Presentación y preguntas
Hola a todos Como ya me he hecho mayor, después de trastear bastante con RedHat, he decidido instalarme debian; año nuevo, linux nuevo. En los dos días que llevo suscrito a esta lista, ya he visto a bastantes conoicidos de es.comp.os.linux (saludos especialmente a JFS y a Agustín Martín Domingo) De momento no he quitado la RH del disco duro, hasta que no acabe de rematar algunos flecos que me quedan, pero no tardaré mucho. En principio la instalación ha ido bien (una vez que me hice con el dselect), pero hay varias cosillas que se me resisten: 1.-He sido incapaz de instalar emacs (¿?) Hay tres paquetes que dan un error. Llega a descomprimirlos, pero no es capaz de configurarlos. Son emacs20, emacs20-el y w3-el 2.- Otra cosa que he sido incapaz de poner en marcha ha sido el Netscape 3.04. Lo he intentado con el que venía con el tercer CD de Debian, el de Linux Actual. El paquete .deb es un instalador para la versión 3.04, y el tar.gz que contiene los binarios es el de la 3.01 (o viceversa). ¿hay alguna manera de configurarlo o me toca bajar los binarios de la versión correcta? 3.- Tengo otra máquina que también tiene RedHat+Debian. Hasta ahora han estado funcionando las dos perfectamente, sobre particiones distintas del mismo disco duro, pero ultimamente alguien se ha dedicado a apagar el ordenador tirando del cable, y ha jodido todo el sistema de ficheros. Desde Debian chequeé la partición de RedHat y desde RedHat la de Debian. El caso es que ahora RedHat arranca normalmente, pero Debian se estrella a chequear el bus scsi, principalmente cuando llega al disco duro. Pero si arranco desde el disquete que cree para la instalación de Debian, funciona todo a la primera. No tiene ningún sentido. El viernes pasado todo funcionaba y ayer no. No he recompilado ningún kernel nuevo, ni he instalado nada que pudiera haber estropeado el sistema, pero he de reconocer que el sistema de ficheros estaba bastante mahacado. No dejaba ni montar las disqueteras, ni copiar archivos... Además, todavía no he logrado recuperar un disco ide de 1.2Gb, con una única partición ext2, pero esto ya es otra historia... El ordenador es un pentium 133, con tarjeta scsi adaptec 2940 UW, disco SCSI seagate de 4.1 Gb, Lector CD rom Pioneer 24x SCSI y grabadora teac, también SCSI. Como os decía, además, tenemos un disco ide montado en /hda (pero sin identificarlo en la bios) 4.-Por último, y abusando de vuestra santa paciencia, pego un mensaje que acabo de mandar a es.comp.os.linux. No es exclusivo de Debian, pero no tengo muchas esperanzas de que llegue a salir de mi ordenador ---8-- Hola a todos Pues aunque llevaba bastante tiempo funcionando bien, el inn se me ha jodido espontáneamente. No se lo que pasa exactamente, pero parace que se dedica a reiniciar el innfeed hasta la eternidad, con lo que el syslogd chupa bastantes recursos del sistema (con los mensajes de error), y no hay quien trabaje. Como ya tuve un problema una vez con inn y era cosa de permisos (más bien de usuarios), he repasado todos, y he cambiado algunos (los he puesto todos a news). Con esto he conseguido que por lo menos no intente reiniciar continuamente, sino sólo cada un rato. Por otro lado, puedo bajar los mensajes, pero cuando acaba se dedica a intentar enviar algo que ibernet rechaza, un montón de artículos. He borrado los ficheros /var/spool/news/out.going/ibernet.new e ibernet.news.fail, pero los vuelve a crear. Os adjunto el tail de /var/log/news/news.err y news.notice, por si sirven de algo [EMAIL PROTECTED] news]# tail -f news.err [...] Jan 14 23:44:06 alderaan innd[14031]: innfeed! exit 1 elapsed 0 pid 15084 Jan 14 23:44:06 alderaan innd[14031]: innfeed! exit 1 elapsed 0 pid 15087 Jan 14 23:44:07 alderaan innd[14031]: innfeed! exit 1 elapsed 0 pid 15088 Jan 14 23:47:46 alderaan innd[14031]: innfeed! exit 1 elapsed 0 pid 15089 Jan 14 23:47:47 alderaan innd[14031]: innfeed! exit 1 elapsed 0 pid 15223 Jan 14 23:47:47 alderaan innd[14031]: innfeed! exit 1 elapsed 0 pid 15225 Jan 14 23:47:47 alderaan innd[14031]: innfeed! exit 1 elapsed 0 pid 15226 Jan 14 23:47:48 alderaan innd[14031]: innfeed! exit 1 elapsed 0 pid 15227 Jan 14 23:47:48 alderaan innd[14031]: innfeed! exit 1 elapsed 0 pid 15230 Jan 14 23:49:27 alderaan innd[14031]: innfeed! exit 1 elapsed 0 pid 15231 Jan 14 23:49:27 alderaan innd[14031]: innfeed! exit 1 elapsed 101 pid 15448 Jan 14 23:49:27 alderaan innd[14031]: innfeed! exit 1 elapsed 0 pid 15449 Jan 14 23:49:28 alderaan innd[14031]: innfeed! exit 1 elapsed 0 pid 15450 Jan 14 23:49:28 alderaan innd[14031]: innfeed! exit 1 elapsed 0 pid 15451 Jan 14 23:49:29 alderaan nnrpd[15453]: make_udp_sockaddr: gethostbyname: Connection refused Jan 14 23:49:29 alderaan nnrpd[15453]: alderaan.maptel.es actived socket couldnt be connected Connection refused Jan 14 23:49:29 alderaan nnrpd[15453]: alderaan.maptel.es NOT using actived [EMAIL PROTECTED] news]# tail -f news.notice [] Jan 14
Oracle8 (era: Re: WordPerfect 8)
Jesus Rodrigo dixit: yo tengo el nº5 de Solo Linux y no viene WP8 (aunque sí dos CDs, uno de ellos con Oracle8)... ¿no es ese el de este mes? ¿eh? ¿Viene Oracle8 en la Sólo Linux? ¿Totalmente funcional? Vienen 2 CDs, uno de ellos con Oracle8, pero todavía no le he echado una ojeada. -- Un saludo, Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WordPerfect 8
TooManySecrets wrote: 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. Hola. ¿Como hicistes para instalarlo? Yo lo intente, pero al terminar la instalacion no encontre ningun binario por ninguna parte (y eso que se estuvo un rato instalando). ¿Hay que hacer algo en especial? Un saludo: Juan Carlos
Re: Kernel 2.1.125 a 2.2.20-pre6: Makefile.rej
Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 1 -SUBLEVEL = 131 +SUBLEVEL = 132 Lo que dice allí es que lo que falla es el parche del 131 al 132. Yo sé que se aplica limpiamente, así que hay algo raro. Fíjate que tu copia actual del Makefile diga 'SUBLEVEL = 131'; si no dice eso, ponlo en 'SUBLEVEL = 132' - # - # For SMP kernels, set this. We don't want to have this in the config file - # because it makes re-config very ugly and too many fundamental files depend - # on CONFIG_SMP - # - # For UP operations COMMENT THIS OUT, simply setting SMP = 0 won't work - # - SMP = 1 - Y borra esas líneas de tu Makefile si existen. Verifica que los demás componentes del parche funcionaran bien, así: $ find . -name \*.rej -print dura un rato en hacer esto, pero NO DEBE salir nada en la pantalla. Cualquier cosa que salga es un archivo con fallos en el parche. Marcelo
Re: permisos en ppp.log
Hola Cosme! Cosme Perea Cuevas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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, :-? /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd, verás que dice: for LOG in `syslogd-listfiles --weekly` [...] savelog -g adm -m 640 [...] y verás que al escribir /usr/sbin/syslogd-listfiles --weekly, en la lista está /var/log/ppp.log; tienes dos opciones: 1) Editas el script para que *luego* de hacer su trabajo, devuelta el ppp.log a sus permisos 'normales' (0640 root.dip en lugar de 0640 root.adm) 2) Agregas un script *luego* de sysklogd, por ejemplo sysklogd-ppp que haga eso. Marcelo
Re: Red de Linux
Hola Andres Herrera escribió: Prueba a cambiar el search 127.0.0.1 por un domain ctv.es. Tambien puedes probar a cambiar el 127.0.0.1 por un localhost, que es lo que recomienda la documentacion, aunque se supone que tal y como esta deberia funcionar. Vale De todas formas te recomiendo que instales Bind. Si quieres te paso mis ficheros (calentitos que los he terminado hoy) con los que hago de cache de direcciones y creo una zona para englobar tres redes locales interconectadas. Pesa mucho el bind. Es que el server es un 486 con 8 Mb de Ram, y no da para mucho -- Deica logo
Re: Red de Linux
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 08:56:24PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: Emilio de Miguel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: search 127.0.0.1 Esa línea search está mal... o no debe existir o debe decir algo como 'search un.dominio.es' Luego no puede ser una ip, sino el dominio del propio equipo. Yo tengo DNS como cache y tengo search localhost. Saludines -- -- POWERED BY Linux. Debian 2.0 - Kernel 2.0.35 - User reg. 66054 Andres Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] Antequera (Malaga) - Spain
Re: WordPerfect 8
Juan Carlos Muro el día Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 02:23:20AM + expuso lo siguiente: Hola. ¿Como hicistes para instalarlo? Yo lo intente, pero al terminar la instalacion no encontre ningun binario por ninguna parte (y eso que se estuvo un rato instalando). ¿Hay que hacer algo en especial? Yo lo descomprimí (gunzip G.GZ), luego lo destaré (tar xvf G), a continuación volví a copiar el fichero G.GZ en el mismo directorio y, seguidamente, escribí ./Runme. Después de instalarse, fuí al subdirectorio ~/wp/wpbin/ y ejecuté el binario xwp. -- 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)
Re: WordPerfect 8
Marcelo E. Magallon el día Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 09:20:39PM -0600 expuso lo siguiente: TooManySecrets [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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. Tsk, tsk. *CREO* que la licencia no permite eso pues calificaría como fines comerciales. Pero puede ser que esté equivocado, o puede ser que PC-PLUS tenga un arreglo con Corel. Precisamente éso és lo que tienen con Corel; un acuerdo. PS: Otra cosa... No quiero armar un alboroto, pero en las listas de Debian hay una tarifa de US$1000 por poner publicidad (a menos que exista un arreglo previo), y en mi opinión esto es publicidad. Hombre, no jodamos... Que si lo digo que por que a más de uno le interesa... por que si no ¿cuántas veces hemos hablado de que; puedes comprar la dist a Datom, que lo hacen muy bien? Tampoco empecemos a mear fuera de tiesto... -- 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)
Re: Leer un fichero !foo
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: estoy intentando leer un fichero con el nombre: !INDEX.html Si escribo: lynx !INDEX.html mv \!INDEX.HTML index.html --- Paco Brufal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fidonet 2:346/3.68 --- ...Go With The Flow (Original Mix). Jeremy. 1995 --- * Origin: FAQ de R34.LINUX: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/pbrufal (2:346/3.68)
