Otra vez NFS
Hola! De nuevo tengo problemas con ls NFS. Tengo un servidor NFS (Debian 2.0) que da servicio a una Sun (Solaris 2.5.1) y a varios PC con HAMM (Debian 2.0). El caso es que sin motivo aparente, y de buenas a primeras, el servidor NFS tras llevar unas horas funcionando, deja de hacerlo, y ningun ordenador (ni los PCs ni la SUN) pueden usar el disco duro de mi ordenador (por NFS), y se quedan colgados esperando con el famoso mensaje NFS error, still trying Sin embargo, con el paquete netstd de la Debian 1.3 (bo) si funciona. Es decir, cogi y degrade la version de netstd (desinstale la de bo y puse la de Hamm) y ¡sorpresa! todo funciona bien otra vez. Alguna sugerencia? Puede ser un bug? Estuve en la base de datos de bugs de debian y no habia nada sobre esto. Saludos, Jose Rodriguez
Curiosidad
Un pregunta: cómo es posible que en toda la distribución de Debian 2.0 no venga un sólo logotipo de Debian (por lo menos yo no lo he encontrado). Saludos: Gustavo Cano Rodríguez Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Re: wwwoffle - how do I use it?
Note: copied to original poster and the list. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not understand how wwwofle works. When online I try to go to a specific site on the web (using lynx), I get the message wwwofle will get. That is nice for reading ofline, but how do I go the site directly? The wwwoffle daemon (wwwoffled) has three modes it can operate in. When it's in offline mode, it treats all attempts to get a URL as requests to be tried later. When it's in online mode, requesting a URL just causes that URL to be fetched immediately. When it's in fetch mode (must be online) it fetches the queued requests from offline mode. To switch from offline to online or back, you just type these commands: wwwoffle -online wwwoffle -offline I'll leave starting a fetch as an exercise for the reader. What I did was add those lines to my ip-up and ip-down scripts respectively, so when I'm dialed into my ISP, wwwoffle doesn't stop my web use, but when I'm offline, it caches requests for later. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net
rvplayer works only as root
I've installed rvplayer but it only works as root. When I run it as normal user it gives error 72, expired version. The user is in the audio group. I've installed it from the slink version. Is there anything else I need to do? Mark
Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?
On 27 Sep 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wojciech Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi There was a lot of noise about the y2k problem in old COBOL and M$ applications, but what about the Y2K+38 disaster in the POSIX world? I was pretty sure that the new libc6 library implements 64 bit time_t, It's a kernel issue. On 32 bit platforms time_t will probably always be restricted to 32 bits, but on 64 bits systems such as the alpha time_t is 64 bits .. and by 2038 I expect everyone to be running at least a 64 bit machine. I think it's this attitude that caused y2k to be so large and sudden, at least i part. Though it may be true, and though I would like it very much to be true, I'd hate to bet on EVERYBODY moving to a 64 bit system. After all, count the billions of dollars being spent on mainframe systems. I would quite expect many companies to bleed those systems even drier now they've been forced into spending so much money on them ... - dave -- | oOOooO / --|oOobodoO/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --| ooOoOo / | II / Rocky Road, croaked the toad. | II /
Re: simple password
Ed Cogburn wrote: I have now my password as `password123`. I still want to put it as `password`.. Thanks, If you are really unconcerned with security, then why use a password at all? Just hit Enter for the password (it will complain; just confirm it) and from then on just hit enter for the password. On the other hand, if security is somewhat of an issue, then *don't* use password. This is one of the first things a cracker would try. -- Ed C. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Hello, Dont be so innocent ;-), of course i have not put my password as ``password'' , it was just an example... I have change it like this: Nathan Norman wrote: Log in as root. Type: echo 'filsin:password' | chpasswd All done. thanks. -- __ / / / Phillip Neumann / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / _/_/
Telnet
Hi, When telneting to my computer, i get this `boaried' message: computron login: user password: x How can i change it to for example `Welcome to the computron universe. Please enter your name so i can know whoy yo u are: username Are you really username ? Enter you key: xx' Thanks, -- __ / / / Phillip Neumann / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / _/_/
screen 10 minutes....
Hi, Im wondering why is linux, after 10 min, turning my monitor black. I have only i nstall the base of the system. Is this couse by a software ? Which one ? Does this something to do woth enegry star? thanks, -- __ / / / Phillip Neumann / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / _/_/
unable dependence...
Hello, Im about to installing libmagick4g wich depends on `freetype1'. Whew can i find this pagacke? In the libmagick4g debian-package web-page, stand freetype as requ ired and next to it said it is not abailbe with this distribution... Thanks, -- __ / / / Phillip Neumann / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / _/_/
c++ and ncurses
Hi,
I don't know if this is simply a problem with my setup, but I'm having
problem with the following test program (culled from a larger program).
The program worked fine under Red Hat 5.0:
#includestdio.h
#includecurses.h
int main()
{
chtype oldchar;
initscr();
oldchar = inch();
return(0);
}
The code compiles and links fine with the c++ compiler (I've tried both
the the old c++ compiler, and egcs. When the program is run however, I am
getting a segmentation fault. The fault is occurring on the oldchar =
inch(); line. If I remove the oldchar =, and just call the inch function,
the program doesn't crash. Also, if I compile this with the c compiler
instead, I don't have any problems (except that I am using c++ features in
the real program ;-) ). It looks to me like the return value of inch is
overwriting something it shouldn't.
Any ideas would be appreciated. If there is a more appropriate list for
this, let me know
Mike Madore
Strange behaviour of less and most
When used on a curses-based screen, keystrokes like Pageup and Pagedown and Spacebar, work at first but after a few strokes I have to press Enter after one of the normal keystrokes before less or most act on it. The fact that both programs do this and that I have never had such behaviour on Debian 1.3.1 makes me think that there may be an underlying problem with one of the programs controling keyboard input. Does anybody have a clue what can be wrong? Johann -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South Africa) | -- My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into various trials, Knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. James 1:2,3
Re: Can't load default font 'fixed'
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/25/98 at 05:40 PM, Evan Van Dyke [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm trying to get Xfree up and running... and can't run XF86Setup, so I ran XF86Config. I've set it for the VGA-16 server, just to make sure I can get something running, but I get the error message: Can't load default font 'fixed' or something very close to that when I run 'startx'. As root, of course. Any ideas? And thanks to the Well, do you have any font installed? Installing only a few packages of the x stuff may very well leave you without fonts or other necessary items. Run dselect. Read the comments for all the packages in the X11 sections. What you need to get X up and running is documented there, and you may find other interesting items too. The server package alone isn't enough, you need at least a couple of others. Helge Hafting -- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
MSS/WSS Recording?
I've been trying for a long long time to record with my CS4231 MSS/WSS sound card. My BIOS says that WSS Capture DMA is 1. Play is 0. On boot, I get this message. MSS audio codec (CS4231) at 0x534 irq 11 dma 0,0 I assume it should read: MSS audio codec (CS4231) at 0x534 irq 11 dma 0,1 There's only one entry for MSS DMA though. How can I fix this? joe
RESCUE DISK | X ICONS
1. How do I create a floppy Rescue Disk from a recently installed Debian 2.0 system? 2. How do I install incons for applications in X -- or set a desk top etc.? Bob Barth EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Q:exim reject problem
hello,
I really do not understand what is happen. Here you have some messages
from reject.log file:
--
1998-09-28 09:42:09 refused relay (host reject) to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] from [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=(Mihaela.
inoe.ro) [194.102.38.139]
--
1998-09-28 09:42:15 refused relay (host reject) to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
from [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=(Mihaela.inoe.ro) [194.102.38.139]
--
1998-09-28 09:47:42 refused relay (host reject) to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
from [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=citon1.infim.ro (alpha2.infim.ro) [193.231.44.100]
--
1998-09-28 09:47:51 refused relay (host reject) to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
from [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=citon1.infim.ro (alpha2.infim.ro) [193.231.44.100]
--
1998-09-28 09:16:42 refused relay (host reject) to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] from [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=(sorin.infi
m.ro) [194.102.38.138]
--
1998-09-28 09:16:52 refused relay (host reject) to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
from [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=citon1.infim.ro (
alpha2.infim.ro) [193.231.44.100]
--
1998-09-28 09:25:30 refused relay (host reject) to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
from [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=citon1.infim.ro (a
lpha2.infim.ro) [193.231.44.100]
--
1998-09-28 09:32:29 refused relay (host reject) to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] from [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=(plugarun.inf
im.ro) [193.231.44.169]
alpha2:/var/log/exim#
Here you have some options from my /etc/exim.conf file:
...
local_domains_include_host = true
local_domains_include_host_literals = true
relay_domains = infim.ro:inoe.ro:citon.ro
...
relay_domains_include_local_mx = true
infim.ro is my domain.
