Re: .xreset equivalent of .xsession?
On 22 Nov 1997, David Z. Maze wrote: You can put things after your window manager in .xsession. These will be executed after your window manager exits (user logs out) but before the X server resets. To do that I would need to remove the exec statement which causes fvwm to take over the process and the script exits at that point. Then the calling process is left hanging around, but what you place afterwards is executed on logout. The problem is that I want to kill a daemon called pland. This works, but check this out: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT START TIME COMMAND telmerco 6920 1.0 2.5 1504 796 ? S 10:14 0:00 sh /etc/X11/Xsession telmerco 6932 0.8 1.9 980 592 ? S 10:14 0:00 /usr/lib/plan/pland -k I'd rather just leave the pland running:( -- Colin Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies Building, Room 309, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
2.0.32 - what's new?
Hi! Just wondering what's new in 2.0.32... regards, b a d p i x e l of bad sector [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq uin: 2565176 --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 2.0.32 - what's new?
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Michael Legart wrote: Hi! Just wondering what's new in 2.0.32... The most important fixes in 2.0.32 are the pentium f00f bug workaround and teardop bugfix -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. Egy pingvinre gyakorlatilag lehetetlen haragosan nezni. HuLUG: http://www.cab.u-szeged.hu/local/linux/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 2.0.32 - what's new?
http://www.linuxhq.com/kpatch20.html Linux 2.0.32 Patch - patch-2.0.32.gz (17-Nov-97) Math coprocessor emulation updates. i586 f00f bug workaround and detection added. Teardrop ICMP fragment attack vulnerability fixed. NTP code updates. FPU debugging support added. Fault handler updates. APM screenblank bug fixed. 3c59x netcard driver updates. eepro100 netcard driver updates. ibmtr netcard driver updates. aic7xxx SCSI driver updates. Minor SCSI CD-ROM driver updates. Minor SCSI tape drive driver updates. Sound driver ulaw updates. Buffer handling updates. Minor exec updates. Filesystem updates and bugfixes. NCPFS updates. Minor /proc filesystem updates. Minor vfat filesystem updates. Minor ALPHA header file updates. Kernel fork handling updates. Support for an external PPS signal for time added. Memory management system updates. IPv4 RARP updates. Hi! Just wondering what's new in 2.0.32... regards, b a d p i x e l of bad sector [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq uin: 2565176 --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Imagemagick doesn't release shared memory
i see the same problem running the latest from unstable + kernel 2.0.32. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: diald vs ipmasquerade
On Sat, Nov 22, 1997 at 09:38:55AM +, Chuma Agbodike wrote: Do diald and ipmasquerading serve the same purpose ? Or do I have to use both ? I have a 3 node ethernet lan. The all had windows on them. Now I installed Linux 2.0.29 (debian 1.3) on the unit that has the modem on it. And would like the other units to access the internet via the modem on LINUX unit. So I have diald running on the linux. The windows node have the linux unit as their gateway. But if I ping an IP diald doesn't dial. They both have different purposes. It sounds like you have set it up how it should be, masq for the Windows nodes and diald for dial out. It doesn't work when you ping because Linux 2.0.29 doesn't have masquerading for ICMP, which is the protocol used for ping packets. It should dialout for other connections if your diald is setup that way. 2.0.30 does have masquerading for ping. Good luck, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [**] 60% Your train has been cancelled due to defective government at Spring Street.. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Database advice?
On Sat, Nov 22, 1997 at 12:21:39PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: At work on our BSDI boxes we use mysql. Seems rock solid and I believe has a GPL type license. It's GPL + pay money if you produce a product based on mysql. Unfortunately, this makes it non-free as far as Debian is concerned. For most people it's absolutely free; but if you develop a product which is based around mysql, perhaps an inventory database you want to onsell, then you need to buy it. If your program just happens to support mySQL, eg Apache has mySQL logging support, then you don't need to buy a license. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [**] 60% The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
X startup problems
I picked up Debian Linux on the Boot magazine CD-ROM, and have been trying for a couple of days to get it working the way I want it too, with little success. What's the deal with xdm? My understanding was that that was the program used to login under X, without having to login from a console and then issue a startx command. During installation I told the program I wanted to start X with xdm; I see a message when I boot about xdm being started, and then I log in to a console. Then if I try to use startx like I'm used to, I get a bunch of error messages about some missing socket thing (I'm not at home right now so I can't quote the exact error), then I get an error message about not finding xinit. Anybody know what I did wrong, or what I need to do? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fat32 in installation vfat module?
Matt Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was under the impression that the base install doesn't come with full PPP support (it says this during installation). After the base install (from floppy), you still are unable to dialup. If you could dialup, that would, of course, solve everything. It does now come with PPP support. You just have to know how to configure it. (Which really isn't all that hard) -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DOS/Windows -- check it out at www.debian.org. --+-- Find out how to avoid all those pesky crashes, lockups, application errors, and slow applications at http://www.debian.org -- Debian can replace Windows 95 with a much more stable operating system. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X startup problems
If startx doesn't work neither will xdm. When you say you used startx like you're used to do you mean after you installed Debian or under some other Linux disribution? If you have had startx work with Debian then you need to figure out what happened to make X stop working. If you get startx working you can edit /etc/X11/config to enable xdm at startup. If you can be more specific about the errors you're getting when you startx, someone on this list will help you. --Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I picked up Debian Linux on the Boot magazine CD-ROM, and have been trying for a couple of days to get it working the way I want it too, with little success. What's the deal with xdm? My understanding was that that was the program used to login under X, without having to login from a console and then issue a startx command. During installation I told the program I wanted to start X with xdm; I see a message when I boot about xdm being started, and then I log in to a console. Then if I try to use startx like I'm used to, I get a bunch of error messages about some missing socket thing (I'm not at home right now so I can't quote the exact error), then I get an error message about not finding xinit. Anybody know what I did wrong, or what I need to do? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PCMCIA and 2.0.32
Hi, Has anyone sucessfully managed to compile pcmcia-cs-2.9.12 with 2.0.32? I'm trying to get it to compile on my Thinkpad 755cx and it's dying an ugly death in the middle of 'make all'. I'd use the debian package but there isn't one for a kernel newer then 2.0.30 that I could see. Any and all help much appreciated. Adam. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X startup problems
Hello Dale, there is a file /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. That file lets you had your xservers. you should have a line that says: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X This line should be the last line in this file. If it isn't the xserver won't get started. I hope this helps. Let me know if this is a fix. Paul On Sat, 22 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I picked up Debian Linux on the Boot magazine CD-ROM, and have been trying for a couple of days to get it working the way I want it too, with little success. What's the deal with xdm? My understanding was that that was the program used to login under X, without having to login from a console and then issue a startx command. During installation I told the program I wanted to start X with xdm; I see a message when I boot about xdm being started, and then I log in to a console. Then if I try to use startx like I'm used to, I get a bunch of error messages about some missing socket thing (I'm not at home right now so I can't quote the exact error), then I get an error message about not finding xinit. Anybody know what I did wrong, or what I need to do? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: identd?
