Divers pb
Bonjour à tous j'ai pas de mal de problèmes aujourd'hui dont je n'ai pas trouvé la réponse dans l'archive de la liste, je les soumets donc à votre sagacité - j'ai installé gnome 1.4 en pointant sur la Sid (mais le pb dont je vais parler existe aussi sur la Woody, j'ai essayé) et gdm refuse obstinément de lancer une session gnome, il indique que ceci est impossible !!! Ai-je oublié un paquet essentiel ? présents : tous les paquets téléchargés lorsqu'on fait apt-get install gnome-applets et apt-get install sawfish-gnome - j'ai recemment essayé Postfix, tout fonctionne bien, fetchmail récupère le courier de tous les utilisateurs à chaque connexion et postfix le place dans /var/mail/utilisateur. Là où intervient le pb est lorsque je veux utiliser procmail pour ensuite trier ce courier et le placer dans utilisateur/Mail/boite ce que je faisais facilement avec Exim (et un .forward). Postfix appelle procmail (je l'ai vérifié dans les log) (c'est en fait procmail qui place le courier dans /var/mail/utilisateur) mais impossible de faire lire par procmail les fichiers /etc/procmailrc ou utilisateur/.procmailrc. J'ai lu pas mal de doc sur la rédaction de ces fichiers mais rien à faire. - Je veux faire du DNAT et du SNAT, j'ai bien lu les HOWTO et tout fonctionne bien lorsque je tappe les commandes. Pour les obtenir à chaque démarrage dans quel fichier faut-il les placer /etc/rc.local n'existant pas ? Une autre solution est d'utiliser ipmasq (en le modifiant un peu) comme je le faisais avec les noyaux 2.2.* mais ce paquet ne semble pas fonctionner alors qu'en lisant les scripts je me suis rendu compte que iptables est en principe bien appelé. Voilà, celà fait beaucoup, je vous remercie donc pour vos réponses. -- Latreyte David http://www.gaule.org Powered with Debian GNU/Linux Woody --
Re: Divers pb
LD == Latreyte David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bonjour à tous Bonjour, j'ai pas de mal de problèmes aujourd'hui dont je n'ai pas trouvé la réponse dans l'archive de la liste, je les soumets donc à votre sagacité - j'ai installé gnome 1.4 en pointant sur la Sid (mais le pb dont je vais parler existe aussi sur la Woody, j'ai essayé) et gdm refuse obstinément de lancer une session gnome, il indique que ceci est impossible !!! Ai-je oublié un paquet essentiel ? présents : tous les paquets téléchargés lorsqu'on fait apt-get install gnome-applets et apt-get install sawfish-gnome Serait-il possible d'avoir plus de détail ? Il dit juste que c'est impossible ? Pas d'autres messages ? Christian
problème avec apt-get
Salut à tous, je viens de faire un apt-get update et j'ai décidé après celui-ci d'updater e2fsprogs mais voila le problème : Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: fileutils: Conflicts: color-ls but it is not installable gtk-engines-thinice: libdb2-util: Conflicts: lib-bdb2-util but it is not installable Conflicts: libc6-bin but it is not installable libssl0.9.6: Conflicts: libssl096 libwrap0: Conflicts: netbase ( 3.16-1) but 4.06 is to be installed Déjà c'est bizarre puisque je ne vois pas le rapport entre ces packets (à la rigeur fileutils et encore ...) et e2fsprogs. Puis en regardant ce que chaque packet me raconte, j'ai * fileutils : entre en conflit avec color-ls qui n'existe pas * gtk-engines-thinice : libdb2-util entre en conflit avec lib-bdbb2-util qui n'existe pas * libssl0.9.6 : entre en conflit avec libssl096 qui n'existe pas * libwrap0 : netbase 4.06 est installé et ça tombe bien puisque libwrap0 entre en conflit avec les version 3.16-1 Alors voila, si qqun a une petite idée de comment j'ai fait pour merder à un tel point et à l'occasion de comment réparer ça, je lui enverai une bonne bière virtuelle de chez nous. -- --- -°) Evrard NicolasHappily using:/\\ Liège (Belgium) DEBIAN GNU\LINUX _\//
scsi 2969 i 2960N kontrolery
czesc. czy kontrolery scsi 2969 i 2960N adapteca beda obslugiwane przez debiana potato??, a moze woodiego dopiero, albo w ogole nie mozna ich pod debiana uzyc??. ze stron adapteca wiele sie dowiedziec nie da, bo najpierw trzeba miec numer identyfikayjny, ktory mozna otrzymac kiedy sie zarejestruje, a wiec kiedy sie kupi kontroler. ale jak go kupic, kiedy nie wiadomo, czy bedzia dzialal. Czy ktos wie, czy jadro linux-a, najlapiej juz gotowe z debiana-potato bedzie obdlugiwac te urzadzenia??, To bardzo dla mnie wazna wiadomosc. Pozdrawiam, Maciek Bobrowski
Wacom Intuos en Woody
Hola a todos: Estoy intentando configurar una tableta Wacom Intuos para utilizarla con Gimp y Corel Photopaint. He recompilado el kernel y logrado que me reconozca el USB y se carguen los módulos correspondientes en el inicio. Sin embargo en los mensajes de las X aparece un error: Wacom write error: Unknow error 1013 que no está documentado en el manual de la placa, y por el cual estos programas no reconocen que haya instalados inputs devices. ¿Alguien sabe de qué se trata, o bien tiene una Wacom rodando y me puede orientar?. Gracias anticipadas. Oscar González Usuario Linux nº 143001
Re: route permanente
Hola, Aunque no lo he usado nunca, creo que /etc/gateways sirve para eso ... On 01 Sep 2001 01:06:45 +, Juanmi wrote: Hola!!! Existe algún script o algún fichero de configuración en debian, concretamente, en la potato, para dejar de forma permanente un route add. Gracias. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Riesgos al pasar de potato a woody
Hola. Tengo una máquina en producción desde hace aproximadamente 1 año y medio con potato. En este próximo fin de semana pienso actualizarla a woody, pero no estoy seguro de si me seguirá funcionando al día siguiente un año y medio más :-). ¿Qué me pueden decir los más experimentados? ¿Puedo hacer un apt-get upgrade sin muchos riesgos? De antemano gracias por la ayuda. -- Miguel Ángel Rodríguez | Hay quien arroja un vidrio roto mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | sobre la playa, pero hay quien mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | se agacha a recogerlo. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ:91952832 | J. Narosky %%%
Tamaño fuente en los iconos
Hola He buscado establecer el tañano de la fuente bajo los iconos en el desktop de Gnome 1.4. En el control center no figura. El problema es que el tamaño es muy grande para uno de los usuarios, pero en los otros aparecen nomalmente. Agradezco cualquier ayuda Saludos CG
Re: route permanente
Para dejar fijo el gateway y no tener que estar añadiendo un route add default gw 193.142.34.1 por ejemplo te vas y editas /etc/network/interfaces y añades la linea debajo de la ip que pongas para tu interface gateway 193.142.34.1 por ejemplo un saludo! -- If you have any great suggestions, feel free to mail me, and I'll probably feel free to ignore you. (Linus Torvalds) === David Úbeda [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Administrador de Sistemas Linux' Usuario Registrado de Linux #222191 === On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Juanmi wrote: Hola!!! Existe algún script o algún fichero de configuración en debian, concretamente, en la potato, para dejar de forma permanente un route add. Gracias. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: route permanente
Me temo que no, de la página man de gateways: /etc/gateways is used by routed(8); the file contains a list of gateways which may not be located by using only information from the SIOGIFCONF ioctl(2) when routed(8) is started. Si no usas routed, no se usa gateways, según dice ahí. En /etc/network tienes directorios: if-donw.d if-up.d if-pre-up.d if-post-down.d Dentro de ellos puedes poner scripts que se ejecuten cuando ocurra alguna de esas cosas que indican... Si dentro del if-up.d pones un script con el route add, listo. El 01 Sep 2001 a las 03:44AM +0200, Diego Chaparro escribio: Hola, Aunque no lo he usado nunca, creo que /etc/gateways sirve para eso ... On 01 Sep 2001 01:06:45 +, Juanmi wrote: Hola!!! Existe algún script o algún fichero de configuración en debian, concretamente, en la potato, para dejar de forma permanente un route add. Gracias. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andres Seco Hernandez- [EMAIL PROTECTED] MCP ID 445900 - http://andressh.alamin.org GnuPG public information: pub 1024D/3A48C934 E61C 08A9 EBC8 12E4 F363 E359 EDAC BE0B 3A48 C934 -- Alamin GSM SMS Gateway - http://www.alamin.org Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.debian.org Grupo de Usuarios de GNU/Linux de Guadalajara y alrededores - http://gulalcarria.sourceforge.net -- pgpSx90yGkSzQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Configuracion de Exim.
