Converting .mp3 to .cdr
I would like to convert some mp3 files to the .cdr format for writing an audio CD. The CD-Writing-HOWTO recommends using mpg123 as in mpg123 --cdr -s track1.mp3 track1.cdr but the version of mpg123 in mpg123_0.59q-2_i386.deb does not accept the option --cdr, as far as I can tell. I would appreciate suggestions for programs, preferably in Debian packages, that can do this. If the recommendation is to use mpg123 followed by sox I would appreciate getting the exact set of options to use with sox on an i386 system. Please cc: me on replies.
Re: Converting .mp3 to .cdr
Brad Keryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 4 Jan 2001, Douglas Bates wrote: I would like to convert some mp3 files to the .cdr format for writing an audio CD. The CD-Writing-HOWTO recommends using mpg123 as in mpg123 --cdr -s track1.mp3 track1.cdr but the version of mpg123 in mpg123_0.59q-2_i386.deb does not accept the option --cdr, as far as I can tell. However, it accepts the option -w filename.wav which writes the track to a WAV file. I would appreciate suggestions for programs, preferably in Debian packages, that can do this. If the recommendation is to use mpg123 followed by sox I would appreciate getting the exact set of options to use with sox on an i386 system. cdrecord and cdrdao both support reading audio tracks from WAV files, so the -w option is your best bet. Thank you. The -w option isn't given in the man page but it does show up in mpg123 --help. Interestingly enough, mpg123 --longhelp indicates that it *does* accept --cdr. Do you happen to know if it is necessary to swap bytes on the .wav file when writing it to the CD? The CD-Writing-HOWTO says to use for I in *.mp3 do mpg123 --cdr -s $I | cdrecord -audio -pad -swab -nofix - done cdrecord -fix and I found that I did have to use -pad.
Re: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style
Stephenson, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have created a presentation in LaTeX using the seminar style. I use landscape orientation for the slides. The room where I want to give the presentation has a computer running Windows with Acrobat Reader available. I would like to convert the slides to PDF and use the full-screen feature of Acrobat to display them. My difficulty is that ps2pdf does not follow the papersize hints. The resultant PDF file is rotated 90 degrees when I try to view it. Just a thought: have you tried generating PDF directly from the LaTeX source with pdflatex? I have no idea whether this will solve your problem, but it might be worth a try. Thanks for the suggestion. It is not easy to do that because the seminar style uses several PostScript specials. These would all have to be rewritten to used pdflatex. Also, I am incorporating PostScript figures into the slides. I would have to convert all of them to PDF for pdflatex. Another person showed me that I can do what I wish by changing the PostScript Prolog. Dvips produces %%BeginSetup %%Feature: *Resolution 1200dpi TeXDict begin @landscape %%EndSetup If I modify this to %%BeginSetup %%Feature: *Resolution 1200dpi TeXDict begin /PageSize [792 612] /Orientation 0 setpagedevice %%EndSetup I can convert the PostScript file to PDF with ps2pdf and get the desired orientation.
ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style
I am using Debian Linux 2.2 (potato). I also have access to systems running 2.3 (woody) if that would help. I have created a presentation in LaTeX using the seminar style. I use landscape orientation for the slides. The room where I want to give the presentation has a computer running Windows with Acrobat Reader available. I would like to convert the slides to PDF and use the full-screen feature of Acrobat to display them. My difficulty is that ps2pdf does not follow the papersize hints. The resultant PDF file is rotated 90 degrees when I try to view it. Has anyone been successful at producing PDF from landscape slides done with the seminar style? Please cc: me on any replies. I am too far behind on messages to this list to ever hope to catch up.
Serving Zope pages from a secure port
I am using Zope on a Debian 2.2 i386 system to serve dynamic web pages for an organization. It works marvelously - another big win for free software. However, some of my users are behind firewalls and cannot connect to the http server for Zope which, by default, runs on port 9673. Their firewalls appear to be configured to refuse connections to any port numbered greater than 1024. I tried modifying /etc/init.d/zope with ZOPEOPTS=-w 694 so it would be running on a port numbered less than 1024 but zope then fails on startup. I suspect that it has already switched the effective user to www-data by the time it tries to bind the port. I am also running apache on port 80 on this machine. From the documentation in /usr/share/doc/zope it appears that I could circumvent the port number problem by accessing zope from a webserver through pcgi or fastcgi. It appears that pcgi is simpler but involves more overhead because it forks a short-lived process for every connection. Is that a reasonable summary of the available options? Can anyone suggest other ways around the problem? Is there a Debian package for fastcgi? (I couldn't find one and I didn't see anything in the apache configuration that looked promising.) Please cc: me on any replies. I'm too far behind on too many e-mail lists and would likely miss a reply to the list only. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/
Re: python startup files
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I dunno about .pythonrc.py. The docs I read said to put startup code in
~/.python-startup.py and this is what I use successfully. In order to modify
python's
search path from python code you just need to manipulate the sys.path list,
eg.:
import sys
sys.path.append('path-to-append')
Hmm. That is what I was trying to do. It doesn't seem to work for me
under the name ~/.python-startup.py either.
$ cat ~/.python-startup.py
import rlcompleter, readline, sys
readline.parse_and_bind('tab: complete')
sys.path.append(/home/bates/src/python)
$ python
Python 1.5.1 (#1, Dec 17 1998, 20:58:15) [GCC 2.7.2.3] on linux2
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
dir()# notice that sys has not been imported
['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__']
sys.path
Traceback (innermost last):
File stdin, line 1, in ?
NameError: sys
^D
In order to augment the python search path from an environment
variable just set PYTHONPATH (colon-separated list just as the PATH
variable). This is in the man page. Did you read the fine manual?
Well I have been reading a lot of python documentation but I am
willing to believe I have missed important parts :-).
On closer inspection of the manual page I see that the directories in
PYTHONPATH are prepended to the standard path list for python. My
(poorly phrased) question about adding to the search list was more a
question of whether PYTHONPATH is appended to the standard search
list, is prepended to the standard search list, or replaces the
standard search list. You are right - I could have gotten the answer
from the manual page.
It also appears that you need to set the environment variable
PYTHONSTARTUP to the name of the file that will be used for
initialization, whether that is ~/.pythonrc.py or
~/.python-startup.py. My standard shell startup doesn't set this
environment variable but I will change my ~/.bash-profile to do so.
$ export PYTHONSTARTUP=/home/bates/.python-startup.py
$ python
Python 1.5.1 (#1, Dec 17 1998, 20:58:15) [GCC 2.7.2.3] on linux2
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
dir()
['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__', 'readline', 'rlcompleter', 'sys']
^D
I think I have the answers now for my questions. Thanks for the
help.
Douglas Bates wrote:
According to some python documentation I have read I should put
commands that I want executed in every interactive python session into
the file `~/.pythonrc.py'. I have done that but these commands do not
seem to be executed when I start python on a Debian GNU/Linux 2.1
system with
||/ NameVersionDescription
+++-===-==-
ii python-base 1.5.1-7An interactive object-oriented scripting
lan
Is there another convention for python startup with this package?
Also, what is the recommended form for adding to the python search
path? I believe there is an environment variable to set.
Please cc: me on replies. I am unable to keep up with the amount of
traffic on this list.
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python startup files
According to some python documentation I have read I should put commands that I want executed in every interactive python session into the file `~/.pythonrc.py'. I have done that but these commands do not seem to be executed when I start python on a Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 system with ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- ii python-base 1.5.1-7An interactive object-oriented scripting lan Is there another convention for python startup with this package? Also, what is the recommended form for adding to the python search path? I believe there is an environment variable to set. Please cc: me on replies. I am unable to keep up with the amount of traffic on this list.
Re: X server on a Compaq Presario 1235
Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We have been trying to configure an X server from Debian 2.1 on a Compaq Presario 1235 laptop. SuperProbe reports I've got a Presario 1236 laptop running Potato very nicely with the 2.2.5 kernel (well, all except the sound, I've only got it half-configured (sound config tips welcome!:-)). The 1236 uses the NeoMagic chipset for its SVGA and I believe the 1235 does also. For the X server I'm using the xserver-neomagic package and have it configured to run at 800x600 with 65K colors. Thanks for the reply. Where would we find an xserver-neomagic package? I don't see it in either the stable or the unstable distributions?
X server on a Compaq Presario 1235
We have been trying to configure an X server from Debian 2.1 on a Compaq Presario 1235 laptop. SuperProbe reports First video: Super-VGA Chipset: Yamaha 6388 VPDC (Port Probed) RAMDAC: Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode)) but the xserver-svga does not seem to recognize the chipset. Part of the output from X -probeonly is (--) SVGA: PCI: Unknown vendor (0x10c8) Unknown chipset (0x0004) rev 1, Memory @ 0xfd00, 0xfea0 (--) SVGA: chipset: generic (--) SVGA: videoram: 64k (--) SVGA: clocks: 25.18 (**) SVGA: Using 8 bpp, Depth 8, Color weight: 666 (--) SVGA: Using builtin driver modes (--) SVGA: Builtin Mode: 320x200 (--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 320x204 (--) SVGA: SpeedUp code selection modified because virtualX != 1024 Any suggestions of how to get it configured? Should we be using another xserver? Please cc us on any replies as we do not usually follow this list.