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is /usr/sbin/identd, and why don't I have it installed? It seems that it's trying to run an awful lot. identd is part of netstd, so you would need that installed. Actually, I'm quite surprised it's not installed, since it contains a lot of useful programs. -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ gc Trust Ivanova. Trust yourself. Anybody else - shoot 'em. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
netscape installation
Hello, Being brandnew to Debian, I am having lots of trouble getting netscape3.01. I first tried under dselect and got a error (1?), then tried ftp to both debian (contrib) and netscape. I can't find it anywhere. I then went back to dselect and started from the top of the menu and followed each step. It showed netscape as under broken-contribution (if memory serves me right). What can I try next, or what have I missed? Thanks for your help. Mike --- Operating System(s) of CHOICE: Debian (Linux) and OS2Warp3 me ISAT corecom.net http://www.corecom.net/endsley/ --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: netscape installation
On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, me wrote: Hello, Being brandnew to Debian, I am having lots of trouble getting netscape3.01. I first tried under dselect and got a error (1?), then tried ftp to both debian (contrib) and netscape. I can't find it anywhere. I then went back to dselect and started from the top of the menu and followed each step. It showed netscape as under broken-contribution (if memory serves me right). What can I try next, or what have I missed? Thanks for your help. Basically you need to download the netscape tar. Do this to see the instructions dpkg --purge netscape (or is it netscape3?) dpkg -i netscape* In the directory with the netscape.deb. You will have to get netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz (2.2M) from ftp.netscape.com (/pub/netscape/english/unix/linux20/?) Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X startup problems
What's the deal with xdm? My understanding was that that was the program used to login under X, without having to login from a console and then issue a startx command. During installation I told the program I wanted to start X with xdm; I see a message when I boot about xdm being started, and then I log in to a console. Then if I try to use startx like I'm used to, I get a bunch of error messages about some missing socket thing (I'm not at home right now so I can't quote the exact error), then I get an error message about not finding xinit. Anybody know what I did wrong, or what I need to do? if xdm is running, you should be getting an xconsole, with no need for startx. however, startx can be usefull for debugging. type /etc/init.d/xdm stop to kill the running xdm. I've had that missingsocket message on two diffeernet machiens from using the wrong xserver--i believe that SVGA will support almost anything, but using another server on a bcard i t t doesn't support will cause either the behavior you see, or a blinking console rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: diald vs ipmasquerade
At 09:38 AM 11/22/97 +, Chuma Agbodike wrote: Do diald and ipmasquerading serve the same purpose ? Or do I have to use both ? I have a 3 node ethernet lan. The all had windows on them. Now I installed Linux 2.0.29 (debian 1.3) on the unit that has the modem on it. And would like the other units to access the internet via the modem on LINUX unit. So I have diald running on the linux. The windows node have the linux unit as their gateway. But if I ping an IP diald doesn't dial. You cannot ping an IP. You have to ping an address that must be looked up like: server.no.where.net Otherwise diald assumes that the ip in on your local net and no dial is nessasary. I have basically the same setup as you do, so give me a ring if you need help. -Brian What next ? As you suspect you need to recompile the kernel with ip masquerading. You will also want to add ipfwadm rules. Good luck Joe. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Brian Rectanus Kansas State University Computing and Informational Sciences Multimedia/Web Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~trojan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mounting CDROM
On Fri, Nov 21, 1997 at 10:29:30AM +, david.j.jasper wrote: I see, in the boot up, that the cd is detected, but do not see the device name. use dmesg to see the boot messages. -- David Rocher, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.debian.org/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: netscape installation
Hello, Being brandnew to Debian, I am having lots of trouble getting netscape3.01. I first tried under dselect and got a error (1?), then tried ftp to both debian (contrib) and netscape. I can't find it anywhere. I then went back to dselect and started from the top of the menu and followed each step. It showed netscape as under broken-contribution (if memory serves me right). What can I try next, or what have I missed? You need to get the file netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz from netscape. you will need to work you way through the download site. do *not* get v302, v304, etc. It is in the archive section, i believe, rather than the current sections. Then move this file to /tmp, and dpkg --configure netscape and it will install the netscape package. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Ghostscript / Brother HL-660
Hi. I have recently installed Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1 and things are going fine. There are two configuration problems that I can't solve. 1. What is the precise incantation to ask Ghostscript to print a postscript file to my Brother HL-660 laser printer? I used to be able to do this in the past, but I can't remember the options. I tried something like gs -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1 foo.ps but I only get this: Loading NimbusMonL-Regu font from /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/n022003l.pfb... 1750128 432798 1300076 11891 0 done. If I then press Ctrl-D, I get error messages from gs (/undefined in Article). I am the only one using my machine so I don't mind sending the data directly to the device instead of going through the lpr system. 2. What was the variable to define to make vi display 8-bit character codes instead of displaying things like \xe9 ? I used to have a FreeBSD system but I lost most of its configuration files some time ago... Thanks for your time. -- Pierre Sarrazin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Montreal] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
fvwm95 (2.0.43b-2) : FvwmAudio
I have installed the new version of FVWM95 (2.0.43b-2) the FvwmAudio did not work (no sound heard), I had to use FvwmAudio from an older version that works fine. Does any one know why or how can I find why? Thanks -Oz -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126 -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.2 mQBtAzA/tLQAAAEDAKUy/TEjQ/jiZ+9/WJb/+NHxqkvOxGZ3W/F2JCNm5v5ZTZz+ BVZC9GM/I+plQ8xz+7B+KhDSVax8gxNTAkJ+I7P/zAP2ZDMwVf4lq5ZFxMJC+7c7 ET+hNtmQUt8vCVR8hQAFEbQZT3ogRHJvciA8ZHJvckBuZXRjb20uY29tPg== =EU23 -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xv-15 (3.10a-15) fails to work
I have installed xv3.10a-15 this version depends on libtiff3g I have also installed libtiff3g_3.4beta037-3 But when I type xv I get the following error xv: error in loading shared libraries libtiff.so.3: invalid ELF header Does any one how to solve this problem Thanks Oz Dror -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126 -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.2 mQBtAzA/tLQAAAEDAKUy/TEjQ/jiZ+9/WJb/+NHxqkvOxGZ3W/F2JCNm5v5ZTZz+ BVZC9GM/I+plQ8xz+7B+KhDSVax8gxNTAkJ+I7P/zAP2ZDMwVf4lq5ZFxMJC+7c7 ET+hNtmQUt8vCVR8hQAFEbQZT3ogRHJvciA8ZHJvckBuZXRjb20uY29tPg== =EU23 -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Terminal setting: linux
Hi I tried using gnuplot and treid to direct my out put to the screen but I got an error message that the svga library is not available. Does any body know what wrong with this. I don't think that the svga library is missing since I found it through find and I get output through the screen. Thanks Pat -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: identd?
