Can somebody tell me if lpr+samba works?
I have bug #49188 reported against lpr. It basically says that all the more recent lpr's don't work with Samba, while slink's old lpr 0.33 does. Since I'm not running Samba, I'm really at a loss to confirm this. Can someone tell me if they're using this successfully? Adam Klein Debian lpr maintainer (crossposting to get large testing area; please cc: me on any replies) pgpIXvnCuk090.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: MPEG viewer
On Mon, May 31, 1999 at 08:40:02PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend a decent mpeg video viewer? Do any even exist? I've had good results from mtv (aka `mpegtv'). There's a .deb package available for free at http://www.mpegtv.com/ This is free for personal use, but it's nagware---if you elect not to pay a $10 registration fee, you're annoyed by constant pop-up screens telling you about the advantages of registering. In my (limited) experience, though, it works well, It should be noted that if you don't need a fancy front end, the back-end player 'mtvp' doesn't show any annoying pop-up screens. Adam
Re: P5A Asus board and M1541 Aladdin...
On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 10:29:30AM +0200, Illo de' Illis wrote: Well I do know this is not the right mailing list but you're so kind, so... ;) Ok, I've got this ASUS P5A-B motherboard, with this Acer Labs M5229/c1 IDE interface. This is the output of lspci -v: [snip] The BIOS is correctly set to Auto in the PIO/UltraDMA IDE modes. My question is: is it me, or the latest kernels cannot support ALi M5229 ide interface? It's available as a patch at http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/ It's also being included in the 2.3.x development series, and has a possibility of being merged into 2.2.x Adam
Re: ALI V
On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 01:58:34AM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 15:40 -0300, Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote: Hello, I have a super 7 mother board with ALI V chipset. This chipset is not directly supported by kernel 2.2, but there is a patch to support (and some others) at: http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/ If I understand well these are the official ide developers for the linux kernel. So I am considering to give it a try. Anyone out there that got udma on ALI V working with this patch? I've been using it for months. Works fine for me on my P5A. Adam
Re: Realplayer wrapper for 2.2?
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 11:05:26AM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: I remember reading that the linux realplayer 5.0 was broken with kernel 2.2 and that there was a wrapper to fix this. I just learned about the Linus keynote at comdex being broadcast and I'd like to get realplayer working to view it but I can't seem to find this wrapper anywhere. Am I delusional or does this wrapper exist, and if so, where can I find it? Use the debian package, which is an install wrapper, and also includes the fix for 2.2 kernels. Adam
Re: sony vaio 505 cdrom linux install problems
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 02:49:10PM -0400, Lindsay Morris wrote: I'm trying to install from the debian GNU/Linux release 2.1 CDROM. The CDROM is the Sony PCGA-CD5, the vaio-branded PCMCIA CDROM. The Vaio boots from the CDROM with the Linux install CD in it, and starts the installation - but when it gets to the Install Base OS Kernal step, it asks me where the CDROM is, then fails to mount it no matter which of the many choices I give it (SCSI, IDE ctrl 1-4, device 1-2). Somewhere I read that at the boot prompt you have to type something like linux ide2=0x170,0x376. I looked in my windows 98 ctonrol panel, system, device manager, hard disk controllers, second ide controller, and found the settings for it: 0x170, 0x 376, IRQ 15. I typed them in at the boot prompt: linux ide2=0x170,0x376,0xf but I got the same behavior as before, ie it can't mount the cd rom during the install. Anybody have answers, hints? Thanks Just a shot in the dark, but you might want to try ide1, as that's the name for the second HD controller. Adam
Re: 8GB drive partitioning
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 10:20:55PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 02:55:41PM -0400, Tom Pfeifer wrote: Also keep in mind that your Linux root partition should be within the first 1024 cylinders of the drive, or it will not boot with Lilo (or Loadlin I believe also). That limitation applies to lilo but not to loadlin. Observe: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 3.8G 3.1G 492M 86% / /dev/hda1 2.0G 1.4G 563M 72% /mnt/windows95 (/dev/hda2 is swap, and sits between these two). My root partition doesn't start until after 2 gigs into the drive, which is well past the 1024th cylinder. I use loadlin to boot with no trouble. I believe he meant to say boot, not root. lilo can mount the root from anywhere on the disk, it just needs the kernel to be in the first 1024 cyls. Adam
Re: suidregister
On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 04:13:17PM -, Pollywog wrote: Here is the problem. Every night, root sends me a message with this in it: File /usr/lib/emacs/19.34/i386-debian-linux/movemail registered but not installed I am not sure what to do about it. Run 'suidunregister /usr/lib/emacs/19.34/i386-debian-linux/movemail' Note that this is not a problem with suidmanager, but a bug in the package which registered that file. Adam
Re: vi GUI for X ?
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 12:03:26AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I'm just starting with vi, and am wondering whether there's an X front end for vi (or nvi, or vim), or any X specific vi editor. Yes, vim has something called gvim. Adam
Re: YAMAHA-OPL3SA3 (using kernel drivers)
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 09:59:30PM +0200, Piotr Domagalski wrote: Hi again ... I got many msg that I should use ALSA or if I want I should use the newest (no these from dist) so now I want to use kernel drivers. Has anybody installed YAMAHA-OPL3SA3 with kernel drivers ? As modules or built-in ? Which modules did you use ? How to configure them ? Please help me !!! I want my soundcard to make any sound !!! The drivers aren't included with the 2.0 series; if you want to use the kernel drivers, you'll need 2.2.x Adam
Re: Symbolic links behaviour
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 05:05:55PM +0200, Ruben Leote Mendes wrote: Hello, My /usr/local directory is mounted in /mnt/local. If I cd to /usr/local and type ls .. it lists the contents of /mnt and not of /usr as I would expect. Is this the normal behaviour? All relative symbolic links that point outside of /usr/local stopped working also. I have to move other directories to new partitions because the disk space is getting low. Is there a way of doing this without having to change all relative links to absolute links? Why don't you just mount the parition under /usr/local? Adam
Re: mp3 encoder packaged for debian?
