Re: Mouse functionality
On 01/15/02 22:47:35 -0500, dman wrote: I'll disagree :-). People seem to have lots of trouble getting gpm and X to play nicely together, but once you know the basics it is easy : 1) pick the right protocol in gpm 2) set gpm repeat_type to 'raw' 3) use the _same_ protocol in X If you do that you'll have no problems. I'll second that. This is how I have mine configured. The mouse (MS Intellimouse Explorer) works wonderfully in X and at the console. The only gripe I have is that if I switch between workstations with my KVM switch, something happens to the mouse support when I come back to my Linux box. I have to restart the gpm daemon for things to correct themselves. I bit of a pain, but it's not too difficult to get to the console and restart gpm. Before setting it up this way, I had to kill the X session with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and restart. -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: X Configuration in Woody
On 01/12/02 14:51:51 -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: * Mark Wagnon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ...The problem is that it's driving my monitor at a resolution that 1) renders everything too small to read, and 2) that AFAIK, is outstide my monitor's capabilities. If it's a CRT monitor, max resolution depends on refresh rate. Your manual may list [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the max, but the monitor will work at e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max refresh rate on the video card also depends on the number of colour bits per pixel: higher bpp - lower refresh rate. Oh, and lower refresh rates are bad for your eyes. Fluorescent lights flickering at 50Hz and monitor flickering at 56Hz is a particularly nasty combination. It is a CRT. I always thought that driving your monitor harder than what its specs call for will result in a smoking paper weight. I usually shoot for a refresh rate around 70 Hz. There's a program called xvidtune, try it. Also, try pressing Ctrl - Alt - Grey + (or Grey -) to cycle through video modes. I've used xvidtune to fine tune my modelines in the past. There doesn't seem to be the traditional modeline in the XF86Config-4 file. Also, I generally set my monitor to use just one resolution. Maybe a bad idea, but in any case, I cannot cycle through resolutions using the Ctrl-Alt-+/- keys. Modern monitors go blank if you try driving them outside the specs. Old ones may go titsup. My monitor (a Sony Multiscan 200ES) is more than a couple years old. I would prefer it to keep its tits down ;-) That just reminded me of something. When I run xvidtune, it recognizes my monitor. Okay, this just got weirder. I fired up X just now to run xvidtune again. I ran it using my normal user account and X ran fine (at the correct resolution and everything). I had been running it as root before when I was receiving the incorrect resolution. Yep, still wrong as root. What the heck??? This is a nice little puzzle. As for fonts, you can tell X to use bigger fonts. heh. Those are going to need to be some BIG fonts for me to see the text without squinting. Thanks for the help. If you think of anything else, please let me know... -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: X Configuration in Woody
On 01/12/02 10:03:03 +0100, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: Edit your XF86config-4 file, look for lines like these (see below). Insert the correct frequency settings for your monitor, and the resolutions you want. BTW, if you specify more than one resolution, you can switch them on-the-run by pressing Ctrl+Alt+'+' or Ctrl+Alt+'-'. Hi Joachim, I posted my XF86Config-4 file at http://24.5.8.184/XF86Config-4.html, if you'd like to take a look. In responding to another message in this thread, I discovered that if I run X as a normal user, everything is okay, but when I run it as root, I get the weirdness. I don't run X as root, so it's probably no big deal, but still, I'd like to resolve the problem. X is pulling this info from somewhere, if not from the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. Thanks for the help! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Fetchmail Problems with Retrieving Mail
Hi all- Well fetchmail seems to be acting up on me here. I'm running 5.9.6-2, and haven't figured out how to run it as a system wide daemon yet, so I'm still doing the fetchmail -d 300 when I log in. Anyway, for some reason it stopped retrieving mail. I killed the process and tried running it with the -vvv options to see what I could see. Well, it would see a bunch of messages (around 220) and crap out when it started to retrieve them. I wish I had saved the output, but I didn't (sorry). I did a little looking around in the archives and found a reference to an issue with it when retrieving a lot of messages. I use my Yahoo mail account for the list so I just logged in via http and deleted a bunch of the list messages. I then tried running fetchmail again, and it worked like a champ, grabbing the 5 messages with ease. My question is...anyone else experiencing this and know how to address it? TIA! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Fetchmail Problems with Retrieving Mail
On 01/13/02 00:38:08 -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: Setup a system-wide /etc/fetchmailrc file. See the stuff at the top of /etc/init.d/fetchmail. I saw the instructions there and placed a system-wide config file under /etc, but it didn't look like it was working. There was no feedback when I started|stopped|restarted the service. I decided to remove the file and continue to use the previous fetchmail retrieval methods. I'll give it another shot now that I the problem with retrieval solved (to a degree). It's probably a problem with yahoo. Use a real email account. It sounds like that's the case. You may be right, but I haven't moved my account over from my Windows box yet as I receive a ton of stuff from friends|family|work that require me to use Windows to view|use them. I may just flip-flop accounts when I get moved from the @home network to my ISP's new network, which involves an email change. Thanks! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Fetchmail Problems with Retrieving Mail
On 01/13/02 01:07:05 -0800, Dmitriy wrote: On a retreival of a certain message server drops connection. You have to go into webmail account (which may be inaccesible for around 10 mins or so after attempt), and move all messages to a different folder. Then go through all of them until u see a You browser sent a malformed request to the server. Delete move that message. All the messages you could read through web interface are safe to move back into Inbox and receive with fetchmail. After a while problematic message gets accesible again. I have no Idea what is causing this a effect, by message from certain people on the list seem to become problematic more often then others. Ah, so maybe a mangled message seems to be the culprit? I wasn't as thorough as you in tracking down the problem. I just kept messages essential to solving issues on my system and deleted the rest. Thanks! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: X Configuration in Woody
On 01/13/02 02:18:58 -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 10:03:57PM -0800, Mark Wagnon wrote: On 01/12/02 10:03:03 +0100, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: Edit your XF86config-4 file, look for lines like these (see below). Insert the correct frequency settings for your monitor, and the resolutions you want. BTW, if you specify more than one resolution, you can switch them on-the-run by pressing Ctrl+Alt+'+' or Ctrl+Alt+'-'. Hi Joachim, I posted my XF86Config-4 file at http://24.5.8.184/XF86Config-4.html, if you'd like to take a look. In responding to another message in this thread, I discovered that if I run X as a normal user, everything is okay, but when I run it as root, I get the weirdness. I don't run X as root, so it's probably no big deal, but still, I'd like to resolve the problem. X is pulling this info from somewhere, if not from the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. WAG (wild-assed guess), but this sounds like something I experienced a few months ago. Well, just keep WAGging! I normally copy/move files I'm working on to the /root dir for safe-keeping. Whether or not it's good idea or not, I've done it over the last several versions of Debian and X without problems. I never knew that X would grab a config from ~/, interesting. I created a dir and moved them to that and X started up fine! The funny thing is that the resolution X was running at wasn't coming from the config files, but I had a XF86Config and an XF86Config-4 file there, so maybe X became confused and decided to do it's own thing. It's a good thing to know you're not going crazy... Thanks! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: X Configuration in Woody
On 01/13/02 14:28:21 -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: SCAREDNo, they couldn't have! ...RTFM'ing... They didn't./SCARED Modelines are optional in X v.4 because it can automagically configure itself on modern hardware. But you can still have them. Man XF86Config-4 is your friend. ;-) Yeah, I had to tweak my setup a little after getting things straightened out. All better now. I didn't think of reading the manpage for XF86Config-4 (had always looked at the one for XF86Config, duh!) Thanks for your help! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: X Configuration in Woody
On 01/12/02 09:47:56 -0600, Donald R. Spoon wrote: I have been on the same learning curve as you jsut a short while ago. I recall somewhere that the preferred method of creating the /etc/Xll/XF86Config-4 file IN DEBIAN is to use one of the Debian config tools. The only one I have been able to make work here is the dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 command, which brings up the debconf utility you see when you install Debian. It seems that Debian is constantly improving the debconf utility, and the last time I used it for configuring X (about a week ago) it had a few extra questions I had not seen before about creating special debconf-only sections in the resulting XF86Config-4 file. Anyhoo, here are some recollections from my faulty short-term memory that might relate to your resolution problem. Hi Donald, Yes, I went through the Advanced setup using debconf too. I set my system up to run at 1024x768 @ 16bpp. For some strange reason though, X is running at a much higher resolution--1400x1050 or something like that. I've placed my XF86Config-4 file on my web page. It can be viewed by pointing your browser here: http://24.5.8.184/XF86Config-4.html I entered my monitor specifics also. This is really weird. I expect X to start using 1024x768 and that's it. Why it's selecting the higher res is beyond me. Thanks! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: X Configuration in Woody
On 01/10/02 20:36:22 -0900, Greg C. Madden wrote: If you don't have a XF86config-4 file you don't have a complete Xfree 4.x install. It seems to me when I did this I had a mix of Xfree ver 3 4, no XF86config-4 just an XF86cconfig file. I can't remember exactly how I fixed this but maybe using 'dselect' and removing all Xfree-ver.3.x packages and making sure you have alll Xfree 4.x version packages. Hi, Thanks for the response! I am able to create an XF86Config-4 file using debconf. It's tailored to my system's specs, and X is functional. The problem is that it's driving my monitor at a resolution that 1) renders everything too small to read, and 2) that AFAIK, is outstide my monitor's capabilities. I would expect that my monitor would display some kind of out of range message, but it doesn't. My manual specifies that it is capable of 1280x1024, however X is driving it at a much higher resolution. Also, I beleive that I have only verion 4 files on board because I installed X after upgrading from potato. I could be wrong about that though. I'm not sure where else to look. I've hunted down and renamed all my XF86Config* files with the exception of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. I just don't understand where it's pulling the resolution setting it's using from. If anyone thinks of anything else...please share ;-) TIA! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
X Configuration in Woody
Hi all, I'm trying to get a dist-upgraded woody system to run X correctly. I've read through a previous thread about running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, but I still seem to be having a few problems. First, my monitor is being driven at resolutions I know will burn it up, but when configuring X, I selected to have a more modest 1152x864 at 16 bit color. However X is running at something like 1400x1050 (something really strange). I think I'll stick with this one problem for now, as it's the one that concerns me the most. Is this info stored anywhere else, because none of my modelines have a setting that high in my XF86Config-4 file. I've been poking around in the docs, but am not making much headway. Any help will be greatly appreciated... -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Mouse trouble in X using a KVM switch
On 12/17/01 10:14:44 -0600, Kent West wrote: Thanks for the reply Kent. This isn't a solution, but it might be a work-around. Try apt-get install gpm (and if necessary gpmconfig) to set up gpm. Change your XF86Config-4 file to: OptionDevice /dev/gpmdata Then when your mouse dies, you can probably just restart gpm (/etc/init.d/gpm restart) without having to restart X. I'll give it a shot. I just noticed something though. When I swithed to my Linux box, I didn't immediately grab the mouse and start clicking. I let it sit for about 5 seconds and then tried to use it. It seems to be working okay right now, and that's after nearly 18 hours of not being used. Maybe I just need a little patience. I'll continue my experiment, but if it seems like the rodent is going to get out of hand again, I'll give gpm a go. Thanks again! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Mouse trouble in X using a KVM switch
Hi all, I've set up two computers to share a monitor, keyboard, and mouse with a Belkin OmniCube 4-port KVM switch. The problem is that if I cycle through the ports on the switch, my mouse works fine so long as I return to my Linux box within 10 minutes or so (the period is just a guesstimate). If I leave the switch set to my Windows system and return to my linux system after an hour or so, the mouse behaves erratically. I have to restart X to tame it. My mouse is an MS Intellimouse Explorer. It's optical and has a wheel. It's also a USB model, but I'm using an adapter to contort it to PS/2. Here's how I have it configured: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse # Option Protocol PS/2 Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/mouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 Option Emulate3Buttons Option Emulate3Timeout 50 EndSection Originally it was setup to use the PS/2 protocol, but I needed the added functionality of the scroll wheel. Before changing the protocol and adding the ZAxisMapping entries, the mouse worked fine, even leaving my switch on the Windows box for an extended period of time. I was wondering if anyone else out there has had this problem and managed to find a solution. TIA! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Copying Linux to a new drive
On 07/29/01 17:47:03 -0700, Santiago del Roi wrote: How does one copy a complete Linux install from one hard drive to another? I've tried using the cp command with various parameters, but to no avail. There seems to be lots of special files and directories (/proc for example) that cp can't handle. Any suggestions? Hi there, I recently did this using the Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To as my guide: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html Everything went smoothly for me (that's saying a lot 8^) ), so you might want to start there. GL! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipchains for the firewall challenged
On 07/26/01 20:20:05 -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
I notice you've already applied another solution, but I hope I can
provide some direction should you (or anyone else) decide they'd like
to do it yourself:
I have found that the most useful thing in setting up ipchains or
iptables is to see and understand the diagrams representing packet
flow in the kernel code. Maybe that's not for everyone, and I'm more
of a visual learner (or something). Anyway, for ipchains, it looks
like this:
Diagram snipped
It's a little burly for your purposes. All you're talking about is a
packet filter, with no forwarding (and hence no masquerading, etc.) So
let's take out what's unimportant and reduce it to this:
Yeah, I had read through the IPChains Howto, and I think I got some of
the fundamentals down. I tend to learn by example, so as a newbie, I
had some trouble applying what was going on with the real world
example given in the howto to my own needs.
