev/ttyS1 immediately (rather than waiting for the ISP to idle out the line and hang up on me). The first part I've got figured out -- start-stop-daemon --stop --verbose --exec /usr/sbin/pppd Maybe add --pidfile /var/run/ppp0.pid if you know which interface it will be using. If you have modem somewhere in your pppd options, it should lower DTR when killed, which should make your modem hang up. You might need to send some AT... command to enable this behaviour. Otherwise, is this simple enough? For pppd, add this option somewhere (command line, /etc/ppp/options, etc.): disconnect /usr/sbin/chat -- \d+++\d\c OK ath0 OK (from the PPP-HOWTO). -- Carey Evans * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lies, damn lies, and computer documentation. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: debian 1.3 upgrade: my first success with one minor problem
James D. Freels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] dpkg --remove lesstif-bin (Reading database ... 11943 files and directories currently installed.) Removing lesstif-bin ... dpkg: error processing lesstif-bin (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: lesstif-bin If there is not an easy fix for this, I'll post it as a bug. It's probably a bug anyway, but my easy fix would be: mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/lesstif-bin.prerm /tmp # Just in case echo '#!/bin/true' /var/lib/dpkg/info/lesstif-bin.prerm I think there is a simpler way: dpkg --purge --force-remove-reinstreq lesstif-dev Alex Y. -- Carey Evans * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lies, damn lies, and computer documentation. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
console screenblanker?
How does one disable the screenblanker that's installed on the console by default? My machine mostly runs headless and heyboardless so it'd be nice to *just* be able to plug in a monitor and see what's going on and not have to plug in a kbd just to be able to hit a key... --Zachary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: console screenblanker?
On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Zachary DeAquila wrote: How does one disable the screenblanker that's installed on the console by default? My machine mostly runs headless and heyboardless so it'd be nice to *just* be able to plug in a monitor and see what's going on and not have to plug in a kbd just to be able to hit a key... setterm -blank 0 I made a script /etc/init.d/local to use with stuff like this and have it run when I boot. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ethernet problems
Hi, I've just put a 3c900 card in my linux machine and it's giving me problems. Kernel version is 2.0.30. From what I could ascertain, the new version of 3c59x.c is a plug-in replacement for the old one without 3c900 support. Accordingly, I replaced the old version with the new, ran make-kpkg and etc. The card is recognized during kernel bootup but, subsequently, I can't reach the network (I get a no route to host error.) The following appears in the messages file very frequently: Jun 7 20:45:21 tamora kernel: Flags; bus-master 1, full 1; dirty 0 current 16. Jun 7 20:45:21 tamora kernel: Down list vs. 00296d1c. Jun 7 20:45:21 tamora kernel: 0: 00296d1c length 802a status 002a Jun 7 20:45:21 tamora kernel: 1: 00296d2c length 802a status 002a Jun 7 20:45:21 tamora kernel: 2: 00296d3c length 802a status 002a Jun 7 20:45:21 tamora kernel: 3: 00296d4c length 802a status 002a Jun 7 20:45:21 tamora kernel: 4: 00296d5c length 802a status 002a Jun 7 20:45:21 tamora kernel: 5: 00296d6c length 802a status 002a Jun 7 20:45:21 tamora kernel: 6: 00296d7c length 808e status 008e Jun 7 20:45:21 tamora kernel: 7: 00296d8c length 802a status 002a Jun 7 20:45:21 tamora kernel: 8: 00296d9c length 802a status 002a Jun 7 20:45:21 tamora kernel: 9: 00296dac length 802a status 002a Jun 7 20:45:21 tamora kernel: 10: 00296dbc length 802a status 002a Jun 7 20:45:21 tamora kernel: 11: 00296dcc length 802a status 002a Jun 7 20:45:21 tamora kernel: 12: 00296ddc length 802a status 002a Jun 7 20:45:21 tamora kernel: 13: 00296dec length 802a status 002a Jun 7 20:45:21 tamora kernel: 14: 00296dfc length 802a status 802a Jun 7 20:45:21 tamora kernel: 15: 00296e0c length 802a status 802a Jun 7 20:45:24 tamora kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. I set the card to the 10base-2 port with the software included with the card and the kernel agrees with that. Has anyone had any experience with this card? Thanks, J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: URL for StarOffice is here