Creating a vfat file system
[Please reply to me personally as well as to the list. I don't usually have the time to keep up with this list.] Is there a way within Debian GNU/Linux i386 to make a VFAT file system on a hard disk partition? Background to the question: My laptop came with Windows 98. I repartitioned keeping the Windows 98 in /dev/hda1. I installed Debian GNU/Linux on /dev/hda3 with a swap partition on /dev/hda5 and /users on /dev/hda6. /dev/hda2 was reserved for Windows NT in case I wanted to use that at work. Eventually I decided to remove NT. I would now like to use /dev/hda2 as a second VFAT partition. I used cfdisk to reset the partition type to Win95 FAT32 (0B), which is the same type as /dev/hda1. When I started up Windows 98 it found that the D drive was not formatted and I agreed to have it format that drive. Then Win98 wanted to run Scandisk with the thorough option. I allowed that. It got about halfway through the partition according to its calculations then went into a tight loop. Apparently Scandisk was detecting every block as being corrupt and marking them as corrupt. I think it was Scandisk that had the problem not the disk itself. Next time I booted Linux there were all sorts of errors on /dev/hda6 of all places. Fortunately /dev/hda3 looks ok. Is there a mkfs.vfat or something like it within Debian that I can use to create the VFAT file system safely? My experience with Microsoft utilities is not encouraging. I would prefer to manipulate my file systems under Linux where I have some chance of understanding what is going on.
Interface to Olympus D-400Zoom
I would like to access images stored on an Olympus D400Z digital camera. It uses 4/8/16 Mb SmartMedia Cards (in its format) and has a serial cable interface. It also has a Flashpath floppy disk adapter for the SmartMedia Cards. This allows you to stick the SmartMedia card in the adapter which is then inserted into your floppy drive. I can read from the drive using dd if=/dev/fd0 but I obviously don't get the full 8 Mb off the card. The software shipped with the camera supports both kinds of computers*, Windows _and_ Macs. I would like to be able to support it on a Debian GNU/Linux system. Any suggestions of where to start looking? The SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) site did not include any of the Olympus cameras in its list of supported hardware nor does it say anything about the Flashpath. * My friend Bill says that the idea of supporting both kinds of computers always reminds him of the movie The Blues Brothers where Dan Ackroyd asks a bar owner what kind of music these folks like to hear. The owner replies, Round here folks listen to _both_ kinds of music; country _and_ western.
Installing Sybase server from RH ftp site
Yesterday on http://www.redhat.com/ they were offering a free download of RPM package of the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise and of its docs. You are asked to register but can access the ftp site directly (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/sybase/) if you prefer not to do that. Has anyone tried to install these on a Debian system either with rpm or with alien calling rpm? Since it will be a big install and I need to clean up the root partition to do it, I would appreciate hearing if others have been successful with these. Please respond to me as well as to the list. I usually don't have time to read the entire mail list and would prefer not to miss a response. Here is what rpm on a Debian 2.0 system reports about the packages: bash-2.01$ ls -l sybase-* -rw-r--r-- 1 batesbates32697133 Oct 1 09:52 sybase-ase-11.0.3.3-1.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 batesbates 8494779 Oct 1 10:40 sybase-doc-11.0.3.3-1.i386.rpm bash-2.01$ rpm -q -p sybase-ase-11.0.3.3-1.i386.rpm -R -i /bin/sh ld-linux.so.2 = libc.so.6 libdl.so.2 = libm.so.6 /bin/sh S Name: sybase-ase Distribution: (none) Version : 11.0.3.3 Vendor: Sybase, Inc Release : 1 Build Date: Mon Sep 14 06:35:55 1998 Install date: (not installed) Build Host: sonofsam.sybase.com Group : Applications/DatabasesSource RPM: sybase-11.0.3.3-1.src.rpm Size: 112172700 Packager: Wim ten Have [EMAIL PROTECTED] Summary : Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 11.0.3.3 System installation Description : Sybase(R) Adaptive Server(R) Enterprise is the industry-leading structured query Language database server. It supports ANSI-92 SQL with Sybase stored procedures. Sybase Connectivity Open Client/Server(tm) is the industry-leading network oriented application development environment with tools to maintain and administrate the Adaptive Server Enterprise platform. Supporting files which apply to the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise shared between the SQL Server and Open Client/ Server development environment System information on the Software License Agreement governing use of Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise for Linux 2.0 can be found in the file Information on the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise license may be found in the file /usr/doc/sybase-1-1/LICENSE.update. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/
Choice of database
I would like to consolidate some of the data in our office into a database. Our office staff uses Windows NT with the usual MS Office tools. I see they have MS Access available on a menu but I have no experience with it. From the Linux side I would prefer to use an SQL-aware relational database that supports access through perl DBI or JDBC. Can I expect to run a relational database that will support access from our researchers' Linux systems and from the NT systems used by the office staff? I think I would prefer to run the server (postgresql?) on the Linux system. Is MS Access the interface that I should expect the office staff to use? That is, is it a client that can allow access to an ODBC server? Please reply with a copy to me. I don't regularly read debian-user (too much traffic). -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/
ldconfig warnings
When installing packages that include libraries I often get warnings from ldconfig about no such file. These look like dangling symlinks to some shared object files that have been removed. Is it safe to kill those symlinks? 519# dpkg -i apt_0.0.16-1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 50512 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace apt 0.0.15 (using apt_0.0.16-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement apt ... Setting up apt (0.0.16-1) ... ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/tkstep (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R5/lib/libXt.so.3 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R5/lib/libXaw.so.3 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R5/lib/libX11.so.3 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout/libXt.so.6 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout/libXaw.so.6 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout/libXIE.so.6 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout/libX11.so.6 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/postgresql/lib (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libp2c.so.1 (No such file or directory), skipping -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apache_1.1.3-6 preinstall script giving errors
LeRoy D. Cressy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Douglas Bates wrote: I was having trouble installing apache_1.1.3-6 on a bo machine that had an earlier apache (1.0.x) installed. I kept getting an error in the pre-installation script. I thought it was because of the previous version so I removed the previous version. Now I still can't get 1.1.3-6 to install and I don't have the earlier one. Here is all I get. arcola# dpkg -i apache_1.1.3-6.deb (Reading database ... 22196 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking apache (from apache_1.1.3-6.deb) ... dpkg: error processing apache_1.1.3-6.deb (--install): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: apache_1.1.3-6.deb I would appreciate any advice. I was trying to help my friend with his system and now I have left him without a functioning apache on a system that is supposed to be serving web pages to the world. There are a couple of things that you might do. The easiest course is: dpkg --info apache_1.1.3-6.deb This will tell you what dependencies the package requires along with version required of some packages. Then check what versions of the required dependant packages that you have with: dpkg -s packagename Thanks for the suggestion. I did check the packages and everything that is explicitly required seems to be in place. If you have the required packages along with the proper version numbers, then you might want to look at the install script in /var/lib/dpkg/info/ This will tell you where possibly the error is hanging. If there is a problem with the install script, fill out a bug report along with your fix. The problem is that because the pre-install script doesn't finish successfully, the scripts aren't copied into /var/lib/dpkg/info. I have to extract them with ar and tar. I did so and ran the preinst script by hand as /bin/sh -v preinst install It stopped after wwwdata=`2/dev/null grep '^www-data:' /etc/passwd` 2/dev/null grep '^www-data:' /etc/passwd arcola# echo $? 1 Currently there is no www-data login in /etc/passwd. Johnie - do you have any ideas? -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
alias expansion using smail under Debian
I am using smail as the Mail Transport Agent on my Debian GNU/Linux systems. I would like to define an alias that expands to the contents of a file owned by a user. On some sendmail-based systems I would include an alias in /etc/aliases like foo: :include:/home/bar/foo.list to do this. This does not seem to work under the standard Debian configuration of smail. I looked over the documents but did not see anything that could tell me how to configure this. Suggestions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
netscape4 and long keys
Is it possible to get a copy of netscape4.05 with hard encryption (128 bit keys) for Linux 2.0? I would like to install this if possible. I am in the U.S. and qualify to obtain such a version if it is available. I seem to a recall discussion of methods of modifying the 48 bit version to create a 128 bit version. Can anyone give me details on this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Overriding fvwm95 buttons in the post.hook?
I have read the documentation on fvwm95 and on FvwmButtons but I am still at a loss to decide how I would override definitions of buttons in /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc What I would like to do is to use rclock rather than xclock for one of the buttons. (rclock can be configured to alert you to incoming mail so a single window can do double duty of displaying the clock and an xbiff-like indicator of incoming mail.) If I add the lines *DebianFvwm95Buttons(Title rclock, Icon clock.xpm, \ Swallow(UseOld) rclock 'Exec /usr/bin/X11/rclock -bg \#c0c0c0 \ -geometry -1500-1500 ') to my ~/.fvwm95/post.hook file I get the rclock in addition to all the other buttons. What I would like to do is to remove the other buttons and then add the ones I want. Is this possible using the post.hook file? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [sara@ora.com: NPR show on open source]
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Sara Winge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:16:43 -0700 Subject: NPR show on open source Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman are guests on NPR's Science Friday today--looks like the segment's from 12:30-1:00 pm PDT. More info at: http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1998/Apr/hour2b_041798.html -- Sara Winge[EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Relations O'Reilly Associates, 101 Morris St., Sebastopol, CA 95472 707/829-0515 x285, Fax 707/829-0104, http://www.oreilly.com/ RealAudio is available at http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/980417.totn.ram -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [sara@ora.com: NPR show on open source]
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Sara Winge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:16:43 -0700 Subject: NPR show on open source Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman are guests on NPR's Science Friday today--looks like the segment's from 12:30-1:00 pm PDT. More info at: http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1998/Apr/hour2b_041798.html RealAudio is available at http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/980417.totn.ram Make that http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/980417.totn.02.ram if you just want the last hour. The Free Software segment is the second part of that hour. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tetex question
G. Kapetanios [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My question is more tex oriented but involves knowledge of tetex. Tha is
why I am asking the list. The book documentclass creates page headers with
the title of the chapter. However, if the title is long the whole thing is
meesed up. Is there a way to change that and either hjave no page headers
or use title abbreveations ? Do I need to play around with the style files
or some other sort of files ? Where would those files be in the tetex
distribution of debian ? Any ideas would be appreciated.