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Nov 22 20:53:50 1997 Received: (qmail 28446 invoked by uid 38); 23 Nov 1997 04:48:43 - Resent-Date: 23 Nov 1997 04:48:43 - Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 28358 invoked from network); 23 Nov 1997 04:48:38 - Received: from fep2-orange.clear.net.nz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by 205.229.104.5 with SMTP; 23 Nov 1997 04:48:38 - Received: from 203.97.50.207 (d3-u15.wgtn.clear.net.nz [203.97.50.207]) by fep2-orange.clear.net.nz (1.5/1.8) with ESMTP id RAA27640; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 17:52:47 +1300 (NZDT) Received: (qmail 2466 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Nov 1997 02:37:15 - To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: identd? References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Carey Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 23 Nov 1997 15:37:14 +1300 In-Reply-To: Will Lowe's message of Tue, 18 Nov 1997 13:03:21 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.65/XEmacs 19.15 Resent-Message-ID: Mx6d-C.A.q7G.pW7d0@debian Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/19143 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is /usr/sbin/identd, and why don't I have it installed? It seems that it's trying to run an awful lot. identd is part of netstd, so you would need that installed. Actually, I'm quite surprised it's not installed, since it contains a lot of useful programs. Will, take a look in /etc/inetd.conf, you will find what you need there...Regards...Rik... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Matlab5
Why use matlab? octave is almost perfectly compatible. I read all the cheezy functions that came with my Digital Signal Processing course text almost straight out - just had to strip some junk off the end of the first line of each m file (There is probably a filter to do this, though it was a strange problem I've not seen before, not staircase effect, but something else. ah the vagaries which MS can induce on even a thing as simple as a text file). There are a few functions like subplot that older versions of gnuplot doesn't do (though I have heard the latest version does) but you can call gnuplot functions directly if you want which gives you a lot of control over plotting that you don't get with matlab. There is also another thing out there scilab but I don't like it as much. It is less compatible (different comment syntax for example), and in this case the commercial application actually did come first, and is pretty much a de facto standard for signal processing. It is not a rip off like pspice, so it is good to clone it faithfully. On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Bill Moran wrote: Hi I am tryng to get matlab 5 working on my Toshiba laptop. I have run S56flexlm to set up the license manager. When I try to run matlab I receive the error message: /usr/local/src/matlab5/bin/lnx86/matlab: can't resolve symbol '__register_exceptions' Does anyone know hoow to fix this? Thanks Bill -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [DEBIAN] Financial software?
I think you are looking for xinvest. It is well maintained and has links to other application (I forget which right now unfortunately). I am not that it's available as a debian package though. On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, I'm looking for an application that will let me manage my bankaccounts and can draw some nice graphs to show what I'm spending my money on. No fancy features are necessary :-). thanks in advance, Nico -- -- Nico De Ranter Sony Objective Composer (SOCOM) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 17 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Roxen packaged (web server)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Good morning folks, I've now finished the first Debian package of Roxen Challenger 1.1. Roxen was formerly known as Spinner which itself was called Spider before. This is the most recent version, 1.2 is prepared for release but has some problems concerning the export of it's cryptography routines (seee http://roxen.com/ for information. Roxen Challenger is the most powerful webserver that I know of. It is highly configurable via an integrated web-interface. Roxen is multithreaded and modularized. It's written in Pike - formerly uLPC, an interpreted language that was designed to server MUDs. The Roxen server is still interpreted at runtime but still very fast. It supports all features a modern webserver needs such as virtual servers both on different IP addresses as well as on different ports. Its modules contain user database, authorization, user filesystem, redirection c. I'd like some people try out that package and tell me what I've been missing and what I could do any better - and HOW. There is one thing that could be done better. Roxen is the only webserver that comes as a Debian package but does not server port 80 by default. You *have* to configure it by hand - i.e. by your favourite browser. Please find the files on ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/joey/debian 3e035d9430e5fc3754c41ec50ce94633 roxen_1.1-0.1.diff.gz 92fa315860437836b294f9cec245e61e roxen_1.1-0.1.dsc db50bfe932804ca593fc4f5667d33d47 roxen_1.1-0.1_i386.deb 60a1f721d21e7626854f9eb3fcfd522a roxen_1.1.orig.tar.gz The binary package is compiled for libc5. If you need libc6 please fetch the source and re-compile it. Please let me know if you have had any difficulties. Enjoy your weekend, Joey -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBNHgOShRNm5Suj3z1AQGPcgP/VZm7seBm6u/3wui+KRN7o2A3RRxhIWIJ 7qyeCSml8qoDuBIAmCSxAVQzlBUcc2mMCCwNOL2+9j7a1z/6pU+XpNCUSyUFhF/I Qvp60v/my7fG7oh79AgsXFsTm0M2PvyIATclb7DDb8L2J6+47lCAjnuV4y2Q1oLg Kb0T4tNJREw= =RoCa -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only / / proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
fdisk is it available anywhere else?
Hi, I am getting ready to partition my disk and i must say that the tool that debian uses does not look as friendly as the fdisk that comes with other distributions. i was wondering if i can find fdisk for linux elsewhere or should you have any hints for using the debian tools. thanks, allan bart -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Matlab5
On 23-Nov-97 Britton wrote: Why use matlab? octave is almost perfectly compatible. I read all the cheezy functions that came with my Digital Signal Processing course text almost straight out - just had to strip some junk off the end of the first line of each m file It is true that octave is very closely comaptible (or can be made so by setting options) with *basic* MatLab. However, MatLab offers a lot of extras in the way of toolboxes which octave doesn't (though there is an increasing corpus of contributed m-file code available for octave). Some of the m-files in MatLab toolboxes are complicated and sophisticated and may call on some of the few MatLab builtin functions with no direct counterpart in octave. Such MatLab m-files may not work in octave in the first instance, and getting them to work could take a long time. In that case you may want to go for the MatLab Linux port rather than rebuild wheels from scratch. As a point of principle: copying MatLab m-files in order to run them (possibly slightly modified) in octave, when you do not have title under a MatLab license, is in breach of MathWorks copyright. For this reason, you will find no help on the octave mailing list for problems which arise if you try to do this. In particular, excerpts from MatLab code may not be published on the list. That being said, I heartily recommend octave. Excellent package! Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: Ted Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 23-Nov-97 Time: 12:17:31 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fdisk is it available anywhere else?
