All /var/lib/dpkg/status* files corrupt, how to recover?
Some how all my /var/lib/dpkg/status* files have become corrupt. I have tried using the status.yesterday.* files but most of them won't even gunzip, or are corrupt. How can I recover from this? I searched the archives but was not able to find a solution. Any and all help will be appreciated. Typical errors and status file lines: apt-get update error message: Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Malformed 2nd word in the Status line E: Error occured while processing metamail (UsePackage3) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. Section of status file from 'less -N status' 4175 Package: offix-clipboard 4176 e ok not-installed 4177 Priority: optional 4178 le 4179 4180 Package: metamail 4181 Status: install okriorityled 4182 ok not-installed 4183 Priority: opti: optional 4184 Section: mail Failed gunzip: % gunzip status.yesterday.5.gz gunzip: status.yesterday.5.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error I have also had to disable the dwww daily cron job as it for some reason is dumping ~132M of binary garbage to STDOUT which ends up in my mailbox. Most mail handlers don't take kindly to this! Thanks, Brian Servis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Fourth button of Logitech MouseMan Wheel?
*- On 11 Jan, Remco Blaakmeer wrote about Fourth button of Logitech MouseMan Wheel? Hi, I just bought a Logitech Cordless MouseMan Wheel. Previously, I had a Logitech Wheel Mouse. Using the same setup in X, I can use three buttons and the wheel just like with the Wheel Mouse. But how can I use the fourth (thumb) button on my new mouse? I have tried several things, but to no avail. Here's part of my current XF86Config: Section Pointer Protocol IMPS/2 Device /dev/psaux Buttons 6 Resolution 400 ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection With this setup, I tried to run the xev program to see what the mouse does. The wheel generates events for buttons 4 and 5, but the thumb button generates no events at all. Can anybody please help? You are in the same boat as I am. I have a Logitech MouseMan+ the corded version with the wheel and 4th thumb button. Under X 3.3.2.a or some such I was able to get the thumb to be recognized as button 6. Not all apps recognized it but it was nice to have available. Once I 'upgraded' to X 3.3.3.1 it no longer worked. When it was working I was using the following: Section Pointer Protocol MouseManPlusPS/2 Device/dev/psaux SampleRate133 Resolution200 Buttons 6 ZAxisMapping 5 6 EndSection And then using xmodmap to remap the z-axis buttons 5 and 6 to buttons 4 and 5 respectively and the thumb button from 4 to 6. This was the only way I could get it all to work. If I mapped the zaxis to 4 and 5 I could not get the thumb button to work. But like I said once I 'upgraded' to X 3.3.3.1, and all versions since, it no longer works and I now use the Pointer section below. If I don't change the zaxismapping as below I can't get the wheel to work properly as buttons 4 and 5 as I did before. Section Pointer Protocol MouseManPlusPS/2 Device/dev/psaux SampleRate133 Resolution200 Buttons 6 ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection I haven't had time to debug or track it down. So I am not providing a solution here but just a long drawn out 'Me Too!'. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: What is this????
*- On 10 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about What is this I found this file somewhere: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Can anybody tell me what that c is all about??? This 'thing' is the reason for some trouble with apt / dpkg (something to do with xlib6g-dev) perhaps this c has something to do with that. Besides the fact that it has insane uid, gid and dates it is a character device file. Similiar to a serial port or the like. # ls -l /dev/ttyS0 0 crw-rw1 root dialout4, 64 Jun 10 1999 /dev/ttyS0 Acccording to the devices.txt file in the kernel Documentation a character device with major number of 49 is reserved for a 'SDL RISCom serial card'. Where is this file? You didn't list its path. If it is /usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts then I would just delete it and try re-installing xlib6g-dev. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: memories
*- On 10 Jan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about memories I have a Debian box which has been rock-solid in the three years I've been using it. Currently it's slink with the 2.0.38 kernel (custom-compiled) and just a few extras in /usr/local. No other OS. Until recently it had just 32MB of RAM. I added 64 more on Saturday. Everything seemed fine to begin with---the 96MB was detected in BIOS and by the kernel; I had much less disk-thrashing in long Netscape sessions and so on. But If I leave the machine up overnight (as has been my habit) with nobody logged on and only cron jobs running, when I log on again in the morning, `top' tells me that almost all of the memory is in use, and when I try to work, I get constant segmentation faults (especially in resource-heavy applications like emacs, TeX, X ...) and sometimes a kernel-panic. Rebooting `fixes' the problem. The hardware: Pentium 2 (233 with 512K cache), an Asus P2L97 AGP Motherboard, Quantum 4.3GB SCSI Hard Drive. Are there tools available that would help me diagnose the problem and hopefully solve it? Thanks in advance for any advice, Which netscape are you using? Netscape 4.7 is much tighter on its memory leaks than previous versions. I have also found that X seems to have a memory leak somewhere. My solution to this is to restart the window manager, not logging out of X but just restarting the window manager. It is amazing but I can reclaim 128M/256M of swap by doing this sometimes. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: where is the command line options for the X server located?
*- On 8 Jan, Joseph de los Santos wrote about where is the command line options for the X server located? Hello!, I would like to know where the Xservers file for xdm is located so that I may change the display resolution in dots per inch. /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: fetchmail and multiple users in one POP3 box
*- On 9 Jan, hypnos wrote about Re: fetchmail and multiple users in one POP3 box On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Jeff Flowers wrote: Can this command be run everytime that I connect to the internet? Yep, put that stuff (that I snipped) into .fetchmailrc in your home directory, and add something like this to your /etc/ppp/ip-up fetchmail -f /home/jeff/.fetchmailrc That will run fetchmail once each time you connect, to have it keep checking mail while you're online, add '-d xxx' to the command above. 'xxx' is the interval (in seconds) between mail checks. For example, -d 600 will call fetchmail once every 10 minutes. If you use the -d option, you will want to put fetchmail -q in your /etc/ppp/ip-down file. to stop it when you disconnect. The Debian fetchmail maintainer has included two scripts, fetchmail-up and fetchmail-down in the /usr/doc/fetchmail directory to place in the appropriate directories of /etc/ppp/ip-up.d and /etc/ppp/ip-down.d. Just remember that ppp runs all its scripts as root so be careful with permissions and things that you do in your scripts. Some people prefer to use su to change the user away from root for these tasks for security reasons. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: cron reports re: suidregister
*- On 7 Jan, Mark Wagnon wrote about Re: cron reports re: suidregister On 01/07/00 02:22PM, Brian Servis wrote: If you have emacs20 installed and movemail is not there then something is wrong. Movemail is included in the emacs20 package and should be there, even if you don't use it. If you have removed emacs20 from your system and it left the line in your suid.conf file then that is a bug in the emacs20 package. The proper way to remove the line is to use the suidunregister program. Commenting the line out shouldn't cause problems unless you have emacs20 installed and you your system by putting movemail back in place. Then the mode of the file will not be checked for possible root exploits via the permisions. Thanks Brian It helps when I check the versions of stuff I'm running. I currently have emacs 20.5 installed, but the movemail error is from 20.3 There is a movemail in the emacs 20.5 subdirs. Since 20.3 is no longer installed, then I'll just look at the docs for suidregister and remove the line. Since this appears to be a bug, should it be reported even though a newer emacs package is available? Since you have 20.5 installed I would definetely remove the line pertaining to 20.3. According to the changelog.Debian there were several issues regarding suidregister that were taken care of between the slink version and the potato version. My bet is that it is already fixed. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: fetchmail problem
*- On 8 Jan, Timothy Bedding wrote about fetchmail problem Thanks for all the help, people. Your advice about how to fix the clock problem was spot on. Now, another query. If I do a fetchmail and it reports, say, 30 mails, sometimes these mails can be transfered to my spool file in batches. So, I get the first ten and then I have to wait a few minutes for the next ten. I guess that there must be an explicit delay somewhere. Does anyone know where this delay might be? This is your MTA doing this. Most MTA's don't like getting flooded with requests to send packages since it can cause a spike in cpu load and system resources. So once a maximum limit has been reached it just queues them up until the next run of the queue. In exim, the default MTA for Debian, you can set the option smt_accept_queue_per_connection to 0 and it will process each mail as it comes in without waiting. The default is 10. Read the exim spec file for more info on this and other smtp_accept_* options. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: newbie fetchmail problem
*- On 7 Jan, Johannes Tax wrote about newbie fetchmail problem hi, i'm very new to linux. recently i got my ppp-connection working, now i have a problem with fetchmail. whenever i start fetchmail i got this message: 62 messages for johannes-tax at pop.styria.com (156274 octets). reading message 1 of 62 (1857 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' fetchmail: can't even send to postmaster! fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.styria.com fetchmail: Query status=10 first i tried fetchmailconf and it didn't work, then i configured my .fetchmailrc by hand. it looks like this: poll pop.styria.com proto pop3 user johannes-tax pass mysecret is pox here what's wrong with it? i would be happy if anybody could help me. This isn't a fetchmail problem. It is your MTA that does not recognized the machine name 'localhost' as actually being your local machine and is thus refusing to deliver the mail that fetchmail is feeding it over the SMTP port. For exim the option is local_domains and is a colon separated list of machine names that considered local. My local machine is called(fake name on localnet) brian.servis.snet so I have the following: local_domains=localhost:servis.brian.snet:servis.snet:brian This works for me, I don't know if it is all necessary but you do need the localhost and actual machine name in there. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: umount - URGENT
*- On 7 Jan, Carl Fink wrote about Re: umount - URGENT On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 01:52:15PM -0500, Michael Stenner wrote: while it's a good habit to demand successful umounts before removing media, remember that it IS a cdROM after all. You're certainly not going to damage it by just pushing the button and taking the thing out. Sure the os will complain, but you'll have the disk in your hand. I've hever been able to open a CD drive without unmounting the volume -- the drawer won't open. Along the same linesthis is the one mechanism of mac/sun/other(?) floppies that I would like to see somehow on x86 machines. I would much rather have a 'soft' eject button like on a cdrom or a software eject like the mac/sun floppies rather than a mechanical eject like on the x86 floppies. Does anybody know the fundemental reasons why the x86 platform has not adopted such a setup? Thanks, Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: cron reports re: suidregister
*- On 7 Jan, Mark Wagnon wrote about cron reports re: suidregister Hi all- I keep getting the following report: /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: suidregister: /usr/lib/emacs/20.3/i386-debian-linux-gnu/movemail registered but not installed I took a look at the man page for suidregister. Since I can't find movemail anywhere on my system (let alone in the expected location) I decided to edit the /etc/suid.conf file and comment the line referencing movemail. I made a note to remind me of this change¸ but I was just wondering if anyone knew if this could have some effect later on. I don't use emacs for mail, so I'm not too worried. TIA If you have emacs20 installed and movemail is not there then something is wrong. Movemail is included in the emacs20 package and should be there, even if you don't use it. If you have removed emacs20 from your system and it left the line in your suid.conf file then that is a bug in the emacs20 package. The proper way to remove the line is to use the suidunregister program. Commenting the line out shouldn't cause problems unless you have emacs20 installed and you your system by putting movemail back in place. Then the mode of the file will not be checked for possible root exploits via the permisions. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: kernel question
