cd player sound
For some reason my cd players (kde, gnome and xmms)on a woody machine look as if they are playing the cd but are not outputing to the sound card. I know the sound is working because the kde intro works and my 3d games have sound. Does anyone know what is misconfigured. I installed a package (xmcd I think) and perhaps it altered the configuration in its setup. I have installed woody on 3 other machines and not had this problem. Thanks if you can help -- Peter Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replace MS Exchange
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 02:05:26PM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: Hi, Has anyone done any research into completely replacing an existing MS Exchange email setup ? I have Exchange 5.5 with PC and Mac clients, they use a mixture of Eudora or Outlook. [snip] Any ideas ? Suse sell something called Email Server. However the calendering part of it is provided by a commercial product. You will need to look at their home-page to see what the product is. Also Ximian sell an exchange adapter that can be used with their Outlook replacement product. It might be worthwhile to look into that. So in summary you can replace the IMAP, POP3 and the public folders (I think) with free linux stuff, but I don't believe there is a free calendering solution yet compatible with outlook/eudora. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Spamassassin tests help please
patrick wrote: I have given up on using my .forward as a spam filter because I've now gone up to over 40 spam pieces a day and its a pain to keep adding conditions on each .forward on each account. Why don't you look into http://www.spambouncer.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mutt/ssmtp From:
Dieter wrote: What can I do/try? In the configuration file ssmtp.conf add the following line FromLineOverride=YES
Re: automate maildelivery
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:31:42PM +0100, proftpd wrote: Hi, I would like to have my linuxbox sending me the /var/log/messages file on a regular bases. Creating the syslog correct is not the problem, neither to run cron. But how do i produce the mail including the attachment? cat /var/log/messages | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is not as an attachement, but very similar. Also look at the package mime-construct if you want to send attachments. Pete
Re: Help needed getting mail working.
I am running debian sid, and have fetchmail and exim installed. I collected my mail from an ISP's pop server using fetchmail, and it runs through and collects it OK, but then the mail seems to just vanish, as when I run mutt, all I get is '/var/spool/mail/stuart file not found' so where is my mail going??? I've asked a few people to look at this, but I've not had any luck so far. Has anyone got any ideas?? Have you examined /var/log/exim? What do they say? Pete
Re: Install only the needed *applications*
Marco wrote: Which one of these methods is best for script use right after installation, i.e.: No net access yet Only the official debian CDs available Minimum manual intervention (hopefully just changing the CD when asked?) First you will need to tell apt to use the CDROMS to find packages, apt-cdrom will take care of this for you. Then just run, it will ask you to insert CDs when required. apt-get install package list I am quite expert with red hat, and have started to study debian recently. One of the things I found most confusing is the relationship betweeen apt, dselect (?dpkg?) and what not. When do you use one or the other? Why? For instance you wish to install vim, using apt-get install vim you will not get the vim-rt package which contains some other various goodies for use with vim. This is because the vim package doesn't require vim-rt to run, it just recommends it. apt-get install will only install the required packages. dselect on the other hand is more user oriented. When you select vim, it will show you what is recommended and then get you to decide which of the packages you wish to install (ie vim-rt). Both apt-get and dselect only download the packages onto your system. dpkg is used by both apt-get and dselect to install the downloaded packages. HTH, Pete
Re: gcc
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 05:00:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- here's the error messages: -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/projects/test$ gcc myapp.cpp test1.o Try using g++ which calls the C++ compiler instead of the C compiler. Pete
Re: gcc
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 05:00:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/projects/test$ gcc myapp.cpp test1.o In fact I tried it out and using g++ works perfectly and using gcc gives you those error messages. Pete
upgrading to kernel 2.4.7 in debian
Hi, I am currently running Debian testing distribution and I am attempting to get kernel 2.4.7 to boot. It boots to a shell prompt and then nothing happens. I cannot even run ls. Here is the relevant section from my lilo.conf. image=/vmlinuz.new label=new initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-686 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc read-only optional Any help appreciated. TIA, Pete
Re: upgrading to kernel 2.4.7 in debian
Maybe someone could send me their lilo.conf file. I have a feeling it is just something stupid that I have missed.
Re: segmentation fault
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 03:45:21AM +0200, Pocsaji Miklós wrote: Hello, I've got a problem with 'su': when I want to change to root, I type in a correct password I get a 'Segmentation fault' message. I am almost a beginner in the Linux world, so I am fully confused. A segmentation fault usually means that the program has a bug in it. However in your situation I would imagine that you have some faulty memory. Try running the memtest program and see what happens. Pete
Re: intellimouse/XF86Setup
Check to see whether or not you have gpm installed, and if it is running. If it is, you should use /dev/gpmdata as the mouse device. If it isn't you could try installing gpm and let it auto detect your mouse. Also make sure that your kernel has PS/2 support compiled into it, by finding a line like below in /var/log/messages Apr 10 15:39:10 laptop kernel: Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. HTH, Pete On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 11:37:39PM +0100, Nuno Almeida wrote: I'm a complete idiot in the Linux world, and I feel worst when I get myself involved and spending so much time with little things like catching and configuring my Microsoft Intellimouse in the XF86Setup. And quess what!! It just doesn't work. It's a normal Intellimouse for PS/2 standard. It doesn't work in /dev/psaux, nor in any of the other shown in XF86Setup. When I try to call startx the startup routine aborts because it just can't connect to device. Please help me. I thougt I was a great computer specialist but I guess beeing a good C code maker, doesn't help me at all in this pitfall. I will be absolutely thankfull for any clue that anyone can give me. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Web Browser
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 08:45:27AM -0800, Dan Hutchinson wrote: Does anyone know of a web browser that displays jpg and gif images? I like the speed of lynx and don't like netscape. I am looking for something as fast as lynx that allows frames, gif images, etc.. I love lynx, but when I need to look at a graphical site, I use mozilla. It renders pages faster over a 33.6k modem then using netscape on a LAN, which just goes to show it is not downloading the page that is important! Pete
Re: Mouse and XF86Setup
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 11:21:43PM -0400, Steve White wrote: I have tried all sensible combinations I can think of in trying to get movement out of the mouse while using XF86Setup. I have a Microsoft mouse which was identified as PS/2 under Windows, but which I also think might be an Intellimouse as I had to disable the Intellimouse features under Windows to get Statistica to run. I tried Microsoft, PS/2, and Intelimouse for protocols, all /dev/ttyS[x]'s available, as well as the /dev/mouse, and /dev/psaux. Anyone have a path for me to follow here? By any chance do you have gpm installed? If so, then you want to select /dev/gpmdata as your Device with Protocol Microsoft Pete
Re: More network setups
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 05:40:17PM +0200, Radim Gelner wrote: I'm moving from network to network quite often and I carry my notebook with me. This leads to the need of more network setups (IP addresses, DNS, hostname, SMTP/POP server, etc). I thought, I can solve this easilly by introducing shell script, that will prompt me for a configuration and according to this will set up an environment variables (like $IP_ADDR) that I will later use in all the Debian configuration scripts instead of a real values. Has anyone a different (better) approach, so that I do not reinvent the wheel? Have a look at the netenv package. Pete
