Re: permisos en ppp.log
El Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 02:36:55AM +0100, Vicente Barba contaba: todos he encontrado el mismo problema: el archivo /var/log/ppp.log tiene permisos de lectura para todo el mundo por defecto (evidentemente hay que pornerle un 600). Así, si ponemos debug en el options, entonces la contraseña que le pasamos al ISP se queda en el ppp.log. Craso error, no?. El mío no, por lo menos. Tiene permisos 640. De hecho he tenido que meterme en el grupo adm para poder usar el plog. -- Saudos: ose[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vigo/Galicia/España) http://pagina.de/xmanoel/ http://w3.to/mikkeli/
Re: Debian
Hola Andres Hirane escribió: ¿ Puedo tener linux y windows 98 en un mismo HD (disco duro)? ¿Como? Claro que puedes tener ambos. Eso si, el disco ha de ser algo grande para que te quepan los dos: A partir de 2G para una cierta comodidad. Tienes que mirar si tienes espacio libre suficiente en el disco: 1 Gb para una cierta comodidad, pero si tienes mucho disco y quieres meterte la Debian puedes dedicarle 2 o mas. No te asustes si te parece mucho, el linux mas sencillo cabe en un disquette, y con X muy basicas lo tienes en dos disquettes. Una vez decidido y conseguido el espacio, desde el win corres defrag con la opcion desfragmentacion plena. Despues sales al DOS (No creo que valga una simple ventana de DOS) y buscas por el CD de linux una aplicacion que se llama FIPS.EXE, esta es la que te recortara la particion de windows dejandole sitio al linux. Te creara una particion para linux, si no vas a usar swap, deja esa, sino, borrala y durante la instalacion creas las particiones precisas. Para instalarlo te sera de gran ayuda conocer un poco el hard de tu maquina, y que tengas predisposicion a leer. A partir de aqui, comienza realmente el proceso de instalacion: -Arrancando un fichero bat que suele venir en el cd (se llama install.bat normalmente) -Haciendo que la maquina arranque desde el cd (tienes que tocar las opciones de la bios y solo las placas modernas te lo permiten). Yo tuve un problema en este modo, la Debian 2.0 no montaba el CD para pillar los drivers en medio de la instalacion. -Creando los discos rescue y drivers con la utilidad rawrite.exe (mira la documentacion para la sintaxis) La instalacion en si no suele ser demasiado compleja. Si montas la Debian lo peor es el paso del dselect: suele ser muy tedioso. De todas formas, si tienes problemas vuelve a escribir. A mi me gustaria tener linux, pero tengo un problema. Mi familia usa windows y no me dejarian borrarlo. Una vez instalado, configuras el lilo para que por defecto arranque el windogs y nadie se te va a quejar. Tengo 14 años y no entiendo mucho sobre esto. Lo unico que se es que quiero tener linux, porque windows me tiene aburrido con sus fallas. A mi me tenia aburrido ;) -- Deica logo
Re: Red de Linux
Hola Andres Herrera escribió: Guenas Tiene pinta de problema de resolucion de nombres. ¿Que servidor DNS has configurado en el /etc/resolv.conf, tanto del servidor como del cliente? ¿Has instalado bind en algun equipo? No tengo bind. Mi resolv.conf es el mismo en todos los equipos: search 127.0.0.1 nameserver 194.179.52.2 nameserver 62.81.16.197 nameserver 62.81.0.1 La primera ip es la de ctv, las otras dos son de iddeo. Funcionan bien si trato de conectar desde la maquina de modem. -- Deica logo
Re: Permisos
Hola Conrado Badenas escribió: Emilio de Miguel wrote: Al listarlos me aparece con nauta como propietario y grupo, pero si intento acceder a el me dice que no tengo permiso. ¿El usuario que intenta acceder tiene permiso de ejecución de su propio directorio?. Ejemplo, yo soy el usuario conrado en mi maquina y mi directorio es /home/conrado. Al hacer ll -d /home/conrado me sale: drwx-- 17 conrado users2048 ene 12 09:34 /home/conrado ^ Esta x es importante, además de la r y la w. Era eso. Por que es tan importante? Moitas gracias -- Deica logo
Re: permisos en ppp.log
El Tue, Jan 12, 1999, Vicente Barba... tras haber instalado la Debian en tres equipos para un red local, en todos he encontrado el mismo problema: el archivo /var/log/ppp.log tiene permisos de lectura para todo el mundo por defecto (evidentemente hay que pornerle un 600). Así, si ponemos debug en el options, entonces la contraseña que le pasamos al ISP se queda en el ppp.log. Craso error, no?. Viene así por defecto, que me registren que no he usado el chmod en ese archivo. Que raro, el mio está así, -rw-r- 1 root adm 15704 ene 12 05:26 /var/log/ppp.log y da problemas si lanzas la conexión desde un usuario normal y haces `plog -f', porque no tiene permiso de lectura. Lo modifiqué, pero al poco tiempo el sistema me lo volvió a dejar así, :-? Saludos. -- Cosme = -=-=- A través de Debian GNU/Linux -=-=- -=-=- Software Libre -=-=- -=-=- Computadora de 1992 -=-=- http://www.linux.org/ S.O. Multi-[plataforma, tarea, usuario] http://www.gnu.org/ Free Software Foundation http://LuCAS.ctv.es/ Linux Documentation Project CAStellano =
Re: placa base atx
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: también me doy cuenta ahora de que al cambiar la tarjeta por una con soporte ATX y una caja ATX, no puedo apagar bien la máquina. Anteriormente intenté hacer Ctrl+Alt+Supr (=halt), pero no pude apagarlo. En windows, al apagar, la máquina se apaga sola... ¿cómo consigo hacer esto con Debian? Compilando el kernel con soporte APM. --- Paco Brufal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fidonet 2:346/3.68 --- ...Heartbeat (Party Mix). Bass-D King Matthew. 1995 --- * Origin: FAQ de R34.LINUX: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/pbrufal (2:346/3.68)
Re: Permisos
Emilio de Miguel wrote: Hola Conrado Badenas escribió: Emilio de Miguel wrote: Al listarlos me aparece con nauta como propietario y grupo, pero si intento acceder a el me dice que no tengo permiso. ¿El usuario que intenta acceder tiene permiso de ejecución de su propio directorio?. Ejemplo, yo soy el usuario conrado en mi maquina y mi directorio es /home/conrado. Al hacer ll -d /home/conrado me sale: drwx-- 17 conrado users2048 ene 12 09:34 /home/conrado ^ Esta x es importante, además de la r y la w. Era eso. Por que es tan importante? Porque si no, no puedes hacer cosas como cd midirectorio, y eso creo que es automático cuando haces el login: te identificas con tu user y password, el login lee en tu linea de /etc/passwd cual es tu directorio $HOME, te lanza a ese directorio (cd $HOME) y ejecuta la shell que le hayas dicho (no estoy seguro del orden: quizás primero ejecute la shell y luego haga el cd $HOME). Corolario: todo directorio al que quieras irte con un cd tiene que tener habilitado el permiso de ejecución. -- Conrado Badenas (Assistant Lecturer) Department of Thermodynamics. University of Valencia c/. Doctor Moliner, 50 | e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 46100 Burjassot (Valencia) | Phn: +34-63864350 SPAIN| Fax: +34-63983385 PS: A los usuarios de la lista desconcertados porque no han visto el primer mensaje de respuesta a este thread: es que hice un Replay a Emilio sin Carboncopy a la lista (en caso de equivocarme no quería darle propaganda a mi error).
Alguien sabe como actualizar las Xfree86???
¡Hola! En uno de los ordenatas tengo una tarjeta PCI (Picasso Gold) con un chipset Permedia que es soportado por la última version de las Xfree. Tengo la última versión que vino el último PC actual pero creo no viene un fichero .deb. Sólo los tgz. He mirado los readme y la docuentación pero no veo como puedo instalarla. ¿Alguien me puede decir cómo hacerlo? En otro de los ordenatas en los que tenía una tarjeta Matrox G200 AGP hice una pequeña trampa que funcionó. Seleccioné como tarjeta otra que usaba el mismo servidor (ya que en el Xf86config no me aparecía la MatroxG200) en este caso el SVGA y despues descomprimí y substituí el antiguo servidor SVGA por el nuevo en el /etc/X11R6 y la trampa funciona perfectamente. Pero intentando la misma cosa con la Picasso no funciona porque el servidor para chipset 3DLabs es nuevo y no aparece en ninguna de las anteriores versiones de Xfree. Por tanto, creo que solo me queda la opción de reinstalar las Xfree.. pero ni idea de cómo, oye. El sistema tiene instalado la Debian 2.0 Gracias, de antemano por cualquier ayuda. Armando
WordPerfect 8
Buenas. Ante todo espero que perdoneis éste cross a saco, pero creo que es de interés general y a más de uno interesará la noticia. En el próximo número de PC-PLUS (Febrero), que aparecerá a finales de Enero, viene, en los cd's, el WordPerfect 8 para Linux, incluido el paquete del idioma. -- Have a nice day ;-) Grupo AGUILA TooManySecretsHay gente que vive y merece morir, y gente que muere y merece vivir. ¿Puedes devolver la vida? Pues no te apresures a dispensarla, ya que ni el más sabio conoce el fin de todos los caminos Gandalf (The Lord of the Rings)
Compilación del núcleo
Para compilar el núcleo es interesante leer la howto del kernel, pero los pasos a seguier son los siguientes. 1.- Copiar el fichero del núcleo que viene en los funetes de la distribución de Debian 2.0 (la que yo tengo) en el subdirectorio /usr/src. 2.- Descomprimirlo con gunzip ( o tar) creo que yo lo hize con gunzip. Te lo deja todo en un subdirectorio /usr/src/linux. y de aquí te va creando diferentes subdirectorios. 3.- Ejecutas el comando #make menuconfig. El te guiará por las diferentes opciones seleccionar. 4.- Al salir grabas la configuración 5.- Ejecutas el comando #make dep para ejecutar dependencias (no sé muy bien qué es lo que hace). Después de esto ejecutas #make clean (creo que borra ficheros temporales). 6.- Compilación propiamente dicha. Ejecutas #make zImage. Esto compila y crea un nucleo. Luego lo que yo hago es cargar el nucleo en un diskette para arrancar desde aquí para probar. Yo no tengo cargado el LILO. 7.- Crear un diskette con el nucleo. Se ejecuta #make zdisk. Este comando crea un nucleo cargable en un diskette. Este método te permite crear nucleos de prueba para cargarlos desde diskette. De todos modos todo esto te viene mucho mejor explicado en el howto del kernel. Saludos.