On Sat, Jun 07, 1997 at 10:58:59AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Paul Serice wrote: Plenty of people have asked for the URL after I posted a Debian Success Story. So, here it is ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/staroffice Can anybody give a report of the StarOffice word processor compared to Lyx? I tried StarOffice earlier today. The install is confusing since after untarring everything, I couldn't find any documentation which said what setup to run, etc. The spreadsheet seems quite good, the math program looks quite confusing, the graphing is good. The wordprocessor seems to be very slow and use very small fonts, even for 12 point. And the style window that hangs around in each program is a bit annoying. Anyone want to give a comparison with Applixware? I'm considering buying Applixware because it is only $100 AUD student price, which is pretty good (MS Office 97 is $200 for students I think, regularly nearly $500). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [ ] 47% The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Non-interactive modem hangup
Just killing pppd will do it unless your modem isn't set up properly. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know a simple command or tool to hang up the modem? Just hang it up, not stay connected to the tty and await more commands. What I'm after is something simple I can put into a script for sudo to kill the ppp daemon and also hang up the line, freeing /dev/ttyS1 immediately (rather than waiting for the ISP to idle out the line and hang up on me). The first part I've got figured out -- start-stop-daemon --stop --verbose --exec /usr/sbin/pppd But there has to be an easier way to hang up the modem than writing a chat script or something like that. Does anyone have any ideas? -- G. Branden Robinson Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Non-interactive modem hangup
On 7 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: Just killing pppd will do it unless your modem isn't set up properly. Then my modem isn't set up properly. I got a private email mentioning something about how the modem should automatically hangup once DTR is dropped, which happens if modem is given as an option to pppd. It is in my case, so the problem lies with my modem. I've got a Hayes Accura 144B + FAX, so once I dig up the manual I'll come back to the list with my solution. -- G. Branden Robinson Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
why so many broken peips when installing 1.3?
To further my previous post, I found that I have no problem installing netscape_3.0, but netscape-4.0 displayed a lot of broken pipes message and it not installed properly. After the install, I cannot find a find the nescape directory in /usr/lib. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: URL for StarOffice is here
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jun 07, 1997 at 10:58:59AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Paul Serice wrote: Plenty of people have asked for the URL after I posted a Debian Success Story. So, here it is ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/staroffice Can anybody give a report of the StarOffice word processor compared to Lyx? I tried StarOffice earlier today. The install is confusing since after untarring everything, I couldn't find any documentation which said what setup to run, etc. The spreadsheet seems quite good, the math program looks quite confusing, the graphing is good. The wordprocessor seems to be very slow and use very small fonts, even for 12 point. And the style window that hangs around in each program is a bit annoying. Anyone want to give a comparison with Applixware? I'm considering buying Applixware because it is only $100 AUD student price, which is pretty good (MS Office 97 is $200 for students I think, regularly nearly $500). You should also take a gander at wp 7 before you throw any money on the table. There is a beta at http://www.sdcorp.com/. I've never tried applixware, but I prefer wp7 to staroffice, and it's much better than wp 6 for linux, though quite reminiscent (hopefully they'll fix some things before the release, like the cheezy preferences button-box, and some remaining problems with font-rendering). I didn't care much for lyx. It didn't seem to offer an advantages over auctex/emacs/xdvi (which would probably be my wordprocessing platform of choice--these commercial offerings are mostly useful for when people send me Word6 smack). --sf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: LILO: Wrong Loader ..