El sáb, 01 de sep de 2001, a las 12:12:17 -0300, El Debianita User comento ... Saludos Debianitas!! Despues de buscar documentacion en la red sobre la configuracion de exim y no encontrar nada interesante recurro a ustedes. Con fetchmail se que recojo el correo de mi servidor pop3 y lo configure correctamente con fetchmailconf (con las x),pero aun no he podido leer mi correo con el mutt,por lo que supongo el error se produce con el exim. Alguien tendra idea sobre la configuracion basica del Exim para recibir y mandar correo?,tengo acceso telefonico por modem mi servidor de correo es pop.sinectis.com.ar y mi servidor smtp es relay.sinectis.com.ar mi nombre de host local es debian(el que viene por default)el asunto es que usando el programa eximconfig llego a elegir la opcion 2 pero luego no se como seguir se tambien que el archivo se puede editar a mano pero no lo se hacer. Si alguien lo tiene configurado correctamente con estas mismas caracteristicas tal vez me pueda mostrar su fichero de configuracion. Gracias... Juan Ortiz Hola Juan, te paso la direccion de un Exim-como que encontre mientras buscaba info: http://www.geocities.com/bertogg/linux/exim-como.html que te enseña como configurar exim. en la pagina de Santiago Romero tambien tienes tutoriales que te serviran para configurar mejor tu correo: procesar mensajes con procmail, leerlos con mutt, etc Esta es la direccion: http://escomposlinux.org/sromero/articulos/articulos.html Javi Polo, http://javipolo.ivworlds.org/linux.html, tiene un articulo de como configurar el correo con sendmail. Aunque no es mismo MTA aborda tambien como configurar fetchmail y procmail. Espero que te sirva de ayuda. -- Baltasar Perez (aka 'ponto') | ETSIT - ULPGC Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Woody (2.4.9 with ReiserFS) Linux user: #198228; ICQ: #71875480 http://www.libranet.com/petition.html - Nro. 84615 GnuPG: pub 1024D/3C9FACE7 fingerprint = 22E9 8141 658F A9C1 7782 A667 B694 28AC 3C9F ACE7
Driver de Sonido
Este es un proyecto que tengo a largo plazo a ver si me pueden orientar y si es posible realizarlo. Mi idea es hacer un driver de sonido para linux de mi tarjeta de sonido (supongo que bajo open sound system) la cuestion es que nunca hice algo asi y queria pedir orientacion. Primero les digo lo que mas o menos se de programacion Bajo linux pude hacer pequeños programas en C implementando algunas de esas funciones con assembler utilizando el nasm. Bajo DOS he hecho algunas aplicaciones en borland C++ 3.1 y tambien una pequeña libreria grafica para C en assembler. En linux tambien se casi todo lo basico de configuracion debian la conozco bastante gracias a esta lista (que chupamedias). Tambien tengo un libro (Programacion en linux con ejemplos de Kurt Wall) el cual es basicamente de C y tiene un capitulo de sonido pero no trata a fondo este tema. Tambien tengo otro libro (Desarrollo de aplicaciones Linux con GTK+ y GDK) este es basicamente de programacion grafica. Mi tarjeta de sonido es una Diamond Monster Sound MX-300 con chipset Aureal vortex 2. Hay un driver de sonido para esta tarjeta pero me parece que lo han dejado abandonado pues hace tiempo que no sale ninguna version y ademas tiene algunos bugs y no tiene todas las funciones que tiene bajo windows. El proyecto basico se dividiria en 5 etapas. 1 Conseguir informacion del hardware de la placa de sonido y aprender como funcionan los drivers de sonido. 2 Desarrollo del driver basico. 3 Agregado de todas las funciones que soporta la placa de sonido. 4 Agregado de una interfaz en modo texto para el manejo del ecualizador las entradas de audio y volumen de las distintas entradas. 5 Igual que el punto tres pero una interfaz para xwindows. Gracias de antemano y saludos.
Re: Riesgos al pasar de potato a woody
En este próximo fin de semana pienso actualizarla a woody, pero no estoy seguro de si me seguirá funcionando al día siguiente un año y medio más :-). lo mas seguro es que le deje de funcionar al dia siguiente!!! :). Si no tiene necesidad de tener alguna caracteristica especifica de woody, no lo haga por ahora, espere hasta que todos los otros la hayan probado y recontra-probado. Todavia existen bugs que los han resuelto a los madrazos. Sobre todo si se trata de una maquina de produccion. Le aconsejara, si tiene la disponibilidad de otra maquina, que haga un clon y en el clon de el upgrade. Si ud ve que todo le funciona maravillosamente, perfecto, rote las maquinas. Esa creo que es la unica respuesta definitiva a este dilema. A algunos les ha funcionado perfecto (los de los mp3's). A mi me funciona a medias. Afortunadamente lo que no me funciona no es nada critico en MI caso y puedo vivir con ella hasta que corrijan todos los errores. Ojala le sirva, Mauricio A.
Re: actualizar de potato a sid
-- Cuando: [ Fri, 31 Aug 2001 18:35:50 -0500 (CDT) ]
-- Quien: [ Gunnar Wolf ]
-- Motivo: [ Re: actualizar de potato a sid ]
Gunnar Es de esperarse que X no funcione a menos que lo hayas
Gunnar reconfigurado, pues el formato de configuración es completamente
Gunnar diferente.
Gunnar Actualicé a Sid, y X no sólo es más estable, sino que es
Gunnar increíblemente más rápido.
Ciertamente las X 4.1 funcionan más rápido, y se nota la diferencia con
respecto a la 4.0.2 que tengo yo ahora.
Pero me da un problema del que no puedo salir (por supuesto configuro y
reconfiguro como siempre me a funcionado, incluso haciendo alguna que otra
prueba rara).
El la parte superior de la pantalla me sale una línea de 1 cm de grosor en
la que no se visualiza nada, una especie de zona muerta por la que ni
siquiera el ratón puede pasar. Además segun muevo el ratón por la pantalla
o por encima de iconos y ventanas se dibujan trozos de estas
aleatoriamente por el resto de la pantalla. Si paso el ratón por esos
dibujos virtuales estos se borran apareciendo en cualquier otro punto de
la pantalla. Muy extraño.
¿A alguien más le ha pasado algo como esto con el XFree86 4.1 ?
Tengo una SiS 6205 y 2 Mb de Memoria de video.
Un saludo.
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Re: Actualizar Debian
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, ^pi^ wrote: El Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:25:46PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: La verdad es que no se la diferencia entre woody, potato y sid... Potato = La ,Az(Bltima version estable al menos hasta que quemen woody Woody = Version en pruebas, se quemara para las navidades (+ o -) Pues a mi me han llegado noticias de que se va a retrasar considerablemente pero no se los detalles. Se pueden poner fechas pero es pura lotería. Sid= Versi,As(Bn inestable con mas soft pero menos probado Espero que la explicaci,As(Bn te sirva Un saludo Antonio Castro +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ /\ /\ Ciberdroide Informática (Tienda de Linux) \\W// http://www.ciberdroide.com _|0 0|_ +-oOOO--(___o___)--OOOo+ | . . . . U U . . . . Antonio Castro Snurmacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | . . . . . . . . . . | +()()()--()()()+ | *** 1.700 sitios clasificados por temas sobre Linux en ***Donde_Linux*** | | http://www.ciberdroide.com/misc/donde/dondelinux.html | +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
Re: Como comprar o Debian em português?
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 00:49:56 -0300 Diógenes Alves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gostaria muito de ter o Debian mas não tenho uma conecxão rapida e nem conheço nimguem que tenha para eu pegar o debian em portugês em seu site... estava tentando pegar mas minha paciensia não deixou porque já ia em uma semana e nem tinha pego o primeiro cd. :) Gostaria de saber como eu consigo esses cd? Você pode comprar na linuxmall. www.linuxmall.com.br São três CD's do Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r3, eu comprei lá. Abraço. Fabiano Ps:Sou de Recife-PE,Olha me manda a resposta com copia pois nao assina a lista, Brigado pela atenção! [Diógenes Alves] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r3 Linux lottar 2.2.19 Pentium 200 MMX 40Mb Fabiano Manoel de Andrade [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Como comprar o Debian em português?
Diógenes Alves wrote: Gostaria muito de ter o Debian mas não tenho uma conecxão rapida e nem conheço nimguem que tenha para eu pegar o debian em portugês em seu site... estava tentando pegar mas minha paciensia não deixou porque já ia em uma semana e nem tinha pego o primeiro cd. :) Gostaria de saber como eu consigo esses cd? Basta pegar o Debian comumme configurar c. Unix (e GNU/Linux) não precisam de versões do programa para cada língua, o mesmo programa suporta todas as línguas e cada usuário (ou o sistema como um todo) é configurado para alguma língua. Como o Debian ainda não tem tradução de todos os programas, você pode configurar para pt-BR e o que não tiver tradução vai aparecer em C (==en-US) mesmo. Ps:Sou de Recife-PE,Olha me manda a resposta com copia pois nao assina a lista, Brigado pela atenção! Debian não é tão simples assim. Você vai precisar de assinar a lista para aprender se virar. -- _ / \ Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra +55 (11) 246 96 07 \ / http://homepage.mac.com./leandrod/ BRASIL+55 (43) 322 89 71 X http://tutoriald.sourceforge.net./ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Campanha fita ASCII, contra correio HTMLmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: som
-Mensagem original- De: Felipe Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Lista Debian debian-user-portuguese@lists.debian.org Data: Quinta-feira, 30 de Agosto de 2001 21:58 Assunto: som Boa noite lista, existe algum arquivo de configuracao de som no debian ? Tenho uma Sound Blaster awe 64. -- Atenciosamente, Felipe Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] aproveitando o embalo se puderem me ajudar a fazer minha placa cristal 4235 isa funcionar com o kernel 2.2.17 (potato) ficaria agradescido
Re: Como comprar o Debian em português?
Em sáb, 01 set 2001 16:09:48Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra escrito: )Diógenes Alves wrote: ) Gostaria muito de ter o Debian mas não tenho uma conecxão rapida e ) nem conheço nimguem que tenha para eu pegar o debian em portugês em ) seu site... estava tentando pegar mas minha paciensia não deixou ) porque já ia em uma semana e nem tinha pego o primeiro cd. :) ) Gostaria de saber como eu consigo esses cd? ) ) Basta pegar o Debian comumme configurar c. Unix (e GNU/Linux) não precisam de )versões do programa para cada língua, o mesmo programa suporta todas as )línguas e cada usuário (ou o sistema como um todo) é configurado para alguma )língua. Como o Debian ainda não tem tradução de todos os programas, você pode )configurar para pt-BR e o que não tiver tradução vai aparecer em C (==en-US) )mesmo. ) ) ) ) Ps:Sou de Recife-PE,Olha me manda a resposta com copia pois nao ) assina a lista, Brigado pela atenção! ) ) Debian não é tão simples assim. Você vai precisar de assinar a lista para )aprender se virar. ) ) Comprei os meus da LinuxMall (loja brasileira). Não vai pedir pra alguém da lista te mandar de graça, né? Dependendo dos eflúvios astrais, alguém com CD-RW poderia te mandar um, mas todo mundo é muito ocupado, e acho que ninguém ainda tem um office-boy particular para levar os CDs no correio para ti. Como se diz aqui no Sul: Te vira, magrão! Te vira! :-) [ ]s hzi
Re: Como baixar o Debian em português?