---
|ACCEPT/ lo interface |
v REDIRECT |
-- C -- S -- __ -- -- ___ --
h a|input |{Routing } |output |ACCEPT
e n|Chain |{Decision} ---|Chain |
c i|__| | |___|
k t | | | |
s y | | | |
u | v v | v
m | DENY/ Local Process | DENY/
| vREJECT | |REJECT
| DENY -
v
DENY
That's a bit more manageable, no? All you need to worry about are the
input and output chains. I'm going to recommend a very simple ruleset
for you; no need to mess around with all kinds of user-defined chains.
You might want (after reading some more and getting the hang of what's
going on here) to add some logging capabilities to the setup, but for
now, let's just roll a simple script:
Ah, yes. That was one of the problems I had. The example revolved
around forwarding packets, which then quickly got out of hand for me
when trying to figure out what I needed to do. I think I understood
most of what was being discussed, and when I do get around to setting
up a gateway machine for my home network (coming soon), I'll draw from
it. I think I'll go back and re-read it and focus on what each was
trying to be accomplished.
(I've been (happily) immersed in the iptables world and haven't used
ipchains in a while (and don't have a machine to test it on, either),
so if it has a couple of syntactical glitches in it, please bear with
me.)
No problem, just a great big thank you for taking the time to
explain this to me and others.
firewall script snipped
Thanks again, I've already added your message to my Saved folder!
--
Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A NEWBIE inquiry......
On 07/26/01 22:40:52 -0500, d wrote: I am running Windows SE 98+! V4.10.a on a PCChips PC100 MBD/w AMD K6 II 3D 400meg, 163.48meg RAM, USR 56k INT MDM plus a PCTEL WinModem (that is NOT being used at this time), two 8.4 gig IDE H/D's. One is setup to run WinBlows 98 the other I have set to 7 partitions, three for Debian v2.1 and three for Mandrake v7.0, there are 6 of them the other is just FREE SPACE. Hope to be able to access that from which ever one needs added space. Now my question is what would I have to do to set these up so I can access one from the other? I can now access the WinBlows from Mandrake, have NOT set things so I can do that from Deb just yet. The other is how can I get both of them to acknowledge my USR MDM, neither one will recognize it and MD never has even from my first install? I know there are HOWTO's and many other MAN pages and various other thingys, I spend most of a day just attempting to keep up with these messages. THE END. This has gone on far enough, I am going to give you the chance to do what most people DREAM of being able to do, TELL ME WHERE TO GO to reach my END. I can't help with your modem, but for accessing your other partitions I think what you might want to look at is the mount command and also the /etc/fstab file. The mount command is use for er, mounting partitions. The /etc/fstab file makes mounting filesystems much easier. check out the man page for mount. You might want to post some more info about how you have your Linux installations set up. One way to do this is to run the df command whick will give you output like this: mwagnon @ mordor:~/files/latex $ df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 198313 27166160893 14% / /dev/hda5 1007960 53996902760 6% /var /dev/hda6 495876 919469356 0% /tmp /dev/hda8 27201348961324 24858260 4% /usr /dev/hda3 5039592370716 4412872 8% /usr/local /dev/hda4 4911728249828 4412396 5% /home Try not to laugh too much at my partition scheme, I was just messing around and not too sure how to allocate all the space on this monster sized drive 8^) ONE more for the ROAD, please.where is a GOOD place for a NEWBIE that is NOT a programmer nor very familiar with UNIX or Linux to learn how to get started. I Know READ, READ, READ, etcetera, at 61 I do NOT have that much time left to do all of that. I don't think you're going to be able to get away from reading. I sounds like you already have an intro book, but Running Linux published by O'Reilly is a good book for getting a handle on the basics. You might take a look at local community colleges in your area. I took a UNIX class that was taught using Red Hat. It was a good intro to some of the basics and let me see what some of Linux's capabilities are. You might also look for any Linux User's Groups in your area. Check out http://noframes.linuxjournal.com:8080/glue/ for starters. I just found a LUG in San Antonio. Web site at: http://www.satlug.org/ Good luck, and hey, you've already tapped one of the best sources of info--this list! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Issues!!
This was posted earlier in the week: http://www.linuxiso.org/debian.html Don't forget to donate to the cause if you find yourself liking Debian (and you will). Good luck! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ipchains for the firewall challenged
Hi all, I'm playing around with ipchains, but I'm just not getting the example given in the IPCHAINS-HOWTO. It's based on a system that's forwarding packets, but I'm not doing that. All I have is a single box connected to the world with a cable modem connected to eth0. It doesn't seem to be that difficult, and I'm feeling really stupid for not being able to figure it out. I think what has me confused is the HOWTO author's use of user-defined chains and then compounding the difficulty is that he has set up most (all?) jumps from the forward chain. Are there any docs for the simple minded? I've searched on Google and have found a lot of examples pertaining to forwarding. Thanks in advance for any direction on this. -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipchains for the firewall challenged
On 07/22/01 02:27:26 -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: I'm not a big fan of it but pmfirewall is a popular starting point for people new to setting up firewalls. It can be found at http://freshmeat.net Thanks for the link. I used to to get set up and now I'm in the process of looking through the scripts too see what it did. Hopefully I'll be able to get ipchains set up on my own one of these days. If I may ask, why do you not like it? Is there something functionally wrong with it? Is it that the user is placing trust in someone else for securing a system? Are you a nuts-and-bolts, do-it-yourself kind of guy? Thanks again! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipchains for the firewall challenged
On 07/22/01 17:27:58 +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: Have a look at http://logi.cc/linux/ipchainsLogAnalyzer.php3 I'm sure I'll be using this to decipher logs in the near future. Thanks for the link! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Exim fetchmail procmail ...