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Disclaimer: it's my fault, I know. On a stable (1.1.13) debian box I tried to upgrade the kernel from install 2.0.6 to a home-built 2.0.27. The home built kernel is known to work, so this is not the problem. I built it via kernel-package, so I could install it with dpkg. After that, I reboot to test the new kernel (ERROR: I know 2.0.27 needs a newer lilo, like 17-2 (the one I usually install with 2.0.27 - and they work!)) ^ THIS IS MY SECOND ERROR IN A ROW The reboot came up with a LILO: Wrong Loader .. Giving up message, or something like that. I realized I missed lilo upgrade, so rebuilt a boot disk and installed lilo-17-2 Reboot and .. same message. So I looked for lilo dependecies, and it depends on mbr. Upgraded also mbr, same message. What can I do to make that box boot again? I had exactly the same configuration, new kernel version and boot problem. I upgraded lilo to version 19-2, reran lilo and the new kernel was bootable. According to /usr/lib/kernel-package/rules the kernel is made as bzImage instead of zImage if you use make-kpkg. Therefore another solution could be modifying /usr/lib/kernel-package/rules to make a zImage. I haven't tried that one. I do not use mbr in the boot process and always configure lilo.conf by hand so that could make the difference. In short, lilo 19-2 can and should work with kernel-source 2.0.27 and kernel-package 3.03. Hope this helps narrowing down the problem. I think you're totally right. I figured it out myself this morning (sleeping always help) that lilo-17.2 could not be right, and that I'd have used the one coming with debian 1.2 (which is 19.2, IIRC, like you say). Thank you very much. -- |||| ||| Marco Frattola Microsoft is not the answer ||`..'|| |||... Piacenza, ItalyMicrosoft is the question ||| ||| |||''[EMAIL PROTECTED]No is the answer ||| ||| ||| www.enjoy.it/users/~mk/index.html Live Linux, live free! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
MAN dumps core - solved!
Hi. I recently installed version 1.2. At some point in the insta process, the man command stopped working. It turns out that one of the packages installs the man pages owned by root, but another installs man owned by the user man. Then man cannot wirte the cat files and crashes. Solution: chmod the entire /usr/man tree to man.staff ownership. Thanks for your attention Matti -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: URL for StarOffice is here
On Sun, Jun 08, 1997 at 02:00:07AM -0500, stephen farrell wrote: You should also take a gander at wp 7 before you throw any money on the table. There is a beta at http://www.sdcorp.com/. I've never Having discard the warning about being an authorised beta tester :-) since they don't have any way to sign up that I could see, I'm downloading it now. Thanks for the info. I didn't care much for lyx. It didn't seem to offer an advantages over auctex/emacs/xdvi (which would probably be my wordprocessing platform of choice--these commercial offerings are mostly useful for when people send me Word6 smack). Handy if you don't know (La)Tex; I don't, so I want something WYSIWYG. Mind you, these days I could almost write most things in HTML, or some SGML even (Linuxdoc, or Quartz). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [ ] 47% The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
a x86 emulator that support win95
Just found a x86 emulator and it seems support win95 though in early stage. http://world.std.com/~bochs/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Leafnode
Does anyone know where leafnode keeps it lists of newsgroups it's supposed to retrieve? Somehow, my system keeps grabbing more and more things I didn't ask for (Local newsgroups of Miami, stuff like that). I'd like to lean it out a bit and see if it helps at all. After running fetch for the first time, I can see all the newsgroups. But when the client goes to get one that's not yet been used, the client gives an error message saying it's an empty newsgroup. Next time fetch is run, that newsgroup is brought in. Any ideas? Thanks, Tim - LINUX 2.0.6 i486 Because reboots are for upgrades!! - Please direct Email to: tjobrien(at)traveller.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: URL for StarOffice is here
stephen farrell wrote: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jun 07, 1997 at 10:58:59AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Paul Serice wrote: Do any of these import Word* or Wordperfect? I don't want to re-type my resume. One of these days I'm going to have to reverse engineer a Word to troff perl. Plenty of people have asked for the URL after I posted a Debian Success Story. So, here it is ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/staroffice Can anybody give a report of the StarOffice word processor compared to Lyx? I tried StarOffice earlier today. snip a pan review snip. Anyone want to give a comparison with Applixware? I'm considering buying Applixware because it is only $100 AUD student price, which is pretty good (MS Office 97 is $200 for students I think, regularly nearly $500). You should also take a gander at wp 7 before you throw any money on the table. There is a beta at http://www.sdcorp.com/. I've never tried applixware, but I prefer wp7 to staroffice, and it's much better than wp 6 for linux, though quite reminiscent (hopefully they'll fix some things before the release, like the cheezy preferences button-box, and some remaining problems with font-rendering). I didn't care much for lyx. It didn't seem to offer an advantages over auctex/emacs/xdvi (which would probably be my wordprocessing platform of choice--these commercial offerings are mostly useful for when people send me Word6 smack). --sf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Someday soon I really MUST find a way to piss away a LOT of bandwidth on this .sig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: URL for StarOffice is here