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 08:56:11AM -0300, Lages wrote: Amigos, Eu também tenho interesse no Debian GNU/Linux em pt_BR. Onde posso baixar os ISOs ou apontar o APT para baixá-lo? Favor indicar um mirror que tenha todos os três [3] CDs, ok? Aproveitando... Qual a página oficial do Debian-BR? [ ] http://www.debian.org.br [ ] http://debian-br.sourceforge.net Por que o link Documentação da www.debian.org.br acusa Forbidden? Qual a razão/finalidade de cada site? Obrigado. Ronaldo Cardozo Lages [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 3640360 Porto Alegre, RS Brasil A página oficial do Projeto Debian-BR é a segunda opção, o endereço .ORG.BR é um Mirror que está sendo traduzido da página oficial do Debian... Sobre os ISOs na página do Debian-BR na seção Pegue o Debian existem o endereço dos 3 ISOs respectivos md5sums e uma lista de mirrors brasileiros. Até. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: arquivos asf
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:13:27 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pessoal, Alguem já instalou o mplayer pra ver filmes .asf ? Recomendam? Tem .deb dele? eu uso mplayer pra ver .asf e tambem mpegs e divx, mas nao sei se tem .deb dele disponivel.. mas qualquer coisa eh soh pegar em mplayer.sourceforge.net e compilar sem grandes dificuldades ;) -- Mateus Inacio Trevisan (rato) Debian GNU/Linux: when code matters more than commercials. Religion is the opium of people.
Como baixar o Debian em português?
Amigos, Eu também tenho interesse no Debian GNU/Linux em pt_BR. Onde posso baixar os ISOs ou apontar o APT para baixá-lo? Favor indicar um mirror que tenha todos os três [3] CDs, ok? Aproveitando... Qual a página oficial do Debian-BR? [ ] http://www.debian.org.br [ ] http://debian-br.sourceforge.net Por que o link Documentação da www.debian.org.br acusa Forbidden? Qual a razão/finalidade de cada site? Obrigado. Ronaldo Cardozo Lages [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 3640360 Porto Alegre, RS Brasil
Debian partitioning error
Hi, I'm having a problem installing Debian on an 800mb (or so) hard disk. I partition it so that there is no swap and the entire drive is devoted to Linux. However, when I try to make Linux bootable from the HDD, it says LILO can't install and I might try making a /boot partition. What's the problem, and how do I do what it suggests? I've also tried installing LILO in the root partition, and told it to make an MBR, but the machine can't boot Linux if I do, the drive is unbootable. Thanks, Deven G.
Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich uttered: $ dpkg -S \*mdb\* That isn't neccessay, dpkg -S includes wildcards for you, iirc. postgresql: /usr/lib/postgresql/doc/html/app-vacuumdb.html postgresql: /usr/share/man/man1/vacuumdb.1.gz postgresql-doc: /usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc/html/postgres/app-vacuumdb.html postgresql: /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/vacuumdb $ apt-cache search mdb $ where's the *.mdb reader? What does 'file' say about it? I have this strange feeling it's a Microsoft Access database. Not that Access even acts like a database. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #65 from der.hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Wondering about which KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ARE UNDERSTOOD BY BASH? Enter this at your bash shell prompt: bind -p | less and see how much of that you can interpret :). For more info about all of this stuff, do man bash then search for emacs and readline (to search a manpage, type / and then the pattern to look for). Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Steve Synthetic Transforming Entity Viable for Exploration and Nocturnal Killing pgpPYKrfk1D2u.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich uttered: smoeone emailed me a *.mdb database. is there a *.mdb reader as a debian package? (i presume it's some database format -- i'd love to just get it into postgresql, or at least tab-sep-text.) Cheating, and mounting my *cough* Windows partition, and running updatedb gave up this gem: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate .mdb | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | xargs file /mnt/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/1033/fpnwind.mdb: MS Windows TrueType font /mnt/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/Business Planner/msbp_pln.mdb: MS Windows TrueType font /mnt/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/sbt/sbcm/sbcmtmpl.mdb: MS Windows TrueType font /mnt/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/sbt/sbfm/anatools/busicomp/rma.mdb: MS Windows TrueType font /mnt/windows/Profiles/All Users/Application Data/sbt/Databases/Northwind Traders Sample Company.mdb: MS Windows TrueType font /mnt/windows/Profiles/All Users/Application Data/sbt/sbcm/sbcm.mdb: MS Windows TrueType font /mnt/windows/Profiles/All Users/Application Data/sbt/sbcm/sbcmlib.mdb: ASCII text, with no line terminators Which leaves me nice and confused. -- Steve Synthetic Transforming Entity Viable for Exploration and Nocturnal Killing pgpWCCt4awSJ3.pgp Description: PGP signature
server on a 486/100 with 408mb drive
i need to set up a server for my home lan and am thinking of using woody - if the hardware at hand is good enough - with a 2.4 series kernel. the hardware i have is an amd 486/100 with a 408 mb hard drive and 40 meg of ram. i would need to run a mail and web server besides a caching only nameserver. i would appreciate some feedback on this. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com
Installing a single file
Background: I just installed the vim text editor. When I try to access the help file with :help, it says the file, /usr/share/vim/doc/help.txt, is not found. Question: How do I find and install this one single file from my CDs? Thanks.
Re: fetchmail, 2 problems
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, G. Crimp wrote: I recently updated fetchmail to 5.3.3-1.2. I have noticed two Get 5.3.3-3 from http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato-proposed-updates/ That might help you. Also, do NOT run fetchmail 5.3.3 as root. -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich wrote: smoeone emailed me a *.mdb database. is there a *.mdb reader as a debian package? (i presume it's some database format -- i'd love to just get it into postgresql, or at least tab-sep-text.) $ dpkg -S \*mdb\* postgresql: /usr/lib/postgresql/doc/html/app-vacuumdb.html postgresql: /usr/share/man/man1/vacuumdb.1.gz postgresql-doc: /usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc/html/postgres/app-vacuumdb.html postgresql: /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/vacuumdb $ apt-cache search mdb $ where's the *.mdb reader? It's a MicroSoft Access database file. There's an MDBTools project at SourcForge that's trying to make it possible to extract data/schema from these files (provided they aren't encrypted with user level security -- database level password security is/was trivially easy to break). -- Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net
Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:26:06PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich uttered: $ dpkg -S \*mdb\* That isn't neccessay, dpkg -S includes wildcards for you, iirc. postgresql: /usr/lib/postgresql/doc/html/app-vacuumdb.html postgresql: /usr/share/man/man1/vacuumdb.1.gz postgresql-doc: /usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc/html/postgres/app-vacuumdb.html postgresql: /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/vacuumdb $ apt-cache search mdb $ where's the *.mdb reader? What does 'file' say about it? I have this strange feeling it's a Microsoft Access database. Not that Access even acts like a database. How do databases act? Databases exist, Database Management Systems act. -- Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net
scsi 2960 2960 Adaptec cards
Hi, Does somebody know whether I can use the scsi 2960 2960 Adaptec cards in Debian Potato distribution?? Does the cernell 2.2.16 from debian-potato support these adaptec's products? From the official web page of Adaptec I can get know nothing. I need the TSID number to ask a question, but if I want to get the TSID number I have to buy one card and register first. But how can I buy this product if I don't know if I can use this product. Does somebody know whether those adaptec cards are supported by 2.2.16 cernell in Debian-Potato ?? This is very important information for me. best regards, Maciek Bobrowski
Re: Installing a single file
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:46:44AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: Background: I just installed the vim text editor. When I try to access the help file with :help, it says the file, /usr/share/vim/doc/help.txt, is not found. Question: How do I find and install this one single file from my CDs? Install vim-rt -- It contains the extra stuff like help files and syntax scripts. -- Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net
To run a binary as a daemon
If I wish to run a binary (say, AIRC) as a daemon , what should I do ? My thoughts are something like: maybe add into /etc/rc.d , a file with an entry like if [-x /path/AIRC] ./path/AIRC #Execute this Please offer your views on this . I know I have not thought enough over my own idea. Thanks, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Shyam Quality can Never be Quantified . It exists by itself and Quantity might hand it an untimely demise if blown out of the very fragile proportions that constitute it .
Re: Debian 2.2R3 scanner problem...