DPKG
Where can one find information on the kind/location of the Database dpkg/dselect/apt uses to do their work? Christian Lavoie [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 947212
Re: The Gimp and gif
I can load gifs into The Gimp but I can't save them. What am I missing? Try to set the Image type to indexed first (right mouse click menu image-indexed) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null mfg -- --- Andreas Sliwka --- http://emil.nef.wh.uni-dortmund.de/~goff talk to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ICQ:13961062
Checksums for compromise checks
Hi, My Debian 2.1 (unstable) system detected a dozen or so port scans, via the Debianized courtney package, coming from an older RedHat system that had the NFS server bug. The RedHat system in question was able to determine that ps and top were trojaned by using rpm to verify the ps and top md5 checksums. Does Debian have any such verification mechanism for individual files (i.e. not the entire deb)? It seems like it would be a useful feature to have available. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26
dependency problems!
dselect says: libgtk-perl depends on libglib1.1 (= 1.1.3-1) libglib1.1 does not appear to be available libgtk-perl depends on libgtk1.1 (= 1.1.2-1) libgtk1.1 does not appear to be available I'm running debian unstable. What should I do? I doesn't work even if I do it manually with dpkg. //ben -- http://surf.to/anTiX
Re: dependency problems!
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 01:27:34AM +0100, Ben Jorgensen wrote: : libgtk-perl depends on libglib1.1 (= 1.1.3-1) : libglib1.1 does not appear to be available : libgtk-perl depends on libgtk1.1 (= 1.1.2-1) : libgtk1.1 does not appear to be available : : I'm running debian unstable. What should I do? I doesn't work even if I do : it manually with dpkg. Both packages, with the required versions, are available in frozen. Maybe you need to include the frozen tree in your dselect access configuration? bye, -Remco
Re: StarOffice 5.0 on Debian
Danny R. Gray wrote: I saw a StarOffice screen then the system locked up and had to be shut off without a shutdown. I had this same problem. I bet you're running the S3 or S3V X server. There is some incompatiblity with these servers. This is what I did: ran X with the SVGA server $ startx /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA then installed StarOffice without lockups. Downloaded the patch on their web site for S3 problems. Installed the patch. Changed the environment setting mentioned in the README that came with the patch. Started X as normal, ran soffice without problems.
Kernel Compile
Ok I give up, I have spent the entire evening trying to get my 2.0.36 source to compile. But it won't ! Why has upgrading from 1.3.1 to 2.0 broken this ! Can some kind person plese give me a hint on what I need to do under 2.0 to get kernel compiles working again. I just keep getting lots or Error 1's and 2's (and thats just at the make dep stage) Beg grovel pld creep ;-) -- Nidge Jones
pygres in slink/hamm?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A saw a thread on this a while back, but never saw an answer: Is pygres (the python interface to postgresql) available in either hamm or slink? thanks, Chris - Visit Me At http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/ - -- Public PGP Key: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject retrieve pgpkey or visit http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/pgp_key.phtml -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNp6bIuEzIlbKpewXEQKpeQCdHljKI4M+Nmat5CAsEN0Ch+JoPyoAn0pO Ui4vjKD0EXvayk8AXIy1CB+f =sDtW -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Kernel Compile
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 01:22:40AM +, Nidge Jones wrote: Ok I give up, I have spent the entire evening trying to get my 2.0.36 source to compile. But it won't ! Why has upgrading from 1.3.1 to 2.0 broken this ! Get kernel-package and read the docs (it makes kernel building WAY easy). Get the kernel-source-2.0.34 package. This is the stock hamm kernel. When this works for you, move on to 2.0.36 if you like. -- your man pann
Re: Kernel Compile
If I recall correctly, the upgrade from 1.3.1 to 2.0 removes the -dev packages for a number of libraries (for compatibility reasons during the upgrade process). So you probably just need to reinstall the appropriate ones. Can you post the actual text of the error-messages you're seeing? On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 01:22:40AM +, Nidge Jones wrote: Ok I give up, I have spent the entire evening trying to get my 2.0.36 source to compile. But it won't ! Why has upgrading from 1.3.1 to 2.0 broken this ! Can some kind person plese give me a hint on what I need to do under 2.0 to get kernel compiles working again. I just keep getting lots or Error 1's and 2's (and thats just at the make dep stage) Beg grovel pld creep ;-) -- Nidge Jones -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
plog
When I type plog I get this: tail: /var/log/ppp.log: Permission denied the attributes for ppp.log are -rw-r- 1 root adm 8305 Jan 14 20:38 /var/log/ppp.log What can I do to change this? -bob The amount of time between slipping on the peel and landing on the pavement is precisely one bananosecond--- ** * Robert Kerr, The morphing guy. *368 Clyde Building, BYU * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Provo, Utah 84602* * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Phone: (801) 378-2029 * * http://www.et.byu.edu/~kerrr* Fax: (801) 378-4449 * **
Re: plog
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:32:47PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: When I type plog I get this: tail: /var/log/ppp.log: Permission denied the attributes for ppp.log are -rw-r- 1 root adm 8305 Jan 14 20:38 /var/log/ppp.log What can I do to change this? You have to run plog as root. The reason that ppp.log isn't world readable is that your ppp password is more than likely in the log file. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- - - - --- --- -- The Choice of the GNU Generation
GCC Compile problems relating to DMA
I recently installed slink, with gcc v2.7.2.3. Any attempts to do any compiling with gcc fail with a series of hard drive errors which seem to releate to some sort of DMA error (ie., hdb: dma_intr ). I apologize for not having the whole error here. I have two Western Digital IDE drives installed, one a newer 6.4gig UDMA drive, and an older 1.6gig DMA drive. slink is installed on the smaller 1.6 drive (/dev/hdb3). The drives are detected correctly in the bootup message and I have seen no other errors thus far... but I'm unfortunately in great need of gcc locally at the moment! Any pointers/tips/fixes would be GREATLY appreciated ASAP. Scott J. Geertgens
Re: plog
Ben Collins wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:32:47PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: When I type plog I get this: tail: /var/log/ppp.log: Permission denied the attributes for ppp.log are -rw-r- 1 root adm 8305 Jan 14 20:38 /var/log/ppp.log What can I do to change this? You have to run plog as root. The reason that ppp.log isn't world readable is that your ppp password is more than likely in the log file. H, my ppp.log file shows the same: ~$ ls -l /var/log/ppp.log -rw-r- 1 root adm848182 Jan 14 16:04 /var/log/ppp.log And as a regular user gives me this: ~$ plog Jan 14 16:03:25 crossyourfingers pppd[772]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x76 magic=0x3f1d] Jan 14 16:03:25 crossyourfingers pppd[772]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x76 magic=0x6581af77] Jan 14 16:03:55 crossyourfingers pppd[772]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x77 magic=0x3f1d] Jan 14 16:03:55 crossyourfingers pppd[772]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x77 magic=0x6581af77] Jan 14 16:04:25 crossyourfingers pppd[772]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x78 magic=0x3f1d] Jan 14 16:04:25 crossyourfingers pppd[772]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x78 magic=0x6581af77] Jan 14 16:04:55 crossyourfingers pppd[772]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x79 magic=0x3f1d] Jan 14 16:04:55 crossyourfingers pppd[772]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x79 magic=0x6581af77] Jan 14 16:05:25 crossyourfingers pppd[772]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x7a magic=0x3f1d] Jan 14 16:05:25 crossyourfingers pppd[772]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x7a magic=0x6581af77] I looked at the file /var/log/ppp.log itself as a regular user using cat and found my password there. So if I don't have to use plog as root do I have a security problem? I'm confused. Thanks, Kent
Re: printing to a win95 shared printer *sigh*