On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: stephen farrell wrote: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jun 07, 1997 at 10:58:59AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Paul Serice wrote: Do any of these import Word* or Wordperfect? I don't want to re-type my resume. One of these days I'm going to have to reverse engineer a Word to troff perl. StarOffice imports word and wordperfect files and 9 or 10 others .. Exporting/saveas I havn't tried yet. Plenty of people have asked for the URL after I posted a Debian Success Story. So, here it is ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/staroffice Can anybody give a report of the StarOffice word processor compared to Lyx? I tried StarOffice earlier today. snip a pan review snip. Anyone want to give a comparison with Applixware? I'm considering buying Applixware because it is only $100 AUD student price, which is pretty good (MS Office 97 is $200 for students I think, regularly nearly $500). You should also take a gander at wp 7 before you throw any money on the table. There is a beta at http://www.sdcorp.com/. I've never tried applixware, but I prefer wp7 to staroffice, and it's much better than wp 6 for linux, though quite reminiscent (hopefully they'll fix some things before the release, like the cheezy preferences button-box, and some remaining problems with font-rendering). I didn't care much for lyx. It didn't seem to offer an advantages over auctex/emacs/xdvi (which would probably be my wordprocessing platform of choice--these commercial offerings are mostly useful for when people send me Word6 smack). --sf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Someday soon I really MUST find a way to piss away a LOT of bandwidth on this .sig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Chad D. Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SLang? Cron run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
I've got a newbie-type question for anyone kind enough to answer. This morning I got a message from my cron which told me the following (header cut down a bit for brevity): From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.weekly Terminal not powerful enough for SLang. What's this mean? And what is SLang? Man and apropos doesn't seem to turn up anything for it and I don't have a clue. Any information would be greatly appreciated, thanks. -- | Debian GNU/__ o Regards, | / / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ .| / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / Randy| // /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | ...because lockups are for convicts... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Leafnode
Tim O'Brien: Does anyone know where leafnode keeps it lists of newsgroups it's supposed to retrieve? Somehow, my system keeps grabbing more and more things I didn't ask for (Local newsgroups of Miami, stuff like that). I'd like to lean it out a bit and see if it helps at all. /var/news/interesting.groups/ Each file in there that doesn't start with a leading `.' is a newsgroup leafnode will download. Please note that if someone crossposts a newsgroup to newsgroup a that you read, and also to newsgroups b, c, d, and e, leafnode will create directories for newsgroups b, c, d, and e, and put a hard link to the crossposted article in them. This seems to be the common cause for people thinking leafnode is downloading news it shouldn't. Another thing to check is, make sure that you have leafnode access blocked off in hosts.deny so only hosts you want to can connect to your news server. I actually had some people discover my news server and use it for reading binary groups that I had no desire to fill up my news spool with, before I denied access to all hosts not on my home network. You can tell if this is a problem by examining your log files to see if leafnode reports connects from hosts you don't know about. After running fetch for the first time, I can see all the newsgroups. But when the client goes to get one that's not yet been used, the client gives an error message saying it's an empty newsgroup. Next time fetch is run, that newsgroup is brought in. This is perfectly normal. -- see shy jo, leafnode maintainer -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SLang? Cron run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
Randy Edwards: I've got a newbie-type question for anyone kind enough to answer. This morning I got a message from my cron which told me the following (header cut down a bit for brevity): From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.weekly Terminal not powerful enough for SLang. What's this mean? And what is SLang? Man and apropos doesn't seem to turn up anything for it and I don't have a clue. Any information would be greatly appreciated, thanks. Slang is a library which provides a scripting language and some screen drawing functions (similar to ncurses, if you're familiar with it). The error comes up when slang thinks the terminal it's running at doesn't support the escape sequences needed to move the cursor around the screen, set color, listen for keystrokes, etc. In this case, a program that uses slang appears to be running as a cron job in /etc/cron.weekly, and since cron doesn't actually give it a terminal to connect to, it's not suprising that it gives this message. What I don't understand is what program that uses slang is geing run as a cron job? That's really weird. You need to track down which of the scripts in /etc/cron.weekly/ is causing the error, and correct the problem. One good way to do this is to edit /etc/crontab - there will be a line like this (some of the numbers are different on a standard debian system): 21 0* * 7 rootrun-parts /etc/cron.weekly Add --verbose after the run-parts, and then run-parts should print out the name of each script in /etc/cron.weekly as it runs it, and you'll be able to tell which script is generating the error. I haven't tried this, hope it actually works. :-) Oh no - I think I might know what package is causing this problem, and unfortunatly, I maintain it :-/. Do you have slrn installed? Does /etc/slrnget.conf contain the following lines setting variables =y? This could very well be the problem, becuase slrn is a slang application. USE_SLRNPULL=y GETDESC_WITH_CRONJOB=y -- see shy jo, slrn maintainer -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Locales Problem?