I am getting ready to partition my disk and i must say that the tool that debian uses does not look as friendly as the fdisk that comes with other distributions. i was wondering if i can find fdisk for linux elsewhere or should you have any hints for using the debian tools. HI. I can't imagine that fdsik is not friendly :( Are you talking about plain fdisk or cfdisk - full screen utility? Do you want to partition new disk, erasing everything on it or split existiing partition retaining all the files on it? If latter you are probably talking about fips, not fdisk. In this case you might want to searh for druid utility used by Redhat in his upcoming release. If not, Debian ftp site used to have a file called README.cfdisk with explainations on how to use it. If you want, just let me know and I'll email you fdsik and cfdisk documentation. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Running X at 16 bits of color
Hello all: I know this question has come up before. I am running bo, with kernel 2.1.65. I've recently upgraded the graphics card of my system to an ATI Pro Turbo with 4 meg or VRAM. I would like to get the Xserver running at 16 bits of color at 1280 x 1024. I ran xf86config, and provided all the relevant info. I've manually fiddled with XF86Config with no success. What is the trick to getting more color depth ? OR Where is there some docs where I can read about it ? Peter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Running X at 16 bits of color
I've recently upgraded the graphics card of my system to an ATI Pro Turbo with 4 meg or VRAM. I would like to get the Xserver running at 16 bits of color at 1280 x 1024. I ran xf86config, and provided all the relevant info. I've manually fiddled with XF86Config with no success. What is the trick to getting more color depth ? OR Where is there some docs where I can read about it ? Hi. You may start xrserver as startx -- -bpp 16 Alex Y. _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Roxen packaged (web server)
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is one thing that could be done better. Roxen is the only webserver that comes as a Debian package but does not server port 80 by default. You *have* to configure it by hand - i.e. by your favourite browser. This might be considered a feature, as it allows some other web server to be installed on the same machine as Roxen. -- Raul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: diald vs ipmasquerade
Brian M. Rectanus wrote: At 09:38 AM 11/22/97 +, Chuma Agbodike wrote: Do diald and ipmasquerading serve the same purpose ? Or do I have to use both ? I have a 3 node ethernet lan. The all had windows on them. Now I installed Linux 2.0.29 (debian 1.3) on the unit that has the modem on it. And would like the other units to access the internet via the modem on LINUX unit. So I have diald running on the linux. The windows node have the linux unit as their gateway. But if I ping an IP diald doesn't dial. You cannot ping an IP. You have to ping an address that must be looked up like: server.no.where.net Otherwise diald assumes that the ip in on your local net and no dial is nessasary. I don't understand what you are saying here. Diald works on the basis of IP addresses only. If you ping a name, the very first thing that happens is that gethostbyname() is called to look up the IP address from the name. That _may_ involve a nameserver lookup across the network or it may be relovable from cached data. If it is not cached it will send a query to external nameservers, and that will cause diald to start the link. Equally, diald will start the link if it receives any other kind of packet for a remote site, provided that you have your routing correct. (Don't forget that it has to call the nameserver itself in that manner.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ownership and permissions
David Stern hat gesagt: // David Stern wrote: Hi, If root initiates pon (pppd is owned by root, group dip), how can I setup /etc/ppp/ip-up so that it runs /home/user/.checkformail as user (not root)? I know several ways root can get the job without being user, `here' `there' in fetchmailrc is one, and I know I can change permissions on pppd to run pon as user, though I've never been able to get that to work, but I'd like it to run as user regardless of who initiates pon. I didn't find much in man su. I have in my /etc/ppp/ip-up (which gets started after the ppp-link is established): # See what's going on: echo Getting Mail for User freak... /dev/xconsole # Getting Mail for freak: su --login freak --command /usr/bin/fetchmail --daemon 500 --all You could do something like su - username -c /home/username/.checkformail as well. Speaking of su, I have a root window (rxvt -e su --) in a user X-window session, and I seem to not be able to run X apps from the root window due to the DISPLAY env variable, but it is identical to user's (0:0), and running xhost complains about an invalid magic cookie, unable to open display. What do I need to do to get X apps to run from a root window in a user's X-window session? DON'T USE xhost +! You can get things right with xauth, but I would recommend you install ssh form non-us (or non-free?). Then you can start a terminal like: $ rxvt -title [EMAIL PROTECTED] -e ssh-l root localhost ^ optional ^shell^login ^where and you have no more problems with DISPLAY, xauth etc. This is my first (non-test) message from exmh, so I hope it looks ok. Looks wonderful! -- Yours a href=http://www.koeln-online.de/einblick/; Frank Barknecht Das Koelner Stadt- und Unimagazin - /a -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Low speed response w/ Logitech Trackball
Pancho Horrillo wrote: I use a Logitech Trackball (Marble), attached to PS/2 port, and i cannot get it work fast enough in X, so my thumb gets really tired... Is there any way to change the responsiveness in X ? xset m acceleration threshold threshold is the pixel distance to move in a short time that will trigger the acceleration of acceleration times the normal movement. Your post stimulated me to look into this. I found that `xset m 6 3' made life quite a lot easier. On the other hand, `xset m 10' was a bit wild. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Configuring Pine
On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Johann Spies wrote: If you look at the header of this message, you will see that where the other messages shows the sender of the message, this one shows To: Debian-poslys .. How do I change that? I am using Pine and smail. On my suystem it does not. It looks fine like all other people's emails. I have the same problem on my smail and pine set-up. My emails shows To: ... and not my name. I guess it may be waht our pine system shows rather than what everyone sees. I am interested in the solution to this because I don't like it too. But rest assured your email looked fine for me. I think someone else has already told you saw. /---/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa(w) 27+21+6502816 (h) 27+21+6863662 /---/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Configuring Pine
On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Johann Spies wrote: If you look at the header of this message, you will see that where the other messages shows the sender of the message, this one shows To: Debian-poslys .. How do I change that? I am using Pine and smail. I probably don't understand your question, because my answer is, You type that field in yourself!. I have a similar problem that all my posts appear with To: ... and not like everyone's post that shows the name of the sender. I have asked for help before from Bruce but he too did not understand my problem. I guess that is the problem Johan was experiencing. My feeling is that it is how the local pine system displays it and not how everyone sees it. I better take another look at the Pine configuration file. /---/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa(w) 27+21+6502816 (h) 27+21+6863662 /---/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Getting info from X
Hello users, Excuses for my silly question: How can I get information from X to know resolution and color depth of my actual server? Well, I can change resolution with that 'three keys effort' but I don't know exactly how many colors were displayed and how many linescolumns each screen was working. Thanks, Adalberto da Silva Instituto Astronomico e Geofisico Universidade de Sao Paulo - Brasil [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Sementation fault
All has been going so well in my upgrading to Libc6 but I have just trien to read a man page and I get the message Segmentation fault Can anyone give me a clue as to what to llok for. Thanks, Frere Roy -- Taize Community, 71250 TAIZE, France Personal email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact Taize: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To visit Taize: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List of useful info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site http://www.taize.fr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Commands Manual
Dear Debian, I just got finished installing Debian Linux on my system. Well after all of that work I have no idea what to do next. Is there a list of commands and or sysntax available. I have poked around at the Debian site and others with no luck. I guess I am just stupid. Takes me back to the pre-windows age:) CableKid -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is there an ELM package?
On Sat, Nov 22, 1997 at 03:15:55PM -0800, Adam Klein wrote: Is there a Debian package of a normal version of ELM? I'm using elm-me+, and it seems to have _lots_ of trouble handling MIME and PGP. I figure I'd be better off with a mailer that doesn't know about either of these. Any suggestions? Hello! Elm is kind of orphaned. The real work is now done with mutt, the newcomer. It is elm-ish but very much nicer and does mime and pgp just fine. Unfortunately, it is only in hamm (=unstable), IIRC. You can also try bo-updates. Thank you, Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god. Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fdisk is it available anywhere else?
