Re: Debian em Portugu?s - Sistema de Instala??o
Cool! :) Onde está? Quero testar e colocar na página. Abraços,PH Quoting Gleydson Mazioli da Silva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Iaaah! Ola para Todos, Terminei a compilação do Boot-Floppies da Debian em Português (para computadores Intel X86 como o 386, 486, Pentium, etc) e já temos todo o sistema de instalação em nossa lingua! :)) Eu estava tendo um problema com a compilação do Boot-floppies (nenhum maintainer soube responder do que se tratava e depois de quebrar a cabeça por 1 semana, consegui fazer um hack que permitia a compilação do pacote). Estou fazendo os testes em um HD cobaia para verificar possíveis problemas, mas já vou adiandando que a Debian em Português ficou muito bonita! ;) Todo o sistema de instalação ocupa no total 46 MB (com imagens para instalação em discos de 1.44MB, 1.2MB, tecra, base14, base12, base2_1, etc..) Os discos 1440 ocupam no total 13MB. Vou entrar em coordenação para verificar que alterações são necessárias para gerar a Potato em Português e lançala junto com a distribuição principal, se possível... Vou fazer os teste e trago quanto antes a Debian em Português para o pessoal da lista! T+ --- gleydson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] MailBR - O e-mail do Brasil -- http://www.mailbr.com.br Faça já o seu. É gratuito!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Envio da Debian em Português
Ola pessoal, Eu fiz os testes com a Debian em Português e ela esta funcionando 100% !!! Passei o dia procurando um FTP para poder fazer os lancamentos dos discos de instalacao da distribuicao (boot-floppies) e consegui com meu provedor! Para minha surpresa o provedor adora o Linux (apesar de ver que o servidor de E-mail era NT) e me liberaram o espaco do servidor FTP que eles possuem (50 MB inicialmente) e de GRACA!!! E no primeiro contato por telefone o WebMaster criou minha conta no FTP e me deu um novo E-Mail (sem nenhum problema ou dificuldade) ;). Fui muito bem atendido por eles, e me pediram que conversassemos de vez em quando (eles icentivam muito o uso do Linux e desejam ajudar no que for necessário!). Em troca, a única coisa que garanti a eles, terão o reconhecimento de ser o local onde serão lancadas as versões em Português da Debian!. Acredito que será um excelente local para armazenarmos nossa Debian Brasileira(e outros projetos futuros). Quanto aos testes com a Debian em Portugues, somente tive que alterar algumas variáveis que pedem o disco de instalacão e no momendo estou enviando os discos de 1.44 MB para o FTP do provedor. A hora local é 19:10, se alguém quiser dar um talk para mim meu endereco IP no momento é [EMAIL PROTECTED] (se não responder,favor envie um E-Mail para chevar o IP). Acho que vou ficar conectado até 21 ou 22 Horas enviando os 46 Megas do sistema de instalacão --- gleydson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] MailBR - O e-mail do Brasil -- http://www.mailbr.com.br Faça já o seu. É gratuito!!!
Re: X-Window help the debian way?
Chris someone wrote: Hi there, I am new to debian using SuSE for the last two years. I installed hamm last night and every thing was pretty easy to install even though, I did come across a problem with my mouse getting assigned to my modem com port, hehe, dunno how, but fixed that, and it fixed my modem and mouse problem, now all I have left is X. Ok, I tryed using XF86Setup, and it seems to do every thing like normal, as SuSE uses this same program to setup X. However, after I save my XF86Config file, and try startx at the prompt I get nothing... SO, it is not finding my server, I cd /etc/X11; ls -a; and I see some server files, or apear to be any how, newxserver-svgaserver and some more. I have a Gernric Trident GUI4440 2 meg card, Any help would be needed. I'm not sure which xserver is correct for your card, but whichever one it is should be listed in the file /etc/X11/Xserver. For instance on my system the first line in /etc/X11/Xserver is /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA. John And I did edit the file /etc/X11/Server like it said and put the name of the newxserver-svga* in it thinking it would work, but no luck, any one willing to help me get X up and running. And if this is not the debian way Teach Me please. I have looked at docs but it says nothing about X and being a debian thing, etc.. or ... I dunno, I will try some more, I will check back in a while see if some has any ideas.. Thanks.. Chris. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Powered by the Penguin
Re: setting up .Xresources
The X man page has the info. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:46:17 + From: Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: setting up .Xresources Can someone point me to some documentation on how to set up my .Xresources? Syntax, etc? tia -- ( __ _ Mark Wagnon ) Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA ( /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) www.debian.org _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
Re: E! Enlightenment for newbie?
Well, after reviewing the replies I've received and having another look through www.x11.org's comparison chart, it look like the best candidate for most features, ease of configuration via GUI tools and good displays on my daughters remote X-Terminal with it's 8 bit colour limit, is WindowMaker. I believe that WindowMaker is installed on my system, I should be able to switch to it from the menu option in fvwm95. When I get a chance to have a good, long sit at my PC again, I'll give it a try. I have been reading up on how to set up the modelines for XF86Config, and my monitor's manual give great details, so I should be able to get this going with little bother, but so far I've got several resolutions available, but the desktop is still 1024x768. At lower resolutions, I can use the mouse to scroll around the screen. How to I get the desktop to change with the resolution? Again, I've found the people on this list to be extremely helpful and I'm forever in your debt for having got as far with my system as I have. I'm sure I'll be coming back here for more help and just wanted to extend my heartfelt thanks. Cheers, John Gay
Debian newbie question
hi, I'm new to this list and new to Debian. Can anyone tellme how I can mount SMB shares on my Debian, I used to have RedHat and if I remember correctly there was somethin called smbmount there, can't find it on Debian. Thanks in advance for all help Ari Sigurðsson
Re: sendmail: to queue or not to queue
Remco van de Meent wrote: Hey, I'm looking for a way to have local and remote deliveries in sendmail being scheduled in a different way. I'd like to do this: . if an incoming email is being sent to a local mail address, then try to deliver immediately . if an incoming email is being sent to a remote mail address, queue the message till runq is run I can't find a way to do this. Maybe anyone reading this message does know how to get this trick done? Thanks! Regards, -Remco In general terms: You have to create a local mailer which delivers immediately. Add a local_net_config rule that uses the rule. If I remember correctly this is described in one of the files in /usr/doc/sendmail Set the regular mailer as expensive. Plus alter the queue processing in /etc/init.d/sendmail. Hope you can take it from here. It has been a while since I set this up. John.
Re: X-Window help the debian way?
Chris someone wrote: And I did edit the file /etc/X11/Server like it said and put the name of the That's Xserver, not Server.
Re: setting up .Xresources
Thanks guys. :) -- ( __ _ Mark Wagnon ) Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA ( /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) www.debian.org _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
Re: Netscape
A. M. Varon wrote: Use the libc5 Netscape version. Adam Shand has posted on the debian users mailing lists the steps on how to install it. An addendum: Install also xlib6g. Without it, netscape will do a segmentation fault. I'm a heavy netscape user running on a Debian Potato system. I let it run for hours on end, turn on java and javascript, run multiple netscape windows and it works really good. I've been using the libc5 version of 4.5 without any problems either. I've tried the 4.6 debianized version and had nothing but problems, thinking it was a 4.6 thing I went back to 4.5. I installed the libc5 4.6 last night (as per your directions), and it has behaved itself completely so far. I usually keep netscape up 24/7 (browser and mail). My system is a 333 Celeron with 128M running potato. KDE, X 3.3.3, and a Matrox G200. -- ( __ _ Mark Wagnon ) Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA ( /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) www.debian.org _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
Re: Mutt headers
I found the solution on my own (usually the most educational way G). Needed to enclose the field values in quotes. -- Regards, Steve
Re: make-kpkg and 2.2.12
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 11:22:02PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:22:23AM -0500, Brad wrote: | I've always used, for example, --revision=2.2.12-hostname.1 because | dselect always wanted to replace my custom kernels with the stock ones | once that version went up on the mirrors if i used just custom.1... | | Anyway, 2.2.12-* is the proper version format ;) I haven't had this problem of dselect trying to replace kernels with a custom.n.n in the name. My kernels always come out with the version number before the custom part kernel-image-2.2.10_custom.1.9_i386.deb. Maybe this reflects changes in dselect and make-kpkg? I've seen it happen once. I think it was with a kernel-image which used epochs. The kernel-package documentation recommends using epochs to avoid this: make-kpkg --revision=1:custom.1.0 kernel_image. Looking back, i think you're right. IIRC it was 2.2.5 that made me change, and the kernel-image-2.2.5 package on the mirrors does have an epoch. - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN8cvCL7M/9WKZLW5AQHprAQAoJ1bV1lBrDnJOktZIcU8TmeaUoHhOP+f +yQt3M8JJ47eoAi6RZ+MHUS2SVs/9JF9IW+3DUm8h7pBaOTu4zzi/kBZa1cYGsnl C0ScAxNK5arZb3nnGJmHLoZDq5MQXdJKnL2OZZPaFgGzV81NvwTQaZOdDASTEj6J hHPp2LzAkp4= =v/zH -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Debian newbie question
*- On 27 Aug, Ari Sigurðsson wrote about Debian newbie question hi, I'm new to this list and new to Debian. Can anyone tellme how I can mount SMB shares on my Debian, I used to have RedHat and if I remember correctly there was somethin called smbmount there, can't find it on Debian. Thanks in advance for all help Ari Sigurðsson There are two packages available for slink that have smbmount. One is smbfs which is for 2.0.x kernels and the other is smbfsx for 2.1.x and greater kernels. You also need to have smbfs support in the kernel. -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: Netscape
[This message has also been posted.] On 27 Aug 99 20:28:24 GMT Ryan Chouinard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith G. Murphy wrote: Here's a question: does anyone's NS handle large combo boxes in HTML forms correctly? Whenever I need to select an item off a very large combo box (like states in an online order form: multiple popup windows created), my keyboard stops working, at least within NS. This has been consistent over different Window Managers and versions of NS. I have experienced this as well. Only thing I can do about it is fill in the text boxes, then go back and to the combo boxes, and restart netscape when I'm done. This gets annoying, but it's all I can find to do about it... I find if you iconify Netscape and restore it, the keyboard works again. Why? I have no idea. Netscape also dies if I click on a Mailto: link. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy. -Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun
Re: SNMP
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 08:38:16PM +0200, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: Why is it that I get incorrect results for my ATM interface atm0? The interface thruput that MRTG displays is only about one half (or even less) of the real thruput. Is this due to a problem in the SNMP agent, or is it a bug in the ATM driver or protocol stack? How can I debug the problem? Are the stats in /proc/net/dev correct? If they are, it is most likely a bug in the SNMP agent. If they are not correct, the problem is probably in the driver. Let me know if it's the former. David -- David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Talk
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Stephen R . Gore wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 11:52:10PM +0200, Tony Schonfeld wrote: Since i use Debian i can't use talk command i've always this message : [Your party is refusing messages] ---end quoted text--- Debian's default config is mesg n. To enable talk, the user must enter mesg y at the command line or in .bash_profile (or whatever shell they happen to prefer). Another possibility is that you are trying to talk from a Debian machine to a non-Debian machine... keep in mind that there *are* different talk protocols out there; if the other machine isn't using the same protocol, it won't work. T
Re: [LILO] how to boot a second IDE HD?
