Re: Adaptec AHA-2940
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Andrew Hodgson wrote: I have just tried to install Debian on a machine with an Adaptec AHA 2940 SCSI adapter. When I run install from DOS (or boot from the rescue floppy) the machine hangs after detecting the SCSI adapter. The last message on the screen is... Downloading sequencer instructions... 419 instructions downloaded. Despite all the installation problems people have had with these cards I succesfully installed Debian on a new PIII from the standard boot disks and it worked fine. there are now 2 in that system and they are working great. You should check the SCSI select settings at boot time just to check they are ok, especially the termination settings and which cables you have plugged into it etc. Good luck! ---Gareth
Re: module aliases
Thanx for everyone's help on this! As you pointed out, the message relates to supporting a second sound card, which isn't present on my system. So I just need to alias it off. I appreciate the info!
Re: AWE64 Problems
Did you compile sound support directly into the kernel, or as a module. pnptools needs to initialize the card before the driver kernel grabs it, which means that you need to compile it as a module. On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:25:20AM +0100, Andrew Hodgson wrote: I have a Creative Labs AWE64 (ISA PnP) card, and I'm having a bit of trouble getting it configured in Debian. I have re-compiled my kernal (2.0.36) to include the appropriate sound support, and I have also set up the pnptools (via pnpdump) to initialise the card at boot. The problem seems to be that the initialisation of the card (via PnP) takes place after the sound support from the kernal has loaded. What I get at boot is the message that sound support is being initialised, but no cards are picked up in the kernal drivers. Later on in the boot process, the PnP tools initialise the card with no errors. I would like to hear from anyone who has has experience with getting the AWE64 working under Debian as I don't know what to do next - the only other option is to boot DOS and load the DOS drivers, then boot Debian.
Re: more RAM = more speed?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 08:14:06AM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: 1. hdc has been a CD-ROM since the second I booted the Debian install CD. Will anything bad happen if hdc is suddenly a hard disk and hdd is now the CD-ROM? I haven't actually used the CD-ROM since I finished installing, so the only possible trouble spot might be booting. Booting won't be a problem, since you aren't moving around hard drives. Check /etc/fstab to make sure there is no reference to hdc. Otherwise, you are fine. Check if you have a /dev/cdrom symlink. If so, this will need to be updated. If not, don't worry about it. - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN8R6I77M/9WKZLW5AQFqAgQAhP+Slj8mD1C0pb+tqewN/vUwy2C6Dbr7 /U4Ue/brH+yULBXAahUN95kFj+Myk4x2pYiiLwzSR92B+0G7HBpfc/31XLFh67hq pbCm5T7h5odYiR002XOJ96DEWrLZCiNVXxdR3tkWiNbxUIcjnfhcPlP4+/xQ947w IEjTpknZ848= =sxCq -END PGP SIGNATURE-
ftp install base system?
Is it possible to install the base system via ftp? I'm trying to install on a system without a CD-ROM drive (and each one I've tried to install won't work for some reason), and floppies aren't cutting it. I would think that it would be possible since the installer is prompted to set up the network before hand. any ideas? tia -- Mark Wagnon Chula Vista, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian/rules fails to form .deb packages
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Johann Spies wrote: Previously I used dpkg-source -x source.dsc and debian/rules to create .deb packages from files in potato/main/source for my slink system. The last few times however it failed and I had to do dpkg-buildpackage to get .deb's. Why would that be? I was the case with postgresql_6.5, pine, cdrecord-1.8a23 and few others. With cdrecord I got the following error message: --- dh_movefiles -pmkisofs -P/usr/src/cdrecord-1.8a23/debian/build/mkisofs # FOrce a symlink so all three binaries use the same manpage. dh_link -pmkisofs -P/usr/src/cdrecord-1.8a23/debian/build/mkisofs usr/man/man8/isoinfo.8 \ usr/man/man8/isodump.8 make: dh_link: Command not found make: *** [mkisofs] Error 127 -- I have two questions: 1. Why doesn't debian/rules form .deb packages anymore? dh_link was added to the debhelper package in version 1.2.9. The current slink version is only 1.1.24. That might be the problem... Although, i don't know why dpkg-buildpackage would work in that case. 2. What can I do to correct the error concerning cdrecord? Getting the potato version of debhelper might help... Otherwise, i have no idea. - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN8R/cr7M/9WKZLW5AQEK+wQAlqNUc5z+TdWRsyQJqYzm/6EpYwcpMafv tX/upLICRPPRJRBo2ikH9XXClqB7YgoPOQb1D0W9BYTRSoHDzfKnplcjrWtR154V 55mjiLm3VOgBwF3ZLgc2w6kt4RfCULgBL3FYDK/GK1HE2/e6eav2GHtQD9IWRE/F j6RjctxZbsk= =gpeo -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Postgresql 6.5 - compiling errors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Johann Spies wrote: My effort to create a .deb package from the postresql-source failed with the following error message: dh_perl -p libpgperl make: dh_perl: Command not found make: *** [binary-arch] Error 127 How can I correct that? This would seem to be the same as the dh_link error in your debian/rules fails to form .deb packages post. dh_perl wasn't added to debhelper until version 1.2.79. - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN8SAO77M/9WKZLW5AQHhCAP+K2dr4vGiGSStxAY1Nwcl40QMNFLNhwic cjuCvTwPCbVc5YNASJ3dyw4N0B+PPk8E02T3r0EQsGcbEIEtifQsrv5P6uh8sRDB yKlnexwGxupGlSbsi3dJdgJR0TYPHk3Bkfzqe3fhOdtNY8YZIqmmHhCODqj7ujDh kz+crPsKeoE= =v2cF -END PGP SIGNATURE-
upgrade or not upgrade, that is the question
Hi all, I wonder if I'm gonna upgrade my firewall from 2.0.36 to 2.2.10 kernel version. The helpz in menuconfig seems to say there's a lot of makenode, ipchains instead of ipfwadm... to do. But I read somewhere that 2.0.36 has security failures, so do you think I should upgrade or not? My net is made of a 486 firewall, 8 MB ram, 125 MB HD (only 55MB taken under debian!), wich permit acces to cable internet, and a PII/400 station. JY -- Jean-Yves Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Membre fondateur du CGE La mort n'est, en definitive, que le resultat d'un manque d'education puisqu'elle est la consequence d'un manque de savoir vivre. P. DAC Boycott Intel, watch: http://www.bigbrotherinside.com
Re: more RAM = more speed?
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 08:14:06AM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: Thanks for the other info on RAM, it will be very useful. Add a second hard drive on the second ide channel(hdc) It is good to have a swap partition on a different controller channel with each partition having equal priority. The kernel will use the partition which will provide the best performance. I don't know much when it comes to drives in Debian, so I have a few questions: 1. hdc has been a CD-ROM since the second I booted the Debian install CD. Will anything bad happen if hdc is suddenly a hard disk and hdd is now the CD-ROM? I haven't actually used the CD-ROM since I finished installing, so the only possible trouble spot might be booting. The linux kernel itself won't care. What will care is your /etc/fstab file. You should update this to reflect your cdrom drive in a different place, as well as the new swap partition. This isn't too hard, maybe the file is easy to understand, if not, the fstab(5) manpage isn't too bad.. but some of the options you do have to lookup in the mount(1) (or is it mount(8)?) manpage. 3. Since any drive I add will be old and slow (200MB), is it worth it? Probably. :) -- Seth Arnold | ICQ 3172483 | http://cswww.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ I prosecute unsolicited bulk emails, using the RealTime BlackHole List. You should too. Ask me how, or visit http://maps.vix.com/rbl/
Re: Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote: Jor-el [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phillip, Its seems to me that you havent read the manpage. Specifically, the sections about the '-m', the '-u', and the user authentication. It seems to me you didn't read my original query. I did read the manpage, -m appears to refer to the mail delivery agent. I use exim as an MDA. -u relates to the login name with the IP. As I explained, my IP's POP3 server requires that I log in with scgf, my *hostname*. The same hostname is used by everyone on my system, hence mail collected with this login could belong to anyone. As it happens, I found the answer in the Linux Gazette - they have an excellent article on Setting up Exim for a home network (http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue42/stumpel.html I added this to my ~/.forward file: if $header_to: contains sah1 then deliver sah1 This causes exim to deliver mail addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the correct inbox for sah1, ie. /var/spool/mail/sah1 I appreciate your reply, Jorel, but I am somewhat annoyed at your implication that I would not bother to read the most obvious manpage. It appears that many Linux users are just too quick to point the finger at others who they believe have not read the documntation. Phillip, Please accept my apologies for the unwarranted aspersions. You are right : I didnt completely understand your question. Jor-el He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his senses until the day of judgement. -- Saadi
Help! xdm not starting at boot
I have xdm configured to start when the system boots up. I changed my X configuration and now the system is in a loop trying to start X and failing. I am able to boot from my Debian CD, but don't know what to do when I get there. How can I: 1) prevent xdm from trying to run at startup OR 2) get in and edit the X configuration file manually -- ideally, I would like to restore the backup XF86Setup created. Unfortunately, I didn't write down its location and I don't know where to copy it.
