Re: Installing Netscape
Sounds like my box. I use ICE, cant start Netscape. I have to use the TKdesk browser and double click it then it starts. Ronnie On Mon, 09 Aug 1999, Adam Krell wrote: Hi, I am trying to install Netscape Navigator and can't seem to get it to work. I have downloaded this file: navigator-v461-export.x86- unknown-linuxglibc2.0.tar.gz
Re: Easy way to install potato?
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 09:15:46PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: Hi Francis! On Sun, 08 Aug 1999, Francis J. Bruening wrote: | I'd like to do a fresh install of potato? | What's the easiest way to do that? | | I'm thinking of installing the base slink stuff, and then using apt to | update upgrade after pointing sources.list to the potato stuff? Yup. I'd install the bare minimum, and then go right to installing potato packages. Please define ``bare minimum''. At which point in the installation process is it reached? -- thomas..powered.by.debian/linux. .served.by.FreeBSD.
Re: problems with xpm
* Pedro Bastos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: asmem_x.c:18: X11/xpm.h: No such file or directory [...] ~# dpkg -l | grep xpm ii xpm4g 3.4k-1 X Pixmap run-time libraries Yeah, *run-time*! ashwork:~$ dpkg -S xpm.h xpm4g-dev: /usr/X11R6/include/X11/xpm.h HTH, Colin -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New kernel problems
At 07:53 09-08-99 -0500, Paul Miller wrote: I usually see this error when IDE support has not been compiled in the kernel. So I'd make sure that in the Block Devices section you have 'Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support' 'Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support' set to yes. Right on! Thanks a bundle, Paul! Dan. --- This is what we do. This is who we are. Hail Eris! -- Kallisti -- All Hail Discordia!
Re: cfdisk says hda is smaller than it really is!
Matthias Murra Hope this has helped to make my point a bit clearer. :-) Indeed. As it turns out, my CD file hierarchy is all messed up so it is _impossible_ to install right now. Thanks anyway! - d.
Re: Warning: message 11CBIc-0005wT-00 delayed 72 hours (fwd)
I would like to apologize to the list. These messages are coming from my box. I just switched from smail/procmail to exim and obviously I have a problem. I will work to get it corrected tonight. Again - my apologies. --- R. Wayne McCorkle - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.pcisys.net/~mccorkle Debian/GNU Linux - the maintainable operating system Check it out at www.debian.org -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 01:31:23 -0500 From: Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Warning: message 11CBIc-0005wT-00 delayed 72 hours Resent-Date: 9 Aug 1999 06:43:11 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; For some reason I'm receiving these notes on delivery problems to stout.mccorkle.home. Is this normal? Dean Mail Delivery System wrote: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent has not yet been delivered to all its recipients after more than 72 hours on the queue on stout.mccorkle.home. The message identifier is: 11CBIc-0005wT-00 The date of the message is:Wed, 4 Aug 1999 17:18:12 +0200 The subject of the message is: Re: Formating a HD into VFAT The address to which the message has not yet been delivered is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] No action is required on your part. Delivery attempts will continue for some time, and this warning may be repeated at intervals if the message remains undelivered. Eventually the mail delivery software will give up, and when that happens, the message will be returned to you. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Installing Netscape
When I startx I see navigator in the menu (fvwm2) but when I select it nothing happens. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I think you have it installed right, but maybe the fvwm2 menu is not set up right. From an xterm, try typing netscape at the shell prompt. On my system, that is how I start Netscape since I haven't bothered to put it on my window manager's menu. Note that the above command will keep the xterm tied up until you exit. To prevent that, you can do netscape If that starts Netscape, then it is a matter of changing the menu, which is something I do not know. Hope this helps, Patrick
Some details about problems with RTL8139
Hi, I really need help on getting two network cards to work. I'm able to work with them on Windows NT and on Linux(only if I had, initially, started first with NT :-(( ). What happens: [Machine1] [Machine2] 1. Start this machine 2. Start this machine Both network cards have *10Mbit LED on*. This happen(I think) because they're configured for 10MBit(using an MSDOS application which came with those cards.) There is no LED blinking (on both). 3. Ping to machine2 4. LED(CT) start blinking 5. There's no reply from machine2 6. ifconfig shows TX packets being increased 7. Appears message on screen (every packet received): eth0: transmit timeout, status 0d media 08. eth0: Tx queue start entry 5 dirty entry 1. 8. LED(CT) blink every time it shows 7. 9. ifconfig shows: RX packets - being increased TX errors - being increased TX carriers - being increased 10. There was 100% packet lost. :-( What should I do ? Could someone help me? Thanks. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho P.S. I'm using kernel 2.2.10
Re: issue and motd with xdm
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 02:08:11PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to display a message before users logon to my machine. I have the message in /etc/motd and /etc/issue. If I come in through a terminal window, via ssh for examples, I see the /etc/motd contents. When I logoff the console and log back on, ( I'm running XDM) I don't see either. I had the message in /etc/nologin with the ignore_nologin set, and this gave the message but users could not logon thru a terminal, and after a boot the message went away. Any ideas what I have set wrong since issue or motd are not displayed when I login thru a X Session? You might try putting something like: xmessage -file /etc/motd in your /etc/X11/Xsession file. your pal dave -- Dave Thayer Denver, Colorado USA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Module problems
You forget to do a couple important steps if you're using modules. 1. After make-kpkg -revision... kernel_image do make-kpkg modules_image . 2. Then either: a) mv /lib/modules/[kernel version] \ /lib/modules/[kernel version]-old or b) rm -rf /lib/modules/[kernel version] 3. Then do dpkg -i ../kernel-source... -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: dselect problem with Packages.cd
Are you sure they exist on the CD? -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Switching to KDM...
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 02:54:01PM -0400, Jon Hughes wrote: | Hi, Debian newbie asking his normal stupid question :-) | | I have KDE on my computer, works just fine, etc etc. When the computer | boots up it goes straight into XDM. I can log in and kill xdm from a text | window and start up kdm, no problems there. I would, however, like to | change it so KDM starts instead of XDM. I haven't tried this in a while so | I can't recall what steps I've taken, but any advice would be much | appreciated :-) 1. Install the kdm package. 2. mv /etc/init.d/xdm [somewhere else] 3. update-rc.d xdm remove 4. update-rc.d kdm defaults (Probably already done if Step 1 done) kde packages are available from http://kde.tdyc.com [dist] kde kde2 rkrusty contrib -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Easy way to install potato?
| Please define ``bare minimum''. | | At which point in the installation process is it reached? Okay, from the CD go through the install process, select some tasks or packages, etc. Then finish up to the point were it tells you it's going to reboot. Fine, do that. Next, after boot up, when you get to the part using dselect to install packages, change the Access to point at ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free. Then, run the Update packages, to get new lists of the potato packages. You'll probably see some packages are no longer available, etc. You'll have to play with the select process for awhile to eliminate all of the dependency issues (if any). Then run Install and go to bed. You'll probably have to run the Install a few times before you get everything right. After putting of upgrading my potato for the last few weeks do to Perl, libc6 probs, I upgraded yesterday, and all went well (except an errant kde package). -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Module problems
Eric G . Miller wrote: You forget to do a couple important steps if you're using modules. 1. After make-kpkg -revision... kernel_image do make-kpkg modules_image . Actually 'make-kpkg kernel-image' also compiles any modules you configured. So it is not necessary to do this extra step. I never have. -- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where do all the bits go when the computer is done with them?
lynx limit of 10 refresh URLs
Hello. I want to use lynx to visit a group of sites. After login, there is a cookie-setting ritual involving many redirections. After ten of these, lynx complains that its limit of ten refresh URLs has been reached. Then it stops. I would like to increase this limit. Reading the man page (man lynx) and searching some lists and newsgroups have yielded close but no exact information. I suspect it's a lynx.conf thing, and just need a pointer to the variable to set or the command line switch to throw. TIA, --Brian Butler
Re: Module problems
| You forget to do a couple important steps if you're using modules. | 1. After make-kpkg -revision... kernel_image do | make-kpkg modules_image . | | Actually 'make-kpkg kernel-image' also compiles any modules you | configured. So it is not necessary to do this extra step. I never have. Correct. I was thinking of add-on modules that live under /usr/src/modules. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Switching to KDM...
Try removing kdm, then reinstalling it. You may have to use --force-overwrite when you run dpkg on the reinstall since kdm wants to overwrite some files that were previously installed by xdm. Gene On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 02:54:01PM -0400, you wrote: Hi, Debian newbie asking his normal stupid question :-) I have KDE on my computer, works just fine, etc etc. When the computer boots up it goes straight into XDM. I can log in and kill xdm from a text window and start up kdm, no problems there. I would, however, like to change it so KDM starts instead of XDM. I haven't tried this in a while so I can't recall what steps I've taken, but any advice would be much appreciated :-) Jon -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
How to minimize need for manual fsck after unclean unmount
I've set up a more or less fool-proof Debian box for my parents for their word processing (WP8) and internet access needs. As I predicted when I first insisted that they use Linux, they hardly need to call me at all to fix mysterious crashes and OS flakiness, something I would expect regularly if they were using Win9x. All the pieces are in place, expect for those infrequent instances when my Dad forgets to shutdown before turning the PC off, and a manual fsck becomes necessary upon the next bootup. Is there some kernel parameter I can tweak so that I'll never have to intervene even if the FS is not unmounted cleanly?