Re: Compilación del núcleo
Pues yo lo que hago para compilar el kernel es lo que dice en el paquete kernel-package - /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz De esta manera te creas un .deb para el binario y luego lo instalo con dpkg -i fichero_kernel.deb Básicamente es: 1.- cd /usr/src/linux-VERSION-QUE-SEA 2.- make menuconfig 3.- make-kpkg clean 4.- make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image 5.- dpkg -i ../kernel-image-X.XXX_1.0_arch.deb El custom.1.0 fue el primero ahora ya voy por custom.21.0 ;) -- Rafa C. Marcos BCN Art Directe (Promotora d'Art) http://www.bcnartdirecte.com Visit Internet Virtual Studios at: http://www.bcnartdirecte.com/studios
Re: WordPerfect 8
Yo pensaba incluirlo en el de LA, lastima que no haya respondido nadie de COREL para poder meterlo, la versión que se distribuye en WWW es sólo para uso personal (no se puede redistribuir) Saludete Javi On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 12:13:10PM +0100, TooManySecrets wrote: Buenas. Ante todo espero que perdoneis éste cross a saco, pero creo que es de interés general y a más de uno interesará la noticia. En el próximo número de PC-PLUS (Febrero), que aparecerá a finales de Enero, viene, en los cd's, el WordPerfect 8 para Linux, incluido el paquete del idioma. -- Have a nice day ;-) Grupo AGUILA TooManySecretsHay gente que vive y merece morir, y gente que muere y merece vivir. ¿Puedes devolver la vida? Pues no te apresures a dispensarla, ya que ni el más sabio conoce el fin de todos los caminos Gandalf (The Lord of the Rings) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: WordPerfect 8
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 07:58:47PM +0100, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: Yo pensaba incluirlo en el de LA, lastima que no haya respondido nadie de COREL para poder meterlo, la versión que se distribuye en WWW es sólo para uso personal (no se puede redistribuir) Pues en el SOLO Linux de este mes sale el WP8. Yo me lo he instalado de ahí. Lo que no viene es el módulo español. Oye, a modo de sugerencia... lo que me sucede (y creo que a mucha gente también) es que te instalas la versión Oficial sea la que sea, 2.0, 2.1 y hasta que no sale la siguiente pues pasa un tiempo en el que te interesa actualizar algunos paquetes de unstable o frozen y cuando miras de hacerlo con el apt te dice que se tiene que bajar tropecientos megas y eso tarda (y cuesta) un montón. Lo mismo pasa con cosas en desarrollo que ya se podrían usar... gnome (con todo lo que conlleva, i.e. enlightement, themes), kernels, Wine. Creo que debe haber gente interesada en conseguir ese tipo de cosas en el CD de LA con ramas de ustable/frozen, último gnome en CVS, postgresql, último kernel de desarrollo, gimp, mozilla, KDE (que no se diga ;)), etc. Creo que el usuario típico de Linux es bastante más espabilado que el de Windows, que necesita que todo se lo des en un SETUP.EXE para que haga click y ya está. Por esto los CD de las revistas de Linux no deberían estar oriantados de la misma forma que están los de revistas para usuarios de Windows. Aunque... errr... ahora que veo el CD del último número... ya había cosas en CVS... bueno... pero molaría tener el CVS de gnome en el próximo CD. ;) Rafa C. Marcos BCN Art Directe (Promotora d'Art) http://www.bcnartdirecte.com Visit Internet Virtual Studios at: http://www.bcnartdirecte.com/studios
Re: WordPerfect 8
Pues la verdad es que eso mismo he pensado yo, y os hago un adelanto de lo que va a ir en los DOS cds de LA (no es por desprestigiar a la competencia porque yo no he conseguido que los de Corel me den autorización para poner su WP8): - documentacion - mirror de sunsite (ahora metalab) con TODO lo del Linux Documentation Proyect: HOWTOs, y manuales de Linux - mirror de lucas y de insflug, con la traduccion de lo de arriba al español - mirror de la documentacion de Internet: RFCs, FYIs, FAQs y drafts (obtenidos de ftp.rediris.es) - revistas - ultimas revistas de Linux Gazzette, navegables desde el CD - volcado, navegable desde el CD, de la revista LinuxFocus - mozilla - mirror del servidor de desarrollo, con fuentes y to - wine - mirror de la ultima version y documentacion de desarrollo - suites ofimaticas: koffice y mirror de las aplicaciones de sunsite relacionadas con el tratamiento de textos (incluyendo la suite 'siag' y otras cosilla) - entornos de ventanas: mirror COMPLETO de GNOME y KDE, con las versiones de desarrollo (unstable) y finales (stable) asi como documentacion y paquetes para Debian y RedHat. - kernels: ultimos kernels: - 2.2.0pre4 (lo se hay un pre6 pero no he podido cogerlo) - 2.1.131 (ultimo inestable) - 2.0.36 (ultimo estable) Ya sabeis que desde que yo doy el CD hasta que sale la revista hay un lapso mínimo de un mes, así que es posible que no sea todo lo ultimisimo (aunque he intentado que lo fuera) Un saludo Javi On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 08:51:54PM +0100, Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 07:58:47PM +0100, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: Yo pensaba incluirlo en el de LA, lastima que no haya respondido nadie de COREL para poder meterlo, la versión que se distribuye en WWW es sólo para uso personal (no se puede redistribuir) Pues en el SOLO Linux de este mes sale el WP8. Yo me lo he instalado de ahí. Lo que no viene es el módulo español. Oye, a modo de sugerencia... lo que me sucede (y creo que a mucha gente también) es que te instalas la versión Oficial sea la que sea, 2.0, 2.1 y hasta que no sale la siguiente pues pasa un tiempo en el que te interesa actualizar algunos paquetes de unstable o frozen y cuando miras de hacerlo con el apt te dice que se tiene que bajar tropecientos megas y eso tarda (y cuesta) un montón. Lo mismo pasa con cosas en desarrollo que ya se podrían usar... gnome (con todo lo que conlleva, i.e. enlightement, themes), kernels, Wine. Creo que debe haber gente interesada en conseguir ese tipo de cosas en el CD de LA con ramas de ustable/frozen, último gnome en CVS, postgresql, último kernel de desarrollo, gimp, mozilla, KDE (que no se diga ;)), etc. Nos debíamos estar leyendo el pensamiento porque ya ves que he incluido mucho de eso... Creo que el usuario típico de Linux es bastante más espabilado que el de Windows, que necesita que todo se lo des en un SETUP.EXE para que haga click y ya está. Por esto los CD de las revistas de Linux no deberían estar oriantados de la misma forma que están los de revistas para usuarios de Windows. De acuerdo contigo, aunque me hubiera gustado tiempo para hacer una aplicación para presentar de forma más bonita los contenidos del CD, porque dos páginas de revista no da para mucho a la hora de contar todos los contenidos aunque el usuario típico de Linux sea como tú dices habría que dar facilidades a los que no están tan técnicamente orientados. Aunque... errr... ahora que veo el CD del último número... ya había cosas en CVS... bueno... pero molaría tener el CVS de gnome en el próximo CD. ;) Rafa C. Marcos Un saludo Javi
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Re: Red de Linux
Hola Marcelo E. Magallon escribió: ¿Está el módulo del protocolo cargado? Con el modulo cargado es igual. En esta situación también puede ser que desees colocar un proxy en 'peste' para que las otras dos máquinas se conecten a él. Así obtienes varias cosas, entre ellas, tienes un caché en una sola máquina, con lo cual se puede hacer algo más rápida la conexión... Ya, pero es un 486 con 8Mb de RAM y no se si se quedara algo pequeño. -- Deica logo
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Slink problem - libc-doc depends on a duff version
Dear all, When using dselect to upgrade to slink, it objects to the version of libc that I have, so I have to remove libc-doc :( Is this a known problem, or am I being dumb? 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: RH vs Debian (Switch to Red Hat ?)
i think the reason is the advertisement of redhat, i´ve never heard about debian until a fellow student points out (thanks rainer :-) that there other dists than redhat, suse or dld (german). - And i´m very satisfied with Debian (i´m a hobbyist ;-) What was the RH version that you used when you swap to Debian ? Can you compare RH and Debian ?
Re: X Clients out on the net? (non-debian specific question)
If I understand what you want, you want to run an X client on a Windows box. This might give you a taste of the flavor of X, but the engine will still be Windows with all its limitations, so don't expect to get a true feel for it. To do this, you'll need an X Server on your Windows box. The X Server is the engine for X Windows. There's a free version from www.microimages.com called Mix/TNTLite or something or other that you can run on top of Windows. It's kindda like running a Macintosh emulator on Windows, so it won't be truly representative of X. Can you be more specific about the engine will still be Windows with all its limitations and won't be truly representative of X ?