Put a shortened form of the chapter title in an optional argument
to the \chapter command. In my case it looks like
\chapter[Structure of Grouped Data]{Describing the Structure of Grouped Data}
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modconf needs whiptail under hamm
I should have followed the discussion on the modconf package under the unstable or hamm distribution more closely but I didn't. In trying to install the modconf_0.2.16 package I get a message that it requires whiptail but whiptail is not available. This has been the case for over a week and I have vague recollections of messages indicating that whiptail would not be a separate package or something like that. Could someone please tell me how I resolve this? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: a MANPATH problem
Heikki Vatiainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have two possible solutions for the X problem. Lately I have been using only the ssh version: ... 2. Using ssh not su === % ssh -l root localhost type root password # xterm That latter version can be shortened to % ssh -f -l root localhost xterm type root password in response to prompt This does the authentication, spawns the xterm with tunneling of the X traffic to the server, then throws the job into the background. In the current window you come back to your prompt as yourself. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
NY Times article on Netscape and free software in general
Perhaps I missed any discussion of this article because I was off the list for a few days while travelling but today's (Mon, Feb 2) New York Times Digital Commerce column by Denise Caruso discusses Netscape's decision to make the source code for version 5.0 of their browser freely available. I'm looking at the printed version and I haven't searched out a URL for the electronic version. Perhaps someone can give the URL for this article. Anyway the article has interesting things to say about Netscape's decision and how it relates to other freely available software like Linux. One quote that caught my eye was Linux source code is freely available over the Internet. As a result, it is gaining in popularity; it is already a strong competitor in the Unix market and is emerging as a viable competitor to Microsoft's Windows NT, which now commands more than 35 percent of the sub-$25,000 network server market, according to Kimball Brown, a senior analyst for the market research firm Dataquest Denise Caruso Digital Commerce New York Times 02/02/98 If anyone would have told me when I started using Linux that it would be classed as a strong competitor in the Unix market and a viable competitor to Microsoft's Windows NT in the business section of the N.Y. Times by early 1998, I would have said they were a little out of touch with reality. I'm happy that I would have been wrong. She mentions RedHat by name and quotes Marc Ewing, a co-founder of the company. She does not mention Debian by name. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dbm files for aliases in smail [was Re: qmail vs smail]
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 04:13:19PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote: I have been using smail as the mail transport agent on a hamm system. Recently I tried to install the 12000 line aliases file that we keep on all our instructional machines. I found that this caused smail to grind to a halt. Apparently smail doesn't create dbm files when newaliases is run. Well, smail can use a DBM file as an alias file. Take a look at /etc/smail/directors and the smaildrct(5) manpage. Changing /etc/smail/directors and /usr/sbin/mkaliases so the protocol for aliases is 'dbm' instead of 'lsearch' seems to work _except_ that the EXPN command on an smtp connection still takes forever. I can see that I have an aliases.dir and an aliases.pag file created by the call to mkaliases. Looking at the smail logfiles I can see that the mail delivery is occurring as quickly as I would expect if the alias lookups were being done with the dbm files. However, when I make a direct smtp connection to the server and ask for an expansion of a name, it started a /usr/sbin/smail process that ran for over 5 minutes on a Pentium Pro 200 before I killed it. It also ate up all the available memory. It was at 150 Mb of memory when I killed it. This is obviously not using the dbm files. Any suggestions? I backed out the changes for now. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: superformat having problems allocating memory?
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 01:03:00PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote: I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but I get errors from superformat saying it cannot allocate memory when there is a lot of memory available. bash-2.01$ superformat -d /dev/fd0 Formatting cylinder 0, head 0 format: Cannot allocate memory Was this your first floppy format or had you done a lot? I had done a lot. I was making about 50 copies of a floppy disk for a class. After doing a lot of disks I got this message, or something similar, about being unable to allocate DMA buffers. The people on the appropriate linux- list tell me it's a design problem in the floppy driver, and that ISA DMA is problematic with 16mb RAM (which is what it uses). I had to reboot to reset it, did you? I rebooted and could write on the same floppy disk without a problem. About 10 disks later I encountered the same problem again. It looks like the driver is at fault. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
qmail vs smail
I have been using smail as the mail transport agent on a hamm system. Recently I tried to install the 12000 line aliases file that we keep on all our instructional machines. I found that this caused smail to grind to a halt. Apparently smail doesn't create dbm files when newaliases is run. Would qmail be a better alternative as a MTA? If it can resolve aliases faster it would certainly help. I would prefer not to install sendmail unless absolutely necessary. My memories of trying to configure sendmail are not pleasant memories. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
superformat having problems allocating memory?
I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but I get errors from superformat saying it cannot allocate memory when there is a lot of memory available. bash-2.01$ superformat -d /dev/fd0 Formatting cylinder 0, head 0 format: Cannot allocate memory bash-2.01$ cat /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 130924544 126173184 4751360 24453120 55037952 37212160 Swap: 10692198420480 106901504 MemTotal:127856 kB MemFree: 4640 kB MemShared:23880 kB Buffers: 53748 kB Cached: 36340 kB SwapTotal: 104416 kB SwapFree:104396 kB Am I misinterpreting that error message? I have the 5.2pl4-2 fdutils package installed, a 2.0.33 kernel, and libc6 version 2.0.6-3 on a hamm system. Other programs don't seem to have problems with memory allocation. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: superformat having problems allocating memory?
Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 25 Jan 1998, Douglas Bates wrote: I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but I get errors from superformat saying it cannot allocate memory when there is a lot of memory available. bash-2.01$ superformat -d /dev/fd0 Formatting cylinder 0, head 0 format: Cannot allocate memory bash-2.01$ cat /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 130924544 126173184 4751360 24453120 55037952 37212160 Swap: 10692198420480 106901504 MemTotal:127856 kB MemFree: 4640 kB MemShared:23880 kB Buffers: 53748 kB Cached: 36340 kB SwapTotal: 104416 kB SwapFree:104396 kB Am I misinterpreting that error message? I have the 5.2pl4-2 fdutils package installed, a 2.0.33 kernel, and libc6 version 2.0.6-3 on a hamm system. Other programs don't seem to have problems with memory allocation. FWIW, I don't get this error (same packages installed). Thanks for checking. It seems to have been a transitory problem with the floppy device /dev/fd0. Other programs began to encounter problems with it so I rebooted. This problem has not recurred. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: superformat having problems allocating memory?
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 25 Jan 1998, Douglas Bates wrote: I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but I get errors from superformat saying it cannot allocate memory when there is a lot of memory available. bash-2.01$ superformat -d /dev/fd0 Formatting cylinder 0, head 0 format: Cannot allocate memory bash-2.01$ cat /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 130924544 126173184 4751360 24453120 55037952 37212160 Swap: 10692198420480 106901504 MemTotal:127856 kB MemFree: 4640 kB MemShared:23880 kB Buffers: 53748 kB Cached: 36340 kB SwapTotal: 104416 kB SwapFree:104396 kB Am I misinterpreting that error message? I have the 5.2pl4-2 fdutils package installed, a 2.0.33 kernel, and libc6 version 2.0.6-3 on a hamm system. Other programs don't seem to have problems with memory allocation. It seems to have been a transitory problem with the floppy device /dev/fd0. Other programs began to encounter problems with it so I rebooted. This problem has not recurred. I wrote too soon. The problem did recur. bash-2.01$ superformat -v 1 -d /dev/fd0 fdmount cp -a /var/tmp/fd0/* /fd0 fdumount sync .format: Cannot allocate memory The errors reported to /var/adm/messages look like floppy0: data CRC error: track 52, head 1, sector 16, size 2 floppy0: data CRC error: track 52, head 1, sector 16, size 2 end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 1905 Any suggestions what might be going on? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ssh and kerberos
The manual entries for ssh and sshd contain information about settings for Kerberos authentication but I have been unable to decide how to set up kerberos authentication with ssh. I do have a local kerberos realm and authentication server. Do I also need to have kerberos clients compiled and installed on my Debian system before I can use kerberos authentication for ssh? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[off-topic] CVS advice?
Is there a way of setting checkout or checkin triggers with CVS? I want to do something like having a postinst script in a Debian package. Specifically, after checking out files in a given directory I want to check for the existence of another directory, remove any symbolic links from the current directory and re-establish symbolic links to all the files in the other directory that have a certain pattern in the file name. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Graphics Board URGENT
Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The S3 Virge has been supported for a while under Xfree86 and is probably pretty stable by now. Most any board should work in generic svga mode, ^^^ Not true. The new Diamond Stealth II S220 based on the Verite' 2100 chip does not work even with xserver-svga. It seems unlikely that drivers will become available for it in the near future so watch out for it. I got caught in the situation of ordering a machine with the Diamond Stealth thinking I would get the S3 card only to get this new Verite' card. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: multiple fs types for user floppy access?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I currently have my floppy set up so that users can mount ms floppies with the line /dev/fd0/floppy msdos user,rw 0 0 in /etc/fstab I tried changing msdos to auto, but no dice. Is there a change so that it can automount both msdos and ext2 disks? Try the fdmount program from fdutils package. It autodetects the file systems and mounts up the disk for you. The fdumount program undoes this. rick, who also wonders why linux and 10 year old mac's can read/write msdos disks faster than windows Floppy drives are inherently slow. At least Linux doesn't suspend all other programs on the system while writing to the floppy device. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Diamond Stealth II S220
I ordered a computer with a Diamond Stealth PCI video card. When it arrived I found that the card was the Diamond Stealth II S220 which, of course, has absolutely nothing in common with previous Diamond Stealth cards. (I hate it when hardware manufacturers use the same name for fundamentally different devices.) This card is based on the Verite' 2100 chip. None of the drivers in XFree86-3.3.1 support it. Not even xserver-svga can do anything with it and SuperProbe can't recognize it. Are there any suggestions of where to look for alpha-version drivers? I don't seen anything on the web pages at www.xfree86.org or for the extended S.u.S.E. drivers. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
a count-down timer?