Re: lynx limit of 10 refresh URLs
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Brian Butler wrote: Hello. I want to use lynx to visit a group of sites. After login, there is a cookie-setting ritual involving many redirections. After ten of these, lynx complains that its limit of ten refresh URLs has been reached. Then it stops. I would like to increase this limit. Reading the man page (man lynx) and searching some lists and newsgroups have yielded close but no exact information. I suspect it's a lynx.conf thing, and just need a pointer to the variable to set or the command line switch to throw. I think it is the DEFAULT_CACHE_SIZE parameter in /etc/lynx.cfg for two reasons: 1. It appears to default to 10 2. It says the minimum allowed value is 2, for the current document and at least one to fetch. I would tend to guess that it might want to hold all the documents in cache until it reaches a final URL. Before modifying the lynx.cfg file, the easy way is to try the command line argument -cache=NUMBER. For example, lynx -cache=10 wouldn't help because 10 is the existing limit. I hope this helps, Patrick
xawtv (no /dev/video)
When I open xawtv from an xterm I get this error can't open /dev/video: No such file or directory... no video grabber device available. When I did a ./MAKEDEV from /dev directory the proggy said ./MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device video. Do I have make the device 'video'? Or do I have to change some setting in xawtv? I'm running the 2.2.10 kernel on slink. Thanks. -- NatePuri (natedawg) Certified Law Student McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ompages.com PGP: http://www.ompages.com/PGP.html UIN: 43504034 IRC: ompages.com #ompages pgpfpIB42nhmC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Terminal errors
On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote: Executing 'dselect' now gives me the error 'Error opening terminal: unknown', and in addition many other commands give similar messages. For example, if I use a pipe to less (ls | less) I get the following: WARNING: Terminal is not fully functional. What does 'echo $TERM' say? Noel
Re: xawtv (no /dev/video)
NatePuri wrote: When I open xawtv from an xterm I get this error can't open /dev/video: No such file or directory... no video grabber device available. When I did a ./MAKEDEV from /dev directory the proggy said ./MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device video. Do I have make the device 'video'? Or do I have to change some setting in xawtv? ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video -- __ ___ // )___---. \ |,( /`-- `.Bernhard Rieder \/ o\ ( _.-. ,'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ /`. \ , / | | \ ' .'`.; | | \.__ _-'.'| |--..,,,\_\ ''' _-'.' ___- ) ''''''---~
Record from line in
I'm using esound and want to record some stuff that's coming in on the line in of my sound card. I can hear the stuff fine through the speakers, but it'll only record from the mic in socket. Anybody? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Ye can lead a man up to the university, but ye can't make him : think. -- Finley Peter Dunne
Re: xawtv (no /dev/video)
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 04:48:21AM +0200, Bernhard Rieder wrote: ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video I don't have /dev/video0 either. -- __ ___ // )___---. \ |,( /`-- `.Bernhard Rieder \/ o\ ( _.-. ,'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ /`. \ , / | | \ ' .'`.; | | \.__ _-'.'| |--..,,,\_\ ''' _-'.' ___- ) ''''''---~ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- NatePuri (natedawg) Certified Law Student McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ompages.com PGP: http://www.ompages.com/PGP.html UIN: 43504034 IRC: ompages.com #ompages
Re: Help setting up Exim as relay host for private network
David Natkins wrote: Bruce, Exactly what does Exim say? (check /var/log/exim/mainlog). Bruce Jackson wrote: I am trying to setup exim 3.02 on a potato system. The system is the firewall/gateway for my network. The problem is that I can accept email for the internal host but the email is not routing to the internal host. Exim does not know what to do with it. The internal host is in the /etc/hosts file of the gateway. Exim does not seem to look there. I can ping and traceroute to the internal email server. How exactly do I configure exim.conf to do this. exim.conf qualify_domain = gateway.home.com qualify_recipient = internal.home.com receiver_unqualified_hosts = 172.16.1.2 local_domains = localhost:gateway.home.com local_domains_include_host = true local_domains_include_host_literals = true relay_domains = *.home.com never_users = root host_lookup = * host_accept_relay = 127.0.0.1:172.16.0.0/24 # percent_hack_domains=* trusted_users = mail smtp_verify = true ## # TRANSPORTS CONFIGURATION # ## # ORDER DOES NOT MATTER# # Only one appropriate transport is called for each delivery.# ## remote_smtp: driver = smtp end ## # DIRECTORS CONFIGURATION # # Specifies how local addresses are handled # ## # ORDER DOES MATTER # # A local address is passed to each in turn until it is accepted. # ## real_local: prefix = real- driver = localuser transport = local_delivery system_aliases: driver = aliasfile file_transport = address_file pipe_transport = address_pipe file = /etc/aliases search_type = lsearch # user = list # Uncomment the above line if you are running smartlist userforward: driver = forwardfile file_transport = address_file pipe_transport = address_pipe reply_transport = address_reply no_verify check_ancestor file = .forward modemask = 002 filter localuser: driver = localuser transport = local_delivery smart: driver = smartuser new_address = [EMAIL PROTECTED] end ## # ROUTERS CONFIGURATION # #Specifies how remote addresses are handled # ## # ORDER DOES MATTER # # A remote address is passed to each in turn until it is accepted. # ## lookuphost: driver = lookuphost transport = remote_smtp literal: driver = ipliteral transport = remote_smtp LAN_deliver: driver = domainlist transport = remote_smtp route_list = aes1.aes.ac.in bydns_a end Thanks in advance for your help in this matter. -- Bruce Jackson Debian Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades! www.debian.org www.fsf.org www.linux.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- David Natkins Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax to: (718) 488-1780 Phone: (718) 403-2474 I forgot the error message :) It is: unrouteable mail domain bydns_a -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!!! info: www.debian.org
Re: gnome-apt
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: Well... unfortunately I must tell you that from some time to now I've been having just the same problem with gnome-apt... It does the whole dowload of the ?.deb?s, and then just beeps and goes back to the initial window... Sure enough... I've fixed it in CVS. Also have another change or two that will go in soon, so we'll make a new release. The problem was that libapt-pkg changed out from underneath gnome-apt, but the change wasn't the kind of thing that would cause a compile failure. It was just a change in library semantics. So gnome-apt wasn't checking for all the proper circumstances. It seems there's some new library feature to handle media swapping, I don't see how that works yet so gnome-apt will somewhat ungracefully bail out if media swapping is needed... BTW the beep is normal, it beeps so you know it's done downloading... I guess it seems a bit lame for small or nonexistent downloads. Thanks for the report. Also, a qustion... couldn't gnome-apt (and apt-get) be set to resume downloading automatically until the doanload is finished (like wget does?) This is a libapt-pkg issue so I'll hand off to Jason - gnome-apt doesn't do anything to determine this. Havoc
i want to trade Redhat 6.0, Win98 ... for Debian
Do you have extra Debian CD (2.0 or later)? I am still using Debian 1.2 and can't get new Debians cheaply. I have Reahat 6.0, Win98, VC, VB, BC ... for exchange. Consider this: First I mail you CD(s) you want; Upon receipt, you mail me Debian CD; Finally I email you registered numbers. I live in Shanghai, China. Interested people please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I will leave the list in a minute.
problems installing Slink from apt
I copied some new images to a set of floppies and installed the base system to my ThinkPad (seven floppies) and all goes well until I have to choose how to install the rest of the system. The FTP option is gone, and I can only use it with APT and this is not good, because I cannot get to my CDROM that way. The CD is on another machine and is mounted to my home directory, mount point /home/pollywog/debian I am not set up for anonymous FTP, so is there a way to get APT to log in with a password? thanks -- Andrew
Re: Apache-ssl wont auto restart. Needs password.