Re: Logitech Mouseman / X
I have the same mouse: Something like this ought to work: Section Pointer ProtocolPS/2 Device /dev/psaux BaudRate1200 Emulate3Timeout 50 EndSection Hmm, I don't know what that emulate timeout is doing in there! -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Postgresql 6.5 - compiling errors
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:12:43PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: My effort to create a .deb package from the postresql-source failed with the following error message: dh_perl -p libpgperl make: dh_perl: Command not found make: *** [binary-arch] Error 127 You need the potato version of debhelper to build this package (the same probably also applies to your previous message, I haven't checked). If this is a slink package, you should probably file a bugreport although I'm not sure exactly what the policy is on this. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpWn5HNusaTC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apt-get KDE?
Add this to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde contrib rkrusty -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Netscape
Kent West wrote: Greg Starkes wrote: Ryan Chouinard wrote: I always hear people complain about Netscape crashing, but I never had that problem, except in Windows. But then, everything crashes in Windows. Netscape works fine for me in RH, Slackware, and now Debian. What's the deal? I never had a problem either, until I decided to try kde. Then I would have a crash usually once a day. I normally use Window Maker, under which netscape runs without a problem. Could this be the cause? KDE does set a bunch of x resources for colors and fonts, so maybe it does something that netscape doesn't like. Hmm, that's an interesting thought. I don't run KDE (I run IceWM), but I often have Netscape crashes. But I'm running on a 1MB older video card and only 32MB RAM and am always getting messages from Netscape about not having enough resources (or memory?) to set color pallettes (or somesuch -- I just ignore the messages now so I don't remember what they say). So it may be that the people having crashes have fewer resources than the people not having crashes. I run Window Maker, and I always have. My dad (who alo uses this machine) uses KDE, due to it's simplicity and user friendly interface. Even he has no problems. I was just wondering what other people thought of the Netscape problem. I am unaware of any other great browser for Linux, although I don't doubt thier existance. I also never used Linux on anything less than a K6/233 with 64 megs of ram and an S3 ViRGE/DX video card. I believe you may have struck it with the resource problem. I can't speak (or, in this case type) for anyone else, but I would like some input from other users and thier experience with Netscape on Linux. --Ryan Chouinard (I just noticed all my lines start with I. Heh...)
trouble with fdisk and activate the swap
Hi, Recenltly, I repartitioned my harddisk. What I did is to delete the swap parttion(/dev/hda2), created a 2gig linux partition(/dev/hda2), then created a swap partition(/dev/hda3). My fdisk output looks like this: Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 8400 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 *1 4063 2047720+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda2 4064 8127 2048256 83 Linux native /dev/hda3 8128 8400 137592 82 Linux swap Command (m for help): Now, when I do a w command, I get the following: Syncing disks. Re-read table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy. Reboot your system to ensure the partition table is updated. WARNING: If you have created or modified any DOS 6.x partitions, please see the fdisk manual page for additional information. My first question: why is it happening? Do I have to reboot?? Anyway I did a reboot as suggested. But linux still cannot see the new swap partitions created, dmesg shows the following: Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 36k freed Unable to find swap-space signature Unable to find swap-space signature My second question: How do I activate the swap partition?? Thanks for the help. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Updates
Hey It's me again, but this time with a question. Debian.org offers updates on software packages, but are there archives elsewhere with other packages? I hear people talk about using apt (Something I, regretably, have yet to play with) and using different sites and archives. I'd like to tap into these resources as well... I'll see what apt can do in a minute, but I just thought I'd see if I could get some pointers ;-) --Ryan Chouinard
Re: Adaptec AHA-2940
I had a similar problem with my PII. My solution, though not eloquent, was to use 2.0 boot, driver and base disks to start the installation. I then had to upgrade one of the libs before I could then use dselect to install from my 2.1 CD's. dselect will tell you which lib needs updating. You then can copy the required .deb file to /tmp and use dpkg -i libxx.xx.deb to install the new lib. There is probably a better way around this, but this worked for me. It seems the boot kernel for debian 2.1 is more touchy about SCSI that the boot kernel for 2.0. I have even compiled new kernels based on 2.2.9 with no other problems with my SCSI hardware. I'm still new to linux, but I like to offer what help I can to return the favours of all the people on this and other lists that have helped me get this far. Cheers, John Gay
Re: trouble with fdisk and activate the swap
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 *1 4063 2047720+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda2 4064 8127 2048256 83 Linux native /dev/hda3 8128 8400 137592 82 Linux swap Wrong. You created Swap as a primary partition, but it has to be logical. (/dev/hda4 it will be) Syncing disks. Re-read table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy. Reboot your system to ensure the partition table is updated. My first question: why is it happening? Do I have to reboot?? This is ok. You have to reboot to update the partition table, but dont change the fstab file yet (you can, though) Once you boot it up, do mkswap /dev/hda4 Then swapon Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://scorpio.myip.org--All the pages bundled together. ---
Re: module aliases
Gregory T. Norris ha escrito: Thanx for everyone's help on this! As you pointed out, the message relates to supporting a second sound card, which isn't present on my system. So I just need to alias it off. I appreciate the info! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ smime.p7s Description: Firma criptográfica S/MIME
Re: diald and debian..
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:02:02AM +1000, Michael Fox wrote: Anyone experienced problems with diald and debian.. is it possible that the paranoid stuff ran at system startup and the icmplogd will cause issues with diald? It's working fine for me on my potato+ipv6 router here. It would be helpful if you could describe what the problem is. The only really big thing that springs to mind is that the diald in slink is not compatible with kernel 2.2. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgp9Lj8Gjh14k.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apt-get KDE?
I wonder if http://kde.tdyc.com is down now. Add this to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde contrib rkrusty -- Takanori Suzuki E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla M8, but compiled for slink
On 24-Aug-1999, Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi people, You can find mozilla .debs compiled for glibc2.0 (slink version) here: http://pandora.debian.org/~joy/slink/ They worked on a mostly-slink system I tried them on. I guess I should put a recompiled libgtk1.2 and libglib1.2 there, too... tell me if anything else is needed. And sorry for the crosspost. It installed fine for me using slink plus Gnome 1.0 debs from www.gnome.org. However pictures render really badly, you can tell what they are but they are all speckly. I have managed to determine that it due to the fact that my xserver runs using 8bit colour. Does anyone know how to fix this? Pete. slashdot.gif Description: GIF image
Re: Netscape
On 24-Aug-1999, Ryan Chouinard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always hear people complain about Netscape crashing, but I never had that problem, except in Windows. But then, everything crashes in Windows. Netscape works fine for me in RH, Slackware, and now Debian. What's the deal? Clicking on a mailto link causes 4.51 to crash for me everytime. Pete.
Gdm is evil!
I have spent the past 5 hours bashing my brains out getting gdm to work on my system and it never will! I try to start it and it just displays a blank screen without the window popping up. I tried to do as the README.Debian said and to change the symlinksso that gdm and xdm are isolated in different runlevels. What I did was just to delete S99xdm (the symlink to /etc/init.d/xdm) so that it won't lock the system anymore however it still will not display anything I have installed all of the dependencies however it still hates me! The binary for the login interface program works but does nothing on it's own. I assume this is a problem with pam/config files. I looked at /etc/gdm/Init and say :0 and Default which together has only a single program called xsetroot and some rather cryptic arguments. This appears to be broken or what? Could someone please help me? Separate hype from hope on Wall Street. Visit http://www.streetforce.com
Re: backing up IMAP mailboxes
Daniel Quinlan said hi, Howdy Daniel. I need to backup the IMAP mailboxes on one of our clients servers. It has a local DAT drive and i'm familiar with using tar. I have a couple of horror stories related to using tar to save important data... I now use BRU... as do all of my clients... my concern is if the MTA tries to deliver mail whilst tar has an IMAP mailbox locked to back it up what's going to happen? Would it be acceptable to stop the MTA and the IMAP server for the duration of the backup? surely ISP's wouldn't be doing this. Whether or not it would be acceptable depends on how long the service would be off-line. If you could minimize the amount of time needed and choose a time with little mail traffic, then it might not matter. As per what ISP's are doing... it wouldn't surprise me if some don't even care if the service goes down while doing the backup. Some likely don't care if mailboxes get backed up... may even be legal reasons to let messages expire... any thoughts? Here are a couple of thoughts that screetched into my brain whilst reading your message: 1) Turn-off the MTA just long enough to make a disk-to-disk copy of the mailbox. 2) Put the mailboxes on a partition that's part of a raid and turn off the raid and copy from the inactive device (if that's even possible). 3) Have the MTA/IMAPD store two copies of each mailbox and turn off one of them while backing up... figure out how to re-sync the boxes later... 4) have the MTA deliver to another MTA, turn-off the second one while doing the backup/copy, let the first spin retrying the delivery until you're done. 5) Replicate the entire mailserver, turn one off and backup from it... same resync issues as #3... 6) Figure out a way to use CODA to do the replication/resynchronization... 7) Use a filter to store a copy of incoming messages in a traditional mbox format and back it up, use savelog to rotate the copy. thanks, These are TOTALLY off the cuff with absolutely no time/energy/thought spent on feasibility or actual implementation, but they may shed some light on a method that would actually work... or not... -- Daniel Quinlan[EMAIL PROTECTED] Netwise Australia ph: 0417 677 377 Engineering Network Solutions fax: 07 3216 0226 Chuck -- Chuck Stickelman, Owner E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Practical Network DesignVoice: +1-419-610-4201 3068 Noblet RoadText: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mansfield, OH 44903-8634 USA
Re: Help! xdm not starting at boot
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 08:46:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have xdm configured to start when the system boots up. I changed my X | configuration and now the system is in a loop trying to start X and failing. | I am able to boot from my Debian CD, but don't know what to do when I get | there. | | How can I: | 1) prevent xdm from trying to run at startup OR | 2) get in and edit the X configuration file manually -- ideally, I would like | to restore the backup XF86Setup created. Unfortunately, I didn't write down | its location and I don't know where to copy it. After rescue boot: rm /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm This will keep xdm from starting in the default runlevel 2. XF86Config lives in /etc/X11. The backup probably has a .bak extension. If it's there do: mv /etc/X11/XF86Config.bak /etc/X11/XF86Config . Then try it out with: startx . -- ___ ___ __ _ _ __ |_ ) / -_) _` | ' \ / / \___\__, |_|_|_/___| |___/
RE: apt-get KDE?