Here is an error message received when I do dpkg installs on certain Debian packages such as xemacs for instance. Everything seems to work OK. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = us are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C). Should I be concerned about this message and how do I correct this situation? Thanks, Victor -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Will ATI 3D Rage chips work with XFree86?
Michael Tempsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 15 May, Rick Macdonald wrote: Re: R. Chris Ross wrote: Re: I wondered if the D3 Rage chip set boards would work with Re: XFree86. They are supposed to be quite hot and someone offered to Re: trade me a Wincharge for one even up. Re: Re: Maybe I should grab the new 3D GPT once the chipset is supported in Re: XFree? If my memories are correctl then the 3D Rage _is_ supported in XFree 3.2 and the 3D Rage II in XFree 3.2A... From the XFree86[tm] 3.3 Release Notes: 3.11 Mach64 server o Support for 3D Rage II based Mach64 cards is included. o Various problems with support for some revisions of CT, VT and GT chipsets have been fixed. o It is strongly recommended that all users with CT, VT, GT and 3D Rage II based Mach64 cards upgrade to the 3.3 release due to the problems that were fixed. 3.2A is not available as a .deb package, but I've seen several reports of people simply replacing the Mach64 Xserver binary from 3.2 with the one from 3.2A. Haven't tried this myself, but did do a similar thing under Slackware last fall (3.1.2-3.1.2F) so it'd seem reasonable... XFree86 3.3 should be available in `unstable' real soon now, as soon as Mark Eichin feels it's right. - Hari -- Raja R Harinath -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all else fails, read the instructions. -- Cahn's Axiom Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing. -- Roy L Ash -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Non-interactive modem hangup
Look for an option something like: * Drop carrier on DTR low * Disconnect on DTR low If I remember correctly, it is an ATDx command, but I'm not completely sure. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: Just killing pppd will do it unless your modem isn't set up properly. Then my modem isn't set up properly. I got a private email mentioning something about how the modem should automatically hangup once DTR is dropped, which happens if modem is given as an option to pppd. It is in my case, so the problem lies with my modem. I've got a Hayes Accura 144B + FAX, so once I dig up the manual I'll come back to the list with my solution. -- G. Branden Robinson Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Setting up news
Tim O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to set up a news server on my LAN. I have IPmasquerading running to allow the other computers access to the Internet through one 28.8 modem and a standard PPP account, as well as diald for demand dialing at night and constant connection during the day. leafnode might be worth considering. It behaves like a pre-fetching news cache, and supports posting as well. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Starwiter
I am sorry to ask this here because this is not strictly a debian question. I spent many hours downloading StarOffice 3.1 and untarred it (StarOffice31-english.tar.gz StarOffice31-common.tar.gz StarOffice31-statbin.tar.gz) in /usr/local. I then, apparently successfully, ran the setup script as a user, but could not get any program running. swriter3 complains : can't load library 'lib0fa312.so' even if I try runing swriter from my /usr/local/lib directory after symlinking all the lib* files to that directory. lib0fa312.so is also there. I could not find any documentation on installing and starting except for README.StarOffice and that did not tell me a lot. Can somebody help, please? Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel. Nr. 0331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Python add-ons
How do I add on a module like Pygress95 to python? make does not seem to work. Is there something missing in Debian's version of Python? Johann Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel. Nr. 0331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is xdm required?