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: we have Apache-ssl installed and running on our Debian Slink web server. The only problem we have is that Apache-ssl won't restart automatically if it goes down or if we reboot. This because we need to put in a password after having entered apache-sslctl start. Go to your directory where your key and is and run # ssleay rsa -in privkey.pem -out new.cert.key Some documentation on this can be found at https://www.apache-ssl.org/#FAQ Regards, -Don -- .sig lite
RE: problems installing Slink from apt
On 10-Aug-99 Pollywog wrote: I copied some new images to a set of floppies and installed the base system to my ThinkPad (seven floppies) and all goes well until I have to choose how to install the rest of the system. The FTP option is gone, and I can only use it with APT and this is not good, because I cannot get to my CDROM that way. The CD is on another machine and is mounted to my home directory, mount point /home/pollywog/debian I am not set up for anonymous FTP, so is there a way to get APT to log in with a password? Nevermind folks. I tried and tried but apt-get was unable to find Packages.gz on my CD no matter what I did, so I am downloading the rest of the system from Debian's ftp using apt-get. It will take 12 hrs but there was no other way. thanks -- Andrew
Re: Terminal errors
Immanuel Yap wrote: On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote: Executing 'dselect' now gives me the error 'Error opening terminal: unknown', and in addition many other commands give similar messages. For example, if I use a pipe to less (ls | less) I get the following: WARNING: Terminal is not fully functional. What does 'echo $TERM' say? Thump! Thump! Thump! sound of user banging head against desk :) Now why didn't I check that?? Thanks Noel. You asked the right question, the $TERM variable was blank. I ran an env command and compared it to my hamm disk. All the other variables looked ok. I then added TERM=linux and export TERM to my root .profile to see if that fixed it. It did. However I'm sure that that's not the correct place for TERM to be set. So! I've been checking files on my hamm disk in an attempt to find the correct spot. so far I've looked at /etc/inittab, .profile, .bashrc and any file I could find that said getty, login or init. No luck yet. You wouldn't by any chance have another hint in you, would you? :) Thanks John Noel -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Powered by the Penguin
Re: xawtv (no /dev/video)
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, NatePuri wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 04:48:21AM +0200, Bernhard Rieder wrote: ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video I don't have /dev/video0 either. Did you compile your kernel with support for your video grabber card? Thanks. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED]UCSD Physics Dept.
Re: gnome-apt
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote: the kind of thing that would cause a compile failure. It was just a change in library semantics. So gnome-apt wasn't checking for all the proper circumstances. Was there? Hmm.. It seems there's some new library feature to handle media swapping, I don't see how that works yet so gnome-apt will somewhat ungracefully bail out if media swapping is needed... Yeah, you need this loop thing. I'm pondering moving that entire process into some internal interface but not entirely sure what something like that should look like. Also, a qustion... couldn't gnome-apt (and apt-get) be set to resume downloading automatically until the doanload is finished (like wget does?) This is a libapt-pkg issue so I'll hand off to Jason - gnome-apt doesn't do anything to determine this. Ah, you set acquire::retires I belive (in the apt.conf man page) and it will go off and retry like that until that counter runs out or it gets the file.. Jason
Re: Dabian 2.9.4
Hello, I think, I have seen the this two drivers in the Kernel package (not the patch). Download it from http://www.linuxrouter.org/ At 15:43 09.08.1999 -0400, you wrote This was the original Message: MKHi, MK MKI have downloaded the linux router project, i can make it work ok. but i MKcannot find the proper drivers for the 3Com file and then Kingston Card, MKcould you please send me the 3c59x.o file and the Tulip.o file for MKversino 2.9.4., this would be greatly appriciated, thanks MK MKRino MK MK The Reply begins here:
Re: problems installing Slink from apt
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Pollywog wrote: I copied some new images to a set of floppies and installed the base system to my ThinkPad (seven floppies) and all goes well until I have to choose how to install the rest of the system. The FTP option is gone, and I can only use it with APT and this is not good, because I cannot get to my CDROM that way. The CD is on another machine and is mounted to my home directory, mount point /home/pollywog/debian You can either get a newer APT and use the CDROM method, or just use a file uri to your mount pint. I am not set up for anonymous FTP, so is there a way to get APT to log in with a password? Standard uri notation, ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:80/ Jason
Re: Shell scripts
Michael Merten wrote: On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 06:32:26PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: Michael Merten wrote: Hi, I've written a rather elaborate shell script and was wondering... are there any script guru's out there with the time and the inclination to take a look at it, and possibly give me some suggestions/comments/pointers on how to improve it? There's very little to criticise. Your style is different from mine - I prefer errors to come out of the else branch of tests - but the script is quite understandable and I saw nothing objectionable in it. You will need to find a different name for `mirror', because there is already a /usr/bin/mirror in the package mirror. -- Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. John 15:7
script to remove blank lines ?
hi all shell scripters ! if in a file I have say 10 lines and some of them are blank lines ,how do i remove the blank lines ? cherio venu
Re: Clearing a mail spool of duplicate emails???
Colin Marquardt wrote: my mail spool. Is there a package which will scan my mail spool and What options do you give fetchmail? I just use -a (plus -vvv when I want to check something out), and right after correctly receiving a message from the server, it flushes it (this is version 4.6.4). So, in case of interruption, only the last mail should be duplicated, if at all. man fetchmail (--expunge) -e, --expunge (keyword: expunge) When talking to an IMAP server, [...] the end of run). This option does not work with ETRN, POP2, or POP3. fetchmail-5.0.1 (Sun Apr 18 14:59:56 EDT 1999): [...] * Can now use expunge option to chop POP3 retrievals into subsessions. Sorry, i didn't know it was a new feature. Please try a recent version. Martin
Soundcard Printer Hassles
I've just recently upgraded my motherboard (the new CPU I got didn't work on the old motherboard sigh), and as such I'm having a few hassles with Linux doing some things. The motherboard has a few things inbuilt (yukkie, but it was all I could afford). Namely a soundcard and a video card. The video card problem was sorted out by a short visit to xfree86.org, so I am not having any hassles there, but I've got a few hassles with linux recognising my soundcard. The onboard soundcard is a ESS style (not sure on the actual number, but it the win95/98 driver is for the ESS-SOLO1), it's PNP under Win98 but isapnptools doesn't recognise it as being there for pnp mode. I've read through the kernel documentation and it noted that for some ess cards you need to load some code before the soundcard can be activated. Is this required for my soundcard? If so, where do I get this code from? Oh, just remembered the motherboard is a jet-way J-530BF motheboard (needed it for the AMD-K62/233 chip I got the other day, nice jump from pentium 90 stage, hey grin). Any responses will be greatfully received on this matter (no flames please, I'm having enough troubles as it is without them). On a side note, I own a HP Deskjet 400, and I can't seem to figure out how to get it to print in colour under linux... anyone know how to get this to work? I didn't want to play around with printer drivers to take a guess at what one will work, I don't like guessing with computer stuff... I get enough hassles with the stuff I get without having to worry about software problems Regards, Peter Ludwig
Re: script to remove blank lines ?
Hi, On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 12:25:03PM +0530, venu wrote: if in a file I have say 10 lines and some of them are blank lines ,how do i remove the blank lines ? grep -v ^$ filename This gets you all lines with something between the line's beginning (^) and its end ($). Or rather without nothing between beginning and end (-v is grep's negation option). So long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works. ***
Re: script to remove blank lines ?
hey... that was quick !! thanks stephan...
Stephan wrote:...
grep -v ^$ filename
This gets you all lines with something between the line's beginning (^)
and its end ($). Or rather without nothing between beginning and
end (-v is grep's negation option).
i did it like this uing awk.
cat m | awk '$1 != { print $1 }'
but i believe ur method would be faster !!
thanks
venu
Re: script to remove blank lines ?
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 12:25:03PM +0530, venu wrote: hi all shell scripters ! if in a file I have say 10 lines and some of them are blank lines ,how do i remove the blank lines ? cherio venu Well, one way would be to 'cat file | tr -s '\n' newfile', IIRC. Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder -- http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug -- Driving in Texas is simple. For the first 100 miles you swerve to avoid jackrabbits. For the second 100 miles you hit whatever jackrabbits get in the way. After that you chase off into the brush after them.
Debian and StarOffice5.1
I have problems to run StarOffice , because it takes a very very long time to load it. Can it be possible that there is a conflict with shared libraries ?
