Debian 2.0 ha sido publicada!!!
Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org Publicación de Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 'Hamm' 24 de Julio de 1998 --- Noticias Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 'Hamm' ha sido oficialmente publicada para las arquitecturas i386 y m68K. Se puede obtener la distribución de diferentes modos: FTP: ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/ CD-ROM:http://www.debian.org/distrib/vendors (lista de distribuidores) CD Images: http://cdimage.debian.org/ Debian 2.0 marca el paso de la antigua libc5 a la nueva libc6. Contiene más de 1500 paquetes binarios precompilados, contribuidos por más de 400 desarrolladores, incluyendo todos los favoritos: servidores de web, GIMP, gcc, egcs, XFree86, servidores SQL y otras muchas herramientas y utilidades. El poderoso gestor de paquetes de Debian 'dpkg' permite instalación sencilla, mantenimiento y actualización de paquetes incluyendo un sofisticado manejo de dependencias y configuraciones. Los paquetes de otras distribuciones pueden instalarse fácilmente usando la utilidad 'alien'. Las distribuciones Debian en desarrollo para Alpha, Sparc y PowerPC también se encuentran disponibles en el árbol de directorios unstable (inestable) del servidor FTP. Su publicación se producirá seguramente con Debian 2.1 'Slink'. ¿Por qué Debian GNU/Linux? o Debian es 100% Software libre. Nuestro objetivo es ayudar a que Linux se mantenga libre o Más de 1500 paquetes de software precompilados. o Más de 400 desarrolladores. La plantilla más grande de todas las distribuciones de Linux. o El mayor programa de pruebas pre-publicación del mundo Linux. o Soporte en línea y sin costo, proporcionado por nuestra extensa y amigable comunidad de usuarios en la lista de correo debian-user, debian-user-spanish y en los foros de IRC. o Instalación sin disquetes directamente desde el CD, instalación con un sólo disquete utilizando NFS o disco duro. o Actualización automática a través de CD, FTP, NFS, disco, o disquetes. o Nuestro sistema de seguimiento de `bugs' es accesible públicamente en nuestro servidor de web, y alentamos a los usuarios a que accedan al sistema y proporcionen información. o Cualquiera puede duplicar y vender nuestro CD oficial, sin ninguna retribución para nosotros. o Compatible con los paquetes RPM y Slackware. Información de Actualización Para evitar problemas al actualizar paquetes via dpkg, dselect o dftp (debidos a posibles conflictos causados por libc5/libc6), se recomienda seguir el siguiente procedimiento. Este documento se puede encontrar en: http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/deb/faq http://www.debian.org/2.0/update.faq Hay varios métodos de actualizar una versión anterior: 1) autoup.sh Este es un guión (script) que actualizará los programas en el orden correcto, incluso trayéndose los debs que hagan falta. Debido a los cambios que se pueden producir en el archivo, se suministra un archivo tar conteniendo los paquetes que estaban disponibles cuando se publicó la última versión de autoup.sh. Este archivo debe encontrarse en la sección para desarrolladores (developers corner) de las páginas web de Debian, pero las versiones más nuevas están en: http://www.debian.org/2.0/autoup/ ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/hamm/hamm/upgrade-i386/ http://www.uk.debian.org/autoup/ http://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup/ http://www.taz.net.au/autoup/ 2) apt-get Esta es la herramienta de linea de órdenes que forma parte del futuro gestor de paquetes de Debian. Sabe como ordenar los paquetes y se los puede traer de un archivo local, servidores http y ftp. Es capaz de unir la información de varios sitios, así que el usuario puede usar su CD, una réplica actualizada, y un sitio non-us para combinar de forma ideal rapidez, variedad y las versiones más actuales. Simplemente ejecute 'apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade'. La versión para 'Bo' está en: http://www.debian.org/~jgg/ La versión para 'Hamm' está en project/experimental. 3) Hacerlo a mano. Hay un como (howto) en: http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html pero autoup.sh simplemente lo automatiza, así que la mayoría de los usarios no querrán seguir esta opción. Sobre Debian Debian GNU/Linux es una distribución libre del sistema operativo Linux. Es mantenida y actualizada mediante el trabajo de muchos usuarios que ofrecen su tiempo y esfuerzo voluntariamente. Información de Contacto Para más información, por favor dirígase por correo electrónico a [EMAIL PROTECTED] o visite la página de Debian en http://www.debian.org/. -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp90LrFvzwBR.pgp Description: PGP
Menus en AfterStep
Hola, utilizo AfterStep 1.4 (creo recordar) y Debian 1.3.1. En ella hay la utilidad menu que sirve para actualizar los menus de los gestores de ventanas (o eso tengo entendido) el problema es que a mi no me funciona. Alguien puede explicarme un poco que es lo que debo hacer para actualizar los menus? Tambien he oido sobre una utilidad propia del AfterStep pero no la he encontrado por ninguna parte. Un saludo, J. Parera -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Suite ofimática
Hola, utilizando Debian 1.3.1 que me recomiendan: Applixware StarOffice Corel Office Que es mejor? Busco algo que no me de problemas con los acentos ni problemas con el teclado español. Un saludo, J. Parera P.D. lo que sea pero que no pase de 8000 pts :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hora en pgp
Hola, Ahora son las 19:06 del 24/7/98 en Madrid, cuando ejecuto pgp me sale: Hora actual: 1998/07/24 17:06 GMT Efectivamente (o eso creo :-) ) estamos, por el horario de verano, 2 horas adelantados a la hora solar (¿=GMT?), pero.¿debo dejar la hora del pgp como esta o debo cambiarla para que se ajuste a la hora 'legal'? -- ===NaClU2\==Ignacio= _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ ( @ @ ) _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ +-ºoO(_)Ooº-+ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/| | _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hora en pgp
Hola. La hora GMT es la hora Greenwich Meridian Time, que es la hora que tienen en el meridiano de Greenwich. La hora buena es la GMT+01. Ignacio J. Alonso wrote: Hola, Ahora son las 19:06 del 24/7/98 en Madrid, cuando ejecuto pgp me sale: Hora actual: 1998/07/24 17:06 GMT Efectivamente (o eso creo :-) ) estamos, por el horario de verano, 2 horas adelantados a la hora solar (¿=GMT?), pero.¿debo dejar la hora del pgp como esta o debo cambiarla para que se ajuste a la hora 'legal'? -- ===NaClU2\==Ignacio= _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ ( @ @ ) _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ +-ºoO(_)Ooº-+ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/| | _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Alexandre Maneu i Victòria e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAN Soft® Magazine http://www.maptel.es/pagpersonal/mansoft http://www.mansoft.home.ml.org ICQ UIN: 12433233 Phone: +34 93 296 77 92 Fax: +34 93 296 77 92 PUBLIC PGP KEY AVAILABLE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hora en pgp
Alex Maneu i Victòria decía: Hola. La hora GMT es la hora Greenwich Meridian Time, que es la hora que tienen en el meridiano de Greenwich. La hora buena es la GMT+01. +2 en verano. Luis. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hora en pgp
Es verdad no me acordaba :) Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: Alex Maneu i Victòria decía: Hola. La hora GMT es la hora Greenwich Meridian Time, que es la hora que tienen en el meridiano de Greenwich. La hora buena es la GMT+01. +2 en verano. Luis. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Alexandre Maneu i Victòria e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAN Soft® Magazine http://www.maptel.es/pagpersonal/mansoft http://www.mansoft.home.ml.org ICQ UIN: 12433233 Phone: +34 93 296 77 92 Fax: +34 93 296 77 92 PUBLIC PGP KEY AVAILABLE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Porblemas con cron
Hola, ayer desinstalé, con dpkg -r, el uucp. Pués no lo utilizaba y solo me molestaba con mensajes hacia el root. El problema es que ahora, a partir de este cambio (que no sé si tiene nada que ver), el cron no funciona: al ejecutar, por ejemplo, cron root da un error (ver attachments) al apagar la máquina se cuelga al intentar matar al cron (no siempre) Cómo soluciono tal problema? Adjunto el error que me da el cron, el archivo al que hace referencia (/var/run/crond.pid) y un ps -aux. Un saludo, J. Parera PS-AUX Description: Binary data CROND.PID Description: Binary data cron_root Description: Binary data
Compra de Debian 2.0
Hola, como ya ha salido la hamm he empezado a buscar en varios distribuidores a ver que ofertas tenian y la que más me ha interesado (por recomendación) a sido la siguiente: http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart/0070010280?khwscCSJ;;31 Catalog No.: 0070010280 Publisher: CheapBytes CheapBytes Debian 2.0 Official CD w/3 CD Archive Our Price: $6.99 For Debian fans, you get the Debian 2.0 Official Binary CD-ROM and our CheapBytes 3 CD-ROM Linux Archive Set. Expected shipping date is the week of August 10. Includes: 4 CD Me la recomiendan o es mejor que elija otra? Esta sale a $6.99 + $8 de envio. Y si me la recomiendan, tardará mucho en llegar desde USA? Es fiable? Esta distribución incluye el CD oficial + 3 CD extra, los extra estan en formato deb? Un saludo, J. Parera -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linus Torvalds interview
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 02:12:44AM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 04:19:17PM -0700, Keith Beattie wrote: fyi, http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/lip_linux_manifesto.html If that's the one I've seen it is well worth reading. Linux has his head Linux the OS or Linus the person? Do you mean that what LT says goes for the linux community as well? Oops :-) No - but he generally behaves responsibly by avoiding flame-wars (apart from his recent KDE comment where he seemed to mess up on the license issues :-( ) screwed on right (apart from the I don't think Microsoft is an evil company bit which I completely disagree with vbg). I do agree with him (Linus Torvalds) when he said that M$ only makes crappy OS's. The apps are great 'cept for Office 97 but not their compilers. Sheesshh, I hate all those M$ Visual compilers, Visual J++, Visual anything, Visual anycrap. Yeah - at work we check for a environment variable to see if we want to run a program under the debugger (Englishfied code) : #if OS2 #define debug start /c debugenv #endif #if UNIX #define debug debugenv #endif #if NT #define debug echo Crappy Visual C won't let us start a program \ and there's no way I'm going to DDE it #endif Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Official 2.0 CD's available Friday??