Please help me because somebody in other domain (not listed in
relay_domains) is using my server to connect to a third domain.
TIA.
Bubulac A. Tatiana
# This is the main exim configuration file.
# It was originally generated by `eximconfig', part of the exim package
# distributed with Debian, but it may edited by the mail system administrator.
# This file originally generated by eximconfig at Tue Aug 25 13:37:05 EEST 1998
# See exim info section for details of the things that can be configured here.
# Please see the manual for a complete list
# of all the runtime configuration options that can be included in a
# configuration file.
# This file is divided into several parts, all but the last of which are
# terminated by a line containing the word end. The parts must appear
# in the correct order, and all must be present (even if some of them are
# in fact empty). Blank lines, and lines starting with # are ignored.
##
#MAIN CONFIGURATION SETTINGS #
##
# Specify the domain you want to be added to all unqualified addresses
# here. Unqualified addresses are accepted only from local callers by
# default. See the receiver_unqualified_{hosts,nets} options if you want
# to permit unqualified addresses from remote sources. If this option is
# not set, the primary_hostname value is used for qualification.
qualify_domain = alpha2.infim.ro
# If you want unqualified recipient addresses to be qualified with a different
# domain to unqualified sender addresses, specify the recipient domain here.
# If this option is not set, the qualify_domain value is used.
# qualify_recipient =
# Specify your local domains as a colon-separated list here. If this option
# is not set (i.e. not mentioned in the configuration file), the
# qualify_recipient value is used as the only local domain. If you do not want
# to do any local deliveries, uncomment the following line, but do not supply
# any data for it. This sets local_domains to an empty string, which is not
# the same as not mentioning it at all. An empty string specifies that there
# are no local domains; not setting it at all causes the default value (the
# setting of qualify_recipient) to be used.
#local_domains =
# Allow mail addressed to our hostname, or to our IP address.
local_domains_include_host = true
local_domains_include_host_literals = true
# Domains we relay for; that is domains that aren't considered local but we
# accept mail for them.
relay_domains = infim.ro:inoe.ro:citon.ro
# If this is uncommented, we accept and relay mail for all domains we are
# in the DNS as an MX for.
relay_domains_include_local_mx = true
# No local deliveries will ever be run under the uids of these users (a colon-
# separated
Re: XEmacs on laptop BEEPING
Wayne Cuddy wrote: I have xemacs20.x loaded on my Toshiba laptop. Everything seems to be working fine except when I move the mouse over the button bar. There is an error that appears on the bottom line that says can't instantiate image and the thing beeps like crazy while I move the mouse over the button bar. Has anyone else seen this? yes I do. I don't know if this is toshiba or laptop specific.If I open another xemacs (2 xemacs running at the same time) the problem disapear for this running xemacs. It might also depend on wich sw is installed. (if I don't install developpment version of xlibs, this problem is'nt there Wayne Cuddy CRB-WEB (C H Consulting) http://www.crb-web.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- [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
Re: simple password
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: Hello, Dont be so innocent ;-), of course i have not put my password as ``password'' , it was just an example... as far as an intruder is concerned, any dictionary word or close companion is as easy to guess as password. Any dictionary word followed by digits is almost as weak. (hence the reason that passwd complains when you choose a daft password) - dave -- | oOOooO / --|oOobodoO/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --| ooOoOo / | II / Rocky Road, croaked the toad. | II /
Re: screen 10 minutes....
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: Hi, Im wondering why is linux, after 10 min, turning my monitor black. I have only i nstall the base of the system. Is this couse by a software ? Which one ? Does this something to do woth enegry star? this can be configured with the 'setterm' command. I believe the 'setterm -blank n' is the command to specify minutes before screen blanking. - dave -- | oOOooO / --|oOobodoO/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --| ooOoOo / | II / Rocky Road, croaked the toad. | II /
Re: Telnet
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: Hi, When telneting to my computer, i get this `boaried' message: computron login: user password: x How can i change it to for example `Welcome to the computron universe. Please enter your name so i can know whoy yo u are: username Are you really username ? Enter you key: xx' check /etc/issue.net for network logins and /etc/issue for local logins. - dave -- | oOOooO / --|oOobodoO/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --| ooOoOo / | II / Rocky Road, croaked the toad. | II /
Re: slink release date?
How can one find out what the projected release date for slink is? First, it has to be frozen. You'll hear about that on this list when it happens. After that, it will take `some time', and it will be released `real soon now'. I would guess it will be in some months. If there is anything in particular you need from slink, you can just download it and install it on a hamm system most of the time. If it doesn't work OK, just uninstall/downgrade, and have some patience. Releases usually come `when they are ready', not at any projected date. HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054
Re: Segmentation Faults
Sorry to bother everyone here, but I have been getting a lot of segmentation faults lately and I was wondering what causes them. I think I have heard on this list before that it is causes by bad memory chips and just wanted to verify this. This can indeed be the case. If you have more than one dimm, or more than two simms, you can test this by removing half of your memory, see if you get the same errors, then install the other half, and check again. It could also be the processor. If you are overclocking, stop doing that. If it only occurs after some time, it may be a heating problem. Have a look at the processor and power supply fans. You don't happen to run some development kernel I suppose? HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054
Re: xterm-debian
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Michael Stutz wrote: On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: But, is this the formal way or proper way to do it?? What is xterm-debian?? Any additional features?? Check out /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian for the scoop. ? I've just read it, and it doesn't say anything about xterm-debian. Maybe I'm just being stupid again :( 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/
Re: xterm-debian
*-M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Check out /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian for the scoop. | | ? | | I've just read it, and it doesn't say anything about xterm-debian. On my slink system: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ grep xterm-debian /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian | wc -l 8 (meaning: xterm-debian is mention in eight lines in the file) It also points you to http://master.debian.org/~branden/xsf.html Don't know about hamm, though. -- A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee to theorems (Martin Schulze) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elOle. :-] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X windows
I have a problem starting X windows as ordinary user. It works as root, but it looks like I don't have sufficient permissions as ordinary user. Any suggestions ? Bostjan
Diamond 3D 2000 with S3V to display 24 bit color
Hi all,
I have a Diamond 3D 2000 video card. The chip is S3 Virge. The
memory of the videocard is 4 meg.
With this configuration, I cannot display 24bit color under XF86.
I am pretty sure that my hardware is capable of doing that, as I can do it
under NT.
When I switch the default color depth to 24bit in XF86Config, my
monitor started blinking
Could anyone help me please...
Regards,
Shao.