*- On 6 Jan, Pollywog wrote about Re: kernel question Basically anything with a letter will be fine, something like pollywog.1. Use dpkg to check it if you are not sure. #dpkg --compare-versions 2.2.14-1 ge pollywog.1 ; echo $? 1 #dpkg --compare-versions 2.2.14-1 lt pollywog.1 ; echo $? 0 I did not know about dpkg --compare-versions. I am guessing the resulting 1 and 0 are exit codes, the 0 indicating no error. Yep. After a command exits the shell stores the exit code in the $? variable, and I am just echoing to see what it is. An exit code of 0 means no problems and anything else indicates and error. In the first example above dpkg returned with an error because 2.2.14-1 is NOT (g)reater-than-or-(e)qual-to pollywog.1. Since 2.2.14-1 is (l)ess-(t)han pollywog.1 it returned without an error code in the second example. The --compare-versions I think was originally ment to be used in package scripts but it can be handy for things like this. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: modem RX rate is considerable slower than RX rate
*- On 6 Jan, Shao Zhang wrote about Re: modem RX rate is considerable slower than RX rate I think it is the modem's problem. I have a US Robotics V90 modem, which I think the remote isp does not support it. In the chat script, if I use the initialise command ATZ, I am able to connect, but only at 33600. If I use the US Robotics V90's initialise command ATF, I am able to get the line speed 46600, but then failed to authentificate with the remote end. What does not make sense is that, the TX rate is so much slower than RX rate. I have the same problems. Try playing around with your mtu and mru settings. I get better upload times with a mtu/mru of 552 as compared to the default 1500. The TX speeds are still not great though. If you have in internal network that uses the modem as its internet gateway then make sure and set mtu of the network port to the same thing. IPMasquerading and other protocols tend to choke if the mtu/mru's of the different links in the chain are of different sizes.(no I don't know why). Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Problem with ncurses since 01/02/2000 apt-get dist-upgrade
*- On 5 Jan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: Problem with ncurses since 01/02/2000 apt-get dist-upgrade BTW, WTH does bash depend on the ncurses in `oldlibs'? I suspect because the libncurses5 package was just added to the archive and was made the 'default' ncurses thus moving libncurses4 to oldlibs. The bash package probably hasn't been uploaded to reflect the change. I just filed a bug report on bash(#54165) for this issue. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Screen black
*- On 6 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about Screen black Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can prevent my sc screen to go completely black after 10 minutes??? On the consoles: seterm -blank 0 In X: xset s noblank See the man page for each for more options. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Screen black
*- On 5 Jan, Brian Servis wrote about Re: Screen black *- On 6 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about Screen black Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can prevent my sc screen to go completely black after 10 minutes??? On the consoles: seterm -blank 0 setterm -blank 0 ^^ ^^ oops In X: xset s noblank See the man page for each for more options. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Screen black
*- On 6 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about Re: Screen black On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Brian Servis wrote: *- On 6 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about Screen black Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can prevent my sc screen to go completely black after 10 minutes??? On the consoles: seterm -blank 0 In X:xset s noblank In which package can I find seterm??? Sorry, it is setterm (with two t's). It is in the util-linux package which is a required package so should be on your system already. It lives in /usr/bin. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Potato Dates...
*- On 6 Jan, Rob Hensley wrote about Potato Dates... Hi, sorry for this mail, but I was just wondering when potato was going to be stable. I know you've all talked about this before in Potato Timeline, but I can't remember the date. Please repond soon, Thanks. The latest info from the Release Manager is in the following post to debian-devel-announce. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-9912/msg00010.html Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: URL of package's website
*- On 6 Jan, Peter S Galbraith wrote about Re: URL of package's website Bart Szyszka wrote: If there's a better place to suggest this, let me know, debian-devel, or perhaps even debian-policy. but something I think the Debian package site is missing is a spot for each of the package's own websites. I agree this would be nice, as well as upstream author. What I do as a maintainer is put that info in the copyright file along with the `It was downloaded from ftp://' info; e.g the xtide package: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-copyright?package=xtide You can always try that since you can access the copyright file from the Debian web page for the package. It it's not listed, sometimes you can guess the URL from the ftp download site. If I am not mistaken, a thread of this topic was discussed not to long ago on either debian-devel or debian-policy. I think the thread was discussing a uniform layout of the README.Debian file or the copyright file to include this info. I think it was even suggested to place the info in the package control file. I agree that it would be nice to have a link on the Debian Packages page to the upstream source to facilitate finding out more about the package if desired. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Changing font size for xterm
*- On 4 Jan, Brian Fuller wrote about Changing font size for xterm What is the best way to change the font size for xterm, emacs etc? On the command line: xterm -fn font emacs -fn font Dynamically: xterm: Ctrl+Btn3 (I use xemacs so don't know how emacs works on this) Resources: XTerm*font: font (I use xemacs so don't know how emacs works on this) Read the man page for the respective application, it should say how do to it. To get a list of all available fonts run the command xlsfonts(in the xbase-clients package). To get an interactive selection of all available fonts runt he command xfontsel(in the xcontrib package). Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Changing font size for xterm
*- On 4 Jan, Pann McCuaig wrote about Re: Changing font size for xterm On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 19:41, Brian Servis wrote: To get a list of all available fonts run the command xlsfonts(in the xbase-clients package). To get an interactive selection of all available fonts runt he command xfontsel(in the xcontrib package). Wow. Thanks for the pointers. Had no idea there were so many fonts on my system. Now then, where to read about all the parameters one gets to choose in xfontsel? A general overview of font selection, description and use under X? Start with 'man X'. Primarily in the FONT NAMES section. Also look in the OPTIONS, RESOURCES, EXAMPLES and SEE ALSO sections. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Changing font size for xterm
*- On 4 Jan, Brian Fuller wrote about Re: Changing font size for xterm Thanks for the tips. I tried them out and they worked as expected. The next step is to be able to change the default fonts. Would that be don in a .conf file? Xterm uses the 'fixed' font as the default. The only other way to make a default is with your X Resources. If you want to change it for everybody on your system edit /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm and add a line of the form XTerm*font: fontname If you want to change it just for you then add the above line to the file ~/.Xresources. The same can be done for emacs or any other application. For global changes if there is no file in /etc/X11/Xresource for your app just create a file(I think its name does not matter) and place in it any Xresource that you want(see the man page for the app). For local changes just add them to your ~/.Xresources. Some application have a file in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/ that lists some of their default Xresources, or read the man page. You can copy bits and pieces out of there into the appropriate file from above and add the class of the application to the beginning of the line(XTerm for xterms, Emacs for emacs, again see the man pages). Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Changing font size for xterm
*- On 5 Jan, David Wright wrote about Re: Changing font size for xterm Quoting Brian Servis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): *- On 4 Jan, Brian Fuller wrote about Changing font size for xterm What is the best way to change the font size for xterm, emacs etc? On the command line: xterm -fn font emacs -fn font Dynamically: xterm: Ctrl+Btn3 (I use xemacs so don't know how emacs works on this) Resources: XTerm*font: font (I use xemacs so don't know how emacs works on this) I prefer to use (in my .Xresources) ! Make the default font bigger XTerm*VT100*Font: 9x15 ! and make the last two sizes much bigger XTerm*VT100*Font5: 10x20 XTerm*VT100*Font6: 12x24 as you can then use the VT Fonts menu to switch sizes. I seem to remember struggling for a while to find the resource names that worked, i.e. the * / VT100 / letter case. If you haven't yet, take a look in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm. In that file are most of the default Xresources for XTerm. If you want to change them copy the individual resources you want to change into your Xresources file(or the global) and prepend to them the XTerm class name. Don't copy the whole file. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: kernel question
*- On 5 Jan, Pollywog wrote about kernel question I just found out that Linux kernel 2.2.14 is out and it is stable. Debian does not yet have a kernel-source-2.2.14-deb out. Can I just use a regular kernel source tarball to make a custom kernel image the Debian way? I have done this before but I suspect there were some additional steps I had to perform. Should I just wait for the Debian source package? Just do it! Just use make-kpkg with a revision name that will be greater than 2.2.14-1(this will be the version number of the kernel-image once it is released) and you will be fine. make-kpkg --revision=pollywog.1 kernel_image Basically anything with a letter will be fine, something like pollywog.1. Use dpkg to check it if you are not sure. #dpkg --compare-versions 2.2.14-1 ge pollywog.1 ; echo $? 1 #dpkg --compare-versions 2.2.14-1 lt pollywog.1 ; echo $? 0 So the first one failed and the second one was successful, i.e. the version number of 'pollywog.1' will be considered as newer than a version number of 2.2.14-1 by dpkg. Since the Debian kernel packages always have the version number the same as the kernel version number then you will be fine. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Removing ttyS
*- On 4 Jan, Larry Shields WD9ESU wrote about Removing ttyS If one makes a device say ttyS6, using 'mknod -m 666 /dev/ttyS6 c 4 70', and after it is created, then decides it is not needed, what would be the command to use to remove it...??? rm /dev/ttyS6 Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
pointer trails in X?
Is it possible via some configuration to get the mouse to have a trail in X? It makes it nice to spot the cursor after your eyes have lost focus of it. Thanks, Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Wrong timestamp on modules.dep
*- On 2 Jan, John Dalbec wrote about Re: Wrong timestamp on modules.dep *- On 2 Jan, John Dalbec wrote about Wrong timestamp on modules.dep My Hardware Clock is set to local time to keep another OS happy. /etc/rcS.d has S20modutils S50hwclock.sh (among others) so modules.dep is timestamped as though the Hardware Clock were set to GMT. I have kernel 2.2.13 and RTC stores time in GMT set to no under APM. Did I forget to set thip crinkle and spoit to no? :) Nope, it is a bug in the Debian package setup. If you wait to reboot longer than your GMT offset then you won't get the warning, =). See the bug report at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/53/53247.html. Thanks for the tip. I tried renaming S50hwclock.sh to S20hwclock.sh and that seemed to work. Is this safe? I don't see why not. hwclock lives in the /sbin directory so it will be on the root partition along with /lib, so it should be able to run before the rest of the filesystem is mounted in the S35mountall.sh script. But for some reason I feel like I am missing something as to why it is setup the way it is. Anybody else care to add a comment on this? Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: alien not y2k compliant?
