Re: Paquetes no main
El lunes 05 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 14:52:57 +0200, Santiago Vila contaba: ¿Que opciones habria que pasar a dpkg, para que me de los paquetes instalados, de las secciones contrib y non-free? Con dpkg -l no se puede hacer esta seleccion. A mí sí me funciona: Él se refiere a todos los contrib y non-free ;-) -- Just do it. David Serrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Registered User no. 87069 http://come.to/Hue-Bond.world In love with TuX. Linux 2.2.5 PGP Public key at http://www.ctv.es/USERS/fserrano/pgp_pubkey.asc
Re: Acentos, eñes y demás zarandajas...
El Mon, Apr 05, 1999, Javier Ramirez... export LC_MESSAGES=es_ES export LANG=es_ES export LESSCHARSET=latin1 export LC_CTYPE=es_ES.ISO8859-1 export MM_CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 Así consigo utilizar acentos(*), eñes y demás zarandajas con el vi, pero no así con el joe. ¿Qué tengo que hacer para poderlos utilizar con joe(**)? Como te han dicho en las news, mira el parámetro `-asis' en el `/etc/joe/joerc'. Yo empecé con Joe, pero después de probar Vim... ;-) La única variable que tengo definida en el `profile' es LANG: export LANG=es_ES.ISO-8859-1 y me funcionan acentos, ñ, diéresis y circunfejo (en Vim y Joe): ñÑ çÇ áéíóú ÁÉÍÓÚ ÀÈÌÒÙ ÁÉÍÓÚ äëïöü ÄËÏÖÜ äëïöü ÂÊÎÔÛ ^ | Todo parece ir bien, excepto la A mayúscula con circunflejo, ;-? Supongo que será la fuente que utilizo. Del `/etc/TextConfig' (SVGATextMode): = Option LoadFont FontProg /usr/bin/setfont FontPath /usr/share/consolefonts FontSelect lat1u-16 8x16 9x16 8x15 9x15 FontSelect lat1u-14 8x14 9x14 8x13 9x13 FontSelect lat1u-12 8x12 9x12 8x11 9x11 FontSelect lat1u-10 8x10 9x11 8x9 9x9 FontSelect lat1u-08 8x8 9x8 8x7 9x7 FontSelect Cyr_a8x32 8x32 9x32 8x31 9x31 FontProg /usr/bin/setfont -u lat1u.uni DefaultMode 80x40x9 = Ese doble `FontProg' me estraña... ¿ Hay alguna forma de saber con certeza que fuente tienes ? `setfont' no te lo dice, aunque parece que en mi caso es `lat1u', ¿no? Bueno, para mí está bien. Si alguien quiere recomendar alguna otra. Ya puestos quiero comentar un problema que quizás tenga alguna relación con ésto. En Xwindow también me funcionan los acentos y demás, y en la Xterm las teclas inicio y fin, así como en el editor Joe. Pero en Vim estas dos teclas no, devuelven 'F+return' y 'H+return', respectivamente. Las teclas de función algo similar, cuando en modo texto funcionan. En las News me comentarom que Vim no leia el `termcap', o algo así (perdí el post, y ponerse a hacer un strace ahora... O:-). Si alguien sabe que hay que trastear para arreglar esto, me sería de gran ayuda que lo comentase. En el `/etc/vimrc', tengo añadidas al final unas líneas: Teclas Home y End (modo comando) map ESCOH 0 map ESCOF $ Teclas Home y End (modo inserción) map! ESCOH ESC0i map! ESCOF ESC$i La verdad no se que hacen ahí. Si las comento (tal como aparece), en modo texto siguen funcionando home y end, pero arranco las X y el Vim en la Xterm sigue igual... Saludos. -- Cosme = -=-=- A través de Debian GNU/Linux -=-=- -=-=- Software Libre -=-=- -=-=- Computadora de 1992 -=-=- http://www.linux.org/ S.O. Multi-[plataforma, tarea, usuario] http://www.gnu.org/Free Software Foundation http://lucas.hispalinux.es/ Documentación en Castellano =
Algo raro con la memoria
Hola a todos Tal vez recuerden que algun tiempo les consulte como instalar debian en un computador pentium dual (dos procesadores). Recibi sus respuestas y estoy muy agradecido, esta maquina esta que vuela. Ahora hay algo que me preocupa. Esta maquina que les cuento viene con 128 megas en ram, pero cuando corro top me dice que solo hay 64 megas. Es mas, cuando inicio el sistema y le doy dmesg, me sale: Memory: 64268k/66556k available (932k kernel code, 416k reserved, 896k data, 44k init) Que es un mensaje del kernel que compile. Es que acaso este kernel no ve mas de 64 megas en ram? o habra que hacer algun procedimiento raro para que vea los 128 megas que tiene la maquina ? Les agradezco cualquier ayuda. Hernan Mauricio Velasquez Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes Santafe de Bogota, Colombia
xdm
Hola a todos. Tengo una máquina instalada con debian 2.1 en la que utilizo xdm para conectarme desde estaciones X Window. La máquina no tiene ni pantalla ni teclado, por lo que me resulta completamente inutil el proceso que xdm lanza para controlar el display :0. ¿Alguien sabe como hacer que este proceso no se lanze? Saludos
Re: AWE64 pnp
Miguel Angel Velando wrote: Hola a todos, Soy nuevo en Linux y estoy tratando de reemplazar mi W95. No he tenido mayores inconvenientes con la instalacion las X 3.3.3.1, WordPerfect8, Netscape 4.08, etc pero no consigo hacer funcionar la placa de sonido Soundblaster AWE64 PnP. Alguien ha tenido alguna experiencia con este modelo? Desde ya, gracias Miguel Velando -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Yo tengo el mismo modelo de tarjeta, y siguiendo el AWE-HOWTO no tuve ningún problema para configurarla. Aparte de la configuración del PNP es exactamente igual que si tuvieras una AWE 32. El único problema que hay es que el pnpdump no detecta los tres puertos del EMU8000, pero eso lo tienes explicado en el HOWTO. Un saludo
Re: Algo raro con la memoria
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Hernan Mauricio Velasquez Nino wrote: Que es un mensaje del kernel que compile. Es que acaso este kernel no ve mas de 64 megas en ram? o habra que hacer algun procedimiento raro para Seguramente necesitas pasarle el parámetro mem=128M al arrancar (en la lista de parámetros de ese kernel, en /etc/lilo.conf). Podría quedar de la siguiente manera: image=/vmlinuz label=Linux mem=128M El problema también se solucionaría instalando un kernel más moderno, pero sin duda esta opción es más rápida :-)) Saludos!
RE: Paquetes no main
A mí sí me funciona: Él se refiere a todos los contrib y non-free ;-) Si, eso es. He ejecutado grep -B 1 -A 9 'Section: contrib' /var/lib/dpkg/available | lpr y ya tengo lo que me hacia falta, salen unos bloquecitos con la seccion, el paquete, descripcion y alguna otra cosa. Lo que pasa, es que tambien salen cosas correspondientes a paquetes que ya no estan instalados. ¿Existe alguna forma de purgar estos datos? Saludos.
Re: Acentos, eñes y demás zarandajas...