This may be a leading candidate in the dumbest question ever asked on debian-user contest but does anyone know of a program in some package that provides a count-down timer? That is, I want to set a time of 5 minutes and start the timer then have it pop up a window or ring the bell or do something to alert me when the five minutes is up. There are many programs such as rclock that can alert me at a specific time on a specific day but I want to be able to say five minutes from now without a lot of hassle. Emacs-based solutions are welcome as are more elegant versions of sleep 5m; echo ^G -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
More that 64 Mb memory
I have searched the FAQ's but I still can't find the answer to this one. I have a new machine with 128 Mb. of memory. When I boot a standard kernel using the standard lilo configuration from Debian the kernel reports only 64 Mb of memory. Could someone tell me what I change to have the kernel recognize the full available memory? Also, this is a dual-processor system. If I look at /proc/cpuinfo it seems to be reporting only one processor. Could someone please remind me how to check if both processors are being used? -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
smc-ultra module from drivers disk
I am bringing up a new machine with an SMC Ultra ethernet card. After reading the rescue and drivers disks I ask for the Net modules and install the SMC-Ultra module. I receive some curious error messages after loading device 'eth0'... smc-ultra.c:v2.00 6/6/96 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) eth0: SMC Ultra at 0x300, 00 00 C0 75 B3 98, assigned IRQ 10 memory 0xcc000-0xc That all looks as expected. Then I get Executing module post-install script 'cdromsymlink' ... script: -ultra -ultra: not found Executing shell_smc-ultra failed This is when running the installation disks with the v30 kernel (i.e. 2.0.30). I guess I don't understand why it is trying to do some cdrom sym-linking after installing an Ethernet card. It appears that I can go ahead and configure the network anyway. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Diamond Stealth II S220 card
I just received a couple of machines that were to be shipped with Diamond Stealth video cards. Well they do have such cards but they are a new revision that does not seem to be available in the cards database and is not even recognized by SuperProbe. The documentation says this card is a Diamond Stealth II S220. I guessed that it would use the S3 driver as most of the other Diamond cards do. However, neither the svga nor the S3 driver can manage to probe this card and get clock speeds and SuperProbe is also stuck. I even upgraded to the hamm distribution so I would using the 3.3.1 drivers. The www.xfree86.org web site does not seem to have any information on this card. Does anyone have suggestions of where I can look for information on this? -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
/afs timeouts from /etc/cron.daily
I recently installed the AFS file system on a Debian Linux machine running the unstable distribution. Every time the scripts in /etc/cron.daily are run now I get a series of error messages about connections timing out for /afs domains. The messages look like find: /afs/bcc.ac.uk: Connection timed out The subject of the message from cron is Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily It seems that find is only called at / by updatedb in the script /etc/cron.daily/find and that script has a configuration file that puts /afs in the PRUNEPATHS and afs in the PRUNEFS variables. Those exclusions seem to work if I run the script by hand because I don't get any timeouts on afs domains. Are there are other scripts in /etc/cron.daily that may be running a find from / without excluding /afs? The contents of /etc/cron.daily for me are $ ls /etc/cron.daily acct find news standard apacheman-db smail sysklogd apache.dpkg-oldnetbase smail.dpkg-dist calendar netbase.dpkg-dist squid -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
OS tests: Linux proves to be one of the most stable
I enclose the abstract from a talk that Bart Miller will be giving today in our Computer Sciences Department. It is interesting to note that in this series of tests Linux proved to be one of the most stable versions of Unix, more stable than commercial versions. He lists the GNU utilities as a separate entry. I think that means that he is testing the GNU utilities compiled on systems other than GNU/Linux. His web page http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/ may contain more information on the study. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ --- Start of forwarded message --- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 06:00:09 -0500 (CDT) From: CS Dept. Talks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Today's Events 2:30 pm, 2310 CS Operating Systems and Networking Seminar: Barton P. Miller, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Making Programs Explode: Using Simple Random Testing on Real Programs In 1990, we published the results of a study of the reliability of standard UNIX utility programs. This study showed that by using simple (almost simplistic) random testing techniques, we could crash or hang 25-33% of the these utility programs. Recently, we repeated and significantly extended this study using the same basic techniques: subjecting programs to random input streams. A distressingly large number of UNIX utilities still crash with our tests. We tested a wide variety of utility programs on nine UNIX platforms. The programs were sent random input streams. We used a conservative and crude measure of reliability: a program is considered unreliable if it crashes with a core dump or hangs (infinite loop). We used the random test- ing to also test X-Window applications and servers, network servers, and system library interfaces. The major results of this study are: (1) In the last five years, all previously-tested versions of UNIX made noticeable improvements in the reli- ability of their utilities. But ... the failure rate of these systems is still distressingly high (from 18-23% in the recent study). (3) Even worse is that many of the same bugs that we reported in 1990 are still present in the recent code releases. (4) The failure rate of utilities on the commer- cial versions of UNIX that we tested (from Sun, IBM, SGI, DEC, and NEXT) ranged from 15 to 43%. (5) The failure rate of the utilities on the freely- distributed Linux version of UNIX was second-lowest, at 9%. (6) The failure rate of the public GNU utilities was the lowest in our study, at only 7%. (7) We could not crash network services on any of the versions of UNIX that we tested. (8) Almost 60% of the X-Window applications that we tested crash or hang on purely random input data streams (random binary data). More sig- nificant is that more than 25% of the applications crash or hang given ran- dom, but legal X-event streams. (9) We could not crash X server on the ver- sions of UNIX that we tested (i.e., sending random data streams to the server). --- End of forwarded message --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Gcc prints NAN for floats that are not NANs
Dr. Daniel Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I could never reproduce the problem on a smaller code. If I put just one extra printf() statement the problem disappears and appears elsewhere in the code. Here is the code #define SCALE 8192/* scale for fixed point representation */ #define from_fixed(x) ((double) (x) / SCALE) double x,y; x = (from_fixed(tpi) - utt_scale); x = x / num_obser; x = x + from_fixed((phead-scale)); y = ((from_fixed(tpi) - utt_scale)/1.0/ num_obser) + from_fixed(1.0*phead-scale); y produces a NaN and x does not int num_obser = 695; int phead-scale = 0; int utt_scale = 0; int tpi = -924593180; This is one of the cases that produces a NAN for y. Once y is NAN no matter what values tpi, and num_obser are it becomes a NaN after performing the calculation. I understand what you mean when you say the fact that it worked on FreeBsd and Solaris doesn't mean its correct. But I am suprised that if I use the linear method as in 'x', it does not occur. Lastly, I could not duplicate it on a smaller code. I wonder how are the NaN bits set on the Intel CPU. By the way is well documented that the Alpha chip has this problem for gcc. Another thing to try is explicitly setting the floating point control word to the IEEE standard. Some older versions of the C libraries set the floating point control word to a non-standard value. That can affect the production and detection of NaN's. Checking a recently installed Debian 1.3 system for the file /usr/include/i386/fpu_control.h (included from /usr/include/fpu_control.h), it shows /* Linux default: - extended precision - rounding to nearest - exceptions on overflow, zero divide and NaN */ #if 0 #define _FPU_DEFAULT 0x1372 #else /* It seems SVR4/x86 uses the same thing. */ #define _FPU_DEFAULT 0x137f #endif /* IEEE: same as above, but exceptions */ #define _FPU_IEEE 0x137f The present default behaviour is the IEEE behaviour but it used to be different. If you find that your libraries give a non-standard default, either update the libraries and recompile or include that header file in your code and call __setfpucw (_FPU_IEEE); before doing any floating point calulations. Under the development version of Debian 2.0 the include file /usr/include/fpu_control.h is complete by itself. There is no /usr/include/i386/fpu_control.h -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: formatted floppy type??
Lawrence Lucier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: reason I'm asking is because my boot floppy and install disks don't see= m to respond to either ext2 or dos when I try to mount them. Or maybe because I'm a newbie at linux I am issuing the wrong command??= ? :-) It's entirely possible -- you should be doing someting like mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt Howdy Will...thanks for the reply. :-) Seems it's just the four 1.44 b= ase install disks that don't respond to either: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt or mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt The rescue or boot disk should have an msdos file system on it. There is a very handy utility called fdmount in the fdutils package. You can insert a floppy disk then use fdmount to mount it as a file system. fdmount will look for any type of file system that it can recognize on that disk. Here is the result of my putting a rescue floppy in fd0 and fdmount'ing it. $ fdmount fd0 fdmount (/dev/fd0): mounted msdos 1440K-disk (readonly) on /fd0 $ ls -l /fd0 total 1374 -rwxr-xr-x 1 batesbates1102 Aug 1 16:08 debian.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 batesbates 565 Aug 1 16:08 f1.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 batesbates 717 Aug 1 16:08 f10.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 batesbates 418 Aug 1 16:08 f2.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 batesbates 779 Aug 1 16:08 f3.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 batesbates 993 Aug 1 16:08 f4.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 batesbates 926 Aug 1 16:08 f5.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 batesbates 155 Aug 1 16:08 f6.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 batesbates 155 Aug 1 16:08 f7.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 batesbates 155 Aug 1 16:08 f8.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 batesbates1176 Aug 1 16:08 f9.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 batesbates1404 Aug 1 16:08 install.sh -r-xr-xr-x 1 batesbates4528 Nov 4 1996 ldlinux.sys -rwxr-xr-x 1 batesbates 634182 Aug 1 16:08 linux -rwxr-xr-x 1 batesbates 115 Aug 1 16:08 rdev.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 batesbates 886 Aug 1 16:08 readme.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 batesbates 690183 Aug 1 16:08 root.bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 batesbates 43627 Aug 1 16:08 sys_map.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 batesbates 970 Aug 1 16:08 syslinux.cfg -rwxr-xr-x 1 batesbates 11938 Aug 1 16:08 syslinux.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 batesbates 7 Aug 1 16:08 type.txt $ fdumount # remember to do this before ejecting the disk fdumount (/dev/fd0): disk unmounted $ VFS gives an error message stating Can't find valid MSDOS/ext2 filesyste= m on dev 02:00. BTW, would you happen to know what the 02:00 describes? I think they are called the major and minor device numbers. If you look at a long listing the directory /dev you will see numbers associated with each block device such as /dev: total 52 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root19456 Sep 24 23:35 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 1024 Aug 23 01:02 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root27616 Sep 20 15:21 MAKEDEV ... lots and lots deleted brw-rw 1 root floppy 2, 0 Aug 5 08:13 fd0 brw-rw 1 root floppy 2, 84 Aug 5 08:13 fd0u1040 IIRC the 2 and 0 on the line for fd0 are magic numbers for the kernel to allow it to access the appropriate device driver. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: formatted floppy type??