I wonder if http://kde.tdyc.com is down now. When I did an apt-get update with that added, it wasn't able to connect to the server. I hope the site will be back up soon because Gnome has given me problems and is doing the same right now. I've never had a single problem with KDE. Does anyone know, though, why none of KDE's FTP sites have the kde-installer program for the DEB packages while the same FTP site has it in the RPM package? What am I supposed to do if the installer isn't available? Anyways, I'm really hoping that apt-get site for KDE will work so I won't have to deal with this. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/
RE: Netscape
I run Window Maker, and I always have. My dad (who alo uses this machine) uses KDE, due to it's simplicity and user friendly interface. Even he has no problems. I was just wondering what other people thought of the Netscape problem. I've found several problems with Netscape and all of them are centered around the fact that Netscape doesn't behave like a regular Linux program. It doesn't use the global settings from the OS and doesn't offer much customization to make up for that. It's also much slower than any other program I've used on Linux. I'm looking forward to the Opera betas for Linux and am hoping to see improvements in NSN from the Mozilla project. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/
Re: Netscape
Ryan Chouinard wrote: snip -- Netscape crashes, maybe due to insufficient resources --Ryan Chouinard (I just noticed all my lines start with I. Heh...) Including that one :-)
Re: problems with defrag 0.73
That's correct. I've had filesystems for years that never get more than a few percent fragmentation. If you *really* want to do this, you need to copy e2fsck and defrag to a floppy and boot off the rescue disk. When the installation screen comes up, go to the option to start a shell (or switch to the second virtual terminal) and mount the floppy under /mnt. At this point none of your hard disk partitions are mounted so you can run e2fsck and defrag on them. Just ctl-alt-del to reboot the system when you're finished. I just e2fsck'd all the partitions on a box the other night using this very method. Jonathan On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 01:00:13PM -0600, Cheshire wrote: You sure you need to defrag? I forget where the info was drawn from before, but anyway, by nature of the e2 file system, it's quite the rarity that it needs to be defraged--one of those FAT habits I was glad to kick. |cheshire| -Original Message- From: Oliver Larisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, August 23, 1999 7:13 AM Subject: problems with defrag 0.73 Hi ! I ve a little problem with defrag 0.73. I tried to e2defrag my root partition /dev/hda4 and defrag said: cannot work on mounted device. Then I 've tried to umount it but my system (debian 2.1 kernel 2.2.5) said: device is busy. I went to runlevel 1 in order to singeluse it, but the same game went on. In runlevel 1 the root partition /dev/hda4 is read only. I'm not able to unmount it. What did I wrong and how to shoot it?? Thanx IA, for helping me. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Langenfeld/Germany -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jonathan H. Wheaton | Insert some cool saying here. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If you'd like, continue on this line. pgpRhEl0pEsNc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Wierd compile error with libpthread.a
Hi, Please note to CC replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't follow this list all that regularly - thanks I am having problems compiling a c program under Debian-Potato. I have traced it this far: If I compile any C program, and link in the library /usr/lib/libpthread.a then an executable will be produced, but when executed will simply lock up. I have tried doing this with just the helloworld type Cprogram and it still locks up. If I don't link that archive, then it works fine. CTRL-C will interrupt it. I have tried looking at it with GDB, but I couldn't figure out what it is doing. That is not surprising as I am not very good with gdb. I have upgraded my libc6, and libc6-dev, and gconv-modules to the latest versions. Thanks a million in advance Rupert Brooks More details: The prog that I am trying to compile is a ppp over ethernet prog. It acts as a little pipe to connect the usual pppd to the eth0. I need it because my ADSL provider (Bell Sympatico) is switching to this method in a few days. The source code is a few hundred lines of C. I will provide it to anyone who would like to compile it themselves. Or you can get it from http://ftp.davin.ottawa.on.ca/linux/sympatico/. Unfortunately its totally undocumented and uncommented. But, if you stick a little printf early in the program, and then see if it prints when you run it, that will determine if it is getting past this problem. If someone can produce a working binary out of it, that would solve my problem, at least for now. In the longer term, I'm toying with the idea of adding PPPOE to the PPP daemon. This little prog is supposed to be really inefficient. If anyone is interested let me know. I'm a lazy, lazy man and would rather not have to do it myself.
E! Enlightenment for newbie?
I've been having a look around for general info about X, to get a better feel of how it all works, and had a look at www.x11.org. They have a comparison of window managers, and E seems to have more capacity that all the others. Right now I'm using fvwm95, as it installed directly from the CD, as I'm still to new to try any configuring yet. I had a good look at E's website, but I take anything with a grain of salt. I'm interested in trying E, and was just looking for any experiences, good and bad with E. I was also hoping this would provide a simpler GUI for my ten year old daughter. There is a link for .debs @ www.debian.org that I was going to try, but I thought I'd get some feedback first. The basic questions I have are: 1: Most .deb's I've installed went rather well. Sometimes I have to look for other requirement first. Are there any requirements I should get BEFORE installing the Enlightenment.deb's? 2: Will E configure as my default WM, or do I have to go and edit something? 3: Is E fairly stable? I know what E says, I'd like some independent opinions. 4: Is the configuration fairly straight forward? I get the impression that there is a lot of GUI configuring tools for E. Are they easy to find and use? 5: Would this be an easier WM for my daughter? I'd like to provide her with as much access as possible to encourage her to learn how to explore the PC and make the most of it. 6: I've looked at KDE and GNOME, but right now GNOME seems a little TOO new for my liking, and I've heard many complaints that KDE is somewhat bloated. As a newbie, I'm just not ready to tackle these yet. How would you rate E in relation to these? 7: At the moment, my daughter's PC is limited to 8 bit colour. Can E be configured to reduce any problems this causes? Right now, with fvwm95, if I open one app with lots of colours, than another one, the second complains there are not enough colours left and the screen keep switching different colours as the two app's borrow from each other. Is there some way to make the apps use the same colours? I've still got lots of other configurations to figure out, but I'm getting there. Mostly thanks to the great help I get from this and other lists. Thanks for your time and opinions. Cheers, John Gay
Re: E! Enlightenment for newbie?
(I reformatted this to use 76 chars.. if you are in an xterm, I suggest you check to make sure it is 80 columns wide -- if using netscape or similar, please make the window smaller. :) On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 05:18:39AM +0100, John Gay wrote: E's website, but I take anything with a grain of salt. I'm interested in trying E, and was just looking for any experiences, good and bad with E. I was also hoping this would provide a simpler GUI for my ten year old I have never gotten E to work -- but that was with other distributions, I haven't tried debian's E yet. I think it would work much nicer under debian than the others, else it would never make it into stable. :) As for ease of use .. it doesn't seem nearly as easy as kwm under kde. *That* is pretty simple, as well as similar enough to windows so that your doughter will only feel revolted using windows, not completely clueless. :) However, kids being what they are these days, I do imagine E will give her no troubles, and she will probably soon be teaching you how to use it more efficiently. :) these yet. How would you rate E in relation to these? 7: At the moment, my daughter's PC is limited to 8 bit colour. Can E be configured to reduce any problems this causes? Right now, with fvwm95, if I open one app with lots of colours, than another one, the second complains there are not enough colours left and the screen keep switching different colours as the two app's borrow from each other. Is there some way to make the apps use the same colours? As for the color-depth problem... the window manager does not have any say in what colors applications can use. E will probably make the situation WORSE since to look good it requires many colors -- and you haven't athat many to go around. If it runs high resolution, you can drop the resolution down to get more colors, or (if your card just won't do it..) get a new video card. Checking your local .forsale newsgroup might find someone who wants to part with their video card to upgrade.. If her machine has an AGP slot, it wouldn't be too hard to find a nicer new video card for cheap -- if it is PCI, used might be the way to go.. and if it is ISA-only system, maybe someone out there can help.. :) If the machine is a bit on the slow side, E might not be such a good idea either -- I have heard it takes many CPU cycles to remain happy. If this is the case, you may want to check out blackbox. (I think it is blackbox.fwiw.com -- themes.org has a section devoted to it..) blackbox runs quick, very little resources are needed, and it is still intuitive. You do give up icons, but .. not that big a loss if the video card doesn't have enough memory for higher resolutions. HTH :) -- Seth Arnold | ICQ 3172483 | http://cswww.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ I prosecute unsolicited bulk emails, using the RealTime BlackHole List. You should too. Ask me how, or visit http://maps.vix.com/rbl/
Re: more RAM = more speed?