y tampoco veo ninguna mayúscula con circumflejo (ÂÊÎÔÛ) ... aunque como no hablo francés ... sin embargo, otros: ß (eszet alemana) ¢ (céntimo ...dentro de poco en uso) ¥ (yen) ... POR CIERTO, ¿sabe alguien cómo, si se puede, implementar el símbolo del euro? Usando una fuente ISO-8859-15 que lo incluye y es practicamente igual a la ISO-8859-1 al menos en lo referente a laos caracteres españoles. Tendras que modificar tambien el mapa de teclado de la consola y de Xwindow. Hay un paquete con fuentes y los mapas en: ftp://jaguar.nfrance.com/pub/linux/french/EURO-1.5-beta1.tar.bz2 Fuente: PC-Actual, p.242. Saludos, David Requena
Re: Quitar xdm del arranque
Hue-Bond wrote: En Debian el xdm no se controla, así sino en el archivo /etc/X11/config, tal y como salió en otro mensaje. Creo que con el xdm de la 2.1 ya no es así: del /usr/doc/xfree86-common/README.debian Upgraders from earlier versions of the X packages should be aware that the /etc/X11/config file is no longer used; its functions are now handled by /etc/X11/Xserver.options in this package, /etc/X11/xdm/xdm.options in the xdm package, and /etc/X11/xfs/xfs.options in the xfs package. Furthermore, the nature of /etc/X11/Xresources has changed; it is now a directory containing package-specific resource files instead of a single file. Este parece ser el método actual para ello: Del /usr/doc/xdm/README.debian: If one does not wish to run a local X server at all, the following line should be commented out of /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers: :0 local /usr/bin/X11/X vt7 Saludos, -- = Agustín Martín Domingo, Dpto. de Física, ETS Arquitectura Madrid, (U. Politécnica de Madrid) tel: +34 91-336-6536, Fax: +34 91-336-6554, email:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://corbu.aq.upm.es/~agmartin/welcome.html
Log de inicio
Bueno esta es la primeracuestion que planteo a la lista, me gustaria poder registrar en un log todos los mensajes que se producen justo al arrancar linux para poder leerlos tranquilamente mas tarde "hacer fotos a la pantalla no es una opcion". ¿Alguna idea? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Directorio mqueue
Tengo un problemita. A veces (soslo un par de veces y con cierto usuario) sucede el siguiente error: sendmail[38608]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(user): The chdir system call failed, chdir(/var/spool/mqueue): The file access permissions do not allow the specified action. Obviamente el mail se pierde. Los permisos del directorio son drwxrwx--- Desde ya, gracias. Saludos Gustavo
Re: Log de inicio
Addex escribió: me gustaria poder registrar en un log todos los mensajes que se producen justo al arrancar linux para poder leerlos tranquilamente mas tarde usa: dmesg |more o si quieres mas información todavia (estando como root) more /var/log/messages saludos, Jaime
Re: Servidor X para i740
On lun, abr 05, 1999 at 07:43:53 +0200, Ángel Carrasco wrote: Utilizo la debian 2.1 con el kernel 2.0.36 y las xfree86 3.3.2. He instalado una tarjeta gráfica Intel 740 y tengo el siguiente problema. No aparece por ninguna parte. Entonces, decidi bajarme los nuevos xservers, pero las webs de Xfree, X y X11 estan organizadas de forma que nosotros los novatos tengamos problemas para saber que bajar etc. Ruego si alguien ha tenido un problema similiar tenga a bien comentarme posibles soluciones o donde podría bajarme el fichero mejor etc. Gracias anticipadas. Instala el servidor X XBF_i740 (no GNU pero si freeware) de Red Hat Software que encontrarás en: ftp.redhat.com/pub/XBF/ De ese directorio tienes que bajar los siguientes ficheros: xf86config-glibc-1.0.0.i386.tgz XBF-i740-glibc-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm Saludos y suerte. -- Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Las qt 1.42 no van [SOLUCIONADO]
[...] Tampoco puedo compilarlo, también salen errores con el símbolo __eh_pc. Por supuesto he instalado la libstdc++2.9 (y una actualización de libstdc++2.8), y no he tenido ningún problema de dependencias al instalar los paquetes. A veces uno descubre la solución 5 minutos de haber hecho la pregunta... He instalado la nueva versión del compilador de c++ (que curiosamente se llama g++) y el libstdc++2.9-dev y ya por fin puedo compilarlo. Ricardo Villalba [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.xoom.com/rvmsoft http://rvmsoft.findhere.com
No me funciona el KDE 1.1
El otro día instalé el KDE 1.1 que iba en la pc actual del mes pasado. Las qt 1.42 la saqué de potato. Parecía que toda iba bien, pero resulta que unos cuantos programas (kdehelp, kedit) no funcionan: símbolo no definido en libkfile.so.2 o algo así. ¿Cómo se soluciona? ¿Vale con actualizar el kdelibs2g o hay que actualizar todo el KDE (que es lo que me temo)? Ricardo Villalba [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.xoom.com/rvmsoft http://rvmsoft.findhere.com
Re: Log de inicio
Guenas On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 12:47:22PM +0100, Addex wrote: Bueno esta es la primera cuestion que planteo a la lista, me gustaria poder registrar en un log todos los mensajes que se producen justo al arrancar linux para poder leerlos tranquilamente mas tarde hacer fotos a la pantalla no es una opcion. ¿Alguna idea? dmesg te da esa informacion, asi que redirecciona la salida a un fichero y listos :) Saludines -- -- POWERED BY Linux. Debian 2.0 - Kernel 2.2.5 - User reg. 66054 Andres Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] Antequera (Malaga) - Spain Grupo LIMA (Asociacion de Usuarios de Linux de Malaga) http://iaeste.cie.uma.es/lima
Re: AWE64 pnp
El lunes 05 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 14:49:11 -0300, Miguel Angel Velando contaba: pero no consigo hacer funcionar la placa de sonido Soundblaster AWE64 PnP. Alguien ha tenido alguna experiencia con este modelo? /etc/isapnp.conf: (READPORT 0x020b) (ISOLATE) (IDENTIFY *) (CONFIGURE CTL00c5/85552926 (LD 0 (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E))) (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1)) (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 5)) (IO 0 (BASE 0x0220)) (IO 1 (BASE 0x0330)) (IO 2 (BASE 0x0388)) (ACT Y) )) (CONFIGURE CTL00c5/85552926 (LD 1 (IO 0 (BASE 0x0200)) (ACT Y) )) (CONFIGURE CTL00c5/85552926 (LD 2 (IO 0 (BASE 0x0620)) # Ahora lo copio del SoundBlaster-AWE-miniHOWTO, # ya que las cosas concuerdan con güindonz (IO 1 (BASE 0x0A20)) (IO 2 (BASE 0x0E20)) (ACT Y) )) (WAITFORKEY) /etc/modutils/aliases: # Bla bla bla # Cambios by /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/AWE32: alias char-major-14 sb alias sound sb alias midi awe_wave post-install awe_wave /usr/bin/sfxload /usr/lib/awe/sfbank/synthgm.sbk options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 Ejecutar como root: # isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf # update-modules # modprobe sound Y a ver qué tal. Ah!, el sonido ha de estar compilado como módulo y el kernel (2.2.5 en mi caso) ha de tener el soporte para PnP activado. Yo lo puse con el 2.0.34 y sólo he tenido un pequeño contratiempo en el cambio a 2.2.x, tan pequeño que ni lo recuerdo. -- Just do it. David Serrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Registered User no. 87069 http://come.to/Hue-Bond.world In love with TuX. Linux 2.2.5 PGP Public key at http://www.ctv.es/USERS/fserrano/pgp_pubkey.asc
Re: Suck en Debian
El martes 06 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 19:05:11 +0200, Han Solo contaba: Resulta que el script /usr/lib/suck/get.news.innxmit, que es el encargado de bajar y subier las news en RedHat, en Debian no existe. En ese fichero es donde se dice de que servidor de los marcados en newsfeeds se tiene que bajar las news. Lo mas parcido que he encontrado es el /etc/suck/get-news.conf, pero no he conseguido que funcione. En Debian es /usr/sbin/get-news, que es un enlace a otro archivo (si no me equivoco). Algunas variables que se usan en ese script se toman del get-news.conf. El mío es: server: localhost remoteserver: news.mad.ttd.net outgoingfile: news.mad.ttd.net sedcmd: /^NNTP-Posting-Host:\|^Xref:/d Por supuesto, haz todas estas cosas como usuario news. Si tienes dudas de haber tocado algo como root, con esto se arregla: # chown -R news.news /etc/news/* /etc/suck/* /var/lib/news/* /var/lib/suck/* -- Just do it. David Serrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Registered User no. 87069 http://come.to/Hue-Bond.world In love with TuX. Linux 2.2.5 PGP Public key at http://www.ctv.es/USERS/fserrano/pgp_pubkey.asc
Acentos... :-(
Ola' pessoal, entrei na lista debian-user-portuguese ha' pouco tempo e gostaria de saber como anda a acentuacao para o XWindows, quais os metodos hoje existentes e qualquer documentacao a respeito disso. Quando eu estava usando o kernel 2.0.xx, eu usava um daemon chamado diacrd (acho), so' que quando eu comecei a usar o kernel 2.1.xxx esse programa deixou de funcionar devido ao novo codigo de acesso do teclado no kernel da serie 2.1. Pros: todos os programas funcionavam. Contras: o acento cirunflexo costumava falhar (?) Um outro metodo que eu cheguei a experimentar foi o da substituicao da libX11 por uma compilada com suporte a acentuacao, so' que mesmo assim, nao eram todos os programas que aceitavam acentos. Bom, qualquer ajuda nessa area sera' muito bem vinda []'s
Acentuação no 2.1?
Estranhamente não estou conseguindo acentuar no 2.1. Usava o 2.0 e acentuava corretamente em todos os programas no x e no console(exceto staroffice e seu ~ til. Uso como solução para acentuar a troca de fontes para lat1u-16.psf. Troca do arquivo defalut map para um do arnaldo carvalho de melo(us-acentos.map) e alguma mudança nos arquivos profile, inputrc, Xsession e Compose. Tudo está descrito em http://www.infohouse.com.br/usuarios/jclaudio/debian.html No X tudo funciona bem, exceto pelo xterm. No console quando digito por exemplo ' (acento agudo) e a (letra A) deveria aparecer á (A acentuado). Mas não aparece. No seu lugar aparece o código da letra, (eu acho) /341 Isso acontece para todas as letras que tento acentuar. Alguém sabe onde pode está o erro? Conferi tudinho, mas não encontrei diferença do que fiz no 2.0. Será algum package que não instalei? A propósito o 2.1 slink está muito bom.
Re: SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel
as far as i know the SB 128 PCI is based on the chip es1371 so i would try CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=y instead. Thanks Helmut, but no, there's two different varieties of the SB 128 PCI according to the driver readme. You identify them with a 'lspci -n' command; according to the output I'm using the right one. But since I've tried about everything else I can think of, perhaps I ought to give the other a try. :-) -- Regards,| Why would anyone want to run an operating . | system that is open source and is developed Randy | by hundreds of hackers worldwide? Find out ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | why at http://www.golgotha.net/why-linux/
Re: where is Pine?
On 06-Apr-99 Ed Cogburn wrote: Pollywog wrote: Which package contains Pine? I thought I had it installed but I can't find it and I can't find a pine deb. oic. Well, I did not need it that much, I just recall that in another distro, it was installed by default and I used it when KDE or my regular mailer had problems. thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
Re: email threat
On 5 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ESR wrote:]
Damn straight I took it personally. And if you ever again behave like
that kind of disruptive asshole in public, insult me, and jeopardize
the interests of our entire tribe, I'll take it just as personally --
and I will find a way to make you regret it. Watch your step.
I think that most people in the Linux community will find this behaviour
objectionable in the extreme. If ESR wanted to rally people round in his
defense ('understand my job', etc.), he's just taken one of his many
firearms and shot himself in the foot.
It's fairly obvious who is 'behav[ing] like [a] disruptive asshole,' and
'jeopardiz[ing] the interests of our entire tribe.'
-thomas
..
please forgive my abrupt ending hre - but my conection is
xtrememleyyhiclmelyey BAD hiccuppy etc must sign off -
EF D8 33 68 B3 E3 E9 D2 C1 3E 51 22 8A AA 7B 98 umbra (!)