Re: Debian and StarOffice5.1
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Holger Leiser wrote: I have problems to run StarOffice , because it takes a very very long time to load it. Can it be possible that there is a conflict with shared libraries ? That is a possiblity, there are a number of other things that affect the loading time of any application (not just staroffice, but staroffice might be making them apparent to you)... firstly, just a few short questions, how much ram do you have? I have 32 megabytes, and staroffice takes about a minute to load, when I had 64 megabytes (I had to sell some frown), it only took 10 seconds or so... secondly, have you got enough hdd space left for temporary files? Staroffice doesn't die when it doesn't have enough space, it just starts doing some silly things to try and get around the problem... check your drive usage (on all drives if you have more than one). The main thing I would check on your system would be the RAM... linux uses a lot more physical ram than you might think (even though it doesn't need to... it just likes to have some available for instant use it seems to me...) If you have enough physical ram (I've got to get back up to at least 64 megabytes myself... aiming for 256Megabytes actually grin), then most x-windows applications will fly along, even if you have other problems with system config. Hope this helps, Peter Ludwig
using 6 serial ports
Howdy, I added a board with 4 serial ports to my PC. I can access the first two serial ports on that board but I do not succeed in connecting to the other 2 ports. I added support for more then 4 serial ports to the kernel and I added some setserial lines to /etc/rc.boot/0setserial but it still doesn't seem to work. When I boot Linux I get a message stating: Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Should I do anything special to use the next 2 serial ports? I couldn't find anything in the serial-HOWTO. Thanks in advance, Nico -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rc?.d policy?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No Debian has no policy about runlevels, which is pretty strange if you ask me, they rejected a bug against policy on this issue. Nothing is stopping you from changing your own system around. But be aware that whenever you update any of the packages that use the rc*.d directories that they will re-add the links back in, at least until policy is changed. That is not true. You can futz around with the symlinks all you want - as long as at least one Sxx or Kxx link is present for the package, a re-install or upgrade will _not_ change your configuration. That is kind of the point of update-rc.d Mike. -- ... somehow I have a feeling the hurting hasn't even begun yet -- Bill, The Terrible Thunderlizards
Re: xawtv (no /dev/video)
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 10:19:40PM -0700, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, NatePuri wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 04:48:21AM +0200, Bernhard Rieder wrote: ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video I don't have /dev/video0 either. Did you compile your kernel with support for your video grabber card? I compiled the kernel to have support of the bttv driver as a module. Thanks. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED]UCSD Physics Dept. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- NatePuri (natedawg) Certified Law Student McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ompages.com PGP: http://www.ompages.com/PGP.html UIN: 43504034 IRC: ompages.com #ompages
Re: Shell scripts
Michael Merten wrote: Ok, thanks for taking a look at it! (You didn't see anything obvious that could be done simpler or more efficiently? I always seem to do things the hard way :) Nothing obvious. -- Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. John 15:7
Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61
In the past few days (today and yesterday to be precise) I've noticed that I can no longer click on links in Navigator. All mouse related events work it's just those that are on the rendered HTML page that don't work. This includes both left and right mouse clicks on links. I get this on the terminal when I run netscape from the command line: #--- Warning: translation table syntax error: Modifier or '' expected Warning: ... found while parsing 'Shiftlt;Btn4Downgt;: LineUp()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Modifier or '' expected Warning: ... found while parsing ' Shiftlt;Btn5Downgt;: LineDown()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Missing '' while parsing event type. Warning: ... found while parsing ' Nonelt;Btn4Downgt;:LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Missing '' while parsing event type. Warning: ... found while parsing ' Nonelt;Btn5Downgt;:LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Modifier or '' expected Warning: ... found while parsing ' Altlt;Btn4Downgt;: xfeDoCommand(forward)' Warning: translation table syntax error: Modifier or '' expected Warning: ... found while parsing ' Altlt;Btn5Downgt;: xfeDoCommand(back #--- I have a feeling this is Xresources problem, because it affects copies of Navigator that I run off other systems, but I can't seem to track it down. A grep of all the files on the system for fragments of the lines didn't find anything. Basically I'm stumped. I've checked the Netscape.ad files, my local Xdefaults and I've checked other configs and nothing. This seems to have been happend since plugger and netscape-base-4 got upgraded (I track the unstable release of Debiang). This is a list of the relevant package versions (AFAIK). ii navigator-smoti 4.61-8 Netscape Navigator 4.61 (static Motif) ii netscape-base-4 4.61-18Popular World-Wide-Web browser software (bas ii netscape-base-4 4.61-8 4.61 base support for netscape ii netscape-java-4 4.61-8 Netscape Java support for version 4.61 ii plugger 3.0-2 Netscape Mime Plug-in Any help much appreciated. TIA Dan -- Dan Everton [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Have you tried thinking like a shower? www.psynet.net/fada | KBHR's Chris in the Morning
Re: xawtv (no /dev/video)
NatePuri wrote: I don't have /dev/video0 either. If you did already MAKEDEV video and it didn't work then you have to make your video device manually mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0 Also you should be shure that the kernel loads msp3400 and tuner. The depencies in the kernel seem to be broken so this isn't always loaded. Bernhard -- __ ___ // )___---. \ |,( /`-- `.Bernhard Rieder \/ o\ ( _.-. ,'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ /`. \ , / | | \ ' .'`.; | | \.__ _-'.'| |--..,,,\_\ ''' _-'.' ___- ) ''''''---~
Modem Problems
Hi I hope someone can help me with this. I loaded the Debian base on my laptop, hoping to get the rest of the packages off the net using dselect. At first I thought that I had a problem using pppconfig, so I got Minicom and wvdial and found that after issuing ATZ to the modem that the modem wasn't responding. It is an external modem on the serial port. The laptop has a trackball and no other mouse. The modem was on and when issuing ATZ did flicker a few lights, but other than that did nothing. In fact, wvdialconf doesn't even detect the modem. I then thought the modem was broken and took it off, attached it to a win machine and could connect to the net within minutes. If anyone could help me with this problem, I would be very greatful. Thanks Thys
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Re: Any help with Realtek RTL8139 ?
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 07:39:15PM +0100, Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote:
What Windows NT does, that I'm sure I need, it's force both network cards to
10Mbits FullDuplex.
I'm unable to get 100Mbits - still didn't test but it seems I've an UTP cat3
cable. :-(
So, probably, Linux is not forcing each network card to 10MBits but for
autodetecting ...
autodetection sucks from all I heard.
Could someone give me the options I should use to force it to 10 MBits ?
Use the driver as a module, don't use a driver compiled directly into the
kernel (Or use lilo to pass options to the driver but I won't describe that
here) Then use the line
rtl8139 options=0x02 full_duplex=1
The 0x02 comes from the following definition:
/* Media selection options. */
enum {
IF_PORT_UNKNOWN = 0,
IF_PORT_10BASE2,
IF_PORT_10BASET,
IF_PORT_AUI,
IF_PORT_100BASET,
IF_PORT_100BASETX,
IF_PORT_100BASEFX
};
This appears not to be documented except in the source.
Nils
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quick simple latex question
Hi,
I just cannot find out how to set the a4paper to landscape.
I use:
\usepackage{portland}
\begin{document}
\landscape
\end{document}
But it does not work
Please help me...
Shao.
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Re: using 6 serial ports
Hello, I had the same problem. Then I have used for every Serial Port a seperatly pair od IO/IRQ and now it works. But you need a serial card where you have enough IO and IRQ's I can set up on my serial card 32 different IO's and all IRQ's. Webmistress Michelle At 10:09 10.08.1999 +0200, you wrote This was the original Message: MK MKHowdy, MK MKI added a board with 4 serial ports to my PC. I can access the MKfirst two serial ports on that board but I do not succeed in connecting MKto the other 2 ports. I added support for more then 4 serial ports MKto the kernel and I added some setserial lines to /etc/rc.boot/0setserial MKbut it still doesn't seem to work. When I boot Linux I get a message MKstating: MK MKSerial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ enabled MKttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A MKttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A MKttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A MKttyS03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A MK MKShould I do anything special to use the next 2 serial ports? I couldn't MKfind anything in the serial-HOWTO. MK MKThanks in advance, MK MKNico MK MK-- MK MKHow do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? MK MKNico De Ranter MKSony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) MKSint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) MK1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth MKTelephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 MKe-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MK MK MK-- MKUnsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null MK MK MK The Reply begins here:
searching for a file-please help
Hello, folks! Could some of you please look for a file (I need it for compiling KOffice) named openparts.idl on your hard disk (porobably in KDE Directory/include/idl/)? I wonder if I have lost it, or if no one has got it and the KOffice development group has made some mistakes?? Thanks very much, Stephan Hachinger
Bootable Install CD ISO...
Where can I find Debian bootable CD ISO image for x86 ? Thanks lot...
Re: quick simple latex question
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 08:34:55PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote:
Hi,
I just cannot find out how to set the a4paper to landscape.
I use:
\usepackage{portland}
\begin{document}
\landscape
\end{document}
But it does not work
What do you mean, it does not work? I suggest you give use the
smallest bit of LaTeX code that is functuonally equivalent to what
you're doing. What you wrote above may be it if you add a
\documentclass and some text after the \landscape. Anyway, strip down
your document to get rid of superfluous crap and then post it. i'll
try to figure out what's wrong.
The problem is, there's nothing wrong with what you posted, so it must
be something else, but you gave us neither the LaTeX error output nor
the symptoms of not work[ing].