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Re: Q:exim reject problem
I have done all you said but I still receiving messages like those: 1998-09-28 12:13:13 refused relay (host reject) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=(pingo) [193.231.44.195] -- 1998-09-28 12:15:32 refused relay (host reject) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=(pingo) [193.231.44.195] -- 1998-09-28 12:16:22 refused relay (host reject) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=(pingo) [193.231.44.195] -- 1998-09-28 12:33:03 refused relay (host reject) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=(inoe1.inoe.ro) [19 4.102.38.131] -- 1998-09-28 12:33:16 refused relay (host reject) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=(inoe1.inoe.ro) [19 4.102.38.131] -- On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Bubulac Angela Tatiana wrote: local_domains_include_host = true local_domains_include_host_literals = true relay_domains = infim.ro:inoe.ro:citon.ro Try adding: sender_host_accept_relay = *.infim.ro:*.inoe.ro:*.citon.ro Your current setup allows you to relay traffic TO these domains but I think you also want to relay traffic FROM these domains as well. The asterisk allows any host at these domains to relay through your server to anywhere on the internet. You might want to specify certain machines. George Bonser
Problem with ext2 floppies
Hello all, I began working a lot with ext2fs formatted floppies those last times (moving around sources for a project I'm working on), and it already happend twice that a recently formatted floppy died on me when writing to it on a different machine than the one that created it. To be more specific, those ext2 floppies were created according to the - I think - standard technique: fdformat -n /dev/... then mkfs -t ext2 -c -m 0 /dev/ They seem to have a normal life expectancy as long as I use them always on the same linux box. But I got a laptop a while ago that I linuxified, and I started having problems accessing ext2fs floppies on it (floppies that were coming from another box, meaning - the ones I format locally are ok, but can't be read anywhere else). I thought the hardware was to blame (controller or drive - machine is a Toshiba T2130CS), changed it, but problem stayed. Then I though that the Toshiba might have a non-standard floppy controller. Fun thing is, I never had problems accessing non-ext2 floppies (DOS) on it - but then again, I don't use them that often under Linux (and I hardly write to them). Here is a copy of the error message I might get on the laptop: -cut- vger:~/scripts# mount /mnt/floppy end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 3 EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems -cut- But now, this problem doesn't seem to be limited to the Toshiba any longer. An ext2 floppy I just created at work could be read with no problem at home, but I killed it when writing to it. Linux versions are 2.0.29-libc5, 2.0.30-libc5 and 2.0.32-libc6. Hardware is Compaq, Toshiba or no-brand. Anybody care to comment ? Anything obvious I missed out ? Thanks in advance for any advice (or shared experience). Ph. A. -- //\\ \\// ///\\\ SCITEX /*-*/ /* Scitex Europe, S.A. | Philippe Andersson */ /* Dreve Richelle, 161, E-F,| PC Network Specialist */ /* 1410 WATERLOO| [EMAIL PROTECTED]*/ /* BELGIUM | +32-2-352.25.93 Fax: +32-2-352.25.84 */ /*-*/
Re: About mount FAT32
On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 08:01:22PM +0800, Chan Min Wai wrote: Hi, I had met problem on mounting a Fat32 drive (Win98), I don't know Which kind of fat should I use in the mount command. For normal Fat16, We use:mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /hd1 ^ but for Fat 32 What Should we use in state of vfat. Hey, here's one I can answer. You can use vfat also on Fat32. In fact I have used vfat on all the disks I mount. Of course, I think you have to have the Kernel of 2.0.34 or 2.0.33 at least and it has to be compiled into the kernel. You need 2.0.34, at least, not 2.0.33 -Michele
Re: SB32 PnP Midi
I tried playmidi, and it just did not output any sound at all... Try to adjust the midi output level using a mixer. You can also add the AWE 32 support (it should work on a SB32, too). (you can install the awe-drv, awe-midi awe-netscape and libawe0.4 packages under debian, and use drvmid instead of playmidi). The awe-drv package also has a good faq on this. -Michele
Re: Flicking in xterms when using vi
Hi guys, Sorry for asking the same question again.. when I use vi in an xterm, and when I reached the EOF, my xterm started flicking. Try to use rxvt, instead of xterm. It flickers much less. -Michele
XBanner fonts
Hi Debian users, at work I installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 in 3 486 computers out of order and only one have the default font of xbanner (the other two presents the error message #Could not get the font, using fixed). I think that the file /etc/X11/XBanner.ad that configure this: !XBanner.Font: -bitstream-charter-bold-i-normal--200-*-100-100-*-*-iso8859-1 !XBanner.Font: -bitstream-terminal-bold-r-normal--50-360-100-100-c-300-iso8859- 1 !XBanner.Font: -bitstream-courier-bold-r-normal--200-*-100-100-*-*-iso8859-1 XBanner.Font: -adobe-utopia-bold-i-normal--125-*-100-100-*-*-iso8859-1 and the font is adobe, but the 3 computers have the same packages intalled. What are the packages for adobe fonts. What did I make wrong? Have a good day,Paulo Henrique
Mirror debian 2.0
Hi, I have a debian cd 2.0. I'll be copying the main to a harddisk. How do I mirror main in such a way that packages will be automatically be updated(delete some old packages, add some packages, automatically.)? I'll just mirror binary-i386 and binary-all. Someone mentioned rsync. will rsync remove some packages which is not anymore in main? regards, == == Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated == == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 == = == ==== == E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] == WebPage : http://andre.lasaltech.com
Re: xterm-debian
*-M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Check out /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian for the scoop. | | ? | | I've just read it, and it doesn't say anything about xterm-debian. On my slink system: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ grep xterm-debian /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian | wc -l 8 On my (mainly) hamm system: pick:~/c$ grep xterm-debian /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian | wc -l 0 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/
IPX Colision and XBanner font (solved)
Hi Debian users, excuse my old mail about XBanner fonts. I have already found that the problem was with the FONT PATH in the file /etc/X11/XF86Config. But, I have another problem with IPX. The console gives me an error: Sep 28 07:41:28 HOST132 kernel: IPX: Network number collision 5 Sep 28 07:41:28 HOST132 kernel: eth0 802.3 and eth0 802.2 I installed ncpfs and IPX and don't know how to configure IPX stuff well. I alrady found how to mount a Novell Server but without. I will be very pleased if someone could give some highlights to authenticate user into Novell servers using Linux. I already download and compiled pam_ncp but doesn't know how to configure all this stuff. Have a good day,Paulo Henrique
Debian 2.0 Cheaper Bytes again
I have the CheapBytes 4 CD set. I was wondering if there is a clean way of maintaining the dselect package list on my machine while also installing stuff of the extra CDs. If I copy a .deb file onto somewhere on my HD and use dpkg -i does this update the list of packages reported when I run dselect again? Is there a recomended directory for me to stick these .deb files in? Would it be possible for dselect to ask for a local directory, that is one that is not relative to the CD root, where extra .deb files can reside, and so be included in the list of available packages. Or perhaps have I missed someting somewhere? Dave Whiteley __ Dave Whiteley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Standard Disclaimer:- The views of the writer are not necessarily those of anyone else. *Most Important Message* *HAVE FUN*
Re: Debian 2.0 Cheaper Bytes again
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 12:14:12PM +, D.L.WHITELEY wrote: I have the CheapBytes 4 CD set. I was wondering if there is a clean way of maintaining the dselect package list on my machine while also installing stuff of the extra CDs. The way I'd do this would be - dpkg --clear-available - for each CD, for each distribtution: dpkg --merge-avail Packages - dselect [S]elect - dselect [I]nstall (first main CD, then non-free CD, then contrib CD). If I copy a .deb file onto somewhere on my HD and use dpkg -i does this update the list of packages reported when I run dselect again? It's included in dselect's list of installed packages; it is not added to the list of packages that are available to dselect. To add a single package to dselect's list of available packages, do dpkg --record-avail the.deb . HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before.
permissions of hosts.*
Hi! What should be the permission bits of the hosts.* files (hosts.allow, etc, etc). TIA! Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available --- (_)/ (_) http://casal.upc.es/~pere/
Re: Mirror debian 2.0
I have a debian cd 2.0. I'll be copying the main to a harddisk. How do I mirror main in such a way that packages will be automatically be updated(delete some old packages, add some packages, automatically.)? Grab the 'mirror' package. You can easily configure it to get only the subdirs you want to mirror. An example is in the package. -- Regards,| Debian GNU/ __ o http://www.debian.org . |/ / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | // /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ http://www.golgotha.net | ...because lockups are for convicts...
Re: wmppp and ISDN
Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
As announced, I looked into the source and made a first patch. Due
its shortness I will append it to this posting. If anybody who is
using the program too could test this patch, I could send it to the
maintainer for possible inclusion.
Since a few days I'm working on about the same thing. Until now I got
the commandline accept ippp interfaces, got the load graph working, and
also the online detection works sort of, but is far from what I dream
of.
As this is my first experience in linux programming I will have to check
the manuals before I can create a patch. I think this will happen RSN.
Until then I will add some comments to your patch...
--- wmppp.c.origSun Sep 27 22:32:53 1998
+++ wmppp.c Sun Sep 27 22:33:02 1998
@@ -310,10 +310,6 @@
usage();
exit(1);
}
- if (strncmp(argv[i+1], ppp, 3)) {
Change this line to the following and leave it in the source:
if (strncmp(argv[i+1], ppp, 3) strncmp(argv[i+1], ippp, 4)) {
- usage();
- exit(1);
- }
active_interface = argv[i+1];
i++;
break;
[rest of patch]
Without looking at the source again I guess the rest dealt with the
online detection. I rewrote the funtion stillonline to check
/dev/isdninfo if it's a ippp interface. Unfortunately this will not work
in all cases. See my posting Wie prüfen ob ippp0 online ist? and the
replies on de.alt.comm.isdn4linux.