*- On 1 Jan, Robert L. Harris wrote about alien not y2k compliant?
Ok...
I'm trying to scan myself and build a nice little security tool. This
is the first thing I've run into but still
{0}:wally:/usr/src/Util-System/nmapalien -d nmap-2.3BETA12*rpm
-- Examining nmap-2.3BETA12-1.i386.rpm
-- Unpacking nmap-2.3BETA12-1.i386.rpm
1222 blocks
-- Automatic package debianization
alien: 822-date did not return a valid result.
A quick look through the changelog for the versions between slink and
potato didn't show and y2k fixes but I did find the following:
alien (6.26) unstable; urgency=low
* If 822-date fails, the error now suggests installing dpkg-dev. This is
way up there in the alien faw(sic, faq) and I'm tired of answering it.
Since you did not get a suggestion about dpkg-dev I assume you are using
a version prior to 6.26. Just to make sure, do you have dpkg-dev
installed? In slink dpkg-dev was only a Recommends dependency for
alien, in potato it is a Depends dependency.
Brian Servis
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Re: 2 questions on apt-get
*- On 2 Jan, Oliver Elphick wrote about Re: 2 questions on apt-get Ulrich Hansmair wrote: 2.apt-get upgrade gives the following message: ... The following packages have been kept back: dpkg-dev kernel-package perl perl-base ... I wanna this packages be included in the normal upgrade-procedure. What is t he appropriate action? They are kept back because of dependencies on some other packages; these dependencies cannot be satisfied if they are upgraded. You must either remove packages that are causing the problem, or wait for new versions of the problem packages to become available, or (if you know what you are doing) force the installation of the packages you want upgraded. Read the apt-get man page. You probably want to run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' and not 'apt-get upgrade'. The upgrade option will not remove or change other packages status(i.e. packages will be held back). Or start dselect, select [U]pdate, select [S]elect, hit space, hit return(probably a few times as it sorts out depenencies/conflicts), select [I]nstall. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Wrong timestamp on modules.dep
*- On 2 Jan, John Dalbec wrote about Wrong timestamp on modules.dep My Hardware Clock is set to local time to keep another OS happy. /etc/rcS.d has S20modutils S50hwclock.sh (among others) so modules.dep is timestamped as though the Hardware Clock were set to GMT. I have kernel 2.2.13 and RTC stores time in GMT set to no under APM. Did I forget to set thip crinkle and spoit to no? :) Nope, it is a bug in the Debian package setup. If you wait to reboot longer than your GMT offset then you won't get the warning, =). See the bug report at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/53/53247.html. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Segmentation Fault
*- On 2 Jan, Rik Burt wrote about Segmentation Fault I have the slink version of debian installed an a second hard drive and it was working quite well. At the start of December I recompiled the kernel as I had added a SCSI device to my system and as the kernel was compiling I got an error Segmentation Fault. These messages are becoming increasingly more common. Last night I was looking at going to potato but apt-get update kept breaking and saying Segmentation Fault. This is making my Linux experience miserable. I have been reading everything I have but can not determine if this is a Software or Hardware problem. Any one else ever had this. Sounds like a hardware problem, most likely bad memory. Take a look at the Sig11 page and see if the info on there helps you find the problem. http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: /bin/sh and ash, bash
*- On 2 Jan, Ben Collins wrote about Re: /bin/sh and ash, bash
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 03:34:51PM -0600, matt garman wrote:
I noticed that Debian makes /bin/sh a symlink to /bin/bash by default.
I'd rather have /bin/sh link to /bin/ash. I tried this quite a while
ago, and it seems as though some Debian-specific scripts rely on /bin/sh
actually being bash. In other words, last time I linked /bin/sh to
/bin/ash, a few things got broken.
I was just curious if anyone knew whether or not it's safe to link
/bin/sh to /bin/ash?
That is the goal. If anything breaks when using a posix compliant shell
for /bin/sh, then a bug should be filed for the package woning them to the
affect that it needs to have #!/bin/bash for the interpreter.
Except that the bash package now has the /bin/sh symlink in the package
and not as part of the postinst script. So if you change the link then
the next time you upgrade bash it will reset the /bin/sh link back to
bash.
But there is a solution to in the /usr/{share/}doc/bash/README.Debian
file for bash.
A kind of FAQ for bash on Debian/GNU\ {Linux,Hurd}
--
1. How can I make /bin/sh point to something else?
Type
dpkg-divert --add /bin/sh
and then point it to whatever you want. Upgrades to bash won't upgrade
the /bin/sh symlink. To put /bin/sh under dpkg control again, type
dpkg-divert --remove /bin/sh
HTH,
Brian Servis
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Re: Y2K problem with slrn?
*- On 2 Jan, Colin Watson wrote about Re: Y2K problem with slrn? Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is my $HOME/.jnewsrc.time: NEWGROUPS 1000102 173956 GMT Looks like there's a 100 where a 2000 ought to be. See: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=53811 I imagine there'll be a new release of slrn out soon that solves this problem. Actually the one in potato contains the fix but apparently this wasn't caught for the y2k slink release(2.1r4). The current pilot-manager package has the same type of bug in it as well. You could always build the potato source package on your slink system. The bug by the way is the result of sloppy programming. There is a c library call that returns the year as the number of years from 1900, also used in perl's Time::Local. Authors were using that as the two digit year or just appending it to 19, so you are either seeing years of 100 or years of 19100. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: where is /dev/mouse???
*- On 1 Jan, Kris Prieb wrote about where is /dev/mouse??? Here is my problem. I have just finished installing Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 on my Pentium II machine and have begun to install and configure X. When I try to execute 'startx' I get the error output listed below. It appears that 'startx' requires the device file '/dev/mouse' I think this file was supposed to have been created during my Debian installation but somehow it wasn't. Anyone know where I slipped up during the installation and whether or not I can correct the problem without reinstalling? Any help would be greatly appreciated. [ick, your mailer doesn't wrap your lines] /dev/mouse is not a real device file. It should just be a symbolic link to your real mouse device. Since you are telling it you have a ps/2 mouse you can either make the link from /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux or just tell it to use /dev/psaux and forget about the /dev/mouse link. If you want to use the /dev/mouse link then do the following as root. cd /dev rm mouse ln -s psaux mouse Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: correct apt sources.list line for non-us?
*- On 30 Dec, matt garman wrote about correct apt sources.list line for non-us? What is the correct line to use in /etc/apt/sources.list for the unstable non-us files? I tried the following: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US but I always get a 404 not found error. What I am I doing wrong? The format of the archive was changed for non-us between slink and potato to include main, contrib and non-free sections. This is not very well documented, hopefully it will be in the release notes once potato is released. deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: apt manpage missing
*- On 31 Dec, David Karlin wrote about apt manpage missing Hello, The manpage for apt seems to be missing, although the manpage for apt-get is present, on my (slink) system. I'd thought that a program's manpage is installed with the package itself, but it doesn't seem to have happened in this case. How can I get this manpage installed on my system? Do I need to reinstall apt? Thanks and happy new year. I have apt v0.3.15 installed on potato and you are not missing much. Below is the entire man page for apt(8). NAME apt - Advanced Package Tool SYNOPSIS apt DESCRIPTION APT is a management system for software packages. It is still under development; the snazzy front ends are not yet available. In the meantime, please see apt-get(8). OPTIONS None. FILES None. SEE ALSO apt-cache(8), apt-get(8), sources.list(5) DIAGNOSTICS apt returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 on error. BUGS This manpage isn't even started. See http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/pa/lapt.html. If you wishtoreporta bug in apt, please see /usr/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt or the bug(1) command. AUTHOR apt was written by the APT team [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato
*- On 31 Dec, Patrick Dahiroc wrote about RE: Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato thanks for the info on Potato. if i do decide to go to Potato is there something i should be wary of. it appears from the other distro that the 2.2 kernel is working fine. does Potato have any specific issues with the 2.2 kernel i.e is something horribly broken that makes Potato very unstable under kernel 2.2? Not at all. Potato is 'kernel 2.2 certified', meaning it is designed to work without any problems with 2.2 kernels. Thi biggest issue for potato right now is that the package freeze is approaching and I suspect that there might be a rapid influx of updated or new packages just before the freeze. I have been running potato with a 2.2 kernel for several months now and haven't had any major problems. If you are cautious just watch debian-user and debian-devel for problem packages before you do an update once you have potato installed. If you don't have a pressing need to upgrade and are nervous about it then don't and wait for the release to happen in late Feb. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Proposal: Source file package format
*- On 31 Dec, Fish Smith wrote about Re: Proposal: Source file package format Big problem is getting guys like LSB to buy the .deb format. I haven't researched it, but even guys on the Red Hat list say it's better. There are two really horrible things about Debian, though. 1) The dselect package handler. I'm speaking from Debian 2.1 here. It has a very primitive interface and is incredibly tedious. Maybe they're doing something different in potato. I don't use dselect. I manually download all the packages and install and remove them with dpkg from the command line. Works fine for me, although it is a bit of a pain for packages with lots of dependencies to look up and grab all of them individually. Still, the interface I've found far easier than dselect. I love dselect. It just takes some getting used to. Have you tried apt-get yet(In the apt package)? It will save you the trouble of having to track down all the dependencies. Just 'apt-get install package' and it will download the package and all it's dependencies for you. Example for gnome-apt(I don't have any of the gnome stuff installed) # apt-get install gnome-apt Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: esound gdk-imlib1 gnome-bin gnome-libs-data libart2 libgnome32 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 libzvt2 The following NEW packages will be installed: esound gdk-imlib1 gnome-apt gnome-bin gnome-libs-data libart2 libgnome32 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 libzvt2 0 packages upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded. Need to get 1289kB of archives. After unpacking 4247kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] That would have taken a full day to track down all those dependencies! Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Upgrading slinkr1 -- r4
*- On 30 Dec, Konrad Mierendorff wrote about Upgrading slinkr1 -- r4 Hi, I'd really like to upgrade but not with apt-get and my 33.6-Modem. Therefore I downloaded all packages mentioned in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/ChangeLog; at the local Universitiy. (I simply grepped all lines starting with dists -- please tell me if this is not enough!) Now I have all the packages on my disk but when I put the tree into /etc/apt/sources.list and do an apt-get update it complains about missing Packages.gz files. I tried to put these files together but wasn't very succesfull as there doesn't seem to be much documentation on this. (My approach was to put the output of dpkg --info executed in a for loop over all packages in one file, but that didn't work :-( ) Please help me if there is an easy to build Packages.gz files or give me a pointer to some usable information. Make sure you have the dpkg-dev package installed. cd to parent directory of all your debs. dpkg-scanpackages dir of debs /dev/null dir of debs/Packages Then add the following to your sources.list, deb file:path to parent of Debs/ dir of debs/ Example: All my locally compiled debs are in /usr/local/Debian-Src/Debs cd /usr/local/Debian-Src dpkg-scanpackages Debs /dev/null Debs/Packages echo deb file:/usr/local/Debian-Src/ Debs/ /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update This works for me, there may be other ways to do it. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: debian-user mangles mails
