Re: HOWTO enter Ctrl-S to BASH from console
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 01:08:04PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 01:59:31PM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: Here is my somewhat OT question since this is not exactly Debian but generic BASH question... In order to search command history in BASH, I can use Ctrl-R (reverse incremental search) but so far am unsuccessful in using Ctrl-S (normal incremental search). You need to use stty to make 'stop' something other than ^S. I find that stty stop '' stty start '' are good defaults, since I never need to do XOFF-XON stuff by hand. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PPP patched for SSL?
Has ppp in potato been patched for SSL? I'm planning a network and am hoping that my Debian router will be able to doing ppp and poptop so that some Windows clients can connect securely to my LAN. Thanks for the info.
Re: your mail
Hi, You want to: bash$ export http_proxy=http://msproxy.on.windows.box:portnumber; You probably also want to set ftp_proxy to the same thing. On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] wrote: Hi guys! I have been searching high and low for the answer but no such luck.I am attempting to connect by Debian GNU/Linux box to the Net through a Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0. I can ping outside the local network but whenever I use dselect, I get an error message. I understand that if the socks is enabled on the M$ Proxy Server, I can use the socks4/5 client to sockify the programs which need to connect to the Net, but I think the proxy server socks is not enabled. Also, I have seen numerous postings regarding the use of some M$ proprietary protocol which allows M$ Internet Explorer (and not other Web Browsers such as Netscape and Opera) to connect to the Net. I tried using Lynx in Debian and this is the error messages I get: HTTP Error 401 401.2 Unauthorised Logon failed due to server configuration. This error indicates that the credentials passed to the server do not match the credentials required to logon to the server. This is usually caused by not sendoing the proper WWW - Authenticate header field. Please contact the Web server's admin to verify that you have permission to access the requested resource. In M$ Windows 95b(on the same box using XOSL), I can connect using only M$ Internet Explorer! Can anyone enlightenment me? Is there a space on the Net where I can find the answers to this question? Thx. P/S I am certain my settings on the Debian box is correct! Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance Measat Broadcast Network Systems E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at: http://www.astro.com.my -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Is Debian the last OS ? (Long reply)
Was this a compilation error? Shouldn't have failed, as that is the correct and documented way of doing it. What was the error message? (I remember a friend who tried compiling and it didn't work because he didn't have bin86 installed. Would cut out because it couldn't find as86.) Of course, since you didn't compile using kernel_image, it wouldn't generate a .deb file. On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Adam Scriven wrote: At 02:17 2000/08/03 -0400, you wrote: bash$ make-kpkg clean bash$ make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image This line failed, I had to change it to: make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel.image bash$ dpkg -i ../kernel-image-#.#.#_1.0_i386.deb This line failed also, that file doesn't exist. There are no .deb files in the /usr/src directory. Any ideas? Thanks! Adam Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Re: lilo problem
Looks like your lilo.conf is wrong. There should be a line saying lba32 in there. man 8 lilo for more information. Dale Morris wrote: I'm running libranet version of debian potato. It uses the 2.2.14 kernel. I am having a problem with lilo. My hard disk is a 15 gig with the following partitions /=2500 megs /usr=5000mgb /home=2500mgb /var=1250mgb the rest of the disk is just free space. When I run lilo I get the following error: debian:/home/dlm# /sbin/lilo Fatal: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1046 1023) debian:/home/dlm# My bios supports large disk access, but when I try to reconfigure lilo to do that, I get an error that it's unable to install to the boot block. How would I edit my lilo config file to get lilo to boot from the hard disk? I even tried installing and configuring a new kernel (2.2.16) and it worked fine up until I ran bzlilo and I got an error 2 message, something about being unable to install to the boot directory.. any suggestions? thanks -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: XF86Setup
Try apt-get install xf86setup Dale Morris wrote: I just did an ftp installation of 2.2.17 potato debian and I can't run the XF86Setup program. It doesn't seem to be on my machine. I do have a working XF86Config file that was generated by the installation script, but I would sure like to be able to use the XF86Setup program. What package do I need to apt-get install to have XF86Setup? thanks -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Lilo Problem
Grab a recent copy of lilo (in the 21-x series). This includes support for LBA32 extensions which allow LBA32 compliant computers to boot above 1024 cylinders. Then, all you need to do is run lilo -L or you can edit the linear entry in your /etc/lilo.conf to lba32 On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Dirk Allard wrote: Hi, I just installed the latest slink cd image on my machine (worked ok). Trying to install lilo it wouldn't work, because the boot disk has over 1024 cylinders. Unfortunately the floppy is not working, so I cannot boot through a boot floppy. Is there any way to install an acutal lilo after booting with the debian install cd? One addition: before this I had grub as boot loader (mandrake Linux). Dirk -- Dirk Allard BUGH Wuppertal - Polymere Materialien email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel +49-202-4393873 Fax +49-202-4393880 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: [OFFTOPIC] BIOS Password defeat
Some BIOSes allow you to flush them by holding down the INS key on boot. However, I find the most reliable method is to deprive the CMOS of power. There's a little watch battery on the motherboard, if you power off your computer and carefully remove the battery for about 60 seconds, all the information in the CMOS should evapourate into the aether. Then, you can put the battery back in and power on your computer again. The BIOS password should now be gone and you'll have to reset all your BIOS settings. Be warned, you hard disk geometry will also disappear, so you'd better have that information handy. You may find it sitting on a label on your physical hard disk. On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Ethan Pierce wrote: Danel, Try unplugging the unit, and removing the battery. When you pop it back in, it should reset the defaults for the motherboard BIOS settings. Daniel Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/08/00 09:25AM Hello there, I found a pretty nice 486 PCI-motherboard in the bulk waste last week, which I would like to use as secondary computer with debian. The board is working, but unfortunately, it was setup in a way that you can only boot from harddisk, and shadow RAM was enabled. So I tried to change the settings, but the preliminary user has installed a Setup-Password, so that I can't access the BIOS. I know, that there are ways to get around this, but I don't know how to do it in this special case. So does anybody know where to find the necessary information? Is there a tool for Linux or DOS to access and change BIOS-settings (I could plugin the harddisk from another computer and try to boot into Linux or use the small DOS-partition I have on this disk). Or is there some kind of cheat password, which will always work? The BIOS is a Phoenix version 4.04. Regards, Daniel -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
re: temporary allowing telnet to use x-windows
Oh. Well, John. Your user will have to install an X-server on his machine. IIRC, there used to be a free beer version of M/IX for Windows, but as of version 2.0, it isn't. So, you can go with that -- or MicroX or Exceed or hope that the XFree on Windows project ships something soon. Once your user has installed an X-server on his machine, and configured it to accept connexions from your telnet server, you can tell any X-clients on the telnet server to use the user's X-server as a diaplay. On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, john smith wrote: ok...I'll try to clarify thisBasically, What I want is: o User is on one machine in local network (windows) O Wants to connect to a second machine (debian) user wants to telnet to debian (using windows) then wants to try to run x-window via telnet. how can these be done temporarily and easily? with no regard to security if it will make it easier... Does it make any sense? there is no particular reason why we want to do this other than just to try and make it work. ...if I've misunderstood your post, please clarify your question. One possible other interpretation is that you are trying to telnet *from* 10.1.0.1 to 10.1.0.2, and want to start an X session *on the remote host* (note that this ordinarily isn't viewable to the user). Generally, the file /etc/X11/Xserver disallows non-root users from initiating an X session unless they're sitting at the console. See this file for further information (its about a dozen lines). -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Can't mount CD-ROM SOLVED!!