Hi, scanner help needed. I just installed a fresh Debian 2.2R3 and wanted to scan. So I installed sane. But when I run xscanimage it says it can't find any devices. That makes me wonder, because: During bootup the the BIOS finds my SCSI scanner. During Linux load, Linux finds my SCSI scanner. I can see my scanner in /proc/scsi/scsi When I run find-scanner, find-scanner finds my SCSI scanner on /dev/sg0 and on my link /dev/scanner. The scanner is a Mustek MFS 6000CX, which, according to the SANE homepage, is supported by the SANE version (1.0.1) on Debian 2.2R3. It's a SCSI scanner connected to an Adaptec 2930U SCSI controller, which is also supported on Debian 2.2R3. Now I'm clueless. Why can't xscanimage find the scanner when the rest of the system can? Have you tried xsane? It's deemed to be a little better at this. Works for me. Same thing with xsane I'm afraid. I'm getting to the point where I'm thinking about risking a messup by installing the latest sane package from testing. Noone has been able to help so far :o( Have you checked the permissions on your /dev/sg0? I have to change permissions every single time (modular SCSI with devfs) to use my scanner (HP ScanJet IIcx) as normal user. 'generic' device permissions are set tightly to prevent normal user from performing potentially destructive SCSI command upon device. I am trying to scan as root. Thus I should not have to care about permissions and other stuff for now. Thanks for your go at this. Note: Please do not reply both to me and cc to the list. I get everything twice because I'm on the list. General list etikette is to only reply to the list, and only cc to the sender when he asks for a direct reply. Best regards Johnny :o)
scsi 29160 29160N Adaptec cards
Hi, Does somebody know whether I can use the scsi 29160 2960N Adaptec cards in Debian Potato distribution?? Does the kernel 2.2.16 from debian-potato support these adaptec's products? From the official web page of Adaptec I can get know nothing. I need the TSID number to ask a question, but if I want to get the TSID number I have to buy one card and register first. But how can I buy this product if I don't know if I can use this product. Does somebody know whether those adaptec cards are supported by 2.2.16 kernel in Debian-Potato ?? This is very important information for me. best regards, Maciek Bobrowski
helprxvt loads extremely slow
Hi,
rxvt loading is still extremely slow like I have to wait for 20 seconds
before I can see the terminaleven trying to use something like
#---
# Shell prompt
#---
function fastprompt()
{
unset PROMPT_COMMAND
case $TERM in
*term | rxvt )
PS1=[\h] \W \[\033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED] \w\007\] ;;
*)
PS1=[\h] \W ;;
esac
}
doesn't seem to work! pls help
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Re: To run a binary as a daemon
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:23:35AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I wish to run a binary (say, AIRC) as a daemon , what should I do ? My thoughts are something like: maybe add into /etc/rc.d , a file with an entry like if [-x /path/AIRC] ./path/AIRC #Execute this Please offer your views on this . I know I have not thought enough over my own idea. I don't know what AIRC is, but unless the program was designed to run as a daemon you're wasting your time. Detached processes running in the background are typically servers waiting for client connection, some kind of monitoring program or some kind of agent (fetchmail -d xxx ...). Maybe you just want to run a process periodically? If so, see cron or at. -- Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net
Installing vimtutor help file
Background: I just installed vim-rt on my system. When I'm in the vimtutor tutorial and try to obtain help by pressing F1 or with the :help command (per instruction in section 7), I'm told that the help file, /usr/share/vim/vim56/doc/help.txt, cannot be found. Question: How do I install this single file from the installation CDs?
Re: server on a 486/100 with 408mb drive
General rule of Linux: Server, use older mature platform. Client, have fun with latest thing but expect some glitch. So you should install potato with Kernel 2.2. I have woody box (SMP/woody) but my server is 486/DX2 50MHz 20MB running Kernel 2.2 /Potato (here) Mail server (exim) + DNS server + DHCP server + Samba Server + nfs server + ssh server + cvs server + ipchain based packet filter firewall (ipmasq plus some script) As far as it is used as home LAN firewall/server/gateway, this is very fast! I did not run web server but it shall not be a problem for your fast machine. Since you do not likely to have SMP machine nor fancy USB, why bother with 2.4. I can assure you, installing software is pain in slow machine and best done with apt-get (run dselect on fast machine and find package). Also, if you are asking this question to the list, you should be staring with POTATO. You can always upgrade to woody later. Unless you want some specific feature, POTATO + 2.2 Kernel is enough. Cheers;-) On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:38:04PM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: i need to set up a server for my home lan and am thinking of using woody - if the hardware at hand is good enough - with a 2.4 series kernel. the hardware i have is an amd 486/100 with a 408 mb hard drive and 40 meg of ram. i would need to run a mail and web server besides a caching only nameserver. i would appreciate some feedback on this. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/+
Re: Installing vimtutor help file
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:14:54AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: Background: I just installed vim-rt on my system. When I'm in the vimtutor tutorial and try to obtain help by pressing F1 or with the :help command (per instruction in section 7), I'm told that the help file, /usr/share/vim/vim56/doc/help.txt, cannot be found. Question: How do I install this single file from the installation CDs? Hmm, check the path under /usr/share/vim/. The file is probably compressed (help.txt.gz), but vim should be able to handle that fine provided it knows to accept file.gz as a target. There should be a file (or a symlink) /usr/share/vim/vimrc that contains a line like: set helpfile=$VIMRUNTIME/doc/help.txt.gz -- Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net
Re: mandb gets stuck!
on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 04:25:01AM -0500, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:37:05AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: My suggestion: - rename /usr/X11R6/man/man3 to /usr/X11/man/man3-bak - create a directory /usr/X11R6/man/man3 - create symlinks for half the files in man3-bak: $ cd /usr/X11R6/man/man3 $ for file in $( ls ../man3-bak/* | head -495 ); do ln -s $file $( basename file ) done - re-run mandb. If you get the problem, remove half the files and try again. If you don't get the problem, replace the 'head' above with 'tail', and see if it appears. - If you can't repeat the problem, then we've found something that works. I'm afraid none of that will work - it turns out it's the database (/var/cache/man/X11R6/index.bt) that's broken, not the man pages. How did you determine this? -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA!http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hirehttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpp8ppiyE6tu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Installing vimtutor help file
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:14:54AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: I just installed vim-rt on my system. When I'm in the vimtutor tutorial and try to obtain help by pressing F1 or with the :help command (per instruction in section 7), I'm told that the help file, /usr/share/vim/vim56/doc/help.txt, cannot be found. Do you have /usr/share/vim/vim56/doc/help.txt or /usr/share/vim/vim56/doc/help.txt.gz on your system? If you find only help.txt.gz, $ zcat help.txt.gz help.txt should fix this. I vaguely remember it was like this in potato 2.2r2. If this is same as one I experienced, bug was filed and maintainer properly fixed it from better approach than above quick fix. You can install single file from *.deb file if one use mc to open archive. Cheers -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/+
Re: server on a 486/100 with 408mb drive
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:24:30PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: General rule of Linux: Server, use older mature platform. Client, have fun with latest thing but expect some glitch. So you should install potato with Kernel 2.2. i've already got a server running potato with 2.2.17. I figured woody was stable enough to be used on a server by now. I have woody box (SMP/woody) but my server is 486/DX2 50MHz 20MB running Kernel 2.2 /Potato (here) Mail server (exim) + DNS server + DHCP server + Samba Server + nfs server + ssh server + cvs server + ipchain based packet filter firewall (ipmasq plus some script) I can assure you, installing software is pain in slow machine and best done with apt-get (run dselect on fast machine and find package). i was using this same box (486) with potato earlier and yes, it is a PITA to install software. Also, if you are asking this question to the list, you should be staring with POTATO. You can always upgrade to woody later. Unless you want some specific feature, POTATO + 2.2 Kernel is enough. just a question of been there, done that, with potato. thought i could get a shot at configuring iptables, that's why i thought of 2.4. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com
Re: networking problem during install
on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 06:39:44PM -0700, Bob Galloway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Well, I finally got the box to network. As god as my witness, I have no idea why this worked, but it worked: I swapped the NetGear card out of the box, replaced it with the LinkSys card, and tried one more time. Funny, it works now. I'm still scratching my head wondering why it didn't work the last time, with the same board, same kernel, same BIOS config, same cabling, same ifconfig setup, same... but I'm glad it works (for now...). If it helps, the modem in my OpenBSD box occasionally fails to initialize. I have to power down the box, crack the case, reseat the card, reassemble, and power on. That *always* works. Hell if I know why. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA!http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hirehttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpt5ORHY1R7T.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Just a question
on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:53:57AM -0400, Brian Stults ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
BTW what does [ sed -e s/^\([^,]*\).*$/\1/ ] accomplish? I'm just
grooving on one liners lately and am curious. It seems like -
awk -F : '{print $5}' /etc/passwd is all you need to spit out the full
names.
Not quite the same thing:
$ awk -F : '/karsten/ {print $5}' /etc/passwd
Karsten M. Self,,,
$ awk -F : '{print $5}' /etc/passwd | sed -e s/^\([^,]*\).*$/\1/
Karsten M. Self
Or, if you only know awk...
awk -F : '/Brian/ {print $5}' /etc/passwd | awk -F , '{print $1}'
...or:
awk -F : '/karsten/ {print substr($5,1,index($5,,)-1)}' /etc/passwd
...in one process.
--
Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal
http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich wrote: smoeone emailed me a *.mdb database. is there a *.mdb reader as a debian package? (i presume it's some database format -- i'd love to just get it into postgresql, or at least tab-sep-text.) Hi, have a look on the http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net HTH, Rafael Sasaki
Re: Emacs/X problems...
Aaron == Aaron Traas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aaron When I start emacs, using my trusty old .emacs file I've Aaron been keeping and maintaining for years, The colors I've Aaron selected aren't quite working right. Basically, I set the Aaron background color to black, and that works, except or where Aaron there's text. Each character taken up by something other Aaron than whitespace has a white background. I've determined Aaron it's something to do with X, as the same .emacs file works Aaron beautifully when I export the display to my Solaris box. G'day Aaron, Are you using (set-face-... 'default ...) to set the colours? I had the same problem with Emacs and fixed it by using (set-(back|fore)ground-color) to my .emacs -- Joel
xterm or rxvt -why the keys difference?