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 05:50:44AM +, Frankie wrote: I found lame : this is suggested in the docs for cdgrab (although I'd have thought someone would have packaged it because of that, hmm. Lame runs very slow on my P-60, like several hours for an album, but I'll try some others and see which is best) As someone has probably already mentioned, there are patents for mp3 encoding in the US and Germany, making it hard for Debian to distribute them. Adam
Re: ppp failure to connect
On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 01:59:50PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having trouble connecting to my provider. I have configured the chatscript and the /etc/ppp/peers/provider files correctly, and if I run plog I see communication. the gist of the communication is: sent [LCPConf Req id=0x1... (IP addresses are assigned) cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP Local IP address: 206.27.215.142 Remove IP address: 206.27.215.80 sent ( received (... a series of magic numbers, which I assumed meant I was connected and talking with my provider. I cannot get a ping (it just hangs) If I go into Dselect, it says its connecting and just sits there forever. If I go into FTP and attempt a connection, I get similar results. What do you have in /etc/resolv.conf? Adam
Re: [RfS] Request for Submissions: Upcoming Debian Logo
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 09:30:19PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: Question: does anybody else think that the debian with the line back to the dot in the 'i' that Rob Malda did for Slashdot is best logo yet done? I like it, but I like the chicken better. Adam
Re: Mutt vim
On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 04:29:02PM +, Dave Swegen wrote: I have a couple of questions regarding the configuration of mutt and vim: 1) How do I go about assigning different settings for vim, ie having textwidth when composing mail with mutt, but not when coding? In my .muttrc, I have: set editor='vim +set tw=75' Works for me :-) Adam
Re: Quake2 nVidia TNT
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 01:42:29PM -0600, Ian Keith Setford wrote: I am trying to get Quake2 to run under linux in an accelerated mode (i.e. OpenGL). Has anyone sucessfully accomplished this? Could you tell me what the correct command line syntax is to start the game in that mode? Any help/suggestions are greatly appreciated! It's not possible at this time. The only support for hardware 3D acceleration in Linux is for Voodoo cards. Adam
Re: Debian Linux and AMD Computers
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 12:42:46AM -0500, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: hi i would like to whether Linux in general will run on an AMD based computer and if it does how well does it perform. Debian runs great and without incident on my K6-2 300.
Re: GNUcash
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 07:23:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how far we are from a debianized package of GNUcash? (I couldn't find it on the package search on www.debian.org). Or even any other debianized alternative? Take a look at the 'xacc' package. Adam
Weird stuff in X
I have a Diamond Viper V330, and in X at 1024x768x32bpp, it behaves strangely. When I scroll or move a window, little blips come up on the screen. They go away when I stop. Does anyone know how to get rid of this? Thanks, Adam
Re: Setting up Soundblaster PCI64 pnp
On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 10:03:04PM -0400, Kronos wrote: I recently purchased a SoundBlaster PCI64 PnP sound card and I'm having no luck getting it to run. I've tried compiling sound support for it in the kernel using the kernel-package tool and isapnp tools with the port and irq settings that run it under windows and dos and all I get is a error message from /dev/audio saying (device not configured). I don't think isapnp tools detects it. I recently gave away my older Sound Blaster compatible card that ran just fine under Debian. Does anyone have a SoundBlaster PCI64 PnP card that was set up successfully or have any ideas about it? Thanks... IIRC, OSS/Free, the sound driver distributed with the Linux kernel, does not support the SoundBlaster PCI64. You need to buy OSS/Linux. Take a look at www.opensound.com. Adam Klein -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: hamm problem: mutt-i
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 09:13:50AM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 08:31:06AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 05:25:23PM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: [mutt-i_0.93i-1 key problem] On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 07:57:37AM +0200, Martin Schulze answered: This has been reported as a bug yesterday. Seems somehow a keybinding got lost. Actually it turned out to be a change in the Muttrc syntax for some keybindings. I'm currently away from my Debian machine; Ruud de Rooij has been kind enough to fix this problem in a non-maintainer upload (0.93i-1.1) yesterday. I modified my /etc/Muttrc according to the info on the bug tracking system. For future reference, how would I access the non-maintainer upload? I see 0.93i-1 on the non-us ftp sites, and I can't find an Incoming directory/mirror that has 0.93i-1.1. non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/Incoming Adam Klein -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
What's a good video card?
I'm about to buy a new computer, and I'd like a recommendation for a mid-range ($100-$150) video card that works well with XFree86. Thanks, Adam Klein -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: What's a good video card?
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 12:17:00PM -0700, Geoff Brimhall wrote: I'd recommend Matrox's card, because it is one of the few which currently works well with ggi (which is still an alpha project, but *very* cool), in addition to X. Which Matrox card? -Original Message- From: Adam Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 12:09 PM Subject: What's a good video card? I'm about to buy a new computer, and I'd like a recommendation for a mid-range ($100-$150) video card that works well with XFree86. Thanks, Adam Klein -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Can't connect to slashdot.org
On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 12:56:04PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: HAHAHAHAHA Ok, now that that is said. slashdot.org's founder Rob Malda is in the process of moving. And as we all know once you do not have time to work on something -- it breaks. the DNS server has had problems the last few days. It is functional now, but will more than likely be coming up and down. And ummm, like, it is just a web site. The thing is, I can connect to slashdot from va. Adam Klein -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Can't connect to slashdot.org
For the past few days, I have been unable to connect to slashdot.org using either lynx or 'telnet slashdot.org http'. Actually, I can connect; I just don't recieve any data. I haven't had trouble with any other WWW sites. Any ideas as to what might be wrong? Thanks, Adam Klein -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Weird file names
On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 09:25:03PM +1000, Chris wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- There was a thread a while back about deleting weird files. Just for people interest I had to remove some strange ones today. They were as follows: - -- 1 username users 0 May 2 1970 ?? - -- 1 username users 0 May 2 1970 ?? - -- 1 username users 0 May 2 1970 ?? Don't know how they made them, but trying rm '??' or rm \?\? or others didn't work. I eventually did rm -rfi *, and said no to everything else. However the strange files came up as follows: rm: remove `ÿø'? y rm: remove `ÿøÿÿÿø'? y rm: remove `ÿøÿÿÿøÿÿÿø'? y Weird huh? Anybody know why they look different in the directory listing? It's a feature of ls. If you use the '-N' switch, the real names will be displayed. Adam Klein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: text mode IDE?