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 04:35:54PM +, Richard A Nelson wrote: Thanks... I can now print text to the printer - two problems: 1) The hp dj870 doesn't complete the page, must need some kind of EOF 2) I can only print text - If I send PS, it is printed as text! I guess this means I really need to be able to use magicfilter - but can I send output from something like dj500c to windows? Thanks again, I'm getting there slowly -- Rick Nelson On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:14:52 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: printing to a win95 shared printer *sigh* Richard A Nelson writes: Has anyone setup lprng to print to a win95 shared printer? The printer in question is a HP DeskJet 870. I've been printing to the printer locally, but had to move the printer to a box that runs mostly lose 95. If you haven't already installed SAMBA, you should do it since SAMBA handles it correctly. Look at document /usr/doc/samba/examples/printing/smbprint It does work when all configuration (self-documented) is done. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I solved this problem the following way: 1. Create a printer entry called printername-remote that uses smbprint from SAMBA to print raw data to the printer. You'll need to follow the directions on top of the smbprint script. Tell any programs that speak your printer's native format to print to this printer (in my case, WP8) 2. Create a 'virtual' printer entry that prints to /dev/null, but runs the attatched shell script that runs magicfilter, then prints to the -remote printer. I've attached two files: 1. my /etc/printcap 2. a shell script called ljet-filter-remote that uses magicfilter and lpr together to print across the network. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org # # Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California. # All rights reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted # provided that this notice is preserved and that due credit is given # to the University of California at Berkeley. The name of the University # may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this # software without specific prior written permission. This software # is provided ``as is'' without express or implied warranty. # # @(#)etc.printcap5.2 (Berkeley) 5/5/88 # # This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig. # hplj3-remote:\ :lp=/dev/null:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj3-remote:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/usr/local/etc/smbprint:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/hplj3-remote/acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: lp|hplj3:\ :lp=/dev/null:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj3:\ sh:if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet-filter-remote:rp=raw: lexmark:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lexmark:\ sh:if=/etc/magicfilter/dj550c-filter:rp=raw: #! /bin/sh # redirect magicfilter to the network /etc/magicfilter/ljet3-filter | lpr -Phplj3-remote
Smail offline queue solution :^)
hi all, i've been fighting smail for a few days now, trying to force it to accept mail sends while its ppp connection is down (previously it would dns-block -looking for smarthost- and the mail client on my intranet would eventually give up). one solution i had was to add my isp into a zone on my dns (my intranet is now a fully-blown internet site with mail and all :) but that was just plain silly (what if they changed anything? we would have to update ours manually too - silly! the solution i have arrived at is to have two files : /etc/named.conf-no-ppp and named.conf-ppp. the -no-ppp had the forwarding ip address and the . zone (named.root) commented out. in the ip-up.d and ip-down.d directories, i added a script that would remove the old named.conf, make a new symbolic link to the appropriate named.conf-xxx, and restart bind with its init.d script. i also added a link to the runq binary in the ip-up.d directory so that the queue would be flushed as soon as the link came up. so, now when i send a message when the pppline is up, the mail is sent immediately, as it should be. when the ppp line is down, smail accepts messages straight away from the clients, delivers what it can (is locally for immediate retrieval) and simply tries again and again on the outgoing ones... (haven't waited for a bounce to come back - but it doesn't occur within 5 mins, so looks like it works the same as if the destination is down) when the connect comes up, the dns is restarted with the correct entries and the mail is sent :))) oh and to get rid of named getting killed badly at shutdown (bind is killed in the rcx.d scripts first, then ppp is killed - which restarts named! which dies when the TERM signal is sent again) to fix that, i simply moved all K19bind instances to K21bind, so it dies after ppp restarts named :)) woo hoo, hope this helps someone else, cause i couldn't find this solution out there! cya, Paul Harris
Re: GCC Compile problems relating to DMA
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 09:07:05PM -0700, Scott J. Geertgens wrote: I recently installed slink, with gcc v2.7.2.3. Any attempts to do any compiling with gcc fail with a series of hard drive errors which seem to releate to some sort of DMA error (ie., hdb: dma_intr ). I apologize for not having the whole error here. I have two Western Digital IDE drives installed, one a newer 6.4gig UDMA drive, and an older 1.6gig DMA drive. slink is installed on the smaller 1.6 drive (/dev/hdb3). The drives are detected correctly in the bootup message and I have seen no other errors thus far... but I'm unfortunately in great need of gcc locally at the moment! Any pointers/tips/fixes would be GREATLY appreciated ASAP. Scott J. Geertgens -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null This happened to me, and I switched to single-user mode (init 1), and ran fsck.ext2 /dev/harddrivedevice. After that, reinstall the gcc packages. This should mark the sectors bad so the kernel won't write files to them. Any one else with more experience care to comment? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: Checksums for compromise checks
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 06:20:56PM -0600, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, My Debian 2.1 (unstable) system detected a dozen or so port scans, via the Debianized courtney package, coming from an older RedHat system that had the NFS server bug. The RedHat system in question was able to determine that ps and top were trojaned by using rpm to verify the ps and top md5 checksums. Does Debian have any such verification mechanism for individual files (i.e. not the entire deb)? It seems like it would be a useful feature to have available. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null In /var/lib/dpkg/info/packagename.md5, an md5 sum exists for each file in the package. It should be trivial to write a script that verifies the md5s. There is probably one already out there. Anyone care to comment? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: DPKG
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 12:04:37AM +, Christian Lavoie wrote: Where can one find information on the kind/location of the Database dpkg/dselect/apt uses to do their work? Christian Lavoie [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 947212 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null All of the dpkg info is in /var/lib/dpkg. All of the files are plain text files, use less to look at them. APT stores its cache in /var/cache/apt. The files appear to be binary. There is a debian-dpkg and a mailing list, try checking out the archives of that. Also, there is a mailing list for apt, its debian-deity. Hope this helps -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: Problem with intallation on a wierd PC/MAC combo
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 12:34:49PM -0800, Nathan Vegdahl wrote: Greets, I have neglected to give this info in fear of being rejected, but I hope that somone will still help. I have a Macintosh computer... WAIT! DON'T STOP READING!!! I'm not an idiot trying to install Debian on a Mac, ok? So, my problem is that Debian won't install because it doesn't know I have a hard drive, and from it's point of view I don't. I believe the reason it can't find my hard drive is because it is looking through the computer hardware. My computer is a wierd combination of a Mac and a PC. The way it works is that it boots up with the Mac, and then you can switch sides on the computer (side 1: MAC side 2: PC). When you switch sides the computer switches which side of the computer has access to: the mouse, the monitor, the keyboard, the disk drive, and the CD ROM drive. The problem is that both of them share the same hard drive!!! The way they share it is by the MAC having over all power over the hard drive, and the PC uses allocations of the hard drive (called drive files) that appear as files on the MAC side so that the Mac side won't mess with the stuff on that PC hard drive. The PC accesses that allocation through some loaded TSR program (I think). So when the Linux installation program starts (which loads a Kernal) it wipes out that TSR and hence it can't find the hard drive. The PC side thinks that it's allocation of the hard drive is all the hard drive there is, so it can't access things out side of it. I am wondering if there is anyway to manually install Debian Linux, because it seems that is my only way out. If I could, I'd just buy a real PC computer, but presently I don't have the budget to do so. Thanks! --Nathan Vegdahl __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Hmmm...What type of processor does the mac side have? Couldn't you install debian for m68k or linuxppc on it? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: Compiles
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 10:47:32PM +, Nidge Jones wrote: Now I run Debian 2.0, I fiond a lot of my old stuff won't compile ! What packages do i need to install from the oldlibs section to allow this. In particular to allow my kernel compile to work again, as at the moment it refuses to do just such. Is there anything else I need to do too ! Thanks in advance. -- Nidge Jones -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Whats wrong with the kernel compile? You shouldn't need anything from oldlibs to make that work. What version do you have? In a nutshell, you need the -dev version of any library that a program needs. Example: To compile progra, foo, which needs libraries abc and xyz, you'd look for packages called abc-dev and xyz-dev. To compile the kernel, you need libc6-dev and libncurses4-dev (if you use make menuconfig). If you use make xconfig, then you need tcl8.0-dev and tk4.2-dev. Moral of the story: oldlibs is only for programs that you don't have the source for. Anything else, you should link against glibc2 based libraries. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: default fonts in NS 4.05 unreadable
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 01:26:09PM +, Mark Brown wrote: Does this happen with all web pages? I haven't used Netscape on a Debian No, some pages displayed fine, but not all. I wasn't able to find a pattern. system (Lynx is your friend), but on other systems I've tried Netscape 4.05 Yes, lynx is nice, in a way. But there are lots of web pages which you can't navigate w/o seeing graphics or frames (and lynx' frames handling sucks IMHO) thus I prefer Netscape. Until I find a Mozilla deb for hamm or figure out how to compile it myself, that is.
