El login no me gusta mucho
Hola a todos. Tengo una duda sobre algo que siempre me da la sensacion que ha ido mal en mi ordenador. Se trata de que cuando hago un login desde la consola, si el PC esta teniendo ya mucha carga de tareas (sobre todo cuando el HD esta trabajando como un cosaco), ocurre lo siguiente: Aparece 'login:' en la pantalla. Tecleno el nombre de usuario y pulso Enter. Rapidamente, nada mas pulsar el Enter, introduzco el password a toda velocidad. Entonces, el password aparece a medida que lo tecleas (si no has dado tiempo a que aparezca la palabra 'Password:' en la pantalla. No se si me explico, pero esto mas de una vez me ha dejado al descubierto cuando ha venido algun amiguete a casa. ¿No se puede arreglar el programa de login? Supongo que habria que deshabilitar el teclado desde que pulsas el primer Enter hasta que apareciese la palabra 'Password:' o que apareciesen asteriscos en lugar del password. ¿Os a pasado lo mismo que a mi alguna vez? Un saludo: Juan Carlos
Re: impresora....
Miguel Angel, por que mejor no te simplificas la vida? Instala magicfilter, y si no te pide configurarlo, como root dale: $ magicfilterconfig --force cuando te pregunte la impresora, le dices algo asi como hplj4l (no me acuerdo la forma exacta, cuando la veas la reconoceras). Cuando te pregunta el puerto le dices lp1 (*es* lp1, verdad? si le das cat /etc/issue /dev/lp1 imprime algo?), cuando te pregunta los otros nombres es nada mas una comodidad para que cuando digas lpq te diga un poco mas explicitamente que impresora es (es muy util cuando hay varias impresoras -- distintas fisicamente, hay que recordar que Unix gira en torno a redes, las maquinas con una impresora, con un usuario, con un * son cosa reciente) Marcelo
Re: Debian 2.0, Linux Actual y demás
He demorado un tanto mi respuesta para evitar saltar en caliente, y ahora voy a aprovechar para responder un poco a todos. Como parece que a alguien no le ha quedado claro, LA4 tendra 2CDs: binary-i386 (main) y contrib, sin aumento de precio (995). Y, como dije, voy a pedirles que incluyan en LA5 contrib+non-US+non-free (lo que sea distribuible), junto con los programas de los articulos de LA4 y LA5 (o en un CD aparte) sin aumento de coste (995 ptas). Os recuerdo que contrib (el CD oficial) son 200 MBs, mientras que main y source son 600MBs cada; haciendo numeros resulta que se entrega un 86% de la distribuicion. Esto como detalle, por otro lado, yo, aunque me pagan por esto, lo hice porque queria que se hiciera bien (la Debian 1.3.1 del numero 1, se hizo medio bien, por ejemplo no arranca el CD) y con la ULTIMA version del CD. La cual puso Phil Hands (que amablemente me dio acceso) el dia 1 de septiembre, me espere, habiendo grabado ya la version anterior y pasandome del plazo limite que me habian puesto, para que la gente tuviera TODAS las actualizaciones que resolvian problemas en la instalacion (cd_autoup.sh) y de seguridad (diversos paquetes, ver www.debian.org). Esto, a costa de mi tiempo, mi dinero y de entregarselo mas tarde. Intente presionar a la redaccion (yo, lo digo de nuevo, ni pincho ni corto, soy un mero colabodor) para que incluyeran 3 CDs. No quisieron hacerlo, sus razones tendran. Ahora bien, algunas de las reacciones que he leido respecto a mis ultimas noticias me han hecho pensar que quizas no deberia haber intentado teneros a todos informados de como se estaban haciendo las cosas y de que os podias esperar cuando, pasado el 15 de septiembre, la revista este en la calle. No solo me parecieron algunos correos groseros sino tambien poco comprensivos con una revista que acaba de empezar (cuarto numero, recordadlo) y que tiene que luchar en el mercado editorial. Me hecho a temblar ahora pensando lo que me espera como los CDs no salgan 100% bien. Un saludo Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Peña El Tue, Sep 08, 1998, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a... Para aquellos interesados. Tengo las ultimas noticias: (..) pgpegZNG1M0dk.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: El login no me gusta mucho
Por si te sirve de consuelo a mi me ha pasado en el trabajo con el servidor corporativo (Unisys, HP-UX y Solaris) más de una vez. Lo único que hay que hacer es comprobar que te sale la línea de password antes de escribirlo ( o sea paciencia ;-) ) y sobre todo que no hay nadie alrededor. Una medida bastante prudente es no entrar en el sistema directamente como root, y si alguine te pilla la password cambirla inmediatamente. -- De: Juan Carlos Muro [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: Lista Debian debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Asunto: El login no me gusta mucho Fecha: jueves 10 de septiembre de 1998 1:39 Hola a todos. Tengo una duda sobre algo que siempre me da la sensacion que ha ido mal en mi ordenador. Se trata de que cuando hago un login desde la consola, si el PC esta teniendo ya mucha carga de tareas (sobre todo cuando el HD esta trabajando como un cosaco), ocurre lo siguiente: Aparece 'login:' en la pantalla. Tecleno el nombre de usuario y pulso Enter. Rapidamente, nada mas pulsar el Enter, introduzco el password a toda velocidad. Entonces, el password aparece a medida que lo tecleas (si no has dado tiempo a que aparezca la palabra 'Password:' en la pantalla. No se si me explico, pero esto mas de una vez me ha dejado al descubierto cuando ha venido algun amiguete a casa. ¿No se puede arreglar el programa de login? Supongo que habria que deshabilitar el teclado desde que pulsas el primer Enter hasta que apareciese la palabra 'Password:' o que apareciesen asteriscos en lugar del password. ¿Os a pasado lo mismo que a mi alguna vez? Un saludo: Juan Carlos -- Para BORRARSE, enviar un mensaje a [EMAIL PROTECTED] que diga unsubscribe en el Subject. En caso de problema, escribir a [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 08:37:50PM +, Phillip Neumann wrote: Voy a hacer una pregunta realmente facil (por lo menos eso creo..), Como lo hago para mandar un mensaje a un usuario de mi sistema desde root?? No he instalado nada parecido a sendmail, o fetchmail, etc. todavia porque no se como funciona esto de los emails. Donde puedo encontrar informacion acerca de como configurar mi email local?? Usando smailconfig y cogiendo la opcion (1) Internet Site. Eso creo.
Re: Debian 2.0, Linux Actual y demás
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: Y, como dije, voy a pedirles que incluyan en LA5 contrib+non-US+non-free (lo que sea distribuible), junto con los programas de los articulos de LA4 y LA5 (o en un CD aparte) sin aumento de coste (995 ptas). Pues desde mi punto de vista, reitero que me parece pero que muy bien. Y si me permites la sugerencia... ¿se podrían poner los paquetes nuevos que resuelven los problemas de seguridad, o cuando menos intentarlo? No solo me parecieron algunos correos groseros sino tambien poco comprensivos con una revista que acaba de empezar (cuarto numero, recordadlo) y que tiene que luchar en el mercado editorial. Me hecho a temblar ahora pensando lo que me espera como los CDs no salgan 100% bien. Yo ni me preocuparía: para gustos se hicieron los colores, y la revista saldrá adelante porque es magnífica. Tomás. P.D. En vez de dar las gracias y sentirnos afortunados porque eligieron Debian... _ Tomas Bautista. Phone: +34 928 451275 -- Fax: +34 928 451243 / ___)_ E-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (___ \ Home page URL: http://www.cma.ulpgc.es/users/bautista \_) |Centre for Applied Microelectronics, CAD Division. (_/ University of Las Palmas de G.C. Campus de Tafira, pab. A. E-35017 Las Palmas, Canary Is.