On 07/20/01 20:51:35 -0700, Cam Ellison wrote: I looked at what I sent, and half the message is missing. Sorry about that -- I'm still trying to get used to using emacs with mutt. Here's another go at displaying fetchmailrc: poll mail.dccnet.com protocol auto username camellison password xx set syslog mda /usr/bin/procmail -d %s Any ideas will be gratefully received Are you having problems filtering your mail? For me procmail was a pain. I discovered (through this most excellent list) that exim has filtering capability via a .forward file in your home directory. You might want to take a look at the filter.txt.gz file in the exim docs directory. Using that as a guideline, I was able to configure exim, fectmail, and mutt to do what I need for email. If you're having problems with retrieving mail, then maybe you could run fectmail with the -v option and then inpspect the output. I can't reælly tell what you're requesting help with. Did you make an earlier post with more details? -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cannot play Audio Cds but Data Cds are fine (used to work)
On 07/19/01 23:15:43 +0100, Wayne wrote: Hi, Can anyone help me with this problem: I have an IDE cdwriter (Ricoh mp7080a) and have succesfully recompiled the kernel with scsi emulation etc and can now burn cds. (great) BTW I am running Potato 2.2.19pre21. Before doing the above audio cds worked fine, now when I put one in to play, start up say GCD nothing happens at all. I seem to remember deleting /dev/cdrom and have tried recreating it as a symlink to scd0 but I have a feeling this is incorrect. The line looks like this: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 may 21 20:25 scd0 - scd0 I have added a line to my /etc/lilo.conf like this: append=hdc=ide-scsi which is below the Linux Stanza. I altered the /etc/fstab file like this: hashed out existing /dev/cdrom line then added a line: /dev/scd0 /cdrom auto defaults,ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 TIA Hi Wayne, Are you able to listen to audio CDs as root? I had that problem, and what I ened up doing was changing the group for my device (/dev/hdb) to the cdrom group. I then added myself to the cdrom group and was able to play (and hear!) audio CDs as a normal user. I don't think the fstab entries have much to do with it. I think they just set you up so you can mount the drive easily, and I don't think you need to mount audio CDs to play them. I'm going to follow this thread closely, because I too have an IDE burner that I haven't gotten around to setting up yet. What's said here may help me dodge a bullet when I get ready to try. It's been too easy to reboot into Windows, are burn a disc when I need to. However, last weekend I reached the limit of my tolerance for the crashes and yanked the Windows drive. ;^) Good luck! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up printing
On 07/16/01 11:27:32 -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: http://www.ebbs.com.au/~mark/cups-gimp-print.html ), and it actually Hi, I tried getting printing set up on a potato system with the instructions found at the above URI, but I seem to be having a bit of a problem. All apparently went well with installing the cups package and creating/installing the filters. I am even able to configure the printer (an Epson 880) via the web interface. I checked out the logs and here's part of a abended print job: I [17/Jul/2001:22:31:14 -0800] Job 5 queued on 'Epson880' by ''. I [17/Jul/2001:22:31:14 -0800] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 4839) for job 5. I [17/Jul/2001:22:31:14 -0800] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster (PID 4840) for job 5. I [17/Jul/2001:22:31:14 -0800] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertoprinter (PID 4841) for job 5. I [17/Jul/2001:22:31:14 -0800] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 4842) for job 5. E [17/Jul/2001:22:31:15 -0800] PID 4841 crashed on signal 11! My /etc/printcap contains the following: Epson880: That's it! That doesn't look like any printcap I've ever seen! Is this normal with CUPS? Anybody able to offer suggestions? TIA! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Audio CD Problems with Potato
On 07/16/01 21:12:16 -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: The easiest way I know is to manually edit the file /etc/group. Hmmm. I didn't think of that! ;-) Okay, will do. Thanks! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Audio CD Problems with Potato
On 07/17/01 13:55:01 -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: excerpted from usermod(8): excerpt snipped Yeah I read that. That was before I realized I could take a look at the /etc/group file to see what groups I belonged to (and I'm sure there's a more refined method for that too ;^) ), so I wasn't really sure what groups I was a member of, and omitting one by mistake didn't sound too appealing. Thanks! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Audio CD Problems with Potato
On 07/18/01 01:00:19 +, Robin Gerard wrote: Have a look at the attached mail that I send you. HTH That was really nice. I've saved that message for future reference. It worked like a charm and I'm in business and my system is safer for it too. Thanks! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Audio CD Problems with Potato
On 07/16/01 00:18:38 -0400, Ari Pollak wrote: Perhaps the problem is that you are trying to access an IDE device (/dev/hdc or whatever your CD-ROM drive is) as a normal user that is not part of the disk group? Try adding yourself to disk, and see if that helps. I saw that the device I was trying to access belonged to the disk group. I didn't add myself because I wasn't sure about it from a security standpoint. Also, I didn't know if there was a different approach. I just added myself and logged in again. I'm now able to play my audio CDs. Thanks for the help! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Audio CD Problems with Potato
On 07/16/01 07:20:47 +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: Better is: add your user to the cdrom group and chmod the device to that group instead of disk. Thanks for the heads up. I know how to add a user to a group, but how does one remove a user from a group? I'm looking at the man page for usermod right now, and not really feeling too confident that it's going to do what I want. I don't want to remove myself from other groups, especially my default group. Can you (or anyone else) give me a hint? Thanks again! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Audio CD Problems with Potato
Hi all, I'm having some trouble getting audio CDs to play as an unpriviledged user. I am able to do so as root though, so it looks to me like a permission problem. I am able to send various audio files to /dev/dsp and /dev/audio as root. I have sound working in Ximian GNOME as a normal user. I added my normal user account to the audio group, thinking that this would solve the problem, but it didn't seem to. I have changed permissions on a couple of the audio device files, but I still seem to be having some trouble. changing the file access permissions for /dev/mixer to 666 allowed me to start gmix (I was not able to before). I'm just a little leary of changing all the files' permissions, which was the primary reason for adding myself to the audio group. Here are some listing for [all|some|???] my audioi-related files. mordor:/dev# ls -l /dev/mixer* crw-rw-rw-1 root audio 14, 0 Nov 30 2000 /dev/mixer crw-rw1 root audio 14, 16 Nov 30 2000 /dev/mixer1 crw-rw1 root audio 14, 32 Nov 30 2000 /dev/mixer2 crw-rw1 root audio 14, 48 Nov 30 2000 /dev/mixer3 mordor:/dev# ls -l /dev/midi* crw-rw1 root audio 35, 0 Nov 30 2000 /dev/midi0 crw-rw1 root audio 14, 2 Nov 30 2000 /dev/midi00 crw-rw1 root audio 14, 18 Nov 30 2000 /dev/midi01 crw-rw1 root audio 14, 34 Nov 30 2000 /dev/midi02 crw-rw1 root audio 14, 50 Nov 30 2000 /dev/midi03 crw-rw1 root audio 35, 1 Nov 30 2000 /dev/midi1 crw-rw1 root audio 35, 2 Nov 30 2000 /dev/midi2 crw-rw1 root audio 35, 3 Nov 30 2000 /dev/midi3 mordor:/dev# ls -l /dev/audio* crw-rw1 root audio 14, 4 Nov 30 2000 /dev/audio crw-rw1 root audio 14, 20 Nov 30 2000 /dev/audio1 crw-rw1 root audio 14, 36 Nov 30 2000 /dev/audio2 crw-rw1 root audio 14, 52 Nov 30 2000 /dev/audio3 crw-rw1 root audio 14, 7 Nov 30 2000 /dev/audioctl mordor:/dev# ls -l /dev/dsp* crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Nov 30 2000 /dev/dsp crw-rw1 root audio 14, 19 Nov 30 2000 /dev/dsp1 crw-rw1 root audio 14, 35 Nov 30 2000 /dev/dsp2 crw-rw1 root audio 14, 51 Nov 30 2000 /dev/dsp3 All this is on a self-rolled 2.2.19pre17 kernel. Any clues? Thanks in advance! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Move Installation to Larger Drive?
Hi all, I know this is off-topic, but figured this would be the place to get an expert opinion. I just purchased a 30 Gig drive and want to know if it's possible to move my current installation over to it? If so, does anyone have any links to documentation detailing how? TIA! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scroll Wheel
On 07/09/01 16:09:37 -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: Sorry to intrude, but I couldn't pass this up. I'm running testing and I'm having trouble getting my USB mouse scroll wheel to be seen. I have this setup in my XF86Config-4 file, but nothing seems to register the scrollwheel. I even tried xev, and the scroll wheel only generates an event when pressed. Rolling it generates no events that xev reports. I am using a 3 button USB Logitech mouse with the combo scroll- wheel and center button. It sounds like you have the same type of mouse as I do. I haven't put much effort into figuring out how to add support for the wheel, but this thread prompted me to try a few of the suggestions. Here's the Pointer Section of my XF86Config-4 file: # ** # Core Pointer's InputDevice section # ** Section InputDevice # Identifier and driver Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse #Option ProtocolPS/2 Option Device /dev/mouse # Added by Mark Wagnon on 7/9/01 Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Buttons 5 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 The rest of the section is omitted, since it's all commented out in my file. Anyway, I added the noted entries one at a time until I got it to work. I started with the ZAxisMapping, then Buttons, and finally the new Protocol. After changing the protocol I was able to scroll within gmc and Opera. I'll check out a few more in a bit, but I can't believe it was this simple. I hope this helps you get yours going. Good luck! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Mail from OE to linux and more
On 07/09/01 02:31:03 -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: Hi! This is a little long-winded, so bail now if you're not interested in newbie mail setup woes... I hope you can make some sense out of my reply. It's a little all over the place. The bulk of my reply is at the bottom... I'm yet another person who'd love to completely transition from Windows to Linux. And yes, I use Outlook and yes, getting mail really working on Linux is the biggest obstacle to my completing the transition. Yeah, mail is pretty important. I'm in the process of documenting my mail setup experience to share with others. I like Mutt. I'm willing to learn it. There've been very cool posts to this list about customizing it. But despite reading the fetchmail man pages and the relevant sections of Running Linux, the Network Administrator's Guide, and Linux in a Nutshell, I'm still confused. Here's what I'm trying to do, advice on both stategy and technique is appreciated: Task 1. While logged in to my debian system as 'paul', get my @Home mail and send all outgoing mail through @Home's smtp server with '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' as the return address. As I understand it, I should be able to do this without just fechtmail and mutt. Do you mean with or without? I'm a little confused. Mutt has some option to change the from header for outbound mail. I don't use it, so I can't pin it down for you. Fetchmail is used to fetch mail. It doesn't send mail. Progress: I've successfully set up a .netrc file in my home directory to handle the username password. My.fetchmailrc file is: poll mail.xxx.yyy.home.com proto pop3 user pmackinney is paul That looks okay to me. and I invoke fetchmail with just the -k argument (because I'm testing). But outbound mail doesn't get sent. Try it with the -vvv option too so you can see any errors that might pop up. Task 2. Use exim to forward all administrative and local mail to user 'paul', to a mailbox that mutt can access. This is not working at all, I've run eximconfig trying each of the 6 default options. As near as I can figure, the only domain I should really have to set in the exim config file is localhost, and make sure that the alias file points everything to 'paul'. But it ain't working. Once the two above tasks are accomplished, I'll get to work on customizing mutt, use procmail to sort incoming mail into different mailboxes, and configure exim/mutt so that messages sent to the local system get sent with the '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' return address. But these 2 tasks essential for me to feel comfortable in migrating my email from Windows. I have a very similar, if not identical setup as you. The first thing I did was get exim configured. You need to run eximconfig. I selected option 2 and then proceeded through all the questions. I accepted the defaults with the exception of the smtp host which I set to mail.xxx.yyy.home.com and sending the postmaster and root mail to my user account. You then might want to take a look at the exim.conf file and make sure the your local_domains has localhost and your hostname listed. Also, look for trusted_users and add your local account name there. Mine looks like this: trusted_users = mail:mwagnon This apparently will make it easier on your Outlook using friends when replying to you ;-) After that, you're going to need to get the rewriting stuff taken care of. Look at the REWRITE CONFIGURATION at the end of the exim.conf file. You set up those aliases in /etc/email-addresses. Assuming you're able to get mail without any problems with fetchmail, you're almost set. For me, procmail is a pain. I use a .forward file in my home directory to filter mail. Here's a snippet of mine: # Exim filter == do not edit or remove this line! if error_message then finish endif elif $h_Resent-From: contains debian-user then save $home/Mail/IN.Debian-User else save $home/Mail/Inbox endif You might want to check the filter.txt.gz file in /usr/share/doc/exim for more info on this. If you can compare my recommendations to what you did and get back to the list, we can get a better jump on setting your mail system up. Good luck! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Microsoft Reader... argh!