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lawrence Lucier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Howdy Will...thanks for the reply. :-) Seems it's just the four 1.44 b= ase install disks that don't respond to either: I should have read what you actually wrote and not what I thought you wrote :-) You're right - the base disks don't have a file system on them. They are a simply a copy of a cpio or a tar file (I forgot which) that is read directly from the raw device. They are not intended to be used by anything other than the installation procedure. I hope my previous message describing fdmount would be of some use to some users even though it was misdirected at your question. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: floppy
I would add just one thing to Torsten's very complete and informative response about mounting a floppy. The fdutils package contains a program called fdmount that can automate many of these steps. In particular, this program checks the type of filesystem on the floppy and inserts the appropriate -t option in the mount command. $ type fdmount fdmount is /usr/bin/fdmount $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/fdmount fdutils: /usr/bin/fdmount -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
boa under hamm is catching SIGBUS
I am running the boa Web server on a Debian (hamm) system. Package: boa Status: install ok installed Section: web Maintainer: Jon Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 0.92-5 The server is dying, usually within a day of being restarted. The last parts of the access and error logs are reproduced below. I would welcome suggestions of what might be going wrong. $ tail -3 /var/adm/boa/access_log 198.213.2.20 - - [06/Sep/1997:03:49:13] GET /pub/R/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html HTTP/1.0 200 2888 198.213.2.20 - - [06/Sep/1997:03:50:02] GET /pub/R/src/base HTTP/1.0 302 0 198.213.2.20 - - [06/Sep/1997:03:50:32] GET /pub/R/doc HTTP/1.0 302 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/spare3/bates $ tail -2 /var/adm/boa/error_log [05/Sep/1997:14:06:18] request from 206.10.88.120 GET /pub/Sbook/VR2compl.pdf HTTP/1.0: write: Broken pipe [06/Sep/1997:03:50:32] caught SIGBUS, dumping core $ -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Printing html Debian documentation?
I would welcome suggestions for printing fairly large collections of html files. My immediate application is to try to make some reasonably attractive printed copies of the contents of /usr/doc/dpkg/packaging.html/ so I can read the collection conveniently some evening. (No, I don't regard borrowing my wife's laptop, transferring all the .html files over, and sitting in bed reading by the glow of the screen as convenient.) I can always open each page in Netscape or some other browser then click on print, etc. but I find the printed copies from Netscape are not very attractive (fonts too large, line length too long, etc.) and besides, that is a lot of pointing-and-clicking. Is there any program, say html2ps, that I could configure once to my liking then simply go into the directory and type html2ps *.html | lpr Alternatively, am I completely missing the boat and trying to retrofit a printed copy from the html version of the documentation when there is another, more easily printed, version. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xemacs-19.15 on a hamm system
I am running the unstable (hamm) distribution of Debian. According to dselect my libraries etc. are up-to-date with those available in the distributions hamm, hamm/contrib, and hamm/non-free on ftp.debian.org. At some point in the last few weeks, xemacs-19.15 started segfaulting and dumping core during the start-up for me. If I twiddle my ~/.emacs file and delete things like (display-time) I can get it to start but it soon dies. The behaviour seems to be related to loading files. I just re-installed the package xemacs19_19.15-3.1.deb to see if that would help but it didn't. Interestingly I am able to run this program on my home Debian system which is also running the hamm distribution. I enclose part of the dump and an indication of which libraries are used. I would appreciate suggestions of what to change. $ ldd /usr/bin/xemacs-19.15 libXaw.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d/libXaw.so.6 (0x4000b000) libXpm.so.4 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x4005d000) libcompface.so.1 = /usr/lib/libcompface.so.1 (0x4006a000) libpng.so.1 = /usr/lib/libpng.so.1 (0x40075000) libXmu.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x4008b000) libXt.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4009d000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x400df000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x400e8000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x400fd000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40108000) libncurses.so.3.0 = /lib/libncurses.so.3.0 (0x401a6000) libdb.so.1 = /usr/lib/libdb.so.1 (0x401e2000) libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x401f1000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x401fa000) $ xemacs Fatal error (11). Your files have been auto-saved. Use `M-x recover-session' to recover them. ... # standard request message deleted Lisp backtrace follows: # bind (current-load-list standard-input load-file-name) # (unwind-protect ...) # (unwind-protect ...) # (unwind-protect ...) # (unwind-protect ...) # (unwind-protect ...) # bind (nosuffix nomessage noerror file init-file-user) # (unwind-protect ...) # bind (debug-on-error debug-on-error-from-init-file debug-on-error-should-be-set debug-on-error-initial command-line-args-left) # (unwind-protect ...) # (unwind-protect ...) $ gdb /usr/bin/xemacs core ... # more standard messages deleted #0 0x8075d93 in Fbacktrace () (gdb) where #0 0x8075d93 in Fbacktrace () #1 0x806e1b9 in fatal_error_signal () #2 0xbfffeba0 in ?? () -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ncurses3.4 deb file
I have installed the unstable version in hamm and now have several packages that do not configure properly because ncurses3.4 is not available. The most important such package for me is gdb. Hamish Moffatt wrote to me earlier that ncurses3.4 was available in the Incoming section on master.debian.org but I can't get an ftp connection to it. I have tried for 3 days to get an anonymous ftp connection but always get rejected because of the limit on anonymous ftp logins. Can anyone suggest an alternative location? I would really like to be able to use gdb. Putting if (debug 0) printf(...); statements in code is not nearly as much fun as it used to be. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ncurses3.4 deb file
Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler kindly pointed out to me that ncurses3.4 is now in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/base so I have solved that problem. Many of you know what the next question will be. Where do I find libreadlineg2? I don't see it in the ls-lR.gz file from ftp.debian.org. Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have installed the unstable version in hamm and now have several packages that do not configure properly because ncurses3.4 is not available. The most important such package for me is gdb. Can anyone suggest an alternative location? I would really like to be able to use gdb. Putting if (debug 0) printf(...); statements in code is not nearly as much fun as it used to be. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: installing/upgrading to hamm
Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How can I install hamm from scratch (I just installed 1.3.1
yesterday)? I downloaded ncurses3.4-*.deb, is there anything else I
need which isn't where is should be (unstable dirs)?
I apologize for bringing up what I expect is an old thread but I have
been away for a month and off the list. I too have upgraded to hamm
and many, many things are broken. I have the problems with
dependencies on ncurses3.4 which does not seem to be available. I am
happy to download it by hand and install it but I don't know where to
find it. I don't see it listed in the ls-lR.gz file from the top of
the Debian distribution.
I also have the problem with libc5 and libc5-altdev having
inconsistent dependencies (libc5-altdev requires version 5.4.23-4 of
libc5 but the version in the same tree is later). I think I know how
to fix that one.
I have a problem with the fvwm family of packages related to the
menu-methods. Then end of an Install within dselect produces errors
like
Do you wish to delete the installed package (.deb) files? [y]:
/usr/lib/menu/sced: x11: command not found
Cannot open file /etc/X11/fvwm95//system.fvwm2rc95
/etc/menu-methods//fvwm95: Aborting
The xemacs in the 19.15-3.1 package starts up, tries to load its
initialization files, then dies and dumps core. Perhaps this is
related to the updating of the menus.
The most frustrating error for me though is the problem with the
the function ecvt in libc6. I reported an error with that over a
month ago. It is not a subtle error in that *every* result from that
function is wrong. It is not that it occasionally produces a somewhat
incorrect answer - it never produces the correct answer. For example
bash-2.00$ cat ecvt_test.c
#include stdio.h
#include stdlib.h
void main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int decpt, sign; char * result;
result = ecvt((double) 1234.567, (size_t) 7, decpt, sign);
printf(result is %s, decpt is %d, sign is %d\n, result, decpt, sign);
result = ecvt((double) -987.654321, (size_t) 7, decpt, sign);
printf(result is %s, decpt is %d, sign is %d\n, result, decpt, sign);
result = ecvt((double) 0, (size_t) 7, decpt, sign);
printf(result is %s, decpt is %d, sign is %d\n, result, decpt, sign);
}
bash-2.00$ gcc ecvt_test.c -o ecvt_test
bash-2.00$ ./ecvt_test
result is 11234.567, decpt is 4, sign is 0
result is 9987.6543, decpt is 3, sign is 1
result is 00.00, decpt is 1, sign is 0
bash-2.00$ /usr/bin/i486-linuxlibc1-gcc ecvt_test.c -o ecvt_test
bash-2.00$ ./ecvt_test
result is 1234567, decpt is 4, sign is 0
result is 9876543, decpt is 3, sign is 1
result is 000, decpt is 0, sign is 0
I am trying to work on a large system written in C and I can't do
anything with it under libc6. The fact that the decpt value is wrong
for an argument of zero causes the program to crash and one encounters
the number zero fairly frequently.