Ah... That's because music CDs are not written in ISO 9660 format. They are in Red Book Audio, which mount doesn't handle. (Why bother? There's no filesystem anyway...). cdplayer knows about audio, therefore it works. On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Dale Morris wrote: Well then, let me explain: I had a music cd in the drive. When I issued the command to mount, I got a wrong filesystem, bad block.. error message. But when I executed the program cdplayer, it scanned the cd and began playing it. Thus far, I haven't taken the time to dig up a linux cd and see if it will mount. I just assume since it will play the cd, it's working fine, even though it still doesn't mount.. I may have been a little premature informing the list my problem was solved, I just didn't want anyone going to the effort of replying when it was working.. On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:25:55PM -0700 32, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 10:01:02PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: It's working!! That's rather less illuminating than information as to how you solved the problem. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 -- Make voyages, attempt them, there's nothing else. --Tennessee Williams -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Linux Newbie!! Help!!!!! 2
Argh, no! Well, okay, you COULD do that, but then you'd be wasting the efforts of the kernel-package maintainer... Do an apt-get install kernel-package kernel-source bin86 Then chdir /usr/doc/kernel-package Read the README.Debian On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Dave Sherohman wrote: Ronald Castillo said: I also would like to know how can I recompile the kernel. I installes APMD but it asked me to recompile the kernel but I don't know how to do it. Thanks!! Check out the kernel-HOWTO. -- Two words: Windows survives. - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin. - Matthew Alton Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P L+++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI D G e* h+ r++ y+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: Installing Debian on 486
Hi Daniel, I've done exactly what you have on an old 486. What you DO need is a floppy drive and an internet connexion. An old external modem should do the trick. Go to your local debian mirror and find the floppies. You should be able to get potato boot disks at: ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/imag es-1.44 -Original Message- From: Daniel Stehm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 1:42 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Installing Debian on 486 Hey guys, having a problem here. I have a 486, 12 megs of RAM, 480 megs on hard-drive, floppy (3 1/2), and a (gasp) 5 1/2 drive. I want to get ANY linux distro on it that I can, (wishing for debian) I dont care too much about packages, I just want some form of linux on here. I really dont want to take CD-Rom out of this and hook it up to the 486's motherboard, etc; etc; or connect them etc; Im hoping, if at all possible, from what ive heard its possible to install Linux onto a computer using floppies! Thats what im hoping to do, install Linux onto this 486 using floppies! If someone would mind telling me how to go about doing that, id appreciate it. E-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks alot --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.166 / Virus Database: 79 - Release Date: 6/20/00 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: Dual-Boot Win2K Debian
It's more like NT, but it matters not. You can still use LILO to boot, if you're more comfortable with that. Otherwise, do that NT bootloader thing, but that requires you to copy over the bootsector to your NT drive everytime you upgrade your kernel. -Original Message- From: Nate Duehr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nate Duehr Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 2:29 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Dual-Boot Win2K Debian Hi all, An unfortunate requirement for a particular piece of software from my workplace and the desire to play a few games is forcing me to put Win2K on my desktop machine here at home, which used to be a Windows Free Zone... The question I have is, how to properly dual-boot Win2K and Linux? Does 2K act more like 95/98 which is easy to dual-boot from LILO, or is it more like NT in which you edited the boot.ini file and could boot Linux from the NT bootloader easier than messing with LILO? Anyone doing this? I did a quick Google search and didn't find much of value on the topic... yet. Thanks, -- Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others.
RE: just a question
Nero does it quite well. You can find instructions on how to use it (and other burners) at cdimage.debian.org -Original Message- From: Geoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 9:43 PM To: Robert J. Zdebiak Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: just a question well by your email program... your using windoze... ok have you got Easy CD Creator? Ok in both version 3.5 and 4 go to FILE... then CREATE CD FROM DISK IMAGE. By default it looks for CIF files ...use the drop-down box and chose ISO image files ...then just browse and find where you saved the ISO image and then it should write normally... NERO can do it as well but I haven't discovered how yet... Cheers Geoff At 07:11 pm 12/08/00 -0600, you wrote: I have downloaded the iso images from an ftp server on the net and was just curios as of how to burn them on to a cd.. please help.. : ) A Real Newbie Geoff New Zealand -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: where do all the *.deb files go?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I've removed packages (with dpkg --remove packagename) and even purged (with dpkg --purge packagename), I've noticed that I have been able to get everything back (via apt-get install packagename) without apparently going back into the ftp site designated in sources.list. My question is, are the original *.deb files stored somewhere on my hard drive, and if so, in which directory. If the original *.deb files are not kept, then how does apt-get rescue the package? Not only am I curious, but if the *.deb files are kept somewhere, I would like to back them up, since it takes a long time to rebuild my system on my old 33.6 b modem! Sure. They happen to be residing in /var/cache/apt/ where they will happily sit until you say apt-get clean . Hope this helps. Simon -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.1 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBOP5TKJaW8HTyHmHCEQLQdgCfTz6Vkw+d2vSqSZQvpJ19h8EfpiMAoNQ7 CNZsubW3Izm3oPSjR+Gq1G5D =iKQq -END PGP SIGNATURE-
RE: virtual ip's
Download the kernel-source package and the kernel-package package. Recompile your kernel with IP aliasing turned on. You can find information about how to recompile your kernel in /usr/doc/kernel-package. Simon On Fri, 5 May 2000, Wayne Sitton wrote: how do I enable ip aliasing? -Original Message- From: Oswald Buddenhagen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 12:44 PM To: Wayne Sitton Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: virtual ip's How do I bind 2 ip's to the same nic in Debian enable ip aliasing in the kernel. then do: ifconfig eth0 ip1/mask [foo...] ifconfig eth0:1 ip2/mask [bar...] -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: LILO and Multiple Disks
I tried setting hdd from 0x82 and from 0x83 but to no avail. Any other ideas? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Pfeifer Sent: Sunday, January 2, 2000 9:50 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: LILO and Multiple Disks And one more time to make it a hat trick... I just noticed in your original post that /dev/hdd is identified as BIOS device 0x82, not 0x83 snip
RE: LILO and Multiple Disks
Tom Pfeifer wrote: Simon Law wrote: I tried setting hdd from 0x82 and from 0x83 but to no avail. Any other ideas? Not really. The only thing that comes to mind is that maybe the swapping only works for drives on the same IDE channel. In other words 0x80/0x81 and 0x82/0x83. That is just a guess having never experimented with this. What happened when you tried it? Any error messages etc? Absolutely nothing, really. I boot up the system, select Win98 and hit enter. Loading Win98 comes up on the screen and it just sits there until I reboot. Simon
RE: LILO and Multiple Disks
For those following my ongoing saga... I have gone with wimp out solution. I have gone and physically switched my Win98 and Linux drives. Thus, Win98 becomes hda, and the BIOS boots its MBR first. What I am now using is PowerQuest's BootMagic to default to the Linux partition instead of LILO. This seems to work quite adequately. Since I was unable to boot my Linux partition afterward, I'm pretty sure something was looking for hda1, I went and installed slink r4. Thanks for all your help, Simon
RE: [Off-Topic] Pentium Motherboard
From: AU,SCOTT CHUONG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] snip 1. It seems there's a VGA controller built into the motherboard with an accompanying serial cable to attach to a monitor. Does this mean I no longer need a video card like in older 486/386 models? If there's a port to attach it, then yes, you should be okay. Some manufacturers lower their manufacturing costs by putting the video circuitry right on the motherboard. 2. All memory was stripped (except for what I believe is a lithium CMOS battery). When I tried turning it on, there's no startup seen on my monitor. Am I correct in assuming I need some memory for the BIOS to load? Or is this related to Question 1 (ie I need to purchase a video card). IIRC, Pentium Pro motherboards do not have 640KB conventional on-board, which means that you'll need to invest in some RAM for it before you'll be able to see anything. 3. Looking at the ports, I noticed some 8 bit slots (no Vesa Local Bus slots though) and some shorter ports I did not recognize. Are these PCI ports? Hrm... PCI slots are (usually) white, have their connectors packed in tightly, and are set further away from the back of the board. 4. Additionally, there appears to a Com Port controller built into the motherboard (like the Video question above). Is this also a trend to integrate serial card controllers into the motherboard now? Yes, lately UART's have been integrated into motherboard designs. Hope this helps you, Simon.
RE: I'm confused
From: Cameron Matheson Hey, I'm am so freaking confused about configuring my kernel, it's not even funny. I was reading the sound HOWTO, when it told me to read the kernel HOWTO. I began reading that, and it told me to go to /usr/src/linux. I don't have a directory called /usr/src/linux. I went to /usr/src, and all that was in their was kernel-headers-2.0.36. What the heck? I need to get into /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound and run make config, but that directory doesn't exist. Do I need to download the new kernel? Use your favourite Debian method to get the packages: kernel-source-2.x.x and kernel-package. kernel-source-2.x.x should create a directory called /usr/src/kernel-source-2.x.x, which you can symlink to /usr/src/linux if you wish. From there, you can read /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz for more information with respect to actually compiling the kernel. Good luck, and have fun. Simon.
RE: pronunciation of daemon
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For reference...
The New Oxford Dictionary of English says...
daemon (2) /di'[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ (also demon)
noun {Computing} a background process that handles requests for
services such as print spooling and file transfers, and is dormant
when noot required.
Origin: 1980s: perhaps from d(isk) a(nd) e(xecution) mon(itor) or
from de(vice) mon(itor), or merely a transferred use of demon.
N.B. I am using alt.english.usage ASCII equivalents to IPA
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Evan_Kirshenbaum/IPA/faq.html. This
definition tells us that daemon is pronounced how most people
pronounce demon.
Simon.