On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 07:44:02AM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote: I am getting ready to partition my disk and i must say that the tool that debian uses does not look as friendly as the fdisk that comes with other distributions. i was wondering if i can find fdisk for linux elsewhere or should you have any hints for using the debian tools. HI. I can't imagine that fdsik is not friendly :( fdisk is not, but cfdisk is! I'm sure he didn't notice cfdisk, that is very similar to but more powerful than fdisk under dos. Thank you, Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god. Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Linux as a career path
Hi, this may be a side issue,however, it seems that the world is starting to really notice linux. it seems that there is a movement afoot for recognizing the expertise of linux pros. the day may be coming when ,linux will be used in more commercial establishments. i have been studying for a ms network certification, do you think linux will reach that point or even usage as a network tool. thanks, allan bart -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [DEBIAN] Problem on filtering messages from the list
On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Tommy Lakofski wrote: You might like to try using procmail to filter your messages. I am not an expert on this but my procmail filter puts all me emails with the address debian-user@lists.debian.org to a folder called debian. It does not matter whether this is in To: or Cc; etc here are the lines I use :0 * debian-user@lists.debian.org debian Since I used procmail I am relieved because only important messages and many junk emails end-up in my main folder. Now if I can find a way to get rid of the junk emails. /---/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa(w) 27+21+6502816 (h) 27+21+6863662 /---/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: diald vs ipmasquerade
Oliver Elphick wrote: That _may_ involve a nameserver lookup across the network or it may be relovable from cached data. ^ Sorry. That isn't an English word; I meant to say `recoverable'. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PCMCIA and 2.0.32
What kind of errors does make/gcc report when you try to compile? Don't forget you need to have APM (Advanced Power Management) and PCI support compiled into your kernel... without them you will get 'unresolved symbol' errors. Thanks, Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Systems/Network | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Adam Shand wrote: Hi, Has anyone sucessfully managed to compile pcmcia-cs-2.9.12 with 2.0.32? I'm trying to get it to compile on my Thinkpad 755cx and it's dying an ugly death in the middle of 'make all'. I'd use the debian package but there isn't one for a kernel newer then 2.0.30 that I could see. Any and all help much appreciated. Adam. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Commands Manual
Dear Debian, I just got finished installing Debian Linux on my system. Well after all of that work I have no idea what to do next. Is there a list of commands and or sysntax available. I have poked around at the Debian site and others with no luck. I guess I am just stupid. Takes me back to the pre-windows age:) CableKid Hi. Poke around Linux Documentation project homepage: http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/ Read Linux Installation and Getting Started guide and Linux User Guide. Those are good stuff to start with. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fdisk is it available anywhere else?
What tool that debian uses do you mean? The install package uses cfdisk, which some people prefer to fdisk. Personally, I prefer fdisk, but it is a matter of personal choice. If it is cfdisk that does not look as friendly, perhaps you should try fdisk. Both are in the util-linux package, which is in the base section, so you should have both on your system. The fdisk in debian appears identical to the one I used to use in Slackware. Both programs appear to be linux programs, not debian, so they should be the same, except perhaps for version numbers, as those found on other distributions. For hints, look at man fdisk. If you have specific problems, post them to this list. Bob On Sun, 23 Nov 1997 06:16:28 -0500 butch [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am getting ready to partition my disk and i must say that the tool that debian uses does not look as friendly as the fdisk that comes with other distributions. i was wondering if i can find fdisk for linux elsewhere or should you have any hints for using the debian tools. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Netscape Communicator
Is there a *.deb package to install the new 4.04/4.0x Netscape Communicator? The only one I see in bo is for the ancient 3.01 version. Thanks in advance. Regards, | Debian GNU/ __ o .|/ / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy| / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | // /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ | ...because lockups are for convicts... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fdisk is it available anywhere else?
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 07:44:02AM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote: I am getting ready to partition my disk and i must say that the tool that debian uses does not look as friendly as the fdisk that comes with other distributions. i was wondering if i can find fdisk for linux elsewhere or should you have any hints for using the debian tools. HI. I can't imagine that fdsik is not friendly :( fdisk is not, but cfdisk is! I'm sure he didn't notice cfdisk, that is very similar to but more powerful than fdisk under dos. Last time I have problem to create a partition 2GB using cfdisk and I have to low level format my SCSI HD. Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Low speed response w/ Logitech Trackball
On Sat,22.Nov 1997 at 10:44:36 +0100, Pancho Horrillo wrote: Hi! Hi Pancho, I use a Logitech Trackball (Marble), attached to PS/2 port, and i cannot get it work fast enough in X, so my thumb gets really tired... Is there any way to change the responsiveness in X ? I know how to do it w/ The Logitech Trackball (Marble) is really not very fast under X. But I think it has nothing to do with the PS/2 port. You can chaneg the mouse-speed and many other things with the xset program. Take a look at man xset, parameter m. For the first step you can try xset m 5 or xset m 6. This should fast enough. You can find xset in the xbase Package, so you should have it. -- man xset - m The m option controls the mouse parameters. The parameters for the mouse are `acceleration' and `threshold'. The acceleration can be specified as an integer, or as a simple fraction. --- Other possible option could be attaching the trackball at a COM port, but it is a bad one for me, because i would need an adaptor. You don't need it, see above. Please, help me to throw away DOS from my life... :-) A good idea. Hope it helps. Greetings Ekkehard -- -- Ekkehard Knopp 56567 Neuwied/Rhein Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Fido:2:2454/91.39 WWW: http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~jknopp/ == -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Commands Manual
It sounds like you need an introductory Unix book. The Debian Linux User's Guide by Dale Scheetz may be downloaded from http://www.linuxpress.com/, or may be ordered in hard copy from the same address. Although heavily oriented towards Debian installation, there is a summary of the important Unix commands in Appendix 1, and a brief overview of a couple of text editors in Appendix 2. Linux Installation and Getting Started Guide by Matt Welsh gives a good introduction to Linux. It can be downloaded from sunsite.unc.edu, or one of its mirrors, in the directory /pub/Linux/docs/LDP. For more advanced information check out the O'Reilly books at http://www.ora.com. There is a wealth of valuable information already installed on your system. Detailed information on specific commands may be found in the man page for that command (type man command). For more readable information on specific tasks or commands, check out the HOW-TOs and READMEs in /usr/doc. Bob On Sun, 23 Nov 1997 08:37:57 -0600, Kid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got finished installing Debian Linux on my system. Well after all of that work I have no idea what to do next. Is there a list of commands and or sysntax available. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fdisk is it available anywhere else?