Young, Ed writes:
I received an email from one of the CD vendors on the Debian distribution
network (www.netgod.net) that the Official 2.0 CD's will ship Friday, July
23rd.
Friday is July, 24th
Thursday is July, 23rd
Is this correct? Does this mean that Hamm (2.0) has gone from beta to full
release?
It will be released in 10 minutes. Party on irc.debian.org on #Debian.
I've been folowing this list and the announce list and haven't seen anything
about the 2.0 moving from beta to full release ('0fficial 2.0').
Check out the archives of debian-devel at http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/
Have I missed something?
I think so.
Regards,
Joey
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elm still no signature file working
I edited my ~/.elm/elmrc file by uncommenting out the these two lines: # local .signature file to append to appropriate messages... localsignature = .signature # remote .signature file to append to appropriate messages... remotesignature = .signature And I made a .signature file and put it in my ~/.elm/elmrc directory. But when I try and send mail it doesn't work. The mail isn't even sending. But I have been having problems with my smtp server acting up today. If anyone can tell me what I am doing wrong I would appreciate it. Thanks, Keith -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Time is still not right.
My time is still not right. My hardware clock is right if I type clock this is what I get: debian# clock Thu Jul 23 20:07:06 1998 --- If I type date this is what I get debian# date Thu Jul 23 16:07:40 EDT 1998 --- I don't know what the lines are for, but I want my linux time to say what the hardware clock says. I thought that maybe my timezone was wrong, here is what my timezone file has in it: EST5EDT I live in Florida Eastern time zone -5:00 GMT. I need some more help with this problem. Thanks, Keith -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Time is still not right.
'man tzconfig' should explain it for you. On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Keith wrote: My time is still not right. My hardware clock is right if I type clock this is what I get: debian# clock Thu Jul 23 20:07:06 1998 --- If I type date this is what I get debian# date Thu Jul 23 16:07:40 EDT 1998 --- I don't know what the lines are for, but I want my linux time to say what the hardware clock says. I thought that maybe my timezone was wrong, here is what my timezone file has in it: EST5EDT I live in Florida Eastern time zone -5:00 GMT. I need some more help with this problem. Thanks, Keith -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: good digital clock for x?
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 09:21:56PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: Hello -- are there any deb packages that have a digital clock that I can swallow in an x module (specifically, FvwmButtons)? I'd prefer one that does military time, and perhaps the date, too :) Try asclock, debian://slink/main/binary-i386/x11/asclock*.deb, replace debian:// with the partial URL to your favorite Debian mirror, up to the dists directory. Or look in http://windowmaker.org/ for WindowMaker Apps, and look for wmtime. It has a *really* nice analog clock. Marcelo -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
trn newsreader
Thank God, my signature is finally working. Anyways, I am trying get the trn newsreader working. Actually it works fine, I just need help customizing it. In the /usr/doc/news/trn-hints file it talks about setting up a ~/.trninit file. It says to set an environment variable, how do I do that? Here is what the file says: You can specify trn environment variables in an initialization file with all the options. See the first hint for details on that. Certain environment variables, like RNINIT, must be set in your shell (how else does trn know to look there for the rest?). Others, like REPLYTO may be useful in other programs, so you could consider putting that in your shell startup file too. But most of them are specific, like MAILHEADER, so you might as well set them in the init file with the -E option. That's why most of them look like -EMAILHEADER=xx rather than MAILHEADER=xx -- to remind you. Helpful hints: o You can make a file that contains all the flags and initialization that trn will use at startup. When you're done, point an environment variable TRNINIT to the file. A good choice is TRNINIT=~/.trninit. You can put multiple lines in this init file and/or separate options by spaces. If someone has a .trninit file I could look at I would really appreciate it. -- Thanks, Keith MCNE http://www.naples.net/~nfn11988 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: elm still no signature file working
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 08:00:56PM -0400, Keith wrote: I edited my ~/.elm/elmrc file by uncommenting out the these two lines: # local .signature file to append to appropriate messages... localsignature = .signature # remote .signature file to append to appropriate messages... remotesignature = .signature And I made a .signature file and put it in my ~/.elm/elmrc directory. But when I try and send mail it doesn't work. I believe that the default .signature file should be in your $HOME directory -- not in ~/.elm/ -- unless it may be specified otherwise in ~/.elm/elmrc. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
more questions about time
I finally have my time right on my Linux box. I ran tzconfig and set the timezone to GMT+0. I don't understand why this is the way I had to get it to work. My other Linux machine is set to EST5EDT and the time is right. What is the deal? EST5EDT is my time zone. -- Thanks, Keith MCNE http://www.naples.net/~nfn11988 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Lan Tcp/ip Question
At 08:52 PM 7/23/1998 +1000, you wrote: It may be useful for you to assign the NIC's address to something other than 0x300. A lot of different (very different even!) cards try to use 0x300 (sound cards, primarily). Theres a sound card in the machine but its sitting on 0x330 Also you may want to try pinging the machine's own address on the ethernet. See what that produces. Aside from that I can't help you much. Works. Both machines can ping themselves but not each other. check that you don't have an irq conflict with the ethernet card. i've had enough irq conflicts with network cards for that to be the first thing i check when i get a system which can send but not receive packets. I'll check that but I'm nearly 100% sure that there isn't a conflict. Thanks -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
linux on a gateway laptop
Greets, So I have this shiny new laptop running Linux flawlessly (X, pcmcia, cdrom, everything), but I can't get sound configured. Might someone have had experience getting sound working on a Gateway 2300 series laptop who might be able to lend a clue? -Seth -- It is by will alone I set my mind in motion -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
printing 2.0 beta
I just installed 2.0 Beta from CD ROM. I cannot print via the local parallel port. Printer works in that other OS - so hardware is OK. I must have gone astray somewhere in the install. Symptoms: lpr filename - produces no printer activity, but does queue file. cat filename /dev/lp1 - produces message /dev/lp1: Device not configured. dmesg reports lp: Driver configured but no interfaces found. Other: There is a recognized iomega parallel port zip attached. I had this working under 1.3 R6. Any hints would be much appreciated. TIA, Richard -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Fvwm2 and Debian menu
Curt Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I like the design of the Debian menu package, and I'm trying to follow the docs to get auto-updating of menus under X, but I seem to have hit a roadblock. I use Fvwm2, and according to the comments in system.fvwm2rc and the Fvwm2 docs--in the Debian package, compliant with the menu package--FvwmButtons (formerly Good Stuff) is set up so that the user can easily override the defaults. But it looks like the menudefs.hook, autogenerated by the menu-package, is determined to invoke DebianFvwmButtons, which stubbornly overrides any configuration the user attempts. Well, you don't have to start your FvwmButtons from the menu - you can just start it automatically (assuming you always want it to be there); on one account on my machine, this is done by putting all the customization into post.hook and a call to 'Module FvwmButtons' in init-restart.hook. If, however, you want it in the menu you can always put it in yourself with an AddToMenu command in post.hook; modifying the menu entry itself (by changing /usr/lib/menu/fvwm2) gets wiped by a new fvwm2. This has the problem that the DebianFvwmButtons is still there... The best solution is probably to use DestroyModuleConfig DebianFvwmButtons in post.hook and then listing the entries one wants. Of course, since this command exists, one wonders why the author of the fvwm2 config used DebianFvwmButtons to begin with... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: more questions about time
