Re: loading the Debian kernel
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 11:18:08PM -0400, Ron Nichols wrote: I have a PB Legend 316SX PC (386SX processor, 6M RAM + 3M extended RAM, 41M hd) upon which I am trying to install linux. Everything has been wiped from the hard drive, including the operating system. I am having trouble booting from the Debian rescue disk. Here's what happens: Uh, oh, will not be a lot of fun, but here you go... It says Loading ... then a bunch of binary fills the screen for awhile then it stops and says Loading linux... Not enough memory to load specified kernel. I have tried the following: at the boot: prompt, I type in linux floppy0 (having my low memory root disk ready and the rescue disk in the drive) and I get the same message This is the right way. using fdisk, I repartitioned my hd for minimum (1M) allocated for DOS (the dos fdisk won't allow partitions for anything but DOS), leaving the other 40M unpartitioned and I got the same message. not necessary. at the boot: prompt, I've tried typing just floppy0 with the rescue disk in (same message) and with the lowmemroot disk in (can't find kernel is the message then). I have tried making another rescue disk, only to get the same results. make just another and one more. Sometimes rawrite has problems writing the disk reliable, so you should try at least four or five different disks. Try also to write the disk on another computer. I have also tried several things that were silly out of desperation. Please help me; I am anxious to get linux on line to try it out and customize it as much as my little 40M will allow. I hope you will be able to afford a better system, as Linux will be much more fun then! Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recompiling kernel
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 10:28:10PM -0700, G. Crimp wrote: Hi, I tried recompiling the kernel to include sound support for a newly acquired card. I got an error that I don't understand. I'm using Deb 1.3.1, kernel 2.0.30. The card is of unknown manufacturer, 16 bit, chipset ESS 1868. I pretty much followed the same compile instructions that I used to make the custom kernel that I have been using until now. My understanding of what is happening in all these steps is pretty limited, so please keep any answers simple. If any info is required in addition to the following excerpt from make zdisk, I'd be happy to send it along. Try kernel-package. make-kpkg --revision custom.1.0 kernel-image will creat you a deb file with your kernel. Then install the deb file in /usr/src with dpkg -i filename and answer yes when it is offering to make a boot disk. This will install the kernel on the root partition, too. You may not want this... but your old image is still in vmlinuz.old (and it is a good idea to have a lilo entry for it). Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What does I/O error report from disk mean?
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 12:49:50AM -0500, wrote:
`dmesg' shows multiple occurrences of this
error message:
- hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
- hdb: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=48409,
sector=48346
- end_request: I/O error, dev 03:41, sector 48346
What does this mean? Eg, is sector 48346
irreparable?
This probably means that your second IDE drive is going FOOBAR. Backup!
And then boot from a rescue disk or umount the partiotions or mount them -n
-o remount, ro and run e2fsck -c /dev/hdb? on it. ? is partition number.
It will scan for bad blocks. Maybe you want to return your drive if you
have warranty.
Marcus
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Re: dosemu - can't see other drives
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 11:31:16AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: Jack Kern wrote: but when I try to look at the D: drive, expecting my Linux root directory, I get this: I don't believe the dos commands are pertinent to the linux filesystem. On my dosemu setup if I type unix ls / at the dos prompt, it shows me my linux root directory. I found that, but how do I copy dos programs into this C: image? Or, how do I edit config.sys to add device=c:\emufs.sys /dosc like the doc says? There is no editor! You can use mtools package mdir, mcopy and so on to access hdimages. The device number is m: or n: or so. Please look in /etc/mtools.conf for the right number. ;) Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dosemu - can't see other drives
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 10:13:12AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: I just installed dosemu (bo). I've made no changes yet. The config.sys looks like this: C:\ type config.sys rem this sets up the redirector to look at the Linux root directory. rem this is probably not a good idea once you have dosemu installed device=c:\emufs.sys / device=c:\ems.sys but when I try to look at the D: drive, expecting my Linux root directory, I get this: D:\ dir Volume in drive D has no label Directory of D:\ ° h@1611989312 0-17-96 19:63p IPL SYS 54944 3-30-97 11:16a 2 file(s) 1612044256 bytes 18829312 bytes free Any ideas? run /usr/lib/dosemu/setup.hdimage and creat a real Dos image (MS DOS, or Caldera OpenDOS). FDOS fails here and with the LREDIR command. Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gzip question
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 12:38:54PM +0100, John wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Norbert Veber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 12:11:06PM +0100, John wrote: Hello I have a non accessible (from linux) win95 partition [0]. I have Why is it non accessible? Linux can read windows partitions, you can mount because it is doublespaced, and it must remain so. So why don't you install dmsdos (available at sunsite), that gives you rw access to doublespaced partitions (most of the times). This is Linux we are talking about. There is even a toolset to access Linux partitions from Windows (DOS). Don't remember the name, though. Use the first solution. Hey, this is *LINUX* we are talking about. ;) Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video Modes in X
On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Geza Gyorgyi wrote: I am trying to get my X running 1152x862 at 16 bpp - Vertical scan = 60Hz, Horizontal Scan = 56Hz. The only hastle is that there is no modeline for this in my XF86Config, and I don't know how to write one. Possible answer: You are probably using an XF86 server that does not provide 1152x862 resolution, AFAIK such is XF86_SVGA. The first line in /etc/X11/Xserver indicates the server on duty. If you have a card that can cooperate with another XFree86 server then try to reconfigure XF86 to work with the card-specific server. For example, I have an S3 Virge video card, which can be used with both XF86_SVGA and XF86_S3V, but the latter provides more modes. Siza, At the moment I am running XF86_S3 - do you know if this supports that mode? If so have you any idea of what the modeline for it should be? Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video Modes in X
I am trying to get my X running 1152x862 at 16 bpp - Vertical scan = 60Hz, Horizontal Scan = 56Hz. The only hastle is that there is no modeline for this in my XF86Config, and I don't know how to write one. Read /usr/doc/X11/VideoModes.doc. It is quite long, but it will get you do and *understand* it right. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: making a kernel .deb file with make-kpkg
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Re: Unidentified subject!
Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Scott D. Killen wrote: What exactly is the hamm release? hamm is the nickname for the next version of Debian, 2.0. It has been frozen for testing since April 1st and most of the problems seem to have dissapeared now. It is slated for release in late April. Don't hold your breath. At the rate things are going, we'll be lucky to get it out the door by June. *sigh* I wish I had time to help maintainers with release-blocking bugs... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help! Liunx messes with date for DOS
I am getting my system up, new kernel compiled mouse etc. all coming together, but I now notice a quite annoying problem. Last week I go all sorts of errors from some of my (DOS) programs talking about things being changed before last use etc. I just happen to glance at my clock and it says its 2/8/99! I fixed it, but today I noticed after starting up DOS, that the date was 2/19/98, right year and day, but the month was off. What gives? OH, I do remember telling Linux that I did not, and did not want to have, my clock set to GMT, that it was local time. How is Linux changing my date / time, and why? It doesn't seem to happen every time, mabey only after running dselect and installing stuff? not sure I have only noticed it a few times, usually because some software complained or I happened to look at the clock and notice the error. any ideas? Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
monitor rates for X
I Do not have a manual for my monitor, but I want to push my resolution in X higher. I have searched the net, but I can't find the horizontal and vertical rates for it. my monitor is: PIXIE PBC-1450 If any one knows the horizontal and vertical rates for this monitor I could really use them. I am stuck in 640X480, I don't want to damage my monitor by running rates it can support, but I strongly believe it is capable of a few higher res modes... ALSO: I am left handed, but I can't figure out how to set my mouse buttons for left handed use. (GPM X) Thanks Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Super.tab syntax
On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, C.L.Daugaard wrote: Using super, I'd like to enable certain users to execute the following: echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward I've given super privilege for this exact string in super.tab, and running super with the -d flag confirms it, but when the user tries the command he gets [name of script invoking 'super (cmd)']: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward: Permission denied Have you tried escaping the shell characters: echo \1\ \ /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward HTH, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
first kernel compile first failed kernel !!!!!
Hello all i did my first kernel compile (make menuconfig,make clean, make-kpkg clean, make-kpkg --bzimage kernel_image) and installed the resulting .deb package of the kernel,runned lilo (twice) and rebooted,the kernel loaded fine but i think i lacked something ( i guess i did not make the module thinking that the installation of the .deb file would do it),anyway,here's the error messages i got when booting the kernel: Parallelizing fsck version 1.10 (24-Apr-97) /dev/hda1: clean, 23305/105664 files, 350526/421312 blocks Loading modules: linear /lib/modules/2.0.29/block/linear.o: unresolved symbol unregister_md_personality_Rb61b57be /lib/modules/2.0.29/block/linear.o: unresolved symbol md_size_Ra3598823 /lib/modules/2.0.29/block/linear.o: unresolved symbol register_md_personality_Rac6e8416 cdrom Module inserted $Id: cdrom.c,v 0.8 1996/08/10 10:52:11 david Exp $ vfat /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_get_entry_Rf33fbfbb /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_mark_buffer_dirty_Rcc359597/lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_put_inode_Rfb77d10e /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_scan_R30ef1fbe /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_parent_ino_R656ae616 /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_add_cluster_R4f7eb0a2 /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_lock_creation_R26cc6438 /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_statfs_Rfdf09406 /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_dir_operations_Rcf5febac /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_unlock_creation_R16929a2b /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_a2uni_Rb951cd1a /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_write_inode_Rb5e94b7f /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_code2uni_R6832fb5c /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_put_super_R9a22962f /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_cache_inval_inode_Red6e1d29/lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_date_unix2dos_R8f42586e /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_read_super_R8c561915 /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_bmap_R828c222b /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_notify_change_R5bf2f7a9 /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_fs_panic_R50ae0d8a /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_brelse_R8297f36e /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_readdirx_R6b584186 /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_read_inode_R0f6dbd83 lp lp1 at 0x0378, (polling) serial Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450 tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A ppp CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc. PPP line discipline registered. slhc Checking all file systems... Parallelizing fsck version 1.10 (24-Apr-97) Mounting local file systems ... Mounting remote file systems ... scuse me if it make the message long a bit but there's some driver who loaded but other who didn't,does there is something to do now. thanks a lot. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Exim and procmail
hi, now I know I can't be the only one using Exim and procmail, so I must be doing something weird. Exim is configured as an 'Internet site' (option 1) and I'm using this: |IFS=' ' exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 daniel as my .forward I'm using fetchmail to pull my mail off the office mail server. It works fine. If I use the above .forward I get this in /var/log/exim/mainlog 1998-04-20 08:51:40 0yR2vz-PP-00 ** |IFS=' ' exec /usr/bin/procmail -Yf- || exit 75 daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] D=userforward T=address_pipe: IF S=' command not found for address_pipe transport It looks to me as if exim is taking the at the start of the forward to be closed by ' Any ideas? -- Daniel Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Netwise Australia 0417 677 377 Engineering Network Solutions -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install disks for PowerPC
where are they? I see a directory for disks-i386 and several other platforms (alpha, sparc and m68k) but no disks-powerpc. So how does one get started installing Debian on a PowerPC MAC, and where are the instructions? TIA 8---8 Richard Shepherd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 8---8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: first kernel compile first failed kernel !!!!!