Re: Wrapping lines in VI
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 05:36:18PM +0100, Paul J. Keenan wrote: On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 05:47:07PM +0200, Radim Gelner wrote: This is a newbie question to vi: I want the text at the vi to wrap nicely a the end of the line so that I do not have to press Enter after every line. I set up the wrapmargin variable in vim. But what do I do, when I rearrange the text and want to wrap it again paragraph after paragraph to get rid of 'dents'? Thanks, Radim I'm not sure what 'wrapmargin' does - I use textwidth to do wrapping at the end of the lines. For reformatting existing paragraphs, do : :help gq I have a feeling that the above command is vim specific, so may not work on all vi clones. Please correct me if I am wrong. Pete
Re: installing on an old 486
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 06:31:16PM -0600, matt garman wrote: I'm trying to install Debian on an old 486 sx. From DOS, I put the Debian CD in the drive, then did a d:\install\boot and it loaded up the dbootstrap program as expected. The installation procedure works fine until I get to the Install OS Kernel and Modules. When it asks for a install media, I choose CD-ROM. I selected /dev/hdc and it says mount failed. I actually went through all choices (all /dev/hdx) and the mount always failed. Could the problem be the CD-ROM is some strange proprietary interface that the installer can't talk to? Probably, open up the box and see where the CDROM is connected to. I imagine that you will find that it is connected to the Soundcard. What you will need to do is find out what sort of CDROM it is and then install one of the old CDROM drivers. I used to sbpcd which was the soundblaster cdrom driver for an old Pentium 90. Pete
Re: ipmasq and howto
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 09:47:51AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:16:16AM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: Install the `ipmasq' package, it will automatically set up IP Masquerading for you providing the IP addresses you have chosen are private ie 10.x.x.x or 192.168.0.x or 172.15.x.x where x can be anything. To be correct, the private networks are 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12 and 192.168.0.0/16. RFC1918 contains all the details. You are indeed correct, thanks for the information. Pete
Re: firewall advice
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 09:33:26AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: I'm getting a wireless T1 feed tomorrow and I want to connect my network of windows and Linux machines to the internet securely. I will only have one IP of course. What is the best way to implement this using Corel Linux? I use the ipmasq package from Debian to firewall my gateway machine. It may not be what you want, as it may be a bit more permissive then what you need. Pete
Re: ip masquerading
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 06:48:19PM +0200, Philip Lehman wrote: I'm trying to set up IP masquerading on a slink/potato box which is supposed to route the traffic on my home LAN over an ISDN dial-up line. I have to admit that I have no experience with advanced networking of this kind. I read the IP masquerading HOWTO. It suggests a sample rc.firewall script to set up masquerading and simple firewalling. It appears to me that this interferes with the /etc/init.d/* scripts used by related Debian packages, and I'd rather do it the Debian way. I would recommend installing the ipmasq package, which is reasonably smart and will usually set up IP masquerading for you automatically. rc.firewall wants to run: # echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr I haven't found this in any other script in /etc/init.d/*. What's the default way to do this? Write my own script? Yes. And it wants to run: # /sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny # /sbin/ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.0.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0 I guess this is what /etc/init.d/ipmasq is for, but I'm feeling lost as far as the configuration is concerned. The postinstall script asked for the client IPs on the LAN and I entered that, but where is this stored? Do I have to do anything in addition to that, or can I rely on the defaults? I don't need anything fancy, but the setup should be halfway secure. Have a look in /etc/ipmasq directory. If you are running slink, you may want to install the ipmasq from potato, which may be a bit smarter. Pete
Re: cable modem and LAN
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 08:05:44AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fairly simple: Make sure your internal network interface is on one of the private networks. I usually use 192.168.1.1 for the interface (192.168.1/24 is the network) Make your kernel with the ipmasq options, install ipmasq package, and restart with the new kernel. I'm assuming you're going to use 2.2.x kernel, 2.0.3x needs a couple patches, AFAIK. I have never been able to get IP Masquerading working with the 2.2.x series kernels and ipmasq. I could ping any host from any computer, and telnet would initiate a connection but I would never get a login prompt. Switched to using 2.0.38 and everything worked first time (after about three days of hair pulling). If anyone else has had the same experience and has any handy hints, I would love to hear them. Or you can try doing everything by hand. But I found ipmasq did it better than I knew how at the time. :) I agree! Pete
Re: cable modem and LAN
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:38:34AM -0600, matt garman wrote: On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 07:19:38AM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: 1) Here's the contents of my files on newdebian.home (connected to internet) /etc/hostname: newdebian ... After doing these things, I noticed something else: the output of ifconfig for eth1: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:5B:DD:F8 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:495 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:990 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:10 Base address:0xf800 You should also send your output of route -n Here is the output on my computer. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 10.0.0.00.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 eth0 0.0.0.0 10.0.0.10.0.0.0 UG1 00 eth0 Make sure you get a line something like 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 note the Iface is eth1 Pete
Re: ipmasq and howto
Install the `ipmasq' package, it will automatically set up IP Masquerading for you providing the IP addresses you have chosen are private ie 10.x.x.x or 192.168.0.x or 172.15.x.x where x can be anything. On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 12:52:23PM -0600, matt garman wrote: I read the IP-Masquerading howto and I am confused as to how it relates to Debian. For example, it says I need to get the ipchains and ipfwadm packages. I couldn't find these via a search in dselect. But I have the ipchains and ipfwadm binaries on my system. I presume they were installed by the ipmasq Debian package (which I installed). Also, the IP-Masquerading howto talks about making the rc.firewall script. Do I still need to do this, or is that functionality already provided by me having the ipmasq package installed? In short, what do I need to do as instructed by the howto, and what does the ipmasq package take care of automatically? -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the guitar. -- Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: installing slink onto laptop
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 01:32:23PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiya How can I install slink onto my laptop given that the laptop only has a floppy and no cdrom? Goto http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install and read section 5.6 installing from floppies. Part of the base setup installs networking onto your computer. After that you can use FTP to install the rest of the system over the network. Pete
Re: PC wont shut power off after poweroff-command
On 11-Mar-2000, J.H.M. Dassen Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 18:31:41 +0100, Klaus Drews wrote: Is there something to configure for it ? Yes. You need to run a kernel compiled with Advanced Power Management BIOS support. I am not sure about this, but the newer debian kernels (2.2.x series from potato) may have apm compiled in, but disabled. Try passing apm=on at the lilo prompt. Pete
Re: kernel 2.2.14 and PS/2 mice