No, some mail to news gateway is broken and is bouncing ALL debian-devel mails back to debian-user. Notice the Sender and X-Authentication-Warning headers. I have notified [EMAIL PROTECTED] and root/postmaster/[EMAIL PROTECTED] But it is still doing it. I think the solution for now is to make a filter to /dev/null for all mail from webforce.com.hk. *- On 30 Dec, Kai Henningsen wrote about debian-user mangles mails Here's an example: Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:42:37 +0100 Received: from uucp by khms.westfalen.de with local-bsmtp (Exim 3.11 #1) id 123LFF-CG-01 (Debian); Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:42:37 +0100 Received: from murphy.debian.org ([209.41.108.199]) by muenster.westfalen.de with smtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 123KeC-0004xK-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:04:22 +0100 Received: (qmail 5231 invoked by uid 38); 29 Dec 1999 15:02:51 - Resent-Date: 29 Dec 1999 15:02:50 - Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Authentication-Warning: niet.webforce.com.hk: news set sender to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using -f To: debian-user@lists.debian.org ^^^ Date: 29 Dec 1999 23:00:43 +0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marek Habersack) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: I just... Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: su, sudo and resource limits Resent-Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/76902 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note that Content-Type: line? Here's the same header from debian-devel: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:42:37 +0100 Received: from uucp by khms.westfalen.de with local-bsmtp (Exim 3.11 #1) id 123LFE-CG-0A (Debian); Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:42:36 +0100 Received: from murphy.debian.org ([209.41.108.199]) by muenster.westfalen.de with smtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 123Kbi-0004lA-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:01:47 +0100 Received: (qmail 323 invoked by uid 38); 29 Dec 1999 14:58:20 - Resent-Date: 29 Dec 1999 14:58:20 - Resent-CC: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 15:57:25 +0100 From: Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: su, sudo and resource limits Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol=application/pgp-signature; boundary=zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx User-Agent: Mutt/1.0i Organization: I just... Resent-Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-devel@lists.debian.org archive/latest/51714 X-Loop: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note the second line. I assume something processing debian-user mails mishandles (that is, drops) continuation lines. Probably the same stuff that rearranges them (something that also should not happen). MfG Kai Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Possible hosts.allow problem
*- On 29 Dec, Carl Fink wrote about Possible hosts.allow problem In order to use IP-Masq I had to edit hosts.allow to accept connections from my own other PC. The only uncommented line there now reads: ALL: LOCAL 198.168.1.* Shouldn't it be: ALL: LOCAL, 192.168.1. or for your network ALL: LOCAL, 192.168.0. Notice there is no * in there. Read the man page for hosts_access(5). · A string that ends with a `.´ character. A host address is matched if its first numeric fields match the given string. For example, the pattern `131.155.´ matches the address of (almost) every hoston the Eindhoven University network (131.155.x.x). Although I don't know what effect the * has on the rules. Since my laptop is 198.168.0.2, this *shouldn't even work*. (I originally typoed the IP address and just noticed it while typing this message!) However, since adding that line to hosts.allow, suddenly my box is open *from any host anywhere*. I've just confirmed this by telnetting to my ISP's host and playing: my ftp, telnet, and SMTP ports are all open. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato
*- On 30 Dec, Patrick Dahiroc wrote about Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato hi i'm thinking of upgrading to Potato - from what i've read is that Potato is pretty safe to use - i realize that i need to upgrade my kernel to do this. potato should run just fine on a 2.0.x kernel. I would only do one upgrad potato/kernel at a time. If is give the commands root apt-get update root apt-get dist-upgrade with the sources.list pointing to unstable. will this automatically get the Point it at the release name of potato and not unstable. When potato finally goes stable you don't want a suprise the next time you update apt-get and you have upgraded to the next unstable(woody) release. 2.2.? kernel and go through the configuration process. or do i have to get the latest kernel first configure it and then run the apt-get commands. No, the kernel will not automatically upgrade. This topic has been hashed out before on this list, check the archives. You will need to grab the kernel source package and build you own kernel. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Upgrade to potato left Perl 5.004 behind??
*- On 28 Dec, William Burrow wrote about Upgrade to potato left Perl 5.004 behind?? I upgraded to potato, hoping to get access to all the fine stuff in the distro, but find I am stuck with Perl 5.004. Packages I want to install want 5.005. I want Perl 5.005. Why is it that apt left 5.004 behind? Is the reason logged somewhere? Is there something I missed that might do the upgrade? Do I have to ditch some packages that depend on 5.004? Why would dist-upgrade miss this? Thanks for info! Perl 5.005 and Perl 5.004 are significantly different in their compatibility that it was decided to make two independent packages of the two that can coexist on the system. You can install the perl-5.005 package and dselect should pull in the other needed packages. After that is installed try removing the perl-5.004 packages and see if anything depends on them. They both provide perl5-base so perl-5.005 should satisfy the needs of packages that perl-5.004 was satisfying. I no longer have any perl-5.004 packages on my potato system and don't have any problems. Search the debian-perl, debian-devel and debian-policy archives from earlier this year(May onward) for all the discussion. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: slink -- potatoe?
*- On 29 Dec, Robert L. Harris wrote about slink -- potatoe? Ok, I have a box on a 33.6K modem I want to up grade to potatoe, either before or after it goes final. Is therre an apt-get command I can run before I go to bed that will do it cleanly for me? Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to potato (no e unless you are Dan Quayle, =) ). apt-get update apt-get -d dist-upgrade (notice the -d option) Then when all has downloaded over you modem and the above command completes without any error messages, apt-get dist-upgrade (without the -d option) The -d option tells apt-get to only download and not install the packages. With a modem it is possible that you will loose the connection and some files not get completely downloaded. Once all the files are downloaded then run apt-get without the -d option so that it will install and configure the packages. Note you will need ALOT of space in /var/cache/apt to hold all the packages so make sure you have space available. Before apt-get starts the download it will tell you how much it is going to download so use that as your guide. HTH, Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: slink -- potatoe?
*- On 29 Dec, William Burrow wrote about Re: slink -- potatoe? On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 11:40:16AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: *- On 29 Dec, Robert L. Harris wrote about slink -- potatoe? Ok, I have a box on a 33.6K modem I want to up grade to potatoe, either before or after it goes final. Is therre an apt-get command I can run before I go to bed that will do it cleanly for me? Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to potato (no e unless you are Dan Quayle, =) ). apt-get update apt-get -d dist-upgrade (notice the -d option) ... The -d option tells apt-get to only download and not install the packages. With a modem it is possible that you will loose the connection and some files not get completely downloaded. Once all the The -d option does not seem to be required. apt-get will automatically detect that it has not downloaded all the packages and asks you if you want to continue downloading when you restart it. With my 28k8 modem, it took nearly 24 hours to download 195MB of updates. This depends on how chock-a-block you made your system. I have most of the development stuff installed, because that is an interest area for me. But if by some miracle it makes it through in one shot it won't start the actually upgrade while you are away from the computer. I always prefer to sit and watch what is happening as the upgrade is taking place. apt-get dist-upgrade (without the -d option) You have to sit by during this process and hand-hold apt-get through the process because it stops to ask you questions. This is somewhat annoying. Also, there are two or three changes to config files you must make manually, depending on the packages you have installed (modules, svgatext and one other I've forgotten to update, obviously). Yes, this is an issue. Actually it is dpkg that is asking the questions, apt-get is just ording things and telling dpkg what to install. The new debconf package in potato is aiming at making this less of a hassle. I would recommend installing it. Although it won't help for the first round of the upgrade. Other things to look out for are the split up of several packages like netstd. Although I think they have been mostly fixed in terms of upgrading and not leaving you without services, but I may be wrong. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Packages referenced but missing from the archive
*- On 30 Dec, Bart Warmerdam wrote about Re: Packages referenced but missing from the archive On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 02:55:19AM +0100, Ingo Saitz wrote: MoiN On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 12:09:09AM +1100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: I went and grabbed all the Packages files for all the distributions I know of (main, contrib, non-free, non-us/main, non-us/contrib, non-us/non-free), and went and checked wether all the dependencies can be satisfied. As it turns out, there are many packages referencing other non-existant packages. You mean you did apt-cache unmet? I get 94 Packages with unmet dependencies (please try apt-cache unmet to see why): Mmmm... What this tell me?? emperor:~# apt-cache unmet | grep -n ^Package | tail -1 425:Package cxterm-jis version 5.1p1-3 has an unmet dep: Only 425 packages with unmet dependencies... Nice! Try 'wc -l' and not 'tail -1', the line number from grep is counting all the output lines and not just the matching Package lines. # apt-cache unmet | grep -n ^Package | tail -1 321:Package karchiveur version 0.52-1 has an unmet dep: # apt-cache unmet | wc -l 322 # apt-cache unmet | grep -n ^Package | wc -l 148 Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: debian-user mangles mails
No, some mail to news gateway is broken and is bouncing ALL debian-devel mails back to debian-user. Notice the Sender and X-Authentication-Warning headers. I have notified [EMAIL PROTECTED] and root/postmaster/[EMAIL PROTECTED] But it is still doing it. I think the solution for now is to make a filter to /dev/null for all mail from webforce.com.hk. *- On 30 Dec, Kai Henningsen wrote about debian-user mangles mails Here's an example: Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:42:37 +0100 Received: from uucp by khms.westfalen.de with local-bsmtp (Exim 3.11 #1) id 123LFF-CG-01 (Debian); Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:42:37 +0100 Received: from murphy.debian.org ([209.41.108.199]) by muenster.westfalen.de with smtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 123KeC-0004xK-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:04:22 +0100 Received: (qmail 5231 invoked by uid 38); 29 Dec 1999 15:02:51 - Resent-Date: 29 Dec 1999 15:02:50 - Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Authentication-Warning: niet.webforce.com.hk: news set sender to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using -f To: debian-user@lists.debian.org ^^^ Date: 29 Dec 1999 23:00:43 +0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marek Habersack) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: I just... Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: su, sudo and resource limits Resent-Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/76902 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note that Content-Type: line? Here's the same header from debian-devel: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:42:37 +0100 Received: from uucp by khms.westfalen.de with local-bsmtp (Exim 3.11 #1) id 123LFE-CG-0A (Debian); Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:42:36 +0100 Received: from murphy.debian.org ([209.41.108.199]) by muenster.westfalen.de with smtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 123Kbi-0004lA-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:01:47 +0100 Received: (qmail 323 invoked by uid 38); 29 Dec 1999 14:58:20 - Resent-Date: 29 Dec 1999 14:58:20 - Resent-CC: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 15:57:25 +0100 From: Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: su, sudo and resource limits Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol=application/pgp-signature; boundary=zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx User-Agent: Mutt/1.0i Organization: I just... Resent-Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-devel@lists.debian.org archive/latest/51714 X-Loop: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note the second line. I assume something processing debian-user mails mishandles (that is, drops) continuation lines. Probably the same stuff that rearranges them (something that also should not happen). MfG Kai Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: using swap files - where do I activate at boot?