On 07/08/01 10:26:34 -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: I'd like to assign a book for a class this fall that is published only in hardcover and in something called Microsoft Reader format. The MS Reader format is about 1/2 the price, which matters (I don't like to make students pay more than necessary, particularly at a public school.). According to Amazon, the MS Reader is available only for Windows. Does anyone else know about this gizmo, what the format is, etc? I'm not willing to let Microsoft have a monopoly on my class, so if in fact it's Windows-only I'll either not assign the book (and let the publisher know!) or make them go with the expensive hardback. As a continuing student, I'm glad to hear that professors like yourself think about students' bank accounts. Thanks! Personally, I like to have access to a nice text with actual pages. I can take it anywhere and not worry about hosing my PDA/eBook reader or whatever, and I'm not be chained to my computer (although some in my family believe that's happened ;-) ). If the eBook was in HTML or some other format easily decipherable by other party's technologies, I'd say go for it, but since it looks like it's MS' attempt to secure the eBook market for itself, I would avoid purchasing/recommending it in that format. Can you imagine a world where trees are no longer cut down to produce paper for books (yay!), yet the only format available is MS' (boo!)? If MS disagreed with a publisher's views, they could yank their licensing. Scary stuff. I would write the publisher and let them know how you feel whichever way I went though. Just my two pennies. -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail from OE to linux and more
On 07/04/01 03:29:53 +, Lambrecht Joris wrote: Any hints on what i might be overlooking ? I don't want to get stuck with some mailclient eating up my mail without a chance to export it later on . . . hence i chose the fetchmail/sendmail combo. I dunno. I tried to configure sendmail once on a Redhat box. I gave up. For me, setting up exim is *much* simpler. Plus you don't have to mess with procmail. Have you tried taking a look at any log files that sendmail may be leaving behind? Check out /var/log/ and look for references to sendmail, mail, or something along those lines. There's probably some info hiding there somewhere that might get you closer to solving your problem. Also, i want to import my OE mail and adress book into my Linux system, any good hints on what software/procedure to use ? Doesn't OE have some kind of export feature for this stuff? I never warmed up to OE very much. On the Dark, um, I mean Windows side, I'm a Eudora user. I would think that if you could get the address book into a text file, you should be able to copy and past it into an address book under Linux. Not so sure about the mail though, with different mailbox formats and all. I'm sure someone here can help though. As for mailclients on X11. I have tested Mahogany (mahogany.sourceforge.net), CSCMail (www.cscmail.net) , Spruce (spruce.sourceforge.net) but none of them look satisfying for the time being. To slow, to unstable, to barebones ... I'm not really fond of MUTT but am using it in the meantime, i need that daily dose. Mutt is it for me. I've tried other gui clients, and while impressive looking and all, they had their little quirks and instabilities. I think Mutt just plain kicks booty. Plus, if for some bizarre reason you can't start an X session, you can still read your mail with Mutt. With those others, you're SOL. Not of much help was I? -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GTK Errors using GNOME in Testing
Hi all, I did an upgrade tonight and decided to take a look at GNOME after a brief stint with KDE. Anyway, I noticed that things were pretty slow when it came to GNOME-ified apps. The control panel and gmc took their sweet time in launching and moving from section to section under the control panel was equally slow. I decided to take a look at the console I started the X session from and there was a screenfull of error messages like so: Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_signal_disconnect_by_data(): could not find handler containing data (0xE23EADO) Interspersed were a few of these messages: /bin/sh: esd: command not found Does anyone know what might be the culprit for the first? And just what is esd? I searched the package directories on the Debian site and came up empty handed. It is that sound server thing? TIA! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GTK Errors using GNOME in Testing
On 07/04/01 16:34:08 +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: I did an upgrade tonight and decided to take a look at GNOME after a Did you use dselect? well, not dselect exactly, apt-get. Well, it's designed to compete with microsoft windows. Try to follow the same hardware specifications. Or install fvwm. :-) ;-) It shouldn't have too many problems runnnig as I have an 800 MHz Athlon with 256M of RAM. Actually, this morning it seems a LOT snappier. /bin/sh: esd: command not found It expects the package esd installed on your system. If you see these messages, there should have been a depends: esd in the package that emits these messages. Instead there is probably just a suggests: esd somewhere. If you do not use dselect, you might not have noticed these details. Shouldn't APT and dselect get the same results? I though APT was a front-end to dselect. Well, I found and installed (via APT) the esound packages and all seems to be well now. Thanks! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GTK Errors using GNOME in Testing
On 07/04/01 12:02:24 -0400, D-Man wrote: | I did an upgrade tonight and decided to take a look at GNOME after a | brief stint with KDE. Anyway, I noticed that things were pretty slow | when it came to GNOME-ified apps. The control panel and gmc took their | sweet time in launching and moving from section to section under the | control panel was equally slow. I decided to take a look at the I don't know why it would be slow for you. It is nice and fast for me. I really like GNOME (with Sawfish as window manager). Same setup, but it seems to have corrected itself overnight. The upgrade I performed downloaded some 40+ packages, so maybe it was doing some behind-the-scenes organization for a little while. I ignore these. I see lots of similar messages from a lot of GTK/GNOME apps. They are just warnings, but the app probably ought to check the condition first so you don't get the warning. Normally I would've. I've seen similar messages before, but since this was a new install, I assumed a cause-and-effect relationship. Yes Enlightened Sound Daemon. I don't have a sound card in this Ah, thanks. I wonder why my search for esd didn't turn this up. Oops, now I know. I searched the package directories instead of the contents. I must have been more tired than I thought. I've installed the esound package and the abherrant behavior has ceased. Thanks for the help! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GTK Errors using GNOME in Testing
On 07/04/01 19:45:39 +0300, Amardeep Singh wrote: On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Mark Wagnon wrote: i think it is a known problem (check gnome mailing lists archives or google). it occurs when esd is not present or improperly configured. installing esd should make the problem go away. Ah, okay. I installed the esound package this morning and all is well. Thanks! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Re: Mail from OE to linux and more
On 07/04/01 10:00:37 +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: are you kidding me? OE can *import* everything, but export only to Outlook. Now why would micro$oft provide a feature that would facilitate switching away from their product??? Yeah, I forgot about the black hole located at Redmond, WA, USA. ;-) -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing Question
Hi Larry, I CCd this to the debian-user list in order to preserve the thread. On 07/02/01 23:16:38 -0500, Lance Simmons wrote: On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 08:35:35PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: My parallel port is still being detected at boot, here's the excerpt from dmesg: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP] parport_probe: succeeded parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus COLOR 880 Are you sure this line identifying EPSON was displayed when you couldn't print to /dev/lp0? I have an EPSON Stylus COLOR 900, and sometimes the appropriate dmesg line _doesn't_ appear, and when that happens, I can't print. I haven't figured out a way to fix that without turning off the printer, rebooting, and turning the printer on. I haven't noticed any pattern to when it fails to be detected. Yes, that came from dmesg on my last reboot, and I wasn't able to print. I took your advice and turned off the printer and rebooted. After logging back in, I was able to print. That's strange. But knowing about it is half the battle. I'm able to print text and pdf files, but I'm having some problems with ps. I'll look into that tomorrow. At least I know I'm not going crazy. If you can dual boot into Windows, you might check to see if you get an error message when you try to print. A couple of times I've tried this and discovered the windows driver was reporting a paper error (even though the paper looked just fine to me). When I jiggled the paper and got the windows error messages to go away, and then rebooted into linux, I could print again. I didn't get that far, it started behaving after a reboot. I hope someone has some good suggestions, so I can figure out how to get my printer to work without having to reboot! Yes, it would be nice to get to the bottom of it. Thanks for the tip/insight/help! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing Question
On 07/02/01 23:11:38 -0700, Norbert Froese wrote: Thank you so much for CCing this to the list. You're welcome. I'd figured there'd be lurkers interested. I can't be the only one with the same problem (can I?). I have been completely baffled as to why I could not get so much as a sound out of my printer since I installed debian. This was despite dmesg output very similar to yours, including my EPSON 777 being recognized. By booting with the printer off (which I never even considered doing before) I am now able to print by sending a text file directly to /dev/lp0. Neither did I. This printer is a relatively recent purchase for me. I had an HP Laserjet 6L before that would power down automagically. I don't know if that was why I was fortunate enough to to have this problem then, or if it's something screwey with Epson printers. Now on to trying to get the filter right. I'm sure I'll have to resort to asking the list for help, but I'll take some time to try to muddle through myself. Yeah, I'm doing this too. I'm still unable to print postscipt docs, which is kinda weird, because it looks like the CUPS filters converto to ps from other formats before printing. Another puzzle to figure out... -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache config question
On 07/02/01 13:18:23 -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: I bet you're running portsentry... When you installed apache, portsentry was already listening on pot 80. When you rebooted, apache was started before portsentry, so it got the port and portsentry left it alone since there's something legit there now. Aha! That's nice to know in case I run into this problem again. Thanks! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie doc volunteers
Hi Will, I'm interested. I've been reading the docbook documentation and putting together an account of my experiences getting exim, fetchmail, and mutt to play on my system. I signed up for a sourcefoge account, I just haven't joined up yet. I'll get back to you (maybe off list) when I get it together. Hopefully that won't bee too far off, but I'm prepping for an interview in the next week, so I may not devote much time to it until after that. Cheers. -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing Question
Hi all, again: This is starting to drive me crazy. I decided to give CUPS a spin, since I haven't been able to get plain text files to print with the lpd/magicfilter combo. Anyway, before installing CUPS (maybe sooner, but I have tried to print anything since playing with this yesterday), I was able to send a file directly to /dev/lp0 and receive output. Now I can't. What gives? If that worked before, shouldn't that work now? My parallel port is still being detected at boot, here's the excerpt from dmesg: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP] parport_probe: succeeded parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus COLOR 880 lp0: using parport0 (polling). CUPS seems to be receiving print jobs, but I'm getting errors like this: E [02/Jul/2001:19:47:59 -0800] PID 552 stopped with status 1! I [02/Jul/2001:20:02:33 -0800] Job 12 queued on 'epson' by 'root'. I [02/Jul/2001:20:02:33 -0800] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops (PID 737) for job 12. I [02/Jul/2001:20:02:33 -0800] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 738) for job 12. I [02/Jul/2001:20:02:33 -0800] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster (PID 739) for job 12. I [02/Jul/2001:20:02:33 -0800] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertoepson (PID 740) for job 12. I [02/Jul/2001:20:02:33 -0800] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 741) for job 12. Sorry for the long lines. I'm using the plain jane stcolor.ppd, for all this even though I have an Espon Stylus Color 880. I've played around a little more, and I'm not getting the error message like on the first line above. I'm thinking that there's something screwey with my /dev/lp0, now. Any ideas why I'd suddenly be unable to send files to this device directly? Thanks a TON in advance. -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache config question
Hi all- Scratch that. I had to reboot for some recreational activities under Windows last night, and when I came back to Debian this morning, Apache was working fine. I thought that by simply restarting the server would have sufficed, but whatever occurred during the boot process seemed to do the trick. Unfortunately, I don't know what that was. Bummer, but life goes on. -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing Question