I suspect that you were already running 2.0.29 before you built your custom one. It is possible that there were some modules in the old kernel that were not included in your custom kernel. Try this and see if it corrects the problem: mv /lib/modules/2.0.29 /lib/modules/2.0.29-old then immediately reinstall the kernel .deb that you built and reboot. it worked but i have another problem,the kernel still load fine but i found 4 suspect line when the kernel load,here are them: Loading modules: linear can't locate module linear cdrom can't locate module cdrom vfat lp lp1 at 0x0378, (polling) serial can't locate module serial do you (or anyone here) know what it mean ?? Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install disks for PowerPC
where are they? I see a directory for disks-i386 and several other platforms (alpha, sparc and m68k) but no disks-powerpc. So how does one get started installing Debian on a PowerPC MAC, and where are the instructions? i don't think there will be a Debian for the Mac version of the powerPC as long as these machine remain proprietary,there's version of linux for the IBM powerPC line but the only linux distribution especially for the Mac PPC is available at: http://www.mklinux.apple.com/ i did research some documentation there and their linux version have some files covered under another licence than the GPL due to the proprietary nature of the machine (and these files i'm talking'bout are sometime critical to linux) hope this help. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: first kernel compile first failed kernel !!!!!
I am assuming that you either compiled support for these directly into the kernel or you have no need for them. If this is the case, edit /etc/modules and remove the references to linear, cdrom, and serial. i compiled them in the kernel (and yes i trully need them as i only have 1 machine and need access to the internet). thanks a lot for all the help you have given to me,it was very usefull. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install disks for PowerPC
On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote: where are they? I see a directory for disks-i386 and several other platforms (alpha, sparc and m68k) but no disks-powerpc. So how does one get started installing Debian on a PowerPC MAC, and where are the instructions? i don't think there will be a Debian for the Mac version of the powerPC as long as these machine remain proprietary,there's version of linux for the IBM powerPC line but the only linux distribution especially for the Mac PPC is available at: Thanx for the reply. So how does one get started with the IBM PowerPC then if there are no disks-powerpc? 8---8 Richard Shepherd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Phone: 07-838-4764 8---8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
does samba support user list REQUESTS
Does Samba support user list requests -- sending a list of users to remote machines upon request.. Novell 3.11 and Win NT do this.. does Samba? Thanks -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
no popclient?
I see that popclient has been missing for sometime. I have a machine with popclient installed from some time ago (early days of bo). Just recently it has stopped working and I see no alternative package to get either the binary (popclient) or the equivalent (lightweight) functionality. The error I get when trying to pop off ANY server via my (rather old) popclient binary now is: popclient: querying mailserv.waikato.ac.nz at Mon Apr 20 15:23:43 1998 popclient: openuserfolder: open(): No such file or directory Now all my local mail readers work fine so there's no reason I know of why it's not happy anymore. The only shared lib it uses is libc5 (which I have). Any ideas on how to fix this or what else to use? 8---8 Richard Shepherd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 8---8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changing xterm titles to something more usefull than 'xterm'
Is there a simple way to make xterms display the current command beeing executed in the window? By simple I mean without patching and recompiling bash and/or xterm. I know that you can change the title using the -T command line option, but I want it to change dynamically depending on what I'm doing in that xterm. This would work nicelly with afterstep's window list module. To make it display the current path, something like this can be used (in bash): PS1='([EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w)% \[\033]0;\w\007\]' But how can I make it display the name of the command? pgpE4fF3vbedn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: no popclient?
Use fetchmail. On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Richard L Shepherd wrote: I see that popclient has been missing for sometime. I have a machine with popclient installed from some time ago (early days of bo). Just recently it has stopped working and I see no alternative package to get either the binary (popclient) or the equivalent (lightweight) functionality. The error I get when trying to pop off ANY server via my (rather old) popclient binary now is: popclient: querying mailserv.waikato.ac.nz at Mon Apr 20 15:23:43 1998 popclient: openuserfolder: open(): No such file or directory Now all my local mail readers work fine so there's no reason I know of why it's not happy anymore. The only shared lib it uses is libc5 (which I have). Any ideas on how to fix this or what else to use? 8---8 Richard Shepherd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 8---8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XFree 3.3.2 and TGUI9680
After a recent harddrive failure I moved from bo to hamm. I quickly discovered that XF86 in hamm doesn't seem to like my tgui9680 vid card. The svga server loads, but all I get is a black screen, and after hitting ctrl-alt-bkspc I get: waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing. This can be remedied by reinstalling just the svga server from bo (3.3). Any ideas on what's causing this and how to get around it? tgui9680 w/ 1meg Triton II VX Cyrix 150+ 40 Meg ram. Thanks, Seth There is no Emotion, There is Peace There is no Ignorance, There is Knowledge There is no Passion, There is Serenity There is no Death, There is the * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install disks for PowerPC
Thanx for the reply. So how does one get started with the IBM PowerPC then if there are no disks-powerpc? you check elsewhere for now,it's a very real possibility that Debian developper are crafting a very good distribution but that need time and they seem to be very busy (with the release of hamm i.e. Debian 2.0) if you need something that'll run on a IBM PPC,you can take a look at the linuxppc web site ( http://www.linuxppc.org if my memory is exact,i'll check when reconnecting to the internet i.e. in a few minutes). HTH (Hope That Help) Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a pppd connection problem.
Dear Madam/Sir, My internet provider changed his router parameter because his win95 users must to use bring up terminal window after connection. Since this option (Cisco/Group-Async/no ppp authentication pap)changed I do not make a correct connection and get two error messages: --ppp not replacing existing default route to eth0[0.0.0.0] --Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP I do not have idea what is a solution if you know it please send me an e-mail. Kind regards, Attila Szomor 26 Szeder Street, Pécs, 7627 Hungary [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have Debian GNU linux 1.3 with 2.0.33 kernel and pppd 2.2.0, ppp parameters see below: (ifconfig - ppp0 OK, route - remote OK !!! but default is eth0 not ppp0 !!!) /etc/ppp/options asyncmap 0 crtscts lock modem noipdefault proxyarp /etc/ppp/pap-secrets # OUTBOUND connections aszomor * mypassword /etc/ppp/ip-up is empty /etc/ppp/ip-down is empty /etc/ppp.chatscript TIMEOUT 60 ABORT BUSY ABORT NO CARRIER ABORT VOICE ABORT NO DIALTONE ATZ OK ATF OK ATDT504004 CONNECT name:--name: aszomor assword:mypassword ~ /usr/local/sbin/ppp-on #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/pppd connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp.chatscript' \ /dev/ttyS1 19200 \ defaultroute \ name aszomor /var/log/syslog Apr 18 18:40:53 starfish pppd[441]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Apr 18 18:40:54 starfish chat[442]: timeout set to 60 seconds Apr 18 18:40:54 starfish chat[442]: abort on (BUSY) Apr 18 18:40:54 starfish chat[442]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Apr 18 18:40:54 starfish chat[442]: abort on (VOICE) Apr 18 18:40:54 starfish chat[442]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Apr 18 18:40:54 starfish chat[442]: send (ATZ^M) Apr 18 18:40:54 starfish chat[442]: expect (OK) Apr 18 18:40:55 starfish chat[442]: ATZ^M^M Apr 18 18:40:55 starfish chat[442]: OK -- got it Apr 18 18:40:55 starfish chat[442]: send (ATF^M) Apr 18 18:40:55 starfish chat[442]: expect (OK) Apr 18 18:40:55 starfish chat[442]: ^M Apr 18 18:40:55 starfish chat[442]: ATF^M^M Apr 18 18:40:55 starfish chat[442]: OK -- got it Apr 18 18:40:55 starfish chat[442]: send (ATDT504004^M) Apr 18 18:40:55 starfish chat[442]: expect (CONNECT) Apr 18 18:40:55 starfish chat[442]: ^M Apr 18 18:41:28 starfish chat[442]: ATDT504004^M^M Apr 18 18:41:28 starfish chat[442]: CONNECT -- got it Apr 18 18:41:28 starfish chat[442]: send (^M) Apr 18 18:41:28 starfish chat[442]: expect (name:) Apr 18 18:41:28 starfish chat[442]: 14400/LAPM-V^M Apr 18 18:41:29 starfish chat[442]: ^M Apr 18 18:41:29 starfish chat[442]: ^M Apr 18 18:41:29 starfish chat[442]: User Access Verification^M Apr 18 18:41:29 starfish chat[442]: ^M Apr 18 18:41:29 starfish chat[442]: Username: -- got it Apr 18 18:41:29 starfish chat[442]: send (aszomor^M) Apr 18 18:41:29 starfish chat[442]: expect (word:) Apr 18 18:41:29 starfish chat[442]: aszomor^M Apr 18 18:41:29 starfish chat[442]: Password: -- got it Apr 18 18:41:29 starfish chat[442]: send (mypassword^M) Apr 18 18:41:29 starfish chat[442]: expect (~) Apr 18 18:41:30 starfish chat[442]: ^M Apr 18 18:41:30 starfish chat[442]: Entering PPP mode.^M Apr 18 18:41:30 starfish chat[442]: Async interface address is unnumbered (Ethernet1/0)^M Apr 18 18:41:30 starfish chat[442]: Your IP address is 195.228.67.250. MTU is 1500 bytes^M Apr 18 18:41:30 starfish chat[442]: Header compression will match your system.^M Apr 18 18:41:30 starfish chat[442]: ^M Apr 18 18:41:33 starfish chat[442]: ~ -- got it Apr 18 18:41:33 starfish chat[442]: send (^M) Apr 18 18:41:33 starfish pppd[441]: Serial connection established. Apr 18 18:41:34 starfish pppd[441]: Using interface ppp0 Apr 18 18:41:34 starfish pppd[441]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1 Apr 18 18:41:36 starfish pppd[441]: local IP address 195.228.67.250 Apr 18 18:41:36 starfish pppd[441]: remote IP address 195.228.67.2 Apr 18 18:41:36 starfish pppd[441]: ppp not replacing existing default route to eth0[0.0.0.0] Apr 18 18:41:36 starfish pppd[441]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Changing xterm titles to something more usefull than 'xterm'
On 20-Apr-98 Norbert Veber wrote:
Is there a simple way to make xterms display the current command
beeing executed in the window? By simple I mean without patching and
recompiling bash and/or xterm. I know that you can change the title
using the -T command line option, but I want it to change dynamically
depending on what I'm doing in that xterm. This would work nicelly
with afterstep's window list module.