I copied the function get_statistics without changes from wmifs to get
the graph drawing work.
Hope this helps 'til I have a real patch ready. BTW, used versions are
wmppp-1.3.0 and wmifs-1.3b from http://windowmaker.mezaway.org.
Thomas
P.S. Torsten, as you can guess from my adress private mail replies in
german are welcome.
Re: Debian 2.0 Cheaper Bytes again
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 12:14:12PM +, D.L.WHITELEY wrote: I have the CheapBytes 4 CD set. I was wondering if there is a clean way of maintaining the dselect package list on my machine while also installing stuff of the extra CDs. Another option might be the dpkg-multicd method written by Heiko Schlittermann; it's available from ftp://ftp.datom.de/pub/people/heiko/debian/ Unfortunately, the .deb doesn't have a copyright file, and the source for 0.5 (the 0.7 source's permissions are wrong) doesn't contain copyright information. As such, we cannot distribute it as part of Debian; Heiko, please consider changing this. Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before.
Habe ein Problem
Hallo! Ich habe mir vor kurzem Debian Gnu/Linux 2.0 gekauft. Ich habe alles nach dem Booklet gemacht. Also, wenn bei mir das Installationssetuo beendet ist, dann wird ja der Computer neugestartet. Also, ich melde mich dann als Root an. Dann wird ja gefragt, ob man eine Internet-Verbindung eingerichtet werden soll. Dies mache ich dann auch. Dann nach dem Einrichten von einem normaler User, wird gefragt, ob man gleich Dselect gestartet werden soll, oder ob man dies auswaehlen will, was man installieren will. Dann waehle ich irgendetwas aus (habe alles schon ausprobiert). Dann muss man ja in Dselect, bei Select Pakete auswaehlen. Das mache ich dann auch (aber, koennten Sie mir nochmals erklaeren, wie das ganz genau geht). Wenn ich das dann gemacht habe, dann sollte man ja auf installieren gehn. Da kommt dann die Fehlermeldung, No acces methos is selected/ configured. Dann habe ich ausprobiert, Acces. Wenn ich dann das Laufwerk auswaehle (weil ich ja von CD-ROM installiere). Dann kommt diese Meldung, Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name. Also, ich kann einfach nicht die Pakete installieren. Die meisten Befehle sind auch nicht verhanden. Koennten Sie mir da helfen? Es waere sehr nett! Manuel Merkle
Backspace and Delete weirds
Hi Debian users, I have a problem. My /etc/X11/Xresources have the following lines: *VT100.Translations: #override KeyBackSpace: string(\177)\n\ MetaKeyBackSpace: string(\033\177)\n\ KeyDelete: string(\033[3~)\n\ KeyHome: string(\033OH)\n\ KeyEnd: string(\033OF) and the backspace and delete keys don't properly type the expected behaviour. Any help is apreciated. Have a good day,Paulo Henrique
Re: Habe ein Problem
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 01:31:07PM +0100, Manuel wrote: Da kommt dann die Fehlermeldung, No acces methos is selected/ configured. Dann habe ich ausprobiert, Acces. Wenn ich dann das Laufwerk auswaehle (weil ich ja von CD-ROM installiere). Dann kommt diese Meldung, Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name. You don't tell what went wrong afterwards; I'll assume you don't know what block device name to provide. The block device name is the name by which Linux refers to your CD-ROM. Unfortunately, this question can be confusing to a new user, as no suggestions are made. Assuming your CD-ROM is an (E)IDE one, the block device name is one of /dev/hda (first IDE interface; master), /dev/hdb (first IDE interface; slave), /dev/hdc (second IDE interface; master), /dev/hdd (second IDE interface; slave). Hope this helps, Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden.
Re: Backspace and Delete weirds
You don't provide enough information. The backspace/delete behaviour is only correct when you use the XKB (X Keyboard) extension. Are you using it? (check that there's no XkbDisable in your /etc/X11/XF86Config) What terminal emulators (xterm, rxvt, xvt, kvt, ...) have problems? What applications have problems? Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden.
Re: permissions of hosts.*
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 12:41:05PM +, Pere Camps wrote: Hi! What should be the permission bits of the hosts.* files (hosts.allow, etc, etc). hmm... well on MY system...all of them are: -rw-r--r-- Works for me. Any reasons NOT to have this the case? -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
Re: Debian 2.0 Cheaper Bytes again
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 01:19:51PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 12:14:12PM +, D.L.WHITELEY wrote: : I have the CheapBytes 4 CD set. I was wondering if there is a clean : way of maintaining the dselect package list on my machine while also : installing stuff of the extra CDs. : : Another option might be the dpkg-multicd method written by Heiko : Schlittermann; it's available from : ftp://ftp.datom.de/pub/people/heiko/debian/ : : Unfortunately, the .deb doesn't have a copyright file, and the source for : 0.5 (the 0.7 source's permissions are wrong) doesn't contain copyright : information. As such, we cannot distribute it as part of Debian; Heiko, : please consider changing this. .. as a first point I've changed the file permissions. dpkg-multicd is a hack, hence no copyright (is this an acceptable reason? ;-), it's wasn't destinated to the public originally. I'll change the copyright to GPL or similar. Best Regards from Dresden/Germany Viele Gruesse aus Dresden Heiko Schlittermann --- internet unix support ** Heiko Schlittermann -- [a href=http://debian.schlittermann.de/; Debian 2.0 CD /a] Heiko Schlittermann HS12-RIPE finger:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- pgp: A1 7D F6 7B 69 73 48 35 E1 DE 21 A7 A8 9A 77 92 -
encrypted passwords with pop3/imap/...?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I would like to know if there are enhanced pop/imap servers that provide a way to authentificate login/passwords encrypted so sniffers can't get it... if this does exist... what clients does support it? (for windows and unix) I know that one possibility is to use ssh to forward this connections... but I can't be sure that users will make use of it... similar problem is with ftp, I have solved using a download only user that has no shell and is chrooted using wu-ftpd any comment will be greatly appreciated Ulisses - - 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 iQB1AwUBNg+H2w/N+5+NQ63pAQHj7wMApYTYKrfm+JbjBLvaclPCSkSFx1DDPnNt WnWYxaUHpmfOkFJqCNJmIc1H46MWZR1B+tRp091/kZA6Lp/3pUtlJs030zwV0Ve0 npHcT4IGSfTXeEkqlC+IxmAVbMEnRnC4 =WVUs -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Novell and Linux (pam_ncp again)
Hi Debian users, In pratical terms, I have to do this until friday to my users login into Linux using Novell account. I downloaded http://www.csn.ul.ie/~airlied/pam_ncp/pam_ncp.0.5.tgz, compile, put into /etc/pam_ncp.conf the Novell Server and the README tells about this that I don't understand. What is starred password? The pam_ncp is very RedHat centric. Notes: The user must be in the password file to allow the user to login. If the user hasn't a starred password the password in the file will work, If the user has a starred password it will go to the Netware server. Thanks a lot for any pointers. Have a good day,Paulo Henrique
Re: xemacs' HTML [html] mode?
On 24 Sep, Matt Garman wrote: I've been working on my personal web page with xemacs recently. Just today, it started acting goofy on its own. When I open xemacs 20.4 with my .html file, the first time I press the TAB key to indent for me, xemacs runs some things off across the bottom (the status area), ending with parsing prolog... Then my modline changes from (HTML), to (HTML [html]), and indent doesn't work properly (at all). I tried explicity going back to HTML mode (Meta-X html-mode), but when I hit TAB again, it just does the goofy [html] thing. This is driving me nuts. Any hints? Hi! I had the same problem but this fixed it: in /etc/xemacs20/site-start.d/00debian.el change the line (setq sgml-catalog-files '(CATALOG /usr/lib/sgml/catalog)) to (setq sgml-catalog-files '(CATALOG /usr/lib/xemacs-20.4/etc/sgml/CATALOG)) and restart xemacs. Regards Mikael
Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: It's a kernel issue. On 32 bit platforms time_t will probably always be restricted to 32 bits, but on 64 bits systems such as the alpha time_t is 64 bits .. and by 2038 I expect everyone to be running at least a 64 bit machine. BZZT, wrong answer! First, some people already need to go far into the future for forecasting applications. Secondly, even if desktop machines no longer are 32-bit, by that time Linux certainly will run on minituarized devices that may not be 64-bit. Let us not repeat the same mistake others are making! In fact in a few years everyone using the Intel platform will probably have switched to a mercoed or its successor which is 64 bit. This is not due out for several more years, and considering that old XTs from the early 80s will still be around at that time (they'll be 20 years old at least), it's not at all a stretch to say that the 32-bit machines from the late 1990s or early 2000s will still be around in 2038. -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | + Visit the Air Capital Linux Users Group on the web at http://www.aclug.org
Re: RESCUE DISK | X ICONS
On Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 11:29:37PM -0700, BOB'S MAIL wrote: 1. How do I create a floppy Rescue Disk from a recently installed Debian 2.0 system? You need the file resc1440.bin from your cd or ftp site. Place a new formatted diskette in your floppy drive. Then do dd if=resc1440.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync ; sync -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux
dpkg(install in /usr/local)
Hi all,
Could anyone teach me how to use dpkg to install in a specific
directory, such as /usr/local/.