Thanks for the response! On 07/01/01 11:05:45 +0800, Lamer wrote: install progeny, it does all I've had it installed once, but I didn't like it. I may not be that bright of a guy, but I still like to look under the hood and get my hands dirty. and then upgrade to woody Well, that's where I am now. I don't want to start anew. I'm planning on picking up a larger drive soon, so maybe I'll try your upgrade path to see how it goes. Until then, I guess I'll just keep pressing the form feed button on my printer. Thanks again -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache config question
On 07/01/01 13:51:29 -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: $ /etc/init.d/apache start ??? Yeah, I did that, several times. That's why I'm scratching my head wondering what else I may have done. Thanks though ;-) -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache config question
Hi Dimi! Thanks for the reply. On 07/01/01 17:02:36 -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: What does /var/log/apache/error.log say? [Fri Jun 29 20:10:47 2001] [alert] apache: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 24.5.8.184 for ServerName [Fri Jun 29 20:10:47 2001] [crit] (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to port 80 [Fri Jun 29 20:14:12 2001] [crit] (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to port 80 [Sun Jul 1 10:05:21 2001] [notice] Apache/1.3.19 (Unix) Debian/GNU configured -- resuming normal operations [Sun Jul 1 10:05:21 2001] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/lib/apache/suexec) [Sun Jul 1 12:27:14 2001] [error] [client 24.5.8.184] File does not exist: /var/www/mwagnon [Sun Jul 1 12:28:28 2001] [error] [client 24.5.8.184] File does not exist: /var/www/favicon.ico [Sun Jul 1 14:11:49 2001] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Sun Jul 1 18:20:12 2001] [notice] Apache/1.3.19 (Unix) Debian/GNU configured -- resuming normal operations [Sun Jul 1 18:20:12 2001] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/lib/apache/suexec) At 20:14, I set my ServerName in httpd.conf and restarted, but I was still unable to access my web site. I don't know what was responsible for the message about being unable to bind to port 80. Then you notice the next day after I rebooted stuff looks cool with the execption of the error about /var/www/mwagnon, mwagnon being my local user account. I've since created a publib_html directory in ~, so I guess that's out of the way. Then I just rebooted again from Windows at 18:20 and all looks cool so far. So, ??? Any ideas? Thanks again. -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Printing Question
Hi all? I'm still battling with this. I have lpd, magicfilter, et al, installed. I'm able to print from various programs without problems, however, when I print plain ascii text, the printer prints just fine, but I need to manually eject the page. I've tried to set my printcap up to send a form feed when done by inserting 'ff', but that hasn't panned out. Anyway, I'm sure if I want that because ps files are ejected normally. I've been poking around in the input filters supplied with magicfilter, and I noticed that the default filter uses recode like so: # Default entry for normal (text) files. This must be the last entry! # = # Please adjust recode's codepage conversion manually according to # your # local needs. We apologize for the inconveniences... # default filter /usr/bin/recode --silent us..ibmpc Actually the 'us' was originally 'latin1'. I've left the file pretty much alone with the exception of editing to replace 'pdftops' with 'pdf2ps' as it's named on my system. So I figure that maybe the solution to my problem lays somewhere in recode, although searching through the recode docs is beginning to change my mind. Is anyone doing anything special to print plain ascii text on a woody system running lpd, magicfilter, etc.? TIA! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Old Libs Question
On 06/29/01 09:34:46 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: There was an installer package called 'netscape3' in potato, but it was removed in woody (nobody wanted to maintain it any more, basically). Probably because they felt nobody was using it. It's a nice little browser. Hmm, xpm4.7 was the libc5 compatibility library. Are you sure that's the one you want? (This isn't to say it won't be; I forget whether Netscape 3 was libc5 or libc6 ... if it was libc5, it indeed won't work with the new xlibs.) Yeah, I have a vague recollection of needing to install the libs with slink, and maybe even hamm (maybe not though). It doesn't work with the new libs cuz I have them installed ;) It looks like you should be able to at least install xpm4.7 without screwing anything up; it installs into /usr/lib/libc5-compat. That seems like your best bet if Netscape 3 is libc5. I went ahead and tried it and it seems to have worked okay. I'll know more if things start to fail. Thanks for the push. -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache config question
Hi all, can someone point me to where I might find a solution to my problem? I've been poking around apache.org, but don't know if I'm in the right place or what to really be searching for Here goes... I have apache installed and running, but when I try to access the server either with an IP address or a url, I get this error from lynx: Unexpected netowrk read error; connection aborted Is this a sever thing or an apache thing? I've installed apache once before just to play around and I remember being able to access the default web page immediately. That was on a potato system. Now I'm running woody and have no joy :-( Many thanks! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache config question
On 06/29/01 20:21:41 -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: Is this a sever thing or an apache thing? I've installed apache once I had a brain fart. Oh well. That should have read is this a network thing or an apache thing? Thanks again! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Old Libs Question
Hi all, I'd like to install the old trusty Netscape 3.04 (that's right!), but I couldn't locate a deb for it. Bummer. So I downloaded the tarball from netscape's ftp site. I'm hunting down old libraries because it doesn't like the new ones. What I need right now is libXpm.so.4. This actaully exists in the Woody version, but is too new (I guess). Anyway, an older version is unavailable under 'oldlibs', so I was wondering how safe it is to install the xpm4.7 pacakge from Potato? Or should that be avoided? If so, anyone know where I may find compatible libs? Thanks! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: headers in mutt
On 06/26/01 19:40:52 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: I am using mutt. When I read a message sometimes appears a lot of stuff in the header. I want only the From:, To: and Subject: fields. How can I do that? Using the option ignore in the muttrc file seems to be endless, because there is a lot of things to be ignored. I think that is better to tell mutt what to keep instead... Hi, What I do is ignore all headers with: ignore * Then I uignore the headers I want to see: unignore from: date subject to cc HTH! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting Mutt to view jpg files
On 06/16/01 15:31:25 +0200, Matthias Richter wrote: [..] You'd better set up mailcap (metamail) correctly so any MUA can view jpg attachments. [..] I had a similar situation this morning. I discovered that I didn't have an /etc/mailcap file. I had to install the mime-support package to get one. I then discovered that it was empty, aside from some comments. I then needed to run update-mime to fill out the /etc/mailcap file. Images now are opened with imagemagick. While it's probably better to set things up manually as you describe below, I found it quite easy to get set up by doing the above. I just don't know what was done, but I'm going back in to see what's in the mailcap file ;-) [..] mailcap comes with a default entry for this (/etc/mailcap): image/jpeg; display '%s'; test=test -n $DISPLAY Do if you have Image Magick installed, display will be used to display images. You can, of course, change this to your favorite image viewer. [..] -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: star office debian-correct installation
On 06/10/01 17:37:44 -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 01:50:16PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: :This started the installation program I put it in :/usr/local/bin/soffice52. After the installation finished, I then :logged in as an unpriviledged user, and ran: : :$ /usr/local/bin/soffice52/program/setup AFAIR, if you run soffice as a regular user it will so the setup thing (and then exit so you must run soffice again) Never tried that. But that's nice to know if you just tell someone to run soffice and it sets itself up for you. Cool. :Then to run StarOffice, you would then run ~/office52/soffice. You :might want to add ~/office52 to your path. On my network install I symlinked /usr/local/Office5.2/program/soffice to /usr/local/bin/soffice, this works fine and is much simple. In fact I didn't realize I had a ~/office52/soffice, untill you pointed that out. Yeah, I used to do that with the earlier versions of SO that had each of the programs as standalone apps. I think that was something like version 3. Ever since it started placing files in ~, I just ran it from there. :You may need to log in as root, startx, then run the main SO :installation before running the user installation. You don't need to be root, using sudo is fine. If you don't know what sudo is, install it and read the man page then ask here, it's *very* useful. I've never used sudo. Whenever I need to do something as root, I use su. What's the difference? Is one better/more secure than the other? :Hope this helps. If you have any questions, I hope I can answer them. Wow, you really went the extra mile on this one, much respect. -Jon Well, I take and take, so when I get the opportunity to help, I try. Thanks for the encouragement! Cheers! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dhcp
On 06/10/01 09:17:07 +0200, Guy Geens wrote: [..] Use the standard kernel, and install a DHCP client. (Normally, pump should already be installed.) Edit the file /etc/network/interfaces and add the line: iface eth0 inet dhcp [..] I have a quick question. Where do you specify your hostname when you try to get your network info from your ISP's DHCP server? On my system, my hostname is different from that my ISP assigns me. I've seen lines similar to pump/dhcpclient -h $DHCP_HOSTNAME (something like that), but where does one set DHCP_HOSTNAME? Thanks!! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: star office debian-correct installation
On 06/10/01 21:18:58 +0200, Frans Schreuder wrote: oppurtunity could you mention wich commands to follow installing staroffice for debian? That is that I wasnot able to find a convention for installing non-debian software. Reading dutch manual bij Bezemer. www.dddi.nl (there is a part in english). I haven't installed StarOffice in awhile, but from what I remember, you just untar it to some place under /usr/local and run the installation binary (can't remember what it's called off hand) with the - (or /, or \ -- again memory fails) net option. After the install, each user on the system runs the setup to install the minimal files/directories under their home directories. I'll go ahead and do it again and see what happens. Good Luck! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: star office debian-correct installation
On 06/10/01 21:47:41 +0200, Frans Schreuder wrote: [..] But your install 'sequence' doesn't ring a bell ;-) ?espesially? (memory?) the 'net'-option. I have the executable. That I my knowledge ends. [..] I'm downloading it right now. It looks to be a little different from what I remember. The file has a .bin extension instead of .tgz. Once the transfer is complete, I'll install and let you know. The option to install StarOffice as a network installation is to run the so-whatever.bin file with the /net option. I pulled this info from the following location: http://pcquest.ciol.com/content/linux/100080101.asp Notice the have it installed under /opt, so you might consider /usr/local instead. I don't remember what each user must run afterwards, but I'll fin out in 10 minutes (that's how much time is left for the download). Are you unable to install it at all, or are you just looking for some advice on how it should be installed? I've CCd the list to keep all others reading the thread informed. -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: star office debian-correct installation
On 06/10/01 13:16:15 -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: On 06/10/01 21:47:41 +0200, Frans Schreuder wrote: [..] But your install 'sequence' doesn't ring a bell ;-) ?espesially? (memory?) the 'net'-option. I have the executable. That I my knowledge ends. [..] Okay, just installed SO 5.2. I made the file so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin executable with chmod, then I executed it (as root) like so: # ./so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin /net This started the installation program I put it in /usr/local/bin/soffice52. After the installation finished, I then logged in as an unpriviledged user, and ran: $ /usr/local/bin/soffice52/program/setup which then installed the necessary files for me as a normal user (about 1.6 MB). Then to run StarOffice, you would then run ~/office52/soffice. You might want to add ~/office52 to your path. You may need to log in as root, startx, then run the main SO installation before running the user installation. Also, this installation occured on a system running woody, and I don't have java installed so I don't have java support in SO. Hope this helps. If you have any questions, I hope I can answer them. ;-) -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade Path From Potato :-(
On 06/08/01 17:02:57 -0700, Jeremiah H. Savage wrote: From my experience of upgrading from Potato, I've found it's best to do a couple of 'apt-get install [foo]' before doing the whole 'dist-upgrade.' The first foo I install is 'dpkg' (fewer segfaults later on that way), then 'apt'. Upgrading these two packages will also force a 'libc6' upgrade. Then you want to make sure 'perl5.6' is installed. After that, I usually go for the full upgrade. Thanks for the tips. I decided to just reinstall and follow your advice. I figured it would be the least painless thing to do, plus I would feel more secure knowing that everything was in order from the start. So far so good. I'm now ready to install X. Here's a question. What's the better release to move to, woody or sid? depends on how much excitment you want in your debian experience:) LOL Thanks again for your help. Mark