-Michael
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Re: lynx limit of 10 refresh URLs
[regarding lynx limit of refresh URLs] Patrick Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think it is the DEFAULT_CACHE_SIZE parameter in /etc/lynx.cfg for two reasons: 1. It appears to default to 10 2. It says the minimum allowed value is 2, for the current document and at least one to fetch. I would tend to guess that it might want to hold all the documents in cache until it reaches a final URL. This made good sense to me, too. I set it to 20 with the command line parameter, and it still barfed after ten redirections: Redirection limit of 10 URL's reached. This is a strange one. Lynx is so configurable, I couldn't fathom this being a static setting... Thanks much for taking a stab at it. Any other guesses? TIA, --Brian Butler
Re: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:26:29PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: In the past few days (today and yesterday to be precise) I've noticed that I can no longer click on links in Navigator. All mouse related events work it's just those that are on the rendered HTML page that don't work. This includes both left and right mouse clicks on links. [...] Got the same problem here yesterday. Restarting X-windows helped in my case Can you try that? Joop -- Joop Stakenborg PA4TU, ex-PA3ABA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Amateur Radio Software Database http://radio.linux.org.au
Re: procmail question (was: looking for a mail client)
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 10:31:51PM +0200, Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote: I think I will go for mutt since the PGP stuff works really fine now. However, I have some questions regarding procmail. You have chosen wisely. I switched recently and can't imagine using anything else. Is it possible to have it run automatically when new mail arrives without the need for every user to have his .forward set to |/usr/bin/procmail so only having a .procmailrc fur users that want it? The first paragraph of the procmail manpage says: Procmail should be invoked automatically over the .forward file mechanism as soon as mail arrives. Alternatively, when installed by a system administrator. It looks like you can set it up to automatically run for every mail that arrives (regardless of what people have or have not done to their .forward files) and just not DO anything unless they have a .procmailrc. Is this what you were asking? -Michael -- Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513 Duke University, Dept. of Physics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305
Re: Modem Problems
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 11:13:46AM +0100, Thys van der Merwe wrote: Hi I hope someone can help me with this. I loaded the Debian base on my laptop, hoping to get the rest of the packages off the net using dselect. At first I thought that I had a problem using pppconfig, so I got Minicom and wvdial and found that after issuing ATZ to the modem that the modem wasn't responding. It is an external modem on the serial port. The laptop has a trackball and no other mouse. The modem was on and when issuing ATZ did flicker a few lights, but other than that did nothing. In fact, wvdialconf doesn't even detect the modem. I then thought the modem was broken and took it off, attached it to a win machine and could connect to the net within minutes. If anyone could help me with this problem, I would be very greatful. Is your serial port detected at boot-time? Did you configure the serial port with setserial? You need to go through /etc/serial.conf to see if the settings are there Thanks Thys Joop -- Joop Stakenborg PA4TU, ex-PA3ABA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Amateur Radio Software Database http://radio.linux.org.au
Re: quick simple latex question
Hi,
There is no latex errors. The file.tex compiled fine.
When I view it using gv, it still displays as portrait.
If I use gv -landscape, it changes the page size and then
rotates my document 90 degrees...
If I lpr -Pprinter file.ps, it comes out in portrait.
Thanks.
Shao.
Michael Stenner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 08:34:55PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote:
Hi,
I just cannot find out how to set the a4paper to landscape.
I use:
\usepackage{portland}
\begin{document}
\landscape
\end{document}
But it does not work
What do you mean, it does not work? I suggest you give use the
smallest bit of LaTeX code that is functuonally equivalent to what
you're doing. What you wrote above may be it if you add a
\documentclass and some text after the \landscape. Anyway, strip down
your document to get rid of superfluous crap and then post it. i'll
try to figure out what's wrong.
The problem is, there's nothing wrong with what you posted, so it must
be something else, but you gave us neither the LaTeX error output nor
the symptoms of not work[ing].
-Michael
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Re: Soundcard Printer Hassles
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 05:05:52PM +1000, Peter Ludwig wrote: I've just recently upgraded my motherboard (the new CPU I got didn't work on the old motherboard sigh), and as such I'm having a few hassles with Linux doing some things. The motherboard has a few things inbuilt (yukkie, but it was all I could afford). Namely a soundcard and a video card. The video card problem was sorted out by a short visit to xfree86.org, so I am not having any hassles there, but I've got a few hassles with linux recognising my soundcard. The onboard soundcard is a ESS style (not sure on the actual number, but it the win95/98 driver is for the ESS-SOLO1), it's PNP under Win98 but isapnptools doesn't recognise it as being there for pnp mode. I've read through the kernel documentation and it noted that for some ess cards you need to load some code before the soundcard can be activated. Is this required for my soundcard? If so, where do I get this code from? [...] I have a laptop with a ESS soundcard and it appeared to be 100% soundblaster compatible. This means you can use the kernel drivers Hope this helps. -- Joop Stakenborg PA4TU, ex-PA3ABA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Amateur Radio Software Database http://radio.linux.org.au
Re: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:18:50PM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:26:29PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: In the past few days (today and yesterday to be precise) I've noticed that I can no longer click on links in Navigator. All mouse related events work it's just those that are on the rendered HTML page that don't work. This includes both left and right mouse clicks on links. [...] Got the same problem here yesterday. Restarting X-windows helped in my case Can you try that? Joop Hmm... that works. Any idea why? I'd rather find the root cause of the problem rather than a work around. Thanks for that though. Dan -- Dan Everton [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Have you tried thinking like a shower? www.psynet.net/fada | KBHR's Chris in the Morning
Re: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:44:29PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:18:50PM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:26:29PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: In the past few days (today and yesterday to be precise) I've noticed that I can no longer click on links in Navigator. All mouse related events work it's just those that are on the rendered HTML page that don't work. This includes both left and right mouse clicks on links. [...] Got the same problem here yesterday. Restarting X-windows helped in my case Can you try that? Joop Hmm... that works. Any idea why? I'd rather find the root cause of the problem rather than a work around. No idea. Finding the cause might be impossible, how would you reproduce it? Thanks for that though. Glad to have helped. Dan -- Dan Everton [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Have you tried thinking like a shower? www.psynet.net/fada | KBHR's Chris in the Morning Joop -- Joop Stakenborg PA4TU, ex-PA3ABA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Amateur Radio Software Database http://radio.linux.org.au
Re: Installing Netscape
Sounds like my box. I use ICE, cant start Netscape. I have to use the TKdesk browser and double click it then it starts. I am trying to install Netscape Navigator and can't seem to get it to work. I have downloaded this file: navigator-v461-export.x86- unknown-linuxglibc2.0.tar.gz Hmmm... First, I wasn't aware that apt-get could install .tar.gz files ;-? Are you sure it hasn't jusrt grabbed the netscape package from the internet once again? Well, anyway... try running ¨netscape¨ from a xterm and see what's the system's output (if Netscape doesn't start, the system WILL tell you something about it - either a ¨command not found¨ (in which case you should add a link to netscape in the /usr/local/bin directory) or a ¨libc.so.6 not found¨ (in which case you should check if glibc is installed and the links OK) or even a ¨bus error¨, ¨segmentation fault¨ or some other error message (in which case, I'm sorry to say you should just uninstall your netscape and try installing it once again - maybe just doing a: tar -xvvzf navigator-v461-export.x86-unknown-linuxglibc2.0.tar.gz then changing to the directory tar creates and running ¨install¨ or something (the script that comes with netecape) Hope this helps! Guilherme Zahn
Re: XFree86 3.3.3.1 .deb files for Debian 2.1
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 9:32 PM Subject: XFree86 3.3.3.1 .deb files for Debian 2.1 I would like to install Xfree86 3.3.3.1 on Debian 2.1 and do not know which .deb files to download. I would appreciate any help. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I'm using the following packages: motifnls tkdesk xaw3dg xaw95dg xbase xcontrib xext xfstt xlib6 xlib6g-dev xbse-clients xf86setup xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-scalable xfree86-common xfs xserver-common xsm xterm (all in the x11 section) Hope this helps, Kind regards, Stephan Hachinger
Re: rc?.d policy?
*- On 10 Aug, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote about Re: rc?.d policy? In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No Debian has no policy about runlevels, which is pretty strange if you ask me, they rejected a bug against policy on this issue. Nothing is stopping you from changing your own system around. But be aware that whenever you update any of the packages that use the rc*.d directories that they will re-add the links back in, at least until policy is changed. That is not true. You can futz around with the symlinks all you want - as long as at least one Sxx or Kxx link is present for the package, a re-install or upgrade will _not_ change your configuration. That is kind of the point of update-rc.d [cc'd to debian-devel from debian-user] But if a user removes the S99xdm link in rc2.d then the next time xdm is upgraded it will be added again. This issue of the package managment tools over writing what the system administrator sets has been debated before, in favor of the system administrator(Recall the /usr/doc/*.gz issue recently on -devel). This is what I was describing. Mike, or anyone else, can you clarify why Debian does not have a destinction between user runlevels for things like networking, X, etc? Thanks, -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61
Dan Everton wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:18:50PM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:26:29PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: In the past few days (today and yesterday to be precise) I've noticed that I can no longer click on links in Navigator. All mouse related events work it's just those that are on the rendered HTML page that don't work. This includes both left and right mouse clicks on links. [...] Got the same problem here yesterday. Restarting X-windows helped in my case Can you try that? Joop Hmm... that works. Any idea why? I'd rather find the root cause of the problem rather than a work around. Thanks for that though. Dan -- [...] I have found that the problem seems to be related to Java. I too had this problem and when I looked a little deeper I discovered that it only happened after Netscape tried to run a Java Applet. My solution was to just disable Java from running. Colin. -- Colin Johnson. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interlog.com/~cjohnson Remember, Everything you see on screen is but ones and zeros.
Share a directory?