Thanks!
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Re: xterm-debian
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 12:00:47PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: *-M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Check out /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian for the scoop. | | ? | | I've just read it, and it doesn't say anything about xterm-debian. On my slink system: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ grep xterm-debian /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian | wc -l 8 On my (mainly) hamm system: pick:~/c$ grep xterm-debian /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian | wc -l 0 On my hamm system: $ grep xterm-debian /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian | wc -l 8 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux
Re: permissions of hosts.*
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998 08:07:26 -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: What should be the permission bits of the hosts.* files (hosts.allow, etc, etc). hmm... well on MY system...all of them are: -rw-r--r-- Works for me. Any reasons NOT to have this the case? No. The perms are perfectly alright. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
june 1998 CDrom disk set - Debian
I recently purchased the June 1998 InfoMagic 6 CD set. On the back of the case, it clearly states that the Debian 2.0 distribution was included in the set. I mounted the debian binary disk and got this for the directory: Debian-1.3.1 TRANS.TBL boot doc stable READ_CD.txt bocolophon.txt frozentools SOURCE.txtbo-updatescontrib ls_lr.4 Hum. Wonder what they had in mind? I thought I purchased the 2.0 release, but it is clearly an error. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: Debian Installation Problem
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 08:56:28 -0500, Bruce Walzer wrote: [...] I agree with part of this. DO NOT waste your time fiddling with dselect, you Thanks Bruce. I almost felt like an idiot fighting with dselect. :-( Most recently when faced with the same situation as you I just installed apt and used that to finish up the installation using apt-get. It went very well. Will do! Once you get a Debian system installed for the first time the ease of maintaining it really does blow the other dists away. Short term pain, long term gain :-) Well, this *is* the reason why I wanted to try Debian. I think once I'm thru with this hell I'll be a happy Debian user. :-) Thanks, Ralf -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
RE: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?
-Original Message- From: dsb3 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 27, 1998 11:40 PM To: Miquel van Smoorenburg Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian? On 27 Sep 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wojciech Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi There was a lot of noise about the y2k problem in old COBOL and M$ applications, but what about the Y2K+38 disaster in the POSIX world? I was pretty sure that the new libc6 library implements 64 bit time_t, It's a kernel issue. On 32 bit platforms time_t will probably always be restricted to 32 bits, but on 64 bits systems such as the alpha time_t is 64 bits .. and by 2038 I expect everyone to be running at least a 64 bit machine. I think it's this attitude that caused y2k to be so large and sudden, at least i part. Though it may be true, and though I would like it very much to be true, I'd hate to bet on EVERYBODY moving to a 64 bit system. After all, count the billions of dollars being spent on mainframe systems. I would quite expect many companies to bleed those systems even drier now they've been forced into spending so much money on them ... Mechanically, in less than 15 years, we've gone from $800 72 MB 5 1/4 full height HDs to $600 fit in your shirt pocket 8 GB drives. Electronically, the advance has been far more exciting. IMO, I'd find it easy to bet that 32 bit machines and the Y2K++ problem will be a long since thing of the past in 39 years.
I cannot work on leafnode any more
Over the past many months, it's become increasingly clear that I won't work on Leafnode any more. Hacking on leafnode doesn't give any pleasure any more, and after a long day of hacking at work I simply can't find the will to work on leafnode. In fact, I haven't even been able to heep up with leafnode mail for more than two months now. If you've sent me mail and I haven't answered it, please accept my apologies. As it is, I will not make another leafnode release. If someone wants my current source tree, I shall be happy to give it to you, but even though I run it at work I don't think it's in a good enough state for a publci release and I don't have the time to polish it. I will add a similar note to http://www.troll.no/freebies/leafnode.html. If any of you wish to make your own release (or have made one), please send me mail so that I can add a pointer to your page from leafnode.html. --Arnt PS: This message goes to everyone who's sent me mail about leafnode, if I got the grep pattern right.
Re: Novell and Linux (pam_ncp again)
[Paulo, please limit your lines to less than 80 characters] On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 10:15:17AM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: I downloaded http://www.csn.ul.ie/~airlied/pam_ncp/pam_ncp.0.5.tgz, compile, put into /etc/pam_ncp.conf the Novell Server and the README tells about this that I don't understand. What is starred password? The pam_ncp is very RedHat centric. Notes: The user must be in the password file to allow the user to login. If the user hasn't a starred password the password in the file will work, If the user has a starred password it will go to the Netware server. This means that if the user's password (the second field in /etc/shadow (or /etc/passwd if you're not using shadow passwords)) is set to *, the user's password from the Netware server will be used; if it is not set to *, that (encrypted) password will be used. See shadow(5) and passwd(5) for more information on /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd . HTH, Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Re: xterm-debian
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Jack Kern wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 12:00:47PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: *-M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Check out /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian for the scoop. | | ? | | I've just read it, and it doesn't say anything about xterm-debian. On my slink system: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ grep xterm-debian /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian | wc -l 8 On my (mainly) hamm system: pick:~/c$ grep xterm-debian /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian | wc -l 0 On my hamm system: $ grep xterm-debian /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian | wc -l 8 :( Perhaps I should upgrade? pick:~/c$ dpkg -s xbase Package: xbase Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 5738 Maintainer: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: xfree86 Version: 3.3.2.1-1 -- 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/
Re: june 1998 CDrom disk set - Debian
I recently purchased the June 1998 InfoMagic 6 CD set. On the back of the case, it clearly states that the Debian 2.0 distribution was included in the set. I mounted the debian binary disk and got this for the directory: Debian-1.3.1 TRANS.TBL bootdoc stable READ_CD.txt bo colophon.txt frozentools SOURCE.txtbo-updatescontrib ls_lr.4 Hum. Wonder what they had in mind? I thought I purchased the 2.0 release, but it is clearly an error. ramble mode on They F* up. Again. Never get an InfoMagic set if you want Debian. The first version they sold was 0.97, they claimed it was 1.0 on the box. Several other versions they issued missed files, I remember one with the xbase package missing. Now all they have to do is copy an image, they start mentioning the wrong version again. They do have the correct version on their website (there it says 1.3). There must be someone at InfoMagic that hates Debian, or otherwise they are extremely clueless. Both are good enough reason not to buy from them. If I were you, I'd try to get a refund. ramble mode off Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054
DEB vs RPM
Hi all,
Lots people have told me that there are more deb packages than
rpm. But just by looking at the web site rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/, they
have 10434 packages listed.
Now, do we have this number of deb packages?? Am I missing out any
gook web site??
Anyway, we can always install RPM in our debian system. But my
concern is: Will it stuff up the dpkg system??
Any suggestions are appreciated...
Regards,
Shao
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Re: rvplayer works only as root
I've installed rvplayer but it only works as root. When I run it as normal user it gives error 72, expired version. The user is in the audio group. I've installed it from the slink version. Is there anything else I need to do? the permissions on /dev/dsp may not be right. try cat /usr/lib/exmh/drip.au /dev/dsp (assuming you have exmh around) to see if you can write to it. It should be 0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 14, 3 Sep 18 19:11 /dev/dsp e rick --
Re: DEB vs RPM
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 12:28:57AM +1000, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: Lots people have told me that there are more deb packages than rpm. But just by looking at the web site rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/, they have 10434 packages listed. AFAIK, this count include different versions, ports to non-i386 machines, source RPMs, libc5 + libc6 version of just about everything, etc. Also, the bigger part of these are not supported by Red Hat in any way. As such, I don't think this says more than there are a lot of .rpm files around. Now, do we have this number of deb packages?? The .deb count is probably somewhere in the 2000-2500 range (calculate from debian/dists/unstable/*/binary-i386/Packages.gz for precise numbers). Anyway, we can always install RPM in our debian system. But my concern is: Will it stuff up the dpkg system?? If you install it with rpm, in all likeliness, yes. If you use alien, probably not (unless it's an RPM of a critical system component). HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before.
