Re: finger
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 02:00:11PM -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: I've replaced finger altogether for off-site finger requests with a nice little perl script guaranteed to confuse and amuse. Try fingering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try it several times :) [fmp.com] User account '' has expired. Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for renewal Tee hee Hi, I'd like to buy a university please. -- Matt Folwell, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Memoria reconocida por el sistema vs. memoria instalada
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 01:21:46PM +0200, Ximo Nadal wrote: Por lo que entendà estos parametros se podian poner en el lilo.conf y tomarian efecto despues de ejecutar liloconfig y rearrancar el sistema, pero cuando pongo en lilo.conf mem=0x800 You should use the line: append=mem=128M Sorry, I don't speak Spanish. -- Matt Folwell, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lilo hdb
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 10:33:23AM -1000, Jason Christensen wrote: You're right about the linux device structure regarding physical disks. I however am using the same map-drive lines in my lilo.conf as you are, except I am booting windows from the primary slave (hdb1). Why is it that the same map-drive lines work for both you and I even though we are booting from different physical drives? I think the bios uses 0x80 to refer to the first hard disk, and 0x81 for the second, whichever interface it happens to be on, and it knows to skip cd-roms. I've used 0x81 for both hdb and hdc (I have the same setup as Tom atm). /usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz gives examples using the same numbers for SCSI disks too. Matt -- Matt Folwell, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pronunciation of daemon, GNOME and GNU
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 05:31:19PM +, Colin Watson wrote: Is gnu pronounced with a y-glide, like news (nyooz)? I always thought that it was also pronounced guh-noo (without that glide), but I could be wrong. 'dict gnu' isn't clear. Chambers gives two pronunciations for gnu (the animal) one identical to new, and the other like noon and noose. It claims the g is silent, but that disagrees with the leading authority on the matter, Flanders and Swann. -- Matt Folwell, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: don't want x as default startup
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 06:50:43PM +0100, mek wrote: it's too late now, i already deleted it. but since that time i cannot startx as normal user anymore Edit /etc/X11/Xserver abd change the second line from RootOnly to Console -- Matt Folwell, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alt+ArrowUp (inittab kbrequest)
I could be totally wrong, but I think... On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 12:11:52AM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote: I have already pressed by mistake the Alt+ArrowUp key combo, resulting in a system shutdown (losing all work done!). In my /etc/inittab I've got the Ctrl+Alt+End key combo configured for shutdowns: kb:12345:kbrequest:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -h now This line tells init to shutdown whenever it receives a KeyboardSignal from the keyboard handler, in runlevels 1-5. and some kbrequest for the Alt+ArrowUp which reads: kb::kbrequest:/bin/echo Keyboard Request--edit /etc/inittab to let this work. This line doesn't give any runlevels, so it won't have any effect. which says nothing about shutdown, so, why does Alt+ArrowUp perform a system shutdown? Can I safely comment the line? Alt+ArrowUp and Ctrl+Alt+End both send KeyboardSignal to init, so hopefully you've got the line alt keycode 103 = KeyboardSignal in /etc/kbd/default.map.gz If you remove that it should fix it. -- Matt Folwell, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
Re: I want to verify that binaries have not been changed
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 08:31:56AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: *- On 18 Jun, Jesse G Warford wrote about I want to verify that binaries have not been changed How do I ask dpkg to display the file sizes of files in a package ? Once the package has been installed and the actual .deb has been removed there is no way. What about dpkg -L package|xargs ls -ld ? -- Matt Folwell, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
Re: bad hostname (lpd complains)
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 01:54:43PM -0700, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I made my hostname 486 on my 486 desktop. Now lpd complains about a bad hostname. How do I fix this? I already changed this in /etc/hosts. Is there somewhere else I should change this? Thanks... You need to change /etc/hostname I don't know what to do if you need to change your domain name though, but it doesn't sound like you do. -- Matt Folwell, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shell for gunzip so I don't have to remember?