On 10-Mar-2000, Debian Linux User Gary L. Dolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:22:38AM -1000, Jason Christensen wrote: I have no problems with a PS/2 mouse 2.2.14. On 10 Mar 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: The boot messages tell me that a PS/2 mouse port is found, but the cursor doesn't follow the mouse at all. Under what circumstances are you talking about, X or console? If you're talking about the console, make sure you're running gpm. Is there a trick, some other kernel options as in older kernels ...? No trick for me. You may want to review your kernel configuration. It's possible that your old config file has some slight differences to configs for 2.2.14 regarding PS/2 mice. I have the same problem, in the x console. I thought perhaps it might be XF86 3.3.6 that is the problem. I re-compiled kernel 2.2.14, and the problem persists. Basically, the ps2 mouse is frozen in the x window; i.e., it reacts much like the old bus mouse problem. So now I kill gpm when invoking x, then use startx gpm -R -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 and the mouse works fine in x. In Section Pointer ProtocolMicrosoft Device /dev/gpmdata should fix that problem. Pete
Re: kernel 2.2.14 and PS/2 mice
On 10-Mar-2000, Joachim Trinkwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, when compiling a kernel version 2.2.14 my PS/2 mice won't work any more, having the same kernel options as with 2.2.12. The boot messages tell me that a PS/2 mouse port is found, but the cursor doesn't follow the mouse at all. Is there a trick, some other kernel options as in older kernels ...? Yes, in the section Character Devices select Mouse Support and then add the option PS/2 mouse support I had exactly the same problem with my laptop, and it took me a while to figure it out. Pete
Re: Surecom EP-427X PCMCIA card problems
On 02-Mar-2000, Peter Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However when I attempt to use my 10/100 Surecome EP-427X PCMIA card, I get the following errors (using potato with kernel 2.2.14): eth0: Reentering the interrupt handler! isr=0x0 im=0x0 and a horrendous ping time. This is after following the advice in the PCMCIA-HOWTO on how to setup an unknown NE2000 compatible PCMCIA card. Hoping someone can help, or I can persuade the people who sold me the card to swap it (still trying :(). Well they let me swap it, Surecom EP-427 which is only a 10Mbps card and all is well. Pete
Surecom EP-427X PCMCIA card problems
Hi, I just bought a Compaq Armada 1500c and have installed both the Debian 2.1 and 2.2 base systems on it. However when I attempt to use my 10/100 Surecome EP-427X PCMIA card, I get the following errors (using potato with kernel 2.2.14): eth0: Reentering the interrupt handler! isr=0x0 im=0x0 and a horrendous ping time. This is after following the advice in the PCMCIA-HOWTO on how to setup an unknown NE2000 compatible PCMCIA card. Hoping someone can help, or I can persuade the people who sold me the card to swap it (still trying :(). Cheers, Pete
Re: using power save and power down features
On 18-Feb-2000, Horacio MG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) For X I have in the Section Screen of /etc/X11/XF86Config the lines StandbyTime 2 SuspendTime 3 OffTime 4 You might need other/more configuration if you are using a laptop. Just had a look at my /etc/X11/XF86Config file, looking for those lines and realized that I have 'Section Screen' defined four times: Section Screen Driver Accel Device video Monitor monitor ... Section Screen Driver SVGA Device Generic VGA Monitor monitor ... Section Screen Driver VGA16 Device Generic VGA Monitor monitor ... Section Screen Driver VGA2 Device Generic VGA Monitor monitor ... and for all four: BlankTime 0 SuspendTime 0 OffTime 0 ... and 'Section Device' is defined twice. In /etc/X11/Xserver I have: /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3V This means that you have to use the 'Driver Accel' section, as you are using an accelerated Xserver, while SVGA is for the SVGA Xserver and so on. Now, is BlankTime = StandbyTime? No blank time is the time at which the screen turns black but is still using all its power (to prevent burn in I assume). As I use xdm, I suppose I would have to reboot before the changes have effect? (I just did it but it did not work): BlankTime 2 SuspendTime 3 OffTime 4
Re: using power save and power down features
On 16-Feb-2000, Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When using windows my computer move the screen automaticly to standby mode to save power after a certain time ( a bit after the screen save starts), and when I shut down it turns the computer of automaticly. Is it posible to perform these using linux? ( I am using potato, currently 2.2.9) 2) For X I have in the Section Screen of /etc/X11/XF86Config the lines StandbyTime 2 SuspendTime 3 OffTime 4 You might need other/more configuration if you are using a laptop. Section Device Identifier MyCard VendorName Trident BoardName 3DImage975 Chipset 3dimage975 option power_saver EndSection As for the shut down, I do not know. My mother board can not do that. You have to enable APM in the kernel (it is off by default as it can make it hard for some motherboards to boot). Pete
Re: Segmentation fault
On 13-Feb-2000, davidturetsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am executing a Linear Program program I wrote and compiled. It terminates without generating output (but creates the output file) with a Segmentation fault A segmentation fault occurs when you attempt to access memory that you are not allowed to (usually deferencing an invalid pointer). I'm trying to convert programs to run under g++ which I previously developed using Visual c 5.0 and would appreciate any help in sorting this out Is there a log which is generated which might provide further details? You can compile with the -g switch to turn debugging on, and then use gdb to debug the program, and it will tell you which line caused the seg fault. Pete
Re: Trident 3Dimage 9750 problem
On 03-Feb-2000, Peter Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every now and again my system will boot and nothing is output by the graphics card, so the monitor doesn't turn on. I have a Gigabyte 5AX M/B with AMD K6-2 350. Any ideas on how to fix it? Problem solved, the Gigabyte 5AX M/B has an unreliable AGP slot, bought a PCI graphics card and all now works. Note that this problem occurs on two Gigabyte boards, but more frequently on the rev 2 version than the rev 3 so may be fixed on the rev 4 version of the board. Pete
Trident 3Dimage 9750 problem
Hi, Every now and again my system will boot and nothing is output by the graphics card, so the monitor doesn't turn on. I have a Gigabyte 5AX M/B with AMD K6-2 350. Any ideas on how to fix it? Pete
Re: TV Cards....
On 03-Feb-2000, Cyrus Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS I'm in Oz so quoting prices probably wouldn't help ;-) I am in Oz and would like to know some prices.
Re: netscape 4.5 crashes (altmailer and mutt)
On 30-Jan-2000, J Horacio MG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just compiled altmailer to have mutt as my netscape mailer, and the damned thing (netscape navigator 4.5) crashes everytime I click on a mailto: url. Any chance of having this fixed? This is a netscape bug, I believe the work around is to set your reply to field in the preferences section. Pete
Re: scsi-ide module
On 19-Jan-2000, Aaron Stromas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, could someone tell me where the scsi-ide module may be found? either in binary for i386, kernel 2.0.36 or source. tia, have a look in /lib/modules/2.0.36/scsi for ide-scsi.o Pete
Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.
Currently I have two partitions. 1. / 2. /mnt/wally/hdc2 which contains my /usr/local and /home setup by using symlinks. The advantage for me, is that I can trash the root partition any time I want and still have all my important stuff. Pete
Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.
On 18-Jan-2000, Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Peter Ross wrote: Currently I have two partitions. 1. / 2. /mnt/wally/hdc2 which contains my /usr/local and /home setup by using symlinks. The advantage for me, is that I can trash the root partition any time I want and still have all my important stuff. As long as you're not interested in things as mail or logfiles. True, however I use use procmail to deliver my mail to my home directory. You could of course have those directories as symlinks as well. AFAIK the only directories that need to be on the / partition are /bin, /sbin, and /etc. Pete
Re: upgrading multiple machines to 2.1r4
On 14-Jan-2000, Chris R. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to upgrade a few networked machines to 2.1r4, and since I have only a slow dialup connection to the net, I'd like to only download each package I need once. However, I really don't have the space or time for a full mirror. What would be the best way to make sure I can (re)use the packages I've downloaded with dselect? The other suggestions are good, but the way I do it is using wget. To see how to build a wget script for use with apt, read the file offline.txt.gz in /usr/doc/apt. HTH, Pete.