Re: DEB vs RPM
jdassen == jdassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jdassen X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 jdassen On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 12:28:57AM +1000, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: Lots people have told me that there are more deb packages than rpm. But just by looking at the web site rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/, they have 10434 packages listed. jdassen AFAIK, this count include different versions, ports to non-i386 jdassen machines, source RPMs, libc5 + libc6 version of just about jdassen everything, etc. Also, the bigger part of these are not supported jdassen by Red Hat in any way. jdassen As such, I don't think this says more than there are a lot of .rpm jdassen files around. Indeed. Also, what we noticed was that the quality of the rpm's often varied considerably. Directory paths often changed drastically from one package to the other and other woes that stem from having just about anybody making up a RPM, then sticking them on a FTP server. The Debian system of having large numbers of individual maintainers makes for much better packages. -- Nicolai P Guba BT Labs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: encrypted passwords with pop3/imap/...?
Quoting Ulisses Alonso Camaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I would like to know if there are enhanced pop/imap servers that provide a way to authentificate login/passwords encrypted so sniffers can't get it... if this does exist... what clients does support it? (for windows and unix) qpopper supports apop on the server side, and Eudora does on the client. I don't know about other clients. The down side is that you need to maintain a seperate passwd database for qpopper. Mike Stone pgpfIjqf2Bgzd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: june 1998 CDrom disk set - Debian
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 07:55:38AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Infomagic labelled Debian 2.0 containing 1.3.1] Hum. Wonder what they had in mind? I thought I purchased the 2.0 release, but it is clearly an error. It is. This is the umpteenth mistake wrt Debian Infomagic have made with their CD set. I cannot currently in good conscience recommend their CD set to anyone interested in Debian . They've put unstable versions on CD (ever wonder why there was never a Debian 1.0?), put broken packages and broken hierarchies on CD, etc. We started producing official ISO 9660 CD images specifically so that these types of problem would no longer occur, but IIRC, they chose to ignore the official CD images. To Infomagic: your track record wrt Debian is very bad, and frankly, I think that you're doing a disservice to the Linux community in general, and the Debian community specifically by distributing broken Debian CDs. Unfortunately, in many places outside the US, yours is the only CD set that is easily available. As such, I'd hate to see you drop Debian. Please use up to date official Debian CD images, or, if for some reason that's not an option for you, ask people on the debian-cd@lists.debian.org list to help you in producing working up to date, properly working Debian CDs. Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before.
Re: rvplayer works only as root
Quoting Richard E. Hawkins Esq. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): the permissions on /dev/dsp may not be right. try [snip] should be 0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 14, 3 Sep 18 19:11 /dev/dsp Umm, no, they should be 660 root.audio. On a single user system, it might not matter (much), but that doesn't mean 666 is anything but the sign of the beast. Mike Stone
Re: RESCUE DISK | X ICONS
BOB'S MAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2. How do I install incons for applications in X -- or set a desk top etc.? You need to install a window manager other than the basic twm which comes with X. I'd recommend fvwm2 or fvwm95 for people just starting out. You can customize these relatively easily and they come with loads of icons.
Re: xterm-debian
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 12:00:47PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: *-M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Check out /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian for the scoop. | | ? | | I've just read it, and it doesn't say anything about xterm-debian. On my slink system: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ grep xterm-debian /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian | wc -l 8 On my (mainly) hamm system: pick:~/c$ grep xterm-debian /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian | wc -l 0 On my _COMPLETELY_ hamm system: $ grep xterm-debian /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian | wc -l 8 So, what must be going on here? Cheers, Pann -- What's All the Buzz About Linux? http://www.rdrop.com/users/pann/
Re: Debian 2.0 Cheaper Bytes again
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another option might be the dpkg-multicd method written by Heiko Schlittermann; it's available from ftp://ftp.datom.de/pub/people/heiko/debian/ Unfortunately, the .deb doesn't have a copyright file, and the source for 0.5 (the 0.7 source's permissions are wrong) doesn't contain copyright information. As such, we cannot distribute it as part of Debian; Heiko, please consider changing this. Hopefully the Debian versions will handle this. I made my own CDs and hey, when using a second one, it totally screwed up the list of what Debian thought was installed! I had to switch to doing everything via ftp after the initial install to avoid having my whole installation hosed! ;-/ (Or at least, appearing to be hosed. dselect installed/removed packages I didn't ask it to, because the list of packages got seriously screwed, or so it appeared from the messages on-screen.) Thanks for the pointer to dpkg-multicd, Kendall
Audio Group and NIS passwords
Hi Debian users, I follow always the threads about the group audio in the user debian list and know that I have to add a user in group audio for he to be able to play CD and midi. But, I installed Debian 2.0 and use NIS and my passwd does not have any user and when I try to add a user to the audio I have the error that the user does not exists. How I can handle this? BTW, I have to setup /dev/audio, dsp, ... to 666 and this is very bad. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique
audio device permissions (was Re: rvplayer works only as root
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Michael Stone wrote: Quoting Richard E. Hawkins Esq. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): the permissions on /dev/dsp may not be right. try [snip] should be 0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 14, 3 Sep 18 19:11 /dev/dsp Umm, no, they should be 660 root.audio. On a single user system, it might not matter (much), but that doesn't mean 666 is anything but the sign of the beast. just to give one example why world read-write on the audio devices is a Bad Thing - suppose someone were to remotely access your machine over the internet or even from another office and start reading your audio device? well if you have a microphone hooked up they can eavesdrop onto everything thats happening around your PC with you none the wiser. be careful with permissions! - dave -- | oOOooO / --|oOobodoO/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --| ooOoOo / | II / Rocky Road, croaked the toad. | II /
linux on HP 715 ?
can anyone tell me if debian or any other linux is running on apollo/HP 715 ... please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well as the group.
viewing ansi graphics
Does anyone know of a way (or a utility) to view ansi graphics under Linux? I used to run a BBS a few years back, and had it pretty jazzed out with colorful ANSi graphics. I can't just cat the files, though, because the high-ascii characters are not diplayed correctly (and by high-ascii I mean blocks and shaded blocks, lines, etc.). Back in the day I created the ANSI graphics with a DOS program called TheDraw and viewed them with type filename.ans. Of course, the ANSI.SYS driver had to be loaded. Thanks Matt
How do I get exim to work?
I am trying to get exim to work, but without success. I would appreciate
some help.
My hostname is Johann.
My ISP-domain is alpha.futurenet.co.za.
I have a single PC with a dialup ppp-connection and fetchmail.
My username is jhspies on both the localhost and at the ISP.
If I answer the configuration script like this I cannot send mail to
anybody else on alpha.futurenet.co.za:
-
You must choose one of the options below:
(1) Internet site; [snip]
(2) Internet site using smarthost: [snip]
[snip]
Select a number from 1 to 5, from the list above.
Enter value (default=`1', `x' to restart): 2
==
What is the `visible' mail name of your system? This will appear on
From: lines of outgoing messages.
Enter value (default=`Johann', `x' to restart): alpha.futurenet.co.za
==
[snip]
On the following questions I gave 'none' as default answer.
===
Would you like to use the RBL? ('f'ilter, 'r'eject, or 'n'o)?
Enter value (default=`n', `x' to restart):
==
Which machine will act as the smarthost and handle outgoing mail?
Enter value (`x' to restart): alpha.futurenet.co.za
==
[snip]
Which user account(s) should system administrator mail go to ?
Enter one or more usernames separated by spaces or commas . Enter
`none' if you want to leave this mail in `root's mailbox - NB this
is strongly discouraged. Also, note that usernames should be lowercase!
Enter value (default=`jhspies', `x' to restart):
The following configuration has been entered:
==
Mail generated on this system will have `alpha.futurenet.co.za' used
as the domain part (after the @) in the From: field and similar places.
The following domain(s) will be recognised as referring to this system:
alpha.futurenet.co.za
Mail for postmaster, root, etc. will be sent to jhspies.
Local mail is delivered.
Outbound remote mail is sent via alpha.futurenet.co.za.
