Re: Problem with ncurses when making make menuconfig
pseudo-html Did somebody says libncurses5-dev? :P moreover, please refrain from using HTML posts.. /pseudo-html -- living in the deepest hell. Question: When can I s/ll/eaven/g;? - Original Message - From: Ricardo Diz To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 9:39 PM Subject: Problem with ncurses when making make menuconfig Hi! I tried to config my kernel using make menuconfig in a console and it exited with /usr/bin/ld : cannot find -lncurses collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Unable to find the Ncurses libraries although I have ncurses installed. I can use make xconfig in a X environment but I rather do it in a console. I tried to reinstall ncurses (ncurses-base, ncurses-term and libncurses5) with no sucess in my next attempt. What should be the problem? Thanks in advance, Ricardo Diz
Re[2]: startx not for normal user?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Hello Remco, With reference to your great message on below, RvtV My FreeBSD installation (also using XFree86 3.3.6) sets up like this: RvtV lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel9 May 11 11:01 /usr/X11R6/bin/X - XF86_SVGA RvtV -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3482353 May 11 11:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA RvtV -rws--x--x 1 root wheel 7573 May 11 11:01 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper RvtV -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1652 May 11 11:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/startx RvtV -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel10344 May 11 11:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit RvtV As you can see only the trusted Xwrapper executable is SUID. But RvtV Xwrapper is missing from my Debian potato installation.. On my holy debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/X11$ ls /usr/X11R6/bin/X -l - -rwsr-sr-x1 root root 7100 May 30 08:22 /usr/X11R6/bin/X X should be Xwrapper thyself.. :-) RvtV On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:32, Calvin Chong wrote: Hello Martin, With reference to your great message on below, MFK also sprach Calvin Chong (on Tue, 04 Sep 2001 12:21:25AM +0800): Please check that your X is chmod'ed to rwsrwsr-x MFK don't make X setuid!!! if I don't make /usr/bin/X11/X suid how can Xwrapper work? correct me if i'm wrong.. :-) regards, evil MFK martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) MFK \ echo mailto: !#^.*|tr * mailto:; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- echo 1 /dev/null -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6 iQCVAwUAO5SneadYxxvLMsVbAQGoTAQAkoGFQBtGD7ikvvztMLUdwikUxwlSqoBl t4i9OVDMe7PHrRwehGxJKIaK8etrhBmt6d4Ju/vtLd7Eif5b5lJQF4+Hgz65TFuN TRlDQ+EI/L7sqiM5wXytJ9ZgwiyVKe4UbowreYlRRDV/zMiz73xZ+uoNSPtxQ2yo KhHhitIdDwA= =e8tS -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re[2]: Ethernet Card recommendation
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Hello Antonio, With reference to your great message on below, AR I have the 3c* in the kernel (not as module), my 3c509b has pnp disabled (i AR did it using tjhe dos utility), but still the kernel does not recognize it! AR The only thing that I could think of is that the kernel image was created AR and installed when the pnp had not been disabled yet, but I am not sure it AR would influence the kernel image creation (i am not sure if the kernel image AR creation involves comparing options with running machine hardware). AR Any ideas? Thanks I think you need PNP and ISAPNP enabled.. :-) AR - Original Message - AR From: Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] AR To: Vasil Kolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] AR Cc: Jordi S . Bunster [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-isp@lists.debian.org AR Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 2:54 AM AR Subject: Re: Ethernet Card recommendation On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 06:30:52PM +0300, Vasil Kolev wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Jordi S . Bunster wrote: Are the 3COM a good choice? Which ones exactly? I recommend 3com 3c905B or 3c905C cards - they work wonderful for me. i'll second that. excellent cards. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact AR [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- echo 1 /dev/null -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6 iQCVAwUAO5SswKdYxxvLMsVbAQE2ygP9H4qd3gobge6D2Fy5xzqQEUbJg58acBA6 SCcToJr4YrzqNDzV9xY9/yMKvh3uU7l6Hexi0kW/l9H9Z5Xq4TToODpOlvbJmMyk eAo8vecs4C7XXrSb5sytEIU2ai6tfzbq8dWJtMY0PzFRY6zliDVrHZaRiheoK9ho bahVP+fmkw8= =pZ0B -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re[2]: startx not for normal user?