RE: Reproduccion de CD's
Jo, que pasada, me estais contestando todos. Casi ni me lo creo... Bueno, yo lo que he hecho para arreglar el tema es dar permiso de lectura a 'Otros'. Antes tenia los permisos con 640 y ahora lo he dejado en 644. Con esto ya no tengo problemas. Pero me sigue pareciendo muy peligroso el tocar los permisos, grupo o usuario de un dispositivo del sistema. Si Linux deja el grupo como disk, me imagino que sera por algo (por eso no lo he cambiado a cdrom), y me parece muy descontrolado meter a un usuario en el grupo disk, porque no tengo ni idea de lo que puede llegar a hacer perteneciendo a ese grupo... Cuando llegue a casa mirare lo que dice Marcelo, porque no tenia ni idea de que existiera esa opcion. Aunque no se si sera ese el problema, porque los sonidos los oigo perfectamente, añadiendo el usuario al grupo audio (claro, /dev/audio es del group audio, no de disk). No obstante, me parece una solucion muy buena (como muchas otras en Debian :-) ). Lo malo es que si no aparece Marcelo, no se si me hubiera dado cuenta alguna vez de su existencia (de Marcelo, no, de la opcion). Lo que me cuestiono es que ningun manual de los programas que reproducen CD's contempla este problema, cuando yo creo que es habitual tener el CDROM en uno de los buses IDE. Y que yo sepa, el sistema deja todos estos dispositivos como 640 (lo digo de memoria, a lo mejor el 4 es un 6, pero lo que me importa es el 0 final). ¿Que hace entonces la gente? O se busca por su cuenta una solucion que puede comprometer la seguridad del sistema, o escribe a la lista (como yo). No se si me pierdo algo, pero creo que este tema es mejorable. ¿No os parece? Bueno, muchas gracias a todos. Da gusto estar en la lista. ** Javier Arregui García Ingeniero de Sistemas Dpto. Innovación y Tecnología (Sistemas) Siemens Elasa S.A. Zaragoza Tfno: 976 760300 Fax: 976 760346 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
Re: Supergrep
Hola! No he podido leer el correo hasta ahora. Muchas gracias por las respuestas, la verdad es que me estaba enrollando demasiado, pero ahora ya funciona. Saludos y a su disposicion, Octavio
Re: SECURITY: new bash packages available
Buenas. Estoy viendo que el servicio de seguridad de Debian, parece ser que funciona más rápido (si es que puede ser en el mundo Linux), que el de Red Hat. El mensaje de Debian-security referente a una vulnerabilidad del Bash, y sus updates correspondientes, me llegó uno o dos días antes que éste de Red Hat. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- A security vulnerability has been identified in all versions of bash shipped with Red Hat Linux. Details on the nature of the bug have been posted recently to the BUGTRAQ security list. The bug is not immediately exploitable - it will require that a user with shell account on one machine create a carefully constructed directory structure and then wait for somebody else with a root account to cd into that directory. Red Hat would like to thank Joao Manuel Carolino [EMAIL PROTECTED] for identifying this bug and Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] for providing an idea of a fix. -- Have a nice day ;-) TooManySecrets
[no subject]
Hola a todos; Ya sé que lo que voy a preguntar no tiene nada que ver con Debian. Así que perdón de antemano. ¿Puede alguien decirme como suscribirme a la lista BUGTRAQ de seguridad? Gracias, Un saludo, - Manuel Paz Flores 8-) Norsistemas, S.A. Clave pública : http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver --
Alguien que use /bin/sh
Hola! ¿Como compruebo el numero de parametros de la linea de comandos en el /bin/sh? Me explico: #!/bin/sh if (num_args_entrada != 2) then hacer_algo else hacer_otra_cosa fi Saludos a todos, Octavio
Re: Reproduccion de CD's
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Si Linux deja el grupo como disk, me imagino que sera por algo (por eso no lo he cambiado a cdrom) Pues la razón por la cual debian viene con un grupo cdrom pero no existe ningun dispositivo que pertenezca a ese grupo, es porque nadie puede adivinar donde vas a conectar tu cdrom. Por eso /dev/hda /dev/hdb /dev/hdc etc vienen configurados como siendo discos; me parece mas correcto que si instalas un cdrom en /dev/hdb por ejemplo, inmediatamente cambies el grupo de disk a cdrom (va a ser mucho mas seguro que si lo dejas como perteneciendo a disk!) Jaime Villate Univ. de Oporto
Re: Alguien que use /bin/sh
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: #!/bin/sh if (num_args_entrada != 2) then hacer_algo else hacer_otra_cosa fi Mu facil, con $#, que devuelve el numero de parámetros. De esta forma tu ejemplo quedaria: #!/bin/sh if (test $# -ne 2) then echo No es igual a 2 else echo Es igual a 2 fi El 'if' no compara variables, ejecuta lo que pongas entre paréntesis y dependiendo de si la salida es correcta (exit 0) o no ejecuta la sentencia correspondiente. 'test' es un programa que comprueba de que tipo es un fichero y tambien compara valores. Para más información mira las páginas del 'man'. Sergio Gómez Bachiller mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Delegado de Tercero de Ing. Téc. en Informática de Sistemas Vicepresidente del Consejo de Estudiantes de la E.U.P. Vicepresidente de RITSI-Cordoba Vicepresidente de RITSI (Reunión de Ing. Téc. y Superiores de Informática) -- Página Web//Web Page http://www.uco.es/%7ei52gobas Universidad de Cordoba (España)//University of Cordoba (Spain) Clave PGP//PGP key http://www.uco.es/%7ei52gobas/clavepgp.txt
Busco qt-1.33-4 en formato .deb
Hola!!! Pues eso, alguien sabe donde está. Gracias. Juanmi Mora Barcelona - España [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Powered by Linux
Re: Busco qt-1.33-4 en formato .deb
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Juanmi Mora wrote: Pues eso, ¿alguien sabe donde está? En non-free/libs. El nombre del paquete es qt1g. -- 2f23c3c72e4b6a559a19c69272e5fd8c (a truly random sig)
Re: X windows
Hola, Por cierto los .tgz se descomprimen con el gzip ¿no? tar xzvf ficherillo.tgz --la opción concreta es la z. Saludos, J. Parera
Re: Reproduccion de CD's
Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Modifica /etc/login.defs para que contenga la linea CONSOLE_GROUPS floppy:audio:cdrom Con esa linea alli (esta comentada probablemente) cualquiera que se siente en la consola puede usar el cdrom/audio/floppy [*] ¿Consola aplica sólo a las vc's o tambien a una sesión xdm local? -- Jesús Rodrigo e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reproduccion de CD's
On Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 01:07:51AM +0200, Jesus Rodrigo wrote: Modifica /etc/login.defs para que contenga la linea CONSOLE_GROUPS floppy:audio:cdrom Con esa linea alli (esta comentada probablemente) cualquiera que se siente en la consola puede usar el cdrom/audio/floppy [*] ¿Consola aplica sólo a las vc's o tambien a una sesión xdm local? Con lo que yo he probado aquí, se aplica a ambas. Marcelo
RE: Debian 2.0, Linux Actual y demás
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Por mi parte tienes mi apoyo y comprensión. Fue un detalle por tu parte mantenernos informados y recibir nuestras opiniones. El que no sepa lo que es una redacción y todo lo que se cuece dentro puede pensar que se preocupan poco por los lectores, pero esto no es así. Al fin y al cabo ellos son los que haran funcionar o hundirse a la revista. Y de momento parece que gusta. Gracias, Javier. Yo compraré la revista aunque no llevase los CDs (ya tengo los de Datom). __ Andrés Seco Hernández. [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ctv.es/USERS/andressh urgente: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Clave pública PGP en http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver Microsoft Certified Product SpecialistMCP ID 445900 tel. +34 970 799317, fax +34 949 888135. __ -Mensaje original- De: Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: jueves, 10 de septiembre de 1998 4:27 Para: Debian Spanish List Asunto: Re: Debian 2.0, Linux Actual y demás He demorado un tanto mi respuesta para evitar saltar en caliente, y ahora voy a aprovechar para responder un poco a todos. Como parece que a alguien no le ha quedado claro, LA4 tendra 2CDs: binary-i386 (main) y contrib, sin aumento de precio (995). Y, como dije, voy a pedirles que incluyan en LA5 contrib+non-US+non-free (lo que sea distribuible), junto con los programas de los articulos de LA4 y LA5 (o en un CD aparte) sin aumento de coste (995 ptas). Os recuerdo que contrib (el CD oficial) son 200 MBs, mientras que main y source son 600MBs cada; haciendo numeros resulta que se entrega un 86% de la distribuicion. Esto como detalle, por otro lado, yo, aunque me pagan por esto, lo hice porque queria que se hiciera bien (la Debian 1.3.1 del numero 1, se hizo medio bien, por ejemplo no arranca el CD) y con la ULTIMA version del CD. La cual puso Phil Hands (que amablemente me dio acceso) el dia 1 de septiembre, me espere, habiendo grabado ya la version anterior y pasandome del plazo limite que me habian puesto, para que la gente tuviera TODAS las actualizaciones que resolvian problemas en la instalacion (cd_autoup.sh) y de seguridad (diversos paquetes, ver www.debian.org). Esto, a costa de mi tiempo, mi dinero y de entregarselo mas tarde. Intente presionar a la redaccion (yo, lo digo de nuevo, ni pincho ni corto, soy un mero colabodor) para que incluyeran 3 CDs. No quisieron hacerlo, sus razones tendran. Ahora bien, algunas de las reacciones que he leido respecto a mis ultimas noticias me han hecho pensar que quizas no deberia haber intentado teneros a todos informados de como se estaban haciendo las cosas y de que os podias esperar cuando, pasado el 15 de septiembre, la revista este en la calle. No solo me parecieron algunos correos groseros sino tambien poco comprensivos con una revista que acaba de empezar (cuarto numero, recordadlo) y que tiene que luchar en el mercado editorial. Me hecho a temblar ahora pensando lo que me espera como los CDs no salgan 100% bien. Un saludo Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Peña El Tue, Sep 08, 1998, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a... Para aquellos interesados. Tengo las ultimas noticias: (..) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 5.5.3i for non-commercial use http://www.pgpi.com iQA/AwUBNfhIUe2svgs6SMk0EQJStACgt7xaL6Ee+85zQRfwaB3RwCJ1lJoAn0Ep bXMYfuA5hmtRjJd9hXg/517T =Z0LM -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: X-Windows Mice
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody got any idea why I can get a serial mouse to work, in X, but not a PS/2 mouse? I am using /dev/ttyS0 for the serial mouse, but when I use /dev/mouse for the PS/2 mouse it doesn't work. Either 'ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse' or use /dev/psaux. Also, you will need to specify the PS/2 protocol in the pointers section of XF86Config. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: printing takes hours in HAMM
After upgrading to Hamm, (actually, after upgrading to 2.0.34) I noticed that the advanced extensions to the parallel port (SPP and such) can be recognized. Perhaps these extensions are the source of your problem ? Hi! After my upgrade to HAMM every kind of printing takes forever. No matter whether I print via magicfilter or cat a file to /dev/lp1 my printer prints a line, waits something like 5 seconds, then prints the next line. Anyone out there who has an idea what happened? Do I have to set some baud rates for the device or something?