Re: email threat
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 10:48:42PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today I received the following threat in e-mail from Eric Raymond. The message is this for-real? -vinny
Re: Double-Vision when increasing bbp
Kent West wrote: Up til now I've been living with a DefaultColorDepth of 8 in my X Windows. (I figured I had plenty of other stuff to learn about Linux first.) Now when I try to change it to 15 or 16 or 32 and restart X I get double- or triple- or worse- vision. It's sort of like the vertical hold on a television is set improperly, only I not only get a mis-aligned image (upwards and downwards usually), I also get two images, one on top of the other, separated by about 3/4 of the height of the monitor. I've tried tinkering with xvidtune, but that doesn't help at all. I've tried resetting my X settings with XF86Config, but again, no good. It happens at 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768. I'm tried using the XF86_SVGA server and the XFCom_SVGA server that's part of vmware. My card is a 2MB (I believe) STB Nitro 64 (Cirrus GD5446-HC-A). I suspect it's something in the modeline, but I've tried to read some of the docs on modelines and came away fairly well confused. So, can anyone point me in the right direction, either with a solution or where to look for the solution, especially in English, not techno-speak. Thanks! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null It's gotten worse; I changed back to 8 bbp and I still have double-vision. I've tried creating a new XF86Config file from scratch using both xf86config and XF86Setup and using sane defaults and tried using various Cirrus options (such as linear and no_accell); it's really nasty. Oh, BTW, I found out it's a 1MB card instead of 2MB.
Re: Setting the time and date is ?broken?
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Richard Black wrote: which _seems_ to work. But when I reboot, the time and date are incorrect. I have also tried using date with similar lack of success. Two things that I have noticed is that hwclock is slow and hwclock --show doesn't return anything. is it quite an old pc? you might need a new battery on your motherboard, the little lithium cr2032 one which supplies power to the rtc and nvram when it's switched off. if the battery goes, it has trouble storing the time. it's not completely consistent with the behaviour you're describing though, but it's worth checking. -thomas .. please forgive my abrupt ending hre - but my conection is xtrememleyyhiclmelyey BAD hiccuppy etc must sign off - EF D8 33 68 B3 E3 E9 D2 C1 3E 51 22 8A AA 7B 98 umbra (!)
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Re: email threat
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: Today I received the following threat in e-mail from Eric Raymond. The message was copied to the Silicon Valley Linux User's Group officers, who you may consult regarding its authenticity. The police have been notified. Because I know that Eric is a firearms enthusiast, for my own protection, I feel the best strategy is for me to publicize the threat widely. Forgive my ignorance here (and my curiousity) but just ... who is Eric Raymond, and who are you (or what you've done/said) so that he threatens you? Regards Horacio -- Claves - GnuPG/PGP - Keys : http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver o/or Envía un mensaje vacío a [EMAIL PROTECTED] con la línea de asunto: Send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject line: Tipo de Clave/Key Type Asunto:/Subject: DSA/ElGamal fetch dsa/elgamal DSS/Diffie-Hellman fetch dh/dss RSA fetch rsa
Re: email threat
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forgive my ignorance here (and my curiousity) but just ... who is Eric Raymond, and who are you (or what you've done/said) so that he threatens you? I'm tempted to say he's just a nut, but he's the head of the Open Source Initiative. What annoyed him is that I cricicized the Apple license. The full text of the threatening email can be found at http://perens.com/Articles/Threat.html . Thanks Bruce
Re: Potato and egcs
On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 09:13:47PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: First, don't complain. One of the listed goals for potato on debian-devel (you do read that, don't you? potato is a DEVELOPERS RELEASE) I was under the impression that there are illegal constructs in 2.0 that GCC likes but EGCS hates, and that these problems were fixed in the 2.1 development tree some time ago. The whole GCC/EGCS thing is mostly political, IMHO, as many agree that EGCS is the superior compiler. There was a big thread on -devel discussing whether glibc2.1 was pulled because it doesn't compile with GCC 2.8. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Wall and chatscripts broken
I have potato-current with kernel 2.2.5. Wall quit a while ago which stopped the echo ip-up script line. Now something (perhaps ppp update) has stopped the report connect from sending the data to the current screen. Any idea what may get this working again? Hate to use a 16k4 when I get 49-50k most of time. Thanks.. -- Eddie Seymour, WB4MLE E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP KEYS D/H 0xB65DC61A RSA 0x935801A9
Re: vim/ctags problem: Java keywords not highlighted
- What are TERM and COLORTERM set to? I use rxvt and have TERM set to xterm-color and COLORTERM set to rxvt. I don't know what the appropriate values are for xterm. Setting TERM to rxvt (xterm-color wasn't recognized) and putting a syntax on .vimrc, together, provide coloring. Thanks. -Jonathan
Re: email threat
bruce writes: Because I know that Eric is a firearms enthusiast, for my own protection, I feel the best strategy is for me to publicize the threat widely. And quotes: Damn straight I took it personally. And if you ever again behave like that kind of disruptive asshole in public, insult me, and jeopardize the interests of our entire tribe, I'll take it just as personally -- and I will find a way to make you regret it. Watch your step. While this is certainly objectionable, it is not a threat of violence. Notifying the police is totally unjustified. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Re: email threat
On 5 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forgive my ignorance here (and my curiousity) but just ... who is Eric Raymond, and who are you (or what you've done/said) so that he threatens you? I'm tempted to say he's just a nut, but he's the head of the Open Source Initiative. What annoyed him is that I cricicized the Apple license. The full text of the threatening email can be found at http://perens.com/Articles/Threat.html . Is the quote below what pissed him off? He does say that you singled him out whereas the decision, he says, was made by the entire board of 5 members. I gather that there's more to it all. Eric is right that the entire board isn't mentioned as having made the decision, but on the other hand, I think it's worded quite politely and sincerely. Bruce's open letter stated: We also regret to note that that Eric Raymond, with the best of intentions, jumped a little too fast to embrace the APSL in his enthusiasm to welcome Apple to our community. He placed the Open Source designation on a license that wasn't quite ready for that. We invite Eric and other members of the Free Software community to join us in requesting the few simple changes to the APSL that we have outlined in this letter. ...RickM...
RE: Loading packages from zip drive
I posted this message on 23 March, and received replies from Helmut Metzdorf, Santiago Vila Doncel, Bruce Sass, and ANShevin. Thank you for you help, all of which was useful. This is how I solved the problem. 1. Throw away the Infomagic CD. 2. Download the base distribution from the Debian ftp site, as per Debian installation guide. 3. Copy downloaded files from zip drive to dos partition. 4. Install base system from hard disk, as per Debian installation guide. 5. Download required packages from ftp site. 6. Install packages using dpkg -i package-name-which-is-usually-very-long-indeed-1.23-456-7.deb 7. Repeat 5 6 for required packages not originally downloaded (d'oh). The result is a simple, small installation with which I am very happy. I recommend Debian for those who require a small, simple console-based installation due to memory and disk-space limitations (or who believe in function over form). Well done, and thanks for the help. Chris -Original Message- From: Chris Reay Sent: Tuesday, 23 March 1999 15:10 To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Loading packages from zip drive I have an old-ish Toshiba laptop (486, 200 mb, no CD) onto which I have loaded the Debian v2.0 base system from the dos partition. I now want to add a few console editing, development (mostly Python and C), and utility packages; to this end I've copied the relevant binary-i package directories (and packages) from an Infomagic CDR (11/98 ish) as well as the files Package and Package.gz onto an Iomega zip drive, which I have mounted. I run through dselect and select the zip directory, select the packages I want, resolve (i trust) dependency issues and set it going. The process appears to be collecting information about the packages but doesn't get very far at all, and after a while finds too many errors ... and returns to the dselect menu without installing the packages. I've looked through the installation, faq, and tutorial documents, but haven't found anything helpful on the topic. Does anybody know the solution? Thanks Chris Reay
Re: email threat
Bruce, if you are actually in fear for your life the police are the right forum for this. It appears that you are trying to once again publicly defame Eric in front of the Linux community. This message is about embarrassment and character assassination hid beneath a patina of fear. Regardless of what your differences are with Eric this message should not have been posted to this list. -Ian On 5 Apr 1999, John Hasler wrote: bruce writes: Because I know that Eric is a firearms enthusiast, for my own protection, I feel the best strategy is for me to publicize the threat widely. And quotes: Damn straight I took it personally. And if you ever again behave like that kind of disruptive asshole in public, insult me, and jeopardize the interests of our entire tribe, I'll take it just as personally -- and I will find a way to make you regret it. Watch your step. While this is certainly objectionable, it is not a threat of violence. Notifying the police is totally unjustified. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null __ Ian Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP = F2 92 50 E3 CD D7 A2 D9 C4 CE 08 A6 98 E0 0F 58
Re: X thinks my screen is larger than it actually is
edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config, set Virtual 1024 768 if you are using 1024x768 Marcus Claren wrote: Hi! I've got a very annoying problem. My X server seems to think that my screen is bigger than it actually is. I'm using wmaker, and when a program window drops out of the desktop I can usually maximize it and make it fit the desktop perfectly. So wmaker knows the size of my screen, I think. But when I'm running certain programs, like games (Xsoldier, Xworm) which seem to have a preset window - size their windowborders are vanishing outside the desktoparea and there's no way for me to resize them. Other programs that I'm experiencing the same with are Rosegarden, a music program and Blender. Some guy at irc told me that this could be due to that I've set my virtual res too high in the XF86Config- file, but he couldn't explain to me exactly how to change this. Anyway, please help me as this makes working with some programs impossible. TIA //Marcus -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: SiS6326 chip and XFree86
The SVGA server in slink does not support this chip. You can just download the SVGA server from XFree86 website, and manually link it to /usr/X11R6/bin/X. Then edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config. You will need to set the following options on: Option sw_cursor Option no_bitblt Option no_imageblt Option noaccel Good luck. Antonio Ullan wrote: Paul Lowe wrote: Antonio Ullán wrote: Hello: My PC is running slink. I just have installed a SiS6326 AGP video card and I don't know how can I to configure X-Window. I have intented with XF86_SVGA server but only I get 320x200 resolution and Ctrl-Alt-+, Ctrl-Alt-- dont't work. Can somebody help me?. Thanks. Best regards. Edit /usr/X11/lib/X11/XF86Config Paul Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Paul: I have intented that my video-car work editing XF86Config file but I haven't get it. I think that XFree86 3.3.2 ( currently installed in slink) don't support SiS6326 chip or not in the usual way (editing XF86Config, run XF86Setup,...). I'd like to know if somebody have this video chip runing in slink and It is working fine. In this case, how can I do it ?. Thanks Antonio -- Antonio Ullán de Celis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Smail and diald
Hi, I'm using diald and very happy with it. But a want to tell smail to deliver outgoing mail every 1h, i've tried to run smail -db -q1h but that makes no diference, every time I send a message smail try to deliver it and diald does it job. What can i do Thanks. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tel. 098746017 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __
xisp
Hi, I would like to run xisp without logging in as root. Right now when I run it as a regular user, xisp gives me an error message: /usr/sbin/pppd: using the name option requires root privilege. Some more facts: 1. I am running Debian 2.1 2. My ISP is using CHAP authentication. 3. I can dial out as a regular user using pon/poff (i.e. I have the standard permissions on pppd and I am a member of the dial-out group) 4. I can dial out using xisp as a root user without any problems. If there is anyone who may know a solution to my problem, I would appreciate to read about it. Thank you for any help, Vaclav Polasek
Re: ip-up for each user?