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 04:59:21PM -0500, Dave Elliot wrote: I was wondering if there's a decent text mode IDE for debian/linux. Something similar to RHIDE or Borland's DOS IDE. I would use something for X, but I can't get that working yet. Hopefully someday. Anyways, anything would be great. Thanks for the info. RHIDE is available for Linux. Take a look at http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~sho/rho/rhide/rhide.html Adam Klein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PINE Debian Package
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 11:06:47PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: As for the source package thing, if the binary generated by the user is exactly the same as the binary that would be provided in a .deb, what is the point? It seems like a lot of extra work that changes absolutely nothing. Maybe I am a Rebel Without a Clue on this but it sure seems like a classic case of cranial rectosis to me. As I understand it, the license forbids distribution of a modified source or binary, but allows the distribution of patch files. Adam Klein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PINE Debian Package
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 11:13:28AM -0400, Thomas Lakofski wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Adam Klein wrote: As I understand it, the license forbids distribution of a modified source or binary, but allows the distribution of patch files. Did anyone ask UoW what their position is? I've not heard of them prosecuting, and I'm sure there must be someone there who's aware of the debian package. How about a pine-src package with the patch included, which patches the original sources in the postinst script, builds the binary package and then installs it? That's the proposed solution right now. Adam Klein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new
On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 04:19:14PM -0500, DAVID B. TEAGUE wrote: On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Mike wrote: Hope I got the right e-mail address, Just heard about Linux and was wanting to try it out but do not know where to get it. Thanks, Mike Mike, please set your Netscape mailer to send only text. Many of these guys will just grab the delete key if you send html, which is Netscape's default. In fact I am guilty of that as well. You failed to notice two things. First, he wasn't using Netscape, he was using Outlook Express, and second, he didn't send HTML. Adam Klein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pgp
On Sun, Apr 05, 1998 at 01:40:35PM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote: Chris wrote: This is probably off the topic, but I was wondering what the difference is between the international and America only versions of pgp are? Which is better? Why? (Not that I am allowed to use the america only version - I'm just interested in why there is a difference) The USA version and the International version use different algorithms in some part to avoid infringing American patents which are not recognised outside America. I don't think there is any functional difference. Well, I know of two differences: The US version is slower, and it can only handle keys up to a certain length (2048 bits IIRC). Adam Klein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libm.so.4 not found
On Sat, Apr 04, 1998 at 10:15:48PM -0800, G. Crimp wrote: Hi, I have installed the ucbmpeg_play package, version 2.3_patched, from the Debian 1.3.1 packages. When I try to run it I get an error message saying that it couldn't find libm.so.4. According to find, there is in fact no such library on my system. Doesn't dselect and the package system take care of these kind of dependency relations ? Can anyone tell me what I now need to do in order to use mpeg_play ? You need to install the libc4 package. Adam Klein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I love Bill!
On Wed, Apr 01, 1998 at 02:25:42PM -0500, ' ALLAN W. BART wrote: I dont understand the madness that is going on in this group. It's April Fools Day! On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote: Yo- I have had a moment of clarity this morning and I have seen the light!! No longer will I be a part of the Debian community because its purpose is flawed. I will run Microsoft Win95 from now on! So Win95 crashes all the time, at least I can through to their tech-support when I need to. Someday maybe all of you will return to a real OS. -Ian (.sig removed) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: broken ncurses?
On Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 07:38:41PM -0900, Britton wrote: I suspect that in trying to fix this I managed to annihilate my ncurses.3.4.so file, as bedore something like this showed up (I think in /lib), but now find gives: Actually the file is libncurses.so.3.4. Adam Klein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VIM 5.0
On Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 11:09:08AM -0700, David Sewell wrote: On Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 06:53:53PM -0500, Scott McDermott wrote: Martin Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 12:30:35PM -0600: Are there plans to include VIM 5.0 in the release version of hamm? It has been released for a while, but I haven't seen it in the update announcements. Does it currently have a maintainer? It is in beta, and the revisions change quickly. I just compiled 5.0x less than a week ago and, checking the ftp site...oh, well it's still 5.0x but that's rare, usually it changes like every 2 minutes :) The VIM package maintainer is Galen Hazelwood, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sent him email back in December about VIM 5, and he had this to say: There's a serious problem with packaging these vim betas. Bram made an incredibly stupid decision when he began using postfix letters to denote test versions. The problem is that if I package 5.0s, and upload it, people will install it. When the official 5.0 is released, called 5.0, and I package that, it looks like a downgrade to dpkg and dselect. That's really bad, because it means people who use automatic download systems (dftp or dpkg-ftp) will never see it. The only way around that would be to use epochs, and I regard epochs as a last resort solution. However, I'm keeping up with the vim sources, and will package a release as soon as possible. So the question would seem to be, is 5.0 now genuinely a release version without postfix letters, or does the problem Galen alludes to still exist? Yes, 5.0 is an official release. The tgz file on the FTP server is called vim-5.0.tar.gz. Adam Klein -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.0.33
On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 02:44:07PM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: Can I use the 2.0.33 deb package from hamm in a bo machine without upgrade the whole system to hamm? Yes. Adam Klein -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: VIM 5.0
On Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 06:53:53PM -0500, Scott McDermott wrote: Martin Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 12:30:35PM -0600: Are there plans to include VIM 5.0 in the release version of hamm? It has been released for a while, but I haven't seen it in the update announcements. Does it currently have a maintainer? It is in beta, and the revisions change quickly. I just compiled 5.0x less than a week ago and, checking the ftp site...oh, well it's still 5.0x but that's rare, usually it changes like every 2 minutes :) You must be looking at a different place than me. From the vim web site at www.vim.org: VIM Versions: VIM-5 Latest version: VIM-5.0 released on 980219 [Feb 19 1998] -- Adam Klein -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian install source (Was Re: Yikes, sorry.)
On Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 07:05:34PM +0100, Lorens Kockum wrote: As a corollary, where do you find the source of the programs executed during the install of debian? I ask because I wanted to check if the install points out the NIS problem when it asks whether to use shadow passwords. IIRC, they're in the boot-floppies package. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Filtering out Resent-cc
On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 08:41:32PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
Quick question for the procmail pros. I'm already sorting out debian mail
with the following:
:0:
* ^X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Deb-user
How can I expand this to strip out the Resent-cc: headers from my debian
mail? (FYI, this would fix the pine errors when responding.)
Use this procmail rule:
:0:
* ^X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
{
:0 f
| sed /^Resent-Cc:/d
:0:
Deb-user
}
HTH,
Adam
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Re: dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?
On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 10:15:03AM +0100, Joost Kooij wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, joost witteveen wrote: Isn't this because we want packages built on Intel systems to be the same? If dpgk were to report Pentium, and some compiler is going to create real Pentium code (that doesn't run on i386), then you wouldn't be able to build Intel packages on your pentium any more. Hmm, I'm confused even more now. I thought that all standard debian intel packages are built for i386? Some time ago, I built an i486 kernel and it wouldn't boot on an i386, I had to rebuild it for i386. Returning to my question, this would mean that a package that I build on an i586 wouldn't run on an i386 because it is built for i486? I have the impression that the default kernel is built for i386, and everything else uses gcc's default of i486. Regular programs which are built for i486 will run on i386, but the kernel won't. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: POP3 Client..
On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 11:35:04PM +0400, Timothy M. Hospedales wrote: Does anyone know of a good POP3 client for Linux/X? Something like Eudora or Pegasus in Windoze...? I just want to beable to check multiple mail boxes easily. (Its a pain in netscape mail). I'de rather not have to setup fetchmail and related apps. Mutt supports POP3. I just use fetchmail. It's pretty easy. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: popclient
On Sat, Feb 28, 1998 at 02:51:36PM +0800, A.D.Y. Cheng wrote: Hello all, I try to find the popclient package but I cannot find it. It seems that the popclient package has become obsolete. Can someone tell me which package has the popclient program. Your looking for the fetchmail package. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: man-db installation problem ...
On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 09:17:31PM -0500, Nebu John Mathai wrote: I tried to install the man page package (got too tired doing gunzip -c |groff -Tascii -man), and received the following message from dselect. I had libdb1, groff, bsdmainutils already installed prior to installing the manpaged. positive messages deleleted Checking for languages ... de_DECan't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. dpkg: error processing man-db (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 You need to have perl installed. A bug has already been filed. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lpr wants /usr/spool???
On Sat, Feb 21, 1998 at 11:39:51AM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: check your /etc/printcap file. ahah, you're right. I took it from one of the workstations. But this begs the question as to why it worked for weeks before this . . . The base-files package used to include the symlink, but the last few versions of the package dropped it. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bitchx configuration
On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 02:46:47AM -0500, Paul Miller wrote: where are the bitchx configuration files (.74p2 deb package)? I found one in /etc/bitchx, but I can't find where the server list is stored..? /etc/irc/servers -- Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bitchx configuration
On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 01:45:37PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote: hmm.. that directory does exist, bitchx is using a list though.. What is the format for /etc/irc/servers?? I don't know. All mine has is one line containing my default server. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: US Mutt in hamm
On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 03:13:07PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 01:42:12PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: Bleh... the default behavior of mutt changed. Can anyone tell me how to make the latest mutt *not* move the read email to $HOME/mbox on exit? I can't find it in the docs. I'd like it to stay in the spool file. add to .muttrc: set mbox=/var/spool/mail/username There may be a more generic way to do it in /etc/Muttrc, but this is what I figured out after reading the docs in the last upgrade. If you find the generic way, please let me know. I'm annoyed that the View-URL function has been moved into another program. Is anyone going to package the View-URL thing? IMHO, that was one of Mutt's greatest features. Also, the colorization is now gone. I haven't had a chance to find out why. The new /etc/Muttrc doesn't set any colors, and the default in mutt is black and white. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lpr wants /usr/spool???
On Fri, Feb 20, 1998 at 12:54:23PM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: I used to be able to print from the appropriate account to this print spooler. but now I get the message, lpq: he183-lj5m: cannot chdir to spooling directory and a cannot create /usr/spool/.seq error when trying to print. I've created /usr/spool, as 777, and it prints. But as near as I can tell, it should want /var/spool, not /usr/spool. Well, I'm the maintainer of lpr, and I can assure you that it never uses in /usr/spool unless you tell it to. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
lpr remote printing
I'm the maintainer of the lpr package, and there is a bug report saying that remote printing doesn't work. Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks, Adam Klein pgphQYNr9IHEg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: lpr remote printing
On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 03:16:44PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 11:08:28AM -0800, Adam Klein wrote: I'm the maintainer of the lpr package, and there is a bug report saying that remote printing doesn't work. Has anyone else had this problem? Well, it works just fine here from 5.9-20.2 (client) to 5.9-20 (server), and from 5.9-21 to 5.9-20 too. But the bug report talks about printing from DOS software. But Actually, this is a different bug, #18295. It was reported against the latest version 5.9-23. The reason I wanted reports from other people is that I can't test the remote printing features of lpr myself. However, I wouldn't mind some help with the DOS problem. Warning: no daemon present ^^ Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1stnobody 209 C:\TMP\~lpt1D12.TMP 839 bytes This could be a telltale sign. Perhaps the original reporter had other lpr problems and it just seemed to be a remote printing problem? lpq will give this warning message when it has inadequate permissions. I think one of my machines has an lpr installed on DOS, I will check it out (but it's not the same implementation mentioned in the bug report). Thanks, Adam Klein pgpQy1vLtMUSZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: dpkg --help | less
On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 05:46:00AM +, Ian Watkins wrote: DMIW instance if I do a dpkg --help | less then less doesn't seem DM into DM try DM dpkg --help | less DM for tcsh And if I'm using bash? Sorry I can't try it out as I'm not in Linux at the moment. dpkg --help 21 | less Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: A remark about the installation of the man package.