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Hello Remco, With reference to your great message on below, RvtV Hmm, after trying gdm (with partial success) and reinstalling xdm, RvtV the latter seems to work.. But I still don't understand why I am not RvtV allowed to run startx. I noticed /etc/X11/Xserver reads Console, RvtV which seems to imply anybody on the console is allowed to run X. RvtV I am sorry about replying to my own post.. Please check that your X is chmod'ed to rwsrwsr-x :-) regards, evil RvtV On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 18:04, Remco van 't Veer wrote: Hi, I just installed Debian on a fresh workstation but only root can open a X session. First I tried startx using a normal user but it complains: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions. You should be using Xwrapper to start the server or xdm. We strongly advice against make the server SUID! I am unable to find Xwrapper and xdm doesn't let me login. Xdm restarts immediately after I type my password. The logfile xdm.log reads: AUDIT: Mon Sep 3 16:00:00 2001: 599 X: client 2 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server .. I removed the .Xauthority file, but that does not help. Does anybody know how I can fix this? TIA, Remco - -- echo 1 /dev/null -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6 iQCVAwUAO5OuC6dYxxvLMsVbAQE3iAQApBSnslJys9y6AG3TDWDty8NigwIlH+tk urrvA+QX/DE0evKzCxvu9dDx8j+4ZAZspkyAtlAYPSrTUOWto171K3nwPgtU/luA oi5o1oIeTrDtNjk5Av376vEWpE3acRoXWeOLWG/P9ZSXzV84w0kyK4si+t9OqYPz DbAdL2cWj8U= =AV4G -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Weird font problem with gnumeric, gimp and others
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Hello Dominique, With reference to your great message on below, DD Hello DD When I launch gimp (for the first time), the 'GIMP Installation' DD window shows only lines and lines of squares instead of text. Please give some information about your locale set.. :-) and it would be best if you could [problematic program] 21 | tee error_msg and attach it :-) DD I have the same problem with gnumeric cells but only for a DD magnification above 75%. And if I type 6 letters in a gnumeric cell, DD only 3 square blocks are shown. (could it be an attempt to display 16 DD bits characters ?) Then i wonder that it's a function-not-a-problem... :-) it may be an attempt to hide small character (correct me if i'm wrong) to give u a general look on your spreadsheet. DD The number are displayed correctly in gnumeric if I choose a DD magnification below 100%. [Question] what about 100% magn 75%? huh? :P DD I'm running unstable debian on a 1600x1200 display. DD Here's the configuration of my xserver: DD Font Path: DD /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc, DD /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled, DD /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled, DD /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, DD /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo, DD /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi, DD /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi, DD /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/ These are not a problem... DD Has anyone a clue on how to fix this problem ? DD Thanks - -- echo 1 /dev/null -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6 iQCVAwUAO5Ovn6dYxxvLMsVbAQFiDwP+L+ZnDOzvlakRuL0EbKDdx2Oh9jlDnoo9 SuCz7Y3XwqrkYKY5B6mr6FnrrzASKTmxOSOHX5sQpNKYCJkvCCk9Oz+lW6ylZlVO mCn+o0BgjG90j4qQ4cCwxAcnz+NBlCtPD/zuMReGYgjzBD99c3zVw8/nKdzmrsWp CDH3gRXHa44= =WdOe -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: xwrapper not available? (Re: startx not for normal user?)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Hello Remco, With reference to your great message on below, We strongly advice against make the server SUID! eh?! please stat /usr/bin/X11/X urself!! :p RvtV So, I won't.. But thanks for your workaround. Does anybody know were RvtV Xwrapper can be found for a Debian potato installation? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/X11$ cat Xwrapper.config allowed_users=console nice_value=-10 check if your Xwrapper.config is looking like this. RvtV On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 00:21, Calvin Chong wrote: - -- echo 1 /dev/null -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6 iQCVAwUAO5O/VKdYxxvLMsVbAQH/ugQAoCHsANU/iPdTGyFykzLFqaGNDdPlMLwo 2SHzj/2JwPpMLy8T7hh6W352qvXk7CYZ7ATjU61oe7QvYcisjxEv64kj2ZT/Azpb HqUURRMvHv0USgCzME3mZc72l+RIfjHIUHa1PF3ew0R9z9yqwsp7gg7RFcU2QQeo eo7VMZ91mbg= =/X/k -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re[4]: startx not for normal user?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Hello Martin, With reference to your great message on below, MFK also sprach Calvin Chong (on Tue, 04 Sep 2001 12:21:25AM +0800): Please check that your X is chmod'ed to rwsrwsr-x MFK don't make X setuid!!! if I don't make /usr/bin/X11/X suid how can Xwrapper work? correct me if i'm wrong.. :-) regards, evil MFK martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) MFK \ echo mailto: !#^.*|tr * mailto:; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- echo 1 /dev/null -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6 iQCVAwUAO5O+mKdYxxvLMsVbAQHYXwP7BdxrpPIgzsGlAzuEQ2Yb6cxhmcqKeFRE uF71YLVNhVTHVYsH4q7l3tX7AAdC5T/J8rKx+mIeoNHgOL30sjvW3+qc4fjWnxP3 zZESgma60iIe3pt6imixOyKPTMMzUXE0qkM5Dgn4Bj9hUDwV4e5QFnLOiAwEdBBo XKRblHLiVzY= =N7eU -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Problems with APM after recompiling of kernel.