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 02:14:37PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
I'm assuming that you have multiple users dialing into a single provider
account. Change 'pon' from
/usr/sbin/pppd call ${1:-provider}
to
/usr/sbin/pppd call ${1:-provider} ipparam $USER
and have the behavior of the scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d depend on the
value of $6 .
Ahhh...that's something I was missing. The manpage explains it nicely.
Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
Robbie
Re: Setting the time and date is ?broken?
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 04:01:22PM -0400, Richard Black wrote: rdate time.nist.gov hwclock --systohc I use the netdate command, which has been working really well from me. Run it periodically, or else from ip-up. Robbie
Re: email threat
Regardless of what your differences are with Eric this message should not have been posted to this list. May I politely suggest that you reconsider that? Eric should not have written the letter to begin with. An apology to Bruce is long overdue. Every one of Bruce's criticisms of the APSL has been general, civil, and focused on the issues at hand. Eric's rebuttals and articles have been almost entirely ad-hominim, vituperative, and unrelated to the APSL. This is ugly, yes, but Eric should realize by now that he can not assume that his communications with Bruce will remain private, especially if they contain threats made in the name of our entire tribe. Read the full text of the letter. The most ominous part of it is the quote at the end. Let's all hope, for the sake of civil discourse, that it was auto-generated. If it was, then Eric needs to prune his .sig/fortune file, and we can drop this and move on. Full text of message: http://perens.com/Articles/Threat.html Ed
Re: ip-up for each user?
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 10:19:13PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: This is in /etc/diald/ip-up: === #!/bin/sh # Set the time and date ntpdate -s -t 5 ntp2c.mcc.ac.uk ntp4.strath.ac.uk # Get mail fetchmail mail.enterprise.net # Run the mail queue runq === I presume you could do the same in /etc/ppp/ip-up/something. fetchmail won't allow 2 copies of itself to run, so you don't need to worry about that. So how does fetchmail know who to run as? I'm supposing as the user who called pppd, right? If that's the case, then my problem can be solved simply. Otherwise more hacking will be necessary. Thanks, Robbie
Video Card Recommendation
Hi, I've been asked at work to recommend a good PCI / AGP video card for a new linux machine they are going to set up. What seems to be working good for you guys. (Something less than a $120) Thanks -Nick M. TELEPHONE / Fax# 765-973-2895 Voice Mail + Fax # 1-800-792-0279 pin # : 765-973-2923 VISIT MY HOMEPAGE AT :- http://www.earlham.edu/~marouni QUOTES **God made pot. Man made beer. Who do you trust? The Irish Times. Washington, D.C. **Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. ** I will find humor in my everyday life by looking for people I can laugh at. **I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. **Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. **Tragedy is when I cut my finger, comedy is when you fall in an open sewer and die. -Mel Brooks
Re: email threat
Ed Slocomb writes: The most ominous part of it is the quote at the end. Let's all hope, for the sake of civil discourse, that it was auto-generated. It almost certainly was. Eric has some sort of random sig generator. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
email threat withdrawn
Eric says he only meant to threaten me with defamation of character, not with any kind of violence. Thus, I think I'll just let this issue drop now. Thanks Bruce
Re: ip-up for each user?
Robbie Huffman writes: So how does fetchmail know who to run as? I'm supposing as the user who called pppd, right? It will run as root, because that is what pppd runs as. Otherwise more hacking will be necessary. The conventional thing to do is to have root's .forward push the incoming mail through procmail or mailagent. I do it slightly differently. I have a user named 'postman' that exists just to receive mail. In ip-up.d I have su -c fetchmail -v postman which runs fetchmail as postman. postman's .forward pushes the mail through mailagent, using rules that are conveniently located in postman's home directory, which is named 'postoffice'. This nicely centralizes all the incoming mail stuff without cluttering root's home, and reduces the number of daemons running as root. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: xisp
vp == v polasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: vp I would like to run xisp without logging in as root. Right now vp when I run it as a regular user, xisp gives me an error message: vp /usr/sbin/pppd: using the name option requires root privilege. Do you have the xisp package from 2.1, or do you use an older version? Check with dpkg -l xisp It should be 2.5p4-1 If you are using an older version (I suspect so), then upgrade. pppd 2.3.5 (as included in slink) got stricter about the allowed usage of parameters for unprivileged users. If I am wrong with my guess, please run find /etc/ppp -type f | xargs grep name as root, so that I can see where this parameter comes from. Ciao, Martin, xisp maintainer
RE: xisp
Hi, I had the same problem. The dirty way is to change overnership for usr/sbin/pppd. Or you could add yourself to the group that allows using pppd, think it is dialout or pppusers. On 06-Apr-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to run xisp without logging in as root. Right now when I run it as a regular user, xisp gives me an error message: /usr/sbin/pppd: using the name option requires root privilege. Some more facts: 1. I am running Debian 2.1 2. My ISP is using CHAP authentication. 3. I can dial out as a regular user using pon/poff (i.e. I have the standard permissions on pppd and I am a member of the dial-out group) 4. I can dial out using xisp as a root user without any problems. If there is anyone who may know a solution to my problem, I would appreciate to read about it. Thank you for any help, Vaclav Polasek -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Date: 05-Apr-99 Time: 21:22:00 This message was sent by XFmail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux ---
tar'd to disk instead of tape (oops!)
I've really done it this time. I blithely took scsi device 2 as sdb, and tarred onto it. I started e2fsck,, and went through about a dozen inode messages until it occurred to me that I had another disk of the same size, and stopped it. I then used dd to copy the partition, which occupied the entire disk, to a partition occupieing the other entire disk. It didn't occur to me until later that i should have used the raw device rather than the raw partition. :( Although the drives were allegedly identical, it it seems that the second drive was 29 sectors shorter than the first. anywaty, i then used e2fsck with -b 32 -y, which cycled endlessly, constantly repeating pass 1. I then ran without options, it whirred and cliekced, piling up tons of disconnected inodes, which it put into lost found. Wne it finished, lost found was empty. I realize that I should have massive data loss. However, out of a 4.3Gb disk that was 82% full, there's only a few dozen files of a few k each that interest us; the rest were working files, executables, etc. Given that most of the backup didn't occur, the odds are that most of these files didn't get overwritten. Even what we can't recover isn't all that tragic; it just means running the printouts through scanners and ocr, then redoing a few days debugging :( I've included the output from findsuper on the duplicate; I don't think the figures from the regular drive would be much use now. rick Failed on 1 at 253612032 thisoff block fs_blk_sz blksz grp last_mount 3276832 4441941 00 Mon Apr 5 09:22:11 1999 70542336 68889 2103468201 1759438759 41364 Fri Jan 26 23:19:21 2035 93068288 90887 2085742898 1834283209 49090 Wed Aug 7 17:13:58 1912 95640064 93398 1763500689 329171834 17113 Fri Oct 10 21:05:32 1941 117034496114291 -87009902 -347064767 57957 Tue Jun 13 05:46:39 2017 166290944162393 1306527259 604719139 33411 Sat Aug 29 01:30:32 1964 179143168174944 -327635930 -1467886487 42937 Sat Apr 25 14:07:41 2015 186867712182488 -75259569 2121245472 45379 Sat Dec 29 09:28:56 1951 216113664211048 1852694661 -654581429 61187 Thu Apr 7 09:49:28 1927 251589632245693 145204368 -939878495 41665 Sun Apr 4 00:14:57 1993 265401344259181 -190504428 1677915522 48625 Sat Mar 19 03:39:02 2022 282657792276033 875197117 -1934238222 4149 Mon Jan 4 19:11:45 1904 292817408285954 378024781 1208487680 22116 Tue Jul 24 07:48:16 1951 329708032321980 -1823127876 1848999221 32191 Mon Aug 11 11:37:51 1924 389791744380656 -764311314 1952055445 43942 Fri Oct 14 06:34:41 1994 391110656381944 1733758230 1123863472 51711 Tue Oct 20 05:58:01 1953 406274048396752 -185133627 1351311034 7486 Fri Aug 25 10:05:38 2000 421885440411997 -101847879 -1829524471 59253 Sun Nov 5 21:57:00 1961 436240384426016 4441941 0 52 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 444628992434208 4441941 0 53 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 453017600442400 4441941 0 54 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 461406208450592 4441941 0 55 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 468973056457981 1770252023 -1560904054 49134 Fri Jun 4 06:58:18 1993 469794816458784 4441941 0 56 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 473007104461921 -2109166101 -545795645 6715 Wed Jan 30 15:59:02 1924 474386944463268 115148376 145844255 56501 Thu Jul 8 15:06:09 1909 478183424466976 4441941 0 57 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 486572032475168 4441941 0 58 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 494960640483360 4441941 0 59 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 499316224487613 -404734525 1351884894 15755 Mon Oct 28 11:35:16 1929 503349248491552 4441941 0 60 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 511737856499744 4441941 0 61 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 520126464507936 4441941 0 62 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 528515072516128 4441941 0 63 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 536903680524320 4441941 0 64 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 545292288532512 4441941 0 65 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 553680896540704 4441941 0 66 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 562069504548896 4441941 0 67 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 570458112557088 4441941 0 68 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 578846720565280 4441941 0 69 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 587235328573472 4441941 0 70 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 592175616578296 -978668065 1128990946 16248 Sun Mar 18 07:01:36 1945 595623936581664 4441941 0 71 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 604012544589856 4441941 0 72 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 605957632591755 728941966 1937227755 10465 Wed Aug 18 12:26:11 1976 612401152598048 4441941 0 73 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 620789760606240 4441941 0 74 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 629178368614432 4441941 0 75 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 637566976622624 4441941 0 76 Thu Sep 24 04:18:11 1998 645955584630816
Re: New install: net unreachable
Howdy: Have you checked to make sure that the latptop PCMCIA packages are installed? Just checking, Brant. Chris Brown wrote: Please help, this is a newbie being stupid question I've done several slink installs that have worked fine. I'm trying to install it on my laptop now and am having problems with the system once its installed. Basically everything seems fine but I can't use the network (3c589 pcmcia ethernet). I can ping the machine's own address but pings anywhere else result with ping declaring not allowed... My ifconfig and route table look fine. I know the driver and network is okay because the entire system was nfs installed initially! This problem occurs when I reboot after completing the entire install process. I suspect that I've (unknowingly) installed some sort of ip security program that is not allowing network access, I see things in the boot log like ip paranoia deamon... and others that I don't understand. I used the custom package selection of dinstall. I've carefully done the process twice with the same results. As a newbie, I have no idea how to search the OS to find the offending software if that's the problem. Besides any suggestions on what might be causing this problem, can someone please let me know how I'd (efficiently) go about tracking down offending software in general? TIA, Chris * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: email threat
I have two things to say about this, or maybe three:
1) Am I the only one that is tired of hearing about the bickering between
these two? and on a Debian-user list? and on a public mailing list?