Re: Hamm beta upgrade to Slink
I want to upgrade my libc from 2.0.7t-1 to libc6_2.0.7v-1.deb too. Can I simply install the appropriate packages, even if during the process parts of the system will be broken ? Is there a possibility that my system will completely be useless so that I will have to reinstall hamm from scratch ? Yes! libc6 requires libc6-dev of the same level. I have had this problem in the past. just run your apt-get -f install and it will pull whatever files are required to solve the problem. (which means upgrading libc6-dev) Your good to go man. :) Ivan Quoting Jason Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Howdy... I have a machine here running a beta of Hamm, probably from before Hamm was frozen. I'm trying to get apt going on this machine so that I can upgrade it to slink. I manually installed apt, libc6, libstdc++2.9 and such from slink and then resolved as many of the conflicts and such by hand as I could. However, I'm not sure what to do about this one: gusgus:~ # apt-get check Updating package file cache...done Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...dependency error You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet dependencies: apt: Depends:libc6 Libc6 is, of course, installed: gusgus:~ # dpkg -s libc6 Package: libc6 Status: install ok installed Priority: required Section: base Installed-Size: 1582 Maintainer: Joel Klecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: glibc Version: 2.0.7-19981211-1 Replaces: libc6-dev, ldso Pre-Depends: ldso (= 1.8.10-1) Recommends: timezone, locales Conflicts: libc5 ( 5.4.33-7), libpthread0 ( 0.7-10), libstdc++2.8 (= 2.90.29-1), libstdc++2.9 ( 2.91.59-2) Description: GNU Libc: shared libraries Contains the standard libraries that are used by nearly all programs on the system. This package includes shared versions of the standard C library and the standard math library among others. Any ideas how to get around this one? I'm using apt version 0.1.9. Thanks! PeeWee -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - useless: http://www.scc.mi.org/peewee/ - efnet: Pwe Bad signs are everywhere coach. I tend to ignore them The Era of Big Numbers -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ivan E. Moore IIRev. Krusty http://www.tdyc.com[EMAIL PROTECTED] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Imagination is more important than knowledge - Albert Einstien -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- GPG KeyID=0E1A75E3 GPG Fingerprint=3291 F65F 01C9 A4EC DD46 C6AB FBBC D7FF 0E1A 75E3 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Slink problem - libc-doc depends on a duff version
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: Dear all, When using dselect to upgrade to slink, it objects to the version of libc that I have, so I have to remove libc-doc :( the glibc-doc package is your friend -- 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: too many open files
i've recently reinstalled my debian system and i am now getting the following error message: Jan 12 09:00:15 random amd[1162]: setmntent(/etc/mtab, r+): Too many open files any ideas, or pointers to the fm are welcomed. The kernel's out of file handles. Go to /proc/sys/kernel and look at file-max as compared to file-nr as well as inode-max compared to inode-nr. I think nr is the number currently in use... but I could swear I've seen it go higher than max. Anyway, the solution is just to put larger numbers in the max files. In my /etc/init.d, I've got a file called setmaxfiles.sh that contains: echo 4096 /proc/sys/kernel/file-max echo 12288 /proc/sys/kernel/inode-max Then, I made a symlink to it from /etc/rcS.d/S37setmaxfiles.sh so that it will update the kernel structures every time it boots (as it goes through single-user mode). - Joe
Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (was: RH vs Debian)]
I don't think Debian is usable to found a company on that. No company can actually control Debian, impose release dates and such needed things (for a company). Even if it's feasible, no company ever SHOULD have such rights, for Debian to keep it's spirit. You are thinking in the wrong traditional terms. It's not about controlling Debian or imposing anything upon anyone. A company based on Debian would need a different business strategy. Just take into account what a company like Cygnus is doing for free software! A company basing it's business on Debian Linux should ideally be composed of Debian people and would mainly care in making Debian known as a viable product on the wider market. Generated income could be used to give full time jobs to Debian developers who could then fully concentrate on Debian for a living. This could probably help increase the release frequency and would provide a financial framework for Debian. At the moment it's really a pity that mainly third parties are generating income mainly for themselves and i believe we would considerably benefit if a company would do the same specifically for Debian. Wouldn't you like to be paid working for Debian? My point is that this company would one day tries ot improve it's revenues and influence the Debian distribution to fits its needs. Look at the recent discussions about whether to ship Slink as i386 only, or to wait until m68k and others are ready. If Debian had been commercially distributed by a company, the choice wouldn't be taken on a 'How can this help the Debian dists and end-users' basis, but on a 'How can we get the most bucks' basis. So I think my argument still stands. We can't allow for someone to sell Debian itself, it shall at every cost stay uninfluenced by any other corporation. What we could do in this approach would be to found a non-profit organization (I think that's the place you and I are touchy) that would do sidejobs on Debian. As for what it could do, let's see this example list: - Education and testing of Debian consultants. Guys who would debug you're system for a fee. Kind of certification of proficiency program. - Debian books and other such things. Maintain a support site. - Centralized support, phone, e-mail, whatever. - Shrink-wrapped, Cds with other useful apps. (Like Caldera's partition magic pack, or pre-installed Office apps, etc.) It would be in the goals of such an organization to provide publicity and availability to the Debian dist, and to re-invest in that particular dist. Which would get us a great deal of what we still need: Money support.
nVidia TNT help!!
I have tried and tried to get this Riva TNT video card up but I cannot. what I've done: 1) D/L'ed the binary XF86_SVGA server version 3.3.3 and put it in /usr/bin/X11/. (I was using this server with the S3V card earlier today.) 2) Configured my xf86config (3.3.2) for the Riva128 (Diamond Viper330 although mine is a 550) because the thread in -user earlier said to do this. I did not select a RAMDAC or use a clocks line. When I run startx the screen goes blank, as if the server is running but not displaying anything. If I do a Ctrl-Alt-Bksp the server dies and I get my console back. Can anyone lend me some advice on how to get this card working?!! Any help is greatly appreciated!! -Ian __ Ian Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP = F2 92 50 E3 CD D7 A2 D9 C4 CE 08 A6 98 E0 0F 58
Re: timezone
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 11:53:32PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: Dear all, libc recommends timezones, but this appears not to be available. according to dselect :( although I have it installed.. Please give: dpkg -s libc6, dpkg -s timezones (if this is on the hurd, give me dpkg -s libc0.2 instead :) Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
Re: Switch to Red Hat?
Well, i think it is a very healthy experience once in a while to try out another distribution like Redhat just to see what actually makes Debian so good. [...] So just do it, you'll return anyway - but being lots wiser. Hehehe. He can borrow my copy of RedHat 5.1 I bought and installed for exactly that reason -- and like you said, I returned (I'll resist comment on the wiser part ;-). -- . Randy ([EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Colebrook School District Technology Coordinator Since I'm paid for results and technical knowledge, it should go without saying that opinions expressed are my own and not those of my employer.
Killing CLOSE/CLOSE_WAIT Sockets?
Howdy, Got a bit of a problem, not real sure how to solve it. Debian box used for mail. People pop their mail (via Outlook). Theres about 50 clients that do this every 5 or so minutes. Every now and then people will complain that they can't get their mail [that in fact, they cannot be logged on to the mail server] Theres nothing obviously wrong with the box [it's been happily chugging away for 359 days] but I THINK the problem is this.. $ netstat |more Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp7 0 mail-i.proton.com:pop-3 122.122.125.125:1117CLOSE tcp7 0 mail-i.proton.com:pop-3 122.122.123.206:1059CLOSE tcp7 0 mail-i.proton.com:pop-3 122.122.123.20:1036 CLOSE tcp7 0 mail-i.proton.com:pop-3 122.122.125.125:1045CLOSE tcp7 0 mail-i.proton.com:pop-3 122.122.123.199:1033CLOSE tcp7 0 mail-i.proton.com:pop-3 122.122.125.123:1047CLOSE tcp7 0 mail-i.proton.com:pop-3 122.122.125.125:1051CLOSE ... etc. ~210 CLOSE or CLOSE_WAIT's. They don't seem to disappear. Is there any way I can nuke these manually? or decrease the time it takes for the kernel to clean them up? Or even increase the number of simultaneous connections per socket? Or am I barking up the wrong tree? Help appreciated.. :) D. -- Dale Harrison | Universe, n.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The problem.
network question
This isn't really a Debian specific question. I'm running Debian 2.0 on a machine with 1 10baseT network card. I use this as a Quake server on my LAN. I would like to add a 10/100baseT card to it so that there are 2 network cards. I would then like to be able to run one 100baseT hub and one 10baseT hub. I have read that Linux will only detect one card on bootup. Is this still true for kernel 2.0.34? Would this work? Set card A with an IP of 192.168.1.1 Set card B with an IP of 192.168.2.1 For all machines on 192.168.1.X, set the gateway to 192.168.1.1. For all machines on 192.168.2.X, set the gateway to 192.168.2.1. So, the Linux machine would function as a gateway and a Quake server simultaneously. Does anyone see any reason why this wouldn't work?
Re: Slink problem - libc-doc depends on a duff version
You should probably use apt and do: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade to slink. This will handle the dependency stuff correctly. You can then configure dselect for the apt method, if you wish (recommended). There's a new version of all the libc6 packages in slink today, so hopefully there should be no problems with that. Bob On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: Dear all, When using dselect to upgrade to slink, it objects to the version of libc that I have, so I have to remove libc-doc :( Is this a known problem, or am I being dumb? 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/ -- 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: X Clients out on the net? (non-debian specific question)
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, shaul wrote: If I understand what you want, you want to run an X client on a Windows box. This might give you a taste of the flavor of X, but the engine will still be Windows with all its limitations, so don't expect to get a true feel for it. To do this, you'll need an X Server on your Windows box. The X Server is the engine for X Windows. There's a free version from www.microimages.com called Mix/TNTLite or something or other that you can run on top of Windows. It's kindda like running a Macintosh emulator on Windows, so it won't be truly representative of X. Can you be more specific about the engine will still be Windows with all its limitations and won't be truly representative of X ? Well, instead of the X client talking to the X server which talks to the Linux kernal which talks to the hardware, you'd have the X client talking to the X server which talks to the Windows kernel which talks to the hardware. So the underlying kernel is still Windows, with its instability and bugginess. So if a crash happens when using an X client on Mix, the uninformed user might blame the X client, when in reality it's more likely a problem with the underlying Windows engine. This is just my take on things. Don't quote me as gospel. -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails. Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC! Life is an ongoing classroom. - Capt. James T. Kirk, Dreadnought
Re: Learning more/Linux programming books
Hello, What computer languages do I need to learn? As others have said, that depends on what you want to do... If you are looking at particular files you want to understand, use the `file' command to check what they are; or, if the first line starts with #! it tells you directly (eg a file beginning with #!/usr/bin/perl is in the PERL language; the file command will tell you it's `perl script text'). In general if someone could point the direction. You've heard quite a few recommendations about C. And I agree with that. But I think Pascal is somewhat easier language to start with. But it's not used nearly so often... This really depends on what kind of area you want to learn - whether it's programming (and what kind), or system administration, or what. Oh yes, most of the difficulty of programming is not understanding the language itself, but the mental discipline associated with getting what you asked for, rather than what you meant. And don't write window manager. Write some fun games where bad guys are chasing you on the screen. You'll learn a lot. I was going to agree with that, but then I realised that if everyone followed that advice there'd be no Linux (if memory serves). So I don't know. Obviously, mileage may vary. HTH Jiri
Re: Mail, Kernel and X
Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A I also wish to compile my own kernel (make xconfig) but because i dont know A the specs for my vid card, monitor and sound card (soundblaster 16 clone i A think) will i run into trouble? You don't need to use 'make xconfig' to configure your kernel; 'make menuconfig' works without X, for example, as does the old 'make config'. In this case you won't need specs for your video card or monitor. If you don't know the information for your sound card, you can build a kernel without sound support. You should read the README file at the top of your kernel source tree before trying to build your own kernel. It's probably also a good idea to install the kernel-package package, which builds Debian packages out of kernels. -- _ / \ Dad was reading a book called | David Maze | _Schroedinger's Kittens_. Asexual | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | reproduction? Only one cat is in the box. | http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ | -- Abra Mitchell \_/
cron without cron package??