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Keith wrote: I finally have my time right on my Linux box. I ran tzconfig and set the timezone to GMT+0. I don't understand why this is the way I had to get it to work. My other Linux machine is set to EST5EDT and the time is right. What is the deal? EST5EDT is my time zone. I think it is that your other machines have the hardware clock set to GMT whereas the hardware clock in this machine is set to EDT. If you reboot your machine and jump into the cmos configuration (or whatever it is that you can get into by usually pressing del during the boot) and change the hardware clock to GMT then you can have the timezone set to EST5EDT. Note that this is the way that unix boxes usually run so that they can figure out when to automatically kick in daylight savings if that is applicable to where you live. Some of the above might be a little off, but the jist of it is correct. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.telmer.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Keeping Machine Up - Advice Needed
On 19 Jul 1998, Carl Johnson wrote: If I have a momentary power flicker, the odds are fairly good that the modem will be completely locked up. The only fix is to unplug the modem for a few seconds, and it will then come up fine. This wouldn't be a problem if I had a UPS, but it seems a little ridiculous to buy a UPS just for a modem. If you have power glitches sufficient to mess up your modem, it's likely to also stress the workstation, too, particularly the drives. If your power quality's that bad, you may have brownouts you don't notice and such. All of this reduces the life of your equipment. I'd recommend a UPS that has some power conditioning. They're getting fairly cheap now. Sincerely, Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anagrams of FANUC Robotics: baton of circus curb not fiasco crab of suction count for basic stoic cobra fun torn cubic oafs surf in tobacco of arctic bonus so count fabric brain of stucco -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: mt and Colorado Jumbo 250 problems
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Will Lowe wrote: I'm trying to use mt to move a tape in my Colorado Jumbo 250 so that I can put an archive behind the one already on the tape ... I'm using mt -f /dev/ftape fsf 1 where /dev/ftape is a symlink to /dev/rft0. I know the link works ok, because I use it with tar. Well, that's not quite the device you want to use anyway. If you're trying to position the tape, you need to use /dev/nrft0. This is the non-rewinding device. When you use /dev/rft0, it rewinds after every operation. I'm getting mt: /dev/ftape: Input/output error and the tape isn't moving. Any ideas? It may be that ftape realizes you're trying to use the wrong device, but I'd hope it would give a more reasonable error message. Try /dev/nrft0 and see how it works. Sincerely, Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anagrams of digital_nervous_system, Microsoft's new slogan: smutty_derisive_slogan glossy_derisive_mutant gaudy_violent_mistress admit_ourselves_stingy survey_longtime_sadist vulgar_sedition_system lying_devious_mattress reveal_stud_misogynist smudgy_television_tsar sly_devious_smattering stodgy_virtual_nemesis molest_industry_visage -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: printing 2.0 beta
Richard Sevenich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lpr filename - produces no printer activity, but does queue file. cat filename /dev/lp1 - produces message /dev/lp1: Device not configured. dmesg reports lp: Driver configured but no interfaces found. The kernel is not initializing your parallel port. There is a recognized iomega parallel port zip attached. The kernel is initializing your zip drive? You say these worked in 1.3, but had you compiled your own kernel back then? a zip drive and a printer can not be used at the same time with stock kernel. It requires one of the following solutions: 1) install the parport kernel patch (search www.linuxhq.com) and recompile a custom kernel. I don't think the debian kernel has this addon installed by default. It allows you to share the parallel port between many devices. 2) Use modules for lp and ppa. They can't bothe be loaded at the same time without the above parport patch to the kernel so you have to swap them in an out: a) Do it by hand everytime you want to switch from using your zip drive to your printer and vice versa (painfully) b) Don't load either at startup (check /etc/modules) and let kerneld load them only when they are needed automatically. Each will be unloaded about 60 seconds after you stop using it. Still can't use them both at the same time without the parport patch, but swapping is automatic this way. Erv -- Graduate Student[EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Chemistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univ of Wisconsin-Madison [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] * - Tribble ,*, - Tribble with legs showing -- tagline 1.00 by xopy -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Time is still not right.
Keith wrote: My time is still not right. My hardware clock is right if I type clock this is what I get: debian# clock Thu Jul 23 20:07:06 1998 --- If I type date this is what I get debian# date Thu Jul 23 16:07:40 EDT 1998 --- I don't know what the lines are for, but I want my linux time to say what the hardware clock says. I thought that maybe my timezone was wrong, here is what my timezone file has in it: EST5EDT I live in Florida Eastern time zone -5:00 GMT. I need some more help with this problem. Your hardware clock should be set to UTC (Greenwich time). Your timezone is then applied to get your local time, which is what date reports. They should not be the same, except in Britain and countries in the GMT timezone, and then only in winter -- oh yes, and Western Europe in summer. I believe this can be a problem if you run Microsoft software too, because they don't do it right. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Galatians 6:7 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: trn newsreader
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Thank God, my signature is finally working. Anyways, I am trying get the trn newsreader working. Actually it works fine, I just need help customizing it. In the /usr/doc/news/trn-hints file it talks about setting up a ~/.trninit file. It says to set an environment variable, how do I do that? I have the following .trninit file: -EMAILPOSTER=comp -use -file %h -EFORWARDPOSTER=comp -use -file %h -EKILLGLOBAL=%p/Kill/Global -EKILLLOCAL=%p/Kill/%C This uses mh as my mailer, you may not want to do this. You need to setup the TRNINIT environment variable. How you do this depends on what shell you have, but I use: export TRNINIT=~/.trninit in my .zshenv file. If you use bash, I think you would need to insert the same line into ~/.bashrc Hope this helps. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Diff bet. may '98 hamm and official hamm
I've upgraded my debian box from 1.3 to unstable in May 98. And I also have some packages from slink. Now my question is: What packages has been changed from May '98 hamm(unstable) to offical Debian GNU/Linux 2.0? Do I have to buy the CD's or stick with my setup? /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o` /= ,,'' \/ Cyberspace Laoag,ISP ``,,http://www2.cyberspace.com.ph/~keyoz Overuse of the smiley is a mark of loserhood! --The Jargon File *'' -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Kernel Compilation Filesystem Configuration
I'm having trouble compiling the kernel with support for MSDOS, VFAT, and ISO9660 filesystems. I used 'make xconfig', however the check boxes to select these options are greyed out. Other filesystems such as EXT2 and NFS aren't disabled... Is there anything else I have to do to enable these filesystems in xconfig? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Kernel Compilation Filesystem Configuration
Michael Ziller wrote: I'm having trouble compiling the kernel with support for MSDOS, VFAT, and ISO9660 filesystems. I used 'make xconfig', however the check boxes to select these options are greyed out. Other filesystems such as EXT2 and NFS aren't disabled... Is there anything else I have to do to enable these filesystems in xconfig? Enable 'Native language support' (CONFIG_NLS) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Galatians 6:7 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: How to change IRQ on NIC?