Re: default fonts in NS 4.05 unreadable
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 12:35:30AM -0700, Dave Thayer wrote: It was a pretty uneventful installation, but read /usr/doc/xfstt/FAQ.gz. Strange, on my hamm box installing xfstt was a pretty eventful job. First, there is no FAQ.gz. Maybe it is in the slink but I can't install that to a hamm box, can I? Then there is a problem with starting xfstt. It looks like there is an error in the start script because if I type '/etc/init.d/xfstt start' I get a line that looks like xfstt telling me how it wants to get invoked. A bit later xdm tries to start but the screen doesn't come up. It's flashing and I have to login from another computer, take down xdm, start xfstt by hand and start xdm again. Then and only then everything works fine and I can view web pages with Netscape without getting eye cancer. :) I haven't even mentioned the fact that the name of the xfstt start script was in fact 'xfstt-dpkg-new' and that I had to browse the net for the line I had to add to the FontPath in XF86Config. unix:/7101 didn't work, whyever. Now I wonder what's broken on this system and do I have to expect something like that on slink, too? In particular there are some details regarding choosing font size for netscape. What I did, in a nutshell, was Regarding font sizes in Netscape: Is it ok that I can't choose the font size for a TTF? I think in Windows this is possible and at the moment I'm using the content of a \WINNT\Fonts directory. Are there free fonts which look as good or even better?
Re: Why not as a newsgroup?
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 01:32:57AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: Don't all news-servers provide for this, and all news-readers implement it? The news reader in NS Communicator does the above. I'm sure every news server lets you download headers only. But what good is that if your client isn't able to demand this? Until now I knew about Windows and Mac newsreaders which do this and now you're telling me about NS. Not that I would use NS for news but it's good to know that there is one Linux program offering this facility. [UUCP] Now this is new to me. Thanks. I'll ask about this with my ISP. Do that, once you know it you don't want to miss it again.
Re: pygres in slink/hamm?
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Chris Frost wrote: A saw a thread on this a while back, but never saw an answer: Is pygres (the python interface to postgresql) available in either hamm or slink? No. You will have to compile it (which should not be a problem) or get a .rpm binary package if available and install it with alien. Johann -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South Africa) | -- For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth Job 19:25
Re: Mathematics 3.0 and Debian 2.0
Hi, I am having a lot of trouble getting Mathematica 3.0 to work under Debian 2.0. I have installed it in the past on both Slakware and RedHat systems and have never had problems before, so I am a little confused as to what could be going wrong. I don't have Mathematica so I'm not sure how much I can help you, except to say, that if it works under RedHat, then it should be possible to get it working under Debian. At a guess, I would say the problem might be with the libraries used. Is it possible to find out what libraries are used when installed on a RedHat system? Ie, do a ldd whatever the mathematica executable is and compare it with your system. Also, do they have any help at their web site? Sorry I don't know more than this, Cheers, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!
Re: plog
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 10:08:15PM +, ktb wrote: Ben Collins wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:32:47PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: When I type plog I get this: tail: /var/log/ppp.log: Permission denied the attributes for ppp.log are -rw-r- 1 root adm 8305 Jan 14 20:38 /var/log/ppp.log What can I do to change this? You have to run plog as root. The reason that ppp.log isn't world readable is that your ppp password is more than likely in the log file. H, my ppp.log file shows the same: ~$ ls -l /var/log/ppp.log -rw-r- 1 root adm848182 Jan 14 16:04 /var/log/ppp.log And as a regular user gives me this: ~$ plog --lots of successful looking output--- I looked at the file /var/log/ppp.log itself as a regular user using cat and found my password there. So if I don't have to use plog as root do I have a security problem? I'm confused. Thanks, Kent How 'bout this: While only root can write to the log, in both cases it's readable by anyone in the adm group. So if the output of the command groups user includes adm, then that user can read the plog (and a bunch of other things, too) but not write to them. adduser user group will add user to group and give him all of the rights and privileges (sp?) he is thereto entitled. as for removing a user from a group, I don't remember off the top of my head and couldn't find the command in two minutes or less. Anybody? Rob -- If a train station is a place where a train stops, what's a workstation?
Re: SQLs Servers in Debian
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 09:34:41PM -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote: 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. [6:26pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/doc/mysql-manual/html mysql rising Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 2863 to server version: 3.21.31 Type 'help' for help. mysql describe releases; +-+--+--+-++---+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default| Extra | +-+--+--+-++---+ | version | char(50) | | || | | releasedate | date | | | -00-00 | | | program | char(50) | | || | +-+--+--+-++---+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql quit Bye So I had to look it up, but that's because I do SQL work a few times a year at most. A GUI might be nice occasionally but is only (to me) useful for bootstrapping a custom interface, which is what should really be deployed. That's something like 90% of the audience for Delphi and Visual Basic -- quick and dirty DB frontends. 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: default fonts in NS 4.05 unreadable
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:37:46AM +0100, Thomas Adams wrote: navigate w/o seeing graphics or frames (and lynx' frames handling sucks IMHO) Sure, but can you give an example of how it could be implemented better? I don't like it much either but I can't see much alternative. 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
New installation - Xserver failure
I've installed the Debian 2.0.10 from a CD using Dselect. The configuration had a few failures - among them a missing file: initrc, so the windowmaker couldn't be configured. After the installation I used XF86Setup to adjust videocard and monitorsettings. OK. Starting the windowmaker afterwards (startx) gives no result. The Xserver can's start. It's looking for a file, that doesn't exist: /usr/bin/X11/XF86_NONE It shouldn't look for that file - but for the XF86SVGA, I guess. I guess there is a configurationsfile somewhere, in which I have to change the XF86_NONE to XF86SVGA. What file is that??? Yours Henning
Re: NT and Debian...O.S. loader 4.01 sux!
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 07:11:32PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: 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... This is exactly why you should leave LILO installed the Debian default way, in /dev/hdaN rather than /dev/hda. Then you can fix it just by changing the active partition with any FDISK program you like. Slackware and other dists have not done people any favours in teaching people to configure LILO this way. I have NT, 95 and Debian installed. The other day I reinstalled 95 without losing access to NT or Debian. No floppies were needed. Only care. 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: pygres in slink/hamm?
Chris Frost wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A saw a thread on this a while back, but never saw an answer: Is pygres (the python interface to postgresql) available in either hamm or slink? It should be shortly - I'm planning to put it in the next PostgreSQL package. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth Job 19:25
Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...
Kent West wrote: At 05:36 PM 1/14/1999 -0600, Kent West wrote: Wait. Weren't both drives working before you ran LILO? If so, then the master/slave jumper should be okay. Above you say you do have such a configuration. Do you mean you have an overlay, or do you mean you've got 2 drives, on primary and secondary IDE's. And drive 1, /dev/hda, holds Windows, and /dev/hdb, drive 2, holds Linux...? If you've got an overlay, LILO wiped it out and it will have to be reinstalled. After reading other posts, I've realized you have SCSI disks, not IDE, so that eliminates the master/slave settings. I also thought the linux side was working but the Windows side no longer was recognizable (which again indicates to me an overlay problem). However, I'm just confused enough now that it might be best if you start from scratch with a description of your problem and how you got to this point and what type of hardware setup you have, all in one posting where we can see it all at once. OK, here it is: I have 2 SCSI disks, with Windows NT on the first and Linux on the second. Windows NT is booting Ok (hopefully, I didn't retry for a while now but I don't see why it shouldn't). I usually boot Linux from floppy which is also OK. Now using the SCSI utility I set my boot disk ID to 1, then it apprently tries to boot from the second disk but it hangs after outputting LI. I added disk options in lilo.conf and tried to change boot and/or root to /dev/sdb* instead of /dev/sda*, but nothing seems to work. By the way /vmlinuz exists (it was symbolic link to the kernel in /boot, then I replaced it with a copy of the same image). Is this clear enough? Thanks for your help. Mamoun -- Mamoun ALISSALI LIUM Tel: (33-2) -02-43 83 38 47 UNIVERSITE DU MAINEFax: (33-2) -02-43 83 38 68 Avenue Olivier MessiaenE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 72085 LE MANS CEDEX 9 http://www-ic2.univ-lemans.fr/~alissali
Re: Compiles
Now I run Debian 2.0, I fiond a lot of my old stuff won't compile ! What packages do i need to install from the oldlibs section to allow this. In particular to allow my kernel compile to work again, as at the moment it refuses to do just such. The oldlibs section is mostly for programs that already have been compiled. You really need to post the error messages you get when compiling in order for this list to be able to provide help. HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054
Re: PHP3 Installation. (Trouble #2)
Christian Lavoie hat gesagt: // Christian Lavoie wrote: Having found out that the problem was caused by Apache's magic necessary-modules loader, I went to try to connect to mySQL. Here's the output: Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_connect() in /var/www/index.php3 on line 13 Is it me or is the mySQL support absent? How can I fix that? Do you have this in /etc/php3.ini? ;; ; Dynamic Extensions ; ;; ; if you wish to have an extension loaded automaticly, use the ; following syntax: extension=modulename.extension ; for example, on windows, ; extension=msql.dll ; or under UNIX, extension=mysql.so BTW: A good test for your config is a php3 webpage with just: ? phpinfo() ? in it. Check this out, too. -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
anyone tryed to compile diald under debian?