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Routing Problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I seem to have a problem. The problem is this: I have two computers, one of them a Windows 98 box and one of them a slink box. I am running on a residence network and they allow me only one IP. It is 129.97.35.30 and it has to go through a gateway at 129.97.35.1 to get to the outside world. When I set up my Windows box as 192.168.2.2, then I can ping 192.168.2.1, 129.97.35.30 and 129.97.35.1 from it. However, I can't ping anyone else on 129.97.35.*, nor can I get to the outside world. If I ping from my slink box, though, I'm perfectly fine. I have already RTFM'd through the NET3-HOWTO and the Firewall-HOWTO. Any suggestions would be most helpful. For your reference, I have attached the output to both ifconfig and route. Thanks in advance, Simon. - -- - -- ifconfig loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 RX packets:403 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:403 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:C9:6F:72:E6 inet addr:129.97.35.30 Bcast:129.97.35.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:8362 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:303 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C8:16:52:BF inet addr:192.168.2.1 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:425 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:25 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 Interrupt:11 Base address:0x340 - -- - -- route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 129.97.35.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 18 eth0 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 2 eth1 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 5 lo 0.0.0.0 129.97.35.1 0.0.0.0 UG1 0 5 eth0 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.1 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBOKycF5aW8HTyHmHCEQJPIgCgtKlk23xOQjqVup11wdDxjzaVzuwAnj+P 9BpxzlwXPGeKsXvbNeNetLlt =vKse -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't downgrade to stable
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:15:53PM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a mixed system (stable+unstable) and wanted to downgrade to stable. here's my /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 1001 and /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Default-Release stable; Make sure you have stable in your sources.list. Take out APT::Default-Release stable;. Then apt-get update apt-get -t stable dist-upgrade. You should see it downgrade. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mutt tips
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 01:23:49PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: 1) How can I set the default folder for mutt to use at startup? I've used set folder=imap://... in my .muttrc, but this still requires me to do a c, =, enter when I start up mutt. I'd like my IMAP folder to automatically load up as soon as I start up mutt. == .muttrc == set spoolfile==INBOX 2) Is there any way to have mutt pass options to emacs when invoking my EDITOR? I'd like to automatically be in mail-mode with auto-fill enabled whenever emacs is called from mutt. (if anyone has suggestions for better modes to use, please do tell me) Is there a way of having mutt tell this to emacs? == .muttrc == set editor=emacsclient == .emacs == ;; Setup to use mail mode on files from mutt. From Walt Mankowski. (progn ;; from Dave Pearson: (defalias 'muttrc-mode 'sh-mode) ;; Automatically go into mail-mode if filename starts with /tmp/mutt (setq auto-mode-alist (append (list (cons ^\/tmp\/mutt 'mail-mode)) auto-mode-alist)) (defun my-mail-mode-hook () (auto-fill-mode 1) ) (add-hook 'mail-mode-hook 'my-mail-mode-hook) ) ;; End setup to use mail mode on files from mutt. 3) I've set up all of my debian mailing lists in my .muttrc using 'subscribed'. Replying to a list using L works great. What I'm looking for now is some address book functionality. I'm pretty sure that I can set up aliases for quickly addressing messages, but what about storing extended info about contacts? # aptitude install lbdb 4) From looking at my messages on the waiting to be sent screen, it doesn't look like my From: line is being filled in at all. I'm sure I can set it up in my .muttrc to be whatever I want, but shouldn't it default to something intelligent like: Real Name (per /etc/passwd) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mutt should auto-generate this. However, you may choose to create your own From lines. == .muttrc == set use_from=no my_hdr From: Simon Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good luck. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Not understanding pdflatex
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:13:33PM -0500, David P James wrote:
Gary Turner wrote:
It is interesting to note that gv and xpdf render Type3 fonts very
nicely while Acroread looks like crap. Regardless of how they look on
screen, printed docs will look fine.
See /usr/share/doc/texmf/tetex/TETEXDOC.pdf.gz There are a few words
about this. Basically, Acroread barfs of Type3 (bitmap) fonts. There
was a recent thread here on how to get Type1 fonts. I tried and found
this set of instructions to work. Do
[la]tex sample
dvips -Ppdf sample
ps2pdf sample.ps
This should yield a pdf file that Acroread can render nicely.
Really? It usually comes out looking pretty awful if you ask me when
looked at with Acroread. I've had much more success with:
texi2pdf sample.tex
If you want straight PDFs, it's best to use PDFLaTeX straight at
the command line. To get Type 1 embedded fonts instead of bitmapped
ones, you have two options:
1) Install the cm-super fonts, which have not yet been packaged.
Bug 133649.
2) Ask LaTeX to use the Old Type 1 fonts, which will then grab the Blue
Sky fonts. \usepackage[OT1]{fontenc}
Simon
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Re: Linux: a gentle, growing approach
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 11:50:18AM -0700, Josh Rehman wrote: I want to master Linux. I figure there are two ways to learn Linux system administration and usage. The first is to install a distribution and then explore it's nooks and crannies. The second is to begin with a seed and *grow* the nooks and crannies as needed. The former method is overwhelmingly used; I'd like to see more of the latter, because it's the more effective approach for advanced studies. I suspect that although the second is more effective, it is incredibly difficult to implement; especially with complex systems that have evolved instead of being designed. I believe that the second approach is superior because complexity is best understood when the student understands why the complexity was introduced in the first place. And the best way to accomplish *that* is to present the student with the problems that the complexity was originally introduced to solve. Then when they are stumped, you can give them the answer and they can say, ah. Yes, that is an excellent way of teaching people. I use it upon myself, when I try to learn a new technology. I'll search around for an elegant pre-built solution to a problem; because I suspect that someone has encountered it before and solved it well. This typically works. WRT GNU/Linux in general and the Debian distribution in particular, there are several aspects of the OS that still baffle me, and frankly intimidate me with their complexity. The boot process is one of these, as is the nature of the filesystem, dev and proc in particular. Logging is opaque to me. There are many aspects of the system where it is not clear where the responsibilities of one program ends and the other begins. I find the blurred distinction between shell scripts and compiled programs to be confusing. Not to mention the dizzying array of configuration files and their baroque syntax! Unfortunately, you have stumbled upon that fact that your computer is a general purpose calculator, and is ridiculously complex. I can tell you what you need to learn about before your confusion can completely disappear. The boot process on an i386 machine (which I assume you have) is the result of a design decision that IBM made in the 1980s. You will probably want to learn how the BIOS works, and about reserved sections of your hard disk. In the UNIX world, everything (well, almost) is a file. Thus, the /dev and /proc filesystems appear to be files to all your programs, and you can manipulate them in that way. To know more about the /dev filesystem, you will want to look at major/minor numbers from the original UNIX. The /proc filesystem controls various aspects of the kernel, and can be considered as pieces of the kernel exported to file. Logging is done through syslogd and klogd. Their documentation may explain things better; for they are quite simple programs. The quick difference between shell scripts and compiled programs is that shell scripts are human-readable, and need to be interpreted by other programs to turn them into executable machine code. Compiled programs are already executable machine code. Configuration files... well, they just evolved that way. There's not much you can do about their differing syntax, although there are many projects that try to unify them into a single interface. Typically, configuration files are designed to be easy to parse, and then they just grow as more features are added to the program they configure. I am looking to understand and manipulate a Linux system with the minimum number of tools to accomplish certain simple goals. The goals increase in complexity. Tools should be introduced only as needed to accomplish a goal that is simply impossible (or would require an inordinate amount of shell or c work) with a current toolset. Doing this, you will be very far from the level a beginner would start at. UNIX was originally a toy operating system, made to test a new filesystem, to drive a video-display terminal, and to just much around with. One of the first uses of UNIX was to program (and program in) C, as well as typeset books for ATT Labs. In this context, the base tools presume that you are an operating system hacker who likes to manipulate source files and documentation. Since this is UNIX in its purest and simplest form, you may wish to study Operating System theory and play with teaching operating systems. As well, studying compiler theory will help immensely, especially since you'll learn about regular expressions. With these, you can get by incredibly decently, with only the tools that Aho, Keringhan, Ritchie, Thompson and Bourne had kicking around. It won't be a pleasant situation, but you can get work done. Ever since then, we've really just been trying to make UNIX (and UNIX clones) more powerful and easier to use. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of
Re: Name resolution on internal network
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:19:48PM -0700, nate wrote: Alex Malinovich said: I just checked it and that was it as it turns out. Interestingly enough, the problem was not that the search line was missing, but that it had \000 appended to the end of it. Since his was the first computer that I sounds like you may have a win32 DHCP server? or perhaps if you have some sort of broadband you get an IP from a remote DHCP server which may be runing win32. I have seen similar behavior(it may be exactly the same I don't remember, been about 2 years since I've been in a Win32 DHCP server enviornment) where a win32 DHCP server did this. It's exactly that problem. I've found that dhcp3-client understands this convention and behaves properly. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to pronounce Debian?
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:43:59AM -0500, will trillich wrote: medicine -- med-ih-sin, not med-ih-see-nay Er, no. Medicine is pronounce med-sin. The med-ih-sin pronounciation is a relatively recent corruption. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting console timeouts
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:19:51PM -0500, steve wrote: I was wondering it there a way to prevent the console from turning the monitor off? For instance if you want to run a program like iptraf and leave it running all the time and always have it within eye sight. You probably want to look at this: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-19.html Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading, getting the package
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 06:55:22AM -0500, Seneca wrote: On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 12:03:01PM +0200, Laura Rudmin wrote: I generally use dselect, not understanding the apt-* system (not for want of trying, but the documentation is completely opaque to me. Sorry, there seems to be a density barrier there as of right now. Maybe in a year I'll understand it...) As far as non-command-line goes, I prefer aptitude. As far as command-line goes, I prefer aptitude. Try `aptitude update` followed by `aptitude upgrade`. It's nifty. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pinfo from testing or unstable.