On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 04:18:06PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that the man package does not create the required data base immediately after its installation. Rather, it let a cron job to this work when it is schedualed to. I think this approch is wrong, since the installer of a new system might want to browse the man pages immediately after the system is operatable. Actually, it immediately builds the database in the background. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: help me understand timezones
On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 02:22:38PM -0800, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Hi, I had several problems with timezones, and for many weeks my clock was wrong because of daylight savings (even though it said it changed the clock at that time, looks like it lost this information at the first boot), and I had no time to dig into this, untill finally I just changed the BIOS clock by hand... But I wanted to understand how does the timezones work, and I went to /usr/doc/timezones, and found the glibc docs, instead of timezone's! That's because timezones is part of glibc. Well, in my system: $ date Tue Feb 17 14:09:22 PST 1998 $ date -R Tue, 17 Feb 1998 14:14:47 -0800 nr# dpkg -l timezone ic timezone7.55-2 Data files needed to set your local time My questions are: 1) Is this correct for CA (-0800, at daylight savings period)? Yes. 1) At the daylight savings dates, is timezone supposed to change the BIOS clock, or should it leave the BIOS clock unchanged, and transform BIOS time in PST time? Will it change automatically now, when the daylight period ends? You don't need to worry about it. Linux should automatically correct the clock. 2) Is it better/worse/possible to have the BIOS clock set to GMT, and let timezone transforms it? In this case, how one can see the BIOS clock time? 3) should I upgrade timezone? No, it was replaced by timezones. Hope this helps, Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: hamm timezones problem
On Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 11:29:59PM +, Tim Bell wrote: First, a meta-question: is this the right list to be asking hamm-specific questions, or is there a developers list which is preferred for such things? Now, the problem: $ date Mon Feb 16 23:26:53 /etc/localtime 1998 $ dpkg -l timezones ... ii timezones 2.0.7pre1-1Time zone data files and utilities. on a different hamm machine: $ date Tue Feb 17 10:27:53 EST 1998 $ dpkg -l timezones ... ii timezones 2.0.6-3Time zone data files and utilities. Is this a bug with 2.0.7pre1-1, or some configuration problem? Run tzconfig. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PGP Issues
On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 12:44:28PM -0700, Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: I've just installed the pgp-us package, and tried to run the key generation portion of the program. It accepts my input, pass phrase, etc., but fails as follows after calculating the key indicating that it failed while attempting to write the key file to my home directory. Has anyone else had this problem? I am running the latest release in the hamm distribution. Could this be happening because pgp needs to have its permissions modified in some way? Any help would be greatly appreciated. You need to create a .pgp directory in your home directory and then run pgp -kg again. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: More BASH questions
On Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 10:38:15AM -0700, Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: Can anyone tell me if there is a way to generate screen dumps of bash sessions? For example, let's say I have a test-mode application that asks for some input and then outputs something in response. Is there a way to have this whole exchange dumped to the printer, so that both the program output and my manual input are copied to the printer? This would be similar to the screen dump capability of DOS. Thanks, -Brent Check out the 'script' program. It will log all input and output to a file. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Missing .so files
On Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 01:58:45AM +, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: Before I upgrade from bo to hamm, ldconfig showed three warnings. This situation has been inherited by my hamm system. The ldconfig message is: bob:vc-2:bobldconfig ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libvga.so.1 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libf2c_i2.so.2 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /lib/libtermcap.so.2 (No such file or directory), skipping The first of these _is_ nonexistent; the other two are symlinks pointing to nonexistent files /usr/lib/libf2c_i2.so.2.1 and /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8 respectively. I would like to get rid of this warning from ldconfig. Are there packages I can remove or install so as to satisfy ldconfig? dpkg -S can't locate the package these files come from. Bob You can just delete the dangling symlinks and run ldconfig again. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: wanted packages
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 02:22:27PM -0800, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Oliver Elphick writes: Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Is there any address where we can send our wishes to debian packages we would like to see created? Is there any address to consult for programs that can't (for any reason) have a .deb package? For instance, I would like to have .debs of... Don't forget to look at hamm (unstable) and at the non-us mirror sites, before you conclude that a package does not exist. I know there are hylafax packages in unstable, and the ssl stuff will have to be on the non-us site. Some of you have told me the absolute same thing about hylafax... and... yes, you're right: hylafax was added after my last download of Contents-i386 (about a month old), so I did not have it listed. I made a new download, and there it is. As for ssl and apache-ssl, I downloaded the Contents-i386 from germany, and found nothing. Am I missing something? Is it present, but not listed? How am I supposed to know about the packages that do not exist in the US mirror? I think that the ideal would be to have the Packages section of the www pages a subsection called non-us or something, where this packages would be listed... The non-us packages can be found at nonus.debian.org:/debian-non-US. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: A better backup (was: Re: Question re: splitting files)
On Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 08:25:01AM -0500, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R. Ward) writes: Charles Briscoe-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: % tar xvMf /dev/fd0 Apart from when a disk goes bad (obviously), I've never had any trouble with this. Stick a 'z' in the tar options to get gzip (fewer floppies!) --Bill. Well, this would be fine if tar would accept both the z and M options at the same time; unfortunately, it won't. (at least the version of tar in bo won't) Also, a one-bit error can ruin all files recorded after the error - not a great idea. I really am surprised that there's no standard backup method for debian that: 1) backs up across multiple volumes 2) provides checksums for each file, and 3) allows compression on a file-by-file basis (i.e. allows creation of an uncompressed archive of compressed files, which is less susceptible to corruption than a compressed archive of uncompressed files) Take a look at the 'afio' package. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: On the fly compression with ext2
On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 09:40:23PM +0100, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: Ulisses Alonso Camaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! I would like to know when there will be ext2 on the fly file compression, supported in the kernel, ext2 has already support but kernel seems to not support it yet, nor the 2.1.8x kernels... Does this will be introduced prior 2.2 version? There is a Debian package called e2compr including a kernel patch and an update chattr. But for some reason, the patch isn't included. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Two semi-simple questions...
On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 11:24:12AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: Where is the setting which inhibits the addition of the equivalent of 'uname -a' at the start of /etc/motd ?? I have found it before... now I cant. If you're using hamm, edit /etc/default/rcS and set EDITMOTD=no. HTH, Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: modem and device
On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 09:19:32PM +0100, Lily wrote: [snip] one thing, i've got a USR Sportster Winmodem 33.6 PC, does is work under Linux ? No Winmodems won't work. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
www.debian.org trouble
Somehow, the the Debian web site has been pointed at the Berlin Project's web site, and theirs ahs been pointed at www.us.debian.org. Has anyone else noticed this, and is anything being done about it? Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How to downgrade?