*- On 28 Dec, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about using swap files - where do I activate at boot? I inherited a Debian system running potato. The system occassionaly was running out of memory so I thought I should increase my virtual memory. Rather than repartitioning the hard drive to add another swap partition, I thought it would be best to just use a swap file. So, I've created the file with dd, made it a swap file with mkswap, and activated it with swapon, and it's working fine. My question is, what is the best way to activate the swap file at boot time? Just add it to your /etc/fstab. /path/to/swapfile none sw It will get added to the swap at boot with the rest of the swap space. I would recommend giving your swap partitions/files different priorities in this case so that the faster partitions are higher priority and the swap files are lower priority. See swapon(2) for more details. /dev/of/swap/partition none sw,pri=1 /path/to/swapfilenone sw,pri=0 HTH, Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: DEB files
*- On 26 Dec, Tux wrote about DEB files Hello, How to create .deb files? http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/packaging.html/ How to convert .rpm files do .deb files? Install the alien package and read the man page and then try, alien file.rpm Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: DEB files
*- On 26 Dec, Shaul Karl wrote about Re: DEB files *- On 26 Dec, Tux wrote about DEB files Hello, How to create .deb files? http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ 1) Is there a postscript version of this doc somewhere? Check your local Debian mirror in the doc/package-developer/ directory: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ 2) On my system, a bug with html2ps does not seems to get solved. What are the alternatives? Don't know. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Download Whole Directories from Apache?
*- On 23 Dec, Art Lemasters wrote about Download Whole Directories from Apache? I run an Apache Web server. How can I allow someone else to download a whole directory of HTML files from my site with just one command line? Is there a module, existing command, configuration or other Debian Linux program that will facilitate this? I am running Potato here, with kernel 2.2.13. Have you looked at wget? It has mechanisms for mirroring web sites and sucking in all the appropriate links, etc. This would be used by the user on their end. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Charset nls_iso8859_1 not found
*- On 24 Dec, Georg Colle wrote about Charset nls_iso8859_1 not found Hi, mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy throws following message: unable to load NLS charset iso8859-1 (nls_iso8859_1). What can I do that mount finds this charset? I'm running the Atari version of Debian m68k kernel-image-2.0.36 on a Falcon 030. You need to recompile the kernel to include support for this character set. You can have it as a module as well which works well. The exact option name is CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!?
*- On 23 Dec, Bart Szyszka wrote about I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!? Hi, I just thought of something. I thought the whole reason why KDE wasn't included in the Debian download trees because of the licensing issues with QT. If that's the case, then why is QT included in the download tree?!? If QT is OK to put in there then what's the point of saying KDE can't be there? QT v1 is included in the non-free section. The problem is that KDE is supposed to be under the GPL but is violating the GPL by linking to QT which is non-free. So Debian and others decided not to include KDE until they either fixed the licensing issues or QT became free. QT v2 is under less restrictive license and thus once KDE is built with the new QT then it will go in main. This is all just my rough interpetation. See http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981008 for all the details. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!?
*- On 23 Dec, Bart Szyszka wrote about Re: I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!? QT v1 is included in the non-free section. The problem is that KDE is supposed to be under the GPL but is violating the GPL by linking to QT which is non-free. So Debian and others decided not to include KDE until they either fixed the licensing issues or QT became free. QT v2 is under less restrictive license and thus once KDE is built with the new QT then it will go in main. This is all just my rough interpetation. See this I don't understand. If they're not including KDE because it has a non-free program as a dependency, then what about Licq? In the stable tree, it depends on qt1g: http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/net/licq.html http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/libs/qt1g.html Licq is in the contrib tree since itself is free but depends on a non-free package. The licq authors have written an exception into their license for use with Qt. This type of exception is allowed under the GPL. The KDE folks had/have no exception and thus were/are violating the GPL. This is one of the solutions that was mentioned in the Debian page in regards to the KDE issues. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Quake1 included now that GPLed?
*- On 23 Dec, Harlan Crystal wrote about Quake1 included now that GPLed? Hello. Quake1 was recently GPLed. Does that make it a candidate to become a debian package for the games section? It would be a great addition to the games section. First, it will have to be in the contrib section because you still need the non-free .pak files to actually play the game. Just the engine of the game was released. Second, Quake, Doom, and other games are illegal in several countries like Brazil and Germany. So if Debian includes them on any CD then those CD's can not be sold at all in those countries. Third, there are Debian developers working on it, be patient. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: libc6-dev versus libncurses4-dev
*- On 4 Nov, Ulrich Hansmair wrote about libc6-dev versus libncurses4-dev hi debian-freaks, currently I installed potato with downloaded install-disks. Then I got me a few tiny things like less, with apt-get. I´ m not very experienced with linux, but it worked fine. Now I wanna compile me a kernel. So I got me all the needed packages (gcc,...). As I wanna use make menuconfig I tried to install the package libncurses4-dev (with dpkg -i). This resulted in a dependency error with package libc6-dev. This dependency problem exists also the other way round. What I m doing wrong? Even the --force-depends option of dpkg brought no solution. Can anybody give me a hint? Well libncurses4-dev does depend on libc6-dev: Package: libncurses4-dev Status: install ok installed Priority: standard Section: devel Installed-Size: 1127 Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: ncurses Version: 4.2-3.4 Replaces: ncurses-developer Provides: ncurses-dev, ncurses-developer, libncurses-dev Depends: libncurses4, libc6-dev ^ Conflicts: ncurses, ncurses-developer, ncurses21-dev, ncurses-dev, libncurses-dev Description: Developer's libraries and docs for ncurses This package contains the header files, static, and profiling libraries and symbolic links that developers using ncurses will need. But libc6-dev does NOT depend on libncurses4-dev. It does conflict with an earlier version though. Package: libc6-dev Status: install ok installed Priority: standard Section: devel Installed-Size: 7762 Maintainer: Joel Klecker debian-glibc@lists.debian.org Source: glibc Version: 2.1.2-10 Replaces: ldso ( 1.9.0-0), man-db (= 2.3.10-41), gettext\ (= 0.10.26-1), ppp (= 2.2.0f-24), libgdbmg1-dev (= 1.7.3-24) Provides: libc-dev Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.2-10) ^^^ Recommends: c-compiler Suggests: glibc-doc Conflicts: libc-dev, libstdc++2.9-dev, libdl1-dev, libdb1-dev, \ libgdbm1-dev, libpthread0-dev, gcc (= 2.7.2.3-1), \ libncurses4-dev ( 4.2-3.1), libreadlineg2-dev ( 2.1-13.1) ^ Description: GNU C Library: Development libraries and header files. Contains the symlinks, headers, and object files needed to compile and link programs which use the standard C library. I would just use apt-get to install libncurses4-dev and it will pull in libc6-dev and whatever else it needs: apt-get install libncurses4-dev HTH, Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Quake1 included now that GPLed?
*- On 23 Dec, Harlan Crystal wrote about RE: Quake1 included now that GPLed? There have been several quake packages on there. xquake, squake, quake2. xquake works very well for me. they dont include the maps do they? I was under the impression that the maps were GPLed as well. Nope, the maps are not GPLed. See the discussion on Slashdot with posts from John Carmack himself on the issue, http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/12/21/2210251. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: TERM=xterm-debian
*- On 23 Dec, Andrew J.F. Clark wrote about TERM=xterm-debian
Whenever I use ssh (I'm not sure about telnet) to connect to the
slakware boxes at work through an xterm or rxvt and try to use pine and
pico etc, I get an error about unknown terminal xterm-debian (or rxvt).
I can solve this by export TERM=xterm, but I'm just wondering if there
is any particular reason debians xterm set TERM to this and if there
isn't, how do I change it so that it doesn't anymore.