I suggest NO APM for SMP machines... Ma che mistero, e la mia vita, che mistero! Sono un peccatore dell'anno ottantamila, un menzognero! Ma dove sono e cosa faccio, come vivo? Vivo nell'anima del mondo perso nel vivere profondo! - Original Message - From: Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 11:11 AM Subject: Re: Problems with APM after recompiling of kernel. On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:06:58PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: Interestingly, I have a similar problem on my laptop. The 2.4.9 kernel broke apm (/proc/apm didn't exist) but it appeared to load properly on bootup. 2.4.8 still works fine though. I can not see /proc/apm even in my stock 2.4.8-686-smp (from kernel-image). Does the use of intrd affects power-off feature of apm bios? I have append=apm=on apm=power-off set in lilo.conf Intrigued -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?
also sprach Adam Bell (on Wed, 25 Jul 2001 04:04:35PM -0400): Okay, so can anyone tell me what popular (to Debian Users) MUA sends every single message as an attachment to an empty message? as others have said, it's micro$oft's inability to stick to standards --- PGP/GPG nowadays uses MIME for signed and encrypted messages, which mickysoft can't handle... huh, however, outlook express on an hackintosh can read these messages *correctly*... what a shame on microsoft (and on me..) martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^.*|tr * mailto:; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- echo '[dO%O+38%O+PO/d00]Fi22os0CC4BA64E418CE7l0xAP'|dc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing a single file
Ma che mistero, e la mia vita, che mistero! Sono un peccatore dell'anno ottantamila, un menzognero! Ma dove sono e cosa faccio, come vivo? Vivo nell'anima del mondo perso nel vivere profondo! - Original Message - From: Steve Dondley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-Users debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 12:46 PM Subject: Installing a single file Background: I just installed the vim text editor. When I try to access the help file with :help, it says the file, /usr/share/vim/doc/help.txt, is not found. Question: How do I find and install this one single file from my CDs? Thanks. apt-get install vim-rt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ALERT: XFree86 4.1.0-3 maintainer scripts hosed; please wait for 4.1.0-4
You should NOT purge the ash package if you, by any means need something called 'initrd' or 'kernel-image'. -- Ma che mistero, e la mia vita, che mistero! Sono un peccatore dell'anno ottantamila, un menzognero! Ma dove sono e cosa faccio, come vivo? Vivo nell'anima del mondo perso nel vivere profondo! - Original Message - From: Zephaniah E. Hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bruce Sass [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-x@lists.debian.org; debian-devel@lists.debian.org; debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 2:54 PM Subject: Re: ALERT: XFree86 4.1.0-3 maintainer scripts hosed; please wait for 4.1.0-4
Re: apt-get - segmentaton fault
- Original Message -
From: cdpye [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 10:44 PM
Subject: apt-get - segmentaton fault
Hi,
apt-get update is causing problems ever since I tried to install gnupg
It failed to install due to a segmentation fault. Now whenever I try
apt-get
update I get the following error,
E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
Could someone please tell me if they know of a way to fix or at least why
this is happening.
try to deinstall gnupg first -
# dpkg --purge --force-all gnupg
# apt-get update
# apt-get install gnupg
that should work for you.
moreover, please do give a bug report with respect to your segfault to
the package maintainer of {gnupg|apt}.
--
Ma che mistero, e la mia vita, che mistero!
Sono un peccatore dell'anno ottantamila, un menzognero!
Ma dove sono e cosa faccio, come vivo?
Vivo nell'anima del mondo perso nel vivere profondo!