On Tue, Feb 03, 1998 at 10:51:08AM -0500, T-SNAKE wrote: OK, since I didn't get any responce on my previous questions (but one) I have another way to ask this one: How can I downgrade from libc5 version 5.4.33-6 to version 5.4.33-3? I have the -3 version, but accidentally installed the -6 one first, and then when I tried to install some other packages, their dependencies were on 5.4.33-3 and didn't like to be associated with 5.4.33-6. Should be an easy fix, but I can't seem to (for the life of me) figure out how to do it. Please help. Just execute the command 'dpkg -i path of -3 package'. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Dial-up script programs
I need a more flexible program than 'chat' to use for dial up PPP scripts. Any suggestions. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dial-up script programs
On Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 10:57:10PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a more flexible program than 'chat' to use for dial up PPP scripts. Any suggestions. 'Expect' is the usual suggestion for this, though I've never needed it. The problem with 'Expect' is that it takes up a lot of hard drive space, something I don't have much of. What are you trying to do? I need to have a more flexible expect/send than chat provides. Also, chat doesn't do the right thing when the modem times out. Adam -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dial-up script programs
On Thu, Jan 29, 1998 at 09:11:56AM -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: I highly reccommend the program 'expect' which is sort of an extension to TCL. I've used it with great success. expect is available as a debian package. It takes up a lot of hard disk space (for me, 1 meg is a lot), but I guess I'll try it out. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: qmail vs smail
On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 04:13:19PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote: I have been using smail as the mail transport agent on a hamm system. Recently I tried to install the 12000 line aliases file that we keep on all our instructional machines. I found that this caused smail to grind to a halt. Apparently smail doesn't create dbm files when newaliases is run. Would qmail be a better alternative as a MTA? If it can resolve aliases faster it would certainly help. I would prefer not to install sendmail unless absolutely necessary. My memories of trying to configure sendmail are not pleasant memories. Well, smail can use a DBM file as an alias file. Take a look at /etc/smail/directors and the smaildrct(5) manpage. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fdformat
On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 11:34:12AM +0200, Catalin Popescu wrote: Hi to everyone, Just a small and stupid question. How can I format floppies under Debian? I've tried fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 (which used to work with Slackware) but it doesn't work with Debian. What am I missing? What goes wrong? Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: New Smail, how to use offline?
On Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 11:12:07PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Neilen Marais [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Basically, it seems to do a reverse lookup on the system connecting to it, but I think I sorted that out by putting allow_broken_hello, or something similar for localhost. This should only be neccessary if the mailreader does a broken HELO. Pine is one of these and if you had to do this as well, then XFMail is another one. Also, it breaks fetchmail if your FQDN doesn't have any dots in it. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Lilo: How to install it? ( Part II )
On Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 09:01:58AM -0800, Ivan Rojas wrote: Well, tanks to all that helped me last week with the lilo problem, but I'm stil in trouble with it. I got Lilo to boot, I mean when the computer starts lilo appears asking for what OS to launch. If I select Linux it goes ok, but if I select Win95 ( default ) it will launch lilo again!(??) My lilo.conf is: boot=/dev/hda1 install=/kernel/boot/boot.b map=/kernel/boot/map delay=50 timeout=70 compact prompt default=Win95 image=/kernel/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 label=Linux vga=normal other=Win95 label=Win95 loader=/kernel/boot/chain.b And my partitions: /dev/hda1 -- Win95 /dev/hda2 -- Linux partition mounted in /kernel ( about 10 MBytes big at the end of hda ) /dev/hdb -- Linux mounted in / I really appreciate any help. I think you need to add 'table=/dev/hda' to the Win95 section. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: plog
On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 06:49:33PM -0500, James Dietrich wrote: My 'plog' command has stopped working--by that I mean that when I type 'plog' nothing is printed. And possibly related is the fact that my ppp.log files are empty. I'm running the latest from hamm. Any ideas? For some reason, the 'syslog.conf' file distributed with the latest version of the 'sysklogd' package doesn't include an entry for ppp.log. You can add the following one: local2.*-/var/log/ppp.log -- Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: errors in hamm upgrade
On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 10:29:41PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: 2. When trying to send a message from pine, I get: [Error sending: 501 HELO requires a valid host name as operand: 'localhost' ] I have 'localhost' configured as the smtp server in pine, which used to send the message through smail and then to my ISP as smarthost. This worked in bo. Has something changed? Yes. Smail now rejects connections from hostnames which don't have a dot in them. The fix is to change the line in /etc/smail/config which reads '-smtp_hello_broken_allow' to read 'smtp_hello_broken_allow=localnet'. Hope this helps. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: num lock
On Sat, Jan 17, 1998 at 07:22:00PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote: Is there anyway I can make the num lock on consoles and X default to on? I don't know about X, but on the console, add: setleds -D +num to your .bash_profile or .login or whatever. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 09:39:24PM -0600, IBMackey wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: The obvious question (please don't take offense) is: Did you start ppp before entering dselect? dselect, or rather dpkg-ftp, will attempt to make an ftp connection, but assumes that a ppp connection is up. It does not check, AFAIK, to see if there is such a connection. Bob On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote: Problem - dselect refuses to connect by ftp to sites. To be more precise, Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org ... FTP ERROR Quick answer is yes, I started ppp. I too have been having trouble connecting to ftp.us.debian.org. When I try to ftp there, I get the following: Connected to santanni.cc.gatech.edu. 220 santanni.cc.gatech.edu FTP server (Version wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-15](1) Tue Oct 7 12:46:13 EDT 1997) ready. 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password. 230- and then it hangs. Nothing happens. Is the FTP server down? Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Smail configuration question
I need to rewrite some of my config files, and I just wanted to know why you have to use $($user$) in some places instead of just $user? Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Changing video modes on fly?