I have various alt- keys mapped in vim to save, delete lines etc. These work in the console and they work in rxvt but they don't work in xterm. In xterm, alt-s and s, for example, give the same symbol. Using the GUI version of vim, however, works without problems in xterm. I've read all the docsc I can find about xterm and rxvt but none seems to explain this difference. Can anyone shed light on it? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Debian GNU/Linux (Windows-free zone). For electronic books (Homeomythology and The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical essays, and over 130 book reviews, go to http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ Bigot, n. One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. [Ambrose Bierce]
Re: To run a binary as a daemon
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:23:35AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: If I wish to run a binary (say, AIRC) as a daemon , what should I do ? My thoughts are something like: maybe add into /etc/rc.d , a file with an entry like if [-x /path/AIRC] ./path/AIRC #Execute this Please offer your views on this . I know I have not thought enough over my own idea. A program can be sometimes fooled by wrapping it with the program 'nohup' (man nohup) -- Steve Synthetic Transforming Entity Viable for Exploration and Nocturnal Killing pgpZoYOhQQmGE.pgp Description: PGP signature
apt/dpkg dependencies prob
moin, moin, originally I was dist-upgrading a woody box to today's woody. I'm running into dependency probs between libqt2 and kde-designer, even though kde-designer isn't installed. fs:/home/lufthans# apt-get install dpkg Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libmimelib1: libqt2: Conflicts: kde-designer ( 2.2.3-4) E: Sorry, broken packages fs:/home/lufthans# apt-get remove kde-designer Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package kde-designer is not installed, so not removed 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 125 not upgraded. fs:/home/lufthans# dpkg -l kde-designer Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: |uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- un kde-designer none (no description available) Why would conflicting with a package that's not installed be a problem? Maybe even more important: why would dpkg depend somehow on libqt2? Especially when dpkg has no depends. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show dpkg | grep Depends Pre-Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.3-7), libncurses5 (= 5.2.20010310-1), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (= 1:2.95.4-0.010810) Pre-Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.3-1), libncurses5 (= 5.2.20010310-1), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 Pre-Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.2), libncurses5, libstdc++2.10 Any ideas on how to break this vicious circle? ciao, der.hans -- # [EMAIL PROTECTED] home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.DevelopOnline.com # Help Jerry Lewis stamp out M$...oops that's MDA - der.hans
./configure dies with --with-pam --with-pam_smbpass
Hi Guys, Using Debian Woody here, 2.4.9 kernel etc, trying to compile samba 2.2.1a but the ./configure script dies when I include the --with-pam --with-pam_smbpass switches with the following: checking configure summary configure: error: summary failure. Aborting config If I leave out the pam switches then things seem to work (but I can't use pam). Is there any reason for this? Anyone know a fix? Someone else I notice has reported a similar problem on the samba mailing lists but no-one knew a fix - I'm hoping that someone here has come across this before and can fix it! Thanks in advance, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing It said 'Required Windows XP or better.' So I installed Linux.
VMware problem -- need help!!!
I still can't make VMware 2.0.4 work in debian potato with the 2.4.8-ac6 kernel. What should i do? i tried re-running the install script but it would just output that the setup program cannot build the vmware module. i checked the website and followed the instructions to recompile the kernel with pc-style hardware configured as a module. what else should i do? paolo falcone pc specs: AMD Duron 700MHz Debian Potato with 2.4.8-ac6 kernel __ www.edsamail.com
Re: Mozilla JAVA
Le -08.31.2001 22:18:13-, « Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) » a écrit quelques phrases célèbres sur « Re: Mozilla JAVA » KW Arrhhh I think I tested all the KW possibilities and I still don't know what I'm doing wrong :(( KW KW I've about decided there's a glitch in Mozilla or the deb packaging of KW it or something. Anyway, here's what typically works for me. KW KW After installing the plugins and making the symlink, make one more KW symlink in /usr/lib/mozilla/ (not the plugins directory): KW KW ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 libXt.so KW KW If that doesn't solve it, I'm outta ideas. You're the one ! It work at last !! Perfect... Seems to work pretty well... I feared a problem because my first attempt (http://www.javasoft.com) made Mozilla window disappear suddenly ! (I and tried it twice)... Finally, I searched on Google for online Java games (a good test) and I was able to play Arkanoid and PacMan successfully !! Thanks to EVERYONE who have replied and tried to help me! Thanks people! Greetings, -- _ / \___ (OXOXOXOXOXOX) )_/ Melkor \_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian: When code matters more than commercials... (SID)
Re: mandb gets stuck!
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:36:08PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 04:25:01AM -0500, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm afraid none of that will work - it turns out it's the database (/var/cache/man/X11R6/index.bt) that's broken, not the man pages. How did you determine this? About two months ago, I wrote the code that is getting into a loop. ;) I knew it was that because of the various patterns of output he described. I also don't think it's possible for a broken man page to cause mandb to loop, although if you manage it I'd love to hear about it ... Besides, Eugene sent me the database in question, and I had a look at it with accessdb. -- Colin Watson (man-db maintainer) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Microsoft compatibility (aarrggh!)
So long as your computer has enough grunt to run Star-Office ( 32MB ram, P133 ) then you should be fine. On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 02:09:00AM +0100, charles verbeken wrote: Hello, This is regarding a few questions regarding the installationa and the compatibility of debian OS. Will I be able to use my former office 98 files and other systems previously used i.e. ms paint etc. Thanks for reading. ___ It's amazing what happens when you breathe. www.breathe.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
openGL problems: how is it sup0posed to work?
I have DRI and openGL (mesa) working, but I have few strange problems. xscreensaver: openGL demo hacsk are running in software mode when run by xscreensaver but run accelerated when run from xterm. xscreensaver openGL demo hacks run in window mode (when run from xterm, accelerated), how do I make them fullscreen? setenv MESA_GLX_FX fullscreen does not help... is libglide3 still used for implementation of openGL? when I remove libglide3 the openGL stops working (in HW accelerated mode). ldd `which glxinfo` does not show libglide to be used but strace reveals it opens it - is it based on which module is used (I guess only tdfx uses glide)? my system: 3dfx voodoo 3 debian unstable, kernel 2.4.5 ii libglide3 2001.01.26-1.1 Graphics library for 3Dfx Voodoo based cards ii libglide3-dev 2001.01.26-1.1 development files for libglide3 ii xlibmesa3 4.1.0-2XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphics library ii xserver-common 4.1.0-2files and utilities common to all X servers any pointers to more detialed info? TIA erik
Re: Mozilla JAVA
Hello All, Something seems fishy here. Reading this made me wonder if I was disillusioned as to weather my java was reallly working in mozilla or not. So I tested it out by searching similar to the gentleman below for 'online java games Arkanoid' at google. With a couple that I tried all I got was a grey box that seemed to indicate the game did not seem to finish loading. One place, I think I was trying 'Arknoid2', caused Mozilla to disappear. Then I finally tried out this place... http://www.3dupdates.com/javagames/arkanoid/ and the game worked beautifully, sound and all. But I have no symlink(nor did I make one) in /usr/lib/mozzila for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 - libXt.so Is something rotten in denmark? Or is it just me? Bewildered, Jimmy Richards The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. --Bill Watterson On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:03:54PM +0200, Georges Goncalves wrote: Le -08.31.2001 22:18:13-, ? Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ? a ?crit quelques phrases c?l?bres sur ? Re: Mozilla JAVA ? KW Arrhhh I think I tested all the KW possibilities and I still don't know what I'm doing wrong :(( KW KW I've about decided there's a glitch in Mozilla or the deb packaging of KW it or something. Anyway, here's what typically works for me. KW KW After installing the plugins and making the symlink, make one more KW symlink in /usr/lib/mozilla/ (not the plugins directory): KW KW ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 libXt.so KW KW If that doesn't solve it, I'm outta ideas. You're the one ! It work at last !! Perfect... Seems to work pretty well... I feared a problem because my first attempt (http://www.javasoft.com) made Mozilla window disappear suddenly ! (I and tried it twice)... Finally, I searched on Google for online Java games (a good test) and I was able to play Arkanoid and PacMan successfully !! Thanks to EVERYONE who have replied and tried to help me! Thanks people! Greetings, -- _ / \___ (OXOXOXOXOXOX) )_/ Melkor \_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian: When code matters more than commercials... (SID) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ./configure dies with --with-pam --with-pam_smbpass
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 10:38:17 +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: Using Debian Woody here, 2.4.9 kernel etc, trying to compile samba 2.2.1a but the ./configure script dies when I include the --with-pam --with-pam_smbpass switches with the following: checking configure summary configure: error: summary failure. Aborting config I don't know how to fix it (because I haven't tried it myself,) but you might gain valuable hints by looking at config.log in the directory current when you invoked configure. HTH. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: VMware problem -- need help!!!
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 06:02:08PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: I still can't make VMware 2.0.4 work in debian potato with the 2.4.8-ac6 kernel. What should i do? i tried re-running the install script but it would just output that the setup program cannot build the vmware module. i checked the website and followed the instructions to recompile the kernel with pc-style hardware configured as a module. what else should i do? paolo falcone pc specs: AMD Duron 700MHz Debian Potato with 2.4.8-ac6 kernel __ www.edsamail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sounds exactly like the problem I ran into where when during the install it tried to compile the vmmon module and puked. I found a fix by using the 'vmmon-for-2.4.7-only.tar.gz' to replace the module source which was causing the problem. After that it compiled without major problems. ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/vmmon-for-2.4.7-only.tar.gz Also, I am using kernel 2.4.9 and the fact that the file indicates for 2.4.7 only did not prevent it from working with 2.4.9. -- Jeremiah Mahler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla JAVA
Hi Georges! On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Georges Goncalves wrote: Hi, I really wonder if the SID version of Mozilla is compiled with Java Support enabled... Why do I ask? Because I can't get it to work. I've tryed both a full manual Java JRE install and an automatic install (http://www.javasoft.com and let Mozilla be your guide :) Everything is installed but no way... about:plugins URL keeps on NOT showing the plugin... I do have the JRE installed and I do have the symlink in moz plugins dir. I really don't undertand... Any idea ? Greetings, You need to install the xlibs package and create the following symlink : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/lib$ ll libXt* lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 23 Aug 18 16:14 libXt.so - ../X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 HTH, Stefan -- Life, loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it. -- Marvin, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
kmod problum?
During 2.2r3 install, in the first bootup from floppy, after the base-system has been installed, the problematica situation of this problem descends on me: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt -, errno=8 fills my screen infinetely. What shall i do? Thank You, Gabriel.
Re: VMware problem -- need help!!!
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: I still can't make VMware 2.0.4 work in debian potato with the 2.4.8-ac6 kernel. What should i do? To use vmware on 2.4.* kernels, you need a custom patch. Check out the vmware newsgroups for more information. Andrew. -- All views are my own who else would want them?