Re: old bbkeys version
- Original Message - From: Jorge Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 10:42 PM Subject: old bbkeys version Hello, I just realized that the version of bbkeys in Debian (testing and unstable) is quite old (0.3.6) while the current version is 0.8.2. Is it correct to file a bug for this or what should I do to make the mantainer aware of this in case he is not? normally you would want to file a wishlist bug to the package; and send a nice mail to -devel mailing list too. i suggest that the package maintainer may have been really busy that he haven't been working with the package with a while (no pun intended..) -C thank you jorge santos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RedHat vs Debian?
I'm looking for a study/comparison of RedHat vs Debian. We have a number of boxes, some production, which run everything from RedHat 6.0 and newer. I'd like to look at converting to Debian stable but need to justify my case before I can even formally suggest it. I've started listing my own reasons and issues but need more. Any good suggestions or comparisions already done? Let's say, (1) your systems are _production models_, and you want to use debian because you don't want to take risk on security and stability. resolvation - do not upgrade - the risk of upgrading is always higher than the risk of getting the system screwed up by a upgrade. however, any further machines can be debian w/o problems since you are building it from scratch. woody for you :-) (2) your systems are _upgradable production models_, and you want to use debian for admin-wise ease. resolvation - ok, try cloning some working station to a testing platform, backup the data on a third computer, install debian on testing platform; upgrade to woody, put back working files, run it for a day or two, see if you get some complaints if no, try a box or two for a month, if still working, do it. (remember to set cron job to upgrade _potato_ boxes, however, for woody and sid, i suggest manual upgrade packages (apt-get update; apt-get install [package] = upgrade ONE package.. :P)) (3) you think i'm a nerd to answer such short question in paragraph length resolvation - close this mail my $6.62*10**-34 dollars :P -- Ma che mistero, e la mia vita, che mistero! Sono un peccatore dell'anno ottantamila, un menzognero! Ma dove sono e cosa faccio, come vivo? Vivo nell'anima del mondo perso nel vivere profondo! - Original Message - From: Robert L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Users debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 11:33 PM Subject: RedHat vs Debian? Robert :wq! -- - Robert L. Harris| Micros~1 : Senior System Engineer |For when quality, reliability at RnD Consulting | and security just aren't \_ that important! DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. FYI: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Quite-OT] Kernel bombs on debian instalation
Recently thrown to a case from friends, having such configuration: IWill KD266 Mainboard (ALi1535D+ south bridge) Athlon Thunderbird 1GHz Tested, Functional by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on another M.B. 128 MB Tested (Memtest86) RAM Isolated Hardwares: Seagate ST330620A (Functional, Tested on my Intel system) Rioch MP7083A (Functional, Tested) Now i wonder that the chipset may be failed; having googled on Ali Chipset and discovered some post on kernel mailing list about that - however, there are no quite good replies there except quite a bit of code from alan cox. :~ anyone have experience on this? -- A gas which obeys to the perfect gas equation is a perfect gas,where the perfect gas equation describes the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature of a perfect gas.
Re: vim syntax highlight on C program files only?
You need to tell vim that your terminal is white on black - it's defaulted to the opposite :-) A gas which obeys to the perfect gas equation is a perfect gas, where the perfect gas equation describes the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature of a perfect gas. - Original Message - From: Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 9:26 AM Subject: OT: vim syntax highlight on C program files only?
Re: vim syntax highlight on C program files only?
set background=dark syntax on -- A gas which obeys to the perfect gas equation is a perfect gas, where the perfect gas equation describes the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature of a perfect gas. - Original Message - From: Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 4:58 PM Subject: Re: vim syntax highlight on C program files only?
Re: IBM P/2 MCA BUS
A gas which obeys to the perfect gas equation is a perfect gas, where the perfect gas equation describes the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature of a perfect gas. - Original Message - From: Joanne Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 6:22 PM Subject: IBM P/2 MCA BUS Hello and good day to you I Have an old P/2 486 scsi system MCA BUS which version can I use ? Slink, Potato and Woody, also sid. Thanks Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a news reader able to extract correctly the stuff of a.b.* groups?