[snip]
Configuration installed.
--
I then experimented with my /etc/exim.conf file. The contents of this
file now looks like this (commented lines removed):
qualify_domain = alpha.futurenet.co.za
local_domains = Johann
local_domains_include_host = true
local_domains_include_host_literals = true
relay_domains =
relay_domains_include_local_mx = true
never_users = root
host_lookup_nets = 0.0.0.0/0
sender_host_reject_relay = *
trusted_users = mail
smtp_verify = true
gecos_pattern = ^([^,:]*)
gecos_name = $1
received_header_text = Received: \
${if def:sender_fullhost {from ${sender_fullhost} \
${if def:sender_ident {(${sender_ident})}}\n\t}\
{${if def:sender_ident {from ${sender_ident} \
by ${primary_hostname} \
${if def:received_protocol {with ${received_protocol}}} \
(Exim ${version_number} #${compile_number} (Debian))\n\t\
id ${message_id}
end
local_delivery:
driver = appendfile
group = mail
mode = 0660
mode_fail_narrower = false
file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part}
address_pipe:
driver = pipe
return_output
address_file:
driver = appendfile
address_directory:
driver = appendfile
no_from_hack
prefix =
suffix =
address_reply:
driver = autoreply
remote_smtp:
driver = smtp
end
real_local:
prefix = real-
driver = localuser
transport = local_delivery
system_aliases:
driver = aliasfile
file = /etc/aliases
search_type = lsearch
userforward:
driver = forwardfile
no_verify
check_ancestor
file = .forward
modemask = 002
filter
localuser:
driver = localuser
transport = local_delivery
end
lookuphost:
driver = lookuphost
transport = remote_smtp
literal:
driver = ipliteral
transport = remote_smtp
end
# Domain Error Retries
# -- - ---
* * F,2h,15m; G,16h,2h,1.5; F,4d,8h
end
--
When trying to get mail from my ISP the following happens:
reading message 1 of 16 (2612 bytes)
popclient: SMTP 220 Johann ESMTP Exim 1.92 #1 Mon, 28 Sep 1998 18:42:34
+0200
popclient: SMTP EHLO Johann
popclient: SMTP 250-Johann Hello jhspies at johann [127.0.0.1]
popclient: SMTP 250-SIZE
popclient: SMTP 250-PIPELINING
popclient: SMTP 250 HELP
popclient: forwarding to localhost
popclient: SMTP MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE=2612
popclient: SMTP 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] is syntactically correct
popclient: SMTP RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
popclient: SMTP 550 relaying
Re: wmppp and ISDN
On Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 12:34:17PM +0200, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: - if I press the checkmark, I want the yellow light to appear to indicate, that my connection is in dial-on-demand state (i.e., the default route is set to ippp0 and the interface is waiting for the next paket to dial out). I never got the yellow light to behave. The thing is, wmppp.app author uses RH, and his script is of the run something, wait for something, quit style. Now, to your problem. wmppp.app is configured in a funny way. The yellow light indicates the checkmark has been pressed, and it's waiting for a connection to be stablish. Problem is, it waits for a fixed ammout of time (the author script gives up after a fixed ammount of time, I think). What you want it to do is to wait forever. That can't be changed. Since I also want a similar behaviour for my modem, I'll look into it. - when the isdn connection is established, the green light should appear and the timer should start When the PPP interface comes up, /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/0wmppp is run. That script touches /var/run/wmppp.ppp0; wmppp uses the (modification?) date of that file to update the on-line timer. /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/wmppp removes the file in /var/run; when the file is gone, the green light is gone. The display of the current isdn load would be great too ;-) Bingo. That's what I wanted to ask... I've never seen a machine running Linux+ISDN, so I have no clue about this. wmppp.app monitors /proc/net/route and looks for the ppp interface (ppp0, ppp1, ...) I guess ISDN interfaces use another name... I could be as simple as making wmppp look for that interface. Also, get_statistics is ppp specific. It should be modified to work with ISDN. HTH, Marcelo
denying su from non-local terminals
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Re: linux on HP 715 ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi! On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, dave oswald wrote: can anyone tell me if debian or any other linux is running on apollo/HP 715 ... It seems to me that yes! http://www.osf.org/mall/os/pa-mklinux/index.html Maybe there is also a non Microkernel based project Also I believe thet NetBSD/OpenBSD has better support for this architecure.. I hope this helps Ulisses - - 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 iQB1AwUBNg/CZg/N+5+NQ63pAQGIwgL7BK2/k9xMqMksB6oOxeMMw7jmTV+FXVzb 9+56IuRk5NxaMAqTGjYqtUATQrfMLx9BBSGxRW3bqNNmqLQZs41eDAIYdKXCk2ww 4r2vs4cVlTl9rQKBsY7YwaTY4qr0LKuU =Qo7P -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[off-topic] Best way to replace quotes with angle brackets
Hi all, What is the best way to replace quoted includes (#include duh.h) with bracketed includes (#include duh.h)? I've got over one hundred files that use quoted includes and I would like to switch them over to bracketed includes. The package I am creating/maintaining uses the quoted includes and I would like to change them before I release the package. I was thinking of using sed but I am not at expert at using sed, and after several failed attempts sought your help :). Finding the include statements in the source isn't a problem via regex. The problem is changing the beginning and ending quotes to beginning and ending brackets. TIA, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [off-topic] Best way to replace quotes with angle brackets
I think that a s/^#include (\w+\.h)/#include $1/ is close to what
you want. The (foo) (1) notation means find this chunk nad store it.
Then it is accessed as 1. More could be used and they would be 2, 3,
etc. The above regex is Perl notation. It should move to any other
regex style fairly easy.
#!/usr/bin/perl
$infile = pop(@ARGV);
open(infile, INFILE) or die(Could not open $infile\n);
@FILE = INFILE;
close(INFILE);
open(infile, OFILE) or die(Could not open $infile for writing\n);
foreach $line (@FILE) {
$line =~ s/^#include (\w+\.h)/#include $1/;
print OFILE $line;
}
close(OFILE);
Not tested, but close.
--
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Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today
Re: [off-topic] Best way to replace quotes with angle brackets
What is the best way to replace quoted includes (#include duh.h) with
bracketed includes (#include duh.h)?
$ perl -i.bak -ne 'if (/#include \(.*)\(.*)$/) {print #include $1$2\n}
else {print $_}' *.h
(Creates a .bak file for every file processed from the *.h)
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Re: [off-topic] Best way to replace quotes with angle brackets
Cool! However, I have several types of includes, e.g.: #include duh.h # include duh.h #include /**/ duh.h # include /**/ duh.h # include ... etc. As such, I'd like to be able to do something like: #include duh.h- #include duh.h # include /**/ duh.h - # include /**/ duh.h ... etc. Is there a way to accomplish without making several passes? I'm not a Perl guru either so this is all very new to me. Sorry. Thanks again, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Keyboard Policy
Thank you for your answer. But Xkbdisable is commented out in the /etc/X11/XF86Config. xev gives me a delete [Note: mailing list change] On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 01:02:18PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: After upgrading from 1.3 to 2.0 my system decided to ignore -- in an xterm, netscape, but work on the console, emacs, etc. Do you have Xkb enabled? The implementation of the keyboard policy for X only works for Xkb. `--' generates KB_Backspace in X. `Delete' generates KB_Delete in X. KB_Backspace, what is this? An X keyboard event name (or something like it); check with xev. That is all for me. The policy is not understandable for non-experts While it would be nice if it were, this isn't exactly a requirement; it is meant for the developers who have to implement it. and the system is not working as it should. This may be a result of not switching to updated configuration files as supplied by the maintainer; I'd look into xbase's configuration files, and in /etc/X11/XF86Config (which may have XKbdDisable in it). Yes, I agree, but how can I find out now, which bit I have to change in which file. Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig
masqdialer
Has anyone gotten masqdialer to work with a Debian dist? I currently have a debian box set up to do IP masquerading, and I use the Debian pon and poff to start and stop the PPP dial-up connection. First of all, is there an easy way to make pon and poff executable by everyone? (Or maybe only certain people?) And is there then an easy way to just have masqdialer use the Debian pon and poff?