To make it display the current path, something like this can be used
(in bash):
PS1='([EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w)% \[\033]0;\w\007\]'
But how can I make it display the name of the command?
Changing the title bar dynamically can be done with the PROMPT_COMMAND
environment variable (in bash). In my bashrc I have:
function settitle
{
# title=[EMAIL PROTECTED]:(`date +%k:%M:%S`):`pwd`
title=[EMAIL PROTECTED]:(`date +%k:%M:%S`):`history 1`
echo -n ^[]2;$title^G /dev/tty
}
if [ $TERM = xterm ] || [ $TERM = xterm-color ]; then
PROMPT_COMMAND=settitle
PS1='\h:\u '
fi
The first title assignment is useful when I want to know the current
directory while having a small prompt. Also for telling when an xterm
was last used.
The second one only lists the last command executed. Don't know how to
list the current one.
Hope this helps!
(thanks go to Glynn Clements on linux-admin for this tid-bit)
Mike Brownlow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Running XDVI from netscape
Hello, I installed Netscape 4.04 (in a private directory) last year and after fiddling with preferences (Edit - preferences -Navigator-Applications) I was able to bring up XDVI when I clicked on a .dvi file and a ghostview when I click on a .ps file. I was running RedHat 4.02 (I think). I installed Debian 1.3.1 last month, and Netscape works without having to reinstall. However now when I click on a .dvi or .ps file, I get message: sh -c line 1: missing closing `)' for arithmetic expression sh -c line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;' sh -c line 1: ((/hda8/Tex/bin/xdvi /tmp/M...dvi);rm /tmp/Mdvi) The relevant .mailcap entry is application/x-dvi;/hda8/Tex/bin/xdvi %s Can anyone help fix problem. King Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
errors while uninstalling pppupd
I got the following: Removing pppupd ... /etc/init.d/pppupd: line 28: syntax error near unexpected token `force-reload)' /etc/init.d/pppupd: line 28: ` force-reload)' dpkg: error processing pppupd (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tape Orientated Backup Bug
Downloaded the unstable Debian Tape-Orientated Backup package (tob_0.14-4.deb) tonight and had something interesting (frustrating) happen, posting here so that others may avoid similar problems... 1. Installed package - dpkg -i tob_0.14-4.deb 2. Intended to execute tob -check as documented in the man page, made typo and ran tob check instead (as root, under /dev directory). I avoid running new programs as root if possible, but one must be root to run tob. 3. ALL DEVICE FILES UNDER /dev GONE!!! MAKEDEV SCRIPT GONE TOO!!! Luckily I had access to the makedev package and was able to regenerate the device files without much pain. I'm not sure if the typo had anything to do with it, but I noticed lines in the tob script such as $RM -f $TOBLISTS/$2.Full*. I would suspect some variable didn't get set and this got interpreted as $RM -f *. - Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: Well for what it is worth my own opinion is that 95 just like its forbears is an app. loaded on dos and for this reason I think we should be talking about whether or not dos is a true multi-tasking OS ... It certainly is capable of becoming one. The question is, has it be implemented? Ever try Windows '98? Well, if you haven't, don't count on M$ ever learning how to design a real operating system. Yesterday I heard a commercial on the radio about Win98 being the OS of future businesses... Win98 runs one hell of a lot slower than Win95 and multitasks even worse.. I don't know where M$ came up with Win98 running programs faster than Win95.. Win98 is a disaster; _never_ install it, it is a complete waste of time and money. Maybe Gates should fire all the so-called programmers and hire a few monkeys to get the job done! I guess that comment was a little harsh, but necessay to get the point across -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remco Blaakmeer writes: The second thing that you can do is to move up to the new ultra-DMA IDE drives. The bandwidth (bytes per second) is much higher than the standard IDE drives and will speed up Linux as a whole. If you want to really speed up your hard drives, switch to multiple SCSI drives. Period. Yes, to a point! If one is to go all the way, then make it wide fast SCSI3 drives which spin at 10,000 rpm and use a PCI based RAID SCSI controller with _many_ of these GIGAbyte drives! Did anyone mention myriabucks? (one myriabuck = $10,000) 8-) The newer SCSI controllers will handle up to 15 drives per cable. 8-) (not to mention the startup current blanking out half a city and the resonances sounding like a jet plane taking off 8-) ) Just joking! In all due seriousness, while an IDE drive will never match a decent SCSI setup, IDEs are less expensive and ultra-DMA IDE drives, IMHO, represent the most bang for the buck (performance for the money) hmm... I have 64 megs of EDO RAM and two ~104 meg swap paritions and Linux rarely touches them, and even if it does, it only uses less than 10 megs.. Has Linux decided my 6-year old, 208 meg drive is too slow? I've also had a swap parition on a 3-year old 1.2 WD drive, it's not UDMA, but it is 310% faster than the older drive.. Linux didn't touch that either .. I've even tried to make Linux use it by openning tons of huges X programs (i.e. multiple Netscape windows) and it'd only use about 15 megs at max. I have a 6.4 WD UDMA drive installed now, maybe I should try it out. Is it worth it? BTW- the hdparm -t values for those IDE drives are approximately 1.05 megs/sec, 3.27 megs/sec, 8.51 megs/sec, respectively. -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is X breaking my monitor?
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote: On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Will Lowe wrote: Every few minutes, the screen wavers a little -- like it was made of jelly and someone's shaking in just the slightest bit. Is this a monitor problem, or is my video card going, or have aliens changed the properties of the local space-time continuum? Check for new sources of electromagnetic radiation that might have been introduced to the vicinity. Speakers, motors, toasters, UFOs... -Greg Mildenhall Also, is there an electric space heater or fan that might be kicking in about the same time as you notice the interference? Does the location of the system have old or overloaded wiring? Could it be that the timing of the interference coincides with the heating element of an electric dryer, aquarium heater, refrigerator compressor or automatic dishwasher pump? Do you notice the intensity of the room lighting changing at the same time or hear any background noise that might tip you off to the source? It might also be that the power supply in the monitor or trouble with its degaussing circuit. Also, I had a radio interference problem when I first setup X ... you should try changing the vertical and horizontal frequencies -- If your situation only occurs in X, and not in a text based console, DOS, or Windows, it is probably some type radio interference. You may want to check the electrical wiring too. Make sure that the monitor cables aren't near power cables or any poorly insulated wires. I hope this information will help more than the UFO theory! -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: Well for what it is worth my own opinion is that 95 just like its forbears is an app. loaded on dos and for this reason I think we should be talking about whether or not dos is a true multi-tasking OS ... It certainly is capable of becoming one. The question is, has it be implemented? Ever try Windows '98? Well, if you haven't, don't count on M$ ever learning how to design a real operating system. Yesterday I heard a commercial on the radio about Win98 being the OS of future businesses... Win98 runs one hell of a lot slower than Win95 and multitasks even worse.. I don't know where M$ came up with Win98 running programs faster than Win95.. Win98 is a disaster; _never_ install it, it is a complete waste of time and money. OK there we are, a genuine M$-Windoze == shit thread. Cut it off please, if you want this type of discussion there are plenty news groups filled with it. Let's keep this a _useful_ list. Eric Meijer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running XDVI from netscape
Michael Tempsch writes: I installed Netscape 4.04 (in a private directory) last year and after fiddling with preferences (Edit - preferences -Navigator-Applications) I was able to bring up XDVI when I clicked on a .dvi file and a ghostview when I click on a .ps file. I was running RedHat 4.02 (I think). I installed Debian 1.3.1 last month, and Netscape works without having to reinstall. However now when I click on a .dvi or .ps file, I get message: sh -c line 1: missing closing `)' for arithmetic expression sh -c line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;' sh -c line 1: ((/hda8/Tex/bin/xdvi /tmp/M...dvi);rm /tmp/Mdvi) Definately sounds like the bash-2.0 bug... Upgrade or downgrade bash. (alternately you could remove the symlink /bin/sh-/bin/bash and instead create the symlink /bin/sh-/bin/ash if you have ash installed) Thanks Michael for quick response. I don't have ash loaded, but I have ksh. I link /bin/sh - /bin/ksh and I get another error message; now the parens are not balanced. Hmm... will another shell give me still different error messages? I load ash from cdrom, and /bin/sh - /bin/ash - and IT WORKS. A problem with shells seems more serious than one with application; should I report this to someone? if so who. The problem may be with Netscape 4.04 since it seemed to have generated an illegal script with ksh. King Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ATI expert@work AGP 8mb
I have this vid. card and was attempting to install a win. manager. The nearest sounding option for my card was the ATI Mach64. but no dice, it looked all screwy. I've heard that the problem was lack of support for AGP. It's not vital that I run X but it would be nice. Where can I get the proper drivers if they exist? thanx. Marlon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Super.tab syntax
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 09:29:33PM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: Have you tried escaping the shell characters: echo \1\ \ /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Thanks, I hadn't. Unfortunately bash still complains about permissions. I additionally tried setting real uid to root, but when I run super echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward I still get bash: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward: Permission denied Puzzling. Thanks again. Curt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What libs to use ???