External IP Address
Hi, How can I get my machine to automatically update a file with my current dynamic IP address? Is there a enviroment varriable which i can read it from, write it to a file, then upload it to a hidden section of a public web site, so that selected people (who know where the file is) can use it to SSH in to my box? Thanks, Hereward
Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:26:06PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: | On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich uttered: | | $ dpkg -S \*mdb\* | That isn't neccessay, dpkg -S includes wildcards for you, iirc. Actually, the quoting is necessary so that the *shell* doesn't expand the wildcards. dpkg never sees the backslashes. -D
Strange kernel start problem after compileing
Hi, I built a 2.4.9 kernel. When i start it i get that message right after the kernel is loaded: failed to exec: modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno=8 And the system hangs. If i start it with my old kernel it works perfect! Nerver saw something like that - what does it mean? cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele Sandrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] For encrypted Mail get my Public Key from search.keyserver.net ID is: 0xEC4950E9
Re: Installing vimtutor help file
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:40:44PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: | On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:14:54AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: | I just installed vim-rt on my system. When I'm in the vimtutor tutorial and | try to obtain help by pressing F1 or with the :help command (per instruction | in section 7), I'm told that the help file, | /usr/share/vim/vim56/doc/help.txt, cannot be found. | | Do you have /usr/share/vim/vim56/doc/help.txt or | /usr/share/vim/vim56/doc/help.txt.gz on your system? | | If you find only help.txt.gz, | | $ zcat help.txt.gz help.txt Yeah, I noticed this the other day with my vim, but I think it was my homemade version 60at. I simply 'gunzip'ped the file (now have both compressed and not) and the complaints went away. The weird thing was it looked like vim used the .gz version even though it complained the first time. -D
Re: External IP Address
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 01:40:00PM +, Hereward Cooper wrote: | Hi, | How can I get my machine to automatically update a file with my | current dynamic IP address? Is there a enviroment varriable | which i can read it from, write it to a file, then upload it to | a hidden section of a public web site, so that selected people | (who know where the file is) can use it to SSH in to my box? /sbin/ifconfig will display the IP address of all interfaces It would be really hard for those people to ssh in and read that file unless they first knew the IP, in which case they wouldn't need the file ... Instead, check out ddt.sourceforge.net. It is a project that provides a client utility that will update their server so you can have a domain even though you have a dynamic IP. Then you don't need to know the IP anymore. -D
Re: Basic kernel 2.4.9 panic???
Vittorio wrote: 2) make-kpkg clean; make-kpkg --revision=test.01 kernel_image Have you tried: make-kpkg --revision=test.01 --initrd kernel_image 3) under /usr/src: dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.9-test.01-i386.deb 4) I've modified lilo accordingly # stock kernel (I've renamed the original generic vmlinuz link out of clarity) image=/vmlinuz-2.4.9 label=Lin2.4 initrd=/boot/initrd #linked to /boot/initrd-2.4.9-686 read-only # brand-new kernel (I've renamed the generic vmlinuz link out of clarity as 'test') image=/test label=test initrd=/boot/initrd #linked to /boot/initrd-2.4.9-686 read-only 5) lilo -- Jerome
Re: Re: External IP Address
/sbin/ifconfig will display the IP address of all interfaces It would be really hard for those people to ssh in and read that file unless they first knew the IP, in which case they wouldn't need the file ... I know that, what i wanted was a system that would read the IP address, write it to a file, upload the file to a webserver somewhere, people then read the file, get my ip address and login. Long-winded, but the only way i though of. Instead, check out ddt.sourceforge.net. It is a project that provides a client utility that will update their server so you can have a domain even though you have a dynamic IP. Then you don't need to know the IP anymore. Sounds cool, i'll check it out?
Re: Re: External IP Address
I'll attach a perl snippet that I used when on modem, might give you some ideas. Stuff between ¤¤'s need to be adapted - mainly account specific stuff. To make it autoexecute on connection - just place it (with a non-ignorable name) in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d looks like just what i was wanting, thanks Hereward
promise ultra ata100 controller card and linux support
Hi, I went through the kernel options but could not find support for promise ultra ata100 controller. (Promise Technologies). Is the above card supported under Linux ? Thanks in advance. Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucious
Re: promise ultra ata100 controller card and linux support
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 07:34:23PM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: Hi, I went through the kernel options but could not find support for promise ultra ata100 controller. (Promise Technologies). Is the above card supported under Linux ? Natively under 2.4.x, with patch under 2.2.x I believe. Rock on into the people/hendrik (I think) dir on your local kernel mirror. -- CaTAs you can expect it's really affecting my sex life. I can't help it. Each time my wife initiates sex, these ejaculating hippos keep floating through my mind. - Mohd. Binatang bin Goncang, Singapore Zoological Gardens
Re: promise ultra ata100 controller card and linux support
Hi,
It is in the latest kernel, 2.4.9. Or you can get patches at
http://www.linux-ide.org/ You should be able to find it in 2.4.9 under
ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---
IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices ---
[*] PROMISE PDC202{46|62|65|67|68} support
HTH,
Jimmy Richards
BitchX. It's like tubular, tripendicular, gnarly, and totally bitchin'!
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 07:34:23PM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote:
Hi,
I went through the kernel options but could not find support for promise
ultra ata100 controller. (Promise Technologies).
Is the above card supported under Linux ?
Thanks in advance.
Regards
--
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Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM
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Re: promise ultra ata100 controller card and linux support
Hi Again, I just wanted to say that after I sent off my reply on where to find it I saw that it looks like you're running the same kernel as me from reading your sig, kernel-2.4.9 w/ext3. You should be able to find it in there. Jim
Problems with APM after recompiling of kernel.
The kernel that comes with Debian testing, turns off (the power) my machine when I run: shutdown -h now. But I wanted to recompile the kernel and choose 2.2.18 (as I had some problems with 2.2.19). I enabled APM in the kernel and lilo says append=apm=on, but the problem is that now the kernel stopped shutting off my machine. What else do I need to enable to get this to work? Thanks in advance. Preben Randhol -- «Don't use C; In my opinion, C is a library programming language not an app programming language.» - Owen Taylor (GTK+ developer) Use Ada 95, a free language. More info at http://www.adapower.com/
Console Fonts
Which package do I need to investigate to do to a linux console what mode con:lines=50 did for a dos console? Thanks! Rob Waggoner Master Applications Craftsman WAGGS Web based Advanced Graphics and Graphing Solutions http://www.waggs.net Applying Old world craftsmanship to New world technologies
Gnome Freeze
This is something I have not seen mentioned before, and fro which I have run out of (limited) ideas. I have four machines of varying ages and specs (all intel/amd) and I am moving them all away from windows on on to Debian. They are getting there and the problems that do exist are ones that I will solve as I move further along the learning curve. There is one I have just hit that I cannot think how to approach. I built a PC around an AMD 1.2G on a Gigabyte board. There are no exotic components but it is the fastest of the processors I have available to me. I have loaded stable on to it and it works just fine. I have configured X and it works just fine. I can run at a zippity-whizz pace ice, wmaker and all the other regular window managers, However... ...when I load the Gnome desktop into play the machine will freeze at the first gnome action I try (selecting an icon of the desktop or similar). Locks up tight. I have to Ctrl-Alt-Bkspace to get out. If I try to log back in a xdm it won't progress beyond accepting the password. To get into X again once Gnome has aborted I have to reboot! I am currently writing this message in Netscape under Ice with the machine, so I fear Gnome as the culprit as everything else is fine. Why is this happening. I would like a solution that is not Go to Woody. I am new and working with stable and learning is enough without intentionally adding another joker to the pack. Anyone? Keith -- +--+ Keith O'Connell | That which does not kill Maidstone, Kent (UK) | us, usually still hurts. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | That's just life, I'm afraid
Re: Re: External IP Address
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:50:13PM +, Hereward Cooper wrote: | /sbin/ifconfig | will display the IP address of all interfaces | | It would be really hard for those people to ssh in and read | that file | unless they first knew the IP, in which case they wouldn't | need the | file ... | | I know that, what i wanted was a system that would read the IP | address, write it to a file, upload the file to a webserver | somewhere, people then read the file, get my ip address and | login. Long-winded, but the only way i though of. Ahh, you were going to upload that to a webserver. That makes much more sense. It is similar, though less convenient, to what the Dynamic DNS Tools do -- they upload your IP to a server which then updates the DNS records. -D
Re: server on a 486/100 with 408mb drive
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 04:50:55PM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: just a question of been there, done that, with potato. thought i could get a shot at configuring iptables, that's why i thought of 2.4. Now you are clear why you are asking this. I agree woody seems satble enough if one migraded all packages. It looks to me that simple masq box does not need iptables to do what needed. But it seems you can do more with iptables. Now you have good reason to do. Go for it! cheers -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/+
Re: Re: External IP Address
Hereward Cooper wrote: I know that, what i wanted was a system that would read the IP address, write it to a file, upload the file to a webserver somewhere, people then read the file, get my ip address and login. Long-winded, but the only way i though of. Uh, why don't you just set up an account at dyndns.org and then use one of the free dynamic-IP update scripts such as ipcheck (which I believe is in unstable)? Then people can just use the DNS name you registered at dyndns. That's what I do. Craig
Re: Gnome Freeze
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 04:19:08PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: | This is something I have not seen mentioned before, and fro which I have | run out of (limited) ideas. | | I have four machines of varying ages and specs (all intel/amd) and I am | moving them all away from windows on on to Debian. They are getting | there and the problems that do exist are ones that I will solve as I | move further along the learning curve. There is one I have just hit that | I cannot think how to approach. | | I built a PC around an AMD 1.2G on a Gigabyte board. There are no exotic | components but it is the fastest of the processors I have available to | me. I have loaded stable on to it and it works just fine. I have | configured X and it works just fine. I can run at a zippity-whizz pace | ice, wmaker and all the other regular window managers, However... | | ...when I load the Gnome desktop into play the machine will freeze at | the first gnome action I try (selecting an icon of the desktop or | similar). Locks up tight. I have to Ctrl-Alt-Bkspace to get out. If I | try to log back in a xdm it won't progress beyond accepting the | password. To get into X again once Gnome has aborted I have to reboot! When GNOME locks up, can you press Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] to get to a virtual console? If so, what does 'top' say about the CPU usage of various processes? Since you are new you probably aren't familiar with top. When you run it, press P (case matters) to sort by CPU usage. The screen will look something like 11:36:12 up 2:43, 3 users, load average: 0.07, 0.10, 0.06 66 processes: 63 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 4.3% user, 1.0% system, 0.0% nice, 94.7% idle Mem:255820K total, 233548K used,22272K free,17860K buffers Swap: 249472K total, 7620K used, 241852K free, 101660K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 2492 root 11 -10 15504 11M 3300 S1.9 4.4 0:06 XFree86 2636 dman 14 0 4280 4280 3492 S 1.5 1.6 0:06 deskguide_apple 2601 dman 11 0 4352 4352 3404 R 0.7 1.7 0:00 gnome-terminal 2658 dman 12 0 1000 1000 776 R 0.3 0.3 0:00 top 303 root 11 0 100 5656 S 0.1 0.0 0:03 gpm The first line tells you what time it is, how long the system has been running and what the load is for the last 5 , 10 , and 15 minutes. Then it gives some CPU and memory usage info, then lists all the running processes (that fit on the screen). See if the %CPU column has a really high number for some process. The process name will be in the right column. What happens if you kill that process? (login to a different vc and run 'kill -KILL pid' where pid is the number in the left hand column. I suspect that even after you have killed the X server that there is some GNOME process (or lock) remaining such that you can't login via xdm. Do you have sshd (or telnetd) running? (Did you install ssh?) Sometimes an X app locks up and you can't really do anything with the keyboard/mouse that is plugged into the machine. The system isn't really dead because you can login via ssh (or telnet) from another machine on the network and then kill the offending process without restarting or killing other unrelated apps. HTH, -D
Re: Problems with APM after recompiling of kernel.