Hai, I have lots of programming skils under Windows 95/NT. Currently i'm doing my first baby steps under Linux (Debian). Currently all is up and running, but my first chalange is to compile diald (dail up deamon). For my has a baby it's like trying to stand up and wondering about the world of linux! Anyway: I'm getting to following error: if I do a make 'make depend'. I'm getting a lot of warnings. If I do a make, no object file is generated What the hell i'm doing wrong?? Best Regards, Ries van Twisk
Re: Compiles
Stephen Pitts Writes.. Whats wrong with the kernel compile? You shouldn't need anything from oldlibs to make that work. What version do you have? Version of what ! In a nutshell, you need the -dev version of any library that a program needs. Example: To compile the kernel, you need libc6-dev Yup - installed and libncurses4-dev (if you use make menuconfig). Well I don't have a package actually called this. But I do have these installed??... ncurses-base (1.9.9g-8.8) ncurses-bin (1.9.9g-8.8) ncurses3.4 (1.9.9g-8.8) ncurses-term (1.9.9g-8.8) ncurses3.4-dev (1.9.9g-8.8) Moral of the story: oldlibs is only for programs that you don't have the source for. Anything else, you should link against glibc2 based libraries. OK -- Nidge Jones
Re: Kernel Compile
Gregory T. Norris Writes.. If I recall correctly, the upgrade from 1.3.1 to 2.0 removes the -dev packages for a number of libraries (for compatibility reasons during the upgrade process). So you probably just need to reinstall the appropriate ones. Like what perhaps ! Can you post the actual text of the error-messages you're seeing? Yup sure can. The 'make dep' and 'make clean' go OK. But upon the 'make zImage' this is what happens... make zImage gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m486 -DCPU=486 -c -o init/main.o init/main.c gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m486 -DCPU=486 -DUTS_MACHINE='i386' -c -o init/version.o init/version.c set -e; for i in kernel drivers mm fs net ipc lib arch/i386/kernel arch/i386/mm arch/i386/lib; do make -C $i; done make[1]: Entering directory /usr/src/linux/kernel' make all_targets make[2]: Entering directory /usr/src/linux/kernel' updating /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m486 -DCPU=486 -DMODVERSIONS -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c ksyms.c ksyms.c:93: macro basic_version' used with just one arg ksyms.c:214: macro basic_version' used with just one arg ksyms.c:386: macro basic_version' used with just one arg ksyms.c:93: et_module_symbol' undeclared here (not in a function) ksyms.c:93: initializer element for ymbol_table.symbol[2].addr' is not constant ksyms.c:214: ake_request' undeclared here (not in a function) ksyms.c:214: initializer element for ymbol_table.symbol[85].addr' is not constant ksyms.c:386: ys_read' undeclared here (not in a function) ksyms.c:386: initializer element for ymbol_table.symbol[204].addr' is not constant make[2]: *** [ksyms.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory /usr/src/linux/kernel' make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/linux/kernel' make: *** [linuxsubdirs] Error 2 -- Nidge Jones
Re: anyone tryed to compile diald under debian?
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 09:53:07 +0100, Ries van Twisk wrote: Currently i'm doing my first baby steps under Linux (Debian). Currently all is up and running, but my first chalange is to compile diald (dail up deamon). Have you looked at how the Debian diffs to see how the Debian diald packages is compiled? Anyway: I'm getting to following error: if I do a make 'make depend'. I'm getting a lot of warnings. If I do a make, no object file is generated What the hell i'm doing wrong?? Noone can tell, without having the a detailed log available of what you're doing exactly (consider using script(1) to record what you're doing) and what errors/warnings you get. It could for instance be that you haven't installed all the packages necessary for compiling diald. HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig
Re: Help needed with laptop
I had a similar problem with an AST M series laptop. Turned out it was the way Debian compile the kernel for the distribution. Try compliling your own kernel and make sure you make a zImage kernel rather than a bzImage kernel and hopefully you should be OK. Pat On Thu Jan 14, 1999 at 06:43:45PM +, tracheotomy bob wrote: Hallo all, I relly hope you can help me with this REALLY annoying problem. I recently bought a Sony VAIO 747 (impulse) and I want to put Debian on it (I have 2.0 (hamm)). I can put Red Hat 5.1 on it easily. But Debian is a bitch. Sometimes it starts and sometimes it doesn't. It loads the root.bin alright but after loading most of the kernel, the laptop reboots. Sometimes it doesn't. If it does start then I can install the CD OK, but on the reboot I get a 1FA prompt. If I press 1 for /dev/hda then I get a prompt of 1234F. It doesn't what I do the machine will not start with Debian on it. Red Hat works perfectly so it's not the hardware. If the CD boots then I'm assuming that the kernel works OK with the hardware, but the fact that it aborts during the 'loading kernel' stage is suspect. I'm inclined to think that it may be the way lilo is operation. Red Hat seems to install lilo into /dev/hda and debian seems to install to /dev/hda1. Maybe I'm wrong here I could use that cleared up. Anyway, any help with this will be much appreciated. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
how to format a flpooy with debian??????
hello, i am having lots of troubles with disquette-errors and i found no way to format (low level possibly) a floppy no fdformat no initfd nothing. is this normal is there any way i can format those damn things??? mdformat doesn't do the job: the floppy's remain unwritable ciao bboett == acount at earthling net http://erm6.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett === Unsolicited commercial email is NOT welcome at this email address To contact me replace acount by bboett in above addresses
Re: Can't load libc5.so.m when starting XFree 86 (3.3.2)(matrox G200 card)
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 05:09:35PM +0100, Marc Fleureck wrote: Configuration: XFree 86 3.3.2 and Matrox G200 video card I downloaded xmatrox-2.2-0.i386.rpm from XSuSE, converted it to debian package with alien and unpacked xsuseconfig. Then I ran xf86config but it dies wirh can't load libc5.so.m (same with startx). SuSE is still libc5 based. Either get the glibc binaries from ftp.xfree86.org (besser solution) or install libc5 (faster solution) I don't know anything about compatibilty (libc5 -- libc6). Please point me in the wright direction. Please e-mail. Thanks. No problem to have both of them installed. I even have libc4 for some really old binaries where the source does not compile anymore. The binary works flawlessly though. 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? * pgpcASNXnU8IR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 05:12:46PM +, Mamoun Alissali wrote: Nils Rennebarth wrote: When you know what the BIOS recognizes as the first, second, ... drive you can tell that LILO by the disk section: DISK=/dev/sda bios=0x80 DISK=/dev/sdb bios=0x81 This is to correct LILO's guess that may well be different from the BIOS's one (which could be the reason for a not-working LILO. I used the Adaptec setup to set my boot disk to 1 and I added the disk options to lilo.conf, but it still doesn't work. I only gave an example assuming you would read the lilo doc :-) Anyway, bios=0x80 means the bios thinks this is the first disk, so DISK=/dev/sda bios=0x81 DISK=/dev/sdb bios=0x80 should work better. 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? * pgp4nq3IaSj1M.pgp Description: PGP signature
Netscape4.5 cannot find libraries
...new to linux, runing 2.0.34, my problem is that netscape 4.5 does not know where the libraries are: 1) ldd netscape gives me the following: libXt.so.6 = not found libSM.so.6 = not found libICE.so.6 = not found libXmu.so.6 = not found libXpm.so.4 = not found libXext.so.6 = not found libX11.so.6 = not found libdl.so.1 = /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x4000b000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4000e000) libg++.so.27 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libg++.so.27 (0x400cc000) libstdc++.so.27 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libstdc++.so.27 (0x40104000) libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x40135000) I have all of these libraries installed but netscape can not find them. I wrote a script that loads the missing libraries and when i run the script i get the error: 516 Segmentation fault checking the mailing list archives i found the following: - to run netscape 4.5 must install glibc (libc6). glibc comes with 2.0.34, right? then why does not netscape recognize glibc? - I just installed libc5 from the oldlib section, will there be any conflict with libc6? cheers Moises PS: it was a rewarding experience to install linux in my pc!, yes!
Package-Building-Howto?
Hi there, I'm using Debian for over three months now and I'm quite satisfied with it. :-) But as I could not find GNOME .debs, I figured out it would be great to build them myself. So, I digged through several dpkg-*-man Pages, read /usr/doc/dpkg/packaging.html/almost-* and after all failed to figure out how to build my own Debian package. :-( So, is there anything like a Debian-Packaging-Howto which explains the internal structure of .debs and how to build packages oneself? In /usr/doc/dpkg/packaging.html/* there is nicely explained, what everything does, but it's not clear, HOW to do things... I would greatly appreciate any advice and maybe I'll put up a Debian- Packaging-Howto afterwards. Thanks for help! Tino.
Re: plog
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 01:35:09AM -0500, Rob Mahurin wrote: | |adduser user group will add user to group and give him all of the rights and privileges (sp?) |he is thereto entitled. | |as for removing a user from a group, I don't remember off the top of my head and couldn't |find the command in two minutes or less. Anybody? vigr, or edit /etc/groups.