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello This is not really a debian problem, but i think that the people here can help me. I need to create a program that shows how much of it's task has been done (in percentage maybe) and what is it doing currently. I could display this with printf's but that would create a scroll effect that i do not want. So my question is if there is any library (for C) that allowa's me to display the whole thing on the same place, without the scrolling efect. I thought that maybe readline or (n)curses would do! I would also apreciate if you could point to the docs of the librarys that you reccomend. Thank you and sorry for the off-topic question, and please cc directly to me. Thanks! Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNTsxXpiyznf+xIrhAQGgegf/ToJFNl8EPHex2in7vvSr/r3XHwqMyeFr rLCmFPFoxIM5OdEvqsRpxoYd6f6lToyipBW7loQJCUQHRDfm2s1DJkoB7wnhO6ZJ rn/vcZcl7MDl660VM1eGAoDhSIziafskRHokIrRaoSI0lfr6jMsp2+IFyo6FNzaS kBXNB40oouwYpz6wfnbikX6/wm69UvuYMGzm/npJqPVMbQN7xc2AIPdooltmm3xS 8sJeDPgc6tA9tDrEMKJ+g/O2lPVawCUKT1V9FEAio+F0MjhWUp1e7A1ySh3epxEg G4de0YQYyfvuAxYUX5VFvBEEGSsLvbQPXqbdGkNwtjdAho5X4OMC1w== =0Tja -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question.
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is what's known as a 'port scan'. Someone wants to see what network services are available on your box. This would likely be a first step for a would-be intruder. You should probably alert someone at fuller.edu. I don't think it is: % host ftp.fuller.edu ftp.fuller.edu CNAME deborah.fuller.edu deborah.fuller.edu A 206.1.27.5 So the connections are coming from the FTP server. In the usual case, the FTP client will listen on a connection, on a different port each time, for any data from the FTP server, so each of these logged entries probably corresponds to getting a directory or downloading a file from the server. You can get some idea of what's going on by using tcpdump and/or running FTP under strace: % strace -e network ftp ftp.fuller.edu -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ [UNIX] appears to have the inside track on being the replacement for CP/M on the largest microcomputers (e.g. those based on 68000...) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netscape + Java + X 24 bpp
System configuration: * Base: Debian 1.3.1 r6 (bo, libc5) * Kernel: version 2.0.30 * X: XFree86 3.3.1 (debian packages 3.3-4) with the S.u.S.E. XF86_SVGA server. * Gfx hw: Matrox Millenium II * Netscape: Communicator 4.04 pro (installed with the netscape4_4.0-5.deb package from hamm). Problem: When accessing a page with java (applets) netscape crashes if I'm running X in 24 bpp. Netscape don't crash if I'm running X in 8 or 16 bpp. Anybody got netscape work with java in 24 bpp? /fax -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gzip question
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 12:38:54PM +0100, John wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Norbert Veber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 12:11:06PM +0100, John wrote: Hello I have a non accessible (from linux) win95 partition [0]. I have Why is it non accessible? Linux can read windows partitions, you can mount because it is doublespaced, and it must remain so. So why don't you install dmsdos (available at sunsite), that gives you rw access to doublespaced partitions (most of the times). This is Linux we are talking about. There is even a toolset to access Linux partitions from Windows (DOS). Don't remember the name, though. Use the first solution. Hey, this is *LINUX* we are talking about. ;) Marcus hey thanks - this, if it works, is *precisely* what I need. :) thanks again John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I have a pppd connection problem.
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 09:13:16AM +0200, Szomor Attila wrote: --ppp not replacing existing default route to eth0[0.0.0.0] --Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP I do not have idea what is a solution if you know it please send me an e-mail. I don't think the settings on your ISP are the problem. It sounds to me like you changed the configuration of your own ethernet network. pppd will not change the default route (the 0.0.0.0 in route -n) if it already exists. Probably you are setting it in /etc/init.d/network. If you want pppd to set the default route, you need to not set it yourself in /etc/init.d/network. To make your ethernet network operate, you can use the route add -net command to add _just_ the IP subnet used by your ethernet. Then pppd is free to create the default route when you are online, and remove it when you disconnect. The other problem about proxy ARP is simple -- you don't need proxy ARP in a dial-in configuration. It would only work if your ethernet network had the same IP subnet as the address you got from your ISP -- and that's unlikely in your case. This error isn't hurting anything, but you can get rid of it by removing proxyarp from your ppp options. Have fun, Avery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: finding leftovers
On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Marcus Brinkmann writes: I think this is only linker confusion and has its cause by removing libraries and symlinks and running ldconfig in the wrong order. Policy about calling ldconfig in package scripts is changing at the moment, and we hope to have the proper solution implemented for 2.1. However, I don't think this is an indication for left-overs. Can you try running ldconfig again after dpkg has finished its job? I believe the problem is not in dpkg's ldconfig order... nr# ldconfig ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libext2fs.so (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libe2p.so (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libuuid.so (No such file or directory), skipping These are probably just soft links to files that no longer exist. If so, delete them and rerun ldconfig. /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills* Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A.* * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.networksplus.net/wpmills/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * / -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
question about kernel
Hi! A lot of the people here are running RH linux, and this morning all of 'em crashed. RH seems to have a patch available, Debian doesn't. Question: is Debian vulnerable for this? -Maarten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Super.tab syntax
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, C.L.Daugaard wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 09:29:33PM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: I still get bash: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward: Permission denied I don't use super, but it's interesting that bash is the one complaining and not super. You could make this a script and have users call the script from super. Just be careful because bash is over cautious about suid operation and will drop is privleges if the euid != ruid. Good luck, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running XDVI from netscape
I have seen this problem before. Thanks Michael for quick response. Hmm... will another shell give me still different error messages? I load ash from cdrom, and /bin/sh - /bin/ash - and IT WORKS. A problem with shells seems more serious than one with application; should I report this to someone? if so who. The problem may be with Netscape 4.04 since it seemed to have generated an illegal script with ksh. If the problem is with Netscape 4 then they already know about itA few months back I was trying to get netscape to use Play to play wav file soundsI had the exact same problem. I tried everything (including using ; ' and a cast of other chgaricters) in the definition as to trick netscape into working I had no luck at all and never thinking it could be a bug in bash reported it as a bug in netscapes bug system just thinking now... maybe if I strace netscapeit will show what the actual command line that it passes is...hmm... but if it works with ashI can see no reason as a temporary fix to change sh to link to ash (ill try it again when I get home) -Steve -- -=Signature has been removed because it made an unfair comparison between NT 4 and Linux =- replacement: (ok I admit...I am bored..its a slow day at work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$fortune -o Anything more than 3 shakes is for fun. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running XDVI from netscape
The problem is definitly bash 2.0. Try a real shell. This was an answer from a netscape person (name forgotten but can be found in the emacs manual) -Egon On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: I have seen this problem before. Thanks Michael for quick response. Hmm... will another shell give me still different error messages? I load ash from cdrom, and /bin/sh - /bin/ash - and IT WORKS. A problem with shells seems more serious than one with application; should I report this to someone? if so who. The problem may be with Netscape 4.04 since it seemed to have generated an illegal script with ksh. If the problem is with Netscape 4 then they already know about itA few months back I was trying to get netscape to use Play to play wav file soundsI had the exact same problem. I tried everything (including using ; ' and a cast of other chgaricters) in the definition as to trick netscape into working I had no luck at all and never thinking it could be a bug in bash reported it as a bug in netscapes bug system just thinking now... maybe if I strace netscapeit will show what the actual command line that it passes is...hmm... but if it works with ashI can see no reason as a temporary fix to change sh to link to ash (ill try it again when I get home) -Steve -- -=Signature has been removed because it made an unfair comparison between NT 4 and Linux =- replacement: (ok I admit...I am bored..its a slow day at work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$fortune -o Anything more than 3 shakes is for fun. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.
Windows 98 and NT require more ram to be faster than 95. Otherwise, it's overbloated kernel and other system sucking resources will force you to hit your harddrive (memory paging via swap file / disk) and that wil cause such a slow down. Personally, I find windows 95 and nt have faster response times on some windows vs my X all oses have their purposes, I personally favor Linux with X11 rather than MS for my general internetting pleasure. I only tried a few betas of Windows 98, like I said.. needs more ram. :) Carroll Kong On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote: On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: Well for what it is worth my own opinion is that 95 just like its forbears is an app. loaded on dos and for this reason I think we should be talking about whether or not dos is a true multi-tasking OS ... It certainly is capable of becoming one. The question is, has it be implemented? Ever try Windows '98? Well, if you haven't, don't count on M$ ever learning how to design a real operating system. Yesterday I heard a commercial on the radio about Win98 being the OS of future businesses... Win98 runs one hell of a lot slower than Win95 and multitasks even worse.. I don't know where M$ came up with Win98 running programs faster than Win95.. Win98 is a disaster; _never_ install it, it is a complete waste of time and money. Maybe Gates should fire all the so-called programmers and hire a few monkeys to get the job done! I guess that comment was a little harsh, but necessay to get the point across -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question about kernel
Yes. There is the new 'nestea' attack ... linux is linux, regardless of distribution. In other words, debian is definately vulnerable, there are patches available. I forgot exactly where I got mine, (sorry), but it is something like ip_fragment.c and you throw it into your kernel source tree and recompile it... Carroll Kong On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Maarten Bezemer wrote: Hi! A lot of the people here are running RH linux, and this morning all of 'em crashed. RH seems to have a patch available, Debian doesn't. Question: is Debian vulnerable for this? -Maarten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question about kernel
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: Yes. There is the new 'nestea' attack ... linux is linux, regardless of distribution. In other words, debian is definately vulnerable, there are patches available. I forgot exactly where I got mine, (sorry), but it is something like ip_fragment.c and you throw it into your kernel source tree and recompile it... thanks, but as you're not certain, I guess it was not on www.debian.org? Well, knowing the name makes it a lot easier to look for ;-) -Maarten. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why?