The instal script is just giving you the option of using xdm at bootup. Just say no and you can start it manually, or any other X startup program. On 4 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: J. Goldman writes: Sorry, I'm confused. What do you mean by the statement that you don't want to be forced to activate it? Do you mean you'd like for your machine *not* to load xdm on startup? I suppose I should have said don't want to be tricked into activating it. I was concerned that upgrading xbase would result in xdm being silently activated because the maintainer assumed that no one could possibly not want it. If that's the case, just comment out the appropriate line in /etc/X11/config. After somehow recovering from the flashing screen catastrophe (I have no network, and my floppy drive just died). In any case, my fears have been put to rest. John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . L8R, --Rick Unsolicited commercial/propaganda email subject to legal action. Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), Sec.227(b)(1)(C), and Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a State may impose a fine of NOT LESS than $500 per message. Read the full text of Title 47 Sec 227 at http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Starwiter
I get that too once and a while with the StarOffice stuff as well. And I figured out what it was with me ... and it may be the same for you. If I would get the error, I would do an 'su - your user name' and then try swriter3 again .. and then it would work. Not sure exactly why that would have that big a reason ... but it would work after I do that. Chad On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Johann Spies wrote: I am sorry to ask this here because this is not strictly a debian question. I spent many hours downloading StarOffice 3.1 and untarred it (StarOffice31-english.tar.gz StarOffice31-common.tar.gz StarOffice31-statbin.tar.gz) in /usr/local. I then, apparently successfully, ran the setup script as a user, but could not get any program running. swriter3 complains : can't load library 'lib0fa312.so' even if I try runing swriter from my /usr/local/lib directory after symlinking all the lib* files to that directory. lib0fa312.so is also there. I could not find any documentation on installing and starting except for README.StarOffice and that did not tell me a lot. Can somebody help, please? Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel. Nr. 0331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Chad D. Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Stupid Question: Striping Dos ^M From Texts
Somewhere in the dank recesses of my mind, I recall a utility that would strip the extra ^M's from a text file copied to a unix box. Well, it seems that Linux also considers these ^M's extranious, is there such a standard utility or do I have to dig even deeper to remember sed/awk/grep commands? :^ dos2unix (in package sysutils) --- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My opinions are mine only and may not reflect those of my employer. E-mail me to obtain my public PGP key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: making 16bpp the default in X
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, David B. Teague wrote: Hi: A note of appreciation to several,and a continued request for help. Luke Bussanmas, Rob Browining, Brian White, and Gary Dolan (others? if so accept my apology!) have tried with varying degrees of success in helping me get Netscape running on my 1MB TVGA 9400 CXi card and KFC 15 monitor with X11R6, Debina 1.1 (with some upgrades). I am grateful to all the folk who try to help those of us who are informationally challenged. So far, I do not seem to be able to change the SVGA server from a 4 layer root window (Is this 4 bit color?). I have place the line DefaultColorDepth 16 in the XF86Config file, no difference. When you start X there is some info that scrolls on the screen just before the display goes graphic. What does this say in reference to color depth? To read it, using startx, just do ctrl-alt-fn# # being the terminal you ran startx from. There are some other options you may have to set to get 16 bit color. Read the man page on the server you're using (SVGA?) and see if it supports the depth you want. My card (TGUI9680XGI) supports 32 bit color but the SVGA server will only put it in 16 bit for some reason. Also try putting: Visual TrueColor in subsection Display L8R, --Rick Unsolicited commercial/propaganda email subject to legal action. Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), Sec.227(b)(1)(C), and Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a State may impose a fine of NOT LESS than $500 per message. Read the full text of Title 47 Sec 227 at http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Vid card memory
Ralph Winslow wrote: ... Did you try 24/32 bpp? Yes, I got them by default, but CTRLALT+ and CTRLALT- (+ and - on numeric keypad) don't seem to be working. They only switch screen resolutions, not colour depth. Colour depth is in /etc/XF86Config -- by default it's 8 bpp, unless 8 bpp entry is not present (in section Screen, subsection Display. Ways to start X in a given colour depth: `startx -- -bpp N`, DefaultColorDepth N entry in section Screen outside any Display subsections, or having a single Display subsection with Depth N.) Which README are you referring to? Any way, thanks for the reply - I'll try to research what linear addressing is and how to specify it and let you know how trying that works out. Why, /usr/doc/X11/README.trident of course. :-) As for linear addressing, PCI cards don't require that option. If yours is not PCI, then it may work for you (or not -- read the file, it also lists a number of interesting problems with non-PCI cards.) HTH -- Dimitri -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Starwiter