There are several solutions to your problem: 1- Buy a new and better computer(i know that might an expensivesolution) Wish I could :) 2- Add more RAM and change your motherboard. At the same time reduce the size of swap memory(this is to force the applications to use any free physical RAM) Will keep this in mind, thanks. 3- Try changing your window manager, specially if you're using KDE, it tends to eat-up memory(try something simpler and new since new WM have improved memory managment features) How is WindowMaker on eating up memory? I really like it compared to others I've tried. Thanks, Patrick
w output all screwed up
Hi, this is on slink: (M-x auto-fill-mode) aseq:/usr/local# w 1:13am up 3 days, 22:27, 4 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT ttyp0dak..ca 11:15pm 13:45 0.33s 0.24s tcsh ttyp1palpatine.xx 6:58pm 2:09m 0.55s 0.52s tcsh ttyp2obiwan.. 3:00pm 1:33m 11:15? - ttyp3tk421..c 11:27pm 0.00s 0.30s 0.03s w Why does the output screw up like this? In particular, why are the tcsh's so out of wack? This is the same on the less cluttered w -s. Please [g]cc: me. Thanks, Navin. PS Why was the default output of w changed? Wasn't w -s the default output before? -- These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer. [Microsoft website] http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~navindra/editors/
Re: Logitech Mouseman / X
I don't know if this was mentioned or not. I have about 200 unred messages for yesterday. : You mentioned that GPM was working correctly? Try starting GPM in 'repeater' mode (add -R to your switches), then tell X to use /dev/gpmdata for the mouse device and 'MouseSystems' for the mouse type. I'm doing this on my devel machine (Serial FirstMouse+ and USB mouse) and it works well for me. If that doesn't work, then maybe your X server has a problem? -- Ferret no baka On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Fraser Campbell wrote: Tried that and everything else I could find. Someone suggested I try MouseManPlusPS/2 but this had the same effect ... mouse jitters around the screen and ends in top left corner. As an experiment I plugged on a Microsoft PS/2 mouse and this does the same as the logitech ... left corner. Do you have gpm and X running at the same time? That's known to cause problems... you might try disabling gpm --Evan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Netscape
Ryan Chouinard wrote: I was just wondering what other people thought of the Netscape problem. I am unaware of any other great browser for Linux, although I don't doubt thier existance. I use Amaya 2.1 for browsing (currently running Slink) - it lacks some of the bells and whistles of Netscape but I've never had any problems. Also use it for making/editing web-pages and writing files in html to send to others. Godric
how to create a dummy /dev/dsp
Hi, I have slink installed on an old Pentium 75 box, WITHOUT a sound card. When I installed the system, it apparently didn't create a /dev/dsp. How do I create one that doesn't do anything? Thanks, Stefan.
SQL engines
Hi, I am to write a home application for Linux that uses an SQL database. I can not decide which library to use, my two ideas are: Postgres and Mysql. Which is the best solution and why? (The database is planned to be about maximal 10-15 Mbyte) Gabor Urban --- Lufthansa Systems Hungaria KfT mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : (36)-1-431-2949 Fax :(36)-1-431-2977 I am not a cat to play with the mouse.
Re: trouble with fdisk and activate the swap
Subject: Re: trouble with fdisk and activate the swap Date: Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 08:57:58PM -0500 In reply to:Andrei Ivanov Quoting Andrei Ivanov([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 *1 4063 2047720+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda2 4064 8127 2048256 83 Linux native /dev/hda3 8128 8400 137592 82 Linux swap Wrong. You created Swap as a primary partition, but it has to be logical. (/dev/hda4 it will be) Why is this wrong? I have looked at all the swap man pages and find no mention of having to use a logical partition. I also found no reference to that in any of the kernel Doc pages. In fact here is an excerpt from the /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ide.txt /dev/hda1 from cyl1 to 992 dos /dev/hda2 from cyl 993 to 1023 swap /dev/hda3 from cyl 1024 to 2100 linux I was supprised to learn from this search, that the swap partition can be as large as 2 Gig, in the 2.2.x kernels. Could you please point me to some references for your statement? Thanks Wayne -- It works! Now if only I could remember what I did... ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
any gif animator for linux!!
is there any gif animator available for linux...if so pls tell where to get... === Chastity is Fountain of Power, anyway I have Cure for Virginity--ZEN MYSTIC _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: SQL engines
Urban Gabor wrote: Hi, I am to write a home application for Linux that uses an SQL database. I can not decide which library to use, my two ideas are: Postgres and Mysql. Which is the best solution and why? (The database is planned to be about maximal 10-15 Mbyte) PostgreSQL has more features, especially transactions; Mysql does not have these and is therefore faster, but less suitable for applications which need to guarantee informational integrity. Look at www.postgresql.org for more information on PostgreSQL. -- Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. The heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up. II Peter 3:10
Re: Installing Debian on Dell PowerEdge 2300 problem
Your primary SCSI controller is an Adaptec AIC-7890/1 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter; your secondary (with the CD) is an Adaptec AIC-7860 Ultra SCSI host adapter (according to one of my PowerEdge 2300s running Debian 2.1). You need to search the mailing list archives for the aic7xxx SCSI driver and its conflict with the wd7000 driver and special command-line flags - people have produced special boot disks that work for machines with AIC7890s, as this is an ongoing problem. Ian Redfern ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: KDE question about panel icons
Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I figured out a way to get it to work, but it's kind of a PITA. I have to log in as root, fire up KDE, then use the menu editor to assign icons for each application that isn't a KDE app, or just doesn't have an icon associated with it. Mark, I'm afraid I misunderstood you. I thought you had problems adding icons to the panel at all. If I understand you correctly now, you want to /change/ the icons for programs you add to the panel. Then everything makes sense :). KDE stores its information on apps in files called *.kdelnk . There are two places where those kdelnk that appear in your K-Menu are stored. $KDEDIR/share/applnk for the system-wide settings and ~/.kde/share/applnk for the personal settings for each user. In the K-Menu, the system-wide apps are displayed on top, then you have an entry personal which contains your personal apps. If you don´t have this entry, you simply have not created any personal apps. If you use Menuedit (I have not looked at it much, I used to move around those *.kdelnk from the command line :)), you have your personal entries on the left hand side, the system wide entries on the right hand side and greyed out. When you try to change the settings for a system-wide app, you try to edit its *.kdelnk-file in $KDEDIR/share/applnk. Normal users should not have write permission to this dir. I find it strange that some programs already have icons (emacs, vim, gv) and others don't. I realize that those I mentioned are fairly common, but I would guess that xterm and rxvt are too, and should have icons assigned to them automagically. No idea why that is so, either. I don't know if it's a flaw with KDE or is the packages are buggy. Well, the flaw might be that locating the information for this whole thing in the docs is not that easy. IIRC, it is all explained in the KFM-handbook. You can find this in any KFM-window : Help - contents. I guess I can live with my little work-around for the time being. I guess it's a good thing that the panel isn't very large and wont hold more than 10 or so apps at my desktop's current resolution :) Here is an other workaround for you : If you use Menuedit, right-click the app you want and select copy. Then open your personal entries (left-hand side, remember?) and paste it there. Then you can edit its properties. After you saved your changes (and maybe restarted KPanel? I'm not sure.), you should find it under the entry Personal. Add it to KPanel from there. Oh, btw. I prefer the tiny setting for KPanel. The icons don´t look as neat (and with the upcoming release of the new 1.1.2 or 1.2 or whatever they decide to call it the are supposed to look /much/ neater than now), but it takes up much less screen and I can fit more icons. You can get /almost/ the same effect by using auto-hide on the panel, but I would not want to do without my docked apps visible all the time. Ok, that's a long post. Hope I could help a little. bye Jerry -- Just being paranoid does not mean they´re *not* out to get you...
xfree86 3.3.4
Are there debian packages for xfree86 3.3.4? My video card (Trio3d) is supported only in that version. However I cannot find them anywhere, although someone mentioned about them being in existence. Oh, and I use slink :-) Thanks in advance, Robert Varga
Oracle
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Re: E! Enlightenment for newbie?