Re: Booting Linux and Win 98
On 13-Jan-2000, Cameron Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, My dad got me a job at his work (I just need to install linux and win 98 on the same hard drive). I've done this on my computer, but I have to use a boot floppy to get into linux. My dad's company wants it so that you can choose which OS to start from a menu. Is their a way to do this? Yes, you need to install lilo. The first three image= sections are for booting different version of the linux kernel. And the following line boots the OS sitting on /dev/hda1 Here is my /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda4 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=linux read-only image=/vmlinuz.old label=old read-only image=/vmlinuz.new label=new read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=dos
Re: LI for LILO or loading from a second harddrive
On 08-Jan-2000, Bryan Scaringe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lilo must be installed in the MBR of /dev/hda. That is where your BIOS looks to boot your system. change your boot line to look like: boot=/dev/hda This will install LILO in the MBR of /dev/hda. LILO can *boot* things pretty much anywhere in your system (like /dev/hdc1) but it must be located where the BIOS looks (generally the boot sector of your first floopy drive, or the MBR of your first Hard disk. I am not sure about that, here is my setup for lilo at home, where the NT bootmanager is in charge, and all it needs to now is how to boot from the start of the partition. boot=/dev/hda5 root=/dev/hda5 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 append=mem=20M image=/vmlinuz label=linux read-only image=/vmlinuz.new label=new read-only image=/vmlinuz.old label=old read-only Pete
Re: NIS passwords
On 11-Jan-2000, Robert Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello ppl how do i tell if my NIS passwords are working correctly? atm i have passwords on both the local machines and the NIS server but i can't tell if user logins are being authenticated by the local machine or the NIS server. Delete the entries from /etc/passwd on the local machine (not on the server, as it uses the passwd file to keep its database upto date) and see if you can login. Use `ypcat passwd' to see the passwd file that NIS uses, when you are debugging the connection. Pete.
Re: scan large files
On 24-Dec-1999, Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul J. Keenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, How can I use 'find' together with other shell tools to scan the directory and print the filename if it is over a certain size. From find(1) -size n[bckw] File uses n units of space. The units are 512-byte blocks by default or if `b' follows n, bytes if `c' follows n, kilobytes if `k' follows n, or 2-byte words if `w' follows n. The size does not count indirect blocks, but it does count blocks in sparse files that are not actually allocated. This will only find files with the exactly or rounded same size. It does not give me the option to specify to print out files OVER a certain size. From the man page TESTS Numeric arguments can be specified as +n for greater than n, -n for less than n, n for exactly n. However I must admit that I do find the man page for find a hard read. Pete
Re: Installing Debian-2.1 on a Compaq DeskPro EN Series Workstation
On 20-Dec-1999, Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone tried installing Debian-2.1 on a Compaq DeskPro EN Series Workstation ? I am trying to get a workstation at the office so that I can install Debian on it, and there's an offchance it might be a Compaq workstation. This machine might be a PIII 500MHz with an Intel(R) PRO/100+ Management Adapter ethernet card. You will also need to find out what graphics card it comes with, as not all cards are supported by Xfree86 (www.xfree86.org). Pete
latest nethack packaged yet?
Does anyone know if nethack 3.3.0 has been packaged yet. Pete
packages for new distributed net clients
Has anyone packaged up the new distributed-net clients for slink?
Re: squid
On 14-Dec-1999, Robert L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I've got the squid proxy server installed on a newly installed box. I presume I point my proxy entry for http to the server, but what port? 3128 or check the http_port option in /etc/squid.conf Pete
packages for the latest distributed net clients
Hi, Does anyone now if the latest distributed net clients have been packaged up anywhere? Pete
Re: only half of physical memory showing up
On 13-Dec-1999, Hey Tom I Changed My Name! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the bios shows that all the memory is there when it boots, but i only have 64 megabytes available in linux. does anyone have any ideas what the problem is or what i can do to fix it? add the line append=mem=128M to your lilo.conf file, and then rerun lilo Or upgrade to 2.2.x series of kernels which will detect 64Mb of memory. see /usr/doc/BootPrompt-HOWTO.gz for more information. Pete
Re: the perils of software re-use
On 10-Dec-1999, Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is very interesting. Do you have a URL where I can read this article? thanks -- Andrew On 10-Dec-1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somewhat off-topic, and as likely to be urban legend as not, but amusing . . . Mutant Marsupials Take Up Arms Against Australian Air Force I believe it was a posting to rec.humor.funny Pete
Re: the perils of software re-use
On 10-Dec-1999, Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is very interesting. Do you have a URL where I can read this article? thanks -- Andrew On 10-Dec-1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somewhat off-topic, and as likely to be urban legend as not, but amusing . . . Mutant Marsupials Take Up Arms Against Australian Air Force You could also try asking someone at http://www.dsto.defence.gov.au/ Pete
Re: WordPerfect 8 Floating Point Exception
On 09-Dec-1999, Jonathan Markevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 09 Dec 1999, Peter Ross wrote: I know, probably a common problem. Related to libc5. HOW do I fix it??? Libc5 and glibc are loaded (Slink + proposed-updates) I really could use StarOffice about now. I couldn't find the Archives, think it was down. Please point me in the right direction, thanks. I think you need to install the libc5 versions of xlib. I think I have that. Xlib6, right? Yes, not xlib6g. It is coming back to me, I believe you also need xpm4.7 Pete
Re: WordPerfect 8 Floating Point Exception
On 09-Dec-1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know, probably a common problem. Related to libc5. HOW do I fix it??? Libc5 and glibc are loaded (Slink + proposed-updates) I really could use StarOffice about now. I couldn't find the Archives, think it was down. Please point me in the right direction, thanks. I think you need to install the libc5 versions of xlib. Pete
Re: hard drive not found
On 08-Dec-1999, Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Dunnivan wrote: I have a Gateway PC with a PIII 450 and a 9GB western digital hard drive. When I boot up with my Debian cd, my hard drive is not found. I see in the install documentation that IDE-SCSI drives are not supported. How do I know if this is what I have? Also for a gateway system you want to press the button that allows you to see the boot up messages, not the gateway splash screen.
Re: Fortran, Lapack
On 07-Dec-1999, Igor Mozetic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does one compile a Fortran program with Lapack library ??? I tried: # g77 File.for -llapack You don't need the lib at the start because it is automatically added. # g77 File.for /usr/lib/liblapack.a would probably also work. Pete
Re: Trying to install X-windows
On 04-Dec-1999, csager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to get all of the error message into a file so that I can make a reasonable attempt at solving my problem? If you are using bash for your shell startx 21 filename or if you are using t/csh startx filename or if you don't know which shell you are using the following will start sh and then run startx. sh -c 'startx 21 filename' To find out which shell you are using finger loginname Pete
Re: File permissions when copying CD's?