FAQ: Read /usr/{share/}doc/xterm/README.Debian
Brian Servis
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Re: CyberPower (was APC UPS (Back-UPS Pro 650)
*- On 22 Dec, Pann McCuaig wrote about CyberPower (was APC UPS (Back-UPS Pro 650) On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 22:17, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Then buy a CyberPower instead. Much cheaper. I picked up a 1500 VA CyberPower for US$99. It runs my computer for an hour! Vendor, anyone? http://www.outpost.com has several of them with free overnight shipping(I assume US only on the shipping though). Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Building customized packages
*- On 22 Dec, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Building customized packages I'd like to install the stock apcupsd module but have found some shortcomings in the pre-packaged version. Namely that I have /usr on it's own partition and when a shutdown is performed, because of a power failure, apcupsd won't power off the UPS because /usr isn't mounted at the point in the halt script from which apcupsd is called to power off the UPS. This sounds like a general problem with the package. I would suggest filling a bug report to Debian about it. You can't be the only one with this problem since many people put /usr on a separate partition. What I need to do is link apcupsd statically and install all the binaries on the / partition, eg., /sbin. I downloaded the source package and I figured out how to statically link apcupsd, but I'm not sure how to get the utilities to install in /sbin instead of /usr/sbin. Also, suppose I modify the package and use dpkg-buildpackage to make an apcupsd_3.6.2-1_i386.deb file. How do I keep that from being superceeded by a new version from. I guess my basic question is how do I take a debian source package, customize it to my needs, build a *.deb file, install it and keep it from being removed in favor of a new version when one comes down the pipe from the Debian developers? Is there a procedure for this kind of thing? You need to edit the debian/rules file in the Debian source package. That is just a make file and it should contain all the installation locations in some form or another. During the build process it first gets placed under the debian/tmp directory in the layout that it would be under / once it is installed. So you need to find the location information that is placing in under debian/tmp and modify that. Then just run 'debian/rules binary' and it should build the new package. You might want to add a entry to debian/changelog to note your changes. Once your new package is built and installed you can use dselect to place it on hold so that newer Debian packages don't install over the top of it. HTH, Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Troubles with moving /var
*- On 20 Dec, Ethan Benson wrote about Re: Troubles with moving /var On 20/12/99 aphro wrote: cp -a doesn't work on more obscure platforms like irix..there is a tar command..that acts like cp -a i saw it posted in a magazine(Maximum Linux) but i forgot what it was, if its linux its safe to use cp -a probably something like (cd / ; tar -cvpf - var) | (cd /home ; tar -xvpf -) quite a bit more obnoxious then cp -a for sure, but iirc it seemed to deal with symlinks a bit better. there is a cpio way too but i'll leave that to someone else. the key is when using tar use the -p switch !! :-) cd /var; find . -mount | cpio -dumpv /home/var has done the trick for me several times. -- Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: MTA
*- On 21 Dec, Steve Lamb wrote about Re: MTA Tuesday, December 21, 1999, 9:14:31 AM, Joe wrote: I never liked smail or exim, and sendmail seems like overkill for a small site. Count me in as another vote for postfix. I used to run qmail back when I still ran RedHat, but switched to postfix a few months before I switched to Debian. postfix is a lot easier to configure and has the advantage of being designed from the beginning for security. Personally I think any MTA is too much of an overkill for off-line reading/replying of email. Personally I think the MUA should have an option to defer the mail and then have a command-line option to have it deliver to a configured SMTP server, supplied by the ISP, who then performs delivery from there. But, hey, what do I know. The MUA Tkrat does this. It is tcl/tk based and does allow you to defer all messages and then send them out(via a menu selection) whenever you want to a smtp host. I personally don't use this feature but it is there. Version 1.2 is currently packaged for Debian and 2.0 beta5 is available from http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~maf/ratatosk/. There are also several MTA's designed for dial-up accounts that don't have all the advanced features of sendmail, smail, exim, qmail, etc. Masqmail being one that I am curious about which is packaged for potato. Haven't tried it as I don't have time to deal with a change in MTA config right now. But it does look interesting as it is meant to work with ppp and the ip-up scripts. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Startup-scripts
*- On 21 Dec, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Startup-scripts *please CC all replies to me, as I am not subscribed to this list. thanks* Hello all, I am using Debian GNU/Linux potato i386. I have written a ipchains firewall script that I would like to be executed automatically during startup. Where would I put this (shell) script? I know that Debian has rules Where would I put this (shell) script? I know that Debian has rules about the proper way to do certain system config things - what is the proper way to do this? Put your script in /etc/init.d. Try and make it accept 'start' and 'stop' arguments if appropriate. See /etc/init.d/README and /etc/init.d/skeleton for an example and pointers to more documentation. Then run the command: update-rc.d ipmasq start 41 S . This will place the appropriate links in the /etc/rcS.d and other directories, you need to at least start it after the network is setup(S40). If you want, install the ipmasq package and look at its startup script for an example that is probably more in line with what you want(it does not use the start-stop-daemon program). Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in thei shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: how to clone a system?
*- On 20 Dec, rogalsky wrote about how to clone a system? I have to clone a system without copying it. In other words: How can I make a new instalation of a system using the same packages as an already installed system? Olaf Rogalsky On old system issue the command: dpkg --get-selections /tmp/selections On new system do a new install until it asks you for the 'configuration' of the machine(server, workstation, etc.) and don't select any or select the custom selection (I can't remember exactly). Exit and copy the above selections file to the new machine. Then on the new machine issue the comand: dpkg --set-selections selections Then run the Update and then Install part of dselect after having set up your Access method. Or for using apt-get I think you should be able to do: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade You will of course have to configure all the packages that are installed. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device'
*- On 20 Dec, David Densmore wrote about Re: cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: always the best way to test a printer first, is to bypass any/all spoolers and print direct to the port, it works on most printers .. just echo test blah blah /dev/lp0 or cat filename /dev/lp0 (you probably have to be root to do this) I get this: bash: /dev/lp0: No such device also: bash: /dev/lp1: No such device bash: /dev/lp2: No such device bash: /dev/lp3: No such device This is a kernel I compiled myself. I would like to recompile it if I knew what options to select. This isn't a kernel issue. For some reason you do not have the lp devices in your /dev directory. Do the following to create them. If you compiled your kernel with parallel and pc hardware support you should be fine. cd /dev ./MAKEDEV lp Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: how much memory is too much... for X?
I see this type of behavior after lots of window open and closes with large memory consuming windows(MATLAB plots with lots of points). After a while X starts sucking up all my memory and swap. I simply restart the window manager, not restart X, and the memory is freed. So it may be a X or window-manager issue or both. But not having to restart X is nice. *- On 17 Dec, Nathan York wrote about Re: how much memory is too much... for X? i get the same problem as this, i have to restart X every-so-often, i don't think it is window-manager specific, as i have had the problem in windowmaker and afterstepit also isn't distribution specific, same prob in redhat/debian/stormix. i can't seem to find it either, by the way this is x-server 3.3.5 On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Aaron Solochek wrote: according to top, X is taking up 60megs right now. Yesterday I think it was even more. This is Accelerated X 5.0.3, looks like a big memory leak to me, anyone have any experience with this? -- Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: How hpdj setup for HP DeskJet 660C
*- On 19 Dec, Bart Szyszka wrote about How hpdj setup for HP DeskJet 660C Hi, According to a database of printers that I found, my older HP DeskJet 660C printer (knew it would come in handy some day!) is supported by hpdj perfectly. What I'm wondering about is how anyone who got that printer working perfectly got it setup. I tried apsfilter (apsfilterconfig), but it didn't have anything specific to a 660C. I've also tried magicfilterconfig (or something like that), but all it had was a driver for a laserjet. Can I update/add hpdj in any of these two programs as is? I.e. after I apt-get apsfilter, can I update it's hpdj? I'm on Debian potato. BTW, here are the hpdj options that I have available: HP DeskJet 500, 500C, 510, 520, 540, 550C, 560C, 850C, 855C Could it be that rather than needing a 660C in there, I just have to select one of those? If so, which ones did you guys get the printer working *perfectly* with? The most important part for me is to get it working in Netscape (which doesn't let me choose the number of pages to print?!?). I use magicfilter and the gs-alladin(which includes the hpdj patch, see 'man gs-hpdj') for my HP 660C. The hpdj patch does not include 660C support directly as you mentioned but using the 560C or the 'unspec' model works for all my needs. I have put some of my files print setup files up at http://widget.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis/hpdj-printing/. In order to select the pages to print you will have to use the psselect, in the psutils package, in a pipe with the print command dialog box in netscapes print dialog. Something like: Print Command: psselect -q -p1-4 | lpr -Plp I usually use psnup to print 2-up or 4-up from netscape as in: Print Command: psnup -q -pletter -n4 | lpr -Plp HTH, -- Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: 2 computers, 2 modems, 2 O/S's
*- On 14 Dec, Cormac McGuinness wrote about 2 computers, 2 modems, 2 O/S's Hi At home my wife and I have two computers (win95 and Debian) and until recently had one modem. Connectng to the internet was simple, it all went through the Debian (potato) box. However, I have acquired at no cost another faster modem, unfortunately it is a WinModem (A US Robotics 56k Voice Win) What I was wondering is there anyone out there that can point me to a piece of Windows (Yes! I know this is the debian mailing list) software that can forward all my outgoing IP connections through the Winmodem (in the Windows machine) in as transparent a manner as possible. I got the winmodem for free, I would like to benefit from having it. (especially when I need to download the latest and greatest .debs!) There is also a package called Wingate. It is shareware. I used it for a while but it has been a few years. Try winfiles.com, they should have it. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Digital cameras and Linux
*- On 12 Dec, Mike Werner wrote about Re: Digital cameras and Linux (Ted Harding) wrote: It is worth considering a camera that can record the JPEG file directly to a floppy disk -- either natively (the Sony Mavica was probably the earliest to do it this way) or using a bit of clip-on kit which you snip (The floppies used are in all cases -- as far as I know -- standard DOS-formatted floppies straight out of the box). FWIW I have grabbed pics from a Mavica floppy with a Linux system. I mounted the floppy as a regular DOS type floppy and just grabbed the .jpg's like any other. The Mavica also creates a second file for every pic it makes - I don't remember the extension but that file has no use I've been able to figure out (probably something the camera uses internally). And the floppy that I had fed into the Mavica was a brand new never-used one straight out of the box. They are the index files that it uses to display on the on-camera screen. The Mavica's also create an html file that lists the files so that someone can open the list up in a web browser and view the pictures. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: apt-get dist-upgrade replacing self-built archives
*- On 12 Dec, peter karlsson wrote about apt-get dist-upgrade replacing self-built archives Hi! How come that apt-get dist-upgrade upgrades packages that I have compiled myself (from the sources), although the version in the Debian archive is the same as the one I have compiled myself? Because the md5sum does not match that of the 'real' version. You should either put the package on hold in dselect(does dist-upgrade respect holds?). Or add an entry to the debian/changelog and increase the version number before you build the package. Not sure what is the best versioning scheme, maybe follow the NMU rules of adding a .X version to the last version. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: vmware
*- On 11 Dec, Jianbo Wang wrote about vmware Hi, Does anybody know where I can find demo license for vmware? Thanks! http://www5.vmware.com/forms/Download.cfm Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Finding left-over libraries
*- On 7 Dec, peter karlsson wrote about Finding left-over libraries Is there any way in Debian to find out what packages no other packages depend on? When I install a couple of packages, all the libraries they depend on are installed as well, which is quite nice, but the reverse doesn't hold - when I remove packages, unnecessary libraries are not removed. Because of this, I would like to get a list of packages that no packages depend on (restricted, for instance, to packages starting with lib). Unforunately there is no way to do this cleanly now. There has been/is active discussion on this very subject on the the -devel list. One of the issues to be concerned with is on a machine used for development where nothing directly depends on a lib*-dev package except at build time when you need to link to the headers. There is a Debian package called cruft that can do some system searching and can give you a very rough idea of file usage. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Is Corel Off Topic ?