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 04:56:30PM -0500, André Bell wrote: Is there a good shell for gunzip so I don't have to remember all the operators? I ask because I must be doing something wrong. When I ungzip file.gz the system converts my .gz file to one file with no extension instead of unzipping the file and all of its contents. I know there are multiple files in the gzips that I look at because I can view all of the compressed files when I view the contents of the gzip file on my pc, just not with gzip on linux :( Hi Andre gzip only compresses one file at a time, but those files are almost certainly tar archives. (They should end in .tar.gz, but your pc might have truncated the filenames.) You can extract them with tar -zvxf filename. You can also list the files in the archive with tar -ztf filename, t being the most obvious abbreviation for list :-) Matt -- Matt Folwell, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mutt and signature
On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 04:27:08PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reply-To: What is the variable that will cause mutt to automatically ad a .signature file? It seems this is the only thing I am having a hard time with upon my transition to Mutt set signature= It seems to default to ~/.signature, since I've got that commented out, and it still reads my .signature -- Matt Folwell, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help on Installation
On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 05:34:51PM -0400, rafarley wrote: Hi... I'd love to install Debian on my computer and give it a whirl. I want be able to use Windows also .. anyhow.. when i clicked on the Intel x86 installation manual ( Under 'New Installations' at this adress: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ ) it didn't work.. the others work fine cause I checked them.. but I have an Intel processor. Thanks... Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you tried again since? It works fine for me now. -- Matt Folwell, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: contens fo /etc/rc0.d
On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 01:48:46PM +0200, Thorsten Manegold wrote: So could anybody send me their directory-list of rc0.d? Some of them depend on what packages you have installed. (e.g. you won't have K20exim if you're not running exim.) But it should be identical to /etc/rc6.d/ except for having S90halt - ../init.d/halt instead of S90reboot. -- Matt Folwell, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 07:54:08PM +, Lazarus Long wrote:
On Wednesday, April 28, 1999 at 19:39:40 +1200, John Leget wrote:
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-UIDL: 87e60a087b692aee4499ddcd6afe260a
, i keep getting lots of the following
in the attempt of mp3'ing an audio cdrom to my hard drive
Apr 28 18:58:31 gabriel kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
I'm getting a number of similar errors (hdc I believe though) performing
completely different tasks. Therefore I don't believe the problem
originates specifically with your mp3 software. (Then again, two
apps could both trigger the same bug through interface errors [lazy
coding?] I suppose.)
I have always assumed it was due to excessive load, either on the CPU
or on the LAN, since the error happens to coincide with those conditions
here.
I have had little success solving the above, im currently running potato
2.2.6ac2
Potato here, but 2.0.36 on the machine in question.
I used to get the something like that:
Mar 22 13:14:40 mjf36 kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady \
SeekComplete DataRequest }
Mar 22 13:14:40 mjf36 kernel: hda: disabled DMA
Mar 22 13:14:40 mjf36 kernel: ide0: reset: success
I used to get it whenever there was a lot of disk activity. I got rid of
it by disabling Intel 82371 PIIX (Triton I/II) DMA support in my kernel,
so you might want to try that.
I'm running slink and 2.0.36. And if it's relevant I have an Intel 430TX
chipset and hda is a Quantum Bigfoot CY.
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Re: Exim allowing external mail...
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 09:51:12AM -0500, Matt Garman wrote: How do I configure exim to allow mail from non-local hosts? It seems as though my current (mostly default) exim setup will not allow me to receive mail from anywhere other than my domain, uiuc.edu. I currently have all my mail sent to my University email account, then fetchmail from there. But I've been trying to subscribe to the WindowMaker mailing list, and their list server is really picky about where mail comes from -- I subscribe to my school's email address, but the mail comes from my machine, so it doesn't allow my mail. So I tried to subscribe with my machine name, but I'm not getting the confirmation notice because (I think) Exim is disallowing mail outside of the uiuc.edu domain. I've had this come up on other occations, i.e. not receiving mail sent specifically to my machine from outside of my domain. Do you have any trouble receiving any other mail via your uni account, or is it just the WindowMaker mailing list? Make sure the address you want so subscribe with is the From: address you use to try and subscribe. You seem to be saying that it won't let you subscribe with [EMAIL PROTECTED] because your Sender: header is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which I assume is your machine). I hope I've misunderstood you, because if that's right then the mailing list server is horribly broken. What's the subscription address for the mailing list? I'll see if I can reproduce the problem. Hope that helps Matt -- Matt Folwell, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: W95 defrag [also lilo+Linux+Win98 FAT32]
On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 09:39:12PM -0400, Jan Muszynski wrote: On 23 Apr 99, at 23:45, Matt Folwell wrote about Re: W95 defrag [also lilo+Linux+Win: Which FM did you find this is? I've been unable to boot windows from lilo /usr/docs/lilo/manual.txt.gz (or something like that, case might be off) D'oh! Now why didn't I think of that? since I moved it (windows) to /dev/hdc. I'd guess I need to use 0x82 where you've used 0x81, but I'd rather make sure before I risk it, and I can't see map-drive mentioned in the lilo.conf man page. You can try it, but you might have a problem booting windows off anything other than the first 2 drives. The one thing about MS OS's in general (except for NT) they need to boot off of the the primary, active partition, and I believe it can be the only primary partition visible on the drive. For a while I was able to boot windows using other=/dev/hdc but this suddenly stopped working, saying Missing Operating System Does anyone know what could cause that? What primary partitions do you have on the first 2 drives? Did this change between then and now? It works now, thanks. I did need 0x81, which I suppose is consistent with my bios setup - of ide-0, -1, -2 and -3 I have to use ide-1 to boot the second hard drive, even though it's the third ide device. Maybe I should have given more details of my setup: /dev/hda has 2 primary partitions for linux- / and swap, and an extended partition with a few linux partitions and one fat32 one. /dev/hdb is my cd rom drive /dev/hdc has my primary win95 partition and another swap partition for linux (also primary) Anyway, either of these entries in lilo.conf will now boot windows: other=/dev/hdc label=Win95 map-drive = 0x80 to = 0x81 map-drive = 0x81 to = 0x80 other=/dev/hdc1 label=Win2 table=/dev/hdc map-drive = 0x80 to = 0x81 map-drive = 0x81 to = 0x80 I wonder which is better. I also now have 2 boot menus to go through before windows loads, and they both default to linux :-) -- Matt Folwell, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disk geommetry, was Re: Kernel Upgrade: Why?