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 10:20:19PM -0700, Jack Lee wrote: Hi: Currently, I'm running linux well on my first IDE HD, but the problem comes when I try to use lilo booting the second IDE HD. Please give me some advices. Thanks :) Oh, by teh way, the first IDE HD (/dev/hda) is the master drive on first IDE controller. The second IDE HD (/dev/hdd) is the slave drive on second IDE controller. I've tried to modify /etc/lilo.conf to boot the DOS on /dev/hdd3, but it fails. The error message appearing at the booting time is the following: Hi, It seems to me there is a rule about booting off hda and hdb only (I think the documentation says the first 2 ide drives). It's right up there with the 1023 sector rule. I hear folks have gotten around that now-adays, so maybe there is a way around your problem too. Can you rearrange things and hang it off the primary slave? That works. Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian Linux (Slink)
Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)
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On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote:
Paul -- such a system sort of exists -- the popularity contest
package, which reports via email the most commonly used packages. I
haven't a clue how that thing works, I haven't looked into its source
code yet; however, I think you are absolutely right in one respect --
those seldom used packages, I installed because I thought they would
be cool/useful/neat, whatever -- if I never use it, I must have
forgotten about it. Something to email me a weekly basis the packages
I *didn't* use, might be extremely helpful. Anyone care to hack apart
the populatirty contest package to add this? :)
Didn't hack it apart, just wrote a perl prog to parse the input. Stick it
in a cronjob if you want it run every X amount of time, i guess.
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Re: sbpcd CDROM Problem! Need Help!
[This message has also been posted.] On 27 Aug 99 17:17:56 GMT Tam Ma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you guys should know these information; When I install the module, it gives me this message sbpcd-0 [11]:Drive 0(ID=0); CR-563 (0.81) at 0x340 (type 0) and then it tells me to do something with the sbpcd.h file... I used to use sbpcd. It's just telling you to recompile the kernel (or spbcd module) so that it knows to look at 0x340, instead of having to scan. The module should work fine up to then, but there will be time-wasting scanning every time you load it. When I look the /dev directory, I see cdrom as a link to sbpcd and I also see a bpcd(don't what this is ). I wonder if bpcd could be a Backpack CD. Backpack makes parallel-port CD-ROM units. In any case, use modprobe to find out if spbcd is loaded. If it is, don't fool around with configuration files, just type mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy. -Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun
Re: [LILO] how to boot a second IDE HD?
Jack Lee wrote: Hi: Currently, I'm running linux well on my first IDE HD, but the problem comes when I try to use lilo booting the second IDE HD. Please give me some advices. Thanks :) Oh, by teh way, the first IDE HD (/dev/hda) is the master drive on first IDE controller. The second IDE HD (/dev/hdd) is the slave drive on second IDE controller. cut This may not be of much value to you Jack, but if nothing else works you can always boot off a floppy. I have a mobile rack mounted in /dev/hdd position and by necessity have a boot floppy for each of the several drives that I might plug in there. Booting that way doesn't take much longer than from the hard drive and your lilo will still be available if you don't insert said floppy. John -- Powered by the Penguin
Re: Netscape
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote: Here's a question: does anyone's NS handle large combo boxes in HTML forms correctly? Whenever I need to select an item off a very large combo box (like states in an online order form: multiple popup windows created), my keyboard stops working, at least within NS. This has been consistent over different Window Managers and versions of NS. When I have that problem, I click (once, not a double-click) on the title of the Netscape window and that brings the keyboard back to life. YMMV though. Hope this helps, Patrick
Re: kde
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:48:22PM -0500, jason wrote: anyone have a working apt entry to get kde? snowcrash doesn't seem to like me anymore.. deb ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/debian potato kde contrib works fine, snowcrash merged with a KDE rpm site and they got a new server. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: Working with mail in /home not /var
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 05:17:15PM -0400, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: Hi, is there a simple solution to move folders in /var/spool/mail/$user to /home/$user/mailbox, i'm working with exim and qpopper and symlinks seems not to work. Thanks. One way is to implement a per-user ~/.forward file. Check /usr/doc/exim/filters.txt.gz. This has the added benefit of being able to allow your users to sort their email as well. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: modules loading (possibly zip driver quesiton too...)
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 08:47:20AM -0400, Jon Hughes wrote: I just posted a question last night about some problems with a ZIP drive. One thing I read that could be a possible solution is the module lp is loading before ppa (at least, that's what the book says...). I haven't yet figured out in Debian where to set up which modules load when in what filecan anyone point me in the right direction? The best way is to have the kernel load modules on demand via kmod. Unfortunately, there are times (ide-scsi comes to mind), where there is no elegant way to do that. /etc/modules contains a list of modules loaded at boot time. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: removing kdm
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 11:12:20AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a problem of dselect message. I was trying to remove kdm. However the following error message appeared, and I can not go further now. Please somebody give me any suggestion. ---error message- The following packages will be REMOVED: kdm 20 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 15 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/9822kB of archives. After unpacking 435kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 30212 files and directories currently installed.) Removing kdm ... dpkg - warning: while removing kdm, directory `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/kdm' not empty so not removed. dpkg - warning: while removing kdm, directory `/etc/X11/kdm' not empty so not removed. /var/lib/dpkg/info/kdm.postrm: line 15: syntax error near unexpected token `kdm' dpkg: error processing kdm (--remove): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/kdm: No such file or directory A quick and dirty hack is to look over the postrm script (/var/lib/dpkg/info/kdm.postrm), and either fix it or do what it does manually and delete it. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: z/bzImages, shell scripts
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 08:00:57PM -0600, Tom Lineman wrote: NOTE: I sent this message five minutes before I got my mailing list subscription confirmation. Since the confirmation message said all my submissions would be returned, and I didn't get this mail back, I am assuming that my mail was discarded...HOWEVER if it was, in fact, accepted and you have already read this message before, please ignore this copy as it is just that: a copy (albeit with this note added). Hello there. I have two questions regarding Debian v.1.3.1 First of all, I'm running a 486 that has two partitions, one for MSDOS and one for linux. Currently, my system boots off of the DOS partition. To boot to linux, I have to insert my custom boot floppy and boot up. What I would really like to do is use loadlin to boot to linux, but I really have no specific information concerning bzImages or zImages. If someone could give me some info or a URL, I would really appreciate that. One question: would it be possible to use a line somewhat like this: loadlin linux root=/dev/hda2 /dev/initrd=root.bin so that loadlin boots up using the linux and root.bin files? Or would it be better to use a zImage? I'm not sure what you are asking. The 'linux' file is a zImage, a compressed copy of the kernel. A bzImage is a copy of the kernel that is large enough to warrant special code to get it in memory. Also, you don't need to specify /dev/initrd=root.bin, because the kernel will load its root filesystem from /dev/hda2. My second question has to do with small shell scripts. I was reading a book on Unix the other day, and it talked about aliases, which it stated only ran under Berkely *nixes. I'm guessing that means FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, or BSDI, but can Debian linux use aliases, too? Not to be pedantic, but aliases are a function of the shell (usually bash, but sometimes tcsh or zsh). AFAIK, bash (or whatever shell you are trying to use) runs on all of the above operating systems, so you should have no problem. The reason I'm asking is that I wrote some small shell scripts to make life a little bit easier. For example, let's say I wanted to make a program called delete that would act like this: rm -iv so that I could delete a file instead of rm'ing it, like so: $ls deletethis.zzz $delete deletethis.zzz Are you sure you want to delete deletethis.zzz? y deletethis.zzz deleted $ls $ I did that, but every time I ran delete I would get something like this: $delete deletethis.zzz Parameter not good (not verbatim, but it was close to this) use 'rm --help' for more details The same thing happened if I tried making scripts containing mv -iv and cp -iv. What is the problem here, and just as importantly, what is a posssible solution? What _exact_ commands are you using to set the aliases? P.S. I know this is probably a silly question, but if my CD-ROM drive is the second device on my first IDE Controller, would it be /dev/hdb ? Yup, you're right on the money. BTW, The only silly questions are the ones left unasked. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: Help with compiling
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 01:41:20PM -0700, Dan Smith wrote: I have downloaded and installed g++ and binutils and all the packages they depend on. How do I compile and link a C++ program? e.g. what is the proper syntax of the c++ and ld commands? Please send answers to me directly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) as I am not subscribed to the list. Thank you. You shouldn't have to invoke ld directly. To compile a program consisting of foo.c, foo2.c, and foo3.c which depends on the gtk and mysql libraries (hypothetical), you'd probably want to do something like this: g++ -O2 -Wall -pedantic -ansi -c foo.c g++ -O2 -Wall -pedantic -ansi -c foo2.c g++ -O2 -Wall -pedantic -ansi -c foo3.c g++ -o foo_program foo.o foo2.o foo3.o -lgtk -lmysqlclient or this: g++ -O2 -Wall -pedantic -ansi -o foo_program foo.c foo2.c foo3.c -lgtk -lmysqlclient -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: Fetchmail Errors in Potato
I was wondering if anyone has received errors when receiving mail through fetchmail (both version 4.6.4-1.1 and 5.0.5-1). When I upgraded to potato a couple days ago I having been getting the following error message from the fetchmail log: fetchmail: Starting fetchmail 5.0.5 daemon fetchmail: 5.0.5 querying uclink4.berkeley.edu (protocol IMAP) at Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:24:08 -0700 (PDT) fetchmail: Authorization failure on [EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: socket error while fetching from uclink4.berkeley.edu fetchmail: Query status=2 fetchmail: All connections are wedged. Exiting. What's the output of 'fetchmail -v'? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
How to get the good kernel from boot diskette to hard drive
I just installed Debian 2.1 on a system with an Adaptec 2940 controller which ran, among other things, the CD I used. After running into the well-known problems with that controller, I made a boot floppy from the site pointed to in the release notes (in sweden, I think). From there on I pointed the install at the CD. I'm pretty sure this means I got the vanilla kernel, because when I try to boot off the hard drive I get the same Adaptec error. I can boot off the same diskette I used for the install, with rescue root=/dev/hdax (from memory) getting me into the main system. So I need to get the good stuff onto the hard drive. How do I do that? I also noticed a reference in the email archives to another site, which had diskette images for the boot disk and another for a driver disk. I never used the latter, and I never told the install process to add a module to get the fixes onto the system. I'd appreciate any advice. If necessary I can do another install, though I'd naturally prefer not to. I spent several hours installing packages. By the way, the hard disk I am using is IDE. The system has a SCSI disk drive (also a SCSI Jaz), but it's full. Thanks in advance.