Q: SMail and T-Online
Hi, After switching from DLD Distribution to Debian Hamm, I like to use Smail instead of Sendmail for Mail. But I had no success to setup smail for T-Online. Can anyone help me , especially a german user who has resolved this problem ? TIA Wolf -- W.-R. Juergens e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usually, when a lot of men get together, it's called a war. Mel Brooks, The Listener
Re: rvplayer works only as root
Mike Stone Wrote, Quoting Richard E. Hawkins Esq. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): the permissions on /dev/dsp may not be right. try [snip] should be 0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 14, 3 Sep 18 19:11 /dev/dsp yikes! when did that happen??? I didn't even look at it when I clipped, since I knew what it should be . . . grrr rick --
more modem
OK, here's part II of the problem. I pulled out my modem and configured it to com1 irq4. I disabled com1 on the motherboard and windows seems happy. However now I get the following when I type plog Sep 28 19:02:35 gonzo pppd[144]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 Sep 28 19:02:35 gonzo pppd[144]: tcgetattr: Input/output error(5) Sep 28 19:02:36 gonzo pppd[144]: Exit. What is going on? Why won't the modem work? At least wvdial says the modem is not responding now, before I didn't have one!
Re: viewing ansi graphics
Heh heh, I remember the days of DOS and BBSing and The Draw and DOOM II and MODs and demos I don't know how to display the higher-ascii characters in the text-mode console, but if under X you start an xterm or rxvt or whatever and load it with an ansi font (eg xterm -font vga or rxvt -fn vga, you'll need to download the font first) then you can properly display all those colored blocks and funky characters. If anyone knows how to display these characters in text mode, please let me know. I'm thinking it might be possible with the 2.1.x kernels, because they let you display all kinds of weird things in text mode like yellow prompts and graphical penguins, IIRC. But I may be wrong. Christopher Matt Garman wrote: Does anyone know of a way (or a utility) to view ansi graphics under Linux? I used to run a BBS a few years back, and had it pretty jazzed out with colorful ANSi graphics. I can't just cat the files, though, because the high-ascii characters are not diplayed correctly (and by high-ascii I mean blocks and shaded blocks, lines, etc.). Back in the day I created the ANSI graphics with a DOS program called TheDraw and viewed them with type filename.ans. Of course, the ANSI.SYS driver had to be loaded. Thanks Matt -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: encrypted passwords with pop3/imap/...?
Michael Stone wrote: Quoting Ulisses Alonso Camaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I would like to know if there are enhanced pop/imap servers that provide a way to authentificate login/passwords encrypted so sniffers can't get it... if this does exist... what clients does support it? (for windows and unix) qpopper supports apop on the server side, and Eudora does on the client. I don't know about other clients. The down side is that you need to maintain a seperate passwd database for qpopper. I should point out in case it's not apparent that *any* implementation of APOP will require a separate (and plaintext!) password file. This is due to the nature of the protocol. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mkfsk.ext2 and X problems
Hey, First, I'm at work and I had typed a nice long e-mail about my problems and before I mailed it. My workstation crashed -- didn't I hear a rumor that NT was stable. Only mine crashed and all I was doing was typing e-mail Anyway. I attempted to created a linux partition from a 40mb dos partition. I did this mkfsk.ext2 /dev/hda1 then in fstab /dev/hda1 /dos ext2 default,rw 0 1 -- have to admit I winged this one!!! /dos was the name of the directory on /dev/hda1 --- I think this maybe the problem. It worked, until I shutdown for the night. On reboot, I had to run fsck.ext2 and that repaired the problem until I shutdownfinally after trying all type of stuff -- used cfdisk,fdisk etc. I used fdisk and changed it back to dos. Now there is now problem except I need it to be linux. 2) After, I did all that I tried to log in as a user in X and it would not let me. From the way in failed I now in a problem that xf86config will fix...resolution. But, I can still log in under root and it works. Isn't everyones xf86config the same? Rod.
Help ppp
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Re: Help ppp
Hello, i have just installed Linux, how do i do to get connected(ppp)? As root, run pppconfig command. Then start ppp with pon, stop with poff, see log with plog. Good luck, Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: more modem
At 07:39 PM 9/28/1998 +0100, tracheotomy_bob wrote: OK, here's part II of the problem. I pulled out my modem and configured it to com1 irq4. I disabled com1 on the motherboard and windows seems happy. However now I get the following when I type plog Sep 28 19:02:35 gonzo pppd[144]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 Sep 28 19:02:35 gonzo pppd[144]: tcgetattr: Input/output error(5) Sep 28 19:02:36 gonzo pppd[144]: Exit. What is going on? Why won't the modem work? At least wvdial says the modem is not responding now, before I didn't have one! Just as a test, I'd try the following command: echo ATDT(some_phone_number) /dev/ttyS0 and see if you hear the modem pick up and dial. If you've got a second phone line (or cell phone, etc), you can dial it and answer it and hear yourself talking to yourself (if you've got a speaker on the modem). echo ATH /dev/ttyS0 to hang up the line. echo ATZ /dev/ttyS0 to reset the modem. If this test works, it'll verify that Linux and your modem will work together, and that the hardware is okay. HTH. Kent Kent West, Technology Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] Abilene Christian Univ., Abilene, TX 915-674-2557 FAX: 915.674.6724 Amateur Radio: KC5ENO Debian Linux: Ride the wave with the penguins!
XMCD segmentation fault
Hi, Tried to configure xmcd with my Mitsu. CD and it came back as a segmentation fault when I tried to run xmcd. Anyone have an idea how to fix the problem? I am sure there is more info needed, just let me know and I shall provide. Toby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: viewing ansi graphics
Try: echo -e \e[32mHi Where 32 is the ansi code for green. Also look at the setfont man page to set the console font to an ascii one to use the extended characters. Plain old setfont with no args works for me to set the console to vga fonts. On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 11:44:47AM -0500, Matt Garman wrote: Does anyone know of a way (or a utility) to view ansi graphics under Linux? I used to run a BBS a few years back, and had it pretty jazzed out with colorful ANSi graphics. I can't just cat the files, though, because the high-ascii characters are not diplayed correctly (and by high-ascii I mean blocks and shaded blocks, lines, etc.). Back in the day I created the ANSI graphics with a DOS program called TheDraw and viewed them with type filename.ans. Of course, the ANSI.SYS driver had to be loaded. Thanks Matt -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XFMail rules question
I just started using XFmail today and am learning it mailbox rules setup. I have a mailing list where sometimes mail is from @MyDomain.Org and other @mydomain.org. How can I code a rule to catch this. Currently I have Text: mydomain.org and Field: Recipients but it does not catch the upper case mail. Any help appreciated.
Re: xterm-debian
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Michael Stutz wrote: Check out /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian for the scoop. I've just read it, and it doesn't say anything about xterm-debian. * The default keymappings for xterm are different than they are upstream, to comply with the Debian Keyboard Policy and make xterm's behavior more consistent with the Linux virtual console. There are three terminal types (manipulated by the $TERM shell variable) recognized by terminfo, though the same xterm binary is used in all cases: 1) xterm (this is the traditional X11R6.3 xterm and is consistent with standard X11R6 xterms found on most other Unix machines) 2) xterm-xfree86 (this is XFree86's terminfo description for xterm) 3) xterm-debian (this is the Debian Project's terminfo description for xterm, based on the current XFree86 description but containing our modifications) There is a long list of technical reasons for the above (admittedly complicated) setup, which...
Re: more modem
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 02:07:08PM -0500, Kent West wrote: Just as a test, I'd try the following command: echo ATDT(some_phone_number) /dev/ttyS0 and see if you hear the modem pick up and dial. If you've got a second phone line (or cell phone, etc), you can dial it and answer it and hear yourself talking to yourself (if you've got a speaker on the modem). echo ATH /dev/ttyS0 to hang up the line. echo ATZ /dev/ttyS0 to reset the modem. If this test works, it'll verify that Linux and your modem will work together, and that the hardware is okay. I tried this on my system, which has a working modem and ppp connection, and it didn't do anything. HTH. Kent Kent West, Technology Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] Abilene Christian Univ., Abilene, TX 915-674-2557 FAX: 915.674.6724 Amateur Radio: KC5ENO Debian Linux: Ride the wave with the penguins! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: viewing ansi graphics
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Matt Garman wrote: Does anyone know of a way (or a utility) to view ansi graphics under Linux? cat will do this after changing the console font to a font that will properly display all of the extended ASCII characters. alt-8x16 is one such font, but there may be many more (check /usr/share/consolefonts/ for a lit). $ setfont alt-8x16 $ cat bbsfile.ans