Re: Help with CRON
- William == William Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - - William I put the following entry into my crontab file. (Yea, i - William used crontab -e to edit the file as root) - - William 0-55/5 * * * * root mrtg /mrtg-2.5.4c/mrtg.cfg - - You need a blank line at the end. nope, not the blank line; he needs \n at the end of line; joe does NOT add it by default (it can be defined in joers and I think that should eb the default in debian's joerc) vi does. -- 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 Chernobyl was an Windows 95 beta test site.
USR Courier-I installation gateway configuration
Hi, I have just subscribed to this mailing address, I'm not sure it's the right one to send this request? Anyway, on my local network I'd like to install an Internet gateway with an USR RNIS Courier-I modem card on a Linux station, and I must say I don't have at this time enough information to do it. First, I need the Linux driver configuration information file - does anybody know where I could find them ? I I already sent e-mails to 3-Com for this last week and two more this week, without any answer... Then, I would appreciate any information that could help me to install and configure this Linux station as an Internet gateway with firewall features. I must say I am fed up with NT Servers and softwares like WinGate... not enough efficient! Could somebody give me information about that all? Thanks in advance. Regards - Sylvain Lamole __ Societe ClaviS, Networks, Software Engineering Localization 2203, chemin de Saint-Claude - 06600 Antibes - France Phone : +33 (0)4 92 91 12 45 - Fax : +33 (0)4 92 91 06 47 - E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] __
Suck and Inn problems
I'm having a little problems with my off-line news server. As said inte subject, I'm using inn as server and use Suck to get news to my machine and send them out. I use get-news script provided by Suck pakage. When I have written new articles get-news will send them out next time I run the script. Now, I don't know is problem with suck or inn, but after the articles are sended out, there will exist no /var/spool/news/out.going/news.newsprovider.com file. This file should contain the msg-id:s and other information about the articles I have posted to my local machine. So next time I post article to my local news server, there will be no out.going file and neither will any messages be sent out next time I run get-news. If I restart innd, the out.going will be created. Anyway, it's not very practical to restart innd everytime I have connected to my ISP. Both inn and suck with get-news used to work perfectly for me ower to years, so I wonder what's the problem now? Does anyone have any idea? Is it bug and should I report it? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iki.fi/tav/prudence/ Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa
Re: Problem with intallation on a wierd PC/MAC combo
Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmmm...What type of processor does the mac side have? Couldn't you install debian for m68k or linuxppc on it? Supposedly the m68k port of linux does not support macintoshes because Apple is being rather uninformative about the hardware specs. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm
Re: Why not as a newsgroup?
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:53:50 -0500, you 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. Well, Netscape 4.5 can obviously do it and there are more than one participant who reads Debian lists but with a Windows system (like I do since my desktop machine is running NT). One more disadvantage of mailing lists: They neither allow crossposting nor setting Followup-To: for warping discussions. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG Rightful Heir | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Mail client (POP3) for both linux and Windows NT ?
Hi, Can anyone advise me a good (POP3) e-mail client (for debian) which can read a mail box shared by both linux and Windows NT4 on the same PC ? Our mailserver is now Netscape Mail/Windows NT but in the future will be migrated to Qmail/Unix. Thank you very much. Regards, Marc ir. Marc Fleureck[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +32-(0)2-2085311 fax: +32-(0)2-2085320
Re: plog
ktb writes: H, my ppp.log file shows the same: ~$ ls -l /var/log/ppp.log -rw-r- 1 root adm848182 Jan 14 16:04 /var/log/ppp.log And as a regular user gives me this: ~$ plog Jan 14 16:03:25 crossyourfingers pppd[772]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x76 magic=0x3f1d] Your regular user is in group adm, right? /var/log/ppp.log is in group adm and is group readable. I looked at the file /var/log/ppp.log itself as a regular user using cat and found my password there. So if I don't have to use plog as root do I have a security problem? Depends. Do you trust your regular user? I don't know why your regular user would be in adm, though. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: pygres in slink/hamm?
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Oliver Elphick wrote: Chris Frost wrote: A saw a thread on this a while back, but never saw an answer: Is pygres (the python interface to postgresql) available in either hamm or slink? It should be shortly - I'm planning to put it in the next PostgreSQL package. Good news! Thank you. Johann -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South Africa) | -- For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth Job 19:25
Humptey-Dumptey
I have a problem with the Debian Linux release; actually, the problem narrows down to the TK software. While Xwindows works just fine when logged on as root, Xwindows will not start when logged on as a user. Since my machine is a single user box, log ons, permissions and authorizations boil down to mere troublesome convolutions. However, the Debian system will not allow root to use the dial up ppp, for security reasons, and the ordinary user, who is considered secure, can't run Xwindows to fire up the browser, the result is a Humpty-Dumpty chicken and egg problem. When xdm is started by the user, a message, Only root wants to run xdm appears. The system has created an Xsession-errors file in the user home directory that reads, exclusive open for tmp-name failed in m4_defs: permission denied. The system also created two .Xauthority files, one each in the root and user home directories, but only root had the Magic Cookie, which I extracted with the xauth command, and added to the user's previously blank .Xauthority file. No change, same messages. I am a New York columnist working on an article about the Linux phennomenon. I was given the Red Hat CD release to work with, but the Debian policy of offering an extensive Linux system via Internet download, free and open to all, intrigued me more. I decided to try it for myself, and have been favorably impressed by the high quality of the product. Joseph Tiraco 1/14/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
substitute strings in text files (links in html files)
Hello! How could I substitute a string (links) in html files with standard Linux (debian) tools? i.e. I want to change every http://one.domain.com in http://two.domain.com in some files and files in subdirs. Oliver
looking for comment on HP-710 printer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all, anybody using this printer? Is well supported with Linux? Any Problems? Any Cons? 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 iQB1AwUBNp8yqA/N+5+NQ63pAQF84wL+PEho7XRAncl2q1aIz0ZeNuv3C2Ok/Mmo mOjTv8MLRiEFJr1eAkqcujo+di9n1p4RrLjuz1kQDEW64qO6b+FxWCrNiuxWQiEv l//BAqY/t2ShQm97xlIgwjKV4BjUG7r9 =ZVk+ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
shell scripts.
Hi, Where can I learn how to write the shell scripts?? Is there any good documentation to read?? Thx. Shao.
Re: looking for comment on HP-710 printer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all, anybody using this printer? Is well supported with Linux? Any Problems? Any Cons? I have one. It is a windows printer, but somebody managed to reverse engineer the format for black and white printing. His program can be combined with ghostscript and gives excellent (good and fast) 600dpi printing results under linux. For color printing `work is in progress', and I am using aladdin gs5.50 under windows. From this you can print to a windows printer driver. It only seems to do 300dpi (black and white too), and is slow as hell. The color prints are among the best I have seen though (comparing to deskjet 690C, 8??). See http://www.rpi.edu/~normat/technical/ppa/index.html HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054
Re: Compiles
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 09:02:38AM +, Nidge Jones wrote: Stephen Pitts Writes.. Whats wrong with the kernel compile? You shouldn't need anything from oldlibs to make that work. What version do you have? Version of what ! The kernel. Sorry, I was unclear. In a nutshell, you need the -dev version of any library that a program needs. Example: To compile the kernel, you need libc6-dev Yup - installed and libncurses4-dev (if you use make menuconfig). Well I don't have a package actually called this. But I do have these installed??... ncurses-base (1.9.9g-8.8) ncurses-bin (1.9.9g-8.8) ncurses3.4 (1.9.9g-8.8) ncurses-term (1.9.9g-8.8) ncurses3.4-dev (1.9.9g-8.8) Looks good to me, you have ncurses3.4 and the -dev. Moral of the story: oldlibs is only for programs that you don't have the source for. Anything else, you should link against glibc2 based libraries. OK -- Nidge Jones Perhaps you could post the error messages? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: Kernel Compile
Can you give us more details about the errors messages ? Franck --- Franck Le Gall 147, rue basse - 14000 Caen tél. : 02-31-93-29-09 mobile : 06-62-34-03-52 e.mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Vedr: New installation - Xserver failure
The Xserver can's start. It's looking for a file, that doesn't exist: /usr/bin/X11/XF86_NONE It shouldn't look for that file - but for the XF86SVGA, I guess. I guess there is a configurationsfile somewhere, in which I have to change the XF86_NONE to XF86SVGA. What file is that??? Wouldn't it be an easy solution to change the name of the existing XF86SVGA - file to the requested name XF86_NONE? Henning Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: using xfig + latex
Because I'm Polish, I very offen face the problem of using nonstandard characters in Xfig figures (I hope that one day Xfig will support Unicode and then all Polish characters as well as other national characters will be standard...). Usually I use three methods: 1) Enter the text using the latex syntax (I use the babel package, and then enter ą as a, ć as c and so on). The text should have the special flag turned on. Next I export the file in pstex_t format, and include it into my LaTeX document. In the same way it is possible to enter very complex math formulas, however one problem exists: The bounding box is calculated by LaTeX before the interpretation of text, so if the source text of formula extends beyond the figure limits, the results may be very interesting :-). 2) The next method converts the figure into the EPS, using the special LaTeX wrapper, then corrects the bounding box with the psfixbb program (I attached the fixltx2ps script which performs all these operations). The resulting corrected EPS file may be included into the LaTeX documents. 3) Use the psfrag package. This method is more robust, but also more complex, because the information i splited between the xfig file and the latex file, which may cause problems if you are going to use the same figure in many places. Additionally there are some problems with font scaling and figure scalling. (More information may be found in documentation of the psfrag package: /usr/doc/texmf/latex/psfrag/pfgguide.ps (in my system)) Hope this helps a little Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: Do you know how to export xfig figures with latex commands and insert them in latex files? I was unlucky with pictex, eepic and pstex_t. i usually export from xfig into encapsulated PS and it fits into laTeX files perfectly (using graphics, graphix or epsfig). But then I suppose you can't have the latex commands, for instance you can't write $\alpha$ in xfig and get an alpha, or can you? hmm... if i'd need greek letters, just set font to special (greek) and start typing: a - \alpha b - \beta etc Also you can put latex text into the picture frame, but that's a bit sexy... figltx2ps.gz Description: The script for conversion ofXfig pictures with LaTeX instructions into EPS file
Re: shell scripts.