800x600 Xwindows screen format
Does anyone have tips on using XWindows on a low resolution screen (eg laptop)? I find that lots of programs (eg emacs, xemacs, xnetscape, and from memory xfig) open up windows that a too big to fit on the screen, and it is awkward have to resize the window automatically after reloading. I don't particularly want to go into each application one by one to try and change the default load position, either - as I would have to find the special procedure for every application. ...or is this a bug in my window manager (fvwm95)? Would using another window manager help? I know from the window manager sets the windows initial size and position, but the application can override it. I have no idea if this is the case or not for the above applications. (actually - I am not using this computer - I prefer fvwm) -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpQ9ebNbHNlq.pgp Description: PGP signature
[bam@snoopy.apana.org.au: xemacs20-bin: Error when pointing to button]
Hello,
I sent this bug report on xemacs a while ago (bug #37027), but the
the maintainer (assuming James LewisMoss is the maintainer) was unable
to assist.
This problem is driving me crazy, and I tend to expect more from xemacs...
so... the next question should be obvious... does anyone have any
other suggestions?
The entire thread can be found on BTS. Possibly of importance,
James told me:
Go to the menu Options - General Options and choose Debug On Error
and cause the error again. You should get a more complex error
message. Can you please send that message to me?
and I responded:
Signaling: (error Can't instantiate image (probably cached) [xbm :mask-fi=
le /usr/include/X11/bitmaps/left_ptrmsk :mask-data (16 16 ^L
Thanks in advance,
(BTW, this isn't meant to criticize James LewisMoss efforts in anyway.
I have forwarded a copy of this mail to him in case he has any new ideas.)
--
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Package: xemacs20-bin
Version: 20.4-13
[ My E-Mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] - please check this is
correct before replying ]
When I point to a button (eg open) I get the following error:
Can't instatiate image (probably cached): [xmb :mask-file
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/left_ptrmsk :mask-data ( 16 16 removed)
:hotspot-y 1 :hotspot-x 3 :file /usr/include/X11/bitmaps/left_ptr :data
(16 16 removed) ]
Where I replaced the binary data with removed.
I only just started using xemacs, so I have do idea what this error means. Both
files in question are accessible and look valid to me.
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/left_ptrmsk:
#define left_ptrmsk_width 16
#define left_ptrmsk_height 16
static char left_ptrmsk_bits[] = {
0x0c, 0x00, 0x1c, 0x00, 0x3c, 0x00, 0x7c, 0x00, 0xfc, 0x00, 0xfc, 0x01,
0xfc, 0x03, 0xfc, 0x07, 0xfc, 0x0f, 0xfc, 0x0f, 0xfc, 0x01, 0xdc, 0x03,
0xcc, 0x03, 0x80, 0x07, 0x80, 0x07, 0x00, 0x03};
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/left_ptr:
#define left_ptr_width 16
#define left_ptr_height 16
#define left_ptr_x_hot 3
#define left_ptr_y_hot 1
static char left_ptr_bits[] = {
0x00, 0x00, 0x08, 0x00, 0x18, 0x00, 0x38, 0x00, 0x78, 0x00, 0xf8, 0x00,
0xf8, 0x01, 0xf8, 0x03, 0xf8, 0x07, 0xf8, 0x00, 0xd8, 0x00, 0x88, 0x01,
0x80, 0x01, 0x00, 0x03, 0x00, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00};
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.1
Kernel Version: Linux dewey 2.0.36 #1 Sun May 2 00:42:11 EST 1999 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages xemacs20-bin depends on:
ii xemacs20-suppor 20.4-13Editor and kitchen sink -- architecture inde
ii libc6 2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: shared libraries
ii libgdbmg1 1.7.3-25 GNU dbm database routines (runtime version).
ii libgpmg11.14-3 General Purpose Mouse Library [libc6]
ii libncurses4 4.2-3 Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii xlib6g 3.3.2.3a-11shared libraries required by X clients
---End Message---
Re: 800x600 Xwindows screen format
Brian May wrote: I find that lots of programs (eg emacs, xemacs, xnetscape, and from memory xfig) open up windows that a too big to fit on the screen, and it is awkward have to resize the window automatically after reloading. I don't particularly want to go into each application one by one to try and change the default load position, either - as I would have to find the special procedure for every application. I would use the -g (geometry) option to the program like so: emacs -g 80x24+0+0 to start emacs with 80x24 columns positioned at (0,0) (top,right corner). For Netscape I use: netscape -geometry 800x600 I guess all you'd have to do is edit the entries in the .fvwmrc file to include you geometry prefs. ...or is this a bug in my window manager (fvwm95)? Would using another window manager help? I know from the window manager sets the windows initial size and position, but the application can override it. I have no idea if this is the case or not for the above applications. I don't know, but I don't think it's a bug. -- ( __ _ Mark Wagnon ) Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA ( /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) www.debian.org _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
Time disparity between system time and netscape
Hi all: I just noticed that when I post, the time of the posted message is 5 hours behind what my system time is. I have the computer I reading mail on behind another debian (2.1) machine that has IP masquerading set up. Could this be affecting it? TIA -- ( __ _ Mark Wagnon ) Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA ( /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) www.debian.org _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
3com905c vs Rage128: In this corner, wearing the white trunks....
Just dandy. With the help of Heikki Vatiainen I was able to get my 3com905c NIC working. Yea! With the help of others on the web (names not in front of me at the moment) I was able to get my Rage128-based video card working. Yea! But! Apparently the 3com905c requires a 2.0.x kernel, and won't work with the 2.2.x version. The Rage128 video card, not being supported yet by Xfree86, can only work with the frame buffer method, which apparently requires a 2.2.x kernel. You see the problem? I can boot into a 2.0.36 system and use the network. Or I can boot into a 2.2.9 system and use the X Window System. But I can't use both the NIC anc X at the same time. Bummer. Any suggestions? (Besides swapping out hardware or waiting till one or the other is properly supported.) I thought I could just reapply the patched 3c905 driver code to the 2.2 kernel, but nope. Apparently the driver has undergone quite a bit of change, and I can't make heads or tails out of the new driver code; I didn't understand the 2.0 code either, but Heikki gave me enough info to muddle through and get it patched; but that info doesn't apply to the new code. TIA!