Hi, If I wanted to share a directory on my Linux box, and have it available the Windows Network Neighborhood, what software/configuration do I need to look at? Thanks -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rc?.d policy?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Brian Servis wrote: But if a user removes the S99xdm link in rc2.d then the next time xdm is upgraded it will be added again. This issue of the package managment tools over writing what the system administrator sets has been debated before, in favor of the system administrator(Recall the /usr/doc/*.gz issue recently on -devel). This is what I was describing. Mike, or anyone else, can you clarify why Debian does not have a destinction between user runlevels for things like networking, X, etc? I do not believe that is the case. The upgrade of xdm will run update-rc.d, which will see that there are already symlinks installed and exit without changing anything. That is, unless the -f option is passed to update-rc.d, which should probably not be the case in any package. This assumes that there is at least one symlink for this package somewhere in rc*.d. If there are no symlinks at all (why upgrade the package if you don't use it?) then update-rc.d will create them. I could be wrong, but this seems to be my experience. noah PGP public key available at http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBN7ApyIdCcpBjGWoFAQELpgP/aMyRib3gmeG6qxgx0wch6Pq03I46n4o0 v2z9LONlDZIyHD6aA93vGf/B6Fv6e+6XG8ZletF5trKtWbTql8x5JZPQgrpH51CX E7z3vcutzzV9I2KdCNxjlu+y99MXWNLSq6bN2hA2D3n2YV/q6KVeQaQdrdTnjIzd OLQUlSBR2O4= =j+4I -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:20:44AM -0400, Colin R. R. Johnson wrote: Dan Everton wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:18:50PM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:26:29PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: In the past few days (today and yesterday to be precise) I've noticed that I can no longer click on links in Navigator. All mouse related events work it's just those that are on the rendered HTML page that don't work. This includes both left and right mouse clicks on links. [...] Got the same problem here yesterday. Restarting X-windows helped in my case Can you try that? Joop Hmm... that works. Any idea why? I'd rather find the root cause of the problem rather than a work around. Thanks for that though. Dan -- [...] I have found that the problem seems to be related to Java. I too had this problem and when I looked a little deeper I discovered that it only happened after Netscape tried to run a Java Applet. My solution was to just disable Java from running. Colin. I normally have Java disabled and only enable it when I need it. I haven't used Java in a long time in Netscape, so in my case it wasn't related to that. Did you get the same error messages on the console at the time? Dan -- Dan Everton [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Have you tried thinking like a shower? www.psynet.net/fada | KBHR's Chris in the Morning
Strange fetchmail/exim/whoknows behaviour
Hi, Recently I have been doing some mild upgrading. I have upgraded to some packages in http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/slink-proposed-updates/ as well as a very few packages in potato (just enough to get the latest apt installed). Anyway, since that time I have started having problems with using fetchmail to download my email from uni. It happily fetches the mail okay, but when I go to read it, they've gone! So I decided to find out what was going on by reading var/log/exim/mainlog and have discovered the following: 1999-08-10 22:56:28 11EBv2-b1-00 = [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] st R=smarthost T=remote_smtp H=adam.ist.flinders.edu.au [129.96.1.21] 1999-08-10 22:56:28 11EBv2-b1-00 Completed 1999-08-10 22:56:29 11EBv5-b1-00 = [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] st R=smarthost T=remote_smtp H=adam.ist.flinders.edu.au [129.96.1.21] 1999-08-10 22:56:29 11EBv5-b1-00 Completed That is, for some reason, the email downloaded from fetchmail is diverted back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- which is where it came from. That is, fetchmail gets it from uni, and exim sends it straight back there!!! Now this behaviour never used to happen. It used to put it in /var/spool/mail/mark but no more. I thought it must have been due to the fact that I had just upgraded exim from exim_2.05-1_i386.deb to exim_2.05-2_i386.deb, so I decided to downgrade it back to 2.05-1. Unfortunately the problem still remains (unless for some reason the machine needs a reboot before it's affected?) Any ideas? (Please cc any replies directly to my address) Thanks, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!
Partitioning and symlinks
(I already posted this to the SuSE list, so apologies if you see it twice)
A query/discussion-point for those of you who know their way around
these things --
When you first set up partitions (for /, /usr, /home etc) you won't be
sure how the takeup of space on these will turn out in the long run,
so you make an intelligent guess. Sometimes the partitions you create
will be on the same physical hard drive, sometimes on different HDs.
The usual (and recommended) approach is that a particular partition
on a particular drive will be home to a particular sub-tree: for
instance you may have created /dev/hdb2 to contain /home and then,
when the system boots, /dev/hdb2 gets mounted onto /home.
However, this aproach has the disadvantage that the association
between logical sub-tree and phyical disk-space is, as it were,
carved in stone. If it turns out, for instance, that you under-estimated
the space required for /home, then you have some retructuring to do.
Or, you may find that you encounter a need for an additional sub-tree
for which you don't have space on the partition housing its parent;
nor can you now create a new partition anywhere else which you
could mount. An example of this would be a big package which installs
itelf into (say) /opt, and you haven't got a /opt, have you? There's
no room left in the disk partition which mounts onto /, and you can't
make any more partitions on your existing disks.
An alternative approach (which I first adopted in an emergency arising
for such reasons as in the previous paragraphs) uses symbolic links.
Say there happens to be a lot of space left in the disk partition which
mounts onto /usr/local.
Then you can
mkdir /usr/local/link_opt
***[see below]
ln -s /usr/local/link_opt /opt
or, if you already had a /opt but you have simply run out of space to
put anything else on it, you insert, at ***, above the lines
cd /opt
cp -a * /usr/local/link_opt
rm -rf *
cd ..
rmdir /opt
Taken to its limits, this approach could imply that all you need is
a mount-point under /, within the primary partition that mounts
onto /, for each of the other physical partitions on your hard drives.
Then _every_ other sub-tree of / which you might need can be
_physically_ placed where you like in any of these physical partitions,
given therein it own peculiar name -- like link_opt above -- and
_logically_ placed where it should be by means of a symbolic link.
This would (if it worked without problems) be a very flexible solution
to problems arising from ill-judged initial partitioning.
Now, the reason I'm raising it as a query/discussion-point is that
sym-links are not treated entirely in the same way as either sub-tree
which are physically on the same partition or physical partitions
which are mounted onto mount-points.
A simple example of this is the 'ls' command, for which the special
option '-L' is required to follow sym-links: for instance, compare
the outputs from the two commands
ls -l /var/X*/lib
and
ls -lL /var/X*/lib
Such a difference could, for instance, break some scripts. The big
new package you just installed into /opt (which is really a sym-link
to /usr/local/link_opt) might not work, or not work properly.
'tar' is another command needing a special option ('d') in order to
act as though the sym-link was a real one.
Not being expert in all the details of how sym-links are handled
compared with ordinary links, I'd like to hear from people who've
been down this road before, or who know what to watch out for if
you do go down it. It strikes me that the method can be useful, but
needs using with great care. Are there, for instance, directories
for which it hould never be used?
So, over to you!
Best wishes,
Ted.
E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 10-Aug-99 Time: 14:49:51
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Re: [HELP NEEDED] The Canon LBP 660 printer under Debian (Slink)
Max Lawson wrote: Hello ! I've installed Debian-Skink on my friend box which used to run under Win95. The problem is that I'm not able to access the installed printer. It's a Canon LBP 660, a M$-specific hardware !-( And I don't know how to customize the printcap file. = Are there drivers avalaible for such printer ? If so, where can I download them ? --- I have an old canon LBP 430 and I used the compatability list from the Canon Installation manual to select a HP XX driver for use with magicfilter. You also must have gs installed. It does print OK, but the sheet feeder does not work. If you figure out how to get the sheet feeder going please advise. Best wishes! -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173
SB Live and SMP machines?
I got a SB Live sounds card for some reason (like there's a noticable sound difference) and found a driver for it on creative's site. Unfortunately, the module says it's for non-smp machines. I'm putting together a dual proc machine and was wondering if anyone has tried/gotten the module to work on an smp machine? Does anyone know why it wouldn't work on an smp machine? It doesn't make much sense to me for a module to work on a one kernel build and not another. Anyone have any words of wisdom on this? Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: rc?.d policy?
*- On 10 Aug, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote about Re: rc?.d policy? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Brian Servis wrote: But if a user removes the S99xdm link in rc2.d then the next time xdm is upgraded it will be added again. This issue of the package managment tools over writing what the system administrator sets has been debated before, in favor of the system administrator(Recall the /usr/doc/*.gz issue recently on -devel). This is what I was describing. Mike, or anyone else, can you clarify why Debian does not have a destinction between user runlevels for things like networking, X, etc? I do not believe that is the case. The upgrade of xdm will run update-rc.d, which will see that there are already symlinks installed and exit without changing anything. That is, unless the -f option is passed to update-rc.d, which should probably not be the case in any package. This assumes that there is at least one symlink for this package somewhere in rc*.d. If there are no symlinks at all (why upgrade the package if you don't use it?) then update-rc.d will create them. I could be wrong, but this seems to be my experience. noah Ok, perhaps I have misunderstood the man page section: If any files /etc/rcrunlevel.d/[SK]??name already exist then update-rc.d does nothing. This is so that the system administrator can rearrange the links, provided that they leave at least one link remaining, without having their configuration overwritten. I took this to mean that if a link existed for one particular runlevel then it would not be modified, but if a link did not exist for that runlevel and the update-rc.d command line was asking for it (without -f) then it would be created. I stand corrected. Sorry. I still think Debian should have a default policy on runlevels for X, networking, etc. -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: Share a directory?