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:47:03AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: Can people who run testing or unstable verify the following? I have a non harmful bug with pinfo on testing or unstable. More specifically, I can scroll past what was supposed to be the bottom of the top dir page and get a 2nd copy of that page. For example when I run pinfo and scroll towards the bottom of the page I can get the following: less /usr/share/info/dir Is it duplicated within? If so, you may want to hand-hack it. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reconfiguring exim to use a smarthos
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:40:49PM -0500, stan wrote: I'm building a new Debian machine for use at work. When I ste it up at home, I took option 1 for the exim seup. Now I need to change it to use a smarthos. I looked through the exim.conf file that I have, and did not see how to do this. So, I thought I would just re-run the config. I tried: dpk-rconfigure --showold -p low exim But I did not get aske any questiosn :-( What am I doing wrong? The exim package has not been debconfiscated yet. You will want to use `eximconfig`. Make a backup of your old exim.conf before you do this. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: clearing the screen
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:40:19PM -0800, Dominic Iadicicco wrote: How do I set it up in bash, so that when I logout it will clear the screen first? Use the .bash_logout file to declare what you want to do when logging out. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: clearing the screen
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:49:47PM -0600, Justin Ryan wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 17:43, Simon Law wrote: On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:40:19PM -0800, Dominic Iadicicco wrote: How do I set it up in bash, so that when I logout it will clear the screen first? Use the .bash_logout file to declare what you want to do when logging out. Unless you aren't using bash ;p I'd like to point out that Dominic specifically specified Bash. Someone on #debian once told me how to handle this in a more elegant manner... Unfortunately, I can't remember - but it was a system-wide config file.. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Perhaps the pertinent maintainer could be asked to place this as a default, as it is not uncommon to expect the system to clear the screen when you logout, and can be a security risk if you do not.. One could wrap around /usr/bin/login to clear the screen before prompting each time. But that probably has nasty side-effects that I haven't considered. Simon P.S.Please don't CC me on mailing list posts. I already read the list, so I'll see it there. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bash
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:01:51AM +, Pigeon wrote: Puzzled Pigeon: Huh? It gets executed, according to the first line... # ~/.bash_profile: executed by bash(1) for login shells. It sure looks like a shell script, and you put shell script commands in it. And shell scripts need to be executable before you can execute them. Tries experiment: chmod a-x ~/.bash_profile and logs in from another vc. Gordon Bennett! It's true an' all. Sorry Josh, I thought that was a typo. How does that one work then? It actually gets sourced by bash, not executed. This means that it is equivalent to you typing in these commands, and not run in a separate process. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bash scripts misrepresenting white space
On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 07:44:16PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: I try, for example: for i in `ls` do echo $i done You want: for i in * do echo $i done which will do what you probably want. I'd suggest consulting the Bash info manual which should tell you what you need to know about quoting. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PINE
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, dude wrote: I know PINE is not what debian users use, but i recently convinced my girlfriend to let me install debian on her windows computer. Her only gripe with using it is that there are no debs of Pine. She has tried building it from source downloaded from washington.edu but to no avail. Are there any debian-ized sources around or even debs being help somewhere? Try apt-get install pine4-diffs and see how that works out for you. Simon
Re: X with dvorak
On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Bek Oberin wrote: I have the dvorak keymap loaded for myy everyday use in consoles, but after upgrading to X-4 it insists on using a qwerty layout. How do I set up X to use the dvorak keyboard layout? Thanks to all, BTW, for answering previous silly questions :) I am learning lots. bekj Hi Bek, You can use xmodmap to do it, or if you prefer a graphical interface, you can use xkeycaps. Simon
Re: no modules after upgrade to 2.4.13
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Rory O'Connor wrote: I just upgraded from kernel version 2.2.19pre17 to 2.4.13 and everything went fine...except that it appears no modules loaded (lsmod returns nothing). After 'make bzImage' i did 'make modules' and 'make modules_install' and that didn't break, so i assumed it went ok. would it be that the paths to the modules has changed? i'm not quite sure what to do. any help appreciated! Thanks, Rory Did you remember to 'depmod -a' after you had finished installing your new modules? As well, did you remember to select modules in the first place? (Sometimes, I get forgetful, and compile a module in, and then wonder where it's gone...) As well, you should look into kernel-package for your kernel compilation. It really takes a lot of the steps out of a kernel compile. Simon
Re: Man pages to PDF or RTF?
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Rafe B. wrote:
Hi. Nother newbie windoze-user question.
I know this has been asked before, apologies
and thanks in advance.
Is there a windoze util that will convert
Linux man pages to RTF or PDF or Postscript?
Specifically, what is the format of man pages?
TeX/roff /troff/other ??? Is there a
HOWTO for man-page format (There must also
be a nifty indexing scheme, right?)
I really want printable files. I know I can
find the man pages in HTML format at many
different websites -- that's not the point.
Furthermore, I'd prefer to be printing the
man pages that live on my own debian installation,
not some generic page off the web.
I can't think of a good way of doing this in Windows, unless you
have CygWin and GhostScript installed there.
What I =think= you can do, is something like this...
Go to a directory on your GNU/Linux machine, where you want to place
your PDFs, say /home/rafe/manpages
$ mkdir /home/rafe/manpages
$ cd /home/rafe/manpages
Then, copy your man directory over, so that you can work with them.
$ cp --recursive /usr/share/man/* .
$ cp --recursive /usr/local/man/* .
Now, you have a mirror of your manpages. Run through them and write out
your PDFs. (I am using a bash script to do this, convert to your
favourite shell.)
$ for i in `find .` ; do man -T -l $i | ps2pdf - $i.pdf ; done
After this, you can delete your duplicate manpages, leaving only your
PDFs.
$ find . -name *.gz -exec rm -f '{}' ';'
Now, for this to work, you will need groff, gs, and man-db installed.
Good luck!
Simon
Re: Small-Text console Tweaks?
On 17 Nov 2001, Sean wrote: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt Also, you have to have framebuffer support compiled into your kernel. If you happen to have a matrox card, then you'll wanto look at: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt instead. Sean On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 09:45, Rafe B. wrote: Is there a way to work in debian, outside of X-windows, using a text layout other than that awful, klunky 80-column x 25-row VGA arrangement? Eg., in DOS one could opt for smaller characters using the 'mode' command, and achieve 50 lines x 132 chars. Better yet would be a crude windowing system that works entirely in text mode (eg., similar to some pre-Win-3.1 tools from the mid 1980s.) Hrm... I think Rafe is looking for one supported by his video card. Go edit your /etc/lilo.conf. If there's an entry that says vga=normal, change it to vga=ask. From there, you can select the type of screen configuration you want on boot. After changing your lilo.conf, run /sbin/lilo again. Make sure it works, and reboot. I also recommend looking at the lilo.conf(5) manpage. Simon
Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Peter Christensen wrote: I did an apt-get dist-upgrade, to move from 2.1 to 2.2r3, then did an apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19, based on a recommendation from this mailing list. My problem now is that when I start Mozilla it takes 50 to 60 seconds before the application appears on the screen, and all the time I can hear my hard drive thrashing. After that any activity in Mozilla (such as clicking on file or edit) takes about a minute to execute. If I were using Windows I would assume that the operating system got trashed again and I would reload it for the umpteenth time. What could be happening here? I think I may be ready to buy a set of 2.2 disks because from a beginner's viewpoint it seems that successfully upgrading the OS to 2.2 was probably too much to expect. It went very smoothly (I was very impressed with how easy it was!), but I did get some messages about what seemed to be housekeeping tasks that needed to be done as a result of the upgrade. Some of them related to files that simply don't exist on my machine, so maybe something is seriously wrong. Anyway, I thought I would post this question here just in case it's an obvious, easily fixed problem. Otherwise, I'll just re-install from a new set of disks. By the way, my computer is a Pentium 200 MHz, with 32 MB of RAM. Is this too antiquated to run Mozilla, or perhaps Gnome or Galeon eventually??? Oh my. You're going to get a lot of responses telling you to upgrade; but my guess is that you're problems stems from low RAM. On 32 MB of RAM, you're going to start running deep into virtual memory because of Mozilla's big footprint. I've heard good things about Galeon, but on your computer, you may just want to stick with lynx-ssl. Simon
Re: Not Resolving on new box
On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Adahma Ashirah wrote: I've just re-installed Debian unstable onto a new box. At first it worked fine, but suddenly I cannot resolve anything. I can talk to the internal network, as well as the internet by IP address, but nothing resolves. I've been through all my files that I know to be involved in this process, and can't find any problems. Can anyone give me a list of ANY file that might effect this process? I've tried for 2 days now, and I'm at wits end. Check your /etc/resolv.conf. Make sure you have a line that says: nameserver www.xxx.yyy.zzz # Where www.xxx.yyy.zzz is the IP of your DNS server Good luck. Simon
Re: 3c905b-TX
On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Mike Atamas wrote: I am having some problems configuring my network card. I have a 3c905b-TX, which is connected to a hub which is connected to a cable modem (serviced by Comcast @Home). I have installed potato of off CD's, but I can never seem to configure the card in potato, and it does not work during the potato install. I tried getting the compact flavor of Woody (on floppy disks). Compact is supposed to support 3c905b-TX, but I can not connect to the debian server using either ftp or http. Does anyone know how I can configure my network card under potato or get it to work under Woody? During the installation, Debian will ask you to install some modules. You REALLY want to install the 3c59x module (it should be in the net section). This should initialise your network card. You can also do this manually using modconf(8). Simon
Re: Unidentified subject!