Re: Debian manual -- printed.
There is a link from debian home page to a free book like the one you are looking for (and other documentation). Since, I decided to use debian instead of Slackware or Red Hat. I have noticed something. I can't find a book devoted to it. I can find the other and I even am considering switching to another dist, just be cause I like to have a printed text near by. You to read on the bus or when you turn on your machine and it makes that uhh no sound stop crash ! So can someone recommend one to me that has stuff in it specific to Debian? Where can I get it? (I even have Linux Journal - and I can't find anything in there!) Ok, if it will help I'll trade all my old Windblows 95/3.1 tech manuals and like or how about my Netware CNE/CNA study guide ; )
Re: BASIC HELP
Once you get the $ prompt you can do whatever you need to do. So, what you want to do ? You mentioned trying to send email. I think that the basic text command to send email is mail. Therefor, if you want to email yourself, you can try: $ mail -s $(date) - trying to email myself $USER /dev/null And then you can type mail to activate the basic text mail reader (in it, ? will show you some help) Hopefully, smail is configured well enough to do it. You can test it by issuing (from the $ prompt) /usr/sbin/smailtest --localonly. that is: $ /usr/sbin/smailtest --localonly and answer y to the question it will ask. It seems to me that are missing Win 98 graphical enviorment. Linux has something like it (The X window system). But, I suggest that before you install it, you will learn more from the Linux books you have. Also, learn a bit about dselect' so that you'll be able to install some games and other applications that I believe you are curious about. Some of these doesn't necceseraly needs the graphical X enviorment, but you'll need to know more about dselect to be able to decide if this is the case for a particular program you are interested in. I am a NEW. I have successfully installed Debian 2.0 from CD on my computer with Win 98. I have a 1,900 Mb Linux Native and 190 Mb Linux Swap. I am the only user on it; there is no connected network. I log on and get the '$' prompt and except for a few things like vi and emacs I can do nothing. For example, I answered the queries for smail yet from root or /usr/bin/ I get the error message saying bad command when I enter 'smail' I even can list smail, see it listed and get the same error message when enter smail. I list RXW permission I ls -l I have 4 Linux books and none of them say what I should do once I get the $ prompt! Mounting a filesystem didn't seem to help but I may not have done that right. There is something VERY basic I am missing, the books don't mention it. Please tell me what to do, or where to go to find basic tutorial help.
Re: HELP: Even More Problems Configuring Email
DMDP [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I have figured out a cheap way to use PPP a regular user login as root, | connect, log back out, log in as a regular user... You can use XISP and, by adding yourself to the proper groups (dip, dialout, are the two I can think of), and creating a very minimal /etc/ppp/options file, you can connect as a normal user. I do it daily. | But, now I want to be able to receive e-mail. I have installed SMAIL. I | believe I have all the config options set correctly. I can send e-mail, but | I cannot recieve it. How do you normally retrieve email from your ISP under Windows? If you use POP (2 or 3) or IMAP then have a look at fetchmail. It'll retrieve mail for you and deliver it to your box via smail. | The one file I know to look at is my SMAIL config. If you had a permanent connection to the internet then that's all you'd need. But with a PPP account I suspect you need a POP3 or IMAP mail fetcher, like fetchmail. | What other files are involved in this process and need to be configured? (I | have tried looking on the Debian site, but found nothing that was of any | help. I have also been scouring this book book on LINUX from Walnut | Creek.) I'm not familiar with the book or the Debian website, however, the generic Linux Documentation Project is ALWAYS a good place to look. For your question I'd have a look at http://www.ssc.com/linux/LDP/HOWTO/ISP-Hookup-HOWTO.html Gary
Can httpd and wwwoffled co-exist?
On a Debian 2.0 system I had wwwoffle installed and working with lynx. I then installed dwww which required httpd, so I installed boa. dwww only worked if I nullified the HTTP_PROXY variable used by wwwoffle/lynx, or if I put wwwoffle online -- wwwoffle online then proceeded to cache all the dox which of course are already on the disk. :( Now for some reason wwwoffle has stopped working even when I stop httpd(boa). Command-line requests and fetching works but lynx cannot read the cache or mark urls for fetching. I don't understand these conflicts, so I thought I would ask if httpd and wwwoffled can coexist before trying to reinstall wwwoffle or whatever. boa uses port 80 and wwwoffle uses ports 8080 and 8081 -- all defaults. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux
help compiling X11 clients
Hi there. I'm trying to get the shockwave flash plugin for netscape to compile, and not having much success. It fails with this error: g++ -o swfplayer main.o libflash.o -L/usr/X11/lib -lX11 -lXext /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [swfplayer] Error 1 any ideas? -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Re: help compiling X11 clients
Make sure you have xlib6g-dev and xlib6g installed. Otherwise you are doing it right. Ian Eure wrote: Hi there. I'm trying to get the shockwave flash plugin for netscape to compile, and not having much success. It fails with this error: g++ -o swfplayer main.o libflash.o -L/usr/X11/lib -lX11 -lXext /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [swfplayer] Error 1 any ideas? -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- = Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today
Re: X-Windows Mice
I think you should be using /dev/psaux for the ps2 mouse - that's what I use. /dev/mouse is just a link. See what its points to with ls -l /dev/mouse. I could be missing the point here too aswell, so sorry if I am! Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody got any idea why I can get a serial mouse to work, in X, but not a PS/2 mouse? I am using /dev/ttyS0 for the serial mouse, but when I use /dev/mouse for the PS/2 mouse it doesn't work. Am I overly stupid? what am I doing wrong? Frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Automatic Unzipping?
Can apache automatically decompress files ending in .gz and send the uncompressed stream (along with the correct mime-type) over the HTTP connection? It seems that netscape or lynx are able to recognize a gzipped file and read it, so I do not think that it would be useful to (g)unzip them before sending them. -Michele
Re: printing takes hours in HAMM
Hi! After my upgrade to HAMM every kind of printing takes forever. No matter whether I print via magicfilter or cat a file to /dev/lp1 my printer prints a line, waits something like 5 seconds, then prints the next line. Anyone out there who has an idea what happened? Do I have to set some baud rates for the device or something? Thanks a lot in advance! Andy. I strongly suspect this a kernel-related problem, since the printing is slow even when doing 'cat file /dev/lp1'. Or maybe you have confused /dev/lp1 with /dev/lp0? Try another kernel (an make sure to update the modules and install them (2.0.33 worked fine for me)). Ciao -Michele
Re: help compiling X11 clients
ieure!Phaktory:~$ dpkg --status xlib6g-dev Package: xlib6g-dev Status: install ok installed ieure!Phaktory:~$ dpkg --status xlib6g Package: xlib6g Status: install ok installed They're there. Anything else? On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 07:31:01PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: Make sure you have xlib6g-dev and xlib6g installed. Otherwise you are doing it right. Ian Eure wrote: Hi there. I'm trying to get the shockwave flash plugin for netscape to compile, and not having much success. It fails with this error: g++ -o swfplayer main.o libflash.o -L/usr/X11/lib -lX11 -lXext /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [swfplayer] Error 1 any ideas? -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- = Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
CD-R and X
I was wondering if Xcdroast was the only X based cd-r software out there. ThanksLenny Sawyer
Re: help compiling X11 clients
1. try using /usr/X11R6/lib istead of /usr/X11/lib. 2. do ldconfig -v|grep X11, you should get something like libX11.6.so - /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1.0 Otherwise, we can go one on one in irc or something. Ian Eure wrote: ieure!Phaktory:~$ dpkg --status xlib6g-dev Package: xlib6g-dev Status: install ok installed ieure!Phaktory:~$ dpkg --status xlib6g Package: xlib6g Status: install ok installed They're there. Anything else? On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 07:31:01PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: Make sure you have xlib6g-dev and xlib6g installed. Otherwise you are doing it right. Ian Eure wrote: Hi there. I'm trying to get the shockwave flash plugin for netscape to compile, and not having much success. It fails with this error: g++ -o swfplayer main.o libflash.o -L/usr/X11/lib -lX11 -lXext /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [swfplayer] Error 1 any ideas? -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- = Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- = Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today
Re: help compiling X11 clients
Ok, setting the lib path to /usr/X11R6/lib worked. Guess Debian doesn't have 'X11' symlinks in /usr. On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 07:56:46PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: 1. try using /usr/X11R6/lib istead of /usr/X11/lib. 2. do ldconfig -v|grep X11, you should get something like libX11.6.so - /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1.0 Otherwise, we can go one on one in irc or something. Ian Eure wrote: ieure!Phaktory:~$ dpkg --status xlib6g-dev Package: xlib6g-dev Status: install ok installed ieure!Phaktory:~$ dpkg --status xlib6g Package: xlib6g Status: install ok installed They're there. Anything else? On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 07:31:01PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: Make sure you have xlib6g-dev and xlib6g installed. Otherwise you are doing it right. Ian Eure wrote: Hi there. I'm trying to get the shockwave flash plugin for netscape to compile, and not having much success. It fails with this error: g++ -o swfplayer main.o libflash.o -L/usr/X11/lib -lX11 -lXext /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [swfplayer] Error 1 any ideas? -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- = Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- = Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ide cdr
I am running hamm and i can't find a program that suppports an ide cdrw drive can someone please reccomend me one
Re: help compiling X11 clients
Alex pointed that out to me. I added the symlink on my system to avoid re-writing make files. Forgot that Debian did not ship it that way. BTW the link is NOT supposed to exist according to the FSSTND we have been following, so Debian is following standards rather than standard practice -- usually this is a good thing. Ian Eure wrote: Ok, setting the lib path to /usr/X11R6/lib worked. Guess Debian doesn't have 'X11' symlinks in /usr. On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 07:56:46PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: 1. try using /usr/X11R6/lib istead of /usr/X11/lib. 2. do ldconfig -v|grep X11, you should get something like libX11.6.so - /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1.0 Otherwise, we can go one on one in irc or something. Ian Eure wrote: ieure!Phaktory:~$ dpkg --status xlib6g-dev Package: xlib6g-dev Status: install ok installed ieure!Phaktory:~$ dpkg --status xlib6g Package: xlib6g Status: install ok installed They're there. Anything else? On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 07:31:01PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: Make sure you have xlib6g-dev and xlib6g installed. Otherwise you are doing it right. Ian Eure wrote: Hi there. I'm trying to get the shockwave flash plugin for netscape to compile, and not having much success. It fails with this error: g++ -o swfplayer main.o libflash.o -L/usr/X11/lib -lX11 -lXext /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [swfplayer] Error 1 any ideas? -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- = Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- = Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- = Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today
Re: Is there a Debian package for SANE 0.74 or 0.73?