On Mon, Jan 12, 1998 at 11:56:19AM +1300, Tim Thomson wrote: Hi, Is there a way to change the text video mode (say, from 80x25 to 80x50), on the fly? I prefer 80x25 for most things but it would be handy to change the resolution for somethings - without rebooting! The resizecons program in the kbd package does this. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Miscellaneous and security
On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 10:31:29PM +0100, Mario Fabiano wrote: I am a new Debian user. I actually have been using Linux for a while. I have some questions. Is there some way to unpack a Debian package in a place different than the target directories, e.g. /tmp? The aim is just to look at the files belonging to the package. dpkg-deb will allow you to do this. Type 'dpkg-deb --help' for more info. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Pros and Cons of various Mail packages.
On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 04:56:51PM +0100, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Jim Foltz wrote: I use smail becasue it's what Debian wanted. The only issue I have is that I want email sent from my pc to have my ISP email address as a retuern address. This is done by configuring the email client easily. I used smailconfig to configure smail, and I use elm as a email client. I added a line: From My Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Jim! I've solved the eMail address problem an other way: I have added a new entry to the file /etc/smail/transports and a the new file /etc/smail/maps/from . The smail will to the complete remapping of your eMail addresses. But AFAIK it works onle with eMail! Please tell me (and probably others too) some details on what you exactly did. I'm the only user on my system and my mailclient (Gnus) puts the correct from line into my messages but I would prefer the cleaner solution with the MTA doing the translation. Take a look at http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html. I configured my smail system using the setup described there. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: paths and su
On Fri, Jan 02, 1998 at 03:12:37PM -0600, Alex Romosan wrote: however when I su to root I get a path like this... /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin I am not modifying the path in any environment files such as ...bash_profile -- what is resetting my path?? i had the same problem on some of the machines here until i removed secure-su (970616-1). in my case it was even worse, /sbin, /usr/sbin where not even in the path and the default shell was tcsh instead of bash. i think this is a bug in that particular package, but i couldn't be bothered to investigate further. I've got the same problem, but I'm using GNU su! Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Converting digests to indivual mail
Take a look at the procmailex(5) man page. Adam Klein On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 11:00:56PM -0600, Mark W. Blunier wrote: I am subscribed to a mailing list that only sends out messages in a digest form. I would like to convert the digest back into individual messages. I use procmail to seperate out the digest from the rest of the mail. The format of the digest is [snip] I'd appreciate any pointers what I need to do. Thanks. Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help Backpack CD-ROM
On Fri, Dec 26, 1997 at 08:55:20AM -0500, BRIAN SCHRAMM wrote: Well, I am at work today and I do not see any mention of a backpack driver. Any Ideas? Brian No, sorry. Adam Klein __ Reply Separator _ Subject: Re: Help Backpack CD-ROM Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at INTERNET Date:12/25/97 5:48 PM Adam Klein wrote: On Wed, Dec 24, 1997 at 04:58:29PM -0500, Brian Schramm wrote: I am trying to install Debian 1.31 from a backpack cd. I get a message saying that /dev/bpcd is not a block device. I have selected the cdrom module in the device install. Any Ideas? You need to also select the module for the backpack cd drive, and you probably don't need the cdrom module. Adam Klein I did not see a backpack cd module in the list but when I get back to work I will check. Thanks for the help. Brian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help Backpack CD-ROM
On Wed, Dec 24, 1997 at 04:58:29PM -0500, Brian Schramm wrote: I am trying to install Debian 1.31 from a backpack cd. I get a message saying that /dev/bpcd is not a block device. I have selected the cdrom module in the device install. Any Ideas? You need to also select the module for the backpack cd drive, and you probably don't need the cdrom module. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: a single command
On Wed, Dec 24, 1997 at 10:10:35PM -0500, Aaron Walker wrote: Is there a command to delete all files and subdirectories within a directory. For example, I have the directory apps in my home directory. Lets says apps has 7 files and 2 directories. With one command, how can I delete the apps directory and all its contents. I looked at the man page but didn't see anything helpful. Thanks. Try rm -r dir or rm -rf dir. Read the rm manpage for details. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: setserial problems
On Tue, Dec 23, 1997 at 11:54:05AM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: I need to set ttyS3 to irq 10 to use my modem. I've been doing this as setserial /dev/ttyS3 irq 10 but this requires me to be root. Wouldn't be a problem to set it once on boot with a root-owned script, but after ttyS3 is used for a while (e.g. by pppd or minicom) it reverts to irq 3, requiring me to setserial again. Is there any way to either set the irq permanently (hardcode it in someplace) or allow a normal user to setserial? I've gotten around it in my pppd setup by writing a script which essentially does setserial /dev/ttyS3 irq 10 pppd dial net but I'm leary of writing too many root-permissioned scripts to be executed in user space. Of course, if this isn't a security concern, I could write one for minicom and everything else that uses the modem, but that sounds kinda silly. Will Have you compiled serial support as a module? If so, try having it loaded from /etc/modules instead of letting kerneld load it on demand. If you have serial compiled into the kernel, just ignore me. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: GMT setting
On Tue, Dec 23, 1997 at 04:01:57AM +, Lindsay Allen wrote: In the past (pre rcS.d) I could edit /etc/init.d/boot and set GMT to -u to indicate that my hardware clock is in GMT. How is this done now? Perhaps a better question is Where is there a description of the new boot process? I can see the settime script checking the GMT variable but I can not see where it is set. It's set in /etc/default/rcS. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: smail won't send mail
On Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 03:02:09PM -0500, Daniel Martin wrote: On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Adam Klein wrote: On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Daniel Martin wrote: On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Adam Klein wrote: In the past few days, smail has stopped non-local mail. It returns a message from MAILER-DAEMON saying something like `551: Have you read DNS + BIND'. What's going on? Adam Klein (some stuff I said, leading up to a plug for http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html) I'm already using the smail setup described on your page, and it was working great, until a few days ago. Thanks. Ok; hmm... Well, I'm willing to bet that it's still some change your ISP did. Try going through a session manually: After ppp is up, see what value you have for visible_name in /etc/smail/config (when I use $visible_name$ below, I mean for you to use this value). Now see what value you have for the smarthost path variable in /etc/smail/routers. (when I use $smarthost$ below, this is what I mean for you to actually type) [testing suggestion snipped] Now, here's the thing - at some point in this little scenario, you should get the 551 message that smail keeps complaining about. Assuming you do, telling people on the list where the error happens might result in someone being able to solve your problem. However, if you don't get the error message, then something's really screwy, and I'll have to think about how you'd go tracking it down in that case. Thanks! It turns out I had my visible_name set to my hostname, which I figured wouldn't be a problem because I was using the special smail tranport. And it seems that for a while at least, it didn't matter. Then my ISP must have changed something, and all of a sudden, I needed to use the correct value of $visible_name. Thanks again, Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: smail won't send mail