Hi Butch, The installation disk uses cfdisk. You are free to use the alt-f2 combo to start a shell and use fdisk instead. I have to agree with you in prefering fdisk, but that's just because that's what I'm used to. HTH, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Trovalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Configuring Pine
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Daniel Mashao wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Johann Spies wrote: If you look at the header of this message, you will see that where the other messages shows the sender of the message, this one shows To: Debian-poslys .. How do I change that? I am using Pine and smail. On my suystem it does not. It looks fine like all other people's emails. I have the same problem on my smail and pine set-up. My emails shows To: ... and not my name. I guess it may be waht our pine system shows rather than what everyone sees. Have you two checked your addressbook? .pinerc? Good luck, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Trovalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape Communicator
hi randy,no there is no .deb package to install communicator. what you do is download the .tar.gz file into a temporary directory. tar zxf .tar.gz the file. run ns-install as root. Hope this helps Paul On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: Is there a *.deb package to install the new 4.04/4.0x Netscape Communicator? The only one I see in bo is for the ancient 3.01 version. Thanks in advance. Regards, | Debian GNU/ __ o .|/ / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy| / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | // /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ | ...because lockups are for convicts... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
error in compiling satan
Hello all, I got some problem while compiling satan, at gulp#perl ./reconfig . . every thing is okay, until checking for all commands can not find ypcat can not find ypwhich please tell me where can I get those..? furthermore.. when I do make as root, I got error as below make[2]: Entering directory `/root/satan-1.1.1/src/port_scan' cc -O -I/root/satan-1.1.1/include -DAUTH_GID_T=int -c tcp_scan.c -o tcp_scan.o tcp_scan.c: In function `receive_icmp': tcp_scan.c:495: `ICMP_MINLEN' undeclared (first use this function) tcp_scan.c:495: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once tcp_scan.c:495: for each function it appears in.) tcp_scan.c:502: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tcp_scan.c:502: `ICMP_UNREACH' undeclared (first use this function) tcp_scan.c:508: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tcp_scan.c:508: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tcp_scan.c:512: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tcp_scan.c:532: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tcp_scan.c:533: `ICMP_UNREACH_NET' undeclared (first use this function) tcp_scan.c:534: `ICMP_UNREACH_PROTOCOL' undeclared (first use this function) tcp_scan.c:537: `ICMP_UNREACH_PORT' undeclared (first use this function) tcp_scan.c:538: `ICMP_UNREACH_HOST' undeclared (first use this function) make[2]: *** [tcp_scan.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/satan-1.1.1/src/port_scan' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/satan-1.1.1' make: *** [linux] Error 2 can somebody tell me what should I do to make my satan work? Please.. thanks kusumamake[2]: Entering directory `/root/satan-1.1.1/src/port_scan' cc -O -I/root/satan-1.1.1/include -DAUTH_GID_T=int -c tcp_scan.c -o tcp_scan.o tcp_scan.c: In function `receive_icmp': tcp_scan.c:495: `ICMP_MINLEN' undeclared (first use this function) tcp_scan.c:495: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once tcp_scan.c:495: for each function it appears in.) tcp_scan.c:502: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tcp_scan.c:502: `ICMP_UNREACH' undeclared (first use this function) tcp_scan.c:508: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tcp_scan.c:508: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tcp_scan.c:512: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tcp_scan.c:532: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tcp_scan.c:533: `ICMP_UNREACH_NET' undeclared (first use this function) tcp_scan.c:534: `ICMP_UNREACH_PROTOCOL' undeclared (first use this function) tcp_scan.c:537: `ICMP_UNREACH_PORT' undeclared (first use this function) tcp_scan.c:538: `ICMP_UNREACH_HOST' undeclared (first use this function) make[2]: *** [tcp_scan.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/satan-1.1.1/src/port_scan' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/satan-1.1.1' make: *** [linux] Error 2
Re: Netscape Communicator
There is a communicator installer and it is in hamm. Lawrence Paul wrote: hi randy,no there is no .deb package to install communicator. what you do is download the .tar.gz file into a temporary directory. tar zxf .tar.gz the file. run ns-install as root. Hope this helps Paul On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: Is there a *.deb package to install the new 4.04/4.0x Netscape Communicator? The only one I see in bo is for the ancient 3.01 version. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fdisk is it available anywhere else?
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, butch wrote: try cfdisk, I believe its also available on the debian disks. Hi, I am getting ready to partition my disk and i must say that the tool that debian uses does not look as friendly as the fdisk that comes with other distributions. i was wondering if i can find fdisk for linux elsewhere or should you have any hints for using the debian tools. thanks, allan bart -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
spam filter (was Re: [DEBIAN] Problem on filtering messages...)
On 23 Nov 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: Much of the spam aren't addressed to you directly. Make a list of all the addresses and mailinglists to which you get mail, filter that mail into list.debian, mail.private, and similar. Leave the rest in mail.unsorted and take a look in that once a week, to see if anything important has slipped through. An alternative approach is this, which I copied from someone else, I don't know where it originally came from. This doesn't require you to make a list of people you get mail from, so you can still get mail from unanticipated but non-spam sources. It works pretty well, but occasionally misses a spam or junks a real email. I'd say it gets 90% of spam and junks 1% of real mail, though I filter all list email before this recipe so it never has a chance to junk that. If nothing else it's really funny to read, I think. Shows how cliche and formulaic most spam is. Havoc Pennington procmail recipe to catch spam: :0D: * ^Subject:.* FREE .* $MAILDIR/junk-folder :0: *^Subject:.* lifestyle *change $MAILDIR/junk-folder :0: *^TO.*friend $MAILDIR/junk-folder :0B: *!!! $MAILDIR/junk-folder :0B: *-150^0 *50^0 ^Dear (friend|net surfer)[:,]?^ *100^2 limited .*offer *50^1 to order( please)? call *50^1 free *5^2 (wealth|money|income|cash|dollar|\$[\$1-9]) *2^2 ! *100^2 act now supplies are.*limited *100^1 never (ever )?(have to)? pay for .* again *200^1 remove.* in .*subject *100^2 reply with .* in .*subject *100^2 free.*(trial|info) *300^1 to [EMAIL PROTECTED] *200^2 wealth[ -]building *100^2 (income|money[ -]making|business) (opportunit|system|method) *100^2 (no|minimal) (outlay|investment|skills|training|experience) *200^2 (instant|overnight) wealth *100^2 now, with .*, you can *100^2 not a (chain letter|pyramid scheme|scam) *200^2 couldn't.*make ends meet *100^.5 I owed.*over \$[1-9]+0*(,000)+ *200^2 .*(turn|convert).*\$[0-9]+ into \$[1-9\$]+ *100^2 (ma[kd]e|bec[oa]me).*million( dollars|aire) *100^2 make.*(money|dollars) *500^2 (money|dollars|\$+[0-9,.$]+).*\ (fast|immediately|quickly|(((with)?in|per|every).*(day|week|wks|month|short time))) *200^2 after .*, i decided to open my own business *500^2 multi-level (sales|marketing) *100^2 satisfaction.*guaranteed *100^2 (lose weight|weight loss) *50^2 herbal *100^2 (18 years old|18 and over|over 18) *500^2 adult service *100^2 (nude|naked|topless|sex) $MAILDIR/junk-folder -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
can't change password
hi everybody, somebody tried to change there by using the command passwd they entered their old password entered the new password twice as per usual but came up with this error Cannot change ID to root. I am using shadow passwords on my system. Any insight would be greatly apprciated. Paul if you need more information please email me. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Getting info from X
Try xdpyinfo. A little much but does the job. Adalberto da Silva wrote: Hello users, Excuses for my silly question: How can I get information from X to know resolution and color depth of my actual server? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Roxen packaged (web server)
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: I've now finished the first Debian package of Roxen Challenger 1.1. Roxen was formerly known as Spinner which itself was called Spider before. This is the most recent version, 1.2 is prepared for release but has some problems concerning the export of it's Just for your information. I asked guys at Idonex for packaging Roxen Challenger. They said they will package it starting with release 1.2 Regards, Iztok --- InterNet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Snail Mail: Iztok Umek, Pod vinogradi 39, SI-8351 Straza, Slovenia URL: http://gea.fri.uni-lj.si/~iztok -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Sementation fault
On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 03:22:36PM +0200, Frere Roy wrote: All has been going so well in my upgrading to Libc6 but I have just trien to read a man page and I get the message Segmentation fault Can anyone give me a clue as to what to llok for. Thanks, Frere Roy There's a bug in the man-db package which requires you to rebuild the man-page index about once a week. To do this, type: mandb --create at the shell prompt. By default, there's a cron job setup to do that. By the way, this has nothing to do with libc6. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
SLRN?