Well, there is a workaround. Edit /etc/sane.d/dll.conf by commenting out all scanners which you do not have on your system. There is a bug somewhere in 0.74, but I haven't found a fix for it yet. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a UMAX Astra 1200s: When using sane 0.74-1 my GIMP locks up on startup with an xsession? error of plugin crash. So i've had to downgrade to 0.72-1.1 Any ideas on how to fix 0.74? -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is MARK in /var/log/messages
Andy Spiegl writes: This is syslogd's heartbeat - it tells you that the logger is still alive and well. -m interval The syslogd logs a mark timestamp regularly. The default interval between two -- MARK -- lines is 20 minutes. This can be changed with this option. Thanks a lot! Now I am wondering what I would have to put in syslog.conf so that those marks go to a special file, say /var/log/syslog.heartbeat.log Adding the following line to your syslog.conf will do: mark.* /var/log/syslog.heartbeat.log To eliminate -- MARK -- lines in /var/log/syslog, change the following line: *.*;auth,authpriv,mark.none -/var/log/syslog ^ etc... Maybe that's not possible, though. At least I couldn't find any hint. Hope this helps. -- Hong Huang
Re: Boot problems with lilo
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 01:06:18PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: [ snip ] : Any ideas why lilo is unwilling to work on this drive? : The drive has about 8000 (aprox) cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors (obviously) Did you try the linear option in lilo.conf? Also, try commenting out compact if it isn't already. Ahh thanxworks great :) I will have to add this one to my mental Bag of Tricks :) -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] */ E-mail Bumper Stickers: A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both! honk if you Love Linux pgpQKzRm4bfvs.pgp Description: PGP signature
changed server name, how-to change back
I somehow changed the name of my server back copying files from another server onto this one. Which files sets the name of the server? -- Thanks, Keith MCNE Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.naples.net/~nfn11988/linux
xmame
I know xmame is the normal content of debian list but Just wondering if anyone has used xmame and if so what do you uzip the roms with? It seems they are zipped with compression uncompatable for gzip or uncompress. Thanks for any help
Re: changed server name, how-to change back
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Keith wrote: I somehow changed the name of my server back copying files from another server onto this one. Which files sets the name of the server? hostname is the command the file you can change is /etc/hostname -- Thanks, Keith MCNE Debian GNU/Linux http://www.naples.net/~nfn11988/linux -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
modem and PPP trouble
I recently installed Debian GNU/Linux, and I am having a terrible time getting PPP to work with my modem. I have a US Robotics 28.8 at /dev/ttyS2. I tried to set up PPP using pppconfig and I have looked at the files in /etc/ppp. Everything seems to be ok, but when I run pon my modem does not dial, nothing happens, and plog tells me that the connect script failed. I have consulted various HOWTOs and documentation but they all seem to refer to pre-HAM versions of Debian and reference a ppp.chatscript file that my box doesn't have. I also searched the debian-user archives but could not find a relevant answer. However, the archives did mention trying to dial out using minicom. Minicom was able to get my modem to dial, but this still does not solve my PPP problem since my ISP uses PAP and I do not how to negotiate a connection to it using minicom. Any help or ideas about how to get my modem to work with PPP would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Josh Wilson _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Compiling XFree86 -- no makefile in doc directory...?
Hi, I have been working on building XFree86, though the version on the CD's I think just before yours. After some time comsuming experimentation (it's big!) and finding libraries I did not have -dev versions of (joystick and libz), I found the following sequence to work for me: cd wherever dpkg-source -x blah.dsc debian/rules clean debian/rules build debian/rules binary . Policy says that only debian/rules binary should be necessary, but I had problems. There were permission problems the clean fixed. I could be wrong, but it appears to me that binary does not have build as a prerequisite and so several things that build does don't get done. I do not file a bug not being sure and I'm sure I would have problems maintaining such a large package. You may want to see if you can get unmodified source to build before modifying. I have a 33MH 486 making each attempt ~24 hrs, so this is not extensively checked out, but it appears to have worked for me. Any comments from Debian X developers appreciated. drb
Re: modem and PPP trouble
Hi Joshua Wilson; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I recently installed Debian GNU/Linux, and I am having a terrible time getting PPP to work with my modem. I have a US Robotics 28.8 at /dev/ttyS2. I tried to set up PPP using pppconfig and I have looked at the files in /etc/ppp. Everything seems to be ok, but when I run pon my modem does not dial, nothing happens, and plog tells me that the connect script failed. I have consulted various HOWTOs and documentation but they all seem to refer to pre-HAM versions of Debian and reference a ppp.chatscript file that my box doesn't have. I also searched the debian-user archives but could not find a relevant answer. However, the archives did mention trying to dial out using minicom. Minicom was able to get my modem to dial, but this still does not solve my PPP problem since my ISP uses PAP and I do not how to negotiate a connection to it using minicom. Any help or ideas about how to get my modem to work with PPP would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Josh Wilson sorry if this sounds stupid, but do you really have your modem on /dev/ttyS2? Does your minicom or something similar work? The reason I'm asking this is that my USR 33.6 (which I can't imagine being any diff than 28.8) was preset at /dev/ttyS1 (which is DOS com2..) HTH damir
Re: xmame
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 08:55:01PM -0500, Default Debian Reader wrote: I know xmame is the normal content of debian list but Just wondering if anyone has used xmame and if so what do you uzip the roms with? It seems they are zipped with compression uncompatable for gzip or uncompress. Thanks for any help Umm... They are usually in standard .zip format, as used by the old dos program PKZip. Install the unzip zip packages, then `unzip filename'. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Re: xmame
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Ian Eure wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 08:55:01PM -0500, Default Debian Reader wrote: I know xmame is the normal content of debian list but Just wondering if anyone has used xmame and if so what do you uzip the roms with? It seems they are zipped with compression uncompatable for gzip or uncompress. Thanks for any help Umm... They are usually in standard .zip format, as used by the old dos program PKZip. Install the unzip zip packages, then `unzip filename'. I guess my question was what are the packages names. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Re: xmame
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Default Debian Reader wrote: [ snip ] : Umm... They are usually in standard .zip format, as used by the old dos : program PKZip. Install the unzip zip packages, then `unzip filename'. : I guess my question was what are the packages names. unzip and zip, in section non-free/utils -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
Re: modem and PPP trouble
Read /usr/doc/ppp/SETUP.gz Actually the Debian package sets things up a bit differently than this, but you should be able to understand the procedure from this document. The files you need to set up are /etc/ppp/peers/provider and /etc/chatscripts/provider. Bob On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Joshua Wilson wrote: I recently installed Debian GNU/Linux, and I am having a terrible time getting PPP to work with my modem. I have a US Robotics 28.8 at /dev/ttyS2. I tried to set up PPP using pppconfig and I have looked at the files in /etc/ppp. Everything seems to be ok, but when I run pon my modem does not dial, nothing happens, and plog tells me that the connect script failed. I have consulted various HOWTOs and documentation but they all seem to refer to pre-HAM versions of Debian and reference a ppp.chatscript file that my box doesn't have. I also searched the debian-user archives but could not find a relevant answer. However, the archives did mention trying to dial out using minicom. Minicom was able to get my modem to dial, but this still does not solve my PPP problem since my ISP uses PAP and I do not how to negotiate a connection to it using minicom. Any help or ideas about how to get my modem to work with PPP would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Josh Wilson _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: Compiling XFree86 -- no makefile in doc directory...?