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I want to compile KImap but it requires Qt-1.4 checking for remove... yes checking for shmat... yes checking for killpg in -lucb... no checking for Qt... checking for killpg in -lucb... noconfigure: error: Qt-1.4 (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation! where can I get this Qt-1.4? Qt 1.4 is pretty old now. You may want to try going to http://www.trolltech.com/products/download/freelicense/qtfree-dl.html and downloading Qt 1.4.5. If you're just looking for an IMAP e-mail client, may I suggest KMail. Yours, Simon
Re: [newbie]Please help with Matrox G400 and XFree 4.1.0
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, R. Alexander wrote: Dear friends, I have desperately searched some appends but really cannot understand if they apply to my case. With XFree 3.x I had a perfect XF86Config for my Matrox G400 driving my 16 TFT display. Upgraded to 4.1.10 (on a 2.4.10 kernel) and am not able to get the XF86Config-4 to work and I cannot even understand why it fails !! Behaviour is that after startx for a fraction of a second I see the familiar correct gray stippled pattern filling my screen but than after a couple of flashes it dies back to the text console. Below is the startx 2 output and the XF86Config-4 file. Thank you VERY VERY VERY much for you help. Bob Alexander My guess is that you don't have a window manager or anything. This means that X just starts up, notices that it's finished running all the programs, and quits gracefully. Check to make sure you have a working /etc/X11/Xsession file. Yours, Simon
Re: [newbie]Please help with Matrox G400 and XFree 4.1.0
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, R. Alexander wrote: Simon you are a genius !!! We are getting closer. I have enlightement window manager installed but maybe the /etc/X11/Xsession is not invoking it ... When I launch xinit (not startx) as a matter of fact I see the X desktop with just a window up at left and no window manager. Unfortunately as soon as I touch the mouse the pointer starts behaving very erratically (gpm is not installed) ... I tried reading the Xsession file but it is really too cryptical for me ... btw it is very different from the /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/examples/xsession.gz file !!! Any help for me ? Again thank you very much. I'm really stuck !! Bob Actually, it was just mentioned on the list that there was a bug in xfree86-common. Check your /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start file and if there are double-quotes around $realstartup, remove them. Simon
Re: XF86Config-4
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Vitor Silva Souza wrote: Hi, I was browsing through the archives to find a way to make the wheels of my MS Intellimouse work on X. I found a piece of configuration that should be inserted on XF86Config: Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device/dev/psaux Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option SendCoreEventstrue Option Buttons 5 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection So, I inserted it as directed, and when I tried to run startx: Config Error: /etc/XF86Config:21 Section InputDevice ^ not a recognized section name Here's the version of xfree that I'm using: seattle:/etc# dpkg -l xfree* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- ii xfree86-common 4.0.3-4X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure What did I do wrong? Sounds like you're still using XFree 3.x. Do a dpkg -l xserver-xfree86 and make sure that that's version 4. Simon
Re: Unidentified subject!
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Sarimanok wrote: On Wednesday 10 October 2001 13:40, Simon Law wrote: On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I want to compile KImap but it requires Qt-1.4 checking for remove... yes checking for shmat... yes checking for killpg in -lucb... no checking for Qt... checking for killpg in -lucb... noconfigure: error: Qt-1.4 (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation! where can I get this Qt-1.4? Qt 1.4 is pretty old now. You may want to try going to http://www.trolltech.com/products/download/freelicense/qtfree-dl.html and downloading Qt 1.4.5. If you're just looking for an IMAP e-mail client, may I suggest KMail. Yours, Simon Yes, I want to use Kmail but mine is older (Kmail 1.2, KDE 2.1.2) and it can't support IMAP. Can you show me the way to upgrade it with apt-get ? Just change your /etc/apt/sources.list to unstable and apt-get kmail. It may upgrade a whole bunch of other stuff, but I've been running unstable KDE for months, and it's been just fine. Ivan does a really good job keeping up-to-date. Simon
Re: kernel 2.4.10 and alsa
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Marc Becher wrote: hi, alsa-source-0.5 won't compile against kernel-source-2.4.10 unless in /usr/src/linux(or whatever)/include/linux/timer.h line 22 typedef struct timer_list timer_t; isn't commented out. Just didn't find a bug-report and asked myself if this is worth to be reported ? Probably not. You'll be wanting alsa-source from unstable, which is at 0.9. The development version is quite nice compared to the stable one. Simon
Re: no shell, unable to cd to /home/*
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, pirmin2 wrote: Thanks for the advice about the appropriate permissions. I followed it and - beginning in pwd /root - now get the following outputs: ls -ld /home drwxr-sr-x6 root root 4096 Oct 10 19:03 /home ls -las /home total 100 4 drwxr-sr-x6 root root 4096 Oct 10 19:03 . 60 drw-rw 24 root root57344 Oct 10 18:46 .. 12 drwxr-sr-x 77 avh avh 12288 Oct 7 03:05 avh 16 drwxr-sr-x2 root root16384 May 4 02:23 lost+found 4 drwxr-sr-x2 mcr mcr 4096 Oct 6 23:52 mcr 4 drwxr-sr-x4 avh users4096 Sep 2 21:44 pool su avh No shell su - avh Unable to cd to /home/avh Shall I send strace output again? Andreas Do a 'chsh avh' and give yourself a shell, such as /bin/bash. It should work from there on. Simon
Re: no shell, unable to cd to /home/*
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, pirmin2 wrote: it should but I'm afraid it doesn't... A. chsh avh Changing the login shell for avh Enter the new value, or press return for the default Login Shell [/bin/bash]: return su avh No shell su - avh Unable to cd to /home/avh chsh avh Changing the login shell for avh Enter the new value, or press return for the default Login Shell []: /bin/bash su - avh Unable to cd to /home/avh su avh No shell ls -al /bin/bash -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 407356 Sep 23 01:22 /bin/bash Check your /etc/passwd and make sure avh is configured right. If you have shadow passwords enabled, check /etc/shadow too. Simon
Re: Software DVD players vmware express
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Royce Bell wrote: Silly boy... We're male! That's why. It's a kind of ultimate control of the remote control thing -- or so my wife thinks. Per Jason's post and while I'm at it, does anyone have any perspective on vmware express or a similar product that will let me run a very complicated, Windows(tm)-based Bible research program under Libranet? Or, perhaps I should ask if anyone has installed vmware under Libranet (vmware has been tested on RedHat, Caldera, SuSE, TurboLinux)? I ~must~ have access to this research program, since I know of nothing comparable that is available for GNU/Linux (any ideas?). If Libranet is like Debian, vmware should install fine. I can't tell what kernel version Libranet is at, but be aware that VMWare 2.x needs patches if you are to use kernel 2.4.7 or higher. Simon
Re: EXT3
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Aniartia wrote: For the sake of mild curiosty, what's 'special' about the -ac kernels? Alan Cox distributes it (as opposed to the plain old Linus Torvalds kernels). A lot of stuff Torvalds picks up was in -ac for some time before, this is helpful in letting the lunatic fringe take care of the major bugs before it goes into Linus's kernel... Hey! Who are you calling lunatics? *grin* Actually, I've found that the current -ac trees have been more stable due to the use of a more reliable VM. Due to the latest Linux bug, everybody should upgrade to 2.2.19 or 2.4.12, and 2.4.12-ac3 has been doing quite admirably on my systems. Simon
Re: Q: dns /exim / inetd (?) slow startup (2)
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Ingo Hohmann wrote: Hi to all, I'm still trying to find out what may make name resolution and exim startup to slow down to a crawl ... I'd put even money on this being a reverse DNS problem. You see, exim and telnetd will both use tcpwrappers to do reverse DNS checking. To see if this is happening, look in /etc/hosts.deny on 10.1.1.1 for a line that says ALL: PARANOID. (This is a Debian default, and has been flamefested a while ago. Check the archives if you want pros vs. cons.) To see if this is why things are slow, try commenting that line out on 10.1.1.1. If this fixes things, you can two choices. 1) Leave that line commented out. Your daemons won't do DNS sanity checks, but it is *simpler* that the alternative. 2) Setup your DNS server to resolve RDNS. You should have an entry for in-arpa.1.1.1.10 that resolves to the hostname for that computer. This is the Right Way to do it. Hope this helps! Yours, Simon
Re: EXT3
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Morbo wrote: Hi, Where do you get those Alan Cox kernels from ? Many thanks in advance! regards, Balazs The easiest way is to get them from kernel.org. Grab the appropriate Linus kernel and apply the -ac patch. Simon
Re: the {home} and {end} keys in woody via ssh
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
Greetings,
I use PuTTY to ssh into my boxen. I recently upgraded a couple of them
to
woody, and the {home} and {end} keys don't seem to work properly anymore,
instead of going to the beginning or end of the line, they produce a tilde
and a beep. They function properly at the console, but not when I ssh into
the boxes. How do I adjust them back to their original functionality.
xterms also behave slightly funny. Here's my /etc/inputrc which
you can adapt to your needs. (Perhaps you want to set xterm like
behaviour by default, and then use normal console behaviour for hard
logins.)