2) If the authorities have been notified - fine, leave us out of it.
3) Don't make judgements until you know the whole story (and, no, I don't).
A clip here, a snippet there, an you can make anyone believe anything you
want them to.
-Jay
In a message dated Mon, 5 Apr 1999 7:16:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, thomas
lakofski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 5 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ESR wrote:]
Damn straight I took it personally. And if you ever again behave like
that kind of disruptive asshole in public, insult me, and jeopardize
the interests of our entire tribe, I'll take it just as personally --
and I will find a way to make you regret it. Watch your step.
I think that most people in the Linux community will find this behaviour
objectionable in the extreme. If ESR wanted to rally people round in his
defense ('understand my job', etc.), he's just taken one of his many
firearms and shot himself in the foot.
It's fairly obvious who is 'behav[ing] like [a] disruptive asshole,' and
'jeopardiz[ing] the interests of our entire tribe.'
Re: vmware/kernel
Howdy: You are running Kernel v2.2.5, right? Did you install VMWare before or after you installed 2.2.5? I've got the same problem on a different scale, but VMWare installs and runs... Does yours install at all? Go a head and tell it to install VMWare onto your computer. As for the Ncurses Libs, just download the newest ones off of www.debian.org... HTH, Brant Kelvin wrote: while doing a make menuconfig i get : There seems to be a problem with the lxdialog companion utility which is built prior to running Menuconfig. Usually this is an indicator that you have upgraded/downgraded your ncurses libraries and did not remove the old ncurses header file(s) in /usr/include or /usr/include/ncurses. It is VERY important that you have only one set of ncurses header files and that those files are properly version matched to the ncurses libraries installed on your machine. You may also need to rebuild lxdialog. This can be done by moving to the /usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog directory and issuing the make clean all command. can anyone help please? and also for vmware while a ./install.pl i get : Whoa, something is wrong with the system include files on your machine! The file linux/version.h is for a 2.2.1 Linux system but you are running a 2.2.5 kernel. This will not work for building the VMware device drivers; you must have include files that match the version of your operating system. Any help would be appreciated thnx -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
What DO you lose with Linux
Howdy all... I saw a message in this thread pass by a couple of days ago... It was talking about some software called VMWare. Http://www.vmware.com Anyone that has a PC with Linux Win 9x/NT installed needs to see this site. I've downloaded the software for Linux (still in the first beta stages), but it works,and works well. It allows you to run Linux Win 9x/NT on the same PC at the same time! I've got a Pentium 200 MMX system, with 48 megs of ram... Linux runs the Vmware program, that runs NT 4.0... While under VMWare, NT runs a little slower, but it is still VERY usable. I reccommend this program to anyone who has Linux Win on the same machine, and a fast computer (A Pentium II 233/266 w/32 megs of ram would be nice). See Ya, Brant
Re: What DO you lose with Linux
Is there a deb? Brant Wells wrote: Howdy all... I saw a message in this thread pass by a couple of days ago... It was talking about some software called VMWare. Http://www.vmware.com Anyone that has a PC with Linux Win 9x/NT installed needs to see this site. I've downloaded the software for Linux (still in the first beta stages), but it works,and works well. It allows you to run Linux Win 9x/NT on the same PC at the same time! I've got a Pentium 200 MMX system, with 48 megs of ram... Linux runs the Vmware program, that runs NT 4.0... While under VMWare, NT runs a little slower, but it is still VERY usable. I reccommend this program to anyone who has Linux Win on the same machine, and a fast computer (A Pentium II 233/266 w/32 megs of ram would be nice). See Ya, Brant -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: Video Card Recommendation
I got S3 DX/Virge with 4Mb memory. Works very well with hamm, never had problems with setting up X on it (SVGA server.) Costs $30-50, depending upon the vendor. Andrew
vmware
Hi, Sorry, please ignore my last message. I just find out that vmware is not free. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
pppd problems
Hello, all. I have been struggling valiantly to get a user to connect to an ISP using wvdial, but so far, no dice. Here's the deal: everything works very nicely for the root, but it's been an awful struggle to get a user to that oh-so-desirable state. I added a user to the dialout group, modified the permissions on all of the files in a reasonable manner, but I have been unable to get the pppd to play nicely with the user. Currently, this is the error I get: Apr 5 22:13:37 cmayes pppd[3037]: Failed to reopen /dev/ttyS1: Function not implemented Now, I have modified the permissions on my modem a number of times, but the pppd used to reply: Apr 5 19:41:29 cmayes pppd[1824]: Failed to reopen /dev/ttyS1: Permission denied I hadn't changed the permissions on the device when it decided to be nice. Here are the current permissions: crw-rw 1 root dialout4, 65 Apr 5 22:22 /dev/ttyS1 Since root has the same permissions, it seemed reasonable that they would work for a user (though root can get around such things...) I have been discussing this problem for most of the day today, and Avery thinks that it's a convoluted permissions problem. I don't know the diffrerence between setuid and setgid, but neither one seem to work for me. Here are the current permissions on the pppd, which work for root, but not for a user: -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dialout113724 Mar 23 06:22 /usr/sbin/pppd It looks like the permissions that Avery suggested, but they do not work. I also blew away the default options file and have started from scratch. Currently, it contains: lock local (per Avery's suggestion). I have the New pppd set to yes in my wvdial.conf file. If it helps, the /etc/ppp/peers/wvdial contains: noauth name wvdial Finally, the pppd kept demanding a .ppprc file, so I essentially copied the options file and put it there. I also tried leaving it blank, but it had the same error. Is this a problem with the program itself, or am I missing something in the configuration? Here are my stats: Debian 2.1 (mix of stable and unstable), pppd version 2.3.6, kernel 2.0.36 (stock), Celeron 333a, 128 MB RAM... If you need more info, I can accomodate. Thanks! -Chris -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/CC/MC d- s+:+ a-- C++ US P L++ E W++ N- o? K? w O M- V- PS++ PE+ Y+ PGP- t+ 5 X+ R tv+ b++ DI+ D- G e+(++) h--- r++ z+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Ethics Violation
I apologize to XFree86, as a group and to the members thereof, for my confusion of them with the Open Group, in my previous post. Branden Robinson brought my mistake to my attention, and promptly. Let me thank him for this. I have become familiar with Branden's name as a result of seeing it many times as the developer or co-developer of X-based software within the Debian community, in other words, software that we all use.
where is my kernel source?
After going through pppconfig (after a fresh install of Debian 2.1) I tried pon and got a error message about my kernel not supporting ppp. So I head on over to /usr/src/linux to run make xconfig but alas, /usr/src only has a dir named linux-x.y.z.headers (or something close). I was under the impression that /usr/src/linux always existed. How can I reconfigure my kernel under these circumstances? Do I need to download the source? Am I looking in the right place? Help. Thank you. marlon
XFmail - Anyone know anything?
Hi, does anyone know what is going on with XFmail (or not is going on!)? The mailing list is dead. The page hasn't been updated in a while. XFmail is the only GUI email client I have been able to find that (sort of) comes close to what I was used to work with under Windows, it has multiple account support etc. I know many Linux users love mutt and other ncursed software, but Linux really needs serious GUI based email software. If XFmail is out of the loop I truly do not know where to look for email software for Linux. I have looked at some commercial solutions as well, but no, XFmail is still as close as I seem to be a able to get. I am therefore interested in what is going on. Does anyone know? TIA --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Date: 05-Apr-99 Time: 23:21:32 This message was sent by XFmail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux ---
Re: ip-up for each user?