I've noticed that on Debian systems without the cron package installed, there still appears to be some version of cron availible... however I've been unable to get it to work for anything. I can edit a crontab, but no cron daemon is running and /usr/sbin/cron doesn't seem to do anything. I did a 'dpkg -S *cron* ' but I didn't find where this file was installed or where it came from. Obviously I couldn't figure out what it does, either. Anyone know about this? Chris
Re: timezone
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Dear all, libc recommends timezones, but this appears not to be available. according to dselect :( although I have it installed.. confused, Matthew I saw this earlier at work, and it looked like a misspelling in the libc6 recommends. It says 'timezone' when it really meant 'timezones'. -Mitch
Setting Prompt
OK, I did a search in Debian user's and came up with the the following to change my prompt: In /etc/profile I added the line, export PS1='\h:\w\$ ' This is the readout I got, crossyourfingers:~$ This wasn't what I wanted I only want the current working directory to show. I took a look at the man page for bash. It said that \w would list my working directory. So I tried the following: If I use, export PS1='\w:\\$ ' I get, ~:$ I tried several other combinations, a few I tried, \w\ \w:\w\ None of these worked. Here is what my /etc/profile looks like: ~:$ cat /etc/profile # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for bash(1). PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/usr/local/netscape:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/kent export PATH PS1 export PS1='\w:\\$ ' setleds -D +num$ umask 002 /usr/bin/check-sendfile What am I doing wrong here? I just want my prompt, as a regular user, to look something like this: /home/kent $ As root my prompt has the working directory listed. Where is the file for the root prompt? Maybe I could just look there and figure out how to set my regular user prompt? Thanks, Kent
Re: default fonts in NS 4.05 unreadable
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 09:42:37PM +0100, Thomas Adams wrote: On two different hamm computers with different video cards and monitors I installed Netscape 4.05 with the install script. On both of these systems I can hardly read the web pages because the default fonts are too small. On the same computers and monitors, a Windows Netscape displays fine. Why? In Windows you have TrueType fonts which display much more nicely than X fonts, especially on a lower res screen. I installed xfstt from slink which vastly improved Netscape on my 640x480 laptop screen. your pal dave -- Dave Thayer Denver, Colorado USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
manually running cron
I have cron installed, and I'm sure it should be running things that I'm not currently running - like the locate database update. My problem is, I'm on a laptop, and I shut it down when I'm done with it. So, is there a way to get the cron stuff to run manually? Or possibly at bootuptime? Thanks, Jay
Re: manually running cron
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 10:10:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have cron installed, and I'm sure it should be running things that I'm not currently running - like the locate database update. My problem is, I'm on a laptop, and I shut it down when I'm done with it. So, is there a way to get the cron stuff to run manually? Or possibly at bootuptime? install anacron (and RTFM :-) -- your man pann
Re: package upgrading issue
Deepak Nulu wrote: Hi, I had the same problem. I wanted to get a package from the FTP site that was not on my CD and did not know how to make dselect load just the package I was interested in. I tried to unselect everything This I believe is not possible. You should use the dpkg command line: dpkg -i package.deb from the topmost section, but it did not work. I read in one of the help files that any operation on a section title would effect all packages in the section, but that did not happen. I read that This works for me. I have all my packages on hold. I can then select which packages to update or to newly install. dpkg-ftp was used by dselect but I could not invoke this from the shell. Attempts to put packages on dpkg-ftp I thought only added the FTP choice in the access methods of dselect. There is no command dpkg-ftp. hold (my understanding was this would prevent it from upgrading) was not easy and I kept getting into dependencies and conflicts. I eventually gave up and let dselect use its defaults and upgrade all the packages. When getting dependancy errors, I use shift-q to get out of that screen after putting all the packages on hold. 1. Use section header to put packages on hold. 2. Dependancy screen pops up. 3. Put those packes on hold. 4. Type shift-q to get back to main screen. 5. Type shift-q to leave the select screen. Hope any of this is helpfull. Paul
SMP.
Hmm, Does SMP work well with the 2.0.36 kernel? I heard that older kernels (2.0.35), froze when there was a high load. I just want to make sure that it's safe for me to run 2.0.36. Chris Wong | [EMAIL PROTECTED] AD Digital Media Inc. (c) 1998 http://addm.com/
Re: Setting Prompt
ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: show. I took a look at the man page for bash. It said that \w would list my working directory. So I tried the following: If I use, export PS1='\w:\\$ ' I get, ~:$ That is a feature. The tilde is a commonly-used abbreviation for the home directory of the current user. You can use it when typing commands too, and it will be expanded before the program you run see the arguments. Try e.g.: ~:$ echo I live in ~ I live in /home/kent ~:$ bash automatically tries to use this abbreviation when it writes out the working directory. It assumes that when working somewhere deep inside your home you would rather see ~/foo/bar/xyzzy/grizzle:$ than /home/kent/foo/bar/xyzzy/grizzle:$ There doesn't seem to be any way of turning this feature off in standard bash. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm
Re: Setting Prompt
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 09:01:53PM +, ktb wrote: OK, I did a search in Debian user's and came up with the the following to change my prompt: In /etc/profile I added the line, export PS1='\h:\w\$ ' This is the readout I got, crossyourfingers:~$ This wasn't what I wanted I only want the current working directory to show. I took a look at the man page for bash. It said that \w would list my working directory. So I tried the following: If I use, export PS1='\w:\\$ ' I get, ~:$ ~ is your home directory. try cd'ing to /usr/share with that prompt. I tried several other combinations, a few I tried, \w\ \w:\w\ None of these worked. Here is what my /etc/profile looks like: ~:$ cat /etc/profile # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for bash(1). PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/usr/local/netscape:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/kent export PATH PS1 export PS1='\w:\\$ ' setleds -D +num$ umask 002 /usr/bin/check-sendfile What am I doing wrong here? I just want my prompt, as a regular user, to look something like this: /home/kent $ As root my prompt has the working directory listed. Where is the file for the root prompt? Maybe I could just look there and figure out how to set my regular user prompt? Thanks, Kent -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] AOL/IM: jim foltz
Re: X and fvwm2 configuration
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 07:17:37PM +0100, LOPARIC Marko wrote: Just FYI, your fvwm configuration will have no effect on the size of your desktop (real or virtual), or the resolution of your X display. 1. Make X start in higher resolution. This is determined by the Modes line in the Screen section of your XF86Config file (/etc/X11/XF86Config). For instance, here's one of my Screen sections (you may have more than one, depending on how many different X servers you use -- most people need only one, though). Section Screen Driver SVGA Device ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] Monitor Sony 200sf BlankTime 0 DefaultColorDepth 32 SubSection Display Depth8 Modes1376x1032 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 512x384 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth16 Modes1376x1032 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 512x384 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth32 Modes1376x1032 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 512x384 EndSubSection EndSection X will start in the first mode for which it can find a usable Modeline (defined earlier in the XF86Config file). For me, as you can see, that is the mode 1376x1032. If for some reason the X server throws away that modeline (an error message which will go the virtual console you started X from, or to /var/log/xdm-errors if you're using xdm to start the X server), it will proceed through the list of Modes until it finds one it can use. I have not provided the Modelines because they depend somewhat on your video card, and greatly on your monitor. If the X server can't use any of your defined Modes, it will exit with an error and X will not start. Note how I have a separate subsection for each color depth I can use with the SVGA X server, and a DefaultColorDepth line to set my default to 32 bits per pixel. 2. Make xterm font size and window bigger. You can change xterm's font size on the fly by holding down the control key and pressing the right mouse button while the pointer is in the xterm window. This brings up the VT Fonts menu. Other menus are available by holding down control and pressing the left and middle mouse buttons while in the xterm window. If you change xterm's font size, it will automatically size the window to show a complete screen of the current geometry (the default is 80 columns by 24 rows). You could edit $HOME/.xsession to start xterm with a larger font. xterm -ls -fn 7x13 -title medium-size xterm xterm -ls -fn 9x15 -title large-size xterm xterm -ls -fn 10x20 -title really big xterm xterm -ls -fn 12x24 -title freakin' huge xterm Alternatively, you could play with some of xterm's X resources (in $HOME/.Xresources) to change its default font size, but that's a more sophisticated issue and this mail is too long already. Careful reading of the man pages for X and xterm will be instructive. Skip what you don't understand and read carefully the parts you do. man X man xterm I also wasn't unable to run the fvwmconf module. Please tell me where I can look for documentation on that topic. I can't help you with that; I'm an old fogey and edit my fvwm config file by hand. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux |Please do not look directly into laser [EMAIL PROTECTED] |with remaining eye. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpYaFNI3r9uh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SQLs Servers in Debian
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 04:27:30PM -0400, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: I have some questions: 1) Is there any frontend gui to postgres in Debian Hamm or Slink or Pota to? 2) Is there any frontend gui to mysql in Debian Hamm or Slink or Potato? Does it make much sense to have a generic gui frontend to an SQL db? Usually you would want something specific to your database/application. You can build web based front-ends with www-mysql/www-pgsql or php3 quite easily. 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: removing ^M from a text file
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 03:48:31PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote: sed 's/^M//g' badfile goodfile Replace badfile and goodfile appropriately. Generate the ^M in bash with contv contm Thanks - that's what I couldn't figure out. It's nice to know I was trying to use sed the right way :) Just to confirm that Unix has lots of ways to do such simple things :-) don't forget the following: tr -d '\015' badfile goodfile 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: Setting Prompt
I wrote: There doesn't seem to be any way of turning this feature off in standard bash. after downloading and checking the source No, there isn't. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm
Re: RH vs Debian (Switch to Red Hat ?)