Connect pc to linux with tcp/ip without a network card
If you are like me and are trying to figure a way to connect your windows pc to a linux system without a network card than you may find these links handy. I've found several sites that offer freeware, shareware, and trialware that connect the pc to linux via tcp/ip connection of the serial port. Here are a few that looked promising. Though I've downloaded several so far, I haven't tested any of them yet to see if they are simple comm programs or something better. The comments are from their respective web pages. If you are familiar with these please let me know. http://www.aball.de/~gotti/tcptoser.html TCP to Serial Remote modem connection http://www.midasoft.com/koala98/products.htm KoalaTerm For Windows 95, 98, and NT. KoalaTerm is a cost effective terminal emulator specifically designed to enable Windows 95, 98, and NT PCs to access host applications requiring VT420/VT320/VT220/VT100 support. Using the Winsock TCP/IP stack in Windows 95 and NT, it provides fast and efficient telnet access to a wide range of UNIX, VMS or other host applications. http://www.sci.ouc.bc.ca/cosc/tshost/twinsock.html TwinSock is a free program which enables your Windows 3.1, Windows NT or Windows 95 machine to use any Windows Sockets Application over a serial line (also known as asynch lines) or dial up connection to a UNIX shell account. http://blitzen.canberra.edu.au/slirp/ SLiRP is a free TCP/IP emulator over the (C)SLIP/PPP link-level protocols which allows a normal user with a shell account on a UNIX system to act like a real (C)SLIP/PPP account. This means you can use programs like Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mosaic, ftp, telnet and other internet clients from your home machine with only a shell account http://www.noguska.net/nonags/telnc32.html Tera Term (Pro) is a free software terminal emulator (communication program) which supports: - Serial port connections. - TCP/IP (telnet) connections. - VT100 emulation, and selected VT200/300 emulation. - TEK4010 emulation. - File transfer protocols (Kermit, XMODEM, ZMODEM, B-PLUS, and Quick-VAN) - Scripts using the Tera Term Language. http://www.iit.edu/~hujianq/simpterm.html A Telnet client that allows a PC user to connect to a remote UNIX or MAINFRAME computer using either a modem or a TCP/IP network. It provides VT100/ANSI Color terminal emulation and Kermit, xmodem, ymodem and zmodem file transfer capability along with TELNET and RLOGIN client services. Chinese support feature, up to 32760 line scroll buffer, excellent easy to use interface. Freeware. http://www.jriver.com/products/download.html ICE.TCP Pro connectivity software connects 32-bit Windows PC's to UNIX hosts via TCP/IP, and delivers reliable terminal emulation, easy-to-use file transfer and transparent printing capabilities. English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish support included. Also available is ICE.TEN which connects Windows PC's to a UNIX host via serial lines. Includes terminal emulation, file transfer, and printing. Also available is ICE.NFS which is a standard NFS for Windows. Provides a virtual drive for Windows to your UNIX files. http://www.fenix.com/abw.htmABW is a terminal emulation product from AlphaBASE Systems Inc. that permits PC's to be used as terminals on Windows NT, UNIX, AMOS, or LINUX-based computer systems running the Metropolis database. Using ABW, users can connect via serial, dial-up or network connections (using TCP/IP) to access the host system. You can even run it over the Internet! For those who want them, here are over 2000 other pages with links to similar software: http://www.hotbot.com/?NUMMOD=2act.next=nextDC=25AW0=tcp+unix+windows+ser ialRD=RGFS=%2EzipFSU=1BT=H Andre'
Re: 800x600 Xwindows screen format
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Brian May wrote: I find that lots of programs (eg emacs, xemacs, xnetscape, and from memory xfig) open up windows that a too big to fit on the screen, and it is You can have X handle a virtual screen for you. Then you can scroll around (in my case with alt-arrowkeys). In fact I think X always does this - you don't even have to configure it. I think. I'm tired, goodnight :}
Re: [LILO] how to boot a second IDE HD?
hi jack Currently, I'm running linux well on my first IDE HD, but the problem comes when I try to use lilo booting the second IDE HD. Please give me some advices. Thanks :) Oh, by teh way, the first IDE HD (/dev/hda) is the master drive on first IDE controller. The second IDE HD (/dev/hdd) is the slave drive on second IDE controller. you might need to have a master on the secondary IDE connector... ( some controllers require a master... - be sure you are pointing to the root partition on hda and hdb.. have fun linuxing alvn http://www.Linux-Consulting.com - - example /etc/lilo.conf for booting hda and hdd - # # Dual Boot config # # see /usr/doc/lilo-* for more info # boot=/dev/hda # map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 # # Boot linux on hda # -- image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-hda root=/dev/hda1 # change partition if needed # append=mem=128M read-only # # # Boot linux on hdd - slave on secondary IDE controller # -- image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-hdd root=/dev/hdd1 # change partition if needed read-only # # # Boot Win98 # -- other=/dev/hdxx1 label=Win98 table=/dev/hdxx # # # end of file lilo.conf
Dell Xpi 90 T laptop
I have struggled getting Mandrake to load on a laptop so I decided to try Debian. Im trying to install from the Harddrive but I the machine continues to reboot after the boot prompt. I ve entered my harddrive geometry at the prompt but it keeps rebooting. Im trying to load 2.1. Ready to pull out what little hair I have left. Mark Davenport
Re: Time disparity between system time and netscape
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: I just noticed that when I post, the time of the posted message is 5 hours behind what my system time is. I have the computer I reading mail on behind another debian (2.1) machine that has IP masquerading set up. Could this be affecting it? IP masquerading cannot affect this, but the SMTP server you are using to post through could be doing it.
Re: Netscape
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Brad wrote: i've heard vague rumors that it's some interaction between Netscape and the libc6-based X libraries and the egcs compilers used to compile them all... (which could explain why the libc5 version of Netscape doesn't show this problem?) That doesn't seem to be the case for me. I use libc5 communicator 4.5 at home, but libc6 navigator 4.6 at work, and both are quite stable... *shrug* More on the vague rumors front, this is in the changelog for xserver-common version 3.3.4-1 that i found on the mirrors this evening: * patch #011: changed Imakefiles to work around alleged egcs optimization breakage of netscape (Adam Heath) i haven't been able to crash it opening and closing windows since (although segfault is /.ed, and opening and closing segfault windows was a good way to make it crash for me!). And i finally can login with the username/password box that always crashed it before. For the curious, i'm using the navigator from the navigator-smotif-461 package (i don't need no steenkin' mail and news and wysinwyg html editor in my web browser!). wmaker from the wmaker package, xserver-svga. Anyone else have any success stories? Or failure stories? - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN8d0JL7M/9WKZLW5AQGudwP/SUe9Vfq6XjKC4d/G/1gvcOHrn8ijiq03 nBcGo0WYIKo/F3h6jJPhwXX6rK+GgH0QN15vK55070MJd+teHpD0+TJAwvH0kjVq fXfJSgvJjF5VFO+yGfa5ykFm9/iSpmO6TmVGRJqf2AN+lTmP2IAW/WYts98AVGow 6by2etDQp3g= =PmbD -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: make-kpkg and 2.2.12
I used --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image with 2.2.11 and it worked fine. I applied an ac patch at a later time and when using make-kpkg with the same as above gave an not in control info error. But with 2.2.12 did not get this error as it did with someone else. Im using a frequently updated potato. meridian [EMAIL PROTECTED] all that busts well ends loosely. On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 11:22:02PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:22:23AM -0500, Brad wrote: | I've always used, for example, --revision=2.2.12-hostname.1 because | dselect always wanted to replace my custom kernels with the stock ones | once that version went up on the mirrors if i used just custom.1... | | Anyway, 2.2.12-* is the proper version format ;) I haven't had this problem of dselect trying to replace kernels with a custom.n.n in the name. My kernels always come out with the version number before the custom part kernel-image-2.2.10_custom.1.9_i386.deb. Maybe this reflects changes in dselect and make-kpkg? I've seen it happen once. I think it was with a kernel-image which used epochs. The kernel-package documentation recommends using epochs to avoid this: make-kpkg --revision=1:custom.1.0 kernel_image. Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Tightening security
The best solution would be using ip filters such as ipchains to block the port from outside users, so no conections at all can be made to the xserver port. You might also check Xaccess and ensure only ip addresses that need access to port 6000 have it, which is often only the local machine meridian [EMAIL PROTECTED] all that busts well ends loosely. On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: Hi all. I got a question about security. I'm currently running libc2.0.7u, with 2.2.11 kernel, and apache. To protect from possible attacks I minimized the number of ports open and put up a portsentry. However, when I nmap myself, I see a port 6000 listening for connections. I believe that is X. Is there any security risk in that, and how would I be abel to protect it, because portsentry does not bind to it so it can be protected. TIA, Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://scorpio.myip.org--All the pages bundled together. --- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Please help a poor gaijin!
Hi! I'm trying to figure out what level of Japanese input support exists in Debian. Ideally, I'd like to be able to receive messages written in Unicode with mutt (via the mutt-ja package), and type messages/documents in kana/kanji with vim and have them stored as Unicode. Being able to print Japanese text would also be really nice. I'm a bit overwhelmed by how all of the packages work together. Do I need kinput2, canna, mutt-ja, and jvim-canna? Will I need some type of kana/kanji dictionary? Do I need to 'enable' kinput somehow, perhaps by editing my XF86Config? The English documentation is a little confusing and my Japanese fluency isn't enough to begin to try and understand the stuff written in Japanese. Thanks to any and all who can shed light on this for me. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Printer Okidata OL400e config?
Hi, I have a Debian (slink) system connected (parallel port) to an Okidata OL400e printer, and of course, I don't have the manuals of the printer. I've been unsuccessful until now to find documentation on how to configure it, and my random trials have failed. Could anyone give me a hint on how to do this, or point me to some ducumentation? Thanks a lot, Stefan.
Re: How to get the good kernel from boot diskette to hard drive
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 09:02:02PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: I just installed Debian 2.1 on a system with an Adaptec 2940 controller which ran, among other things, the CD I used. After running into the well-known problems with that controller, I made a boot floppy from the site pointed to in the release notes (in sweden, I think). From there on I pointed the install at the CD. I'm pretty sure this means I got the vanilla kernel, because when I try to boot off the hard drive I get the same Adaptec error. I can boot off the same diskette I used for the install, with rescue root=/dev/hdax (from memory) getting me into the main system. So I need to get the good stuff onto the hard drive. How do I do that? Well, you could copy the file you downloaded from sweden onto your harddrive and setup lilo to boot with that -- but, honestly, probably the right thing to do is compile your own kernel with the support you need compiled in. Compiling the kernel isn't too bad; there is the debian way (look in the archives of this mail list for the last day or two for that..) and the standard way -- which basically boils down to: make menuconfig make clean ; make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install Then copy /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/vzlinuz to someplace, normally /boot/vmlinuz or /vmlinuz or .. most anything else will work if you edit your lilo.conf file. Also copy /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/System.map to /boot/System.map. Then, be sure to re-run /sbin/lilo :) Of course, ymmv :) I also noticed a reference in the email archives to another site, which had diskette images for the boot disk and another for a driver disk. I never used the latter, and I never told the install process to add a module to get the fixes onto the system. I'd appreciate any advice. If necessary I can do another install, though I'd naturally prefer not to. I spent several hours installing packages. By the way, the hard disk I am using is IDE. The system has a SCSI disk drive (also a SCSI Jaz), but it's full. Thanks in advance. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
Re: removing kdm
Seems there are some files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/kdm and /etc/X11/kdm that dpkg does not know about. Maybe kdm put them there. Try removing those by hand. bye Jerry -- Just being paranoid does not mean they´re *not* out to get you...