*- On 5 Apr, John Hasler wrote about Re: ip-up for each user? Robbie Huffman writes: So how does fetchmail know who to run as? I'm supposing as the user who called pppd, right? It will run as root, because that is what pppd runs as. Otherwise more hacking will be necessary. The conventional thing to do is to have root's .forward push the incoming mail through procmail or mailagent. I do it slightly differently. I have a user named 'postman' that exists just to receive mail. In ip-up.d I have su -c fetchmail -v postman which runs fetchmail as postman. postman's .forward pushes the mail through mailagent, using rules that are conveniently located in postman's home directory, which is named 'postoffice'. This nicely centralizes all the incoming mail stuff without cluttering root's home, and reduces the number of daemons running as root. I missed the first post by Robbie but wouldn't it just be easier to use a fetchmailrc that explicitly defines the relation of isp usernames to local user names? I have fetchmail start when ppp comes up with the following script which is provided in the /usr/doc/fetchmail package. #!/bin/sh #/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail-up test -r /etc/fetchmailrc \ fetchmail --syslog --invisible --fetchmailrc /etc/fetchmailrc and my /etc/fetchmailrc is modified set daemon 120 poll popserver.isp1 with timeout 60: user isp1-username there has password isp1-passwd is local-name here fetchall poll popserer.isp2 with protocol pop3 timeout 60: user ips2-username there has password isp2-passwd is local-name here fetchall postconnect exim -q This is all run by root and fetchmail passes it directly to exim via smtp and it is immediatly dropped in my mailbox by exim. No middle man involved. -- Brian - Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes. - unknown Mechanical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: where is Pine?
http://ompages.com/debian/pkgs/pine/pine.html don't worry about license issues I already dealt with them... NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote: Which package contains Pine? I thought I had it installed but I can't find it and I can't find a pine deb. thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
Re: where is my kernel source?
Marlon Urias wrote: After going through pppconfig (after a fresh install of Debian 2.1) I tried pon and got a error message about my kernel not supporting ppp. So I head on over to /usr/src/linux to run make xconfig but alas, /usr/src only has a dir named linux-x.y.z.headers (or something close). I was under the impression that /usr/src/linux always existed. How can I reconfigure my kernel under these circumstances? Do I need to download the source? Am I looking in the right place? Help. Thank you. marlon My Slink had no /usr/src/linux. /usr/src contained 'kernel-headers-2.0.36/' and 'kernel-source-2.0.36/' I just moved to the kernel-source-2.0.36/ directory and compiled the kernel. I later unpacked the 2.2.1 kernel expecting it to create a 'linux' directory with link like in Hamm. It didn't. I moved to the 2.2.1 source directory compiled and am now capable of booting two different linux kernels. I have no idea if this is the correct way or what, it just works. hth, kent
Re: ipchains
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/ in the mini howto section there is an IPMASQUERADE document. Then, in the regular howto section there is a document on IPCHAINS. NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote: Is there a HOWTO that explains the use of IPCHAINS and how to do IP Masq with IPCHAINS? I am still using a 2.0.x kernel and I need to get ready to upgrade. thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
boot failed due to superblock error and FAT BREAD Failure
Hi, I browsed the recent posts and didn't quite find an answer for my problem. Can anyone help me out? Thanks. My hardrive is partitioned into four parts, namely /dev/hda1 MSDOS /dev/hda2 NTFS /dev/hda3 linux swap /dev/hda4 linux I can boot from the floppy disk but has problem in booting from hard disk. Error message is: Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda5 hda3 hda4 attempt to access beyond end of device 03:07: rw=0, want=2, limit=0 ext2-fs: unable to read superblock attempt to access beyond end of device 03:07: rw=0, want=2, limit=0 minix-fs: unable to read superblock attempt to access beyond end of device 03:07: rw=0, want=1, limit=0 FAT bread failed attempt to access beyond end of device 03:07: rw=0, want=33, limit=0 isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 03:07 iso_blknum 16 block 32 kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:07 It is appreciate if anyone can give me some suggestions on fix it. Li _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: netscape plugins
http://home.netscape.com/plugins/by_platform.html#Linux HTH, G.S. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curious... There are alot of plugins available for netscape, but most don't specifically mention they are for linux - in fact, one of them I tried gave me an .exe. file to run to install. Well, obviously, this won't work with Linux... so, which plugins work for Linux, is there a repository for them? Also, I've seen mention of netscape-wrapper - what's this for? is it related? Thanks, Jay -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: where is my kernel source?
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, ktb wrote: Marlon Urias wrote: After going through pppconfig (after a fresh install of Debian 2.1) I tried pon and got a error message about my kernel not supporting ppp. So I head on over to /usr/src/linux to run make xconfig but alas, /usr/src only has a dir named linux-x.y.z.headers (or something close). I was under the impression that /usr/src/linux always existed. How can I reconfigure my kernel under these circumstances? Do I need to download the source? Am I looking in the right place? Help. Thank you. marlon My Slink had no /usr/src/linux. /usr/src contained 'kernel-headers-2.0.36/' and 'kernel-source-2.0.36/' My /usr/src/ only contains kernel-headers-2.0.36, this isn't the weird thing about my installation either. I guess I'll try looking in the cd. thanks. I just moved to the kernel-source-2.0.36/ directory and compiled the kernel. I later unpacked the 2.2.1 kernel expecting it to create a 'linux' directory with link like in Hamm. It didn't. I moved to the 2.2.1 source directory compiled and am now capable of booting two different linux kernels. I have no idea if this is the correct way or what, it just works. hth, kent -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
xmcd
Hi, When I run xmcd, I got the following msg: Fatal: Xmcd configuration error Cannot open configuration file: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xmcd/config/hdb I read the man page and it says: CD-ROM drive ; e.g., /usr/lib/X11/xmcd/config/rcd0). A configuration program XMCDLIB/config/config.sh is provided to make maintaining these configuration file easy (Note: The problem is that I don't have a config.sh in that dir. And I have no idea what format the config file is. So how do I deal with this?? Thanks. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Why no asWedit .deb package?
I only ask because they have one on their site @ http://www.advasoft.com/. I downloaded it but haven't installed. I'm afraid it will trash my dpkg database or something like that. Does anyone know of any problems with their .deb? Thanks, G.S. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: boot failed due to superblock error and FAT BREAD Failure
What is the filesystem type for your linux native partition? It should be 83. I guess you have set your harddisk to 81(minix/Linux). If you have done that, setting the file system id back to 83 will not help. You will have to delete the partition and and repartition the harddisk. At least, that is my experence. You can do a little testing yourself. Boot your system up using a floopy, then check out your /etc/mtab, the type displayed there could be minix/Linux. That is why you are getting that error. If the type is ext2, then it might be a physical harddisk problem. Hope this helps. J. Lee wrote: Hi, I browsed the recent posts and didn't quite find an answer for my problem. Can anyone help me out? Thanks. My hardrive is partitioned into four parts, namely /dev/hda1 MSDOS /dev/hda2 NTFS /dev/hda3 linux swap /dev/hda4 linux I can boot from the floppy disk but has problem in booting from hard disk. Error message is: Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda5 hda3 hda4 attempt to access beyond end of device 03:07: rw=0, want=2, limit=0 ext2-fs: unable to read superblock attempt to access beyond end of device 03:07: rw=0, want=2, limit=0 minix-fs: unable to read superblock attempt to access beyond end of device 03:07: rw=0, want=1, limit=0 FAT bread failed attempt to access beyond end of device 03:07: rw=0, want=33, limit=0 isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 03:07 iso_blknum 16 block 32 kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:07 It is appreciate if anyone can give me some suggestions on fix it. Li _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Netscape and *.png files
Hello! I'm having trouble getting Netscape to read portable network graphic (*.png) files. I've tried Navigator 4.08 and 4.51 via the netscape4 package and in both cases netscape simply quits with a Bus error when I try to open a *.png file in the browser. I've got libpng0g and libpng2 installed, and *.png files work fine with the Gimp 1.0.3 and ImageMagick. Thanks! Chris -- ++--+ | Christopher S. Swingley| 108 O'Neill Building --x7092 | | Programmer / Analyst | 940 Sheep Creek Rd -- 479-9729 | | IARC - Frontier| [EMAIL PROTECTED] (email) | | University of Alaska Fairbanks | www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/ | | Fairbanks, AK 99775 |~cswingle (web) | ++--+
.rpm -- .deb conversion
I did this once before, I copied the file xf86setup.rpm from my old installation CD and used a tool to either convert that .rpm package directly to .deb format, or had used an intermediate step, I can't remember... Surely somebody knows how to do this ?? thank you Fethi Okyar Research Assistant Computational Solid Mechanics MMAE Department, IIT Chicago, IL 60616-3793 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why no asWedit .deb package?
Gary Singleton wrote: I only ask because they have one on their site @ http://www.advasoft.com/. I downloaded it but haven't installed. I'm afraid it will trash my dpkg database or something like that. Does anyone know of any problems with their .deb? Thanks, G.S. I used it under Hamm a little. I didn't use dpkg to install it. I just followed their directions. I didn't have any problems with it other than I didn't really like it. I just wanted to code by hand and view the web site I created, with all links working, with a click of a button. I figured out how to do that in xemacs before I did with asWedit. With asWedit I could only view one page at a time unless I changed all the file names or something. Then I could view the whole web site. hth, kent
Re: Why no asWedit .deb package?
You can always use dpkg-deb to have a look at a package, without touching the dpkg DB. Try: dpkg-deb --help - Bruce -- On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Gary Singleton wrote: I only ask because they have one on their site @ http://www.advasoft.com/. I downloaded it but haven't installed. I'm afraid it will trash my dpkg database or something like that. Does anyone know of any problems with their .deb?