On 03-Dec-1999, Svante Signell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When copying a CD to a writable CD the source file gets mounted read-only, i.e. all files do not have a write flag set. Writing this image to a new CD results in a corrupt copy. How to change this behaviour? I'm using gtoaster, cdrecord, ... Any good ideas, perhaps this is an FAQ? I assume you are using mkisofs to create the filesystem, just pass -r to achieve the following -r This is like the -R option, but file ownership and modes are set to more useful values. The uid and gid are set to zero, because they are usually only useful on the author's system, and not useful to the client. All the file read bits are set true, so that files and directories are globally readable on the client. If any execute bit is set for a file, set all of the execute bits, so that executa bles are globally executable on the client. If any search bit is set for a directory, set all of the search bits, so that directories are globally search-able on the client. All write bits are cleared, because the CD-Rom will be mounted read- only in any case. If any of the special mode bits are set, clear them, because file locks are not useful on a read-only file system, and set-id bits are not desirable for uid 0 or gid 0. I am not sure if this information is what you are after. Pete
Re: NIS and groups
On 03-Dec-1999, Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, To get Netscape movemail working on my NIS server, I did: adduser hazelsct mail so NS could write a lock file to /var/spool/mail. However, when I try to do this on the NIS clients, I get # adduser hazelsct mail Adding user hazelsct to group mail... usermod: hazelsct not found in /etc/passwd adduser: `usermod -G mail hazelsct' returned error code 6. Aborting. Cleaning up. Of course hazelsct isn't in /etc/passwd, because hazelsct isn't a local user! Same goes for group floppy, to write to the floppy disk, and numerous others. How do I set things up so that either it will recognize group memberships on the NIS server, or else allow me to add NIS users to local groups? Do I need to eliminate local groups like floppy, mail, etc? You are in luck, I just set NIS up yesterday, and encountered a similar problem. In /var/yp/Makefile, you need to set MINGID to be some lower value to get the groups with smaller group ids, being shared across the systems. Or alternatively, you could edit by hand the /etc/group file and add an entry there. Pete
Re: Help with ethernet printer
On 01-Dec-1999, jchawk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I then went about trying to configure my printcap file manually, but I'm a little confused about all the settings it needed. Here's what I have in it: lp|x4520mp|Xerox 4520mp:\ :sd=/var/spool/x4520mp:\ :rm=jchawk5:\ :rp=x4520mp_4:\ :sh=: I get an error upon trying to print that says lpr:connect:No such file or directory I am printing under netscape with the command lpr -P x4520mp where x4520mp is my printer name. Please does anyone know how to make this work? Or can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? Make sure that the directory /var/spool/x4520mp actually exists? Here is my printcap entry for a remote machine lw.2ne|2ne|lw|Apple Laserwriter in North East Corridor:sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lw.2ne:rm=hydra:lp=:rp=lw.2ne: Pete
Re: sudo problem
On 29-Nov-1999, Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't get any replies to this, so am sending it again. However, I noticed an additional message after the prompt returns: $ sudo ls sudo: unable to lookup nielsen via gethostbyname(): Resource temporarily unavailable Segmentation fault $ No recipient addresses found in header Any ideas? At a guess the library which contains gethostbyname hasn't been installed. Pete
Re: deleting files
On 23-Nov-1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
does anyone happen to know of a quicker way of deleting 4 files out of
a directory other than the command find . -exec rm {} \;
will rm -r directory be as quick?
rm -rf *
Just make sure that you are in the correct directory when you do it,
because this will not prompt you.
Pete
Re: +64 mb ram
On 21-Nov-1999, Martin Fluch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, luis wrote: hello everybody: which are the options to have recognized by linux more than 64 mb of ram? i have put a line in /etc/lilo.conf, stating : append=mem=128m are there other ways to accomplish it, maybe better ? No, if the kernel doesn't recognizes the RAM on board, then this is due to some bug in the BIOS, which can't tell the kernel the right amount of RAM (64MB) installed (or something like that, AFAIK). This is the only you can do (on my ThinkPad I have to do the same in order to get my 96MB recognized). AFAIK, the 2.2.x series kernel has code which can work around this BIOS problem. Pete
Re: keybard doesn't work after upgrade
On 21-Nov-1999, Ben Lutgens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: o.k. I did an apt-get upgrade yesterday, after I rebooted my keyboard doesn't work in x, the bad part is I am using gdm and can't get to a vc. The machine is not on a network and does not dial automagically on boot up. When I try to boot with a rescue disk, I get error allocating a virtual console. MY one option is to install linux on my doze partition then rm the gdm link from /etc/rc2.d. But I would like to avoid that if possible, if anyone has any ideas I would greatly appreciate it. Also am wondering if anyone else had this problem. X is 3.3.5 that is new to potato, my video card is a diamond monster fusion, in a P200, 128MB RAM, blah blah etc. etc. For these sort of situations I use a single floppy disk linux distribution. Here is the one I use http://www.toms.net/~toehser/rb/ but you can find a few more at under the small distributions section http://kernelnotes.org/dist-index.html Pete
Re: Linux names (Re: Strange file names)
On 15-Nov-1999, Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ps: just kidding folks. don't take me seriously on this one. Tux (my server) is safe. Would it be off-topic of me to ask if anyone else has named their Linux systems? Mine was called Debby Anne and now I've shortened it to Debby. : ) Here at the mercury project: quicksilver hydra (two cpus) hg (chemical symbol for mercury) roy (since in the same room as hg (australian joke)) at home: vet (pun on my login) wally dilbert dogbert princess
Re: Large disks
On 14-Nov-1999, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jean-Yves BARBIER said: You could enlarge it a bit, and use it to make your images for CDz Hadn't thought of that... Are there any reliable tools out there for resizing e2fs partitions? (I already gave it all of the space that hadn't been claimed by my root and swap partitions...) I had a look into this: * the latest version of PartionMagick supports resizing linux partitions * ext2resize http://www.dsv.nl/~buytenh/ext2resize/ * partd (find it from the ext2resize homepage) * Diskdrake http://www.linux-mandrake.com/diskdrake/ I haven't backed my data up yet, so that I can try out ext2resize Pete
Re: Large disks
On 14-Nov-1999, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alisdair McDiarmid said: The problem with this is that cdfisk still thinks the disk is 8GB: there's no free space left at the end of the drive. Why's that? I had the same problem a while ago running a Potato system with a homemade 2.2.9 kernel and a 9 Gb drive. Windows could see the entire disk, but cfdisk insisted that it was only 8 Gb. A later version of cfdisk enabled me to partition the remainder of the disk, but mkswap and mke2fs wouldn't initialize it for me... Anyhow, I finally got it working by adding the line linear to the global (top) section of/etc/lilo.conf. Now the only problem is that I've got a 534 Mb partition that I can't decide where to mount, so it's just sitting there, still unused... (Any suggestions?) Use it to try out new filesystems: ie reiserfs and coda Pete
Re: Debian CDs
On 12-Nov-1999, Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shaul Karl wrote: Since an executable for one architecture can not, in general, be executed on another you must have 2 separate sets of binaries. Of course. But I don't think that all 4 Debian CDs (for an architecture) are full of the binaries. I believe that the space is used up by the sources. So I think it would be nice if you could just have one binaries CD for each architecture and then have the rest of the CDs for the sources. And I think that one CD would be enough to put the binaries for an architecture. (Even if you put everything -- useful daemons apps -- they wouldn't eat up all the 600+ MB space; of course, I stand to be corrected). 2 CDs contain binaries and 2 CDs contain source
Re: web mail
On 09-Nov-1999, Charles Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to be able to read my mail from a web page while I'm gone on vacation. What are you guys using to provide that functionality? www.horde.org/imp/ I have no idea how well it works under lynx (I would recommend twig, if IMP doesn't work well under lynx). Pete
Re: CD-ROM error (i think i found the cause)