Re: Installing slink with a 2.3 kernel
With kernel-package you can create a *.deb from your compiled kernel. Can you install this? bye Jerry -- Just being paranoid does not mean they´re *not* out to get you...
How convert PC text to UNIX ascii
I have several perl scripts saved to my pc I need to convert to linux-able ascii so I can transfer them to my local linux system via disks or tape. I now get the following error message when I copy from my pc to diskette to linux: illegal character \015 (carriage return) at admin.cgi line 2 (Maybe you didn't strip carriage returns after a network transfer?) I know it's because the file is in pc binary instead of true ascii (despite being saved as a text file). My question is this, is there any way I can convert the file to true ascii while it's still on my pc then copy it to floppy then copy it to linux, without the need to ftp the file between one system and the other? Thanks! Andre
2.3.14 kernel bootdisk
I have a friend who has only win98 installed on her computer. she would like linux instead, but the 2.0 and 2.2 kernels do not have support for her hard drive controller (the stock debian install from bootable CD cannot find any devices on which to install). so, i compiled her a 2.3.14 kernel, which I tested out on my own computer. It boots perfectly (or as near as can be expected, considering it wasn't built for my hardware...) I used rawrite from her windows box to write resc1440.bin (from slink, by the way) to a disk. i then copied the bzImage from the new kernel onto the disk, renamed it to linux, and ran ./rdev.sh. I wasn't sure if I needed the drivers floppy, so I made one anyways. I inserted the disk into her computer and rebooted... pressed enter, and it loaded the kernel fine, and went through all the hardware-detection stuff without error. However, once it was done with that, I got a Kernel panic: could not find init. Try passing the init= option to the kernel. I am totally at a loss for what I should be doing here... I tried init=/dev/ram, init=/dev/ram0, init=/dev/hdc (with CD in drive), init=/dev/hda, init=/dev/hda1, and even init=/dev/fd0. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to fix this error? (By the way, it's not specific to her computer, I get the same error when trying the disk on two other computers.) I also made sure to enable ramdisk, initrd, elf executables, minixfs, ext2fs, msdosfs, vfatfs, iso9660fs, and loopback devices support in the new kernel. Help, anyone? Colin McMillen -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1: 1 hour, 5 minutes without a reboot... The revolution will be complete when the operating system is perfect. (www.debian.org, www.enlightenment.org, www.opensource.org)
Re: 2.3.14 kernel bootdisk
Hello. Please limit your lines to 70 characters. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a friend who has only win98 installed on her computer. she would like linux instead, but the 2.0 and 2.2 kernels do not have support for her hard drive controller (the stock debian install from bootable CD cannot find any devices on which to install). so, i compiled her a 2.3.14 kernel, which I tested out on my own computer. It boots perfectly Why do you think the 2.2 kernel won't work? Try the boot disks at http://va.debian.org/~joeyh/stable-update/ -- see shy jo
Re: 2.3.14 kernel bootdisk
Colin, I would suggest you change your mailer to use no more than 80 columns... 76 or so seems standard. As for the exact reason why your kernel panicked, I can't say. However, IU have *never* needed to specify init=anything. It could just be me.,. :) but, most people seem to boot their kernel with lines more like: root=/dev/fd0 if you want to use the floppy for your root filesystem. Of course, I ahven't been through your steps, but .. it just seems to me that the init= bit isn't quite right. shrug On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 02:12:47AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a friend who has only win98 installed on her computer. she would like linux instead, but the 2.0 and 2.2 kernels do not have support for her hard drive controller (the stock debian install from bootable CD cannot find any devices on which to install). so, i compiled her a 2.3.14 kernel, which I tested out on my own computer. It boots perfectly (or as near as can be expected, considering it wasn't built for my hardware...) I used rawrite from her windows box to write resc1440.bin (from slink, by the way) to a disk. i then copied the bzImage from the new kernel onto the disk, renamed it to linux, and ran ./rdev.sh. I wasn't sure if I needed the drivers floppy, so I made one anyways. I inserted the disk into her computer and rebooted... pressed enter, and it loaded the kernel fine, and went through all the hardware-detection stuff without error. However, once it was done with that, I got a Kernel panic: could not find init. Try passing the init= option to the kernel. I am totally at a loss for what I should be doing here... I tried init=/dev/ram, init=/dev/ram0, init=/dev/hdc (with CD in drive), init=/dev/hda, init=/dev/hda1, and even init=/dev/fd0. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to fix this error? (By the way, it's not specific to her computer, I get the same error when trying the disk on two other computers.) I also made sure to enable ramdisk, initrd, elf executables, minixfs, ext2fs, msdosfs, vfatfs, iso9660fs, and loopback devices support in the new kernel. Help, anyone? Colin McMillen -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1: 1 hour, 5 minutes without a reboot... The revolution will be complete when the operating system is perfect. (www.debian.org, www.enlightenment.org, www.opensource.org) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii
Andre (sorry, no accented characters from me :) when the nice unix people made text files years ago, they decidedthe end-of-line character should be \n -- aka ^J. When the not-so-nice DOS people made the same decision, they used two characters ^J and ^M. I would imagine you need to strip out the ^M from your files before they work. (As a side note, when the not-so-nice mac people made the same decision, rather than take he pc format, which was popular at the time, or the unix format, which was probably more popular at the time, they used ^M alone.) PLain ASCII format just means -- no high-bit characters eg, all chars have values of 127 or lower. Since ^M fits below 127, it is an ascii format. (But then again, ascii is just the meanings of the 8 bits -- so I imagine all 256 chars are used in 'plain ascii' files -- binary not meaning anything much different.) The way to get rid of those ^M characters is to either transfer the files using ascii mode in ftp, or use the dtox program or dos2unix program or :%s/^V^M//g in vi, or a sed script or write a program or .. half a million ways to do the same thing (would recode do it? :) If someone has a better reference to the history of crlf problems please feel free to forward it to at least me. :) On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 11:58:16PM -0700, André Bell wrote: I have several perl scripts saved to my pc I need to convert to linux-able ascii so I can transfer them to my local linux system via disks or tape. I now get the following error message when I copy from my pc to diskette to linux: illegal character \015 (carriage return) at admin.cgi line 2 (Maybe you didn't strip carriage returns after a network transfer?) I know it's because the file is in pc binary instead of true ascii (despite being saved as a text file). My question is this, is there any way I can convert the file to true ascii while it's still on my pc then copy it to floppy then copy it to linux, without the need to ftp the file between one system and the other? Thanks! Andre -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
About kde web site
Hello! Today I installed kde from http://kde.tdyc.com in the morning. It successed. After 3 hours later, I tried to install kde into another computer, but I couldn't do it. It seemed to me that the site is alive. I wonder if somebody has same problem, or this is my own problem. sources.list is: deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde contrib rkrusty -- Takanori Suzuki E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eth0: Infinite loop in interrupt
Hi, The system I'm using was used for about 2 years as a 24x7 system. Today I had some real problems with it. It's an i486 (DX-50) with one 3c905 (ISA) ethernet card. It worked really good, but today I get many of the following kernel messages: eth0: Infinite loop in interrupt, status . Is this a `real' hardware problem or is this a software misconfiguration? Ohh... btw: I changed to kernel 2.0.38 yesterday. It doesn't seem to happen with 2.0.36. is this `known'?? regards, gerhard
Security Question
Hi all: I'm looking at Firewall and Security listing on Freshmeat, but I have no idea what I should consider installing to tighten up my box. My immediate goal is to not allow anything into or out of my home network, unless it happens to be for email/news, ftp to other sites, and Internet browsing. I've been lurking in a few lists, and I keep reading about port scans, so I'd like to learn more about them, and how to detect/log them, etc. The only thing I recognize is tripwire, and that from reading it in few posts, but it appears to be available only in rpm format, and as source only. Also, IIRC, I should compile security related software on my machine since one isn't to trust a binary from an external source. Is this correct? I'm off to read the Security HOWTO 'nite! -- ( __ _ Mark Wagnon ) Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA ( /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) www.debian.org _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii
The way to get rid of those ^M characters is to either transfer the files using ascii mode in ftp, or use the dtox program or dos2unix program or :%s/^V^M//g in vi, or a sed script or write a program or .. half a million ways to do the same thing (would recode do it? :) Thanks Seth, that's exactly the info I was looking for. My linux pc is not yet networked to my pc so I'm forced to transfer small via floppy for now. I will do a search for dtox and dos2unix. Looks like neither are a part of debian so I searched the net for them. Here's one solution from http://ume.med.ucalgary.ca/usenet/Linux/0053.html: save as dos2unix - #!/bin/sh sed 's/^M//' $1 --- save as unix2dos - #!/bin/sh sed 's/$/^M/' $1 --- Note that the `^M' has to be produced by pressing `Ctrl-V Ctrl-M' in vi, or `Ctrl-QCtrl-M' in emacs. Then you can do, e.g., `dos2unix unixfile dosfile' and `unix2dos unixfile dosfile'. - end -- Those look like perl scripts. If so it's just that I'm unfamiliar with the SED command that is throwing me off. I'll try each as a perl script anyways just to be sure. Andre p.s. Here is aother solution: cat filename | sed 's/^M//' -- I tried this one, it didn't convert the file, it ran the file (all of the print commands printed to screen. Afterwards I typed perl filename and same issue exists. I even tried this command and piped it with to create anew file still the same error message :(
Re: Netscape
Patrick Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I have that problem, I click (once, not a double-click) on the title of the Netscape window and that brings the keyboard back to life. YMMV though. Maybe this has something to do with focus method - I use sloppy focus, where the position of the mouse cursor determines which window has focus. All I do is make sure I have an xterm window open, and move the mouse cursor over the xterm window and back to netscape. I can then type in the boxes. Roll on Opera!!! You really would think that Netscape would have ironed out such problems a long time ago. -- Phillip Deackes Debian Linux (Potato)
Some missing depends in potato
There appear to be some missing dependencies in potato at the moment. Perhaps I got the Packages.gz in the midst of uploads? Anyway, found these problems: *** Std base netbase Basic TCP/IP networking binaries netbase depends on tcpd tcpd does not appear to be available netbase depends on libwrap0 libwrap0 does not appear to be available *** Opt math gnumeric GNOME SpreadSheet gnumeric depends on gnome-print gnome-print does not appear to be available -- ___ ___ __ _ _ __ |_ ) / -_) _` | ' \ / / \___\__, |_|_|_/___| |___/
Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii
André Bell wrote: Thanks Seth, that's exactly the info I was looking for. My linux pc is not yet networked to my pc so I'm forced to transfer small via floppy for now. I will do a search for dtox and dos2unix. Looks like neither are a part of debian so I searched the net for them. You have fromdos which is on utils/sysutils package. Regards, Nuno Carvalho
Re: [Debian] Multiport Ethernet boards?