# /etc/inputrc - global inputrc for libreadline
# See readline(3readline) and `info rluserman' for more information.
# Be 8 bit clean.
set input-meta on
set output-meta on
# To allow the use of 8bit-characters like the german umlauts, comment
# out
# the line below. However this makes the meta key not work as a meta
# key,
# which is annoying to those which don't need to type in 8-bit
# characters.
# set convert-meta off
# Make keyboard work right with xterms
$if term=xterm
\e[1~: beginning-of-line
\e[3~: delete-char
\e[4~: end-of-line
\e[d: backward-word
\e[c: forward-word
$endif
Re: Shift-Return
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Walter Hofmann wrote: Whenever I press Shift-Return in less it displays ESCOM. This is annoying because to search for a string in a file, I need to press / + RETURN repeatedly to cycle through the places where the string was found. I have a german keyboard and to type / I need to press Shift. But if I hold down Shift too long less will not accept the return key but just display /ESCOM in the last line. How can I make less accept Shift-Return? I think the solution to your problem may be to push n which will give you the next instance of the search. (Look in less --help for details.) The reason less is printing ESCOM is because Shift-Return is actually \eOM which written out, will spell ESC O M. ESCOM. Simon
Re: newline in terminal??
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Rohan Deshpande wrote: Hey again, ASDF JLK; This bug is really annoying me. I use the terminal just like everyone else and having my text be rewritten over as I type is just plain annoying. Anyone discovered a solution yet? I've got a question for you. Is your prompt set to use non-printing characters (like ANSI escape codes for colours?) If so, your shell may be confused about the number of characters you actually have on a line. If so, you will want to escape your non-printing characters by surrounding them with \[ and \]. Simon
Re: rtc module with 2.4.12-ac3
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, DvB wrote: When configuring 2.4.12-ac3, I couldn't find an option for real time clock... I decided not to worry about it and got an error while booting about not being able to find char-major-10-135 which, according to modules.conf, is the rtc module. Is it there and I'm just not finding it? It's there all right. If you're using menuconfig or xconfig, you can find it under 'Character Devices' as 'Enhanced Real Time Clock.' If you do a standard config, it'll be known as CONFIG_RTC. Simon
Re: newline in terminal??
Hi, On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Simon Law wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Rohan Deshpande wrote: Hey again, ASDF JLK; This bug is really annoying me. I use the terminal just like everyone else and having my text be rewritten over as I type is just plain annoying. Anyone discovered a solution yet? I've got a question for you. Is your prompt set to use non-printing characters (like ANSI escape codes for colours?) If so, your shell may be confused about the number of characters you actually have on a line. If so, you will want to escape your non-printing characters by surrounding them with \[ and \]. How do I know if my prompt is set up that way? I use the 'out of the box' version of woody. An out-of-the-box install of woody should be just fine. You only have to worry about non-printing characters if you edit your shell prompt. Simon
Re: Can't mount audio CD - help
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Andy Hartford wrote: I'm having trouble mounting audio CDs. I can mount data CDs fine however. I do't think that you =can= mount an audio CD. If you want to play an audio CD (say using xmms), you usually tell it where your CD-ROM device resides (/dev/cdrom for instance). Simon
Special 3D bar graphs
Hi there, I'm looking for an application that will give me transparent 3-D bar graphs. I want to have a bar graph will three levels of depth, but because some bars in front are too tall, they obscure the data behind them. I took a look at gnuplot, but it doesn't do what I need it to do. Simon
Re: Sound configuration
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, JimmyMah wrote: I am new user to Debian linux. I have install Debian linux on my laptop and I am unable to activate the sound. I have an integrated ESS1688 sound chip and I could not find the drivers in modconf. Do I need to recompile a new kernel? Could you please advise the steps necessary to solve this problem. Hi Jimmy, Try going to this page: http://www.freecolormanagement.com/505/sound.html It looks like it might have useful information. Try configuring your sound card as a plain old Sound Blaster 16. You can use the module sb and pass it the right parameters for your card. Simon
Re: Open Source ???
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Raphael Bustin wrote: Now I'm confused.? Well, OK, I was born that way. New Debian installation.? Need to compile some source code, build an object.? Have makefile and a .C file, provided by NIC card vendor. Run make.? Make complains that modversions.h is not found.? It seems to be a deeply nested dependency. I'm guessing that this file lives in one of the kernel-headers .deb files. But hey, what's this --- At debian.org, there is no .deb for the i386 build for kernel-headers-2.2.18pre21.? Oddly enough, there is such a file for sparc. Nor is there such a .deb file on my debian distribution CD.? So which .deb file do I need to get this steenking header file? Is there some clue in the naming of this distro (2.2.18pre21) that would lead me to the answer? Clearly I haven't learned to think in Linux terms yet... Hello, You guessed correctly! You should upgrade to kernel-image-2.2.19 and get kernel-headers-2.2.19. 2.2.18pre21 is phased out. Simon
Re: Open Source ???
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Raphael Bustin wrote: At 11:54 PM 11/4/01 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Raphael Bustin wrote: Nor is there such a .deb file on my debian distribution CD. So which .deb file do I need to get this steenking header file? Is there some clue in the naming of this distro (2.2.18pre21) that would lead me to the answer? Clearly I haven't learned to think in Linux terms yet... Hello, You guessed correctly! You should upgrade to kernel-image-2.2.19 and get kernel-headers-2.2.19. 2.2.18pre21 is phased out. Whew. Hard to keep up. You know -- I didn't personally select 2.2.18pre21 -- it was on a CD that came with Debian GNU/Linux Bible. Why would the author of this book choose to distribute a short-lived version of Debian? And, isn't it required that *all* the sources (including headers) be archived, for all releases? In effect, I'm being forced to upgrade a working installation for lack of source files. A wee bit annoying. This might all be a bit simpler if I had a working network connection (on the Debian box,) but you see... that's in fact what I'm struggling to achieve. Ugh. 2.2.18pre21 was shipped with Debian for a _long_ time. I don't know when the maintainer upped the package... Try looking for kernel-source-2.2.18pre21 on your CD. It will have the headers (and the not-headers *grin*) which you should be able to use. Simon
Re: Converting from gub back to lilo
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Stan Brown wrote: I have a machine (potato + Progeny + 2.4.9 kernel) which curently uses grub in the MBR for a boot loader. Now, I'm pretty happy with grub, but I need to build a disaster recovery CD using Mondo for thei machien, and Mondo does not support grub yet. So, I need to covnert back to lilo. Seems to me that IO need to get a valid lili.conf, and run lilo, right? Will this overwrite the existing MBR? Yes, it will--if you tell LILO to install itself within the MBR. From what I can tell of the documentation, you don't actually have to install LILO, you just need it so that Mondo can use it. Other than that, I build kernels using kernel-package, and somehow it knows to use grub, so I need to figure out how to tell it to use lilo instead. Whats The Debian Way of doing this? The packages that kernel-package uses already know about LILO. They will ask you if you want to rewrite your boot sector. Simon
Re: LyX not setting margins correctly
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Benjamin Pharr wrote:
LyX is not setting the margins to the values I specified. I tried the
hoffset/voffset trick in the preamble, but that just scooted everything.
Now my top and left margins are correct, but the bottom and right margins
are huge. I tried tweaking the margins under Layout-Document, but it
doesn't seem to have much affect. Any ideas? Thanks in advance,
Look inside fullpage.sty for ways to set your margins. Or you
might want to \usepackage{fullpage} in your preamble, and then play with
your margins. You can find fullpage.sty in tetex-extra.
(I'm no LaTeX wizard, but your might want to set your
\textheight and \textwidth to larger values in order to get your right
and bottom margins correct.)
Simon
TeX question
I just installed the eco package, which uses the European Computer Modern fonts. I'm quite happy with them, but I've just noticed that all my Computer Modern fonts (cmr) are being mysteriously turned into European fonts (ecrm). How do I stop this from magically happening? Simon
Re: Which kernel is recommended to run in debian testing?