-Original Message- From: Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, January 15, 1999 5:33 AM Subject: shell scripts. Where can I learn how to write the shell scripts?? Is there any good documentation to read?? I recently went to purchase the Orielly book tcsh for some help with shell scripts. On the back of the book it said shell progamming wasn't covered because Pearl would be better for the task. I decided to look into Pearl instead. Good Luck -Dan
local web proxies
This might be a silly question, but what I want to do is extract information from possibly frame-based web sites, and reformat it, and offer it as a web page on the localhost. For example, I like to do a crossword on the web. Can I automatically download the grid and the clues from the web-page when I first logon (in the background), and also get the answers from the previous one, and then use the localhost server to allow filling in, without re-attatching to the remote server. Hope that makes sense. Any suggestions are welcome, including 'that's a silly idea, don't even bother trying'. Thanks in advance Rich Harran
Re: rich text format
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich Harran. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me the easiest way to view a rich text format under linux, preferably without installing staroffice / wp8, etc. In windows, it can be read with word, but wordview just won't load it up There is a nice tool called rtftohtml. It can be found on http://www.sunpack.com/RTF/ It is commercial, but you can download an evaluation copy for many operating systems. Harald
Re: Humptey-Dumptey
Joseph Tiraco wrote: ... Xwindows will not start when logged on as a user. Since my machine is a single user box, log ons, permissions and authorizations boil down to mere troublesome convolutions. However, the Debian system will not allow root to use the dial up ppp, for security reasons, and the ordinary user, who is considered secure, can't run Xwindows to fire up the browser, the result is a Humpty-Dumpty chicken and egg problem. When xdm is started by the user, a message, Only root wants to run xdm appears. xdm is used to put up a log-in window - it is normally started by the boot scripts, rather than by a direct command. If you log-in through a text console and want to start X, use the command startx instead. This will happily work for a non-superuser. (A note about your personal X startup files: xdm uses ~/.xsession and startx uses ~/.xinitrc. These files should normally be linked together.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth Job 19:25
Re: using xfig + latex
Hi,
Here's a description I have found one day. I think gives you
everything you wanted to do.
Chris
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This description was written by Eric Masson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
The following is a document on how to import xfig figures in latex along
with a few tips to make your life easier. I wrote this quite a while
back but it still applies.
Salut,
Eric
HOW TO IMPORT XFIG FIGURES IN YOUR LATEX FILES:
--
Getting Started
---
When you call xfig use the following command line:
xfig -specialtext -latexfonts -startlatexFont default
If you want ALL of your figures to be started with special text and
latex fonts, you can set the following resources in your .Xresources
or whatever resource file you use:
Fig.latexfonts: true
Fig.specialtext: true
There are several formats to which xfig can generate output and
latex can read. I will only cover three cases:
(A) Export Fig format directly into latex form
(B) Export Fig in encapsulated postscript and import the
postscript in latex.
(C) Save the figure partly in postscript and partly in latex
form and superimpose them in your document.
All three methods have their advantages and are equally simple
to handle. In method (A) the advantage is that all your work
is in tex form and that your .dvi files will hold all the necessary
information. In (B) you have all the power and fonts of postscript
at your disposal. In (C) you get the drawing power of postscript
and the typesetting of latex for your strings.
---
In your latex preamble (the part that preceeds your
\begin{document} statement) place the following lines:
\input{psfig}
So your preamble could look like:
%
LaTeX Preamble %
%
\documentstyle[12pt,bezier,amstex]{article} % include bezier curves
\renewcommand\baselinestretch{1.0} % single space
\pagestyle{empty}% no headers and page numbers
\oddsidemargin -10 true pt % Left margin on odd-numbered pages.
\evensidemargin 10 true pt % Left margin on even-numbered pages.
\marginparwidth 0.75 true in% Width of marginal notes.
\oddsidemargin 0 true in % Note that \oddsidemargin=\evensidemargin
\evensidemargin 0 true in
\topmargin -0.75 true in% Nominal distance from top of page to top of
\textheight 9.5 true in % Height of text (including footnotes and
figures)
\textwidth 6.375 true in% Width of text line.
\parindent=0pt % Do not indent paragraphs
\parskip=0.15 true in
\input{psfig} % Capability to place postscript drawings
%
Document Beginning %
%
\begin{document}
\end{document}
TYPE A - Exporting directly to latex form
-
In terms of drawing capabilities this is the weakest form you can use.
Lines in latex can only be drawn at multiples of 30 and 45 degrees.
And lines with arrows can only be drawn at multiples of 45 degrees.
Several features such as ellipses, splines, etc. are not supported
(xfig does not take advantage of available LaTeX macro packages
such as bezier). When drawing lines for type A drawings make
sure you restrict yourself to the proper angle geometry in xfig.
Otherwise when you export your figures to latex format, xfig
will approximate your lines to the nearest angle available in latex.
Usually this has unpleasant results.
In this mode, you can type any LaTeX string on your
figure. Once imported to LaTeX, the string will be interpreted
properly. For example:
$\int_0^9 f(x) dx$
would result in a integration from 0 to 9 of the function f(x).
To create your LaTeX file just choose the export option off the
xfig main menu. And then select LaTeX picture as the language
to export. This will create a file with a .latex extension which
you can then call directly into your latex document. For example
this code would import the file yourfile.latex directly into latex
format:
%
%%% Figure 1
%
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\begin{center}
\input{yourfile.latex}
\caption{The caption on your figure}
\label{figure:yourreferencename}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
TYPE B - Exporting to
Re: Problem with intallation on a wierd PC/MAC combo
Hmmm...What type of processor does the mac side have? Couldn't you install debian for m68k or linuxppc on it? Supposedly the m68k port of linux does not support macintoshes because Apple is being rather uninformative about the hardware specs. There was an article about this in the linux journal last month. == http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: substitute strings in text files (links in html files)
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Oliver Thuns wrote: Hello! How could I substitute a string (links) in html files with standard Linux (debian) tools? use sed. It is very powerful for this sort of thing. 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: Package-Building-Howto?
So, is there anything like a Debian-Packaging-Howto which explains the internal structure of .debs and how to build packages oneself? In /usr/doc/dpkg/packaging.html/* there is nicely explained, what everything does, but it's not clear, HOW to do things... http://www.debian.org/~elphick/manuals.html/maint-guide/index.html Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| -- |And if you on tight to what you think is your thing | |you may find you're missing all the rest ...| |- Dave Matthews, Best of What's Around | --
Re: substitute strings in text files (links in html files)
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Oliver Thuns wrote: Hello! How could I substitute a string (links) in html files with standard Linux (debian) tools? i.e. I want to change every http://one.domain.com in http://two.domain.com in some files and files in subdirs. sed -e s/two/one/g f1.html f2.html Don't redirect to your input file! You will lose it. If you need it to be the same name, just rename afterwards. The s/two/one/g substitutes two for one globally. Read sed's man page for more info. Oliver -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null /--\ | pretzelgod | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | (Eric Gillespie, Jr.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |---*| | That's the problem with going from a soldier to a | | politician: you actually have to sit down and listen to | | people who six months ago you would've just shot. | | --President John Sheridan, Babylon 5| \--/
Re: how to format a flpooy with debian??????
First of all, can you read the files on that floppy? mdir a: and so on (mtools package) And to format it you need to use superformat It's in the package with fdutils Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
irc.debian.org - No DNS
It appears that the dns for irc.debian.org is fscked up. When I try to ping it, I get unknown host. Does anyone know of another irc server I can use to get on the #debian channel?
Re: substitute strings in text files (links in html files)
Hello! How could I substitute a string (links) in html files with standard Linux (debian) tools? i.e. I want to change every http://one.domain.com in http://two.domain.com in some files and files in subdirs. sed -e s/one.domain.com/two.domain.com/ originalfile newfile Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: how to format a flpooy with debian??????
First of all, can you read the files on that floppy? more or less... mdir a: and so on (mtools package) yep And to format it you need to use superformat ah yeahhh great thanks a lot, that did it!!! ciao bboett == acount at earthling net http://erm6.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett === Unsolicited commercial email is NOT welcome at this email address To contact me replace acount by bboett in above addresses
Re: shell scripts.