I used RedHat through version 5.1 before switching to Debian. Here are a few of the reason I stuck with Debian and continue to do so. - More packages distributed with the base system. - I believe the dpkg package management is much better than RedHat (especially for developing packages on a production system) - Debian strictly adheres to a well defined set of rules for filesystem layout in relation where packages keep configuration files, libraries and executables... etc... - Debian always seems to have less errata and corrections per distribution, Redhat has gotten much better in this area - I much prefer the Debian way of configuring packages usually at package install time via the scripts built into the package. Debian makes it easier for the seasoned Linux user to configure the system using non-gui based methods, which is a plus for me as I manage some systems remotely. Linux conf is supposed to handle this sort of thing but I am not to pleased it. I have yet to figure out what Redhat offers me that Debian does not. My humble opinion:) On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, shaul wrote: Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 02:05:46 +0200 From: shaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: RH vs Debian (Switch to Red Hat ?) Resent-Date: 13 Jan 1999 00:17:43 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; i think the reason is the advertisement of redhat, i´ve never heard about debian until a fellow student points out (thanks rainer :-) that there other dists than redhat, suse or dld (german). - And i´m very satisfied with Debian (i´m a hobbyist ;-) What was the RH version that you used when you swap to Debian ? Can you compare RH and Debian ? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Gnome-ONLINE?
ok.. so I can't get GNOME installed.. I've been told its easier to do, ONLINE, I've even had offeres of help, once I get online.. so... how the heck to I get online with Debian? Remember.. I'm deffinatly a newbie at Debian, and Linux.. just got it installed this past sunday.. Rogue - One who travels apart from the pack, and is wild and fierce.
Re: Soundblaster under Debian 2.0
Ramesh Natarajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I just installed Debian 2.0 and compiled kernal (2.0.34) with Sound as module. I seem to get something working, but not all. I configured my /etc/isapnp.conf, did a isapnptools /etc/isapnp.conf followed by $insmod sound trace_init=1. On dmesg, I see Sound initialization started Sound Blaster 16 (4.16) at 0x220 irq 5 dma 0,5 Yamaha OPL3 FM at 0x388 Sound initialization complete when I do cat /dev/sndstat, I see Card config: Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 0,5 (SB MPU-401 irq 1 drq 0) OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0 Iam able to play CD using workman. When I cat some .au to /dev/audio, (or when I try saytime) I get no sound. I get no error either. When I do rvplayer welcome.rm, I get some error like Codec not installed/Compression not supported. From what I see in HOWTO, looks like I have MPU stuff not enabled. Is this a problem? I donot have MPU 401 support enabled in make config (going by help text) I used to have RedHat 5.1 with sound working like sweat (using sndconfig). Is there a similar tool under debian? (just wanted to be a GNU purist for a while :) No; unfortunately there isn't such an easy sound configuration tool (anyone want to take apart RedHat's? - and while we're at it, compile sound as a module in the default kernel?). However, I have sound working on my machine, on my PnP Soundblaster clone. I too get the MPU thing enclosed in ()'s, so that in and of itself isn't your problem. What does the rest of cat /dev/sndstat say? (specifically, does it list an audio device? What does it say about installed drivers?) Add a NAME section to your isapnp.conf right before the (ACT Y) thing, like this: (NAME SoundCard) (ACT Y) ) And then make certain that the VERBOSITY setting at the top of isapnp.conf is at least 2. This should make isapnp spit out information about the card after configuring it - make certain this information matches what your kernel thinks about your card. Thats my main Qn. I have few more :) 1) I can do startx only as root. Not as any other user. I get some error like xlib: conncecion refused by server. If I run xdm, I can log on as any user though. This one is easy. Look at the file /etc/X11/Xserver. Read what it says. 2) When I try make xconfig for kernal config, I cannot select any of the y/m/n options. I can input all text fields (like irq, IO) though. Wierd.
Setting Up Newsgroups
How do I go about setting up newsgroups on my hamm box? I installed the news servers, but I'm unsure of what to do next. I just want to pull maybe 10 groups down to my local box. Thanks
Re: Gnome-ONLINE?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok.. so I can't get GNOME installed.. I've been told its easier to do, ONLINE, I've even had offeres of help, once I get online.. so... how the I too am stumbling with Debian. I got gnome to work by getting the following files: gdk-imlib1_1.8.1-0.1_i386.deb libgtkxmhtml0_0.30-1_i386.deb gnome-core_0.30-1_i386.deblibgtop0_0.26.0-1_i386.deb gnome-desktop_0.28.1-1_i386.deb liborbit0_0.3.0-1_i386.deb gnome-panel_0.30-1_i386.deb libpanel-applet0_0.30-1_i386.deb gnome-session_0.30-1_i386.deb libungif3g_3.0-2_i386.deb libglib1.1_1.1.3-1_i386.deb orbit_0.3.0-1_i386.deb libgnome0_0.30-1_i386.deb slib_2c3-3.deb libgtk1.1_1_3A1.1.2-1_i386.deb I pretty sure that's all of them. I placed them in the same directory and did a dpkg -i * and let dpkg do its thing. That seemed to work as I now have gnome working. I'm not sure if I updated any other packages for this or not. I had to upgrade some stuff to get lpr and apsfilter to install because I couldn't make lprng and magicfilter to work for me. Now only if I can figure out how to build window maker 0.50.2! heck to I get online with Debian? I'm using wvdial right now. It's a snap to get configured. All you have to do is run wvdialconf as root. I then added my normal user account to groups dip and dialout so that I can run wvdial. Also don't forget to add your DNS addresses to the /etc/resolv.conf file like so: search . nameserver ###.###.###.### nameserver ###.###.###.### If you need more help, the ISP-Hookup-HOWTO is invaluable. Check it out in /usr/doc/HOWTO. HTH -- __ _ Mark Wagnon -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
Re: SQLs Servers in Debian
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 02:52:49PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 04:27:30PM -0400, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: I have some questions: 1) Is there any frontend gui to postgres in Debian Hamm or Slink or Pota to? 2) Is there any frontend gui to mysql in Debian Hamm or Slink or Potato? Does it make much sense to have a generic gui frontend to an SQL db? Usually you would want something specific to your database/application. Ah, here's a difference between the Pee-Cee world and the *nix world where there's something to be said for the other place. It's really handy to be able to take a quick look at a database to see what the structure is like, how many tables, how many records, etc., etc. You can certainly do that with SQL (I do it regularly), but I do find myself remembering fondly how much easier it was to do in Paradox for DOS. Note that I'm not talking about an application-specific front end, that's an entirely different kettle of fish. -- your man pann
Re: default fonts in NS 4.05 unreadable
Dave Thayer wrote: In Windows you have TrueType fonts which display much more nicely than X fonts, especially on a lower res screen. I installed xfstt from slink which vastly improved Netscape on my 640x480 laptop screen. I decided to try a fresh look for X and install xfstt. Is there anything that needs to be done after installing it? I made a link to my windows fonts, and I can preview them when I run the tst.sh file, but what am I not doing to make fonts available for netscape, etc? TIA -- __ _ Mark Wagnon -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
Re: Why not as a newsgroup?
Tom Persons wrote: Actually, if you check an earlier post someone responded with the address of a site that mirrors this list. But your right, that many e-mail's at 28.8 or lower can take quite awhile. On the flip side a 56K modem goes for under $100 now and I've seen some on sale for as low as $30. Seems a small price to pay for the increased speed. Oh, and please don't tell me that some people can't afford $30 for a new modem. I realize this situation exists, but I would guess that a minority of the people suscribed to this list falls into that category. Tom I've got a 33k modem, but unfortunately, the best I can get out of my ISP is 24-28k (about 95% of the time - occasionally I do see 32k). -- Ed C.
Boa and ProFTPd from inetd?
Hi all! I was wondering if somebody could tell me what I have to do to get these services to run properly from inetd? (Apparently they don't bother to configure themselves in the least for it!) I tried manually adding a line to my inetd.conf file, (and then killall -1 inetd), which didn't seem to work. (It solved the Connect refused, but not I get Service not available.) At least for proftpd, there was an example line included, which I tried: ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/proftpd proftpd I also tried using lines which looked like those that were there, eg, /usr/sbin/tcpd instead of proftpd (as the first arg, of course.) But, neither seems to work. (They both seem to give the same response.) Any help/info would be greatly appreciated, thanks! -Ajay (And please cc replies to me, as I'm not currently subscribed to the mailing list. How come nobody uses the ngs btw? (Well, let me try! ;)) (And yes, I tried similar lines with boa.. but just get 503s.. And yes, I removed (just did 'cd /etc/init.d ; mkdir tmp; mv boa proftpd tmp') these two services, since I so infrequently need them I don't want them (or much else, especially not tamad (Ohh no!! ;)) running all the time..) Thanks!
Re: Why not as a newsgroup?
Thomas Adams wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 05:53:50PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: Newsgroups allow you to only download the subject lines of the messages instead of have to download all messages whether you would have read them or not. I'm glad you have a 56k connection, How many Unix newsreaders offer this? Don't all news-servers provide for this, and all news-readers implement it? The news reader in NS Communicator does the above. but keep in mind there are others with only 33.6 or 28.8 connections. Downloading 400-500 messages at 28.8, or less, still takes awhile. Folks, I can only recommend you to get a UUCP account with your provider or bully them very hard if they don't offer this. I have one and am subscribed to like 20 mailinglists with several hundred messages a day. They get compressed at my provider's system and I download them within one minute. Even without ISDN it wouldn't take me more than two or three minutes. So with UUCP connection time is no issue. Now this is new to me. Thanks. I'll ask about this with my ISP. -- Ed C.