There are enough things that don't work with the altdev packages that
I can't use them to compile this system. It appears my only option is
to back out all the libc6 stuff and try to go back to libc5 and I
expect that will be a major hassle.
If this problem with libc6 is from the GNU libc2 sources, I don't see
how it would have gotten out of a testing phase. Any regression test
is going to show that you are getting different results.
I apologize for venting. I know Debian is a volunteer organization
and I appreciate the work of the volunteers. I am just frustrated
right now that so many things are broken and it is not obvious to me
how to fix them. Suggestions welcome.
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Re: Year 2000 and samba...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Baetzler) writes:
James C. Carr wrote:
: As far as I've been told, though I haven't actually tried it,
:the Linux kernel functions up to the year 2037. How that works, I'm
:not entirely sure...
The Unix timestamp is represented as time_t, which is usually a signed
long value. A date is represented a the number of seconds elapsed since
January 1st 1970, 0:00:00. The easy way to figure out the wrap date is
by running the following code:
I think there were a couple of typos in the code you included. I
believe it should read
-snip-
#include stdio.h
#include limits.h
#include time.h
void main( int argc, char **argv )
{
time_t wrap_tm = LONG_MAX;
printf(Wrap will occur at %s, asctime( gmtime(wrap_tm) ) );
}
-snip-
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Re: modem speed
If you use xisp to connect to your ISP, the modem connect speed is displayed in a field of the xisp window. There is a Debian package for xisp in contrib/net. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Phan) writes: Anyone knows how to determine the modem speed after the PPP has connected to the ISP? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xlib6 and xemacs19
I just installed several parts of the new XFree86 3.3 packages including xlib6. xemacs will no longer start up. The versions of packages are ii xemacs1919.15-3XEmacs 19.15 editor and kitchen sink ii xemacs19-suppor 19.15-3Support files for XEmacs 19.15. ii xemacs19-suppor 19.15-3el library files for XEmacs 19.15. ii xlib6 3.3-1 Shared libraries required by X clients Is anyone else encountering this problem or is it something peculiar to my system? The gory details are shown below. I wanted to find out if this was reproducible on other systems before reporting it to xemacs.org $ xemacs Fatal error (11). Your files have been auto-saved. Use `M-x recover-session' to recover them. Please report this bug to the address [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. *MAKE SURE* to include as much configuration information as possible; at the very least what OS and hardware you are running on, and hopefully also what compiler and compiler options the binary was compiled with, what options XEmacs was compiled with, whether you are using a prebuilt binary from ftp.xemacs.org or compiled XEmacs yourself for your system, etc. If at all possible, *please* try to obtain a C stack backtrace; it will help us immensely in determining what went wrong. To do this, locate the core file that was produced as a result of this crash (it's usually called `core' and is located in the directory in which you started XEmacs, or maybe in your home directory), and type gdb /usr/bin/xemacs core then type `where' when the debugger prompt comes up. (If you don't have GDB on your system, you might have DBX, or XDB, or SDB. A similar procedure should work for all of these. Ask your system administrator if you need more help.) Lisp backtrace follows: Segmentation fault (core dumped) $ gdb /usr/bin/xemacs core GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it under certain conditions; type show copying to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type show warranty for details. GDB 4.16 (i586-debian-linux), Copyright 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc... (no debugging symbols found)... Core was generated by `xemacs'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d/libXaw.so.6... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libcompface.so.1... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.6a...(no debugging symbols found)... done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libpng.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)... done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libz.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /lib/libncurses.so.3.0...(no debugging symbols found)... done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)... done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libdb.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.5...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.5...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. #0 0x40296bb5 in __kill () (gdb) where #0 0x40296bb5 in __kill () #1 0x806e70d in fatal_error_signal () #2 0xbfffe56c in ?? () #3 0xa29 in ?? () Cannot access memory at address 0x616d2d6b. (gdb) quit -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
libc5 version 5.4.23-6
I'm not sure what the sequence was but I somehow have managed to get a version 5.4.23-6 of libc5 installed. Running dselect using the ftp method from ftp.debian.org and with the distributions as frozen unstable hamm/contrib hamm/non-free shows version 5.4.23-4 of libc5 as the available version. I also have libc5-altdev installed but at version 5.4.23-4. It depends on libc5-5.4.23-4 so I get a dependency problem whenever I try to select with dselect. Would this inconsistency in versions be a problem? Should I manually download and install libc5-5.4.23-4.deb? As you may surmise from my using libc5-altdev, I also have libc6 and libc6-dev installed. I am running into a few problems. For example, I am unable to compile a new kernel with either /usr/bin/gcc or /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/bin/gcc (details available upon request). sh-2.00# dpkg -l | egrep libc# show installed versions of libc-related pkgs ii altgcc 2.7.2.2-2 Alternate gcc package for the libc5 environm ii glibcdoc1.92-1 GNU C library Info documentation (edition 0. ii libc4 4.6.27-15 The Linux C library version 4 (run-time libr ii libc5 5.4.23-6 The Linux C library version 5 (run-time libr ii libc5-altdev5.4.23-4 The Linux C library version 5 (alternative d ii libc6 2.0.3-4The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files) ii libc6-dev 2.0.3-4The GNU C library version 2 (development fil -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
libc6 version 2.0.3-4 and ecvt
I have reported this as a bug in the libc6 package but I think it is
important enough to warn people on this list also. It appears that
the ecvt function in libc6 version 2.0.3-4 is producing incorrect
results. A test program shown below produces different results when
compiled against libc6 and against libc5. According to the manual
page for ecvt the results from the libc5 version are the correct
results.
bash-2.00$ cat ecvt_test.c
#include stdio.h
#include stdlib.h
void main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int decpt, sign; char * result;
result = ecvt((double) 1234.567, (size_t) 7, decpt, sign);
printf(result is %s, decpt is %d, sign is %d\n, result, decpt, sign);
result = ecvt((double) -987.654321, (size_t) 7, decpt, sign);
printf(result is %s, decpt is %d, sign is %d\n, result, decpt, sign);
result = ecvt((double) 0, (size_t) 7, decpt, sign);
printf(result is %s, decpt is %d, sign is %d\n, result, decpt, sign);
}
bash-2.00$ /usr/bin/gcc ecvt_test.c -o ecvt_test_libc6
bash-2.00$ ldd ecvt_test_libc6
libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4000f000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000)
bash-2.00$ /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/bin/gcc ecvt_test.c -o ecvt_test_libc5
bash-2.00$ ldd ecvt_test_libc5
libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4000b000)
bash-2.00$ ecvt_test_libc5
result is 1234567, decpt is 4, sign is 0
result is 9876543, decpt is 3, sign is 1
result is 000, decpt is 0, sign is 0
bash-2.00$ ecvt_test_libc6
result is 11234.567, decpt is 4, sign is 0
result is 9987.6543, decpt is 3, sign is 1
result is 00.00, decpt is 1, sign is 0
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Yet another PPP question
I have been using Debian 1.3 with a 2.1.35 kernel at home. I usually connect to my ISP using xisp but I also have pppd configured. Recently I upgraded to libc6. I'm not sure that I got all the needed pieces in place. One side-effect of the upgrade is that both pppd and xisp now fail immediately after establishing the connection. After running pppd the tail end of /var/adm/messages looks like May 25 10:39:10 localhost chat[200]: slip-server -- got it May 25 10:39:10 localhost chat[200]: send (ppp^M) May 25 10:39:10 localhost pppd[198]: Serial connection established. May 25 10:39:11 localhost pppd[198]: Using interface ppp0 May 25 10:39:11 localhost pppd[198]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/cua1 May 25 10:39:13 localhost pppd[198]: Hangup (SIGHUP) May 25 10:39:13 localhost pppd[198]: Modem hangup May 25 10:39:13 localhost pppd[198]: Connection terminated. May 25 10:39:13 localhost pppd[198]: Exit. Any ideas where to start looking for the program that may be failing? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
netscape-beta: where should java40.jar be?
I have the netscape-beta package installed using communicator-v40b3-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz I thought I removed the netscape package before installing this but I may not have purged the netscape package. If I try to run a java applet I get the message that java40.jar is not on the CLASSPATH. The file java40.jar is in /usr/lib/netscape/java/classes with a symbolic link in /usr/lib/netscape. Right now /usr/local/lib/netscape exists but is completely empty. Netscape seems to be convinced that this should be the first part of my CLASSPATH. So, have I managed to get this botched up beyond all recognition? Is the best course to purge the netscape package and re-install the netscape-beta? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ftp dselect for unstable/non-free
Recently Tim Sailer mentioned that the mysql package is in hamm. When I ran dselect from ftp.debian.org using the ftp method I did not see any trace of it. I then looked a bit more closely and discovered that it was in hamm/non-free. If I want to see the development versions of the non-free packages listed in dselect instead of the stable versions what do I specify for the debian directory and for the list of distributions? I tried a couple of combinations such as the one below but with no joy. Either a Packages file is not available or the name under which a package is being selected is off by one directory. I enclose a sample run. BTW, since this is an important piece of software for the Debian release I will take the liberty of suggesting a spelling correction in this output. It should be space separated, not space seperated. Some (human) editors would even insist upon space-separated list but that may be getting too pedantic. Enter debian directory [/debian/hamm]: /debian Note: order here is important. Package files are scanned in order so later distributions will override earlier ones. So put stable before unstable. Enter space seperated list of distributions to get [non-free contrib hamm]: hamm Enter directory to download binary package files to (relative to /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/) [debian]: Using FTP to check directories...(stop with ^C) Connecting to ftp.debian.org... Login as anonymous... Setting transfer mode to binary... Cd to /debian... Checking hamm/binary-i386... Warning: Couldn't find a Packages file in hamm/binary-i386 This may not be a problem if the directory is a symbolic link Closing ftp connection... press return to continue -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /sbin/dump unable to resolve 'ext2_llseek'
Norris Preyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Douglas Bates writes: Here is a dummy run of /sbin/dump to show the symptoms. ... /sbin/dump: can't resolve symbol 'ext2_llseek' /sbin/dump: can't resolve symbol 'ext2_llseek' /sbin/dump: can't resolve symbol 'ext2_llseek' DUMP: Interrupt received. DUMP: Do you want to abort dump?: (yes or no) yes DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. Any suggestions on what has gotten out of sync? Even better, any suggestions on how to repair the problem? Downgrading e2fsprogs to 1.06-3 (in stable) fixed dump for me. It looks like the problem is a name mismatch. The symbol that /sbin/dump wants to find is ext2_llseek but the symbol in /lib/libext2fs.so.2.3 is ext2fs_llseek. I tried to recompile /sbin/dump from the source package but was unsuccessful. It appears that one of the main include files, /usr/include/ctype.h, is broken. I'll have to fix that first. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
/sbin/dump unable to resolve 'ext2_llseek'
On Tuesday I installed several updated packages from bo. I noticed this morning that file system dumps have been failing since then. Here is a dummy run of /sbin/dump to show the symptoms. franz# /sbin/dump 0f /dev/null /spare1 DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu May 1 17:13:35 1997 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda1 (/spare1) to /dev/null DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 41266 tape blocks on 1.06 tape(s). DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] /sbin/dump: can't resolve symbol 'ext2_llseek' /sbin/dump: can't resolve symbol 'ext2_llseek' /sbin/dump: can't resolve symbol 'ext2_llseek' DUMP: Interrupt received. DUMP: Do you want to abort dump?: (yes or no) yes DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. Any suggestions on what has gotten out of sync? Even better, any suggestions on how to repair the problem? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
kerberos packages?