*- On 7 Dec, Joe Block wrote about Re: Is Corel Off Topic ? I don't think so. It is based on debian, after all. A friend and I were having trouble getting a working X setup on his Latitude laptop with a regular slink install, but the Corel installer detected his Neomagic chipset and set it up perfectly. Slink uses X 3.3.2a which does not have support for the Neomagic chipsets which are popular in laptops. Corel upgraded X to 3.3.5 which does have support for the Neomagic chipsets. You can get the X 3.3.5 debs for slink under http://www.debian.org/~vincent. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Modifing a debian package
*- On 7 Dec, Matt Kopishke wrote about Modifing a debian package Hi, I need to recompile PHP3 with an extra value in the INCLUDE (-I/path/to/include) line. I would like to keed PHP3 in a .deb, how would I go about doing this using the srcdir/debian/rules method. Thanks, If you already have the sources extracted just modify the rules file at the appropriate place, it is just a make file. Then execute 'debian/rules binary' from the srcdir. If all goes well you will end up with the updated PHP3 debs in the parent directory of srcdir. If you use the current version number then you will need to put the package on 'hold' in dselect so that the official version does not re-install over your copy. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: bootpd
*- On 6 Dec, Marcin Kurc wrote about bootpd Is there bootpd in debian distribution? Sure. In Debian 2.1(slink) it is in the netstd package. In Debian unstable(potato) it is has been split out into the bootp package. You can use the Search the Contents of the Latest Release search engine at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages.html for this kind of search. That is how I just got this info. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: X install
*- On 6 Dec, Attila Csosz wrote about X install I've had got a working X window system with some window manager like icewm. I got a new card(Asus v3800 riva tnt2). I've the X source 3.3.5 . I succesfully maked the X source( 'make World' ) . My question is: when I 'make install' does something wrong? Which new programs will be installed? Then can I remove any previous package? ( like Xserver-svga ) I assume you are using Debian 2.1(slink). Save yourself the trouble and grab the X 3.3.5 debian packages found under http://www.debian.org/~vincent. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: XFree86 3.3.5 for slink? (was: Corel to Slink upgrade)
*- On 5 Dec, Arcady Genkin wrote about XFree86 3.3.5 for slink? (was: Corel to Slink upgrade) Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joe Block wrote: When I did the install on my friend's laptop, the first thing I did after corel's install was done was add my local mirror of slink, security.debian.org, the y2k updates the XFree86 3.3.5 to its sources.list and update upgrade. Is there a source for X 3.3.5 for slink? If yes, could anyone give the URI? Check the debian-user archives first. This is 3rd or 4th time this week this question has come up. None the less her is the URI: deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Outlook and HTML
*- On 3 Dec, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote about Re: Outlook and HTML On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:28:57AM -0500, Arcady Genkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Standard signature separator is -- with a blank following it. ^^ Actually, it's -- . Notice the trailing space. Mutt, slrn, and Netscape all do this correctly. I'm sure most other software does as well. To me the phrase '-- with a blank following it' is the same as -- . Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Outlook and HTML
*- On 3 Dec, Steve Lamb wrote about Re: Outlook and HTML Friday, December 03, 1999, 4:34:01 PM, Brian wrote: *- On 3 Dec, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote about Re: Outlook and HTML On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:28:57AM -0500, Arcady Genkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Standard signature separator is -- with a blank following it. Actually, it's -- . Notice the trailing space. Mutt, slrn, and Netscape all do this correctly. I'm sure most other software does as well. To me the phrase '-- with a blank following it' is the same as -- . Well, to be a total technical nitpicky prick, no, it doesn't. The complete sig delimiter is -- \n or dash dash space newline. Why do I point this out? Because DOS loves to have CR/NL and MAC CR. IIRC neither of those work as reliably as -- \n. :P Well, to be a total nitpicky prick, I wasn't talking about the *correct* delimiter. I was talking about the equivalence of the two phrases. The '-- notice the space' phrase makes not reference to the line termination. The '-- with a blank following it' phrase makes no reference to the line termination. Thus *IMO* the two are the same. I do agree that the *correct* delimiter is dash dash space newline. Enough nitpicking for me, Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: trapped in an xdm loop?
*- On 4 Dec, Nancy this-address-is-valid McGough wrote about trapped in an xdm loop? I'm in the process of setting up an old 486 with Debian Linux (slink) and I seemed to be trapped in X Windows. When I type Ctrl+Alt+Backspace it just restarts xdm with the login and Password prompt. Typing a login and password doesn't help because I get a blank blue screen and the mouse doesn't work. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace at this point also throws me back into the xdm login/Password prompt. I tried restarting the system and it boots into this login/Password prompt. I tried typing Ctrl+C while it was listing all the things it was doing and could not stop it from running xdm. I tried booting from the boot floppy I made and it said boot failed. I can boot off the Rescue floppy but I don't know what to type at the prompt to get to a point where I can edit my config files so it won't start xdm at boot. FYI, this happened when I was trying to get my mouse to work and I saw an archived message from this list that said try xdm stop so I tried that and now I'm in this loop. Ctr+Alt+F1 will take you to the first virtual console. Login as root and issue the command '/etc/init.d/xdm stop'. This will stop xdm until you reboot or restart it. If you don't ever want xdm to start just remove it, 'dpkg --remove xdm'. -- Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: effect of having stable and unstable listed in sources.list
No, it will install the newest version of whatever it finds. The order of the listings in sources.list only is important if it finds two sources for the *exact* same file. The file then will get installed from the first URI. This is useful if you have a local mirror that may not be up to date with a web mirror. If the local copy is listed first and it contains a file that is the same on the net mirror then the local copy will be installed. I would not recomend mixing slink and potato sources. Early in the potato development this was possible as slink and potato were not too different and only a few files were updated. But now most files depend in some way on libc6 v2.1 or perl5.005 and will cause major problems if they are installed and you are not willing to upgrade yet. *- On 4 Dec, Bryan Scaringe wrote about RE: effect of having stable and unstable listed in sources.list Opps, When in doubt, I should read the man pages. Looks like apt will go through sources.list, and will install the package from the first source it finds. if I am reading man sources.list correctly :) Bryan On 04-Dec-1999 Pollywog wrote: On 04-Dec-1999 Bryan Scaringe wrote: I have seen many examples on this list of people putting entries in sources.list for both stable and unstable trees at the same time. How does apt/dselect handle this? Would an apt-get upgrade always pull from stable or unstable? Thanks in advance. Bryan I was just thinking about this last night, and it seems to me that to avoid downgrading my system, it is better to explicitly have potato or slink or whatever in my sources.list. After all, slink is always slink, but unstable can mean different things at different times. -- Andrew Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Supported video chip-sets
*- On 3 Dec, Egbert Bouwman wrote about Supported video chip-sets Hello, I am going to buy a new computer, but which video adapter/chip-set ? Many powerful new computers come with things like Matrox G400 or NVidia Riva TNT2. I am still using Slink with XFree 3.3.2, where these chips are not supported. However they are supported in potatoe with XFree86 3.3.5. Does this mean that I _have _ to upgrade in order to use them, or can i use them in Slink without their extra functionality ? For upgrading I prefer to wait for a stable potatoe, or at least for potato-cdroms. A developer has compiled 3.3.5 for slink. See http://www.debian.org/~vincent. So you are not forced to upgrade to potato, although it is really quite stable now. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: What video card do I use?
*- On 3 Dec, Rick Dunnivan wrote about What video card do I use? I just laoded Debian for the first time. When I run XF86Setup, I dont see my video card listed and am not sure how to go about using the advanced options. I have a 16MB nVidia RIVA TNT AGP. Can anyone help me? Slink comes with XFree86 3.3.2, you need to upgrade to XFree86 3.3.5 which can be found at http://www.debian.org/~vincent. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: How to block access from specific sites.
*- On 2 Dec, Martin Fluch wrote about Re: How to block access from specific sites. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Ethan Benson wrote: ALL: *.microsoft.com sshd: *.apple.com in.ftpd: 192.168.0.5 are some examples, you should get a pretty decent man page with man 5 hosts.deny if not then your man pages are broken :) (btw I don't remember for sure if the * is needed or not it probably isn't but i don't think it matters) It's done without a '*' (AFAIK) ... Martin No wildcard is needed according to 'man 5 hosts_access'. · A string that begins with a `.´ character. A host name is matched if the last components of its name match the specified pattern. For example, the pat tern`.tue.nl´matchesthehostname `wzv.win.tue.nl´. · A string that ends with a `.´ character. A host address is matched if its first numeric fields match the given string. For example, the pattern `131.155.´ matches the address of (almost) every hoston the Eindhoven University network (131.155.x.x). -- Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Missing libs.
*- On 1 Dec, Robert L. Harris wrote about Missing libs. It appears I need libXext.so.6 for my X now. Can anyone tell me what package supplies this library? The best way to find out which packages contain the files you need is to use the Search the Contents of the Latest Release search engine at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages.html. In this case for the stable release it returns: FILE PACKAGE - usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 x11/xlib6g usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6.3x11/xlib6g usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXext.so.6 oldlibs/xlib6 usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXext.so.6.3 oldlibs/xlib6 HTH, Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re:
*- On 1 Dec, Jason Winters wrote about What do I use to open a gz file? gunzip file.gz is the simplist solution but this also depends on what the actual file is. If it is a tar.gz or tgz file then this is a gzipped tar file which tar can handle natively with 'tar zxf file.tar.gz'. There are other methods of 'opening' a gz file so if you provide an example of the filename and location then others can point you in the best direction. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: slink and xfree86 3.3.5 questions
*- On 30 Nov, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about slink and xfree86 3.3.5 questions Ok, I installed debian on my system a few weeks ago with a slink cdrom. There has been some indication that some misbehavior by my Number Nine card might be because I'm not using XFree86 3.3.5 To put that on my system would I be leaving slink territory and heading into potato territory? Would it be best for now (if I'm not interested in totally upgrading to potato at this time) to maybe just swap the Number Nine out for the ET4000 I've got kicking around somewhere? Try the Xfree86 3.3.5 for slink packages at http://www.debian.org/~vincent/. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: problems with potato and X11
*- On 29 Nov, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about problems with potato and X11 Hi, I upgraded my system last night from slink to potato and now X11 will not start. First off it was complaining that the 75dpi fonts was missing a fonts.dir file. Which I manageged to fix. However it is now complaining that it can't open the default font fixed. Where do I find this font? or where do I change the default. When I upgraded from 3.3.4 for slink to 3.3.5-1 for potato I had similiar problems with 'fixed'. All I had to do was restart the font servers and then restart X. Try running '/etc/init.d/xfs restart'. -- Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: offline apt-get update?
Sorry, no experience but this topic is covered in
/usr/doc/apt/offline.txt.gz
Abstract
This document describes how to use APT in a non-networked environment,
specificaly a 'sneaker-net' approach for performing upgrades.