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Nico De Ranter wrote: SMC unfortunately only has a dual one (couldn't find anything else on their website). But Znyx has exactly what I want and even seems to have good support for Linux so I'll probably buy a Znyx Netblaster ZX346Q. I have been doing a lot of work lately with the Adaptec quad tulip boards. They work great with 2.2 kernels ... not at all for me with 2.0. They have an on-board PCI bus with a bridge to the system PCI bus. Shares one interrupt so it is possible to build a firewall/router with up to 16 security zones on separate physical nets using the motherboards we have to use. Are those 10/100Mbit boards? Do you have any data on performance issues? I want to build a router with 10 10/100Mbit interfaces but I wonder whether a standard PCI motherboard can handle that amount of traffic Nico -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Some missing depends in potato
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 02:27:34AM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: netbase depends on tcpd tcpd does not appear to be available netbase depends on libwrap0 libwrap0 does not appear to be available tcpd and libwrap have been pulled out of netbase in the latest upload (just the other day) and need to be processed manually by the archive maintainers before they are included in the distribution. gnumeric depends on gnome-print gnome-print does not appear to be available gnome-print is stuck in incoming too. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpTkjTHniUzM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Some missing depends in potato
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 12:09:17PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 02:27:34AM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: netbase depends on tcpd tcpd does not appear to be available netbase depends on libwrap0 libwrap0 does not appear to be available tcpd and libwrap have been pulled out of netbase in the latest upload (just the other day) and need to be processed manually by the archive maintainers before they are included in the distribution. The full updated package has apparently already been installed - it's appeared in my lated dist-upgrade. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpk6RD4rzx0U.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 01:11:24PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 01:19:56PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: 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. sarcasm You could just get really spiffy and rewrite glibc's exec*() calls to do all of this. Then when you execute a command as root, like accidentally typing ssh instead of sh, then all of the sudden you have an import/export restricted piece of software automatically installed on your system! Or better yet run some scripts that try to exec programs that aren't available and see how much you can overload your bandwidth! /sarcasm Sorry, auto updating packages to the latest version is one thing, but auto installing is down right dangerous. Just because it's nifty and easy doesn't mean it's a good idea. Gee, Windows itself is nifty and easy isn't it? :) Ben Thank you very much for all your answers. I didn't imagine this as hard as it is and didn't see the dangerous aspect of it. As a result, I will wait a bit before beginning so difficult and dangerous software like this. But your answers were very helpful. sami -- LL II NN N U U X X U U LL E Z!! LL N N N U U XX R R U U LL E__ Z !! LL II N N N U U XX RRR U U LL E Z L II N NN U X X R R U L E Z!!
Re: E! Enlightenment for newbie?
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 12:33:30AM +0100, John Gay wrote: available, but the desktop is still 1024x768. At lower resolutions, I can use the mouse to scroll around the screen. How to I get the desktop to change with the resolution? In the XF86Config, check the size you've got for Virtual in each display depth setup. This determines the virtual desktop size... But what also happens is, if you have no Virtual entry for that display depth, XFree86 will take the largest listed resolution as the virtual desktop size, no matter what your visible resolution is. For example, if you had: Modes 800x600 1024x768 640x480 Then X would start up in 800x600 at that display depth, but still use a virtual desktop size of 1024x768. Which is pretty much what you described. I'm not 100% sure, but if you specify a Virtual size of 0 0, it should use the same virtual desktop size as the default resolution, so for the above example it would pick 800x600 as the virtual desktop size. But I'm not sure if it works this way. Alternatively, you can delete the higher resolutions (1024x768 in the example) so the largest listed resolution is the one you want to use. This is not a great solution. You could probably also try setting the virtual desktop size (via Virtual) to the same as the resolution you want to use (e.g. Virtual 800 600 in this example). Check out the manpage for XF86Config if my description is too badly written to make much sense. :-) -- Matthew Gregan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Working with mail in /home not /var
Marius Aamodt Eriksen writes: The best way is probably to use procmail. Marius. I don't think so. What if a user want to fetch his mail, then qpopper sees nothing in his mailbox cause procmail has moved it. I need a solution system wide and exim and qpopper compatible. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tel. 09.874.60.17 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Potenciado por Ql/Linux http://www.qlsoft.cl __
Re: Working with mail in /home not /var
Is it possible to change the local delivery transport to:
local_delivery:
...
file = /home/${localpart}/Mail/inbox
or something? I wonder if user/group mail would have permissions? Also,
this could get tricky if all of your user's home directories don't have
the same pathing: /home/staff/$USER, /home/student/$USER, etc. You'd
have to do some kind of lookup then.
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E! problem..
My X works fine with other window managers, but when i tried to use enlightenment, i ran into a problem when loading it: I 'apt-get'ed Enlightenment and all it's dependencies (ftped from the stable slink), and when i load it up, my cursor stays as an X. I can click on the little exit button and get out of X, but i cant access the menus which should appear when clicking mouse buttons and stuff. I dont have sound enabled, and i hear E! uses sound by itself. this is the only problem i could think of, but it doesn't sound like the correct one to me. any suggestions?
Re: OT: How to determine which distro(Debian,RH, etc)?
How about telnet to localhost?? Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 localhost Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best way to determine which distribution of Linux a machine is running? I know that Debian has a file /etc/debian_version which is part of the base-files package so that should be present on all Debian machines. What do other dists have that is a sure way of knowing what dist is set up on the machine? Thanks, -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis - -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
CODA network filesystem
I am considering setting up a CODA network filesystem for our widely spread out school district. Currently we have linux servers in each of 7 school buildings that use samba and netatalk to provide filesharing services. Each server has 10-40 GB of storage. This works well, but we would like to simplify administration and share more stuff across the district. There are several hundred Macs and PCs attached to these servers at 10 or 100Mbs. One building (the high school) has a T3 connection to the internet, the others have T1's. I propose to set up a CODA server(s) at the high school that might initally have ~100GB of storage but could scale up over the next year to 1TB or more. We find that our data storage needs are growing rapidly as faculty and students move up the learning curve and especially as they incorporate multimedia into their work. The linux servers in the other schools would be CODA clients. A major portion of their local storage could become local CODA cache. Initially we could continue to use samba and netatalk to 'retail' shared volumes to the Macs and PCs. Later we could push CODA client capability to at least the PCs. Does anyone have any useful pointers or comments on this approach? Any experience? Thanks, ml
Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii
Subject: Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii Date: Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 01:31:17AM -0700 In reply to:André Bell Quoting André Bell([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I will do a search for dtox and dos2unix. Looks like neither are a part of debian so I searched the net for them. dpkg -S dos2unix sysutils: /usr/bin/dos2unix sysutils: /usr/man/man1/dos2unix.1.gz grep Package: sysutils /var/state/apt/lists/* /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.netgod.net_x_Packages:Package: sysutils less /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.netgod.net_x_Packages Package: sysutils Version: 1.3.4 Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Depends: perl, libc6, libncurses4 Conflicts: bogo, memtest, procinfo Architecture: i386 Filename: x/sysutils_1.3.4_i386.deb Size: 27496 MD5sum: ea450d7944087ce9a7d9d4dd6f9fddf5 Description: Miscellaneous small system utilities. This is a package incorporating various small utilities which are: * procinfo - Displays system information from /proc (v16). * memtest - Test system memory for errors (v1.0.1). * bogo - Shows the current bogomips rating without rebooting (v1.2). * tofromdos - Converts DOS - Unix text files (v1.4). installed-size: 67 It takes more then one-click.com to find it tho. :-) HTH -- Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eth0 and rpm questions
what's. eth0: XMT status = 0x400 or eth0: XMT status = 0x440 this appears sometimes on my screen, rather irritating. And how to I find out where to get a missing file that .rpm package depends on? and why this? rpm -i --force --nodeps package.rpm 5 min later.. rpm -e package.rpm package package.rpm is not installed ???