A gas which obeys to the perfect gas equation is a perfect gas, where the perfect gas equation describes the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature of a perfect gas. - Original Message - From: Bruno Boettcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 11:42 PM Subject: a news reader able to extract correctly the stuff of a.b.* groups? Hello! i am experiencing some problems with my favourite newsreader (trn) to extract archives from alt.binary groups. in fact if the order isn't exactly matched or if by some means another archive begiinning crosses the actual decompression process and the whole thing vanishes in the void is there any newsreader out there that is less error-prone and more indulgent concerning the extraction of archives? beeing notably be able to reorder itself the parts it downloaded? would be nice if i could select by regexp or everything from a group and let it extract without needing to save all to disk and then reorder using a mail-client What about PAN? -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://inforezo.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett http://erm1.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett === the total amount of intelligence on earth is constant. human population is growing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Options passed to ./configure for the official debian packages
A gas which obeys to the perfect gas equation is a perfect gas, where the perfect gas equation describes the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature of a perfect gas. - Original Message - From: Francois Fayard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 11:54 PM Subject: Options passed to ./configure for the official debian packages Hello, I would like to know where to find wich options where passed to ./configure before the compilation of Debian packages (Especially for gcc). apt-get source [package] and then RTFS :-) Thanks Francois -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Rerunning software installation utility
A gas which obeys to the perfect gas equation is a perfect gas, where the perfect gas equation describes the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature of a perfect gas. - Original Message - From: dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-Users debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 2:24 AM Subject: Re: Rerunning software installation utility On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:51:07PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: | Hi, | | Situation: | I did a bare installation of Debian on my computer. In other words, when | the Debian installation asked me which kinds of packages I wanted to install | on my hard drive, I didn't select anything. To clarify, I'm talking about | installation option. | | Question: | What I'd like to do is run that package installation program again so I can | install all the HOWTOs, Info, faqs, etc. docs on the hard drive in one fell | swoop. How do I run this utility? That utility is called dselect. You can use it or any of the other apt programs or frontends. apt-get, aptitude and console-apt come to mind. Try them out and pick the one you like the best. (apt-get is a command-line tool, the others are curses based). | the utility that runs after the user selects the Simple package it's simple one - so tasksel, not dselect :-) -C HTH, -D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Perl 5.6.1
- Original Message - From: Steve Dondley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-Users debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 9:11 PM Subject: Installing Perl 5.6.1 Situation: Debian ships with Perl 5.005. But there are more recent versions of Perl and Debian lists two versions of Perl 5.6.1, testing and unstable. (1) Debian Stable (2.2r*) ships with Perl 5.005 - here, stable refers to the whole distribution and have nothing to do with the software inside. For example, if software foo-1.0 released just after potato has released, no one can put foo-1.0 into the Stable distribution without waiting for next release. And debian should list one version of Perl 5.6.1 in two different distribution (Sid and Woody) and not two version in one distribution. Testing and unstable, too, refers to the whole distribution, and not perl. Questions: 5.6.1 has been out quite a while and Perl.com lists 5.6.1 as stable. What about it is not considered stable for use on Debian? Or is the unstable label just some kind of formality? as described in (1) Is there a way to install 5.6.1 without wiping out 5.005? In other words, can I have both versions running on my machine, allowing the scripts to determine which version of Perl to use? Please keep in mind I'm a total Linux newbie and barely know how to use apt-get. yes, however, i suggest that you should install it by yourself using source from perl.com (and install it into /usr/local/bin and not /usr/bin, by convention.) Thanks for your help. -- A gas which obeys to the perfect gas equation is a perfect gas, where the perfect gas equation describes the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature of a perfect gas. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sharing files between Linux Windows machines on LAN
My heartily suggestion # apt-get install samba then # vi /etc/samba/smb.conf (or if you are that newbie,) # nano /etc/samba/smb.conf add: # requires user-level access to computer to access this resource; # however, it's read-write. [sharing] comment = File Sharing browseable = yes read only = no create mask = 0700 directory mask = 0700 and comment the whole [homes] thing. -- A gas which obeys to the perfect gas equation is a perfect gas, where the perfect gas equation describes the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature of a perfect gas. - Original Message - From: Steve Dondley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk; Debian-Users debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 9:16 PM Subject: RE: Sharing files between Linux Windows machines on LAN
Re: Installation of Debian
A gas which obeys to the perfect gas equation is a perfect gas, where the perfect gas equation describes the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature of a perfect gas. - Original Message - From: Stathy G. Touloumis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com; debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 8:03 PM Subject: Re: Installation of Debian Another possiblity is to install a base system, modify the bootloader, put a getty on serial, and pray. Not that I've tried this. That is actually what I did but the base system is the Cobalt 2 OS. I have to follow a portion of their procedure up until the Init process because the bootp, nfs mounting and kernel loading is done from eprom which at this time I cannot reprogram (nor do I want to). After that it is all shell scripts and Perl which handle the OS reload. What on the standard debian installation takes care of partitioning and package installation? cfdisk tasksel + dpkg + apt-get -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: adminning mult boxen
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:52:06PM -0700, der.hans wrote: | moin, moin, | | luckily we're all debian at work. Makes life really, really easy admin-wise. I'd like to use Debian at work. Lucky. | We are now, however, needing to get serious about making sure config changes | get rolled out as appropriate. In previous gigs I've used roll your own | packages. At one place, however, we had an admin using cfengine. Looks | interesting, but even I know enough to not consider des encrypted :). It | also mightily takes away from the wonderful, simple file structure | configuration that *NIX has[1]. | | Anything out there that anyone wants to recommend? Anything that works | really well with debian? Not often that I get a homogenious Linux network to | play with :). Perhaps you can take the hard drives out of most of the boxes and stick them in a single high-powered box. Then make that high-powered box the server and the rest as diskless X terminals. This way the terminals have no config on them to deal with, it is all unified on the server. I suggest a ramdisk on all those client (i.e. ramdisk cached /home/user and non-ramdisk /home/user/storage/) for all those thin-clients. this is to solve the 'customization problem'. -D -- A gas which obeys to the perfect gas equation is a perfect gas, where the perfect gas equation describes the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature of a perfect gas.