David R Baker wrote: I have been working on building XFree86, though the version on the CD's I think just before yours. I am using the files in the hamm directory, which, AFAIK is the same as what's on the CD. cd wherever dpkg-source -x blah.dsc debian/rules clean debian/rules build debian/rules binary . This is the clue that I was searching for. I did not have the .dsc file, did not know anything about dpkg-source. But, after doing that, debian/rules clean finally worked for me, where it did not before. So, now it is in the (long) process of building the entire package. I am reasonably confident that I am now on the right track ... certainly further along than I was before I got your message. So, I must thank you for being a big help!! Policy says that only debian/rules binary should be necessary, but I had problems. There were permission problems the clean fixed. I could be wrong, but it appears to me that binary does not have build as a prerequisite and so several things that build does don't get done. I do not file a bug not being sure and I'm sure I would have problems maintaining such a large package. Well, that's interesting, but I don't really know anything about it. I'm doing debian/rules build right now. You may want to see if you can get unmodified source to build before modifying. True... though I thought, what the hell, just patch it and see if it goes. You did get me past my stumbling point. Thanks again!! --Preston
Hamm Low Memory Installation From 1.2 MB Floppy
I am trying to install Debian Release 2.0 (hamm) on my PC -- 4 MB of memory, 1.2 MB floppy drive, 40 MB hard drive for MSDOS, 120 MB hard drive for Linux. When I previously performed a successful installation of Debian Release 1.3 on my PC configured with 4 MB of memory and a 1.2 MB floppy disk drive, a low memory root directory image was available which fit on a 1.2 MB floppy (lmemroot.bin). The only low memory disk image provided in Debian Release 2.0 is 1.44 MB (lowmem.bin) Another file, lowmemrd.bin, is also available from the FTP site, but is not referenced in the installation instructions, so I don't know what it is for. The installation instructions are somewhat confusing, but if I understand correctly, I am to boot from the Low Memory Boot Disk (section 7.1). I think this means that I should select floppy0 at the boot: prompt, but I can't fit lowmem.bin on a 1.2 MB floppy in any case. Could someone offer some clarification? Thanks, Mark Von Hatten
Re: TEXINPUTS ?
Remo Badii wrote:
Dear Debian TeX/LaTeX users,
I have just installed the revtex library under $HOME/tex/sty/revtex, as
in my previous Linux system (2 years old, S.u.S.E. 4.2), under Debian
2.0. Although I have set the variable TEXINPUTS to include
$HOME/tex/sty and $HOME/tex/sty/revtex, the system finds a file
/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/misc/revtex.cls and stops within it at the line
\input{revtex.sty}, saying that it does not find it (correct, since it
is not in that directory): why doesn't latex find my revtex directory
first? I did not have this problem with the old Linux system (teTeX, as
in Debian).
Running texhash may solve the problem if the package you install is in
the
TeX tree hierarchy, which I think tetex is following.
Regards,
ST
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Re: Compiling XFree86 -- no makefile in doc directory...?
Preston Landers wrote: David R Baker wrote: I have been working on building XFree86, though the version on the CD's I think just before yours. I am using the files in the hamm directory, which, AFAIK is the same as what's on the CD. The version you are using has a new patch from Xfree86, but the Debian stufff may be mostly unchanged. cd wherever dpkg-source -x blah.dsc debian/rules clean debian/rules build debian/rules binary . This is the clue that I was searching for. I did not have the .dsc file, did not know anything about dpkg-source. But, after doing that, debian/rules clean finally worked for me, where it did not before. So, now it is in the (long) process of building the entire package. I am reasonably confident that I am now on the right track ... certainly further along than I was before I got your message. So, I must thank you for being a big help!! Policy says that only debian/rules binary should be necessary, but I had problems. There were permission problems the clean fixed. I could be wrong, but it appears to me that binary does not have build as a prerequisite and so several things that build does don't get done. I do not file a bug not being sure and I'm sure I would have problems maintaining such a large package. Well, that's interesting, but I don't really know anything about it. I'm doing debian/rules build right now. You may want to see if you can get unmodified source to build before modifying. True... though I thought, what the hell, just patch it and see if it goes. You did get me past my stumbling point. Thanks again!! Hope this helps! --Preston -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Couldn't find Packages.gz
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Oliver Thuns wrote: I start dselect, select FTP in access (using my lokal Windows-FTP-Server) and then try to make an update. I get the following error message: Couldn't find Packages.gz in dists/stable... Someone can probably answer this better, but I've run into it before. Basically, dselect won't do anything unless you point it to a directory with this file in it. So you have to find where that is first. Paul
Re: Font Servers
On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 05:15:27PM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: Is anyone aware of were to get a fontserver to run on a Debian 2.0 system? just add xfs-start-server start-xfs to /etc/X11/config prior to starting up xdm rick I see the test for start-xfs in /etc/init.d/xfs, but what is xfs-start-server needed for? -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hamm Low Memory Installation From 1.2 MB Floppy
I am trying to install Debian Release 2.0 (hamm) on my PC -- 4 MB of memory, 1.2 MB floppy drive, 40 MB hard drive for MSDOS, 120 MB hard drive for Linux. When I previously performed a successful installation of Debian Release 1.3 on my PC configured with 4 MB of memory and a 1.2 MB floppy disk drive, a low memory root directory image was available which fit on a 1.2 MB floppy (lmemroot.bin). The only low memory disk image provided in Debian Release 2.0 is 1.44 MB (lowmem.bin) Another file, lowmemrd.bin, is also available from the FTP site, but is not referenced in the installation instructions, so I don't know what it is for. The installation instructions are somewhat confusing, but if I understand correctly, I am to boot from the Low Memory Boot Disk (section 7.1). I think this means that I should select floppy0 at the boot: prompt, but I can't fit lowmem.bin on a 1.2 MB floppy in any case. Could someone offer some clarification? Thanks, Mark Von Hatten
Re: HELP: Even More Problems Configuring Email
On Wed, 09 Sep 1998, DMDP wrote: I have figured out a cheap way to use PPP a regular user login as root, connect, log back out, log in as a regular user... But, now I want to be able to receive e-mail. I have installed SMAIL. I believe I have all the config options set correctly. I can send e-mail, but I cannot recieve it. The one file I know to look at is my SMAIL config. What other files are involved in this process and need to be configured? (I have tried looking on the Debian site, but found nothing that was of any help. I have also been scouring this book book on LINUX from Walnut Creek.) Thank for all your help, Denis For PPP, check into the fetchmail package. It should serve your needs nicely. =] -- -Josh Co-Admin of California.ZUH.net (Azog) ..and always remember...arf is god spelled funny. -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 Comments: www.geekcode.com GCS d---(pu) s+:- a16 C++$ UL+++$ P+ L+++ !E W-- N+++ o? K+ w--- !O !M V- PS+++ PE-- Y+ PGP+ t 5 X+ R tv+ b+ DI+ D+ G+ e- h! r++ y- --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Log monitoring GUI program
I seem to remember reading sometime (in comp.os.linux.announce I think) about a package that was something like a GUI that provided log-file (e.g. syslog written stuff) monitoring features. I've got to the point of having several machines syslog-ing to one central machine (as well as keeping local copies) and would like to have a nice interface to manage/interpret/flag all the logging coming in. Has anyone heard of such a package? Especially a debianised one? TIA, Richard.