Hi John I think Seth is right, probably the easiest solution to your colour problem will be to get a new video-card. I've had much succes using an old Tseng ET4000-based card in my slightly archaic 486/100. Gives me up to 1024x768 and plenty colors, with no troubles whatsoever. These cards are available very cheap or free, and very easy to configure (I'm a newbie too...), as they used to be very common. Good Luck Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Seth R Arnold [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt:26. august 1999 06:39 Til: John Gay; debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: recipient list not shown Emne: Re: E! Enlightenment for newbie? (I reformatted this to use 76 chars.. if you are in an xterm, I suggest you check to make sure it is 80 columns wide -- if using netscape or similar, please make the window smaller. :) On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 05:18:39AM +0100, John Gay wrote: E's website, but I take anything with a grain of salt. I'm interested in trying E, and was just looking for any experiences, good and bad with E. I was also hoping this would provide a simpler GUI for my ten year old I have never gotten E to work -- but that was with other distributions, I haven't tried debian's E yet. I think it would work much nicer under debian than the others, else it would never make it into stable. :) As for ease of use .. it doesn't seem nearly as easy as kwm under kde. *That* is pretty simple, as well as similar enough to windows so that your doughter will only feel revolted using windows, not completely clueless. :) However, kids being what they are these days, I do imagine E will give her no troubles, and she will probably soon be teaching you how to use it more efficiently. :) these yet. How would you rate E in relation to these? 7: At the moment, my daughter's PC is limited to 8 bit colour. Can E be configured to reduce any problems this causes? Right now, with fvwm95, if I open one app with lots of colours, than another one, the second complains there are not enough colours left and the screen keep switching different colours as the two app's borrow from each other. Is there some way to make the apps use the same colours? As for the color-depth problem... the window manager does not have any say in what colors applications can use. E will probably make the situation WORSE since to look good it requires many colors -- and you haven't athat many to go around. If it runs high resolution, you can drop the resolution down to get more colors, or (if your card just won't do it..) get a new video card. Checking your local .forsale newsgroup might find someone who wants to part with their video card to upgrade.. If her machine has an AGP slot, it wouldn't be too hard to find a nicer new video card for cheap -- if it is PCI, used might be the way to go.. and if it is ISA-only system, maybe someone out there can help.. :) If the machine is a bit on the slow side, E might not be such a good idea either -- I have heard it takes many CPU cycles to remain happy. If this is the case, you may want to check out blackbox. (I think it is blackbox.fwiw.com -- themes.org has a section devoted to it..) blackbox runs quick, very little resources are needed, and it is still intuitive. You do give up icons, but .. not that big a loss if the video card doesn't have enough memory for higher resolutions. HTH :) -- Seth Arnold | ICQ 3172483 | http://cswww.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ I prosecute unsolicited bulk emails, using the RealTime BlackHole List. You should too. Ask me how, or visit http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
postgres
Hallo all, I've just installed the postgres stuff ok, but I thought I'd check out a thought before I upset something. I understand that user 'postgres' is the dba for postgres. It is user postgres who adds and deletes users and databases. Is it safe to change the password for user postgres? At the moment I can only access the user by su'ing from root, is this the accepted way of doing it? Suggestions please. I'd appreciate a cc as well 'cos I'm not at home at the moment. Thanks
Re: xfree86 3.3.4
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Robert Varga wrote: Are there debian packages for xfree86 3.3.4? My video card (Trio3d) is supported only in that version. However I cannot find them anywhere, although someone mentioned about them being in existence. Oh, and I use slink :-) I had the similar problem: Running slink and needed xfree86 3.3.3.1 which is also not available as an debian package for slink. I tried to install the binaries from www.xfree86.org, and had no problem running them. Martin --- For public PGP key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help: Wierd networking problem
Hi all, My machine was running fine until I had to reboot because it had to be physically moved. After that I'm having some wierd problems: - ping and traceroute from the machine doesn't work, although ping and traceroute to it does. - running ip (from the iproute package) produces the error message: Cannot open netlink socket: Protocol not supported Everything else though runs fine. It's running kernel 2.2.11, and most packages are from potato. Thanks Roger So
Re: any gif animator for linux!!
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 01:56:01AM -0700, ZEN MYSTIC wrote: is there any gif animator available for linux...if so pls tell where to get... Try grabbing a newer (1.1.x) version of the gimp from http://www.gimp.org. I'm pretty sure it has support for some types of animations. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: how to create a dummy /dev/dsp
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 02:01:19AM -0400, Stefan Langerman wrote: Hi, I have slink installed on an old Pentium 75 box, WITHOUT a sound card. When I installed the system, it apparently didn't create a /dev/dsp. How do I create one that doesn't do anything? Thanks, cd /dev; MAKEDEV audio -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: Oracle
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, ICON ICON wrote: Does anyone know of any free software for oracle development?? Icon You could be more specific.. Would you like to develop in pl/sql or just plain sql for oracle? Robert Varga
Re: any gif animator for linux!!
Hi, On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 01:56:01AM -0700, ZEN MYSTIC wrote: is there any gif animator available for linux...if so pls tell where to get... try whirlgif, it should be part of the Debian distribution. So long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Microsoft leads to fear, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate and hate leads to suffering. -- Master Yoda (more or less) ***
Re: Wierd compile error with libpthread.a
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 12:13:34AM -0400, Rupert Brooks wrote: Hi, Please note to CC replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't follow this list all that regularly - thanks I am having problems compiling a c program under Debian-Potato. I have traced it this far: If I compile any C program, and link in the library /usr/lib/libpthread.a then an executable will be produced, but when executed will simply lock up. Not quite. From what I can tell, you aren't linking pthread to your program, you are including it as one of the object files in your program. So, gcc is shoving the whole libpthread.a in your binary. This works better: cc -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -Wall -g main.o pppoe-discover.o -L. -lpcap -lnet -lpthread -o pppoe Instead of directly specifying the path of libraries, the best way is to link to them with '-l'. The linker looks first for a shared (.so) library (because the -shared option is implied), and then for a static (.a) library. '-L.' tells the linker to also look for library files in the current directory. The resulting executable is dynamically linked with pthread (a standard libc component..no need to statically link this) and libc, and statically linked with everything else, per 'ldd pppoe'. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
installation hang up at SCSI card
I couldn't install Debian because the boot kernel hangs up at the SCSI card(2940). There are thousands of bug reports about this. Are the debian people still working? Why didn't they try to do anything about it? Is there anyone know the solution? Thanks. The problem is that the default kernel on the debian boot floppy image has EVERY thing but the kitchen sink in it as far as scsi controller support is concerned. I had the same problem (with an AHA2840). I solved it by borrowing and IDE cd rom and installing debian off that. I had to disable the bios in the scsi controller so that it would NOT be detected on boot, then install off the IDE cd rom, then compile in support for the controler into my kernel, then re-enable the bios in the controller, then (finally) I had working support for the scsi controller. This only worked because my boot disk was ide (only needed the scsi for the cd rom, and a second hard disk which I later made the /usr partition). A better way is to get a replacement kernel for the boot floppy which ONLY has support for the scsi controller of your choice. Why can't debian do it the RedHat way and have NO compiled in support for scsi hw? They ASK what controller you have AFTER booting the kernel and then load the correct module. BTW I downloaded stormx linux and tried to install it on a system with a scsi cd rom and found they have NO support for scsi AT ALL in their support. I guess they only work with IDE cd roms (at this time). === Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: more RAM = more speed?
On 25-Aug-1999, Patrick Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Based on the free output above, do you think 96MB would be enough to keep swapping to a minimum with StarOffice thrown in? If you're not sure, I'd be happy to wait a week or so until you have StarOffice installed. In my experience 96Mb of RAM (which I used to have) seemed to be just perfect. 64Mb was just that little bit to small. 128Mb is preferable, but only really possible if you are upgrading your machine. Pete.
Re: more RAM = more speed?
On 24-Aug-1999, Patrick Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Is it a bad idea to buy RAM for a P-133 since it only takes 72-pin? Instead, should I upgrade to a motherboard that can handle a newer type of RAM? You need to consider the fact that the latest SDRAM (132 pin?) now runs at 100Mhz, so if you buy more RAM now it wont be usable in your new system unless you set the Memory speed back to 66Mhz. I guess it depends on how long you are going to wait until upgrading. Pete.
Mozilla
How many bits of encryption does Mozilla use for secure documents? If I am to use Mozilla as a replacement for netscape I'd like to see the 128 bit version, so I can use it for on-line purchases for e-merchants with a credit card. The us version of Netscape is available with 128 bit encryption (that's what I'm using now). If Mozilla is not using the full encryption is there a fortify package for it? === Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
xemacs's shell mode
Hi, When I use the shell in xemas, the filenames does not display properly. The filename is actually displays as ^[[0mfilename^[[0m What am I doing wrong? Thanks. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: Weird slow network problem...