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, op wrote: Yesterday I installed 2.4.13-ac8 for the ext3 stuff. It didn't work too well so I reverted to 2.4.13-ac6 which hasn't crashed for 5 hours and 19 minutes. This is probably because Alan introduced some new IDE code in -ac7. We should see that stuff stabilising RSN. Simon
Re: Eterm weirdness
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Jim McCloskey wrote: I've had various problems with the newer versions of Eterm, in testing and unstable. Most are now either resolved or are already in the Bug Archive (the weird tty group ownership for instance). One problem remains, though, and it strikes me as really strange. When Eterm is called, I get a terminal beep and this string: 1;2c appears after the shell prompt. Has anyone else seen this, or have any clue where these symbols might be coming from? Have you tried opening a plain old xterm? What about your PS1? Maybe your prompt is doing funny stuff. Simon
Re: 3c905c
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi! I run myself potato in another machine with a 3c509B without any problem! But I am asking about the 3c905c, this one doesn't appear in the net section of the Debian installation program... I can try with the 3c509 driver and see... Cheers, Marcelo Marcelo, The 3c905C-TX should work with the 3c59x module. This one module covers a wide gamut of 3Com cards, and is somewhat misnamed. Simon
Re: dpkg upgrade error
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:25:39AM -0700, Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote: When I looked at the preinst script, it seemed to be choking because /usr/share/doc/libdb2-util wasn't a soft link. I think it may not have even existed. I created a temporary directory, made /usr/share/doc/libdb2-util a soft-link to it, tried it again, and everything went fine. It deleted the soft link and did whatever it wanted to do (stuck some documentation in there, or a soft link thereto, or something). I think that should work OK, although I wouldn't guarantee it. For myself, I edited the preinst in the .deb and added '|| true' to the end of the offending line, as the script seemed to be intended to do something if /usr/share/doc/libdb2-util was a symbolic link but probably wasn't intended to fail if it was a real directory. This should have been fixed in the latest upload. Simon
Re: Pentium Freezes (Potato)
On 13 Jan 2002, Elizabeth Barham wrote: Hi, I recently purchased a pentium machine (HP Vectra VL Series 4 5/100, 32M). I installed debian upon it but noticed that the machine would freeze up on occasion even in initial installation (badblocks read test [rw worked fine]). Eventually I installed the whole system, but when re-compiling the kernel, again, system-freeze. snip Any ideas? and thank you for any help. It definitely sounds like bad hardware. I'd unplug all your expansion cards, and try it like that. (Sometimes, a peripheral will start acting up and mess up the bus.) If that doesn't work, you might have to try another video card. If none of those work, it's probably your motherboard. Try upgrading the BIOS (if it's flashable,) or replacing that. Good luck! Simon
Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:13:09AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson insinuated: What exactly is ytalk? version of it. scrolls text instead of wrapping it; doesn't show random old english and runic characters for delete symbols on another terminal; allows you to shell back to a prompt during a session (to the great annoyance of people with whom i'm ytalking, hehe); c. that's all i've found about it in the month or two i've been using it, and it's been a great help in accounting for different terminal types from costa rica to austria and all the internet cafes in between. The absolute best thing about ytalk is that you can chat with more than one person at a time. That's right, your window will be split into 3 or 4 or however many people are in the session. Simon
Re: VIM reindent with =
On 18 Jan 2002, Coen De Roover wrote: Hello, when I try to reindent a code block in visual mode or in command mode while standing on the line that needs to be reindented, I use the = command. This works, but the change is only visible when I press another (arrow) key afterwards. Is this typical VIM behaviour or can this be changed in the preferences ? This is normal behaviour. Just like most other vi commands, vim is expecting a motion from you. For example, =j or =}. If you just want to indent the _current_ line, you hit == Simon
Re: What is wrong with gcc-doc?
On 18 Jan 2002, Paul Smith wrote: Hmm, after much searching I found gcc-2.95-doc which seems to install OK. I kind of wish it would have been called gcc-doc-2.95 instead as that would have made my searches for it a _LOT_ more successful, but oh well :) Well, it is the documentation for gcc-2.95, so it makes sense for it to be called gcc-2.95-doc. Simon
Re: need help compiling kernel: problems with make menuconfig
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, seg wrote: Just reinstalled a Debian/GNU system. I didn't install X, has it wouldn't load up correctly and didn't it. Without X, to compile a new kernel I am forced to use make menuconfig. Which supposedly requires the package ncurses-dev. Using Debian's apt-get utility I tried to install ncurses-dev. It returns an error, which I should I have noted, in brief in states that ncurses is out of date and that I can only install libncurses6-dev (which replaced it). So I did. When I tried to make menuconfig, it returned an error saing it could not find the ncurses libraries. What can I do? I tried using apt-get to install X, but I can't seem to find the right package name. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I think you need both libncurses5-dev and libncurses5. The first to compile menuconfig, the second so that the configuration program can actually link to something. Simon
Re: *SOLVED* (Was: Mozilla fonts huge--'File' menu item takes up most of screen)
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote: And I heard Miquel van Smoorenburg exclaim: snip Daniel When I start up Mozilla, the fonts are *huge*. I'm running at Daniel 1600x1200, and the 'File' menu item takes up the majority of Daniel the screen (nice scaling, by the way--not a bit blocky : ). snip If you have TrueType fonts defined in the Files section of /etc/X11/XF86Config[-4] then it might help to put them last. snip No idea *why* this would help but it works for me .. Mike. Thanks, Mike, fiddling with the order of the font paths *did* work (I also removed one entry I didn't need). Mysterious, yes--but at least *fixable* and mysterious : ). Thanks again-- Are you running at 75dpi when you should be running X at 100dpi? Simon
Re: Configuring remote xdm
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Tim Grogan wrote: Hi, being a relative newbie with Debian I'm looking for some help. I'm running woody 2.2.20 and KDE. Does anyone have a step-by-step guide on setting up xdm to support remote x-windows sessions or that can point me in the right direction. I've found a how-to that is geared for Redhat but of course directories and files are not the same. Thanks in advance. Tim Hi Tim, Hrm... It's probably a good idea to find out _why_ you want remote X sessions. Do you want to have many X-terminals around your room so that you can login to a central computer from any one of them? If so, xdm is what you want. If you want to run X applications remotely, from another computer, xdm is the wrong tool. You will want to use SSH with X11 forwarding. Simon
Re: place for routing commands
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Juha Pesonen wrote: Hello list. I would like to have a route added each time I reboot, and it doesn't feel a very good (general) solution to put it into network init.d-scripts. /etc/network direcrory contains some directories like ip-up.d etc. So, what's the Debian way of doing this these days? Another interesting thing: when I type pipe character and a space after that, the space is not (0x20) but something else (is displayed as a space). This happens only after pipe-char at least in xemacs and console. First I didn't know that, and spent a lot of time with a program that gcc refused to compile because of a syntax error :) System is Debian unstable with kernel 2.4.12 (+ fixes to use 2.4 series krn) regards, Juha. You're looking for /etc/network/interfaces. You can use the up command, which is documented in `man interfaces`. Simon
Re: Big Brother deb?
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Chapman, Matt wrote: Anyone know of a place I can get the latest big brother deb for sparc or even intel? -Matt Chapman Big Brother is not packaged for Debian anymore. Try spong, which can inter-operate with Big Brother and seems to work much better. Simon
Re: What happened to dhcpcd
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Cameron Kerr wrote: Hello, can anyone tell me why there is no longer any packages for dhcpcd in testing or unstable. I'd rather not use pump, since I've heard that it has problems with multiple interfaces. dhcpcd is in stable, and is what I have been using. You're looking for the dhcp-client package. Simon
Re: HOWTO? Fix a term that has space junk
Better than that. For an instant fix, just make the terminal display Ctrl-O. The easiest way is to type run 'echo Ctrl-V Ctrl-O' which will make the terminal reset itself. Simon On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, will trillich wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:32:30PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: Quoting will trillich([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:51:11AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: it clears the screen if you type reset but I do it so often I added this to my .inputrc file # Reset terminal on F1 \033[[A: reset\C-M So now a F1 does it. cool! mind if i add that to my newbie tips? :) Go ahead, thats what its for. :) well okay then: -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #30 from Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Are you seeing GIBBERISH after viewing a binary file on your console (or in an xterm/rxvt window)? Add this to your ~/.inputrc file: \033[[A: reset\C-M Now when you need a quick tty reset, just press F1 at the command prompt. Try info rluserman for more options. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flush route table?