Re: modem and PPP trouble
Hey Joshua, You may have a winmodem version if it's an internal plug and pray card. There is no support for winmodems in Linux. If you are not sure run pnpdump and it will tell you if it is. John Joshua Wilson wrote: I recently installed Debian GNU/Linux, and I am having a terrible time getting PPP to work with my modem. I have a US Robotics 28.8 at /dev/ttyS2. I tried to set up PPP using pppconfig and I have looked at the files in /etc/ppp. Everything seems to be ok, but when I run pon my modem does not dial, nothing happens, and plog tells me that the connect script failed. I have consulted various HOWTOs and documentation but they all seem to refer to pre-HAM versions of Debian and reference a ppp.chatscript file that my box doesn't have. I also searched the debian-user archives but could not find a relevant answer. However, the archives did mention trying to dial out using minicom. Minicom was able to get my modem to dial, but this still does not solve my PPP problem since my ISP uses PAP and I do not how to negotiate a connection to it using minicom. Any help or ideas about how to get my modem to work with PPP would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Josh Wilson _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Backspace in xterm (again)
Pete Does Alt-backspace work for anyone in an xterm (deleting the previous Pete word on bash input, for example)? This worked fine in Bo and before. What kind of keyboard do you have? On my 104 key (windows 95) keyboard, the windows key produces Meta and the Alt key produces Alt when in X. Meta-backspace deletes the previous word in bash in an xterm. Alt-backspace just deletes one character. Using an rxvt it is the other way around. I've tried a couple of keyboards; I've got a 104-key W95 keyboard currently. I get the same behavio[u]r as you, except nothing gets back-word-delete in bash. Meta /is defined/, because I can Meta-D to delete a word forward, or M-F to skip a word forward. It's only Meta-backspace that fails (afaik). I've fiddled with xkeycaps (I switched the meanings of the 'windows' key and the 'Alt' key, for example, so Meta is in the 'proper' place), to no avail. Outside X, or in Emacs, all works normally. rxvt does what you describe: It works, but it's reversed (alt acts as meta and meta is ignored.) I wonder what the difference between your setup and mine could be... -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backspace in xterm (again)
Just to followup on my own message, it's probably not a bug in xterm because bo's xterm binary misbehaves identically when copied to slink. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WindowMaker 0.19.1
On: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 09:28:03 +0530 (IST) XRDLAB writes: 1) As root run ldconfig. 2) Upgrade to xlib6g 3.3.2.3-1 (it4s in hamm). I have it installed. Any other clue? I had the same problem with 0.19.1. I upgraded to xlib6g-3.3.2.3a-1 (note the a in the version number) and the problem went away. Torsten
Re: wmaker
On: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 08:29:00 -0500 Rick Knebel writes:
Hi,
Is there anyway in wmaker 0.91-1 to put something like slrn in the
dock and assign an icon like news.xpm without changing every other
xterm icon to this icon?
I have the following in my WMState:
Applications = (
{
Command = xterm -name root -fg black -bg orange -T \Root Shell\
-e ssh -l root localhost;
Name = root.XTerm;
AutoLaunch = No;
Forced = No;
BuggyApplication = No;
Position = 0,1;
},
{
Command = xterm -name news -fg black -bg seagreen -T \News
Shell\ -e ssh -l news localhost;
Name = news.XTerm;
AutoLaunch = No;
Forced = No;
BuggyApplication = No;
Position = 0,2;
},
Note how I use different names for the windows (the -name parameter to
xterm is important). IIRC, I have run the command lines as given
above and put the app icon into the clip.
In the WMWindowAttributes I have the according icons defined:
news.XTerm = {Icon = wmaker-indigo2.term.tif;};
root.XTerm = {Icon = wmaker-sgi.term.tif;};
You can change this using the RightButton-on-the-Title/Attributes
menu.
Torsten
Re: floppy boot to changed /dev/hdax
I am trying to add a logical partition for anonther OS but my linux boot disk expects my swap and root partitions to be in the same spot. Linux root and swap are hda7 and hda8 respectively. I create a new hda7 that changes the linux root and swap devices to be hda8 and hda9 respectively. I can add the boot option: linux root=3D/dev/hda8 but I can't get it to recognize that the swap partition is moved. I've tried using rdev and rdev -s on the floppy, and these report the correct devices after the change, but the floppy's behavior does not change. I've played with the fstab file also. Anybody know how to do this? Are you sure the partition numbers and types are the same when you boot your system? I've seen some pretty weird things after modification of a partitiont able. What do you see when you boot the system and type `fdisk -l' as root? Eric
xterm menu problem
Hi all, I have installed a debian 2.0 slink with kernel 2.1.120. On this system, but the problem was still in 1.3.1 or 2.0 hamm, I have a strange behaviour of xterm. When I try to change the font size, using the control+rightmouseclick then I get a menu showing me same font sizes. But this only happens if the user is root. Otherwise I get a menu that is really smaller and I can only see the first line of text in the menu (the smaller font size.) All X staff are *_3.3.2.3a.deb What can it be? Thanks a lot, Giuseppe
Re: X-Windows Mice
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 08:48:41AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody got any idea why I can get a serial mouse to work, in X, but not a PS/2 mouse? I am using /dev/ttyS0 for the serial mouse, but when I use /dev/mouse for the PS/2 mouse it doesn't work. Am I overly stupid? what am I doing wrong? /dev/mouse is usually symlink to your real mouse device (for example /dev/ttyS0 :) PS/2 mouse is /dev/psaux. So, at first you need # ln -sf psaux /dev/mouse And your kernel must support PS/2 mice. I hope precompiled kernel have it but I don't sure (I always compile kernel myself) -- Ilya
Re: Backspace in xterm (again)
Pete I wonder what the difference between your setup and mine could be... Odd isn't it. I finally compared my /etc/X11/Xresources with the one from the distribution. I had *VT100.Translations: #override KeyDelete: string(\033[3~)\n\ KeyHome: string(\033OH)\n\ KeyEnd: string(\033OF) While the distribution has *VT100.Translations: #override KeyBackSpace: string(\177)\n\ KeyDelete: string(\033[3~)\n\ KeyHome: string(\033OH)\n\ KeyEnd: string(\033OF) I added the override for BackSpace, and then I get the same misbehaviour as you describe. There is a comment saying: ! Include override for BackSpace because older xterms do not understand the ! backarrowKey resource. I think I just never use any older xterms; I've not noticed any problems with my setup. I think I will have to go and read the Debian keyboard policy again. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902
Re: ide cdr
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 05:07:57PM -0700, Armando Cerna wrote: I am running hamm and i can't find a program that suppports an ide cdrw drive can someone please reccomend me one First, your need kernel with SCSI cdrom, SCSI generic and SCSI-ATAPI host adapter emulation but *without* IDE(ATAPI) CDROM support. You should see your ATAPI CD as SCSI one during bootup. Then try the latest cdrecord. I used it only for CD-R but some support for CD-RW was announced. --Ilya
Re: Couldn't find Packages.gz
Oliver Thuns wrote: Hallo, I start dselect, select FTP in access (using my lokal Windows-FTP-Server) and then try to make an update. I get the following error message: Couldn't find Packages.gz in dists/stable... I don't know what's wrong... HELP!!! ;-) I haven't used FTP access in a awhile, but this is from my system and hopefully might help (this is for ftp.us.debian.org): ftpdir= '/debian/' distribs='dists/hamm/main dists/hamm/contrib dists/hamm/nonfree' -- Ed C.
apt and multiple cdroms
hi, I've just got debian 2.0 on cd from lsl (http://www.lsl.com.au) and main, contrib and non-free are on separate cdroms. how do I setup apt to handle this? my current sources.list is deb file://cdrom/debian stable main deb file://cdrom/debian stable contrib deb file://cdrom/debian stable non-free deb ftp://ftp.uwa.edu.au/mirrors/linux/debian stable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.uwa.edu.au/mirrors/linux/debian/non-US unstable non-US but when I run 'apt-get update' I get an error on the two cd's which aren't inserted. if I run apt-get update three times with a different cd each time how will that affect the package cache? I get 1k/s over my net link so using the cd's would be preferred thanks, -- Daniel Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Netwise Australia 0417 677 377 Engineering Network Solutions
RE: Frustrated
Simon, I tried your fix last night. I re-installed the whole thing and then rebooted with the lo-mem disk in. I got as far as menu option 4 on the low mem disk (Exiting). When I did that, the following happened: Action: 4 VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem) readonly mounting /proc ... done. Adding Swap: 32880k swap-space (priority -1) And it just hung there. I waited 30 minutes and then shut the system down. Kevin WINMAIL.DAT Description: application/vnd.ms-tnef
Broken emacs
I found some references to this in the July and August archives, but has no fix been found for the emacs19 emacs20 packages? My apologies if there has been more recent discussion which I did not find in my search. As far as I could tell, some people got them to install by removing certain other packages, specifically tm. I have no such package installed but installation STILL fails with emacs19 and emacs20. I've done an essentially complete upgrade from bo to hamm, and ended up purging the old emacs to start afresh when I met with the initial errors. The error message is the following: emacs-install emacs19 emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs19 emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs19 Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/19.34/site-lisp' does not exist. Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp' does not exist. Cannot open load file: bytecomp emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common emacs19 xemacs20 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 26. dpkg: error processing emacs19 (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29 Errors were encountered while processing: emacs19 ...and similarly for emacs20. The lisp directory error seems to be irrelevant. The alternative solution from the archives, which I eventually resorted to, is installation of xemacs, but it seems more bulky than emacs and I use emacs typically in text mode anyway. Does anyone have a fix in the works? Or is there a list of conflicting packages which need to be upgraded or removed in order to do the installation? Thanks in advance for the help, David P.S. If responding to the Debian-user list, please cc me in response since I am not presently a subscriber, thanks.