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Kent West wrote: Excellent! That did it. FYI, I couldn't just change the config; I had to remove the module and then add it right back in, changing the parameters at that point. One more question; after making a change like that, can you get the system to see the change without rebooting? I suspect you can, but I don't know how, so I just rebooted, which worked fine. But I'd like to know for future reference. Thanks again! I believe that the simple adding of the module solved that problem, the device should work straight away. another way to change the config, change the /etc/modules file... i.e.: ne io=0x300 irq=15 stuff like that... whats in it now should help you. (thats if you need to change anything... use rmmod then insmod - /etc/modules is used on bootup, (comments? am I right?) so you need the parameters with insmod) Hey, Im only getting out of newbie stage... If I am wrong, PLEASE correct me... I dont want a `rm -rf /` situation. :) Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Diff bet. may '98 hamm and official hamm
Richard Alhama hat gesagt: // Richard Alhama wrote: I've upgraded my debian box from 1.3 to unstable in May 98. And I also have some packages from slink. Now my question is: What packages has been changed from May '98 hamm(unstable) to offical Debian GNU/Linux 2.0? Do I have to buy the CD's or stick with my setup? I think there have been a lot of changes since may. For example the XFree packages have undergone big changes with high urgency. To see what has changed point dselect to your nearest debian-ftp-server and get the latest Packages.gz's. You don't have to grab the packages themselves just look what has changed... -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: HTML HAMM Man Pages
Chris Russell hat gesagt: // Chris Russell wrote: Anyone know of a link to the hamm man pages via a browser since man is not included in the base system? In particular apt-get. The package dwww installs a cgi-script, that gives a convenient user interface to nearly all the documentation on a debian system. You should install it and point your web browser to http://localhost/dwww/index.html;. -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: DVD support for linux
Shaleh wrote: Curt E. Spann wrote: What video card should I get? You ask later so I will kill two birds with one stone. AGP is both poorly supported and a waste of money. AGP cards can actually lessen system performance. System resources are stolen to give the enhanced video. Also numerous motherboards have problems sharing AGP and other slots. Best recommendation is to avoid them (yeah I will get flack for this one). Of course, you could go for an Alpha (more bucks, but worth it) and get a 64-bit PCI machine with a 64-bit video -- and SCSI controller, and whatever -- card. Be warned that Debian Alpha is yet beta. If I have a choice between SCSI and Ultra ATA system which should I get? SCSI is a little more expensive but is it really worth it? For a home workstation SCSI is not a great gain unless you intend to really beat the hard drive. Even then the new IDE's make this questionable. You will find that many UNIX vendors are shipping IDE in all but the highest end machines. AFAIK, workstation vendors ship IDE (ATA) systems only in the lowest-end machines, like the Darwin Suns (Ultra 5 and Ultra 10). At http://www.adaptec.com./ there are some interesting remarks about the matter. -- Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra http://www.lge.com.br./ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.terravista.pt./Enseada/1989/ BRASIL _ Campanha da fita ASCII - contra correio HTML vcards X ASCII ribbon campaign - against HTML email vcards / \ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Fvwm2 and Debian menu
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 10:27:33PM -0400, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Well, you don't have to start your FvwmButtons from the menu - you can just start it automatically (assuming you always want it to be there); on one account on my machine, this is done by putting all the customization into post.hook and a call to 'Module FvwmButtons' in init-restart.hook. If, however, you want it in the menu you can always put it in yourself with an AddToMenu command in post.hook; modifying the menu entry itself (by changing /usr/lib/menu/fvwm2) gets wiped by a new fvwm2. This has the problem that the DebianFvwmButtons is still there... The best solution is probably to use DestroyModuleConfig DebianFvwmButtons in post.hook and then listing the entries one wants. Thanks for your response. Yes, I do want to start it from a menu, and your last method sounded like the best idea. Unfortunately, even after doing that there remains some obscure left over bit of configuration somewhere that screws up the display of the button bar. In the end I just made my FvwmButtons setup a new entry in the main-menu-pre-hook. It works. Curt -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
problems with anti-spam policies
Hi all I'm subcribed to some mailing lists with my real email adress ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I read this email from pusa.eleinf.uv.es and from a non-permanent link (wich I named caligula. with no domain...) I always use pine, In caligula's pine setup I use the user-domain option set to pusa.eleinf.uv.es, this allows me to send mail to some mailing lists, but not all mailing lists... some smtp servers says me something like: Begin From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jul 24 11:08:08 1998 Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 12:39:14 +0200 From: Mail Delivery System [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients. The following address(es) failed: linux-diald@vger.rutgers.edu: SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE=2837: host vger.rutgers.edu [128.6.190.2]: 553-5.4.3 Policy analysis reports DNS error with your 553-5.4.3 source domain. Please correct your source 553 5.4.3 address and/or the info at the DNS. -- This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. -- Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from ulisses by caligula with local-smtp (Exim 1.92 #1 (Debian)) id 0yzfFm-0007RI-00; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 12:39:10 +0200 Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 10:39:10 + (GMT) From: Ulisses Alonso [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: diald mailinglist linux-diald@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: understanding diald timeouts Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Ulisses Alonso [EMAIL PROTECTED] End I'm using exim as MTA... how I can resolve this?... wich is the right way to make that I want? Any comment will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance Ulisses PD: Oracle8 and Informix will be ported to Linux! http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?980717.whorlinux.htm - Computers are useless. They can only give answers.Pablo Picasso -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Stupid unix
SVD == Santiago Vila Doncel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SVD (But just because I love awk, a perl hacker would surely give you a
SVD different solution, and a Bourne-shell hacker yet another one, etc. :-).
Here is the perl hacker ;-)
perl -MFile::Copy -e 'for (@ARGV) {move $_, lc $_}' *.c
mmv is cool, but has no lowercase function.
What's stupid about unix anyways? Didn't understand that one.
Ciao,
Martin
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Re: [Debian]: das Systemupdate funktioniert nicht richtig
DM == Dirk Meissner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DM ich zum Systemstart immer folgende Fehlermeldung: DM /etc/rc2.d/S89: line 20: syntax error near unexpected token ';' DM /etc/rc2.d/S89: line 20: ' ;cron reload automatically' [...] DM ; cron reloads automatically ^ Das muß ein # sein. Hast du diese JFL Debian 2.0 beta installiert (ist wenig brauchbar)? Der Bug wurde längst behoben. Da Debian 2.0 jetzt offiziell draußen ist, würde ich das System updaten (per ftp oder CD, wenn sie fertig sind). Ciao, Martin -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Time is still not right.
Keith writes: My time is still not right. My hardware clock is right if I type clock this is what I get: debian# clock Thu Jul 23 20:07:06 1998 --- If I type date this is what I get debian# date Thu Jul 23 16:07:40 EDT 1998 --- I don't know what the lines are for, but I want my linux time to say what the hardware clock says. I thought that maybe my timezone was wrong, here is what my timezone file has in it: EST5EDT I live in Florida Eastern time zone -5:00 GMT. I need some more help with this problem. Ok, look at /etc/init.d/boot and let us know what the 'GMT=' line is set to. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Debian on Mac PPC
Hi, Does anyone know if it's possible to install Debian Linux on a Mac PowerPC? Thanks, Jorge Sousa -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: How to change IRQ on NIC?
KW == Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KW One more question; after making a change like that, can you get the system KW to see the change without rebooting? I suspect you can, but I don't know KW how, so I just rebooted, which worked fine. But I'd like to know for future KW reference. [Please use your quoting the other way round. I like to read from left to right and from *top* to *bottom* ] As root do a lsmod. You get an output like: lsmod# lsmod Module PagesUsed by softdog11 (autoclean) misc 1[softdog] 1 (autoclean) nls_iso8859-1 12 (autoclean) nls_cp437 12 (autoclean) sound 240 vfat 42 fat6[vfat] 2 nls1[nls_iso8859-1 nls_cp437 vfat fat] 0 smc-ultra 11 8390 2[smc-ultra] 0 hisax 232 isdn 21[hisax] 5 slhc 2[isdn] 1 smc-ultra is the module for my NIC. - Shut down the use of the NIC ifconfig eth0 down - Change the configline in /etc/conf.modules options smc-ultra io=0x300 Now reload the module - Load the module modprobe smc-ultra You should see some output with tail /var/log/syslog - Reenable the networking /etc/init.d/network I like Linux, no reboot :-) Ciao, Martin -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Stupid unix
*-Martin Bialasinski (24 Jul) | | | mmv is cool, but has no lowercase function. | From the mmv man page: To convert the string matched by a wildcard to either low ercase or uppercase before embedding it in the target name, insert 'l' or 'u', respectively, between the '#' and the string of digits. Example: % mmv -r -v [A-Z]* #l1#l2 LF441.DAT - lf441.dat TEXT.TXT - text.txt -- Brian Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: GREAT NEWS!!! Oracle 8 on Linux by 1999!