Dan Everton wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Aaron Solochek wrote: If its not too much of a pain in the ass you might want to try switching the oomputers around to see if the problem is in the campus infastructure. Are you in the same dorm? Are they switched or shared connections? If you live in different dorms, or areas, it could be that the uplinks to his hub/switch could be slow. Do others have any problem like this? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, he's two doors up from me so we should be on the same switch/hub. The other thing though, that make me think that's it's not hardware (including network hardware) is that Windows does not exhibit these problems, so it's almost definitely something Linux is doing different. And no, I haven't heard of anybody else with similar problems which is unfortunate. Dan This may be a problem with packet sizes or other IP settings and a dodgy router/firewall; try comparing the MTU used by W95 and Linux (in Linux, MTU is displayed and set by ifconfig; not sure where you'd look in W95). John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything. - Bill Gates in Denmark
Re: Netscape
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 05:34:34PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Ryan Chouinard wrote: I always hear people complain about Netscape crashing, but I never had that problem, except in Windows. But then, everything crashes in Windows. Netscape works fine for me in RH, Slackware, and now Debian. What's the deal? I have the same non-problem as you, and I don't understand it. I had netscape crash on me last night for the first time in recent memory, and I was quite surprised to see it happen. From what I can tell I'm not doing anything different from anybody else. I've got Java and Javascript enabled, and I'm running the full Communicator 4.51 package (Navigator 4.6 at work). I installed 4.51 using the debian installation wrapper (using the archive from netscapes FTP site), and the 4.6 that's available in .deb format (from netgod.net, I think...apt makes it too easy to not care 8^). All this is on a slink system with the upgrades from security, proposed-updates, and netgod. But it's been stable for ages. Oh well, I won't ask questions. My experiences with netscape have been fine. Still, though, I can't wait for Mozilla to mature. A smaller browser footprint would be great. I've had Netscape crash on me while JavaScript was enabled, but otherwise it's been just fine *until* yesterday, when it crashed (occasionally and unreproducibly, using version 4.5) several times while loading pages from http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/ with Java JavaScript disabled, so presumably bad HTML can still break it from time to time. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything. - Bill Gates in Denmark
Re: ftp trouble - cannot chroot
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 12:24:14PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote Hi, I am having some trouble to chroot all the users when they ftp. Using the standard in.ftpd from netstd package, I created a file /etc/ftpchroot with one line: shao. But when I ftp as shao, I can log in properly, but ls shows up nothing. I then tried to use wu-ftpd-academ. Changed passwd entry to shao:x:1000:1000:Shao Zhang,,,:/home/shao/./:/bin/bash add an entry to /etc/wu-ftpd-academ/ftpaccess: guestgroup 1000 change the entry in /etc/inetd.conf to something like /usr/sbin/ftpd -a which will enable ftpaccess for wu-ftp With this config, user can still chdir to anywhere. If I change it to guestgroup shao, then ls shows up nothing again. Here is what's happening: 230 User shao logged in. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp ls 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'. 226 Transfer complete. ftp Can anyone please help me? I have got this working before but now I forgot. As someone else mentioned, proftpd avoids this problem. I believe that what has happened to you is that you are operating in a chroot'd environment and that in that environment there is no /bin/ls to run, so no directory appears. Try cd'ing to ftp's home directory and copying bin/* to /home/shao/bin/ and lib/* to /home/shao/lib/. This isn't necessary with proftpd because it has a built-in 'ls'. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything. - Bill Gates in Denmark
Re: Mozilla
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 05:52:24AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: How many bits of encryption does Mozilla use for secure documents? If I am to use Mozilla as a replacement for netscape I'd like to see the 128 bit version, so I can use it for on-line purchases for e-merchants with a credit card. The us version of Netscape is available with 128 bit encryption (that's what I'm using now). If Mozilla is not using the full encryption is there a fortify package for it? Currently, mozilla .deb doesn't have SSL support compiled in. It appeared not stable enough for general use last time we tried it. I don't think there is a fortify package for it, but I could be wrong. -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
Files: Debian-to-dos.
Is there a way to save a linux-file to a dos-diskette in a dos-readable way? (Say I wanted to show you guys a config-file or something when I'm mailing from an NT-box, not wanting to type the whole thing, or I wanted to take a file from f. x. StarOffice with me to work...) Please don't flame a pitiful 'nix newbie. I'm really trying to learn, and I already love the efficiency of linux compared to my horrible WinNT box at work (breaks down several times a day...) Regards Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer
Re: Netscape
Hmm, that's an interesting thought. I don't run KDE (I run IceWM), but I often have Netscape crashes. But I'm running on a 1MB older video card and only 32MB RAM and am always getting messages from Netscape about not having enough resources (or memory?) to set color pallettes (or somesuch -- I just ignore the messages now so I don't remember what they say). So it may be that the people having crashes have fewer resources than the people not having crashes. Hmmm... I had never thought of that before... The message you may be 'forgetting' is something like 'can't allocate color for default background' or something, given ONLY when Java comes in... I have the same (I mean, *when* I enable Netscape's sluggish Java support)... Like you, I have a *%$# 1Mb video card (well, it *used* to have 2Mb, until I tried some experiments with its bus clock XF86Config options)... I don't think it has something to do with the problem (as I crash w/out java enabled), but on the other hand... I have here both fvwm95 KDE, and for some strange reason Netscape seems to be more stable (even if slower) on KDE than on fvwm95 (my default WM)... Could it be that it has something to do with resources and/or key/mouse bindings? That's an interesting issue for the Gurus... ;-) GZahn
Re: E! Enlightenment for newbie?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, John Gay wrote: 1: Most .deb's I've installed went rather well. Sometimes I have to look for other requirement first. Are there any requirements I should get BEFORE installing the Enlightenment.deb's? If you are using the dselect tool, you won't really need to think about what dependencies to download. It will handle everything for you. Just tell it that you want to install enlightenment and it will know that it needs to install the dependencies. 2: Will E configure as my default WM, or do I have to go and edit something? I don't know here. I think it should, but don't take my word for it. 3: Is E fairly stable? I know what E says, I'd like some independent opinions. NO! E is constantly being re-written. It is under heavy development and is quite complex. 4: Is the configuration fairly straight forward? I get the impression that there is a lot of GUI configuring tools for E. Are they easy to find and use? I haven't seen any. It seems to me that the actual configuration of E is quite difficult, at least in terms of the construction of the themes. There are many themes that can be downloaded from e.themes.org which will make enlightenment look completely different, but they don't seem easy to construct. On the other hand, simply changing the keyboard macros that pop up menus and stuff might be quite a bit easier. 5: Would this be an easier WM for my daughter? I'd like to provide her with as much access as possible to encourage her to learn how to explore the PC and make the most of it. Yes, I think she'd get the hang of it. But the same could be said of most window managers, with a bit of time. 6: I've looked at KDE and GNOME, but right now GNOME seems a little TOO new for my liking, and I've heard many complaints that KDE is somewhat bloated. As a newbie, I'm just not ready to tackle these yet. How would you rate E in relation to these? First of all, GNOME and KDE are much more than just window managers. You can easily use E with GNOME. KDE includes a window manager, but you aren't forced to use it. Both of those projects are large suites of desktop software. KDE is much more mature than GNOME, and includes many powerful productivity apps. As bloated as KDE might be, it probably won't gobble up more resources than E would on it's own! (That might be a slight exageration, but...) 7: At the moment, my daughter's PC is limited to 8 bit colour. Can E be configured to reduce any problems this causes? Right now, with fvwm95, if I open one app with lots of colours, than another one, the second complains there are not enough colours left and the screen keep switching different colours as the two app's borrow from each other. Is there some way to make the apps use the same colours? Window managers don't control the colors that are allocated to the apps. E would probably be a VERY bad choice if you've got limited colors. With all the pixmaps and gradients that are used, there won't be any colors left for your apps. Somebody suggested blackbox as a better WM for this situation. You can also set up Window Maker easily to display few colors (there are nice graphical tools for doing so). Note also that some (few, probably) apps have options to allow them to install their own color map. Netscape has the '-install' option. When you're using netscape, it will claim all 256 colors that you have. This will make the rest of your apps freak out, but they'll go back to normal when you move your mouse over a non-netscape app. HTH. Good luck. Noah PGP public key available at http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBN8VElYdCcpBjGWoFAQE+LwQAhoS5VpDZrOSWVcJGFUINmZtMAEVj+LqY 3tjnJb1n0VO56Zz29pDK8YA1lmmzF9Akdx6yCDA2minhQcoXZ3cbA66PIqtnx75G onvSBGuecpNlvtfHJHZQ+fN92VyRS2qxUZ+A9rtXeZQsG3NTZuk8Nm6AsKcJpUtr tO43noqnptg= =U5J6 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Netscape
*- On 26 Aug, Peter Ross wrote about Re: Netscape Clicking on a mailto link causes 4.51 to crash for me everytime. This is a known bug. The workaround is to have the messenger window open/iconified before hitting a mailto link. -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: Netscape
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, John Pearson wrote: I've had Netscape crash on me while JavaScript was enabled, but otherwise it's been just fine *until* yesterday, when it crashed (occasionally and unreproducibly, using version 4.5) several times while loading pages from http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/ with Java JavaScript disabled, so presumably bad HTML can still break it from time to time. Weird, because I've been viewing the same pages in navigator 4.6 (everything on) for a couple days, with no stability problems. There isn't any unusual HTML there, either, as far as I can tell. This is a perfect example of why bloatware is bad. Nobody will ever be able to debug this. There's just too much stuff going on to be able to track down exactly why it's crashing... noah PGP public key available at http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBN8VGCIdCcpBjGWoFAQGIMAP/dnKyePfGk7ThboBkxAKyzo96EEQfGdBC 6Mshr+1e8kSjoYhoBKW9upAL31tta+Zsp99zQhrB4sCpNW/js18F4GkstZlS0EHd ThkINDnHlaZP44cMXVwJFFWYT3jOGOzO/1H/QcFWiJygodXi3gzre5jge9o+HQ68 2Zb7TZY2DLQ= =Er4l -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Files: Debian-to-dos.
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 03:30:43PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to save a linux-file to a dos-diskette in a dos-readable way? (Say I wanted to show you guys a config-file or something when I'm mailing from an NT-box, not wanting to type the whole thing, or I wanted to take a file from f. x. StarOffice with me to work...) Please don't flame a pitiful 'nix newbie. I'm really trying to learn, and I already love the efficiency of linux compared to my horrible WinNT box at work (breaks down several times a day...) Regards Vitux unix2dos file That converts the line feeds properly.