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why would any list accept an email message with the above in the To: header? Your question could be asking one of two different things: 1) Why would the list accept mail with an obviously bogus To: header? 2) Why would the list accept mail that doesn't have the list address in the To: or Cc: header fields? The answer to 1) is that the list software can't tell what addresses are obviously fake - just because an email address isn't valid by the time it reaches the listserv doesn't mean it's a fake. (As an example, suppose I have an internal network with a mail gateway. I send something to someone else on the internal network and Cc: it to the list. The To: header ends up looking like To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is a valid mail address only internally. The listserv couldn't tell the difference betweeen this and an obviously fake address.) The answer to 2) is that the listserv does this right now because it's easier than checking all the header fields. However, there's no technical reason (other than that one might have to rewrite the list-processing software again) for not doing this that I can see. It would disallow people Bcc:'ing stuff to the list, but for an open list with publicly accessible archives, is this really a necessary feature? Also, someone in the US State of Maryland might want to consider donating a mail server for Debian. That email would have been grounds for criminal charges had the server been located in Maryland. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.
commercial on the radio about Win98 being the OS of future businesses... Win98 runs one hell of a lot slower than Win95 and multitasks even worse.. I don't know where M$ came up with Win98 running programs faster than Win95.. Win98 is a disaster; _never_ install it, it is a complete waste of time and money. Well if decide to pay for a doddgy OS when an excellent free one is available ...On your head be it Jonathan -- In any war, the first casualty is the truth. --anon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Big hard disks
Larry Panzer wrote: Thanks to everyone who helped me on my last question. Now that I have decided on getting a bigger hard disk (I looking at about a 1GB) I have heard of or know of the following problems: Can I plug a 1GB EIDE disk into a normal IDE controller with a CD-ROM, and will it be standard IDE interface be able to access the full disk? Some BIOS's don't boot with a HDD over 500MB if they are older. My BIOS is (C) 1992 ZDS (Zenith Data Systems). it sounds like you have a problemI doubt a BIOS (c) 1992 will boot a 1 gig drive..also I doubt it would work well without the seup utility (ive had problems with NEWER BIOSes than that) from what I understand you could do this... keep your existing drive and add the new one... Linux (AFAIK) doesn't nee dthe BIOS fo rmuch beyond booting... so even if the BIOS doesn't know about the new drive linux will and then you can partition and format the drive and distribute its bigness however you wantsnip My current HDD is a Western Digital 125MB, therefore couldn't you just let the BIOS think it's only 125MB and have it read off the MBR to load LILO? from what I understand this SHOULD work fine... Then (from looking at some Mini-HOWTO's) you could tell LILO of the correct drive geometry? The final problem I have is once I can boot off this big drive, what is the best way to partition it? thats really hard to say...Ive never really found any good info on thatas I use 1 drive Ipartition as follows: (for my 3.2 gig drive) 1024 MB/ (root partition) swap is equal to physical RAMbut...I have 128 MB of RAM so... thats enough... for less I would got for about 2x RAM or more and... the rest is /home (because 90% of the data that I can not replace if it dies is n home directories)but thats just me Do I have to mount all these partitions to their directories every time I boot up, and won't this mess up the way files are installed by dselect, or the basic Linux install its self? Thanks for your help, it's greatly appreciated. during the install you can specify the partitions and where they map tothen it will make changes to /etc/fstab on boot mount will use /etc/fstab to tell it where to mount everything for you :) -- -=Signature has been removed because it made an unfair comparison between NT 4 and Linux =- replacement: (ok I admit...I am bored..its a slow day at work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$fortune -o Anything more than 3 shakes is for fun. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.
Win98 runs one hell of a lot slower than Win95 and multitasks even worse.. Cut it off please, if you want this type of discussion there are plenty news groups filled with it. Let's keep this a _useful_ list. Sorry, but this is valuable information ... so you knew it, some of us didn't I didn't know it, and I don't care. To me, this is worthless information. This is not valuable information about debian or is it? I happen to have some very valuable information on how to play the classical guitar. Would you like me to post that to debian-user? The internet is full of win9[58] babbling. When it doesn't have any relation to debian, it does _not_ belong on this list. Eric Meijer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PPP and Ethernet
I work for an ISP here in the Philippines. I have a permanent ethernet connection to the Internet and would like to use my modem to dial-up to our router which assigns dynamic IP addresses. Anyway, the purpose of dialing to our router is to monitor the dial-up lines and to check the connection rate. I don't know much about networking and shell scripting. I need your help! BTW, Debian and Linux rocks!!! -- Richard L. Alhama Cyberspace Laoag, ISP Technical Support http://bgo.cyberspace.com.ph/~keyoz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: finding leftovers
W Paul Mills writes: nr# ldconfig ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libext2fs.so (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libe2p.so (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libuuid.so (No such file or directory), skipping These are probably just soft links to files that no longer exist. If so, delete them and rerun ldconfig. Yes. You are right. $ ls -l /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/ total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Oct 16 1997 libdb.so.1 - libdb.so.1.85.1 And these symlinks are leftovers from upgrades in my system -- not sure which upgrades. I guess I'll just delete them and just forget about it :^ Thanks. -- Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella Product Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.conexware.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OUT OF TOPIC: squid and ftp
Hi everybody, excuse me for being out of topic but I have a little problem with the squid web cache and if somebody know how to solve it I will thank him for a LOT of time... ftpget doesn't work.I am pretty sure the conf file has all the right options in it, squid launch ftpget as a server (ftpget -S #soucket number etc...). note that this is squid 1.1.20 compiled from original tarbal on a SuSE system. (yes, i know debin is better... but this machine is suse and we can't change it too easily). thank you very much, Federico -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: Windows 98 and NT require more ram to be faster than 95. Otherwise, This is an issue that is dear to my heart ... I want my memory to be used /principally/ for my applications not gobbled up by my OS! I have 64 megs of ram in my Dell 200... and Windows 98 doesn't even compare to the speed on 95... even when openning the start menu, Win98 takes 5 to 10 seconds longer.. and browsing through my computer (in Classic style) is also extremely slow... KDE is much faster, but it needs a lot of work.. -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Exim and procmail
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Daniel Quinlan wrote: |IFS=' ' exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 daniel as my .forward I don't think it knows what exit 75 daniel means. There should be a # to comment out your username: #daniel Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
supressing return mail with at
I have a screwball link in my apartment, a 9600 isn line. ANd, unfortunately, the m-soft right- is ^S with bit 8 high. There is no way to reset the adaptor from my end using this; it needs a complete reset, losing the line, or a ^Q from the host. I tossed together a 2 line script to run with at, to give me a ^Q every minute: echo -n bbb /dev/ttyp8 at -f testfile now + 1 minutes (in which I would have to change the ttyp before launching, and use ^Q rather than BBB). THis works, but sends an email confirmation every minute. reading the manfile, it looks like the most I can do is change where the mail goes, not supress it. Or is there a way to do this? rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Zen and the art of working with NT
I have a linux machine here which is low on hard disk space my idea was to mount my Windows NT home directory here at work and use it for extra space (I can up my spcae by 2 gigs that way) o far I have mounted my home drive \\home5\sjc8$ on /mnt/partners with smbmount because o fmy specific problems I was trying to do the following: create a second extended filesystem in a file on the NT home dir and then mount that filesystem (I need a filesystem that will hole my files and care about case and permissions I am planning on using it to image CDs to burn (hamm hamm hamm :) ) why wont it work? I can make an e2fs filesystem but when I try to moungt it anywhere I get errors I tried the following example cd ~ touch test.e2 mke2fs -F test.e2 500 (it makes a filesystem) mkdir testmnt mount test.e2 -o loop testmnt and it moutns! then... cp test.e2 /mnt/partners mount /mnt/partners/test.e2 -o loop testmnt and I get the errors loop: block 1 not present and a bunch of others then I tried cd /mnt/partners mkdir testmnt and same deal anyone tried this? can it work? what sthe problem? -Steve -- -=Signature has been removed because it made an unfair comparison between NT 4 and Linux =- replacement: (ok I admit...I am bored..its a slow day at work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$fortune -o Anything more than 3 shakes is for fun. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?
Adam Shand wrote: PERSONAL_BIAS Use bash (instead of tcsh) and ssh (for connecting to remote hosts). /PERSONAL_BIAS is is there really any advantage to using bash over tcsh? I much prefer tcsh for interactive use. Having smart completion is the best thing since sliced bread! e.g. $ cd [tab] - shows and completes to directory names only $ latex [tab] - shows and completes to .tex files only $ emacs -[tab] - shows and completes to available options for that command. Who would want to live without it? Can bash be taught to do this? It would be great. -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video Modes in X
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 12:57:36AM +1000, Chris wrote: I am trying to get my X running 1152x862 at 16 bpp - Vertical scan = 60Hz, Horizontal Scan = 56Hz. The only hastle is that there is no modeline for this in my XF86Config, and I don't know how to write one. Can anyone help :) /usr/doc/X11/VideoModes.doc XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO.gz and a little aside: /usr/doc/svgatextmode/creating_textmodes_from_scratch.HOWTO.gz /usr/doc/svgatextmode/monitor-timings.howto.gz Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Exim and procmail
George Bonser wrote: On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Daniel Quinlan wrote: hi, now I know I can't be the only one using Exim and procmail, so I must be doing something weird. Uhm, you probably ARE the only one using Exim and Procmail! Exim has its own filtering and delivery scripting built-in so there is no need for procmail. I am sad to report he is not the only one using exim and procmailI use them alsohave it working well though with fetchmail hmmm maybe I will check out exim's own mail delivery stuff I do so like procmail though (and sort of need it for a project but thats completely anothe rstory) Go to www.exim.org and read the exim filter specification. ill check this out... hmm maybe this should be mentioned in the description of the exim package? I don't remember it saying anything about that...just said its easier to configure -Steve -- -=Signature has been removed because it made an unfair comparison between NT 4 and Linux =- replacement: (ok I admit...I am bored..its a slow day at work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$fortune -o Anything more than 3 shakes is for fun. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Q: Suport for IR?
There is the Linux/IR project [1]. I've never looked into it though. I've got an IrDA port on my laptop, but don't have anything to talk to with it. Mike [1] URL:http://www.cs.uit.no/~dagb/irda/irda.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?