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 04:27:54PM +, Preben Randhol wrote: The kernel that comes with Debian testing, turns off (the power) my machine when I run: shutdown -h now. But I wanted to recompile the kernel and choose 2.2.18 (as I had some problems with 2.2.19). I enabled APM in the kernel and lilo says append=apm=on, but the problem is that now the kernel stopped shutting off my machine. What else do I need to enable to get this to work? Did you enable SMP while recompiling kernel? If so, you need to set one more parameter in lilo.conf as follows: append=apm=on apm=power-off This works for recent 2.2 and 2.4 kernels (according to source.) Or compile kernel w/o SMP support :-) Cheers ! -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/+
(OT sorta ) Re: question about hostname FOLLOWUP: EXIM
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:04:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 'kay, important things first: what is that there furshlugginer HTH? I notice lots o' people usin' it. :) HTH :== hope that helps I went onto the #debian channel on openprojects.net IRC and asked around about the exim/fetchmail thing. Was told to add this to my .fetchmailrc file: with mda /usr/bin/procmail -d %T ... and now it works. Or seems to. But I must know: WHY does it work? And is procmail REPLACING exim, or some other part of the quilt? How to sort out sendmail/exim/procmail/fetchmail and the slew of names ... Hmmm. ROFL. This is how I think the scheme works. Sendmail and Exim are what are known as MTA's (mail transport agents) . One can choose sendmail or exim to do the same thing. So no, procmail is not replacing exim. Actually procmail is not really needed but is nice to have as a way of doing what the name implies , processing mail. In my case (I use procmail as well) it acts as a go between Exim and fetchmail. Procmail is actually quite versatile and can be used as an mda (mail delivery agent ) and the like... The -d arg is a recipient flag. Don't know what the %T does exactly wrt recpient. Now I'd like to know about that one. Fetchmail is best described as a program which retrieves your mail off of your ISP's mail server. If you're really into fetchmail , goto http://www.tuxedo.org/%7Eesr/fetchmail/fetchmail%2DFAQ.html Lots of stuff about mutt there also. And I think your error message was due to using localhost which may be 127.0.0.1 (sort of the network equivalent of /dev/null) I had to use /usr/etc/route add -host host.infected.codered.com gw 127.0.0.1 to keep my webserver logs from filling up a while back... I crave me some clarity. Gotta go read some manpages. Yuppers, I think I could spend a lifetime trying to learn all there is to know about email. So many options/programs etc. There's also stuff in /usr/doc/procmail etc. as well. You may also wish to visit http://www.intp.org. I have a hunch you may well be one of us... The But I must know: WHY does it work? is a real tipoff. -- My inner child is cranky www.hardradio.com homepage : www.pecanquest.com Cliff
Re: Gnome Freeze
When GNOME locks up, can you press Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] to get to a virtual console? Yes - no problem. I ran top as per you instructions and the process consuming the highest CPU value was top itself with a value of 0.3%. There were no entries listed under top fox XFree86, or any Gnome app. In fact Top was the only app with a value above zero in the cpu column. I guess that is not the answer you were expecting? Keith -- +--+ Keith O'Connell | That which does not kill Maidstone, Kent (UK) | us, usually still hurts. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | That's just life, I'm afraid
Re: Problems with APM after recompiling of kernel.
Preben Randhol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The kernel that comes with Debian testing, turns off (the power) my machine when I run: shutdown -h now. But I wanted to recompile the kernel and choose 2.2.18 (as I had some problems with 2.2.19). I enabled APM in the kernel and lilo says append=apm=on, but the problem is that now the kernel stopped shutting off my machine. What else do I need to enable to get this to work? I'd guess apm isn't functioning properly for you in 2.2.18 either. Does /proc/apm exist? Do you get any helpful messages when loading apm on bootup? Interestingly, I have a similar problem on my laptop. The 2.4.9 kernel broke apm (/proc/apm didn't exist) but it appeared to load properly on bootup. 2.4.8 still works fine though. -- Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome Freeze
On 01 Sep 2001 16:19:08 +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: ...when I load the Gnome desktop into play the machine will freeze at the first gnome action I try (selecting an icon of the desktop or similar). Locks up tight. This will sound weird... Do you have a sound card installed and the sound server options selected? If you do not have a sound card you may find that something is indefinately waiting to open a non-existant sound device to play audio - certainly I've had this with nautilus on various GNOME desktops so I'm just guessing that it could also have this effect. Please let me know whether you have audio? To get into X again once Gnome has aborted I have to reboot! This is probably because your /tmp contains stale files which are preventing a correct login - when you reboot I suspect they are getting cleaned, etc. Remove any lockfiles from /tmp or just clean it and restart X. --jcm
Re: Console Fonts
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 09:15:52AM -0600, Rob Waggoner wrote: Which package do I need to investigate to do to a linux console what mode con:lines=50 did for a dos console? If you want it to be set this way when you reboot and not change later, the easiest thing to do is put ``vga=ext'' in your lilo.conf file, run lilo, and reboot. If you want to be able to change it on the fly you will need to use svgatextmode or fbset. These will take considerably more configuration. BTW: Instead of replying to an existing message for a new subject line you probably want to start a new thread by mailing to the list instead of replying to a list message. This way, your message doesn't get buried in an unrelated subject thread. You're a lot more likely to get a response that way. HTH dave t. -- Dave Thayer | If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about Denver, Colorado USA | cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the time, for no good reason. - Jack Handey
fyi: howto set up bind chroot()ed on debian
Hi!
This is what I had to do to get bind chroot()ed on my debian (mostly)
stable box, maybe it´ll be useful for others.
This is as is, your setup might differ, expect troubles, yadda, yadda.
mkdir /var/local/bind
mkdir /var/local/bind/etc
mkdir /var/local/bind/etc/bind
(cd /etc/bind; tar cv *) | (cd /var/local/bind/etc/bind; tar xv)
mkdir /var/local/bind/var
mkdir /var/local/bind/var/run
mkdir /var/local/bind/var/cache
mkdir /var/local/bind/var/cache/bind
mkdir /var/local/bind/usr
mkdir /var/local/bind/usr/sbin
mkdir /var/local/bind/lib
cp /usr/sbin/named-xfer !$/
cp /lib/libc.so.6 !$
cp /lib/ld-linux.so.2 !$
mkdir /var/local/bin/dev
cd !$
mknod null c 1 3
named.conf changes, only thing for me to do was logging, since there is
no syslogging out of the chroot:
.-.-.
logging { channel logdefault { severity info;
file /named.log;
};
category default { logdefault; };
category config { logdefault; };
category panic{ logdefault; };
category update { logdefault; };
category xfer-in { logdefault; };
category xfer-out { logdefault; };
category notify { logdefault; };
category security { logdefault; };
category insist { logdefault; };
category load { logdefault; };
category response-checks { null; };
category maintenance { null; };
category os { null; };
category cname{ null; };
category packet { null; };
category eventlib { null; };
category db { null; };
category ncache { null; };
category parser { null; };
category queries { null; };
category lame-servers { null; };
category statistics { null; };
};
.-.-.
/etc/init.d/bind changes, taking the easy way:
.-.-.
...
start)
echo -n Starting domain name service: named
/usr/sbin/named -t /var/local/bind/
...
stop)
echo -n Stopping domain name service: named
killall /usr/sbin/named || killall -9 /usr/sbin/named
...
restart)
sh $0 stop
sh $0 start
;;
reload)
sh $0 restart
;;
force-reload)
sh $0 restart
.-.-.