*- On 10 Aug, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Share a directory? Hi, If I wanted to share a directory on my Linux box, and have it available the Windows Network Neighborhood, what software/configuration do I need to look at? Thanks You want the Samba suite of packages. samba samba-common samba-doc swat Use version 2.0.5a from http://security.debian.org. If you are using apt add the following to your sources.list deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: scsi hd idle spin down
Weasel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've two SCSI harddisks and what I'm looking for is a tool/kernel patch that spins down those drives after some idle time and up again when needed. what makes you believe that spinning down drives is needed at all? PS: fyi: the scsi controller is an AHA 2940 U2W, the disks are IBM DRVS09V and there's one swap partition on each of them. I've five md have you had a look at IBM's specs as to how many spin-up-spin-down cycles these drives are specified for? IIRC, these are server-drives and thus not specified to survive a lot of power-cycles but rather a log time of continuous operation. kind Regards, -- Eberhard Burrcheck http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Eberhard.Burr/publickey.asc for PGP Key -- #include stddisc.h -- electric cookie follows If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. -- Bette Davis
make slink SMP-clean?
Hello, I've just installed slink on a dual P3 box, and all went smoothly. I then fetched kernel sources and compiled a 2.2 SMP kernel and installed that. Still everything smooth (except for some minor no-brainers on my side). But now some commands, namely top and ps show funny results like negative loads and such. Are there precompiled packages somewhere to fix this or do I need to recompile the affected programs? kind regards, -- Eberhard Burrcheck http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Eberhard.Burr/publickey.asc for PGP Key -- #include stddisc.h -- electric cookie follows Where you stand depends on where you sit. -- Rufus Miles, HEW
Re: quick simple latex question
Quoting Shao Zhang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Hi,
There is no latex errors. The file.tex compiled fine.
When I view it using gv, it still displays as portrait.
If I use gv -landscape, it changes the page size and then
rotates my document 90 degrees...
If I lpr -Pprinter file.ps, it comes out in portrait.
This prompts me to ask how you got from file.tex to file.ps.
I get the impression from the LaTeX Companion that portland
requires you to insert \special commands (after the \clearpage
commands) to turn the page.
I use lscape myself which works fine. It'll happily do A3
landscape too with dvips -t a3 -m -O and some offsets,
picking up the A3 from the manual feed tray.
Michael Stenner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 08:34:55PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote:
Hi,
I just cannot find out how to set the a4paper to landscape.
I use:
\usepackage{portland}
\begin{document}
\landscape
\end{document}
But it does not work
Cheers,
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Re: Share a directory?
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 08:15:41AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If I wanted to share a directory on my Linux box, and have it available the Windows Network Neighborhood, what software/configuration do I need to look at? I think Samba will do the job dennis Thanks Hope this helps -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Dennis Schoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49+5207+923701 Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is a user-friendly Operating-System. It's just choosey about who its friends are.
Kernel Header Files
I have not been able to find any documentation on how to upgrade the /usr/include/* header files for the kernel after upgrading to the 2.2.10 version of the kernel. Any pointers to how and/or the correct documentation? I have already used make-kpkg kernel_install and make-kpkg kernel_headers, or their equivalently spelled options. Timothy Smith global MAINTECH, inc. Software Engineer 7578 Market Place Drive 612.944.0400Eden Prairie, MN 55344 USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.globalmt.com
Re: Debian and StarOffice5.1
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Peter Ludwig wrote: On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Holger Leiser wrote: I have problems to run StarOffice , because it takes a very very long time to load it. Can it be possible that there is a conflict with shared libraries ? That is a possiblity, there are a number of other things that affect the loading time of any application (not just staroffice, but staroffice might be making them apparent to you)... firstly, just a few short questions, how much ram do you have? I have 32 megabytes, and staroffice takes about a minute to load, when I had 64 megabytes (I had to sell some frown), it only took 10 seconds or so... This is interesting thing. Is it anyhow possible to make X using ram less so that there would be more left fot SO? I'm using wmaker and having as well only 32 mega ram... and SO takes about one minute to load... in my case as well... Is it possible to make it using swap more effectively? I've got 60 mega swap. secondly, have you got enough hdd space left for temporary files? Staroffice doesn't die when it doesn't have enough space, it just starts doing some silly things to try and get around the problem... check your drive usage (on all drives if you have more than one). How much should I have? And where? In / or /usr? Or?? -hv
Re: Terminal errors
On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote: Immanuel Yap wrote: On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote: Executing 'dselect' now gives me the error 'Error opening terminal: unknown', and in addition many other commands give similar messages. For example, if I use a pipe to less (ls | less) I get the following: WARNING: Terminal is not fully functional. What does 'echo $TERM' say? Thump! Thump! Thump! sound of user banging head against desk :) Now why didn't I check that?? Thanks Noel. You asked the right question, the $TERM variable was blank. I ran an env command and compared it to my hamm disk. All the other variables looked ok. I then added TERM=linux and export TERM to my root .profile to see if that fixed it. It did. However I'm sure that that's not the correct place for TERM to be set. So! I've been checking files on my hamm disk in an attempt to find the correct spot. so far I've looked at /etc/inittab, .profile, .bashrc and any file I could find that said getty, login or init. No luck yet. You wouldn't by any chance have another hint in you, would you? :) Sorry, I don't have a clue. I've never had this particular problem of $TERM not being set at all. I always thought it was hardwired when you log into the console. A quick check of 'man login' yields: On some installations, the environmental variable $TERM will be initialize to the terminal type on your tty line, as specified in /etc/ttytype. but '/etc/ttytype' doesn't exist on my system. Noel
Re: make slink SMP-clean?
Eberhard == Eberhard Burr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I've just installed slink on a dual P3 box, and all went smoothly. I then fetched kernel sources and compiled a 2.2 SMP kernel and installed that. Still everything smooth (except for some minor no-brainers on my side). But now some commands, namely top and ps show funny results like negative loads and such. Are there precompiled packages somewhere to fix this or do I need to recompile the affected programs? kind regards, -- Eberhard Burr check http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Eberhard.Burr/publickey.asc for PGP Key -- #include stddisc.h -- electric cookie follows Where you stand depends on where you sit. -- Rufus Miles, HEW I'm using slink with a 2.2.10 SMP kernel, and top (from procps 1:1.2.9-3) works just fine: 10:36am up 5 days, 14 min, 1 user, load average: 2.05, 2.04, 2.01 75 processes: 72 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 142.2% user, 57.3% system, 124.1% nice, 0.0% idle Mem: 257876K av, 244436K used, 13440K free, 47824K shrd, 94092K buff Swap: 128516K av, 3208K used, 125308K free 67888K cached PID USER SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 6433 preyern 1944 1944 524 R N 96.1 0.7 1021m slave3 6432 preyern 1944 1944 524 R N 95.2 0.7 1021m slave3 14667 preyern748 748 572 R 5.7 0.2 0:00 top . . . Maybe you need to upgrade your procps package? HTH, Norris -- Dr. Norris Preyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics and Astronomy (843) 953-7997 (voice) College of Charleston (843) 953-4824 (fax) Charleston, SC 29424 http://galaxy.cofc.edu/
Kernel 2.2.10 make error (internal compiler error)
Hi there, I was trying to compile and install the 2.2.10 kernel, but something didn't come out so well as I expected... I did it the ¨general linux way¨, so I did: make menuconfig (OK) make dep (OK) make clean (OK) make modules (OK) make bzImage ...and that's where the error came up... the compilation was going on fine, but then, suddenly, the make process aborted because of a ¨Internal compiler error: program cpp got fatal signal 11¨ (full error messages and such are in the end of the e-mail)... What's up? Is this a problem with the kernel code or with my compiler? I have already had problems to compile the 2.3.11 2.3.12 kernels (to be short, couldn't compile them at all - it seems they have problems in the fat and smfs code)... TIA, Guilherme Zahn --BEGIN INCLUDED MESSAGE-- make -C fat make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/fs/fat' make all_targets make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/fs/fat' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -DCPU=486 -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c fatfs_syms.c gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -DCPU=486 -c -o buffer.o buffer.c gcc: Internal compiler error: program cpp got fatal signal 11 make[3]: *** [buffer.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/fs/fat' make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/fs/fat' make[1]: *** [_subdir_fat] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/fs' make: *** [_dir_fs] Error 2 --END INCLUDED MESSAGE--
RE: script to remove blank lines ?