On 06-Nov-1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible that the reason my CD-ROM drive has trouble reading the CD is because the CDs are CD-Rs??? My CD-ROM drive is a CR-563 made by a division of Panasonic (I think). It is 2x and uses the sbpcd driver. It is not an IDE drive, it plugs into my Sound Card. Yes. Older CD-ROM drives can have trouble reading CD-Rs. Pete
Re: Lynx and .deb
On 06-Nov-1999, Todd Suess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am actually trying to download the debs from the pine 4.20 web page. No matter how I try to download them, using http, they come out as corrupt when dpkg tries to install them. They are not available via ftp from the web site in question, and even using my windows machine I can't get them to download and moved to my potato box without them being corrupt. I tried to download the tar source, and that worked ok, but the web browser whacked the diffs file and it would not compile. Any suggestions would be appreiciated. Todd If you are downloading them using netscape, try pressing shift when you click on the file you wish to download. Pete
Re: setting the date with date [ Netdate ]
On 04-Nov-1999, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ray Schultz said: Netdate will sync your computer clock with that of a Network Time Protocol server (NTP). An example is time.uh.edu What's the difference between netdate and ntpdate (other than that ntpdate is a separate package)? There is no difference between netdate and ntpdate, however the xntp package provides some more services that allow a clock to be kept in sync with another clock continuously. For example, my computer clocks gains 1 sec every minute (hypothetically) using netdate means after one minute my clock will be out by 1 second. However if I use ntp the two clocks will be kept in sync for the entire day, very useful if the two computers share a filesystem. I personally use ntp, found in the xntp package, to sync with an atomic clock on a GPS satellite (well the computer I sync with gets its time from the satellite and I can at most be 20ns out). Pete
Re: setting the date with date [ Netdate ]
On 05-Nov-1999, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Ross said: There is no difference between netdate and ntpdate, however the xntp package provides some more services that allow a clock to be kept in sync with another clock continuously. Right, but, as I said in my original question, ntpdate is a package unto itself. I don't know about the xntp package (according to my machines, it doesn't exist), but the ntp package recommends the ntpdate package. So if netdate is in one of the standard/base networking packages and netdate is identical to ntpdate, why does the ntpdate package exist? OK. You must be running potato, because ntpdate is not a seperate package in slink but part of xntp3. Sorry for the confusion. Maybe the difference is that ntpdate can only connect to NTP (network time protocol) servers, while most (all?) UNIX machines run a different service which netdate connects to. I think this is what is happening after reading the respective docs. Pete
Re: just curious about Debian vs Redhat
On 28-Oct-1999, Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PR == Peter Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PR Yes it does, but it lacks some of the advanced features of apt. What advanced features of apt are you referring to ?? Some of the points I listed at the start of the email message. Pete
Re: is debian eating my memory?
On 28-Oct-1999, Jacob Schmude Your Jacob Schmude [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I've got 32 mb in this p166 mmx system. The problem is that I have 32mb and at the shell prompt, 31mb is used up when I type free. Is debian really eating all that memory or is it something else?? There's dos/win on this pc too so I'm wondering if the tech person didn't enable shadow ram or something? Whenever you access a file, linux tries to keep that file in memory. Hence your memory is full of data from the disk that is placed in the file cache/buffers. Of course if a program needs memory the first thing thrown out of memory is the file cache. Pete
Re: just curious about Debian vs Redhat
On 27-Oct-1999, Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * apt (the tool to keep your distribution up to date), it is by far the best part of Debian. The best bit about it is its ability to get packages from multiple sources and always pick up the latest one. What about up2date, though? I heard it was a program for Red Hat that performs the same functions that apt does. Never heard of it. If it has the similar functionality to apt, great! Pete
Re: just curious about Debian vs Redhat
On 27-Oct-1999, aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have yet to even touch apt ..whats so good about it ?? You can mix and match the locations where you get the .debs from (including multiple CDs), and it will automatically pick up the latest version. You don't have to use dselect, you can do it all from the command line, which is nice when you only want to get one package. You can upgrade to a new version of debian with just one command (supposedly will handle libc upgrade without getting the system into an inconsistent state). i always have used dftp to update my stuff ..works great. Yes it does, but it lacks some of the advanced features of apt. Pete
Re: any need to upgrade kernel
On 27-Oct-1999, aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: depends .. if your running SMP you may want to upgrade if you want access to NTFS drives you may want to upgrade if you use a TV card you may want to upgrade 2.2 provides some pretty good overall perforamnce boosters, but its clear to me its still not really stable yet.. [snip] For me personally, I have upgraded my personal machine to 2.2.x since the filesystem performance is much better, however I have left my server running 2.0.x as the upgrade caused network problems. Pete
Re: just curious about Debian vs Redhat
On 26-Oct-1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used both Debian (at home) and Redhat (at work). Both have reasonable tools for managing software (dpkg for Debian, rpm for Redhat). I've also done upgrades for both Debian and Redhat. The upgrade I did for Debian took several nights and a few e-mails. The upgrade for Redhat took about 20 minutes (no joke). What is Debian's thrust? Why is it better than Redhat? From my limited experience, the advantages of Debian are * lots of binary packages which are integrated into the Debian system * apt (the tool to keep your distribution up to date), it is by far the best part of Debian. The best bit about it is its ability to get packages from multiple sources and always pick up the latest one. The other difference is Debian is a volunteer project (so things get finished when they are finished) and Redhat is commercial (with the pressure to get things out possibly prematurely). In other words Redhat is unstable and Debian is out of date. Pete
Re: lp1 out of paper
On 11-Sep-1999, Seth R Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My /var/log/messages file has some 36000 entries like this in the last few days. (Well, 6000 some messages saying this message has repeated four to six times..) Sep 5 23:47:33 amidala kernel: lp1 out of paper I haven't gotten the lpd system setup yet... will this go away when I setup lpd properly (I think I am using lprng. :) I used to get this error message as well, for me it was because my print queue wasn't empty. Check your print queue using: lpq then remove the jobs from it using lprm job number Pete.
Re: Zombie process using pppd
On 09-Sep-1999, Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 09:47:19PM +0200, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: Hi, On Wed, 08 Sep, 1999 ? 08:30:35AM -0400, Mark Buda wrote: Alex == Alex V Toropov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex In what situation process becomes Zombie ? When a process exits, it can return an exit status code to its parent process. The parent process retrieves this exit status code by invoking the wait() system call. A zombie process is a process that has exited, but whose parent hasn't used wait() to get its exit status code yet. It isn't doing anything, it's just there in the list of processes, waiting to be wait()ed for, unable to really die until that happens. Eventually, even if the neglectful parent process never wait()s for it, it will go away, for this reason: When a parent process exits, init (process id 1) inherits all its child processes. And one of init's less well-known jobs is wait()ing for orphaned zombie processes. Is there a way to determine the neglecting parent of a zombi ? Such as to be able to kill the parent if it's not a necessary program and letting init inherits the zombi process. try ps axuf - gives you a nice process tree Also try pstree Pete
Re: WordPerfect Trouble
Marius Aamodt Eriksen wrote: I'm trying out Wordperfect 8.0. First of all, the installer couldn't find libXpm.so.4, I fixed this by linking the library in /usr/X11R6/lib to /usr/lib. I installed wp with the text-mode install, however, it segfaults when i try to run it. Has anybody here experienced this before? Any ideas? Feedback? I believe the problem is that you need to have libc5 versions of the X libraries installed. I have the xlib6 and xpm4.7, which are libc5 versions of the library installed (oldlibs section of dselect). Pete.