A couple of weeks ago I believe that there was some mention of Kerberos-4 and Kerberos-5 packages to appear on the non-US sites real soon now. Does anyone have an updated ETA for these? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: kernel 2.1.3x?
Brian N. Borg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a working 2.1.31 kernel that I compiled. Some of the modules, such as vfat and serial, load ok but scsi_mod has missing symbols that prevent my aic7xxx from loading. --Brian. Hamish Moffatt wrote: Anyone having much luck with 2.1.3x? I'm running 2.1.29 and it's fine, except that the nfs module doesn't insert. But no luck with 2.1.33 or 2.1.35; both have lots of missing symbols on all the hardware drivers, probably relating to PNP support. I just ftpd the whole 2.1.35 source and the new modutils 2.1.34 and will see how it goes, I have been patching up. Anyone else having this? Nobody in the linux.dev.kernel group (or the mailing list) seem to have mentioned it. Hamish I just compiled a fresh 2.1.35 kernel for my home machine (IDE-based). When I try to boot this kernel, either from the IDE disk or from a floppy disk, I get the messages about uncompressing the kernel, then now booting the kernel, then nothing. Well, actually not nothing. There is a whole lot of disk activity on the IDE disk at this point, even when booting off the floppy. When I eventually halt this and reboot an old kernel, it has to fsck my disk partitions because they look dirty. So I don't even get as far as finding out that there are missing symbols. We were able to compile and boot a 2.1.35 kernel for my office machine but that has / on a SCSI disk. We do have an old IDE drive in there as well and this morning the driver for that got jammed to the point that we had to reboot. It appears that the 2.1.3x series of kernels are indeed development versions. I think I will stay with the 2.0.3x series for a while. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Multiple ISP setup
Chow == Chow Chi-Ming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chow Dear all, Just wonder what is a good ppp dial-up setup for Chow multiple ISPs. I want to be able to choose which ISP to dial Chow up easily (read: without having to edit /etc files manually Chow each time I have to switch). Chow Is there a tool for this? You may want to look at the xisp package in the contrib section if you are running X. Xisp allows you to store and use configurations for several different ISP's. Its window also provides you with information on the connection speed, dynamic IP number, and elapsed time. I have noticed that I need to run it as root for it to complete its work. If I run it under a non-root login, even one in the ppp group, it does all the dialing and establishing the connection, starting ppp, etc. then hangs. I suspect there are permission problems with ifconfig or something like that. I haven't had time to look at it so I just spring up a root window and run it from there.
crc error in kernel after fresh install
I just finished a fresh install using disks from the bo directory on ftp.i-connect.com dated April 8. I believe I saw something on the screen about the base disks being created on April 4. As I recall the rescue disk identifies itself as being a Feb 12 vintage. I got through the installation fine and made a boot floppy. I also made the first hard drive bootable. Neither method will now boot. Directly after Uncompressing Linux... I get crc error --System halted. I can believe the boot floppy not working could be caused by a bad floppy disk but getting the same behaviour from both the boot floppy and from the hard drive makes me suspicious. It seems likely that the compressed kernel being written to both places is corrupt. Is it worthwhile doing the installation over? The rescue disk boots fine.
Re: xemacs and emacs
Jean == Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jean I have both working fine on my system which is based on the Jean unstable branch. Didn't have to do anything special. Jean On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote: Can someone explain why the xemacs and emacs packages can't coexist on the same Debian system? (What would it take to make them coexist?) I have the emacs package (i.e. GNU emacs) installed. If I try to select the xemacs package with dselect, I am told that there is a dependency conflict and I must remove emacs, w3, vm and several other packages to install xemacs. At least at the level of Debian packages they still appear to conflict.
Re: Future Domain controller
I == Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I I have an old PC that I want to Debianize. It has a Future I Domain ISA SCSI controller. The exact model is the TMC-1680. I The disks are some crufty old DEC RZ23's that I salvaged from some I DECstations. I The DOS device drivers distributed with the controller will I recognize and access these drives. The kernel on the Debian I rescue disk that I tried (modification date of 1997-03-25 for the I disk image) finds the Future Domain controller but times out I waiting for a response from the drives. Eventually it declares I that no devices were found. Turns out it was an interrupt conflict and not the controller's interactions with the disks. I had inserted an ethernet card to do the conversion to Linux and I didn't pay close enough attention to the IRQ settings. The ethernet card was set to the same IRQ as the SCSI controller.
modules and modutils
I am also caught in the Catch 22 of trying to upgrade to modutils. As I recall the sequence was that I installed a new system with the dummy version of modules (2.1.x) in unstable but there was no companion modutils package at the time and I could not manipulate modules. I then backed out to the version 2.0.0-15 of modules in the stable directory. Now I can't remove the old modules and hence I can't upgrade to modutils. I can no longer find the dummy version of modules to try to do the installation the proper way. Even trying to force the installation of modutils doesn't seem to work # dpkg --force-conflicts --install modutils_2.1.23-2.deb dpkg: considering removing modules in favour of modutils ... dpkg: yes, will remove modules in favour of modutils. (Reading database ... 17076 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking modutils (from modutils_2.1.23-2.deb) ... Kernel was compiled with module support! Modules package cannot be removed! dpkg: error processing modutils_2.1.23-2.deb (--install): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: modutils_2.1.23-2.deb
Future Domain controller
I have an old PC that I want to Debianize. It has a Future Domain ISA SCSI controller. The exact model is the TMC-1680. The disks as some crufty old DEC RZ23's that I salvaged from some DECstations. The DOS device drivers distributed with the controller will recognize and access these drives. The kernel on the Debian rescue disk that I tried (modification date of 1997-03-25 for the disk image) finds the Future Domain controller but times out waiting for a response from the drives. Eventually it declares that no devices were found. Any suggestions? A brief glance at the source code for the device driver for this controller (isn't it wonderful to be able to say that?) indicates that there is a DO_DETECT flag to control some extra code. My next attempt will be to create a custom kernel with this flag enabled and build custom boot floppies unless there are better suggestions from the list. The old RZ23 drives had problems with other controllers in the past so it may be the specific type of drive. Suggestions welcome.
wish4.2 - the disappearing file
I recently installed the tk42 and tcl76 packages then went to recompile my kernel. On using make xconfig I discovered that tk didn't seem to be working. Trying to check further on this has produced some mystifying behaviour. $ ls -l /usr/bin/wish4.2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5780 Mar 3 21:41 /usr/bin/wish4.2 $ file /usr/bin/wish4.2 /usr/bin/wish4.2: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 386, version 1, stripped $ /usr/bin/wish4.2 /usr/doc/tk42/examples/hello bash: /usr/bin/wish4.2: No such file or directory I even checked with strace and the first call to execev with the argument of /usr/bin/wish4.2 fails. That message of No such file or directory can appear in mystifying ways for shell scripts but I have never seen a case like this before. One is reduced to shouting at the screen, It's there, I tell you. It's really there!. The reason I was recompiling the kernel is to adjust the IRQ's used by my sound card. I fell back on a plain make config but even that failed. When I indicated that I had an Ensoniq sound card it prompted later for the base address (SSCAPE_BASE) with the default of 330. No matter what I respond at that point it just returns a message that there is no help available for that variable. Does make config have difficulty with the hex type of variable? Suggestions welcomed. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madison
Re: cfdisk: Cannot seek on disk drive
Michael == Michael Iles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael I have only one physical drive, a 3.8 gig Quantum Fireball Michael that Linux = correctly detects. (At least I think it does; Michael I can see its name go by = in all the hardware information Michael that Linux prints while starting.) If I = switch to a Michael different console, though, I can't see anything on the Michael drive = (there's nothing in the /target directory). It did Michael read the partition = information _once_ though, so I assume Michael it can see the drive. Michael What's going on here? Can anyone help me on this? I had exactly the same problem installing onto that type of drive. I had to escape to a shell and use fdisk to partition the drive rather than cfdisk. It seems that cfdisk has out-of-date routines for seeking to parts of an IDE drive that are beyond the 2.0 Gb range. fdisk does not share this problem. It is less friendly than cfdisk but at least it works. Hope this helps. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madison
Debugging cvspserver
I am using cvs with the file repository on the machine in my office. I would like to be able to manipulate these files from the machine at home. Both are running Debian Linux and both have the cvs package installed. The machine at home will communicate via a PPP connection and will have a dynamically assigned IP number and name. I would much prefer to use the pserver authentication for cvs tranfers instead of rsh because I don't want to put all the possible dynamic addresses into a .rhosts file. I set up the cvspserver line in my /etc/inetd.conf file as follows. cvspserver stream tcp nowait root/usr/bin/cvscvs pserver When I try the login procedure, all I get is $ cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/CVS login (Logging in to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) CVS password: cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from franz.stat.wisc.edu: E Fatal error, aborting. Does anyone know what the responses from the server should be if I telnet directly to that port? (I can always read the sources but asking readers of this list is a lot easier :-) Alternatively, has anyone set up kerberos on a Debian Linux system and used the kserver method for cvs authentication? Other machines in my department use kerberos authentication so it may be best for me to install kerberos on both machines.