Re: default fonts in NS 4.05 unreadable
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 09:37:49PM -0800, Mark Wagnon wrote: Dave Thayer wrote: In Windows you have TrueType fonts which display much more nicely than X fonts, especially on a lower res screen. I installed xfstt from slink which vastly improved Netscape on my 640x480 laptop screen. I decided to try a fresh look for X and install xfstt. Is there anything that needs to be done after installing it? I made a link to my windows fonts, and I can preview them when I run the tst.sh file, but what am I not doing to make fonts available for netscape, etc? It was a pretty uneventful installation, but read /usr/doc/xfstt/FAQ.gz. In particular there are some details regarding choosing font size for netscape. What I did, in a nutshell, was -Set up symlinks from /dosc/windows/fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/winfonts -Start up the font server: /etc/init.d/xfstt start -Add to the Files section of /etc/X11/XF86Config: FontPathunix/:7101 -Restart X and set up netscape as per the FAQ. your pal dave -- Dave Thayer Denver, Colorado USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NT and Debian...O.S. loader 4.01 sux!
Hi, NT loader 4.01 will overwirte mbr without any warning. you can get the debian rescue image, and boot linux from the floppy disk... then you can mount the linux native partition and reinstall lilo on the root partition. After that, go back to NT and set the linux native partition to be active... and here you go... On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Martin Schulze wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what up! scenario: i had Linux on my laptop running efficiently well...however, i just installed NT4.0 without preparing LiLo for the image of NT...now, my laptop will only boot to NT (o.s. loader 4.01 takes over) and I dont know of any way to get back into Linux Specs: my hard drive is split up to where there is an NTFS partition and an ext. partition in which the Linux swap and native are stored. Please help me get back in!!! thanks, ramon -- Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is only acquired just after one could have used it. Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: hosts.deny problem.
- hosts.allow - ALL: localhost,128.206.x.x : ALL - - Whenever I've put an IP in, I always also add the mask, a la: - ALL :localhost, 128.206.0.0/255.255.0.0 - - AND LEAVE OFF THAT SECOND ALL! - - hosts.deny - ALL: ALL I likemore idea of one config file and use: ALL: localhost 128.206.0.0/255.255.0.0: ALLOV ALL: ALL: deny or 128.206.0.0/255.255.0.0 can be changed to 128.206. (note the ending dot, it MUST be there) -- Matus fantomas Uhlar, sysadmin at Telenor Internet Kosice, Slovakia BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz Silvester Stallone: Father of the RISC concept.
Re: default fonts in NS 4.05 unreadable
Dave Thayer wrote: It was a pretty uneventful installation, but read /usr/doc/xfstt/FAQ.gz. In particular there are some details regarding choosing font size for netscape. What I did, in a nutshell, was -Set up symlinks from /dosc/windows/fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/winfonts -Start up the font server: /etc/init.d/xfstt start -Add to the Files section of /etc/X11/XF86Config: FontPathunix/:7101 -Restart X and set up netscape as per the FAQ. Thanks Dave! It worked nicely. One last Q though...when I start xfstt at the console, it responds with: Cannot open TCPIP port 7101 Better try another port! Is this normal? It works fine, I'm just curious as to the significance of that message. Thanks again. -- __ _ Mark Wagnon -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
Re: Type tags for Debian packages.
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: The problem I have with a heirarchical structure is that you always have those 'gray area' packages that may go into one location or another. For example: I have an X11-based system administration tool. Should it go into X11/system or system/X11? A keyword based system would not have this problem. No no, you didn't read thoroughly enough. I said that one advantage of this system is that every package can have any number of these tags, so you could put them in both, if you really want. So it is almost like keywords, but with the difference that these keywords create a hierarchical tree-like structure. Patrik
X -indirect, xdm and chooser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all, I'm using default /etc/X11/Xaccess configuration My /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers has the X server line commented I start xdm, ok I start X -indirect localhost I get the chooser with a list of all available hosts willing to manage my X server, that's fine If I choose localhost works fine, If I choose another host It resets and I get my chooser another time or It keeps the Xserver with no window at all (as if you exec X standalone, eg: without startx) If I use X -indirect some other host it works ok, that is I can select any host and I get it's xdm login prompt what's happening here? thanks in advance, Ulisses - - Computers are useless. They can only give answers.Pablo Picasso -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: latin1 Comment: PGP public key available at http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver iQB1AwUBNpxhVw/N+5+NQ63pAQGz/gMAwDf7O8H3ElZ89vREWwlCi1igMrp8io1X 78NLy0tRRxGsKav3PjfMfrRUx9d1S/u/AHjrPScYalDHatILVI7pLYqm3NweqC8G skbZ4wRnEe2AsRSz5ElD5rLsJsdLoWLT =0lIb -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Two IPs for one adapter?
Is there a 'cannonical' way to get my server to bind two addresses to the one network card? I know how with ifconfig, but I was wondering if it should go into the deb config thingies somewhere? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : For large values of one, one equals two, for small values of : two.
libc6 whoes
Hi all, I upgraded my libc6 to libc6 2.0.7v-1, which took me a while to locate. However my dev is still libc6 2.0.7t-1. I've been unable to compile the window maker sources, and it just dawned on me this evening that maybe having different versions of runtimes and dev files is a bad thing(?). Anyway, I went back to where I got my libc6 2.0.7v-1, and it's gone, and there is no libc-dev 2.0.7v-1 package either. The only 'non-stable' version of either is the 19981211 version. Does anyone happen to know where I can get the dev package? TIA -- __ _ Mark Wagnon -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
jdk1.2 as .deb package?
Hi, is there a jdk1.2 .deb package available somewhere? Or is somebody working on it? Thanks, Thomas
Re: sendmail config Q.
On Sat, Aug 02, 1997 at 12:57:34PM +0800, zhaoway wrote: Methinks the date of your system needs checking... i want to rewrite the reply-to addr. according to the receipent's email addr. i don't know howto. anyone can help me? i use sendmail. why i want this, if you have interests to read on:-) my boss do not want to manage multiple email accounts. he setup his reply-to addr. to be [EMAIL PROTECTED], and want to deliever local mail locally, but you see, when manager got the boss's local email, and do a reply, it's forward to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is through the isdn to our isp, but the boss want it be delievered locally, directlly, to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is in our local LAN. i hope you got it. Maybe you should take a look at http://www.harker.com/sendmail/sendmail-ref.html . There is a sendmail.cf generator which includes a ruleset hack to deliver mail to local machines directly, even if you specified a smarthost. You should, however, have a local DNS to specify the MX record for smallco.com. HTH, Rob -- Rob S. Wolfram [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP 0x07606049 I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. -- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943
Re: Slink problem - libc-doc depends on a duff version
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: There's a new version of all the libc6 packages in slink today, so hopefully there should be no problems with that. In fact, my slink mirror has no libc6 at all ! (sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk). Using the potato one unhosed my system. 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: printing to NT with smbclient
I took the easy way out of this situation by using rlpr instead of samba. Simply install the rlpr package and run Printing over TCP/IP Services on the NT machine. To be able to just use the lpr command instead of rlpr [EMAIL PROTECTED] all the time, change your /etc/printcap file to read as follows: # Entry for remote printing usng rlpr lp:lp=:rp=printername:rm=hostname.domain.com This will allow you to do lpr lpq lprm without having to type the priner details all the time. Obviously you need to change the printername and hostname.domain.com strings to what they are on your system. Hope this helps... John. P.s. I would like to get samba working with NT, but after spending a few days trying I gave up. If anyone knows how to get this working I and many other people would be interested. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- hi all I'm trying to print in a remote NT printer I can access other shares (disk) on that server with the same user, see the output of the qinfo command but not the queue: smb: \ queue ERRDOS - ERRbadfunc (Invalid function.) obtaining print queue also I can't use the print command: Domain=[ALUFIS] OS=[Windows NT 4.0] Server=[NT LAN Manager 4.0] security=user ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) opening printer for stdin the config seems ok, I've tried, several configs users, password methods, etc... but I'm completly lost... The only thing I find very extrange is the following I see with -d 5 Domain=[ALUFIS] OS=[Windows NT 4.0] Server=[NT LAN Manager 4.0] Server gave us a UID of 4099. We gave 1000 --- LOOK this (what is this for?) security=user Connected with cnum=2055 max_xmit=4356 dos_clean_name [stdin] ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) opening printer for stdin cli_send_logout It's also used when I use (successfully) the qinfo command, so I'm not sure this is related to the problem any help to figure out what is hapening will be greatly appreciated Thanks in advance, Uilsses -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl Its grip'd, its sorted..
Re: Setting Prompt
This wasn't what I wanted I only want the current working directory to show. I took a look at the man page for bash. It said that \w would list my working directory. So I tried the following: If I use, export PS1='\w:\\$ ' I get, ~:$ ^ This is your working directory - ~/ is short for your home directory. If you did cd /etc/init.d, then the prompt would say /etc/init.d:$ 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: RH vs Debian (Switch to Red Hat ?)
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Wayne Cuddy wrote: I used RedHat through version 5.1 before switching to Debian. Here are a few of the reason I stuck with Debian and continue to do so. snip lots of good reasons why debian is better than RH :) I'd like to add the GNU/Hurd project to the list of plusses. When I do hurd development, I still have to battl^H^H^H^H^Hwork with one packaging system, and I'd like to see RH plough resources into an OS that is far from being mainstream just yet. Matthew watch out, Hurd's about :) -- 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/
Installation Probelm Potato !!!