Want a good RDBMS for Linux??? check www.interbase.com they have a FREE port of version 4.0 for Linux. It runs on Debian1.3.1 I didn't have the chance to try it on Hamm cos I need to upgrade. Jorge Sousa -Original Message- From: Kevin Traas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org; FVLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Quarta-feira, 22 de Julho de 1998 16:48 Subject: GREAT NEWS!!! Oracle 8 on Linux by 1999! Oracle has just announced that they're porting Oracle 8/8.1 to the Linux/x86 platform and that it should be ready and commercially available by early 1999. I'm sure some of you aren't happy with commercial applications, but I, for one, am very excited about this. Commercial support of Linux will make great inroads for the Fortune 5000 markets, etc (I work for Baan Business Systems (Baan Company - www.baan.com ) and this would be a great step towards putting Baan on Linux as well. This I'd *love* to see! A great ERP solution with a great DB on a great OS! For more information, check out the following PC Week article: http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/news/0720/20morac.html Regards, Kevin Traas -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Stupid unix
s == servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: s *-Martin Bialasinski (24 Jul) s | mmv is cool, but has no lowercase function. From the mmv man page: [...] *blush* OK, just delete everything after cool. Perl rules anyway ;-) Ciao, Martin -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: linux on a gateway laptop
I've got a Gateway 2000 Solo 2100 and have sound working. It mainly depends on what chips are used. My 2100 uses the ESS ES1688 AudioDrive. Check the info in Win95 or your manuals to see if you have this same chipset. Seth M. Landsman wrote: Greets, So I have this shiny new laptop running Linux flawlessly (X, pcmcia, cdrom, everything), but I can't get sound configured. Might someone have had experience getting sound working on a Gateway 2300 series laptop who might be able to lend a clue? -Seth -- It is by will alone I set my mind in motion -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RAID controller dinstall
Hi all, Has anyone ever tried to install a Mylex DAC960 PL Raid controller? I'm trying to do so and ran into the following problem: I've got its driver from www.dandelion.com/Linux/ , re-built the rescue disk and set the rdev. The system boots up normally and it finds the controller. But the problem is that I've got to manually build some special devices (/dev/rd/c*d*p*) and I cant make de dinstall program to use fdisk on this device (/dev/rd/c0d0). When I select the Partition Hard Disk on the dinstall main menu it says No hard disk drivers could be found. Does anyone know how to set the device on the dinstall, so that I wouldnt have to mkswap/mke2fs/mount/install everything from the scratch? Thanks in advance! Daniel. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Dselect doesn't install from non-free or contrib
I am trying to install a 2.0 beta system from mounted filesystem, /usr/debian which has subdirs main, non-free and contrib. Dselect sees everything, even gives a reasonabe package count in each of the three areas ( 1500 in main, in the hundreds for each of non-free and contrib, as I recall). When I go to select individual packages, everything seems to be there. When it gets to actually installing, however, it appears to quietly skip over everything in non-free and contrib -- no explanation. The dpkg manpage says for --yet-to-unpack Searches for packages selected for installation, but which for some reason still haven't been installed. and I have # dpkg --yet-to-unpack 19 packages, from the following sections: contrib/misc (1) contrib/net (1) contrib/sound (1) contrib/tex (1) contrib/web (1) non-free/comm (1) non-free/games (1) non-free/graphics (5) non-free/libs (1) non-free/sound (1) non-free/tex (1) non-free/text (2) non-free/x11 (2) But, what is the reason and how do I get it to install these packages? Liam -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Hamm not in Stable Dir
I'm confused. I thought Debian 2.0 (hamm) was officially released last night. Does that not make it the stable version? Near as I can tell, the ftp.debian.org site still has 1.3 in it's stable directory. Should I be pulling from the stable dir or still from the frozen dir? Thanks. === Kent West | Technology Support/Customer Service | Abilene Christian University| Voice: 915-674-2557 FAX: 915.674.6724 | ACU Station, Box 29005 | E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Abilene, TX 79699-9005 | Ham:KC5ENO, General | === -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Hamm not in Stable Dir
I'm confused. I thought Debian 2.0 (hamm) was officially released last night. Does that not make it the stable version? Near as I can tell, the ftp.debian.org site still has 1.3 in it's stable directory. Should I be pulling from the stable dir or still from the frozen dir? Thanks. I think you should wait! I don't know till when! On irc.debian.org they said that they are still mirroring Debian 2.0 ! Best regards, Nuno Carvalho -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Hamm not in Stable Dir
I'm confused. I thought Debian 2.0 (hamm) was officially released last night. Does that not make it the stable version? Near as I can tell, the ftp.debian.org site still has 1.3 in it's stable directory. Should I be pulling from the stable dir or still from the frozen dir? Thanks. I would advide you to wait till mirror is updated and hamm becomes stable. There were some important bugfixes put in there last minute. I am not aware of ANY updated mittor though. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
startup info
Can someone tell me where all the information at startup is logged? Dmesg doesn't show me enough of the info. Thanks. |-| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1997-98 | |-| | Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh (Careful it's not completed) | |-| | The past brings pain, the future depression, | | the present disappointment. The only thing that remains is the moment.| | Live for the moment, and enjoy life. You only have one chance. | |-| -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Xemacs help
Hi All, I have two questions regarding Xemacs .. 1. My delete key is acting as backspace. What should I do to make delete act as delete? 2. My toolbar buttons come in grey. How do I make them in colors? Thanks , Vaidhy -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
xview and xviewg in hamm
Hi, after the upgrade to hamm an old libc5-executable that depends on xview did segfault (I had both xview and xviewg installed.): # arb Program ARB will be startet in the background, please wait # /bin/arb: line 118: 946 Segmentation fault (core dumped) arb_ntree $args ARB done I tried to remove xviewg, but for some reason xview depends on xviewg: # dpkg --purge xviewg dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of xviewg: xview depends on xviewg (= 3.2p1.4-4). dpkg: error processing xviewg (--purge): dependency problems - not removing Errors were encountered while processing: xviewg # dpkg --purge --force-depends xviewg dpkg: xviewg: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request: xview depends on xviewg (= 3.2p1.4-4). (Reading database ... 48748 files and directories currently installed.) Removing xviewg ... dpkg - warning: while removing xviewg, directory `/etc/X11/xview' not empty so not removed. Purging configuration files for xviewg ... Now the program works ok for me: # arb Program ARB will be startet in the background, please wait # ARB:Loading '.arb_prop/ntree.arb' ARB:Loading '/usr/local/arb/lib/arb_default/ntree.arb' done ARB done Any ideas? Cheers, Thomas -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: GREAT NEWS!!! Oracle 8 on Linux by 1999!
Jorge Sousa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Want a good RDBMS for Linux??? Also, postgresql is a part of debian 2.0. [If you want high performance, you'll need to change /etc/postgresql/postmaster.init so that it has PGFSYNC=no]. -- Raul -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Obtaining stable 2.0 on CD-ROM
Hi all, I'm a newcomer to the world of Linux and Debian and I want to get a CD-ROM copy of the just-released (today) stable 2.0 version to do my first ever Linux installation. I've been waiting for this release for quite some time and now I want to take the plunge. I'd like to do the installation as much off the CD-ROM as possible onto a Sony VAIO Tower PCV-210 multi-media PC. I've looked at the CD-ROM vendors list at Debian.org and checked out their sites. I'm wading through all the lingo but I can't discern which ones would be able to supply this newest stable version and what the magic words are I need to use to get what I have in mind and need. I don't want to request/order it and then find I got the wrong thing. I guess I need a binary CD and a source CD. Could anyone supply me with the required incantation and who I should talk to in order to get the right set? Your help is much appreciated! Marcus -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: startup info
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Robert Rati wrote: Can someone tell me where all the information at startup is logged? Dmesg doesn't show me enough of the info. Thanks. see the files on /var/log /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o` /= ,,'' \/ Cyberspace Laoag,ISP ``,,http://www2.cyberspace.com.ph/~keyoz Overuse of the smiley is a mark of loserhood! --The Jargon File *'' -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
No Official 2.0 CDs yet?