Re: Memory management
Hi Andrei, Memory is a *lot* quicker to access then hard disk, so linux attempts to keep memory as full as possible by caching files that have been used from the hard disk, hoping that they will be used again and can be read from memory rather than hard disk. If you are interested in tuning how your virtual memory subsystem works then you can alter the values in /proc/sys/vm (see proc.txt in the Documentation directory in the kernel source) Pete. On 29-Aug-1999, Andrei Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. Ever since I went from kernel 2.0.36 to 2.2.10 (Still glibc2.0), my system has been having an interesting memory management. 1. When Iboot the syste up, memory consumed is right where it should be. Shortly after a startup, memory usage goes from 20M (Right after boot) to completely fill the physical Ram. top shows a large amount of data in buffered memory. Once I run some programs like Netscape, memory usage goes up (as it should) but upon closure of application it does not completely return to a normal state as it was before, instead a lot of memory is being cached. Here is a record of top at the moment, just running X ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and 2 aterms with a xchat: CPU states: 6.2% user, 1.3% system, 0.0% nice, 92.6% idle Mem: 47180K av, 45904K used, 1276K free, 10496K shrd,980K buff Swap: 110808K av, 13732K used, 97076K free 15292K cached Note the large amount of memory cached. Now I start Netscape. CPU states: 5.8% user, 1.1% system, 0.0% nice, 93.1% idle Mem: 47180K av, 45936K used, 1244K free, 12628K shrd,980K buff Swap: 110808K av, 14804K used, 96004K free 11816K cached I don't know what to make of it. Is the system keeping some apps in memory for better performance at startup? This is a problem because of the swapping that takes place while running programs. Please help to fix this (a full upgrade to slink would be out of the question, because I simply dont have time to reinstall the system and recompile apps that need recompiling.) This has happened with 2.2.10 and 2.2.11 kernels. Even if I revert back to 2.0.36, this problem still persists. Any ideas? Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://scorpio.myip.org--All the pages bundled together. --- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null +--+ | Peter Ross M Sci/Eng Melbourne Uni | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: www.cs.mu.oz.au/~petdr/ ph: +61 3 9344 9158 | +--+
Re: mozilla M8, but compiled for slink
On 30-Aug-1999, Peter Mickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 12:25:53PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: On 24-Aug-1999, Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi people, You can find mozilla .debs compiled for glibc2.0 (slink version) here: http://pandora.debian.org/~joy/slink/ hi, i get the message Malformed line ... when i include the above in my sources.list file in order to try to apt-get mozilla. could someone please help with the correct address? thanks, You actually have to download the .deb manually and then use dpkg -i to install it. Pete.
Re: StarOffice 5.1
On 28-Aug-1999, Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone installed StarOffice 5.1 (Personal addition) from CD? I need it to import MS Word 97 documents. I'm currently running version 4.0 under Debian 2.0 which is a bit slow on my 486 DX-2 (66MHz) 32 MB system. But it does a decent job of importing Word 6 documents. I'm guessing SO 5.1 will be even slower. Other than that, what problems might I expect? I have installed SO 5.0 on my machine, and have had no problems at all. Pete.
Re: How to clear console before login promtp ?
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote: Is there any way to clear console window (text mode) before login promt ? clear /tmp/clear.txt cat /tmp/clear.txt /etc/issue /etc/issue HTH, Pete. PS. clear is in ncurses-bin
Network hangs with 2.2.x kernels
Hi, I have a P90 (with 20M of memory*) which is the server for our home network. It has Debian 2.1r2 installed onto it. When I try and use the 2.2.x series kernels on the machine and FTP after downloading about 20-30K it just stops. I have tried .1,.5,.7 and .9 and they all have the same problem. Any ideas? Pete. * since I set mem=20M on boot. This is because there is some faulty memory in the 20-21Mb range, and I didn't want to buy some new memory.
Re: mozilla M8, but compiled for slink
On 24-Aug-1999, Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi people, You can find mozilla .debs compiled for glibc2.0 (slink version) here: http://pandora.debian.org/~joy/slink/ They worked on a mostly-slink system I tried them on. I guess I should put a recompiled libgtk1.2 and libglib1.2 there, too... tell me if anything else is needed. And sorry for the crosspost. It installed fine for me using slink plus Gnome 1.0 debs from www.gnome.org. However pictures render really badly, you can tell what they are but they are all speckly. I have managed to determine that it due to the fact that my xserver runs using 8bit colour. Does anyone know how to fix this? Pete. slashdot.gif Description: GIF image
Re: Netscape
On 24-Aug-1999, Ryan Chouinard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always hear people complain about Netscape crashing, but I never had that problem, except in Windows. But then, everything crashes in Windows. Netscape works fine for me in RH, Slackware, and now Debian. What's the deal? Clicking on a mailto link causes 4.51 to crash for me everytime. Pete.
Re: more RAM = more speed?
On 25-Aug-1999, Patrick Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Based on the free output above, do you think 96MB would be enough to keep swapping to a minimum with StarOffice thrown in? If you're not sure, I'd be happy to wait a week or so until you have StarOffice installed. In my experience 96Mb of RAM (which I used to have) seemed to be just perfect. 64Mb was just that little bit to small. 128Mb is preferable, but only really possible if you are upgrading your machine. Pete.
Re: more RAM = more speed?
On 24-Aug-1999, Patrick Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Is it a bad idea to buy RAM for a P-133 since it only takes 72-pin? Instead, should I upgrade to a motherboard that can handle a newer type of RAM? You need to consider the fact that the latest SDRAM (132 pin?) now runs at 100Mhz, so if you buy more RAM now it wont be usable in your new system unless you set the Memory speed back to 66Mhz. I guess it depends on how long you are going to wait until upgrading. Pete.
Re: Mounting Windows Partition as /home
On 22-Aug-1999, John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Hatton wrote: I'd like to share user files on my machine between Windows 98 and Linux; since Linux can read and write Windows partitions, I was thinking of achieving this by mounting a Windows FAT32 partition as /home in my Debian installation, and the same partition as \Windows\Profiles in my Windows installation. Does anyone have any comments on the feasibility, advantages or disadvantages of this plan, please? I wouldn't recommend having your home directory a windows partition. This is because the FAT32 filesystem has no concept of users owning a file and the user having permissions on that file. This means that a lot of unix software will think the files very strange, and may not work as expected. __ Just a word of caution. Linux will read and write to all the windows files, but it will only do so as root because the entire windows drive has the permissions set by default to root on everything. This is not the case with NT, only Win 3.11, 95, 98. I find that if I keep flipping back and forth between an Xterm as regular user and a consol screen (using mc as root user and as a file manager) I have no trouble doing anything I want with all of my file systems on all of my drives. You can access the files as a user by having the umask line set in your fstab file. /dev/hda1 /dos/win95 vfatuser,noexec,umask=000
Re: Possible to connect win95 to linux using ethernet boards?