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is it possible to flush the route table in debian with the route cmd? I know its possible in freeBSD. If not what might be some other options? Thank you in advance for your time. Hi there, If you have the iproute package installed, you can run: ip route flush Simon
Re: local package mirror
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Brad Cramer wrote: I have a machine running Redhat that has a lot of free disk space on it and I would like to use it to set up a local package mirror for the rest of my network that is running Debian. Could someone give me some pointers or point me to a howto on doing this. Hi Brad, Try taking a look at: http://www.debian.org/mirrors/ You'll want to have rsync installed, and have it point to a push-primary. Simon
Re: kdebase-crypto
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i'm trying to get konqueror set up to access https pages. the setup tells me that i need to install kdebase-crypto, but apt-get install kdebase-crypto responds: Package kdebase-crypto has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list However the following packages replace it: kdebase E: Package kdebase-crypto has no installation candidate anybody have any suggestions as to how i can get konqueror set up? I'm guessing you're running testing? kdebase-crypto is in unstable, and I'm guessing that it hasn't filtered down into testing yet. If you want, you can just download the package and do a dpkg -i on it. Oh, I hope you don't need to access https through a proxy server. konqueror doesn't seem to have that functionality yet. Simon
Re: kdebase-crypto
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Simon Law wrote: I'm guessing you're running testing? kdebase-crypto is in unstable, and I'm guessing that it hasn't filtered down into testing yet. If you want, you can just download the package and do a dpkg -i on it. hrm . . . E: Package kdebase-crypto has no installation candidate using: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free or deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free i went to download it and it shows kdelibs3-crypto as a dependency, but E: Package kdelibs3-crypto has no installation candidate. i'm starting to think this may be more trouble than it's worth. i mean, do i /really/ need another browser . . .;) Aha! Have you got: deb http://http.non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sid/non-US main contrib non-free in your sources.list? If not, that might be a problem, because kdebase-crypto is/was (?) export restricted. Simon
Re: Installation Problems with USB keyboard
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Christoph Pickart wrote: Am Freitag 04 Mai 2001 08:45 schrieb Anthony Lau: At 11:03 PM +0200 5/3/2001, Christoph Pickart wrote: Hello debian users, since a couple of hours I try to install debian 2.2r2 on an AMD1GHz, AsusA7M266 with USB keyboard and mouse. I'm pretty sure the Asus BIOS has the option of having the BIOS take care of the USB ports. This will allow you to setup the kernel and install correctly. The only options I found in the BIOS setup were to enable or disable legacy USB support. That's the option that you want. Legacy USB support allows support for OS's that don't have support for USB keyboard and the like. http://support.intel.com/support/peripherals/usbnotes.htm Of course, once you have 2.2 or 2.4 recomplied with USB support, you should be fine. (You probably want to leave Legacy USB support on, I'm not sure if you can use LILO without it.) Simon
Re: SSH-2.4.0 ./configure error
On Sat, 5 May 2001, J. [iso-8859-1] Ram?n Fdez wrote: I'm trying install ssh in my firewall linux box, when system run ./confugre in ssh-2.4.0 directrory the next error message is displayed: checking whether the C compilier (gcc -g) works...no configure error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executalbles. Where is the mistake? Do you happen to have gcc installed? It seems like make can't find it. Perhaps gcc isn't in your $PATH.
Re: ATI Radeon compatibility
On Sun, 6 May 2001, C+J Baker wrote: I need to know if your product supports the new ATI Radeon chip. Please reply. Thank you. C. Baker I'm not sure if stable (potato) has much support for Radeon cards, but I definitely know that unstable (sid) does. IIRC, Radeon support is compiled into the kernel, and XFree86 4.0 has DRI support for it. Simon
Re: 3c905C Drivers
The 905C support was broken in 2.2.18pre21, which ships with potato. The best way to fix that is via a new kernel, but that may be messy to get on the new machine without the network. Simon On Mon, 14 May 2001, Rich Puhek wrote: Also note that if you're installing an older version of Debian, the 3c509c won't work. The older driver only worked up to the 3c509b. I'm not sure when exactly things changed, but if you're using the latest disk images you're ok. --Rich Jason Majors wrote: The 3c59x kernel module covers that card. On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:14:33PM -0700, The Reutzels scribbled... I want to get my NIC working and the only drivers that I found for the 3c905C are not for Debian. Could anybody help point me to the right place to get these drivers so I can get my network up and running. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X hangs in mysterious ways
Hello, I seem to have a small, and mysterious problem. I am running Sid with XFree86 4.0.3-3 on Linux 2.4.4. My predicament, you see, is that my X server seems to hang the machine whenever it fancies. I have maximum uptimes of about 15 to 20 minutes of usage. If I don't touch my X server, it's fine. If I don't use my X server, it's fine. I've tried MemTest86, but that passed with flying colours. Any suggestions for log files to look at, or diagnostics to run? Simon
Re: X hangs in mysterious ways
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Kevin Ross wrote: I am running Sid with XFree86 4.0.3-3 on Linux 2.4.4. My predicament, you see, is that my X server seems to hang the machine whenever it fancies. I have maximum uptimes of about 15 to 20 minutes of usage. If I don't touch my X server, it's fine. If I don't use my X server, it's fine. I've tried MemTest86, but that passed with flying colours. Any suggestions for log files to look at, or diagnostics to run? Sounds like it could be a video driver problem. There are a couple things you can try: 1. In the Device section for your video card in your XF86Config-4 file, try adding: Option NoAccel There may be other driver-specific options for your card. What driver are you using? Did that with the r128 and the ati drivers. No dice. I still get hangs. 2. In the same section, instead of your current driver, try: Driver vesa This probably won't give you great performance, but at least it should be stable. What's funny is that VESA comes up right, it detects my card beautifully; but then it complains that there aren't any screens. Simon
Re: X hangs in mysterious ways
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Kevin Ross wrote: What's funny is that VESA comes up right, it detects my card beautifully; but then it complains that there aren't any screens. Sounds like it can't find a matching resolution and refresh rate. The VESA driver is limited in what resolutions and refresh rates it will support. In Section Monitor, try commenting out everything except the Identifier. This will use a default set of refresh rates. In Section Screen, try using conservative values. Like for DefaultDepth, try 16. And in the Subsection Display for 16 bit, try just 800x600. I've got VESA to work now. I had to set it to use a bpp of 8, and then it came up fine. My computer has been up for 15 hours now, and I've been in X all this time; so I guess things are working alright (Although none of my consoles work now. *sigh* Something about the refresh rate being too low. (I always thought that text consoles ran at 60Hz.)) Anyway, this leads me to suspect that it's my video card that's busted (unlikely) or that the X driver is broken. Should I try going back to X 4.0.2 and see if that works? (I had a computer a while ago with the same type of video card, running X 4.0.2.) Actually, VESA mode isn't much slower than the accelerated driver. X 4.0.3 doesn't seem to have working Direct Rendering support for ATI cards yet. All I'm missing are the pretty colours, and I can live without them for the time being. Simon
Re: building deb-src packages
On 13 May 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: Help! I need a Manual to Fscking Read! I've downloaded the mozilla source package, but am unsure of what to do next. Do I do this: dpkg-deb --build /etc/apt/mozilla-1+rc1 or cd /etc/apt/mozilla-1+rc1 dpkg-buildpackage -ai686 Or something totally different? Make sure you have the correct deb-src lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list. Then, do a: bash$ apt-get build-dep mozilla-browser bash$ apt-get --build source mozilla-browser Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GRUB question
On 14 May 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:42:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The image goes in /boot/grub and is a .xpm.gz file. I didn't know GRUB supported a graphical menu -- if it really does, how do I enable it? The graphical stuff requires a patch that was done by somebody at RedHat. It's not in the official release of grub, though I think it's in CVS now. That's right. The graphical patch just missed 0.92. However, the stuff in CVS should be much better behaved than RedHat's patch, if I hear correctly. You can get GRUB off CVS and use the splashimage command to draw a picture in the background. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GRUB question
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:35:37PM -0400, Simon Law wrote: The image goes in /boot/grub and is a .xpm.gz file. I didn't know GRUB supported a graphical menu -- if it really does, how do I enable it? The graphical stuff requires a patch that was done by somebody at RedHat. It's not in the official release of grub, though I think it's in CVS now. That's right. The graphical patch just missed 0.92. However, the stuff in CVS should be much better behaved than RedHat's patch, if I hear correctly. What sort of improvements have been made? There's a pager so that you can see more than a screen-full of text. An improved help system, and better booting. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dhcp3-client init ???
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Michael D. Schleif wrote: I just apt-got dhcp3-client (V3.0.1rc8) onto an old potato, which is quite remote to my humble hands. I have scoured that system and found *NO* init script to startup dhclient3 -- what am I missing? I know how to configure dhclient.conf and setup the interfaces for dhcp; but, how will dhclient3 be called on reboot? I'm afraid to reboot this box -- being so remote -- until I know that this is going to work. Anybody here running this? Do you have anything for it under /etc/init.d/? Is there some other init script that calls dhclient? What do you think? There is no need to call dhclient manually, or through a SysV script. Everything you need is encapsulated in ifup/ifdown. Please see interfaces(5) to configure DHCP on boot. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