I much prefer tcsh for interactive use. Having smart completion is the best thing since sliced bread! hmm, i'm didn't know that you could do all these things. i use simple file name completion all the time, but the below stuff is sorta neat. $ cd [tab] - shows and completes to directory names only $ latex [tab] - shows and completes to .tex files only where does it get the relevant suffix from? /etc/mime.types? $ emacs -[tab] - shows and completes to available options for that command. this would be very cool as well. Who would want to live without it? Can bash be taught to do this? It would be great. how do you turn these features on? they don't appear to be enabled by default? adam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: supressing return mail with at
Hi! Richard E. Hawkins Esq. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I tossed together a 2 line script to run with at, to give me a ^Q every minute: echo -n bbb /dev/ttyp8 at -f testfile now + 1 minutes avoid output to stdout/err! at only sends mail if there is anything to send. see at(1) at -f testfile now + 1 minutes /dev/null 21 but why don't you use cron? see crontab(1,5) and run crontab -e to add a line like this: 1 * * * * echo -n bbb /dev/ttyp8 Gruß Rainer -- KeyID=58341901 fingerprint=A5 57 04 B3 69 88 A1 FB 78 1D B5 64 E0 BF 72 EB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can emacs and xemacs coexist?
Christian Weisgerber wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], shaul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
By the way, how can I tell the aliases in my .bashrc to work only when I am
using X (I don't need xemacs -geometry 87x28 when I am not using X) ?
Use a function such as
xemacs() {
if [ -n $DISPLAY ]; then
command xemacs -geometry 87x28 $@
else
command xemacs $@
fi
}
I believe that this could also be accomplished (in a simpler but less
interesting way) by setting the geometry resource in your ~/.Xdefaults
file. Something like the line emacs.geometry: 87x28, though I
double check that.
HTH,
Keith
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UUCP question (important)
Hello, I want to create a connection between 2 unix machine (1 linux and 1 aix) using uucp (the goal is to exchange mail) and in tcp mode. I installed the taylor version of uucp on the 2 unix stations : the install was successfull I configured the 2. My linux is named : pclin2 My aix is named : master (he is the server) when i try to make the connection from ythe linux i have this error message in the log file : uucico master - (1998-04-17 18:22:05.55 23704) Calling system master (port TCP) uucico master - (1998-04-17 18:22:05.58 23704) ERROR: Line disconnected i tried various sort of invoking uucico but i can't see what is wrong. When i invoke uucico from the linux, i type : uucico -s master On the server, i have put this next line in the inetd.conf : uucp stream tcp nowait root/usr/lib/uucp/uucico -x all -l Is it correct ??? Can you help me ? thank u -- Nicolas Weinachter -- EXTERN e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FvwmWinList in hamm-fvwm
After installing a hamm.system my fvwm configuration no longer works as expected FvwmWinListFocusFore/Back has no effect and the icon text is left justified instead of centered as default. Not a huge problem but it works with fvwm 2.0.45-BETA-4 in bo. Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [sara@ora.com: NPR show on open source]
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Sara Winge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:16:43 -0700 Subject: NPR show on open source Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman are guests on NPR's Science Friday today--looks like the segment's from 12:30-1:00 pm PDT. More info at: http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1998/Apr/hour2b_041798.html -- Sara Winge[EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Relations O'Reilly Associates, 101 Morris St., Sebastopol, CA 95472 707/829-0515 x285, Fax 707/829-0104, http://www.oreilly.com/ RealAudio is available at http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/980417.totn.ram -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
EXIM help
I am looking at the EXIM mail transport to handle the UUCP and pop mail that I have along with filtering mail and local mail. I remember a person on this list that offered someone a copy of the mail files that they use. Can I get a copy of them from anyone that is using this to filter mail, get mail from pop and uucp on a dial up connection and deliver mail locally. Any parts of that would be helpful too. Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [sara@ora.com: NPR show on open source]
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Sara Winge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:16:43 -0700 Subject: NPR show on open source Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman are guests on NPR's Science Friday today--looks like the segment's from 12:30-1:00 pm PDT. More info at: http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1998/Apr/hour2b_041798.html RealAudio is available at http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/980417.totn.ram Make that http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/980417.totn.02.ram if you just want the last hour. The Free Software segment is the second part of that hour. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MP3 encoding
Does anyone know of any good mp3 encoding programs for linux? Thanks, Corey Miller --- Corey Miller This looks like a job for . legal tender! MSTie #71940 -The Tick [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.egr.msu.edu/~mille542/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?
Adam Shand wrote: PERSONAL_BIAS Use bash (instead of tcsh) and ssh (for connecting to remote hosts). /PERSONAL_BIAS running a couple of days behind here but ... are there reasons for your personal bias? i definately agree with using ssh for connecting to hosts (auto setting of display variable, encryption, encrypted tunnelling of x sessions, rsa authentications etc etc). is is there really any advantage to using bash over tcsh? i use tcsh because it's what i learned first and now it's familiar... but i've been looking for a reason to be bothered swapping over to bash. can you convince me? :) How 'bout I just tell you why I prefer bash these days. (I'm not interested in starting or participating in a religious war :) I (only recently) have started to prefer bash over tcsh for two main reasons: 1) I find myself working on several different OSs these days: WinNT, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, FreeBSD, Linux, etc. Being able to have the same shell everywhere is nice and I have found bash to be the easiest to install on all these types of machines. (autoconf is a beautiful thing!) 2) Bash is Bourne Shell compatible. This means that if I'm in a situation where I cannot install bash, for whatever reason, I'm not strangled by being unfamiliar with sh-flavor command line behavior. (I've found that an unconfigured csh is about as friendly as unconfigured ksh - both of which are found standard on most machines, whereas bash and tcsh are usually only installed by people like me.) This point is even stronger for scripts. Very few scripts I find are written in csh, so being familiar with Bourne syntax is more productive. (csh is supposed to be more C-like in it's syntax - I find this very deceptive. csh is about as C-like as French is English-like. Yes, there are similarities but they are very different languages. With bash around making sh as user-friendly as tcsh, I might as well forget csh and learn sh. (This is similar to why I think Java/C can now replace C++, but I digress. :)) Of course this topic cannot be mentioned without the following reference: http://language.perl.com/versus/csh.whynot While there are still a few things I prefer about tcsh, I figure bash can probably to it all, I just need to figure it out... Reading the rest of this thread just might be what I need! Regards, Keith ps - for those unfamiliar with the history of Unix shells: sh = Bourne Shell csh = C Shell (not sh compatible, a C-like shell) ksh = Kron Shell (an extension of sh) tcsh = Tenex(?) C shell (an extension of csh) bash = Bourne Again Shell (a sh compatible extension of sh with ksh, csh and tcsh functionality influence) LocalWords: Kron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing xterm titles to something more usefull than 'xterm'
Changing the title bar dynamically can be done with the PROMPT_COMMAND
environment variable (in bash). In my bashrc I have:
function settitle
{
# title=[EMAIL PROTECTED]:(`date +%k:%M:%S`):`pwd`
title=[EMAIL PROTECTED]:(`date +%k:%M:%S`):`history 1`
echo -n ^[]2;$title^G /dev/tty
}
if [ $TERM = xterm ] || [ $TERM = xterm-color ]; then
PROMPT_COMMAND=settitle
PS1='\h:\u '
fi
that would work too, but I think its a bit too complicated, I use this now:
HBLK='[[1;30m'
HBLU='[[1;34m'
BLU='[[0;34m'
YEL='[[0;33m'
WHT='[[0;37m'
NORM='[[1;0m'
case $TERM in
xterm)
export
PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\[\033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED] \w\007\]'
;;
*)
export
PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\]\[$NORM\]\[$YEL\][\[$WHT\]\w\[$YEL\]]\[$NORM\]\$ '
;;
esac
this one has a color prompt.. :)
The second one only lists the last command executed. Don't know how to
list the current one.
ah, I don't see any way of doing it..
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Ghosting and monitor settings for Xwindows
Hi, I noticed on some windows that overlap each other I can see a faint line continuing down the edge of the top window corresponding to the buried edge of the bottom window. Is this because my monitor clock rates or other settings are incorrect? I have a Neomagic chip so I am using the vga16 server. Should I buy AccelX to protect my screen? I have an active matrix 800x600 laptop. Much thanks, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Paul Rightley wrote: I have installed xfstt, but it seems to be documentation-poor. I know nothing of fonts in X (or in Windows for that matter - I guess I am the prototypical luser). Where would I get some TTF fonts and where would I put them to use them? Are there fonts of this sort that follow the DFSG (which I would prefer)? You can place the fonts in a subdirectory of /var/ttfonts . You can use any name for that subdirectory. Where you get the fonts is another issue. It is probably illegal to use the fonts that come with Windows. You could get yourself a CD with a few hundred shareware/freeware fonts, but most of these are very poorly licensed. xfstt isn't yet automatically started at boot time. To start it manually, do: # xfstt ... as root. If you also run xfs, you'll have to put one of these font servers on another port than the default (which is 7100). 'xfstt --help' and 'xfs --help' are helpful here. But if you say you don't know anything about fonts, you probably don't run xfs. To let the X server use the fonts, you can do: $ xset fp+ tcp/localhost:7100 ... as any user that currently has access to the X server (i.e. you). This only works if the X server is already running and must be done every time the X server is restarted. If you want the X server to automatically use the fonts, you can add this line to the Files section in /etc/X11/XF86Config : FontPath tcp/localhost:7100 If xfstt isn't running when X is started, the X server will not be able to use the TTF fonts until you issue the xset command above. I say again here, I don't know where GIMP gets its fonts. But if it gets them from the X server, this is the way to get GIMP to use TTF fonts. Also, note that xfstt is in an experimental state. It is not yet stable and may crash or do things you don't expect now and then. But you could be lucky and it may just work for you. If you have any more questions, just ask. Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?