I've decided to just leave my partitioning as it is until I have a lot more time to workout exactly what would be best (which will probably never happen), including seeing which directories get most regular access, and which ones tend to get accessed alternatively. Is there any software out there that can do this analysis for you? Also, has anyone come up with a filesystem that sorts files by size, so that larger files can take advantage of the increased read speed at the end of the partition? -- Matt Folwell, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: W95 defrag [also lilo+Linux+Win98 FAT32]
On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 05:42:09PM -0500, Brad wrote: For quite a while, Windows refused to boot at all from lilo. i finally solved the problem by using some obscure commands buried deep in TFM. Probably you won't need them, but they're here for a reference anyway. other=/dev/hdb1 table=/dev/hdb # The map-drive directives make windows think it's on the primary # master drive instead of the primary slave. Windows would think # Linux was on the slave if it could see it. map-drive = 0x80 to = 0x81 map-drive = 0x81 to = 0x80 label=win alias=2 Which FM did you find this is? I've been unable to boot windows from lilo since I moved it (windows) to /dev/hdc. I'd guess I need to use 0x82 where you've used 0x81, but I'd rather make sure before I risk it, and I can't see map-drive mentioned in the lilo.conf man page. For a while I was able to boot windows using other=/dev/hdc but this suddenly stopped working, saying Missing Operating System Does anyone know what could cause that? TIA, Matt -- Matt Folwell, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fvwm2 module configuration
On Fri, Mar 19, 1999 at 07:12:41AM -0500, Tommy Malloy wrote: I am trying to get out of the habit of modifying my system as root and am attempting to modify fvwm2 as a user. I am having some problems. This is what I have done. copied /etc/x11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc to ~/fvwm2rcchown to user created ~/.fvwm2 directory copied /etc/x11/fvwm2/*.hook to ~/.fvwm2chown to user Started X I notice that my menus are doubled. For example under the usuall list of apps is another one. This would seem to indicate that fvwm is reading both system.fvwm2rc and ~/.fvwm2rc and not one or the other asa expected. syster.fvwm2rc contains these lines: # Read system and user menu prefixes AddToMenu /Debian + Main Menu Title Read /etc/X11/fvwm2/main-menu-pre.hook Read .fvwm2/main-menu-pre.hook # Read the auto-generated menus Read /etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook Read .fvwm2/menudefs.hook It does that for all the hooks; reads in the system-wide hook, then the user's hook. You need to delete menudefs.hook and main-menu-pre.hook from ~/.fvwm2. The other hooks are empty (at least, they are on my system). Also when running the dotfile fvwm2 module I am using the import from dotefile option and am getting a error in TCL script message unexpected token. I just tried it and got that error too. I don't know what the problem is. -- Matt Folwell, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: procmail
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 06:53:25AM -0500, Benoit Joly wrote: Hi, I want to setup procmail to forward every email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] here is my .procmailrc :0 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] benoit :0 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] benoit the first command work ok... the problem is when i receive mail from debian user, my email address is not in Cc or To section... it's on the 3rd line aft er the Received section. the last command dont work... what's wrong? I think grep only compares one line at a time, so that won't work. For the debian-user list I identify it by the Resent-Sender header, with this recipe: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian-user Hope that helps, Matt -- Matt Folwell, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fstab question
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 04:33:04AM -, Pollywog wrote: Is there a way for me to be able to mount both /a and /floppy on the KDE desktop (no, not at the same time)? It seems I will have to mount /a from the command line only, when I need to mount a dos floppy (not often). Do you really need to have separate mount points according to the filesystem? You can set the filesystem type to auto and let the kernel work out what it is. That's what I do for floppies, although I don't use KDE, so I don't know exactly what you want. -- Matt Folwell, P2 Whewell's Court, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: accepting talk from only some users
On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 12:01:52AM +, Pere Camps wrote: Hi! I'd like to accept only talk from a list of users I specify... something like: if you're not on the list the your party is refusing messages pop-up shows up, and if you're on the list the as usual. Does anybody know how to make this? You might want to take a look at the xitalk package. You should be able to configure it to do something like that. Although it only runs under X. -- Matt Folwell, P2 Whewell's Court, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FrameBuffer - keyboard problems
On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 01:52:22PM +0100, Bernhard Dobbels wrote:
I have an S3 Trio3D video card so i had to use the framebuffer device if i
wanted a 1024x768 display.