Re: Installing Debian on Dell PowerEdge 2300 problem
Thanks, I was able to place a 2.2.5 kernel with the aic7xxx driver on the rescue disk and it boots now. K On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Ian Redfern wrote: Your primary SCSI controller is an Adaptec AIC-7890/1 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter; your secondary (with the CD) is an Adaptec AIC-7860 Ultra SCSI host adapter (according to one of my PowerEdge 2300s running Debian 2.1). You need to search the mailing list archives for the aic7xxx SCSI driver and its conflict with the wd7000 driver and special command-line flags - people have produced special boot disks that work for machines with AIC7890s, as this is an ongoing problem. Ian Redfern ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Configuring printer (HP 870Cxi)
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 06:06:47PM +, you wrote: Hi to all I'm using Debian Potato and, I must say, it's wonderful, even if it's unstable (sometimes WindowMaker 0.6 freezes, and sometimes the entire system crashes with strange errors). However a big problem I'm having is about printing. I'm using an HP Deskjet 870Cxi printer, I configured /etc/printcap with the magicfilter dj550c-filter (I haven't found the right filter for 870) but when I print something different from text (text prints well) I get an error: can't find file dju550c. Where is this missing file?? I downloaded and installed the djtools package, but that didn't resolved anything... Any help would be very appreciated. Thanx Bye Marco Hi Marco, I am running potato with an HP855 printer. Here is what works for me. It should also work for your HP870. I am using apsfilter instead of magicfilter. I had problems with the potato version of apsfilter , so I installed version 4.9.7-5 from slink. I am using this in conjuction with ghostscript. For ghostscript, go to the debian ftp site and get the deb binary from debian/project/experimental. This has been hacked to include the HP850 driver, which will also work for the HP870. This setup has been performing flawlessly for me. Good luck. Gene
Libraries
Hello, I want to know how to make the name_pic.a format libraries found in Debian distribution. I want to create reduced shared libraries with these ones to make a small filesystem image for a boot/root disk. I need to know at least where I could find these files: - libncurses_pic.a (version 3.0); - libc5_pic.a; Or, maybe, can someone send libraries to me? Thanks.
Re: teTeX and DWWW
On 25 Aug 1999 14:35:49 +0200, you wrote: Does http://torres.gf1.internal/cgi-bin/dwww?type=filelocation=/mnt/main8/usr/doc/texmf/tetex/teTeX-FAQ.gz work? Yes. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG Rightful Heir | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Strange behaviour of Apache JServ
Hi! I'm currently running a Java servlet that I wrote on Apache JServ. I'm getting this strange behaviour that every time I restart Apache, and then access the servlet, Apache returns a page complaining of an internal configuration/ runtime error. However, if I persistently reload the page, at some point the servlet suddenly starts to work, and from that point on, everything functions as normal, and the servlet can process queries without any errors. The annoying thing is that none of this internal errors show up in the Apache log files, so I've absolutely no idea if this is a bug in the servlet itself, or did I misconfigure something in Apache/JServ, or is it a bug with Apache?? I even tried having my servlet open a file in /tmp/ and writing diagnostic output into it -- but that file simply shows up *empty*. Any ideas what might be causing this problem and how to fix it? I'm using JDK 1.1 (Debian package 1.1.7v2-2), JSDK 1.0 (downloaded straight from Sun's website), the apache package 1.3.6-15.2, and libapache-mod-jserv 1.0-1. Also, possibly related is that fact that I'm using the MM MySQL JDBC driver (manually installed) which is loaded by the servlet's constructor. I know for sure it's NOT the actual database queries that cause this problem, because I tested it once with all database queries disabled. It might be the actual loading of the JDBC driver that causes the problem, though... (The driver *does* eventually load properly, because after the servlet suddenly decides to start working, all DB queries work perfectly.) T
Re: Logitech Mouseman / X
gpm works fine with it. X does not. I have tried every mouse type with it and the mouse cursor simply jumps to the top left corner of the screen as soon as it is touched. Found the very similar problem today on my friends box. He's running 3.3.4 binary obtained from Xfree86.org on Voodoo. The problem I found was the Xserver won't read /etc/X11/XF86Config file, but it read /etc/XF86Config instead. After we fixed /etc/XF86Config, everything works fine. Chanop
Files: debian to dos
| Is there a way to save a linux-file to a dos-diskette in a | dos-readable way? You can use the mtools package. It provides a set of commands that lets you read, write and manipulate files on an MSDOS system. Its most typical use is to transfer files between a linux system and a diskette. Specifically: say you have a DOS-formatted diskette in the floppy drive of your linux box, then you can: mdir a: (list the files on the diskette) mcopy FOO a:BAR (copy the linux file FOO to the floppy and name it BAR) mcopy a:FOO BAR (copy the file FOO from the floppy to the linux system and name it BAR) mdel a:FOO(delete the file FOO on the floppy) The mtools package is probably on your system already. If not, you can find it in the `otherosfs' section of the debian archive, Jim
Re: xfree86 3.3.4
deb http://ftp.netgod.net x/ == X 3.3.3.1 .debs for Slink To install 3 3.4, downloading the Linux-glibc-ix86 (or similar) binaries, then edit the X config files as needed. On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Martin Fluch wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Robert Varga wrote: Are there debian packages for xfree86 3.3.4? My video card (Trio3d) is supported only in that version. However I cannot find them anywhere, although someone mentioned about them being in existence. Oh, and I use slink :-) I had the similar problem: Running slink and needed xfree86 3.3.3.1 which is also not available as an debian package for slink. I tried to install the binaries from www.xfree86.org, and had no problem running them. Martin --- For public PGP key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: xemacs's shell mode
Use ls --color=none [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shao Zhang) writes: Hi, When I use the shell in xemas, the filenames does not display properly. The filename is actually displays as ^[[0mfilename^[[0m What am I doing wrong? Thanks. Shao. -- *** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL= [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WWW= http://Mills-USA.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * * pgp public key on keyservers everywhere? */ --
Re: Files: Debian-to-dos.
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to save a linux-file to a dos-diskette in a dos-readable way? [snip] Vitux: Use mtools: mcopy -t filename a: will put the file on the floppy with cr-lf fixed for dos. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I'm hoping this is all of the above!)
Re: Files: Debian-to-dos.
Vitux, You can use unix2dos, in the sysutils pacakge. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 15:30:43 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Files: Debian-to-dos. Is there a way to save a linux-file to a dos-diskette in a dos-readable way? (Say I wanted to show you guys a config-file or something when I'm mailing from an NT-box, not wanting to type the whole thing, or I wanted to take a file from f. x. StarOffice with me to work...) Please don't flame a pitiful 'nix newbie. I'm really trying to learn, and I already love the efficiency of linux compared to my horrible WinNT box at work (breaks down several times a day...) Regards Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer
HP 8100 CD-Writer under Debian
Anyone knows if this hardware works in Debian? Thanks, Roque
Re: Netscape
Well... The only somehow 'reproductable' crashes I remember of comes when: 1) I try to delete HTML-ized e-mails from the messager window... It won't happen 100% of the times I do it, but, say, 10%... 2) I press 'enter' after entering my username password for some sites; this happens quite frequently (Hmmm... I'd say 30% of the times, specially if the NS windows on the site requiring authentication isn't on the 1st plane (i.e., it's either under another - NS or not - window or on another desktop). Also, sometimes Netscape crashes just when I press the 'stop' button on Navigator, or when I click on a harmless link... or even when I'm just typing a new e-mail... These crashes aren't so common as the other ones, but seem to happen at least twice or 3 times a day... []'s Guilherme Zahn
Re: SQL engines
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Oliver Elphick wrote: PostgreSQL has more features, especially transactions; Mysql does not have these and is therefore faster, but less suitable for applications which need to guarantee informational integrity. Look at www.postgresql.org for more information on PostgreSQL. It is entirely possible to guarantee data integrity in MySQL just as much as with a more ordinary transaction-oriented database. It's a little different way of thinking, though. You have to use a locking system similar to that used in a multithreaded programming language. I personally find the MySQL approach simpler, but it won't be if your brain is already wired for transaction centric thinking. Anyway, for 10-15MB database MySQL's speed will not be that noticeable if you use any kind of reasonable hardware to serve it with (say a Pentium class system). Your choice in this case will be based on licensing (you can't resell MySQL or integrate it into a product you're selling without paying licensing fees, but you get full source to either one) and your desire to use or not use a transaction based approach to SQL. MySQL also is more commonly used for integrating with web applications, but there is no reason why PostgreSQL wouldn't be capable of this too.