Downloaded new potato disks and installed it via ftp. After deselcting all wanted packages all seems to be all right. After installation and configuration i am not abel to reboot the machine because some essential progams are deleted by dselect. E.g. reboot, sulogin, shutdown etc. What`s this ? Franz Skale [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libc6 whoes
I upgraded my libc6 to libc6 2.0.7v-1, which took me a while to locate. However my dev is still libc6 2.0.7t-1. I've been unable to compile the window maker sources, and it just dawned on me this evening that maybe having different versions of runtimes and dev files is a bad thing(?). Anyway, I went back to where I got my libc6 2.0.7v-1, and it's gone, and there is no libc-dev 2.0.7v-1 package either. The only 'non-stable' version of either is the 19981211 version. Does anyone happen to know where I can get the dev package? FWIW the 19981211 version seems to run fine. 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/
Emacs19 won't install
Dear all, Here is stderr from and attempt to configure emacs19. FWIW, I have a working emacs20 setup. Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish(forking to background) Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) install: *.elc: No such file or directory emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/gnus emacs19 emacs20 xemacs20 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28. dpkg: error processing emacs19 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of emacs19-el: emacs19-el depends on emacs19; however: Package emacs19 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing emacs19-el (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: emacs19 emacs19-el Any ideas? 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: libc6 whoes
Mark Wagnon wrote: Anyway, I went back to where I got my libc6 2.0.7v-1, and it's gone, and there is no libc-dev 2.0.7v-1 package either. The only 'non-stable' version of either is the 19981211 version. Does anyone happen to know where I can get the dev package? Try at some secondary mirror that is slowly updated. For example, here in Spain, I have gone to ftp://ftp.cs.us.es/pub/Linux/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/ and found them in base/libc6_2.0.7v-1.deb and devel/libc6-dev_2.0.7v-1.deb Nevertheless, if you want to try version 19981211-1 you can do it although it has a very very small bug: it says that depends on timezone instead of timezones (bug #31706). -- Conrado Badenas (Assistant Lecturer) Department of Thermodynamics. University of Valencia c/. Doctor Moliner, 50 | e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 46100 Burjassot (Valencia) | Phn: +34-63864350 SPAIN| Fax: +34-63983385
Dselect-problem (new user)
Ringkjøbing Amt - e-post I'm a new debian-user (or ties to be...) I've got a debian CD and install it on my disk. Running Dselect as a part of it I have to pick a access method I mark the CD-ROM - method dselect ask me then, what the device block name is. What the # shall I write here? Nothing seems to work. The desperate user... Henning
Re: timezone
M.C. Vernon wrote: libc recommends timezones, but this appears not to be available. according to dselect :( libc6 version 2.0.7_19981211-1 recommends timezone, but the package is actually named timezones (bug#31706 for libc6). -- Conrado Badenas (Assistant Lecturer) Department of Thermodynamics. University of Valencia c/. Doctor Moliner, 50 | e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 46100 Burjassot (Valencia) | Phn: +34-63864350 SPAIN| Fax: +34-63983385
Re: libc6 whoes
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Conrado Badenas wrote: Nevertheless, if you want to try version 19981211-1 you can do it although it has a very very small bug: it says that depends on timezone instead of timezones (bug #31706). Importantly, it only recommends: timezones, which is the correct spelling. (or according to dpkg -s here it does anyway) 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: Dselect-problem (new user)
I've got a debian CD and install it on my disk. Running Dselect as a part of it I have to pick a access method I mark the CD-ROM - method dselect ask me then, what the device block name is. What the # shall I write here? Nothing seems to work. Hmm /dev/hdc is probably a good guess, or better: hit alt-F2 to get to another console. Hit dmesg, and see what device name it gives to you CD HTH, 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: default fonts in NS 4.05 unreadable
On 12 Jan 1999q, Dave Thayer wrote: In Windows you have TrueType fonts which display much more nicely than X fonts, especially on a lower res screen. I installed xfstt from slink which vastly improved Netscape on my 640x480 laptop screen. your pal dave -- Dave Thayer Denver, Colorado USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there no way to get larger fonts in Netscape without installing Windows? This is a Windows-free zone and although I do have room to install the thing I'm very reluctant to do so just for the sake of the type faces. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on... - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
Re: Setting Prompt
ktb wrote: In /etc/profile I added the line, export PS1='\h:\w\$ ' This is the readout I got, crossyourfingers:~$ This wasn't what I wanted I only want the current working directory to show. I took a look at the man page for bash. It said that \w would ~ is the name of your $HOME directory (try cd ~ or ls ~, or even echo ~) -- Conrado Badenas (Assistant Lecturer) Department of Thermodynamics. University of Valencia c/. Doctor Moliner, 50 | e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 46100 Burjassot (Valencia) | Phn: +34-63864350 SPAIN| Fax: +34-63983385
Re: Help needed piping output to a bash script
E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: while read line; do echo $line $TMPFILE done Any special reason for not simply doing cat $TMPFILE Um, yeah, it looks neater :) I was just mindlessly copying the original poster's script. Anyway, you actually still have one superfluous character there :) cat $TMPFILE is enough, so that the entire script becomes #! /bin/bash TMPFILE=/tmp/mymore.$$.tmp cat $TMPFILE vi $TMPFILE /dev/tty rm -f $TMPFILE 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
USB Support
Hi, Im a new Debian Linux user and i would like to know if the usb port is supported in the stable Debian 2.0 distribution. I want to use it to connect my mouse, keyboard, and modem on my other machine. If it is supported, could some please direct me to some documentation to read. Also also what *.deb packages would be needed. I would also like to know if can mount a fat32 partition. i have tryed mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt ( fat32 is on and 3rd hard drive ) but i get a error message. Is there a *.deb package i need to install?? Thank You for any help :) Faton Useni More than just email--Get your FREE Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/mail
Re: printing to NT with smbclient
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi John!! On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, John Stevenson wrote: I took the easy way out of this situation by using rlpr instead of samba. Simply install the rlpr package and run Printing over TCP/IP Services on the NT machine. Thank you for your tip, I forgot totally this option, in the other hand: I hope there is no problem exporting an NT printer as Windows printer and as an LPR printer concurrently thanks Ulisses - - Computers are useless. They can only give answers.Pablo Picasso -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: latin1 Comment: PGP public key available at http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver iQB1AwUBNpx6hg/N+5+NQ63pAQE+WgMAlqlpnhVOhy2AHmOdjM4ZweNmx2xx1FZT Fxy1bUn/aapOz5dQtXTpH12skCEe/Md5LC36+wfySdgqg1vLiKQgtpLFFdSmNztM ORPNebvH7BQxm1uYY7u6i1gWsqAD84Br =x1ed -END PGP SIGNATURE-
tricky installation problem!
hello there good folks, my question is: what is the next level of help available? who are the gurus? but here's why i'm asking... you may have seen my prior email regarding problems in installation. in case not here's a brief restatement (and also in case you can help ; i'm trying to install debian on a micron millennia transport with 1 gig partitioned for win98 and 1 gig partition for the soon to be debian system. video chip: cirrus logic 7548 pci. upon installing from either floppy or dos partition thing go smoothly until that first dialogue box that asks color or monochrome? right before the dialogue box open, the screen blacks out. the dialogue box is there - i can see it under special lighting conditions and the screen turns back on when i restart (ctrl-alt-del). i wish to goodness i knew what was going on. here's a lead, taken from http://linux.isdi.com ... (included in case it helps find the solution) = begin quoted text = Steven A. Reisman sent me this for all those suffering with the video blackout problem on the Transport XPE. I've made some progress with my Micron Transport XPE. The Linux boot code doesn't know about the Cirrus 7555 video chip. It identifies it as a Cirrux 54xx. The code saves the current video settings and mis-initializes the chip causing the screen to blank. When I hit CTL-ALT-DEL, the saved video settings are restored during shutdown which turns the screen back on. To work around this problem I disabled SVGA video configuration by changing an #ifdef in arch/i386/boot/video.S. Here's a patch for 2.0.31: --- video.S.origTue Nov 4 11:52:38 1997 +++ video.S Wed Nov 5 09:23:25 1997 @@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ ! ! Enable autodetection of SVGA adapters and modes -#define CONFIG_VIDEO_SVGA +#undef CONFIG_VIDEO_SVGA ! Enable autodetection of VESA modes = end quoted text = so i've been working on this for a few days now and i've run into so many walls my nose hurts. does mr. steven reisman have it there? is the solution to change the source code of the install files? (if so, how do i get the source, which source, a compiler etc etc all for dos?) does the solution involve the computer manufacturer? is there something about the video chip (cirrus logic 7548 pci)? is there no solution? (something that while i must admit feasible am completely ignoring) i've heard of people getting other distributions to run on this machine, notably slackware, but until there's no blood left to fight with ;} i'm sticking with debian. spiritually, it's the right way to go, as i'm sure you all agree. so, are there any debian gurus out there who love tricky problems? well folks, here's my latest cry for help. i've switched all the bios gatchgees i could and i don't know what else to do... thank you infinity times infinity ahead of time, a [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tricky installation problem!
my question is: what is the next level of help available? who are the gurus? A good number of them are here(not myself though) but here's why i'm asking... snip does mr. steven reisman have it there? is the solution to change the source code of the install files? (if so, how do i get the source, which source, a compiler etc etc all for dos?) Cross-compiling the boot floppies is not recommended. You need to get someone to get the boot-floppies source, add the patch, and build a custom install floppy. does the solution involve the computer manufacturer? is there something about the video chip (cirrus logic 7548 pci)? It seems the chip is the problem, and the symptoms support this. The boot disk mis-identifies the chip. so, are there any debian gurus out there who love tricky problems? Dunno - more to the point is - do you trust any of us enough to have us build a hacked install floppy for you? 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: Setting Prompt
OK, I did a search in Debian user's and came up with the the following to change my prompt: In /etc/profile I added the line, export PS1='\h:\w\$ ' This is the readout I got, crossyourfingers:~$ This wasn't what I wanted I only want the current working directory to show. I took a look at the man page for bash. It said that \w would list my working directory. So I tried the following: If I use, export PS1='\w:\\$ ' I get, ~:$ I tried several other combinations, a few I tried, \w\ \w:\w\ None of these worked. Here is what my /etc/profile looks like: ~:$ cat /etc/profile # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for bash(1). PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/usr/local/netscape:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/kent export PATH PS1 export PS1='\w:\\$ ' setleds -D +num$ umask 002 /usr/bin/check-sendfile What am I doing wrong here? I just want my prompt, as a regular user, to look something like this: /home/kent $ As root my prompt has the working directory listed. Where is the file for the root prompt? Maybe I could just look there and figure out how to set my regular user prompt? Thanks, Look if there is an environment variable PROMPT_COMMAND. If it is set, it blocks the use of PS1. Modify PROMPT_COMMAND or delete it. Take a look at the manual page of bash, first.