*- On 22 Nov, Vincent Murphy wrote about offline apt-get update?
i have a potato machine which doesn't have access to the outside world
except through a windows machine on the same ethernet segment. moving the
outside-world-access to the potato machine and proxying for the windows
machine is not an option, and installing wingate on the windows machine
would be a serious dent in my pride. ;)
i would like to know how i can manually perform an `apt-get update' on my
machine. i presume that i need to:
- download a Packages.gz file for each line in sources.list;
- `add' said file to apt.
has anybody done this before? ideally i would like to get a list of
absolute URLs for the Package.gz files which i can give to wget. i can do
this for a `apt-get upgrade' by doing
apt-get -yy --print-uris upgrade | awk '{print $1}'
any suggestions would be gratefully appreciate.
--
Brian Servis
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Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you
Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a
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Re: sshd from /etc/rc5.d
*- On 22 Nov, Jason Taylor wrote about sshd from /etc/rc5.d I recently installed openssh onto a debian box and the documentation says that it is normally run from /etc/rc, it seems that /etc/rc5.d is the comparable place in Debian to run it from. However, I created the sym link to the sshd file located elsewhere in the /etc/rc5.d directory. I cannot get sshd to start, I end up having to do it from the command line. Below is what the sym link looks like. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Nov 22 09:48 S99sshd - /usr/local/openssh-1.2pre13/sshd Also, I can run the sym link as root manually and it starts up okay. TIA.. -Jason Debian's default run level is 2. So if you are just booting up it will not touch the links in rc5.d. Also make sure and read up on how the rc#.d scripts are called(/etc/init.d/README). They are called with the argument of 'start' if they are an S link and 'stop' if they are a K link. So your sshd should be a wrapper to start and stop the daemon dependent on the command line option given. Use /etc/init.d/skeleton as an example. Openssh is a potato package so if you are running slink you could download the debian source, diff and dsc files and build a debian package on your slink box(search these list archives for the details). -- Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
anybody try tkrat 2.0b5 on a Debian potato system?
I have been having problems getting the 2.0 beta versions of tkrat to run on my potato system. It compiles fine but has problems with the c-client library blt_busy that is included int the source tree. Whenever this function is called it Segfaults and dies. If I comment the calls to blt_busy out of the start.tcl and print.tcl functions from the tkrat tree then it runs fine. I am asking on this list because no one else on the tkrat list seems to be having a problem which leads me to believe that it might be an issue with Debian potato. I am current in potato with gcc 2.95, tk/tcl 8.2. I have also tried the gcc272 compiler but that did not change anything. If any C tcl masters wants to try and debug it you can get the code at ftp://ftp.md.chalmers.se/pub/tkrat/tkrat-2.0b5.tar.gz. The specific code that seems to have problems is tkrat-2.0b5/util/blt_busy.c in the source tree. And from what I can tell trying to poke around in gdb(I don't speak C or tcl) is that the line #407 'busyPtr = (Busy *)calloc(1, sizeof(Busy));' seems to cause the SIGSEGV. Thanks, -- Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: updating the dpkg versions
*- On 21 Nov, Michael Kevin O'Brien wrote about updating the dpkg versions Hola~ I build some debian packages instead of trying to build the dpkg and install that, I've just been running the normal make, make install. This way, I can keep some things up to the latest versions. For example, I build vim and gcc as soon as they are available. For vim it's not really an issue, but for gcc it's a bit of a problem. Is there a way to update the dpkg version info so it thinks it has the correct version of gcc, g++, run-time lib, etc??? MO Use the equivs package with care. Below is the info for the Potato version. I think it has changed alot since the slink version. I don't use it but others can speak up on that. Package: equivs Version: 1.999.12 Priority: extra Section: admin Maintainer: Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Depends: perl|perl5, debhelper, dpkg-dev, devscripts, make, fakeroot Architecture: all Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/admin/equivs_1.999.12.deb Size: 17148 MD5sum: 9f49ddbd0f39a503c8226d037ef9627e Description: Circumventing Debian package dependencies This is a dummy package which can be used to create Debian packages, which only contain dependency information. . This way, you can make the Debian package management system believe that equivalents to packages on which other packages do depend on are actually installed. . Another possibility is creation of a meta package. When this package contains a dependency as Depends: a, b, c, then installing this package will also select packages a, b and c. Instead of Depends, you can also use Recommends: or Suggests: for less demanding dependency. . Please note that this is a crude hack and if thoughtlessly used might possibly do damage to your packaging system. And please note as well that using it is not the recommended way of dealing with broken dependencies. Better file a bug report instead. -- Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Freezing a package on Debian installation
*- On 20 Nov, Bart Szyszka wrote about Freezing a package on Debian installation Hello, I'm having trouble finding a command that would allow me to specify to not allow Debian to upgrade a specific package or to install it if it doesn't exist. I thought it might be at apt-get -h or dpkg -h, but I didn't find anything there. Debian gets messed up on my end before I get a chance to install the packages for the man command (why isn't it included in the base installation of Debian?!?) so I don't have that yet. The only interactive way to hold back a package is in dselect with the '=' key. You can also edit /var/lib/dpkg/status and change the Status: line of the package you want to hold back from: Status: install ok installed to Status: hold ok installed The man-db package is not installed because it is too big to include on the base system. This topic has been discussed before on many of the debian-* lists, check the archives. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Can't make menuconfig
*- On 20 Nov, Kent West wrote about Can't make menuconfig I can make config and make xconfig but I can not make menuconfig. When I try, I get the following: westk03:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.1/scripts/lxdialog' gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC=curses.h -c lxdialog.c -o lxdialog.o In file included from lxdialog.c:22: dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory ^^^ make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.1/scripts/lxdialog' make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 westk03:/usr/src/linux# exit exit Can anyone suggest a fix? Thanks! apt-get install libncurses4-dev Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: xemacs text-mode and gpm mouse issues
*- On 19 Nov, Salman Ahmed wrote about Re: xemacs text-mode and gpm mouse issues IZ == Ian Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IZ Ian, who was upstream gpm maintainer for a while. Can someone explain to me what/who upstream and downstream maintainers are ? I've never quite figured out upstream/downstream relative to who or what!! Upstream are the actual authors of the code. As an example Eric Raymond is the upstream maintainer of fetchmail. The downstream or Debian maintainer is the Debian developer who packages it up and makes sure that it works well with the Debian distribution, in this case for fetchmail that is Paul Haggart. The downstream maintainer is the first line of contact for the user. The downstream maintainer evaluates the bug reports that are sent to the Debian bug tracking system and tries to find a fix for it. If they can fix it and it is a local Debian problem then they fix it with the next package release. If they can fix it and it is an upstream problem then they forward the fix upstream to the software author for possible inclusion in the main source tree. Each distribution generally works like this. Thus there are many downstream maintainers all sending filtered bug reports back to the upstream maintainer. This saves the upstream author from having to deal with large numbers of bugs reports that may not be directly related tot the actual sorce code. My $.02, -- Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: xconsole problem
*- On 20 Nov, Chia-Sheng Chang wrote about xconsole problem Hi, all, I run xdm on my computer but every time I login, xconsole always responses can not open console. How to solve this?? % ls -l /dev/xconsole 0 prw-r-1 root adm 0 Nov 20 08:30 /dev/xconsole| I fixed it by adding my user to the adm group. I don't know the reasononing behind having xconsole as group adm though. It is the only device in /dev with that group ownership. Remember that passwords and other private info can be put on the logs so don't make it world readable. -- Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: apsfilter vs. magikfilter and hp printer
*- On 20 Nov, Carl Greco wrote about Re: apsfilter vs. magikfilter and hp printer I have a Deskjet 660c and have been very happy with magicfilter and gs-aladdin.(which includes the hpdj patch)(see the man page for gs-hpdj when you install gs-aladdin.) The hpdj driver doesn't support your printer specifically but you should be able to get almost all of the features since the printer uses PCL-3. Don't know about 2-sided printing though. More info on the hpdj driver can be found at ftp://ftp.sbs.de/pub/graphics/ghostscript/pcl3/pcl3.html. Where did you find the magicfilter for hpdj? I am using magicfilter (1.2-28) on slink, but this version of magicfilter does not include a pre-defined filter for hpdj. Are you using a later version of magicfilter with a pre-defined filter (or filters) for hpdj or did you created your own? If you developed your own hpdj filter(s) can we get a copy? I had to modify the setup for one of the other Deskjet drivers that is built into the Magicfilter setup. Others have expressed interest in my personal setup so I have put my files at http://widget.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis/hpdj-printing/. You will of course have to modify them to fit your needs. Hope this helps. -- Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Xfree-changing default
*- On 19 Nov, Antonio Rodriguez wrote about Xfree-changing default How do I change my default starting of Xserver to 32 from 8 or so? I have several modes avalable, but if I try from the command prompt: startx -- -bpp 32 it says: Xserver already running. Can't, or something similar. So, what should I do to swithch to 32? Thanx First you need to stop the currently running X server. Do you have xdm installed? By default it starts on boot up in Debian. To stop xdm you can run '/etc/init.d/xdm stop'. If you have xdm installed you can edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and add the -bpp 32 to the line at the end of the file. There should be examples in the file. Something like: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt7 -bpp 32 -- Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: A Question about Deb. 2.2
*- On 19 Nov, Antti Halkoaho wrote about A Question about Deb. 2.2 I know that you don't tell release date of Debian 2.2, but I'd like to know is it coming in next too months? I don't want to download ver. 2.1 and findout after a week that ver. 2.2 has been released. The current plan is not until Feburary 2000. See the latest posting from the release manager on the issue at: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-9911/msg6.html -- Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: My ppp connection is (stalling)
*- On 17 Nov, David J. Kanter wrote about My ppp connection is (stalling) This is driving me nuts. My PPP connection seems to be stalling all the time. I'm often seeing (stalled) in Netscape, and trying to do some updates to Potato has become painful (multiple mirror sites); it'll download a bit, then stop, download a bit, then stall...you get the picture. I remember reading something about PPP and the 2.2.X kernels. Could that be what's going on? I've got my pon configured to use all the compressions I can. Thanks. I had similiar problems as well. What worked for me was to reduce the default mtu/mru settings by about half. If you do this and have an internal network make sure and set the mtu of the network to the same value as your ppp link. Different mtu settings seems to cause problems with ip masqurading. Other pppd options that I played with and had varying degrees of success are bsdcomp, deflate and vj-max-slots. A lot of the ppp stalling problems tend to be compression negotiation between you and the isp. And since each isp may use different software the correct combination will be different in each case. HTH, Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