StarOffice 5.1
Has anyone installed StarOffice 5.1 (Personal addition) from CD? I need it to import MS Word 97 documents. I'm currently running version 4.0 under Debian 2.0 which is a bit slow on my 486 DX-2 (66MHz) 32 MB system. But it does a decent job of importing Word 6 documents. I'm guessing SO 5.1 will be even slower. Other than that, what problems might I expect? -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii
I know it's because the file is in pc binary instead of true ascii (despite being saved as a text file). My question is this, is there any way I can convert the file to true ascii while it's still on my pc then copy it to floppy then copy it to linux, without the need to ftp the file between one system and the other? NoteTab Pro is the text editor I use in Windows and it lets you save files in the Unix format. Have a look at: http://www.notetab.com -- 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: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii
At 11:20 AM 8/28/99 +, Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote: André Bell wrote: Thanks Seth, that's exactly the info I was looking for. My linux pc is not yet networked to my pc so I'm forced to transfer small via floppy for now. I will do a search for dtox and dos2unix. Looks like neither are a part of debian so I searched the net for them. You have fromdos which is on utils/sysutils package. Thanks Nuno, I thought dos2unix and dtox were exactly what I was looking for, I was wrong. 'fromdos' is what I was looking for. Thanks for telling me about it. 'fromdos' works better for me than the dos2unix commands. 'fromdos' actually removed the invalid characters in the file and now the file runs correctly. dos2unix didn't remove the characters. Thank again
Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii
dpkg -S dos2unix Thanks Wayne. Interesting that worked just fine but dselect then / searching for dos2unix turns up nothing. Is it common for dselect not to find specific items as requested or is there some other command I need to enter in order to get dselect to search and find the files I want? Thanks
Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii
An easy way to find whether a file is in Debian is to do a zgrep on the Contents-i386.gz file (assuming Intel platform). You may need to pipe the output into whatever pager you like. The output will tell you what package the file is in (e.g. dos2unix is in sysutils). If you're getting Debian over the network, the file is not too big, 1.3M or so. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell wrote: Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 01:31:17 -0700 From: [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Seth R Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii The way to get rid of those ^M characters is to either transfer the files using ascii mode in ftp, or use the dtox program or dos2unix program or :%s/^V^M//g in vi, or a sed script or write a program or .. half a million ways to do the same thing (would recode do it? :) Thanks Seth, that's exactly the info I was looking for. My linux pc is not yet networked to my pc so I'm forced to transfer small via floppy for now. I will do a search for dtox and dos2unix. Looks like neither are a part of debian so I searched the net for them. Here's one solution from http://ume.med.ucalgary.ca/usenet/Linux/0053.html: save as dos2unix - #!/bin/sh sed 's/^M//' $1 --- save as unix2dos - #!/bin/sh sed 's/$/^M/' $1 --- Note that the `^M' has to be produced by pressing `Ctrl-V Ctrl-M' in vi, or `Ctrl-QCtrl-M' in emacs. Then you can do, e.g., `dos2unix unixfile dosfile' and `unix2dos unixfile dosfile'. - end -- Those look like perl scripts. If so it's just that I'm unfamiliar with the SED command that is throwing me off. I'll try each as a perl script anyways just to be sure. Andre p.s. Here is aother solution: cat filename | sed 's/^M//' -- I tried this one, it didn't convert the file, it ran the file (all of the print commands printed to screen. Afterwards I typed perl filename and same issue exists. I even tried this command and piped it with to create anew file still the same error message :(
Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii
/ will find a package name, not a file that is contained within the package. dos2unix is in the sysutils package (and is a symlink to fromdos). Bob On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 09:14:25AM -0700, André Bell wrote: dpkg -S dos2unix Thanks Wayne. Interesting that worked just fine but dselect then / searching for dos2unix turns up nothing. Is it common for dselect not to find specific items as requested or is there some other command I need to enter in order to get dselect to search and find the files I want? Thanks -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
KDE doesn't start after crash
Hello, Last night, KDE crashed on me and ever since then, it won't load. When I do startx -- -bpp 16, all I get is that checker/basket pattern with the 'X' cursor and nothing loads. When I press Ctrl+Alt+F1, this gets repeated over and over until I press Ctrl+Z: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=2 -- 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/
cannot open -lXm
I can't compile Ted (richtext word processor) I keep getting the error ld: cannot open -lXm: No such file or directory Usually this means that the -L is set wrong but it says: (beginning clipped) -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXm -lXp -lXpm -lXt -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lm antelope:/usr/X11R6/lib# ls libXm* libXm.so libXm.so.1 libXmu.so libXmu.so.6.0 libXm.so.0 libXm.so.1.2 libXmu.so.6 antelope:/usr/X11R6/lib# dpkg --list | grep lesstif ri lesstifg0.86.9-2 OSF/Motif implementation released under LGPL ii lesstifg-dev0.86.9-2 Development library and header files for Les antelope:/usr/X11R6/lib# Does any one know what I should do or check next? Jeremy C. Reed http://www.reedmedia.net
Re: eth0 and rpm questions
rpm -i --force --nodeps package.rpm 5 min later.. rpm -e package.rpm package package.rpm is not installed ??? Since I use to use rpm on other distro, IIRC you should rpm -e package instead of rpm -e package.rpm Chanop -- ,-. | Chanop Silpa-Anan [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Australian National University | | visit my web site (not yet finished)| | http://hilbert.anu.edu.au/~chanop/ | | Debian GNU Hurd ICQ uin 11366301| `-'
Re: Security Question
I've been lurking in a few lists, and I keep reading about port scans, so I'd like to learn more about them, and how to detect/log them, etc. The only thing I recognize is tripwire, and that from reading it in few posts, but it appears to be available only in rpm format, and as source only. As far as portscans are concerned, I use portsentry (I had the URL somewhere..try www.psionic.com) If you want to portscan your own machine, use nmap or write a simple portscanner yourself. What a portscanner essentially does is checking a target host for any ports open (each port corresponds to a certain service running, like telnetd, ftpd, httpd, echo, etc. Look in /etc/services for more info.) From there the attacker decides which exploits to use. So...essential to security is limiting the number of services running. Use inetd.conf for it. Tripwire is ok. It's primarily used for routine system check or when you suspect someone got in, and want to make sure that none of the vital programs have been changed. Use alien to convert rpm binary into deb binary, or just compile it yourself. Along with portsentry you should firewall your machine (Plannning on starting on that myself today). Its in the Security HOWTO. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://scorpio.myip.org--All the pages bundled together. ---
Install problem: LI, than nothing else
Hi! I'm a real beginner so please forgive my fool questins. I tought I've allready installed DebinLinux but I never got over the LI after several times. I installed it from a CDROM and during the installation there was only one problem: I couldn't create a bootdisc because my a: (LS120 UHD) drive didn't work with the installer. I've got a 5 GB disk in primeri master with Win98 and a 4 GB disk in primeri slave on which I want to install Linux. They are both in LBA mode so I tought there is no problem with the cylinder(?) number. Am I right? I also tried a little (60MB) root partition at the beginning of the HD but got the same result. An other problem: I created a bootdisc at last in Dos but after Uncompressing Linux it stops with crc error System Halted What is it? I really want to try this Linux but the beginning semms hard. Walthier Mate
Home Network Setup Help
I installed my Debian system as a single user PC but now want to configure this machine as a Server for a Network. I realized very quickly that the slackware book I have that describes setting up a network is a little different than the debian system I have installed. Where can I find any info on setting up a debian Network from scratch? I have all of the hardware. What I need to know is which files need to be created/edited? Are there any configuration tools that may be of help? I spotted 'cfengine' and 'linuxconfig' but don't know yet if they will be of any use? Thanks, Lance
Re: cannot open -lXm
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 10:04:25 -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: antelope:/usr/X11R6/lib# ls libXm* libXm.so libXm.so.1 libXmu.so libXmu.so.6.0 libXm.so.0 libXm.so.1.2 libXmu.so.6 Try ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so and check that it points to an existing file. HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would have the decency to betray his country. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Re: How to clear console before login promtp ?