RE: Frustrated
Matthew, My harddrive is 128MB. As to the install, I do the following: -boot from the low-mem disk -partition harddrive ( 3 partitions: 32MB swap, 3 MB minix, the rest as native) -activate and initialize swap -activate temp root partition -exit (the system then asks for the Rescue Disk and moves into normal installation) -Choose Color Screen -Configure Keyboard (US English) -Attempt to activate Swap (which fails) -Initialize and mount the Native partition as root -Install OS Kernel and Device Drivers -Config drivers (The only way I've successfully gone through this step is to not configure anything) -Install Base System -Config Base System -Config Network (No, as I am not on a network ) -Make Hard Disk Bootable -I make a boot floppy -I reboot The system seems to do fine until it starts to try to allocate memory. The first error is usually bash:fork can't allocate memory and then can't access shared libraries. I hope this is the info you wanted. OK. I suggest we simplify things. Forget the printer for the time being (thus removing one potential config problem). Now: how big is the hard drive? How far did you get through the install before it failed (please tell me exactly what you did; if necessary do it again and write it down)? Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ WINMAIL.DAT Description: application/vnd.ms-tnef
tin charset
Hi, I have upgraded to tin 980226-3 (hamm) and need to do one or other of the following + change my charset to iso-8859-1, or + change my bitrate to 7bit in order to post messages (currently I get the error msg that the posting is not us-ascii. Does anyone know how to do one of the above? (And will there be side-effects?) thanks, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compiling XFree86 -- no makefile in doc directory...?
Hi, Sorry to hear problems continue. The version I built was xfree86_3.3.2.2-4.dsc debian 2.0 CD ( from linux central) The ftp site is now 2.0r2 and X is 3.3.2.3-1 I think . The changelog does say that xfree86 was updated with an upstream patch. Maybe there's a new problem. :( Don't know what else to say. drb Preston Landers wrote: Damn! It fails with the same can't make clean in doc error even with no patches or anything but a fresh source install. Damn damn damn. I don't know. I guess I'll download either the Debian-Slink X packages and hope the problem is fixed, or just get the Xfree86 source directly ... though I much prefer dealing with the Debian package system. Damn. OK, anyway, thanks for your help ... do you have any further suggestions for me? I really appreciate it! ---Preston David R Baker wrote: After some time comsuming experimentation (it's big!) and finding libraries I did not have -dev versions of (joystick and libz), I found the following sequence to work for me: cd wherever dpkg-source -x blah.dsc debian/rules clean debian/rules build debian/rules binary .
ISDN in Debian 2.0: questions.
Dear Debianers, I have just read the isdn4linux FAQ (suggested by somebody in this list) and, since I intend to buy a PCMCIA card, I'd like to ask a few questions. I have just installed Debian 2.0 on my IBM Thinkpad 760 CD, with a 120MHz Pentium, 40 MB ram, and a 2.1 GB HD. I am about to try my first kernel compilation ever and I'd like to know wheter ISDN support should be compiled in. Moreover, is isdn4linux necessary in addition to the ISDN package that comes with Debian? This issue is not addressed in the FAQ. In the Debian documentation, I read that isdnutils is all you need to run an ISDN connection. Since isdn4linux is a german program, what do the american users do (please, notice that I live in Switzerland: I plan either to call the ETH - Polytechinc Institute - or an Internet Provider)? Do you know whether isdn4linux can be compiled with the new glibc6 libraries? Can anybody suggest a card (passive, active?)? Does one use plain PPP to connect, or Seyon, or a similar communication program? Thank you for any information you may provide. Yours sincerely, Remo Badii | Dr. Remo Badii | Paul Scherrer Institute | | Nonlinear Dynamics and | 5232 Villigen PSI | | Stochastic Processes Group | Switzerland | ||___| | badii at psi.ch | http://www1.psi.ch/~badii | ||___|
XFree86 problem
I have a problem with XFREE86 configuration on my laptop (thoshiba tecra730xcdt): The svga chip is CT65550 with 2Mb VideoRam. I have successfully set up for 8bpp up to 1024*768 resolution I have tried with 16bbp and the 1024*768 mode has too high mclock frequency. I have tried to adjust if with Option set_memclk xxx with no success. Any help is appreciated Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRIS Technologies Tel.: +33 (0)3 20 65 85 80 155 rue Jules Delcenserie, Bat B3 Fax.: +33 (0)3 20 65 85 81 59700 MARCQ en BAROEUL, FRANCE FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED] RCPT debian-user@lists.debian.org BODY Received: from siris.iris-tech.fr(192.168.0.100) by Scomm via smap (V2.1) id xma029674; Thu, 10 Sep 98 14:40:37 +0200 Received: from iris-tech.fr (dan.iris-tech.fr [192.168.0.2]) by siris.iris-tech.fr (8.8.5/jtpda-5.3) with ESMTP id OAA01443 for debian-user@lists.debian.org; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 14:40:37 +0200 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 14:40:33 +0200 From: Daniel ANDRE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: IRIS Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: XFree86 problem
LT WinModem not working with Debian 2.0
Hello all!
I'm having troubles configuring my internal (PnP?) LT WinModem under Linux.
No one program can recognize it. Kernel also configures only the first serial
port (modem is attached to the second one). setserial doesn't find it in
the default configuration and I have to specify its parameters by hands:
${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/ttyS1 irq 3 port 0x2F8 uart 16550A skip_test ${STD_FLAGS}
Then setserial -bg produces:
/dev/ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
/dev/ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
But the message from minicom is still:
minicom: cannot open /dev/ttyS1: Operation not supported by device
The same modem is working perfectly with Windoze. After a warm boot from
Windoze the boot process hangs at the configuration of serial ports and
I have to switch the computer off by hands (not good :-( ).
Is it a known problem? Or FAQ? Thanks a lot in advance for any reply!
Norbert A'Campo
P.S. Information about the system:
Notebook with Pentium 266MMX, 128MB RAM, Debian 2.0 with kernel 2.0.34
Re: Why does Debian use ncurses-1.9.9g and not 4.x
George Bonser wrote: I have modified a few packages in my day and make, for example, a modified package of vim with GUI support available on my FTP site. I believe the current (standard debian) version of vim is built with GUI support. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl | Murphy Software, Enschede, the Netherlands
Re: linuxpress rumors
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998 00:33:48 -0700 Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: George Bonser wrote: I hear that a new version of the Debian Linux user's guide is in the works that covers 2.0. Any truth? Well, just to add to the rumors, I was reading that autstralian computer mag's article that ranked debian as post promising linux distribution, and somewhere in there they than linux press for providing them with a pre-release copy of a debian user's guide. No need to spread rumors :) Just checked the article, and yes, they mention the book, and thank Linux Press for a preview copy. It doesn't specifically state that it's for Debian 2.0, but it makes sense that it is. It also says that the guide is available free in HTML on the web at www.linuxpress.com damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on the casket... EmpireNET | - TBMG, Dead
Re: LT WinModem not working with Debian 2.0
Windmodems don't work under anything except windows. A friend of mine
got caught out with a US Robotics one from dell. Hard luck 8-(
Brian Sheehan
Norbert A'Campo wrote:
I'm having troubles configuring my internal (PnP?) LT WinModem under
Linux.
No one program can recognize it. Kernel also configures only the first
serial
port (modem is attached to the second one). setserial doesn't find it
in
the default configuration and I have to specify its parameters by
hands:
${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/ttyS1 irq 3 port 0x2F8 uart 16550A skip_test
${STD_FLAGS}
Then setserial -bg produces:
/dev/ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
/dev/ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
But the message from minicom is still:
minicom: cannot open /dev/ttyS1: Operation not supported by device
The same modem is working perfectly with Windoze. After a warm boot
from
Windoze the boot process hangs at the configuration of serial ports
and
I have to switch the computer off by hands (not good :-( ).
Is it a known problem? Or FAQ? Thanks a lot in advance for any reply!
Norbert A'Campo
P.S. Information about the system:
Notebook with Pentium 266MMX, 128MB RAM, Debian 2.0 with kernel
2.0.34
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Re: LT WinModem not working with Debian 2.0
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Norbert A'Campo wrote: Hello all! I'm having troubles configuring my internal (PnP?) LT WinModem under Linux. No one program can recognize it. Kernel also configures only the first serial port (modem is attached to the second one). setserial doesn't find it in the default configuration and I have to specify its parameters by hands: When looking at the name of the modem it might well be you bought a piece of windoze-only hardware which might imply you cannot use it with Debian (or any other LinUX distribution for that matter...). Sorry, /(__ __|\ Lars Steinke, Research Student @ (\/ __)_www.fmf.uni-freiburg.de, Germany ) (_ / for PGP PKey and WWW-Page finger /___/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ISDN in Debian 2.0: questions.
I am about to try my first kernel compilation ever and I'd like to know wheter ISDN support should be compiled in. I think so. You should compile the HiSax drivers in. But a current Debian kernel should have ISDN support compiled in. Moreover, is isdn4linux necessary in addition to the ISDN package that comes with Debian? This issue is not addressed in the FAQ. No, you only need the isdnutils. In the Debian documentation, I read that isdnutils is all you need to run an ISDN connection. That's right. Do you know whether isdn4linux can be compiled with the new glibc6 libraries? I don't think that a kernel depends on libraries. Can anybody suggest a card (passive, active?)? I had no problems with an old Teles S0 16.3, but had problems with a Teles PNP. All cards with an Siemens chip should work: AVM Fritzcard, Elsa, Sedlbauer,... Don't know if the current Teles cards works. Look at the isdn4linux FAQ and in newsgroups (I think there is alt.de.isdn4linux newsgroup - use www.dejanews.com) Does one use plain PPP to connect, or Seyon, or a similar communication program? There is a ipppd for synchronous PPP in the isdnutils package. tschüß, Oliver
X problems
I have two boxes here which I upgraded (buzz to rex to) bo to hamm. On both boxes, users without .xsession files just get an xterm window with no window manager. /etc/X11/window-managers lists a valid window manager (/usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2) first, and /etc/X11/Xsession exists and is the default. Any suggestions? thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
Re: xterm menu problem
When I try to change the font size, using the control+rightmouseclick then I get a menu showing me same font sizes. But this only happens if the user is root. Otherwise I get a menu that is really smaller and I can only see the first line of text in the menu (the smaller font size.) ok, I double checked. The problem is related to the user' .Xresource. There is a line that create the problem: XTerm*geometry: 80x40 The man xterm command says: geometry (class Geometry) Specifies the preferred size and position of the VT102 window. so what can be wrong? Thanks again, Giuseppe
Re: ISDN in Debian 2.0: questions.