Re: Installing woody without downloading lots of MB?
Magnus von Koeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Hi,
I currently have a Mandrake 8.0 and although I like some parts of it I am
very intrigued from the experience of installing / maintaining Debian 2.2
on
two firewalls / routers. The problem, though, is that I am depending on a
working copy of KDE 2.2 and would very much like to try out stuff like
XFree86 4.10 ...
Now, I have Debian 2.2 CDs and a high-bandwidth but VERY expensive
internet
connection. If my traffic costs weren't so high I would simply install 2.2
and then upgrade to testing (woody) but that would cost me huge amounts of
money.
use the flat access connection to get {unofficial} woody image from fsn.hu,
etc.
then burn it. (I suggest that apt-get updating and apt-get dist-upgrading
will get
you a painful bill, though).
I do have access to a flat internet connection at a friend's house,
though.
He would burn me on CD anything I want but I don't really know how I can
make
it easily possible for him to download an update / the whole woody distro
for
me and put it on CD.
So, what's the best way for me to get a working woody distro running on my
computer without downloading lots of stuff over my internet connection?
Thanks.
- -M
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Re: adminning mult boxen
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:42:17PM +0800, Calvin Chong wrote: | Perhaps you can take the hard drives out of most of the boxes and | stick them in a single high-powered box. Then make that high-powered | box the server and the rest as diskless X terminals. This way the | terminals have no config on them to deal with, it is all unified on | the server. | | I suggest a ramdisk on all those client (i.e. ramdisk cached /home/user | and non-ramdisk /home/user/storage/) for all those thin-clients. this | is to solve the 'customization problem'. What is the 'customization problem'? /home should be mounted rw anyways. All terminals would be using the same /home directory so it wouldn't matter which terminal you logged into. I was thinking of a internet-cafe like solution for that, but with a bit permanent storage - that is, the rebooting-means-reborning-scene. -D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation of Debian
Stathy G. Touloumis wrote: cfdisk tasksel + dpkg + apt-get I was not able to find the cfdisk package or apt-get. Are they under different package names? yes gateway:/var/log# dpkg -S /sbin/cfdisk util-linux: /sbin/cfdisk
Re: Testing upgrade problem?
- Original Message - From: D. Hoyem [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 10:09 PM Subject: Testing upgrade problem? I had Potato 2.2r.2 installed on my system and did a upgrade to testing. I changed the sources to testing and did apt-get update. Then did a apt-get dist-upgrade. About 270 programs downloaded and then started to install. During the installation I kept seeing the message Unable to (and I forget this word) program. Apt-utils not installed. After those Not preconfiguring package - Apt-utls not installed. Deinstallation of startx (xbases-client) does not make sense with this... :o packeages were installed all I could do was use the console, I tried startx and that came back command unknown. I then installed xdm (received the same message) and the dependicies that it required and was up and running. I then installed apt-utils and then another couple of programs and never saw that error message again. The question is this, should I reinstall the basic Potato, install apt-utils then do the dist-upgrade, I can copy all of the downloaded files to another disk and then restore them to the /var/cache/apt/archives, or is there another way to do this. My system does not currently seem broke. I apologize for not remembering the exact wording of the message. It's working now, then it's not broke now. Any help and suggestion are appreciated. Thanks Don __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Colour coding in vim?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 9:58 PM Subject: Colour coding in vim? Hi all you vim fans. Is it possible to colour code text in vim? What I would like to do is make vim colour my .c files while I edit them. For example, it would be good to see all the comments coded a different colour. You need vim-rt (VIM support files) and :syntax on How do you do this? Thanks. Mark. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard disk messages
I would suggest:
- incorrectly set power options (sleep)
- hdparm -Y (dangerous!!)