1) I find myself working on several different OSs these days: WinNT, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, FreeBSD, Linux, etc. Being able to have the same shell everywhere is nice and I have found bash to be the easiest to install on all these types of machines. (autoconf is a beautiful thing!) this is one of the main motivators for me also. the fact that bash comes with just about everything, and is easily installed (or already installed by the geek before you) on what's left. 2) Bash is Bourne Shell compatible. This means that if I'm in a situation where I cannot install bash, for whatever reason, I'm not strangled by being unfamiliar with sh-flavor command line behavior. again a good reason. also the functionality of bash functions seems to have well surpassed tcsh's aliases. (I've found that an unconfigured csh is about as friendly as unconfigured ksh - both of which are found standard on most machines, no kidding ... i learned on csh (sunos 4.1.1) ... talk about a horrible experience ... it drove me to tcsh. This point is even stronger for scripts. Very few scripts I find are written in csh, so being familiar with Bourne syntax is more yack. only program in sh/bash ... please. it's so much nicer anyway i'm not sure why anyone would want to write csh scripts. Of course this topic cannot be mentioned without the following reference: http://language.perl.com/versus/csh.whynot yep. a must read if you are tempted by the evil empire. While there are still a few things I prefer about tcsh, I figure bash can you expound? i'm curious. LocalWords: Kron eh? what is this? adam. Internet Alaska - 4050 Lake Otis Adam Shand(v) +1 907 562 4638 Anchorage, AlaskaSystems Administrator (f) +1 907 562 1677 - http://larry.earthlight.co.nz -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?
Hi, might as well forget csh and learn sh. (This is similar to why I think Java/C can now replace C++, but I digress. :)) Ugh...I shudder the thought. I like C++ :)(although, I can understand why) ksh = Kron Shell (an extension of sh) LocalWords: Kron The correct name is Korn, not Kron. Take a look at the man pages for ksh. :-) -Ossama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Residual X11R5 and a.out errors?
On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Britton wrote: While trying to install or remove X programs with dselect, I often get whole slews of errors like these: ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R5/lib/libXt.so.3 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R5/lib/libXaw.so.3 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R5/lib/libX11.so.3 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout/libXt.so.6 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout/libXaw.so.6 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout/libXIE.so.6 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout/libX11.so.6 (No such file or directory), skipping They all seem to relate to things that May have existed in 1.2 (even 1.3) for back compatibility but are presumably phased out now. My system has been upgraded in place from 1.2, could these errors be holding over from then? Is there something I should do to fix them? These are most likely symlinks pointing to removed (obsolete) library files. Try running ldconfig manually as root. If it still complains, check that the symlinks are pointing to a file that doesn't exist and remove them. They don't cause any harm if you leave them, but you can safely remove them if you find them annoying. Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]
I read this now and this reminds me of a point I have meant to bring to someones attention... the debian xfstt package soes not contain the original xfstt documentation! I installed it recently (again) and actually had to download the package off of sunsite and unpack the tarball just to get the docs on how to tell X that I hada font server running! hmm...if the lack of a man page is considered a bug (I read that somewhere) would this also fall into that catergory? the docs included in the deb (unfortunately) don't even ell how to make the install usefull :( -Steve Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Paul Rightley wrote: I have installed xfstt, but it seems to be documentation-poor. I know nothing of fonts in X (or in Windows for that matter - I guess I am the prototypical luser). Where would I get some TTF fonts and where would I put them to use them? Are there fonts of this sort that follow the DFSG (which I would prefer)? You can place the fonts in a subdirectory of /var/ttfonts . You can use any name for that subdirectory. Where you get the fonts is another issue. It is probably illegal to use the fonts that come with Windows. You could get yourself a CD with a few hundred shareware/freeware fonts, but most of these are very poorly licensed. xfstt isn't yet automatically started at boot time. To start it manually, do: # xfstt ... as root. If you also run xfs, you'll have to put one of these font servers on another port than the default (which is 7100). 'xfstt --help' and 'xfs --help' are helpful here. But if you say you don't know anything about fonts, you probably don't run xfs. To let the X server use the fonts, you can do: $ xset fp+ tcp/localhost:7100 ... as any user that currently has access to the X server (i.e. you). This only works if the X server is already running and must be done every time the X server is restarted. If you want the X server to automatically use the fonts, you can add this line to the Files section in /etc/X11/XF86Config : FontPath tcp/localhost:7100 If xfstt isn't running when X is started, the X server will not be able to use the TTF fonts until you issue the xset command above. I say again here, I don't know where GIMP gets its fonts. But if it gets them from the X server, this is the way to get GIMP to use TTF fonts. Also, note that xfstt is in an experimental state. It is not yet stable and may crash or do things you don't expect now and then. But you could be lucky and it may just work for you. If you have any more questions, just ask. Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -=Signature has been removed because it made an unfair comparison between NT 4 and Linux =- replacement: (ok I admit...I am bored..its a slow day at work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$fortune -o Anything more than 3 shakes is for fun. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 04:43:41PM +0200, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Win98 runs one hell of a lot slower than Win95 and multitasks even worse.. Cut it off please, if you want this type of discussion there are plenty news groups filled with it. Let's keep this a _useful_ list. Sorry, but this is valuable information ... so you knew it, some of us didn't I didn't know it, and I don't care. To me, this is worthless information. Then please try to ignore it. It is interesting for some of us and blaming others helps to work together for the Good Thing. We all need a rest, looking at the other things out there and compare. Human nature. This is not valuable information about debian or is it? It is, because it shows where we are better ;) I happen to have some very valuable information on how to play the classical guitar. Would you like me to post that to debian-user? YES! Seriously, I play guitar and double bass. Another point is that the debian-user list is a list for debian user, and therefore the topics vary from technical discussion to rants about windows. I learned a lot on the list that is not necessarily bound to Debian. The internet is full of win9[58] babbling. When it doesn't have any relation to debian, it does _not_ belong on this list. Well, IE 4 with Active Desktop is a piece of sh*t. I installed it on the machine of my girl friend,and she wanted me to remove it instantly. With all those circles and orange buttons, you can't find the folders and files any more... But I should stop, as you don't want to hear this... Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IPX Routing Problem
Hi, I want to connect my IPX-Network via dialup to another IPX-network. The dialing PC should be the Gateway. I know, how to get this working for TCP/IP: ipfwadm -F -p deny ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.1.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0 (With these two lines i connect my localnet to the Internet) How can i get the same with IPX Thanx a lot Florian Attenberger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: no popclient?
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Richard L Shepherd wrote: I see that popclient has been missing for sometime. I have a machine with popclient installed from some time ago (early days of bo). Just recently it has stopped working and I see no alternative package to get either the binary (popclient) or the equivalent (lightweight) functionality. The error I get when trying to pop off ANY server via my (rather old) popclient binary now is: popclient: querying mailserv.waikato.ac.nz at Mon Apr 20 15:23:43 1998 popclient: openuserfolder: open(): No such file or directory Now all my local mail readers work fine so there's no reason I know of why it's not happy anymore. The only shared lib it uses is libc5 (which I have). Any ideas on how to fix this or what else to use? Some time ago, when the popclient program was enhanced to support more protocols than just POP, the name was changed to fetchmail. fetchmail is in bo (stable) and also in hamm (frozen). Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Routing with Debian?
On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: Here is my situation: I want to connect a laptop to the Internet using a PLIP connection to my Ethernet-connected workstation. This pretty much sums up what I have tried (except for those ifconfig's): on laptop: route add workstation-ip plip0 route add default gw workstation-ip on workstation: route add laptop-ip plip0 arp -s laptop-ip workstation-hw-addr I can ping any host on the LAN from that laptop now (including our router), but I can't access the outside world. This is the first time I do this and I have probably understood something wrong. A question: How does the router know that the hardware address of the laptop's IP (which normally belongs to another workstation that I have turned off) has changed? Previously I have switched Ethernet cards in a workstation and I had no problems accessing the Internet. How did the router find out the address had changed? Is there some sort of broadcast protocol that works the other way around, like: i am hw-addr and I have IP ip-addr? Is this the key? The laptop is running bo and the workstation a mix of bo and hamm. Thanks for any explanations here (I've read NAG and NET3-HOWTO)... I had the same problem and got the following (working) answer in this list: ipfwadm -F -p deny ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.1.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 are the IPs of my PCs (192.168.1.0 is the network adress or broadcast adress, i think(?). Add these 2 lines in /etc/init.d/network on your workstation. If these lines produce error messages, your kernel may lack something (e.g.: ip forwarding). AFAIK the kernel image provided by debian lacks this. An your laptop add route add gw .. (I dont know this exactly, because my laptop runs win95) cu florian attenberger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Comments on Debian 'frozen' release, wvdial
Folks, I downloaded the boot disks and base2_0.tgz to install the new glibc debian release on my Compaq laptop. I am an experienced linux installer. All went very smoothly. Except .. that after the base install I wished to continue as an ftp install. This required the usual guru-level PPP setup, not acceptable, in my opinion, for a fresh install. The man pages (no man command in base packages, it should be aliased to zcat or some little shell script) conflict in the placement of the chat scripts. I suggest that the base installation include a PPP setup utility, that the installer be asked if they wish to use FTP as the next install method, and, if so, that PPP be set up. After starting up PPP, I downloaded other packages, no problem. I fetched wvdial, thinking that it might be the solution to my problem above. It was indeed, simple to set up. However, it had problems. It took no account of the auth line in /etc/ppp/options, and thus failed to log in. It also did not set up a nameserver, meaning that I had to add one to /etc/resolv.conf. Again, guru-level PPP setup necessary. I therefore suggest that the wvdial setup check for the auth line in /etc/ppp/options, and use noauth with ppp if it is present, and, if /etc/resolv.conf is not present, add a default one, perhaps from the list of debian nameservers, BUOY.COM 205.230.163.100 WWW2.BUOY.COM205.230.163.102 NS2.CISTRON.NL 195.64.68.28 MIRIAM.FULLER.EDU206.1.27.4 LALUG.ORG198.186.216.134 NS1.WAW.COM 194.51.88.250 I further suggest that wvdial (or another easy PPP setup utility) be added to the base installation, and that it be invoked before dselect. Cheers, Andy! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ISDN modem problems
I have just got myself an ISDN line and a Zyxel Omni.net plus modem, but I have problems in getting it to work smoothly. The problem is that I keep getting error messages saying something to the effect of: ppp: frame with bad fcs, excess = 4de9 The more trafic (for instance with ping) I generate, the less packages comes through. The limit seems to be around packet sizes of 2048/4096. If I stress my machine (which is a pentium 75 with 48Mb of RAM, a couple of years old), more packages are dropped. If my machine is only lightly loaded, pppd will only come up if I use the option: kdebug 7 Otherwise it fails rather eraly in the initial negotiations when a ConfReq never sees the corresponding ConfAck. However, if I run a heavy job (such as a kernel compilation), the kdebug is not necessary to get pppd up. It will drop a few packages with ping -s 4096, but now silently. With ping -s 8192, almost nothing gets through. If I run X11, the connection can not get up (with kdebug 7). Does anybody have an idea where and how I should investigate? Should I suspect my serial port? Is my machine simply too slow to handle a 64kps connection? Is there any kernel option I can set? ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Telebit Communications A/S | Fabrikvej 11, DK-8260 Viby J Phone: +45 8628 8176 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- URL: http://www.tbit.dk ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why?