Re: xemacs's shell mode
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 09:45:07AM -0500, W. Paul Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use ls --color=none [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shao Zhang) writes: Hi, When I use the shell in xemas, the filenames does not display properly. The filename is actually displays as ^[[0mfilename^[[0m What am I doing wrong? Thanks. Shao. Even better, use term mode instead of shell. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous shuddering and stopping. --Friedrich Nietzsche pgpvgVUwGzRpF.pgp Description: PGP signature
dselect/apt via non-NAT firewall
Is it possible to use dselect/apt via a non network address translating (proxying) firewall? Available are socks and a [EMAIL PROTECTED] ftp. (i.e. to connect to ftp.debian.org as ftp, I 'ftp proxy' user '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' password whatever.) Unfortunately our system administrator only understands Windows and won't move to a real firewall/proxy; he's married to Wingate because it's the only system he understands. __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
X with kernel 2.2.12
Has anyone else had trouble getting X to work with kernel 2.2.12. The same setup I use with 2.2.11 won't work. For some reason it wants to limit my dot-clock frequency to half what I have with 2.2.11 and that doesn't leave any valid modes. System is potato with xserver-svga 3.3.1-10. Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: Apt-get source question
Subject: Apt-get source question Date: Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 09:17:18AM -0200 In reply to:Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira Quoting Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi Debian users, anyone knows if with apt-get source package I can see the new avaliable packages before get sourcing to checks if the pack age is it or doesn't exist? My problem is: I have a slink home box. First I installed apt 0.3.11 to get source potato packages to compile here. So, I have a slink bo x with lot of potato packages compiled. But, how do I check what new packages are avaliable for me to get with apt-get source? Only with more /var/lib/dpkg/avalia ble I can do this! :( Thanks, Paulo Henrique Paulo Could you _please_ set your editor to wrap at 70 or so columns. Your posts a a pain to read as setup now. Thanks -- A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X with kernel 2.2.12 (solved)
In looking further, I found that it didn't detect my video ram correctly and set it to 512k. Specifying 2048k in XF86Config cured the problem. On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 09:54:54AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: Has anyone else had trouble getting X to work with kernel 2.2.12. The same setup I use with 2.2.11 won't work. For some reason it wants to limit my dot-clock frequency to half what I have with 2.2.11 and that doesn't leave any valid modes. System is potato with xserver-svga 3.3.1-10. Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Inchon International Airport Information Delivery
Dear Madam and SirI am Billy Ahn from PR team of Inchon International Airport Corporation. First of all, apologize the mail without your permission.We are now constructing Korea's new airport on a reclaimed tidal land off west coast. Inchon International Airport will be born as an ultra modern off-shore airport operating 24 hours a day, which will open after 6 months of overall readiness check-up following the completion of construction in June of 2000.We like to mail you further information of our airport such as facilities, construction progress, operation readiness etc. This mail is absolutely not for commercial purpose, but giving you up-dated information of our airport project.Best Regards.http://www.airport.or.krP/S : Please inform " No" in subject, if not interested in. We never mail you again. - Korean -안녕하십니까?저는 인천 국제공항사 홍보팀에 안상준 입니다.저희 공사는 한국 서해 영종도에 새로운 공항을 건설하고 있는바, 2000년 6월 까지건설 공정을 완료하고 이어 7월부터 종합시운전을 거쳐 2001년에 개항하게 됩니다.인천 국제공항은 24시간 운영하는 해상공항으로 초음속 초대형기가 취항할 있는 최첨단 공항으로 탄생하게 될것입니다.인천 국제공항 홍보팀에서는 후반기 공정진행 현황 및 운영준비사항을 소개할 인터넷 뉴스 레터를 9월 20일 부터 관심있으신 분께 송부하여 드릴 예정입니다.이 뉴스메일 의 수신을 원하지 않으시면, 제목에 "No"를 쓰셔서 회신주시 기 바라오며. 다시는 메일을 송부하지 않도록 하겠습니다.다시한번 허락 없이 메일송부한점 부디 양해하여 주시기 바랍니다.감사합니다.http://www.airport.or.kr
Files: Debian-to-dos.
Is there a way to save a linux-file to a dos-diskette in a dos-readable way? (Say I wanted to show you guys a config-file or something when I'm mailing from an NT-box, not wanting to type the whole thing, or I wanted to take a file from f. x. StarOffice with me to work...) Please don't flame a pitiful 'nix newbie. I'm really trying to learn, and I already love the efficiency of linux compared to my horrible WinNT box at work (breaks down several times a day...) Regards Vitux I think all you have to do is to mount the floppy and copy the files to it. IE: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt -t vfat will mount the floppy on /mnt using the dos/windows file system. There is also the issue of crlf to lfcr translation. If there is a problem with that I think there is a utility available to do this. === Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
ipx printing, the parallel port, and ipx collisions
I had the deskjet attached to this thing working, at least for postscript printing. I then installed ncp to use the novell laser printers, successfully printed to one, and now I can't print to the deskjet by my side. Even printing something trivial, I get hawkinsttyp0:hawklpq waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?) Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1sthawk 22 cs.ps 16921 bytes The printer is most definitely on line, and I printed a page from windows. I've tried stopping and starting lpd to no avail. Possibly related (i've never dealt with novell befre) is that I now receive plenty of messages to the xconsole of collisioins: Aug 26 12:53:02 hawkins kernel: IPX: Network number collision 24899 Aug 26 12:53:02 hawkins kernel: eth0 802.3 and eth0 802.2 Aug 26 12:53:07 hawkins kernel: IPX: Network number collision 24899 Aug 26 12:53:07 hawkins kernel: eth0 802.3 and eth0 802.2 Aug 26 12:53:23 hawkins kernel: IPX: Network number collision 24899 Aug 26 12:53:23 hawkins kernel: eth0 802.3 and eth0 802.2 Aug 26 12:53:25 hawkins kernel: IPX: Network number collision 24899 Aug 26 12:53:25 hawkins kernel: eth0 802.3 and eth0 802.2 Finally, is there an extra how-to around for magic filter? It claimed to have configured successfully and accepted the printer I told it, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything; I still get the stair-case effect on text files (and this machine is a bit low on horsepower to use ghostscript all the time). While I'm pushing my luck, the IPX howto mentioned that it's possible to set up queues to use normal linux printing to send to novell network printers; is there an explanation for this anywhere? rick --
Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)
I would like to know if there's a possibility with apt (or something else) to do the same that windows/Office 2000. It installs automaticly new software from the CD when you want to start a non-installed function. It could be great if under Debian, when we type a command that don't exist, it would automaticly search the command from a small APT database or from the internet if diald|direct connection is here. And we could specify in a conffile to download the software or to install directly from the CD. Wouldn't it be cool ? Is it possible to program ? If a such software doesn't exist, do some people want to join to me to program a such thing - As soon as I'm able to do it, I'm learning C in the moment -. ? sami.
Re: Still Having .forward problems with EXIM
Thanks to all who helped me on this problem, it appears the problem was EXIM was thinking that the domain was local Thanks again Kent
Re: dselect/apt via non-NAT firewall
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Brian McGroarty wrote: Available are socks and a [EMAIL PROTECTED] ftp. (i.e. to connect to ftp.debian.org as ftp, I 'ftp proxy' user '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' password whatever.) You need APT from potato (can get a slink version at http://www.debian.org/~jgg/apt_0.3.11.1_i386.deb) Then read apt.conf and look in /usr/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf.gz - heading the warning to not copy the conf file directly. I think the example in there is quite close to what wingate uses Jason
Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 02:13:59AM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote: I would like to know if there's a possibility with apt (or something else) to do the same that windows/Office 2000. It installs automaticly new software from the CD when you want to start a non-installed function. It could be great if under Debian, when we type a command that don't exist, it would automaticly search the command from a small APT database or from the internet if diald|direct connection is here. Are you sure it would be good? Aren't debian's dependencies meant to handle that pretty much? And we could specify in a conffile to download the software or to install directly from the CD. Wouldn't it be cool ? Is it possible to program ? Well you would have to alter each and every shell for a start, to call your code when it can't find the path, and that's just for commands people would type. Then commands called from compiled languages would need a lower level method of handling it maybe. If a such software doesn't exist, do some people want to join to me to program a such thing - As soon as I'm able to do it, I'm learning C in the moment -. ? I wouldn't. I think that unix is not like that; I think the fact that apt-get can install packages I haven't individually requested it to is enough for me; I want control, not nannying. Good idea though. frankie -- ,-. Frankie Fisher| Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that frankie @ | the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk | reasons, will somehow work for the benefit PGP Key available on request. | of us all. -- John Maynard Keynes `-' pgpunMmfc4al6.pgp Description: PGP signature
[SQL] a newbie's question on language syntax
Hi: Thanks for reading my problem. I got MySQL installed a while ago. My problem is how to display database(or table) content with proper syntax of SQL language. The following is a quote from the interactive mode of MySQL, under which I've tried several commands. The database I was working on is named mysql, but the prompt of the interactive mode is also called mysql: mysql-select * -SELECT * -select * from mysql -SELECT * FROM mysql My purpose was just to look at the content of the database, mysql. There showed nothing, no matter how I tried using select or show. BTW, I'm just wondering does commands have to be small latters or big letters? Have a nice day Jack __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote: I would like to know if there's a possibility with apt (or something else) to do the same that windows/Office 2000. It installs automaticly new software from the CD when you want to start a non-installed function. It could be great if under Debian, when we type a command that don't exist, it would automaticly search the command from a small APT database or from the internet if diald|direct connection is here. And we could specify in a conffile to download the software or to install directly from the CD. Wouldn't it be cool ? Is it possible to program ? Egads man! That would be a lot of work, for it to work (I personally wouldn't want it on my machine for numerous reasons) you'd have to make *EVERY* program that executed a program check with apt/dpkg to see if a package contains that executable. The only other way around it would be to write a wrapper program that would take as arguments the command line to search for and possibly install. This would be easier but you'd still have to tell all other programs to change what they execute in order for your program to search for new packages. -- Ashley Clark
mounting problems
Hi all, Been recompiling my 2.2.10 kernel to be able to use hp 8100+ CDRW. I think I got it all right but some strange things did happen. I can't mount my ordinary cd anymore! mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, or too many mounted file systems Where do I start looking? Here is some information. in fstab: /dev/hdc/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord release 1.8a23 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jörg Schilling scsibus0: cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. 0) 'SONY' 'CD-ROM CDU4011 ' 'UY04' Removable CD-ROM 1) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 8100 ' '1.0g' Removable CD-ROM 2) * 3) * 4) * 5) * 6) * 7) * Can anyone help me ? Best regards Joakim Svensson