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Daniel Martin wrote: On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Adam Klein wrote: In the past few days, smail has stopped non-local mail. It returns a message from MAILER-DAEMON saying something like `551: Have you read DNS + BIND'. What's going on? Adam Klein Well, since this problem apparently just came up, it's probably not something you did but rather something your ISP did. Tell me, is the visible name as defined in your /etc/smail/config file a name that corresponds to your machine in the DNS? That is, if your ISP were to do nslookup visible_name would they get your machine's IP address? If your visible name is not something that directly corresponds to your IP address, then your ISP may be doing some kind of weird anti-spam thing which prevents smail from sending outgoing mail. I use ppp, and so have a dynamic IP address. I still manage to set my visible_name so that it looks ok from the outside, though - see http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html for for I do it. I'm already using the smail setup described on your page, and it was working great, until a few days ago. Thanks. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
smail won't send mail
In the past few days, smail has stopped non-local mail. It returns a message from MAILER-DAEMON saying something like `551: Have you read DNS + BIND'. What's going on? Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: allow mount to normal user
On Tue, Dec 02, 1997 at 08:15:41AM -0600, W Paul Mills wrote: On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Adam Klein wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 1997 at 05:02:06PM -0600, Paul Serice wrote: Adam Klein wrote: The problem with that is that you can only specify one filesystem type. I've got this problem two. Is there a solution? I believe using auto as the file type should do the trick. Paul Serice Nope, that doesn't work. Adam I use auto, it works fine for me as long as the proper module is loaded. That was my problem. I have MS-DOS as a module, and it auto-loads when I use it. Thanks!. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: undeletable file
On Wed, Dec 03, 1997 at 10:41:09AM -0600, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: Hello, I remember seeing something about this on the list awhile back, but I haven't been able to find it in the archives. I have a file that has somehow been commandeered by an undefined group, and I can't seem to remove, move, or change its ownership: leisure# ls -l fstobdf -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 65535 29640 Oct 17 23:58 fstobdf rm: remove `fstobdf', overriding mode 0755? y rm: fstobdf: Operation not permitted leisure# chown root.root fstobdf chown: fstobdf: Operation not permitted leisure# rm fstobdf leisure# mv fstobdf fstobdf.1 mv: cannot move `fstobdf' to `fstobdf.1': Operation not permitted I have no idea how the file's ownership got this way, or how to remove it. I haven't tried going to single-user mode yet; I'm on a remote connection to this box. Any suggestions? Thanks. --ken This is probably a problem with the ext2fs attributes. Take a look at lsattr(1) and chattr(1). Hope this helps. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: allow mount to normal user
On Mon, Dec 01, 1997 at 05:02:06PM -0600, Paul Serice wrote: Adam Klein wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 1997 at 12:46:47AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Benoit Joly wrote: i want to allow normal user to use mount for floppy and cdrom. because i dont want to run apps in root account... what should i do. One of the options you can specify to mount is the 'user' option which allows ordinary users to mount a filesystem. Check 'man 8 mount' for further details. Anand. The problem with that is that you can only specify one filesystem type. I've got this problem two. Is there a solution? I believe using auto as the file type should do the trick. Paul Serice Nope, that doesn't work. Adam -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: allow mount to normal user
On Mon, Dec 01, 1997 at 12:46:47AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Benoit Joly wrote: i want to allow normal user to use mount for floppy and cdrom. because i dont want to run apps in root account... what should i do. One of the options you can specify to mount is the 'user' option which allows ordinary users to mount a filesystem. Check 'man 8 mount' for further details. Anand. The problem with that is that you can only specify one filesystem type. I've got this problem two. Is there a solution? Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Sementation fault
On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 03:22:36PM +0200, Frere Roy wrote: All has been going so well in my upgrading to Libc6 but I have just trien to read a man page and I get the message Segmentation fault Can anyone give me a clue as to what to llok for. Thanks, Frere Roy There's a bug in the man-db package which requires you to rebuild the man-page index about once a week. To do this, type: mandb --create at the shell prompt. By default, there's a cron job setup to do that. By the way, this has nothing to do with libc6. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Is there an ELM package?
Is there a Debian package of a normal version of ELM? I'm using elm-me+, and it seems to have _lots_ of trouble handling MIME and PGP. I figure I'd be better off with a mailer that doesn't know about either of these. Any suggestions? Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Alt keys
How can I get the Linux console to treat the right Alt key in the same way as the left? Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
master.debian.org/debian/Incoming mirror
Where can I find a mirror of the master.debian.org debian/Incoming directory? Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [off topic] Re: ghostscript problem
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Lucas wrote: At 10:41 PM 06-10-97 +0200, joost witteveen wrote: .. but that's hamm only. Please enlighten me as to the meaning of hamm ? Ignorant hamm is the unstable distribution of Debian. The name comes from the pig in Toy Story. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: GhostScript problem
On 28 Aug 1997 18:06:02 +0200 in an-user you wrote: AK == Adam Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AK I just installed the ghostscript package, and it's working great, except AK for this: every postscript document I print ends up with its last line cut AK off. How can I stop this? I'm using a Canon BJ-200e printer. Are you using the same paper size in your printer as the one ghostscript (-view?) is configured to use? Yes. I have fixed the problem by installing gs-aladdin non-free package. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Knowing what to update on my Debian system?
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gonzalo A. Diethelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, the CDs I got from Cheapbytes have the following printed on them: Official Debian 1.3 1 Official Debian 1.3 2 Have I been ripped off? Is this the latest 1.3.1 CD, or an older version? How could I check? -- Gonzalo A. Diethelm G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've got some of those too. I can tell they're 1.3.1 CDs because they include XFree86 3.3. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