Re: X -indirect, xdm and chooser
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 10:03:15AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using default /etc/X11/Xaccess configuration My /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers has the X server line commented I start xdm, ok I start X -indirect localhost I get the chooser with a list of all available hosts willing to manage my X server, that's fine If I choose localhost works fine, If I choose another host It resets and I get my chooser another time or It keeps the Xserver with no window at all (as if you exec X standalone, eg: without startx) I dont' know why and even don't know if it's a bug, but as a workaround, say X -indirect `hostname` Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpLctL2eqM0s.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: network question
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 07:15:17PM -0600, Wesley Simon wrote: : I use this as a Quake server on my LAN. I would like to add a : 10/100baseT card to it so that there are 2 network cards. I would : then like to be able to run one 100baseT hub and one 10baseT hub. I : have read that Linux will only detect one card on bootup. Is this : still true for kernel 2.0.34? Yes. You need to add an ether= option as a kernel parameter (which may be specified in lilo.conf), there is mini-howto on Multiple-Ethernet iirc. bye, -Remco
Re: USB Support
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 04:28:15 -0600, Faton Useni wrote: I would also like to know if can mount a fat32 partition. i have tryed mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt ( fat32 is on and 3rd hard drive ) but i get a error message. Is there a *.deb package i need to install?? Please make a habit of trying to include all information that may be relevant when you report problems. In this case, it is extremely difficult to give you good advice, as you don't state the precise error message you get. Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Re: USB Support
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 04:28:15AM -0600, Faton Useni wrote: : Im a new Debian Linux user and i would like to know if the usb port : is supported in the stable Debian 2.0 distribution. I want to use it to : connect my mouse, keyboard, and modem on my other machine. If it is : supported, could some please direct me to some documentation to read. : Also also what *.deb packages would be needed. If I'm not mistaken, developers are currently writing code to support USB in the Linux kernel. There are no Debian packages on USB yet. bye, -Remco
Re: Setting Prompt
As others have already pointed out, that's actually a feature with ~
representing your home-directory. If you want to force bash to display
the full path, you can embed ${PWD} into PS1 - be sure to enclose it in
single quotes, so that it's not expanded during the actual assignment.
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 09:01:53PM +, ktb wrote:
OK, I did a search in Debian user's and came up with the the
following to change my prompt:
In /etc/profile I added the line,
export PS1='\h:\w\$ '
This is the readout I got,
crossyourfingers:~$
This wasn't what I wanted I only want the current working directory to
show. I took a look at the man page for bash. It said that \w would
list my working directory. So I tried the following:
If I use,
export PS1='\w:\\$ '
I get,
~:$
I tried several other combinations, a few I tried,
\w\
\w:\w\
None of these worked.
Here is what my /etc/profile looks like:
~:$ cat /etc/profile
# /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for bash(1).
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/usr/local/netscape:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/kent
export PATH PS1
export PS1='\w:\\$ '
setleds -D +num$
umask 002
/usr/bin/check-sendfile
What am I doing wrong here? I just want my prompt, as a regular user,
to look something like this:
/home/kent $
As root my prompt has the working directory listed. Where is the file
for the root prompt? Maybe I could just look there and figure out how
to set my regular user prompt?
Thanks,
Kent
mounting IRIX64 with 2.2.0pre5
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all, I'm trying to mount an nfs exported directory to a linux-2.2.0pre5 I've tried using tcp,udp and nfsv2,nfsv3 with no luck at all, all I get is Permision denied The only thing I find extrange is: rpcinfo -u host 15 (mountd) program 15 version 1 ready and waiting rpcinfo: RPC: Program/version mismatch; low version = 1, high version = 3 ^ program 15 version 2 is not available program 15 version 3 ready and waiting Does it is possible to debug this? Is there a way to list exported directories on remote hosts? Any help/comment/etc... will be greatly appreciated, regards, Ulisses - - Computers are useless. They can only give answers.Pablo Picasso -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: latin1 Comment: PGP public key available at http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver iQB1AwUBNpyAvw/N+5+NQ63pAQFsGQMAv72FUqLDJhbRSzOzQL6iccCGtBXEila6 4B/kleJBeQGbQKBVo3jeTqHR1fHsGlA6RJN+kONZfb4a4U1DHuSamCaA3PIfXb1b CVTRK0wuUhqrllrQtm03yGHtuZvDo3mO =3Kpg -END PGP SIGNATURE-
linux instalation: error activating swap partition
Dear helpful person. I have a problem with the installation of linux, and I hope that you can help me. I tried to install Debian linux, with the help of cfdisk.txt and the Installing Debian Linux 2.0 For x86 guide. I try to install with floppies. I have an i386-25 MHz and 4MB RAM, and I'm using lowmem.bin At this point I've repartitioned the dev/hda (harddisk) with cfdisk. Now, I have the following partitions: Partition 1: type 82 (linuxSwap), 32 MB; Partition 2: type 81 (Minix), 4 MB; partition 3: type 83(linux), 300 MB; partition 4.: type 4(?) (dos fat 16), ~ 70 MB; I have toggled a bootable flag to partition 3. The problem: When I try to activate the swap-partition, I get the following error message: The swap partition /dev/hda1 could not be activated: Device or resource busy ! At this moment, linux isn't installed yet. ! Do you know how to solve this problem? (or is there better information at Debian.org available how to partition and activate?) I have very little knowledge about computer conficuration. I would be very grateful if you could help me with this problem. Yours Ulrich Signature below* Ulrich Gruen Utrecht University Faculty of Chemistry Department of Science, Technology and Society (NWS) (room B203) Padualaan 14 3584 CH UTRECHT The Netherlands Phone: +31-30-2537615 FAX : +31-30-2537601 Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW homepage of the Department Of Sience, Technology and Society http://www.chem.ruu.nl/nws/www/nws.html If a fiddler played you a song my love, and if I gave you a wheel. Would you spin for my heart and loneliness, would you spin for my love. If I gave up all of my pride for you, and only loved you for now. Would you hide my fears and never say, Tomorrow I must go. Everywhere, there's rain my love. Everywhere, there's fear. If you tell me a lie, I'll cry for you. Tell me of sin and I'll laugh. If you tell me of all the pain you've had, I'll never smile again. Everywhere there's rain my love. Every where there's fear. I can plainly see that our parts have changed. Our sands are shifted around. Need I beg to you for one more day, to find our lonely love. Everywhere there's rain my love. Everywhere there's fear. Phantasmagoria in Two (Tim Buckley, 1967)
Re: SMP.
I haven't had any problems with 2.0.36 (dual PII-300 on a system from Micron). I did experience very occasional SMP-related lockups with 2.0.35 and prior. The 2.2.0-preX kernels are very noticably faster, tho. On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 07:42:46PM -0800, Chris Wong wrote: Hmm, Does SMP work well with the 2.0.36 kernel? I heard that older kernels (2.0.35), froze when there was a high load. I just want to make sure that it's safe for me to run 2.0.36.
Re: SoundBlaster Vibra 16 jumperless card under Linux
On Sun, 10 Jan 1999 23:58:10 +0100 Michele Bini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you detect your card using pnpdump? No, it wasn't detected by pnpdump. I actually worked it out eventually. I basically made a dos boot disk with a ramdisk on it using OpenDOS (did a 'format /s' from an OpenDOS image under dosemu) and installed it from there. I then used the diagnose program to set it up. All seems to work fine. Now, if only I could find a spare pair of spaekers... :) 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: Slink problem - libc-doc depends on a duff version
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Gergely Madarasz wrote: On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: Dear all, When using dselect to upgrade to slink, it objects to the version of libc that I have, so I have to remove libc-doc :( the glibc-doc package is your friend If we are going to change the name of the libc-doc package from hamm to slink, then we need an empty compatibility package. Please report it as a bug. -- c937e3996af9a01015c96f8704ea3c7f (a truly random sig)
Re: linux instalation: error activating swap partition
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 12:49:29PM +, Ulrich Gruen mails again wrote: Hi Ulrich, The problem: When I try to activate the swap-partition, I get the following error message: The swap partition /dev/hda1 could not be activated: Device or resource busy if the device is busy it is already up, You do not need to mount a swap partition handy. Have a Look to the boot-messages it will show You a line like: pmurmel kernel: Adding Swap: 63756k swap-space (priority -1) You can scroll the bootmessages on the text-console via press : shift pgUp, shift pgDown or have a look to the file '/etc/fstab' there must be a entry like: # file system mount point type options dump pass /dev/sda5 none swapsw 0 0 but remember: if You configuring the System it will be added automatically, normally You don't must do this Yourself, the system does it for You, ;) the partition-philosophy much depend's on Your personally needs and, of course, of the MB's or GB's You will reserve for Unix. cYa -- Peter
Re: USB Support
I would also like to know if can mount a fat32 partition. i have tryed mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt ( fat32 is on and 3rd hard drive ) but i get a error message. Is there a *.deb package i need to install?? And that error message is? Most likely you need to recompile your kernel with vfat/fat32 support. It's under the filesystems section. Also, USB support is not present in Debian 2.0. -- Regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Upgrade your old legacy . | http://www.golgotha.net | WindowsNT machines to Randy | | Linux http://www.linux.org
Re: Setting Prompt
As root my prompt has the working directory listed. Where is the file for the root prompt? This can be set in ~/.bashrc and/or? ~/.bash_profile. I just checked, and I have mine set in both (for what reason escapes me). I'm using: PS1=\t [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\$ and then exporting it, which displays a prompt as $ for regular users and # for root. -- Regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Upgrade your old legacy . | http://www.golgotha.net | WindowsNT machines to Randy | | Linux http://www.linux.org