Re: xmcd
The Debian xmcd package comes with a program called xmcdconfig. Try running that program to configure xmcd. Hope that helps, Alan Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, When I run xmcd, I got the following msg: Fatal: Xmcd configuration error Cannot open configuration file: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xmcd/config/hdb I read the man page and it says: CD-ROM drive ; e.g., /usr/lib/X11/xmcd/config/rcd0). A configuration program XMCDLIB/config/config.sh is provided to make maintaining these configuration file easy (Note: The problem is that I don't have a config.sh in that dir. And I have no idea what format the config file is. So how do I deal with this?? Thanks. Shao.
Re: .rpm -- .deb conversion
Hi, check out http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/admin/alien.html for full details Alan Fethi A. Okyar wrote: I did this once before, I copied the file xf86setup.rpm from my old installation CD and used a tool to either convert that .rpm package directly to ..deb format, or had used an intermediate step, I can't remember... Surely somebody knows how to do this ?? thank you Fethi Okyar Research Assistant Computational Solid Mechanics MMAE Department, IIT Chicago, IL 60616-3793 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: XF86Setup
On Mon, 05 Apr 1999 08:49:00 +0200, you wrote: I installed 2.1 , therefore I used 2.0, I did not upgrade. then I wanted to install the X window system with XF86Setup ,as root,and I know what to choose and the entire procedure goes well but there is something not good.At the end after the last done and okay I get the message: -X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: can't connect errno=111 This is from the xfree.org faq. Hope it helps: Q.E14- I get an error _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111. What does it mean? Whenever the XFree86 Xserver crashes, dies, ceases to exist or is inaccessible for any reason, you will see this error message. It is a message from an X-client (=any program running on your XFree86 Xserver, for example the window manager) telling you that it tried to connect to your Xserver, but failed to do some for some reason. Quoting only this message in a bug report is therefore utterly useless. Look in the server output for the real reason why the server died. Normally you should see the real error message (=why the server stopped working) a few lines before the error 111 message. If you still can't make head or tails of all those messages, make sure to quote the FULL server output in your bug report. It is impossible to provide you with any help, if you just mention the error 111, as so many people do. Obtaining the full server output is normally accomplished by redirecting both standard output and standard error to a file while starting the server. On some systems this is done by default.
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Re: where is my kernel source?
Marlon Urias wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, ktb wrote: Marlon Urias wrote: After going through pppconfig (after a fresh install of Debian 2.1) I tried pon and got a error message about my kernel not supporting ppp. So I head on over to /usr/src/linux to run make xconfig but alas, /usr/src only has a dir named linux-x.y.z.headers (or something close). I was under the impression that /usr/src/linux always existed. How can I reconfigure my kernel under these circumstances? Do I need to download the source? Am I looking in the right place? Help. Thank you. marlon My Slink had no /usr/src/linux. /usr/src contained 'kernel-headers-2.0.36/' and 'kernel-source-2.0.36/' My /usr/src/ only contains kernel-headers-2.0.36, this isn't the weird thing about my installation either. I guess I'll try looking in the cd. thanks. the trick is that kernel-source 2.2.1 is on offical cd #2. but you don't have to recompile your kernel to get ppp to work just make sure that your /etc/modules file has the modules serial ppp slhc slip in it. Maybe this is overkill, but this is always how I've done it. -Paul The impossible may be possible...but why?
Re: Debian 2.0 and Iomega ZIP 100 //
On 06 Apr 1999q, Darius Quenum wrote: Hi Anthony, I tried to install an Iomega ZIP 100 on parallel port of my computer but it doesn' work. My computer is a Pentium 120 running Linux Debian 2.0. When I use the command : insmod ppa, I get this error message : get the message init_module: Device or resource busy. Can you help me? Cheers. Darius Quenum There's a conflict between the printer and the drive. Get the latest kernel (2.2.5) and you'll be able to use the printer and Iomega simultaneously; indeed, you don't even have to have modules. I'm using it like this at the moment. And you can have the printer plugged into the port at the back of the drive; all very nice! :-) Anth0ny -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 Book Reviews: www.achc.demon.co.uk/bookreviews/ The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on... - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
Re: Debian 2.0 and Iomega ZIP 100 //
The other thing you can do if you arn't ready for 2.2.x yet is to unload the lp module. On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 06 Apr 1999q, Darius Quenum wrote: Hi Anthony, I tried to install an Iomega ZIP 100 on parallel port of my computer but it doesn' work. My computer is a Pentium 120 running Linux Debian 2.0. When I use the command : insmod ppa, I get this error message : get the message init_module: Device or resource busy. Can you help me? Cheers. Darius Quenum There's a conflict between the printer and the drive. Get the latest kernel (2.2.5) and you'll be able to use the printer and Iomega simultaneously; indeed, you don't even have to have modules. I'm using it like this at the moment. And you can have the printer plugged into the port at the back of the drive; all very nice! :-) Anth0ny -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 Book Reviews: www.achc.demon.co.uk/bookreviews/ The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on... - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Discussion with Pine developers Debian Issues
** NOTE: The Pine developers wanted to give me a new message to quote/post publicly -- after waiting for a month for this message, and having requested it numerous times, I've decided to go through anyhow ** Hi, I've been in touch with the Pine developers at U Washington (U Dub) recently, and it seems they're willing to put in some effort to allow Pine to run on Debian Linux out-of-the-box. What they're not willing to do is implement wider changes, but simply the minimum necessary to get it to run. While some might say, Well, we'll need to distribute changes to the source like we do now anyhow. (which is correct) -- it at least means that there's less to do whenever a new Pine is released and that people aren't reliant upon the Debian people to release an upgraded version, but rather they can compile it themselves. Comments? Thoughts? -- Brock Rozen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Director of Technical Services (410)358-9800 Project Genesis http://www.torah.org/ -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 08:53:21 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time) From: Terry Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brock Rozen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Pine Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Change of Pine folder methods in 4.10 -- PROBLEM Brock, We are attempting to work something out with a fellow who claims to be the Pine maintainer for Debian... but so far his only intent has been to try to get UW to give up change control on redistributed copies of Pine, so I don't know whether he is actually interested in trying to solve the problem. Certainly we are... indeed one of the options I outlined that keeps getting ignored is to work with us to try to identify the *minimum* set of changes needed to run on Debian for possible inclusion in our distribution. As Mike said, this probably won't happen in the very short term, but we really are interested in trying to make Pine more readily available to the Debian community, even in spite of the presumptuous demands to change our licensing policies we keep getting from certain parts of it. -teg On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Brock Rozen wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Michael Seibel wrote: Another question, while I've got you on the line. ;-) Is there any plans on incorporating a Debian Linux port into the main release? I know that the main release doesn't compile perfectly. If you want, I can put you in touch with the Debian Linux maintainer of Pine. Probably not in the short term. We reviewed their diffs quite awhile back after they asked to be able to redistribute, and while there's nothing of immeditate technical difficulty, we're not prepared to support or directly recommend the setgid environment they chose for email client use. Hmmm...it does leave a sticky situation for Debian users. There's no possibility of including their changes only for a build that done specifically for Debian? What about a possible change of license that allows them to redistribute (with permission) a modified version only to make it work. Right now, for instance, I can't compile the released-sources on a Debian system. Thanks,
New Mail not being notified
Since upgrading from mutt to slink I find that I am no longer notified that new mail has arrived. Presumably this is something in /etc/smail/config that has changed; does anyone know what it is? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 Book Reviews: www.achc.demon.co.uk/bookreviews/ The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on... - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
Re: ip-down does not stop ip-up's run-parts on disconnect
Thanx for the help , but ;0). Right pppd doesnt go down if ip-up doesnt which wont unless run-parts does which wont unless all scripts in ip-up.d do. And indeed ip-down then does not appear to launch catch 22 ( or so i thought ). (ok im a newby so it may not be the best way but it seems to work here, and it feels like a clean solution to my problem ) Detach ip-up from the script launching process by changing run-parts /etc/ppp/ip-up.d to run-parts /etc/ppp/ip-up.d And now pppd stops and runs ip-down and everything dies . R.I.P. when i run poff now i had allready fixed my ip-up.d scripts to check if ppp0 is up anyway using ( re your suggestion ) ifconfig | grep ppp0 , ;0) so they just exit themselves if run-parts invokes another. Anyway with the above change ip-down now runs and i can kill ip-up.d scripts from ip-down.d scripts. Thanx for your help ;0) John Hasler wrote: John Leget writes: Hmm no help here then im running 2.2.5-ac3, potato, and i see its up to version 2.3.7-2. I installed 2.3.6 from unstable. I dont think that alone is the problem run-parts ( invoked in both ip-up and ip-down ) does of itself not exit until all the scripts it is trying to run finish. ip-up does not exit until run-parts exits. 2.3.6 won't start ip-down until ip-up exits (or so the documentation says). Try adding something like this at the top of ip-down: while pidof run-parts do sleep 1 done sleep 1 Or, if you don't care if the ip-up stuff gets interrupted and you can be sure that run-parts won't be running for any other reason, killall run-parts -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
poff wont poff
Hi, Running kernel 2.2.5-ac3 , potato ( unstable ). poff version 0.9.4 poff myisp refuses to poff - kill my connection, and it reports the following /usr/bin/poff i could not find a pppd process for provider 'myisp' . none stopped but poff by itself does work. Now i have checked my processes running and indeed there was an entry /usr/sbin/pppd call myisp listed. not a big problem i modified my downscript to just use poff but it seems something isnt doing what was expected. Cheers
Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
Okay, I guess this is a good thing, but what about when the permission is given already? And what about when the holding area is unavailable, such as with ISPs that give you enough server space to hold your configuration files and not much more? If these problems ahve a simplish solution, I guess I have my answer. On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Gary Singleton wrote: --- John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the accepted method of sending a file to a person that MUST not get into unfriendly hands, but needs to get between users that have no access to the other's machine, due to dynamic PPP and hostile ISPs, then? Look at the Linux package sendfile and the preliminary draft of the RFC for the saft profocol. The way it works is this: I send a file to [EMAIL PROTECTED] That machine collects the file and puts it in a configurable holding area. Then the recipient is notified that a file is waiting for them and they can choose to accept or reject the file. If it is rejected, it is deleted. If accepted, it is placed in the user's directory. George Bonser Support The THING -- http://shorelink.com/~grep/THING.html -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Sacred cows make the best burgers Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!!!
Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
SNEAKERNET just because YOU can't configure procmail? I'd say that your failure to configure procmail is YOUR problem, not one to be visited on the internet at large. I've sneakernetted files of a size that would make you blanch in my day, but I see no reason to do this as a matter of protocol, not when there exists a simple method to do so, regardless of whether or not you like the method. On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:06:47 -0600 (MDT), John Galt wrote: What's the accepted method of sending a file to a person that MUST not get into unfriendly hands, but needs to get between users that have no access to the other's machine, due to dynamic PPP and hostile ISPs, then? This method should be as easy and as transportable as POPmail, not involve other servers in any way save routing, be able to be used internationally, and ensure delivery to only the intended person. Give up? Well so do I. Solve this problem before you beef about how large attachments to email is evil. Why? The percentage of people who have that problem are so small it really is their problem. They can switch ISPs, they can go over their IT department's head and get stuff done, but it is THEIR problem. If they don't like it, too bad. And to answer your question, a ZIP disk and next day air works wonders. - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. - ---+- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPsdk version 1.0 (C) 1997 Pretty Good Privacy, Inc iQA/AwUBNwfwLnpf7K2LbpnFEQLz2wCfQrH88grCtbsyKPEcVZGxWk/m+1EAn0Gk n4YatJ70MGT/HJ0SVlV5wlsz =FSSl -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Sacred cows make the best burgers Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!!!
Re: Exim delaying delivery of mail?--SOLVED
This fixed it. My thanks to Greg Norris. On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 05:39:00PM -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 05:21:41PM -0500, Curt Daugaard wrote: I recently uninstalled procmail and started using exim's built-in filter capability. The weird thing is, it often delays some of my mail. For example, just now fetchmail indicated it had retrieved 111 messages. But when I went into my mail I had less than 15 in all directories in which I receive mail. Sometime later the mail will show up, but until it does, it doesn't appear in the spool file or in any other mail directory I've ever used. Can anyone help me figure out what's going on? Thanks in advance. Add smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0 to /etc/exim.conf, in the MAIN CONFIGURATION SETTINGS section. This should force exim to deliver each message as it arrives. -- Curt Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please remove .NOSPAM from the above when responding)
Re: pppd problems
Chris writes: I added a user to the dialout group, modified the permissions on all of the files in a reasonable manner, The pppd files are in the 'dip' group. Did you change them? Now, I have modified the permissions on my modem a number of times, but the pppd used to reply: Since pppd runs as root, the modem permissions don't matter. Finally, the pppd kept demanding a .ppprc file,... That's weird. Is this a problem with the program itself, or am I missing something in the configuration? I'm also using pppd-2.3.6 and I can run pon as a user with no trouble and no .ppprc. Have you tried setting up ppp with pppconfig and using pon and poff? I know you want to use wvdial, but that might give you some diagnostic information. I don't understand why Avery wants you to use 'local'. That turns off use of the modem control lines. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: Debian install on blank HD
write the disk1_4's to floppy, make a rescue disk and a drivers disk, and try to install from floppy and apt-get needed packages from ftp.debian.org is what I'd do in your situation. YMMV On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Mike Glass wrote: Hi. I'd like to install Debian 2.0 on the hard drive of my 386DX-40, which has been wiped clean. I can't boot from the CD-Rom, and am having some major problems getting it to work. Any suggestions? -Mike Sacred cows make the best burgers Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!!!
Re: /dev/isdnctrl Operation not supported....
Ries van Twisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hai, I'm buzy installing my Telis ISDN card on my Linux box. Currently i'm running Debian with a 2.0.34 kernel When I do isdnctrl addif ippp0 I get a 'operation not supported by device' message back. I have tryed lots and lots of things but still no luck. Does anybody have a clue? First ensure that the appropriate module is loaded. Ciao Racke -- LinuXia - Solutions of Cool Competence - Internetprogramming and more D-30163 Hannover, Waldstraße 4, 0511-393656 (http://www.linuxia.de/) Come to the land of real computing where penguins and their friends spread the word of Open Source which crushes windows instantly.
Re: where is Pine?
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote: Which package contains Pine? I thought I had it installed but I can't find it and I can't find a pine deb. Binaries are available from ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/. Jeremy --- email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp key : http://www.blueriver.net/~darqside/pgpkey.asc
Re: boot failed due to superblock error and FAT BREAD Failure
Li, I think the message is saying that you have partitioned /dev/hda so that /dev/hda7 ends on a block that lies beyond the end of the hard disk. Things should probably work out correctly if you repartition your hard disk to fix this error. Regards, Jor-el On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, J. Lee wrote: Hi, I browsed the recent posts and didn't quite find an answer for my problem. Can anyone help me out? Thanks. My hardrive is partitioned into four parts, namely /dev/hda1 MSDOS /dev/hda2 NTFS /dev/hda3 linux swap /dev/hda4 linux I can boot from the floppy disk but has problem in booting from hard disk. Error message is: Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda5 hda3 hda4 attempt to access beyond end of device 03:07: rw=0, want=2, limit=0 ext2-fs: unable to read superblock attempt to access beyond end of device 03:07: rw=0, want=2, limit=0 minix-fs: unable to read superblock attempt to access beyond end of device 03:07: rw=0, want=1, limit=0 FAT bread failed attempt to access beyond end of device 03:07: rw=0, want=33, limit=0 isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 03:07 iso_blknum 16 block 32 kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:07 It is appreciate if anyone can give me some suggestions on fix it. Li _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
How does Debian compare to SUSE?
Hello. I wonder how Debian would compare to Suse, as I have been using Suse all along, but recently discovered that the number of packages shipped with debian was much greater. Many thanks in advance, Bye.
Re: email threat
I'm tempted to say he's just a nut, but he's the head of the Open Source Initiative. What annoyed him is that I cricicized the Apple license. The full text of the threatening email can be found at http://perens.com/Articles/Threat.html . I hope you two can work out your differences before someone posts the full text of this on slash-dot or someother public linux place. This sounds like just the kind of thing that Bill Gates would like to get his hand on. === Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: New install: net unreachable
Brant others. getting desperate here, please help! To answer your question, I'm not sure *EXACTLY* how to check if the PCMCIA packages are installed, but I believe the answer is yes. If I look at top, I can see cardmgr running. If I insert/remove the 3c589 I hear the tell-tale hot-swap beeps, and when the system boots or the card is inserted, the network active light comes on on the adapter at the appropiate times. Also, a ping of the machine's own address completes properly in a millisecond or two. If I remove the card, pinging its own address returns the message network is unreachable. Pings to any other address with the card in result in: ping: sendto: operation not permitted ping: wrote 207.. 64 chars, ret=-1 I had a linux_guru_friend stop by last night to look at the problem, he looked at some low level tcpip functionality and saw that arp requests were being received by the laptop, but is wasn't sending anything out on the network. After mucking with it for a few hours he thought he would try a re-install from the rescue disks. same result! We successfully installed debian via nfs over the *EXACT* same network and interface, then on rebooting the network doesn't work and ping returns operation not allowed Any suggestions please !! On 5 Apr 99 at 22:42, Brant Wells wrote: Have you checked to make sure that the latptop PCMCIA packages are installed? Just checking, Brant. Chris Brown wrote: Please help, this is a newbie being stupid question I've done several slink installs that have worked fine. I'm trying to install it on my laptop now and am having problems with the system once its installed. Basically everything seems fine but I can't use the network (3c589 pcmcia ethernet). I can ping the machine's own address but pings anywhere else result with ping declaring not allowed... My ifconfig and route table look fine. I know the driver and network is okay because the entire system was nfs installed initially! This problem occurs when I reboot after completing the entire install process. I suspect that I've (unknowingly) installed some sort of ip security program that is not allowing network access, I see things in the boot log like ip paranoia deamon... and others that I don't understand. I used the custom package selection of dinstall. I've carefully done the process twice with the same results. As a newbie, I have no idea how to search the OS to find the offending software if that's the problem. Besides any suggestions on what might be causing this problem, can someone please let me know how I'd (efficiently) go about tracking down offending software in general? * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org
Re: poff wont poff
John Leget wrote: Hi, Running kernel 2.2.5-ac3 , potato ( unstable ). poff version 0.9.4 poff myisp refuses to poff - kill my connection, and it reports the following /usr/bin/poff i could not find a pppd process for provider 'myisp' . none stopped but poff by itself does work. Now i have checked my processes running and indeed there was an entry /usr/sbin/pppd call myisp listed. not a big problem i modified my downscript to just use poff but it seems something isnt doing what was expected. I have two numbers that I use to access my isp, I use pon and Pon provider2 to access the 56K and 33.x lines. To bring either connection down I simply use poff I think this is normal. hth, kent
X busted after 2.0 - 2.1 upgrade
I upgraded (at least, with CD 1) from 2.0 - 2.1 last night, and everything seemed to be fine. I quit dselect, fired up X, and while running X, looked at some notes I had made preparing for the upgrade. I purged xbase, since it's been claimed that it's no longer needed. Everything still ran fine. I powered things off for the night and went to bed. I got up this morning, powered up, logged on, and then: --- $ startx _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 giving up. xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. --- What the heck? Did I jump the gun on removing xbase? Any idea what's up, or how to find what's up? Sincerely, Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Two rules for success in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know.