If you spot errors, please let me know.
cheers,
rw
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coda's server and client packages exist in /debian/pool/main/c/coda/ and presumable have been there for a *while*, but my woody installation still reports fishbowl:~# apt-get install coda-client Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package coda-client what gives? it is not listed in Packages.gz... martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^.*|tr * mailto:; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- if god had meant for us to be naked, we would have been born that way. pgpNpRgxdjBXE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Gnome Freeze
Jon, This will sound weird... Do you have a sound card installed and the sound server options selected? If you do not have a sound card you may find that something is indefinately waiting to open a non-existant sound device to play audio - certainly I've had this with nautilus on various GNOME desktops so I'm just guessing that it could also have this effect. Please let me know whether you have audio? Strangely enough this does not sound weird. The new board I have has a sound chip which is supposed to be compatible with a ES1371, so I selected this module at install time. When I tried to play a CD under Ice, or WMaker, there was no sound. Fix the sound was one of the things I have on my fix-later list. Are you saying that the sound freeze is the cause of the Gnome desktop freeze? I am so new as to not be able to disable a sound module or re enable another one. I am hopeful of a fix that does not require *another* full installation Keith -- +--+ Keith O'Connell | That which does not kill Maidstone, Kent (UK) | us, usually still hurts. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | That's just life, I'm afraid
Re: Gnome Freeze (me too!)
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Keith O'Connell wrote: ...when I load the Gnome desktop into play the machine will freeze at the first gnome action I try (selecting an icon of the desktop or similar). Locks up tight. I have to Ctrl-Alt-Bkspace to get out. If I try to log back in a xdm it won't progress beyond accepting the password. To get into X again once Gnome has aborted I have to reboot! I am currently writing this message in Netscape under Ice with the machine, so I fear Gnome as the culprit as everything else is fine. Why I have the exact hang problem. I'm running woody/sid on three machines. It only happens on an NEC laptop. All three machines run Gnome with sawfish. The two desktops have NVidia video. The laptop has an ATI of some sort. When the harddrive was in a different laptop, it was OK. The probelm started when I moved the harddrive to this newer NEC. Many things changed at the same time, however. Video, soundcard, and a refresh of woody and or sid to get newer versions. X on the laptop would hang randomly when a window was closing. Happened with windows from many different apps. If I did Ctrl-Alt-Bkspace right away I could usually kill X but not log back in via gdm as you describe. If I telnet in to the laptop and kill and restart sawfish, well, that didn't fix everything and I had to quit and reboot anyway. If I pressed keys or clicked too many times with the mouse, then Ctrl-Alt-Bkspace wouldn't work and I'd have to hit the power switch. I couldn't figure out if it was X, the window manager or the XServer. I switched ice-gnome, still using gdm and gnome as usual, and it hasn't hung up since. That doesn't necessarily prove that it is sawfish's fault. Jon Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked about sound. That makes a bit of sense in my case, because sound doesn't work too well on the laptop (choppy) and I probably had sound turned on for close window events. I guess I'll look at that. ...RickM...
iptables, masquerading and ip-aliasing
Hi Is it possible, with iptables, to do masquerading or NAT from an ethernet-aliased ip-address? Or will the returning traffic originate from the physical address of the nic? As I understand this was not possible with ipchains and earlier tools. I'm asking because I have two real ip-addresses :) (assigned by my ADSL-provider) and would like to manage with only one NIC connected to the incoming cable. by the way, any recommendations for multiport nics on a Debian woody system? cheers, Anders
Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 09:05:04AM -0400, dman wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:26:06PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: | On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich uttered: | |$ dpkg -S \*mdb\* | That isn't neccessay, dpkg -S includes wildcards for you, iirc. Actually, the quoting is necessary so that the *shell* doesn't expand the wildcards. dpkg never sees the backslashes. You missed the point ... dpkg -S includes wildcards for you means $ dpkg -S \*mdb\* and $ dpkg -S mdb do the same thing (but one is less typing). -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton pgpCVb24VNrIm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mozilla JAVA
Georges Goncalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le -08.31.2001 22:18:13-, « Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) » a écrit quelques phrases célèbres sur « Re: Mozilla JAVA » KW Arrhhh I think I tested all the KW possibilities and I still don't know what I'm doing wrong :(( KW KW I've about decided there's a glitch in Mozilla or the deb packaging of KW it or something. Anyway, here's what typically works for me. KW KW After installing the plugins and making the symlink, make one more KW symlink in /usr/lib/mozilla/ (not the plugins directory): KW KW ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 libXt.so KW KW If that doesn't solve it, I'm outta ideas. You're the one ! It work at last !! Perfect... Seems to work pretty well... I feared a problem because my first attempt (http://www.javasoft.com) made Mozilla window disappear suddenly ! (I and tried it twice)... Finally, I searched on Google for online Java games (a good test) and I was able to play Arkanoid and PacMan successfully !! Hmmm... haven't been reading this thread until today. The bug for this can be found at: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69167
Re: Gnome Freeze
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Keith O'Connell wrote: Jon, This will sound weird... Do you have a sound card installed and the sound server options selected? If you do not have a sound card you may find that something is indefinately waiting to open a non-existant sound device to play audio - certainly I've had this with nautilus on various GNOME desktops so I'm just guessing that it could also have this effect. Please let me know whether you have audio? Strangely enough this does not sound weird. The new board I have has a sound chip which is supposed to be compatible with a ES1371, so I selected this module at install time. When I tried to play a CD under Ice, or WMaker, there was no sound. Fix the sound was one of the things I have on my fix-later list. Are you saying that the sound freeze is the cause of the Gnome desktop freeze? I am so new as to not be able to disable a sound module or re enable another one. I am hopeful of a fix that does not require *another* full installation As I mentioned in my me too post, I have just now disabled the sound server startup and sound for events in the gnome Multimedia/Sound config. I also turned off the play sound effects in the SawfishWindowManager/Sound options. It's only been a few minutes but so far it hasn't hung! Sound apps still work. For example, xanim, but the sound is still choppy as it has been since I first configured this laptop. Perhaps once I fix the sound driver or whatever is wrong such that sound works properly, then maybe sound events won't hang sawfish (if indeed this is my problem). Try disabling WM sound events as I describe above (for gnome itself and your WM) and see what happens. It sounds like you are able to make it hang at will. Mine is randomn and can take quite a bit of action before hanging. ...RickM...
RE: Manually bring up NICs not found at install and/or rebuilding Kernel
High, On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, John Purser wrote: Some success! Great! The command I used was modprobe eepro100 and both NIC's came up. I'm running a Red Hat 7.1 box also but I'm hesitant to set the Debian box up exactly the same way because of formatting differences. So where should I put the modprobe info to load it at boot and where should I configure the ethernet cards? I suggest you do it the right way (though the utilities). Run 'modconf' before you have insmodded the modeles. Select in modconf the desired module and it will be loaded at boot. Then edit /etc/network/interfaces to configure the cards: iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 iface eth1 inet static address 10.0.0.150 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 10.0.0.0 Greetz, Sebastiaan Thanks, John Purser -Original Message- From: John Purser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 06:03 To: 'Sebastiaan' Cc: 'debian users' Subject: RE: Manually bring up NICs not found at install and/or rebuilding Kernel Okay, so I want to load a module. I've got about 15 windows open trying to find what module I need and all I'm finding is information on drivers. What module do I need to support Intel Pro/100B PCI cards? Thanks, John Purser -Original Message- From: Sebastiaan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 05:59 To: John Purser Cc: 'debian users' Subject: Re: Manually bring up NICs not found at install and/or rebuilding Kernel High, Hello, I've repeatedly installed Woody (vanilla) and Potato on my IBM and neither one recognizes the PCI NICs. Red Hat and W2K get them first try but I don't want either one on this box. During the last attempted install of Woody I tried using the Configure Network alternative but was told that there were no NIC's found which means I have to load different modules in the kernel before I can configure. So either I dynamically load the modules or I have to rebuild my kernel or someone gives me another option. QUESTIONS: Is there any way to bring up my NIC's without rebuilding my Kernel? Which NIC's are you trying to load? You might want to do it manually. After the installation process has installed device drivers on the computer, swap to the second console and activate it. There you go to /target/lib/modules/2.4.9 (or something), look for your module and insmod it manually. When that works, go back to the first console and continue to configure your network. After installation you may want to run 'modconf' or edit /etc/modules to make the module auto load. Would there be any advantage to installing potato and upgrading to Woody? Potato doesn't recognize my NIC's either but at least tasksel works. AFAIK, this has nothing to do with tasksel. You do not have to install additional packages if you want to make a NIC work. Greetz, Sebastiaan Thanks for the help. John Purser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FYI
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:59:39PM -0400, Jeff Reed wrote: i'm enjoying it immenseley. We all do ... every single day. :) -- Jordi
Re: promise ultra ata100 controller card and linux support
Jimmy Richards saw fit to inform me that:
Hi,
It is in the latest kernel, 2.4.9. Or you can get patches at
http://www.linux-ide.org/ You should be able to find it in 2.4.9 under
ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---
IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices ---
[*] PROMISE PDC202{46|62|65|67|68} support
Thanks Jimmy. It's there.
I went to Network Device Support - Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) and could not
find the above card hence posted to the list. :-)
Regards
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Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/
Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3
Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM
Your reasoning is excellent -- it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong.
Re: promise ultra ata100 controller card and linux support
On 01 Sep 2001 22:32:29 +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: Jimmy ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support --- and then... I went to Network Device Support - Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) and could not find the above card hence posted to the list. :-) Hmmm... Your reasoning is excellent -- it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong. :) --jcm
Re: Offline APT
Ross Burton saw fit to inform me that: Hi, At home I run Debian Sid, but only have a dial-up connection (56k). At work, however, I run RedHat 6.2 but have a leased line. I followed the instructions in the offline document (/usr/share/doc/apt/offline.html) to get a package list from apt which can be retrieved via wget. So now I have a directory with 140 meg of .deb files in. The document says that: $ apt-get -o Dir::Cache::archives=/mnt/debian/unstable update Should update my system using the packages I downloaded. However, apt ignores that directory and starts downloading the files from the ftp servers again. Help! Why is apt doing this! Any suggestions? Ross. I also wanted to do similar thing and succeeded. I have written a small documentation of that on my web site. http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Do have a look at it and follow the steps. HTH Warm Regards -- Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIAPowered By : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 R-3 Kernel 2.4.9(ext3), Mutt 1.3.20i, IceWM Truth is the most valuable thing we have -- so let us economize it. -- Mark Twain