I can understand that CDs aren't cut and available for purchase just yet, but I'd like to place an order before the weekend! No US or Canadian web pages that I've have updated their web pages to advertise 2.0. BTW, what does an official 2-CD set contain? main and source but not contrib? -- www.lsl.com: Debian 2.0 hamm (Beta) on main page. Official `pre-orders' available on order form. --- www.cheapbytes.com: Well CheapBytes has this: CheapBytes Debian 2.0 CD-ROM Install + Add-on Pack Our Price: $6.99 This 4 CD-ROM kit includes the Official Debian 2.0 Binary Install along with our 3 CD-ROM Debian Add-on Pack which includes source code and selected legally distributable contrib and non-free files. Sounds like what I want, but the Official CD link says: Expected to be shipping the week of August 10. I can't wait that long! --- linuxcentral.com Official Debian Coming soon official 2 CD set. $3.95 Not on order form. --- www.linux-canada.com Debian 2.0.0 Beta + Netscape 1 CD $ 9.95 -- 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 6623'rd Linux user at the Linux Counter -- http://counter.li.org/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Obtaining stable 2.0 on CD-ROM
If you are a newcomer, the source CD is not necessary. The source CD contains source code to all the applications, etc on the Debian distribution. All you really need is the binary CD. As for the most recent stable version, with this being the initial release, they will all be the same. -Original Message- From: Marcus Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, July 24, 1998 10:55 AM Subject: Obtaining stable 2.0 on CD-ROM Hi all, I'm a newcomer to the world of Linux and Debian and I want to get a CD-ROM copy of the just-released (today) stable 2.0 version to do my first ever Linux installation. I've been waiting for this release for quite some time and now I want to take the plunge. I'd like to do the installation as much off the CD-ROM as possible onto a Sony VAIO Tower PCV-210 multi-media PC. I've looked at the CD-ROM vendors list at Debian.org and checked out their sites. I'm wading through all the lingo but I can't discern which ones would be able to supply this newest stable version and what the magic words are I need to use to get what I have in mind and need. I don't want to request/order it and then find I got the wrong thing. I guess I need a binary CD and a source CD. Could anyone supply me with the required incantation and who I should talk to in order to get the right set? Your help is much appreciated! Marcus -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Advanced Power Management Linux
Hi all, I'm looking to install Linux into a(n almost brand-spanking new) Sony Tower VAIO PCV-210 multimedia PC with the stable version of Debian 2.0 (just released today). The PCV-210 has got this feature called Advanced Power Management (APM version 1.2) where it puts itself in sleep mode when there is no activity for a certain period of time. I'm wonder if this will cause problems for Linux. I fooled around a little with Debian 1.3 and it definitely seemed to act wierdly (I wasn't able to get the screen to come back on after it shut off). Anyone have any experience with this? TIA, Marcus -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Small laptop, 120Mb HD: Linux?
I'd like to put Linux onto a Toshiba T2100 Satellite laptop with 120Mbyte harddrive. I believe it's a 486sx. It has 8 megs of ram so I don't care to run X. I'd like to put on a minimalist installation but I need to have some emacsen, gcc. Optional but highly desireable is Octave, Perl. I'll be installing the base with floppy disks, but will be installing the rest from a parallel zip drive, if possible. I want to use it for a numerical analysis class so it needs quite a few utilities, but we'll have to see how much I can fit on it. My questions are: What is the best way to install? I can't install all the recommended stuff because that is just too big. My tentative plan is to put base on it, see how much space is left, add emacs with no x, add octave, and Perl. I'll need about 5 or 10 megs for user account space. Can anyone who has had a similar situation or experience comment? Thanx, Ed * Ed Young (303)706-5425 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Engineering Echostar Technology Corporation Denver, Colorado * -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Advanced Power Management Linux
Yo- I'm looking to install Linux into a(n almost brand-spanking new) Sony Tower VAIO PCV-210 multimedia PC with the stable version of Debian 2.0 (just released today). The PCV-210 has got this feature called Advanced Power Management (APM version 1.2) where it puts itself in sleep mode when there is no activity for a certain period of time. I'm wonder if this will cause problems for Linux. I fooled around a little with Debian 1.3 and it definitely seemed to act wierdly (I wasn't able to get the screen to come back on after it shut off). Anyone have any experience with this? If I remember correctly, APM support is included in the latest kernel sources. I do not know if it is compiled into the binary kernel packages Debian includes. Anyone know? You should be able to avoid almost all problems with any kernel by adjusting APM settings in your BIOS/CMOS. You should be able to disable certain functions of APM (i.e.sleep) or disable APM all together. Since you are going to insatll Debian 2 from scratch I would suggest that you document all your hardware settings before the attempt. I am assuming you are running some Windows version currently and you can print system reports that give you this information. This is especially useful for and Plug-n-Pray devices you might have. Hope that helps. -Ian __ Ian Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP = F2 92 50 E3 CD D7 A2 D9 C4 CE 08 A6 98 E0 0F 58 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Small laptop, 120Mb HD: Linux?
With no X, 120mb is plenty of room for your needs. The 8mb of RAM will make it slow to use on a daily basis, but for travel time use it will not be too bad. I would recommend a 20mb swap and the other 100mb for the rest. If you are picky about what you install, you should be fine. My ful blown install is just over 300mb w/ X and all. So 100mb should cover you fine. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
DHCP and hostname
My linux machine is in a network where the IP addresses are assigned using DHCP. I use dhcpcd to get the IP address but it also mangles my machine's hostname (probably because the DHCP server is not properly configured). Is there a way to query the DNS server for the correct hostname from the assigned IP address and assign it? Can this be automated? Thanks. Venkat -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Stupid unix
Is there a simple way to change all filenames in a directory so they
are lowercase?
1 cat /usr/local/bin/rename
#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use locale;
# usage: rename perlexp [files]
($op = shift) || die Usage: $0 perlexp [filenames]\n;
if ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) {
@ARGV = STDIN;
chop(@ARGV);
}
$op =~ m/(.*)/; $op = $1; # Un-taint $op
for (@ARGV) {
$old = $_;
eval $op;
die $@ if $@;
$new = $_;
next if $old eq $new;
next if -e $new;
$old =~ m/(.*)/; $old = $1; # Un-taint $old
$new =~ m/(.*)/; $new = $1; # Un-taint $new
rename($old,$new) || die $0: cannot rename $old to $new: $!\n;
}
1 rename y/A-Z/a-z/ *# lowercase all files
1 rename s/.jpeg/.jpg/ # change jpeg to jpg
This is fun if you know perl :-)
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i'm working on it
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dot files
How can I make GIMP show dotfiles? Thanks. P.S. I should get a book can someone recommend a good one? Not linux for dummies please. /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o` /= ,,'' \/ Cyberspace Laoag,ISP ``,,http://www2.cyberspace.com.ph/~keyoz Overuse of the smiley is a mark of loserhood! --The Jargon File *'' -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: Small laptop, 120Mb HD: Linux?
On 24-Jul-98 Young, Ed wrote: I'd like to put Linux onto a Toshiba T2100 Satellite laptop with 120Mbyte harddrive. I believe it's a 486sx. It has 8 megs of ram so I don't care to run X. I'd like to put on a minimalist installation but I need to have some emacsen, gcc. Optional but highly desireable is Octave, Perl. I'll be installing the base with floppy disks, but will be installing the rest from a parallel zip drive, if possible. I want to use it for a numerical analysis class so it needs quite a few utilities, but we'll have to see how much I can fit on it. Way way back I once had SLS Linux on a 40MB disk + 4MB RAM. No X of course, nor emacs. Octave was smaller then (so were a lot of other things, including gcc) but it went on. Basically: 5MB swap, 25MB for the Linux stuff, 10MB for user apps (including octave) and user files. I managed to get a lot of work done with this (mainly with octave troff). (Mind you, a lot of stuff got archived to floppies, and there were periodic fierce deletion sessions). You might even find space for a minimal X: if you can get it on the HD along with your other stuff, it should run OK in 8MB RAM. Best of luck, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 24-Jul-98 Time: 18:19:40 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Stupid unix
On 24 Jul 1998, Joerg Plate wrote: Is there a simple way to change all filenames in a directory so they are lowercase? 1 cat /usr/local/bin/rename #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw use locale; [...] Why not, in bash: for f in $(ls); do oldName=$f newName=$(echo $oldName | tr [A-Z] [a-z]) mv -i $oldName $newName done I'd not bother with the variable names, but they make it clearer. Disclaimer: I didn't test the above, and may have gotten the tr syntax wrong. But you get the idea. --Eric House +-+ |from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |The instructions said 'Win95 or better' -- so I installed Linux| +-+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: dot files
How can I make GIMP show dotfiles? I think this is a gtk-wide thing ... not sure how to go about fix it, but all my gtk-using apps don't show dotfiles. I should get a book can someone recommend a good one? Not linux for dummies please. If you're not a unix person, try Running Linux by Matt Walsh, www.ora.com. Also, there's a Debian book, http://www.linuxpress.com has it. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| -- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: dot files
What dotfiles should GIMP be seeing? As for a book, there a lots of good UNIX books. Any Teach yourself UNIX type book will work. Linux is fairly standardized. Also, Debian is working on some new user docs. Might want to subscribe to debian-docs and see what they have to say. The /usr/doc/HOWTO directory is FULL of great info. Richard L. Alhama wrote: How can I make GIMP show dotfiles? Thanks. P.S. I should get a book can someone recommend a good one? Not linux for dummies please. /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o` /= ,,'' \/ Cyberspace Laoag,ISP ``,,http://www2.cyberspace.com.ph/~keyoz Overuse of the smiley is a mark of loserhood! --The Jargon File *'' -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Stupid unix
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:09:41 -0700 (PDT), Eric House wrote: Why not, in bash: for f in $(ls); do oldName=$f newName=$(echo $oldName | tr [A-Z] [a-z]) mv -i $oldName $newName done [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/morpheus/t}ls -la total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 morpheus users1024 Jul 24 11:22 . drwxr-xr-x 33 morpheus users3072 Jul 24 08:30 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 morpheus users 0 Jul 24 11:22 Blah.Blah -rw-rw-r-- 1 morpheus users 0 Jul 24 11:22 blah.blah That's why. ;) -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus| employer's. They hired me for my ICQ: 5107343 | skills and labor, not my opinions! ---+- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Time is still not right.