Johann Spies wrote: I am sorry to ask this here because this is not strictly a debian question. I spent many hours downloading StarOffice 3.1 and untarred it (StarOffice31-english.tar.gz StarOffice31-common.tar.gz StarOffice31-statbin.tar.gz) in /usr/local. I then, apparently successfully, ran the setup script as a user, but could not get any program running. swriter3 complains : can't load library 'lib0fa312.so' even if I try runing swriter from my /usr/local/lib directory after symlinking all the lib* files to that directory. lib0fa312.so is also there. I could not find any documentation on installing and starting except for README.StarOffice and that did not tell me a lot. Can somebody help, please? The only time I've seen that error is when I didn't source ~/.sd.sh from either ~/.bashrc or ~/.xsession. Paul Serice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SLang? Cron run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
Alexander Koch: Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Oh no - I think I might know what package is causing this problem, and unfortunatly, I maintain it :-/. Do you have slrn installed? Does /etc/slrnget.conf contain the following lines setting variables =y? This could very well be the problem, becuase slrn is a slang application. USE_SLRNPULL=y GETDESC_WITH_CRONJOB=y The first was n, the second was y. And, yes, that was the point, I'm afraid. I'm going to upload a package soon that corrects this. I'll try to get it into debian 1.3.1. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: making 16bpp the default in X
Luke Bussanmas, Rob Browining, Brian White, and Gary Dolan (others? if so accept my apology!) have tried with varying degrees of success in helping me get Netscape running on my 1MB TVGA 9400 CXi card and KFC 15 monitor with X11R6, Debina 1.1 (with some upgrades). I am grateful to all the folk who try to help those of us who are informationally challenged. Do you have Option linear listed for your Device in XF86Config? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problem getting German Umlaute
Hello, I recently installed Debian 1.2 on my notebook and everything went fine. Almost everything. While I am duly impressed by Debian's complex package management system and wide range of packages, I seem to fail in the simple task of getting it to display German Umlaute (a, o, u, sz (if your mailer can handle them, they should look like this: ä, ö, ü, ß)), or, for that matter, any accented letters (´e, etc.). At install time I _did_ indicate, when prompted, a German keyboard. I read the German-HOWTO and tried setfont lat1u-16.psf and loadkeys de-latin1, with the result that pressing the Umlaut keys produced beeps instead of funny characters, or vice versa. All the above is true of the text console; I haven't installed X. Funny thing is, when supposed to enter my user name at the login prompt, I _do_ get correctly displayed Umlaute on pressing their keys; then, of course, login tells me it didn't recognize my spelling exercise as a valid user; and on second trial at the login prompt it doesn't work anymore; neither does it at the console (I tried tcsh and bash); and emacs, too, doesn't recognize Umlaute (and yes, I did add the German-HOWTOs lines to my .emacs-file). Updating to Debian-1.3-development (from March) didn't do any good, either. Any help out there? PS. My Umlaute are rendered as follows: pressing a results in d, o in v, u in |, sz in _, ´e in i, etc. At a loss, Stefan -- - Stefan Baums Universitaet Goettingen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Starwiter
On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Johann Spies wrote: I am sorry to ask this here because this is not strictly a debian question. I spent many hours downloading StarOffice 3.1 and untarred it (StarOffice31-english.tar.gz StarOffice31-common.tar.gz StarOffice31-statbin.tar.gz) in /usr/local. I then, apparently successfully, ran the setup script as a user, but could not get any program running. swriter3 complains : can't load library 'lib0fa312.so' even if I try runing swriter from my /usr/local/lib directory after symlinking all the lib* files to that directory. lib0fa312.so is also there. I could not find any documentation on installing and starting except for README.StarOffice and that did not tell me a lot. If you have installed everything and done the required configuration, you will have a script, .sd.sh, installed in your home directory. Running that will modify some environments, including $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This will place the required lib files in your library path so you will no longer get that message and swriter will work. Check 'echo $LD-LIBRARY-PATH' to see if /usr/local/StarOffice-3.1/-linux-x86/lib really is in that path. There is now a mini-HOWTO for StarOffice, based on beta4, but it is applicable to the released 3.1 version. It is contained in doc-linux_97.05-1.deb in /unstable and can also be found at sunsite.unc.edu and other major Linux sites. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