On 15-Aug-1999, André Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to connect my win95 pc to my debian linux system via tcp/ip but don't know if there will be compatibility issues. In theory it seems it should work smoothly since we can connect all kinds of OS's via the internet. On the otherhand, connecting remote systems may not be as easy as dialing up via my isp. Anyways I figured I'd better ask before I spent the money just to find out different os's cannot connect in a lan or peer-to-peer environment. You can use samba to allow linux to appear like an Win95/NT machine in the Network Neighbourhood. Check out www.samba.org You can also telnet and ftp to the linux box from Win95/NT. Pete.
Re: HELP! Frontpage Extensions
On 12-Aug-1999, Rick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI I am hosting web sites that have been made with Front Page and I have eliminated my NT server and went with All Debian servers and needless to say some of the pages are not working correctly and I was wondering if any one could help! I am a newbie but I love it and I am not afraid to read so any suggestions would definatley be appreciated! Thanks in advance FrontPage 98 has some versions of the server extensions for Apache under linux. Don't know how well they work though? Have a look around on the CD. Pete.
Re: [Kernel 2.2.10] Figuring out module-parameters
On 01-Aug-1999, Jonas Steverud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just built a 2.2.10 kernel on my own (banging my own chest like Tarzan[1]) and compiled fat-fs-support as a module (and nls_cp437, vfat, hpfs, msdos, ...) but modprobe (or whatever reads /etc/conf.modules) complains when I boot. I have this in /etc/modutils/filesystems: #! /bin/sh echo \# Filesystems: if [ x`uname -r`x = x2.0.35x ] ; then echo \# No filesystems from /etc/modutils/filesystems else echo options fat echo options msdos echo options nls_cp437 fi echo \# Filesystems - end The problem is that it complains on options fat about missing parameters. How and where do I find out of which options fat (and others too for that matter) expects? The kernel boots[2] nicely but I can't access my network since the modules aren't loaded properly... :-( If you want to load modules at boot time you need to edit the file /etc/modules. For instance adding the line below add my network card to the kernel ne io=0x300 irq=5 The files in /etc/modutils are used to construct the conf.modules file. That file is used by modprobe, which is used by kmod (the 2.2 series auto module includer) Pete.
Re: CD-RW drives and Linux
I have the Panasonic CW-7502 SCSI CDROM drive, with an AMD K6-2 350 and 128Mb of PC100 memory. I have compiled the kernel, watch updatedb start running in the middle of a burn and compiled the Mercury compiler (much more memory, cpu and disk intensive then the kernel) during CD burns without any hitches. I do remember that on my old Cyrix P200 system with a TEAC CD-Writer, that it didn't like reading straight from the IDE CD-ROM to burn onto the SCSI CD-Writer. Since I use my CD-W as my only CD ROM now, I can't confirm if that is still true. Pete.
Re: Where's Apt?
On 02-Jul-1999, per_adua32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently received an E-mail from this mailing list in response to a question about installing netscape. It was suggested that I make changes to: /etc/apt/sources.list It seems that this file does not exist on my system. Moreover I can't seem to find anything to do with apt. Could someone say a little about where I could get this program. I have been using dselect with a cd-dom that I bought, and I tried to use it to find apt but I've had no joy. Does someone know any good sources of info viz the usage of apt. What you may need to do is run find /cdrom -name apt* -print to find where apt is on your cdrom. Then install apt using dpkg dpkg --install /path/to/apt/deb Pete.
Re: Updating the system - Debian newbie needs help
On 01-Jul-1999, Carley, Jason Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I am considering switching over from SuSE 6.1 to Debian. I guess I am an average linux user but I am not really familiar with Debian's way of doing things. I am concerned to understand the process that I will need to go through to update things like my XFree installation to 3.3.3 as I have a RivaTNT card. As well as general packages before I make the jump across. I have been reading up on all of the packages and install tools but I don't really get it yet. Could someone please send me a brief run through on how to get the system up-to-date and how to keep it there. To install debian I can only recommend that you read the release notes. http://www.au.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install The most convenient way to upgrade packages using debian is to use the utility apt. Once you have dselect installed choose apt as your access method. I have attached my /etc/apt/sources.list file. It attempts to install it packages from the cdrom distribution first. However if a newer version of the package is available at ftp.monash.edu.au (my local mirror) it will get the package from there and so on. The final two lines are for Xfree86 3.3.3.1 and gnome 1.0 These are not officially supported Debian packages, but show the power of apt to select the most recent version of a package available. Cheers, Pete. # 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 # The slink CD's #deb file://cdwriter/debian stable main contrib non-free non-US #deb file://mnt/princess/root/cdrom/debian stable main contrib non-free non-US #deb file://mnt/dogbert/root/cdrom/debian stable main contrib non-free non-US deb cdrom:'Debian 2.1r2 Disk 1'/ debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/ deb cdrom:'Debian 2.1r2 Disk 1'/ debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/ deb cdrom:'Debian 2.1r2 Disk 1'/ debian/dists/frozen/non-US/binary-i386/ deb cdrom:'Debian 2.1r2 Disk 1'/ debian/dists/frozen/non-free/binary-i386/ deb cdrom:'Debian 2.1r2 Disk 2'/ debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/ deb cdrom:'Debian 2.1r2 Disk 2'/ debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/ deb cdrom:'Debian 2.1r2 Disk 2'/ debian/dists/frozen/non-US/binary-i386/ deb cdrom:'Debian 2.1r2 Disk 2'/ debian/dists/frozen/non-free/binary-i386/ deb cdrom:Debian 2.1r2 Disk 5/ debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/ deb cdrom:Debian 2.1r2 Disk 5/ debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/ deb cdrom:Debian 2.1r2 Disk 5/ debian/dists/frozen/non-US/binary-i386/ deb cdrom:Debian 2.1r2 Disk 5/ debian/dists/frozen/non-free/binary-i386/ # The stable dist at monash deb http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/distributions/debian stable main deb http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/distributions/debian stable contrib deb http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/distributions/debian stable non-free deb http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/distributions/debian-non-US stable non-US # upgraded X and apt deb http://ftp.netgod.net/ x/ # gnome 1.0 deb ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gnome/gnome-1.0/debian slink main
Re: Backup of MBF (was Hard disk problems)
On 30-Jun-1999, [ Kaa [EMAIL PROTECTED]@hotmail.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: charles kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to avoid repartitioning. I will if nothing else works. But I don't know what 'low level format' means. I remember doing that for DOS before there was IDE, but thought it wasn't needed anymore. Thanks for all the information. Chuck Kaufman Low-level format is *not* needed any more -- that is, as long as your hard drive isn't fubared (as in fscked up beyond all recognition). It may not be called a low-level format, either. I have a couple of Maxtor drives and there is a Maxtor utility for them which will do the low-level format. In the utility itself the operation is called a Write test, but the docs explain what it is. Basically, this will re-write the MBR and all the sectors and restore the drive to the condition in which it was shipped. I had to use it once when I managed to screw up my MBR and it's backup as well. Thankfully, this happened when I was installing a drive so there was no data on it. Do you know a generic way to use the backup copy of the MBR, because I once accidently hosed my MBR and had to reinstall. Thanks, Pete.