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why would any list accept an email message with the above in the To: header? Also, someone in the US State of Maryland might want to consider donating a mail server for Debian. That email would have been grounds for criminal charges had the server been located in Maryland. What? Do they forbid sending e-mail with bogus To: headers? I am once again baffled by the stupidity of USA laws regarding electronic communications. Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HELP: Telneting Inbound via a PPP Connection
Hi there, I'm having a serious problem here. I have been able to set up my machine to accept PPP connection. I can dial from a win95 machine and use PAP to authenticate and connect. The IP address is assigned to the win95 machine alright and I can then ping my linux box but that's about it. Any attempt to telnet or ftp yields nothing. no login prompt, etc. What could be the problem? The linux box IP is 192.168.1.1 and the IP being assigned to ttyS2 is 192.168.1.10. I also have IP masquerading set up for the LAN. (although it isn't connected at the moment when it was it was working fine) I thought the most obvious things would be in the hosts.allow or the ipfwadm set up in rc.local so I posted them below. If it could be something else please let me know. like I said, a ping to 192.168.1.1 over the modem works without a problem as does using the linux box as an Internet gateway for the LAN. I just can't telnet or ftp in over a modem. thanks, rob /etc/hosts.allow ALL: 192.168.1. portmap: 192.168.1. /etc/rc.d/rc.local /sbin/ipfwadm -F -f /sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny /sbin/ipfwadm -F -a accept -S 192.168.1.0/24 -D 192.168.1.0/24 /sbin/ipfwadm -F -a masquerade -S 192.168.1.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0 /sbin/ipfwadm -F -a deny -S 0.0.0.0/0 -D 192.168.1.0/24 netbios-ns -P tcp /sbin/ipfwadm -F -a deny -S 0.0.0.0/0 -D 192.168.1.0/24 netbios-ns -P udp /sbin/ipfwadm -F -a deny -S 0.0.0.0/0 -D 192.168.1.0/24 netbios-dgm -P tcp /sbin/ipfwadm -F -a deny -S 0.0.0.0/0 -D 192.168.1.0/24 netbios-dgm -P udp /sbin/ipfwadm -F -a deny -S 0.0.0.0/0 -D 192.168.1.0/24 netbios-ssn -P tcp /sbin/ipfwadm -I -f /sbin/ipfwadm -I -a deny -S 192.168.1.0/24 netbios-ns -D 192.168.1.1 domain -P udp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What libs to use ???
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Mario Filipe wrote: Hello This is not really a debian problem, but i think that the people here can help me. I need to create a program that shows how much of it's task has been done (in percentage maybe) and what is it doing currently. I could display this with printf's but that would create a scroll effect that i do not want. So my question is if there is any library (for C) that allowa's me to display the whole thing on the same place, without the scrolling efect. I thought that maybe readline or (n)curses would do! I would also apreciate if you could point to the docs of the librarys that you reccomend. Thank you and sorry for the off-topic question, and please cc directly to me. Thanks! I don't know how to do this, but 'ftformat' from the ftape-something package uses something like this to tell the user which track it is formatting. 'ldd ftformat' shows that it uses only libc.so.6 and ld-linux.so.2 , so I guess standard C can do this for you. You could try printing a backspace (^H) and no newline (LF). Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout? revisited.
Sorry about this, but I was out and missed the beginning, How do you disable Autologout in tcsh (which I MUST use to be script compliant with the rest of the facility). I tried login.defs and a few other things. NADA. Thanks (now back to our regularly schedualed discourse on shells) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ckermit and hp48
Hallo all, I have some strange problems with ckermit and my HP48 pocket calculator: 1. The connection works: If I do cat /dev/ttyS0 (where the calculator is connected) and start a kermit transmission from it, I get some strange characters on the console: unsolved [/home/jens] $ cat /dev/ttyS0 `+ S~* @-#Y3$ So the connection works. 2. If I call kermit and issue: set line /dev/ttyS0 set speed 9600 set parity none set file type binary receive and start the transfer on the HP with SEND, kermit changes to the2 transfer progress page and waits for packets to be transmitted. The HP does not get a connection and retries to connect. Each of the retries is shown by kermit with: --- Packet Type: % Packet Count: 1 Packet Length: 14 Error Count: 1 Last Error: Retransmission --- The Error count is incremented with every retry of the HP. What might cause this? Is there something I forgot to set? Where to set the Checksum of the packets (which chk setting to use on the HP48)? 3. if I stop the transfer on the calculator, kermit gets back to the prompt. But if I issue receive and start SEND on the HP again, kermit does not get to the transfer progress page and has to be stopped by C-c. 4. Then if I try to exit kermit it hangs (but can be interrupted by C-c --- going back to the kermit prompt). 3. and 4. are completly mysterious to me. Some clues anyone? Thanks in advance, Jens --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: I read this now and this reminds me of a point I have meant to bring to someones attention... the debian xfstt package soes not contain the original xfstt documentation! I installed it recently (again) and actually had to download the package off of sunsite and unpack the tarball just to get the docs on how to tell X that I hada font server running! hmm...if the lack of a man page is considered a bug (I read that somewhere) would this also fall into that catergory? the docs included in the deb (unfortunately) don't even ell how to make the install usefull :( Yes, this would count as a bug in the package. But my impression from README.debian is that the maintainer doesn't really want to spend too much work on it, so probably this package is practically, though not officially, orphaned. Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Comments on Debian 'frozen' release, wvdial
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 01:39:17PM -0600, Andy Rabagliati wrote: Folks, Except .. that after the base install I wished to continue as an ftp install. This required the usual guru-level PPP setup, not acceptable, in my opinion, for a fresh install. It is not any more. See below. I suggest that the base installation include a PPP setup utility, that the installer be asked if they wish to use FTP as the next install method, and, if so, that PPP be set up. You can install pppconfig. It is not in the base disks, though. I will suggest that to the boot floppy maintainer. I fetched wvdial, thinking that it might be the solution to my problem above. It was indeed, simple to set up. wvdial is strange. pppconfig is the official new ppp helper, I think. It works great. I therefore suggest that the wvdial setup check for the auth line in /etc/ppp/options, and use noauth with ppp if it is present, and, if /etc/resolv.conf is not present, add a default one, perhaps from the list of debian nameservers, BUOY.COM 205.230.163.100 WWW2.BUOY.COM205.230.163.102 NS2.CISTRON.NL 195.64.68.28 MIRIAM.FULLER.EDU206.1.27.4 LALUG.ORG198.186.216.134 NS1.WAW.COM 194.51.88.250 I further suggest that wvdial (or another easy PPP setup utility) be added to the base installation, and that it be invoked before dselect. I will suggest pppconfig in the base disks. Would you please file a bug report against wvdial about the other problems? I'm not sure about the nameserver stuff, but I will suggest it, too. Not however, that only the first three entries are ever used (check the man page). And everybody is encouraged to use the nameserver of his local provider. Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 04:43:41PM +0200, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: I happen to have some very valuable information on how to play the classical guitar. Would you like me to post that to debian-user? YES! Seriously, I play guitar and double bass. Another point is that the debian-user list is a list for debian user, and therefore the topics vary from technical discussion to rants about windows. I learned a lot on the list that is not necessarily bound to Debian. But I should stop, as you don't want to hear this... HEAR HEAR! This is not inappropriate discussion for the Deb User list. I too play double bass myself (or bass violin as Professor Murray Grodner called it, and the folk who succeeded Professor Grodner and his wife at Lemur Music call it as well.) Marcus, I share your classic guitar interest, as well, though I certainly wouldn't say I _play_ classical guitar. I have attempted to play it, and would not find a word or two about either topic inappropriate. If you want to talk double bass, instruments, music, etc, I'll be delighted to talk to you about it. Is this is maybe more border line than Windows 95 crud software? David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux the choice of a GNU generation. FREE UN*X NOW for the i[3456...]86, alpha, sparc, mips -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smail Hostnames--Simplified
On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Art Lemasters wrote: Allow me to give an example to be more specific (sorry). If my machine has the fullname newname.bf.org can I still download mail from the account [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using smail? How? Thanks. You mean you have a POP-3 account form your ISP and you want that mail to end up in your mailbox on your own Linux computer? Sure, you can do this, but not with smail alone, since smail doesn't know the POP-3 protocol. Install fetchmail. This will get the mail from your ISP (the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address) and tell smail to send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's an example .fetchmailrc : poll mail.ipa.net proto pop3 user alemas pass XX is alemas mail.ipa.net : your ISP's mailhost pop3 : the protocol name alemas : your user name at your ISP XXX : fill in your actual password for your ISP alemas : your local username .fetchmailrc must be readable for you only : 'chmod 600 .fetchmailrc'. Then, just issue the 'fetchmail' command with no options and it will get your mail. For more information, please read the manual pages that come with the package. Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?
Adam Shand wrote: While there are still a few things I prefer about tcsh, I figure bash can you expound? i'm curious. Oh, minor stuff really. The completion stuff mentioned earlier in this thread, prompt settings (~ when in your home dir, a shorter HH:MM time format), other little things I can't remember right now. I'm sure I could get bash to do most of it, if I sat down and figured it out... LocalWords: Kron eh? what is this? Sorry, just a typo - I mistyped Korn and somehow between ispell, a slow network and elm, we all got a little confused. :) Regards, Keith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