IDE Zip drive
Thanks to the suggestions from this list I do indeed have the IDE Zip drive working. The command mount -t msdos /dev/hdb4 /mnt is successful. Apparently I didn't try all the possible combinations previously. The web pages at http://www.torque.net/zip.html are very helpful.
IDE Zip drive
I recently bought a computer on which I had an internal Iomega Zip drive installed. I expected a SCSI or, perhaps, a parallel Zip drive. I was surprised when it came with an IDE Zip drive installed. The drivers for Windows 95 are all installed and the drive works fine with that. When Linux boots up it can't seek on the drive if there is no disk installed (not surprising) and eventually bypasses hdb. If there is a disk installed and I try to mount the DOS filesystem on the disk with # mount -f msdos /dev/hdb1 /mnt I get complaints about not being able to read the superblock. The Linux fdisk program can see the partitioning on the disk and it looks like a single DOS partition at hdb1 but fdisk also thinks that this partition starts and ends at weird places. Does anyone know how to handle this device? Should I build a kernel with support for IDE-based tapes or something like that? Any suggestions appreciated. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madison
Emacs-based mail programs with IMAP
I am now happily running Debian Linux systems both at the office and at home. When reading mail at the office I use VM within GNU emacs. To read from home I could run an emacs on the office system displaying on the X-server at home and start up VM but that is a lot of overhead just to read a couple of messages. (Of course, when you subscribe to debian-users you never have just a couple of messages but ...) I would prefer to run a mail user agent under emacs on the machine at home and have it communicate with the machine at the office. As I recall I can use POP with VM but I would much prefer to use IMAP so I can store messages back in folders on the office machine. I also prefer an emacs-based MUA because my fingers know emacs sequences so well by now. Are there any such emacs-based MUA's that support IMAP? Does gnus do so?
gdb and dynamically loaded code
I have version 4.16-2 of the gdb package installed. When I start gdb I get the warnings warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function. warning: GDB will be unable to debug shared library initializers warning: and track explicitly loaded dynamic code. It would be very helpful to me to be able to set breakpoints within dynamically loaded code. Is there something I can change in the set-up for gdb to allow me to track explicitly loaded dynamic code? Thanks in advance. Please reply by e-mail as I only receive the digests of this list now. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ldso package and perl
When using dselect to install several upgraded packages today I suddenly started receiving error messages from perl. Here is part of the transcript. ... Preparing to replace ldso (using .../base/ldso_1.8.2-1.deb) ... Unpacking replacement ldso ... Preparing to replace modules (using .../base/modules_2.0.0-8.deb) ... perl: can't load library 'libdl.so.1' perl: can't load library 'libdl.so.1' ... Running /sbin/ldconfig -p indicates that the required library is there. bash$ /sbin/ldconfig -p 50 libs found in cache `/etc/ld.so.cache' (version 1.7.0) 1 - ELF libvgagl.so.1 = /usr/lib/libvgagl.so.1.2.8 ... 28 - ELF libdl.so.1 = /lib/libdl.so.1.7.14 ... The installation eventually finished and now I can run perl again. Three packages (linux-util, gcc, and another that I forget) did not install correctly. On the second time an installation was attempted it was successful for these three. Is it possible that I need to clean up from other packages for which the post.inst scripts did not run when perl was temporarily unavailable?
lesstif and mp
The recent discussion of the Motif and lesstif libraries reminded me of my desire to compile the `mp' and `mptool' programs. The source code is available as ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/mpdist-3.3.2.tar.Z `mp' provides pretty PostScript printing of mail messages, digests, etc. I prefer it to genscript or other PostScript formatters when printing copies of e-mail. I myself don't use mptool which is a graphical user interface for mp. (These programs were developed by a person at Sun, hence the `tool' suffix.) mptool requires Motif libraries. Has anyone tried to compile it with the lesstif library? If so, have you been successful? I was considering creating a Debian package of mp and the other command-line programs in the package. Since I don't have any Motif libraries I would not be able to create even a static linked version of mptool unless it could be compiled against the lesstif libraries. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/
UncorrectableError from two disk sectors
`dmesg' shows a lot of messages about two sectors on my disk. For
example
hda: read_intr: error=0x01 { AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=1097170, sector=48787
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1097170,
sector=48787
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:05, sector 48787
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1097170,
sector=48787
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:05, sector 48787
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1044268,
sector=81
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03, sector 81
Should this be a concern? What action would be recommended?
Recommendations on mother boards?
I will soon be purchasing a custom system to run Debian GNU/Linux. Since I must get bids from different vendors, I might as well give detailed specifications if that will enhance the performance with Linux. Does anyone have comments on specific Pentium Pro motherboards? For example, Bruce Perens mentioned on this list some time ago that the combination of the IDE controller in the Triton chipset with an EIDE drive is as fast as fast, wide SCSI. I found that the system I was using had the Triton chipset and enabled the Triton-specific optimizations in the kernel. The results were very pleasing. Are there similar things to look for when purchasing a motherboard today? Please e-mail me and I will summarize to the list. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/
XFree86 3.1.2[DE]
I am using a Mach 64 card (ATI Winboost, as far as I can tell) that seems to hang when I run the XF86_Mach64 server. From various postings to this list I gather that there is hope I will be able to run it successfully with the XFree86 3.1.2E Mach64 server. My understanding is that the currently available Debian X11R6 packages are from XFree86 3.1.2 and to upgrade I will need first to install the 3.1.2D distribution from ftp.xfree86.org then to install the upgrade files for 3.1.2E. Can anyone confirm this? I would prefer an unnecessary upgrade. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/
Re: XFree86 3.1.2[DE]
This is just to correct a typo on my earlier message. I wrote: Doug Can anyone confirm this? I would prefer an unnecessary Doug upgrade. That last sentence doesn't make sense unless I have suddenly acquired masochistic tendencies. I meant to write I would prefer to avoid an unnecessary upgrade.
POP forwarding
I have friends visiting for a couple of weeks and I would like to help them access their e-mail while here. They are accustomed to using applications such as Eudora or Netscape under Windows to access a POP server. I can provide them with the opportunity to connect the Windows machine to a PPP account here but, because of firewalls, they will not be able to POP the mail directly from their home server. However, my Debian Linux machine can reach outside the firewall and access their home server for them. It seems easiest then to create accounts on this Linux machine for them and schedule cron jobs that establish a POP connection to their home server, pick up their mail and deposit it in /var/spool/mail. They can then pop their mail from this machine. Does anyone have suggestions on a) does this seem like a reasonable approach? b) if so, what would be good tools for creating such a POP forwarder? I have some experience with sockets under perl if that seemed to be a good way or I could treat this as an opportunity to get more exposure to Java. Both of these methods would take me a bit of time. Is there some tool in the Debian distribution that could do a quick-and-dirty job on this?
Australian mirrors
Most information on Debian mirrors lists three sites in Australia. For example, If you're looking for another Australian-specific Debian GNU/Linux mirror site then here is a list of all the official ones: ftp.tower.net.au /pub/linux/debian (Tower Networking P/L - Perth) ftp.it.com.au /mirrors/linux/debian (Informed Technology - Perth) ftp.usyd.edu.au/linux/debian (Sydney University - Sydney) The tower.net.au site is pretty much up-to-date but connections to it can become rather slow. Same goes for the it.com.au site. I expect the problem is saturation of the circuits to Perth. For me the usyd.edu.au site usually provides much faster response but it was last updated on Mar 9 - about 2 months ago. Are there any other official Debian mirrors in Australia? Is there anyone who can check if U. of Sydney's archive maintainer expects to update their mirror?
Re: xdm config after install
Maarten == Maarten Boekhold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maarten On Sun, 5 May 1996, Martin Schulze wrote: I would suggest doing a dpkg --configure xbase. Maarten Tried that, complained it couldn't do that, something was Maarten wrong and it was already installed I have a similar situation. I was already running an ELF-based version of Debian but I was a couple of months behind in package versions. Yesterday I updated my copies of packages, installed the new dpkg by hand then ran a massive dselect installation. Part of the dpkg installation picked up inconsistencies in various levels of /etc/rc.n and fixed them. Apparently there were daemons that were being started at lower levels of the init sequence then stopped at higher levels. When xbase was being installed I thought I responded that I wanted xdm to be started at boot time. Now I can see that after a reboot an xdm process is running but no X-server is started on the default display. If I try to configure xbase again I get # dpkg --configure xbase dpkg: error processing xbase (--configure): package xbase is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status `installed') Errors were encountered while processing: xbase I can run an X server as root by using startx. I cannot run it as a regular user; presumably because of permission problems. I would welcome suggestions on what to reconfigure so the X server starts up at boot time. -- Douglas Bates Dept. of Statistics, U. of Wisconsin-Madison (visiting at: Dept. of Statistics, U. of Adelaide) [EMAIL PROTECTED]or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