Hi, Where can I learn how to write the shell scripts?? Is there any good documentation to read?? There is some online documentation, like manual pages, which cover, in a bit of detail, all the built-in functions of hte shell. I'm currently going through a book called Unix shell programming, by Lowell Jay Arthur and Ted Burns. 4th edition. published by Wiley Computer Publishing It pretty much helps you to get to the understanding how to write scripts, and provides with examples of code. Covers several shells too, like Bourne, C-shell, etc. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: GCC Compile problems relating to DMA
Thanks for the reply. I booted off of the rescue disk (I only have one partition, so I couldn't have it mounted while I tried to fsck it). Running fsck simply came back with device clean... do I need to send any flags? Someone also suggested that I disable DMA on the drive via hdparm -d 0 /dev/hdb. I tried this, but that simply changes the error from dma_intr to read_intr, which I believe seems to correlate that something is in fact wrong with a sector on the disk. SJG This happened to me, and I switched to single-user mode (init 1), and ran fsck.ext2 /dev/harddrivedevice. After that, reinstall the gcc packages. This should mark the sectors bad so the kernel won't write files to them. Any one else with more experience care to comment? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: rich text format
On 15 Jan 1999, Harald Weidner wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich Harran. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me the easiest way to view a rich text format under linux, preferably without installing staroffice / wp8, etc. In windows, it can be read with word, but wordview just won't load it up There is a nice tool called rtftohtml. It can be found on http://www.sunpack.com/RTF/ It is commercial, but you can download an evaluation copy for many operating systems. I dislike his - compile it for your OS, and then give me rights to the binary. I've just got hold of the RTF spec.. 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/
X apps and windowmaker
Hey all, I'm using windowmaker 0.20.3 and some apps that I run Maxwell, xmaddressbook, amaya and xpaint are larger then my virtual screen. When this happens I can get either to the title bar to Kill the app or to the bottom of the app to resize it. I set windowmakers to keep apps inside the screen - did nothing and I can find a geometry settings in any of these app config files. I'm not sure is I can use geometry as a start up option on these apps either. But for xpaint the problem occurs when I select create new without a size... Any thought would be greatly appreciated... Rod.
Re: irc.debian.org - No DNS
Took me a while to find it, but the (main) #debian channel is now on irc.linpeople.org. SJG On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Chris Hoover wrote: It appears that the dns for irc.debian.org is fscked up. When I try to ping it, I get unknown host. Does anyone know of another irc server I can use to get on the #debian channel? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Getting X to run as a normal user
I one of those people who've moved from windows, and use their computers as a single user. Thus I've always done everything as root. I'm finally trying to get out of this habit, but it's not so easy once everything is set up. I'm having problems getting X running properly as a normal user: it loads up, but the window manger / xterm don't appear. I exit it using cntlalt-, and get the error: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: /dev/null: permission denied repeated three times. I originally had no .Xsession in root or in the home of the normal user, but I sym-linked .Xsession in the user directory to .Xsession in /etc/X11, to no avail (same errors). Please help TIA Rich.
Re: using xfig + latex
Hi!
It is working now! Thank you all very much. Below some information I got:
On 15 Jan 1999, Christophe Broult wrote:
The following is a document on how to import xfig figures in latex along
with a few tips to make your life easier. I wrote this quite a while
back but it still applies.
Salut,
Eric
HOW TO IMPORT XFIG FIGURES IN YOUR LATEX FILES:
--
This doc comes with transfig package and can be found in
/usr/doc/transfig/LATEX.AND.XFIG.gz .
I believe it shows the best solution, which is to combine .pstex and
.pstex_t. (but I didn't check Wojciech's method yet. Thanks Wojciech, I
will keep it for future usage).
Alternatives suggested included eepic and pictex formats. Format eepic
didn't work for me. Format pictex did, but seems to make latex compilation
much slower.
I managed to use .pstex + .pstex_t with LaTeX2e using
\usepackage{epsfig}
instead of
\input{transfig}
which is for old LaTeX (I guess this is the why it wasn't working for me
in the beginning).
Thanks a lot!
Marko
Re: The Gimp and gif
Ferenc Kiraly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can load gifs into The Gimp but I can't save them. What am I missing? I thought I only need the gimp-nonfree package installed for saving gifs to work. Did you tried to convert the image to index colors prior? GIF is a 256 color format only and gimp internally use 16M rgb colors (Right Button/Image/Indexed). Torsten -- Homepage: http://www.in-berlin.de/User/myrkr
Re: irc.debian.org - No DNS
I get there via: irc.ca.us.openprojects.net There is a list of sites on their WWW site http://web.openprojects.net/ I have had the same problems with irc.debian.org... http://web.openprojects.net/services/irc.html = is the list of IRC servers... will -Original Message- From: Chris Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, January 15, 1999 9:09 AM Subject: irc.debian.org - No DNS It appears that the dns for irc.debian.org is fscked up. When I try to ping it, I get unknown host. Does anyone know of another irc server I can use to get on the #debian channel? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Getting X to run as a normal user
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 02:38:23PM +, Rich Harran. wrote: : /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: /dev/null: permission denied : : repeated three times. Apparently, /dev/null doesn't have the proper permissions. Issue a 'chmod 666 /dev/null' and try again. You might have problems with other programs too, right? I've seen systems with bad permissions on /dev/null before, but I don't know what causes it. bye, -Remco
Re: shell scripts.
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 23:37:23 +1100 (EST) Resent-from: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org From: Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Precedence: list X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/32696 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 202 Hi, Where can I learn how to write the shell scripts?? Is there any good documentation to read?? BASH info manual, came with bash and readable via info, (x)emacs, tkinfo... Thx. OK
Re: plog
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 10:08:15PM +, ktb wrote: Ben Collins wrote: I looked at the file /var/log/ppp.log itself as a regular user using cat and found my password there. So if I don't have to use plog as root do I have a security problem? I'm confused. Thanks, Kent I found this to be true. The ppp.log is readable by any user on a newly installed hamm system. I think one of the scripts in cron.weekly set its permissions to the adm group. If you don't happen to run your machine 24/7, you are unlikey to ever notice, unless you have your machine booted up on when cron.weekly is run. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] --purge \*, let dpkg sort them out AOL/IM: jim foltz
Thanks for X help and Smail help
Thanks for the help with X: changing the permissions of /dev/null worked. I hadn't had other problems with this, 'cos I'm wasn't using normal user operation very much. I've also been trying to get my mail through fetchmail + smail from a pop3 server. I type : smail -bd fetchmail -v -p POP3 -k -u username serviceprovider and then enter my password: thydjgf2 (just kidding) If I have no messages, everything is hunky-dory: fetchmail has a chat with the POP3 server, and exits cleanly. However, if I have a message, SMTP comes into play, and it all goes horribly wrong: fetchmail: POP3 +OK 2210 octets reading message 1 of 1 (2210 bytes) fetchmail: SMTP 220-rmwh2.Trinity2 Smail-3.2.0.101 (#2 1998-Jul-16) ready at Fr i, 15 Jan 1999 15:32:34 + (GMT) fetchmail: SMTP 220 ESMTP supported fetchmail: SMTP EHLO rmwh2.Trinity2 fetchmail: SMTP 250-rmwh2.Trinity2 Hello rmwh2.Trinity2 (rmwh2.Trinity2 from ad dress [131.111.193.202]), here's what we support: fetchmail: SMTP 250-EXPN fetchmail: SMTP 250-SIZE 102400 fetchmail: SMTP 250-8BITMIME fetchmail: SMTP 250-PIPELINING fetchmail: SMTP 250 HELP fetchmail: forwarding to rmwh2.Trinity2 fetchmail: SMTP MAIL FROM:debian-user@lists.debian.org SIZE=2210 fetchmail: SMTP 250 debian-user@lists.debian.org ... Sender Okay fetchmail: SMTP RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: SMTP 550 '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' rich@(nodomain) not matched: (ERR _100) unknown user. fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED]' fetchmail: SMTP RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: SMTP 550 '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' rich@(nodomain) not matched: (ERR _100) unknown user. fetchmail: can't even send to calling user! fetchmail: POP3 QUIT fetchmail: POP3 On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 10:08:15PM +, ktb wrote: fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail-serv.eng.cam.ac.uk fetchmail: SMTP QUIT fetchmail: SMTP 221 rmwh2.Trinity2 closing connection fetchmail: normal termination, status 10 Sorry, I don't know what bit is important! Can anyone tell me how to configure smail. Alternatively, I was going to install exim (I think I read something here about it being the way forward). I've downloaded the package, but dpkg won't install it, 'cos it conficts with smail, and won't remove smail, 'cos it's needed by mailx. Thanks for any help Rich
Re: shell scripts.
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 11:37:23PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, Where can I learn how to write the shell scripts?? Is there any good documentation to read?? Thx. Shao. I would recommend O'Reilly Learning the bash Shell. (http://www.ora.com) and Beginning Linux Programming by WROX Press has one chapter on shell programming. -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] --purge \*, let dpkg sort them out AOL/IM: jim foltz