- hardware failure
A gas which obeys to the perfect gas equation is a perfect gas,
where the perfect gas equation describes the relationship
between pressure, volume and temperature of a perfect gas.
- Original Message -
From: George Karaolides [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 12:29 AM
Subject: Hard disk messages
Hi,
I have installed Debian potato on a couple of boxes with IDE disks.
Sometimes I get the following console message on both boxes:
hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hda: no DRQ after issuting WRITE
ide0: reset: Success
What, if anything, is wrong?
Best regards,
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Re: Can't into my server ?
I suspect /etc/nologin, however. Maid = Maid's Agreed Ideal Doctrine - Original Message - From: Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com To: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 12:15 PM Subject: Re: Can't into my server ?
Re: VMware related configuration
u wrote: How do I configure the kernel to enable VMware to compile and load its module? What are the necessary kernel configs (such as what should be compiled as modules/ in the kernel) to enable VMware to work? I'm currently using an AMD Duron 700 PC with the kernel 2.4.8-ac6 (debianized from source), GCC 3.0 and glibc 2.1.3 installed. re run the insatllation script. Thanks, Paolo Falcone __ www.edsamail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] German-English translation tools
- Original Message - From: Andrew Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: trilug@trilug.org Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 10:03 PM Subject: [OT] German-English translation tools Does anyone know of any free (or at least reasonably cheap) tools to assist in translation? I'm explicitly *not* looking for a program that attempts to fully translate texts, but rather something to help with some of the dirty work as I begin translating some previously unavailable articles from German. It could be something as simple as a fairly comprehensive electronic dictionary, or possibly an NLP tool that makes a stab at syntax as well. Available for linux or solaris is a very large plus, but I'll put up with windows if I absolutely have to. I think that babelfish will do http://babelfish.altavista.com/ Thanks for any advice. -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't find kmod info
Maid = Maid's Agreed Ideal Doctrine - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 12:48 PM Subject: can't find kmod info I am having difficulty loading the 2.4.9 kernel, I get an error in kmod, something to the effect kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno = 8 binfmt-464c is ELF, that means that you got a ELF executable and the kernel can't execute it natively (reads: no builtin support for ELF). however, if you get this from 'modprobe', probably you want to do a alias binfmt-464c off in modules.conf :) I have looked all over and can't find anything documenting kmod. I don't know what binfmt-464c is either. I made a list of all drivers I configured as modules for the kernel build, and it included binfmt_misc, binfmt_elf, and binfmt_aout, and that's it. I guess what I need to know is: 1) Where is info / documentation on kmod? I've only found it for kerneld... kmod is a sort-of wrapper for loading modules, extern int request_module(const char * name); usually we use it when in another module :P 2) what is binfmt-464c for? Thanks! - Sign up for ICQmail at http://www.icq.com/icqmail/signup.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel Support for 3COM and Intel EtherExpress
that 3Com card before but can't recall which module I used before... the module should be called 3c59x rgrds, calvin Maid = Maid's Agreed Ideal Doctrine - Original Message - From: Jeremy T. Bouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 8:28 AM Subject: Re: Kernel Support for 3COM and Intel EtherExpress I'm not sure on the 3Com card but the Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 should use the standard eepro100 NIC driver that is built by default on any of the pre-compiled Debian kernels... I have several machines which use this card and have no problems with it... I believe I might have used Hope that helps, Jeremy T. Bouse On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 08:02:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, does anyone know what I need to enable to use the EtherExpress Pro 100 PCI NIC card from Intel, and the 3COM Fast EtherLink PCI 10/100 NIC card in my kernel config? All I can seem to find is ISA. I tried to install these from the Debian installer but it kept failing, maybe those were the ISA drivers. Can anyone help? Thanks, Deven G. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to make exim run queue only when ppp link is up?
Honestly, ps aux | grep `cat /var/run/ppp0.pid` | grep ppp /dev/null echo yes || echo no Should give something better than that check... eh, but it requires r00t right.. :) -calvin Maid = Maid's Agreed Ideal Doctrine - Original Message - From: Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 11:16 AM Subject: Re: how to make exim run queue only when ppp link is up?