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Remo Badii wrote: Moreover, is isdn4linux necessary in addition to the ISDN package that comes with Debian? This issue is not addressed in the FAQ. In the Debian documentation, I read that isdnutils is all you need to run an ISDN connection. AFAIK isdnutils in debian contains the userspace programs from isdn4linux. So you don't need to compile it, you just need to compile a kernel with isdn support (i dont know if the default kernel has it...) Can anybody suggest a card (passive, active?)? I used an avm fritz!card, it is a passive card, but worked ok. Does one use plain PPP to connect, or Seyon, or a similar communication program? synchronous ppp, you need ipppd from isdnutils to set it up. Greg -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. Egy pingvinre gyakorlatilag lehetetlen haragosan nezni. HuLUG: http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/
Re: xterm menu problem
Giuseppe Sacco wrote: When I try to change the font size, using the control+rightmouseclick then I get a menu showing me same font sizes. But this only happens if the user is root. Otherwise I get a menu that is really smaller and I can only see the first line of text in the menu (the smaller font size.) ok, I double checked. The problem is related to the user' .Xresource. There is a line that create the problem: XTerm*geometry: 80x40 You are setting the geometry resource for *all* the xterm widgets, including the menu. You should say: XTerm*VT100.geometry: 80x40 The man xterm command says: geometry (class Geometry) Specifies the preferred size and position of the VT102 window. so what can be wrong? If you go back (way back), the man page actually says: The following resources are specified as part of the vt100 widget (class VT100): by way of introduction to a very long list of resources, including `geometry'. It's very easy to miss. Noel
Re: following symlinks?!?
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Paul McDermott wrote: hello everybody, and thankyou for all of the assistance to my recent questions. I have yet another question. I am trying to download debian packages from an ftp site with ncftp or wget. I am having a problem in getting files that are symlinked to other places. I cannot for the life of me find out what flag to turn on or off to get ncftp or wget to follow symlinks. If anyone could and/or would help I would greatly appreciated it. Try wget --retr-symlinks
Boot sector
My disk is partitined with linux - lilo and win95 When I re-installed win95, I could not start linux again. I would appreciate it if you could help me Miki Heyns *+27 (021) 807 2271 (W) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sendmail rejecting bad domains
I have someone trying to send me email from a machine that is behind a firewall. The firewall relays the mail through, but leaves the sender's machine name on the message. The sender's machine is not in the DNS, so sendmail rejects it with 501 Sender domain must exist. The sender can't fix his corporation's broken firewall. How do I get sendmail to allow this message through? I care less about spam than I do lost email. Thanks for any clues. -- | Gene McCulley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Voice: (407) 265-0772 | | Cuspy Solutions, Inc. | http://cuspy.com/~mcculley/ | Fax: (407) 265-0773 | | Your father was a hamster and your mother smelt of elderberries! |
Re: sendmail rejecting bad domains
Hello Gene: I had the same problem. If you are using smail, in the /etc/smail/config you can adjust the authentication for a specific IP addresses or subnets. Thus your server receive e-mail from the location in question. The line in question is smtp_hello_broken_allow Peter -Original Message- From: Gene McCulley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, September 10, 1998 10:12 AM Subject: sendmail rejecting bad domains I have someone trying to send me email from a machine that is behind a firewall. The firewall relays the mail through, but leaves the sender's machine name on the message. The sender's machine is not in the DNS, so sendmail rejects it with 501 Sender domain must exist. The sender can't fix his corporation's broken firewall. How do I get sendmail to allow this message through? I care less about spam than I do lost email. Thanks for any clues. -- | Gene McCulley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Voice: (407) 265-0772 | | Cuspy Solutions, Inc. | http://cuspy.com/~mcculley/ | Fax: (407) 265-0773 | | Your father was a hamster and your mother smelt of elderberries! | -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Boot sector
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi! On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Micki Heyns wrote: My disk is partitined with linux - lilo and win95 When I re-installed win95, I could not start linux again. Boot from rescue disk (either from floppy or CDROM) mount the partition where you have the root (/) partition: # mount -t ext2 /dev/your partition here /mnt and execute lilo -r /mnt and reboot regards, Ulisses Oracle 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 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: latin1 Comment: PGP public key avaliable at http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver iQB1AwUBNffwDg/N+5+NQ63pAQFoJAL+MVNLvxM0PSZDOIyR9E9Hx5H54ROsLPTa KWVL03pCeRwsMkzb41EIieFeVWSBSb97golHvZQ/BxRg+axiUPtOzZC8s+lVKWXy +dNMCGpeEWWLMq120qu2Keq81gLhM6S/ =21XK -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: sendmail rejecting bad domains
The sender will need to setup sendmail to masquerade as his firewall. That is how this message is getting out, my box masqerades as vnet.ibm.com when sending mail externally. -- Rick Nelson On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Gene McCulley wrote: Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:11:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Gene McCulley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: sendmail rejecting bad domains Resent-Date: 10 Sep 1998 15:12:00 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; I have someone trying to send me email from a machine that is behind a firewall. The firewall relays the mail through, but leaves the sender's machine name on the message. The sender's machine is not in the DNS, so sendmail rejects it with 501 Sender domain must exist. The sender can't fix his corporation's broken firewall. How do I get sendmail to allow this message through? I care less about spam than I do lost email. Thanks for any clues. -- | Gene McCulley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Voice: (407) 265-0772 | | Cuspy Solutions, Inc. | http://cuspy.com/~mcculley/ | Fax: (407) 265-0773 | | Your father was a hamster and your mother smelt of elderberries! | -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
/proc filesystem...
Hello, I'm running debian hamm, with slink upgrade Anybody know why /proc/net, /proc/sys /proc/scsi have theses permissions : dr-xr-x--- 2 root root and aren't readable for all... ? Thanks a lot... -- -- Yoann It is well known that M$ products don't call free() after a malloc() The unix community wishes them good luck for their future development...
Re: Broken emacs
I'm not sure I've seen this reported before (but I'm way behind on list mail, and haven't checked the bug system for this specific thing) Cannot open load file: bytecomp Seems like the most likely problem, but things have to be very odd for that not to be found... what does dpkg -S bytecomp show? it should at least have emacs19: /usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp/bytecomp.elc
apt-get update or dselect update
If I have apt setup as my default method in dselect. Which is the preferred command to use. I guess what I want to know is this. When I run apt-get update will it also update the package information used by dselect and dpkg -l package name or regexp thnx, mike...
XDM
Hi, I have some troubles with xdm. When configuring to start with it (/etx/X11/configure) I reboot and all start ok, except that X11 dont read my link from .xsession to .xinirc. Sould i explicit said X11 to use my .xsession file?? Thanks, -- __ / / / Phillip Neumann / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /_/
RE: Boot sector
That is what they make boot disks for. When you reinstalled Win95, it did an overwrite of lilo in your MBR. Now you need to boot linux with your emergency boot disk (you made one didn't you) and reinstall lilo. On 10-Sep-98 Micki Heyns wrote: My disk is partitined with linux - lilo and win95 When I re-installed win95, I could not start linux again. I would appreciate it if you could help me Miki Heyns *+27 (021) 807 2271 (W) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null == Ken Archer - San Antonio, Texas As soon as I get all my email - [EMAIL PROTECTED]penquins in a row I'll get right on it... (o- (O- //\ (o- (o- (o- (o- //\ V_/_ //\ //\ //\ //\ V_/_ V_/_ V_/_ V_/_ V_/_ ==
Re: Broken emacs
Seems like the most likely problem, but things have to be very odd for that not to be found... what does dpkg -S bytecomp show? it should at least have emacs19: /usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp/bytecomp.elc Yes, on a machine with broken emacs19: emacs19: /usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp/bytecomp.elc and with broken emacs20: emacs20: /usr/share/emacs/20.2/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.elc --David
Re: apt-get update or dselect update
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, ... wrote: If I have apt setup as my default method in dselect. Which is the preferred command to use. I guess what I want to know is this. When I run apt-get update will it also update the package information used by dselect and dpkg -l package name or regexp No, but it will update the Packages files. If you then run [U]pdate in dselect, it will check the files against those at the specified mirror(s) and if they are the same, it will not retrieve them again, but will then process the necessary files for dselect. Running update from dselect itself is probably preferable. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