Upgrade Path From Potato :-(
Hi all, I'm not sure if I've screwed up here, but I decided to upgrade from potato to woody last night, but now I can't seem to get X reconfigured. Looking at dselect, it looks as if I have packages from both 3.3 and 4.0 versions of X installed. This can't be good, right? I'm not sure what exactly happened. All I did was change the potato references in my sources.lst file to woody and ran apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade. I had to repeat this process a couple times with an apt-get -f install thrown in every once is a while to get all the dependencies worked out, but now I'm left scratching my head. Can I fix this by unintalling all X related packages and then just choosing a version and stick with it? Or am I better off just reinstalling from scratch and then upgrading to sid or just plain waiting until something more stable solidifies? Here's a question. What's the better release to move to, woody or sid? Thanks for the advice. Mark
Re: filtering email via EXIM -- question
On 06/06/01 05:41:58 -0500, will trillich wrote: [..] 1) is the exim filtering mechanism uncharacteristically lethargic? seems like processing takes heap long time forever. maybe i missed an option or feature...? Not sure about that. Mine seems to function normally. I'm not processing a buch of mail though. Although some would beg to differ being subscribed to this list! ;-) 2) does the exim filtering mechanism somehow bork the timestamps on mailboxes? when i hopped into mutt a moment ago, i have five boxes with new mail; i checked into one of them, nosed around and switched, and suddenly only two were marked as new. grok-challenged, here. (what else might munge that datum?) I think this is a mutt thing. When new mail arrives a mailbox, those messages are marked as new with the N tag. If you switch to another box and switch back, then those messages are no longer new, they're old, and therefore marked with the O tag. This is to distinguish them from read messages. Maybe you're experiencing something different? 3) anybody got some high-power, dual-exhaust, chrome-plated, twin overhead cam examples of exim filters to get us .forwarding newbies off the ground? i've seen the simple ones they've got in /usr/share/doc/exim/filter.html ... I was going to post mine, but yours is more complicated than mine as you're using regexps. Yeah, I just pulled mine together from the filtering file in the exim docs. I was looking to make mine a little more robust, so I hope some post their .forward file examples here. Aw, what the heck, here's mine: # Exim filter == do not edit or remove this line! if error_message then finish endif if $h_Reply-to: contains kplug-newbie then save $home/Mail/IN.KPLUG-Newbie elif $h_Resent-From: contains debian-user then save $home/Mail/IN.Debian-User elif $h_Reply-to: contains kplug-list then save $home/Mail/IN.KPLUG elif $h_Reply-to: contains kplug-security then save $home/Mail/IN.KPLUG-Security elif $h_From: contains [EMAIL PROTECTED] and $h_Subject: contains Fwd: then save $home/Mail/IN.SBUSD elif $h_From: contains Linux news daily mailing list then save $home/Mail/IN.Linux-News else save $home/Mail/IN.BOX endif # --- of .forward file --- Not too fancy. Cheers! Mark
Printer Question
Hi all, Trying to get my printer working but having some problems with it. I used to have an HP Laserjet 6L which I had working on an earlier Debian Potato installation. Now I have a new installation and a new printer. My printer is an Epson Stylus Color 880. Still running Potato. Anyway, I have lprng, gs-aladdin, and magicfilter installed as I did on my previous installation. The device that the printer is showing up as has seemed to have moved on me. It's now on /dev/lp0 (was lp1). After configuring my printcap with magicfilgerconfig, I get this when I print a file: Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'esc880' Queue: no printable jobs in queue Status: job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' removed at 21:41:46.427 Filter_status: lp is ready and printing Anyone know what this message means besides the obvious? I am also unable to send a filer directly to the printer with cat. I would do a backflip if I could just get garbage to issue from my printer, but it doesn't seem to want to cooperate. Any ideas? I've seen several posts on printer issues over the last week or two. However, they, nor what I could glean from the archives seemed to improve my predicament. Thanks in advance for any advice. -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Printer Question
On 05/26/01 00:29:21 -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: Do you have terminal access? Meaning... do you have X? therefore you can install printtool.its a .deb package (downloadable from debian site) If you haven't tried printtool... give it a go... Thanks for the response. Yes I have X up and running. I've never heard of printtool. I've take a look at it. Thanks again! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Printer Question
On 05/26/01 08:45:49 +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: [my ramblings about my Epson Stylus Color 880 printer snipped...] Did you know that Epson have written a Linux driver for this printer? It is available from: http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/pips_e.html No, I wasn't aware of that. Great! The quality is superb and the resultant print quality is easily equal to that of the Windows driver. The driver is based on ghostscript so fits in with lprng or lpr or whatever and just needs a line in /etc/printcap. That's excellent. I'm going to visit Epson's site right now. I just installed the rpm version onto my Debian box. Caused no problems at all. You did that with alien? I take it there are no deb packages then, right? Thanks again for your help. It's my goal to have my printer working before the day is done. It's drag to have to reboot to print :-( -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Novice mail project
On 05/21/01 05:00:16 +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: Hi, I believe it was in this list within the last week or so that someone made the point that the best way to learn Linux was to have goals, or better still a project. To these ends I have set my self a project. I agree. I've made a list of things I want to accomplish. Now all I have to do is do them. ;-) We have a PC each here. My wife and two daughters each run WinMe and I have Debian on these two in front of me. The machines all get out through a cable modem. I want to have one of the linux machines act as a collection point for all incoming email and have each client collect it from the local server. I want the four of us to be able to email each other with out it leaving the house Am I right in thinking that I need something like sendmail and procmail on the server and any old mail client on the Windows/Linux machines in order to get this done? Do I need to be setting up any other software specifically to make this work? I know something like sendmail is probably overkill, but the object her is education not ease of setup. Whilst this is likely a trivial task for most, it is a starting point for me Well, Debian ships with exim instead of sendmail as its out of the box mta. I've kept a link to a Linux Gazette article that you might find useful, if only to server as a springboard: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue43/stumpel.html I hope that gets you going in the right direction. Good luck! -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: I'm so lost
On 05/13/01 09:46:28 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys. I'm sure you get sick of fielding questions from people that must seem braindead but I need some suggestions. I have made the big leap for me and installed Debian. I had a few problems (once it crashed during install) but I'm there, I'm at bash and I don't know what to do. I thought that installing the home/stand alone package would get me to something a little more familier than bash (like some sort of GUI) but I was wrong. I am trying to understand the book that I bought, but I fear it was intended for someone a little more advanced then me. (The book is Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed-From Knowledge to Mastery) My goal would be to get something like GNOME installed along with some user applications. I simply do not know where to start. Currently I am not logged in as root and I do not even know how to shut down the system. One other problem I noticed during install and in bash is that the keyboard is a little trigger happy. When trying to press one character, I would press multiples, which caused a lot of frustration when trying to come up with a root password. Hi there, I'm not sure how much can be done with Debian 2.1 (is that slink?). Debian 2.2 (the latest/stable release, code named potato) has some packages that are task oriented, making the installation of packages pretty easy. I don't know how fast of an Internet connection you have, but if you have a quick connection, or know someone who does, you can download the ISO images and burn them to a CD-R, if you have access to a CD-Recorder. If not, you can get an inexpensive Debian 2.2 CD from places like http://www.lsl.com, http://www.cheapbytes.com and others. Check out http://www.debian.org/distrib/vendors for more info. I suggest moving to 2.2 for various reasons, but mostly because that's what I'm familiar with. With 2.2, you could easily install the X-Window system, if you forgot, by typing the following at the command prompt: # apt-get update This will update the package lists for you. Then type: # apt-get install task-x-window-system This would then download (or pull from your CD) all the required packages needed to run the X-Window system. You'd probably want to install another window manager, cuz I believe that you only get twm (tabbed window manager) with that order, and it's a little primitive. I use WindowMaker. You might want to read through the man pages for dselect, apt, and any of the man pages for programs they reference in the SEE ALSO section at the bottom. Too view a man page, you would type: # man apt If you don't know the name a program/package, but you're looking for some info on it, try: # man -k program/package/keyword So if I typed: # man -k apt I'd get a list of man pages with the word apt in them. you could then check them out at your leisure. Other great sources of information (besides this list) are the Linux Documentation Project at http://www.linuxdoc.org and the Linux Gazette at http://www.linuxgazette.com. Check the dates on the guides and HOWTOs because they can become dated really quick. I hope that my ramblings have helped to head you in a right direction. Good luck with your Debian experience. -- Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Dependency Problems with Ximiam-GNOME Install
Hi Everyone- I'm trying to install Ximian GNOME with apt, but I am having some problems. I've added the following line to my sources.list file: deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian stable main and then updated the package lists. I follow that up with: apt-get install task-ximian-gnome but it reports the following: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: task-ximian-gnome: Depends: codecommander but it is not installable Depends: gnome-games but it is not going to be installed Depends: gnome-iconedit but it is not installable I guess I'm missing something here, but can't figure out what. I can't find a codecommander package in stable so I figure it's something that needs to come from Ximian. Issuing an apt-get install with all the above packages still complains about codecommander. Should I be getting my GNOME from somewhere else? Thanks! -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ((
User-Created Menu Entries
Hi all, I'm reading through the menu.txt.gz file in the menu package documentation but I'm confused. I read: A user can specify his/her own menu entries in the `~/.menu' directory. The files can have an arbitrary file name as long as the new syntax for the menu entries is used. They should start with either ?package(installed-package): or ?package(local.mystuff): if it's something that isn't ``debian-officially'' installed. (Any ``package'' that starts with ```local.''' is considered installed.) but I'm still unsure about how to add a menu entry. Has anyone created any that they wouldn't mind sharing to be used as a template for creating other entries? Many thanks! Mark
Re: User-Created Menu Entries
On 05/08/01 00:24:57 -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: [..] /usr/lib/menu has lots of files you can use as templates cp one to /etc/menu, tweak it, run (as root) update-menus With KDE you may need to force the issue with... rm -rf ~/.kde/share/applnk to force the DB to be rebuilt, or maybe just restart KDE. [..] Thanks, I've taken a quick look and it looks promissing. I'll check it out in earnest tomorrow. -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ((
Re: User-Created Menu Entries
On 05/07/01 23:33:48 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: Depends on your window manager. Well, I was giving BlackBox a whirl, but I just can't get used to it. Not having easy access to a task list makes switching between apps a pain, so I'm heading back to WindowMaker. I use WindowMaker, and have written my own hardwired window menus. I don't use window menus particularly much, but when I do, I prefer having the stuff I use most close at hand. WindowMaker allows you to specify a hook for including other menu specifications, so one of my top-level menus is the default Debian menus. The last screenshot on the page below shows how the menu appears: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Images/Desktop/ The associated WMRootMenu line is: (Debian menus, OPEN_MENU, /etc/X11/WindowMaker/menu.hook), Okay, I'll give that a shot. Seems simple enough of a concept for me to grasp. I'll do some experimentation and see what I can conjure up. Thanks for the help! Mark -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ((
Re: Staroffice for stable?