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: 'man tzconfig' should explain it for you. I have the same problem as Keith, my hardware clock doesn't report the same thing as date. I have been following the discourse with interest. I have a Hamm system, and two Bo systems, neither of which has a tzconfig, (locate tzconfig reports nothing) nor a man page for tzconfig. I have read the scripts in rc*, and have tried to follow the boot up that activate these scripts by following inittab etc. I still need help. Please advise what package(s) may need to be installed, and how to fix this problem. --David --- LINUX: the FREE 32 bit OS for [3456]86 PC's available NOW! David B Teague | Ask me how user interface copyrights software [EMAIL PROTECTED] | patents make programing a dangerous business. counter-intelligence wild porno sex gold bullion Soviet clipper terrorist National Security Council nuclear explosion Treasury destabilize Pakistan Delta Force atomic bomb India data encryption data encryption munitions -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Hamm not in Stable Dir
Most mirrors are still not caught up. I expect this to occure in two days time (for all mirrors) The only two mirrors that are up-to-date are http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian http://open.hands.com/debian And va's private mirror. All 3 are the only push mirrors an were uptodate about an hour after guy finished with the archive. If you run a mirror off master -PLEASE- contact me so you can be converted to a push mirror or at least an rsyncd mirror. Jason -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Time is still not right.
Install timezones (hamm) or timezone (bo). These are flagged as required packages and should be installed by default. Bob On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, David B. Teague wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: 'man tzconfig' should explain it for you. I have the same problem as Keith, my hardware clock doesn't report the same thing as date. I have been following the discourse with interest. I have a Hamm system, and two Bo systems, neither of which has a tzconfig, (locate tzconfig reports nothing) nor a man page for tzconfig. I have read the scripts in rc*, and have tried to follow the boot up that activate these scripts by following inittab etc. I still need help. Please advise what package(s) may need to be installed, and how to fix this problem. --David --- LINUX: the FREE 32 bit OS for [3456]86 PC's available NOW! David B Teague | Ask me how user interface copyrights software [EMAIL PROTECTED] | patents make programing a dangerous business. counter-intelligence wild porno sex gold bullion Soviet clipper terrorist National Security Council nuclear explosion Treasury destabilize Pakistan Delta Force atomic bomb India data encryption data encryption munitions Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: dot files
What dotfiles should GIMP be seeing? The gtk file selection dialogs don't show _any_ file or directory that starts with a dot, in any gtk-enabled app. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| -- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load
On: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:42:36 +0300 Jaakko Niemi writes: I can repeatably crash two (nearly) stock Debian 1.3 systems using one or more scripts, such as find /usr |xargs grep some-arbitrary-string looping with some background activity to use up CPU cycles. The systems seem stable, otherwise. Only common hardware are ultra-SCSI disks and controllers (AHA-2940). Any ideas? Do you get any logs / errors ? You might want to try newer kernels which have newer drivers for the SCSI cards, if this seems disk io related. You can try the aic-driver which is available at ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/ I made some good experience, this driver seems to be more stable than the one included in 2.0.33 (which I currently use), especially when activating special features such as SCB paging and tagged command queueing. BTW: the aic7xxx driver changed alot in the last kernel releases, you might also give 2.0.34 or 2.0.35 a try. Torsten -- Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties. --Ashley Montagu PGP public key available -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: dot files
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Will Lowe wrote: How can I make GIMP show dotfiles? I think this is a gtk-wide thing ... not sure how to go about fix it, but all my gtk-using apps don't show dotfiles. I should get a book can someone recommend a good one? Not linux for dummies please. If you're not a unix person, try Running Linux by Matt Walsh, www.ora.com. Also, there's a Debian book, http://www.linuxpress.com has it. Thanks. Now I'll somehow find a way to acquire it. It's kinda hard to get good books in my country. Maybe I'll just tell my relatives in the US to buy me one Will /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o` /= ,,'' \/ Cyberspace Laoag,ISP ``,,http://www2.cyberspace.com.ph/~keyoz Overuse of the smiley is a mark of loserhood! --The Jargon File *'' -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: dot files
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: What dotfiles should GIMP be seeing? .directories As for a book, there a lots of good UNIX books. Any Teach yourself UNIX type book will work. Linux is fairly standardized. Also, Debian is working on some new user docs. Might want to subscribe to debian-docs and see what they have to say. The /usr/doc/HOWTO directory is FULL of great info. Read some of it. Thanks for the reply /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o` /= ,,'' \/ Cyberspace Laoag,ISP ``,,http://www2.cyberspace.com.ph/~keyoz Overuse of the smiley is a mark of loserhood! --The Jargon File *'' -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Previous posts
This is just to thank all of those who responded to my original post, and repost, about my problems with setting up ipchains... Your help was overwhelming. Taren -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: dot files
If you must get gimp to show a dotfile (or directory) just type '.' in the file blank and hit 'tab'. GIMP (and all GTK apps) work like bash does. Tab gives file completion. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Xemacs help
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have two questions regarding Xemacs .. There is a wealth of information in the Xemacs sample files (sample.Xdefaults and sample.emacs). These can be brought up in Xemacs via the Help-Samples pull-down or can be found in the Xemacs' etc directory (e.g. /usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.4/etc/ ) 1. My delete key is acting as backspace. What should I do to make delete act as delete? sample.emacs has the line: (setq delete-key-deletes-forward t) which appears to do what you are looking for. 2. My toolbar buttons come in grey. How do I make them in colors? Read through the sample.Xdefaults file, look for the colors and backgrounds section. HTH, Keith -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load
Torsten Hilbrich wrote: You can try the aic-driver which is available at ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/ I made some good experience, this driver seems to be more stable than the one included in 2.0.33 (which I currently use), especially when activating special features such as SCB paging and tagged command queueing. BTW: the aic7xxx driver changed alot in the last kernel releases, you might also give 2.0.34 or 2.0.35 a try. Stock 2.0.35 won't boot on an 2940U anyway. It appears to work fine with the aic7xxx-5.1.0-pre5-2.0.35.patch on ftp://ftp.dialnet.net:/pub/linux/aic7xxx/testing -- 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 6623'rd Linux user at the Linux Counter -- http://counter.li.org/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Torsten Hilbrich wrote: You can try the aic-driver which is available at ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/ I made some good experience, this driver seems to be more stable than the one included in 2.0.33 (which I currently use), especially when activating special features such as SCB paging and tagged command queueing. BTW: the aic7xxx driver changed alot in the last kernel releases, you might also give 2.0.34 or 2.0.35 a try. Stock 2.0.35 won't boot on an 2940U anyway. Well, for me the stock 2.0.35 been working fine for a few days now. -- Jean Pierre -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Stupid unix
On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 11:20:19AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:09:41 -0700 (PDT), Eric House wrote: Why not, in bash: for f in $(ls); do oldName=$f newName=$(echo $oldName | tr [A-Z] [a-z]) mv -i $oldName $newName done [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/morpheus/t}ls -la total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 morpheus users1024 Jul 24 11:22 . drwxr-xr-x 33 morpheus users3072 Jul 24 08:30 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 morpheus users 0 Jul 24 11:22 Blah.Blah -rw-rw-r-- 1 morpheus users 0 Jul 24 11:22 blah.blah That's why. ;) So what? Didn't you saw the -i option he supplied to the mv command? FYI: -i, --interactive Prompt whether to overwrite each destination file that already exists. If the response does not begin with `y' or `Y', the file is skipped. That's why Eric's solution works :P 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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Stupid unix
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 21:28:25 +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: So what? Didn't you saw the -i option he supplied to the mv command? That's why Eric's solution works :P If that is the case then why not just do it all by hand in the first place? Sheesh. -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus| employer's. They hired me for my ICQ: 5107343 | skills and labor, not my opinions! ---+- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
install help ?libc5?