iBCS
Hi! I'm trying to get iBCS working...I've tried iBCS-packets from bo and hamm, but nothing works. I always get a message like this: /lib/modules/2.0.30/misc/iBCS.o: unresolved symbol kill_fasync_Rab0414db What's wrong?! If you can help, please email me. Mika -- Mika Marjamäki -/- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.43 1997/06/08 22:50:25 sr1 Exp sr1 $ 1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ http://www.debian.org/FAQ/. 1.2. Purpose of this document This document is intended to identify areas that need your contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite often, so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ. 1.3. Getting newer versions of this document Newer versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP: o http://www.debian.org/Documentation/Debian/packages.html o ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective- packages.txt 1.4. Feedback Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. Please mention to which version of this document your comments refer. 2. Orphaned packages (An orphaned package is a package that has no current maintainer.) Please inform me via e-mail: o when you find that you need to orphan a package o when you believe that the following list is incomplete o when you would like to maintain one of these packages. orphaned : o libc4 (a.out compatibility) o postgres95 o mgetty Orn E. Hansen : o dialdcost o hextype o speak-freely o xega o xmailtool o xspread Yves Arrouye : o compress-package o ppd-adobe-common, ppd-adobe-extra, ppd-adobe-misc, ppd-gs o psptools llucius [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dialog Dominik Kubla [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o arpd o cflow o csh o lsof o open o ptx o spell o sysnews o vlock 3. Packages needing a new maintainer Please inform me via e-mail: o when you find that you'd like to discontinue maintaining a package Please inform the mainatiner of the package: o when you would like to maintain one of the packages. Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o statserial o xarchie Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o html2latex o icmake o ntfs o xftp o xautolock Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mh-papers o term o witalian o pari, paridoc o wnorwegian Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o enscript o seyon o lpr o mosaic (requires Motif development tools) o rcs o xonix o xpat2 o xsok Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xarclock o xdaliclock o lha o dosfstools o sendfile Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o fsp o lyx Doug Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o apsfilter Michael Nonweiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o e2fsprogs o ipx o nas o ncpfs Joe Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o lxtools Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o glibcdoc (will be replaced by libc6-doc) o id-utils o mathpad o idutch o wdutch o wenglish Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o adbbs (needs a better setup of pre-customized files) o berolist o bridge/bridgex (Bridging Tools for Kernel 2.0.X/2.1.X) o defrag o freefont o genromfs o isite o loadlin o ncsa (new Webstandards need to be implemented) o netdiag o newsx o pash o poppassd o sharefont o syslinux o transproxy o upsd Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o sysutils Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dvi2tty o hyperlatex o info2www o latex2rtf Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o opie Erik Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o elvis Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ftplib o lde o libdnd1 o libdnd1-dev o macutils o mcvert o offix-clipboard o offix-editor o offix-execute o offix-files o offix-trash o xabacus o xfishtank o xgalaga o xmcpustate o xodo John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mgetty Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o zyxel 4. Packages that someone is working on Programs listed in this section aren't yet available as Debian packages, but someone is working on providing a package. If you would like to work on one of these packages please contact the responsible person listed below. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl R. Sackett) : o swarm - Objective-C based artificial life research tool o GNU Smalltalk o utf-mailx: scripts to add UTF support to mailx. o SATAN - net security scanner o courtney - detects SATAN scans o gabriel - detects SATAN scans o drone - automatically runs batch jobs of simulation programs. o empire - Wolfpack Empire war simulation o togl - a Tk widget for OpenGL rendering o nanocad - a freeware CAD system for nanotechnology o WISE - WWW-based project management and metrics system Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o giftool Brian Sulcer [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o vile (vi-like editor) o rogue o umoria Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o vtwm: Virtual Window Manager for X11 o yodl o w3-msql (W3 frontend for mSQL) Christian Lynbech [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ilisp (emacs interface to a number of lisp systems) o hyperbole (emacs hypertext/info management system) o oobr (emacs package for browsing OO programs) o STk (Scheme Tk, a scheme interpreter with Tk support) Dermot Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o Umich LDAP o