On Sunday 15 April 2001 08:25, Stan Brown wrote: Where can I ge (preferably a .deb) to isntall SatrOffice on my stable machine? I'm not sure if there is one, but I downloaded the monster-sized file from Sun's site (http://www.sun.com) and installed it. Just install it as root with the /net (something like that) option and place it under a suitable location like /usr/local/ and you should be fine. Then each user needs to run its setup program to place some files in their home directory. I'm running an up-to-date potato install, but staroffice worked fine right off the bat if I recall correctly. Maybe I was lucky? Are you looking for some sort of task oriented package that will install all required libs and stuff so the install goes off without any problems, or are you actually looking for a 100 meg .deb package containing the whole thing? I'm not sure of the latter's existance, but I've been wrong before! HTH, Mark
Re: stupid exim problems (NEWBIE-ish)
At 10:59 PM 4/1/2001 -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote:
Hey,
This cursed exim has proved quite painful to set up. I'm trying to get
it to work through my proxy server, so I ran eximconfig. I chose
option 2 (receive mail w/ fetchmail, send with smarthost). I told it
my visible mail name = cmatheson (my user name for the account on my
proxy), and then I told it that the smarthost was bowwow (my proxy
server). It doesn't work though (it doesn't even show a connection being
made to the proxy server when I send with mailto, etc). I can send w/
Mozilla however (I'm using it right now (and it shows a connection to the
proxy server)), which leads me to believe that it is not the proxy
server's problem. Is something wrong with my exim set up (I've tried
everything (i think)). I'll include my exim.conf with this message.
I may be totally wrong, but I think that a proxy is just for web content.
For your smarthost, you're going to want to add your isp's mail server.
What did you enter for your mailservers in mozilla? Also, I see that you've
added cmatheson as your qualifiy domain. I'm not sure that you're going to
want that. That would mean that any address that you don't put a
@somedomain on, will become [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm not booted to Debian right now, but I have a functional exim.conf file
I could send you so you can see how I have it set up. There is a rewrite
section at the end of the file where you would add how you want your email
address to be written for outbound mail.
I see you found it:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
{$value}fail} frFs
Assuming that cmatheson is your username on your box, you might try:
cmatheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] frFs
I'm getting ready to check out for the night, but I'll boot into debian
tomorrow and check what I have and let you know...
[exim.conf snipped]
---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.243 / Virus Database: 118 - Release Date: 3/30/2001
Re: Mail News Reader
At 07:54 AM 4/2/2001 +0200, Axel Schlicht wrote: [snip] As far as I know I should have the following to receive and send emails and participate in usenet newsgroups: - ISDN for Linux - a mail retrieval program : fetchmail ? - a mail transport agent (MTA) : procmail ? exim ? - a mail reader : tin, mutt ? - a news reader ? For mail, I use exim with a .forward file for filtering (I've never been able to get procmail to behave), fetchmail and mutt. For news, I use leafnode to pull a newsfeed down at regular intervals. I then read with slrn. slrn-pull also can be used to fetch usenet messages, but I've never used it. Am I correct so far. Would you accept the suggestions above (suggestions I once received from unix users). As far as I know, Debian prefers exim as an MTA. Should I stick to this or use procmail? I've had problems with procmail, but I can only speak for myself. If you're going to use exim, then you can set up a .forward file and filter your mail easily. HTH, Mark --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.243 / Virus Database: 118 - Release Date: 3/30/2001
Re: exim mutt
On 11/24/00 00:36:47 -0200, Carlos Laviola wrote: Hello, I have a dial-up machine and want to properly configure it to send mail using exim (mutt uses it). I receive my POP messages normally with it (and other mail clients), but I don't know how can I properly configure exim, specially to handle the fact that my machine's hostname is dynamic (it tries to use its local hostname, which doesn't exist, since it is just debian). What should I do? Thank you. I take it you mean that your email address with your isp is different that your local email address, is this right? At the end of the exim.conf file there is a section for rewriting stuff. I'm not sure of your requirements, but I'm the only use on thsi system, and so I'm the only one that sends mail from it. I have this entry in the REWRITE CONFIGURATION section: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] bcfrF Here, my local [EMAIL PROTECTED] My @home email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, I want to rewrite my local email address with one that the world will recognize in all the appropriate places. That's what the bcfrF is for. Each rewrites a heading in the email header like so: b - blind copy c - courtesy copy f - from r - reply-to F - From So whenever your local email address appears in any of these headers, it will be rewritten with your real address. HTH, Mark -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ((
Re: Fortify and Netscape Navigator
On 08/20/00 19:13:32 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: its not the debian packages that are at fault, its fortify, fortify does not and will not support netscape past 4.72. you have to do one of 3 things to get 128 netscape: Thanks. I went to Netscape's web site and my browser was identified as: Netscape Navigator 4.73 English language, [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.17 i686; Nav, Strong 128-Bit Encryption Here it is supposedly 128-bit already. I used to use the fortify homepage's SSL check to determine my various browsers' encryption levels. When I checked my 4.73 deb, it was reported to be 40-bit only. Maybe fortify's ability to check the encryption level of 4.73 is a bit off since you mentioned that fortify doesn't support netscape versions beyond 4.72? An idea where I might determine my browser's true encryption level? I'd hate to go through the hassle of getting fortify to work if I've already got a strong crypto browser. Thanks! -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ((
Re: Fortify and Netscape Navigator
On 08/20/00 19:13:32 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: its not the debian packages that are at fault, its fortify, fortify does not and will not support netscape past 4.72. you have to do one of 3 things to get 128 netscape: download the netscape tarball from netscape.com and extract the appropriate binary out and mv it to /usr/lib/netscape/473/communicator/communicator-smotif.real. Thanks for the help. I went with the above option. I stepped up to 4.75 though. I simply copied the netscape binary to the location of the navigator-smotif.real binary and after backing it up renamed it. It works nicely and now I have a 128-bit browser! I never would have thought of that. I just have to remember to check it after doing an upgrade every now and then. -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ((
Re: Fortify and Netscape Navigator
On 08/21/00 16:48:51 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: be aware that you are probably still vulnerable to at least the java security hole in 4.74 and previous since the java files were not updated (and i think that is where the bug lies) hmm. Okay. There was a java symlink in the directory where the binary was located. I recreated it, this time pointing it to the jave directory for the 4.75 version. You wouldn't happen to know where one might test for this vulnerability or find info on it? I suppose netscape's web site might be a good starting place? Thanks -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ((
Re: installing Netscape Navigator 4.75
On 08/21/00 21:49:25 -0400, John Anderson wrote: I've tried installing several versions of Netscape with no luck. The most recent was version 4.75 Stand alone browser for Linux 2.2. I was given the message that I needed the shared library libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2. I've checked in the internet, but all I find is rpm packages for other libraries. Has anyone been successful? You didn't mention what version of debian you were running, but I used the search engine at: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages (it's at the bottom of that page) to search for that particular file and came up with oldlibs/libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 as the package that contains it in potato. Hey, it's the same for woody -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ((
Fortify and Netscape Navigator
Hi all, I'm running fortify 1.4.6-2 and netscape 4.73 that are part of potato, but I can't seem to get the two to dance. I figure that the netscape binary is navigator-smotif-473, but fortify doesn't recognize it. Am I attempting to patch the correct binary? I had to follow symlinks all over to pin this one down. Anybody have fortify working on a debianized netscape? Care to share what you did? Thanks! -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ((
Re: apt-get source?