cat --help cat -s temp temp1 This will reduce multiple blank lines to 1 blank line, see the other responses if you want that line gone too. If you have a long file with a page of blank space, cat -s README would fix that for you. On 10-Aug-99 venu wrote: hi all shell scripters ! if in a file I have say 10 lines and some of them are blank lines ,how do i remove the blank lines ? -- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
Re: quick simple latex question
On 08/10/99 at 15:14:49, David Wright wrote concerning Re: quick simple latex question: I get the impression from the LaTeX Companion that portland requires you to insert \special commands (after the \clearpage commands) to turn the page. I use lscape myself which works fine. It'll happily do A3 landscape too with dvips -t a3 -m -O and some offsets, picking up the A3 from the manual feed tray. I usually use the geometry package for setting up the pages just the way I want -- dimensions, portrait/landscape, left/right, etc. It's got built-in support for passing \special commands through dvips with the dvips option. Then, if needed, I'll use dvidvi or pstops to rearrange the pages into multiple-up sets. The latter is better for documents with graphics, as they wouldn't be included in the .dvi file. hth, Jesse -- Jesse Jacobsen, Pastor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grace Lutheran Church (ELS) http://www.jvlnet.com/~jjacobsen/ Madison, Wisconsin GnuPG public key ID: 2E3EBF13
Re: Kernel 2.2.10 make error (internal compiler error)
*- On 10 Aug, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote about Kernel 2.2.10 make error (internal compiler error) Hi there, I was trying to compile and install the 2.2.10 kernel, but something didn't come out so well as I expected... I did it the ¨general linux way¨, so I did: make menuconfig (OK) make dep (OK) make clean (OK) make modules (OK) make bzImage ...and that's where the error came up... the compilation was going on fine, but then, suddenly, the make process aborted because of a ¨Internal compiler error: program cpp got fatal signal 11¨ (full error messages and such are in the end of the e-mail)... What's up? Is this a problem with the kernel code or with my compiler? I have already had problems to compile the 2.3.11 2.3.12 kernels (to be short, couldn't compile them at all - it seems they have problems in the fat and smfs code)... Sig 11's are usually a hardware problem, bad memory usually. See http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ for more info. -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Problems with fetchmail.. can anyone help?
I am trying to get my mail from a remote server rather than through Netscape Mail. I have the fetchmail package installed, but it can't seem to get mail from my server. Can someone point out what I am doing wrong? (The username and mail server are correct, by the way)... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] fetchmail -u mcmi0037 mcmi0037.email.umn.edu Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: fetchmail: No mail for mcmi0037 at mcmi0037.email.umn.edu [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] fetchmail -u mcmi0037 mcmi0037.email.umn.edu Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: fetchmail: No mail for mcmi0037 at mcmi0037.email.umn.edu [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] fetchmail -u mcmi0037 mcmi0037.email.umn.edu Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1 message for mcmi0037 at mcmi0037.email.umn.edu (645 octets). reading message 1 of 1 (638 header octets) fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED]' fetchmail: can't even send to shadow! fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mcmi0037.email.umn.edu fetchmail: Query status=10 Thanks in advance for any help... Colin McMillen -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1: 1 day, 13 hours, 35 minutes without a reboot... The revolution will be complete when the operating system is perfect. (www.debian.org, www.enlightenment.org, www.opensource.org)
Re: How to minimize need for manual fsck after unclean unmount
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Joseph Chung wrote: if they were using Win9x. All the pieces are in place, expect for those infrequent instances when my Dad forgets to shutdown before Tell them not to turn the PC off. Best thing to do is configure it to automatically turn off the screen and any surplus hard drives and it will use basically no power. there some kernel parameter I can tweak so that I'll never have to intervene even if the FS is not unmounted cleanly? There is no kernel parameter to do this other than turning off caching altogether which will kill the performance. Check to make sure that e2fsck is being used with the -a or -p options in the startup scripts. That will convert the check at boot from manual mode to automatic mode, where it will repair minor filesystem aggravations automatically. Major corruption will still need to be done manually.
Re: Kernel Header Files
Hi! /usr/include/* are part of libc package. AFAIK you have to upgrade libc to have newer /usr/include/* I had the same problem several days ago and asked here if it is safe to upgrade to libc-2.1 from potato to have 2.2 kernel headers. The answers were, that in general with standard Debian software it should be safe to grab glibc-2.1 from potato and upgrade. Apparently libc-2.1 is binary compatible with glibc-2.0. But I still don't want to try this:( --Julian Stoev On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Smith, Tim wrote: I have not been able to find any documentation on how to upgrade the /usr/include/* header files for the kernel after upgrading to the 2.2.10 version of the kernel. Any pointers to how and/or the correct documentation? I have already used make-kpkg kernel_install and make-kpkg kernel_headers, or their equivalently spelled options. Timothy Smith global MAINTECH, inc. Software Engineer 7578 Market Place Drive 612.944.0400 Eden Prairie, MN 55344 USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.globalmt.com
compiling pine
Hi Everyone, I am experiencing a problem compiling pine/pico and I do not know how to handle it. I have installed pine396-diffs_2.deb and pine396-src_2.deb from the stable and this is what I get: # dpkg-source -x pine_3.96M-2.dsc dpkg-source: extracting pine in pine-3.96M dpkg-source: failure: exec patch: No such file or directory dpkg-source: failure: patch gave error exit status 2 Could someone suggets what the problem is? Thank you, ZORO Take these broken wings and learn to fly... ///|\\\ 0 0 ( . )http://pages.nyu.edu/~rqf6512 - | |
Re: Bizarre problem, at my wits' end
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Ian Eure wrote: I am having the strangest problem. [...] Okay, that's weird. As a demonstration, I took my Potato server into singleuser mode, unmounted the partition mounted on /tmp, and overwrote the first 128k with data from /dev/zero. I then rebooted (`shutdown -r now') to show how fsck worked (new admin) - well, it also checked my RAID- seems that something didn't work right when rebooting in single-user mode. So, it checks the disks, and everything is fine. Except that ppp dosen't work. Since things work from a rescue disk, and the original problem came from an fsck, have you tried deleting and recreating the /dev/tty* device files? I didn't see that listed in your attempts, and it's about the only other thing I can come up with. Do an ls -l on the broken ones and on a working machine, and see if they differ. Even if they don't, it'd probably be a good idea to delete and re-MAKEDEV them. Good luck! Sincerely, Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Modern deductive method: 1) Devise hypothesis. 2) Apply for grant. 3) Perform experiments. 4) Revise hypothesis. 5) Backdate revised hypothesis. 6) Publish.
Re: [HELP NEEDED] The Canon LBP 660 printer under Debian (Slink)
Hi John, Thanx for your answer. I'll try your tip. I can't access right now the box I'm puttind debian on. A question. You're talking about a Canon Installation manual. I would like to know if you're refering to the manual shipped with the printer ? I've received a response from another Debian user. He uses the software pbm2ppa in order to print to the winprinter HP820. I've downloaded this software and will try it. Anyway, I'll send the results of my tests to the list. Regards, Max From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 10 15:50 MET 1999 Max Lawson wrote: Hello ! I've installed Debian-Skink on my friend box which used to run under Win95. The problem is that I'm not able to access the installed printer. It's a Canon LBP 660, a M$-specific hardware !-( And I don't know how to customize the printcap file. = Are there drivers avalaible for such printer ? If so, where can I download them ? --- I have an old canon LBP 430 and I used the compatability list from the Canon Installation manual to select a HP XX driver for use with magicfilter. You also must have gs installed. It does print OK, but the sheet feeder does not work. If you figure out how to get the sheet feeder going please advise. Best wishes! -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173
Re: compiling pine
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:58:56AM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: Hi Everyone, I am experiencing a problem compiling pine/pico and I do not know how to handle it. I have installed pine396-diffs_2.deb and pine396-src_2.deb from the stable and this is what I get: # dpkg-source -x pine_3.96M-2.dsc dpkg-source: extracting pine in pine-3.96M dpkg-source: failure: exec patch: No such file or directory dpkg-source: failure: patch gave error exit status 2 Could someone suggets what the problem is? Install the patch package. Ben
Re: compiling pine
You don't need to do this. Start dselect and install the pine package and whatever it depends on. It is in source form, not in binary form as other packages you see in dselect. Then look in /usr/src/pine* Then you have change in the pine directory and enter: debian/rules binary This will create the binary pine package in /usr/src --Julian Stoev On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Lazar Fleysher wrote: Hi Everyone, I am experiencing a problem compiling pine/pico and I do not know how to handle it. I have installed pine396-diffs_2.deb and pine396-src_2.deb from the stable and this is what I get: # dpkg-source -x pine_3.96M-2.dsc dpkg-source: extracting pine in pine-3.96M dpkg-source: failure: exec patch: No such file or directory dpkg-source: failure: patch gave error exit status 2 Could someone suggets what the problem is? Thank you, ZORO
Re: compiling pine
Where do I get the patch from? And pine4.10 does not draw my signature right... there is a bug in it from my point of view :) On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Ben Collins wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:58:56AM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: Hi Everyone, I am experiencing a problem compiling pine/pico and I do not know how to handle it. I have installed pine396-diffs_2.deb and pine396-src_2.deb from the stable and this is what I get: # dpkg-source -x pine_3.96M-2.dsc dpkg-source: extracting pine in pine-3.96M dpkg-source: failure: exec patch: No such file or directory dpkg-source: failure: patch gave error exit status 2 Could someone suggets what the problem is? Install the patch package. Ben Take these broken wings and learn to fly... ///|\\\ 0 0 ( . )http://pages.nyu.edu/~rqf6512 - | |