I just down loaded and installed the 2.0 release. I got though the install and selected the standard package for dselect to install. After hours of down load time I get the message that perl cant be installed because of a libc5 conflict and shortly there after I got pages of similar errors (libc5) until dselect stop because of all the errors. I thought 2.0 was suposed to use libc6. Did I put in the wrong directory (dists/stable/main)? And another thing. I had a problem with pon last week. I asked for help but the responses didn't do much for me. I did however end up swaping out my old USR Sportster 14.4 for my newer USR 33.6 (both were set to com2 IRQ 3). The 33.6 worked perfectly. Then I put the 14.4 in my win95 box and it worked just fine. I had a problem a first, but I set the dip switches to the factory defaults and all was good. I stuck the 14.4 back in the linux box and still nothing. Does anyone know how I can get the linux box to talk to my 14.4 (by the way both modems are internals)? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Debian 2.0 [beta or released on HP Kayak XU?
Has anybody installed Debian 2.0 (beta or released) on a HP Kayak XU? My Official CDs have not reached me yet. So I would have to do the basic installation via the dard disk and ask dselect to upgrade via FTP. There is a problem with the network / PCI cards on Kayaks that people have reported (http://www.cs.uit.no/~johnm/os/linux/kayak.html)) I am going to do my installation later today. Can anybody who is running Debian on a Kayak send me configuration info for getting this baby up and running? Thaths -- Oh, everything is too damned expensive these days. Look at this bible I just got - Fifteen bucks! And talk about a preachy book... everybody is a sinner. [points to a verse] Except this guy. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Free Interbase
Want a good RDBMS for Linux??? check www.interbase.com they have a FREE port of version 4.0 for Linux. It runs on Debian1.3.1 I didn't have the chance to try it on Hamm cos I need to upgrade. Jorge Sousa It may appear free but you ought to have a look at the license agreement. It says RedHat *only*. License agreements like this are good reasons to *avoid* software. So, InterBase, make what you can when you can but NOT from me. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Free Interbase
Want a good RDBMS for Linux??? check www.interbase.com they have a FREE port of version 4.0 for Linux. It runs on Debian1.3.1 I didn't have the chance to try it on Hamm cos I need to upgrade. Jorge Sousa Mike Barton wrote: It may appear free but you ought to have a look at the license agreement. It says RedHat *only*. License agreements like this are good reasons to *avoid* software. So, InterBase, make what you can when you can but NOT from me. It gets worse: ``You may install and use the Software or the foregoing components provided that (1) the Software is used only with the Red Hat Linux 4.2 operating system,'' Version 4.2? Who would even uses that any more... -- 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 6623'rd Linux user at the Linux Counter -- http://counter.li.org/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: hamm problem: X and backspace/home/end
I saw a message in another thread that stated the X keyboard extension had to be enabled for backspace to work properly. That was my problem; now I've gotten rid of the xmodmap statement to fix backspace. On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 09:48:39AM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: I found the info on the bug tracking system that the home/end key problem was fixed in the latest release. The xrdb problem was a user error -- have to start a new xterm to test the new resources. I had gotten used to xmodmap working immediately in xterms that were already open. I modified /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 to add 'xmodmap -e keycode 22 = BackSpace'. The backspace key now works properly. Since I can fix the backspace problem in the file xdm is using to start managing the display, I suspect the problem is in some of the system files and not in any of the user setups. If it was a user problem, I would expect the change in Xsetup_0 to be overriden when the user logs in. On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 05:17:43PM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: Hi, I installed hamm on a new system about a month ago. Backspace seemed to work fine on this system. I installed it on a system that had been upgraded from rex-bo-hamm last week and the backspace key doesn't work properly in X. I need to type 'xmodmap -e keycode 22 = BackSpace' before backspace works properly. Before using xmodmap, bash gives the following translations: Ctrl-vbs ^[[3~ Ctrl-vdel^[[3~ Ctrl-vCtrl-h ^H I guess this is redundant, but (also before using xmodmap) xev indicates that keycode 22 and 107 have the same keysym: KeyPress event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0x341, root 0x26, subw 0x0, time 2391247581, (120,181), root:(194,272), state 0x0, keycode 22 (keysym 0x, Delete), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 characters: KeyPress event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0x341, root 0x26, subw 0x0, time 2391250101, (120,181), root:(194,272), state 0x0, keycode 107 (keysym 0x, Delete), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 characters: One of my friends at work upgraded two systems from bo to hamm. He has to run xmodmap on one system but not the other to get backspace to work. Also the home and end keys seem to be reversed in X, but work fine on the console. I tried reversing the strings from the /etc/X11/Xresources in my .Xresources file and then xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources, but the keys still behave incorrectly. Any suggestions for solving these problems would be welcome. I can't see anything wrong with the /etc/X11/Xresources or ~/.Xresources, but I'll be glad to post these files and more if someone would like to comment. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load
On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 03:28:48PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Torsten Hilbrich wrote: You can try the aic-driver which is available at ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/ I made some good experience, this driver seems to be more stable than the one included in 2.0.33 (which I currently use), especially when activating special features such as SCB paging and tagged command queueing. BTW: the aic7xxx driver changed alot in the last kernel releases, you might also give 2.0.34 or 2.0.35 a try. Stock 2.0.35 won't boot on an 2940U anyway. It appears to work fine with the aic7xxx-5.1.0-pre5-2.0.35.patch on ftp://ftp.dialnet.net:/pub/linux/aic7xxx/testing Stock 2.0.35 booted and appeared to run fine on my system with an on-the-motherboard 2940UW. I could not get it to find my scsi cdrom though, so I went back to the Debian packaged 2.0.34 kernel. Mike -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Sun Sparc-Station 5 and Debian
Hi list! First i have to say sorry for the long posting ;) I'm receiving a used Sparc5 this weekend. So i have a few questions (of which some may be a little offtopic): 2GB SCSI-HD, 32MB-RAM, 2D Gfx card (fast for wireframe, i think), FDD and CD_ROM. I have a bunch of official CD's (including Solaris - or is it really Slowlaris :) - already on this machine. The machine is booting fine, but... The Gfx card seems to be a problem. We tried many different monitors (all of them should've been able to produce a normal screen) - but none of them found any signal to display. Last we tried a monitor with fixed frequency and finally got some output on the screen. The output was scattered as if the Sparc and the monitor were not in sync or generally use and expect different frequencies. Hitting Alt-F(1-8) did change the display a bit and after a few more hits the screen went black and stayed black until reboot. I would like to use the Sparc as a Terminal (and more). But for this i need to 'fix' the problem with the card. If the card is really damaged and gone completely i would like to use the Sparc as a server in the background (maybe for serving X), backup and stuff like that. The first thing for me is to install Debian :) (stable enough?) The second thing may be to install Solaris (pro's, con's, suggestions?) 32MB RAM is not much. I would like to install a minimal System on the Sun and hope that memory will be enough to run without much swapping. Is it illusionary to assume that the Debian base, a bit net, min. X server, and one or two additional daemons, packages will run without much swapping? And then there's the Gfx card. What to do? How to check? Any suggestions? I think i mentioned everything - if not, please ask... Hopefully someone can help in this context, i need this additional piece of hardware for serving :) thanks in advance, Mac -- Markus Lechner (Company - LightWolf) | The Prometheus-Project [EMAIL PROTECTED]| [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.munich.netsurf.de/Markus.Lechner| (only for Project-Team) PGP-Public-Key(s) are available | -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
[Re: The future?] User Documentation
On 24 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right, what should I do with my packages for the next Debian release? I am kind of lost. What are the guidelines for Slink? The new file system standard? Can we please have contributors to the Debian Documentation Project, to write user documentation. It would be really good to release slink with a full set of user manuals. Please look at the DDP home page at http://www.debian.org/~elphick/ddp The kind of thing needed is a unified overview of the important parts of a system from various points of view, with pointers to more detailed information. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Galatians 6:7 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