On 07/24/00 22:15:33 -0400, Mike Werner wrote: You're way off. ::grin:: But that's okay. We'll get ya there. Here's the relevant portion from my sources.list: deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free Aha. Well, that wouldn't be the first time! I just re-checked the man page for sources.list and guess what, it's in there. I guess I should have read closer. Thanks! -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ((
Re: Huge X-fonts in Frozen
On 07/25/00 00:34:13 -0400, David S. Jackson wrote: Then, check your monitor default dot per inch output with: xdpyinfo | grep resolution It will probably say 75x75 dots per inch. David, You wouldn't happen to know where xdpyinfo gets its info? More to the point, where might one change the default resolution for X? Thanks -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ((
Re: Huge X-fonts in Frozen
never mind, it can be set as a command-line option: startx -dpi 100 -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ((
Re: font problem
On 07/24/00 22:16:21 -0700, Dale Morris wrote: I just ftp installed debian. It's great, but the fonts in netscape and terminal windows are so big. What do I do to get them to a normal size? thanks Look back a couple threads. There's one with Huge Fonts in the subject line... -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ((
Re: Compressed mailboxes with mutt
On 07/24/00 08:41:11 -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: AFAIK you'll need to download the patch and apply it. Use apt-get source mutt to get the mutt source ... okay, I'll try that. Thanks -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ((
apt-get source?
I'm trying to retrieve the sources for mutt with apt-get, but I'm having a problem. I'm not sure that I'm doing this right. Well actually I know I'm not cuz it's not working :) I thought that I can just append source to a seemingly all-inclusive entry in my sources.list, but that doesn't seem to be the case, so I created a new entry at the end. Here is my sources.list file: # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free # See sources.list(5) for more information, especial # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs # deb ftp://philby.ucsd.edu/pub/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://kde.tdyc.com/ woody kde2 kde contrib deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main source ^^ Is this how it's done, or am I way off here? Thanks -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ((
Compressed mailboxes with mutt
Hi all, Anyone using compressed folders with mutt? My mailboxes are getting out of hand. I have a couple that are fast approaching the 10 meg point. I read a thread on comp.mail.mutt that says one can utilize compressed folders if the source is patched with some special patch. I was wondering if the debian package (woody, mutt 1.2i) is able to access compressed folders. If so, how might I go about doing that? Thanks a bunch -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ((
Re: Planner/PIM/Calendar Packages
Wow, so many choices! Thanks guys, I guess I'll be fiddling around with these to see which on I like the best. -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ((
Planner/PIM/Calendar Packages
Hi all, I've been poking around Freshmeat and the Debian package list for Woody, but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for. What is it, you ask? I was wondering if there was a calendar/planner software that would allow one to enter appointments and tasks, then on any given day, print out a list of appointments and tasks for that day. At work we use Novell GroupWise, and it allows one to enter all sorts of info into a calendar, then print out a fancy page of tasks and appointments for that day. Anyone know if anything like this exists for Linux? TIA, Mark
Re: mutt domain
On 07/15/00 21:34:09 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Anyone recall how to get mutt to use the domain defined in .muttrc? It has recently changed behavior and everything I have tried has failed. Hi there, You didn't mention what you've tried. I use mutt in conjunction with exim to handle my mail needs. I think that I've had success with the from command in a .muttrc file. From the mutt manual: from Type: e-mail address Default: When set, this variable contains a default from address. It can be overridden using my_hdr (including from send-hooks) and ``reverse_name''. Since I use exim though, I have exim rewrite my headers: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] bcfrF This rewrites my local address to my isp email address for the bc, cc, from, from:, and reply-to headers. I don't know how much help I was, but good luck anyway... Mark
Re: exim bewilderment
On 07/12/00 08:12:43 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: exim bewilderment hey, it was with mild suprise that I realized that I have *no clue* how to use exim especially with regard to .forward files. I used exim, too, before I upgraded (tho without .forward) can someone direct me to good info, and/or fill me in on how exim forwards mail from different addresses to my mailboxes? I'm going to use an alternative to procmail, btw. Hi, For exim to treat the .forward file as special and not as a regular .forward file, you need to have the first line like so: # Exim filter == do not edit or remove this line! The rest is pretty easy. You can check out the /usr/doc/exim/filter.txt.gz file for more in depth info. Here's mine though to get you started: # Exim filter == do not edit or remove this line! if error_message then finish endif if $h_Reply-to: contains kplug-newbie then save $home/Mail/IN.KPLUG-Newbie elif $h_Resent-From: contains debian-user then save $home/Mail/IN.Debian-User elif $h_Reply-to: contains kplug-list then save $home/Mail/IN.KPLUG elif $h_From: contains [EMAIL PROTECTED] and $h_Subject: contains Fwd: then save $home/Mail/IN.SBUSD elif $h_Subject: contains [Lockergnome] then save $home/Mail/IN.Lockergnome elif $h_From: contains Linux news daily mailing list then save $home/Mail/IN.Linux-News else save $home/Mail/IN.BOX endif I use mutt as my mail reader, so your mail directory my be different. Hope that helps, Mark
Exim and .forward
Hi all,
I'm trying to get exim and procmail to cooperate, but I'm having a
little trouble. I've read that if you use the procmail transport and
director stanzas in the exim.conf file, you can do without a .forward
file. Well, I have the following default stanzas in my exim.conf:
# This transport is used for procmail
procmail_pipe:
driver = pipe
command = /usr/bin/procmail -d ${local_part}
return_path_add
delivery_date_add
envelope_to_add
check_string = From
escape_string = From
user = $local_part
group = mail
# This director runs procmail for users who have a .procmailrc file
procmail:
driver = localuser
transport = procmail_pipe
require_files =${local_part}:+${home}:+${home}/.procmailrc:+/usr/bin/procmail
no_verify
The director comes before the localuser part in the Directors section.
Are these what I need for this to work? Cuz it's not working. Mail is
delivered to my inbox (/var/spool/mail/mwagnon), but test messages are
never filtered into a seperate mailbox in my home directory.
I've been using the examples provided by the Procmail Quick Start
(online document at
http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/#strategies) but I yet
to get the thing to filter. I've tried with and without a .forward
file.
I've done this before, unfortunately I can't locate my notes and it's
driving me crazy looking at a bunch of unfiltered mail :@ If you have
any pointers/suggestions, please fill me in. I'm running
potato(current) and if you could cc me, as I'm trying to resubscribe
to the list, but am still waiting for my confirmation message.
Thanks a bunch,
Mark
Re: Help Meeeeeee!
On 03/14/00 02:47PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the 2.2.14 kernal running, and can't see all of my ram: DIMM1: 128mb PC100 DIMM2: 32mb PC100 DIMM3: EMPTY I see 64 mb. The system bios detects 162 and change. (If of use: I have oboard 3D AGP graphics sharing 8mb main memory.) Help! (If adding something to /etc/lilo.conf will help, please show EXACT syntax and position within the file) You can add a line to your lilo.conf file like so: append=mem=128M I've always seen it before the sections describing the images to boot. I don't know if it makes a difference, though. I'm not sure what's up with your BIOS. hth -- ) Mark Wagnon) The squeaky wheel doesn't always get the ) ( Chula Vista, CA ( grease. Sometimes it gets replaced. ( ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) )
Re: Stupid X question
in 03/08/00 08:23AM, Hausheer, Geoffrey wrote: How do I get X to automatically boot to 16bpp (or 24, or 32)? I have been using a '-bpp 16' switch on the command line (or soetimes an alias), but what if I want to use xdm? I have looked through all of my linux documentation, howtos, faqs, man-pages, etc, but couldn't find this anywhere. Please help. You can put DefaultColorDepth ## in your XF86Config in the Screen section. Check out man XF86Config for more info. -- ) Mark Wagnon ) The danger from computers is not that they ) ( Chula Vista, CA ( will eventually get as smart as men, but we ( ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway ) ( ( -Bernard Avishai(
Re: Unidentified subject!
On 03/03/00 07:57PM, Jon Hughes wrote: I am attempting to setup my second computer with a new network card. It's an ISA D-Link DE-220PCT card. I can not seem to locate a kernel option to get this to work. I'm curious if anyone has gotten this ccard to work or can point me in a direction of useful information? I don't have that or any D-Link cards, but the Ethernet HOWTO refers to a DE-220-T card that uses the ne driver (+8390, whatever that is :)). Check it out at: http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.14 hth -- ) Mark Wagnon) Treat passwords like underwear... Never) ( Chula Vista, CA ( let friends borrow them and never leave( ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) them lying about. And as anybody's mother ) (( would say, change them often. (
Re: Lexmark 3200 colorjet...
On 02/27/00 09:25AM, Martin Högman wrote: I just plugged in a Lexmark 3200, and have set up the kernel printer support. It finds the device, but if I run 'lpr foo' nothing happens. Have you set up a /etc/printcap file? You can do so by running magicfilterconfig --force (as root). I'm not sure if your printer is supported directly, but you maybe able to find a filter that works for the most part. hth -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] (
Re: How do I give a 'clear' command when leaving kdm/X?
On 02/27/00 08:47PM, Phillip Deackes wrote: How do I issue a 'clear' command to the terminal so that when I leave kdm to shutdown or reboot I have a clean text screen? I need to do this to clear up some screen corruption which responds to 'clear'. How about creating a little script like so (I called it StartX): #!/bin/bash startx clear make it executable and run it to start X -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] (
Re: Wanted: 'Piecewise' Debian Compact
On 02/27/00 12:55PM, Chirag wrote: I think I can do this with help from you. I hope Debian does have a minimum X less distribution and have split it to pieces of 1.44 MB sizes so people can attempt a floppy installation. If one of you can email me a piece daily, wthin a month I and my friends will have a Debian on our systems. Previ, Have you taken a look at http://www.gtcdrom.com/? They seem to have many distributions available, including sever Debian products. I'll admit, I'm not familiar with India's geography, nor it's currency, but maybe something at that URL will help you? HTH -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] (
Re: umask for root
Thanks guys! I figured it was umask that was giving me the problems. I'm taking a UNIX course (but it's being taught on a Linux system) and the book discussed umask. I never knew what umask was so I thought that it would make my system more secure. It did :) Thanks for the more valuable tip about chmod. I was wondering how I might recursively change the permissions a certain way and you guys had the answer. Can you believe that I'm going through all this trouble cuz I need to view a Powerpoint slide? Thanks again. I promiss to read the man page on chmod thouroughly (printing it out as I write this). -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] (