Now i have some anoying keyboard problems. I can't use the AltGr key
anymore (it has become left-key). So any key like |@#{}[]`\ i cannot use
anymore in X.
The PgUp/PgDn and some other keys aren't working either, but i could solve
this with xmodmap. Though some people said me this is not a good
sollution.
I got the keyboard section from sombody with the same videocard and
was also using Framebuffer device and had the same problems. For him
this was a sollution, for me not. This is my keyboard section for the
moment:
Section Keyboard
ProtocolStandard #Standard|Xqueue
# XkbDisable
AutoRepeat 500 5
LeftAlt Meta
RightAltModeShift
If you want AltGr to do the same as Alt, change that to Meta
ScrollLock Compose
RightCtlControl
XkbRulesxfree86
XkbModelpc101 #pc101|pc102|xfree86|microsoft
If it's a standard pc keyboard (or shudder a windows 95 one) that should
be pc102
XkbLayout be
EndSection
Any help?
The rest is the same as mine, but I also have the following lines:
XkbKeycodes xfree86
XkbTypesdefault
XkbCompat default
XkbSymbols us(pc101)
XkbGeometry pc
They were all put there by XF86Setup; I don't know what difference they make.
Hope that helps,
Matt
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Matt Folwell, P2 Whewell's Court, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ
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Re: X11 and potential monitor problem
On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 09:53:21PM -0800, Mark Wagnon wrote: I can't XF86Setup anywhere. I had spent 10+ hours upgrading my hamm installation to slink. XF86Setup has been split off into its own package. Have you installed that? -- Matt Folwell, P2 Whewell's Court, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail doesn't put email...
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 09:43:49PM +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 20:52:49 +0100, Jens Ritter wrote: [...] fetchmail delivers to your MTA (Mail Transport Agent --- read smail, sendmail, exim, whicheveryouuseplacedhere). The MTA is responsible for placing the mail in the right place. What do I need in my ~/.fetchmailrc file to make it put the mail in the right place? You have to install an MTA. Paul obviously doesn't have one installed. That leads to the question: Is the fetchmail package broken in that it (erroneously) doesn't depend on an MTA? I would verify this myself if I wasn't under NT right now writing a CD. :-) No, you can use it with procmail. I have mda /usr/bin/procmail -d $USER in my .fetchmailrc If you're really keen, I guess you could even use cat /dev/stdin /var/spool/mail/$USER But there's probably a good reason not to. -- Matt Folwell, P2 Whewell's Court, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail doesn't put email...
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 11:25:14PM +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:35:45 +, Matt Folwell wrote: [...] That leads to the question: Is the fetchmail package broken in that it (erroneously) doesn't depend on an MTA? I would verify this myself if I wasn't under NT right now writing a CD. :-) No, you can use it with procmail. I have mda /usr/bin/procmail -d $USER in my .fetchmailrc Really? I thought that the respective feature (i.e. to use a MDA) has been removed? It's still there in fetchmail 4.6.4 (which is the version in slink). Either that or I got your email I just quoted by telepathy ;-) -- Matt Folwell, P2 Whewell's Court, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recompile for 3com lost CDROM
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 03:25:00PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Well, recompiling my 2.0.34 kernel got my 3com NIC working, but now my CD-ROM that was on /dev/hdc won't work. When I try to mount it I'm told that the iso9660 fs type is not supported by the kernel. When I run make menuconfig I see nothing about the iso9660 fs type under the Filesystems item, and the CD-ROM drivers item says it's not for SCSI or IDE/ATAPI drives (and I assume my CD-ROM is IDE since it's the first drive on the second IDE port nad I used to be able to access it on /dev/hdc). Under the Floppy, IDE, and other block devices item the Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support option is *'d. What am I missing? Thanks. Have you got Native language support enabled under Filesystems? It should offer you iso9660 once you've said yes to that. That's under 2.0.36, I assume 2.0.34 is the same. -- Matt Folwell, P2 Whewell's Court, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