Hello All, I'm using the latest slrn .deb package. slrn works fine by itself and slrnpull pulls in news group traffic OK. What must one do to let slrn view the traffic pulled in by slrnpull? I can't seem to figure out how to do this. The docs aren't too clear on this matter. Regards, -- Victor Torrico -- Wildflower Hill, Head Waters, Virginia -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
wu-ftpd_2.4-27: Conversion program not found
I have a program with my wu-ftp daemon. I try retrieve a directory using the .zip extension. But I get the following error message: 550 Local error: conversion program not found. Cannot ZIP file. I already checked that: - the zip program is in ~ftp/bin - all needed libraries (libc.so.5.4.20) are in ~ftp/lib - the following line is in /etc/ftpd/ftpconversions : : :.zip:/bin/zip -q -r -9 - %s:T_REG|T_DIR:O_TAR|O_COMPRESS|O_TAR:ZIP What could be still wrong here? Thanks for your help, Torsten -- I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere. Fortune Cookie PGP Public key available -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Diald
Can someone please send me a working copy of their diald-options file. So I can find out what is wrong with my setup or non-setup ? I think that's where the problem lies because when I disable diald and use pon everything works. This linux has fought me every inch of the way. But I really want to rely on it. Thanks Chuma -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Free PageMaker-style program?
Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (about emaulation of pagemaker): Lyx, as far as I know, isn't a page layout program, it's a word processor. Have the developers added page layout features? I can't imagine trying to emulate PageMaker-like features from within the constraints of LaTeX. As far as I know, TeX has a so-called output routine, that works each time TeX has eaten enough text to fill a new page. This output routine controls the layout of the page, and if I am well informed, the output routine is (like the rest of TeX) very powerfull and flexiable. Therefore, I think it would be possible to generate a page layout program based on TeX (like Lyx is based on TeX). Regards, Paul Huygen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Linux as a career path
Well, we have a Linux machine on our network at work. It is a print server on a network that serves both NT and Unix workstations. The linux box runs samba and LPRng with bounce-queue filtering through magic filter to handle the office printing. As a matter of fact, since I set it up, it even runs Debian. It is an old 486 machine that would have otherwise been thrown away since there is no way NT was going to run on that 486DX2-66 with 16Meg of RAM and a 200Meg hard drive. I think linux HAS reached that point. You might want to look at the latest Linux Journal. Particularly the article on Linux as a proxy server for windows machines. On 23-Nov-97 butch wrote: Hi, this may be a side issue,however, it seems that the world is starting to really notice linux. it seems that there is a movement afoot for recognizing the expertise of linux pros. the day may be coming when ,linux will be used in more commercial establishments. i have been studying for a ms network certification, do you think linux will reach that point or even usage as a network tool. thanks, allan bart -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ownership and permissions
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Frank Barknecht wrote: David Stern hat gesagt: // David Stern wrote: Speaking of su, I have a root window (rxvt -e su --) in a user X-window session, and I seem to not be able to run X apps from the root window due to the DISPLAY env variable, but it is identical to user's (0:0), and running xhost complains about an invalid magic cookie, unable to open display. What do I need to do to get X apps to run from a root window in a user's X-window session? DON'T USE xhost +! With the above warning about xhost, (that is, not using 'xhost +' but rather 'xhost +localhost' (I have been told it's better to use xauth, but don't understand that). In any case, the reason you're getting errors when you try xhost is that xhost is an X command, and if root can't run X clients, it can't run xhost. So, the solution is either to run 'xhost +localhost' from an xterm as your regular user, or to (as root) do: cp ~username/.Xauthority ~root (where username is the username of your regular user) DANIEL MARTIN -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Please help with installation diskettes!!!
Hello!! I decided to install Linux and chose Debian. I read everything I could about Linux and tried to install Debian. When I used the rawrite2 command when it finishes it writes: Bad sector detected When I run scandisk it doesn't find anything wrong with my diskettes. Can it be that all of my diskettes are bad? I use 5.25'' 1.2MB diskettes. An interesting fact is that the size of the files is 1,228,800 and the disks have only 1,213,952 bytes. The only file that it can write to the floppy disk is root.bin which is less then 700 KB. I don't know what to do. Please help TIA, Liran Zvibel. P.S I would like to partition my HDD before the installation begins, is there a M$-DOS version of cfdisk? How can I get it? Thanks!!! O O -oooO--(_)---Oooo--- Liran Zvibel e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] .oooO Oooo.Please Don't send me any mail to the shani.net server. ( Y ) ( Y ) --\ (-) /--- \_) (_/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Diald
Chuma Agbodike wrote: Can someone please send me a working copy of their diald-options file. I have done so. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: RAID controllers?
thanks! anyone know if the Adaptec AAA-131 is supported? On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Dale Harrison wrote: Hi, Does anyone have experience with RAID controllers such as Mylex DAC960 or DPT2144UWR ?? I assume they're supported under linux, right? Question, do any of these support automatic recovery? I heard the DPT needs to be booted up into DOS in order to perform a rebuild... Is that true? What about the Mylex? Although an interactive rebuild is fine, auto recovery would be wonderful. I've only had experience of the Mylex DAC960 under NT, but I don't see it making much of a difference. It automagically rebuilds when you rip out a drive. All this was before the software was loaded, so it seems to be on a hardware level. The software provides the ability to manually rebuild, and also provides status/options and stuff.. D. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Adaptec AAA-131
Hi, anyone know if the Adaptec Raid controller is supported in linux? Thanks! Ricardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Introduction for new users
Today a new user was asking for basic help in using Linux. There doesn't seem to be anything like that on the CD-rom, unless my copy is out-of-date. I attach a document that might serve as a brief introduction, that could be added to the files on the CD. Would anyone like to suggest additions: Quick quide for newcomers to Linux/Unix === 1. Getting into the system. You have to log in (as with Windows) by entering a username and password. This gives you complete access to your own files, but not to other users' files, unless they specifically allow it. (See on permissions, below.) 2. Running commands Type a command at the prompt and any necessary options and then press the Enter key. Most commands operate silently unless they are specifically asked to say what they are doing. If you don't see an error message, the command should have worked. 3. Organisation of files Unix filesystems are organised into directory trees, like DOS. However the separator character is `/', not `\'. So a likely path might be `/usr/bin/ls'. The job that DOS does with `/' (command-line switches) is done in Unix by `-': for example `ls -a -l -d' (which may be shortened to `ls -ald'). 4. Essential commands: [something_in_square_brackets] represents some other word that you will type in according to what you want to do. man [command]: shows the manual page on the command (use q or ctrl-C to get out of it if it doesn't terminate at the end of the text) info: read GNU documentation in a rather crude hypertext format. cd [directory]:change directory (just like DOS!) mv [source] [target]: moves [source] file to [target] and deletes [source]. [source] can be a list of files, but in that case [target] must be a directory. cp [source] [target]: copies [source] to [target] ln [source] [target]: links [source] to [target] (hard or symbolic links according to options) rm [filelist]: deletes files chmod [mode] [filelist]: changes the permissions of files chown [owner] [filelist]: changes the ownership of files chgrp [group] [filelist]: changes the group ownership of files ls [directory]:list contents of [directory] (like DOS dir, but the output is sorted) df:lists mounted partitions (note: /proc is a special 'non-existent' partition, that contains information about the current state of the OS) cat [textfile]:dumps [textfile] to screen without paging (like DOS type) more [textfile]: lists [textfile] to the screen in pages so that you can read it less [textfile]: like `more' but with more features and somewhat different behaviour find [directory] -name [filename]: tells you where [filename] is in the tree starting at [directory]. This command has many other useful options. grep [pattern] [filelist]: list all lines in [filelist] that match [pattern] gunzip [file]: uncompresses [file] (which is probably called `something.gz' or perhaps `something.Z'), deletes it and writes an uncompressed file called `something'. zcat [compressed_file] zless [compressed_file] zgrep [compressed_file]: run cat, less or grep on a compressed file without your having to uncompress it first file [file]: reports what kind of thing [file] is type [file]: says where to find [file] in your search path whereis [file]:like type, but gives more information ps:list your processes tar cpio afio dump: various processes for making archives of different kinds awk perl sed: various text processing commands (and more) lpr [file]:print [file] to the default printer ed [file]: the original line editor (not friendly) vi [file]: full-screen editor (find a book about it) emacs: another editor, that would like to be an Operating System when it grows up exit logout ctrl-D (sometimes): use any of these to log out passwd:change your password id:tells you what user you are and what group you are in su:become superuser; this gives you the authority to alter system files AND ENABLES YOU TO WRECK YOUR WHOLE SYSTEM, so watch it! (see below.) Use`exit' or ctrl-D to stop being superuser. When you are superuser, your prompt will probably end with # instead of $. The password you are prompted for is the root password. If there isn't a root password, set it now!! DON'T BE SUPERUSER EXCEPT WHEN NECESSARY!