Alex, You may also take a look at the linuxlogo package. You can add a neat Debian logo to your console login screen with the linuxlogoconfig script that comes with it. Fun stuff... On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote: Is ther any way to clear console window (text mode) before login promt ? After comp. starts I see (at tty1) login promt at screen bottom and last output of system initialization above it. I'd like to see login prompt at top of clear screen. TIA, Alex -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++
Re: Dell Xpi 90 T laptop
I recently had this problem with a Toshiba 3015CT. I needed a zImage kernel instead of the default bzImage kernel on the standard boot disks. There's floppy images called Tecra images (named after the Toshiba laptops which seem to exhibit this problem the most) which you might try to boot from. That worked for me. Also, remember there's a Debian-Laptop list (someone else pointed this out to me when I was having trouble) and if you'd be so kind as to detail your laptop type, perhaps someone there could help. On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, MARK DAVENPORT wrote: I have struggled getting Mandrake to load on a laptop so I decided to try Debian. Im trying to install from the Harddrive but I the machine continues to reboot after the boot prompt. I ve entered my harddrive geometry at the prompt but it keeps rebooting. Im trying to load 2.1. Ready to pull out what little hair I have left. Mark Davenport +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++
safe upgrade of potato
Hi, I have a stable potato distributaion installed that has not been upgraded in 2-3 weeks. I would like to upgrade it with current packages. is there a way to save old packges as I install the new one. would the simplest thing would be just to save all /usr /etc /bin /lib directories. thanks -Oz Dror -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126
Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: ways to do the same thing (would recode do it? :) recode ibm-pc:l1 dosfile unixfile -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South Africa) | -- Use hospitality one to another without grudging. I Peter 4:9
Soundcard (Crystal CS4236) configuration
I could use my soundcard to produce sound using the speakers, but not record anything. When I tried I got the following error message: Sound: DMA (input) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? Now I am trying to correct that. According to pnpdump my card is a Crystal CS4236. The kernel documentation says : To configure the Crystal CS423x sound chip and activate its DSP functions, modules may be loaded in this order: modprobe sound insmod ad1848 insmod uart401 insmod cs4232 io=* irq=* dma=* dma2=* However when I do 'modprobe sound' the following happens: $sudo modprobe sound /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/sound.o: invalid parameter IRQ I am not sure from the isapnp-documentation whether or how I must use isapnp. I hope somebody can help me on this one please. Johann -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South Africa) | -- Use hospitality one to another without grudging. I Peter 4:9
http - telnet
have DSL at home, at work I have an internet access through proxy but only http access is alowed. telnet, ftp and irc are blocked. is there a way to access my home computer using http session simulating telnet session. is there a free version of http server that I could install on my computer that would emulate telnet session for incoming http calls. -Thanks Oz Dror -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126
Re: Security Question
Check out Abacus PortSentry if you're looking for pretty good portscanning detection software. He also does a log scanner and a host protection scanner. http://www.psionic.org/ On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: Hi all: I'm looking at Firewall and Security listing on Freshmeat, but I have no idea what I should consider installing to tighten up my box. My immediate goal is to not allow anything into or out of my home network, unless it happens to be for email/news, ftp to other sites, and Internet browsing. I've been lurking in a few lists, and I keep reading about port scans, so I'd like to learn more about them, and how to detect/log them, etc. The only thing I recognize is tripwire, and that from reading it in few posts, but it appears to be available only in rpm format, and as source only. Also, IIRC, I should compile security related software on my machine since one isn't to trust a binary from an external source. Is this correct? I'm off to read the Security HOWTO 'nite! -- ( __ _ Mark Wagnon ) Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA ( /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) www.debian.org _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++
Re: Page length using a2ps
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: I have a text document that is formatted with page length = 68 rather than the 65 which is the default for a2ps. However, whenever I try to format the text using a2ps into a 68 lines per page document (using the --lines-per-page option), it doesnt seem to make a difference : I still get a postscript document with 65 pages. What am I doing wrong? Try changing the order of the options you use; iirc, that's one of the ones that fussy about its placement. You might also try chars-per-line instead. a2ps can be just a bit cranky at times. rick -- Richard, I received many answers to my question (and thanks to all who contributed), but yours (order of options) turned out to be the right one. Thanks a lot, 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
Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Ernest Johanson wrote: An easy way to find whether a file is in Debian is to do a zgrep on the Contents-i386.gz file (assuming Intel platform). You may need to pipe the output into whatever pager you like. The output will tell you what package the file is in (e.g. dos2unix is in sysutils). If you're getting Debian over the network, the file is not too big, 1.3M or so. You can also use the search engine on the Debian website, at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN8gtg77M/9WKZLW5AQFRTwP/cTwTRT37LN8NZ5MuWNJZFsvyp/eZ4SnQ xMQy2GuHhoStA3NhhWJ+oNwQ2sTkn4XL1p6iLztnvreH7oCOlqcszDGtZvVaeDBX 20tGuiLJLoqCR5C3eD2O6dw/nqXuJ4g4zfCVdRsytYMYGbuW0Nfyl1q8oyIbqFGu Mmd/cOfoMhg= =gAU4 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell wrote: Here's one solution from http://ume.med.ucalgary.ca/usenet/Linux/0053.html: save as dos2unix - #!/bin/sh sed 's/^M//' $1 --- save as unix2dos - #!/bin/sh sed 's/$/^M/' $1 --- Note that the `^M' has to be produced by pressing `Ctrl-V Ctrl-M' in vi, or `Ctrl-QCtrl-M' in emacs. Then you can do, e.g., `dos2unix unixfile dosfile' and `unix2dos unixfile dosfile'. - end -- Those look like perl scripts. If so it's just that I'm unfamiliar with the SED command that is throwing me off. I'll try each as a perl script anyways just to be sure. Actually, they're shell scripts. They use /bin/sh to interpret, while perl uses /usr/bin/perl. sed is a program whose main feature is similar to Perl's s/// command. man sed for more info. - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN8guZr7M/9WKZLW5AQG5XQP/SLXfGWJY2ZfohGPPXT4uaorDPe5WrVSh Qi4cFNnpkZx9D1HhQ3dwUb+8t8RXf5tkamPV42LZ6410KhV/r0RjhOJ2O3gncOAF h/i6ivhu+hedjxY99mHb0nTJrBrYO7KLc8a35dFlH4NG7r9lrasbWJNPAHUYAWZr XQ2PMsxlyUI= =PAXF -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Soundcard (Crystal CS4236) configuration
I don't think you need isapnp. Try adding something like the following (replacing appropriate io,irq,etc) to /etc/modutils/aliases. alias sound cs4232 pre-install sound insmod sound dmabuf=1 alias midi opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=7 synthirq=1 synth io=-1 Then run update-modules to change the /etc/conf.modules. For the opl3 support, I added opl3 to my /etc/modules. You can remove active modules with rmmod, list them with lsmod, and of course insert with insmod. You'll want to remove any active sound modules before trying modprobe sound. -- ___ ___ __ _ _ __ |_ ) / -_) _` | ' \ / / \___\__, |_|_|_/___| |___/
Re: OT: How to determine which distro(Debian,RH, etc)?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: How about telnet to localhost?? Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 localhost What if /etc/issue.net has been edited? For example, i'm running potato but i have it claim slink just to confuse people ;) - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN8gwYr7M/9WKZLW5AQHLWgP/QY6ZBX1akCokOSBRWRPH89Nrk8/BlckW IQ1YUwpYrrPc2I+TSrrT+3cdgKZ5icnWh6zVtQGfe+FCmMU3tTQR52985csnW1Dw yjjcQRWaeU8cV83JSPGXoq/opQz0pJbXcSthM0+dAftJT3d9T3yGhtwCZUmH825n aL+iKpSu2t0= =K+cX -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: http - telnet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Oz Dror wrote: have DSL at home, at work I have an internet access through proxy but only http access is alowed. telnet, ftp and irc are blocked. is there a way to access my home computer using http session simulating telnet session. is there a free version of http server that I could install on my computer that would emulate telnet session for incoming http calls. Could you just run a telnet daemon (or a ssh daemon) on port 80? For example, in.telnetd -debug 80 should start the telnet daemon on port 80 if possible. sshd -p 80 would do it for ssh. You'll probably need to be root for these to work. - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN8gyrL7M/9WKZLW5AQEcCwP9FAMCeLWvzwAhgDJpEv8JwSh2UTTfWX8S lSGBN7pt1M55Uw2Poym2Yk09OY87dAJLQBWfTAH9TX0oHNFe/vPcoZ1rGXo9FqYK tRandDYhlMBH9JHjHuAxWODt5ypQHmF2PXnKvcw9s/x9oXqCOXv0OeI7WAQo/Rjc G+at6J+Qu1M= =f1Hg -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: http - telnet
Your proxy probably just filters based on the destination port number, without even looknig at the network traffic. You might want to just run a telnet (or ssh) daemon on port 80 of your home machine, that should do the trick. Just connect to your machine on port 80 (normally used by HTTP) instead of trying the usual Telnet port of 23. On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Oz Dror wrote: have DSL at home, at work I have an internet access through proxy but only http access is alowed. telnet, ftp and irc are blocked. is there a way to access my home computer using http session simulating telnet session. is there a free version of http server that I could install on my computer that would emulate telnet session for incoming http calls. -Thanks Oz Dror -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Soundcard (Crystal CS4236) configuration
Hello! I have the same sound board in the company's portable computer. It is a Dell Inspiron 3200. (PII 233MHz 96MB 4.1GB) On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 08:20:54PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: I could use my soundcard to produce sound using the speakers, but not record anything. When I tried I got the following error message: What program do you use for recording? I can play sounds, but I haven't tried recording yet. Sound: DMA (input) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? I get this errors as well when I don't put the correct dma numbers. Now I am trying to correct that. According to pnpdump my card is a Crystal CS4236. The kernel documentation says : ... I am not sure from the isapnp-documentation whether or how I must use isapnp. This board came embedded with the motherboard in the computer. I went to the BIOS and told it to not use PNP. I selected 0x530 for io, irq=5, the first dma=1 the second dma=0. This is what I have on the bios: Audio: Enabled (Other opts: Disabled, Auto, PnPOS) SB I/O address: 220h WSS I/O address: 530h Adlib I/O address: 388h Interrupt: IRQ 5 1st DMA channel: DMA 1 2nd DMA channel: DMA 0 If you have a PNP board, then you will probably need to use isapnp. You have to start by using: pnpdump ~/isapnp.conf Then you have to review that file, and select the settings for io, irq, dma, dma2 (uncommenting the ones you want). Don't forget to uncomment ACT Y at the end. You can test that config. using isapnp ~/isapnp.conf Then test the suggestions on the kernel documentation. This is what I use to start sound: modprobe sound insmod ad1848 insmod uart401 insmod cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 insmod opl3 io=0x388 That works for me. I will try recording using the program that you use, and then I'll find out if I have a problem there. Greetings, Alexis Maldonado Disenos y Montajes S.A. -- __ DYMSA - Disenos y Montajes S.A. Tel. +(506) 227-5616 Fax. +(506) 227-5257 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box: Apdo 171-2010 Zapote San Jose, Costa Rica Address: 500 mts Sur de Rotonda de Zapote Edificio DYMSA San Jose, Costa Rica Central America __
Re: 800x600 Xwindows screen format
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 02:49:57PM +1000, Brian May wrote: Does anyone have tips on using XWindows on a low resolution screen (eg laptop)? I find that lots of programs (eg emacs, xemacs, xnetscape, and from memory xfig) open up windows that a too big to fit on the screen, and it is awkward have to resize the window automatically after reloading. I don't particularly want to go into each application one by one to try and change the default load position, either - as I would have to find the special procedure for every application. ...or is this a bug in my window manager (fvwm95)? Would using another window manager help? I know from the window manager sets the windows initial size and position, but the application can override it. I have no idea if this is the case or not for the above applications. (actually - I am not using this computer - I prefer fvwm) -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tend to get in the habit of hitting ALT-F10 which is maximize, or in this case resize to fit. Once upon a time, I was in your position, and I took the time to make aliases for all the common commands. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian Linux (Slink)