Re: pdf editor
to find out where to put your text in the sourcecode. i did this several times and as in most forms the position where to fill in text is marked with dots it's easy to find it. i tried you suggestion. But all i was a lot of control charc and not much of text as it should have been. Looks it is encrypted. In such a case how would you edit it and fill up the forms? regards harsha consult the code written by the arrested guy in america.. :X -calvin
Re: Copying Linux to a new drive
Title: Re: Copying Linux to a new drive How does one copy a complete Linux install from one hard drive to another? I've tried using the cp command with various parameters, but to no avail. There seems to be lots of special files and directories (/proc for example) that cp can't handle. Any suggestions? The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. -- Hunter S. Thompson Devin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.brainslide.com http://www.brainslide.com cp -ax should help.
Re: sshd and telnetd startup time
Hello, I just installed Debian on an older Pentium 120MHz machine. It takes forever to connect to this machine via telnet or SSH. I suspect it is because the respective servers has to start up when a connection request is recieved. There is, however, little or no activity on the machine while a connection request is in progress. I would like to try to keep the servers in memory at all times to see if that speeds up connection times. A little bit like running smbd and nmbd from daemons instead of from inetd Could the same thing be done for sshd and telnetd? And if so, how? please check that if you have an good entry in /etc/hosts - IT -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sshd and telnetd startup time
I would like to try to keep the servers in memory at all times to see if that speeds up connection times. A little bit like running smbd and nmbd from daemons instead of from inetd Could the same thing be done for sshd and telnetd? And if so, how? please check that if you have an good entry in /etc/hosts Entries for what? The clients that tries to connect? Why? The clients gets their IPs assigned to them from a DHCP server, so adding them to hosts would be a nightmare to maintain. check if you have got [local host name] [local IP] in your /etc/hosts - that's becuse a server need to resolve its host name to get itself done. - IT -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's the NVI recovery program? Could this be a trojan?
Hi- I found the message below in my Balsa Inbox. Is there such a thing? Why did it appear in my mailbox? Should I be worried about trojans and the like? Thanks, Henry hello, nvi is an editor with almost the best recovery option there in the field, i would say you are probably editing a file before system is down - you can now save the file by doin this: # vi -r /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf regards, lamer :) - Forwarded message from Nvi recovery program root - On Mon Apr 9 14:15:41 2001, the user root was editing a file named /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf on the machine siddhi.samsara, when it was saved for recovery. You can recover most, if not all, of the changes to this file using the -r option to vi: vi -r /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf - End forwarded message -
Re: Date Problems...
on 7/18/01 11:34 AM, Leonard Leblanc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey All, This is probably going to be an easy question for most of you, but I can't seem to get a grasp on what the problem is... # hwclock Tue Jul 17 22:38:11 2001 -0.044470 seconds # hwclock --localtime Wed Jul 18 03:37:34 2001 -0.558978 seconds # uname -a Sat Nov 18 18:47:15 EST 2000 This one completely has me baffled and I can't seem to find any information on it. Any help is greatly appreciated. This may be a problem due to timezone settings - but 'm quite SURE that you get it wrong - use ntpdate
Re: perl question
Simply Speaking, This would have been done better with these shell commands: # cd /directory # rm -rf * # cd ..; :) rgrds, Calvin Lamer -- From: Mike Egglestone[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-userdebian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: perl question Date: Thu, Jul 18, 2002, 4:53 AM Hello... Here's one for some of the perl guys I want to delete a directory that will have files in it... I don't know the name of the files there for wildcards might be needed I understand that rmdir will wipe out an empty directory and unlink will wipe out files (only if I know the names of the files) What would be a nice command to remove a dirtory that had files in it? Even better what would be a nice command to delete all files in one directory... (leaving the directory intact) Thanks Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PINE
on 7/18/01 11:42 AM, Jeff Maxson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, dude wrote: I know PINE is not what debian users use, but i recently convinced my girlfriend to let me install debian on her windows computer. Her only gripe with using it is that there are no debs of Pine. She has tried building it from source downloaded from washington.edu but to no avail. Are there any debian-ized sources around or even debs being help somewhere? Thanks I use pine, and just downloaded the binary from washington's site. I then renamed the huge filename to pine, stuck that file into a directory in my path, and it works fine. (prbably not the *debian* way, but it works fine for my home computer...) by the fine way, making a debian package isn't that hard after-all, right?