Re: Sementation fault
All has been going so well in my upgrading to Libc6 but I have just trien to read a man page and I get the message Segmentation fault Can anyone give me a clue as to what to llok for. There was a bug in the man-db package. It has been fixed. Get the newer version from one of the ftp archives. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Commands Manual
I just got finished installing Debian Linux on my system. Well after all of that work I have no idea what to do next. Is there a list of commands and or sysntax available. I have poked around at the Debian site and others with no luck. I guess I am just stupid. Takes me back to the pre-windows age:) With each software package you have installed you have a matching /usr/doc/X directory. There you can find info about each package. And for simple usage instructions you can just type `man utility-name' and read. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: CVS for debian?
Remeber to use the package finders when you are looking for packages. It makes life a lot nicer. One of there (there are about four I believe) is at: http://badger.alaska.net/debian/ There's also a package list in the Debian WWW site, in http://www.debian.org/packages.html -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- from Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America, WORLD! pgppx7XIbPHTX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Please help with installation diskettes!!!
Hello!! I decided to install Linux and chose Debian. I read everything I could about Linux and tried to install Debian. When I used the rawrite2 command when it finishes it writes: Bad sector detected When I run scandisk it doesn't find anything wrong with my diskettes. Can it be that all of my diskettes are bad? Hi. That's very well could be. ScanDisk only performs read-only test. I use 5.25'' 1.2MB diskettes. An interesting fact is that the size of the files is 1,228,800 and the disks have only 1,213,952 bytes. Well, I don't remember what is the exact size of the 1.2 floppies, but the bigger size may represent the total number of blocks on the floppy while lesser one is the available size for user files after formating. The only file that it can write to the floppy disk is root.bin which is less then 700 KB. I don't know what to do. Please help TIA, Liran Zvibel. P.S I would like to partition my HDD before the installation begins, is there a M$-DOS version of cfdisk? How can I get it? It is standard DOS command called fdisk :) But I don't recommend to use it for anything but creating dos partition. It won't be able to create proper partitions for linux, you would have to use Linux cfdisk or fdisk anyway. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Introduction for new users
Content-Description: TO_BEGIN [Attachment, skipping...] Hi. May be it is worth removing ':' after the commands? Alex Y. Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Introduction for new users
more [textfile]: lists [textfile] to the screen in pages so that you can read it less [textfile]: like `more' but with more features and somewhat different behaviour I would just recommend only less. ed [file]: the original line editor (not friendly) vi [file]: full-screen editor (find a book about it) ? This is for newbies, isn't it? I would list `joe', or even `ae' I also think that we need such a document. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- from Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America, WORLD! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
KDE team doesn't like Debian dist.?
I've just finished installing the right honorable Debian version of KDE. I'm impressed with how well it works and how well it is packaged. The README.debian file says the KDE team is not too happy with the packaging. I'm wondering why. Thanks Paul Serice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Configuring Pine
On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Johann Spies wrote: If you look at the header of this message, you will see that where the other messages shows the sender of the message, this one shows To: Debian-poslys .. How do I change that? I am using Pine and smail. This is normal Pine behaviour according to the Pine newsgroup (this may be FAQed, too). Pine assumes that you know a message from yourself IS from yourself, so why see that info? You can't change it. Another person will see it normally because it's not from themself. So: don't worry about it. :) Devin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Introduction for new users
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: Today a new user was asking for basic help in using Linux. There doesn't seem to be anything like that on the CD-rom, unless my copy is out-of-date. I attach a document that might serve as a brief introduction, that could be added to the files on the CD. Would anyone like to suggest additions: The official effort to write something like this is called the Debian User's Manual, and it would be great if you could help with that. I'm writing a chapter on files, and I'd like to steal some bits from your document if I could. You can see my rough development chapter at: http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/rhpennin/file-management.sgml Info on the User's Manual as a whole can be found by following the Debian Documentation Project link from the Documentation section of www.debian.org. Anyway, if you're into writing documentation I'd encourage you to help us out with the User's Manual. There are only a few people working on it so far. Havoc Pennington -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Matlab5
Hi Thanks for your help on Matlab. I have checked with ldd and have exactly the same libraries as others: libXpm.so.4 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 libXt.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 libXext.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 libdl.so.1 = /lib/libdl.so.1 libg++.so.27 = /usr/lib/libg++.so.27 libstdc++.so.27 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.27 libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 libSM.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 libICE.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 I still have the same error message: /usr/local/src/matlab5/bin/lnx86/matlab: can't resolve symbol '__register_exceptions' Why do I want to use MATLAB5, rather than octave and scilab? Basically for ease of compatibility with others in the group I am working with. In particular, I need to use Simulink or something very compatible with it. I am not aware that Octave has anything like that. Scilab does, but I don't know how easy it is to port over code written in Scilab's version to Matlab. Any more ideas on my matlab problem? Thanks Bill -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: rvplayer installer
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ralph Winslow) writes: I'd like to try this too, where do you get rvplayer5.x in the first place. It doesn't seem to beDebian package. I just DLed rvplayer from the Real Audio site http://www.realaudio.com and untarred it to /usr/local/lib/rvplayer5.whatever. -- _ _ Steve Kostecke| (_)_ __ _ ___ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / http://kostecke.home.ml.org | | | | | | |_| | |_|_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SLRN?
Victor Torrico wrote: I'm using the latest slrn .deb package. slrn works fine by itself and slrnpull pulls in news group traffic OK. What must one do to let slrn view the traffic pulled in by slrnpull? I can't seem to figure out how to do this. Hi, I maintain slrn, but I haven't actually used this capability (I prefer leafnode). Anyway, what you need to do is run slrn with the --spool parameter. You might also need to set some variables in your .slrnrc to configure it to look in the right place for the news spool: set spool_inn_root /var/spool/slrnpull set spool_root /var/spool/slrnpull/news set spool_nov_root /var/spool/slrnpull/news set read_active 1 set use_slrnpull1 The docs aren't too clear on this matter. It's described in /usr/doc/slrn/README.slrnpull.gz. Page down to the section titles Setting up a minimal .slrnrc file. If it doesn't work for you, I'll be glad to help further, and perhaps expand on the existing docs. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
